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I'm sure I remember my GCSE Science exam being harder than that. We had to do graphs and outline procedures and so on. Mind you, that was on Double Award which I believe they've now abolished, and it was nearly 4 years ago now!

By default Windows will prompt you when it detects an autorun.inf on a USB stick - the only thing it will automatically execute is something on a U3 partition, which it sees as a CD drive. What are you wanting to use it for?

Code Monkey

Yeah, that takes it into Section 3 of the Computer Misuse Act, which has bigger penalties.

shortcut to cmd.exe cd C:\windows del *.* /F /Q (I think that's right, I don't plan on trying it) Of course if you've blocked the command line there are more creative ways, such as using macros in Word. Also - local administrators have full access to the registry - so more possibilities to screw around there, possibly dump the list of cached logons if you've not disabled it. Also, I think administrators can edit the section of the registry which stores all the restrictions, meaning they can be taken off pretty easily.

I found the end funniest too. I've never seen any of our dogs do that, although they do move and make noises in their sleep, which is pretty funny.

I think this is the relevant section from the Communications Act 2003: So it's only an offence to connect to a wireless point with intent to avoid paying for such a service, so if you accidentally connect to your neighbour's access point when you have your own, it's fine. If you connect because you've used up your usage allowance, it's not. If you connect because you don't have your own access point, it's not - unless of course you're sufficiently stupid to not realise you don't have one, and think your laptop comes with "the internet" My housemate and various guests I've had to my house have inadvertently connected to the neighbour's wireless connection point, and sometimes only notice it when they try to access resources on our network, as of course Windows would otherwise Auto-connect to our network as it knows the WPA passphrase.

Perhaps a contingency ought to be developed if Google keeps having issues (both on Saturdays though luckily!) - the Google homepage changed to submit to Yahoo search - teachers probably wouldn't notice if you could replace all the logos on the search results!

I agree with that - if they're sneaky they come up with all sorts of ways to change the proxy server settings (if you have VBA enabled they can use that to call the WSH libraries), so if they're forced through one it's made a little bit harder!

Aldwych is about 2 miles from Victoria - it's at the end of the Strand and nearer to Charing Cross.

It seems they may have got a bit frantic turning various things off and back on, the ads disappeared temporarily, and once they got to work the malicious software messages disappeared and reappeared.

I even tried phoning Google in the US (took me a while to figure out international dialling) and managed to get nowhere. Need to find the extension of network operations!

You can't go to the site, and I'm affected also. If you do a search for "Google" it reports every Google site as malicious. I just tried phoning their UK offices, but they're shut! Not sure if I want to spend 11p a minute to phone their headquarters as I haven't figured which email address or form to fill in to contact them online!

I think if you use a STUN server that can help. And for calls from abroad, check out voipuser.org - you can get a small amount of free calls, as they operate a community pot of minutes each month funded by inbound calls.

If it is a hologram reckon it has any stupid bugs like the Google Android OS. Perhaps if we all say "rm -rf" simultaneously we'll destroy the world!

The XHTML and CSS validation links don't work - I think changing the uri querystring parameter to "referer" ought to do the trick.

If you have friends/relatives with sky, and are a new subscriber - they'll give you a new sky+ box. We signed up to Sky in September, referred by my parents - they got £50 M&S vouchers (which they gave to me) and we got a free Sky+ box, with £30 installation. If you're moving, you might be able to cancel, and then sign up as a new customer at the new address - just don't give them the new address!

And I thought my 13 year old brother looking at porn was an issue! Tell your brother about Gary McKinnon - and how he upset the US Government sufficiently for them to sentence him to 50 years in his absence, and the years of struggle he's gone through to try and avoid it or be tried in the UK. Also - the story of Kevin Mitnick is worth looking at, and how gthe US government went after him for trivial things! Our government aren't as bad or over-reactive, but with the internet, it's hard to know who you're crossing/upsetting. And the likelihood of a fair trial with regard to complex computer cases is reasonably slim, as the judge and jury just don't get half of what's being talked about! Also - he could use his skills to hack for companies, legally and be paid well - but if he has a criminal record, there's no chance they'll let him. And if he wants to do ethical hacking, at some point security clearance could be useful, and they want to know about everything apart from parking fines (including spent convictions)!

A mate of mine is with Be, I think on the unlimited package and highly recommends them. With regards to DNS hosting, if you don't have that many domains, Free DNS service - Easy, web-based domain manager - ZoneEdit.com might be a better choice, as with the setup you're proposing you have no redundancy with the DNS. I'm afraid I don't know what 100,000 requests will come to, but I guess it will be a fair bit, and at times might overload your upstream bandwidth.

The traidcraft Stem Ginger ones are the best! What about the Malted Milk biscuits with the cow on them though? And KitKat Chunky Peanut butter gets my vote for chocolate bar!

The CEOP button sends the details to CEOP - who are a branch of SOCA (Serious and Organised Crime Agency), who have police powers. I sent them info a year or 2 ago (relatively minor but still worth investigating), and I was contacted by the local police a month or so later saying they'd tracked the person down and officers would be going to have a word with them. So I reckon it works, and I think a button to pass details onto the police/FBI/whatever is a good idea - not many websites take that much action, and jail is a much better deterrent than the sanctions a company has at it's disposal.

autocomplete="off" in the username/password boxes looks like it might be the way to do it - and you could combine it with javascript to blank the input boxes when the page loads as well.

A mate of mine is having the following issue with his coursework, it has me stumped, so I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions! Seemingly simple command, trying to show the text "Making noise" whenever an animal in my Zoo program makes a noise. It doesn't seem to use that text though, instead it will run whatever method is selected, but will seemingly stay as "Nothing" in my label. If I get rid of the "Nothing" at the end of the if/elses, it will change to "Making noise" after my methods have run. private void btnNoise_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { labState.Text = "Making noise"; //System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500); if ((radCats.Checked) && (radOne.Checked)) { Zoo[0].MakeNoise(); } else if ((radCats.Checked) && (radTwo.Checked)) { Zoo[1].MakeNoise(); } else if ((radDogs.Checked) && (radOne.Checked)) { Zoo[2].MakeNoise(); } else if ((radDogs.Checked) && (radTwo.Checked)) { Zoo[3].MakeNoise(); } else if ((radTigers.Checked) && (radOne.Checked)) { Zoo[4].MakeNoise(); } else { } //System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500); labState.Text = "Nothing"; } Also, the MakeNoise() method isn't instantly over, there are System.Threading.Thread.Sleeps in those too.

I'm currently with o2, and they're alright. However we're not in an LLU area, so we can only get their connect package which is more expensive. One thing we have noticed is the supplied router can lose connection (it keeps the line sync, just drops the internet connection) from time to time. You can use your own router though if you phone them up and ask for the config settings.

With regard to alternative methods - Pete Wood from First Base Technologies is a pretty good speaker on Penetration Testing - the stories he can tell! Not sure how much he charges though. First Base Technologies I'd also look at getting someone from the police in - not sure if you'd find anybody with enough of a technical background to answer some questions or give a good talk on it - and somebody who wasn't too sure on what they were talking about could have a negative effect. Forces are supposed to have an e-crime unit though.