the 'functionality' cant be thought of by the interface alone.
i used to use yahoo and some time back and i tried to open a old email in my yahoo account and it gave me a error saying the mail cannot be found or something. it was listed in the inbox but i couldnt open it. i tried a few more mails and almost all of my emails which were about a year old coldnt be opened. i checked with a friend and he had the same problem. I had lost most of my emails cuz of some stupid yahoo error and i wasnt able to keep a backup of them because yahoo dont allow pop or imap access on free accounts.
then came google which not only gave much more space, faster access but unrestricted pop3 access as well. this makes google much much better than yahoo for me. also i like the simpler interface of google it has just the right functionality and its also very fast (maybe yahoo is just as fast i didnt test i only saw the screenshots). but since i have pop access to it i can download them to my home server (which is what i do) and access them through my webmail service at home where i can have any feature i care to implement.
i thought about this as well. this would certainly make it a bit more secure but most people (specially women) have there cards in their big handbags which can dampen the ringing tone and the vibration altert of the average phone in a mildly busy enviroment so i dont think a card would have sufficent chance of bieng heard/felt in such a case. the checkpoints to check up on the card accesses would be good (ATMS could do this) but as u said thats quite inconvient and how many people would be willing to do it every week.
any credit card is a security risk the but reason that credit card companies still use them is because the the number of fraud to legitimate use rate is low enough to have a good profit. but this new card has more vulnerabilities than a normal card while not adding sufficent amount of benifits.
i think this is just a hype by mastercard to gain a technological lead over Visa which seem to be in lead these days (visa first created the 'verified by visa' system which then mastercard adopted as well. IIRC visa was also the one who created CISP standard as well).
True they seem to be secure. but smartcards have been hacked to certain amount. the problem is that these kinds of cards make hacking attempts very attractive beacuse the hacker can attempt to hack a card without the owner of the card getting any indication that such a hack is taking place. with a traditional card someone would have to steal the physical card which you would notice within a day or two at max but with these sort of cards you wouldnt know that something went wrong till the monthly bill comes. (i'm only considering the card present transactions here since online transactions only need the cards number and it wouldnt make a difference as to wether its a smart card or a normal card).
i prefer html. any text editor can create them. even in the odd chance of all webbrowsing software dissapearing off the face of the earth you would still be able to extract most of, if not all of the text quite easily. plus it has good enough formatting to be used for pretty much any document.
What he said was its okay for an individual to decide who on what country would be allowed to email them. but no other person should decide it for them (ex. the ISP, Goverment, etc.).
Consider someother person who you would like to email (maybe you wanted to talk to him about his very nice opensource product which you just found out about?) if that person has blocked you then there is little you can do since it was his choice. but what if his ISP has blocked you for some pigheaded reason?
blocking ip ranges of anykind should only be an option for the end user. not for anyone else.
SL has been in a civil war for 30 years. and how is this open source movement going to make good press for us? do you think that the goverment hoped that Linus or you slashdotters come and help fight the civil war once they declared the open source week? FYI the week is the result of the local linux and opensource movment which is gather momentum among university students and several IT companies.
Sri Lanka up until now was using pirated software (even now this is true for most part). this is because most people here cant afford to pay for MS Windows and MS Office which is 'needed' to run their computers. Paying for the hardware alone is difficult for most people. however since microsoft has setup a prescence here in SL and started going after pirated software people (specially computer dealers) have been looking for alternative software. so Linux has a good chance of being picked up by everyone. only thing stopping most people is the fact that most lay users cant get any training for linux and the fact that most custom software used in companies were developed for windows or dos (also there arent as many developers for linux).
other opensource software seems to be catching up slowly (openoffice, firefox, etc.). i think with a little more help from the goverment (like promoting linux in schools) linux would start to catch up more quickly. microsoft going after software pirates a little more aggressivly would also help;)
They also don't allow customizing of fonts, which I'm glad of but will mean they'll never capture the IM crowd.
its still beta. i'm sure the things will improve by the time they do the release version. also in the faq they have mentioned that they will be supporting encryption which will defintley move me from msn to google talk.
also since there using the jabber protocol i think it would be possible to use one of the other clients which support fancy fonts and stuff to get these features (they have mentioned that you can use these other clients in the faq)
pretty much everything that google has done has been a improvement from what others have done. so i doubt they wouldve started a IM service just to make "just another chat client".
i'm trying to download the link the exe and extract the binary data from the mirror dot link (mirrordot as archived it as html and added banners to the top).
start.com was slow for me very slow took more than 10 seconds to load whereas google.com/ig loaded near instantaniously. i even tried with a clean cache but the result was the same.
