Ctrl-clicking on a link w/ Firefox won't open in a new tab, but right-clicking and selecting "Open link in new tab" can do it. Also, using the "jump link" extension makes hotmail links much better.
Hotmail has a 'report junk' feature, but it doesn't seem to learn from the junk I feed it. I keep getting the same crap in my inbox, and false positives in my junk folder.
... reminds me of my brother's girlfriend's "slow" Win98 machine. Unpatched for at least a year and a half, spyware galore. Her dad had installed NortonAV, but neglected to uninstall the McAfee AV demo that installs with Win98. Neither AV engine had been updated in at least a year.
To sum up, two outdated AV engines competing with each other and with the spyware that was running rampant.
Drudgereport.com sometimes (unreliably) produces a popup when a link is followed, even if it is opened in a new tab. I suspect though, that the javascript considers this "requested".
And what's up with the floaty thing on netscape.com ? Not a true popup, but very annoying.
Maybe not XP, but the "switch" campaign was aimed at 9x users. And yes, in 9x, my USB camera driver BSOD'd Windows. After much research I discovered that my cd burner software and my camera are incompatible. As a workaround, I wrote a batch file that switches out the offending file depending on which device I want to use - and even that requires a restart and I can't use both devices at the same time.
If you listen to Jeb Bush, his strategy on overall size of government is to slow growth of the government to slower than that of the economy. Still growing the government, but a marginally decreasing size of the overall economy.
Too bad Jeb hadn't won re-election as Gov as of 2000 or we might have had a different (and better, I think) Bush in the Presidency.
It would seem that Appleworks is currently only for sale for Mac. I did seem to remember a AW version for windows, but it wasn't marketed as I suggested (low end pc bundling), but rather to the educational market.
I sorta wished that Apple had done Appleworks-X86 as competition to MS-Works Suite (circa 1998-ish). The MS-works word processor sucked so much that MS started bundling Word with its other crappy apps for the "Works Suite". Apple could have done this much better.
Low-end bundling alone could have done it - would you rather have a PC bundled with Corel apps, MS-Works, or something made by Apple? (Apple!)
Of course, MS would probably have killed Office support for the Mac, so this is only slightly less hypothetical than the original MacOS-licensing debate
Conversely, I refuse to go pay to see the movie because it would imply a political statement that I do not wish to make. However, a bootleg would allow me to watch the movie and speak about it intelligently without having to give one dime to that crackpot Michael Moore.
If Moore wants conservatives to see F911, bootlegging is the best means to do that.
my brother and I put a few hundred dollars into one of these companies and it hasn't really panned out. They looked good when we invested,... a few quarters of positive income, government contracts, good press. Then the bottom fell out of the stock and the company is losing money most quarters, and not making much in the quarters it manages to stay in the black.
Anybody else have any luck in similar investments? If the companies can't turn a profit, then the farmers won't have anybody to buy the systems from.
Older RAM can sometimes be picked up at your local computer service shop. Recently, the guy offered me 128 megs (PC100) for $20. Having poor hearing, I asked him again how much RAM it was, and he dropped the price in half. So I basically made an older machine usable for $10. It was worth it. It works fine with the mix/match RAM, but even if I had to throw out the old it would have been worth it.
The social science comp lab at my Univ (circa 1999) had NT4 running on Pentium 100's with 32 Megs of RAM. You could run regression analysis on SPSS without running out of RAM -- if you didn't run anything else at all. I tried surfing a little with IE to pass the time while my data was crunching and I ran out of memory.
If you got the 98th or 99th percentile on your SAT you could have gone to school for free. No, maybe not Harvard for free, but certainly a good state university (Penn State, Rutgers, one of the better SUNY schools, etc.), or even a decent (sub-Ivy) private school.
Of course, this didn't occur to me until I found myself with a degree, no job, and several thousand in debt, but then again I only got 1400 on my SAT.
Just disabling the preview panel in OE is a big step. That way they can delete emails they know to be spam/virus without viewing them automatically.
My uncle's computer is a pile of viruses and malware. I installed firebird (0.6?) and told him to use it unless a site gave him problems. I was back within a month doing the AV/Spybot routine again... he just refused to use it. His history in Firebird was about 35 mins worth of surfing.
In Part 1 (last week) I saw the ads that they were going to kill somebody. Having been fooled by a lot of ST:Enterprise ads like that, I was skeptical that they would really kill Jack. When the doctor was sent off-world I figured she would be the one to kill.
The most killable of the SG1 team is Daniel. However, they've already done that and it didn't work that well. They really couldn't kill Jack, Sam, or Tealc and still expect to have a show.
Focus groups are a very useful tool, but have their problems. One's focus group has to be representative of the group one is trying to understand or target. This is difficult because (1) focus groups are usually rather small, and (2) few normal people have half a day or more to do somebody's corporate (or political) bidding for minor compensation.
