Yeah, Winamp work just fine and so does Media Player Classic. Probably a lot more too. This is because Windows Media Video is just a simple DirectPlay codec AFAIK, and any media players supporting DirectPlay (basically all does) can play that WMV movie.
Here are the links (copy paste to your browser and they will trigger the d/l if you have the app installed and configured properly).
After removing the spaces Slash inserted into them of course.:-) The forum code is a bitch sometimes, but at least you didn't stumble upon the lameness filter.;-)
I went to Mirror 1. The page loaded quickly, as did the main page. I got confused. This was Star Trek and on Slashdot. I initiated the download. I got 0.1 KB / sec.
By the way, they of course also have a "this isn't spam" thing, so false positives shouldn't really be a problem. Cloudmark SpamNet provided a similar feature before they went commercial (not even their volunteer beta testers building the bulk of their database got a free registration -- greed at its best!), and it worked fine regarding the accuracy as far as I could see.
This just goes to show that Google is once again leading when it comes to innovation, by offering a free mail service where you don't have to delete mail. Then other services follow... Say, why didn't they do this before Google?
But I guess it's good with competition. I don't know how this compares with Gmail though, since there's of course much more to a mail service than how much mail you can store. Uptime and speed for example, and this is another area I believe Google can be trusted in, since I rarely see their services getting overloaded or being down temporarily.
I also noticed Gmail has a "report as spam" feature so the users will build a massive spam database. Many mail services simply provide some unknown filters that catches maybe 60% of all spam. It's good to know that Gmail does this, since I don't doubt they'll have a problem building their spam database with all their potential users.
You can show as many nipples as you want in the U.S., the idea is that parents should have warning so that they can DECIDE for themselves whether they want to introduce that matter to their children.
This might come as shocking to you, but pretty much all children have seen nipples. Besides, what's so dangerous about them?
If they had showed that prostitution was a good thing, that should probably have a warning for kids that can't see the difference between truth and fictions as easily.
But a nipple? What about it? We all have nipples. We usually see nipples of both genders when going to the beach. Why can't nipples be shown in relation to a music act?
I've been pretty satisfied with my Windows XP install, not had a single virus exploit a security hole or, like you, a single BSOD. Even because of this, I tried giving Linux a go because of all good things I kept hearing about it. The last time I did, it was Red Hat 5.2 or something like that.
So I downloaded a Knoppix Live CD. The entire OS locked when I tried to access my auto-detected NTFS-formatted hard drive.
So I downloaded Mandrake Linux 10 Official. The OS stopped booting up properly after 3 days of usage. I had just had time to install a couple of RPM's for a decent picture viewer, some TTF fonts for Firefox. No errors had been shown to me and I don't even know if those installs were the cause. I had never edited a config file by hand or played around as root either.
I have never ever had these problems with XP, and considering I also have to do a series of annoying steps just to run applications and games that don't exist for Linux, the choice is a no brainer for me.
I won't give up on Linux though, and consider giving it another go at about the time Longhorn is released to see how it compares in terms of OS crash safety, and how well it performs as a desktop OS.
Yes, I'm then not using a "free" OS, but usability simply goes first to me. When Linux distros start getting as mature desktop OS'es as Windows XP are, I'm sure I'll pick that one instead because of the Free software aspect. I do want to, and that's why I'm using Firefox, Thunderbird, Miranda, and recently tried out Gimp.
I did it the other way around. First used Thunderbird's filter, and now use SpamBayes.:-) I really like that filter and who cares if you need to run it as a separate process?:-/
Oops, I missed the "won't be integrated" part too, I kind of assume that nowadays.:-) Oh well, I'm still positive to an integrated anti-virus tool in Windows.
There's software I wish MS should free from its OS, like their Media Player, the Movie Maker, and lots more. But I don't object to neither an integrated anti-virus tool, nor a firewall. As we're moving more and more towards broadband connections that are up all day long, this software is necessary to protect the OS, especially as this OS happen to be the most common one on the market. And who should be able to protect the OS, if not the creators of said OS?
Yes, there's an irony in attempting to protect the OS by an anti-virus tool instead of actually fixing the security holes, but you need to keep in mind that often it's getting infected by the command of the actual user, as he might be logged in as administrator and clicks that naked Kournikova attachement in an e-mail. It's not all due to security holes, it's often due to lack of knowledge as well. And an anti-virus tool could work as a reasonable safety net here.
I also think that anti virus and firewalls should no longer be sold as separate products. I'm not for big bloated software packages and I favor Firefox / Thunderbid for these reasons, but I just find security products that were made to be used as a package would be the best and safest solution for the average Joe using computers. It's not like you should run a firewall without antivirus or vice versa anyway...
The average consumer has no concept of what security is or why they should care.
