Wow if you switch your user agent to IE then powerhouse renders fine, however if you set it back to firefox and hit reload, everything just renders on top of each other. They are specifcally making their site look like hell on non-IE browsers. Thats insane. -Steve
You can get SpamAssassin to work with it, I've never had to but their are tutorials. You may just be better off using two machines and have SA filter it before it sends it to the exchange server.Steve
I know someone involved with the US Iraq authority shutting down various media outlets and IIRC it is pretty much because they were being used to organize ambushes and attacks against the US and/or instigate further crimes against the troops. Now I'm not saying that I agree with censorship, but there are exceptions ( as there are with all rules). Its not just a black or white issue, its more of a "We are getting killed to ensure these people's freedom, having the media be free is one of these freedoms, however it is currently being used to aid in killing us, if we are killed we can't try to ensure their freedom so we must temporarily put some restrictions on this to make their future better." Now whether or not you think the US is really fighting for the Iraqi's freedom or not is a different debate, but I do know that the US Soldiers, in particular the Marines, are over there fighting and dying fully believing that is why. So regardless of Bush's intentions, the guys really doing the fighting really want the Iraqi's to be free and are trying their hardest. Regards, Steve
I use my gmail account in my records. Google is amazing with spam, I have used it for several months and not one missed legit email, and I have not received *any* spam at all. At first I was being careful and rarely giving away my gmail name, but within the past few months I've been putting it everywhere and still no spam, its amazing. WhoIs used to be a big source for harvesting, I guess its either not important to spammers anymore or Google really is just that good. Regards, Steve
I loved Yoper, unfortunately I couldn't get my X server to use hardware acceleration:/ Personally I've never had much success with Sax, but RH's detection/configuration and Fedoras has never failed me yet, and I've used it on many machines. Yoper already does use some Fedora related stuff, but I think they should definitly add its autodetection. Getting RH utilities to play nice with Novell utilities like YaST would be what some would consider heaven. I was really impressed by Yoper, I'd have kept it on my system if I could have gotten 3d working. If any/.ers haven't checked it out yet, you should (7 minute install for me). Regards, Steve
Serious question: What happens when the battery dies? Or more importantly how long does it last? I wouldn't want to have to call some guy every month asking him to reset my password. Regards, Steve
I believe their charging because the device costs money and also they have to administer the RSA ACE/Server which I'm sure costs a lot in licensing and to keep it running. Regards, Steve
You sir are a moron. Last year was their most profitable year, their stock grew 500% and there subscription rate increased several fold. Meanwhile, Microsoft for the first time dropped. Before the whole Red Hat CFO issue back in June and the restatement of their accounting (acutally resulting in higher profits), Red Hat was consistently a stronger company than Microsoft. They just don't have as much in the bank. RH's stock was also often times priced higher then MS's, but then again anyone who knows anything about economics or investing knows that stock price really doesn't mean much in terms of a companies value. Anyway, what I'm getting at is that if Red Hat keeps at its current pace, Microsoft won't be much more then just your typical software company, i.e. Adobe or Macoromedia, by 2010. Regards, Steve
It potentially represents much more, for instance I downloaded once and installed on an entire network, 50+ installs with one download. I also put it on my friends' laptops etc..., hope everyone else did their effort:) Regards, Steve
Not to drag on this thread, but I'm back at page 1 (per your request) and can't seem to find the file: issue you mentioned.Could you elaborate just a little bit as to what is wrong with it? Regards, Steve p.s. My apologies for confusing the issues at hand (shell vs. file).
