I have found that firefox has grown less and less stable with each revision. The bugs that I used to submit were very minor and esoteric to the tune of "touchpad scrolling doesn't work well with this synaptics driver revision," etc. Now they are just full out crashes! While the early releases were rock stable, 1.5 for windows crashes all of the time, and frequently decides to just stop resolving DNS after a little while. (I have no extensions, and I've observed the same trend on my laptop and three desktops that I use frequently. All have vastly different hardware and different software configurations. I have to restart firefox at least once a day)
I'm sure that this is mostly due to the complexity of the codebase growing, and I still use it because I can't quite swallow the alternatives right now... but still... firefox has gotten under my fingernail plenty of times this past half year... food for thought... balance between new features and stability, please!
Yeah, my vista RC1 copy just decided to de-authenticate itself one day (i had a legit key from microsoft). And NOTHING I did would bring the machine back up. After I booted it would get the "Your copy of windows is not activated" dialog. The online activation kept failing.
The best part is that I called the microsoft automatic hotline and spent 15 minutes playing along with the cheerful computer prompting me. "Great! You are almost there! Now read me the bazillion numbers in group five". Wonderful, now group six! It happilly gave me a reactivation key to type in manually, but vista refused to take it. I double checked the number and gave up at that point.
Oh, and since I had installed firefox as the default browser, not even the "browse the web" feature worked right! Wonderful! If this "Release Candidate" is at all indicative of the final product, it is going to drive people to Macs in droves!
The allowance for the buyers agents is decided in the contract between the seller and the listing agent. (I.E. the seller of the house pays a little bit to the listing agent, and a little bit to the buyers agent). If the house is sold by the lister, then they get all of that money.
Haha... Vista RC1 just decided to stop working one day, even though I had a legit validated key from Microsoft (I called to have it activated).
I just booted it up one day, and it said "Your copy of windows is not activated". The best part is that it refused to accept the unlock key generated by the automated phone system!
Good thing I didn't have any important information locked up on it!
Unfortunately just putting more cores on a chip will eventually reach a breakeven point where memory bandwidth becomes the limiting factor. If you can't fit it on the core's cache, you have to communicate with the outside world.
As it stands, a Core2 is only marginally faster than a single core for the multithreaded scientific computations I work on. I would bet that a quad core would show little to no advantage over a dual core.
Wow... these recommendations are all way off... I picked up a 7900GT for $200 from Newegg two weeks ago, and I've seen 6600GT's go for much $100 on e-bay.
For casual gamers, the 6600GT is plenty fast in current games!
Nope, I have a radeon mobility 7500 card in mine. Runs fine without aero. Almost all drivers were autodetected or automatically downloaded from the internet after the first boot.
For the remaining drivers you can use regular XP drivers.
Vista RC1 runs hot on my Dell Inspiron (WITH proper drivers and WITHOUT aero). I would imagine that enabling aero would easily halve battery life on any laptop out there!
THIS OS IS BAD NEWS! There is not a single tangible feature about it that I have liked. Apart from being DRM'd up the wazoo. They took XP, and just shuffled and "context-ified" all of the menus to make it as inefficient as possible for any power user. It is absolutely dumbed down to the point of being insufferable. I mean there are LITERALLY modal error dialogs warning you that another modal error dialog will pop up! (I'm not kidding.. something like "Continuing this action will require you to grant administrator approval (ok cancel)" followed immediately by "Do you wish to grant administrator approval?").
Even simple system tasks are expected to be performed through task oriented wizards that lend no clue as to what is actually happening behind the schenes. (i.e. I want to enable my network connection with a firewall and default to no file sharing. I can't easily get to that menu. I don't know what the correct answer is to vista's question about where I am most likely to use my connection that will yield a firewalled connection without filesharing. I understand that a conf file isn't for everyone, but this is catering to the 3 year olds!)
One of my degrees is in comp sci. I've taken a GUI design theory classes. It took me > 3 minutes to figure out how to add something to the new start menu (right click, create shortcut isn't there... explore (all) user(s) and I don't have permission to write. I can't drag a shortcut in... hmmm)
My intention is to avoid "upgrading" as long as I possibly can. As it stands, in my opinon, Vista is a DOWNGRADE from xp!
First of all, it's been cracked again. Look up FairUse4WM 1.2.
Second of all, from what I've seen, it's not pushed out via windows update, but rather the client you are using for music. For instance, Napster pushed out the new version via a tiny patch when I launched the client. There IS a way to trick your client into believing that you already have the latest version (thus preventing the forced update). Look it up in the doom9 forums.
This should keep the crack working until Napster pushes out a completely new version of the client that explicitly checks the version, or Micrsoft issues a regular update.
