Oh come on, how could they give all their customers a noticeable "thank you" gift without having the costs go through the roof? The usual is that they don't even give as little as a video feed.
Oh come on, what does Linux maturity for applications have to do with easily complete and clearly formatted changelogs, really? It helps if you're a developer, but that has nothing to do with maturity for application usage... with the end users.
To clarify again (not sure if this message got through well):
If you disable cookies, cookies are still set and works for all sites you've earlier allowed to set cookies. You won't have to enable cookie support in Firefox for previously visited sites like Slashdot that you've allowed them for at an earlier stage.
It's something with Firefox that may not be widely known, and exactly why the method above works, and if you use that method, over time you'll need less and less to enable cookie support.
I've found this configuration to be optimal for me:
1. Always keep "ask before setting cookies" checked. 2. When you go to a site you know would like to save relevant info on you (login status, online cart...), just check "allow sites to set cookies". Now you get to answer "yes" to its cookies or "no" if ad server cookies are sneaked in while you have this enabled. 3. Afterwards, and in all other cases, keep "allow sites to set cookies" unchecked.
You'll now never have sites annoyingly popup the "XYZ wish to set a cookie" dialog, and the only time you have to at all care for them is when you for the first time visit a site with cookies you want it to set. All other times, nothing will be set for stuff you don't want (disallow cookies in Firefox will still allow cookies you have formerly accepted) and nothing will be popped up about cookies.
News so old that archive.org need to be used to post it? Now that's a first...
Now I wonder why these news are considered so important that there's a need to go these great lengths to get them on Slashdot four years after they were posted?
I can understand looking back at Apple's switch to Intel in 2010 to see where they went, but the AYBABTU meme?
Deer Park isn't a browser code name, but a Firefox 1.1 build code name, like Firefox 0.9 was One Tree Hill, or 0.8 was Royal Oak.
The reason it's now more visible in the builds is because the Mozilla Foundation didn't want users to accidentally use Firefox 1.1 alpha in the belief it would be more complete; it has nothing to do with browser naming.
Imagine this - if Google could provide a good UI and simple but feature rich interface, I could log onto the equivalent of Google FeedReader and add my feeds there.
Not yet, but stay tuned. We chose the currently available feeds for this beta release of personalized homepages in order to give a good sampling of content from across the web. Right now you can choose from among leading U.S. news feeds, international news feeds, technology feeds, and non-tech/non-news feeds. As we continue to improve this feature, we envision enabling users to add almost any standardized feed to your personalized homepage.
With "standardized feed" I assume they mean feeds following the RSS and/or Atom standards.
Anyway, in this case, you'd have your RSS feeds on your main Google search page if using this feature.
I have not run into a compelling reason to upgrade from Win2k to XP. Win2k has been very stable for me. It seems that my XP boxes get more security patches than my Win2k boxes. I don't need all the eye candy of XP.
You DO know what XP has in addition to 2000, right?
I hope this is just a rhetorical question, otherwise you need to learn to use Google better.:-)
Anyone know if the dvorak layout is best suited for english? Or is the difference between character layouts as long as your language use the latin alphabet neglible? I figure the dvorak layout is based on statistics on how often letters are used in some language? And wonder if that difference is noticeable or not if you compare english to e.g. danish. Yes, one language will have some more letters occasionaly used, but besides that part.
with XP you need a driver disk for the SATA controller to even start the install.
No, not necessarily.
I own a SATA mobo with a SATA drive, and Windows XP identified it as a standard PATA disk. It depends on how your BIOS works, how your BIOS reports your drive to the OS, and mine is a regular Phoenix BIOS from 2003.
As you may know, eXeem was a proprietary protocol "extending" (well, at least it was slightly different) BitTorrent to be trackerless with a built-in search engine in the client for ultimate ease of searching and ease of sharing.
Everything should then be great on the paper (besides being a proprietary protocol + client that was adware), but what I saw was immediate signs of Kazaaification with tons of people spread out over lots and lots of versions of the same files. And you got absolutely horrible speed too.
So if the number of BT trackers would increase along with wide-spread usage of non-tracker specific search engines (like the one at BitTorrent.com), I think the BT community could see some negative effects from this, as people start trying to download (and hence upload) the same file from unrelated trackers, instead of giving one or few trackers a very large number of seeders and leechers, i.e. when the BT protocol truly shines.
I think what's most annoying with blogs and bloggers is that his blog has so few visitors or whatever that he feels a need to post this himself on Slashdot, proudly thinking he had written an insightful and newsworthy review. Of course he do, he think his blog is about "smart words, interesting ideas" after all. Then the bright editors here of course include it without even looking at the quality of the submission (or maybe it's because it piss on Microsoft, I don't care and it doesn't matter), and voila -- strike one for the blog community.
