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Reply to Intel exec fears for U.S. competitiveness in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

As I chronicled earlier (in a post probably long enough that no one read it) there is a perception that just by being in the tech sector you are entitled to a lot of money. The economic bubble of the late '90s did that; after all the term "tech sector" hasn't been around all that long comparatively. Think about it. I was born in 1985 and I got out of elementary school in 1996. Most of my formative educational experiences in middle and high school were

Reply to More about evil old Capitalism in Industry WinCustomize Forums

Capitalism works best when there is lots of choices and competition. That way, greedy people inadvertently make society better. In order to compete, the product/service being produced must be made to be better than everyone else's. With everyone trying to get better to increase sales and enrich themselves, the overall products and services being made by the greedy capitalist pigs are constantly increasing in quality due to market pre

Reply to Intel exec fears for U.S. competitiveness in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

The last time the American educational system was significantly overhauled at once was around the time of the Space Race in order to keep up with those dirty commies (the new math, and all of that). That's not to say that some changes have not occurred; plenty of things are different. For instance, when I was in elementary school, there was a big fad among teachers of having kids "just sound it out" instead of being taught phonics for spelling. Luckily

Reply to OS Advocates - they never change in OS Wars WinCustomize Forums

maybe you can teach me how to install programs on Linux. I run Fedora Core 3. Let me know!! The distro I use has the APT system for programs with a GUI frontend called Synaptic. It automatically looks up the file listings in the package repositories and automatically checks for dependencies when install

Reply to GMail Drive in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Get as many G-Mial invites as you want: http://isnoop.net/gmail/

Reply to OS Advocates - they never change in OS Wars WinCustomize Forums

I have used a GNU/Linux OS. I have a dual boot set up on my computer in fact (definition: I have a separate hard drive partition with the PCLinuxOS distribution of GNU/Linux in addition to the hard drive partition with windows). For so-called basic computing needs, like web surfing, e-mail, IM, playing music, watching movies, and word processing, it's perfectly fine. I can even do some graphics with it thanks to the vector drawing program Inkscape and

Reply to iTunes and Pepsi Promo: Watch out! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

What does winamp do that itunes doesn't? Winamp can play videos, has a video streaming network of its own (Shoutcast), can play more kinds of audio file types than iTunes, and offers plugins and the ability to skin it. Plus it doesn't install Quicktime with it and doesn't make you manually turn off iPo

Reply to My Thoughts on Some Linux in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

I have heard many good things about CentOS as far as the server side of things. It's basically a complete rewrite of RHEL only free.

Reply to Five Features Operating Systems Should Have in OS Wars WinCustomize Forums

I'm not completely sure if I'm getting everything you're saying correctly (so forgive me if I'm not), but I believe Novell's iFolder http://www.novell.com/products/ifolder/ may solve #2 for the time being until it's built into the OS. The flash presentation explains it a lot better than I can, but the basic idea is that there's a central server with iFolder software on it, and then every computer you use has the client software on it. You get

Reply to Star Threshold in WinCustomize Site Issues WinCustomize Forums

Cool. Thanks for the info. For now, I figured out a workaround by simply typing the * wildcard in the search field. I can tell I'm not the only one with this problem as recent sub-7 star submissions have disproportionately low download counts. Nothing, and I mean nothing, ever stays at single digit downloads for a day, much less about 10 items at single digits. For now I'll just stick with the trusty * until things settle down around here. I'd imagine

Reply to Star Threshold in WinCustomize Site Issues WinCustomize Forums

That's interesting, considering until a couple days ago I could see everything, and I have submitted skins which it says visitors can't do. In addition, I have "Citizen" in front of my name on the boards here, and I just went and tested to see if I could download something under 7 stars, which I could. When I do searches for specific things in the galleries, I do see everything (i.e. searching for "napster" in the Object Dock gallery shows me my Napste

Star Threshold in WinCustomize Site Issues WinCustomize Forums

Somehow, my preference got changed and now in general galleries I am only seeing skins with at least 6 stars. I would prefer not to have any thresholds like that so I can see everything. I went to My Account and Preferences, and it gives me "Show skins with this rating or higher:" but no drop down menu to change the setting. It gives me a menu for skins per page, but not the rating settings. Any ideas?

