It is not necessary to use the Classic Theme Restorer add-on in Pale Moon because Pale Moon didn't change the user interface.
Firefox is becoming less and less stable. When many windows and tabs are open, the memory usage begins increasing even when there is no activity, and then Firefox crashes. Now, in recent versions, Firefox crashes but often doesn't report the crashes. The screen just becomes black. The crash reports aren't reliable, they show far fewer crashes than actually occurred.
Yahoo paid Mozilla Foundation to change the search configuration of Firefox, without notifying users. Most users of Firefox don't now how to change it back. Instead, they may change to another browser. See this Slashdot story: Firefox Signs Five-Year Deal With Yahoo, Drops Google as Default Search Engine. But "Yahoo search" is just Microsoft Bing search. It's mind-bending: Microsoft is paying Yahoo to corrupt Firefox.
The newest version of Firefox took the "Duplicate Tab" choice out of the right-click menu of each tab, and put that choice in the right-click menu of the displayed page. Often, however, right-clicking on the page itself brings up a different menu because of the way the page is coded underneath the mouse pointer. So it may be necessary to try right-clicking on several areas of the page to find the Duplicate Tab menu choice.
In Pale Moon, the right-click menu contains the "Duplicate Tab" choice in both the tab and the displayed page.
Apparently Mozilla Foundation is trying to discourage the use of the Thunderbird email client. The newest version of Thunderbird, 31.4.0, has the Save-As bug. All file saves are Save As, and suggest a different file name than the name with which the email was saved before. The Save-As bug was reported in September 2014, and has not been fixed in more than 4 months. Is it possible that the bug is deliberate?
Other obvious bugs were recently introduced into Thunderbird. For example, the fields for email addresses are now much more difficult to read.
Pale Moon has been removing some of the issues in their FossaMail version of Thunderbird. I haven't tested it to see if the Save-As bug is fixed.
The underlying problem is that Mozilla Foundation needs better management. At present, Mozilla Foundation management is sometimes excellent and sometimes very unreliable.
"Imagine filing your income taxes in five minutes -- and for free. You'd open up a pre-filled return, see what the government thinks you owe, make any needed changes and be done. The miserable annual IRS shuffle, gone."
Intuit has been paying government officials to try to prevent improvements that would benefit everyone, the article says.
Intuit is NOT making things completely right! Intuit is apparently just reducing the amount of abuse. See this explanation by an Intuit VP on Amazon:
"... returning customers who have already upgraded to Premier or Home & Business, we are continuing to offer $25 cash back through April 20."
Apparently only customers who know about the rebate will get money back; that may be a very small percentage. Many customers paid $30 extra, so Intuit will still make $5 extra for tricking customers. Some customers have automatic extensions of time to file, so they won't get the "$25 cash back", because they will file after April 20.
See this Amazon review: **UPDATE -- IT'S EVEN WORSE**. Quote: " Even in the high-priced Premier version, Schedule C is crippled -- limited to $100 of deductions in a couple of expense categories. I.e. only good for a tiny hobby business, and maybe not even that. So now having forced me to Premier, even that high priced product is useless to me."
"Stolen TurboTax or H&R Block credentials are cheaper and more plentiful that most people probably would imagine. According to the below-pictured well-known seller on the Dark Web forum Evolution Market, hacked accounts currently can be had for.0002 bitcoins, which works out to about 4 cents apiece."
Another:
"Unfortunately for Intuit and its users, calls for the company to support two-factor authentication have fallen on deaf ears so far, at least according to twofactorauth.org, a site that tracks which popular cloud-based services support the added security measure."
Intuit has a LONG history of abuse, of being anti-customer to make more money. Dishonest people don't later become honest, generally. This is an example of that. Dishonest people, when forced to correct their dishonesty, look for other ways to be dishonest.
If Intuit has a capable, strong board of directors, which I doubt, the board should consider getting a new CEO, and firing all the other dishonest people in Intuit top management.
This comment gives only a very short summary of what I consider to be Intuit's anti-customer behavior.
