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Running Headless: How to Force Display Rez?
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:13:55 +0100, Robin Bignall wrote:
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:18:16 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch" wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 01:54:19 +0100, Robin Bignall wrote: In fact, I have used that very app above, nircmd, in a script to turn off the monitor during an overnight backup operation, because the brightly lit screen interfered with my sleep :-) Can you imagine normal people wanting to sit in their bedrooms for hours on end corresponding with other people, few, if any, they know or will ever meet? Me neither. Yes, I can imagine that, but still, I have no idea why you asked. Mystified... It was the line about your screen causing insomnia. I keep fangled gadgets (new and old) out of my bedroom. Thanks for the explanation. You can see below why I didn't understand your remark until you explained it :-) The computer is in another bedroom which has been redesignated as an office, but the doors face each other and the light annoyed me a bit. That said, I confess that my remark about insomnia qualifies as a significant exaggeration :-) -- Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch) |
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Running Headless: How to Force Display Rez?
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:03:32 -0400, "(PeteCresswell)"
wrote: My assumption was that it had already been scanned by something on my PC and found wanting bco the "Malicious..." message when I started the download. The local scan doesn't start until the download is complete. -- Char Jackson |
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Running Headless: How to Force Display Rez?
On 9/15/2012 8:06 PM, Paul wrote:
BillW50 wrote: On 9/15/2012 10:55 AM, Char Jackson wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 10:32:16 -0500, wrote: On 9/15/2012 10:19 AM, Char Jackson wrote: I don't get the whole "scared to download" thing. I understand the fear. Even though I have been using Windows since '93 and I never had a virus or trojan yet. But I still understand the fear of others. As all it takes is been bitten once or twice even with the correct tools installed to be very leery. You understand something that I don't. Perhaps because I felt that fear before. I decided to reinstall Windows 2000 from scratch on a Toshiba 2595XDVD. It was 2001 or maybe the latest was 2002. I was still using dialup (shortly later I was using DSL). I was also very cocky about malware back then. As I was always one step ahead of the hackers. And whatever they could come up with, I was already ready for them. Still believing this, I reinstalled Windows 2000 from scratch. Logged on dialup and got the updates from Microsoft. When asked to reboot, I selected later. I didn't have an AV yet on this computer, so I downloaded and installed AVG. I don't recall if AVG wanted me to reboot too or not. I guess it doesn't matter. But at this point I logged off and I could get AVG to scan before a reboot. Why I did it this way, I dunno, I guess it was that little voice in your head telling you to do it this way. I couldn't see the harm, so ok. And I was totally shocked at the end result! One virus was downloaded in the background and was ready to install on the next reboot. Luckily AVG found it and removed it and removed the launch from the Windows registry before it could even run. I was now totally blown away! All of my cockiness was gone. They almost got me! I didn't access any malware site or anything. Just Microsoft and AVG websites and that is it. No I didn't have a firewall installed. And the only thing that makes sense is that a hacker's computer (BOT) pinged my computer and my computer answered back in the background. My computer not running in stealth mode was talking to a stranger. So the BOT found an easy way through an open port to slip the malware in and to modify the Windows registry. Ready to do its dirty deed when I rebooted. That was my scariest day when it comes to malware. I couldn't believe they almost got me. All I had to do was to reboot and they would have. So I had to rethink everything and how I almost got nabbed. I lost sleep that night worrying about this. But that was the closest I came. I am not as cocky about malware anymore. And I look more over my shoulder a lot more than I did before. ;-) That could be something like this. Direct connection to a modem, with no Windows firewall, would be enough. Even if you had a box with NAT between you and the Internet, it would help. Some of those exploits, are stopped by the NAT in a home router. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasser_(computer_worm) Paul Yes indeed. I didn't know this 10+ years ago when it happened. But I quickly examined how the heck they almost got by me. Once I figured it out I made sure that would never happen again. And after 10+ years, the hackers haven't even come close. I am still a bit scared though. As they almost got me once. Is the day coming when they actually do? -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12.0.1 Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2 |
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Running Headless: How to Force Display Rez?
