Come on. They've put how much time and money into developing IE7?
No way they would do all that then scrap it for Opera.
Not to say that Opera isn't better (I don't know). But it would be an incredible waste. If they were going to do such a thing, they would have bought Opera before they started developing IE7.
I used to use the Proxomitron. That got rid of most. Unfortunately it's a bit out of date now, and not cross-platform. So now I use Privoxy. The web interface isn't bad, and the perl-style regular expressions are easier to use than Proxomitron's own language.
Why Privoxy? Because it works on _all_ browsers and platforms that I run. And it's dynamic. I can block anything close to 'ad' or 'banner' without having to add each ad server to my block list. Much easier.
If you're looking for something a little more like a collaboration suite, try Egroupware. Has email+calendar + much more.
Idots2 is a replacement interface for Egroupware that is a whole desktop / multitasking environment in JavaScript. It's pure candy. A little slow on our old server, but beautiful nonetheless. Try the demo.
I believe TightVNC and RealVNC have scaling, i.e. the client window can be a different size (I don't know if this is dependent more on the server or client). This is one thing I haven't been able to do with OSX VNC.
But I've also used the two interchangeably without problem (i.e. RealVNC host -> TightVNC client, but I guess that's the whole idea behind VNC).
The only thing I've noticed that RealVNC and TightVNC seem to lack is encrypted authentication - I think passwords are sent plaintext. Could be wrong. There could also be some plugin to enable this but I haven't noticed.
But I guess *nix users would argue that is their Office.
I didn't think Tomcat was an app server...
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I didn't think Tomcat was really considered an app server, since Tomcat doesn't support EJBs. Tomcat is just a "Servlet/ JSP container," which JBoss happens to use now in its app server.
Shouldn't this be compared to JBoss or Sun's app server (I forget what they call it)?
Tweak profiles?? What, are you trying to trick people into dating you?
If you want casual dating, just start asking girls that you meet (it helps if you at least know them a little) if they'd like to go out to dinner- just something friendly and casual. I think I would rather pick the people I ask out rather than having a system pick for me.
But above that, I would work on seperating (intimate) relationships from intimate (in a Platonic sense) or casual friendships. If you're just looking for someone to spend time with, let the person be your friend and no more. Mixing the two doesn't work. If you want a relationship, make it a serious, committed relationship and not a "no commitments" thing. That usually doesn't work because once emotions (inevitably) get involved, one of the two won't want to let go, and that leads to ruined friendships.
Just my advice, from my experience. But I made the mistake the first time, and this time I got it right. I'm now engaged to the girl who I've been seriously dating for two years, and we're best friends because we take things seriously, not casually.
I'd say if you want something casual, stick to hanging out with friends and having fun that way. I think it works out better in the long run.
And I think it may help if you and your partner have different strengths and weaknesses so that you compliment each other somewhat.
Right now I'm taking a real-time and embedded systems course at RIT. The idea is that it's inter-disciplinary: CE, EE, CS and SE students are taking the course.
So for the projects, they pair a CS or SE student with a CE or EE student. This makes for teams with one person who's strong in lower level (assembly/ hardware) work, and another who's more familiar with higher- level programming concepts.
I've found that while my teammate knows the assembly much better than I do (I'm SE) I can more easily grasp the overall design and algorithms involved to complete the task. This actually made for very productive work since it's like having two different perspectives working on the same puzzle.
I imagine that if both of the ppl involved were at the same level knowledge-wise, it could get frustrating. In that case I would just look for peer review. But in my case it's been working great.
Awesome. This was the only reason I used outlook express - because I could get a decent free email service with non- browser access. Now that I can't do that, I'm just going to stop using both.
Winroll does most of what you're asking for there. The transparency, send to back, etc. are secondary features, but easy enough to use. Look at the help to see how it's done.
"The SCMS and royalty requirements [of the AHRA] apply only to digital audio recording devices. Because computers are not digital audio recording devices, they are not required to comply with Serial Copy Management System requirement... It is clear from the language of the AHRA, and subsequent judicial interpretations of the statute, that Congress did not anticipate ten years ago that the SCMS would be inadequate to contain the impending home digital recording explosion that was galvanized by the Internet."
I hate to say it, but I don't think the AHRA is sufficient or really applies in this case. The article does go on to talk about amendments to the AHRA rather than passing new industry- lobbied legislation. It suggests some good ideas for amendments. Very interesting.
