Make sure Mozilla isn't running when you change the file
Yep, knew that and Mozilla was closed when I made the changes. This is Windows XP, Notepad, and Mozilla 1.3.
Like the other poster, the change didn't show up in my about:config listing.
It's not that big a deal to me, but it would be nice. And considering how easy it is to change the default programs to handle html editing, mailto links, newsgroup links, internet calls, etc., in IE, I'm surprised it isn't easier in Mozilla. You'd think it would be the other way around, given the history of IE.
Hmm. I'm using Mozilla 1.3. I don't have a user.js file, I have a prefs.js file full of my user_pref settings. When I add the line and restart Mozilla, mailto links still bring up the netscape mail program. I also saved a user.js file with just this line.
What's worse, is that after I did that, I lost my ctrl+l to get to the address line and my ctrl+f for find on page. And when Mozilla initially started up, I had to click in the address line to start typing. When I took the line out and deleted user.js, it was back to normal.
Keep hitting refresh in your browser. The list of mirrors at Mandrake Club is constantly changing as servers get saturated. If you wait 5 minutes, you should see some more servers appear and one of them should be faster. A lot of club members are downloading too, so it is not surprising that the load gets a little heavy.
The Club listings aren't meant to be a guarantee of availability or dl speed, but they are a different set of mirrors than get published on the regular website.
Ditto on the subscribe to Mandrake Club advice. I'm sucking the iso's down at close to a megabyte a second right now, not bad with only a 10 megabit switch in the closet. (Stupid University, upgrade us to 100 megabit some time this decade or before 1 gigabit becomes obsolete.)
Seriously, Mandrake is probably just trying to play the number game, now that Redhat is upgrading to Linux 9 too.
Really seriously? Or did I miss the:) at the end of the sentence. Mandrake 9.0 came out last fall. This is 9.1. Not like Mandrake jumped to OSY or anything.;)
And if you are testing web pages in multiple resolutions, trying out everything from 640x480 up to 1600x1200 on an lcd can be . . . problematic to say the least.
Agreed. Our university mirrors RedHat and anyone else you ask them to. So who knows how many people are using RH here unless you looked at the server logs on the U's server. Otherwise, the whole U would only get counted once as one download.
I know what an analogy is, but my point was that the things are too dissimilar to be adequately compared. It's like saying that a fish is like a bus. There are some things in common, but not enough.
I've never played much Alpha Centauri or Civilization specifically, but I've played other strategy games, turn and real time. I've also played Risk. It doesn't give you an appreciation of the scheduling logistics involved in deploying thousands of individuals and the support structure they need. It would not be atypical to find yourself with 1000 people in Georgia (USA), 5000 in California, 20,000 in North Carolina, all trying to get to, let's say, Saudia Arabia. Now, before any of those people get there, you need hospitals, mess halls, sewege systems, roads, and possibly an airport. The engineers will take 3 days to build the airport, 2 days to build the hospital, 2 days to build the mess, and 3 days to build the sewage. So you need to helicopter in enough engineers from various bases to get there ahead of the troops to prepare for their arrival and build enough of an airport so that the big ticket items can be flown in. Some troops will come by plane, some by boat. So they will arrive at different times. Which means you can 100 tents done, go back to work on the mess hall, then finish the tents before the second wave of people hit. Then you've got to have food coming in that needs electricity to store and prepare, etc. That's a big part of commanding armies that Risk, and most other strategy games, simply ignore. Risk also ignores terrain(one guy hiding in the mountains can outlast a large number of troops - just ask Eric Rudpolph), how different types of troops interact (planes can bomb ground troops, but are susceptible to aa weapons), refueling, diplomacy to a certain extent (the newer version of Risk has goals that encourage diplomacy, the older version was straight king of the hill), trade, etc. Other rts or turn based games may be more feature rich, but none of them implement the minutia and control that is needed in the real world.
