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I went to Philmont (a scout camp) a few years ago. By the way, it isn't one of those sissy scout camps, this is real hike-60-miles-with-nothing-but-what's-in-your-back pack camping. Anyways, at the top of this mountain (The bald one in the middle. At least I think it was that one.) you got awesome cellphone reception. If you scroll to the left you can kinda see the trails I walked through and the camp. (The trail down that other mountain was a bitch) and we could see Eagle Nest Lake to the south. I don't know what that town is.
Despite the reception, I would not have wanted to lug a portable hotspot and laptop all the way up that mountain, much less to the mountain. 60 miles is a long way.
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Well, to use it effectively, they should race them for 3 miles.
Or they could just not do it at all and just use it for landing things.
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I don't have a newsletter, so that would be kind of difficult.
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Wile Lee Wonga and the MMOGolate factory?
That is the most terrible joke I have heard in my entire life, so I have no idea why I laughed so hard.
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I hope you mean
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or seen porn.

Try this: http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/goup

This is the right link.

Preferences Toolbar (or prefbar) at http://prefbar.mozdev.org/ is very handy.
It replaces my bookmarks toolbar and provides direct access to toggling various preferences.

http://googlebar.mozdev.org/index.html

Rocks On. Available for FF and old school classic Mozilla, my preferred ride. It is the Keymaster AND Gatekeeper of XUL, baby.

I installed the toolbar from Google Toolbar homepage and all it did was cause Firefox to run reallly really slow. It wouldn't even open until I killed a script that was running.

Conversly, I installed the Google Toolbar from http://googlebar.mozdev.org/ and absolutly no problems at all...

If we wanted to know what an employee was spending time on, the most useful thing would probably be to track web access, as generally that's how people goof off (that's how I'm goofing off right now).

How 'bout never?

Not only are they aware of googlebar, but they are apparently appreciative of the product and have been modestly supporting it with a link from the official Google bar page:

Letter from Google to googlebar

So, was quitting a good choice or a bad choice?
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Is this an official google toolbar? I use the open source googlebar http://googlebar.mozdev.org/index.html. I wonder how long before google flexes legal muscle to shut down googlebar. I recall previously that the google legal team forced googlebar to change their logo so as to not dilute the google brand. I recall reading the legal agreement and there was wording about google being able to change their minds in the future if they release their own product.

Sir, I think you pwned him.
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So... you're saying you can predict what software will be used 15 years from now, when the first-graders enter the business world? Assuming they don't skip a grade, and go through 2 years of college, plus 1 extra year for whatever.


Dude, you're retarded. Even if everybody still uses Microsoft stuff, it will be radically different from what we use today. What is most likely to happen is that we will use more F/OSS software, and if we teach them on F/OSS, they will have the skills to adapt to whatever comes next.
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When I was first thinking about converting to Firefox I remember that Google's toolbar was the "killer app" that initially kept me from switching over. Then I realized that I could do pretty much everything I could do using Google's IE-only toolbar using Firefox extensions and its built-in capabilities.

For example, for instant Google searches, Firefox allows you to create Keyword Searches in which you can just type in, in my case, "g <search query>" in the URL bar. Or for Wikipedia it is "w <search query>". For word highlighting you can just use Firefox's search functionality. And finally, for AutoFill you can use the AutoFill extension (which ends up being better than Google's anyway IMO).

So basically, Firefox has rendered the Google toolbar pretty useless to me.

But if they use a thin client from a server, high-end games or even games a few years old will really suck. They also can't install it if they don't have root access.
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I especially like its integration into the context menu: simply highlight an interesting term or phrase, right click and select the search engine you want to use to find a match (results will open in a new tab). Right now I have mine set up for searching IMDB, Amazon, Wikipedia, Merriam Websters as well as to Google search just wikipedia.

So why would I want to use google's toolbar (that is closed source and does who knows what) as opposed to the FOSS Googlebar that I've been using for months?

This was a big stumbling point for me in switching to firefox, that I wouldn't have my google toolbar. Once I found out aboot the Googlebar, I've never looked back.

I think I'll stick w/FOSS for now. I can't see any advantage to using the "official" one really... unless I want to have my browsing recorded for pagerank or whatever...

As a regular visitor of overclockers.com (and used to be active on their forums), I've never had such problems. Of course, I do block Flash, which someone else mentioned could be part of the problem. Maybe try Flashblock (or completely disable Flash) and see if you still have the problem.

I would suggest installing PrefBar, just so you can easily turn off Flash and Java (you do have to Customize it to add the Java button to the bar). This would let you see if it's a Java/Flash problem that others seem to think it's related to.

Ok, lets go through these one by one:
1) they want to turn all the poor people in africa to consumers that buy coca-cola
Britain wants to change this, that is the open market thing, and is one of the reasons africa looses so much money, we are trying to make it fair trade, where we can, and will, buy african goods. Britains will loose some money (From lower prices due to higher availability) but we can cope
2) they want to avoid laws against poluting the environment because they will lose money
We will loose money with the fair trade, were still pushing for it, and one of the problems is due to the lack of availability of non-oil based cars, and the american 'need' for huge cars
3) they're just interested in how they're gonna get richer and that's just it.
We are interested in becoming richer, but we are finally realising, if we help africa, africa may later in time, help us
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That's the hand to use...well, never mind.

