Usually, I find a way to do what I want easily and with a local copy, and I do it that way.
That's the way it really works but it's mostly transparent to you. When you open something with sftp://filename, it really makes a local copy to/var/tmp/kdecache-username/krun/number_filename. If, you have really sad networking, you don't lose your work. When you close the editor, the changed file is coppied back to the sftp location. In theory, any application can do the same thing when the file is launched from Konqueror. The advantages of this over ssh -X are speed, for small files, and some network toughness. The disadvantages are that you have to have an editor on your local machine and do without the processing power of many computers.
At home, I use ssh -X so that I get processing speed and a wider choice of applications from machines that are customized to various tasks. Coppies of work are stored on my cable gateway. When I'm away from home, I use Konqueror to get those coppies in a secure and editable way. For the rest of the world, and those times I'm forced to use Windoze, I run a http server for read only access to the same information.
Don't boot, that's the answer. I don't even bother turning off my laptops anymore. APM or ACPI deamons turn off most of the system so they don't consume much power but they also don't take much time to come back up.
If you insist on powering down and you want your desktop to come up a little faster, run Window Maker or Fluxbox. You can still run all your KDE stuff in them.
Booting is only a problem on systems that require you to turn your computer off regularly. Windoze, which goes unstable in a day or two, is one of the worst offenders. I waste much less time sitting down at systems that are exactly as I left them, with my work neatly laid out in multiple virtual desktops, and connections to other computers live and well. I can contrast this with time wasted on a daily boot of Windoze 2000 and launching of five or six applications to look up stuff that I need and the time to remember what the heck I was doing the day before. Loaded down with AV and other corporate junk, it would take five or ten minutes to boot and I'd spend the time getting coffee. The lost placekeeping took much longer to recover. I don't even want to think about what a PITA it was to arrange any of that work on w2k's crappy little single screen GUI, that was more waste.
Anyone in the open source community could write APPs for Windows to add this kind of functionality if there were a demand for it, so I suspect there's little or no demand for it.
People have, to one extent or another. Putty has the rudiments of ssh for Windoze. It's hard, however, for them to make a file opener for something dumb like Word or have their services work transparently with Windoze Exploder.
It's not that there's not a demand for these services, it's that the demand has been met outside of Windoze. Microsoft has been so hostile towards all other developers and their own customers that there are few people willing to port stuff into their legacy junk.
I think anyone aware enough to look at the status bar will probably look at the address bar in the browser, which will show the real URL.
Tinyurl has lots of good examples of how the astute user can still be burnt. If the status bar shows "microsoft.com/whatever/whenever" but the actual site has the usual garbage, the user will not be clued in. Indeed, the user may not even be able to see the root of the site through the three thousand character url which so many legitimate sites generate.
Your example is trivial and misses the potential of the exploit:
You might as well say that links themselves are a security risk, since a link that says "Microsoft Web Site" but really goes to goatse.cx is a dangerous spoof.
How about a link that says "citibank.com" in an email and on your status bar that tells the recipient that they should log in to check for suspicious activity? The user goes to the bogus site, which may have valid certs and make the little lock appear and looks just like the citbank site. The user then gives the sender their citibank name and password without thinking twice about the random character url they are confronted with because it's what they are used to seeing. The sender then cleans out the user's account.
A status bar that works is an important part of preventing that kind of fraud.
Also I'm not talking of IE in any sense. End users can use webdav over https in windows explorer, just like they would use local files. This cannot be done for example in OSX, natively that is. Can it be done in KDE?
What's the difference between Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer? I thought they were the same thing and something to be avoided.
Manipulation of remote files via sftp as if they were local is exactly what Konqueror does. That, combined with horizontal and vertically split windows makes it very easy to inspect and move files securely around your network or the world. Having the same capabilities in other dialogs makes it easy to do the same thing from within KDE applications. Yes, that's a native and default behavior.
The coolest thing about it is that it's all there by default with the average distro and there is no additional set up work required. Every machine on your network and every user has it if you use any modern distro. Webdav sounds interesting, but less flexible and more laborious.
