It looks like an attempt to view any page past the "Choose your resolution" screen results in a page containing an iframed advert, some Flash, and some JavaScript to see if you hava Flash.
Users without Flash then get redirected to what appears to be intended to be an instruction to upgrade (I can't, and wouldn't if I could) which is actually a 404 error page.
Does anyone have a mirror which doesn't depend on Flash?
Hopfully this will be an example to the rest of the world. It would make a banner advert I saw earlier nicely illegal.
It detected I was using Linux (No, FreeBSD) and Netscape 5 (No, Mozilla) then told me that my system could be optimised (yippie!) by installing some Windows-only software.
Ubuntu has a pretty transparent development process (yeah for mailing lists and development sources lists for apt) and is promising a regular (and reasonably frequent) release cycle.
I don't see mention of anything like this for Progeny yet. So its less attractive then Ubuntu to me right now.
All of the hotmail formatting options don't appear in firefox
So wouldn't that mean that the less technologically aware members of the family couldn't email you HTML formatted (read massively bloated and subject to spam filtering) messages? This is a good thing.
Cute, but I still plan to build my own around MythTV. That will work both ways (allowing me to record TV and then view it over the network) as well as dealing with DVDs and MAME.
BTW, the best way to keep the sales droids away is to hold a cell phone to your ear and pretend to be having a conversation.
Better yet - hold a real conversation! GPRS and a Palmtop are not quite comfortable enough to google for product reviews and Linux compatability, and a 60 minute round trip to get home, get online, search for the products in stock, get back and buy one is equally unfun.
that nobody has right to decide have I right to read something or not!
The copyright owner does.
That depends on what grounds the decision is made on. If a copyright holder were to say "You don't have the right to read this becuase your skin colour is black" then that would be racial discrimination and illegal in many parts of the world. It seems to me that discrimination based on geographical location (nationality?) is somewhat dodgy too.
We love Linux! We don't know what Linux is! Solaris is the first OS to work on these platforms (lets not mention Linux, even though it was really there first and we sell it) What's the GPL? The GPL is wonderful! We will open source Java! We won't open source Java! We will open source Java! Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of our lives (maybe). We will open source Solaris! We won't open source Solaris!
How does Sun find time to do stuff between its constant reverses of its positions?
While an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, the fact is that the problem is out there. Current technology does not allow us to travel back in time and tell Microsoft about all the bugs their QA team failed to find before they released their software (and it would be an interesting temporal paradox if it were possible).
I'm not arguing that pushing the cost back to Microsoft is a bad thing (I'm not arguing in favour of it either), just that it won't fix an existing problem.
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It looks like an attempt to view any page past the "Choose your resolution" screen results in a page containing an iframed advert, some Flash, and some JavaScript to see if you hava Flash.
Users without Flash then get redirected to what appears to be intended to be an instruction to upgrade (I can't, and wouldn't if I could) which is actually a 404 error page.
Does anyone have a mirror which doesn't depend on Flash?
Don't you mean "Z'athras" and "Zath'ras"?
Hopfully this will be an example to the rest of the world. It would make a banner advert I saw earlier nicely illegal.
It detected I was using Linux (No, FreeBSD) and Netscape 5 (No, Mozilla) then told me that my system could be optimised (yippie!) by installing some Windows-only software.
Deceptive? I'd say so.
Quite amusing though.
What a waste of a chance for a good pun. "Dropline Maintainer Drops Out"
Ubuntu has a pretty transparent development process (yeah for mailing lists and development sources lists for apt) and is promising a regular (and reasonably frequent) release cycle.
I don't see mention of anything like this for Progeny yet. So its less attractive then Ubuntu to me right now.
This is true, Fire might let you see naked bottoms in the dark, but Google gives you access to a world wide database of naked bottoms.
Ah ha! It does appear in the Google Tools, but not on the front page.
Google isn't linking to Keyhole here. Maybe is it to random users, or selected geographical areas.
So wouldn't that mean that the less technologically aware members of the family couldn't email you HTML formatted (read massively bloated and subject to spam filtering) messages? This is a good thing.
No, it means we should not hold people prisoner without trial or access to a lawyer.
I'm not going to explain my jokes. Use Google to find out what America is doing there.
Well maybe the victims did deserve everything they got, but two wrongs do not make a right in America. (Guantanamo Bay is in Cuba)
Shouldn't that be "last, best, hope"?
The server has been slashdotted, so maybe someone who got to it early can tell me:
"Do Voodoo Cable Folds involve a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle?"
Cute, but I still plan to build my own around MythTV. That will work both ways (allowing me to record TV and then view it over the network) as well as dealing with DVDs and MAME.
Preview is all very well, but it doesn't do much against the D'Oh! issue (AKA "David misses the point").
Oh well, hopefully WINE can let us view them.
The might make them available only in printed form, and only to people who pay an admin fee of a few hundred dollars.
The navigator is fantastic, I love it. (And it is only floating by default, it docks quite happily).
How many governments are there which govern entire worlds?
B-Movie? Sterotype? No! Dalek Empire is now in its third series. The first was excellent - I just need to sort out my budget to get the rest.
Give it time. Red Hat has
Besides - some of their brands do get people instantly thinking "Linux company".
Better yet - hold a real conversation! GPRS and a Palmtop are not quite comfortable enough to google for product reviews and Linux compatability, and a 60 minute round trip to get home, get online, search for the products in stock, get back and buy one is equally unfun.
Hey, Adam. Could you google for ...
That depends on what grounds the decision is made on. If a copyright holder were to say "You don't have the right to read this becuase your skin colour is black" then that would be racial discrimination and illegal in many parts of the world. It seems to me that discrimination based on geographical location (nationality?) is somewhat dodgy too.
We love Linux!
We don't know what Linux is!
Solaris is the first OS to work on these platforms (lets not mention Linux, even though it was really there first and we sell it)
What's the GPL?
The GPL is wonderful!
We will open source Java!
We won't open source Java!
We will open source Java! Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of our lives (maybe).
We will open source Solaris!
We won't open source Solaris!
How does Sun find time to do stuff between its constant reverses of its positions?
While an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, the fact is that the problem is out there. Current technology does not allow us to travel back in time and tell Microsoft about all the bugs their QA team failed to find before they released their software (and it would be an interesting temporal paradox if it were possible).
I'm not arguing that pushing the cost back to Microsoft is a bad thing (I'm not arguing in favour of it either), just that it won't fix an existing problem.