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GNOME 2.0 Beta
xer.xes writes: "The first public beta release of the GNOME 2.0 Desktop is ready for your testing pleasure! It is available for immediate download here. Please read the release notes first! Due for general consumption in March, the GNOME 2.0 Desktop is a greatly improved user environment for existing GNOME applications. Enhancements include anti-aliased text and first class internationalisation support, new accessibility features for disabled users, and many improvements throughout GNOME's highly regarded user interface." LinuxToday or gnome-announce have the announcement. I don't see release notes anywhere - post a link in the comments if you find them. GNOME is having a bug day today.
I know this is totally off-topic, and I know this probably wasn't anyone's choice at /., but I just came to the main page here and saw an ad for . . .
.NET.
Visual Studio
Suddenly, my feet are very cold.
Oh, yea. And security.
Security and stability? Let's put the webserver in the kernel for speed. Lets think about security after we make things go really fast (on a 2GHz processor, you don't notice that it's slow anymore!) so that Max's webserver logs are 50% dumbass IIS virus attempts. Let's make the mail system so fundamentally faulty that the average business user is _terrified_ of his e-mail. Terrified of getting e-mail! Congratulations. We have functionality that nobody wants to use for fear of the consequences. That's getting better?
Win 3.1 wasn't an OS, but DOS was stable and fast. That's about all I'll say for MS's accomplishments in the last twelve years.
Oh, and they make a good mouse.
There should be a moratorium on the use of the apostrophe.
Max V.
NeXTMail/MIME Mail welcome
You effectively said nothing. You said that they can both suck if you make them suck. Well, duh.
My contention is that Windows Explorer is lousy. That has nothing to do with how I configure my machine. I expect to be able to use the interface in the way it was designed and have it work the way it ought to. Is that a lot to ask?
There should be a moratorium on the use of the apostrophe.
Max V.
NeXTMail/MIME Mail welcome
If you have 2 buckets of crap, and someone replaces half of the bucket of crap with perfume, you now have 1.5 buckets of crap, and half a bucket of perfume. NOT a real improvement.
When Microsoft adds a web-server by default to the operating system, then patches it for 3/4 of the severly crippiling bugs, that's a downslope on the security grid. It doesn't matter that there are 3 security improvements that weren't in older versions of Windows. There still are 4 holes that you need to deal with, that you didn't want, and that you didn't enable the app that is being exploited.
I can't believe this, you're still trying to spread this FUD?
No, don't even try to justify yourself with personal attacks such as "you suck fucking moron". Nobody cares.