I wouldn't really think long before opening a.wri file. I must admit..wri doesn't have script etc. capability to start with.
I am sure most admins didn't set policies about.wri attachments like they did for.doc stuff either. It makes it a big threat since for most people, wri (or RTF) is basically styled text file, nothing else.
I'd recommend Abiword for "Wordpad" fans.http://www.abisource.com/download/ , it is not a "build from source" thing, it is tiny and comes with a installer. Of course, it is a full feature Word processor, not a crippled "Write".
MS figured people happily uses Write for their everyday stuff and even offices so they crippled it and shipped "Wordpad", the naming itself is like "This is like Notepad, use real Word for writing things".
Just install all of the plugins package, it does open and even save them.
MS is really serious about Patch Tuesday? E.g. if a hotfix to that issue found, will they wait until Tuesday to release it? They fixed that server service issue before, outside normal patching time, about weeks ago.
The real question is, how come Apple TextEdit.app which is there for years doesn't get such issue and MS Wordpad gets it? Or Kate? Gedit? I think it is the thing which confuses people.
I noticed Sun FINALLY puts a prefetcher and enables by default in latest Java/Win32 installation. They did it the right way too, no performance difference in system startup and no "disk eating", running in lowest priority.
How many years now? 10? More?
For years, I was wondering why the heck we extract gigantic ZIP files...
ps: I can speak as easily on "not effecting boot speed" since I installed it to MS VPC 7, emulating x86 on PPC G5:)
Also speaking of "native", signed Java applets can do amazing things, in binary. As you can see at http://housecall.antivirus.com/ (go with FF 2.x+). There you have a full feature AV scanner.
They keep re-inventing the wheel. Companies with too much money and time in their hands I guess. Another issue is Sun. Why wouldn't they advertise such use of Java? Even Vuze's (Azureus) Desktop Java? Of course people will keep thinking Java is that JVM 1.1 stupid text tricks and nothing else.
They must obey. Everything related to search and archiving better obey the robots.txt. Especially Archive.org type sites.
Do you know how many real life problems that kind of non obeying engines created and keeps creating? robots.txt is there for a reason, even at this site ( slashot.org/robots.txt )
IMHO Flash has its place, especially after Air and recent developments which makes me believe it is heading to be an open standard. Especially Flash Lite on mobile devices, if becomes free for manufacturers.
If we call it pointless what about the "me too" things like SilverLight and more recently, Java FX?
Especially the SilverLight developer makes Adobe look like an angel.
Phone home? Professional software right? The Photoshop which everyone pirates for example?
Adobe software have always checked for updates and these days which giving a pdf link became common and people finding amazing issues, they better check without "phoning home".
I mean the Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, Air type end user "player" stuff. They are way less invasive than lately introduced, OS X Admin (OS X root) running Google "updaters" buried in near all Google apps. At least Adobe Updater hits net, reads if there is updates and quits. It doesn't sit like a daemon/backdoor even after the Application installed. I don't hear too much bad feedback about it too.
About the pro software? It is up to their actual customers.I am not a Adobe Pro customer or plan to use their software. I can't side with the cracker types since they are the actual ones who makes Adobe Photoshop sort of "standard" instead of installing/running GIMP or other software and donating/buying them.
If I was on Windows/Linux and a FF 2 user, I would switch to another browser rather than being forced to upgrade.
They always forget the human factor. It is the human factor which gained them such popularity since at this point, whatever IE team does, it will be likely ignored by people who are _psychologically_ biased against them. Wasn't the forced updates that made people hate more from IE? Isn't it "update your IE or you will be haxored" threat makes people hatefully run windows update every freaking Tuesday?
Just don't make people "hate" you. It takes years and years to fix such a "bug" if even possible.
The answer would be running another browser (e.g. Opera, Safari, Konqueror) rather than running a very popular and yet insecure "abandoned" browser. There is already malware coded by blackhats for Firefox. Now imagine the lamers find a flaw in FF 2 which they know it won't be fixed. It is a very serious threat. 25% of users is very big deal. Way more big deal than entire Safari marketshare which Apple keeps fixing imaginary/ not exploited bugs.
I always wonder why not Seamonkey but... Anyway... People are so bugged about a mail client in browser it seems. Especially for corporate, Seamonkey is a great solution. It is in fact the real Mozilla you know. It just needs some more popularity.
In fact, one can even plug phishtank to a terminal browser, the entire API is open.
Also the famous FreeBSD portal:) Netcraft's professional alternative (compared to pure community) http://toolbar.netcraft.com/ Netcraft toolbar.
