I don't think it is an April fool - it's a very good idea.
It would probably be an April fool if it claimed anywhere that the final service was going to be free - but it doesn't. The 1GB storage might cost a fortune when the beta ends.
You guys spend every fucking day bitching about how everything should be free, and when MS makes things free, you start whinging about it!
You DO NOT HAVE TO USE the included free products from MS! You can use whatever you like, but stop bitching about MS including stuff for free when those of us that have legimately paid for their OS welcome things such as free AV scanners and firewalls.
It's extremely important if you use Visual Studio.NET to get the VS.NET edition of TortoiseSVN. VS.NET hates the ".SVN" folders that TortoiseSVN creates, so the VS.NET version of TortoiseSVN uses "_SVN" folders instead.
I've been using TortoiseSVN and Subversion RC1 for a while now and I can't really fault it... Way less headaches than I had with working with the mature CVS system!
IIRC, IE will take you immediately to a search engine without displaying any error message. This is the annoying and broken behaviour that the OP was talking about.
You recall incorrectly. If you type in a proper domain name, IE will just give you a "This page cannot be displayed - Cannot find server or DNS Error". It only tries to do a search if you type in non domain name type expressions. eg a phrase with spaces or a single word without any dots in it which doesn't match a local host.
I expect it to say "domain name not found". End of story.
That's exactly what it does say! Why do people keep confusing what happens if you type in *words*, with what happens if you type in a *domain*?
Please *try* these things before posting misleading rubbish that will only spark further trollish messages.
In the Top 5 Reasons to move to Windows XP 64 page it says things like, "Windows XP 64-Bit Edition has been optimized specifically for the Intel Itanium processor" and many other similar comments. It mentions nothing about any Athlon 64bit processors. Yet on the download page it says it only supports the Athlon 64 and Opteron.
Why the massive discrepancy? If the whole thing is optimised for the Itanium, then why isn't the Itanium even supported by the demo version?!
Warning: Avant browser has no proper uninstall. It deletes a few files, but does not remove itself properly and leaves in all registry entries after an uninstall. Your computer will permanently have parts of Avant installed and all websites will permanently think you are using Avant as your browser even after you've uninstalled it, due to the fact that Avant also fucks with IE's settings installing it's own user-agent string over the top of IE's settings.
Unlike IE it also crashes very frequently. If you're tempted to install this I suggest you look elsewhere or make sure you have the OS CD handly in case you need to rebuild your computer to remove the Avant browser.
> FWIW, I never use MS Outlook or Outlook Express either. Earlier this > week, when MyDoom struck our email servers, a couple of coworkers > were infected. I was not.
That has nothing to do with your e-mail client. MyDoom (and most other worms) does not exploit any security vulnerabilities in Outlook or Outlook Express. It's just a file attachment, which your e-mail client also supports. It would even work if you read your e-mail using a web based reader if you were stupid enough to download and run the attachment.
If your coworkers were infected, it is merely because they're stupid enough to run an attachment they have received from someone they don't know - and not because they are using an MS e-mail client.
Anyone that's trying to exploit the address bar bug, will undoubtedly also include some javascript to set the status bar to say the name of the site they're spoofing as well. They're hardly likely to do one and not the other. Only the example exploits tend not to modify the status bar.
That's not a paid link - thats just a news link and they're free. Paid links are the little boxes on the right of the page, or big coloured bars (text) at the top. There are currently none for any Kelly/Hutton related keywords.
The Hiroshima bomb was a fission bomb (hydrogen bomb) - but that wasn't a very powerful bomb (RELATIVE to recent nuclear bombs). New nuclear bombs are fusion bombs (thermonuclear) but still have fission bombs in them as starters.
What I was trying to say, is that nobody has successfully harnessed fusion (as occurs on the sun) as a significant source of power (except for political power!). They've only managed to harness it for creating weapons (which isn't really 'harnessing' it at all - it's just letting the reaction run haywire on purpose to create a big horrible mess in someone elses country).
As you say though, I think they are making some progress and I think there are plans to build the worlds first fusion reactor in France.
Maybe we should suggest a Sun Base to our deer leader:)
I've heard the people on the Sun have had problems with global warming and high levels of background radation. In their favour though, they do seem to have got nuclear fusion working, which we have so far failed to do here on Earth.
I live in the UK too, but I would disagree with you. MD is not exactly what I would call "popular". If you go to a car audio center, you'd be lucky to find just one MD player out of the 30 or so CD players they might stock. You're way more likely to find an MP3 CD player than you are to find a MD player, even though MD players have been out for 12 years now.
Although Sony "never gives up", it held back the uptake of MD by keeping it's prices ridiculously high for many many years, by which time MP3 CD players had started to appear on the scene. Prices for MD hardware only started to become reasonable about 3 years ago, which is about a year after CD writers started rapidly falling in price too. Previous to that, an MD player for a car would cost about 400(GBP) - way too expensive.
