it's not quite so cut an dry. search for ANYTHING of 'questionable' nature (cracks, walkthroughs, mp3s, etc) on the web and you are likely to encounter a site that has a pop up that takes you to a pron site that when you close the window it opens three more; repeat; exponential growth. one of those sites is likely to have malware sneak in while you are busy clicking x's. granted, stop visiting porn sites intentionally would cut a lot out, but avoid porn on the interenet is no easy task.
actually, i've experienced the same thing repeatedly. At least once, daily, on either machine. fedora core 2, XP 1900+ and a dual MP 1900+ windows xp box. no extra 'extensions' were installed on either setup. i keep having to bookmark pages i don't want to get borked out of and have to re-find when i restart mozilla.
i did see something about completely removing 1.0PR and then installing 1.0, so i will try that. perhaps a funky file didn't get updated?
off topic, but i really wished i could find the place to set urls that open new windows to open new tabs instead.
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i don't know if it's news or not, but c|net news was reporting gmail now offeres free pop access.
that's cool.
i have gmail invites for free that require no ipod or free lcd signup. i just have no one to give them too. everyone i *know* has one already. i have six.
and it's more fun to talk to someone than just to submit them to the gmailinvitecache.
rdiff-backup uses rsync to create incremental backups, and you can --remove-older-than or recover from whatever point the backup was made. a mini archive of old (deleted) files, etc. files are not fully removed from the backup until they have been erased for X days. keep the backup on an encrypted external drive.
make a nation wide psudo raid array in five locations. if one dies, replace it, and it will get the data at the next sync.
do it wirelessly to your neighbor's houses with your equipment. give them the $1/mo electricity increase.
use elite [kiddie] scripts to hack hundreds of co-lo servers, mount an encrypted drive, rsync all the stuff there (distributed). maintain. global distributed backups. i think you can ever buy lists of already compromised computers, too. that'd make that just a little easier.
but with appropriate style sheets links and visited links and whatnot can all be transparent. every pixel of a page could be a seperate link to something with no visual loss. links within the same domain are blue, or something, but reference links are just words you can click/return on. it would make lynx browsing extrememly difficult though.
i've see a lot of forum-like-sites do wiki/semantic like css mouseover textbox's with ad's about a word, what's stopping that from being a valid cross-reference method?
agreed. I read/. via RSS a lot of time, and just the headlines never make me want to read anything. And when they do, it was some twist on what i thought it was. I do like how they put a good portion in the summary/description, so i can read me, but headlines really should be what gets your attention.
i've actually met people, in person, who claim, honestly, they enjoy the previews. it's not so strange, actually, i have a few friends that way. i loathe them personally, but if you don't feel like watching television, sometimes a quick movie-summary-flyby will do the trick.
i vote if they stay at the pace they are, with the level of service and ease of use they provide, they will maintain their standing in the market (both general and/.)... until google ad's are popups, (which are a lot of the time really relevant ads, and non-intrusive or ugly of flashy), or Gmail starts adding 'gmail.com' to the bottom on each email, or anything else invasive, everyone will continue to use these great free tools.
google seems to be microsoft targeted. i have google ads on a few pages, and the pages with 'linux' content get served ads in german, or some other language... which makes me think consipiracy, and google is really just a sister company of microsoft.
amen. and on top of that, i would be willing to bet the google-desktop ships with a valid/working/easy un-install mechanism... hardly SPYWARE... you told it to install, you told it what to do, you opted to install, etc etc...
I really don't think a Segway is the best answer for old people or even fat people for that matter. Ya, it's a cute little machine that looks like fun - but it takes a certain amount of balance to use and from the way people stand, it's about as forgiving as a bicycle when you fall off of it or the batteries get low.
the LAST thing fat people need is another device to make them more lazy.
I don't fully agree obese people are entitled to handicapped tags for their cars: if nothing else, they should be REQUIRED to park in the back of the parking lot, so they HAVE to walk to the door. a little exercise never hurt anyone, right?
my mom has MS (multiple sclerosis) and with the left side of her body deteriorating, holding a cane in her left hand to support her left leg is becoming more and more difficult. she can however successfully 'prop' herself almost anywhere, for an prolonged ammounts of time: so leaning on a walker-like segway (with balanced support on either side) is an ideal sollution. unfortunately, there is not one part of this city that is handicap accessable (sidewalks are few, and intersection ramps are all but non-existant)... not to mention most of it is hill, and every house has steps leading upto the front door. lots of 'roads' are gravel, too. ahh, rural life.
point being, in a city like NY or LA or whatever, it would be a lot easier to use a segway than some rural area where tractors drive on the main roads.
I mean, spyware and viruses weren't made by microsoft, IE just helps you download and install them more easily, and even sometimes automatically!
no, they are made by one of the children-companies created because of the anti-trust nonsense. They are making a market for themselves... and (working for microsoftVSPY, inc) look at IE as a *feature* embedded in a wonderfully secure operating system.
i loved my apple newton. it was big, but cool. never been able to find a free (or commercial) blackbox (the laser and marble game) replacement. i did inadvetantly find a neat window manager looking for it though...
i saw them on television doing an interview, they said "we're sending sean penn a bottle of champagne. he got us $20/mil worth of plublicity days before the movie came out".
i thought it was funny, but a little offtopic: clippy made a cameo on the daily show last night. they were making fun of us for being excited spaceship one won, and then, durring paul allens speach about how wonderful space flight will be, clippy popped up and told him he was making a runon sentance. (like mine, actually).
