Miranda is one of the most configurable, versatile and minimal multi-platform IM's out there... I've been using it since the early days and I'm rather disappointed in this ExtremeTech for not including it in their "review". It's also been around longer than some of these other clients they discuss, supports practically every protocol and has plugins that surpass the abilities of most of the other IM's they reviewed. The only thing that's missing is the eye candy of the more bloated IM's... so maybe ExtremeTech is run by kids?
When I was a young teen I was banned from BBS's and the internet due to all the predators that were supposedly lurking online. My computer was placed in a central area of the house where my parents could easily check up on my actions and occasionally monitor my activity. The computer was locked (internally, 286 AT case) which I learned how to disconnect. This turned me into a sneaky, paranoid kid who constantly had to look out the window and over his shoulder to make sure his parents weren't around while he furthered his knowledge in programming and music creation, while learning more about the world around him. Even worse, I almost had a close encounter with a real predator but fortunately for my quick wits I was able to deal with the situation before it reached a dangerous level and my parents never found out about it - because I was afraid they'd find out I'd been using BBS's and the internet, and would be punished.
I have both a six digit and seven digit ICQ number that I've had since the early days of ICQ and I had no issues logging in this evening, after not having logged in for at least a year.
Ohhh, wait, you were being sarcastic! How clever! I haven't experienced sarcasm since it fell out of favor a few years back but it's really funny when someone intelligent brings it back... kind of retro-cool.
Anyhow, if you weren't too caught up in being witty, you might have realized I was referring to "normal people" who aren't so privy to keyboard shortcuts and are looking for their history icon and have serious difficulty finding it. Compared to IE6 and Firefox, with clearly visible clocks, this seems like a step back to me.
How about the ridiculously unintuitive location of history in IE 7? You wouldn't believe how many customers who have updated to IE7 or use Vista ask me where the history icon went...
This might seem crazy or funny to you, but it's completely true. This tactic is to scare the casual downloader and it works. I've had numerous friends receive these letters in the past and they'd completely altered their download patterns ranging from installing RIAA/MPAA/BSA filtering software (such as Peerguardian) all the way up to stopping completely and removing all pirate software from their computer. Maybe to the more enlightened user this might sound crazy, or perhaps to those that haven't received these letters, but to most people receiving an official looking letter that's singling you out for software piracy... it can be a little worrisome.
I'd meant to cite the original interview where I read this, unfortunately I couldn't find it. I did, however, find another article where it basically states the same thing. http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/03/09.html#a 6925 . "Why do some people hate ClearType? Because ClearType relies on how we perceive color. Some people, he says, have a heightened perception to some colors which makes ClearType less useful to them." I've hated ClearType since its inception and am further agitated that it's forced on us in both Vista and Office 2007 in such ways that are difficult to completely rip out. I've been in many arguments with people that it's difficult to read and makes me nauseous failing to understand why people enjoyed it and many years, operating systems and LCD monitors later, it still looks as awful as it looked to me the first day I'd tried it. What further bothers me is many examples are given with italicized serifed text which arguably makes it easier to decipher.
I've been a diehard Microsoft Office user for years and have recently installed Outlook 2007 (upgrading from 2003) and discovered that they've replaced everything with a new font system which, on my dual high resolution LCD's, looks awful and blurred. To most people it's an improvement, however one of the original co-creators of Cleartype has gone on record to say that many humans have the ability to perceive more colors and these humans may find Cleartype to seem blurred or less clear. Going back to a non-Cleartype setup is extremely difficult, involving changes made in four separate areas of Outlook's unintuitive option screens.
That's funny, before I read your post I was going to post something like, "2 out of 5 employees are useless." For a time I was a young manager, in my lower 20's, managing a group of people anywhere between 18 - 55 and I suffered through useless employees, lying employees, employees that steal (common), and employees that felt they were Gods gift to the business who deserved to be treated like prima donnas. Despite paying employees bonus' and incentives, I'd still hear BS about how awful of a boss I was, and other stories that were gross exagerrations of the truth. I take studies like these with a grain of salt.
I second that suggestion. This is how I was introduced to C++ in high school - Turbo Pascal and a little assembly in Grade 11, C++ and more assembly in Grade 12.
I think you mean "safepeer" plugin for Azurues. I don't know how you could compare the two - Moblock runs on Linux using iptables, interfacing with the kernel whereas safepeer runs within Azureus. Personally I've had issues with the safepeer plugin in the past utilizing considerable resources and not responding after importing massive IP ranges but that may have changed in the last year or so.
Interesting "fluff" article for the everyman.
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If people think for one second that RIAA and MPAA are using their public blocks of IP ranges to bust people, they should think again. There's a false sense of security in running these programs - people continually see blocked IP range hits and think, "Look at all the bad people I've blocked." If you think you're being smart by using peerguardian or protowall, consider that these companies are smarter by using public and spoofed IP addresses. Not to mention, the majority of those the downloaded lists include massive amounts of "safe" peers that are being unnecessarily cut off.
So you live in Japan *and* you're planning to buy the premium version with DVD player as opposed to the regular one...
Your sarcastic response sounds like hyperbole to me.
