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Actually browsers like Opera have a feature to emulate the quirkiness of IE (compatibility mode rather than compliance mode). Honestly though, using Opera I very rarely find pages that don't render properly, and in such rare cases usually can choose to go elsewhere for my information. IE seems to only have that kind of stranglehold on the business world where companies insist on using IE specific technologies, which is their own damn fault but the employees pay for it.
I think the meaning of the saying "the customer is always right", went right over your head. It does not intone that customer is not, indeed, completely full of shit. Rather, it is a philosophy a company stands by which lets the customer know that the company WILL take all their shit with a smile, and try their hardest to appease them. Of course there are jackass customers (and employees; they are all people), that has nothing to do with it.
I don't really understand this philosophy. If a store has a good deal on a product, I buy it (unless I feel they will cheat me, as many people have pointed out about the rebates). I couldn't care less about what store it is or whether they lose money or make a fortune. Companies are a demented version of an individual with way too many rights for the lacking morals they seem to contain, and as a consequence I couldn't care less if my actions hurt them. Like them, I am out to profit myself. I'm certainly not going to HURT myself to make some minor little unnoticed point (to a company who couldn't care less).
Yeah whatever. I'm Canadian, and I'm always floored by the coldness of service in the US. It differs from region to region within the states, but it's always there. It feels like you all hate everything, including the customers and yourself. Mind you this is a generalization, but that's the overall trend. If you can't see it it's probably because you are used to it.
Theres already a good game out like this, called President Forever.
It's super fun and complicated. Pretty much pure strategy. There's a demo to try it out on the website!
If you want a secure WindowsXP system, you're going to have to get an expert to do it (or spend the time to learn yourself). There are a lot of steps to take, at a minimum. These are the basic mandatory steps though:
- Good router/firewall at gateway (all ports closed by default, then open what you need and no more) - Clean WindowsXP install, all updated drivers/patches, ALL unnecessary services turned off, ALL unneccesary startup software turned off, and any unused windows components uninstalled (a good windows install can take a couple days of tweaking, done right) - Good antivirus software, such as AVG (try not to use the big popular ones)(keep this on a rigorous update schedule) - Good firewall software, such as kerio (it's important this is GOOD software - otherwise we all saw what can happen)(also use this to block programs - such as windows - from calling home) - Good email and browser, such as thunderbird and opera. Do NOT under any circumstances use MS software, if even remotely avoidable (this goes for all software on the system). - Do not install any unnecessary software, such as P2P or IM software, or any untrusted or unknown free software, ever. - Once the initial install and setup is done for the system, never install anything on it again, unless absolutely required - Never ever update the system again, or you're asking for it - make sure there are no other computers on the same local network, unless they are configured similarily and 100% trusted (you can make a network within a network, if you need to)
Like I said though, it really takes an expert to do this properly. Good luck.
My experience has always been to give windows a fixed page file, at twice the RAM size (ie. 512MB RAM so 1024MB page file). Further, a separate physical drive is the best scenario, or second best is a separate partition.
It is important to note that WindowsXP will use the page file whether you've got plenty of RAM or not.
Actually he did: He gave youhis personal time. If on the other hand he had made a copy of his advice and sold it to you, it would then be a copyright work and fall under completely different laws, and hence not be legally considered stealing.
It's really starting to bug me how everyone says 'Fine I admit it! I'm stealing from the internet!'
What? How can you steal from the internet? Are you stealing electricity? Are you suggesting that downloading copyprotected information is stealing??
Funny that, the law doesn't consider copyright infringment as stealing.
How about we all stop using the media companies propaganda for a little while. Lets call downloading songs from the internet what it really is (or rather uploading, if downloading is actually legal where you are), copyright violations.
It seems what he is going on is that morally the theft which occurs is the deprivation of sales (because that is the only thing they have been deprived of, hence theft), so if you can show without a doubt that someone never would/could have bought something, it can't still be classified as theft in that way.
Further, you are confusing something: That is the defintition of theft by law, and your personal belief of what theft is. When speaking about these issues, it is very important to clarify whether we are speaking about what should be occuring or in law, and what the law currently says about it.
You are correct. Further, I am using the Linux version and there is another mistake, as it does allow importing mail from both generic mbox files and netscape 6/7 mail.
I didn't read the rest of this review, as those errors killed it for me. How can I trust anything else in the article?
Also, why the hell are so many people supporting Outlook in here? Hasn't it been shown time and again that using either Outlook or IE is like internet suicide?!
I remember a game I used to play on Sony Station, which looks like it was the predecessor to this game. I can't remember its name... It used to be free, and when they started charging for it I got out of there (and so did a lot of other people). It certainly wasn't worth paying for, and this game doesn't look like its worth $12/month. Thats steep! I can buy Neverwinter Nights and only pay one fee, equivalent to half a year with this game. Sick.
To go with this analogy: It's more like if you lend someone $10, they say they can't pay, you sue them for $1000 but offer a settlement of $100. Sounds like racketeering to me.
