I've been using Mozilla for about six months now and I really like it. It's faster than IE (IMO) and is a lot more 'professional'. Another thing that I've found is that if I browse with IE for a week and run a spyware removal program like Ad-Aware, I find a buttload of cookies, data miners, etc. A week of browsing with Mozilla only yeilds one cookie-- doubleclick...
I was thinking the same exact thing. It's a shamed that I wasn't paying attention when this news first broke because I've been looking for something exactly like WASTE. Nullsoft, IMO, is pretty damned good (with the exception of the new Winamp seeming a bit unfinished) and it would have been really sweet to see something like WASTE succeed. Here's hoping for the future:)
My entry into the IT world started at the fresh age of nineteen as the third shift operator for a Wang VS mainframe. While my previous experience was only with the Windows OS, the company that I worked for was very willing to hire someone who was green as long as they were willing to learn. When the WANG died (Y2K!), they moved the application over to the Win32 side of things, but I was transferred to work with the IBM MVS mainframe that was used for another portion of the business. I still understand very little about the job that I did (mainly due to the ease of use that the Beta42 scheduled provided!), but remember hearing of how people that knew or were willing to learn the ins and outs of the mainframe were so few and far between. Eventually, I moved on to bigger and better things, but the mainframe still lives to this day and I've heard that they're having trouble finding decent operators:)
OK, that makes good sense, but how would it apply to things like guitar tablature or music notation that is posted? I would think that would be considered as more of an interpretation of someone else's work (since no one ever seems to be dead on!) and exempt from those restrictions based on what you've said.
If I'm allowed to quote someone when I post a comment on my web site or if I'm allowed to refer to a line from a movie as long as I note its source, then why shouldn't I be able to post lyrics from a song? I'm not being a smart alec, I just don't get it...
If we make Linux harder to use then other operating systems, users will not embrace it.
I disagree with this. Making something more secure doesn't necessarily make it harder to use. I'm not touting windows or anything, but if you look at the users and accounts applet in XP's control panel, you'll see that any meatball with a mouse can set logons, etc. Whether or not that entails 'security' is up to whoever wants to decide, but it's a hell of a lot better than giving the keys to everyone.
After reading this post, I checked windows update and found two brand new criticals... That makes five in three weeks. If they'd get it right the first time...
I'm a linux newbie. I've been using Windows for years. That being said... I went out and picked up SuSE 8.2 last week and installed it under VMWare and I love it (despite the fact that I can't get VMWare tools to install!). I think that KDE 3.1 kicks the living snot out of Windows, period. I would even propose that my mother could use it without a problem. As the article said, the installation was flawless and it picked up the virtual NIC automatically. I didn't encounter one problem (except as noted above) and I found that I started running the VM fullscreen despite the low resolution because I just enjoyed working with it. I'm not ready to get involved on a command-line level as of yet and probably won't until I finish my MCSE (please don't flame me!), but it's definitely a tight package compared to other Linux installs that I've played with before. Sadly, Linux doesn't seem to have much support for games and it's really the only reason that I haven't dumped Windows from my main machine and taken the plunge. I know that everyone talks a good deal about WINE, but I've heard that there are problems with it. Oh well, just my two cents...
While the new legislation and things to come regarding the spam situation are great, I just wanted to point out that it's such an easy stance for a politician to take and it would be a lot more fulfilling to see our government focusing on more important things and leaving the spam to the sys/netadmins of the world to combat. I wonder what the situation would be if spammers had more of an "influence" in Washington or if our politicians had more to gain from the spam industry...
... at 2:40 p.m. today, a search for the Planet of the Apes DVD on the Amazon site that Computerworld conducted using a Netscape Web browser turned up a quoted price of $64.99 -- 35% off the original price of $99.98, according to the online retailer. But several seconds later, a similar search performed with Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser resulted in a price of $74.99 for the same product.
