When I got a second job I started using my Yahoo! account more and more since I was never home to POP. Overall I was pretty happy with it so I decided to pay for it so I could get more space (back when it was, like, 10 MB or something) and better spam filtering. Well, the supposedly "personalized" spam filtering seems no better than the free version.* (I was really hoping for effective personalized server-side bayesian filtering.) Plus, recently, things are breaking: - HTML graphics keep showig up, even though I have them blocked - it's getting flakey. I'll click on 5 messages to open in tabs, just like I've been doing for years, and half of the tabs show the main page, not the message. Of the messages that do open right, half of those give a "we didn't understand your request" when I try to delete them. (And no, it's not my company's new caching proxy server--which totally broke gmail--it happens at the other job and home, too. Everywhere, all of a sudden, about a month ago.)
I sent in a complaint about the images but never got a worthwhile answer back. I talked to them, gave them access to look at my account and one message that always showed a graphic, but then never heard back again. Because of that, I probably won't even bother to complain about the other crap that's breaking since it's not even consistent.
I figured it's growing pains from adding new users and space and they'd get it worked out soon. But gack, I hope they don't keep adding more space, attracting new users, and not fixing what's already wrong with it.
I have a gmail account but overall don't like it much. I haven't RTFM yet, but then again, I shouldn't have to for the basic stuff. Is it just me, or is there no way to do "sort by sender" or "sort by subject" in gmail?
* not only do I get the same spams over and over again, all my monthly mail list reminders keep winding up in the spam bin, even though I click 'not spam' every time I see them.
It won't fix everything, but a custom/etc/hosts file like this one will kill a lot of ads, including lots of Flash. Takes a bit of work on OS X--you can't just 'sudo cat hosts.txt >>/etc/hosts', you have to 'sudo -s' and actually *be* root before you add their hosts file to yours. Not sure why, but once it's working, it's great.
I have but one Mac virus story: the autostart worm (google for it) of 1998. Corrupted EPS and TIFF files, among others, and being a publisher, we got hit pretty hard. Took a while to get to each desktop and clean. (200+ Macs.) OTOH, that's nothing compared to the fact that two Windows worms IN ONE YEAR caused us to shut down our ENTIRE NETWORK, and that was just a year or two ago.
As soon as the Mini came out, I predicted Apple could go as high as 10-15% by Summer 2006. To everyone who asks my advice on what kind of new computer to get, I recommend a Mini so they can avoid spyware. To everyone who has a PC and is sick of spyware, I recommend a Mini. (My mom wanted to replace her aging PII/266 but she didn't listen to me--she got an iMac instead.)
Now that spyware is such a huge honking problem and people are buying new PCs just to get away from it, I imagine it'll drive a bunch of people to switch. Honestly, if it weren't for spyware, I'd still go either way. All else being equal, PCs are still cheaper for low-end use. But with spyware being as bad as it is, I think Apple can really make a dent.
...was at Siggraph in Orlando, FL in 1998. One booth had goggles (not sure what else to call them, kind of like these) and a headband with a gyro-sensor-thingie. Even though it wasn't 3d/stereo (the only possible improvement), it was so awesome. They had a good FPS game running (I think either GLQuake or Quake II at the time) and it was the greatest thing in the world. Just as good as you can imagine--walk with the arrow keys on a keyboard, shoot with 'control', but you could look around with your head, rather than the mouse.
It worked perfectly. Just what VR should be. Better than the those big, clunky, slow things at the mall; probably as good as what was imagined by Gibson. Better than what was shown in that crappy movie with Michael Douglas and Demi Moore, based on the equally crappy Crichton book. Perfect, perfect, perfect--very fast, no delay at all, nothing unnatural about it. Just turn your head, look up, and that's what you see. Exactly what you would expect.
