- Switches, seeing them as regular ethernet multicasts, will forward them just fine, though switches (as in, a multi-port ethernet bridge) will never forward ANY traffic to "other networks" - Routers, assuming they have the capability and are configured to do so, *can* forward the zeroconf packets to "other networks". Though you're right in that they typically won't by default, and some routers have no ability to forward them.
Er, I'm having a tough time finding that model - which one is it?
I see that they have a Wireless-G router with a 4-port 100mbps switch for something *around* $80 (WRT54G, WRT54GS, WRT55AG, even WRT54GC)...and that they have gigabit switches around the price you're talking about (EG005W)...but definitely no 4-port gigabit switch/router with 802.11g, especially for *$80*...
Why start trying to take advantage of their Netscape resources now, after 7 years?
If, by "bundled", you mean "install the Netscape browser as one of many, many unasked for applications when installing the AOL software", I guess I can see that.
If you mean "use it as the integrated browser inside the AOL software", they can't do that. As part of the settlement of the Netscape lawsuit with Microsoft (which mearked the death knell for 95% of the remaining "Netscape", as it was no longer needed to continue the lawsuit), AOL received $750million, and in return signed on to use *only* IE inside their software for 7 years. That was nearly two years ago, at least 5 more to go...
I say it'd be somewhat equivalent to scanning WinXP SP1. Jaguar was released in July of 2002, and continuted to have minor releases produced through October 2003, and Apple supposedly still releases critical security patches for it. I'm not sure what the surprise is here?
Mozilla was the internal name for the product being worked on by Mosaic Communications Corporation, as the sequel to Mosaic (it was bigger, more powerful, etc). The browser was eventually renamed (externally) to "Netscape", as was the company.
The endearing "Mozilla" name continued to be used internally, and was the basis of the original firebreathing dragon logos that appeared long before the Mozilla codebase was open sourced (which happened years before AOL shut down most of the remainder of their Netscape division and started the Mozilla Foundation).
What makes you think that IE 7 won't simply be a "patched version of IE 6"?
I don't doubt that regardless of Firefox's emergence as a hotshot browser, Microsoft would not have been providing a browser in Longhorn with particularly new or innovative functionality, but it'd be odd for the marketing droids to allow IE to retain the "IE 6" moniker. Instead, I'd expect it to be named "IE NG" (next-generation) or something similar, after they'd revamped it with an Avalon interface (or something)?
Other new software features?
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I notice my series 2 Tivo is running version 4.0b, and the Tivo-to-Go software is installed in version 7.
I guess they just started rolling out the updates, and when I signed up on the "priority upgrade list" to get the upgrade sooner, I'm told that it may still be weeks.
Has anyone else gotten the newer software? Is there anything else new? I remember the version 3 to version 4 upgrade as being pretty big, perhaps going up 3 major revs will be better (I'm expecting versions 5 and 6 were just for different hardware than I have, though)?
If they do nothing else but eliminate some of the raw *wait time* when I'm managing the box ("Please Wait - this may take a minute" usually takes me anywhere from one to 10 minutes??), I'll be a happy camper.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "new touch wheel". If you mean the 4G iPod (the latest non-color available in stores, with the grey wheel or red&black U2 model), then that's the Click Wheel iPod. The iPod with Dock Connector is the 3G model. This list appears to not include the original iPod, as well as the iPod Photo (the color model), though I assume the article simply hasn't been updated to include the color model.
"If they need more privileges, the IT guys watch them like a hawk until they're done."...And hopefully your staff *is* there for them when they need other access, questions about other pieces of the environment, etc.
I've worked escalation support for a large storage vendor for a number of years, and while I completely understand (and agree with!) limiting vendor access, I find that IT departments tend to be *very* unresponsive when the vendor support folks need their help.
It's not exactly efficient, for example, when I have to wait 7 hours for logs to be uploaded, 5 hours for the "network guy" to respond to a page and fix the duplex mismatch he created that's causing 50% of packets from our systems to clients to be dropped, weeks for the system admin to stop piddling around and get Sun on the phone when we have valid interoperability issues (Sun won't talk to most other vendors except through the common customer), etc.
In the meantime, in my experience, the CIO tends to lambast the vendors for "poor responsiveness" and "terrible support" - though the smart ones eventually realize that the IT staff is shooting themselves in the foot, and do something about it.
IT departments that are responsive to vendors, on the other hand, are a breeze to work with, and issues are typically resolved many times faster.
No, he just knows how to actually do the job he's being paid for. Once you graduate high school and eventually enter the *real* world of IT, you might understand this.
