Outlook Express uses the IE-Rendering Engine, so...
One HTML-Message posted in a Newsgroup and containing the line "<input type>" (Shortest form of the exploit...12 bytes to crash IE) will kill all Outlook Expresses who try to read it (remember that OE _always_ displays the HTML-Version of the post), leaving the users puzzled and perhaps "insightful +5"...
There was a roadshow of the tablet on our university some days ago. They said the Tablet-PC would open "new markets", since people who usually avoid using computers because of the mouse (Have you ever tried to teach it to you mother?:-) now have a more "natural" way of interfacing with it - the pen. It's also more practical for carrying around than a laptop, since you can use hold it e.g. in your left arm and use the right hand to interface with it.
They said one of the design goals was that it should be able to do everything that a normal pen-and-pad method can do. That includes the use-with-one-hand from above, but also hot-plugging (so you can always take it out of the docking station and run away...). Some of them can be used as a laptop as well, simply by turning the display around.
They were pretty nice, and remindet me of the Pads they use in startreck. There are, however, still some useability-problems. The resolution of the EM-Sampler that checks for the pen is not very good at the edges, resulting in a "shaking" mouse cursor when holding the pen still. Another one is the right mouse button - the ones I held in my hands thought you want to press the right button if you didn't move the pen for some time. This resulted in context-menus that popped up when writing slow. Anotherone is the problem of your hand that overlapps some part of the screen when using the pen. Its annoying if menues keep opening right under your hand, so you have to move it away again to see whats on the screen.
The text recognition was nice, but they mentioned a error-rate of 10-15%, so it's not really very useful, especially when writing fast. My opinion is that it's nice, but still needs some time to get "mature" and really useable.
yeah, mine says "Discover the MS Visual Studio.NET difference, FREE online hostet session". I can even have a FREE offline hostet session so who cares:)
what about those pretty white polar bears up there, won't they drown if all the ice melts away?
Anyway, I don't understand how they can declare this as an "advantage"! It's a serious problem with our clime, and all they think of is "how can our economy benefit from it"...
This bug was reportet 2 years ago, seemed to be fixed, then again seems to be still present. It refers to tables with 'colspan' Tags that have a large 'span' value. They DoS the browser and can be embedded in any HTML Source - Webpage and EMail and (perhaps) Newsgroup articles.
On a funny sidenode, while trying to use the link above:
"Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled."
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Are you sure it wasn't your neighbour, typing something into his wireless keyboard?
Good question. I saw knoppix three weeks ago, when another student gave a Linux/UNIX-Intro. I liked it and thought that, since it was based on it, Debian would be similiar.
You can expect how surpried I was when I tried to install Debian. Knoppix might be based on it, but in terms of userfriendlyness its far ahead.
heise [1] writes that there is a free version of Kylix [2] avaiable within the next few days. Its free and may only be used to develop Open Source applications.
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My bets are on Afghanistan, Iraq or the US.
One HTML-Message posted in a Newsgroup and containing the line "<input type>" (Shortest form of the exploit...12 bytes to crash IE) will kill all Outlook Expresses who try to read it (remember that OE _always_ displays the HTML-Version of the post), leaving the users puzzled and perhaps "insightful +5"...
They said one of the design goals was that it should be able to do everything that a normal pen-and-pad method can do. That includes the use-with-one-hand from above, but also hot-plugging (so you can always take it out of the docking station and run away...). Some of them can be used as a laptop as well, simply by turning the display around.
They were pretty nice, and remindet me of the Pads they use in startreck. There are, however, still some useability-problems. The resolution of the EM-Sampler that checks for the pen is not very good at the edges, resulting in a "shaking" mouse cursor when holding the pen still. Another one is the right mouse button - the ones I held in my hands thought you want to press the right button if you didn't move the pen for some time. This resulted in context-menus that popped up when writing slow. Anotherone is the problem of your hand that overlapps some part of the screen when using the pen. Its annoying if menues keep opening right under your hand, so you have to move it away again to see whats on the screen.
The text recognition was nice, but they mentioned a error-rate of 10-15%, so it's not really very useful, especially when writing fast. My opinion is that it's nice, but still needs some time to get "mature" and really useable.
yeah, mine says "Discover the MS Visual Studio .NET difference, FREE online hostet session". I can even have a FREE offline hostet session so who cares :)
some more [in german] links for the lazy ones.
Anyway, I don't understand how they can declare this as an "advantage"! It's a serious problem with our clime, and all they think of is "how can our economy benefit from it"...
On a funny sidenode, while trying to use the link above:
"Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled."
Are you sure it wasn't your neighbour, typing something into his wireless keyboard?
Good question. I saw knoppix three weeks ago, when another student gave a Linux/UNIX-Intro. I liked it and thought that, since it was based on it, Debian would be similiar. You can expect how surpried I was when I tried to install Debian. Knoppix might be based on it, but in terms of userfriendlyness its far ahead.
[1] http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hos-23.07.02-0 00/
[2] http://www.borland.com/kylix/open/index.html