You are correct, that another civ may not want help, may actively oppose it, etc. That's all true. My point was only that unlike a game, where there's an end and someone is declared a winner because he or she has the highest points, the biggest army, etc., the real world keeps going and going and you it is possible, although not probable, to arrive at a point where everyone succeeds.
And you are correct, both parties have to agree that the other has a right to exist.
Have you ever played an rts where you set the computer on the lowest skill and so it never gets aggressive and attacks? You can both sit there and gather resources, study all the techs, upgrade all your units. And never attack each other. In a game, that get's boring, but in the real world, it would be idyllic. We don't feel the need to "beat" Britain. We can win and Britain can win. We don't feel the need to "beat" Uganda.
Yes, in the real world people can disagree for stupid reasons. But unlike a game, they don't *have* to.
Civilization and Alpha Centari are pretty much zero sum games in practice if not in theory. Life isn't like that. Sometimes if you and your neighbor can both win and both feel like winners. As you say in your post, once you are in the lead, you have to stay in the lead.
In the real world, once you are in the lead (say a civilization with advanced sciences and arts, bounty for all, etc) why would you work to keep other civilizations/countries down? You'd work to improve their science, their arts, their housing. Then you'd both win.
Might as well say that an understanding of Risk gives you the ability to command armies and understand the way countries interact.
Re:How can an OS be 3D?
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Why can't an operating system by 3d? There's no reason that the basest part of an operating system has to be a command line. If the operating system makes the assumption that it will have a 3d card to talk to, there's no reason it can't be 3d.
Of course, for right now all "3d" operating systems, plugins, demos, etc are being displayed on a 2d screen. So they are merely pretending to be 3d. When we get true 3 dimensional displays/holocubes/whatever, then we'll really have a 3d operating system displayed in 3d.
All of which makes me wonder: did the graphical mac's ever have anything other than a 2d gui interface? Could you put them into a cli mode, sort of what we might think of as a one dimensional os? I remember the old Apple ]['s, I think, that had a cli. I remember playing Oregon Trail on them when I was in elementary school. But I mean the macs that booted right into a gui.
To HiThere: Don't forget Marbury vs Madison, early 1800's establishing not only states rights over federal rights, but also the ability of the SCOTUS to overrule a law.
You say they left out blacks. I say the very same document was used to free blacks.
No, they had to make a specific amendment to the constitution to do that. By that time, it was not the document produced 90 years earlier
You say they kept slaves. I say the country they founded ended slavery all over the world.
Huh? We were one of the last developed countries to free our slaves. For example, Britain outlawed slavery about 30 years before we did. The only reasons they supported the south during the Civil War was 1) as payback to the government for having had the revolution and 2) to keep cheap cotton coming into the English factories. The same way we make nice with the Saudi government, even though Parade Magazine(not a leftist newspaper supplement by any means) listed them as the number 2 worst dicatatorial government in the world while Saddam came in around 5 or 6.
Not to mention the traffic in slavery that still goes on in Africa and Asia.
I say they understood it applied to all because they excluded no one by name or by omission.
If that were the case, then we wouldn't have needed a 13th amendment, freeing the slaves or a 19th amendment giving women the right to vote. In other words, they omitted freedom for blacks and women.
You see the glass half empty. I see it half full. To each his/her/it own.
I like to see the world for what it is. Not what I'd like it to be.
The founders of the USA realized this -- that these rights are inalienable.
And yet they denied them to women, blacks, non-land owners, etc. If the founders really believed all men were created equal, why did only certain men get rights?
And don't forget, some of the first bills passed by Congress were the Alien and Sedition acts. The Alien act allowed the government to lock up non-citizen males age 14 and up who belonged to any country we were at war with. Didn't matter if they were innocent of any wrong doing. Congress threw the right to a fair trial right out the window. Luckily the British (you know, the people we were upset with) still had Magna Carta to protect their rights.
And the Sedition act would punish you if you "write, print, utter or publish. . . writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the said Congress, or the said President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States," which means that Rush Limbaugh could have been arrested for Sedition during the Clinton administration if the act were still enforced.
