Khali♥
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Happy Holidays!
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Post by Khali♥ on Apr 13, 2008 11:09:25 GMT -5
As easy as it sounds...
Bug Hall Adam Szalinski
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Post by Star♫ on Apr 13, 2008 20:33:13 GMT -5
Hmm not as interesting as I hoped lol
Al was going bald. He was thinking about how he wanted some more food. He was extremely tired because he had not slept in over ten years. One time he painted a hobo green. The hobo
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Post by rick24 on Apr 14, 2008 14:47:29 GMT -5
DIFFERENT WAYS OF LOOKING AT THINGS (or the uncertainty of the English language).
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Post by StickieBun on Apr 14, 2008 15:46:30 GMT -5
well.... i guess you all get a preview to a scene from Sukora and my HPfanfic The Outlanders.... LOL
Lissa nodded and walked out of the kitchen and up to the second floor. She knocked on Farlin’s door before walking in. “Farlin, You have two visitors.”
“Who?” Farlin asked from his seat in the window where he was crafting an elemental sword.
“Gred and Forge…. Or was it Forge and Gred?” she smiled.
Farlin leapt up, “Their here?”
“Yes, they have learned the errors of there ways and have come to beg you for forgiveness.”
Farlin set the sword down and raced down to see his mates.
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Khali♥
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Happy Holidays!
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Post by Khali♥ on Apr 17, 2008 12:47:23 GMT -5
Newaygo, MI
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Post by StickieBun on Apr 17, 2008 14:59:10 GMT -5
Elder Rise in Thunder Bluff
.... wow that was last night... my computer saves copied things after i turn off my computer??? cool!!! lol
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Post by Star♫ on Apr 17, 2008 15:03:18 GMT -5
Mine doesn't lol. So I don't have anything yet lol
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Post by StickieBun on Apr 18, 2008 15:44:20 GMT -5
Rofl, Noob go south from crossroads till you get to the bridge over the dried riverbed, you'll see two huts to the west. his wife is the dead body outside the huts. Your a level 23 Tauren Warrior... it should be quite easy. just examine her body.
lol yeah... i gave directions to an annoying 12 year old trying to play WoW... he wasn't very good....
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Post by Star♫ on Apr 18, 2008 17:17:58 GMT -5
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Post by StickieBun on Apr 18, 2008 17:41:28 GMT -5
Art, photography, oldies music, country music, the ghost and Mr Chicken, PotO, Monty Python, Sweeny Todd, HP, Equlips, kissing coffens, vampire high, charcole or graphite, summer, feather quill, katana, moon mysty in clouds, city, quiet and alone, wolf, apple pie, farm yard, wood burning stove, crickets
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Post by Star♫ on Apr 18, 2008 19:01:33 GMT -5
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Post by StickieBun on Apr 18, 2008 20:12:39 GMT -5
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Khali♥
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Happy Holidays!
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Post by Khali♥ on Apr 19, 2008 14:18:12 GMT -5
Watch your logs
It's never a bad idea to keep an eye on what your computer is doing behind your back. Mac OS X makes this easier with Console.app, tucked away in your /Applications/Utilities folder. Like the best Mac applications, it's designed to do one thing and do it well: allow you to see your Mac's log activity at a glance, and search quickly for specific items. The trick is knowing what to look for.
Seeing strange error messages from an application you don't remember installing? Perhaps permission errors listed when trying to access a specific file? Are system services restarting themselves for no apparent reason? Users logging on and off when they shouldn't be? Or are there significant gaps in recording from a given logfile?
These could all be innocuous readings caused by bugs in the operating system (difficult as it might seem to believe, there are the occasional slip-ups by Apple's Quality Assurance department), but they could also represent attempts by malicious users or code to wrest control of your machine out from under you. This is where being part of a good online community can help out; post a thread or search online for your odd log results and chances are you'll either find an explanation or run into someone with the same issue, and you can build from there.
For the truly hardcore, why not set up syslogd to send your logs to a remote logger on another machine? Finding a spare machine to use as your logger is left as an exercise for the reader.
Check your outgoing traffic
A confession: before starting this article, I knew about Little Snitch but had never actually used it. Installing, configuring, and living with it for the past couple of weeks was an eye-opening experience. Like most computer users, I've never really given much thought to how much my computer communicates with the outside world on its own. It happens far more than you might expect.
We're not just talking about applications which check for updates on their own, but system processes and helper applications connecting to all kinds of crazy servers and ports. Connections range from wu-calculator.apple.com:80 (used by Calculator.app to update exchange rates) to time.apple.com:2000 (used if you're syncing your Mac's clock to the default NTP service) to iphonesubmissions.apple.com:443 (used to report iPhone crashes), and that's just a sampling of Apple programs.
Practically every application, widget, accessory, video codec, and system service now phones home (or elsewhere) in the age of always-on Internet, and you probably don't even know which ones are going where and why. Unless you have Little Snitch installed, that is. Or you're an ipfw expert, in which case, why aren't you reading the Unix version of this article?
Little Snitch can get a little annoying when you fire up Dashboard and have to approve half a dozen widget network requests at once, or when you're trying to read an email that has to download graphics. It can also have some unintended consequences—I ran into an interesting problem where I couldn't unlock the screensaver because Little Snitch had blocked the Kerberos services necessary to authenticate my Active Directory account—but it's a crucial tool in understanding what's happening under your Mac's hood. $25 well spent, in my humble opinion.
Use a virus scanner
Wait, a what? Virus scanner? Macs? Viruses? Me fail English? That's unpossible!
True, the viral risk is mitigated by several new and old features of Mac OS X. By default, files created in a user's home directory are not executable, which helps to lower the risk of infection, and applications in 10.5 now take advantage of code signing, helping to prove that they are who they claim to be.