Laptops and SP2 don't mix. The CPU frequency throttling driver is for some reason pushed back to a version prior to SP1 and works horribly. Your computer may be running at 600-700mhz despite what its telling you. It may not feel 4 times slower though because I doubt you often ever need to go above 800mhz in usage despite what the marketing departments will tell you (this may be different in your case if you develop or run a DB engine on it, but I'm referencing the typical home user). But in short, yes it just doesn't feel slow, it is slow. (in case anyone is wondering why an OS would change the CPU speed, its to help extend battery life, i.e. if the laptop is on battery, the processor is typically running at half speed as opposed to full speed when plugged in) Regards, Steve
Your making it seem like reinstalling an OS is a big deal... now I haven't used Widows for a bit, but as far as linux goes, if properly set up, all the user's home directory stuff should be on one partition, and anyother system specific stuff should be on another, you can get much more detailed and complex with your partition set up then that, but lets stick with this basic set up for now. Having two or more paritions, you can reinstall an OS almost seamlessly. Does Windows put everything on one partition by default? Or does it at least ask if you want more the one partition? I'm a little confused as why your mad at this guy for saying he reinstalled an OS. And just as I wouldn't trust any infected system after an anti-virus product claims to have cleaned it, I probably wouldn't trust the System Restore feature that you mentioned. Now I don't know how extensive the System Restore is, maybe you can be certain that it really takes care of everything, but I'd feel safer just reinstalling the OS, after all anything that I'd use or need is on a separate partition(of course this is assuming you follow the other assumed procedures involved with binaries, checking md5's if you have them, etc..., if any are for some reason in your home directory). Regards, Steve
That was a windows only vulnerability, god forbid the browser be able to trust that since it doesn't know what to do with a file, that the OS will know what to do, can be trusted and safely handle it. And it also affected IE as well as a whole bunch of other applications. Your point is void and null. Regards, Steve
Whoever the hell moderated this as a troll is a biased bastard too ignorant to want to accept the truth. Everything stated in the parent post is 100% accurate and any coder knows how dependant Windows components are on each other. Regards, Steve
Insightful AC!? You are quite correct in this regard. Most companies push features, features and more features to put on display for potential or current customers to keep giving them money. Security is a second thought and when something major is found, no company wants that kind of bad publicity so they try to downplay it significantly. In the OSS world, Gentoo, for example, was compromised and basically gave us up to the minute details. I mean their site said (not word for word), "We were hacked a few hours ago. We currently have those systems off line, we are looking into the issues. These are possibilities of what happened [insert list]. If anyone else has any ideas please help. Also the data integrity is not certain right now, we are checking the file integrity right now." Then once they figured everything out they gave many details about what happened, how it happened, how it was fixed, and how you could fix your systems too if need be. Where as MS has been hacked a few times and every time it is just, "We had a security breach, its fixed, move along." Regards, Steve
*cough* Service Pack 2 *cough* *cough* Disable javascript which is essential to many business's core web applications*cough* *cough*Break standard compliant web sites and standards because we can*cough* *cough* I could go all day coughing under my breath about things MS breaks and on purpose*cough*
Real operating systems aren't so independent on every other piece that by changing one component, you may break many unrelated components. I don't know about other Open Source vendors, but Red Hat does extremely intensive testing, I would assume Novell does too. The nice thing is, it usually goes significantly quicker because if they update a web browser, they don't need to make sure it doens't break the Office Suite, Mail Client and File Browser. Regards, Steve
Personally, I think Microsoft is going to underestimate the abilities of Red Hat and their business model (the subscription based thing) the more and more I talk to higher ups from various companies, thats what they want. I mean Novell is definitly going to be a comptetitor, but MS has taken them before, they've never had to go "toe to toe" with Red Hat and they've never had competition that used a different business strategy then they did. As far as I know, Novell uses the typical model, the same one MS follows, the same one that MS has had to crush before. Dealing with RH's model I think will be a bit harder. All of this is in reference of course to budiness related needs. Home users will typically use whatever they work with, but home users won't want to subscribe (or will they? afterall you have people paying for radio now), so novell probably is MS's competition in the home market, but RH is definitly a threat in the business side of things. I think MS is just hoping that RH is the new kid on the block and will lose. They've taken Novell before. MS is underestimating their competition just like they did with Mozilla, they never expected what has happened recently. I have a feeling that we'll see this trend occur more often now. Regards, Steve
