Amazon advertises over the Internet, but they aren't exempt from false advertising laws.
False advertising laws serve some purpose though. There once was a time in Canada where all the telephone companies were government owned (I think all of them anyway). There was a great need for the CRTC to prevent abuse by the state monopoly. VOIP will bring almost unlimited competition to the market. I'm not sure if we need to be protected from an expanding free market. I guess it remains to be seen exactly how they plan to regulate the market, but in general the government does a terrible job of managing the affairs of the telecoms these days. I'm pretty sure that regulate in this case means taxation, and thats about it.
The way to do it with the XP cd is to go into the recovery console and type 'fixmbr'. The problem was the installer wouldn't use the drive though, not an unbootable system.. Like I said in the other reply in this thread though, it was faulty RAM. Its working great now.:)
What I find really interesting is that the Ubuntu live cd was running fine for two days on bad RAM, with no problems but the Windows installer couldn't handle the hype. Hehehe
Interesting that this story should show up the day after I spent several hours trying to reinstall a friend's downed computer.
The symptoms it had when I got there was, the mouse didn't work, and various "properties" pages wouldn't come up, like "System" in the control panel did nothing, right clicking "My Computer" and clicking properties didn't work either, but clicking "Manage", and going to the device manager did work.
In there, I notice several strange things like yellow exclaimation marks on the "Terminal server keyboard", "Terminal server HID mouse", etc.. I disabled those, and the mouse began working again, but a dialog came up telling me the machine would reboot in 1 minute, so I opened 'cmd', and tried to cancel the shutdown, but it would reappear every time I did.
At this point I told him it was probably best that we reinstall, because I couldn't guarantee I could destroy either the virus/trojan/malware itself, or the source of infection. So I started the XP install, deleted the partition, created a new one, and tried to format it with NTFS. It spent a half hour doing that, and then said something to the effect of "Windows is unable to format this device due to corruption". Soooo.. I booted Knoppix, downloaded Maxblast, did the diagnostic thing (which said the drive is fine) in that, zero'd the drive with it, and tried again. Same damn message.
So I figured I would try booting a Win98 cd, and try with a FAT32 partition which I created and formatted there. When I booted the WinXP cd, and picked the FAT32 partition, and picked the 'leave filesystem intact (no changes)' option, it said "Windows had modified the partition table and must be restarted". And now it just keeps doing that.
I'm heading back there shortly to take another round at it, so if anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear 'em.:)
The code stays on the screen the entire time, and for complicated stuff, I can do a side-by-side comparison without having to juggle windows around.
Sounds like somebody needs a second monitor. I've got a 21" Nokia CRT for my main display that I picked up really cheap second hand, and a cheap LCD display for viewing documentation. A browser with tabs on a second head is MUCH more convenient than page flipping, and colour coded stickies. The cost is about the same as a few decent text books. Its damn hard to zoom text on paper too. I go cross eyed trying to look through those large magnifying glass deals. ctrl +/- is a breeze though. Books are great for the bus (except to carry), but otherwise they're a huge pain.
I would be highly suspicious of opening a file with a name longer than 30 characters. And I'd reprimand any employee for unnecessary creating a filename of over 50 characters.
And I'd fire any admin that A) left xpi support turned on in the employee's browser or B) who was baffled about how to make sure they aren't vulnerable to this now defunct exploit.
It's not the fault of Opera really, but the DOM doesn't match either Netscape/Moz or Exploder.. I wouldn't consider myself a "web developer" by any means, but I've done my share. Getting pages to work in IE and FF is a chore, and supporting Opera is just a waste of time.
Are you telling me you expect a noob to know this? How is my grandmother supposed to know of this?
Know what? Whats wrong with your grandma, Alzheimer's?
Why doesn't the little red arrow (update icon) display yet?
Because you don't need to update anything. It was fixed on updates.mozilla.org. The site needs to be in your white list of sites that are allowed to install software to be vulnerable. I'm sure they will have a more permanent fix later at some point, but the current exploit no longer works. Go ahead and try it.
