The civil society, from my understanding, is a society in which citizens have the necessary resources and effective constitutional protection to fully exert their civil rights and fulfill their civil duties. This includes, but not limited to, the formation of ’sectors’ or organizations for the citizenship related functions.
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As of October 30, Nod32 (version 3.0.669) updated its virus definition which identifies a new virus called Win32/Patched.NAC. Today it detected a crucial Windows file called svchost.exe, which is located at C:\Windows\System32, is infected with this Patched.NAC virus.
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As of the writing of this post, the “Reader” link to the Google Reader under Gmail account is gone. If users click on “more” to browser more Google services, the users are directed to Google Options page, and still the Reader option is nowhere to be found. Read More
Indiana Jones 4 is a decent sequel to the previous three Jones series. Unlike Pirates of the Caribbean, the sequel named Dead Man’s Chest was the first movie that actually made me fall asleep in the movie theater. Read More
If something is evil to be tough, then this thing is doomed to be destroyed. Why? Because this is what happened to the rogue CD protection software — Starforce.
As far as I could recall, I did not use Linux/Debian for about two years. Last week, I had an open time slot and I decided to installed my favorite Distro Debian/Lenny on my aging desktop to play around a little.
My experience so far is mixed. I would say the general user experience has enhanced so much that I actually spent less time fixing the system for a better environment. On the other hand, numerous details of the Desktop environment have much to be desired, and if fixed properly, could contribute so much to the user experience, to the degree that one can term Linux Desktop as “just works”.
I followed Debian Wiki’s instruction on how to install Compiz Fusion (was Beryl) under Lenny. But after walking through the tutorial, I got this error message when I tired to launch Compiz under Gnome with the command: compiz –replace
If you are a political liberal, a democrat, or an Adam Sandler fan, you are probably going to enjoy this movie, but probably hate the strongly accented English.
What you will see is a few superman-like, Hong Kong kungfu movies styles stunts, and the rosy wish of Peace and Brotherhood between Israel and Palestine. Although the matters in mid-east are not really that simple and easy, not like Zohan’s bloated masculinity and fighting skills.
I don’t want to argue which one is better. For me, AVG Free is trustworthy, and it does detect viruses better than another free AV — AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic. For Nod32, well, it is not free, and keeping it in ‘free’ mode for a long period requires a lot of extra work. Kaspersky’s invincible key file is annoying, and so is Nod32’s usename/password mechanism. Yes, you can find the ‘free’ Kaspersky keys, or subscribe to a daily feed of Nod32’s login information or use a trial time stopper. But why do that when you have AVG free which does a very respectable job in virus-detection?
For me Edward Norton and John Cusack look quite alike, and it is not until I watched the movie the Incredible Hulk did I realize they are different individuals. Edward Norton appears to be a right fit for dark and sad characters, while Cusack has a sunnier face. If you ask me which movie I like better, the Hulk or the War Inc., I would pick the latter.