You'll need to remove Slashdot-added spaces of course. Then, whenever Slashdot renders incorrectly, just click the button at the top of your browser to fix.
Very odd. I just tried both sites with Windows XP and they worked perfectly under Firefox + RED. I then tried them under IE and they didn't detect. Perhaps RED isn't associating itself with IE properly?
Anyway, it works fine with Firefox for me, which is what I care about.
They already have it. Real Enterprise (free reg required to download). No ads, works great. If you don't want to post fake information, you can prolly find a copy on P2P, or you can just bitch and moan about the free registration here if you prefer...
Shift-click and ctrl-enter work in Firefox. In fact, I think it's the "little things" that make Firefox all that much more enjoyable. I first switch to Firefox (0.5 I think) for the popup blocking. Since then, I've come to enjoy all the other neat things about Firefox, especially tabbed browsing (ctrl-click link) and extensions.
My only complaint with Firefox is the fact that Slashdot renders poorly. There's a fix, but it seems like something I shouldn't have to do, and I think it's been broken since 0.7 if I remember correctly?
Downloaded it. Installed it. Ran it. Selected my video source (which showed up black, even though it shows a channel in my other tuner software). Tried clicking the File menu to monkey with it, CRASHED AND BURNED.
Very nice indeed.
FWIW, I'm using a new XP install and my system is always very stable. Video card is an ATI AIW Radeon.
Something tells me about 72% of GeCAD's former products are about the get axed, with the two remaining being Windows anti-virus and AV for MSN Messenger (which will likely be integrated into one product).
I logged in today and received a 2GB quota. I seem to remember them giving me a free Plus account when I cancelled my DSL. I like Yahoo's interface and the fact that they have calendar and a nice address book anyway.
It seems to be running fine now since running from the.zip version, and I took the liberty of installing the Qute theme as posted by serveral people here. It was just the initial shock of my favorite browser shitting the bed that got me. At home, I'll prolly wait until 0.9 final since this version is largely lackluster (as it should be, I suppose, as it matures).
1. Downloaded FirefoxSetup-0.9rc.exe. Ran setup (which said "Thank you for installing Firefox 0.8"). Installed over old version. 2. Double-clicked exacutable. Firefox caught in an infinite startup loop. 3. Restart the computer to break the loop. 4. Try again, assuming my computer was just acting wacky. 5. Firefox caught in an infinite loop again. Restart computer again. 6. Try downloading the ZIP (Firefox-win32.zip) and extracting to a brand new folder. 7. Launched from the new folder. Firefox opened fine. 8. Went to About -> Firefox. Reports version as being 0.8.
Yippie! Not only did it not upgrade to 0.9 (although it appears to be build 20040609), but it also comes with a theme that is quite gay in comparison to the old one. Nice.
Looks like XFree86 has a bad management staff. If companies and people all start jumping ship you fix why they are all doing it. It's simple business.
This might have something to do with it. From their web site:
"We have no corporate sponsors. We have only a volunteer administrative staff, so it is only through the generosity of our patrons that we can fund further development."
That's a helluva a way to run a "business".;) I have no involvement with the project whatsoever, but it's always been my impression that they position themselves as "ehh, we make X how we want it. If others want to use it, great." Perhaps that's just my limited understanding, but they come off as not really caring about disto numbers and their latest moves seem to reinforce this.
Lastly, I will agree that C# and.Net will "clean Java's clock" when it runs well, and is supported on all the platforms Java runs well on today. That should be about the time hell freezes over.
Microsoft has the resources to make that happen. I can easily imagine people saying such things about Internet Explorer when Netscape was king. I can see it now - reports of it snowing in Redmond in July.
How do you think Grandma Millie gets her upgraded copy of the latest version of Windows from after her Grandson convinvces her that "If you upgrade to Windows XP, you won't have as many problems. Plus, I can give you it for free."
Or how about the kid who "builds a computer" for his aunt/parents and thinks it's silly that they should have to pay for Windows when he can get it for free.
Or how about the small white-box builders out there that throw a pirated copy of Windows on that new machine they built for a client so they can compete on price with Dell. The clueless client won't know the difference, right?
I'd dare to say there are plenty of novices out there using pirated copies of Windows. Hell, I've known several people who were "savvy" enough to get Windows XP from their genious friend and get the upgrade to run, but couldn't be bothered with a proper firewall or non-ancient anti-virus software.
I guess it comes down to target audience. Microsoft knows most of its target audience won't patch their systems, so they need to do something about it (ie, by default (with the option of disabling), be more bull-headed about requiring the user to install new updates). Fortunately, this seems to have been addresses in SP2 (it pisses and moans if there are new updates) and makes more user-friendly recommendations ala the Security Applet. About time.
Linux users generally patch their own systems in a timely manner, or knows someone who set it up for them the right way.
Best you've ever used for *free* maybe. POP is soooo 1990's. Actually, they have a very robust webmail interface and their spam filter seems quite good, but I get more spam there than any other account so I suppose it has to be. I'd rather read my e-mail from a 'net-enabled calculator than POP it.
Slashdot Mirror
You mean like not clicking "Yes" when it asks you to install an ActiveX component?
Got a copy of that letter? It would save me the effort ;)
(e-mail address above)
It is a known bug in Firefox since 0.8 I believe. See this post for a temporary fix.
It hasn't been fixed, but someone posted previously an nice solution:
2 2)[0].style.display='none';document.getElementsByT agName(%22body%22)[0].style.display='block';void(0 );
Create a new bookmark under "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder" with the following as the URL:
javascript:document.getElementsByTagName(%22body%
You'll need to remove Slashdot-added spaces of course. Then, whenever Slashdot renders incorrectly, just click the button at the top of your browser to fix.
