I'm sorry, I'm laughing hysterically at the phrase "...a US Patriot missile that caused 28 deaths because of accumulated floating point error". Sounds to me like the missile did exactly what it's designed to do - kill. The missile has no knowledge of who's side it's on, it just kills, maims, and destroys without conscience.
i can't even find a win32 version of Apache 2.0.35 in order to find out how well it works on any version of Windows. Which is really odd.... 'cause a couple months ago I saw there was a beta version of the 2.0 available for windows... *confucked out of his mind*...so I'm guessing this isn't released yet on the Windows platform
I did that and discovered the validator was parsing the "please go download lastest IE" page... so I went to msn.com in IE 6, saved the source code and uploaded that file to the validator. Funny results..... the actual source code given to IE 6 was also filled with errors. This ain't XHTML 1 strict... this is MSXHTML 1 crap. I had my suspicions about something like this happening once I found out IE 6 doesn't accurately support XML 1.0...it's close, but the XML spec requires full support in order for an app to claim support.
Wasn't there something at CNET about MS unblocking the browsers by the end of thursday? I realize i'm probably just picking on a tiny detail here and that where Redmond is, there's still another 4 hours 'til the end of the day... but come on, how difficult can it be to unblock browser strings? That's what, one line of code? One variable in a line? Being Opera & Mozilla are so close to W3C standards in so many ways, I'm SURE it wouldn't take very long to fix the problem. After all, according to the article at CNET (or was it the yahoo one?), MS said their code is pure W3C standard. So how hard is it? Maybe all their code is done procedurally and they have to change the browser string block code in a thousand places. *L*....but I seriously doubt MS would code with such idiocy.
Uuhhh.. am I getting extremely good at reading French or was that article really in English? Or maybe someone thought all languages look like English? Anyway, I hope Mandrake can get into the black uicker than Red Hat did. It would be an amazing boost to open source software & prove Micro$oft to be a bit uninformed about what makes a business successful.
Seems to me like some people expect perfection from the OpenBSD crew. Yeah, it's a root exploit, but there's certainly far less exploits for major damage on OpenBSD than any or most any other OS's. I don't understand how someone can complain about a patch coming out 6 days after starting work on it. Knowing what I know about the OpenBSD bunch, I wouldn't be surprised if it took 6 days because they wanted to be sure the patch would totally cover the problem without leaving a hole or causing another hole in the system somewhere. I'm still using OpenBSD as a prefered choice OS. Can't knock the soup or the cook, just because one bowl had a fly in it. BSD still rocks, especially when it's open.
This is awesome news!! This is great! This means that if I ever get caught having files on my comp that I got while hacking into someone else's computer... they can't arrest me for the act, but only arrest me if I *look* at the information! We now have a case history to use in court if anyone gets in trouble. Think about that for a minute.
Altho...I think the world should invade the U.S., to protect themselves. Seems things are slowly getting more and more out of hand. Maybe they don't do it because we're living thru a period of appeasement.
If I remember correctly, Quebec province laws state that ANY business operating in the province, must use french AND english. This has been the law for many years - right or wrong. It's not like it's a new law, so the business owners had no excuse about it. With services like Babelfish, there's even less an excuse. It certainly doesn't take long to translate a bunch of english pages into french with a service like that. Especially when you can simply use a GET request URL, via babelfish, to translate the site.. and label the link something like "en français".
I don't agree with the agressiveness of the police on this matter either. They probably could've saved everyone time & money if they simply warned the business to comply with the laws by a certain time, instead of arresting them.
ok, so they filed in April '97... I remember using hotmail in March of '97...now doesn't hotmail prove prior use of the idea before tumbleweed filed for this patent? Even if it doesn't though, isn't this such a simple concept that anyone with a year's experience of internet/intranet programming could create with one or two neat little scripts? Isn't this basically just an HTTP POST request shoved through SSL (or something similar)?? I can't see how that's patentable.
