Personally the only reasons I had to switch to Firfox were: 1. Better handling of extensions (uninstall & update) 2. More active development community, hence more extensions.
I still need mozilla to sort my bookmarks. For some reason Firfox doesn't understand how to sort by Folder then Name.
This only works for public pages. I use this and it is pretty neat (along with the Live HTTP Headers extension), but must development is done on boxes that are not exposed to the web.
After some consideration I have settled on a replacement phone. After my experience with the Motorola and chatting to quite a few people I decided that the only people who made a relatively simple interface was Nokia. So that limited things a little.
Out of that I rather like a smaller phone, and don't see the point of PDA features I don't use, so that cuts things down a bit too. I had to give up on the flip phone thing. I like the flip phone form factor for two reasons, it means the phone can't pocket call and it means a larger screen and keys while remaining small. Nokia hasn't understood this yet.
In the end I settled on a 6230. I also know a couple of people who have them and they both like them a lot, so that counts for something.
To be totally honest I'd settle for a 3210 that can be synced with a PC so long as I can store a few hundred phone numbers in it.
Encryption works really well, until they get a court order forcing you to give it up. You'd be better off having a means of destroying the data real quickly if necessary.
Maybe I should have surrounded that in sarcasm tags. What is silly about quotes like that is that there is generally a counter quote. The point is at their time and place, that action was appropriate (which is what you are saying).
I get particularly sick of hearing that quote though, because it is equally possible that the following might happen: "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then you have no credibility, then you lose".
That quote never wears out. Isn't it just amazing how despite that fact you have read it oooh maybe 10 bazillion times before, it still brings a tear to by eye. Go Open Source. sniff.
There was an attempt to install a backdoor in the debian code reposotitory. I can't recall a whole lot about the exact circumstances, but I think that it was something to do with someone with CVS access not being patched. The hack was designed to look like an innoculus fix.
The point is that this was picked up by the Debian team and within 24 hours of the attempt they had gone public with it.
Why didn't he setup a non-root account for his wife on the windows box?
Windows doesn't have a root account. You could create one if you really wanted. So I guess he did that.
Have you ever tried to run windows as anything other than admin? Too painful for words, particularly as I tend to install and uninstall a fair bit of software....it's the frustration of a person who doesn't WANT to understand windows and blames the consequences of that to the OS
Corporatists and capitalists are traitors, pure and simple- and should be dealt with as such.
This is not extreme enough. They should be hung, drawn and quartered, along with their families, neighbors, pets, guys who they chat to along the street. Then they should brought back to life to go through it all again.
Only then will they truly be punished for their crimes.
In Australia it comes from Taxes. Australia has unemployment benefits, with minimal conditions. Although I think people might prefer to convert their dole check into something other than a bowl of rice.
The movies were different from the feel of the book.
The movies were as much about internal conflict (generally manufactured: Sam & Frodo, Faramir, Theodun & Gandalf over Helms deep etc) as they were about conflicts with an external foe. The books were about fighting an enormously powerful enemy, there was no need for internal conflict to heighten tension. The effect of this was to weaken the characters.
I think the biggest mistake the W brothers made in Reloaded was to cram all of the important information into a single scene with a man whose face was more interesting than his droning voice, i.e. the Architect.
The biggest mistake the W brothers made was to make sequals. They should have made prequals. There were more options for material.
Newsflash: Life is dangerous. You cannot completely protect your country from harm. Deal with it. It is certainly a good idea to take reasonable steps to protect yourself, the key word there being reasonable.
The terrible irony of 9/11 was that while the US was protecting itself against high-tech ICBM attacks, a cheap, low-tech attack slipped under the radar. There are many lessons to be learnt from 9/11.
The only place I can see that has any effect on sorting bookmarks is in the View option of the Bookmarks window. Changes to this have an effect on all the bookmarks.
Thing's I'd like to see for better bookmark handling:
1. Duplicates handling. I have around 800 bookmarks and I may bookmark a page multiple times. Possibly some warning to let you know that the name or the URL you are giving the bookmark is the same as an existing one. At the moment I have a perl script I run to report on this, but that it is a hack.
