Mozilla Mail/News has been my primary email client on Win32 since May of 2000 (that M18 for those of you keeping track) and is still going strong. I stuck to the milestones for day-to-day stuff, and test drove nightlies now and then to check specific bugs. RC1 looked real good all over, and RC2 should be out Real Soon Now.
In the description of the trap, the author has a warning page just in case a real user hits one of the bogus links. That page would also benfit from a handy javascript history.go(-1). You might consider an HTTP redirect header, but the bot might be smart enough to follow that.
This is a new one. Hit the video at Gateway's site. Same cow, same Ted, same truck, but a with a different song. The dig at the Holling's bill is new too.
The song itself is available for download as an MP3 too.
Actually, when I first saw the "Whip It" version, I thought Gateway might be trying a "get them while they're still legal" type of thing. But this is way cooler.
First, type http://info.netscape.com into URL bar, abd get forwarded to http://home.netscape.com.
Then, edit C:\Winnt\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and add:
127.0.0.1 info.netscape.com
Close and reopen Mozilla and try http://info.netscape.com and get Connection refused (unless you run a local web server, of course) to prove that info.netscape.com is no longer accessible.
Now, try a keyword search from the URL bar, which for me goes straight to google.com without a hitch.
The so called predatory business pratices are also crap, I think about expanding my own business along the ideas in the "Halloween Document" all the time. The only reason MS got shafted for it was their market position.
You're right. But according to the Sherman Act, once you have a monopoly position, you are held to a higher standard of conduct. There are certain things you just can't do to hold on to or expand your monopoly, things like the ones discussed in the Halloween documents. You have to be a predator before you can have predatory business practices.
The Proposed Final Judgement in the Microsoft Antitrust case is flawed in several ways. I will address one flaw that affects me personally.
Sections III D and III E are good sections in that force Microsoft to allow competing software developers equal access to information reguarding system API's and communication protocols. However, I feel that these sections should go farther than they do in two ways.
First, file formats should be included. Microsoft has a history of using incompatible file formats for coerse users of Microsoft software to upgrade to newer versions. This same tactic same tactic can be used against competing software packages that attempt to interoperate with Microsoft products.
Second, the only entities entitled to access the information made available by sections III D and III E are "ISV's, IHV's, IAP's, ICP's and OEM's". Granted that the definition provide for ISV is fairly broad (anyone involved in software development), the Final Judgement should make this information availble to the general public. As it stands, PFJ excludes private citizens who do not get paid to work in the software development field. As an owner of a Microsoft Operating System, I would like to be able to create software for my own personal use that will interact with my system correctly.
Thank you for taking the time to read my comments, and for your consideration is this matter.
and I encourage you to go up to Microsoft.com and check out our community areas. It's an area where we have sort of massively mobilized. It's still in the early phases, but we are massively mobilizing to try to stimulate communities, support communities, and really, if you will, borrow one from their playbook.
I can see it now... Microsoft meets Slashdot... Microdot, news for sheep, stuff that we think matters
In a well analyzed and properly planned project, the actual coding stage is little more than data entry.
The "actual coding" in these cases is not "software development" but "systems integration". If all you are building is a database browser with CRUD screens, (that's Create, Read, Update, Delete for the IT impared) then you can use function points or whatever to crank out a reasonable guess. If the analysts have done all the analysis, the the design is straight forward. If not, you could spend weeks trying to solve a problem that is not solvable in software.
The real complexity comes when you're not just hooking together pre-built components and designing screens, but when you have to solve a new problem that nobody has solved before (at least nobody that you know of). And there are enough of this type of problem lying about that you can stumble across one occasionally.
Example: Given color data for two different types of cloth dye, decide whether or not one can be used after the other without scrubbing down all the equipment. Then use this information to schedule a set of dying jobs to minimize the time spent cleaning the equipment.
Making my software behave the way I want is a great rush. Design, coding, testing is fun. Bug hunting and squashing when successful is satisfying. End-user support is... well, that's why they call it a job.
