I never, ever see porn ads because I've got Adblock Plus installed in FF. If she prefers IE for some weird reason then just put an ad-filtering web-proxy on your network like Junkbuster.
You could also install IE7Pro. It adds the following:
"Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins, MiniDM, Google sponsored search,IE Faster and many more power packed features."
Yeah, but no matter what it makes us, the US population in general will not know about it till well past 2010. It will take that long for our legislators to actually read the damn thing. Sure there will be watchdog groups who have read it before then, but like those that nay-sayed on the DMCA and US PATRIOT Act, they will be ignored until we are suffering the bad and unintended consequences of caveats in this bill.
You know, this bill is a perfect example of why we need DownsizeDC's Read the Bills Act. It is unacceptable that Congress votes for legislation they haven't fscking read. Please contact your Representative and Senators about that act.
Three other DownsizeDC campaigns that this bill perfectly shows the need for are:
Enumerated Powers Act - "It's time for Congress to, "Cite it, chapter and verse." Where do they derive their authority? When they pass new laws or spend taxpayer money, they should be required to point to specific language in the Constitution. The Enumerated Powers Act would require them to do precisely that."
One Subject at a Time Act - "Congress routinely passes unpopular laws by combining them with completely unrelated bills that have majority support".
Federal deficit causes Congressional pay cut Federal deficit causes Congressional pay cut - "Congress needs incentives to Downsize DC. H.R. 500 would provide such an incentive. If the federal government runs a deficit, then Congress will suffer a cut in pay. Tell your elected representatives to sponsor H.R. 500."
You can track the bill here on Govtrack. If this gets past committee please write or call your representative and ask them to reject yet another unnecessary regulation.
In addition, if you live in New York's 3rd Congressional District, please remember how your representative wants to waste our tax dollars when you vote next year.
After doing a little more research on him, here's another very good reasons to vote him out. Quoting his campaign website:
Pete was a strong supporter of the PATRIOT Act, creating the Homeland Security Department, profiling for terrorists at airports and allowing the National Security Agency to wiretap foreign terrorists making telephone calls into our country.
Some people care about parts of our government. CSPAN doesn't get watched because you have to watch all the parts you don't care about just to get to the parts you do care about.
At least now, I can search the videos for the stuff I care about. Like legalizing retroactive abortion...
Yep. CSPAN gets extremely boring. That's why I'm glad there are sites like CSPAN Junkie.
I'm sorry, but as someone who mentions Linux, you should be more than capable of locating one of the many programs that add this functionality to windows.
Sysinternals (now a part of MS) has a program called Desktops that's better than the powertoy. I use that when I'm stuck using Windows.
IMHO, it's still a joke compared to the virtual desktops support in Gnome/KDE.
Excuse me, but what is the US Constitution's Second Amendment for, exactly?
"No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government." --Thomas Jefferson
"That the people have a right to keep and bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the body of the people trained to arms, is the proper. natural and safe defense of a free State. That standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, and therefore ought to be avoided, as far as the circumstances and protection of the community will admit; and that. in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to and governed by the civil power." --George Mason
"The said constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." --Samuel Adams
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed -- unlike the citizens of other countries, whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." --James Madison
"Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms under our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?" --Patrick Henry
"[A]rms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but, since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up." --Thomas Paine
Internet Explorer may not have an auto-update system, but Microsoft Windows has an update system rivaling that of Ubuntu and OS X in automaticness, if not scale.
Since Windows encourages users to allow automatic updates installed at 3am every morning and also by default installs any pending critical updates at system power down, it doesn't seem like any supported version of Internet Explorer should remain unpatched for too long.
Ubuntu and Mint, at least, check daily. In Ubuntu when there are security updates you see a red arrow in the notification area, when non-security updates are available you see a orange sun(?). Also, if you go to "System"->"Software Sources" and then the "Updates" tab you can set it to apply security updates automatically (this really should be default, IMHO).
