That's good for you. I tried Tor too and it could not find enough nodes to build a circuit for me. It did work after a while but not until many sites became directly accessible again. So, for me, Tor was not particularly helpful to workaround the connection problems.
It was really bad to have traceroute slashdot.org going nowhere. But here in Hong Kong, I just googled "open proxy", took a look at the Google cached results and configured the proxy (I picked one from UAE)... and there it was, my daily dose of Slashdot! It was very slow and I could not post a comment to the Taiwan quake story, but it worked. I did not have a chance to see if this works in Shenzhen though.
Now, proxy is longer needed, the traffic is routed through London and Slashdot is still very slow for me. I can only hope the cables will be fixed soon, 400+ ms ping is not fun.
It's simple and gets the job done. Rules can be set to allow or block incoming and outgoing TCP/UDP traffic. It verifies the MD5 of the applications. Also eats several megabytes of RAM though...
ICQ99b uses UDP, which is unreliable. It does not work well behind firewall. IIRC, the old protocol has security issues. Anyway, all later versions are crap, use Miranda instead.
I don't know why everyone here thinks blocking cookies is a great feature of Mozilla. I have yet to find a way to block all cookies by default but accept those I want it to accept in Mozilla. IE does that just fine. Mozilla only offers 3 options, deny all/allow all or prompt for every damn cookie if it is from a site which is not in the list configured.
IE's cookie mangement is far superior and easier to use than that of Mozilla, IMHO. Please enlighten me if I have overlooked some settings in Mozilla.
Unfortunately, the display is far from good. The underline for hyperlinks run over the bottom of Chinese characters. Also, it cannot render Chinese chars in Chinese font and English chars in Latin-based font respectively. There are a few other minor issues as well...
I have tried to report bugs, but i18n related bugs seem did not get much attention.
I'm sorry Mozilla, but that really sucks. Its i18n support is far from decent. That's why I did not switch from IE.
Anyway, it is not news for me. I welcome the Hong Kong SAR Government to introduce Smart ID cards. It is very very troublesome to carry all kinds of cards around in my wallet. The new Smart ID will combine my ID card, driving licence and library card into one!
I have long enjoyed the convenience of Octopus, a smart card to travel around and buy things in convenience stores without the need of heavy coins. This certainly made every Hong Konger's life easier and happier. Given such a successful story, I think the Smart ID will be widely accepted, just like Octopus.
IIRC, about a million Smart IDs will be issued during the trial period, before the official launch. I will be happy to be one of the tester of this new technology!
Not always. MSIE 5.5 running atop Windows98 exhibits similar behavior... I always assumed there was something funky with the markup of the comment pages and all those form controls...
This "feature" has been discussed on/. before, and it is probably because Win98 is not designed to handle 640+ drop-down moderation boxes...:)
Limitation is a good thing?!
Perhaps you should not read/.
Well, how about this?;) perhaps limitation is a good thing. Its just one more reason to learn using M$ software. And given enough time and the ever growing importance of.NET it wouldn't be more than a few years before M$......
Yea, no one cares if IE runs perfect for me. However, it also runs perfect for many others. I'm not the first one to say "IE works great!" here on/. Most of the time it's configuration/user problem that causing IE to crash.
> Personally, IE crashes on my system one out of every three times I use it.
Oh, poor, you should spend time to fix your setup... No wonder Mozilla crashes a lot less for you. Don't get me wrong, I would like to switch to Mozilla when it is rock stable.
It's the problem of your win98 box, mine can stay up for more than a week (not just idle, of course). I can open more than 10 IE (5.5) windows at the same time with other applications running. IE rarely crashes on my box.
I don't mean win98 is great, but there is a way to keep win98 a bit more stable. However, it is very sad that not everyone knows about this...
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What are you trying to prove here?
int void main(void) is of course not a valid way to declare the main function.
D:\>type no.c
#include stdio.h
int void main(void)
{
printf("Oh, no...\n");
}
D:\>gcc no.c
no.c:4: two or more data types in declaration of `main'
Besides, void main(void) is not valid either. Why not search and read the C FAQ if you are not sure what the parent post is talking about?
We will never know the complete story. We will never know because the two governments involved don't want us to know. Both sides will continue to play this game until it is so saturated that no one cares.
Slashdot Mirror
That's good for you. I tried Tor too and it could not find enough nodes to build a circuit for me. It did work after a while but not until many sites became directly accessible again. So, for me, Tor was not particularly helpful to workaround the connection problems.
It was really bad to have traceroute slashdot.org going nowhere. But here in Hong Kong, I just googled "open proxy", took a look at the Google cached results and configured the proxy (I picked one from UAE)... and there it was, my daily dose of Slashdot! It was very slow and I could not post a comment to the Taiwan quake story, but it worked. I did not have a chance to see if this works in Shenzhen though.
Now, proxy is longer needed, the traffic is routed through London and Slashdot is still very slow for me. I can only hope the cables will be fixed soon, 400+ ms ping is not fun.
I have AdBlock installed, and can't load Gmaile r=30926&topic=1523
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answ
From the press release...
So, we need to wait for a few more days before it is available.
Kerio Personal Firewall
It's simple and gets the job done. Rules can be set to allow or block incoming and outgoing TCP/UDP traffic. It verifies the MD5 of the applications. Also eats several megabytes of RAM though...
