One question. What if the user you inflict said hijack-ware on actually likes using the software they've already got on their PC? They might not appreciate having it switched for software that they may not get on with, or that doesn't do all the things that they want. They most definitely won't take too kindly to extra pop-up ads and banners showing up on their screen!
Your 'solution' would involve just changing who enforces what software goes onto new PCs. How about giving the poor user a say in the matter?
I suggest they use the proven brand-recognition of their most well known text-mode application, and call it the Blue Shell Of Death (BSOD).:-)
MT.
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FWIW, I'm using Radio Userland for my weblog, and publishing it via my own domain and webspace, both supplied by 1&1 Internet here in the UK. All the content (posts, stories, pictures, etc) are held on my PC, and pushed out to the website (thankfully, I have a broadband connection) when I do updates. The other stuff (comments, trackback information) is held on the Userland 'cloud'. In theory, I should be able to transfer my weblog to a new domain and keep everything intact.
Actually, from reading the article (yeah, I know... nobody on/. does that...):
ActiveState's product lines for open source programmers will continue to be developed and sold under the ActiveState brand. As a division of Sophos, the existing ActiveState team is committed to continuing its support of the open source language community.
As to why Sophos have bought ActiveState, this press release would appear to indicate the reason - the PureMessage anti-spam system.
I thought those initials looked familiar from somewhere. Just checked your website to confirm my suspicions. I take it you're ex-zdnet these days.
I used to read ZDNet regularly up until a few years ago, but now most of the stuff that I used to like is either gone (Mary Jo Foley, John Dvorak) or has been shoved out to another site (Spencer Katt).
ZDNet UK still seems to be in good shape, as most of the old faces (Guy Kewney, Rupert Goodwin) haven't abandoned ship - yet.
As for AnchorDesk, that used to be my favourite site back in the day, but now... well, there's barely enough stuff there to make it worth my while, what with the Coursey 3-day week and all the other cutbacks. That really sucks.
Actually, ZDNet is still around, but as the majority of its content has been assimilated by CNet, I have to wonder why they don't just redirect people to the CNet front pages. Comments?
I very much doubt that Blogger & Google together could become the dominant force in the weblogging world. The appeal of Blogger is its simplicity and the fact that you don't need to have your own webspace up-front. MovableType is aimed at people who want to put a weblog onto their own webspace that runs from the webserver. Radio Userland, although it can give you webspace if you need it, will happily let you publish your weblog to your own site, with the content stored on your PC (I'm using it for my site). LiveJournal (the site) works in a similar way to Blogger, but you can take LiveJournal (the software) and use that on your own site.
The idea that Blogger can somehow 'lock-in' the majority of content of the weblogging world is, to my mind, a bit of a stretch. It would require breaking the existing API, and possibly interfering with other technologies such as RSS, and would do more harm than good for both Blogger and Google.
Has google ceased to index blogs with the rest of the web? I know there was some grumbling in the past months about this.
Indexed? Yes. Mine certainly is. Perhaps you're thinking of PageRanks for weblogs. Can't comment on that, as mine is only a couple of weeks old, hence not linked to much as yet (*hint*).
Me? I paid the $39.95 up-front and got Radio Userland. The content stays on my PC at home, and gets published to my own webspace.
Personally, I think that it should be the other way round, you pay so much a year, but only for the number of services you require. At the moment, part of the $39.95 I just paid covers the cost of hosting at Weblogs.com, as well as the space for comments on the weblog, and the trackback system. I don't need the first, and I'm not sure I really need the last one. Of course, it would be a pain to do pricing if you were to pick-n-choose...
The advertising would only affect those who choose to let Blogger host their weblogs on the BlogSpot servers - if you choose instead to have the weblog pages published to your own existing webspace, they are currently ad-free. I'd be interested to see if this changes in the near future. Currently, Google doesn't offer their text-ad service for personal pages.
I'm sure the French are thinking, "Oh, great! Yet another way for our country to be invaded!"
It's probably just as well he didn't get too far inland, or he might have been shot down by militant French farmers, who mistook him for 'ze cursed Rosbif!' (ie. English)... *grin*
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The watermark detection has been a feature of Photoshop for quite a while - since 4.0 if I recall correctly.
MT.
Do you have a sideline in writing the text for those 419 scam e-mails? You seem to have the style down pat. :-)
MT.
One question. What if the user you inflict said hijack-ware on actually likes using the software they've already got on their PC? They might not appreciate having it switched for software that they may not get on with, or that doesn't do all the things that they want. They most definitely won't take too kindly to extra pop-up ads and banners showing up on their screen!
Your 'solution' would involve just changing who enforces what software goes onto new PCs. How about giving the poor user a say in the matter?
MT.
I suggest they use the proven brand-recognition of their most well known text-mode application, and call it the Blue Shell Of Death (BSOD). :-)
MT.
