Ok, but remember that you put power in when everyone else is also putting power in (assuming wide-spread use).
Then when the weather turns, you (and everyone else) now needs to draw power. So you STILL need massive power plants for those times when no one can put power in.
Um, yes, well, because I would not actually TRY to customize anything....
I cannot remember the exact things which bothered me. But I did try out two different builds spread out over a year or so. I still prefer Mozilla (or SeaMonkey as it is called now).
I hope the authors are planning to contact the affected site owners. The article did not mention this.
They could also build a list of these sites to periodically check them to make sure the malware files have been removed.
And it would be nice if they allowed a search facility so some FireFox/SeaMonkey plugin could check to see if that site you are going to has malware installed.
This happened because backup processes the files in alpha order by their long file name. And Windows does not allow a program to specify the short file name.
So "Program Files" becomes progra~1 and "Program Access" becomes progra~2.
"Program Access" gets backed up first with "Program Files" backed up next.
Upon restore, "Program Access" is first, and thus becomes progra~1, then "Program Files" which becomes progra~2.
Oops!
And many MANY applications still use 8.3 to locate files, including many MS applications.
So if you are going to do file backups, you should really do disk images, as file by file backups may cause serious system failure upon restore.
Disclaimer: AFAIK, this was the situation up to Win2K. It may have been resolved since then.
The call went on for a while, until the rep finally found out that the power was out. She then told the customer to pack up the computer and send it back. The customer asked "What do I give as the reason". The rep said "Tell them that you are too stupid to own a computer".
And then the customer complained and the rep was fired.
This was in the days of DOS 3 or something like that.
Yes, and try to find out the SMTP host address, or the news group address, or the DNS address....
Better yet tell them you are running a non-Windows OS. Typically they say "You can only do this using Windows", as if only Windows can connect to the Internet.
Back in the days of 5 1/5 floppies we had a computer test which required the user to create a document (in WordPerfect), then mail it back to us so we could mark his/her formatting, bolding etc.
One user did not have a large envelope, so he folded the floppy in half. Of course it would not stay folded, so he stapled it. Several times.
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Went to a work site which was complaining that there program would not work any more (dual 5 1/4 floppy system). When I pulled out the system disk, the magnetic coating was gone and you could see the mylar. It had never been removed since we had installed it (3 years ago).
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"How do I get a dollar sign on the screen? All I can get is a 4"
in paged media (think hard copy and rows being split across pages, usually with half a line of text on each page)
If not, do you have a plan to persuade browser developers to comply with the existing CSS 2 BEFORE you add their requested bells and whistles to version 3?
I read this in the dead tree version. It sounded good until I read the Alloy example:
/*
* Constrains at most one item to move from 'from' to 'to'.
* Also constrains which objects get eaten.
*/ pred crossRiver (from, from', to, to': set Object) { // either the Farmer takes no items
( from' = from - Farmer &&
to' = to - to.eats + Farmer ) || // or the Farmer takes one item
some item: from - Farmer {
from' = from - Farmer - item
to' = to - to.eats + Farmer + item
} }
So basically we have another syntax to learn, and yet something else to debug.
The spammers are there just to get a buck. Shoot one, and another will show up.
What you really need to do is to go after the companies which hire the spammers. Get them out of business and the spammers will not have a sourc of revenue, and they will go away.
And as long as idiots buy things from spam messages, there will be spam.
Hi Bret, could you pass this to the Google Desktop team please?
I recently received a Dell laptop, WinXP SP2. It came pre-loaded with Google desktop. I did NOT enable Google desktop. I also patched WinXP from the MS update site.
I do a lot of Java/JSP development, using Java 1.5, Eclipse, MyEclipse, and Tomcat. All this resides on the laptop and browser access is via the 127.0.0.1 loopback. I am on an Intranet which had no access to the Internet.
1. I was getting random "Page not found" errors. I could not find a pattern to the errors. The same page would work 10 times, would fail twice, then would work again. When it failed I saw that a Google search was being performed on the http://127.0.0.1/ address.
I went through every browser option I could find to turn off ALL automated searches for web links. Still had the problems. I d/l and installed a special patch which was supposed to fix a loop-back problem in the WinXP firewall. Still had the problems.
2. When I am doing testing I do a lot of back and forthing between pages. This is usually between the LIST page and the EDIT page. The LIST page displays a bunch of rows. You click on the Edit button, and that row is loaded into the EDIT page. Clicking on Save saves the info to the database, and takes you back to the LIST page.
I noticed that after the EDIT page was loaded, a phantom call to the LIST servlet was being made. This was not in any part of the code and was not an action I initiated. Trying out the LIST/EDIT cycle from another machine (Win2K) did not cause this to happen.
Note that I try REALLY hard to turn off all browser caching through every header directive I could locate.
The Fix.
