Irrelevant in a discussion on how to fix the issue at hand. Linux does not help me fix the issue of a Microsoft plugin showing up in the Windows version of Firefox after it was manually removed.
Don't get me wrong, it has a place on one of my hard drives, but it is not my primary OS, nor is it the right tool for the job I do, hence what I use my Windows OS for.
Also, I can't use Linux to connect to work remotely. Incompatible systems. MacOSX and Windows are the only two supported systems at the workplace via Citrix (and they also both work with the version of MS Office that work serves to me via Citrix, Linux does not). This is strictly enforced on their end. This could be due to them having support contracts, service contracts, etc with Citrix, Apple and Microsoft, but Linux, real 'BSD', etc are locked out and their use for work is considered violation of company IT rules set by the board of directors and the company CTO.
For certain games like Phantasy Star Online, this is not true. There are dedicated servers, hence the in-game lobbies, etc. It's generally up to the game publisher/dev house to provide those and connect them to the Live! system.
Isn't there a way to maintain the silly dependency files but not invoke the entire "broken" interface to that subsystem?
I know you can do this with at least IE and Windows Media Player on Windows, where you can remove the entire front-ends and other assorted dross, and still retain specific files required by other Windows versions of programs/native apps like WinAMP, Firefox, the MS DRM subsystem, Windows Help, Windows Explorer, etc to function properly. I know nLite allows this, as do several other 3rd-party apps for Windows, as well as Microsoft providing versions of Windows Media Player components that you can install instead of the entire player application, so that programs like WinAMP, etc can access DirectX Sound, streaming audio in MS-specific formats, DRM licensing, etc (Kind of like a developers version, where devs could use those specific data files, and then program their own front-end to replace the one provided by MS if they so chose).
It seems ridiculous to me that this isn't more easily done and that mandatory userland programs and system settings are being specifically tied into certain subsystems/3rd-party programs by default without providing acceptable functional alternatives. This is especially true for an operating system that is supposed to represent "Free" and "Open", but apparently is showing behavior that compares more to the SCO or Apple way in this situation.
I forgot to mention in my previous post: It always shows up in the Plugin section of Addons (as it always did, found it odd to be displayed in both Plugins and Extensions sections, but whatever), even after the Plugin is uninstalled manually and the system and Firefox are restarted. Anyone know how to fix that?
You better check again, as the plugin tries to re-install itself silently when a.NET service is called from a website in Firefox, and also via the recent batch of patches from Microsoft. The only way to be sure is to double-check and not only nuke the appropriate registry entry, but the entire sub-folder of your.NET installation the plugin is installed to, as well as resetting the ID string in About:Config. Then you should proceed to disable that update from being downloaded or displayed via Automatic Updates.
The really disturbing thing I found, is that after sneakily re-installing itself via the latest patch from MS, the plugin is not displayed at all in the Addons/Extensions portion of the Firefox configuration screen. The only reason I even found it reinstalled, was that warning from Firefox when the nasa.gov site attempted to load the plugin while viewing their photo galleries.
Yes, it was my fault to have updates set on Automatic/Automatic, which has since been remedied on this system. I was irresponsibly lazy on the matter.
Overly strict laws regarding things like stem cell research and cloning don't help matters either. Singapore is rapidly becoming a leading biotech (and tech period) research hub because of this - they have rather relaxed rules regarding types of research and how that research is accomplished, all while providing generous financial and real estate incentives for companies and researchers to come do so.
It's rather sad to see American scientists having to leave the US to actually get real research done. Sure, the groups are listed as 'a research team from Stanford', etc in the news, but they don't mention the fact that the team itself was not in the United States doing the research or making those huge strides in discovery due to cost considerations and the fact that we have religion-pandering nubs in charge of making our laws.
Poles of Russian descent (mainly found in Eastern and Northern Poles) also use 'sky' instead of 'ski'. Believe it or not, this was true even before WWII.
Go attempt to browse the picture galleries on nasa.gov. That plugin will rear its ugly head even if you 'disabled' it. At least FF 3.5.3 puts up a big warning about it and allows you to cancel the plugin from loading/reinstalling itself.
You need to eradicate it completely from your system.
Personal Anecdote: Gave me an unpleasant surprise this morning when I was showing my wife recent pictures from Hubble, the Carina Nebula, and from the Swift project. The plugin is not listed in my Addons - Extensions list. I thought I had it 'disabled'. Learned the hard way that you have to eradicate it from your system.
You can get a really rough estimate from here PDF of Financial and Operational Results, Page 11, look in the Other segment, and page 12 under Wholesale and GEM solutions.
