When you first run a program, is the first thing you do to go around looking at all the various File|Preferences and Tools|Options panels, and look over every single tab searching for stupid settings under the assumption that the defaults will be dangerous to use?
Actually, yes. The default settings, if not dangerous, are likely going to be annoying to me in some way. I probably shouldn't have to check the settings for sanity, but I do.
Your right to free speech does not require anyone to listen to you. Your right to free speech does not give you the right to enter my house and bother me. Therefore, nor does it give you the right to install malware on my PC.
Then again, I don't live in the USA, so tell me. Are you required to listen to every nut that talks to you on the street?
I work in tech support for a major manufacturer. We just have the user enable XP's firewall before the network cable is ever plugged in. This wasn't decided on a whim, but from experience. Frankly, we don't care what Symantec or Microsoft say. Oh, and let me assure you of how much I just love it when someone calls back because the previous agent neglected to mention the necessity of enabling the firewall immediately after a reinstall. Can you believe they tell me I can't strangle co-workers?
No, XP doesn't "crash". What it does do is slow to a crawl and eventually appear to stop completely from the mass of malware it's trying to execute. That or it'll just warn you it's going to shut down in 60 seconds;)
Oh, sorry all... I fed the troll. I just couldn't resist.:-(
As a dual boot user, the tendency is to stay in the currently booted environment until you want something in the other environment enough to close everything and reboot.
Truer words were never spoken. I notice you have few replies. I wonder how many folks just quietly modded you up (from Windows)
That assumes that Mozilla is universally superior to IE. The indisputable facts are that it is not, particularly in terms of speed and bloat.
Nice troll, but the article is about Firefox. ...and if FF isn't fast enough, I'm running a "P4_AXP" optimized build. It's noticably faster than the standard build or IE. Frankly, it's the fastest browser I've ever used. I wonder if an optimized build of IE would be faster... oh wait - we'll never know that, will we?
I was born in the UK in 1957; we moved to Canada in 1964. I moved to Los Angeles in 1979 and was ridicules soundly for saying "aboot". After about a year I noticed I was doing it myself ans started saying "about" instead.
So you've abandoned the Queen's Enlish in favour of speaking American? You must be proud to have learned to talk like a slack-jawed moron.
"When we mail under the new law, the major ISPs focus on our From: addresses, Subject: lines, our company information, and our disclaimers on the bottom of the e-mail as well as our IP address. They use this information to block our e-mails," Scelson said.
That's the whole point - many customers pay for that service.
I don't think it's a coincidence that they were a dying company before HP (incredibly foolishly) spent a bucket of money to buy them out, apparently in the theory that lashing two sinking ships together will make both float.
Uhmm, HP bought Compaq for their commercial products, not for the Presario brand.
Fact: The original legislated speed of the 401 was 115 km/h prior to a gas conservation act passing in the 70s and lowering the speed of the highway to 100 km/h. It is absolutely safe at that speed. This means that the designers of the highway designed it to accomodate speeds of over 140 km/h, if they have any sense at all (they do).
Fact: The stretch of the 401 between Windsor and Chatham was known as "Death Alley" just a few short years ago. The entire length of the 401 is currently in the process of being upgraded over the next few years, largely as a result of "Death Alley".
Based on this fact, I find your assertion that this road was designed for speeds over 140 km/h to be quite unlikely to say the least.
Furthermore, with the way a lot of people drive these days, more enforcement is sorely needed. If budgets don't allow for more policing, then photo radar suits me fine.
Unfortunately, once SP2 is finally released it will likely be about 6 months before we have it preinstalled on our new machines. I'm looking forward to that time, but not the laundry list of things SP2 will break, like SP1 did.
I work in tech support for one of the major computer manufacturers. I've had people call up claiming that their brand new computer came with the Blaster worm. It'd be nice if the sales people had enough sense to give out a flyer with instructions on how to enable the Windows XP firewall and download the patch, but I probably expect too much.
Consequences: No denial of service traffic whatsoever seen on the Internet. Millions of Windows users notice that their computer is running extremely slowly. Many buy new machines, which fixes the problem. Dell & Microsoft stock rises.
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Here's a guy that's likely been a the majority of people's neighborhoods -- at least in North America.
Make that just the United States. Starbucks is nothing in Canada.
Win+Pause/Break = System Properties
Win+D = Show desktop (same as Win+M)
When you first run a program, is the first thing you do to go around looking at all the various File|Preferences and Tools|Options panels, and look over every single tab searching for stupid settings under the assumption that the defaults will be dangerous to use?
Actually, yes. The default settings, if not dangerous, are likely going to be annoying to me in some way.
I probably shouldn't have to check the settings for sanity, but I do.
I'm browser-agnostic
;)
If only all web sites were like you.
I wouldn't recomment Slackware as your first distro
Slackware (3.6) was my first distro. I was quite happy with it, although I've run Debian ever since I discovered apt-get.
Your right to free speech does not require anyone to listen to you.
Your right to free speech does not give you the right to enter my house and bother me.