I think MD is rapidly falling off the map and it won't be much longer before we'll see the end of it altogether. I wouldn't be at all surprised if we didn't start seeing more car head units with Compact Flash slots and/or built in hard drives instead.
Seems that future digicams won't need a compact flash anymore!"
Eh? It's the other way round. With 4 and 6GB Compact Flash cards (solid state) becoming available from people like Pretec and Lexar, why would you want a microdrive type device which is slower, has moving parts, is more prone to failure, is more expensive and uses way more battery power (especially when idle)?
I predict the demise of the microdrive (and related) when people realise they have no advantages over a normal compact flash card - which will be very soon.
Exactly how is that Troll? Whoever modded that as troll obviously hasn't tried this.
These days, a standard linux distro like Redhat comes on several CDs and is just as bloated and slow as Windows. In fact Redhat takes longer to load on my box that XP does (on the exact same box) and doesn't run any faster once it's loaded.
> So instead of finding the source(s) of the crashes and fixing it, > they have apparently given up on that,
You've completely misunderstood. The entire point of the Crash Detection system is so that Microsoft ARE aware of when crashes are happening and CAN fix them. If this system wasn't there - they wouldn't even know your browser had ever crashed. Users rarely report bugs (and especially don't bother to give you detailed information) so this system is an excellent idea.
Additionally, this new system "Add-on Crash Detection" allows them to give you useful advice if a 3rd party (IE non MS) component causes a crash.
I don't know about anyone else, but my IE has been crashing quite a lot since I installed Macromedia Flash 7. This isn't obviously Microsofts fault, but they might be able to tell Macromedia what crashes are occuring and how they were caused.
I *really* hate stupid ill-thought-out comments like yours.
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Because then they won't be searchable! Which would defy the whole point of hosting your e-mail with google. Duh.
> 1000 GB == TB?
Yes (obviously).
I don't get it...?
Why does that mean that he must work for a hard drive manufacturer? - He was correct.
-1 Wrong.
It does have a TM - like all the all the others. Just because it's small - it doesn't mean it isn't there!
> The link in the press release http://gmail.google.com doesn't work
Works for me...
The BBC now has a story on this.
I don't think it is an April fool - it's a very good idea.
It would probably be an April fool if it claimed anywhere that the final service was going to be free - but it doesn't. The 1GB storage might cost a fortune when the beta ends.
I think it's a very good idea.
Nope... It's illegal to deface it *in any way*. Look it up for yourself.
I really wish there was a -1 Wrong in the moderator drop-down.
You guys spend every fucking day bitching about how everything should be free, and when MS makes things free, you start whinging about it!
You DO NOT HAVE TO USE the included free products from MS! You can use whatever you like, but stop bitching about MS including stuff for free when those of us that have legimately paid for their OS welcome things such as free AV scanners and firewalls.
It's extremely important if you use Visual Studio.NET to get the VS.NET edition of TortoiseSVN. VS.NET hates the ".SVN" folders that TortoiseSVN creates, so the VS.NET version of TortoiseSVN uses "_SVN" folders instead.
I've been using TortoiseSVN and Subversion RC1 for a while now and I can't really fault it... Way less headaches than I had with working with the mature CVS system!
It takes 20 minutes to distribute a 90-minute film over a VPN and the system
The distribution system used by Rain Networks is available for free here...
Mine doesn't do this. I guess it must be configurable somewhere?
IIRC, IE will take you immediately to a search engine without displaying any error message. This is the annoying and broken behaviour that the OP was talking about.
You recall incorrectly. If you type in a proper domain name, IE will just give you a "This page cannot be displayed - Cannot find server or DNS Error". It only tries to do a search if you type in non domain name type expressions. eg a phrase with spaces or a single word without any dots in it which doesn't match a local host.
I expect it to say "domain name not found". End of story.
That's exactly what it does say! Why do people keep confusing what happens if you type in *words*, with what happens if you type in a *domain*?
Please *try* these things before posting misleading rubbish that will only spark further trollish messages.
(I have tried all of the above in IE6)
It's hardly unfounded! Have you ever read Slashdot?!
I don't understand.
In the Top 5 Reasons to move to Windows XP 64 page it says things like, "Windows XP 64-Bit Edition has been optimized specifically for the Intel Itanium processor" and many other similar comments. It mentions nothing about any Athlon 64bit processors. Yet on the download page it says it only supports the Athlon 64 and Opteron.
Why the massive discrepancy? If the whole thing is optimised for the Itanium, then why isn't the Itanium even supported by the demo version?!
Warning: Avant browser has no proper uninstall. It deletes a few files, but does not remove itself properly and leaves in all registry entries after an uninstall. Your computer will permanently have parts of Avant installed and all websites will permanently think you are using Avant as your browser even after you've uninstalled it, due to the fact that Avant also fucks with IE's settings installing it's own user-agent string over the top of IE's settings.
