Does that have anything to do with the commenting style you are using? Most CSS books recommend you comment out the CSS using an HTML comment. That way, HTML clients that don't support CSS won't display the CSS Code, because to it, your CSS is just a comment. However, commenting styles vary from browser to browser vendor and version.
So if Mac IE is treating your CSS as a comment.. that could be your problem.
I find this extremely offensive. This is why a (perhaps) innocent man is getting slammed. Because your friend didn't take responsibility. Do you really think the film industry just said, "Oh. Well, we better not tell $corp?" No. They brainstormed how to deal with that excuse, and they decided exactly what to do.
And for the record, how is wiping your hard drive coincidental to a search not "obstruction of justice"?
what do we do to fix it? The revolution isn't necessarily televised or computerized. I know that quotation has been used by tyrants.. but it holds some truth.
See http://health.wikispaces.com./ It is more accurate than WebDB.. or at least that's the aim. It is invitation-only right now, but if you know someone or know people or if you yourself want to become involved in a project that relies on old-fashioned research and citation, that would be really cool.
Here's why:
I tend to want the best content on a particular topic. Amazingly, Yahoo or another directory like Galaxy sometimes meets the bill. We are the Google generation -- who only clicks the top result. I find that horrendous. If you are going to click the top result, why not at least have it be peer-reviewed?
Sometimes, I just want basic information on a particular topic. Google's algorithim may show me the most in-depth links, but maybe I just want an introduction. Google's algorithim can't factor that in, and I don't always know what I want enough to specify: "antipsychiatry introduction". And another thing: what if blogs are the most useful content?
Do blogs really work well in Google's algorithim. Are they going to say "I'm writing on anti-psychiatry today, (keywords: antipsychiatry, madness campaign) etc.
Obviously no one writes like that, but blogs I find aren't in the main web sphere, so they sink much like the invisible web databases like InfoTrac, and the other databases my university and health insurance company subscribes to.
Yahoo should not be discounted -- http://health.yahoo.com/ isn't a search engine, it isn't a directory, but it is a damn good health portal.
--Sam
"I had been through this a dozen times, and knew at this point the reset button was the only remaining option. As I reached for the system it just exploded. Bits of plastic were thrown everywhere, and one even got stuck in my eye."
I know this is moderated funny, but this isn't. Eye injuries are far too common, and some are self-inflicted due to what psychiatrists call mental illness but which may be due to the lack of emotional management techniques taught to people.
That said, even with that overly-detailed explanation, eye injuries have no easy cures. Perhaps that is because their aren't enough people suffering from dry eye (LASIK-induced or injury-induced, or congenital) to bother with better treatments for the symptoms of eye injury and eye problems.
Good post, but can you explain why not? Presumably the ability to spoof a digital certificate was a security hole and I've patched it.
It's difficult not to check that box, when even Microsoft pops up azillion of those ActiveX boxes.
By the way, have you updated to SP2? The new "Information" bar is slightly less annoying, though still not what you want.
--Sam
I once worked for a student newspaper and decided to test Kazaa's "no spyware" claim for a newspaper article. I called it "Trying to like Kazaa".
I had uninstalled GAIN from my sister's computer before. It was relatively painless, and seemed to barely slow down her computer. It was just a small program, and she only surfs the web. It only popped off 1 pop up window every now and then when you closed the web browser. No wonder some people aren't annoyed by it.
(I think GAIN becomes more intrusive if you install more GAIN-supported software, or let's say, a P2P software with more functionality.) She had just installed "Precision Time", a program which synchronizes the clock, and the temperature widget next to her clock.
Naturally, she did not do an informed consent, for one thing, she's a minor, and for another, how is anyone supposed to read those ActiveX dialogs? We'll call that "-1". - several more for occasionally advertising itself as a "windows update".
But it was easy to uninstall. They fixed that eventually. You just uninstall the "Precision Time" and any other GAIN-supported application and GAIN uninstalls itself automatically.