its easy for you to check if your machine has port 80 open. but then i doubt any geek on slashdot would not notice his pc becoming a zombie machine. but most computer users arent slashdot geeks. they wouldnt try browing http://localhost./ hell they wouldnt even know what localhost or what a port is. most people dont even know about spyware. just take a look at how many people open exe or other executable attachements that they get from email.
closing free webhosts would achieve nothing. it would just be like microsofts activation scheme which does nothing but hinder the legitimate users pirates have cracks which allow them to do anything they want with the OS. free webhosts are usefull they are (mostly) easy to use. most not web savy but otherwise skilled people put very usefull information in those site.
i think this concept of releasing the harry potter book at the same time worldwide is a good thing. reason being that if they were to do it any other way then some places would obiviously release the books earlier than others and then those who can get the books early would sell those books at a higher price. this synchronous releasing of the books prevent that.
also like other posters have said this is anything but DRM. what scholastic is doing is not governing what the readers will be doing with the book but only when they (scholostic) will start selling it.
i was just about to say the same thing. just because he used gnome there was no reason that he could run a application which use QT.
also "WINE is not a emulator" if the windows application is perfect for your needs AND if it runs well with wine (i dont know if it does) then why not use it. using a program that was built for windows isnt such a bad thing.
i know it was a Microsoft controlled server. and that the blame of not patching the server goes to microsoft. i was merely pointing out that windows cant be blamed for this because a patch already existed. the blaim still goes to microsoft but to its system admins not the OS developers (which is usually the case).
its the responsibility of the people who use the operating system to choose one that serves there need. if they run a microsoft server they need to apply the patches no matter how frequent they might be. if they dont like it they should choose different OS. but you cant blame MS if they supply the patches and they choose not to install it.
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the 'functionality' cant be thought of by the interface alone.
i used to use yahoo and some time back and i tried to open a old email in my yahoo account and it gave me a error saying the mail cannot be found or something. it was listed in the inbox but i couldnt open it. i tried a few more mails and almost all of my emails which were about a year old coldnt be opened. i checked with a friend and he had the same problem. I had lost most of my emails cuz of some stupid yahoo error and i wasnt able to keep a backup of them because yahoo dont allow pop or imap access on free accounts.
then came google which not only gave much more space, faster access but unrestricted pop3 access as well. this makes google much much better than yahoo for me. also i like the simpler interface of google it has just the right functionality and its also very fast (maybe yahoo is just as fast i didnt test i only saw the screenshots). but since i have pop access to it i can download them to my home server (which is what i do) and access them through my webmail service at home where i can have any feature i care to implement.
i thought about this as well. this would certainly make it a bit more secure but most people (specially women) have there cards in their big handbags which can dampen the ringing tone and the vibration altert of the average phone in a mildly busy enviroment so i dont think a card would have sufficent chance of bieng heard/felt in such a case. the checkpoints to check up on the card accesses would be good (ATMS could do this) but as u said thats quite inconvient and how many people would be willing to do it every week.
any credit card is a security risk the but reason that credit card companies still use them is because the the number of fraud to legitimate use rate is low enough to have a good profit. but this new card has more vulnerabilities than a normal card while not adding sufficent amount of benifits.
i think this is just a hype by mastercard to gain a technological lead over Visa which seem to be in lead these days (visa first created the 'verified by visa' system which then mastercard adopted as well. IIRC visa was also the one who created CISP standard as well).
True they seem to be secure. but smartcards have been hacked to certain amount. the problem is that these kinds of cards make hacking attempts very attractive beacuse the hacker can attempt to hack a card without the owner of the card getting any indication that such a hack is taking place. with a traditional card someone would have to steal the physical card which you would notice within a day or two at max but with these sort of cards you wouldnt know that something went wrong till the monthly bill comes. (i'm only considering the card present transactions here since online transactions only need the cards number and it wouldnt make a difference as to wether its a smart card or a normal card).
i prefer html. any text editor can create them. even in the odd chance of all webbrowsing software dissapearing off the face of the earth you would still be able to extract most of, if not all of the text quite easily. plus it has good enough formatting to be used for pretty much any document.
What he said was its okay for an individual to decide who on what country would be allowed to email them. but no other person should decide it for them (ex. the ISP, Goverment, etc.).
Consider someother person who you would like to email (maybe you wanted to talk to him about his very nice opensource product which you just found out about?) if that person has blocked you then there is little you can do since it was his choice. but what if his ISP has blocked you for some pigheaded reason?
blocking ip ranges of anykind should only be an option for the end user. not for anyone else.
