Like my ebanking? When you click on login, it loads the same page in secured mode with a ONLOAD="window.open(...)". This then opens the actual ebanking window. That's all nice if you don't disable scripting in Mozilla.
Took serveral hours of tinkering before I understood what exactly was happening, and *why* I didn't get the real login page. I don't miss popup windows at all, except for this instance. Of course I cannot complain, because they don't support Mozilla. Only IE 5.5 and up and (astonishingly) Netscape 6.x and up. Since netscape doesn't do pop-up blocking, it would never have this problem.
Couldn't call support because I was a) on a Mac, and b) using Mozilla. Oh, well, I found out anyway....
Strangely enough the rest of the site works like a charm.
It had linux drivers with it (unnecessary as they're part of the kernel now) and was a good price:)
Wouldn't happen to be Realtek RTL8139(A)? I bought some of those real cheap and they came with Linux drivers. Never used them though, since the box that got the NIC was an OpenBSD machine and it supported it out of the box.
I heard they were really crappy cards, but that's what I heard.
Actually... No. I have to admit that my first kernel compile went wrong, but it didn't take more than an evening figuring out what to do. I even learned a lot that evening.
Anyways, instead of buying just the first NIC that comes around, inform yourself a bit what will run on Linux and buy *that*. That philosophy works very well.
Of course if you are migrating an existing machine to Linux, you're out of luck with that philosophy, but that's not what you said.
Hey! I still play Civilisation I from time to time on my old P120 Laptop running DOS (and Linux on another partition). It never got old for me, because it *still* is fun. (Even though of course the graphics aren't as flashy as the latest Civs)
Sorry for stereotyping... But probably, I'm a moldy-cheese-eating-chains-smoking-european for you too...
Hey, when I was listening to country, I was cruising in a convertible through the desert. I thought it as pretty appropriate. (Road-movie like....)
Anyways, what is *good* american music then? I mean stuff that isn't played here and isn't hyped up like all the crap we get to see on MTV. For me some "different" music was really rather refreshing.
Of course not. It's a language thing. I'm lucky enough to live somewhere inbetween Germany and France with a steady influence of the UK (Lot's of people from the UK here) and of course the mandatory influence of Corporate America.
Look, I like some Spanish music even if I don't understand a word they say. Sometimes it still moves me and I like the melody. (For example "Mecano" -- but that one is well known)
You just proved to me that geographical differences are already there within Europe itself.
It's not only in time. But also geographically. I was on a road-trip in the US last may. Being on a road-trip, I thought listening to Country would enhance the "American experience". Well to my biggest astonishment, I actually really liked some songs.
Guess what? Buying them in Europe is just not possible! Sure, I could order them at CDNow.com or Amazon.com, paying insane shipping. I just downloaded them from Gnutella, and got over with it. Of course now I'm an evil pirate, because I have illegal music, but music I couldn't even have bought in the first place.
I'm pretty sure you Americans don't get German or French artists often at the record store either. (From the UK is more probable)
Have A Cigar -- Pink Floyd . I'm not exactly sure, but always if I hear this song it makes me think of some record-label manager lying to a band and tring to rip them off. It probably is even about that.
So it's hardly a new phenomenon.
Many software companies (including Microsoft) use this tactic to make sure their software sells more
<SARCASM> So where is my Warez Key for Windows XP that allows me to install service packs? </SARCASM>
No, I don't have XP, and I don't really care. I just wanted to make a point that Microsoft stopped doing this with the release of Windows and Office XP.
These companies go out of business because they have nothing to offer on their websites that keeps people coming
Actually, no... Hosting movies for download is very costily. Remember AdCritic ? Well, they used to be free! I loved it, but of course during the dot-com boom they went under. Now subscription is 70$ a year. Sorry, that's too much for me.
Anybody know where I can download the Chanel N5 advertisement with the red-riding-hood and the wolves? I loved that one (and it even isn't funny)
Not sure about that. On Gnutella I had the bad luck on finding files that were empty. Lots of hosts, all empty, but all from the same netblock. So it was pretty easy to find out it was a company behind them.
