well having done tech support for over a decade now, i can tell you users dont even bother to read error dialogs. So frankly your dear mother likely wont read anything about a non signed binary anyway.
Would you mother evenhave the where-with-all to download setup and use a browser regardless of what it is?
if as you assert hes using a fresh image (how you can know that is beyond me), AND assuming ff doenst use this 7-ziphttp://www.7-zip.org/ thing at all (which it appears to be a stand alone program )
then clearly the problem lies with this 3rd party app. And if you claim you got the same error you used it also. Having a 3rd party app on the system when doing alleged "sensitive security matters" seems to be contraindicated. Besides IIRC XP (which hes using) has the ability to unzip built in.
Frankly i dont need verisign (that company that tried to redirect all non existent web domains to its own site) to tell me whats good or not. Verisign is equally as much of a problem.
Ok im going to try and coin a new term 'FUD-slinging', which is all this is.
Lets look at this MS has added all of these warnings for uses because its their SW that allows things to get installed without your knowledge.
And then they want to digitally sign all of their software so that no one can mistake all of the spoofers for MS.
Now it gets better, as all of these security features are only for win XP, so too bad the rest of you.
Also as for his FF extension issue, well i guess he missed the part where you have to allow sites to be trusted for those extensions to be installed from. And look. update.mozilla.org is in the list. anywhere else you have to add it. SOOOOOOO hes carrying on about mozilla.org having dodgy extensions on their site.
This reminds me of a clip from the simpsons when bart says "i'll start smoking and then give that up!", LIsa says "but he didnt actually give up anything" and homer says "didnt he lisa? didnt he?"
Whats this get to, MS has to assure ppl that SW is authentic and 'secure' as a remedy to all of the MS security problems, and then they expect others to just do the same weather they have issues or not.
I wonder if they expect ppl to walk off a cliff with them also?
actually i forgot to mention one thing, VMS mail. IIRC it had a 'hybrid' setup. Small emails were stored in a mail.mai text file, large emails however were linked (either in the file or in the index, i dont recall) to separate text files. So sort of a hybrid between mbox and maildir. I never was able to figure out the size boundary cutoff. The downside was that the external files had randomly generated file names, making it hard to raw read the particular message you were looking for.
Well indeed you are lucky. I have. and when you have to delete a 30M attachment from an mbox because something happened in transport and no email program including ancient unix mail will work, well you start being glad its just text, while at the same tiem hating your miserable existence.
IIRC thunderbird, like mozilla before it uses mbox, which is basically a flat mail file. I dont think any mail client quite handles large mbox files fast. OE and O are 'faster' for those things as they are in a proprietary database and indexing there of. So you have a plus with mbox as being portable, human readable, and 'repairable' with a text editor the con of being slow with large files.
With a DB you have fast access, and compression capabilities, but its no longer human readable.
Even if you index and mbox i think you are still going to get a lag reading a large text file.
Is still my genuine IBM PS/2 keyboard. It stil has great feel and great clacky sound. And its heavy enough such that I could still bludgeon to death a rabid spammer and then keep on ircing into the night.
"Finially, we have legally obtained the settlement agreement [PDF] between USL and The Regents of the University of California....."
A finial is "2 : a crowning ornament or detail (as a decorative knob)"
The reason I bring this up is most of the time I hear the word finial is that thing at the bottom of a bannister on a staircase on on a fence, and what happens when a burglar impales themselves on one (or more).
So if SCO is the burglar and the settlement papers are a finial.. well let the impaling begin!
Clearly neither you nor the moderators who have modded you up to +4 have actually read the article
Clearly you haven't bothered to look at your settings on how you view modded comments.
And yes i read the article and you missed the point. The point is that the prosecutors are trying to nail someone on an act they want to call wiretapping, and the FBI has already argued is not wire tapping when they did it. The govt wants differnt rules for themselves then for the citizens. Different standards for the ruling class.
Also you need to stay on target there luke. I was only referring to the actions of the govt not of the company. Did you actually read the comment or were you just looking for a platform to yell from.