The useful protocols are covered in Win(XP) very well, including the most useful (not mentioned in the article) : webdav over https.
Oh wow, I had no idea. Does that mean I can split an IE window and drag and drop remote files to my desktop by sftp? Can I open Word and then use it's file open dialog to manipulate a file on a remote computer via sftp? No? Oh well, at least Windoze users can get at all 1.44MB of information on my floppy real easy. Now that's useful. Sometimes, when there's no macrovirus on the floppy, it's more secure than M$'s webdav (the second link google comes to is a security problem) too. What would anyone expect from something that works through IE. Useful and well implemented, thanks for the tip.
Bloat is goofey features no one wants and will never use. Things like the drawing editor in Word, for example.
KDE's networking transparency are wonderful features that don't take up many resources. I'm writing this on a 233MHz PII laptop. It runs KDE without any problems. I've gotten so used to KDE's networking goodies that I see their absence as a serious problem. Having to leave the current application just to open a file on another computer is a drag that almost annoys me as much as having to leave my chair to use another computer.
And the entire Windows OS is decked out with enough user friendliness for most people to use, and, as I put it, 'KDE has a long way to go to catchup with the userfriendliness of Mac OSX and Windows.
That's so insulting.
Want to get specific, you old troll? Studies have shown that there's no significant difference in "usability" when measured in terms of getting things done or user perceptions. When you consider how much more you can get done with KDE out of the box, I'm not sure how anyone could say that Windoze was more usable.
Some obvious improvements to usability from KDE include:
A rational program menu, organized by what the program does rather than company name or other obtuse reasoning.
A configuration tool that really has everything rationally organized. Windoze places it's configuration tools in a bewildering number of locations that vary unpredictably by version.
Really integrated web and file management. KDE's file browser still remembers the split window trick and has tabs. When you combine those two things with sftp, ftp, fish, even crummy windoze networking, you can see how easy it is to move files around. When you combine that with KDE's built in ability to manipulate those files without moving them, you realize you don't even have to move them.
KDE's briefcase works. I'm sure, though I don't use it, that it too can use sftp, etc to make sure all is well synced.
Kmail and Kontact. Kmail's excellent spam wizard automatically detects installed anti-spam and sets up filtering for you. It also has easy to configure multiple identities, LDAP and all that jazz. KDE's contact database is awesome and comes with excellent Palm/other sync, including many cellphones. OE does not even come with a spell checker.
So there you have it. What exactly does Winblows have to offer the "average" user again? The same user can do all of that and much more with KDE's excellent programs without any additional trouble or cost. Complex != difficult or expensive. The proof is there for anyone who would check out Knoppix, Mepis, etc.
Enforcement is nice, but cleaning up this one group of morons does little to solve the root cause, buggy M$ junk. The costs and skills to do the job are so low that we can be sure that no real difference will be made.
If Microsoft was really bothered by Slate recommending Firefox, they would have tightened their control over an operation that they wholly owned. Selling it - so that it has even more freedom to criticize you - makes no sense in those circumstances.
We shall see how long Slate makes it on it's own or if anyone actually buys it. Nothing cracks the whip like a demonstration of the no viability of your whole business. In the mean time, the author and the editor will be canned.
It's control as much as all the shine on BS you get from NBC is. None of them has reported on IE and M$ exploits very well but the public knows it anyway.
As anyone knows who has hit someone in India the accents can be very hard to understand, Canadian accents (if any) are very close to americain ones so you might be able to get the help you need!
Ah no, my friend, you are not so lucky. By law, the Indian that are hired by Canadian companies will have to also speak French. Because the people at the help desk don't really understand English, they won't know the difference between French and English scripts and will read from them at random.
Now you might think that this would just cut your chances of getting help by one half, but you would be wrong. No only will the French reading be incomprehensible, the English reading will be harder to understand than ever because the reader will confuse the accents they are supposed to use and a new language will be born, FrIngligsh. It will sound like a cross between Ghandi and Savoir Faire but will contain very few words of any language.
