It's more like a small nuclear bomb in each home, great for powering the house, but not so much something you want the kids mucking around with unsupervised.
It's surprising we hear so little about MEPIS, given that it's more popular on DistroWatch than SUSE, Debian, Knoppix, Gentoo, and Slackware, and actually only beaten by Ubuntu, Mandriva and Fedora in popularity. For my experiences with it, it's a great "Ubuntu-like" distro on 1 CD that you may use as a Live CD or not, but designed for KDE (and not redesigned for it, like Kubuntu) instead of Gnome as the largest difference.
Does your firewall detect any new outbound connections via Firefox if one have installed Google Toolbar to sites you aren't visiting, besides when sending searches to Google? It should be easy enough to check if it tracks e.g. your "online activity" and form information.
That they can theoretically secretly record what you search with via Google Suggest and hide the fact deep in some agreement you agree to? What stops them from doing the same when you search via the regular google.com? Heck, there's even evidence they do.
Google Search -- integrated AutoLink -- US use only; most stuff don't work outside US, and even then a limited usefulness WordTranslator -- limited use; only useful if you must understand e.g. a french site, and even if you do, there are non-toolbar extensions for this Pop-up blocker -- integrated AutoFill -- as far as I can see, Firefox' form saving system works well enough here SpellCheck -- useful! PageRank -- why should I have a use for it? diagnosing rank issues with my own sites? seems like highly limited use Highlight search terms -- integrated Word find -- integrated
An entirely new toolbar for this? Hmm... I can get the spell checking elsewhere without one, and besides that, it seems a bit much.
If I had mod points, I'd have modded you up, because we would hardly be here without them clearly fighting against the odds. IIRC, Jerzy Buzek risked having Poland come off as annoying most other EU countries in his vigilant fight against this matter. Too bad their inboxes may be spammed with all sorts of things; I'd really like to show my appreciation.
I don't know why, but Gmail seem to be completely useless at filtering japanese spam. I don't know how many times I've told it "YES, this is spam!" and it keeps sending me. I'm sure a major part of the Gmail user base is doing the same. I rarely get English spam in my inbox nowadays, and it's very accurate there, but with japanese spam being such a common problem I can't see why Google isn't doing something about it. It's almost as if their spam filter don't even support unicode so it just let all those mails pass unchecked.:-p
So then I tried to just block *.jp, but Gmail doesn't support blocking by the hidden "Received" header the mail server set, where I could clearly see it came from Japan, despite the "From" field OF COURSE being faked.
Gmail is a great service, but it sure isn't perfect, and blocking on custom mail headers doesn't seem like a too hard work for their developers either, as all the headers are stored like regular text in the mails anyway.
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Hmm, just noticed the/. article I linked to refer to it as "Longhorn beta 5048", and that's wrong and should be "alpha build 5048". It's quite important to get these terms right this early IMHO, as e.g. beta 2 will most certainly look quite different and have significantly more features. If it's the right look, and right features, I don't want to place bets on though.;-)
It's funny, astrologers keep working on things involving astronomic events, but they have no clue how physics work, not even enough knowledge to carry out their very own astrological work. It won't affect future locations of the comet, and since astrology is based on this, it won't affect astrology, but they don't get that. For all we know, they may very well strongly believe in that planets are huge spheres of cheese.:-p
"This impact was the same as a flea/gnat hitting a 747 (i.e., not much). teeny tiny hundredth decimal place effect. Just not enough momentum exchange to move the comet at all."
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Now, the question is if it was a vision or a confusion.;-)
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The exact same build we've been able to read about on Slashdot a few months back.
Beats me why they suddenly reviewed it super late out of the blue, because it's not really like Slashdot is posting a really old news article either here.
And here I was thinking they were having an early beta 1 review, whose release is due this month.
Reviewing alpha quality software should tell a lot of IT people here about how useful a review like this is. Beta 1 and 2 should be far more interesting in seeing where Longhorn is heading.
Yup, that's basically my opinion about it too. I wrote it's called "education" because it often is -- a school think it's good their students keep up to date with current events, but this has the effect of encouraging to watch violence the news channels broadcast more for entertainment. And of course that's broadcast; what's more entertaining for the average citizen -- watching a riot or listening to a politician arguing on how to improve the society and bring down crime?
