That's the default setting - useful for servers since you don't need to trudge down to the server to manually reset it. You can change it to show a BSOD on Win2k and XP by right-clicking My Computer, going to the Advanced tab and clicking on the Startup and Recovery Settings button. Then uncheck the automatically restart button.
And XP is pretty stable - the one time I had a BSOD was due to dodgy hardware.
Closed caption monitoring of it's citizens? What like subtitles? Weird! I thought it was closed circuit cameras.
As for removing our "means of self-protection" - it was very hard to get a handgun licence even before the Dunblane shootings. The only way you could get one was if you were a member of a licenced gun club.
Also, they haven't been totally banned - you can have up to a.22 handgun, but it must only be used and stored in licenced gun club premises - i.e. not leave the building.
You can install another browser or operating system or use a friend's computer to access your bank website if you need to. It's a feature, not a necessity.
Why of course - I could go out and spend £150 on a copy of Windows XP, spend 3 hours installing everything and restoring my documents from backups! Or travel miles and irriate my friends each time I want to do online banking! What a sensible suggestion that is!
I'll tell you an easier solution shall I? I just won't do business with any organisation that refuses to stick to standards.
One of the major banks in the UK has a great and simple fraud prevention scheme.
When the customer applies for a credit or debit card they bring in a passport photo of themselves and provide a specimen signature. These are then printed onto the back of the card.
The customer doesn't forget to sign the card, it doesn't rub off like normal cards, and it's easy for the cashier to tell if the person standing in front of them looks like the picture on the back of the card.
Fraudsters might be able to print cards with these details too, but perhaps by adding a hologram then this wouldn't be a problem either?
Mozilla.org used *no* NS4/NS5 code in Mozilla. They rewrote the browser from scratch because they believed that the NS4 engine was in such a state that extending it would be a cludge at best, or impossible at worst.
Except if you're using HTML 4 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Strict or XHTML 1.1, target is not permitted. Thus the JavaScript solution is possibly the best solution.
JavaScript isn't evil - just the way some designers use it!:)
In the UK the Royal Mail was recently privatised. It's been a total and utter disaster.
Consignia (which is the new name for the Royal Mail) currently have a monopoly until the market is fully opened in 2006. They are losing money at the rate of £1,000,000 per day. Plus they're talking about having only one delivery a day and cutting about 30,000 posties. Also people in rural communities may lose their daily delivery and only get a few per week.
When the Royal Mail was in public ownership it made a healthy profit for the British taxpayer, which in turn contributed to our public services. It also guarantees that people get a minimum level of service.
I would imagine the USPO works on a similar basis and probably produces revenue for the government. This is a *good thing*.
If you open popups in new windows the right way (that is, target="_blank"), the links work perfectly. If you use JavaScript, Mozilla really has no way of knowing what the hell to do with the links (since you could pop up a window and then run some other code, which assumes that the old page is still open, which it wouldn't be if it's been replaced!).
That's if the page you're using is written in HTML4. If you're using XHTML then the use of target="_blank" is invalid. In which case you have to use JavaScript.
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Adoption strategy: * make sure everyone has the winamp plugin that plays ogg.
Winamp 3 comes with Ogg Vorbis support:)
* get windows media player to support it (is it possible to just make a dll for that??)
Check out MediaXW which provides an Ogg plugin for WMP
Reminds me of a tour of a data centre I had whilst working for a large UK insurance company.
They had a huge UPS battery array which could power the entire data centre for about 30 minutes if the mains dropped (30 mins allows for the generators to come online).
The guy doing the tour told us one time that he was sitting in the operations room which was above the battery room. The floor shook and a large "KAAABOOOOM" was heard. The ops guys ran downstairs to see a huge hole where the battery had been, plus a big black dent in the reinforced concrete roof! They had to get structural engineers in to check that the building was still safe!:)
Under the current Computer Misuse Act it is illegal to attempt to login to a system you have no authorisation to access. Portscanning is also illegal if you have no authorisation to do it.
And remember the Computer Misuse Act is a piece of criminal law - up to a maximum of 4 years in prison I believe.
