Yeah, they don't make much sense. As far as the Awesome Bar goes, the address bar, location bar, URL bar is apparently no longer used for addresses, locations or URLs. Go figure.
That's kind of what I'm thinking too. I really want the FF3 features, minus the awesome-cluster-of-a-bar. It irks me that an OSS project is pulling crap like this. I'm even a financial supporter of Mozilla. I helped pay for their massive NYT marketing campaign. Let me rephrase that: I was a financial supported of Mozilla. I don't really want to go to Opera but I might have to. I'm an old Apple guy so there's always Safari but I don't really want to do that either. I just wish that Mozilla would slap down the FF3 devs and make them take a different approach to this new feature.
I take it that you didn't notice that I was being sarcastic and tongue-in-cheek...:-) Yes, FF2 has horrible memory leaks. The FF devs have denied that they exist. Miraculously though somehow the FF3 devs fixed the non-existent memory leaks. See, I did it again right there. Damn I'm good.;-) For the record FF2 is consuming just shy of 500MB on my laptop right now. I had to reboot this AM when I got to work because my 2GB laptop was paging thanks to FF2 consuming just over 1.5GB. Yes, I have a lot of open windows with a lot of tabs but that number seems to climb on it's own quite well. It also does some very weird things if you Standby.
New features are great. That's one of the nice things about OSS. New features make their way into OSS projects faster IMHO. However forcing the use of a new and very controversial feature is not cool. It would be one thing if they added the feature and even turned it on by default if they wanted to give people a chance to use it. It's another thing to intentionally break support for the old way of doing it. That's rather vindictive in my opinion. We rail on other companies for doing similar things. Mozilla should not be excluded from our wrath simply because they're an OSS company.
I would have modded you down as being inaccurate but doing so would mean that I couldn't correct the inaccuracy. So I'm passing up on the opportunity to mod you and am instead going to fix the mistake.
As of FireFox 3.0b3 browser.urlbar.richResultsno longer works. The ability to chose your own search results style was removed by the Mozilla developers as part of bug #407836. They're illogical viewpoint is explained in bug #403159.
And, for the record, Oldbar does not fix the problem. It does not disable the searching style introduced by FF 3.0. It only makes the results look a little more like 2.0.
According to this article browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped no longer works either. The value of browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped is now ignored.
It's not the GP's fault either. Dozens of articles have been published in the past few months that have old, outdated information. Even Redhat put it in their Knowledgebase on 6/4. The sheer number of articles attempting to help people disable the "awesome bar" should make the developers realize that this is not a "feature" that everyone wants. I agree with the GP. I too HATE the awesome bar. It's a shame too because I would love to have the fixes for the memory leaks in FF 2.0 that don't exist but FF 3.0 addresses anyway.
Ask Spamhaus to set up a spamtrap just for this company. Add it to the list. Let them send the spam and get blacklisted. All the while you're freshening up your resume and looking for greener pastures that don't have the stench of the place you work in now.
I would have written the program with a brief narrative about how the company in question has decided to violate its customers' trust by violating the agreed upon privacy policy. I'd name names. Then I include the spam after that. Then send the FU letter to the boss and move on. I commend the parent for having a backbone.
It's not about female vs male programmers. The proper question is do bad programmers write better code that good programmers? Undocumented code is "bad code". It's as simple as that. It's not one sex versus the other, though the author clearly tried to stir up those emotions to sell the article.
Lately we've been seeing FIOS as a new option, but the valid market segments in the US for people who can see fields and trees outside their home's windows can be counted on the fingers of one hand.
We're rolling out FTTH in our rural areas as a replacement for DSL which will never, ever reach the speeds of the future. When I say rural I mean rural. We have town with fewer than 50 people. It's not uncommon to live more than a mile from your nearest neighbor. My parents live in our service area. They live 5.5 miles from the nearest paved road. Fiber is the best long-term strategic last-mile solution that we can go with. Embracing copper in this day and age is just silly.
I have some specific needs and gripes about chairs.
