I know this may seem strange, but can I just say: full credit to the web designers at Qwest for their work on that page. It was the most accessible web page I have seen as well. I couldn't find a single fault.
They had clear URLs that reveal site structure, all images have relevant ALT tags, proper use of HTML entities (not extended characters), abbreviation expansions.
Top marks.
Now we return you to your regularly scheduled anti-MSN flaming...
While I'd love to see 100% of all bugs stomped before a product marked STABLE is shipped, I don't think it'll happen.
Some vendors ship more bugs than others *coff*.ida buffer overflow*coff* and that should not be tolerated.
This is from the article:
There are, of course, other reasons for all the bugs. IT professionals point to a whole litany of causes: bloatware, with all its useless bells and whistles; programmers working in isolation, blissfully ignorant of how people will ultimately be using their software on a daily basis; reusable components that may already contain bugs; an absence of agreed upon professional standards; and developers who take shortcuts to meet deadlines during development.
A lot of Slashdot people are such alarmists about this sort of thing, and yet here it is suggested. Here should be a fairly comprehensive list of suggestions as to why it isn't a good idea:
Last time I had some passport photos taken it was done on a Polaroid camera. Couple of minutes later I had four glossy pictures of my shining face - all alike.
Question: What will replace that?
Sure on our drivers license they take a photo with a digital camera thingy and send it off for printing and laminating onto plastic, but what about tertiary institutes which want you to post them a photo of yourself? Or when you post off to apply for your passport? And the fine print specifically states that it must not be printed out from a computer (ie, digital camera + Epson Stylus)
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Someone else had a good list, but here is what I'd recommend:
Looks way flasher (skinnable! most people go after glitz, and Mozilla sure has that - more from themes.org too)
PNG Alpha support (IE's support is bollocks, have a look at the pictures on libpng.org for examples)
Zap the popups! (just add the setting to your prefs.js - needs a bit of tech savvy - but that's a big bonus)
Make adverts not load (right-click on an advert, "Block images from this site")
QA isn't what it used to be. It should have been sent back for fixing. Or perhaps they need Ian Hixie to keep them in check and have it ship when it is worthy of being called a program.
Come on, sure there is a limit on time, but what is wrong with leaving a cake in the oven until it has finished cooking?
ABI Word uses XML for its storage, however attempting to read it in anything (Mozilla, StarOffice 5.2) caused an embedded picture (stored as CDATA in a 'L' tag) to be displayed in nice MIME encoding below the document.
I registered a long time ago so I can't remember the questions, but with the registration they can get a good idea of what their users are like, and thus the financial feasibility of their product.
If everyone is a greasy haired, penniless bum, then they won't put quite so many workers on the job as if everyone had a 10K+ seat corporate LAN to install StarOFfice on and was willing to pay.
I do agree. Its nice to have a package dependant HOWTO, but that can be found in the man pages (hopefully). I can find all I want at ezmlm.org, but it doesn't tell me how to help keeping the people on the list happy.
Force organisations to use their full name? Just imagine the chaos that would cause! smith-klein-beecha--, aol-time-warner-universal-bmg-bmi-cmc-chordant-wor d--, oh man. It's hard enough spelling barnesandnoble.com, or saurcefroge.net / soucreforeg.net / etc. Hand me the sf.net / bn.com please!
For a registar that has its head attached correctly, check out ES-NIC, the Spanish (.es) registrar. I don't know if the English translation is yet available, but when I asked for it they emailled me a copy within a day. Good service!
True, calls to the call center cost the ISP money. But so does rampant Microsoft worms.
What's more, one local ISP that offers colocation clearly states that if your machine goes and messes up the network (eg, it gets owned by Nimda and starts infecting the neighbours) you will be paying the ISP's engineer's paycheck for their trouble to disconnect you, as well as for all the havoc you caused.
You cause crap. You clean it up.
Pulling the plug is the easiest way to solve mad IIS servers.
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I 'spose after Windows improves its, uh, movement speed, you'll have major trouble with the plumbing.
Or wasn't that what you meant by block?
I know this may seem strange, but can I just say: full credit to the web designers at Qwest for their work on that page. It was the most accessible web page I have seen as well. I couldn't find a single fault.
They had clear URLs that reveal site structure, all images have relevant ALT tags, proper use of HTML entities (not extended characters), abbreviation expansions.
Top marks.
Now we return you to your regularly scheduled anti-MSN flaming ...
While I'd love to see 100% of all bugs stomped before a product marked STABLE is shipped, I don't think it'll happen.
Some vendors ship more bugs than others *coff*.ida buffer overflow*coff* and that should not be tolerated.
