I am thinking of donating a small portion to Mozilla since Firefox is my main browser now. However, my motive is not fueled by a tax break.
This is the reason behind the UK's Gift Aid scheme. Most individuals give money because they beleive in a charities aims, not because they want to claim against their income. Why not give the tax break to the charity if the donor does not want it.
I'm not sure you can point to any one location as the origin of electronica. Many of those European artists will point to Yellow Magic Orchestra (Japan) as one of their influences, then there's early Pink Floyd and other 1960's experimental stuff that predates all those (though Kraftwerk may have been around that long, I'm not sure).
To be honest though, I don't get why people would really want to come to NZ - our standard-of-living is below average for the Western world, technology is _much_ more expensive, our hospital care isn't so great, the education quality is only average (shouldn't have mentioned that - I've undoubtedly misspelt something!).
You've never been outside New Zealand, have you? Standard of living is not measured in GDP, which many Kiwis with your attitude seem to think. And hospital care is certainly better than the UK, and a lot cheaper than the US. Maybe not the best in the world, but nearer the top than the bottom. As for technology, its not as cheap as the US, and some parts of South East Asia, but since there's no duty on electronic goods and GST is lower than most European VAT's, you'll find Europe more expensive in that area.
If I go to the download page I see a reference to 0.9.2 but no release notes telling me that there's a security problem.
0.9.1 was the same. The release notes were unchanged since 0.9 and there was just a note saying "minor bugfixes" in one place, and another note saying "critical update" somewhere else. Firefox is a great product, but they really need to do something about keeping users informed about their releases. We can't all be expected to browse through Bugzilla to see what has changed between releases.
Java 2 started with 1.2. They should have stuck with that naming scheme, as its confusing that Java 1.2 is also known as Java 2, and 1.5 is also known as Java 5, but 1.3 and 1.4 are still Java 2.
Emacs 1.12 to 13.0. Like Java, its not a real version skip, just the initial "1." got dropped because it seemed superfluous if it was never getting updated.
What are you talking about? It is showing in cinemas all over the UK today. A list of London cinemas where it is showing is here. I don't know about the rest of the country since popcorn.co.uk got shut down.
... while in Scandinavia only lager companies that grew from co-op movements have used it...
Ah, the Tuborg, Carlsburg, Pripps and Ringnes "co-op". I wasn't aware they were the only LLC left in Scandinavia, though they have managed to almost completely take over the lager market there.
Remember we're measuring following distance in time, not in distance. In periods of high traffic, following distances are usually much higher than 2 seconds, due to the extremely low speed of the traffic.
As far as x86 v.s. sparc, how did you arrive at the performance hit conclusion?
Very subjectively:-). The sparc box (450MHz Ultra 3) seems to be of comparable speed to a 800MHz P2 running Windows. If the Windows JDK is better tuned for performance as you say, then it may be that the Linux and Solaris JDKs are similar speeds and it is the sparc machine that is faster rather than the JDK or OS. Since it doesn't have a CDROM, it is a bit of a pain to install Linux on the sparc just to check.
Wal-Mart for example went with Java and Linux for their website in their early history. It's on Java and Solaris x86 today. Now what is it about Solaris x86 that could convince a cost-conscious organization like Wal-Mart to make the switch?
I don't know about Solaris x86, but I have found a small (5 - 10%) performance hit running Java server apps on Linux 2.4/x86 compared with both Windows/x86 and Solaris/sparc. I think it is due to the way the OS does threading (Linux threads seem heavier), but I'd like to see if 2.6 makes a difference.
At least Sun is not going to sue you for using Java. I'm not sure you can say the same about Microsoft and Mono once you start using the non-ECMA APIs.
They got pissed at each other, broke up, and OS/2 3.0 became Windows NT 3.51.
OS/2 3.0 was an IBM product also known as Warp. Microsoft was involved with OS/2 up until Windows 3.0 was launched (at the time of text mode only OS/2 1.2?), at which point they abandoned it to concentrate on Windows. There was some OS/2 code in NT 3.1 for sure, evidenced by the HPFS support, but it certainly wasn't "based on" OS/2.