Very odd. I just tried both sites with Windows XP and they worked perfectly under Firefox + RED. I then tried them under IE and they didn't detect. Perhaps RED isn't associating itself with IE properly?
Anyway, it works fine with Firefox for me, which is what I care about.
They already have it. Real Enterprise (free reg required to download). No ads, works great. If you don't want to post fake information, you can prolly find a copy on P2P, or you can just bitch and moan about the free registration here if you prefer...
I'm sure the movie theaters would be all over that idea. I'd rather see it at the theater anyway if it wasn't $8 a ticket.
Shift-click and ctrl-enter work in Firefox. In fact, I think it's the "little things" that make Firefox all that much more enjoyable. I first switch to Firefox (0.5 I think) for the popup blocking. Since then, I've come to enjoy all the other neat things about Firefox, especially tabbed browsing (ctrl-click link) and extensions.
My only complaint with Firefox is the fact that Slashdot renders poorly. There's a fix, but it seems like something I shouldn't have to do, and I think it's been broken since 0.7 if I remember correctly?
How about a cluster of a million monkeys (slashbots?), if given enough time randomly banging on keyboards, could reproduce Trollkore's complete works?
Well, this is old news first reported the middle of last week. Perhaps they fixed it now and configured their spam filters to allow the Gmail invite.
Downloaded it. Installed it. Ran it. Selected my video source (which showed up black, even though it shows a channel in my other tuner software). Tried clicking the File menu to monkey with it, CRASHED AND BURNED.
Very nice indeed.
FWIW, I'm using a new XP install and my system is always very stable. Video card is an ATI AIW Radeon.
I recommend MyTV for viewing.
Something tells me about 72% of GeCAD's former products are about the get axed, with the two remaining being Windows anti-virus and AV for MSN Messenger (which will likely be integrated into one product).
I logged in today and received a 2GB quota. I seem to remember them giving me a free Plus account when I cancelled my DSL. I like Yahoo's interface and the fact that they have calendar and a nice address book anyway.
;)
Can I trade in one of the gigs for IMAP access?
I thought that was released as the McRib?
It seems to be running fine now since running from the .zip version, and I took the liberty of installing the Qute theme as posted by serveral people here. It was just the initial shock of my favorite browser shitting the bed that got me. At home, I'll prolly wait until 0.9 final since this version is largely lackluster (as it should be, I suppose, as it matures).
:(
Sadly, the fix for the Slashdot rendering bug doesn't appear to be included
1. Downloaded FirefoxSetup-0.9rc.exe. Ran setup (which said "Thank you for installing Firefox 0.8"). Installed over old version.
2. Double-clicked exacutable. Firefox caught in an infinite startup loop.
3. Restart the computer to break the loop.
4. Try again, assuming my computer was just acting wacky.
5. Firefox caught in an infinite loop again. Restart computer again.
6. Try downloading the ZIP (Firefox-win32.zip) and extracting to a brand new folder.
7. Launched from the new folder. Firefox opened fine.
8. Went to About -> Firefox. Reports version as being 0.8.
Yippie! Not only did it not upgrade to 0.9 (although it appears to be build 20040609), but it also comes with a theme that is quite gay in comparison to the old one. Nice.
Not a problem if the users types in the string in its encrypted form.
"We have no corporate sponsors. We have only a volunteer administrative staff, so it is only through the generosity of our patrons that we can fund further development."
That's a helluva a way to run a "business".
Microsoft has the resources to make that happen. I can easily imagine people saying such things about Internet Explorer when Netscape was king. I can see it now - reports of it snowing in Redmond in July.
How do you think Grandma Millie gets her upgraded copy of the latest version of Windows from after her Grandson convinvces her that "If you upgrade to Windows XP, you won't have as many problems. Plus, I can give you it for free."
Or how about the kid who "builds a computer" for his aunt/parents and thinks it's silly that they should have to pay for Windows when he can get it for free.
Or how about the small white-box builders out there that throw a pirated copy of Windows on that new machine they built for a client so they can compete on price with Dell. The clueless client won't know the difference, right?
I'd dare to say there are plenty of novices out there using pirated copies of Windows. Hell, I've known several people who were "savvy" enough to get Windows XP from their genious friend and get the upgrade to run, but couldn't be bothered with a proper firewall or non-ancient anti-virus software.
I guess it comes down to target audience. Microsoft knows most of its target audience won't patch their systems, so they need to do something about it (ie, by default (with the option of disabling), be more bull-headed about requiring the user to install new updates). Fortunately, this seems to have been addresses in SP2 (it pisses and moans if there are new updates) and makes more user-friendly recommendations ala the Security Applet. About time.
Linux users generally patch their own systems in a timely manner, or knows someone who set it up for them the right way.
Heh, there are some other choice ones here:
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http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-100157
I think my ex-landlord actually memorized the "Property Management for Dummies" edition.
You're right, somethign IS wrong, but I don't think it's with the word processor :P
Best you've ever used for *free* maybe. POP is soooo 1990's. Actually, they have a very robust webmail interface and their spam filter seems quite good, but I get more spam there than any other account so I suppose it has to be. I'd rather read my e-mail from a 'net-enabled calculator than POP it.
fastmail.fm
mailsnare.net
That brings to mind an even scarier thought, having seen those ASCII renditions of Goatse while browsing at -1.