Here's one site that doesn't work at all in Mozilla, though it did in Netscape 4.79 and IE. It's my bank's site, and I don't think that it's bugs in Mozilla, but rather in the source code for the page.
The only other site that I had a problem with was for the Web access to Outlook, and that was because the MIS department at the company I was working for required the domain name to log in....apparently only IE will give you a dialog box that includes a text box for the domain name (the reason that IE's on my system).
One evening, while sitting on IRC/efnet, on some of the channels I hang out on, I was called names (that I'll not repeat; they prominantly featured words beginning with 'c' and 'f') by some jerk, who had earlier identified himself as a Unix sysadmin for mickeysloth in the Bay area. I kick/banned him, for I had chanops in that particular channel. He responded with a ping flood, and I reconnected and thought little of it.
Until the following morning, when I found that my account had been cancelled by my former ISP (itouch/realtime in the Austin, Tx area). The jerk had launched a DDoS attack against my account, my ISP, and against an eggdrop bot that I was running in my shell account there.
Although I had complained about this person before, for he had taken my ISP down two months earlier, and gave my ISP all of the information (something like six or eight hostmasks and IPs) that i had about him, they refused even to allow me to retrieve data from their server, or to send an email to people directing them to some other account.
Should they have been allowed to do this? I think not. But I can't afford the attorney's fees it would take to fight them, and besides, my data has most likely long since been wiped from their hard drives.
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Posting the DeCSS code is NOT illegal! And as for the NEW code, from the PigDog page, that's certainly not illegal. A couple of injunctions handed down by clueless local courts do NOT make an action illegal.
That said, please not that IANAL. I do have some understanding of MY rights, and what it takes to keep them.
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Um, shall we start with the paucity of applications that will run successfully under W2K? Like IIS4, which has horrible problems. Of course, as an application developer who must write things that run under IIS4, I find it a terrible environment. I recently wrote a cgi application , and had it up and running in a secure environment under Apache within hours. It took me several days to get it to work correctly under IIS, and then required a complete rewrite once our wonderful security people had applied their latest list of security patches.
Just to serve as a devil's advocate for a moment - and no, I certainly don't advocate MS operating systems - I just have to live with them because people pay me to write software for them - but I've had my NT4.0/sp6a box online (as in connected to the Net) for over 11 days - which is about the same (give or take an hour) as it's actual uptime. I haven't managed to crash this box in a long time. That said, as soon as I finish my work for today, I'm downing this puter and rebooting into Linux. I've crashed X a few times, but have yet to crash the entire OS.....
It's not the techie types, at least, not those who really have a clue. It's people who've spent their lives developing software for windoze, people who've never worked in a robust (read *nix) environment), people who, as someone previously commented, got their MCSE and now think that they're real sysadmins. These people read this sort of stuff, and, since they really don't know any better, pass on their recommendations to the boss. Who really hasn't a clue what's going on. I'm not blowing smoke; I recently had to prove to my company's sysadmins/security types that running pages on a secure domain had nothing to do with the CGI software, but instead was governed by the Webserver software in place - IIS. And more recently, I had to rewrite a little bitty CGI executable to include a registry editor (so I could limit the risk) and a separate.exe in a separate directory to get around problems introduced when a respected security analysis firm applied patches to our customer's machines to increase their security.
Two of the developers where I work had W2K on their machines. Now, all of the developers have NT4sp5||sp6a running. W2K certainly seems to have fared differently in our programming department.
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> I would agree with you if the site was blocking > you because of aesthetics but I'm pretty sure > that's not the case. More constructive criticism > would be:
> Don't let the browser do the error correction. > Do it on the server side through your CGI > program where you have complete control.
That's usually not a great solution either. Doing it that way you wind up printing some sort of (hopefully non-cryptic) error message to the customers' browser, and you STILL haven't solved the problem. And the user is still messed up, often not understanding the error message.
That said, I work for a company providing Web based banking solutions to smaller institutions, and the only browsers we block (I know this; I wrote the code for it) are IE3 versions, because they won't support the security levels our solutions require.
>A better solution would be to expand the filesystem options available to >WinNT/2000 users. It already recognizes NTFS and the various FAT's. >And NT used to do HPFS. Really, how hard would it be?!?
NT 4.0 can be made to recognize HPFS drives with a really easy hack. I don't have the documentation here at work, but since I used to use HPFS and NT at home, I have it there. Email me if you're interested - it's a totally easy little (I wanted to say hack, but it's not complex enough) procedure.
We didn't start out having netsex, we didn't start out looking to find a girlfriend online. We just found that we liked each other, started talking, and over several months, found ourselves falling for each other - but nade NO plans until we'd met IRL. That was all we needed; we knew at that point that we'd found the person we wanted to be with.
