The CPU hogging bug in RC2, in which Firefox eventually begins using 98% CPU time, is much worse than in release versions of Firefox. The hibernation bug is far worse, too.
Even though there have been reports from many people, and even though the bug is easily demonstrated, Mozilla developers refuse to investigate this bug. Below is a quote from comment #45 of Bugzilla bug 222660.
------- Comment #45 From Mike Connor 2005-11-15 10:14 PST [reply] -------
Do we have crash and hang bugs? Sure, absolutely, just search on bugs marked
critical. Is this particular bug which is basically saying "bad things happen
sometimes" of any use? Not at all. There are bugs on memory leaks, many of
which have been fixed for 1.5, same with crashes, and the hibernation issue you
mentioned.
I'm going to mark this particular bug as INVALID again, because it is of a vast
and unfixable scope. Sooner or later, if you browse enough sites, you can hit
a crash bug. That doesn't mean its the same crash (code flaw) every time, or a
single fix can change that.
I find this admission revealing. I would not have guessed that Firefox crash bugs are so prevalent.
If you are experiencing the CPU hogging bug, please mention it here. Also please go to bug and record your experiences and vote for the bug.
Firefox developers have been refusing to investigate this bug for 2 1/2 years! So, I doubt it has been fixed in Firefox v. 1.5 RC3, which I am testing now.
When so many people break the law, maybe there is something wrong with the law. Maybe there is something wrong with how the problem of intellectual property rights is being approached.
I've seen NO creative thinking about IP rights. There's a lot of talk, but very little serious progress.
Maybe history is a guide. For example, did you notice how libraries made all publishers go bankrupt? Not.
Did you notice that television and video tape recorders utterly destroyed the movie industry? Not.
I don't download music. However, if I did, it is obvious to me that I would get interested and would buy more CDs.
I had several very bad experiences with the music industry and their marketing methods. The industry is extremely adversarial toward its artists and its customers. Over time, that caused me to listen to music less and less. What I'm seeing however, is that music industry leaders want to fix their problems without fixing the problems they create for me.
The world is dominated by people who believe that interacting with other people requires fighting. In fact, the only real solutions to social problems come from thinking.
I agree exactly with the thesis of the article. The Internet is being divided
and debased by people who care only about avoiding knowledge of their own
deficiencies, such as some of the leaders in China.
The control freaks often get control. In the past, their power over
the Internet has been limited by their extreme technical ignorance. Now, more
and more, they are hiring technically knowledgeable people to corrupt and
diminish the freedom.
If the healthy people don't assert their authority, the corrupters
will debase the Internet as they debase everything else they touch.
The ceaseless activity of those whose only life is money and who want to make one more dollar has already caused limits to VOIP, for example. The communications companies want to protect their easy profits. They use VOIP, but they don't want us to do it without their permission or without their profit.
Run Sysprep to change the SID.
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I suggest you use only Sysprep to change the SID. I've tried other tools, such as the one from Sysinternals.com, and they have introduced errors.
There is a download site, but Microsoft's search facility has never worked very well, and I can't find the URL now. Wait, I found it: Sysprep.exe for Windows XP Service Pack 2.
Use only the version of Sysprep.exe and Deploy.cab meant for your operating system and service pack.
When you run Sysprep, you automatically change the SID.
My SO wanted a free email account for trash emails. She tried trash@... It was taken. She tried bigtrash@... It was taken. Then she tried bigbigtrash@... Finally, success.
Broadvoice has somewhat unreliable service, but is free of per-minute charges to 35 countries. Cost: $25 per month. (Unlimited World Plus.)
Does anyone know of direct-connect VOIP software that will traverse a NAT? Why have a middleman? Anyway, all conversations should be encrypted, and not trackable by third parties.
If someone has an AOL account, it means that they don't have a friend in the computer business, in my opinion. Local ISPs almost always give better service, and don't abuse the customer with advertisements. AOL's business depends on customer ignorance, and computer users are rapidly becoming more knowledgeable.
I hope buying AOL is not Google's first huge mistake. Google should offer no more than $6.50 and free soft drinks.
Recently, someone associated with Time Warner (Parsons?) has been putting out a lot of baloney about the value of AOL.
I'm very happy to learn that there is a lawsuit against Sony's abusive behavior.
Many people who made comments on the Sysinternals.com web site were easily willing to assume that Sony managers didn't know that their copy protection mechanism was so aggressive.
I don't agree with that. I think adversarial behavior has become a part of the Sony corporate culture. For example, it seems to me that Sony laptops, at least those Sony made before I stopped buying them, are very unreliable. For example, there seems to be some mechanism by which a temperature sensor reports a higher temperature at the CPU than actually exists, and the laptop stops operating after it is no longer in warranty.
It seems to me that this lawsuit against Sony became necessary because of a general understanding inside Sony that the company will act in a sneaky way toward its customers. Many, many managers lack confidence that they can make money if they are honest.
Also, in my experience, the quality of Sony products has been allowed to drop, and it is risky to buy anything from Sony now. I've seen problems with several classes of Sony products.