2. Decent sorting. Mozilla is actually better at this than firefox. Mozilla allows you to sort bookmarks by name, bringing the folders to the top. For some reason this isn't available in Firefox, which is pretty poor. It would also be nice to have different folders sorted differently. So for example I have a folder for unfiled bookmarks which should be sorted by date added, while all other folders should be sorted by name.
There is a balance between the two extremes, you lean to the luddite* end. Good for you.
The fact remains that javascript is enabled on a very large proportion of the people who surf the web. I use that and will continue to do so.
Of course, if they don't enable Javascript, the site is just broken, so there's no improvement at all, and to such a user, the "improved" site is far worse than the old one.
Everying thing you say starts from a platform that javascript is bad. You have not justified this position.
But only the ignorant or the incompetent rely on client-side validation. It's potentially useful as an optimization, but that's it.
Sure, but the way I do validation detailed information on the error is displayed at client side. When you get an error on the server side the error message will not tell you where the error even is.
I will not waste my time writing code to provide detailed error messages for a very small proportion of website users. That is a poor use of my time.
Exactly. And if I disable Javascript -- my computer, my choice, right? (if not, I expect you to be running a system that can handle ActiveX and aren't using anything like a popup blocker) -- many sites that rely on Javascript are totally unusable.
Good for you. It is your choice to make sites unusable. I have issues with Javascript that is not cross browser compatible. But Javascript is enabled in most browsers out there. It is here to stay. If you choose to move to the minority you have to live with the consequences.
I find it amazing that/. has some people who are an amazing combination of technology freak and luddite. People like yourself.
* Luddite in the sense that it is used today, ie someone opposed to technology for no good reason. This is distinct to the original Luddites.
You know it is stupid, but you are *really* in a hurry
Sometimes being in a hurry means that you will do something that has a higher risk. This is called a calculated risk and intelligence is required to assess.
Javascript can be used to save a round trip to the server. For example load up a js array of information, which is then loaded into s. This can greatly improve usability, as the site is much more responsive.
This goes equally for your comments on client side validation.
Example: (as mentioned,) sites that use Javascript to open windows. Granted, this practice came around before Opera/Mozilla introduced us to the wonders of tabbed browsing, but what's the point of pulling up a "diversionary" window and forcing the user to close it? Afraid they might not understand the concept of the "back" button?
Dumb example. This allows people to have more than one window open to work in. If you are working on a web *application* (which is what I do for a living) this is important.
For example: The site I built allows you to send messages to other users of the site. This can happen from anywhere in the site. This could be done one of two ways. Pop up or normal link. A normal link takes you to back button hell[1]. A pop up allows them to create the message without leaving their current work, and indeed they have the work in front of them to refer to if they need to.
[1] Back button hell is trying to work out which page they are supposed to return to when they click back. This could mean a page that includes a query string or a POST. The effect is that you need to store a list of pages visited and the POST and query string data. Complications are added when people switch back and forth between a couple of pages.
Example: using flash/java/shockwave/etc to perform functions that could be handled in HTML, especially now that we have DHTML.
What do you mean "now"? We have had DHTML as long as we have had Javascript. It just hasn't had as many features. But most of the currently used features of DHTML (aside from some CSS) were supported back in IE4.
A very good reason to use Java/Flash etc is that these perform better. I am currently looking at migrating a rather complex piece of DHTML to either Flash or Java for this very reason.
I have trouble with understanding the argument "we will be more successful if we deny access to some percentage of the population."
I have trouble understanding this attitude too. Fortunately that isn't the attitude we have here. The attitude here is that Flash/Java etc offer better functionality that we want to take advantage of. Coding DHTML sucks big time. It suffers serious limitation particluarly when you want to do something interesting with images.
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Personally the only reasons I had to switch to Firfox were:
1. Better handling of extensions (uninstall & update)
2. More active development community, hence more extensions.
I still need mozilla to sort my bookmarks. For some reason Firfox doesn't understand how to sort by Folder then Name.
Make it easier to disable flash temporarily so I can turn it off on those sites that abuse it.
Use either the pref bar or flashblock extensions.
Make a better interface for managing plug-ins and extensions. Let me enable/disable them and check for updates for them.
This is gaping hole in Mozilla that is handled much better in Firefox.
Remember what tabs I was reading (and my place in those tabs) so if Mozilla crashes or I close it, I can go back to where I was instantly.
