Just get adblock for firefox (it's one of the top 5 extensions last I saw). Took me less than a day of normal browsing to block 99% of ads. It had been months since I last saw one until they other day when I was visiting drudgereport.com. Of course, that's probably the best place to start...there's enough ads there to knock out most of what you'll ever see.
Block these to start: */ads/* ads.*
and you'll have at least half of all ads blocked. The only one I don't actualy use is/ads/ because that's a path for google ads, which I don't find anoying or intrusive so I let stay. I also don't block the slashdot ads that are generated by osdn, even though some of them ARE anoying.
No, that would be 10 for windows, and 3 for things that run on windows, and other OSes for that matter. I know at least one person who got SharePoint running on a linux machine.
1) The 8th is TUESDAY and the SECOND TUESDAY of every month is when Microsoft does their patch releases (unless they're so critical they release them out of cycle). 2) It's not 13 patchs for windows. As the article could not state any clearer it's:
9 Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows. The greatest aggregate, maximum severity rating for these security updates is Critical. Some of these updates will require a restart. 1 Microsoft Security Bulletin affecting Microsoft SharePoint Services and Office. The greatest aggregate, maximum severity rating for this security bulletin is Moderate. These updates may or may not require a restart. 1 Microsoft Security Bulletin affecting Microsoft.NET Framework. The greatest aggregate, maximum severity rating for this security bulletin is Important. This update will require a restart. 1 Microsoft Security Bulletin affecting Microsoft Office. The greatest aggregate, maximum severity rating for this security bulletin is Critical. These updates will require a restart. 1 Microsoft Security Bulletin affecting Microsoft Windows, Windows Media Player, and MSN Messenger. The greatest aggregate, maximum severity rating for these security updates is Critical. These updates will require a restart.
Yeah, since it is a new service, maybe it just hasn't crawled that many sites yet?
I guess if you consider about a year as "new." Surely in a year it has managed to crawl more sites, otherwise it is a pointless search engine, as it will always be out of date and behind the times.
I've seen two people complain, ever. I'd say that's really a pretty good track record, and the complaints they've described (Generaly against Customer Service) are things I've never seen. I've been in contact with their CS a dozen times or so (both technical and sales) over various things I wanted to do, but needed their assistance with. They were always polite, and very fast.
The only problem I ever knew them having was 4 or 5 years ago when they had some problems with their upstream provider's DNS servers. The server problems prevented their domain name from being resolved for a short period. Otherwise, I've always had very stable service from them.
For my Linux/BSD hosting I use CSoft. For my windows based hosting I use Tactical Systems. I've been very happy with both. I've been with CSoft for something like 5+ years now, and with TS for about a year.
Note: Neither link above has any kind of referer or affiliate junk, just straight links to their websites.
The article says it's better for data entry. Anyone who's ever done data entry involving numbers wouldn't even take a second look at this keyboard before rejecting it.
Yes, a newer and better one is on the horizon. The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch in 2011.
More like a new and different one. If you actually compare the two you'd notice that the JWST doesn't see everything the HST can, not even close to the same wide range of spectrum. It sees primarily in IR.
As for managing your own time, it's easy: The required projects always come first. If you slack on your required projects, or you badly underestimate your timeline, then you don't get any time to work on your independent stuff. On the other hand, if you bust your ass on your required project and end up ahead of schedule, then you may get more than 20% of your time to work on independent projects.
What you get from this is people who pad their time a lot to have more free time.
Hopefully this will bring more visibility to the issue. It's always bugged me the way the media, governments, etc. misrepresent numbers so often. Too bad it wasn't around in time for the elections; there couldn't be more abuse of numbers than there.
Didn't stop to think about the realities of running a business, did you? If it were like you describe, wouldn't everybody be running a business online instead of "deal[ing] with the overhead of running a store"? Consider the realities of the situation:
Actually, I did.
1) If you're REALLY running your whole business out of your house, there's a limit on the size of your business. If you're in a shipped-goods industry (like these Ebay merchants), how much inventory can you actually fit in your house? Even if your wife is very understanding, the house is only so big, right?
My house is fairly good sized and I have two rooms that I don't use at all. That gives me, say, 250 sq. ft. just inside the house, not counting room for any sort of outbuilding. Depending on what I choose to sell, that could be more than enough inventory room.
2) But let's say you get a warehouse, which is cheaper than storefront commercial space, or you keep your volume of business low enough to keep it in your house. You're STILL not necessarily better off, because a storefront can be a route to a hell of a lot more incoming customers.
