If you're using Windows or Mac - this was included in the license that you agreed to when you installed Firefox.
If you're using Linux - this is a bug that has been fixed in source control. The new Firefox LicenseBar(tm), as seen in Ubuntu, will be appearing in all distros and platforms soon.
'Welcome to Ubuntu 7.04, Feisty Fawn!' Large font size. I'm looking at it right now. Firefox is probably the first thing most 'ordinary' users open. If you've changed your home page and don't believe me, have a look:/usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/index.html
It's also prominent in System > About Ubuntu and likely other places.
It baffles me how people claim the codenames do not appear in the official releases. They always have, as far as I know.
As a user of OpenDNS, I didn't believe your post at first, but I verified it for myself:
$ host www.google.com www.google.com is an alias for google.navigation.opendns.com. google.navigation. opendns.com has address 208.67.217.230 google.navigation.opendns.com has address 208.67.217.231 www.google.com is an alias for google.navigation.opendns.com. www.google.com is an alias for google.navigation.opendns.com.
So I went searching around OpenDNS's support areas, and found this thread in their forums in which users are complaining about this issue.
Digging deeper, I found that the answer to why they're doing this is in fact in TFA linked to this same Slashdot story (emphasis mine):
The solution to this problem was to route Google requests through a machine we run to check if the request is a typo or one of your shortcuts. If it is a typo or shortcut then we do what we always do, just fix the typo or launch your shortcut and send you off on your way. If it's not one of those two things, we pass it on to Google for them to give you search results. This solution provides the best of both worlds: OpenDNS users get back the features that they love and Google continues to operate without problems. Interestingly, OpenDNS does not capture the user's redirection to the Dell page, or else neither I nor any other OpenDNS user would be able to get to this example. The only reason they're doing this is to apparently keep their 'typo correction' and 'shortcuts' features, which immediately send you on your way without showing any ads or anything. So basically, OpenDNS is only attempting prevent the toolbar from breaking their free, non-advertisement services, which is a nice gesture considering they'd never get to show ads to these Dell users who use OpenDNS, and hence not make any money from them.
However, as seen in the forums, this little workaround seems to be breaking other things for other users, and is simply disconcerting to users such as myself who didn't know the reason for it.
Here's a temporary workaround for their workaround: go to 'google.com', no 'www'. On OpenDNS, this resolves normally:
$ host google.com google.com has address 64.233.187.99 google.com has address 64.233.167.99 google.com has address 72.14.207.99 google.com mail is handled by 10 smtp4.google.com. google.com mail is handled by 10 smtp1.google.com. google.com mail is handled by 10 smtp2.google.com. google.com mail is handled by 10 smtp3.google.com.
I wouldn't be surprised if OpenDNS is still working on it, though. They seem to be very conscious of their technically-minded userbase.
That sounds like a really good idea. Obviously it would be illegal to distribute, but could you post instructions somewhere on how to make one of those?
If you want to be able to use your DS online, you have to turn WPA off on your router. Completely. Meaning all of your wireless devices are unsecured. You can use WEP, but the script kiddies next door can break it in a day or less.
...because neither Skype nor GTalk use their own audio codec. They both license it, coincidentially from the same company (Global IP Sound)! If you don't believe me, check each program's 'About' dialog.
I find it hilarious that parent post is modded 'Insightful'.
I can just picture some mod sitting and reading over that post, stroking his beard, saying to himself... 'by jove, that guy's right, Barney DOES make me feel that way!' (*clicks Insightful*) 'Hmm, I'd better go see if my diplomatic immunity papers cover that...'
What if Apple introduces OS 10.5, its next super-duper operating system release, and at the same time starts loading FOR FREE the current operating system version--OS 10.4--on every new iPod [as a bootable drive] in a version that runs on generic Intel boxes? What if they also make 10.4 a free download through the iTunes Music Store?
I seem to recall As Seen on TV saying that when accessed constantly, iPod hard drives' life expectencies are measured in the tens of hours.
1. Gizmo is NOT OPEN SOURCE. It runs on Linux, sure.* So does Skype. But how can you call it FOSS if it's closed-source? Just because it uses an open protocol? HTTP is open but you don't call MSIE 'FOSS'.
2. SIP does not 'annihilate' VoIP. SIP *is* a VoIP technology. If anything, SIP *furthers* VoIP. But not so much as Skype, which removes much of the frustration of firewall traversal.
3. Michael Robertson (MP3.com, Lindows, Gizmo) is the guy who thinks all Linux programs should be run as root. I would not touch any software that he has so much as looked at.
* Actually, it doesn't run on Linux yet. They promise a version will come Real Soon Now(tm).