No kidding!!! I wonder if they'll go any cheaper for Mozilla users...
john lind gets 20 years, murderers get less (sometimes), but we'll throw the damned hackers away for life. why? they're evil i tells ye, EVIL!!! in america, your sentence depends largely on how much damage you can do to any said corporation. whether or not you choose to believe it, that is the way that it is. hackers (as you've been told before, dummy) pose one of the largest potential threats to corporations losing money. i'm guessing that this should allow a corporation to get away with failing to secure client records and other pertinent information in the most secure and effective manner. "it was the hacker's fault"... i'd dedicate my life to getting this kicked back, but there's more injustice out there. it's just another item to worry about for those of us who actually give a crap.
there's nothing more that i'd love to do than get rid of office xp, but it doesn't look like there's an e-mail client packaged with it. how do they expect to even compete without something like outlook?
this happened to my girlfriend's father as well. he called up and complained about a 'learn to use aol' book that he received and the service rep gave him a refund saying that it was problably their mistake and the book was his as a gift for being a new customer.
last week i read an article that eating eggs can make you healthier and more energetic. last night, the tv told me that eggs cause heart attacks and make your thing fall off.
the human body is a delicate and complicated machine. each one is different from the last. i'm a firm believer in the fact that this alone outweighs any validity that statistics and surveys lay claim to. what about super heroes? what happens when they don't sleep? mutants? bwah!
i'm a musician and i definitely want to get paid for the work that i do, but i don't think that the so-called 'music-industry' does anything but shove canned crap down the throats of our nation's youth while trying to make a decent return for themselves. the entire market is saturated with complete garbage.
programs like napster allow bands that really don't have the resources to get their music heard. in addition to this, i'd like to restate what countless others have said. I'VE PURCHASED ALBUMS BECAUSE OF NAPSTER, MORPHEUS AND PROGRAMS LIKE THEM!!!
although i really don't care for the bands that are playing in this rally, hats off to them!!!
hats off for having the balls to tell this 'industry' to shove off and leave music to the people who know it best-- MUSICIANS!
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I've been using Mozilla for about six months now and I really like it. It's faster than IE (IMO) and is a lot more 'professional'. Another thing that I've found is that if I browse with IE for a week and run a spyware removal program like Ad-Aware, I find a buttload of cookies, data miners, etc. A week of browsing with Mozilla only yeilds one cookie-- doubleclick...
I was thinking the same exact thing.
It's a shamed that I wasn't paying attention when this news first broke because I've been looking for something exactly like WASTE. Nullsoft, IMO, is pretty damned good (with the exception of the new Winamp seeming a bit unfinished) and it would have been really sweet to see something like WASTE succeed. Here's hoping for the future:)
All of that ridiculous penis enlargment mail may stay the hell out of my inbox now!
My entry into the IT world started at the fresh age of nineteen as the third shift operator for a Wang VS mainframe. While my previous experience was only with the Windows OS, the company that I worked for was very willing to hire someone who was green as long as they were willing to learn.
When the WANG died (Y2K!), they moved the application over to the Win32 side of things, but I was transferred to work with the IBM MVS mainframe that was used for another portion of the business. I still understand very little about the job that I did (mainly due to the ease of use that the Beta42 scheduled provided!), but remember hearing of how people that knew or were willing to learn the ins and outs of the mainframe were so few and far between. Eventually, I moved on to bigger and better things, but the mainframe still lives to this day and I've heard that they're having trouble finding decent operators:)
Industry insiders say that the software for the phone continued to have 'fundamental problems,' leading to a high failure rate.
High failure rate? Bah! It isn't anything that wasn't cleared up with a simple reboot!!!
Dude, it's like being at the gym, but you're like, not at the gym or something...
OK, that makes good sense, but how would it apply to things like guitar tablature or music notation that is posted? I would think that would be considered as more of an interpretation of someone else's work (since no one ever seems to be dead on!) and exempt from those restrictions based on what you've said.
If I'm allowed to quote someone when I post a comment on my web site or if I'm allowed to refer to a line from a movie as long as I note its source, then why shouldn't I be able to post lyrics from a song? I'm not being a smart alec, I just don't get it...
If we make Linux harder to use then other operating systems, users will not embrace it.
I disagree with this. Making something more secure doesn't necessarily make it harder to use. I'm not touting windows or anything, but if you look at the users and accounts applet in XP's control panel, you'll see that any meatball with a mouse can set logons, etc. Whether or not that entails 'security' is up to whoever wants to decide, but it's a hell of a lot better than giving the keys to everyone.
