Firefox is passing stuff from webpages directly to the operating system. That's bad design.
No, that's perfectly normal. That is what the URL handler is for. If I get a mms:\\ URI on a webpage, I want Firefox to open the correct mediaplayer, based on my system settings. On Windows, that means that any URI that Firefox itself can't handle should be passed to the OS. This is normal behaviour, not bad design.
Firefox is calling the operating system with user-supplied data without checking if it's safe. That's stupid.
What you try to imply here is that the Firefox devs should know about every single bug in every OS they code for, and make sure that nothing they send to the OS will trigger one of those bugs. Furthermore, if they fail to do so, it is their fault, not the OS'. Wow.
Stop bashing Microsoft, loonie.
I know I'm just feeding the troll, but: stop bashing Firefox, please. Thank you.
When talking about technological things like page-ranking and Alexa's use on that, yes. Yes they are.
It's not that they are dumb in the wide version of the word, but in the techfield, Digg is arguably "dumber" than Slashdot. Try the same argumentation on Slashdot vs. MySpace.
When I talk about my hobby or profession, I like to single out the 99% that doesn't understand a word from what I'm saying.
If it is, this might be patches relatively soon (allthough it might take a while before Apple approves and deploys the fix). It might also mean that more systems could be affected by this vulnerability. I know FreeBSD uses mDNSResponder (the laptop I'm typing this on is actively using it right now).
Anyone knows if this might provide a way to write a FreeBSD worm?
By that time, other techniques will be available to copy the digital archive over. Heck, it might even be possible to make a copy of the digital data on glass plates, complete with descriptions of the used protocol.
It's true that digitized data is more prone to failure than most analog carriers. The whole point is that digitized data is much easier copied over and over again, without loss, independent from whatever carrier used.
It's arguable that arrogance might mean nothing on these scales. IMHO, both assumptions are sides in a debate, and oftentimes I find both equally arrogant.
We know the human race is not special from a biological POV. For me, that is the limit where arrogance stops. I have a hard time thinking about arrogance in favor of a type of lifeform (nationalism, racism, specism, lifetypism?).
I've not made the switch to Linux on the desktop for scheduling reasons (have used FreeBSD for years as my primary desktop). As for the servers: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Even when 7 is alive, I won't switch to it in the foreseeable future. When I have to install a new, separate, server, be sure that I take all the options into account.
I have years of experience managing FreeBSD servers and desktops. I have only worked with Linux on my desktop for a month or two. New servers which have to be reliable will run FreeBSD, albeit only because I can troubleshoot it much quicker than I can troubleshoot a Linux server.
That's correct in my experience. I have no experience with Solaris, but I have seen FreeBSD go through high spikes where Linux grinds to a halt. With smaller loads Linux feels a tad more responsive though.
I do hope this scheduler will make things even better: gracefull degrading and responsiveness in one. Might make it the ideal OS for my needs (I now have Linux on the desktop and FreeBSD on the servers).
Actually, I do. I generally have a 4G FreeDOS partition somewhere on my drives. It's one of the four OS'es I have on my system. I use it to troubleshoot, run old games, inspect old floppies, create those whacky Compaq BIOS floppies for some old systems I encounter, etc. Quite usefull at times (and DOS has its beauties). Besides that, the partition is used to swap data between FreeBSD, openSUSE and WinXP.
Whoa there. This is not a case of "M$ is ebul!!!11one", but a case of proper journalism in blogging. When respected blogger take money to blog (positively) about something, things go wrong. It's kinda the same as reading a payed-for review in a magazine: it's bound to sound positive.
Now, placing ads on your site is something completely different. It's clearly not part of the bloggers opinion, nor is it hard to distinguish it from the real news you're reading. In this case, the line is not blurred, it's simply gone.
There is already a planet like that: Venus. And I think it is a far better place to go to than Mars. Terraforming on Venus will never happen, but with the dense atmosphere, it should be possible to build floating cities there. See this article or look it up on Wikipedia.
If we want to terraform a planet, Mars is the obvious choice. But for colonization, Venus is a far better target for a myriad of reasons.
I recently gone from FreeBSD to openSUSE for several reasons:
Wine. I read in TFA that wine with PC-BSD is working great. That was a surprise for me. I've not been able to run wine to the full potential on FreeBSD for at least 1.5 years.
Flash. Flash 7 works on FreeBSD, with some quircks. Crashes sometimes. Flash 9 is not useable last time I tried. And all are run through Linux compatibility. Since Flash was the only reason for that, I used a lot of diskspace just to run Flash.
