It would be nice if Microsoft's biggest security "feature" is asking the user to confirm any operation that could conceivably cause a problem. Oh, well, at least they can blame the user now... after all HE allowed it.
The one time I tried to use IE7 and MSN search (to look up TV remote control codes) MSN search returned a link that hijacked IE7 to a site trying to play porno movies and because of the constant message boxes claiming "Microsoft" found security problems and should I let it install a "fix" (probably Javascript trying to get me to install malware). The message boxes wouldn't go away and I couldn't even shut down the browser without killing the whole app from the task manager. (By the way, I checked the first several pages of Google's results to see if that fake link showed up, and it wasn't there. MSN is useless, too.)
I would have never in a million years thought that IE7 would be that horrible. It's like it's 1998 all over again. Microsoft does nothing but FAIL. I've been using Firefox (with NoScript, AdBlock+, etc) since it was Phoenix 0.4 or so and I had literally forgotten how horrible IE used to be... and still is. In all those years nothing like that has ever happened to me with Firefox.
I'm convinced Microsoft just needs to give up. They have become completely worthless and literally have nothing else to offer.
We'll forgive you since Murnau's name was in the story.
My 12-year-old is fascinated with early cinematography, especially how they did special effects. We just watched "Metropolis" again a few days ago, and it's exciting to hear there's a whole new chunk of the picture to see. I imagine there are probably no hot 'n' fancy special effects in the "new" footage, but filling in details of the story would be greatly welcomed.
Hey, I was referring to the "ass" part of of the hat in a double-entendre way. Frankly, I think both parties are full of asses, although the elephant Ass Hat is a good idea.
(Silverlight 1 is Windows and Mac only, but it barely counts, it is such a pathetic technology. 2 is where its at).
If we follow the Microsoft (and Netscape) paradigm:
1.0 is useless 2.0 is a little less useless, but still pretty bad 3.0 is pretty darn good 4.0 is overly bloated because no one can leave a good thing alone 5.0 removes most of the problems introduced in 4.0 6.0 is all bloated again (see 4.0)
You've got an actual Ass Hat? Where'd you get it? I could order a couple hundred because a lot of people deserve them.
In fact, let's spam the White House and Congress with a million Ass Hats. I'm sure some enterprising person could design a hat that resembles the south end of a north-bound mule.
There are many times I've sat down to someone's computer where the monitor was to set to 60Hz refresh. That would drive me insane, but some people don't even seem to notice it. I guess it depends on your eyes. I changed the refresh rate on my Dad's computer and he never seemed to noticed.
Maybe LCDs have spoiled me but these days I notice even 75Hz flickering in my near peripheral vision.
As far as monitors go, I always loved those old green monochrome monitors with a really slow "decay" from the original IBM PC 5150 days.
I think you mean "Arial" font. The font you refer to is a copyrighted Disney font with little fish tails on each letter. Either that or it's one of those fonts that hangs around Uranus.
I, er, uh, was going to say, um, "You're too nice!" Yeah, that's the ticket!
p.s. Dear Slashdot: 15 seconds and 1 minute for the "Slow Down, Cowboy!" timers would eliminate 98% of the times I get that infuriating message. C'mon, howzabout it? Some of us can type fast; stop penalizing us!
I have the Andrews book listed on the "Buy these two for cheaper" link, but I got totally hung up on the Chinese Remainder Theorem about 8 years ago. Time to give it another go I think.
If I didn't already believe in God, Number Theory would convince me. It's that cool.;-)
My first experience with CRPGs was a PC port of Rogue around 1983. I was instantly hooked.
I have many fond memories of playing Oubliette around 1983, and eventually hacking the encryption on the save file. The encryption consisted of adding 0x71 and 0x72 to alternating bytes in the save file. After that I was able to hack the save file to find out if characters could actually survive the 9th level. It turns out having 6 totally maxed out characters might survive a single move on level 9, but certainly not two.
Way, way too much fun (and time wasted) for what was something like a 60k executable.
I still have the Turbo Pascal code for encypting/decrypting the save files and doing other operations like restoring age (characters would eventually age and die from the time spent resting to heal).
Shortly after that (around 85 or so) I discovered a little game called Hack (around version 2.0.3 IIRC). I think heard somewhere it's still around. (Actually I occasionally run Nethack 3.4.3 on my PocketPC for kicks. My oldest kid likes playing it too, but he only plays with tiles, I think anything other than character mode is tantamount to blasphemy.).
Oh it's not so bad. I memorized about 50 places when I was a teenager (in the early 80's) and still remember most of it. I memorized by groups of 5 and it was as much memorizing the "sound" of saying each 5 digit group rather than memorizing numbers.
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The farside of Mercury is one of the coldest places in the Solar System.
It would be nice if Microsoft's biggest security "feature" is asking the user to confirm any operation that could conceivably cause a problem. Oh, well, at least they can blame the user now... after all HE allowed it.
The one time I tried to use IE7 and MSN search (to look up TV remote control codes) MSN search returned a link that hijacked IE7 to a site trying to play porno movies and because of the constant message boxes claiming "Microsoft" found security problems and should I let it install a "fix" (probably Javascript trying to get me to install malware). The message boxes wouldn't go away and I couldn't even shut down the browser without killing the whole app from the task manager. (By the way, I checked the first several pages of Google's results to see if that fake link showed up, and it wasn't there. MSN is useless, too.)
