"Is there anybody that actually uses ActiveX on a webpage, and if not, why doesn't Microsoft completely eliminate ActiveX from Internet Explorer?"
(MSN) Chatrooms and Windowsupdate spring to mind as web-based uses of ActivX. Microsoft's decision to ship no Java Virtual Machine in Windows XP doesn't seem to have brought any more users into ActivX chatrooms though, I've seen chatroom moderators recommending users to download Mozilla:-)
One extra worrying thing though, when you go into an MSN Groups chatroom with Mozilla on Windows, to install the ActivX control for the chatroom you have to install Microsoft ActivX Wrapper for Netscape
Potentially, Mozilla users are now affected by ActivX insecurities if they accept this download.
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"4mb ought to be enough for anybody!"
Bill Gates, c. 1993 ?
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Its just occurred to me that the link I objected to could have been the guys signature text not an actual part of the posting, which would (?) enable him/her to change it after the fact, to a sig that attacks me instead
Either way it doesn't matter now. It's gone. Problem solved.
I just have to erase the memory from my mind with the help of copious amounts of chemicals
Well, I'll be the first person to admit to being baffled as to why a link which was present in the "parent" posting to my reply is now absent.
It was my understanding that Slashot postings cant be edited after the fact, however as you can see a comment about ME has been added to the posting
How did he do that? BTW re allegations of trolling, check my profile and past postings - I may not be technically knowledgeable in the standards of some who post here but ne'er a trollish word has slipped my lips.
You really dont want to click the link to n00bz.net, its to an image file and its truly terrible
Goatse, all is forgiven.
Why does nobody check links for this before modding up?
Microsoft has always maintained that it takes a good 24 hours to compile a full version of Windows from the source, and that the increasing complexity of Windows has meant that modern computers don't compile modern windows any faster....
I'd be interested to know what the Windows source is compiled with though
Intel C compiler? I'm sure they couldn't stand the irony of using GCC. The NT codebase is supposed to be crossplatform do I doubt it's got any Assembler code in it - is it written in C or one of Microsofts own languages?
If so, what was it originally written in and when was the translation made? (Pls don't mod me informative - I may be way off the mark!)
I've gven a WinCE Netbook the once-over in my office, its a nice bit of kit, good k/b, good screen, very usable and light
However it suffers Mp3-player syndrome - insufficient built-in memory and expensive memory cards.
I believe the time is coming when a PDA maker ships a proper palmtop with decent keyboard, VGA screen, and a 1-inch Hard Drive (iPod style)
I hope that maker will be Psion. All current PDAs are hampered by lack of memory for document storage, if I want to go off somewhere I want to take a load of documents with me and some Mp3s as well and nobody caters for that. A PDA should be functional as a backup device and data-carrier as well as a note0taking and email-sync'ing machine.
It doesn't take a long memory to recall the days when Apple went head-to-head with IBM for the desktop marketplace.
Just 20 years after the Superbowl ad where Big Blue was smashed by the Apple girl, the top-of-the-line PowerMac G5 sports an IBM-manufactured 64-bit processor.
"I'm guessing that all this will mean is that Mac users won't be able to watch 'Lion King 7' on their computers when it come out"
Ironic since it was probably made with a Mac...
As part of my self-imposed re-education, I'm currently working on going from an adequate to competent command of the French language
Part of this has involved spending an hour a day in IRC (Efnet #France under this name)
In French perhaps more than english I'd have to agree that online chat does not help language development.
For example the qu' which is so common in French becomes k' (quelqu'un "someone" becomes kkn), strings of phonetically useless vowels are dropped (beaucoup "much/many" becomes bcp)
In English , also having many phonetically redundnant letters, the same sort of compression occurs
This seems to repress regular sentence formation as well as punctuation. I don't mean to say that Cerber, Natacha, Loque the bot et al are harming my command of french - indeed they greatly improve it by giving me an understanding of the current slang use of the language, an essential to my social skills, as well as tolerating my manglings and helpfully explaining and encouraging, but that I can see more clearly how hard it would be to gain command of your own lnguage by mangling it so.
