Quite frankly, if/. wants to maintain any level of credibility as a technology site (not a blind MS-bashing site) then it shouldn't post comments like this.
Basically if windows raise on clicks it makes it impossible to use overlapping windows.
Huh? I'm a long-time Mac user, and I'm trying to imagine what you're talking about. I think I follow you: click inside a window, it doesn't raise; resize or move a window, it doesn't raise; if you want it to raise you have to click on the border. I don't understand how these rules could even be convenient, let alone why this makes my Mac desktop impossible to use.
One thing that does bug the hell out of me in some window managers is windows that raise on mouseover. Or have focus on mouseover, without raising.
On the Mac, clicking on any part of a window (title bar, border, or content inside) raises the window and gives it focus. However, you can move a window without raising it or giving it focus by holding the Command key while dragging the title bar. In Mac OS 9 this only worked for windows belonging to the same application; Command-clicking the title bar of a window belonging to another application would raise it. This is fixed in Mac OS X.
You also mention parent and child windows. I agree that the Windows 3.1 way of doing application and document windows was crap. On Mac OS 9, document windows are associated with an application, and one application's windows can be in front of or behind another application's windows, but you can't have a BBEdit window layered in between two Mozilla windows. On Mac OS X, windows aren't tied so closely to apps, and you can do just that. An application can be hidden though, which hides all of its windows - the easiest way to do this is Option-clicking on another application or on the desktop, to hide the app you were working in while switching to another app.
The closest thing Mac OS X has to child windows is child dialog boxes, called "sheets", which are attached to their parents (they slide down out from under the title bar, pretty and animated, and they stay attached to the window, allowing you to continue with your work in other windows before dismissing the dialog if you need to).
Anyway, sorry for rambling, but please explain yourself.
Hair would seize both, and the total absence of fan activity would have been your best diagnostic in either case.
Uhh, no, apparently in this case, the total absence of fan activity was completely overlooked, and the best diagnostic was the machine turning off. Varying the fan speed would not have helped in this case.
My credit union had a Java-based navigation menu, which worked fine in:
Internet Explorer for Windows
Mozilla for Windows
Internet Explorer for Mac OS 9
Mozilla for Linux
It did not work in:
Mozilla for Mac OS 9 (AFAIK using the exact same JRE as MSIE)
Mozilla for Mac OS X
Internet Explorer for Mac OS X
OmniWeb for Mac OS X
iCab for Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X
Some functionality was available without the menu - checking balances and getting a transaction history.
Then they ditched the Java menu in favor of plain HTML links.
Now it looks like they've switched back to Java, and Mozilla for Windows doesn't work anymore. I'm not gonna try logging on with Internet Explorer from work.
I read an article about autism in Silicon Valley in Wired several months ago. In the article, they described one of the common tests used to determine whether a child is autistic. The test is done with a puppet show, something kids can understand.
Bob and Sally (two puppets) are in a room. Sally has a ball. Sally puts her ball in a box, and goes outside to play. Bob takes Sally's ball out of the box, and puts it in a basket across the room. Sally comes back inside, and wants her ball. Where does she look for it first?
An autistic child doesn't recognize that what he/she knows (Bob moved the ball) is different than what Sally knows (she left it in the box, and wasn't there when Bob moved it).
2. It's nothing you'd ever need to turn off unless it was causing major problems (ie: crashes).
Or unless you never find it useful and every time you accidentally hit the wrong key, it jumps you to a random place on the web page and you lose your place?
I'll try it for awhile, but I suspect I'll be disabling it.
Are these the same scientists who said the average color of the universe was Bondi Blue, then realized they'd made a miscalculation and it's actually beige?
Good idea... but the Microsoft agreement could very well prohibit this concept in order to minimize the chance that a non-licensee of Microsoft could build a compatable system.
Too bad we can't find out whether that's true or not without signing an NDA, isn't it?