After the IRA planted a bomb at Aintree Racecourse on the day of the Grand National (horse racing for non UK people), the government enacted a power it has under some law that I can't remember the name of.
Basically it shut off all domestic and business landlines and mobile phones in the Aintree area of Liverpool. The only landlines that worked in the area were payphones.
The emergency services were equipped with cellphones that were supposed to be exempt from the shutoff. Sadly there was a bit of a cockup so most of them didn't work. They had to resort to using radios, and not everyone had them. This crippled communications in what was an emergency situation.
Why on earth are you against seatbelts? They save lives - that's why they are mandatory in most countries across the world. It's compulsory so that you don't die. On a basic economic level, if you die the government doesn't get the same level of tax as it would if you're still alive.
I seem to remember hearing that airbags in the USA are more powerful than in Europe because you don't have to wear a seatbelt. Sounds OK doesn't it? Unfortunatly there have been cases where babies have been in baby chairs in the front seat and had their necks broken by the force.
Well, all it needs is a text file to crash windows.
The text file "trick" (where video memory could be overwritten) could be done in Win95/NT4 - but has been fixed since Win98/Win2000.
I'm not a big fan on 2k, since it has all sorts of serious Win3.1 bugs and IE bugs kicking around in it
And how does Windows 2000 have loads of Windows 3.1 bugs? Windows 2000 comes from the NT codebase which never had anything to do with Windows 3.1. In fact parts of Windows NT came from... OS/2.
IE bugs are not part of the kernel - the kernel in most operating systems (including Windows NT/2K/XP, Linux and most other Unix) does low-level hardware operations. That's all - IE runs as a user space application.
Not sure about XP, but it's a 0.01 downgrade on 2K (ie WinXP = NT 5.01, 2K = NT 5.00).
Erm, it's an upgrade and Windows XP is officially Windows NT 5.1 - so it's a 0.1 upgrade.
On the other hand, I have had systems crash, and not crash the fs. Even DOS and Win98
And strangely enough I've had systems crash and wipe the filesystem. Especially DOS and Windows 98 which uses FAT. On Windows NT/2K/XP you get the wonderful NTFS which rarely loses data.
Come back when you actually learn about what you're talking about.:P
There are exemptions to the DPA. If the information would comprimise national security then it will not be released to you. This doesn't stop you requesting your MI5 file - however they can get out of it by saying that it's a matter of national security.
I'm not sure it has anything to do with the immune system, as pollen or animal hair or aftershave are not viruses or bacteria.
These are auto-immune diseases, where the body's immune system (which is underused) has difficulty determining what is bacteria and what isn't. It therefore triggers an allergic reaction to combat the innocent trigger. Hence why there tend to be higher rates of asthma, hayfever etc in Western societies.
That's ridiculous - they're being asked to write software, that may incriminate themselves at a later date (is this legal in the US?).
If the Studios involved want the data, surely they should be the ones writing the software and not SonicBlue! Mind you, I wouldn't trust them to just get viewing data...:(
Problem is though, all that force was concentrated into a very tight area, only a few floors, thus putting the building under great stress. Plus the floors were ripped apart by the impact, a thing that would not happen with wind.
Really? I used to work for a quango that was part of the Scottish Executive (part of government) and they asked me to sign an agreement that I would have to ask them for permission to work for any company for 12 months after leaving work. Naturally I refused to sign it.:)
Well it was mainly performed over last year so point taken - LimeWire's UltraPeers are not a new idea though, Clip2 had peering in place but it wasn't integrated into a popular client (like LimeWire).
Having done p2p for my Honours project (yeesh!), I can tell you right now that Gnutella doesn't scale gracefully. It ends up being a collection of nodes that tend not to be able to see each other due to bandwith limitations. So whilst you might see 2000-3000 hosts on a good day, it's going to suck up a whole load of bandwith.
FastTrack on the other hand has a semi-heirarchical structure so it uses less bandwith, with those with the fastest connections doing the routing.
(Plug: View my Honours dissertation by clicking here)
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That's the default setting - useful for servers since you don't need to trudge down to the server to manually reset it. You can change it to show a BSOD on Win2k and XP by right-clicking My Computer, going to the Advanced tab and clicking on the Startup and Recovery Settings button. Then uncheck the automatically restart button.
