Also search providers can be added by any site that contains "window.external.AddSearchProvider('URL')" Where 'URL' points to an OpenSearch description document.
So Google could have a link on their front page to allow people to add them as the default search provider on their first visit after installing IE7.
Yes it is easy to change. At least as easy as Firefox. 1) Click the drop-down part of the split search button. 2) Choose "Find more providers.." 3) IE will navigate to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/de fault_new.mspx 4) Choose "Google" under "Web Search" 5) Optionally tick "Make this my default provider" on the dialog that appears 6) Press "Add provider"
I was speaking of the recent FM receiver, you must mean the iTrip Nano It looks as though the iTrip Nano can only take over the whole screen while it is connected while the Apple model has a higher resolution tuning UI. I can't find any indication that there is an official SDK for developing iPod extensions, the only protocol information seems to be this which only covers the 3rd Gen iPod. The point stands that Apple can release new firmware anytime they want to add functionality for to support a new accessory, but the 3rd parties are limited to what hacks they can produce by reverse engineering the existing dock protocols.
Well other companies can and have created FM Radio adaptors and speaker docks, but only Apple can create accessories that integrate with the iPod firmware to such an extent. Both the recent radio and HiFi have required a firmware update to add an additional menu item to the iPod interface. The tuning system on the new Radio adaptor looks very good and uses the scroll wheel effectivley, the HiFi lets you change tone settings and display fullscreen album art while it is docked. No other third party accessory maker can compete with that level of integration.
To me it seems very much the same tactics that Microsoft have long been accused. Building features into the OS to support their products that are not documented for use by third parties.
I don't think the ratings are "out of" anything. More likely they are "x" times some base specification. Say all "designed for Vista" machines must reach at least 1.0, and anything above that gets a higher rating. At the moment the most powerful PC you can buy might get a 5.6, but in a couple of years you will be able to buy a 10.2 system. A 3.0 machine will always be a 3.0 regardless of how fast new machines become. A game can specify it requires 4.5 and a few years down the line that requirement will still be meaningful.
I think my Athlon64 3200, 1Gb, Geforce 6600 256mb got a 3.0
I'm not sure how far this suit has progressed, but it would appear that at the time Microsoft made specific documentation available to ISVs on a case by case basis depending on how much of a threat the ISV represented to them.
According to the document Microsoft refused to include the specifications for using the windows Dialog Box Manager, a feature that is now fully documented on MSDN and seems to be regarded as ancient history by Windows developer Raymond Chen.
If such a major chunk of functionality was really initially reserved for MS Applications it would seem as though the Novell case couldn't fail to succeed. My guess is that they will end up settleing for some vast payout and the whole issue will disappear.
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You see the driver hooks a function by patching the system call table,
so its not safe to unload it unless another thread is about to jump
in there and do its stuff, and you don't want to end up in the middle
of invalid memory.
Shouldn't that be "in case another thread" not "unless".
a) Allow existing Windows exe to run and b) Not run any existing virus that targets Windows
at the same time?
Any virus is basically just an exe that call standard APIs but for malicious purposes. You can't tell them appart exept for matching signitures to known viruses or examining the API calls with heuristics.
Composite is never going to look very good on any medium to large size standard TV thats why you can choose to use the Advanced AV Scart Cable to receive the picture over RGB.
The best bet for people without HDTVs is probably to use a VGA cable to connect to a PC monitor.
It only works on Windows machines, but it appears to be designed to hook into all CDROM drives and monitor any CD Burning commands sent to them to prevent more than a fixed limited number of copies of itself being burnt from that machine, or ensuring that every burnt copy automatically includes the same DRM mechanism.
The "hiding itself" part is what makes it a root kit. It disrupts the normal operation of your operating system without permission. With it installed any file starting with "$sys$" will become undetectable to everything but the most specialist tools. Network connections are not required.
Its a multi-session CD, part Audio and part CD-Rom. It will play in a HiFi, but when you put it in a Windows machine, it will autorun a program from the CD-Rom portion and install a driver which will then prevent you from accessing the CD-Audio portion through the Windows APIs.
This variant seems to go even further, and will install a persistant filter driver on all drives that will detect CD burning commands sent to the drive and attempt to prevent more than a fixed number of copies being created.
The copy protection scheme uses autorun.inf on the CDRom track to start a program which (after the eula) then injects a filter driver into Windows to prevent other Windows applications from reading the CDAudio tracks off the disk. The CDRom portion still contains the DRMed WMA versions of the tracks. You need to have Administrator rights to install new device driver on Windows.