I still think Ubuntu's update system rivals Windows and OS X as it not only updates the base OS and OS vendor applications, it updates everything on the system.
That might work on some or most files, but there still is no replacement for Acrobat.
True, but we're getting closer. OpenOffice 3 now has a PDF Import extension, and of course for Windows there's PDFCreator (Gnome/KDE and OS X natively support printing to PDF).
We are within 2 days of making the Republican party pay for it's failure, dishonorable behavior, and fraud.
How long before we can do the same with Democrats?
This country would be a much better place if both branches of the corporate party would just go away.
Ideally I'd like to see an end to parties in general. George Washington says it best:
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." --George Washington, Farewell Address, Sep. 17, 1796
At the very least if we had parties that put liberty and independence first we'd be better off.
-- "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" --Benito Mussolini
I NEVER run background scanning on a virus program. It's a needless system overhead. When I get something new that might be suspicious, I simply run it on that specific program.
If that's why you install anti-virus, why bother installing anything at all? Try Online Malware Scan instead. That runs the submitted file through:
A-Squared, AntiVir, ArcaVir, Avast, AVG Antivirus, BitDefender, ClamAV, CPsecure, Dr. Web, F-Prot Antivirus, F-Secure Anti-Virus, G Data, Ikarus, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, NOD32, Norman Virus Control, Panda Antivirus, Sophos Antivirus, VirusBuster, and VBA32.
Also, Dr Web CureIt! is a good thing to run occasionally.
Fink and MacPorts make this as easy as it is on any other *nix. The only difficulty is choosing between the two. Yeah, spending all day waiting for things to finish compiling and dealing with broken packages is just so much easier than doing an apt-get or using synaptic...
Considering Apple's notorious heavy-handedness in their software updates and the aggressive way their software "takes over" your computer when installed, I wouldn't install a piece of Apple software on my computer if you put a gun to my head (I'd as soon install Realmedia player). I used to put Quicktime on my system, but I got so tired of putting up with that sneaky turd (would NOT let you completely uninstall it, insisted on always running in the background no matter what you did to stop it, would try to sneak its way back into your registry even if you deleted its entries, aggressively took over neutral file types, would constantly try to trick you into installing iTunes too, etc.) that I finally refused to even install that much (I use "Quicktime alternative").
Anyone who installs Apple software had better be prepared to join the cult, otherwise stay the hell clear of it.
I agree with that, but if you need Qucktime support in, say, an organziation there is a way around that without using Quicktime Alternative.
Download the installer. Run cabextract on it. You'll get the following files:
Make sure to delete the shortcuts so users can't bring it up. Doing it this way will let the browser plugins work, and also enable software that uses quicktime to work (lots of educational software uses it) without being hostile to your system. It will only take the quicktime file extensions this way.
Isn't Silver Iodide bad for you, specifically your skin? I know there's this concoction (that has silver) that if you take too much of it turns your skin blue and is irreversible.
If china pumps a ton of this stuff out, this will obviously get into the drinking water and then the athletes will drink that water as well as the local citizens and so you get blue skinned Chinese and athletes! Is this what you're referring to? That guy drank and rubbed "colloidal silver" on his skin which turned it skin blue over time. Here is a more recent article about him.
When was the last time you used Linux? A couple of years ago? Things were baaaad with wireless then, sure, but now they're pretty nice. On par with Windows at least. Ubuntu detected and utilized both my wireless card (netgear) as well as the wireless cards in three of my friend's laptops (unsure what they are) without any problem or setup. Under Windows we all have to install manufacturer drivers (and the netgear ones are downright stupid). He could have tried any recent version of Fedora. Start it up and the fonts look absolutely hideous, even tweaking things in the appearance dialog doesn't help much. The font rendering in Firefox looks even worse. Installing any driver that's not Free is a major pain in the ass and breaks when the kernel gets updated (often). All of those tired old complaints about Linux are very much alive in Fedora.
I tried testing Fedora 8 on my laptop (Thinkpad T61) last week. The above things drove me crazy. It took me over an hour to just to get the wireless working (that's the only hardware on the system that requires a binary driver).
