What does he mean with getting rid of Quit and Exit options? Should it (bad idea for obvious reasons) auto-close when I change the application or should they just never close (whoa - look my memory run out).
The alternatives to not exiting apps manually seem horrible to me, so I have to be missing something...?
Windows' shortcut menus
"In short, Windows native shortcut menus are so horrible to use that application developers would be best advised to implement their own shortcut menus which can be used with a single click, and avoid the native shortcut menus completely"
No modifier equals the most likely operation according to Windows. I.e. Shortcut if dragging to start menu, Copy if dragging between local/network drives, Move if dragging between folders on same drive.
The operation Windows will perform is always shown with an icon next to the mouse pointer.
I'm not sure how I'd design a quick move/copy/link operation better myself.
Yeah, and that's especially annoying when software developers aren't aware of SHGetFolderLocation and hard code directory names like "Program Files".:-P
I guess we're lucky in Sweden. The "Program Files" folder is named "Program", which has the short name "PROGRAM". This because the plural of "Program Files" is "program" in Sweden. Ok, actually it's "programfiler" and "program" is more like if the english equivalent was "Programs".
Everything is fine it seems, until the first application install itself into "C:\Program Files\TheApp" anyway since it doesn't use the proper Win32 API calls to get the localized "special folder names". Arrgh.
With around 30 apps in the Program dir, I always seem to have 3 or so apps in a "Program Files" dir. At least I know the developer of the programs since it's very apparent and I can complain if I wish.;-)
Anybody who knows want to comment on whether Shareaza is loaded with spy/adware?
What's stopping you from clicking the link in the article to find out on the web page?;-)
Re:Just wondered...
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Does anyone actually use P2P networks for legal uses?!?!?!?!?!? e.g. not mp3/porn..
*thinking hard*
Downloading.nfo's and.cue's?
AFAIK, those aren't illegal.:-)
Re:Kazaa vs. eDonkey
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Same progress for me - i.e. Kazaa to eDonkey to Overnet. The biggest advantage with eDonkey over Kazaa IMHO are the "MD5 URL's" or whatever you should call them, where clicking on an URL adds the download to the eDonkey queue, by using the MD5-style checksum. So you're 100% sure it's not a fake file. You can also be 100% sure that's it's not a partial file as well.
I guess the downside with eDonkey is that it requires up to date server lists, although that's a minor hassle really. And that's where the serverless Overnet comes in, which owns Kazaa any time except for the occasional music searches perhaps.
Let me guess, IE7 will include built in support for them.
It was mentioned at MozillaZine for a month ago or so that IE7 won't be released (although I have my doubts) and Microsoft will go 100% MSN Explorer in future releases of Windows.
But I'm sure what you meant was "Let me guess, The Next Browser will include built-in support for them" and I guess that's likely.
Something similar has been posted here before: Longest email disclaimer awards. The longest disclaimer was apparently 7K large and the unlucky "winner" was UBS Warburg.
Try searching for "bayesian email filter" instead of just "bayes email filter" (as in the news post). You'll get better results and more hits since Google doesn't match "*bayes*" (as one would think) when searching for "bayes", but only the actual word "bayes".
That sounded more like a Flamebait to me. Give me one reason to pay for a service when there is another that exceed the quality of the former, while being perfectly legal. Besides, the guy didn't even complain about pay sites, but sites that requires that you go through a lot of steps just to simply read an article.
Re:Halloween reading for geeks
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The release notes says that since Phoenix is still not mature, you should always delete your old installs of Phoenix, including profile, before installing a new release. I guess you should do that -- sorry for any confusion.:-P
Ok let me ask something. In Windows there is what we call "The task bar (tm)". With "The task bar", every window has a tab. Now what is the use of having these tabs in a bar in the browser window, instead of having them in "The task bar" hmmm ?
You mention part of the problem yourself. In the Task Bar, Windows put all windows that it has opened, while the Phoenix/Mozilla tabs only contain actual web pages. Microsoft tried to fix this slight mess in Windows XP by grouping the tabs by task, but even with this feature turned on, you first need to find the Phoenix tab among the sometimes rather large amount of tasks, then click on it and then look up the web page you wished to access in the sub menu that pop up.
