There is a difference between 10+ different cultures with very much different cultures agreeing on a constitution and 10+ countries on passing a law.
I can see how it's complicated if you are not used to hearing about it in the news every day, but for example, the uk respects a lot of eu laws, but doesn't use the euro etc.
every country has its own laws, which might differ from the european laws but are largely aligned with it
which is why the states is headed for recession (some say) and the eu isn't yet, which also means the fed will probably drop rates again, which means a dollar will be worth less shortly
it will revive someday, possibly when the eu heads for recession after the us recovers from it. will the eur/usd rate ever be 1 again, who knows, but it will take more than one rally
"""More irony. IIRC*, Vista's default theme is black?"""
Well actually, it's black when the window is full screen some other pastel transparent color when not for the windows and iirc black for the taskbar.
I only remember it because i remember saying what the fuck after noticing something weird and then realizing the window just changed colors because i maximised it
"""Actually I own a MDD, a G5 1.8 dual, and a Macbook, oh plus several older Macs and about 6-7 PCs. (nad other machiens as well). Professionaly I support a office with 4 G5s, a couple of Mac Pros, and some assorted powerbooks and macbooks, and older G4s. I also support some thousand desktops at work. and yes I have zero budget now both personally and at work."""
my budget would be 0 too if I bought that hardware:)
I get the same impression here in Belgium, but what i have been wondering. I keep seeing there MSI products with nvidia specs and on inspection it seems like it's a taiwanese company that's cloning them?
If you go to their product page you get to pick between ati and nvidia models. (won't link it to avoid people shouting at me for advertising, which I'm not, it's a genuine question)
If they really perform as well as an nvidia or ati card with the same spec at a better price, why don't i see them all over the place?
Disclaimer: I am by no means a vid card expert, so i may appear to have lived under a rock. I am a developer with no interest in that sort of gaming (on the rare occasions i play on a pc freeciv and wesnoth are my fav) and consequently don't follow the game and video card developments. The only time I care about vid cards is to check wheter it's supported in linux, and wheter it's sitting in an otherwise good laptop. This is also
"""This page explains how to get hold of them 'legally':"""
Ok, then click the link to download powerpoint viewer and what do you see?
You may use the fonts that accompany the PowerPoint Viewer only to display and print content from a device running a Microsoft Windows operating system. Additionally, you may do the following:
If it's anything like in belgium, after every year end the management gets some sort of "clearance" if the majority of shareholders (aka the small group that owns most of the shares) agrees to it. That means they cannot be held liable for that fiscal year (unless they cooked the books or anything)
IE: enron or Lernout & Hauspie could be held liable because they frauded the information on which base the shareholders cleared them.
If they didn't fraud (I don't suppose ebay did) they cannot be held liable once the fiscal year has ended
(assuming the US of A has some sort of similar system)
oh please, I'm not even comparing ActiveX to firefox or whatever you claim, I'm just saying that a comment like te OP is rediculous with his "but i do this and that and only stupid users do this and that" and pointing out that a lot of windows infections can be avoided that way too I agree that maybe I should've picked another vuln to make my point knowing what short fuse people around here have, but it was the first that came to mind. So yes equal standards: if some windows flaw is posted everybody goes "boo ms" even though you are also required to run as admin and whatever, but if it's an OSS flaw they go "this isn't a flaw because I secure my pc" well, a secured windows box doesn't get infected too soon either That's the entire point of securing a box, there are many possible vectors of attack, and if there is a flaw in one piece of software, multiple layers of security prevent it from doing any harm.
And re "this is not a flaw in firefox" yes you are right, this time, but comments like the OP pop up every time, and is a (possible)flaw in the distribution system not a flaw in the software? I know it's a common situation where software is downloadable from different sources but still there appears to be a problem (not that I have a solution) You know none of the users will check the md5sums from the original website (moz.org)
Windows version: "Well, the symantec description wasn't very useful to me. But if I read it right, the comes through activeX and modifies your host file. But iirc it will have to be run with administrator privileges in order to work. Dunno about you guys, I disable ActiveX when running as admin. Basic security. So, if I understand this correctly, works when you've been sloppy. Not much of a threat, is it?"
Please, I like firefox as much as the next poster, but please apply equal standards when comparing/recommending firefox. If you still believe firefox is Perfect, surprise, no software is.