Program load-time. OpenOffice takes ages to load on a FreeBSD system. KDE is indeed snappy. Firefox is dead slow to load.
Program availability. There are loads of programs available on Linux. A lot of the Open Source ones are ported to FreeBSD. Some are not, and most commercial ones definitely aren't (take Google Earth). Some are not as stable or up to date (like Java).
Update cycle. The standard way of updating FreeBSD is compiling. That takes (too much) time. Updating the installed packages / ports is tedious too.
I still love FreeBSD though. I like the philosophy, the system is stable as a rock and configuration is quite easy, when you're not afraid of the command line. I'd use it on all servers I'd install any day. But for the desktop, FreeBSD is usually one year behind Linux. That isn't much, but for me it's too much.
I love the userfriendlyness of openSUSE, but sometimes I feel trapped. With FreeBSD, I always knew where to look and which file to edit to suit my needs. But *BSD is still more suitable on a server than on a desktop. Note, though, that I have been using FreeBSD as my desktop for five years now, without ever using anything else. My conversion does not mean that FreeBSD is bad, it just shows how much better Linux has become recently.
(As a funny twist, I post this from Vista. Mums new PC, needs to be able to play the latest games for my sisters...)
Except for the fact that you left out twelve hours, you are right. The point is: in the last four minutes, we've might fucked it all up so badly that we might need space-colonies within the next two minutes. That still means we have a few hundred years of time to invent the magic wand, but still it seems impossible.
Beware though, using FreeBSD instead of Linux and then statically link to some library that is NOT provided / developed by the FreeBSD project, there is a fat chance that the library is GPL'd or LGPL'd.
Using the OS says nothing about the software you further need to provide a working system. My advice: hire a lawyer who does understand the various licenses.
Put that way, the investors aren't stupid either. What if his experiments generate immensely useful spin-offs (like new ways to store huge amounts of data for long times, or ways to transport information almost instantaneously)? They will make profit that way.
It's highly likely that his vision will fail. With enough funding, it's very likely that there will be spin-offs. It's not unlikely that those spin-offs will be profitable.
There is no such thing as an European army. All over-border military actions involving European states have to go through either the UN or NATO (and the latter only if the action is on a NATO aligned nations soil). All other means are against international law, and in contrast to the USA, Europe tends to respect that law.
There has been a peacekeeping force of the African Union in Darfur, which was meant to be replaced by an UN controlled force. That has not happened, due to conflicts with the Sudanese government. Furthermore, Russia and China are accused of undermining the UN resolutions regarding Sudan. The AU force was there with support from the UN and after consent from Sudan (begot by diplomatic means, mostly involving Europeans).
Having said that, I'm sick of all those notions that violence is the only solution to violence. And sometimes, yes, things can be solved by diplomatic means. We, the free world, should always try that first. There is outrage over Sudan. There is outrage over the USA. IMHO, both are oftentimes correct. Don't think we don't care about other countries or that we have outrage over the USA's actions for no reason. Our reasons might be wrong (prove that please) but we have them nonetheless.
We are not the annoying guy who just bothers you only to bother you. We care, and we have a voice. I'm deeply sorry, but we will talk when we think it's necessary. About Darfur, about Gitmo, about the illegal CIA prisons in Europe, about the Taliban, and about every other immoral behavior committed by any nation on this planet.
There is a difference between added functionality and different kinds of products. Some might argue that a search program is not necessarily part of the OS and hence a different product. Lock-in of different products might be seen as illegal under anti-trust regulations given the market share.
It's like a GPS-system in a car really. If a manufacturer somehow figured out a way to unable the use of GPS-systems in their cars except for their own / approved ones, some companies might get mad. If that car manufacturer happens to have a 90% share of the relevant market, that companies might not even have time to get mad.
It's the whole point of anti-trust regulations: it's perfectly legal and logical to use lock-ins to provide a better experience and as such a better position. It's another thing to use that position to consolidate it. It's called abusive use of powers, and it kills competition instead of spurring it.
It's funny really: capitalism relies on competition to work, yet the partakers of capitalism will eventually fight with all their might to crush any kind of competition. To prevent that, various governments have instituted anti-trust laws, as such regulating the market, which in essence is against the ideals of capitalism.
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Three words: Firewire external harddisk.
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(DISCLAIMER: Brought to you from a FreeBSD laptop. The debate is amusing
What you try to imply here is that the Firefox devs should know about every single bug in every OS they code for, and make sure that nothing they send to the OS will trigger one of those bugs. Furthermore, if they fail to do so, it is their fault, not the OS'. Wow.