So, as far as I'm concerend -- it's not.
But you're a bit of a fool, so I'm not sure your opinion counts.
Alberta continuing election of increasingly right wing politicians may be trying to cover this up but I doubt the federal listings will reflect a surplus.
So... You're claiming that Alberta doesn't really have a surplus, and didn't really just pay off their entire provincial debt? Or what?
Ontario Quebec and British Columbia run a surplus the rest run a defecit.
Whaaaat? Alberta just paid off it's provincial debt. They've got a surplus this year that's almost as large the total operating budget of Manitoba. Manitoba had a surplus for 9 years in a row until the NDP came to power. This year we're back in the black again.
It's true -- BC, Alberta, and Ontario are the only provinces that generate more tax revenue than they consume.
Isn't BC off of that list now? Surprisingly (to me anyway), Saskatchewan is very close to becoming a contributer as well, and received less money than BC this year.
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Amazon advertises over the Internet, but they aren't exempt from false advertising laws.
False advertising laws serve some purpose though. There once was a time in Canada where all the telephone companies were government owned (I think all of them anyway). There was a great need for the CRTC to prevent abuse by the state monopoly. VOIP will bring almost unlimited competition to the market. I'm not sure if we need to be protected from an expanding free market. I guess it remains to be seen exactly how they plan to regulate the market, but in general the government does a terrible job of managing the affairs of the telecoms these days. I'm pretty sure that regulate in this case means taxation, and thats about it.
The way to do it with the XP cd is to go into the recovery console and type 'fixmbr'. The problem was the installer wouldn't use the drive though, not an unbootable system.. Like I said in the other reply in this thread though, it was faulty RAM. Its working great now. :)
What I find really interesting is that the Ubuntu live cd was running fine for two days on bad RAM, with no problems but the Windows installer couldn't handle the hype. Hehehe
Turns out it was bad RAM. I'd just like to say thanks to whoever came up with the idea of putting memtest86 on the Knoppix CD. :)
Yeah, zeroing the entire hard drive erases the mbr, the partition table, and all the data.
Interesting that this story should show up the day after I spent several hours trying to reinstall a friend's downed computer.
:)
The symptoms it had when I got there was, the mouse didn't work, and various "properties" pages wouldn't come up, like "System" in the control panel did nothing, right clicking "My Computer" and clicking properties didn't work either, but clicking "Manage", and going to the device manager did work.
In there, I notice several strange things like yellow exclaimation marks on the "Terminal server keyboard", "Terminal server HID mouse", etc.. I disabled those, and the mouse began working again, but a dialog came up telling me the machine would reboot in 1 minute, so I opened 'cmd', and tried to cancel the shutdown, but it would reappear every time I did.
At this point I told him it was probably best that we reinstall, because I couldn't guarantee I could destroy either the virus/trojan/malware itself, or the source of infection. So I started the XP install, deleted the partition, created a new one, and tried to format it with NTFS. It spent a half hour doing that, and then said something to the effect of "Windows is unable to format this device due to corruption". Soooo.. I booted Knoppix, downloaded Maxblast, did the diagnostic thing (which said the drive is fine) in that, zero'd the drive with it, and tried again. Same damn message.
So I figured I would try booting a Win98 cd, and try with a FAT32 partition which I created and formatted there. When I booted the WinXP cd, and picked the FAT32 partition, and picked the 'leave filesystem intact (no changes)' option, it said "Windows had modified the partition table and must be restarted". And now it just keeps doing that.
I'm heading back there shortly to take another round at it, so if anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear 'em.
Sorry if I've frustrated ya on the topic.
;)
I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
You can't just "Okay through it" though. The "OK" button is inactive until you pick one or the other. (sorry nitpick)
I see whats happening here. There is no default. It asks you this the first time.
THat's not even close to what Opera's default banner looks like.
