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GNOME 2.0 Desktop Beta 3 Released
damiam writes "GNOME 2.0 Desktop Beta 3 has been released. Changes include new versions of Nautilus, Yelp, and the control center, as well as bugfixes all around. Download it from gnome.org or one of the mirrors." Jeff Waugh adds: "The possibility of a complete beer freeze at GUADEC has inspired another kickarse release of the GNOME 2.0 Desktop. It's awesome stuff, definitely worth trying out. You should find GARNOME handy if there are no packages available for your distro."
use opera
its more standards compliant
its way way faster
you cat turn off images/new images on teh fly
you can disable popups on the fly
it does email
it doesn't muck around with MSHTML
its safer than IE
and thats just what I can think of off the top of my head
I was intent on using my HP NetServer (with four Xeons) as an SMP OpenBSD machine. Unfortunately, Theo and co. haven't yet implemented any support (officially, at least) for SMP.
:)
An SMP mailing list, CVS branch, and information page do exist, though.
Do you like German cars?
I supported it for a while, but it was mainly just cause I thought that it would be neat to see how much of an effect it would really have, not because I believed what I read in the Journal.
Give it some thought... and then decide if it's right for you.
Bringing irony to the Slash-masses
I've shit in a few strange places in my day. In HS I shit in a little used vestibule just outside the boys locker room. It was between classes, the bathrooms were decrepid, noone else was there, and I hadda go. A few days later I went back to admire my creation, and there was a footprint in it ... totally ruined. Some people have no respect for modern art.
A couple years later I'm doing some laundry with a friend at 11 PM, and disposing of a 12 pack at the same time. No bathroom, and I gotta go #2 again. No problem. Grab some paper towels from the trunk of my car, walk around to the back of the building behind a dumpster and unload. By the time I head back in, my friends gotta piss. I toss him the car keys so he can use my flashlight to avoid the landmines, and off he goes. He comes back a minute later with tears in his eyes. I'm like, "WTF??", so he leads me back to the item in question: an absolutely perfect cinnamon roll cast in fecal matter. If only I had a camera...
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-- It aint eazy bein CheezyDee
Get a life!
XML with CSS looks great in Opera. .1% is Frontpage crap that barely works in Moz.
Flash works
Crossover plugin works (quicktime et al)
99.9% of all sites work.
That other
Very easy and intuiitive system for defining your custom document settings, you just pick a tag, and tell it what font you want, i.e. H1=whatever H2=whatever PRE=whatever.
It's cheap.
If it crashes, it saves your place 90% of the time, and you don't have to search for the pages again.
Cookie handling is nice, with white and black lists on server or domain, and also it flushes all cookies on exit by default, unless you explicitely said that cookie could stick around.
Major Con:
Printing doesn't work. Ever. I have never gotten printing to work on Red Hat Linux with Opera. Come on guys, it couldn't be that hard to fix.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
In case you didn't know, Opera will only send information voluntarily. Opera doesn't harvest anything. You can set up your ad preferences to receive targeted ads, but these are disabled by default. The user actually has to enter information manually, and the information cannot be traced back to the user. In addition to this, Opera has run user surveys to find out who their users are. Cydoor have simply picked this information up from Opera's web pages.
Not only that, but Opera doesn't contain a single line of Cydoor code. The ad module is 100% written by Opera's own developers, and the only thing the ad module does is to download ads. It even sends and receives information from the ad servers in plain text, so anyone can look at what is being transmitted.
But that's not all. Cydoor no longer produce spyware. There is a myth online which never seems to die, and that is that Cydoor are into spyware. They did spy on their users at one point, but not anymore.
Your lies about Opera are, frankly, disgusting. You can even see what Opera writes about this and read exactly what the ad module in Opera actually does. But you don't care about facts, do you?
Gnome+Opera is a great combination, despite Opera using Qt!
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