Thanks for the recommendation. Is there a particular Scott Meyers C++ book that covers general C++ techniques that you would recommend?
An Amazon search shows other books besides those written by Scott Meyers. So does Google. Also, there is no good way to understand what is the focus of each book, other than reading the very general title and the reviews.
No, not shooting the messenger. I understood from what you said that you were not the teacher.
(I notice that, when someone in the U.S. says something unusual, people in the U.S. often feel that the intent may be to attack them.
I suggest you visit Brazil. People are much happier there than in the United States. There are many shortcomings in the Brazilian culture. However, Brazilians are likely to consider that what someone says is just that person expressing himself or herself, and not an attack.)
"... there is some pretty bad code out there in a wide range of languages for whatever reason."
To me, that is a HUGE issue.
There don't seem to be any well-written books about C++ or HTML, for example. My wife and I spent several hours a few months ago reviewing 18 books about HTML. All were terribly written.
Generally, books about C++ don't educate readers about which constructs are appropriate. So, programmers try everything as a way of educating themselves.
Interesting comment. Let's take that 1 step further. If you can't easily read programs written by students, doesn't that mean the teaching has been extremely inadequate?
Summary from the article:
1. IBM Forgot Who They Were.
2. Ginni Has No Vision for the Future of IBM.
3. IBM Executives are out of Touch.
4. IBM's Sales Culture is Poison.
5. IBM's Executive Compensation is Misaligned.
6. IBM's Rape, Pillage & Burn Acquisition Strategy.
7. IBM's Offshore Model will kill its Services Business.
8. IBM Sells Futures. What is IBM's strategy? Smarter Planet?
9. Watson is not the Panacea.
10. IBM Seems to be Preparing to Sell its Services Business.
It amazes me how many companies are trying the same abuse: Charging monthly. It is not possible to OWN the software. If an employee uses another computer for 6 months, or is sick for 6 months, you still have to pay for the original computer. Also, there is constant outside control.
Seems correct. In this case, the situation is entirely faked. The "definition of broadband" did not change.
The "definition" being discussed is only the electrical connection speed. The actual information delivery speed can be anything a huge, abusive company wants.
What matters is the delivery speed. Supposedly the speed of the connection I am testing is "25 Mbps". SpeedTest.net says the speed is more than "50 Mbps".
The actual information delivery speed measured by numion.com is:
Kilobits/second (Kilobytes/second) Surfspeed inside United States: 239.24 (29.90)
Surfspeed average (worldwide): 198.64 (24.83)
Surfspeed outside United States: 187.24 (23.40)
A local city leader told me it costs "$400,000" to get elected. Any government that requires leaders to spend huge amounts of money to be elected isn't actually a democracy.
A huge problem at Microsoft seems to me to be that people there, or maybe just the leaders, seem socially unsophisticated. In fact, neither of the articles quoted below explains the underlying reason that Microsoft is buying Revolution Analytics. That needs to be explained. (All quotes retrieved Sunday, January 25, 2015, around 07:00 PST.)
In The Official Microsoft Blog there is a lot of corporate-speak, of the kind used by people with no actual interest in a subject who nevertheless want to be considered knowledgeable:
"find... value" "data-driven decisions" "reduce the... skills gap" "enterprise-class platform" "analytic solutions" "advanced analytics within... platforms on-premises" "we are at the threshold"
"Microsoft might seem like a strange bedfellow for an open-source company..."
It was not a good idea to use the word "bedfellow". That word is more appropriate for a novel. The primary meaning of "bedfellow" is "a person who shares a bed with another".
On the surface, that makes no sense. Below the surface, is Microsoft trying to say, "We want Microsoft to be popular"?
"We're excited the work..."
That should have been "We're excited [that] the work...".
