As someone who lives in the UK, the fact Nintendo were price fixing doesn't surprise me in the slightest. The fact they were fined does though - given that despite the fact that it's glaringly obvious that UK Brits are systematically ripped off on everything from Cars to Computers compared to our European counterparts - very little action is taken.
Some facts:
Average Family car in UK- £12,000
Average Family car in Holland - £9,000
To fill an Average family car with petrol in the UK costs £50 or $80
To fill the same car with petrol in the USA costs £15.07 or $24.11
Pack of 20 cigarettes in the UK - £4.20
Pack of 20 cigarettes in Spain - £1.60
Pint of beer in pub in UK- £1.90
Pint of beer in pub in spain - £0.80p
Six pack of beer in UK - £4.20
Six pack of beer in Germany - £2.40
And so on and so on. You can find more facts about it at the rather appallingly designed Rip-off Britain website.
What SuSE are doing here is making the process of utilising Linux *easy* - I feel that there is a group of posters to slashdot that are extremely stubborn and opposed to this notion.
Indeed there are, but if you look at my posting history you'd see that I'm not one of them.
I applaud a company that tries to make it's products easier and yes, Suse putting this Crossover plug into default installs is a Good Thing(tm).
I'm no cretin, but installing stuff on Linux is, for me anyway, fraught with disasters. I don't bother compiling any more as things invariably won't compile or i'm missing hundreds of files. I stick to RPM's because they're (relativily) easy.
I run Mandrake and Gnome 1.x - I'd love to go to 2.x but I just know that it'll never work if I do it manually. Much easier (and faster for me) to just grab the latest distribution ISO's and install it from scratch. Prior experience has taught me not to waste several hours installing something when I could do it in less than one (and have it working).
But I really don't think that something like this really classes as "news". Yes, they're doing a good thing and they're on the right lines - but if every time Slashdot posts an article when a distribtion adds something to make life easier, we might as well just subscribe to their mailing lists.
I don't want to be the miserable sod but this is just Suse including Crossover Office in their distribution rather than getting you to download it seperately.
It's not exactly earth shattering news. Whats next? Slashdot reporting that that distibution Blah is going to come with WINE already pre-installed?
Even though Phoenix is faster and more stable than Explorer, I found the only real way to switch was to delete all the Explorer icons from the desktop and the taskbar. Otherwise some old habits are too hard to break!
Actually at the moment, there is no truely real way to switch. This is because some programs (mainly Microsofts) insist on firing up IE for a URL even when some other application is registered as being the default browser.
It's in the MSKB as a bug, until thats fixed, I still have to deal with occasionally IE loading when I don't want it.
(Of course I'm ignoring the fact that the IE dlls are almost in constant use - before anyone points it out)
I use CrazyBrowser which is just the IE engine with tabbed browsing, pop up killer and a number of other useful things.
I actually prefer the way it does pop-ups too, they go into a new tab rather than actually popping up. Makes it much easier to kill them (as you can just double click on the tab). I don't think Moz does this (or if it does, I didn't find it).
My only complaint is that some (Microsoft) applications insist on firing up IE despite the fact that CrazyBrowser is my default browser.
Oh yes, and it's a silly name.
There is also a commercial version called Netcaptor too which has a few more features, but CB is free (as in beer).
Unfortunately, how long will it be before MS "improves" WMA encoding now? I think it is an unsafe target decoding MS files as they can change everything and you are back to development.
If Microsoft "improved" the codec (and thus made it incompatible) then I think they'd have a lot bigger problems than a bunch of Linux users pissy that they can't play wma's for a bit.
For starters, those people who have hardware MP3/WMA players out there would suddenly find that their products need updating. Not all with flashable firmware.
If you want to push a format, the last thing you do is alienate those people (hardware manufacturers) that can help you to do just that.
Oh yay, Dell getting into the PDA business? Why? Does the already bloated PDA market NEED yet another Windows CE device (and you KNOW that Dell wouldn't even consider doing anything else)?
At the risk of sounding stupid, of course it does.
The larger the number of people in the market, the greater the competition. Given that the software specifications are pretty much the same (helped by Microsofts specifications) you've got only a few things that companies can compete on such as hardware specs (including dimensions and weight), battery life, upgradability and best of all price.
