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  1. Re:And I feel so safe downloading it.. on Xen-Based Secure OS Qubes Hits 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Yes, I know that. I'm just saying it is a much smaller problem than the plugins.

    Especially with rapid release like Chrome and Firefox use to keep your browser up to date.

  2. Re:And I feel so safe downloading it.. on Xen-Based Secure OS Qubes Hits 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Really how many Javascript security holes have their been the last 10 years ?

    In 99 of the 100 cases it was the Java or Acrobat Reader plugin which was the real problem. They just use Javascript to deliver it, but didn't have to.

  3. Re:And I feel so safe downloading it.. on Xen-Based Secure OS Qubes Hits 1.0 · · Score: 1

    You are probably saver just disabling plugins like Java, Acrobat Reader and maybe Flash (or at least use the lastest version).

    The Javascript is almost never the vulnerable part, it just used by many bootstrap it. But they don't have to do that.

  4. Re:Chrome and IE on Firefox, Opera Allow Phishing By Data URI Claims New Paper · · Score: 1

    No worries, IE still supports MHTML which doesn't have the lenght limit.

  5. Re:Chrome and IE on Firefox, Opera Allow Phishing By Data URI Claims New Paper · · Score: 1

    Many do both, include the sprite (as such a grid is called) in a CSS-file, the CSS-file is referenced on many pages on the site.

  6. Re:Chrome and IE on Firefox, Opera Allow Phishing By Data URI Claims New Paper · · Score: 1

    The biggest problem with TCP is False Start, but which means many small HTTP-requests will still be a lot slower than sending one large HTTP response.

  7. Re:Chrome and IE on Firefox, Opera Allow Phishing By Data URI Claims New Paper · · Score: 1

    What they usually do is create one CSS-file with all the smaller images included. The CSS-file can be cached, but still saves a whole bunch of requests for small images.

  8. Re:Chrome and IE on Firefox, Opera Allow Phishing By Data URI Claims New Paper · · Score: 1

    Ads are always loaded from other domains, don't worry about that.

  9. Re:The summary missed the real headline feature! on Firefox 15 Released: Silent Updates, Compressed Textures, Add-on Memory Leak Fix · · Score: 1

    Unless Opus becomes a IETF and W3 standard with "Mandatory To Implement" status for any browser that wants to claim support for any of the standards involved.

    If it gets that before any new codec comes to town, then the bridge will already be burned.

  10. Some Windows graphics systems are also blacklisted, actually the graphics performance on my Linux machine is better than my Windows machine.

  11. Re:Where is 64-bit version? on Firefox 15 Released: Silent Updates, Compressed Textures, Add-on Memory Leak Fix · · Score: 1

    It could be a problem with Firefox hardware acceleration and your graphics card/driver.

    At the end of the about:support page there is a 'Graphics'-heading which tells you what you have and if it is enabled.

    To enable or disable hardware acceleration:
    - to check or uncheck the box: Options -> Advanced -> General-tab: Use hardware acceleration when available

    - open/close Firefox completely.

    - try the ajax grid page again

  12. Re:SILENT updates? on Firefox 15 Released: Silent Updates, Compressed Textures, Add-on Memory Leak Fix · · Score: 1

    4 words:
    Firefox Extended Support Release

  13. Re:SILENT updates? on Firefox 15 Released: Silent Updates, Compressed Textures, Add-on Memory Leak Fix · · Score: 1

    Maybe what you need for your business is Firefox Extended Support Release ?:

    http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/

  14. Re:Old story, or something new? on Firefox 15 Released: Silent Updates, Compressed Textures, Add-on Memory Leak Fix · · Score: 1

    Not sure why, but in my case the Ubuntu machine at home got the Firefox 15 release even before the Windows machine at work.

  15. Re:Old story, or something new? on Firefox 15 Released: Silent Updates, Compressed Textures, Add-on Memory Leak Fix · · Score: 1

    They actually fixed, many, many of these bugs.

    This isn't just one bug, they fixed in this one release.