Many companies are only concerned about the next quarter's profits. The managers at those companies assume that, if the company they manage does poorly, they can easily get another job. The present situation punishes the employees and customers; the managers rarely lose and often are rewarded for aggressive behavior.
In the U.S., my experience is that lawyers are, in general, the most immoral, amoral people.
I had a friend who graduated in the top 5 of his class at an important law school. His entire approach was that he was learning how to break the law safely.
If Bill Gates sincerely wanted to help the world, he would fix all the problems in Windows XP.
At present, Windows XP, with all its quirkiness and vulnerabilities, wastes the time of some of the most educated and capable people in the world. The $258 million donated is completely and utterly trivial compared to the maintenance cost of Windows XP throughout the world.
Of course, there is a lot of money in not fixing the problems. Big software companies leave problems in their software so that they can fix them in later versions. In the case of Windows, Microsoft will usually be paid the entire cost of buying a new version, not just an upgrade cost.
Foundations are a rich person's distraction, or usually the distraction of a rich person's wife. The main attraction is to spend a lot of time with people who pretend to love you, because you are giving away free money. Another attraction is to spend time with a lot of other wives of rich people.
It is a good thing, of course, that money is being made available for malaria drug research. But it is a public relations smokescreen, like Nancy Reagan and the cause that was designed for her by PR people, "Just Say No". The PR says, "I'm a nice person." It means, "Please let my husband continue to plunder the way he has always done." (Reagan caused the government to borrow money so that he could give it to his friends in the weapons and oil industries.)
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Can I buy that song on a Sony CD?
I find no link to an online scanner at pestpatrol.com
The parent comment is NOT a troll!!
For more information, see this comment, which is the same bug: CPU hogging bug is much worse in RC2
Firefox 1.5 RC2 notes:
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The CPU hogging bug in RC2, in which Firefox eventually begins using 98% CPU time, is much worse than in release versions of Firefox. The hibernation bug is far worse, too.
Even though there have been reports from many people, and even though the bug is easily demonstrated, Mozilla developers refuse to investigate this bug. Below is a quote from comment #45 of Bugzilla bug 222660.
The URL is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2226
------- Comment #45 From Mike Connor 2005-11-15 10:14 PST [reply] -------
Do we have crash and hang bugs? Sure, absolutely, just search on bugs marked critical. Is this particular bug which is basically saying "bad things happen sometimes" of any use? Not at all. There are bugs on memory leaks, many of which have been fixed for 1.5, same with crashes, and the hibernation issue you mentioned.
I'm going to mark this particular bug as INVALID again, because it is of a vast and unfixable scope. Sooner or later, if you browse enough sites, you can hit a crash bug. That doesn't mean its the same crash (code flaw) every time, or a single fix can change that.
I find this admission revealing. I would not have guessed that Firefox crash bugs are so prevalent.
If you are experiencing the CPU hogging bug, please mention it here. Also please go to bug and record your experiences and vote for the bug.
Firefox developers have been refusing to investigate this bug for 2 1/2 years! So, I doubt it has been fixed in Firefox v. 1.5 RC3, which I am testing now.
When so many people break the law, maybe there is something wrong with the law. Maybe there is something wrong with how the problem of intellectual property rights is being approached.
I've seen NO creative thinking about IP rights. There's a lot of talk, but very little serious progress.
Maybe history is a guide. For example, did you notice how libraries made all publishers go bankrupt? Not.
Did you notice that television and video tape recorders utterly destroyed the movie industry? Not.
I don't download music. However, if I did, it is obvious to me that I would get interested and would buy more CDs.
I had several very bad experiences with the music industry and their marketing methods. The industry is extremely adversarial toward its artists and its customers. Over time, that caused me to listen to music less and less. What I'm seeing however, is that music industry leaders want to fix their problems without fixing the problems they create for me.
The world is dominated by people who believe that interacting with other people requires fighting. In fact, the only real solutions to social problems come from thinking.
I agree exactly with the thesis of the article. The Internet is being divided and debased by people who care only about avoiding knowledge of their own deficiencies, such as some of the leaders in China.
The control freaks often get control. In the past, their power over the Internet has been limited by their extreme technical ignorance. Now, more and more, they are hiring technically knowledgeable people to corrupt and diminish the freedom.
If the healthy people don't assert their authority, the corrupters will debase the Internet as they debase everything else they touch.
The ceaseless activity of those whose only life is money and who want to make one more dollar has already caused limits to VOIP, for example. The communications companies want to protect their easy profits. They use VOIP, but they don't want us to do it without their permission or without their profit.
I suggest you use only Sysprep to change the SID. I've tried other tools, such as the one from Sysinternals.com, and they have introduced errors.
There is a download site, but Microsoft's search facility has never worked very well, and I can't find the URL now. Wait, I found it: Sysprep.exe for Windows XP Service Pack 2.
Use only the version of Sysprep.exe and Deploy.cab meant for your operating system and service pack.
When you run Sysprep, you automatically change the SID.
Interesting. Thanks. I didn't know about Hamachi.
But what VOIP software would you suggest?
My SO wanted a free email account for trash emails. She tried trash@... It was taken. She tried bigtrash@... It was taken. Then she tried bigbigtrash@... Finally, success.
