So why the heck they are putting those applications on their 'non-working' list? To show customers that 'their' alternative is working well but not the rivals? And most importantly, how on the earth a virus scanner cease working after a patch, what kind of security is that?
Indeed that actually because you can not easily see the source codes download link directly on main pages you download firefox. IMHO that's really big flaw. Mozilla foundation should emphasize on pages that there're sources, and you can get and hack it. Of course those who want to hack the firefox can easily find the sources, but only when you emphasize it's open source, you'll have more contributers to community.
Having said that, it's still a really success of open source, because FireFox showed one more that open source software can compete w/ proprietary software and stand as a great alternative. Against common belief, I don't think it's 'media' that made firefox spread that fast. It's the need for looking an alternative for the problems of IE and also finding the alternative which does great.
What also make it strong is community. And with increasing user base; bug reports, patch commits will increase logaritmically as well.
Still what makes firefox god send is its ability to make (web) developers that there're other browsers, and make them aware of web standards.
Nobody need to support two browsers. Only thing that should do is to stick standards, not some crappy application specific workaround.
At last web developers will learn to use HTML not IEHTML. That's why whatever share FX will have, IT stuff now understood there're standards and that's where those rendering of pages coming from. And that's also why any other browser user (like Opera users) should support FX because it increses the awereness of standards and that will only help their beloved browsers, not harm.
Support of IDN is important. Whatever it is IE's lacking of IDN as default is a real flaw. I for example, really want to use my own language's characters in domain names. I can blame IE for lagging this adoption. Thanks FX and Opera to have support for IDN by default and trying to change the Internet from being US centric.
Did you check the jumpers?
Good luck while playing with them.
It's not the index, but the technology differs
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I just want to speculate over the technology both search engines use. Specially for image search engines. When you search for a picture, and use 'monkey' for example for search key. You will see pictures with names that does not include monkey in it even at first page of Google search results. That's because Google using context reference for images *better*. But for MSN you won't see any pictures on that so called first 20 pages that does not have 'monkey' in file name.
So basically MSN search engine puts files w/ search key in name at high priority. That's why it's showing pictures at same domain until names with britney spears ends.
MSN search might be a good service for msn users but it's nowhere to race with google either with search index and technology. But you know MS and his strategy, IE was like a silly program and had not even 10% market share at its first year. Thanks to MS and his monopol strategy it's now %90 and we got a full of garbage web.
although installing new software could pose some problems for those who aren't really computer savvy.
Did anyone tried to make a computer newbie on windows to install a new software over phone? Varying the type of software, it can be almost impossible most of times. However telling them to just start a shell and type 'rpm -i whatever' or 'emerge/apt-get whatever' would be alot more easier.
Only thing they need to know what to do then it's as easy as in every OS human invented.
How come they will save themselves from months old unpatched critical security bugs, by knowing how to use IE?
Besides, tabbed browsing and extensions are the key things that anyone would be in search of other alternative browsers than IE.
It's strange that people try to humiliate firefox and exagrate their all-time browsers. Actually what normal brain should do in such a IE-oriented web to support firefox's trend.
If firefox gains valuable market share, sites can not resist to obey standards. They would know that there are other browsers around. And unlike Netscape vs. IE years now they are easy to implement and test. If all sites obey web standards, every other rival browser of IE can easily adapt those standards without trying to mimic IE behaviour. That would make them even more enjoyable to use. However current situation is, despite opera is quick, or safari is ui sleek they have to face with 'best viewed with IE' pages.
Firefox seems to be only solution for that 'best viewed for IE' plauge. So if you want to use your favourite browser without caring if this page will look good, support firefox, and stick to your browser.
...dry the mud instead of killing mosquitos. For regular users, clicking on 'Yes' for every popup appears would be something understandable, but even for tech savy guys if spyware is something to be protected, Microsoft should really think about it.
For those knowing what she's doing, even anti virus tools are not necessary. But I really wonder how come theese things are realy easy to spread, and harm people.
I also can't believe developers at Microsoft can't solve that problem, but volunteer guys all around the world had solved the problem already.
Microsoft can be the biggest cat but it must be the most shameless company as well by releasing its own spyware tool.
...(reported to Microsoft on 2004-10-13).
That's almost whole 3 months. And since then no vendor patch for such a critical bug found in a major product. Not even a warning or anything. That must be the service that any microsoft software user would expect. Wondering if this is a promotion campaign for their new virus and spyware tools.
This bug and some recent others again proved that Microsoft embedded Internet Explorer in such a way that you can't distinguish it from Windows Explorer.
we're as humans not dependent to computers that much. We hardly trust computers most of times. On lots of places people take paper copies of data backups, or they have a switch guy waiting on duty to check if computer does its work alright.