  16. Re:Not pair programming... on The Programmers Go Coding Two-by-Two — Hurrah? · · Score: 1

    "I don't know of another code editor with this feature."

    Cloud 9 IDE, a webbased IDE, does:
    https://c9.io/site/features/

    It's also an open source project:

    https://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9/

    There are other I believe.

  17. Re:Drug test the final standard? on Lance Armstrong and the Science of Drug Testing · · Score: 1

    This is exactly why under the latest rules no rides in the peloton can have any injections what so ever. Obviously unless done so by a physician when there is a known problem.

  18. Re:TFA doesn't give comparison on Review: Google Compute Engine · · Score: 1

    Actually, this was on the first page of the article:

    [ Move over, Amazon -- IaaS providers are elbowing into the cloud. [0] See how they compare in InfoWorld's slideshow. | Get the no-nonsense explanations and advice you need to take real advantage of cloud computing in the InfoWorld editors' "Cloud computing in 2012" PDF special report. [1] | Stay up on the cloud with InfoWorld's Cloud Computing Report newsletter. [2] ]

    [0] http://infoworld.com/slideshow/57435/amazons-cloud-feels-the-heat-google-hp-microsoft-198319
    [1] http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/cloud-computing-in-2012-infoworld-special-report-187077 (free registration required)
    [2] http://www.infoworld.com/newsletters/subscribe?showlist=infoworld_cloud_computing (free registration required)

  19. Re:ARM servers... on Baserock Slab Server Pairs High-Density ARM Chips With Linux · · Score: 1

    I had a small look around, maybe this site will help too:
    http://armservers.com/

  20. Re:ARM servers... on Baserock Slab Server Pairs High-Density ARM Chips With Linux · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Can't use it like one connection on 10 Internet Connections At Same Time · · Score: 2

    There is a big chance that will change in the future though. What do you think of Multi Path TCP ?

    short demo:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWN0ctPi5cw

    Longer presentation:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02nBaaIoFWU

    IETF WorkGroup:

    http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mptcp/charter/

    Linux kernel implementation:

    http://mptcp.info.ucl.ac.be/

  22. Re:Say what? on German Government Wants Google To Pay For the Right To Link To News Sites · · Score: 1

    GoogleBot supports:

    http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35304

    That is probably the one you are looking for.

  23. The lawn mower doesn't care on Is MySQL Slowly Turning Closed Source? · · Score: 1

    Think of Larry Ellison as you think of a lawn mower:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc#t=38m36s

  24. Re:What the hell is Wayland? on Ubuntu Delays Wayland Plans, System Compositor · · Score: 2

    Basically every program currently uses compositing (sometimes the toolkit/libraries does it for the program) or can easily do so.

    Compositing seems to be the most efficient way to do it, but compositing was something that was added later to X as an extension.

    They want to get rid of everything else in X and just use compositing as everything else can already be handled by the Linux kernel (this means wayland won't work for Unix as I understand it).

    X just has a whole lot of legacy code and some overhead.

    The reason why it is possible to build Wayland (replacing X is really big task) is because Wayland just does this small thing, compositing and all the other stuff can be handled by other parts of the system because in the years support for that has been added to the kernel or toolkit-libraries and so on.

    The reason why Wayland does not do networking... is because again, other systems can handle that. RDP, X11, SPICE and even VNC.

  25. Re:Forced Upgrades? on Why We Love Firefox, and Why We Hate It · · Score: 1

    Firefox and Chrome both have a stable API for addons (please stop calling it plugins ! Flash is a plugin), it is a X(HT)ML/JavaScript-only API.

    The problem is Firefox didn't have that API at first, that API only came at a later point.

    A lot of addons were made with the old API, which somewhat depend on the native API remaining stable.

    Which it does, most of the releases.

    The real problem is that there was only one indicator about the API to determine if the addon is compatible, which is the Firefox version-number.

    That didn't fit well with the rapid release cycle.

    But these problems have mostly been solved.