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This is not a bug! I reported it originally but have changed it to WFM. This was my comment:
OK *now* it WFM! I had to change Edit Preferences Advanced, Scripts and Plugins to allow javascript to change, create AND read cookies before it worked though.
Caveats to running in this mode: Your bookmarks or links won't appear, but they'll still be there if you run it in normal mode.
I tried this and the bookmarks remained, but I happened to disable ActiveX in a very dumb and unsuccessful attempt to stop pop-ups, but this caused windows update to fail until I ran as admin as per microsoft's untrustworthy suggestion.
All of this is pretty ironic since I was trying to fetch the patch that is supposed to fix the holes in the function that's needed to install the patch.
OK thanks. I did try that but I seem to have grabbed an identical build since I took Mozilla 1.2 Alpha and I am not sure if this is updated in the nightly builds.
After it bought Compaq this year, the combined company became the largest single buyer of Windows for personal computers and data-serving computers, and thus more dependent on Microsoft
From the article: Microsoft, unsurprisingly, sees price tags in a different light: Mainframes are expensive, and Microsoft's office software is easier to use than alternatives, according to Peter Houston, senior director of Microsoft's Windows server product management group.
Houston is skeptical that it's more expensive to use low-end Windows-Intel servers than running those tasks on high-end mainframes. "We're talking about some of the most expensive (computing power) in the industry," he said.
But:
Air New Zealand plans to use 150 Linux servers per mainframe, but the company tested the ability to run 10,000 copies of Linux simultaneously doing real work, Care said.
And
The overall cost of ownership of the mainframe is more than 30 percent less, Care said.
Which means the breakeven point of using an IBM z800 mainframe running Linux appears to be when it is being used at around 1 percent of its capacity. Does this mean mainframes are expensive or that they are just cheaper than the cost of Microsoft's licenses.
After reading about this I checked the settings on my WMP and noticed that the content protection option had been enabled. This is odd as I know I unchecked this last time/. ran a story suggesting the default options were not good and I set all options to be as unrestrictive as possible. Around that time there was a WMP update which I accepted and since then I have been unable to record using this Toshiba DVD/RW, even with the help of Toshiba support.
Anyway this time I had another look at devices and this time WMP, of all programs, told me this device was recordable. I could scarcely believe it so I decided to put it to the test and inserted a blank. Sure enough the orange light came up, a sight I have not seen for almost a year, and eventually it claimed it had managed to copy one single track and run out of space. When I looked at explorer it confirmed this was a writeable device whereas before it was always in denial. Looking at the recording it could not read it however, but looking at the disk it had physically burned about half the surface.
Could it be WMP did not like the look of my VLK and decided to knobble my means of "piracy"?
I followed steps in 7.5 but it caused M to freeze before starting. In the end I have decided I have to lose the content of the old profile and I am quite relieved to have done that as it has solved a number of issues like hertz.com giving a blank screen before. Luckily I do not use M for mail yet although I would really love to do that when I figure a way to remove the duplicates from OE that were created during a previous attempt to use M for mail.
According to http://www.trolltech.com/~lars/fonts/qt-fonts-HOWT O.html:
Also check if/usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.1.0 links to freetype. You can do this by running 'ldd libXft.so.1.0' and checking if the output contains the freetype library. If not, you probably did not have freetype installed when you
compiled XFree, did not include the path to freetype in your xc/config/cf/host.conf directory (in the XFree sources) or used a binary package that does not have Xft support compiled in.
If yes, you'll need to get a Qt-2.3.0 or later compled with Xft support. If you compile Qt yourself, add -xft to the configure line.
Thanks for the feedback. I can't answer your question straight away, but if I remember I'll see if I can find the HOWTO that mentioned this, otherwise perhaps I can get my fonts looking smooth without resorting to a recompile!
Naturally YMMV, but I have just activated cleartype rendering and it has mad a dramaticimprovement to the rendering of fonts on my otherwised unloved XP screen which is a regular vanilla CRT from iiyama. I know it was designed for CRTs alone, but I guess similar principles apply to rendering of fonts whether the pixels are crystal or the cathode derived. I just wish it was this simple to enable some improvement on my Debian box which shares the same screen via KVM switch, but after installing XFtt & TTfonts I gave up when I discovered the kernel also needed recompiling to support antialiasing. I expect I'll try that some other time.
