Is it possible to connect to the netbook with Ubuntu the 3G Internet modem? It comes with a special utility program for Windows. Provider "Orange" in Western Europe.
Yes, I realize that in China people get killed by the state for things which we consider our rights. I am strongly against it too. But we are "white" or "honorably white" in broad sense of the word.
Our civilization do kill tribal uneducated "non-white people sometimes it seems for no reason. And they take notice of it and feel insecure because of it, because they are developing land.
But it seems to me that there should be some balanced international biding agreement not to eavesdrop and not to break into each other electronic systems.
Probably we should start to see the planet as one thing where rules and rights should be equal for all?
Some states do use secret "Echelon" system to break into private and other states' communication systems. Yes, supposedly and by a self-proclamation these are the "good guys".
Is it a feasible international framework that if one feels himself to be a "good guy" he can eavesdrop on electronic systems? But if he looks like a bad guy, speaks in some exotic ethnic language, then it is a condemnable behavior.
But to Chinese and other Asian people we look like strange exotic humans. There is even a word for European-like people in Asia - "long-noses". And when one lives there it feels exactly this: being a "long nose" among normal people.
So they know that good guys eavesdrop on them with an "Echelon" and keep silence philosophically, but when they try to get some info via eavesdropping a commercial company "Google", it causes a global panic. Or do I get it wrongly?
In this network with very restrictive proxy automatic update from Microsoft website does not work for sure. But file download via HTTP, via browser seems to work.
But why not just give users a possibility to download an installation file of the IE8 via HTTP? Or bring it on a flash drive? And let install it easily?
On my private office computer I almost did not notice how IE8 was installed. But in this real network I would prefer just an installation file, which does not assume this and that.
I saw on this network even IE5(!) recently. A user called and said that they get an error on an web-application page; I could not understand why until I asked them to look up IE version. It was IE5(!).
This what happens when two imbecile-engineers join together, one from Microsoft and one responsible for the network proxy.
I remember that I had to download a big IE8 file from Microsoft site on a computer, which was not behind corporate proxy. Than while installing, the IE8 installation tried to contact Microsoft website again to check if there are newer updates.
But proxy does not allow FTP connection. So instead of giving a message "could not connect" and continue, the installation has been trying to contact the website for about 30 minutes before finally continuing.
But why to check for updates of an installation file while installing it? Why just not update the installation file itself while it is on Microsoft's website? Why not allow a download of an upgrade file via HTTP in addition to FTP?
My point is that while it is relatively easy to upgrade from IE6 to IE8 in normal conditions, it is incredibly difficult to do so if there is a limited connection to the Internet.
If there is one imbecile-engineer it is somehow possible to work with his/her creations, but when two come together, one at Microsoft and one running a proxy, it results in a really tough luck.
I upgraded two IE6 to IE8 behind proxy in this way. Spent about 2+ hours on it.
Since there is no need for a plastic disk, box, paper cover, physical transportation, guarding, air-conditioning, etc. the price of a movie via download should be really attractive.
But I cannot find a place to download movies and serials legally an conveniently. I saw some sites but they often say that this movie is not for a download in your country. Or a price is really expensive.
Would it have been possible to forbid cars on early 20th century? It seems that it wouldn't, but there are Amish people who still do not use cars in their villages and towns.
Maybe the Internet without movies and serials downloads is also possible. Sort of an Amish Internet.
It would mean 1 billion+ licenses. Besides there is no place in my wallet for one more license card.
I would suggest a course in schools on Internet security. And also installing anti-virus and scanning with it the disk on mom's and dad's computer next time. It is the platform of the DDoS attacks.
Nice kind mom and dad do harbor unknowingly the worst evil in their PCs - spam bot-net trojans and viruses, most often than not.
Actually, that part the PHP & MySQL is "Eurasia's baby" is not true. Yes, it started in Eurasia, but a lot of development of this open soft was done by the US "chest-haired" programmers, who are definitely are very strong and generous.