The URL at the top is a wishlist, they probably never look at that, and if they do it is the wrong department. The last comment has the email address I used. They do respond quickly on that.
I usually don't get any response from Microsoft when I report security holes to them
You must be reporting them to the wrong place. Unlike other bugs I've tried to report to Microsoft and not even received an acknowledgement for, when I've reported security related bug, I've received a response the same day.
Set up your SPF record as follows:
example.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 ?all"
SPF has different levels:
+ pass
? neutral
~ soft-fail
- hard-fail
Facist admins could still theoretically block neutral, but SPF is not intended to be a full spam blocking system, all it should do is reduce the load on the server by doing less checks on "pass" and blocking "hard-fail", and treat "soft-fail" as already probable spam at the start of other spam checks.
Your ISP can't do a thing about what senders are valid for your work email address.
The real solution is to convince your work of the need to be able to send from other addresses and get them to end their SPF record with ?all (neutral) instead of -all (hard fail).
I will have to route my mail through my ISP's mail server in order to tag on to their SPF
What's your problem with doing that?
I have 4 accounts at different domains set up in Mozilla, and use different addresses to send depending on which account the mail is relevant to. But Mozilla only lets me specify one SMTP server. See the problem yet?
Such pinpads are used in high security (mainly military) installations, and have been around for decades. The problem is as soon as you start using them in situations where the userbase does not have maximum security drummed into their heads, anything that makes it more difficult for them to enter their PIN just increases the chance that the PIN gets written down and kept in their wallet. Usually when I type numbers on PIN pads, my memory recalls them positionally rather than numerically, and many other people are the same.
After a bit of research, I stand corrected too. I thought the timespan was much longer, but Java did not come out until Feb 1996, with development tools for ActiveX following in around May, and IE 3.0 with ActiveX support in October of the same year. So "long after" is a bit of an exageration, though things were changing a lot faster back then so it seemed like a long time.
Or their "research" in US and UK markets has finally shown that illegally downloaded MP3s improve, or at least don't affect, sales of CDs (I know there have been press releases to that effect in UK, and I think Australia too, but haven't heard of any in the US yet), but their "research" in other markets is lagging.
WinForms will become obsolete with Avalon. Everybody knows that, and that is why noone wants to start using it now. MFC may be a nightmare, but it is a nightmare that has been around long enough that people know it.
The biggest difference for me is that IMAP lockups do not lockup the browser, and browser crashes do not crash my mail. I think the combination of Thunderbird and Firefox is finally down to a comparable download size to Mozilla now too, prior to 0.9 each one was only slightly smaller than the whole Mozilla suite.
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This is the reason behind the UK's Gift Aid scheme. Most individuals give money because they beleive in a charities aims, not because they want to claim against their income. Why not give the tax break to the charity if the donor does not want it.
I'm not sure you can point to any one location as the origin of electronica. Many of those European artists will point to Yellow Magic Orchestra (Japan) as one of their influences, then there's early Pink Floyd and other 1960's experimental stuff that predates all those (though Kraftwerk may have been around that long, I'm not sure).
You've never been outside New Zealand, have you? Standard of living is not measured in GDP, which many Kiwis with your attitude seem to think. And hospital care is certainly better than the UK, and a lot cheaper than the US. Maybe not the best in the world, but nearer the top than the bottom. As for technology, its not as cheap as the US, and some parts of South East Asia, but since there's no duty on electronic goods and GST is lower than most European VAT's, you'll find Europe more expensive in that area.
0.9.1 was the same. The release notes were unchanged since 0.9 and there was just a note saying "minor bugfixes" in one place, and another note saying "critical update" somewhere else. Firefox is a great product, but they really need to do something about keeping users informed about their releases. We can't all be expected to browse through Bugzilla to see what has changed between releases.
Java 2 started with 1.2. They should have stuck with that naming scheme, as its confusing that Java 1.2 is also known as Java 2, and 1.5 is also known as Java 5, but 1.3 and 1.4 are still Java 2.
Emacs 1.12 to 13.0. Like Java, its not a real version skip, just the initial "1." got dropped because it seemed superfluous if it was never getting updated.
What are you talking about? It is showing in cinemas all over the UK today. A list of London cinemas where it is showing is here. I don't know about the rest of the country since popcorn.co.uk got shut down.
