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Flash is for Homestar Runner, not overdesigned menu sets and half-implmeneted-and-mostly-broken re-implementations of things that are already built into HTML such as the button and the scroll bar.

It doesn't make useless sites workable, but if you just want to stop being annoyed by intrusive multimedia, there's a great solution.

Ads? I dont see any ads?

Oh...http://adblock.mozdev.org/

The list of projects says "Please note that this page contains a sampling and not a complete listing of the projects done as part of the Summer of Code."

The MozDev (related to Mozilla / Firefox) projects missing from the list are:

- Cockatoo: SIP phone extension for Mozilla Thunderbird
http://cockatoo.mozdev.org/

- Firepuddle: BitTorrent P2P for Mozilla
http://firepuddle.mozdev.org/

- Event Loger (An advanced macro and testcase creation tool for Firefox)
http://eventlogger.mozdev.org/

- Muzzled: graphical theme builder for mozilla
http://muzzled.mozdev.org/

- Vietnamese translation of Firefox
http://vi.mozdev.org/

The list of projects says "Please note that this page contains a sampling and not a complete listing of the projects done as part of the Summer of Code."

The MozDev (related to Mozilla / Firefox) projects missing from the list are:

- Cockatoo: SIP phone extension for Mozilla Thunderbird
http://cockatoo.mozdev.org/

- Firepuddle: BitTorrent P2P for Mozilla
http://firepuddle.mozdev.org/

- Event Loger (An advanced macro and testcase creation tool for Firefox)
http://eventlogger.mozdev.org/

- Muzzled: graphical theme builder for mozilla
http://muzzled.mozdev.org/

- Vietnamese translation of Firefox
http://vi.mozdev.org/

The list of projects says "Please note that this page contains a sampling and not a complete listing of the projects done as part of the Summer of Code."

The MozDev (related to Mozilla / Firefox) projects missing from the list are:

- Cockatoo: SIP phone extension for Mozilla Thunderbird
http://cockatoo.mozdev.org/

- Firepuddle: BitTorrent P2P for Mozilla
http://firepuddle.mozdev.org/

- Event Loger (An advanced macro and testcase creation tool for Firefox)
http://eventlogger.mozdev.org/

- Muzzled: graphical theme builder for mozilla
http://muzzled.mozdev.org/

- Vietnamese translation of Firefox
http://vi.mozdev.org/

The list of projects says "Please note that this page contains a sampling and not a complete listing of the projects done as part of the Summer of Code."

The MozDev (related to Mozilla / Firefox) projects missing from the list are:

- Cockatoo: SIP phone extension for Mozilla Thunderbird
http://cockatoo.mozdev.org/

- Firepuddle: BitTorrent P2P for Mozilla
http://firepuddle.mozdev.org/

- Event Loger (An advanced macro and testcase creation tool for Firefox)
http://eventlogger.mozdev.org/

- Muzzled: graphical theme builder for mozilla
http://muzzled.mozdev.org/

- Vietnamese translation of Firefox
http://vi.mozdev.org/

The list of projects says "Please note that this page contains a sampling and not a complete listing of the projects done as part of the Summer of Code."

The MozDev (related to Mozilla / Firefox) projects missing from the list are:

- Cockatoo: SIP phone extension for Mozilla Thunderbird
http://cockatoo.mozdev.org/

- Firepuddle: BitTorrent P2P for Mozilla
http://firepuddle.mozdev.org/

- Event Loger (An advanced macro and testcase creation tool for Firefox)
http://eventlogger.mozdev.org/