Fictionwise also has a library which uses a similar technique to lend ebooks. its actually rather good though it doesnt have any good books as yet.
small typo its 20 years not 30.
Not to self: use the preview button.
SL has been in a civil war for 30 years. and how is this open source movement going to make good press for us? do you think that the goverment hoped that Linus or you slashdotters come and help fight the civil war once they declared the open source week? FYI the week is the result of the local linux and opensource movment which is gather momentum among university students and several IT companies.
Sri Lanka up until now was using pirated software (even now this is true for most part). this is because most people here cant afford to pay for MS Windows and MS Office which is 'needed' to run their computers. Paying for the hardware alone is difficult for most people. however since microsoft has setup a prescence here in SL and started going after pirated software people (specially computer dealers) have been looking for alternative software. so Linux has a good chance of being picked up by everyone. only thing stopping most people is the fact that most lay users cant get any training for linux and the fact that most custom software used in companies were developed for windows or dos (also there arent as many developers for linux).
;)
other opensource software seems to be catching up slowly (openoffice, firefox, etc.). i think with a little more help from the goverment (like promoting linux in schools) linux would start to catch up more quickly. microsoft going after software pirates a little more aggressivly would also help
They also don't allow customizing of fonts, which I'm glad of but will mean they'll never capture the IM crowd.
its still beta. i'm sure the things will improve by the time they do the release version. also in the faq they have mentioned that they will be supporting encryption which will defintley move me from msn to google talk.
also since there using the jabber protocol i think it would be possible to use one of the other clients which support fancy fonts and stuff to get these features (they have mentioned that you can use these other clients in the faq)
pretty much everything that google has done has been a improvement from what others have done. so i doubt they wouldve started a IM service just to make "just another chat client".
i have put the Drivey013.exe into Rapidshare (it was extracted from the mirrordot copy after extracting the html junk which mirror dot put in it.)
theres a
mirror in mirrordot
i'm trying to download the link the exe and extract the binary data from the mirror dot link (mirrordot as archived it as html and added banners to the top).
implement something like SpamCannibal. i implemented something like it on my server and its cool to see them getting tarpitted for hours.
start.com was slow for me very slow took more than 10 seconds to load whereas google.com/ig loaded near instantaniously. i even tried with a clean cache but the result was the same.
its easy for you to check if your machine has port 80 open. but then i doubt any geek on slashdot would not notice his pc becoming a zombie machine. but most computer users arent slashdot geeks. they wouldnt try browing http://localhost./ hell they wouldnt even know what localhost or what a port is. most people dont even know about spyware. just take a look at how many people open exe or other executable attachements that they get from email.
closing free webhosts would achieve nothing. it would just be like microsofts activation scheme which does nothing but hinder the legitimate users pirates have cracks which allow them to do anything they want with the OS. free webhosts are usefull they are (mostly) easy to use. most not web savy but otherwise skilled people put very usefull information in those site.
nobody killed him. it was just a extreme case of slashdotting.... physically.
Ok. go on confess. which one of you slashdotters did it?
any "in russia" jokes?
looking at this and all the other similar articles i wonder if US can still be refferred to as the "land of the free"....
me too... infact i can see it lying on the floor in a coner right now. (pulled some old boxes last week didnt put some of them back in yet)
i think this concept of releasing the harry potter book at the same time worldwide is a good thing. reason being that if they were to do it any other way then some places would obiviously release the books earlier than others and then those who can get the books early would sell those books at a higher price. this synchronous releasing of the books prevent that.
also like other posters have said this is anything but DRM. what scholastic is doing is not governing what the readers will be doing with the book but only when they (scholostic) will start selling it.
i was just about to say the same thing. just because he used gnome there was no reason that he could run a application which use QT.
also "WINE is not a emulator" if the windows application is perfect for your needs AND if it runs well with wine (i dont know if it does) then why not use it. using a program that was built for windows isnt such a bad thing.
I use the ROT13 bookmarklet written by Jesse Ruderman (maintainer of the Burning Edge Blog)
i know it was a Microsoft controlled server. and that the blame of not patching the server goes to microsoft. i was merely pointing out that windows cant be blamed for this because a patch already existed. the blaim still goes to microsoft but to its system admins not the OS developers (which is usually the case).
its the responsibility of the people who use the operating system to choose one that serves there need.
if they run a microsoft server they need to apply the patches no matter how frequent they might be. if they dont like it they should choose different OS. but you cant blame MS if they supply the patches and they choose not to install it.
(which is why i use a linux server).