I'm not the only person who feels uncomfortable with those statements. One of the comments to that story is this one:
"What a joke. You're really working hard to try and convince readers that this is a good match, going on and on about how supportive Microsoft is of open-source. You were probably sweating while trying to come up with excuses as to why this is good, knowing that you were typing bullshit. I would suggest growing a pair of balls and just being honest, but I'm sure you've never had to do that in your career. -- Posted by: Anonymous | January 23, 2015 at 11:22"
David Smith replied to that comment: "Anonymous, I've never been anything but frank on this blog and this is no exception. I'm truly excited for the future, and I'm sure I speak for the rest of the team as well. -- Posted by: David Smith | January 23, 2015 at 11:25"
Sometimes the lack of social ability at Microsoft is shocking. The cover of the January 16, 2013 issue of
BusinessWeek magazine has a large photo of Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer with the headline calling him "Monkey
Boy". See the BusinessWeek cover in this article:
Steve Ballmer Is No Longer A Monkey Boy, Says Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The BusinessWeek cover says "No More" and
"Mr.", but that doesn't take much away from the fact that the magazine called him Monkey Boy -- on its cover.
In many years of following such things I have never
seen such disrespect of a CEO. Of course, whoever wrote the cover
headline was merely repeating a common phrase applied to Steve
Ballmer by people in the computer industry.
Worst CEO: Quote from an
article in Forbes Magazine about Steve Ballmer:
"Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large
publicly traded American company today."
Another quote: "The reach of his bad
leadership has extended far beyond
I've been an advertising copywriter for technology ad agencies. Here is something that may be helpful for you: I suggest you work on creating a better way of explaining what you are trying to say.
I visited the link you gave and became confused. It says, "Powered by Malwarebytes". My guess is that it would take me an hour to decide what is being communicated. And, I already know about host files.
If you put more effort into explaining, every reader would find it far easier to understand what you have to say.
OpenBSD is secure because it was examined carefully for vulnerabilities. Microsoft makes more money if there are vulnerabilities, and if its older products are considered likely to be insecure.
"... when it no longer boots..."
We have corporate users who do the same thing every day on computers installed in 2004. They don't want change.
"... when none of the software you use will still run on the old OS"
Yes, you and I. But some corporate users do specialized corporate work on software that ran under DOS. It does what they want. There is little call for change.
"... when you have to employ tech staff with out-of-date skills..."
The Windows command line windows are mostly just the old DOS. There is nothing out-of-date.
"... when the software is a dead do-do that nobody wants to touch..."
Lots of people do lots of things that have remained stable for decades.
"Sorry, but everything has an end-of-life."
I talked to a guy who makes a lot of money per hour maintaining Cobol programs on old mainframes. Yes, end of life. But possibly decades from now.
"When you can't log into your damn bank because it's said that IE6 is too old..."
The browsers are updated frequently, of course. And computers connected only to an internal network have no outside internet vulnerabilities, if there are no DVD drives. I talked to a woman who worked at Tektronix who could not send an email from her work computer because there was no outside access.
Should employees be allowed to explore the internet during lunch breaks? Sure, on a separate network in the lunch room.
I have the latest hardware and software, a 24-port gigabit switch, and multiple 3 Terabyte RAID drives. But that's because I make a lot more techological demands than the average person.
I don't feel conflict of interest. Unfortunately, conflict of interest is a big factor in the lives of many people who are involved with computer technology. Their minds are persuaded by what would make them more money.
What I said may be imperfectly expressed. However, we have about 20 Windows XP computers operated by people who are not intense about cooperating. Those computers are guarded only by Malwarebytes and the fact that are all limited users, and we've had no problems.
The point I was trying to make is that, if there is enough attention given, software can be free of vulnerabilities.
Software does not have an "end of life". It continues to do what it always did.
"End of life" is a marketing term used so Microsoft can sell more copies of Windows, apparently. My understanding is that fixing newly discovered vulnerabilities in Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 would be fairly inexpensive.
NO ONE shown in the trailer seemed like anyone I've known who had technical knowledge. They ALL seemed like people who have made being cute the most important thing and maybe only thing in their lives.
Also, what about EXPLOSIONS is supposed to make someone want to see a movie? Is the intention to recommend the movie to those who feel attracted to violence?
