I haven't read any of Robinson's Callahan books, but I remember really liking his post-Apocalyptic book, "Telempath." Good stuff. I'm always a sucker for a good post-Apocalyptic story.
With an infection like that the only thing to do is
1) nuke from orbit and
2) reinstall from known free sources (NO spy/adware supported items).
I think you mean to say:
1) Take off 2) Nuke the site from orbit
It's the only way to be sure.:)
I would've tried that, but I don't have any backups to restore the good stuff. Plus I'm rather short on the nukes, and the transport to orbit. Heck, I don't even have a Caterpillar Power Loader J-5000. Or even a J-4000! It's all just very sad...
Okay, let's say you get all your biometric info stored somewhere for secure access to something. Inevitably, some site that has your info stored will be hacked (this will always happen), and your biometric information is now out there in the wild. Enterprising hacker can then submit *that* biometric info to sites AS YOU to gain access.
How is this different from passwords, you say?
You can change your damned compromised passwords! Once your biometric info gets out there, you're compromised for LIFE.
My advice is to avoid all instances of biometric 'security'. Forever.
Okay, so I had a problem where when I hovered over a tab's close button, it would disappear (though it would still when clicked). Also, when I installed the beta of the upcoming Tab Mix Plus, the main tab close button would flicker when hovered over it, and I'd have to click several times very quickly to make it work.
The problem: a theme I had installed (which has since been updated today).
So, if you experience any UI weirdness, you may want to switch over to the default theme and restart to see if that makes a difference.
Now that I have my Tabs Mix Plus, I'm doin' okay with FF2.
Shame about the non-multi-threaded UI, though. Maybe someday.
Well, Firefox is so fast now... It got to us a day early.
Yeah, but Opera is already several versions ahead.:)
Too bad Opera isn't open source. Then someone could take the renderer out of that, put it in an assembly language-based shell with a good UI, and I'd finally be happy with the speed of a web browser that had a good UI...
It seems we have my first FF2 bug! I click on the 'Submit' button at Slashdot, and it jumps up to the top of the page. Second submit-button click seems to work, though. Weird.
Unfortunately, it also has some bugs with that feature (it also makes the close buttons on each tab disappear when the pointer is hovering over it, but it still works when clicked).
something with lots and lots of features is never considered lightweight.
Well, let me put it this way: compare the base FF with no extensions vs the base Opera. Guess who wins in performance.:)
I've got the RC1 of Tab Mix Plus working in FF2 now, but it's got a bug that well, bugs me: the main close tab button (yay, it HAS one!) doesn't work: when I mouse over it, it flickers and doesn't work unless I click on it very quickly. (yeah, dangerous)
Still, at least individual bookmarks now open in their own background tabs, which was also a big irritation. *whew*
Does it provide me with the 'main tab-close button that FF used to have?
I used both the per-tab close button and the main one, and rely on having both. Plus I *really* prefer my bookmarks to open in individual background tabs. I can still open a group of tabs in their own ('Open All In Tabs'), but I want to do individual ones, as well.
The ability to add themes is now found in Tools > Add-ons under the Theme section.
Awesome, thanks; I definitely didn't notice that! I prefer the old method of separate links for Tools>Extensions and Tools>Themes, but oh well, as long as it's still there.
Tab Mix Plus is not FF2-compatible yet; the author says a new version should come along within a week or so. This is proving mighty irritating. I used both the regular close-tab button *and* the per-tab close buttons; now I only have the per-tab ones. Gah. Add features, folks, don't REMOVE them.:(
Other than that, it's definitely faster (except for one area - switching between already-loaded tabs is MUUUUCH faster in IE7. And no, that's nowhere near enough to get me to use IE7).
And is themeability now gone, or am I just not looking in the right spot? I don't see any way to change the look of this thing.
Maybe Opera will one day have a decent interface, and enough features for me not to need Extensions (apparently now renamed 'Add-Ons', and I can use a fast & lightweight browser.
Just because it's socially acceptable to hack DRM doesn't mean its legal or right.
Also, just because something is illegal (though not yet challenged in court for validity), doesn't mean that it's wrong. See also: George W. Bush presidency, laws enacted therein.