And XP is pretty stable - the one time I had a BSOD was due to dodgy hardware.
Closed caption monitoring of it's citizens? What like subtitles? Weird! I thought it was closed circuit cameras.
.22 handgun, but it must only be used and stored in licenced gun club premises - i.e. not leave the building.
As for removing our "means of self-protection" - it was very hard to get a handgun licence even before the Dunblane shootings. The only way you could get one was if you were a member of a licenced gun club.
Also, they haven't been totally banned - you can have up to a
Yep, it's been offline since 1998, and it looks like it's going to be offline for a few more days! :)
The only fly in the ointment is that they persist in using Real Audio for any audio content they serve
Yep, but at least Real do produce a player for non-Windows platforms, unlike Microsoft.
You can install another browser or operating system or use a friend's computer to access your bank website if you need to. It's a feature, not a necessity.
Why of course - I could go out and spend £150 on a copy of Windows XP, spend 3 hours installing everything and restoring my documents from backups! Or travel miles and irriate my friends each time I want to do online banking! What a sensible suggestion that is!
I'll tell you an easier solution shall I? I just won't do business with any organisation that refuses to stick to standards.
One of the major banks in the UK has a great and simple fraud prevention scheme.
When the customer applies for a credit or debit card they bring in a passport photo of themselves and provide a specimen signature. These are then printed onto the back of the card.
The customer doesn't forget to sign the card, it doesn't rub off like normal cards, and it's easy for the cashier to tell if the person standing in front of them looks like the picture on the back of the card.
Fraudsters might be able to print cards with these details too, but perhaps by adding a hologram then this wouldn't be a problem either?
Mozilla.org used *no* NS4/NS5 code in Mozilla. They rewrote the browser from scratch because they believed that the NS4 engine was in such a state that extending it would be a cludge at best, or impossible at worst.
Except if you're using HTML 4 Strict, XHTML 1.0 Strict or XHTML 1.1, target is not permitted. Thus the JavaScript solution is possibly the best solution.
:)
JavaScript isn't evil - just the way some designers use it!
In the UK the Royal Mail was recently privatised. It's been a total and utter disaster.
Consignia (which is the new name for the Royal Mail) currently have a monopoly until the market is fully opened in 2006. They are losing money at the rate of £1,000,000 per day. Plus they're talking about having only one delivery a day and cutting about 30,000 posties. Also people in rural communities may lose their daily delivery and only get a few per week.
When the Royal Mail was in public ownership it made a healthy profit for the British taxpayer, which in turn contributed to our public services. It also guarantees that people get a minimum level of service.
I would imagine the USPO works on a similar basis and probably produces revenue for the government. This is a *good thing*.
If you open popups in new windows the right way (that is, target="_blank"), the links work perfectly. If you use JavaScript, Mozilla really has no way of knowing what the hell to do with the links (since you could pop up a window and then run some other code, which assumes that the old page is still open, which it wouldn't be if it's been replaced!).
That's if the page you're using is written in HTML4. If you're using XHTML then the use of target="_blank" is invalid. In which case you have to use JavaScript.
Adoption strategy:
:)
* make sure everyone has the winamp plugin that plays ogg.
Winamp 3 comes with Ogg Vorbis support
* get windows media player to support it (is it possible to just make a dll for that??)
Check out MediaXW which provides an Ogg plugin for WMP
Reminds me of a tour of a data centre I had whilst working for a large UK insurance company.
:)
They had a huge UPS battery array which could power the entire data centre for about 30 minutes if the mains dropped (30 mins allows for the generators to come online).
The guy doing the tour told us one time that he was sitting in the operations room which was above the battery room. The floor shook and a large "KAAABOOOOM" was heard. The ops guys ran downstairs to see a huge hole where the battery had been, plus a big black dent in the reinforced concrete roof! They had to get structural engineers in to check that the building was still safe!
Under the current Computer Misuse Act it is illegal to attempt to login to a system you have no authorisation to access. Portscanning is also illegal if you have no authorisation to do it.