Why is this being reported as true? The linked Pro-G article basically describes the conclusions the study comes to as 'baffling', concluding with: 'I don't think that the general opinion on the two systems is as clear cut as the report suggests.'Joystiq agrees: 'A report like this is hard to take seriously.' Then again, so is/. these days...
Isn't that just begging for abuse, though? People could use proxies to create limitless amounts of free accounts, each with several minutes of talk time... you could probably even write a script to automate that.
I don't see a way around it, other than demanding a credit card number up front; but even if you stress that it's 'just for verification purposes', people and slashbots alike tend to balk at that kind of thing.
It's not [Universal [Media Disc]], it's [[Universal Media] Disc].
It's named because it can contain a relatively wide variety of types of media (audio, video, games); not because the number of devices it can be played in (for now, only the PSP).
I seem to recall that the 'broken' stylesheet was designed for a broken version of Netscape... it fixed a very specific bug in Netscape wherein something would get rendered way off-base, hence the stylesheet fixed it.
Unfortunately the best reference I can be arsed to find is this Wikipedia article, which at least agrees that the stylesheet was targetted at a specific bug.
While I don't recall Microsoft's stance on the whole thing, it's not unreasonable to think that it was an accident that the stylesheet got passed to Opera. Ever seen Opera's user-agent string? It identifies itself as BOTH Opera AND Internet Explorer. If that's not asking for trouble I don't know what is...
This is the kind of thing I wish Sony would hear. They actually stand to profit from giving us what we want and opening up 1.5 to homebrew, via sales of memory cards and probably more systems, yet they don't!
Tycho of Penny Arcade had a little rant the other day that I thought was quite succinct. Here's an excerpt:
How would I distinguish the PSP from full platforms? Let me count the ways:
* Full platforms can play any audio type, or allow applications to do so. . ..
* Full platforms can play any type of video, or allow applications to do so, and these videos should be able to use the entire resolution of the screen. . ..
* Executable code
I'm willing to bend on this one if you give me the other two. But letting people expand the functionality and value of your hardware isn't some imaginary thing. People write whole browsers and operating systems and every other Goddamn contraption, just because it's there. They'll make your product the kind of phenomenon you couldn't pay someone to create.
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Gruber disagrees about the iPhone having any swap space at all: http://daringfireball.net/2008/03/one_app_at_a_time
But I don't know where either of you got your information.
If you're using Windows or Mac - this was included in the license that you agreed to when you installed Firefox.
If you're using Linux - this is a bug that has been fixed in source control. The new Firefox LicenseBar(tm), as seen in Ubuntu, will be appearing in all distros and platforms soon.
Actually, while WWVB does send UTC time, it also sends a 'daylight saving time status' code.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB#Modulation_Format
Nothing about the OpenID spec requires an e-mail address, or even a password: http://www.jkg.in/openid/
The word is synchronicity. Enjoy.
I bet you raise as much fuss about the phrase 'identity theft', don't you?
I like how this is modded Insightful. Slashdot mod: 'Oh, wow! I never realised that about Mr T, but it's SO TRUE!'
Yes yes, I know, broken karma system, etc.
'Welcome to Ubuntu 7.04, Feisty Fawn!' Large font size. I'm looking at it right now. Firefox is probably the first thing most 'ordinary' users open. If you've changed your home page and don't believe me, have a look: /usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/index.html
It's also prominent in System > About Ubuntu and likely other places.
It baffles me how people claim the codenames do not appear in the official releases. They always have, as far as I know.
Digging deeper, I found that the answer to why they're doing this is in fact in TFA linked to this same Slashdot story (emphasis mine): The solution to this problem was to route Google requests through a machine we run to check if the request is a typo or one of your shortcuts. If it is a typo or shortcut then we do what we always do, just fix the typo or launch your shortcut and send you off on your way. If it's not one of those two things, we pass it on to Google for them to give you search results. This solution provides the best of both worlds: OpenDNS users get back the features that they love and Google continues to operate without problems. Interestingly, OpenDNS does not capture the user's redirection to the Dell page, or else neither I nor any other OpenDNS user would be able to get to this example. The only reason they're doing this is to apparently keep their 'typo correction' and 'shortcuts' features, which immediately send you on your way without showing any ads or anything. So basically, OpenDNS is only attempting prevent the toolbar from breaking their free, non-advertisement services, which is a nice gesture considering they'd never get to show ads to these Dell users who use OpenDNS, and hence not make any money from them.
However, as seen in the forums, this little workaround seems to be breaking other things for other users, and is simply disconcerting to users such as myself who didn't know the reason for it.
