Uh, really? What about hosting Excel spreadsheet in your Word document, editable in place? Or exporting to Excel so many applications do? Or hosting Word and PDF documents inside Internet Explorer? That won't be possible without OLE/COM. I'm sure if you ever used Windows/Office/Other apps, you used this technology, EVEN NOT BEING AVARE, because so much thought was put into it. There are of course thousands of other ways to achieve same things, but who cares. Anyway, these technologies shaped windows experience for years and claiming they are stupid or dead is well... stupid...
Yeah, I guess that's why I caught java backdoor virus (yes, it installs ordinary windows.dll via java applet). That was guess with what software? Firefox (0.9.x) and Sun Java (don't remember version #). I turned off java since then and won't be running any single java applet anymore.
Hey, all the software has bugs... ActiveX is dangerous technology and should be turned off by default (they did it in winxp sp2).
By the way - if you find me some recent IE exploit that allows remote installation of ActiveX without user confirmation - I'll happily agree with you. But IIRC that was circa pre-y2k I've seen any.
Be careful what you wish for... else we'll have these "paintball teammates" in a blink of an eye: pic They'll infiltrate earth and become governors of themselves (pun intended:)
Yeah, removing WiFi board and adding directional yagi antenna (I see it now, if yagi antenna isn't redundant enough - you use directional yagi antenna), a 3w 800/1900 booster and point at the nearest tower is much easier... Thank you:-D
Oh, really? Maybe it's a tool for ISVs to get all the latest MS software for $2000/yr? OSes in many different languages, development tools, Office with all the servers and goodies, SQL servers etc. Fully legal and licensed for development. And no, it's not beta.
I understand it's slashdot, but come on! Microsoft is NOT selling this community preview... And poster should have stated it clearly. It's already ready available for MSDN subscribers, and will be available for MSDN subscribers only, not sold as a aseparate product before going gold... It's just license loophole for customers using and already developing with VS.Net 2005, to allow deploying live systems (beta EULAs prohibit that). I don't see anything wrong with that (of course you may say it's bad because it may help microsoft and its customers)... Now burn my carma - I don't care.
Your theory sounds good until you know that IE *prompts* users if they want to install that particular ActiveX the first time, even it's signed. Ever seen that dialog box "Signed by company NNNN, do you want to install?"? It even prompts when you go to windows update first time. Sorry I harmed your comfortable world of MS bashing, but the truth is important.
I once got a call from my friend. Someone was saturating his ADSL completely. He's not very technical, so someone just hacked his machine and turned it into software distribution point. Turned out to be Serv-U installed. I cleaned the machine up. But it would be nice if he can do it himself by running some anti-spyware tool. So it's quite useful feature. If you know you should be running Serv-U, just add it to ignore list. Most normal users shouldn't be running it. Period.
Classical chicken-egg problem. Since the majority of developers and testers develop/test with Administrators rights, these bugs slip through completely unnoticed. How to change that? I don't really know. And anyway there gonna exist many legacy (9x era) apps. These gonna require Administrators rights. Maybe "Run As" is going to help. But it's annoying to use: doesn't really remember credentials, doesn't have "remember admin password for XX minutes", etc. Maybe if Microsoft implemented comfortable "Run As", things gonna change. Not now.
>> Let me get this straight: it's not good that things are different on different platforms/WMs, so your solution is to implement it (possibly differently) in every app?
Of course not in every app. Heigher level primitives for tabs, mdi etc should reside in widget toolkit app uses (GTK+ in this case). That's how things are supposed to be in the real world. And implementing "tabs" is very straightforward and it'll be barely 200 lines of code with normal toolkits. And no, adding some "special and automatic" tabs into WM isn't a good idea. You already have it in the form of taskbar.
The problem with it is that window manager has no clue what tabs to create, in what order... The same with auto-hide and arrangements. So expect some applications behaving "strange". That one thing... Another is that at different platforms/WMs the same application will behave differently. That's not very good. And yes, different applications will need different schemes anyway, so every developer will code own workaround, depending what WM it's running on. Look, generalizations are good. But in real life it sometimes just doesn't work. Application knows better how to layout own windows than any window manager and can and ought to manage own windows in sensible manner. That's just sane usability requirement. Nice try.
Of course... Because spammers generally prefer open proxies and open relays outside of US to hide identity. Just think about it: you usually get spam in english trying to sell something to english-speaking audience. It's not someone like random guy in China. It's US-based "marketers".
I don't undesrtand you people: why bother with some closed source IM client? Did you try Miranda? I can tell you that Miranda serves me 3 years already... No single glitch. Well.. not really;) but the one scrolling bug I've got I just fixed myself... Opensource is still Opensource. Go Miranda. GAIM rules too:) But I still think its win32 version is immature.
You aren't quite right about 1 of 10 your friends is gay... "Friends" isn't some random thing usually and tend to organize by interests... So concentration is much lower than 1/10...
