You could try Ekiga, formerly known as Gnomemeeting. Free and standards-based, and worked OK for me. It's mainly for linux, but there is a windows port in development. It's not linked from the main page, but you can find it here.
I agree: the psychosomatic theories about RSI are definitely worth looking into. John Sarno has written several books on this sort of thing, which have a completely different take on the problem to conventional medicine. Whereas your typical doctor's prescription might be to take three Ibuprofen daily and use the computer less, he essentially suggests looking into your own thoughts and emotions to solve the problem there.
Controversial stuff, but there may well be some truth in it. A striking fact I remember reading in a newspaper is that a low dose of antidepressants can often cure chronic backache: in fact, it's sometimes prescribed for it by doctors here in the UK.
Well perhaps it would be good to have it as an option. I would imagine most people install firefox as root and run it as an ordinary user. For a normal household computer, this is probably the most sensible thing to do security-wise - but then you lose the update notification, which is bad for security.
Presumably this affects windows too, especially when Vista arrives which will apparently discourage running as administrator.
While we're talking about automatic updates, does anyone know whether Firefox will notify you of updates if you install it as root? Obviously it won't be able to update itself when you're running as a user, but it would be nice to get the notification regardless.
This changes things quite a bit. From the third slide from the presentation:
* Introducing a layer on top of the current kernel-driver interfaces which someone would try to hold steady
* It would be GPL'd and therefore NOT support binary drivers
Or a laptop with a crap screen. My old toshiba has a 'dual scan' screen that's so blurry you lose the mouse pointer whenever you move it. Good idea, I might try it one day if I'm feeling brave.
Agreed. It's strange that they tout Abiword's license as its selling point. I would say the much smaller memory and CPU usage is its major advantage over openoffice.
Current phishing scams work because the users are not checking those items.
I agree with this - but this is something the banks could actually improve. When I log into my account at natwest.com, it redirects to nwolb.com, which is completely unnecessary. Fixing things like this along with a bit of customer education could make a big difference.
Got that? Your system is failing TODAY.
Er.. not mine actually as, sadly, I don't own a bank.
You got some basic problem with reading English? Maybe you're one of them people with a "learning disability"? Is that it?...etc
Are you actually hoping to be taken seriously here? Maybe you should have stopped writing before that comment.
Educating the user to check the validity of certificates is a lost cause.
Maybe I have too much faith in mankind, but I would think that most people can cope with 1) checking the website address 2) looking for the little padlock next to it. That in itself is enough to protect against man-in-the-middle attacks. It's certainly easier than remembering to dial some telephone number within 1 minute of transaction, or anything along those lines.
Lucky you! You'll want 256 MB RAM to run the full Gnome desktop, ideally. But with less you can always try something lighter like IceWM or XFCE. Enjoy Ubuntu.
Privoxy will do this. It's a good cross-browser alternative to Adblock, and much quicker on old machines too, if you can be bothered to set up the config files.
Please don't comment on the bug unless you have something *constructive* to add. It already has 84 comments - more complaints won't help get this fixed, they'll just make it even more unreadable. (If you feel the need, vote for the bug, but don't spam it with complaints.)
If it's a website bug, it's a very common one. It's even on slashdot: when you post your next comment, save the next screen that comes up as HTML only, and open it up. You'll see that firefox tried to repost the comment without prompting. (Chances are it won't succeed because of the barrage of anti-troll defences.)
Silent reposting of forms is a very bad thing, and I'm pretty sure it violates one of the RFC's.
Google maps has some pretty striking before-and-after coverage of the hurricane. Click on 'satellite' and then 'katrina' and spot the difference. It's fairly striking.
I'm looking forward to the new version as much as anyone, but I do have some concerns about the amount of unfixed bugs in the codebase. How does a bug like Bug 115174 get overlooked for three and a half years? A quote from the comments:
...the form may be being sumbitted again when "Save Page As, HTML Only" is
selected. What really concerns me about this is that, on a less smart web page,
a user's payment may be submitted twice, when all the user wanted to do was save
a copy of the payment receipt. This is more than just annoyance, it could cause
people's checks to bounce unexpectedly.
I know this has happened to several people (me included - luckily I managed to cancel the transaction in time). Surely the mozilla guys have a responsibility to fix this one...?
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But if you do, offering to disinfect their PC could be a great pick-up line...
I got a Nvidia card with passive cooling for my Linux desktop
I just got an old nVidia Riva TNT, and took the fan off myself. DIY passive cooling on a budget. And hey, it's still working a year down the line.
