actually, just the GUI would crash, the firefox.exe executable would still be running. it would go zombie or something, hold on to its memory and just kinda go off into its own world.
kill the firefox.exe and you won't be prompted for the profile (unless you have several profiles) anymore.
rogue.xpi installations no longer work without user intervention.
so basically, you have to do it to yourself. you have to enable site "X" to install software, then once that is set, you have to go to the page that is trying to install software, and click yes at the dialog.
yes quite the opposite is happening, that's for sure.
i meant it like this - i've heard many folks say that we should police ourselves before we police others, referencing the crap that's going on in iraq.
that's what i meant - many folks feel this is the important thing to do - police GWB out of office. and that's what i meant.
btw, uid 666 does not exist - if it wasn't purposefully avoided, i would have gotten it. at least i think 666 was blacklisted... i dunno.
I work for a very pervasive insurance company. State Farm.
we bought a company-wide version of winzip, and it took a great deal of business cases to even get administrative access on my own machine.
our computers are scanned regularly. ssh sessions (we don't use SSH, we have vpn's everywhere) are closed, unauthorized applications automatically uninstalled, unauthorized.exes unceremoniously deleted. they scan every directory, on every drive, and they do it at least twice per week per PC. before i knew about these rules I was running firefox from my USB key and i was confronted at my desk, in front of everyone about my use of unauthorized software. it was my second day at the company.
they may be a joke to you, but to state farm, they're very serious.
can't we find something more *political* to talk about? nobody who cares about politics cares about candidate website standards conformity.
if what the current administration is doing doesn't stop, it will put an end to this nation as we know it within our lifetime. what they are doing is making decisions that line their own pockets without concern for the voters or the country. greed is destructive.
did you know, for example that the current administration has previously sought legal means to postpone or cancel and election that they have no jurisdiction over? did you know that there are legal documents drafted by john ashcroft & co. that give legal justification to the torture that went on at abu ghraib (sp?) prison? then, when ordered by congress to turn over the documents, mister ashcroft refused? that's contempt of congress, folks.
i could go on - can we please talk about something more relevant that fucking standards compliance on politics.slashdot.org?
along with the other tens of thousands of folks that are in beta.
it seems that the consensus among the beta testers is that the game is ready. there are no major known bugs that i've ever come across, and there are very few glitches to speak of. there are a few lag issues in key zones, but they've taken care of that in a way that i'm happy with.
the bad rep that SOE got was from SWG, and it was deserved in that case. that game still isn't ready for production, mainly because they're still altering the game design on a monthly basis. if they would just stop changing things they'd be doing okay.
Everquest 2 is a very good game, imho. I never played Everquest but I know that I like and enjoy EQ2 a lot.
in my opinion it is ready now. in 10 days when it is released, it will even be more ready. they're literally working 24/7 to get everything fixed before the release that they can, and i'm certain that you can expect a not-insignificant patch the first time you launch the client.
this is my honest opinion. I play it every day and I enjoy it every day. There are no showstopping bugs that I've come across and very few that I know about. Those are higher-level things and they'll have those fixed by the time anyone gets up to that level i'm sure.
so yeah i'm cool with the game as it is now.
and fyi, the game is huuuge. the lands are huge. the vocally active (read: speaking, as in you hear them) NPCs really add a lot more than I thought they would. the scenery is grand. on my pc (which is kinda wimpy -athlon 3000 @ 2.1ghz, 1.5gb ram, ati radeon 9800 pro 128mb) it runs at about 30fps, at 1600x1200, running at the setting just above "balanced." I forget what that setting is called now, but that's where I'm running. I have also turned on a few things like specular highlighting that aren't turned on in that performance profile.
the heroic opportunities are fun, and there are somewhat subtle visual clues, telling you what you need to do to continue the chain. the end of the chain is usually a "devastating blow" to your opponent, or sometimes it is a buff or a heal to yourself. so its not just a "double-click the enemy and wait until one of you dies" which is how I find a lot of mmorpg games. Meaning that if you want to fight anything above your own level you have to think about what you're doing before you even begin to engage the enemy. that's a kind of challenge that i enjoy in a game like this.
