FYI that is how Microsoft Outlook shows Digital Signatures.
PKI is not a single entity, and it doesn't need a single icon associated with it. PKI is used for Digital Signatures, SSL, and encryption among many other things- and hence a generic term Public Key Infrastructure to indicate any implementation of Public Key Cryptography.
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I have no problem browsing my favorite sites once or twice a day, and enjoy doing so. What am I missing out on?
Most other replies missed one of the advantages most important to me- separation of the data and presentation layer.
There's a great amount of inconsistency on how all these billion sites are designed- CNN, Slashdot, Digg, Washington Post, myriad blogs and so forth. As I jump from one site to the next, it's hard for me to adjust to how they think I should view the data. RSS provides me an easy way to do this. Check out RSS Bandit. They have a common stylesheet for every single RSS feed and you can consume all the data anyway you like it.
Of course, add to that the billion things you can do with just having raw data- like searching, automatically sorting stories by what you consider is relevant and so forth. It takes me half the time to get through my every day digest of information through RSS, than when I used to use the browser. Try it out, you won't be dissapointed.
NT started out as a lean, fast, secure operating system. It has the capability to do Unix-style file-permissions which would close up 99% of the security holes present.
FWIW, NT was a pioneer in implementing ACL's for its filesystem. Unless you are referring to POSIX-ACL's (which wasn't "UNIX-style" until very recently), the generic NT filesystem-security model is highly secure.
I can't believe there isn't a proper response to this. Only in Slashdot will people walk right past this silently.
I just downloaded and installed this thing. 4.some megs for what appears to be an IE plugin. There doesn't seem to be the option to make the 'search' bar integrate with the taskbar at all (which was what my initial pre-install impression was).
You know it's more than an IE plugin. Did you even attempt to look around? Right-click your taskbar, select toobars and you'll see MSN Deskbar there. It actually integrates very nicely with the OS.
I will say that I'd half expected for there to be a minimalist appearance. Nay, there's about 10 different buttons on the bar that gets installed in IE, and I was initially pestered with 2 desktop bar-specific nags. Additionally, the damn thing defaults to searching the web, not the desktop.
What are you smoking? The deskbar defaults to searching the desktop by default, and so does that IE page.
So I've been sitting here for about 10 minutes waiting for the thing to build an index. The Google Destop Search tool has about 40Mb of files on this machine, and I honestly don't think I've got much more than (if even) 1Gb of files on it. I've run a search for a couple files within the "My Documents" directory, and nothing turned up. There's no indication that the index is being built, or when it might be done, etc.
Actually I think there's too much indication. First when it starts off it says it's starting. Then when there's too much processor use, it says it's going to wait a while so you can get done what you want to get done. When it's actually indexing, you get a nice blinking maginfying glass. And finally when it's all done, it says it's done with a messenger like popup icon. All through this process, at any time when you hover over that icon, it tells you what the hell it's doing.
There also doesn't appear to be must customization ability for the actual search tool, either. Just build, or rebuild the index. No "exclude directory" type stuff.
Come on man. Right-click that damn thing and select Internet Options...
Not impressed in the least.
You have an IQ of a peanut. I don't think they're going to care if you're impressed or not. Who modded you up +4?
It is a well known fact that all versions of MS-Windows have backdoors built in, allowing US spy agencies to heck into, do something funny, and/or sabortage the "enemy system".
Listen to yourself, you sound like an idiot. I know Microsoft Windows code is closed-source. But here's a fundmental fact that nobody understands- it's open-source to every employee working under windows in Microsoft. That's about 14000+ employees mind you, and they belong to every nationality you can think of, even those you can't spell. Maybe their livelyhood depends on them keeping quiet, but I'm sure you are the one spreading FUD around.
Stop scaring the people. Stop this nonsense. I'm surprised you didn't find a place for terrorists in your comment somewhere.
No. Microsoft was developing the API for OS/2 and decided to make it look a lot like Windows. When IBM confronted this, Microsoft admitted that the future was going to be Windows NT, not OS/2.
"NT was 100% new code"... except, I assume, for all that VMS code that DEC sucessfully sued Microsoft over.
