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  1. Zune 360 by linuxci · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Considering Subsidizing Zune Sales

    So will the Zune 360 be subsidised too? :)

  2. Re:The Information Bar in Internet Explorer by linuxci · · Score: 1 · on What Vista Is Really Like

    It's definitely there in Firefox (the information bar that is, not the did you notice dialog). But it's easy to disable it. You can right click on it and ask for it to be never shown again.

    If you never disabled it yourself, there's a few possibilities:
    If you're using a package from your distribution then they may have disabled these alerts for you.
    If you used Firefox in the pre 1.0 days (Phoenix, Firebird) you may have inherited a setting from one of the older versions.

  3. Re:The Information Bar in Internet Explorer by linuxci · · Score: 1 · on What Vista Is Really Like

    I think the poster was actually commenting on this feature http://browserden.co.uk/news/a-week-with-ie7/using / (bottom of the page). Where IE shows you a dialog 'Did you notice the Information Bar' every time it shows an info bar until you turn it off. Of course turning this pop up off is easy, but it's typical of the MS shove everything in your face style.

  4. Fixed by linuxci · · Score: 1 · on GMail Vulnerable To Contact List Hijacking

    It has now been fixed.

  5. Re:fix the memory leaks first by davidmcg · · Score: 1 · on Firefox 3 In Alpha
    I wish they would just focus on fixing the memory leaks first. FF2 is much worse than FF1.5 (default installs without extensions), after about 2-3 days of running FF2 it will be using 1GB of RAM -- this is a complete joke. I wish for a day when we can get a modern browser which is resource efficent. Unfortuantely Opera 9 is too unstable.

    Try running the alpha (but just in case use another profile). Some of the improvements to gecko will make things more reliable, less memory leaks, etc. However, as it's an alpha you may run into other problems that's why you should separate the profiles.

  6. It's not really a Firefox alpha by davidmcg · · Score: 5, Informative · on Firefox 3 In Alpha
    It's more of an alpha of Gecko than of Firefox. There's no front end changes in this release, all the changes are to the backend which are shared with all Gecko browsers (Camino, Seamonkey and other Gecko apps like Thunderbird).

    Development has been going on the trunk since the Gecko 1.8 was branched (sometime in 2005) - Gecko 1.8 was the basis of Firefox 2 and 1.5. So there's a lot of backend work been going on that's not been tested by a wider audience. While lots of frontend changes were made on the branch for Firefox 2, most of the backend work was restricted to the trunk.

    Future alphas and betas will have more UI changes in them so can more accurately be called Firefox alphas.

  7. Re:More of a move against VMWare by davidmcg · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Makes Testing IE6 and 7 Easier
    I have no doubt whatsoever that one of the reasons for this move was to help push Virtual PC, although VirtualPC has been free for a while you've always needed to pay for an OS for it. This time limited XP image is also a good way to give people a chance to try out the potential of Virtual PC. However, whatever Microsoft's motives are, it's still a good news for Windows web devs particularly those on Win2k as long as MS haven't done anything to stop this image working on that platform.

    Of course if the main purpose was to ensure as many people could test IE7 as possible they'd also make a VMWare compatible image so Mac and Linux users could test. However, ultimately that probably is too much to ask as it'd give Linux and Mac users a free time limited licence for XP, they ultimately want people to develop primarily on Windows so that'd never happen.

  8. Firefox is simpler by davidmcg · · Score: 4, Informative · on Microsoft Makes Testing IE6 and 7 Easier
    A few people have asked me if Firefox needs to be run in a virtual machine to test different versions. The answer to that is no, so I wrote a quick guide to how I run multiple versions of Firefox on the same machine.

    Prior to the release by Microsoft of this VM image I got round the legal requirement to buy an extra XP licence by running XP with IE6 and running the free to download (at the time) betas of Vista in a virtual machine for IE7 testing.

  9. In the meantime... by davidmcg · · Score: 1 · on iPod To Eventually Hold All the Video In the World?
    In the future it's not just the iPod improving, here's my Zune predictions - in 15 years Microsoft releases their 80GB model which is lighter than an eighties cellphone. Microsoft fans will say how much the new puke coloured model looks better in real life than it does in photograhs and Ballmer will be telling us how the new model can squirt even further and can squirt multiple people at the same time.

    I do think the iPod will be facing some serious challengers in the next few years which is what we need to keep the flow of innovations but the Zune is not going to be it. Once storage gets smaller expect cellphones to be a credible solution, UI on most cellphones suck (particularly Motorola, Nokia is probably the best but not perfect), that I think will mean apple doesn't have to worry for a little while longer.

    Back to the topic, the most capacity I'd really need out of a device is enough space to keep enough music and videos to keep me entertained during a vacation so I don't need to bring a laptop if I don't want to. Everything else can be stored on my home computer, it'd be great if it was possible to have enough storage cheap enough to store the worlds video collection (YouTube's hardware costs would be minimal then - Google would love that) but in reality do we really need our own personal YouTube mirror?

  10. Mistakes the have made by davidmcg · · Score: 1 · on Opening Zune Sales Flaccid

    It's going to be a year before the launch in the EU (if they even bother now), here's a list of lessons they need to learn before they launch over here.

  11. A good rebuttal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Nine Reasons To Skip Firefox 2.0

    Here's a good rebuttal to most of the points in this article.

  12. Why ditch platform conventions by linuxci · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Quiz Microsoft's IE Team Leader
    One of the biggest complaints about IE7 is that it does not obey the standard user interface guidelines for Windows XP. As an update that'll be pushed to users automatically next month do you not consider it a bad idea to break platform conventions?


    There is a workaround that involves editing the registry to get the menu bar in the correct place but why is this not implemented as part of toolbar customisation?