Isn't the provision of a text based search an admission by the developers that the mass of icons approach does not work? I don't need to use a...
"Unity and GNOME 3 both abandon the old text-based cascading menus in favour of a graphical icon-driven system."
Point truly missed. Both use a...
whs001 - Thank you, I'm glad you liked the article.
I absolutely agree with you on your first point. I should perhaps have made it clearer that...
If we allow corporate interest to dictate the way our government circumvents due process against foreign entities then we should accept the same...
I totally dislike pirating of works, I fear that artists will be deterred from creating works if they think that they are going to get ripped off....
How dare film makers, artists or anybody that invests in creativity stop us pirating their works for free. I want to be able to walk into my local...
@GrueMaster. I prefer horses for courses rather than one size fits all. I, and I suspect most other computer users, do not really wish to have...
The product that scares me every time I have to use it is the Office 2007 version of Excel.
The first bug that I found was applying the median...
Nice review and very informative. One thing I'd like to add (in reply to whs001's 1st question), the main reason to have the same interface from...
I'be been using Mint 12 since the RC came out, and I am far more happy with the Cinnamon, the Mate, and, yes (with extensions), theGnome 3...
Excellent article. One small correction, though--although a fresh installation of Linux Mint 12 will, indeed, provide the user with a version of...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
For Gnome 2 die-hards, it is possible to add icons to the bottom panel (or top top panel, if you prefer) which provide the exact Gnome 2...
Your comments would seem pretty naive and immature. Your 'solution' appears to be, "gee, let's all just give in to the hackers and give them...
"Interesting thought ... If you installed Win7 as a dual boot on a machine that previously only had Linux, and it wrecked your Linux installation,...
This is an excellent summary of Ubuntu and Mint and the interface differences between them. Most such articles take a very partisan position for...
@ewallace. Not so clear. Anyone can obtain the text, for example from here http://www.ustr.gov/webfm_send/2379.
I support ACTA so long as it and...
I think WinRT is fantastic.
I just wish it was an option for people that didn't want to go through Microsoft's App Store with its attendant...
Nine people? £30m? Who's back pocket is that lot going in?
And IF they say it is for new buildings, what about all the ones the government has...
Talkback
A detail the Mozilla shell was OK per se, it's a problem in Windows that makes the shell potentially risky.
A curiosity: I wanted to quote the title, author and URL of this article somewhere, but someone pointed out there was an "invisible image hotlink". So I checked the html. Indeed, there was a line saying:
< DIV >< IMG height=3 alt="" hspace=0 src="http:// news.zdnet.co.uk/i/b.gif" width=1 >< /DIV > [spaces added to prevent it from working]
Is it on purpose that the image tag is not closed, so that you can track copy-pastes by - unwitting - bandwidth thefts?
Cheers
Am I reading this right? For Microsoft to bother fixing it, someone has to exploit it?
Actually it kind of makes sense. I guess there's so many MS Vulnerabilities (TM) that are being exploited they don't have time to fix the ones noone using... yet.
I seem to recall the vulnerability being not with Mozilla, but rather with the way that WindowsXP/2k itself handles the shell: protocol. Note that Microsoft was supposed to have already fixed this. But apparently they either only fixed it for Internet Explorer(a hack at best, since other browsers still suffer, like Opera. It probably falls under anti-trust activities also), or they didn't fix it at all. None of which surprises me. Microsoft doesn't care about whether or not the software is secure, they just want to make it look like it. Until Microsoft fixes the flaw at the operating system level, this flaw will remain in all browsers that allow the shell: protocol.