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From: Man-wai Chang on 6 Jul 2010 08:49
> Again, good suggestion, but, you must not yet know how BAD Google-anything
> is from the standpoint of them selling you out for money!
>
> I abhor almost anything Google because of their lack of privacy concerns.
> While I love their search engine, certainly I'd never save anything on
> their servers and I'd NEVER run any search while "logged in" on any google
> account (such as gmail).

I wouldn't be bothered by this. NEVER EVER expect the *PUBLIC* internet
would guard your secrets. :)

> javaw.exe is trying to connect to the Internet
> Application: javaw.exe
> Remote: 62.149.140.73 - TCP
> Port: http(80)

Maybe it's the automatic update. Control Panel should have a Java
control item. Turn the update off.

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/ v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you!
/( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.34
^ ^ 20:47:01 up 15 days 5:25 2 users load average: 1.13 1.23 1.19
不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA):
http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
From: Man-wai Chang on 6 Jul 2010 08:53
> Again, good suggestion, but, you must not yet know how BAD Google-anything
> is from the standpoint of them selling you out for money!
>
> I abhor almost anything Google because of their lack of privacy concerns.
> While I love their search engine, certainly I'd never save anything on
> their servers and I'd NEVER run any search while "logged in" on any google
> account (such as gmail).

One more question for you:

Why didn't you question Micro$oft's operating systems?

Why did you believe that Google was/is more dangerous than the thing
closer to you? :)

--
@~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY.
/ v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you!
/( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.34
^ ^ 20:52:01 up 15 days 5:30 2 users load average: 1.14 1.22 1.19
不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA):
http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
From: Man-wai Chang on 6 Jul 2010 09:02
> I wouldn't be bothered by this. NEVER EVER expect the *PUBLIC* internet
> would guard your secrets. :)

Internet is the streets. It's not the Ark of Covenant, not a box! :)

--
@~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY.
/ v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you!
/( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.34
^ ^ 20:57:01 up 15 days 5:35 2 users load average: 1.33 1.25 1.20
不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA):
http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
From: bugbear on 6 Jul 2010 09:31
Judy Zappacosta wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:59:52 +0000 (UTC), Judy Zappacosta wrote:
>
>> Anyway, after the badly written Java is up and running, I'll turn off the
>> autoupdate service as per
>> http://java.com/en/download/help/java_update.xml#howto
>
> For the record, here's how to set Java to update manually:
>
> III. Configure Java Updates
> A. Automatic Update Feature
> 1. Click Start > Settings > Control Panel.
> 2. Double-click the Java icon. The Java Control Panel appears.
> 3. Click the Update tab.
> 4. Un-select the Check for Updates Automatically check box.
>
> Since I don't plan on using Java (what good is it anyway?) unless I'm also
> running pdfsam, I set Java to manual update, and added updating Java to the
> list of steps necessary before running PDFsam.
>
> Since I lived perfectly well sans Java on my WinXP computer, can someone
> edify me as to why PDFsam requires Java?

It's written in java.

BugBear
From: bugbear on 6 Jul 2010 10:27
Judy Zappacosta wrote:
>> On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 12:15:34 +0000 (UTC), Judy Zappacosta wrote:
>>> It's amazing how badly designed programs cause us all this grief just to
>>> keep our systems operating smoothly. Sigh.
>
> To test PDFsam, I went to a copyright free PDF archive:
> http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp
>
> I downloaded the 2.5KB 967 page "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsk:
> http://www.planetpdf.com/planetpdf/pdfs/free_ebooks/Crime_and_Punishment_T.pdf
>
> To test the intuitivity of PDFsam, I didn't read any instructions (bad
> idea)!
>
> First, I did a drag-and-drop onto PDFSam of
> C:\sandbox\tmp\pdfs\Crime_and_Punishment_T.pdf
>
> Nothing happened. Drat!
>
> Then, I tried to do a "File->Open" from PDFsam; but there is no file open
> command. Looking at the five icons that exist, none of them seem to do a
> basic file open.
>
> So, intuitivity lost and I flipped through the tutorial for just-in-time
> training, which said a page or three in "click the Add button" to read in a
> file. OK. I killed the tutorial and looked for this elusive "Add" button.
>
> The first button in the PDFSam GUI is "Save environment".
> The second button is "Load environment".
> The third button is "Save log".
> The penultimate button is "Clear log".
> The last button is "Exit".
>
> Not good. So they must have the Add "button" somewhere else.
>
> Clicking on the open folder icon below the buttons, labeled "pdfsam 2.2.0"
> didn't show up buttons; neither did clicking on "plugins" below that. But,
> clicking on "Split" below that, DID finally show an Add button in the right
> box of the PDFsam GUI.
>
> So, I hit that (somewhat hidden) "Add" button to select my file:
> C:\sandbox\tmp\pdfs\Crime_and_Punishment_T.pdf
>
> I wanted to set the file size just UNDER 1,000 KB (e.g., 999 KB) but the
> only nearby options in the PDFSam Split pulldown were 500 KB and 1MB, I set
> the split options in that right box gui to:
> Split at this size = 1MB
>
> I set the Destination folder to "Same as source" and then pressed the "Run"
> button hidden way down (after scrolling) at the bottom of the PDFSam Split
> Gui.
>
> When it was 100% done, I expected PDFSam to open up the folder but it
> didn't so I went there manually to look at the results.
>
> There were three files:
> C:\sandbox\tmp\pdfs\Crime_and_Punishment_T.pdf 2,509 KB
> C:\sandbox\tmp\pdfs\1_pdfsam_Crime_and_Punishment_T.pdf 1,043 KB
> C:\sandbox\tmp\pdfs\651_pdfsam_Crime_and_Punishment_T.pdf 532 KB
>
> Drat! The "1MB" option is 43 kilobytes too large for the forum I think.
> Maybe it will work (I need to test), but it really would be nicer if I
> could specify the size at 999 kilobytes instead of 1MB (yes, I know why
> they are off slightly).

It's open source - change it!

BugBear
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