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2 Days AGO http://www.ghacks.net/2012/03/06/stardocks-start8-brings-back-the-windows-8-start-menu/ MArch 02 2012 6 days ago !!! http://www.ghacks.net/2012/03/02/vistart-restores-start-menu-disables-metro-ui-in-windows-8/ Guys try to keep up OK I am being realoly hard, and I apologize, but I just can not understand not linking to previous articles from days ago .

Re: How do you differentiate between a hidden volume and random data
http://www.ghacks.net/2011/04/11/tchunt-search-for-truecrypt-volumes/

This article isnt too meaty, but it seems to be saying that google has indeed (as I suspected) refused to implement the necessary functionality, but the author of the notscript add-on found a way to hack a different system to achieve roughly the same effect.

That might make *possible* for me to switch to chrome, but it sure doesnt motivate me to do so. Firefox is still working fine, and developers dont have to hack unrelated subsystems to give me critical functionality there.

Firefox 7 had a minor but nasty bug so Firefox 7.01 was released. I think that really is news and not the release of Firefox 8 Beta. http://www.ghacks.net/2011/09/30/mozilla-rushes-out-firefox-7-01-update/

Incidentally, Firefox 7.01 was released on September 30. http://www.ghacks.net/2011/09/30/mozilla-rushes-out-firefox-7-01-update/

Why are mount points better than drive letters

from within your filesystem perspective there can be only one top level "/" and everything is referenced from there. /usr/local/src/slashcode will always resolve to a specific place. Is that better than DOS's "collection of roots" ? It is more predictable and all the tools integrate with the idea that any directory beneath the current directory can be a different filesystem (eg. find, grep, etc).

The broad support for mounts on *nix also simplifies partitioning of data. For example, /home is often a different disk or partition from most of the system and can be encrypted, mirrored, backed up more easily since it contains virtually 100% dynamic (ie. important) data.

Microsoft's 'Drive Extender' appears to have allowed for similar concepts but has been removed from WHS2011 - http://www.ghacks.net/2011/02/28/drive-bender-merge-hard-drives-into-one/

I'm not too interested in the Why so I'm going to skip looking up their rationale.

Uniform Naming Convention - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Path_(computing)#Uniform_Naming_Convention - is another bit of Windows ecosystem that approximates the concepts of *nix top level containing mounts. That's more of a user-space thing though since it's only context is application, not something defined by the system. Mounted resources are available outside of a logged-in user.

*nix also has the /mnt node wherein most (/media notwithstanding) temporary mounts are defined. It's nice to be able to iterate or list the transient attachments your system might have.

Does it even prove anything?

It did cause me to go one-further in my own browser experience. Allow me to relate.

["tl;dr"? I double-checked to make sure I made the right choice with Chrome.]

I recently hit a milemark with this old laptop and finally chose something besides IE as my "default browser". I was looking for a new OS for computers I get in donations for resale and had looked into Chrome-OS. This naturally led me to look at the browser, and I found that in comparisons it got a lot of praise. I wanted a new browser because Firefox 5 disappointed the hell out of me to the extent that I still kept a shortcut for Firefox 4 right next to it. Even Firefox 4 had just enough problems that the question "as my default browser" was always answered "no".

Granted, I don't like my programs calling my browser willy-nilly in the first place. The appearance of IE on my screen unbidden is a black mark against whatever program was responsible, unless I've capitulated to an "online help" feature requirement and forgotten that I have the help stored in a folder somewhere instead of behind the F1 key. I also like the idea of leaving the registry of Windows XP well enough alone. I don't like programs that want to use my browser, I prefer calling my browser explicitly myself using my own controls. To me, browsers are sort of clunky and shouldn't be treated like a self-contained subroutine.

Anyways, I passed that milestone on this machine once I'd used Google Chrome for about ten or fifteen minutes. If some annoying program insists on calling my browser I feel better knowing it's just loading up Chrome. To the extent that I haven't really spent any time using the Firefox 6b3 I recently downloaded.

That being said, since I was still in hot-mode with Chrome, the article on High-IQ = Opera had me anxious to check out Opera and see if I wasn't yet missing out on browser excellence. But, the last experience I had with Opera was when I was trying to get a 386 dx4/100 running DR-DOS online with fossil driver sockets in the year 2000. Opera was the only browser with a recently-compiled version for DOS in the year 2000, so I used it. So to me, that was the last time I had come across Opera in any form. So imagine that all these years I've been reading about Opera, I've been laughing wondering what kind of cheap person is still using equipment old enough and pinching pennies tight enough to still use Opera. It didn't occur to me that I could just as easily have assumed that the company that updated in 2000 probably has updated since then, as well, or that they had done anything besides a DOS browser. So I was always laughing when I read about people using Opera, scratching my head and wondering wtf.