Software doesn't have a "lifespan". It works the same as it always did, with the same hardware.
Businesses doing the same work every day don't need new hardware or software if the equipment they have now is serving them well.
It wasn't until Service Pack 2 was released on
August
10, 2004 that many of the very serious problems in Windows XP
were fixed. Windows XP with Service Pack 2 might be considered to
be a different version of the Windows XP operating system, it was
so different from the initial Windows XP version. See the Microsoft
article, List of
fixes included in Windows XP Service Pack 2. There were 828
fixes.
Slashdot Mirror
Pale Moon 64-bit is Firefox without the "self-induced failure" mentioned in the parent comment.
Pale Moon with Adblock Latitude is AdBlock Plus without the corruption mentioned in this story: Google, Amazon 'n' pals fork out for AdBlock Plus 'unblock' -- report
It is not necessary to use the Classic Theme Restorer add-on in Pale Moon because Pale Moon didn't change the user interface.
Firefox is becoming less and less stable. When many windows and tabs are open, the memory usage begins increasing even when there is no activity, and then Firefox crashes. Now, in recent versions, Firefox crashes but often doesn't report the crashes. The screen just becomes black. The crash reports aren't reliable, they show far fewer crashes than actually occurred.
Yahoo paid Mozilla Foundation to change the search configuration of Firefox, without notifying users. Most users of Firefox don't now how to change it back. Instead, they may change to another browser. See this Slashdot story: Firefox Signs Five-Year Deal With Yahoo, Drops Google as Default Search Engine. But "Yahoo search" is just Microsoft Bing search. It's mind-bending: Microsoft is paying Yahoo to corrupt Firefox.
The newest version of Firefox took the "Duplicate Tab" choice out of the right-click menu of each tab, and put that choice in the right-click menu of the displayed page. Often, however, right-clicking on the page itself brings up a different menu because of the way the page is coded underneath the mouse pointer. So it may be necessary to try right-clicking on several areas of the page to find the Duplicate Tab menu choice.
In Pale Moon, the right-click menu contains the "Duplicate Tab" choice in both the tab and the displayed page.
Apparently Mozilla Foundation is trying to discourage the use of the Thunderbird email client. The newest version of Thunderbird, 31.4.0, has the Save-As bug. All file saves are Save As, and suggest a different file name than the name with which the email was saved before. The Save-As bug was reported in September 2014, and has not been fixed in more than 4 months. Is it possible that the bug is deliberate?
I haven't found the bug report of the Save-As bug in Thunderbird. Here is the report for SeaMonkey Composer, the same software that Thunderbird uses: When I click save, the button does what Save As should do, even if I previously saved said file.
Other obvious bugs were recently introduced into Thunderbird. For example, the fields for email addresses are now much more difficult to read.
Pale Moon has been removing some of the issues in their FossaMail version of Thunderbird. I haven't tested it to see if the Save-As bug is fixed.
The underlying problem is that Mozilla Foundation needs better management. At present, Mozilla Foundation management is sometimes excellent and sometimes very unreliable.
Quote from that article, How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing:
"Imagine filing your income taxes in five minutes -- and for free. You'd open up a pre-filled return, see what the government thinks you owe, make any needed changes and be done. The miserable annual IRS shuffle, gone."
Intuit has been paying government officials to try to prevent improvements that would benefit everyone, the article says.
Intuit is NOT making things completely right! Intuit is apparently just reducing the amount of abuse. See this explanation by an Intuit VP on Amazon:
.0002 bitcoins, which works out to about 4 cents apiece."
"... returning customers who have already upgraded to Premier or Home & Business, we are continuing to offer $25 cash back through April 20."
Apparently only customers who know about the rebate will get money back; that may be a very small percentage. Many customers paid $30 extra, so Intuit will still make $5 extra for tricking customers. Some customers have automatic extensions of time to file, so they won't get the "$25 cash back", because they will file after April 20.