-T
P.S. Napster provided free of charge by my university. Hell, as a grad student, I guess I get paid to use it...
I fly all of the time. The only time I've been "randomly selected" since 9/11 was the one occasion that I purchased a one way ticket. Everything I had with me was checked inside and out.
Damn, you think that a terrorist bent on blowing himself up on plane will worry about paying for a two way ticket when the credit card bill finally arrives?
I'm all for the illusion of security (to keep our brainwashed sheeple flying, and the airline industry in business). However if we're doing it anyway, at least have it make sense.
Observations :
#1 : One way tickets are not indicative of terrorists. Money is not an object, especially if they know it will draw attention.
#2 : I've had nail clippers confiscated in Warsaw. NAIL CLIPPERS. If you try to take a plane with nail clippers, I've got a sky mall with your name on it.
#3 : Banning lighters on planes is dumb. My 13 year old brother can list about a dozen other ways to quickly and efficiently make fire with other materials that you are ALLOWED to bring on a plane. Hell, give me a battery, a conductor and 15 seconds. Man has been doing fire for the past several thousand years. We're pretty good at it. Give me an hour, and I can put together an electronic ignition system out of things you are commonly allowed to have on a plane!
#4 : Banning liquids is temporary, and even currently very limited in scope. What happens afterwards? Liquid explosives are impossible to detect at anywhere near the rates we need to screen people getting on planes!
#5 : Has anyone considered the possibility that a suicidal terrorist could have any of a number of explosives implanted? The human component here is only searched for metal.
Don't buy into the BS. Security is an illusion. Planes will always be at risk, and we are no safer today than we were pre 9/11. The best you can do for yourself is to learn a little about how statistics work. Stop wasting your money on the state lottery. Stop worrying about terrorism. Return to your regularly scheduled life, and accept the fact that you will probably die of heart failure.
The torrent is rocking... I'm getting 500kB/s. In fact, given the choice, I usually pick bittorrent downloads over http or ftp now, since they tend to go faster on average.
I'll put up an http download when it's done (at least until my server catches fire).
-Tom
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I know this is heresy here, but....
I have found that firefox has grown less and less stable with each revision. The bugs that I used to submit were very minor and esoteric to the tune of "touchpad scrolling doesn't work well with this synaptics driver revision," etc. Now they are just full out crashes! While the early releases were rock stable, 1.5 for windows crashes all of the time, and frequently decides to just stop resolving DNS after a little while. (I have no extensions, and I've observed the same trend on my laptop and three desktops that I use frequently. All have vastly different hardware and different software configurations. I have to restart firefox at least once a day)
I'm sure that this is mostly due to the complexity of the codebase growing, and I still use it because I can't quite swallow the alternatives right now... but still... firefox has gotten under my fingernail plenty of times this past half year... food for thought... balance between new features and stability, please!
-Tom
Yeah, my vista RC1 copy just decided to de-authenticate itself one day (i had a legit key from microsoft). And NOTHING I did would bring the machine back up. After I booted it would get the "Your copy of windows is not activated" dialog. The online activation kept failing.
The best part is that I called the microsoft automatic hotline and spent 15 minutes playing along with the cheerful computer prompting me. "Great! You are almost there! Now read me the bazillion numbers in group five". Wonderful, now group six! It happilly gave me a reactivation key to type in manually, but vista refused to take it. I double checked the number and gave up at that point.
Oh, and since I had installed firefox as the default browser, not even the "browse the web" feature worked right! Wonderful! If this "Release Candidate" is at all indicative of the final product, it is going to drive people to Macs in droves!
-Tom
The allowance for the buyers agents is decided in the contract between the seller and the listing agent. (I.E. the seller of the house pays a little bit to the listing agent, and a little bit to the buyers agent). If the house is sold by the lister, then they get all of that money.
-Tom
You sir are either :
- funnier than all of us
- an idiot
-Tom
Great... a display case for my dust collection!
-Tom
Haha... Vista RC1 just decided to stop working one day, even though I had a legit validated key from Microsoft (I called to have it activated).
I just booted it up one day, and it said "Your copy of windows is not activated". The best part is that it refused to accept the unlock key generated by the automated phone system!
Good thing I didn't have any important information locked up on it!
-Tom
Unfortunately just putting more cores on a chip will eventually reach a breakeven point where memory bandwidth becomes the limiting factor. If you can't fit it on the core's cache, you have to communicate with the outside world.
As it stands, a Core2 is only marginally faster than a single core for the multithreaded scientific computations I work on. I would bet that a quad core would show little to no advantage over a dual core.
