Re: It's COBOL, Jim, but not as we know it...
- From: "Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 17:00:55 +1300
Richard wrote:
On Dec 9, 1:46 pm, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Robert wrote:
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 11:31:42 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashw...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here's what SHOULD happen:
1. You click the link in the newsgroup message.(ONLY ONCE... don't
double click it...)
2. The logon page opens, followed a few seconds later by the
cobdata page opening in the background. (You should maximize the
login page if it isn't already.)
3. You login or register. It succeeds. You click "Resume" and the
standard download dialog for the ZIP file appears.
4. You download. Close the page. The standard cobdata page remains.
(since Sunday, there have been 7 successful downloads.)
Here's what CAN happen:
1. Both the login and COBDATA main page appear simultaneously. This
has to do with browser delay and/or server workload. If it
happened, it shouldn't happen consistently. Everything will still
work, but it could be confusing to a user.
2. The login page may be minimized and all you see is the COBDATA
main page. This has to do with Browser settings or tabs if you are
using a tabbed browser.
3. The COBDATA page is obscuring the login page. Minimize the
COBDATA page and it should reveal the login page.
4. Your Firefox browser blocks the login page as a pop-up. That's
what happened to me. I told it to stop blocking pop-ups for this
site.
Damn! I took special care to make sure the thing works in Firefox
(even identifying and installing the Firefox add-in needed to
support ActiveX/COM into my updated Firefox browser...) but I never
thought about popups...
- )
And I thought that one of the main reasons for using Firefox was to
_stop_ being infected with ActiveX.
Gosh Richard, perhaps you were ... mistaken?
ActiveX is just code like any other computer code. It can be used for good
or it can be used for bad.
It is actually no more dangerous than any other kind of script.(An ActiveX
control has no more permissions on your system than a Java Bean, for
example.)
Many millions of people find ActiveX components to be useful devices that
enhance their computer use. Calendars, juke boxes, and very effective online
virus scans from companies like Panda and Trend are all implemented by means
of ActiveX controls.
Not everyone writing them is malicious, any more than everyone who drives a
car is a murderer.
Rather than seeing a system being "infected" with ActiveX, I see the lack of
support for it in Firefox as an omission. So do the hundreds of thousands of
Firefox users who have downloaded the add-on.(Which, by the way, is very
well implemented and simple to download and use...)
Malice, like Beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.
Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."
.
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