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Unfortunately I get all sorts of work related SMS messages (mostly automated) at all times of day and night, some of which aren't particularly important, but others that can require action quickly. While I wouldn't read facebook messages in these situations, I don't have a lot of choice but to keep checking my phone sporadically for the more important stuff.

People who say "could care less", when they clearly mean "couldn't care less". Then they just stare at you when corrected as if they don't understand what they said incorrectly. I guess that comes from being British but tend to be around a lot of Americans though. It's certainly not in common usage here and stands out to me whenever used. It's worse than those who say pacifically instead of specifically. :)

Looking after children for programmers 101. Ah. So what about ELSE?

Couldn't? :) Norway don't recognise the death penalty - he'll likely spend the rest of his life in prison, but won't be executed. Live update of the trial: Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik trial: live - Telegraph

We wanted to go on a cruise last year, planned all the dates, booked the time off work, only at the last minute whilst booking the tickets saw a rule stating that "anyone under the age of 20 must be travelling with an adult of 25 or over". As I was 24 at the time, and my wife (then fiance) was 19, we were extremely disappointed. We're now looking to book for the end of this year.

Yes, my wifes parents home is usually our choice of accommodation

Way beyond national, it's made the headlines all over Europe too.

There are some types of candy/chocolate that I miss from the states which I just can't get here, at least not reasonably priced, as the places that do sell these items have to import it. That said, one of my all time favourites, the only one I bother bringing back with me from my travels to the states, is now being sold in the UK at essentially the same price as you'd get them in the states. Reeses peanut butter cups. Ahhh :) We're bringing more Hershey's and Reese's favourites over to the UK

Real cadbury mini eggs, or the hershey version?

Not sure what's going on here, but: 1. Create a new admin account 2. Log in to it 3. Run the command that failed, this will change the permissions of the administrators group to full control on the c:\windows directory and all subdirectories 4. Make sure your normal account is a member of the administrators user group, if not, add it (right click 'computer >> manage, and look at user groups). 5. Restart 6. Log in with your normal account and see if windows updates work.

In order to get explorer to automatically close when she logs on, you'll need to create a batch script and put it in the all users startup folder (or just the startup folder of her account/profile). Open up notepad, and copy and paste the following line: taskkill /F /IM explorer.exe /T Save the file and rename as killexplorer.bat (the file extension .bat is really important, so if file extensions are not shown on your computer, you should enable this so you can verify it has the correct extension). Once you have the batch file, place in either her startup folder or all users startup folder. As a second idea, you could change what opens instead of explorer.exe. This is defined in the registry here: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon Browse to that location and create a new string value named shell. Set the value of that entry to the executable you want to instead of explorer, so you might want to open internet explorer instead. So you'd enter (I don't remember the exact location and I' using a mac right now) c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe -K "www.funnywebsite.com" (the -K opens internet explorer is kiosk mode (full screen) and the website at the end is what it will open when it loads). That will confuse her - see if she can get out of it :)

Somewhat fair Totally disapprove Totally disapprove Somewhat disapprove 1. 25 2. Male 3. Caucasian 4. Married It might also be worth asking where people live... different people live in places which have different employment and maternity laws. I personally think the law in the UK is reasonable. Mothers can get 6 months mandatory leave on full salary, and an additional 6 months leave on a limited salary if they choose to take it (im not sure how much it's limited by). Both 2 and 3 years, either on full or limited pay, leave it open for massive abuse. I know a lady that had three children, taking her full years leave with each child, and getting pregnant again very quickly after returning to work. No-one in the office really knew her, despite her being employed there for four years, simply because she was absent for so many long periods at a time. And that was abusing one years leave, imagine what she would do with three?

I had similar issues, but different area of help requested for a long time. As one of only a couple of sysadmins in the ward, and the only one that was usually willing to help, it ended up that almost every evening of mine was taken up fixing someone elses computer. I genuinely don't mind helping someone that is in genuine need once or twice, but some people were repeat offenders on a regular basis, and when two people asked me to spend several hours helping them with their issues knowing that it was merely days before I was due to fly abroad for my wedding, I learnt how to say no. I've not turned back :)

I wouldn't bother. The BBC News section of the BBC website gets ~14,000,000 unique visitors each week, so unless it caused a global outcry (unlikely, seeing as only the guardian have published anything at all about this), it's not going to hurt them. Besides, this is the guardian we are talking about that pubished this. They are almost as bad as the daily mail (and well known for) when it comes to sensationalism, yet funnily enough, those are two of the most linked to British news websites from this forum.