On Windows, there are way more advanced, payware solutions available which will even do heuristical analysis rather than a simple database comparison. They don't even care which browser or thing you clicked the link on.
It doesn't. As well as it requires OS X 10.4 (can be compared to XP) on OS X.
On the other hand, Opera current version which is happily ignored, flamed, trolled by some people here supports everything down to Windows 98 and OS X 10.2. It is not just a browser, it is an entire suite which can be easily called "Internet Operating System" or something.
It could be power of Trolltech Qt and massively portable code by Opera and also the way they do business.
Normally you would expect such "upgrade or be abandoned!" things from those evil closed source companies right?
"The User Profile Hive Cleanup service helps to ensure user sessions are completely terminated when a user logs off. System processes and applications occasionally maintain connections to registry keys in the user profile after a user logs off. In those cases the user session is prevented from completely ending. This can result in problems when using Roaming User Profiles in a server environment or when using locked profiles as implemented through the Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP."
On Windows 2000 you can benefit from this service if the application event log shows event id 1000 where the message text indicates that the profile is not unloading and that the error is "Access is denied". On Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 either event ids 1517 and 1524 indicate the same profile unload problem."
It is because your preferences are nothing special. No binary, flat, gigantic single stuff. They are plain XML tiny files. Your OS or FS doesn't really care about having 1400 files there (my number) or 10. Even if you left every single unused preference file, OS or apps shouldn't care. They don't even look at them.
I keep seeing full feature desktops used for MS Word, Open Office (clever ones) and mail and I have no clue why they don't buy a big machine, serve 4 desktops to super small (Even mac Mini) machine using it.
It is not a rocket science anymore. Even home users started to take advantage of local VNC.
I am saying even small companies having more than 3 desktops should be using Terminal like machines. It doesn't have to be some branded thing or total remote booting. A lightly configured small form factor PC (or Mac Mini if Apple drops price).
Perhaps IBM and their customers would be more happy with Lotus brand of software? Or perhaps there is something in Lotus line of products which OpenOffice yet doesn't offer?
I mean come on, Open Office guys even forgot to ship a PPC Binary for weeks only serving to "Mactel is here, upgrade already" trolls.
If I told you that I haven't yet seen a single Vista desktop on places I go? They are the first ones to jump to OS upgrades, small business, single machine etc. No testing etc. for them.
I also noticed they all turned off "Automatic Updates" because of that WGA junk. They started to rely on antivirus software and firewalls. A company which can't manage to convince them to upgrade (we got funny prices here) or make them so afraid to turn off security updates should be thing of the past if they don't do a radical change. A change that is so big to be compared to IBM in 90s.
IBM could be a thing of past if they didn't change from "Evil Big Blue" to what they are now.
No I am saying it is way more costly than $130. We, real Apple users cover its costs by buying Apple Macintosh hardware. That $130 is "upgrade" price. Pystar should be buying Mac Minis for example. Such "We are paying" excuse doesn't impress me at all, it is same as that Russian mp3 mob paying for radio play license and claiming they paid for it tricking users.
I am not overpaying for hardware. My business segment uses high end workstations and in high end, Apple costs the same or even cheaper if you subtract the Windows security software, maintenance costs. One hour of downtime could cost way more than a "overpriced" 8 core Xeon.
If I was a guy in mid 20s, American and I had smallest clue about computers, Apple would be the LAST company I would mess with.
Ask any Pro Apple developer or someone doing business with them. Their lawyers are plain evil. I bet even Steve Jobs himself is afraid of them. Apple knows this fact and questions how do they dare.
OS X will be doomed the day when it runs on generic, buggy on chip hardware like $10 NIC.
If I was any of previous, licensed Mac Clone makers, I would be seriously pissed about Pystar. They were some great machines, Pystar is a complete pirate who distributes software WE (Real Mac users) pay for.
First is MS Office (yes, true) and second is MS Office for MAC! MS makes huge money from OS X software sales. If you remember the best, optimistic market share of OS X is 10%...
Norton Antivirus at #3 of that list should be very alerting for a sane OS vendor BTW.
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I wouldn't really think long before opening a .wri file. I must admit. .wri doesn't have script etc. capability to start with.
I am sure most admins didn't set policies about .wri attachments like they did for .doc stuff either. It makes it a big threat since for most people, wri (or RTF) is basically styled text file, nothing else.
Textedit shouldn't trick by its name, it is a full feature document editor. It relies on system wide frameworks just like wordpad does.