Anyways, I decided to just go out, read some articles, and rate Opera based on hearsay.

Link (Article, "Sixrevisions.com"): "Performance Comparison of Major Web Browsers", web:
http://sixrevisions.com/infographics/performance-comparison-of-major-web-browsers/
(That's the article, the only article I read as for browser comparisons actually, that led me to try Google Chrome.)

Link (Article, "ghacks.net"): "Web Browser Benchmark Results Comparison", web:
http://www.ghacks.net/2011/03/17/web-browser-benchmark-results-comparison/
(Today I decided to be slightly more mature about it and add some kind of objective comparison.)

The Sixrevisions article puts Chrome way out in the lead with Opera in third behind a tie for 2nd. The ghacks article puts Chrome in a sort of scary middle-land, where Internet Explorer holds two gold medals and Firefox goes home with three booby prizes. What to do? I want to go into detail about the various tests used, but I think it would be best represented if I simple made a big ascii table conglomerating all the results and applying my own arbitrary plus and minus system to

Here you go. That page discusses the event, and the blog in question was Read Write Web. Found with google, of course :-)

Real developers use available APIs instead of cluster fucking 35 different versions of shit and different libraries into their OS for fun (like Linux).

Do you really think there isn't a "cluster fucking 35 different versions of shit and different libraries" on your windows box?

If you really believe that, I would like to invite you to check out %windir%\WinSxS; it is part of a mechanism designed to resolve traditional Windows DLL hell but can become VERY bloated over time It's where system libraries are actually stored and then are linked to from other directories. Due to the past DLL hell, it is rare that anything ever gets deleted from WinSxS in order to prevent DLL hell by inadvertantly deleting a library that might be marked by the registry as unused, but is actually relied upon by a seldom-used app. So, what happens is as you install and upgrade your various applications, system drivers, and whatnot, a ton of files often get written to in WinSxS when installers don't check for dependencies - how many times have applications forced installs of components you know are already in place? Why does this happen? Because all too many release engineers don't understand system administration, how the OS works at the low level, so they don't know how to check for preexisting components. Why is this? Because hiring managers are all too focused on specific tool (Rational Clearcase and Clearquest, Installshield, Visual Studio, Ant, Eclipse, or a specific language, etc) and not on what really matters, i.e., system administration, coordinate development and QA, manage the build platform and a build a clean net, etc. Too much emphasis is based on knowing a specific application, rather than the process and ability to learn a tool quickly. Individual tools are relatively easy to learn very quickly; system administration and basic scripting skills are relatively difficult to pick up quickly. I never focused on learning all the tools out there; I learned the individual tools as I needed to, so my installers were always rock-solid because I knew the requirements for the underlying system, and my installers didn't force unnecessary component updates which bloat a system.

So, your Windows vs. Linux argument is kind of moot; you may not realize it, but even though you might not see libfoo.so.0.2.1, libfoo,so.0.2.1 and libfoo.so.0.4.1 (and a symlink from libfoo.so.0.4.0 to libfoo.so.0.4.1 since it's compatible and the install creator decided to save you space but not break your system in the process) in /usr/lib on Windows, but if you have installed and over time upgraded various applications you easily have 5 to 10 different copies of various libraries - often identical versions, cluttering up WinSxS.

Check these out:

http://www.ghacks.net/2010/07/24/the-winsxs-folder-explained/
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2008/09/17/what-is-the-winsxs-directory-in-windows-2008-and-windows-vista-and-why-is-it-so-large.aspx

Unix-based systems are easy to clean, maintain, and if you do break /usr/lib, very easy to fix in comparison to Windows. Now tell me - after reading those articles, if you have the Unix experience you claim to have, after learning how Windows deals with various library versions, which system is better and more logical? Don't get me wrong; Microsoft has done a fantastic job making Windows a hell of a lot more stable than it used to be, but this "fix" is still a major hack which doesn't fix the root problem: shitty release engineers not developing and adequately testing installers until they're rock solid.To work around install developer incompetence, we have come to a point where WinSxS may contain gigabytes' worth of old cruft that is no longer used on a Windows box.

Googe did. They have been opposed to this the whole way.

People don't want to believe that because it goes against their incorrect belief that corporation can buy any legislatation they want.

