humans weren't really designed for upright walking
Strange, I thought walking upright was one of the things that made us 'human', they didn't call our ancestors homo erectus for nothing...atleast I hope it was the upright walking they were referring too.
I suspect it's the feeling that you have physically sent something to a real person and seen it leave your outbox, rather than a page reloading to say "Thanks for your feedback!" and the idea that you can actually write something the way you want rather than filling out some rigid form? Pretty much the same reasons some people prefer to write letters than filling out long ludacris forms with questions that don't apply to them or they just can't answer.
With e-mail it's also easier to have a personal copy of correspondence in your outbox whereas other solutions are going to leave you with it scattered across lots of systems, websites and whatnot.
Wouldn't free speech, free from fear or punishment for opinion actually be...you know...public? Sure sure you can say whatever you want...as long as it's over there in the shadows whispering to the alley cats.
The latest nVidia integrated chips (GeForce 6xxx) also support DirectX 9.0c with Shader Model 3, which I believe will be the requirement for Vista Glass.
This 'patch' isn't accessing or modifying the memory of 'another application'. What these vendors have created is a DLL that can be loaded by an application to patch the mshtml dll instance in memory for the application in which it is loaded.
Next they use the AppInit_DLL registry key, which essentially forces the Operating System to load this DLL into all applications that link against user32.dll (I think), hence no hackery is going across address space boundaries, there is nothing wrong with self modifying code.
Next you will be asking why this little DLL injection key exists, well it's useful, for making unofficial application patches for one thing, and it has other legitimate uses as well although I believe the key is now depreciated in favour of cleaner methods:P
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If you're paranoid about using Javascript, and want to use it selectively, more power to you. As others have already pointed out there is an extension for Firefox and IE natively has the Trusted Zone...but hey i'll cover the last base on Windows...Opera.
The 9.0 beta Opera builds available at the Opera desktop team blog all have per site preferences for everthing from cookies, referer logging, javascript, java and other settings.
Crapware isn't currently a serious prolonged problem in my opinion, just scrub it with Spybot and Adaware, disable active scripting in IE and install Firefox or Opera as the default browser. It's a temporary fix but a very effective one.
Almost as crippling as crapware are Microsoft's and the OEM's diabolical default configuration of the filesystem. It's bad enough that OEM's install bloat and poor quality software but when a 160GB drive is entirely allocated to C: it just ends up fragged to hell.
I 'fix' alot of friend and family PC's and moving the swap file file to a new partition, creating a data partition (or better yet one for each user), and giving the system drive a good offline defrag (system files, MFT and pagefile) with something like PerfectDisk (not free, but there are free ways to do this) does absolute wonders.
Even with the almost nameless chipsets on cheap OEM boards it can also be worth updating drivers, which OEM support sites rarely include and Windows Update doesn't always provide. For example Compaq tend to be prompt sticking OEM BIOS and CD/DVD RW firmware updates on their support site, but never drivers for graphics, sound or other onboard chips.
Windows is not slow, but it takes the grooming hands of a local computer nerd to make it not so. It has little or nothing to do with legacy support either.
Roundcube is a pretty nice open source AJAX webmail application currently in beta. My previous email provider offered it, and although rather feature bare (although no more so than Gmail), it is very promising.
And those of us even smarter have downloaded/built a 32-bit copy of our favourite browser and installed the compat libraries and installed flash...or installed gplflash.
Coral cache is a global distributed network of over 250 cache servers, I do not think 'it' is likely to go down quicker than the article server itself. Maybe your ISP has issues with the Coral network.
Does anyone know if it's possible to theme Vista to look like XP? (not Windows 2k classic). I haven't seen any (recent) screenshots of Vista looking this way, so I'm wondering if they're including it.
NTFS has a cluster/allocation size from 512 bytes to 64K. This determines the minimum possible ondisk filesize, but I don't think it has too much to do with the sector size.
'KDE isn't the OS'...and 'Linux is just a kernel not the OS' (I hear this one all the time) so what exactly is is the OS? Eh? Answer me that.
The Linux situation is not so different from the Windows kernel and Explorer shell relationship, Window's components just has a much closer development process.
Stop making out that Windows is all integrated, mixed and muddled and therefore less secure because Mr. Virus can seep across borders. It just isn't like that.
Well as a geek i'm more interested in the under the hood changes than 'Oh applications and eye candy are available for XP so why bother'. Wait 'til November and see.
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Strange, I thought walking upright was one of the things that made us 'human', they didn't call our ancestors homo erectus for nothing...atleast I hope it was the upright walking they were referring too.
I suspect it's the feeling that you have physically sent something to a real person and seen it leave your outbox, rather than a page reloading to say "Thanks for your feedback!" and the idea that you can actually write something the way you want rather than filling out some rigid form? Pretty much the same reasons some people prefer to write letters than filling out long ludacris forms with questions that don't apply to them or they just can't answer.
