Mac OS X is vulnerable to any *Nix capability since it is unix based. However, take my comment lightly, as I am really not sure bout the specifics of the Nix in Mac. I use it (the Nix in Mac) but I am just generalizing
I agree. One can also say that whenever a new software technology is developed, virus writers are open to explore the new technology and find ways to exploit it. Isn't that, after all, what virus writers do? Exploit the technology? Explore?
Lighter, Faster, Stronger. We Can Rebuild It.
I would (like many others here apparantly) would like to see a good built-in bookmark manager. This bookmark manager should be intuitive enough to figure out how to categorize the link that you chose, and if not, perhaps with a little nudging. I am reminded of a product that I use to filter my e-mails in Outlook, spamBayes - it read some samples of junk mail, and it got increasingly better and is currently filtering 99% of my spam. So why not create an intelligent filter for bookmarks?
Sidebars take up wasted web space real-estate that could be used to show content on an actual page, rather than useless links that no one clicks on at the side. I know - I did one of those old channel
push" links you used to see in IE 4.0 - no one wanted content pushed down their throats. Maybe as I mentioned above, building sidebars with some intelligence (frequently accessed links) might be useful.
Better, more robust P2P technology might also be an option. I don't think the general consumer is aware of IRC.
And of course don't forget the now ubiquitous tabs. It now hurts me when I (have to, on occasion) use IE and "Launch a New Window".
Slightly OT, just wondering as you are reading this article and its responses, what OS are you using to read it? What apps are running in the background? This helps to add what considers to be a "typical" session that could be used to effectively evaluate the OS's in the future.
For example I am (because it is there) running Win XP SP2 and surfing with Mozilla 1.7.x. Outlook running in the BG, with stuff like Google Desktop, gmail notifier, MSN Messenger, etc. running. What would be the equivalent running on *Nix? Mozilla, Thunderbird, GAIM etc.?
it may be obvious like a bug in the fog...this article does not prove anything. In other words, it may be said that Linux is less buggier, but it is also smaller, has a smaller user base, and really the comparison did not do a full scale analysis of what typically runs on these OS's in a given session. So think a little more before screaming Linux wins. (or Windows Wins, or Z80 wins)
This Windows survey says Windows is better.
This Linux survey says Linux is better.
Who knows? Who cares? The only way to do a fair comparison is to have both platforms tested on equal footing, and its never ever going to happen while Windows is a closed system. Just keep coding, folks. How does fodder like this end up on slashdot? It just fuels flamebaiters to post Win Vs Lin vs Commodore Vic 20 OS articles.
How about just adding a small USB port that will hook up already existing external drives, and adapting the software just to read from it? I know it defeats portability a little bit, but then you could place in your car those old laptop hard drives in external chassis, filling them with music or movies, and then switching them on your iPod - like old 8-track cartridges?
Isn't this called the Microsoft Index Service? So basically, this toolbar is an enhanced version of the Microsoft Index Service.
Hopefully, a lot faster. MSI was really slow. I disabled it. And I am actually using the google desktop search ( they came out first, so I used it)
I like the google desktop search.
As far as my history recalls -
AOL once had their own proprietary browser (that was just post Mosaic/Lynx era).
Then they bought Compuserve and briefly, had both.
Then they had deal with Microsoft to use Internet Explorer technology in their browser (I think this was AOL 4.0).
Then they bought Netscape and abandoned IE...
They crashed Netscpae to the ground.
Now they are going back to IE?
One of the references I found read something like -
"Those included a seven-year license to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser technology without charge on AOL. This 7 year deal with Microsoft will provide the company with a great chance to continue to move forward in the future. But still the 26 billion dollars in debt is something that they desperately need to overcome."
This was last year, at
http://www.searchengineposition.com/info/Articles/ historyofaol.asp
No accounts for the accuracy of the link above, but it seems to jive.
I think, as many have seemed to concur, that AOL is suffering from an image crisis. Hell, I don't
even know what they do (or really, I don't care either). They have not had a focus, but some generic sense of "providing internet services", for many years, and the quality of their service varied.
