yes there is an activex plugin you can go out of your way to find, download, and install in Mozilla.
I'm not really sure what you are talking about? Microsoft has never announced anything like what your talking about that I'm aware of. What they HAVE said is that new versions of IE will only be released with new versions of windows and that they won't support previous versions of windows.
They never said IE 7 won't be free to download, they said there won't be an IE7 until there is a longhorn, even if IE7 is finished before longhorn.
Aye and remember, while we follow slashdot and hear the same things again and again... some of those things get annoying.
But there are also the several thousand people who have never seen a slashdot story before, fresh faces reading the comments on any given article. And some messages are important enough for them to see for the first time as well. Even if they do drive US up the fscking wall;)
Actually most proud owners an older version of windows are still pirating it if they install it on a laptop. Most of those proud owners, own OEM licenses which are only valid on the computer they came with.
Perhaps you didn't realize those oem versions of windows that come preinstalled have a special license agreement, are tied exclusively to the computer they came on, and are non-transferable in the event of a resale?
Most people pirating windows aren't even aware that is what they are doing. Comments in an ask slashdot are being posted for the original story poster's convience and the original poster may be unaware he's breaking the law.
People should always be made to follow the letter of the law and feel the costs where windows is concerned.
It's not mentioned in the story anywhere, it's accurate information. It also sounds like it's something the original poster doesn't know.
Informative, insightful, unmoderated. But the first post being modded redudant is a moderation so poor that it should guarantee someone never moderates again... EVER.
Didn't microsoft say something about having patches within 48hrs of vulnerabilities being discovered... it's interesting that while most were patched before exploited (and caught being exploited) they were known about for at least 6months before microsoft patched them.
I don't really see many p2's anymore because they are completely EOL, if something goes wrong we don't recommend fixing them anymore. P3's and Athlon tbird's and early athlon XP's seem to be more common now. People are upgrading again and there is a big performance difference between a p2 and an athlon 1.4ghz... not so much between that 1.4ghz and the latest p4 or athlon though *sighs*
IE is not actually much faster at all, firefox is quite snappy actually nowdays. Actually it tends to depend on the page as much as anything, some page elements render faster in IE, and some in firefox, since most people have a set of websites they tend to be viewing one browser or the other may seem faster.
Another big factor is if most of the sites your viewing are running IIS. Since IIS+IE breaks the http protocol, cutting out a few acks, the result when loading a page from another browser is that browser has to retransmit the request for EVERY object in the page... doesn't seem like alot but it can serious add up in terms of latency, especially on a fast connection where pages should be pretty much snapping up.
"Fact: IE is the most secure browser when completely blocked by a firewall."
Nah, you could still have pages in the cache or emails (since oe uses ie to render html). Or a local application could use the browser to execute a local admin exploit. So even if the browser is blocked so that it can't open any pages from the net IE is less secure;)
CERT predates the Dept of homeland security, CERT is the same CERT that was around before and is a fairly good organization.
Generally they let everyone know when a big exploit is floating around in a timely manner. Their paychecks just have a different gov branch name on them now, thats all.
More than anything the difference in terms of lawsuits is push and pull. Microsoft pushes their browser out, consumers have no choice in the matter.
Sendmail and Apache however are pull, they are available freely but you must go out and get them yourself.
For most software it's a question of cost. In terms of free software Microsoft is the only company in a position to "push", they push using their monopoly onto oem installs. Since nobody else has that monopoly, there is nobody else who produces and distributes free (as in beer) software who should be held liable for glitches in said software.
Blacklists are great and all, but in reality, they miss hundreds of sites. squid + squidguard with the standard blacklists on the site for instance doesn't even block playboy.com.
Keywords are nice and fine and dandy but they suck too. We should look to spam which is much more complex to interpret for the answer to this...
Does anyone know of a web content filter that uses bayasian filtering as well as blacklists?
don't listen to the other guy saying cisco will take it personal. First they won't even know, second we are a cisco partner and it's actually a pretty rare experience to even talk to someone at cisco (unless your techs are idiots and have to call them left and right).
If you have to go with something other than cisco you may as well be using your own linux solution (since they are basically all using embedded linux ANYWAY). Go with something like a via mini-itx board/case (rather nice solid case on caseoutlet.com that I use alot) or a ppc board.
Either way the main thing your looking for is something that can be passively cooled. I recommend having a case with a fan even if the chip is supposedly passively cooled. That way if the fan dies on you it's not a big deal. You also want solid state storage and enough ram to run the OS out of it. The general idea is to eliminate moving parts. Once you are running completely out of memory, and have no essential moving parts... you've got dedicated hardware devices matched at least equaled in this respect. And a 1ghz c3 at the very least equals 200mhz specialty chip (which are quite rare in practice despite everyone citing them to defend said routers).