Oh, and what was the reason behind this particular release date? Was it to beat FF2, to make it in time for some Vista requirement?
And will there be minor feature enhancements/bug fixes before the next major release? The PNG color space problem comes to mind - fixing this in a minor release shouldn't break anything else.
I'm under the impression that IE7's quirks mode renders exactly like IE6's quirks mode (which is not a bad thing, IMHO), except I have a question about how far this compatibility extends - is the * hack still available in quirks mode?
I've already seen a hack (not verified whether it really works) to let you install IE7 without WGA verification. (Sorry, no link; I saw it go by a day or two ago on either Digg or Reddit, I think.)
Why did IE7 take such a long time to release after IE6?
Considering when they started working on IE7, it was actually a pretty fast release for Microsoft, if not *very* fast. Especially when you take into account how many products, internal and external, that changes in IE impacts.
The real question is, of course, why did MS take so long to START working on IE7?
Why do you assume that pro Open Source equates with anti-Microsoft
Because of... reality? There can BE no peaceful coexistence between Microsoft and anyone else, open source or not. If you don't understand this, you don't understand Microsoft.
If this is still the case from what they said earlier, you're only going to see CSS improvement with IE7 if you use a DTD (which, let's face it, most of you probably aren't). So, time to suck it up, you lazy bastards, and start using a DTD. While you're at it, learn which ones trigger quirks mode in IE6 and which ones don't. As far as I know, IE7 doesn't work with Windows 2000, right? There are still quite a lot of people on W2K...
On second thoughts I like having a clear sign that a chick is nuts.
Or you could just make sure there's no Y chromosome. That's another clear sign. Dude, they're ALL nuts, just in different ways, and to different degrees. That's why they're always a surprise!
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I haven't read any of Robinson's Callahan books, but I remember really liking his post-Apocalyptic book, "Telempath." Good stuff. I'm always a sucker for a good post-Apocalyptic story.
With an infection like that the only thing to do is
:)
1) nuke from orbit and
2) reinstall from known free sources (NO spy/adware supported items).
I think you mean to say:
1) Take off
2) Nuke the site from orbit
It's the only way to be sure.
I would've tried that, but I don't have any backups to restore the good stuff. Plus I'm rather short on the nukes, and the transport to orbit. Heck, I don't even have a Caterpillar Power Loader J-5000. Or even a J-4000! It's all just very sad...
Okay, let's say you get all your biometric info stored somewhere for secure access to something. Inevitably, some site that has your info stored will be hacked (this will always happen), and your biometric information is now out there in the wild. Enterprising hacker can then submit *that* biometric info to sites AS YOU to gain access.
How is this different from passwords, you say?
You can change your damned compromised passwords! Once your biometric info gets out there, you're compromised for LIFE.
My advice is to avoid all instances of biometric 'security'. Forever.
Honestly, I'd really prefer to just reformat and replace it with Ubuntu, but I'm not sure it runs on this hardware. :(
Congress. Got that bitch all cleaned up. Sure took a while, though. You wouldn't _believe_ the shit that was going on in there!
Okay, so I had a problem where when I hovered over a tab's close button, it would disappear (though it would still when clicked). Also, when I installed the beta of the upcoming Tab Mix Plus, the main tab close button would flicker when hovered over it, and I'd have to click several times very quickly to make it work.
The problem: a theme I had installed (which has since been updated today).
So, if you experience any UI weirdness, you may want to switch over to the default theme and restart to see if that makes a difference.
Now that I have my Tabs Mix Plus, I'm doin' okay with FF2.
Shame about the non-multi-threaded UI, though. Maybe someday.
Well, Firefox is so fast now... It got to us a day early.
:)
Yeah, but Opera is already several versions ahead.
Too bad Opera isn't open source. Then someone could take the renderer out of that, put it in an assembly language-based shell with a good UI, and I'd finally be happy with the speed of a web browser that had a good UI...
It seems we have my first FF2 bug! I click on the 'Submit' button at Slashdot, and it jumps up to the top of the page. Second submit-button click seems to work, though. Weird.
Unfortunately, it also has some bugs with that feature (it also makes the close buttons on each tab disappear when the pointer is hovering over it, but it still works when clicked).
something with lots and lots of features is never considered lightweight.
