This. I run btrfs on my home file server and lost a half year of data due to a power outage corrupting the filesystem. Afterwards I was looking around for its fsck utility only to find it does not yet exist. Btrfs may be the way of the future, but as is, it's still too soon.
If we can define "long" as "couple months" if that. I gave up on the one Google Groups list I had been following due to all the spam it suddenly started receiving.
Much like the mythical Comcast bandwidth usage meter which we have been hearing about for over half a year now, I will believe it when I see it. And I am certainly not seeing it now.
I tried that once with my father. It did not go over so well. He quickly realized the browser was "different", went back to IE, and then started blaming FF for trying to trick him into using it.
If anything, I'd say it's better to tell them up front you've switched browsers, and then change the icon.
I recently set up a secondary gaming box with a limited user account for a MMO that has to be constantly updated else it won't run. It was a bit of a pain since it insists on writing a cache file in %WINDIR%. Then it has a registry setting that, by default, limited users cannot change. After a few more bumps, it has worked flawlessly.
For the most part, it's just lazy development teams who can't be arsed to "fix" their code. There's probably a moral here about open source. Who knows.
The driving skills and written tests should be required every 5-10 years for all persons. It may not solve the problem, but it would keep those who really needs to be off the road, off of the road. Hopefully.
Usenet. All "files" (posts) are stored server-side, and folks generally have a fast pipe to their ISP (or other provider).
With multipart binary posts, a single file is split up between so many posts. Between fifteen to fifty, let's say. It's common for usenet providers to not receive all the posts, so folks are sometimes left with incomplete/corrupt files. Enter the small, spanned archive formats. It's quite common to see up to 10% parity per usenet posting, especially for large files. Small split set sizes make for easy reposting, as well.
In regards to the grandparent, this likely relates to why the said torrents are healthier. Folks who can bypass the leeching process and go straight to the seeding. The only other means of really sharing on such binary groups would be posting (or reposting) stuff for folks. Due to ever limiting server retention, a lot of the binary groups look down on heavy posting.
I gave up on usenet years ago, though; well, not really. My ISP gave up on it, and I was too much of a bum to pay someone for decent service. I would encourage anyone to check if their ISP offers usenet access if they're into P2P and don't like the "2P" part that much.
Heh, figures it was something like that. And here I was going under the assumption that it actually opened all the bookmarks, like if you had middle clicked a folder.
This is one of my pet peeves. Yes, it may be a bit shallow; but can we please stop changing the theme every release? I know, I know -- it's for the sake of being "user friendly". But how is changing for look and feel of your application, without doing so much as officially supporting/including the past theme revisions, helping anyone? What's become of my browser experience when I don't know what I'm doing anymore?
Take the organize bookmarks dialog. It's magically disappeared. Perhaps I'm supposed to read the changelog and find you access it for clicking random widget #167 -- but why? It's been under the bookmark tab for years, in practically all browsers. Same with the separate history arrows; sure, just rip out that back arrow. You'll only save a few pixels and annoy the heck out of everyone who actually uses it. But that's progress, right?
While I certainly won't condemn the developers for attempting to progress on their interface, is it really so much to ask to being able to revert the interface to something like the previous version without the need to find a handful of about:config settings to change, or use their horrible extension search (which needs to let you filter by version, dammit)?
For those like me who have never heard of this before, Sumatra is an open source PDF viewer for Windows. Giving it a little whirl, it seems to render a couple manuals nicely. Links don't get parsed for easy clicking. Quick look at the forums seems to reveal it doesn't support password protected PDFs or searching.
For a very slim PDF viewer, it appears to be quite nice (and GPL to boot). Thanks to the parent for bringing it up.
A bit late, but AC is completely right on this one. Screen will do wonders for your command line apps in an unstable X environment (and otherwise). I like to "chain" screen when SSH'ing, myself.
Something like:
screen ssh <box> screen <app>
This way, your SSH session is still running when bad X-related things happen; or even if you lose the connection, your app is still running on the remote box.
Makes sense. From my understanding of how the Linage ][ Chinese (or was it Korean?) servers work, there's an age limit. If you're over 18, you get to play on the adult servers (includes PvP); everyone else can play on the kiddie servers (PvE only!). In another slightly-interesting note, they recently took out a simple in-game dice game as folks were using it to gamble real world money.
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This. I run btrfs on my home file server and lost a half year of data due to a power outage corrupting the filesystem. Afterwards I was looking around for its fsck utility only to find it does not yet exist. Btrfs may be the way of the future, but as is, it's still too soon.
...but not too easy or the zombie PCs would just automate this step and continue on.
If we can define "long" as "couple months" if that. I gave up on the one Google Groups list I had been following due to all the spam it suddenly started receiving.
Much like the mythical Comcast bandwidth usage meter which we have been hearing about for over half a year now, I will believe it when I see it. And I am certainly not seeing it now.
