How many different operating systems do we need anyways? Surely Windows is good enough for everyone. Hmm, perhaps not?
Oh, and for the record, allowing them to communicate with each other is exactly what the fight is about. That's what MS did and AOL does want to permit. This is one time where MS was actually on the side of open standards.
Here's where we see where people really stand, in favor of open standards or just in favor of bashing MS.
Two obvious fixes, disabling scripting in the 'Internet Zone' for IE, and setting Outlook Express to use the 'Restricted Zone' for all content to start with. Anyone using those products should probably be doing both to start with.
Cryptonomicon was a great read but I agree with this post entirely. More so because none of that stuff in Cryptonomicon is new, it's clearly based on lots of time reading the cypherpunks mailing list back in the early 90's. Don't get me wrong, I loved the fact that it took from those ideas... but Stephenson didn't invent them.
-Blake (who kept waiting for references to L. Detweiller and Assassination Politics to appear in the novel)
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Astounding to see this here.
How many different operating systems do we need anyways? Surely Windows is good enough for everyone. Hmm, perhaps not?
Oh, and for the record, allowing them to communicate with each other is exactly what the fight is about. That's what MS did and AOL does want to permit. This is one time where MS was actually on the side of open standards.
Here's where we see where people really stand, in favor of open standards or just in favor of bashing MS.
-Blake (rolling his eyes)
Note the date at the top of the referenced page - June 30, 99. (Which explains why they are using old builds of Linux and old NT service packs.)
-Blake (who didn't realize the Linux crowd hadn't already looked at this updated benchmark
Two obvious fixes, disabling scripting in the 'Internet Zone' for IE, and setting Outlook Express to use the 'Restricted Zone' for all content to start with. Anyone using those products should probably be doing both to start with.
-Blake
Cryptonomicon was a great read but I agree with this post entirely. More so because none of that stuff in Cryptonomicon is new, it's clearly based on lots of time reading the cypherpunks mailing list back in the early 90's. Don't get me wrong, I loved the fact that it took from those ideas... but Stephenson didn't invent them.
-Blake (who kept waiting for references to L. Detweiller and Assassination Politics to appear in the novel)