With e-mail it's also easier to have a personal copy of correspondence in your outbox whereas other solutions are going to leave you with it scattered across lots of systems, websites and whatnot.
Thats the penalty you pay for shared libraries, goes for other platforms as well.
Wouldn't free speech, free from fear or punishment for opinion actually be...you know...public? Sure sure you can say whatever you want...as long as it's over there in the shadows whispering to the alley cats.
The latest nVidia integrated chips (GeForce 6xxx) also support DirectX 9.0c with Shader Model 3, which I believe will be the requirement for Vista Glass.
This 'patch' isn't accessing or modifying the memory of 'another application'. What these vendors have created is a DLL that can be loaded by an application to patch the mshtml dll instance in memory for the application in which it is loaded.
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Next they use the AppInit_DLL registry key, which essentially forces the Operating System to load this DLL into all applications that link against user32.dll (I think), hence no hackery is going across address space boundaries, there is nothing wrong with self modifying code.
Next you will be asking why this little DLL injection key exists, well it's useful, for making unofficial application patches for one thing, and it has other legitimate uses as well although I believe the key is now depreciated in favour of cleaner methods
Or IE users could install IE7 Beta 2 preview, which is immune.
No, the unofficial patches load themselves into IE (actually every application) at runtime and overwrites MS code in memory.
..but they're perfectly happy to pay for bugs >)
If you're paranoid about using Javascript, and want to use it selectively, more power to you. As others have already pointed out there is an extension for Firefox and IE natively has the Trusted Zone...but hey i'll cover the last base on Windows...Opera.
The 9.0 beta Opera builds available at the Opera desktop team blog all have per site preferences for everthing from cookies, referer logging, javascript, java and other settings.
Crapware isn't currently a serious prolonged problem in my opinion, just scrub it with Spybot and Adaware, disable active scripting in IE and install Firefox or Opera as the default browser. It's a temporary fix but a very effective one.
Almost as crippling as crapware are Microsoft's and the OEM's diabolical default configuration of the filesystem. It's bad enough that OEM's install bloat and poor quality software but when a 160GB drive is entirely allocated to C: it just ends up fragged to hell.
I 'fix' alot of friend and family PC's and moving the swap file file to a new partition, creating a data partition (or better yet one for each user), and giving the system drive a good offline defrag (system files, MFT and pagefile) with something like PerfectDisk (not free, but there are free ways to do this) does absolute wonders.
Even with the almost nameless chipsets on cheap OEM boards it can also be worth updating drivers, which OEM support sites rarely include and Windows Update doesn't always provide. For example Compaq tend to be prompt sticking OEM BIOS and CD/DVD RW firmware updates on their support site, but never drivers for graphics, sound or other onboard chips.
Windows is not slow, but it takes the grooming hands of a local computer nerd to make it not so. It has little or nothing to do with legacy support either.
This could be a BAD sign. Where do they intend to put the ad's in the new system? inline them into the search results?
You forgot to factor in gzip compression and carry the two
Roundcube is a pretty nice open source AJAX webmail application currently in beta. My previous email provider offered it, and although rather feature bare (although no more so than Gmail), it is very promising.
And those of us even smarter have downloaded/built a 32-bit copy of our favourite browser and installed the compat libraries and installed flash...or installed gplflash.
Coral cache is a global distributed network of over 250 cache servers, I do not think 'it' is likely to go down quicker than the article server itself. Maybe your ISP has issues with the Coral network.
Does anyone know if it's possible to theme Vista to look like XP? (not Windows 2k classic). I haven't seen any (recent) screenshots of Vista looking this way, so I'm wondering if they're including it.
NTFS has a cluster/allocation size from 512 bytes to 64K. This determines the minimum possible ondisk filesize, but I don't think it has too much to do with the sector size.
..and use "Security Bulletin Search on MS Technet.
In reply to my own message, I just installed the latest weekly build and it does say "beta" on the Window's installer banner. So ha!
For those not paying attention there are now weekly builds of Opera 9 on the Opera Desktop Team Blog
'KDE isn't the OS' ...and 'Linux is just a kernel not the OS' (I hear this one all the time) so what exactly is is the OS? Eh? Answer me that.
The Linux situation is not so different from the Windows kernel and Explorer shell relationship, Window's components just has a much closer development process.
Stop making out that Windows is all integrated, mixed and muddled and therefore less secure because Mr. Virus can seep across borders. It just isn't like that.
Well as a geek i'm more interested in the under the hood changes than 'Oh applications and eye candy are available for XP so why bother'. Wait 'til November and see.
...by VCR (The MS C runtime) 'compiled in' I mean statically of course, so you don't need msvcr80.dll, which is ~600kB, as a dependency.
Service pack 4, and it has about the same number of post-SP4 hotfixes as XP SP2.