I don't feel nearly so dirty now, thank you. I had to resort to IE as well, the first time I've voluntarily clicked on my little "Internet Explorer" icon since the first time I went to mozilla.com after reinstalling Winderz.
"After teasing us for months with betas and snapshots, Opera Software have finally released version 9.0 of their web browser. The new version features correct ACID2 rendering, native support for the SVG Basic profile, a built-in BitTorrent client, support for Microsoft's designmode and contenteditable extensions, per-site configuration, Atom support, Web Forms 2.0 support, Canvas support (and some Opera-specific extensions), NTLM authentication, some support of parts of CSS3 and lots more. The full changelog is available."
All that's missing is the proverbial kitchen sink.
Am I the only one wondering why a web browser is including a BT client? I'll stick with Firefox, thanks.
Firefox has been getting better of late it's true, but it still suffers from the common Open Source Project issue that the sexy visible eye-candy stuff gets priority over unexiting but essential background code.
I'm guessing you don't use a whole lot of F/OSS, do you? In most cases, the reverse is the biggest complaint. A lot of F/OSS has tons of great functionality, and you could really accomplish so much with it... if only it had a better interface.
Open Source software is produced by programmers. Programmers are very different from the general public (a far greater proportion of programmers are intuitives than in the general public, for instance). This means that when programmers produce open source software, since they are largely scratching their own itch, they will tend to produce the software for themselves, and in particular be perfectly content with the (programmer-oriented) user interface. - Steven Pemberton.
Reuters is reporting on the new release of Yahoo! Messenger, which will allow third-party applications and plugins to run within the Messenger environment.
Really, I'm surprised Y! Messenger's not dead already. I think I have maybe one contact that uses Yahoo's messenger. Just about everyone I know uses MSN. Even ICQ's less ubiquitous than it was six years ago.
Man it's Nazis like you that take a childs trust and piss all over it - I don't care if you are dressing it up in nicey nicey language and giving a couple of half-assed exceptions to your draconian behavior. I give my child the privacy he wants, he respects me and listens to what I say and then he does it too.
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
There is a tradition in many Usenet newsgroups that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.
You are lose, ha ha ha.
And to remain somewhat on-topic, I'm a father of two (10 and 6, both boys). They get no privacy, aside from the obvious cases, until they're 16. I know my mistakes, and I'm going to do my darnedest to ensure they don't make the same ones. Granted, learning from mistakes is one of the best ways to learn, but there are some mistakes that cost more in the long run.
Give me native code over interpreted code any day! End users (at least the ones with knowledge of such things) are always complaining about code bloat and how, in spite of improvements in hardware speeds, software always seems to be running slower.
I think it's time to go back to native assembly programming.
Everyone knows a real gamer would never use something so pedestrian as a gun. Rocket launcher's the only way to go, and if the shooter has any style, he'd be rocket jumping off the guy's head to get to the quad.
"... the bully very quickly learns that you are not a "fun" target anymore."
And instead they go out and find someone else who still is a fun target. It doesn't change anything except that it's no longer you they're beating up. It's not a solution, it's a patch.
I really don't understand why Mr. Stallman harps on about this one. The thing is, those of us who use Linux (pardon me, GNU/Linux), know that it is GNU/Linux. We know that without the incredible work of the people who contribute to the FSF, Linux would not be as it is today.
BUT... to people who don't use Linux, don't care about Linux, and will probably never be exposed to anything that doesn't come out of Microsoft, it doesn't matter what it's called. They don't care.
When people talking about Windows, most listeners know that they're talking about "Microsoft Windows"... the Microsoft is implied. Those of us who use Linux, we know that the GNU is implied.
As for the "Church of Emacs", that's just whacko nut talk. Emacs is a program, like any other. Sure, it does a lot, but to liken it to a religion is just crazy.
Although to be honest, I'm surprised it's not the kernel instead of Linux. The GNU Emacs Operating System. Has a nice ring to it.
Get you, all your friends, everyone you know, all of you grab your very own copy of WoW. Roll all Shamans or Rogues. Track down your addicted friend. Camp him. Endlessly.
At least, that's what broke my WoW addiction, and the people who helped me weren't even my friends.:)
The only suggestion I can make, and it looks like it's been made already (redundancy is my middle name!), is to sit down with your friend and explain your concerns to him. Make sure he realizes just how worried you are.