The expense of American labor is the reason. The truth is that an American employee with a $0 income is more expensive than the average engineer in India. When you look at the cost of medicare, social security, health care and everything else laws require employers to pay, American's are very expensive. An American earning $60k costs their employer between $100k to $120k.
So the reason American labor is so expensive is because we tax it to death? Pavon asserts the Kerry plan is to eliminate this "loophole":
pay taxes only in the foreign country on their foreign operations, but at the same time, they get deductions in their US taxes, even though there is no double taxation.
and that
both the bullet point, and detail plans currently on the John Kerry site are fairly vague.
They would have to be vauge, as the only way to equalize the cost would be to tax the hell out of US companies with foreign workers. It's not so much closing a loophole as it is an increase in taxes that will make the US less competitive than it already is.
Sure, I'm disgusted by talk of "thanks for our best year ever" followed by "we have to tighten our belts and you are fired." I'm convinced, however, that the soloution is closing loopholes in personal income so that you can reduce the kinds of corporate taxes that serve as a disincentive to hiring people. I don't see either candidate addressing the issue honestly, but I can be sure that Kerry will make things worse than Bush will.
Then an idiot from ATT took it over and the company sank in a sea of red ink. Then some stupid cable company took it, crimped upload to 30kBs, forbade "servers", forced dhcp, and did everything they could to make it useful for no more than browsing the corporate billboard. It's not that the network could not handle it, it's that someone did not want it to. From 1.5mbs no restrictions but "thou shalt not spam" to Hollywood whore in 6 months.
That's recent history.
Why should I expect more? All I imagine is that extra bandwith will be used for more digital TV and other on demand suckdom.
There's a fair overlap between the tastes of at least a certain subset of geeks and a certain subset of goths (or sort-of-goth) in terms of music, books, tv shows, and so on
Three cheers for mass culture. One, two, poo.
Both groups tend to have a dislike of the mainstream subculture - they may well have both suffered through high school.
Yeah, whatever. I'm not about to mutilate my penis over it. Nor will I use pictures like that of myself and others to make a slimy buck.
Suicidegirls is sad the same way punks demanding money for photographs in London is pathetic. If it's recorded, it's static and dead. Culture is to be lived not ogled.
Doesn't everyone already have a digital camera that has "real" features, higher resolution, etc? If I just want a low res camera, practically every cellphone now features one.
Ouch, you missed it. 90% of the market just wants a gadget that can hold their pictures and show them to their friends. They don't care if you can print it larger than 4x8 inches. If it looks good on the little screen, it takes the place of a wallet. If it looks good on a TV, it takes the place of photo albums. People already like the Ipod for music. This is going to sell well.
Sooner or later, we will take for granted the ability to store and share our experiences with others. The ability to tell stories with images, video clips and sound will be part of what it takes to be considered literate.
Those people making all those ridiculous claims about free software being a cancer and unamerican... have a motive to do so, and it's not zealotry. Surprise, surprise, it's PROFIT.
A zealous persuit of profits is called greed. When you do it at the expense of others it is criminal. Calling people names is also known as Slander, a crime. Lying about the capabilities of something you are selling is a form of fraud. Threatening people you do business with is called extortion, also a crime. Threatening people with lawsuits is judicial extortion, another form of fraud. Manipulating stock prices is also fraud. If these are your heros, you may also be a criminal, extortionist, liar and fraud.
Here's the real nitty-gritty... if you are a strong supporter of open source, you are doing it for intangible reasons.
Like love of truth and fellow man? Maybe, and that's not a bad motive. It might also be a form of reputation protection. You see, people I lie to have a tendency not to trust me anymore. Without trust, I don't have much business. It's in my best interest to honestly evaluate things and faithfully report what I find to friends and business associates.
While stock prices might not exactly be tangible, the new Ferarri sitting in the garage sure as hell is. In the proprietary software world, it all comes down to the Benjamins.
So, what's your motive? I imagine you don't have a Ferarri in the garage and know that you won't get one trying to sell Windoze software these days.
