firesnake's thoughts

windows 2000 sbs trust

2007-11-24T11:43:00.000+02:00

I hope some day I'll have time merge this blog with older articles from http://fac.ce.vreau.eu.org/sbs.html ...

windows (sau pe unde isi mai ascund baietii pornul)

2007-06-09T16:40:00.000+03:00

mi-am uitat cd-ul cu windows 98 acasa (trebuia sa instalez un pc vechi si nu merge altceva pe el - ma rog, audienta nu este pregatita pentru damn small linux & alte variatiuni)
asa ca am cautat kitul pe dc++. ca urmare iata fetelor pe unde isi mai ascund prietenii vostri pornul!

suici cu locaşuri

2007-05-16T08:34:00.000+03:00

Pe un stîlp prin cartier...

too many bytes

2007-03-19T09:55:00.000+02:00

I found this funny. How can you code such message in an error dialog box? At least if you are such a poor programmer, lie something like "invalid format" or something that the end user does not understand. But "too many bytes" ?!?!? It's like saying "I'm too stupid to handle this case"

'n' things to do before you die

2007-02-08T10:33:00.000+02:00

sorry english speakers, i just could't resist writing this in romanian. i feel so good expressing my feelings in my soo much flexible native romanian language. any other language simply cannot catch and express a detail so good as romanian.

deci. întîi am văzut in carfur '1001 de filme de văzut intr-o viata'. si-a aprins un beculeţ: cum adică, după ce le vad ce fac, sunt bun de îngropat? am zis ok, da-i in p*la mea de dobitoci cu formularea lor. da, ok, 1001 de filme de vazut, dar imi bag p*la in expresia lor de cacat 'intr-o viata'. puteau sa zica 'cele mai bune 1001 filme' sau '1001 filme care merita vazute'

apoi, dupa probabil succesul ce l-o fi avut, am auzit de '1001 albume de ascultat intr-o viata'. nu m-am mai enervat, nici nu mai aveam de unde: ma consumasem deja la vederea cartii anterioare. iar daca nu sunt chiar asa pasionat de vazut filme, la muzica prefer sa ma documentez singur din diverse surse, nu din carti la moda.

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booon. chair uitasem de imbecilii astia, cand dau de un link 'fifteen geek movies to see before you die' care mi-a ridicat din nou numarul de pule pe propozitie indreptat catre autorul articolului. adica ok, inteleg, cele doua carti se adreseaza pulimii avide de mereu ceva nou, trecem peste ele, dar sa te consideri "as much a film geek as a tech geek" si sa vii tu cu aceeasi expresie de cacat in fata unei cu totul si cu totul alt tip de cititori, despre care se presupune ca ar avea oaresce iesire in evidenta a iq-ului fata de medie, mi se pare de cacat.

cam atat.

Trusting your antivirus is not enough

2006-12-15T09:29:00.000+02:00

We trust our antivirus. We trust our firewall. We trust our system administrators.
We strongly believe that the system along with its system administrators are simply enough to make us feel protected against computer viruses and other electronic threats.

This was a true assumption until recently when internet and email became natural extensions to our electronic tool.
Humans need to communicate - it’s their nature! - so connecting the computers was an expected and normal thing that happened after late 90’s. But this interconnection came with a lot of other unexpected consequences: an increased number of malicious people started to exploit weakness present in various computer systems that were originally designed for isolated use, thus resulting an increasing number of viruses. As a reaction, a lot of companies spotted the danger and started to create so-called antivirus programs that proved efficient and made users happy.

Anyone can teach someone how to write a letter. You can learn from anyone how does a phone work. Apparently these days anyone seem to be able to introduce anyone into computerworld.
However, nobody can fool you to hurt yourself while using a pen and a piece of paper. But there were a lot of people tricked into dialling special calling high-rate numbers. And now there are even more people being tricked into doing a lot of actions against the computer.
Now, using computers needs a little bit more than usual ‘from person to person’ knowledge transfer and antivirus systems.

Being correctly informed about our electronic tool makes the difference between using the computer as its purpose and wasting invaluable time waiting to get it fixed: in 2003 and 2004, the combined economic damage from viruses like ‘sobig’ and ‘mydoom’ were over $100 billion worldwide, even if companies have had antiviruses installed and updated, because the virus spread was so quick – hours - that antiviruses could not develop an update fast enough before the wide spread!

I've seen too many infected computers, event with the latest virus definitions installed on their antivirus. I do not know what is the word in english or if the english language has an equivalent for this, but romanian native speakers would surely understand the expression "colcăie de atîţia viruşi". Why?
The greatest danger to regular computer users I see these days are not hackers or viruses. While they are the root cause, the originator of targeted attacks, they cannot succeed without our help:
- we help spreading viruses when we open attachments in email messages
- we help hackers succeed when we click on internet addresses received via email or instant messaging, because we assume we are protected by the system, the antivirus and the system administrators.
However, the strongest protection against these types of attacks are suprisingly, ourselves: the computer users.

DO NOT OPEN OR SAVE
e-mail attachments that you receive from un-trusted people
or that you receive unexpectedly from trusted people

DO NOT CLICK ON
internet addresses (links) that you receive from un-trusted people
or that you receive unexpectedly from trusted people

yahoo messenger stupidity

2006-12-10T22:48:00.000+02:00

i usually let my yahoo messenger running on a 24/7 online server so i can always be online. this is how i discovered the stupid program after logging in this sunday evening :)

fly

2006-10-27T13:37:00.000+03:00

two days ago i have found a fly within a yoghurt tin

this one is in romanian

2006-04-04T18:57:00.000+03:00

because i already wrote it to a friend on ymessenger and i'm too lazy to translate it to english. sorry english speakers.

cea mai tare faza: m-am dus la bucatarie sa mananc un sandwich. am halit, linistit, si ma ridic sa arunc la gunoi punga in care fusese sandwich-ul. de la masa pana la cosul de gunoi sunt cel mult 2 metri. pe masa mai aveam doua servetele, sa le iau cu mine la birou, iti mai sare un muc, te mai murdaresti, ce mai, sunt utile. cand ma indreptam spre cosul de gunoi, intra un angajat nou, eu indreptam mana spre capacul de la cos, el se duce direct spre masa, imi ia servetelele si trage niste muci. am ramas perplex

cv found in boot.ini

2006-03-16T13:49:00.000+02:00

yes! you have correctly read: a curriculum vitae in a boot.ini file!
i have never imagined that someone could hide a cv in d:\boot.ini
at least that's what i have discovered today, while investigating a smart-failing hard-disk

so, dear Cristi, congratulations, wherever you are! you have won my appreciation!

why Apple has never had a chance to win the computer market

2006-03-13T23:55:00.000+02:00

because their logo looks exactly like the just-bitten fruit by adam and eva taken from the forbidden tree? do we subconsciously reject all evil's representations?