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« Last post by f0dder on March 12, 2009, 10:44 AM »What does this have to do with bad sectors?
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Glad I could be of helpBut again: you can only see the individual application traffic while it's happening (the apps are shown as long as they have active connections, though).This is a small drawback, but this is what I was actually searching for: to see the individual application traffic as it's happening. Now I just have to wait and for the "strange" traffic to appear and see what is causing it. Thanks a lot f0dder!-f0dder (March 11, 2009, 11:31 AM)-bgd77 (March 12, 2009, 01:52 AM)
Does that mean I can uninstall all previous .NET versions and use 3.5 to run applications targetting, say .NET 2.0?.NET is a bit bad, I wonder why it's so big - and whether you need all the different .net versions or if eg. the 3.5 framework also supports all older versions.
The latest version, .NET 3.5, is backward compatible with versions 1.0 and 2.0 in most cases. There are some deprecated functions, but on balance backward compatibility is pretty good, in my experience. If you are a developer, all of the MS IDEs offer a project conversion wizard that updates projects to be compatible with the latest framework.-kyrathaba (March 11, 2009, 06:50 PM)
How do you visit a site and download Chrome, Firefox, K-Meleon, Opera, Safari, or any other browser if you don't have a browser to begin with?A stub that only allows you to download browsers, perhaps?
(or, the way it'd be done in order to show how f'ing ludicruous this idea is: you'd have to find your browser from some distribution media. That'd piss non-*u*x people off). Alternately, a decent package manager for Windows...I do agree that IE shouldn't be so deeply integrated into the OS, and it should be completely removable, but the idea of requiring Microsoft to get rid of it entirely is just crazy and not well thought out.Considering what "IE" is, uprooting it is a bad idea. The libraries it offers are useful. Apart from that, I don't find IE (the browser part) to be very tightly integrated in the operating system, except for Windows Update. Sure, there's a few apps that launch IE instead of your primary browser, but that's not IE's fault. There's also apps that launch explorer.exe instead of the shell handler for Folder/Directory - FireFox, for instance.
And why target Microsoft and nobody else? Does Apple's OSX come with a browser? Who made that browser? How is it really any different? Why doesn't anyone cry about Apple doing it, like they cry about Microsoft?Because Apple is an underdog, and it's users are zealots. Their gurus can't be wrong. EU and the like obviously only target the reeeeeally big companies.
The problem is that Sun doesn't uninstall the old vulnerable versions when you upgrade your JRE. They leave them on your system to be exploited. So just because you have everything up to date, you can still be a sitting duck to the drive-by malware attacks that the older stuff is vulnerable to.Yeah, this is bad - shame on you, Sun! And because Java applets are executed through an alternate process (flash isn't btw), IE7+'s Protected Mode (on Vista w/UAC) probably doesn't help much. (I should read up on the PM though - it could be that java.exe is being started by iexplore.exe so it also runs with reduced rights).
And this is not the fault of Microsoft, and not related to IE.Try explaining *u*x morons that flash and java based exploits isn't IE's fault
one of the major benefits of the netlimiter is that if you are more than one person using one connection, and when you have to download large files continuously by several programs, you can limit the connection speed of your computer at that period in order not to prevent the other network users traffic. if you wish, you need not limit the whole computer speed -- only the software you choose.That's only for the paid version, though-gorinw13 (March 11, 2009, 12:00 PM)
Actually I think it has what I need: "NetLimiter 2 shows list of all applications communicating over network it's connections and transfer rates."I find that it's a useful enough tool, it's interesting seeing how much internet bandwidth I use - and the fact that it can differentiate between the LAN and the Internet zone is important, since there's many gigabytes going back and forth between my workstation and my fileserver-bgd77 (March 11, 2009, 10:57 AM)
(last month: 52gigs received, 16gig sent).) for disk-intensive stuff (you don't want to wear out your SSD erase cycles too fast) - coupled with a large amount of storage on a gigabit fileserver... that'd be awesome. I'm currently missing the SSD part, waiting for SSDs to become good enough, and cheap as well.Good thing I didn't make a quick switch due to vulnerabilities that were originally thought to be adobe only!Fortunately, foxit will likely just crash if presented with a code-execution-exploit made for Adobe Reader - and AR is going to be the target because of marketshare.-Josh (March 10, 2009, 04:04 PM)
)I just wanted to make people aware that this is not a "Windows only" issue, nor is it an "Adobe Reader only" issue.Yeah, and good job for doing so-app103 (March 10, 2009, 10:37 AM)
Good to see so many people here moving to Mac!You like seeing people moving to overpriced hardware and an even more tightly controlled closed ecosystem than Windows?-justice (March 10, 2009, 10:27 AM)
While foxit's products are nice for portability, they do not hold a candle in usability when compared to adobe's products.If you only need PDF reading, and not authoring, just what advantages does Adobe Reader have over Foxit? For my needs, FR is superior to AR because of it's simplicity and smaller size.-Josh
While foxit's products are nice for portability, they do not hold a candle in usability when compared to adobe's products.Perhaps Adobe should spend a bit more time on testing and bugfixing than adding useless graphical glitz (like the skinned crap in recent AR versions).-Josh
There is a reason Apple has made their software installable on only a limited amount of hardware. If apple had the same amount of hardware to support, they would have the same issues.Bullshit. They would have more driver issues, yeah, but software bugs are only very rarely hardware-dependent.-Josh
NIN Doesn't hold a candle to metallica, korn, or disturbed when it comes to stage shows.Have you seen footage from their last show?-Josh (March 09, 2009, 11:48 AM)