I hear a lot of bashing of PHP recently. It seems someone wants to clear up the market for a commercial product.
Something like - if you need basic functionality buy "Light Edition", if you need uploading files on server buy "Professional Edition", if you want to use FTP functions or RegExp expressions buy "Business Architect Edition" for 3000.
But PHP does it all and more for free. Will they be able to get the genie back into the bottle? We will see.
At least, we know that it all may work in one product by now. I do not trust paid bloggers and podcasters who bash PHP because I've been programming in an environment with the artificial commercial walls and limitations. Thank you. Better to handle some difficult syntax and limitations of open source software like PHP and MySQL than run into artificial barriers of commercial analogs.
I guess that there is an element of the US chauvinism in it (or desire to commercialize this environment), because practically the whole Internet runs on the non-US software, PHP&MySQL. PHP is the Eurasia's baby http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP . I guess it somehow does not fit the US mythology and legends.
"Java" is a creation of "Sun" Co. We all use "Open Office" of the "Sun". It is free.
But did you try to switch on French or German language spell-checking in "Open Office"? I always think when I do it that their chief engineers should be really stupid. Indeed a little boy is needed to say that the king is naked.
As for ".Net" I do not trust it either. The creator of this language does not want the Internet to become what it can become, because it will damage their core business. Their natural interest is to slow down the Internet, at least for a year or two more (trillion dollars more). That is why the "Internet Explorer" is 4 times slower than other browsers. That is why ".Net" is so confusing, slow and obfuscating.
Oh, yes. They have 5000+ strong marketing department, which succeeded to convince you otherwise. No surprise, they spend billions on it each year.
But if the PHP will be bought out, as the MySQL has already been, it would mean the end of the Internet as we know it. Because this is the good open technology that just works.
If "Facebook" buys PHP and makes it similar to ".Net", i.e. kills it, it would be really sad.
Speed of "Java" and ".Net"? Is it a joke? "Java" hangs all the time and the ".Net" code to do a simple task is so convoluted that it is just ridiculous.
Competing with F-22? Gosh, do they really say it? Do they want us to fight with Americans? Budget of New York city alone is larger than a budget of the whole Ukraine.
A war with Germany would seem as a kindergaten. This is insane.
Business websites are being attacked. We do not know if we work tomorrow or stop because some hooligan may decide DDoS us without any apparent reason.
It is not amusing. Businesses lose millions upon millions because of these cyber pranks. Let alone spam which causes years of lost working time.
I am for these and other new measures to fight bot-nets and spam. I would also suggest that the malware bot-nets and spam are recognized by UN ITU (International Communication Union) as a crime against humanity.
The secrete services, the Hague international court of justice, state police and other bodies should be mobilized to fight this new threat to our civilization.
The world is more and more relies on computers and networks. Bot-nets and spam are weapons of mass distraction in this new world. They already cost billions to the economy and are major contributor to the economical crisis.
The governments and the international community are to wake up and do something against this new threat in a concerted global effort.
I want to say that the real changes in Russian society just start to begin. Even cops like this Aleksey Dymovskiy started to notice that something is wrong, that the society has its sicknesses, which it has to address and treat, in order to heal.
Does it not happen that someone says in a heat of a moment that he/she do this or that bad thing to someone? But saying something and doing it actually are different things, aren't they?
If he said something in a private telephone conversation I am not sure that it constitutes a crime. Or maybe I am mistaken? Any legal opinion?
Many people in Russia and FSU are buying computers and connect to the Internet, because they hear that it is where the action nowadays, but not on a boring controlled TV.
The government cannot remove videos from Youtube, and it gives musicians, artists, journalists, bloggers an uncensored venue to express ideas and creativity. And it certainly attracts an audience.
Dymovskiy is immensely known in Russia, and he get this popularity via Internet, via Youtube videos, which were shown also on many local TV stations and websites in Russia.