Because of its weakness at the time, the Supreme Court didn't even rule them as unconstitutional (I don't know if they were ever approached about it; I couldn't find that.) The acts were eventually allowed to expire about 10 years later.
So please, don't venerate the founders of the USA. They were human. In other words, they were hypocrites. They talked about the inalienable rights of men, but kept slaves. The south wanted slaves counted as men for population reasons, so they could have more representatives, but they didn't want them to have rights. They engaged in acts of terrorism (Boston Tea Party) and used biological weapons against indigenous peoples (small pox blankets). And even today this country engages in taxation without representation: the citizens of the District of Columbia pay federal taxes but have no elected Federal representatives. And their population is greater than Wyoming's. Imagine if Congress decided to tell Wyoming citizens that they would continue to pay federal taxes but would lose their Senators and Representatives!
Sorry, don't mean to be a troll or flame bait, but the veneration of the "Founding Fathers" really gets to me after awhile.
Better yet, why do so many people bitch about getting access to free information? Come on people, just sit down and generate a random id, sign up for it on hotmail and use that for everything. Why do you think I have such an odd id? Check the hotmail account once a month, delete everything there. Is that so hard to do to get free access to something?
Lines of code isn't necessarily the right way to go either. I've seen people do things in 1 line of perl code that would take much longer in another language. The problem is that the 1 line of code was to convoluted, to obfuscated, so that it was more difficult to maintain. Whereas doing it the "longer", "inefficient" way actually leads to more understandable code in the long run, which is easier to maintain.
Execution time is still a factor, even as processor speed increases because the hits on the page will hopefully increase.
What I find interesting in the debate between perl and php is that for security, many sites allow perl scripts only from a cgi-bin but php pages from anywhere. Both can run arbitrary system commands with ease, so the security division is somewhat artificial.
Meccano doesn't make me think of a compiler. It makes me think of construction sets, but the only construction set I remember from my youth is the Erector Set, the American equivalent which Meccano now owns (the web is wonderful for looking this stuff up). So Meccano is only instantly recognizable if you grew up in Europe or Canada. Even then, I expect something called Meccano or Erector Set to have something to do with creating engines or building something, not creating computer software.
I'd suggest something like "KDE C++" to show it is a c++ development platform. Or maybe "KDE Developer" or Koder if you want to get cutsey again, or just KDE Coder.
Rosetta involves an awful lot of knowledge on the average end user. Most people don't know what the Rosetta Stone was or why it was so important. And even if they do, they may not make the leap that something called Rosetta will translate documents for them.
KBabel isn't any better. KBabel involves the user know either a)the babelfish website, b)the babelfish in Hitchikers, or c)the Biblical Babel that was the source for the other two. For the average computer user, not average slashdot reader note, a and b are out the window. And c may have entirely the wrong connotation: run this program and you'll never be able to understand what the computer says. Your manager is right; a good name would be something like "KDE Translator". Because the average person knows what a translator is.
Re:How to clean boot Windows?
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Boot from a Linux floppy/cdrom or Windows cd. Boot to console, mount your drives as ro and scan them. Then if you find something, boot into safe mode and remove the offending files.
Yes, it does work to Lindows' favor. As I understand it, Microsoft's request for an immediate injunction against Lindows, which would have forced Lindows to stop using the name until the case was decided was denied. That means that Lindows can sell its product at Wal-Mart and other places while the trial occurs and until a court decides that they cannot use the name "LindowsOS" for their product.
That means that all the while the trial is going on, people are buying their product, using it, etc. This means that even if they lose the case, they have a larger entrenched user base to draw on. A quick name change to something like LinOS, and they can keep right on going. If they were given an injunction, they would either have to change their name now and then change back if they won or stop producing a product until the issue was settled. Remember, they are only talking about the name of their product "LindowsOS" not the name of their company, Lindows.
*If* Google wants to keep their trademark, and there are good reasons for them to do so, then this is exactly what they need to do, whether you like it or not.
