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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."
I am a Computer Information Systems Professional at a major Fortune 500 corporation. Very recently the head of our IT department decided that we were going to switch every one of our networks over to Windows XP Professional. We had previously been running OpenBSD on all our quad processor Xeons. Some of them had had uptimes approaching a year! My personal favourite, Gerbil, had been running without a reboot for three years.
One day one of those Microsoft shills that you often read about on the Register came by for a visit. I grew very suspicious about what was going on when my boss and the Microsoft representative walked by my desk, and entered the server room. I could hear muffled voices through the closed door. The Microsoft representative was asking what we were running on our servers! My worst fears had come true. I sat at my desk for the rest of the day, silently awaiting the bad news. The news did not come until the next day. It was worse than I had feared. We were to be a Microsoft only shop from that day on! I could not believe it. The Microsoft representative had told my boss that the operating and support costs would actually go down. And my boss had fully bought into it, hook, line, and sinker.
Tough times hit our company in the last month, and we were forced to lay off a few of the less experienced IS/IT workers. One of them took this rather hard. As a last minute attempt at corporate sabotage, he decided to change all of the Computer Administrator passwords on a few of the XP Professional boxes sitting around in the server room. This caused absolute havoc, as Dell had failed to send along administrator passwords for the new boxes. Our company could not make use of these computers for three days. It took Dell that long to get us the administrator passwords. It is strictly because of Microsoft's poor implementation of a multi-user computing environment that our company lost three days of productivity.
Needless to say, I had our quad Xeons back running OpenBSD by the end of the week. Gerbil is back on its way to another glorious 3 years of uptime.
I can't stand the pop-up window when I insert a CD and their anti-aliased-sans-serif font.
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The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unrmitting gloom hngs like a death shroud over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.
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
Slashdot's avoiding this one....Microsoft released a shared-source port of .NET tools on FreeBSD. Check it out here.
If we were to state that the slashdot editors are hypocritical assholes, we'd be correct. They can also FUCK OFF.
Thank you.
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
So we read today of a beta 3 release of Gnome, and it gets lead story status. But when the world's largest monopoly releases a million lines of code, designed to run on one unix, but specifically designed to attack two other technologies (Java and linux), /. refuses to run a story. This is OUTRAGEOUS .
/. coverage?
The release of Rotor is one of the biggest challenges Linux will face. It may be the beginning of the end of Java on the desktop (though embedded and enterprise Java should remain ok). It's a direct slap to Java. It's a tempting poison to FreeBSD that many are falling for. But where's the
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...
M4d pr0pz t0 Fr3sh P0nd Sty|z y0
-- 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.
i mean it, really, fuck them!
ugh, i am angry
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!
Clever signature text goes here.
Please explain how the truth warrants a -1 Troll
(sung to the sound of ska sucks, by Propaghandi)
GNOME sucks. GNOME isn't cool you stupid fuck.
Ximian is only in it for the bucks.
And if you don't believe me you're a schmuck.
But the trend will die out with any luck.
Yo Ho. Yo Ho.
Miguel, a message to you Miguel, a message to you Miguel.
Fuck you Miguel!
Sorry, but the GNOME2-official song has already been made.
(sung to the sound of ska sucks, by Propaghandi)
GNOME sucks. GNOME isn't cool you stupid fuck.
Ximian is only in it for the bucks.
And if you don't believe me you're a schmuck.
But the trend will die out with any luck.
Yo Ho. Yo Ho.
Miguel, a message to you Miguel, a message to you Miguel.