I consider myself lucky, though. I am part a small team that works on a commercial app with longstanding well-defined requirements. It's similar to tax software: the users need to print a report in such-and-such format and create a data file with such-and-such contents. Beyond that, we (I) get pretty much a free hand to make the software "do the right thing". I keep getting the feeling that this type of job is more and more rare.
The office environment and the people therein are important, and a bad work environment can ruin a great job. But, if you're not deeply into the "work" that you do, all the perks in the world can't make it a fun job.
The NYC Police, Fire Dept, and all the rescue workers were and still are there digging, sifting, listening for noises, risking their own lives, away from their own homes and families.
The least I can do is keep the TV on. Am I such a wimp that I can't stay up past bedtime?
Yes, of course I realize that my presence or absence in front of the tube makes absolutely no difference to the people on the front line, but I can't help feeling like I am deserting them when I turn it off.
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Props to Taco and team, not only for their hard work keeping the site up, but for this behind-the-scenes look at what it took to do so.
CNN was peaking at about an estimated 50,000 hits per second.
I also noticed after CNN came back up that they seemed to be in a sort of stripped-down static-only "combat mode". A talk with the guys behind CNN's site during the height of Tuesdays events would make for a great slashdot interview.
Actually, the last few versions of the MS RTF Spec do support tables and objects, but each version supports them a little differently. RTF is almost as much of a moving target as the.DOC file format itself. To find a "portable subset" of RTF (portable across versions of Word as well as alternative word processors) you woud need to drop back to Word 95 or so and reverse-engineer (with the spec in hand of course) from there. You also have to watch out as new versions of Word introduce new keywords to do old things (like numbered lists, Word 2000).
Why do you need other peoples opinions to decide what you like? Use your own mind, and fsck everyone else. If you like it, like it!
Letting other peoples' opinions define what you like is not the point, the point is to let other peoples' opinions define what you try out. You can't decide if you like it or not if you don't know it exists.
So, I say I like Cool Band X's new album today, so for every user who says they like Cool Band X's new album after I do, I'll get some sort of points.
Not exactly. It's more like, I say I like Cool Band X's album today, and later when other people say they like it too, other things I like rank higher in their "you might also like.." lists. That's what's so (no pun) cool about the idea! There is not a single, global, cookie-cutter, end-all "Cool Index" for everyone. Rather, based my likes/dislikes the system finds other users with similar likes (Cool Band X) and builds a "Custom Cool Index" just for me.
Ideally, as a user adds new opinions (ratings, rankings, recommendations, whatever you call them) that user's index (or profile or whatever) will be updated by adding/removing other user's opinions that agree/disagree with the newly entered one. This way, the power you get from being an early adopter of Cool Band X lasts only as long as Cool Band X's popularity with other users. Spread this across a large number of artists, and the "power" almost evaporates.
This past election in North Carolina (of all places) we used electronic voting machines in the polling place. The device was about the size of an unopened laptop, with an LCD touch screen on top (similar to some POS systems I've seen). The individual units were connected via a fat grey cable (think parrellel port) to a "master" unit, which then had a phone line to a wall jack. All this was set up in an rural elementary school gym.
The point? The point is the hardware and the software are out there now. The point is that electronic voting is in use now, and it works. The point is that Microsoft are Unisys are not running in to save the electoral process, they are elbowing their way into an existing marketplace to buy/steal/kill whatever existing products are already there and unfairly extend their monopoly power.
That was the first thing I checked too. What's the scoop on dialup access from this box? If it's a standard-issue ppp, then show us the config script (minus your username/password of course).
Most of the "Free" ISP's include an ad window that can't be closed (hence only Windoze support). Does the NetZero do this? Does the NIC show the ads or does it sidestep them somehow?
Slashdot Mirror
...every 39 days, and it remembers an ungodly number of old ones, so you can't recycle. I don't have enough kids to come up with that many passwords.
... she's a redhead.
o pe r.oscon.jpg
http://java.sun.com/features/2001/07/images/dco
if you're into that sort of thing.
