If that's not good enough... just install the Internet Explorer skin for firefox.
Excellent stuff! Makes it that bit easier to use firefox at work. Switched user agent and skin. Now to use a resource hacker to change the icon and we're there!
1 billion sold -- but poor quality, dangerous for your health, and leaves a bad taste in your mouth?
Another McDonald's comparison - on the Win2K login screen it says something like "Ctrl+Alt+Del helps keep your computer more secure." First time I read that I thought it was like McDonalds claiming the lettuce in the Big Mac helps keep you more healthy......which I think they do.
[Why won't this system let me log in on yro.slashdot.org with Opera?]
I can't get games.slashdot.org here because URLs with 'game' are blocked by my employer. If I cut 'games.' out of the URL I can view the content - the subdomain just decides the colour scheme/design of the page, I think.
Chop 'yro.' off - you should get the same story in standard slashdot green:)
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find that this "Secunia" derives funding from a common source with SCO.
Not true. Secunia is its own private concern and judging from correspondence they have with theinquirer I very much doubt they'll be swayed by "contributions" as easily as our R&D friends at Adti.
That said, there are some omissions from the article such as which applications in the Linux distros were vulnerable and how long it took for each vuln to be patched.
But I don't miss it as much as any machine I use regularly that absolutely must run IE soon finds itself with the Google Toolbar installed. (I didn't realise how many popups that blocked back in my IE days until I used a machine without it).
I have to use Windows at work, but I refuse to use IE. I use firefox at the moment, but to keep the "admins" (as in Windows admins - they have their own disk image) in the dark I use a nifty tool - UA switcher
Nah, I really doubt that the single reason people are moving to Mozilla FF and Opera are for tabbed browsing. I surf daily and probably at greater lengths than the average person and I don't find tabbed browsing to be my #1 concern.
Tabbed browsing was actually one of the main reasons I stuck with mozilla (first used it on Windows pre 1.0 - probably the early 0.9 versions).
Security concerns, standards support and do on only entered the equation later as I learned of them. IE soon found itself blocked at the firewall. Any operations that required IE just didn't happen.
Funnily enough, mozilla was a catalyst in my eventual adoption of Linux. A simple comparison of the quality of proprietary, closed software and open, Free software.
But what started it all was how impressed I was with tabbed browsing - I usually consume sites like the inquirer and/. by opening all the stories I want to read in background tabs and working my way through - nowhere near the clutter I had with IE.
I've got a COBOL programmer on my staff who is writing NEW COBOL programs (interface modules between the old CICS stuff and new Java-based stuff on a 390)
There are 3 or 4 COBOL programmers here (including myself) doing something very similar. All the stuff requiring modification sits in CICS accessed by Mantis and COBOL. We have XML coming in from a web frontend and converted to flat-file by Java guys and transferred to CICS by the COBOL guys... Messy, but it seems to be taking shape.
Maybe it's because I've never looked at really old code, but I have never understood why someone would only allow for values from 0-99. No matter how you cut it, this will take 7 bits at the minimum. At this point, why not just allow for values 0-127?
Because that's not the way the year was stored. In my current COBOL job I store the date as 8 character bytes (YYYYMMDD). I have converted programs from back in the day which were 6 character bytes (YYMMDD). This makes it simpler to read and write flat files, and reduces processing overhead for the type of programs commonly written in COBOL. COBOL isn't the easiest language to implement bitwise operators so every digit gets a character to itself, so: PIC 9(2) can hold an integer value from 00 to 99 and is 2 bytes in size. Inelegant, I know - but a job's a job:)
Depends on what time you connected. I have a couple friends that use that as well, and they couldn't connect after 6pm PDT (that's when the change went into effect, IIRC)
Ah, I see. I'm expecting it not to be working when I get home. Thanks for the info.
I've seen Jello speak a couple of times here in Dublin. He's an interesting, charismatic and often poetic speaker with a great sense of humour that rarely gets in the way of the gravity of the discussion. He has a few records out on Alternative Tentacles. Also featured is an interesting history of the Dead Kennedys. Check out Jello's pages for the latest info on their infamous court battles.
Well worth going along just to hear him, in my opinion. Wish I could offer an opinion on the other speakers:)
"At stake was years' worth of personal and
business correspondence, photos and the itinerary for a recently purchased trip, the San Jose, Calif., health care worker said." (my emphasis)
Isn't there a clause in Hotmail's AUP/TOS/Whatever that it cannot be used for any business purpose? I guess this SNAFU is the reason for that clause - If they could be held liable for loss of earnings then *poof* goes any economical reason for a free service.
I have a hotmail account myself because some of my friends use MSN messenger (I use Gaim myself- find me on Yahoo, ICQ, MSN and of course, Jabber). Glad I never actually employed this mail account for mail purposes...
Do other services have a "no business use" type disclaimer? Is Google liable if they chuck out 800MB of your GMail?
Didn't mozilla change their default theme to modern fairly recently?
Not sure... I've been using the 'classic' theme because it seems to be the only one that uses the current GTK theme.
I don't mind it too much, but it is a little fugly - I don't like the look of 'Modern' at all however.
This makes this move possibly dangerous for OSS, because they could fuck up netscape, and then when people hear "mozilla is the core technology behind netscape" they will vomit.