I'd recommend Abiword for "Wordpad" fans.http://www.abisource.com/download/ , it is not a "build from source" thing, it is tiny and comes with a installer. Of course, it is a full feature Word processor, not a crippled "Write".
MS figured people happily uses Write for their everyday stuff and even offices so they crippled it and shipped "Wordpad", the naming itself is like "This is like Notepad, use real Word for writing things".
Just install all of the plugins package, it does open and even save them.
MS is really serious about Patch Tuesday? E.g. if a hotfix to that issue found, will they wait until Tuesday to release it? They fixed that server service issue before, outside normal patching time, about weeks ago.
The real question is, how come Apple TextEdit.app which is there for years doesn't get such issue and MS Wordpad gets it? Or Kate? Gedit? I think it is the thing which confuses people.
Will you pay MS Office price to people who doesn't have it installed?
I noticed Sun FINALLY puts a prefetcher and enables by default in latest Java/Win32 installation. They did it the right way too, no performance difference in system startup and no "disk eating", running in lowest priority.
How many years now? 10? More?
For years, I was wondering why the heck we extract gigantic ZIP files...
ps: I can speak as easily on "not effecting boot speed" since I installed it to MS VPC 7, emulating x86 on PPC G5 :)
They forgot about ActiveX too? :)
Also speaking of "native", signed Java applets can do amazing things, in binary. As you can see at http://housecall.antivirus.com/ (go with FF 2.x+). There you have a full feature AV scanner.
They keep re-inventing the wheel. Companies with too much money and time in their hands I guess. Another issue is Sun. Why wouldn't they advertise such use of Java? Even Vuze's (Azureus) Desktop Java? Of course people will keep thinking Java is that JVM 1.1 stupid text tricks and nothing else.
They must obey. Everything related to search and archiving better obey the robots.txt. Especially Archive.org type sites.
Do you know how many real life problems that kind of non obeying engines created and keeps creating? robots.txt is there for a reason, even at this site ( slashot.org/robots.txt )
IMHO Flash has its place, especially after Air and recent developments which makes me believe it is heading to be an open standard. Especially Flash Lite on mobile devices, if becomes free for manufacturers.
If we call it pointless what about the "me too" things like SilverLight and more recently, Java FX?
Especially the SilverLight developer makes Adobe look like an angel.
Phone home? Professional software right? The Photoshop which everyone pirates for example?
Adobe software have always checked for updates and these days which giving a pdf link became common and people finding amazing issues, they better check without "phoning home".
I mean the Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, Air type end user "player" stuff. They are way less invasive than lately introduced, OS X Admin (OS X root) running Google "updaters" buried in near all Google apps. At least Adobe Updater hits net, reads if there is updates and quits. It doesn't sit like a daemon/backdoor even after the Application installed. I don't hear too much bad feedback about it too.
About the pro software? It is up to their actual customers.I am not a Adobe Pro customer or plan to use their software. I can't side with the cracker types since they are the actual ones who makes Adobe Photoshop sort of "standard" instead of installing/running GIMP or other software and donating/buying them.
If I was on Windows/Linux and a FF 2 user, I would switch to another browser rather than being forced to upgrade.
They always forget the human factor. It is the human factor which gained them such popularity since at this point, whatever IE team does, it will be likely ignored by people who are _psychologically_ biased against them. Wasn't the forced updates that made people hate more from IE? Isn't it "update your IE or you will be haxored" threat makes people hatefully run windows update every freaking Tuesday?
Just don't make people "hate" you. It takes years and years to fix such a "bug" if even possible.
The answer would be running another browser (e.g. Opera, Safari, Konqueror) rather than running a very popular and yet insecure "abandoned" browser. There is already malware coded by blackhats for Firefox. Now imagine the lamers find a flaw in FF 2 which they know it won't be fixed. It is a very serious threat. 25% of users is very big deal. Way more big deal than entire Safari marketshare which Apple keeps fixing imaginary/ not exploited bugs.
I always wonder why not Seamonkey but... Anyway... People are so bugged about a mail client in browser it seems. Especially for corporate, Seamonkey is a great solution. It is in fact the real Mozilla you know. It just needs some more popularity.
It is amazing that people started to think "It is Google or nobody else".
Here, OpenDNS operated, community powered and completely open/free: http://phishtanksitechecker.com/ http://www.phishtank.com/ (supports down to FF 1! and Seamonkey)
In fact, one can even plug phishtank to a terminal browser, the entire API is open.
Also the famous FreeBSD portal :) Netcraft's professional alternative (compared to pure community) http://toolbar.netcraft.com/ Netcraft toolbar.
