Well, Microsoft have recognised that computers in use tend to be quiet, and so are taking steps to rectify that.
Funny, Apple recognized that computers in use tend to be noisy, and rectified that by removing the fan.
Unfortunately, they put it back in. My eMac is really obnoxious, unless it's in the same room as a PC, in which case I can't even hear it. Maybe I've been spoiled by my iMac....
Did anyone else think it ironic that some rap artists are endorsing the RIAA's position, considering that "sampling" is little different from consumer use of Napster?
It's very different: consumers using Napster aren't doing it commercially for profit.
Verified that before the patch, typing telnet://|ls%20-la in Internet Explorer's address bar gives me a directory listing, and after the patch it's fixed by turning the | into %7C which doesn't work. I couldn't get it to work by clicking your link though, or in Mozilla.
Also verified that it launched in two bounces before the patch and one bounce after, on my 700MHz G4 eMac.
IRC doesn't support a lot of the functionality of AIM, it's much less convenient for most of what I use AIM for, and maybe I don't always want everyone to know my IP address?
Well, Microsoft and Yahoo don't get paid just because some guy using a yahoo e-mail account e-mails someone using a hotmail account.
Uhh, of course they do. You can't check your mail on Yahoo or Hotmail without going to their Web site, which contains advertising banners. The companies are getting paid to run those ads.
(Whether you choose to see them ornot is another matter, of course, but most people do, so the companies do get paid.)
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Don't forget that A) people tend to reject and discount the patently absurd, and B) we're the minority here.
"You know, Grandma, how i used to send you pictures on the internet that i made with my camera? Well, i won't be able to do that any more unless i pay someone some money to make sure that it can't be stolen..."
"Who would want to steal your pictures? They're not worth anything to anyone else! They wouldn't really make you pay for that, that law is to stop criminals."
"Mom, i used to send you DVD's full of video that we'd make of the new baby... we'd use our video camera and iMovie and then use iDVD and make those for you? Well, now that Apple is gone because they tried to survive the legal assaults on them for iMovie 3 - i have a Windows computer now since computers that could copy DVD's without protection were made illegal - and the DVD's i burn in that machine won't work in your Microsoft Media Center/HDTV setup unless i pay a license fee to Microsoft..."
"I don't understand all that technical stuff. Why can't you make DVDs I can play? My friend Bob at work says his niece just sent him a DVD of her wedding, and he has the same setup I have. Why can't you do that?"
"I know, dad, you like to record Matlock when its on during the day - but unless you pay $5 a month for the right to record the show, you're just going to have to come up with something else..."
"Oh, I'm not paying $5 for that, I'm paying $5 for these great new features that I couldn't get a few years ago. I could never figure out how to program my old VCR, that thing was such a pain. This is so much easier!"
Anyways, the IE Favorites menu is special because you can drag and drop its menu items to rearrange them. You can't do that in other menus, so the Favorites menu is obviously custom UI code.
Ahhh, I figured it had to be something like that. I've never done that, so I didn't know what it was.
So, how come the other menus, which don't use custom UI code, don't use the same non-custom UI code that Notepad and other applications use???
I should clarify: we're not doing per-user permissions on those 4500 domains. But for a smaller company, with maybe only a few hundred sites, it'd be nice to be able to handle that. suEXEC works OK for CGI scripts, but PHP isn't pretty.
surely you could run x threads of httpd as each of the users? my httpd runs as user apache, so i don't see why you couldn't fire them up as user joe, fred, gareth etc...
At work we host 4,500 domains on one box. No, what you describe is not workable.
could that work have been better spent building an IIS-like management console which, imho, would be far more useful for administration...
Many of the people who have used both IIS and Apache have said this is one of the biggest things they hate about IIS. The management console thingie is a complete pain in the ass to work with. A plain-text config file is much easier to read through, maintain, back up, restore, and get help on.
I can sit down at a web server I've never seen before, and type: grep -v "^#" httpd.conf|grep -v "^$"|less and in a minute or so, I understand how it's set up. I don't expect anyone else who's not a serious Apache admin to be able to do the same, but that's why there are comments and excellent documentation readily available.
