I think most people are missing what I said here. You don't give up the ability to have two windows side by side if you can't size windows arbitrarily. You would drag the tabs into different workspaces which would create a divider bar, letting you have as many things side by side, tiled, or whatever. You just give up the extra cruft like window frames and borders. Each app gets a tab, and multiple tabs can be visible at any given time.
Really, what's the point of having windows not Maximized. As far as I can tell, you'd be better off with the taskbar in windows being like tabs, and being able to drag tabs together to form split pane views for side-by-side work. I hate having to manually drag the edges of windows, and I hate when they are not fullscreen (or minimized). Yes I know about "Tile Windows Horizontally" but it just makes extra fluff for the borders of each window compared to a tabbed/paned view. Pretty much a big failure on OS X that their Maximize doesn't even always make a window full screen.
My Hyundai nearly always shows 3mph higher than my GPS. My GPS always agrees with the street-side radar things that flash your speed at you exactly. I never actually compared the long distance odometer readings to actual distance traveled to figure out if the speedometer needle is just aimed a few degrees too far to the right, or if the calibration of the axle rotation to distance traveled is just slightly off. I suppose it could be either one, but it's less evil to think that auto manufacturers just want you to drive slower and saver by tricking you into thinking you are going faster than you actual are that it is to think that they are trying to inflate their MPG figures.
^THIS^
There is a reason file:/// urls always have 3 slashes and other protocols use 2.
Additionally, http:///file.html should be more or less an alias for http://localhost/file.html in theory.
It is also very similar to the \\computer\fileshare syntax Windows uses. Just think of Explorer as assuming the default protocol is smb: instead of how your web browser will assume http:
If Explorer used regular slashes, would it too much to type smb://server/share/path/file.doc ?
The rules of the stargate are quite strange and often "expanded" to create some plot. But I give them that their explanations are often quite clever.
A third point is that a stargate actually has a way to recognize objects. It only sends the object if the whole thing passed the event horizon. Otherwise it just would rip people and stuff apart when they try to pass.
I've never figured out what is really supposed to happen when you shut off a worm-hole in mid-transit. In one episode of SG-1, some heavy material re-materializes inside of the nearby planet's sun (causing/solving the red sky and eminent doom). In another episode, Teal'c is trapped inside of the buffer, and his atoms are not just randomly lost at some point in space between the two gates.
Also, there is at least one episode I can recall where a Jaffa retreating through a gate has his staff weapon cut in half when the gate shuts off. Also in the 2nd episode of the entire series of SG-1, Kawalsky had his head cut in half by them shutting down the gate while his head was partially in the wormhole. So the whole thing about transporting entire objects as one packet seems to be not true all of the time.
Instead of spinning the "wrong" way, couldn't the planet just have a 180 degree axial tilt, sort of like Uranus has a pretty steep 97 degree tilt. At 180 degrees, it would be right sight up by a different perspective, but spinning the opposite direction as the star.
Looking at my most recent bill, I think I pay $10.68 even if I use 0 KWH, so I already pay such a "connection fee" with Consumers Energy in Michigan.
System Access Charge - 6.00
Delivery Surcharges - 4.68
This isn't really new as the first 3 digits of your SSN already tell you which state you were born in more or less - http://www.google.com/search?q=ssn+by+state and the numbers are issued pretty sequentially from there, so just the year you were born and the state you were born in narrows it down pretty far already.
True, but I assume those all go hand-in-hand as far as scripting performance goes. Either way, the obvious fact is IE8 is pretty damn slow and choppy compared to every other browser I can test that page on.
I tried to do something pretty seemingly simple with Javascript (1 draggable line to redraw the background colors of the table), and it drags its ass on IE8. It is fast and smooth in FF/Opera/etc, but with so many people using IE still, it hardly matters.
The issue is simply this: You support requiring the installation of spyware on student-owned machines, in order for students to use the only choice of internet access, which they already paid for with their tuition. That is a line that should not have been crossed. You should have stood up for what is right, gotten the entire IT department together, and all quit at once.
You don't need such draconian enforcement to have TOS or an AUP on the campus network. This is akin to putting razor wire and electrified fence around the campus stadium, instead of a simple chain-link fence. You don't need such an elaborate fence to enforce the rules.
