Posts by Rasczak

@ Joe21's continued ignorance

No not useful at all to compare two documents side by side if you wish. Maybe its just the way I work that makes being able to see things next to each other without having to constantly click to switch between them and memorize the exact layout that isn't useful.

Please explain how an MDI interface, as available in the first private Opera version and publicly from version 2, does not allow you to open many pages within the same window.

Your ignorance seems to know know bounds as you cannot actually read what I have said. Nowhere did I mention that iBrowse was a skin. I can't comment on its exact interface as I haven't used an Amiga in 15 years, before you say it had tabbed browsing, though around the same time that Opera had the equivalent.

Thanks for one thing though, I've finally been called a fanboy, although I'll think you'll find the term is fanboi. It's been my lifelong ambition to be insulted in such a way by someone with so little knowledge.

Website settings

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Sadly, the browser has yet to implement a way to manage which websites get to execute Flash, javascript and similar client-side programs and which ones don't.

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OK Flash is not selectable in it, but Opera 9 and the 10 releases I have played with have an Edit Site Preferences option to set Java, javascript, frame, content blocking, popup handling and other things per domain. Tha sounds very much to me like choosing which websites get to execute things to me.

@ tardigrade

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Err chaps. You're actually reeling off a list of advantages that Firefox already has, with regards to tabbed browsing. Session's saved after a crash or restart, draggable tabs, scroll to select, right click, new window links to new tabs etc etc etc..and all without add-on's. Try it you might like it.

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So Firefox has now copied what Opera has done for a long time.

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It also has a handy drop down button on the right side that you can click. Showing the full title of all open tabs in a scrollable list for ease of use, should you have 90+ tabs open. Opera doesn't have this, but it's a feature that they should adopt, it's quite handy.

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You're right it doesn't have a scrollable list showing the full title available, the scrollable list in Opera will show the title and a thumbnail of the page if you want, separates the list by each instance of Opera that is open on the Windows Taskbar and is searchable.

Also as Dave posted on Sunday 17th May 2009 01:32 GMT, "Opera has always been an MDI based browser with independent windows for each tab". That means you can use full window management within the browser, ie display multiple pages tiled or cascaded, mimimise/maximise each one, compare side by side and the like, tell me how you do this in Firefox ?

All this without addons and in a lot less memory space. Try it you might like it :-p

The picture, music and text areas are represented by the last file accessed

This sounds like a great idea, a screengrab from somewhere in the last video you were playing, on your homescreen. I can just see it, offering a mate a look at your new media player, no chance of emabarrasment at all is there.

@ AC best way to cut road deaths

I was just saying to the wife today that they ought to bring Darth Vader out of retirement, if his back is up to it.

And Shirley I'm not the only one who remembers the Tufty Club.

Google Search ?`

May I be the (probably) 20th person to say, but searching for Google on Google breaks the internet doesn't it :-p

@ David Nicholson

I'd been thinking along similar lines.

Electric motor more efficient for drivetrain - problem with charging batteries -short range.

Hydrogen to generate electricity - more range - same lack of infrastructure to keep hydrogen tanks topped up.

Use small petrol engine to generate electricity - use electricity to power motors (maybe through some sort of battery storage system) - infrastructure there to top up with petrol. Would this then use less petrol to go the same given distance ? I would have thought so as petrol engine would surely run at constant revs regardless of speed and so could be set as efficiently as possible to keep battery topped up enough to give smooth running.

Isn't this much how Diesel trains work, Diesel engine generating electricy for the motors driving the wheels ?

@AC 09:33 18th Feb

What are you saying. Don't you realise that the entire internet is that blue E on the desktop, there is no other way to do it.

Proof ? @ AC

And there only being Black Ford Model Ts was proof that the public didn't want red, green, blue or any other colour of car isn't it. (I know the quote about any colour as long as it is Black is a myth)

As to the lower spec comment, well if XP needs that higher spec to run to the same level as Linux on the lower spec.

@ Acid Test? by Rob Holmes

No production versions yet, but the Alpha of Opera10, http://www.opera.com/browser/next/, does get a perfect 100/100 score.

@ All those who think this means Opera want MS to remove IE

Start reading and comprehending.

Nobody is saying that MS should be forced to remove IE from Windows, just that I as an administrator should be able to do so if I wish without borking the rest of the OS.

Paris as that seems to be the level of comprehension.

@ Anonymous Troll Monday 22nd December 2008 16:02 GMT

Why does running out of fuel automatically make someone an idiot?

