Chome does this too, and I understand IE8 now also uses a separate-process-per-tab model, though I don't know about plugins. At the very least a crashing plugin can only bring down the page its content is on.
Apparently that's the word, but I had to read the article's comments to figure it out. Is it just me or is it NOT in the summary, article, or article linked from the article?
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I read the user submitted summary, but I guess I missed the editor bits. Not to mention I had been skimming for the magic 98 number.
And is it my fault I only expect the editors to edit, not add more links?;)
Don't say I didn't RTFA, I read about this before Slashdot posted it, straight from the horse's mouth, on Steam's News page. So forgive me for skimming when reading a second news item about it.:)
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OK OK so I screwed up, but you don't have to be so mean about it.:(
Huh? Where's the most important piece of news?
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Half-Life costs only 98 cents for a few days as celebration.
It's dangerous to have liquids floating about inside the space shuttle, which could happen easily when trying to clean inside. I forget exactly why but it probably has to do with microscopic bubbles of the liquid being easily inhaled or swallowed accidentally...
But you'd be keeping the bag close to you at all times, so it would be a SHORT strap, yes? The shorter the strap, the less chance it could do any of those things.
RFIDs also have a much shorter transmission range than cell phones, this is the price they pay for being powered by the RFID reader that reads them. I seriously doubt cell phones are capable of doing anything similar, and even if so, it would be limited to about the range of an RFID reader. If someone was using it to track your cell phone, you could turn around and ask them to please kindly go away.
The researchers suggest that anyone with a video camera might earn some spending money by agreeing to have unobtrusive corporate logos placed inside their videos before they are posted online.
Just like web surfers no longer even glance at banner ads anymore, people will learn to ignore any corporate logos in videos (even if they really ARE there in real life!).
Actually the network monitoring can't be completely turned off in 8, as I discovered.
Even if you choose NOT to install those components at install time, a network driver is still installed and runs all the time. This driver causes random "Client timed out" errors in one of my favorite games, Team Fortress 2 (and possibly other Source-engine games).
I completely disabled AVG at that point, and not only did the problem disappear, but I also got a significant performance boost from my PC (I had always wondered what was slowing it down all the time). When it STILL caused problems (with Word 2007 this time, I couldn't open ANY file) I just uninstalled it entirely. My system runs better than it did before.
Of course, AVG never found anything anyway (I'm good at not downloading files from random websites). I think a non-invasive virus scanner will be good enough for me for the future (like ClamWin).
Won't it be fun finding out you just bought a "banned" copy then? I'm sure they will start tying the bans to the game's activation serial number as well.
TraceMonkey (the new JS engine) was in earlier nightly builds, it was just off by default. A pref could have been used to switch it on at any time... they just changed the default setting to "on" in the latest builds. You should be able to turn it on in FF3.1b1 too. javascript.options.jit.content.
40 seconds here, though it started at 30 BEFORE I tried to optimize my profile (got it down to 15 before it inexplicably starting going UP again, even while CPU usage was the same in other apps). This is what they need to focus on improving IMO. Google Chrome blows it out of the water.
According to the blog, SDHC support can be done entirely in software. So it's just a matter of coding it in, both for homebrew creators (there will probably be a lib for it, if not one already) and for Nintendo.
First, it slows down the system noticeably. To a gamer like me where the CPU is currently my performance bottleneck, I am constantly looking for ways to maximize performance. Considering that the entire time I've been using AVG I've never found a virus or trojan or worm on my system, I think my current system of "common sense" when using a web browser (or picking one to use, even) or other internet-capable apps is working fine enough that I can stick to regular scans by something not so invasive, like ClamWin.
Secondly, even though I chose not to install the networking bits of AVG, it STILL installs a network filter driver which is always running. This driver causes problems with Source engine games causing random disconnects with a non-sensical "Client timed out" error. It's veyr annoying since there's no guarantee I can reconnect to the server again, and if I can I'm back to square one (If I was playing as Engineer class all my carefully placed defenses are now gone, not to mention my score is reset). Disabling all the AVG components (services, drivers, shell extensions... in effect I turned it off completely) was the only way I could fix this.
A final straw that broke the camel's back and prompted a complete uninstall... even with everything I could see disabled (I must've missed something) Word 2007 is unable to load.docx documents while AVG is installed, until I uninstalled it. Not good. Either this is a recent bug in AVG, or it has to do with the order you install the apps (when I installed Office 2007 second I had no problems with it while AVG ran... not sure which order I installed them in in THIS Windows install).
My idea real-time AV app needs to be as simple as possible so as to minimize the chance of it screwing something up (like a random game, or Office). Any hooks it makes to facilitate real-time scanning need to be as simple as possible to minimize the chance of failure, and error checking to ensure that failure happens without disrupting the underlying operation the user is trying to do that is being scanned.
You can try increasing your Firefox disk cache size to help keep around common images longer so they don't have to be redownloaded. The Fasterfox extension has other settings which might help, as well. NoScript and Adblock Plus (get some good subscriptions for the latter) can help block ads from loading saving a ton of bandwidth... but at the end of the day, 1gb is simply not enough... I go through far more than that every day (downloading 1gb worth of files ATM). You're going to have to either force yourself to ration your internet usage or get more of it.
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Chome does this too, and I understand IE8 now also uses a separate-process-per-tab model, though I don't know about plugins. At the very least a crashing plugin can only bring down the page its content is on.
C:\Documents and Settings\The MAZZTer>grep -i '^[yuiophjklnm]\{9,\}$' H:/usr/share/dict/words
Houyhnhnm
polyphony
Apparently that's the word, but I had to read the article's comments to figure it out. Is it just me or is it NOT in the summary, article, or article linked from the article?