- Muzzled: graphical theme builder for mozilla
http://muzzled.mozdev.org/

- Vietnamese translation of Firefox
http://vi.mozdev.org/

Well there is always firepuddle for bittorrent

Yes, that's the joke.
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If you use Kopete (sorry, KDE only) for your IM client, you can configure it to make a little speech bubble pop up near the taskbar instead of a window that steals your focus. Someone actually IM'd me when I was typing this post, here's a screenshot. It shows you part of the message, and "View" and "Ignore" buttons.
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If your supposition that the Kyoto treaty would have passed had Clinton had commanded a Democratic-majority Senate were true, then pray tell why NOT ONE DEMOCRAT VOTED in FAVOR of it? The vote was not 51-44, or 63-32, it was 0-95. Yes, it is easy to overlook 'facts' when they are, in reality, fiction. Too bad metamods won't catch this farcical 'informative' bump you received, but, with all the liberal bias here at /., what did I truly expect?
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Products like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc are built to work together. They would be designed to find each other and not create duplicate files.

Of course, the best way to do this is either put them all in one package or use an installer.

Full circle.
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...this was supposed to be Funny, not Insightful. But I'm really not sure.
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Use these greasemonkey scripts to get rid of all that crap.

Damn right, look at the good ol Bush family, happy traders with the Nazis in WWII.
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I used to work for a software company that published new release / upgrade schedules to a semi rigid timetable (date given was not down to day / week /month, just quarterly, so rigid but with a bit of "leeway" if you aimed for ideal Q start release). QA process would involve bug prioritisation, these would be fixed on a priority basis, and new (bugfixed, either all bugs or critical bugs depending on remaining timescale) releases would periodically again enter QA. This allowed a lot of bugs to be removed, but even with this approach, a release usually had some bugs left when time had run out for further fixes. Release was never delayed (unless extremely rare case of some real showstopper bug remaining that made software non viable), even though QA still had a list of outstanding bugs. It was deemed more important to ship on schedule than have a product free of (known) bugs. As long as that philosophy (re shipping product) is in place, then the people high up in the company have to take the hefty share of blame. At this company I *never* saw a release that actually passed QA (QA were sensibly stringent and never signed off software if they thought faults remained, so someone higher up had to sign an override of QA) (posted as anon to reduce risk of company I used to work for being easy to infer)
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you could always check your email using Thunderbird and the appropriate webmail plugin too, imo preferable to having OE installed

http://webmail.mozdev.org/installation.html

http://www.zimbra.com/ is very cool as crossplatform AJAX email apps go, and it's opensource

Right on. I always install Adblock with Firefox or Mozilla. I haven't seen a pop-up or flash advertisement for months. They all seem to come from a few advertisers. Here is my adblock list:

http://.mediaplex.com/* http://.tribalfusion.com/*
http://.doubleclick.net/* http://.adbureau.net/*
http://.atdmt.com/* http://.emode.com/*
http://.advertising.com/* http://.tickle.com/*
http://.fastclick.net/* http://.falkag.net/*
http://.e.akamai.net/* http://.yieldmanager.com/*
http://.casalemedia.com/* http://.serving-sys.com/*
http://.pointroll.com/* http://.thinktarget.com/*
http://.zedo.com/* http://.com.com/cnwk.*/Ads/*
http://.qnsr.com/* http://ar.atwola.com/*
http://ads.guardian.co.uk/* http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/*
http://.starwave.com/* http://ads.ign.com/advertisers/*
http://ads.space.com/RealMedia/ads/* http://gfx.dvlabs.com/*

(As an interesting aside, slashdot seems to have recently updated it's code. I had to turn off all of my adblocking stuff to make the posting page appear as anything but a black background - it's been like that for about a month now (Firefox, The Proxomitron))

Yes, they have. Also, is there any particular reason you're using Proxomitron over Adblock? It seems like a much better solution, being integrated into your Mozilla browser of choice and all, and it coped just fine with the changeover.

[Adlock]
adhost1.com
ad.host2.com
(etc, etc)

I get seriously stressed by having moving/blink things i the peripheral part of sight. It goes up and down, so some days are annoying, some not at all. It is like I cant concentrate good, because I have to look at it to see what changed.