I'm so glad I switched from Fedora to Ubuntu back when Dapper was released. Gutsy automatically handled the wireless, fonts looked great (after enabling "subpixel smoothing" in the appearance dialog), etc.
Something needs to be done about all this racist bullshit trolling. This is getting ridiculous. Slashdot has done something: moderation. If you don't want to see it, set your threshold up to not see -1 or 0 posts. These posts are either by AC's (starting at 0) or known troll accounts (starting at -1).
I have mine set to show everything but have -1 and 0 collapsed so I can still see good posts by ACs and read the occasionally funny trolls.
That's right, they shouldn't dictate to you what you do when you're not at work. On the other hand, should you be able to force them to hire you, regardless? This brings into play both freedom of association and property rights. So do you think it's fine to not hire someone because they're Christian, Jewish, Atheist, etc? IMHO, if someone is qualified for the job and keeps their personal and business lives separate, there shouldn't be an issue. If I wanted to smoke (I don't, btw, never have and never will) after a stressful day, that's my business. Not the employers. If the company doesn't want their employees smoking on the premises, near the premises, in uniform, etc, I feel that's completely acceptable.
If I don't want to hire you because you smoke, tough cookies. Can I be forced to associate with you like that? Can I be forced to use my property (ie: my business) that way? I'm not saying employers have to be forced to hire smokers. I dislike laws like that. I have zero issues with the employer not allowing smoking during work hours. The issue I have is employer restricting what people do in their own time.
If someone doesn't smoke at work, doesn't preach at people, does their job, shows up on time, acts professional, etc, it should be none of the employer's business.
So what? It will force people to drink less, or to stop drinking at all, which can only be a good thing. Less drunks around, less accidents, less deaths. Yes, banning alcohol is an idea whose time has finally come. Yeah, it sure worked great last time. Just like since marijuana was made illegal it's usage has dropped completely.
As far as I know drunks and underage drinkers are not a protected class. Several companies will not hire you if you are a smoker, and it's legal for them to do so. It's legal, yes, but it shouldn't be. I completely support a company's right to ban smoking on their premises, but it's unacceptable for them to dictate what you do in your own time when not at work.
Just read this article from the paper a few weeks ago:
Maltby's bigger concern is the total smoking ban, which he views as a fundamental civil-rights issue, since it extends beyond the workplace into an individual's home. He notes that 29 states and the District of Columbia have so-called lifestyle-rights laws that protect employees' rights to smoke when they're not at work.
But not Florida. "When I found out it was legal to discriminate against smokers [in 2002], those were my marching orders," said Westgate's chief executive, David Siegel, who gave his tobacco-using employees a year's notice before the total ban went into effect.
[...]
Siegel, who says his brief flirtation with cigarettes ended in 1959, is so strongly opposed to the habit that he would like to see smoking banned completely. Short of that, he hopes his company's smoking ban -- effective in Florida and every other Westgate location where it's allowed by state law -- becomes a model for other employers.
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I never, ever see porn ads because I've got Adblock Plus installed in FF. If she prefers IE for some weird reason then just put an ad-filtering web-proxy on your network like Junkbuster.
You could also install IE7Pro. It adds the following:
"Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins, MiniDM, Google sponsored search,IE Faster and many more power packed features."
Yeah, but no matter what it makes us, the US population in general will not know about it till well past 2010. It will take that long for our legislators to actually read the damn thing. Sure there will be watchdog groups who have read it before then, but like those that nay-sayed on the DMCA and US PATRIOT Act, they will be ignored until we are suffering the bad and unintended consequences of caveats in this bill.
You know, this bill is a perfect example of why we need DownsizeDC's Read the Bills Act. It is unacceptable that Congress votes for legislation they haven't fscking read. Please contact your Representative and Senators about that act.
