The app that let you mount a remote HD over scp - was that a Windows app? And if so, was it by any chance free? I've been looking for something that would let me do this for a while, but the only one I'm aware of is not free/open source.
I believe the parent was referring to overall readership, as in, readers over wires and the more traditional type. I would imagine the paper readership of the Times to be quite large, at least on the order of several hundred thousand copies distributed per day, and that doesn't even touch on the potential web audience. I have no idea what kind of traffic the English wikipedia gets, but it seems very likely that they're comparable.
However, the Times' wikitorial had what, one article? Wikipedia has, at last count, 603228 articles in English alone. Of course it was going to get hammered.
Of course, they should have considered their amount of content before making a huge announcement. But, um, they didn't. Personally, I'm thankful that the wikitorial idea did not catch on. We've got enough blogs out there as it is.
Hopefully you're still checking the responses to your comment. After I read your comment yesterday, I started to think about how cool it would be to have a console like that. I couldn't find one, so I scrounged one together. If you want to follow the instructions, I posted them here:
Good point. I also wish games stuck around longer, especially those that are released around the same time as the megahits (GTA, Halo, Half-Life 2, etc.). On the other hand, there are games that I still see taking up premium shelf space at the local Best Buy that I wish would be put aside for newer innovative games. For instance, I still see Starcraft, a game that was originally released in 1998, in the "featured games" section! Meanwhile, only a few copies of Psychonauts are to be seen, and those are stuck on the bottom shelf off a side aisle. Of course, that one was seemingly written off by the mega-stores before it was even released.
In video games, though, there is the added pressure of hardware rapidly changing. It's not even an issue of "Oh, that game doesn't really look great by today's standards" any more - in the case of computer games, Windows computers released in the past 5 years simply can't even *run* games for an earlier platform than Windows 95 (and even most games designed for Windows 95 have trouble running on Windows XP). With the pace that is set by the games hardware industry, game developers almost have no choice but to come out with stuff quickly, before their development machines are obsolete.
Films are different - yes, technology has changed (VHS, DVD), but most homes have a VCR, and so they have the ability to pop in an old tape and appreciate it, even if certain parts of it (special effects, special features) are lacking. That's not even an option for many gamers to appreciate old games without skirting gray areas of legality (emulation) or having an old computer lying around. Game companies wanting to make a profit need to come out with stuff while it's hot, and sadly that results in many products being less than fully realized.
My PB is only a 12" model, so I find myself scrolling horizontally quite a bit.:-)
In case you want to disable horizontal scrolling in Firefox, you can do so with the same config option mentioned above. Set mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action to 4, and sliding horizontally on the trackpad should not affect your browsing in any way.
You may want to set it to an even higher value in case another scrolling option is released in the near future. Right now, 0-3 are used to specify actions. If you set it to a really high value, such as 1000, I think you'd probably be fine.
WalMart has been having sub-$300 computers for a couple years now... that page is sub-$200, and they all include desktop, keyboard, mouse, CD-ROM, and an OS.
Meanwhile, Dell offers "Desktops starting from $299" and Gateway offers them from $499 with an LCD monitor. $350 won't get you top-of-the-line, but it can certainly get you a "new" computer.
I assume your browser history problems occur when you are using Firefox, as I had the same problem when I got my new Powerbook. Thinking something was fishy, I investigated a little bit, and it turns out that the behavior is due to (IMHO) a poor choice for default horizontal scrolling behavior in Firefox.
If you want to change Firefox to actually scroll side-to-side, open up Firefox and enter the URL "about:config"
Enter a filter of "mousewheel" so you're only seeing settings relating to the mousewheel.
Set mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action to 0 (the default value is 2, I believe). You may also want to try adjusting the values of mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.numlines and mousewheel.withnokey.numlines to get a more comfortable feel for how screens scroll in Firefox (and make sure to set the.sysnumlines values for each of those to "false," otherwise your changes won't have any effect).
After I got those settings fixed, I found scrolling with the Trackpad in Firefox to be quite handy, though for some reason it still seems touchier than Safari. Oh well - I guess not enough of Firefox's developers are Powerbook users, and I lack the initiative to make a positive change.
Regarding the fear of keyloggers being used in Internet cafes and the like - would it be worth cheaply obfuscasting the URLs while typing them in, by using a combination of mouse and keystrokes to form it? I.e., instead of typing in "http://rebelsite.org", type it in backwards, using the cursor keys after each character, or in some random order, and just adjust the position of the cursor using the mouse and/or keyboard.
