Well, thats not quite what they are looking for, I think. A web app should be more like slashdot than like a real application. (Not saying/. is not a real application:)
Anyways, Java is a good option for both. You could write the middle and back end to be nutreal, and a servelet to dish out the webapp, and an applet to dish out the application. Works great for me anyways.
Windows 95, followed by Windows 95 B (OSR2?), Followed by 95 C...
Win NT SP 1 through 6
Windows 98 (it's self) followed by Win98 SE (Second Edition)
Besides the fact that a 2.3.x was available every few weeks... In case your memory is very short, there was a 2.0.1 release soon after 2.0.0, and a 2.2.1 release soon after 2.2.0.
Don't be so harsh with your criticisim of sending envelopes filled wiht dogpoop... As recently posted, there is a company that does this professionally.
Hmm... I wonder if I can patent sending an envelope filled with the stuff...
This has been possible for a very long time. I know junkbuster has a similar, and even better way of doing it. Same with stripping ads. Cookies arn't they only problem though. If your browser sends a referer header (junkbuster can block this too), you get the name of the page you came from. If the URL to the ad's image has an ID embedded in it, they know where your coming from. Hell, some adds (Like one from a332.g.akamai.net, that I just blocked), have the URL of the web site embedded.
Where am I going with this? Well, you request the ad image, they have your IP address. They can figure out where you are from that. They can put it in a database, and see what URL's you are coming from (using one of the above techniques), and then if they serve up ads at another site you visit, they could match up the IP addresses, and then they know more about you.
Before you get paranoid, Getting useable information this way is probably not that easy... Besides, targeted ad's arn't as annoying as porn ad's.:)
I downloaded it from the mirror posted in the comments, but from the looks of things, it's still not the official release. It's got Mozillaness all over it, and the credits in the about window were blank. Also, it has a build number from yesterday.
It looks like they were just bundeling it up, and it leaked onto the server by mistake...
For those who were asking about whether it is heavier on the memory side then Mozilla, on NT (ick) it weighed in at 30 megs, and Mozilla is running in 20.
I doubt I'm going to install it on Linux at home, but would be interested in hearing how it runs.
I'm sure that security will not be much of a concern with Evolution, and, as with windows, I'm sure you will be able to turn off VBS.
As for putting bad packages in their upgrade system... Debian, RedHat and others seem to be surviving with no problem. BTW, you obviously don't know anything about APT (the package retrever for Debian), as it already does something VERY similar to this (without the eye-candy).
BTW, do you read every line of code you download and compile? Doubt it. I'd be more worried about someone putting a trojan in code then someone hacking an ftp server and putting a bad package in.
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Well, thats not quite what they are looking for, I think. A web app should be more like slashdot than like a real application. (Not saying /. is not a real application :)
Anyways, Java is a good option for both. You could write the middle and back end to be nutreal, and a servelet to dish out the webapp, and an applet to dish out the application. Works great for me anyways.
Funny, I thought they were going to call the next version Debian... :P
Excuse me? Microsoft wouldn't do this?
Besides the fact that a 2.3.x was available every few weeks... In case your memory is very short, there was a 2.0.1 release soon after 2.0.0, and a 2.2.1 release soon after 2.2.0.
Don't be so harsh with your criticisim of sending envelopes filled wiht dogpoop... As recently posted, there is a company that does this professionally.
Hmm... I wonder if I can patent sending an envelope filled with the stuff...
This has been possible for a very long time. I know junkbuster has a similar, and even better way of doing it. Same with stripping ads. Cookies arn't they only problem though. If your browser sends a referer header (junkbuster can block this too), you get the name of the page you came from. If the URL to the ad's image has an ID embedded in it, they know where your coming from. Hell, some adds (Like one from a332.g.akamai.net, that I just blocked), have the URL of the web site embedded.
Where am I going with this? Well, you request the ad image, they have your IP address. They can figure out where you are from that. They can put it in a database, and see what URL's you are coming from (using one of the above techniques), and then if they serve up ads at another site you visit, they could match up the IP addresses, and then they know more about you.
Before you get paranoid, Getting useable information this way is probably not that easy... Besides, targeted ad's arn't as annoying as porn ad's. :)
I downloaded it from the mirror posted in the comments, but from the looks of things, it's still not the official release. It's got Mozillaness all over it, and the credits in the about window were blank. Also, it has a build number from yesterday.
It looks like they were just bundeling it up, and it leaked onto the server by mistake...
For those who were asking about whether it is heavier on the memory side then Mozilla, on NT (ick) it weighed in at 30 megs, and Mozilla is running in 20.
I doubt I'm going to install it on Linux at home, but would be interested in hearing how it runs.
I'm sure that security will not be much of a concern with Evolution, and, as with windows, I'm sure you will be able to turn off VBS.
As for putting bad packages in their upgrade system... Debian, RedHat and others seem to be surviving with no problem. BTW, you obviously don't know anything about APT (the package retrever for Debian), as it already does something VERY similar to this (without the eye-candy).
BTW, do you read every line of code you download and compile? Doubt it. I'd be more worried about someone putting a trojan in code then someone hacking an ftp server and putting a bad package in.