Many products have lost their trademark through changes in the language. Aspirin used to be a trademark. Everyone else had to sell "headache powder" or something similar. Now, aspirin is a generic term. Something similar is happening now with Kleenex, Post-It Notes, and White Out.
The question you should ask yourself is: Is it right for there to be a website that calls itself "Google: by Microsoft"? Because if Google looses its trademark, there's nothing to stop Microsoft from producing its own google. Just like there is now Bayer aspirin, St. Joseph's children's aspirin, etc.
So if Microsoft's google is ok, then Google is wrong. But if you don't want Microsoft to have the ability to rebrand MSN Search as Microsoft's Google, then Google needs to do this.
I would just have a blanket, three strikes you are out policy. If someone complains about the content of your email three times, no matter the circumstances, you are outta there.
So if your best friend is infected with klez (or the latest variant) and sending messages that appear to be from you, if three people call to complain that you are sending them junk, you are outta there? Those are three complaints about the content of your email, and your policy says no matter the circumstances.
What if I don't like your political views that you've espoused on a political discussions mailing list and I call up your isp and tell them that your opinions about certain PICKWHATEVERPARTYYOUHATE Senators constitute a terrorist threat. After 3 of those complaints, you get dropped.
I wouldn't use an isp that didn't have some intelligence behind its decisions or didn't have an appeals process if I feel I was mistreated.
Slashdot Mirror
Your cable modem costs 38.95? Mine runs around $55.
right-click -> New -> Boolean.
Oh that's a neat trick. So how long has it had this capability? I remember using the about:config with Netscape 4, but didn't know about this.
This works, btw. I can now send email through Eudora.
Thanks a lot for the right-click info.
Make sure Mozilla isn't running when you change the file
Yep, knew that and Mozilla was closed when I made the changes. This is Windows XP, Notepad, and Mozilla 1.3.
Like the other poster, the change didn't show up in my about:config listing.
It's not that big a deal to me, but it would be nice. And considering how easy it is to change the default programs to handle html editing, mailto links, newsgroup links, internet calls, etc., in IE, I'm surprised it isn't easier in Mozilla. You'd think it would be the other way around, given the history of IE.
Hmm. I'm using Mozilla 1.3. I don't have a user.js file, I have a prefs.js file full of my user_pref settings. When I add the line and restart Mozilla, mailto links still bring up the netscape mail program. I also saved a user.js file with just this line.
What's worse, is that after I did that, I lost my ctrl+l to get to the address line and my ctrl+f for find on page. And when Mozilla initially started up, I had to click in the address line to start typing. When I took the line out and deleted user.js, it was back to normal.
Keep hitting refresh in your browser. The list of mirrors at Mandrake Club is constantly changing as servers get saturated. If you wait 5 minutes, you should see some more servers appear and one of them should be faster. A lot of club members are downloading too, so it is not surprising that the load gets a little heavy.
The Club listings aren't meant to be a guarantee of availability or dl speed, but they are a different set of mirrors than get published on the regular website.
Ditto on the subscribe to Mandrake Club advice. I'm sucking the iso's down at close to a megabyte a second right now, not bad with only a 10 megabit switch in the closet. (Stupid University, upgrade us to 100 megabit some time this decade or before 1 gigabit becomes obsolete.)
Seriously, Mandrake is probably just trying to play the number game, now that Redhat is upgrading to Linux 9 too.
:) at the end of the sentence. Mandrake 9.0 came out last fall. This is 9.1. Not like Mandrake jumped to OSY or anything. ;)
Really seriously? Or did I miss the
People are over-thinking it.
Knocking down pins is the way to win at bowling.
You wouldn't say "Knocking down pins are the way to win" would you?
Downloading is illegal.
Downloading 5 games is illegal.
Downloading a game is illegal.
Downloading a dvd is illegal.
Downloading 5 dvd's is illegal.
You get the idea; this grammar message sponsored by the RIAA and the BSA.