GPL has limitations due to grouping all code as open always. BSD can give a company the ability to open source, or keep the code secret...it's really the way to go IMHO. BSD supports freedom of indidviduality in that sense, and GPL is more like another `prison` even tho it's the opposite of proprietary licenses - which are also `prisons`. I can't see why a company would really want to use the GPL when there's some very good (and often slightly better) software and OS's using the BSD license. I realize it's a matter of taste, but in a legal and business sense....BSD really would be the way to go. It doesn't force you into as many corners.
I had the SAME problem on Windows 98 SE! Although, mine took a slightly different form... it recognized the preferences & profile stuff from other users on this box, but not mine for some reason. I tried several times, but nothing short of re-entering all my info would work...which just wasn't all that feasible for me since my bookmark.htm is 59K. I was able to import those bookmarks into the new ones, but then I couldn't quite manage all my bookmarks so they were all in the order I wanted them...it was weirder than it sounds. I'm actually using IE for the first time since late 1998....well, until they get their act together, or until Mozilla is ready for a real release. I like the nightly builds at least.
I downloaded it. Now I'm quite disappointed. Took me 3 tries of the download/install for it to actually install without any errors. Then when I finally got sick of it not finding my previous Netscape profile, yet it would consistently find the profiles of everyone else on this system, I realized that it's not worthwhile after about 2 1/2 hours and a very bad attitude that filled the air with swear words. So I uninstalled it, and found it doesn't *really* get uninstalled (using Windows 98 SE for all this). So I went and installed the latest IE 5.5 SP1 instead, which says a lot...considering I'm running FreeBSD on my laptop these days. Ya know what I mean?
The Mozilla nightly builds are better. How could AOL even think this crappy version passed off as a commercially viable product would go over? I mean, they're not my favorite company, but they didn't get rich by releasing software they should've worked on for another month or two. It's been a long day...goodnight.
Ok, so it's X, and maybe this sound very newbie of me, but does that mean it's definately Linux? It could be a BSD or Solaris for all we know. How can you tell from those screenshots alone? I see the point tho:)
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I'm sorry, I'm laughing hysterically at the phrase "...a US Patriot missile that caused 28 deaths because of accumulated floating point error". Sounds to me like the missile did exactly what it's designed to do - kill. The missile has no knowledge of who's side it's on, it just kills, maims, and destroys without conscience.
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i can't even find a win32 version of Apache 2.0.35 in order to find out how well it works on any version of Windows. Which is really odd.... 'cause a couple months ago I saw there was a beta version of the 2.0 available for windows... *confucked out of his mind* ...so I'm guessing this isn't released yet on the Windows platform
The end of the world. Bin Laden won, thank you US senate for defending America.
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msn was slashdotted? *L* i love the irony in that thought.
I did that and discovered the validator was parsing the "please go download lastest IE" page... so I went to msn.com in IE 6, saved the source code and uploaded that file to the validator. Funny results..... the actual source code given to IE 6 was also filled with errors. This ain't XHTML 1 strict... this is MSXHTML 1 crap. I had my suspicions about something like this happening once I found out IE 6 doesn't accurately support XML 1.0 ...it's close, but the XML spec requires full support in order for an app to claim support.
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Wasn't there something at CNET about MS unblocking the browsers by the end of thursday? I realize i'm probably just picking on a tiny detail here and that where Redmond is, there's still another 4 hours 'til the end of the day... but come on, how difficult can it be to unblock browser strings? That's what, one line of code? One variable in a line? Being Opera & Mozilla are so close to W3C standards in so many ways, I'm SURE it wouldn't take very long to fix the problem. After all, according to the article at CNET (or was it the yahoo one?), MS said their code is pure W3C standard. So how hard is it? Maybe all their code is done procedurally and they have to change the browser string block code in a thousand places. *L* ....but I seriously doubt MS would code with such idiocy.
This whole thing seriously pisses me off.