BillW50 wrote:
Yes indeed. I didn't know this 10+ years ago when it happened. But I quickly examined how the heck they almost got by me. Once I figured it out I made sure that would never happen again. And after 10+ years, the hackers haven't even come close. I am still a bit scared though. As they almost got me once. Is the day coming when they actually do? The attack surface is huge, so yes, I'd say some day they'll get you. Paul |
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Running Headless: How to Force Display Rez?
Per Char Jackson:
My assumption was that it had already been scanned by something on my PC and found wanting bco the "Malicious..." message when I started the download. The local scan doesn't start until the download is complete. Any thoughts on where it came from? WOT maybe? -- Pete Cresswell |
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Running Headless: How to Force Display Rez?
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 09:46:26 -0400, "(PeteCresswell)"
wrote: Per Char Jackson: My assumption was that it had already been scanned by something on my PC and found wanting bco the "Malicious..." message when I started the download. The local scan doesn't start until the download is complete. Any thoughts on where it came from? WOT maybe? The likely candidates appear to be Chrome, WOT, and Avast, based on what you've told us you've got running on that system. I imagine you've got one or more of them set to "Warn me when visiting potentially malicious sites", and I assume there's a mechanism that lets you identify specific sites as false positives in order to stop the warnings. -- Char Jackson |
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Per (PeteCresswell):
Maybe replace the Radeon driver with some sort of special driver? This is starting to beg a question for me: Once I remove or turn off that Radeon driver, what is it that's left and is supplying whatever it takes to get me a screen image? Maybe that's what I need to try to hack in order to move from 1600x1200 to 1920x1200. FWIW, this is not a religious issue. As someone already observed I can live with 16x12 just fine. It's more the idea than anything else. -- Pete Cresswell |
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Running Headless: How to Force Display Rez?
(PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per (PeteCresswell): Maybe replace the Radeon driver with some sort of special driver? This is starting to beg a question for me: Once I remove or turn off that Radeon driver, what is it that's left and is supplying whatever it takes to get me a screen image? Maybe that's what I need to try to hack in order to move from 1600x1200 to 1920x1200. FWIW, this is not a religious issue. As someone already observed I can live with 16x12 just fine. It's more the idea than anything else. I've referred to this in the past, as the "VESA driver", in the sense that it only supported a few VESA-like resolutions (800x600 or 640x480). Examples would be, the tiny cramped screen you used to get in Safe Mode. In Safe Mode, it's possible to not have the regular (Radeon) driver loaded. And the system needs a fallback that can at least talk to a frame buffer. As far as I know, there's some feature of the BIOS (video card BIOS chip loads and registers VESA resolutions), and a VESA driver might be tapping into the modes there. So the question would be, whether it's still the same emergency driver concept, as it's doing 1600x1200 for you, and that's way above what would normally be supported. On my Windows 8 install, on the machine with an FX5200, the screen runs at 1024x768 (with a 1440x900 monitor), because Windows 8 claims to not have an official driver for the FX5200. So I'm not being offered anything near 1600x1200 in that scenario. VESA resolutions are more likely to be 4:3 or 5:4, and things like 16:10 or 16:9 are more modern concepts. So the emergency driver might not necessarily support all of those kinds of options. You could try using Device Manager, and display the driver file details of what is currently being used. Maybe that will hint at what emergency driver type it is. (Emergency driver being the thing installed, when "Radeon" is missing.) Paul |
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Running Headless: How to Force Display Rez?
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:35:34 -0500, "Char Jackson"
wrote in article ... On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:22:26 -0400, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote: Per Paul: You'd toss a command like this in some Startup thing, then see if it takes. http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html I started, then chickened out when WebOfTrust gave the site it's worst rating in all categories. I don't know what the basis of that might be, but Nirsoft has been around for ages and have proven themselves to be completely trustworthy. +1 -- Zaphod Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, ya know? - Gag Halfrunt |
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