sorry but the DOJ don't get to actually code it, they simply look at the specification make sure it doesn't contain any anti-competitive software. look at the code make sure it matches up to the specification. look at the code make sure there arnt any unneeded changes that mess with other peoples software. e.g lotus software, while not saying that it was purely to screw them over, claim that changes to windows gave them problems, well now the DOJ will know if it was deliberate or not and there were rumours that around 95/98 the low level rendering code for the openGL stack that microsoft provided was deliberately crippled
without looking at the code you cant be sure that ms are playing nice
Well it didnt prepackage software that killed of their competitors. AND certain vendors even managed to ship competitors products (dell shiped windows xp with googleearth right?)
sure the OS was a fuck up but not an anti-competitive one.
The problem with Microsoft is that they use their dominant OS market share to unfairly compete in unrelated areas, like web browsers, media players, and security software. And how do they do that? the reason thier being punished is because they went round telling people "your not going to ship that with mozilla netscape, because if you do youll have to use a different OS" Whens the last time you saw a preloaded windows box come with lotus/star/open office?
If Doj wernt involved win7 would probably ship with microsoft earth and have some sort of mysterious incompatibility with googleearth (something like if appname=googleearth & rand 0.2 then crash) and other blatant moves to hurt google
darkmeridian has a great point, too--we can always break Microsoft up if the monopolistic policies do not stop. It would likely even be easier to separate than Ma Bell was in the 80s--Microsoft peripherals, Microsoft software, Microsoft gaming, etc etc. Thats what was going to happen before bush got in, but the change of administration meant the DOJ were told to finish the case quickly ( as big business is good )
Did you even read the TITLE, not the article not even the summary, just the fucking title.
ICANN Asked To Shut Down "Worst" Chinese Registrar hint: the word registrar means they are registrars not ISPs, unlike other posts would lead you to belive they 1) do not control the IP addresses of spammers 2) do not control the Service for the spammers
As slashdot has clearly become a non-geek hangout ill explain how this mess works guy buys a server (from an ISP, but often hosted by a hosting server) - this decided the IP guy registers a name for the IP he already has (this is done by the registrar) registrar passes this information (name, IP, WHOIS) out, so that everytime you type www.v1agra.com in your awsomebar it takes you to 208.87.33.150
When the owners of v1agra.com do something bad the relevant agencies can do something about it by looking up who owns the address. when a bad registrar fails to check the whois information, the people trying to stop v1agra.com have to goo through the ISP for 208.87.33.150, which is harder and takes more time, and if IIRC the isp has no obligation to have your personal information on record (this may vary by region)
I may not have got everything above right, ive not owned a domain for some time, but the registrar has no control over the ISP/IP
clearly you have difficulty reading, but i said i couldnt test it further to find out all the other reasons i dropped it because of this bug (which i took care to point out wasnt they're fault)
But generally given the number of ISPs that throttle torrents, providing upload limiting and encryption is an important requirement.
the ips are somewhere in the range *.*.*.* , they are hosted anywhere but REGISTERED with a Chinese registrar. MOST of the IPs will be Chinese but as a REGISTRAR they have no control over IPs, please get a clue.
racism => disliking other people based on where they were born => stupid & bad patriotism => liking a country based on where YOU were born => clever & good?
Shouldn't a country have to do something to earn your respect? Is it that bad to not be proud of your country because it sucks?
MIRO sucks. Its opensource yet despite the powerful opensource torrent programs it didn't occur to them to allow bandwidth limiting or connection encryption?