Everquest 2 is fun. I'll be buying it on release day and I'll be playing it that night. And I'll have a lot of fun doing it.
you would not believe the amount of time that it takes to authorize a piece of software. we're talking years here, just to *decide* to use something like websphere application studio. (to be fair, we're a very, very large company, and a ship this big takes a long time to turn. we own the largest privately owned network in the USA - something like 200k employees)
they don't allow you to install any software because click-thru licensing is so evil, even on gpl software. the problem lies in the fact that there is no indemnification clause. there is nothign in those licenses preventing someone from suing us for using software X.
its a big mess. this company does not seem to care that popups install spyware. they have activex disabled to a degree but that did not stop the javascript drag-n-drop vulnerability from infecting my corp machine. we're still not patched for that. of course few others believe that it is a big mess but the entire IT department (8500 folks, with a loose definition of IT) as a whole does not. "what is firefox" is the response i get to almost every mention of it.
but to answer your... statement, yes they dont' care at all how much i surf, as long as i surf using an insecure browser.
they can see what.exe's i'm running. if i hide firefox.exe by naming it iexplore.exe they can (and do) do an md5 sum to verify.
not long ago a person on my team was fired for USING putty. if you've used it you know there is no installation. there's not even a eula to agree to. he was fired anyway.
there is no way i'll use firefox even if its on a cd or a usb key. they scan all drives at random times and i'm not losing my job.
I use IE to browse slashdot because installing or using firefox at work will get me fired.
with the SCO stuff that's going on, my company WILL NOT allow anyone to install ANYTHING that we haven't protected ourselves from. This basically means that we pay hundreds of dollars per line of source code to use open source software for the sole purpose of saying that "We got it from a vendor, sue the vendor not us!"
in the event that some company comes around and claims that they themselves wrote firefox and decides to sue every user, i guess we'll be protected.
I call bullshit. it drives me MAD that i can't use PuTTY or Firefox at work. Its an easy choice i guess, to use IE or get fired, but I'm already looking for another job because of it. Yes I HATE IE that much.
what pisses me off is when slashdot links to itself for "news" history... that is very presumptuous in my eyes. in order to be a news site you have to have your own news, not a link to someone else's news.
this site should be called "Discussions for nerds. Stuff that matters."
i don't even bother clicking any link on slashdot.org that points to slashdot.org unless its the "Reply to this" link.
mod me down, i don't care. "He has an unpopular theory! SILENCE HIM!"
I liked The Adventure of Link. That one was the side-scroller, right? Yeah I liked that one. It is oft listed as the worst of all, and I'd probably agree, but if that game is the worst in the series then the series has done remarkably well.
I remember your post, and you're right. Do not attract attention to yourself via backpack.
I bought a bag from Yahoo! (a Yahoo! branded laptop bag) and it works wonders. It looks like a college school backpack, is padded for long term wear, features a laptop storage bag with its own strap, and lots of pockets for things like CD's and power bricks.
I can't find a site with my exact pack but this site should help: http://www.laptop-backpacks.com/
why do they not simply create an HTML table, make it [image width] cells wide, and [image height] rows, insert a 1x1 clear gif in each cell and change the bgcolor of each cell to the color on the corresponding image?
while they work on that i'm gonna upgrade my memory.
With new technology, the browser is becoming the gui for mail, calendar, search, purchasing... its becoming an operating system in its own right.
with an operating system in your web browser, where does microsoft windows fall? microsoft stopped developing the browser because it started competing with the operating system.
Slashdot Mirror
this is biased towards developers! I want a prize without doing anything!
True VR True VR!
What do I win?
can anyone say "can anyone say?" yes, anyone can, and its losing its punch.
actually, just the GUI would crash, the firefox.exe executable would still be running. it would go zombie or something, hold on to its memory and just kinda go off into its own world.
kill the firefox.exe and you won't be prompted for the profile (unless you have several profiles) anymore.
rogue .xpi installations no longer work without user intervention.
so basically, you have to do it to yourself. you have to enable site "X" to install software, then once that is set, you have to go to the page that is trying to install software, and click yes at the dialog.
hardly going to happen on accident.
the entire state is up in arms about things like this. 4 years and 9-billion dollars associated to voting reform have only made things worse.
its a crock of shit and i hope people take the law into their own hands about it. no one else will fix it for them.
yes quite the opposite is happening, that's for sure.
i meant it like this - i've heard many folks say that we should police ourselves before we police others, referencing the crap that's going on in iraq.
that's what i meant - many folks feel this is the important thing to do - police GWB out of office. and that's what i meant.
btw, uid 666 does not exist - if it wasn't purposefully avoided, i would have gotten it. at least i think 666 was blacklisted... i dunno.