Agreed.
This only works for public pages. I use this and it is pretty neat (along with the Live HTTP Headers extension), but must development is done on boxes that are not exposed to the web.
Thanks for the comments and the links.
After some consideration I have settled on a replacement phone. After my experience with the Motorola and chatting to quite a few people I decided that the only people who made a relatively simple interface was Nokia. So that limited things a little.
Out of that I rather like a smaller phone, and don't see the point of PDA features I don't use, so that cuts things down a bit too. I had to give up on the flip phone thing. I like the flip phone form factor for two reasons, it means the phone can't pocket call and it means a larger screen and keys while remaining small. Nokia hasn't understood this yet.
In the end I settled on a 6230. I also know a couple of people who have them and they both like them a lot, so that counts for something.
To be totally honest I'd settle for a 3210 that can be synced with a PC so long as I can store a few hundred phone numbers in it.
And the myth continues.
As another poster has commented this is pretty much a waste of time.
Ditto for MAC address filtering. Can be sniffed.
Probably the best you can do at the moment is enable WPA with a long key.
If you have the time a better solution is to leave the AP unsecured, but put a VPN server between the AP and the rest your network.
Encryption works really well, until they get a court order forcing you to give it up. You'd be better off having a means of destroying the data real quickly if necessary.
Further additions
* First appearance of the Netcraft confirms BSD troll
* First Natilie Portmann & hot grits
Maybe I should have surrounded that in sarcasm tags. What is silly about quotes like that is that there is generally a counter quote. The point is at their time and place, that action was appropriate (which is what you are saying).
I get particularly sick of hearing that quote though, because it is equally possible that the following might happen:
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then you have no credibility, then you lose".
That quote never wears out. Isn't it just amazing how despite that fact you have read it oooh maybe 10 bazillion times before, it still brings a tear to by eye. Go Open Source. sniff.
There was an attempt to install a backdoor in the debian code reposotitory. I can't recall a whole lot about the exact circumstances, but I think that it was something to do with someone with CVS access not being patched. The hack was designed to look like an innoculus fix.
The point is that this was picked up by the Debian team and within 24 hours of the attempt they had gone public with it.
Why didn't he setup a non-root account for his wife on the windows box?
...it's the frustration of a person who doesn't WANT to understand windows and blames the consequences of that to the OS
Windows doesn't have a root account. You could create one if you really wanted. So I guess he did that.
Have you ever tried to run windows as anything other than admin? Too painful for words, particularly as I tend to install and uninstall a fair bit of software.
As opposed to yourself.
Corporatists and capitalists are traitors, pure and simple- and should be dealt with as such.
This is not extreme enough. They should be hung, drawn and quartered, along with their families, neighbors, pets, guys who they chat to along the street. Then they should brought back to life to go through it all again.
Only then will they truly be punished for their crimes.
In Australia it comes from Taxes. Australia has unemployment benefits, with minimal conditions. Although I think people might prefer to convert their dole check into something other than a bowl of rice.
The movies were different from the feel of the book.
The movies were as much about internal conflict (generally manufactured: Sam & Frodo, Faramir, Theodun & Gandalf over Helms deep etc) as they were about conflicts with an external foe. The books were about fighting an enormously powerful enemy, there was no need for internal conflict to heighten tension. The effect of this was to weaken the characters.
I think the biggest mistake the W brothers made in Reloaded was to cram all of the important information into a single scene with a man whose face was more interesting than his droning voice, i.e. the Architect.
The biggest mistake the W brothers made was to make sequals. They should have made prequals. There were more options for material.
There is an even greater waste that America fails to see.
Spend some money on diplomacy. You can protect your country with more than just military.
Newsflash: Life is dangerous. You cannot completely protect your country from harm. Deal with it. It is certainly a good idea to take reasonable steps to protect yourself, the key word there being reasonable.
The terrible irony of 9/11 was that while the US was protecting itself against high-tech ICBM attacks, a cheap, low-tech attack slipped under the radar. There are many lessons to be learnt from 9/11.
As opposed to the lives of people in other nations?
Where? I'm running 1.0.
The only place I can see that has any effect on sorting bookmarks is in the View option of the Bookmarks window. Changes to this have an effect on all the bookmarks.
