I agree that common sense helps to aviod several viruses.
But 'Linux dont have viruses because it's not as popular as Windows' is a myth.
Example, Apache is far more popular then Microsoft IIS, yet Apache has near-zero viruses. Also fun is that running Windows-programs in Wine is much safer then running them in Windows. Linux security model has fundamental differences from all Windows versions. Windows simply wasnt made from the ground-up with proper security in mind. And now Windows has grown in size that a re-write is impossible.
Even when/if Linux becomes 100% popular and all the worlds criminals etc tries to create malware for Linux, they wont succeed in building one that spreads. Each machine must be infected one by one, manually by each user. These users must be dumb enough to manually infect themselfs *while* smart enough to know how to do so. Any automatic spread will be extremly rare and extremly short-lived, if it ever happens at all. There will never be a need for running anti-malware to protect Linux.
I noticed a few wind-mills in the Trilogy so they could expand that and invent steam-power and so on, and begin an industrial era. And later on the hobbits invent cars. And computers and begins an MiddleEarth Information Age. Then we get to follow thier progress when they invent space-travel and begin exploring thier galaxy! Where they explore strange new worlds, and civilizations. To boldly go, where no hobbit/human/wizard/elf/dwarf/ent/etc have never gone before! And then, finally we get to see how they discover the science behind all the fracking magic... No?
Speaking of Fantasy, LoTR/Starwars crossover would work. Both are Fantasy.
As we go lower in cost we can get even more for each buck. The key is to discover a sweet spot between too-high-costs and performance-too-slow-for-our-need.
(i7-980X 999.99$ is just a guess)
The internet is missing a site that combine a comprehensive cpu-chart real-world benchmarks with current prices...
I consider Privacy a basic Human Right. Nothing more, nothing less. I dont want any one spying on any of us IRL just as i dont want any one spying on us online.
For example, as Google want to know everything about us and consider privacy dead. Then why cant we know everything about Google?! Where they live. What they do. Who they talk to. What they say. What they think, oppinions, feelings etc etc!
Btw, only blocking 3rdPartyCookies still allows 1stPartyCookies. I've been testing which Cookies i can live without for half a year now.
1. First i erased all cookies to begin with a clean slate.
2. Then i tried surfing with AllCookiesOff, i found for example that Youtube auto-login require Google 1st and 3rd -Cookies and Youtube Cookies. So i told Opera 'Site Preferences' to allow all cookies for those sites. And Google SearchPreferences cookie (NoWebHistory NoAutoSuggest NoFilter). And a few more sites. But then i quickly exited Opera and saved a copy of my cookies.dat
3. I edited my Opera.lnk to reset new cookies to make it much hard to track me. %windir%\system32\cmd.exe/d/c start/min cmd/d/c copy/y %ProgramFiles%\Opera\profile\cookies0.dat %ProgramFiles%\Opera\profile\cookies4.dat & start %ProgramFiles%\Opera\Opera.exe (9.27, newer Opera still too ugly) I also did one for my Iron browser.
4. Now i enjoy faster and safer browsing. With suprisingly few problems.
Windows, Office, and Server will eventually be replaced with Linux someday...
"Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect" -Linus
The sad part is that the kernel alone wont replace Windows. We still need to fix GNOME into something non-bloated and good enough that most will agree on it beeing 'the GUI for Linux' . KDE and most WindowManagers are very nice but they dont fill that gap.
A fully working replacement for ActiveDirectory is also required. Or am i missing something obvious?
And a little more work on Wine.
With these three in place i dont see any reason for n00bs nor organizations nor me to loose any more money to Microsoft.
I can tolerate SW 3-4-5. There's even brilliant moments. (1-2-3 dont even qualify as mediocre Star Wars)
I suggest re-borrow the good ideas from Stargate, with ascension and telekinesis and so on. Make The Force into real sci-fi, rather then Fantasy/Religion thingy. And make it for grown-ups this time.
