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  1. Re:The one that sums it all up... by Big_Lamer · · Score: 1 · on Attacking Open Source

    Just to clear things up. The Author John Taschek works for PC Week and PC Week Runs on Apache 1.3.12 on Solaris

  2. "Rumors and Comment" by dlc · · Score: 2 · on Attacking Open Source

    Didn't everyone read the section headline? Rumors and Comment. Obviously this is uninformed drivel, but that's OK -- it's just ZDNet giving the uninformed their say.

    He works for PC Week -- of course he's going to be afraid of the Free Software movement, because it promises to set PC's free. PC Week's bread and butter is M$ crap -- they need Microsoft so they can continue to publish their "1001 Ways To Reboot Your Computer" articles.

    darren


    Cthulhu for President!
  3. URL's for Clunk of Death/Crash Test Dummy threads by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Western Digital Pulling Out Of SCSI HD Business

    WDC drives are so bad, they make the news:

    pcweek article from Feb 1997
    cnet article from last year

  4. The crime that is commercial web design. by Inoshiro · · Score: 4 · on FOX.com Apologizes to Linux Users

    IMHO, it's not just Fox that are at fault here, it's commerical "web design" in general. Ever notice how places like PCWeek, Altavista, mp3.com, and many -- many -- others use pages replete with br and such to force the 640x480 look on people? Most of the time it's not even centred, forcing me to stare at the left 30% of my monitor.

    There is no excuse why this should be. Give me my content, give it to me nicely, and, damnit, let me view it in my browser window at proper scaling. There was an artcle on some site about Slashdot long ago. I had to use Opera to magnify the page view 300% for it to show the "content" at a decent size in my 1024x768 desktop. When I started using Linux exclusively (with Windows as a glorfied Nintendo), the problem was exacerbated by the simple fact that the pages designed to look great at 640x480 also assumed a bunch of fonts (which I did later setup, thanks to the ttf font server in the Slackware contrib dir).

    Why bother to take the time, spend lots of your company moola, only to come up with a hard-coded, useless, junky site?

    Flash? Great -- what's the point? Slow downloads suck, and I'm on a cable modem! The only site I've seen to use Flash in a compelling way (in terms of "mainstream" sites), is After Y2K. With Cascading Style Sheets, it is trivial to implement really nice looking sites that scale well. Netscape, Opera, and (gahck) IE support CSS very well, as does Mozilla. With Lynx, it's a non-issue ;-)

    If anyone doesn't understand what I mean, go look at my webserver (Thock.com) for an example of how I write my HTML (which is all hand written, and generally tested well). I'll also welcome any comments anyone has on my HTML, I am writing an HTML primer, and related, documents for the webserver.
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