You sir, are an ass for supporting this crud. No software should be required by the university on any students computer. If you want to do any checking and blocking, do it remotely with nessus as you mention. Any IT department which demands a student install *spyware* on their computer simply to be allowed internet access is an absolutely horribly misguided and mismanaged IT department. I don't care what the software purports to scan for and not scan for. It IS spyware, and nothing less.
Apparently, MS released a v1.1 of the plugin, but it can't install if you left 1.0 disabled (like I did). If you re-enable the plugin, then go manually re-download and re-install the hotfix which included this plugin more recently, you will get v1.1 of the plugin, after which, you CAN uninstall it. Note that disabling the plugin still leaves a string in your user-agent saying what version of.net you have installed, so either get it uninstalled, or go check and delete the right entry from general.useragent.extra.* in about:config
That is the only place I have ever set shortcuts, since the keyboard shortcut keys can only be set in the properties page of a shortcut, and I don't keep a pile of shortcuts on my desktop. So unfortunately, your work around, won't work for me, since I've been doing it that way all along.
I have Ctrl+Alt+P for cmd.exe (Microsoft program), Ctrl+Alt+N=Notepad (Microsoft again), but Ctrl+Alt+T=Putty (non-Microsoft), and Ctrl+Alt+V=TightVNC (non-Microsoft) just for some examples. All have the same problems hanging Explorer for me, and always have. I've used more-or-less the same shortcut keys since Netscape 4.0 was my main browser, and have had the same problem on all kinds of iterations of Windows installations.
Way to just ignore the fact that the problem is pressing the key only once still yields Explorer.exe hanging for 30 seconds.
Pressing the key twice, or 10 times, does NOT, fyi, make Explorer.exe hang for 60, or 300 seconds. I was just illustrating the nature of the problem. Obviously pressing the key again won't make it work, if it didn't do it the first time right away.
So let's just ignore this whole tangent of other replies below your post and ask simply. Do you have a solution that works? As far as I can tell, this is a bug that has never been fixed in Windows, because only power-users care to use the feature.
OK, I really don't understan this one. hasn't [alt]+ the shortcut worked before? Seems they had this way back in win95, didn't they?
No, this has NEVER worked right. I have so many shortcuts assigned hotkeys, like Ctrl+Alt+P for a command prompt, Ctrl+Alt+T for a terminal, Ctrl+Alt+N for notepad, etc. Only like 20% of the time does the key work, even in XP and Vista. The rest of the time, the entire Explorer freezes for 20-30 seconds. You can't click on the start menu, the task bar doesn't update, you can't get to Task Manager, etc. Alt-Tab works to go between already-open windows, but the taskbar doesn't redraw. Sit there and press Ctrl+Alt+N over and over, and wait and wait. Suddenly, 10 notepads will all open at once 20 seconds later and the system returns to normal.
I have ALWAYS had this problem, on Windows 98, SE, 2000, XP, and Vista. Lots of different computers, different hardware, and different fresh installs of the OS where everything else really works as expected.
How about just having browsers refuse to submit <input type="password"> fields unless the source page and submit page are the same domain, and the submit page is secure.
And every theory should be discussed, with or without weaknesses:)
There is generally only one "theory" that is accepted, but there should be nothing against discussing its weaknesses.
As for discussing every hypothesis, well, there could be a million of those, most of which are generally wrong, and most of which are pointless to discuses.
Well I'm playing Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn right now, but after that, I want a new RPG, and the selection of 8 total, half of which are only pre-orders, seemed very bad for a system that has been out 2 years now. The Little King's Story and Opoona look really quite pathetic as well. Compare that to the selection at http://www.gamestop.com/Browse/Search.aspx?N=133+106 (35 games) and you might understand where I'm coming from.
Fable 2 seems to be a 360 exclusive, no PC version that I've seen, and I don't really know if my hardware is new enough to play most new PC games anyway. Why spend a $300-$600 on a Motherboard/RAM/CPU/Video card to upgrade when I can just get a 360 for $200 and play the same games like Oblivion anyway?
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I think most people are missing what I said here. You don't give up the ability to have two windows side by side if you can't size windows arbitrarily. You would drag the tabs into different workspaces which would create a divider bar, letting you have as many things side by side, tiled, or whatever. You just give up the extra cruft like window frames and borders. Each app gets a tab, and multiple tabs can be visible at any given time.
