That wasn't true in the past when Netscape had dominance in usage. Many mothers _did_ have to download or picked from install media which one they used.
Not necessarily. Remember back then, a lot of times when you signed up for Internet access, you got a floppy disk or maybe a CD-ROM with their software on it. Eventually that would include a web browser, probably Netscape since IE didn't really exist. Unless you signed up for CompuServe, then you got Mosaic.
This was a time before net access software became prevalant and incorperated into the OS. Even ISPs that provided just Internet access like Netcom (as opposed to online services like AOL) provided their own custom dialer software.
The problem now is that Microsoft forces Internet Explorer to be bundled and shipped with every copy of Windows. If vendors like HP, Dell, and Gateway had the freedom to include Mozilla, Netscape, or Opera instead of Internet Explorer, then there would be a more level market share between the various browsers.
Two things were critical to IE's acheiving domanance, and they both occured around the same time: 1. Microsoft started bundling IE, and 2. Netscape stagnated as it was rebulit into Mozilla. So people stopped using Netscape since IE was already there and at that point actually was better than Netscape.
IE killed Netscape much in the same way Netscape killed Mosaic. However, Microsoft's bundling of IE with Windows is now helping to prevent Mozilla and Opera from killing IE.
I don't recall YahooGroups ever existing prior to Yahoo buying eGroups. Yahoo did have YahooClubs, which was basically web-only, and those two features were eventually merged to form the current YahooGroups, which bears much more resemblance to eGroups than YahooClubs.
The one thing to keep in mind is that many older Mac models can't run OS X, but do just fine with OS 9. My parents, for example, use a Motorola StarMax 3000/160, a 160MHz PowerPC 603e running Mac OS 9.1. I'm sure there are plenty of other people who have older Macs that can't run OS X, but everything they do works in OS 9, they're satisfied, and don't see a reason to buy a new computer.
ICQ has the delivery system you want... Messages to users who are logged in are delivered immediately. Messages to offline users are stored and delivered when the recipient logs in.
You can always hit CTRL+T on Windows to open a new blank tab automatically in FireFox, Apple(Command)+T on Mac OS X to open a new blank tab in both Safari and FireFox. I dunno about Linux to open new blank tabs, since I don't have my linux box up yet..
Control-T on Linux.
You may also be able to keep the tab menu bar visible at all times by going to the preferences... but I never cared it wasn't there
Prefrences --> Advanced --> Browsing --> Hide the tab bar when only one web site is open.
You can also go to View --> Toolbars --> Customize and add the New Tab button to a toolbar.
I don't know the answer, but if the fee does not get refunded, things start to make sense. In this case, USPTO has no incentive to deny any patents, since they get more money for the patent re-examination than if they simply researched and denied the patent in the first place.
The classic ATM card+PIN method is two-factor as well. Something you have (card) and something you know (PIN).
Besides the difficulty of balancing too many false positives over two many false negatives, the second problem with biometrics is that it is very difficult to change biometric IDs. If my ATM PIN gets compromised, I can change it and the theif is back to square one. It's a lot harder to change my thumbprint if that information gets compromised.
The only real way to know if a binary has been compromised is by using an MD5 or SHA1 hash sum. The thing is, you have to know the sum of the uncompromised binary. Sites like Known Goods can help here. Besides the binaries, dynamic libraries, bash/tcsh, even the kernel itself could potentially be compromised.
You really though don't want to be messing around on a compromised system. Like many others have suggested, you'll want to boot of a CD and go from there. Single user mode is unacceptable, since you're running off the compromised system. So what you want is a bootable CD with statically linked binaries.
If you have backups, great... just reboot, reformat, and reinstall everything. If you need to retreive data, do so from a bootable CD with statically linked, trusted binaries, onto alternate media -- you can even go across a network using netcat.
Blah, ignore me. It's late, and I just finished my four hours of DS9 on SpikeTV, so I completely missed the fact that the story links to Slashdot Japan.
Does anyone at Viacom even think? Putting Enterprise on Friday nights. Hmmm... what other Star Trek can be found on Friday nights? How about four hours of Deep Space Nine, on SpikeTV?
Doesn't really matter to me though, since my local Fox station provides Enterprise, at 6pm on Sundays. My parents have it worse though; It's usually Saturday night at 11:30pm on their CBS affiliate, but sometimes it gets bumped to midnight or 12:30am for infomercials.
As pointed out in another post, however, Firefox asks what to do with the.dmg file (open or save) before downloading it. I just tried it, and hit cancel. Help Viewer started but then I got an error stating "The item could not be opened. It could be disabled or not installed." So there is some measure of protection to be gained from using Firefox.
Remember though, an Admin account on Mac OS X is not root. Basically, an Admin account is someone who can sudo/su to root, but it is not itself not root. In order for a script that wanted rm -rf/ to work, it would have to ask the user to enter their password (which admittedly, many would probably do).
Lindbergh Field's 747 capabilities are iffy. British Airways used to fly 747s to SAN, but the routing was LGW-PHX-SAN and return. The 777 was used when BA started nonstop flights from SAN to London.
