And Slashdot's unique actual use of HTML as opposed to proprietary weird square bracket notation foils me again. Here's that blog post.
Addendum: Didn't Apple require iTunes to be installed along with Quicktime for a short time? I seem to remember upgrading Quicktime and getting an unwelcome iTunes along with it (I don't even HAVE an iPod!) although it could have been because I clicked through the download pages without seeing the selections for Quicktime and Quicktime + iTunes... IIRC I later noticed those and that iTunes was opt-out.
the screenshot of the dialog [url=http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/03/21/apple-software-update/]here[/url] (different person making the blog post) calling Safari the "fastest and easiest-to-use" web browser. I believe Firefox 3 may have been shown to be faster already... or did Safari just crash on all the benchmarks so we can't be sure?
Either way it just smells of false advertising. I'm not sure what the requirements are for something to be considered "false advertising" but I'm pretty sure you can't just throw out statements like that without polls or sources to back it up. Then again this is the interwebs and we know the legal system hasn't quite caught up with it yet (I'm referring to judicial confusion over some aspects which we geeks clearly see as legal or not legal).
PC Decrapifier isn't very good. I tried it on a computer with a dozen programs that I would consider fit the bill... it only found two, and could only remove one IIRC. The other one was easily removed using the program's own uninstaller, so it's obvious PCD doesn't even try very hard.
Hmm... possibly. I was focusing on the last messages in the console which didn't seem particularly helpful. There might have been something about USB Gecko but it didn't strike me as something it was NEEDING... maybe I thought it was a driver or something.
I'll have to boot it again and take a closer look. Thanks.
In the meantime I guess it's back to Wii Tetris!:)
We might be seeing a different kind of WiiWare popping up soon... a new version of the "Twilight Hack" (a stack smash using a specially crafted Zelda save game) now supports running code right off an SD card instead of using a GameCube SD -> memory card adapter. I just played some... umm... Tetris... and Linux hangs when it goes to boot... but it's only been a few weeks since the hack was first published. I personally can't wait to see what kind of homebrew people come up with,
By "debug code" he's referring to the embedding of his username and password. He obviously intended to have it log in with the user's own username and password (since it already does it anyway) and send that info to his account silently from there, and then delete the new e-mail from the user's sent folder. Because the way he was doing it in the "debug code" was just dumb. I mean, he got his account wiped and the password changed! He was just asking for it.
Don't forget those silly flash sites where you can't save images... with those usually you end up downloading the SWF and dumping the images/sounds from it with a tool.
Sometimes it gets more complicated (the SWF downloads the image files or another SWF with the image files separately) but then you can still see what happens in the decompiled SWF code. And if all else fails, Wireshark can trap all the HTTP traffic and you can identify individual files downloaded, and even rip the files from the captured HTTP streams (I've done this to save some streamed content).
And of course the browser cache may also hold what you seek.
You can try hiding the Window with P/Invoke and then killing the process (or being nice and using WM_CLOSE) once the printing is complete. Just be sure to check to see if it's already open and the user is using it before running it so you know not to hide or kill it.
Exactly. It's for this very reason public betas/RCs are given out... for devs to make sure their software will work with the final release and to give them time to fix and test.
Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers
grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the
fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own
image as promised by the
sacred words, and spoke
of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was
naught but a follower.
Try Firefox's safe mode. If it works, something in your profile is futzing it up. I would recommend keeping just places.sqlite (originally bookmarks.html in FF2) to save your bookmarks. You can also keep extensions by saving the extensions folder and the files with "extension" in the name, but first disable them all and see if the crash still happens (to be sure you don't just carry it into the new profile).
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I'll tag it "wedontcarethatyoudontcare".
And Slashdot's unique actual use of HTML as opposed to proprietary weird square bracket notation foils me again. Here's that blog post.
Addendum: Didn't Apple require iTunes to be installed along with Quicktime for a short time? I seem to remember upgrading Quicktime and getting an unwelcome iTunes along with it (I don't even HAVE an iPod!) although it could have been because I clicked through the download pages without seeing the selections for Quicktime and Quicktime + iTunes... IIRC I later noticed those and that iTunes was opt-out.
the screenshot of the dialog [url=http://john.jubjubs.net/2008/03/21/apple-software-update/]here[/url] (different person making the blog post) calling Safari the "fastest and easiest-to-use" web browser. I believe Firefox 3 may have been shown to be faster already... or did Safari just crash on all the benchmarks so we can't be sure?