This is very clever but I can't quite see the point: unless this is yet another bug in XP I can see the file is saved under file://F:/DOCUME~1/TOM/LOCALS~1/TEMP/24iluzsf.ram
so it ain't exactly rocket science to recover the original ram file.
I live here: SussexHeights.co.uk and should stress the web design had nothing to do with me, although I would like to set up a site where neighbours can exchange words and recommendations etc. next year. (Has anyone else tried this?)
The building was designed in the mid 60's by Seifert for central London but planning permission was refused so it was dumped instead on the regency seafront of Brighton causing much upset to local conservationists.
Cable TV was introduced about five years ago and the supplier (NTL) has only just started to offer broadband across this. I think it's unfortunate that we cannot club together to buy one connection and share it amoung the 100 apartments.
Since I moved in there are cables running up and down the hall way carrying audio, video and ethernet and I have yet to find suitable ducting/trunking solutions to hide all this wire. I am surprised at this since I can't be the first to attempt cable retrofits without digging into the floors and walls, but even the recent askslashdot about home networks did not get close to this aspect.
KOffice 1.1 contains many of the major functional components contained in Microsoft Office, with a few "polished finish" exceptions. For example, within the newer releases of Office, Word documents are checked for spelling and grammar during composition, with colored underlining showing potential mistakes. KWord offers only a spell-check feature--and only as a user-invoked option. KWord does not check for grammar and does not have a built-in thesaurus.
Well many don't like the bossy word underlines whenever a typo or unrecognized word is input but I never cease to be amazed at the lack or evolution in WPs. I remember in the early 80s a product called mindreader that could predict the word you were writing within the first 3 or 4 characters. Could be annoying but if you are slow or pause typing it could also be handy and must be simple as it originated in the days of DOS and continues up to a point with the T9 technology found in some phones to create words from the keypad.
This quote came from a slashdot discussion about SDMI/RIAA/DCMA. It reminds me of a theory of my own that the "Church" was the worlds first multi-national, with brilliant marketing techniques and corporate branding, theme music and a unitary language that spanned the globe until Vatican II banned latin. Like McDonalds, you would recognise a church wherever you go, because it carried the same corporate identity everywhere. Today we worship the fruits of multi-nationals, and award them our loyalty.
I've had previous contact with Ericsons, offering support to them, and some of the people then running their IT infrastructure in Europe (particularly the UK) were utterly hopeless. One person cost me many late hours at work due to his utter imcompetance. I was doing most of his work, yet he was being paid far more than myself. Then I was lead up the garden path when a job was indeed going there. No contact, no acknowledgements, despite the fact I was one of the few in the country that had experience of the technology they used.
Firstly if you can't spell ericsson after all the hours of hard labour with low pay you claim, it's not that surprising that they were reluctant to hire you. Even if they did not have the foresight that you might turn your indirect employment experiences into an opportunity to libel the company. Another mistake you made was to assume that ericsson IT infrastructure is run in house. It is completely outsourced in the UK and will eventually be outsouced everywhere as it is recognised that this is not a core business. In fact it appears to best suit the brain dead in the case of microsoft support.
I find it strange that with more a more encryption busting going on out there we still cannot decypher the encryption used by microsoft word to mark up text with a consistent appearance. This challenge is something worth rather more than the 5000 to FSF, valuable as that may be. Does anyone remember WordPad used to credit someone outside microsoft for its existence (before 95b was released)? I think that program could decypher most word codes.
"video on Unix has always been an afterthought, whereas on a client OS like Windows, it's practically the most important thing"
Windows is still an afterthought, even on W98. That's why you can still switch it on an off by setting the GUI=YES parameter in the config files. Sorry, I forget which one, but it's hidden in the windows directory so we can't find out:-)
I also don't understand when you say:
Microsoft always designs their product around absurdly low standards for marketing reasons (486SX/25 with 16 MB is minimum spec for Windows NT)
I don't think 486 with 16 meg would be absurd by todays's standards, let alone when NT was designed 10 years ago.
