Agree. And in point of fact, Clark's xhtml file was encoded in iso-latin-1, not Unicode (view source). But it's in fact legal for HTML Docs to do so, AFAIK. From the (hopefully definitive?) W3C document:
To support these entities
[like #8221 etc], user agents may support full [ISO10646 (=Unicode)] or use other means. Display of glyphs for these characters may be obtained by being able to display the relevant [ISO10646] characters or by other means, such as internally mapping the listed entities, numeric character references, and characters to the appropriate position in some font that contains the requisite glyphs.
OTOH, it's a 'may' recommendation (not a 'MAY' -- don't know if that matters). So technically the UA is not at fault, but it's something one could fix. What UA is this? Even Lynx (and Links) render these quotes correctly, replacing them with ASCII 33 ($TERM is linux).
Because he didn't use "?
He used ISO-Latin-1 encoding and Entities “ and ” -- what are you using that doesn't display this? I'd say the tool is broken, not the markup.
The only thing he could have done better was use the character entity names -- “ and ”.
Wow, see, that's interesting because I already knew about that option - but it still 'phones home' (as a previous poster already indicated). I'm sorry I forgot to be more specific, but I was looking for an answer from someone who knew what they were talking about, not a smartass button-pusher
I'm afraid you're the one who's ending up sounding like the smartass here -- but hey, this is/.:)...but can you back that up? Not doubting you, but a firewall/proxy log entry would be cool, to show _what_ it's phoning home for. Who knows, there might be a way to stop that as well.
FWIW, my squid setup shows nothing. Windows 2000, SP3, IE6 SP1. (I don't use it very actively though, so maybe it's something one sees only with regular use?)
You can actually buy legacy-free mobos these days. Although -- I have a friend who almost bought one of those, he planned to connect an old microcontroller kit he used for home automation. His kit only had a serial interface; he eventually decided against a legacy-free PC. I'm not sure he did enough research; i think serial-to-USB interfaces should be available (any ideas?)
You can get someone who is a complete whiz with writing filesystems, but doesn't even begin to understand how this data is stored on and retrieved from the hard drive. How does that make any sense?
I'll give you one explanation to chew over, see if you find it acceptable: abstraction. Quite a few practising engineers (good ones -- not the "i know ``programming'' kinds") I have met tend to abstract things they are not responsible for into `black boxes' that should `just work'. He may have the education _and_ the experience necessary to understand in minute detail how, say, a page swap occurs; but won't spend time thinking about it because he charges $55 or more an hour and this is *not relevant to the problem he is being paid to solve*. And he may actually have a family with kids, so the time he has to think about all this away from work is pretty limited.
Could this possibly explain why some choose OSes where they can just get their work done?
Because Salamander is a *user*. He may be a technically very sophisticated one, but he is a _user_. If he sees something he doesn't like, he'll gripe, not fix it. Not everyone hacks on their computers the moment they see something wrong with it -- they have real jobs.
Btw, why do you think someone like Dennis Ritchie (a person who you can't say is, uh, lacking in 1337 skillz:-)) uses an blend of Windows and Plan 9 as his daily work environment, rather than say Linux or another Unix clone?
Unix is old, remember, and there are a lot of heroes of the original Unix movement who see it simply as yesterday's news and wish to move on to better things. There was a quote by Bill Joy (can't find a link, think it was in Salon) where Joy talks about how antiquated the concepts behind Linux are, and how (braggadocio here) he could probably `rewrite the kernel' in an month or so, but he has better fish to fry.
I don't think he was being very accurate, but you get the image these guys have of Linux. And no, mere jealousy won't begin to explain this.
Now that FreeBSD has Java, who needs Windows anymore?
This is so funny, I wonder if the writer _intentionally_ intended this to be a joke.
I believe Microsoft would have been much better off if they didn't produce any software at all! Instead, they would be a software publisher, a packaging and marketing company of sorts.
Yes, give up a nice, lucrative business for the financial uncertainty of Open Source, all to salve a few Slashdot egos. Makes perfect business sense.
At least most have the option to never show this again... realplayer is just a complete bitch for this, which is why i don't use it. ever. i'm also quickly getting fed up with quicktime's 'UPGRADE TO QUICKTIME PRO', adobe's "THERES MORE TO ACROBAT THAN JUST READER!", and winamp's "VERSION XXX IS NOW OUT! DOWNLOAD?".