Unlike IE it also crashes very frequently. If you're tempted to install this I suggest you look elsewhere or make sure you have the OS CD handly in case you need to rebuild your computer to remove the Avant browser.
> FWIW, I never use MS Outlook or Outlook Express either. Earlier this
> week, when MyDoom struck our email servers, a couple of coworkers
> were infected. I was not.
That has nothing to do with your e-mail client. MyDoom (and most other worms) does not exploit any security vulnerabilities in Outlook or Outlook Express. It's just a file attachment, which your e-mail client also supports. It would even work if you read your e-mail using a web based reader if you were stupid enough to download and run the attachment.
If your coworkers were infected, it is merely because they're stupid enough to run an attachment they have received from someone they don't know - and not because they are using an MS e-mail client.
Anyone that's trying to exploit the address bar bug, will undoubtedly also include some javascript to set the status bar to say the name of the site they're spoofing as well. They're hardly likely to do one and not the other. Only the example exploits tend not to modify the status bar.
That's not a paid link - thats just a news link and they're free. Paid links are the little boxes on the right of the page, or big coloured bars (text) at the top. There are currently none for any Kelly/Hutton related keywords.
Well I was kind of simplifying it...
The Hiroshima bomb was a fission bomb (hydrogen bomb) - but that wasn't a very powerful bomb (RELATIVE to recent nuclear bombs). New nuclear bombs are fusion bombs (thermonuclear) but still have fission bombs in them as starters.
What I was trying to say, is that nobody has successfully harnessed fusion (as occurs on the sun) as a significant source of power (except for political power!). They've only managed to harness it for creating weapons (which isn't really 'harnessing' it at all - it's just letting the reaction run haywire on purpose to create a big horrible mess in someone elses country).
As you say though, I think they are making some progress and I think there are plans to build the worlds first fusion reactor in France.
Maybe we should suggest a Sun Base to our deer leader :)
I've heard the people on the Sun have had problems with global warming and high levels of background radation. In their favour though, they do seem to have got nuclear fusion working, which we have so far failed to do here on Earth.
I live in the UK too, but I would disagree with you. MD is not exactly what I would call "popular". If you go to a car audio center, you'd be lucky to find just one MD player out of the 30 or so CD players they might stock. You're way more likely to find an MP3 CD player than you are to find a MD player, even though MD players have been out for 12 years now.
Although Sony "never gives up", it held back the uptake of MD by keeping it's prices ridiculously high for many many years, by which time MP3 CD players had started to appear on the scene. Prices for MD hardware only started to become reasonable about 3 years ago, which is about a year after CD writers started rapidly falling in price too. Previous to that, an MD player for a car would cost about 400(GBP) - way too expensive.
I think MD is rapidly falling off the map and it won't be much longer before we'll see the end of it altogether. I wouldn't be at all surprised if we didn't start seeing more car head units with Compact Flash slots and/or built in hard drives instead.
Seems that future digicams won't need a compact flash anymore!"
Eh? It's the other way round. With 4 and 6GB Compact Flash cards (solid state) becoming available from people like Pretec and Lexar, why would you want a microdrive type device which is slower, has moving parts, is more prone to failure, is more expensive and uses way more battery power (especially when idle)?
I predict the demise of the microdrive (and related) when people realise they have no advantages over a normal compact flash card - which will be very soon.
Pretec
Exactly how is that Troll? Whoever modded that as troll obviously hasn't tried this.
These days, a standard linux distro like Redhat comes on several CDs and is just as bloated and slow as Windows. In fact Redhat takes longer to load on my box that XP does (on the exact same box) and doesn't run any faster once it's loaded.
In other news: Sales of sunglasses have fallen 10% in 30 years.
> So instead of finding the source(s) of the crashes and fixing it,
> they have apparently given up on that,
You've completely misunderstood. The entire point of the Crash Detection system is so that Microsoft ARE aware of when crashes are happening and CAN fix them. If this system wasn't there - they wouldn't even know your browser had ever crashed. Users rarely report bugs (and especially don't bother to give you detailed information) so this system is an excellent idea.
Additionally, this new system "Add-on Crash Detection" allows them to give you useful advice if a 3rd party (IE non MS) component causes a crash.
I don't know about anyone else, but my IE has been crashing quite a lot since I installed Macromedia Flash 7. This isn't obviously Microsofts fault, but they might be able to tell Macromedia what crashes are occuring and how they were caused.
I *really* hate stupid ill-thought-out comments like yours.
> So in other words IE was a pop up blocker, that html writers .
> can bypass at their own will
No. You just made that up. Read the article.
> Damn I wish I could add security features, and then poke holes in them.
I'm glad that you can't do either of these things.
Will any recent version of a desktop Linux distribution work on a P1 133?
No.
I guess I'll stay in the real world.