And bring back Jar-Jar for two seconds and drop an 5000kg anvil on him.
Google Ads are opt-out. That's why we need Browsers that AdBlock By Default to gain back the balance we had. And to give back privicy to all those non-technical people that doesnt have a clue what to choose.
I install all Browser's to people with proper hosts and some extra fine-tuning Browser-settings that hosts-file cant do.
I'm thinking of creating a Schedule job bat script that wget's an updated hosts file every so and so...
But even this wont solve the whole problem. I'm already seeing css-ads that i cant block yet. My battle to stop annoying web-browsing has only begun.
Google:"The market will sort itself" Yes it would if we lived in a capitalist utopia where everyone do business without any greed to screw people over. And where customers where in-depth experts in all details for every deal they make. Then yes indeed such a world would be sweet.
epic [facepalm]
I sure hope Germany leads the way and ban AdSense spyware and all tracking methods that could (and will) be used against us.
Oh dear no!! That's bad news for.. ehm.. no one! No one use Yahoo nor Bing (i've even put www.bing.com in my hosts)
But frankly Google must have competition from somewhere. Google is becoming more privicy Evil for every day that goes by. The non-savvy users are screwed by default.
That's why i choose the cheapest internet money can buy 250kbps/128kbps ~9€/month:D I keep DC++ up around the clock on a silent 256 RAM 350MHz. I get on average a movie per day, that's more then plenty for me. Even Youtube often works _while_ p2p does two full uploads!
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\parameters] "Tcp1323Opts"=dword:1;unlock larger TcpWindowSize And no Timestamp save 12 Byte every packet "TcpAckFrequency"=dword:9;smoother traffic. 'd' also works, but perhaps high latency;connections suffer if there's too long wait between ACKs... "TcpDelAckTicks"=dword:6;1-6 = 100-600ms Def=200 "SackOpts"=dword:0;no extra packet overhead "KeepAliveInterval"=dword:fff;=4095 Def=1000(ms) between keepalives when no response is received;Linux def=75000 (may have changed nowadays?) "TcpMaxDataRetransmissions"=dword:4;XPDef=5 requests for data. LinuxDef=9
Carefully add one at a time and measure overall performance over time. Check if it makes things better or worse or has no effect. I've been using these with no noticable problems over several years.
Oh, and the 350MHz PC is also a DNS server, helps cut more traffic. (i tweaked W2003 until it ran fine on 256 RAM)
Isnt ChromeOS more aimed at replacing thin clients? With the Cloud replacing the centralized Server. No more need for expensive Server hardware. No more need for expensive Server OS Licenses. No more need for expensive Server Antivirus Licenses. (No doubt this may cause Ballmer to sob his way to sleep every night)
For all people that just want to write and surf and such, COS would Check-Mate all Thin Clients and Ubuntu/XP/Vista/7. (More sobbing)
People that need faster hardware, gamers and such dont need to bother with COS. (Happy Ballmer. For now)
Btw, could Chrome ever run WINE? What _is_ the Cloud? Flash? Java?
Google is just too sloppy with thier algorithms. But the much much bigger problem is the existence of all the rasist sites. I'm no legal expert. But is rasism _LEGAL_ in the US??! (assuming some of the sites are from US or made by white americans) To solve this problem, you americans, must create some proper laws ffs. I assume you have laws against other illegal contents. I mean in those instances you've managed to lessen Free Speech within reason.
I'm confused.
Sue google for illegal algorithms? I'm serious. Try doing something to fix this!
Make a law that say: black-human image + monkey image + rasism context = illegal.
Sci-fi is important for the mainstream, not just to geeks. SF must try to reach the masses. Firefly was fantastic in that regard. My little sister, who hates space, was glued to all episodes. Allthough the actual science and sci-fi in Firefly lacked detail. Still, Firefly and later on BattlestarGalactica did wonders to make sci-fi more mainstream without beeing bad. (Allthough BSG after season 3,5 was completly worthless) Star Trek 2009 also tried to have it both ways. The result was that trekkies felt like barf and women enjoyd it! And now, Stargate Universe tries to be mainstream. Needless to say, there's a looong way to go yet...
