Okay, translating "r" to "R" might not be that big of a task - but how would you translate un-translatable characters? Like the German "ß"? There isn't a (real) upper-case representation; "upper-case" "ß" might be represented as "SS", but you lose information in that process, because not every incarnation of "SS" in a word can be translated back to "ß".
> and can handle badly coded web pages far better than any other browser available.
You know what? THAT is exactly one of the reasons, why IE is so bad! It handles HTML wrong and thus displays pages wrong. If I "forget" to close a table tag, than I might do this on purpose, and I actually do not want the browser to "correct" (ie. break) this.
Hm, on the one hand you are right. Their market was stupid Windows-only gamers. And this market doesn't know shit about tech and they usually use IE. You are right.
On the other hand, Netscape > 6, and especially Mozilla, do not suck. They are even more compliant to standards than this piece of shit called IE.
BTW: Why was that comment not marked as flamebait?
I'm sure most television viewers out there can associate shows to networks, these days.
Well, actually I think that the logo is needed. The shows on the different stations are so much alike these days, that the only way to distinguish the station actually is the logo. Without the logo, it wouldn't be clear. Especially during movies.
Well, at least kinda. Or so I do understand the claims, that they hope that XP is going to give the IT sector a tremendous boost. If it really is that slow - or if it really requires that much better hardware - then, in fact, it might give a boost to the hardware manufactures.
Okay, the part about reformatting the HD probably is way to extreme. Granted.
But shutting down this loosers machine surely stops or at least slows it from spreading. If all the sites - especially big sites like/. - would counter attack the attacker, it would really have an effect.
I've also got quite a lot of hits on my home machine because of this Windows junk.
You know, I'm starting to get fed up - Anyone know about a tool/technique which will fire back to these idiots? I mean, I'd love to have a tool which would connect to the attacker and shut down his toy, or, even better, format his harddisk or something.
You know, on the one hand you are right. Linux doesn't yet have much of a maket share. That's right.
But on the other hand - neither does Mac, and much less the new OS X. What's its market share? 2%? Yep, something in that direction.
No flame - but I always wondered: Why in the world do the companies support such a tiny market as Mac so "good"? I mean, Linux has a stronger market share (~5 %?), but it's not as good supported by the major players.
Well, actually that't not true. There REALLY was a lot of demand on the Cooker mailinglist (and also others) that Mandrake should put up a donations page. IIRC, it started around last December.
I know that there was demand, since I also wanted to have something like this!
Pardon me, but exactly WHY is it not appropriate to fix a hole in the street if it annoys the heck out of me, and if I know, that when I don't do it, noone may do it?
I fail to see the bad side of this?!
I much rather think, that this would be a positive attitude. Just imagine, how many millions of tax DMs/Dollars/Pounds/... could be saved, if everyone did this. And also think about how fast this would fix all the streets.
Sorry, but I think that this would be a good rather than a bad attitude...
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> So comming back to this issue of Freshmeat, I think people should appretiate what scoop is doing rather than bitch about the changes.
You are right to some degree - but the font issue REALLY made the site less usable. Now if the fonts were bigger, everything would be fine for me!
Yeah, it's just you - the font size is absolutely tiny!
What system are you using? Windows or Linux? I'm using Netscape 4.76 on Linux, and here it's really hard to read.
On Windows this maybe another issue.
While this is true, how should Protozila know which parser to start? And if it would start the right one, let's say PHP, how would it emulate the differences between the "pure" CGI version of running PHP and the mod_perl one?
Well, M$ may decide to drop support for hitting F8 and then selecting "Boot to DOS", but as long as autoexec.bat is still loaded when booting Win ME, there's no problem for UMSDOS distros or loadlin. You may very well place some sort of menu in autoexec.bat/config.sys, so loadlin/UMSDOS stuff will still work perfectly.