Coincidentally with these news, I watched Moore's Bowling for Columbine for the first time yesterday and although a lot in it may be partial, I still strongly believe in a main thread throughout that movie -- that much of what keeps happening is due to media's power over the people, often greater than a government's in influencing peoples' minds. The environment they create by nearly brainwashing the population with dangers, terrorist threats, and things like that is a scared environment that arm themselves, and there's nothing worse and more unpredictable wielder of arms than someone who's afraid or influenced by media, because media twist the truth more often than not in business interests.
Some quotes worth thinking about:
"I'm not sure black folks fully understand the power that media has in our life. We are becoming who they portray us as being. We've allowed ourselves to become a collection of negative statistics. Simon says dress like a gangster, and we do. I'm amazed by what I see on television or in the movies. I'm saying, either I overslept or someone stole my culture." - Actor Tim Reid ("WKRP in Cincinnati"), quoted by the Associated Press on April 18, 2003
"People's misery becoming entertainment, that's what's dangerous. And that seems to be the place we're going. I worry about television." - George Clooney, quoted by Reuters, February 11, 2003
"My wife and I went to see We Were Soldiers, the new Mel Gibson movie. It's not very good, I'm afraid, and it is probably the most graphically violent film I've ever endured (having been a professional film critic for most of my career, I've seen quite a few). The most grotesque moment was probably seeing a soldier's head illuminated from within by burning phosphorous, and his GI buddy having to knife the burning flesh away from his face to put out the fire. Trust me, there's 90 minutes of gruesome material like this. And in our theater, there was a woman sitting near the front row with a three-year-old girl, taking it all in. As we left the theater, my extremely distressed wife asked the idiot woman if she thought it was a good idea to take a young child to that kind of movie. 'No,' the fool said, 'but the other movie I wanted to take her to was sold out." And some people wonder why kids these days are so messed up.' -- Rod Dreher, in National Review Online.
If every developer innovated new metaphors for common tasks, the tools would quickly become terribly confusing IMHO. I think it's good with standarized terms for common tasks. Boring isn't exactly the word I'd choose here. Besides, he seem to complain about Windows software in particular, and many of these terms aren't specific to Windows.
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Halfway to understanding binary, halfway to being a living computer!!
I guess you're lucky then. :-(
That's the annoying part -- no porn site signups, and not even a single japanese site signup... Yet it keeps increasing :-/
The sexual content is graphic, opposed to what's described for M, and what is described for AO?
It's more like a small nuclear bomb in each home, great for powering the house, but not so much something you want the kids mucking around with unsupervised.
rofl...
It's surprising we hear so little about MEPIS, given that it's more popular on DistroWatch than SUSE, Debian, Knoppix, Gentoo, and Slackware, and actually only beaten by Ubuntu, Mandriva and Fedora in popularity. For my experiences with it, it's a great "Ubuntu-like" distro on 1 CD that you may use as a Live CD or not, but designed for KDE (and not redesigned for it, like Kubuntu) instead of Gnome as the largest difference.
Well, easily checked...
Does your firewall detect any new outbound connections via Firefox if one have installed Google Toolbar to sites you aren't visiting, besides when sending searches to Google? It should be easy enough to check if it tracks e.g. your "online activity" and form information.
What are you referring to?
That they can theoretically secretly record what you search with via Google Suggest and hide the fact deep in some agreement you agree to? What stops them from doing the same when you search via the regular google.com? Heck, there's even evidence they do.
And I bet ya they didn't merge this feature in the Google search text box in this Toolbar extension? :-/
Google Search -- integrated
AutoLink -- US use only; most stuff don't work outside US, and even then a limited usefulness
WordTranslator -- limited use; only useful if you must understand e.g. a french site, and even if you do, there are non-toolbar extensions for this
Pop-up blocker -- integrated
AutoFill -- as far as I can see, Firefox' form saving system works well enough here
SpellCheck -- useful!
PageRank -- why should I have a use for it? diagnosing rank issues with my own sites? seems like highly limited use
Highlight search terms -- integrated
Word find -- integrated
An entirely new toolbar for this? Hmm... I can get the spell checking elsewhere without one, and besides that, it seems a bit much.
In that case... I See More Patches. :-(
Is it a collision in the same market, though?
This is a program, and that's a hardware device.
Depends on your point of view. ;-)
The former isn't an incorrect statement for a pirate.
If I had mod points, I'd have modded you up, because we would hardly be here without them clearly fighting against the odds. IIRC, Jerzy Buzek risked having Poland come off as annoying most other EU countries in his vigilant fight against this matter. Too bad their inboxes may be spammed with all sorts of things; I'd really like to show my appreciation.