On the more scary aspect of where sci-fi actually IS dying. Fantasy that tries to look like Sci-fi: StarWars Heroes X-Men Hitchhiker'sGuide Dollhouse X-Files and on and on... This is extremly troublesome since better sci-fi lead to better science.
MEANING OF LIFE SPOILER ALERT!!! (If you like to discover it by yourself and have a big
sweet eureka-moment take all the time you desire before
reading further)
Since there are _only_ two things that effect us. 1. Evolution of Genes (i was created by my parents, not God. Duh!) 2. Evolution of Memes (=information) (Richard Dawkins invented the word in 1976)
It covers everything and explains everything. I think it's actually far more beautiful then e=mc^2. And the nicest thing is that it's up to _us_ to choose how to best use evolution and information.
You have the freedom to share your data with Google. But i dont have the freedom to choose not to. That's the principle. I want you to have the freedom of chioce. But i also want that freedom for me too.
At this point Google isnt a BadGuy. But Google cant guarantee us that it will behave like this next year or even next week. That's the second principle.
CONCLUSION Google = Spyware
I'm doing everything i can think of to protect my freedom of choice over who and what have my data.
Opera default settings: NoCookies NoFlash NoReferer Then edit 'Site Preferences' for sites that really need it. (More work is in progress...)
Win7: still Vista ServicePacks and WindowsUpdates hasnt fixed Vista. Microsoft: WindowsUpdate replace your old Bugs with new fresh Bugs!
Btw Windows8 nickname W8 (because that's what ppl does to find a replacement for XP. _wait_ )
Why dont Microsoft just FIX XP-32 and XP-64 ?!? Use nLite and you're halfway there. Add modern drivers. Microsoft could add support for QuadCore and DX11 and whatnot. Then XP would hold Linux at bay! (fortunally Microsoft helps Linux nowadays, hehe)
base href=http://> body background=//www.w3schools.com/graphics/images/back/sky6.jpg> img src=//www.w3schools.com/images/stickman.gif> img src=http://www.w3schools.com/images/stickman.gif>
But it brakes all relative paths. So it doesnt automatically saves Bytes everywhere.
XP sucks, it's been well established in great detail. Though it can be made to work well enough.
Vista sucks. Vista is NT6.0 Windows7 is NT6.1 (still Vista)
Windows8 dont exist.
Seems Microsoft is hard at work paving the way for Linux... Microsoft truly drives people toward higher quality safer more secure more economic technlology. sweet
Windows ftp.exe can scripted to download browsers, easy. If wget is too GPL or something.
The best and most fair solution should be to include all browsers on the Windows CD and choose during or just after Windows Install. There should also be allowed to Install/Uninstall whatever browser they like at any time. (Yes including truly Uninstalling IE)
A bigger problem is in what order are these chioces presented. The one on the top-left will get almost all clicks even if it's Lynx or something:O
Slashdot Mirror
Just after Win7 was released Microsoft begun making Windows8.
They say Win8 is due 2012.
Microsoft also have begun planning for Windows9. I guess Microsoft
want Windows running on those big boats after the world ended...
I agree that common sense helps to aviod several viruses.
But 'Linux dont have viruses because it's not as popular as Windows' is a myth.
Example, Apache is far more popular then Microsoft IIS, yet Apache has near-zero viruses.
Also fun is that running Windows-programs in Wine is much safer then running them
in Windows.
Linux security model has fundamental differences from all Windows versions.
Windows simply wasnt made from the ground-up with proper security in mind. And now
Windows has grown in size that a re-write is impossible.