I suggest Slackware (http://www.slackware.com/). While its popularity has declined over the last decade, it's a wonderful distro with a reputation for being somewhat minimalistic (and behind the times, although I would beg to differ). If you're new it's better to get your hands as dirty as you can, in my most humble opinion.
I've used Slack off and on for about ten years now (since 3.0), and tried various other distros both on real hardware and virtual. I always come back to Slack [tm].
Incidently, I've not tried Ubuntu or any of its derivates, and I'm neither trolling nor attempting to incite a distro war. Just stating my opinion.
"but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed"
Do you really trust someone who claims he "brainwashed" his kids? Oh wait, who does this guy work for again? Yeah, my bad, never mind.
I've used Linux on and off for a few years now (well, more than just a few). Even got Slackware on my kids P3/500 for those occasions where I want to play on a real OS. But my main machine runs... you guessed it, Windows. I hate Windows, I hate Microsoft for what they're doing, but I'm a gamer, and Linux still hasn't caught up to Windows for gaming. I don't blame Linux, though.
Maybe we need Linus to run around screaming and sweating, yelling "DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS", to try to convince game makers to port their games to Linux?
My best firewall/AV is common-sense. If it looks suspicious, and even if it doesn't, avoid it.
I haven't (knock on wood) had a virus for 12 years now. Not since DOS 6.2, and even then it was just one of those annoying ones that would write itself to the MBR and floppy boot sectors, eating up RAM until it overwrote something important to DOS and the machine would lock.
I use a router (MN-100, Microsoft =[) as a firewall, with everything but for a tiny selection of ports blocked. All programs I use that are configurable wrt what ports they use are fed through what's forwarded to my machine. I don't bother with XP's built-in firewall, and ZoneAlarm had a nasty habit of hard-locking my machine whenever I tried to run any games online (it would lock before giving me the option to allow the game access to the 'net).
On the software side, I have AVG (free'ish), and a2 Free for "Malware", but I rarely run either as it's just not necessary.
What troubles me is the number of machines hitting my computer trying to exploit IIS. Way back I was running Apache, watching my logfile expand at an alarming rate as people tried to gain access to CMD.EXE for whatever nefarious purposes.
I haven't really been following this all that closely. I remember laughing my ass off many moons ago when I first read about what SCO was trying to pull, and then sort of ignored it figuring that it was a big joke and would eventually just go away.
Is SCO seriously this desperate, or are they all just stupid?
It's a little bit deeper than that, though. Carmack has done the programmers of the world a wonderful favour by opening up the code to id's older titles. I myself have learned quite a bit from Quake (1 & 2)'s code, and I haven't even scratched the surface of what's there to be learned (most of it, especially the actual engine itself, is way above my meager mental faculties).
He's kind of an idol, as much as Torvalds and Stallman, to me. Although I don't have a little shrine containing their images that I worship. That'd just be creepy.
I can see that side of things, but as a parent I have, aside from common sense, that extra lack of tolerance for, and disgust with, child pornography.
I'm not saying that the meat of the law ("... if one of those thousands of web sites is identified as illegal (without a trial or due process, mind you) by the government, then all the other thousands of sites that share the web server get blocked as well...") is right, but I'm also not condoning kiddie porn.
Meh, I'll freely admit that there's a lot I don't know about the technical details on the subject, but I do believe some steps have to be taken to combat this offense, I just don't know what. I'm not that clever.
As an aside, how much of a hit would it be on performance to examine the HTTP request? Surely it can't be that bad, even on a site that hosts thousands of domains and serves millions requests a day. It adds up, of course, but considering all the extra silliness that people toss into their sites (scripting languages, preprocessors, all that fun stuff) would that extra bit of delay really account for a big difference?
It's probably been said already, in one way or another, but you'd think that Intel would have learned by now that taking something and adding just a little bit more to it usually results in more headaches than it's worth. What's the old saying? "Intel puts the backwards in backwards-compatability."
They need to rebuild Internet. Make it better, faster, stronger. A 6 million dollar Internet!
For a computer nerd like myself, this is just as sad as hearing that my favourite band won't be making music any more.
That's pretty pathetic, isn't it.:)
Eventually, hopefully, America will reexamine its patent and copyright laws and realize just how idiotic they are.
I'm all for protecting an individual's rights as the creator of something (be it software, music, film). But patenting concepts is stupidity in itself.
I hate Microsoft as much as the next computer literate person, but in this case I hope Microsoft wins.
