It also defeats its freeness (both senses of the word). Dvorak mentions how Microsoft could find a way to stop it being free libré, and it is not in Microsoft's interests to give it away free gratis. If they do, casual desktop users might go for the free Mandrake, SuSE, Fedora, or whatever, compared to MS-Linux which costs.
There will always be the Linux fanboys refusing to buy whatever Microsoft makes anyway.
Drivers have always been an issue with Linux as PC users have gotten spoiled with Windows driver support.
In my own experience (you may have fared differently) Linux has many more builtin drivers than Windows - SuSE has managed to put a distrubution that works with almost all my hardware automatically, while Dell has given me an XP Install Cd and an XP Drivers CD. There are more drivers available for Windows, but most of them rarely work automatically.
This is only turned by the fact that many Windowses come preinstalled, giving a false sense of drivers. If you have ever just reinstalled XP you will see how much doesn't work immediately.
I have never found obvious names useful, such as 'popup.html' as you say - they either don't block enough or too much. I remember Adblock blocked the Hitchhiker's trailer a while back - its URL included/banners/ for some reason.
The best way, I have found, is to block the companies that provide the ads. Searching for *doubleclick* blocks all doubleclick ads; *googlesyndication* similarly. This is effective as only rarely does the site host the ads themselves - and when they do, they are likely to be interesting to you.
I know you were being sarcastic, but what about impossible-to-clean spyware? If stuff like this gets widespread some users won't have a choice, and Microsoft doesn't look set on making the install process any easier.
Except this 'fix' of yours doesn't work which is what all the fuss was about. network.enableIDN changes back whenever you restart Firefox. You need to modify user.js or prefs.js, or just get the latest version, really.
No good advertiser would put *random* ads on those pages - they are made to be similar to those on the page it's trying to imitate.
Example - go to yahho.com and you'll find things like Yahoo Personals (which links to a different Personals site), Dating Service (ditto), Games, Search and Engines, etc. If someone heard about a search site, "yahoo or something", Yahho has enough links to bring more gullible users to their sites.
Similarly, Slahsdot.org contains links to hacking, apple, hotels, and for some reason, wrestling women.
Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spim; egg bacon and spim; egg bacon sausage and spim; spim bacon sausage and spim; spim egg spim spim bacon and spim; spim sausage spim spim bacon spim tomato and spim; or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate brandy and with a fried egg on top and spim.
That is true, but some of these 'lustful young men' could get quite excited about the prospect of free pr0n (in a rar file or not), search for a.rar decompressor, decompress, get virused. It is not as big a threat as with.zip or whatever, but it is a threat nonetheless.
I am talking about a full, clean install of XP from floppy disks (the six I mentioned), which lets you do partitioning and formatting and BIOS setting up.
Its not being good makes sense, too. The average user shouldn't need to use it. The setup, which is what you do when you turn your computer on for the first time with the funky background music, is quite good.
Yep, encrypting. Specifically, public-key cryptography, which requires two fairly-large (think hundreds of digits) prime numbers multiplied together to encrypt a message.
I pick two primes, say 3 and 5, and the product of these is 15. A message is encoded using the number 15. If you know the encoded message and the product, you can decrypt it as it only has two factors.
These things take a very long time to do, however, especially with 100-digit primes. And this new one has 33219253 of them, so decrypting could take a while.
What about critical system updates? They often need to write to these critical system files. They would be protected against Joe PornMonger's worms and viruses as well as the updates. As he is always running as Administrator, there's no way to tell if it is a worm or an update agent requesting write-access to the files.
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Driv3r only has a native Windows version, for one thing ;)
It also defeats its freeness (both senses of the word). Dvorak mentions how Microsoft could find a way to stop it being free libré, and it is not in Microsoft's interests to give it away free gratis. If they do, casual desktop users might go for the free Mandrake, SuSE, Fedora, or whatever, compared to MS-Linux which costs.
There will always be the Linux fanboys refusing to buy whatever Microsoft makes anyway.