Really, what's the point of having windows not Maximized. As far as I can tell, you'd be better off with the taskbar in windows being like tabs, and being able to drag tabs together to form split pane views for side-by-side work. I hate having to manually drag the edges of windows, and I hate when they are not fullscreen (or minimized). Yes I know about "Tile Windows Horizontally" but it just makes extra fluff for the borders of each window compared to a tabbed/paned view. Pretty much a big failure on OS X that their Maximize doesn't even always make a window full screen.
My Hyundai nearly always shows 3mph higher than my GPS. My GPS always agrees with the street-side radar things that flash your speed at you exactly. I never actually compared the long distance odometer readings to actual distance traveled to figure out if the speedometer needle is just aimed a few degrees too far to the right, or if the calibration of the axle rotation to distance traveled is just slightly off. I suppose it could be either one, but it's less evil to think that auto manufacturers just want you to drive slower and saver by tricking you into thinking you are going faster than you actual are that it is to think that they are trying to inflate their MPG figures.
You get more MPG if the odometer is tied to a speedometer that is calibrated to show a higher speed, and thus greater distance traveled.
^THIS^ There is a reason file:/// urls always have 3 slashes and other protocols use 2. Additionally, http:///file.html should be more or less an alias for http://localhost/file.html in theory. It is also very similar to the \\computer\fileshare syntax Windows uses. Just think of Explorer as assuming the default protocol is smb: instead of how your web browser will assume http: If Explorer used regular slashes, would it too much to type smb://server/share/path/file.doc ?
The rules of the stargate are quite strange and often "expanded" to create some plot. But I give them that their explanations are often quite clever.
A third point is that a stargate actually has a way to recognize objects. It only sends the object if the whole thing passed the event horizon. Otherwise it just would rip people and stuff apart when they try to pass.
I've never figured out what is really supposed to happen when you shut off a worm-hole in mid-transit. In one episode of SG-1, some heavy material re-materializes inside of the nearby planet's sun (causing/solving the red sky and eminent doom). In another episode, Teal'c is trapped inside of the buffer, and his atoms are not just randomly lost at some point in space between the two gates. Also, there is at least one episode I can recall where a Jaffa retreating through a gate has his staff weapon cut in half when the gate shuts off. Also in the 2nd episode of the entire series of SG-1, Kawalsky had his head cut in half by them shutting down the gate while his head was partially in the wormhole. So the whole thing about transporting entire objects as one packet seems to be not true all of the time.
Instead of spinning the "wrong" way, couldn't the planet just have a 180 degree axial tilt, sort of like Uranus has a pretty steep 97 degree tilt. At 180 degrees, it would be right sight up by a different perspective, but spinning the opposite direction as the star.
Looking at my most recent bill, I think I pay $10.68 even if I use 0 KWH, so I already pay such a "connection fee" with Consumers Energy in Michigan.
System Access Charge - 6.00
Delivery Surcharges - 4.68
This isn't really new as the first 3 digits of your SSN already tell you which state you were born in more or less - http://www.google.com/search?q=ssn+by+state and the numbers are issued pretty sequentially from there, so just the year you were born and the state you were born in narrows it down pretty far already.
True, but I assume those all go hand-in-hand as far as scripting performance goes. Either way, the obvious fact is IE8 is pretty damn slow and choppy compared to every other browser I can test that page on.
I tried to do something pretty seemingly simple with Javascript (1 draggable line to redraw the background colors of the table), and it drags its ass on IE8. It is fast and smooth in FF/Opera/etc, but with so many people using IE still, it hardly matters.
The issue is simply this:
You support requiring the installation of spyware on student-owned machines, in order for students to use the only choice of internet access, which they already paid for with their tuition.
That is a line that should not have been crossed. You should have stood up for what is right, gotten the entire IT department together, and all quit at once.
You don't need such draconian enforcement to have TOS or an AUP on the campus network. This is akin to putting razor wire and electrified fence around the campus stadium, instead of a simple chain-link fence. You don't need such an elaborate fence to enforce the rules.
It's the student's network. They own it, and they pay for it, with their tuition.
