Could governments now use this to keep reporters cameras from showing a peaceful protest being broken up by riot police? Could police cars be equipped with these devices so that there is never another Rodney King video?
This is important for a few reasons.
They only say they plan to have support for other browsers later on. that doesnt mean they'll actually do it. Making a lot of noise about it now will help them realize why they need to support all browsers.
doing something as MSIE only sets a bad precedent that other government agencies may follow.
I've heard this excuse all the time from every job I've worked at: "but everyone uses IE anyway". people think 8% is a small number and while it is much smaller than 92% (arbitrary numbers) 8% of 100 million is still 8 million users. And the people who have operating systems other than Windows certainly should not be shut out.
If they do this, then some idiot suit and tie pencil pusher will then tell his superiors that everyone on their site is using IE so they shouldnt bother with the other browsers. of course that will only be true because they made and IE only site.
Now how bad is Seibel's software for only supporting certain browsers and saying they will have support for netscape 7.2 later. that's great, but netscape just released version 8 a little while ago. What is this software anyway?
I dont know about other states, but in NJ it would be illegal for him to withhold your paycheck. Look into what protections your state has for workers and remind him of that.
I agree that he has burned that bridge and you should probably just go. He cant require you to stay and as others have pointed out, it is his responsibility to find a replacement, not yours.
If not for open source technologies, I would not have a job.
Because of my exprience in Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl and various other technologies, I have a job at a company that uses these technologies exclusively. And the company is able to be competitive because it doesn't have to pay all of those licensing fees that would have to be paid if we used Windows Servers running IIS, ASP, SQL server, etc...
And of course, the entire internet runs on technologies that are open to everyone, http, tcp/ip, ftp, ssl, etc... many businesses would not exist if not for open source technologies.
"As for the people who allow their AV gateways to send back auto responses, they should be shot. Every time I receive one of those emails from postmaster@somewhere, I fire back a nasty email tell them to cut it out."
our sysadmin was getting bombarded, mostly from one ISP. when they wouldn't stop this insane practice of replying to the "sender" he started bouncing all the bounces back to their abuse and support addresses. finally, they stopped.
lucky you, my web host gave me a big old F**K You and I lost a client because of it. Anyone who uses Xeran or ever considered using Xeran, don't.
Long story short, they changed their whole virtual host system around, screwed up my clients email aliases so they weren't receiving email and I moved them to a colo-server I have elsewhere. Too late, they got pissed at me and are gone
I live in the NYC tri-state area and all of the ISPs advertising broadband around here use the same lines to get people to signup. They all tell you that you can download your favorite music, some even mention movies and playing games. So what they're doing is using the allure of fast downloading of files to get you to sign up, then telling you that if you download all those files, you must be doing something illegal and they drop you. Sounds fishy to me. I downloaded Mandrake using my cable connection. I started the download at night and it was done in the morning, 3 650M iso files. Other things I've done that would spike bandwidth: - watch movie trailers - download rpms or other open source software - have an ssh connection open for many hours - lots of FTP back and forth to several web servers - lots of USENET and web forums reading and posting It all adds up. I can understand them wanting me to curb my usage or pay for truly unlimited use, but to assume that because I use a lot of bandwidth I'm doing something wrong is ludicrous.
just my 1.25 (.02 adjusted for inflation) - keith
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During the blackout on August 14, 2003, the only news I could get was via the radio in my car and the battery powered portable in my house. Knowing what had happened and the magnitude of the problem made leaving work early an easier decision that day. Also knowing that it was not due to terrorists helped calm some folks.
The radio will always have its place. It may evolve into a more interactive medium, but I don't think it will ever disappear. People thought the radio would go away when TVs started showing up in every living room, but its still here.
If you can prove that these telemarketers and spammers are contacting you because they bought your information from the CC company or bank OR that they bought it from someone else that bought it from the CC company, then you may have a case.