Nope, the biggest concern your going to have is bus speed. I'd keep it in mind.
But is there anyone who would actually listen to development advice from Microsoft?
Seriously they are infamous for turning out the worst software ever produced, they fail on every major checkpoint.
Simplified interface, fail, menus are cluttered and unintuitive.
Security, fail, their record speaks for itself
Stability, again fail, again their record speaks for itself.
Performance, fail. MOST competing products run faster than the Microsoft equivalent not one or two, not somebody beats them, almost everybody beats them on almost every piece of software.
They may finish a project which is more than some can say, but that is about all they have going for them and it's arguable if they've ever TRULY finished a project.
Transgaming promises to release their code under the wine license. They have never done, and they've also removed all mention of the promise.
The promise was specifically tied to the number of subscribers. That was my only motivation for subscribing (I'm not a gamer). I imagine there were others who subscribed for the same reason.
It can be said they never reached that number... maybe, maybe not, only they know. But their developers have posted in their forums that WineX will NEVER be released under the wine license because it conflicts with their "interests".
I'd believe option 2 bob. If windows were to lose significant market share to linux then COffice is a godsend to Microsoft.
It's hard to say how much of Microsoft's profit is from office rather than windows (the numbers are usually grouped together and compared to server + server apps). But I'd wager it's quite a bit. Considering their massive cash surplusses, it might even be enough by a hair to keep them in business if they lost their desktop monopoly on windows.
Coffice is perfect for them, allowing them to reach another platform without the PR damage porting would do.
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yes there is an activex plugin you can go out of your way to find, download, and install in Mozilla.
I'm not really sure what you are talking about? Microsoft has never announced anything like what your talking about that I'm aware of. What they HAVE said is that new versions of IE will only be released with new versions of windows and that they won't support previous versions of windows.
They never said IE 7 won't be free to download, they said there won't be an IE7 until there is a longhorn, even if IE7 is finished before longhorn.
Aye and remember, while we follow slashdot and hear the same things again and again... some of those things get annoying.
;)
But there are also the several thousand people who have never seen a slashdot story before, fresh faces reading the comments on any given article. And some messages are important enough for them to see for the first time as well. Even if they do drive US up the fscking wall
"proud owner of an older version of Windows"
Actually most proud owners an older version of windows are still pirating it if they install it on a laptop. Most of those proud owners, own OEM licenses which are only valid on the computer they came with.
Perhaps you didn't realize those oem versions of windows that come preinstalled have a special license agreement, are tied exclusively to the computer they came on, and are non-transferable in the event of a resale?
Most people pirating windows aren't even aware that is what they are doing. Comments in an ask slashdot are being posted for the original story poster's convience and the original poster may be unaware he's breaking the law.
People should always be made to follow the letter of the law and feel the costs where windows is concerned.
In what manner?
I mean seriously, you can even poorly manage your city and not be able to afford running water and electricity, just like 3rd world nations have done.
How the hell can the first post be redundant?
It's not mentioned in the story anywhere, it's accurate information. It also sounds like it's something the original poster doesn't know.
Informative, insightful, unmoderated. But the first post being modded redudant is a moderation so poor that it should guarantee someone never moderates again... EVER.
Didn't microsoft say something about having patches within 48hrs of vulnerabilities being discovered... it's interesting that while most were patched before exploited (and caught being exploited) they were known about for at least 6months before microsoft patched them.
I don't really see many p2's anymore because they are completely EOL, if something goes wrong we don't recommend fixing them anymore. P3's and Athlon tbird's and early athlon XP's seem to be more common now. People are upgrading again and there is a big performance difference between a p2 and an athlon 1.4ghz... not so much between that 1.4ghz and the latest p4 or athlon though *sighs*
IE is not actually much faster at all, firefox is quite snappy actually nowdays. Actually it tends to depend on the page as much as anything, some page elements render faster in IE, and some in firefox, since most people have a set of websites they tend to be viewing one browser or the other may seem faster.
Another big factor is if most of the sites your viewing are running IIS. Since IIS+IE breaks the http protocol, cutting out a few acks, the result when loading a page from another browser is that browser has to retransmit the request for EVERY object in the page... doesn't seem like alot but it can serious add up in terms of latency, especially on a fast connection where pages should be pretty much snapping up.
Microsoft said they were considering resuming IE development, and there is supposed to be an IE update in xp sp2
"Fact: IE is the most secure browser when completely blocked by a firewall."