Mozilla Mail/News has been my primary email client on Win32 since May of 2000 (that M18 for those of you keeping track) and is still going strong. I stuck to the milestones for day-to-day stuff, and test drove nightlies now and then to check specific bugs. RC1 looked real good all over, and RC2 should be out Real Soon Now.
Actually, ghostscript created a PDF about half the size of the .ps file.
-rw-r--r-- 1 kz None 239121 Apr 24 14:13 bhs.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kz None 433678 Apr 24 14:02 bhs.ps
Of course, the PDF is Flate encoded internally, and the ps is a big fluffy text file, so the ps file would compress to well below the PDF size.
In the description of the trap, the author has a warning page just in case a real user hits one of the bogus links. That page would also benfit from a handy javascript history.go(-1). You might consider an HTTP redirect header, but the bot might be smart enough to follow that.
This is a new one. Hit the video at Gateway's site. Same cow, same Ted, same truck, but a with a different song. The dig at the Holling's bill is new too.
The song itself is available for download as an MP3 too.
Actually, when I first saw the "Whip It" version, I thought Gateway might be trying a "get them while they're still legal" type of thing. But this is way cooler.
First, type http://info.netscape.com into URL bar, abd get forwarded to http://home.netscape.com.
Then, edit C:\Winnt\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and add:
127.0.0.1 info.netscape.com
Close and reopen Mozilla and try http://info.netscape.com and get Connection refused (unless you run a local web server, of course) to prove that info.netscape.com is no longer accessible.
Now, try a keyword search from the URL bar, which for me goes straight to google.com without a hitch.
Here ya go, straight from my sent items folder:
The Proposed Final Judgement in the Microsoft Antitrust case is flawed in several ways. I will address one flaw that affects me personally.
Sections III D and III E are good sections in that force Microsoft to allow competing software developers equal access to information reguarding system API's and communication protocols. However, I feel that these sections should go farther than they do in two ways.
First, file formats should be included. Microsoft has a history of using incompatible file formats for coerse users of Microsoft software to upgrade to newer versions. This same tactic same tactic can be used against competing software packages that attempt to interoperate with Microsoft products.
Second, the only entities entitled to access the information made available by sections III D and III E are "ISV's, IHV's, IAP's, ICP's and OEM's". Granted that the definition provide for ISV is fairly broad (anyone involved in software development), the Final Judgement should make this information availble to the general public. As it stands, PFJ excludes private citizens who do not get paid to work in the software development field. As an owner of a Microsoft Operating System, I would like to be able to create software for my own personal use that will interact with my system correctly.
Thank you for taking the time to read my comments, and for your consideration is this matter.
My Real Name
... I want cameras in cell phones. How else am I ever gonna get that Dick Tracy watch?
I can see it now... Microsoft meets Slashdot... Microdot, news for sheep, stuff that we think matters
The "actual coding" in these cases is not "software development" but "systems integration". If all you are building is a database browser with CRUD screens, (that's Create, Read, Update, Delete for the IT impared) then you can use function points or whatever to crank out a reasonable guess. If the analysts have done all the analysis, the the design is straight forward. If not, you could spend weeks trying to solve a problem that is not solvable in software.
The real complexity comes when you're not just hooking together pre-built components and designing screens, but when you have to solve a new problem that nobody has solved before (at least nobody that you know of). And there are enough of this type of problem lying about that you can stumble across one occasionally.
Example: Given color data for two different types of cloth dye, decide whether or not one can be used after the other without scrubbing down all the equipment. Then use this information to schedule a set of dying jobs to minimize the time spent cleaning the equipment.
Making my software behave the way I want is a great rush. Design, coding, testing is fun. Bug hunting and squashing when successful is satisfying. End-user support is... well, that's why they call it a job.
I consider myself lucky, though. I am part a small team that works on a commercial app with longstanding well-defined requirements. It's similar to tax software: the users need to print a report in such-and-such format and create a data file with such-and-such contents. Beyond that, we (I) get pretty much a free hand to make the software "do the right thing". I keep getting the feeling that this type of job is more and more rare.
