And it's a shame that Opera rocks the Acid3, but nobody really cares because most websites aren't coded to standard
Sorry, but that's not true.
Opera has a lot of bugs, but they are not public. Try to submit one bug for instance !
Another example: the XMLHttpRequest in Opera is very incomplete. overrideMimeType doesn't work, so it's impossible to download a binary file (this is useful when you write an emulator in Javascript). You may not care, but this works with all the other browsers.
I think that SpinRite reformats and rewrites the sectors. That's not something you should use on a damaged hard-disk. And it's definitely SpinRite's fault in this case !
Nope, the compilers that revolutioned compilation were Borland's Turbo compilers (and Megamax compilers on 68K platform). Compiling took only a few seconds, even on the slowest computers. Before that, it was painful to compile even the smallest piece of code.
TurboPascal also provided an impressive debugger, compared to Microsoft's Debug at this time.
Later, Watcom introduced 32 bits compilation on PC. And it seems that Delphi was the leader before MS bought all the team to create.NET.
1) allow the editing of the page only to registered super-users (explanation below) 2) a super-user is a user that has edited at least 2 different pages
This way, it'll be harder to troll, since Wikipedia can check all the history about a user, and any user could be banned.
Turkish hackers are well known to compete on mass defacement contests.
When preparing a contest, they scan all IPs to locate vulnerable sites. When the contest starts, they deface the maximum number of sites in a given amount of time (probably one hour in this case). They always go for the quickest way to hack a site, and so, they are not really hackers but script-kiddies.
TFA is completely bullshit, since the hackers don't care about the content of the sites.
BTW, why does the army still keeps vulnerable Windows servers reachable on the Internet ?
how many OEMs you bribe to set as the default homepage.
I bet the most searched word on Bing will be "Google", since clueless users search for their search engine, rather than configure correctly their IE browser.
What was recommended was to reboot your computer more frequently, not very bad for uptime records.
Let's note that I still have similar bugs on my laptop, where IIS tends to be unresponsive when I put the computer in standby mode two or three days consecutively.
No, this is strictly equivalent when you compile with optimizations.
When you compile a for-loop where you copy one element, the compiler replaces it with a memcpy on all the array.
However, when you run instrumented code or code without optimizations, it's a PITA, since copying element by element is much slower (and with instrumented code, it's probably 10 times slower).
Sorry, but the trojan CANNOT create a hidden partition. To do this, it must have to defragment the files (by moving the last files to the beginning of the disk), then when all the space is free create a partition. What might have happen instead is that the partition was a backup, provided by the vendor (I know, I have a HP laptop, with a 7Gb partition to allow fast reinstallation. The trojan may have infected this partition, and since I guess the dumb user reinstalled his system from the backup (which is the main purpose), he got infected again.
You forgot to mention that the code section on Windows is now read-only. When you change it to read/write, there is a factor 2 penalty (the code runs 2 times slower), even when not using self-modifying code.
Windows had success thanks to piracy. When you start with computers by pirating your OS, it's difficult to realize that you have to pay for software later...
There is also another element: the fact that the good game programmers are so full of themselves that they reinvent the wheel everytime. (I know: I have been a game programmer myself).
All the good programmers that I know always rewrote the code that they have to integrate in their code, and all this work is lost, since they mostly restart from zero in the next game.
Graphists have also the same behaviour, by redesigning everything from scratch at the start of a project.
Also, everybody wants to experience something new, by not working with legacy parts (that are presumably of bad quality).
YES, IE has addins, but if you ever tried the addins (like I did with Adshield in IE6 4 years ago), there are a few problems:
1) Most of them (I mean 99.9999%) are absolutely useless. The addins on http://ieaddons.com/ are mostly search engines, WTF ? 2) The addins are ActiveX components. The real problem is that Microsoft breaks ActiveX compatibility with every browser version. The blessed days when AdShield worked disappeared when IE7 was released. AdShield didn't work with IE7, or I should say it tends to crash frequently. A few years ago, I developed games in ActiveX for IE6, and when MS upgraded their browser, everything had to be done again. This explains why addins tend to be stopped quickly, since it's a lot of work to develop, and even more time to maintain.
Note also that when using hosts, the whole computer tends to slow down when your hosts file is very large (install SpyBot and use the vaccination tool, and you'll see what I mean).
Also, when you use XP Pro with a webserver, the localhost blocking will show your site, since basically you do something like www.doubleclick.net 127.0.0.1, which is VERY uncomfortable.
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If you want to browse anonymously, Opera+Tor gives OperaTor http://archetwist.com/opera/operator
You'll be able to experience dial-up nowadays.
OperaTor is super slow, mostly because Tor is slow, and also because ads are frequently bigger than the pages themselves.
And it's a shame that Opera rocks the Acid3, but nobody really cares because most websites aren't coded to standard
Sorry, but that's not true.
Opera has a lot of bugs, but they are not public. Try to submit one bug for instance !
Another example: the XMLHttpRequest in Opera is very incomplete. overrideMimeType doesn't work, so it's impossible to download a binary file (this is useful when you write an emulator in Javascript).
You may not care, but this works with all the other browsers.
I think that SpinRite reformats and rewrites the sectors.
That's not something you should use on a damaged hard-disk.
And it's definitely SpinRite's fault in this case !
Nope, the compilers that revolutioned compilation were Borland's Turbo compilers (and Megamax compilers on 68K platform).
Compiling took only a few seconds, even on the slowest computers.
Before that, it was painful to compile even the smallest piece of code.
TurboPascal also provided an impressive debugger, compared to Microsoft's Debug at this time.
