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  1. Also cannot login to Hotmail with latest Mozilla on MSN Blocks Mozilla, Other Browsers [updated] · · Score: 2

    What is causing me not having the capability to login to Hotmail with latest Mozilla(0.9.5)?
    Is this a Mozilla bug or is it an evil MS deed?

  2. Stock Exchanges are also vulnerable on Vulnerability of Telco Switching Equipment · · Score: 2
    Should the world's major Stock Exchanges have redundancy?


    How long would the NYSE have been down if there had been a direct hit on it by terrorists?

  3. Re:A Question of Depreciation on Microsoft Shuts Auction Doors On Old Windows · · Score: 2
    CORRECTION:

    Computer software is exempt from the 50% rule.



    here

  4. Re:A Question of Depreciation on Microsoft Shuts Auction Doors On Old Windows · · Score: 2
    IANAA(I am not an accountant)


    In Canada, non-system software can be depreciated by 100%. But the 50% rule only lets you depreciate it by 50% the first year,then the other half the folowing year. If the software costs less than $200, then it can be fully depreciated the first year. System or OS software is depreciated at the same rate of the computer system.

  5. Re:Browser on Open Source Software in a Windows Environment? · · Score: 1

    I would install Mozilla on that Windows system. The latest version (0.95) runs quick and stable.

  6. Tabbed Browsing feature on Mozilla 0.9.5 · · Score: 1
    The "Tabbed Browsing" feature has to be the best new feature added to date.


    Does Mozilla use less memory/resources while using this new feature?

  7. Re:how cool on GPS Drawings · · Score: 1

    No need for a laptop, as many modern and inexpensive consumer GPS units have bulit in maps. For example my Garmin Etrex Legend has rough built in maps and can be upgraded with higher resolution maps by uploading MapSource compatible maps of many parts of the world. You can follow your path on the map page in real time. Of course the map page is no where as big as the laptop display, but it does do the job. This unit is priced just above $200USD.

  8. Fuel Cells for digital Cameras on Motorola Makes Gasoline Powered Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    These fuel cells would be great for all those battery hungry digital cameras that have to be fed batteries a few times a day when in constant use.

  9. Is Internet Explorer 6.0 vulnerable on New (More) Annoying Microsoft Worm Hits Net · · Score: 1

    Is Internet Explorer 6.0 vulnerable?

  10. Outlook Express 6.0 can prevent spread on New (More) Annoying Microsoft Worm Hits Net · · Score: 5, Informative
    With the new Outlook Express 6.0, you can now prevent the user from opening any attchments.


    Here is how it is done:


    Tools>Options>Security>check "Do not allow attchments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus"

  11. Re:addictive qualities on 1st Cup Of Coffee: Hardening Your Arteries · · Score: 1
    I have about 15 years of heavy coffee drinking behind me. During the last 5 years I would also go cold turkey and feel much better, then I would fall off the wagon then go right back to 8 to 10 cups(mugs) a day.


    Well 3 weeks ago, I suffered a mild heart attack(MI) and that has scared me away from cafeine for good. From now on I am not listening to either the good stuff or the bad stuff about cafeine, I am just quitting. You just have to go with what you believe and not with the latest "Report".

  12. Re:security and privacy a difficult issue on Microsoft Defends Passport To Privacy Group · · Score: 1

    Or you can just use the very cool (and free) RoboForm [roboform.com] which sits in your toolbar and auto-fills forms that pop up in your browser (there are other form-fillers around but I haven't tried them).

    Freedom Internet Privacy Suite also has a a good form filler and can be found here:

    Freedom.net

  13. Re:The only chance the industry has against micros on Linux Office Suites · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to this article, the integrated desktop and probably the start button will be gone in version 6.0.
    quote

    OpenOffice, and its predecessor StarOffice, are integrated office packages and include a word processor, web browser, and spreadsheet tools. In fact, StarOffice 5.2 contained just about everything a desktop user could need, including an integrated desktop. But with the adoption of desktop environments such as GNOME and KDE, future releases of StarOffice and OpenOffice will no longer carry the integrated desktop.

    end quote

    The above quote is from the following source:

    LWN.net

  14. Re:Why use Acrobat anyway? on PDF Virus Spotted · · Score: 1
    If you want postscript in Windows, you can just use the generic postscript printer driver. I'm not sure if ps2pdf exists in Microsoftland, but it's probably out there....