My question is this: it's six and a half years later. Gear like this should be a few hundred bucks now. Why isn't it everywhere? Sony quit making the glasstrons, and this place has gyros be they seem like they cost a lot more than they should. I don't know a gamer who wouldn't love a setup like this. Gamers have spent a zillion dollars on video cards and controllers in the last decade. Stuff like this seems like it would have a huge market, and capitalism--more than nature itself--abhors a vacuum.
"I then enabled SSL for the admin pages, so I must type https://192.168.1.1/ (the actual IP is different) to reach the router's admin page."
Cool! Now, has Linksys quit using GET for their form actions? On the password-change page, you type in your password, click 'submit', and see it in plain text in the URL of resulting page, like this: http://192.168.1.1/Gozilla.cgi?sysPasswd=0w n3d&sys PasswdConfirm=0wn3d...
Great for when you're helping your boss set up his home LAN: "OK, now type in a new password, I'll turn around now, OK, did you hit submit? Great. Now, let me turn back around, and secretly look at the location box... great. Now I'm off to work to read your email."
Not quite. Sleazy marketroids were abusing Yahoo! via META tags a decade ago. Rule #1 of the universe: sleazy marketroids (pardon me if that's redundant) will do whatever is possible to make sure their company name is in your face; screw your desires, the public good, and shared resources.
Google (heh) for "tragedy of the commons." Short version: any time there are public resources freely available, abuses will follow by people who think their desires are more important than the rest. There would be no "Adopt-a-highway" program if that weren't the case.
... who hears the voice of a pseudo-scientific Monty Python narrator as I read this? "Indigo was one of the three original "pillars" of Longhorn, however under the new plan it will be re-tooled to work with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, in addition to Longhorn, which will, in fact, never ship."
"That said, this is definitely a good thing. "Dictionary.com is fine and all, but answers.com provides a lot more information for most words"
Quantity is not always good. I noticed this right away and wrote to Google after my first couple trips there. They made some changes, I thought, but all the crappy bloat is back--translations in 14 languages, and pictures. Fuck! Shit takes for-fucking-ever to load compared to the nice, light, simple dictionary.com pages. I do *not* need all this crap 99 times out of 100.
c'mon, housing bubble, burst already! I want to move back to CA!!!!
(note to self: be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. if the bubble bursts, the rest of your family that was smart enough *not* to leave CA might be in bad shape.)
Yet somehow you have managed to read Slashdot, despite it being as wide as possible. Hmm... amazing. What advanced technology did you use to accomplish this feat? Did you, perhaps, RESIZE YOUR BROWSER WINDOW?!?!? UN FUCKING BELIEVABLE!!!!!11
I don't necessarily need the page spread across my WHOLE screen, but I can certainly go wider than 5 words at a time. Hey Paul, how 'bout letting ME decide how wide a column is? Yes, there is such a thing as "too wide." There's also "annoyingly short." Thanks!
Not Lucas, et al, but the jerks at Fox. I TiVo'd The OC tonight. I never watch it but wanted to see the trailer. They played it right over the:59-:00 split, so I'm missing the last (5? 15?) seconds. Oh well. Looks great so far. Let's hope this one is good. (It's aiming too low to just hope it's better than I & II.) I've been suckered by a million trailers before, but this one really does look good. As does Sin City, which I'm looking forward to just as much as Episode 3. (Trailer for that was also on the OC.) Tarantino is back with a great cast of characters (Bruce Willis and Michael Madsen, to name just two) and I haven't liked anything he's done in a while (Jackie Brown, Kill Bills) so I hope he's back to his old self.
I can honestly say that nowadays, when I hear a song and want to get it I check iTMS first and LimeWire second. I'd rather pay and get a known-good track (complete, decent bitrate, proper tags, good pipe) very quickly than one that might be here in 30 seconds or 5 minutes, may or may not be complete, may or may not have flaws, and will almost certainly need to be retagged. (I used to just do filesystem searches and only cared about the filename but now I have Seen The Light (tm) of metadata.) No sense mentioning the fear that maybe, just maybe, I'll be the next to be sued. At $.05 per song I'd never download a song from p2p again unless it just wasn't in the catalog.