Drivers have always been an issue with Linux as PC users have gotten spoiled with Windows driver support.
In my own experience (you may have fared differently) Linux has many more builtin drivers than Windows - SuSE has managed to put a distrubution that works with almost all my hardware automatically, while Dell has given me an XP Install Cd and an XP Drivers CD. There are more drivers available for Windows, but most of them rarely work automatically.
This is only turned by the fact that many Windowses come preinstalled, giving a false sense of drivers. If you have ever just reinstalled XP you will see how much doesn't work immediately.
I have never found obvious names useful, such as 'popup.html' as you say - they either don't block enough or too much. I remember Adblock blocked the Hitchhiker's trailer a while back - its URL included /banners/ for some reason.
The best way, I have found, is to block the companies that provide the ads. Searching for *doubleclick* blocks all doubleclick ads; *googlesyndication* similarly. This is effective as only rarely does the site host the ads themselves - and when they do, they are likely to be interesting to you.
I know you were being sarcastic, but what about impossible-to-clean spyware? If stuff like this gets widespread some users won't have a choice, and Microsoft doesn't look set on making the install process any easier.
Except this 'fix' of yours doesn't work which is what all the fuss was about. network.enableIDN changes back whenever you restart Firefox. You need to modify user.js or prefs.js, or just get the latest version, really.
Or you could use SlashFix. I am using it on 1.0.1 and it is working as good as ever.
The main Slashdot rendering bug fix is going to be released with 1.1. This version 1.0.1 is only a security fix.
Maybe they are communicating in Whitespace!
Oh god, I hope not.
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Searching it for "one ring" didn't get me the film I wanted... quite the opposite :P
There have been so many new terms on the web lately - it's like they're webplicating.
No good advertiser would put *random* ads on those pages - they are made to be similar to those on the page it's trying to imitate.
Example - go to yahho.com and you'll find things like Yahoo Personals (which links to a different Personals site), Dating Service (ditto), Games, Search and Engines, etc. If someone heard about a search site, "yahoo or something", Yahho has enough links to bring more gullible users to their sites.
Similarly, Slahsdot.org contains links to hacking, apple, hotels, and for some reason, wrestling women.
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Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spim; egg bacon and spim; egg bacon sausage and spim; spim bacon sausage and spim; spim egg spim spim bacon and spim; spim sausage spim spim bacon spim tomato and spim; or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate brandy and with a fried egg on top and spim.
And what's more, it doesn't sound as funny.
We're getting slightly better response times than if it was hosted on a #98 pez dispenser
I hope you didn't have any wide open ports for a virus to exploit.
That is true, but some of these 'lustful young men' could get quite excited about the prospect of free pr0n (in a rar file or not), search for a .rar decompressor, decompress, get virused. It is not as big a threat as with .zip or whatever, but it is a threat nonetheless.
I am talking about a full, clean install of XP from floppy disks (the six I mentioned), which lets you do partitioning and formatting and BIOS setting up.
Its not being good makes sense, too. The average user shouldn't need to use it. The setup, which is what you do when you turn your computer on for the first time with the funky background music, is quite good.
These ones if you can't access the CD drive for some reason.
But decryption becomes much harder. Decrypting a message encoded with the 41st and 42nd Mersenne primes could become distributed computing itself ;)
Yep, encrypting. Specifically, public-key cryptography, which requires two fairly-large (think hundreds of digits) prime numbers multiplied together to encrypt a message.
I pick two primes, say 3 and 5, and the product of these is 15. A message is encoded using the number 15. If you know the encoded message and the product, you can decrypt it as it only has two factors.
These things take a very long time to do, however, especially with 100-digit primes. And this new one has 33219253 of them, so decrypting could take a while.
What about critical system updates? They often need to write to these critical system files. They would be protected against Joe PornMonger's worms and viruses as well as the updates. As he is always running as Administrator, there's no way to tell if it is a worm or an update agent requesting write-access to the files.