I think a better indicator is the bandwith. The small guy sharing probably doesn't have T1 or T3's. If insanely high transferrates are offered, don't take them, they are probably fake (speaking out of experience here).
The familiarity is fake. That's my whole point. There are too many differences between NT4 adn XP to be switching comfortably.
It's like saying: I won't switch from an Audi to a VW because the dashboard-light colour is blue instead of red.
I have exposed my sister (21 year old, so not "it's a kid, they learn fast") to Linux running KDE2 and to Mac OS X. She didn't have a problem with either one (well not major problems). That is because she grasps the basics of using a computer. If presented to a WIMP interface, most people should be intelligent enough to figure out how to use it. It's not that KDE, GNOME, Aqua, Win32 are all that different. You just have to look around a bit, and that is exactly what you do the first time you use a system.
Otherwhise nobody would be able to use those customized Info-Booths you see in malls/offices/street.
Besides, I think that people who are not open to learning computers are not supposed to be using computers. Might sound elitist, but I also think I have nothing to do near a spectrometer because I am not willing to learn about spectrometers. (I deliberatly didn't use "cars" because othewhise someone would point out: you can kill someone using a car). If you see it in that light: what I say doesn't sound elitist at all anymore.
It really depends on what tires you use. I live in the EU myself and my tires never last longer than 15000km. They are however ZR-rated.
My dad who drives a completely different kind of car uses less highly rated tires and manages to make 30000km with one set. This is however still enormously lower than 50000 miles.
Besides, I have the same problem with American cars. It's probably the extremely soft suspension... I prefer to feel every pothole;-)
I didn't say none of my systems run Windows. I just left them out... My Windows systems run Win2000, which makes me untrained for XP too. What I mean is: Just because it's what you are familiar with, is no reason to stay with it.
I switched to Mac OS X last year. Do you think it was easy coming from Windows? Of course not!
Two years before my Mac OS X switch, I was on Linux with WindowMaker? (My current machine back then wasn't strong enough for the stable Windowses) You think that was easy? Of course not, WindowMaker is a completely different concept.
What I said is that every Windows-upgrade forces you in a new environment. Just compare the minor changes between NT4, Win2000 and now XP. Well, I tell you: those differences suck, and you're talking to a seasoned computer user here. Configurng TCP/IP for example: easy in WinNT4, a pain to find if you don't know where it is in Win2000. I do know that is not something your mom will do, but I'm sure these kind of changes annoy normal users too.
Imagine your mom was used to WinNT4 (I could have said W95), and now suddenly you give her a WinXP machine. That is two different *worlds*, unless you have gone the whole upgrade path, and learned the minor differences *each* time. If you would have given her a correctly setup Linux machine, or a Mac, she would have had the same problems.
OSes change too much in each release, it's constant retraining. That is however not what your parents (nor normal users) are good at... retraining.
Interesting. I didn't know about that one. What is not clear to me is how they handle foreign cars. I've been to Great Britain (not London) with my car, and while I think it's probably insane to drive in London (as it is in Paris, btw), I wonder how would I get charged? Apart from that, the OCR might mistake my plate for someone elses plate who gets the bill. Not nice.
but my parents, for instance, love Windows XP's ease of use and stability.
So does my iBook, so does my OpenBSD system, so does my Linux system. What's your point?
You talk about "training" not about "ease of use". Like it or not, no GUI system (no, not even Mac OS X) is intuitive and has to be learnt. So your parents first exposure to computers was probably a W32 system. No wonder they like WinXP. They would like Win2000 or WinNT4 as well. (Note that I leave out W9x because you specified "stable")
I for one find the "ease of use" of XP terrible: they changed *everything* *again*, compared to Win2000. Of course, I'm just not trained to use WinXP.