Id test it again to get a full list of deficiencies, but thanks to what i think is bad packaging of firefox3, in ubuntu 8.04 any program that depends on libgnomeui-0 makes firefox unusable on my kubuntu system
NOT tabs, that was done by some obscure apple browser IRRC NOT mouse gestures (maybe mouse gestures for browsers but i prefer them at OS level anyway) cool/awsome bar maybe, but both have different implementations and designs (so only the concept is stolen if anything) and people tend to bitch about it alot
Firefox 3 will probably be available through this route in the fullness of time. Firefox3 is already in most repos (Well its in ubuntu ones at least Im fairly sure it will be in the rest of the 'bleeding edge' (a.k.a not debian/cent os) distros)
What's lacking is a single, consistent way of running/installing other packages If you cant figure out how to install non-repo software you probably shouldn't be doing it anyway, but there are curently 4 formats which are fairly easy to install on a ubuntu/debian system.deb (double click) scripted binary tarball (extract (GUI) then run./install (CLI)) unscripted binary tarball (extract and move to/opt, then install menus (all GUI, but you need a clue).rpm (run alien (CLI, for now), click on deb)
If your on an RPM based system then i assume you can just double click an rpm and run unalien on a deb.
there are also source tarballs but that is normally for software thats unfinished and defiantly should not be installed if you don't have a clue)
im afraid because your comment is so retarded (see replies above) on behalf of slashdot i ask that you leave and never return. Please leave any geek cards/mod points/computers at the door as your to brain dead to extract a file and click run. If at some point in the future somebody is to offer you an electronic device more complicated than a wristwatch, you may wish to seek medical advice before using it as all that button clicking may cause you head to explode.
In closing i ask you how you managed to pretend to be a geek for long enough to get a slashdot ID so much lower than mine?
also browser.tabs.closeButtons 2-hide them, 0-active tab only 3-on left the fusion extension will also remove the need for a status bar and as Tangent said removing the search box and using keywords will save even more space
I can do that in firefox WITHOUT having to code anything, plus how exactly do i get fusion as purely an interface customisation? smallfox I mean i think i could shave a few more pixels of with some smart userchrome code or a nice theme but tbh it's small enough for me and all i had to do was install 2/3 extentions and add some simple lines to userchrome.
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care to prove it? or is your post as stupid as your sig.
sorry but the DOJ don't get to actually code it, they simply look at the specification make sure it doesn't contain any anti-competitive software.
look at the code make sure it matches up to the specification.
look at the code make sure there arnt any unneeded changes that mess with other peoples software.
e.g lotus software, while not saying that it was purely to screw them over, claim that changes to windows gave them problems, well now the DOJ will know if it was deliberate or not
and there were rumours that around 95/98 the low level rendering code for the openGL stack that microsoft provided was deliberately crippled
without looking at the code you cant be sure that ms are playing nice
Microsoft code isn't locked in a vault, plenty of people have seen it. If it had blatant OSS code there they would have been caught already.
Well it didnt prepackage software that killed of their competitors.
AND certain vendors even managed to ship competitors products (dell shiped windows xp with googleearth right?)
sure the OS was a fuck up but not an anti-competitive one.
yeah but when they killed the competition, who's left to buy stuff from?
lotus?
netscape?
sgi?
Whens the last time you saw a preloaded windows box come with lotus/star/open office?
If Doj wernt involved win7 would probably ship with microsoft earth and have some sort of mysterious incompatibility with googleearth (something like if appname=googleearth & rand 0.2 then crash) and other blatant moves to hurt google
Did you even read the TITLE, not the article not even the summary, just the fucking title.
ICANN Asked To Shut Down "Worst" Chinese Registrar hint: the word registrar means they are registrars not ISPs, unlike other posts would lead you to belive they1) do not control the IP addresses of spammers
2) do not control the Service for the spammers
As slashdot has clearly become a non-geek hangout ill explain how this mess works
guy buys a server (from an ISP, but often hosted by a hosting server) - this decided the IP
guy registers a name for the IP he already has (this is done by the registrar)
registrar passes this information (name, IP, WHOIS) out, so that everytime you type www.v1agra.com in your awsomebar it takes you to 208.87.33.150
When the owners of v1agra.com do something bad the relevant agencies can do something about it by looking up who owns the address.