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I don't feel nearly so dirty now, thank you. I had to resort to IE as well, the first time I've voluntarily clicked on my little "Internet Explorer" icon since the first time I went to mozilla.com after reinstalling Winderz.
This is exciting and all, but when do I get my VF-1 Valkyrie?
All that's missing is the proverbial kitchen sink.
Am I the only one wondering why a web browser is including a BT client? I'll stick with Firefox, thanks.
I'm guessing you don't use a whole lot of F/OSS, do you? In most cases, the reverse is the biggest complaint. A lot of F/OSS has tons of great functionality, and you could really accomplish so much with it... if only it had a better interface.
Rather than try to word it myself, I'm going to quote from http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/vandf/2004.1-itch. html
Open Source software is produced by programmers. Programmers are very different from the general public (a far greater proportion of programmers are intuitives than in the general public, for instance). This means that when programmers produce open source software, since they are largely scratching their own itch, they will tend to produce the software for themselves, and in particular be perfectly content with the (programmer-oriented) user interface. - Steven Pemberton.Use Trillian. http://trillian.cc/ =)
Really, I'm surprised Y! Messenger's not dead already. I think I have maybe one contact that uses Yahoo's messenger. Just about everyone I know uses MSN. Even ICQ's less ubiquitous than it was six years ago.
I'm invoking Godwin's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law) here.
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
There is a tradition in many Usenet newsgroups that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.
You are lose, ha ha ha. And to remain somewhat on-topic, I'm a father of two (10 and 6, both boys). They get no privacy, aside from the obvious cases, until they're 16. I know my mistakes, and I'm going to do my darnedest to ensure they don't make the same ones. Granted, learning from mistakes is one of the best ways to learn, but there are some mistakes that cost more in the long run.Give me native code over interpreted code any day! End users (at least the ones with knowledge of such things) are always complaining about code bloat and how, in spite of improvements in hardware speeds, software always seems to be running slower.
I think it's time to go back to native assembly programming.
Everyone knows a real gamer would never use something so pedestrian as a gun. Rocket launcher's the only way to go, and if the shooter has any style, he'd be rocket jumping off the guy's head to get to the quad.
"... the bully very quickly learns that you are not a "fun" target anymore."
And instead they go out and find someone else who still is a fun target. It doesn't change anything except that it's no longer you they're beating up. It's not a solution, it's a patch.
I really don't understand why Mr. Stallman harps on about this one. The thing is, those of us who use Linux (pardon me, GNU/Linux), know that it is GNU/Linux. We know that without the incredible work of the people who contribute to the FSF, Linux would not be as it is today.
BUT... to people who don't use Linux, don't care about Linux, and will probably never be exposed to anything that doesn't come out of Microsoft, it doesn't matter what it's called. They don't care.
When people talking about Windows, most listeners know that they're talking about "Microsoft Windows"... the Microsoft is implied. Those of us who use Linux, we know that the GNU is implied.
As for the "Church of Emacs", that's just whacko nut talk. Emacs is a program, like any other. Sure, it does a lot, but to liken it to a religion is just crazy.
Although to be honest, I'm surprised it's not the kernel instead of Linux. The GNU Emacs Operating System. Has a nice ring to it.
Get you, all your friends, everyone you know, all of you grab your very own copy of WoW. Roll all Shamans or Rogues. Track down your addicted friend. Camp him. Endlessly.
:)
At least, that's what broke my WoW addiction, and the people who helped me weren't even my friends.
The only suggestion I can make, and it looks like it's been made already (redundancy is my middle name!), is to sit down with your friend and explain your concerns to him. Make sure he realizes just how worried you are.
I suggest Slackware (http://www.slackware.com/). While its popularity has declined over the last decade, it's a wonderful distro with a reputation for being somewhat minimalistic (and behind the times, although I would beg to differ). If you're new it's better to get your hands as dirty as you can, in my most humble opinion.
I've used Slack off and on for about ten years now (since 3.0), and tried various other distros both on real hardware and virtual. I always come back to Slack [tm].
Incidently, I've not tried Ubuntu or any of its derivates, and I'm neither trolling nor attempting to incite a distro war. Just stating my opinion.
"but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed"
Do you really trust someone who claims he "brainwashed" his kids? Oh wait, who does this guy work for again? Yeah, my bad, never mind.
