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Would it have been SO FUCKING HARD to link to the original, instead to a site that won't even load as I'm writing this?
http://nikcub.appspot.com/posts/yahoo-axis-chrome-extension-leaks-private-certificate-file
X-bit Labs review.
Not much new stuff in there compared to other reviews. I miss the days when they accurately measured CPU and GPU power consumption... Now it's just meaningless "total power".
Sorry, fuckup on my part. It's not from 2004, it's from 2007. I know it's outdated, but I can't afford a PC upgrade. The point was more that PS/2 allowed me to do something, but USB doesn't.
Well, at least when I do upgrade I'll be back to powering on my computer through the keyboard, thanks for the info
Remember when USB first came out? At first, nothing really used it. You'd see printers support it as an option, right next to the old parallel port; you'd see a few USB mice and keyboards, often packaged with a PS/2USB converter. But now, you have to look long and hard to find a computer *without* USB, and finding legacy PS/2 keyboards or parallel cables is rather difficult.
The USB/PS2 thing causes some issues in certain scenarios. For example, mine.
I have a 2004-era motherboard, and it has a very useful feature: turn on PC via PS/2 keyboard. Can't do it with a USB keyboard. My old keyboard -- USB, actually, but connected through a PS/2 adapter -- died and I bought a new one. Unfortunately, it doesn't do jack shit with the adapter.
So, now I have to bend, open the case door and push the button on the computer case to turn on the PC. You might say it's not a big deal, and it isn't, but compared to a very quick keypress before, it's much more inconvenient.
I have no idea if newer motherboards can indeed power up the computer through a USB keyboard...
Asa Dotzler will design a Firefox for five billion users!
Why not Sir Dieter Rams? I mean, the designs are basically his...
Adblock Plus (isn't everyone?): I was under the impression (read on slashdot, so YMMGV) that Adblocking on opera was sub-par (still requested the ad, and just hid it, etc... rather than blocking it completely)? Since seeing the ads is the smallest part of why I use ABP, and I'm more interested in blocking the scumbags from tracking me, then this, if true, doesn't do me much good.
Not true. What's blocked is blocked.
Also, one curious thing: Opera has had blocking capabilities under the hood since version 6.02, which was out in April 2002, so that's a whole nine and a half years now. I think Opera was the first web browser that allowed you to block certain URLs natively.
I found that the Adblock list for Opera
works quite well. At home I use AdMuncher, at work I use the list above. Never had any problems with it. It's not as advanced as ABP, but at least it allows you to unblock stuff easily - I could personally never figure out how do to that with ABP, but I could just be stupid.
NoScript: See ABP.
Yeah, that one isn't really there. You can turn off JS entirely for a site - it's all or nothing.
PasswordMaker: This is a biggie at the moment. It's great for keeping a different password for every site without having to store them in "the cloud" or transfer much between machines.
Well... "PasswordMaker solves all of these issues. It is a small, lightweight, free, open-source tool for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, iPhone, Opera, PHP, Windows, OS/X, Linux, Flock, Yahoo! Widgets, Android, Python, and many other platforms & systems."
It's a widget, though.
Or you could use the built-in Opera Link functionality. Auto-sync everything important, including passwords.
DownThemAll would be nice too, but honestly, I use that infrequently enough that I could just fire up ChromeFox when I need it. But the other three are really tying me to this albatross.
Kind of. Open the Links panel (Tools, or Ctrl+Alt+L), filter what you want, select, download. Again, not as advanced as this extension, but it's there.
And still Mozilla doesn't get a clue that some of the recent changes are driving away users. Amazing.
Asa Dotzler personally stated that he's responsible for designing a Firefox for one billion active users.
I wouldn't say it's Mozilla as such. It's just a few people on the top, unattached to reality and earning a ton of cash. Not much different from any other company.
SN1987A results were consistent with neutrinos moving at c
But why are they moving at c, if they have mass?
Yogscast, Jesse Cox and TotalBiscuit also have Diablo III footage.
Yogscast vids start here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4qmrZEF-rE
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones