Of course! I should have guessed... Now I can see why they didn't put an option switch on the browser itself to switch between "convenient browsing" and the current "blind arrogance browsing"... It was right there in front of me all the time!
"Many would say, "Don't like it? Here's the code; fix it yourself."
I didn't like it when they introduced the ridiculous "spacial filesystem" browser, or whatever the hell that crap is called that opens a new window every time you change to a new directory. I think there's a reason nobody has done that, and in fact several projects are doing the exact opposite (tabbed browsing). It was getting to the point where I had 30 damned windows open just to copy between 2 NFS mounted filysystems!
...for me was not so much the graphics as the soundtrack. I followed the link to Magnatune to see what else the artist has produced and I was surprised by how good the other artists were on there too! You can play/download almost all the tracks by the artists (that I've tried) for free, although they also sell the music. I took a loot at the info page, and there's an interesting piece by the site's owner about why he started the site (after his wife went throught the grinder of the music industry).
Overall, I'm impressed, and if anyone else is on the lookout for something new, it could be worth a look (no I don't work for them, or have anything to do with the site!)
Excuse me but isn't this "vulnerability" the same thing as saying the pop-up ads that look just like IE on Windows XP are a IE/Windows XP vulnerability? This customizability (albeit automatic by the webpage) is closer to a feature than a vulnerability if you ask me.
Exactly - furthermore, you can easily do exactly the same with IE. You just create a new window, with the fullsize property set, then set the dimensions (so you then have a blank window with no chrome at all - not even a title bar) - after that it's simply a matter of adding your spoofed interface using DHTML... Game over.
...and it is almost a shame ID did not stick it to Creative...
Have to agree, I would love to see iD remove support for Creative soundcards, or at least offer enhanced sound support for any other brand. Maybe then the asshats over at CL will see what happens when you bite the hand that feeds.
I wonder which boardroom genius decided to threaten the company behind the most eagerly awaited game of all time, when game players are one of the biggest buyers of your products. Fuck Creative; I was looking to buy a new Audigy card this month, absolutely no chance now, I'm looking elsewhere...
I've STFC (Scanned the charter) and from what I can gather, it's simply a new record type on the DNS'. Surely the MTA would then query the DNS responsible for the domain for this record, and act accordingly; so what's the problem? I'm sure Sendmail can be made fully capable of this, or any other lookup tool.
XHTML is more pointless. At least XML is useful and logical, XHTML is simply a way to bloat scripts and force the client to fight through more layers to render a page/extract data.
The "advantages" listed are ludicrous - "you can use events with 2 different scripting languages in the same document"??! What sort of moron mixes JS and VBscript in a single document? Besides which, there's no need to specify events in the markup; most scripters worth their deskspace have been attaching events to elements programatically for years.
Sorry, but this is probably the most pointless new tech/buzzword I've seen since "Linux licence"...
Other reasons include HR not knowing any better and hiring "qualified" people - that's an MSCE to you and me.
You know, I'd be interested in knowing exactly what level of knowledge a person needs to "pass" the MSCE (is there even a practical exam?!) Maybe I've only come into contact with really really bad MSCE's, but I'm genuinely astonished by the utter lack of even basic problem solving skills, experience of network basics, or hell, basic PC skills! I passed the RHCE around 6 months ago and it at least tests practical administration skills (I wouldn't say I was stretched though). Could anyone just walk in off the street and pass an MSCE? I sure looks that way - though I have too much respect for myself to actually do it...
I think you'll find the disproportionate number of Windows PCs is the direct result of MS' selfless donations to cash starved educational establishments. It's true altruism; the fact the children will grow up with no experience of anything other than MS products is a completely unintentional side effect, and must be a complete surprise to Bill and his merry men...
The problem we see here and throughout the SCO case is that copyright was never designed with software in mind. The nature of software licensing is such that there's frequent cases of derrived works from different sources, which is rarely the case in books.
Actually I feel this is a good analogy; whoever wrote the first "Whodunnit" story (probably that dude who wrote the Bible) could claim "Murder She Wrote", "Columbo" and "Hong Kong Phoowee" are all derivative works.
Stephen King (deceased at 54?) would be dragging Dean Koontz through the courts by his lank, greasy hair, and there'd be no Dallas ripoffs... hmm, actually this is making a compelling argument...
I'll open it for the weekend - I stopped it because it became impossible to use my ADSL line as it was saturated 24/7... I'll see how it goes now that Google doesn't have it at the top of its list;-)
;-) No, that was my personal site, until I forgot to renew the domain name and it was grabbed by the current owners (I missed it by 3 days;-( ). I've only just remembered to change my sig...
Obviously it'll never happen, but it would be nice if all the proceeds of these victories against the scumbags were given to anti-spam projects and organisations to develop more robust hosting (to deflect spammer/virus author DDOS attacks) and improve the filtering software. It would also really annoy the spammers to see such projects getting massive cash injections;-)
I recently added rbl support (spews and spanhaus), spamassassin and the mimedefang milter to our company incoming mailserver and it's REALLY making a difference! Since I have a corpus from hundreds of people too, the bayesian side is already extremely good. It still lets the odd scam through, but being a company I can't afford to block anything by accident.