Awsome, I am in luck, I am 17....I need to do this before febuary. anyone wanna give me a big wad of cash to pay for it?
Would it be illegal in any way for me to pay a juvenile to do this? Is it technically against the law for a juvenile to do this? If it is, then it would be illegal for me to pay them to break the law, I'm sure. IANAL (obviously); can anyone who is comment?
How about hacking Quake into a Pacman clone, imagine your own mirror image: big, yellow and round with a mouth covering 50% of your body. And wouldn't it be nicer to get hunted by yellow, pink and blue ghosts instead of really scary corpses and zombies...
Ooh, the Descent engine would kick ass for PacMan I bet...
Phoenix is going to be the default browser in all Windows boxes that I admin - simply because it doesen't need to "install". Just plunk the directory over the network when a new version comes out and - wham! New broswer!
Doesn't the.zip version of Mozilla do all this same stuff, aside from obviously the "no unnecessary features" bit? The.tgz version on Linux works fine for me without rebooting or clicking a license; the only problem is having to copy the plugins back over (which is not a problem on Mac OS X, since it uses the/Library folder).
IIRC you can telnet into the standard mail tcp port and fake an e-mail, we did it as an exersise at uni. Can't remeber how to do it though.;)
Yep, that would be port 25, which is what Sendmail listens on. Of course, the server you're telnetting to could be running something other than Sendmail, but the protocol is the same.
Is it provable in a court of law that extending the duration of copyright by this set amount of time promotes the progress of science and useful arts, or are promoted just as much by the previous duration?
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Yep, I'm getting ads on everything too.
This is why Mozilla kicks ass.
Quite frankly, if /. wants to maintain any level of credibility as a technology site (not a blind MS-bashing site) then it shouldn't post comments like this.
Maintain? Did you mean obtain?
Remember to point your HOSTS file to 66.35.250.150!
;-)
Remember that real OSes are case-sensitive, and it's hosts, not HOSTS.
The official technical term is "CPE", "Customer Premise Equipment".
Basically if windows raise on clicks it makes it impossible to use overlapping windows.
Huh? I'm a long-time Mac user, and I'm trying to imagine what you're talking about. I think I follow you: click inside a window, it doesn't raise; resize or move a window, it doesn't raise; if you want it to raise you have to click on the border. I don't understand how these rules could even be convenient, let alone why this makes my Mac desktop impossible to use.
One thing that does bug the hell out of me in some window managers is windows that raise on mouseover. Or have focus on mouseover, without raising.
On the Mac, clicking on any part of a window (title bar, border, or content inside) raises the window and gives it focus. However, you can move a window without raising it or giving it focus by holding the Command key while dragging the title bar. In Mac OS 9 this only worked for windows belonging to the same application; Command-clicking the title bar of a window belonging to another application would raise it. This is fixed in Mac OS X.
You also mention parent and child windows. I agree that the Windows 3.1 way of doing application and document windows was crap. On Mac OS 9, document windows are associated with an application, and one application's windows can be in front of or behind another application's windows, but you can't have a BBEdit window layered in between two Mozilla windows. On Mac OS X, windows aren't tied so closely to apps, and you can do just that. An application can be hidden though, which hides all of its windows - the easiest way to do this is Option-clicking on another application or on the desktop, to hide the app you were working in while switching to another app.
The closest thing Mac OS X has to child windows is child dialog boxes, called "sheets", which are attached to their parents (they slide down out from under the title bar, pretty and animated, and they stay attached to the window, allowing you to continue with your work in other windows before dismissing the dialog if you need to).
Anyway, sorry for rambling, but please explain yourself.
Forged source IP's should be dropped at the edge already.
Amazing how many ISPs don't do this...
Hair would seize both, and the total absence of fan activity would have been your best diagnostic in either case.
Uhh, no, apparently in this case, the total absence of fan activity was completely overlooked, and the best diagnostic was the machine turning off. Varying the fan speed would not have helped in this case.
