I just tried to check out zigzag- that site is a nightmare of broken hyperlinks- there are several on every page, and you pretty much have to navigate by figuring out what to type into the location bar. Is that ironic, or is it just me?
You can get the "command line here" power toy from the msft website- works in '95 & NT that I know of, probably 98 & 2k too. It puts a cmd-line in yr right-click options in Explorer. It's not exactly what you ask for, but pretty close.
Seriously, I've been using it for several days under NT4, & it's faster & more stable, as far as I can tell. I've been using netscape browsers for several years, so I certainly know better than to expect flawlessness out of them, I've just always wanted them to crash in ways that don't lock up the os, or even just the ui, like 4.75 was always doing.
This one hasn't eaten shit at all yet, so I already like it. & plus it's got a few nifty features, like the facilities for searching/organizing bookmarks, & the java console (although, what the average user's going to do with stuff like the 'collect garbage' option is kinda beyond me.)
Whatever. I guess it's all about the politics of it. I don't use IE 'cos it flat out gives me the creeps- all that 'my this, my that' crap is beyong annoying, & the security issues with it are best solved by just plain never using it, imho. Far as I can tell, I'm not missing that much- any website that'll only render at all in IE I suppose i can do without.
What I don't get, is why every time someone on/. asks about whether a functionality/program is available in Free Software, the answer is "of course, try this one, it's version.07, but it'll be great when it's done. " But, when it comes to Mozilla or Netscape, all everyone does is bitch because they're not perfect?
Just off the top of the search results, there's a wasington post article on friendly fire in the gulf war reprinted at
http://www.prop1.org/2000/du/91du/910814wp.htm
The relevant line: "One killed, one wounded in 1st Marine Division when a HARM from unknown source struck radar unit."
The story mentions a couple of other HARM friendly-fire incidents, but that's the only one that explicitly involved radar.
Put this a different way- if Terrence Hallinan, or Angela Alioto, who've both spent their entire adult lives learning to 'hack' San Francisco, suddenly came up with Bold New Ideas for coding web browsers, would the assumption be that since they're brilliant at politics they should be good at programming, too?
Just because hackers are good at something other people figure is difficult, doesn't mean they're good at _everything_. Michael Jordan, as a baseball player, wd be another cautionary example.
wasn't a big deal when Christy Turlington did it..
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isn't a big deal when Johnny Depp does it, wasn't a big deal when Van Halen did it... people with money are always buying bars & clubs. Doesn't seem to change the world that much. There's a reason its rich people that do it, too, & it's not that they're a bold new breed of socially aware geeks out to change the world, it's that they have the money- you can lose money almost as fast in the hospitality industry as you can in internet startups. Success rate's probably similar, too. Good luck to him.
Right, well, the point was, they were systematically scanning the entire freaking address space, and they wouldn't tell anybody why; they had a bunch of noncommital biz-speak for a website, with no good contact information... it wasn't necessarily the fact of being scanned, but the fact they were being blatant and secretive at the same time, that set people off.
You tell me, if you had, say, a class B network, and logged 65,000 ping requests from one address, what would you figure was the *legitimate* reason for someone to be paying that much attention to you? Would you still think so if they didn't respond to any attempts at contact?
oh boy. I just looked at their website... They're pitching, not only zip-code level target-marketing, but the ability to
"Comply with domestic and international distribution restrictions on Webcasts,
music downloads, video clips, and other online content by limiting access from unauthorized areas."
Jesus, what are you, twelve years old? Are people's memories that short, that they can even put the word "republican" in the same _sentence_ with "personal freedom"?
Freedom to what, stripmine national parks? Beat flag-burning hippies to death? Throw away millions of dollars in other people's savings gambling away the entire contents of your S&L, on junk-bonds & blow jobs?
Or maybe you're just talking about the more prosaic freedom to make of billions of dollars producing completely useless high tech whim-whams, eg the Star Wars system?
That's not personal freedom, it's corporate freedom. they're kinda different.
Yeah, it's true, democrats suck. They're nearly as bad as republicans, what with continuing the insane War on Drugs & the whole general atmosphere of constant surveillance it's led to. But, you've got to get your shit straight about this "freedom" word you're throwing around.
Republicans have always, in principle, been fiscally conservative (as long as you're rich, you should pay fewer taxes/get more Corporate Welfare/ etc.) But- they've also always been *socially* conservative-- which means, you're free to be as much like a straight white middle class suburban male as you'd like, but if you differ in any way from the percieved norms, you're completely fucked.
I can't believe that anybody who'd lived through any Reagan-Bush, or had even _heard_ of Nixon (who was & will always be the prototypical Republican, to me- I find it safer to regard them as Evil than Stupid) cd espouse such views, that's why I wonder if you're too young to know better.
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I just tried to check out zigzag- that site is a nightmare of broken hyperlinks- there are several on every page, and you pretty much have to navigate by figuring out what to type into the location bar. Is that ironic, or is it just me?
