...forcing users to upgrade "or else". I personally would rather use 98 than XP. Well, make that 98lite.
Again, this is Billy Boy's friendly way of saying "I don't give a flyin' cow pie what YOU think. I am the head of Microsoft. You will upgrade and send me more money that I can use to screw my customers over or I'll devour your heart and banish your soul."
It seems to me that Safari is as buggy as IE
on
Friday Security Fun
·
· Score: 0
Just count the sheer number of stories Slashdot has on "Safari cookie bugs", and on the log-in page of Thinkgeek.com it specifically says that Safari users might have problems with their cookies. When I get my Mac 'net connected I'm gonna stick with Opera.
o Don't ever use your primary email address
when subscribing to newsletters/registering
at a forum/posting on a guestbook that does
not allow anonymous comments. Don't forget
that emails are DISPOSABLE! Make as many
as you want, and if one is getting tons of
spam, just stop checking it and get another!
Just make sure to keep a primary email for
you and your friends (nothing more!).
o Set up filters that auto-delete subjects
with words like mortgage, refinance,
singles, dating, fat, weight, viagra, free,
several sexual expletives. Be sure to tell
your friends about them so their jokes
aren't deleted.
o If a spammer DOES get through, just take
whatever there is from "@spammersdomain.ext"
and add it to a second list of filters called
"spammin' fools" or something.
o Here's an interesting piece of literature
I found regarding the fight against spam: Look for "Subject: ADMIN: For Your Spam Only" within page
Hope this helps!
I want to see them try to send Windows CE up there
on
Linux Goes to Mars
·
· Score: 4, Funny
The guys are in the control room, looking through the eyes of their robot as they send it commands. It's going over the martian landscape just fine, collecting rock samples to perpetuate the ongoing debate of finding fossil bacteria, when all of a sudden it stops and the screen goes blank. The NASA people get angry and wonder why it refuses to take any more commands. In a few seconds it showed them this following message:
This program has performed an illegal operation and will shut down. If the problem persists, contact your vendor.
They reboot the program, which takes about ten minutes for the commands to reach between the robot and the command center.
Afterwards, it goes on, collecting rock samples and surveying the landscape. It drives towards a rock, but the guys didn't worry because it's programmed to avoid large objects. But instead of turning, the program goes FASTER and hits the rock! "What the bloody f-" one of 'em says as the other one says, "It must have confused the commands, DAMN IT! We just did a Windows Update not twelve hours before sending it to space!"
When they tried to send another command, every computer screen in the room turned blue. The following message appeared:
Windows
A fatal exception 0E has occurred at 0028:C00068F8 in VxD VMM(01) + 000059F8. The current application will be terminated.
* Press any key to terminate the application. * Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart your computer. You will lose any unsaved information in all applications. Press any key to continue
Everyone in the room start screaming and yelling swearwords. Then, on the main screen, some short, wide-eyed, grey-skinned humanoids appear. ALIENS!! THEY'VE FOUND ALIEN LIFE!!! HUMANITY IS NOT ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE!!!!
But then, one of the little grey-skinned things put a floppy disk in the robot, then everything goes blank. The entire command HQ goes out. In several days, they say they've found a mighty virus that attached to windows's OS through a security hole in IE, which the NASA people could not remove because of it's integration into the OS. The aliens wiped all info about finding them so the scientists couldn't prove finding them.
The morale of the story? Don't ever use Microsoft's products to do anything important.
Call me old-fashioned, but I personally don't care for games becoming movies (though I don't mind the conversion between book and movie). The reason being you are in complete control of what happens in the game. Will you go down that cave and find a secret flamethrower that you're not supposed to have until much later, or will you go on with your shotgun and missile launcher? In movies you just sit there and look at moving pictures; you're not in control of what it shows you at all (excluding stop, rewind, etc). You lose the glamor of being in control of the story if the game becomes a movie. Anyways, this is just my humble opinion.
The mouse I'm using has five buttons: the standard left and right, a scroll wheel, and two little ones on the left side that you use your thumb to operate (unless you're a lefty). These buttons can be configured to do whatever you want using the software that came with it. By default the buttons are used to go back and forward in a browser window, but I changed them to page-up and page-down. Oh, and don't bother asking where I got it; it was a b-day gift:)
In the middle of making this reply, I forgot I wasn't making an anti-microsoft post and I began making a long list of stuff why you shouldn't use windows. I then remembered that this convo was about why Macintosh doesn't get as many viruses as windows. I accidentally left one of those things (the one about Redhat and Konqueror) there. Please ignore it.
The sheer number of Windows-operated computers I see on a daily basis.
My school is filled to the brim with Compaqs running Windows XP Professional:'(
Less than a dozen people in my school (teachers and students) have ever heard of anything other than Microsoft (not including those who read my shirts, and about three or four have used a non-ms OS.
When was the last time you heard about Konqueror for Redhat or Safari for Mac OS being "browser-hijacked"?
Virus-writers want their viruses to cause the most chaos. To do this, they make their virus attack the one OS that's most widely used. And which OS do most people use?
As my signature states, I am not at all pro microsoft, so don't even let that cross your mind!
On the other hand, I'm not pro Apple or pro Linux. But, I AM pro secure-reliable-notownedbyanevilcorporation OS. I don't care what it is.. as long as it works.