The office environment and the people therein are important, and a bad work environment can ruin a great job. But, if you're not deeply into the "work" that you do, all the perks in the world can't make it a fun job.
The NYC Police, Fire Dept, and all the rescue workers were and still are there digging, sifting, listening for noises, risking their own lives, away from their own homes and families.
The least I can do is keep the TV on. Am I such a wimp that I can't stay up past bedtime?
Yes, of course I realize that my presence or absence in front of the tube makes absolutely no difference to the people on the front line, but I can't help feeling like I am deserting them when I turn it off.
Props to Taco and team, not only for their hard work keeping the site up, but for this behind-the-scenes look at what it took to do so.
CNN was peaking at about an estimated 50,000 hits per second.
I also noticed after CNN came back up that they seemed to be in a sort of stripped-down static-only "combat mode". A talk with the guys behind CNN's site during the height of Tuesdays events would make for a great slashdot interview.
Actually, the last few versions of the MS RTF Spec do support tables and objects, but each version supports them a little differently. RTF is almost as much of a moving target as the .DOC file format itself. To find a "portable subset" of RTF (portable across versions of Word as well as alternative word processors) you woud need to drop back to Word 95 or so and reverse-engineer (with the spec in hand of course) from there. You also have to watch out as new versions of Word introduce new keywords to do old things (like numbered lists, Word 2000).
"Flerbage is good."
and Extinguish. Why should we be surprised?
The surest sign of the decline of western civilization is the fact that Sonic has a drive-thru. People are too lazy to put their cars in reverse.
Why do you need other peoples opinions to decide what you like? Use your own mind, and fsck everyone else. If you like it, like it!
Letting other peoples' opinions define what you like is not the point, the point is to let other peoples' opinions define what you try out. You can't decide if you like it or not if you don't know it exists.
So, I say I like Cool Band X's new album today, so for every user who says they like Cool Band X's new album after I do, I'll get some sort of points.
Not exactly. It's more like, I say I like Cool Band X's album today, and later when other people say they like it too, other things I like rank higher in their "you might also like.." lists. That's what's so (no pun) cool about the idea! There is not a single, global, cookie-cutter, end-all "Cool Index" for everyone. Rather, based my likes/dislikes the system finds other users with similar likes (Cool Band X) and builds a "Custom Cool Index" just for me.
Ideally, as a user adds new opinions (ratings, rankings, recommendations, whatever you call them) that user's index (or profile or whatever) will be updated by adding/removing other user's opinions that agree/disagree with the newly entered one. This way, the power you get from being an early adopter of Cool Band X lasts only as long as Cool Band X's popularity with other users. Spread this across a large number of artists, and the "power" almost evaporates.
This past election in North Carolina (of all places) we used electronic voting machines in the polling place. The device was about the size of an unopened laptop, with an LCD touch screen on top (similar to some POS systems I've seen). The individual units were connected via a fat grey cable (think parrellel port) to a "master" unit, which then had a phone line to a wall jack. All this was set up in an rural elementary school gym.
The point? The point is the hardware and the software are out there now. The point is that electronic voting is in use now, and it works. The point is that Microsoft are Unisys are not running in to save the electoral process, they are elbowing their way into an existing marketplace to buy/steal/kill whatever existing products are already there and unfairly extend their monopoly power.
So, its pretty much business as usual.
Corprate IT types just love being able to create an single *image* with OS, apps, and everything, and then dump on to a couple hundred PCs.
I guess that technique is toast as well.
That was the first thing I checked too. What's the scoop on dialup access from this box? If it's a standard-issue ppp, then show us the config script (minus your username/password of course).
Most of the "Free" ISP's include an ad window that can't be closed (hence only Windoze support). Does the NetZero do this? Does the NIC show the ads or does it sidestep them somehow?
I'm looking, I'm looking....
Anybody besides these two yahoo's (pun intended). I'm ready for Ross Perot to get back in it. Nader didn't make it on the ballot in my state.
When is Jesse Ventura's term up in MN?