I say rough estimate, because it isn't broken down completely. You only get the totals for the entire segment, but that is where any government funding would be added in.
You can probably dig up more in the stuff found here as well.
The better question to ask is: "How much of my landline bill is being used to illegally cross-subsidize U-Verse/FiOS/DSL/Wireless?" (Seriously, there are numerous state telecoms laws across the country that disallow POTS income/revenue from being used on expansion of DSL/FiOS, etc, but the companies do it anyhow with seeming impunity).
Does the citation I finally paid off last July count? I ran into someone who nailed their brakes in the middle of an intersection and THEN decided to turn on their turn signal. Accident occurred in March.
A) The accident was automatically my fault due to a stupid law in PA. Didn't matter that the guy was one car length in front of me and then nailed his brakes, while we were going 35mph. In an intersection (as in, literally in the middle).
B) I got cited for careless driving ($350) and not carrying valid identification ($500). Insurance, registration, and inspection were all valid. I then had to bring valid identification to the local municipal office within five days of receiving the citation or face an arrest warrant. I didn't have my wallet on me, as I generally leave it at home unless I am going shopping or on a trip.
Now see, this is what I am talking about. Vendors like him are useful. Socially-retarded dogma from zealots is not.
Kudos.
BTW, this is why I am sticking with my WRT65GL v1.1 as a router, even though they have Wireless N stuff out. It works good enough for me, and I can modify the hardware and fiddle around with the firmware as much as I want.
As for your Sony products: Dude, they brick their own game consoles. It's Sony. This behavior is expected. The screwed up thing? Sony hardware is generally awesome. Then the media (Read: Sony Music/Sony Pictures) division of Sony gets involved and everything turns to shit. Honestly, Sony needs to divest itself of the media-arm completely. They'd be murdering Microsoft and Nintendo in the gaming market and Apple in the media player department right now if their stupid media division hadn't stuck their noses in and insisted on hare-brained DRM schemes.
If your assertion is true, then all he is accomplishing with that license and attitude is to ensure that nobody but scattered hobbyists, Stallman zealots or a smattering of indie developers would ever in their right mind touch anything released under it. Generally, those people aren't looked upon as being very 'serious' in the business world anyhow. In the case of Stallman zealots, it's related to 'mentally unbalanced', as my former employer called them.
Proprietary code is useful, whether Stallman likes it or not. I buy games. They run proprietary code. Do I think I have the right to the source code for those games? No. I play them. I could give a damn if the code came bundled along and was in bright pink lettering on a green background. I just want the software to work when I go to use it. If that requires a patch now and then, and the developer decides not to release any more, I don't care. I find a suitable replacement and move on.
Operating systems or router firmware, would be nice to have the source for, but it really isn't a priority for -most- people. Generally by the time they start thinking about wanting to fix something, there's already a new version or hardware revision anyhow, and the old crap goes in the bin, and the shiny and new is un-boxed and installed.
There's reasons FOSS operating systems and FOSS in general have abysmal market share, and that type of attitude/mentality is one of them.
You have a ten character limit, as I am a VIP subscriber, and can verify this. Also, you may then purchase more character slots on top of the ten you already get.
I play on the Argonnessen server and go by Ghraal N'Talis (Lvl 7 Dwarf Rogue) and Malkavier DeSalle (Lvl 3 Drow Ranger/Rogue). Anyone from here playing on that server and want to group, just send me a PM in-game or mail me in-game to setup a time. I am not at Shroud-raid capability yet, but I can do all content up to level 10 areas, and frequently do Favor runs.
You didn't check flights into Albuquerque, NM, Taos, NM, or Pueblo, CO instead of Amarillo?
161 miles from Pueblo to Cimarron, 215 miles from Albuquerque, 54.3 miles from Taos.
You also could have gotten into Pueblo and Albuquerque especially, and taken regional/local flights to one of the several smaller airports in the area of Cimarron that are much, much closer than Amarillo. Flights into Taos are hit and miss from places like Chicago. Depends on the day of the week you're flying.
Just curious is all. Normally I go to Las Cruces, Roswell, and Alamogordo, so my flights are all into the El Paso/Fort Bliss area. I used to normally hop right over the border quick for some awesome burritos and whatnot in Juarez, but haven't been able to for the last couple of years due to the issues going on in the border areas. Great food, great music, friendly locals - crappy drug cartels/gangs (who btw, aren't local, and a good chunk of them aren't even Mexican). There were quite a few Americans living right over the border there as well, seeing as how several small bridges connect the two towns.
Dunno, but I know Walmart switched over to RHEL a few years ago for servers and using Fedora/CentOS for workstations.