When in reality he was just having a fun time bashing an application without even seemingly knowing the purpose of it.
If the blog community continues to grow and influence / stupidify the web like it's doing now, and sneaking up with their personal, biased, unprofessional, comments at high rankings on Google thanks to their interlinking system (how else will people find their thoughts in the noise they're their own creators of?), with bloggers posting their own blogs as news submissions and getting accepted, we'll one day look at journalism in newspapers by educated and analyzing journalists and writers trying to stay unbiased, as the good old days. Yes, even there, there may be some decaying going on, but at least there are still some quality news sites out there.
Don't get me wrong, free speech is a great thing and bloggers are great at making use of this freedom, just saying the signal to noise ratio was bad on the web to begin with, and I don't feel this stuff is making it any better. I wish I could just avoid it, but when every other news item here tend to be from a blogging dude feeling important, and same with search engine results, it just start getting on my nerves.
It's a bit scary too -- one of Sweden's largest newspapers has recently degraded into having more blogs where instead of having their journalists spending time making well written and researched articles, they just blurt out about whatever is on their mind for the moment and hit "Submit". And some people seem to think this is the coolest thing to happen since sliced bread on the web.
I think it was supposed to be a parody on zealous people claiming humanity is affecting the environment, but the parent poster doesn't agree with this and rather think they're poorly informed or educated in how the environment works. Well, it's the only way I can make it make sense to me at least.
Yeah, thanks for that one; I had the link before and it's a good non-marketing technical thing. The name is a bit deceptive though, should be more like "Longhorn Technical Details"...
I think it's info of interest to far more people than driver developers.
So the question on everyone's minds at this point is: What *will* Longhorn actually have in it?
Did you try checking Microsoft.com for this information?
It takes some wading through marketing speak, but if you go through the trouble of checking out the info, you'll probably get a better figure of what's in it and not backported or delayed.
If it takes Microsoft five years to get something out the door, I think they will soon find themselves becoming irrelevant in the desktop market.
Hmm, that could be debated since what you're talking about taking 5 years to get out is hardly something given a high priority for the desktop market you speak of, and probably why it's taking them 5 years as well. It's more for the server market. I don't even think Monad will ever be part of the Longhorn Client, just the server editions in a future. I'm actually surprised Microsoft is making a new shell at all -- I thought they were moving away from it.
On a slightly different topic, I really think that Microsoft is really on the wrong track with their combined Desktop/Server codebase bent. As technology marches on, Microsoft will quickly find that their competitors are taking advantage of technological solutions that only make sense on one side of the fence. I have to wonder if some of the delay that we're seeing isn't caused by Microsoft attempting to make all of their technology work in both arenas.
Well, Microsoft *is* going to "componentize" Longhorn much more than earlier versions. Not necessarily for the end users to customize their installs (although it might happen to as a result; I don't know), but for their own sake to easier be able to create Windows builds for the specific tasks they're aimed for. I thought even Windows Server 2003 showed significant progress here although there seemed to be some work to still do, yes.
Now that you got your confidence pumped a bit with these news, go on and read this guide!
Seriously, it's not sarcasm, jokes or anything. It's two wpmen giving tips about relationships, building confidence, and so on, specifically for geeks.
Maybe dumping everything into a single area makes sense for some folks, but I shudder to think about it. I work in the legal field and every attorney and paralegal in the office saves documents in case specific folders. This becomes especially helpful when, two years after the fact, you're asked to track down some obscure brief, correspondence, or the like.
Yeah, however the thought behind a no-folder system is that these old documents should then have had their metadata written to them by the application saving them, so when you need to look them up, you don't need to know/remember where they were stored, but just create a virtual folder (Windows Longhorn) or perform a search (OS X) on it with your criteria (say, the department name and year) and voila, the folder/search would instantly contain the documents you were looking for.
However, I think this system feels very fragile as so much depends on the metadata. Let's say it the metadata wasn't there for some reason, you didn't know how to best specify the keywords, or the metadata was somehow corrupted... what are you going to do then? Look in a computer-generated illogical folder hierarchy, or just a huge pile of files?:-/
Slashdot Mirror
Oh hush, this is Slashdot, Google is god here.
But also home of the tinfoil hatters!
What did you think it would be...
A network for happy friends?
Oh come on, how could they give all their customers a noticeable "thank you" gift without having the costs go through the roof? The usual is that they don't even give as little as a video feed.