...ask Apple. Seriously. My company has an account executive and a systems engineer that visit us twice a year. Between them, they'll be able to tell you exactly what OS X can and can't do, and what it'll cost. You don't have to be a huge company to get this kind of service. If you want to spend money, they'll let you talk to whoever it takes to answer your questions and close the sale.
Most likely it can be done but it is a pretty complex request so it *will* come down to money--either paying someone to come in and do it, or paying to train someone in-house to take care of it. Unlike something relatively simple and common, like setting up Apache, when you get this far into things there aren't a lot of tutorials on the web. Despite what Apple and MS imply, there is no flashing "Click me to integrate everything" button. Complicated shit like this is... complicated. You'll probably have to pay, one way or another. Start here: http://train.apple.com/
"I think most Slashdotters will be pleased (or at least would be, if they used IE) with the new Spellcheck feature on the Google Toolbar. That's a pretty cool feature."
Searching for: porn: zero matches. Did you mean: pr0n?
Google goes nuts when it runs into PHP iCalendar. It sees every link as a new page to look at, and after a few runs by googlebot, it's trying to index the daily calendar page for every day within a decade of today.
Yeah, I've seen similar problems before. At least you still have your data.:-)
Yahoo also lets you click on a TV show in its listings (tv.yahoo.com) and add it to your calendar. (and their TV listings kick ass, too, with searches and whatnot.) I used it heavily for about six months--right up until I got a TiVo.
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When I got a second job I started using my Yahoo! account more and more since I was never home to POP. Overall I was pretty happy with it so I decided to pay for it so I could get more space (back when it was, like, 10 MB or something) and better spam filtering. Well, the supposedly "personalized" spam filtering seems no better than the free version.* (I was really hoping for effective personalized server-side bayesian filtering.) Plus, recently, things are breaking:
- HTML graphics keep showig up, even though I have them blocked
- it's getting flakey. I'll click on 5 messages to open in tabs, just like I've been doing for years, and half of the tabs show the main page, not the message. Of the messages that do open right, half of those give a "we didn't understand your request" when I try to delete them. (And no, it's not my company's new caching proxy server--which totally broke gmail--it happens at the other job and home, too. Everywhere, all of a sudden, about a month ago.)
I sent in a complaint about the images but never got a worthwhile answer back. I talked to them, gave them access to look at my account and one message that always showed a graphic, but then never heard back again. Because of that, I probably won't even bother to complain about the other crap that's breaking since it's not even consistent.
I figured it's growing pains from adding new users and space and they'd get it worked out soon. But gack, I hope they don't keep adding more space, attracting new users, and not fixing what's already wrong with it.
I have a gmail account but overall don't like it much. I haven't RTFM yet, but then again, I shouldn't have to for the basic stuff. Is it just me, or is there no way to do "sort by sender" or "sort by subject" in gmail?
* not only do I get the same spams over and over again, all my monthly mail list reminders keep winding up in the spam bin, even though I click 'not spam' every time I see them.
>Safari:
/etc/hosts file like this one will kill a lot of ads, including lots of Flash. Takes a bit of work on OS X--you can't just 'sudo cat hosts.txt >> /etc/hosts', you have to 'sudo -s' and actually *be* root before you add their hosts file to yours. Not sure why, but once it's working, it's great.
>-No way to block annoying Flash popups
It won't fix everything, but a custom
I have but one Mac virus story: the autostart worm (google for it) of 1998. Corrupted EPS and TIFF files, among others, and being a publisher, we got hit pretty hard. Took a while to get to each desktop and clean. (200+ Macs.) OTOH, that's nothing compared to the fact that two Windows worms IN ONE YEAR caused us to shut down our ENTIRE NETWORK, and that was just a year or two ago.