:)
Well, let me put it this way: compare the base FF with no extensions vs the base Opera. Guess who wins in performance.
I've got the RC1 of Tab Mix Plus working in FF2 now, but it's got a bug that well, bugs me: the main close tab button (yay, it HAS one!) doesn't work: when I mouse over it, it flickers and doesn't work unless I click on it very quickly. (yeah, dangerous)
Still, at least individual bookmarks now open in their own background tabs, which was also a big irritation. *whew*
Does the en-NZ version render all the text upside-down?
Only in the northern hemisphere.
Considering I've never seen such spamming, no, I can't say as it's more irritating to me. :)
Are you sure it's the author(s) and not just some freaky fanboy?
I used to use TBP until I determined it was responsible for slowing FF to a crawl. That was quite awhile ago, though - has that been fixed?
Does it provide me with the 'main tab-close button that FF used to have?
I used both the per-tab close button and the main one, and rely on having both. Plus I *really* prefer my bookmarks to open in individual background tabs. I can still open a group of tabs in their own ('Open All In Tabs'), but I want to do individual ones, as well.
The ability to add themes is now found in Tools > Add-ons under the Theme section.
Awesome, thanks; I definitely didn't notice that! I prefer the old method of separate links for Tools>Extensions and Tools>Themes, but oh well, as long as it's still there.
Tab Mix Plus is not FF2-compatible yet; the author says a new version should come along within a week or so. This is proving mighty irritating. I used both the regular close-tab button *and* the per-tab close buttons; now I only have the per-tab ones. Gah. Add features, folks, don't REMOVE them. :(
Other than that, it's definitely faster (except for one area - switching between already-loaded tabs is MUUUUCH faster in IE7. And no, that's nowhere near enough to get me to use IE7).
And is themeability now gone, or am I just not looking in the right spot? I don't see any way to change the look of this thing.
Maybe Opera will one day have a decent interface, and enough features for me not to need Extensions (apparently now renamed 'Add-Ons', and I can use a fast & lightweight browser.
Just because it's socially acceptable to hack DRM doesn't mean its legal or right.
Also, just because something is illegal (though not yet challenged in court for validity), doesn't mean that it's wrong. See also: George W. Bush presidency, laws enacted therein.
Good thing we don't base our lives around things said in the Constitution in the 1700s, eh?
Why is ClearType on by default, and not respect the user's system setting for it? Many of us still use CRTs and don't like how it looks on CRTs.
Oh, and what was the reason behind this particular release date? Was it to beat FF2, to make it in time for some Vista requirement?
And will there be minor feature enhancements/bug fixes before the next major release? The PNG color space problem comes to mind - fixing this in a minor release shouldn't break anything else.
I'm under the impression that IE7's quirks mode renders exactly like IE6's quirks mode (which is not a bad thing, IMHO), except I have a question about how far this compatibility extends - is the * hack still available in quirks mode?
Dude, *WTF*?!?!
I've already seen a hack (not verified whether it really works) to let you install IE7 without WGA verification. (Sorry, no link; I saw it go by a day or two ago on either Digg or Reddit, I think.)
FYI.
Why did IE7 take such a long time to release after IE6?
Considering when they started working on IE7, it was actually a pretty fast release for Microsoft, if not *very* fast. Especially when you take into account how many products, internal and external, that changes in IE impacts.
The real question is, of course, why did MS take so long to START working on IE7?
Why do you assume that pro Open Source equates with anti-Microsoft
... reality? There can BE no peaceful coexistence between Microsoft and anyone else, open source or not. If you don't understand this, you don't understand Microsoft.
Because of
If this is still the case from what they said earlier, you're only going to see CSS improvement with IE7 if you use a DTD (which, let's face it, most of you probably aren't). So, time to suck it up, you lazy bastards, and start using a DTD. While you're at it, learn which ones trigger quirks mode in IE6 and which ones don't. As far as I know, IE7 doesn't work with Windows 2000, right? There are still quite a lot of people on W2K...
On second thoughts I like having a clear sign that a chick is nuts.
Or you could just make sure there's no Y chromosome. That's another clear sign. Dude, they're ALL nuts, just in different ways, and to different degrees. That's why they're always a surprise!