I end up driving quite a few cars, in addition to my own, and the gauge on one may look like quarter full when the tank is just about empty, and another could go to below the red and have over a gallon left. That and you get cars that should have enough fuel in them, however the fuel outlet from the tank is on one side and the car has been parked leaning to the other. If it was parked flat then it would start and get to a petrol station no problem, as it's on its side it needs a gallon to get the level to the outlet and once started you are fine, I had one once that was parked at such an angle that even two gallons wouldn't get it started, that one did need pushed, about 10 yards onto the flat though.

Yes I have, on occasion, misjudged the amount of miles I could go before needing a fill up, when I can save 10p a litre by filling at the end of the trip rather than at the beginning you tend to aim to put the majority of the fuel in then

I do usually have no petrol at all in a TDI vehicle, unless I have it in a jerry can taking it to a petrol car.

Nice bit of self deprecation there though, saying I can have you as my own pet idiot.

Paris, because that is about the level of intelligence you're showing in your post.

OpenDNS Account

If you have set up an account with OpenDNS then you can customise the error screen you get if you enter an invalid domain.

If you then set your router to use the OpenDNS DNS servers, its DHCP server to serve the Router as DNS, and log your internet IP Address against the OpenDNS account, then wouldn't that allow you to tell if the DNS was being hijacked, on your own network at least, by putting in a known invalid URL and seeing the error page that comes up. If it is not your custom page then it may well be hijacked.

Add this to setting up an OpenVPN server, for when you are on an untrusted network, which you set to act as an internet gateway to VPN clients, set the TAP/TUN network adapter to always use the OpenDNS DNS servers and you will either be safe or know you are compromised and act appropriately.

Of course this is possibly beyond your basic home user, so a real solution is still needed.

Rollback done ?

Some people on the Digital Spy forum are saying that their boxes have now been rolled back to the old software and it has cleared the problem.

I haven't had a chance to check mine to confirm though.

Not Webkit issue ?

Quote from Liu Die Yu who found this - "I don't see Apple Safari vulnerable in the same way," he writes in an email to The Register. "They share the same engine(webkit)."

Chrome uses v525.13 of Webkit, Safari uses v525.19. I haven't tested in Safari, but I have tried the POC page in Iron, the fork of Chrome from SRWare which also uses v525.19 of Webkit, it gets an alert for bbb.org that is 'undefined' and if you OK this you get what appears to be the correct page.

Maybe it is a Webkit issue, can anyone who has the developer version 0.3.154.3 of Chrome say what version of Webkit this uses ?

Web speed testers inaccurate ? I've never seen an accurate one.

I've tried a few of these website speed testers and I've never seen one, other than the direct BT Wholesale one, which gives a result consistent with a timed download in a download manager.

I go to site, choose the download test, and they pretty much always tell me I have round about 200 -250 KB/S download speed. Immediately I finish the test I download a large file in a download manager and it gives somewhere between 650 and 750 KB/S, when the rest of the internet is quiet of course. I can even get this when the test and the file download are from the same site, thinkbroadband.com has a Java speedtester and have files available for download, 200 - 250 KB/S on the tester, 650 - 750 KB/S for the file.

Granted my download manager can make multiple connections to the server, but then so can my browser.

@ Andy Worth

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Funny trilogy......A trilogy implies 3 parts but there are already 5 parts to the Hitchhikers series.

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Exactly

@ Joe Montana

RIM now have Blackberry Unite available, this is basically a cut down version of BES that will talk to POP/IMAP servers rather than Exchange/Domino/Groupwise.

Of course it still needs to be on a machine which is running 24/7 to get your mail, but you can use a client OS rather than a server one, although it still needs WIndows.

@ Matt Bradley

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All I need now is an explanation as to why the "Google Installer" tries to phone home every time a wake my machine from sleep or reboot.

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It has set up a task in the Windows task scheduler that is set to trigger after 10 minutes of idle time. I only knew it was trying to update as my firewall warned me of the outgoing connection and the program trying it. Killed the googleupdate.exe process in Task Manager and thought that was it. A while later, firewall alert again, and googleupdate.exe is running. No reference to it in startup or services so what was happening ? Eventually ran Process Explorer, which showed googleupdate.exe being triggered by svchost.exe. The services this instance of svchost.exe was contolling various services, including task scheduler. Had a look in the scheduled tasks and there it was, I say was, it isn't now :-p

Fair enough check for updates to a program, but isn't once a day, at startup of the program, triggered from the program itself, enough ?

@ Sarev

You may want to have a look at iPIG, http://www.iopus.com/ipig/

I was using this, have now set up Open VPN back to IPCop using Zerina like Ben Schofield, though connecting back to my own server at home.

