On the verge of dumping firefox after years of use. 3.5.2 was horrible. 3.5.3 crashed within the first 5 minutes of use.
I suggest that you look up your Crash Report to see why it's crashing. The automated crash report will link to the bug report and support articles, if they exist.
The most common crashes in Firefox are caused by third party spyware, by plugins (Flash, old versions of Java, etc), and by extensions that are misbehaving. Mozilla actively works to correct these problems by warning users to upgrade and by blocklisting extensions that cause the most problems.
Plugin crashes (eg. flash) are among the most common, but corrupt files and spyware on Windows machines have also been known to cause them. If you are getting a specific crash that can be reproduced, either file a bug or comment on an existing bug with details.
Even through the bear encounter, rock slide, power outage, and overnight bus trips to the airport, the organizers (especially Dan Portillo) made everything happen as smoothly as it could. Everyone had a great time, and (most) of the almost 400 attendees made their flights home. There was even a "Mozilla Camp" at the Vancouver airport where everyone was waiting for hours. Pictures of the summit are being aggregated on summit.mozilla.org. We all learned a lot and met lots of people, and overall the summit was a huge success.
A lot of the complaints about the Awesomebar have been that bookmarks which have not been visited show up in the results. Luckily, there is now an extension to make the Awesomebar show history only.
Finally, Support Firefox Day is this Friday, which will include interactive video workshops and Q&A about the new bookmarks features. Several Mozilla developers will be in attendance, so it is a great chance to voice your opinions. The new bookmarks and history API is very flexible, so extensions will no doubt make it better.
The vast majority of Firefox 3 crashes on Linux are actually caused by Flash. You can temporarily disable Flash, to see if this is causing your problem. Go to Tools->Add-Ons, select Plugins, and manually disable the Flash plugin. When you need to use a Flash site, turn it back on. While Flash tends to be very stable on Windows, it seems to have stability issues on Mac and especially Linux.
Guide+ is based on Gemstar's proprietary encoding. Channels implement it by inserting the data into the VBI portion of their signal. However, many cable companies override or block these signals, and the encoding is secret and (probably) patented. Thus, the data is sporadic at best, and any software implementing it without paying Gemstar royalties _and_ showing Gemstar's inserted banner ads would be sued.
MythTV 0.19 is better than the Release Notes
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MythTV 0.19 Released
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This release includes a lot of enhancements, even though it doesn't look like it from first glance at the release notes. MythTV 0.19 can save cut commercials from MPEG2 video streams without transcoding. This saves you disk space. It also has many bugs fixed, resulting in better compatibility with video hardware. (some framegrabbers that wouldn't work before work now) Now, when you watch live TV, shows are automatically recorded. If you want to keep (rather than have them expire) them after you are done watching them, you can do so in the "watch recordings" menu.
MythWeb has been greatly improved, allowing you to better control MythTV from a web browser. The frontend can now even be controlled from a telnet socket. Overall, you won't be disappointed. (0.19 is so much better than 0.18.1 that I've been using the SVN snapshots of the development code)
I'd happily pay Google a monthly fee to gain access to extensive databases of information that take money to aquire and maintain... as long as this fee was reasonable. The current Google searches should stay as is, but if people want access to do a time consuming search on every single slashdot message ever posted, for example, the advertising would not pay for this effort. However, I wouldn't pay Yahoo! for this in a million years. Premium google searches might include Pages not ranked high enough to be crawled in the normal google search, full image search -- bandwidth intensive, and full news search -- google most likely will have to pay license fees to the news sources to do this. Most news publications charge a fee to access old articles.
Lobbying takes money. Thus, the "software industry leaders" (who Congress assume are the ones affected by software patents, not end "users"/"consumers") can say how software patents are absolutely necessary, even when they cross-license them to each other anyway. Thus, those with money want the law to guarantee them a monopoly on logic. Human innovation should be allowed to flourish whether or not said inventer is hired by supercorporation X.
The FCC is supposed to license on behalf of the people... not to get big money from corporations to limit the public's use. The public should be given all the bandwidth they need... not what is left over after the corporate landgrab (like the useless 2.4ghz spectrum... microwave ovens). The FCC is overstepping its duty and should be dealt with accordingly.
Uh, no, negative infinity dBA should be considered silent. It is logarithmic just like dB. dBA simply means that it uses an "A" correction curve to more accurately represent human hearing than a simple logorithm... which is what a dB is.
