There are two services that I know of which offer truly secure online storage, Wuala and Spideroak. Jungle Disk can be fairly secure, as well. The former two use Java clients, and the latter is native.
Personally, I use Wuala and am pleased with it. There is one hole, though, in that it's possible to state whether a known file is stored in your account; if that's a problem, you could store it in a zip. That's good enough for me, so I use it for synchronization, backup, storage, and file sharing.
SyncToy is a rather awesome free backup utility from Microsoft. Although it's relatively hard to schedule, it's very easy to use it for any number of one-way or two-way backups. I use it to back up my thumb drive and for various tasks at work.
There is going to be a standalone composer soon, called Nvu. It is based on Composer and will fall under an open source license, and Lindows is footing the bill. I really don't think we have anything to to be worried about! If you're curious, see their website.
I agree with you on most points. I've used Eclipse 1, and its interface is indeed fast. However, Borland JBuilder is just as fast, IMO, and it uses a customized JRE with Swing. The reason Netbeans is so slow is because of its architecture, I believe. It's extremely flexible. I guess some people don't like the fact that it ships with a large amount of features. I don't use most of them, so I go into the Options dialog and disable the ones I don't want. Netbeans is also a smaller download. I'll say something for the people who want a GUI editor. Don't get your hopes up. It is in Borland's best interest that Eclipse never gets a GUI editor. See Eclipse's FAQ.
Well, Mozilla supports that to some degree. It can use a user-defined style sheet, but the user style sheet can't be toggled while Mozilla is running. If you'd like GUI access and support for toggling user stylesheets, vote for and make a comment in bug number 45848 at bugzilla.mozilla.org.
To use what Mozilla has available now, you'll want to create a file called userContent.css in the folder used for your OS (see below) and add the CSS in there. As a side note, you might need to make them "!important" for them to work.
On Windows 2000 it's normally the following:
c:\Documents and Settings\[Windows Login Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\[profile name]\[random string].slt\chrome
It can be used like this for anything that supports a GET, such as Google. The setup actually very easy. Check out
this page for information on how to set this up, or use the following simplified setup for Google:
Select Bookmarks|Manage Bookmarks...
Click File|New|Bookmark in the Bookmark window.
Enter a descriptive name and http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&start=0&start=0 for the location. (The %s tells it to insert the query there)
Select the new bookmark and click Properties.
Enter your choice of a letter or string to search (g?) in the Keyword field.
You're done! Now you can search Google by typing in a query just like you wanted to and pressing Enter.
For other websites this technique will work on, see the article linked to above. It gives addresses for a dictionary, a thesaurus, and FedEx & UPS tracking.
As for me, I'm using Mozilla 1.0 as my primary browser. I like it much better than IE. Opera is fairly good, but it's a niche browser. I really don't see any reason to use Opera over Mozilla, or even IE. Even Microsoft doesn't pester the user with ads in the browser. I do like mouse gestures though, so I also use OptiMoz on Mozilla.
NetBeans is a Java-based IDE that is very extensible. It requires more of a beefy development system than Eclipse (sluggish with a K6-500/128Mb), but it's been around longer. The IDE is set up for Java development, but can be easily extended. It has a C plugin right now.
I think both you and I know there are far more differences than that
currently,
What are you talking about? A powerful processor and massive amounts of
RAM can emulate anything with software, and as I said, "theoretical". FYI,
brain processes can be emulated easily with neural nets.
Despite the massive amount of documentation, Bible and otherwise, I still
couldn't prove the fact that Jesus existed to you. Just like you can't prove
that George Washington existed. He could have been a fabrication of the history
book writers! Just like you can't prove that we aren't all in a big computer
simulation. Our brains could be sitting on a shelf wired with a hundred wires
connected to it. I believe in (a) but not in (b) or (c). Why? Because I believe
it to be that way. As the Bible says, we are all given a measure of faith.
With me, my belief in Jesus is faith backed by facts.
I don't know anything about developing for Opera ("developing for" here meaning "writing extensions and plugins and such", not "writing HTML that targets a specific browser"), but IE has a very robust, very powerful extension model. You can write BHOs (Browser Helper Objects) that do anything from display a document inside the IE frame (Adobe's PDF plugin does this) to blocking pop-ups (Like this [daishar.com]) to most anything else. You can add new toolbars (like Google's bar [google.com]), new sidebars (like the vertical favorites bar, or you can make a horizontal bar), add items to the Tools menu, and more. I'm sure you can do all of this using Mozilla, too, but the beauty here is that you don't need the source for IE to be able to do all this.