Really? I don't have to fake my User Agent on OS X, Linux, or Windows (and needless to say am not using IE), and I maybe run into compatibility issues on 1 out of 1000 sites? (It's been probably something like 6 months at this point - and minor layout issues don't count).
I wouldn't say that ID faking is the *only* option.
Didn't you read the extensive coverage here on Slashdot a couple of years ago? Of *course* "in hopes of killing Netscape", no "likely" about it. Of course, that wasn't anywhere near enough (how soon we forget =)
Why is the only possibility for "gbrowser" a Google-branded HTML rendering browser, similar to Mosaic/Netscape/IE/etc?
Why not a plugin or desktop app that makes interfacing with Google services (Hotmail, etc) easier? Some RSS program? Some $100 appliance they're building (no connection with the "Balmer wants $100 PC" story)? Something even more innovative? Something even less?
Or, you could check out the non-Nvidia version at http://www.keyhole.com/
Keyhole split off from Nvidia quite some time ago - it was highly subsidized by Nvidia and originally only compatible with their chips. They've slowly been "opening" the software - eventually making a generally-available OpenGL version for "commercial" users, then a general release for "consumer" users, as well as a slightly cut-rate Nvidia version.
I've been a user of the software for nearly a year, it's fantastic (though way too pricy still). Looks similar to Worldwind, though I haven't downloaded it yet.
Very interactive, highly usable, I just wish they had an option to try to plot directions as well!
Hmmm... When I right-click on my desktop at work (the one with the big monitor that this would help with), I don't see any "Display Properties" settings. I just get:
New Folder Get Info Change Desktop Background Toast It Enable Folder Actions Configure Folder Actions
I wonder what's wrong? I guess my computer is broken...
Why corporate users? In my experience corporate users are the largest offenders to IE lock-in, requiring only one browser company-wide, designing or purchasing sites/web apps that require IE, etc.
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- Switches, seeing them as regular ethernet multicasts, will forward them just fine, though switches (as in, a multi-port ethernet bridge) will never forward ANY traffic to "other networks"
- Routers, assuming they have the capability and are configured to do so, *can* forward the zeroconf packets to "other networks". Though you're right in that they typically won't by default, and some routers have no ability to forward them.
Er, I'm having a tough time finding that model - which one is it?
I see that they have a Wireless-G router with a 4-port 100mbps switch for something *around* $80 (WRT54G, WRT54GS, WRT55AG, even WRT54GC)...and that they have gigabit switches around the price you're talking about (EG005W)...but definitely no 4-port gigabit switch/router with 802.11g, especially for *$80*...
Interesting... Tell me more about this "release candidate" thing that Apple seems to have invented for large software products? =)
Was that a pre-emptive RTFA?
Tough to tell if the AC's joking or not.
Why start trying to take advantage of their Netscape resources now, after 7 years?
If, by "bundled", you mean "install the Netscape browser as one of many, many unasked for applications when installing the AOL software", I guess I can see that.
If you mean "use it as the integrated browser inside the AOL software", they can't do that. As part of the settlement of the Netscape lawsuit with Microsoft (which mearked the death knell for 95% of the remaining "Netscape", as it was no longer needed to continue the lawsuit), AOL received $750million, and in return signed on to use *only* IE inside their software for 7 years. That was nearly two years ago, at least 5 more to go...
I say it'd be somewhat equivalent to scanning WinXP SP1. Jaguar was released in July of 2002, and continuted to have minor releases produced through October 2003, and Apple supposedly still releases critical security patches for it. I'm not sure what the surprise is here?
Mozilla was the internal name for the product being worked on by Mosaic Communications Corporation, as the sequel to Mosaic (it was bigger, more powerful, etc). The browser was eventually renamed (externally) to "Netscape", as was the company.
The endearing "Mozilla" name continued to be used internally, and was the basis of the original firebreathing dragon logos that appeared long before the Mozilla codebase was open sourced (which happened years before AOL shut down most of the remainder of their Netscape division and started the Mozilla Foundation).
What makes you think that IE 7 won't simply be a "patched version of IE 6"?
I don't doubt that regardless of Firefox's emergence as a hotshot browser, Microsoft would not have been providing a browser in Longhorn with particularly new or innovative functionality, but it'd be odd for the marketing droids to allow IE to retain the "IE 6" moniker. Instead, I'd expect it to be named "IE NG" (next-generation) or something similar, after they'd revamped it with an Avalon interface (or something)?
I notice my series 2 Tivo is running version 4.0b, and the Tivo-to-Go software is installed in version 7.