Also, neither Photoshop nor Notepad create anything themselves
Hmm? If use the Gimp to create a nifty text logo using a script-fu plugin, then Gimp really does all the work for me, so it creates the graphics itself, does it not? In this case, assuming Gimp would be a commercial product, would the copyright for this text logo be owned by the creator of Gimp or would I have the copyright?
Sorry, but I do not grasp the idea of this campaign at all. What is all this about? As far as I understand it, it is about some guys who start their anti-dot-com campaign against.com ads. Right? But what are.com ads, and why are they bad?
>Lets fire up your IDE system and watch you burn a CD on your IDE CD-R while ripping audio tracks off your IDE CD-ROM while encoding MP3 off your IDE harddrive while playing Quake II. I've done this on my dual celeron UW SCSI system more than once, system didn't even break a sweat.
Well, I still wouldn't try that with a SCSI system. What happens, if the audio CD you try to rip has some errors, which cause the drive to reset the SCSI bus. Right, time to throw away the disk in the CD-R. And that's not really that uncommon, this happened quite some time, especially on the last track of a CD.
> Perhaps choose a code name with the first letter indicating the version number.
BTW: That's also the way the weather folks are doing things. If you have a high pressure system, it's going to have a male name, let's say "Alexander". Then the next high will be called "Bruno" (or whatever), the next "Caesar".
Low pressure system will always have female names, so the first low in the year maybe called "Andrea" then "Berta" etc.
At least that's about the way they do it here in Germany/Europe.
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But doesn't the aggressor (George W. Bush) claim the same for the US?
Okay, but John Doe uses a Web browser to download files from FTP.
Web browsers don't support reget, AFAIK. (Please correct me, if I'm wrong.)
If John Doe is a little bit educated, he might use tools like GetRight. GetRight supports partial transfer from both FTP and HTTP.
Okay, translating "r" to "R" might not be that big of a task - but how would you translate un-translatable characters? Like the German "ß"? There isn't a (real) upper-case representation; "upper-case" "ß" might be represented as "SS", but you lose information in that process, because not every incarnation of "SS" in a word can be translated back to "ß".
How to treat this?
> and can handle badly coded web pages far better than any other browser available.
You know what? THAT is exactly one of the reasons, why IE is so bad! It handles HTML wrong and thus displays pages wrong. If I "forget" to close a table tag, than I might do this on purpose, and I actually do not want the browser to "correct" (ie. break) this.Well, actually Mozilla 0.9.5 does not load the page - at least not on Windows NT and some hours ago.
Hm, on the one hand you are right. Their market was stupid Windows-only gamers. And this market doesn't know shit about tech and they usually use IE. You are right.
On the other hand, Netscape > 6, and especially Mozilla, do not suck. They are even more compliant to standards than this piece of shit called IE.
BTW: Why was that comment not marked as flamebait?
Full ACK!
It's just so embarrassing for a company to lack the knowledge to make a web page which can be accessed with any browser.
BTW: Why was the article marked as flamebait??
> CARRY A PHOTO ID (DRIVER'S LICENSE OR PASSPORT) ON YOU AT ALL TIMES
Uhm, so? What's that screaming about? Isn't having (and thus carrying around) a photo ID completely normal? Well, here it is!?
I don't get it - what are you worrying about?
I'm sure most television viewers out there can associate shows to networks, these days.
Well, actually I think that the logo is needed. The shows on the different stations are so much alike these days, that the only way to distinguish the station actually is the logo. Without the logo, it wouldn't be clear. Especially during movies.
Well, at least kinda. Or so I do understand the claims, that they hope that XP is going to give the IT sector a tremendous boost. If it really is that slow - or if it really requires that much better hardware - then, in fact, it might give a boost to the hardware manufactures.
That's how I understand MS....
Okay, the part about reformatting the HD probably is way to extreme. Granted.
/. - would counter attack the attacker, it would really have an effect.
But shutting down this loosers machine surely stops or at least slows it from spreading. If all the sites - especially big sites like
I've also got quite a lot of hits on my home machine because of this Windows junk.