The mso-application header is used by Windows Explorer to identify which application should be used to view the file, and which icon to use in the shell. It wouldn't be very user friendly if all xml files, be they word, excel or otherwise opened in Internet Explorer or notepad.
People expect to see a Word icon, and to be able to launch the appropriate application.
Just wait a couple of months. Firefox 1.5 is going to support SVG in the main release. If it gets anything like the takeup of 1.0.x then it will be well worth developing for.
Think of the stuff that will be possible with a combination of SVG, Javascript and XmlHttpRequest.
I have Opera8 installed on my 6600. Can you give me any links to SVGT samples that will render properly on the phone? I want to see what it is capable of.
This new Microsoft service is not based on ActiveX, it is just HTML and JavaScript as is Google Maps. The only part of it that uses ActiveX is the "Locate Me" option, and even that is optional, where ActiveX is not available it will simply use your IP address to look up your location.
Google Earth is a windows only client. But MSNVirtualEarth and Google Maps both work fine in Firefox on any platform.
They don't have one yet, this guy's job is going be to found a research center there, the same as he did for Microsoft a few years ago. Wonder if he'll get the researchers to switch with him.
I don't see how this breaks anything. If your RSS parser is correct it will just ignore tags from namespaces it does not support. You don't need to support the extensions to read the feeds.
Basically there are 4 situations. 1. You have an existing aggregator and don't care about the extensions. -- Do Nothing, your aggregator will go on working regardless of wether the feeds you read contain the extensions.
2. You produce feeds from your site/service and don't care about the extensions. -- Do Nothing, IE users will be able to read all your feeds, be they RSS 0.92, 1.0, 2.0 or Atom.
3. You produce feeds from your site/service and you want IE users to be able to use the extended features to sort and filter lists. -- Add a couple of extra tags to your feeds using the freely implementable standard Microsoft has defined.
4. You have an aggregator and want to add extra functionality to support sorting and filtering lists defined with the Microsoft extension. -- This requires the most work, but you have a specification to go by and a reference implementation in IE7. Its an entirely optional feature you might want to add to benifit your users.
Are the W3C channels for adding extensions to RSS? Apparently all you need to do is choose a unique namespace identifier, and place a standard specification document at that URL.
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Also search providers can be added by any site that contains "window.external.AddSearchProvider('URL')" Where 'URL' points to an OpenSearch description document.
So Google could have a link on their front page to allow people to add them as the default search provider on their first visit after installing IE7.
Yes it is easy to change. At least as easy as Firefox.e fault_new.mspx
1) Click the drop-down part of the split search button.
2) Choose "Find more providers.."
3) IE will navigate to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/d
4) Choose "Google" under "Web Search"
5) Optionally tick "Make this my default provider" on the dialog that appears
6) Press "Add provider"
I was speaking of the recent FM receiver, you must mean the iTrip Nano It looks as though the iTrip Nano can only take over the whole screen while it is connected while the Apple model has a higher resolution tuning UI. I can't find any indication that there is an official SDK for developing iPod extensions, the only protocol information seems to be this which only covers the 3rd Gen iPod. The point stands that Apple can release new firmware anytime they want to add functionality for to support a new accessory, but the 3rd parties are limited to what hacks they can produce by reverse engineering the existing dock protocols.
Well other companies can and have created FM Radio adaptors and speaker docks, but only Apple can create accessories that integrate with the iPod firmware to such an extent. Both the recent radio and HiFi have required a firmware update to add an additional menu item to the iPod interface. The tuning system on the new Radio adaptor looks very good and uses the scroll wheel effectivley, the HiFi lets you change tone settings and display fullscreen album art while it is docked. No other third party accessory maker can compete with that level of integration.
To me it seems very much the same tactics that Microsoft have long been accused. Building features into the OS to support their products that are not documented for use by third parties.
I don't think the ratings are "out of" anything. More likely they are "x" times some base specification. Say all "designed for Vista" machines must reach at least 1.0, and anything above that gets a higher rating. At the moment the most powerful PC you can buy might get a 5.6, but in a couple of years you will be able to buy a 10.2 system. A 3.0 machine will always be a 3.0 regardless of how fast new machines become. A game can specify it requires 4.5 and a few years down the line that requirement will still be meaningful.
I think my Athlon64 3200, 1Gb, Geforce 6600 256mb got a 3.0
See Novells Complaint from page 44
I'm not sure how far this suit has progressed, but it would appear that at the time Microsoft made specific documentation available to ISVs on a case by case basis depending on how much of a threat the ISV represented to them.