"All of humanity's creative capacity available for free use at the click of a button. Imagine what Ben Franklin, Einstein, or Mozart could have done with such a resource."
Yeah, but just think how many copies of the Declaration Of Independence there'd be, and then all the ones with other peoples signatures photoshopped on, and the people downloading Declarations for a living and printing and selling them on the black market....
As an IT Helpdesk I have to deal with spam filtering, and I don;y think my situation is unusual in that I work for a company that only emails individuals in 4 other countries and only received customer emails from the UK
The solution to our spam problem was simple. Ban every domain except.com,.net,.co.uk,.tr and.it
Then ban all US-based ISPs
Then write a filtering rule that stops every message containing the words usually used in spam.. any that get thru are sent to me and I find and ban the relevant terms
(you can stop 75% of spam just by banning the words viagra, xanax, soma and valium and their various misspellings)
A little still tricles through but only a very little and these methods won't help spammers get past that.
I'm not convinced by using entirely bayesian methods simply because a bayesian filter will let stuff thru that it thinks is OKeven if it comes from a top-level domaoin we never communicate with. My methods part manual-bayesian (I choose and enter the banned terms) and mostly simple logic.
Connectix' product line mainly consists of VirtualPC, which is a software emulation of an x86 PC for use on a PowerPC Apple Mac
Possibly Microsoft intend to use Connectix' x86 emulation technology to support Xbox1 games on Xbox2, as well as their rumoured intention to use emulation technology in future versions of Windows for backward compatibility.
Recent industry comment on some sites sees now-distributor-free Pixar Inc teaming up with Apple to offer digital video distribution.
While this may not be the case, its small stories like this that make me suspect that apple does have a future in the movie industry that goes beyond Final Cut and iMovie
Apple is getting in with the consumer of media products as well as the producer, and that has to be a good thing for them.
This may be where I blow my good karma, I mean no offence but Columbia was an accident not a tragedy.
Any loss of life is a personal tragedy for the individual and the family but 7 lives lost in a spacecraft accident is not the worst thing to have happened in the last few years.
It's just an event, to be noted with due respect. Space is a dangerous place to travel, its just that the relatively good safety record of the shuttle craft has pushed that awareness out of the collective mind.
7 astronauts agreed to those risks and sadly paid the price. Real tragedies happening at the time and since have been forgotten in the rush to cover and re-cover this issue.
Search for: Liars And Thieves
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Sorry, but search returned no results.
Try to compose less restrictive search query or check spelling.
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Obviously their search engine is already DDOS'd
Sometimes it really sucks being British - having some clueless hereditary monarch handing out gongs to media moguls, software barons and dodgy heads of state.
I recently saw "Poisoned" being used on a Mac OSX box and it brought home to me the generally sucky nature of P2P on Windows
I had been using KaZaA + DietK but switched to a recent build of KaZaAliteK++ which is much leaner and more friendly, but can't match Poisoned's multinetwork, spyware-and-adware-free smoothness
Which P2P apps would/.ers recommend for the Windows platform?
I've been receiving these on my work server since about 0400 GMT Monday, we get about 10 an hour now.
McAffee Groupshield Exchange detects it with the latest DAT, and I set up a junkmail filter in Mailsweeper to pick them up anyway ( the price of having to manually release any innocent emails is far easier to pay then disinfecting my whole network... )
Disabling video in web pages should solve this. In case it doesn't, it should be a simple hack to Mozilla to prevent any video file playing automatically.
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"Is there anybody that actually uses ActiveX on a webpage, and if not, why doesn't Microsoft completely eliminate ActiveX from Internet Explorer?"