And one more thing: Microsoft Works is an OXYMORON:)
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Just joined /. and they already are bowing before my almighty presence :D
I'm trying to HELP people! Guess I'm not allowed to be nice...
...forcing users to upgrade "or else". I personally would rather use 98 than XP. Well, make that 98lite .
Again, this is Billy Boy's friendly way of saying "I don't give a flyin' cow pie what YOU think. I am the head of Microsoft. You will upgrade and send me more money that I can use to screw my customers over or I'll devour your heart and banish your soul."
Just count the sheer number of stories Slashdot has on "Safari cookie bugs", and on the log-in page of Thinkgeek.com it specifically says that Safari users might have problems with their cookies. When I get my Mac 'net connected I'm gonna stick with Opera.
/. is becoming as bad as Suck500.com. Offtopic I know, but reading these comments I had to say SOMETHING.
By the way, I highly recommend against following that link.
*yawn* Don't you just LOVE the anonymous coward :)
o Don't ever use your primary email address
when subscribing to newsletters/registering
at a forum/posting on a guestbook that does
not allow anonymous comments. Don't forget
that emails are DISPOSABLE! Make as many
as you want, and if one is getting tons of
spam, just stop checking it and get another!
Just make sure to keep a primary email for
you and your friends (nothing more!).
o Set up filters that auto-delete subjects
with words like mortgage, refinance,
singles, dating, fat, weight, viagra, free,
several sexual expletives. Be sure to tell
your friends about them so their jokes
aren't deleted.
o If a spammer DOES get through, just take
whatever there is from "@spammersdomain.ext"
and add it to a second list of filters called
"spammin' fools" or something.
o Here's an interesting piece of literature
I found regarding the fight against spam:
Look for "Subject: ADMIN: For Your Spam Only" within page
Hope this helps!
The guys are in the control room, looking through the eyes of their robot as they send it commands. It's going over the martian landscape just fine, collecting rock samples to perpetuate the ongoing debate of finding fossil bacteria, when all of a sudden it stops and the screen goes blank. The NASA people get angry and wonder why it refuses to take any more commands. In a few seconds it showed them this following message:
This program has performed an illegal operation and will shut down. If the problem persists, contact your vendor.
They reboot the program, which takes about ten minutes for the commands to reach between the robot and the command center.
Afterwards, it goes on, collecting rock samples and surveying the landscape. It drives towards a rock, but the guys didn't worry because it's programmed to avoid large objects. But instead of turning, the program goes FASTER and hits the rock! "What the bloody f-" one of 'em says as the other one says, "It must have confused the commands, DAMN IT! We just did a Windows Update not twelve hours before sending it to space!"
When they tried to send another command, every computer screen in the room turned blue. The following message appeared:
Windows
A fatal exception 0E has occurred at 0028:C00068F8 in VxD VMM(01) +
000059F8. The current application will be terminated.
* Press any key to terminate the application.
* Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart your computer. You will
lose any unsaved information in all applications.
Press any key to continue
Everyone in the room start screaming and yelling swearwords. Then, on the main screen, some short, wide-eyed, grey-skinned humanoids appear. ALIENS!! THEY'VE FOUND ALIEN LIFE!!! HUMANITY IS NOT ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE!!!!
But then, one of the little grey-skinned things put a floppy disk in the robot, then everything goes blank. The entire command HQ goes out. In several days, they say they've found a mighty virus that attached to windows's OS through a security hole in IE, which the NASA people could not remove because of it's integration into the OS. The aliens wiped all info about finding them so the scientists couldn't prove finding them.
The morale of the story? Don't ever use Microsoft's products to do anything important.
Call me old-fashioned, but I personally don't care for games becoming movies (though I don't mind the conversion between book and movie). The reason being you are in complete control of what happens in the game. Will you go down that cave and find a secret flamethrower that you're not supposed to have until much later, or will you go on with your shotgun and missile launcher? In movies you just sit there and look at moving pictures; you're not in control of what it shows you at all (excluding stop, rewind, etc). You lose the glamor of being in control of the story if the game becomes a movie. Anyways, this is just my humble opinion.
The mouse I'm using has five buttons: the standard left and right, a scroll wheel, and two little ones on the left side that you use your thumb to operate (unless you're a lefty). These buttons can be configured to do whatever you want using the software that came with it. By default the buttons are used to go back and forward in a browser window, but I changed them to page-up and page-down. Oh, and don't bother asking where I got it; it was a b-day gift :)
Finally! Something else I can do other than post at /. !
Jeez, this post made alot of Troll/Offtopic replies. And "Score: -1, Funny???"
In the middle of making this reply, I forgot I wasn't making an anti-microsoft post and I began making a long list of stuff why you shouldn't use windows. I then remembered that this convo was about why Macintosh doesn't get as many viruses as windows. I accidentally left one of those things (the one about Redhat and Konqueror) there. Please ignore it.
As my signature states, I am not at all pro microsoft, so don't even let that cross your mind!
On the other hand, I'm not pro Apple or pro Linux. But, I AM pro secure-reliable-notownedbyanevilcorporation OS. I don't care what it is.. as long as it works.
And one more thing: Microsoft Works is an OXYMORON
...it's got FAR less viruses and haxx0r attempts because it's less popular. So that's a plus.