I've been interning in the QA department for a Software company for a while now. Since I'm really going to school for Software Engineering, manual testing gets boring very fast.
Luckily, my boss has tasked me with looking for better automating solutions. The product being a J2EE web app, I've found a few useful tools from Apache's Jakarta project:
Cactus (functional verification of J2EE components)
JMeter (for performance- based evaluation, more from an HTTP front-end, but you can write Java plugins for it).
I've used JMeter a bit, writing a Java extension to make requests to an XML interface to the product. Works well for functional verification, as well as performance- testing the business layer.
Spymac offers some web storage space (via webDAV or FTP)- I think you get 250 MB in addition to the 1 GB of mail space.
Service is just a tad bit spotty at times, but most of the time (I'd say like 95%) it's reliable. Transfer speed is good enough for my DSL connection too.
I did quite a bit of testing on SP2 to verify that it works with our (fairly large) enterprise web app. The app uses ActiveX, offscreen pages, popups of all sorts, etc... The only thing that had to be changed for compatibility was the URL had to be added to the "trusted sites" zone. That's it. Not a whole lot of compatibility problems.
On the server side, it took about 5 minutes to configure the firewall to allow the web and/ or database server to listen for incoming connections. Again, not really a big deal.
I think the only place there will be compatibility problems is on the "install this great free adware/ dialer" pages. But then again, social engineering and uninformed users are the source of most of the problems anyway. I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't really like MS either, but I think the compatibility fears with SP2 are somewhat overblown.
Main feature is to roll up the window into the title bar, a la WindowBlinds but it will also minimize to system tray, make the window translucent, send to the back, always on top... Some others. You can kinda use the "minimize to system tray" feature to re-order windows, since when you restore the window it goes to the end of the taskbar list.
If they can't seem to patch their OS fast enough, what makes them think they can keep their AV software up to date?
I think the problem with patches (once the hole is found) is that it's a pain in the arse for sys admins to install another patch on a whole network, especially if it may cause problems in their environment. That's why MS started only releasing patches once a month (so I understand).
So I think the idea here may be that AV will have less of an effect on the OS but still protect against exploits, since it's just another applicatoion running on the computer rather than a change to the OS. Hence it's easier to deploy an AV update than a patch. MS usually has patches done in short order after a vuln is found anyways.
The other thing is, AV does protect stupid people, if the virus definitions are up to date, because it can scan email attachments and watch what ppl download to stop them from doing something stupid.
Not to say that stupid people won't find a way to break things anyway...
This also doesn't justify MS making their own AV when there are already perfectly good solutions out there (MacAffee and Norton). I wouldn't use MS's AV anyways. The UI would probably be a rediculously dumbed wizard like their explorer search or windows firewall. No thanks. The whole thing sounds like monopoly leverage to me.
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Come on. They've put how much time and money into developing IE7? No way they would do all that then scrap it for Opera. Not to say that Opera isn't better (I don't know). But it would be an incredible waste. If they were going to do such a thing, they would have bought Opera before they started developing IE7.
I used to use the Proxomitron. That got rid of most. Unfortunately it's a bit out of date now, and not cross-platform. So now I use Privoxy. The web interface isn't bad, and the perl-style regular expressions are easier to use than Proxomitron's own language.
Why Privoxy? Because it works on _all_ browsers and platforms that I run. And it's dynamic. I can block anything close to 'ad' or 'banner' without having to add each ad server to my block list. Much easier.
Idots2 is a replacement interface for Egroupware that is a whole desktop / multitasking environment in JavaScript. It's pure candy. A little slow on our old server, but beautiful nonetheless. Try the demo.
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But I've also used the two interchangeably without problem (i.e. RealVNC host -> TightVNC client, but I guess that's the whole idea behind VNC).
The only thing I've noticed that RealVNC and TightVNC seem to lack is encrypted authentication - I think passwords are sent plaintext. Could be wrong. There could also be some plugin to enable this but I haven't noticed.
Ummm... Emacs, for one.
But I guess *nix users would argue that is their Office.
I didn't think Tomcat was really considered an app server, since Tomcat doesn't support EJBs. Tomcat is just a "Servlet/ JSP container," which JBoss happens to use now in its app server.
Shouldn't this be compared to JBoss or Sun's app server (I forget what they call it)?
