How can firefox render better, it has the same rendering engine as Mozilla, are you comparing the same Mozilla version as the one which firefox is based on
Of course I am. see:
* net-www/mozilla Latest version available: 1.6-r1 Latest version installed: 1.6-r1 Size of downloaded files: 30,761 kB Homepage: http://www.mozilla.org Description: The Mozilla Web Browser License: MPL-1.1 NPL-1.1
* net-www/mozilla-firefox Latest version available: 0.8-r1 Latest version installed: 0.8-r1 Size of downloaded files: 30,373 kB Homepage: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ Description: The Mozilla Firefox Web Browser License: MPL-1.1 | NPL-1.1
* net-mail/mozilla-thunderbird Latest version available: 0.5-r1 Latest version installed: 0.5-r1 Size of downloaded files: 30,901 kB Homepage: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/ &nbs p; Description: Thunderbird Mail Client License: MPL-1.1 | NPL-1.1
That's what I'm comparing to, and firefox and thunderbird are SIGNIFICANTLY faster than mozilla.
And Firefox is many percentage points faster than Mozilla. Many many many. And renders better. And has a cooler download manager. Oh, did I mention it's faster?
And for more fun, read your mail and news with Thunderbird. It's faster, too.
I once found someone's lost ATM card at the ATM in the office building where I work. So I just slid it under the front door of the bank. No idea if it got returned or what exactly happened to it after that.
I've done technical support via instant messaging. It works great if the user needing support knows how to do things like cut and paste, move their mouse, etc, and can follow directions. Otherwise, it's about as bad as phone support...
Some friends of mine discovered this about a week ago on rackspace.com's site. I of course had to go, and discovered much to my dismay that the window popped up despite Firefox being set to not allow popups. So, before I Adblocked the script (pattern *groopz2* will do it) we all decided to have some fun. We asked, among other things:
I was actually looking for metal shelving?
(Response: try grainger.com.)
(Response #2: great, give me your credit card # and I will send you some, how many feet?)
Can you tell me where to find Frank's Red Hot Sauce locally?
(Window closed, IP blocked.)
I was told I could find goat sex porn here.
(Response: LOL, no, sorry.)
I was actually looking for the latitude and longitude of your data center so I could program the nuclear missiles.
Why would systems with access to funds be connected directly to the net? No system with that level of risk should ever be connected to the net unless there's a damn good reason. Even online banking webservers are throughouly isolated from the core banking systems. This is just sheer stupidity.
My understanding of the history of this is that DOI has had the least secure computer systems of any U.S. government agency, and have been virtually overrun with cracker activity. It's pretty obvious that someone who knows little about information security, or knowing the government, a LOT of someones, led to this occurring, as I pointed out, for the third time.
As you said, there's no excuse for sensitive systems such as that to be exposed to the Internet, but it's not the first time and probably won't be the last. In the book At Large, author David Freeman points out that at one point, the controls for the Hoover Dam were accessible from the Internet. That's asking for people to DIE, and that's not cool...
Excuse me, someone's at the door. He says he's from Homeland Security...
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Did anyone notice just how much this anal probe looks like a penis?
I know a bunch of short term freelancers who bring their own printers to job sites along with their laptops.
OK, so how many of them are women? Are they aware there are much smaller printers out there? Battery operated ones, even? This is obviously intended to be a desktop printer.
But it isn't getting your pimply teenagers buying into Linux. They want big shiny games with graphics and extra blood, not games with plots and purpose and entertaining and replayable (damn, I sound like an old man...)
Hey, don't knock nethack. I STILL haven't managed to win that game, and I'm not gonna buy another game until I do! It's utterly addictive. I once spent three days straight playing nethack. Haven't managed to stay interested in any other game quite so long (except perhaps minesweeper).
This is where input validation comes in. Check every input value for sanity. Do something reasonable if the value isn't sane. How often have you forgotten to write error checking or input validation code? Do you check the return value from printf()? (yes, it has one) Every time? (I doubt it)
Writing bulletproof software is TEDIOUS. You still have to verify everything, and still somebody's going to find the one thing you missed and exploit the hell out of it...
This is really helpful if you want to play around or learn them, but you need to have a pretty big machine to put them on. Figure on 1GB RAM, 2GB swap and at least 20GB disk, just to play around with ONE of them. Then add in the size of the data you'll be working with...
Take one out, roll it on. Perform weekly Friday night masterbation routine. There. Problem solved.
(Please mod this down, I'm about to go offtopic...)
What a waste of resources! You can just use a sock for that, and then wash and reuse it next week! And that's why I own 37 pairs of socks...who knows when you might NEED those condoms. Kind of like buying the lottery ticket every week. You number probably won't come up, but when it does, you better have bought that ticket!
Lets face it... nerds dont get that many chances... so we should all cary condoms at all times. It would be terrible to have the chance of a lifetime and not be prepared. They are much cheaper than child support and antibiotics.