I work for a very pervasive insurance company. State Farm.
.exes unceremoniously deleted. they scan every directory, on every drive, and they do it at least twice per week per PC. before i knew about these rules I was running firefox from my USB key and i was confronted at my desk, in front of everyone about my use of unauthorized software. it was my second day at the company.
we bought a company-wide version of winzip, and it took a great deal of business cases to even get administrative access on my own machine.
our computers are scanned regularly. ssh sessions (we don't use SSH, we have vpn's everywhere) are closed, unauthorized applications automatically uninstalled, unauthorized
they may be a joke to you, but to state farm, they're very serious.
lets talk about how compliant slashdot is before we talk about other sites' compliance, please.
you know, the whole "police yourself before you police others" thing that we hear so much these days.
can't we find something more *political* to talk about? nobody who cares about politics cares about candidate website standards conformity.
if what the current administration is doing doesn't stop, it will put an end to this nation as we know it within our lifetime. what they are doing is making decisions that line their own pockets without concern for the voters or the country. greed is destructive.
did you know, for example that the current administration has previously sought legal means to postpone or cancel and election that they have no jurisdiction over? did you know that there are legal documents drafted by john ashcroft & co. that give legal justification to the torture that went on at abu ghraib (sp?) prison? then, when ordered by congress to turn over the documents, mister ashcroft refused? that's contempt of congress, folks.
i could go on - can we please talk about something more relevant that fucking standards compliance on politics.slashdot.org?
didn't know that. i never played EQ much, at most for 6 hours in total.
... if you can't play nice with others, then i'm not going to play with you.
period.
good bye, buy.com. i never used you and i never will.
along with the other tens of thousands of folks that are in beta.
it seems that the consensus among the beta testers is that the game is ready. there are no major known bugs that i've ever come across, and there are very few glitches to speak of. there are a few lag issues in key zones, but they've taken care of that in a way that i'm happy with.
the bad rep that SOE got was from SWG, and it was deserved in that case. that game still isn't ready for production, mainly because they're still altering the game design on a monthly basis. if they would just stop changing things they'd be doing okay.
Everquest 2 is a very good game, imho. I never played Everquest but I know that I like and enjoy EQ2 a lot.
in my opinion it is ready now. in 10 days when it is released, it will even be more ready. they're literally working 24/7 to get everything fixed before the release that they can, and i'm certain that you can expect a not-insignificant patch the first time you launch the client.
this is my honest opinion. I play it every day and I enjoy it every day. There are no showstopping bugs that I've come across and very few that I know about. Those are higher-level things and they'll have those fixed by the time anyone gets up to that level i'm sure.
so yeah i'm cool with the game as it is now.
and fyi, the game is huuuge. the lands are huge. the vocally active (read: speaking, as in you hear them) NPCs really add a lot more than I thought they would. the scenery is grand. on my pc (which is kinda wimpy -athlon 3000 @ 2.1ghz, 1.5gb ram, ati radeon 9800 pro 128mb) it runs at about 30fps, at 1600x1200, running at the setting just above "balanced." I forget what that setting is called now, but that's where I'm running. I have also turned on a few things like specular highlighting that aren't turned on in that performance profile.
the heroic opportunities are fun, and there are somewhat subtle visual clues, telling you what you need to do to continue the chain. the end of the chain is usually a "devastating blow" to your opponent, or sometimes it is a buff or a heal to yourself. so its not just a "double-click the enemy and wait until one of you dies" which is how I find a lot of mmorpg games. Meaning that if you want to fight anything above your own level you have to think about what you're doing before you even begin to engage the enemy. that's a kind of challenge that i enjoy in a game like this.
Everquest 2 is fun. I'll be buying it on release day and I'll be playing it that night. And I'll have a lot of fun doing it.