Broadvoice has somewhat unreliable service, but is free of per-minute charges to 35 countries. Cost: $25 per month. (Unlimited World Plus.)
Does anyone know of direct-connect VOIP software that will traverse a NAT? Why have a middleman? Anyway, all conversations should be encrypted, and not trackable by third parties.
So many people are ready to assume that Sony didn't realize the destructiveness of the Sony rootkit.
However, that ignores that the rootkit is merely one more example of the abusive Sony culture, in my opinion.
For example, I bought a Sony laptop that came with a $150 Sony rebate. It took 18 months to get Sony to pay.
All three Sony laptops that we bought failed seriously. I can think of other examples, but I need to continue working now.
DBS: Don't buy Sony.
Many, or most, people who call themselves marketers believe that marketing must be adversarial to be effective.
I wonder whose sink-the-company idea it was to include rootkit software.
If someone has an AOL account, it means that they don't have a friend in the computer business, in my opinion. Local ISPs almost always give better service, and don't abuse the customer with advertisements. AOL's business depends on customer ignorance, and computer users are rapidly becoming more knowledgeable.
I hope buying AOL is not Google's first huge mistake. Google should offer no more than $6.50 and free soft drinks.
Recently, someone associated with Time Warner (Parsons?) has been putting out a lot of baloney about the value of AOL.
Intel's strategy: When you can't compete on the merits, confuse the customer.
Aren't there true compilers for Perl?
Do you want the Firefox crashes fixed? Vote for this Bugzilla bug report: All instances crash. Memory leaks.
6 0. Remove the space inserted
by Slashdot.
Since Bugzilla does not accept referrals from Slashdot, copy and paste this URL:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2226
Do you want the Firefox crashes fixed? Vote for this Bugzilla bug report: All instances crash. Memory leaks.
6 0. Remove the space inserted by Slashdot.
Since Bugzilla does not accept referrals from Slashdot (?), copy and paste this URL:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2226
Secrecy and sneaky behavior in government destroys trust. Lack of trust is far, far more expensive than any benefit from sneaky behavior.
I'm very happy to learn that there is a lawsuit against Sony's abusive behavior.
Many people who made comments on the Sysinternals.com web site were easily willing to assume that Sony managers didn't know that their copy protection mechanism was so aggressive.
I don't agree with that. I think adversarial behavior has become a part of the Sony corporate culture. For example, it seems to me that Sony laptops, at least those Sony made before I stopped buying them, are very unreliable. For example, there seems to be some mechanism by which a temperature sensor reports a higher temperature at the CPU than actually exists, and the laptop stops operating after it is no longer in warranty.
It seems to me that this lawsuit against Sony became necessary because of a general understanding inside Sony that the company will act in a sneaky way toward its customers. Many, many managers lack confidence that they can make money if they are honest.
Also, in my experience, the quality of Sony products has been allowed to drop, and it is risky to buy anything from Sony now. I've seen problems with several classes of Sony products.
Many companies are only concerned about the next quarter's profits. The managers at those companies assume that, if the company they manage does poorly, they can easily get another job. The present situation punishes the employees and customers; the managers rarely lose and often are rewarded for aggressive behavior.
I just tried to update my spyware definitions through Microsoft AntiSpyware. I got an error message: "Could not connect to the internet."
Somehow Slashdot has no problem, however.
In the U.S., my experience is that lawyers are, in general, the most immoral, amoral people.
I had a friend who graduated in the top 5 of his class at an important law school. His entire approach was that he was learning how to break the law safely.
I doubt you read my comment carefully.
If Bill Gates sincerely wanted to help the world, he would fix all the problems in Windows XP.
At present, Windows XP, with all its quirkiness and vulnerabilities, wastes the time of some of the most educated and capable people in the world. The $258 million donated is completely and utterly trivial compared to the maintenance cost of Windows XP throughout the world.
Of course, there is a lot of money in not fixing the problems. Big software companies leave problems in their software so that they can fix them in later versions. In the case of Windows, Microsoft will usually be paid the entire cost of buying a new version, not just an upgrade cost.
Foundations are a rich person's distraction, or usually the distraction of a rich person's wife. The main attraction is to spend a lot of time with people who pretend to love you, because you are giving away free money. Another attraction is to spend time with a lot of other wives of rich people.
It is a good thing, of course, that money is being made available for malaria drug research. But it is a public relations smokescreen, like Nancy Reagan and the cause that was designed for her by PR people, "Just Say No". The PR says, "I'm a nice person." It means, "Please let my husband continue to plunder the way he has always done." (Reagan caused the government to borrow money so that he could give it to his friends in the weapons and oil industries.)
Link to SQL Server 2005 Express.
"... I always come up against limitations that I can't live with..."
May I ask, what features do you need that aren't in SQLite or PostgreSQL?
Another question: I wonder if the free version of Oracle will work with Compiere ERP + CRM, at least for testing?
Here is a Comparison of Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL DBMS.
ZDNet article: Oracle to offer free database.
I was not able to find the list of limitations on the Oracle web site. Anyone?