Will check it later.
Thanks.
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What crap.
MMiller8: I don't think Cat needs a theme tune the music on Red Dwarf is good enough as it is! I liked the Arnold Rimmer song that was hillarious!
"Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer,
More reliable than a garden strimmer,
He's handsome, bold a fantastic slimmer,
He will never need a zimmer!"
Heh heh :)
(Sorry it just got to me, and i probably way overreacted)
Guys, I know that General isn't my "territory" but Skillster is right, tone down ok?
*Gets big book of odds*
Whoa. To think there is more chance of Koala bears mounting barrels and chaseing you to your death than Joeys girl freind existing. What facts!
Really think here people.. hold on gotta light a cigarette.. going off on a tangent :)
I say pooh, poop, crap, crud, many more.. what do i mean? I mean Shit ... so why not say it..
People made the language and its just a word.. thats all it is think about it.. its a word.. I believe there are no restrictions anywhere except kiddie sites and AoHell where you can curse...
Really the only person i feel that has a right to restrict cursing and bad language should be Qhimm.. I've seen it in other posts.. I use the language its just natural for me to do so.. I can use asteriks Fu*k is that better? Cuz anyone that can read knows what that is..
Check this quote out then i will shut up until someone responds :)
"Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion... In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience." - Henry Steele Commager
Think about it.
I didn't post anything when Skillster first came in because I didn't think anybody had said anything out of order ... I took the comments just before that as a joke (and not a *particular* explicit one, either).
My personal view on this topic?
One, a few people were Joey-bashing ... ok, ok, it was joking, but in this topic he hadn't posted anything really stupid. Like I said, I wasn't going to delete peoples posts over it though.
Two, yeah, swearing is something people are always going to disagree on. I'm just going to ask you to think about what you're posting, ok? This is a site where kids could very well end up so don't go posting messages like *full* of swear words or anything.
Unless Qhimm or the other mods disagree I'm not going to delete anybody's messages over this, but just bear what I've said in mind, right?
But honestly guys, know your limits, ok?
I know I don't want to read about suicide articles in my local newspaper anytime soon. :wink:
Don't ask me why, go figure yourself.
*EDIT*
Damn typos
[This message has been edited by The SaiNt (edited July 04, 2001).]
It has been brought to my attention that you want my view on this. Very well.
First of all, if anything in my posts seem a bit vague or self-contradicting, it is probably related to my fever.
Like I've said earlier, I'm not going to impose any censorship on this place; this board was created for the free exchange of ideas, tips and opinions. However, I have also always requested that the people who choose to be here consider what they're writing a bit. l33t-speak, heavy swearing, unrelated topics, personal insults, they're all things without which the board becomes easier to read, and more importantly, a nicer places to be at.
Remember, I'm not saying that I'm banning people from doing this, just asking nicely. When I get back and need to catch up on the board, it's so much easier to go through a number of well-organized, clean, on-topic posts than having to sort through "whadda fuck r u sayin?" and "did you know hippos are blue behind the ears? I didn't know that". Really.
And come on, can't you all give the Joey-bashing a rest now? I for one am getting pretty tired of it all, the casual bashing is even more annoying than Joey's outbursts. Leave it, there must be more honorable things in life to find humor in. Not to say that I'm tolerating Joey's behaviour, either. "Just post a topic u want and everyone will dicuss about it like this one". This board is not meant for people to try and rattle up a lot of posts about nothing or whatever I should call it. I created it with hopes of keeping it civilized, with at least semi-intellectual discussions in here. There are plenty of other places where you can attempt to lower the total average IQ. Sorry if I sound cranky, but I'm actually quite tired of this. I tolerate it because I'm also a nice guy with a lot of patience. Just remember that it's not unlimited, if this place (General) deteriorates even further I will be forced to do some heavy cleaning in here.
Thank you Mr. Jesus Qhimm
Oh dear... get a grip of reality mate.
I downloaded Internet Explorer 6.0 from microsoft.com and installed it. When my computer loaded up again after it was restarted I got an "EXPLORER" error saying that there was a problem with the file SHELL32.DLL and the computer loaded no futher. I have had tones of people looking at it and I eventualy gave in and formated the computer and started from scrath.