With Kazaa it was even better, doing an uninstall removed GAIN. Kazaa did not uninstall correctly, even after a system restore. But GAIN uninstalled correctly. (for those who are wondering, the culprit was dw.exe, and shortly after this "test", the Microsoft Office's Dr. Watson also called dw.exe started to crash on shutdown.) Hmm.
The point is that I tested it with Zonealarm and Winpatrol. It appeared to uninstall itself completely.
It's still sneaky, but it works as advertised in my tests, although my friend has multiple profiles, and WeatherBug caused registry corruption. (if I interpret the Microsoft KB correctly), luckily a system restore fixed it.
Let's think about social networking for a second. I as a college student use The Facebook, and Livejournal. Livejournal lists people's instant messaging identifiers, but no way from Livejournal to send people an instant message. Why not? Second, if I pay my phone company $50/month for unlimited communications, why can't my IM client use that line to make calls and let me talk on a headset?
The computer needs to be the Rolodex of the future, with phone, e-mail, and text messaging built in.
They still haven't perfected that yet, because all the IM providers are wasting time on a feature war, and the computer manufacturers (excepting Apple) have not built capable hardware for voice and video communications into their boxes.
So that's the feature I want: communication that works and is free, whether by phone, or IM.
In truth, most PC users are happy to install antivirus software, sales people will push it on people..
The problem is that most of these people who install antivirus software (esp. Norton and Mcafee.. the top vendors pushed by sales reps.) have an unpleasant experience. It slows down their computer, it fails to protect them from {{trojan:general}}, and many consumers feel like they are being scammed.
There is another problem too.. people feel that "antivirus" software should be enough. These are the people who buy antivirus software at "bargain prices" that doesn't include a firewall (which is probably good because it would drive them nuts.) or spyware protection.
These security systems are indeed scams. Norton Internet Security 2006 is practically an advertisement for their Systemworks package. The web browsing security is rated as "limited coverage" because it doesn't include parental controls. Instead of blocking ActiveX using a white list, they use a blacklist. Only minor vendors like Panda actually ensure your Windows Updates are applied. People feel ripped off when the trialware that ships with most PCs wears off.
The security software vendors, the retailers, and the computer manufacturers can all do better. The government needs to rate security software, and comission studies to find out why people aren't applying them.
Cybersecurity is something they can actually do something about.. combatting terrorism (especially to our allies) is a much more vague proposition.
I can't find my way around Amazon.com. How do you create one of those Listmania things again? (any help would honestly appreciated.) Should one really have to purchase Amazon.com for dummies in order to find there way around?
Why don't they allow people to tag every page?
--Sam
I am also interested in Q&A. Don't forget the strongest feature of Red Hat. The command line tools Red Hat wrote. Too much emphasis is had on an easy to use GUI. What if emacs was the shell, with an interactive LISP script that determined using natural language query what you wanted to do, and recommended applications. How much friendlier can you get?
Stop complaining about being *required* to use iTunes; Apple can't make it mass-storage compatible, because of the record labels*. (pure conjecture) There are lots of apps that will make your iPod show up in dev/mnt, My Computer etc.
Some of the more popular ones include: www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod (Anapod Explorer) [Windows] EphPod for Windows and Linux --open source http://www.ephpod.com/ *and* the original iPod utility for Windows: Xplay (http://www.macdrive.com/products/xplay/) [recommended by CNET and others]; I have a special place in my heart for these people.
This is true. It runs a local webserver. When you type in www.google.com, the webserver requests the page. It adds a 'Desktop' tab. When you search the web, the *local* webserver adds results from Google Desktop Search. You can turn this off in Preferences, but either way, the only IP address that recieves your desktop search results are 127.0.1
I did not say it would be impossible. I said it would be hard. Do you normally port an application without testing it? Granted, the GUI is the same; the processor is completely different.
If you want to your app to run on PPC *and* Intel, you need to create a fat binary. It seems like it would be difficult to create a binary using an Intel machine that would run on both processors.
You can grab Mac OS X for x86 from bittorrent, although my recommendation is to call Apple just so that they know that people have this problem. (They will loan you a developer's workstation for a chunk of change.)
