Someone needs to publish a list of ISPs that refuse to keep their virus definitions up to date. Boycott everyone on that. I'm not talking about a software blacklist, I'm talking about a financial boycott. Make sure gramma is using someone else. Let the good ISPs use that list to target their customers for migration. This is just like the spam problem. Their negligence is hurting the Internet as a whole.
This is imperfect, though. I bet a lot of the trouble relays are small business mail servers without the staff to keep their systems up to date.
Okay, sure, flash is a stupid way to do this. Flash might be hard to install on Linux. I haven't tried in a while. But how can the Slashdot editors honestly think this is the kind of thing their subscribers want to talk about? This is just boring.
They give a lot, to both parties, but mostly to the Republicans.
And anyway, aren't the bigots exactly the people you WANT to discriminate against? From what I've heard, it's a hell of a lot easier to stop being an asshole than to stop being gay.
On the other hand, I'm not gay but I am an asshole. Haven't been able to stop yet.
In my area, the cell "towers" are just antennas bolted to the side of already-hideous water towers or even disguised as a freakishly enormous flag pole. The flag pole is at a major intersection in the next town. It's more huge than you would ever expect to see in a town the size of Harwich, MA. But still, it could be a lot worse. The technology these days does make it possible to conceal these things. I doubt it's that much more expensive to do it like this. In the case of the water tower, it's probably quite a bit cheaper since they don't have to build the tower. Plus the money goes right to the town. I wonder why it's not more common.
I guess it's a mixed bag. The NIMBYs that throw a fit when someone wants to put up a cell tower are the same morons that are freaking out about the Wind Farm project in Nantucket Sound. It's free, clean energy and our oil addiction is destroying us.
I guess there are Joss Whedon followers and then there's everyone else. There's a certain feel to the exchanges that makes these Good in some inexplicable way. These characters are a lot more complex than a movie trailer can really present. Ambiguity, innocence, growth, everything TV doesn't get a lot of. I've seen every episode plus the pilot twice so I can say with authority that there's more in Joss's vision of the future than slick one liners.
If you appreciated Toy Story, Alien 4, Rosanne, or anything else (not to mention Buffy and Angel) he's written, you'll probably end up enjoying Serenity.
I was skeptical that this would ever really happen. Having seen the trailer, I'm very glad I was wrong. It's been a while since I've rewatched the DVD so I don't remember some of the characters names, but these clips from the trailer were hilarious, and a kind of humor sadly absent from most movies:
pilot: (flying into a battle) This is about to get interesting. captiain: Define "interesting." pilot: "Interesting: Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die?"
bad guy: This destruction, this is your fault. pilot: No, *I* don't murder children. bad guy: [smiling] Oh, well I do.
Instead of just arranging the components in a way that doesn't let excess heat build up, we're making the system use even more power to push air around in an enclosed space. This is not how you make a more efficient system. If your hard drive is that hot, you're using the wrong chassis. Get one designed with airflow in mind. Put a heat sink on the hot components, or, better yet, figure out why they're turning so much of the power they draw into heat instead of something useful. Recycle your old chassis. No wonder the West is in a war for oil.
Gene Mosher! How the heck are you? Still selling crappy software while refusing to "get it" about open source, I imagine. Why else would you be tracking me down after literally half a decade? I am doing quite well, personally. I eat out all the time and know lots of resturaunt owners. Many of them are my clients. None of them are your clients.
I think they are more interested in not looking like a bunch of hypocrites. Remember the Adobe eBook fiasco? If they look at this problem and say (by their actions) that the DMCA is stupidly getting in the way of getting perfectly legitimate work done and break the encryption, they loose.
Hadn't thought of that. I sure wish Microsoft had gone somewhere with that. Did you ever notice how many other columns are available (but never populated) in Explorer's Details view?
They are in fact such a nice feature that we have "directories" or "folders" instead.
I think the NTFS guru that came up with this intended them to be used in ways that we in the UNIX world use directories. See OS X's.app and.package concept, or good old Maildir.
The article asked for features that should be removed. I can't imagine any legitimate reason to keep this half-baked idea around.
NTFS allows you to store data both in foo.txt and foo.txt:evil, and only foo.txt will be visible in a directory listing. In fact, almost none of the tools that come with the system can see:evil. More info and examples from the nice folks at SysInternals. Spyware creators use this extensively. When you see a registry entries pointing to C:\WINNT\System32:xyzzy.dll, it's time to format and reinstall. I know there are other stupid, half-implimented features in NTFS but I can't think of what they are at the moment.
If you use AcidSearch, you'll find that Safari segfaults on startup. You can get Safari back by removing/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/AcidSearch.bundle. AcidSearch is cool; I hope they update soon.
You just reminded me of an idea I had a while back. There has got to be some way to hijack the MFC call (or whatever, I'm no Windows expert) that most apps use for dialog boxes, and write the text of the dialog to a log that can be recalled later. Even better, try to capture what button was pressed to dismiss it.
And there shouldn't be any way to close dialog boxes without selecting one of the options. In other words, no close buttons on the title bar. Why should there BE a title bar, for that matter. It's impossible to come up with a non-redundant title for a dialog (unless you just use the name of the app that generated it, which would be nice).