While I agree with Quicktime and Real (pain, both of those!) Winamp has a checkbox in the Preferences dialog (node: Setup) for `Check for new versions of Winamp at startup'. And also for `Allow Winamp to report basic, anonymous program usage information'. It is never reset when one upgrades. The crowd at Nullsoft are reasonably decent, considering they give away a tightly written (680k?) media player for free. Their setup makes obligatory AOL icon on the desktop optional too -- for those upgrading.
Please compliment your legal department on their extraordinary talent towards directing bad publicity towards their company. Please see [http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~twm/embed/dmca.html] and [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/01/20262 34&mode=nested] for more information. Previously, Agfa was a font foundry not many technically savvy folk cared a rat's arse about (since your primary customer base is more in the graphic/DTP design industry); now you are on the radar of every free thinker (and there are several) in (and out of) the tech industry across the US.
The DMCA is bad law and I have no doubt that this case will follow the previous DeCSS and Adobe cases in garnering gobs of publicity -- bad publicity -- for Agfa.
Incidentally, it will also make people who would never visit a rather obscure page at CMU, realize that fonts *can* be embedded, and for free. I for sure would not have heard of the possibility if it were not for your sharp-snouted legal eagles.
Also, please assure yourself that the resulting stink will bring the whole issue of Free fonts (both in the libre and gratuite connotations, see [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html] for more) onto the radar of the worthies at the EFF and the FSF, and you may soon expect (along with several software companies) to see their revenue streams being attacked at the low end by free, high-quality articles created by amateur suppliers -- some of them studying in the best art and design schools in the country.
Please congratulate yourself for adding one very determined -- and hydra-headed -- competitor to your roster.
And yes, should the need for buying fonts ever arise for me, I shall make sure, that none of the fonts I buy -- as an individual and a independently working professional -- shall be from Agfa. Please sleep well knowing you have lost one customer and lost the goodwill of undoubtedly thousands others -- until you make a full, unreserved and public apology to Mr Murphy.
Sun has a poor record in using its own products. Sure, McNealy uses a Sun Ray, but most of the Sun sales folk seem to be very attached to their Windows 2000 laptops, MS Office (though Sun internally supports only Star Office) and IE (which is a shame -- Mozilla's mature enough, I think).
Who knows, maybe Apple could convince Sun to turn into a major customer now:-)
Just checked out myrealbox. Two bits -- now they're gonna have a bunch of Yahoo newbies come in... dunno how they're gonna handle the increased load. Mgmt pressure from Novell will increase on myrealbox to be profitable. 150k users can cost quite a bit in bandwidth, imho.
But i liked the range of services they offer, including HTTPS, POP/POPS, IMAP/IMAPS, etc. I believe there are some sites giving free Domino based mail services to show off Domino's mailserving capabilities, but this is really cool. I think these guys would do well to charge for this.
Actually, if you're interested in the history of NT, Showstopper! by Pascal Zachary might be a good book to read. It touches upon some of the OS/2 related tensions, too.
Think about it -- We know that MS had full
rights to the OS/2 code. AFAWK, they didn't
have any rights to VMS. Which codebase would
they have used?
Can't find a link for this now, but afaik msft and digital had an agreement to cross-license technologies. Also, msft apparently paid digital for the right to own some patents they had (not sure of this, though).
Yes. One HSBC ATM rebooted in front of me, and I got a chance to take a *good* look at the screen. In fact, it was running OS/2 1.3. And, interestingly, it had *no* IBM copyright notice, just a (C) Copyright Microsoft notice. That's what took me by surprise. In fact, IIRC, the screen looked just like this.
Anybody know who gets paid every time one of these is sold? MS? Would be kind of ironic, if so.
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Actually, the 10 user limit is for "named", i.e., OS-authenticated, users, and users who connect via windows networking. This is a 'hard' limit in that you can't change this without mucking about in the registry.
For anonymous TCP connections, there was once a limit of 10 (in the early NT4 days? i believe O'Reilly once campaigned against this).
But in these days of gnutella, this would be tough, and (no wonder) Windows 2000 handles multiple TCP connections just fine. In fact, I just blasted Apache on my Windows 2000 workstation with a infinite-loop wget script from my Linux box, and Apache chugged along just fine, servicing well over 100 connections per second.