Therefore, nor does it give you the right to install malware on my PC.
Then again, I don't live in the USA, so tell me. Are you required to listen to every nut that talks to you on the street?
I'd really like one. My address is above. Thanks.
I work in tech support for a major manufacturer. We just have the user enable XP's firewall before the network cable is ever plugged in. This wasn't decided on a whim, but from experience.
Frankly, we don't care what Symantec or Microsoft say.
Oh, and let me assure you of how much I just love it when someone calls back because the previous agent neglected to mention the necessity of enabling the firewall immediately after a reinstall. Can you believe they tell me I can't strangle co-workers?
No, XP doesn't "crash". What it does do is slow to a crawl and eventually appear to stop completely from the mass of malware it's trying to execute. That or it'll just warn you it's going to shut down in 60 seconds ;)
:-(
Oh, sorry all... I fed the troll. I just couldn't resist.
As a dual boot user, the tendency is to stay in the currently booted environment until you want something in the other environment enough to close everything and reboot.
;-)
Truer words were never spoken. I notice you have few replies. I wonder how many folks just quietly modded you up (from Windows)
them: "ah you mean open the internet?"
YES!!! Open the Internet! People want to use it, ya know!!!
That's less work than clicking "open" from the download manager exactly how?
That assumes that Mozilla is universally superior to IE. The indisputable facts are that it is not, particularly in terms of speed and bloat.
...and if FF isn't fast enough, I'm running a "P4_AXP" optimized build. It's noticably faster than the standard build or IE. Frankly, it's the fastest browser I've ever used.
Nice troll, but the article is about Firefox.
I wonder if an optimized build of IE would be faster... oh wait - we'll never know that, will we?
inconthievable!
Duh, that's the whole point of a dictionary - to describe the language as it's used.
So I can expect a dictionary with "u" and "ur" in place of "you" and "you're"? "ne1" in place of "anyone"?
omglolkthxbye
I was born in the UK in 1957; we moved to Canada in 1964. I moved to Los Angeles in 1979 and was ridicules soundly for saying "aboot". After about a year I noticed I was doing it myself ans started saying "about" instead.
So you've abandoned the Queen's Enlish in favour of speaking American?
You must be proud to have learned to talk like a slack-jawed moron.
I actually downloaded FC2 yesterday and was going to install it until I read about that very same issue with the Asus P4P800 series of boards.
Saved me the headache at least.
"When we mail under the new law, the major ISPs focus on our From: addresses, Subject: lines, our company information, and our disclaimers on the bottom of the e-mail as well as our IP address. They use this information to block our e-mails," Scelson said.
That's the whole point - many customers pay for that service.
I don't think it's a coincidence that they were a dying company before HP (incredibly foolishly) spent a bucket of money to buy them out, apparently in the theory that lashing two sinking ships together will make both float.
Uhmm, HP bought Compaq for their commercial products, not for the Presario brand.
I just wrote her.
Thinking positively, after the sponsorship scandal, they're going to be needing votes and may be more receptive to feedback.
Hope springs eternal.
Fact: The original legislated speed of the 401 was 115 km/h prior to a gas conservation act passing in the 70s and lowering the speed of the highway to 100 km/h. It is absolutely safe at that speed. This means that the designers of the highway designed it to accomodate speeds of over 140 km/h, if they have any sense at all (they do).
Fact: The stretch of the 401 between Windsor and Chatham was known as "Death Alley" just a few short years ago. The entire length of the 401 is currently in the process of being upgraded over the next few years, largely as a result of "Death Alley".
Based on this fact, I find your assertion that this road was designed for speeds over 140 km/h to be quite unlikely to say the least.
Furthermore, with the way a lot of people drive these days, more enforcement is sorely needed. If budgets don't allow for more policing, then photo radar suits me fine.
Don't like it? Don't speed.
Unfortunately, once SP2 is finally released it will likely be about 6 months before we have it preinstalled on our new machines.
I'm looking forward to that time, but not the laundry list of things SP2 will break, like SP1 did.
I work in tech support for one of the major computer manufacturers.
I've had people call up claiming that their brand new computer came with the Blaster worm.
It'd be nice if the sales people had enough sense to give out a flyer with instructions on how to enable the Windows XP firewall and download the patch, but I probably expect too much.
Consequences: No denial of service traffic whatsoever seen on the Internet. Millions of Windows users notice that their computer is running extremely slowly. Many buy new machines, which fixes the problem. Dell & Microsoft stock rises.
I can totally see Joe Sixpack doing that.
Have you read anything about Blaster? It's spread via email attachments posing as Microsoft patches.
Apparently you've read absolutely nothing about Blaster.
The Blaster worm does not spread via email, but does distribute itself via the internet looking for vulnerable computers that have not been patched against a security hole first reported by Microsoft in mid-July 2003.
That kind of ignorance is just another reason we have so many machines on the internet that are left vulnerable to these kinds of exploits.
A firewire isn't going to do a damn thing to keep it out.
I do totally agree with you there, though... a firewire won't help protect you from Blaster.