Proprietary software zealots? Huh?... I've seen plenty of people say "I make money with proprietary software so that's why I do it," but never someone holding it up as a near-religious institution like the majority of OSS folks.
Yeah, those people calling free software a "cancer", unAmerican, and free software users "thieves". The people who put up Steve Barkto and continue their efforts with people like you. They are constantly going on about "fairness", "balance" and all that while themselves post the most vile garbage and run shakedowns like the BSA and SCO, which threaten and ruin people and businesses. They have even sued school systems. Not content to look bad in the media, they have purchased NBC! That's some of the most self righteous stuff out there. If that's not fanatically committed, what is?
Yet you would compare greedy jerks like that to people who expect no financial reward for their code or those who notice that free software is generally better than non free software? OK.
Of course, it does not work. People and companies are judged by what they do, not what they say.
Firefox team stripped a lot of bloat, it still isn't exactly a lean browser. Konqueror on my 333 MHz Celeron feels faster than Firefox on my 800 MHz G4, not to mention Firefox on the Celeron.
I've yet to try Firefox out on the same platform as Mozilla and Konqueror, but I can say that Konqueror is now may favorite browser. It looks good, it's quick on modest hardware like 333 MHz PII and up, and it's integrated spell check and file manipulation tools across local, ftp and sftp rock. I miss the specific blocking features, but the trade off is worth while.
For pure speed, Dillo is very cool. It won't do scripts but it runs like lightning under fluxbox on a 90MHz P1 with 24 MB of RAM.
More whining, more Slashdot bashing, nothing real. Well, OK, a real denial of GNAA membership as beneath your methods. "piss-poor" as you say. No thanks to the lookup of Michael's "personal insult" to you, but I'm sure you earned it for all the things I pointed to above and more.
Everything else is pretty much either taken out of context, or overexaggerated to make me look bad.
It's hard to take your own posts out of context. If I looked hard enough, I could find things more outrageous and vile.
Instead of saying "SenderID is bad because of XXX and, by the way, M$FT Blows" they would be saying "SenderID is bad because of XXX but here's how it could be made better"
Microsoft's junk is patent encumbered and is not suitable as a standard. That would apply regardless of the company.
In Microsoft's case, it's more outrageous because their software has already failed to compete in the marketplace. Sendmail, Exim and others are what moves email and M$ has nothing to do with it. Indeed, their greatest success produces generates 80% of the world's spam. This bout of standards manipulation is an attempt to foist inferior software onto people with better judgement and charge them for the mistake.
I'd be happier if they concentrated on fixing whats broken rather than breaking what other people do that works. They are the problem, not the solution. Can you imagine what a field day the spammers would have if every mailserver was running some kind of M$ OS?
They must have gotten the facts on the cost of eating their own dog food. While the cost of their own software is zero to them, I'm sure that supporting a large Microsoft run network is consuming a disproportionate chunk of their budget.
You earned it. Yep, you are a troll. You don't like Slashdot, and you spend lots of your time disrupting it with insults, advocating things you know free software people hate, and disinformation.
Let's have a look back at some of that long posting history of yours. Ouch, it's worse than I remember. Don't dish out what you can't take.
Technically your "MS isn't always a problem" translates to lots of loud, insulting and misleading apologies for Microsoft. I think you know better, and that's what trolling is all about, right? Where there is crap flood, you will find FortKnox.
Here's a beauty where you claim that Tomcat does not scale and that an "admin worth his salt" does not need a well written and reviewed book. This is followed by a bitch and moan about how free software does not come with adequate "support".
And, of course, like any good troll you reveal yourself.
So there you have it. I remember some of those things I read. Your posts used to infuriate me until I remembered your posting name, but now I can just dimsis it, "Oh yeah, there's that FortKnox guy again."
What if this proves that the riot police were attacked by the public, and defended themselves justifiably? Would that make this technology less valuable?
Ask the policeman who's charged with assault. Ask the city government that's faced with a lawsuit.
Recording the event, so that the real bad guys are caught is great. It puts blame and credit where they belong.
As it is now, you have to take people's word for it. A public camera system owned by the public is a great step forward in witness credibility.