It gets simple if you just try the same sentence structure with a few different words.
And if you are testing web pages in multiple resolutions, trying out everything from 640x480 up to 1600x1200 on an lcd can be . . . problematic to say the least.
Agreed. Our university mirrors RedHat and anyone else you ask them to. So who knows how many people are using RH here unless you looked at the server logs on the U's server. Otherwise, the whole U would only get counted once as one download.
I know what an analogy is, but my point was that the things are too dissimilar to be adequately compared. It's like saying that a fish is like a bus. There are some things in common, but not enough.
I've never played much Alpha Centauri or Civilization specifically, but I've played other strategy games, turn and real time. I've also played Risk. It doesn't give you an appreciation of the scheduling logistics involved in deploying thousands of individuals and the support structure they need. It would not be atypical to find yourself with 1000 people in Georgia (USA), 5000 in California, 20,000 in North Carolina, all trying to get to, let's say, Saudia Arabia. Now, before any of those people get there, you need hospitals, mess halls, sewege systems, roads, and possibly an airport. The engineers will take 3 days to build the airport, 2 days to build the hospital, 2 days to build the mess, and 3 days to build the sewage. So you need to helicopter in enough engineers from various bases to get there ahead of the troops to prepare for their arrival and build enough of an airport so that the big ticket items can be flown in. Some troops will come by plane, some by boat. So they will arrive at different times. Which means you can 100 tents done, go back to work on the mess hall, then finish the tents before the second wave of people hit. Then you've got to have food coming in that needs electricity to store and prepare, etc. That's a big part of commanding armies that Risk, and most other strategy games, simply ignore. Risk also ignores terrain(one guy hiding in the mountains can outlast a large number of troops - just ask Eric Rudpolph), how different types of troops interact (planes can bomb ground troops, but are susceptible to aa weapons), refueling, diplomacy to a certain extent (the newer version of Risk has goals that encourage diplomacy, the older version was straight king of the hill), trade, etc. Other rts or turn based games may be more feature rich, but none of them implement the minutia and control that is needed in the real world.
You are correct, that another civ may not want help, may actively oppose it, etc. That's all true. My point was only that unlike a game, where there's an end and someone is declared a winner because he or she has the highest points, the biggest army, etc., the real world keeps going and going and you it is possible, although not probable, to arrive at a point where everyone succeeds.
And you are correct, both parties have to agree that the other has a right to exist.
Have you ever played an rts where you set the computer on the lowest skill and so it never gets aggressive and attacks? You can both sit there and gather resources, study all the techs, upgrade all your units. And never attack each other. In a game, that get's boring, but in the real world, it would be idyllic. We don't feel the need to "beat" Britain. We can win and Britain can win. We don't feel the need to "beat" Uganda.
Yes, in the real world people can disagree for stupid reasons. But unlike a game, they don't *have* to.
Civilization and Alpha Centari are pretty much zero sum games in practice if not in theory. Life isn't like that. Sometimes if you and your neighbor can both win and both feel like winners. As you say in your post, once you are in the lead, you have to stay in the lead.
In the real world, once you are in the lead (say a civilization with advanced sciences and arts, bounty for all, etc) why would you work to keep other civilizations/countries down? You'd work to improve their science, their arts, their housing. Then you'd both win.
Might as well say that an understanding of Risk gives you the ability to command armies and understand the way countries interact.
Why can't an operating system by 3d? There's no reason that the basest part of an operating system has to be a command line. If the operating system makes the assumption that it will have a 3d card to talk to, there's no reason it can't be 3d.
Of course, for right now all "3d" operating systems, plugins, demos, etc are being displayed on a 2d screen. So they are merely pretending to be 3d. When we get true 3 dimensional displays/holocubes/whatever, then we'll really have a 3d operating system displayed in 3d.
All of which makes me wonder: did the graphical mac's ever have anything other than a 2d gui interface? Could you put them into a cli mode, sort of what we might think of as a one dimensional os? I remember the old Apple ]['s, I think, that had a cli. I remember playing Oregon Trail on them when I was in elementary school. But I mean the macs that booted right into a gui.