IMO, Realplayer is spyware, AOL Instant Messenger is spyware. There oughta be a crackdown on dishonest software. When Realplayer starts with all the subscription defaults as deactivated, except for the ones conveniently out of view, SPYWARE. When AOL Instant Messenger wants to put wild tangent bullshit on my computer when AIM used to be for IM'ing people, SPYWARE. Sorry, but it's dishonest programming and doesn't give people enough options for how to disable it or even realize that it's there. Weatherbug does not have anything other than small text about its spyware.
surely there could be a class action lawsuit going on for lost bandwidth. AOL IM (i've switched to gaim since 1.0, but prior:) i get an almost constant flow of ad-traffic when the client is minimized. and occasionally, i get the fear and hear voices talking to me through an AIM ad.
out of curiosity, when you uninstall say weather bug, does it remove the spyware too? or is that not a part of it? if it shows up in my remove programs i'm okay with it, but if i have to dig through the registry and kill processess just to rid me of some software i didn't need anyway, i get irritated.
is there a site that lists commonly installed software that includes spyware? you generally see tips like: if you install KaZaa or Grokster you may have spyware. but is there anything more descript. is there anyone in the OSS community writing replacement apps (not eMule, but smaller apps, like weatherbug) for win32 without the spyware. if i knew the first thing about coding i could do a win32 app that docks and shows the weather as it's icon... there is obviously a market for it.
i concur. i have an old k2/333 compaq laptop i stripped from it's case and mounted in an old wooden irish liquor clock that runs zgv from a samba share all day long. move some pics around and the frame changes. it also runs the little scripts i use to monitor my connection and sports a little mini webcam server.
i WISH i could get my wireless card working in it, a typical blue cat5 drops down the wall along side of it, taking away from the glory that is clock.home.net... oh and it overheats after 10 hours, so i have to come up with a small cooling solution.
and granted i would never run a quake server on it (but have recallections of doing that on a p4/100 way back when (quake I)) but for general purpose serving or *very specific* purpose, old hardware it great.
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charge $5000 dollars for a 9mm bullet, but give the handguns away free. No more 'innocent bystanders'
Stop visitng porn sites
it's not quite so cut an dry. search for ANYTHING of 'questionable' nature (cracks, walkthroughs, mp3s, etc) on the web and you are likely to encounter a site that has a pop up that takes you to a pron site that when you close the window it opens three more; repeat; exponential growth. one of those sites is likely to have malware sneak in while you are busy clicking x's. granted, stop visiting porn sites intentionally would cut a lot out, but avoid porn on the interenet is no easy task.
actually, i've experienced the same thing repeatedly. At least once, daily, on either machine. fedora core 2, XP 1900+ and a dual MP 1900+ windows xp box. no extra 'extensions' were installed on either setup. i keep having to bookmark pages i don't want to get borked out of and have to re-find when i restart mozilla.
i did see something about completely removing 1.0PR and then installing 1.0, so i will try that. perhaps a funky file didn't get updated?
off topic, but i really wished i could find the place to set urls that open new windows to open new tabs instead.
i don't know if it's news or not, but c|net news was reporting gmail now offeres free pop access.
that's cool.
i have gmail invites for free that require no ipod or free lcd signup. i just have no one to give them too. everyone i *know* has one already. i have six.
and it's more fun to talk to someone than just to submit them to the gmailinvitecache.
rdiff-backup uses rsync to create incremental backups, and you can --remove-older-than or recover from whatever point the backup was made. a mini archive of old (deleted) files, etc. files are not fully removed from the backup until they have been erased for X days. keep the backup on an encrypted external drive.
make a nation wide psudo raid array in five locations. if one dies, replace it, and it will get the data at the next sync.
do it wirelessly to your neighbor's houses with your equipment. give them the $1/mo electricity increase.
use elite [kiddie] scripts to hack hundreds of co-lo servers, mount an encrypted drive, rsync all the stuff there (distributed). maintain. global distributed backups. i think you can ever buy lists of already compromised computers, too. that'd make that just a little easier.
but with appropriate style sheets links and visited links and whatnot can all be transparent. every pixel of a page could be a seperate link to something with no visual loss. links within the same domain are blue, or something, but reference links are just words you can click/return on. it would make lynx browsing extrememly difficult though.
i've see a lot of forum-like-sites do wiki/semantic like css mouseover textbox's with ad's about a word, what's stopping that from being a valid cross-reference method?
agreed. I read /. via RSS a lot of time, and just the headlines never make me want to read anything. And when they do, it was some twist on what i thought it was. I do like how they put a good portion in the summary/description, so i can read me, but headlines really should be what gets your attention.
i am a big fan on the minidisc format. it has a caddy, and a good size, and no what it is called, minisd or something?
i've actually met people, in person, who claim, honestly, they enjoy the previews. it's not so strange, actually, i have a few friends that way. i loathe them personally, but if you don't feel like watching television, sometimes a quick movie-summary-flyby will do the trick.
coat them in plastic.
i vote if they stay at the pace they are, with the level of service and ease of use they provide, they will maintain their standing in the market (both general and
google seems to be microsoft targeted. i have google ads on a few pages, and the pages with 'linux' content get served ads in german, or some other language
it would if you saved all of your index information to your googlefs mount. /dev/google
amen. and on top of that, i would be willing to bet the google-desktop ships with a valid/working/easy un-install mechanism ... hardly SPYWARE ... you told it to install, you told it what to do, you opted to install, etc etc ...