All those AOL CDs are being used as great cheap coasters or Christmas ornaments right now.
Happy Holidays.
After "The Terminal" (sarcasm), I am anxious to see Spielberg doing something with action and suspense again. BTW I was not able to view the trailer in Full Screen Mode with the current IE or Mozilla. with IE, the native pop-up blocker kept on asking to install the Apple ITunes Listener or something like that...and I thought Apple was beyond this. On Mozilla 1.7.x I get "itms is not a registered protocol". I did get to see it in large screen mode.
I was literally captivated by the book when I was a kid. And kudos to the folks that did the poster - a tribute to various incarnations of the cover.
Yes there is Laszlo. That's how wonderful our world is. So many options.
I like Laszlo just as well as Flex. There seems to be a duality of products for a lot of commercial software - MS Office, Open Office, Laszlo, Flex, also would like to point out ampPHP and Flash Remoting.
Hi, I dabbled with PGP back in the late nineties but never really maintained using my keys due to lack of purpose or use....Do people here feel that this is going to make some sort of dent in the consumer market? A lot of people who I deem "computer average" are not even aware of PGP...
just my thoughts.
Hi -
The initial attraction to Flash by designers and developers is its relative ease in creating interactive animations. Now I cannot be an absolute judge on creativity or content, I am sure that there are a lot of abusive uses of Flash (I've seen lots, and unforunately, some have come from my former students of my Flash classes), but it can be used effectively to express content and ideas when placed in the right hands. Its way easier to generate Flash content then perform a similar feat say, in a Java based presentation layer (which incidentally, Flash has a lot of origins in) or utilizing some other technology.
Flash just had mass development appeal.
Again, I am not necessarily disagreeing with you - its unfortunate you have had such terrible experiences with Flash. But best of luck in getting that billion.
Yeah, must of my stuff doesn't have very much insight of late. Perhaps its the lack of inspiration from the articles that are being posted. However, I did get excited over the recent article of Flash used in devices. So there is no need to provide the sarcastic comment. I am just posting my thoughts, whether they are deemed spam bait or not doesn't really impact my life any. I suppose some people take the posting process way too seriously.
Macromedia also has Flash Communication Server, which offers streaming video within Flash-based apps. I know. I am doing it. So expect things like live-support streaming, perhaps from a tiny device like your mobile phone, and Flash animations to make it pretty, all driven from a database or some XML data source. As someone pointed out earlier, there is $$$ in this market. Also, I do not necessarily agree that SVG is going to "win" out over Flash, but there will definitely be some form of fusion of the technologies (Flash SVG hybrid) at some point -already Macromedia has Flex, its XML data transport, and Central as well (asynchronous data streaming).
Lots of things going on here.
I am surprised (sarcasm) to see the huge response in excitement to a Babylon 5 movie.
Really, don't get me wrong, I am sure there are some fans out there. But I was turned off by the cheesy effects and unbelievably dumb storylines a long time ago (the first episode, in fact). I thought that slashdot was about "stuff that matters".
Does anyone have any legalese on the subject matter? So this is done in the UK as a test pilot project - its a better move for M$ as any of late.
I don't think the pricing issue or the "whose OS is buggier" issue should be involved in this discussion, as someone in an earlier thread suggested (Linux being free and all). If you were the inventor of a great product called foo-bar (again, not saying Windows is great) you would not want everyone to copy it and make a profit from your hard work, now would you?
I have a smart card and a smart card reader that I have not used since 1998. I remember I was using it to test authentication technology. I remember writing something for this hardware in Java.
Now I can do it in.NET. whooopeee. Not as interesting as the feedback from the Slashdotted article about finding Atlantis near Cyprus (the discussion devolved into something totally non-related, about Moses and writing. Is that slashdot normal?)
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Even Microsoft's Outlook 2003 does this too (when set correctly).
