I think you missed the point. Persona is to allow a website to add a sign in feature for users who WANT to sign in.. for example, to save their preferences for the site or have an identity... without the hassle of having users create an account just for your site. The idea definitely isn't new, this is just Mozilla's own take on it.
The guest account is the way to go. Anything that infects the PC is unlikely to make it past the guest account as long as you keep your Windows Updates up-to-date. I would also recommend going the extra step and setting ACLs to deny usage of Internet Explorer. Install Firefox and/or Chrome.
I assume developers will have to pay extra for use of this feature, ensuring ll the large companies get to slap it on all their processes and no one else does.
I mean, ensuring the feature is used responsibly and not abused.
A lot of plugins are only built for 32-bit browsers. It is a lot more work to get 32-bit plugins working in a 64-bit browser than in a 32-bit browser. Plus, there is no real advantage to using a 64-bit browser unless you want it to use more than 2gb of memory, and I thought one of the common complaints was that Firefox uses too much memory?
I used to use Live Bookmarks but they are simply too cumbersome and inconvenient. You have to check every feed separately, manually for updates. That is barely a step up from manually checking the websites you got the feeds from!
With an RSS feed reader, you can see all unread messages at once and just page through them. So if I have 100 feeds and only 5 of them have new items, I am just looking at 5 new items in a single list. It's stupidly convenient. Plus simple features like being able to "star" items to save them for later or e-mail/share items is useful.
Chrome will remain running if you have apps installed that want to run in the background. There is an option in Settings to suppress this behavior. On Windows Chrome keeps a notification icon showing so you can shut down the browser and force these background apps to quit. Other platforms probably have something similar.
Chrome also keeps a process running for Cloud Print, if you have it enabled.
The 5GB is probably a badly-behaving app/extension. Check Chrome's Task Manager to figure out which one.
And why would the school believe the "bomber" was telling the truth? How do you know that they DIDN'T search the gym first, clear it, and then realize that since it was clear it was the perfect place to evacuate everyone to while they searched elsewhere? Makes sense to me.
Most sites will work fine, but you'll have to add an exception for disqus.com if you want to post comments on sites that use disqus. Latest version of it should detect and warn you to enable coolies though.
We have a choice between two options. One, leaving your SSID on, provides no security. Turning it off provides low security through obscurity. Security through obscurity alone is bad, yes, but in this case it's better than nothing AND security through obscurity is OK as long as you use it in conjunction with other, non-obscure-based methods of security.
Start8Menu was the best "free" alternative for me. Stardock's Start8 is the best trialware one that I saw.
I tried Classic Shell but it aims to emulate the classic Windows 2000 and earlier Start Menu. I much prefer the more modern Vista/7 Start Menu, which my top two choices provide.
I can confirm that Opera was the fastest browser before Chrome was on the scene. I visited my aunt once and was trying to use her ancient PC with my thumb drive... Firefox took forever to start, but Opera was instant and browsing was nice and snappy.
Still nothing compared to how Chrome would perform later, at least on other PCs, but still.
I had the RC for a while. If you absolutely hate Metro you can download tools to can it and give yourself a reasonable replacement Start Menu, though the best ones cost money. StartMenu8 was the best of the free ones IIRC, while Stardock's Start8 was the best of the best but is like $20 or $30 or something like that. Then it's just like using Windows 7 with some minor enhancements (it doesn't get a lot of love but I love the Ribbon UI, and now Explorer has it).
Steam does allow you to buy and sell used microtransaction items from TF2 and DotA. Maybe in the future we'll be able to trade games there as well. It's not much of a stretch... publishers may not like it and may refuse to allow it initially but Valve can always lead the way by allowing their games to go up there, as usual. Then they convince a few of the big publishers to follow suit and suddenly it's the publishers that DON'T allow it that stand out.
This is the conclusion I came to after reading the article. Not only do you save tons on licencing fees or potential legal headaches, but you're also free of the questionable ethics of advertising real firearms in the game.
There are phone numbers you can dial that result in an addition to your bill and money being paid to the guy you dialed... 1-900 numbers or whatever in the US.
The idea of making malware to forcibly call these numbers to the profit of the number owner is not new.
Actually Windows 8 is an improvement from Windows 7. Apparently printer drivers take up a rather large chunk of space, and in Windows 8 they reworked the way printing works a bit and were able to get away with a lot less space used by drivers.
Or something like that. At any rate I dual booted Windows 7 and Windows 8 RC and I can personally confirm 8 has a significantly smaller footprint than 7.
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I think you missed the point. Persona is to allow a website to add a sign in feature for users who WANT to sign in.. for example, to save their preferences for the site or have an identity... without the hassle of having users create an account just for your site. The idea definitely isn't new, this is just Mozilla's own take on it.
Dihydrogen Monoxide is no laughing matter.
The guest account is the way to go. Anything that infects the PC is unlikely to make it past the guest account as long as you keep your Windows Updates up-to-date. I would also recommend going the extra step and setting ACLs to deny usage of Internet Explorer. Install Firefox and/or Chrome.