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That's the way it really works but it's mostly transparent to you. When you open something with sftp://filename, it really makes a local copy to /var/tmp/kdecache-username/krun/number_filename. If, you have really sad networking, you don't lose your work. When you close the editor, the changed file is coppied back to the sftp location. In theory, any application can do the same thing when the file is launched from Konqueror. The advantages of this over ssh -X are speed, for small files, and some network toughness. The disadvantages are that you have to have an editor on your local machine and do without the processing power of many computers.
At home, I use ssh -X so that I get processing speed and a wider choice of applications from machines that are customized to various tasks. Coppies of work are stored on my cable gateway. When I'm away from home, I use Konqueror to get those coppies in a secure and editable way. For the rest of the world, and those times I'm forced to use Windoze, I run a http server for read only access to the same information.
If you insist on powering down and you want your desktop to come up a little faster, run Window Maker or Fluxbox. You can still run all your KDE stuff in them.
Booting is only a problem on systems that require you to turn your computer off regularly. Windoze, which goes unstable in a day or two, is one of the worst offenders. I waste much less time sitting down at systems that are exactly as I left them, with my work neatly laid out in multiple virtual desktops, and connections to other computers live and well. I can contrast this with time wasted on a daily boot of Windoze 2000 and launching of five or six applications to look up stuff that I need and the time to remember what the heck I was doing the day before. Loaded down with AV and other corporate junk, it would take five or ten minutes to boot and I'd spend the time getting coffee. The lost placekeeping took much longer to recover. I don't even want to think about what a PITA it was to arrange any of that work on w2k's crappy little single screen GUI, that was more waste.
People have, to one extent or another. Putty has the rudiments of ssh for Windoze. It's hard, however, for them to make a file opener for something dumb like Word or have their services work transparently with Windoze Exploder.
It's not that there's not a demand for these services, it's that the demand has been met outside of Windoze. Microsoft has been so hostile towards all other developers and their own customers that there are few people willing to port stuff into their legacy junk.
Tinyurl has lots of good examples of how the astute user can still be burnt. If the status bar shows "microsoft.com/whatever/whenever" but the actual site has the usual garbage, the user will not be clued in. Indeed, the user may not even be able to see the root of the site through the three thousand character url which so many legitimate sites generate.
Your example is trivial and misses the potential of the exploit:
You might as well say that links themselves are a security risk, since a link that says "Microsoft Web Site" but really goes to goatse.cx is a dangerous spoof.
How about a link that says "citibank.com" in an email and on your status bar that tells the recipient that they should log in to check for suspicious activity? The user goes to the bogus site, which may have valid certs and make the little lock appear and looks just like the citbank site. The user then gives the sender their citibank name and password without thinking twice about the random character url they are confronted with because it's what they are used to seeing. The sender then cleans out the user's account.
A status bar that works is an important part of preventing that kind of fraud.
What's the difference between Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer? I thought they were the same thing and something to be avoided.
Manipulation of remote files via sftp as if they were local is exactly what Konqueror does. That, combined with horizontal and vertically split windows makes it very easy to inspect and move files securely around your network or the world. Having the same capabilities in other dialogs makes it easy to do the same thing from within KDE applications. Yes, that's a native and default behavior.
The coolest thing about it is that it's all there by default with the average distro and there is no additional set up work required. Every machine on your network and every user has it if you use any modern distro. Webdav sounds interesting, but less flexible and more laborious.
Oh wow, I had no idea. Does that mean I can split an IE window and drag and drop remote files to my desktop by sftp? Can I open Word and then use it's file open dialog to manipulate a file on a remote computer via sftp? No? Oh well, at least Windoze users can get at all 1.44MB of information on my floppy real easy. Now that's useful. Sometimes, when there's no macrovirus on the floppy, it's more secure than M$'s webdav (the second link google comes to is a security problem) too. What would anyone expect from something that works through IE. Useful and well implemented, thanks for the tip.
