Oh, and for Microsoft - be sure to include an option to "disallow scripts to alter the status bar" as well... I totally love Mozilla's ability here. Nothing quite like hovering over that "please install this" banner and noticing that it points to http://goatse.cx or whatever rather than the faked http://www.somegoodsoftware.com:)
Wow.. Netscape 7?? 6.0 was based on what... 0.74 or so? 6.x were fixes for huge bugs and basically... Netscape 7.0 is almost exactly the same but with tabbed browsing?
Silly. They're obviously trying to out-"version bloatify" Microsoft with their "Hey we added print preview, let's add a.5 on the end" mentality.
However, if IE7 gets tabbed browsing and intelligent popup stopping, as well as retaining cookie privacy policies (something that the Mozilla team VERY stupidly decided against compiling as default) then hey.. IE could be one of the best browsers ever! (Don't shoot me)
Try as I might with Ad-Aware, I can't stop a C:\BDE folder from appearing on my WinXP box! Ad-Aware keeps deleting it, but even with AdWatch it always reappears.
It's not just the alleged spyware that annoys me - it's also the fact that this directory is messing up my otherwise very neat root:(
However, if you own the Plus version, good luck getting it:( Their own servers have been broken for a couple of months now, and only the free version has mirrors.
If ever they charge for an upgrade, I'll be sure not to buy it.
There is still one thing I'm disappointed with - I was hoping p3p (cookie privacy levels) would be enabled by 1.0. We were given false hope in the form of a non-functional preferences panel, which was removed a build or two ago. p3p can be enabled if you compile from source, but it doesn't look like it'll be enabled in the binaries, as discussed in this bug:
An article about the history of video games, without even a mention of the Amiga? This is a crime!
How can you not mention the most pirated gaming system ever released.. the one where only like 1 in 10 people owned a legal version of the game, nearly destroying the industry:) (Though in the end it only destroyed Commodore)
As if that history isn't enough, it was a superb, powerful platform. Some of the best games released were on it. I bought one off Ebay recently for old time's sake. Good stuff!
I suppose it wasn't a "console" as such, which may be why they didn't mention it. But it spent all its time in front of a TV, which is close enough for me (especially the nice, small A600 that resembled a console better)
It might actually be beneficial, depending what they decide to do with it. Going by AOL's history of buying companies, that's close to "naff all" so it's not necessarily bad.
How about if they actually decided to do something with it - such as help market it towards home users, give copies of it away in the same abundance as AOL disks (which we still get almost daily here) etc?
You have to admit, AOL are good at one thing - marketing (mainly through "shove it in your face until you give in" tactics, but hey). Enticing the clueless Joe Sixpack into using their software, and making it so easy that a monkey could use it.
This is an area that's growing well in Linux, but still its main weakness - ease of use for the average joe, a simpler install system than vanilla RPM, pretty interfaces, and Joanna Lumley telling you when you have mail.
Maybe, just maybe, it could be a good thing. AOL for many people was the first step onto the Internet (before moving onto better providers when they became independent of AOL's hand-holding). Perhaps they could do the same for Linux.
All in an ideal world of course, but hey.. it's always possible!
Just noticed that both of us have the "rawhide" hostname...
That may have been why he banned me... cause the German address used the same hostname - but still... ethnic cleansing and/or racism = not so good.
Ack... it ate the name tags of course, they were in pointy brackets (HTML style)
Obviously, dicko is the one asking for bans left and right with the excuse "fuck em". And the other ops are the ones trying to defend the Germans a little.
I can honestly say I was considering buying their new Smoothwall release. It's a great product, and *some* of the people behind it seem fairly pleasant. I decided to hang around the IRC channel first, maybe ask any questions if I think of them, and see what the support is like.
It didn't go too bad at first. I chatted with another user and some of the team, no problem at all. Then I minded my own business for a while, wandered off for a coffee, came back and saw that I was banned.
So I checked through my logs - dickmorrel had basically arrived, insulted the Germans a bit, banned a few people for no reason (myself included), and had disappeared by the time I came back and tried to message him.
Between my own experience and other articles I've read here, he seems the most unpleasant person I've ever met online for his status, with some very serious attitude problems. I wonder how many other potential sales they've lost out on through this man's rudeness. They don't deserve business when they insult people like that, and hopefully I'm not the only one who'll be keeping people informed on as many feedback sites as possible.
IRC logs - judge for yourself:
unless you have any ewireless gear you are willing to donate
then you get a free copy of Corp Server
ok.