So what? It's the exposure that counts. We pushed up the rating due to the slashdot effect, which means a PHB is more likely to read it now. Guess what: a PHB doesn't know about the slashdot effect, so he will not know it's been pushed up by us zealots.
I say: instant free publicity! For once that the slashdot effect does something positive....
I said: Nice reply.
Are you stalking me or what? It is not as if there aren't enough Luxembourgers on slashdot. I know at least about two.
Since yesterday, someone is posting Luxembourgish comments to my posts. That's not a problem, because I live there, but really, I see no reason why someone would follow my posting habits.
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Here we have "Mobilux"... Now really, while I like the comics of Asterix and Obelix this lawsuit is really stupid.
No, you're not alone. I have seen those at many places. Of course my personal favourite is falbala.mydomain.com ;-)
You also had Cool Spot advertising for 7Up. Not sure, thought they actually sold that game.
Or think of advertisements on the track of racing games. Gran Turismo for example...
Took serveral hours of tinkering before I understood what exactly was happening, and *why* I didn't get the real login page. I don't miss popup windows at all, except for this instance. Of course I cannot complain, because they don't support Mozilla. Only IE 5.5 and up and (astonishingly) Netscape 6.x and up. Since netscape doesn't do pop-up blocking, it would never have this problem.
Couldn't call support because I was a) on a Mac, and b) using Mozilla. Oh, well, I found out anyway....
Strangely enough the rest of the site works like a charm.
Care to tell us what program that was, so that I can avoid it like the pest? Especially commercial software should not include spyware.
Wouldn't happen to be Realtek RTL8139(A)? I bought some of those real cheap and they came with Linux drivers. Never used them though, since the box that got the NIC was an OpenBSD machine and it supported it out of the box.
I heard they were really crappy cards, but that's what I heard.
Anyways, instead of buying just the first NIC that comes around, inform yourself a bit what will run on Linux and buy *that*. That philosophy works very well.
Of course if you are migrating an existing machine to Linux, you're out of luck with that philosophy, but that's not what you said.
Hey! I still play Civilisation I from time to time on my old P120 Laptop running DOS (and Linux on another partition). It never got old for me, because it *still* is fun. (Even though of course the graphics aren't as flashy as the latest Civs)
If running Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or IIS.... augment risk with 1000%.
Need For Speed - High Stakes
Carmageddon II
I won't go into DOS games. My brother wants to play these games, yes... I don't care too much, but he does.
Hey, when I was listening to country, I was cruising in a convertible through the desert. I thought it as pretty appropriate. (Road-movie like....)
Anyways, what is *good* american music then? I mean stuff that isn't played here and isn't hyped up like all the crap we get to see on MTV. For me some "different" music was really rather refreshing.
Look, I like some Spanish music even if I don't understand a word they say. Sometimes it still moves me and I like the melody. (For example "Mecano" -- but that one is well known)
You just proved to me that geographical differences are already there within Europe itself.
It's not only in time. But also geographically. I was on a road-trip in the US last may. Being on a road-trip, I thought listening to Country would enhance the "American experience". Well to my biggest astonishment, I actually really liked some songs.
Guess what? Buying them in Europe is just not possible! Sure, I could order them at CDNow.com or Amazon.com, paying insane shipping. I just downloaded them from Gnutella, and got over with it. Of course now I'm an evil pirate, because I have illegal music, but music I couldn't even have bought in the first place.
I'm pretty sure you Americans don't get German or French artists often at the record store either. (From the UK is more probable)
Have A Cigar -- Pink Floyd . I'm not exactly sure, but always if I hear this song it makes me think of some record-label manager lying to a band and tring to rip them off. It probably is even about that.
So it's hardly a new phenomenon.
<SARCASM> So where is my Warez Key for Windows XP that allows me to install service packs? </SARCASM>
No, I don't have XP, and I don't really care. I just wanted to make a point that Microsoft stopped doing this with the release of Windows and Office XP.