Had that been true, this would never have been passed.

"Several large corporations such as Google, Yahoo!, Ebay, American Express and Paypal have all opposed the bill. At an earlier hearing on the act, Google opposed the act saying that it will have very negative ramifications.'

http://broadbandbreakfast.com/2011/05/senate-committee-passes-protect-ip-act-but-wyden-issues-quick-halt/

http://www.ghacks.net/2011/05/19/google-stands-against-protect-ip/

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20063963-261.html

If your drive encryption scheme doesn't have a boot password/PIN, your encryption can be bypassed.

http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/20/software-to-defeat-disk-encryption-released/

I've never had problems getting some free hosting with basic scripting. [...] was the last time you tried to get free hosting in the 90's?

2000, actually, on Freeservers. A couple years later, I moved pineight.com to budget paid hosting on BinaryBlocks, then VirtualCobalts, and now Go Daddy, but I still don't have SSL, and without SSL, one's forum password can be sniffed over the wire.

if you have problems with large files then don't host them on your own site, there's loads of sites like rapidshare, megaupload, filesonic etc which will host large files for free.

I tried RapidShare, but I gave up on RapidShare when I failed to solve its CAPTCHA: "which of these distorted letters have extremely distorted drawings of cats on them, as opposed to extremely distorted drawings of dogs?" Maybe I'm not worthy of a job because I'm not even human. I have since switched to MediaFire.

Google Chrome runs plug-ins in a separate container process. (Firefox has since adopted a limited version of this feature in the 3.6 series.) A plug-in crash doesn't crash Chrome; instead, the plug-in is replaced with a blank box with text to the effect "the plug-in crashed". Should defective plug-ins from one company become a problem, watch it show the name of the plug-in and its publisher: "the MPEG-4 AVC plug-in by Microsoft Corporation crashed".

It was for my machine. I had to use a "sudo" command followed by some other garbage, otherwise I kept getting an "insufficient permission" error. This was ubuntu 9.04

No, the CLI was not required for your machine. You just were not doing it right. This website shows three ways to install flash on 9.04, only one of which requires CLI usage. As you suggested in another post, the problem is not that people don't want to maintain their computers, they lack the IQ. Perhaps this applies to you also.

OT, and probably not the solution you are looking for, but you can run current Linux on that Mac.

http://www.ghacks.net/2009/06/10/revive-your-old-mac-g3-g4-or-g5-with-linux/ (there are plenty more tutorials out there on the subject)

Safari can then be installed on Linux, though it's not supported by Apple and you'll find Chrome or Firefox a lot easier.

But, heck, anything's gotta be better than IE5. :)

I'm not dissing MacOS, it's good stuff. Truly. And, of course, you might have software that depends on MacOS. But you might want to at least consider adding a Linux partition and run that when you wanted to do web browsing and stuff with something a tad more modern.

LastPass Extension For Opera Released

NoScript? You mean like BlockIt, a UserJS for Opera that has all the features you detailed as requirements?

TWIT and Revision3 both started their podcasting empire by using torrents... but both moved to traditional downloads when sponsors wanted an accuate count of viewers.

Wouldn't some sort of Flash Cookie allow to keep track of viewers regardless of method of content dissemination?

...And what's wrong with Firefox adopting WebKit as its engine? They could retain their current interface or even make version 4.x mock-ups a reality. Again, what's wrong with that?

Links:
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2010/03/stop-windows-7-from-deleting-your-desktop-shortcuts/
http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/9570-some-desktop-shortcuts-disappeared.html
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/03/30/fix-windows-7-desktop-shortcuts-disappearing/

BTW noticed someone modded my post as a 'Troll'. Come on Slashdot. You really need to crack down on people who mod down anyone they don't agree with. In this case the mod didn't even do rudimentary research.

Not sure if this is the same thing, but "Reports from webmasters hosted by Godaddy, Network Solutions or VPS.net indicated that the attack was not web hoster specific." http://www.ghacks.net/2010/04/12/wordpress-hack-terrifies-webmasters/

"And you are STILL quoting the FALSE information which you attribute to Timothy" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Monday April 05, @01:59PM (#31736984)

You said this latter part, I was operating on what you're saying is incorrect:

"The summary was wrong, dumbass. Check the date. If Timothy wrote that (it may have been in the original story submission for all I know)" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Monday April 05, @01:59PM (#31736984)

It was up there from day #1 of this article in fact...