I prefer to run Linux on Chrome, myself.
Steam for Linux only formerly supports Ubuntu 12.04 IIRC. So it makes sense they would base their own distro off of that.
I assume developers will have to pay extra for use of this feature, ensuring ll the large companies get to slap it on all their processes and no one else does.
I mean, ensuring the feature is used responsibly and not abused.
A lot of plugins are only built for 32-bit browsers. It is a lot more work to get 32-bit plugins working in a 64-bit browser than in a 32-bit browser. Plus, there is no real advantage to using a 64-bit browser unless you want it to use more than 2gb of memory, and I thought one of the common complaints was that Firefox uses too much memory?
I'm not sure what you think the big deal is.
Looks like Chrome is looking to do this as well.
I used to use Live Bookmarks but they are simply too cumbersome and inconvenient. You have to check every feed separately, manually for updates. That is barely a step up from manually checking the websites you got the feeds from!
With an RSS feed reader, you can see all unread messages at once and just page through them. So if I have 100 feeds and only 5 of them have new items, I am just looking at 5 new items in a single list. It's stupidly convenient. Plus simple features like being able to "star" items to save them for later or e-mail/share items is useful.
Chrome will remain running if you have apps installed that want to run in the background. There is an option in Settings to suppress this behavior. On Windows Chrome keeps a notification icon showing so you can shut down the browser and force these background apps to quit. Other platforms probably have something similar.
Chrome also keeps a process running for Cloud Print, if you have it enabled.
The 5GB is probably a badly-behaving app/extension. Check Chrome's Task Manager to figure out which one.
And why would the school believe the "bomber" was telling the truth? How do you know that they DIDN'T search the gym first, clear it, and then realize that since it was clear it was the perfect place to evacuate everyone to while they searched elsewhere? Makes sense to me.
Most sites will work fine, but you'll have to add an exception for disqus.com if you want to post comments on sites that use disqus. Latest version of it should detect and warn you to enable coolies though.
We have a choice between two options. One, leaving your SSID on, provides no security. Turning it off provides low security through obscurity. Security through obscurity alone is bad, yes, but in this case it's better than nothing AND security through obscurity is OK as long as you use it in conjunction with other, non-obscure-based methods of security.
Start8Menu was the best "free" alternative for me. Stardock's Start8 is the best trialware one that I saw.
I tried Classic Shell but it aims to emulate the classic Windows 2000 and earlier Start Menu. I much prefer the more modern Vista/7 Start Menu, which my top two choices provide.
It is probably not allowed by the EULA. I know that the cheap versions of Windows explicitly forbid it; you need one of the "high-tier" editions.
I can confirm that Opera was the fastest browser before Chrome was on the scene. I visited my aunt once and was trying to use her ancient PC with my thumb drive... Firefox took forever to start, but Opera was instant and browsing was nice and snappy.
Still nothing compared to how Chrome would perform later, at least on other PCs, but still.
If some Windows Installers encounter an error they will "rollback" their progress... and the bar will go backwards when this happens.
I had the RC for a while. If you absolutely hate Metro you can download tools to can it and give yourself a reasonable replacement Start Menu, though the best ones cost money. StartMenu8 was the best of the free ones IIRC, while Stardock's Start8 was the best of the best but is like $20 or $30 or something like that. Then it's just like using Windows 7 with some minor enhancements (it doesn't get a lot of love but I love the Ribbon UI, and now Explorer has it).
Steam does allow you to buy and sell used microtransaction items from TF2 and DotA. Maybe in the future we'll be able to trade games there as well. It's not much of a stretch... publishers may not like it and may refuse to allow it initially but Valve can always lead the way by allowing their games to go up there, as usual. Then they convince a few of the big publishers to follow suit and suddenly it's the publishers that DON'T allow it that stand out.
If you don't want Google or anyone else to hotlink your images, it's fairly easy to set up hotlink protection.
Considering any number 2^n-1 is prime, this isn't too impressive, except for maybe that they bothered to expand it into a full number.
Oh look! I've discovered a new, larger prime! 2^57,885,162-1 What do I win?
Plus, lots of programs can open winapp2.ini and read its contents. For example, Notepad.
This is the conclusion I came to after reading the article. Not only do you save tons on licencing fees or potential legal headaches, but you're also free of the questionable ethics of advertising real firearms in the game.
There are phone numbers you can dial that result in an addition to your bill and money being paid to the guy you dialed... 1-900 numbers or whatever in the US.
The idea of making malware to forcibly call these numbers to the profit of the number owner is not new.
Actually Windows 8 is an improvement from Windows 7. Apparently printer drivers take up a rather large chunk of space, and in Windows 8 they reworked the way printing works a bit and were able to get away with a lot less space used by drivers.
Or something like that. At any rate I dual booted Windows 7 and Windows 8 RC and I can personally confirm 8 has a significantly smaller footprint than 7.