Joins: Hellcore [~Hellcore@rawhide-261.blueyonder.co.uk]
ChanServ sets #smoothwall mode: +o Hellcore
wb Hellcore
lo
Joins: dickmorrell [~rmorrell@rawhide-44066.in-addr.btopenworld.com]
ChanServ sets #smoothwall mode: +o dickmorrell
lo
lo
lo dickmorrell
hello hairy bloke
can we unban rto
he apologised
not a bad bloke
Quits: gordon [Quit: Its good to talk... But I have run out of time... Be Back Later]
Joins: gordon [~gordon@rawhide-17386.btinternet.com]
talked for a while
hes ok
neuro sets #smoothwall mode: -b *!*rto@rawhide-11637.in-addr.btopenworld.com
Joins: sundance [~D@rawhide-37446.dip.t-dialin.net]
dickmorrell sets #smoothwall mode: +b *!*D@rawhide-37446.dip.t-dialin.net
Ban: dickmorrell bans sundance [*!*D@rawhide-37446.dip.t-dialin.net]
sundance was kicked by dickmorrell [dickmorrell]
ugh - i still not gone home yet:(
lo dick
lo
can we set a ban
for t-dialin
please
i took it off dude
can we put it back
was wanting to give the germans a chance
hehe
nope
fuck em
sorry
neuro sets #smoothwall mode: -b *!*D@rawhide-37446.dip.t-dialin.net
sorry
not being racist
neuro sets #smoothwall mode: +b *!*@*.t-dialin.net
but the amount of spam
I'm getting
and my firewall logs
sorry dude
three strikes..
they're outta here
my logs are HUGE
hehehe - mine too
but only after a hearty meal
lol
goit
;)
i try my best.
dickmorrell sets #smoothwall mode: +b *!*myob@rawhide-32909.access.clara.net
dickmorrell banned you in #smoothwall [*!*myob@rawhide-32909.access.clara.net]
Ban: dickmorrell bans Golsec`Away [*!*myob@rawhide-32909.access.clara.net]
You were kicked by dickmorrell [dickmorrell]
Which eliminates like 75% of the crowd at Slashdot (at a guess)
Anyone have info on this? Creative have always been very tight-lipped and indifferent towards *NIX, which is why we didn't have a working emu10k1 driver until a considerable time after the release of the original SBLive. I really hope they haven't done the same here, as I'd be interested in one of these.
Naturally if it doesn't support Linux.... they've lost a sale.
I have also been a victim of EBay fraud. Probably not from the same person, since this one was in the UK. (I can't give any more details out YET for legal reasons - I'm in the middle of a claim. But believe me, when this is over he will be exposed to the extent available under the law)
I tried to buy a Siemens mobile phone, which ended up over £50, sent the cheque to the seller, and he never sent the item. Repeated emails were ignored. His phone number was invalid.
VERY annoying.
When he first started, he had a negative feedback rating, but it was only one comment about not accepting Escrow (he claimed that he didn't know it defaulted to accepting it.) That should've set off alarm bells I guess, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt since it was such a minor issue, bidded and won.
More interestingly, after the end of the transaction, he gained positive feedback. That's one good thing out of it anyway, since you can't claim fraud insurance from someone with negative feedback.
What confuses me is HOW he got the positive feedback. They were all from people who seem to have a good reputation too - some with stars next to their names.
So it doesn't make sense! Why would they praise him/her? Yet I'm 99% sure it's fraud - he gives a different name and address in his profile, the phone number is invalid, and he stopped replying to emails the moment I started questioning him on why the package hadn't arrived.
Maybe some of these criminals set up more than one account, and bid highly on each other... then add positive feedback to each other's accounts (without exchanging items or money of course).
In which case, the feedback system is total bull that means nothing whatsoever.
I really don't trust EBay now.
Any better suggestions?
Which would you rather say...
"We can emulate Windows viruses if we want to"
or
"We can use a program that implements the Windows API on top of X and UNIX (although GNU is not UNIX, so we're implementing it under GNU/Linux really) to run a Windows based virus"
Personally I'm willing to sacrifice being 100% accurate and correct in a case like this:)
It's the usual argument. Which would you rather have - anonymity, or the ability to at least *try* and stop things like the WTC crash from happening?
I know it seems ridiculous to you Americans, and I'll probably get flamed to oblivion (though that is not the intention.) But if it means even the slightest chance of preventing this kind of thing from happening again, I'd sacrifice some anonymity any day.
Slashdot Mirror
Trying to read that rambling article at blakes7.com gave me a headache...
Returning Paul Darrow to the screen sounds like a good idea to me though!
And collect my pension.
:)
Just like the original series cast were during the later Star Trek movies... aren't they getting a bit old for this sort of thing?
Oh, and for Microsoft - be sure to include an option to "disallow scripts to alter the status bar" as well... I totally love Mozilla's ability here. Nothing quite like hovering over that "please install this" banner and noticing that it points to http://goatse.cx or whatever rather than the faked http://www.somegoodsoftware.com :)
Wow.. Netscape 7?? 6.0 was based on what... 0.74 or so? 6.x were fixes for huge bugs and basically... Netscape 7.0 is almost exactly the same but with tabbed browsing?