1) Few chairs, other than the highly adjustable ones, have armrests that come up high enough to keep me from having to slouch over so my arms are fully on the armrest (novel idea I know). I'm tall though not a giant. When sitting upright in a chair, back straight, arms down on the armrests most of the fancy chairs I've found don't come up high enough to let me arms relax at a comfortable 90 degrees. Most are short so that only my wrists hit the armrests. This usually means that the are short enough overall that I'll have to hold my forearms up with my arms and back to maintain a comfortable keyboard position.
Most armrests aren't long enough. They tend to fall far short of my wrists unless I either recline in the chair or pull my elbows way back like I'm on the bench press. Of course they need to be adjustable so that they don't stick forward too far to keep one from rolling up to a desk or keyboard tray.
The armrest isn't soft enough or something. I have a painful problem with my forearms just forward of my elbows. Between the 2 bones at my elbow on the forearm side is a fairly sensitive spot. It's one of those "funny bone" spots that aren't all that damn funny. It's very sensitive on me. The armrests on the chair I'm in now stop right about that point, causing me to press down on that spot with the sensitive nerve endings. I need an armrest that can counteract that horribly sensitive spot caused by the awkward position, height, armrest length and armrest material.
The seat material isn't thick enough to support my weight. I'm not a huge guy but I am 6'1" 240lbs (and falling hopefully). My weight in some chairs is enough to compress the seating material so much that you're essentially sitting on the hard plastic or understructure of the chair. I need something firmer but comfortable. I've never tried mesh.
I'm 6'1". I find myself leaning forward slightly at the neck to balance my head on my shoulders. My back isn't straight up and down and inclines to the rear so it has to balance or use more muscles holding itself back at an angle. I can't for the life of me find an affordable high-backed chair. Ideally it would have some sort of adjustment or small pad/pillow that can be added or removed easily for sitting upright (with neck support) or kicking back to let my neck straighten out. I'm worried about leaning my head forward and the long-term implications of developing a hump in my upper back or crook in my neck.
I went to OfficeMax a while back to look at their chairs. They only had 1 high-backed chair. It was a house-branded chair and was very tall. The back though had this funky attempt at lumbar support that was very uncomfortable. The armrests were too low. They were also too short. It did feel fairly well-built otherwise. Overall it was unusable. The next tallest was a Broyhill. It didn't have a high-back but it was the tallest of the short-backed models. The arms weren't adjustable but they did extend out far enough. I didn't end up buying anything. The only pro about the whole trip was the OfficeConnect card my father got at work. His employer negotiated a discount with OfficeMax that the employees get as a benefit. It cut down most office supplies by about 75%. Electronics don't have as much markup so the discount wasn't nearly as high there (I bought a new cordless mouse and an external HD). Printer cartridges have a big markup though so they might be cheaper. The chairs were cut down by at least 50%. Best of all the "card" is a xerox copy that isn't authenticated at the counter. My mother (a teacher) uses it when she buys supplies for schools because the discount is so much better than what OfficeMax gives schools (which is only a couple percentage points off, cheap ass bastards).
So if anyone has any suggestions on finding a decent chair that fits my needs I would love to hear it. I don't mind spending good money for a chair if I'm confident that it will last.
I've been using Paypal since the very beginning. I've been using eBay and Yahoo Auctions since they were first established. I was thinking about how much $$$ I've spent on auction items over the years back when I last did my taxes. My purchases peaked in 2002 with just over $16k in purchase. In total I have bought nearly $100k of crap off of them both over the last decade. Amazingly enough I have never been burnt. All of my eBay purchases used PayPal I'm sorry to say. The only time I ever had a problem I simply did a chargeback with my CC. PP got pissed and threatened me; when I said I was going to do a chargeback they transferred me internally to a guy who did the threatening. He was obviously reading prepared material from a script. They never locked my account though. That was before you had to verify yourself to send $$$.
I moved back in 2003. That prompted me to move to a new bank as well. I was fortunate enough to have put my old bank account into Paypal when I verified my account. When I moved I sure as hell didn't update the info. It remained that way until this Spring when I accidentally forgot to change the payment method from PayPal's default of a bank account to a CC. They realized that my account was closed at that time and unverified my PP account. I had to give them my new bank account info. I hated to do it but I had to complete the purchase. I'm seriously considering signing up for a new account somewhere, using it for 6 months and then closing it just so I can get back to the way it was.