For the $400 it costs buy yourself some more memory or disk. Whatever is the bottleneck. Yeah, because $400 bucks will obvious more than double the power of a 4 way Xeon server, as we all know. It'll also more than double the speed of all the other servers running PHP apps - bargain!!
Unfortunately our HPUX servers operate as a cluster with shared RAID and are mostly there to run our company's commercial sales system. I have root access, and have built perl and installed all the CPAN modules I needed on it, however the commercial software maintainers wiped it all, claiming it was not part of our support agreement. It's a real PITA, however I have gotten around most of it by simply mounting almost all the HPUX's filesystems onto one of the Linux machines, and run all the scripts on that;-) (also don't have to use the braindead shell and crippled toolset that comes with HPUX)...
Heh! That was my domain - I forgot to re-register it and some other outfit has snapped it up I think (it was getting a tonne of traffic too...) Screwed up there...
I don't think there's much of a learning curve going from Perl to PHP - the other way there would be though! PHP closely resembles Perl in many ways - it has certainly been influenced by it to a greater extent than any other language I can think of.
I've been using Perl for around 10(?) years and while I appreciate its regex engine is faster than PHP, and the CPAN modules offer things PHP doesn't have (at present), you can put almost any web app together far faster with PHP than Perl. IMV this also goes for most database driven shell scripts.
Why wait? There's an uncrippled evaluation version available on the site for free. I'm going to be compiling a LOT of code over the next couple of weeks to see if it's worth the money (and I can see where it could be VERY useful for me!) I have one of our servers running at high loads around the clock. It was looking like having to convert some of the code over to C to help speed things up, but this may give a bit of breathing room...
This may well sever my last remaining link with Perl. While I used to ride the camel for web and shell scripting, I've now moved entirely to php for the web, and mostly php for shell scripting, with Perl used when its extra speed is useful. Presumably compiled php will eclipse Perl for scripting use now though, so (on Linux at least) I'll probably convert fully. Pity I have to stick with sed, awk and shell scripts on our old HPUX servers though...
Slashdot Mirror
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser true
[slaps forehead]
Of course! I should have guessed... Now I can see why they didn't put an option switch on the browser itself to switch between "convenient browsing" and the current "blind arrogance browsing"... It was right there in front of me all the time!
"Many would say, "Don't like it? Here's the code; fix it yourself."
I didn't like it when they introduced the ridiculous "spacial filesystem" browser, or whatever the hell that crap is called that opens a new window every time you change to a new directory. I think there's a reason nobody has done that, and in fact several projects are doing the exact opposite (tabbed browsing). It was getting to the point where I had 30 damned windows open just to copy between 2 NFS mounted filysystems!
I did fix the problem though; I switched to KDE.
...for me was not so much the graphics as the soundtrack. I followed the link to Magnatune to see what else the artist has produced and I was surprised by how good the other artists were on there too! You can play/download almost all the tracks by the artists (that I've tried) for free, although they also sell the music. I took a loot at the info page, and there's an interesting piece by the site's owner about why he started the site (after his wife went throught the grinder of the music industry).
Overall, I'm impressed, and if anyone else is on the lookout for something new, it could be worth a look (no I don't work for them, or have anything to do with the site!)
Excuse me but isn't this "vulnerability" the same thing as saying the pop-up ads that look just like IE on Windows XP are a IE/Windows XP vulnerability? This customizability (albeit automatic by the webpage) is closer to a feature than a vulnerability if you ask me.
Exactly - furthermore, you can easily do exactly the same with IE. You just create a new window, with the fullsize property set, then set the dimensions (so you then have a blank window with no chrome at all - not even a title bar) - after that it's simply a matter of adding your spoofed interface using DHTML... Game over.
...and it is almost a shame ID did not stick it to Creative...
Have to agree, I would love to see iD remove support for Creative soundcards, or at least offer enhanced sound support for any other brand. Maybe then the asshats over at CL will see what happens when you bite the hand that feeds.
I wonder which boardroom genius decided to threaten the company behind the most eagerly awaited game of all time, when game players are one of the biggest buyers of your products. Fuck Creative; I was looking to buy a new Audigy card this month, absolutely no chance now, I'm looking elsewhere...
...My ex-boyfriend was a big gentoo-lover, in fact he was a developer for it or something...
...I would love to be able to use linux more
...I can't make it burn CDs or sync with my ipod...
...I'm catholic and from Scotland...
Female: Check!
Possibly attracted to geeks: Check!!
Linux fan: Check!!!
Owns cool gadgets: Check!!!!
%^$Dependency problem^^$"£CORE DUMP...STOPPED...
I've STFC (Scanned the charter) and from what I can gather, it's simply a new record type on the DNS'. Surely the MTA would then query the DNS responsible for the domain for this record, and act accordingly; so what's the problem? I'm sure Sendmail can be made fully capable of this, or any other lookup tool.
XHTML is more pointless. At least XML is useful and logical, XHTML is simply a way to bloat scripts and force the client to fight through more layers to render a page/extract data.
