Actually, I had "Fast User Switching" *BEFORE* Linux way back in 1988. The operating system was SCO XENIX sold under the Microsoft name as "Microsoft XENIX".
In fact, it was the same sequence that Linux uses--ALT F-n--to switch between virtual consoles!
UPNP works well! It looks like Cupertino has started their photocopy machines once again!(Like the big to-do over their version of "active desktop" which Microsoft has had since 1998!)
There is wide support for UPNP. I doubt if anyone other than Apple will bother with "Rendezvous."
I'm running firefox now, and I was playing around with installing "engines". These don't seem to be any safer inherently than IE plugins...just that Firefox isn't a "target" now for malware authors.
The Mozilla folks shouldn't get too cocky! Leave well enough alone, and forget browser plugins!
On my to-do list is to go around with a video camera, take movies of women trying to parallel park their SUVs, and make a website "women-trying-to-parallel-park.com"
I'd better hurry before the self-parking car becomes a reality! It would allow women to put on their makeup, talk on the phone, yell at their baby *and* park their SUV all at the same time! What a better world that would be.
I guess the F-series Canyonero will be the first commercial vehicle to have this technology!
Here's a suggestion! Instead of sitting there, thumping your chest and clucking your tounge saying "Look how smart I am! I use an alternative browser" why don't you put Firefox on a CD, and visit a few of your less computer-literate friends and help them out!
That's what I've done, in addition to installing and showing how to run "Spybot Search and Destroy" for a number of people.
Google's new email offering, gmail, is what everyone's talking about! And people are confused about Google's "tracking" of the messages you send and putting ads on it.
So a letter that explains that Google's testing a new email system (true!) and that they're using their search technology to track emails would be beleived by enough people to make a new round of this chain letter spread even faster than it ever had!
C'mon/. folks! Here's a challenge! Write a letter and sent it to a dozen of your most gullible friends!
Yes! I use Celerons when I need to put a rack of 1/2U machines up to serve web pages. As long as I can keep the ethernet adapter saturated with a good server like thpptd, there's no need for a faster or more expensive processor.
The DVD Forum does not unambiguously specify what DVD stands for. The best you'll find on their site is the answer to the question, "What does DVD mean? [dvdforum.org]", which they answer, "The keyword is "versatile." Digital Versatile discs provide superb video, audio and data storage and access -- all on one disc."
Doesn't this just prove what I said! The "DVD Forum" itself calls it a "Digital Versatile Dis[c]"
The "Internet DVD Faq" you proudly thump on your desk is not the official DVD Consortium Document, which CLEARLY DEFINES DVD as standing for "Digital Versatile Disk."
This is silly! I know what CERT is, I visit it often (and, BTW, I have *NEVER* been infected by a virus or "adware"), but I use I.E.
For users who know what they're doing, IE is just as safe as anything else. I run my system behing a hardware firewall,which blocks all incoming connections, and I set my preferences to NEVER allow ActiveX to be installed.
Of course, that wouldn't have protected me against this latest threat!
I think 3D Java will help former Java executive Patrick Naughton (who plead guilty to possestion of child porno and crossing state lines to have sex with a 13 year-old-girl) get more realistic 3D kiddie porn!
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In fact, it was the same sequence that Linux uses--ALT F-n--to switch between virtual consoles!
Obviously, this list of bugs proves Orkut copied his code!
I don't read ANY computer magazines anymore! The "free" online content you can get trumps any content in today's computer magazines.
There is wide support for UPNP. I doubt if anyone other than Apple will bother with "Rendezvous."
I decided to switch anyway. You can see my "review" of Firefox and Thunderbird here
...and I'm going to take away 2 of the three "sexy hearts" and all the little "trusty" icons I gave him!
I'm running firefox now, and I was playing around with installing "engines". These don't seem to be any safer inherently than IE plugins...just that Firefox isn't a "target" now for malware authors.
The Mozilla folks shouldn't get too cocky! Leave well enough alone, and forget browser plugins!
Don't reinvent Active-X with all its problems. Maybe browsers *don't* need standard, easy-to-install extensions (think BHO and ActiveX)
I used to write off all these Microsoft problems as "well, they have 95% of the market, so that's why they get targeted for these things."
But this latest problem made me reconsider! I switched to Firefox (and Thunderbird!) yesterday, and don't miss IE and Outlook one bit.
Thanks, /., for encouraging me!
I'd better hurry before the self-parking car becomes a reality! It would allow women to put on their makeup, talk on the phone, yell at their baby *and* park their SUV all at the same time! What a better world that would be.
I guess the F-series Canyonero will be the first commercial vehicle to have this technology!
That's what I've done, in addition to installing and showing how to run "Spybot Search and Destroy" for a number of people.
Get off your duff and do SOMETHING!
Google's new email offering, gmail, is what everyone's talking about! And people are confused about Google's "tracking" of the messages you send and putting ads on it.
So a letter that explains that Google's testing a new email system (true!) and that they're using their search technology to track emails would be beleived by enough people to make a new round of this chain letter spread even faster than it ever had!
C'mon /. folks! Here's a challenge! Write a letter and sent it to a dozen of your most gullible friends!
It looks like all that jumping up and down and sweating like a pig was, at least, sincere! Microsoft does have wonderful development tools.
...and make an Elephant Fly!
16:9 is OK for watching movies, I guess, but when I'm writing code, it's VERTICAL SPACE that's at a premium, not horizontal space.
I would love a "tall" (or at least 4:3) Apple Cinema Display instead of these shorties they keep making.
Yes! I use Celerons when I need to put a rack of 1/2U machines up to serve web pages. As long as I can keep the ethernet adapter saturated with a good server like thpptd, there's no need for a faster or more expensive processor.
Doesn't this just prove what I said! The "DVD Forum" itself calls it a "Digital Versatile Dis[c]"
It would be nice if this proves that without melody and harmony (i.e., "Rap") we no longer have music! (which is my hypothesis.)
The "Internet DVD Faq" you proudly thump on your desk is not the official DVD Consortium Document, which CLEARLY DEFINES DVD as standing for "Digital Versatile Disk."
One can only guess what else in this Newsweek article is wrong!
I go here often! I want my breath to be minty fresh at all times.
For users who know what they're doing, IE is just as safe as anything else. I run my system behing a hardware firewall,which blocks all incoming connections, and I set my preferences to NEVER allow ActiveX to be installed.
Of course, that wouldn't have protected me against this latest threat!
The news has been far from clear! They say there's no patch, and yet they tell you to "run virus scanning software."
I think 3D Java will help former Java executive Patrick Naughton (who plead guilty to possestion of child porno and crossing state lines to have sex with a 13 year-old-girl) get more realistic 3D kiddie porn!
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