It's amazing that I've never actually gotten burnt considering how much I've used PP. The vast majority of the equipment I buy is networking gear. I'm pretty careful who I buy from. If I have any feeling that it's not a good seller I move on. I won't buy from anyone on the West coast (too much counterfeit Cisco hardware comes from China into the West coast). I'll even read all the seller's reviews and go back through their past auctions and the buyers to see if it looks legit. I guess being careful pays off. I'm definitely not a PP or eBay shill. I lost a fair bit of money in eBay stock and I think the wannabe bank PayPal should rot in litigation hell, but I never have been burnt.
You should RTFA. It doesn't say that he's confessed. Yet, at least. And it doesn't say that's he's offered to lead the DA to the body. Clearly the Wired reporter that wrote the story is used to writing technical articles, not articles about murder and the legal system.
Ok, for those unable to actually READ any of the results given by Google...
browser.urlbar.richResults has not worked since 3.0b3 when the Mozilla devs intentionally removed the ability to go back to using an URL bar for actual URLs and instead turned it into this god-awful search the world thing. And don't try to suggest using Oldbar. It does not bring back the old method. It only changes how the new search algorithm is displayed. Awesome bar is an awesome cluster fuck and an awesome example of the Moz devs not listening to the userbase. Goodbye Mozilla, hello something else.
This country has a serious problem with young adults getting out of the primary and sometimes even their secondary educational institutions with little to no desire to vote; in many cases they have utter and complete ignorance of the process. This country depends on everyone voting. I think we should lower the age to 16 to reach a wider audience. Then we require schools to teach our kids more about government and governmental processes. Normally I wouldn't say "require" about anything to do with public education (other than require that No Child Left Behind be abolished, as a teacher's son) but in this case I would say that. I had a horrible joke for a government teacher. Out of fear that there are other horrible government teachers out there, I say require it. In fact I would recommend a mock election for all grades, 7 and up. Teach all young adults about voting and the election process. Kids 16 and up have the extra added bonus and responsibility of voting for real. Reach the kids early and instill in them the need for voting and the knowledge to do so effectively.
Lowering the voting age would encourage more young voters to participate. Voters who get started earlier in life are more likely to vote throughout their lifetimes. Political affiliations vary with time. Younger voters add balance to the current majority of voters who are over the age of 50 (think moral majority and what has been happening for the last 8 years). Educating young adults about the voting process encourages debate about which candidates take which stance. Debate, in case some people have forgotten, is never a bad thing. Lowering the voting age is really a win/win for everyone IMHO.
To those that would argue that lowering the age would open the door for elections to become a popularity contest (think concert appearances, candidates with MySpace pages, appearing on MTV, saying things that the young voters want to hear but don't really plan to do what they say, etc), I would argue that the current election is a popularity contest for people who don't keep track of the issues.
I'm concerned about the way this case tries to hold someone responsible for actions because another party reacted to those actions in a way that was decidedly NOT reasonable.
So lets say that you're in a multi-story building and you scream bloody murder that there is a fire coming up the stairway. With no where else to escape someone on that floor breaks out a window and tries to jump to safety, lands wrong and breaks their neck resulting in instant death. Turns out you made the whole thing up. Now, are you just an asshole or are you guilty or murder? Your careless actions caused a murder. Were it me I'd lock your ass up.
I bought a pair of 1U dual PIIIs on eBay for about $50 each. The drive bays were missing of course but they can also be found on eBay. Toss in a couple of drives and away you go. Cheap and effective.
I've been a big fan of the CanIt spam filter for years. It's underpinnings are OSS and you get full source code when you buy the product. Their support is excellent. At an ISP I run I installed it from source and it worked flawlessly. I would recommend the CanIt-SMB appliance for your needs unless you think you'll grow beyond 100 users soon. You won't be sorry.
It won't be 10 until August 15th! You don't start counting your child's age from when you announced that you were pregnant to the world. The Indigo Blue iMac didn't make it's debut until August 15, 1998. I know. I worked for an Apple Authorized Reseller at the time. I'd quit a week earlier because of family problems (grandpa in the hospital, sister's wedding in 2 weeks, and college marching band camp starting in less than 2 weeks). Every single one we had in stock was pre-sold before we opened the doors that day. All we could do is take orders for more.