I read the user submitted summary, but I guess I missed the editor bits. Not to mention I had been skimming for the magic 98 number.
And is it my fault I only expect the editors to edit, not add more links? ;)
Don't say I didn't RTFA, I read about this before Slashdot posted it, straight from the horse's mouth, on Steam's News page. So forgive me for skimming when reading a second news item about it. :)
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OK OK so I screwed up, but you don't have to be so mean about it. :(
Half-Life costs only 98 cents for a few days as celebration.
It's dangerous to have liquids floating about inside the space shuttle, which could happen easily when trying to clean inside. I forget exactly why but it probably has to do with microscopic bubbles of the liquid being easily inhaled or swallowed accidentally...
But you'd be keeping the bag close to you at all times, so it would be a SHORT strap, yes? The shorter the strap, the less chance it could do any of those things.
RFIDs also have a much shorter transmission range than cell phones, this is the price they pay for being powered by the RFID reader that reads them. I seriously doubt cell phones are capable of doing anything similar, and even if so, it would be limited to about the range of an RFID reader. If someone was using it to track your cell phone, you could turn around and ask them to please kindly go away.
You and what army will make Apple use it? :(
The researchers suggest that anyone with a video camera might earn some spending money by agreeing to have unobtrusive corporate logos placed inside their videos before they are posted online.
Just like web surfers no longer even glance at banner ads anymore, people will learn to ignore any corporate logos in videos (even if they really ARE there in real life!).
I know I kept looking to make sure the foot icon wasn't really there, hiding somewhere.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080113194857/ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.php?/component/option,com_openwiki/Itemid,33/id,list/
I haven't figured out how to make a slipstream disk that still allows Recovery Console
They're also known as "Linux Live CDs".
Actually the network monitoring can't be completely turned off in 8, as I discovered.
Even if you choose NOT to install those components at install time, a network driver is still installed and runs all the time. This driver causes random "Client timed out" errors in one of my favorite games, Team Fortress 2 (and possibly other Source-engine games).
I completely disabled AVG at that point, and not only did the problem disappear, but I also got a significant performance boost from my PC (I had always wondered what was slowing it down all the time). When it STILL caused problems (with Word 2007 this time, I couldn't open ANY file) I just uninstalled it entirely. My system runs better than it did before.
Of course, AVG never found anything anyway (I'm good at not downloading files from random websites). I think a non-invasive virus scanner will be good enough for me for the future (like ClamWin).
XP Explorer also likes to leak file handles every now and again, which has every so often prevented me from being able to delete something.
Fortunately Sysinternals' Handles tool exists and is very useful and awesome.
Install cygwin and try again.
That's not technically a BSoD, you can press any key to return to Windows. It's a reboot confirmation screen (CTRL+ALT+DEL reboots in DOS).
What's the "opposite" of seven?
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The new Dust theme is sweet. No, seriously, I love it. >_>
Won't it be fun finding out you just bought a "banned" copy then? I'm sure they will start tying the bans to the game's activation serial number as well.
That's what they're doing.
TraceMonkey (the new JS engine) was in earlier nightly builds, it was just off by default. A pref could have been used to switch it on at any time... they just changed the default setting to "on" in the latest builds. You should be able to turn it on in FF3.1b1 too. javascript.options.jit.content.
40 seconds here, though it started at 30 BEFORE I tried to optimize my profile (got it down to 15 before it inexplicably starting going UP again, even while CPU usage was the same in other apps). This is what they need to focus on improving IMO. Google Chrome blows it out of the water.
According to the blog, SDHC support can be done entirely in software. So it's just a matter of coding it in, both for homebrew creators (there will probably be a lib for it, if not one already) and for Nintendo.
However lately it has been giving me problems.
First, it slows down the system noticeably. To a gamer like me where the CPU is currently my performance bottleneck, I am constantly looking for ways to maximize performance. Considering that the entire time I've been using AVG I've never found a virus or trojan or worm on my system, I think my current system of "common sense" when using a web browser (or picking one to use, even) or other internet-capable apps is working fine enough that I can stick to regular scans by something not so invasive, like ClamWin.
Secondly, even though I chose not to install the networking bits of AVG, it STILL installs a network filter driver which is always running. This driver causes problems with Source engine games causing random disconnects with a non-sensical "Client timed out" error. It's veyr annoying since there's no guarantee I can reconnect to the server again, and if I can I'm back to square one (If I was playing as Engineer class all my carefully placed defenses are now gone, not to mention my score is reset). Disabling all the AVG components (services, drivers, shell extensions... in effect I turned it off completely) was the only way I could fix this.
A final straw that broke the camel's back and prompted a complete uninstall... even with everything I could see disabled (I must've missed something) Word 2007 is unable to load .docx documents while AVG is installed, until I uninstalled it. Not good. Either this is a recent bug in AVG, or it has to do with the order you install the apps (when I installed Office 2007 second I had no problems with it while AVG ran... not sure which order I installed them in in THIS Windows install).
My idea real-time AV app needs to be as simple as possible so as to minimize the chance of it screwing something up (like a random game, or Office). Any hooks it makes to facilitate real-time scanning need to be as simple as possible to minimize the chance of failure, and error checking to ensure that failure happens without disrupting the underlying operation the user is trying to do that is being scanned.
You can try increasing your Firefox disk cache size to help keep around common images longer so they don't have to be redownloaded. The Fasterfox extension has other settings which might help, as well. NoScript and Adblock Plus (get some good subscriptions for the latter) can help block ads from loading saving a ton of bandwidth... but at the end of the day, 1gb is simply not enough... I go through far more than that every day (downloading 1gb worth of files ATM). You're going to have to either force yourself to ration your internet usage or get more of it.