Will Longhorn be worth the pain?

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Firefox 0.9x has some great new
extensions that make it worth the pain
of upgrading

Firefox 0.9x has some great new
extensions that make it worth the pain
of upgrading 08/12/2004 04:39 AM
I'm a cautious upgrader, always happy to learn from the experiences of others, and let them take the first arrows. I've been a Firefox user for over a year now, since it was called Phoenix, and my experience has been that the Firefox team is aggressive about releasing software at the same time as they are making deep changes to it. Also, they are not as solicitous of extension writers and users as I would like, as I've publicly tangled horns with Ben Goodger about in the past. As a result, and because I use Firefox as my main browser, I've been cautious about each upgrade of Firefox, and have been happily chugging along for months with Firebird 0.7 on the my desktop machine, and Firefox 0.8 on my laptop. Even the older versions of Firefox/Firebird are much better and safer browsers than Internet Explorer. Three weeks ago I finally upgraded to Firefox 0.92, and this week I upgraded to Firefox 0.93. While I did run into a few snags getting my data over to the new profiles, it was worth it. Firefox 0.9x is considerably faster than the earlier versions of Firefox. It feels snappy, like I have to hurry to keep up with it. And there are some really nice new extensions that are only available for Firefox 0.9+ that add significantly more functionality than was possible before. My favorites include: Slogger, an awesome (although strangely named -- how about SuperSaver?) extension written by Ken Schutte that allows one to keep a log of the sites that you have visited, and save the pages as you go along. It is like having Furl built into your browser. All I need is to do is find a full text indexing and searching program (more on that later, but suggestions welcome), and I'll be able to get rid of Surfsaver and MyBase, two formerly useful programs I purchased whose authors seem to be stuck in "Internet Explorer only" land. Sage, an improved version of the already good Firefox RSS Reader Panel. Sage is a very good RSS reader under active development that runs inside Firefox. It supports custom stylesheets, and Technorati and Feedster search engine integration. It suits my reading style a lot better than Nick Bradbury's well-reviewed Feed Demon that I beta tested, and unlike Feed Demon, it is open source -- anyone can improve on it. I wonder...

Ballmer: Longhorn Is 'Disruptive -- But
Worth It'

Ballmer: Longhorn Is 'Disruptive -- But
Worth It' 07/13/2004 06:48 PM
Microsoft's chief executive has declined to give a firm release date for the next version of Windows, in order to avoid disappointing customers and partners. By Andrew Donoghue, ZDNet UK (via MyAppleMenu)

Ballmer: Longhorn is 'disruptive - but
worth it'

Ballmer: Longhorn is 'disruptive - but
worth it' 07/13/2004 07:19 PM

If a job's worth doing, it's worth
overdoing.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth
overdoing. 04/15/2005 11:58 AM
For Sale: Wothahellizat? It's definitely not built for speed, but this weird off-road truck is truly a labor of love.

Introducing "Longhorn" for Developers:
Create Mobility-Aware "Longhorn"
Applications

Introducing "Longhorn" for Developers:
Create Mobility-Aware "Longhorn"
Applications 04/16/2004 11:41 PM
In this final chapter of Introducing "Longhorn" for Developers, you'll learn about the key "Longhorn" mobility scenarios you will want to be aware of as you design "Longhorn"-compatible software.

Longhorn Foghorn: Another Step Down the
Longhorn Road

Longhorn Foghorn: Another Step Down the
Longhorn Road 04/16/2004 11:41 PM
Chris Sells explores the five major element families of Avalon as he builds the next piece of his Longhorn based Solitaire application.

Must We Die In Pain?

Must We Die In Pain? 03/28/2005 06:13 PM
Forbes Mar 28 2005 9:48PM GMT

PAiN 0.45

PAiN 0.45 06/08/2004 07:42 AM
A new MUD code base written in Java.

Pain

Pain 12/17/2002 12:28 AM

"Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing."

- Fight Club

The Pain of Text

The Pain of Text 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
Yeah, this stuff's all getting cranky. Deal. :) At the moment, I'm trying to work on specifying text stuff for Parrot. Not simple, of course, because text is such a massive pain. Right now I'm just trying to sort the various functions on characters and strings into the right spot so they can be properly overridden, thumped, assaulted, and generally beaten about. If you've been following along, you've no doubt seen the rants about text, so I won't reprise them (much) and instead go for the actual useful bits. As far as I can tell (and this is all welded...

No pain, no gain

No pain, no gain 12/24/2003 09:21 PM
USA Today Dec 24 2003 8:06PM ET

Total Pain of Using

Total Pain of Using 08/16/2004 04:09 PM
TCO or "Total Cost of Ownership" is a notion that one can calculate (with some accuracy) the complete cost of owning something, including all the weird side effects of acquiring and owning that thing. For example, I can by a new 3.2GHz notebook for $2,000 and it comes with Windows XP. But odds are that I'll spend 20 hours in the first year dealing with device drivers, spyware, and viruses. If I value my time at $50/hour, then the total...