This is exactly why you use spam filters like MIMEDefang (or his commercial big brother CanIt). They actually do all of the spam filtering *during* the actual SMTP dialog. Ie, DSNs are not sent to forged senders. The server sending the spam does not have the opportunity to get rid of its message before the message is identified as spam. RFC 2821 permits the issuing of 4xx or 5xx error codes right up until the final 221 QUIT message. A rejection before the QUIT forces the sending MTA to handle the bounce to the envelope from.
The History Channel has some great documentaries on the origins of the Universe. They are graphical enough that they would interest the kiddies. They explain things fairly well but you would probably have to pause and explain things in easier terms. They also avoid all the religious nonsense, at least the ones that I'm thinking of. I don't have any titles for you I'm afraid. A look through their online DVD library would probably point you in the right direction. It was at least an hour long, maybe longer.
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Yeah, they don't make much sense. As far as the Awesome Bar goes, the address bar, location bar, URL bar is apparently no longer used for addresses, locations or URLs. Go figure.
That's kind of what I'm thinking too. I really want the FF3 features, minus the awesome-cluster-of-a-bar. It irks me that an OSS project is pulling crap like this. I'm even a financial supporter of Mozilla. I helped pay for their massive NYT marketing campaign. Let me rephrase that: I was a financial supported of Mozilla. I don't really want to go to Opera but I might have to. I'm an old Apple guy so there's always Safari but I don't really want to do that either. I just wish that Mozilla would slap down the FF3 devs and make them take a different approach to this new feature.
I take it that you didn't notice that I was being sarcastic and tongue-in-cheek... :-) Yes, FF2 has horrible memory leaks. The FF devs have denied that they exist. Miraculously though somehow the FF3 devs fixed the non-existent memory leaks. See, I did it again right there. Damn I'm good. ;-) For the record FF2 is consuming just shy of 500MB on my laptop right now. I had to reboot this AM when I got to work because my 2GB laptop was paging thanks to FF2 consuming just over 1.5GB. Yes, I have a lot of open windows with a lot of tabs but that number seems to climb on it's own quite well. It also does some very weird things if you Standby.
New features are great. That's one of the nice things about OSS. New features make their way into OSS projects faster IMHO. However forcing the use of a new and very controversial feature is not cool. It would be one thing if they added the feature and even turned it on by default if they wanted to give people a chance to use it. It's another thing to intentionally break support for the old way of doing it. That's rather vindictive in my opinion. We rail on other companies for doing similar things. Mozilla should not be excluded from our wrath simply because they're an OSS company.
As of FireFox 3.0b3 browser.urlbar.richResults no longer works. The ability to chose your own search results style was removed by the Mozilla developers as part of bug #407836. They're illogical viewpoint is explained in bug #403159.
And, for the record, Oldbar does not fix the problem. It does not disable the searching style introduced by FF 3.0. It only makes the results look a little more like 2.0.
According to this article browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped no longer works either. The value of browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped is now ignored.
It's not the GP's fault either. Dozens of articles have been published in the past few months that have old, outdated information. Even Redhat put it in their Knowledgebase on 6/4. The sheer number of articles attempting to help people disable the "awesome bar" should make the developers realize that this is not a "feature" that everyone wants. I agree with the GP. I too HATE the awesome bar. It's a shame too because I would love to have the fixes for the memory leaks in FF 2.0 that don't exist but FF 3.0 addresses anyway.
Ask Spamhaus to set up a spamtrap just for this company. Add it to the list. Let them send the spam and get blacklisted. All the while you're freshening up your resume and looking for greener pastures that don't have the stench of the place you work in now.
I would have written the program with a brief narrative about how the company in question has decided to violate its customers' trust by violating the agreed upon privacy policy. I'd name names. Then I include the spam after that. Then send the FU letter to the boss and move on. I commend the parent for having a backbone.
Now there's a bone-headed idea.
It's not about female vs male programmers. The proper question is do bad programmers write better code that good programmers? Undocumented code is "bad code". It's as simple as that. It's not one sex versus the other, though the author clearly tried to stir up those emotions to sell the article.
