Absolutely. This bug is a real show stopper until it gets really fixed. I was tempted to try ff4ß8, but if that fix is due for ß9, I'm going to wait for a while.
I had the most weird IT experience arising from almost the same situation
One night, circa 3am, I get a frantic phone call from a friend who claim she had just lost all of her thesis (no backups, of course). She was basically using a glorified typewriter : pentium 120, windows 3.1, word 6.0 - no internet, not even a CD drive. From what I'm told between sobs and hysterical outburst, I understand the thing boots to DOS (the screen is "all black with a C:>"), so I guess it's just a matter of minutes, and tell her to type "win" and then return. Fails, because the keyboard outputs "zin" - there, I begin to understand the night is going to be a bit longer than expected. I live in France, so we use "azerty" keyboards and obviously her computer had reverted to a "qwerty" layout.
So next step, I tell her the DOS command to display autoexec.bat (figure it, on the phone, without the computer in front of me... "type qutoexec/bqt") and... it fails ! autoexec.bat had simply totally, completely, vanished from her system ! So, letter by letter, with my win95 laptop as a guide, I dictated over the phone a working autoexec translated in qwerty she entered after the famed "copy con autoexec.bat...". It seemed to last hours (and maybe it did).
But in the end, it worked, and the machine booted right into win, so I instructed her to make a backup now and then, and I guided her in the process. Once it was done, I told her to shut it off and that I would come the next day to check if it was safe to carry on on that same machine.
Next day, I drop by, and soon realize something's still off with the machine ; not much, but caps lock doesn't work for instance.
So I open and check literally everything until I open the keyboard casing and find 1/2 inch of liquid trapped inside. I burst in laughter, accuse her of spilling her tea over it. She takes it sternly, things start to get bitter (we hadn't slept much, both of us), until she has an "eureka" moment and realize she's been washing her contact lenses over that same desk for years !
Problem solved, but I still can't figure out how a flooded keyboard can delete the autoexec on its own will...
I see we have the same footrest / foot warmer. Mine's a lousy PWS 433, but it used to run loops around any PPro in its days. Still keep it for that little Quake game now and then... incredibly smooth gameplay...
When I commute every morning, I'm always surprised at how much men have iPhones and ladies have Blackberries. This may very well be a local thing (I live in Paris, France), but from my own casual observations, this is a firm trend here.
In my humble opinion, it's because iPhones are very expensive even tied to an operator contract, while BBs have been marketed aggressively at quite low prices. It seems men are more likely to shell out money on nice toys, women are more responsible with the family budget.
Now, I shouldn't make any generality out of it, but I think this study isn't to be taken as absolute truth either.
This said, he has no power to prevent OVH (the ISP) from hosting the site. And OVH has already fought back the pressure by filing a summary motion to have a judge decide wether they can legally host wikileaks. (I'm not really sure of my law speech translation here - basically, they went straight to a judge to have the case decided by justice instead of the administration).
You should have been modded insightful instead of funny. I had exactly the same reaction.
Like a toll road operator, ISPs would have a security duty, based on visible facts (without actively searching computers, just analysing statistical output traffic patterns). It wouldn't be akin to a penalty, but act like a quarantine for the benefit of the majority.
Sadly, it's very, very true indeed.
I made a (legitimate) site not long ago using Google sites. Submitted the url for review in both bing and google. Bing listed me the next day, without any further input. Google didn't even listed my url in its base (not talking about rank here) until I submitted a sitemap through the webmaster tools, fighting a nasty bug they made in the process but didn't cared to correct since at least a year (if you put your auth key in your DNS zone, the automated sitemap created by google themselves returns a failure in their webmaster tools - brilliant).
I'm all for progress. Today's X is vastly more usable and user friendly than XFree86 I used back in 1998 ; but it does it without giving up what was good then.
Progress is not fashion. You don't have to trash last week's trend because it's old.
Progress can be measured in usability and functionality. Until Wayland proves itself worthy of taking over X, I see no need to fuss about it, and I'm betting X can improve (and therefore progress) faster than wayland in the same amount of time.
...but at least we don't have punitive damages. The victim can at most get compensatory damages for the actual loss. On top, the offender faces a fine that falls in the pocket of the State. Not a small one, but at least it's predictable because the maximum is written in the law. And it means the plaintiff has less incentive to sue beyond reason, because he's mostly working for Marianne's pockets (Marianne is to us what Uncle Sam is to US citizens).
This principle holds true for every kind of offense, and isn't limited to file sharing.
You're mistakenly assuming X will stay the same during that time frame while Wayland will be evolving. But this is wrong : X evolves at quick pace too, and Wayland will certainly play catch up and fail. The basis of X are well known, well understood, and quite solid. There is already an ungodly investment of man-hours in it, and many people pushing the project forward. I can't see Wayland gathering enough followers in 4 years to make up for the head start of X.
