Or at least there are so many little quirks that just make it annoying.
For example when you want to copy and paste part of the "From:" line in an email. You can only copy someones whole name/address. This gets even more annoying when the addresses come in with quotes around them.
And besides, it doesn't have vfolders, or a quick way of creating a filter based on a message. Evolution may _look_ a lot like Outlook, but don't think that looks alone make up a UI.
I don't see why a non subscriber should have the benefit of being less likely to have an X-Files episode spoilt for them.......
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Me giving Microsoft money in exchange for a copy of the software gives me the right to do what I like with the copy of their software that I have purchased (within the law). Much of Microsofts EULA (attempts to) restrict what I can do with the software (such as use the software on a non Windows OS).
The GPL on the other hand grants you extra rights. Once you have obtained the software you can do whatever the hell you want with it personally. On top of that you have the extra rights which you otherwise wouldn't, ie the option of distibuting the software, if you are willing to obey a few rules (ie granting the exra rights you have been given to others).
Buggering up the posting is bad enough, but not changing the title is just awful. Not only are you offending readers of your own site but you're causing any site that syndicates your headlines to do the same.
The article should have been (and still should be) pulled from the front page and replaced with an article saying you screwed up with an X-Files spoiler and provide a link for anyone who actually wants to read/contribute to the original article now they have been sufficiently warned.
If someone had posted such spoilage in a random thread they'd have been modded to oblivion immediatly. We can't do that to your posting, so you should have.
I think Sherwood Hall bike shed's were broken into fairly regularly during my stint there and I finished 4 or 5 years ago. Obviously not much improvement since then.
Have they replaced the mouse with the missing ball yet? And then there was the time I got zapped by the tumble dryer. Those were the days....ah, memories.
Even if an executable were encoded in the link would the end user not be simply warned that they are attempting to download an executable, as with any other URL that served them an executable?
It's only a security hole if delivering the content via the data URL is treated differently than getting it via an http, ftp or javascript one.
Not a front page job. I think it's interesting to get a feel for the sort of work that is going into the development kernel as it's progressing. That said I'm only interested in it from the point of view of a casual observer, sure I can (and do) read about it at kt.zork.net but I can't read other peoples comments there.
I like reading other peoples opinions on a topic, particularly if they are knowledgable ones rather than self important whinging about how they personally never wanted to read the story in the first place.....
Your browser probably has a back button. Next time you get to an article you don't want to read try using it and leave other people to make their own decisions for themselves.....
the product is superior in other ways to existing products (as DVD video is over VCD and video tape).
Crippling an existing format and not offering the consumer anything extra on the other hand will offer little attraction at all.
Of course with the companies claiming that piracy costs them big bucks you'd think that pirate-proof (assuming such a thing exists) CDs should be cheaper as they would not need to be defraying those costs on those CDs. Having said that I'm fairly sure that the cost of a CD is based entirely on what people will pay and has no relation to any 'costs' whatsoever.
It's a WAN (potentially) allowing communications across Sydney, not access to the internet. Useful for chatting to your mates, not surfing the web (unless someone sets up a gateway to the internet).
I guess that's a distinct possibility. I flew quite a bit a week after September 11th (Australia to England, Switzerland, England, Holland, England, Australia) and I don't remember lighters being on the banned items list (though any ignitable materials probably should be), just anything sharp (one girl was seen complaining bitterly at having her tweezers confiscated and they wouldn't be given back at the other end, you just wanted to grab her and tell her to get some perspective).
On the other hand flights to the US did have visibly stricter checking processes. All carry on baggage was being hand searched at the gate on the way out of Sydney.
In any case I still don't think the guy is looking that bright. If a match were the only possible method then why would you try and light your shoe in public where everyone could see and possibly stop you? Surely you'd pop off to the toilet and get the fuse going in private. If the toilets are near the doors you could probably have a good shot at running out and blowing one off or alternatly just sit there and wait for the shit to hit the fan.
A match? That's clearly not particularly clever. Even your average smoker (stupid enought to be volunteering for a slow, expensive and painful death with no promise of virgins at the end of it all) has worked out that a cigarette lighter is a far more reliable source of flame.
If you're going to stuff ballots properly you need loads of IP addresses. Imagine all those insecure IIS systems voting against.NET! That would make a much better story when they worked out what was going on.
Indeed, the "Activation follows mouse (X-Mouse)" and "Autoraise when activating" options in Tweak UI are quite nice, but sadly some apps don't seem to play nice.
Visio for example seems to raise itself when activated even if you have it disabled in Tweak UI.
In Opera the auto-complete popup from the url bar seems to be a seperate window. So if you click in the url bar and happen to leave the mouse where the url popup will appear and start typing the popup appears and the Opera window deactivates and all your typing is for nothing.
I'm not so sure that big packages would help (they'd only really be useful for the initial installation, for incremental upgrades you'd need to find the individual packages that had changed since your last one, especially if you are on a modem).
What would be nice though would be if the latest sections of the GNOME ftp site would be well maintained, free of multiple entries and kept up to date or culled (xchat 1.2?).
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Or at least there are so many little quirks that just make it annoying.
For example when you want to copy and paste part of the "From:" line in an email. You can only copy someones whole name/address. This gets even more annoying when the addresses come in with quotes around them.
And besides, it doesn't have vfolders, or a quick way of creating a filter based on a message. Evolution may _look_ a lot like Outlook, but don't think that looks alone make up a UI.
I don't see why a non subscriber should have the benefit of being less likely to have an X-Files episode spoilt for them.......
Me giving Microsoft money in exchange for a copy of the software gives me the right to do what I like with the copy of their software that I have purchased (within the law). Much of Microsofts EULA (attempts to) restrict what I can do with the software (such as use the software on a non Windows OS).