YOUR mileage may vary.
you would not believe the amount of time that it takes to authorize a piece of software. we're talking years here, just to *decide* to use something like websphere application studio. (to be fair, we're a very, very large company, and a ship this big takes a long time to turn. we own the largest privately owned network in the USA - something like 200k employees)
... statement, yes they dont' care at all how much i surf, as long as i surf using an insecure browser.
they don't allow you to install any software because click-thru licensing is so evil, even on gpl software. the problem lies in the fact that there is no indemnification clause. there is nothign in those licenses preventing someone from suing us for using software X.
its a big mess. this company does not seem to care that popups install spyware. they have activex disabled to a degree but that did not stop the javascript drag-n-drop vulnerability from infecting my corp machine. we're still not patched for that. of course few others believe that it is a big mess but the entire IT department (8500 folks, with a loose definition of IT) as a whole does not. "what is firefox" is the response i get to almost every mention of it.
but to answer your
they can track me through the proxy.
.exe's i'm running. if i hide firefox.exe by naming it iexplore.exe they can (and do) do an md5 sum to verify.
they can see what
not long ago a person on my team was fired for USING putty. if you've used it you know there is no installation. there's not even a eula to agree to. he was fired anyway.
there is no way i'll use firefox even if its on a cd or a usb key. they scan all drives at random times and i'm not losing my job.
you can bet i'm working on another one though.
I use IE to browse slashdot because installing or using firefox at work will get me fired.
with the SCO stuff that's going on, my company WILL NOT allow anyone to install ANYTHING that we haven't protected ourselves from. This basically means that we pay hundreds of dollars per line of source code to use open source software for the sole purpose of saying that "We got it from a vendor, sue the vendor not us!"
in the event that some company comes around and claims that they themselves wrote firefox and decides to sue every user, i guess we'll be protected.
I call bullshit. it drives me MAD that i can't use PuTTY or Firefox at work. Its an easy choice i guess, to use IE or get fired, but I'm already looking for another job because of it. Yes I HATE IE that much.
what pisses me off is when slashdot links to itself for "news" history... that is very presumptuous in my eyes. in order to be a news site you have to have your own news, not a link to someone else's news.
this site should be called "Discussions for nerds. Stuff that matters."
i don't even bother clicking any link on slashdot.org that points to slashdot.org unless its the "Reply to this" link.
mod me down, i don't care. "He has an unpopular theory! SILENCE HIM!"
your problem is that you're using RPM. :)
Install debian or find some way to use apt-get. it is vastly superior to any RPM-based package management scheme.
I liked The Adventure of Link. That one was the side-scroller, right? Yeah I liked that one. It is oft listed as the worst of all, and I'd probably agree, but if that game is the worst in the series then the series has done remarkably well.
All the Zelda games are great games.
I remember your post, and you're right. Do not attract attention to yourself via backpack.
I bought a bag from Yahoo! (a Yahoo! branded laptop bag) and it works wonders. It looks like a college school backpack, is padded for long term wear, features a laptop storage bag with its own strap, and lots of pockets for things like CD's and power bricks.
I can't find a site with my exact pack but this site should help:
http://www.laptop-backpacks.com/
your manager or whoever is dictating this route should be fired.
you will all find out soon enough why server hardware is more expensive...
with regards to computer equipment, you should NEVER cheap out on one-time expendatures. NEVER! It will come around and bite you in the ass later.
that said, buy Dell.
the clear gif is what holds the tag open wide enough to show the page image. remove the gif and the book page collapses to 1x1 pixels.
for me, anyway.
why do they not simply create an HTML table, make it [image width] cells wide, and [image height] rows, insert a 1x1 clear gif in each cell and change the bgcolor of each cell to the color on the corresponding image?
while they work on that i'm gonna upgrade my memory.
they didn't stop caring, they STARTED caring.
With new technology, the browser is becoming the gui for mail, calendar, search, purchasing... its becoming an operating system in its own right.
with an operating system in your web browser, where does microsoft windows fall? microsoft stopped developing the browser because it started competing with the operating system.
mod parent up please. +5 Fact
i have a 5 gallon quarter jug, a three-digit UID, a wife, and a baby.
it CAN be done, folks!