As soon as the Mini came out, I predicted Apple could go as high as 10-15% by Summer 2006. To everyone who asks my advice on what kind of new computer to get, I recommend a Mini so they can avoid spyware. To everyone who has a PC and is sick of spyware, I recommend a Mini. (My mom wanted to replace her aging PII/266 but she didn't listen to me--she got an iMac instead.)
Now that spyware is such a huge honking problem and people are buying new PCs just to get away from it, I imagine it'll drive a bunch of people to switch. Honestly, if it weren't for spyware, I'd still go either way. All else being equal, PCs are still cheaper for low-end use. But with spyware being as bad as it is, I think Apple can really make a dent.
...was at Siggraph in Orlando, FL in 1998. One booth had goggles (not sure what else to call them, kind of like these) and a headband with a gyro-sensor-thingie. Even though it wasn't 3d/stereo (the only possible improvement), it was so awesome. They had a good FPS game running (I think either GLQuake or Quake II at the time) and it was the greatest thing in the world. Just as good as you can imagine--walk with the arrow keys on a keyboard, shoot with 'control', but you could look around with your head, rather than the mouse.
It worked perfectly. Just what VR should be. Better than the those big, clunky, slow things at the mall; probably as good as what was imagined by Gibson. Better than what was shown in that crappy movie with Michael Douglas and Demi Moore, based on the equally crappy Crichton book. Perfect, perfect, perfect--very fast, no delay at all, nothing unnatural about it. Just turn your head, look up, and that's what you see. Exactly what you would expect.
My question is this: it's six and a half years later. Gear like this should be a few hundred bucks now. Why isn't it everywhere? Sony quit making the glasstrons, and this place has gyros be they seem like they cost a lot more than they should. I don't know a gamer who wouldn't love a setup like this. Gamers have spent a zillion dollars on video cards and controllers in the last decade. Stuff like this seems like it would have a huge market, and capitalism--more than nature itself--abhors a vacuum.
"I then enabled SSL for the admin pages, so I must type https://192.168.1.1/ (the actual IP is different) to reach the router's admin page."
w n3d&sys PasswdConfirm=0wn3d...
Cool! Now, has Linksys quit using GET for their form actions? On the password-change page, you type in your password, click 'submit', and see it in plain text in the URL of resulting page, like this:
http://192.168.1.1/Gozilla.cgi?sysPasswd=0
Great for when you're helping your boss set up his home LAN: "OK, now type in a new password, I'll turn around now, OK, did you hit submit? Great. Now, let me turn back around, and secretly look at the location box... great. Now I'm off to work to read your email."
"Google has made this so, I'm afraid."
Not quite. Sleazy marketroids were abusing Yahoo! via META tags a decade ago. Rule #1 of the universe: sleazy marketroids (pardon me if that's redundant) will do whatever is possible to make sure their company name is in your face; screw your desires, the public good, and shared resources.
Google (heh) for "tragedy of the commons." Short version: any time there are public resources freely available, abuses will follow by people who think their desires are more important than the rest. There would be no "Adopt-a-highway" program if that weren't the case.
Hey, you have to read this deep. If you don't, and you post your joke, you'll get a -1, Redundant mod, and who the hell needs *that*?!? :-)
... who hears the voice of a pseudo-scientific Monty Python narrator as I read this? "Indigo was one of the three original "pillars" of Longhorn, however under the new plan it will be re-tooled to work with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, in addition to Longhorn, which will, in fact, never ship."
Awesome! Even better! Thanks!
"We have got to find a way to make MS fully support CSS2."
Make'em support CSS 1 first.
Hey, c'mon, CSS 1 is barely a decade old. Give'em time. :-)
"That said, this is definitely a good thing. "Dictionary.com is fine and all, but answers.com provides a lot more information for most words"
Quantity is not always good. I noticed this right away and wrote to Google after my first couple trips there. They made some changes, I thought, but all the crappy bloat is back--translations in 14 languages, and pictures. Fuck! Shit takes for-fucking-ever to load compared to the nice, light, simple dictionary.com pages. I do *not* need all this crap 99 times out of 100.
c'mon, housing bubble, burst already! I want to move back to CA!!!!