.5 on the end" mentality.
Silly. They're obviously trying to out-"version bloatify" Microsoft with their "Hey we added print preview, let's add a
However, if IE7 gets tabbed browsing and intelligent popup stopping, as well as retaining cookie privacy policies (something that the Mozilla team VERY stupidly decided against compiling as default) then hey.. IE could be one of the best browsers ever! (Don't shoot me)
Pika power. Sounds like something out of Pokemon...
I did, of course, mean £131 UKP in the UK (not dollars). Fancy putting both symbols right next to each other.
$129 in the US
:(
$131 in the UK
Hmmmmmmmm interesting use of an exchange rate there
I know they often swap the $ for a £, which is a shame already, but increasing it as well?
What the heck is it anyway?
.b3d files, but I've never seen one in my life.
It apparently plays
Try as I might with Ad-Aware, I can't stop a C:\BDE folder from appearing on my WinXP box! Ad-Aware keeps deleting it, but even with AdWatch it always reappears.
:(
It's not just the alleged spyware that annoys me - it's also the fact that this directory is messing up my otherwise very neat root
However, if you own the Plus version, good luck getting it :( Their own servers have been broken for a couple of months now, and only the free version has mirrors.
If ever they charge for an upgrade, I'll be sure not to buy it.
Not really... they're usually too busy camping some item they want to actually *talk* :)
Great news!
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There is still one thing I'm disappointed with - I was hoping p3p (cookie privacy levels) would be enabled by 1.0. We were given false hope in the form of a non-functional preferences panel, which was removed a build or two ago. p3p can be enabled if you compile from source, but it doesn't look like it'll be enabled in the binaries, as discussed in this bug:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128
Seems it didn't get the hundreds of votes it needed.
Oh great. Star Wars with a Vision(TM)
I can see it now
"Yo d00d, I'm camping Darth, his light saber is an ultra ultra rare drop. Go someplace else man"
Ack, suppose it's far too late to be asking this now, but...
Anyone have a mirror for the Series 5 version? The FTP site (ftp://linux-7110.sourceforge.net) seems to be dead or Slashdotted or whatever.
Thanks
An article about the history of video games, without even a mention of the Amiga? This is a crime!
:) (Though in the end it only destroyed Commodore)
How can you not mention the most pirated gaming system ever released.. the one where only like 1 in 10 people owned a legal version of the game, nearly destroying the industry
As if that history isn't enough, it was a superb, powerful platform. Some of the best games released were on it. I bought one off Ebay recently for old time's sake. Good stuff!
I suppose it wasn't a "console" as such, which may be why they didn't mention it. But it spent all its time in front of a TV, which is close enough for me (especially the nice, small A600 that resembled a console better)
It might actually be beneficial, depending what they decide to do with it. Going by AOL's history of buying companies, that's close to "naff all" so it's not necessarily bad.
How about if they actually decided to do something with it - such as help market it towards home users, give copies of it away in the same abundance as AOL disks (which we still get almost daily here) etc?
You have to admit, AOL are good at one thing - marketing (mainly through "shove it in your face until you give in" tactics, but hey). Enticing the clueless Joe Sixpack into using their software, and making it so easy that a monkey could use it.
This is an area that's growing well in Linux, but still its main weakness - ease of use for the average joe, a simpler install system than vanilla RPM, pretty interfaces, and Joanna Lumley telling you when you have mail.
Maybe, just maybe, it could be a good thing. AOL for many people was the first step onto the Internet (before moving onto better providers when they became independent of AOL's hand-holding). Perhaps they could do the same for Linux.
All in an ideal world of course, but hey.. it's always possible!
Just noticed that both of us have the "rawhide" hostname...
That may have been why he banned me... cause the German address used the same hostname - but still... ethnic cleansing and/or racism = not so good.
Ack... it ate the name tags of course, they were in pointy brackets (HTML style)
Obviously, dicko is the one asking for bans left and right with the excuse "fuck em". And the other ops are the ones trying to defend the Germans a little.
I can honestly say I was considering buying their new Smoothwall release. It's a great product, and *some* of the people behind it seem fairly pleasant. I decided to hang around the IRC channel first, maybe ask any questions if I think of them, and see what the support is like.
:(
;)
It didn't go too bad at first. I chatted with another user and some of the team, no problem at all. Then I minded my own business for a while, wandered off for a coffee, came back and saw that I was banned.
So I checked through my logs - dickmorrel had basically arrived, insulted the Germans a bit, banned a few people for no reason (myself included), and had disappeared by the time I came back and tried to message him.
Between my own experience and other articles I've read here, he seems the most unpleasant person I've ever met online for his status, with some very serious attitude problems. I wonder how many other potential sales they've lost out on through this man's rudeness. They don't deserve business when they insult people like that, and hopefully I'm not the only one who'll be keeping people informed on as many feedback sites as possible.
