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	<title>to-karvuvu trumps to-kabinana &#187; tech stoof</title>
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		<title>wordpress post.php blank page: &#8217;sploit!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[in the past week or so, there have been a rash of wordpress &#8217;sploits.  i&#8217;m writing this up in the interest of saving &#8217;sploitees some recovery time and headaches.  i believe all of the exploited blogs were running downrev versions (2.6 is current as of this writing) at the time of exploit.
symptoms include:

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>in the past week or so, there have been a rash of wordpress &#8217;sploits.  i&#8217;m writing this up in the interest of saving &#8217;sploitees some recovery time and headaches.  i believe all of the exploited blogs were running downrev versions (2.6 is current as of this writing) at the time of exploit.</p>
<p>symptoms include:</p>
<ul>
<li>posts go blank or are truncated to random, short-ish lengths (4-5 sentences)</li>
<li>edit.php returns a blank page on save</li>
<li>post.php returns a blank page on save/publish</li>
<li>preview.php returns a blank page</li>
<li>plugins.php returns a blank page</li>
<li>theme editor returns a blank page</li>
</ul>
<p>in this particular sploit, the hackers were able to open a shell through PHP, and use it to find directories on the filesystem which were writable by the (unprivileged) webserver user.  they uploaded a set of scripts that attempted to append each valid blog post with pharmaceutical spam, with a keyword of the hackers&#8217; choosing.  had everything worked, this would go unnoticed by end users.  everything didn&#8217;t work.</p>
<p>to find out if this is the case for you, add the following to your wp-config.php:</p>
<p><strong>define(&#8217;WP_DEBUG&#8217;,true);</strong></p>
<p>if you then load your blog and get a PHP warning/notice about undefined variables, etc, it should barf out the filename of a rogue PHP script, likely to be outside the top-level directory of your blog.</p>
<p>to recover, one would optimally restore from a pre-hack SQL dump.  if that isn&#8217;t possible or too much data would be lost, perform the following steps:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>back up your database.</strong> even if it&#8217;s hacked:<br />
$ mysqldump &#8211;opt -Q -u user -p -h mysql.hostname dbname &gt; wordpress-yyyymmdd.sql</li>
<li><strong>upgrade to the current wordpress</strong> though as of this writing there are still upgrade issues with 2.6.  2.5.1 should suffice.</li>
<li><strong>back up the wp_options table</strong>: (wp_settings i think in earlier WP versions)<br />
$ mysqldump &#8211;opt -Q -u user -p -h mysql.hostname dbname wp_options &gt; wp_options.hacked.yyyymmdd.sql</li>
<li><strong>copy the table dump:<br />
</strong>$ cp wp_options.hacked.yyyymmdd.sql wp_options.fixed.yyyymmdd.sql</li>
<li><strong>edit the copy</strong> in your favorite text editor. you&#8217;re looking for the line like:(103,0,&#8217;active_plugins&#8217;,'a:3:{i:0;s:23:\&#8221;../../../video/buzz.php\&#8221;;i:1;s:19:\&#8221;akismet/akismet.php\&#8221;;i:2;s:14:\&#8221;lr2Spam.03.php\&#8221;;}&#8217;,'yes&#8217;)in this case, the first entry between brackets is the rogue script.  remove it:
<p>(103,0,&#8217;active_plugins&#8217;,'a:3:{i:1;s:19:\&#8221;akismet/akismet.php\&#8221;;i:2;s:14:\&#8221;lr2Spam.03.php\&#8221;;}&#8217;,'yes&#8217;)</li>
<li><strong>import the corrected table:<br />
</strong>$ mysql -u user -p -h mysql.hostname dbname &lt; wp_options.fixed.yyyymmdd.sql</li>
<li><strong>remove the rogue scripts and/or make them unreadable.</strong></li>
<li><strong>test test test.</strong> removing the call to the rogue script fixed us up. i hope it fixes yours, too.</li>
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		<title>work for UNC? here&#8217;s how to view your paystub.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UNC recently stopped sending out paper paystubs, a move which my inner environmentally conscious earth child wholly supports.  however, the paystub notification e-mails from finance decline to include a link to the electronic paystubs for security reasons.  my co-worker became quite grouchy whilst trying to find his paystub this morning.  so, as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>UNC recently stopped sending out paper paystubs, a move which my inner environmentally conscious earth child wholly supports.  however, the paystub notification e-mails from finance decline to include a link to the electronic paystubs for security reasons.  my co-worker became quite grouchy whilst trying to find his paystub this morning.  so, as a service to the UNC community, i am posting instructions for viewing one&#8217;s paystub should one work for UNC.</p>
<ol>
<li>browse to <a title="My.UNC.edu" href="http://my.unc.edu" target="_blank">http://my.unc.edu</a> and login with your OnYEN</li>