His arrest is not about what he said or did. He is not a man anymore, but sort of a media symbol. And it seems this new media, the Internet, disturbs many power holders in Russia.
They introduce a new Internet (Intranet?) with Cyrillic letters in URLs this year. They tried to ban Skype in Russian Federation.
But the Russian Internet community is fighting back: this creative video-protest "Hitler and Skype" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxhs8jMnC7w in Russian language was viewed 1.6 million times, it is a large number for Russian Internet users.
And it does not stop, but developing fast. A new video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5159imju2Q of a rap singer, which is breaking absolutely all unwritten taboos of a traditional Russian language and culture, was viewed 2.3 million times.
This is what happening. The number of viewers of this new Internet stars and hits is approaching the number of viewers of a state-controlled TV media. And the government feels that it has to do something about it, because the taboos and social frames of the society are being overrun.
Chrome is done with a ribbon, like Internet Explorer. I do not get ribbon instead of a normal toolbar. Why repair what is not broken?
I would say Chrome with its current ribbon design have no chance.
As for a browser in a smart phone, I am not convinced either. The screen is too small. Netbook maybe, a netbook with a flexible screen may work too. Or a smart phone with a flexible attachable screen in a roll. But how to work on a mobile phone screen? It is just too small.
It doesn't get any more "official" than this here. Yesterday, Saturday at around 20:07, Germany's oldest and perhaps biggest prime time news "Tagesschau" announced the following under the headline "Warning against internet browser":
"The Federal Office for Information Security warned internet users of the new browser Chrome. The application by the company Google should not be used for surfing the internet, as a spokesperson for the office told the "Berliner Zeitung"...
When I want to read something on the display I move the cursor away, usually to the right lower corner, to clear the screen. But the new "Show Desktop" button in Windows-7 collapse all open windows just when cursor moves over it. It does it without clicking on it. It happens to me all the time.
As for ribbon, I do not like that buttons move over that ribbon. Probably with some deep sense, but which I cannot understand. I want the button to be where I remember it is. I do not want to play hide-and-seek with a mind of some Ph.D., who decides for me where my buttons are.
In options of Chrome there is "Under the Hood" tab. Why? Is it a car? Is it a play? We try to work with this soft, people. Shall we expect an "Ignition" tab?
At least it would be a good idea if they left a choice to use a version to which we accustomed and try to learn a new interface when we have time.
I was in the middle of zeitnot and I had to spend half an hour on search of the "Show Desktop" button. But it is impossible to return it into a position to which I accustomed. And it was a good position, near Start button. Right lower corner is bad position for this button.
Each time, starting from Vista I had to search for buttons in obscure hidden places. I Firefox 4.0 joins this idiocy this will not be good.
There are not standards in coding for browsers. Now they make interfaces without any respect to what users accustomed. It is not only MS, Google Chrome is about the same.
Me too. I hate the IE8 ribbon. I cannot find anything in that ribbon.
The same about "Show Desktop" button in Windows. In Windows-7 they moved it into the right corner. I have laptop with Windows-7 for couple of month but I still cannot get accustomed to this. I prefer working on my Vista machine.
It is so irritating. I do not IE8 at all because of this ribbon. I stopped using MS Office because of the ribbon too. And with the "Show Desktop" button in Windows-7 I just white cold hate it. Whenever I move the cursor over it my windows collapse suddenly. And I think that the computer crashed.
If they introduce the ribbon in Firefox I will stop using it. Why just not make menus nicer and the program faster and safer. Why change interface each time?
I do not use Windows Media Player because they've made interface so convoluted that it is just ridiculous. I use VLC player instead. But if such soft as Firefox and VLC start moving into that ribbon direction it would be a bad news.
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Is it possible to connect to the netbook with Ubuntu the 3G Internet modem? It comes with a special utility program for Windows. Provider "Orange" in Western Europe.
Yes, I realize that in China people get killed by the state for things which we consider our rights. I am strongly against it too. But we are "white" or "honorably white" in broad sense of the word.
