Although I think Google handled the issue admirably, this raises questions (again) about cloud computing, as well as Google's eternal beta-status for a lot of their services.
Really? I don't use Google Apps but I don't think the act of fixing a bug in any way raises questions about the overall concept any more than Microsoft fixing a bug in Sharepoint would raise questions about closed source Windows services, or fixing a bug in KnowledgeTree would raise questions about similar open source services.
Software application has bug; bug gets fixed. Jesus people, why is this different from any other similar bug being fixed? Oh, it's Google, better get blogging.. Gotta get those ad impressions up.
I guess it's changed a lot then. The last time I tried to use Wine I was able to bring up the Internet Options control panel and... that's about it. After hours of pouring through how-tos and mailing lists I gave up. That was about a year ago.
Yes, many other people have that exact same setup, I know I do. The thing is, unless you configure Postfix to drop any application/ms-tnef it's totally irrelevant to this discussion considering Postfix will simply forward the offending e-mail to Exchange. This isn't about spam, and good luck if you're waiting for your AV to get updated with a fix for the as yet unknown mail.
Besides, what happens when someone combines this with, say, a flash vulnerability and causes a machine inside your network to send the attack e-mail to your Exchange server? Postfix isn't going to do a damn thing about that.
The EU competition court has put a stop to that one and this is also how Samba got all the M$ protocol interface documentation.
Yeah, and maybe in 2009 they'll ship a product that will emulate an environment released NINE YEARS AGO. Not trying to be flamebait but really, Samba4 is pretty much a complete irrelevance these days. Samba3 was awesome back when I was using it... years and years ago.
That's what they say. Reality suggests otherwise. You are aware that there are entire communities on the web that exist to do nothing more than create their own realities using Wikipedia? I could point you to hundreds of huge, interwoven articles on the site that are utter fabrications. Biographies, languages, inventions, tecnhologies... All being served under the noses of the Wikipedia admins as "Wikitruth", some last longer than others. Most of the larger article subjects have been actively updated and improved over periods of years. Don't fool yourself that Wikipedia is in any way trustworthy. It's a playground for trolls.
I used a series 1 TiVo in the UK and loved it. I now live in the US and have a series 2 TiVo.
It's slow, often taking a couple seconds to respond to the remote - sometimes I can wait 4 or 5 seconds before hitting the 'tivo' button until the menu comes up. When the menu does come up I can see the redraw.
Even though it's networked it can't view media on other devices.
Adverts all over the place.
Can't view its media on other devices unless you want to copy the programmes in real time and install some DRM bullshit.
When it loses the wireless connection, for whatever reason, it requires a reboot to reconnect.
50% of the buttons on the remote are totally redundant.
Adverts randomly appearing in the menu structure.
Say I've recorded a couple of episodes of programme X and want to delete them. Can I delete the folder? No. I have to go into the folder and delete each individual programme. Then, to top it off, when I've done that, instead of removing the folder and dumping me back to the main menu it gives me a screen that says "Hey, there's nothing in here, you should press left to go back to the main manu". Honestly, the entire menu system is littered with these lazy UI choices.
Did I mention fucking adverts in the main menu! After this last update I stopped a program recording in order to change channel and, no shit, my three choices were "stop recording", "continue recording", "advert link". It hasn't happened since, so either it was a mistake or it only happens on certain programmes, but still, I'm paying a monthly fee for this serviec - why are there advert at all??
When it came out TiVo was simply awesome but tech has moved on - TiVo is currently the device that is "almost there". At the moment the only thing it has going for it is ease of use and the occasional suggestion it throws up. I haven't seen the new series 3 devices - perhaps they're perfect, I don't know. The reason I still use TiVo is because I'm too lazy to setup and maintain MythTV/freevo/mediaportal. XBMC is about the best media player interface out there right now. If it could record TV I'd be right there - I hear there's a linux version in the mix but haven't looked at that in a while, so I may just do that right now.
I hit "End" and scroll all the way down. Look at the image. Attempt to click yes or no. It's grayed out. Hit Accept HIT. Hit "End" to scroll down. Now the radio buttons are working. I hit Yes or No and click Submit. I then scroll all the way down, look at the picture, don't see anything so go to click "No" - it's grayed out again. Close Browser.