When I re-instaled Windows 98 the install program kept crashing Lo and behold SHELL32.DLL was the culprit! :x Now what I can't understand is that if I did I clean format and re-install how can the problem remain? :-?
Any suggestions anyone?
1)The copy of your MSIE is corrupt or virus infected.
This is a very high possibility. MS's IE download has been known to be really corrupt at times and that the virus stays in your BIOS even after you reformatted it. Solution:Replace the computer(run a DOS based Antivirus scanner (i.e Symantec's Virus remover(Download from http://www.symantec.com/nav )
2)Your version of IE is fake or beta
As if you didin't know, there are many fake MS sites out there with lots of virus waiting 4 u 2 download. Also, Beta versions of IEs are known to corrupt critical system files. Solution :Delete the copy/reformat the computer/reinstall windows.
hmm . . . so you're getting a Shell32.dll error during the installation of Windows? I wouldn't think that these two problems are related, but it seems like a strange co-incidence. Try using a friend's Win98 CD and seeing if it gives you the same error.
About the Shell32 thing Joey *(&*(@&#$*Y&*Y&^!&&*^!@#* GOD MAN YOUR A MORON!!! He probably got it from a valid website or from a friend .. i highly doubt sommeone wrote a damn virus into 6.0 and yes its a beta.. Boy Christ Jesus Wept son of a .. anyway.. even if it was a virus unless it was a crafty one it should have perished with the format.. try something else.. (at the command prompt)
C:>Format C: (or your hd) /u
*this does an unconditional format*
or if you get really pissed at it
C:>FDISK
and kill the partitions.. **nothing lives through that.. you better have your disks ready.. you boot to nothing.. infact i dont even believe you get a prompt.. be careful with Fdisk.. and you may want to read up on partitioning your HD.. thats what it does.. it basically just removes the partition so the computer cant find data.. it doesnt really kill anything.. so yeah FDSIKING will not help if the cops are after your HD..
::advertiser voice::
Just use the Standard DOD Government shredder
.. hell they can even pass that too.. it just makes it harder :)
good luck.. but nothing lives past new partitions...
And I can't get it why low-level format was needed. Maybe format c:/q/u (quicker) would be enough too.
Edit - Ooooooo I'm an insane Poster :)
[This message has been edited by Jedimark (edited July 10, 2001).]
I have seen formats where it allows you to leave the system files .. i thought you had to type C:>format /s and it would retain or copy system files.. they may have changed it though.. I just use FDISK.. i think it works the best when your really frusterated want everything to die and dont wanna play Unreal Tournament, FF, whatever for awhile anyway.. :) they might have changed that though.. god Computers are so user friendly i wanna puke sometimes...
If you are really paranoid about it you can always get hold of a linux boot-disk and type "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda". Should wipe things clean. Or, you can download a tool from the manufacturers web-site (those custom hard drive tools are usually quite good...at least the ones I've touched...lets you recover a totally broken hard disk sometimes).
Now for what I really wanted to say. Look on why viruses exists in the first place. Granted, in the later years it's been a lot of 31337 script kiddies that have taken advantage of Microsofts idiotic system design, but traditionally viruses is something that had prestige...creating a good virus really proved you knew your stuff. So I think most people created them to test their abilities and perhaps gain some bragging rights.
Anyway, the old-school viruses and the new-school viruses are like two completely different worlds. There is NO WAY that any old school virus were written in a high-level language. Those viruses were able to completely integrate themselves into exisiting programs...detect which parts of the programs were unused, and put themselves there. The best viruses never left a trace, files had the same file size and date, only by doing a CRC check could you detect anything (these days we have virus scanners of course).
I would say that unless you rely on the total incompetence of Microsoft to get it spreaded then assembly is a must for doing viruses...and assembly programmers aren't really few in this world. In fact I had the impression they were all over the place :-)
Lastly I want to mention that in other operating systems than Windows there are no viruses, because the designers of those systems weren't so beyond belief incompetent in their system design. So for a virus to attack a Unix system it has to attack at boot time (when forgetting to take out the disk before booting).
Unix (ESPECIALLY Linux) does everything to extremes. When it works, it's *very* reliable and *very* stable. When it doesn't it refuses to recognise the fact you've got a computer ("PC not found"). There's nothing in between. Hence why Windows is still used by major organisations and businesses (not exclusively, mind, but even still).