Oh come on, what does Linux maturity for applications have to do with easily complete and clearly formatted changelogs, really? It helps if you're a developer, but that has nothing to do with maturity for application usage... with the end users.
That was his point. We know you don't like it, because you visit Slashdot. :-)
;-)
It would be so much Lucas' way of thinking: let the technology deliver the quality.
To clarify again (not sure if this message got through well):
If you disable cookies, cookies are still set and works for all sites you've earlier allowed to set cookies. You won't have to enable cookie support in Firefox for previously visited sites like Slashdot that you've allowed them for at an earlier stage.
It's something with Firefox that may not be widely known, and exactly why the method above works, and if you use that method, over time you'll need less and less to enable cookie support.
Yes, but with hosts...
- No wildcards.
- Blacklist instead of whitelist.
I've found this configuration to be optimal for me:
1. Always keep "ask before setting cookies" checked.
2. When you go to a site you know would like to save relevant info on you (login status, online cart...), just check "allow sites to set cookies". Now you get to answer "yes" to its cookies or "no" if ad server cookies are sneaked in while you have this enabled.
3. Afterwards, and in all other cases, keep "allow sites to set cookies" unchecked.
You'll now never have sites annoyingly popup the "XYZ wish to set a cookie" dialog, and the only time you have to at all care for them is when you for the first time visit a site with cookies you want it to set. All other times, nothing will be set for stuff you don't want (disallow cookies in Firefox will still allow cookies you have formerly accepted) and nothing will be popped up about cookies.
News so old that archive.org need to be used to post it? Now that's a first...
Now I wonder why these news are considered so important that there's a need to go these great lengths to get them on Slashdot four years after they were posted?
I can understand looking back at Apple's switch to Intel in 2010 to see where they went, but the AYBABTU meme?
Deer Park isn't a browser code name, but a Firefox 1.1 build code name, like Firefox 0.9 was One Tree Hill, or 0.8 was Royal Oak.
The reason it's now more visible in the builds is because the Mozilla Foundation didn't want users to accidentally use Firefox 1.1 alpha in the belief it would be more complete; it has nothing to do with browser naming.
I think Google Fusion is going to do this "soon".
From the FAQ, bolding in reply mine:
With "standardized feed" I assume they mean feeds following the RSS and/or Atom standards.
Anyway, in this case, you'd have your RSS feeds on your main Google search page if using this feature.
Not a problem in BT communities requiring registrations.
Not a problem if you're sane either, really.
Huh? What does MS have to do with any of this?
:-s
It was just a note so people won't go "wow, so Google is doing this or that", when they in reality may not be.
It has nothing to do with an anti-MS bias or whatever you seem to be implying.
I have not run into a compelling reason to upgrade from Win2k to XP. Win2k has been very stable for me. It seems that my XP boxes get more security patches than my Win2k boxes. I don't need all the eye candy of XP.
:-)
You DO know what XP has in addition to 2000, right?
I hope this is just a rhetorical question, otherwise you need to learn to use Google better.
Here are the major kernel changes, for example.
Anyone know if the dvorak layout is best suited for english? Or is the difference between character layouts as long as your language use the latin alphabet neglible? I figure the dvorak layout is based on statistics on how often letters are used in some language? And wonder if that difference is noticeable or not if you compare english to e.g. danish. Yes, one language will have some more letters occasionaly used, but besides that part.
with XP you need a driver disk for the SATA controller to even start the install.
No, not necessarily.
I own a SATA mobo with a SATA drive, and Windows XP identified it as a standard PATA disk. It depends on how your BIOS works, how your BIOS reports your drive to the OS, and mine is a regular Phoenix BIOS from 2003.
As you may know, eXeem was a proprietary protocol "extending" (well, at least it was slightly different) BitTorrent to be trackerless with a built-in search engine in the client for ultimate ease of searching and ease of sharing.
Everything should then be great on the paper (besides being a proprietary protocol + client that was adware), but what I saw was immediate signs of Kazaaification with tons of people spread out over lots and lots of versions of the same files. And you got absolutely horrible speed too.
So if the number of BT trackers would increase along with wide-spread usage of non-tracker specific search engines (like the one at BitTorrent.com), I think the BT community could see some negative effects from this, as people start trying to download (and hence upload) the same file from unrelated trackers, instead of giving one or few trackers a very large number of seeders and leechers, i.e. when the BT protocol truly shines.
--rant--
I think what's most annoying with blogs and bloggers is that his blog has so few visitors or whatever that he feels a need to post this himself on Slashdot, proudly thinking he had written an insightful and newsworthy review. Of course he do, he think his blog is about "smart words, interesting ideas" after all. Then the bright editors here of course include it without even looking at the quality of the submission (or maybe it's because it piss on Microsoft, I don't care and it doesn't matter), and voila -- strike one for the blog community.