Secondly, E-Bay has had this feature for years. If MercExchange was really trying to protect something so vital to their business as to require an injunction, they should have filed years ago. What? This battle has been going on for years. Ebay first approached MercExchange in 2000 offering to purchase the patent(s) they were about to infringe upon. MercExchange refused their offers, Ebay went ahead with their plans anyway. MercExchange filed suit againast Ebay in 2001 and won the lawsuit in 2003.
Combined with a translation service it sounds like an awesome feature for those who travel overseas and don't always speak the language. Finding out the sign you thought read "free beer" actually says "beware: angry tiger" might be useful to some...
Even then, the Acrobat process would need write-access to system files. On a decently managed system, it hasn't.
From the summary:
A MySpace account linked to bomb threats sent to a high school.
Chances of this system being secure, updated, well-managed? 0
Chances of this system being a Gateway laptop that takes 10 minutes to boot, loads 5 IM apps on startup, has 4 different IE toolbars, and constantly warns that the Norton Antivirus subscription lapsed 16 months ago? Our survey says yes!
That has nothing to do with the actual phone, and everything to do with the mobile phone infrastructure in the US being about 5 years behind the rest of the world.
Can anyone recommend a fix for the way Firefox freezes up all tabs and windows on certain occasions. You can see a great example of this here at Slashdot. Scroll down the main page right clicking interesting stories to open in new tabs for later perusal. By the time you get to the 3rd or 4th story the entire browser slows down, adn a few clicks later it'll totally freeze. Sometimes a box will pop up asking if you want to "Continue" or "Stop Script". When this happens not only is the current tab affected, but all tabs in all windows become totally frozen and only become usable once the script in question has finished. Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows XP.
When I was accepted for my degree course in 1997 it was because I had a good score in A-Level Maths and Physics. This really is a non-story. British universities have, for years, had either entrance exams or A-Level course requirements. So it seems some universities haven't figured it out yet. That should be the real story - poorly organised universities, not "OMG crap applicants".
Something you fail to understand is that more powerful graphics systems enable developers to experiment in ways that were simply impossible before. I'm thinking specifically of games like Katamari Damacy - you try doing anything like that on a C-64. I saw a trailer on steam the other day for Portal. I know nothing about the game other than there's no way in hell that could exist on the SNES.
Slashdot Mirror
How about www.google.com/m/classic ?
Who remembers the combination to the safe?
It's on a piece of paper locked up securely in the second safe.
Although I think Google handled the issue admirably, this raises questions (again) about cloud computing, as well as Google's eternal beta-status for a lot of their services.
Really? I don't use Google Apps but I don't think the act of fixing a bug in any way raises questions about the overall concept any more than Microsoft fixing a bug in Sharepoint would raise questions about closed source Windows services, or fixing a bug in KnowledgeTree would raise questions about similar open source services.
Software application has bug; bug gets fixed. Jesus people, why is this different from any other similar bug being fixed? Oh, it's Google, better get blogging.. Gotta get those ad impressions up.
I guess it's changed a lot then. The last time I tried to use Wine I was able to bring up the Internet Options control panel and... that's about it. After hours of pouring through how-tos and mailing lists I gave up. That was about a year ago.
Yes, many other people have that exact same setup, I know I do. The thing is, unless you configure Postfix to drop any application/ms-tnef it's totally irrelevant to this discussion considering Postfix will simply forward the offending e-mail to Exchange. This isn't about spam, and good luck if you're waiting for your AV to get updated with a fix for the as yet unknown mail.
Besides, what happens when someone combines this with, say, a flash vulnerability and causes a machine inside your network to send the attack e-mail to your Exchange server? Postfix isn't going to do a damn thing about that.
Just patch the fucking server.
The EU competition court has put a stop to that one and this is also how Samba got all the M$ protocol interface documentation.
Yeah, and maybe in 2009 they'll ship a product that will emulate an environment released NINE YEARS AGO. Not trying to be flamebait but really, Samba4 is pretty much a complete irrelevance these days. Samba3 was awesome back when I was using it... years and years ago.
