It does rear its ugly head at unexpected intervals. Uninstall IE from Windows XP, then open any file folder without using CMD.EXE, any other shell, or your favorite browser. Guess what? It's IE!!!!!
As for rendering HTML, that's already happened. MS lookOut thinks (upon seeing an HTML e-mail message): "Oh! This is HTML. I'll just send it off to MSHTML.DLL. Oh look, I got fancy formatting and e-mail viruses out the wazoo!" (MSHTML.DLL being the IE rendering engine) However, there will be no (easy) way for IE to take over all HTML rendering. If Joe Blow's Cool App wants to use Mozilla's MFC Embedding, it can go right ahead. Want Opera's rendering engine instead? Nothing's stopping you!
Yes, the PlayStation and Xbox both have USB, but do the first-person shooters for those consoles let me use a keyboard and mouse plugged into the console? Or should shooter fans stick with a PC?
PS2 Linux, anyone? And, I thought the Xbox WAS a PC.
Was that ever sold to the public?
I think 200 were made. I don't know if they were sold.
Nintendo dropped out of that project before it was completed after seeing how Sega CD developers failed to explore what the CD-ROM format could do other than streaming background music and FMV.
I heard it was because you couldn't save data on CDs, and they proceeded to make the N64 (which, AFAIK, doesn't have a battery backup area)
The "original" PS1 was a Japanese SNES with a CD drive. The "original" PSX, btw, was what most call a PS1. Then, there's the PSone, which is a portable PSX. Sony is adding to the confusion again with the PSX (based on the PS2).
Some people were e-mailing me about the details on this refund technique. The slashdot article on Windows Refund Day has a bunch of links. Unfortunately, the main Windows Refund Day site is down (it appears for good, as CheapBytes, the host, took down the page)
1. Call the laptop manufacturer and tell them that you disagree with the Windows XP EULA on that copy. 2. Get $100-$200 check in the mail and an order to remove the copy of Windows XP already on the computer. 3. Install your copy of Windows XP over top of the old copy. 4. ??? 5. Profit!
Yeah, right. I've tried IE6 (it worked), Opera 7 (as IE6 and Moz5), and Moz1.3.1. O7 (the BEST browser, by far) didn't work because these fsckers act like MS.
Note to Opera Software: Bork sample.microchip.com!
Several hospitals in the Columbus, Ohio area will be using PCs with barcode scanners to handle medications (scan the patient, scan the nurse, scan the meds, get the go-ahead from the computer, give the meds). Why not add this guy's ECG unit to that?
I thought Ad-Aware couldn't be run as user. I've run it successfully as a teacher (admin group) and as a full admin. (Xupiter and Save Now...)
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Spyware downloads ads and sends personal information off to the company.
Sounds like Gator to me!
Adware is what many think that Gator is. That's when it DOESN'T send personal information. Opera is adware.
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A few days after the WinXP network at my high school was set up, Gator, Date Manager, and PrecisionTime (the three products supported by GAIN AdServer software) appeared. Disabling them is impossible without Admin level access. (Granted, you can kill the process, but that isn't very effective)
(Why, oh, why are ACs following me?) Did I ever say that MS software is the ONLY buggy software? No.
I was explaining a joke to someone. Opera is buggy (good browser, but it crashes at least as much as IE). Mozilla is buggy. OO.org is buggy (a patch was just released a couple of weeks ago for a Windows OO.org printer bug). Linux is even buggy. Look at it, compared to, say BSD. Netcraft lists three different OS entries in the top 50 uptimes (last I checked). They are: BSD/OS, FreeBSD, and Windows 2000. If you're having problems with Windows 2000, it might be user error. However, if you're having problems with XP, it might be the OS. Every version of Microsoft software gets bogged down with major bloat (not saying that OSS doesn't have bloat of it's own), and bugs related to that bloat. Fading menus on Windows XP has a bug that makes the processor hit 100% usage. Then again, OO.org had a bug that didn't let it print to a non-default printer (on Windows only, though). The thing is, though, OSS programmers get the fixes out quickly. And, if they don't, programmers can fix them themselves. Tell me Microsoft does that, or lets programmers do it on their own.
Put an AUTORUN.INF file that points to the SUBST command (in a.BAT file). You'd have to figure out some way to autodetect the drive and pass that to SUBST, but it wouldn't be too hard.
Windows is So Closed That You'd Have To Pay Bill Gates $10 Trillon To Get Source Code Software. Describing an open source program (Mozilla, OpenOffice.org) as being "For Windows" is fraud.
If this happens again, what could happen? Could Joe Blow steal slashdot.org for his own use? If it happens to.cx, could slashdot steal goatse.cx (I want that to happen)?
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I think he meant the Microsoft equivalent of iTunes. He screwed up and said Windows, but he did say EQUIVALENT and not VERSION. There IS a difference.
It does rear its ugly head at unexpected intervals. Uninstall IE from Windows XP, then open any file folder without using CMD.EXE, any other shell, or your favorite browser. Guess what? It's IE!!!!!