By default, downloaded files are dropped into a new Downloads folder in a user's home directory, which helps to keep suspicious files in one easy-to-scan location. Previous versions of the OS warned a user when opening an application for the first time; now, 10.5 applies that scrutiny to all downloaded files, pointing out when they were downloaded and asking if it's really, really okay to open them.
Even with all of those extra measures, no system is immune to malware, worms, or viruses. Some of the measures described above would prevent another Leap-A or Opener from spreading too widely, but until every hole is closed and every bug is eliminated, new threat vectors will arise. (In other words, forever.)
Given the sheer pervasiveness of Microsoft Office in the Mac universe, it's impossible to ignore the specific threat of macro viruses. While they can't really do any significant damage on the Mac side—especially with the recent demise of VBA scripting—they can be passed along to fellow Office users on, shall we say, other platforms. And guess what happens then? Hopefully the answer is "they get caught by an anti-virus program," but the point remains.
If it bothers you that we have to take steps to protect ourselves from evil that can't really harm us, consider it a non-deductible form of charity towards our well-meaning but misguided fellow computer users. (That's a joke, people, stop trying to launch Outlook.)
The Mac OS X version of ClamAV
Although there are several commercial virus scanners for the Mac platform, I personally prefer to rely on a tried-and-true open-source alternative: ClamAV is available in a specially-built Mac OS X version and receives just as much (if not more) attention as the for-pay alternatives. By setting it to auto-update and keep a close watch on your Downloads and Documents folders, you're already several significant steps up the security ladder.
Always more to do
This isn't meant to be a comprehensive list by any means. It's meant to get you thinking about security as just another part of computer use. There is still no substitute for common sense—don't download and run random programs off the Internet, don't visit malicious web sites, don't reply to obvious spam, and never say no to a sailor.
Stay alert, run Software Update every so often, keep in touch with news and announcements (may I recommend a certain Apple-related journal?) and you should be in good shape. Now, just between you and me, I have this Nigerian uncle who left me several million dollars, and...
(just wanna make it clear that I have no idea what that is....I just pressed paste.)
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Post by StickieBun on Apr 19, 2008 14:45:49 GMT -5
Game Over
Your Score: -1255
Average reaction time:
Black Armed:704.4ms
Black Unarmed:775.2ms
White Armed:622.52ms
White Unarmed:723.52ms
again... last night lol
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Khali♥
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Post by Khali♥ on Apr 22, 2008 16:52:00 GMT -5
Thanks, everyone. I appreciate the feedback.
posted some of my art on a different board. general consensus was that i should pursue a career in photo lol.
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Post by StickieBun on Apr 22, 2008 18:58:41 GMT -5
Twinkletoes is the true star of Sleeping Beauty! hehehe he's funny.
...lool ok thats refurring to the HS play i went to see. they did Sleeping beauty and Brian played the good fairy Twinkletoes hehe
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Post by Star♫ on Apr 28, 2008 0:42:33 GMT -5
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Post by StickieBun on Apr 28, 2008 0:47:02 GMT -5
Kelly says:
hmmm weird, i got distracted by a video on whether or not the original superman had been murdered or commited suicide
Alyssa says:
lol does it matter? i mean Superman is LAME and he dies in doomsday. dont matter how. he's still lame. Spiderman and Batman both can whip his @$$ any day! lol
Alyssa says:
wow... that sounds so geeky.... -_-"
Kelly says:
lol it's crazy though. They've never been able to figure out what actually happened. gah brb
Alyssa says:
kk
.... yeah... I'm alyssa so you know....
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Post by Star♫ on Apr 28, 2008 1:29:13 GMT -5
Blah I can't paste my last thing since It's the print screen thing....
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Post by StickieBun on Apr 28, 2008 1:59:27 GMT -5
<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WCqJTZ2c_Sg&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WCqJTZ2c_Sg&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
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Post by Star♫ on Apr 28, 2008 13:39:54 GMT -5
“Do you want to spend the night here?” Gabriella asked as they walked into her room.
“Yes please.” Abby replied sadly as Gabi collapsed on her bed and Abby collapsed on the couch Gabriella had in her room since she had the privilege of being the only one not having to share a room out of the girls. The others had let her had it since they thought Abby would be with her a lot. The couch was in her room because Sharpay had taken it upon herself to buy them all new furniture for their living room.
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Post by StickieBun on Apr 29, 2008 16:56:56 GMT -5
bright blue eyes blonde hair green streaks
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Post by Star♫ on Apr 29, 2008 22:50:59 GMT -5
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Post by StickieBun on Apr 30, 2008 13:20:16 GMT -5
Dont go u nub1 It's a tarp!
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Post by Star♫ on Apr 30, 2008 14:55:09 GMT -5
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Post by StickieBun on Apr 30, 2008 17:00:35 GMT -5
A small seven year old boy sat in the far corner of Professor Severus Snape's office. He pushed his glasses further up his nose and turned the page of his book. his Dark black hair fell over his warm black eyes that scaned over each word on the page. He was young but had long outgrown the childrens books his siblings before him had never wanted to touch.
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Post by Star♫ on May 3, 2008 21:01:42 GMT -5
"Malls about to close. i had to hurry." Sharpay huffed, wishing she could have stayed longer.
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Uninvited
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ell-oh-vee-eee =)
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Post by Uninvited on May 3, 2008 21:07:04 GMT -5
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Post by StickieBun on May 3, 2008 22:05:57 GMT -5
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
lolol
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Post by Star♫ on May 4, 2008 1:41:42 GMT -5
October 21
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[My5:http://www.myspace.com/starlover88fanfic]