And remember the Computer Misuse Act is a piece of criminal law - up to a maximum of 4 years in prison I believe.
After the IRA planted a bomb at Aintree Racecourse on the day of the Grand National (horse racing for non UK people), the government enacted a power it has under some law that I can't remember the name of.
Basically it shut off all domestic and business landlines and mobile phones in the Aintree area of Liverpool. The only landlines that worked in the area were payphones.
The emergency services were equipped with cellphones that were supposed to be exempt from the shutoff. Sadly there was a bit of a cockup so most of them didn't work. They had to resort to using radios, and not everyone had them. This crippled communications in what was an emergency situation.
Why on earth are you against seatbelts? They save lives - that's why they are mandatory in most countries across the world. It's compulsory so that you don't die. On a basic economic level, if you die the government doesn't get the same level of tax as it would if you're still alive.
I seem to remember hearing that airbags in the USA are more powerful than in Europe because you don't have to wear a seatbelt. Sounds OK doesn't it? Unfortunatly there have been cases where babies have been in baby chairs in the front seat and had their necks broken by the force.
Well, all it needs is a text file to crash windows.
:P
The text file "trick" (where video memory could be overwritten) could be done in Win95/NT4 - but has been fixed since Win98/Win2000.
I'm not a big fan on 2k, since it has all sorts of serious Win3.1 bugs and IE bugs kicking around in it
And how does Windows 2000 have loads of Windows 3.1 bugs? Windows 2000 comes from the NT codebase which never had anything to do with Windows 3.1. In fact parts of Windows NT came from... OS/2.
IE bugs are not part of the kernel - the kernel in most operating systems (including Windows NT/2K/XP, Linux and most other Unix) does low-level hardware operations. That's all - IE runs as a user space application.
Not sure about XP, but it's a 0.01 downgrade on 2K (ie WinXP = NT 5.01, 2K = NT 5.00).
Erm, it's an upgrade and Windows XP is officially Windows NT 5.1 - so it's a 0.1 upgrade.
On the other hand, I have had systems crash, and not crash the fs. Even DOS and Win98
And strangely enough I've had systems crash and wipe the filesystem. Especially DOS and Windows 98 which uses FAT. On Windows NT/2K/XP you get the wonderful NTFS which rarely loses data.
Come back when you actually learn about what you're talking about.
Think you're a bit confused:
:)
ActiveX = COM/DCOM
DirectX = Hardware Abstracted API used mainly for games
So you would upgrade DirectX when a new game comes out, not ActiveX
There are exemptions to the DPA. If the information would comprimise national security then it will not be released to you. This doesn't stop you requesting your MI5 file - however they can get out of it by saying that it's a matter of national security.
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I'm not sure it has anything to do with the immune system, as pollen or animal hair or aftershave are not viruses or bacteria.
These are auto-immune diseases, where the body's immune system (which is underused) has difficulty determining what is bacteria and what isn't. It therefore triggers an allergic reaction to combat the innocent trigger. Hence why there tend to be higher rates of asthma, hayfever etc in Western societies.
That's ridiculous - they're being asked to write software, that may incriminate themselves at a later date (is this legal in the US?).
:(
If the Studios involved want the data, surely they should be the ones writing the software and not SonicBlue! Mind you, I wouldn't trust them to just get viewing data...
Problem is though, all that force was concentrated into a very tight area, only a few floors, thus putting the building under great stress. Plus the floors were ripped apart by the impact, a thing that would not happen with wind.
Really? I used to work for a quango that was part of the Scottish Executive (part of government) and they asked me to sign an agreement that I would have to ask them for permission to work for any company for 12 months after leaving work. Naturally I refused to sign it. :)
Well it was mainly performed over last year so point taken - LimeWire's UltraPeers are not a new idea though, Clip2 had peering in place but it wasn't integrated into a popular client (like LimeWire).
FastTrack on the other hand has a semi-heirarchical structure so it uses less bandwith, with those with the fastest connections doing the routing.
(Plug: View my Honours dissertation by clicking here)
If this was a bug in the browser plugin then it would be more of a problem, but this isn't the case.