You won't win because someone used public information or got your application out of the trash BUT because your wife never signed the contract, the company that submitted the application could be liable. The CC company will then also be liable if there was no signature.
Your wife never signed the agreement so if they sold her informaiton based on the application, they are liable. You know that at least someone is liable for the credit card being issued since your wife didn't sign the contract. But good luck trying to prove they sold your data.
Perhaps Verisign is getting money from spammers for launching sitefinder. My inbox got flooded with nearly triple the amount of spam I used to get before sitefinder launched. SpamAssassin and other filters that check for valid domains were all tricked into letting the spam through.
Couple that with the violations of certain RFC's and ICANN has a great case against Verisign. I'm sure plenty of people will come out and file "friend of the court" papers backing ICANN on this.
I own over a dozen domains with them, all registered years ago, and will be moving them elsewhere. Names4Ever only charges $7 a year. hmm, $7/year or $35/year, which one should I use?
10. Sole Remedy. YOUR USE OF THE VERISIGN SERVICES IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY OF THE MATERIALS, RESULTS OR OTHER CONTENTS OF THE VERISIGN SERVICES OR WITH THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT, OR OTHER POLICIES, YOUR SOLE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USE OF THE VERISIGN SERVICES OR OUR SITE.
So basically, if you don't like the service, you can discontinue use. Those of us who know how to modify our hosts file can do that. But the folks out there who have no clue, but don't want to use sitefinder have no way of not using it, except to never type in a bad domain again.
A coworker created a utility that modifies your hosts file for you. He doesn't want his site to get slashdotted though, so I can't post the link.
It's not being blasted because "It's Windows". Well, not entirely because of that. It's being blasted because you can only use IE to view the web site, and only IE and WMP to listen to the music. And their restrictions which are extremely tight compared to Itunes.
personally, If I can't even view the site in Mozilla, I won't even bother with it. Aside from that, I have no interest in downloading the music anyhow.
troll, I think not.
I don't believe that Mozilla or opera or any other browser will overtake IE, but they can gain some ground on that monstrous marketshare IE has now. perhaps I should have clafified that.
And yes, IE is sitting still, according to some recent news. I base my opinion on that news and on the theory in the article I posted. Much of this has been covered on slashdot recently.
- keith
"your a fool"
I'll leave that statement to stand on its own.
I have thought about it, and I am not saying with any certainty that it will go down like that. It is a paraphrase of another person's theory.
And I'd like to see a link to the information about IE 6.5. A recent slashdot story links to a MS technet article in which a member of the IE team says this:
"Legacy OSes have reached their zenith with the addition of IE 6 SP1. Further improvements to IE will require enhancements to the underlying OS."
That certainly says to me that there will be no major changes to IE 6 other than the occasional bug fix.
Now if IE7 will only be available in the next OS version, it will be what, 2 years before the OS is released, and figure another 2 before that version of the OS replaces current versions.
Mozilla and opera have features that users want like tabbed browsing and built in popup blocking.
seriously, I've done some googling on IE 6.5 and found nothing recent, just speculation from 2 years ago after 6.0 was released. If you have links to info about 6.5 I'd be glad to check it out.
It could happen. As Peter-Paul Koch theorized in this article (slashdot thread). MS may lose ground in the browser market because they have frozen IE at version 6 SP1. The next version, 7 will only be available on the next Windows OS. With that a few years away, then the adoption of the new OS and browser taking another few years, the other browsers out there, Mozilla and Opera mainly, will make gains in the market because of standards, constant updates and new features being added, support for new technologies that may emerge in the next few years, etc. In other words, IE will become the rabbit, taking a siesta under a tree while a bunch of turtles slowly creep by.
You can't simply dismiss the possibility with a wave of the hand.
I started work at a company 6 months ago. The guy who wrote the original application finally left after months of problems.