Even when/if Linux becomes 100% popular and all the worlds criminals etc tries
to create malware for Linux, they wont succeed in building one that spreads. Each
machine must be infected one by one, manually by each user. These users must be
dumb enough to manually infect themselfs *while* smart enough to know how to do so.
Any automatic spread will be extremly rare and extremly short-lived, if it ever
happens at all.
There will never be a need for running anti-malware to protect Linux.
There's some material on the subject, here's a good one,
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=virus#virus
Here's a challange to try to write a Linux virus,
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/skoll/anti-virus.php
I noticed a few wind-mills in the Trilogy so they could expand that and invent
steam-power and so on, and begin an industrial era.
And later on the hobbits invent cars. And computers and begins an
MiddleEarth Information Age. Then we get to follow thier progress when they invent
space-travel and begin exploring thier galaxy! Where they explore strange new worlds,
and civilizations. To boldly go, where no hobbit/human/wizard/elf/dwarf/ent/etc
have never gone before! And then, finally we get to see how they discover the science
behind all the fracking magic... No?
Speaking of Fantasy, LoTR/Starwars crossover would work. Both are Fantasy.
Bang For The Buck Conclusion, QuakeWars and Crysis fps
i7-975 . . . . (175.2/969.99 * 187.43/969.99) /2 = 0.017 FpsForEachBuck .(196.9/999.99 * 234.24/999.99) /2 = 0.023 .. . (172.3/569.99 * 167.33/569.99) /2 = 0.044 /2 = 0.190 /2 = 0.290
i7-980X. . .
i7-870 .
Phe2X4-965 (128.8/194.99 * 112.33/194.99)
i5-750 . . . . (150.3/199.99 * 154.62/199.99)
As we go lower in cost we can get even more for each buck. The key is
to discover a sweet spot between too-high-costs and performance-too-slow-for-our-need.
(i7-980X 999.99$ is just a guess)
The internet is missing a site that combine a comprehensive cpu-chart real-world benchmarks
with current prices...
http://edge.technet.com/Media/Interview-with-Mark-Russinovich-the-future-of-Sysinternals-Security-Windows
http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/edge/2/9/5/1/MarkRussinovichEdge_edge.wmv
Most of the video is basic market hype. But at 27:10
Why not scrap the entire Windows code base and start over?
Russinovich openly freely admit that it's simply too much work!
CONCLUSIONS
1. Vista/7/8 = Forever Unsafe.
2. Microsoft dont even want to try making a safe Windows.
http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/9/1/1/5/3/4/RussinovichInsideWindows7_ch9.wmv
Most of the video is basic market hype. But at 41.50
Russinovich explain one of the reasons why Vista/7 will always be bloated.
CONCLUSION
Every Windows will be slower and slower and slower and slower.
I consider Privacy a basic Human Right. Nothing more, nothing less. I dont want
any one spying on any of us IRL just as i dont want any one spying on us online.
For example, as Google want to know everything about us and consider privacy dead.
Then why cant we know everything about Google?! Where they live. What they do.
Who they talk to. What they say. What they think, oppinions, feelings etc etc!
Btw, only blocking 3rdPartyCookies still allows 1stPartyCookies. I've been testing
which Cookies i can live without for half a year now.
1. First i erased all cookies to begin with a clean slate.
2. Then i tried surfing with AllCookiesOff, i found for example that Youtube auto-login
require Google 1st and 3rd -Cookies and Youtube Cookies. So i told Opera 'Site Preferences'
to allow all cookies for those sites.
And Google SearchPreferences cookie (NoWebHistory NoAutoSuggest NoFilter). And a few more sites.
But then i quickly exited Opera and saved a copy of my cookies.dat
3. I edited my Opera.lnk to reset new cookies to make it much hard to track me. /d /c start /min cmd /d /c copy /y %ProgramFiles%\Opera\profile\cookies0.dat %ProgramFiles%\Opera\profile\cookies4.dat & start %ProgramFiles%\Opera\Opera.exe
%windir%\system32\cmd.exe
(9.27, newer Opera still too ugly)
I also did one for my Iron browser.