I really don't think a Segway is the best answer for old people or even fat people for that matter. Ya, it's a cute little machine that looks like fun - but it takes a certain amount of balance to use and from the way people stand, it's about as forgiving as a bicycle when you fall off of it or the batteries get low.
the LAST thing fat people need is another device to make them more lazy.
I don't fully agree obese people are entitled to handicapped tags for their cars: if nothing else, they should be REQUIRED to park in the back of the parking lot, so they HAVE to walk to the door. a little exercise never hurt anyone, right?
my mom has MS (multiple sclerosis) and with the left side of her body deteriorating, holding a cane in her left hand to support her left leg is becoming more and more difficult. she can however successfully 'prop' herself almost anywhere, for an prolonged ammounts of time: so leaning on a walker-like segway (with balanced support on either side) is an ideal sollution. unfortunately, there is not one part of this city that is handicap accessable (sidewalks are few, and intersection ramps are all but non-existant) ... not to mention most of it is hill, and every house has steps leading upto the front door. lots of 'roads' are gravel, too. ahh, rural life.
point being, in a city like NY or LA or whatever, it would be a lot easier to use a segway than some rural area where tractors drive on the main roads.
I mean, spyware and viruses weren't made by microsoft, IE just helps you download and install them more easily, and even sometimes automatically!
... and (working for microsoftVSPY, inc) look at IE as a *feature* embedded in a wonderfully secure operating system.
no, they are made by one of the children-companies created because of the anti-trust nonsense. They are making a market for themselves
i loved my apple newton. it was big, but cool. never been able to find a free (or commercial) blackbox (the laser and marble game) replacement. i did inadvetantly find a neat window manager looking for it though ...
i saw them on television doing an interview, they said "we're sending sean penn a bottle of champagne. he got us $20/mil worth of plublicity days before the movie came out".
Would a conviction automatically preclude Badnarik and Cobb from holding the office of President?
i'd say only a felony. tresspassing is hardly a felony. if he had (or was planted with) a gun and a bag of pot, then he couldn't run.
i thought it was funny, but a little offtopic: clippy made a cameo on the daily show last night. they were making fun of us for being excited spaceship one won, and then, durring paul allens speach about how wonderful space flight will be, clippy popped up and told him he was making a runon sentance. (like mine, actually).
oh, there he is.
IMO, Realplayer is spyware, AOL Instant Messenger is spyware. There oughta be a crackdown on dishonest software. When Realplayer starts with all the subscription defaults as deactivated, except for the ones conveniently out of view, SPYWARE. When AOL Instant Messenger wants to put wild tangent bullshit on my computer when AIM used to be for IM'ing people, SPYWARE. Sorry, but it's dishonest programming and doesn't give people enough options for how to disable it or even realize that it's there. Weatherbug does not have anything other than small text about its spyware.
... there is obviously a market for it.
surely there could be a class action lawsuit going on for lost bandwidth. AOL IM (i've switched to gaim since 1.0, but prior:) i get an almost constant flow of ad-traffic when the client is minimized. and occasionally, i get the fear and hear voices talking to me through an AIM ad.
out of curiosity, when you uninstall say weather bug, does it remove the spyware too? or is that not a part of it? if it shows up in my remove programs i'm okay with it, but if i have to dig through the registry and kill processess just to rid me of some software i didn't need anyway, i get irritated.
is there a site that lists commonly installed software that includes spyware? you generally see tips like: if you install KaZaa or Grokster you may have spyware. but is there anything more descript. is there anyone in the OSS community writing replacement apps (not eMule, but smaller apps, like weatherbug) for win32 without the spyware. if i knew the first thing about coding i could do a win32 app that docks and shows the weather as it's icon
i concur. i have an old k2/333 compaq laptop i stripped from it's case and mounted in an old wooden irish liquor clock that runs zgv from a samba share all day long. move some pics around and the frame changes. it also runs the little scripts i use to monitor my connection and sports a little mini webcam server.
... oh and it overheats after 10 hours, so i have to come up with a small cooling solution.
i WISH i could get my wireless card working in it, a typical blue cat5 drops down the wall along side of it, taking away from the glory that is clock.home.net
and granted i would never run a quake server on it (but have recallections of doing that on a p4/100 way back when (quake I)) but for general purpose serving or *very specific* purpose, old hardware it great.
in case you dont know, the light DOES goes off when you close the door.