To HiThere: Don't forget Marbury vs Madison, early 1800's establishing not only states rights over federal rights, but also the ability of the SCOTUS to overrule a law.
You say they left out blacks. I say the very same document was used to free blacks.
No, they had to make a specific amendment to the constitution to do that. By that time, it was not the document produced 90 years earlier
You say they kept slaves. I say the country they founded ended slavery all over the world.
Huh? We were one of the last developed countries to free our slaves. For example, Britain outlawed slavery about 30 years before we did. The only reasons they supported the south during the Civil War was 1) as payback to the government for having had the revolution and 2) to keep cheap cotton coming into the English factories. The same way we make nice with the Saudi government, even though Parade Magazine(not a leftist newspaper supplement by any means) listed them as the number 2 worst dicatatorial government in the world while Saddam came in around 5 or 6.
Not to mention the traffic in slavery that still goes on in Africa and Asia.
I say they understood it applied to all because they excluded no one by name or by omission.
If that were the case, then we wouldn't have needed a 13th amendment, freeing the slaves or a 19th amendment giving women the right to vote. In other words, they omitted freedom for blacks and women.
You see the glass half empty. I see it half full. To each his/her/it own.
I like to see the world for what it is. Not what I'd like it to be.
The founders of the USA realized this -- that these rights are inalienable.
And yet they denied them to women, blacks, non-land owners, etc. If the founders really believed all men were created equal, why did only certain men get rights?
And don't forget, some of the first bills passed by Congress were the Alien and Sedition acts. The Alien act allowed the government to lock up non-citizen males age 14 and up who belonged to any country we were at war with. Didn't matter if they were innocent of any wrong doing. Congress threw the right to a fair trial right out the window. Luckily the British (you know, the people we were upset with) still had Magna Carta to protect their rights.
And the Sedition act would punish you if you "write, print, utter or publish. . . writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government, or either house of the said Congress, or the said President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States," which means that Rush Limbaugh could have been arrested for Sedition during the Clinton administration if the act were still enforced.
Because of its weakness at the time, the Supreme Court didn't even rule them as unconstitutional (I don't know if they were ever approached about it; I couldn't find that.) The acts were eventually allowed to expire about 10 years later.
So please, don't venerate the founders of the USA. They were human. In other words, they were hypocrites. They talked about the inalienable rights of men, but kept slaves. The south wanted slaves counted as men for population reasons, so they could have more representatives, but they didn't want them to have rights. They engaged in acts of terrorism (Boston Tea Party) and used biological weapons against indigenous peoples (small pox blankets). And even today this country engages in taxation without representation: the citizens of the District of Columbia pay federal taxes but have no elected Federal representatives. And their population is greater than Wyoming's. Imagine if Congress decided to tell Wyoming citizens that they would continue to pay federal taxes but would lose their Senators and Representatives!
Sorry, don't mean to be a troll or flame bait, but the veneration of the "Founding Fathers" really gets to me after awhile.
Better yet, why do so many people bitch about getting access to free information? Come on people, just sit down and generate a random id, sign up for it on hotmail and use that for everything. Why do you think I have such an odd id? Check the hotmail account once a month, delete everything there. Is that so hard to do to get free access to something?
Lines of code isn't necessarily the right way to go either. I've seen people do things in 1 line of perl code that would take much longer in another language. The problem is that the 1 line of code was to convoluted, to obfuscated, so that it was more difficult to maintain. Whereas doing it the "longer", "inefficient" way actually leads to more understandable code in the long run, which is easier to maintain.
Execution time is still a factor, even as processor speed increases because the hits on the page will hopefully increase.
What I find interesting in the debate between perl and php is that for security, many sites allow perl scripts only from a cgi-bin but php pages from anywhere. Both can run arbitrary system commands with ease, so the security division is somewhat artificial.