:-)
(MSN) Chatrooms and Windowsupdate spring to mind as web-based uses of ActivX. Microsoft's decision to ship no Java Virtual Machine in Windows XP doesn't seem to have brought any more users into ActivX chatrooms though, I've seen chatroom moderators recommending users to download Mozilla
One extra worrying thing though, when you go into an MSN Groups chatroom with Mozilla on Windows, to install the ActivX control for the chatroom you have to install Microsoft ActivX Wrapper for Netscape
Potentially, Mozilla users are now affected by ActivX insecurities if they accept this download.
"4mb ought to be enough for anybody!" Bill Gates, c. 1993 ? (/humour)
Just think, if the US Army had claimed a patent on WMDs you could have won the Cold War, Iraq and N.Korea in the courts...
Its just occurred to me that the link I objected to could have been the guys signature text not an actual part of the posting, which would (?) enable him/her to change it after the fact, to a sig that attacks me instead
Either way it doesn't matter now. It's gone. Problem solved.
I just have to erase the memory from my mind with the help of copious amounts of chemicals
Well, I'll be the first person to admit to being baffled as to why a link which was present in the "parent" posting to my reply is now absent.
It was my understanding that Slashot postings cant be edited after the fact, however as you can see a comment about ME has been added to the posting
How did he do that? BTW re allegations of trolling, check my profile and past postings - I may not be technically knowledgeable in the standards of some who post here but ne'er a trollish word has slipped my lips.
You really dont want to click the link to n00bz.net, its to an image file and its truly terrible Goatse, all is forgiven. Why does nobody check links for this before modding up?
Yes, I was thinking of C++ when I typed that
It first occurred to me that it was probably written in an MS language then I remembered that Windows is older than C++
Thanks for the interesting responses.
Microsoft has always maintained that it takes a good 24 hours to compile a full version of Windows from the source, and that the increasing complexity of Windows has meant that modern computers don't compile modern windows any faster....
I'd be interested to know what the Windows source is compiled with though
Intel C compiler? I'm sure they couldn't stand the irony of using GCC. The NT codebase is supposed to be crossplatform do I doubt it's got any Assembler code in it - is it written in C or one of Microsofts own languages?
If so, what was it originally written in and when was the translation made? (Pls don't mod me informative - I may be way off the mark!)
I've gven a WinCE Netbook the once-over in my office, its a nice bit of kit, good k/b, good screen, very usable and light
However it suffers Mp3-player syndrome - insufficient built-in memory and expensive memory cards.
I believe the time is coming when a PDA maker ships a proper palmtop with decent keyboard, VGA screen, and a 1-inch Hard Drive (iPod style)
I hope that maker will be Psion. All current PDAs are hampered by lack of memory for document storage, if I want to go off somewhere I want to take a load of documents with me and some Mp3s as well and nobody caters for that. A PDA should be functional as a backup device and data-carrier as well as a note0taking and email-sync'ing machine.
It doesn't take a long memory to recall the days when Apple went head-to-head with IBM for the desktop marketplace.
Just 20 years after the Superbowl ad where Big Blue was smashed by the Apple girl, the top-of-the-line PowerMac G5 sports an IBM-manufactured 64-bit processor.
"I'm guessing that all this will mean is that Mac users won't be able to watch 'Lion King 7' on their computers when it come out" Ironic since it was probably made with a Mac...
As part of my self-imposed re-education, I'm currently working on going from an adequate to competent command of the French language
Part of this has involved spending an hour a day in IRC (Efnet #France under this name)
In French perhaps more than english I'd have to agree that online chat does not help language development.
For example the qu' which is so common in French becomes k' (quelqu'un "someone" becomes kkn), strings of phonetically useless vowels are dropped (beaucoup "much/many" becomes bcp)
In English , also having many phonetically redundnant letters, the same sort of compression occurs
This seems to repress regular sentence formation as well as punctuation. I don't mean to say that Cerber, Natacha, Loque the bot et al are harming my command of french - indeed they greatly improve it by giving me an understanding of the current slang use of the language, an essential to my social skills, as well as tolerating my manglings and helpfully explaining and encouraging, but that I can see more clearly how hard it would be to gain command of your own lnguage by mangling it so.