Isn't this what we all advertise OS as being, so companies will start using it? Obviously not everyone is going to give back or contribute to the OS community, but there will always be a percentage. As the number of users grows, so will the number of contributors.
What I'm most afraid of is companies abusing OS software and commercializing it beyond recognition, to the point where the OS community is lost.
Nonetheless, incetives such as tax cuts do sound like an interesting idea.
Yes Opera does do this with their mail client. There are a few others out there that do it as well. But come on, we didn't really expect MS to innovate did we? This is just another fine example of the lieing attitude that pervades MS. Of course the other side of the coin must exist too, and that is the users who believe everything MS says. I can understand users who just don't care and don't want a hassle, but so many of them become zealots for MS crap that its scary. At least with linux zealots they are fighting for a more noble cause, and a better OS.
I suppose you are talking about emails. If you turn off your email clients ability to display html, then you will see the real address every time. I think that html emails are a scourge. All they do is pretty things up, at the best. At the worst, they cause link confusion like you speak of, display porn pictures when they are unwanted, and let old aunty send blue text on purple background emails with animated gifs and some sound in the background.
Email is for communicating. If you want a document then make a website.
Although WindowsXP and 2k are more stable than previous versions, they are not as stable as linux. I install OS's for a living, and of course deal with them later in their lives. One thing I can say for sure: I've crashed WindowsXP and 2k many-a-time, and so rarely crashed linux that I can't even remember one instance (I can remember a windowsXP instance - last night! Damn scorched3d is buggy!).
Truth is, if I setup a windowsXP machine and spend the time to make it slick, and then do the same with a linux box, the linux box will last virtually forever without any problems (even with dumb users - you have to set them up properly to deal with lay people), whereas the windows box is having problems within a few months. There really isnt any comparison: If the computer is setup by an expert, a linux box is substantially better than a windows box. The only circumstances where windows is more desireable than linux is when there are specific software or hardware requirements which can't be met, such as games.
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Actually browsers like Opera have a feature to emulate the quirkiness of IE (compatibility mode rather than compliance mode). Honestly though, using Opera I very rarely find pages that don't render properly, and in such rare cases usually can choose to go elsewhere for my information. IE seems to only have that kind of stranglehold on the business world where companies insist on using IE specific technologies, which is their own damn fault but the employees pay for it.
I think the meaning of the saying "the customer is always right", went right over your head. It does not intone that customer is not, indeed, completely full of shit. Rather, it is a philosophy a company stands by which lets the customer know that the company WILL take all their shit with a smile, and try their hardest to appease them. Of course there are jackass customers (and employees; they are all people), that has nothing to do with it.
I don't really understand this philosophy. If a store has a good deal on a product, I buy it (unless I feel they will cheat me, as many people have pointed out about the rebates). I couldn't care less about what store it is or whether they lose money or make a fortune. Companies are a demented version of an individual with way too many rights for the lacking morals they seem to contain, and as a consequence I couldn't care less if my actions hurt them. Like them, I am out to profit myself. I'm certainly not going to HURT myself to make some minor little unnoticed point (to a company who couldn't care less).
Yeah whatever. I'm Canadian, and I'm always floored by the coldness of service in the US. It differs from region to region within the states, but it's always there. It feels like you all hate everything, including the customers and yourself. Mind you this is a generalization, but that's the overall trend. If you can't see it it's probably because you are used to it.
Theres already a good game out like this, called President Forever.
It's super fun and complicated. Pretty much pure strategy. There's a demo to try it out on the website!
If you want a secure WindowsXP system, you're going to have to get an expert to do it (or spend the time to learn yourself). There are a lot of steps to take, at a minimum. These are the basic mandatory steps though:
- Good router/firewall at gateway (all ports closed by default, then open what you need and no more)
- Clean WindowsXP install, all updated drivers/patches, ALL unnecessary services turned off, ALL unneccesary startup software turned off, and any unused windows components uninstalled (a good windows install can take a couple days of tweaking, done right)
- Good antivirus software, such as AVG (try not to use the big popular ones)(keep this on a rigorous update schedule)
- Good firewall software, such as kerio (it's important this is GOOD software - otherwise we all saw what can happen)(also use this to block programs - such as windows - from calling home)
- Good email and browser, such as thunderbird and opera. Do NOT under any circumstances use MS software, if even remotely avoidable (this goes for all software on the system).
- Do not install any unnecessary software, such as P2P or IM software, or any untrusted or unknown free software, ever.
- Once the initial install and setup is done for the system, never install anything on it again, unless absolutely required
- Never ever update the system again, or you're asking for it
- make sure there are no other computers on the same local network, unless they are configured similarily and 100% trusted (you can make a network within a network, if you need to)
Like I said though, it really takes an expert to do this properly. Good luck.
My experience has always been to give windows a fixed page file, at twice the RAM size (ie. 512MB RAM so 1024MB page file). Further, a separate physical drive is the best scenario, or second best is a separate partition.