The "advantages" listed are ludicrous - "you can use events with 2 different scripting languages in the same document"??! What sort of moron mixes JS and VBscript in a single document? Besides which, there's no need to specify events in the markup; most scripters worth their deskspace have been attaching events to elements programatically for years.
Sorry, but this is probably the most pointless new tech/buzzword I've seen since "Linux licence"...
Other reasons include HR not knowing any better and hiring "qualified" people - that's an MSCE to you and me.
You know, I'd be interested in knowing exactly what level of knowledge a person needs to "pass" the MSCE (is there even a practical exam?!) Maybe I've only come into contact with really really bad MSCE's, but I'm genuinely astonished by the utter lack of even basic problem solving skills, experience of network basics, or hell, basic PC skills! I passed the RHCE around 6 months ago and it at least tests practical administration skills (I wouldn't say I was stretched though). Could anyone just walk in off the street and pass an MSCE? I sure looks that way - though I have too much respect for myself to actually do it...
I think you'll find the disproportionate number of Windows PCs is the direct result of MS' selfless donations to cash starved educational establishments. It's true altruism; the fact the children will grow up with no experience of anything other than MS products is a completely unintentional side effect, and must be a complete surprise to Bill and his merry men...
The problem we see here and throughout the SCO case is that copyright was never designed with software in mind. The nature of software licensing is such that there's frequent cases of derrived works from different sources, which is rarely the case in books.
Actually I feel this is a good analogy; whoever wrote the first "Whodunnit" story (probably that dude who wrote the Bible) could claim "Murder She Wrote", "Columbo" and "Hong Kong Phoowee" are all derivative works.
Stephen King (deceased at 54?) would be dragging Dean Koontz through the courts by his lank, greasy hair, and there'd be no Dallas ripoffs... hmm, actually this is making a compelling argument...
Same here - if I go to the homepage I get a 503 every time. I'm having to in via my homepage. very slow though...
I think I'll go for VVindows,\^/indows and \/\/indows ;-)
... (OT) or is Slashdot incredibly slow at the moment??? Is there some little script kiddie DDOSing the site or something?
I'll open it for the weekend - I stopped it because it became impossible to use my ADSL line as it was saturated 24/7... I'll see how it goes now that Google doesn't have it at the top of its list ;-)
;-) No, that was my personal site, until I forgot to renew the domain name and it was grabbed by the current owners (I missed it by 3 days ;-( ). I've only just remembered to change my sig...
Obviously it'll never happen, but it would be nice if all the proceeds of these victories against the scumbags were given to anti-spam projects and organisations to develop more robust hosting (to deflect spammer/virus author DDOS attacks) and improve the filtering software. It would also really annoy the spammers to see such projects getting massive cash injections ;-)
I recently added rbl support (spews and spanhaus), spamassassin and the mimedefang milter to our company incoming mailserver and it's REALLY making a difference! Since I have a corpus from hundreds of people too, the bayesian side is already extremely good. It still lets the odd scam through, but being a company I can't afford to block anything by accident.
I'm a geek! What am I to do until Slashdot returns?
;-)
Set up a mirror?
For the $400 it costs buy yourself some more memory or disk. Whatever is the bottleneck.
Yeah, because $400 bucks will obvious more than double the power of a 4 way Xeon server, as we all know. It'll also more than double the speed of all the other servers running PHP apps - bargain!!
Unfortunately our HPUX servers operate as a cluster with shared RAID and are mostly there to run our company's commercial sales system. I have root access, and have built perl and installed all the CPAN modules I needed on it, however the commercial software maintainers wiped it all, claiming it was not part of our support agreement. It's a real PITA, however I have gotten around most of it by simply mounting almost all the HPUX's filesystems onto one of the Linux machines, and run all the scripts on that ;-) (also don't have to use the braindead shell and crippled toolset that comes with HPUX)...
Heh! That was my domain - I forgot to re-register it and some other outfit has snapped it up I think (it was getting a tonne of traffic too...) Screwed up there...
I don't think there's much of a learning curve going from Perl to PHP - the other way there would be though! PHP closely resembles Perl in many ways - it has certainly been influenced by it to a greater extent than any other language I can think of.
I've been using Perl for around 10(?) years and while I appreciate its regex engine is faster than PHP, and the CPAN modules offer things PHP doesn't have (at present), you can put almost any web app together far faster with PHP than Perl. IMV this also goes for most database driven shell scripts.
Why wait? There's an uncrippled evaluation version available on the site for free. I'm going to be compiling a LOT of code over the next couple of weeks to see if it's worth the money (and I can see where it could be VERY useful for me!) I have one of our servers running at high loads around the clock. It was looking like having to convert some of the code over to C to help speed things up, but this may give a bit of breathing room...
This may well sever my last remaining link with Perl. While I used to ride the camel for web and shell scripting, I've now moved entirely to php for the web, and mostly php for shell scripting, with Perl used when its extra speed is useful. Presumably compiled php will eclipse Perl for scripting use now though, so (on Linux at least) I'll probably convert fully. Pity I have to stick with sed, awk and shell scripts on our old HPUX servers though...