LOL. But seriously speaking, the thing is it could happen again and again until those computers were cleaned.;) And many XP computers don't even run antivirus.
Agreed. If SP3 can do this unintentionally, imagine what the series of communicated data with the routers can do if a malicious writer now reverse-engineer whatever SP3 is doing, and would spread a time-triggered virus, for example. These kind of hardware issues are never good.
True but it takes two to tango Yes, it wouldn't have happened without the "help" of SP3 in this case. That being said, with the relevant information not released here, it's not certain SP3 is doing anything inherently wrong according to the networking standards. Testing SP3 on all hardware configs is additionally nothing one can expect Microsoft of doing.
Which browser + OS combo do you use? Konqueror or on Linux??;-)
Safari + OS X definitely support Siverlight, pretty much any large browser (IE + Firefox + Opera) does on Windows, and Linux... well, I know Novell cooperate with Microsoft on that, and they should have some software ready?
Does yours? Who cares about that. It runs in Silverlight. It's whether your browser supports the Silverlight plugin that matters. IE does, Firefox on Windows (2, not yet 3) does, Opera does inofficially (to be official in the future), Safari on OS X does. Firefox on Linux is WIP and a Mono project.
Then I won't hold my breath for this release to me any more reliable or stable than any other from the last N years. Its about time they stopped doing a Microsoft and dicking about with "coooo , its so preeetty" UI stuff and bloatware functionalty that no one needs and starting fixing bloody bugs! lol.. Since when is stuff like being able to cross-session resume downloads "bloatware"? Or have status info without opening the download manager? Or the new web developer support? The UI stuff is just what you see easily if you don't care to look, which you quite obviously haven't.
I agree, Safari for Windows is actually a bit tempting, especially if "hacking" it a bit (actually, it can probably not even be called "hacking" in geek circles at least) to use the latest WebKit builds. The only downside of that one is its (sorry..) piss poor memory performance. It's worse than pretty much anything I've tried. A few hours browsing and I had it use 300-400 MB RAM. That's like the bad old Firefox 2 days at worst, from my experiences. It's worse than IE 7 too.
Because you may only want Google to be text only, since searches are only made of text anyway. That doesn't imply you want all sites to be text only.
This gets rid of the ads too.
It also gets rid of Google's link tracking that also sometimes slows things down, because you are redirected through their servers. (do know that Google manipulates the browser status bar to "lie" and hide the link tracking, and that you're actually always passed through Google servers)
It works on Safari on Mac OS, and might be useful to have when the Linux support is done too. Heck, it's early even for use on Windows. Things only get moderately interesting for me once Silverlight 2 is done, and it isn't yet for any platform.
I wonder if they'll do anything big to it now though, maybe take that in combination with the future work (from Wikipedia):
Just like the first 24 shuttle flights, pad 39A pad will support the final shuttle operations, starting with STS-117 until 2010, and then will undergo deactivation once the Shuttle is retired.
After this date, like LC39B, LC39A will have both the FSS and RSS removed to render the "clean" pad approach as required by the ESAS, but LC-39A will be used primarily as the launch pad for the Ares V rocket after 2018, and as such, will undergo additional modifications to accommodate extra LH2 and LOX storage at the site
Developing software with the "Fluent UI" (ribbon interface in common mouth) is permitted by Microsoft, except when the software directly competes with the Microsoft Office 2007 line of products. This license was most likely written with OOo and the likes in mind. It can be debated whether this interface is similar enough or not though, but there you have it anyway.
I have to admit that's the wrong attitude on my part. According to me -- not really. If the end users only care about is "does it look good" (something I agree with you about), then this would be the right move, because inter-browser standards compliance is a requirement for that to happen for more than a specific target group. Especially now that Firefox has consumed around 15-20% of the market according to a number of analyst firms; that's nothing to sneeze at.
I know, I know, it's almost too little, too late IMO, it's maybe "too little" given that they still won't support Acid 3 in the final IE 8 release, but I wouldn't call it too late. It's never too late to me to improve standards support like this. It's very late though, yes, definitely.
Well, when you have these kinds of blatant typos it means the poster might not have any idea what he was talking about. OR, it's because it's an Italian source translated to English and "Helium" is "Elio" in Italy. I can see an Italian reader easily missing to replace a letter here, it doesn't really take a lack of chemistry understanding, just being unused to the English language.
It doesn't just work on Windows, there's even a wrapper available for it for ADO.NET support if you prefer C#, VB.NET, or any other.NET language: http://sqlite.phxsoftware.com/
I'm using it that way for a.NET client on Windows, and synchronizing it with a PDA that instead uses SQLite via C++. Works great.:)
Indeed, but if we're comparing a Windows UI feature, we should perhaps compare it to a UI feature of a Linux desktop distribution, not command lines, because the command line is already widely regarded being a barrier of entry to the users Windows is geared for.
And if doing this, the approach becomes virtually identical. Well, one difference being that I have to actually *enter* the password in e.g. Ubuntu if doing an "administrative task", while I don't have to do this and just click through under UAC if I'm an admin. However, even UAC requires an entered password if you're a non-admin. The UI will change depending on the Windows user type.
Maybe that's because Vista doesn't come with a built-in antivirus, only antispyware (which doesn't catch trojans).
I'm not really surprised, and can't really blame Vista either that much. AFAIK, it will put up UAC prompts by default to warn users opening e.g. malicious e-mail attachments (or hyperlinks via Live Messenger), but if they then say "Yes, OK, I approve", what more can it do? Vista on the other hand should allow users to start executables.
That's just your and your friends' nerdiness. Not really, my parents don't do that either, and I doubt many others also prefer to buy from online shops they are aware of since earlier. It's a trust thing, and people aren't as stupid as you think. Maybe in the early 2000's, but even my mom is reasonably seasoned as an Internet user these days.
So I think it's not specific to nerds to not buy, but rather a special group of ad-buyers that buy.
No, neither pretends or assumes. They don't *care* they exist. It's clearly not cared for with the release of this app. Otherwise they would obviously have made e.g. a web application of it as well.
You probably have a setup.exe for your printer drivers in either %WINDIR% or %TEMP% (or elsewhere in the path, but the Windows directory is sometimes incorrectly used as a temp directory because apps blindly extract to "current directory" which may end up being that one, and otherwise, the temp dir use to be used)
I've had this happen before myself, and don't really know why it happens, but believe that for some reason it can't overwrite the setup.exe it tries to replace, or the installer extracting to its temporary directory is even stupid enough to not *try* to overwrite an existing setup.exe. *shrug*
But I'm sure posting the story to slashdot is fine. Nobody reads this site, after all... Well it *is* just mostly geeks -- a minority.
I rather think the actual problem is when that random blog links to this site, catching the attention of some large general media site, etc... Soon enough it's a story reaching the general population.
Still, manipulating user agent strings is "advanced" work to novices. So in the end, for the shit to truly hit the fan, we'd first need a simple UI with only a textbox for the iPhone number and an OK button (handling the rest itself), distributed on a web site popularized by large news sites.
the article never says that the half-life is around 100 million years, it says that it is in excess of 100 million years. True (and I sort of expected this comment after I posted the above), but if this was about supernovae, the lower bound of its half-life has to be higher than the age of Earth, so my question still stands.
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LOL. But seriously speaking, the thing is it could happen again and again until those computers were cleaned. ;) And many XP computers don't even run antivirus.
Agreed. If SP3 can do this unintentionally, imagine what the series of communicated data with the routers can do if a malicious writer now reverse-engineer whatever SP3 is doing, and would spread a time-triggered virus, for example. These kind of hardware issues are never good.
Which browser + OS combo do you use? Konqueror or on Linux?? ;-)
Safari + OS X definitely support Siverlight, pretty much any large browser (IE + Firefox + Opera) does on Windows, and Linux... well, I know Novell cooperate with Microsoft on that, and they should have some software ready?
Have you even read a changelog?