His code is HORRIBLE! apparently he used to belittle everyone else and tell them they were wrong. If I showed you his code and gave you his web site address, you could all go bash him, but I can't show the code for disclosure reasons. He did some of the most retarded things and it takes me 3-6 hours to make a simple change to the code. So now, everything has to be done quick and dirty, because the existing code is so bad. Since the day I first got here I've been trying to get the powers-that-be to allow me to re-write the code. Finally we were given permissions and myself and 1 other programmer are working on that now. It took quite a bit of arm-twisting to do it.
Sometimes, even planning it out does not equal clean & proper.
go to deskmod.com for lots of alternative splash screens for mozilla. just save any one of them to the directory where mozilla.exe resides.
1 cool feature would be if you could save them all in a directory and select one from the preferences or have it load a random one everytime you launch it.
http://www.deskmod.com/?show=showcat&cat_name=mozs plash
- keith
I just upgraded to the final release version of 1.3 and I love it. The advanced pop-up manager and cookie managers are great. The message filters do wonders for newsgroups and email. And they've already got 1.4alpha ready. cool.
1.3 was in beta/alpha for a while, but updates every 1-3 months is pretty good. And these aren't updates to keep unauthorized scripts from erasing my hard drive, they're actually new features and enhancements in addition to bug fixes.
I don't have a problem with MS's logo program. It matters little to me. Office Depot's decision makes no sense for them business-wise UNLESS Microsoft has sweetened the pot by giving them more volume discounts on software, and marketing $$$. Otherwise, why would a BUSINESS resort to limiting their customer's choice of software??
I used to work at Staples and many times people would come in looking for Database or Spreadsheet apps and when comparing prices between Microsoft's products and the alternatives, maybe 3 out of 5 would select the alternative or not buy at all.
This is another way for them to control a means of distribution. First the desktop through OEMs and VARs, now limiting competition through retail outlets.
IF public opinion means anything to Office Depot, and it better or they'll be in trouble, they had better listen to any backlash they get from this announcement.
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"It's not my job to respect you."
When he said that to a co-worker then flipped out on everyone else over something that was totally not that person's fault. It was time to get out.
- keith
I'm very curious to know what the bug was. can you provide links to your bug report?
Could governments now use this to keep reporters cameras from showing a peaceful protest being broken up by riot police? Could police cars be equipped with these devices so that there is never another Rodney King video?
I dont like the sound of this.
This is important for a few reasons. They only say they plan to have support for other browsers later on. that doesnt mean they'll actually do it. Making a lot of noise about it now will help them realize why they need to support all browsers. doing something as MSIE only sets a bad precedent that other government agencies may follow. I've heard this excuse all the time from every job I've worked at: "but everyone uses IE anyway". people think 8% is a small number and while it is much smaller than 92% (arbitrary numbers) 8% of 100 million is still 8 million users. And the people who have operating systems other than Windows certainly should not be shut out. If they do this, then some idiot suit and tie pencil pusher will then tell his superiors that everyone on their site is using IE so they shouldnt bother with the other browsers. of course that will only be true because they made and IE only site. Now how bad is Seibel's software for only supporting certain browsers and saying they will have support for netscape 7.2 later. that's great, but netscape just released version 8 a little while ago. What is this software anyway?
I dont know about other states, but in NJ it would be illegal for him to withhold your paycheck. Look into what protections your state has for workers and remind him of that.
I agree that he has burned that bridge and you should probably just go. He cant require you to stay and as others have pointed out, it is his responsibility to find a replacement, not yours.
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If not for open source technologies, I would not have a job.
Because of my exprience in Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl and various other technologies, I have a job at a company that uses these technologies exclusively. And the company is able to be competitive because it doesn't have to pay all of those licensing fees that would have to be paid if we used Windows Servers running IIS, ASP, SQL server, etc...
And of course, the entire internet runs on technologies that are open to everyone, http, tcp/ip, ftp, ssl, etc... many businesses would not exist if not for open source technologies.
Long live open source.