Although, to refute my own suggestion, this doesn't get rid of the problem that there are most likely monitors running at a higher level, in which case they're going to know at least WHERE you're going no matter what. But if the only fear is keyloggers, it seems like those would be simple enough to work around...
The trailer is definitely hott (with two T's, of course). While it was all rather quick, it looked to me like the fight sequences combined some innovative camera maneuvers that I haven't really seen before. The fact that things aren't limited by what a camera can physically do, combined with the stylized artwork of the characters (not as "realistic" as the first Final Fantasy tried to be), could be quite refreshing in the theatre.
The case was Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios. As another poster pointed out, Sony owned the Betamax. They were sued by Universal.
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/betamax/
Several other replyers to this post seem to be complaining about this feature being too intrusive. I think that this sort of user interface mechanism would actually be quite useful, given an activation key/button. The various voice-command software packages I've tried have had "click and hold" activation buttons, as well as "lockable" activation options. With those in place, there's no reason to complain about this.
Eh, not too many Windows apps nowadays require shutting down of applications or rebooting.
Basic exceptions are those that install plug-ins or expand on the functionality of apps, in which case you are told to shut down Internet Explorer (and, consequently, any Explorer windows). However, if you've got Windows set up to run new instances of IEXPLORE.EXE (which I believe is the default nowadays), in most cases you can safely leave IE running and the plug-in functionality will only be enabled in the new instances of the browser. Even better, if the plug-in is ActiveX-ish and has a friendly installer, you don't even have to open new instances of the browser.
Relating to the uninstallation point, traces are left in *nix setups of long-gone apps as well, in the form of dotfiles and custom configuration files. Am I saying these are any worse or better than the traces of programs left in the Windows Registry? I'd say that's a matter of opinion.
But, uh, anyway, I think this is bordering on off-topic from the article, so I'm done.
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The app that let you mount a remote HD over scp - was that a Windows app? And if so, was it by any chance free? I've been looking for something that would let me do this for a while, but the only one I'm aware of is not free/open source.
I minimize my windows to make sure no hackers can climb through them.
- I believe the parent was referring to overall readership, as in, readers over wires and the more traditional type. I would imagine the paper readership of the Times to be quite large, at least on the order of several hundred thousand copies distributed per day, and that doesn't even touch on the potential web audience. I have no idea what kind of traffic the English wikipedia gets, but it seems very likely that they're comparable.
- However, the Times' wikitorial had what, one article? Wikipedia has, at last count, 603228 articles in English alone. Of course it was going to get hammered.
Of course, they should have considered their amount of content before making a huge announcement. But, um, they didn't. Personally, I'm thankful that the wikitorial idea did not catch on. We've got enough blogs out there as it is.Hopefully you're still checking the responses to your comment. After I read your comment yesterday, I started to think about how cool it would be to have a console like that. I couldn't find one, so I scrounged one together. If you want to follow the instructions, I posted them here:
o le-la-quake.html
http://toveness.blogspot.com/2005/06/windows-cons
Hopefully you can find this useful!
Good point. I also wish games stuck around longer, especially those that are released around the same time as the megahits (GTA, Halo, Half-Life 2, etc.). On the other hand, there are games that I still see taking up premium shelf space at the local Best Buy that I wish would be put aside for newer innovative games. For instance, I still see Starcraft, a game that was originally released in 1998, in the "featured games" section! Meanwhile, only a few copies of Psychonauts are to be seen, and those are stuck on the bottom shelf off a side aisle. Of course, that one was seemingly written off by the mega-stores before it was even released.
*sigh*
In video games, though, there is the added pressure of hardware rapidly changing. It's not even an issue of "Oh, that game doesn't really look great by today's standards" any more - in the case of computer games, Windows computers released in the past 5 years simply can't even *run* games for an earlier platform than Windows 95 (and even most games designed for Windows 95 have trouble running on Windows XP). With the pace that is set by the games hardware industry, game developers almost have no choice but to come out with stuff quickly, before their development machines are obsolete.