I don't know why, but Gmail seem to be completely useless at filtering japanese spam. I don't know how many times I've told it "YES, this is spam!" and it keeps sending me. I'm sure a major part of the Gmail user base is doing the same. I rarely get English spam in my inbox nowadays, and it's very accurate there, but with japanese spam being such a common problem I can't see why Google isn't doing something about it. It's almost as if their spam filter don't even support unicode so it just let all those mails pass unchecked. :-p
So then I tried to just block *.jp, but Gmail doesn't support blocking by the hidden "Received" header the mail server set, where I could clearly see it came from Japan, despite the "From" field OF COURSE being faked.
Gmail is a great service, but it sure isn't perfect, and blocking on custom mail headers doesn't seem like a too hard work for their developers either, as all the headers are stored like regular text in the mails anyway.
Hmm, just noticed the /. article I linked to refer to it as "Longhorn beta 5048", and that's wrong and should be "alpha build 5048". It's quite important to get these terms right this early IMHO, as e.g. beta 2 will most certainly look quite different and have significantly more features. If it's the right look, and right features, I don't want to place bets on though. ;-)
From Susan Kitchen's excellent Comet Bash coverage on the event:
Now, the question is if it was a vision or a confusion. ;-)
The exact same build we've been able to read about on Slashdot a few months back.
Beats me why they suddenly reviewed it super late out of the blue, because it's not really like Slashdot is posting a really old news article either here.
And here I was thinking they were having an early beta 1 review, whose release is due this month.
Reviewing alpha quality software should tell a lot of IT people here about how useful a review like this is. Beta 1 and 2 should be far more interesting in seeing where Longhorn is heading.
German admits creating Sasser
These infections are mostly direct host-to-host infections by Sasser, right?
Here's a solution.
*dodges flying tomatos*
OK, OK, here's a patch.
*runs*
Hmm, where have I heard about this before again?
Exciting to read a paper on this fanastic new idea.
Yup, that's basically my opinion about it too. I wrote it's called "education" because it often is -- a school think it's good their students keep up to date with current events, but this has the effect of encouraging to watch violence the news channels broadcast more for entertainment. And of course that's broadcast; what's more entertaining for the average citizen -- watching a riot or listening to a politician arguing on how to improve the society and bring down crime?
Coincidentally with these news, I watched Moore's Bowling for Columbine for the first time yesterday and although a lot in it may be partial, I still strongly believe in a main thread throughout that movie -- that much of what keeps happening is due to media's power over the people, often greater than a government's in influencing peoples' minds. The environment they create by nearly brainwashing the population with dangers, terrorist threats, and things like that is a scared environment that arm themselves, and there's nothing worse and more unpredictable wielder of arms than someone who's afraid or influenced by media, because media twist the truth more often than not in business interests.
Some quotes worth thinking about:
"I'm not sure black folks fully understand the power that media has in our life. We are becoming who they portray us as being. We've allowed ourselves to become a collection of negative statistics. Simon says dress like a gangster, and we do. I'm amazed by what I see on television or in the movies. I'm saying, either I overslept or someone stole my culture." - Actor Tim Reid ("WKRP in Cincinnati"), quoted by the Associated Press on April 18, 2003
"People's misery becoming entertainment, that's what's dangerous. And that seems to be the place we're going. I worry about television." - George Clooney, quoted by Reuters, February 11, 2003
"My wife and I went to see We Were Soldiers, the new Mel Gibson movie. It's not very good, I'm afraid, and it is probably the most graphically violent film I've ever endured (having been a professional film critic for most of my career, I've seen quite a few). The most grotesque moment was probably seeing a soldier's head illuminated from within by burning phosphorous, and his GI buddy having to knife the burning flesh away from his face to put out the fire. Trust me, there's 90 minutes of gruesome material like this. And in our theater, there was a woman sitting near the front row with a three-year-old girl, taking it all in. As we left the theater, my extremely distressed wife asked the idiot woman if she thought it was a good idea to take a young child to that kind of movie. 'No,' the fool said, 'but the other movie I wanted to take her to was sold out." And some people wonder why kids these days are so messed up.' -- Rod Dreher, in National Review Online.
Yes, I suppose that's because Macs have historically attracted designers.
However, I still can't see how that's an issue specific to "Windows software".
More like an issue not applying to Macs.
If every developer innovated new metaphors for common tasks, the tools would quickly become terribly confusing IMHO. I think it's good with standarized terms for common tasks. Boring isn't exactly the word I'd choose here. Besides, he seem to complain about Windows software in particular, and many of these terms aren't specific to Windows.