That's nonsense. Google is not case-sensitive; I've just tried searching for each of the above terms, and the same thing comes up both times. Google Suggest pretty much prevents you from even typing capital letters.
They stole a bike off the street and kept it for several months - this counts as theft in my book.
I don't know German law, but in English law theft requires the intention to permanently deprive the owner of their chattel. So borrowing a bike without authorization would not count as theft (though it probably is some other crime).
I think Firefox is actually doing pretty bad with its recent exploits, compared to IE
Firefox has had several recent vulnerabilities announced (and, mainly, fixed), most of which have not become widespread exploits.
A high number of security bugs fixed merely means just that: security bugs are being fixed. It doesn't necessarily follow that there were more bugs there to start with; it could be that other products are equally buggy, but this one has been more diligent in fixing bugs.
It's the unfixed bugs that we need to worry about...
Does anyone know of webmail/local clients that can do labels like gmail does? To me, that's the slickest thing about gmail, and i'd kill a man for that feature in thunderbird
Have you tried the latest Thunderbird? 0.9 was released about a week ago and claims to have something like that.
I think in general Ladybird Books were aimed at younger children, but this series in particular was not.... How it Works: The Computer [was] ordered by the Ministry of Defence.
Though that same page continues by pointing out: "The MOD wanted the books to be bound in plain brown covers, and without any copyright information, to save embarrassing their trainees!"
The fact that the MOD found the cover awkward shows it was intended as a children's book, even though it was used elsewhere.
having more releases doesn't force you to upgrade more often. What it does do is give you freedom to upgrade at times you choose.
Actually, it does. Did you know that FC1 is already going into legacy mode, meaning no more updates for it?
The principle of having frequent releases doesn't force upgrades in itself; a distrubutor dropping support does that, regardless of release frequency, and it isn't a reason for stating that frequent releases are bad.
Yes, I do know that Red Hat don't support Fedora 1 any more, but it is supported by The Fedora Legacy Project. So nobody has to upgrade: they can just get their updates from there instead.
what reason do we have for upgrading now? these rapid release schedules are TOO rapid.
Another reason for frequent releases is to cope with new hardware. The reason I'm running Fedora at all is because there's no chance of Debian Woody installing on kit I bought this year.
So even if there's no reason for any existing installations to be upgraded, having frequent releases helps those who are installing on to newly purchased hardware.
Perhaps you have no reason for upgrading now; apart from anything else it depends what you're running at the moment. Personally I'm running Fedora Core 1, and since I missed 2 am planning on installing 3.
these rapid release schedules are TOO rapid.
That doesn't follow: having more releases doesn't force you to upgrade more often. What it does do is give you freedom to upgrade at times you choose.
You might only want to upgrade every couple of years, but at the point you do upgrade you want to upgrade to something that's almost current. If a distro has lots of releases then whenever you choose to upgrade you get that.
But if a distro only releases every couple of years then either you have to plan your upgrades to co-incide with the distro's, or risk having software that's up to 4 years out of date (in the worst case, where your need to upgrade is just before a release comes out, so even your 'new' software is a years old at that point).
But then I guess I wouldn't notice the difference, really.
The new failglob option is something I've often wanted -- if I mess up a glob (or files that I thought were there don't actually exist) then I'd rather have an error than the raw glob characters be passed to the command. C Shell does this, and it's something I've been missing in Bash.
You don't have to unlock the keyboard to answer a call. Whenever your phone is locked, and rings, a few keys will be enabled: answer...
That's what irritates me (and makes me think a flippy phone would be better): if somebody calls when my phone's in my pocket and I'm somewhere noisy then it's easy for the 'answer' button to get knocked straight away, before I've heard it ringing, and me to miss the call.
MS Word for Windows has an interesting sequence of versions: 1, 2, 6, 95, 97, 2000.
Not quite right -- the version between 6 and 97 was 7. It was part of "MS Office for Windows 95", but the Word part of it just claimed to be version 7.
MS later rewrote history; version 97 refers to its predecessor as "Word 95", even though no app of that name existed.
With Access it's even worse: MS announced the app as being version 3 (one more than the then-current version 2), released it as version 7 (numbering jumped up to match that of Word on the same CD), and then retrospectively referred to it as "Access 95" -- so a single release had three version numbers, skipping 92 versions without any software changes at all!
mod_gzip isnt used unless the browser tells the server via the Accept-Encoding header.
Unfortunately the browser may be lying. A few years ago we turned on mod_gzip for a site and found that Netscape Navigator4 was claiming to support mod_gzip.
So our server gave it compressed data, but it failed to uncompress this for the content of iframes and linked CSS.
You don't even have to rely on Mozilla or Opera to do the transformation for you, both of which can give slightly icky results for paper versions.
html2ps is excellent for nicely formatting HTML as a paged document. It uses CSS, with a few of its own extensions (paper size, table of contents generation, hyphenation, page headers and footers, page numbers, and the like). It can even automatically swap in PostScript diagrams for gifs in the HTML source.
It has the advantage over a browser in being scriptable you can have one makefile that runs HTML Tidy on your source, then converts it to PostScript (and possibly PDF too).
