Posts by Daniel Fowler9

I ended up just deleting my profile and now everything is working perfectly! It’s honestly so weird... I never would have guessed that was even a possibility, let alone the actual fix! Thanks a ton!

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fadedtrucker19 said:Man, I've seriously never run into an issue like this before, so I'm totally stumped on how to even fix it.

Same here, honestly. 😢
I'm gonna go ahead and try what you suggested and then I'll get back to you with an update. I have absolutely no clue why this is happening—I already went through the whole headache of uninstalling both Java and Chrome just to reinstall them from scratch, and still, nothing changed...
I'm gonna dive in and wipe that profile now and we'll see what happens (though I've got a bad feeling about it...)

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fadedtrucker19 said:So, what's the URL for that specific site where your Chrome keeps crashing?
Let's see if we can actually replicate this mess...

It basically happens on pretty much any website running a Java applet, I've tried a bunch of them and they all go down, you could even try checking out this one: http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/javahtml/Regression.html

or just any random one for that matter, it’s always the exact same result.

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So, I was actually forced to get Chrome running on my Windows XP machine the other day because I really needed to see how certain websites were rendering in it. 😢
But man, I've run into this massive headache: Chrome just completely crashes on me every single time I try to visit a page that’s got a Java applet on it. 🙂

Everything works perfectly fine over in Internet Explorer—and yeah, I made sure it's set up to use Sun's Java instead of that ancient Microsoft version! 👍

Here's the lowdown: I've got Sun Java installed, specifically version 1.5.0 (build 1.5.0_06-b05), which runs flawlessly in Internet Explorer. My Chrome version is 1.5.0.7. I already tried the whole dance of uninstalling Java, then ripping out Chrome, and then reinstalling both from scratch, but honestly, nothing helps—Chrome still just dies the second it tries to load and execute any kind of Java applet. And by "dies," I mean the firefox.exe process just gets terminated instantly. Once the crash happens, this "Mozilla quality feedback agent" dialog pops up, asking if I want to send the "incident" details to the Mozilla website. When I hit OK, it looks like the data sends off and it receives some sort of confirmation, but then absolutely nothing happens—the Quality feedback agent just vanishes without a word.

Hey stormyhawk13 and all you other Chrome enthusiasts, what am I supposed to do here? How do I actually force Java to behave in Chrome?

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sick_boy said:No way, I’m totally down to argue. I’m just getting warmed up here.

Actually, we can light up a joint first, and then we can get into the heavy debating right after.

Nah, let's just skip the waiting and start fighting right now! 😁

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slycrane94 said:Look, honey, you've got it all wrong. I'm heading into Washington, D.C. at the start of November, so maybe then I can finally fix whatever it is you're clearly missing—because from where I'm sitting, it looks like you haven't even cracked a book in your life.

Don't you worry about me, sweetie, because my reading comprehension is doing just fine, thank you very much, and honestly, it’s way better than your pathetic attempt at writing, you illiterate moron!😁 😁 😁

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driftingnomad68 said:Come on, give me a break here, people—Internet Explorer 6 has been getting patched for five years straight, while this whole firestorm just kicked off "recently."

But honestly, the exact reason why we aren't seeing millions of security flaws in Mozilla is because it's relatively new, so there are only hundreds instead; it’s just basic logic! You seriously can't take the number of vulnerabilities found in a product that's been out for ages—constantly under the microscope of every bored hacker out there (looking at you, Internet Explorer)—and compare it to a (semi)finished product that just hit the scene and hasn't really caught the attention of the hacker community yet, mostly just because its user base is still so small.

That being said, the fact that we're starting to see more and more holes popping up in Mozilla lately actually says a lot about how shaky its security quality really is, especially since even the hackers who couldn't care less are finding flaws in a product that hasn't even been on the market long enough to be studied nearly as deeply as Internet Explorer has been over the last decade!

So, bottom line: it is pure stupidity to try and weigh the number of bugs in an old-school product like Internet Explorer, which has been sitting in the crosshairs for ten years, against a newer product like Mozilla that basically showed up yesterday and hasn't even been a major target yet!

Get some reality in those twisted heads of yours, please!

