Yes that's exactly why we have to use IE and MS Office on our desks in my company (well I know someone in the system department who installed Firefox but still). You can still install Portable Firefox on those machines. I do it all the time on the locked-down university machines.
Uh, yeah. Except that Time Warner isn't likely to do things like host local mirrors for major Linux distros. As it stands now, if you run Linux, you are. officially at least, unsupported as they only officially support Windows and Macintosh. And they only added official Macintosh support in like 2001 or 2002 -- before that it was just Windows. Have you written to them and complained? What's the address? I'll write to them, I make a point of writing to a different company asking for Linux support once a week.
Many many ISPs in many many countries operate this way. It's not as nice as "flat rate" in some folks eyes, but at least you get what you pay for (assuming no BT throttling, etc shenanigans). Exactly. That is how every industry works. The rich have nicer cars, better food, and now better internet access. You could argue that the beauty of the internet is that everyone gets an equal share of the information online. I argue that all that knowledge will fit into a 5 GB/month plan. It is the entertainment that will not fit into those plans. I also download the occasional Linux distro, and a Fedora or Windows update can be over 200 MB. At 5 GB/month thatâ(TM)s 4% of oneâ(TM)s pipe. A large amount, but livable.
You may also want to try Vimperator, a Firefox extension for controlling the browser entirely with the keyboard, with vi-like keybindings. It's not perfect, but I find it much more convenient than the standard mouse-driver interface. Vimperator really is a great product, I even donated to the developer recently. I am browsing with it now, and I am not a VI-junkie either. In fact, I now intend to learn VI because Vimperator has made browsing that much easier.
My favorite features: * Best hit-a-hint implementation. There are other extensions that do this, but vimperator is the easiest to use on a laptop with no numpad. * j/k scrolling. This is so convenient that I don't understand why it is not the default * Cleaner interface. No menu, location bar, nothing but the status bar until you start a command. * Next/Previous buttons. Vimperator finds the "next" and "previous" links in webpages and follows them when you click ]] and [[. * I could go on and on.
I really don't know what the default behaviour was (I think that I stated that). In any case, whether the browser prompts or not by default is irrelevant when the user clicks OK by default without reading. The same 90% of users that you estimate do not change their default settings, are the same 90% of users that I estimate click OK by default without reading.
So how is this the same as SILENTLY downloading files on to the desktop or downloads folder? Tell me how you define "silently" and I'll tell you how I define "does not prompt mother-in-law". Then we'll decide if it's the same.
But Google has data centers distributed all over the world. The question would be does, say, the Chicago data center have a particular traffic pattern that is distinct from a data center in Shanghai or Greenland or wherever else Google might have DCs. I'm sure that not very many people know the answer to that. But Google has been buying quite a bit of fiber, and the benefits of distribution I do not need to explain.
Did they show you prompt to allow you to download or cancel or did they just put it in your desktop or downloads folder without ANY interaction from you? They did prompt me, but they can be configured not to. The mother-in-law's Firefox, for example, is configured to download everything to her Desktop without prompting. I don't know what the default behaviour is.
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Wow, has professional writing ever gone downhill. Ever heard of a period? Some guys just don't like doing it on the rag.
The article mentions large scale government, military and industry intrusions. They also mention criminal gangs and others besides China as those responsible.
Apparently, HFS+ does. Because the first time I launch an executable I downloaded from the internet, Finder warns me and gives me the option to abort or continue. It does that wether I downloaded it with Safari or Firefox. And I presume it would so the same for Omniweb or Opera or whatever.
So why, exactly, would I need or want that functionality essentially duplicated in one browser or another, when I already have it in the Finder?
That's pretty brazen since the cat was already out of the bag. So did someone finally figure out whether it was dead or alive? Yes, but she shares Hubble-volume with the cat and therefore cannot contact us.
What exactly is a "known" exe then? One for which you've received the warning and clicked "don't warn about this exe again." Which filesystem supports that particular meta data?
IPlus, a browser that downloads files when it can't render them does seem like a stupid security hole. What browser doesn't do this? I just tried serving binary files as "Content-Type: slashdot" and Firefox, Opera, and Konqueror all downloaded the files.
If Apple won't fix it, why doesn't someone fork the project and produce a version that doesn't have the vulnerability? For the same reason that nobody's forked Windows. It is not open source.
But it's not a security problem - the security problem is that Windows Explorer doesn't warn the user before running an unknown.exe. What exactly is a "known" exe then? This is an executable on the local filesystem.
When he says "recently", he means 6th August 2004; the release of Windows XP SP2. Sadly, that is considered recent in terms of Windows releases, as it is the version of the software still available for retail sale.
they are buying twice as much hardware as they would otherwise need In other words they are wasteful and Environmentally Evil. Lazy Google. Bad Google. I hear that they recycle the broken servers into Symbian machines and post on pornotube.com. Still evil?
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That's what this skin is for. There is another one that looks like IE7.
I'm very very persistent. Ask the wife (second baby already on the way).
http://arglist.com/guile/
I've been using goosh for years.
Stefan Grothkopp: go away and find your own God damned project name - not ours. Goosh is also the name of my pet rat.
My favorite features:
* Best hit-a-hint implementation. There are other extensions that do this, but vimperator is the easiest to use on a laptop with no numpad.
* j/k scrolling. This is so convenient that I don't understand why it is not the default
* Cleaner interface. No menu, location bar, nothing but the status bar until you start a command.
* Next/Previous buttons. Vimperator finds the "next" and "previous" links in webpages and follows them when you click ]] and [[.
* I could go on and on.
I really don't know what the default behaviour was (I think that I stated that). In any case, whether the browser prompts or not by default is irrelevant when the user clicks OK by default without reading. The same 90% of users that you estimate do not change their default settings, are the same 90% of users that I estimate click OK by default without reading.
The article mentions large scale government, military and industry intrusions. They also mention criminal gangs and others besides China as those responsible.
Why not? If Scientology has managed to infiltrate US institutions then why can't China do it with their forged Cisco equipment at every gateway?So why, exactly, would I need or want that functionality essentially duplicated in one browser or another, when I already have it in the Finder?
cya,
john Is HFS the Mac filesystem?