Should have also linked you to explorer.exe. In particular, the following:
Windows Explorer is a file manager application... It provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systems. It is also the component of the operating system that presents many user interface items on the monitor such as the taskbar and desktop.
Apparently the GUI in Windows is not an application on top of a shell
The GUI in Windows is called explorer.exe and it is an application on top of a shell. If you don't believe me, start Task Manager and kill the explorer.exe process.
last time I ran and exited multiple applications from my shell no rebooting was required
Irrelevant. That does not prove anything. You can use the Windows GUI to launch other applications on top of the shell, but that is beside the point. The point is, the GUI in Windows is just an application on top of a shell.
You're thinking like a bean-counter, not like a manager.
Bean-counter: "We're paying someone $8.50 an hour to spend 5 minutes for 47 cents worth of change?!!1!"
Management: "Before your shift is over, you will count any abandoned money, document the amount, and put it in the inter-departmental mail for Finance."
The bean-counter paid someone $0.71 to count 47 cents worth of change. The manager had them do it for free.
But one thing has been a fundamental truth whenever somebody cracks a joke about Java speed: that person doesn't have the slightest clue and propably is a bad programmer.
Most users are like that, yeah. And the Java apps I've used? Haven't impressed me with their speed.
Even if I was an expert Java programmer, I wouldn't have much control over Java apps written by others, now would I? When you're using a Java app and it's painfully slow, do you open up the.jar and start optimizing things? I doubt it.
Oh. Well, that's not your browser's fault at all. That's your operating system's fault. Macs "just work" like that. "User-friendly"... that's the word for when they hide options you don't need, right?
Under Windows, file types are simple extensions to the filename, not hidden away in some metadata tag. The Windows OS' file picker dialog looks like this. I'm pretty sure just about anyone could figure out how to look for something other than image files in that file picker. It's the box that says "Files of type", and "Image Files", so pardon my incredulity at anyone's inability to do so.
Perhaps I should apologize. I forgot that there was an operating system that actually won't let you specify or change which type of file you want to browse for in its file picker dialog. Anyway, revisit that page and open the Web Console (should be in the Web Developer menu) and try pasting this into the bar, after the > prompt.
(Basically: For each <input> tag with type="file", set accept="*" and increment counter t. Return the counter.)
When you hit Return it should appear in the top pane. Beneath it should be the # of file upload elements it found on the page. Then see if the file upload box works properly.
If that works (which it should), then create a bookmark with the following "Location". Clicking the bookmark should fix it on any such page you find in the future:
I think he was referring to the Office-logo-style menu that you get when you disable the regular menu bar.
Really, though, the "Ribbon" is a gimmick. All it is is (1) redesigned, reorganized menus and (2) the menu is always "down", and context-shifts automatically.
The benefit of point (1) is highly dependent on how intuitive the reorganized menus are. Naturally, anyone who's used to the old menus will hate them for changing things. However, it does at least seem that they got this much right; it's really not hard to pick up the organization of the new menu system.
Point (2), on the other hand, is an "in-your-face" sort of behavior that you may or may not like. Users who don't know what they're doing might benefit from having the menu right there in front of them. Personally, however, I just collapse the Ribbon (double-click it) so that it acts like regular pull-down menus (albeit arranged horizontally instead of vertically). If I'm doing stuff that requires a lot of menu interaction (text formatting in Word) I might lock it open (again, double-click it) but in general I don't want it in my way.
If you took nothing else away from my post, hopefully you caught the fact that double-clicking the Ribbon makes it go away.
Oh, and the silver theme is much better than the default blue.
I find it amusing that the article linked for this story has some atrocious typography of its own.
No, that's just what happens when you let an artist choose the typography rather than a programmer. They want you to appreciate the article as art, not process it as information. You don't "read" it, you "experience" it.
The help tooltip for "Restrict to domain" even tells how to set up domain restrictions/exclusions: "Use this option to specify one or more domains separated by a bar line (|). The filter will only be applied on the domain(s) selected. A tilde (~) before a domain name indicates that the filter will not be applied on that domain."
So basically the rules I posted could have been created entirely from that interface.
Note that it's saying that the item I originally clicked to block (cloud_64.png) would not be blocked by the rule. Since it's a third-party rule restricted to ~slashdot.org, it would only be blocked if a website other than slashdot.org or a.fsdn.com tried to embed it.
By the way, that was also one of your "20 points" in your list (the one you challenged me to disprove). You might want to revise it. ABP rules aren't written in Javascript.
I'd be interested, though, in a pastebin dump of the Facebook source code both with and without your router mangling it, just to see what your router did that broke Facebook.
Like I said, your router is broken. I wouldn't trust a router to mangle HTML anyway. HTML should be parsed in the browser, not the router. I want my router to give my browser exactly what it asked for. Nothing more, nothing less.
I have to test on ALL major browsers (read IE9 (mostly from IE, it's current), Opera, FireFox (Waterfox here), & yes even Safari + others too).
