Yep. My wife is practically addicted to Puzzle Pirates, loves Bejeweled and once spent an entire Saturday afternoon playing Diner Dash. If she's on the computer, and she's not playing one of those games, she's probably on PopCap trying out something new.
The games are there, if you know to look for them. They just aren't on the retail shelves (for the most part).
Or worse, if you thought you were getting a subscription to "American Fishing," but the caller's accent was different enough from your own that you misheard the title...
I've noticed the biggest complaint people have with upgrades is that they render their extensions/themes incompatible.
I hear this a lot, but of the dozen or so extensions I use on various machines, I can only think of one that's been disabled by a 1.0.x to 1.0.y upgrade -- and I can't even remember what it was. I didn't even see anything break when I installed 1.0.5, and they came out with a new release because of problems with that one. I guess I'm just not using the more sensitive plugins.
I did see it a lot in the pre-1.0 days, when they were still messing with APIs, and I have had to remove some extensions on the 1.1 alphas... but you expect that with pre-release code.
I believe they're working on both of these. The admin kit and the MSI, anyway. I don't recall hearing anything about group policy support, but that could just be me.
Of course, if you've been following the 1.1 alphas, you've noticed that they're already implementing new features in what they intended to be 1.1, and decided that what they had was more appropriately called 1.5.
Way back when, Opera seemed to want to show users every single thing that it could do -- all at the same time. It left a mail-slot-sized hole for you to do your browsing through.:(
That was a big part of why I left Opera for Mozilla. Also Gecko was way ahead of it at the time, Mozilla was just getting stable enough for daily use, and I didn't like the all-in-one-window MDI approach that Opera used until version 6.
As I say, that's all changed now
And that's why I started using Opera more with 8.0. Still maybe 70% Firefox, but I'm posting this comment in Opera.
Plus I get a kick out of reading Mozilla-related sites in Opera and vice-versa.
Actually, Red Carpet was a Ximian project. I don't remember whether Red Hat had started using up2date back in 1999. I think I still had to check the website every few weeks and download via FTP. I was thrilled when Red Carpet came along, and used it everywhere, until they started falling behind in supporting particular releases.
Fortunately just about every major distro these days has something like yum, apt, urpmi, or yast to handle things automatically.
The 1.1 alphas include the ability to rearrange tabs within a window, and allow you to force _blank to open a tab instead of a window. Still no way to detach a tab from a window or move a tab from one window to another, though.
Fedora has always offerred an upgrade option as part of the installer. I've got three boxes I've upgraded, release by release, from Red Hat 6, 8 and 9 through Fedora Core 3 with very few problems.
I'm still downloading FC4 -- the torrent's really slowed down for some reason -- but I plan on going the same route again. After backing up my data, of course!
If your site uses PHP, you may be able to adapt Bad Behavior. The script was originally developed for WordPress and has already been ported to MediaWiki and Geeklog. It identifies known "bad" robots and robots that imitate real browsers based on the HTTP headers, then sends an access denied response.
Basically, you have to uninstall Netscape 8 (really! If you don't, it resets the registry entry over and over again, re-breaking it). Then you delete a particular registry entry.
I thought the point with Netscape is that it is meant to be an IE-replacement - hence the render using IE engine feature. Whether it respects an obsolete, badly coded application it is designed to get rid of is kinda irrelevant.
I wouldn't go that far. The first thing I did when I read this was test it. "Netscape" 8 disables XML rendering in the IE engine, not just in the IE application. And "Netscape" uses the IE engine by default on what it considers to be trusted sites. So it breaks IE and the "replacement."
But the film's bluntest political statement comes when Anakin, lightsaber in hand, paraphrases George W. Bush's first State of the Union Address: "If you're not with me, then you're my enemy!"
Please. The phrase "If you're not with us, you're against us" has got to be hundreds of years old. If not, it's at least decades.
Do a little digging, I'm sure you can find prior art long before 2000.
I haven't worked with 64-bit versions myself, but my understand is that yes, Fedora Core and yum will handle parallel installations.
I checked www.fedorafaq.org and found a link to the following (slightly out-of-date) FAQ for Fedora Core on AMD64: http://www.linuxtx.org/amd64faq.html
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So far, only iCab passes it out of the box. (If you're not on a Mac, you're out of luck.) Konquerer and Safari both have passing versions in CVS.
Right, just like the People's Democratic Republic of Korea is a democracy.
Oh, wait...
Yep. My wife is practically addicted to Puzzle Pirates, loves Bejeweled and once spent an entire Saturday afternoon playing Diner Dash. If she's on the computer, and she's not playing one of those games, she's probably on PopCap trying out something new.
The games are there, if you know to look for them. They just aren't on the retail shelves (for the most part).
Er... "mine."
Though if they were mimes, at least they wouldn't be calling me on the phone.