So if more players in the market causes others to start making strides to produce a better product, then it can only be seen as a good thing.
why do americans not like/use minidisc players? i noticed that when i was over there about a month ago - everyone had clunkly cd-size walkmen. in london mini-disc players are continuing to become more ubiqitous and i would assume for two reasons:
Well, I'm a Londoner and I wouldn't say they are becoming more ubiquitois. Yes, there are a larger number of people with them than I've ever seen before, but what is become more seen is those people with the little white clip on their clothes. That is the Nokia 8310.
Plus those people that do have MD's are often holding several year old models rather than the latest one. Which either means there is a damn good trade in ancient MD's or these are players bought a while ago.
But anyway I'm digressing, here's why I don't use the NetMD:
MD's are good quality. If you can overlook the fact that you
have to copy all your music to MD at realtime.
Of course, you could get the NetMD, but then you'd have to jump through
hoops (read check in/check out) to get the songs onto the MD, you can't
copy them back off, you can't check them out more than 3 times, you have
to convert them to Sony's propriatory ATRAC format, LP4 compression is
so poor quality-wise you can only use LP2 at the most, you can't delete
the songs off the MD without checking them back into the software and you
sometimes find that the software refuses to convert an MP3 (often a VBR
one).
Oh, yes, and you get to pay £250 for the privilidge of the above when my
player was over half the price.
NetMD was an attempt by Sony to capitalise on the MP3 boom, unfortunately
their content division were so paranoid about piracy that they effectivly
cripped what would have been a seriously good product that might have
stemmed the death of the MD.
If, however, MP3 means nothing to you or you have no need for such a thing, then a plain old bog standard MD player is both cheap, light, jog-proof and rather cool. But NetMD is a joke.
What's going on with Sony? One half is doing stuff like this and the other half release their NetMD minidisc line with so much DRM crowbarred into it, that it's cumbersome and annoying to use.
What happens in there? Does one team produce cool stuff and then try and sneak it out before the music side get their claws into it? Or is this clearly a case of two different companies (or should I say cultures and ideals) releasing products under the same name?
Time and time again, people, organisations and institutions have complained about Microsofts tactics, stability, security and licencing issues.
Yet, so far, the reports of them actually doing something about it and moving away from MS are very thin on the ground.
It would appear that however much MS wishes to shoot itself in the foot, or deny users specific rights, people are still unwilling to move to a different OS.
The fact Linux is free didn't compell them, the fact Linux doesn't "phone home" didn't compell them, the fact Linux is easier to maintain within an organisation didn't compell them, the fact Linux doesn't come with arcane restrictions on what you can and can't do with your PC didn't compell them, the fact Linux doesn't suffer so many virus attacks didn't compell them, the fact Linux is more secure and robust didn't compell them and the fact that Linux applications can read and write Word documents didn't compell them to move.
So the question is, what on earth will compell them to drop Windows on the desktop? Because it's sure as hell not any of the issues we've seen so far.
(and here i'm talking about the masses, not the odd special case)
No-one will see this, as it's at the very bottom of the pile of comments, but what the hell, I'll make it anyway.
If RMS really wants to tell the world that they should oppose "Trusted Computing" then he really should find a better outlet than an OSS online newspaper.
Theres nothing wrong with Newsforge per se, but if he wants people to actually sit up and take notice then he really should try and get his articles published in places with larger distributions (BBC, WSJ, FT, Business and Computing publications for example).
If you are going to do something, you might as well do it to completion.
Disclaimer: I don't play online games.
Personally I would have thought a three level approach would work better. If you're caught cheating, then something like a 48 hour ("cool-off") ban would be the first thing.
If you do it again, you get a month.
And finally, if you do it once more, you've had your three strikes and you're out.
At least then it makes sure that those people who were cheating, were deliberately doing it rather than being just plain dumb or inquisitive (ie. installing some program just to see what it did).
But at the end of the day, it's the owner of the server that sets the rules and if they want it to be "one strike and you're out" then so be it.
Personally I think that within 18-24 months (at least in Europe), the smartphone will effectively wipe out the PDA. Not many people need the power of a high-end PDA and devices like the SonyEricsson P800 will do most people quite nicely, thanks.
Indeed. I have one here in the office (the joys of working for a telco) and it's a very nice phone. However, for me, it's rather big and bulky, the camera is pointless and the stylus is this rubbish bit of bendy plastic.
... a Symbian licencee or Apple walk into the PDA market and clean up. Literally.
For years, we've all been sitting around waiting for something that was powerful, flexible, stable, clean looking, customisation, upgradable and fast.
Palm have been lagging behind for so long it's untrue, OS 5 which was supposed to be the next greatest thing is starting to look a bit of a flop. It's faster, but thats about it. Oh yes and all the apps run on a compatibility layer.