KDE's networking transparency are wonderful features that don't take up many resources. I'm writing this on a 233MHz PII laptop. It runs KDE without any problems. I've gotten so used to KDE's networking goodies that I see their absence as a serious problem. Having to leave the current application just to open a file on another computer is a drag that almost annoys me as much as having to leave my chair to use another computer.
That's so insulting.
Want to get specific, you old troll? Studies have shown that there's no significant difference in "usability" when measured in terms of getting things done or user perceptions. When you consider how much more you can get done with KDE out of the box, I'm not sure how anyone could say that Windoze was more usable.
Some obvious improvements to usability from KDE include:
So there you have it. What exactly does Winblows have to offer the "average" user again? The same user can do all of that and much more with KDE's excellent programs without any additional trouble or cost. Complex != difficult or expensive. The proof is there for anyone who would check out Knoppix, Mepis, etc.
Yeah, some people are so stupid they name themselves after shadows.
Enforcement is nice, but cleaning up this one group of morons does little to solve the root cause, buggy M$ junk. The costs and skills to do the job are so low that we can be sure that no real difference will be made.
We shall see how long Slate makes it on it's own or if anyone actually buys it. Nothing cracks the whip like a demonstration of the no viability of your whole business. In the mean time, the author and the editor will be canned.
It's control as much as all the shine on BS you get from NBC is. None of them has reported on IE and M$ exploits very well but the public knows it anyway.
It's not all in your head.
Ah no, my friend, you are not so lucky. By law, the Indian that are hired by Canadian companies will have to also speak French. Because the people at the help desk don't really understand English, they won't know the difference between French and English scripts and will read from them at random.
Now you might think that this would just cut your chances of getting help by one half, but you would be wrong. No only will the French reading be incomprehensible, the English reading will be harder to understand than ever because the reader will confuse the accents they are supposed to use and a new language will be born, FrIngligsh. It will sound like a cross between Ghandi and Savoir Faire but will contain very few words of any language.
So the reason American labor is so expensive is because we tax it to death? Pavon asserts the Kerry plan is to eliminate this "loophole":
pay taxes only in the foreign country on their foreign operations, but at the same time, they get deductions in their US taxes, even though there is no double taxation.
and that
both the bullet point, and detail plans currently on the John Kerry site are fairly vague.
They would have to be vauge, as the only way to equalize the cost would be to tax the hell out of US companies with foreign workers. It's not so much closing a loophole as it is an increase in taxes that will make the US less competitive than it already is.
Sure, I'm disgusted by talk of "thanks for our best year ever" followed by "we have to tighten our belts and you are fired." I'm convinced, however, that the soloution is closing loopholes in personal income so that you can reduce the kinds of corporate taxes that serve as a disincentive to hiring people. I don't see either candidate addressing the issue honestly, but I can be sure that Kerry will make things worse than Bush will.
That's recent history.
Why should I expect more? All I imagine is that extra bandwith will be used for more digital TV and other on demand suckdom.
Three cheers for mass culture. One, two, poo.
Both groups tend to have a dislike of the mainstream subculture - they may well have both suffered through high school.
Yeah, whatever. I'm not about to mutilate my penis over it. Nor will I use pictures like that of myself and others to make a slimy buck.
Suicidegirls is sad the same way punks demanding money for photographs in London is pathetic. If it's recorded, it's static and dead. Culture is to be lived not ogled.
Ouch, you missed it. 90% of the market just wants a gadget that can hold their pictures and show them to their friends. They don't care if you can print it larger than 4x8 inches. If it looks good on the little screen, it takes the place of a wallet. If it looks good on a TV, it takes the place of photo albums. People already like the Ipod for music. This is going to sell well.
Sooner or later, we will take for granted the ability to store and share our experiences with others. The ability to tell stories with images, video clips and sound will be part of what it takes to be considered literate.
A zealous persuit of profits is called greed. When you do it at the expense of others it is criminal. Calling people names is also known as Slander, a crime. Lying about the capabilities of something you are selling is a form of fraud. Threatening people you do business with is called extortion, also a crime. Threatening people with lawsuits is judicial extortion, another form of fraud. Manipulating stock prices is also fraud. If these are your heros, you may also be a criminal, extortionist, liar and fraud.