It is important to note that WindowsXP will use the page file whether you've got plenty of RAM or not.
Me too. Though I don't ever actually shutdown my Opera, so a startup page is basically irrelevant. (my uptime is sitting at 168 days)
Actually he did: He gave youhis personal time.
If on the other hand he had made a copy of his advice and sold it to you, it would then be a copyright work and fall under completely different laws, and hence not be legally considered stealing.
It's really starting to bug me how everyone says 'Fine I admit it! I'm stealing from the internet!'
What? How can you steal from the internet? Are you stealing electricity? Are you suggesting that downloading copyprotected information is stealing??
Funny that, the law doesn't consider copyright infringment as stealing.
How about we all stop using the media companies propaganda for a little while. Lets call downloading songs from the internet what it really is (or rather uploading, if downloading is actually legal where you are), copyright violations.
It seems what he is going on is that morally the theft which occurs is the deprivation of sales (because that is the only thing they have been deprived of, hence theft), so if you can show without a doubt that someone never would/could have bought something, it can't still be classified as theft in that way.
Further, you are confusing something: That is the defintition of theft by law, and your personal belief of what theft is. When speaking about these issues, it is very important to clarify whether we are speaking about what should be occuring or in law, and what the law currently says about it.
That made my day!
Thanks a ton!
Oh sure, and SO much different from what every bloody company tries to do with all their, especially internet, products.
Give me a break.
You are correct.
Further, I am using the Linux version and there is another mistake, as it does allow importing mail from both generic mbox files and netscape 6/7 mail.
I didn't read the rest of this review, as those errors killed it for me. How can I trust anything else in the article?
Also, why the hell are so many people supporting Outlook in here? Hasn't it been shown time and again that using either Outlook or IE is like internet suicide?!
I remember a game I used to play on Sony Station, which looks like it was the predecessor to this game. I can't remember its name...
It used to be free, and when they started charging for it I got out of there (and so did a lot of other people). It certainly wasn't worth paying for, and this game doesn't look like its worth $12/month. Thats steep! I can buy Neverwinter Nights and only pay one fee, equivalent to half a year with this game. Sick.
I use the website domain as the prefix for the email address, eg if the website is dell.ca, then the email address I give them is dell.ca@mydomain.com
In this way I'm never likely to need any of the addresses I give out for anything else, and they are very unlikely to overlap.
To go with this analogy:
It's more like if you lend someone $10, they say they can't pay, you sue them for $1000 but offer a settlement of $100. Sounds like racketeering to me.
Isn't this what we all advertise OS as being, so companies will start using it? Obviously not everyone is going to give back or contribute to the OS community, but there will always be a percentage. As the number of users grows, so will the number of contributors.
What I'm most afraid of is companies abusing OS software and commercializing it beyond recognition, to the point where the OS community is lost.
Nonetheless, incetives such as tax cuts do sound like an interesting idea.
Yes Opera does do this with their mail client. There are a few others out there that do it as well. But come on, we didn't really expect MS to innovate did we? This is just another fine example of the lieing attitude that pervades MS. Of course the other side of the coin must exist too, and that is the users who believe everything MS says. I can understand users who just don't care and don't want a hassle, but so many of them become zealots for MS crap that its scary. At least with linux zealots they are fighting for a more noble cause, and a better OS.
Or you could just type 'iexplore' in the run command. Funny, that...
I suppose you are talking about emails. If you turn off your email clients ability to display html, then you will see the real address every time. I think that html emails are a scourge. All they do is pretty things up, at the best. At the worst, they cause link confusion like you speak of, display porn pictures when they are unwanted, and let old aunty send blue text on purple background emails with animated gifs and some sound in the background.
Email is for communicating. If you want a document then make a website.
Although WindowsXP and 2k are more stable than previous versions, they are not as stable as linux. I install OS's for a living, and of course deal with them later in their lives. One thing I can say for sure: I've crashed WindowsXP and 2k many-a-time, and so rarely crashed linux that I can't even remember one instance (I can remember a windowsXP instance - last night! Damn scorched3d is buggy!).
Truth is, if I setup a windowsXP machine and spend the time to make it slick, and then do the same with a linux box, the linux box will last virtually forever without any problems (even with dumb users - you have to set them up properly to deal with lay people), whereas the windows box is having problems within a few months. There really isnt any comparison: If the computer is setup by an expert, a linux box is substantially better than a windows box. The only circumstances where windows is more desireable than linux is when there are specific software or hardware requirements which can't be met, such as games.
So you get a +2 informative, but I get modded down from +2 insightful to +1offtopic. Buggers. I was as on topic as this whole thread!
No I read it. He was specifically being attacked for lack of faith. Now then, did you read my comment enough to figure that out?
Haha, nice one.
Yeah lets ignore data, the one thing which actually makes sense, and instead rely on our wishes.
If a car is about to hit you, no amount of faith is going to help. Thats what the DATA says. Prove me wrong, please.