If you knew a little bit of history, you would remember that Cutler, who wrote VMS, also wrote NT code. The quarrel was over design issues. Let me think. One guy wrote VMS. Microsoft hires him. Now, he writes a second OS from scratch, but follows the design principles from an earlier one.
Just because you have something to do outside the country doesn't imply you allow rampant lawlessness within. The next time your house gets burgled, you wouldn't want the feds saying "uhh, but all our folks are fightin' Al-Sadr's men."
It all depends on your definition of "theft" when it comes to music. The Bush administration is obviously wooing the RIAA, with the election coming up and all.
I don't know how you can go to war about linux on the desktop, and still assume grandma and little johnny are going to have compilers installed on their system. And talk about the bloat.
Actually windows runs rather well on embedded devices. I remember using Win2000 on my last job - it was on a DLA! (Digital logic analyzer) by Agilent.
Perhaps it's the added benefit of a tried and tested system - been around for years and most of the bugs have been patched/found/fixed.
But I'm sure they have some special deal with MS. Money would hardly be an issue for them (fas in forking it out for licenses), so perhaps the only reason for picking MS over Linux would probably be some level of support promised by MS (or even publicity).
I keep watching them say it's all going to be done right, and from the very beginning I knew they'd do what they'd always do. It's like an addictive disease.
I'd be careful in discounting MS. A wait time of nearly 5 years is the longest, considering they're not exactly rewriting everything and the kernel like NT. Even NT, from scratch, took about 4 years to get done.
This is the time for Linux
I agree it is. But don't short-sight yourself. If your whole selling point relies on that the next version of Windows is absolutely going to contain critical kernel flaws, then something is wrong with your argument.
Everyone is getting sick of Microsoft's incompatibility with standards.
Everyone at Slashdot is. Slashdot is not exactly the online journal of choice for Joe Sixpack. Stop kidding yourself, and understand your competition seriously.
I post this from a Fedora machine, and I love GNOME. But it's sickening to see how dismissive most geeks at slashdot are when it comes to anything about Microsoft. The first rule of war is "Know thy enemy well".
The vast majority of these restrictions are only going to keep away casual joe from recording American Idol (which he probably won't every see again anyway).
I'm sure there's always a way around any protection mechanism, like an exception to every rule.
For too long, US Sys & Law Administrators have taken cover saying that the source of spam is almost always foreign and there's nothing they can do about it.
This article is the wake up call. It doesn't matter what email traffic the US generates, but it just proves that much of the spam is from within.
Developing country? Sure. But by no means do elephants and "pack animals" roam around and share the roads. Yes, we did make some progress in the last 2000 years. And no, we don't locate our programmers deep inside our jungles.
And dude, China is communist. India is not. There's a big difference.
Perhaps you missed the part in the article where they mention how village farmers 'consult' with agricultural specialists in the city to get farming advise.
Just because you don't use it does not mean nobody else in the world would not need it. Wake up.
India's population is 1 billion. Assume only 50% literacy (actual around 65% I believe), you have 500 million people who are literate - roughly twice the population of United states. And you expect 10% of these people to form the middle and upperclass - 50 million people. So you have a potential userbase of 50 million people. And you don't think this is a good market strategy?
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FYI that is how Microsoft Outlook shows Digital Signatures.
PKI is not a single entity, and it doesn't need a single icon associated with it. PKI is used for Digital Signatures, SSL, and encryption among many other things- and hence a generic term Public Key Infrastructure to indicate any implementation of Public Key Cryptography.
I have no problem browsing my favorite sites once or twice a day, and enjoy doing so. What am I missing out on?
Most other replies missed one of the advantages most important to me- separation of the data and presentation layer.
There's a great amount of inconsistency on how all these billion sites are designed- CNN, Slashdot, Digg, Washington Post, myriad blogs and so forth. As I jump from one site to the next, it's hard for me to adjust to how they think I should view the data. RSS provides me an easy way to do this. Check out RSS Bandit. They have a common stylesheet for every single RSS feed and you can consume all the data anyway you like it.