Microsofts effort is packed with features, but confusing UI, unstable platform, a blatent memory hog and doesn't support the XScale speeeds.
So there is a prime chance here for a Symbian licencee (and even Apple) to walk in, produce a desirable PDA with all the features above and literally clean up.
Mind you, Jobs has stated that he thinks PDA's are "junk" and the Symbian licencees seem to be going down the Phone/PDA combo so I'll just have to live in hope really.
1:) It'd be "Jobs's" (apostrophie before the "s") if you were talking about Steve Jobs, not "Jobs'". You can pronounce it "jobses" or "jobs" as you see fit.
No it's not. English dictates that the plural of Jobs is Jobs'. Jobs's is simply incorrect. Same as it should be Bridget Jones' Diary and not Jones's. Since it was the latter in the cinemas, and you don't appear to be completely illiterate I would hazard a guess that this "s's" rule is from some bastardisation of the English language for America.
2:) I have yet to hear a quote from Steve Jobs that the Switch Campaign features real people. Even if he said it, I'm not basing my belief in their honesty on a CEO quote--I base it on the commercials themselves.
However you've got to remember that this whole ad campaign by M$ is a response to Apple's switch ad series which specifically feature testimonials and *real* photographs of the switchers.
How do you know they're "*real*"? Have you met them all? Do you know if they are in any way connected with Apple (and therefore might be a tad biased). Have you spoken to them?
Or are you just guessing/hoping/taking Jobs' word that they're real?
Are they going to act on the other 'testimonials' that are prefaced with stock photo images?
Maybe it's just me but I don't really care about the stock photos. Sure, there was an image of a woman on the site, but they didn't caption it saying it was her, they didn't imply in any way that the picture was her, it was just a picture of a woman and everyone jumped to the conclusion that it was supposed to be her.
At the end of the day, on that point, who cares? If the content of the page was correct (and the person was indeed true) then as far as I'm concerned they could have put any picture of any person from the Getty library.
Finally, I'd far rather see a picture of a pretty model than an ugly 40 year old woman - even if the former doesn't understand the concept of double clicking, let alone switching operating systems.
It would be a useful addition to Slashcode to autoreject any posts containing links to a user-configurable set of sites, and tell the user why his story was rejected.
It would also be useful if, after hitting "preview", the article's links were examined against previous articles. Therefore a warning message could be displayed telling them that there are previously published articles with similar URL's (with links to said articles as well).
This may go some way to reducing the vast number of repeated submissions that we get.
There's one aspect of Open Source that Ballmer and his friends don't get yet. He talks about trying to adopt the open-source ideas to benefit Microsoft. That dooms him to failure right there. People don't contribute to open-source software to benefit someone else. They contribute to benefit themselves. They fix bugs and add features because they need that done.
I beg to differ. People don't contribute to Open Source. Only the minority do.
One thing that is often forgotten here on Slashdot is that majority of people do not care about 80% of the freedom that the GPL gives you. As far as they are concerned, a product is "free" if
It does not cost anything
They can copy it and give it to their friends without breaking any law
Thats it. The whole idea of being able to view, edit, update, add, fork off and release may be great for those that want to do that.
But bare in mind that the average Joe considers Internet Explorer to be just as "free" as Linux because of the two points above.
DOS... Nope, they bought it...
Windows (UI)... Nope, got it from the Mac...
Internet Explorer... Nope, got it from NCSA (Mosaic)... in fact, they almost missed the Internet...
Hate to burst your bubble but you'll find that a very large number of software companies have done no innovating at all. Microsoft is not unique in this respect.
It's generally the smaller software houses that do the innovating who then get bought up by large companies. It's easier, quicker and cheaper to do it this way.
Oh yes and just to nitpick, Mac got the UI from Xerox. It wasn't a Mac innovation.
If anything, a poorly configured X server would be even MORE annoying. If you let anyone attach to your X session remotely, they could display pretty much anything on your screen, not just annoying pop-up messages.
Ahhh, the fun we used to have at University with this. Hundred odd HPUX machines which allowed you to freely send stuff to another display.
We used to have hours of fun running 50 copies of xeyes, firing up netscape with dodgy URL's, changing their background to the godaweful picture that we registered with and the like.
My favourite was using XV to grab a picture of their desktop, and then setting it as the background. When they closed a window, it looked like it was still there.
Unfortunately one day, my mate scott xlocked someone elses screen right in the middle of a tutorial and the tutor went ballistic. That "feature" was revoked pretty quickly and they set something up where you have to give someone authentication before they could send stuff to your desktop.