Actually, no... Hosting movies for download is very costily. Remember AdCritic ? Well, they used to be free! I loved it, but of course during the dot-com boom they went under. Now subscription is 70$ a year. Sorry, that's too much for me.
Anybody know where I can download the Chanel N5 advertisement with the red-riding-hood and the wolves? I loved that one (and it even isn't funny)
I think a better indicator is the bandwith. The small guy sharing probably doesn't have T1 or T3's. If insanely high transferrates are offered, don't take them, they are probably fake (speaking out of experience here).
It's like saying: I won't switch from an Audi to a VW because the dashboard-light colour is blue instead of red.
I have exposed my sister (21 year old, so not "it's a kid, they learn fast") to Linux running KDE2 and to Mac OS X. She didn't have a problem with either one (well not major problems). That is because she grasps the basics of using a computer. If presented to a WIMP interface, most people should be intelligent enough to figure out how to use it. It's not that KDE, GNOME, Aqua, Win32 are all that different. You just have to look around a bit, and that is exactly what you do the first time you use a system.
Otherwhise nobody would be able to use those customized Info-Booths you see in malls/offices/street.
Besides, I think that people who are not open to learning computers are not supposed to be using computers. Might sound elitist, but I also think I have nothing to do near a spectrometer because I am not willing to learn about spectrometers. (I deliberatly didn't use "cars" because othewhise someone would point out: you can kill someone using a car). If you see it in that light: what I say doesn't sound elitist at all anymore.
My dad who drives a completely different kind of car uses less highly rated tires and manages to make 30000km with one set. This is however still enormously lower than 50000 miles.
Besides, I have the same problem with American cars. It's probably the extremely soft suspension... I prefer to feel every pothole ;-)
I switched to Mac OS X last year. Do you think it was easy coming from Windows? Of course not!
Two years before my Mac OS X switch, I was on Linux with WindowMaker? (My current machine back then wasn't strong enough for the stable Windowses) You think that was easy? Of course not, WindowMaker is a completely different concept.
What I said is that every Windows-upgrade forces you in a new environment. Just compare the minor changes between NT4, Win2000 and now XP. Well, I tell you: those differences suck, and you're talking to a seasoned computer user here. Configurng TCP/IP for example: easy in WinNT4, a pain to find if you don't know where it is in Win2000. I do know that is not something your mom will do, but I'm sure these kind of changes annoy normal users too.
Imagine your mom was used to WinNT4 (I could have said W95), and now suddenly you give her a WinXP machine. That is two different *worlds*, unless you have gone the whole upgrade path, and learned the minor differences *each* time. If you would have given her a correctly setup Linux machine, or a Mac, she would have had the same problems.
OSes change too much in each release, it's constant retraining. That is however not what your parents (nor normal users) are good at... retraining.
Interesting. I didn't know about that one. What is not clear to me is how they handle foreign cars. I've been to Great Britain (not London) with my car, and while I think it's probably insane to drive in London (as it is in Paris, btw), I wonder how would I get charged? Apart from that, the OCR might mistake my plate for someone elses plate who gets the bill. Not nice.
So does my iBook, so does my OpenBSD system, so does my Linux system. What's your point?
You talk about "training" not about "ease of use". Like it or not, no GUI system (no, not even Mac OS X) is intuitive and has to be learnt. So your parents first exposure to computers was probably a W32 system. No wonder they like WinXP. They would like Win2000 or WinNT4 as well. (Note that I leave out W9x because you specified "stable")
I for one find the "ease of use" of XP terrible: they changed *everything* *again*, compared to Win2000. Of course, I'm just not trained to use WinXP.
I say: instant free publicity! For once that the slashdot effect does something positive....
We call that BMWeather...
I said:
Nice reply.
Are you stalking me or what? It is not as if there aren't enough Luxembourgers on slashdot. I know at least about two.
Since yesterday, someone is posting Luxembourgish comments to my posts. That's not a problem, because I live there, but really, I see no reason why someone would follow my posting habits.