You can get the "command line here" power toy from the msft website- works in '95 & NT that I know of, probably 98 & 2k too. It puts a cmd-line in yr right-click options in Explorer. It's not exactly what you ask for, but pretty close.
Seriously, I've been using it for several days under NT4, & it's faster & more stable, as far as I can tell. I've been using netscape browsers for several years, so I certainly know better than to expect flawlessness out of them, I've just always wanted them to crash in ways that don't lock up the os, or even just the ui, like 4.75 was always doing.
/. asks about whether a functionality/program is available in Free Software, the answer is "of course, try this one, it's version .07, but it'll be great when it's done. " But, when it comes to Mozilla or Netscape, all everyone does is bitch because they're not perfect?
This one hasn't eaten shit at all yet, so I already like it. & plus it's got a few nifty features, like the facilities for searching/organizing bookmarks, & the java console (although, what the average user's going to do with stuff like the 'collect garbage' option is kinda beyond me.)
Whatever. I guess it's all about the politics of it. I don't use IE 'cos it flat out gives me the creeps- all that 'my this, my that' crap is beyong annoying, & the security issues with it are best solved by just plain never using it, imho. Far as I can tell, I'm not missing that much- any website that'll only render at all in IE I suppose i can do without.
What I don't get, is why every time someone on
http://www.prop1.org/2000/du/91du/910814wp.htm
The relevant line: "One killed, one wounded in 1st Marine Division when a HARM from unknown source struck radar unit." The story mentions a couple of other HARM friendly-fire incidents, but that's the only one that explicitly involved radar.
Everybody knows computer-machines don't need complex emotional motivations- all they need is an UNQUENCHABLE THIRST FOR HUMAN BLOOD. No problem.
Put this a different way- if Terrence Hallinan, or Angela Alioto, who've both spent their entire adult lives learning to 'hack' San Francisco, suddenly came up with Bold New Ideas for coding web browsers, would the assumption be that since they're brilliant at politics they should be good at programming, too?
Just because hackers are good at something other people figure is difficult, doesn't mean they're good at _everything_. Michael Jordan, as a baseball player, wd be another cautionary example.
isn't a big deal when Johnny Depp does it, wasn't a big deal when Van Halen did it... people with money are always buying bars & clubs. Doesn't seem to change the world that much.
There's a reason its rich people that do it, too, & it's not that they're a bold new breed of socially aware geeks out to change the world, it's that they have the money- you can lose money almost as fast in the hospitality industry as you can in internet startups. Success rate's probably similar, too. Good luck to him.
Right, well, the point was, they were systematically scanning the entire freaking address space, and they wouldn't tell anybody why; they had a bunch of noncommital biz-speak for a website, with no good contact information... it wasn't necessarily the fact of being scanned, but the fact they were being blatant and secretive at the same time, that set people off.
You tell me, if you had, say, a class B network, and logged 65,000 ping requests from one address, what would you figure was the *legitimate* reason for someone to be paying that much attention to you? Would you still think so if they didn't respond to any attempts at contact?
oh boy. I just looked at their website... They're pitching, not only zip-code level target-marketing, but the ability to
"Comply with domestic and international distribution restrictions on Webcasts,
music downloads, video clips, and other online content by limiting access from unauthorized areas."
Yep, these guys are creepy alright.
That's the best one I ever saw. It was on a car in Santa Cruz, Ca... so it was pretty much preaching to the converted.
Jesus, what are you, twelve years old? Are people's memories that short, that they can even put the word "republican" in the same _sentence_ with "personal freedom"?
Freedom to what, stripmine national parks? Beat flag-burning hippies to death? Throw away millions of dollars in other people's savings gambling away the entire contents of your S&L, on junk-bonds & blow jobs?
Or maybe you're just talking about the more prosaic freedom to make of billions of dollars producing completely useless high tech whim-whams, eg the Star Wars system?
That's not personal freedom, it's corporate freedom. they're kinda different.
Yeah, it's true, democrats suck. They're nearly as bad as republicans, what with continuing the insane War on Drugs & the whole general atmosphere of constant surveillance it's led to. But, you've got to get your shit straight about this "freedom" word you're throwing around.
Republicans have always, in principle, been fiscally conservative (as long as you're rich, you should pay fewer taxes/get more Corporate Welfare/ etc.) But- they've also always been *socially* conservative-- which means, you're free to be as much like a straight white middle class suburban male as you'd like, but if you differ in any way from the percieved norms, you're completely fucked.
I can't believe that anybody who'd lived through any Reagan-Bush, or had even _heard_ of Nixon (who was & will always be the prototypical Republican, to me- I find it safer to regard them as Evil than Stupid) cd espouse such views, that's why I wonder if you're too young to know better.
I accidentally saw Cracker, back when their first album was just coming out, because they were opening for the Meat Puppets.
I was thinking, "Jesus, this band sucks. The singer sounds like a cross between David Lowry, and Brian Adams."
Imagine my surprise, when I found out it actually _was_ David Lowry, trying to be more like Brian Adams. I'm glad it didn't work out for him.