That's not a problem. I like IE6's engine, but don't like the GUI's annoyances and lack of certain features, which Avant fixes:
Tabbed windows!!!
Saves URLs of currently open windows when Avant is closed/forcefully terminated
Protects against IE engine crashes (I don't know any that weren't fixed in the recent August cumulative patch though)
Excellent pop-up blocking (before Avant, I had to use a separate pop-up blocker)
An option to block flash(!)
An option to block sounds! I haven't unblocked sounds ever since installing Avant.
An option to block scripts
An option to block ActiveX
An option to block pictures - useful when you're unsure whether the link you're clicking on will redirect you to goatse/tubgirl/similar, or if your Internet connection uses technology from the previous millenium.
> My grandfather uses the ENTER key instead of double-clicking, since a couple of strokes have upset his timing for double-clicks.
Modern Logitech mice (I don't look at any other type of mouse - Logitech are simply the best) have at least a thumb button, and the newest mice (MX-#00) have even more buttons. You can configure one of them to act as a double-click button. My mouse has the standard buttons + a thumb button, which I've configured to double-click. It's quite great. (I don't have a problem double-clicking, but it's just much more comfortable this way...)
> Why does it seem that most users are of below-average intelligence? Do smart people avoid computers?
No. Smart people avoid calling tech support, so you don't notice them. =)
No, actually, you don't... There's a bug that causes your software to think you have a new message waiting for you, which points to the fact that your connection isn't optimized.
Of course. I was talking about the network, not the client. I use both of the networks above, neither with the "official" clients. The only way to use Kazaa is Kazaa Lite, and for eDonkey I use eMule.
If any, definitely Kazaa. eDonkey doesn't have a central server, and anyone can run a server if they want to. That's more than RIAA can currently(1) handle, I think. Also, Kazaa seems to be more popular for sharing MP3's.
(1) What I mean is, RIAA can eventually summon enough power to bring down both, but Kazaa would be much easier.
The Joe 6 Pack uses IPv6 destination options to specify a special option that contains the chat message... The actual IPv6 packet being sent is an ICMPv6 echo-reply packet that seems to contain all nulls. This makes the destination option seem a bit redundant... You could implement this using nothing but ICMP (over either IPv4 or IPv6).
In the ICMP echo data, build some kind of header:
(4 bytes) magic identifier, i.e. 0xBAADF00D (n bytes) message (4 bytes) CRC-32 checksum of the previous n+4 bytes
The CRC-32 checksum is there to differentiate between "chat-pings" and "real pings".
I started to implement this as a special ping program (so you could do something like ping 1.2.3.4 --msg hi!) and maybe will finish it when I'm less busy.
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I quote George Carlin (this quote is taken from his book Brain Droppings - thanks to Google Cache).
Irony deals with opposites, it has nothing to do with coincidence. If two baseball players from the same home-town, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is coincidence... If a diabetic, on his way to buy insulin, is killed by a truck, he is a victim of an accident. If the truck was delivering sugar, he is the victim of an oddly poetic coincidence. But if the truck was delivering insulin, ah! Then he is the victim of irony.
Unfortunately, the PC platform is far from an ideal world, where the only 16-bit code is the bootloader.
In my opinion, an ideal platform will use exclusively 32-bit code (or 64-bit if that's your thing). But that's not likely to happen soon in the Intel architecture.
I don't know where you people are getting all this 'XP is crap' stuff from.
I didn't say XP is crap... I said: XP = 2K + crap. Rearranging this equation gives: XP - 2K = crap. The difference between XP and 2K, i.e. the new features in XP, etc. are all crap. The remainder of XP, which isn't crap, is pretty much identical to 2K.
We upgraded from 98SE to XP because I wanted an OS that could walk and chew gum at the same time. Let me tell you, mistake, mistake, mistake.
98SE is a good OS considering it's 16-bit (read: it sucks!). Very simply put, XP = 2K + crap. You should have installed 2K, it's the best Microsoft OS so far (I have yet to try 2K3 so currently have no opinion on it).
Who cares about Palm OS?
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A nerd-watch that I would really consider buying is the LAKS watch.
Most of the spam comes from countries where that law cannot/wouldnot reach.
Mmm... Didn't the United States sue Sherman Networks, the company that made Kazaa, which is based in Australia? In my opinion, stopping spam should be much higher priority than stopping illegal file sharing. (Not just because I benefit from the latter...)
Here in Israel, I get SMS spam at a rate of about 1-2 messages per week. I don't know how it is in Australia, but at least here it isn't terribly annoying (yet).
However, I noted that I couldn't find any way to "opt out", which probably makes it illegal. But since I'm not bothered too much by it, I probably didn't search hard enough.