That depends on where you are. Like the storefronts I was describing. Say you live in Powell City, Wyoming. I don't, but almost did. Population 5,000. If my business is something that is something of rather specific interest, that storefront potential isn't going to cover the cost of the storefront.
3) A storefront shop will see a whole category of very lucrative customers that mail-order, WWW, and Ebay-based stores cannot: people who need something RIGHT NOW and can't wait.
Again, that very much depends on where you're located.
4) Would you rather make %50 profit from your gross revenues, or %5 profit?
I think you assume way too much when you imply the difference between having and not having a storefront is 1000x. I don't think you'll find an example of that anywhere in the small business realm that I was talking about.
Even assuming I can make more money from a storefront, that doesn't mean the storefront profits (in this case being sale price - cost of item) would cover the storefront itself.
5) There are perfectly good reasons for staying on Ebay without having a regular storefront.
Yep. All those. Along with the fact that location is everything. If you live in a town where your product doesn't appeal, then there's no point in having a storefront.
I'm not saying is possible with EVERY standard storefront store, but there's a lot of cases where it is easily posssible.
Yeah, there's definately some confusion on what exactly is supposed to be done with it. BTW, didn't mean that last post to sound like a flame or anything.
Well, so I looked around a bit more and there's definately some confusion here... Is downloading it from Windows Update sufficient? Does one have to go back to the website (that neither windows update nor the installation) make any mention of?
Seems that it's Microsoft is missing something....
Uhm....I'm not sure what you're talking about. I installed it from Windows Update and had no issues.
Yes, you have to use IE for the Active X. You had ActiveX blocked? Have you ever run Windows Update before? You went back somewhere and had it scan? There's no UI (at least that anyone else has found) for this program....
It appears that the scan occurs at startup. There's no UI to the tool that I've been able to find. So you have to reboot so that it can do it's initial scan.
More information on the "Malware" can be found at this link that was in the EULA.
They're looking at these with this version: Win32/Berbew Win32/Doomjuice Win32/Gao bot Win32/MSBlast Win32/Mydoom Win32/Nachi Win 32/Sasser Win32/Zindos
They also released the "Malicious Software Removal Tool":
This tool checks your computer for infection by specific, prevalent malicious software (including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom) and helps remove any variants found. You should also use an antivirus product to remove other malicious software that may be present. This tool helps maintain your computer, and its appearance does not indicate that your machine is infected with malicious software. After you run this item, you may have to restart your computer.
Looks like they're finally getting tired of the most common viruses running rampant.
Slashdot Mirror
You could block *.swf, but there's a lot of valid uses of it, including site navigation. Blocking *.swf would render some sites completely unusable.
If you don't mind editing system files (who at Slashdot does?) you can always add this list to your host file:
Mike's Ad Blocking Hosts file. That'll block them for even IE.
Just get adblock for firefox (it's one of the top 5 extensions last I saw). Took me less than a day of normal browsing to block 99% of ads. It had been months since I last saw one until they other day when I was visiting drudgereport.com. Of course, that's probably the best place to start...there's enough ads there to knock out most of what you'll ever see.
/ads/ because that's a path for google ads, which I don't find anoying or intrusive so I let stay. I also don't block the slashdot ads that are generated by osdn, even though some of them ARE anoying.
Block these to start:
*/ads/*
ads.*
and you'll have at least half of all ads blocked. The only one I don't actualy use is
Then no claims of finding it in "editorial review."
No, that would be 10 for windows, and 3 for things that run on windows, and other OSes for that matter. I know at least one person who got SharePoint running on a linux machine.
2) It's not 13 patchs for windows. As the article could not state any clearer it's:
3) Read before you submit.
Yeah, since it is a new service, maybe it just hasn't crawled that many sites yet?
I guess if you consider about a year as "new." Surely in a year it has managed to crawl more sites, otherwise it is a pointless search engine, as it will always be out of date and behind the times.
I've seen two people complain, ever. I'd say that's really a pretty good track record, and the complaints they've described (Generaly against Customer Service) are things I've never seen. I've been in contact with their CS a dozen times or so (both technical and sales) over various things I wanted to do, but needed their assistance with. They were always polite, and very fast.
The only problem I ever knew them having was 4 or 5 years ago when they had some problems with their upstream provider's DNS servers. The server problems prevented their domain name from being resolved for a short period. Otherwise, I've always had very stable service from them.
For my Linux/BSD hosting I use CSoft. For my windows based hosting I use Tactical Systems. I've been very happy with both. I've been with CSoft for something like 5+ years now, and with TS for about a year.