;)
Nah, you could still have pages in the cache or emails (since oe uses ie to render html). Or a local application could use the browser to execute a local admin exploit. So even if the browser is blocked so that it can't open any pages from the net IE is less secure
CERT predates the Dept of homeland security, CERT is the same CERT that was around before and is a fairly good organization.
Generally they let everyone know when a big exploit is floating around in a timely manner. Their paychecks just have a different gov branch name on them now, thats all.
IE has been discontinued on windows too for that matter. Although I hear they are thinking of starting production again.
More than anything the difference in terms of lawsuits is push and pull. Microsoft pushes their browser out, consumers have no choice in the matter.
Sendmail and Apache however are pull, they are available freely but you must go out and get them yourself.
For most software it's a question of cost. In terms of free software Microsoft is the only company in a position to "push", they push using their monopoly onto oem installs. Since nobody else has that monopoly, there is nobody else who produces and distributes free (as in beer) software who should be held liable for glitches in said software.
Aye, I won't feed the trolls anymore *sprays you with troll begone*
I won't win one, because I don't use the ITMS. I don't use the ITMS because I don't have an ipod. Starting to get the idea?
After all the customers of the itunes music store generally ALREADY have ipods :)
Y2k was a phantom for every system reprogrammed, rechiped, patched, etc there were hundreds or even thousands that were not and have not been.
;) Any good programmer told you that prior to the year 2000.
The problem wasn't really a problem
Blacklists are great and all, but in reality, they miss hundreds of sites. squid + squidguard with the standard blacklists on the site for instance doesn't even block playboy.com.
Keywords are nice and fine and dandy but they suck too. We should look to spam which is much more complex to interpret for the answer to this...
Does anyone know of a web content filter that uses bayasian filtering as well as blacklists?
don't listen to the other guy saying cisco will take it personal. First they won't even know, second we are a cisco partner and it's actually a pretty rare experience to even talk to someone at cisco (unless your techs are idiots and have to call them left and right).
If you have to go with something other than cisco you may as well be using your own linux solution (since they are basically all using embedded linux ANYWAY). Go with something like a via mini-itx board/case (rather nice solid case on caseoutlet.com that I use alot) or a ppc board.
Either way the main thing your looking for is something that can be passively cooled. I recommend having a case with a fan even if the chip is supposedly passively cooled. That way if the fan dies on you it's not a big deal. You also want solid state storage and enough ram to run the OS out of it. The general idea is to eliminate moving parts. Once you are running completely out of memory, and have no essential moving parts... you've got dedicated hardware devices matched at least equaled in this respect. And a 1ghz c3 at the very least equals 200mhz specialty chip (which are quite rare in practice despite everyone citing them to defend said routers).
Nope, the biggest concern your going to have is bus speed. I'd keep it in mind.
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But is there anyone who would actually listen to development advice from Microsoft?
Seriously they are infamous for turning out the worst software ever produced, they fail on every major checkpoint.
Simplified interface, fail, menus are cluttered and unintuitive.
Security, fail, their record speaks for itself
Stability, again fail, again their record speaks for itself.
Performance, fail. MOST competing products run faster than the Microsoft equivalent not one or two, not somebody beats them, almost everybody beats them on almost every piece of software.
They may finish a project which is more than some can say, but that is about all they have going for them and it's arguable if they've ever TRULY finished a project.
Transgaming promises to release their code under the wine license. They have never done, and they've also removed all mention of the promise.
The promise was specifically tied to the number of subscribers. That was my only motivation for subscribing (I'm not a gamer). I imagine there were others who subscribed for the same reason.
It can be said they never reached that number... maybe, maybe not, only they know. But their developers have posted in their forums that WineX will NEVER be released under the wine license because it conflicts with their "interests".
I'd believe option 2 bob. If windows were to lose significant market share to linux then COffice is a godsend to Microsoft.
It's hard to say how much of Microsoft's profit is from office rather than windows (the numbers are usually grouped together and compared to server + server apps). But I'd wager it's quite a bit. Considering their massive cash surplusses, it might even be enough by a hair to keep them in business if they lost their desktop monopoly on windows.
Coffice is perfect for them, allowing them to reach another platform without the PR damage porting would do.
According to Micrsoft(TM)* it's illegal to use those words. So don't go talking about the viewing portals in your home or you may have a lawsuit on your hands.
*Microsoft(TM)* is a Registered trademark of Microsoft(TM)*. This is a recursive notice.
Transgaming has been concentrating on DX8.1 when the should have been primarily focusing on DX9 the minute it came out.
As a result they'll be halfway through working on DX9 when DX10 comes out.