:They've been pulling a MS: building tonnes of extra (and, IMHO, unneeded) features in and sacrificing stability. "
:Leave MS out of this for once. Netscape would be jumping for joy if they could get NS as stable and standards complaint as IE.
I know it's really trendy to bash MS for everything, but IE is a LOT better than Netscape. Netscape crashed all the time on me for no real reasons, and I thought it was awful after 4.04. The only time i use netscape is for making web pages, and theres still plenty of obvious little bugs(I work in QA so i now notice them) and some big ones that never got fixed.
In fact, the last time IE honestly crashed on me is when i tried out that stupid third voice software several months ago. It's been quick to load and stable for all my times using it.
I think the biggest thing that stood out in that paper to me was inventing this new word of "Cyberclysm". Will this be in Slashdot's 23rd edition confusing acronym and hypeword dictionary?
Why? Or you never used a windows machine for more than a couple of hours straight and don't know what palm/finger pain is? Mice are good for some special purposes - not constant use!
You could say the same thing for typing in a CLI all friggin' day trying* to get X to work. heh.
To answer your question, do what I do: use Windows shortcut keys extensively. Use it as much as you use the mouse.
I looked at the covad thing. Since US West will not hook me up, and I see no signs of change with that, Covad was my only DSL choice.
But their prices are ridiculous. They have a one year commitment, a HUGE signup free(500 bucks), and 100 dolllar penalties for canceling within a year, 100 dollar penalty for upgrading/downgrading your service. its utterly riduclous for a regular consumer.
Well, this is the late 1990s, and "encrypt" is the trendy buzzword of the day. Soon we will see encrypted everything to keep those hackers out. Encrypted music on your personal digital walkman, encrypted Solitaire for windows(so nobody hacks your Solitare game!), encrypted dogs & cats, phone numbers, etc. Soon we'll be encrypting all sorts of things for no reason.
Sure india and pakistan can add entries in hosts.deny for each other, which means they will just go through all the other countries to get around it. In theory, the whole bleepin' Internet could be a battlefield. Wasn't there an episode of Star Trek like this?("A Private Little War" IIRC)
I can't tell you how many problems I had with X and my onboard SiS 5597(?) video card. Even with the supplied drivers I tried 2 weeks ago, it absolutely would not work. Guess I should try it again.
Of course, with my old ATI Rage 2 meg card, it had no problems in X whatsoever. Guess I shouldn't have bought that ATI Xpert 98. heh
I think the only problem this "bug" has caused is excess fluff news. Do we really need to hear more news reports of all these 3rd world countries checking in that there are no problems? Boring. Very boring.
I tried that godawful service back in '91 or so. It was the absolute worst service made, oblivious to "navigation". ALso remember the limitations of the screen for sending emails. Blah. I quit(didnt even pay the bill when it came) and stuck with BBSes.
There was a really bad movie that was MSTied(in the KTMA days) about super-intelligent ants. eventually they make this pitfall trap for a human to fall in, and then all these ants come flowing in through dug out tubes inside it.
I found the topic originally on as a topic for an IRC channel. Just as I was complaining about how slow the web server was, I finaly find out why. heh.
For the 20 bytes I can get out of the server, the design looks awful. Just plain awful. Give me a carpenter and I could make something better
The TI-994/A had this, much along the lines of the Amiga. There was always interesting projects done by people in the TI field doing revolutionary software or hardware, but then, suddenly out of nowhere, the author dies, or gets completely fed up with the TI scene, and disappears altogether.
. One thing that GIF has that PNG lacks is animation (I think). Of course for a website there is always javascript for that, but that sucks..
They have MNG, as you may have seen mentioned a few times on this topic.
For example, Paint Shop Pro 5 comes with Animation Shop to make your animated GIFs. It supports animated GIFs as well as MNG. I always save my original work in MNG format since it has no 256 color ceiling and no compression,etc. Unfortuantely for use in the real world, the MNG file will be exponentially longer than a rendered GIF would.
Trust me on this. if you get known for being the "geek" or "computer whiz" around the workplace, beautiful women will ask you for all sorts of computer help...
...but that's it. Don't expect dates or anything like that. Just expect to get used for what you know, nothing else.
I remember many years ago I made a fake online "catalog" of hacker/phreaker gear such as redboxes, linemans handsets, etc. The most popular "fake" item I had on there was the Katana laptop, which had a 300MHz processor(this was before they were out). We listed our warehouses in New Tokyo, California. It was totally bogus. Yet, every day, I got email from people asking how to order items from the catalog, especially that Katana laptop. Take note, this was done in notepad, with more drawings of the equipment for sale than photos I grabbed off of other webpages. Regardless, I proved that there was a sucker born every minute. No, I didn't take anyones credit card #s or anything like that. I just told them it was a fake.