I met my girlfriend online, on an IRC channel, and moved from Chicago to Texas to be with her. That was two years ago, and it was the best thing I ever did for myself.....she'll say the same should you ask her:) We spent some months talking online, then on the phone....finally met FTF over thanksgiving of 97, and three weeks later, I had a Uhaul trailer and was on my way down here. We have friends for whom meeting on the Net has been a good thing too. If she and I were to break up for some reason, I'd probably consider meeting people online to be preferable to meeting ppl IRL. There's no pressure for doing anything besides talking and getting to know each other online, while FTF there are lots of things that can get in the way. That's my couple of cents.....
Haven't you ever run Windoze? Up, down, up, down.....it bounces between states.
That said, I've had uptimes of up to a month on this Pentium100/96 megs RAM running NT/SP4....of course, it probably helps that I use as little micros~1-ware as possible....
I sometimes op on an Efnet channel called #linuxnewbie (related to the LinuxNewbie.ORG website), and haven't seen any flaming over distro choices there. The point of THIS channel is NOT to wave the biggest dic^H^H^Hdistro around, but to help people who are new to Linux. I know that I received a LOT of help there with my Slackware installation, and I've seen many others request and get help with many different distros, though not with a "Macmillan" distro. Lots of people with Mandrake questions though, along with SuSE, Slack, Caldera, RedHat etc, etc etc.....
It looks like beta test agreements that I've seen before from IBM and Lotus. Most likely the beta agreements got slapped onto the software by someone in their legal dept. who doesn't have a CLUE what the GPL is. I doubt that this bodes well for the Corel version of Linux, though, if their legal department can't even read the licenses that are already attached to the distribution.....
What's wrong with IRC? I've been compiling different clients trying to find one I really like! Word macro virii? um....hand me my mcAfee...oh! wait! that's wright, we're not in windoze anymore....... I think it's farily obvious why YOU haven't found the geekette of yer dreams......
There's a wonderful tool for windows users called NukeNabber. It will block most DoS attacks and portscanning activity, though your connection could still be flooded off. You can find it here. It saved me MUCH grief once I started using it several versions ago.
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I was a proponent of IBM's failed OS/2, which offered a powerful GUI that beat the hell out of anything Microsoft has yet to offer IMNSHO. Its failure in the marketplace was often attributed to the lack of application support for the OS. The Star Office suite was developed for OS/2 originally, but seemed too little too late. Note though, that in Germany, where it was developed, OS/2 retains a large percentage of mindshare.
This might be more attributable to IBM's having gotten pre-install agreements from a major box manufacturer, something that they were never able to get in the US. Now, with major hardware manufacturers falling over themselves to offer Linux as a purchase option, coupled with a well-known company such as Sun offering a supported office productivity applications, this is exactly what Linux needs to keep growing. Do note that I'm making the assumption that more boxen running Linux is a good thing....but in this forum, I'd kind of assume that a shared belief:)
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Here's one site that doesn't work at all in Mozilla, though it did in Netscape 4.79 and IE. It's my bank's site, and I don't think that it's bugs in Mozilla, but rather in the source code for the page.
The only other site that I had a problem with was for the Web access to Outlook, and that was because the MIS department at the company I was working for required the domain name to log in....apparently only IE will give you a dialog box that includes a text box for the domain name (the reason that IE's on my system).
Another decent channel is #linuxhelp on undernet.
One evening, while sitting on IRC/efnet, on some of the channels I hang out on, I was called names (that I'll not repeat; they prominantly featured words beginning with 'c' and 'f') by some jerk, who had earlier identified himself as a Unix sysadmin for mickeysloth in the Bay area. I kick/banned him, for I had chanops in that particular channel. He responded with a ping flood, and I reconnected and thought little of it.
Until the following morning, when I found that my account had been cancelled by my former ISP (itouch/realtime in the Austin, Tx area). The jerk had launched a DDoS attack against my account, my ISP, and against an eggdrop bot that I was running in my shell account there.
Although I had complained about this person before, for he had taken my ISP down two months earlier, and gave my ISP all of the information (something like six or eight hostmasks and IPs) that i had about him, they refused even to allow me to retrieve data from their server, or to send an email to people directing them to some other account.
Should they have been allowed to do this? I think not. But I can't afford the attorney's fees it would take to fight them, and besides, my data has most likely long since been wiped from their hard drives.
That said, please not that IANAL. I do have some understanding of MY rights, and what it takes to keep them.
My DeCSS mirror? Look in my sig.....
Um, no.....it was orignally supposed to be released in the 4th quarter of 1998....
I recently wrote a cgi application , and had it up and running in a secure environment under Apache within hours. It took me several days to get it to work correctly under IIS, and then required a complete rewrite once our wonderful security people had applied their latest list of security patches.
Just to serve as a devil's advocate for a moment - and no, I certainly don't advocate MS operating systems - I just have to live with them because people pay me to write software for them - but I've had my NT4.0/sp6a box online (as in connected to the Net) for over 11 days - which is about the same (give or take an hour) as it's actual uptime. I haven't managed to crash this box in a long time.