Sure, I know about BHOs. The BHO interface is used by quite a bit of spyware.:-)
Speaking of features, Mozilla has built-in popup blocking. It also supports inline Acrobat, and it has an unofficial Google toolbar available for it. Mozilla also has a customizable sidebar, which the equivalent of IE's. Mozilla has extra features too, such as folders that can search the whole bookmark list and bookmarks that link into the Mozilla core via Javascript. It is even possible to enable mouse gestures with Mozilla. By the way, for all the things I listed, the source code isn't necessary for either, even though it is available, which is more than I can say for IE.
Let me reverse that "question". How long do you think materialism will last? Here is proof we were created. We live. We are not robots that are automated by interactions in a big blob in our head. We may think in our brain, but our existence is certainly not material. The only difference between us and a theoretical billion gigahertz Pentium is that we live and it doesn't. Certainly robots will emulate our minds in the future, but that's all it will be. As far as Christianity goes, there will always be Christians because Christ died for our sins and rose again. Prove it? You can't prove me wrong.
>>Hares, for the record, do not have cloven hooves, but also do not chew cud.
No, God was addressing the people in their understanding. Do you really think the cloven hoves matter? Of course not. God didn't delve into cellular biology to the people of that day; it was a good food/bad food "field guide".
On a side note, consider the medical laws of the day. They were transcribed thousands of years ago, yet they obviously show incredible insight into infections and diseases. The rules regarding the washing of hands, for instance, were only fully understood a few hundred years ago!
Anyway, can we change the topic from "Bash the Christians" to Microsoft now? This page is starting to sound very much like ancient Rome.
Actually, Mozilla now has the backend for P3P in place. It isn't ready for end users yet, but I believe most or all of it will be in place for 1.0. See the Mozilla bug relating to P3P here.
VB isn't a scripting language! VB is compiled just like any other real language. The only reason I'm using Java now is because VB just doesn't object-orient well and doesn't have enough features. I love the language otherwise. The VB IDE also blasts away others in stability and user-friendliness. C/C++ could learn a lot from VB. Don't knock until you've really tried it. The worst it could be accused of is allowing programmers to write bad code.
To my knowledge, that was NOT in VB or C++. The aforementioned statement was made in the WinCE toolkit (not sure on that). That statement might be in VB.Net or C#, but it isn't in VB5 (or VB6 AFAIK). Anyway, I believe you can check the license with your version by searching for the license.txt or eula.txt file in your VB & Foxpro directory. They would contain the word "viral" or "GPL" if they did have that sneaky snippet.
Let's see. That is only for the XP Beta, and people can't read existing reports, as I recall. Reporting something to Microsoft is always a black box. It goes in, but nothing seems to happen. Besides, even if it gets a fix, you won't get an update for free. You might see the fix in XP2, but you'll have to shell money out for it.
Some might say that Netscape is the same way. It used to be, but things have changed. They used to be like Microsoft, but their market share reduction hit hard, and it seemed to make them smarter. They've grown up, so to speak (even under AOL/TW!).
Quit bashing the generations before us. They made phones, early computers, electrical generators, etc. They were young once. They brought you into existence. I only wish they were still alive to teach me more. Don't forget, we'll all be "old timers" a few years from now. And yes, they did make the rotary phone.
Well, let's not get mean. John C has been in computer industry longer than I've been alive. I've read his columns for years, and even though he can be cynical at times, he doesn't fall for hype very often. And if you ask me, UNIX at its most basic level (not Linux) is almost extinct.
This is the most pathetic argument I have ever heard. Communism is about restriction. The government manages everything. In the Open Source movement, it's about freedom.
Linux exists because of kind people like Linus who took THEIR time to create it. Thousands of businesses have saved millions of dollars because of Linux.
The bottom line is that open source is about sharing. If I write something great and give it away, I'm open-sourcing it. I've just shared. I've saved thousands money. If you think that's Communist, then you need a refresher course in kindergarten morals. I guess I shouldn't release it because I want people to spend money on companies like Microsoft, which has ideals similar to Communism itself!
P.S.
Tell Microsoft it didn't work.:-)
Well, for IE 5.5 on Windows, try "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)". That's what it reported for me. You may note that it claims it's Mozilla. This is because Microsoft wanted to be compatible with NS Navigator when IE first came out (ironic huh?).
Slashdot Mirror
There are two services that I know of which offer truly secure online storage, Wuala and Spideroak. Jungle Disk can be fairly secure, as well. The former two use Java clients, and the latter is native.