This is funny, back a while ago the NYS dept of health issued an AUP in which they claimed for 'network security' that users were not allowed to access copyright protected information on the internet. I'll let the readers figure out how well that worked.
we have a document that is supposed to protect the people of this nation from govt overreaching. its called the constitution.
However in the current world of neo-con spinmasters, anyone that doesn't go their way is an 'activist judge'. its the typical vilify your antagonist as a method to distract the people from the complex underlying issues.
For a few dollar more i can install a slippery slope for you.
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I don't want to directly comment on the EA issue, but why is anyone at all surprised about these kind of accusations?
Companies have long histories of over using and abusing employees. Its the primary reason unions exist. Would anyone need to collectively bargain if they got good hours, decent and safe working conditions?
well then why arent those 'christians' standing up to the other 'christians' to keep them from sullying their "good name"? I have my suspicions why, but as im not a christian, i cant say.
You are forgetting one critical thing. If they cant get in by being nice they will so one of 2 things 1) sue their way in, 2) just assume that content is being traded illegally without checking (as we've seen before) and just send spurious DMCA notices until internet 2 is beaten into submission. Welcome to the consequences of corporations having 'rights', they get to buy their way into politicians and well to hell with the voters, they dont give enough money
well hey nothing stopping you from formatting th drive in xfs and cp-ing your files in.. oh you want them to play.. oh well you wanted a portable drive not an mp3 player.
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well having done tech support for over a decade now, i can tell you users dont even bother to read error dialogs. So frankly your dear mother likely wont read anything about a non signed binary anyway.
Would you mother evenhave the where-with-all to download setup and use a browser regardless of what it is?
I have had an IE isntall eat NT4.. so *shrug*
if as you assert hes using a fresh image (how you can know that is beyond me), AND assuming ff doenst use this 7-ziphttp://www.7-zip.org/ thing at all (which it appears to be a stand alone program )
then clearly the problem lies with this 3rd party app. And if you claim you got the same error you used it also. Having a 3rd party app on the system when doing alleged "sensitive security matters" seems to be contraindicated. Besides IIRC XP (which hes using) has the ability to unzip built in.
I call shenanigans on you
Frankly i dont need verisign (that company that tried to redirect all non existent web domains to its own site) to tell me whats good or not. Verisign is equally as much of a problem.
Ok im going to try and coin a new term 'FUD-slinging', which is all this is.
Lets look at this MS has added all of these warnings for uses because its their SW that allows things to get installed without your knowledge.
And then they want to digitally sign all of their software so that no one can mistake all of the spoofers for MS.
Now it gets better, as all of these security features are only for win XP, so too bad the rest of you.
Also as for his FF extension issue, well i guess he missed the part where you have to allow sites to be trusted for those extensions to be installed from. And look. update.mozilla.org is in the list. anywhere else you have to add it. SOOOOOOO hes carrying on about mozilla.org having dodgy extensions on their site.
This reminds me of a clip from the simpsons when bart says "i'll start smoking and then give that up!", LIsa says "but he didnt actually give up anything" and homer says "didnt he lisa? didnt he?"
Whats this get to, MS has to assure ppl that SW is authentic and 'secure' as a remedy to all of the MS security problems, and then they expect others to just do the same weather they have issues or not.
I wonder if they expect ppl to walk off a cliff with them also?
Well you could take them home a build a bunker in your basement, or mebbe a really huge version of life sized tetris,
Even that statement doesn't explicitly mention disassembly during scheduled maintenance.
However, one can reasonably conclude a brick in the middle would need some disassembly to make it physically accessible.
sollog claims that wales is a pornographer.. I have to wonder if sollog thinks that will sway the hordes of /. unwashed to his side.
Im thinking the opposite:)
actually i forgot to mention one thing, VMS mail. IIRC it had a 'hybrid' setup. Small emails were stored in a mail.mai text file, large emails however were linked (either in the file or in the index, i dont recall) to separate text files. So sort of a hybrid between mbox and maildir. I never was able to figure out the size boundary cutoff. The downside was that the external files had randomly generated file names, making it hard to raw read the particular message you were looking for.