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slycrane94 said:Look, honey. I never said Mozilla doesn't have critical vulnerabilities; I said Opera doesn't. You might want to actually read what I wrote for once.

And even with this specific hole, Mozilla still has way fewer critical bugs and they patch them way faster than Internet Explorer does.

Oh, believe me, I am reading every single word you typed, and I specifically bolded the "incriminating" part where you tripped over your own feet—again—with all those silly little assumptions and lies of yours:

slycrane94 said:Internet Explorer has way more holes, and what’s even worse is most of them are critical while the bugs in Mozilla are mostly harmless.

So now I’m asking you: how on earth are they "harmless" if Secunia classified them as highly critical? So, either they're lying or you are!

Bonus question for everyone else hanging out here: who's lying? Is it slycrane94 or Secunia? 😁😁😁

slycrane94, look, I get it, you absolutely loathe Microsoft and you basically worship anything with an open-source label on it, but man, you can't just ignore the actual facts! And the fact is, this vulnerability in Mozilla is flagged as highly critical and no matter what you say or whatever nonsense you spout, it isn't going to change this one devastating reality for you open-source fanatics!

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slycrane94 said:Just take a look at what Secunia is reporting—those guys find more holes than anyone else, so they’re probably the ones who actually know what's going on.

Honestly, what is there even to say about this nonsense besides one massive "Hahahahahahah"!
Because, seriously, just look at this:

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/20...x_browser.html

Quote:
A vulnerability has been reported in Firefox which could allow malicious sites to compromise computers running the browser. The security hole, which is rated highly critical by Secunia, affects all versions, including Firefox 1.0.6 and earlier and The just-released beta version of Firefox 1.5. An attack can be created using a specially-crafted URL, which will cause a buffer overflow in Firefox that results in a denial of service and, in some cases, remote code execution....

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Timothy Turner11 said:So, according to this massive semi-annual security threat report Norton dropped yesterday, browsers built on Mozilla code are actually riddled with way more security holes than Internet Explorer. Like, seriously, the same report shows Norton dug up 21 different vulnerabilities in Firefox, whereas Internet Explorer was "only" caught with 13 weak spots. Now, even though it doesn't feel that way right now—since there are still way more malicious programs out there targeting Explorer than Firefox—things could flip on its head real fast given how much more popular Firefox is becoming lately.

The Apple crowd is probably going to be pretty stoked to hear that the folks at Norton couldn't find any cracks in Safari, which is Apple's browser, but they did manage to stumble upon 37 major security flaws sitting right there in OS X itself.

Timothy Turner11, man, you're totally spot on, but honestly, who cares? It wouldn't surprise me one bit if those idiots shut this whole thread down or just ban you simply because you dared to poke a hole in their precious "holy" Firefox (and let's be real, the whole Open Source cult in general!). Seriously, the Open Source fanatics on this forum are more hardcore than anywhere else I've ever seen, and they straight-up nuked my previous thread about this: Wait a second! So, you better watch your step so you don't end up on the blacklist of these total jerks, because you might start getting harassed, just like how they hunt me down, ban me, and kill my threads just because they can't handle someone having a different opinion! 👎

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mrcina 22222 said:Look, let me explain this one more time because I’m stuck: my computer isn't actually crashing or anything, but my McAfee firewall keeps popping up out of nowhere with this warning about a buffer overflow from SQL Slammer, and it gives me an option to block it. So now I'm sitting here wondering—is someone actually trying to wreck my system by overloading the memory, or is there already some junk living on my hard drive that the firewall is just catching before it can hop online? This firewall thing even shows me tracking info that points toward China, but sometimes I'll kill the connection and the message just pops right back up again. That's the real kicker, I guess... I just can't tell if my PC is already infected or not.

Alright, listen, mrcina: I honestly have zero clue how McAfee actually functions because I haven't used it once in my entire life, so I can't tell you exactly what those specific alerts mean.

But look, here's the deal: if you actually have SQL Server installed on your machine (or that stripped-down free version, SQL Server), you seriously need to go check if you've installed the absolute latest service pack for it. Seriously, if you've got that latest update installed, there is absolutely no way you could be sitting there with the Slammer virus on your computer.