Quite frankly, if you "test" on browsers while blocking ads, you're not really "testing". The ads could break the page and you'd never know it.
In any event, I *think* you & I have "smoothed out" our "minor differences" (just "crossed wires" imo, but I do think we're on the "same page" now's all)...
Whatever. Now if you could use sane paragraphs, nice, short, concise posts, and cut out all the annoying yelling (caps and boldface)... then we'd really be on the same page.
And since they are third-party filter rules with exception domains written in, both Facebook and Slashdot work just fine. I can't do that with a custom hosts file. AdBlock Plus is the only thing I'm aware of that lets me do that level of customization, as simply as just writing an easy-to-understand filter.
No offense, but you posted a TON of stuff. That post of yours was huge, and I'm not reading the entire thing, not even skimming. Much less clicking any of the links.
Plus, face it: ADBLOCK "ain't what it used to be", per this/. article no less:
Adblock Plus Developers To Allow 'Acceptable' Ads - Slashdot
My AdBlock works perfectly well. I have that option turned off.
Slashdot Mirror
No, if the employee got just as much other work done as before, and didn't leave any later than before, then the manager did get it for free.
I'm slightly curious - what do you consider "proper tab completion", and how is it different from the tab completion in cmd.exe?
Should have also linked you to explorer.exe. In particular, the following:
Windows Explorer is a file manager application ... It provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systems. It is also the component of the operating system that presents many user interface items on the monitor such as the taskbar and desktop.
No it isn't, thats just the program that runs the task bar and displays icons. The GUI is what draws the windows, buttons etc.
No. That is the Windows user subsystem (user32.dll) built upon the GDI.
The GUI is explorer.exe.
Why don't you go and learn something before you make an even bigger idiot of yourself.
Indeed.
Apparently the GUI in Windows is not an application on top of a shell
The GUI in Windows is called explorer.exe and it is an application on top of a shell. If you don't believe me, start Task Manager and kill the explorer.exe process.
last time I ran and exited multiple applications from my shell no rebooting was required
Irrelevant. That does not prove anything. You can use the Windows GUI to launch other applications on top of the shell, but that is beside the point. The point is, the GUI in Windows is just an application on top of a shell.
You're thinking like a bean-counter, not like a manager.
Bean-counter:
"We're paying someone $8.50 an hour to spend 5 minutes for 47 cents worth of change?!!1!"
Management:
"Before your shift is over, you will count any abandoned money, document the amount, and put it in the inter-departmental mail for Finance."
The bean-counter paid someone $0.71 to count 47 cents worth of change. The manager had them do it for free.
But one thing has been a fundamental truth whenever somebody cracks a joke about Java speed: that person doesn't have the slightest clue and propably is a bad programmer.
Most users are like that, yeah. And the Java apps I've used? Haven't impressed me with their speed.
Even if I was an expert Java programmer, I wouldn't have much control over Java apps written by others, now would I? When you're using a Java app and it's painfully slow, do you open up the .jar and start optimizing things? I doubt it.
Mac
Oh. Well, that's not your browser's fault at all. That's your operating system's fault. Macs "just work" like that. "User-friendly"... that's the word for when they hide options you don't need, right?
Under Windows, file types are simple extensions to the filename, not hidden away in some metadata tag. The Windows OS' file picker dialog looks like this. I'm pretty sure just about anyone could figure out how to look for something other than image files in that file picker. It's the box that says "Files of type", and "Image Files", so pardon my incredulity at anyone's inability to do so.
Perhaps I should apologize. I forgot that there was an operating system that actually won't let you specify or change which type of file you want to browse for in its file picker dialog. Anyway, revisit that page and open the Web Console (should be in the Web Developer menu) and try pasting this into the bar, after the > prompt.
for(var i=document.getElementsByTagName("input"),n=0,t=0;n<i.length;n++)if(i[n].type=="file"){i[n].accept="*";t++;};t;
(Basically: For each <input> tag with type="file", set accept="*" and increment counter t. Return the counter.)
When you hit Return it should appear in the top pane. Beneath it should be the # of file upload elements it found on the page. Then see if the file upload box works properly.
If that works (which it should), then create a bookmark with the following "Location". Clicking the bookmark should fix it on any such page you find in the future:
javascript:for(var i=document.getElementsByTagName("input"),n=0;n<i.length;n++)if(i[n].type=="file")i[n].accept="*";void(0);
The article is barely readable unless you turn off style sheets.
Your move.
But Nintendo somehow managed to make it socially acceptable to announce that you're going home to play with your Wii.
It's up and down. Hit refresh and you might get it. Or might just contribute more to the Slashdotting.
Word of advice, though: if it does load, turn off styles; it's nearly unreadable unless you do (Firefox: View - Page Style - No Style).
I think he was referring to the Office-logo-style menu that you get when you disable the regular menu bar.
Really, though, the "Ribbon" is a gimmick. All it is is (1) redesigned, reorganized menus and (2) the menu is always "down", and context-shifts automatically.
