Are you referring to the search engine? If so, yes, I agree.
On May 9, 1:53 pm, kirk <kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> weird that they don't use C#.
>
> Kirk
>
> Bill Robertson wrote:
> >> I don't believe that. Microsoft got burned on that once and today has
> >> something most would characterize as Java next gen.
>
> > So if they did it on HDFS (a Hadoop thing) then what did they use?
> > (Since I'm too lazy to go look myself ;-) )
>
> >> When I went to download Win7rc1, it was through a simple html option
> >> form. Do you have an URL to demonstrate this, most improbable,
> >> scenario? And what platform are you on?
>
> > Went through download for it. Just google for windows 7, its the top
> > link. The world still loves a free ride after all. I'm on the mac
> > (as mentioned earlier ;-) ), using firefox. There was a warning about
> > starting a Java Applet (sigh). I expect if you went there under Linux
> > you'd get the same.
>
> > Yeah, looking at the source, it first looks to see if it can use an
> > activex control for a download manager, and if it can't it sets up the
> > applet with the following Javascript.
>
> > var sObjHTML = "<applet " +
> > " code=\"com.akamai.dm.ui.applet.DMApplet.class\" " +
> > " codebase=\"http://dlm.tools.akamai.com/dlmanager/versions/java
> > \" " +
> > " archive=\"dlm-java-2.2.4.8.jar\" " +
> > " name=\"Download Manager\" " +
> > " id=\"dm\" " +
> > " width=\"100%\" " +
> > " height=\"100%\" " +
> > " style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px;\" " +
> > " mayscript >" +
> > " <PARAM name=\"jscomm\" value=\"true\"/> " +
> > " <PARAM name=\"codebaseURL\" value=\"http://
> > dlm.tools.akamai.com/dlmanager/versions/java/dlm-java-2.2.4.8.jar\"/>
> > " +
> > " <PARAM name=\"userAgent\" value=\"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U;
> > Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4\"/
>
> >> " +
>
> > " <PARAM name=\"cookies\" value=\"" + document.cookie + "\"/> "
> > +
> > " <PARAM name=\"version\" value=\"2.2.4\"/> " +
> > " <PARAM name=\"URL\" value=\"http://wb.dlservice.microsoft.com/
> > dl/download/release/windows7/4/0/c/
> > 40c1e714-7910-4b38-9b5e-67fa522e6a44/7100.0.090421-1700_x86fre_client_en-
> > us_retail_ultimate-grc1culfrer_en_dvd.iso?lcid=1033&RURL=https://
> >www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/productkeys/win7-rc-32/enus/\"/> " +
> > " <PARAM name=\"recoveryURL\" value=\"http://
> > wb.dlservice.microsoft.com/download/release/windows7/4/0/c/
> > 40c1e714-7910-4b38-9b5e-67fa522e6a44/7100.0.090421-1700_x86fre_client_en-
> > us_retail_ultimate-grc1culfrer_en_dvd.iso?lcid=1033&RURL=https://
> >www.microsoft.com/betaexperience/productkeys/win7-rc-32/enus/\"/> " +
> > " <PARAM name=\"language\" value=\"en\"/> " +
> > " <PARAM name=\"providerName\" value=\"\"/> " +
> > " <PARAM name=\"maxCon\" value=\"4\"/> " +
> > " <PARAM name=\"maxConn\" value=\"4\"/> " +
> > " <PARAM name=\"requestSize\" value=\"1024\"/> " +
> > " <PARAM name=\"flushSize\" value=\"32\"/> " +
> > " <PARAM name=\"initialView\" value=\"summary\"/> " +
> > " <PARAM name=\"icon\" value=\"true\"/> " +
> > " <PARAM name=\"disregardQryStr\" value=\"true\"/> " +
> > " <PARAM name=\"launch\" value=\"no\"/> " +
> > " <PARAM name=\"closeWhenDone\" value=\"no\"/> " +
> > "</applet> ";
>
> > If I were on a plane right now I would be looking for gremlins on the
> > wing.
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