Mac OS X is vulnerable to any *Nix capability since it is unix based. However, take my comment lightly, as I am really not sure bout the specifics of the Nix in Mac. I use it (the Nix in Mac) but I am just generalizing
I agree. One can also say that whenever a new software technology is developed, virus writers are open to explore the new technology and find ways to exploit it. Isn't that, after all, what virus writers do? Exploit the technology? Explore?
Lighter, Faster, Stronger. We Can Rebuild It. I would (like many others here apparantly) would like to see a good built-in bookmark manager. This bookmark manager should be intuitive enough to figure out how to categorize the link that you chose, and if not, perhaps with a little nudging. I am reminded of a product that I use to filter my e-mails in Outlook, spamBayes - it read some samples of junk mail, and it got increasingly better and is currently filtering 99% of my spam. So why not create an intelligent filter for bookmarks? Sidebars take up wasted web space real-estate that could be used to show content on an actual page, rather than useless links that no one clicks on at the side. I know - I did one of those old channel push" links you used to see in IE 4.0 - no one wanted content pushed down their throats. Maybe as I mentioned above, building sidebars with some intelligence (frequently accessed links) might be useful. Better, more robust P2P technology might also be an option. I don't think the general consumer is aware of IRC. And of course don't forget the now ubiquitous tabs. It now hurts me when I (have to, on occasion) use IE and "Launch a New Window".
Slightly OT, just wondering as you are reading this article and its responses, what OS are you using to read it? What apps are running in the background? This helps to add what considers to be a "typical" session that could be used to effectively evaluate the OS's in the future. For example I am (because it is there) running Win XP SP2 and surfing with Mozilla 1.7.x. Outlook running in the BG, with stuff like Google Desktop, gmail notifier, MSN Messenger, etc. running. What would be the equivalent running on *Nix? Mozilla, Thunderbird, GAIM etc.?
it may be obvious like a bug in the fog...this article does not prove anything. In other words, it may be said that Linux is less buggier, but it is also smaller, has a smaller user base, and really the comparison did not do a full scale analysis of what typically runs on these OS's in a given session. So think a little more before screaming Linux wins. (or Windows Wins, or Z80 wins)
This Windows survey says Windows is better. This Linux survey says Linux is better. Who knows? Who cares? The only way to do a fair comparison is to have both platforms tested on equal footing, and its never ever going to happen while Windows is a closed system. Just keep coding, folks. How does fodder like this end up on slashdot? It just fuels flamebaiters to post Win Vs Lin vs Commodore Vic 20 OS articles.
How about just adding a small USB port that will hook up already existing external drives, and adapting the software just to read from it? I know it defeats portability a little bit, but then you could place in your car those old laptop hard drives in external chassis, filling them with music or movies, and then switching them on your iPod - like old 8-track cartridges?
That would be kinda' neat, kinda retro.
Isn't this called the Microsoft Index Service? So basically, this toolbar is an enhanced version of the Microsoft Index Service. Hopefully, a lot faster. MSI was really slow. I disabled it. And I am actually using the google desktop search ( they came out first, so I used it) I like the google desktop search.
Hey - coming out even sooner Robotron 2084.
I remember football for both the Atari 2600 and Intellivision. Now there's real football!
As far as my history recalls - AOL once had their own proprietary browser (that was just post Mosaic/Lynx era). Then they bought Compuserve and briefly, had both. Then they had deal with Microsoft to use Internet Explorer technology in their browser (I think this was AOL 4.0). Then they bought Netscape and abandoned IE... They crashed Netscpae to the ground. Now they are going back to IE? One of the references I found read something like - "Those included a seven-year license to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser technology without charge on AOL. This 7 year deal with Microsoft will provide the company with a great chance to continue to move forward in the future. But still the 26 billion dollars in debt is something that they desperately need to overcome." This was last year, at http://www.searchengineposition.com/info/Articles/ historyofaol.asp
No accounts for the accuracy of the link above, but it seems to jive.
I think, as many have seemed to concur, that AOL is suffering from an image crisis. Hell, I don't
even know what they do (or really, I don't care either). They have not had a focus, but some generic sense of "providing internet services", for many years, and the quality of their service varied.
