Does anyone know how to turn off the loading of the "you've just upgraded" web page that appears after you install the update? I was looking through about:config but I didn't see anything relevant.
Still, those who know do and those who don't, teach.
Actually, the phrase is, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." It means that if somehow you are rendered incapable of doing something you enjoy and are good at, you can still teach others and be involved. For example, if you are a competitive skier and you hurt one of your legs, you can still coach others until you heal.
Your phasing makes it sound like people who teach are incompetent which isn't what the saying means.
So some kid takes a picture of his grandfather's face, prints it out on his color printer, and then holds the printout up in front of the camera. I wonder if the software will realize whether it's looking at a real face or not.
I've done that before, but unfortunately that doesn't provide end-to-end encryption, isn't opportunistic, and isn't easy or seamless enough for a non-technical user to use.
Opportunistic encryption would allow for unknown systems to connect to each other and establish an encrypted connection without any prearranged configuration. This has the benefit of combating both active and passive monitoring of the traffic. This doesn't mean you can use telnet instead of SSH. You still want to encrypt your regular traffic when appropriate. Yet, opportunistic encryption means that more of the transfer path is encrypted which will stop prying eyes, companies that wish to interfere with your traffic, and people from making sweeping generalizations about the users of encryption. It's the opaque envelope used to combat this situation.
I don't think this is just comcast. I've seen timeouts on TCP connections over all manner of networks. There's a way to send a keep-alive packet in ssh to keep the connection open. For OpenSSH the TCPKeepAlive setting is on by default, although those can be spoofed or blocked. You might also want to set ServerAliveInterval to some number greater than 0. It's zero by default which disables it. I'd recommend 300 (the numbers represent seconds). This keep-alive signal is sent via the encrypted channel and can't be spoofed.
Matt Phillips, spokesman for the UK record industry trade association explains, 'Our internet investigations team, internet service providers and the police are well aware of encryption technology: it's been around for a long time and is commonplace in other areas of internet crime. It should come as no surprise that if people think they can hide illegal activity they will attempt to.'
So they assume that because someone is using encryption that they must be doing something illegal. This is yet another reason that we need to start encrypting everything by default. It needs to be automatic or easy enough for the average joe or jane to use. Does anyone know the status of general purpose opportunistic encryption software these days?
So you are comparing a OSX bug that repros in Nov. 2007 to a Windows XP bug fixed in XP SP2 (released Aug 2004), and the fact that was present on other OSes in the past justifies the poorly implemented feature? (yes, you weren't able to upgrade to sp2 but the fix was available nevertheless) Funny we don't see these types of justifications when a bug for non OSX OS is discovered.
I'm not comparing or justifying anything. I was just telling a story.
I take it you'll never use OSX ever again as well?
What do you mean by again? I've never even seen OS X much less used it. The last time I used a Mac was around the 1998-1999 timeframe when I owned a PowerComputing machine with MacOS 8.
I know for a fact that I've successfully canceled FTP-moves on Windows (brand); I also know for a fact that I've successfully canceled FTP-moves on all modern instances of the Windows OS with various FTP clients (programs).
I'm not talking about other clients. I'm talking about using Windows XP as the client.
What program were you using that fragged your FTP server directory exactly?
Windows XP, service pack 1.
I suspect you're a fud-fucking idiot
You need to work on your social skills.
although at the moment, I'm interested to hear if there's more than fabrication here. Pray tell: how can I reproduce this bug?
You might need to use WinXP service pack 1. I'm unable to reproduce it now on my home machine which has SP2 installed. At work we've just upgraded to service pack 2 within the last six months. Anyway, about a year ago I was trying to move nearly 40 gigs of data from a Solaris server at another site to my local machine. The Solaris server was an FTP server and that's the only access I had to it. I opened Internet Explorer and typed in ftp://servername and was prompted for a username and password which I entered. Then I saw the files in the explorer view just like I see files on my local machine. Since I was moving so much data I decided to do it one top-level directory at a time. To move the files I selected the folder, dragged it to a folder on my local machine, and held down shift when I let go of the mouse pointer so it would move instead of copy. I noticed that Windows went through three steps when it moved from the FTP site:
A dialog appears with the title Moving... and it says it's calculating how much time it'll take. This took a while itself.