As for rendering HTML, that's already happened. MS lookOut thinks (upon seeing an HTML e-mail message): "Oh! This is HTML. I'll just send it off to MSHTML.DLL. Oh look, I got fancy formatting and e-mail viruses out the wazoo!" (MSHTML.DLL being the IE rendering engine) However, there will be no (easy) way for IE to take over all HTML rendering. If Joe Blow's Cool App wants to use Mozilla's MFC Embedding, it can go right ahead. Want Opera's rendering engine instead? Nothing's stopping you!
Punch the monkey was treeloot, not bonzi. Ditto for zap the monkey.
PS2 Linux, anyone? And, I thought the Xbox WAS a PC.
I think 200 were made. I don't know if they were sold.
I heard it was because you couldn't save data on CDs, and they proceeded to make the N64 (which, AFAIK, doesn't have a battery backup area)
Errm... Ever heard of USB?
The "original" PS1 was a Japanese SNES with a CD drive. The "original" PSX, btw, was what most call a PS1. Then, there's the PSone, which is a portable PSX. Sony is adding to the confusion again with the PSX (based on the PS2).
They do all of this before the BIOS even thinks of looking at the HDD to see if there's something to boot.
Some people were e-mailing me about the details on this refund technique. The slashdot article on Windows Refund Day has a bunch of links. Unfortunately, the main Windows Refund Day site is down (it appears for good, as CheapBytes, the host, took down the page)
(Mod me down...)
They also have Linux and Mac versions.
1. Call the laptop manufacturer and tell them that you disagree with the Windows XP EULA on that copy.
2. Get $100-$200 check in the mail and an order to remove the copy of Windows XP already on the computer.
3. Install your copy of Windows XP over top of the old copy.
4. ???
5. Profit!
Did you have Windows? If you did, it was probably WebWasher. It is free for home use. The download link is buried in the front page, so here's a direct link to the WebWasher Classic site: http://www.webwasher.com/client/home/index.html?la ng=de_EN
Yeah, right. I've tried IE6 (it worked), Opera 7 (as IE6 and Moz5), and Moz1.3.1. O7 (the BEST browser, by far) didn't work because these fsckers act like MS.
Note to Opera Software: Bork sample.microchip.com!
Now we just need the MSWLogo guy to release Logo for Logo...
Several hospitals in the Columbus, Ohio area will be using PCs with barcode scanners to handle medications (scan the patient, scan the nurse, scan the meds, get the go-ahead from the computer, give the meds). Why not add this guy's ECG unit to that?
I thought Ad-Aware couldn't be run as user. I've run it successfully as a teacher (admin group) and as a full admin. (Xupiter and Save Now...)
Spyware downloads ads and sends personal information off to the company.
Sounds like Gator to me!
Adware is what many think that Gator is. That's when it DOESN'T send personal information. Opera is adware.
A few days after the WinXP network at my high school was set up, Gator, Date Manager, and PrecisionTime (the three products supported by GAIN AdServer software) appeared. Disabling them is impossible without Admin level access. (Granted, you can kill the process, but that isn't very effective)
(Why, oh, why are ACs following me?)
Did I ever say that MS software is the ONLY buggy software? No.
I was explaining a joke to someone. Opera is buggy (good browser, but it crashes at least as much as IE). Mozilla is buggy. OO.org is buggy (a patch was just released a couple of weeks ago for a Windows OO.org printer bug). Linux is even buggy. Look at it, compared to, say BSD. Netcraft lists three different OS entries in the top 50 uptimes (last I checked). They are: BSD/OS, FreeBSD, and Windows 2000. If you're having problems with Windows 2000, it might be user error. However, if you're having problems with XP, it might be the OS. Every version of Microsoft software gets bogged down with major bloat (not saying that OSS doesn't have bloat of it's own), and bugs related to that bloat. Fading menus on Windows XP has a bug that makes the processor hit 100% usage. Then again, OO.org had a bug that didn't let it print to a non-default printer (on Windows only, though). The thing is, though, OSS programmers get the fixes out quickly. And, if they don't, programmers can fix them themselves. Tell me Microsoft does that, or lets programmers do it on their own.
It's because when Mr. Gates puts in a new feature in a program such as IE or Office, there is usually an associated bug.
Put an AUTORUN.INF file that points to the SUBST command (in a .BAT file). You'd have to figure out some way to autodetect the drive and pass that to SUBST, but it wouldn't be too hard.
So, this would fit into your analogy, right?
Windows is So Closed That You'd Have To Pay Bill Gates $10 Trillon To Get Source Code Software. Describing an open source program (Mozilla, OpenOffice.org) as being "For Windows" is fraud.
Try right clicking the tabs...
BTW, couldn't the Windows taskbar be considered a tabbed interface (that looks like buttons)?
Could there be a reason that I never go to goatse.cx? That must be it...
If this happens again, what could happen? Could Joe Blow steal slashdot.org for his own use? If it happens to .cx, could slashdot steal goatse.cx (I want that to happen)?
The folding screen goes back further... IBM first used it in 1986(?) on the PC Convertible, but there were folding screen computers earlier than that.
The Xbox runs a modified version of Windows 2000 with DirectX. Answer your question?