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"More lies from the spyware author, LOL!! Read your own quote, I'll repeat it for you:" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Monday April 05, @01:36PM (#31736454) Journal

At this point though, what I want now to know now, is simple - Answer to this question: ARE YOU CALLING M E, a "spyware author"?

See here:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1591778&cid=31736454

That's all...

APK

P.S.=> Your posting incorrect information, with your using "SECURITY COMPANY" information, about Opera 10.50? It was OUT OF DATE & STALE (for the 10th time now) - Opera 10.51 had been released a day or more before this article surfaced here in fact... see below:

On a roll: Opera 10.51 for Windows released

By Haavard. Monday, 22. March 2010, 10:00:00

On March 22nd in fact - WHICH PREDATES THIS ARTICLE ON SLASHDOT NO LESS, because this news was posted on /. on March 23rd (& a firefox fix didn't issue until the next day)...

AND, what was your "security company information", about an OLD version of Opera? Stale, see below:

http://www.ghacks.net/2010/03/06/opera-10-50-security-vulnerability/

That again, is Opera 10.50, which was updated the day before, to Opera 10.51... apk

Misinforming others, as you even seem to say Timothy's article did? That's one thing... but LIBELLING ME? That is QUITE another... answer that question above! apk

Pete LePage is spot on with this. The privacy intrusion by Chrome is outstanding. Every key you type to the address bar is sent to Google. Your Chrome installation has an personal UI number to track where you downloaded Chrome from, wherever you use it and how you use it.

WTF is this all about. Microsoft is doing the same thing with their search suggestion feature in IE 8. What was it called again? AutoSuggest(tm)? Anyway, yeah, something like that: http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/05/take-back-your-privacy-by-disabling-auto-suggest-in-ie8/

And both can be turned off!

Really! Well, here you go then:

Opera 10.50 Security Vulnerability

A security vulnerability in Opera 10.50 and previous versions of the web browser was uncovered by security research company VUPEN Security. The issue is caused by a buffer overflow error when the user visits a website with malformed HTTP headers. ... the vulnerability can be exploited by attackers to crash the browser and execute code on the computer system.

It is recommended to only access trustworthy websites until a patch is released or switch to another web browser in the meantime.

Of course Opera 10.51 has been released to patch it... just like Firefox 2.6.2 has been released to patch this one.

"I'm already questioning whether the extremely autocratic "all data in the cloud" model that Google is pursuing will alienate users. I question whether people trust the cloud to that extent, and I know I love many of my local software applications and utilities"

Why not run your apps and your data from a portable USB device.

Which version of Firefox are you using, and what extensions do you have enabled?

You can also look into this.

http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/26/firefox-memory-tweaks/

However I haven't had memory issues with Firefox in a couple of years.

GP does get a key point: The software is key. Carriers (and freaking Verizon in particular) in the US simply refused to understand this. They build the network, while all the innovation is in the handsets and the software, but for some reason, US carriers seem to think they are the true innovators and handset providers are fluff. Now that Verizon has screwed up on handsets for three years straight, they finally realize that their strength is simply the network they build. Maybe they've been listening to their own adds. They're finally going to ship a modern phone, without screwing up the software first. Stupidity at Verizon may be going out of style.

Anyway, as said before on slashdot, Android vs iPhone is just like Windows vs Mac all over again. With Verizon on board, Motorola building 20 new Android phones next year, and 50 Android sets in the works around the world, Android is set to finally deliver on it's promise of unifying the software across a broad spectrum of handsets. There wont be any single iPhone killer, just as no single PC was ever a Mac killer. However, I see nothing that can stop Android from becoming the world's dominant smart phone OS.

The Motorola Droid isn't quite as exciting of a device as the Sony Xperia X10. I suspect we'll keep seeing Android based "iPhone killers" plunk away until Adroid wins the race.

I agree MalwareBytes is one of the best Win environment removal tools, but I was having about 20% re-infection rate with these entrenched AVPro infestations that were removed by MB(& Spybot). I also searched system folders for dll's newly installed and installed "BEFORE the OS" to unregister manually, then running MB and SB S&D again, in SafeMode w/ Restore Points deleted/disabled. Honestly, after all that work, it is most times easier/cheaper to image drive, nuke/repart drive(in DOS or EXT), reload OS and re-populate data & 3rds.

Oiyve'!

I have always used Puppy Linux LiveCD to remove stubborn files, but recently started running Linux LiveDiscs w/ Kapersky or Avira to do all removals the 1st time. Faster, easier and more effective, so far. Too soon to tell if it's the silver bullet I'm hoping for. Recently found a cool aggregate LiveCD builder on gHacks that makes one monster weapon. Still collecting all the parts, hopefully I can trade my 48 disk carrier in for 1 jewel case or a USB thumb drive.