Have you considered getting a cheap router (with USB ports) that will run OpenWRT/DD-WRT?
I tried that once with my father. It did not go over so well. He quickly realized the browser was "different", went back to IE, and then started blaming FF for trying to trick him into using it.
If anything, I'd say it's better to tell them up front you've switched browsers, and then change the icon.
Have you tried YesScript? It's about the opposite -- a blacklist for sites that you do not want executing JavaScript.
I recently set up a secondary gaming box with a limited user account for a MMO that has to be constantly updated else it won't run. It was a bit of a pain since it insists on writing a cache file in %WINDIR%. Then it has a registry setting that, by default, limited users cannot change. After a few more bumps, it has worked flawlessly.
For the most part, it's just lazy development teams who can't be arsed to "fix" their code. There's probably a moral here about open source. Who knows.
& is also your friend.
Now you have two!
Random off topic thought. You need screen shots on the Arora project page.
The driving skills and written tests should be required every 5-10 years for all persons. It may not solve the problem, but it would keep those who really needs to be off the road, off of the road. Hopefully.
Usenet. All "files" (posts) are stored server-side, and folks generally have a fast pipe to their ISP (or other provider).
With multipart binary posts, a single file is split up between so many posts. Between fifteen to fifty, let's say. It's common for usenet providers to not receive all the posts, so folks are sometimes left with incomplete/corrupt files. Enter the small, spanned archive formats. It's quite common to see up to 10% parity per usenet posting, especially for large files. Small split set sizes make for easy reposting, as well.
In regards to the grandparent, this likely relates to why the said torrents are healthier. Folks who can bypass the leeching process and go straight to the seeding. The only other means of really sharing on such binary groups would be posting (or reposting) stuff for folks. Due to ever limiting server retention, a lot of the binary groups look down on heavy posting.
I gave up on usenet years ago, though; well, not really. My ISP gave up on it, and I was too much of a bum to pay someone for decent service. I would encourage anyone to check if their ISP offers usenet access if they're into P2P and don't like the "2P" part that much.
Mainly when the border is showing, the rounded corners aren't where they should be.
Here's a screenshot comparing Opera 9.26's correct behavior with Firefox 3b5's.
Or rather, security through obscurity takes longer. Which is kind of the whole point.
Heh, figures it was something like that. And here I was going under the assumption that it actually opened all the bookmarks, like if you had middle clicked a folder.
Off to turn in my geek badge...
This is one of my pet peeves. Yes, it may be a bit shallow; but can we please stop changing the theme every release? I know, I know -- it's for the sake of being "user friendly". But how is changing for look and feel of your application, without doing so much as officially supporting/including the past theme revisions, helping anyone? What's become of my browser experience when I don't know what I'm doing anymore?
Take the organize bookmarks dialog. It's magically disappeared. Perhaps I'm supposed to read the changelog and find you access it for clicking random widget #167 -- but why? It's been under the bookmark tab for years, in practically all browsers. Same with the separate history arrows; sure, just rip out that back arrow. You'll only save a few pixels and annoy the heck out of everyone who actually uses it. But that's progress, right?
While I certainly won't condemn the developers for attempting to progress on their interface, is it really so much to ask to being able to revert the interface to something like the previous version without the need to find a handful of about:config settings to change, or use their horrible extension search (which needs to let you filter by version, dammit)?
For those like me who have never heard of this before, Sumatra is an open source PDF viewer for Windows. Giving it a little whirl, it seems to render a couple manuals nicely. Links don't get parsed for easy clicking. Quick look at the forums seems to reveal it doesn't support password protected PDFs or searching.
For a very slim PDF viewer, it appears to be quite nice (and GPL to boot). Thanks to the parent for bringing it up.
Something like: This way, your SSH session is still running when bad X-related things happen; or even if you lose the connection, your app is still running on the remote box.
(...) or will be have a full month of PCs getting owned just because they visited the wrong URL using IE6?
And how is that different from any other month?
*ducks*
Makes sense. From my understanding of how the Linage ][ Chinese (or was it Korean?) servers work, there's an age limit. If you're over 18, you get to play on the adult servers (includes PvP); everyone else can play on the kiddie servers (PvE only!). In another slightly-interesting note, they recently took out a simple in-game dice game as folks were using it to gamble real world money.
While not for FF, I'll throw in the MSN Toolbar.
Yeah, all these search toolbars look the same. And yeah, so do their sites. Go figure. I guess they're going with what (they think) works?
It should be pointed out that this article is a dupe of the latest article in that list. Both posted by Zonk, only three days apart.
;)
Keep up the good work, editors.
Yes, but what if the doctor is female and hot???
Pfft.
I use GNU/Linux, so the only spyware I install on my system is GNU/Spyware!
This is why Mozilla Update exists. A safe haven for users to find extentions that won't screw them over.
Supposedly.
If nothing else, at least it has a rating and feedback system, so you'll have a heads up from others.