The only slow programs in java are poorly implemented and use the Swing GUI toolkit in the wrong way. I personally like using Swing, and I use it efficiently, but in many cases the SWT toolkit by Eclipse will be jsut fine as well. SWT is a lighter, faster, toolkit that uses the native toolkit of the system. Java is extrememly fast, easily as fast as C++, if you need something faster then Java you should be using assembly. Read this. Also, the new JVMs by Sun have a feature called Hotspot, what this does is pretty much learn how your program works and adapts your program in real time to optimize it. What I mean is, the longer your program runs, the faster it gets because Hotspot learns what your program does more often and optimizes the bytecode in real time. You can not do this with native applications, itd be like rewriting the program on the fly without ever stopping it and having the effects take place instantly. This, along with no worries of buffer overflows, is a very good reason to use java. Java is a great language and any real coder knows that (just look at how many Apache projects are Java based), you'll only hear amateurs complain about java, just ignore them:) Regards, Steve
Has anyone else notices how spreadfirefox.com has been slahdotted for nearly 36 hours? There are over 50 news site linked to it according to google news. It must be going really well, except now noone can access it! Anyone, after day 1, they had greater the 320,000 downloads, I assume its only gotten better since then. We are definilty going to make 1 million! Regards, Steve
This is nothing new. Alternatives to the physical hardware with which we interact with our computers has been researched for years. I haven't rtfa, but I'm going to assume that the nose is tracked and associated with the mouse, and two blinks == one click, and three blinks == double click. I did this over two years ago, and I know alot of others who have too, just go to any university. Anyway, tracking the nose is good, but I found tracking your irises(is that even a word) easier and significantly more accurate. I found it easier because you are already focusing on that area for blinks, you already know where the eyes are so there is no need to go searching for other features. Also, the eyes stick out significantly more than a nose, and depending on the lighting, a nose can be very hard to detect because it is skin and blends with your face. I found using the eyes for mouse movement more accurate because you have redundancy, instead of hoping that you found the nose (which you only have one of) and then hoping that you tracked it right, using the eyes you can double check all your answers to a certain precision (doesn't work with a "dead" eye). Also, the iris is clearly defined and surrounded by white in all people. Using the nose, or mouth, for tracking was awkward because as you move your nose up or down you have to move your eyes opposite of that direction to stay focused on the mouse. When you use your eyes, they naturally are pointing where ever the mouse is, and thats most likely your intended area of focus. One final note, as this is getting long, some people may be wondering why 2 blinks = 1 click, etc... Well at first I did have 1 blink == 1 click and 2 blinks == 2 clicks. Debugging this was hell! It drove me literally insane. My mouse kept clicking when it wasn't supposed to and I had no idea why. Then after quite a while of damn near mathematically proving my code to be correct, I realized it was me inadvertenly blinking! Now your thinking, "Duh!", but when its late at night and your on a roll coding and testing, you dont really pay attention to when you blink, I mean we blink all day long and never realize it. So inorder to effectivly click with the eyes, you need to add an extra blink. Just my 2 cents. Oh yea, I also am unfortunately no longer working on that project(I was going to release it on sf.net or something) but around the same time I migrated entirely to linux and my damn Creative Camera didn't have drivers. I'm still waiting to get a logitech cam, any recommendations? Regards, Steve p.s. I forgot to mention that tracking the nose is useful for one application that me and friends found, if you make a triangle with your nose and eyes then you can get a pretty good idea of the orientation of someone's head in relation to 3 dimensional space. Using the eyes isn't very useful for more then 2 dimensions.
Fedora wasn't in your list. I've used it since FC1 on my laptop and its always worked great. If I were you though, its probably worth waiting a month for Core 3 to come out, alot of improved acpi stuff. Regards, Steve
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Wow if you switch your user agent to IE then powerhouse renders fine, however if you set it back to firefox and hit reload, everything just renders on top of each other. They are specifcally making their site look like hell on non-IE browsers. Thats insane.
-Steve
"After all, who hasn't fantasized about killing large numbers of people?"