My parents are since they got an express mail by post from their ISP to immediately run an antivirus tool on their computer, written in a fairly agressive manner.:-)
No, neither Mozilla nor Firefox have any major features that's a reason to switch from IE if you use Windows, but the features add up for me so the choice was simple. That's all *I* care for, not if my mom and dad should or shouldn't switch to Firefox. It's up to them... Often people do though, when I just tell them for their information aboute e.g. tabbed browsing and how much simpler it gets to browse when the pages aren't put among the other applications in the task bar.
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Thank god my spam filter sorted it as spam, otherwise I might have applied!! I mean, the cooperation between Bill Gates and the sultan of Brunei sounded convincing!
14 is how old you have to be to legally have sex with ANOTHER MINOR.
From another post in this thread I hear the same goes for here in Sweden and 15 year olds.
That's indeed very silly, especially when you consider that when you get 18, you can suddenly not have sex with those being, say, two years younger until you get 20. LOL
I can sort of understand that they don't want 30 year old guys having sex with 15 year olds, but they seemingly didn't think for long enough before making this a law.:-P
I actually don't like Apple's designs, but it seems like people like me are in minority...:-P
Sure, I found Apple's anonymous white boxes being cool for to their innovative minimalism but now I'm so fed up with this design in everything Apple makes.
Same goes for Aqua btw. It's about as exciting as Windows XP's Luna is to me now. Of course not as candy-like and colorful, but still just as overexposed. Still just as boring and dull. Get rid of the fucking jelly buttons already! Oh well, I guess I just like new things every now and then and Apple don't. Probably to preserve their brand...
I personally think that iRiver thing is perfectly fine for use amongst people without getting ashamed of it. And then the visual requirements are satisfied for me, and I proceed to look at the features. *gasp*
I know some people who doesn't care much for Linux, and also browse such forums and nowhere have I heard anything negative come from this whole SCO thing. I think also most Windows supporters realize how silly they are.:-P
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, Winamp work just fine and so does Media Player Classic. Probably a lot more too. This is because Windows Media Video is just a simple DirectPlay codec AFAIK, and any media players supporting DirectPlay (basically all does) can play that WMV movie.
Here are the links (copy paste to your browser and they will trigger the d/l if you have the app installed and configured properly).
:-) The forum code is a bitch sometimes, but at least you didn't stumble upon the lameness filter. ;-)
After removing the spaces Slash inserted into them of course.
Baud!?
:-O
If you're still using that ancient unit, I really doubt you can get much better?
I went to Mirror 1. The page loaded quickly, as did the main page. I got confused. This was Star Trek and on Slashdot. I initiated the download. I got 0.1 KB / sec.
*phew*
The world hadn't gone crazy after all.
By the way, they of course also have a "this isn't spam" thing, so false positives shouldn't really be a problem. Cloudmark SpamNet provided a similar feature before they went commercial (not even their volunteer beta testers building the bulk of their database got a free registration -- greed at its best!), and it worked fine regarding the accuracy as far as I could see.
This just goes to show that Google is once again leading when it comes to innovation, by offering a free mail service where you don't have to delete mail. Then other services follow... Say, why didn't they do this before Google?
But I guess it's good with competition. I don't know how this compares with Gmail though, since there's of course much more to a mail service than how much mail you can store. Uptime and speed for example, and this is another area I believe Google can be trusted in, since I rarely see their services getting overloaded or being down temporarily.
I also noticed Gmail has a "report as spam" feature so the users will build a massive spam database. Many mail services simply provide some unknown filters that catches maybe 60% of all spam. It's good to know that Gmail does this, since I don't doubt they'll have a problem building their spam database with all their potential users.
You can show as many nipples as you want in the U.S., the idea is that parents should have warning so that they can DECIDE for themselves whether they want to introduce that matter to their children.
This might come as shocking to you, but pretty much all children have seen nipples. Besides, what's so dangerous about them?
If they had showed that prostitution was a good thing, that should probably have a warning for kids that can't see the difference between truth and fictions as easily.
But a nipple? What about it? We all have nipples. We usually see nipples of both genders when going to the beach. Why can't nipples be shown in relation to a music act?
I've been pretty satisfied with my Windows XP install, not had a single virus exploit a security hole or, like you, a single BSOD. Even because of this, I tried giving Linux a go because of all good things I kept hearing about it. The last time I did, it was Red Hat 5.2 or something like that.
So I downloaded a Knoppix Live CD. The entire OS locked when I tried to access my auto-detected NTFS-formatted hard drive.
So I downloaded Mandrake Linux 10 Official. The OS stopped booting up properly after 3 days of usage. I had just had time to install a couple of RPM's for a decent picture viewer, some TTF fonts for Firefox. No errors had been shown to me and I don't even know if those installs were the cause. I had never edited a config file by hand or played around as root either.
I have never ever had these problems with XP, and considering I also have to do a series of annoying steps just to run applications and games that don't exist for Linux, the choice is a no brainer for me.