when a bad registrar fails to check the whois information, the people trying to stop v1agra.com have to goo through the ISP for 208.87.33.150, which is harder and takes more time, and if IIRC the isp has no obligation to have your personal information on record (this may vary by region)
I may not have got everything above right, ive not owned a domain for some time, but the registrar has no control over the ISP/IP
clearly you have difficulty reading, but i said i couldnt test it further to find out all the other reasons i dropped it because of this bug (which i took care to point out wasnt they're fault)
But generally given the number of ISPs that throttle torrents, providing upload limiting and encryption is an important requirement.
the ips are somewhere in the range *.*.*.* , they are hosted anywhere but REGISTERED with a Chinese registrar. MOST of the IPs will be Chinese but as a REGISTRAR they have no control over IPs, please get a clue.
Because dishonest hacking cartels would never look at microsoft source code!
Good old fashioned patriotism.
racism => disliking other people based on where they were born => stupid & bad
patriotism => liking a country based on where YOU were born => clever & good?
Shouldn't a country have to do something to earn your respect?
Is it that bad to not be proud of your country because it sucks?
MIRO sucks.
Its opensource yet despite the powerful opensource torrent programs it didn't occur to them to allow bandwidth limiting or connection encryption?
Id test it again to get a full list of deficiencies, but thanks to what i think is bad packaging of firefox3, in ubuntu 8.04 any program that depends on libgnomeui-0 makes firefox unusable on my kubuntu system
since when did you have to spell to be a geek? bash has auto completion now!
Or if you use one of the many programs that take advantage of gecko.
azureus, miro, etc
please do...
NOT tabs, that was done by some obscure apple browser IRRC
NOT mouse gestures (maybe mouse gestures for browsers but i prefer them at OS level anyway)
cool/awsome bar maybe, but both have different implementations and designs (so only the concept is stolen if anything) and people tend to bitch about it alot
there are curently 4 formats which are fairly easy to install on a ubuntu/debian system
scripted binary tarball (extract (GUI) then run
unscripted binary tarball (extract and move to
If your on an RPM based system then i assume you can just double click an rpm and run unalien on a deb.
there are also source tarballs but that is normally for software thats unfinished and defiantly should not be installed if you don't have a clue)
Dear 15793
im afraid because your comment is so retarded (see replies above) on behalf of slashdot i ask that you leave and never return. Please leave any geek cards/mod points/computers at the door as your to brain dead to extract a file and click run. If at some point in the future somebody is to offer you an electronic device more complicated than a wristwatch, you may wish to seek medical advice before using it as all that button clicking may cause you head to explode.
In closing i ask you how you managed to pretend to be a geek for long enough to get a slashdot ID so much lower than mine?
your sincerely 1228016
tiny menu
compact menu 2 is also firefox 3a0.5 compatible and slightly smaller.
n/t
bah noobs with inactive buttons try this next time
~profiledir/chrome/userchrome.css /* set default namespace to XUL */
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");
#back-button[disabled="true"], .autocomplete-history-dropmarker, .searchbar-dropmarker-image, .toolbarbutton-menu-dropmarker, .toolbarbutton-menubutton-dropmarker, .search-go-button
#forward-button[disabled="true"],
#stop-button[disabled="true"],
#back-forward-dropmarker,
{display: none !important; }
also browser.tabs.closeButtons 2-hide them, 0-active tab only 3-on left
the fusion extension will also remove the need for a status bar
and as Tangent said removing the search box and using keywords will save even more space
I can do that in firefox WITHOUT having to code anything, plus how exactly do i get fusion as purely an interface customisation?
smallfox
I mean i think i could shave a few more pixels of with some smart userchrome code or a nice theme but tbh it's small enough for me and all i had to do was install 2/3 extentions and add some simple lines to userchrome.
They're similarly capable, but Firefox is FOSS
So? Opera has been free (as in beer) for a long time now
Well azureus, miro, epiphany, wine and countless other programs think that the free as in freedom part of firefox is pretty cool too.Everytime you file a bug report against gecko your helping out at least 5 projects instead of 1
last one is supposed to be firefox less than opera (stupid symbol stripping)