In France, for example, children are judged according to the same negligence standard as adults, which is much stricter than the US rule
It's absolutely not the same thing. In France, civil torts are judged not with regard to the offender's personality, but in the abstract (was there a tort, is it the result of a human being's action ?).
So a child's behavior may give ground for civil liability, but the child himself is never put on trial. His custodians are instead. In the case depicted, only the parents would be liable, even if they were supervising the activities of their toddler, by the simple fact there was a damage caused by the child.
But, again, the child himself wouldn't be held liable, and wouldn't go to trial. Only his parents. And only if he had no civil insurance, which is completely unlikely, because it comes packaged in your house insurance down here, so almost every family is covered.
Speaking only for myself, I welcomed your input on that topic.
Shakespeare is somewhat out of my radar (non native english speaker here, just knows some bits about his works, but on a very basic level only), so I didn't felt compelled to click your links, and enjoyed the description of your struggles.
Have luck.
Didn't read TFA, but running windows apps in a reasonable time frame without windows pretty much entails a linux+wine stack or capitalizing on ReactOS. I'm leaning toward the latter in this case, I don't think the military needs something like directX, but a win2k substitute could do the trick if they have a massive windows based investment in terms of existing custom softwares.
Oooh, I get it...Bill Gates onces predicted "computers will be free, and people will pay for software"...it's coming true, people will eventually be back to paying per-cpu cycle for the privilege of running software.
Think it won't work? It already works on your "free" cellphones..
Pay-per-use computing, welcome to the future, circa 1970
WP has never been as big in Europe as it was in the US. Using a wordprocessor was almost unheard of in the legal circles circa 1990 when I was a law student (typing was what secretary were hired for, and they still used selectrics), and it finally made inroads into the practices at the same time as windows 3.1, so default fell on word.
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It's absolutely spot on. (living in Paris, I totally confirm this).
It's the other way round on linux. Chrome font rendering is hopelessly riddled with bugs, and breaks at every minor upgrade.
Absolutely. This bug is a real show stopper until it gets really fixed. I was tempted to try ff4ß8, but if that fix is due for ß9, I'm going to wait for a while.
I had the most weird IT experience arising from almost the same situation
One night, circa 3am, I get a frantic phone call from a friend who claim she had just lost all of her thesis (no backups, of course). She was basically using a glorified typewriter : pentium 120, windows 3.1, word 6.0 - no internet, not even a CD drive. From what I'm told between sobs and hysterical outburst, I understand the thing boots to DOS (the screen is "all black with a C:>"), so I guess it's just a matter of minutes, and tell her to type "win" and then return. Fails, because the keyboard outputs "zin" - there, I begin to understand the night is going to be a bit longer than expected. I live in France, so we use "azerty" keyboards and obviously her computer had reverted to a "qwerty" layout.
So next step, I tell her the DOS command to display autoexec.bat (figure it, on the phone, without the computer in front of me... "type qutoexec/bqt") and... it fails ! autoexec.bat had simply totally, completely, vanished from her system ! So, letter by letter, with my win95 laptop as a guide, I dictated over the phone a working autoexec translated in qwerty she entered after the famed "copy con autoexec.bat...". It seemed to last hours (and maybe it did).
But in the end, it worked, and the machine booted right into win, so I instructed her to make a backup now and then, and I guided her in the process. Once it was done, I told her to shut it off and that I would come the next day to check if it was safe to carry on on that same machine.
Next day, I drop by, and soon realize something's still off with the machine ; not much, but caps lock doesn't work for instance.
So I open and check literally everything until I open the keyboard casing and find 1/2 inch of liquid trapped inside. I burst in laughter, accuse her of spilling her tea over it. She takes it sternly, things start to get bitter (we hadn't slept much, both of us), until she has an "eureka" moment and realize she's been washing her contact lenses over that same desk for years !
Problem solved, but I still can't figure out how a flooded keyboard can delete the autoexec on its own will...
I see we have the same footrest / foot warmer. Mine's a lousy PWS 433, but it used to run loops around any PPro in its days. Still keep it for that little Quake game now and then... incredibly smooth gameplay...
When I commute every morning, I'm always surprised at how much men have iPhones and ladies have Blackberries. This may very well be a local thing (I live in Paris, France), but from my own casual observations, this is a firm trend here.
In my humble opinion, it's because iPhones are very expensive even tied to an operator contract, while BBs have been marketed aggressively at quite low prices. It seems men are more likely to shell out money on nice toys, women are more responsible with the family budget.
Now, I shouldn't make any generality out of it, but I think this study isn't to be taken as absolute truth either.
He's a disgrace to all what we french believe in.
This said, he has no power to prevent OVH (the ISP) from hosting the site. And OVH has already fought back the pressure by filing a summary motion to have a judge decide wether they can legally host wikileaks. (I'm not really sure of my law speech translation here - basically, they went straight to a judge to have the case decided by justice instead of the administration).
Fingers crossed...
You should have been modded insightful instead of funny. I had exactly the same reaction.