But it's starting to change day by day. Every passing day computers get more importance in human life. It wasn't that vital in y2k but it will be vital in 2100 or so. And then a single bug in a software will lead planes crash, electricity block out and etc. But fortunately then people will take those issues more carefully.
As an alternative to deli.cio.us spurl is a good service for online bookmarking.
Actually I found spurl's interface best of its kind, and it has really nice browser workarounds to get you ready to spurl easy and fast. Even a spurl firefox extension is out. Spurl has a plugin for IE as well.
.../then distributing it online is personally responsible for as much as $200,000 in losses to the industry, according to federal records unsealed Thursday.
So what? With hundreds of seeds, just one.torrent file would cause that much 'loss'. The problem is not the warez groups, or those ftp servers. They are just hobbiest settlements. They in no way aim to spread copyrighted materials to the masses. Its pathetic to US government fail in the battle of p2p and turn its eyes on those warez groups. As in Iraq war, it showed its inpotent in terrorism war and find an innocent area of the world.
Well P2P should stop, crack spreading (how many years astalavista.box.sk is open?) sites should stop, because they are getting benefit (with showing ads) from illegal activity. But those ftp sites are not spreading anything to masses. Just to close users.
So if FBI wants to do a good job, they should find people who is getting benefit from those cracks, rips. Not those having that as a hobby, and either having no benefit from it and do not harm anybody. Real thiefs are the p2p networks, sites spreading warez to masses with popups and pr0n banners. While the are still wide open, what FBI did was plain bullsh*t.
That project must have been funded by m$ to make at least one system that will be able to run Longhorn. No need to mention you'll be able to run kernel 4.0 or whatever on your p100 box anyways.
Besides if the level of linux usage reach that amount, there would not need to use samba anymore. Btw, MS will have to get on with linux so that people would buy it. Else they would go with more standardised OS, not monopolised.
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Miguel de Icaza interview about mono on lug radio. Really nice one.
Maybe microsoft is not awere of those patches, from MS.com support article: Last Review : February 3, 2005 Revision : 18.0 Still they are on the list.
So why the heck they are putting those applications on their 'non-working' list? To show customers that 'their' alternative is working well but not the rivals? And most importantly, how on the earth a virus scanner cease working after a patch, what kind of security is that?
Not if you don't want vendor lock in at your network environment. Besides AD is PITA to manage imho.
Indeed that actually because you can not easily see the source codes download link directly on main pages you download firefox. IMHO that's really big flaw. Mozilla foundation should emphasize on pages that there're sources, and you can get and hack it. Of course those who want to hack the firefox can easily find the sources, but only when you emphasize it's open source, you'll have more contributers to community.
Having said that, it's still a really success of open source, because FireFox showed one more that open source software can compete w/ proprietary software and stand as a great alternative. Against common belief, I don't think it's 'media' that made firefox spread that fast. It's the need for looking an alternative for the problems of IE and also finding the alternative which does great.
What also make it strong is community. And with increasing user base; bug reports, patch commits will increase logaritmically as well.
Still what makes firefox god send is its ability to make (web) developers that there're other browsers, and make them aware of web standards.
Nobody need to support two browsers. Only thing that should do is to stick standards, not some crappy application specific workaround.
At last web developers will learn to use HTML not IEHTML. That's why whatever share FX will have, IT stuff now understood there're standards and that's where those rendering of pages coming from. And that's also why any other browser user (like Opera users) should support FX because it increses the awereness of standards and that will only help their beloved browsers, not harm.
Support of IDN is important. Whatever it is IE's lacking of IDN as default is a real flaw. I for example, really want to use my own language's characters in domain names. I can blame IE for lagging this adoption. Thanks FX and Opera to have support for IDN by default and trying to change the Internet from being US centric.
Did you check the jumpers? Good luck while playing with them.
I just want to speculate over the technology both search engines use. Specially for image search engines. When you search for a picture, and use 'monkey' for example for search key. You will see pictures with names that does not include monkey in it even at first page of Google search results. That's because Google using context reference for images *better*. But for MSN you won't see any pictures on that so called first 20 pages that does not have 'monkey' in file name.
So basically MSN search engine puts files w/ search key in name at high priority. That's why it's showing pictures at same domain until names with britney spears ends.
MSN search might be a good service for msn users but it's nowhere to race with google either with search index and technology. But you know MS and his strategy, IE was like a silly program and had not even 10% market share at its first year. Thanks to MS and his monopol strategy it's now %90 and we got a full of garbage web.
although installing new software could pose some problems for those who aren't really computer savvy.