Even their computerized applicant system is running a modified version of Fedora in many locations. It crashes quite a bit though, so that's how I found out - they run a Windows-based VB6 program via WINE.
I think in some of the newer stores, they've just swapped over to running a Win2k VM inside of VirtualBox or something on Linux and running the app that way.
In PA it can land you a $500 (before court costs and other assorted backdoor taxes) fine, along with a misdemeanor mark on your record. It depends on if the police officer feels like you deserve to get screwed or not.
nVidia had to compensate in the driver set for their 6800 cards for a design flaw in the card itself, which of course everyone and their mother cried "Cheaters!" over.
The design flaw was remedied in the 6900 Ultra series, which technically speaking about card performance, wasn't that much better than the 6800. The hardware just wasn't gimped anymore, so it could do in hardware what the 6800 was doing in software to compensate for nVidia's screwup.
This is true, and has also doomed SC2 to never being seriously played in South Korea. Or played at all in game tournaments, since those strictly forbid outside internet connections on the competition floor - outside connections now required due to SC2 being tied to the shitty Battle.NET system.
Unfortunately, you're screwed. Why do you think other nations are 'harmonizing' their copyright laws with the US?
WIPO treaties, and the treaties and mandatory conditions signed/applied when nations join other international trade groups and things like the IMF/World Bank have already buried your notion of thinking no other countries should adopt them.
Even China is starting to come around on this, and that nation hasn't taken copyright seriously, ever. My main worry for the Chinese people is that their government will start to employ their normal tactics of executing people or sending them to gulag reeducation camps instead of levying fines.
He doesn't mind the search links, the RSS feed, etc.
He's complaining that Google News is gathering the content from his News Corp properties using their Googlebot, and taking all of the advertising revenue because Google places their own paid ads on the pages instead of the News Corp ads that would appear from the originating sites.
This is the same issue/complaint that organizations like the AP and Reuters have with Google.
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Irrelevant in a discussion on how to fix the issue at hand. Linux does not help me fix the issue of a Microsoft plugin showing up in the Windows version of Firefox after it was manually removed.
Don't get me wrong, it has a place on one of my hard drives, but it is not my primary OS, nor is it the right tool for the job I do, hence what I use my Windows OS for.
Also, I can't use Linux to connect to work remotely. Incompatible systems. MacOSX and Windows are the only two supported systems at the workplace via Citrix (and they also both work with the version of MS Office that work serves to me via Citrix, Linux does not). This is strictly enforced on their end. This could be due to them having support contracts, service contracts, etc with Citrix, Apple and Microsoft, but Linux, real 'BSD', etc are locked out and their use for work is considered violation of company IT rules set by the board of directors and the company CTO.
For certain games like Phantasy Star Online, this is not true. There are dedicated servers, hence the in-game lobbies, etc. It's generally up to the game publisher/dev house to provide those and connect them to the Live! system.
Isn't there a way to maintain the silly dependency files but not invoke the entire "broken" interface to that subsystem?
I know you can do this with at least IE and Windows Media Player on Windows, where you can remove the entire front-ends and other assorted dross, and still retain specific files required by other Windows versions of programs/native apps like WinAMP, Firefox, the MS DRM subsystem, Windows Help, Windows Explorer, etc to function properly. I know nLite allows this, as do several other 3rd-party apps for Windows, as well as Microsoft providing versions of Windows Media Player components that you can install instead of the entire player application, so that programs like WinAMP, etc can access DirectX Sound, streaming audio in MS-specific formats, DRM licensing, etc (Kind of like a developers version, where devs could use those specific data files, and then program their own front-end to replace the one provided by MS if they so chose).
It seems ridiculous to me that this isn't more easily done and that mandatory userland programs and system settings are being specifically tied into certain subsystems/3rd-party programs by default without providing acceptable functional alternatives. This is especially true for an operating system that is supposed to represent "Free" and "Open", but apparently is showing behavior that compares more to the SCO or Apple way in this situation.
I forgot to mention in my previous post: It always shows up in the Plugin section of Addons (as it always did, found it odd to be displayed in both Plugins and Extensions sections, but whatever), even after the Plugin is uninstalled manually and the system and Firefox are restarted. Anyone know how to fix that?
You better check again, as the plugin tries to re-install itself silently when a .NET service is called from a website in Firefox, and also via the recent batch of patches from Microsoft. The only way to be sure is to double-check and not only nuke the appropriate registry entry, but the entire sub-folder of your .NET installation the plugin is installed to, as well as resetting the ID string in About:Config. Then you should proceed to disable that update from being downloaded or displayed via Automatic Updates.