When I am at my mother, the computer is in a open room, and people are usually there, it becomes stressful to just have them walking around. Not all the time, and usually only when I need to concentrate.

I don't mind text ads like Google's. If one page has 9/10 non-animated ads, and one moving one, and it bothers me, they all suffer by being blocked.

I can't tell you how much I dislike flash-based sites.

I use FireFox with the AdBlock extension: http://adblock.mozdev.org/

Flashblock would be what you're looking for. Whenever a flash animation is embedded in a page, it replaces it with the flash logo, and you can click on it if you want to play it. Otherwise, it's just a lovely flash-free stretch of internet. :)

Other than such instances where the ads are detrimental to my general computing experience, I'd feel guilty if I went out of my way to block all ads. I sympathize with (most) web site owners trying to scrape together some sort of money from their site.

Actually, I have the flash plugin installed on all of my browsers.
The thing I install directly after the flash plugin is FlashBlock.

They don't have the DaVinci drawings in a non-Shockwave format. Just Golden Haggadah, Lindisfarne Gospels, and Blackwell's Herbal.
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Firefox plugins (not Addins..) are the hidden automatic way to handle extra file extensions, and are similar to ActiveX plugins for IE.
You can remove the flash plugin fully without resorting to letting the Flash load and then hiding it from the DOM model (as flashblock does - i hate the "flash" flicker it does and would rather a broken box appeared instead, i never ever want or need flash...)

Plugins are listed in firefox by browsing to about:plugins
(a very nice report actually)

If you open about:config and change the setting "plugin.expose_full_path" to true, you can see where each plugin is located for removal.

To remove a plugin, you must delete it, or move it into a new folder.

I just removed the files:
NPSWF32.dll
flashplayer.xpt

All flash now comes up with the green jigsaw "click here to download the plugin" and doesn't even attempt to load.

Hope this helps :)

Plugins list and info: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/

Uninstalling Plugins help page: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/uninstall.html

Firefox plugins (not Addins..) are the hidden automatic way to handle extra file extensions, and are similar to ActiveX plugins for IE.
You can remove the flash plugin fully without resorting to letting the Flash load and then hiding it from the DOM model (as flashblock does - i hate the "flash" flicker it does and would rather a broken box appeared instead, i never ever want or need flash...)

Plugins are listed in firefox by browsing to about:plugins
(a very nice report actually)

If you open about:config and change the setting "plugin.expose_full_path" to true, you can see where each plugin is located for removal.

To remove a plugin, you must delete it, or move it into a new folder.

I just removed the files:
NPSWF32.dll
flashplayer.xpt

All flash now comes up with the green jigsaw "click here to download the plugin" and doesn't even attempt to load.

Hope this helps :)

Plugins list and info: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/

Uninstalling Plugins help page: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/uninstall.html

Note to self: use the preview button, dammit!

Moztorrent

You're looking for Flashblock.

How is Google going to pay for this? How much advertising is going to on every page? Won't customers ignore (or block) most ads once we start to intuitively realize where they are on the page?

Isn't the hopelessness of endless ads why dotcoms failed? Consumers are already at a negative savings rate; we can't spend any more than we already do.

I spend atleast one lunch break a week answering questions in the programming forum or some subforum at experts-exchange.

To keep a premium account with them for free, you need to get atleast 3000 expert points a month ... it's always a good excuse to spend time answering people's questions, which usually involves coding - i always write/test the code for people so I A) practice coding B) can get the source later if i need it for a project.

They have forums for abunchof languages ... depending on the forum, the questions may generally be too easy for you, but most questions are posted by IT professionals like yourself, so they can be fun to figure out and answer.

Besides that ... I read a lot of books and I refactor old projects using new methods or I test design patterns or ... I do a lot of .NET coding so I couldn't live without my MSDN firefox search engine (also made one for the codeproject, which has some GREAT articles).