The benefit of point (1) is highly dependent on how intuitive the reorganized menus are. Naturally, anyone who's used to the old menus will hate them for changing things. However, it does at least seem that they got this much right; it's really not hard to pick up the organization of the new menu system.
Point (2), on the other hand, is an "in-your-face" sort of behavior that you may or may not like. Users who don't know what they're doing might benefit from having the menu right there in front of them. Personally, however, I just collapse the Ribbon (double-click it) so that it acts like regular pull-down menus (albeit arranged horizontally instead of vertically). If I'm doing stuff that requires a lot of menu interaction (text formatting in Word) I might lock it open (again, double-click it) but in general I don't want it in my way.
If you took nothing else away from my post, hopefully you caught the fact that double-clicking the Ribbon makes it go away.
Oh, and the silver theme is much better than the default blue.
I find it amusing that the article linked for this story has some atrocious typography of its own.
No, that's just what happens when you let an artist choose the typography rather than a programmer. They want you to appreciate the article as art, not process it as information. You don't "read" it, you "experience" it.
Well, naturally. Did you look at their CSS?
There are numerous places where they specified font-size in PERCENT ... and line-height in PIXELS.
What. The. Fuck.
They need to hire a programmer.
Oh, it works FINE... I like it in fact!
Its Java-blocking feature breaks websites that don't use Java. That's pretty broken IMHO.
You remembered incorrectly. AdBlock Plus rules are not written in Javascript. In fact, you don't have to write them in any code at all... there is a user-friendly interface to help write AdBlock Plus rules, as seen in this .png image.
The help tooltip for "Restrict to domain" even tells how to set up domain restrictions/exclusions:
"Use this option to specify one or more domains separated by a bar line (|). The filter will only be applied on the domain(s) selected. A tilde (~) before a domain name indicates that the filter will not be applied on that domain."
So basically the rules I posted could have been created entirely from that interface.
Note that it's saying that the item I originally clicked to block (cloud_64.png) would not be blocked by the rule. Since it's a third-party rule restricted to ~slashdot.org, it would only be blocked if a website other than slashdot.org or a.fsdn.com tried to embed it.
By the way, that was also one of your "20 points" in your list (the one you challenged me to disprove). You might want to revise it. ABP rules aren't written in Javascript.
I'd be interested, though, in a pastebin dump of the Facebook source code both with and without your router mangling it, just to see what your router did that broke Facebook.
Like I said, your router is broken. I wouldn't trust a router to mangle HTML anyway. HTML should be parsed in the browser, not the router. I want my router to give my browser exactly what it asked for. Nothing more, nothing less.
I have to test on ALL major browsers (read IE9 (mostly from IE, it's current), Opera, FireFox (Waterfox here), & yes even Safari + others too).
Quite frankly, if you "test" on browsers while blocking ads, you're not really "testing". The ads could break the page and you'd never know it.
In any event, I *think* you & I have "smoothed out" our "minor differences" (just "crossed wires" imo, but I do think we're on the "same page" now's all)...
Whatever. Now if you could use sane paragraphs, nice, short, concise posts, and cut out all the annoying yelling (caps and boldface)... then we'd really be on the same page.
I block what Nursie said (a.fsdn.com)
HOWEVER - NOT what you wrote (fbcdn.com)
Good for you. Personally, I block BOTH of them (actually, those 2 plus 3 more: facebook.com, facebook.net, and fbcdn.net), with AdBlock Plus:
||facebook.com^$third-party,domain=~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
||facebook.net^$third-party,domain=~facebook.com|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
||fbcdn.com^$third-party,domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.net
||fbcdn.net^$third-party,domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com
||fsdn.com^$third-party,domain=~slashdot.org
And since they are third-party filter rules with exception domains written in, both Facebook and Slashdot work just fine. I can't do that with a custom hosts file. AdBlock Plus is the only thing I'm aware of that lets me do that level of customization, as simply as just writing an easy-to-understand filter.
You're restricted to 1 browser/app
I only use one browser. Works for me.
NOT "irrelevant" @ all - That post of mine?
No offense, but you posted a TON of stuff. That post of yours was huge, and I'm not reading the entire thing, not even skimming. Much less clicking any of the links.
Plus, face it: ADBLOCK "ain't what it used to be", per this /. article no less:
Adblock Plus Developers To Allow 'Acceptable' Ads - Slashdot
My AdBlock works perfectly well. I have that option turned off.
I don't block the host-domain you noted ... I do BLOCK OUT a.fsdn.com
So which is it? You don't block it or you do?
I see no "issues" with the page display (it's faster if anything & quite possibly more secure)
And it looks like unstyled HTML vomit, but like I said, that probably wouldn't bother you.
Oh, and before you say anything, so is NTFS.
Tell that to APK, not me.
Anyway, FAT32 is case-insensitive. It doesn't care, and neither do I.
I'll "read on" as soon as you have figured out for sure which of the options on your router was raping Facebook.
I say it's cookies.
Facebook doesn't even use Java, by the way.