So one day we lured one of the guys out of the lab (Zog was his nickname) and whilst he was out, I edited his.profile to write out the auth key to a file.xsession_conf_id (one of those file names that sounds important) and then chmod a+r. Anyone who knew about it, could read the file, authenticate themselves and then run 50 copies of xeyes again.
He put up with it for about a month before roping in a Phd student to help him work out what was going on. I think the phd'er found it in the end and so our fun vanished:o(
Type Ahead Find is currently part of the default install. To turn it off, use:
user_pref ("accessibility.typeaheadfind", false);
Or, to remove it completely, find all files in your installation subdirectories that match *typeaheadfind*, and delete those files.
Whilst it's great that stuff like this is being implemented, is anyone actually working on making a point and click interface to active/deactivate functionality rather than having to get users to resort to deleting or editing files?
If it's already there, for gods sake, why on earth do they insist on giving you these contrived instructions on how to deactivate it?
If the aim of Mozilla is to get a sizeable userbase and encourage developers to avoid writing for IE only then the first thing they should do is make it easy for the common computer user to do this sort of stuff without having to resort to editing text files.
Once they have to do that, then you lose and IE will continue to reign.
Okay, granted the UK isn't quite the same size as the US, but I've only ever had about 4 calls from marketeers in my whole life (and they were generally to do with double glazing).
Would I be right in assuming that it's a side effect of the free local calls you guys get? Whilst the whole idea sounds rather tempting it just seems like you have a lot of hassles and issues with the whole system - especially when it's possible to buy 6 or 7 different call screening devices!
Ps. the English accent on the Phone Butler really made me laugh:o)
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Some facts:
And so on and so on. You can find more facts about it at the rather appallingly designed Rip-off Britain website.
Indeed there are, but if you look at my posting history you'd see that I'm not one of them.
I applaud a company that tries to make it's products easier and yes, Suse putting this Crossover plug into default installs is a Good Thing(tm).
I'm no cretin, but installing stuff on Linux is, for me anyway, fraught with disasters. I don't bother compiling any more as things invariably won't compile or i'm missing hundreds of files. I stick to RPM's because they're (relativily) easy.
I run Mandrake and Gnome 1.x - I'd love to go to 2.x but I just know that it'll never work if I do it manually. Much easier (and faster for me) to just grab the latest distribution ISO's and install it from scratch. Prior experience has taught me not to waste several hours installing something when I could do it in less than one (and have it working).
But I really don't think that something like this really classes as "news". Yes, they're doing a good thing and they're on the right lines - but if every time Slashdot posts an article when a distribtion adds something to make life easier, we might as well just subscribe to their mailing lists.
Neither do you on CrazyBrowser.
But there are plenty times when I want *requested* pop-ups to appear in a new window - rather than as an actual pop up.
So yes, Phoenix (and Mozilla) do need this feature.
It's not exactly earth shattering news. Whats next? Slashdot reporting that that distibution Blah is going to come with WINE already pre-installed?
Or am I missing something major entirely?
Actually at the moment, there is no truely real way to switch. This is because some programs (mainly Microsofts) insist on firing up IE for a URL even when some other application is registered as being the default browser.
It's in the MSKB as a bug, until thats fixed, I still have to deal with occasionally IE loading when I don't want it.
(Of course I'm ignoring the fact that the IE dlls are almost in constant use - before anyone points it out)
I use CrazyBrowser which is just the IE engine with tabbed browsing, pop up killer and a number of other useful things.
I actually prefer the way it does pop-ups too, they go into a new tab rather than actually popping up. Makes it much easier to kill them (as you can just double click on the tab). I don't think Moz does this (or if it does, I didn't find it).
My only complaint is that some (Microsoft) applications insist on firing up IE despite the fact that CrazyBrowser is my default browser.
Oh yes, and it's a silly name.
There is also a commercial version called Netcaptor too which has a few more features, but CB is free (as in beer).
If Microsoft "improved" the codec (and thus made it incompatible) then I think they'd have a lot bigger problems than a bunch of Linux users pissy that they can't play wma's for a bit.
For starters, those people who have hardware MP3/WMA players out there would suddenly find that their products need updating. Not all with flashable firmware.
If you want to push a format, the last thing you do is alienate those people (hardware manufacturers) that can help you to do just that.
At the risk of sounding stupid, of course it does.