I used to keep condoms with me at all times, but then they started expiring from disuse... I recently bought another package of them, but haven't had the opportunity to use a single one of them...
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Even if nobody buys it, spam will still exist, because spammers think exactly like you do..
Believe it or not, it DOES cost some small amount of money to send spam. Or promotional email. Or marketing communications. Or whatever you want to call it. The amount may be negligible, but nobody's going to spend money for zero return. The truth is, some people DO respond to spam, in sufficient numbers to make it profitable for the spammers. If they didn't, there would be no reason to send spam.
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The truth is, SOMEBODY is buying penis enlargers and breast kits, otherwise nobody would bother sending out such spam in the first place.
Besides training, we are working with an unnamed Japanese automaker to explore the use of game controllers -- the product of our years of HCI research -- as an alternate control mechanism for tomororow's "drive by wire" automobiles which will hopefully greatly reduce the accident rate, especially for a generation of drivers already trained and honed on video games.
You mean now I'll be able to drive my car with my Sidewinder joystick? Will I be able to shoot down the idiot drivers?
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Of course I am. see:
That's what I'm comparing to, and firefox and thunderbird are SIGNIFICANTLY faster than mozilla.And for more fun, read your mail and news with Thunderbird. It's faster, too.
I once found someone's lost ATM card at the ATM in the office building where I work. So I just slid it under the front door of the bank. No idea if it got returned or what exactly happened to it after that.
No, it's more like Paul Allen is trying to help Bill Gates phone home.
I've done technical support via instant messaging. It works great if the user needing support knows how to do things like cut and paste, move their mouse, etc, and can follow directions. Otherwise, it's about as bad as phone support...
(Response: try grainger.com.)
(Response #2: great, give me your credit card # and I will send you some, how many feet?)
(Window closed, IP blocked.)
(Response: LOL, no, sorry.)
Er, the Big Dig is very nearly complete and open to traffic now.
Isn't that the asteroid that's headed towards Earth?
My understanding of the history of this is that DOI has had the least secure computer systems of any U.S. government agency, and have been virtually overrun with cracker activity. It's pretty obvious that someone who knows little about information security, or knowing the government, a LOT of someones, led to this occurring, as I pointed out, for the third time.
As you said, there's no excuse for sensitive systems such as that to be exposed to the Internet, but it's not the first time and probably won't be the last. In the book At Large, author David Freeman points out that at one point, the controls for the Hoover Dam were accessible from the Internet. That's asking for people to DIE, and that's not cool...
Excuse me, someone's at the door. He says he's from Homeland Security...
Oh, sorry, Europan probe.
OK, so how many of them are women? Are they aware there are much smaller printers out there? Battery operated ones, even? This is obviously intended to be a desktop printer.
It's pretty obvious this is going to sell pretty well to women, it's just the handle strikes me as useless.
Where's the insurance to protect your company from damages incurred from using Microsoft products?
I think we're looking at words here that were first used in science fiction, and then moved into more general use.
There's always NetHack - Falcon's Eye if you want shiny graphics.
Hey, don't knock nethack. I STILL haven't managed to win that game, and I'm not gonna buy another game until I do! It's utterly addictive. I once spent three days straight playing nethack. Haven't managed to stay interested in any other game quite so long (except perhaps minesweeper).
When I chose this handle, Ronald Reagan was President... It's probably about time for a new one. Any suggestions?
Writing bulletproof software is TEDIOUS. You still have to verify everything, and still somebody's going to find the one thing you missed and exploit the hell out of it...
Download Oracle or DB2 today.
This is really helpful if you want to play around or learn them, but you need to have a pretty big machine to put them on. Figure on 1GB RAM, 2GB swap and at least 20GB disk, just to play around with ONE of them. Then add in the size of the data you'll be working with...
(Please mod this down, I'm about to go offtopic...)
What a waste of resources! You can just use a sock for that, and then wash and reuse it next week! And that's why I own 37 pairs of socks...who knows when you might NEED those condoms. Kind of like buying the lottery ticket every week. You number probably won't come up, but when it does, you better have bought that ticket!
I used to keep condoms with me at all times, but then they started expiring from disuse... I recently bought another package of them, but haven't had the opportunity to use a single one of them...
Believe it or not, it DOES cost some small amount of money to send spam. Or promotional email. Or marketing communications. Or whatever you want to call it. The amount may be negligible, but nobody's going to spend money for zero return. The truth is, some people DO respond to spam, in sufficient numbers to make it profitable for the spammers. If they didn't, there would be no reason to send spam.
The truth is, SOMEBODY is buying penis enlargers and breast kits, otherwise nobody would bother sending out such spam in the first place.
You mean now I'll be able to drive my car with my Sidewinder joystick? Will I be able to shoot down the idiot drivers?
What's Linus's current relationship with beer? Does he still drink lots of it? Can I get the penguin-hoisting-a-beer-stein logo back in my kernel?