Woah... it'll be alright, just remain calm. Help is on the way.
-Steve
You can get SpamAssassin to work with it, I've never had to but their are tutorials. You may just be better off using two machines and have SA filter it before it sends it to the exchange server.Steve
I know someone involved with the US Iraq authority shutting down various media outlets and IIRC it is pretty much because they were being used to organize ambushes and attacks against the US and/or instigate further crimes against the troops. Now I'm not saying that I agree with censorship, but there are exceptions ( as there are with all rules). Its not just a black or white issue, its more of a "We are getting killed to ensure these people's freedom, having the media be free is one of these freedoms, however it is currently being used to aid in killing us, if we are killed we can't try to ensure their freedom so we must temporarily put some restrictions on this to make their future better." Now whether or not you think the US is really fighting for the Iraqi's freedom or not is a different debate, but I do know that the US Soldiers, in particular the Marines, are over there fighting and dying fully believing that is why. So regardless of Bush's intentions, the guys really doing the fighting really want the Iraqi's to be free and are trying their hardest.
Regards,
Steve
I use my gmail account in my records. Google is amazing with spam, I have used it for several months and not one missed legit email, and I have not received *any* spam at all. At first I was being careful and rarely giving away my gmail name, but within the past few months I've been putting it everywhere and still no spam, its amazing. WhoIs used to be a big source for harvesting, I guess its either not important to spammers anymore or Google really is just that good.
Regards,
Steve
I loved Yoper, unfortunately I couldn't get my X server to use hardware acceleration :/ Personally I've never had much success with Sax, but RH's detection/configuration and Fedoras has never failed me yet, and I've used it on many machines. Yoper already does use some Fedora related stuff, but I think they should definitly add its autodetection. Getting RH utilities to play nice with Novell utilities like YaST would be what some would consider heaven. I was really impressed by Yoper, I'd have kept it on my system if I could have gotten 3d working. If any /.ers haven't checked it out yet, you should (7 minute install for me).
Regards,
Steve
doesn't sound like it should start (initialize) anything...
It initializes the beginning of the end, run for your life!
-Steve
Serious question: What happens when the battery dies? Or more importantly how long does it last? I wouldn't want to have to call some guy every month asking him to reset my password.
Regards,
Steve
I believe their charging because the device costs money and also they have to administer the RSA ACE/Server which I'm sure costs a lot in licensing and to keep it running.
Regards,
Steve
You sir are a moron. Last year was their most profitable year, their stock grew 500% and there subscription rate increased several fold. Meanwhile, Microsoft for the first time dropped. Before the whole Red Hat CFO issue back in June and the restatement of their accounting (acutally resulting in higher profits), Red Hat was consistently a stronger company than Microsoft. They just don't have as much in the bank. RH's stock was also often times priced higher then MS's, but then again anyone who knows anything about economics or investing knows that stock price really doesn't mean much in terms of a companies value. Anyway, what I'm getting at is that if Red Hat keeps at its current pace, Microsoft won't be much more then just your typical software company, i.e. Adobe or Macoromedia, by 2010.
Regards,
Steve
It potentially represents much more, for instance I downloaded once and installed on an entire network, 50+ installs with one download. I also put it on my friends' laptops etc..., hope everyone else did their effort:)
Regards,
Steve
heh good reply :) But also, even if it was GPL, if don't distribute it, they wouldn't need to give the new changes back either.
Regards,
Steve
Not to drag on this thread, but I'm back at page 1 (per your request) and can't seem to find the file: issue you mentioned.Could you elaborate just a little bit as to what is wrong with it?
Regards,
Steve
p.s. My apologies for confusing the issues at hand (shell vs. file).