"As for the people who allow their AV gateways to send back auto responses, they should be shot. Every time I receive one of those emails from postmaster@somewhere, I fire back a nasty email tell them to cut it out."
our sysadmin was getting bombarded, mostly from one ISP. when they wouldn't stop this insane practice of replying to the "sender" he started bouncing all the bounces back to their abuse and support addresses. finally, they stopped.
according to netcraft, http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=sco.com
sco is running Apache on Linux.
They're making these allegations and it turns out they utilize the very software they claim is so evil?
lucky you, my web host gave me a big old F**K You and I lost a client because of it.
Anyone who uses Xeran or ever considered using Xeran, don't.
Long story short, they changed their whole virtual host system around, screwed up my clients email aliases so they weren't receiving email and I moved them to a colo-server I have elsewhere. Too late, they got pissed at me and are gone
I live in the NYC tri-state area and all of the ISPs advertising broadband around here use the same lines to get people to signup. They all tell you that you can download your favorite music, some even mention movies and playing games.
So what they're doing is using the allure of fast downloading of files to get you to sign up, then telling you that if you download all those files, you must be doing something illegal and they drop you. Sounds fishy to me.
I downloaded Mandrake using my cable connection. I started the download at night and it was done in the morning, 3 650M iso files. Other things I've done that would spike bandwidth:
- watch movie trailers
- download rpms or other open source software
- have an ssh connection open for many hours
- lots of FTP back and forth to several web servers
- lots of USENET and web forums reading and posting
It all adds up. I can understand them wanting me to curb my usage or pay for truly unlimited use, but to assume that because I use a lot of bandwidth I'm doing something wrong is ludicrous.
just my 1.25 (.02 adjusted for inflation)
- keith
During the blackout on August 14, 2003, the only news I could get was via the radio in my car and the battery powered portable in my house. Knowing what had happened and the magnitude of the problem made leaving work early an easier decision that day. Also knowing that it was not due to terrorists helped calm some folks.
The radio will always have its place. It may evolve into a more interactive medium, but I don't think it will ever disappear. People thought the radio would go away when TVs started showing up in every living room, but its still here.
If you can prove that these telemarketers and spammers are contacting you because they bought your information from the CC company or bank OR that they bought it from someone else that bought it from the CC company, then you may have a case.
You won't win because someone used public information or got your application out of the trash BUT because your wife never signed the contract, the company that submitted the application could be liable. The CC company will then also be liable if there was no signature.
Your wife never signed the agreement so if they sold her informaiton based on the application, they are liable. You know that at least someone is liable for the credit card being issued since your wife didn't sign the contract. But good luck trying to prove they sold your data.
- keith
Perhaps Verisign is getting money from spammers for launching sitefinder. My inbox got flooded with nearly triple the amount of spam I used to get before sitefinder launched. SpamAssassin and other filters that check for valid domains were all tricked into letting the spam through.
Couple that with the violations of certain RFC's and ICANN has a great case against Verisign. I'm sure plenty of people will come out and file "friend of the court" papers backing ICANN on this.
I own over a dozen domains with them, all registered years ago, and will be moving them elsewhere. Names4Ever only charges $7 a year. hmm, $7/year or $35/year, which one should I use?
So basically, if you don't like the service, you can discontinue use. Those of us who know how to modify our hosts file can do that. But the folks out there who have no clue, but don't want to use sitefinder have no way of not using it, except to never type in a bad domain again.
A coworker created a utility that modifies your hosts file for you. He doesn't want his site to get slashdotted though, so I can't post the link.
Apache is free and includes links to the Apache site so you can learn how to configure your site. The Apache Software Foundation is also non-profit.
As for IIS, it's probably buried in the EULA somewhere that MS can do that if they want. If it isn't, then it will be soon.
It's not being blasted because "It's Windows". Well, not entirely because of that. It's being blasted because you can only use IE to view the web site, and only IE and WMP to listen to the music. And their restrictions which are extremely tight compared to Itunes.
personally, If I can't even view the site in Mozilla, I won't even bother with it. Aside from that, I have no interest in downloading the music anyhow.