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/trunk-for-firefox-3.html
I agree, Safari for Windows is actually a bit tempting, especially if "hacking" it a bit (actually, it can probably not even be called "hacking" in geek circles at least) to use the latest WebKit builds. The only downside of that one is its (sorry..) piss poor memory performance. It's worse than pretty much anything I've tried. A few hours browsing and I had it use 300-400 MB RAM. That's like the bad old Firefox 2 days at worst, from my experiences. It's worse than IE 7 too.
Because you may only want Google to be text only, since searches are only made of text anyway. That doesn't imply you want all sites to be text only.
This gets rid of the ads too.
It also gets rid of Google's link tracking that also sometimes slows things down, because you are redirected through their servers. (do know that Google manipulates the browser status bar to "lie" and hide the link tracking, and that you're actually always passed through Google servers)
It works on Safari on Mac OS, and might be useful to have when the Linux support is done too. Heck, it's early even for use on Windows. Things only get moderately interesting for me once Silverlight 2 is done, and it isn't yet for any platform.
... and even better, it's unaffiliated with the Pidgin project, so the Pidgin devs didn't lose their minds.
After this date, like LC39B, LC39A will have both the FSS and RSS removed to render the "clean" pad approach as required by the ESAS, but LC-39A will be used primarily as the launch pad for the Ares V rocket after 2018, and as such, will undergo additional modifications to accommodate extra LH2 and LOX storage at the site
Developing software with the "Fluent UI" (ribbon interface in common mouth) is permitted by Microsoft, except when the software directly competes with the Microsoft Office 2007 line of products. This license was most likely written with OOo and the likes in mind. It can be debated whether this interface is similar enough or not though, but there you have it anyway.
Office UI licensing site
It doesn't just work on Windows, there's even a wrapper available for it for ADO.NET support if you prefer C#, VB.NET, or any other .NET language: http://sqlite.phxsoftware.com/
.NET client on Windows, and synchronizing it with a PDA that instead uses SQLite via C++. Works great. :)
I'm using it that way for a
Indeed, but if we're comparing a Windows UI feature, we should perhaps compare it to a UI feature of a Linux desktop distribution, not command lines, because the command line is already widely regarded being a barrier of entry to the users Windows is geared for.
And if doing this, the approach becomes virtually identical. Well, one difference being that I have to actually *enter* the password in e.g. Ubuntu if doing an "administrative task", while I don't have to do this and just click through under UAC if I'm an admin. However, even UAC requires an entered password if you're a non-admin. The UI will change depending on the Windows user type.
Maybe that's because Vista doesn't come with a built-in antivirus, only antispyware (which doesn't catch trojans).
I'm not really surprised, and can't really blame Vista either that much. AFAIK, it will put up UAC prompts by default to warn users opening e.g. malicious e-mail attachments (or hyperlinks via Live Messenger), but if they then say "Yes, OK, I approve", what more can it do? Vista on the other hand should allow users to start executables.
So I think it's not specific to nerds to not buy, but rather a special group of ad-buyers that buy.
No?
Not interested. Were you interested in a reply or not?
Try this:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.richResults
No, neither pretends or assumes. They don't *care* they exist. It's clearly not cared for with the release of this app. Otherwise they would obviously have made e.g. a web application of it as well.
You probably have a setup.exe for your printer drivers in either %WINDIR% or %TEMP% (or elsewhere in the path, but the Windows directory is sometimes incorrectly used as a temp directory because apps blindly extract to "current directory" which may end up being that one, and otherwise, the temp dir use to be used)
I've had this happen before myself, and don't really know why it happens, but believe that for some reason it can't overwrite the setup.exe it tries to replace, or the installer extracting to its temporary directory is even stupid enough to not *try* to overwrite an existing setup.exe. *shrug*
[citation needed]
I rather think the actual problem is when that random blog links to this site, catching the attention of some large general media site, etc... Soon enough it's a story reaching the general population.
Still, manipulating user agent strings is "advanced" work to novices. So in the end, for the shit to truly hit the fan, we'd first need a simple UI with only a textbox for the iPhone number and an OK button (handling the rest itself), distributed on a web site popularized by large news sites.
We aren't there quite yet at least...