Laptops and SP2 don't mix. The CPU frequency throttling driver is for some reason pushed back to a version prior to SP1 and works horribly. Your computer may be running at 600-700mhz despite what its telling you. It may not feel 4 times slower though because I doubt you often ever need to go above 800mhz in usage despite what the marketing departments will tell you (this may be different in your case if you develop or run a DB engine on it, but I'm referencing the typical home user). But in short, yes it just doesn't feel slow, it is slow. (in case anyone is wondering why an OS would change the CPU speed, its to help extend battery life, i.e. if the laptop is on battery, the processor is typically running at half speed as opposed to full speed when plugged in)
Regards,
Steve
Your making it seem like reinstalling an OS is a big deal... now I haven't used Widows for a bit, but as far as linux goes, if properly set up, all the user's home directory stuff should be on one partition, and anyother system specific stuff should be on another, you can get much more detailed and complex with your partition set up then that, but lets stick with this basic set up for now. Having two or more paritions, you can reinstall an OS almost seamlessly. Does Windows put everything on one partition by default? Or does it at least ask if you want more the one partition? I'm a little confused as why your mad at this guy for saying he reinstalled an OS. And just as I wouldn't trust any infected system after an anti-virus product claims to have cleaned it, I probably wouldn't trust the System Restore feature that you mentioned. Now I don't know how extensive the System Restore is, maybe you can be certain that it really takes care of everything, but I'd feel safer just reinstalling the OS, after all anything that I'd use or need is on a separate partition(of course this is assuming you follow the other assumed procedures involved with binaries, checking md5's if you have them, etc..., if any are for some reason in your home directory).
Regards,
Steve
That was a windows only vulnerability, god forbid the browser be able to trust that since it doesn't know what to do with a file, that the OS will know what to do, can be trusted and safely handle it. And it also affected IE as well as a whole bunch of other applications. Your point is void and null.
Regards,
Steve
Whoever the hell moderated this as a troll is a biased bastard too ignorant to want to accept the truth. Everything stated in the parent post is 100% accurate and any coder knows how dependant Windows components are on each other.
Regards,
Steve
Insightful AC!? You are quite correct in this regard. Most companies push features, features and more features to put on display for potential or current customers to keep giving them money. Security is a second thought and when something major is found, no company wants that kind of bad publicity so they try to downplay it significantly. In the OSS world, Gentoo, for example, was compromised and basically gave us up to the minute details. I mean their site said (not word for word), "We were hacked a few hours ago. We currently have those systems off line, we are looking into the issues. These are possibilities of what happened [insert list]. If anyone else has any ideas please help. Also the data integrity is not certain right now, we are checking the file integrity right now." Then once they figured everything out they gave many details about what happened, how it happened, how it was fixed, and how you could fix your systems too if need be. Where as MS has been hacked a few times and every time it is just, "We had a security breach, its fixed, move along."
Regards,
Steve
*cough* Service Pack 2 *cough*
*cough* Disable javascript which is essential to many business's core web applications*cough*
*cough*Break standard compliant web sites and standards because we can*cough*
*cough* I could go all day coughing under my breath about things MS breaks and on purpose*cough*
Real operating systems aren't so independent on every other piece that by changing one component, you may break many unrelated components. I don't know about other Open Source vendors, but Red Hat does extremely intensive testing, I would assume Novell does too. The nice thing is, it usually goes significantly quicker because if they update a web browser, they don't need to make sure it doens't break the Office Suite, Mail Client and File Browser.
Regards,
Steve
Personally, I think Microsoft is going to underestimate the abilities of Red Hat and their business model (the subscription based thing) the more and more I talk to higher ups from various companies, thats what they want. I mean Novell is definitly going to be a comptetitor, but MS has taken them before, they've never had to go "toe to toe" with Red Hat and they've never had competition that used a different business strategy then they did. As far as I know, Novell uses the typical model, the same one MS follows, the same one that MS has had to crush before. Dealing with RH's model I think will be a bit harder. All of this is in reference of course to budiness related needs. Home users will typically use whatever they work with, but home users won't want to subscribe (or will they? afterall you have people paying for radio now), so novell probably is MS's competition in the home market, but RH is definitly a threat in the business side of things. I think MS is just hoping that RH is the new kid on the block and will lose. They've taken Novell before. MS is underestimating their competition just like they did with Mozilla, they never expected what has happened recently. I have a feeling that we'll see this trend occur more often now.
