Did you try deleting/moving your profile folder (so that Firebird creates a completely new profile)?
Like I said in my post:
"with fresh profiles every time". It was the first thing I thought of. I have no idea whether it works on Winxx as I only use Linux now. As for Bugzilla, it has been reported several times apparently.
I was looking through my mail logs yesterday, and there was quite a scary number of "relaying denied" entries over the last few months. Needless to say, it's nice to know sendmail is doing the right thing, but does anyone have any useful information as to what happens to these relay requests under Windows?
I just find Firebird a much *friendlier* version of Mozilla - the default interface is a lot nicer. btw - if you're going to give Firebird a fair chance, try using the latest nightly rather than 0.6.1 (which is old and very buggy, as you say)
I have no complaints about the speed and features of Firebird, but when I installed several versions of it on my home network (the 0.6.1 release and nightly builds over a period of ten days, with fresh profiles every time) it adamantly refused to give me a "Back" button.
After a few days of this, I figured that all the bells and whistles are very nice, but only if they get the basics right, so I've abandoned Firebird until the creases have been ironed out.
I get a bit tired of all the bleating that Mozilla is bloated.
There is nothing stopping anybody from building their own Mozilla without the mail/news/composer/chatzilla/kitchensink.
I recently ditched Mozilla's mail client in favour of Evolution, and I played with Firebird for about a week before I gave up on it as being too riddled with bugs (OK, I am aware it's only at version 0.61). My point is that a stripped-down Mozilla performs just as well.
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OK, fair enough; I've been a long-time Gnome zea^H^H^Hfan, and in most respects it is a damn good interface. But I still use kprint as a gui printer interface instead of piping print requests directly to lpr, because I often need to print 4 pages to a sheet of paper and I haven't found a native Gnomeish way to do that yet.
Or alternatively, you could just install Dropline in a few days time if you happen to run Slackware. Dropline is by far the slickest distribution of Gnome I have come across.
That's what I would really like: spamming to become a capital offence, punishable by death. Preferably a messy and painful one. Let the bastards know they've seriously pissed someone off.
You could always try adjusting the brightness/contrast on the screen itself. Though if reading stuff on the screen is such a strain, it might be worth simply investing in a better one.
the backlash against the recording industry will cause the dinosaur to rethink its business model in today's electronic age
It's already happening. Many first-rate musicians are taking on the publishing themselves, and offer their own music streaming over the net and/or mp3 download as well as providing direct sales of hard-copy CDs.
It's a nice model, and I don't mind paying for CDs when the proceeds are actually going back to the artists rather then being dropped into the bottomless coffers of mega-corporations.
That moronic judge saying "we computer users must endure pop-up advertising along with her ugly brother, unsolicited bulk e-mail, "spam," as a burden of using the Internet." is not productive.
He is obviously not in a position to make either of those illegal, but it would have been preferable if he had dismissed the case altogether. I am not a lawyer, but the judge is, and if he had any talent, I'm sure he could have found a pretext for booting both parties up the bum.
Uhhh... I was referring to Perth, Western Australia. The address in your link is 207 Gamble Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4J 2P4.
An ISP service isn't much good if you have to pay for it at international timed call rates.
In any case, my point was that it's sometimes useful to have shell access to the server, but nobody needs it all the time. Sure I need a *nix shell all the time, but I've got that right here on my desktop.
Anybody moronic enough to actually pay money for iiNet's so-called "service" deserves everything they get.
As for why have shell access: if you like to install server-side mail filtering, e.g. via procmail (for those ISPs that don't use Cucipop), you need access to the shell. Also, it's very helpful when rearranging and modifying files and directories on your webspace as opposed to re-uploading everything via ftp.
Here in Western Australia, it's getting to the stage where shell accounts are becoming a rarity; my own ISP stopped offering them claiming that it was used so rarely that it wasn't worth keeping an sshd running. From their point of view, they might be right, but that doesn't do anything for me on the (admittedly rare) occasions that I need to ssh to their servers.
They are paying off a complaint because they do not feel that the legal system, which is ultimately designed to protect the innocent[0] will protect them.
Fair enough; but there's also the consideration that $23E6 is probably not a whole lot of money to Microsoft, and it is probably worth it to avoid a noisy lawsuit for unconscionable practices at a time when they are taking a lot of heat for selling a faulty product.
Visual Basic is built into Windows and even wen you trurn it off installing Office applications like Outlook or Word turns it back on. Then, for good measure, it might turn itself on again later after you turn it off again
Thank you, that is a much more informative response than modding me -1 Troll. It could be argued, I suppose, that being uninformed about Windows internals makes me a troll, but if that's the case then so be it:-).
Joking aside, I heard my wife (a militant non-geek, but who has been quite content with the Linux system I set up for her) saying "Nyah-Nyah-Nyah-Nyah-Nyah-Nyah" to one of her friends who got bitten by the bug last week. I thought this was sort of amusing, since she is usually the first to roll her eyes if anybody evangelises for any OS...