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it's still a very worthwhile OS, and we really shouldn't be complaining about it's few stumbles.
<Dev/>Seems to me like some people expect perfection from the OpenBSD crew. Yeah, it's a root exploit, but there's certainly far less exploits for major damage on OpenBSD than any or most any other OS's. I don't understand how someone can complain about a patch coming out 6 days after starting work on it. Knowing what I know about the OpenBSD bunch, I wouldn't be surprised if it took 6 days because they wanted to be sure the patch would totally cover the problem without leaving a hole or causing another hole in the system somewhere. I'm still using OpenBSD as a prefered choice OS. Can't knock the soup or the cook, just because one bowl had a fly in it. BSD still rocks, especially when it's open.
<Dev/>This is awesome news!! This is great! This means that if I ever get caught having files on my comp that I got while hacking into someone else's computer... they can't arrest me for the act, but only arrest me if I *look* at the information! We now have a case history to use in court if anyone gets in trouble. Think about that for a minute.
Altho...I think the world should invade the U.S., to protect themselves. Seems things are slowly getting more and more out of hand. Maybe they don't do it because we're living thru a period of appeasement.
I'm just babbling now. EOF.
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I don't agree with the agressiveness of the police on this matter either. They probably could've saved everyone time & money if they simply warned the business to comply with the laws by a certain time, instead of arresting them.
Getting the lawmakers to turn against lawyers like this tho, would be difficult. I personally love the idea myself.
ok, so they filed in April '97... I remember using hotmail in March of '97...now doesn't hotmail prove prior use of the idea before tumbleweed filed for this patent? Even if it doesn't though, isn't this such a simple concept that anyone with a year's experience of internet/intranet programming could create with one or two neat little scripts? Isn't this basically just an HTTP POST request shoved through SSL (or something similar)?? I can't see how that's patentable.
GPL has limitations due to grouping all code as open always. BSD can give a company the ability to open source, or keep the code secret...it's really the way to go IMHO. BSD supports freedom of indidviduality in that sense, and GPL is more like another `prison` even tho it's the opposite of proprietary licenses - which are also `prisons`. I can't see why a company would really want to use the GPL when there's some very good (and often slightly better) software and OS's using the BSD license. I realize it's a matter of taste, but in a legal and business sense....BSD really would be the way to go. It doesn't force you into as many corners.
I had the SAME problem on Windows 98 SE! Although, mine took a slightly different form... it recognized the preferences & profile stuff from other users on this box, but not mine for some reason. I tried several times, but nothing short of re-entering all my info would work...which just wasn't all that feasible for me since my bookmark.htm is 59K. I was able to import those bookmarks into the new ones, but then I couldn't quite manage all my bookmarks so they were all in the order I wanted them...it was weirder than it sounds. I'm actually using IE for the first time since late 1998....well, until they get their act together, or until Mozilla is ready for a real release. I like the nightly builds at least.
I downloaded it. Now I'm quite disappointed. Took me 3 tries of the download/install for it to actually install without any errors. Then when I finally got sick of it not finding my previous Netscape profile, yet it would consistently find the profiles of everyone else on this system, I realized that it's not worthwhile after about 2 1/2 hours and a very bad attitude that filled the air with swear words. So I uninstalled it, and found it doesn't *really* get uninstalled (using Windows 98 SE for all this). So I went and installed the latest IE 5.5 SP1 instead, which says a lot...considering I'm running FreeBSD on my laptop these days. Ya know what I mean?
The Mozilla nightly builds are better. How could AOL even think this crappy version passed off as a commercially viable product would go over? I mean, they're not my favorite company, but they didn't get rich by releasing software they should've worked on for another month or two. It's been a long day...goodnight.
Ok, so it's X, and maybe this sound very newbie of me, but does that mean it's definately Linux? It could be a BSD or Solaris for all we know. How can you tell from those screenshots alone? I see the point tho :)
*LOL* ...maybe that's who he was really working at the time he invented the internet?