Although in that case, it could have been a method of determining your honesty, or simply a mistake on the part of the interviewer What was your response?

Sounds more like how a politician would have answered the question.

Oh I know, we're looking into the various credit cards simply for this reason. If it wasn't for this however, I would refuse to have them.

I'm the same, and so is my wife. Neither of us own credit cards. I was bought up in the habit of thinking "if I haven't got the money in my account, I simply cannot buy it". Borrowing money, whether through a credit card or other method doesn't cross my mind. We got married in December, I'm still the sole source of income (my wife is a student), and we (thankfully) still aren't in any debt. At the moment, we use my bank accounts as shared accounts, while my wifes account in the US is dormant (we avoid touching it as we'll need it later on). Once we get more settled, we'll start setting up a better financial system, and making the money less easier to access :)

To be fair, it'd probably cost the church more money to use linux on their meeting house machines. An OEM windows license costs next to nothing, so the church would not spend much more money by using windows. Staff training would cost less, as most people already know how to use windows. The church bespoke software would cost less to develop, as linux programmers cost a lot more than windows programmers in general. Various alternatives would have to be found for those meeting house setups where they use windows only compatible software. I just don't think it's viable from a financial perspective for them to switch. The biggest saving in terms of using open source software has already been made - open office is in use on nearly all meeting house machines, as opposed to microsoft office, or similar.

For the software to be hosted in the repository, or for the repository itself?

Go for it :)

Seems to be some steam on this thread... I guess no-one here has read the protocols of zion? It's just a quote, back from the very early 20th century. Nothing to get worked up about here, people.

Indeed. Would be far from the first time it's happened though, lets face it - best practice and real world scenarios are not the same thing. Although the two registry keys that this particular trojan modifies would not affect the DNS server operation in a typical "out of the box" setup on a windows server operating system, there are other configurations that it would affect. Plus, it only has a modify a couple of additional registry keys for it to also affect out of the box setups too. A very small variant of this trojan could do exactly that. Additonally, while this particular piece of malware would have to be run with user interaction, there are plenty of others that exploit zero day vulnerabilities that don't. As I said in my previous post, the point im trying to make is that just because something only directly affects windows machines, it doesn't mean it won't indirectly affect other operating systems too. DNS coruption unfortunately doesn't discriminate by operating system - anything below the machine that is giving out false DNS records, be it linux, OSX or BSD etc. is going to notice the symptoms. This is why I've ignored that fact that this piece of malware also infects OSX machines.

All DNS servers also use DNS servers right up until root DNS servers. If a DNS server isn't isn't aware of the IP address of a domain name, it asks the DNS server above it in the hierarchy and so on and so forth until it reaches a root DNS server, after which, it gives up. Your computer right now can be used as a DNS server, it just needs to be configured to be one, which is really simple to do. But it will need to be given the address of another DNS server of where to get information from if it doesn't know what the IP address of a domain name is. Depending on the configuration of that DNS server, the modifications the trojan makes will make that DNS server above it in the hierarchy the illegitimate one. If one of those windows based DNS servers in any part of the hierarchy above an OSX machine is infected (we're working on the assumption that no OSX machines are directly infected), the mac will display exactly the same symptoms as a windows machine would. In a large portion of real world scenarios, macs will be using windows based DNS servers. If that windows DNS server is infected, depending on its configuration, it can easily give out illegitimate DNS records to the OSX machines (and any other machines of any operating syste,) below it. Ergo, macs are also vulnerable. In our environment, we have both windows and linux DNS servers. All of our ~70 macs are getting their DNS information from windows machines. The point I'm trying to make really is that OSX machines are not independent of windows machines, particularly in corporate networks, but domestic users aren't completely immune either. With issues such as DNS that works in a hierarchy system, it doesn't matter what operating system you use, you can still be affected.

Does that mean you still don't understand my comment? I'm not going to answer irrelevant questions. I suggest you research dns servers, and how they work in a hierarchy, starting from root dns servers. If you think your question is relevant, can you explain how?