Reply to SP2 Doesnt work - and has little protection. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

The IE popup blocker is nice, though the Google toolbar already took care of that. The firewall too is important as no version of any operating system should come without one. The nag about not having antivirus protection is good too for people who are computer neophytes or might not be as tech savvy as most people, though I don't remeber if it gets on you about keeping it up to date. I do know a lot of people who had trouble with it messing with their

Reply to Google and Mozilla in Internet WinCustomize Forums

Firefox's (in)famous New York Times ad was sponsored by many corporations, including Sun Microsystems, whose Java technology is used in Firefox. Another, the ISP Speakeasy, has released a customized Firefox version (see it here: http://www.speakeasy.net/press/pr/pr012505.php ). Are they slimy too? It makes sense for Firefox to advertise Google Search being integrated since it is by far the most popular browser. On a default install, search sup

Reply to How Much Competition Can The Market Bear? in Industry WinCustomize Forums

CLEARLY Firefox is slower in speed - both in starting up and in displaying web sites. One single test is not nearly enough to determine which is faster in loading pages. My test proved nothing, your test proved nothing. I have found that whenever testing one right after the other, whichever one goes fir

Reply to How Much Competition Can The Market Bear? in Industry WinCustomize Forums

And all those that cry about the holes from actice X - that was fixed by SP2. Secunia.com begs to differ. A vulnerability caused due to an error in the DHTML Edit ActiveX control that has been confirmed on a fully patched system with Internet Explorer 6.0 and Microsoft Windows XP SP1/SP2: http:

Reply to How Much Competition Can The Market Bear? in Industry WinCustomize Forums

I agree with the statement that Firefox is perceived as being more secure partly because it is more obscure, and it is not under the same scrutiny as IE is. I might mention though that the Mozilla Foundation does offer a bounty of $500 for each legitimate bug found, so there is incentive for people to find problems with it. In addition, it has a fairly large (and growing) community testing and bug hunting for it due to its open source nature, so it doe

Reply to How Much Competition Can The Market Bear? in Industry WinCustomize Forums

Go test both IE and /firefox on your machine using this link... Results: Firefox: Throughput = 53976 bytes per second/432 kilobits per second IE: Throughput = 41429 bytes per second/331 kilobits per second I also tried the stopwatch using ESPN's website as a benchmark since it tends to take

Reply to How Much Competition Can The Market Bear? in Industry WinCustomize Forums

BTW Microsoft will NOT let Firefox take over. As soon as MS feels threatned they will release IE 7 and/or update IE 6. Microsoft has stated many times that the last significant upgrade to IE6 other than routine security patches was the improvements that came with XP SP2. If you're running a version of W

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Reply to Icon-A-Day, Icon #10, Hard Drive. in Icons WinCustomize Forums

The deal with the GIMP is that it is mainly what it says it is: a Image Manipulation Program (that's the IMP in GIMP). You can use it for creating things, but it mainly is for modifying images made elsewhere. A great free vector drawing program is CreatureHouse Expression 3.3b which can be downloaded from Microsoft (MS just bought it) and can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/ If you want to go the open source route then try

Reply to MAL-WARE / SPY-WARE / ETC in Internet WinCustomize Forums

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird (e-mail) XPSP2 (for IE when I'm forced to use it and for firewall) Spybot S&D AdAware Spyware Blaster MS Anti-Spyware Beta (used to be Giant, but then MS bought the company) My system is clean, I get almost no spam (I get so little to begin with that Thunderbird is still learning), and I didn't pay a cent for any of it other than the cost of Windows XP when I bought the computer. Having a sec

Reply to Oh my GOD! school administrators are sooooooo dumb! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

By looking at words only, I am still a teenager (19). Yes, part of being a teenager is bending the rules a little bit, but knowing which ones to bend is a delicate balance. Something like computer security is really not one that you should go after. With as much hype as it gets in the press and how expensive computer systems are, administrators are likely to be as you experienced: jumpy and overreactive. People are naturally like that concerning anythi