Then the dialog says it's moving the files and the progress meter shows the progress
After the progress meter fills up, it goes to empty again and then says it's deleting the files it moved
I did this with most of the folders until I reached one that had about 18GB of data in it. I performed the same procedure as above to start the move and after it was copying files for about a minute or two I realized that I was moving them to the wrong location (my desktop instead of a directory on my C drive). At work our desktops are retargeted to a file server and not our local hard drives. I knew that by copying to the desktop I would hit my quota limit on the server whereas if I had copied to the C drive like I did with the other folders I had no limit aside from the free hard drive space. Not copying there in the first place was just a mistake. I clicked cancel to stop the transfer. When I did that, the dialog that had the progress bar changed to the empty progress bar and said it was now deleting. By the time I realized what was going on, it had deleted that folder and all of its content from the FTP site.
Now this could have been some weird bug or interaction between the fact that I was using a machine with SP1 instead of SP2, that my desktop and profile were retargeted to another machine, or that I was moving so much data. It wasn't a lot of files as these were data files for desktop publish programs for some brochures and catalogs, along with large print-ready images. I don't know what items worked together to cause the problem. I do know that it did happen and that I had to deal with the IT group at our other site (that had the Solaris server), open the helpdesk ticket to get them to restore the files from backup, wait for them to get around to it, etc. It was a huge pain and delayed what I was working on, causing grief for myself and my internal customer. One thing's for sure; I'll never use the built-in Windows FTP client again.
I ran into this same problem in Windows XP. I was moving files from a FTP server to a local directory. When moving files from an FTP server, Windows first copies all of the files and then once the copy is complete it deletes them from the FTP server. Well, I just started the copy and realized that I was copying the files into the wrong directory. So I clicked "Cancel" and Windows stopped moving the files... Then it deleted all of the files from the FTP server.
The names are just code names, after release the number is the identifier that is used by Ubuntu (see if you can see 'Gutsy' on the Ubuntu.com front page, it's not there) its just usually the the code-names stick it peoples' minds.
Although you might not be able to see "gutsy" on the Ubuntu home page, the code names are used almost exclusively by people in the support forums.
Hey buddy, I'm really glad you (rightfully) won your court case and all against those jerks, but why post it to Slashdot with a sentence like that? The use of the word "seems" implies to me that you're trying to pretend you're not Phillip Smith.
Aren't you, in fact, the defendant in this case? Submitting stuff and pretending you're not the owner of the blog you're linking to, and implying you're not the fellow referenced in the case, is just a little lame IMHO.
In case you've never submitted a story before, you can put any name and URL you like into the submission box. I once submitted a story about Mozilla and filled in Jamie Zawinski for the "your name" field and the URL to his home page in the appropriate field. When it was posted it looked like "he said..." but he didn't.
It's not a matter of optimization; That's how RDBMS are designed. Readers don't block writers and writers don't block readers. Even MySQL has finally fixed this, at least I though so.
HUH, you need a little history; Excel did it differently than Visicalc, Smartcalc, THE Spreadsheet, or even Microsoft's own Multiplan. It was intentional on Microsoft's part to break compatibility so you would have difficulty going back to another product. OOo returns to the standard used by all other apps.
That's a great history lesson but the "all other apps" you mention don't even exist anymore. Doesn't it make sense to retain compatibility with the most used spreadsheet to help users to transition to OpenOffice?
I still can't add a word to the dictionary with just one click.
It works with one-click for me. I typed some random characters, right-clicked (holding down mouse button) and the menu appeared. I moved the mouse to Add and then to one of the subitems there, and then released the mouse button. Done with a single click.
I do agree that there should just be an "Add" menu item that's not a submenu with more choices.
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Actually, this page describes how to do what I want.