Here's the real nitty-gritty... if you are a strong supporter of open source, you are doing it for intangible reasons.
Like love of truth and fellow man? Maybe, and that's not a bad motive. It might also be a form of reputation protection. You see, people I lie to have a tendency not to trust me anymore. Without trust, I don't have much business. It's in my best interest to honestly evaluate things and faithfully report what I find to friends and business associates.
While stock prices might not exactly be tangible, the new Ferarri sitting in the garage sure as hell is. In the proprietary software world, it all comes down to the Benjamins.
So, what's your motive? I imagine you don't have a Ferarri in the garage and know that you won't get one trying to sell Windoze software these days.
Yeah, those people calling free software a "cancer", unAmerican, and free software users "thieves". The people who put up Steve Barkto and continue their efforts with people like you. They are constantly going on about "fairness", "balance" and all that while themselves post the most vile garbage and run shakedowns like the BSA and SCO, which threaten and ruin people and businesses. They have even sued school systems. Not content to look bad in the media, they have purchased NBC! That's some of the most self righteous stuff out there. If that's not fanatically committed, what is?
Yet you would compare greedy jerks like that to people who expect no financial reward for their code or those who notice that free software is generally better than non free software? OK.
Of course, it does not work. People and companies are judged by what they do, not what they say.
I've yet to try Firefox out on the same platform as Mozilla and Konqueror, but I can say that Konqueror is now may favorite browser. It looks good, it's quick on modest hardware like 333 MHz PII and up, and it's integrated spell check and file manipulation tools across local, ftp and sftp rock. I miss the specific blocking features, but the trade off is worth while.
For pure speed, Dillo is very cool. It won't do scripts but it runs like lightning under fluxbox on a 90MHz P1 with 24 MB of RAM.
Everything else is pretty much either taken out of context, or overexaggerated to make me look bad.
It's hard to take your own posts out of context. If I looked hard enough, I could find things more outrageous and vile.
No, people say things more like, "companies, like Microsoft, Hashcash, and Goodwill Systems, are more interested in making money off of the volume than in solving the problem." Microsoft has earned distrust again and again. It's not what they say, it's what they do that counts. People can see and remember how Microsoft performs. That they rarely do what they say is more of the same as well.
Microsoft's junk is patent encumbered and is not suitable as a standard. That would apply regardless of the company.
In Microsoft's case, it's more outrageous because their software has already failed to compete in the marketplace. Sendmail, Exim and others are what moves email and M$ has nothing to do with it. Indeed, their greatest success produces generates 80% of the world's spam. This bout of standards manipulation is an attempt to foist inferior software onto people with better judgement and charge them for the mistake.
I'd be happier if they concentrated on fixing whats broken rather than breaking what other people do that works. They are the problem, not the solution. Can you imagine what a field day the spammers would have if every mailserver was running some kind of M$ OS?
They must have gotten the facts on the cost of eating their own dog food. While the cost of their own software is zero to them, I'm sure that supporting a large Microsoft run network is consuming a disproportionate chunk of their budget.
You earned it. Yep, you are a troll. You don't like Slashdot, and you spend lots of your time disrupting it with insults, advocating things you know free software people hate, and disinformation.
Let's have a look back at some of that long posting history of yours. Ouch, it's worse than I remember. Don't dish out what you can't take.
Technically your "MS isn't always a problem" translates to lots of loud, insulting and misleading apologies for Microsoft. I think you know better, and that's what trolling is all about, right? Where there is crap flood, you will find FortKnox.
And, of course, like any good troll you reveal yourself.
So there you have it. I remember some of those things I read. Your posts used to infuriate me until I remembered your posting name, but now I can just dimsis it, "Oh yeah, there's that FortKnox guy again."
Ask the policeman who's charged with assault. Ask the city government that's faced with a lawsuit.
Recording the event, so that the real bad guys are caught is great. It puts blame and credit where they belong.
As it is now, you have to take people's word for it. A public camera system owned by the public is a great step forward in witness credibility.