I thought the whole thrust of the RIAA/MPAA was that UPLOADING was illegal, not downloading. You share with no one when you use allmp3.com. So, how is this illegal?
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7 days is farcical It could take the best part of that to download something for many people. e.g they go to work and only have PC turned on when they are in the house, turn PC off overnight, so downloads restricted primarily to weekends, a few hours each evening. Although UK broadband connectivity is getting better a lot of people still at the end of slow ADSL lines. Viable if your PC is on 24 /7 (or appropriate good amount of time) or you can get very fast downloads, but otherwise 7 days is a killer (unless 7 days starts when download ends, which, on my reading, is not what the article implied). As this is a limited trial I think we can assume no idea of "real world" download speeds and so have to assume downloading HD prog will not be swift. As for DRM - a farce as a UK licence fee paying resident... and I'm not even going to comment on Windows / IE only aspect.
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Fantastic troll, but the plural of penis is penes, not penises. Funny what you can learn from The Cthulhu Mythos in the AD&D world, no?
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First link (ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt) is entirely empty.
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Are you being insightful or funny?
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(( this coming from someone who had his access removed at a university for sharing the Project Gutenberg DVD on eDonkey ))

It's pretty simple to make the Acrobat applications load up almost instantly. There are a few steps listed at MozDev. http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/acroread.html#win -ar6-speed Not loading 50 plugins and not checking for updates on startup makes it a very fast application.

I moved all plugins to Optional, myself. It seems to work just fine.

Reader 7 does not have annoying ads, either.

I know they should be releasing Reader with plugins loaded on demand rather than the kitchen sink approach, and i fault Adobe for making their product loathed. Next time you try Reader, move those plugins and disable automatic updates. I think you'll be surprised.

I guess I'm just collatoral damage. Like a civilian in Iraq who gets bombed because they might believe in Saddam, but are otherwise innocent of any wrongdoing.'

I think automated comments of any fashion are pretty annoying. Although the GNAA stuff is kind of funny in a highly-annoying away.

And yes, I can see how it would be easy to suspect I was the author. Though I suspect in reality the real author is too clever to ever accidentally put a signature into an anonymous post. Also probably too automated to do so.

Glad you like my opinions! That's rare :)
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You are neglecting some very important details, however. IF YOU RTFBP (Read The Fucking Blog Post), you will see that I begin it by saying, "This came from an anonymous slashdot comment."

I was reposting it, because I thought it was brilliant.

That doesn't mean I'm the one who originally said it.

I don't say things as AC because, unlike some people, I have balls.

(No, that page isn't mine either, but maybe it will entertain you enough to leave me alone. His Christopher Reeve page is hilarious; I highly reccommend it.)
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The irony being his comment was an anti-linux comment made by someone with far more linux knowledge than myself, which merely vindicates my position that I have better things to do than to recompile my kernel.

But to write a script to attack someone who's viewpoint you don't like? Get a fucking life. There's much better things to be attacking than some random guy who's opinion you don't like.
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No, I'm not. I happened to agree with most of them which is why I didn't initially object to my signature being put on a commend I didn't make. I even discussed this with a coworker.
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Please stop attacking my blog with that script. It's actually sending emails out to 4 addresses. That's very annoying.

The comment wasn't mine. Someone posted it, and added my signature at it (to a different instance than the one in the link in your automated blogcomment, though).

They did this to redirect your wrath at me. It wasn't even me. You've been duped into attacking the wrong person. I see you changing your script. Please stop.
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Slashdot doesn't add your signature to anonymous posts.

Someone else put my signature on the anonymous comment.

You, the attacker, are being manipulated into attacking me even though I did not make the anti-linux comments.

So please.. re-vector your attack at the true perpetrators.
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There is
http://ieview.mozdev.org/
at least the first part...

http://ieview.mozdev.org/

Google is your friend for these kinds of things

Both already exist. IEView (Firefox -> IE). FirefoxView (IE -> Firefox).

You're problems are solved... IE View!

IE can even just be another tab in your Firefox window. :)