Then I can cp httpd.conf httpd.conf-working, tweak it, and if it doesn't work, just cp httpd.conf-working httpd.conf and it's all better.
Finally, if I'm really hgaving problems, I can mail httpd.conf to a friend, and ask for help.
For example, menus in Windows are expected to be static (that is, they stay visible after the user releases the mouse button), while Macintosh menus tend to be rubber-band (menu disappears when user releases mouse button).
Actually since Mac OS 8, Mac menus behave the same way that Windows menus are supposed to. I say "supposed to" because Windows is a buggy pile of crap.
Want to see something amusing?
Open Notepad. Click-and-hold on a menu. Drag down, below the menu, off to the side. Release the mouse. The menu disappears. This is the correct behavior.
Open an Explorer window. Click-and-hold on the Favorites menu. Drag down, below the menu. Release the mouse. The menu disappears, just like in Notepad.
Click-and-hold on any other menu within Explorer. Drag down, below the menu. Release the mouse. The menu remains open.
Explain to me how this behavior can be inconsistent between different menus within the same application? Mozilla's behavior is Bug 32494.
In Windows, a menu action simply happens while on Macintosh, the selected menu item flashes several times.
This is Bug 66120.
Mozilla has multiple versions of the Classic skin, one for each platform. I don't use it. I use the Modern skin, which looks and behaves the same way on all four platforms I use.
But, as someone else pointed out. Linux, and X still seems to run faster, which is pretty ridiculous, considering that X is running through a socket, and is naturally indirect. *sigh*
I'm not sure of the technical details, but my understanding is that Quartz works very much the same way - although Apple doesn't seem to provide a way to do it, it should be possible to run applications remotely, just like you can with X.
Do you want to save changes before closing? [Yes/No]
Are you sure you want to close without saving changes? [Yes/No]
I haven't noticed Mozilla giving me Yes/No buttons; I've noticed giving me Mac-like Don't Save/Cancel/Save buttons just like the Mac standard, even on Windows and Linux. Not to mention the Edit/Preferences standard (Mozilla/Preferences on OSX).
Keyboard shortcuts is one of the things Windows sucks at, compared to Mac OS. Of course Linux sucks much worse, but still, if you're not familiar with the Mac way of doing things, you really have no idea how truly awesome keyboard shortcuts can be. The same shortcuts work in EVERY application, from a text editor to a browser to an SSH client to a game.
What's the shortcut to paste?
In most Windows applications, either Ctrl-V or Shift-Insert works.
In some places, such as the Advanced Find dialog box in Microsoft Outlook, Shift-Insert doesn't work and you must use Ctrl-V.
In SecureCRT, since Ctrl-V has to be sent to the server, you must use Shift-Insert.
In QVTTerm, press Alt-V.
In PuTTY, right-click in the window to paste. Anything you select is automatically copied, like X.
In a DOS prompt, right-click in the window to paste, but to copy you have to press Enter.
In Telnet on Win95/98/ME, press Alt-E-V to select it from the menu, which also works in most other apps, but of course is slower and less convenient than the other ways of doing it.
Yeah, Windows users will whine about how of course it has to be this way. On the Mac, though, Command-V always works. Always. Everywhere. In all applications.
Nonsense, that's like saying its harder to add on a scientific calculator compared to a plain one.
When I was in school I had people ask to borrow my calculator, and when I handed them my TI-82 they looked at it for a bit, then handed it back and asked somebody else for a "normal" calculator. Naturally, anyone who knows how to use it can use it for simple addition with no trouble at all.
Let me tell you, the one-button mouse is a godsend to anyone in tech support. You'd be amazed how many Windows users have trouble figuring out the difference between a left-double-click and a right-single-click.
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Am I the only one who took several minutes to figure out that "DiscT@2" is "Disc Tattoo"?
Nope, I didn't figure that out until you said it, and I saw it on Slashdot some time back as well.
But this VNC solution is really solid in a mixed Windows, Novell, and MAC OS X enviornment.
There's a version of VNC for Mac OS 9 as well.
Well, Microsoft have recognised that computers in use tend to be quiet, and so are taking steps to rectify that.
Funny, Apple recognized that computers in use tend to be noisy, and rectified that by removing the fan.