We're rolling out FTTH in our rural areas as a replacement for DSL which will never, ever reach the speeds of the future. When I say rural I mean rural. We have town with fewer than 50 people. It's not uncommon to live more than a mile from your nearest neighbor. My parents live in our service area. They live 5.5 miles from the nearest paved road. Fiber is the best long-term strategic last-mile solution that we can go with. Embracing copper in this day and age is just silly.
1) Few chairs, other than the highly adjustable ones, have armrests that come up high enough to keep me from having to slouch over so my arms are fully on the armrest (novel idea I know). I'm tall though not a giant. When sitting upright in a chair, back straight, arms down on the armrests most of the fancy chairs I've found don't come up high enough to let me arms relax at a comfortable 90 degrees. Most are short so that only my wrists hit the armrests. This usually means that the are short enough overall that I'll have to hold my forearms up with my arms and back to maintain a comfortable keyboard position.
Most armrests aren't long enough. They tend to fall far short of my wrists unless I either recline in the chair or pull my elbows way back like I'm on the bench press. Of course they need to be adjustable so that they don't stick forward too far to keep one from rolling up to a desk or keyboard tray.
The armrest isn't soft enough or something. I have a painful problem with my forearms just forward of my elbows. Between the 2 bones at my elbow on the forearm side is a fairly sensitive spot. It's one of those "funny bone" spots that aren't all that damn funny. It's very sensitive on me. The armrests on the chair I'm in now stop right about that point, causing me to press down on that spot with the sensitive nerve endings. I need an armrest that can counteract that horribly sensitive spot caused by the awkward position, height, armrest length and armrest material.
The seat material isn't thick enough to support my weight. I'm not a huge guy but I am 6'1" 240lbs (and falling hopefully). My weight in some chairs is enough to compress the seating material so much that you're essentially sitting on the hard plastic or understructure of the chair. I need something firmer but comfortable. I've never tried mesh.
I'm 6'1". I find myself leaning forward slightly at the neck to balance my head on my shoulders. My back isn't straight up and down and inclines to the rear so it has to balance or use more muscles holding itself back at an angle. I can't for the life of me find an affordable high-backed chair. Ideally it would have some sort of adjustment or small pad/pillow that can be added or removed easily for sitting upright (with neck support) or kicking back to let my neck straighten out. I'm worried about leaning my head forward and the long-term implications of developing a hump in my upper back or crook in my neck.
I went to OfficeMax a while back to look at their chairs. They only had 1 high-backed chair. It was a house-branded chair and was very tall. The back though had this funky attempt at lumbar support that was very uncomfortable. The armrests were too low. They were also too short. It did feel fairly well-built otherwise. Overall it was unusable. The next tallest was a Broyhill. It didn't have a high-back but it was the tallest of the short-backed models. The arms weren't adjustable but they did extend out far enough. I didn't end up buying anything. The only pro about the whole trip was the OfficeConnect card my father got at work. His employer negotiated a discount with OfficeMax that the employees get as a benefit. It cut down most office supplies by about 75%. Electronics don't have as much markup so the discount wasn't nearly as high there (I bought a new cordless mouse and an external HD). Printer cartridges have a big markup though so they might be cheaper. The chairs were cut down by at least 50%. Best of all the "card" is a xerox copy that isn't authenticated at the counter. My mother (a teacher) uses it when she buys supplies for schools because the discount is so much better than what OfficeMax gives schools (which is only a couple percentage points off, cheap ass bastards).
So if anyone has any suggestions on finding a decent chair that fits my needs I would love to hear it. I don't mind spending good money for a chair if I'm confident that it will last.
That's because the address bar, location bar, URL bar is apparently no longer used for addresses, locations or URLs. Go figure.
I moved back in 2003. That prompted me to move to a new bank as well. I was fortunate enough to have put my old bank account into Paypal when I verified my account. When I moved I sure as hell didn't update the info. It remained that way until this Spring when I accidentally forgot to change the payment method from PayPal's default of a bank account to a CC. They realized that my account was closed at that time and unverified my PP account. I had to give them my new bank account info. I hated to do it but I had to complete the purchase. I'm seriously considering signing up for a new account somewhere, using it for 6 months and then closing it just so I can get back to the way it was.