After reading this post, I checked windows update and found two brand new criticals... That makes five in three weeks. If they'd get it right the first time...
I'm a linux newbie. I've been using Windows for years. That being said...
I went out and picked up SuSE 8.2 last week and installed it under VMWare and I love it (despite the fact that I can't get VMWare tools to install!). I think that KDE 3.1 kicks the living snot out of Windows, period. I would even propose that my mother could use it without a problem.
As the article said, the installation was flawless and it picked up the virtual NIC automatically. I didn't encounter one problem (except as noted above) and I found that I started running the VM fullscreen despite the low resolution because I just enjoyed working with it.
I'm not ready to get involved on a command-line level as of yet and probably won't until I finish my MCSE (please don't flame me!), but it's definitely a tight package compared to other Linux installs that I've played with before.
Sadly, Linux doesn't seem to have much support for games and it's really the only reason that I haven't dumped Windows from my main machine and taken the plunge. I know that everyone talks a good deal about WINE, but I've heard that there are problems with it.
Oh well, just my two cents...
While the new legislation and things to come regarding the spam situation are great, I just wanted to point out that it's such an easy stance for a politician to take and it would be a lot more fulfilling to see our government focusing on more important things and leaving the spam to the sys/netadmins of the world to combat. I wonder what the situation would be if spammers had more of an "influence" in Washington or if our politicians had more to gain from the spam industry...
propellerheads!
... at 2:40 p.m. today, a search for the Planet of the Apes DVD on the Amazon site that Computerworld conducted using a Netscape Web browser turned up a quoted price of $64.99 -- 35% off the original price of $99.98, according to the online retailer. But several seconds later, a similar search performed with Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser resulted in a price of $74.99 for the same product.
No kidding!!! I wonder if they'll go any cheaper for Mozilla users...
It's my desk... Oh, the phone, it keeps ringing... Please help me...
Wouldn't that be history repeating itself?
This would be a very good thing for Microsoft considering that it might be the only way that they can survive >:)
We're going to have to copyright our own brains man!
john lind gets 20 years, murderers get less (sometimes), but we'll throw the damned hackers away for life. why? they're evil i tells ye, EVIL!!!
in america, your sentence depends largely on how much damage you can do to any said corporation. whether or not you choose to believe it, that is the way that it is. hackers (as you've been told before, dummy) pose one of the largest potential threats to corporations losing money. i'm guessing that this should allow a corporation to get away with failing to secure client records and other pertinent information in the most secure and effective manner. "it was the hacker's fault"...
i'd dedicate my life to getting this kicked back, but there's more injustice out there. it's just another item to worry about for those of us who actually give a crap.
Got yours:)
J/K and thanks for the info:)
there's nothing more that i'd love to do than get rid of office xp, but it doesn't look like there's an e-mail client packaged with it. how do they expect to even compete without something like outlook?
now if only they'd put together a bill shatner drum kit...
you think i could get the tremelo bar in a light saber do-up? that would be sweet...
this happened to my girlfriend's father as well. he called up and complained about a 'learn to use aol' book that he received and the service rep gave him a refund saying that it was problably their mistake and the book was his as a gift for being a new customer.
last week i read an article that eating eggs can make you healthier and more energetic. last night, the tv told me that eggs cause heart attacks and make your thing fall off.
the human body is a delicate and complicated machine. each one is different from the last. i'm a firm believer in the fact that this alone outweighs any validity that statistics and surveys lay claim to. what about super heroes? what happens when they don't sleep? mutants? bwah!
i'm a musician and i definitely want to get paid for the work that i do, but i don't think that the so-called 'music-industry' does anything but shove canned crap down the throats of our nation's youth while trying to make a decent return for themselves. the entire market is saturated with complete garbage.
programs like napster allow bands that really don't have the resources to get their music heard. in addition to this, i'd like to restate what countless others have said. I'VE PURCHASED ALBUMS BECAUSE OF NAPSTER, MORPHEUS AND PROGRAMS LIKE THEM!!!
although i really don't care for the bands that are playing in this rally, hats off to them!!!
hats off for having the balls to tell this 'industry' to shove off and leave music to the people who know it best-- MUSICIANS!
end of rant...