You know, I'm starting to get fed up - Anyone know about a tool/technique which will fire back to these idiots? I mean, I'd love to have a tool which would connect to the attacker and shut down his toy, or, even better, format his harddisk or something.
Anyone got an idea?
Get a Mac / OS X
You know, on the one hand you are right. Linux doesn't yet have much of a maket share. That's right.
But on the other hand - neither does Mac, and much less the new OS X. What's its market share? 2%? Yep, something in that direction.
No flame - but I always wondered: Why in the world do the companies support such a tiny market as Mac so "good"? I mean, Linux has a stronger market share (~5 %?), but it's not as good supported by the major players.
Why are Macs supported so strongly?
Don't they rather call it humor?
> In 5 words, "bullshit."
Well, actually that't not true. There REALLY was a lot of demand on the Cooker mailinglist (and also others) that Mandrake should put up a donations page. IIRC, it started around last December.
I know that there was demand, since I also wanted to have something like this!
Pardon me, but exactly WHY is it not appropriate to fix a hole in the street if it annoys the heck out of me, and if I know, that when I don't do it, noone may do it?
I fail to see the bad side of this?!
I much rather think, that this would be a positive attitude. Just imagine, how many millions of tax DMs/Dollars/Pounds/... could be saved, if everyone did this. And also think about how fast this would fix all the streets.
Sorry, but I think that this would be a good rather than a bad attitude...
> So comming back to this issue of Freshmeat, I think people should appretiate what scoop is doing rather than bitch about the changes.
You are right to some degree - but the font issue REALLY made the site less usable. Now if the fonts were bigger, everything would be fine for me!
Yeah, it's just you - the font size is absolutely tiny!
What system are you using? Windows or Linux? I'm using Netscape 4.76 on Linux, and here it's really hard to read.
On Windows this maybe another issue.
While this is true, how should Protozila know which parser to start? And if it would start the right one, let's say PHP, how would it emulate the differences between the "pure" CGI version of running PHP and the mod_perl one?
Well, M$ may decide to drop support for hitting F8 and then selecting "Boot to DOS", but as long as autoexec.bat is still loaded when booting Win ME, there's no problem for UMSDOS distros or loadlin. You may very well place some sort of menu in autoexec.bat/config.sys, so loadlin/UMSDOS stuff will still work perfectly.
Also, neither Photoshop nor Notepad create anything themselves
Hmm? If use the Gimp to create a nifty text logo using a script-fu plugin, then Gimp really does all the work for me, so it creates the graphics itself, does it not?
In this case, assuming Gimp would be a commercial product, would the copyright for this text logo be owned by the creator of Gimp or would I have the copyright?
What do you mean by "Mr. Bean wrote the article?"
Mr. Bean's real name is Rowan Atkinson and not Brian Livingston, or am I missing something?
Sorry, but I do not grasp the idea of this campaign at all. What is all this about? As far as I understand it, it is about some guys who start their anti-dot-com campaign against .com ads. Right? But what are .com ads, and why are they bad?
>Lets fire up your IDE system and watch you burn a CD on your IDE CD-R while ripping audio tracks off your IDE CD-ROM while encoding MP3 off your IDE harddrive while playing Quake II. I've done this on my dual celeron UW SCSI system more than once, system didn't even break a sweat.
Well, I still wouldn't try that with a SCSI system. What happens, if the audio CD you try to rip has some errors, which cause the drive to reset the SCSI bus. Right, time to throw away the disk in the CD-R. And that's not really that uncommon, this happened quite some time, especially on the last track of a CD.
> Perhaps choose a code name with the first letter indicating the version number.
BTW: That's also the way the weather folks are doing things. If you have a high pressure system, it's going to have a male name, let's say "Alexander". Then the next high will be called "Bruno" (or whatever), the next "Caesar".
Low pressure system will always have female names, so the first low in the year maybe called "Andrea" then "Berta" etc.
At least that's about the way they do it here in Germany/Europe.