All those AOL CDs are being used as great cheap coasters or Christmas ornaments right now.
Happy Holidays.
After "The Terminal" (sarcasm), I am anxious to see Spielberg doing something with action and suspense again. BTW I was not able to view the trailer in Full Screen Mode with the current IE or Mozilla. with IE, the native pop-up blocker kept on asking to install the Apple ITunes Listener or something like that...and I thought Apple was beyond this. On Mozilla 1.7.x I get "itms is not a registered protocol". I did get to see it in large screen mode.
I was literally captivated by the book when I was a kid. And kudos to the folks that did the poster - a tribute to various incarnations of the cover.
english? lol. I am just trying to be funny, so if not, my apologies.
Yes there is Laszlo. That's how wonderful our world is. So many options. I like Laszlo just as well as Flex. There seems to be a duality of products for a lot of commercial software - MS Office, Open Office, Laszlo, Flex, also would like to point out ampPHP and Flash Remoting.
Hi, I dabbled with PGP back in the late nineties but never really maintained using my keys due to lack of purpose or use....Do people here feel that this is going to make some sort of dent in the consumer market? A lot of people who I deem "computer average" are not even aware of PGP... just my thoughts.
Hi - The initial attraction to Flash by designers and developers is its relative ease in creating interactive animations. Now I cannot be an absolute judge on creativity or content, I am sure that there are a lot of abusive uses of Flash (I've seen lots, and unforunately, some have come from my former students of my Flash classes), but it can be used effectively to express content and ideas when placed in the right hands. Its way easier to generate Flash content then perform a similar feat say, in a Java based presentation layer (which incidentally, Flash has a lot of origins in) or utilizing some other technology. Flash just had mass development appeal. Again, I am not necessarily disagreeing with you - its unfortunate you have had such terrible experiences with Flash. But best of luck in getting that billion.
Yeah, must of my stuff doesn't have very much insight of late. Perhaps its the lack of inspiration from the articles that are being posted. However, I did get excited over the recent article of Flash used in devices. So there is no need to provide the sarcastic comment. I am just posting my thoughts, whether they are deemed spam bait or not doesn't really impact my life any. I suppose some people take the posting process way too seriously.
Macromedia also has Flash Communication Server, which offers streaming video within Flash-based apps. I know. I am doing it. So expect things like live-support streaming, perhaps from a tiny device like your mobile phone, and Flash animations to make it pretty, all driven from a database or some XML data source. As someone pointed out earlier, there is $$$ in this market. Also, I do not necessarily agree that SVG is going to "win" out over Flash, but there will definitely be some form of fusion of the technologies (Flash SVG hybrid) at some point -already Macromedia has Flex, its XML data transport, and Central as well (asynchronous data streaming). Lots of things going on here.
What if CNN got hold of this technology...you could "smell" the reporter in Afghanistan. Maybe then they will find Osama. Smell ya later.
I am surprised (sarcasm) to see the huge response in excitement to a Babylon 5 movie. Really, don't get me wrong, I am sure there are some fans out there. But I was turned off by the cheesy effects and unbelievably dumb storylines a long time ago (the first episode, in fact). I thought that slashdot was about "stuff that matters".
Does anyone have any legalese on the subject matter? So this is done in the UK as a test pilot project - its a better move for M$ as any of late.
I don't think the pricing issue or the "whose OS is buggier" issue should be involved in this discussion, as someone in an earlier thread suggested (Linux being free and all). If you were the inventor of a great product called foo-bar (again, not saying Windows is great) you would not want everyone to copy it and make a profit from your hard work, now would you?
all your porn belong to us. (and its damn good)
I have a smart card and a smart card reader that I have not used since 1998. I remember I was using it to test authentication technology. I remember writing something for this hardware in Java.
.NET. whooopeee. Not as interesting as the feedback from the Slashdotted article about finding Atlantis near Cyprus (the discussion devolved into something totally non-related, about Moses and writing. Is that slashdot normal?)
Now I can do it in
good times