Of course, add to that the billion things you can do with just having raw data- like searching, automatically sorting stories by what you consider is relevant and so forth. It takes me half the time to get through my every day digest of information through RSS, than when I used to use the browser. Try it out, you won't be dissapointed.
Funny I didn't hear Slashdot bark about the last Supereme Court nominee that Bush picked. John Roberts argued for the 19 states against Microsoft.
Ah, the glorious tradition of Slashdot.
NT started out as a lean, fast, secure operating system. It has the capability to do Unix-style file-permissions which would close up 99% of the security holes present.
FWIW, NT was a pioneer in implementing ACL's for its filesystem. Unless you are referring to POSIX-ACL's (which wasn't "UNIX-style" until very recently), the generic NT filesystem-security model is highly secure.
I can't believe there isn't a proper response to this. Only in Slashdot will people walk right past this silently.
I just downloaded and installed this thing. 4.some megs for what appears to be an IE plugin. There doesn't seem to be the option to make the 'search' bar integrate with the taskbar at all (which was what my initial pre-install impression was).
You know it's more than an IE plugin. Did you even attempt to look around? Right-click your taskbar, select toobars and you'll see MSN Deskbar there. It actually integrates very nicely with the OS.
I will say that I'd half expected for there to be a minimalist appearance. Nay, there's about 10 different buttons on the bar that gets installed in IE, and I was initially pestered with 2 desktop bar-specific nags. Additionally, the damn thing defaults to searching the web, not the desktop.
What are you smoking? The deskbar defaults to searching the desktop by default, and so does that IE page.
So I've been sitting here for about 10 minutes waiting for the thing to build an index. The Google Destop Search tool has about 40Mb of files on this machine, and I honestly don't think I've got much more than (if even) 1Gb of files on it. I've run a search for a couple files within the "My Documents" directory, and nothing turned up. There's no indication that the index is being built, or when it might be done, etc.
Actually I think there's too much indication. First when it starts off it says it's starting. Then when there's too much processor use, it says it's going to wait a while so you can get done what you want to get done. When it's actually indexing, you get a nice blinking maginfying glass. And finally when it's all done, it says it's done with a messenger like popup icon. All through this process, at any time when you hover over that icon, it tells you what the hell it's doing.
There also doesn't appear to be must customization ability for the actual search tool, either. Just build, or rebuild the index. No "exclude directory" type stuff. Come on man. Right-click that damn thing and select Internet Options...
Not impressed in the least.
You have an IQ of a peanut. I don't think they're going to care if you're impressed or not. Who modded you up +4?
It is a well known fact that all versions of MS-Windows have backdoors built in, allowing US spy agencies to heck into, do something funny, and/or sabortage the "enemy system".
Listen to yourself, you sound like an idiot. I know Microsoft Windows code is closed-source. But here's a fundmental fact that nobody understands- it's open-source to every employee working under windows in Microsoft. That's about 14000+ employees mind you, and they belong to every nationality you can think of, even those you can't spell. Maybe their livelyhood depends on them keeping quiet, but I'm sure you are the one spreading FUD around.
Stop scaring the people. Stop this nonsense. I'm surprised you didn't find a place for terrorists in your comment somewhere.
No. Microsoft was developing the API for OS/2 and decided to make it look a lot like Windows. When IBM confronted this, Microsoft admitted that the future was going to be Windows NT, not OS/2.
"NT was 100% new code" ... except, I assume, for all that VMS code that DEC sucessfully sued Microsoft over.
If you knew a little bit of history, you would remember that Cutler, who wrote VMS, also wrote NT code. The quarrel was over design issues. Let me think. One guy wrote VMS. Microsoft hires him. Now, he writes a second OS from scratch, but follows the design principles from an earlier one.
Surprise.
1. Get heart surgery done.
and 2. Pick up laundry.
I tend to prioritize the first one.
The key is prioritize.
Just because you have something to do outside the country doesn't imply you allow rampant lawlessness within. The next time your house gets burgled, you wouldn't want the feds saying "uhh, but all our folks are fightin' Al-Sadr's men."
