Worst example of bloatware I've seen in some time. By default, MSN instant messenger's process is running all the time, wasting RAM, even if you don't have an account. This is not when you install MSN Instant Messenger. This is when you install Windows.
Using monopoly in one area to gain monopoly in another, anyone?
Someone else is using it now, I don't really need a laptop now. It's really light. 0.95 kg or something. The one you're thinking about is heavier. It's not powerful, but that's not what it's for. It runs XP pretty slow; I wanted to put a small Linux or something on it but it didn't have the original bootable CD. Not very good battery life. But really really small.
and used to distribute "games, files, and other media".
Briefly disregarding the fact that "files" probably covers everything that they were distributing, anyone worked out what the "other media" could be a euphemism for?
If it's like my Actius MM-10 (got it cheaply on ebay) it isn't really intended to be independent. It's really small and light, and it has a docking station so that it can act as a USB disk when powered down(a proper one - not with stupid drivers). However, it's not that powerful and it has a small HD (not that that matters when you use the docking station). It's definitely intended for use with a desktop.
Doesn't stop it executing and spreading (unless OSX doesn't allow user owned files to be executed), doesn't stop it deleting files owned by the infected user.
No, it doesn't work in Fx either (um, some of the time. Don't know what's going on...)
This is probably because they are intercepting the right click with Javascript. Kudos for triggering some kind of null or something (don't know JS) instead of an allert like some pages do (e.g. first Google result for ASCII).
If you have a nice browser you can just turn off Javascript when using that page (there is a feature in tabbrowser for Firefox, as well as in many other Fx extensions).
GNU made most of the core programs that Linux normally uses, and they are universally considered excellent. So why is it so hard for them to make a kernel?
Is it just loss of interest after Linux became popular?
But face it, that sucks so badly that everyone just increases the max with that program that's going round (no I can't be bothered to Google it, I don't even use windows any more:-).
P2P users all do it, why can't a worm/botnet client do it?
That's what the TV version of the BBC news has been saying all day too.
LOL. I know you're probably more used to the website, but that is BBC news. It stands for British Broadcasting Corporation. It was originally only radio and television.
That's a different kind of transperancy.
That is software blending, which KDE can use for menus only and which is static, i.e. based on a snapshot of what was underneath when the menu appeared. The new system uses xorg's new compositing features to provide true transperency for windows, i.e. it will update when the window behind changes. KDE will let this be applied to normal windows (maybe, like, macs, you will be able to make them become transparent when not focused?).
Anyone know if this can use hardware acceleration to take the load of the processor?
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Hint: MSconfig
Worst example of bloatware I've seen in some time. By default, MSN instant messenger's process is running all the time, wasting RAM, even if you don't have an account. This is not when you install MSN Instant Messenger. This is when you install Windows.
Using monopoly in one area to gain monopoly in another, anyone?
Someone else is using it now, I don't really need a laptop now. It's really light. 0.95 kg or something. The one you're thinking about is heavier. It's not powerful, but that's not what it's for. It runs XP pretty slow; I wanted to put a small Linux or something on it but it didn't have the original bootable CD. Not very good battery life. But really really small.
That's definitely what I saw...
I spent a few second wondering how being electronically hacked let them get the games into the slots...
If it's like my Actius MM-10 (got it cheaply on ebay) it isn't really intended to be independent. It's really small and light, and it has a docking station so that it can act as a USB disk when powered down(a proper one - not with stupid drivers). However, it's not that powerful and it has a small HD (not that that matters when you use the docking station).
It's definitely intended for use with a desktop.
Doesn't stop it executing and spreading (unless OSX doesn't allow user owned files to be executed), doesn't stop it deleting files owned by the infected user.
I already do that, but my headphones really don't have any music...
No, it doesn't work in Fx either (um, some of the time. Don't know what's going on...)
This is probably because they are intercepting the right click with Javascript. Kudos for triggering some kind of null or something (don't know JS) instead of an allert like some pages do (e.g. first Google result for ASCII).
If you have a nice browser you can just turn off Javascript when using that page (there is a feature in tabbrowser for Firefox, as well as in many other Fx extensions).
Will these be able to take normal digital video input?
Could they play DVDs, for example?
Or Quake...
They gave a user account and password after a while when no one had broken in, troll.
RTFA.
Yes.
Try and explain the concept of a "packet dump" to the PHB and you'll get BT allowed at work/school/collage!
This is legit, but hopelessly obscure as a pro-BT argument.
So, was this because it was down the whole time because of people trying to DOS it instead of taking control?
When they gave a user account, didn't the first person to log in change the account password?
And was it susceptable to forkbombing?
Are you the same guy that told this joke on /. when the contest was announced?
1) What is good then?
2) GNU utils are broken? WTF? Whatever you say, they are certainly not very buggy.
In Soviet Russia, new Soviet History overlords welcome YOU!
You really asked for it...
WTF?
The lameness filter must be able to detect humour and mark the blank post as not lame!
Mind reading!
GNU made most of the core programs that Linux normally uses, and they are universally considered excellent. So why is it so hard for them to make a kernel?
Is it just loss of interest after Linux became popular?
Obviously. We play Quake at weekends.
Slashdot is only fun when you're looking over your shoulder for the PHB...
I need Colours on my Appearance & Themes menu!
Yes, but it took me a while to recall that that's where they are.
The University of Cambridge is named after it's town.
But face it, that sucks so badly that everyone just increases the max with that program that's going round (no I can't be bothered to Google it, I don't even use windows any more :-).
P2P users all do it, why can't a worm/botnet client do it?
I'm sure we all want to be watching , preferably on a big projector, when this happens.
Geekiest post all day. Brilliant.
LOL.
I know you're probably more used to the website, but that is BBC news.
It stands for British Broadcasting Corporation. It was originally only radio and television.
That's a different kind of transperancy.
That is software blending, which KDE can use for menus only and which is static, i.e. based on a snapshot of what was underneath when the menu appeared. The new system uses xorg's new compositing features to provide true transperency for windows, i.e. it will update when the window behind changes. KDE will let this be applied to normal windows (maybe, like, macs, you will be able to make them become transparent when not focused?).
Anyone know if this can use hardware acceleration to take the load of the processor?