Well indeed you are lucky. I have. and when you have to delete a 30M attachment from an mbox because something happened in transport and no email program including ancient unix mail will work, well you start being glad its just text, while at the same tiem hating your miserable existence.
IIRC thunderbird, like mozilla before it uses mbox, which is basically a flat mail file. I dont think any mail client quite handles large mbox files fast. OE and O are 'faster' for those things as they are in a proprietary database and indexing there of. So you have a plus with mbox as being portable, human readable, and 'repairable' with a text editor the con of being slow with large files.
With a DB you have fast access, and compression capabilities, but its no longer human readable.
Even if you index and mbox i think you are still going to get a lag reading a large text file.
oh how i share your pain about the not having my ps2 KB on my mac. even with a converter there are just important keys missing.
woe is me!
Is still my genuine IBM PS/2 keyboard. It stil has great feel and great clacky sound. And its heavy enough such that I could still bludgeon to death a rabid spammer and then keep on ircing into the night.
its still my one computing true love.
I suspect hes totally fictional. like Remington Steele
(bear with me here please)
"Finially, we have legally obtained the settlement agreement [PDF] between USL and The Regents of the University of California....."
A finial is "2 : a crowning ornament or detail (as a decorative knob)"
The reason I bring this up is most of the time I hear the word finial is that thing at the bottom of a bannister on a staircase on on a fence, and what happens when a burglar impales themselves on one (or more).
So if SCO is the burglar and the settlement papers are a finial.. well let the impaling begin!
Clearly neither you nor the moderators who have modded you up to +4 have actually read the article
Clearly you haven't bothered to look at your settings on how you view modded comments.
And yes i read the article and you missed the point. The point is that the prosecutors are trying to nail someone on an act they want to call wiretapping, and the FBI has already argued is not wire tapping when they did it. The govt wants differnt rules for themselves then for the citizens. Different standards for the ruling class.
Also you need to stay on target there luke. I was only referring to the actions of the govt not of the company. Did you actually read the comment or were you just looking for a platform to yell from.
So? Almost everything on the web is copyrighted.
This is funny, back a while ago the NYS dept of health issued an AUP in which they claimed for 'network security' that users were not allowed to access copyright protected information on the internet. I'll let the readers figure out how well that worked.
we have a term for this, its called fascism.
we have a document that is supposed to protect the people of this nation from govt overreaching. its called the constitution.
However in the current world of neo-con spinmasters, anyone that doesn't go their way is an 'activist judge'. its the typical vilify your antagonist as a method to distract the people from the complex underlying issues.
For a few dollar more i can install a slippery slope for you.
I don't want to directly comment on the EA issue, but why is anyone at all surprised about these kind of accusations?
Companies have long histories of over using and abusing employees. Its the primary reason unions exist. Would anyone need to collectively bargain if they got good hours, decent and safe working conditions?
well then why arent those 'christians' standing up to the other 'christians' to keep them from sullying their "good name"? I have my suspicions why, but as im not a christian, i cant say.
id mod you up as insightful if i hadnt started this thread:)
well what im really scared about is that all that business logic will infect me and turn me into a PHB :)
You are forgetting one critical thing. If they cant get in by being nice they will so one of 2 things 1) sue their way in, 2) just assume that content is being traded illegally without checking (as we've seen before) and just send spurious DMCA notices until internet 2 is beaten into submission. Welcome to the consequences of corporations having 'rights', they get to buy their way into politicians and well to hell with the voters, they dont give enough money
"In fact there are lots of great reasons for bloatware. For one, if programmers don't have to worry about how large their code is, they can ship it sooner."
Interesting reasons. Bloat is still bad, no matter how much CPU you decide you can throw at it.
well hey nothing stopping you from formatting th drive in xfs and cp-ing your files in.. oh you want them to play.. oh well you wanted a portable drive not an mp3 player.