Here's a temporary workaround for their workaround: go to 'google.com', no 'www'. On OpenDNS, this resolves normally: I wouldn't be surprised if OpenDNS is still working on it, though. They seem to be very conscious of their technically-minded userbase.
...and this is why! Well, this probably isn't why, but nevertheless...
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That sounds like a really good idea. Obviously it would be illegal to distribute, but could you post instructions somewhere on how to make one of those?
Opera uses its own custom HTML rendering engine, called Presto. I think it's been around longer than KHTML.
If you want to be able to use your DS online, you have to turn WPA off on your router. Completely. Meaning all of your wireless devices are unsecured. You can use WEP, but the script kiddies next door can break it in a day or less.
...because neither Skype nor GTalk use their own audio codec. They both license it, coincidentially from the same company (Global IP Sound)! If you don't believe me, check each program's 'About' dialog.
And... unlike... unlike what? WHAT HAPPENED? This post was cancelled? That's BULLSHIT! It was just starting to get good! DAMN YOU SLASHDOT!
I find it hilarious that parent post is modded 'Insightful'.
I can just picture some mod sitting and reading over that post, stroking his beard, saying to himself... 'by jove, that guy's right, Barney DOES make me feel that way!' (*clicks Insightful*) 'Hmm, I'd better go see if my diplomatic immunity papers cover that...'
...that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
They said it was a possibility. They did not 'announce' it.
What if Apple introduces OS 10.5, its next super-duper operating system release, and at the same time starts loading FOR FREE the current operating system version--OS 10.4--on every new iPod [as a bootable drive] in a version that runs on generic Intel boxes? What if they also make 10.4 a free download through the iTunes Music Store?
I seem to recall As Seen on TV saying that when accessed constantly, iPod hard drives' life expectencies are measured in the tens of hours.
1. Gizmo is NOT OPEN SOURCE. It runs on Linux, sure.* So does Skype. But how can you call it FOSS if it's closed-source? Just because it uses an open protocol? HTTP is open but you don't call MSIE 'FOSS'.
2. SIP does not 'annihilate' VoIP. SIP *is* a VoIP technology. If anything, SIP *furthers* VoIP. But not so much as Skype, which removes much of the frustration of firewall traversal.
3. Michael Robertson (MP3.com, Lindows, Gizmo) is the guy who thinks all Linux programs should be run as root. I would not touch any software that he has so much as looked at.
* Actually, it doesn't run on Linux yet. They promise a version will come Real Soon Now(tm).
Why is this being reported as true? The linked Pro-G article basically describes the conclusions the study comes to as 'baffling', concluding with: 'I don't think that the general opinion on the two systems is as clear cut as the report suggests.' Joystiq agrees: 'A report like this is hard to take seriously.' Then again, so is /. these days...
Isn't that just begging for abuse, though? People could use proxies to create limitless amounts of free accounts, each with several minutes of talk time... you could probably even write a script to automate that.
I don't see a way around it, other than demanding a credit card number up front; but even if you stress that it's 'just for verification purposes', people and slashbots alike tend to balk at that kind of thing.
It's not [Universal [Media Disc]], it's [[Universal Media] Disc].
It's named because it can contain a relatively wide variety of types of media (audio, video, games); not because the number of devices it can be played in (for now, only the PSP).
Ambiguity of the English language. Gotta love it.
I seem to recall that the 'broken' stylesheet was designed for a broken version of Netscape... it fixed a very specific bug in Netscape wherein something would get rendered way off-base, hence the stylesheet fixed it.
Unfortunately the best reference I can be arsed to find is this Wikipedia article, which at least agrees that the stylesheet was targetted at a specific bug.
While I don't recall Microsoft's stance on the whole thing, it's not unreasonable to think that it was an accident that the stylesheet got passed to Opera. Ever seen Opera's user-agent string? It identifies itself as BOTH Opera AND Internet Explorer. If that's not asking for trouble I don't know what is...
This is the kind of thing I wish Sony would hear. They actually stand to profit from giving us what we want and opening up 1.5 to homebrew, via sales of memory cards and probably more systems, yet they don't!
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Tycho of Penny Arcade had a little rant the other day that I thought was quite succinct. Here's an excerpt:
How would I distinguish the PSP from full platforms? Let me count the ways:
* Full platforms can play any audio type, or allow applications to do so. . .
* Full platforms can play any type of video, or allow applications to do so, and these videos should be able to use the entire resolution of the screen. . .
* Executable code
I'm willing to bend on this one if you give me the other two. But letting people expand the functionality and value of your hardware isn't some imaginary thing. People write whole browsers and operating systems and every other Goddamn contraption, just because it's there. They'll make your product the kind of phenomenon you couldn't pay someone to create.