When will people read the damn articles
I don't know. When will people start reading the comments properly. I wasn't talking about the highlighted exploits, I was talking about exploits in GENERAL.
I wasn't talking about these particular exploits, I was talking about possible future exploits. This story isn't news because there's the possibility of three minor issues, it's news because Firefox isn't the completely safe browser people have been trumpeting it as. My point is that we shouldn't be concentrating on how bomb proof the software is, we should be concentrating on the response given to threats, and how these are better (or worse) than the response given by Microsoft.
It's obvious that the more mainstream Firefox becomes, the more exploits are going to be found / used. It was inevitable that there would be exploits, but the test of Open Source vs Closed Source is how quickly the problems are fixed and rolled out. I think the next year is going to be an interesting one for Firefox developers.
That's right. Because nobody uses those malware riddled Joe-User Computers to send you Spam. And there's no possibility that they can be used as botnets to deny service to your favourite websites. </sarcasm>
You say that... We need you to DONATE MONEY (paypal button on openoffice.org)
One way of getting people to donate money may be to change the contribute page. At the moment it says "We strongly prefer that people become contributors. In most cases, being a contributor will go much further than a monetary donation. However, for those who cannot offer time, we would gladly accept a monetary donation to the project."
In the past, I've been put off of donating because of this message.
My bad. I'd skimmed a few things on the web, and assumed that it had been switched off. Looks instead as though Google have changed how it works. See PageRank is dead. I need to investigate further.
Agreed, they still need to know when people are being frustrated by the search results they're being given. And I'm finding it increasingly difficult to find what I want with Google.
Google needs to stop obsessing about the number of indexed pages, and start concentrating on the quality. Since pagerank was switched off, 2 out of 5 searches now seem to be jammed with pages full of nothing but random words and adverts. It's even more galling when the adverts are Google Ads. Much as I love Google, they're becoming increasingly less effective as a tool.
It's a strange solution. Embedded font support has been integrated into internet explorer for years, and although they seem to have stripped it out of Mozilla, netscape used to be compatible with trueDoc. Links: (Microsoft Font Embedding) and truedoc)
One of the reasons hardware is so expensive is because the hardware-requirements for current software (step forward microsoft) keeps going up. Any $100.00 computer they can currently make won't be powerful enough to run XP, Word and whatever other MS products that increasingly suck memory and processor cycles.
Even if this statement weren't bullshit, microsoft would still be partially responsible.
Hence the usage of the phrase... "Reopening" Tivo never really tried in the UK, and I suspect it's because Murdoch tied them into Sky. That's fine if you want to throw your money at Fox, but for me, all I want is freeview and Tivo capabilities, with maybe the facility to download movies. Thompson, the original UK Tivo manufacturers, are currently making DVRs (so there is a market for them), but there's no Programme guide, favorites, etc.
This is great news apart from the fact that I can't even buy a TiVo in the UK, never mind netflix. Tivo should be spending more time reopening markets, and less time pandering to the "next big thing"
1. The only way that they'll be able to do this at a good cost is to use some kind of third world labour with a first language that isn't english.
2. Given that my baysian spam solution seems to be better at sorting spam than me (I've accidently deleted items which were not spam before), then I'm not entirely sure that a stranger could do better.
They offer a 100% guarantee. I doubt they'll be able to offer a 100% service.
Just change the name of your product, and be done with it. There may be a legal and/or moral side to this, but you're probably not the right person to make a stand (i.e., you don't have huge funds). When Firebird changed to Firefox, everybody grumbled for a while, but guess what, the right decidion was made. Now, Firefox has strong market recognition, and only a few people care that it was once called firebird.
There was a time when Microsoft refused to lobby, or they lobbied very little, and all that got them was several slap downs from the governement, and articles from industry leaders telling them to grow up, to learn how to play with the big boys.
I guess they listened to those articles, and they realised that they'd never continue to survive without extensive and aggressive lobbying. This article isn't about how evil microsoft is, it's about the failure of the current political system.
Microsoft Terminal Services is all you need.
Get a bog standard, mid range intel box, fill it with Ram (2GB min), and install MS 2000 Server. Install Terminal services, add Browser and Office apps. (for email, use webmail)
For your office Apps, I'd look for something streamlined, MS-Office compatible and cheap. Microsoft Works is a possibility, or something like AbiWord.
There is scope to use Unix/Linux for this, but most people who'll be using the system will be Microsoft Users, and you won't want to be answering lots of tech-support questions.
Tarentella offer a Terminal Services Linux/WINE variant which is capable of running windows applications, and this too may be worth looking at. In the past, this has been expensive compared to MS Server, but they're aware of this, and have made noises that they're re-evaluating the licencing.
Why the reliance on Linux. FreeDos should fit into 2 Mb, and (according to the interweb) DVPeg will fit into 120k. No network support, but it'll be really simple to set up.
At which point, Ed Norton appears and gives the Fight Club talk about Risk Assessment.
This is obvious. If doing (A) costs less money than doing (b), then a company will do (A).
Q) One thing I had written down there were ship names in your books...
This is where I switch into rant mode. I have distinctive ship names and sometimes I've been taken to task for ripping off Iain Banks with these ship names because they're long and convoluted names. What I always say is that if anything was an inspiration, it was M. John Harrison, with The Centauri Device, where he had all these ships named after pre-Raphaelite paintings, or something. That's what I'm keying off from, basically. I know Banks was a fan of that book as well, so I think we are both keying off from the same source. God knows what Harrison was keying off from.