"from time to time tasks crop up like mass file renaming, which I get done in a few moments but the Windows users take hours and hours to do. Manually."
That's not a question of operating system, rather user ignorance. The users doing one-by-one renames on windows manually will do them manually on linux too. Educated users would bat/vbscript the thing in windows or go to snapfiles.com to find a batch rename tool.
The quality of an OS is not equal to the quality of it's users, and when/if linux becomes as popular, the clueless users will still be suffering.
We in belgium have a web based one. It doesn't work well in any OS, but that's not because it's web based of course. I forgot what they where, but it was something like if you weren't married and you had some common other characteristic it would screw you.
Unfortunately they were sort of forced into this as some sites detect browser on user agents instead of testing if features work before using them. (or even worse, a redirect to a "get ie" page)
Just identifying as IE would make most of those pages work
The situation is changing and they should consider changing the default
Probably the beta has been compiled in debug configuration with lots of debug symbols loaded into memory, but a release compilation could perform a lot better
When the msn spider was still in beta it was known to be very agressive sometimes and drain webserver resources. It would be interesting to have a view on who and how many have and still block msn. I wouldn't be surprised if more geeks/microsoft ignorers just blocked it and never cared again
Seriously if I see what most people do for the play part, watching TV, reading slashdot,.... I think this is one of the more useful pastimes, at least these people learned something while having fun.
It's not like most people are productive 16 hours a day (or more if they sleep less than 8 hours).
sure it is, and use mp3 myself for the reason that it's near universal. I just replyed to the parent without judging the ipod device over not playing ogg vorbis files
Slashdot Mirror
i already posted so i can't mod you up myself, but you, beurocrad conrad, are technically correct, the best kind of correct
There is a difference between 10+ different cultures with very much different cultures agreeing on a constitution and 10+ countries on passing a law.
I can see how it's complicated if you are not used to hearing about it in the news every day, but for example, the uk respects a lot of eu laws, but doesn't use the euro etc.
every country has its own laws, which might differ from the european laws but are largely aligned with it
which is why the states is headed for recession (some say) and the eu isn't yet, which also means the fed will probably drop rates again, which means a dollar will be worth less shortly
it will revive someday, possibly when the eu heads for recession after the us recovers from it.
will the eur/usd rate ever be 1 again, who knows, but it will take more than one rally
"""More irony. IIRC*, Vista's default theme is black?"""
Well actually, it's black when the window is full screen some other pastel transparent color when not for the windows and iirc black for the taskbar.
I only remember it because i remember saying what the fuck after noticing something weird and then realizing the window just changed colors because i maximised it
"""Actually I own a MDD, a G5 1.8 dual, and a Macbook, oh plus several older Macs and about 6-7 PCs. (nad other machiens as well).
:)
Professionaly I support a office with 4 G5s, a couple of Mac Pros, and some assorted powerbooks and macbooks, and older G4s. I also support some thousand desktops at work. and yes I have zero budget now both personally and at work."""
my budget would be 0 too if I bought that hardware
I get the same impression here in Belgium, but what i have been wondering. I keep seeing there MSI products with nvidia specs and on inspection it seems like it's a taiwanese company that's cloning them?
If you go to their product page you get to pick between ati and nvidia models. (won't link it to avoid people shouting at me for advertising, which I'm not, it's a genuine question)
If they really perform as well as an nvidia or ati card with the same spec at a better price, why don't i see them all over the place?
Disclaimer: I am by no means a vid card expert, so i may appear to have lived under a rock. I am a developer with no interest in that sort of gaming (on the rare occasions i play on a pc freeciv and wesnoth are my fav) and consequently don't follow the game and video card developments. The only time I care about vid cards is to check wheter it's supported in linux, and wheter it's sitting in an otherwise good laptop.
This is also
"""This page explains how to get hold of them 'legally':"""
Ok, then click the link to download powerpoint viewer and what do you see?
You may use the fonts that accompany the PowerPoint Viewer only to display and print content from a device running a Microsoft Windows operating system. Additionally, you may do the following:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=048DC840-14E1-467D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en
I guess it depends on what you define as legal (is a EULA legal for example).
If it's anything like in belgium, after every year end the management gets some sort of "clearance" if the majority of shareholders (aka the small group that owns most of the shares) agrees to it. That means they cannot be held liable for that fiscal year (unless they cooked the books or anything)
IE: enron or Lernout & Hauspie could be held liable because they frauded the information on which base the shareholders cleared them.