ICQ99b uses UDP, which is unreliable. It does not work well behind firewall. IIRC, the old protocol has security issues. Anyway, all later versions are crap, use Miranda instead.
You should read 19.4.3 in the FreeBSD Handbook.
Have you tried IE6?
I don't know why everyone here thinks blocking cookies is a great feature of Mozilla. I have yet to find a way to block all cookies by default but accept those I want it to accept in Mozilla. IE does that just fine. Mozilla only offers 3 options, deny all/allow all or prompt for every damn cookie if it is from a site which is not in the list configured.
IE's cookie mangement is far superior and easier to use than that of Mozilla, IMHO. Please enlighten me if I have overlooked some settings in Mozilla.
Unfortunately, the display is far from good. The underline for hyperlinks run over the bottom of Chinese characters. Also, it cannot render Chinese chars in Chinese font and English chars in Latin-based font respectively. There are a few other minor issues as well...
I have tried to report bugs, but i18n related bugs seem did not get much attention.
I'm sorry Mozilla, but that really sucks. Its i18n support is far from decent. That's why I did not switch from IE.
I use it everyday, most Hong Kongers use it everyday, and it is very convenient. So far, I haven't heard of any big problem with the Octopus system.
There is no identity information stored on Octopus as far as I know. One can have more than one Octopus card if he/she likes.
Anyway, it is not news for me. I welcome the Hong Kong SAR Government to introduce Smart ID cards. It is very very troublesome to carry all kinds of cards around in my wallet. The new Smart ID will combine my ID card, driving licence and library card into one!
I have long enjoyed the convenience of Octopus, a smart card to travel around and buy things in convenience stores without the need of heavy coins. This certainly made every Hong Konger's life easier and happier. Given such a successful story, I think the Smart ID will be widely accepted, just like Octopus.
IIRC, about a million Smart IDs will be issued during the trial period, before the official launch. I will be happy to be one of the tester of this new technology!
I doubt many will pay for viewing /.
/. propose some solid plans to improve the quality of discussion, lower the signal-to-noise ratio, or at least listen to our opinions?
Could
Why would I pay for someone to mod down entire threads, and take away my ability to metamod as they wish without providing a reason?
Okay, I expected someone would mod parent post down and went to download and install the **1.4.0 final release**...
Of course, no problem with the install and I made sure I didn't get the Release Candidate.
Now what? Insightful mod and AC ranting?? Maybe you guys should hit the refresh button harder!
I prefer playing DOOM to Quake any day... ;-)
At least I don't have to bother with vertical aiming
This "feature" has been discussed on /. before, and it is probably because Win98 is not designed to handle 640+ drop-down moderation boxes... :)
It's not related to the horrible /. markup though.
Limitation is a good thing?! /.
Perhaps you should not read
Well, how about this? ;) .NET it wouldn't be more than a few years before M$......
perhaps limitation is a good thing. Its just one more reason to learn using M$ software. And given enough time and the ever growing importance of
You mean using 32 bits to represent characters in a language?
What a huge waste! Have you realized that no language has such a large character set?
UCS-2 is adequate for current use, not to mention UCS-4.
> Using Unicode in that case doubles your
> net traffic for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
Have you ever heard of UTF-8?
> To sum it up: East Asian, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and assorted other peoples will never use
Unicode under no circumstances whatsoever.
Take your bs somewhere else...
> Whoopie. So basically we bloated Latin-1 with
64,000 useless characters that nobody ever will
use. Is this genius or what?
At least not as useless as your misinformed post!
Yea, no one cares if IE runs perfect for me. However, it also runs perfect for many others. I'm not the first one to say "IE works great!" here on /. Most of the time it's configuration/user problem that causing IE to crash.
> Personally, IE crashes on my system one out of every three times I use it.
Oh, poor, you should spend time to fix your setup... No wonder Mozilla crashes a lot less for you. Don't get me wrong, I would like to switch to Mozilla when it is rock stable.
I use IE5.5 every day for browsing /. and many other web sites.
It crashed only around 10 times, plus it takes out EXPLORER.EXE 0% of the time. I don't understand what's the point you were making...
It's the problem of your win98 box, mine can stay up for more than a week (not just idle, of course). I can open more than 10 IE (5.5) windows at the same time with other applications running. IE rarely crashes on my box.
I don't mean win98 is great, but there is a way to keep win98 a bit more stable. However, it is very sad that not everyone knows about this...
What are you trying to prove here?
int void main(void) is of course not a valid way to declare the main function.
D:\>type no.c#include stdio.h
int void main(void)
{
printf("Oh, no...\n");
}
D:\>gcc no.c
no.c:4: two or more data types in declaration of `main'
Besides, void main(void) is not valid either. Why not search and read the C FAQ if you are not sure what the parent post is talking about?
No, its only you.
Get a life!
We will never know the complete story. We will never know because the two governments involved don't want us to know. Both sides will continue to play this game until it is so saturated that no one cares.
Exactly the point, well said.
Oh, I use IE and I have only a few cookies around.
It seems that you don't know how to configure your browser huh?
I hate M$ but IE is the best browser available now, try harder next time when you recommend Mozilla.