Yep. I tried NoScript when the "vulnerability" was "announced" and it is not worse than the popup blocker, and reserving the right to decide what sites can use javascript in my computer is really good, at least for me
There are also the web pages which use javascripted popups which are just elements of the web page, and are way more annoying than the window popups and can't be blocked like them.
Do you have any reference to a Mozilla person stating "Firefox is perfect" or "firefox won't ever have any security flaw" ?
Just don't let random sites use Javascript you are letting random sites run code in your computer, with or without security flaws javascript is not going to be safe, it doesn't matter if it is IE, firefox, opera or konqueror.
Nobody really bothers yet. Hackers find vulnerabilities but aside from 2 demo sites or a bash page there are not really much intention on exploiting the flaws, 10% is still too small compared to 90% so if a group wants to abuse exploits they rather go for the most used browser. Besides of the few possible targets Mozilla and Opera are also much faster releasing updates than MS so they wouldn't be able to exploit too much.
What I don't like is that every single default GUI is getting blurry colors or fading as some people might like to say, instead of solid colors, it probably looks better but it will harm everybody's eyes within time
As unstable as linux can be. I must say that windows XP can get pretty screwed up with some drivers. I myself had a lot of problem finding the reason of a boot freeze that made my windows unable to work at all. No matter it was in failure free mode or anything. It simply would freeze without a warning or anything. I had to brute force the disable service thing using the XP CD's recovery console. I could find what the bugged driver was (irrelevant to the conversation)
The failed driver wasn't really microsoft's fault, but In my opinion no OS should just freeze without saying anything at all, it is is simply not correct. If I was an average problem I would have come out with the conclusion that my hardware was screwed and that would have hurt me financially.
Yeah I agree, well I think Linux is not about freedom but about openness, the GPLs enforce that software will stay open, that is not a bad thing at all but I prefer freedom over that so I prefer Zlib/PNG license or the *BSD licenses.
It doesn't seem like a rocks formation but like some erosion caused by water, it actually seems like sand to me.
But I must say that if there was a face, after all the natural phenomenon in mars it would look like this thing. Also many of the `conspiracy nuts would simply mention that the Nasca drawings don't look at all like drawings when you look too close. So for them the case would be the same for the face
Is that enough reason to disallow me, who can find firefox cause I use the menu to launch programs, from filling my desktop with my files if I personally really find that to be the most efficient way to work in a computer? Also your guys would end up calling you for many other dumb reasons anyways.
Right: make a subsidiary on a potentially very lucrative technology and call it "non-profit". Public is not counting their taxes paid or their profit. Public will remember the last words: "non-profit".
Man, the article is filled with things like "this will be a for-profit" organization and "this will pay taxes". They are not calling it non-profit. What's wrong with your reading skills?
So you are saying that just to avoid people like you to call slashdot a ms-hate central, slashdot should avoid to publish an story about a new IE exploit even though it is news for nerds and stuff that matters?
Boy , you must accept that this news item wasn't biased, it didn't come with the standard "It seems that MS screwed it again" nor any other POV , and the exploit does exist. So why get so offended?"
So, it would be possible to detect these super falsifications. And they would be circulating around as real money. Thus the genuine money wouldn't have any advantage over these super fake ones.
I used Kubuntu continously for a month and after that I switch between Kubunty and windows XP depending on my needs (windows is simply better at running windows games, I would move to Kubuntu entirely if WINE didn't have problems with the wc3 world editor. I must say that my own experience was much different.
Well folks, i've been meaning to write this down anyway; here seem's like the perfect place.
Now, I am a 100% Win fan. I love it; things just work. But, I have made the switch to Linux (Fedora Core 5) at home, seeing as it does 99% of what I want. After a couple of months of constant, un-interupted use, my biggest issues with Linux are broadly thus:
1. No fecking media support! I get XMMS inform me on first attempt at playing an MP3 that it won't because of licensing conflict. Wtf? Codecs for avi's and DVDs were a simular story; all had to be downloaded via yum (bloody excellent tool!). Seriously; not good, but fixed in the end.
Linux biggest issues are nto really Linux' mistakes you see? The propietary formats and the frigging hardware drivers screw everything up. It seems that every media and hardware company out there is pro windows.
But after I downloaded the VLC package from ADEPT I could use that little application to play most of the videos out there and certainly MP3's , some videos (wmv3) still had issues. It would have been great if people didn't use Microsoft's video formats when releasing things.
The real kicker was installing a recent version (no package so I had to compile, this is another history), that could even play flv videos, and with the youtube video downloader extension for konqueror it got really good. I still can't find a good way to play flv videos in windows...
2. Why the hell do I have to install a new kernel? Why? I've never had to on Windows - why is Linux different? Is it so buggy? I installed with a factory version something ending 054. Now I have something ending 122 I believe. I did it ok, but that's not the point I'm making; were there really 68 cock-ups so great in the kernel build from release-time until that now they had to re-release 68 times? I'm guessing probablly not, but still.
My experience was a little different, kubuntu tell me that there were pending updates and it just installed the new kernel. My biggest problem with that is that Grub's config file got reset so I had to remake it myself, but the average user doesn't really NEED to customize grub. Although I like to so I could remove the kernel version numbers from kubuntu and also use a custom splash screen.