I have seen the Antonov An-124 operate out of MCAS Miramar (KNKX). At 12,000 feet, runway 6L/24R should be able to handle a 747 without difficulty.
Also consider, Lindbergh Field is only about 30 minutes flying time from LAX.
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Couldn't a valid window be created, but simply not shown?
Not necessarily. Remember back then, a lot of times when you signed up for Internet access, you got a floppy disk or maybe a CD-ROM with their software on it. Eventually that would include a web browser, probably Netscape since IE didn't really exist. Unless you signed up for CompuServe, then you got Mosaic.
This was a time before net access software became prevalant and incorperated into the OS. Even ISPs that provided just Internet access like Netcom (as opposed to online services like AOL) provided their own custom dialer software.
The problem now is that Microsoft forces Internet Explorer to be bundled and shipped with every copy of Windows. If vendors like HP, Dell, and Gateway had the freedom to include Mozilla, Netscape, or Opera instead of Internet Explorer, then there would be a more level market share between the various browsers.
Two things were critical to IE's acheiving domanance, and they both occured around the same time: 1. Microsoft started bundling IE, and 2. Netscape stagnated as it was rebulit into Mozilla. So people stopped using Netscape since IE was already there and at that point actually was better than Netscape.
IE killed Netscape much in the same way Netscape killed Mosaic. However, Microsoft's bundling of IE with Windows is now helping to prevent Mozilla and Opera from killing IE.
I don't recall YahooGroups ever existing prior to Yahoo buying eGroups. Yahoo did have YahooClubs, which was basically web-only, and those two features were eventually merged to form the current YahooGroups, which bears much more resemblance to eGroups than YahooClubs.
Actually, YahooGroups is eGroups... Yahoo bought and renamed it.
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/C++.html
The one thing to keep in mind is that many older Mac models can't run OS X, but do just fine with OS 9. My parents, for example, use a Motorola StarMax 3000/160, a 160MHz PowerPC 603e running Mac OS 9.1. I'm sure there are plenty of other people who have older Macs that can't run OS X, but everything they do works in OS 9, they're satisfied, and don't see a reason to buy a new computer.
How much of that 3% is Mac OS X and how much is classic Mac OS?
ICQ has the delivery system you want... Messages to users who are logged in are delivered immediately. Messages to offline users are stored and delivered when the recipient logs in.
Haven't seen the movie (on dialup this week), but I remember playing Puzzle on my 128k Mac. Back then, it was a 3x3 grid with numbered tiles, 1 to 8.
Control-T on Linux.
You may also be able to keep the tab menu bar visible at all times by going to the preferences... but I never cared it wasn't there
Prefrences --> Advanced --> Browsing --> Hide the tab bar when only one web site is open.
You can also go to View --> Toolbars --> Customize and add the New Tab button to a toolbar.
I don't know the answer, but if the fee does not get refunded, things start to make sense. In this case, USPTO has no incentive to deny any patents, since they get more money for the patent re-examination than if they simply researched and denied the patent in the first place.
TDMA/CDMA generally are encrypted too. It's the old AMPS analog cell phones that are unencrypted.
Besides the difficulty of balancing too many false positives over two many false negatives, the second problem with biometrics is that it is very difficult to change biometric IDs. If my ATM PIN gets compromised, I can change it and the theif is back to square one. It's a lot harder to change my thumbprint if that information gets compromised.
You really though don't want to be messing around on a compromised system. Like many others have suggested, you'll want to boot of a CD and go from there. Single user mode is unacceptable, since you're running off the compromised system. So what you want is a bootable CD with statically linked binaries.
If you have backups, great... just reboot, reformat, and reinstall everything. If you need to retreive data, do so from a bootable CD with statically linked, trusted binaries, onto alternate media -- you can even go across a network using netcat.
Blah, ignore me. It's late, and I just finished my four hours of DS9 on SpikeTV, so I completely missed the fact that the story links to Slashdot Japan.
He's the Balok puppet from The Corbomite Maneuver.
Actually, there is.
Speakeasy actually does let you share your WiFi connection.
I don't know about exporting to XviD, but the 3ivX component for QuickTime allows you to play XviD encoded video.
Doesn't really matter to me though, since my local Fox station provides Enterprise, at 6pm on Sundays. My parents have it worse though; It's usually Saturday night at 11:30pm on their CBS affiliate, but sometimes it gets bumped to midnight or 12:30am for infomercials.
Thanks. I hadn't seen that version, and Firefox does allow the exploit to run.
As pointed out in another post, however, Firefox asks what to do with the .dmg file (open or save) before downloading it. I just tried it, and hit cancel. Help Viewer started but then I got an error stating "The item could not be opened. It could be disabled or not installed." So there is some measure of protection to be gained from using Firefox.
Remember though, an Admin account on Mac OS X is not root. Basically, an Admin account is someone who can sudo/su to root, but it is not itself not root. In order for a script that wanted rm -rf / to work, it would have to ask the user to enter their password (which admittedly, many would probably do).
I have seen the Antonov An-124 operate out of MCAS Miramar (KNKX). At 12,000 feet, runway 6L/24R should be able to handle a 747 without difficulty.
Also consider, Lindbergh Field is only about 30 minutes flying time from LAX.