And a "critical" flaw in Visual Basic? Since when did anybody use Visual Basic for anything critical anyway? I thought that was for newbies and wannabes.
Unless Microsoft is really telling us that Windows is written in Basic. That would just be too funny:-)...
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Like I said in my post: "with fresh profiles every time". It was the first thing I thought of. I have no idea whether it works on Winxx as I only use Linux now. As for Bugzilla, it has been reported several times apparently.
Probably not. I have a question though:
I was looking through my mail logs yesterday, and there was quite a scary number of "relaying denied" entries over the last few months. Needless to say, it's nice to know sendmail is doing the right thing, but does anyone have any useful information as to what happens to these relay requests under Windows?
I have no complaints about the speed and features of Firebird, but when I installed several versions of it on my home network (the 0.6.1 release and nightly builds over a period of ten days, with fresh profiles every time) it adamantly refused to give me a "Back" button.
After a few days of this, I figured that all the bells and whistles are very nice, but only if they get the basics right, so I've abandoned Firebird until the creases have been ironed out.
There is nothing stopping anybody from building their own Mozilla without the mail/news/composer/chatzilla/kitchensink.
I recently ditched Mozilla's mail client in favour of Evolution, and I played with Firebird for about a week before I gave up on it as being too riddled with bugs (OK, I am aware it's only at version 0.61). My point is that a stripped-down Mozilla performs just as well.
OK, fair enough; I've been a long-time Gnome zea^H^H^Hfan, and in most respects it is a damn good interface. But I still use kprint as a gui printer interface instead of piping print requests directly to lpr, because I often need to print 4 pages to a sheet of paper and I haven't found a native Gnomeish way to do that yet.
Or alternatively, you could just install Dropline in a few days time if you happen to run Slackware. Dropline is by far the slickest distribution of Gnome I have come across.
That's what I would really like: spamming to become a capital offence, punishable by death. Preferably a messy and painful one. Let the bastards know they've seriously pissed someone off.
After all, if my penis grew by 100% overnight, I think my wife might complain :-)
You could always try adjusting the brightness/contrast on the screen itself. Though if reading stuff on the screen is such a strain, it might be worth simply investing in a better one.
Replying to myself (sigh) I meant to include an example from this excellent lutenist
It's already happening. Many first-rate musicians are taking on the publishing themselves, and offer their own music streaming over the net and/or mp3 download as well as providing direct sales of hard-copy CDs.
It's a nice model, and I don't mind paying for CDs when the proceeds are actually going back to the artists rather then being dropped into the bottomless coffers of mega-corporations.
Maybe he means highlight/middle-click-paste - in which case, he's right. Win* has never worked properly in that respect :-)
I'd been wondering what had happened to her :-)
He is obviously not in a position to make either of those illegal, but it would have been preferable if he had dismissed the case altogether. I am not a lawyer, but the judge is, and if he had any talent, I'm sure he could have found a pretext for booting both parties up the bum.
Isn't that what I was just saying I didn't have? Duh...
Almost none, but that was the rationale I was given (for what it's worth).
An ISP service isn't much good if you have to pay for it at international timed call rates.
In any case, my point was that it's sometimes useful to have shell access to the server, but nobody needs it all the time. Sure I need a *nix shell all the time, but I've got that right here on my desktop.
No.
Anybody moronic enough to actually pay money for iiNet's so-called "service" deserves everything they get.
As for why have shell access: if you like to install server-side mail filtering, e.g. via procmail (for those ISPs that don't use Cucipop), you need access to the shell. Also, it's very helpful when rearranging and modifying files and directories on your webspace as opposed to re-uploading everything via ftp.
Here in Western Australia, it's getting to the stage where shell accounts are becoming a rarity; my own ISP stopped offering them claiming that it was used so rarely that it wasn't worth keeping an sshd running. From their point of view, they might be right, but that doesn't do anything for me on the (admittedly rare) occasions that I need to ssh to their servers.
Fair enough; but there's also the consideration that $23E6 is probably not a whole lot of money to Microsoft, and it is probably worth it to avoid a noisy lawsuit for unconscionable practices at a time when they are taking a lot of heat for selling a faulty product.
Thank you, that is a much more informative response than modding me -1 Troll. It could be argued, I suppose, that being uninformed about Windows internals makes me a troll, but if that's the case then so be it :-).
Like a whore's nightie? :-)
Joking aside, I heard my wife (a militant non-geek, but who has been quite content with the Linux system I set up for her) saying "Nyah-Nyah-Nyah-Nyah-Nyah-Nyah" to one of her friends who got bitten by the bug last week. I thought this was sort of amusing, since she is usually the first to roll her eyes if anybody evangelises for any OS...
MS: :-)
Er, no. They're not glitches, sir. They are undocumented features sir.
Unless Microsoft is really telling us that Windows is written in Basic. That would just be too funny :-)...
As opposed to the M15 :-)