3. Point 2 also breaks my nvidia drivers. I don't want to re-compile new drivers everytime there's a new 'patch'. For the love of god, why?!
I own an Nvidia card as well. In this I think I got really lucky because I always hear about problems with graphic cards in linux. For starters the ubuntu repository has a package called "nvidia drivers" or something like that. Installing it was as simple as installing any other package (tell adept to install, it downloads and then it installs it) . After that if I reinitialize X it will show a big nvidia add before the logon screen, and I can even play war3 in WINE. Then when auto update updates my kernel it seems to also update that package, it does stuff automatically. I was surprised when I saw that happening.
4. X-Windows. What a mess. Why do I have to tell it my x & y refresh rates for my monitor? Windows just 'knows'. Many more things here I feel that X-Windows should just 'know' - the number of buttons on my USB mouse for-instance. If Windows can do it, there's no reason why Linux can't. Also, X-Windows 'feels' slower than Windows. I'm sure there's good reasons for this, but I don't care; Windows is snappier.
This is odd and must say that I had never had to configure x & y refresh. I had a tray control in KDE that allowed me to change resolution, of course , I coul
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Yep. I tried NoScript when the "vulnerability" was "announced" and it is not worse than the popup blocker, and reserving the right to decide what sites can use javascript in my computer is really good, at least for me
There are also the web pages which use javascripted popups which are just elements of the web page, and are way more annoying than the window popups and can't be blocked like them.
Do you have any reference to a Mozilla person stating "Firefox is perfect" or "firefox won't ever have any security flaw" ?
Just don't let random sites use Javascript you are letting random sites run code in your computer, with or without security flaws javascript is not going to be safe, it doesn't matter if it is IE, firefox, opera or konqueror.
And mozilla fixes bugs much faster than MS...
I had the good habit of disabling java script before clicking odd links, hey I think I am gonna try noscript.
Did you ever try to code a big project?
Nobody really bothers yet. Hackers find vulnerabilities but aside from 2 demo sites or a bash page there are not really much intention on exploiting the flaws, 10% is still too small compared to 90% so if a group wants to abuse exploits they rather go for the most used browser. Besides of the few possible targets Mozilla and Opera are also much faster releasing updates than MS so they wouldn't be able to exploit too much.
I don't really agree spy satellites are an stabilzing influence, I don't really think that knowing they are makes them a better thing either.
we shouldn't be complaining, cause everybody knows that the consumer is far from being as important as fighting computer piracy.
That would surely bring more government concern about global warming than what we have right now.
And I'd like to know what kind of agenda pushes mods to give [+4 informative] to that comment
What I don't like is that every single default GUI is getting blurry colors or fading as some people might like to say, instead of solid colors, it probably looks better but it will harm everybody's eyes within time
As unstable as linux can be. I must say that windows XP can get pretty screwed up with some drivers. I myself had a lot of problem finding the reason of a boot freeze that made my windows unable to work at all. No matter it was in failure free mode or anything. It simply would freeze without a warning or anything. I had to brute force the disable service thing using the XP CD's recovery console. I could find what the bugged driver was (irrelevant to the conversation)
The failed driver wasn't really microsoft's fault, but In my opinion no OS should just freeze without saying anything at all, it is is simply not correct. If I was an average problem I would have come out with the conclusion that my hardware was screwed and that would have hurt me financially.
hmnn considering I have the TV on while using the internet and that in a day I use it for 5 hours, then am I addicted to TV or the internet?
Yeah I agree, well I think Linux is not about freedom but about openness, the GPLs enforce that software will stay open, that is not a bad thing at all but I prefer freedom over that so I prefer Zlib/PNG license or the *BSD licenses.
It doesn't seem like a rocks formation but like some erosion caused by water, it actually seems like sand to me.
But I must say that if there was a face, after all the natural phenomenon in mars it would look like this thing. Also many of the `conspiracy nuts would simply mention that the Nasca drawings don't look at all like drawings when you look too close. So for them the case would be the same for the face
They are actually saying that they wouldn't survive if it wasn't for windows' usual lack of security...
Things that grow faster are often also small things. When the market grows up from 1 user to 2 users you got a 50% growth ! That's awesome!
you are obviously an anti web 2.0 agent pretending to be an slashdot poster ...
Is that enough reason to disallow me, who can find firefox cause I use the menu to launch programs, from filling my desktop with my files if I personally really find that to be the most efficient way to work in a computer? Also your guys would end up calling you for many other dumb reasons anyways.
It is an advert bot, I can't understand how it wasn't modded -1 off topic yet
90% actually. Yeah, mod redundant please
So you are saying that just to avoid people like you to call slashdot a ms-hate central, slashdot should avoid to publish an story about a new IE exploit even though it is news for nerds and stuff that matters?
Boy , you must accept that this news item wasn't biased, it didn't come with the standard "It seems that MS screwed it again" nor any other POV , and the exploit does exist. So why get so offended?"
So, it would be possible to detect these super falsifications. And they would be circulating around as real money. Thus the genuine money wouldn't have any advantage over these super fake ones.