After a frustrating week, and since the loopback failure was using Google, I tried to remove Google Desktop. I used the Uninstall file. The un-install stated that it completed successfully, BUT what i really did was to turn it on. I now had an extra box in IE for Google Desktop!
Ok, I rooted through the registry and removed anything to do with Google. I deleted all the Google EXEs/ DLLs I could find.
Once this was done, the loopback error disappeared AND the phantom call to the LIST servlet went away. This was over three months ago.
I can only surmise that Google was intercepting page calls and: - every so often it would "fail" the loopback and try to find it on the Internet - in spite of all the no-cache directives, it noticed the pattern of LIST/ EDIT/ LIST/ EDIT, and "helpfully" tried to pre-fetch the LIST page
That means that every Java app out there, and there are a lot, should be able to run much faster
Compiling has trade-offs. You must target the end environment (CPU, OS), and also try to optimize code (for the target CPU). But you can only do static optimization.
Modern JVMs optimize on the fly. So the more you use a particular path through the code, the more it will be optimized (obviously only so far...). See this article: "The dynamic nature of the Java language provides opportunities for better optimization based on runtime profile information, and this is a significant advantage of a Java dynamic compiler over a traditional static compiler."
So having a compiled executable may not yield faster run times. It may have faster load times, which is where most of the perception of slowness comes from.
I use a rather large Java IDE (Eclipse) for development. It takes 10-15 seconds to load up the IDE from a cold start (2.1 GHz laptop). After that it is just as fast as I can type, which includes on-the-fly error/syntax checking, code assist, and so on.
If you are using Mozilla or Firefox, then just middle click on the Reply, and the reply dialog will appear in a new tab. Once you are done, cose the tab, and there you are.
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Ok, but remember that you put power in when everyone else is also putting power in (assuming wide-spread use).
Then when the weather turns, you (and everyone else) now needs to draw power. So you STILL need massive power plants for those times when no one can put power in.
Um, yes, well, because I would not actually TRY to customize anything....
I cannot remember the exact things which bothered me. But I did try out two different builds spread out over a year or so. I still prefer Mozilla (or SeaMonkey as it is called now).
Ain't choice wonderful?
I prefer SeaMonkey to FireFox. I have tried FireFox, but I did not like the interface.
Any stats on how many hits come from SeaMonkey, or do they use the same signature?
This public service message brought to you by the Society to Protect Stupid People.
Whatever for?
with nice browsers like OS/2's webex
Sigh. I miss the history page.
For those of you who do not know what this was:
Webex generated a Web page showing your complete browsing history in a nested fashion. The indents were the links you clicked on in the parent page:
first page fron bookmark
- link
-- link
-- link
- link
second page from bookmark
- link
-- link
--- link
---- link
--- link
and so on.
I wish that SeaMonkey (and Firefox) would have this.
You really want a period at the end of that last sentence.
No, no, NO.
He needs an exlamation mark!!!!
(... /me patiently awaits another down-mod because some grammar nazi hates my .sig :) )
Ha!
I hope the authors are planning to contact the affected site owners. The article did not mention this.
They could also build a list of these sites to periodically check them to make sure the malware files have been removed.
And it would be nice if they allowed a search facility so some FireFox/SeaMonkey plugin could check to see if that site you are going to has malware installed.
This happened because backup processes the files in alpha order by their long file name. And Windows does not allow a program to specify the short file name.
So "Program Files" becomes progra~1 and "Program Access" becomes progra~2.
"Program Access" gets backed up first with "Program Files" backed up next.
Upon restore, "Program Access" is first, and thus becomes progra~1, then "Program Files" which becomes progra~2.
Oops!
And many MANY applications still use 8.3 to locate files, including many MS applications.
So if you are going to do file backups, you should really do disk images, as file by file backups may cause serious system failure upon restore.
Disclaimer: AFAIK, this was the situation up to Win2K. It may have been resolved since then.
Mosquitoes are annoying and it itches.
Horse flies are bigger (Look at the end of your little finger. That is the body sans wings) and they bite. Right through cloth. And it f-ing HURTS.
Ah yes, but the best place for these things is the yard next door.
I first heard this about a WordPerfect rep.
The call went on for a while, until the rep finally found out that the power was out. She then told the customer to pack up the computer and send it back. The customer asked "What do I give as the reason". The rep said "Tell them that you are too stupid to own a computer".
And then the customer complained and the rep was fired.
This was in the days of DOS 3 or something like that.
Yes, and try to find out the SMTP host address, or the news group address, or the DNS address....
Better yet tell them you are running a non-Windows OS. Typically they say "You can only do this using Windows", as if only Windows can connect to the Internet.
Back in the days of 5 1/5 floppies we had a computer test which required the user to create a document (in WordPerfect), then mail it back to us so we could mark his/her formatting, bolding etc.
One user did not have a large envelope, so he folded the floppy in half. Of course it would not stay folded, so he stapled it. Several times.