Navigating through your tasks with Alt-Tab also becomes a hassle since there are usually so many tasks active -- much easier to navigate with Ctrl-Tab / PgUp / PgDown in Phoenix to switch between the open web pages only (what you intended to do in the first place).
And, as the Anonymous Coward mentioned, Phoenix also allow you to save and restore groups of tabs.
I used Phoenix until 0.3 when the home button on mine started taking me to mozilla.org instead of the homepage I set in the preferences. Did that bug get fixed yet?
This problem can usually be resolved by performing a clean install of Phoenix by deleting any previous profiles. See also Bugzilla Bug 174880. Additionally, in Bug 176549, Asa mentions it works in 1026 builds, so I take that as the bug might even be gone in 0.4 without erasing the profiles?
So I'd suggest you install Phoenix 0.4 on top of 0.3 to see if the bug is gone before doing anything drastic.
while I don't remember if 'this' is supported by NS3.0, it is definitely okay for NS4 and Mozilla.
Aah, oops, missed that.:-) I just thought they used it like any other tag id reference like if you have an IMG tag with the ID myId and later referencing it in the script as just "myId" as in "myId.style". Since I think that's some kind of shorthand form invented by Microsoft and what I was trying to say.:-P
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Getting rid of Quit
What does he mean with getting rid of Quit and Exit options? Should it (bad idea for obvious reasons) auto-close when I change the application or should they just never close (whoa - look my memory run out).
The alternatives to not exiting apps manually seem horrible to me, so I have to be missing something...?
Windows' shortcut menus
"In short, Windows native shortcut menus are so horrible to use that application developers would be best advised to implement their own shortcut menus which can be used with a single click, and avoid the native shortcut menus completely"
Ctrl+Click = Copy
Shift+Click = Move
Alt+Click = Shortcut
No modifier equals the most likely operation according to Windows. I.e. Shortcut if dragging to start menu, Copy if dragging between local/network drives, Move if dragging between folders on same drive.
The operation Windows will perform is always shown with an icon next to the mouse pointer.
I'm not sure how I'd design a quick move/copy/link operation better myself.
... and he also doesn't seem to have heard of the old concept of "auto save"??
Yeah, and that's especially annoying when software developers aren't aware of SHGetFolderLocation and hard code directory names like "Program Files". :-P
I guess we're lucky in Sweden. The "Program Files" folder is named "Program", which has the short name "PROGRAM". This because the plural of "Program Files" is "program" in Sweden. Ok, actually it's "programfiler" and "program" is more like if the english equivalent was "Programs".
;-)
Everything is fine it seems, until the first application install itself into "C:\Program Files\TheApp" anyway since it doesn't use the proper Win32 API calls to get the localized "special folder names". Arrgh.
With around 30 apps in the Program dir, I always seem to have 3 or so apps in a "Program Files" dir. At least I know the developer of the programs since it's very apparent and I can complain if I wish.
> > The new zone serial number is 2002110501.
> What was the old serial number?
1997082200
IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW FANCY YOUR PROTOCOL IS OR HOW GOOD YOUR CRYPTOGRAPHY IS, IF THEY CAN GET YOUR IP YOUR SCREWED.
:-)
*ears ringing*
I have NEVER seen a p2p system address this issue.
No, it would probably require changing the IP layer to something more exotic. And don't say CPIP-based solutions doesn't work!
Anybody who knows want to comment on whether Shareaza is loaded with spy/adware?
;-)
What's stopping you from clicking the link in the article to find out on the web page?
Does anyone actually use P2P networks for legal uses?!?!?!?!?!? e.g. not mp3/porn..
.nfo's and .cue's?
:-)
*thinking hard*
Downloading
AFAIK, those aren't illegal.
Same progress for me - i.e. Kazaa to eDonkey to Overnet. The biggest advantage with eDonkey over Kazaa IMHO are the "MD5 URL's" or whatever you should call them, where clicking on an URL adds the download to the eDonkey queue, by using the MD5-style checksum. So you're 100% sure it's not a fake file. You can also be 100% sure that's it's not a partial file as well.
I guess the downside with eDonkey is that it requires up to date server lists, although that's a minor hassle really. And that's where the serverless Overnet comes in, which owns Kazaa any time except for the occasional music searches perhaps.