The really disturbing thing I found, is that after sneakily re-installing itself via the latest patch from MS, the plugin is not displayed at all in the Addons/Extensions portion of the Firefox configuration screen. The only reason I even found it reinstalled, was that warning from Firefox when the nasa.gov site attempted to load the plugin while viewing their photo galleries.
Yes, it was my fault to have updates set on Automatic/Automatic, which has since been remedied on this system. I was irresponsibly lazy on the matter.
Overly strict laws regarding things like stem cell research and cloning don't help matters either. Singapore is rapidly becoming a leading biotech (and tech period) research hub because of this - they have rather relaxed rules regarding types of research and how that research is accomplished, all while providing generous financial and real estate incentives for companies and researchers to come do so.
It's rather sad to see American scientists having to leave the US to actually get real research done. Sure, the groups are listed as 'a research team from Stanford', etc in the news, but they don't mention the fact that the team itself was not in the United States doing the research or making those huge strides in discovery due to cost considerations and the fact that we have religion-pandering nubs in charge of making our laws.
The EU can't even save themselves, let alone anyone else.
Far more likely to see Russia, China, or the US in that situation. I know which of the three I'd prefer.
Poles of Russian descent (mainly found in Eastern and Northern Poles) also use 'sky' instead of 'ski'. Believe it or not, this was true even before WWII.
Go attempt to browse the picture galleries on nasa.gov. That plugin will rear its ugly head even if you 'disabled' it. At least FF 3.5.3 puts up a big warning about it and allows you to cancel the plugin from loading/reinstalling itself.
You need to eradicate it completely from your system.
Personal Anecdote: Gave me an unpleasant surprise this morning when I was showing my wife recent pictures from Hubble, the Carina Nebula, and from the Swift project. The plugin is not listed in my Addons - Extensions list. I thought I had it 'disabled'. Learned the hard way that you have to eradicate it from your system.
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
You can get a really rough estimate from here PDF of Financial and Operational Results, Page 11, look in the Other segment, and page 12 under Wholesale and GEM solutions.
I say rough estimate, because it isn't broken down completely. You only get the totals for the entire segment, but that is where any government funding would be added in.
You can probably dig up more in the stuff found here as well.
The better question to ask is: "How much of my landline bill is being used to illegally cross-subsidize U-Verse/FiOS/DSL/Wireless?" (Seriously, there are numerous state telecoms laws across the country that disallow POTS income/revenue from being used on expansion of DSL/FiOS, etc, but the companies do it anyhow with seeming impunity).
Also, see here: http://www.teletruth.org/ and here: Bruce Kushnick: Nieman Watchdog Group
Does the citation I finally paid off last July count? I ran into someone who nailed their brakes in the middle of an intersection and THEN decided to turn on their turn signal. Accident occurred in March.
A) The accident was automatically my fault due to a stupid law in PA. Didn't matter that the guy was one car length in front of me and then nailed his brakes, while we were going 35mph. In an intersection (as in, literally in the middle).
B) I got cited for careless driving ($350) and not carrying valid identification ($500). Insurance, registration, and inspection were all valid. I then had to bring valid identification to the local municipal office within five days of receiving the citation or face an arrest warrant. I didn't have my wallet on me, as I generally leave it at home unless I am going shopping or on a trip.
Now I carry it on me at all times.
Now see, this is what I am talking about. Vendors like him are useful. Socially-retarded dogma from zealots is not.
Kudos.
BTW, this is why I am sticking with my WRT65GL v1.1 as a router, even though they have Wireless N stuff out. It works good enough for me, and I can modify the hardware and fiddle around with the firmware as much as I want.
As for your Sony products: Dude, they brick their own game consoles. It's Sony. This behavior is expected. The screwed up thing? Sony hardware is generally awesome. Then the media (Read: Sony Music/Sony Pictures) division of Sony gets involved and everything turns to shit. Honestly, Sony needs to divest itself of the media-arm completely. They'd be murdering Microsoft and Nintendo in the gaming market and Apple in the media player department right now if their stupid media division hadn't stuck their noses in and insisted on hare-brained DRM schemes.
If your assertion is true, then all he is accomplishing with that license and attitude is to ensure that nobody but scattered hobbyists, Stallman zealots or a smattering of indie developers would ever in their right mind touch anything released under it. Generally, those people aren't looked upon as being very 'serious' in the business world anyhow. In the case of Stallman zealots, it's related to 'mentally unbalanced', as my former employer called them.
