Recent content by HellDiver

kudos! Nice to see SF alive and kicking (well, at least alive), and quite a few of the familiar names still around. To put things in perspective, it's been over fifteen (15!) years since I encountered some of you guys back in the old SR forum... Some staying power!

While we were busying ourselves with discussions of such an insignificant crap as oil, some people are about to run out of some truly necessary stuff!!! :o

Note to self : the left button is "SpelChek(TM)", the right button is "Submit", the left button is "SpelChek(TM)", the right button is "Submit"...

I'm not quite sure about the "warm" and "fuzzy" part, but heck, everyone is free to interpret my words in whatever way he chooses. As for "without a single fact"... I have no formal education in economics, I have no access to reliable (and factually correct!) data about global economy, I have...

time : Hmmm! I guess I'll have to repeat it : we seem to view the issue from entirely different angles. Let me answer you with a quote from a great old Kubrick's flick "Full Metal Jacket" : "Believe it or not, but under fire, Animal Mother can be a wonderful human being. All he needs is...

Well, that's the good thing about Merc's method : the individual gets his warning to patch the rig pronto, while he can still see the keyboard with the remaining eye... :twistd:

time : Well, actually, I didn't list those in any particular order. That's, kind of, the problem here : priorities list implies you can occasionally skip the "low priority" measures. I, on the other hand, can easily demonstrate enough realistic (up to a point of happening to some people whom I...

Thanks, Doug, I am familiar with those two. I just don't see any urgent need to install any software to playback anything RealAudio - I can recall just three cases in the last several years (one of them being in this very thread) in which I was even mildly intrigued by contents of RealAudio...

Computer "security" today is not really about what antivirus software you use - it's a whole bunch of things, antivirus choice being only a minor part of it. 1. Patch. On a regular basis. Overwhelming majority of worms/viruses/trojans/spyware released in the last couple of years exploited...

time : Hmmm... :-? Actually, time, I read both the paper you linked to and the "notes & slides" mubs linked to (admittedly, I skipped the .RAM itself as I don't have - and likely never will have - RealPlayer installed) pretty much as soon as I read your posts. I may disagree with the...

mubs : Try dropping by this place. They may not be fully up to date, but they have truckloads of info on the subject.

Now, about those "turbines in the Gulfstream"... Before someone familiar with aviation reads my post, let me rephrase that one : "turbines in the Gulf Stream"!

mubs : Actually, I don't think I did. I responded to one very specific statement in your post : Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my statement : "People were talking about it for a hell of a long time". I was referring to an "ill-considered military intervention", not to the fact the "oil is...

If it's still relevant : try Iarsn TaskInfo 2003. AFAIK it's the most powerful task monitoring/managing utility out there for Windoze - it'll tell you everything you ever wanted to know about your active processes and system, and then... And then it'll tell you one hell of a lot more! :) It's...

He-he... I did look it ("...Condor") up, after all... :P It's a 1975 movie. And here's a nice quote from it (where Higgins is the Deputy Director of CIA) :