Haha. Thats funny that you asked me if I'm thinking of Opera of 3 years ago, and you're the one with the older version.
up-and-coming tech stock like RH
up-and-coming ? It was up and coming a decade ago. Now its more of a came-went-recovered-still-going tech stock isn't it?
Or are you thinking of Opera from like 3 years ago?
I don't think so. I'm thinking of this one seen here with the words "BUY OPERA TODAY! And make this banner go away".
The code stays on the screen the entire time, and for complicated stuff, I can do a side-by-side comparison without having to juggle windows around.
Sounds like somebody needs a second monitor. I've got a 21" Nokia CRT for my main display that I picked up really cheap second hand, and a cheap LCD display for viewing documentation. A browser with tabs on a second head is MUCH more convenient than page flipping, and colour coded stickies. The cost is about the same as a few decent text books. Its damn hard to zoom text on paper too. I go cross eyed trying to look through those large magnifying glass deals. ctrl +/- is a breeze though. Books are great for the bus (except to carry), but otherwise they're a huge pain.
I would be highly suspicious of opening a file with a name longer than 30 characters. And I'd reprimand any employee for unnecessary creating a filename of over 50 characters.
And I'd fire any admin that
A) left xpi support turned on in the employee's browser
or
B) who was baffled about how to make sure they aren't vulnerable to this now defunct exploit.
what's wrong with Opera's JavaScript?
It's not the fault of Opera really, but the DOM doesn't match either Netscape/Moz or Exploder.. I wouldn't consider myself a "web developer" by any means, but I've done my share. Getting pages to work in IE and FF is a chore, and supporting Opera is just a waste of time.
Are you telling me you expect a noob to know this? How is my grandmother supposed to know of this?
Know what? Whats wrong with your grandma, Alzheimer's?
Why doesn't the little red arrow (update icon) display yet?
Because you don't need to update anything. It was fixed on updates.mozilla.org. The site needs to be in your white list of sites that are allowed to install software to be vulnerable. I'm sure they will have a more permanent fix later at some point, but the current exploit no longer works. Go ahead and try it.
So, as far as I'm concerend -- it's not.
But you're a bit of a fool, so I'm not sure your opinion counts.
Well Opera doesn't seem to have this vunerability or IE's woes
Its too bad it has obnoxious ads, its javascript sucks, and it is proprietary though.
Start your stop watches and let's see how long before a patch is forthcoming
Might as well hit stop now. The bug isn't exploitable any more since update.mozilla.org itself has been fixed.
the AOL-employees should just concentrate on producinge spyware instead of trying to make a browser.
They do. That's why the Mozilla Foundation is a seperate entity.
Just grab the fix instead. ;)
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Why cant these people just get a life.
Which people?
It's mostly a deterrant to celebratory gunfire.
I could see that. Nothing says I'm happy like firing a lethal weapon off gratuitously, and without regard for where the bullets might come down.
Well, you don't really have a democracy though.
Is there anyone out there that feels this statement reflects the status quo in the USA:
I don't think it's true of anywhere in the world that I know of.
Alberta continuing election of increasingly right wing politicians may be trying to cover this up but I doubt the federal listings will reflect a surplus.
So... You're claiming that Alberta doesn't really have a surplus, and didn't really just pay off their entire provincial debt? Or what?
Ontario Quebec and British Columbia run a surplus the rest run a defecit.
Whaaaat? Alberta just paid off it's provincial debt. They've got a surplus this year that's almost as large the total operating budget of Manitoba. Manitoba had a surplus for 9 years in a row until the NDP came to power. This year we're back in the black again.
It's true -- BC, Alberta, and Ontario are the only provinces that generate more tax revenue than they consume.
Isn't BC off of that list now? Surprisingly (to me anyway), Saskatchewan is very close to becoming a contributer as well, and received less money than BC this year.
So far it's a tie-up between the Action party and the New Democrats.
The Conservative Party thanks you for your support.