Did anyone tried to make a computer newbie on windows to install a new software over phone? Varying the type of software, it can be almost impossible most of times. However telling them to just start a shell and type 'rpm -i whatever' or 'emerge/apt-get whatever' would be alot more easier.
Only thing they need to know what to do then it's as easy as in every OS human invented.
How come they will save themselves from months old unpatched critical security bugs, by knowing how to use IE? Besides, tabbed browsing and extensions are the key things that anyone would be in search of other alternative browsers than IE.
It's strange that people try to humiliate firefox and exagrate their all-time browsers. Actually what normal brain should do in such a IE-oriented web to support firefox's trend.
If firefox gains valuable market share, sites can not resist to obey standards. They would know that there are other browsers around. And unlike Netscape vs. IE years now they are easy to implement and test. If all sites obey web standards, every other rival browser of IE can easily adapt those standards without trying to mimic IE behaviour. That would make them even more enjoyable to use. However current situation is, despite opera is quick, or safari is ui sleek they have to face with 'best viewed with IE' pages.
Firefox seems to be only solution for that 'best viewed for IE' plauge. So if you want to use your favourite browser without caring if this page will look good, support firefox, and stick to your browser.
...dry the mud instead of killing mosquitos. For regular users, clicking on 'Yes' for every popup appears would be something understandable, but even for tech savy guys if spyware is something to be protected, Microsoft should really think about it. For those knowing what she's doing, even anti virus tools are not necessary. But I really wonder how come theese things are realy easy to spread, and harm people. I also can't believe developers at Microsoft can't solve that problem, but volunteer guys all around the world had solved the problem already. Microsoft can be the biggest cat but it must be the most shameless company as well by releasing its own spyware tool.
...(reported to Microsoft on 2004-10-13).
That's almost whole 3 months. And since then no vendor patch for such a critical bug found in a major product. Not even a warning or anything. That must be the service that any microsoft software user would expect. Wondering if this is a promotion campaign for their new virus and spyware tools.
This bug and some recent others again proved that Microsoft embedded Internet Explorer in such a way that you can't distinguish it from Windows Explorer.
we're as humans not dependent to computers that much. We hardly trust computers most of times. On lots of places people take paper copies of data backups, or they have a switch guy waiting on duty to check if computer does its work alright. But it's starting to change day by day. Every passing day computers get more importance in human life. It wasn't that vital in y2k but it will be vital in 2100 or so. And then a single bug in a software will lead planes crash, electricity block out and etc. But fortunately then people will take those issues more carefully.
to give money to a torrent site? If you're generous enough to give out money, don't waste it. just go buy legit copies.
As an alternative to deli.cio.us spurl is a good service for online bookmarking.
Actually I found spurl's interface best of its kind, and it has really nice browser workarounds to get you ready to spurl easy and fast. Even a spurl firefox extension is out. Spurl has a plugin for IE as well.
.../then distributing it online is personally responsible for as much as $200,000 in losses to the industry, according to federal records unsealed Thursday. .torrent file would cause that much 'loss'. The problem is not the warez groups, or those ftp servers. They are just hobbiest settlements. They in no way aim to spread copyrighted materials to the masses. Its pathetic to US government fail in the battle of p2p and turn its eyes on those warez groups. As in Iraq war, it showed its inpotent in terrorism war and find an innocent area of the world.
So what? With hundreds of seeds, just one
Well P2P should stop, crack spreading (how many years astalavista.box.sk is open?) sites should stop, because they are getting benefit (with showing ads) from illegal activity. But those ftp sites are not spreading anything to masses. Just to close users.
So if FBI wants to do a good job, they should find people who is getting benefit from those cracks, rips. Not those having that as a hobby, and either having no benefit from it and do not harm anybody. Real thiefs are the p2p networks, sites spreading warez to masses with popups and pr0n banners. While the are still wide open, what FBI did was plain bullsh*t.
It's because XFree86 team is too lazy to develop X and that shows why choosing X.org over XFree86 is better idea. Faster and better development.
That project must have been funded by m$ to make at least one system that will be able to run Longhorn. No need to mention you'll be able to run kernel 4.0 or whatever on your p100 box anyways.
Besides if the level of linux usage reach that amount, there would not need to use samba anymore. Btw, MS will have to get on with linux so that people would buy it. Else they would go with more standardised OS, not monopolised.
How cnet or anyone else than ms developers know vulnerability does not affect windows OS anyways?
to test
it's already been done though. I remember seeing patches for photoshop cs that you can block that nag .
Click on a folder, then select 'Browse folder' and here's your longly beloved file browser. Is that outrageous too?