<li>staff: click on the &#8217;staff&#8217; tab.  others: i hope you have a tab!</li>
<li>click &#8216;See your paystub&#8217;, then allow pop-ups and click it again.</li>
<li>log in with your OnYEN again. welcome to the Payroll Services Pay Stub Application.</li>
<li>choose a pay period, and click &#8216;Display Pay Stub&#8217;</li>
<li>allow pop-ups and click &#8216;Display Pay Stub&#8217; again.  whistles will toot and gears will whir, and if you&#8217;re running Windows, your browser will present  your paystub.  if you&#8217;re not running Windows, your browser will present a file called &#8216;displayPayStub.do&#8217; and ask what to do with it.</li>
<li>save &#8216;displayPayStub.do&#8217; and rename it to something like paystub-yyyymmdd, changing the extension to &#8216;.pdf&#8217; so that your computer will know how to open it.  my co-worker did a Google search for &#8216;.do extension&#8217; but Google tried to sell him weave. honest.</li>
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<p>best of luck!</p>
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		<title>how to play streaming quicktime videos on linux</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In troubleshooting connectivity problems with our Folkstreams documentary site, I worked out playing Quicktime streams on my Fedora 8 desktop.  Here&#8217;s a quick-n-dirty recipe (suggestions and cleanups welcome):
Gather the necessary sources:
mplayer:    currently    http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2
ffmpeg:    SVN via    $ svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In troubleshooting connectivity problems with our <a href="http://www.folkstreams.net/">Folkstreams</a> documentary site, I worked out playing Quicktime streams on my Fedora 8 desktop.  Here&#8217;s a quick-n-dirty recipe (suggestions and cleanups welcome):</p>
<p><strong>Gather the necessary sources:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>mplayer:</strong>    currently    <a href="http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2">http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2</a><br />
<strong>ffmpeg:</strong>    SVN via    $ svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg<br />
<strong>faac:</strong>        currently    <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=704">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=704</a><br />
<strong>liveMedia:</strong>    currently     <a href="http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/public/live555-latest.tar.gz">http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/public/live555-latest.tar.gz</a></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Now, we compile:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Let&#8217;s start with <strong>ffmpeg</strong> and <strong>faac</strong> first.  The commands should be as simple as the following.  Note that you will need to install gcc and the related automake/autoconf/libtool packages included with your distribution if you don&#8217;t have them already installed.  If your distribution includes packages for ffmpeg and faac (most likely will) go ahead and install them and skip to step 2.<br />
$ tar xvfj  ffmpeg-export-snapshot.tar.bz2<br />
$ cd ffmpeg-export-&lt;date&gt;<br />
$ ./configure &#8211;prefix=/usr (the &#8211;prefix is optional, but my Linux distro keeps everything beneath /usr, so&#8230;)<br />
$ make<br />
$ sudo make install<br />
$ tar xvfz faac-1.25.tar.gz<br />
$ cd faac<br />
$ ./bootstrap<br />
$ ./configure &#8211;prefix=/usr<br />
$ make<br />
$ sudo make install</li>
<li>Next we&#8217;ll install the <a href="http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/">liveMedia</a> libraries courtesy of live555.com:<br />
$ tar xvfz live555-latest.tar.gz<br />
$ cd live<br />
$ ./genMakefiles linux<br />
$ make<br />
$ cd ..<br />
$ sudo mv live/ /usr/lib/</li>
<li>Finally, we install <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu">mplayer</a>:<br />
$ tar xvfj MPlayer-1.0rc2.tar.bz2<br />
$ cd MPlayer-1.0rc2<br />
$ ./configure &#8211;prefix=/usr<br />
Be sure that the enabled optional drivers&#8217; &#8220;Input&#8221; line includes live555.<br />
$ make<br />
$ sudo make install</li>
</ol>
<p>That should do it! For now, you will need to right-click on the Folkstreams MPEG link, save streams.php to a file, and copy-paste the movie URL into an MPlayer command line command.  In my case, I needed to invoke MPlayer&#8217;s &#8220;rtsp-stream-over-tcp&#8221; option:</p>
<p>$ mplayer -rtsp-stream-over-tcp rtsp://audio-qt.ibiblio.org/folkstreams/video/music_district/music_district-mp4.mov</p>
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		<title>the week ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[tomorrow i&#8217;ll be giving a lunch talk, a report on the proceedings from the 2007 meeting of the Open Content Alliance.  on friday november 16th in manning 208 from noon until 1 p.m.  then, i am quite literally going to disneyworld!
