IE7.. oh wait
Computer Science Canada Better than Google? |
| Author: | bugzpodder [ Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:54 pm ] |
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"Should we add a Google-like search engine but twice as good hard-core into Windows? Guess what. If we did that, I don't think a company called Google would be very happy" link (link edited for the sake of people who don't use andy's sig to set their browser window size) |
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| Author: | codemage [ Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:48 am ] |
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I don't care what they bundle into Vista. As long as it can be turned off. |
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| Author: | Tony [ Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:39 pm ] |
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IE7.. oh wait |
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| Author: | MysticVegeta [ Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:50 pm ] |
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I hate the fact that IE can never leave my computer. Annoying little shyt. |
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| Author: | person [ Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:54 pm ] |
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cant u just delete it? |
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| Author: | [Gandalf] [ Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:48 pm ] |
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No. I believe this is also the case with msn messenger. *shudders* |
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| Author: | Tony [ Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:44 pm ] |
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person wrote: cant u just delete it?
That's the point, you can't. IE is integrated into the OS. That is actually part of the reason why Windows is so redicilously vulnarable, as exploits in the browser open up access to the OS itself. |
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| Author: | codemage [ Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:06 am ] |
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I renamed messenger. Out of sight, out of mind, at least. |
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| Author: | Dan [ Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:26 pm ] |
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You can remove messager by doing somthing to the regsitry so it will show up in remove programs. I forget the excat regsitry key at the moment but i am shure it is easyly findable with google. Tho this was b4 some big windows patches so it chould have been "fixed" by now. I hate IE so much, i wish like linux u could download and install your own file browsing applications that whould replace it. |
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| Author: | bugzpodder [ Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:49 pm ] |
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i find nothing wrong with IE and msn =/ I mean, why would you want to remove IE? After all, it is the *only* broswer that works with windowsupdate... (good job, MS) |
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| Author: | MysticVegeta [ Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:33 pm ] |
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I will take it as if you were being sarcastic about IE. But if you were not, then you need to see a list of 10 pages on how IE sucks. |
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| Author: | person [ Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:14 pm ] |
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um im pretty sure i deleted my messenger without any problems...weird |
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| Author: | MysticVegeta [ Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:44 pm ] |
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Do you mean your Windows Messenger or MSN Messenger? |
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| Author: | md [ Fri Mar 03, 2006 9:20 pm ] |
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Windows messenger can be removed using the add/remove windows components part of add/remove programs. It's super simple. |
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| Author: | [Gandalf] [ Sat Mar 04, 2006 7:19 am ] |
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Don't know about everyone else, but when I first installed Windows XP I would get messenger popping up every time I logged on. Couldn't remove it, and the only way to stop it from starting up was renaming the .exe to .crap (not in startup, checked a bunch of registry keys, nothing). I find that, about IE, I agree with bugzpodder. Another one of their forceful control schemes. |
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| Author: | Andy [ Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:43 am ] |
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go to control panel, admin tools, then services, and disable messenger from auto starting |
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| Author: | md [ Mon Mar 06, 2006 5:20 pm ] |
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I think the messenger gandalf is refering to is either MSN messenger of Microsoft messenger. The "messenger" service is actually something else; though it should definitely be disabled (and is with SP2). |
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| Author: | Mark_Tran [ Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:11 pm ] |
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Does this mean I should not download MSN messenger onto my newly formated computer?  |
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| Author: | bugzpodder [ Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:16 pm ] |
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it would be interesting to see if ms really overtakes google in 6 months or if they are just bluffing. and no, you can install msn messenger on your computer if you want. there is no problem in removing it. |
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| Author: | wtd [ Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:19 pm ] |
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bugzpodder wrote: it would be interesting to see if ms really overtakes google in 6 months or if they are just bluffing.
But... but... Microsoft never promises then fails to deliver! |
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| Author: | bugzpodder [ Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:35 pm ] |
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lol, even if they doesn't, it would be interesting to see what kind of search engine they come up with. |
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| Author: | wtd [ Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:42 pm ] |
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Yeah, but until they do, this is pure FUD. They talk up what they might have in 6 months time and say it'll be (insert really impressive number) times better than the competition. If they can actually produce it, that's great, but what they're going for is to scare businesses away from making any investment in Google for fear of missing the boat. |
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| Author: | md [ Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:12 am ] |
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Ah vapoware, what would we do with out it. |
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| Author: | bugzpodder [ Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:23 pm ] |
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060308/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_internet_search sooner than I thought. MS is debuting it tomorrow. |
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| Author: | codemage [ Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:52 am ] |
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Lots of features there. They've "googled" it up quite a bit. It'll be interesting to see how the war shapes up. |
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| Author: | bugzpodder [ Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:08 am ] |
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www.live.com |
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| Author: | Boo-chan [ Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:49 am ] |
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I can't comment on the search results themselves but I dislike the way it puts all the results into one dynamic page since it doesn't allow for extremely fast scrolling.As well, the way they include links into the results requires you to ctrl+click to open them in new tabs(at least in firefox) which is rather irritating. |
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| Author: | Andy [ Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:02 pm ] |
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or just middle click... the site was up a while ago.. i like what they did with the images, but i dont understand why its incompatible with opera |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:07 pm ] |
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That scroll bar just about killed it for me. |
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| Author: | bugzpodder [ Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:15 pm ] |
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Boo-chan wrote: I can't comment on the search results themselves but I dislike the way it puts all the results into one dynamic page since it doesn't allow for extremely fast scrolling.As well, the way they include links into the results requires you to ctrl+click to open them in new tabs(at least in firefox) which is rather irritating.
I always keep the "force links to open in tabs" option checked in firefox. |
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| Author: | bugzpodder [ Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:15 pm ] |
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Coutsos wrote: That scroll bar just about killed it for me.
haha I didnt like that too much either. |
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| Author: | bugzpodder [ Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:20 pm ] |
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I tried to find compsci.ca on the Live search engine... I tried things like "Show me the biggest turing forum" and etc it was confused with Alan turing, so i changed the query from turing to winoot, but didnt get any results. Finally I entered: "a forum on turing the programming language" and it gave me compsci.ca as the second query result. On google, that exact same query yielded http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Turing/ as the second query result. Behold, when you enter that site, you'll see compsci.ca the first entry is wikipedia's turing page. Somebody go change that page to add compsci.ca to it  |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:13 pm ] |
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The Alan Turing article links to a Turing programming language article, and that links to compsci.ca. |
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| Author: | Tony [ Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:52 pm ] |
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bugzpodder wrote: Somebody go change that page to add compsci.ca to it
That wikipedia page has been linking to compsci.ca since ever  |
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| Author: | [Gandalf] [ Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:34 pm ] |
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Yeah, that scroll bar is horrible... As for finding compsci.ca, I had to enter "computer science canada turing" to get it as the first result. |
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