The GPL on the other hand grants you extra rights. Once you have obtained the software you can do whatever the hell you want with it personally. On top of that you have the extra rights which you otherwise wouldn't, ie the option of distibuting the software, if you are willing to obey a few rules (ie granting the exra rights you have been given to others).
Distributed Destruction Of Show!
Buggering up the posting is bad enough, but not changing the title is just awful. Not only are you offending readers of your own site but you're causing any site that syndicates your headlines to do the same.
The article should have been (and still should be) pulled from the front page and replaced with an article saying you screwed up with an X-Files spoiler and provide a link for anyone who actually wants to read/contribute to the original article now they have been sufficiently warned.
If someone had posted such spoilage in a random thread they'd have been modded to oblivion immediatly. We can't do that to your posting, so you should have.
Cretin (in this particular instance).
But by including the spoilage in the article title they've ensured it gets syndicated to anywhere syndicating Slashdot headlines.
Fucksticks!
I think Sherwood Hall bike shed's were broken into fairly regularly during my stint there and I finished 4 or 5 years ago. Obviously not much improvement since then.
Have they replaced the mouse with the missing ball yet? And then there was the time I got zapped by the tumble dryer. Those were the days....ah, memories.
Please look at the post I was replying to which is about an alleged Mozilla exploit involving data: urls, not the IE one in the main story.
Please read the post I was replying to. I was not refering to the IE exploit, but an alleged Mozilla exploit that probably isn't.
Even if an executable were encoded in the link would the end user not be simply warned that they are attempting to download an executable, as with any other URL that served them an executable?
It's only a security hole if delivering the content via the data URL is treated differently than getting it via an http, ftp or javascript one.
The MPL/LGPL/GPL tri-licence is the preferred licence I think.
The NPL/LGPL/GPL tri-licence is only for stuff originally under NPL.
The most succinct explanation of what's acceptable and where is under "Acceptable Licenses" near the bottom of the licence policy page.
Not a front page job. I think it's interesting to get a feel for the sort of work that is going into the development kernel as it's progressing. That said I'm only interested in it from the point of view of a casual observer, sure I can (and do) read about it at kt.zork.net but I can't read other peoples comments there.
I like reading other peoples opinions on a topic, particularly if they are knowledgable ones rather than self important whinging about how they personally never wanted to read the story in the first place.....
Your browser probably has a back button. Next time you get to an article you don't want to read try using it and leave other people to make their own decisions for themselves.....
Opera has the embedded market outside winceworld almost entirely to themselves. The browser is turning up in all sorts of phones and other devices.
This isn't because they've got some sort of monopoly, it's because they produce a well engineered, well targetted product.
I'd have discovered a reason to respect Christina Aguilera?
Not by charging people to see it, but by charging the Chinese government so thay can't see it.
Pure genius!
This article simply isn't complete without the standard "VA = Satan himself and I told you so first" comment from Bowie J. Poag.
I wonder....
the product is superior in other ways to existing products (as DVD video is over VCD and video tape).
Crippling an existing format and not offering the consumer anything extra on the other hand will offer little attraction at all.
Of course with the companies claiming that piracy costs them big bucks you'd think that pirate-proof (assuming such a thing exists) CDs should be cheaper as they would not need to be defraying those costs on those CDs. Having said that I'm fairly sure that the cost of a CD is based entirely on what people will pay and has no relation to any 'costs' whatsoever.
It's a WAN (potentially) allowing communications across Sydney, not access to the internet. Useful for chatting to your mates, not surfing the web (unless someone sets up a gateway to the internet).
I guess that's a distinct possibility. I flew quite a bit a week after September 11th (Australia to England, Switzerland, England, Holland, England, Australia) and I don't remember lighters being on the banned items list (though any ignitable materials probably should be), just anything sharp (one girl was seen complaining bitterly at having her tweezers confiscated and they wouldn't be given back at the other end, you just wanted to grab her and tell her to get some perspective).
On the other hand flights to the US did have visibly stricter checking processes. All carry on baggage was being hand searched at the gate on the way out of Sydney.
In any case I still don't think the guy is looking that bright. If a match were the only possible method then why would you try and light your shoe in public where everyone could see and possibly stop you? Surely you'd pop off to the toilet and get the fuse going in private. If the toilets are near the doors you could probably have a good shot at running out and blowing one off or alternatly just sit there and wait for the shit to hit the fan.
A match? That's clearly not particularly clever. Even your average smoker (stupid enought to be volunteering for a slow, expensive and painful death with no promise of virgins at the end of it all) has worked out that a cigarette lighter is a far more reliable source of flame.
If you're going to stuff ballots properly you need loads of IP addresses. Imagine all those insecure IIS systems voting against .NET! That would make a much better story when they worked out what was going on.
Is here.
While the same content in relatively plain and silent text is still effective, the extra features that Flash allows certainly add to the experience.
Rock on Tenacious D!
Indeed, the "Activation follows mouse (X-Mouse)" and "Autoraise when activating" options in Tweak UI are quite nice, but sadly some apps don't seem to play nice.
Visio for example seems to raise itself when activated even if you have it disabled in Tweak UI.
In Opera the auto-complete popup from the url bar seems to be a seperate window. So if you click in the url bar and happen to leave the mouse where the url popup will appear and start typing the popup appears and the Opera window deactivates and all your typing is for nothing.
Still, it's better than nothing.
I'm not so sure that big packages would help (they'd only really be useful for the initial installation, for incremental upgrades you'd need to find the individual packages that had changed since your last one, especially if you are on a modem).
What would be nice though would be if the latest sections of the GNOME ftp site would be well maintained, free of multiple entries and kept up to date or culled (xchat 1.2?).
Perhaps he's just talking out of his arse though. High taxes? I don't particularly think so. (But yes, I pay too much!)