i&#8217;ll be driving to florida as it takes almost as long and way [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>tomorrow i&#8217;ll be giving a lunch talk, a report on the proceedings from the 2007 meeting of the Open Content Alliance.  on friday november 16th in manning 208 from noon until 1 p.m.  then, i am quite literally going to disneyworld!</p>
<p>i&#8217;ll be driving to florida as it takes almost as long and way more money to fly, and then i wouldn&#8217;t have a car to go anywhere off property.  i&#8217;m very much looking forward to some forced relaxation &#8211; no internet, no work, no housework&#8230;  but i am bringing my running shoes <img src='http://www.ibiblio.org/dls/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Open Content Alliance and the greater San Francisco area</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in October I flew to San Francisco to take notes the Open Content Alliance and spend a few days exploring the city!  Ugh, I&#8217;ve been soooo negligent in updating my blog.  I&#8217;m giving a little report on the OCA meeting to the SILS faculty on next Friday, so I&#8217;ll post the presentation notes here.
I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Back in October I flew to San Francisco to take notes the <a href="http://www.opencontentalliance.org/">Open Content Alliance</a> and spend a few days exploring the city!  Ugh, I&#8217;ve been soooo negligent in updating my blog.  I&#8217;m giving a little report on the OCA meeting to the SILS faculty on next Friday, so I&#8217;ll post the presentation notes here.</p>
<p>I have tons of pictures from San Francisco and need to get them organized and uploaded to Flickr, at some point.  A few observations on the trip:</p>
<ul>
<li>MUNI passes are good things to have.  An $18, 3-day MUNI pass got us everywhere we want to go, and quickly!</li>
<li>Sweet Heat is gone from the Upper Haight <img src='http://www.ibiblio.org/dls/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' />   There was one in the Marina district as well, which is now the excellent Chinese restaurant, Country Sky.  So, so good!</li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.gracecathedral.org/m3u/evensong.m3u">Thursday Evensong</a> service at <a href="http://www.gracecathedral.org/">Grace Cathedral</a> was the highlight of my trip, hands down.  Archie put up a fuss about going to a boring old church service, but once the service started he was <em>almost</em> as enchanted as I was.  The best part, for me, was that Grace allowed worshipers to sit up in the choir since the service was so small &#8211; and I got to sit behind the organ bench!  If I lived in San Francisco I would probably be at Grace for every service.</li>
<li>The NextBus placards are as inaccurate in San Francisco <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/dls/blog/?m=200612">as they are in Chapel Hill</a>.  I wonder if San Francisco&#8217;s installation tracks bus routes on days the buses aren&#8217;t running just like Chapel Hill&#8217;s installation does.</li>
<li>We ate breakfast at the over-priced Boudin&#8217;s on the Wharf.  On the morning before, Buena Vista provided a better breakfast at a much better price.  With the cable-car turn-around right outside our window!</li>
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		<title>web 2.0 conference, afternoon session</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i didn&#8217;t win the iPhone.  more on wikinomics &#8211; the wisdom of the masses.  the baby name wizard.  segue into a demo of IBM&#8217;s &#8220;many eyes.&#8221;  graphical representations: hostograms of the text of Genesis, US government expenses, etc.   very, very cool stuf!