Like a toll road operator, ISPs would have a security duty, based on visible facts (without actively searching computers, just analysing statistical output traffic patterns). It wouldn't be akin to a penalty, but act like a quarantine for the benefit of the majority.
Don't forget the Russian federation, which have a huge interest in selling enriched uranium they produce already.
The left hand map is from doom, IIRC.
noticed this too.
Sadly, it's very, very true indeed. I made a (legitimate) site not long ago using Google sites. Submitted the url for review in both bing and google. Bing listed me the next day, without any further input. Google didn't even listed my url in its base (not talking about rank here) until I submitted a sitemap through the webmaster tools, fighting a nasty bug they made in the process but didn't cared to correct since at least a year (if you put your auth key in your DNS zone, the automated sitemap created by google themselves returns a failure in their webmaster tools - brilliant).
I'm all for progress. Today's X is vastly more usable and user friendly than XFree86 I used back in 1998 ; but it does it without giving up what was good then.
Progress is not fashion. You don't have to trash last week's trend because it's old.
Progress can be measured in usability and functionality. Until Wayland proves itself worthy of taking over X, I see no need to fuss about it, and I'm betting X can improve (and therefore progress) faster than wayland in the same amount of time.
...but at least we don't have punitive damages. The victim can at most get compensatory damages for the actual loss. On top, the offender faces a fine that falls in the pocket of the State. Not a small one, but at least it's predictable because the maximum is written in the law. And it means the plaintiff has less incentive to sue beyond reason, because he's mostly working for Marianne's pockets (Marianne is to us what Uncle Sam is to US citizens).
This principle holds true for every kind of offense, and isn't limited to file sharing.
You're mistakenly assuming X will stay the same during that time frame while Wayland will be evolving. But this is wrong : X evolves at quick pace too, and Wayland will certainly play catch up and fail. The basis of X are well known, well understood, and quite solid. There is already an ungodly investment of man-hours in it, and many people pushing the project forward. I can't see Wayland gathering enough followers in 4 years to make up for the head start of X.
All this fuss reminds me of how GtkFB was supposed to storm the handheld realm circa 2001. Never happened, never will.
Truth is, for all its assumed weaknesses, X is still the more polished, thought-out graphical protocol in widespread use. It's there, it works, it boasts features (network transparency for instance) no single other GUI system can provide. There may be more eyecandy in windows©® or MacOS©® (and then, it remains to be proven, when I can run 'aero like' effects under X on Intel hardware not cutting the set minimum for windows), but when it comes to sheer possibilities, X beats everything else hands down.
And X has an enormous advantage : it works NOW, not when pigs will fly.
In France, for example, children are judged according to the same negligence standard as adults, which is much stricter than the US rule
It's absolutely not the same thing. In France, civil torts are judged not with regard to the offender's personality, but in the abstract (was there a tort, is it the result of a human being's action ?).
So a child's behavior may give ground for civil liability, but the child himself is never put on trial. His custodians are instead. In the case depicted, only the parents would be liable, even if they were supervising the activities of their toddler, by the simple fact there was a damage caused by the child.
But, again, the child himself wouldn't be held liable, and wouldn't go to trial. Only his parents. And only if he had no civil insurance, which is completely unlikely, because it comes packaged in your house insurance down here, so almost every family is covered.
Didn't even knew it was there. Thanks, works perfectly.
Speaking only for myself, I welcomed your input on that topic. Shakespeare is somewhat out of my radar (non native english speaker here, just knows some bits about his works, but on a very basic level only), so I didn't felt compelled to click your links, and enjoyed the description of your struggles. Have luck.
Didn't read TFA, but running windows apps in a reasonable time frame without windows pretty much entails a linux+wine stack or capitalizing on ReactOS. I'm leaning toward the latter in this case, I don't think the military needs something like directX, but a win2k substitute could do the trick if they have a massive windows based investment in terms of existing custom softwares.
[citation needed]
The 70's called, they want their meme's back.
What's next? Pay-per-hour internet?
Pay-per-use computing?
Dumb Terminals?
Pay-per-byte storage?
Oooh, I get it...Bill Gates onces predicted "computers will be free, and people will pay for software"...it's coming true, people will eventually be back to paying per-cpu cycle for the privilege of running software.
Think it won't work? It already works on your "free" cellphones..
Pay-per-use computing, welcome to the future, circa 1970
You're very right here, Mr AC.
In most situations, when you can't get rid of unwanted text that's sticky in word, do : CTRL+A, CTRL+C, CTRL+N, CTRL+V
Then keep on editing as usual.
(and I'm not even kidding)
My mistake. English is not my mother tongue.
WP has never been as big in Europe as it was in the US. Using a wordprocessor was almost unheard of in the legal circles circa 1990 when I was a law student (typing was what secretary were hired for, and they still used selectrics), and it finally made inroads into the practices at the same time as windows 3.1, so default fell on word.