I did try editing the search.ini and could never get it to pick up my modifications. This was back in 7.2 I think. I tried all combinations of edit/restart but it just ignored em.
Op does indeed have an excellent popup blocker. As I said I love it, just wish it supported plugins.
That's actually a really good point. It's unlikely this publicity will reach companies as presumably they are hopeful of doing, but it has hit a lot of online forums so home users ought to have rocketed.
Then surely that will encourage other companies to create an even better browser.
Remember when netscape was 60UKP, suddenly IE got good (well... free), and they had to drop the price and improve the product (sadly they didn't work too hard on that). Point being, IE is shit and Opera is inflexible (and those are just the Windows side) so a threat will be a good and necessary kick up the arse for those two.
Dunno why this is modded down (looking at posts of the last few days a hell of a lot of good posts are getting modded down).
It's actually a good point. I don't know how big the NYT is so I can't even guess what font size they need to use to fit 10,000. But I do wonder if they're actually gonna have much room to fit in anything else.
Mind, if they do run on the numbers theme, that many names will sell the ad for them.
The definition of freeware is software, for free. The definition of a paid service as this ad is, is you hand over some money and get something in return, in this case your name in an advert. Whether you choose to have your name in or not is entirely your choice and won't make a shit of difference to your firefox application. Therefore this isn't a "sell out" this is a marketing campaign designed to pull some donations in and you get something back for it.
I love Opera and I would still be using it (if only for that gorgeous "I'm still loading the page and this is how fast I'm loading it" bar). The only gripe with opera is it doesn't support plugins or nice stuff that firefox can (such as external toolbars), nor can you customise things like the search list. Otherwise, Opera would be top of my list.
You knew there might be a lot of people and your name would get squeezed down a little. You also knew the primary point of this was to raise funds, the ad is a "reward". A fast one would be if they weren't printing the ad at all. They are, your name will be on it, stop whinging. And if that isn't enough for you, even amongst 2500 peeps, you really think you'll be any more recognisable than amongst 10000?
I've seen brand new Dell computers literally slowed down to a halt as a result of the crap that has been installed on them within a few days. Ahh you must mean the Dell support software;)
I want to say "People are dumb," but that wouldn be neither fair nor valid. People are simply uneducated in these matters and do not care enough to become educated. That's absolutely spot on, I'm reading through and seeing replies about people being "morons" and "stupid" and all that, but they aren't. Your average Joe just doesn't know how it all works. It's not so much a case of doesn't care enough, I think it sways more towards they don't think they'll be able to understand. Besides, unless they know someone in the family, books/technicians cost a *lot* of money, and if they don't know what they're doing to start with, chances are they won't be able to use google effectively to get a free guide.
Personally, I think it should become the law that every new pc comes with a guide or booklets or *something* that explains in plain English what spyware etc. is and what you can do.
Those comments are always BS. People who end *any* mini review with "I had to reformat" are clearly people who are either too stupid or too lazy to try the simple things like system restore or just yanking the app off. Unless there was a rather destructive virus attached there's not normally a reason to reformat and people who say their is can be safely ignored.
How do you define "deadly". We couldn't survive on Mercury cos it's too hot, by the same logic, stuff that's used to Mercury may not survive on Earth because it's a lot colder.
Lets round the figure down to probably 65million active domains. Google - Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages
8bn/65m is 123 and a bit. So that means that all the websites average out at 123 (cached) pages. When you think the BBC boasts half a million pages, and sites such as zdnet, cnet etc have hundreds of thousands, just think how many sites only have 1 page. What a waste of domain!
No idea. The beta test was just to debug the client and test the idea for immediate problems. It's still got a way to go yet, I don't know all that much about it tbh so I wouldn't rule in/out porting to other OSs.
Well atm you can't access any pages or anything to list what ip addresses are connected to you, all you have is usernames that you can make up and change as you fancy. No encryption as yet but it is still early days.
is to basically become a Kazaa but using the bittorrent protocol. I was one of the beta testers and I can say it works well, it's fast it's efficient and because it doesn't have to faff around with one tracker it starts transferring the second, *the second* you add the torrent.
Publishing a torrent is incredibly easy, drag the folder in, pick a category, click go. It hashes it and it starts seeding within seconds.
It still (obviously) needs some work doing to the app to make it more friendly but it's shaping up well.
The patch (at least the patch as it was on the day of release, it may be modified now) appears to have created at least one new bug. Several users I've seen in a small Sims 2 community have reported the headmaster comes over every day now whether invited or not.
Have EA rushed it out and got it not quite right? Or have they decided to follow Microsoft's moto "lets fix sommat and break sommat else!"?
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You know if someone on/. linked to your space and no one bothered to tell you and then you got charged for excessive bandwidth, dya think you could sue them for it back/
Yeah but you haven't answered.. who gives a shit if it's an advert? It's still geek news in a form. If a story said for example "pentium 5 born, buy it here, Intel paid us for this advert" it would be exactly the same as if it said "pentium 5 born, buy it here". If you care you click, if you don't you move past it.