Wow. Someone certainly has a bee in their bonnet.

The standards to which I alluded are defined by independent organizations, such as W3C, Ecma, IETF and others, and have been championed by such organizations as the Web Standards Project. Web slices is technically "open" as you said -- and as such, has even been incorporated into Firefox via plug-ins as early as Ff2.0 -- but the "standard" for web slices was actually developed and published by Microsoft, with little or no collaboration from the rest of the industry. So with that, you're really attempting to compare apples and... well, Microsoft.

Webkit is most assuredly not the only browser to strive for (real) standards compliance... if you had followed the news surrounding the release of the Acid3 test a couple of years ago, you would already know this.

My comment about Firefox plug-ins was really more of a reflection upon the days when Firefox was my default browser, and a rumination on the lack of similar add-ins in Safari -- but frankly, I can live without them. And I couldn't possibly care less what language Firefox used to develop their plug-ins; other browsers have plug-ins too, and they're not all based upon XUL. If the folks over at mozilla.org ever did decide to chuck Gecko, and instead built a plug-in framework around Webkit and dubbed it the next version of Firefox, I am confident that they would have no difficulty at all finding a way to make it work. Likewise, I am certain that third-party plug-in developers would moan and groan about having to recode their plug-ins... but most of them would still do the work, and we'd all be quite happy with the end results.

Now, with the red herrings out of the way... to directly address the question you posed: I suppose I can see how you might interpret my comment as "less" competition, but that is the furthest thing from my mind. You state quite accurately that Internet Explorer isn't supplying any competition, but frankly, that's because they're now the incumbent. They don't have to bring the battle at all... someone else needs to bring the battle to them. With that in mind, what I desire is stronger competition against the Microsoft juggernaut, which might ultimately result in real progress across the board, which can only be defined as directly influencing the juggernaut itself. And let's face it: Opera may be almost exactly as standards compliant as Webkit, (and a halfway decent browser in its own right) but it's not exactly big enough to drive the market in any meaningful way on its own, right? So they're not much help. There are several other even smaller players out there, but they'll never even show up on a market share pie chart as anything more then a speck, and it's quite rare indeed for any of them to come up with something so innovative or useful that it actually propagates beyond the narrow scope of that one browser. And obviously the most noticeable non-Microsoft slice on that chart is the open source efforts of Firefox/Mozilla -- but they've been running at a distant second place to Microsoft in this race since their inception, and in all that time, all they've really managed to accomplish for us is to popularize a few key features, such as tabbed browsing, which was actually a concept borrowed from one of those lesser known browsers.

In other words, I'm not saying I want Opera and Konqueror and iCab to all just go away... rather, I simply want to see a new champion come forth to challenge Microsoft's indisputable dominance, picking up the battle that Firefox has effectively abandoned. And more importantly, I would like to see that champion steal enough market share away from Internet

China didn't require installation of the software, it merely required manufacturers to ship it. Manufacturers could satisfy this requirement simply by sticking a CD into the box.

Compared to, say, the German web censorship law, that's actually a lot less intrusive.

Yes, they're all still very rough around the edges, but that's what I'd expect from an extension system in development. Of course, their existence isn't enough to stop people from all kinds of speculative bullshit about Google's plans and motives, but hey, being a geek is all about ego-driven opinion and nada about facts, it seems.

3rd party tools like this I assume

$300 is not much less than the cost of the damned laptop.

$300 is about 12% of what I just spent to upgrade my gaming machine, and I'm still having trouble justifying it! :(

Also on the topic of upgrading from RC to final: It's sort of possible.

http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/11/windows-7-rc-to-final-upgrade-possible/

I've heard from other places that you may have to rip the installation CD to your hard drive and tweak some configuration files. In any case a clean install is best, so don't get too attached to your RC installation.

You need to upgrade the Windows XP recovery CD to a full installation one.

They don't block these sites in Sweden do they?

Yes, they do.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081003030102AATdW2Q
http://www.ghacks.net/2007/11/06/access-hulu-from-outside-the-united-states/

Television programming is distributed across the world in a complex staged operation. Producers like Universal have contracts with broadcasters around the world for the carriage of their programming. Most US shows are not available overseas for months or even years after their initial telecasts in the States.