Our civilization do kill tribal uneducated "non-white people sometimes it seems for no reason. And they take notice of it and feel insecure because of it, because they are developing land.
But it seems to me that there should be some balanced international biding agreement not to eavesdrop and not to break into each other electronic systems.
Probably we should start to see the planet as one thing where rules and rights should be equal for all?
Some states do use secret "Echelon" system to break into private and other states' communication systems. Yes, supposedly and by a self-proclamation these are the "good guys".
Is it a feasible international framework that if one feels himself to be a "good guy" he can eavesdrop on electronic systems? But if he looks like a bad guy, speaks in some exotic ethnic language, then it is a condemnable behavior.
But to Chinese and other Asian people we look like strange exotic humans. There is even a word for European-like people in Asia - "long-noses". And when one lives there it feels exactly this: being a "long nose" among normal people.
So they know that good guys eavesdrop on them with an "Echelon" and keep silence philosophically, but when they try to get some info via eavesdropping a commercial company "Google", it causes a global panic. Or do I get it wrongly?
Maybe it makes sense to lead by an example?
In this network with very restrictive proxy automatic update from Microsoft website does not work for sure. But file download via HTTP, via browser seems to work.
But why not just give users a possibility to download an installation file of the IE8 via HTTP? Or bring it on a flash drive? And let install it easily?
On my private office computer I almost did not notice how IE8 was installed. But in this real network I would prefer just an installation file, which does not assume this and that.
I saw on this network even IE5(!) recently. A user called and said that they get an error on an web-application page; I could not understand why until I asked them to look up IE version. It was IE5(!).
This what happens when two imbecile-engineers join together, one from Microsoft and one responsible for the network proxy.
I remember that I had to download a big IE8 file from Microsoft site on a computer, which was not behind corporate proxy. Than while installing, the IE8 installation tried to contact Microsoft website again to check if there are newer updates.
But proxy does not allow FTP connection. So instead of giving a message "could not connect" and continue, the installation has been trying to contact the website for about 30 minutes before finally continuing.
But why to check for updates of an installation file while installing it? Why just not update the installation file itself while it is on Microsoft's website? Why not allow a download of an upgrade file via HTTP in addition to FTP?
My point is that while it is relatively easy to upgrade from IE6 to IE8 in normal conditions, it is incredibly difficult to do so if there is a limited connection to the Internet.
If there is one imbecile-engineer it is somehow possible to work with his/her creations, but when two come together, one at Microsoft and one running a proxy, it results in a really tough luck.
I upgraded two IE6 to IE8 behind proxy in this way. Spent about 2+ hours on it.
Since there is no need for a plastic disk, box, paper cover, physical transportation, guarding, air-conditioning, etc. the price of a movie via download should be really attractive.
But I cannot find a place to download movies and serials legally an conveniently. I saw some sites but they often say that this movie is not for a download in your country. Or a price is really expensive.
Would it have been possible to forbid cars on early 20th century? It seems that it wouldn't, but there are Amish people who still do not use cars in their villages and towns.
Maybe the Internet without movies and serials downloads is also possible. Sort of an Amish Internet.
It would mean 1 billion+ licenses. Besides there is no place in my wallet for one more license card.
I would suggest a course in schools on Internet security. And also installing anti-virus and scanning with it the disk on mom's and dad's computer next time. It is the platform of the DDoS attacks.
Nice kind mom and dad do harbor unknowingly the worst evil in their PCs - spam bot-net trojans and viruses, most often than not.
Actually, that part the PHP & MySQL is "Eurasia's baby" is not true. Yes, it started in Eurasia, but a lot of development of this open soft was done by the US "chest-haired" programmers, who are definitely are very strong and generous.
I hear a lot of bashing of PHP recently. It seems someone wants to clear up the market for a commercial product.