I would have never in a million years thought that IE7 would be that horrible. It's like it's 1998 all over again. Microsoft does nothing but FAIL. I've been using Firefox (with NoScript, AdBlock+, etc) since it was Phoenix 0.4 or so and I had literally forgotten how horrible IE used to be... and still is. In all those years nothing like that has ever happened to me with Firefox.
I'm convinced Microsoft just needs to give up. They have become completely worthless and literally have nothing else to offer.
More details and ranting if you're interested: http://conceptjunkie.blogspot.com/2008/04/microsoft-needs-to-die.html
We'll forgive you since Murnau's name was in the story.
My 12-year-old is fascinated with early cinematography, especially how they did special effects. We just watched "Metropolis" again a few days ago, and it's exciting to hear there's a whole new chunk of the picture to see. I imagine there are probably no hot 'n' fancy special effects in the "new" footage, but filling in details of the story would be greatly welcomed.
Hey, I was referring to the "ass" part of of the hat in a double-entendre way. Frankly, I think both parties are full of asses, although the elephant Ass Hat is a good idea.
(Silverlight 1 is Windows and Mac only, but it barely counts, it is such a pathetic technology. 2 is where its at).
If we follow the Microsoft (and Netscape) paradigm:
1.0 is useless
2.0 is a little less useless, but still pretty bad
3.0 is pretty darn good
4.0 is overly bloated because no one can leave a good thing alone
5.0 removes most of the problems introduced in 4.0
6.0 is all bloated again (see 4.0)
Everything you do online is logged. If you have a problem with that, then stop doing things online. Period.
You've got an actual Ass Hat? Where'd you get it? I could order a couple hundred because a lot of people deserve them.
In fact, let's spam the White House and Congress with a million Ass Hats. I'm sure some enterprising person could design a hat that resembles the south end of a north-bound mule.
I can't say I've ever noticed LED blinking. It sounds like I should be thankful for it.
There are many times I've sat down to someone's computer where the monitor was to set to 60Hz refresh. That would drive me insane, but some people don't even seem to notice it. I guess it depends on your eyes. I changed the refresh rate on my Dad's computer and he never seemed to noticed.
Maybe LCDs have spoiled me but these days I notice even 75Hz flickering in my near peripheral vision.
As far as monitors go, I always loved those old green monochrome monitors with a really slow "decay" from the original IBM PC 5150 days.
Probably the next Microsoft service pack will blow it out of the water by a factor of 10.
I think you mean "Arial" font. The font you refer to is a copyrighted Disney font with little fish tails on each letter. Either that or it's one of those fonts that hangs around Uranus.
As soon as I pushed "Submit" I saw "You're tune"
I, er, uh, was going to say, um, "You're too nice!" Yeah, that's the ticket!
p.s. Dear Slashdot: 15 seconds and 1 minute for the "Slow Down, Cowboy!" timers would eliminate 98% of the times I get that infuriating message. C'mon, howzabout it? Some of us can type fast; stop penalizing us!Hey, just you wait until we find a message hidden in pi, like in "Contact" (the book, wasn't in the movie), then you'll change you're tune!
Sorry, mind fart:
I have "tar xvfz" aliased to "untar".
Good luck on that. It's a really cool game. I find credit card numbers make good random seeds for it, too.
I have the Andrews book listed on the "Buy these two for cheaper" link, but I got totally hung up on the Chinese Remainder Theorem about 8 years ago. Time to give it another go I think.
If I didn't already believe in God, Number Theory would convince me. It's that cool. ;-)
Unobtainium is as rare as ever.
Ladies and Gentleman, civilization has ended. Will the last person watching American Idol please turn off the TV before you die?
My first experience with CRPGs was a PC port of Rogue around 1983. I was instantly hooked.
I have many fond memories of playing Oubliette around 1983, and eventually hacking the encryption on the save file. The encryption consisted of adding 0x71 and 0x72 to alternating bytes in the save file. After that I was able to hack the save file to find out if characters could actually survive the 9th level. It turns out having 6 totally maxed out characters might survive a single move on level 9, but certainly not two.
Way, way too much fun (and time wasted) for what was something like a 60k executable.
I still have the Turbo Pascal code for encypting/decrypting the save files and doing other operations like restoring age (characters would eventually age and die from the time spent resting to heal).
Shortly after that (around 85 or so) I discovered a little game called Hack (around version 2.0.3 IIRC). I think heard somewhere it's still around. (Actually I occasionally run Nethack 3.4.3 on my PocketPC for kicks. My oldest kid likes playing it too, but he only plays with tiles, I think anything other than character mode is tantamount to blasphemy.).
Oh it's not so bad. I memorized about 50 places when I was a teenager (in the early 80's) and still remember most of it. I memorized by groups of 5 and it was as much memorizing the "sound" of saying each 5 digit group rather than memorizing numbers.
Want to fix PCs? Recite the first 100 decimal places of pi.
Given a lot of the people that repair PCs, it would probably be easier for them to get a P.I. license.
too many businesses are like septic tanks - the really big chunks (the floaters) rise to the top.
I think Officers need to eat more fiber.
"apt-get"? "up2date"? Those are for n00bs, too. Real users download the virus source, build it, and then infect themselves with it.
"Malaware"? Software that _knows_ it's bad?
Yeah, I stopped being a helpless gimp and looked it up myself. I came to the same conclusion. Thanks.
That's fine if you are running Windows. Do any of these services support Linux?!