Note: Neither link above has any kind of referer or affiliate junk, just straight links to their websites.
CSoft is who I've been with for years. Never had a problem. For $5/month you can get a shell account with 700 MB of storage.
The article says it's better for data entry. Anyone who's ever done data entry involving numbers wouldn't even take a second look at this keyboard before rejecting it.
Yes, a newer and better one is on the horizon. The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch in 2011.
More like a new and different one. If you actually compare the two you'd notice that the JWST doesn't see everything the HST can, not even close to the same wide range of spectrum. It sees primarily in IR.
Ran off like "god I hope nobody has a gun back there" I would imagine.
As for managing your own time, it's easy: The required projects always come first. If you slack on your required projects, or you badly underestimate your timeline, then you don't get any time to work on your independent stuff. On the other hand, if you bust your ass on your required project and end up ahead of schedule, then you may get more than 20% of your time to work on independent projects.
What you get from this is people who pad their time a lot to have more free time.
That they definately did. I visited three at least twice a week towards the end.
Hopefully this will bring more visibility to the issue. It's always bugged me the way the media, governments, etc. misrepresent numbers so often. Too bad it wasn't around in time for the elections; there couldn't be more abuse of numbers than there.
Didn't stop to think about the realities of running a business, did you? If it were like you describe, wouldn't everybody be running a business online instead of "deal[ing] with the overhead of running a store"? Consider the realities of the situation:
Actually, I did.
1) If you're REALLY running your whole business out of your house, there's a limit on the size of your business. If you're in a shipped-goods industry (like these Ebay merchants), how much inventory can you actually fit in your house? Even if your wife is very understanding, the house is only so big, right?
My house is fairly good sized and I have two rooms that I don't use at all. That gives me, say, 250 sq. ft. just inside the house, not counting room for any sort of outbuilding. Depending on what I choose to sell, that could be more than enough inventory room.
2) But let's say you get a warehouse, which is cheaper than storefront commercial space, or you keep your volume of business low enough to keep it in your house. You're STILL not necessarily better off, because a storefront can be a route to a hell of a lot more incoming customers.
That depends on where you are. Like the storefronts I was describing. Say you live in Powell City, Wyoming. I don't, but almost did. Population 5,000. If my business is something that is something of rather specific interest, that storefront potential isn't going to cover the cost of the storefront.
3) A storefront shop will see a whole category of very lucrative customers that mail-order, WWW, and Ebay-based stores cannot: people who need something RIGHT NOW and can't wait.
Again, that very much depends on where you're located.
4) Would you rather make %50 profit from your gross revenues, or %5 profit?
I think you assume way too much when you imply the difference between having and not having a storefront is 1000x. I don't think you'll find an example of that anywhere in the small business realm that I was talking about.
Even assuming I can make more money from a storefront, that doesn't mean the storefront profits (in this case being sale price - cost of item) would cover the storefront itself.
5) There are perfectly good reasons for staying on Ebay without having a regular storefront.
Yep. All those. Along with the fact that location is everything. If you live in a town where your product doesn't appeal, then there's no point in having a storefront.
I'm not saying is possible with EVERY standard storefront store, but there's a lot of cases where it is easily posssible.
Add an extra warning by the Windows AntiSpyware program if you have it...
Yeah, there's definately some confusion on what exactly is supposed to be done with it. BTW, didn't mean that last post to sound like a flame or anything.
Well, so I looked around a bit more and there's definately some confusion here... Is downloading it from Windows Update sufficient? Does one have to go back to the website (that neither windows update nor the installation) make any mention of?
Seems that it's Microsoft is missing something....
Uhm....I'm not sure what you're talking about. I installed it from Windows Update and had no issues.
Yes, you have to use IE for the Active X. You had ActiveX blocked? Have you ever run Windows Update before? You went back somewhere and had it scan? There's no UI (at least that anyone else has found) for this program....
Yes, I think you missed something.
It appears that the scan occurs at startup. There's no UI to the tool that I've been able to find. So you have to reboot so that it can do it's initial scan.
More information on the "Malware" can be found at this link that was in the EULA.
o botn 32/Sasser
They're looking at these with this version:
Win32/Berbew
Win32/Doomjuice
Win32/Ga
Win32/MSBlast
Win32/Mydoom
Win32/Nachi
Wi
Win32/Zindos
You're joking right? The information was given the Microsoft 10/21... I wouldn't call 2.5 months fast... Check that release date.
Looks like they're finally getting tired of the most common viruses running rampant.
It should be noted that those with XP SP2 are only affected by MS005-01.