4. Now i enjoy faster and safer browsing. With suprisingly few problems.
5. Btw, this blocks FlashCookies. No problems.
rd /s /q "%AppData%\Adobe" /s /q "%AppData%\Macromedia" /y NUL "%AppData%\Adobe\Flash Player" /y NUL "%AppData%\Macromedia\Flash Player" /y NUL "%UserProfile%\..\Default User\Application Data\Adobe\Flash Player" /y NUL "%UserProfile%\..\Default User\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player"
rd
md "%AppData%\Adobe"
md "%AppData%\Macromedia"
copy
copy
md "%UserProfile%\..\Default User\Application Data\Adobe"
md "%UserProfile%\..\Default User\Application Data\Macromedia"
copy
copy
Windows, Office, and Server will eventually be replaced with Linux someday...
"Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect" -Linus
The sad part is that the kernel alone wont replace Windows. We still need to fix GNOME into something
non-bloated and good enough that most will agree on it beeing 'the GUI for Linux' . KDE and most
WindowManagers are very nice but they dont fill that gap.
A fully working replacement for ActiveDirectory is also required. Or am i missing something obvious?
And a little more work on Wine.
With these three in place i dont see any reason for n00bs nor organizations nor me to loose any more
money to Microsoft.
It all depends. Is it going to be sci-fi -looking but behave like Fantasy.
Or is it actual sci-fi?
I dont remember the originals that well, where they Fantasy or sci-fi?
If the new is going to be actual-sci-fi then some serious thinking has
to be done about many things.
Btw, How about a remake of Star Trek with actual sci-fi!? What, too soon? :P
I can tolerate SW 3-4-5. There's even brilliant moments.
(1-2-3 dont even qualify as mediocre Star Wars)
I suggest re-borrow the good ideas from Stargate, with
ascension and telekinesis and so on. Make The Force into
real sci-fi, rather then Fantasy/Religion thingy.
And make it for grown-ups this time.
And bring back Jar-Jar for two seconds and drop an 5000kg
anvil on him.
Google Ads are opt-out. That's why we need Browsers that
AdBlock By Default to gain back the balance we had. And to
give back privicy to all those non-technical people that
doesnt have a clue what to choose.
I install all Browser's to people with proper hosts and
some extra fine-tuning Browser-settings that hosts-file cant do.
I'm thinking of creating a Schedule job bat script that wget's an
updated hosts file every so and so...
But even this wont solve the whole problem. I'm already seeing
css-ads that i cant block yet. My battle to stop annoying web-browsing
has only begun.
Google:"The market will sort itself"
Yes it would if we lived in a capitalist utopia where everyone do
business without any greed to screw people over. And where customers
where in-depth experts in all details for every deal they make. Then
yes indeed such a world would be sweet.
epic [facepalm]
I sure hope Germany leads the way and ban AdSense spyware and all tracking
methods that could (and will) be used against us.
Oh dear no!! That's bad news for.. ehm.. no one!
No one use Yahoo nor Bing (i've even put www.bing.com in my hosts)
But frankly Google must have competition from somewhere. Google
is becoming more privicy Evil for every day that goes by. The
non-savvy users are screwed by default.
That's why i choose the cheapest internet money can buy 250kbps/128kbps ~9€/month :D
I keep DC++ up around the clock on a silent 256 RAM 350MHz. I get on average
a movie per day, that's more then plenty for me.
Even Youtube often works _while_ p2p does two full uploads!