This is from the article:
A lot of Slashdot people are such alarmists about this sort of thing, and yet here it is suggested. Here should be a fairly comprehensive list of suggestions as to why it isn't a good idea:
So ... no. :-(
I too couldn't believe it when I saw that comment. If they are doing a good job then they deserve to be paid.
And unless you are genuinely penniless or you are a scrooge, then you can keep your stinking money to yourself. Otherwise send 'em some money!
Last time I had some passport photos taken it was done on a Polaroid camera. Couple of minutes later I had four glossy pictures of my shining face - all alike.
Question: What will replace that?
Sure on our drivers license they take a photo with a digital camera thingy and send it off for printing and laminating onto plastic, but what about tertiary institutes which want you to post them a photo of yourself? Or when you post off to apply for your passport? And the fine print specifically states that it must not be printed out from a computer (ie, digital camera + Epson Stylus)
Someone else had a good list, but here is what I'd recommend:
Most Windows users should be interested in those.
What does the GPL have to do wtith price?
"GNU Pricing Levels"
From the article ... 1800+ = 1500MHZ.
With judicious use of the RDTSC instruction, or "cat /proc/cpuinfo" will tell you all you need to know.
I don't know what you are using, but it's fairly easy to shut the machine down without running a root shell and three commands.
Just click the Gnome foot, hit "Shutdown", choose "Halt", and if prompted enter your password.
Presto!
It wasn't the first. distributed.net got cracking (!) in 1997, whereas SETI didn't start accepting clients until May 1999.
And that's why I'm with d.net
Excellent!
If it is so important to you, go to Bugzilla, find the appropriate bug, and vote for it!
All nice to whinge and moan, but how about you go out of your way and add your vote to encourage getting it fixed.
And yes, I use Mozilla TEXTAREAs a heck of a lot and they could be better. 0.9.4 was a big improvement over the ones in 0.9.2 anyway.
PS, IE5 also has the "press down at the bottom of the textarea to create a hidden EOL".
I did a default install of OpenBSD 2.7, and the RPC daemon was listening.
BTW, RPC daemon is for NFS mounts.
QA isn't what it used to be. It should have been sent back for fixing. Or perhaps they need Ian Hixie to keep them in check and have it ship when it is worthy of being called a program.
Come on, sure there is a limit on time, but what is wrong with leaving a cake in the oven until it has finished cooking?
Maybe someone can add a couple of 'sleep(2)' calls to Apache in a few important places.
Then we can tell our boss we need another boxen to run Apache on.
My question: can StarWriter read ABI Word files?
ABI Word uses XML for its storage, however attempting to read it in anything (Mozilla, StarOffice 5.2) caused an embedded picture (stored as CDATA in a 'L' tag) to be displayed in nice MIME encoding below the document.
I registered a long time ago so I can't remember the questions, but with the registration they can get a good idea of what their users are like, and thus the financial feasibility of their product.
If everyone is a greasy haired, penniless bum, then they won't put quite so many workers on the job as if everyone had a 10K+ seat corporate LAN to install StarOFfice on and was willing to pay.
I do agree. Its nice to have a package dependant HOWTO, but that can be found in the man pages (hopefully). I can find all I want at ezmlm.org, but it doesn't tell me how to help keeping the people on the list happy.
They need to teach you:
Not how to give sendmail a -HUP.
Rodent of Unusual Size, one of the Apache developers, added his support to what Alan said. Follow the link in the story, then look for RoUS's reply.
Force organisations to use their full name? Just imagine the chaos that would cause! smith-klein-beecha--, aol-time-warner-universal-bmg-bmi-cmc-chordant-wor d--, oh man. It's hard enough spelling barnesandnoble.com, or saurcefroge.net / soucreforeg.net / etc. Hand me the sf.net / bn.com please!
For a registar that has its head attached correctly, check out ES-NIC, the Spanish (.es) registrar. I don't know if the English translation is yet available, but when I asked for it they emailled me a copy within a day. Good service!
Don't forget Mappa.mundi, they've been selecting maps and running features on them for a long while. A good selection to choose from.
Did they mention the answer? Warriors of the net is a 12 minute animated introduction to the travels of a packet across the 'net.
May I highlight the word "introduction".
If they are that dumb, then they deserve it.
True, calls to the call center cost the ISP money. But so does rampant Microsoft worms.
What's more, one local ISP that offers colocation clearly states that if your machine goes and messes up the network (eg, it gets owned by Nimda and starts infecting the neighbours) you will be paying the ISP's engineer's paycheck for their trouble to disconnect you, as well as for all the havoc you caused.
You cause crap. You clean it up.
Pulling the plug is the easiest way to solve mad IIS servers.