Telephone Pain

Telephone Pain 03/27/2005 03:11 AM
Dave Shea expl ains the painful choices facing Canadians who’d like a better phone. I am in exactly the same boat, except for I’m near the end of my service contract with Telus and when it lapses I am so out of there. By the way, if you get a GSM phone they’ll try to sell you one that’s locked so that when you’re in Europe you can’t put in that SIM card you bought in a grubby Brussels storefront; but I have it from reliable sources that most retailers will unlock it for a few bucks in cash money under the counter. Especially if you make it clear that the alternative is you walk out.

Pain in the Asteroids

Pain in the Asteroids 04/09/2004 04:04 PM
The news story on William Carlton's 27-hour Asteroids marathon, the fifth-highest-scoring game of all time, really makes you feel you were there. For the whole 27 hours. (04-04)

More Pain at JDS Uniphase

More Pain at JDS Uniphase 04/29/2004 01:27 PM
"Narrower loss" contains some bullets.

No Pain, No Hain

No Pain, No Hain 09/01/2004 08:13 AM
Hain Celestial puts up organically sound prospects -- if not earnings.

Beam of Pain

Beam of Pain 06/07/2004 10:56 AM
A roundup of new weapon technologies in this Sacramento Bee piece:

Test subjects can't see the invisible beam from the Pentagon's new, Star Trek-like weapon, but no one has withstood the pain it produces for more than three seconds. People who volunteered to stand in front of the directed energy beam say they felt as if they were on fire. When they stepped aside, the pain disappeared instantly.

The long-range column of millimeter-wave energy is known as the "Active Denial System" for its ability to prevent an aggressor from advancing. Senior military officials, who plan to deliver the device for troop evaluation this fall, say years of testing has produced no sign it will lead to health effects beyond perhaps causing skin to temporarily redden.(...)

But in an era of secret interrogations of al-Qaida suspects and revelations of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, Executive Director Doug Johnson of the Minneapolis-based Center for Torture Victims is skeptical. "It seems fundamentally a weapon that's designed to create a great deal of pain and fear," Johnson said. "The concern I would have is ... once this kind of technology is available and there's a perception that it's safe and nonlethal, it seems like a natural device to be used in interrogations.

Link (Via Warren)

Dealing With Pain

Dealing With Pain 02/05/2005 10:16 PM

On the Monday Podcast, Our Geek mentioned that his back pain was causing him quite a bit of discomfort, so when I seen this article I thought it would be a good idea to share it with you, it’s from Wired News and it’s called "The Painful Truth"

“Because nerve blocks affect a precise area of the body, they fall under the category of regional (rather than general or local) anesthesia. An elementary form of regional anesthesia is already widely used in maternity wards: the epidural block, employed to numb the pain of labor and achieved by injecting analgesics and narcotics along the spine.”

Pain bites.

Pain bites. 09/20/2004 08:52 AM
No pain, no gain, they say, and when it comes to real pain, the inverse is true as well. "We now have research indicating there's a memory of chronic pain," said Dr. Doris K. Cope, director of chronic and cancer pain for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. It changes the genic code sometimes, it changes the biochemistry, and it causes new proteins to be formed." Or in other words, the more pain you have, the more pain you have. (More on this.) It's no wonder, then, that more money is spent on pain relief than any other medical problem, and that there has been so much p ain research and so many clinical trials revealing such painful facts as redhead s feel more pain, men feel less pain, and that there's a genetic difference between tough guys and wimps. (Much more pain inside.)

PAiN. MUD Codebase

PAiN. MUD Codebase 12/15/2003 05:42 PM
PAiN v0.43. Triggers Framework added

Big Pain at Veritas

Big Pain at Veritas 07/06/2004 08:41 AM
TheStreet.com Jul 6 2004 12:58PM GMT

Authoring Pain

Authoring Pain 07/20/2004 06:25 PM
The person from the General Counsel’s office called to talk about some legal/regulatory stuff we’re pulling together, and she asked how it should be delivered. I said it would eventually end up on the Web, so why didn’t they write it as a web page. She sounded uncomfortable: “I don’t know how we’d do that,” she said. At the same time, I’m hearing private gripes from our internal writing community, from the President to the marketers to the Solaris geeks, about how their writing tools stink. The state of Web authoring tools is kind of like the state of what we used to call “Word Processing” twenty years ago when I was getting into this business. If everyone’s going to write for the Web (and it looks a lot of people are going to) we need the Web equivalents of Word Perfect and Wordstar and Xywrite and Microsoft Word, and we need them right now. The Atom protocol will give them a standardized way to push the content online, and the fact that it’s all open formats will make it real hard for a monopolist to scoop out the market. So, who’s building them?

I Felt a Shooting Pain

I Felt a Shooting Pain 06/05/2004 01:29 PM
The Chicago Sun-Times offers some unusual health advice: What does it feel like to get shot? Each year, around 55,000 more Americans could answer that question.