Sounds good! Why don't you enter the Google programming contest? This idea would be interesting to implement, even if in testbed conditions. Incidentally, Teoma (or Vivisimo -- forget which) already offers something like this, though not on the scale you outline (they have "topic clusters").
Office XP starts noticeably faster than Office 2000. And Office 2000 started noticeably faster than Office 97. And this is *after* verifying that it added nothing to my computer's startup sequence -- the Office XP installer most certainly did not upgrade any OS DLLs... I have a tripwire log to prove it.
(Office XP will upgrade OS DLLs under certain conditions though -- if you're using an older version of IE, or if Windows Installer is an older version, etc.)
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Because he didn't use "? He used ISO-Latin-1 encoding and Entities “ and ” -- what are you using that doesn't display this? I'd say the tool is broken, not the markup. The only thing he could have done better was use the character entity names -- “ and ”.
Thanks. I guess that's why my friend chose not to get a legacy free PC.
You can actually buy legacy-free mobos these days. Although -- I have a friend who almost bought one of those, he planned to connect an old microcontroller kit he used for home automation. His kit only had a serial interface; he eventually decided against a legacy-free PC. I'm not sure he did enough research; i think serial-to-USB interfaces should be available (any ideas?)
Could this possibly explain why some choose OSes where they can just get their work done?
Because Salamander is a *user*. He may be a technically very sophisticated one, but he is a _user_. If he sees something he doesn't like, he'll gripe, not fix it. Not everyone hacks on their computers the moment they see something wrong with it -- they have real jobs.
:-)) uses an blend of Windows and Plan 9 as his daily work environment, rather than say Linux or another Unix clone?
Btw, why do you think someone like Dennis Ritchie (a person who you can't say is, uh, lacking in 1337 skillz
Unix is old, remember, and there are a lot of heroes of the original Unix movement who see it simply as yesterday's news and wish to move on to better things. There was a quote by Bill Joy (can't find a link, think it was in Salon) where Joy talks about how antiquated the concepts behind Linux are, and how (braggadocio here) he could probably `rewrite the kernel' in an month or so, but he has better fish to fry.
I don't think he was being very accurate, but you get the image these guys have of Linux. And no, mere jealousy won't begin to explain this.
Passport, Visa, ... natch, I say they're preparing to break away from the United States :-)
This is so funny, I wonder if the writer _intentionally_ intended this to be a joke.
I believe Microsoft would have been much better off if they didn't produce any software at all! Instead, they would be a software publisher, a packaging and marketing company of sorts.
Yes, give up a nice, lucrative business for the financial uncertainty of Open Source, all to salve a few Slashdot egos. Makes perfect business sense.
Who knows, maybe Apple could convince Sun to turn into a major customer now :-)
Ditto. Also ... the Geocities FTP change seems to be affecting geocities.com at this time. Still, it's only a matter of time.
But i liked the range of services they offer, including HTTPS, POP/POPS, IMAP/IMAPS, etc. I believe there are some sites giving free Domino based mail services to show off Domino's mailserving capabilities, but this is really cool. I think these guys would do well to charge for this.
Anybody know who gets paid every time one of these is sold? MS? Would be kind of ironic, if so.
For anonymous TCP connections, there was once a limit of 10 (in the early NT4 days? i believe O'Reilly once campaigned against this). But in these days of gnutella, this would be tough, and (no wonder) Windows 2000 handles multiple TCP connections just fine. In fact, I just blasted Apache on my Windows 2000 workstation with a infinite-loop wget script from my Linux box, and Apache chugged along just fine, servicing well over 100 connections per second.
Sounds good! Why don't you enter the Google programming contest? This idea would be interesting to implement, even if in testbed conditions. Incidentally, Teoma (or Vivisimo -- forget which) already offers something like this, though not on the scale you outline (they have "topic clusters").
Office XP starts noticeably faster than Office 2000. And Office 2000 started noticeably faster than Office 97. And this is *after* verifying that it added nothing to my computer's startup sequence -- the Office XP installer most certainly did not upgrade any OS DLLs ... I have a tripwire log to prove it.
(Office XP will upgrade OS DLLs under certain conditions though -- if you're using an older version of IE, or if Windows Installer is an older version, etc.)
>My fist, her face
That's sick.