Later, Watcom introduced 32 bits compilation on PC. .NET.
And it seems that Delphi was the leader before MS bought all the team to create
Ok, here is a way to avoid this kind of behavior:
1) allow the editing of the page only to registered super-users (explanation below)
2) a super-user is a user that has edited at least 2 different pages
This way, it'll be harder to troll, since Wikipedia can check all the history about a user, and any user could be banned.
Turkish hackers are well known to compete on mass defacement contests.
When preparing a contest, they scan all IPs to locate vulnerable sites.
When the contest starts, they deface the maximum number of sites in a given amount of time (probably one hour in this case).
They always go for the quickest way to hack a site, and so, they are not really hackers but script-kiddies.
TFA is completely bullshit, since the hackers don't care about the content of the sites.
BTW, why does the army still keeps vulnerable Windows servers reachable on the Internet ?
how many OEMs you bribe to set as the default homepage.
I bet the most searched word on Bing will be "Google", since clueless users search for their search engine, rather than configure correctly their IE browser.
Windows 95 and 98 (and probably the first NT/2000 versions) had a famous bug, which was that the computer was unstable after 49.7 days.
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.9430.16
49.7 days corresponds to 2^32 milliseconds.
What was recommended was to reboot your computer more frequently, not very bad for uptime records.
Let's note that I still have similar bugs on my laptop, where IIS tends to be unresponsive when I put the computer in standby mode two or three days consecutively.
I remember when Microsoft put a crappy 32-bit front-end on MS-DOS 7.0 to make it more useful. It completely sucked.
It's called Windows.
I remember that in Windows (XP or 95, not sure anymore), pressing the left Alt key strangely speeds up the command box.
I remember that when I ran DOS programs, I continuously pressed the left Alt key, and I'm still keeping this old habit.
Excluding games, all uses can be replaced by web-standards (even videos, in next-generation browsers).
A lot of casual games can be rewritten in Javascript.
Take a look at one of the best:
http://worldofsolitaire.com/
You can also find an emulator written in Javascript:
http://jsmsxdemo.googlepages.com/jsmsx.html
No, this is strictly equivalent when you compile with optimizations.
When you compile a for-loop where you copy one element, the compiler replaces it with a memcpy on all the array.
However, when you run instrumented code or code without optimizations, it's a PITA, since copying element by element is much slower (and with instrumented code, it's probably 10 times slower).
Pink is cultural, since korean men wear pink clothes:
http://thegrandnarrative.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/men-in-pink/
In our society, women tend to seduce men because men have the power, and you'll find your mentioned products in the fashion magazines.
I'm sure that matriarcal societies (i.e. where women handle the power) don't obey to our westerner rules.
A peaceful application would be for magicians, since these could lead to amazing magic tricks.
Huh ? Google Search supports * since a few months.
Try a search without * and with, and you'll get different results.
For example:
http://www.google.com/search?q=slash
which returns slash as first hit.
and:
http://www.google.com/search?q=slash*
this one returns slashdot.
Sorry, but the trojan CANNOT create a hidden partition.
To do this, it must have to defragment the files (by moving the last files to the beginning of the disk), then when all the space is free create a partition.
What might have happen instead is that the partition was a backup, provided by the vendor (I know, I have a HP laptop, with a 7Gb partition to allow fast reinstallation.
The trojan may have infected this partition, and since I guess the dumb user reinstalled his system from the backup (which is the main purpose), he got infected again.
And if possible boot on an USB key, so we could use it on any computer !
You forgot to mention that the code section on Windows is now read-only.
When you change it to read/write, there is a factor 2 penalty (the code runs 2 times slower), even when not using self-modifying code.
I remember I tried several freewares to recover a DRMed PDF once.
Try for example GuaPDF.
What happens on quadcores, when everybody will have them ?
If you have a limit of 3 applications, it will just be very upsetting.
And most companies agree: piracy harms them.
It's mostly due to Microsoft.
Windows had success thanks to piracy.
When you start with computers by pirating your OS, it's difficult to realize that you have to pay for software later...
And you forgot to mention that you spend a lot of time on Slashdot !
There is also another element: the fact that the good game programmers are so full of themselves that they reinvent the wheel everytime.
(I know: I have been a game programmer myself).
All the good programmers that I know always rewrote the code that they have to integrate in their code, and all this work is lost, since they mostly restart from zero in the next game.
Graphists have also the same behaviour, by redesigning everything from scratch at the start of a project.
Also, everybody wants to experience something new, by not working with legacy parts (that are presumably of bad quality).
Another misinformation.
YES, IE has addins, but if you ever tried the addins (like I did with Adshield in IE6 4 years ago), there are a few problems:
1) Most of them (I mean 99.9999%) are absolutely useless. The addins on http://ieaddons.com/ are mostly search engines, WTF ?
2) The addins are ActiveX components. The real problem is that Microsoft breaks ActiveX compatibility with every browser version.
The blessed days when AdShield worked disappeared when IE7 was released. AdShield didn't work with IE7, or I should say it tends to crash frequently.
A few years ago, I developed games in ActiveX for IE6, and when MS upgraded their browser, everything had to be done again.
This explains why addins tend to be stopped quickly, since it's a lot of work to develop, and even more time to maintain.
Note also that when using hosts, the whole computer tends to slow down when your hosts file is very large (install SpyBot and use the vaccination tool, and you'll see what I mean).
Also, when you use XP Pro with a webserver, the localhost blocking will show your site, since basically you do something like www.doubleclick.net 127.0.0.1, which is VERY uncomfortable.