That said, as soon as I finish my work for today, I'm downing this puter and rebooting into Linux. I've crashed X a few times, but have yet to crash the entire OS.....
I'm not blowing smoke; I recently had to prove to my company's sysadmins/security types that running pages on a secure domain had nothing to do with the CGI software, but instead was governed by the Webserver software in place - IIS. And more recently, I had to rewrite a little bitty CGI executable to include a registry editor (so I could limit the risk) and a separate
There's a reason I don't use a Web-authoring package to write sites. I'll not give up the control that I have writing HTML in my text editor.
Two of the developers where I work had W2K on their machines.
Now, all of the developers have NT4sp5||sp6a running. W2K certainly seems to have fared differently in our programming department.
> you because of aesthetics but I'm pretty sure
> that's not the case. More constructive criticism
> would be:
> Don't let the browser do the error correction.
> Do it on the server side through your CGI
> program where you have complete control.
That's usually not a great solution either. Doing it that way you wind up printing some sort of (hopefully non-cryptic) error message to the customers' browser, and you STILL haven't solved the problem. And the user is still messed up, often not understanding the error message.
That said, I work for a company providing Web based banking solutions to smaller institutions, and the only browsers we block (I know this; I wrote the code for it) are IE3 versions, because they won't support the security levels our solutions require.
You'll be able to find it at my website too. Oh, and i have it on a few other computers as well.
So they have to get yet another injunction. And then find all the places I might have hidden it. Damn, what was the name of that server?
>WinNT/2000 users. It already recognizes NTFS and the various FAT's.
>And NT used to do HPFS. Really, how hard would it be?!?
NT 4.0 can be made to recognize HPFS drives with a really easy hack. I don't have the documentation here at work, but since I used to use HPFS and NT at home, I have it there. Email me if you're interested - it's a totally easy little (I wanted to say hack, but it's not complex enough) procedure.
We didn't start out having netsex, we didn't start out looking to find a girlfriend online. We just found that we liked each other, started talking, and over several months, found ourselves falling for each other - but nade NO plans until we'd met IRL.
That was all we needed; we knew at that point that we'd found the person we wanted to be with.
I met my girlfriend online, on an IRC channel, and moved from Chicago to Texas to be with her. That was two years ago, and it was the best thing I ever did for myself.....she'll say the same should you ask her :)
We spent some months talking online, then on the phone....finally met FTF over thanksgiving of 97, and three weeks later, I had a Uhaul trailer and was on my way down here. We have friends for whom meeting on the Net has been a good thing too.
If she and I were to break up for some reason, I'd probably consider meeting people online to be preferable to meeting ppl IRL. There's no pressure for doing anything besides talking and getting to know each other online, while FTF there are lots of things that can get in the way.
That's my couple of cents.....
They're playing in Austin within the next month or so.....
Haven't you ever run Windoze? Up, down, up, down.....it bounces between states.
That said, I've had uptimes of up to a month on this Pentium100/96 megs RAM running NT/SP4....of course, it probably helps that I use as little micros~1-ware as possible....
I sometimes op on an Efnet channel called #linuxnewbie (related to the LinuxNewbie.ORG website), and haven't seen any flaming over distro choices there. The point of THIS channel is NOT to wave the biggest dic^H^H^Hdistro around, but to help people who are new to Linux. I know that I received a LOT of help there with my Slackware installation, and I've seen many others request and get help with many different distros, though not with a "Macmillan" distro. Lots of people with Mandrake questions though, along with SuSE, Slack, Caldera, RedHat etc, etc etc.....
It looks like beta test agreements that I've seen before from IBM and Lotus. Most likely the beta agreements got slapped onto the software by someone in their legal dept. who doesn't have a CLUE what the GPL is.
I doubt that this bodes well for the Corel version of Linux, though, if their legal department can't even read the licenses that are already attached to the distribution.....
What's wrong with IRC? I've been compiling different clients trying to find one I really like! Word macro virii? um....hand me my mcAfee...oh! wait! that's wright, we're not in windoze anymore.......
I think it's farily obvious why YOU haven't found the geekette of yer dreams......
There's a wonderful tool for windows users called NukeNabber. It will block most DoS attacks and portscanning activity, though your connection could still be flooded off. You can find it here. It saved me MUCH grief once I started using it several versions ago.
Flying toasters?
Oh wait, that's been done...
damn.....to think that all of us who make our livings from the Net would have been writing newspaper columns or being stock analysts...
Happy Birthday to the place I live!
This might be more attributable to IBM's having gotten pre-install agreements from a major box manufacturer, something that they were never able to get in the US. Now, with major hardware manufacturers falling over themselves to offer Linux as a purchase option, coupled with a well-known company such as Sun offering a supported office productivity applications, this is exactly what Linux needs to keep growing. Do note that I'm making the assumption that more boxen running Linux is a good thing....but in this forum, I'd kind of assume that a shared belief :)