Three other DownsizeDC campaigns that this bill perfectly shows the need for are:
Enumerated Powers Act - "It's time for Congress to, "Cite it, chapter and verse." Where do they derive their authority? When they pass new laws or spend taxpayer money, they should be required to point to specific language in the Constitution. The Enumerated Powers Act would require them to do precisely that."
One Subject at a Time Act - "Congress routinely passes unpopular laws by combining them with completely unrelated bills that have majority support".
Federal deficit causes Congressional pay cut
Federal deficit causes Congressional pay cut - "Congress needs incentives to Downsize DC. H.R. 500 would provide such an incentive. If the federal government runs a deficit, then Congress will suffer a cut in pay. Tell your elected representatives to sponsor H.R. 500."
Christian Bale takes David to the Dentist
Chad Vader After Dentist
You can track the bill here on Govtrack. If this gets past committee please write or call your representative and ask them to reject yet another unnecessary regulation.
In addition, if you live in New York's 3rd Congressional District, please remember how your representative wants to waste our tax dollars when you vote next year.
After doing a little more research on him, here's another very good reasons to vote him out. Quoting his campaign website:
Pete was a strong supporter of the PATRIOT Act, creating the Homeland Security Department, profiling for terrorists at airports and allowing the National Security Agency to wiretap foreign terrorists making telephone calls into our country.
Please vote this guy out.
Some people care about parts of our government. CSPAN doesn't get watched because you have to watch all the parts you don't care about just to get to the parts you do care about.
At least now, I can search the videos for the stuff I care about. Like legalizing retroactive abortion...
Yep. CSPAN gets extremely boring. That's why I'm glad there are sites like CSPAN Junkie.
Well, I dont know about you, but I have been using multiple virtual desktops since 2kpro. Heck, MS even put them in the xp power toys package.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx
I'm sorry, but as someone who mentions Linux, you should be more than capable of locating one of the many programs that add this functionality to windows.
Sysinternals (now a part of MS) has a program called Desktops that's better than the powertoy. I use that when I'm stuck using Windows.
IMHO, it's still a joke compared to the virtual desktops support in Gnome/KDE.
Excuse me, but what is the US Constitution's Second Amendment for, exactly?
"No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government." --Thomas Jefferson
"That the people have a right to keep and bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the body of the people trained to arms, is the proper. natural and safe defense of a free State. That standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, and therefore ought to be avoided, as far as the circumstances and protection of the community will admit; and that. in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to and governed by the civil power." --George Mason
"The said constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." --Samuel Adams
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed -- unlike the citizens of other countries, whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." --James Madison
"Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms under our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?" --Patrick Henry
"[A]rms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but, since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up." --Thomas Paine
What are you talking about? VMWare does no such thing, there is no connection between vmware and wine whatsoever.
He's probably thinking of Parallels:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallels_Desktop_for_Mac#Wine_controversy
http://wiki.winehq.org/Parallels
Or you can use Auslogics Defrag
I have to second that one. Also, starting with 1.5.19.330 they added a command line version. 1.5.20.335 adds a scheduler.
Internet Explorer may not have an auto-update system, but Microsoft Windows has an update system rivaling that of Ubuntu and OS X in automaticness, if not scale.
Since Windows encourages users to allow automatic updates installed at 3am every morning and also by default installs any pending critical updates at system power down, it doesn't seem like any supported version of Internet Explorer should remain unpatched for too long.
Ubuntu and Mint, at least, check daily. In Ubuntu when there are security updates you see a red arrow in the notification area, when non-security updates are available you see a orange sun(?). Also, if you go to "System"->"Software Sources" and then the "Updates" tab you can set it to apply security updates automatically (this really should be default, IMHO).
I still think Ubuntu's update system rivals Windows and OS X as it not only updates the base OS and OS vendor applications, it updates everything on the system.
To be honest, I'd rather actually consume some really good weed than simulate it.
You can somewhat simulate weed with binaural beats, but it's nowhere near as good as the real thing. That will get you feeling somewhat high.
...the dehumidifier!
