It is funny how many people run anti virus and anti spyware software to clean up the mess while viruses and spyware might be still running on their machines.
The only correct procedure is to boot from CD (or other read-only media (or perhaps move the disk to another machine and being very careful not to run anything from it).
Then you verify hashes of all non-data files with known good values (easier said than done).
Handling messy file formats where code and data are mixed (word, excel and to some extent html) is problematic too.
Of course, an OS that can be actually booted from CD and has a real packaging system makes this much easier.
>The whole point of pdf is to make your document look good and once your document looks good, to make it look the same on every machine it's displayed on
Except that they only look "good" when printer and just suck for on-screen viewing.
>I hear this every time OS/2 is mentioned, but I used the Workplace Shell and wasn't impressed. My memory is hazy, but I think there was some really stupid stuff - you had to select icons with the left mouse button then drag them with the right, or something. Awkward and counterintuitive.
Funny you should mention that.
For me that is the best feature ever and any desktop not supporting it will totally suck in comparison to the point I mostly don't use the gui file managers or any drag and drop.
(one reason I'm not getting a Mac any time soon).
The above binding has two major advantages: very easy selection of multiple icons and the fact that you cannot accidentaly perform a drag and drop by double clicking with the left button which happens sometimes in Windows (usually in the tree view and creates a big mess when the admin is browsing the windows or program_files directory.
Sound under linux requires a card that supports hardware mixing of multiple audio streams (SoundBlaster Live or newer is the only one that comes to mind and that I have (1 live, 1 audigy)).
Anything else is mostly unusable because of the lack of kernel (== always works) mixer.
User space mixers are a joke (or at least were last I tried them) because of incompatibility.
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Never write things like this:
rm -rf $installdir/*
I can remember two right now:
1. In dos days, some broken assembly code rewrote portions of DOS and when exited promptly corrupted the disk (or was it floppy).
2. More recently, insterted IDE cable only partially into the disk on one side. Linux actually booted and corrupted all files accessed during boot.
>Except, it's all poorly commented source code.
This is good unless you want to read another 10 copies of Uncle Tom's Cabin that are inconsistent with the first 10.
In other words, Warp 10.
Earth... Since Earth is a sphere, how do any spacecraft leave Earth for the outside anyway?
Seriously, someone asked me this once.
You mean paper-real-estate. PDFs are not really useful except for printing.
What the hell are the 4CDs now for?
>I'd really like to be able to "yum install quake3" on Fedora.
Seconded. But we'll see how useful the newly released code is without punkbuster.
Not really good enough. It only works after (windows) OS has booted.
I would really prefer a soldering fix.
I have been considering making some kind of circuit connecting the f-lock led and the key contact.
>The claim states that the text stream is read in, analyzed, and visually marked on screen (NOT in the document stream!) in real time.
What if the document stream = xhtml and display:
xslt(xml) == html.
I hope the keyboard doesn't have the f**ing f-lock.
Whoever invented disabling the function keys by default on new keyboard should just die.
The only reason I'm not buying a keyboard from www.pckeyboard.com is due to lack of USB support (I find most converters are problematic).
Dune 2
Wing Commander 2 and some others
Quake 2+
Doom 2+
Now I'll be able to actually download the ms anti spyware tools that my MS infected friends ask me for.
Normally I'd just give them adware and other more available tools.
LOL
It is funny how many people run anti virus and anti spyware software to clean up the mess while viruses and spyware might be still running on their machines.
The only correct procedure is to boot from CD (or other read-only media (or perhaps move the disk to another machine and being very careful not to run anything from it).
Then you verify hashes of all non-data files with known good values (easier said than done).
Handling messy file formats where code and data are mixed (word, excel and to some extent html) is problematic too.
Of course, an OS that can be actually booted from CD and has a real packaging system makes this much easier.
Mouse pointer moves?
This reinforces the parent post.
Moving the user's mouse pointer is bad for usability.
> it is also true that in this situation you can just turn off the windows swap file and everything will stay in memory and run very well.
I do this all the time (it makes windows tolerably fast). You do get a strange "out of memory" warning when the memory is about half full.
It might be memory overcommit which is a problem under Linux too.
Oh no! The timeline has been corrupted!
>The whole point of pdf is to make your document look good and once your document looks good, to make it look the same on every machine it's displayed on
Except that they only look "good" when printer and just suck for on-screen viewing.
>I hear this every time OS/2 is mentioned, but I used the Workplace Shell and wasn't impressed. My memory is hazy, but I think there was some really stupid stuff - you had to select icons with the left mouse button then drag them with the right, or something. Awkward and counterintuitive.
Funny you should mention that.
For me that is the best feature ever and any desktop not supporting it will totally suck in comparison to the point I mostly don't use the gui file managers or any drag and drop.
(one reason I'm not getting a Mac any time soon).
The above binding has two major advantages: very easy selection of multiple icons and the fact that you cannot accidentaly perform a drag and drop by double clicking with the left button which happens sometimes in Windows (usually in the tree view and creates a big mess when the admin is browsing the windows or program_files directory.
ASP.NET (in .net 1.1) already doesn't work without javascript more or less.
Seconded.
I tolerate banners and even click on the sometimes.
But popups and some annoying flash ads (that zoom over content and can't be closed) will get blocked without mercy. Same goes for CPU wasting ads.
Sound under linux requires a card that supports
hardware mixing of multiple audio streams
(SoundBlaster Live or newer is the only one that comes to mind and that I have (1 live, 1 audigy)).
Anything else is mostly unusable because of the lack of kernel (== always works) mixer.
User space mixers are a joke (or at least were last I tried them) because of incompatibility.
Agreed. The only music I'm buying online is WAV.
And it had better not have protection against ripping.
No, no, no. The small one is for Athlon 64, the big one is for Pentium 4 D.
>The possibilities are endless, but Kirk must be involved. Kirk IS Star Trek. Nobody can take his place.
I agree. Star Trek should have ended 10 minutes into Generations when Kirk died.
Mozilla / XUL is a promising candidate.