I suspect you have been exposed to some impartial opinions, as I don't know where you get these ideas!
Well this would be great if it solved my Matrox Productiva G100 Xserver headache, but I can't be sure as there is no list of certified hardware on the doctor's site.
I already tried the drivers that were mentioned in slashdot before at Matrox User's site, but for some reason that did not work. I'm not sure if Matrox themselves have released something recently. Its all such a shame, as the productiva is quite cheap, even if unproductive without bespoke drivers!
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This is not a bug! I reported it originally but have changed it to WFM. This was my comment:
OK *now* it WFM! I had to change Edit Preferences Advanced, Scripts and Plugins to allow javascript to change, create AND read cookies before it worked though.
Your bookmarks or links won't appear, but they'll still be there if you run it in normal mode.
I tried this and the bookmarks remained, but I happened to disable ActiveX in a very dumb and unsuccessful attempt to stop pop-ups, but this caused windows update to fail until I ran as admin as per microsoft's untrustworthy suggestion.
All of this is pretty ironic since I was trying to fetch the patch that is supposed to fix the holes in the function that's needed to install the patch.
OK thanks. I did try that but I seem to have grabbed an identical build since I took Mozilla 1.2 Alpha and I am not sure if this is updated in the nightly builds.
OK WFM on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020606 as well. Sorry!
OK thanks for that information - I just assumed that as it was an unresolved bug it would affect other users the same way. My mistake.
This article is ironic because
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1. It renders as invisible on Mozilla
2. This has not been noticed after 93 comments
There is a bug report on this site already at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10529
After it bought Compaq this year, the combined company became the largest single buyer of Windows for personal computers and data-serving computers, and thus more dependent on Microsoft
Microsoft, unsurprisingly, sees price tags in a different light: Mainframes are expensive, and Microsoft's office software is easier to use than alternatives, according to Peter Houston, senior director of Microsoft's Windows server product management group.
Houston is skeptical that it's more expensive to use low-end Windows-Intel servers than running those tasks on high-end mainframes. "We're talking about some of the most expensive (computing power) in the industry," he said.
But:
Air New Zealand plans to use 150 Linux servers per mainframe, but the company tested the ability to run 10,000 copies of Linux simultaneously doing real work, Care said.
And
The overall cost of ownership of the mainframe is more than 30 percent less, Care said.
Which means the breakeven point of using an IBM z800 mainframe running Linux appears to be when it is being used at around 1 percent of its capacity. Does this mean mainframes are expensive or that they are just cheaper than the cost of Microsoft's licenses.
Anyway this time I had another look at devices and this time WMP, of all programs, told me this device was recordable. I could scarcely believe it so I decided to put it to the test and inserted a blank. Sure enough the orange light came up, a sight I have not seen for almost a year, and eventually it claimed it had managed to copy one single track and run out of space. When I looked at explorer it confirmed this was a writeable device whereas before it was always in denial. Looking at the recording it could not read it however, but looking at the disk it had physically burned about half the surface.
Could it be WMP did not like the look of my VLK and decided to knobble my means of "piracy"?
I followed steps in 7.5 but it caused M to freeze before starting. In the end I have decided I have to lose the content of the old profile and I am quite relieved to have done that as it has solved a number of issues like hertz.com giving a blank screen before. Luckily I do not use M for mail yet although I would really love to do that when I figure a way to remove the duplicates from OE that were created during a previous attempt to use M for mail.
Am I the only one thinking home is an odd place to go to find colleagues? Do your colleagues use your home to develop actual software?
Thanks for the feedback. I can't answer your question straight away, but if I remember I'll see if I can find the HOWTO that mentioned this, otherwise perhaps I can get my fonts looking smooth without resorting to a recompile!
Naturally YMMV, but I have just activated cleartype rendering and it has mad a dramatic improvement to the rendering of fonts on my otherwised unloved XP screen which is a regular vanilla CRT from iiyama. I know it was designed for CRTs alone, but I guess similar principles apply to rendering of fonts whether the pixels are crystal or the cathode derived. I just wish it was this simple to enable some improvement on my Debian box which shares the same screen via KVM switch, but after installing XFtt & TTfonts I gave up when I discovered the kernel also needed recompiling to support antialiasing. I expect I'll try that some other time.