"The Panther Roars (in Pain)"

"The Panther Roars (in Pain)" 10/29/2003 09:08 AM

Postal 2: Share The Pain

Postal 2: Share The Pain 03/26/2005 10:22 PM

Rude, crude, and socially unacceptable. Still, it's sick and twisted fun for gamers looking for a different take on the FPS experience. By Peter Cohen, Macworld

Fourteen Years of Pain

Fourteen Years of Pain 03/06/2004 02:06 AM
I’m busily editing a fairly complex tech spec written in Microsoft Word. (Word generally sucks for tech specs except for this one is being team-edited with little infrastructure, so we needed the revision-marking feature.) When I first ever used Word it was in 1989 on a Macintosh; this first brush with competent WYSIWYG changed my thinking about interfaces and documents. There was a problem: back then the handling of numbered lists in Word was buggy and fragile. Today, fourteen years later in a recent rev of Office, numbered lists are still buggy and fragile. Innocuous changes—simple cut/paste, joining paragraphs, applying the formatting palette—intermittently send Word into psychotic spasms, in one case renumbering the list starting at 65, in another mysteriously removing the colour-coding from all the text in the doc, in another re-indenting dozens of apparently randomly-selected paragraphs. I suppose if it hasn’t gotten fixed in a decade and a half my grandchildren will probably be stuck with it. But I have hopes that the world will learn the valuable lessons Word taught us all about the interfaces between humans and texts, and for God’s sake move on to something better.

Qualcomm's Royalty Pain

Qualcomm's Royalty Pain 09/17/2004 10:19 AM
TheStreet.com Sep 17 2004 2:27PM GMT

Hypnosis as pain killer

Hypnosis as pain killer 03/14/2005 05:28 PM
David Pescovitz: In a new study, anesthesiologists used functional magnetic resonance imaging to observe how hypnosis might reduce pain by altering brain activity. The researchers subjected patients to a painful burning stimuli while their brains were scanned. The fMRIs of the patients under hypnosis for pain suppression showed "reduced activity in areas of the pain network and increased activity in other ares of the brain," according to University of Iowa professor of anesthetsia Sebastian Schulz-Stubner.

Hypnosis was successful in reducing pain perception for all 12 participants. Hypnotized volunteers reported either no pain or significantly reduced pain (less than 3 on the 0-10 pain scale) in response to the painful heat....

"...For clinical use, (the study) helps to dispel prejudice about hypnosis as a technique to manage pain because we can show an objective, measurable change in brain activity linked to a reduced perception of pain," (Schulz-Stubner) added.

Link

AT&T Sees Pain on Many Fronts

AT&T Sees Pain on Many Fronts 06/23/2004 05:31 PM
TheStreet.com Jun 23 2004 9:44PM GMT

Apple's Options: How Much Pain?

Apple's Options: How Much Pain? 06/25/2004 10:30 AM
By Alex Salkever, BusinessWeek (via MyAppleMenu)

Paper documents are a pain

Paper documents are a pain 09/02/2004 08:11 AM
David Pescovitz: A new study from the University of Washington's Information School provides more proof that search rules:

More than half of survey participants admitted losing track of a paper document at least once a week -- more than twice the number of people who reported losing electronic information.

The result? While more than 60 percent reported being satisfied with their ability to handle computerized records such as e-mails, electronic documents and Web bookmarks, only 31 percent were satisfied with their ability to organize their papers.

The survey is part of an interesting project called Keeping Found Things Found, an effort to develop innovative ways to manage information stored digitally and on dead trees. Link

Steve's pain gain

Steve's pain gain 12/16/2003 08:54 AM
Manchester Online Dec 16 2003 8:08AM ET

Talisma Promises CRM Without Pain

Talisma Promises CRM Without Pain 03/14/2003 01:28 AM
With enterprise execs collectively griping about how difficult and expensive it is to implement a CRM initiative and moaning that the pieces of CRM rarely fit seamlessly together, Talisma Corporation has adopted a strategy aimed at proving that executing CRM can be painless.

aaiPharma Feels the Pain

aaiPharma Feels the Pain 06/21/2004 09:19 AM
The maker of painkiller Darvocet restates its earnings for the prior two years.

The Panther Roars (In Pain)

The Panther Roars (In Pain) 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Is it worth the money? Yes. On an older machine like the iBook, Panther is a significant improvement. By Leander Kahney (Wired News via MyAppleMenu)

Grantham: Prepare for Pain

Grantham: Prepare for Pain 07/28/2004 03:17 PM
A big-time money manager with a long-term boffo track record warns of impending peril in the U.S. markets.

SAS: With new rules, going public a pain

SAS: With new rules, going public a pain 04/09/2005 12:57 AM
ZDNet Apr 9 2005 4:33AM GMT

A Royal Pain in the Internet

A Royal Pain in the Internet 12/12/2003 06:48 AM
The heir to the Spanish throne is set to wed a popular TV anchorwoman, and the country is in a tizzy. So are the cybersquatters, who have been snagging domain names related to the royal couple. The government steps in. Ana Bedia reports from Madrid.

TV can be a pain in the back (Reuters)

TV can be a pain in the back (Reuters) 08/27/2004 01:59 PM
Reuters - Couch potatoes beware -- slumping for hours in front of the television or computer can cause severe lower back pain which may take months or years to cure.
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