I guess they just started rolling out the updates, and when I signed up on the "priority upgrade list" to get the upgrade sooner, I'm told that it may still be weeks.
Has anyone else gotten the newer software? Is there anything else new? I remember the version 3 to version 4 upgrade as being pretty big, perhaps going up 3 major revs will be better (I'm expecting versions 5 and 6 were just for different hardware than I have, though)?
If they do nothing else but eliminate some of the raw *wait time* when I'm managing the box ("Please Wait - this may take a minute" usually takes me anywhere from one to 10 minutes??), I'll be a happy camper.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "new touch wheel". If you mean the 4G iPod (the latest non-color available in stores, with the grey wheel or red&black U2 model), then that's the Click Wheel iPod. The iPod with Dock Connector is the 3G model. This list appears to not include the original iPod, as well as the iPod Photo (the color model), though I assume the article simply hasn't been updated to include the color model.
"If they need more privileges, the IT guys watch them like a hawk until they're done." ...And hopefully your staff *is* there for them when they need other access, questions about other pieces of the environment, etc.
I've worked escalation support for a large storage vendor for a number of years, and while I completely understand (and agree with!) limiting vendor access, I find that IT departments tend to be *very* unresponsive when the vendor support folks need their help.
It's not exactly efficient, for example, when I have to wait 7 hours for logs to be uploaded, 5 hours for the "network guy" to respond to a page and fix the duplex mismatch he created that's causing 50% of packets from our systems to clients to be dropped, weeks for the system admin to stop piddling around and get Sun on the phone when we have valid interoperability issues (Sun won't talk to most other vendors except through the common customer), etc.
In the meantime, in my experience, the CIO tends to lambast the vendors for "poor responsiveness" and "terrible support" - though the smart ones eventually realize that the IT staff is shooting themselves in the foot, and do something about it.
IT departments that are responsive to vendors, on the other hand, are a breeze to work with, and issues are typically resolved many times faster.
No, he just knows how to actually do the job he's being paid for. Once you graduate high school and eventually enter the *real* world of IT, you might understand this.
"I guess we should have stuck with it, since it looks like there's a buck to made."
Yes, because the only reason to do (or not do) something is because of the promise of financial reward.
"but nothing else of it"
Really? What can I do with Firefox that I can't do with Mozilla?
Maybe I'm just missing it, but what second link?
I don't get it - if they won't allow Mozilla (and presumably other browsers) in anyway, what exactly is "blacklisting" them supposed to accomplish?
Really? I don't have to fake my User Agent on OS X, Linux, or Windows (and needless to say am not using IE), and I maybe run into compatibility issues on 1 out of 1000 sites? (It's been probably something like 6 months at this point - and minor layout issues don't count).
I wouldn't say that ID faking is the *only* option.
Didn't you read the extensive coverage here on Slashdot a couple of years ago? Of *course* "in hopes of killing Netscape", no "likely" about it. Of course, that wasn't anywhere near enough (how soon we forget =)
Why is the only possibility for "gbrowser" a Google-branded HTML rendering browser, similar to Mosaic/Netscape/IE/etc?
Why not a plugin or desktop app that makes interfacing with Google services (Hotmail, etc) easier? Some RSS program? Some $100 appliance they're building (no connection with the "Balmer wants $100 PC" story)? Something even more innovative? Something even less?
It's not fast if you're planning on trying to connect to anything that's not Windows... Like I suspect a huge number of us are.
They need to build drivers for other OSes...
"Spin"? Methinks you've been listening to too much Limbaugh and O'Reilly...
Or, you could check out the non-Nvidia version at http://www.keyhole.com/
Keyhole split off from Nvidia quite some time ago - it was highly subsidized by Nvidia and originally only compatible with their chips. They've slowly been "opening" the software - eventually making a generally-available OpenGL version for "commercial" users, then a general release for "consumer" users, as well as a slightly cut-rate Nvidia version.
I've been a user of the software for nearly a year, it's fantastic (though way too pricy still). Looks similar to Worldwind, though I haven't downloaded it yet.
Very interactive, highly usable, I just wish they had an option to try to plot directions as well!
Definitely heresy. You should be burned at the stake.
=)
Hmmm... When I right-click on my desktop at work (the one with the big monitor that this would help with), I don't see any "Display Properties" settings. I just get:
New Folder
Get Info
Change Desktop Background
Toast It
Enable Folder Actions
Configure Folder Actions
I wonder what's wrong? I guess my computer is broken...
Why corporate users? In my experience corporate users are the largest offenders to IE lock-in, requiring only one browser company-wide, designing or purchasing sites/web apps that require IE, etc.