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Op does indeed have an excellent popup blocker. As I said I love it, just wish it supported plugins.
The names are people who have paid to have their name on a full page New York Times ad for Firefox.
That's actually a really good point. It's unlikely this publicity will reach companies as presumably they are hopeful of doing, but it has hit a lot of online forums so home users ought to have rocketed.
The clue was in "will be". That means future. That means not yet. You can't link to something that doesn't exist yet.
Remember when netscape was 60UKP, suddenly IE got good (well... free), and they had to drop the price and improve the product (sadly they didn't work too hard on that). Point being, IE is shit and Opera is inflexible (and those are just the Windows side) so a threat will be a good and necessary kick up the arse for those two.
It's actually a good point. I don't know how big the NYT is so I can't even guess what font size they need to use to fit 10,000. But I do wonder if they're actually gonna have much room to fit in anything else.
Mind, if they do run on the numbers theme, that many names will sell the ad for them.
The definition of freeware is software, for free. The definition of a paid service as this ad is, is you hand over some money and get something in return, in this case your name in an advert. Whether you choose to have your name in or not is entirely your choice and won't make a shit of difference to your firefox application. Therefore this isn't a "sell out" this is a marketing campaign designed to pull some donations in and you get something back for it.
I love Opera and I would still be using it (if only for that gorgeous "I'm still loading the page and this is how fast I'm loading it" bar). The only gripe with opera is it doesn't support plugins or nice stuff that firefox can (such as external toolbars), nor can you customise things like the search list. Otherwise, Opera would be top of my list.
You knew there might be a lot of people and your name would get squeezed down a little. You also knew the primary point of this was to raise funds, the ad is a "reward".
A fast one would be if they weren't printing the ad at all. They are, your name will be on it, stop whinging.
And if that isn't enough for you, even amongst 2500 peeps, you really think you'll be any more recognisable than amongst 10000?
It may well do, but p2p isn't latency dependant, online gaming is.
ISPs haven't just gotta handle big traffic, they've gotta handle it fast
Ahh you must mean the Dell support software
I want to say "People are dumb," but that wouldn be neither fair nor valid. People are simply uneducated in these matters and do not care enough to become educated.
That's absolutely spot on, I'm reading through and seeing replies about people being "morons" and "stupid" and all that, but they aren't. Your average Joe just doesn't know how it all works. It's not so much a case of doesn't care enough, I think it sways more towards they don't think they'll be able to understand. Besides, unless they know someone in the family, books/technicians cost a *lot* of money, and if they don't know what they're doing to start with, chances are they won't be able to use google effectively to get a free guide.
Personally, I think it should become the law that every new pc comes with a guide or booklets or *something* that explains in plain English what spyware etc. is and what you can do.
Those comments are always BS.
People who end *any* mini review with "I had to reformat" are clearly people who are either too stupid or too lazy to try the simple things like system restore or just yanking the app off. Unless there was a rather destructive virus attached there's not normally a reason to reformat and people who say their is can be safely ignored.
How do you define "deadly". We couldn't survive on Mercury cos it's too hot, by the same logic, stuff that's used to Mercury may not survive on Earth because it's a lot colder.
Filezilla is a freeware ftp prog that is seld-directory-contained. Very handy for accessing your files at work when you can't remember your webspace password.
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Sadly that's true. Shame on whoever modded you down.
Google - Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages
8bn/65m is 123 and a bit. So that means that all the websites average out at 123 (cached) pages. When you think the BBC boasts half a million pages, and sites such as zdnet, cnet etc have hundreds of thousands, just think how many sites only have 1 page. What a waste of domain!
No idea. The beta test was just to debug the client and test the idea for immediate problems. It's still got a way to go yet, I don't know all that much about it tbh so I wouldn't rule in/out porting to other OSs.
the serial was to cover beta testing so there weren't a swamp of too many users. Afaik, it'll be freeware
Well atm you can't access any pages or anything to list what ip addresses are connected to you, all you have is usernames that you can make up and change as you fancy. No encryption as yet but it is still early days.
Publishing a torrent is incredibly easy, drag the folder in, pick a category, click go. It hashes it and it starts seeding within seconds.
It still (obviously) needs some work doing to the app to make it more friendly but it's shaping up well.
The patch (at least the patch as it was on the day of release, it may be modified now) appears to have created at least one new bug. Several users I've seen in a small Sims 2 community have reported the headmaster comes over every day now whether invited or not.
Have EA rushed it out and got it not quite right? Or have they decided to follow Microsoft's moto "lets fix sommat and break sommat else!"?
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You know if someone on /. linked to your space and no one bothered to tell you and then you got charged for excessive bandwidth, dya think you could sue them for it back/
Yeah but you haven't answered.. who gives a shit if it's an advert? It's still geek news in a form.
If a story said for example "pentium 5 born, buy it here, Intel paid us for this advert" it would be exactly the same as if it said "pentium 5 born, buy it here". If you care you click, if you don't you move past it.