Or you could customize your menu or your toolbars if it really annoyed you. Good luck to the next person who wants to use your PC and wonders where the option has gone.
"I have never used Borlands stuff but I've used VB". Well then you know nothing about Delphi.
Delphi components are generally written in Delphi, although it supports ActiveX and COM in addition, as well as Corba, XML, XTSL etc. Obviously the COM stuff isn't part of Kylix, but that doesn't make the product any less usable.
Borland says that if the program is written using the CLX components it will cross-compile between Linux and Win32 without modification.
<TT>If a newspaper is distributed in Australia, even with a small circulation, it can still be defamatory in Australia. The medium is the (defamatory) message.
What are the consequences of this? Probably means we Australians will be blocked from American News Media sites in the future, as we are currently blocked from purchasing from some of the ebay sites.</TT>
Well here's the letter.
Lets be grateful the Internet wasn't regulated, we would still all be trying to use ISO. Just think what can be done if the Internet is coupled with a free market in communcations.
Oh yes? Well such a meaningless article is typical of the Australian press (as if summarizing a whole act into 10 paragraphs is simple - I am being unfair). But its a bit hard to draw the conclusion you have made.
B&N haven't won the case, they have merely had the injunction listed. They can still lose the case if the Patent is held to be valid. Mind you, it does look good for B&N.
Having a discussion about Microsoft on Slashdot is like discussing the finer points of Martin Luther proclamation in the Vatican. A lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.
Lets face it,.com is the defacto standard for the internet, and a lot of people don't know that there is anything else. And these are the valuable domains (and this is the reason that.biz) will fail, some of which have sold for absolute fortunes. So a couple of thousand is cheap compared to that. Its all about choice really.
And there is no point in having a new domain if there are no rules attached to it, otherwise you may as well just have the domains.com1,.com2 etc as the.com domain fills up because people register whatever they want. The definition of the domain and the enforcement of it will probably dictate the success or otherwise of it.
Eric Beecher does not work for the ABC, and as such this article is therefore opinion not propoganda (sic). He nows spend his time run a quality media operation, and worrying about running a profit, so of course he believes it is possible to do it for a profit.
Your post should have been moderated flamebait not insightful.
Crack open the Champagne folks! No Paradox must surely mark the beginning of the end of a terrible product concept (file server databases). Roll on proper relational databases! Roll on object databases!
Hasta La Vista Access!
Adios Paradox!
The ability of Word to be fully automated is one of its better features, and one that I have used many times to provide clients with applications that do a straightforward tasks.
If the proposal is to disable something you can do in a browser, but not in a word processor, then you are going to end up with inconsistencies when using ActiveX/OLE etc. to do things.
Whatever setting the user has in IE should be the setting in Word. Improve the IE options, rather than castrating word. Inconsistency between Office apps is bad enough at times (see Microsoft Office Annoyances) without adding to it.
Other large commercial DBs do not require you to set the password.
Oracle 7 has a default password for SYS of Change_on_install as well as having a password called 'SCOTT' with a password of TIGER, Sybase's default password for sa is also blank, Interbase's default password for sysdba is masterkey. I don't think Informix has this problem, but it is so long since I installed it I can't remember what choices it offered me.
I think your phrase should have read:
'A good DBA will know about these holes and will set the sa password as part of the installation process.'
Remember Trumpet Winsock? It used to be the standard Windows 3.1 way to get onto the Internet. Because the creator (Peter Tattum) made no money out of of it (even though it was Shareware - no one registered it), and so after 2.1 he attempted to change the Copyright on it.
This, amongst other things, led to the case of Trumpet v Ozemail (see http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/disp.pl/au/cases /cth/federal%5fct/1996/560.html?query=%7 e+trumpet+ozemail). If you can get hold of a copy of a more recent version of Winsock, you will see a very strange non-Shareware licence.
This new licence, and the fact that a free dialler was given away with Windows 95 rendered Trumpet Winsock a non-product.
Change your licence at your peril. You can probably do it, but the GPL is the best.
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Or you could customize your menu or your toolbars if it really annoyed you. Good luck to the next person who wants to use your PC and wonders where the option has gone.
No no. It was done in Victoria. They don't have the wheel down there. Its a new discovery for them.
"I have never used Borlands stuff but I've used VB". Well then you know nothing about Delphi.
Delphi components are generally written in Delphi, although it supports ActiveX and COM in addition, as well as Corba, XML, XTSL etc. Obviously the COM stuff isn't part of Kylix, but that doesn't make the product any less usable.