(note to self: be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. if the bubble bursts, the rest of your family that was smart enough *not* to leave CA might be in bad shape.)
Yet somehow you have managed to read Slashdot, despite it being as wide as possible. Hmm... amazing. What advanced technology did you use to accomplish this feat? Did you, perhaps, RESIZE YOUR BROWSER WINDOW?!?!? UN FUCKING BELIEVABLE!!!!!11
I don't necessarily need the page spread across my WHOLE screen, but I can certainly go wider than 5 words at a time. Hey Paul, how 'bout letting ME decide how wide a column is? Yes, there is such a thing as "too wide." There's also "annoyingly short." Thanks!
Not Lucas, et al, but the jerks at Fox. I TiVo'd The OC tonight. I never watch it but wanted to see the trailer. They played it right over the :59-:00 split, so I'm missing the last (5? 15?) seconds. Oh well. Looks great so far. Let's hope this one is good. (It's aiming too low to just hope it's better than I & II.) I've been suckered by a million trailers before, but this one really does look good. As does Sin City, which I'm looking forward to just as much as Episode 3. (Trailer for that was also on the OC.) Tarantino is back with a great cast of characters (Bruce Willis and Michael Madsen, to name just two) and I haven't liked anything he's done in a while (Jackie Brown, Kill Bills) so I hope he's back to his old self.
Dear Paul,
If you don't
mind, I would
like to have
control over
how wide a
column of
text appears
in my web
browser
window.
Thanks,
Teh Intarweb
I can honestly say that nowadays, when I hear a song and want to get it I check iTMS first and LimeWire second. I'd rather pay and get a known-good track (complete, decent bitrate, proper tags, good pipe) very quickly than one that might be here in 30 seconds or 5 minutes, may or may not be complete, may or may not have flaws, and will almost certainly need to be retagged. (I used to just do filesystem searches and only cared about the filename but now I have Seen The Light (tm) of metadata.) No sense mentioning the fear that maybe, just maybe, I'll be the next to be sued. At $.05 per song I'd never download a song from p2p again unless it just wasn't in the catalog.
They don't come
when you call.
They don't chase
squirrels at all.
...ask Apple. Seriously. My company has an account executive and a systems engineer that visit us twice a year. Between them, they'll be able to tell you exactly what OS X can and can't do, and what it'll cost. You don't have to be a huge company to get this kind of service. If you want to spend money, they'll let you talk to whoever it takes to answer your questions and close the sale.
Most likely it can be done but it is a pretty complex request so it *will* come down to money--either paying someone to come in and do it, or paying to train someone in-house to take care of it. Unlike something relatively simple and common, like setting up Apache, when you get this far into things there aren't a lot of tutorials on the web. Despite what Apple and MS imply, there is no flashing "Click me to integrate everything" button. Complicated shit like this is... complicated. You'll probably have to pay, one way or another. Start here: http://train.apple.com/
"I think most Slashdotters will be pleased (or at least would be, if they used IE) with the new Spellcheck feature on the Google Toolbar. That's a pretty cool feature."
Searching for: porn: zero matches.
Did you mean: pr0n?
Google goes nuts when it runs into PHP iCalendar. It sees every link as a new page to look at, and after a few runs by googlebot, it's trying to index the daily calendar page for every day within a decade of today.
:-)
Yeah, I've seen similar problems before. At least you still have your data.
Yahoo also lets you click on a TV show in its listings (tv.yahoo.com) and add it to your calendar. (and their TV listings kick ass, too, with searches and whatnot.) I used it heavily for about six months--right up until I got a TiVo.
Dead horse? This is a Microsoft thread, not a BSD one. :-)
Besides, this isn't just old news. It still happens.
Yeah, eds, try harder next time. To make it really sensational, trim it down to something like this: "Linus is... a terrible engineer," said Cox.