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Opera Software Co-Founder Passes Away
worb writes "One of the two founders of Opera Software, Geir Ivarsoy, recently passed away after a long battle with cancer. His funeral yesterday was attended by Opera employees who paid their last respects to their former lead programmer. While Opera hasn't had the same success as Firefox on the desktop, it has had considerable success in the mobile phone market due to its speed and small footprint, combined with excellent standards compliance and innovative features."
In general, we need to discuss what can be done, to improve cancer screaning, and treatment, using open source technology. We need a slashdot or similar site which deals with genetics, technology, medicine, and health research and related topics.
Cancer is a threat to us all, and while we discuss Netscape vs IE, or Linux vs Windows, we ignore the fact that we arent using open source technology or ideas in healthcare. I think we should discuss personalized-medicine, and ways to lower the cost of cancer screenings and treatments.
From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives forever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.
- swinburne
Rest in peace, thanks for making a difference.
I came to the datacenter drunk with a fake ID, don't you want to be just like me?
I don't use Opera now, but I used it very briefly. Opera rose at a very dark time. IE had just won the browser war with Netscape 4 being a bloated, happy, piece of crap. Opera gave us hope when us anti-IEers were most down. Although I use Firefox now, the conditions for Firefox's success should be creditted to Opera.
The loss of a loved leader in a group can have either of two outcomes:
;-)
1. Everyone falls apart, and the group with it.
2. The group rallies, and is spurred on to greatness.
I use three browsers through out the work day, and personal night.
1. Camino-Super fast, great for our intranet php based apps.
2. Opera-Pretty fast, but has the option to open to last page viewed at launch.(The option that sets Opera apart really!)
3. Safari-Solid performer, secure.
4. Firefox-odd man out really, but do use it to test sites once in a while. useful. I do recommend Firefox to the common users I assist with their computers after virus, worm, malware etc climbed aboard via IE.
I love that all of these browsers offer tabbed browsing
There are tons of features I will never use on all of these browsers, but they are there for those who need the tools. I can't say enough about the browser choices available other that IE. They are the market of the future. IE will only be able to mimic the new features.
Sig Hansen?
That's different. The pope is named after religious figures, who have completely different names in different countries. Ioannes in Latin, John in English, Juan in Spanish, Johannes in Norwegian. If you were to call the pope Ioannes Paulus most Christians wouldn't be able to associate that with the religious figures he's named after. English speakers do not call the king of Spain "John Carl"; they call him "Juan Carlos". Norwegian speakers are often linguistic purists, however, and can be quite pedantic; if you look at the Norwegian wikipedia article for Bluetooth, for example, it's under "blåtann", which is the Norwegian name for the king after whom the standard is named.
Lalala
Pick up one of the weekly builds at http://my.opera.com/desktopteam ..
The Content Blocker is still definitely work in progress, but every build has had some very nice improvements to it all.
"Champagne for my real friends - and real pain for my sham friends!" http://ericblade.postalboard.com/
I just went to the download site, selected Ubuntu, and there are packages for 5.10, 5.4, and 4.10. For most places, you're lucky to get "Debian-ish, if you're lucky".
Making packages for Debian unstable and testing is definitely something most companies wouldn't do, though. Above and beyond the call of duty.