    Under Ghostscript/Ghostview for Windows this can be done.

  15. Re:It's a sad day.... on 2-Way Satellite Internet Now Available In Canada · · Score: 1

    I agree....on the other hand I could use a little more karma! :)

  16. Too expensive for most on 2-Way Satellite Internet Now Available In Canada · · Score: 2
    Prices:

    Dish Size Price

    0.74m $ 849.95

    1.2m $ 2,249.95

    1.8m $ 2,749.95

    Seats Monthly Seat License Email Account

    1 Seat $ 149.95 Included 1

    Activation Fee: $ 49.95 Yearly Industry Canada

    Licensing fee: $ 70

    http://www.storm.ca/~inetvu/content/CanResi2waydir .pdf

  17. Re:Yes! Blame Canada on MS Wants To Outlaw Open Source: "Threatens" the "American Way" · · Score: 1
    They're not even a real country anyway! Usually .....

    Ok I will bite on the above flamebait!

    No I won't, I will stay on topic:

    It looks like MS is running out of FUD topics and getting desperate. Boy they are pathetic.

    Oh and before I forget, please leave the word Canada out of any MS FUD story.

  18. I'm still with a mom & pop on The Extinction Of The Mom & Pop ISP Service? · · Score: 1
    I'm still with a mom & pop here in northeastern Ontario Canada(6 years). I have stuck with them because their service is great. I can talk over the phone with one of their real technicians and have on occasion have spoke to the owner of this ISP.

    Their prices have not always been the lowest, but at this time they are competetive with the larger 2 other ISPs run by the phone company(Sympatico) and another Crown telecommunications corporation.

    One other reason I have stuck with them, is out of respect, as they were the first ones to risk their money to provide internet access to people like me up in the sticks. The 2 larger ISPs only came in later.

    So in this case I salute the mom & pop....at least until they can keep their rates competetive.

  19. Re:Reminds me of an old MSDOS virus on Bacteria Encrypts Sperm, Encourages Speciation · · Score: 2

    This sounds like the monkey virus.

  20. Re:Bad thing on Robotic Mining Arrives · · Score: 1
    All this technology is taking jobs, but it probably saves many lives.

    I can speak first hand on this subject, as I worked 11 years in an underground mine and experienced many of the perils that exist there with respect to health and safety.

  21. Wow a (Canadian) Mining Story on /. on Robotic Mining Arrives · · Score: 1
    I never thought that I would see a mining related story here on /..

    On the other hand, the pick and shovel operator is often being replaced by silicon chips.

  22. there is a fix for this problem: on 2.2 vs 2.4 · · Score: 1

    There is a fix for this problem at the Windows Update Site, read about the problem here.

  23. Same problem with Daewoo on Is Sony Turning Its Back On CD-Rs? · · Score: 1
    I have a Daewoo DVD/CD Player model DS-2000N and I also cannot play CD-r's.

    Is there a work around for this problem?

  24. Re:Tax... on Taxing Free Software · · Score: 1
    The rules must have changed, as I ordered and received Adobe Illustrator last March from Adobe in California. It was shipped to me in Ontario Canada and I did not pay a cent of duty. I did pay the GST and PST tax on it though. The before tax cost was $199 US.

    I believe you must have paid sales taxes and NOT duty. Computer software & hardware are no longer subject to duty when shipped from the states to Canada

  25. Re:Great development for the blind on Force-Feedback Devices Provide Virtual Texture · · Score: 1

    Imagine if a similar feedback device could "feel" ascii characters or braile characters and give the visually impaired or blind even more access to online or computer text.