The global perspective of the Internet does not extend to the long-standing business practices developed by the television industry over decades. Just the fact that television programming is available on websites owned by the networks themselves is a revolutionary change in the industry. Since the inception of broadcast television in America, network-affiliated stations relied on a combination of their monopoly over network content and local news programming to remain profitable. Now the networks have decided to compete directly against those very affiliates by abolishing their monopoly over distribution. For this to occur on a global basis, the networks will have to compete against their distributors across the world. I'd guess we're talking just a few years, but it could take a decade.

Have you tried speedswitch XP on WinXP? I got an extra hour and a half from my Dell Latitude by using speedswitch XP and setting it for "max battery" when I am running away from the cord. Since it is free you have nothing to lose but a bit of time. But if you want more battery life from XP it is worth a try.

1. Are they going to give you the option to turn off supernoding (I think this was included in version 3.0 but I don't use Skype) instead of having to work around them destroying your bandwidth?
2. Will it still punch holes in the company's firewall?
3. Is Skype still reading the machine's BIOS?
4. And what about the rumors at home and abroad of back doors for bugging on Skype? Have those rumors been quashed or does my company risk dissemination of proprietary phone calls?

Sorry guys, my very large employer gives me a big policy denial if I even try to visit Skype.com let alone download anything from them and install it. You have to address the above before you even start to gain the trust of large companies.

I2PSnark is their bittorrent client, check it out.

Here is a short Howto for I2P.

They are still trying to gain a critical mass but the network essentially works.

This is another chapter in the war between SMS and IM. Which will be won by the latter, I guess.

Anyway, Verizon is probably reacting to services like this which makes sending SMS from an IM client free. Install an IM client on your phone and you have free SMS.

In the long run, my guess is, we will be all using IM clients to text each other in cell phones. They will consume (a small amount of) bandwidth from our 3G data plans. They will allow us to communicate not only with other cellulars, but with computers, PDAs, and other network devices. And they allow us to text someone in the other side of the world just as easily as in the same city.

SMS may be living a brief moment of glory under the sun. Unless, of course, operators decide to charge it more competitively -- soon.

>Is there a way to send/receive SMS over a data connection in a manner that preserves all of the customs of conventional SMS (eg, send message to phone number from ordinary phone)?

Check this article.

You can now stream over bittorrent. This works by prioritizing earlier segments in the file and combining the bittorrent client with the media player.

See here:

http://trial.p2p-next.org/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/27/eztv-allows-bittorrent-streaming/

-molo

Octoshape has offered p2p streaming for a few years: http://www.octoshape.com/

You can now stream over bittorrent. This works by prioritizing earlier segments in the file and combining the bittorrent client with the media player.

See here:

    http://trial.p2p-next.org/
    http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/27/eztv-allows-bittorrent-streaming/

-molo

That kinda sounds like Amazon set a flash cookie. Go into the ~/.macromedia/\#SharedObjects/(random name) directory and you'll probably see some cached flash objects from different websites. You probably have some under Amazon that C&L picks up via javascript. To clear them out, just remove the #SharedObjects directory. It's harmless to do since flash will recreate it the next time its run.

Given the quality the company's so-called products, it's rather apparent that they can't code, especially not a TCP/IP stack. There are numerous problems from the latest version.

W95 only shipped with TCP/IP over Bill's vociferous objection. Later he was still going on about the Internet being just a http://mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=443">passing fad. They've missed the boat with IPv6, but been able to compensate todate by encourging ill-informed articles that disparage or trivialize the technology and the security and networking problems it addresses.

Test if your ISP is throttling - That link should help some of it at least.

http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/13/enable-vista-aero-in-windows-vista-home-basic/

Haven't yet tried this, but will - and will update w/results when I have.

Terrific post that completely invalidates the argument made in the article.

Thanks for reminding me of the adventures of Bayou Billy. I actually beat the game in my elementary school days since my game library was small which gave me a lot of time to play it. A great example of an awesomely bad game, with dialogue as bad as any other example you could name.

Actually, every movie The Angry Nintendo Nerd has ever featured could qualify (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR OLD SCHOOL NES FANS).

I'm not sure if these benefit the EFF, but you can get it on a T-shirt:
http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/30/09-f9-11-02-t-shi rt/#more-1482
http://www.cafepress.com/nonlogic.100812817

And the beeb page giving feeds (ostensibly so IT managers can block them at work)

enjoy...

You can find a proxy that's located in the UK and use it.
See:

http://www.ghacks.net/2006/06/06/how-to-view-the-f ootball-worldcup-online/#more-542