I've had this happen a few times... I've recommended moz to everyone I know but some of them immediately say "Ugh! This looks like Netscape!" No amount of "But popup blocking! But tabbed browsing!" is going to change their view that it's the same as the last time they saw Netscape (probably v4.7)
No fault of the mozilla project, but Netscape seems to be a stigma and there's not much you can do about a stubborn individual who's unwilling to give it a shot.... ...apart from demonstrating a fatal flaw in IE or showing them the contents of a local directory in an iframe. "Yeah, they can hax0r you with this";)
Use the torrents - lots of geeks on expensive synchronous connections are waiting to donate bandwidth to you:-)
Remember to open ports on your firewalls/forwards ports on your NATs or you'll find your dl speed lacking:
6881-6889 (one port is used for each instance of bt - this is merely a recommended range), 6969, 7070.
Also, limit your upload speed *a little* to help the client make connections between hosts.
IIRC:
$ btdownloadedcurses.py --max_upload_rate [K/sec] [file.torrent]
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Not sure, but I got Symantec SnowScan 2004 just in case...
Excellent stuff! Makes it that bit easier to use firefox at work.
Switched user agent and skin. Now to use a resource hacker to change the icon and we're there!
Meanwhile IE has been picked apart just a little more.
Another McDonald's comparison - on the Win2K login screen it says something like "Ctrl+Alt+Del helps keep your computer more secure."
First time I read that I thought it was like McDonalds claiming the lettuce in the Big Mac helps keep you more healthy...
I can't get games.slashdot.org here because URLs with 'game' are blocked by my employer. If I cut 'games.' out of the URL I can view the content - the subdomain just decides the colour scheme/design of the page, I think.
Chop 'yro.' off - you should get the same story in standard slashdot green
Not true. Secunia is its own private concern and judging from correspondence they have with the inquirer I very much doubt they'll be swayed by "contributions" as easily as our R&D friends at Adti.
That said, there are some omissions from the article such as which applications in the Linux distros were vulnerable and how long it took for each vuln to be patched.
I have to use Windows at work, but I refuse to use IE. I use firefox at the moment, but to keep the "admins" (as in Windows admins - they have their own disk image) in the dark I use a nifty tool - UA switcher
Tabbed browsing was actually one of the main reasons I stuck with mozilla (first used it on Windows pre 1.0 - probably the early 0.9 versions).
Security concerns, standards support and do on only entered the equation later as I learned of them. IE soon found itself blocked at the firewall. Any operations that required IE just didn't happen.
Funnily enough, mozilla was a catalyst in my eventual adoption of Linux. A simple comparison of the quality of proprietary, closed software and open, Free software.
But what started it all was how impressed I was with tabbed browsing - I usually consume sites like the inquirer and
There are 3 or 4 COBOL programmers here (including myself) doing something very similar. All the stuff requiring modification sits in CICS accessed by Mantis and COBOL. We have XML coming in from a web frontend and converted to flat-file by Java guys and transferred to CICS by the COBOL guys... Messy, but it seems to be taking shape.
I've heard of them. I've also heard of tables. This is why I use Links
Because that's not the way the year was stored. In my current COBOL job I store the date as 8 character bytes (YYYYMMDD). I have converted programs from back in the day which were 6 character bytes (YYMMDD). This makes it simpler to read and write flat files, and reduces processing overhead for the type of programs commonly written in COBOL.
COBOL isn't the easiest language to implement bitwise operators so every digit gets a character to itself, so:
PIC 9(2)
can hold an integer value from 00 to 99 and is 2 bytes in size. Inelegant, I know - but a job's a job
If he's gone from 437 to 850 he's liable to lose a few of those box drawing chatacters...
Ah, I see. I'm expecting it not to be working when I get home.
Thanks for the info.
A fine theory, except there is an official Linux/BSD Yahoo Messenger client available.
I have no idea how good it is as I use GAIM.
I was using GAIM on Yahoo just last night - not sure if it's still working today.
I've seen Jello speak a couple of times here in Dublin. He's an interesting, charismatic and often poetic speaker with a great sense of humour that rarely gets in the way of the gravity of the discussion. He has a few records out on Alternative Tentacles. Also featured is an interesting history of the Dead Kennedys. Check out Jello's pages for the latest info on their infamous court battles. :)
Well worth going along just to hear him, in my opinion. Wish I could offer an opinion on the other speakers
Cool!
The old-computers page has a request for more info on this machine - I'm sure they'll appreciate anything you can contribute.
from the venerable old-computers.com
I have a hotmail account myself because some of my friends use MSN messenger (I use Gaim myself- find me on Yahoo, ICQ, MSN and of course, Jabber). Glad I never actually employed this mail account for mail purposes...
Do other services have a "no business use" type disclaimer? Is Google liable if they chuck out 800MB of your GMail?
I don't mind it too much, but it is a little fugly - I don't like the look of 'Modern' at all however.
No fault of the mozilla project, but Netscape seems to be a stigma and there's not much you can do about a stubborn individual who's unwilling to give it a shot....
*waves at you
Coo-ee!
6881-6889 (one port is used for each instance of bt - this is merely a recommended range), 6969, 7070.
Also, limit your upload speed *a little* to help the client make connections between hosts.
IIRC:
$ btdownloadedcurses.py --max_upload_rate [K/sec] [file.torrent]
So, on 512/128 DSL You would set K/Sec to 10-11.
It's there alright, as well as this one from this morning - linked due to the attractive photo I think...