Personally, I use Wuala and am pleased with it. There is one hole, though, in that it's possible to state whether a known file is stored in your account; if that's a problem, you could store it in a zip. That's good enough for me, so I use it for synchronization, backup, storage, and file sharing.
SyncToy is a rather awesome free backup utility from Microsoft. Although it's relatively hard to schedule, it's very easy to use it for any number of one-way or two-way backups. I use it to back up my thumb drive and for various tasks at work.
You didn't try mutt.
Are you talking about Process Explorer? The page says that it works with Vista.
Anyone care to find out what Darl's name means? Click here.
I think his parents might be behind this!
There is going to be a standalone composer soon, called Nvu. It is based on Composer and will fall under an open source license, and Lindows is footing the bill. I really don't think we have anything to to be worried about! If you're curious, see their website.
If they were smart, they wrote the driver as a module. If they did, they are completely free from blame.
Actually, vc.com worked perfectly for me under DOSEMU and the included FreeDos. Try the latest version, which is what I'm using.
I agree with you on most points. I've used Eclipse 1, and its interface is indeed fast. However, Borland JBuilder is just as fast, IMO, and it uses a customized JRE with Swing. The reason Netbeans is so slow is because of its architecture, I believe. It's extremely flexible. I guess some people don't like the fact that it ships with a large amount of features. I don't use most of them, so I go into the Options dialog and disable the ones I don't want. Netbeans is also a smaller download. I'll say something for the people who want a GUI editor. Don't get your hopes up. It is in Borland's best interest that Eclipse never gets a GUI editor. See Eclipse's FAQ.
To use what Mozilla has available now, you'll want to create a file called userContent.css in the folder used for your OS (see below) and add the CSS in there. As a side note, you might need to make them "!important" for them to work.
On Windows 2000 it's normally the following:
c:\Documents and Settings\[Windows Login Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\[profile name]\[random string].slt\chrome
On Windows 9x it's often the following:
c:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\[profile name]\[random string].slt\chrome
On Linux it's the following:
~/.mozilla/[Linux Login Name]/[random string].slt/chrome
Thanks to the owner of gemal.dk for filling in the gaps in this list of locations.
- Select Bookmarks|Manage Bookmarks...
- Click File|New|Bookmark in the Bookmark window.
- Enter a descriptive name and http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&start=0&start=0 for the location. (The %s tells it to insert the query there)
- Select the new bookmark and click Properties.
- Enter your choice of a letter or string to search (g?) in the Keyword field.
- You're done! Now you can search Google by typing in a query just like you wanted to and pressing Enter.
For other websites this technique will work on, see the article linked to above. It gives addresses for a dictionary, a thesaurus, and FedEx & UPS tracking.As for me, I'm using Mozilla 1.0 as my primary browser. I like it much better than IE. Opera is fairly good, but it's a niche browser. I really don't see any reason to use Opera over Mozilla, or even IE. Even Microsoft doesn't pester the user with ads in the browser. I do like mouse gestures though, so I also use OptiMoz on Mozilla.
NetBeans is a Java-based IDE that is very extensible. It requires more of a beefy development system than Eclipse (sluggish with a K6-500/128Mb), but it's been around longer. The IDE is set up for Java development, but can be easily extended. It has a C plugin right now.
I think both you and I know there are far more differences than that currently,
What are you talking about? A powerful processor and massive amounts of RAM can emulate anything with software, and as I said, "theoretical". FYI, brain processes can be emulated easily with neural nets.
Despite the massive amount of documentation, Bible and otherwise, I still couldn't prove the fact that Jesus existed to you. Just like you can't prove that George Washington existed. He could have been a fabrication of the history book writers! Just like you can't prove that we aren't all in a big computer simulation. Our brains could be sitting on a shelf wired with a hundred wires connected to it. I believe in (a) but not in (b) or (c). Why? Because I believe it to be that way. As the Bible says, we are all given a measure of faith. With me, my belief in Jesus is faith backed by facts.
I don't know anything about developing for Opera ("developing for" here meaning "writing extensions and plugins and such", not "writing HTML that targets a specific browser"), but IE has a very robust, very powerful extension model. You can write BHOs (Browser Helper Objects) that do anything from display a document inside the IE frame (Adobe's PDF plugin does this) to blocking pop-ups (Like this [daishar.com]) to most anything else. You can add new toolbars (like Google's bar [google.com]), new sidebars (like the vertical favorites bar, or you can make a horizontal bar), add items to the Tools menu, and more. I'm sure you can do all of this using Mozilla, too, but the beauty here is that you don't need the source for IE to be able to do all this.