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		<title>web 2.0 conference, social computing session</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[rob, martha and frank are leading the social computing session.  anyone who has teenagers knows exactly what we&#8217;re talking about.  remember &#8220;get off the damned phone?&#8221;  kids don&#8217;t use phones for minutes, just for texts.  rob reads an obituary from wikinomics:  &#8220;the bottom line is this:  the immutable, stand-alone [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rob, martha and frank are leading the social computing session.  anyone who has teenagers knows exactly what we&#8217;re talking about.  remember &#8220;get off the damned phone?&#8221;  kids don&#8217;t use phones for minutes, just for texts.  rob reads an obituary from wikinomics:  &#8220;the bottom line is this:  the immutable, stand-alone web is dead.&#8221;  frank demos the lotus greenhouse using firefox on vista.</p>
<ul>
<li>how do we use social computing in the workplace?</li>
<li>privacy issues / challenges in social software</li>
<li>which sites are best to use, for which purpose?</li>
<li>what makes social software and sites succeed or fail?</li>
<li>how to bring people out of the enterprise into social networks?</li>
</ul>
<p>ESPN is the single most blocked site on the web.  del.icio.us may be more likely for searches than google.  everybody knows youtube and wikipedia.  their overgrown stickies get yanked.  plug many eyes, an alphaworks product.  maybe a demo later.  del.icio.us demo.  RSS discussion.</p>
<p>frank talks about friendster, myspace and facebook. he tells us cautionary tales &#8211; employers stalk candidates before interviews, so be careful what you publish about yourself.  frank&#8217;s myspace page includes comments from friends telling him he&#8217;s hot but warning that they&#8217;ll disown him if he marries any relatives now that he&#8217;s moved to the south.  also his friend marley warns that he&#8217;s going to hell, and she&#8217;ll see him there.</p>
<p>Qatsup is a spam engine &#8211; you upload your address book, and they use it to spam your friends.  rob recommends against it.  twitter only gets 15 seconds.  frank says twitter is brilliant.  now we go for a lotus connections demo, but they&#8217;re down for maintenance.</p>
<p>on to engadget.  techcrunch.  digg.  we begin to see information aggregates.  &#8220;the whole concept of a blog makes a lot of sense.&#8221;  on to the developerworks community &#8212; social networking for the enterprise.  almost out of time.  didn&#8217;t get to talk about security.  AIM was insecure, so IBM came up with sametime.  social pools face the same security problems.  when you bring them inside the firewall, you can log them.  studmuffin123 becomes rob@ibm.   second life discussion but no demo.  IBM highlighters for the folks that piped up in discussion.</p>
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		<title>web 2.0 conference introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ led by the evangelist for the emerging technologies group at IBM, the coolest job in the company.  web 2.0 may still be vague for a lot of people, so a primer on jargon.  plugging developerworks and alphaworks.  developers love demos and hate slides.  we&#8217;ll be talking to super-geeks today.  [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> led by the evangelist for the emerging technologies group at IBM, the coolest job in the company.  web 2.0 may still be vague for a lot of people, so a primer on jargon.  plugging developerworks and alphaworks.  developers love demos and hate slides.  we&#8217;ll be talking to super-geeks today.  two-way interaction makes web 2.0.  google is all that, but myspace gets more hits.  if IBM had sponsored wikipedia, it never would have happened.  this is a beta of the 2.0 conference.</p>
<p>holds up a punch card with notes on it.  who knows what this is?  you can write on it, and it fits in your back pocket.  IBM still stocks them because IBM has customers that still use them.  12 goes first, face down.</p>
<ul>
<li>who invented DOS?  <em>tim patterson got about $10k for it.</em></li>
<li>why did DOS have 8.3 character filenames?   <em>to be compatible with CPM</em></li>
<li>when jobs left apple, where did john scully work before taking the helm?  <em>pepsi</em></li>
<li>before IBM, lou gershner worked for&#8230; <em>nabisco</em></li>
<li>jobs spent over $1m designing the NeXT box. why?  <em>because he wanted a perfectly square cube with perfect corners</em></li>
</ul>
<p>what&#8217;s happening on youtube?  how can we do that in the enterprise?  in colleges?  governments?  we&#8217;ll show you some lotus products to help you do this.  welcome rod smith, IBM fellow.</p>