It's unfortunate you were moderated down as troll, when most of the people posting to this topic have been trolling and straying from the original topic. I'm willing to bet a lot of the people who didn't read "these are windows XP systems" and are going on about linux have never configured and maintained a large homogenous or native Windows network, or at least had the knowledge, experience or intelligence to properly configure and lock down a Windows based network.
I hope the OP is at least running all these kids in plain "user" mode, as opposed to administrator or power user. Plain user mode would prevent against a large number of trojans and malware from being installed (as well as regular programs) but give them enough functionality to browse the web.
Whoever suggested the ghost or imaging idea was also on the right track - a client high school I work with has a morning reimage from a master system sent down every evening completely undoing any damage done the previous day. A RIS schedule could also be implemented, assuming you have network cards with boot code. This is really unnecessary though, if you spend enough time learning how to effectively secure Windows.
The OP neglected to mention if these computers were part of a domain - if so GPO's would also make locking down these systems a little easier.
I'm certainly glad it is news... Kotor 2 is on my list of games to come back and play, after having enjoyed Kotor 1 immensely. Knowing this, I might wait until this restoration project is completely finished.
Nevermind "pussification", if it wasn't for tag and other simple ruled "chase" games that existed when I was a child, I would a) never have had anywhere near as much exercise and b) found other more dubious activities to keep me preoccupied and entertained.
Perhaps I would think more of it if the first time I saw it it hadn't been called Fist Full of Dollars.
I'm not sure what a western remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo has to do with Serenity...
If hardware issues were so aggregious [sic] to cause a non-reliable result in the software, should the software had the ability to install without error?
Are you kidding me? Unreliable hardware, especially RAM, can cause all sorts of anomalous, unpredictable problems whether you're using Windows or *nix.
And no, it shouldn't - that was the nature of my problems. In both scenarios WGA wouldn't install, I recieved a "shutdown in 2 minutes" popup and the system rebooted. After which we decided to leave those two machines alone. I don't think two computers out of many thousands (possibly 10,000+) is anything to get panties bunched up over...
As was proved based on the last hullaballoo about WGA, claims of problems are seriously exaggerated, generally by people who aren't personally experiencing problems or by people with illegitimate installations of Windows.
I've deployed thousands of Windows XP workstations over the years, with extremely varied configurations and I've only encountered WGA problems on two of them, which were possibly caused by hardware issues. Excluding systems I've been responsible for deploying (both OPK/OEM, RIS and manually), I've yet to encounter a client network that has had problems from other manufacturers.
This "news" has been reported ad nauseam on Slashdot... I call it BS.
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Miranda is one of the most configurable, versatile and minimal multi-platform IM's out there... I've been using it since the early days and I'm rather disappointed in this ExtremeTech for not including it in their "review". It's also been around longer than some of these other clients they discuss, supports practically every protocol and has plugins that surpass the abilities of most of the other IM's they reviewed. The only thing that's missing is the eye candy of the more bloated IM's... so maybe ExtremeTech is run by kids?
When I was a young teen I was banned from BBS's and the internet due to all the predators that were supposedly lurking online. My computer was placed in a central area of the house where my parents could easily check up on my actions and occasionally monitor my activity. The computer was locked (internally, 286 AT case) which I learned how to disconnect. This turned me into a sneaky, paranoid kid who constantly had to look out the window and over his shoulder to make sure his parents weren't around while he furthered his knowledge in programming and music creation, while learning more about the world around him. Even worse, I almost had a close encounter with a real predator but fortunately for my quick wits I was able to deal with the situation before it reached a dangerous level and my parents never found out about it - because I was afraid they'd find out I'd been using BBS's and the internet, and would be punished.
I have both a six digit and seven digit ICQ number that I've had since the early days of ICQ and I had no issues logging in this evening, after not having logged in for at least a year.
No, it's not... ?
Ohhh, wait, you were being sarcastic! How clever! I haven't experienced sarcasm since it fell out of favor a few years back but it's really funny when someone intelligent brings it back... kind of retro-cool.
Anyhow, if you weren't too caught up in being witty, you might have realized I was referring to "normal people" who aren't so privy to keyboard shortcuts and are looking for their history icon and have serious difficulty finding it. Compared to IE6 and Firefox, with clearly visible clocks, this seems like a step back to me.
How about the ridiculously unintuitive location of history in IE 7? You wouldn't believe how many customers who have updated to IE7 or use Vista ask me where the history icon went...
This might seem crazy or funny to you, but it's completely true. This tactic is to scare the casual downloader and it works. I've had numerous friends receive these letters in the past and they'd completely altered their download patterns ranging from installing RIAA/MPAA/BSA filtering software (such as Peerguardian) all the way up to stopping completely and removing all pirate software from their computer. Maybe to the more enlightened user this might sound crazy, or perhaps to those that haven't received these letters, but to most people receiving an official looking letter that's singling you out for software piracy... it can be a little worrisome.
And if you'll open your eyes my response was related to the post I'm replying to, not to the original article.
"Junction Points" in Windows 2000 (NTFS 5) precedes Vista's soft link support.