Borland says that if the program is written using the CLX components it will cross-compile between Linux and Win32 without modification.
Oliver
<TT>If a newspaper is distributed in Australia, even with a small circulation, it can still be defamatory in Australia. The medium is the (defamatory) message.
What are the consequences of this? Probably means we Australians will be blocked from American News Media sites in the future, as we are currently blocked from purchasing from some of the ebay sites.</TT>
Well here's the letter. Lets be grateful the Internet wasn't regulated, we would still all be trying to use ISO. Just think what can be done if the Internet is coupled with a free market in communcations.
Since this is an opinion piece (and a fairly baised one) about a letter, where's the link to the letter? What did it actually say?
What a pointless article to discuss at Slashdot. Did someone in editorial think this was an April Fools joke?
Oh yes? Well such a meaningless article is typical of the Australian press (as if summarizing a whole act into 10 paragraphs is simple - I am being unfair). But its a bit hard to draw the conclusion you have made.
So.
Here are some useful links on the subject (including analysis - difficult for some slashdotters to read, but give it a try - and the actual amendments). Unfortunately some of these analyses are rather old due to the fact that the Act was proposed several years ago and passed last year:
http://www.gtlaw.com.au/pubs/digitalageaustr alia.html
http://www.roma.unisa.edu.au/08908/lect11/co mmentary.html
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au//legis/cth/cons ol_act/ca1968133/notes.html
http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/IP/copyright.ht ml
Oliver
Who, as usual, still hasn't thought up a clever sig.
B&N haven't won the case, they have merely had
the injunction listed. They can still lose the
case if the Patent is held to be valid.
Mind you, it does look good for B&N.
Having a discussion about Microsoft on Slashdot is
like discussing the finer points of Martin Luther
proclamation in the Vatican. A lot of sound and
fury signifying nothing.
Lets face it, .com is the defacto standard for the internet, and a lot of people don't know that there is anything else. And these are the valuable domains (and this is the reason that .biz) will fail, some of which have sold for absolute fortunes. So a couple of thousand is cheap compared to that. Its all about choice really.
.com1, .com2 etc as the .com domain fills up because people register whatever they want. The definition of the domain and the enforcement of it will probably dictate the success or otherwise of it.
And there is no point in having a new domain if there are no rules attached to it, otherwise you may as well just have the domains
Eric Beecher does not work for the ABC, and as such this article is therefore opinion not propoganda (sic). He nows spend his time run a quality media operation, and worrying about running a profit, so of course he believes it is possible to do it for a profit.
Your post should have been moderated flamebait not insightful.
Crack open the Champagne folks! No Paradox must surely mark the beginning of the end of a terrible product concept (file server databases). Roll on proper relational databases! Roll on object databases! Hasta La Vista Access! Adios Paradox!
No I am saying that Internet explorer settings should determine how cookies etc. work, not tools like Word (which are just using IE indirectly).
Of course the Internet is unsafe, but IE is the gatekeeper, not word.
The ability of Word to be fully automated is one of its better features, and one that I have used many times to provide clients with applications that do a straightforward tasks.
If the proposal is to disable something you can do in a browser, but not in a word processor, then you are going to end up with inconsistencies when using ActiveX/OLE etc. to do things.
Whatever setting the user has in IE should be the setting in Word. Improve the IE options, rather than castrating word. Inconsistency between Office apps is bad enough at times (see Microsoft Office Annoyances) without adding to it.
Other large commercial DBs do not require you to set the password.
Oracle 7 has a default password for SYS of Change_on_install as well as having a password called 'SCOTT' with a password of TIGER, Sybase's default password for sa is also blank, Interbase's default password for sysdba is masterkey. I don't think Informix has this problem, but it is so long since I installed it I can't remember what choices it offered me.
I think your phrase should have read:
'A good DBA will know about these holes and will set the sa password as part of the installation process.'
Remember Trumpet Winsock? It used to be the standard Windows 3.1 way to get onto the Internet. Because the creator (Peter Tattum) made no money out of of it (even though it was Shareware - no one registered it), and so after 2.1 he attempted to change the Copyright on it.
s /cth/federal%5fct/1996/560.html?query=%7 e+trumpet+ozemail). If you can get hold of a copy of a more recent version of Winsock, you will see a very strange non-Shareware licence.
This, amongst other things, led to the case of Trumpet v Ozemail (see http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/disp.pl/au/case
This new licence, and the fact that a free dialler was given away with Windows 95 rendered Trumpet Winsock a non-product.
Change your licence at your peril. You can probably do it, but the GPL is the best.