It's even worse. The filename doesn't have to be in the hyperlink - it can also be in the headers. So, the url could be http://someuniversity.edu/~somestudent/exam_answer s.txt
The header could then have "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Exam_Answers.txt{INSERT_executable_file_C LSID}"
The CLSIDs are under "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.MIME.Database.Content Type"
The example above would secretly have the file type of your choice but would be known as Exam_Answers.txt. You won't see the CLSID unless you look at it from the command prompt. If you click on it, it executes whatever file type you wanted.
You can't use a machine code executable file (.exe) directly, however, because it doesn't have a content-type/CLSID pair in windows. (well, it does, but there isn't one just for.exe files... even MS wouldn't be *this* stupid. For all intents and purposes it doesn't.)
Although the mentioned exploit uses javascript, it is not required. The following exploit using a plain HTML link will also work.
This will make a link that looks like it goes to google, but it goes to elgoog, a google parody, instead. You must replace the brackets in the url with a real, unscaped, literal character 0x01. In other words, the actual html file should contain the bits 00000001 as a character where the brackets are.
<A HREF="http://www.google.com[A REAL UNESCAPED CHARACTER 0x01]%00@www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/"> Google </A>
Not accepting it would be the wrong answer. It should be an option on an account to have a secure inbox with known-good mail, regular inbox that may have spam, and bulk which is mail known to come from spammers. This would be perfect to use as a spam assassin complete bypass. Regular mail could still come through, but would be subject to your filtering. This is definately a Good Idea.
Competition in open source projects is mostly a good thing. This new GUI may make X11 developers improve to keep up. However, different projects like this also create lack of standards. This may require people to use two GUIs, with different applications running on each one. With Windows, every version retains legacy compatability for almost all applications written for a previous version. However, this becoming popular would make it required to run two GUIs to run all Linux applications. Rather than expecting developers to conform X11 emulation should be implemented.
1. They said that the infringing code isn't in the kernel, so thus it may not apply to all "linux users."
2. If it does, then their own distribution would have contained code that violated their IP.
3. If it contained this code, then under the GPL all the other Linux distributers would be free to use it.
4. I'd sue them for harassment - without presenting any evidence or even exactly *what* infringes, they are issuing cease and desist orders. They are trying to scare people from using Linux. They are nothing but hot air.
The roller coaster exerts a maximum force of approx. 1.4 G's on the rider. Also considering the ride is 400 feet from the lowest point of the track to the highest, there's no way I want to go on it.
Cedar Point seems to have fewer and fewer sane-yet-not-kiddie rides. I was there last year and the only thing I rode was the "mine ride."
I recently set up an audio recording computer for a church. (433mhz, oss/free sound drivers, CMI8738 sound card) They were going to use windows, but I convinced them that Linux would be the better choice. I set it up so that recording is done from the command line, encoding ogg [vorbis.com] (ok, vorbis) or flac [sf.net] in realtime.
For shorter tracks, ardour is used for more user friendly recording. (Audacity and sweep cause choppy audio in my experience)
In addition, I have made command-line full duplex recording possible. (where the instrument track is done first, then vocals laid on top of it) However, be warned that you'll need to make a small program to write raw instructions to the soundcard if you want to turn off the audio loopback, as the CMI* OSS/free driver doesn't implement this for some reason. (I haven't checked if ALSA does this or not)
One major bug that slowed it down was only recording.5 seconds for every second of audio, and thus it sounded like it was in fast forward. (44100hz 16bit) After reading the driver line by line, I fixed it with a one-line shell script.
I have been getting extremely good sound out of it, however. In addition, I have only had to write about 50 lines of code. So if anyone has tried without success to record with a CMI8738 soundcard on linux - don't give up. If you want me to send you the fixes to the problems that I have created, contact me.
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On the verge of dumping firefox after years of use. 3.5.2 was horrible. 3.5.3 crashed within the first 5 minutes of use.
I suggest that you look up your Crash Report to see why it's crashing. The automated crash report will link to the bug report and support articles, if they exist.
The most common crashes in Firefox are caused by third party spyware, by plugins (Flash, old versions of Java, etc), and by extensions that are misbehaving. Mozilla actively works to correct these problems by warning users to upgrade and by blocklisting extensions that cause the most problems.