You sir, are an ass for supporting this crud. No software should be required by the university on any students computer. If you want to do any checking and blocking, do it remotely with nessus as you mention. Any IT department which demands a student install *spyware* on their computer simply to be allowed internet access is an absolutely horribly misguided and mismanaged IT department. I don't care what the software purports to scan for and not scan for. It IS spyware, and nothing less.
Apparently, MS released a v1.1 of the plugin, but it can't install if you left 1.0 disabled (like I did). If you re-enable the plugin, then go manually re-download and re-install the hotfix which included this plugin more recently, you will get v1.1 of the plugin, after which, you CAN uninstall it. .net you have installed, so either get it uninstalled, or go check and delete the right entry from general.useragent.extra.* in about:config
Note that disabling the plugin still leaves a string in your user-agent saying what version of
I think every single SD and SDHC card I have, has a little lock tab on the side you can flip to make it read-only.
That is the only place I have ever set shortcuts, since the keyboard shortcut keys can only be set in the properties page of a shortcut, and I don't keep a pile of shortcuts on my desktop.
So unfortunately, your work around, won't work for me, since I've been doing it that way all along.
I have Ctrl+Alt+P for cmd.exe (Microsoft program), Ctrl+Alt+N=Notepad (Microsoft again), but Ctrl+Alt+T=Putty (non-Microsoft), and Ctrl+Alt+V=TightVNC (non-Microsoft) just for some examples. All have the same problems hanging Explorer for me, and always have. I've used more-or-less the same shortcut keys since Netscape 4.0 was my main browser, and have had the same problem on all kinds of iterations of Windows installations.
I skipped 95 and ME, and I don't really use Vista except on a laptop it came on, and usually only to test how my programs run under it.
A terminal, in this case, is PuTTY, for SSH'ing to other (Linux) computers.
Way to just ignore the fact that the problem is pressing the key only once still yields Explorer.exe hanging for 30 seconds.
Pressing the key twice, or 10 times, does NOT, fyi, make Explorer.exe hang for 60, or 300 seconds. I was just illustrating the nature of the problem. Obviously pressing the key again won't make it work, if it didn't do it the first time right away.
So let's just ignore this whole tangent of other replies below your post and ask simply. Do you have a solution that works? As far as I can tell, this is a bug that has never been fixed in Windows, because only power-users care to use the feature.
2. Windows Logo + keyboard shortcut
OK, I really don't understan this one. hasn't [alt]+ the shortcut worked before? Seems they had this way back in win95, didn't they?
No, this has NEVER worked right. I have so many shortcuts assigned hotkeys, like Ctrl+Alt+P for a command prompt, Ctrl+Alt+T for a terminal, Ctrl+Alt+N for notepad, etc. Only like 20% of the time does the key work, even in XP and Vista. The rest of the time, the entire Explorer freezes for 20-30 seconds. You can't click on the start menu, the task bar doesn't update, you can't get to Task Manager, etc. Alt-Tab works to go between already-open windows, but the taskbar doesn't redraw. Sit there and press Ctrl+Alt+N over and over, and wait and wait. Suddenly, 10 notepads will all open at once 20 seconds later and the system returns to normal.
I have ALWAYS had this problem, on Windows 98, SE, 2000, XP, and Vista. Lots of different computers, different hardware, and different fresh installs of the OS where everything else really works as expected.
How about just having browsers refuse to submit <input type="password"> fields unless the source page and submit page are the same domain, and the submit page is secure.
And every theory should be discussed, with or without weaknesses :)
There is generally only one "theory" that is accepted, but there should be nothing against discussing its weaknesses.
As for discussing every hypothesis, well, there could be a million of those, most of which are generally wrong, and most of which are pointless to discuses.
Well I'm playing Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn right now, but after that, I want a new RPG, and the selection of 8 total, half of which are only pre-orders, seemed very bad for a system that has been out 2 years now. The Little King's Story and Opoona look really quite pathetic as well. Compare that to the selection at http://www.gamestop.com/Browse/Search.aspx?N=133+106 (35 games) and you might understand where I'm coming from.
Fable 2 seems to be a 360 exclusive, no PC version that I've seen, and I don't really know if my hardware is new enough to play most new PC games anyway. Why spend a $300-$600 on a Motherboard/RAM/CPU/Video card to upgrade when I can just get a 360 for $200 and play the same games like Oblivion anyway?