See this Amazon review: **UPDATE -- IT'S EVEN WORSE**. Quote: " Even in the high-priced Premier version, Schedule C is crippled -- limited to $100 of deductions in a couple of expense categories. I.e. only good for a tiny hobby business, and maybe not even that. So now having forced me to Premier, even that high priced product is useless to me."
See this story: Citing Tax Fraud Spike, TurboTax Suspends State E-Filings. Quote: "Cyber thieves have long sought stolen credentials for hijacked tax preparation accounts at TurboTax, H&R Block and related services."
Another quote:
"Stolen TurboTax or H&R Block credentials are cheaper and more plentiful that most people probably would imagine. According to the below-pictured well-known seller on the Dark Web forum Evolution Market, hacked accounts currently can be had for
Another:
"Unfortunately for Intuit and its users, calls for the company to support two-factor authentication have fallen on deaf ears so far, at least according to twofactorauth.org, a site that tracks which popular cloud-based services support the added security measure."
Intuit has a LONG history of abuse, of being anti-customer to make more money. Dishonest people don't later become honest, generally. This is an example of that. Dishonest people, when forced to correct their dishonesty, look for other ways to be dishonest.
If Intuit has a capable, strong board of directors, which I doubt, the board should consider getting a new CEO, and firing all the other dishonest people in Intuit top management.
This comment gives only a very short summary of what I consider to be Intuit's anti-customer behavior.
Thanks for the recommendation. Is there a particular Scott Meyers C++ book that covers general C++ techniques that you would recommend?
An Amazon search shows other books besides those written by Scott Meyers. So does Google. Also, there is no good way to understand what is the focus of each book, other than reading the very general title and the reviews.
I will start with Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14. Wow, 27 reviews, and all 5 stars.
Wow! Le Crueset pots, $800.00
"The heavy cast iron fry pan I use has a tough enamel surface that can be scrubbed hard with steel wool as often as you like."
That is probably not enamel. It is probably Powder coating.
No, not shooting the messenger. I understood from what you said that you were not the teacher.
(I notice that, when someone in the U.S. says something unusual, people in the U.S. often feel that the intent may be to attack them.
I suggest you visit Brazil. People are much happier there than in the United States. There are many shortcomings in the Brazilian culture. However, Brazilians are likely to consider that what someone says is just that person expressing himself or herself, and not an attack.)
"... there is some pretty bad code out there in a wide range of languages for whatever reason."
To me, that is a HUGE issue.
There don't seem to be any well-written books about C++ or HTML, for example. My wife and I spent several hours a few months ago reviewing 18 books about HTML. All were terribly written.
Generally, books about C++ don't educate readers about which constructs are appropriate. So, programmers try everything as a way of educating themselves.
Interesting comment. Let's take that 1 step further. If you can't easily read programs written by students, doesn't that mean the teaching has been extremely inadequate?
Perl is a write-only language? There's more than 1 way to do it? But who wants to look through and understand all the interactions of all the ways?
I came here to learn about Modern IP Webcams.
There is no need for a debate about how to run a restaurant.
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty Made $16 Million Last Year -- Is She Underpaid?
Top 10 Reasons Why Ginni Rometty Will Fail as IBM's New CEO
Summary from the article:
1. IBM Forgot Who They Were.
2. Ginni Has No Vision for the Future of IBM.
3. IBM Executives are out of Touch.
4. IBM's Sales Culture is Poison.
5. IBM's Executive Compensation is Misaligned.
6. IBM's Rape, Pillage & Burn Acquisition Strategy.
7. IBM's Offshore Model will kill its Services Business.
8. IBM Sells Futures. What is IBM's strategy? Smarter Planet?
9. Watson is not the Panacea.
10. IBM Seems to be Preparing to Sell its Services Business.
It amazes me how many companies are trying the same abuse: Charging monthly. It is not possible to OWN the software. If an employee uses another computer for 6 months, or is sick for 6 months, you still have to pay for the original computer. Also, there is constant outside control.
And you have to pay monthly for backup computers.
Seems correct. In this case, the situation is entirely faked. The "definition of broadband" did not change.