Ion drives. Apparently they've taken 60 years to get here, they don't go very fast, but they're very fuel efficient. And yes, I'm off-topic. :(
Meh, Microsoft © has been using FUD for years now. And for years now everyone's been saying that Linux is gaining momentum and blah blah blah. It's the same nonsense as it was a year, two even three years ago. Same crap, different pile.
I've used Linux on and off for a few years now (well, more than just a few). Even got Slackware on my kids P3/500 for those occasions where I want to play on a real OS. But my main machine runs... you guessed it, Windows. I hate Windows, I hate Microsoft for what they're doing, but I'm a gamer, and Linux still hasn't caught up to Windows for gaming. I don't blame Linux, though.
Maybe we need Linus to run around screaming and sweating, yelling "DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS", to try to convince game makers to port their games to Linux?
Lifetime Achievement Award for Sodomizing Our Memories? Star Wars *used* to be good.
My best firewall/AV is common-sense. If it looks suspicious, and even if it doesn't, avoid it.
I haven't (knock on wood) had a virus for 12 years now. Not since DOS 6.2, and even then it was just one of those annoying ones that would write itself to the MBR and floppy boot sectors, eating up RAM until it overwrote something important to DOS and the machine would lock.
I use a router (MN-100, Microsoft =[) as a firewall, with everything but for a tiny selection of ports blocked. All programs I use that are configurable wrt what ports they use are fed through what's forwarded to my machine. I don't bother with XP's built-in firewall, and ZoneAlarm had a nasty habit of hard-locking my machine whenever I tried to run any games online (it would lock before giving me the option to allow the game access to the 'net).
On the software side, I have AVG (free'ish), and a2 Free for "Malware", but I rarely run either as it's just not necessary.
What troubles me is the number of machines hitting my computer trying to exploit IIS. Way back I was running Apache, watching my logfile expand at an alarming rate as people tried to gain access to CMD.EXE for whatever nefarious purposes.
... preinstalling Windows doesn't encourage me to pirate software. Microsoft's inadequacy is what would (note would, not does) encourage me to pirate.
Preinstalling Windows just encourages me to curse Microsoft even more than is normal, where normal is a whole bloody lot.
I haven't really been following this all that closely. I remember laughing my ass off many moons ago when I first read about what SCO was trying to pull, and then sort of ignored it figuring that it was a big joke and would eventually just go away.
Is SCO seriously this desperate, or are they all just stupid?
It's a little bit deeper than that, though. Carmack has done the programmers of the world a wonderful favour by opening up the code to id's older titles. I myself have learned quite a bit from Quake (1 & 2)'s code, and I haven't even scratched the surface of what's there to be learned (most of it, especially the actual engine itself, is way above my meager mental faculties).
He's kind of an idol, as much as Torvalds and Stallman, to me. Although I don't have a little shrine containing their images that I worship. That'd just be creepy.
I can see that side of things, but as a parent I have, aside from common sense, that extra lack of tolerance for, and disgust with, child pornography.
I'm not saying that the meat of the law ("... if one of those thousands of web sites is identified as illegal (without a trial or due process, mind you) by the government, then all the other thousands of sites that share the web server get blocked as well...") is right, but I'm also not condoning kiddie porn.
Meh, I'll freely admit that there's a lot I don't know about the technical details on the subject, but I do believe some steps have to be taken to combat this offense, I just don't know what. I'm not that clever.
As an aside, how much of a hit would it be on performance to examine the HTTP request? Surely it can't be that bad, even on a site that hosts thousands of domains and serves millions requests a day. It adds up, of course, but considering all the extra silliness that people toss into their sites (scripting languages, preprocessors, all that fun stuff) would that extra bit of delay really account for a big difference?
of that episode of South Park featuring NAMBLA.
"But dude, you HAVE SEX WITH CHILDREN!"
Free speech is great, but c'mon.
It's probably been said already, in one way or another, but you'd think that Intel would have learned by now that taking something and adding just a little bit more to it usually results in more headaches than it's worth. What's the old saying? "Intel puts the backwards in backwards-compatability."
They need to rebuild Internet. Make it better, faster, stronger. A 6 million dollar Internet!
For a computer nerd like myself, this is just as sad as hearing that my favourite band won't be making music any more. That's pretty pathetic, isn't it. :)
Eventually, hopefully, America will reexamine its patent and copyright laws and realize just how idiotic they are.
I'm all for protecting an individual's rights as the creator of something (be it software, music, film). But patenting concepts is stupidity in itself.
I hate Microsoft as much as the next computer literate person, but in this case I hope Microsoft wins.