I know I'm just feeding the troll, but: stop bashing Firefox, please. Thank you.
Narcissism for the win! Or autosexuality, depending on the type of relationship...
When talking about technological things like page-ranking and Alexa's use on that, yes. Yes they are.
It's not that they are dumb in the wide version of the word, but in the techfield, Digg is arguably "dumber" than Slashdot. Try the same argumentation on Slashdot vs. MySpace.
When I talk about my hobby or profession, I like to single out the 99% that doesn't understand a word from what I'm saying.
If it is, this might be patches relatively soon (allthough it might take a while before Apple approves and deploys the fix). It might also mean that more systems could be affected by this vulnerability. I know FreeBSD uses mDNSResponder (the laptop I'm typing this on is actively using it right now).
Anyone knows if this might provide a way to write a FreeBSD worm?
By that time, other techniques will be available to copy the digital archive over. Heck, it might even be possible to make a copy of the digital data on glass plates, complete with descriptions of the used protocol.
It's true that digitized data is more prone to failure than most analog carriers. The whole point is that digitized data is much easier copied over and over again, without loss, independent from whatever carrier used.
It's arguable that arrogance might mean nothing on these scales. IMHO, both assumptions are sides in a debate, and oftentimes I find both equally arrogant.
We know the human race is not special from a biological POV. For me, that is the limit where arrogance stops. I have a hard time thinking about arrogance in favor of a type of lifeform (nationalism, racism, specism, lifetypism?).
I've not made the switch to Linux on the desktop for scheduling reasons (have used FreeBSD for years as my primary desktop). As for the servers: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Even when 7 is alive, I won't switch to it in the foreseeable future. When I have to install a new, separate, server, be sure that I take all the options into account.
I have years of experience managing FreeBSD servers and desktops. I have only worked with Linux on my desktop for a month or two. New servers which have to be reliable will run FreeBSD, albeit only because I can troubleshoot it much quicker than I can troubleshoot a Linux server.
Some mods don't even read the summary, let alone TFA. I feel your pain.
That's correct in my experience. I have no experience with Solaris, but I have seen FreeBSD go through high spikes where Linux grinds to a halt. With smaller loads Linux feels a tad more responsive though.
I do hope this scheduler will make things even better: gracefull degrading and responsiveness in one. Might make it the ideal OS for my needs (I now have Linux on the desktop and FreeBSD on the servers).
Two things: calculations and heat generation (cue pixel-pixies jokes).
Actually, I do. I generally have a 4G FreeDOS partition somewhere on my drives. It's one of the four OS'es I have on my system. I use it to troubleshoot, run old games, inspect old floppies, create those whacky Compaq BIOS floppies for some old systems I encounter, etc. Quite usefull at times (and DOS has its beauties). Besides that, the partition is used to swap data between FreeBSD, openSUSE and WinXP.
Your main point stands though.
Whoa there. This is not a case of "M$ is ebul!!!11one", but a case of proper journalism in blogging. When respected blogger take money to blog (positively) about something, things go wrong. It's kinda the same as reading a payed-for review in a magazine: it's bound to sound positive.
Now, placing ads on your site is something completely different. It's clearly not part of the bloggers opinion, nor is it hard to distinguish it from the real news you're reading. In this case, the line is not blurred, it's simply gone.
There is already a planet like that: Venus. And I think it is a far better place to go to than Mars. Terraforming on Venus will never happen, but with the dense atmosphere, it should be possible to build floating cities there. See this article or look it up on Wikipedia.
If we want to terraform a planet, Mars is the obvious choice. But for colonization, Venus is a far better target for a myriad of reasons.
Ecol reference
- Wine.
- Flash.
- Program load-time.
- Program availability.
- Update cycle.
I still love FreeBSD though. I like the philosophy, the system is stable as a rock and configuration is quite easy, when you're not afraid of the command line. I'd use it on all servers I'd install any day. But for the desktop, FreeBSD is usually one year behind Linux. That isn't much, but for me it's too much.I read in TFA that wine with PC-BSD is working great. That was a surprise for me. I've not been able to run wine to the full potential on FreeBSD for at least 1.5 years.
Flash 7 works on FreeBSD, with some quircks. Crashes sometimes. Flash 9 is not useable last time I tried. And all are run through Linux compatibility. Since Flash was the only reason for that, I used a lot of diskspace just to run Flash.
