I had problems a while ago with Firefox crashing on some ad filled sites which turned out to be caused by the version of FlashBlock I'd installed from the main Extension's page. To get the latest version, you have to go to the FlashBlock homepage, follow the uninstall instructions and install the newer version from there.
I don't know why the old version continues to be distributed from the main Extensions page, probably to prevent automatic updates that would bypass the painful uninstall process you have to go through.
Emacs supports composed characters, so it should be possible to support putting the tone marks in the right place, even if they are saved as seperate characters in the buffer. The problem is that the internationalization features of Emacs are a bit of a black art that very few people know enough about to do anything with.
No matter how many megapixels they create, the lenses and CCDs on mobile phone cameras can't hold a candle to a decent digital camera. In my experience, even a good camera phone takes blurry and grainy pictures compared to my 2Mpx Canon.
I think that many phones in the US have already phased out the ability to run off the camera sound because of privacy issues.
My phone will happily take a short video without making a sound, and my real camera is virtually silent. If I want to invade your privacy, I'll just use something other than the phone's crappy still picture capability.
Digest authentication isn't all that secure. All it does is keep the password from being sent over the network in cleartext. It doesn't prevent replay attacks.
Anonymous Cowards should familiarize themselves with RFC 2617 and the concept of challenge response authentication before making statements like that. A properly implemented server implementation of digest authentication does prevent replay attacks.
I find it is often the populated areas that have blurry satellite coverage, due to the restricted airspace around major airports which prevents higher resolution aerial photographs from being used.
For about $60 (including taxes), a mobile phone subscription in the US generally includes about 500 minutes
$60 = GBP32.50. So sandwiched in between 3's Text&Talk 600 and Video,Text&Talk 700 plans. The only real difference between US and UK pricing is that in the UK it is more expensive to phone a mobile from a landline.
"Chip & PIN" in the UK doesn't even seem to be implemented securely. Last weekend I used it at Tesco. As I attempted to put my card in the reader on the pinpad, the checkout assistant grabbed it off me and mumbled something about it needing to go through the cash register. He then swiped the card on the old system they used when you had to sign, and asked me to enter my PIN on the pinpad.
When I used to work for a company making magstripe & PIN systems in New Zealand 8 years ago, there was a regulation that the card reader and pinpad had to be in a sealed unit, with epoxy all over the ciruit board making it extremely hard to get an electrical connection to mount a man in the middle attack. All communications out are encrypted. I guess with chip & PIN, some of that encryption is done on the card itself, but I'd still be happier with a sealed pinpad and reader unit with public key encryption to the bank.
[b]Financial[/b] aid for America? You've got to be joking! Doctors, engineers, equipment, fine. Those are things that New Orleans could do with more of straight away. But money is something that the world's richest nation is not lacking. The best thing foreign nations and individuals could do financially right now is to increase donations to other areas that need aid, like Southern Africa where over 4 million people have been suffering from famine for years now, and Mumbai, where the average annual rainfall fell in just three days a little over a month ago, leaving 1.5 million people homeless. America needs to redirect its aid inward for a while, so the rest of the world should take up the slack.
Of course, one could criticise these offers as oppertunistic publicity-seeking
One could, if one was an ungrateful arsehole. It saddens me to see Americans in forums and Usenet whining about how the rest of the world hates them and why aren't they getting the same help as the tsunami victims, and then turning around and saying things like that. America gets MORE than its fair share of aid after hurricanes, terror attacks and other disasters, probably because the world's media is largely based there. Anyone thinking any different ask yourself, how much did YOU give to help with the Mumbai floods a month ago?
If by VFS you mean the gnome and kde libraries that add a whole load of explorer-like features to the desktop environments I disagree strongly. Anything implemented there is a workaround, and is only usable by applications that are built to take advantages of those libraries. File systems and the features they offer should be transparent. It shouldn't matter whether I'm using Gnome, KDE, GNUstep or the command line. The file system should be the same.
I've yet to see a 2.6 kernel that doesn't crash on boot on my PC. I'm still using 2.4.31, since 2.6 seems to be another development branch, which is what I thought 2.7 should be.
Because the JVM runs.class or.jar files, not.exe's. W32.Donut works because.NET projects compile to a Windows.exe program which loads.NET, rather than.NET loading the program.
I recall somewhere introduced a regulation like that. All that happened was you could order an individual channel for $19.99, or your basic package with 30 channels for $25. Oddly enough, noone went for the single channel option.
Python which is dynamically typed and shares the same garbage collection facilities as Java which I think is of the generational variety although I haven't disassembled to find out
You need to stop coding and read more. You can find out all about Python and Java garbage collection by reading books, or if you prefer, web pages. No need for dissassembly and giving YOURSELF a migrane trying to keep track of which register is holding which anonymous variable that you haven't yet worked out the purpose of.
Google has afu posts mentioning it going back to 1997..
Which isn't very useful for tracing the history, since there are definitions for cow-orker and notes about the illegality of orking cows in Utah in an asr FAQ I found from May 1996. afu seems a strange place for the term to crop up, asr seemed more likely to me.