With Windows and Plug&Pray, it's just to reinstall Windows and the programs over and over again, and perhaps try different drivers, until things works. This also means that a Windows system can run without being 100% in order.
What I don't like about it is the unnerving thing that I never know if the system is fine or not. In Linux there is always a reason. So, if you know enough about the system, it's just a matter of changing some text files and things are in order.
Not implying that I know linux that well myself. I've just never gone through that repeated reinstall cycle, but rather searched desperate for non-existant hints on what I'm doing wrong...I guess the difference is that in Windows, the system might be doing something wrong, while in Linux you are likely doing something wrong. It's theoretically easier to correct yourself than the system, but it's even easier not to correct anything I guess.
Computers today are way too complicated anyway. They should have been consumer products, not some hacker tool. Why aren't text editors and web browsers as easy as gaming consoles? Why did the shitty i386 architecture get so widespread? We should all go and get ourselves some macs...
Of course, for us programmers this is all a great bonus as we get the incredible flexibility with it...
Joey: They are still viruses, but they are targetting the PC rather than Unix, so Unix has nothing to do with it. You can really call them BIOS viruses instead (though some of them does install themself in the hard disk boot sector and only uses the BIOS to perform the installation).
Idea for a cool virus: An email virus that patches Outlook on the end user system. The virus would have total control over the computers out- and ingoing email, and can replicate very easily with small chances of getting caught...luckily ILOVEYOU shut down the binary attachment door most places so it can't get around that easily anymore...if ILOVEYOU was coded smarter we would never have got rid of it...
It is impossible to write a virus for Linux because programs don't have write access to most areas. Meaning, if you start a program named ff7.exe (it isn't exe in linux but for the sake of the discussion) then ff7.exe isn't allowed to write to any program files. In fact, it is not allowed to write to anything in the entire machine except for the user directory ("My Documents"), which it has to write to to save your documents.
So, say that a virus is run in Linux, it has no way to spread itself because it can't write itself to disk, and it is gone when you reboot the system. No matter how good you are in coding doesn't change the fact that it is impossible to create a virus for linux (that is, assuming linux systems are bug-free and correctly set up...they usually aren't but that doesn't help the viruses as all the systems have the errors in different places).
Oh, and I don't mind people not bothering to try...in fact I'd be perfectly happy with linux even if I was the only one in the world using it, because it's so nice to use for programming etc. I guess you have to be a programmer to really appriciate the system.
[This message has been edited by dagsverre (edited July 13, 2001).]
talk about offtopic...
actually, on *most* message boards. This isn't as bad as some... :wink:
Spreading would be unheard of anyway because .. well.. no one uses linux.. viruses can still devistate linux they just dont spread as easily or at all.. but if linux was the VAST majority that microsoft is .. i bet hella more people would certainly be trying.. i just think they really dont care at this point..
I am not bashing linux.. In fact if things werent the way they are i would happily use it.. but i am a gamer.. and it is alot easier to just install the game.. tweak a few things.. that not have the thing run at all.. Windows sucks! i hate it.. but.. XP is supposed to take care of everything.. We'll see.. I have had linux installed and used it a bit.. but i just felt more comfortable in windows.. therefore i dont know very much about linux .. so :) i could be wrong about the viruses being able to spread or whatever.. :)
Originally posted by dagsverre
It is impossible to write a virus for Linux because programs don't have write access to most areas. Meaning, if you start a program named ff7.exe (it isn't exe in linux but for the sake of the discussion) then ff7.exe isn't allowed to write to any program files. In fact, it is not allowed to write to anything in the entire machine except for the user directory ("My Documents"), which it has to write to to save your documents.So, say that a virus is run in Linux, it has no way to spread itself because it can't write itself to disk, and it is gone when you reboot the system. No matter how good you are in coding doesn't change the fact that it is impossible to create a virus for linux (that is, assuming linux systems are bug-free and correctly set up...they usually aren't but that doesn't help the viruses as all the systems have the errors in different places).
I don't think the same thing applies for memory(RAM). I'm pretty sure there's a way or two to intercept memory calls. Modifying memory can have adverse effects, if you get what I mean.
Oh, and Joey, if dag's idea does in fact work 100%, you won't be able to disable the feature since you don't have access to anything at all, except memory.
[This message has been edited by The SaiNt (edited July 20, 2001).]