Regards,
Steve
The only slow programs in java are poorly implemented and use the Swing GUI toolkit in the wrong way. I personally like using Swing, and I use it efficiently, but in many cases the SWT toolkit by Eclipse will be jsut fine as well. SWT is a lighter, faster, toolkit that uses the native toolkit of the system. Java is extrememly fast, easily as fast as C++, if you need something faster then Java you should be using assembly. Read this. Also, the new JVMs by Sun have a feature called Hotspot, what this does is pretty much learn how your program works and adapts your program in real time to optimize it. What I mean is, the longer your program runs, the faster it gets because Hotspot learns what your program does more often and optimizes the bytecode in real time. You can not do this with native applications, itd be like rewriting the program on the fly without ever stopping it and having the effects take place instantly. This, along with no worries of buffer overflows, is a very good reason to use java. Java is a great language and any real coder knows that (just look at how many Apache projects are Java based), you'll only hear amateurs complain about java, just ignore them:)
Regards,
Steve
wow so many nonexistant attributes all over the place.
1. Firefox takes over IE's spot as top browser
Has anyone else notices how spreadfirefox.com has been slahdotted for nearly 36 hours? There are over 50 news site linked to it according to google news. It must be going really well, except now noone can access it! Anyone, after day 1, they had greater the 320,000 downloads, I assume its only gotten better since then. We are definilty going to make 1 million!
Regards,
Steve
This is nothing new. Alternatives to the physical hardware with which we interact with our computers has been researched for years. I haven't rtfa, but I'm going to assume that the nose is tracked and associated with the mouse, and two blinks == one click, and three blinks == double click. I did this over two years ago, and I know alot of others who have too, just go to any university. Anyway, tracking the nose is good, but I found tracking your irises(is that even a word) easier and significantly more accurate. I found it easier because you are already focusing on that area for blinks, you already know where the eyes are so there is no need to go searching for other features. Also, the eyes stick out significantly more than a nose, and depending on the lighting, a nose can be very hard to detect because it is skin and blends with your face. I found using the eyes for mouse movement more accurate because you have redundancy, instead of hoping that you found the nose (which you only have one of) and then hoping that you tracked it right, using the eyes you can double check all your answers to a certain precision (doesn't work with a "dead" eye). Also, the iris is clearly defined and surrounded by white in all people. Using the nose, or mouth, for tracking was awkward because as you move your nose up or down you have to move your eyes opposite of that direction to stay focused on the mouse. When you use your eyes, they naturally are pointing where ever the mouse is, and thats most likely your intended area of focus. One final note, as this is getting long, some people may be wondering why 2 blinks = 1 click, etc... Well at first I did have 1 blink == 1 click and 2 blinks == 2 clicks. Debugging this was hell! It drove me literally insane. My mouse kept clicking when it wasn't supposed to and I had no idea why. Then after quite a while of damn near mathematically proving my code to be correct, I realized it was me inadvertenly blinking! Now your thinking, "Duh!", but when its late at night and your on a roll coding and testing, you dont really pay attention to when you blink, I mean we blink all day long and never realize it. So inorder to effectivly click with the eyes, you need to add an extra blink. Just my 2 cents. Oh yea, I also am unfortunately no longer working on that project(I was going to release it on sf.net or something) but around the same time I migrated entirely to linux and my damn Creative Camera didn't have drivers. I'm still waiting to get a logitech cam, any recommendations?
Regards,
Steve
p.s. I forgot to mention that tracking the nose is useful for one application that me and friends found, if you make a triangle with your nose and eyes then you can get a pretty good idea of the orientation of someone's head in relation to 3 dimensional space. Using the eyes isn't very useful for more then 2 dimensions.
Fedora wasn't in your list. I've used it since FC1 on my laptop and its always worked great. If I were you though, its probably worth waiting a month for Core 3 to come out, alot of improved acpi stuff.
Regards,
Steve