Yeah, and this is old news:
EcoloBlue
Willie Nelson's Water From Air
That might work on some or most files, but there still is no replacement for Acrobat.
True, but we're getting closer. OpenOffice 3 now has a PDF Import extension, and of course for Windows there's PDFCreator (Gnome/KDE and OS X natively support printing to PDF).
How long before we can do the same with Democrats?
This country would be a much better place if both branches of the corporate party would just go away.
Ideally I'd like to see an end to parties in general. George Washington says it best:
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." --George Washington, Farewell Address, Sep. 17, 1796
At the very least if we had parties that put liberty and independence first we'd be better off.
--
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" --Benito Mussolini
I NEVER run background scanning on a virus program. It's a needless system overhead. When I get something new that might be suspicious, I simply run it on that specific program.
If that's why you install anti-virus, why bother installing anything at all? Try Online Malware Scan instead. That runs the submitted file through:
A-Squared, AntiVir, ArcaVir, Avast, AVG Antivirus, BitDefender, ClamAV, CPsecure, Dr. Web, F-Prot Antivirus, F-Secure Anti-Virus, G Data, Ikarus, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, NOD32, Norman Virus Control, Panda Antivirus, Sophos Antivirus, VirusBuster, and VBA32.
Also, Dr Web CureIt! is a good thing to run occasionally.
n/t
Here.
I agree with that, but if you need Qucktime support in, say, an organziation there is a way around that without using Quicktime Alternative.Anyone who installs Apple software had better be prepared to join the cult, otherwise stay the hell clear of it.
Download the installer. Run cabextract on it. You'll get the following files:
AppleSoftwareUpdate.msi
QuickTime.msi
QuickTimeInstallerAdmin.exe
Only install Qucktime.msi. Delete the others. Just do msiexec
Then run this registry file:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"QuickTime Task"=-
Make sure to delete the shortcuts so users can't bring it up. Doing it this way will let the browser plugins work, and also enable software that uses quicktime to work (lots of educational software uses it) without being hostile to your system. It will only take the quicktime file extensions this way.
If china pumps a ton of this stuff out, this will obviously get into the drinking water and then the athletes will drink that water as well as the local citizens and so you get blue skinned Chinese and athletes! Is this what you're referring to? That guy drank and rubbed "colloidal silver" on his skin which turned it skin blue over time. Here is a more recent article about him.
I tried testing Fedora 8 on my laptop (Thinkpad T61) last week. The above things drove me crazy. It took me over an hour to just to get the wireless working (that's the only hardware on the system that requires a binary driver).
I'm so glad I switched from Fedora to Ubuntu back when Dapper was released. Gutsy automatically handled the wireless, fonts looked great (after enabling "subpixel smoothing" in the appearance dialog), etc.
I have mine set to show everything but have -1 and 0 collapsed so I can still see good posts by ACs and read the occasionally funny trolls.
If someone doesn't smoke at work, doesn't preach at people, does their job, shows up on time, acts professional, etc, it should be none of the employer's business.
Less drunks around, less accidents, less deaths. Yes, banning alcohol is an idea whose time has finally come. Yeah, it sure worked great last time. Just like since marijuana was made illegal it's usage has dropped completely.
Just read this article from the paper a few weeks ago: Maltby's bigger concern is the total smoking ban, which he views as a fundamental civil-rights issue, since it extends beyond the workplace into an individual's home. He notes that 29 states and the District of Columbia have so-called lifestyle-rights laws that protect employees' rights to smoke when they're not at work.
But not Florida. "When I found out it was legal to discriminate against smokers [in 2002], those were my marching orders," said Westgate's chief executive, David Siegel, who gave his tobacco-using employees a year's notice before the total ban went into effect.
[...]
Siegel, who says his brief flirtation with cigarettes ended in 1959, is so strongly opposed to the habit that he would like to see smoking banned completely. Short of that, he hopes his company's smoking ban -- effective in Florida and every other Westgate location where it's allowed by state law -- becomes a model for other employers.