Either way it just smells of false advertising. I'm not sure what the requirements are for something to be considered "false advertising" but I'm pretty sure you can't just throw out statements like that without polls or sources to back it up. Then again this is the interwebs and we know the legal system hasn't quite caught up with it yet (I'm referring to judicial confusion over some aspects which we geeks clearly see as legal or not legal).
PC Decrapifier isn't very good. I tried it on a computer with a dozen programs that I would consider fit the bill... it only found two, and could only remove one IIRC. The other one was easily removed using the program's own uninstaller, so it's obvious PCD doesn't even try very hard.
Err, I mean 5.5 pages.
He did it in 6.5 pages, the rest is references, whitespace at the very end, and the abstract and title.
Starting with you, apparently. LOWER LINES ARE BETTER. Next.
Hmm... possibly. I was focusing on the last messages in the console which didn't seem particularly helpful. There might have been something about USB Gecko but it didn't strike me as something it was NEEDING... maybe I thought it was a driver or something.
I'll have to boot it again and take a closer look. Thanks.
In the meantime I guess it's back to Wii Tetris! :)
We might be seeing a different kind of WiiWare popping up soon... a new version of the "Twilight Hack" (a stack smash using a specially crafted Zelda save game) now supports running code right off an SD card instead of using a GameCube SD -> memory card adapter. I just played some ... umm... Tetris... and Linux hangs when it goes to boot... but it's only been a few weeks since the hack was first published. I personally can't wait to see what kind of homebrew people come up with,
By "debug code" he's referring to the embedding of his username and password. He obviously intended to have it log in with the user's own username and password (since it already does it anyway) and send that info to his account silently from there, and then delete the new e-mail from the user's sent folder. Because the way he was doing it in the "debug code" was just dumb. I mean, he got his account wiped and the password changed! He was just asking for it.
I don't remember changing my user name to Kdawson...
Those fields are optional. You don't have to give it those passwords if you don't want to use the import features.
Don't forget those silly flash sites where you can't save images... with those usually you end up downloading the SWF and dumping the images/sounds from it with a tool.
Sometimes it gets more complicated (the SWF downloads the image files or another SWF with the image files separately) but then you can still see what happens in the decompiled SWF code. And if all else fails, Wireshark can trap all the HTTP traffic and you can identify individual files downloaded, and even rip the files from the captured HTTP streams (I've done this to save some streamed content).
And of course the browser cache may also hold what you seek.
Here's the demos they show in the youtube videos.
Press ALT+F8 to run and press ESC to stop. They work in Office 2007 in addition to whatever they had in the youtube videos (2k3 I assume).
IE8b1 gets a 17.
3b3 gets a 61. Opera 9.5 is the best I tested at 65. Safarai 3.0.4 for Windows got a 39. IE7 got a 12 and also managed to mangle the page the most.
You can try hiding the Window with P/Invoke and then killing the process (or being nice and using WM_CLOSE) once the printing is complete. Just be sure to check to see if it's already open and the user is using it before running it so you know not to hide or kill it.
Sorry, you have to wait until your patent is approved... catch 22.
The Automatic Updates tool only allows you to get critical updates, and only when it checks once a day or whatever.
Exactly. It's for this very reason public betas/RCs are given out... for devs to make sure their software will work with the final release and to give them time to fix and test.
Blast you just beat me... I copied mine from the HTML source to the page in FF3 beta 3.
Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words , and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.
from The Book of Mozilla, 11:9
(10th Edition)
Don't you mean 1 out of 6?
Try Firefox's safe mode. If it works, something in your profile is futzing it up. I would recommend keeping just places.sqlite (originally bookmarks.html in FF2) to save your bookmarks. You can also keep extensions by saving the extensions folder and the files with "extension" in the name, but first disable them all and see if the crash still happens (to be sure you don't just carry it into the new profile).