doesn't bl00dy work with Firefox 1.0.6 on Linux... keeps moaning about a missing plugin when pressing the "play" button and then when I click the Install Missing Plugins button... nada... it can't find a plugin... Opera 8.02 and Konq don't work either... I'm pissed off with this ridiculous platform dependency... especially as it's supposed to be a platform agnostic internet...
they can't guarantee the 512 byte bootloader will be free of bugs... so they're hoping and praying that the super duper hardware is so obfuscated with a seriously weird state machine that no-one... even them, can figure how on earth it ever works...
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This is often a temporary failure, so you might just try again.
with firefox version: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050721 Firefox/1.0.6 (Ubuntu package 1.0.6)
privoxy in use... not caring enough to specially disable privoxy... someone could probably try
they deliberately do TCO studies over a short period which oh so conveniently ignores the natural upgrade-cycle cost of sticking with ms-windows and being forced to upgrade whether you want to or not...
On the desktop, Linux is having a tougher time. Gartner claims the operating system is reaching the point where the costs of migration may exceed the cost benefits in a phase characterised by over-enthusiasm and unrealistic projections which lead to more failures than successes.
If the TCO study was done over say a 5 year cycle, then Linux wins hands down as you've then got to factor in at least one forced upgrade of all your MS and non-MS applications... nobody forces you to upgrade with Linux...
-- Microsoft Windows... Unsafe on the information highway at any speed...
Re:How to kill Nautilus (sort of OT but useful!)
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Okay, I know a lot of people dislike Nautilus, and I think it keeps a lot of people away from GNOME. Here's how to kill it for good:
Use KDE.... ducks...;) seriously... I fscking really hate Nautilus... and cannot for the life of me understand why a file manager is required to manage the desktop icons and wallpapers... it's absolutely fscking stupid... those functions should have been split out of Nautilus so that it could be used safely as a general file manager in other desktops... try launching Nautilus when running a nice clean desktop like IceWM... see what happens... stupid... (yes, I know you can fsck around in the Gnome registry and turn it off... but what about when you launch Gnome instead... you no longer have your icons and wallpaper... totally fscking stupid)
they've got to be in CUPS first to be able to remove them... most cheapo Lexmark inkjet printers don't have Linux support cos they those crappy WinPrinters and require the OS to do the donkey work...
That is NOT Word. That is a user inserting an image as a link on a drive you do not
to put it politely... BOLLOCKS... word throws a wobbly and sticks red crosses in for no apparent reason... even if the embedded object is inside the document (such as an equation, if it's lost the internal bitmap representation, then what you'll see is a BIG RED CROSS. I get it all the time at work with big documents and I'm heartily sick and fscking tired of it... I get the case where there are BIG RED CROSSES in the page view, yet it prints out fine... WHY??? why does it get it together for printing, but cannot get it together for normal viewing... and don't get me started on Word's propensity for completely bollixing up automatic paragraph numbering for no apparent reason...
I'd love to get off word onto OOo 2 at work, but we're trapped in our own fscking morass of obfuscated custom-macros and Access database links that were written ages ago and no one knows how on earth they work... cos the genius who fscking wrote them didn't document them cos he was worried about his job security and wanted to make himself fscking fireproof... pity he left of his own volition and took his knowledge with him...
I never agreed to the terms of the passport end-user-license-agreement... primarily being their ability to change the terms on you without any notice, and continued use of the service constituted agreement to the new terms...
all those moaning about how it's an invasion of privacy must note that when they agreed to that.net passport, they waived all rights in perpetuity... they allowed Microsoft & their "partners" to do whatever they want with the data... and it looks like their partners include anyone who pays for an MSN Keyword... and that could be anyone
I think the EU will have some serious concerns over this as it appears to be a primae facie breach of the Data Protection requirements which all EU contries have signed up to. And last time I looked, Microsoft have offices AND customers in the EU and are subject to them.
Any one with any real sense would use something like Knoppix and remember to shred the swap file if it created one... then there are NO incriminating files left on the disk...
Their "upgrade assurance" program is cute, though... for an extra 20% you can receive assurances that if a new version of WinZip comes out within the next year you'll get a copy. They've been averaging a new version what, every two? three? years? How many people are going to fall for that one?
Sounds a lot like Microsoft's Software Assurance program...
the two icons at the bottom of the patent page... "View Cart" & "Add to Cart"... makes me thing you can just go shopping for patents... see one you like and buy it
and the vast majority of Windows users get fobbed off immediately by Microsoft because they've got an OEM install... they have to go to their computer manufacturer instead... and that'll be on a premium rate line with 20 odd minutes of hold time just to rack the cost up...