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\parameters] ;unlock larger TcpWindowSize And no Timestamp save 12 Byte every packet ;smoother traffic. 'd' also works, but perhaps high latency ;connections suffer if there's too long wait between ACKs... ;1-6 = 100-600ms Def=200 ;no extra packet overhead ;=4095 Def=1000(ms) between keepalives when no response is received ;Linux def=75000 (may have changed nowadays?) ;XPDef=5 requests for data. LinuxDef=9
"Tcp1323Opts"=dword:1
"TcpAckFrequency"=dword:9
"TcpDelAckTicks"=dword:6
"SackOpts"=dword:0
"KeepAliveInterval"=dword:fff
"TcpMaxDataRetransmissions"=dword:4
Carefully add one at a time and measure overall performance over time. Check if it
makes things better or worse or has no effect. I've been using these with no noticable
problems over several years.
Oh, and the 350MHz PC is also a DNS server, helps cut more traffic.
(i tweaked W2003 until it ran fine on 256 RAM)
rd /s /q "%AppData%\Adobe" /s /q "%AppData%\Macromedia" /y NUL "%AppData%\Adobe\Flash Player" /y NUL "%AppData%\Macromedia\Flash Player" /y NUL "%UserProfile%\..\Default User\Application Data\Adobe\Flash Player" /y NUL "%UserProfile%\..\Default User\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player"
rd
md "%AppData%\Adobe"
md "%AppData%\Macromedia"
copy
copy
md "%UserProfile%\..\Default User\Application Data\Adobe"
md "%UserProfile%\..\Default User\Application Data\Macromedia"
copy
copy
I've used this for almost a year now without problem. :P
And any problem that might surface is far less then the
privacy loss from cookies
Isnt ChromeOS more aimed at replacing thin clients?
With the Cloud replacing the centralized Server.
No more need for expensive Server hardware.
No more need for expensive Server OS Licenses.
No more need for expensive Server Antivirus Licenses.
(No doubt this may cause Ballmer to sob his way to sleep
every night)
For all people that just want to write and surf and such,
COS would Check-Mate all Thin Clients and Ubuntu/XP/Vista/7.
(More sobbing)
People that need faster hardware, gamers and such dont need
to bother with COS.
(Happy Ballmer. For now)
Btw, could Chrome ever run WINE? What _is_ the Cloud? Flash? Java?
Google is just too sloppy with thier algorithms. But
the much much bigger problem is the existence of all the
rasist sites.
I'm no legal expert. But is rasism _LEGAL_ in the US??!
(assuming some of the sites are from US or made by white americans)
To solve this problem, you americans, must create some proper laws ffs.
I assume you have laws against other illegal contents. I mean in those
instances you've managed to lessen Free Speech within reason.
I'm confused.
Sue google for illegal algorithms? I'm serious. Try doing something
to fix this!
Make a law that say: black-human image + monkey image + rasism context = illegal.
Sci-fi is important for the mainstream, not just to geeks. SF must try to reach the masses.
Firefly was fantastic in that regard. My little sister, who hates space,
was glued to all episodes. Allthough the actual science and sci-fi in Firefly lacked detail.
Still, Firefly and later on BattlestarGalactica did wonders to make sci-fi more mainstream
without beeing bad. (Allthough BSG after season 3,5 was completly worthless)
Star Trek 2009 also tried to have it both ways. The result was that trekkies felt like barf
and women enjoyd it!
And now, Stargate Universe tries to be mainstream. Needless to say, there's a looong way
to go yet...
On the more scary aspect of where sci-fi actually IS dying. Fantasy that tries to look
like Sci-fi: StarWars Heroes X-Men Hitchhiker'sGuide Dollhouse X-Files and on and on...
This is extremly troublesome since better sci-fi lead to better science.
MEANING OF LIFE SPOILER ALERT!!!
(If you like to discover it by yourself and have a big
sweet eureka-moment take all the time you desire before
reading further)
Since there are _only_ two things that effect us.
1. Evolution of Genes (i was created by my parents, not God. Duh!)
2. Evolution of Memes (=information) (Richard Dawkins invented the word in 1976)
It covers everything and explains everything. I think
it's actually far more beautiful then e=mc^2.