Does anyone know how to turn off the loading of the "you've just upgraded" web page that appears after you install the update? I was looking through about:config but I didn't see anything relevant.
Your phasing makes it sound like people who teach are incompetent which isn't what the saying means.
So some kid takes a picture of his grandfather's face, prints it out on his color printer, and then holds the printout up in front of the camera. I wonder if the software will realize whether it's looking at a real face or not.
I've done that before, but unfortunately that doesn't provide end-to-end encryption, isn't opportunistic, and isn't easy or seamless enough for a non-technical user to use.
Opportunistic encryption would allow for unknown systems to connect to each other and establish an encrypted connection without any prearranged configuration. This has the benefit of combating both active and passive monitoring of the traffic. This doesn't mean you can use telnet instead of SSH. You still want to encrypt your regular traffic when appropriate. Yet, opportunistic encryption means that more of the transfer path is encrypted which will stop prying eyes, companies that wish to interfere with your traffic, and people from making sweeping generalizations about the users of encryption. It's the opaque envelope used to combat this situation.
I don't think this is just comcast. I've seen timeouts on TCP connections over all manner of networks. There's a way to send a keep-alive packet in ssh to keep the connection open. For OpenSSH the TCPKeepAlive setting is on by default, although those can be spoofed or blocked. You might also want to set ServerAliveInterval to some number greater than 0. It's zero by default which disables it. I'd recommend 300 (the numbers represent seconds). This keep-alive signal is sent via the encrypted channel and can't be spoofed.
See my response here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=351141&cid=21251417
- A dialog appears with the title Moving... and it says it's calculating how much time it'll take. This took a while itself.
- Then the dialog says it's moving the files and the progress meter shows the progress
- After the progress meter fills up, it goes to empty again and then says it's deleting the files it moved
I did this with most of the folders until I reached one that had about 18GB of data in it. I performed the same procedure as above to start the move and after it was copying files for about a minute or two I realized that I was moving them to the wrong location (my desktop instead of a directory on my C drive). At work our desktops are retargeted to a file server and not our local hard drives. I knew that by copying to the desktop I would hit my quota limit on the server whereas if I had copied to the C drive like I did with the other folders I had no limit aside from the free hard drive space. Not copying there in the first place was just a mistake. I clicked cancel to stop the transfer. When I did that, the dialog that had the progress bar changed to the empty progress bar and said it was now deleting. By the time I realized what was going on, it had deleted that folder and all of its content from the FTP site.Now this could have been some weird bug or interaction between the fact that I was using a machine with SP1 instead of SP2, that my desktop and profile were retargeted to another machine, or that I was moving so much data. It wasn't a lot of files as these were data files for desktop publish programs for some brochures and catalogs, along with large print-ready images. I don't know what items worked together to cause the problem. I do know that it did happen and that I had to deal with the IT group at our other site (that had the Solaris server), open the helpdesk ticket to get them to restore the files from backup, wait for them to get around to it, etc. It was a huge pain and delayed what I was working on, causing grief for myself and my internal customer. One thing's for sure; I'll never use the built-in Windows FTP client again.
I ran into this same problem in Windows XP. I was moving files from a FTP server to a local directory. When moving files from an FTP server, Windows first copies all of the files and then once the copy is complete it deletes them from the FTP server. Well, I just started the copy and realized that I was copying the files into the wrong directory. So I clicked "Cancel" and Windows stopped moving the files... Then it deleted all of the files from the FTP server.
Ouch.
In case you've never submitted a story before, you can put any name and URL you like into the submission box. I once submitted a story about Mozilla and filled in Jamie Zawinski for the "your name" field and the URL to his home page in the appropriate field. When it was posted it looked like "he said..." but he didn't.
It's not a matter of optimization; That's how RDBMS are designed. Readers don't block writers and writers don't block readers. Even MySQL has finally fixed this, at least I though so.
Richard, is that you?
I do agree that there should just be an "Add" menu item that's not a submenu with more choices.