Just another word for a symlink... it's an OS fundamental that's been around for years, not a Microsoft coined terminology.
I'd meant to cite the original interview where I read this, unfortunately I couldn't find it. I did, however, find another article where it basically states the same thing. http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/03/09.html#a 6925 . "Why do some people hate ClearType? Because ClearType relies on how we perceive color. Some people, he says, have a heightened perception to some colors which makes ClearType less useful to them." I've hated ClearType since its inception and am further agitated that it's forced on us in both Vista and Office 2007 in such ways that are difficult to completely rip out. I've been in many arguments with people that it's difficult to read and makes me nauseous failing to understand why people enjoyed it and many years, operating systems and LCD monitors later, it still looks as awful as it looked to me the first day I'd tried it. What further bothers me is many examples are given with italicized serifed text which arguably makes it easier to decipher.
I've been a diehard Microsoft Office user for years and have recently installed Outlook 2007 (upgrading from 2003) and discovered that they've replaced everything with a new font system which, on my dual high resolution LCD's, looks awful and blurred. To most people it's an improvement, however one of the original co-creators of Cleartype has gone on record to say that many humans have the ability to perceive more colors and these humans may find Cleartype to seem blurred or less clear. Going back to a non-Cleartype setup is extremely difficult, involving changes made in four separate areas of Outlook's unintuitive option screens.
That's funny, before I read your post I was going to post something like, "2 out of 5 employees are useless." For a time I was a young manager, in my lower 20's, managing a group of people anywhere between 18 - 55 and I suffered through useless employees, lying employees, employees that steal (common), and employees that felt they were Gods gift to the business who deserved to be treated like prima donnas. Despite paying employees bonus' and incentives, I'd still hear BS about how awful of a boss I was, and other stories that were gross exagerrations of the truth. I take studies like these with a grain of salt.
I second that suggestion. This is how I was introduced to C++ in high school - Turbo Pascal and a little assembly in Grade 11, C++ and more assembly in Grade 12.
... there's this little mobile CPU called the "core duo" which would be great for a very powerful, very small and very quiet as a multimedia system.
I think you mean "safepeer" plugin for Azurues. I don't know how you could compare the two - Moblock runs on Linux using iptables, interfacing with the kernel whereas safepeer runs within Azureus. Personally I've had issues with the safepeer plugin in the past utilizing considerable resources and not responding after importing massive IP ranges but that may have changed in the last year or so.
If people think for one second that RIAA and MPAA are using their public blocks of IP ranges to bust people, they should think again. There's a false sense of security in running these programs - people continually see blocked IP range hits and think, "Look at all the bad people I've blocked." If you think you're being smart by using peerguardian or protowall, consider that these companies are smarter by using public and spoofed IP addresses. Not to mention, the majority of those the downloaded lists include massive amounts of "safe" peers that are being unnecessarily cut off.
So you live in Japan *and* you're planning to buy the premium version with DVD player as opposed to the regular one... Your sarcastic response sounds like hyperbole to me.
It's unfortunate you were moderated down as troll, when most of the people posting to this topic have been trolling and straying from the original topic. I'm willing to bet a lot of the people who didn't read "these are windows XP systems" and are going on about linux have never configured and maintained a large homogenous or native Windows network, or at least had the knowledge, experience or intelligence to properly configure and lock down a Windows based network. I hope the OP is at least running all these kids in plain "user" mode, as opposed to administrator or power user. Plain user mode would prevent against a large number of trojans and malware from being installed (as well as regular programs) but give them enough functionality to browse the web. Whoever suggested the ghost or imaging idea was also on the right track - a client high school I work with has a morning reimage from a master system sent down every evening completely undoing any damage done the previous day. A RIS schedule could also be implemented, assuming you have network cards with boot code. This is really unnecessary though, if you spend enough time learning how to effectively secure Windows. The OP neglected to mention if these computers were part of a domain - if so GPO's would also make locking down these systems a little easier.
I'm certainly glad it is news... Kotor 2 is on my list of games to come back and play, after having enjoyed Kotor 1 immensely. Knowing this, I might wait until this restoration project is completely finished.
Nevermind "pussification", if it wasn't for tag and other simple ruled "chase" games that existed when I was a child, I would a) never have had anywhere near as much exercise and b) found other more dubious activities to keep me preoccupied and entertained.
Nuts, I'm heading into Vault 13.
Perhaps I would think more of it if the first time I saw it it hadn't been called Fist Full of Dollars. I'm not sure what a western remake of Kurosawa's Yojimbo has to do with Serenity...
As was proved based on the last hullaballoo about WGA, claims of problems are seriously exaggerated, generally by people who aren't personally experiencing problems or by people with illegitimate installations of Windows. I've deployed thousands of Windows XP workstations over the years, with extremely varied configurations and I've only encountered WGA problems on two of them, which were possibly caused by hardware issues. Excluding systems I've been responsible for deploying (both OPK/OEM, RIS and manually), I've yet to encounter a client network that has had problems from other manufacturers. This "news" has been reported ad nauseam on Slashdot... I call it BS.
... a borderline-frivolous lawsuit in your humble opinion. Obviously not for some lawyers representing Limewire.