In Opera, it's right button down, left button click to go back, left button down, right click to go forward. Always. It's the same in Firefox, until Firefox gets updated and the gestures plugin is broken for a few weeks until the maintainers fix it for the new firefox version. Going to IE is a nightmare. Then it's right click, click Back on the right-click menu. Once you get used to mouse gestures, you wonder why anyone would ever waste so much mouse mileage going up to the Back button all the time.
Why not move to Linux? Maybe because 99+% of all significant applications used by businesses have been built for Windows. Or do you think it would be trivial for every software vendor out there to drop everything they've been working on for the last 20 years to switch platforms?
I've kept a copy of the installer for the freeware version of PGP before they started getting uppity about it. Works on XP just great. Version 8.0.2.... dunno if this version is still found in the wild....
Hi... I recently read one of Victor Hugo's lesser known works, Toilers Of The Sea. I enjoyed it and recommend it for any fan of Hugo. It kind of reminded me of Jude The Obscure meets Swiss Family Robinson.
Anyway, this story reminds me of this book because of a fierce battle this guy has with a giant (or at least really big) octopus. The main strategic point to keep in mind; don't fight the arms, go for the head.
Explain what files are. Explain what programs are. Explain that you use programs to open/run/play files. Explain that files go places, most usually on the hard drive, and they're sorted into directories, or 'folders' if you insist. Explain that everything is kept in files one way or another. The computer doesn't just magically know everything.
From there you could also explain how files are loaded into memory, saved, deleted, copied, moved, etc.
Fairly self-explanatory... make a porno image... or even... eeep... goatse guy... default Windows wallpaper via virus/worm, set default homepage to nambla.org.... then disable ability to change these back.
Hi I love Opera and bought it... several years ago, then a recent upgrade. THEN, you made it free!!!
So, that makes me think, maybe you made the PC version free, and are going to concentrate on the mobile versions, which you probably really make money on. Does this mean that the free PC version will stagnate? Or will future versions be built, with fun new features?
Also... how about a new logo? Or maybe a cross-marketing deal with Oprah?
Actually.... this is for in-house use, not to be sold, given away, shared, etc. Everything I/we build is exclusively for in-house use, as I don't work for a software development firm. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that the majority of geeks aren't employed by "solution providers" but by other types of companies to build/maintain in-house stuff.
But still... I think MySQL will really take off more when the scheduling thing is put into place. MS SQL Server may be proprietary and etc., but when you're loaded down with a lot of tasks, it's a lot easier to build DTS tasks and schedule them as jobs than to jerry-rig a MySql solution with stored procedures and batch files. Just today I decided doing something with MySql just wasn't worth the bother - I do have full versions of MS SQL Server at my disposal. Though, it appears that Visual Studio 2005 doesn't like MS SQL Server pre-2000.... grrr...
By The Way.... X11R7.0 was released today... go to www.X.org for details.
You know, Orwell wrote a lot more than 1984 and Animal Farm.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't MAC Address and IP sent through all hardware between one's computer and "destination" sites/services? Or is this akin to marrying your SSN to a MAC address. Really, I'm too lazy to RTFA, on the off-chance that it's not slashdotted... I'm tired of checking. Yawn.
An over-simplification, perhaps, but, look at it this way.
The typical male gamer (and they are the majority) have shunned what society has defined as normal, acceptible male behavior and attire. As such, they are pretty much gender-neutral, and as likely to wish to portray themselves as women as men in games. Furthermore, the fact that they have shunned society's male "costume/custom" indicates that they lean towards being female to begin with. But, in the real world, they have male characteristics that prevent them (mostly), from exploring their femininity; physical gender (genitalia, physical build, facial hair, et), societal roles (son, brother, father). So, the artificial world of a game is a perfectly safe place for them to explore their femininity. They can choose to be super-duper elite women (smart, courageous, wise, etc), or just sexy, with big bossoms and etc. Or, maybe both, say in the form of that Tomb Raider character, or the main character on the tv show Alias (though not a game, similar escapist mechanism).
I'm particularly fond of the SysInternals Blue Screen Of Death Screensaver. Put it on a few key pc's and watch them go bonkers. Really, it's a nice, mostly-harmless way to say Adios, mes Amis!
That's my question during all this. Why don't people just rip the tracks to mp3 and be done with it? Does everyone have auto-play on for audio cds? If so, don't they kind of deserve whatever they get?
Now I have to learn an entirely new twisted form of "simplified" WORD to get things to look right?
You don't have to do jack. You can still use Office 95 if you want. Unless maybe Al Qaida has you tied up with a gun to your head forcing you to buy every software release from Microsoft.
It's php based. Sure, it's a bit old-fasioned and isn't all webby-schmebby, but who cares. I SSH to my server and add entries as I see fit. Yes, there are probably easier, better, more fun and geekerific ways to do it, but that's how I do it.
Also, I started doing what kids today call blogging back in 1994... periodic diary-type entries on my webpage. Looking back, maybe I should've kept copies of it all, but that would've been a pain in the ass without something like Blosxom, which keeps things in tidy little directories. Oh well.
...are available for less than $10.00 USD at Target, and other places. They're supposed to keep bad stuff from leaking out of your pillow. I got some for my 20+ year-old pillows because my wife and kids seem to have allergies. Whatever.