When in reality he was just having a fun time bashing an application without even seemingly knowing the purpose of it.
If the blog community continues to grow and influence / stupidify the web like it's doing now, and sneaking up with their personal, biased, unprofessional, comments at high rankings on Google thanks to their interlinking system (how else will people find their thoughts in the noise they're their own creators of?), with bloggers posting their own blogs as news submissions and getting accepted, we'll one day look at journalism in newspapers by educated and analyzing journalists and writers trying to stay unbiased, as the good old days. Yes, even there, there may be some decaying going on, but at least there are still some quality news sites out there.
Don't get me wrong, free speech is a great thing and bloggers are great at making use of this freedom, just saying the signal to noise ratio was bad on the web to begin with, and I don't feel this stuff is making it any better. I wish I could just avoid it, but when every other news item here tend to be from a blogging dude feeling important, and same with search engine results, it just start getting on my nerves.
It's a bit scary too -- one of Sweden's largest newspapers has recently degraded into having more blogs where instead of having their journalists spending time making well written and researched articles, they just blurt out about whatever is on their mind for the moment and hit "Submit". And some people seem to think this is the coolest thing to happen since sliced bread on the web.
I think it was supposed to be a parody on zealous people claiming humanity is affecting the environment, but the parent poster doesn't agree with this and rather think they're poorly informed or educated in how the environment works. Well, it's the only way I can make it make sense to me at least.
fuck you shithead
You're the one at NASA who printed out the 40,000 digits?
Robbing a child of this opportunity is a heinous crime
"Robbing"? "Heinous crime"? Are you talking about taking away a child's school education or taking away some minor plot twists in a sci-fi movie?
Yeah, thanks for that one; I had the link before and it's a good non-marketing technical thing.
The name is a bit deceptive though, should be more like "Longhorn Technical Details"...
I think it's info of interest to far more people than driver developers.
So the question on everyone's minds at this point is: What *will* Longhorn actually have in it?
Did you try checking Microsoft.com for this information?
It takes some wading through marketing speak, but if you go through the trouble of checking out the info, you'll probably get a better figure of what's in it and not backported or delayed.
Here: About Windows Longhorn security, information management, Avalon/Indigo/Aero (yeah, parts of those are backported, but not all of these technologies).
If it takes Microsoft five years to get something out the door, I think they will soon find themselves becoming irrelevant in the desktop market.
Hmm, that could be debated since what you're talking about taking 5 years to get out is hardly something given a high priority for the desktop market you speak of, and probably why it's taking them 5 years as well. It's more for the server market. I don't even think Monad will ever be part of the Longhorn Client, just the server editions in a future. I'm actually surprised Microsoft is making a new shell at all -- I thought they were moving away from it.
On a slightly different topic, I really think that Microsoft is really on the wrong track with their combined Desktop/Server codebase bent. As technology marches on, Microsoft will quickly find that their competitors are taking advantage of technological solutions that only make sense on one side of the fence. I have to wonder if some of the delay that we're seeing isn't caused by Microsoft attempting to make all of their technology work in both arenas.
Well, Microsoft *is* going to "componentize" Longhorn much more than earlier versions. Not necessarily for the end users to customize their installs (although it might happen to as a result; I don't know), but for their own sake to easier be able to create Windows builds for the specific tasks they're aimed for. I thought even Windows Server 2003 showed significant progress here although there seemed to be some work to still do, yes.
Now that you got your confidence pumped a bit with these news, go on and read this guide!
Seriously, it's not sarcasm, jokes or anything. It's two wpmen giving tips about relationships, building confidence, and so on, specifically for geeks.
Maybe dumping everything into a single area makes sense for some folks, but I shudder to think about it. I work in the legal field and every attorney and paralegal in the office saves documents in case specific folders. This becomes especially helpful when, two years after the fact, you're asked to track down some obscure brief, correspondence, or the like.
:-/
Yeah, however the thought behind a no-folder system is that these old documents should then have had their metadata written to them by the application saving them, so when you need to look them up, you don't need to know/remember where they were stored, but just create a virtual folder (Windows Longhorn) or perform a search (OS X) on it with your criteria (say, the department name and year) and voila, the folder/search would instantly contain the documents you were looking for.
However, I think this system feels very fragile as so much depends on the metadata. Let's say it the metadata wasn't there for some reason, you didn't know how to best specify the keywords, or the metadata was somehow corrupted... what are you going to do then? Look in a computer-generated illogical folder hierarchy, or just a huge pile of files?