Unfortunately, they put it back in. My eMac is really obnoxious, unless it's in the same room as a PC, in which case I can't even hear it. Maybe I've been spoiled by my iMac....
Did anyone else think it ironic that some rap artists are endorsing the RIAA's position, considering that "sampling" is little different from consumer use of Napster?
It's very different: consumers using Napster aren't doing it commercially for profit.
Verified that before the patch, typing telnet://|ls%20-la in Internet Explorer's address bar gives me a directory listing, and after the patch it's fixed by turning the | into %7C which doesn't work. I couldn't get it to work by clicking your link though, or in Mozilla.
Also verified that it launched in two bounces before the patch and one bounce after, on my 700MHz G4 eMac.
This happened with the Q'uran last fall. Bookstores couldn't keep it in stock, people were buying copies so quickly.
IRC doesn't support a lot of the functionality of AIM, it's much less convenient for most of what I use AIM for, and maybe I don't always want everyone to know my IP address?
If you don't understand the vast differences between IM and e-mail, you obviously haven't been using IM to its full potential.
Yeah, sounds an awful lot like this, which everyone has been ignoring, most notably AOL.
Well, Microsoft and Yahoo don't get paid just because some guy using a yahoo e-mail account e-mails someone using a hotmail account.
Uhh, of course they do. You can't check your mail on Yahoo or Hotmail without going to their Web site, which contains advertising banners. The companies are getting paid to run those ads.
(Whether you choose to see them or not is another matter, of course, but most people do, so the companies do get paid.)
Don't forget that A) people tend to reject and discount the patently absurd, and B) we're the minority here.
"You know, Grandma, how i used to send you pictures on the internet that i made with my camera? Well, i won't be able to do that any more unless i pay someone some money to make sure that it can't be stolen..."
"Who would want to steal your pictures? They're not worth anything to anyone else! They wouldn't really make you pay for that, that law is to stop criminals."
"Mom, i used to send you DVD's full of video that we'd make of the new baby... we'd use our video camera and iMovie and then use iDVD and make those for you? Well, now that Apple is gone because they tried to survive the legal assaults on them for iMovie 3 - i have a Windows computer now since computers that could copy DVD's without protection were made illegal - and the DVD's i burn in that machine won't work in your Microsoft Media Center/HDTV setup unless i pay a license fee to Microsoft..."
"I don't understand all that technical stuff. Why can't you make DVDs I can play? My friend Bob at work says his niece just sent him a DVD of her wedding, and he has the same setup I have. Why can't you do that?"
"I know, dad, you like to record Matlock when its on during the day - but unless you pay $5 a month for the right to record the show, you're just going to have to come up with something else..."
"Oh, I'm not paying $5 for that, I'm paying $5 for these great new features that I couldn't get a few years ago. I could never figure out how to program my old VCR, that thing was such a pain. This is so much easier!"
etc.
Try it. You'll find I'm right.
No replies yet, and it's slashdotted already?!?
This sounds pretty cool. Who here has an extra $25,000 lying around?
If an advertiser pays 10x more for "interested" eyeballs, I would expect to see considerably fewer ads.
This is America. I'd expect to see the same number of ads, and richer media conglomerates.
We have them in the Pacific Northwest, and in Arizona when I lived there. Does anyplace NOT have Albertsons?
(I'm rather annoyed that their marketing department has decided to drop the apostrophe from their name... bastards.)
Joe Homeoffice certainly doesn't know how to lock down his Web server.
.net - - [10/Sep/2002:12:47:47 -0700] "GET /scripts/..%255c%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+ dir" 404 83
/default.ida?NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN%u9090%u685 8%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858% ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u9090%u8190%u00c3%u% u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 400 328
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adsl-68-20-215-135.dsl.chcgil.ameritech
dsc01.hoi-tx-6.rasserver.net - - [10/Sep/2002:13:19:58 -0700] "GET
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207.248.53.14 - - [10/Sep/2002:18:38:14 -0700] "GET
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN%u9090%u68
b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 400 328
And why does it have to be electrical? What was so bad about the older machines?
Two words: pregnant chad.
how often do you really CTRL+click a menu?
Huh? Who said anything about Ctrl+clicking?