The larger the number of people in the market, the greater the competition. Given that the software specifications are pretty much the same (helped by Microsofts specifications) you've got only a few things that companies can compete on such as hardware specs (including dimensions and weight), battery life, upgradability and best of all price.
So if more players in the market causes others to start making strides to produce a better product, then it can only be seen as a good thing.
Are you just trolling or do you actually have any proof to back up your assertion that these facts are "blatent falsehoods"?
Well, I'm a Londoner and I wouldn't say they are becoming more ubiquitois. Yes, there are a larger number of people with them than I've ever seen before, but what is become more seen is those people with the little white clip on their clothes. That is the Nokia 8310.
Plus those people that do have MD's are often holding several year old models rather than the latest one. Which either means there is a damn good trade in ancient MD's or these are players bought a while ago.
But anyway I'm digressing, here's why I don't use the NetMD:
MD's are good quality. If you can overlook the fact that you have to copy all your music to MD at realtime.
Of course, you could get the NetMD, but then you'd have to jump through hoops (read check in/check out) to get the songs onto the MD, you can't copy them back off, you can't check them out more than 3 times, you have to convert them to Sony's propriatory ATRAC format, LP4 compression is so poor quality-wise you can only use LP2 at the most, you can't delete the songs off the MD without checking them back into the software and you sometimes find that the software refuses to convert an MP3 (often a VBR one).
Oh, yes, and you get to pay £250 for the privilidge of the above when my player was over half the price.
NetMD was an attempt by Sony to capitalise on the MP3 boom, unfortunately their content division were so paranoid about piracy that they effectivly cripped what would have been a seriously good product that might have stemmed the death of the MD.
If, however, MP3 means nothing to you or you have no need for such a thing, then a plain old bog standard MD player is both cheap, light, jog-proof and rather cool. But NetMD is a joke.
What happens in there? Does one team produce cool stuff and then try and sneak it out before the music side get their claws into it? Or is this clearly a case of two different companies (or should I say cultures and ideals) releasing products under the same name?
Yet, so far, the reports of them actually doing something about it and moving away from MS are very thin on the ground.
It would appear that however much MS wishes to shoot itself in the foot, or deny users specific rights, people are still unwilling to move to a different OS.
The fact Linux is free didn't compell them, the fact Linux doesn't "phone home" didn't compell them, the fact Linux is easier to maintain within an organisation didn't compell them, the fact Linux doesn't come with arcane restrictions on what you can and can't do with your PC didn't compell them, the fact Linux doesn't suffer so many virus attacks didn't compell them, the fact Linux is more secure and robust didn't compell them and the fact that Linux applications can read and write Word documents didn't compell them to move.
So the question is, what on earth will compell them to drop Windows on the desktop? Because it's sure as hell not any of the issues we've seen so far.
(and here i'm talking about the masses, not the odd special case)
If RMS really wants to tell the world that they should oppose "Trusted Computing" then he really should find a better outlet than an OSS online newspaper.
Theres nothing wrong with Newsforge per se, but if he wants people to actually sit up and take notice then he really should try and get his articles published in places with larger distributions (BBC, WSJ, FT, Business and Computing publications for example).
Disclaimer: I don't play online games.
Personally I would have thought a three level approach would work better. If you're caught cheating, then something like a 48 hour ("cool-off") ban would be the first thing.
If you do it again, you get a month.
And finally, if you do it once more, you've had your three strikes and you're out.
At least then it makes sure that those people who were cheating, were deliberately doing it rather than being just plain dumb or inquisitive (ie. installing some program just to see what it did).
But at the end of the day, it's the owner of the server that sets the rules and if they want it to be "one strike and you're out" then so be it.
Indeed. I have one here in the office (the joys of working for a telco) and it's a very nice phone. However, for me, it's rather big and bulky, the camera is pointless and the stylus is this rubbish bit of bendy plastic.
But for PDA/Phone combo, it's the dogs testicles.
For years, we've all been sitting around waiting for something that was powerful, flexible, stable, clean looking, customisation, upgradable and fast.
Palm have been lagging behind for so long it's untrue, OS 5 which was supposed to be the next greatest thing is starting to look a bit of a flop. It's faster, but thats about it. Oh yes and all the apps run on a compatibility layer.
Microsofts effort is packed with features, but confusing UI, unstable platform, a blatent memory hog and doesn't support the XScale speeeds.
So there is a prime chance here for a Symbian licencee (and even Apple) to walk in, produce a desirable PDA with all the features above and literally clean up.
