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Any other site is OK but none on blogspot. I tried Firefox, Chrome and IE but with the same result. I might have tampered with some Internet settings but what could be that which affects blogger alone?--Dondrodger (talk) 02:48, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
127.0.0.1 localhost
Scanned using Kaspersky's TDSSKiller2.5.4.0 but no infection. The problem is unsolved. --Dondrodger (talk) 05:41, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
I stumped the science desk with this question since June 9 so I'm reposing it here:
Is the first "transition" of a differential Manchester encoding signal the first time it deviates from its initial level or the first time it returns to that initial level? Or are signals from both possibilities generally tracked and chosen from after a sufficient number of samples to discern between have been observed? Can some kind of bit parity, start or stop bits make that easy? 76.254.22.47 (talk) 20:11, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
Hello. I'd like to run an anti-spyware scan on my MacBook Pro. Is there any software available that would allow me to do this? The only stuff I could find are for PCs.
On a related note, how vulnerable to attacks are Macs compared to PCs? I've heard that Macs tend to be more resilient; is that still true today? Ragettho (talk) 21:43, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
VirusBarrier seems to be at the top of many lists as well. I’d imagine ClamAV would find something (note --detect-pua
param).
There’s plenty to suggest that Mac OS is quite vulnerable to direct "attacks", but there’s also a lot less badware out there for it; there’s massively more badware out there for Windows, at least partly because it’s installed on so many more desktops. I’d say the Unix system design and base of Mac OS is superior, though, and that Apple does presently care more about how its software performs and behaves than Microsoft. Whether this all means it’s worth paying twice as much for the system is moot. ¦ Reisio (talk) 23:10, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
I'm asking this question because, well, I'm dumb. At one point I set up my Ubuntu Server 10.10 box with a cron task that runs every day. It is executing correctly. Trouble is, I can't remember how I did it; I did not document my actions; and when I run crontab -l either as a user or with sudo prefixed, I'm told "no crontab for username". I can see that in /etc/cron.daily I've got a shell script sitting there with a filename I must have created. Is it possible to just create a shell script in /etc/cron.daily and it'll run daily, with no need to do anything else? (If so, then I'm going to say that's what I did.) Or is it necessary to configure something else in order to run such things? Comet Tuttle (talk) 23:33, 13 June 2011 (UTC)