The dog search thingie probably FG'd well with middle-age moms and new/inexperienced computer users who mostly check email and surf the web. Of course, why FG geeks for the WinXP search feature? Real geeks will find a way to turn it off or they'll use another OS.
As I understand it, SCO claims some sort of magical rights over AIX by virtue of AIX being Unix, for which IBM licenses some SCO IP. If parts of AIX made it into Linux, then SCO argues that IBM has wronged SCO. The extent to which this involves breach of contract -vs- copyright violation is not something I have enough time to care about.
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I find muenster to be quite mild, scent and flavor. I just had some today, as a matter of fact.
Ctrl-clicking on a link w/ Firefox won't open in a new tab, but right-clicking and selecting "Open link in new tab" can do it. Also, using the "jump link" extension makes hotmail links much better.
Hotmail has a 'report junk' feature, but it doesn't seem to learn from the junk I feed it. I keep getting the same crap in my inbox, and false positives in my junk folder.
To sum up, two outdated AV engines competing with each other and with the spyware that was running rampant.
And what's up with the floaty thing on netscape.com ? Not a true popup, but very annoying.
Maybe not XP, but the "switch" campaign was aimed at 9x users. And yes, in 9x, my USB camera driver BSOD'd Windows. After much research I discovered that my cd burner software and my camera are incompatible. As a workaround, I wrote a batch file that switches out the offending file depending on which device I want to use - and even that requires a restart and I can't use both devices at the same time.
Too bad Jeb hadn't won re-election as Gov as of 2000 or we might have had a different (and better, I think) Bush in the Presidency.
(wow, my sig is almost on topic for once...)
It would seem that Appleworks is currently only for sale for Mac. I did seem to remember a AW version for windows, but it wasn't marketed as I suggested (low end pc bundling), but rather to the educational market.
Low-end bundling alone could have done it - would you rather have a PC bundled with Corel apps, MS-Works, or something made by Apple? (Apple!)
Of course, MS would probably have killed Office support for the Mac, so this is only slightly less hypothetical than the original MacOS-licensing debate
If Moore wants conservatives to see F911, bootlegging is the best means to do that.
Realisticlly, the WTC Towers also withstood airliner impact - it was the burning jet fuel that knocked them down.
Anybody else have any luck in similar investments? If the companies can't turn a profit, then the farmers won't have anybody to buy the systems from.
Older RAM can sometimes be picked up at your local computer service shop. Recently, the guy offered me 128 megs (PC100) for $20. Having poor hearing, I asked him again how much RAM it was, and he dropped the price in half. So I basically made an older machine usable for $10. It was worth it. It works fine with the mix/match RAM, but even if I had to throw out the old it would have been worth it.
The social science comp lab at my Univ (circa 1999) had NT4 running on Pentium 100's with 32 Megs of RAM. You could run regression analysis on SPSS without running out of RAM -- if you didn't run anything else at all. I tried surfing a little with IE to pass the time while my data was crunching and I ran out of memory.
I wonder what would happen if they just re-ran the UK version in the US.
If you got the 98th or 99th percentile on your SAT you could have gone to school for free. No, maybe not Harvard for free, but certainly a good state university (Penn State, Rutgers, one of the better SUNY schools, etc.), or even a decent (sub-Ivy) private school.
Of course, this didn't occur to me until I found myself with a degree, no job, and several thousand in debt, but then again I only got 1400 on my SAT.
It was pretty slick.
Just disabling the preview panel in OE is a big step. That way they can delete emails they know to be spam/virus without viewing them automatically. My uncle's computer is a pile of viruses and malware. I installed firebird (0.6?) and told him to use it unless a site gave him problems. I was back within a month doing the AV/Spybot routine again... he just refused to use it. His history in Firebird was about 35 mins worth of surfing.
It sucks even more now that they've "jazzed it up" a bit. I always flip (or FastForward) during the intro credits now.
The most killable of the SG1 team is Daniel. However, they've already done that and it didn't work that well. They really couldn't kill Jack, Sam, or Tealc and still expect to have a show.
I'm not sure what to make of the fact that the idea of Slipstream technology made it from the Andromeda universe to the ST:Voyager universe.
I somehow managed to crash my relatively low-tech cell phone.
At least he could have put Darwin-X86 on it to make it as OSX-ish as possible...
The dog search thingie probably FG'd well with middle-age moms and new/inexperienced computer users who mostly check email and surf the web. Of course, why FG geeks for the WinXP search feature? Real geeks will find a way to turn it off or they'll use another OS.
As I understand it, SCO claims some sort of magical rights over AIX by virtue of AIX being Unix, for which IBM licenses some SCO IP. If parts of AIX made it into Linux, then SCO argues that IBM has wronged SCO. The extent to which this involves breach of contract -vs- copyright violation is not something I have enough time to care about.