This is a lot like the jennicam, but without certain items:
1. No obligatory snatch shots. required for all cams it seems 2. "All my underwear just happens to be thongs!"(helps bring up membership)
3. I just happened to be out of the shower, and I instantly needed to use my computer afterward(see #2)
4. Look! it's my cat walking on my keyboard!(been there done that)
I'm sick of these girlie cams. The BOFH cam is a verry worthwhile parody. I'm waiting for that day one of these girlie cams has some crazed stalker breaking in and proceeding to beat up the cam owner, with everyone on the web watching. As soon as that happens, you will see every last one of those cams go down overnight.
Forgot to add. Did anyone see that SNL skit starring Tom Hanks and one of the other regular members?(cant remember his name, he was after Dennis MIller for the news). This was around '86, and Tom calls tech support in a total frenzy. The skit was 100% accurate as to what can really happen on the workplace.
I have done tech support for a computer company, an ISP, and a software company. I have heard ALL of the dumb people and their questions. This site is great. Somewhere i have a web page just like it too. - Several years ago there was a contest in U magazine for the Jerky Boys. all you had to do was submit a crank call idea. The one I submitted, not thinking it would win anything, would be for someone calling a comptuer tech support line saying their "foot pedal" doesn't work. - Roughly a week later I received a phone call, being told I was one of the runners-up. They gave me a Jerky Boys tshirt(to promote their godawful movie) and a hundred bucks.
Now that you have touched one of the biggest(not neccessarily) media outlets that plugs into every 13-19 year old's skull, do you think every kid who watches Road Rules is going to want to become some "haxor" kiddie like you, thinking they can control the world?
Will this be like the movie "Hackers" over again where every pimply 12 year old kid is gonna wanna be a hacker? I can just imagine the 2600 meetings now. Ooh, little boys!
The big break I get off the Internet and computers in general are weekends in the summer(weather permitting). I drive back to my mom's place, and just do car restoration for several hours a day. Of course, when I'm done, I journal it on a website, pictures, diagrams and all. heh. Needless to say, it makes for a much-appreciated web site for others to reference off of.
It's slashdot policy to convert EVERYTHING to confusing acronyms, including non-computer items as simple as a friggin' movie title. Heh. Pretty soon we'll have the all-acronym slashdot story headlines.
I remember when AntiOnline was a simple slashdot-like site for computer security related news. It was simple, and to the point,and interesting reading. Now with this 'revitalized' site, all i see is fancy artwork, an excess of ad banners, fluff, and plenty of 404 errors. Not worth my time to read it.
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:They've been pulling a MS: building tonnes of extra (and, IMHO, unneeded) features in and sacrificing stability. "
:Leave MS out of this for once. Netscape would be jumping for joy if they could get NS as stable and standards complaint as IE.
I know it's really trendy to bash MS for everything, but IE is a LOT better than Netscape. Netscape crashed all the time on me for no real reasons, and I thought it was awful after 4.04. The only time i use netscape is for making web pages, and theres still plenty of obvious little bugs(I work in QA so i now notice them) and some big ones that never got fixed.
In fact, the last time IE honestly crashed on me is when i tried out that stupid third voice software several months ago. It's been quick to load and stable for all my times using it.
I think the biggest thing that stood out in that paper to me was inventing this new word of "Cyberclysm". Will this be in Slashdot's 23rd edition confusing acronym and hypeword dictionary?
Why? Or you never used a windows machine for more than a couple of hours straight and don't know what palm/finger pain is?
Mice are good for some special purposes - not constant use!
You could say the same thing for typing in a CLI all friggin' day trying* to get X to work. heh.
To answer your question, do what I do: use Windows shortcut keys extensively. Use it as much as you use the mouse.
I looked at the covad thing. Since US West will not hook me up, and I see no signs of change with that, Covad was my only DSL choice.
But their prices are ridiculous. They have a one year commitment, a HUGE signup free(500 bucks), and 100 dolllar penalties for canceling within a year, 100 dollar penalty for upgrading/downgrading your service. its utterly riduclous for a regular consumer.
Well, this is the late 1990s, and "encrypt" is the trendy buzzword of the day. Soon we will see encrypted everything to keep those hackers out. Encrypted music on your personal digital walkman, encrypted Solitaire for windows(so nobody hacks your Solitare game!), encrypted dogs & cats, phone numbers, etc. Soon we'll be encrypting all sorts of things for no reason.
Sure india and pakistan can add entries in hosts.deny for each other, which means they will just go through all the other countries to get around it. In theory, the whole bleepin' Internet could be a battlefield. Wasn't there an episode of Star Trek like this?("A Private Little War" IIRC)
I always wanted to surf all the websites in an a-z fashion in excessive boredom. This seems to be the way to do it.
Fortunately, I know the person has acess to the domain name of vaginalcream.com. that'd make a perfect email addy
Funny that Atari is mentioned here. Atari seemeed to be the king of Vaporware, much like what seems to be happening with all this Amiga hype going on.
I can't tell you how many problems I had with X and my onboard SiS 5597(?) video card. Even with the supplied drivers I tried 2 weeks ago, it absolutely would not work. Guess I should try it again.