"All of humanity's creative capacity available for free use at the click of a button. Imagine what Ben Franklin, Einstein, or Mozart could have done with such a resource."
Yeah, but just think how many copies of the Declaration Of Independence there'd be, and then all the ones with other peoples signatures photoshopped on, and the people downloading Declarations for a living and printing and selling them on the black market....
It wouldn't be good.
Valid point, but my "rejected" emails go into a holding pen for review so I can fine-tune the filter
it would get thru, after a delay.
As an IT Helpdesk I have to deal with spam filtering, and I don;y think my situation is unusual in that I work for a company that only emails individuals in 4 other countries and only received customer emails from the UK The solution to our spam problem was simple. Ban every domain except .com, .net,.co.uk, .tr and .it
Then ban all US-based ISPs
Then write a filtering rule that stops every message containing the words usually used in spam.. any that get thru are sent to me and I find and ban the relevant terms
(you can stop 75% of spam just by banning the words viagra, xanax, soma and valium and their various misspellings)
A little still tricles through but only a very little and these methods won't help spammers get past that.
I'm not convinced by using entirely bayesian methods simply because a bayesian filter will let stuff thru that it thinks is OKeven if it comes from a top-level domaoin we never communicate with. My methods part manual-bayesian (I choose and enter the banned terms) and mostly simple logic.
Hey, if it's good enough for the Spirit Rover, it's good enough for Microsoft !
Some months ago, Microsoft purchased Connectix
Connectix' product line mainly consists of VirtualPC, which is a software emulation of an x86 PC for use on a PowerPC Apple Mac
Possibly Microsoft intend to use Connectix' x86 emulation technology to support Xbox1 games on Xbox2, as well as their rumoured intention to use emulation technology in future versions of Windows for backward compatibility.
Recent industry comment on some sites sees now-distributor-free Pixar Inc teaming up with Apple to offer digital video distribution.
While this may not be the case, its small stories like this that make me suspect that apple does have a future in the movie industry that goes beyond Final Cut and iMovie
Apple is getting in with the consumer of media products as well as the producer, and that has to be a good thing for them.
This may be where I blow my good karma, I mean no offence but Columbia was an accident not a tragedy.
Any loss of life is a personal tragedy for the individual and the family but 7 lives lost in a spacecraft accident is not the worst thing to have happened in the last few years.
It's just an event, to be noted with due respect. Space is a dangerous place to travel, its just that the relatively good safety record of the shuttle craft has pushed that awareness out of the collective mind.
7 astronauts agreed to those risks and sadly paid the price. Real tragedies happening at the time and since have been forgotten in the rush to cover and re-cover this issue.
Search for: Liars And Thieves *** Sorry, but search returned no results. Try to compose less restrictive search query or check spelling. *** Obviously their search engine is already DDOS'd
The hyperlink pointing to the Earthlink page isn't working. This may be an attempt to save Earthlink's servers from a serious slashdotting, I suppose.
Sometimes it really sucks being British - having some clueless hereditary monarch handing out gongs to media moguls, software barons and dodgy heads of state.
I recently saw "Poisoned" being used on a Mac OSX box and it brought home to me the generally sucky nature of P2P on Windows I had been using KaZaA + DietK but switched to a recent build of KaZaAliteK++ which is much leaner and more friendly, but can't match Poisoned's multinetwork, spyware-and-adware-free smoothness Which P2P apps would /.ers recommend for the Windows platform?
I've been receiving these on my work server since about 0400 GMT Monday, we get about 10 an hour now. McAffee Groupshield Exchange detects it with the latest DAT, and I set up a junkmail filter in Mailsweeper to pick them up anyway ( the price of having to manually release any innocent emails is far easier to pay then disinfecting my whole network... )
Disabling video in web pages should solve this. In case it doesn't, it should be a simple hack to Mozilla to prevent any video file playing automatically.