IRC logs - judge for yourself:
unless you have any ewireless gear you are willing to donate
then you get a free copy of Corp Server
ok.
Joins: Hellcore [~Hellcore@rawhide-261.blueyonder.co.uk]
ChanServ sets #smoothwall mode: +o Hellcore
wb Hellcore
lo
Joins: dickmorrell [~rmorrell@rawhide-44066.in-addr.btopenworld.com]
ChanServ sets #smoothwall mode: +o dickmorrell
lo
lo
lo dickmorrell
hello hairy bloke
can we unban rto
he apologised
not a bad bloke
Quits: gordon [Quit: Its good to talk... But I have run out of time... Be Back Later]
Joins: gordon [~gordon@rawhide-17386.btinternet.com]
talked for a while
hes ok
neuro sets #smoothwall mode: -b *!*rto@rawhide-11637.in-addr.btopenworld.com
Joins: sundance [~D@rawhide-37446.dip.t-dialin.net]
dickmorrell sets #smoothwall mode: +b *!*D@rawhide-37446.dip.t-dialin.net
Ban: dickmorrell bans sundance [*!*D@rawhide-37446.dip.t-dialin.net]
sundance was kicked by dickmorrell [dickmorrell]
ugh - i still not gone home yet
lo dick
lo
can we set a ban
for t-dialin
please
i took it off dude
can we put it back
was wanting to give the germans a chance
hehe
nope
fuck em
sorry
neuro sets #smoothwall mode: -b *!*D@rawhide-37446.dip.t-dialin.net
sorry
not being racist
neuro sets #smoothwall mode: +b *!*@*.t-dialin.net
but the amount of spam
I'm getting
and my firewall logs
sorry dude
three strikes..
they're outta here
my logs are HUGE
hehehe - mine too
but only after a hearty meal
lol
goit
i try my best.
dickmorrell sets #smoothwall mode: +b *!*myob@rawhide-32909.access.clara.net
dickmorrell banned you in #smoothwall [*!*myob@rawhide-32909.access.clara.net]
Ban: dickmorrell bans Golsec`Away [*!*myob@rawhide-32909.access.clara.net]
You were kicked by dickmorrell [dickmorrell]
Which eliminates like 75% of the crowd at Slashdot (at a guess)
Anyone have info on this? Creative have always been very tight-lipped and indifferent towards *NIX, which is why we didn't have a working emu10k1 driver until a considerable time after the release of the original SBLive. I really hope they haven't done the same here, as I'd be interested in one of these.
Naturally if it doesn't support Linux.... they've lost a sale.
If they give it a backlit screen.... yes
Except if you run it on BeOS. Then it may be good, but it's sloooooow!
(Yeah I know, Be is dead anyway)
I have also been a victim of EBay fraud. Probably not from the same person, since this one was in the UK. (I can't give any more details out YET for legal reasons - I'm in the middle of a claim. But believe me, when this is over he will be exposed to the extent available under the law)
I tried to buy a Siemens mobile phone, which ended up over £50, sent the cheque to the seller, and he never sent the item. Repeated emails were ignored. His phone number was invalid.
VERY annoying.
When he first started, he had a negative feedback rating, but it was only one comment about not accepting Escrow (he claimed that he didn't know it defaulted to accepting it.) That should've set off alarm bells I guess, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt since it was such a minor issue, bidded and won.
More interestingly, after the end of the transaction, he gained positive feedback. That's one good thing out of it anyway, since you can't claim fraud insurance from someone with negative feedback.
What confuses me is HOW he got the positive feedback. They were all from people who seem to have a good reputation too - some with stars next to their names.
So it doesn't make sense! Why would they praise him/her? Yet I'm 99% sure it's fraud - he gives a different name and address in his profile, the phone number is invalid, and he stopped replying to emails the moment I started questioning him on why the package hadn't arrived.
Maybe some of these criminals set up more than one account, and bid highly on each other... then add positive feedback to each other's accounts (without exchanging items or money of course).
In which case, the feedback system is total bull that means nothing whatsoever.
I really don't trust EBay now.
Any better suggestions?
True, true. But stop being so picky!
:)
Which would you rather say...
"We can emulate Windows viruses if we want to"
or
"We can use a program that implements the Windows API on top of X and UNIX (although GNU is not UNIX, so we're implementing it under GNU/Linux really) to run a Windows based virus"
Personally I'm willing to sacrifice being 100% accurate and correct in a case like this
It's the usual argument. Which would you rather have - anonymity, or the ability to at least *try* and stop things like the WTC crash from happening?
I know it seems ridiculous to you Americans, and I'll probably get flamed to oblivion (though that is not the intention.) But if it means even the slightest chance of preventing this kind of thing from happening again, I'd sacrifice some anonymity any day.