Pierce

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  16. Why Windows Vista Won't Suck

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    Ive been playing with RC1, and to be honest, it looks fantastic.

    I have to question myself, why do i want vista? Is it for the flashy interface, the security, or is it the 64bit that no-one is really supporting for home desktops?

    For all of the above please see www.apple.com . However, if you like playing games use windows xp, till such time developers start using 64bit.

    If you want, all of the above, plus support for tablets, laptops, media centers, games, compatable aps, 64bit and 32bit intergration, so many built in apps that youll never find them all, native desktop widgits that seemlessly work and ultra fast boot times, then Vista is the only way to go.

    Now if they could fit it on a pda...

    Pierce

  22. Port Scan Concern

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

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    Having a router does nothing. Now if you have a router with NAT enabled, then that definatly helps.

    NAT was a great security invention that happened as a by product of CISCO trying to find a solution for running out of IPv4 addresses.

    For the port scanning, theres people with botnets that scan an entire ip range 3 times a day for certain vunrabilities, oh joy.

    Pierce

  25. Im Never Using Firefox Again

    in On The Web

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    Back and Forward

    Aren't useful to me. I don't use back and forward that often and, because I'm usually on a laptop, keyboard shortcuts are easier than mouse gestures and chords.

    Scroll threw tabs

    Left click, scroll up/down

    I think Firefox has scroll wheel tab paging. Anyway, my laptop doesn't have a scroll wheel ;)

    Make a tab a new window:

    Drag tab to task bar

    That I do miss. There's probably an extension that does it. I don't use multiple windows often enough to look.

    Wigits:

    FF has extensions but nowhere near as cool

    Utility and usability are more important than cool. I don't need a shiny four-function calculator in my web browser.

    Bittorent support

    Did nothing but get in my way. I like my BT clients.

    A better interface for showing you bad xml/rdf

    Firefox, uh, its broken "HERE" on line 4098.. yeah as if its going to be easy to find that error

    Switch to vim window, type ctrl-[4098G :) I don't think I've ever written syntactically-invalid XML.

    Opera is smaller.. and includes a mail client while its at it

    True. On the other hand you more potential for code reuse with Firefox. When XULRunner is ready you should able to host Firefox and Thunderbird (and maybe Sunbird, Songbird, and the rest) on a single XULRunning installation with the common code and data shared between the apps. Even now I have a second browser, Epiphany, sharing Firefox's XPCOM and Gecko libraries.

    Ohh. heres one, opera releases memory when you minimize it, firefox doesnt!!

    Firefox reduces its working set when it's minimized, or at least it did until recently. I believe Windows also automatically reduces the working set of processes with no raised windows. I'm not convinced it's a good idea anyway.

    So, still hate Opera? If you hate me more GOOD! :P

    Opera users. I don't have a problem with the browser.

    Now, a question. One Firefox feature that Opera seems to lack and that I can't live without is address bar history completion sorted by frequency of use. Is there a switch in preferences or a plugin or something that provides that in Opera?

    The scroll wheel doesnt work in FireFox for tab-switching.

    Use 9 lately? Though i do miss the auto fill feature on search boxes. At the same time, i miss not having magic wand on firefox(password utility manager).

    Releasing memory sets? I checked the latest version, it doesnt and was highlighted by ZDnet.com when they were reviewing ie7, which does it.

    Writing syntaticaly correct XML in vim? Well, okay, but writing dynamic sets, with millions of tripples? Eh.. the stored data could be at fault. At least FF2b2 has better displaying of xml content, compared to Opera, which is awful.

    The single platform, sounds like a cool framework. So you have to download this "box" and everything plugs into it?

    The wigits arnt limited to browser either. That calculator can sit on your desktop with opera minimized into the system tray. I seen somebody have a google bar perminantly open, (a proper sized one that is nice and big, i hate the one in the top right).

    Pierce