According to the document Microsoft refused to include the specifications for using the windows Dialog Box Manager, a feature that is now fully documented on MSDN and seems to be regarded as ancient history by Windows developer Raymond Chen.
If such a major chunk of functionality was really initially reserved for MS Applications it would seem as though the Novell case couldn't fail to succeed. My guess is that they will end up settleing for some vast payout and the whole issue will disappear.
How are they supposed to:
a) Allow existing Windows exe to run and
b) Not run any existing virus that targets Windows
at the same time?
Any virus is basically just an exe that call standard APIs but for malicious purposes. You can't tell them appart exept for matching signitures to known viruses or examining the API calls with heuristics.
I guess former Cheerleaders all have the sort of mindset that attracts them to sign up for reality TV, attention seeking, aspiring actresses etc.
The best bet for people without HDTVs is probably to use a VGA cable to connect to a PC monitor.
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It only works on Windows machines, but it appears to be designed to hook into all CDROM drives and monitor any CD Burning commands sent to them to prevent more than a fixed limited number of copies of itself being burnt from that machine, or ensuring that every burnt copy automatically includes the same DRM mechanism.
The "hiding itself" part is what makes it a root kit. It disrupts the normal operation of your operating system without permission. With it installed any file starting with "$sys$" will become undetectable to everything but the most specialist tools. Network connections are not required.
Its a multi-session CD, part Audio and part CD-Rom. It will play in a HiFi, but when you put it in a Windows machine, it will autorun a program from the CD-Rom portion and install a driver which will then prevent you from accessing the CD-Audio portion through the Windows APIs.
This variant seems to go even further, and will install a persistant filter driver on all drives that will detect CD burning commands sent to the drive and attempt to prevent more than a fixed number of copies being created.
The copy protection scheme uses autorun.inf on the CDRom track to start a program which (after the eula) then injects a filter driver into Windows to prevent other Windows applications from reading the CDAudio tracks off the disk. The CDRom portion still contains the DRMed WMA versions of the tracks.
You need to have Administrator rights to install new device driver on Windows.
Could you use F#?- about.aspx
http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/fsharp
The mso-application header is used by Windows Explorer to identify which application should be used to view the file, and which icon to use in the shell. It wouldn't be very user friendly if all xml files, be they word, excel or otherwise opened in Internet Explorer or notepad.
People expect to see a Word icon, and to be able to launch the appropriate application.
OpenOffice 2.0 Beta already supports WordML.3 3450
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=
Just wait a couple of months. Firefox 1.5 is going to support SVG in the main release. If it gets anything like the takeup of 1.0.x then it will be well worth developing for.
Think of the stuff that will be possible with a combination of SVG, Javascript and XmlHttpRequest.
I have Opera8 installed on my 6600. Can you give me any links to SVGT samples that will render properly on the phone? I want to see what it is capable of.
I think you mean TerraServer.
This new Microsoft service is not based on ActiveX, it is just HTML and JavaScript as is Google Maps.
The only part of it that uses ActiveX is the "Locate Me" option, and even that is optional, where ActiveX is not available it will simply use your IP address to look up your location.
Google Earth is a windows only client. But MSNVirtualEarth and Google Maps both work fine in Firefox on any platform.
They don't have one yet, this guy's job is going be to found a research center there, the same as he did for Microsoft a few years ago.
Wonder if he'll get the researchers to switch with him.
That depends on how many textbooks you bought for each class.
I don't see how this breaks anything. If your RSS parser is correct it will just ignore tags from namespaces it does not support. You don't need to support the extensions to read the feeds.
Basically there are 4 situations.
1. You have an existing aggregator and don't care about the extensions. -- Do Nothing, your aggregator will go on working regardless of wether the feeds you read contain the extensions.
2. You produce feeds from your site/service and don't care about the extensions. -- Do Nothing, IE users will be able to read all your feeds, be they RSS 0.92, 1.0, 2.0 or Atom.
3. You produce feeds from your site/service and you want IE users to be able to use the extended features to sort and filter lists. -- Add a couple of extra tags to your feeds using the freely implementable standard Microsoft has defined.
4. You have an aggregator and want to add extra functionality to support sorting and filtering lists defined with the Microsoft extension. -- This requires the most work, but you have a specification to go by and a reference implementation in IE7. Its an entirely optional feature you might want to add to benifit your users.
Are the W3C channels for adding extensions to RSS? Apparently all you need to do is choose a unique namespace identifier, and place a standard specification document at that URL.
Slashdot alreadt has its own extension defined here, http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/
should that have gone through the W3C?
I just don't see how these extensions can have a negative effect on existing RSS users or developers.