The response to the FTP "SYST" command is very unreliable. I run two different third-party (read as non-Microsoft) Windows FTP servers, and they both respond the same to SYST: 215 UNIX Type: L8
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The bandwidth may be high, but... Think of the lag!
That's not a problem. I like IE6's engine, but don't like the GUI's annoyances and lack of certain features, which Avant fixes:
- Tabbed windows!!!
- Saves URLs of currently open windows when Avant is closed/forcefully terminated
- Protects against IE engine crashes (I don't know any that weren't fixed in the recent August cumulative patch though)
- Excellent pop-up blocking (before Avant, I had to use a separate pop-up blocker)
- An option to block flash(!)
- An option to block sounds! I haven't unblocked sounds ever since installing Avant.
- An option to block scripts
- An option to block ActiveX
- An option to block pictures - useful when you're unsure whether the link you're clicking on will redirect you to goatse/tubgirl/similar, or if your Internet connection uses technology from the previous millenium.
It's great!> My grandfather uses the ENTER key instead of double-clicking, since a couple of strokes have upset his timing for double-clicks.
Modern Logitech mice (I don't look at any other type of mouse - Logitech are simply the best) have at least a thumb button, and the newest mice (MX-#00) have even more buttons. You can configure one of them to act as a double-click button.
My mouse has the standard buttons + a thumb button, which I've configured to double-click. It's quite great. (I don't have a problem double-clicking, but it's just much more comfortable this way...)
> Why does it seem that most users are of below-average intelligence? Do smart people avoid computers?
No. Smart people avoid calling tech support, so you don't notice them. =)
The latest Win2k service pack is SP4, you know...
(This was released about 2 months ago, IIRC.)
Probably because Linux doesn't match *nix.
No, actually, you don't... There's a bug that causes your software to think you have a new message waiting for you, which points to the fact that your connection isn't optimized.
Can it draw an image on the data surface of the disc?
Of course. I was talking about the network, not the client. I use both of the networks above, neither with the "official" clients. The only way to use Kazaa is Kazaa Lite, and for eDonkey I use eMule.
Awesome! This is just like what I was going to do, only way better. Thanks! =)
If any, definitely Kazaa.
eDonkey doesn't have a central server, and anyone can run a server if they want to. That's more than RIAA can currently(1) handle, I think.
Also, Kazaa seems to be more popular for sharing MP3's.
(1) What I mean is, RIAA can eventually summon enough power to bring down both, but Kazaa would be much easier.
The Joe 6 Pack uses IPv6 destination options to specify a special option that contains the chat message...
The actual IPv6 packet being sent is an ICMPv6 echo-reply packet that seems to contain all nulls.
This makes the destination option seem a bit redundant...
You could implement this using nothing but ICMP (over either IPv4 or IPv6).
In the ICMP echo data, build some kind of header:
(4 bytes) magic identifier, i.e. 0xBAADF00D
(n bytes) message
(4 bytes) CRC-32 checksum of the previous n+4 bytes
The CRC-32 checksum is there to differentiate between "chat-pings" and "real pings".
I started to implement this as a special ping program (so you could do something like ping 1.2.3.4 --msg hi!) and maybe will finish it when I'm less busy.
You mod the story -1 Offtopic and you got modded -1 Offtopic yourself. That's irony.
I didn't say XP is crap... I said: XP = 2K + crap.
Rearranging this equation gives: XP - 2K = crap.
The difference between XP and 2K, i.e. the new features in XP, etc. are all crap.
The remainder of XP, which isn't crap, is pretty much identical to 2K.
98SE is a good OS considering it's 16-bit (read: it sucks!).
Very simply put, XP = 2K + crap.
You should have installed 2K, it's the best Microsoft OS so far (I have yet to try 2K3 so currently have no opinion on it).
A nerd-watch that I would really consider buying is the LAKS watch.
I hope you realize I am wasting the opportunity to mod you down by replying.
In my opinion, stopping spam should be much higher priority than stopping illegal file sharing. (Not just because I benefit from the latter...)
Here in Israel, I get SMS spam at a rate of about 1-2 messages per week.
I don't know how it is in Australia, but at least here it isn't terribly annoying (yet).
However, I noted that I couldn't find any way to "opt out", which probably makes it illegal.
But since I'm not bothered too much by it, I probably didn't search hard enough.
Speaking as a 17 year old boy with a programming hobby, I can hardly see how this affects me negatively. :D
The response to the FTP "SYST" command is very unreliable.
I run two different third-party (read as non-Microsoft) Windows FTP servers, and they both respond the same to SYST:
215 UNIX Type: L8
Seemed like a good idea at the time? :P