It's not normal for either Firefox 3.0.x or 3.5 beta to crash on ajax sites. If you are getting crashes, look up your crash reports and search for your crash signature on Bugzilla.
Plugin crashes (eg. flash) are among the most common, but corrupt files and spyware on Windows machines have also been known to cause them. If you are getting a specific crash that can be reproduced, either file a bug or comment on an existing bug with details.
Users running on unsupported operating systems will not get the major update notice. This is checked server side, see bug 418129. The updater even checks that the updated version will be compatible for Linux users. For information on the release and the testing that is being done, read the 2.0.0.16->3.0.1 Major Update page on the Mozilla wiki.
Even through the bear encounter, rock slide, power outage, and overnight bus trips to the airport, the organizers (especially Dan Portillo) made everything happen as smoothly as it could. Everyone had a great time, and (most) of the almost 400 attendees made their flights home. There was even a "Mozilla Camp" at the Vancouver airport where everyone was waiting for hours. Pictures of the summit are being aggregated on summit.mozilla.org. We all learned a lot and met lots of people, and overall the summit was a huge success.
A lot of the complaints about the Awesomebar have been that bookmarks which have not been visited show up in the results. Luckily, there is now an extension to make the Awesomebar show history only.
Also, if you are not sure what the point of the Awesomebar is, Mike Beltzner recorded an informative 2-minute screencast showcasing what the Awesomebar can do.
Finally, Support Firefox Day is this Friday, which will include interactive video workshops and Q&A about the new bookmarks features. Several Mozilla developers will be in attendance, so it is a great chance to voice your opinions. The new bookmarks and history API is very flexible, so extensions will no doubt make it better.
The vast majority of Firefox 3 crashes on Linux are actually caused by Flash. You can temporarily disable Flash, to see if this is causing your problem. Go to Tools->Add-Ons, select Plugins, and manually disable the Flash plugin. When you need to use a Flash site, turn it back on. While Flash tends to be very stable on Windows, it seems to have stability issues on Mac and especially Linux.
Firefox 3 supports windowless plugins on Linux, and has since last summer. See bug 137189
More info is on this blog post
Guide+ is based on Gemstar's proprietary encoding. Channels implement it by inserting the data into the VBI portion of their signal. However, many cable companies override or block these signals, and the encoding is secret and (probably) patented. Thus, the data is sporadic at best, and any software implementing it without paying Gemstar royalties _and_ showing Gemstar's inserted banner ads would be sued.
This release includes a lot of enhancements, even though it doesn't look like it from first glance at the release notes. MythTV 0.19 can save cut commercials from MPEG2 video streams without transcoding. This saves you disk space. It also has many bugs fixed, resulting in better compatibility with video hardware. (some framegrabbers that wouldn't work before work now) Now, when you watch live TV, shows are automatically recorded. If you want to keep (rather than have them expire) them after you are done watching them, you can do so in the "watch recordings" menu.
MythWeb has been greatly improved, allowing you to better control MythTV from a web browser. The frontend can now even be controlled from a telnet socket. Overall, you won't be disappointed. (0.19 is so much better than 0.18.1 that I've been using the SVN snapshots of the development code)
I'd happily pay Google a monthly fee to gain access to extensive databases of information that take money to aquire and maintain... as long as this fee was reasonable. The current Google searches should stay as is, but if people want access to do a time consuming search on every single slashdot message ever posted, for example, the advertising would not pay for this effort. However, I wouldn't pay Yahoo! for this in a million years. Premium google searches might include Pages not ranked high enough to be crawled in the normal google search, full image search -- bandwidth intensive, and full news search -- google most likely will have to pay license fees to the news sources to do this. Most news publications charge a fee to access old articles.
Lobbying takes money. Thus, the "software industry leaders" (who Congress assume are the ones affected by software patents, not end "users"/"consumers") can say how software patents are absolutely necessary, even when they cross-license them to each other anyway. Thus, those with money want the law to guarantee them a monopoly on logic. Human innovation should be allowed to flourish whether or not said inventer is hired by supercorporation X.
And, don't forget about being open to the highest bidder on that particular misspelling.
Just think... you attempt to buy RHOT, and you get SCOX.
The FCC is supposed to license on behalf of the people... not to get big money from corporations to limit the public's use. The public should be given all the bandwidth they need... not what is left over after the corporate landgrab (like the useless 2.4ghz spectrum... microwave ovens). The FCC is overstepping its duty and should be dealt with accordingly.