Thing's I'd like to see for better bookmark handling:
1. Duplicates handling. I have around 800 bookmarks and I may bookmark a page multiple times. Possibly some warning to let you know that the name or the URL you are giving the bookmark is the same as an existing one. At the moment I have a perl script I run to report on this, but that it is a hack.
2. Decent sorting. Mozilla is actually better at this than firefox. Mozilla allows you to sort bookmarks by name, bringing the folders to the top. For some reason this isn't available in Firefox, which is pretty poor. It would also be nice to have different folders sorted differently. So for example I have a folder for unfiled bookmarks which should be sorted by date added, while all other folders should be sorted by name.
I've had 2000 blue screen on me a number of times. From memory most of them were due to hardware issues.
You mean, "join the herd", apparently
/. has some people who are an amazing combination of technology freak and luddite. People like yourself.
There is a balance between the two extremes, you lean to the luddite* end. Good for you.
The fact remains that javascript is enabled on a very large proportion of the people who surf the web. I use that and will continue to do so.
Of course, if they don't enable Javascript, the site is just broken, so there's no improvement at all, and to such a user, the "improved" site is far worse than the old one.
Everying thing you say starts from a platform that javascript is bad. You have not justified this position.
But only the ignorant or the incompetent rely on client-side validation. It's potentially useful as an optimization, but that's it.
Sure, but the way I do validation detailed information on the error is displayed at client side. When you get an error on the server side the error message will not tell you where the error even is.
I will not waste my time writing code to provide detailed error messages for a very small proportion of website users. That is a poor use of my time.
Exactly. And if I disable Javascript -- my computer, my choice, right? (if not, I expect you to be running a system that can handle ActiveX and aren't using anything like a popup blocker) -- many sites that rely on Javascript are totally unusable.
Good for you. It is your choice to make sites unusable. I have issues with Javascript that is not cross browser compatible. But Javascript is enabled in most browsers out there. It is here to stay. If you choose to move to the minority you have to live with the consequences.
I find it amazing that
* Luddite in the sense that it is used today, ie someone opposed to technology for no good reason. This is distinct to the original Luddites.
From my post:
You know it is stupid, but you are *really* in a hurry
Sometimes being in a hurry means that you will do something that has a higher risk. This is called a calculated risk and intelligence is required to assess.
Get a grip.
Javascript can be used to save a round trip to the server. For example load up a js array of information, which is then loaded into s. This can greatly improve usability, as the site is much more responsive.
This goes equally for your comments on client side validation.
For some people usability is what counts.
Example: (as mentioned,) sites that use Javascript to open windows. Granted, this practice came around before Opera/Mozilla introduced us to the wonders of tabbed browsing, but what's the point of pulling up a "diversionary" window and forcing the user to close it? Afraid they might not understand the concept of the "back" button?
Dumb example. This allows people to have more than one window open to work in. If you are working on a web *application* (which is what I do for a living) this is important.
For example: The site I built allows you to send messages to other users of the site. This can happen from anywhere in the site. This could be done one of two ways. Pop up or normal link. A normal link takes you to back button hell[1]. A pop up allows them to create the message without leaving their current work, and indeed they have the work in front of them to refer to if they need to.
[1] Back button hell is trying to work out which page they are supposed to return to when they click back. This could mean a page that includes a query string or a POST. The effect is that you need to store a list of pages visited and the POST and query string data. Complications are added when people switch back and forth between a couple of pages.
Example: using flash/java/shockwave/etc to perform functions that could be handled in HTML, especially now that we have DHTML.
What do you mean "now"? We have had DHTML as long as we have had Javascript. It just hasn't had as many features. But most of the currently used features of DHTML (aside from some CSS) were supported back in IE4.
A very good reason to use Java/Flash etc is that these perform better. I am currently looking at migrating a rather complex piece of DHTML to either Flash or Java for this very reason.
I have trouble with understanding the argument "we will be more successful if we deny access to some percentage of the population."
I have trouble understanding this attitude too. Fortunately that isn't the attitude we have here. The attitude here is that Flash/Java etc offer better functionality that we want to take advantage of. Coding DHTML sucks big time. It suffers serious limitation particluarly when you want to do something interesting with images.