Anyways, the IE Favorites menu is special because you can drag and drop its menu items to rearrange them. You can't do that in other menus, so the Favorites menu is obviously custom UI code.
Ahhh, I figured it had to be something like that. I've never done that, so I didn't know what it was.
So, how come the other menus, which don't use custom UI code, don't use the same non-custom UI code that Notepad and other applications use???
I should clarify: we're not doing per-user permissions on those 4500 domains. But for a smaller company, with maybe only a few hundred sites, it'd be nice to be able to handle that. suEXEC works OK for CGI scripts, but PHP isn't pretty.
surely you could run x threads of httpd as each of the users? my httpd runs as user apache, so i don't see why you couldn't fire them up as user joe, fred, gareth etc...
At work we host 4,500 domains on one box. No, what you describe is not workable.
could that work have been better spent building an IIS-like management console which, imho, would be far more useful for administration...
Many of the people who have used both IIS and Apache have said this is one of the biggest things they hate about IIS. The management console thingie is a complete pain in the ass to work with. A plain-text config file is much easier to read through, maintain, back up, restore, and get help on.
I can sit down at a web server I've never seen before, and type:
grep -v "^#" httpd.conf|grep -v "^$"|less
and in a minute or so, I understand how it's set up. I don't expect anyone else who's not a serious Apache admin to be able to do the same, but that's why there are comments and excellent documentation readily available.
Then I can cp httpd.conf httpd.conf-working, tweak it, and if it doesn't work, just cp httpd.conf-working httpd.conf and it's all better.
Finally, if I'm really hgaving problems, I can mail httpd.conf to a friend, and ask for help.
Step 4: Profit! :-\
For example, menus in Windows are expected to be static (that is, they stay visible after the user releases the mouse button), while Macintosh menus tend to be rubber-band (menu disappears when user releases mouse button).
Actually since Mac OS 8, Mac menus behave the same way that Windows menus are supposed to. I say "supposed to" because Windows is a buggy pile of crap.
Want to see something amusing?
Open Notepad. Click-and-hold on a menu. Drag down, below the menu, off to the side. Release the mouse. The menu disappears. This is the correct behavior.
Open an Explorer window. Click-and-hold on the Favorites menu. Drag down, below the menu. Release the mouse. The menu disappears, just like in Notepad.
Click-and-hold on any other menu within Explorer. Drag down, below the menu. Release the mouse. The menu remains open.
Explain to me how this behavior can be inconsistent between different menus within the same application? Mozilla's behavior is Bug 32494.
In Windows, a menu action simply happens while on Macintosh, the selected menu item flashes several times.
This is Bug 66120.
Mozilla has multiple versions of the Classic skin, one for each platform. I don't use it. I use the Modern skin, which looks and behaves the same way on all four platforms I use.
But, as someone else pointed out. Linux, and X still seems to run faster, which is pretty ridiculous, considering that X is running through a socket, and is naturally indirect. *sigh*
I'm not sure of the technical details, but my understanding is that Quartz works very much the same way - although Apple doesn't seem to provide a way to do it, it should be possible to run applications remotely, just like you can with X.
Slightly more realistic dialog boxes:
Do you want to save changes before closing? [Yes/No]
Are you sure you want to close without saving changes? [Yes/No]
I haven't noticed Mozilla giving me Yes/No buttons; I've noticed giving me Mac-like Don't Save/Cancel/Save buttons just like the Mac standard, even on Windows and Linux. Not to mention the Edit/Preferences standard (Mozilla/Preferences on OSX).
What's the shortcut to paste?
Yeah, Windows users will whine about how of course it has to be this way. On the Mac, though, Command-V always works. Always. Everywhere. In all applications.
Nonsense, that's like saying its harder to add on a scientific calculator compared to a plain one.
When I was in school I had people ask to borrow my calculator, and when I handed them my TI-82 they looked at it for a bit, then handed it back and asked somebody else for a "normal" calculator. Naturally, anyone who knows how to use it can use it for simple addition with no trouble at all.
Let me tell you, the one-button mouse is a godsend to anyone in tech support. You'd be amazed how many Windows users have trouble figuring out the difference between a left-double-click and a right-single-click.