You can connect to the iPIG server, 10 MB only for free, $30 for a further 30 GB is not too terrible, but could be better I suppose. Setting up the server on your own system is not that difficult, just install and set up a username and password. You have to set up a dynamic DNS name the same as for OpenVPN and do the port forwarding if you run a router, but these are the least difficult bits. You don't get access to your local shares with iPIG, but if you are just wanting encrypted net access when away from home, with the benefit of anything you access thinking you are at home, it is great. You either have to pay for the iPIG account, or install the server on a safe third party machine to encrypt away from your ISP.

Of course something to remember with iPIG or OpenVPN when running from home, is that you are transferring from the remote server to the VPN server, then uploading back to your client. A 5 MB download will count as 10MB on any limited data transfer account. You are also limited in transfer speed to that which your connection can upload.

@ Andrew Kemp

<Quote>Thankfully there are a few sane, logical people commenting here</Quote>

You mean the ones implying that speed cameras should be renamed unsafety cameras :-p

<Quote>Speed DOES kill</Quote>

Another one who doesn't understand the difference between driving too fast and speeding.

<Quote>That dial fitted to every single car will tell you all you need to know in order to remain within the law </Quote>

So if the speed limit for the road is 40, and the driver has just downed 15 pints of super strength lager with whisky chasers, the dial showing 30 means that they are within the law ?

Or the speed limit is 60, but the road is covered in snow that has been rained on and then frozen overnight, the dial showing 55 obviously means you can not be driving dangerously ?

Speeding Pedantry

Some ACs here can't seem to get their heads around the difference between speeding and driving too fast. The simple fact is that driving too fast is always dangerous, however whether speeding is dangerous depends on the circumstances.

Going over the proscribed limit is speeding, however that of itself is not necessarily dangerous. Someone could however be driving well below the proscibed limit and although not speeding, they could certainly be driving dangerously as they are going too fast for the conditions, for example if it is wet, icy or snowing. On the flip side driving too slowly can also be dangerous, indeed the Highway Code allows for signs giving a minimum speed limit as well as a maximum.

I don't think that anybody here has suggested that driving too fast is not dangerous, just that there are circumstances where driving at a speed above the limit is not driving too fast, and that maybe the limits themselves are wrong and in need of review.

@ Steven Raith

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Anyway, I like Opera, but as noted on another article, I use it as my JS free browser to get around annoying adverts and some of the more interesting exploits. it's not a perfect workaround [I could use Lynx, arf] but I like it for what it does. I just wish it had a 'reload all tabs' option. There's probably a plug in for that somewhere though.

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The Reload all option is something I have liked about Opera for years and haven't easily found an option to do it in any other broswer, I am ready to be correct on that though.

Try CTRL and F5 in 9.27 or earlier, and by looking at my shortcuts, CTRL-ALT-R should do it under 9.50. Even if it doesn't, go to Preferences, Advanced, Shortcuts, and Under Keyboard Setup, Duplicate and then rename the standard setup, then edit the new setting. Under Applications choose New, type in the keyboard shortcut you want to use under input, making sure it isin't in use already, and then type "reload all", without quotes, under action, OK this and then select your new setting and OK again. I have also edited my menu files, this has t be done in a text editor, to give me reload all otpions from various right clicks as well.

@ yeah, right. Re: Alternatives

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Well, there's Opera. It's apparently "much better", as in "faster", and "better designed". But wait, I can't do a site-by-site javascript denial as I can with Firefox and NoScript.

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Site Preferences allows you to disable/enable Javascript, even only disable certain specific javascript functions, set popup preferences, whether cookies are allowed, whether Java or any other plugins are used, whether frames or iframes are allowed, set the style sheet used, set whether referrer info is sent, set whether autoredirection is allowed, set the user agent used and other things, on a site by site basis and is included without installing anything else

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I can't selectively block advertising the way I can with AdBlock.

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The Block Content function, which can be set to allow otherwise blocked content to be viewed if on a specific site, does this quite happilly, again built in with no extra add-on to find, trust and install.

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Those two functions alone make Firefox worth much more than other browsers to me.

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So Opera has the same features with extra functionality in them, in a smaller package, (with the same 5 pages open in both Firefox 3 and Opera 9.50 on my machine, Opera uses a third to half the RAM that Firefox is using, other size differences are mentioned in my other post), without the need to go and find extra things, and you think that this is worth less than and is not "better designed" than Firefox? It sounds like you haven't even installed Opera let alone looked at what it can do on its own.

And of course, if you so wish, you can make further changes in either ini files or through Opera:config to get other custom settings as you like, and easily swap back to the defaults if it doesn't work out. With the Opera Community and opera.* newsgroups for advice on how to do these things.

Short Circuit

"I am thinking she is a virgin, or at least she used to be." - Ben Jabituya about Stephanie Speck

I know I should go for a Starship Troopers quote with my nick, but I went for the Flash Gordon one.