Mind you, Jobs has stated that he thinks PDA's are "junk" and the Symbian licencees seem to be going down the Phone/PDA combo so I'll just have to live in hope really.
No it's not. English dictates that the plural of Jobs is Jobs'. Jobs's is simply incorrect. Same as it should be Bridget Jones' Diary and not Jones's. Since it was the latter in the cinemas, and you don't appear to be completely illiterate I would hazard a guess that this "s's" rule is from some bastardisation of the English language for America.
2:) I have yet to hear a quote from Steve Jobs that the Switch Campaign features real people. Even if he said it, I'm not basing my belief in their honesty on a CEO quote--I base it on the commercials themselves.
Of course, commercials never bend the truth :o)
How do you know they're "*real*"? Have you met them all? Do you know if they are in any way connected with Apple (and therefore might be a tad biased). Have you spoken to them?
Or are you just guessing/hoping/taking Jobs' word that they're real?
Maybe it's just me but I don't really care about the stock photos. Sure, there was an image of a woman on the site, but they didn't caption it saying it was her, they didn't imply in any way that the picture was her, it was just a picture of a woman and everyone jumped to the conclusion that it was supposed to be her.
At the end of the day, on that point, who cares? If the content of the page was correct (and the person was indeed true) then as far as I'm concerned they could have put any picture of any person from the Getty library.
Finally, I'd far rather see a picture of a pretty model than an ugly 40 year old woman - even if the former doesn't understand the concept of double clicking, let alone switching operating systems.
It would also be useful if, after hitting "preview", the article's links were examined against previous articles. Therefore a warning message could be displayed telling them that there are previously published articles with similar URL's (with links to said articles as well).
This may go some way to reducing the vast number of repeated submissions that we get.
I beg to differ. People don't contribute to Open Source. Only the minority do.
One thing that is often forgotten here on Slashdot is that majority of people do not care about 80% of the freedom that the GPL gives you. As far as they are concerned, a product is "free" if
Thats it. The whole idea of being able to view, edit, update, add, fork off and release may be great for those that want to do that.
But bare in mind that the average Joe considers Internet Explorer to be just as "free" as Linux because of the two points above.
Windows (UI)
Internet Explorer
Hate to burst your bubble but you'll find that a very large number of software companies have done no innovating at all. Microsoft is not unique in this respect.
It's generally the smaller software houses that do the innovating who then get bought up by large companies. It's easier, quicker and cheaper to do it this way.
Oh yes and just to nitpick, Mac got the UI from Xerox. It wasn't a Mac innovation.
Ahhh, the fun we used to have at University with this. Hundred odd HPUX machines which allowed you to freely send stuff to another display.
We used to have hours of fun running 50 copies of xeyes, firing up netscape with dodgy URL's, changing their background to the godaweful picture that we registered with and the like.
My favourite was using XV to grab a picture of their desktop, and then setting it as the background. When they closed a window, it looked like it was still there.
Unfortunately one day, my mate scott xlocked someone elses screen right in the middle of a tutorial and the tutor went ballistic. That "feature" was revoked pretty quickly and they set something up where you have to give someone authentication before they could send stuff to your desktop.
So one day we lured one of the guys out of the lab (Zog was his nickname) and whilst he was out, I edited his .profile to write out the auth key to a file .xsession_conf_id (one of those file names that sounds important) and then chmod a+r. Anyone who knew about it, could read the file, authenticate themselves and then run 50 copies of xeyes again.
He put up with it for about a month before roping in a Phd student to help him work out what was going on. I think the phd'er found it in the end and so our fun vanished :o(
user_pref ("accessibility.typeaheadfind", false);
Or, to remove it completely, find all files in your installation subdirectories that match *typeaheadfind*, and delete those files.
Whilst it's great that stuff like this is being implemented, is anyone actually working on making a point and click interface to active/deactivate functionality rather than having to get users to resort to deleting or editing files?
If it's already there, for gods sake, why on earth do they insist on giving you these contrived instructions on how to deactivate it?
If the aim of Mozilla is to get a sizeable userbase and encourage developers to avoid writing for IE only then the first thing they should do is make it easy for the common computer user to do this sort of stuff without having to resort to editing text files.
Once they have to do that, then you lose and IE will continue to reign.
Would I be right in assuming that it's a side effect of the free local calls you guys get? Whilst the whole idea sounds rather tempting it just seems like you have a lot of hassles and issues with the whole system - especially when it's possible to buy 6 or 7 different call screening devices!
Ps. the English accent on the Phone Butler really made me laugh :o)