Something like - if you need basic functionality buy "Light Edition", if you need uploading files on server buy "Professional Edition", if you want to use FTP functions or RegExp expressions buy "Business Architect Edition" for 3000.
But PHP does it all and more for free. Will they be able to get the genie back into the bottle? We will see.
At least, we know that it all may work in one product by now. I do not trust paid bloggers and podcasters who bash PHP because I've been programming in an environment with the artificial commercial walls and limitations. Thank you. Better to handle some difficult syntax and limitations of open source software like PHP and MySQL than run into artificial barriers of commercial analogs.
I guess that there is an element of the US chauvinism in it (or desire to commercialize this environment), because practically the whole Internet runs on the non-US software, PHP&MySQL. PHP is the Eurasia's baby http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP . I guess it somehow does not fit the US mythology and legends.
All it takes is to install an anti-virus and make a full scan you mom's and dad's PC next time.
"Java" is a creation of "Sun" Co. We all use "Open Office" of the "Sun". It is free.
But did you try to switch on French or German language spell-checking in "Open Office"? I always think when I do it that their chief engineers should be really stupid. Indeed a little boy is needed to say that the king is naked.
As for ".Net" I do not trust it either. The creator of this language does not want the Internet to become what it can become, because it will damage their core business. Their natural interest is to slow down the Internet, at least for a year or two more (trillion dollars more). That is why the "Internet Explorer" is 4 times slower than other browsers. That is why ".Net" is so confusing, slow and obfuscating.
Oh, yes. They have 5000+ strong marketing department, which succeeded to convince you otherwise. No surprise, they spend billions on it each year.
But if the PHP will be bought out, as the MySQL has already been, it would mean the end of the Internet as we know it. Because this is the good open technology that just works.
You wanted the truth, here is the truth.
If "Facebook" buys PHP and makes it similar to ".Net", i.e. kills it, it would be really sad.
Speed of "Java" and ".Net"? Is it a joke? "Java" hangs all the time and the ".Net" code to do a simple task is so convoluted that it is just ridiculous.
Competing with F-22? Gosh, do they really say it? Do they want us to fight with Americans? Budget of New York city alone is larger than a budget of the whole Ukraine.
A war with Germany would seem as a kindergaten. This is insane.
Business websites are being attacked. We do not know if we work tomorrow or stop because some hooligan may decide DDoS us without any apparent reason.
It is not amusing. Businesses lose millions upon millions because of these cyber pranks. Let alone spam which causes years of lost working time.
I am for these and other new measures to fight bot-nets and spam. I would also suggest that the malware bot-nets and spam are recognized by UN ITU (International Communication Union) as a crime against humanity.
The secrete services, the Hague international court of justice, state police and other bodies should be mobilized to fight this new threat to our civilization.
The world is more and more relies on computers and networks. Bot-nets and spam are weapons of mass distraction in this new world. They already cost billions to the economy and are major contributor to the economical crisis.
The governments and the international community are to wake up and do something against this new threat in a concerted global effort.
I want to say that the real changes in Russian society just start to begin. Even cops like this Aleksey Dymovskiy started to notice that something is wrong, that the society has its sicknesses, which it has to address and treat, in order to heal.
Does it not happen that someone says in a heat of a moment that he/she do this or that bad thing to someone? But saying something and doing it actually are different things, aren't they?
If he said something in a private telephone conversation I am not sure that it constitutes a crime. Or maybe I am mistaken? Any legal opinion?
Many people in Russia and FSU are buying computers and connect to the Internet, because they hear that it is where the action nowadays, but not on a boring controlled TV.
The government cannot remove videos from Youtube, and it gives musicians, artists, journalists, bloggers an uncensored venue to express ideas and creativity. And it certainly attracts an audience.
Dymovskiy is immensely known in Russia, and he get this popularity via Internet, via Youtube videos, which were shown also on many local TV stations and websites in Russia.
His arrest is not about what he said or did. He is not a man anymore, but sort of a media symbol. And it seems this new media, the Internet, disturbs many power holders in Russia.