The "definition" being discussed is only the electrical connection speed. The actual information delivery speed can be anything a huge, abusive company wants.
What matters is the delivery speed. Supposedly the speed of the connection I am testing is "25 Mbps". SpeedTest.net says the speed is more than "50 Mbps".
The actual information delivery speed measured by numion.com is:
Kilobits/second (Kilobytes/second)
Surfspeed inside United States: 239.24 (29.90)
Surfspeed average (worldwide): 198.64 (24.83)
Surfspeed outside United States: 187.24 (23.40)
A local city leader told me it costs "$400,000" to get elected. Any government that requires leaders to spend huge amounts of money to be elected isn't actually a democracy.
A huge problem at Microsoft seems to me to be that people there, or maybe just the leaders, seem socially unsophisticated. In fact, neither of the articles quoted below explains the underlying reason that Microsoft is buying Revolution Analytics. That needs to be explained. (All quotes retrieved Sunday, January 25, 2015, around 07:00 PST.)
... value"
... skills gap"
... platforms on-premises"
In The Official Microsoft Blog there is a lot of corporate-speak, of the kind used by people with no actual interest in a subject who nevertheless want to be considered knowledgeable:
"find
"data-driven decisions"
"reduce the
"enterprise-class platform"
"analytic solutions"
"advanced analytics within
"we are at the threshold"
From another article linked from that article, Revolution Analytics joins Microsoft, by "David Smith, Chief Community Officer":
"Microsoft might seem like a strange bedfellow for an open-source company..."
It was not a good idea to use the word "bedfellow". That word is more appropriate for a novel. The primary meaning of "bedfellow" is "a person who shares a bed with another".
'CEO Satya Nadella proclaimed "Microsoft loves Linux" '
On the surface, that makes no sense. Below the surface, is Microsoft trying to say, "We want Microsoft to be popular"?
"We're excited the work..."
That should have been "We're excited [that] the work...".
I'm not the only person who feels uncomfortable with those statements. One of the comments to that story is this one:
"What a joke. You're really working hard to try and convince readers that this is a good match, going on and on about how supportive Microsoft is of open-source. You were probably sweating while trying to come up with excuses as to why this is good, knowing that you were typing bullshit. I would suggest growing a pair of balls and just being honest, but I'm sure you've never had to do that in your career. -- Posted by: Anonymous | January 23, 2015 at 11:22"
David Smith replied to that comment: "Anonymous, I've never been anything but frank on this blog and this is no exception. I'm truly excited for the future, and I'm sure I speak for the rest of the team as well. -- Posted by: David Smith | January 23, 2015 at 11:25"
Sometimes the lack of social ability at Microsoft is shocking. The cover of the January 16, 2013 issue of BusinessWeek magazine has a large photo of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer with the headline calling him "Monkey Boy". See the BusinessWeek cover in this article: Steve Ballmer Is No Longer A Monkey Boy, Says Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The BusinessWeek cover says "No More" and "Mr.", but that doesn't take much away from the fact that the magazine called him Monkey Boy -- on its cover.
In many years of following such things I have never seen such disrespect of a CEO. Of course, whoever wrote the cover headline was merely repeating a common phrase applied to Steve Ballmer by people in the computer industry.
Worst CEO: Quote from an article in Forbes Magazine about Steve Ballmer: "Without a doubt, Mr. Ballmer is the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today."
Another quote: "The reach of his bad leadership has extended far beyond
Thanks very much for the link. It's helpful.
I've been an advertising copywriter for technology ad agencies. Here is something that may be helpful for you: I suggest you work on creating a better way of explaining what you are trying to say.
I visited the link you gave and became confused. It says, "Powered by Malwarebytes". My guess is that it would take me an hour to decide what is being communicated. And, I already know about host files.
If you put more effort into explaining, every reader would find it far easier to understand what you have to say.
I'm interested in anything anyone has to say about Malwarebytes.
"... runs into the millions."