It shouldn't be possible for a dialog box, especially one from another application, to steal keyboard focus. It's bad enough that the dialogs are usually very poorly written. I was afraid of "sheets" the first time I heard about them in OSX, but that plus the bouncing dock icons really makes it a lot easier to focus on what I'm doing. The hundreds of little icons, sliding boxes and word ckouds in the system tray need to be completely rethought.
Next I guess I would say that bitmapped icons should be dumped in favor of vector based ones for readability at higher resolution.
I'm sure the delays are due to software or hardware issues on Moto's part. Their platform is insanely awful, and no amount of insanely great from Apple is going to be enough to bring it back to just mediocre. Come on guys, why does everything having to do with the contact list get exponentially slower with each entry over a dozen? Why do your cameras suck so bad? More to the point, why couldn't Apple found a less horrible cell phone maker to join up with, like Nokia or LG?
Didn't Metcalfe have a whole lot to do with the invention ethernet, too? Yeah, no ulterior motives here.
On the other hand, and neglecting some of the things Metcalfe has said about Linux, I find his "law" to be spiritually exhilarating. If applied liberally, this law proves that racism and all prejudice are destructive, and where human and civil rights prevail, ever human life becomes more valuable.
Generally speaking, just about any Windows instance is going to gave at lease these ports open:
Starting nmap 3.75 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-03-07 11:45 EST (The 1659 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) PORT STATE SERVICE 135/tcp open msrpc 139/tcp open netbios-ssn 445/tcp open microsoft-ds
So this could reak havoc on business or residential networks. But then, I guess this is what you get for giving your users or peers an inapropriate level of trust.
Just so you all know, THIS GUY WAS MAKING A JOKE..Mac is completely unrelated in scope to.NET. It's an Apple-centric hosting service with lots of OS integration for contact and bookmark syncing, plus webmail and hosting. It's not a runtime. I wish I had mod points right now.
Okay, first this was moderated funny, which was generous to say the least. Then someone moderated it "insightful," which just doesn't make any sense at all. Shouldn't that tag be reserved for comments that bring new information to the discussion? I was making a cheap jab at Microsoft here. How is that insightful on Slashdot?
I nominate "The Windows-based infrastructure enables remote upgrades" as the loaded statement of the year. Anybody care to take a guess as to who will be writing "upgrades" for these things?
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Someone needs to publish a list of ISPs that refuse to keep their virus definitions up to date. Boycott everyone on that. I'm not talking about a software blacklist, I'm talking about a financial boycott. Make sure gramma is using someone else. Let the good ISPs use that list to target their customers for migration. This is just like the spam problem. Their negligence is hurting the Internet as a whole.
This is imperfect, though. I bet a lot of the trouble relays are small business mail servers without the staff to keep their systems up to date.
Okay, sure, flash is a stupid way to do this. Flash might be hard to install on Linux. I haven't tried in a while. But how can the Slashdot editors honestly think this is the kind of thing their subscribers want to talk about? This is just boring.
Take a look at their political donatations:
http://buyblue.org/detail.php?corpId=143
They give a lot, to both parties, but mostly to the Republicans.
And anyway, aren't the bigots exactly the people you WANT to discriminate against? From what I've heard, it's a hell of a lot easier to stop being an asshole than to stop being gay.
On the other hand, I'm not gay but I am an asshole. Haven't been able to stop yet.
In my area, the cell "towers" are just antennas bolted to the side of already-hideous water towers or even disguised as a freakishly enormous flag pole. The flag pole is at a major intersection in the next town. It's more huge than you would ever expect to see in a town the size of Harwich, MA. But still, it could be a lot worse. The technology these days does make it possible to conceal these things. I doubt it's that much more expensive to do it like this. In the case of the water tower, it's probably quite a bit cheaper since they don't have to build the tower. Plus the money goes right to the town. I wonder why it's not more common.
I guess it's a mixed bag. The NIMBYs that throw a fit when someone wants to put up a cell tower are the same morons that are freaking out about the Wind Farm project in Nantucket Sound. It's free, clean energy and our oil addiction is destroying us.
I'm pretty off-topic here. Sorry.
I guess there are Joss Whedon followers and then there's everyone else. There's a certain feel to the exchanges that makes these Good in some inexplicable way. These characters are a lot more complex than a movie trailer can really present. Ambiguity, innocence, growth, everything TV doesn't get a lot of. I've seen every episode plus the pilot twice so I can say with authority that there's more in Joss's vision of the future than slick one liners.
If you appreciated Toy Story, Alien 4, Rosanne, or anything else (not to mention Buffy and Angel) he's written, you'll probably end up enjoying Serenity.
I was skeptical that this would ever really happen. Having seen the trailer, I'm very glad I was wrong. It's been a while since I've rewatched the DVD so I don't remember some of the characters names, but these clips from the trailer were hilarious, and a kind of humor sadly absent from most movies:
pilot: (flying into a battle) This is about to get interesting.
captiain: Define "interesting."
pilot: "Interesting: Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die?"
bad guy: This destruction, this is your fault.
pilot: No, *I* don't murder children.
bad guy: [smiling] Oh, well I do.