Of course, with my old ATI Rage 2 meg card, it had no problems in X whatsoever. Guess I shouldn't have bought that ATI Xpert 98. heh
I think the only problem this "bug" has caused is excess fluff news. Do we really need to hear more news reports of all these 3rd world countries checking in that there are no problems? Boring. Very boring.
I tried that godawful service back in '91 or so. It was the absolute worst service made, oblivious to "navigation". ALso remember the limitations of the screen for sending emails. Blah. I quit(didnt even pay the bill when it came) and stuck with BBSes.
There was a really bad movie that was MSTied(in the KTMA days) about super-intelligent ants. eventually they make this pitfall trap for a human to fall in, and then all these ants come flowing in through dug out tubes inside it.
I found the topic originally on as a topic for an IRC channel. Just as I was complaining about how slow the web server was, I finaly find out why. heh.
For the 20 bytes I can get out of the server, the design looks awful. Just plain awful. Give me a carpenter and I could make something better
The TI-994/A had this, much along the lines of the Amiga.
There was always interesting projects done by people in the TI field doing revolutionary software or hardware, but then, suddenly out of nowhere, the author dies, or gets completely fed up with the TI scene, and disappears altogether.
. One thing that GIF has that PNG lacks is animation (I think). Of course for a website there is always javascript for that, but that sucks..
They have MNG, as you may have seen mentioned a few times on this topic.
For example, Paint Shop Pro 5 comes with Animation Shop to make your animated GIFs. It supports animated GIFs as well as MNG. I always save my original work in MNG format since it has no 256 color ceiling and no compression,etc. Unfortuantely for use in the real world, the MNG file will be exponentially longer than a rendered GIF would.
Trust me on this. if you get known for being the "geek" or "computer whiz" around the workplace, beautiful women will ask you for all sorts of computer help...
...but that's it. Don't expect dates or anything like that. Just expect to get used for what you know, nothing else.
I remember many years ago I made a fake online "catalog" of hacker/phreaker gear such as redboxes, linemans handsets, etc. The most popular "fake" item I had on there was the Katana laptop, which had a 300MHz processor(this was before they were out). We listed our warehouses in New Tokyo, California. It was totally bogus. Yet, every day, I got email from people asking how to order items from the catalog, especially that Katana laptop. Take note, this was done in notepad, with more drawings of the equipment for sale than photos I grabbed off of other webpages. Regardless, I proved that there was a sucker born every minute. No, I didn't take anyones credit card #s or anything like that. I just told them it was a fake.
This is a lot like the jennicam, but without certain items:
1. No obligatory snatch shots. required for all cams it seems
2. "All my underwear just happens to be thongs!"(helps bring up membership)
3. I just happened to be out of the shower, and I instantly needed to use my computer afterward(see #2)
4. Look! it's my cat walking on my keyboard!(been there done that)
I'm sick of these girlie cams. The BOFH cam is a verry worthwhile parody. I'm waiting for that day one of these girlie cams has some crazed stalker breaking in and proceeding to beat up the cam owner, with everyone on the web watching. As soon as that happens, you will see every last one of those cams go down overnight.
Forgot to add. Did anyone see that SNL skit starring Tom Hanks and one of the other regular members?(cant remember his name, he was after Dennis MIller for the news). This was around '86, and Tom calls tech support in a total frenzy. The skit was 100% accurate as to what can really happen on the workplace.
I have done tech support for a computer company, an ISP, and a software company. I have heard ALL of the dumb people and their questions. This site is great. Somewhere i have a web page just like it too.
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Several years ago there was a contest in U magazine for the Jerky Boys. all you had to do was submit a crank call idea. The one I submitted, not thinking it would win anything, would be for someone calling a comptuer tech support line saying their "foot pedal" doesn't work.
- Roughly a week later I received a phone call, being told I was one of the runners-up. They gave me a Jerky Boys tshirt(to promote their godawful movie) and a hundred bucks.
Now that you have touched one of the biggest(not neccessarily) media outlets that plugs into every 13-19 year old's skull, do you think every kid who watches Road Rules is going to want to become some "haxor" kiddie like you, thinking they can control the world?
Will this be like the movie "Hackers" over again where every pimply 12 year old kid is gonna wanna be a hacker? I can just imagine the 2600 meetings now. Ooh, little boys!
The big break I get off the Internet and computers in general are weekends in the summer(weather permitting). I drive back to my mom's place, and just do car restoration for several hours a day. Of course, when I'm done, I journal it on a website, pictures, diagrams and all. heh. Needless to say, it makes for a much-appreciated web site for others to reference off of.
It's slashdot policy to convert EVERYTHING to confusing acronyms, including non-computer items as simple as a friggin' movie title. Heh. Pretty soon we'll have the all-acronym slashdot story headlines.
i remember seeing this competition years ago. Wish I could be involved with it.
The funniest bot I remember seeing was this kids doll on a big wheel. It moved around and everything..
I remember when AntiOnline was a simple slashdot-like site for computer security related news. It was simple, and to the point,and interesting reading. Now with this 'revitalized' site, all i see is fancy artwork, an excess of ad banners, fluff, and plenty of 404 errors. Not worth my time to read it.