I won't give up on Linux though, and consider giving it another go at about the time Longhorn is released to see how it compares in terms of OS crash safety, and how well it performs as a desktop OS.
Yes, I'm then not using a "free" OS, but usability simply goes first to me. When Linux distros start getting as mature desktop OS'es as Windows XP are, I'm sure I'll pick that one instead because of the Free software aspect. I do want to, and that's why I'm using Firefox, Thunderbird, Miranda, and recently tried out Gimp.
I did it the other way around. First used Thunderbird's filter, and now use SpamBayes. :-) I really like that filter and who cares if you need to run it as a separate process? :-/
Oops, I missed the "won't be integrated" part too, I kind of assume that nowadays. :-) Oh well, I'm still positive to an integrated anti-virus tool in Windows.
There's software I wish MS should free from its OS, like their Media Player, the Movie Maker, and lots more. But I don't object to neither an integrated anti-virus tool, nor a firewall. As we're moving more and more towards broadband connections that are up all day long, this software is necessary to protect the OS, especially as this OS happen to be the most common one on the market. And who should be able to protect the OS, if not the creators of said OS?
Yes, there's an irony in attempting to protect the OS by an anti-virus tool instead of actually fixing the security holes, but you need to keep in mind that often it's getting infected by the command of the actual user, as he might be logged in as administrator and clicks that naked Kournikova attachement in an e-mail. It's not all due to security holes, it's often due to lack of knowledge as well. And an anti-virus tool could work as a reasonable safety net here.
I also think that anti virus and firewalls should no longer be sold as separate products. I'm not for big bloated software packages and I favor Firefox / Thunderbid for these reasons, but I just find security products that were made to be used as a package would be the best and safest solution for the average Joe using computers. It's not like you should run a firewall without antivirus or vice versa anyway...
The average consumer has no concept of what security is or why they should care.
:-)
My parents are since they got an express mail by post from their ISP to immediately run an antivirus tool on their computer, written in a fairly agressive manner.
No, neither Mozilla nor Firefox have any major features that's a reason to switch from IE if you use Windows, but the features add up for me so the choice was simple. That's all *I* care for, not if my mom and dad should or shouldn't switch to Firefox. It's up to them... Often people do though, when I just tell them for their information aboute e.g. tabbed browsing and how much simpler it gets to browse when the pages aren't put among the other applications in the task bar.
v 3?
:-)
Hehe, they can speed to 2.6.40 if they wish, but will for that reason not be any closer to 3.0.0.
Change theme and fix your profile, and you now have no reasons to prefer 0.8. :-) (at least not according to what you said in your post)
Yeah, but Akamai is still a subset of the net.
I think everyone here understood it didn't mess up the ENTIRE net (since they could visit Slashdot), so what's the problem?
Ah, the product of young "hackers" trying to impress on their buddies on IRC. :-P
OK, I'll be at 255.255.255.255 on your network.
:-P
You have nowhere to hide!
Get up and trot over to your local music store and pick up an album.
Does this include body movement?
You're clearly out of your mind!
Thank god my spam filter sorted it as spam, otherwise I might have applied!! I mean, the cooperation between Bill Gates and the sultan of Brunei sounded convincing!
14 is how old you have to be to legally have sex with ANOTHER MINOR.
:-P
From another post in this thread I hear the same goes for here in Sweden and 15 year olds.
That's indeed very silly, especially when you consider that when you get 18, you can suddenly not have sex with those being, say, two years younger until you get 20. LOL
I can sort of understand that they don't want 30 year old guys having sex with 15 year olds, but they seemingly didn't think for long enough before making this a law.
I actually don't like Apple's designs, but it seems like people like me are in minority... :-P
Sure, I found Apple's anonymous white boxes being cool for to their innovative minimalism but now I'm so fed up with this design in everything Apple makes.
Same goes for Aqua btw. It's about as exciting as Windows XP's Luna is to me now. Of course not as candy-like and colorful, but still just as overexposed. Still just as boring and dull. Get rid of the fucking jelly buttons already! Oh well, I guess I just like new things every now and then and Apple don't. Probably to preserve their brand...
I personally think that iRiver thing is perfectly fine for use amongst people without getting ashamed of it. And then the visual requirements are satisfied for me, and I proceed to look at the features. *gasp*
... and I suppose freshmeat.net will supply them with the meat?
I know some people who doesn't care much for Linux, and also browse such forums and nowhere have I heard anything negative come from this whole SCO thing. I think also most Windows supporters realize how silly they are. :-P
Hehe... You must be a true geek to find smileys like yours to be the most humanlike (hence scary, according to the article) faces you see daily!
Ahh, I see what the problem is now.
The reason it worked for me was because I had run an earlier nightly build since a couple of months ago and forgot about it now.
Do like this.