Look at this press release just two days ago:
Listen.com Secures CD Burning License From BMG for Rhapsody Music Subscription Service
BMG Becomes Third Major Label to Offer Its Catalog for Burning Through Rhapsody; Subscribers Can Now Burn More Than 90,000 Tracks for 99 Cents Each
Coincidence?
Yep, I'm selling these IE1.0 CDs on ebay and making a fortune!
I won't buy it at least, since I can get IE 1.0 for free. Ha! That along with Winamp 0.20 give me a whole new multimedia experience!
What about Windows 1.01 (or here, here or here?
:-)
Did someone ask for Netscape 0.9 beta (including a review - haha!)
I feel bad for direct linking, but hey, Windows is only 700K and Netscape around 300K.
Let me guess, IE7 will include built in support for them.
It was mentioned at MozillaZine for a month ago or so that IE7 won't be released (although I have my doubts) and Microsoft will go 100% MSN Explorer in future releases of Windows.
But I'm sure what you meant was "Let me guess, The Next Browser will include built-in support for them" and I guess that's likely.
Something similar has been posted here before: Longest email disclaimer awards. The longest disclaimer was apparently 7K large and the unlucky "winner" was UBS Warburg.
Also, an analysis of stupid e-mail disclaimers.
And it seems likely the SpamBayes project will work as the foundation for their mail filter.
There are a few other applications that use this code as well, such as an Outlook 2000 add-in.
Try searching for "bayesian email filter" instead of just "bayes email filter" (as in the news post). You'll get better results and more hits since Google doesn't match "*bayes*" (as one would think) when searching for "bayes", but only the actual word "bayes".
That sounded more like a Flamebait to me. Give me one reason to pay for a service when there is another that exceed the quality of the former, while being perfectly legal. Besides, the guy didn't even complain about pay sites, but sites that requires that you go through a lot of steps just to simply read an article.
Symantec appears to be running a scary halloween special as well...
Oh, and this place is much scarier than any graveyeard.
Not that I have anything against germans and their lives (heh), but the only seti@home work units on eBay seem to be from three germans??
.NET is a lot faster
plenty of benchmarks on http://dotnetguru.org/
Yeah, I see that... from the URL.
The release notes says that since Phoenix is still not mature, you should always delete your old installs of Phoenix, including profile, before installing a new release. I guess you should do that -- sorry for any confusion. :-P
Ok let me ask something. In Windows there is what we call "The task bar (tm)". With "The task bar", every window has a tab. Now what is the use of having these tabs in a bar in the browser window, instead of having them in "The task bar" hmmm ?
You mention part of the problem yourself. In the Task Bar, Windows put all windows that it has opened, while the Phoenix/Mozilla tabs only contain actual web pages. Microsoft tried to fix this slight mess in Windows XP by grouping the tabs by task, but even with this feature turned on, you first need to find the Phoenix tab among the sometimes rather large amount of tasks, then click on it and then look up the web page you wished to access in the sub menu that pop up.
Navigating through your tasks with Alt-Tab also becomes a hassle since there are usually so many tasks active -- much easier to navigate with Ctrl-Tab / PgUp / PgDown in Phoenix to switch between the open web pages only (what you intended to do in the first place).
And, as the Anonymous Coward mentioned, Phoenix also allow you to save and restore groups of tabs.
I used Phoenix until 0.3 when the home button on mine started taking me to mozilla.org instead of the homepage I set in the preferences. Did that bug get fixed yet?
This problem can usually be resolved by performing a clean install of Phoenix by deleting any previous profiles. See also Bugzilla Bug 174880. Additionally, in Bug 176549, Asa mentions it works in 1026 builds, so I take that as the bug might even be gone in 0.4 without erasing the profiles?
So I'd suggest you install Phoenix 0.4 on top of 0.3 to see if the bug is gone before doing anything drastic.
while I don't remember if 'this' is supported by NS3.0, it is definitely okay for NS4 and Mozilla.
:-) I just thought they used it like any other tag id reference like if you have an IMG tag with the ID myId and later referencing it in the script as just "myId" as in "myId.style". Since I think that's some kind of shorthand form invented by Microsoft and what I was trying to say. :-P
Aah, oops, missed that.
Have to agree with the other AC... you're fucking stupid...
:-)
So what should I do now? Sob at your sillyness?