Really... Isn't the point of media center is supporting remote, so you can sit in your chair, relax, turn off your brain and push little buttons? And.. It seems they will be using winlirc, which doesn't support my remote... So I'll stick with my SlyControl (program with macroeing with remote control) forever. It makes everything just easy. Press TV and it launches my tv tuner program. Press Menu and select.avi file, it plays. The same for Pictures and DVD. So without good integration with remotes Media Portal is just pretty "shell" for doing things I already know how to do. I know, I know: "code it yourself" and stuff... Not now, sorry.
It was pretty common in ex-USSR among some closed group of friend or colleagues, as you noted... It's more playful/respectful than official. And is usually used as an alias. In modern russia it's very uncommon actually.
Actually he's not Mr. Vissarionovich. He's Mr. Djugashvili... Vissarionovich is his middle name and only indicates his father's name was Vissarion.. No one in exUSSR uses just a middle name to name men. It'd be Joseph (Iosif) Vissarionovich.
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Half-Life 2 has signs in cyrillic on gates and in some other places and I personally recognize a dozen of vehicles there as being produced in USSR. Architecture feels like at home too;) 9-story boxes looking exactly like ones in my uptown.
Well. MS Indexing Service already DOES index mp3 tags. As well as other items in any active x doc (read MS Word, HTML (any META), etc). SDK is available. To get an idea what it indexes, look at the properties of a file->Summary tab. There's Author, Comments fields usually. MP3 files will contain ID3 tags. Integration with the OS is very-very poor. They attempted to integrate it with winxp, but it's very sloppy, and actually just doesn't work. The only way to search is to go to Indexing Service control panel. For instance if I'll search for @MusicGenre=Soundtrack from Idexing Service Control Panel, it will show all my mp3s with Genre set to Soundtrack. It works and sometimes is very useful. But you'll need to actually turn it on to work. It works better than google desktop search, that's for sure. I'm surprised no one uses it. I do. I think it's a great example showing MS is the company where one hand doesn't know what another hand does. Indexing Service is available from NT 4.0 days (IIS 3.0) and still MS doesn't use it for desktop search.
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Uh, really? What about hosting Excel spreadsheet in your Word document, editable in place? Or exporting to Excel so many applications do? Or hosting Word and PDF documents inside Internet Explorer?
That won't be possible without OLE/COM. I'm sure if you ever used Windows/Office/Other apps, you used this technology, EVEN NOT BEING AVARE, because so much thought was put into it. There are of course thousands of other ways to achieve same things, but who cares. Anyway, these technologies shaped windows experience for years and claiming they are stupid or dead is well... stupid...
Yeah, I guess that's why I caught java backdoor virus (yes, it installs ordinary windows .dll via java applet). That was guess with what software? Firefox (0.9.x) and Sun Java (don't remember version #). I turned off java since then and won't be running any single java applet anymore.
Hey, all the software has bugs... ActiveX is dangerous technology and should be turned off by default (they did it in winxp sp2).
By the way - if you find me some recent IE exploit that allows remote installation of ActiveX without user confirmation - I'll happily agree with you. But IIRC that was circa pre-y2k I've seen any.
>> and a robotic paintball teammate
:)
Be careful what you wish for... else we'll have these "paintball teammates" in a blink of an eye: pic
They'll infiltrate earth and become governors of themselves (pun intended
It just sucks.. Yeah baby, it does. :) now give me all your money please :)
bwahaha
Yeah, removing WiFi board and adding directional yagi antenna (I see it now, if yagi antenna isn't redundant enough - you use directional yagi antenna), a 3w 800/1900 booster and point at the nearest tower is much easier... Thank you :-D
Oh, really? Maybe it's a tool for ISVs to get all the latest MS software for $2000/yr?
OSes in many different languages, development tools, Office with all the servers and goodies, SQL servers etc. Fully legal and licensed for development. And no, it's not beta.
I understand it's slashdot, but come on!
Microsoft is NOT selling this community preview... And poster should have stated it clearly.
It's already ready available for MSDN subscribers, and will be available for MSDN subscribers only, not sold as a aseparate product before going gold...
It's just license loophole for customers using and already developing with VS.Net 2005, to allow deploying live systems (beta EULAs prohibit that).
I don't see anything wrong with that (of course you may say it's bad because it may help microsoft and its customers)...
Now burn my carma - I don't care.
Expect user friendly and robust programs soon!
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perl -MNokia::Smartphone -eshell
nokia> ATDT +x xxx xxx xxx xxx
BUSY
nokia> my %pb; tie(%pb, 'GDBM_File', "phone_book", O_RDONLY, 0666);
nokia> ATDT $pb{dave}
Dialing +x x x x x x
I'm just looking forward for it! Awesome mobile platform!
Your theory sounds good until you know that IE *prompts* users if they want to install that particular ActiveX the first time, even it's signed. Ever seen that dialog box "Signed by company NNNN, do you want to install?"? It even prompts when you go to windows update first time.
Sorry I harmed your comfortable world of MS bashing, but the truth is important.
I once got a call from my friend. Someone was saturating his ADSL completely.