They introduce a new Internet (Intranet?) with Cyrillic letters in URLs this year. They tried to ban Skype in Russian Federation.
But the Russian Internet community is fighting back: this creative video-protest "Hitler and Skype" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxhs8jMnC7w in Russian language was viewed 1.6 million times, it is a large number for Russian Internet users.
And it does not stop, but developing fast. A new video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5159imju2Q of a rap singer, which is breaking absolutely all unwritten taboos of a traditional Russian language and culture, was viewed 2.3 million times.
This is what happening. The number of viewers of this new Internet stars and hits is approaching the number of viewers of a state-controlled TV media. And the government feels that it has to do something about it, because the taboos and social frames of the society are being overrun.
Chrome is done with a ribbon, like Internet Explorer. I do not get ribbon instead of a normal toolbar. Why repair what is not broken?
I would say Chrome with its current ribbon design have no chance.
As for a browser in a smart phone, I am not convinced either. The screen is too small. Netbook maybe, a netbook with a flexible screen may work too. Or a smart phone with a flexible attachable screen in a roll. But how to work on a mobile phone screen? It is just too small.
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-07-n33.html (September 2008)
It doesn't get any more "official" than this here. Yesterday, Saturday at around 20:07, Germany's oldest and perhaps biggest prime time news "Tagesschau" announced the following under the headline "Warning against internet browser":
"The Federal Office for Information Security warned internet users of the new browser Chrome. The application by the company Google should not be used for surfing the internet, as a spokesperson for the office told the "Berliner Zeitung"...
When I want to read something on the display I move the cursor away, usually to the right lower corner, to clear the screen. But the new "Show Desktop" button in Windows-7 collapse all open windows just when cursor moves over it. It does it without clicking on it. It happens to me all the time.
As for ribbon, I do not like that buttons move over that ribbon. Probably with some deep sense, but which I cannot understand. I want the button to be where I remember it is. I do not want to play hide-and-seek with a mind of some Ph.D., who decides for me where my buttons are.
In options of Chrome there is "Under the Hood" tab. Why? Is it a car? Is it a play? We try to work with this soft, people. Shall we expect an "Ignition" tab?
At least it would be a good idea if they left a choice to use a version to which we accustomed and try to learn a new interface when we have time.
I was in the middle of zeitnot and I had to spend half an hour on search of the "Show Desktop" button. But it is impossible to return it into a position to which I accustomed. And it was a good position, near Start button. Right lower corner is bad position for this button.
Each time, starting from Vista I had to search for buttons in obscure hidden places. I Firefox 4.0 joins this idiocy this will not be good.
There are not standards in coding for browsers. Now they make interfaces without any respect to what users accustomed. It is not only MS, Google Chrome is about the same.
Me too. I hate the IE8 ribbon. I cannot find anything in that ribbon.
The same about "Show Desktop" button in Windows. In Windows-7 they moved it into the right corner. I have laptop with Windows-7 for couple of month but I still cannot get accustomed to this. I prefer working on my Vista machine.
It is so irritating. I do not IE8 at all because of this ribbon. I stopped using MS Office because of the ribbon too. And with the "Show Desktop" button in Windows-7 I just white cold hate it. Whenever I move the cursor over it my windows collapse suddenly. And I think that the computer crashed.
If they introduce the ribbon in Firefox I will stop using it. Why just not make menus nicer and the program faster and safer. Why change interface each time?
I do not use Windows Media Player because they've made interface so convoluted that it is just ridiculous. I use VLC player instead. But if such soft as Firefox and VLC start moving into that ribbon direction it would be a bad news.
How can we develop our online business when even governments hack websites? They should fight cybercrime, not participate in it.
Chinese government routinely shoot criminals for less crimes. Will they shoot themselves this time? Hacking is punishable by death in China.
It is like breaking Internet by making search in Google for the word "google".