And the nicest thing is that it's up to _us_ to choose
how to best use evolution and information.
You have the freedom to share your data with Google.
But i dont have the freedom to choose not to. That's
the principle. I want you to have the freedom of chioce.
But i also want that freedom for me too.
At this point Google isnt a BadGuy. But Google cant guarantee
us that it will behave like this next year or even next week.
That's the second principle.
CONCLUSION
Google = Spyware
I'm doing everything i can think of to protect my freedom of
choice over who and what have my data.
Opera default settings: NoCookies NoFlash NoReferer
Then edit 'Site Preferences' for sites that really need it.
(More work is in progress...)
I also block Flash-Cookies. /s /q "%AppData%\Adobe" /s /q "%AppData%\Macromedia" /y NUL "%AppData%\Adobe\Flash Player" /y NUL "%AppData%\Macromedia\Flash Player" /y NUL "%UserProfile%\..\Default User\Application Data\Adobe\Flash Player" /y NUL "%UserProfile%\..\Default User\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player"
rd
rd
md "%AppData%\Adobe"
md "%AppData%\Macromedia"
copy
copy
md "%UserProfile%\..\Default User\Application Data\Adobe"
md "%UserProfile%\..\Default User\Application Data\Macromedia"
copy
copy
Btw, i would never PAY to be anonymous. I see it as a Human Right, and we should
never have to pay for that.
Slightly Offtopic. But here's how to get smoother and faster
traffic. So that Upload distrupt Download far less.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\parameters]
"TcpAckFrequency"=dword:9
dword:d also works. But above that things probably becomes too smooth.
Compare the 'Before' and 'After' real-world download speeds.
Especially how online gaming and interactive things behave.
Linux dont seem to have this tweak. Right?
Win7: still Vista
ServicePacks and WindowsUpdates hasnt fixed Vista.
Microsoft: WindowsUpdate replace your old Bugs with new fresh Bugs!
Btw Windows8 nickname W8
(because that's what ppl does to find a replacement for XP. _wait_ )
Why dont Microsoft just FIX XP-32 and XP-64 ?!?
Use nLite and you're halfway there. Add modern drivers.
Microsoft could add support for QuadCore and DX11 and whatnot.
Then XP would hold Linux at bay!
(fortunally Microsoft helps Linux nowadays, hehe)
I had to learn several lines of php to get my images
dir listing working again. There's no way i
spend hours making links to over 100 images.
The web-upload interface was reason enough to pull the
plug.
Anyone know of any free sites with ftp that allow
dir listing ?
This why i dont come running to Firefox with open arms.
(staying with Opera)
What if Firefox pissed in Microsoft's IE's pool ?!?
Microsoft would turn into the Hulk of Lawyers.
Microsoft: BU!
Firefox: Fold.
This html works.
base href=http://>
body background=//www.w3schools.com/graphics/images/back/sky6.jpg>
img src=//www.w3schools.com/images/stickman.gif>
img src=http://www.w3schools.com/images/stickman.gif>
But it brakes all relative paths. So it doesnt automatically saves Bytes
everywhere.
XP sucks, it's been well established in great detail. Though
it can be made to work well enough.
Vista sucks. Vista is NT6.0
Windows7 is NT6.1 (still Vista)
Windows8 dont exist.
Seems Microsoft is hard at work paving the way for Linux...
Microsoft truly drives people toward higher quality
safer more secure more economic technlology. sweet
Windows ftp.exe can scripted to download browsers, easy.
If wget is too GPL or something.
The best and most fair solution should be
to include all browsers on the Windows CD and
choose during or just after Windows Install.
There should also be allowed to Install/Uninstall
whatever browser they like at any time.
(Yes including truly Uninstalling IE)
A bigger problem is in what order are these chioces :O
presented. The one on the top-left will get almost all
clicks even if it's Lynx or something