---
Went to a work site which was complaining that there program would not work any more (dual 5 1/4 floppy system). When I pulled out the system disk, the magnetic coating was gone and you could see the mylar. It had never been removed since we had installed it (3 years ago).
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"How do I get a dollar sign on the screen? All I can get is a 4"
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My favourite site for these things is Tech Tales
do you really want to expose a detonator to fire
:-)
Doesn't C4 need a shockwave to set it off? I believe that you can set fire to it and it only burns up, slowly.
So include a timer which starts a fire, which burns up the explosive and the case.
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
Given that not all browsers support version 2, will version 3 be held back until they do?
Why have a new formatting syntax when the current browsers do not support things like:
@font-face {
font-family: "Robson Celtic";
src: url("http://site/fonts/rob-celt")
}
and:
page-break-inside: avoid;
in paged media (think hard copy and rows being split across pages, usually with half a line of text on each page)
If not, do you have a plan to persuade browser developers to comply with the existing CSS 2 BEFORE you add their requested bells and whistles to version 3?
There is no magic in this world.....
just shoot spammers
The spammers are there just to get a buck. Shoot one, and another will show up.
What you really need to do is to go after the companies which hire the spammers. Get them out of business and the spammers will not have a sourc of revenue, and they will go away.
And as long as idiots buy things from spam messages, there will be spam.
It may be because the corporate network is not connected to the Internet. Hard to beat that air gap.
But he must still be able to get patches d/l from update sites onto the corporate network.
Thus the sneaker net.
Hi Bret, could you pass this to the Google Desktop team please?
I recently received a Dell laptop, WinXP SP2. It came pre-loaded with Google desktop. I did NOT enable Google desktop. I also patched WinXP from the MS update site.
I do a lot of Java/JSP development, using Java 1.5, Eclipse, MyEclipse, and Tomcat. All this resides on the laptop and browser access is via the 127.0.0.1 loopback. I am on an Intranet which had no access to the Internet.
1.
I was getting random "Page not found" errors. I could not find a pattern to the errors. The same page would work 10 times, would fail twice, then would work again. When it failed I saw that a Google search was being performed on the http://127.0.0.1/ address.
I went through every browser option I could find to turn off ALL automated searches for web links. Still had the problems. I d/l and installed a special patch which was supposed to fix a loop-back problem in the WinXP firewall. Still had the problems.
2. When I am doing testing I do a lot of back and forthing between pages. This is usually between the LIST page and the EDIT page. The LIST page displays a bunch of rows. You click on the Edit button, and that row is loaded into the EDIT page. Clicking on Save saves the info to the database, and takes you back to the LIST page.
I noticed that after the EDIT page was loaded, a phantom call to the LIST servlet was being made. This was not in any part of the code and was not an action I initiated. Trying out the LIST/EDIT cycle from another machine (Win2K) did not cause this to happen.
Note that I try REALLY hard to turn off all browser caching through every header directive I could locate.
The Fix.
After a frustrating week, and since the loopback failure was using Google, I tried to remove Google Desktop. I used the Uninstall file. The un-install stated that it completed successfully, BUT what i really did was to turn it on. I now had an extra box in IE for Google Desktop!
Ok, I rooted through the registry and removed anything to do with Google. I deleted all the Google EXEs/ DLLs I could find.
Once this was done, the loopback error disappeared AND the phantom call to the LIST servlet went away. This was over three months ago.
I can only surmise that Google was intercepting page calls and:
- every so often it would "fail" the loopback and try to find it on the Internet
- in spite of all the no-cache directives, it noticed the pattern of LIST/ EDIT/ LIST/ EDIT, and "helpfully" tried to pre-fetch the LIST page
Just some thoughts.....
That means that every Java app out there, and there are a lot, should be able to run much faster
Compiling has trade-offs. You must target the end environment (CPU, OS), and also try to optimize code (for the target CPU). But you can only do static optimization.
Modern JVMs optimize on the fly. So the more you use a particular path through the code, the more it will be optimized (obviously only so far...). See this article: "The dynamic nature of the Java language provides opportunities for better optimization based on runtime profile information, and this is a significant advantage of a Java dynamic compiler over a traditional static compiler."
So having a compiled executable may not yield faster run times. It may have faster load times, which is where most of the perception of slowness comes from.
I use a rather large Java IDE (Eclipse) for development. It takes 10-15 seconds to load up the IDE from a cold start (2.1 GHz laptop). After that it is just as fast as I can type, which includes on-the-fly error/syntax checking, code assist, and so on.
The two I managed to see both have smaller font sizes that the current site.
I would really prefer to have something larger
Yes, yes, I know I can make it larger by scrolling the mouse wheel.....
If you are using Mozilla or Firefox, then just middle click on the Reply, and the reply dialog will appear in a new tab. Once you are done, cose the tab, and there you are.