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Index\wmplibrary_v_0_12.db ?
At the top of this file it says MSIASAM Database. Access cannot read this format, and
http://shell.windows.com/fileassoc/0409/xml/redi r. asp?Ext=db d
pretends it does not have a clue either.
This is very clever but I can't quite see the point: unless this is yet another bug in XP I can see the file is saved under file://F:/DOCUME~1/TOM/LOCALS~1/TEMP/24iluzsf.ram
so it ain't exactly rocket science to recover the original ram file.
The building was designed in the mid 60's by Seifert for central London but planning permission was refused so it was dumped instead on the regency seafront of Brighton causing much upset to local conservationists.
Cable TV was introduced about five years ago and the supplier (NTL) has only just started to offer broadband across this. I think it's unfortunate that we cannot club together to buy one connection and share it amoung the 100 apartments.
Since I moved in there are cables running up and down the hall way carrying audio, video and ethernet and I have yet to find suitable ducting/trunking solutions to hide all this wire. I am surprised at this since I can't be the first to attempt cable retrofits without digging into the floors and walls, but even the recent askslashdot about home networks did not get close to this aspect.
Or you could shorten the link with this tool on makeashorterlink.com.
KOffice 1.1 contains many of the major functional components contained in Microsoft Office, with a few "polished finish" exceptions. For example, within the newer releases of Office, Word documents are checked for spelling and grammar during composition, with colored underlining showing potential mistakes. KWord offers only a spell-check feature--and only as a user-invoked option. KWord does not check for grammar and does not have a built-in thesaurus.
Well many don't like the bossy word underlines whenever a typo or unrecognized word is input but I never cease to be amazed at the lack or evolution in WPs. I remember in the early 80s a product called mindreader that could predict the word you were writing within the first 3 or 4 characters. Could be annoying but if you are slow or pause typing it could also be handy and must be simple as it originated in the days of DOS and continues up to a point with the T9 technology found in some phones to create words from the keypad.
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:bqpjsY89h2A:t he-tech.mit.edu/V121/N39/39sony.39n.html+&hl=en
This quote came from a slashdot discussion about SDMI/RIAA/DCMA. It reminds me of a theory of my own that the "Church" was the worlds first multi-national, with brilliant marketing techniques and corporate branding, theme music and a unitary language that spanned the globe until Vatican II banned latin. Like McDonalds, you would recognise a church wherever you go, because it carried the same corporate identity everywhere. Today we worship the fruits of multi-nationals, and award them our loyalty.
I find it strange that with more a more encryption busting going on out there we still cannot decypher the encryption used by microsoft word to mark up text with a consistent appearance. This challenge is something worth rather more than the 5000 to FSF, valuable as that may be. Does anyone remember WordPad used to credit someone outside microsoft for its existence (before 95b was released)? I think that program could decypher most word codes.
Sorry but this is not correct:
:-)
"video on Unix has always been an afterthought, whereas on a client OS like Windows, it's practically the most important thing"
Windows is still an afterthought, even on W98. That's why you can still switch it on an off by setting the GUI=YES parameter in the config files. Sorry, I forget which one, but it's hidden in the windows directory so we can't find out
I also don't understand when you say:
Microsoft always designs their product around absurdly low standards for marketing reasons (486SX/25 with 16 MB is minimum spec for Windows NT)
I don't think 486 with 16 meg would be absurd by todays's standards, let alone when NT was designed 10 years ago.
I suspect you have been exposed to some impartial opinions, as I don't know where you get these ideas!
Well this would be great if it solved my Matrox Productiva G100 Xserver headache, but I can't be sure as there is no list of certified hardware on the doctor's site.
I already tried the drivers that were mentioned in slashdot before at Matrox User's site, but for some reason that did not work. I'm not sure if Matrox themselves have released something recently. Its all such a shame, as the productiva is quite cheap, even if unproductive without bespoke drivers!