Whoops, you are right. I assumed that since the original poster was suggesting Rosetta as an alternative that KBabel was a KDE interface to babelfish.
But that just shows how important names are. I can't think of a better name for it at the moment though. Maybe something like String Babel or so.
The idea of translating is certainly present in all though.
Rosetta instead of KBabel, or Meccano
Meccano doesn't make me think of a compiler. It makes me think of construction sets, but the only construction set I remember from my youth is the Erector Set, the American equivalent which Meccano now owns (the web is wonderful for looking this stuff up). So Meccano is only instantly recognizable if you grew up in Europe or Canada. Even then, I expect something called Meccano or Erector Set to have something to do with creating engines or building something, not creating computer software.
I'd suggest something like "KDE C++" to show it is a c++ development platform. Or maybe "KDE Developer" or Koder if you want to get cutsey again, or just KDE Coder.
Rosetta involves an awful lot of knowledge on the average end user. Most people don't know what the Rosetta Stone was or why it was so important. And even if they do, they may not make the leap that something called Rosetta will translate documents for them.
KBabel isn't any better. KBabel involves the user know either a)the babelfish website, b)the babelfish in Hitchikers, or c)the Biblical Babel that was the source for the other two. For the average computer user, not average slashdot reader note, a and b are out the window. And c may have entirely the wrong connotation: run this program and you'll never be able to understand what the computer says. Your manager is right; a good name would be something like "KDE Translator". Because the average person knows what a translator is.
Boot from a Linux floppy/cdrom or Windows cd. Boot to console, mount your drives as ro and scan them. Then if you find something, boot into safe mode and remove the offending files.
Pretty simple.
Yes, it does work to Lindows' favor. As I understand it, Microsoft's request for an immediate injunction against Lindows, which would have forced Lindows to stop using the name until the case was decided was denied. That means that Lindows can sell its product at Wal-Mart and other places while the trial occurs and until a court decides that they cannot use the name "LindowsOS" for their product.
That means that all the while the trial is going on, people are buying their product, using it, etc. This means that even if they lose the case, they have a larger entrenched user base to draw on. A quick name change to something like LinOS, and they can keep right on going. If they were given an injunction, they would either have to change their name now and then change back if they won or stop producing a product until the issue was settled. Remember, they are only talking about the name of their product "LindowsOS" not the name of their company, Lindows.
What happens if your computer doesn't have a cd-r, just a dvd player?
*If* Google wants to keep their trademark, and there are good reasons for them to do so, then this is exactly what they need to do, whether you like it or not.
Many products have lost their trademark through changes in the language. Aspirin used to be a trademark. Everyone else had to sell "headache powder" or something similar. Now, aspirin is a generic term. Something similar is happening now with Kleenex, Post-It Notes, and White Out.
The question you should ask yourself is: Is it right for there to be a website that calls itself "Google: by Microsoft"? Because if Google looses its trademark, there's nothing to stop Microsoft from producing its own google. Just like there is now Bayer aspirin, St. Joseph's children's aspirin, etc.
So if Microsoft's google is ok, then Google is wrong. But if you don't want Microsoft to have the ability to rebrand MSN Search as Microsoft's Google, then Google needs to do this.
I would just have a blanket, three strikes you are out policy. If someone complains about the content of your email three times, no matter the circumstances, you are outta there.
So if your best friend is infected with klez (or the latest variant) and sending messages that appear to be from you, if three people call to complain that you are sending them junk, you are outta there? Those are three complaints about the content of your email, and your policy says no matter the circumstances.
What if I don't like your political views that you've espoused on a political discussions mailing list and I call up your isp and tell them that your opinions about certain PICKWHATEVERPARTYYOUHATE Senators constitute a terrorist threat. After 3 of those complaints, you get dropped.
I wouldn't use an isp that didn't have some intelligence behind its decisions or didn't have an appeals process if I feel I was mistreated.
20 years? I wish they were that fresh. Most sitcoms can trace their jokes back to Plautus.