I did eventually have to force-quit, but that was after having up 150 tabs and working through them slowly; once I got it down to about 55, it was eating up the processor trying to remember everything I had looked at, closed, and bookmarked. But still, that's way better performance overall on Ubuntu than Windows; I do think there's something inherently crappy about the infrastructure of FF 2.0, but it's obviously especially shit in Windows.
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esse - Feb 07, 2007 5:48:39 am PST #563 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Jessica - Feb 07, 2007 6:55:33 am PST #564 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
In the early hours of Tuesday three key servers were hit by a barrage of data in what is known as a distributed denial-of-service attack.
There is no evidence so far of damage, which experts are saying is testament to the robust nature of the internet.
Don't these people realize that if they break the internet, they'll have no playground left to hack in?
Eddie - Feb 07, 2007 9:31:40 am PST #565 of 25496
Your tag here.
three key servers were hit by a barrage of data
Not sure what they were trying to accomplish. There are 13 root servers scattered around the world (and I use the word "server" loosely, they're more like clusters). Even if you could knock over three of them, you might add just a few milliseconds to a DNS query because it has to go further, geographically speaking, to query another root. Plus, I'd guess that the large majority of popular website's addressing info is cached on local DNS servers, so you'd have to take out all 13 roots and then sustain that attack long enough for the cache lifetime of the local DNS servers to expire, which would probably be at least a day.
Even if this was a dry run for a bigger operation, this seems to be a pretty futile effort if you ask me.
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2007 8:52:47 pm PST #566 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Anyone have a Zune? I'm trying to work out if I should just give my Zunified (ew) friend the .m4vs I have in iTunes (convertified by iSquint) or I should give him the originals or convert them again.
The first conversion page I hit suggested I download Windows Media Encoder 9, but Microsoft irritates me quite irrationally by wanting to validate my (valid) copy of Windows.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 08, 2007 6:46:24 am PST #567 of 25496
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Does anyone know if the CBS Innertube online videos on the CBS website are just incompatible with Macs in general? I've tried to access them in the latest available Mac versions of Safari, Firefox, and Netscape and either get no response (Safari and Netscape) or browser crashes (Firefox) every time.
-t - Feb 08, 2007 7:14:39 am PST #568 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I just got it to work in Safari last night, by using the RealPlayer setting rather than Windows Media - there's a button in the upper right that says something like player settings.
Lee - Feb 08, 2007 7:48:00 am PST #569 of 25496
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Matt, it seems to be hit or miss. Sometimes I can get it to work wonderfully, and other times I can't get it to even start.
§ ita § - Feb 08, 2007 8:18:36 am PST #570 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've been getting consistently good results with Firefox, Matt. I think I'm using RealPlayer.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 08, 2007 8:45:41 am PST #571 of 25496
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Thanks everyone! I'm pretty sure I've used the RealPlayer option for some attempts, but I can keep trying knowing that others have gotten intermittent connections.
Gudanov - Feb 08, 2007 8:59:16 am PST #572 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
It appears that Linspire and Ubuntu are going to do a lot of sharing of features.
Pretty interesting (for a limited audience), especially the prospect of easily installing commercial software.