This is bullshit. Google may want everything to be digital -- but not neccessarily free. And even if we were to accept that thesis, we might be wrong. This is exactly why copyright laws and lawsuits (re: Napster) discourage innovation: because we don't know what Google is planning until we allow them to launch it. Actually, we have, and I see nothing wrong with it.
The key question will be: Is it for 'commercial use'? Or is it sufficiently 'transformative' (creative) to overcome that objection?
To clarify, music videos include a seperate AAC file with just the song, as well as the video. Perhaps Apple's "Watch your music" campaign motivated some people?
--Sam
Onenote is great. I use it. And not because it was pushed on me. (It wasn't.) I found out about it from my usual technology sources. I call it the modern word processor. It has layout elements which hold text which you can move anywhere on the page. There are no documents, and no filenames (unless you want to worry about them.)
And best of all, no saving *ever*. It saves roughly every 10 seconds (2?) with no slowdown in speed, or any indication in the GUI. I only once lost work when I tried to import Jane Eyre from Project Gutenberg. It crashed once, and then stored it fine. (It was trying to use the HTML importer to import an HTML version).
It like a free-form database or more like Treepad or Infomagic, with a much nicer interface. (It is *not* database-driven though.)
It's not perfect. But I really miss it on my Mac. Feel free to contact me for more information. I just read in my fairly constant google search for Onenote Mac about a guy that switched (temporarily?) to PC because of it.
Codeweavers' forum for Onenote says, "If crossover supports Onenote, I'll buy it" and they're not asking for tablet PC support.
--Sam
Slashdot Mirror
Does that have anything to do with the commenting style you are using? Most CSS books recommend you comment out the CSS using an HTML comment. That way, HTML clients that don't support CSS won't display the CSS Code, because to it, your CSS is just a comment. However, commenting styles vary from browser to browser vendor and version.
So if Mac IE is treating your CSS as a comment.. that could be your problem.
--Sam
I find this extremely offensive. This is why a (perhaps) innocent man is getting slammed. Because your friend didn't take responsibility. Do you really think the film industry just said, "Oh. Well, we better not tell $corp?" No. They brainstormed how to deal with that excuse, and they decided exactly what to do.
And for the record, how is wiping your hard drive coincidental to a search not "obstruction of justice"?
--Sam
what do we do to fix it? The revolution isn't necessarily televised or computerized. I know that quotation has been used by tyrants.. but it holds some truth.
See http://health.wikispaces.com./ It is more accurate than WebDB.. or at least that's the aim. It is invitation-only right now, but if you know someone or know people or if you yourself want to become involved in a project that relies on old-fashioned research and citation, that would be really cool.
--Sam
Your user ID is your e-mail address.
Point taken. What do you read -- books? What genres? How do you find books to read? Heaven forbid I should get to know people on Slashdot.
Here's why: I tend to want the best content on a particular topic. Amazingly, Yahoo or another directory like Galaxy sometimes meets the bill. We are the Google generation -- who only clicks the top result. I find that horrendous. If you are going to click the top result, why not at least have it be peer-reviewed? Sometimes, I just want basic information on a particular topic. Google's algorithim may show me the most in-depth links, but maybe I just want an introduction. Google's algorithim can't factor that in, and I don't always know what I want enough to specify: "antipsychiatry introduction". And another thing: what if blogs are the most useful content? Do blogs really work well in Google's algorithim. Are they going to say "I'm writing on anti-psychiatry today, (keywords: antipsychiatry, madness campaign) etc. Obviously no one writes like that, but blogs I find aren't in the main web sphere, so they sink much like the invisible web databases like InfoTrac, and the other databases my university and health insurance company subscribes to. Yahoo should not be discounted -- http://health.yahoo.com/ isn't a search engine, it isn't a directory, but it is a damn good health portal. --Sam
"I had been through this a dozen times, and knew at this point the reset button was the only remaining option. As I reached for the system it just exploded. Bits of plastic were thrown everywhere, and one even got stuck in my eye."
I know this is moderated funny, but this isn't. Eye injuries are far too common, and some are self-inflicted due to what psychiatrists call mental illness but which may be due to the lack of emotional management techniques taught to people.