Yes, but Microsoft is taking in millions from "Enterprise" users. See the sub-heading "Large customers are paying huge amounts" in Microsoft Windows XP "end of life": Conflict of interest.
"... no longer secure..."
OpenBSD is secure because it was examined carefully for vulnerabilities. Microsoft makes more money if there are vulnerabilities, and if its older products are considered likely to be insecure.
"... when it no longer boots..."
We have corporate users who do the same thing every day on computers installed in 2004. They don't want change.
"... when none of the software you use will still run on the old OS"
Yes, you and I. But some corporate users do specialized corporate work on software that ran under DOS. It does what they want. There is little call for change.
"... when you have to employ tech staff with out-of-date skills..."
The Windows command line windows are mostly just the old DOS. There is nothing out-of-date.
"... when the software is a dead do-do that nobody wants to touch..."
Lots of people do lots of things that have remained stable for decades.
"Sorry, but everything has an end-of-life."
I talked to a guy who makes a lot of money per hour maintaining Cobol programs on old mainframes. Yes, end of life. But possibly decades from now.
"When you can't log into your damn bank because it's said that IE6 is too old..."
The browsers are updated frequently, of course. And computers connected only to an internal network have no outside internet vulnerabilities, if there are no DVD drives. I talked to a woman who worked at Tektronix who could not send an email from her work computer because there was no outside access.
Should employees be allowed to explore the internet during lunch breaks? Sure, on a separate network in the lunch room.
I have the latest hardware and software, a 24-port gigabit switch, and multiple 3 Terabyte RAID drives. But that's because I make a lot more techological demands than the average person.
I don't feel conflict of interest. Unfortunately, conflict of interest is a big factor in the lives of many people who are involved with computer technology. Their minds are persuaded by what would make them more money.
What I said may be imperfectly expressed. However, we have about 20 Windows XP computers operated by people who are not intense about cooperating. Those computers are guarded only by Malwarebytes and the fact that are all limited users, and we've had no problems.
The point I was trying to make is that, if there is enough attention given, software can be free of vulnerabilities.
Software does not have an "end of life". It continues to do what it always did.
"End of life" is a marketing term used so Microsoft can sell more copies of Windows, apparently. My understanding is that fixing newly discovered vulnerabilities in Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 would be fairly inexpensive.
I've explored the issues concerning Windows XP: Microsoft Windows XP "end of life": Conflict of interest.
WiFi and cell phone reception can be aided by antennas, even antennas that don't have amplifiers.
I wonder what bands are used for the radar. There are limits to what is available.
TV and cell phones: Use an outside antenna, and bring a stronger signal inside. From $29, it says, for the cheapest antenna.
Exactly. And maybe one of the radar makers will secretly start a corporation that makes radar jammers. Eventually all radar will become useless.
And anyone re-painting a wall could put aluminum foil on the wall first.
Most importantly: Some of the automobile radar detectors would probably work as house radar detectors.
It's VERY easy to fix the problem with radar going inside houses. Build houses with aluminum foil on the walls.
In older houses, put aluminum foil on the walls, then more insulation, then drywall. Save money on heating and cooling.
Make a law that says no new houses can be built without foil on the walls.
NO ONE shown in the trailer seemed like anyone I've known who had technical knowledge. They ALL seemed like people who have made being cute the most important thing and maybe only thing in their lives.
Also, what about EXPLOSIONS is supposed to make someone want to see a movie? Is the intention to recommend the movie to those who feel attracted to violence?
"Windows XP's lifespan wasn't short."
Software doesn't have a "lifespan". It works the same as it always did, with the same hardware.
Businesses doing the same work every day don't need new hardware or software if the equipment they have now is serving them well.
It wasn't until Service Pack 2 was released on August 10, 2004 that many of the very serious problems in Windows XP were fixed. Windows XP with Service Pack 2 might be considered to be a different version of the Windows XP operating system, it was so different from the initial Windows XP version. See the Microsoft article, List of fixes included in Windows XP Service Pack 2. There were 828 fixes.
See the article, Microsoft Windows XP "end of life": Conflict of interest.