Instead of just arranging the components in a way that doesn't let excess heat build up, we're making the system use even more power to push air around in an enclosed space. This is not how you make a more efficient system. If your hard drive is that hot, you're using the wrong chassis. Get one designed with airflow in mind. Put a heat sink on the hot components, or, better yet, figure out why they're turning so much of the power they draw into heat instead of something useful. Recycle your old chassis. No wonder the West is in a war for oil.
Gene Mosher! How the heck are you? Still selling crappy software while refusing to "get it" about open source, I imagine. Why else would you be tracking me down after literally half a decade? I am doing quite well, personally. I eat out all the time and know lots of resturaunt owners. Many of them are my clients. None of them are your clients.
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I think they are more interested in not looking like a bunch of hypocrites. Remember the Adobe eBook fiasco? If they look at this problem and say (by their actions) that the DMCA is stupidly getting in the way of getting perfectly legitimate work done and break the encryption, they loose.
Hadn't thought of that. I sure wish Microsoft had gone somewhere with that. Did you ever notice how many other columns are available (but never populated) in Explorer's Details view?
They are in fact such a nice feature that we have "directories" or "folders" instead.
.app and .package concept, or good old Maildir.
I think the NTFS guru that came up with this intended them to be used in ways that we in the UNIX world use directories. See OS X's
The article asked for features that should be removed. I can't imagine any legitimate reason to keep this half-baked idea around.
NTFS allows you to store data both in foo.txt and foo.txt:evil, and only foo.txt will be visible in a directory listing. In fact, almost none of the tools that come with the system can see :evil. More info and examples from the nice folks at SysInternals. Spyware creators use this extensively. When you see a registry entries pointing to C:\WINNT\System32:xyzzy.dll, it's time to format and reinstall. I know there are other stupid, half-implimented features in NTFS but I can't think of what they are at the moment.
I have to reconsider my stance on keeping BitTorrent legal.
If you use AcidSearch, you'll find that Safari segfaults on startup. You can get Safari back by removing /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/AcidSearch.bundle. AcidSearch is cool; I hope they update soon.
You just reminded me of an idea I had a while back. There has got to be some way to hijack the MFC call (or whatever, I'm no Windows expert) that most apps use for dialog boxes, and write the text of the dialog to a log that can be recalled later. Even better, try to capture what button was pressed to dismiss it.
And there shouldn't be any way to close dialog boxes without selecting one of the options. In other words, no close buttons on the title bar. Why should there BE a title bar, for that matter. It's impossible to come up with a non-redundant title for a dialog (unless you just use the name of the app that generated it, which would be nice).
It shouldn't be possible for a dialog box, especially one from another application, to steal keyboard focus. It's bad enough that the dialogs are usually very poorly written. I was afraid of "sheets" the first time I heard about them in OSX, but that plus the bouncing dock icons really makes it a lot easier to focus on what I'm doing. The hundreds of little icons, sliding boxes and word ckouds in the system tray need to be completely rethought.
Next I guess I would say that bitmapped icons should be dumped in favor of vector based ones for readability at higher resolution.
I'll take "cultured by scientists" over "harvested and cut by slaves" any day.
I'm sure the delays are due to software or hardware issues on Moto's part. Their platform is insanely awful, and no amount of insanely great from Apple is going to be enough to bring it back to just mediocre. Come on guys, why does everything having to do with the contact list get exponentially slower with each entry over a dozen? Why do your cameras suck so bad? More to the point, why couldn't Apple found a less horrible cell phone maker to join up with, like Nokia or LG?
Didn't Metcalfe have a whole lot to do with the invention ethernet, too? Yeah, no ulterior motives here.
On the other hand, and neglecting some of the things Metcalfe has said about Linux, I find his "law" to be spiritually exhilarating. If applied liberally, this law proves that racism and all prejudice are destructive, and where human and civil rights prevail, ever human life becomes more valuable.
Do people that undergo gene therapy pass the modified genes onto the next generation?
Most home users have no idea what you're talking about. The default config, for the vast majority of installations, is the only config.
Generally speaking, just about any Windows instance is going to gave at lease these ports open:
So this could reak havoc on business or residential networks. But then, I guess this is what you get for giving your users or peers an inapropriate level of trust.
Just so you all know, THIS GUY WAS MAKING A JOKE. .Mac is completely unrelated in scope to .NET. It's an Apple-centric hosting service with lots of OS integration for contact and bookmark syncing, plus webmail and hosting. It's not a runtime. I wish I had mod points right now.
Okay, first this was moderated funny, which was generous to say the least. Then someone moderated it "insightful," which just doesn't make any sense at all. Shouldn't that tag be reserved for comments that bring new information to the discussion? I was making a cheap jab at Microsoft here. How is that insightful on Slashdot?
I nominate "The Windows-based infrastructure enables remote upgrades" as the loaded statement of the year. Anybody care to take a guess as to who will be writing "upgrades" for these things?