It all depends on your definition of "theft" when it comes to music. The Bush administration is obviously wooing the RIAA, with the election coming up and all.
This is why I believe the leadership should be completely decentralized and we should never idolize people like him.
This coming from a guy who's Name is Adolph Hitler (713286).
No you idiot. Firefox has a Gecko engine, which has been around from the days of Netscape.
So a sub 1.0 technology preview is using rock-solid technology tested and maintained over the last decade.
Version numbers don't mean shit.
I don't know how you can go to war about linux on the desktop, and still assume grandma and little johnny are going to have compilers installed on their system. And talk about the bloat.
Of Course we need cross distro RPMS.
Actually windows runs rather well on embedded devices. I remember using Win2000 on my last job - it was on a DLA! (Digital logic analyzer) by Agilent.
Perhaps it's the added benefit of a tried and tested system - been around for years and most of the bugs have been patched/found/fixed.
But I'm sure they have some special deal with MS. Money would hardly be an issue for them (fas in forking it out for licenses), so perhaps the only reason for picking MS over Linux would probably be some level of support promised by MS (or even publicity).
I keep watching them say it's all going to be done right, and from the very beginning I knew they'd do what they'd always do. It's like an addictive disease.
I'd be careful in discounting MS. A wait time of nearly 5 years is the longest, considering they're not exactly rewriting everything and the kernel like NT. Even NT, from scratch, took about 4 years to get done.
This is the time for Linux
I agree it is. But don't short-sight yourself. If your whole selling point relies on that the next version of Windows is absolutely going to contain critical kernel flaws, then something is wrong with your argument.
Everyone is getting sick of Microsoft's incompatibility with standards.
Everyone at Slashdot is. Slashdot is not exactly the online journal of choice for Joe Sixpack. Stop kidding yourself, and understand your competition seriously.
I post this from a Fedora machine, and I love GNOME. But it's sickening to see how dismissive most geeks at slashdot are when it comes to anything about Microsoft. The first rule of war is "Know thy enemy well".
I would go with your analogy, except that raising the cost of living of a nation of 1 billion takes A LOT longer than that of a couple of million.
The question is, how much longer can this economy withstand the outsourcing 'phenomenon'. Time will tell.
Think about it, the only sexual escapades you'll have at work, are with your girlfriend.
Oh wait, you'll also have to make sure your brother is not around. Darn.
VNC is great, but naked. You only need to sit around on 5900 to get passwd and HA, now the whole cracker world can control your dad's machine.
VNC over SSH, or perhaps something like gotomypc (if it's worth it) works a lot better, and secure.
I did : http://search.dpreview.com/forums/search.asp?query =muvo&page=20 .
That is the earliest occurence of the discussion on the muvo. Guess who the first article posted on 1/7 quotes?
Yea.
Andy Mack deserves credit for that compact flash card hack. I saw it published on his website many weeks ago.
The quality of the photos on his website always amazes me.
The vast majority of these restrictions are only going to keep away casual joe from recording American Idol (which he probably won't every see again anyway). I'm sure there's always a way around any protection mechanism, like an exception to every rule.
For too long, US Sys & Law Administrators have taken cover saying that the source of spam is almost always foreign and there's nothing they can do about it. This article is the wake up call. It doesn't matter what email traffic the US generates, but it just proves that much of the spam is from within.
Developing country? Sure. But by no means do elephants and "pack animals" roam around and share the roads. Yes, we did make some progress in the last 2000 years. And no, we don't locate our programmers deep inside our jungles.
And dude, China is communist. India is not. There's a big difference.
Just my 2 rupees.
Perhaps you missed the part in the article where they mention how village farmers 'consult' with agricultural specialists in the city to get farming advise. Just because you don't use it does not mean nobody else in the world would not need it. Wake up.
India's population is 1 billion. Assume only 50% literacy (actual around 65% I believe), you have 500 million people who are literate - roughly twice the population of United states. And you expect 10% of these people to form the middle and upperclass - 50 million people. So you have a potential userbase of 50 million people. And you don't think this is a good market strategy?
Wake up to the real world.