FWIW, I'm using Radio Userland for my weblog, and publishing it via my own domain and webspace, both supplied by 1&1 Internet here in the UK. All the content (posts, stories, pictures, etc) are held on my PC, and pushed out to the website (thankfully, I have a broadband connection) when I do updates. The other stuff (comments, trackback information) is held on the Userland 'cloud'. In theory, I should be able to transfer my weblog to a new domain and keep everything intact.
MT.
As to why Sophos have bought ActiveState, this press release would appear to indicate the reason - the PureMessage anti-spam system.
MT.
I thought those initials looked familiar from somewhere. Just checked your website to confirm my suspicions. I take it you're ex-zdnet these days.
I used to read ZDNet regularly up until a few years ago, but now most of the stuff that I used to like is either gone (Mary Jo Foley, John Dvorak) or has been shoved out to another site (Spencer Katt).
ZDNet UK still seems to be in good shape, as most of the old faces (Guy Kewney, Rupert Goodwin) haven't abandoned ship - yet.
As for AnchorDesk, that used to be my favourite site back in the day, but now... well, there's barely enough stuff there to make it worth my while, what with the Coursey 3-day week and all the other cutbacks. That really sucks.
Good luck with the new venture.
MT.
Actually, ZDNet is still around, but as the majority of its content has been assimilated by CNet, I have to wonder why they don't just redirect people to the CNet front pages. Comments?
MT.
I very much doubt that Blogger & Google together could become the dominant force in the weblogging world. The appeal of Blogger is its simplicity and the fact that you don't need to have your own webspace up-front. MovableType is aimed at people who want to put a weblog onto their own webspace that runs from the webserver. Radio Userland, although it can give you webspace if you need it, will happily let you publish your weblog to your own site, with the content stored on your PC (I'm using it for my site). LiveJournal (the site) works in a similar way to Blogger, but you can take LiveJournal (the software) and use that on your own site.
The idea that Blogger can somehow 'lock-in' the majority of content of the weblogging world is, to my mind, a bit of a stretch. It would require breaking the existing API, and possibly interfering with other technologies such as RSS, and would do more harm than good for both Blogger and Google.
MT.
Two words, friend - Enter Key
:-)
Don't be afraid to use it...
MT.
Has google ceased to index blogs with the rest of the web? I know there was some grumbling in the past months about this.
Indexed? Yes. Mine certainly is. Perhaps you're thinking of PageRanks for weblogs. Can't comment on that, as mine is only a couple of weeks old, hence not linked to much as yet (*hint*).
MT.
Me? I paid the $39.95 up-front and got Radio Userland. The content stays on my PC at home, and gets published to my own webspace.
Personally, I think that it should be the other way round, you pay so much a year, but only for the number of services you require. At the moment, part of the $39.95 I just paid covers the cost of hosting at Weblogs.com, as well as the space for comments on the weblog, and the trackback system. I don't need the first, and I'm not sure I really need the last one. Of course, it would be a pain to do pricing if you were to pick-n-choose...
MT.
"Take off the tin-foil hat, and step away from the keyboard, Sir." :-)
MT.
The advertising would only affect those who choose to let Blogger host their weblogs on the BlogSpot servers - if you choose instead to have the weblog pages published to your own existing webspace, they are currently ad-free. I'd be interested to see if this changes in the near future. Currently, Google doesn't offer their text-ad service for personal pages.
MT.
Perhaps because everyone else took off their tin-foil hats a while back... :-)
You still use Notepad? That's lame. Everyone knows that Wordpad is the choice for the power user! :-)
MT.
Er, that would be Outlook, then.
MT.
Which site listing are you looking at? That link brings up 893 matches. The stats for www.hotmail.com show it running Windows 2000 and IIS 5.0 .
(Some of the other matches look like either jokes or traps to try and harvest passwords from the clueless, by the way).
I'm not suggesting that you're trolling, but I've no idea which of those 893 are the actual Hotmail back-end systems.
MT.
And you're surprised by this revelation? :-)
Duh, they use a helicopter gunship. Oh, wait... what if they've only got air-to-surface missiles? :-)
And I thought that the militant French farmers only attacked McDonald's? *chuckle*
Threaten to take away their EU subsidies, and they'll attack just about anything.
So I didn't hallucinate watching that cartoon when I was a kid, after all! :-)
imagine a flying Palestinian suicide bomber...
Not in Israel, though. At least, not for long, if the Israeli military have any say in the matter... *whoosh!* *BANG!*
I'm sure the French are thinking, "Oh, great! Yet another way for our country to be invaded!"
It's probably just as well he didn't get too far inland, or he might have been shot down by militant French farmers, who mistook him for 'ze cursed Rosbif!' (ie. English)... *grin*
Maybe it's a division of Skynet...
No, it's a division of the Evil Empire of Rupert Murdoch.