This funny little prank javascript fills the location field with a massive string of 'a' characters, in the hopes that the browser will freak out and crash. It's old, it's well-known. Read the tail end of the IRC transcript where the dude laughs at the fact that the prankster used nvidia's website to force the javascript to punk the poor guy. He could have tacked the javascript onto any URL at all to deliver this OLD OLD prank.
Uhuh, and how does firefox crashing have anything to do with the user's IRC session ending? Answer: it doesn't. Now, if the X server crashed, then the irc session would end also (assuming an X based IRC client and not a text based one running in a terminal within a screen session or the chatzilla extension).
For example my parents run a quit shop, not in the US so this doesn't apply, however it gets me thinking. They have a large amount of fabric online you can buy. It's just pictures and sku numbers. There's not any text descriptions. Why? Well that takes time to write, time they don't have. Their web person doesn't even keep up with the load of things to be done as it is, much less have the time to write up fabric descriptions.
Sounds like a bad database design. I'm sure all of those SKU numbers have an associated description field, and you should be using that for your alt and title tags.
And even in Microsoft, I bet it would be next to impossible to have every group use a standard menu interface. The Office guys say, "Hey, we want feature X." They developers working on Explorer say, "That's to whiz bangy, we've not had that feature ever and we don't want it to be there now." So what can the Office guy do? Either leave the rudimentary menu from Explorer or create their own whiz bangy version. Clearly they've opted for the latter approach!
Simple solution. Include both in the latest windows service pack.
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I don't understand why people resist the idea that some things are more natural to people than others.
It stems from the "self esteem" crap that has been fed to us for the last couple decades.
Depending on the voltage present on the conductor, you may even feel the hairs on the back of your hand react to the field produced, i.e., they will 'stand up'.
And this my friend is why you have more male electricians (who on average have harrier hands) than female. And if the back of your hands don't grow hair anymore, you shouldn't be an electrician anymore.
(It wasn't as obvious as my Windows laptop, which emits a strange sound from the video chipset whenever you scroll a window, for instance.)
How do you fix this if you can hear the CPU also? For a while I thought it was the fan changing speed because of the change in temperature and increased/reduced friction, but for the longest time I can actually hear when a CPU is pegged at 100% when compared to idle.
What if they want their work to have the freedom to lose its freedom? If you force it to be "free", aren't you restricting a freedom of it - the freedom to incorporate it into proprietary works?
I don't mind people using my code in proprietary works as long as their improvements to my work is released in source code to anyone who receives binaries. That is why I prefer the LGPL.
I don't like the MPL because it is not generic. Any project that uses that license ends up creating a new license with Mozila search and replaced with the project name and sometimes other changes.
And of course, there's more, in addition to all the other existing open source components which they use and contribute to.
There's even more which they don't release, and you can like that or not (it's a business decision to them), but you can't claim that they don't release code.
I have often wondered why apple's open offerings didn't get traction on other platforms and then I read the APSL - Apple Public Source License.
It has nice protections from Patent infringement law suits -- but only for Apple. I haven't read the license word for word, but from a quick glance Apple is keeping most of the protections for themselves, not any other contributors.
with a couple of exceptions which prove to run fine under WINE.
Except for expecting wine to work reliably.
Add in the cost of crossover office or a local/hosted windows terminal server and you have a much more believable setup. Either that or you want to have to be called in whenever these situations happen with new devices or software.
Also, one person has noted a single spelling mistake. "Could have" instead of "could of". Not grammar, but hey, if looking for faults floats your boat... *shrug*
None of the words were spelled wrong. When you use the wrong word: that is a grammar mistake. Not spelling.
Just like the 2.4 kernel was designed to beat benchmarks against NT/2k, this article will rally all of the open source developers around OOo to make it faster and use less memory.
We all know software companies listen more to the media than their customers who have been complaining about this from the begining.
With all of the electrons heading to the US, I like to keep a script running that ping floods random russian and chinese IPs to make sure they don't run out of electrons.
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Then enforce run-to-completion within each "site" boundary.
Javascript isn't supposed to be able to call code in other sites, so make the thread boundaries the same as the site boundaries.
The BSA is the open source communities friend.
All open source companies should closely monitor the BSA and use it as a source of leads.
Uhuh, and how does firefox crashing have anything to do with the user's IRC session ending? Answer: it doesn't. Now, if the X server crashed, then the irc session would end also (assuming an X based IRC client and not a text based one running in a terminal within a screen session or the chatzilla extension).
Sounds like a bad database design. I'm sure all of those SKU numbers have an associated description field, and you should be using that for your alt and title tags.
Simple solution. Include both in the latest windows service pack.
It stems from the "self esteem" crap that has been fed to us for the last couple decades.
What the hell does that mean? Can you give more details and an example?
Yeah but it was kinda boring with DC. The guy wouldn't even move. With AC, boy he was dancing all over the place!
And this my friend is why you have more male electricians (who on average have harrier hands) than female. And if the back of your hands don't grow hair anymore, you shouldn't be an electrician anymore.
How do you fix this if you can hear the CPU also? For a while I thought it was the fan changing speed because of the change in temperature and increased/reduced friction, but for the longest time I can actually hear when a CPU is pegged at 100% when compared to idle.
Real player is bundled by a lot of OEM manufacturers. If this extends to that also, it will be a tremendous boon to Firefox!
I don't mind people using my code in proprietary works as long as their improvements to my work is released in source code to anyone who receives binaries. That is why I prefer the LGPL.
I don't like the MPL because it is not generic. Any project that uses that license ends up creating a new license with Mozila search and replaced with the project name and sometimes other changes.
I have often wondered why apple's open offerings didn't get traction on other platforms and then I read the APSL - Apple Public Source License.
It has nice protections from Patent infringement law suits -- but only for Apple. I haven't read the license word for word, but from a quick glance Apple is keeping most of the protections for themselves, not any other contributors.
Damn.
Who did you piss off?
Except for expecting wine to work reliably.
Add in the cost of crossover office or a local/hosted windows terminal server and you have a much more believable setup. Either that or you want to have to be called in whenever these situations happen with new devices or software.
None of the words were spelled wrong. When you use the wrong word: that is a grammar mistake. Not spelling.
I don't know about you, but if I used that fart elixer on someone, I'd be the first one to burst out laughing.
Spy gadgets? No.
These are for practical jokes!
"I believe in the genocide of front-load washing machine believers."
Dude, this is slashdot, why are you doing laundry?
Now OpenOffice will get faster.
Just like the 2.4 kernel was designed to beat benchmarks against NT/2k, this article will rally all of the open source developers around OOo to make it faster and use less memory.
We all know software companies listen more to the media than their customers who have been complaining about this from the begining.
With all of the electrons heading to the US, I like to keep a script running that ping floods random russian and chinese IPs to make sure they don't run out of electrons.
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Just doing my part.
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With enough force...
Every project has a maintainer, usually more than one.
First contact the maintainer of that specific part, or the general maintainer. If they don't have time to do it, they can tell you who does.
Where are my mod points when I need them?
As a commercial open source developer, I 100% agree with you.
Quit being so fucking cheap people.
How many stories do you see of people renaming firefox to IE and have nobody notice?
At least safe browser probably runs ActiveX...
It's not even that. It requires *Java* (note the lack of "script" at the end).
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Luckily my debian system doesn't have any Java on it. Once the Java packages hit debian/testing, I'll check them out.