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they're not gonna let that one out...
doesn't bl00dy work with Firefox 1.0.6 on Linux... keeps moaning about a missing plugin when pressing the "play" button and then when I click the Install Missing Plugins button... nada... it can't find a plugin... Opera 8.02 and Konq don't work either... I'm pissed off with this ridiculous platform dependency... especially as it's supposed to be a platform agnostic internet...
what's supposed to happen then??? all I get with KDE 3.4 and Opera 8.02 is a blank page...
he can't remember where the basement stairs are...
Bill Gates gets a patch accepted by Linus...
they can't guarantee the 512 byte bootloader will be free of bugs... so they're hoping and praying that the super duper hardware is so obfuscated with a seriously weird state machine that no-one... even them, can figure how on earth it ever works...
the question is though... how the f did he manage to get it in before the rest of the fp kiddies...
with firefox version: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050721 Firefox/1.0.6 (Ubuntu package 1.0.6)
privoxy in use... not caring enough to specially disable privoxy... someone could probably try
and this was with Firefox 1.0.6...
how the f can the first post EVER be redundant??? off-topic, flamebait, troll or over-rated YES... redundant NO...
I suggest respectfully to you that you surrender your mod points at the door and go off and read the moderation guide...
If the TCO study was done over say a 5 year cycle, then Linux wins hands down as you've then got to factor in at least one forced upgrade of all your MS and non-MS applications... nobody forces you to upgrade with Linux...
--
Microsoft Windows... Unsafe on the information highway at any speed...
Use KDE.... ducks... ;) seriously... I fscking really hate Nautilus... and cannot for the life of me understand why a file manager is required to manage the desktop icons and wallpapers... it's absolutely fscking stupid... those functions should have been split out of Nautilus so that it could be used safely as a general file manager in other desktops... try launching Nautilus when running a nice clean desktop like IceWM... see what happens... stupid... (yes, I know you can fsck around in the Gnome registry and turn it off... but what about when you launch Gnome instead... you no longer have your icons and wallpaper... totally fscking stupid)
Edit > Changes > and it's all there... just click the "Record" option to turn change tracking On
they've got to be in CUPS first to be able to remove them... most cheapo Lexmark inkjet printers don't have Linux support cos they those crappy WinPrinters and require the OS to do the donkey work...
Bambi!!! Bambi Woods... mmmmm....
to put it politely... BOLLOCKS... word throws a wobbly and sticks red crosses in for no apparent reason... even if the embedded object is inside the document (such as an equation, if it's lost the internal bitmap representation, then what you'll see is a BIG RED CROSS. I get it all the time at work with big documents and I'm heartily sick and fscking tired of it... I get the case where there are BIG RED CROSSES in the page view, yet it prints out fine... WHY??? why does it get it together for printing, but cannot get it together for normal viewing... and don't get me started on Word's propensity for completely bollixing up automatic paragraph numbering for no apparent reason...
I'd love to get off word onto OOo 2 at work, but we're trapped in our own fscking morass of obfuscated custom-macros and Access database links that were written ages ago and no one knows how on earth they work... cos the genius who fscking wrote them didn't document them cos he was worried about his job security and wanted to make himself fscking fireproof... pity he left of his own volition and took his knowledge with him...
all those moaning about how it's an invasion of privacy must note that when they agreed to that .net passport, they waived all rights in perpetuity... they allowed Microsoft & their "partners" to do whatever they want with the data... and it looks like their partners include anyone who pays for an MSN Keyword... and that could be anyone
I think the EU will have some serious concerns over this as it appears to be a primae facie breach of the Data Protection requirements which all EU contries have signed up to. And last time I looked, Microsoft have offices AND customers in the EU and are subject to them.
on the fuddruckers webpage isn't a very good advert for their product... really... the kid is already obese...
Any one with any real sense would use something like Knoppix and remember to shred the swap file if it created one... then there are NO incriminating files left on the disk...
Sounds a lot like Microsoft's Software Assurance program...
the OpenOffice document format IS human readable when you've unzipped it...
you'd have been equally stuffed when the 5 year license key had expired
the two icons at the bottom of the patent page... "View Cart" & "Add to Cart"... makes me thing you can just go shopping for patents... see one you like and buy it
and the vast majority of Windows users get fobbed off immediately by Microsoft because they've got an OEM install... they have to go to their computer manufacturer instead... and that'll be on a premium rate line with 20 odd minutes of hold time just to rack the cost up...