That said, even with that overly-detailed explanation, eye injuries have no easy cures. Perhaps that is because their aren't enough people suffering from dry eye (LASIK-induced or injury-induced, or congenital) to bother with better treatments for the symptoms of eye injury and eye problems.
--Sam
Good post, but can you explain why not? Presumably the ability to spoof a digital certificate was a security hole and I've patched it. It's difficult not to check that box, when even Microsoft pops up azillion of those ActiveX boxes. By the way, have you updated to SP2? The new "Information" bar is slightly less annoying, though still not what you want. --Sam
why didn't you tell them their methedology was screwy?
I once worked for a student newspaper and decided to test Kazaa's "no spyware" claim for a newspaper article. I called it "Trying to like Kazaa".
I had uninstalled GAIN from my sister's computer before. It was relatively painless, and seemed to barely slow down her computer. It was just a small program, and she only surfs the web. It only popped off 1 pop up window every now and then when you closed the web browser. No wonder some people aren't annoyed by it.
(I think GAIN becomes more intrusive if you install more GAIN-supported software, or let's say, a P2P software with more functionality.) She had just installed "Precision Time", a program which synchronizes the clock, and the temperature widget next to her clock.
Naturally, she did not do an informed consent, for one thing, she's a minor, and for another, how is anyone supposed to read those ActiveX dialogs? We'll call that "-1". - several more for occasionally advertising itself as a "windows update".
But it was easy to uninstall. They fixed that eventually. You just uninstall the "Precision Time" and any other GAIN-supported application and GAIN uninstalls itself automatically.
With Kazaa it was even better, doing an uninstall removed GAIN. Kazaa did not uninstall correctly, even after a system restore. But GAIN uninstalled correctly. (for those who are wondering, the culprit was dw.exe, and shortly after this "test", the Microsoft Office's Dr. Watson also called dw.exe started to crash on shutdown.) Hmm.
The point is that I tested it with Zonealarm and Winpatrol. It appeared to uninstall itself completely.
It's still sneaky, but it works as advertised in my tests, although my friend has multiple profiles, and WeatherBug caused registry corruption. (if I interpret the Microsoft KB correctly), luckily a system restore fixed it.
Let's think about social networking for a second. I as a college student use The Facebook, and Livejournal. Livejournal lists people's instant messaging identifiers, but no way from Livejournal to send people an instant message. Why not? Second, if I pay my phone company $50/month for unlimited communications, why can't my IM client use that line to make calls and let me talk on a headset?
The computer needs to be the Rolodex of the future, with phone, e-mail, and text messaging built in.
They still haven't perfected that yet, because all the IM providers are wasting time on a feature war, and the computer manufacturers (excepting Apple) have not built capable hardware for voice and video communications into their boxes.
So that's the feature I want: communication that works and is free, whether by phone, or IM.
--Sam
In Europe, the government regulates a lot more than it does in the U.S, and their citizens are mostly better off for it.
Ex: Patient's Bill of Rights
Bad example: all scooters must have back-up beepers (the kind used by the disabled)
Cybersecurity is important. The government at least needs the threat of regulation.. in order to promote change.
--Sam
In truth, most PC users are happy to install antivirus software, sales people will push it on people..
The problem is that most of these people who install antivirus software (esp. Norton and Mcafee.. the top vendors pushed by sales reps.) have an unpleasant experience. It slows down their computer, it fails to protect them from {{trojan:general}}, and many consumers feel like they are being scammed.
There is another problem too.. people feel that "antivirus" software should be enough. These are the people who buy antivirus software at "bargain prices" that doesn't include a firewall (which is probably good because it would drive them nuts.) or spyware protection.
These security systems are indeed scams. Norton Internet Security 2006 is practically an advertisement for their Systemworks package. The web browsing security is rated as "limited coverage" because it doesn't include parental controls. Instead of blocking ActiveX using a white list, they use a blacklist. Only minor vendors like Panda actually ensure your Windows Updates are applied. People feel ripped off when the trialware that ships with most PCs wears off.