Now, if you don't even have SQL Server installed on your rig at all, then what's actually happening is this: some other infected computer out there is basically knocking on your door, trying to sniff out an SQL Server on your machine via the internet—even though you don't even have one! It's likely hunting for it through TCP port 1433 or UDP port 1434.

So, the bottom line is this: if you do have SQL Server, just grab that last service pack (I think I dropped the link for you in my first post). But if you don't have SQL Server on there, just go into your firewall settings and block incoming access on TCP port 1433 and UDP port 1434, and you'll be good to go!

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slycrane94 said:Who’s attacking who here? You’re the one who kicked things off with that brilliant little post of yours! Honestly, you could have just mentioned you were running an SQL server or something instead of making us all wait around for the absolute smartest guy on this entire board—and let's be clear, I'm talking about Daniel Fowler9 so there's zero confusion.

Hahaha, man, you really didn't need that "so there's zero confusion" part at all! Like, seriously, did you actually think that if you left out the bit in parentheses, someone would somehow mistake you for the "smartest guy on the board"—you know, referring to Leonard or Vinci himself?😁

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slycrane94 said:Look, genius, acting all high and mighty when you’re the new kid on the block is just a one-way ticket to making your life miserable here, plain and simple. Not to mention, it’s basically a giant flashing neon sign telling everyone that you aren't worth a serious answer, just a bunch of jokes and getting roasted.

And another thing—when you write without any punctuation or spaces, it becomes an absolute nightmare to read, which doesn't do squat to help anyone actually understand what your problem is.

If a question is clear and laid out properly, it’s way easier to jump in with an answer, unlike when you have to play psychic with some wall of unreadable text just to guess what the author was even trying to say.

PS: Being new and making it your first mission to insult a moderator? Yeah, that’s probably not the smartest move you could make. 🙂

HAHAHA, oh man, look at this guy acting like he’s some kind of scholar who can lecture people on how to write! 😱 😂 😂

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Morgan Moore37, man, don't even listen to that idiot, just go check right now if you actually installed Service Pack 3 for your SQL Server—or MSDE, whatever you're running—if you've got it hosted on your own local machine. See, this whole SQL Slammer thing is specifically targeting SQL Server by exploiting this super ancient vulnerability buried in the code, so if you want to be absolutely certain you aren't sitting ducks, you really need to dive into this link and pay extra close attention to the SQL Scan tool:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

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slycrane94 said:Jango

Man, you've gotta be cleaning things out every single month and staying on top of everything constantly, you know? Personally, I don't have any antivirus or even some random adware or anything like that running when I use the Metropolitan Opera. Seriously, absolutely nothing. And I haven't even done any crazy tweaking or anything fancy to make it stay that way.

So look, I was actually just reading yesterday that there are tons of pretty serious security holes found in Conqueror, Mozilla, and even the Metropolitan Opera too. So here’s the kicker, the actual point I'm trying to make: there isn't anything inherently less secure about Internet Explorer compared to any other browser out there. But, because of the whole "law of large numbers" thing, it ends up being the biggest target for hackers simply because so many people use it. That's really the main reason why people feel like it's unsafe. It's not actually because of bad programming from Microsoft, honestly.

Internet Explorer just isn't super compatible with certain websites.

But hey, why don't we flip the script on that one and say that the W3C just isn't compatible with Internet Explorer? I mean, seriously, why should Internet Explorer even bother being compatible with the W3C? Because nobody ever actually ordered browser makers to follow those W3C standards. That whole thing is basically just a suggestion that Microsoft follows whenever they decide it's worth their time, and ignores it whenever they feel like it. It's as simple as that!

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dustywalker25, I see you’re gearing up to reply to my post, but honestly, don't even bother, just save your breath because you aren't going to drop any actual wisdom here anyway, so you might as well just stay quiet! 😛

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slycrane94 said:Looks like I might actually have to start censoring you, man. You’re getting a little exhausting with all these mindless comments. 🙂

Nah, honestly, David Harris44 is spot on here: Internet Explorer is hands down the best browser on the planet. Seriously, nothing even touches it when you talk about raw speed or how things actually render on the screen. Plus, since like 97% of everyone out there is using Internet Explorer, it's pretty obvious it's the gold standard, and if any other browser wants to even be considered "standard," they basically have to play catch-up and copy whatever features Internet Explorer already has. But the thing is, by doing that, they're always just trailing behind Internet Explorer, so why even bother with anything else? It's just a waste of time not to stick with Internet Explorer.