Ah, the Tuborg, Carlsburg, Pripps and Ringnes "co-op". I wasn't aware they were the only LLC left in Scandinavia, though they have managed to almost completely take over the lager market there.
Remember we're measuring following distance in time, not in distance. In periods of high traffic, following distances are usually much higher than 2 seconds, due to the extremely low speed of the traffic.
Very subjectively :-). The sparc box (450MHz Ultra 3) seems to be of comparable speed to a 800MHz P2 running Windows. If the Windows JDK is better tuned for performance as you say, then it may be that the Linux and Solaris JDKs are similar speeds and it is the sparc machine that is faster rather than the JDK or OS. Since it doesn't have a CDROM, it is a bit of a pain to install Linux on the sparc just to check.
I don't know about Solaris x86, but I have found a small (5 - 10%) performance hit running Java server apps on Linux 2.4/x86 compared with both Windows/x86 and Solaris/sparc. I think it is due to the way the OS does threading (Linux threads seem heavier), but I'd like to see if 2.6 makes a difference.
For other OS's, the OS vendor produces the JVM (usually licensing Sun's source code as a starting point).
At least Sun is not going to sue you for using Java. I'm not sure you can say the same about Microsoft and Mono once you start using the non-ECMA APIs.
The density of traffic would be lower because the traffic is flowing more smoothly, not because less cars are using the road. This is a good thing.
OS/2 3.0 was an IBM product also known as Warp. Microsoft was involved with OS/2 up until Windows 3.0 was launched (at the time of text mode only OS/2 1.2?), at which point they abandoned it to concentrate on Windows. There was some OS/2 code in NT 3.1 for sure, evidenced by the HPFS support, but it certainly wasn't "based on" OS/2.
The URL at the top is a wishlist, they probably never look at that, and if they do it is the wrong department. The last comment has the email address I used. They do respond quickly on that.
You must be reporting them to the wrong place. Unlike other bugs I've tried to report to Microsoft and not even received an acknowledgement for, when I've reported security related bug, I've received a response the same day.
- + pass
- ? neutral
- ~ soft-fail
- - hard-fail
Facist admins could still theoretically block neutral, but SPF is not intended to be a full spam blocking system, all it should do is reduce the load on the server by doing less checks on "pass" and blocking "hard-fail", and treat "soft-fail" as already probable spam at the start of other spam checks.Your ISP can't do a thing about what senders are valid for your work email address.
The real solution is to convince your work of the need to be able to send from other addresses and get them to end their SPF record with ?all (neutral) instead of -all (hard fail).
I have 4 accounts at different domains set up in Mozilla, and use different addresses to send depending on which account the mail is relevant to. But Mozilla only lets me specify one SMTP server. See the problem yet?
Such pinpads are used in high security (mainly military) installations, and have been around for decades. The problem is as soon as you start using them in situations where the userbase does not have maximum security drummed into their heads, anything that makes it more difficult for them to enter their PIN just increases the chance that the PIN gets written down and kept in their wallet. Usually when I type numbers on PIN pads, my memory recalls them positionally rather than numerically, and many other people are the same.
After a bit of research, I stand corrected too. I thought the timespan was much longer, but Java did not come out until Feb 1996, with development tools for ActiveX following in around May, and IE 3.0 with ActiveX support in October of the same year. So "long after" is a bit of an exageration, though things were changing a lot faster back then so it seemed like a long time.
Or their "research" in US and UK markets has finally shown that illegally downloaded MP3s improve, or at least don't affect, sales of CDs (I know there have been press releases to that effect in UK, and I think Australia too, but haven't heard of any in the US yet), but their "research" in other markets is lagging.
WinForms will become obsolete with Avalon. Everybody knows that, and that is why noone wants to start using it now. MFC may be a nightmare, but it is a nightmare that has been around long enough that people know it.
The biggest difference for me is that IMAP lockups do not lockup the browser, and browser crashes do not crash my mail. I think the combination of Thunderbird and Firefox is finally down to a comparable download size to Mozilla now too, prior to 0.9 each one was only slightly smaller than the whole Mozilla suite.