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I wasn't.
When will people read the damn articles
I don't know. When will people start reading the comments properly. I wasn't talking about the highlighted exploits, I was talking about exploits in GENERAL.
I wasn't talking about these particular exploits, I was talking about possible future exploits. This story isn't news because there's the possibility of three minor issues, it's news because Firefox isn't the completely safe browser people have been trumpeting it as. My point is that we shouldn't be concentrating on how bomb proof the software is, we should be concentrating on the response given to threats, and how these are better (or worse) than the response given by Microsoft.
It's obvious that the more mainstream Firefox becomes, the more exploits are going to be found / used. It was inevitable that there would be exploits, but the test of Open Source vs Closed Source is how quickly the problems are fixed and rolled out. I think the next year is going to be an interesting one for Firefox developers.
That's right.
Because nobody uses those malware riddled Joe-User Computers to send you Spam. And there's no possibility that they can be used as botnets to deny service to your favourite websites.
</sarcasm>
It looks as if makelovenotspam has been pulled. I wonder if Lycos are getting cold feet?
You say that ... We need you to DONATE MONEY (paypal button on openoffice.org)
One way of getting people to donate money may be to change the contribute page. At the moment it says "We strongly prefer that people become contributors. In most cases, being a contributor will go much further than a monetary donation. However, for those who cannot offer time, we would gladly accept a monetary donation to the project."
In the past, I've been put off of donating because of this message.
My bad. I'd skimmed a few things on the web, and assumed that it had been switched off. Looks instead as though Google have changed how it works. See PageRank is dead. I need to investigate further.
Agreed, they still need to know when people are being frustrated by the search results they're being given. And I'm finding it increasingly difficult to find what I want with Google.
They already have.
Google needs to stop obsessing about the number of indexed pages, and start concentrating on the quality. Since pagerank was switched off, 2 out of 5 searches now seem to be jammed with pages full of nothing but random words and adverts. It's even more galling when the adverts are Google Ads. Much as I love Google, they're becoming increasingly less effective as a tool.
It's a strange solution. Embedded font support has been integrated into internet explorer for years, and although they seem to have stripped it out of Mozilla, netscape used to be compatible with trueDoc. Links: (Microsoft Font Embedding) and truedoc)
It's Anders Hejlsberg.
One of the reasons hardware is so expensive is because the hardware-requirements for current software (step forward microsoft) keeps going up. Any $100.00 computer they can currently make won't be powerful enough to run XP, Word and whatever other MS products that increasingly suck memory and processor cycles.
Even if this statement weren't bullshit, microsoft would still be partially responsible.
Greg Dyke may disgree with you on this.
Hence the usage of the phrase ... "Reopening"
Tivo never really tried in the UK, and I suspect it's because Murdoch tied them into Sky. That's fine if you want to throw your money at Fox, but for me, all I want is freeview and Tivo capabilities, with maybe the facility to download movies. Thompson, the original UK Tivo manufacturers, are currently making DVRs (so there is a market for them), but there's no Programme guide, favorites, etc.
This is great news apart from the fact that I can't even buy a TiVo in the UK, never mind netflix. Tivo should be spending more time reopening markets, and less time pandering to the "next big thing"
1. The only way that they'll be able to do this at a good cost is to use some kind of third world labour with a first language that isn't english. 2. Given that my baysian spam solution seems to be better at sorting spam than me (I've accidently deleted items which were not spam before), then I'm not entirely sure that a stranger could do better. They offer a 100% guarantee. I doubt they'll be able to offer a 100% service.
Just change the name of your product, and be done with it. There may be a legal and/or moral side to this, but you're probably not the right person to make a stand (i.e., you don't have huge funds). When Firebird changed to Firefox, everybody grumbled for a while, but guess what, the right decidion was made. Now, Firefox has strong market recognition, and only a few people care that it was once called firebird.
There was a time when Microsoft refused to lobby, or they lobbied very little, and all that got them was several slap downs from the governement, and articles from industry leaders telling them to grow up, to learn how to play with the big boys. I guess they listened to those articles, and they realised that they'd never continue to survive without extensive and aggressive lobbying. This article isn't about how evil microsoft is, it's about the failure of the current political system.
Microsoft Terminal Services is all you need. Get a bog standard, mid range intel box, fill it with Ram (2GB min), and install MS 2000 Server. Install Terminal services, add Browser and Office apps. (for email, use webmail) For your office Apps, I'd look for something streamlined, MS-Office compatible and cheap. Microsoft Works is a possibility, or something like AbiWord. There is scope to use Unix/Linux for this, but most people who'll be using the system will be Microsoft Users, and you won't want to be answering lots of tech-support questions. Tarentella offer a Terminal Services Linux/WINE variant which is capable of running windows applications, and this too may be worth looking at. In the past, this has been expensive compared to MS Server, but they're aware of this, and have made noises that they're re-evaluating the licencing.
Why the reliance on Linux. FreeDos should fit into 2 Mb, and (according to the interweb) DVPeg will fit into 120k. No network support, but it'll be really simple to set up.
So... It's a big meteor, or a volcano or maybe, just maybe... It was caused by a verneshot
At which point, Ed Norton appears and gives the Fight Club talk about Risk Assessment. This is obvious. If doing (A) costs less money than doing (b), then a company will do (A).
alastair reynolds interview - at zone-sf.com