Uh, no, negative infinity dBA should be considered silent. It is logarithmic just like dB. dBA simply means that it uses an "A" correction curve to more accurately represent human hearing than a simple logorithm... which is what a dB is.
It's even worse. The filename doesn't have to be in the hyperlink - it can also be in the headers. So, the url could be http://someuniversity.edu/~somestudent/exam_answer s.txt
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.exe files... even MS wouldn't be *this* stupid. For all intents and purposes it doesn't.)
The header could then have "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Exam_Answers.txt{INSERT_executable_file_
The CLSIDs are under "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.MIME.Database.Content Type"
The example above would secretly have the file type of your choice but would be known as Exam_Answers.txt. You won't see the CLSID unless you look at it from the command prompt. If you click on it, it executes whatever file type you wanted.
You can't use a machine code executable file (.exe) directly, however, because it doesn't have a content-type/CLSID pair in windows. (well, it does, but there isn't one just for
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Although the mentioned exploit uses javascript, it is not required. The following exploit using a plain HTML link will also work.
This will make a link that looks like it goes to google, but it goes to elgoog, a google parody, instead. You must replace the brackets in the url with a real, unscaped, literal character 0x01. In other words, the actual html file should contain the bits 00000001 as a character where the brackets are.
<A HREF="http://www.google.com[A REAL UNESCAPED CHARACTER 0x01]%00@www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/"> Google </A>
Not accepting it would be the wrong answer. It should be an option on an account to have a secure inbox with known-good mail, regular inbox that may have spam, and bulk which is mail known to come from spammers. This would be perfect to use as a spam assassin complete bypass. Regular mail could still come through, but would be subject to your filtering. This is definately a Good Idea.
It was all over the news a few months back. Get the story from here.
The parent company *should* be hiring someone to empty nullsoft's dumpster...
Competition in open source projects is mostly a good thing. This new GUI may make X11 developers improve to keep up. However, different projects like this also create lack of standards. This may require people to use two GUIs, with different applications running on each one. With Windows, every version retains legacy compatability for almost all applications written for a previous version. However, this becoming popular would make it required to run two GUIs to run all Linux applications. Rather than expecting developers to conform X11 emulation should be implemented.
Well...
1. They said that the infringing code isn't in the kernel, so thus it may not apply to all "linux users."
2. If it does, then their own distribution would have contained code that violated their IP.
3. If it contained this code, then under the GPL all the other Linux distributers would be free to use it.
4. I'd sue them for harassment - without presenting any evidence or even exactly *what* infringes, they are issuing cease and desist orders. They are trying to scare people from using Linux. They are nothing but hot air.
The roller coaster exerts a maximum force of approx. 1.4 G's on the rider. Also considering the ride is 400 feet from the lowest point of the track to the highest, there's no way I want to go on it.
Cedar Point seems to have fewer and fewer sane-yet-not-kiddie rides. I was there last year and the only thing I rode was the "mine ride."
Finally! We can reuse all those AOL cds by programming the actual material of the "dots" to reflect light as a "1" or "0".
I recently set up an audio recording computer for a church. (433mhz, oss/free sound drivers, CMI8738 sound card) They were going to use windows, but I convinced them that Linux would be the better choice. I set it up so that recording is done from the command line, encoding ogg [vorbis.com] (ok, vorbis) or flac [sf.net] in realtime.
.5 seconds for every second of audio, and thus it sounded like it was in fast forward. (44100hz 16bit) After reading the driver line by line, I fixed it with a one-line shell script.
For shorter tracks, ardour is used for more user friendly recording. (Audacity and sweep cause choppy audio in my experience)
In addition, I have made command-line full duplex recording possible. (where the instrument track is done first, then vocals laid on top of it) However, be warned that you'll need to make a small program to write raw instructions to the soundcard if you want to turn off the audio loopback, as the CMI* OSS/free driver doesn't implement this for some reason. (I haven't checked if ALSA does this or not)
One major bug that slowed it down was only recording
I have been getting extremely good sound out of it, however. In addition, I have only had to write about 50 lines of code. So if anyone has tried without success to record with a CMI8738 soundcard on linux - don't give up. If you want me to send you the fixes to the problems that I have created, contact me.