If they didn't fraud (I don't suppose ebay did) they cannot be held liable once the fiscal year has ended
(assuming the US of A has some sort of similar system)
oh please, I'm not even comparing ActiveX to firefox or whatever you claim, I'm just saying that a comment like te OP is rediculous with his "but i do this and that and only stupid users do this and that" and pointing out that a lot of windows infections can be avoided that way too
I agree that maybe I should've picked another vuln to make my point knowing what short fuse people around here have, but it was the first that came to mind.
So yes equal standards:
if some windows flaw is posted everybody goes "boo ms" even though you are also required to run as admin and whatever, but if it's an OSS flaw they go "this isn't a flaw because I secure my pc"
well, a secured windows box doesn't get infected too soon either
That's the entire point of securing a box, there are many possible vectors of attack, and if there is a flaw in one piece of software, multiple layers of security prevent it from doing any harm.
And re "this is not a flaw in firefox" yes you are right, this time, but comments like the OP pop up every time, and is a (possible)flaw in the distribution system not a flaw in the software?
I know it's a common situation where software is downloadable from different sources but still there appears to be a problem (not that I have a solution) You know none of the users will check the md5sums from the original website (moz.org)
bullshit
Typically slashdot
Windows version:
"Well, the symantec description wasn't very useful to me. But if I read it right, the comes through activeX and modifies your host file. But iirc it will have to be run with administrator privileges in order to work. Dunno about you guys, I disable ActiveX when running as admin. Basic security. So, if I understand this correctly, works when you've been sloppy. Not much of a threat, is it?"
Please, I like firefox as much as the next poster, but please apply equal standards when comparing/recommending firefox. If you still believe firefox is Perfect, surprise, no software is.
I swear I'm trustworthy :)
No I'm serious, no one service can supposedly see all data from the other services, but some dba's and technicians will have the sa password surely
"from time to time tasks crop up like mass file renaming, which I get done in a few moments but the Windows users take hours and hours to do. Manually."
That's not a question of operating system, rather user ignorance.
The users doing one-by-one renames on windows manually will do them manually on linux too. Educated users would bat/vbscript the thing in windows or go to snapfiles.com to find a batch rename tool.
The quality of an OS is not equal to the quality of it's users, and when/if linux becomes as popular, the clueless users will still be suffering.
no it was in the news, it screws you even more
technically gmail isn't out yet
as far as i can see the top left icon still reads "beta"
We in belgium have a web based one.
It doesn't work well in any OS, but that's not because it's web based of course.
I forgot what they where, but it was something like if you weren't married and you had some common other characteristic it would screw you.
Unfortunately they were sort of forced into this as some sites detect browser on user agents instead of testing if features work before using them. (or even worse, a redirect to a "get ie" page)
Just identifying as IE would make most of those pages work
The situation is changing and they should consider changing the default
that one's easy:
do not retrieve the challenge code
accept anything as a challenge code
newbie user logs in and it succeedes first try
it might cut a bit in victim numbers, but still
"explication"
:)
You must be french
which is especially painful when you download to your D drive, but your temp is on a C drive running out of space
I frikkin want to download the file to a partition with lots of space, but i get a disk full error because that's where my %TEMP% is located
beta's and system hogging say nothing.
Probably the beta has been compiled in debug configuration with lots of debug symbols loaded into memory, but a release compilation could perform a lot better
which is a very good point.
When the msn spider was still in beta it was known to be very agressive sometimes and drain webserver resources.
It would be interesting to have a view on who and how many have and still block msn.
I wouldn't be surprised if more geeks/microsoft ignorers just blocked it and never cared again
" There is a problem with the database that is preventing the site from working.
An email has been sent to the administrator notifying them of the problem. Please try again later. "
Wonder how much emails that guy will get
All work and no play....
.... I think this is one of the more useful pastimes, at least these people learned something while having fun.
Seriously if I see what most people do for the play part, watching TV, reading slashdot,
It's not like most people are productive 16 hours a day (or more if they sleep less than 8 hours).
sure it is, and use mp3 myself for the reason that it's near universal.
I just replyed to the parent without judging the ipod device over not playing ogg vorbis files
I don't own an ipod or know much about it but:
.ogg?
"Quick, name a non-DRM format the iPod does not play."