OpenOffice takes ages to load on a FreeBSD system. KDE is indeed snappy. Firefox is dead slow to load.
There are loads of programs available on Linux. A lot of the Open Source ones are ported to FreeBSD. Some are not, and most commercial ones definitely aren't (take Google Earth). Some are not as stable or up to date (like Java).
The standard way of updating FreeBSD is compiling. That takes (too much) time. Updating the installed packages / ports is tedious too.
I love the userfriendlyness of openSUSE, but sometimes I feel trapped. With FreeBSD, I always knew where to look and which file to edit to suit my needs. But *BSD is still more suitable on a server than on a desktop. Note, though, that I have been using FreeBSD as my desktop for five years now, without ever using anything else. My conversion does not mean that FreeBSD is bad, it just shows how much better Linux has become recently.
(As a funny twist, I post this from Vista. Mums new PC, needs to be able to play the latest games for my sisters...)
AFAICS, this is a patent license for the use of the record as a technology. NOT for the use of the recorded music which is on the record.
Except for the fact that you left out twelve hours, you are right. The point is: in the last four minutes, we've might fucked it all up so badly that we might need space-colonies within the next two minutes. That still means we have a few hundred years of time to invent the magic wand, but still it seems impossible.
Beware though, using FreeBSD instead of Linux and then statically link to some library that is NOT provided / developed by the FreeBSD project, there is a fat chance that the library is GPL'd or LGPL'd.
Using the OS says nothing about the software you further need to provide a working system. My advice: hire a lawyer who does understand the various licenses.
Put that way, the investors aren't stupid either. What if his experiments generate immensely useful spin-offs (like new ways to store huge amounts of data for long times, or ways to transport information almost instantaneously)? They will make profit that way.
It's highly likely that his vision will fail. With enough funding, it's very likely that there will be spin-offs. It's not unlikely that those spin-offs will be profitable.
Imagine you make said receiver, the first one ever invented. It would immediately spit out all kinds of spam messages from all kinds of futures.
Now THAT would be annoying! Imagine turning the thing on for the first time ever, and immediately receiving Zetabytes of "Frist psot!" messages.
To clarify my rant:
When I name Gitmo and Darfur in one sentence, don't make the mistake of assuming that I find them both equally wrong. I don't.
There is no such thing as an European army. All over-border military actions involving European states have to go through either the UN or NATO (and the latter only if the action is on a NATO aligned nations soil). All other means are against international law, and in contrast to the USA, Europe tends to respect that law.
There has been a peacekeeping force of the African Union in Darfur, which was meant to be replaced by an UN controlled force. That has not happened, due to conflicts with the Sudanese government. Furthermore, Russia and China are accused of undermining the UN resolutions regarding Sudan. The AU force was there with support from the UN and after consent from Sudan (begot by diplomatic means, mostly involving Europeans).
Having said that, I'm sick of all those notions that violence is the only solution to violence. And sometimes, yes, things can be solved by diplomatic means. We, the free world, should always try that first. There is outrage over Sudan. There is outrage over the USA. IMHO, both are oftentimes correct. Don't think we don't care about other countries or that we have outrage over the USA's actions for no reason. Our reasons might be wrong (prove that please) but we have them nonetheless.
We are not the annoying guy who just bothers you only to bother you. We care, and we have a voice. I'm deeply sorry, but we will talk when we think it's necessary. About Darfur, about Gitmo, about the illegal CIA prisons in Europe, about the Taliban, and about every other immoral behavior committed by any nation on this planet.
Says the guy with the MS Win2k3 page set as his homepage? Shouldn't you be paying your "donations" to the anti-trust officials or something?
There is a difference between added functionality and different kinds of products. Some might argue that a search program is not necessarily part of the OS and hence a different product. Lock-in of different products might be seen as illegal under anti-trust regulations given the market share.
It's like a GPS-system in a car really. If a manufacturer somehow figured out a way to unable the use of GPS-systems in their cars except for their own / approved ones, some companies might get mad. If that car manufacturer happens to have a 90% share of the relevant market, that companies might not even have time to get mad.
It's the whole point of anti-trust regulations: it's perfectly legal and logical to use lock-ins to provide a better experience and as such a better position. It's another thing to use that position to consolidate it. It's called abusive use of powers, and it kills competition instead of spurring it.
It's funny really: capitalism relies on competition to work, yet the partakers of capitalism will eventually fight with all their might to crush any kind of competition. To prevent that, various governments have instituted anti-trust laws, as such regulating the market, which in essence is against the ideals of capitalism.