If you want casual dating, just start asking girls that you meet (it helps if you at least know them a little) if they'd like to go out to dinner- just something friendly and casual. I think I would rather pick the people I ask out rather than having a system pick for me.
But above that, I would work on seperating (intimate) relationships from intimate (in a Platonic sense) or casual friendships. If you're just looking for someone to spend time with, let the person be your friend and no more. Mixing the two doesn't work. If you want a relationship, make it a serious, committed relationship and not a "no commitments" thing. That usually doesn't work because once emotions (inevitably) get involved, one of the two won't want to let go, and that leads to ruined friendships.
Just my advice, from my experience. But I made the mistake the first time, and this time I got it right. I'm now engaged to the girl who I've been seriously dating for two years, and we're best friends because we take things seriously, not casually.
I'd say if you want something casual, stick to hanging out with friends and having fun that way. I think it works out better in the long run.
Right now I'm taking a real-time and embedded systems course at RIT. The idea is that it's inter-disciplinary: CE, EE, CS and SE students are taking the course.
So for the projects, they pair a CS or SE student with a CE or EE student. This makes for teams with one person who's strong in lower level (assembly/ hardware) work, and another who's more familiar with higher- level programming concepts.
I've found that while my teammate knows the assembly much better than I do (I'm SE) I can more easily grasp the overall design and algorithms involved to complete the task. This actually made for very productive work since it's like having two different perspectives working on the same puzzle.
I imagine that if both of the ppl involved were at the same level knowledge-wise, it could get frustrating. In that case I would just look for peer review. But in my case it's been working great.
Good job, MSN.
Another useful one is VirtuaWin.
Of course this is offtopic, but they're two Windows apps that I can't live without.
Interesting quote:
I hate to say it, but I don't think the AHRA is sufficient or really applies in this case. The article does go on to talk about amendments to the AHRA rather than passing new industry- lobbied legislation. It suggests some good ideas for amendments. Very interesting.
Viruses and spyware just rely more on social engineering, and the only way to 'fix' that is by limiting what the user can do.
Luckily, my boss has tasked me with looking for better automating solutions. The product being a J2EE web app, I've found a few useful tools from Apache's Jakarta project:
- Cactus (functional verification of J2EE components)
- JMeter (for performance- based evaluation, more from an HTTP front-end, but you can write Java plugins for it).
I've used JMeter a bit, writing a Java extension to make requests to an XML interface to the product. Works well for functional verification, as well as performance- testing the business layer.Judging by the latest SOHO images, it looks like the sun spots are already past us... But IANAA (I am not an astronomer).
Of course, this quip made him lose the business competition. If he was a real businessman he would have patented it and charged a 50% licensing fee.
Service is just a tad bit spotty at times, but most of the time (I'd say like 95%) it's reliable. Transfer speed is good enough for my DSL connection too.
On the server side, it took about 5 minutes to configure the firewall to allow the web and/ or database server to listen for incoming connections. Again, not really a big deal.
I think the only place there will be compatibility problems is on the "install this great free adware/ dialer" pages. But then again, social engineering and uninformed users are the source of most of the problems anyway. I mean, don't get me wrong, I don't really like MS either, but I think the compatibility fears with SP2 are somewhat overblown.
Hey, don't they say math is the universal language?
Plus it's FOSS. Also highly optimized assembly. Super small binary. http://www.palma.com.au/winroll/
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I mean, come on, they need to stop kidding themselves here and just get with it.
So I think the idea here may be that AV will have less of an effect on the OS but still protect against exploits, since it's just another applicatoion running on the computer rather than a change to the OS. Hence it's easier to deploy an AV update than a patch. MS usually has patches done in short order after a vuln is found anyways.
The other thing is, AV does protect stupid people, if the virus definitions are up to date, because it can scan email attachments and watch what ppl download to stop them from doing something stupid.
Not to say that stupid people won't find a way to break things anyway...
This also doesn't justify MS making their own AV when there are already perfectly good solutions out there (MacAffee and Norton). I wouldn't use MS's AV anyways. The UI would probably be a rediculously dumbed wizard like their explorer search or windows firewall. No thanks. The whole thing sounds like monopoly leverage to me.
1. Proxomitron - awesome web filter.
2. mSys+mSysDTK+MinGW (extremely useful *nix tools that don't require a Cygwin shell)
3. Winroll -Next best thing to a useful Windows desktop manager
4. Sysinternals utilities
5. Vim!!
Of course others, but they've been mentioned above.