You get all the benefits of a plain text format (CVS, etc), and paper/PDF output that many readers couldn't distinguish from having been word processed.
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That's nonsense. Google is not case-sensitive; I've just tried searching for each of the above terms, and the same thing comes up both times. Google Suggest pretty much prevents you from even typing capital letters.
SmylersUm ... surely if you were trying to save power it would've been better to turn a light off rather than on?
SmylersI don't know German law, but in English law theft requires the intention to permanently deprive the owner of their chattel. So borrowing a bike without authorization would not count as theft (though it probably is some other crime).
SmylersFirefox has had several recent vulnerabilities announced (and, mainly, fixed), most of which have not become widespread exploits.
A high number of security bugs fixed merely means just that: security bugs are being fixed. It doesn't necessarily follow that there were more bugs there to start with; it could be that other products are equally buggy, but this one has been more diligent in fixing bugs.
It's the unfixed bugs that we need to worry about...
SmylersNot quite, but he has built a girl out of lego.
SmylersWell, yeah -- but then people are always better at answering questions that have been on TV the night before ...
SmylersThough it appears that Simon Cozen's involvement was limited to having his text from the first edition used and the publisher backtracking on the agreement to pay him royalties for it.
His first edition is freely downloadable and he has a PayPal tip jar if you like it.
SmylersHave you tried the latest Thunderbird? 0.9 was released about a week ago and claims to have something like that.
(If that is what you want, please don't feel the need to kill anybody -- just donate to the Mozilla Foundation.
SmylersThough that same page continues by pointing out: "The MOD wanted the books to be bound in plain brown covers, and without any copyright information, to save embarrassing their trainees!"
The fact that the MOD found the cover awkward shows it was intended as a children's book, even though it was used elsewhere.
SmylersThe principle of having frequent releases doesn't force upgrades in itself; a distrubutor dropping support does that, regardless of release frequency, and it isn't a reason for stating that frequent releases are bad.
Yes, I do know that Red Hat don't support Fedora 1 any more, but it is supported by The Fedora Legacy Project. So nobody has to upgrade: they can just get their updates from there instead.
SmylersAnother reason for frequent releases is to cope with new hardware. The reason I'm running Fedora at all is because there's no chance of Debian Woody installing on kit I bought this year.
So even if there's no reason for any existing installations to be upgraded, having frequent releases helps those who are installing on to newly purchased hardware.
SmylersPerhaps you have no reason for upgrading now; apart from anything else it depends what you're running at the moment. Personally I'm running Fedora Core 1, and since I missed 2 am planning on installing 3.
That doesn't follow: having more releases doesn't force you to upgrade more often. What it does do is give you freedom to upgrade at times you choose.
You might only want to upgrade every couple of years, but at the point you do upgrade you want to upgrade to something that's almost current. If a distro has lots of releases then whenever you choose to upgrade you get that.
But if a distro only releases every couple of years then either you have to plan your upgrades to co-incide with the distro's, or risk having software that's up to 4 years out of date (in the worst case, where your need to upgrade is just before a release comes out, so even your 'new' software is a years old at that point).
SmylersThe new failglob option is something I've often wanted -- if I mess up a glob (or files that I thought were there don't actually exist) then I'd rather have an error than the raw glob characters be passed to the command. C Shell does this, and it's something I've been missing in Bash.
Smylers
That's what irritates me (and makes me think a flippy phone would be better): if somebody calls when my phone's in my pocket and I'm somewhere noisy then it's easy for the 'answer' button to get knocked straight away, before I've heard it ringing, and me to miss the call.
Smylers
Not quite right -- the version between 6 and 97 was 7. It was part of "MS Office for Windows 95", but the Word part of it just claimed to be version 7.
MS later rewrote history; version 97 refers to its predecessor as "Word 95", even though no app of that name existed.
With Access it's even worse: MS announced the app as being version 3 (one more than the then-current version 2), released it as version 7 (numbering jumped up to match that of Word on the same CD), and then retrospectively referred to it as "Access 95" -- so a single release had three version numbers, skipping 92 versions without any software changes at all!
SmylersPerhaps the authors of this report were paid to mention TiVo lots...
Smylers
Unfortunately the browser may be lying. A few years ago we turned on mod_gzip for a site and found that Netscape Navigator4 was claiming to support mod_gzip.
So our server gave it compressed data, but it failed to uncompress this for the content of iframes and linked CSS.
SmylersYou don't even have to rely on Mozilla or Opera to do the transformation for you, both of which can give slightly icky results for paper versions.
html2ps is excellent for nicely formatting HTML as a paged document. It uses CSS, with a few of its own extensions (paper size, table of contents generation, hyphenation, page headers and footers, page numbers, and the like). It can even automatically swap in PostScript diagrams for gifs in the HTML source.
It has the advantage over a browser in being scriptable you can have one makefile that runs HTML Tidy on your source, then converts it to PostScript (and possibly PDF too).
You get all the benefits of a plain text format (CVS, etc), and paper/PDF output that many readers couldn't distinguish from having been word processed.
Smylers