Films are different - yes, technology has changed (VHS, DVD), but most homes have a VCR, and so they have the ability to pop in an old tape and appreciate it, even if certain parts of it (special effects, special features) are lacking. That's not even an option for many gamers to appreciate old games without skirting gray areas of legality (emulation) or having an old computer lying around. Game companies wanting to make a profit need to come out with stuff while it's hot, and sadly that results in many products being less than fully realized.
My PB is only a 12" model, so I find myself scrolling horizontally quite a bit. :-)
In case you want to disable horizontal scrolling in Firefox, you can do so with the same config option mentioned above. Set mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action to 4, and sliding horizontally on the trackpad should not affect your browsing in any way.
You may want to set it to an even higher value in case another scrolling option is released in the near future. Right now, 0-3 are used to specify actions. If you set it to a really high value, such as 1000, I think you'd probably be fine.
http://tinyurl.com/8z96f
WalMart has been having sub-$300 computers for a couple years now... that page is sub-$200, and they all include desktop, keyboard, mouse, CD-ROM, and an OS.
Meanwhile, Dell offers "Desktops starting from $299" and Gateway offers them from $499 with an LCD monitor. $350 won't get you top-of-the-line, but it can certainly get you a "new" computer.
I assume your browser history problems occur when you are using Firefox, as I had the same problem when I got my new Powerbook. Thinking something was fishy, I investigated a little bit, and it turns out that the behavior is due to (IMHO) a poor choice for default horizontal scrolling behavior in Firefox.
.sysnumlines values for each of those to "false," otherwise your changes won't have any effect).
If you want to change Firefox to actually scroll side-to-side, open up Firefox and enter the URL "about:config"
Enter a filter of "mousewheel" so you're only seeing settings relating to the mousewheel.
Set mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action to 0 (the default value is 2, I believe). You may also want to try adjusting the values of mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.numlines and mousewheel.withnokey.numlines to get a more comfortable feel for how screens scroll in Firefox (and make sure to set the
After I got those settings fixed, I found scrolling with the Trackpad in Firefox to be quite handy, though for some reason it still seems touchier than Safari. Oh well - I guess not enough of Firefox's developers are Powerbook users, and I lack the initiative to make a positive change.
Although, to refute my own suggestion, this doesn't get rid of the problem that there are most likely monitors running at a higher level, in which case they're going to know at least WHERE you're going no matter what. But if the only fear is keyloggers, it seems like those would be simple enough to work around...
The trailer is definitely hott (with two T's, of course). While it was all rather quick, it looked to me like the fight sequences combined some innovative camera maneuvers that I haven't really seen before. The fact that things aren't limited by what a camera can physically do, combined with the stylized artwork of the characters (not as "realistic" as the first Final Fantasy tried to be), could be quite refreshing in the theatre.
The case was Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios. As another poster pointed out, Sony owned the Betamax. They were sued by Universal. http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/betamax/
Yes. Heck, I've already spent much more than 2 hours of my life playing Donkey Kong...
Several other replyers to this post seem to be complaining about this feature being too intrusive. I think that this sort of user interface mechanism would actually be quite useful, given an activation key/button. The various voice-command software packages I've tried have had "click and hold" activation buttons, as well as "lockable" activation options. With those in place, there's no reason to complain about this.
Of course, how many of us Gmail-account holding, Google-bar using, overall Google addicts are willing to believe that?
;-)
Besides, a Google search on the matter didn't reveal anything sketchy.
I've taken a screenshot, for those who for some reason are unable to duplicate the error.
g le-succumbs/
http://jtype.us/index.php/archives/2004/07/26/goo
I would normally use Google to figure out the answer to your question, but, uh...
Eh, not too many Windows apps nowadays require shutting down of applications or rebooting.
Basic exceptions are those that install plug-ins or expand on the functionality of apps, in which case you are told to shut down Internet Explorer (and, consequently, any Explorer windows). However, if you've got Windows set up to run new instances of IEXPLORE.EXE (which I believe is the default nowadays), in most cases you can safely leave IE running and the plug-in functionality will only be enabled in the new instances of the browser. Even better, if the plug-in is ActiveX-ish and has a friendly installer, you don't even have to open new instances of the browser.
Relating to the uninstallation point, traces are left in *nix setups of long-gone apps as well, in the form of dotfiles and custom configuration files. Am I saying these are any worse or better than the traces of programs left in the Windows Registry? I'd say that's a matter of opinion.
But, uh, anyway, I think this is bordering on off-topic from the article, so I'm done.