From: A Desultory Philipic, Paul Simon.

You know, as someone who almost went to Viet Nam (lottery number 412), I have only one thing to say, especially to those writing from .edu domains.

You guys are being McNamarra'd! Big Time! It's all new and exciting to you guys, but I've seen all this ...fertilizer...before!

I'm sure it feels great to be on the winning side in the election, but the end result of Iraq is going to be the end result of Viet Nam: casualties. And the greatest damage is going to be done to the tender part between the ears.

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But doesn't the Googlebar work just fine?

"the PageRank (only the One True Googlebar can do that)"

You are wrong

God save Reverse Engineering

You think Rove is the leak? Then why didn't the Dems bring that out during the election? Would that not have been a slam-dunk? Yeah, you are right, Mr. Tin-Foil-Hat: America bombed it's biggest allay just to cover up something that hasn't happened. Welcome to my Foe list. Please go to democraticunderground.com with your bullshit theories. Moron. Yeah, you!
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I use the awesome searchWP to fill this need.

After downloading it, you'll need to activate it by going to view->toolbars->customize and locating the terms-toolbar. Drag this onto the toolbar (I prefer the wide open space right next to the help button). You can also drag the Highlight icon onto the toolbar for more functionality.

Download the searchbox auto updater (updates the FF searchbox with terms you enter on the actual google site) and the search box extender (lets you expand the width of the FF searchbar) and you have a fully functional google toolbar with none of the mess. It's all very simple and blends quite well into the Firefox GUI.

There's also some page info stuff (possible to emulate with Bookmarklets, but not easy), the PageRank (only the One True Googlebar can do that), and text highlighting (a royal pain with bookmarklets, but the open source toolbar could do that. Besides, Firefox and Opera have inline search, making it unnecessary).

Meh. All of that and more can be done with Greasemonkey (scripts directory) (Internet Explorer implementation), without the added clutter of Yet Another Toolbar, and without the potential paranoia of a corporation behind it (referring to the crap storm when Google shipped Autolink in the IE toolbar). Greasemonkey is open source, developed by individuals, and each script is just javascript which you can easily inspect before choosing to install in case you're worried about a script "phoning home" to track your browsing. It's also better than bookmarklets because it runs the scripts automatically (you can tell it what urls to include or exclude, if you don't want a script running on every page).

Finally, once you've installed Greasemonkey or Turnabout (What? You don't already have them installed? For shame!), check out my sig for a script to remove Roland Piquepaille stories from Slashdot.

Yep, somebody did

http://www.prgooglebar.org/

it has everything I need, I don't see why google would even bother when things like that exist.

prGooglebar is based on another one:
http://googlebar.mozdev.org/

It is plugins like Flash and Java that launch the popups now. If you disable Java and Flash, you will find that you no longer get popups.

You can use the Flashblock extension to run only the flash animations that you want to run.

There exists a google pagerank extension for firefox.

As per the email Google sent the GoogleBar guys.

I knew being a Gentoo user would subject me to some delays while waiting for everything to compile, but this is ridiculous! 8.0!?! I'm still running 2.6.10!

Well, there's going to be at least one getting worked on over the summer.

I think it's a good idea in general.... there are still a lot of people who don't understand how to use BT, and if an in-browser client is implemented well, they may not understand the technology any better, but they'd be able to use it.

http://moztorrent.mozdev.org/. Looks like the firefox extension is in the alpha stages.

It certainly seems like you're implying that OSS developers are out to harm businesses. This is not the point.

Maybe not FireTorrent but, MozTorrent fits the bill.

http://moztorrent.mozdev.org/

Thanks to google's summer code we can hope to have a functional BitTorrent client built with XUL/XPCOM.

Included in Firefox? :-)

Check the Mozilla development projects that have been accepted for Google's Summer of Code program:
http://summer.mozdev.org/projects.html


And the MozillaZine news about it here:
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=6 874

Get your ass in gear then, and sic a werewolf or a vampire on this lady! What good is an "irrational belief" if it does you no good!

"Sorry, her irrational belief was torn to shreds by a delusional thought!"

Poetic Justice, I say! Hell, Justice for ALL POETS!

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Get your ass in gear then, and sic a werewolf or a vampire on this lady! What good is an "irrational belief" if it does you no good!

"Sorry, her irrational belief was torn to shreds by a delusional thought!"

Poetic Justice, I say! Hell, Justice for ALL POETS!

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-1? WTF, mods? It should be at least a 3 Funny.
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I am sure glad I got to click on a tigerdirect affiliate link!
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I have too. But it doesn't implicitly say go faster than the posted speed posted limit.
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I hope you have a good lawyer.
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You're mixing truth, that the SV economy is _finally_ starting to add jobs, with a big generalization, that the NYT is the publisher of half-truths.

I'm not fan of the NYT either, but I could easily state the same of our state-controlled/influenced news channel: Fox News!!!

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