- keith
troll, I think not. I don't believe that Mozilla or opera or any other browser will overtake IE, but they can gain some ground on that monstrous marketshare IE has now. perhaps I should have clafified that. And yes, IE is sitting still, according to some recent news. I base my opinion on that news and on the theory in the article I posted. Much of this has been covered on slashdot recently. - keith
"your a fool" I'll leave that statement to stand on its own. I have thought about it, and I am not saying with any certainty that it will go down like that. It is a paraphrase of another person's theory. And I'd like to see a link to the information about IE 6.5. A recent slashdot story links to a MS technet article in which a member of the IE team says this: "Legacy OSes have reached their zenith with the addition of IE 6 SP1. Further improvements to IE will require enhancements to the underlying OS." That certainly says to me that there will be no major changes to IE 6 other than the occasional bug fix. Now if IE7 will only be available in the next OS version, it will be what, 2 years before the OS is released, and figure another 2 before that version of the OS replaces current versions. Mozilla and opera have features that users want like tabbed browsing and built in popup blocking. seriously, I've done some googling on IE 6.5 and found nothing recent, just speculation from 2 years ago after 6.0 was released. If you have links to info about 6.5 I'd be glad to check it out.
It could happen. As Peter-Paul Koch theorized in this article (slashdot thread).
MS may lose ground in the browser market because they have frozen IE at version 6 SP1. The next version, 7 will only be available on the next Windows OS. With that a few years away, then the adoption of the new OS and browser taking another few years, the other browsers out there, Mozilla and Opera mainly, will make gains in the market because of standards, constant updates and new features being added, support for new technologies that may emerge in the next few years, etc.
In other words, IE will become the rabbit, taking a siesta under a tree while a bunch of turtles slowly creep by.
You can't simply dismiss the possibility with a wave of the hand.
- keith
I started work at a company 6 months ago. The guy who wrote the original application finally left after months of problems. His code is HORRIBLE! apparently he used to belittle everyone else and tell them they were wrong. If I showed you his code and gave you his web site address, you could all go bash him, but I can't show the code for disclosure reasons. He did some of the most retarded things and it takes me 3-6 hours to make a simple change to the code. So now, everything has to be done quick and dirty, because the existing code is so bad. Since the day I first got here I've been trying to get the powers-that-be to allow me to re-write the code. Finally we were given permissions and myself and 1 other programmer are working on that now. It took quite a bit of arm-twisting to do it. Sometimes, even planning it out does not equal clean & proper.
go to deskmod.com for lots of alternative splash screens for mozilla. just save any one of them to the directory where mozilla.exe resides. 1 cool feature would be if you could save them all in a directory and select one from the preferences or have it load a random one everytime you launch it. http://www.deskmod.com/?show=showcat&cat_name=mozs plash
- keith
I just upgraded to the final release version of 1.3 and I love it. The advanced pop-up manager and cookie managers are great. The message filters do wonders for newsgroups and email. And they've already got 1.4alpha ready. cool.
1.3 was in beta/alpha for a while, but updates every 1-3 months is pretty good. And these aren't updates to keep unauthorized scripts from erasing my hard drive, they're actually new features and enhancements in addition to bug fixes.
- keith
I don't have a problem with MS's logo program. It matters little to me. Office Depot's decision makes no sense for them business-wise UNLESS Microsoft has sweetened the pot by giving them more volume discounts on software, and marketing $$$. Otherwise, why would a BUSINESS resort to limiting their customer's choice of software??
I used to work at Staples and many times people would come in looking for Database or Spreadsheet apps and when comparing prices between Microsoft's products and the alternatives, maybe 3 out of 5 would select the alternative or not buy at all.
This is another way for them to control a means of distribution. First the desktop through OEMs and VARs, now limiting competition through retail outlets.
IF public opinion means anything to Office Depot, and it better or they'll be in trouble, they had better listen to any backlash they get from this announcement.