On Windows, there are way more advanced, payware solutions available which will even do heuristical analysis rather than a simple database comparison. They don't even care which browser or thing you clicked the link on.
It doesn't. As well as it requires OS X 10.4 (can be compared to XP) on OS X.
On the other hand, Opera current version which is happily ignored, flamed, trolled by some people here supports everything down to Windows 98 and OS X 10.2. It is not just a browser, it is an entire suite which can be easily called "Internet Operating System" or something.
It could be power of Trolltech Qt and massively portable code by Opera and also the way they do business.
Normally you would expect such "upgrade or be abandoned!" things from those evil closed source companies right?
Do you see anyone thanking for Sun's commitment to open source, the huge support of them, opening up entire Java etc?
I think IBM shares the same fate for years.
It is worse than that.
Please check this tool and see what it does. Also such a thing should be part of OS, not "Genuine Validated Windows" !
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1B286E6D-8912-4E18-B570-42470E2F3582&displaylang=en
"The User Profile Hive Cleanup service helps to ensure user sessions are completely terminated when a user logs off. System processes and applications occasionally maintain connections to registry keys in the user profile after a user logs off. In those cases the user session is prevented from completely ending. This can result in problems when using Roaming User Profiles in a server environment or when using locked profiles as implemented through the Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP."
On Windows 2000 you can benefit from this service if the application event log shows event id 1000 where the message text indicates that the profile is not unloading and that the error is "Access is denied". On Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 either event ids 1517 and 1524 indicate the same profile unload problem."
It is because your preferences are nothing special. No binary, flat, gigantic single stuff. They are plain XML tiny files. Your OS or FS doesn't really care about having 1400 files there (my number) or 10. Even if you left every single unused preference file, OS or apps shouldn't care. They don't even look at them.
I keep seeing full feature desktops used for MS Word, Open Office (clever ones) and mail and I have no clue why they don't buy a big machine, serve 4 desktops to super small (Even mac Mini) machine using it.
It is not a rocket science anymore. Even home users started to take advantage of local VNC.
I am saying even small companies having more than 3 desktops should be using Terminal like machines. It doesn't have to be some branded thing or total remote booting. A lightly configured small form factor PC (or Mac Mini if Apple drops price).
Perhaps IBM and their customers would be more happy with Lotus brand of software? Or perhaps there is something in Lotus line of products which OpenOffice yet doesn't offer?
I mean come on, Open Office guys even forgot to ship a PPC Binary for weeks only serving to "Mactel is here, upgrade already" trolls.
If I told you that I haven't yet seen a single Vista desktop on places I go? They are the first ones to jump to OS upgrades, small business, single machine etc. No testing etc. for them.
I also noticed they all turned off "Automatic Updates" because of that WGA junk. They started to rely on antivirus software and firewalls. A company which can't manage to convince them to upgrade (we got funny prices here) or make them so afraid to turn off security updates should be thing of the past if they don't do a radical change. A change that is so big to be compared to IBM in 90s.
IBM could be a thing of past if they didn't change from "Evil Big Blue" to what they are now.
No I am saying it is way more costly than $130. We, real Apple users cover its costs by buying Apple Macintosh hardware. That $130 is "upgrade" price. Pystar should be buying Mac Minis for example. Such "We are paying" excuse doesn't impress me at all, it is same as that Russian mp3 mob paying for radio play license and claiming they paid for it tricking users.
I am not overpaying for hardware. My business segment uses high end workstations and in high end, Apple costs the same or even cheaper if you subtract the Windows security software, maintenance costs. One hour of downtime could cost way more than a "overpriced" 8 core Xeon.
If I was a guy in mid 20s, American and I had smallest clue about computers, Apple would be the LAST company I would mess with.
Ask any Pro Apple developer or someone doing business with them. Their lawyers are plain evil. I bet even Steve Jobs himself is afraid of them. Apple knows this fact and questions how do they dare.
OS X will be doomed the day when it runs on generic, buggy on chip hardware like $10 NIC.
If I was any of previous, licensed Mac Clone makers, I would be seriously pissed about Pystar. They were some great machines, Pystar is a complete pirate who distributes software WE (Real Mac users) pay for.
No, Leopard is not a 130 bucks worth OS.
Look to Amazon software top 10, you will be really surprised.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/software/ref=sv_sw_0
First is MS Office (yes, true) and second is MS Office for MAC! MS makes huge money from OS X software sales. If you remember the best, optimistic market share of OS X is 10%...
Norton Antivirus at #3 of that list should be very alerting for a sane OS vendor BTW.
ps:it is a dynamic list so it may change