-Tom
should read : much less than $100
Wow... these recommendations are all way off... I picked up a 7900GT for $200 from Newegg two weeks ago, and I've seen 6600GT's go for much $100 on e-bay.
For casual gamers, the 6600GT is plenty fast in current games!
-Tom
replace chord.wav with silence.wav...
-Tom
hmm.... they are probably all free! for dns! -Tom
Nope, I have a radeon mobility 7500 card in mine. Runs fine without aero. Almost all drivers were autodetected or automatically downloaded from the internet after the first boot.
For the remaining drivers you can use regular XP drivers.
-Tom
Vista RC1 runs hot on my Dell Inspiron (WITH proper drivers and WITHOUT aero). I would imagine that enabling aero would easily halve battery life on any laptop out there!
THIS OS IS BAD NEWS! There is not a single tangible feature about it that I have liked. Apart from being DRM'd up the wazoo. They took XP, and just shuffled and "context-ified" all of the menus to make it as inefficient as possible for any power user. It is absolutely dumbed down to the point of being insufferable. I mean there are LITERALLY modal error dialogs warning you that another modal error dialog will pop up! (I'm not kidding.. something like "Continuing this action will require you to grant administrator approval (ok cancel)" followed immediately by "Do you wish to grant administrator approval?").
Even simple system tasks are expected to be performed through task oriented wizards that lend no clue as to what is actually happening behind the schenes. (i.e. I want to enable my network connection with a firewall and default to no file sharing. I can't easily get to that menu. I don't know what the correct answer is to vista's question about where I am most likely to use my connection that will yield a firewalled connection without filesharing. I understand that a conf file isn't for everyone, but this is catering to the 3 year olds!)
One of my degrees is in comp sci. I've taken a GUI design theory classes. It took me > 3 minutes to figure out how to add something to the new start menu (right click, create shortcut isn't there... explore (all) user(s) and I don't have permission to write. I can't drag a shortcut in... hmmm)
My intention is to avoid "upgrading" as long as I possibly can. As it stands, in my opinon, Vista is a DOWNGRADE from xp!
First of all, it's been cracked again. Look up FairUse4WM 1.2.
Second of all, from what I've seen, it's not pushed out via windows update, but rather the client you are using for music. For instance, Napster pushed out the new version via a tiny patch when I launched the client. There IS a way to trick your client into believing that you already have the latest version (thus preventing the forced update). Look it up in the doom9 forums.
This should keep the crack working until Napster pushes out a completely new version of the client that explicitly checks the version, or Micrsoft issues a regular update.
-T
P.S. Napster provided free of charge by my university. Hell, as a grad student, I guess I get paid to use it...
umm... www.conjugation.org
;-)
!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
btw, I love the adsense ads on that page, looks like they get confused with "protein conjugation"
I fly all of the time. The only time I've been "randomly selected" since 9/11 was the one occasion that I purchased a one way ticket. Everything I had with me was checked inside and out. Damn, you think that a terrorist bent on blowing himself up on plane will worry about paying for a two way ticket when the credit card bill finally arrives? I'm all for the illusion of security (to keep our brainwashed sheeple flying, and the airline industry in business). However if we're doing it anyway, at least have it make sense. Observations : #1 : One way tickets are not indicative of terrorists. Money is not an object, especially if they know it will draw attention. #2 : I've had nail clippers confiscated in Warsaw. NAIL CLIPPERS. If you try to take a plane with nail clippers, I've got a sky mall with your name on it. #3 : Banning lighters on planes is dumb. My 13 year old brother can list about a dozen other ways to quickly and efficiently make fire with other materials that you are ALLOWED to bring on a plane. Hell, give me a battery, a conductor and 15 seconds. Man has been doing fire for the past several thousand years. We're pretty good at it. Give me an hour, and I can put together an electronic ignition system out of things you are commonly allowed to have on a plane! #4 : Banning liquids is temporary, and even currently very limited in scope. What happens afterwards? Liquid explosives are impossible to detect at anywhere near the rates we need to screen people getting on planes! #5 : Has anyone considered the possibility that a suicidal terrorist could have any of a number of explosives implanted? The human component here is only searched for metal. Don't buy into the BS. Security is an illusion. Planes will always be at risk, and we are no safer today than we were pre 9/11. The best you can do for yourself is to learn a little about how statistics work. Stop wasting your money on the state lottery. Stop worrying about terrorism. Return to your regularly scheduled life, and accept the fact that you will probably die of heart failure.
The torrent is rocking... I'm getting 500kB/s. In fact, given the choice, I usually pick bittorrent downloads over http or ftp now, since they tend to go faster on average. I'll put up an http download when it's done (at least until my server catches fire). -Tom