The security software vendors, the retailers, and the computer manufacturers can all do better. The government needs to rate security software, and comission studies to find out why people aren't applying them.
Cybersecurity is something they can actually do something about.. combatting terrorism (especially to our allies) is a much more vague proposition.
I can't find my way around Amazon.com. How do you create one of those Listmania things again? (any help would honestly appreciated.) Should one really have to purchase Amazon.com for dummies in order to find there way around? Why don't they allow people to tag every page? --Sam
I am also interested in Q&A. Don't forget the strongest feature of Red Hat. The command line tools Red Hat wrote. Too much emphasis is had on an easy to use GUI. What if emacs was the shell, with an interactive LISP script that determined using natural language query what you wanted to do, and recommended applications. How much friendlier can you get?
--Sam
Visit ilounge.com. You can "enable disk mode", and you can probably do it with a hack. --Sam
Stop complaining about being *required* to use iTunes; Apple can't make it mass-storage compatible, because of the record labels*. (pure conjecture) There are lots of apps that will make your iPod show up in dev/mnt, My Computer etc.
q =ipod+transfer&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
See http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&
Some of the more popular ones include:
www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod (Anapod Explorer) [Windows]
EphPod for Windows and Linux --open source
http://www.ephpod.com/
*and* the original iPod utility for Windows:
Xplay (http://www.macdrive.com/products/xplay/) [recommended by CNET and others]; I have a special place in my heart for these people.
This is true. It runs a local webserver. When you type in www.google.com, the webserver requests the page. It adds a 'Desktop' tab. When you search the web, the *local* webserver adds results from Google Desktop Search. You can turn this off in Preferences, but either way, the only IP address that recieves your desktop search results are 127.0.1
I did not say it would be impossible. I said it would be hard. Do you normally port an application without testing it? Granted, the GUI is the same; the processor is completely different.
--Sam
If you want to your app to run on PPC *and* Intel, you need to create a fat binary. It seems like it would be difficult to create a binary using an Intel machine that would run on both processors.
You can grab Mac OS X for x86 from bittorrent, although my recommendation is to call Apple just so that they know that people have this problem. (They will loan you a developer's workstation for a chunk of change.)
--Sam
This is bullshit. Google may want everything to be digital -- but not neccessarily free. And even if we were to accept that thesis, we might be wrong. This is exactly why copyright laws and lawsuits (re: Napster) discourage innovation: because we don't know what Google is planning until we allow them to launch it. Actually, we have, and I see nothing wrong with it.
The key question will be: Is it for 'commercial use'? Or is it sufficiently 'transformative' (creative) to overcome that objection?
Don't worry. Things will get better. Mozilla just hired a Mac guy, the Camino guy, right?
What's the bug number?
--Sam
>Hopefully this is just the result of issues in beta 2 and older profiles, rather than an indicator of problems in the AutoUpdate code.
What does that matter if it is dysfunctional in certain situations.
A bug means that it does not perform as expected.
File a message in the 'bugs' forum:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/ (or bugzilla)
--Sam
To clarify, music videos include a seperate AAC file with just the song, as well as the video. Perhaps Apple's "Watch your music" campaign motivated some people? --Sam
Onenote is great. I use it. And not because it was pushed on me. (It wasn't.) I found out about it from my usual technology sources. I call it the modern word processor. It has layout elements which hold text which you can move anywhere on the page. There are no documents, and no filenames (unless you want to worry about them.) And best of all, no saving *ever*. It saves roughly every 10 seconds (2?) with no slowdown in speed, or any indication in the GUI. I only once lost work when I tried to import Jane Eyre from Project Gutenberg. It crashed once, and then stored it fine. (It was trying to use the HTML importer to import an HTML version). It like a free-form database or more like Treepad or Infomagic, with a much nicer interface. (It is *not* database-driven though.) It's not perfect. But I really miss it on my Mac. Feel free to contact me for more information. I just read in my fairly constant google search for Onenote Mac about a guy that switched (temporarily?) to PC because of it. Codeweavers' forum for Onenote says, "If crossover supports Onenote, I'll buy it" and they're not asking for tablet PC support. --Sam