:-)
Sure, I know about BHOs. The BHO interface is used by quite a bit of spyware.
Speaking of features, Mozilla has built-in popup blocking. It also supports inline Acrobat, and it has an unofficial Google toolbar available for it. Mozilla also has a customizable sidebar, which the equivalent of IE's. Mozilla has extra features too, such as folders that can search the whole bookmark list and bookmarks that link into the Mozilla core via Javascript. It is even possible to enable mouse gestures with Mozilla. By the way, for all the things I listed, the source code isn't necessary for either, even though it is available, which is more than I can say for IE.
I like Idiot Explorer's F11 trick of hiding all the interface paraphernalia...
Actually, Mozilla does this too, at least in Windows. Try it.
Let me reverse that "question". How long do you think materialism will last? Here is proof we were created. We live. We are not robots that are automated by interactions in a big blob in our head. We may think in our brain, but our existence is certainly not material. The only difference between us and a theoretical billion gigahertz Pentium is that we live and it doesn't. Certainly robots will emulate our minds in the future, but that's all it will be. As far as Christianity goes, there will always be Christians because Christ died for our sins and rose again. Prove it? You can't prove me wrong.
>>Hares, for the record, do not have cloven hooves, but also do not chew cud.
No, God was addressing the people in their understanding. Do you really think the cloven hoves matter? Of course not. God didn't delve into cellular biology to the people of that day; it was a good food/bad food "field guide".
On a side note, consider the medical laws of the day. They were transcribed thousands of years ago, yet they obviously show incredible insight into infections and diseases. The rules regarding the washing of hands, for instance, were only fully understood a few hundred years ago!
Anyway, can we change the topic from "Bash the Christians" to Microsoft now? This page is starting to sound very much like ancient Rome.
Actually, Mozilla now has the backend for P3P in place. It isn't ready for end users yet, but I believe most or all of it will be in place for 1.0. See the Mozilla bug relating to P3P here.
VB isn't a scripting language! VB is compiled just like any other real language. The only reason I'm using Java now is because VB just doesn't object-orient well and doesn't have enough features. I love the language otherwise. The VB IDE also blasts away others in stability and user-friendliness. C/C++ could learn a lot from VB. Don't knock until you've really tried it. The worst it could be accused of is allowing programmers to write bad code.
To my knowledge, that was NOT in VB or C++. The aforementioned statement was made in the WinCE toolkit (not sure on that). That statement might be in VB.Net or C#, but it isn't in VB5 (or VB6 AFAIK). Anyway, I believe you can check the license with your version by searching for the license.txt or eula.txt file in your VB & Foxpro directory. They would contain the word "viral" or "GPL" if they did have that sneaky snippet.
Let's see. That is only for the XP Beta, and people can't read existing reports, as I recall. Reporting something to Microsoft is always a black box. It goes in, but nothing seems to happen. Besides, even if it gets a fix, you won't get an update for free. You might see the fix in XP2, but you'll have to shell money out for it.
Some might say that Netscape is the same way. It used to be, but things have changed. They used to be like Microsoft, but their market share reduction hit hard, and it seemed to make them smarter. They've grown up, so to speak (even under AOL/TW!).
Quit bashing the generations before us. They made phones, early computers, electrical generators, etc. They were young once. They brought you into existence. I only wish they were still alive to teach me more. Don't forget, we'll all be "old timers" a few years from now. And yes, they did make the rotary phone.
Well, let's not get mean. John C has been in computer industry longer than I've been alive. I've read his columns for years, and even though he can be cynical at times, he doesn't fall for hype very often. And if you ask me, UNIX at its most basic level (not Linux) is almost extinct.
This is the most pathetic argument I have ever heard. Communism is about restriction. The government manages everything. In the Open Source movement, it's about freedom. Linux exists because of kind people like Linus who took THEIR time to create it. Thousands of businesses have saved millions of dollars because of Linux. The bottom line is that open source is about sharing. If I write something great and give it away, I'm open-sourcing it. I've just shared. I've saved thousands money. If you think that's Communist, then you need a refresher course in kindergarten morals. I guess I shouldn't release it because I want people to spend money on companies like Microsoft, which has ideals similar to Communism itself! P.S. Tell Microsoft it didn't work. :-)
Well, for IE 5.5 on Windows, try "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)". That's what it reported for me. You may note that it claims it's Mozilla. This is because Microsoft wanted to be compatible with NS Navigator when IE first came out (ironic huh?).