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Well, you do read them, so I wonder what that says about how interesting your own life is.
I had problems a while ago with Firefox crashing on some ad filled sites which turned out to be caused by the version of FlashBlock I'd installed from the main Extension's page. To get the latest version, you have to go to the FlashBlock homepage, follow the uninstall instructions and install the newer version from there. I don't know why the old version continues to be distributed from the main Extensions page, probably to prevent automatic updates that would bypass the painful uninstall process you have to go through.
Emacs supports composed characters, so it should be possible to support putting the tone marks in the right place, even if they are saved as seperate characters in the buffer. The problem is that the internationalization features of Emacs are a bit of a black art that very few people know enough about to do anything with.
Better yet, write a JNLP file and keep the program and its dependancies up to date via Java Web Start.
No matter how many megapixels they create, the lenses and CCDs on mobile phone cameras can't hold a candle to a decent digital camera. In my experience, even a good camera phone takes blurry and grainy pictures compared to my 2Mpx Canon.
My phone will happily take a short video without making a sound, and my real camera is virtually silent. If I want to invade your privacy, I'll just use something other than the phone's crappy still picture capability.
Remember, Microsoft's audience is VB programmers. I look forward to version 6.0, which will see the much awaited return of line numbers.
Digest authentication isn't all that secure. All it does is keep the password from being sent over the network in cleartext. It doesn't prevent replay attacks.
Anonymous Cowards should familiarize themselves with RFC 2617 and the concept of challenge response authentication before making statements like that. A properly implemented server implementation of digest authentication does prevent replay attacks.
I find it is often the populated areas that have blurry satellite coverage, due to the restricted airspace around major airports which prevents higher resolution aerial photographs from being used.
For about $60 (including taxes), a mobile phone subscription in the US generally includes about 500 minutes $60 = GBP32.50. So sandwiched in between 3's Text&Talk 600 and Video,Text&Talk 700 plans. The only real difference between US and UK pricing is that in the UK it is more expensive to phone a mobile from a landline.
Astoundingly, they do.
When I used to work for a company making magstripe & PIN systems in New Zealand 8 years ago, there was a regulation that the card reader and pinpad had to be in a sealed unit, with epoxy all over the ciruit board making it extremely hard to get an electrical connection to mount a man in the middle attack. All communications out are encrypted. I guess with chip & PIN, some of that encryption is done on the card itself, but I'd still be happier with a sealed pinpad and reader unit with public key encryption to the bank.
[b]Financial[/b] aid for America? You've got to be joking! Doctors, engineers, equipment, fine. Those are things that New Orleans could do with more of straight away. But money is something that the world's richest nation is not lacking. The best thing foreign nations and individuals could do financially right now is to increase donations to other areas that need aid, like Southern Africa where over 4 million people have been suffering from famine for years now, and Mumbai, where the average annual rainfall fell in just three days a little over a month ago, leaving 1.5 million people homeless. America needs to redirect its aid inward for a while, so the rest of the world should take up the slack.
One could, if one was an ungrateful arsehole. It saddens me to see Americans in forums and Usenet whining about how the rest of the world hates them and why aren't they getting the same help as the tsunami victims, and then turning around and saying things like that. America gets MORE than its fair share of aid after hurricanes, terror attacks and other disasters, probably because the world's media is largely based there. Anyone thinking any different ask yourself, how much did YOU give to help with the Mumbai floods a month ago?
If by VFS you mean the gnome and kde libraries that add a whole load of explorer-like features to the desktop environments I disagree strongly. Anything implemented there is a workaround, and is only usable by applications that are built to take advantages of those libraries. File systems and the features they offer should be transparent. It shouldn't matter whether I'm using Gnome, KDE, GNUstep or the command line. The file system should be the same.
I've yet to see a 2.6 kernel that doesn't crash on boot on my PC. I'm still using 2.4.31, since 2.6 seems to be another development branch, which is what I thought 2.7 should be.
Can't you configure grub to boot a drive rather than an image?
Probably. They wouldn't deliver my card by mail because of the area I lived in. The bank is Lloyds-TSB.
Not by my bank.
The MS JVM is supported until December 2007. Sadly.
Because the JVM runs .class or .jar files, not .exe's. W32.Donut works because .NET projects compile to a Windows .exe program which loads .NET, rather than .NET loading the program.
I recall somewhere introduced a regulation like that. All that happened was you could order an individual channel for $19.99, or your basic package with 30 channels for $25. Oddly enough, noone went for the single channel option.
You need to stop coding and read more. You can find out all about Python and Java garbage collection by reading books, or if you prefer, web pages. No need for dissassembly and giving YOURSELF a migrane trying to keep track of which register is holding which anonymous variable that you haven't yet worked out the purpose of.
Go to your local cinema. Save on the travel costs, and entry is around a fiver.
Which isn't very useful for tracing the history, since there are definitions for cow-orker and notes about the illegality of orking cows in Utah in an asr FAQ I found from May 1996. afu seems a strange place for the term to crop up, asr seemed more likely to me.