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slycrane94 said:Total loser. Look, maybe I’m not some high-level developer, but that doesn't mean I don't know how to use the damn thing.

Why even bother building a program that's basically useless except as a demo? Like, if you're gonna make an example, why not make something actually helpful, like a widget that shows the time or a TV guide on your desktop or something? Instead, you're just picking a fight with Amazon. Honestly, Amazon is way more practical to just use directly through their site. Your browser is always open anyway, and it's much easier to just order books that way (which is impossible to do through this junk she made).

So yeah, the utility of this program is basically zero. If you think that's somehow a win, then hey, enjoy it.

I really want to ask the admins to strip slycrane94 of his moderator status on this forum. First off, he’s a mod, yet he spends all his time acting like a jerk and insulting everyone he talks to. Second, it is blindingly obvious he hasn't got a clue what he's talking about and most of his posts are just pure nonsense. For the sake of this subforum's sanity, I am officially calling for slycrane94's "impeachment"!

Regarding my thread about Amazon's Web service, I want to clear a few things up:

1) It's true that the app I wrote isn't exactly life-changing (since it just lists book titles from Amazon and their prices). But the whole point of the thread wasn't to build some massive, complex application; the goal was primarily to explain—simply and clearly—what web services actually are and how they get used.

2) Sure, I could have built a much more complicated app where you could actually order books and stuff, but I felt like that would just muddy the waters and distract from the core principles I wanted to highlight.

3) I totally disagree with the idea that a single web service like Amazon's is useless. Why? Just imagine a local bookstore (like a big Barnes & Noble in a major city) that regularly restocks via Amazon. Now imagine they need to order, say, 2,000 different titles. Can you picture someone having to manually click through the Amazon website and order them one by one? That would take forever! With a web service, you could get that done incredibly fast without all that tedious clicking. Basically, web services are a lifesaver when you need to automate web-related tasks.

4) And obviously, Amazon isn't the only player here; this is a rapidly growing trend across the whole industry. Even Google has been offering this for a while now—you can check out the details at http://www.google.com/apis/

On sites like http://www.xmethods.com/ or http://www.salcentral.com/, you can find tons of different web services. Plus, it's actually pretty easy to write your own web service (and if people are interested, maybe I'll write a separate post about how to do that in .NET). I just want to emphasize one last thing: web services aren't tied to .NET technology at all. You can use and write them in Java, Delphi, whatever. But naturally, in my posts (assuming I still have the patience and energy after being subjected to this baseless trash-talking), I’m going to focus on how to use and write them in .NET, because I truly believe it's the fastest and best way to do it! I know certain people won't agree, but I honestly don't care: at least I'm showing how to do it in .NET, whereas I highly doubt he'll show you how to do it in Java (he'll probably just claim he doesn't have the time or doesn't feel like it, and then go back to being condescendingly smug, but fine, I'm done engaging with that).

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Jose Stewart7 said:It just isn't comparable to how .NET solutions are architected, you know? There are all these little shortcuts in there that give you some quick wins early on, but man, they end up causing you a massive amount of grief down the road. 😁

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Look, once you finally wrap your head around how crucial that actually is, everything I’ve been rambling about is going to click for you. It’s really just a matter of understanding the difference between enterprise-grade stuff and something built just for home use.
Oh, and hey, I was just reading that Ford is switching over to Linux http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2003091500626NWBZDP—I mean, seriously, how does that even happen? Honestly, what is this world coming to? 😁 [/B]

Man, I honestly don't have the energy for this anymore... Didn't you say earlier that you were totally done with arguing with me??? So why are you breaking your own rule now??? 😕

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slycrane94 said:Look, I mean, I can just hop on Amazon and hunt down whatever books I need while you're still busy opening up Notepad, so where's the actual point? It’s honestly just like Microsoft—they'll find any way possible to overcomplicate things and slow everything down just for the sake of it.

Seriously, Axmi, what you just said is complete nonsense! I literally just laid out a whole detailed breakdown of why this is actually useful in the other thread! You really should have at least given it a quick read before jumping in like that! 😠

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