Save yourself some trouble and use ZipGenius. It does 7-zip and other formats, integrates into the Explorer context menu if you choose, and it's freeware (even for corporate use). Downside is that it's not open-source, and the GUI could be improved a little.
NAT should not be relied upon as a security measure like this. If you do, then you become lazy and don't keep other security up to date, and then some uneducated employee checks their Yahoo! mail and downloads a worm... bye-bye network.
Security always should be applied fully to each machine.
I don't intend to use it for my chief browser, but since there's still such a cult following for it, I figure there must be some things they're doing right. So I'll just try it out, and maybe extend some features into Firefox to end the flame war once and for all.
Plus, I want to test my web pages and make sure they look right in it, even though I doubt I'll ever get an Opera user visiting my site. Calm down, just basing it on statistics - if I only get about 70 visitors a month, and 2% of all people use Opera...
I also use GAIM on Windows, but my reasons are because the AOL official client pissed me off, and Trillian (while pretty) had certain little things that I didn't want to put up with in my daily IM client.
Anyway, I looked into the Summer of Code, and one of the projects I was thinking about submitting a proposal for was UPnP (I did submit a proposal, but not for this). From what I read in the project description, UPnP is a protocol that makes communication a lot simpler when communicating across NATs. And guess what! This is exactly what is holding up the file transfers, direct connect functionality, and presumably A/V chat.
Looking just now at the blogs for the participants - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/summerofcode/planet/ - it *seems* that file transfer is working, at least through the Oscar protocol, but I can't test it since I'm at work. Someone else want to try it?
You should have looked through the replies. I did, and it was posted under the "Reg Free" heading (granted, you did have to dig down one level to find the accurate one).
Please, if you can find any sort of submission method to the PTO, point this out to them.
Come to think of it, if they haven't made some sort of link you could use to help them find prior art, it seems like it would be a really great way to go. We'd just have to get some people in there to mod the posts up or down...
I recall an article in my local newspaper about four years ago that the USPTO had been cut off from public funding, and was now entirely dependent on patent application fees for its operating budget. Therefore, it is the fact that the patent office is not receiving government funding that it has to approve so many patents, thereby convincing companies to keep funding them.
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IMHO, vim needs "Don't Panic" written on the cover, because my first experience with it went something like this:
"AAAAAHHH HOW DO I QUIT WITHOUT SAVING?????"
This is almost as flawed as running a survey on Slashdot and concluding that 91% of the American population have never had a girlfriend.
... How do we start a poll?
Ok, let's take your hypothesis and put it through the scientific method!
Save yourself some trouble and use ZipGenius. It does 7-zip and other formats, integrates into the Explorer context menu if you choose, and it's freeware (even for corporate use). Downside is that it's not open-source, and the GUI could be improved a little.
NAT should not be relied upon as a security measure like this. If you do, then you become lazy and don't keep other security up to date, and then some uneducated employee checks their Yahoo! mail and downloads a worm... bye-bye network.
Security always should be applied fully to each machine.
It's like HTML 3.1 all over again! C S f***ing S!
"That's the de jure explanation"
/nitpick
I think you mean du jour.
I don't intend to use it for my chief browser, but since there's still such a cult following for it, I figure there must be some things they're doing right. So I'll just try it out, and maybe extend some features into Firefox to end the flame war once and for all.
Plus, I want to test my web pages and make sure they look right in it, even though I doubt I'll ever get an Opera user visiting my site. Calm down, just basing it on statistics - if I only get about 70 visitors a month, and 2% of all people use Opera...
I also use GAIM on Windows, but my reasons are because the AOL official client pissed me off, and Trillian (while pretty) had certain little things that I didn't want to put up with in my daily IM client.
Anyway, I looked into the Summer of Code, and one of the projects I was thinking about submitting a proposal for was UPnP (I did submit a proposal, but not for this). From what I read in the project description, UPnP is a protocol that makes communication a lot simpler when communicating across NATs. And guess what! This is exactly what is holding up the file transfers, direct connect functionality, and presumably A/V chat.
Looking just now at the blogs for the participants - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/summerofcode/planet/ - it *seems* that file transfer is working, at least through the Oscar protocol, but I can't test it since I'm at work. Someone else want to try it?
You should have looked through the replies. I did, and it was posted under the "Reg Free" heading (granted, you did have to dig down one level to find the accurate one).
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For your convenience.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/business/yourmo
Please, if you can find any sort of submission method to the PTO, point this out to them.
Come to think of it, if they haven't made some sort of link you could use to help them find prior art, it seems like it would be a really great way to go. We'd just have to get some people in there to mod the posts up or down...
"...working overtime on the public dime..."
I recall an article in my local newspaper about four years ago that the USPTO had been cut off from public funding, and was now entirely dependent on patent application fees for its operating budget. Therefore, it is the fact that the patent office is not receiving government funding that it has to approve so many patents, thereby convincing companies to keep funding them.