<p>rod smith takes over.  web 2.0 means the technically savvy are more willing to experiment than before.  speed geeking.  people want to see instant value.  siphoning a lot of technologies for the community.  developerworks is the #2 site where developers go these days.  syndication.  smaller communities.  IBMers don&#8217;t get to see one another until they meet when working with customers.</p>
<p>as web 2.0 comes along, business worry about disruption.  who will buy a book from amazon without seeing positive comments about it?  most corporate information is locked behind firewalls.  how to get it out?  high school wanted info from NOAA, invited NOAA officials to see their projects, and had completed tasks NOAA had been meaning to get done.</p>
<p>this brings us to mashups.  before, it took us years to build applications.  now, we do them in 30 days.  iGoogle, netvisor, what IBM is doing, all will shorten time to market.  all with social aspects.   got bored with retail mashups using google maps, but maps were very valuable to customers.</p>
<p>more talk of AJAX, long tail, and handing out of lab coats to be worn at the conference.  break for coffee and reconfig.</p>
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		<title>web 2.0 conference, coffee time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[held in engineering ii&#8217;s progress energy conference center.  13 projectors mounted on a central tower are beaming mashups and facebook pages onto the domed ceiling.  the soundtrack is acid jazz and drum n bass, punctuated by announcements about QED wiki.
laura, the coordinator, is making the rounds to get a vibe from the audience [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>held in engineering ii&#8217;s progress energy conference center.  13 projectors mounted on a central tower are beaming mashups and facebook pages onto the domed ceiling.  the soundtrack is acid jazz and drum n bass, punctuated by announcements about QED wiki.</p>
<p>laura, the coordinator, is making the rounds to get a vibe from the audience before the presentation begins.  i see over-sized post-it notes on the far wall.  an un-conference!  i see &#8220;linked in&#8221; &#8220;db2&#8243; &#8220;information management&#8221; &#8220;del.icio.us&#8221; &#8220;gather.com&#8221; and &#8220;yootube&#8221;[sic].  the coordinator points them out.  dig it?</p>
<p>here&#8217;s what the announcer is advertising in between music tracks:  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63qIq9t9Gqs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63qIq9t9Gqs</a></p>
<p>i wish i got SSH access through NCSU&#8217;s wireless service so i could check on our servers&#8230;</p>
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		<title>wherefore art thou windows vista!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[so, i went to stay with my friend kristin in greensboro.  she wanted me to look at her brand new computer, the one that came with windows vista home edition on it.  the one that had a few small things that she wanted fixed &#8211; the computer didn&#8217;t properly recognize the monitor, limewire [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>so, i went to stay with my friend kristin in greensboro.  she wanted me to look at her brand new computer, the one that came with windows vista home edition on it.  the one that had a few small things that she wanted fixed &#8211; the computer didn&#8217;t properly recognize the monitor, limewire needed a hole punched in the firewall for her completely legal music downloads, little things like that.</p>
<p>in the process of fixing these small tasks, my jaw dropped several times:</p>
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<li>a brand new Dell with a dual-core 2.8Ghz Intel CPU performed like a <strong>dog</strong>.  booting the OS, running an IM client and opening Firefox was enough to make the machine swap like crazy.</li>
<li>there are still *tons* of hardware devices that don&#8217;t have drivers for Vista yet.  kristin owns one.</li>
<li>Vista to me is less aesthetically pleasing than Windows 2000 or even Windows XP.  much of the interface is unintuitive, many widgets appear distorted, and the colors are downright ugly.</li>
<li>despite the touted new features, Vista is plain old Windows.  settings are still stored in the control panel with the same old applets, though they&#8217;re arranged in groups and have different icons.  the hardware manager *looked* different, but wasn&#8217;t.  all data?  stored on C:</li>
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<p>no wonder the public isn&#8217;t lining up around the block to purchase this OS.  too bad kristin laughed at my suggestion that she install Linux.  too bad that my 3 year-old Dell can run circles around kristin&#8217;s brand new Dell.  perhaps 2008 will be the year of Linux on the desktop!</p>
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