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In Opera, it's right button down, left button click to go back, left button down, right click to go forward. Always.
It's the same in Firefox, until Firefox gets updated and the gestures plugin is broken for a few weeks until the maintainers fix it for the new firefox version.
Going to IE is a nightmare. Then it's right click, click Back on the right-click menu.
Once you get used to mouse gestures, you wonder why anyone would ever waste so much mouse mileage going up to the Back button all the time.
Why not move to Linux?
Maybe because 99+% of all significant applications used by businesses have been built for Windows.
Or do you think it would be trivial for every software vendor out there to drop everything they've been working on for the last 20 years to switch platforms?
But if you follow the links to download, they go back to pgp.org where you have to pay $$$$
I've kept a copy of the installer for the freeware version of PGP before they started getting uppity about it.
Works on XP just great. Version 8.0.2.... dunno if this version is still found in the wild....
Submitted, and rejected. Go figure. But gaming tripe on front page.
Yawn. I come here because? I forget.
Thanks, I'll be here all week... be sure to tip your waitress.
Hi... I recently read one of Victor Hugo's lesser known works, Toilers Of The Sea. I enjoyed it and recommend it for any fan of Hugo. It kind of reminded me of Jude The Obscure meets Swiss Family Robinson.
Anyway, this story reminds me of this book because of a fierce battle this guy has with a giant (or at least really big) octopus. The main strategic point to keep in mind; don't fight the arms, go for the head.
This seems to be the biggest mystery for many.
Explain what files are. Explain what programs are. Explain that you use programs to open/run/play files. Explain that files go places, most usually on the hard drive, and they're sorted into directories, or 'folders' if you insist. Explain that everything is kept in files one way or another. The computer doesn't just magically know everything.
From there you could also explain how files are loaded into memory, saved, deleted, copied, moved, etc.
Worse yet - Atheism! Zoot Alors! The thought that the basis of their belief system is pure fiction... really bugs those religious wackos.
Really, it does.
Fairly self-explanatory... make a porno image... or even... eeep... goatse guy... default Windows wallpaper via virus/worm, set default homepage to nambla.org.... then disable ability to change these back.
I love Opera and bought it... several years ago, then a recent upgrade. THEN, you made it free!!!
So, that makes me think, maybe you made the PC version free, and are going to concentrate on the mobile versions, which you probably really make money on. Does this mean that the free PC version will stagnate? Or will future versions be built, with fun new features?
Also... how about a new logo? Or maybe a cross-marketing deal with Oprah?
Thanks!
Actually.... this is for in-house use, not to be sold, given away, shared, etc. Everything I/we build is exclusively for in-house use, as I don't work for a software development firm. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that the majority of geeks aren't employed by "solution providers" but by other types of companies to build/maintain in-house stuff.
By The Way.... X11R7.0 was released today... go to www.X.org for details.
It's funner when someone else does it, that's why, Einstein!!!!!
And yes, funner is a word.
You know, Orwell wrote a lot more than 1984 and Animal Farm.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't MAC Address and IP sent through all hardware between one's computer and "destination" sites/services? Or is this akin to marrying your SSN to a MAC address. Really, I'm too lazy to RTFA, on the off-chance that it's not slashdotted... I'm tired of checking. Yawn.
An over-simplification, perhaps, but, look at it this way.
The typical male gamer (and they are the majority) have shunned what society has defined as normal, acceptible male behavior and attire. As such, they are pretty much gender-neutral, and as likely to wish to portray themselves as women as men in games. Furthermore, the fact that they have shunned society's male "costume/custom" indicates that they lean towards being female to begin with. But, in the real world, they have male characteristics that prevent them (mostly), from exploring their femininity; physical gender (genitalia, physical build, facial hair, et), societal roles (son, brother, father). So, the artificial world of a game is a perfectly safe place for them to explore their femininity.
They can choose to be super-duper elite women (smart, courageous, wise, etc), or just sexy, with big bossoms and etc. Or, maybe both, say in the form of that Tomb Raider character, or the main character on the tv show Alias (though not a game, similar escapist mechanism).
That's just my 2 cents, your mileage may vary.
Don't forget Opera Web Browser.
Now, it's free without the ad banner. It's been a good Linux web browser for quite a while.
Really, if it's a piece of crap, return it. Otherwise, they'll just keep spooning you more crap and taking your money, forever.
Now I have to learn an entirely new twisted form of "simplified" WORD to get things to look right?
You don't have to do jack. You can still use Office 95 if you want. Unless maybe Al Qaida has you tied up with a gun to your head forcing you to buy every software release from Microsoft.
Call me old fasioned... Blosxom works pretty well for me... here's a link: http://www.raelity.org/apps/blosxom/
It's php based. Sure, it's a bit old-fasioned and isn't all webby-schmebby, but who cares. I SSH to my server and add entries as I see fit. Yes, there are probably easier, better, more fun and geekerific ways to do it, but that's how I do it.
Also, I started doing what kids today call blogging back in 1994... periodic diary-type entries on my webpage. Looking back, maybe I should've kept copies of it all, but that would've been a pain in the ass without something like Blosxom, which keeps things in tidy little directories. Oh well.