It's amazing that I've never actually gotten burnt considering how much I've used PP. The vast majority of the equipment I buy is networking gear. I'm pretty careful who I buy from. If I have any feeling that it's not a good seller I move on. I won't buy from anyone on the West coast (too much counterfeit Cisco hardware comes from China into the West coast). I'll even read all the seller's reviews and go back through their past auctions and the buyers to see if it looks legit. I guess being careful pays off. I'm definitely not a PP or eBay shill. I lost a fair bit of money in eBay stock and I think the wannabe bank PayPal should rot in litigation hell, but I never have been burnt.
You should RTFA. It doesn't say that he's confessed. Yet, at least. And it doesn't say that's he's offered to lead the DA to the body. Clearly the Wired reporter that wrote the story is used to writing technical articles, not articles about murder and the legal system.
browser.urlbar.richResults has not worked since 3.0b3 when the Mozilla devs intentionally removed the ability to go back to using an URL bar for actual URLs and instead turned it into this god-awful search the world thing. And don't try to suggest using Oldbar. It does not bring back the old method. It only changes how the new search algorithm is displayed. Awesome bar is an awesome cluster fuck and an awesome example of the Moz devs not listening to the userbase. Goodbye Mozilla, hello something else.
I Auto Installed SP3 and now my computer is a useless brick!
Lowering the voting age would encourage more young voters to participate. Voters who get started earlier in life are more likely to vote throughout their lifetimes. Political affiliations vary with time. Younger voters add balance to the current majority of voters who are over the age of 50 (think moral majority and what has been happening for the last 8 years). Educating young adults about the voting process encourages debate about which candidates take which stance. Debate, in case some people have forgotten, is never a bad thing. Lowering the voting age is really a win/win for everyone IMHO.
To those that would argue that lowering the age would open the door for elections to become a popularity contest (think concert appearances, candidates with MySpace pages, appearing on MTV, saying things that the young voters want to hear but don't really plan to do what they say, etc), I would argue that the current election is a popularity contest for people who don't keep track of the issues.
Ha! You should try working for a traditional, old school telco some time my friend. IP is a complete fad, let me tell you...
Yes. It's an election year.
So lets say that you're in a multi-story building and you scream bloody murder that there is a fire coming up the stairway. With no where else to escape someone on that floor breaks out a window and tries to jump to safety, lands wrong and breaks their neck resulting in instant death. Turns out you made the whole thing up. Now, are you just an asshole or are you guilty or murder? Your careless actions caused a murder. Were it me I'd lock your ass up.
I bought a pair of 1U dual PIIIs on eBay for about $50 each. The drive bays were missing of course but they can also be found on eBay. Toss in a couple of drives and away you go. Cheap and effective.
I've been a big fan of the CanIt spam filter for years. It's underpinnings are OSS and you get full source code when you buy the product. Their support is excellent. At an ISP I run I installed it from source and it worked flawlessly. I would recommend the CanIt-SMB appliance for your needs unless you think you'll grow beyond 100 users soon. You won't be sorry.
It won't be 10 until August 15th! You don't start counting your child's age from when you announced that you were pregnant to the world. The Indigo Blue iMac didn't make it's debut until August 15, 1998. I know. I worked for an Apple Authorized Reseller at the time. I'd quit a week earlier because of family problems (grandpa in the hospital, sister's wedding in 2 weeks, and college marching band camp starting in less than 2 weeks). Every single one we had in stock was pre-sold before we opened the doors that day. All we could do is take orders for more.
This is exactly why you use spam filters like MIMEDefang (or his commercial big brother CanIt). They actually do all of the spam filtering *during* the actual SMTP dialog. Ie, DSNs are not sent to forged senders. The server sending the spam does not have the opportunity to get rid of its message before the message is identified as spam. RFC 2821 permits the issuing of 4xx or 5xx error codes right up until the final 221 QUIT message. A rejection before the QUIT forces the sending MTA to handle the bounce to the envelope from.
The History Channel has some great documentaries on the origins of the Universe. They are graphical enough that they would interest the kiddies. They explain things fairly well but you would probably have to pause and explain things in easier terms. They also avoid all the religious nonsense, at least the ones that I'm thinking of. I don't have any titles for you I'm afraid. A look through their online DVD library would probably point you in the right direction. It was at least an hour long, maybe longer.