You could try Ekiga, formerly known as Gnomemeeting. Free and standards-based, and worked OK for me. It's mainly for linux, but there is a windows port in development. It's not linked from the main page, but you can find it here.
I agree: the psychosomatic theories about RSI are definitely worth looking into. John Sarno has written several books on this sort of thing, which have a completely different take on the problem to conventional medicine. Whereas your typical doctor's prescription might be to take three Ibuprofen daily and use the computer less, he essentially suggests looking into your own thoughts and emotions to solve the problem there.
Controversial stuff, but there may well be some truth in it. A striking fact I remember reading in a newspaper is that a low dose of antidepressants can often cure chronic backache: in fact, it's sometimes prescribed for it by doctors here in the UK.
Perhaps try clicking right at the top where it says 'Large Print'.
Well perhaps it would be good to have it as an option. I would imagine most people install firefox as root and run it as an ordinary user. For a normal household computer, this is probably the most sensible thing to do security-wise - but then you lose the update notification, which is bad for security.
Presumably this affects windows too, especially when Vista arrives which will apparently discourage running as administrator.
While we're talking about automatic updates, does anyone know whether Firefox will notify you of updates if you install it as root? Obviously it won't be able to update itself when you're running as a user, but it would be nice to get the notification regardless.
This changes things quite a bit. From the third slide from the presentation:
* Introducing a layer on top of the current kernel-driver interfaces which someone would try to hold steady
* It would be GPL'd and therefore NOT support binary drivers
So what's everyone worrying about?
Or how about a certain well-known Russian puzzle game?
Someone clearly needs to send the link to Bill Gates
Or a laptop with a crap screen. My old toshiba has a 'dual scan' screen that's so blurry you lose the mouse pointer whenever you move it. Good idea, I might try it one day if I'm feeling brave.
Well spotted. It's incredible what people will do for karma these days.
I'm afraid this doesn't follow. Saying 8% of the site hits are from linux machines does not imply that 8% of people run linux.
Hmmm, I'm confused. What's the difference between Blackdown and the Java you can download from Sun's website?
Agreed. It's strange that they tout Abiword's license as its selling point. I would say the much smaller memory and CPU usage is its major advantage over openoffice.
Current phishing scams work because the users are not checking those items.
.. not mine actually as, sadly, I don't own a bank.
...etc
I agree with this - but this is something the banks could actually improve. When I log into my account at natwest.com, it redirects to nwolb.com, which is completely unnecessary. Fixing things like this along with a bit of customer education could make a big difference.
Got that? Your system is failing TODAY.
Er
You got some basic problem with reading English? Maybe you're one of them people with a "learning disability"? Is that it?
Are you actually hoping to be taken seriously here? Maybe you should have stopped writing before that comment.
Educating the user to check the validity of certificates is a lost cause.
Maybe I have too much faith in mankind, but I would think that most people can cope with 1) checking the website address 2) looking for the little padlock next to it. That in itself is enough to protect against man-in-the-middle attacks. It's certainly easier than remembering to dial some telephone number within 1 minute of transaction, or anything along those lines.
Lucky you! You'll want 256 MB RAM to run the full Gnome desktop, ideally. But with less you can always try something lighter like IceWM or XFCE. Enjoy Ubuntu.
Privoxy will do this. It's a good cross-browser alternative to Adblock, and much quicker on old machines too, if you can be bothered to set up the config files.
I should have said:
Please don't comment on the bug unless you have something *constructive* to add. It already has 84 comments - more complaints won't help get this fixed, they'll just make it even more unreadable. (If you feel the need, vote for the bug, but don't spam it with complaints.)
More reading: Bugzilla Etiquette
If it's a website bug, it's a very common one. It's even on slashdot: when you post your next comment, save the next screen that comes up as HTML only, and open it up. You'll see that firefox tried to repost the comment without prompting. (Chances are it won't succeed because of the barrage of anti-troll defences.)
Silent reposting of forms is a very bad thing, and I'm pretty sure it violates one of the RFC's.
Google maps has some pretty striking before-and-after coverage of the hurricane. Click on 'satellite' and then 'katrina' and spot the difference. It's fairly striking.
Yes, you can do that as a workaround. The problem is the vast majority of people who don't read slashdot or bugzilla, and don't know about the bug.
Try pressing refreshing on a page with POST data. You'll get a warning dialog. But there's no warning if you save the page.
I know this has happened to several people (me included - luckily I managed to cancel the transaction in time). Surely the mozilla guys have a responsibility to fix this one...?