I've seen other studies where people revealed their passwords for a candy bar or the price of a latte.
Scary.
I just interrupt them, tell them I'm not interested, and hang up. Anything else would be wasting both their time and mime.
Or worse, if you thought you were getting a subscription to "American Fishing," but the caller's accent was different enough from your own that you misheard the title...
I've noticed the biggest complaint people have with upgrades is that they render their extensions/themes incompatible.
I hear this a lot, but of the dozen or so extensions I use on various machines, I can only think of one that's been disabled by a 1.0.x to 1.0.y upgrade -- and I can't even remember what it was. I didn't even see anything break when I installed 1.0.5, and they came out with a new release because of problems with that one. I guess I'm just not using the more sensitive plugins.
I did see it a lot in the pre-1.0 days, when they were still messing with APIs, and I have had to remove some extensions on the 1.1 alphas... but you expect that with pre-release code.
I believe they're working on both of these. The admin kit and the MSI, anyway. I don't recall hearing anything about group policy support, but that could just be me.
Of course, if you've been following the 1.1 alphas, you've noticed that they're already implementing new features in what they intended to be 1.1, and decided that what they had was more appropriately called 1.5.
Yep. Sometimes I even squeeze my toothpaste tube from the middle!
Way back when, Opera seemed to want to show users every single thing that it could do -- all at the same time. It left a mail-slot-sized hole for you to do your browsing through. :(
That was a big part of why I left Opera for Mozilla. Also Gecko was way ahead of it at the time, Mozilla was just getting stable enough for daily use, and I didn't like the all-in-one-window MDI approach that Opera used until version 6.
As I say, that's all changed now
And that's why I started using Opera more with 8.0. Still maybe 70% Firefox, but I'm posting this comment in Opera.
Plus I get a kick out of reading Mozilla-related sites in Opera and vice-versa.
Actually, Red Carpet was a Ximian project. I don't remember whether Red Hat had started using up2date back in 1999. I think I still had to check the website every few weeks and download via FTP. I was thrilled when Red Carpet came along, and used it everywhere, until they started falling behind in supporting particular releases.
Fortunately just about every major distro these days has something like yum, apt, urpmi, or yast to handle things automatically.
The 1.1 alphas include the ability to rearrange tabs within a window, and allow you to force _blank to open a tab instead of a window. Still no way to detach a tab from a window or move a tab from one window to another, though.
Not since June 1987 has the moon been this low in the sky
Umm... how about twice a day, when it rises and sets?
Who writes this crap?
Fedora has always offerred an upgrade option as part of the installer. I've got three boxes I've upgraded, release by release, from Red Hat 6, 8 and 9 through Fedora Core 3 with very few problems.
I'm still downloading FC4 -- the torrent's really slowed down for some reason -- but I plan on going the same route again. After backing up my data, of course!
Actually, IIRC he refers to him as "the son of Anakin Skywalker."
If you don't know Vader is Anakin, all it does is tell you Luke's father's name.
If your site uses PHP, you may be able to adapt Bad Behavior. The script was originally developed for WordPress and has already been ported to MediaWiki and Geeklog. It identifies known "bad" robots and robots that imitate real browsers based on the HTTP headers, then sends an access denied response.
RTFA and realize he's not talking about loss of "sensitive" data, but rather the DOS effect of extra traffic from rude robots.
How about Stopping Spambots?
does rendering XML in netscape bork as well
Yes, when "Netscape" is using the IE engine. I've tried it.
Oddly, vanilla IE yields a blank page, and "Netscape" 8 shows... an unloaded-image icon.
The IEBlog post describes how to do it.
Basically, you have to uninstall Netscape 8 (really! If you don't, it resets the registry entry over and over again, re-breaking it). Then you delete a particular registry entry.
For once, a reboot isn't required.
I thought the point with Netscape is that it is meant to be an IE-replacement - hence the render using IE engine feature. Whether it respects an obsolete, badly coded application it is designed to get rid of is kinda irrelevant.
I wouldn't go that far. The first thing I did when I read this was test it. "Netscape" 8 disables XML rendering in the IE engine, not just in the IE application. And "Netscape" uses the IE engine by default on what it considers to be trusted sites. So it breaks IE and the "replacement."
But the film's bluntest political statement comes when Anakin, lightsaber in hand, paraphrases George W. Bush's first State of the Union Address: "If you're not with me, then you're my enemy!"
Please. The phrase "If you're not with us, you're against us" has got to be hundreds of years old. If not, it's at least decades.
Do a little digging, I'm sure you can find prior art long before 2000.
I haven't worked with 64-bit versions myself, but my understand is that yes, Fedora Core and yum will handle parallel installations.
I checked www.fedorafaq.org and found a link to the following (slightly out-of-date) FAQ for
Fedora Core on AMD64: http://www.linuxtx.org/amd64faq.html