He's not very technical, so someone just hacked his machine and turned it into software distribution point. Turned out to be Serv-U installed.
I cleaned the machine up.
But it would be nice if he can do it himself by running some anti-spyware tool. So it's quite useful feature.
If you know you should be running Serv-U, just add it to ignore list. Most normal users shouldn't be running it. Period.
Classical chicken-egg problem.
Since the majority of developers and testers develop/test with Administrators rights, these bugs slip through completely unnoticed.
How to change that? I don't really know.
And anyway there gonna exist many legacy (9x era) apps. These gonna require Administrators rights. Maybe "Run As" is going to help. But it's annoying to use: doesn't really remember credentials, doesn't have "remember admin password for XX minutes", etc.
Maybe if Microsoft implemented comfortable "Run As", things gonna change. Not now.
>> Let me get this straight: it's not good that things are different on different platforms/WMs, so your solution is to implement it (possibly differently) in every app?
Of course not in every app. Heigher level primitives for tabs, mdi etc should reside in widget toolkit app uses (GTK+ in this case). That's how things are supposed to be in the real world. And implementing "tabs" is very straightforward and it'll be barely 200 lines of code with normal toolkits.
And no, adding some "special and automatic" tabs into WM isn't a good idea. You already have it in the form of taskbar.
The problem with it is that window manager has no clue what tabs to create, in what order... The same with auto-hide and arrangements. So expect some applications behaving "strange".
That one thing... Another is that at different platforms/WMs the same application will behave differently. That's not very good.
And yes, different applications will need different schemes anyway, so every developer will code own workaround, depending what WM it's running on.
Look, generalizations are good. But in real life it sometimes just doesn't work. Application knows better how to layout own windows than any window manager and can and ought to manage own windows in sensible manner. That's just sane usability requirement.
Nice try.
Geez.. Look - someone even modded my post as Funny. :)
I was completely serious
I guess they modded my sig?
I agree. Only external threat is able to unite the whole Earth. Sad, but I believe it's true.
Of course... Because spammers generally prefer open proxies and open relays outside of US to hide identity.
Just think about it: you usually get spam in english trying to sell something to english-speaking audience. It's not someone like random guy in China. It's US-based "marketers".
Yeah... slashdotting irc channel is what we want... expect +mi soon :)
I don't undesrtand you people: why bother with some closed source IM client? ;) but the one scrolling bug I've got I just fixed myself... Opensource is still Opensource. :) But I still think its win32 version is immature.
Did you try Miranda?
I can tell you that Miranda serves me 3 years already... No single glitch. Well.. not really
Go Miranda.
GAIM rules too
You aren't quite right about 1 of 10 your friends is gay... "Friends" isn't some random thing usually and tend to organize by interests... So concentration is much lower than 1/10...
Really... Isn't the point of media center is supporting remote, so you can sit in your chair, relax, turn off your brain and push little buttons? .avi file, it plays. The same for Pictures and DVD.
And.. It seems they will be using winlirc, which doesn't support my remote...
So I'll stick with my SlyControl (program with macroeing with remote control) forever. It makes everything just easy. Press TV and it launches my tv tuner program. Press Menu and select
So without good integration with remotes Media Portal is just pretty "shell" for doing things I already know how to do.
I know, I know: "code it yourself" and stuff... Not now, sorry.
Of course it does have shaders... all directx 8.0 shaders are supported in hardware and directx 9.0 shaders are supported in software.
It was pretty common in ex-USSR among some closed group of friend or colleagues, as you noted... It's more playful/respectful than official. And is usually used as an alias.
In modern russia it's very uncommon actually.
Actually he's not Mr. Vissarionovich. He's Mr. Djugashvili... Vissarionovich is his middle name and only indicates his father's name was Vissarion..
No one in exUSSR uses just a middle name to name men. It'd be Joseph (Iosif) Vissarionovich.
Half-Life 2 has signs in cyrillic on gates and in some other places and I personally recognize a dozen of vehicles there as being produced in USSR. ;) 9-story boxes looking exactly like ones in my uptown.
Architecture feels like at home too
Well. MS Indexing Service already DOES index mp3 tags. As well as other items in any active x doc (read MS Word, HTML (any META), etc). SDK is available. To get an idea what it indexes, look at the properties of a file->Summary tab. There's Author, Comments fields usually. MP3 files will contain ID3 tags.
Integration with the OS is very-very poor. They attempted to integrate it with winxp, but it's very sloppy, and actually just doesn't work. The only way to search is to go to Indexing Service control panel. For instance if I'll search for @MusicGenre=Soundtrack from Idexing Service Control Panel, it will show all my mp3s with Genre set to Soundtrack. It works and sometimes is very useful. But you'll need to actually turn it on to work. It works better than google desktop search, that's for sure. I'm surprised no one uses it. I do.
I think it's a great example showing MS is the company where one hand doesn't know what another hand does. Indexing Service is available from NT 4.0 days (IIS 3.0) and still MS doesn't use it for desktop search.