Proprietary code is useful, whether Stallman likes it or not. I buy games. They run proprietary code. Do I think I have the right to the source code for those games? No. I play them. I could give a damn if the code came bundled along and was in bright pink lettering on a green background. I just want the software to work when I go to use it. If that requires a patch now and then, and the developer decides not to release any more, I don't care. I find a suitable replacement and move on.
Operating systems or router firmware, would be nice to have the source for, but it really isn't a priority for -most- people. Generally by the time they start thinking about wanting to fix something, there's already a new version or hardware revision anyhow, and the old crap goes in the bin, and the shiny and new is un-boxed and installed.
There's reasons FOSS operating systems and FOSS in general have abysmal market share, and that type of attitude/mentality is one of them.
You have a ten character limit, as I am a VIP subscriber, and can verify this. Also, you may then purchase more character slots on top of the ten you already get.
I play on the Argonnessen server and go by Ghraal N'Talis (Lvl 7 Dwarf Rogue) and Malkavier DeSalle (Lvl 3 Drow Ranger/Rogue). Anyone from here playing on that server and want to group, just send me a PM in-game or mail me in-game to setup a time. I am not at Shroud-raid capability yet, but I can do all content up to level 10 areas, and frequently do Favor runs.
You didn't check flights into Albuquerque, NM, Taos, NM, or Pueblo, CO instead of Amarillo?
161 miles from Pueblo to Cimarron, 215 miles from Albuquerque, 54.3 miles from Taos.
You also could have gotten into Pueblo and Albuquerque especially, and taken regional/local flights to one of the several smaller airports in the area of Cimarron that are much, much closer than Amarillo. Flights into Taos are hit and miss from places like Chicago. Depends on the day of the week you're flying.
Just curious is all. Normally I go to Las Cruces, Roswell, and Alamogordo, so my flights are all into the El Paso/Fort Bliss area. I used to normally hop right over the border quick for some awesome burritos and whatnot in Juarez, but haven't been able to for the last couple of years due to the issues going on in the border areas. Great food, great music, friendly locals - crappy drug cartels/gangs (who btw, aren't local, and a good chunk of them aren't even Mexican). There were quite a few Americans living right over the border there as well, seeing as how several small bridges connect the two towns.
Dunno, but I know Walmart switched over to RHEL a few years ago for servers and using Fedora/CentOS for workstations.
Even their computerized applicant system is running a modified version of Fedora in many locations. It crashes quite a bit though, so that's how I found out - they run a Windows-based VB6 program via WINE.
I think in some of the newer stores, they've just swapped over to running a Win2k VM inside of VirtualBox or something on Linux and running the app that way.
In PA it can land you a $500 (before court costs and other assorted backdoor taxes) fine, along with a misdemeanor mark on your record. It depends on if the police officer feels like you deserve to get screwed or not.
Yes, but since the popularity in S. Korea relies on -LAN- play, not internet play... GG On Ur Phail Acti-Blizz.
nVidia had to compensate in the driver set for their 6800 cards for a design flaw in the card itself, which of course everyone and their mother cried "Cheaters!" over.
The design flaw was remedied in the 6900 Ultra series, which technically speaking about card performance, wasn't that much better than the 6800. The hardware just wasn't gimped anymore, so it could do in hardware what the 6800 was doing in software to compensate for nVidia's screwup.
This is true, and has also doomed SC2 to never being seriously played in South Korea. Or played at all in game tournaments, since those strictly forbid outside internet connections on the competition floor - outside connections now required due to SC2 being tied to the shitty Battle.NET system.
Unfortunately, you're screwed. Why do you think other nations are 'harmonizing' their copyright laws with the US?
WIPO treaties, and the treaties and mandatory conditions signed/applied when nations join other international trade groups and things like the IMF/World Bank have already buried your notion of thinking no other countries should adopt them.
Even China is starting to come around on this, and that nation hasn't taken copyright seriously, ever. My main worry for the Chinese people is that their government will start to employ their normal tactics of executing people or sending them to gulag reeducation camps instead of levying fines.
Google News is what is he's complaining about.
He doesn't mind the search links, the RSS feed, etc.
He's complaining that Google News is gathering the content from his News Corp properties using their Googlebot, and taking all of the advertising revenue because Google places their own paid ads on the pages instead of the News Corp ads that would appear from the originating sites.
This is the same issue/complaint that organizations like the AP and Reuters have with Google.
They yanked their distribution license, but they still get percentages of sales from Atari, who still sells them.
Atari only being the publisher, not the license-holder of the content, but, they do have the distribution rights.
My copy of Kaspersky Antivirus does much of what they are claiming:
Claims 1, 2, 4, 9-15, 17-20 for sure.
In fact, most AV software works in this manner, and has for years.