As far as contributing to Wikipedia is concerned, it doesn't matter whether a piece of information is true or not. The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth
That's what they say. Reality suggests otherwise. You are aware that there are entire communities on the web that exist to do nothing more than create their own realities using Wikipedia? I could point you to hundreds of huge, interwoven articles on the site that are utter fabrications. Biographies, languages, inventions, tecnhologies... All being served under the noses of the Wikipedia admins as "Wikitruth", some last longer than others. Most of the larger article subjects have been actively updated and improved over periods of years. Don't fool yourself that Wikipedia is in any way trustworthy. It's a playground for trolls.
I would imagine it simply continues the NT naming conventions:
NT3.x
NT4
NT5 (Windows 2000)
NT5.1 (Windows XP)
NT6 (Vista)
NT7 (windows 7)
Only on Slashdot could someone be accused of ripping off a software publisher when they shopped online for bargains.
"sometimes I can wait 4 or 5 seconds before hitting the 'tivo' button until the menu comes up"
should be: "sometimes I can wait 4 or 5 seconds after hitting the 'tivo' button until the menu comes up"
When it came out TiVo was simply awesome but tech has moved on - TiVo is currently the device that is "almost there". At the moment the only thing it has going for it is ease of use and the occasional suggestion it throws up. I haven't seen the new series 3 devices - perhaps they're perfect, I don't know. The reason I still use TiVo is because I'm too lazy to setup and maintain MythTV/freevo/mediaportal. XBMC is about the best media player interface out there right now. If it could record TV I'd be right there - I hear there's a linux version in the mix but haven't looked at that in a while, so I may just do that right now.
No, see we take fractions of a penny from each transaction and put them all into one account...
I hit "End" and scroll all the way down. Look at the image. Attempt to click yes or no. It's grayed out. Hit Accept HIT. Hit "End" to scroll down. Now the radio buttons are working. I hit Yes or No and click Submit. I then scroll all the way down, look at the picture, don't see anything so go to click "No" - it's grayed out again. Close Browser.
What? This battle has been going on for years. Ebay first approached MercExchange in 2000 offering to purchase the patent(s) they were about to infringe upon. MercExchange refused their offers, Ebay went ahead with their plans anyway. MercExchange filed suit againast Ebay in 2001 and won the lawsuit in 2003.
Really? You don't have deductibles, coverage gaps, are prescription drugs free at point of sale etc? What insurance do you have? I want it!
Combined with a translation service it sounds like an awesome feature for those who travel overseas and don't always speak the language. Finding out the sign you thought read "free beer" actually says "beware: angry tiger" might be useful to some...
From the summary:
A MySpace account linked to bomb threats sent to a high school.
Chances of this system being secure, updated, well-managed? 0
Chances of this system being a Gateway laptop that takes 10 minutes to boot, loads 5 IM apps on startup, has 4 different IE toolbars, and constantly warns that the Norton Antivirus subscription lapsed 16 months ago? Our survey says yes!
That has nothing to do with the actual phone, and everything to do with the mobile phone infrastructure in the US being about 5 years behind the rest of the world.
A: For performance reasons, we've written LINA in C and C++.
Why not just write the VM in Java, then it'll be truly portable, right? Right..?
I meant middle-clicking, not right-clicking.
Can anyone recommend a fix for the way Firefox freezes up all tabs and windows on certain occasions. You can see a great example of this here at Slashdot. Scroll down the main page right clicking interesting stories to open in new tabs for later perusal. By the time you get to the 3rd or 4th story the entire browser slows down, adn a few clicks later it'll totally freeze. Sometimes a box will pop up asking if you want to "Continue" or "Stop Script". When this happens not only is the current tab affected, but all tabs in all windows become totally frozen and only become usable once the script in question has finished. Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows XP.
No, I didn't read the article :)
Living in a place that has one 'phone supplier that doesn't offer DSL and one overpriced cable internet supplier the term I prefer to use is Cartel.
Refusing to start the car is one thing, and perfectly acceptable, but taking control away from the driver is a big no no under any circumstance.
Try to think a little before posting, yes?