It did not work in:
Some functionality was available without the menu - checking balances and getting a transaction history.
Then they ditched the Java menu in favor of plain HTML links.
Now it looks like they've switched back to Java, and Mozilla for Windows doesn't work anymore. I'm not gonna try logging on with Internet Explorer from work.
I read an article about autism in Silicon Valley in Wired several months ago. In the article, they described one of the common tests used to determine whether a child is autistic. The test is done with a puppet show, something kids can understand.
Bob and Sally (two puppets) are in a room. Sally has a ball. Sally puts her ball in a box, and goes outside to play. Bob takes Sally's ball out of the box, and puts it in a basket across the room. Sally comes back inside, and wants her ball. Where does she look for it first?
An autistic child doesn't recognize that what he/she knows (Bob moved the ball) is different than what Sally knows (she left it in the box, and wasn't there when Bob moved it).
An amusing error I got when trying to run VirtualPC for Windows inside VirtualPC for Mac. Yes, this is real.
It's something mozilla is missing, blocking based off of filters. It'd be nice if I can say, fine, take everything on this server except .swf files.
Bug 135511.
2. It's nothing you'd ever need to turn off unless it was causing major problems (ie: crashes).
Or unless you never find it useful and every time you accidentally hit the wrong key, it jumps you to a random place on the web page and you lose your place?
I'll try it for awhile, but I suspect I'll be disabling it.
Are these the same scientists who said the average color of the universe was Bondi Blue, then realized they'd made a miscalculation and it's actually beige?
Good idea... but the Microsoft agreement could very well prohibit this concept in order to minimize the chance that a non-licensee of Microsoft could build a compatable system.
Too bad we can't find out whether that's true or not without signing an NDA, isn't it?
Awsome, I am in luck, I am 17....I need to do this before febuary. anyone wanna give me a big wad of cash to pay for it?
Would it be illegal in any way for me to pay a juvenile to do this? Is it technically against the law for a juvenile to do this? If it is, then it would be illegal for me to pay them to break the law, I'm sure. IANAL (obviously); can anyone who is comment?
How about hacking Quake into a Pacman clone, imagine your own mirror image: big, yellow and round with a mouth covering 50% of your body. And wouldn't it be nicer to get hunted by yellow, pink and blue ghosts instead of really scary corpses and zombies...
Ooh, the Descent engine would kick ass for PacMan I bet...
"I took a fish head out to see a movie; I didn't have to pay to get it in."
If the sensor has already detected the flash, it's too late to stop the flash from bouncing off your plate and returning to the camera...
But maybe not too late to make another flash and send that back to the camera too, before the shutter closes. I don't know.
Another poster pointed out that WhichSSL.com is an advertisement for InstantSSL.com. Check whois.
Phoenix is going to be the default browser in all Windows boxes that I admin - simply because it doesen't need to "install". Just plunk the directory over the network when a new version comes out and - wham! New broswer!
.zip version of Mozilla do all this same stuff, aside from obviously the "no unnecessary features" bit? The .tgz version on Linux works fine for me without rebooting or clicking a license; the only problem is having to copy the plugins back over (which is not a problem on Mac OS X, since it uses the /Library folder).
Doesn't the
What version of Linux should I be programming to? Should I go with The Standard, Redhat? The Pure, Debian? The Cool, SuSE? or The Esoteric, Sorcerer?
What about The Stable And Secure, Slackware?
IIRC you can telnet into the standard mail tcp port and fake an e-mail, we did it as an exersise at uni. Can't remeber how to do it though. ;)
Yep, that would be port 25, which is what Sendmail listens on. Of course, the server you're telnetting to could be running something other than Sendmail, but the protocol is the same.
C'mon, at least use a telnet client, and do it properly.
What do you think you're telnetting into?
Is it provable in a court of law that extending the duration of copyright by this set amount of time promotes the progress of science and useful arts, or are promoted just as much by the previous duration?