Personally, I like CPANEL. I've used it across three different hosting providers and now I offer it on my own as an e-commerce focused webhosting provider (not the URL in my SIG).
It works well, only breaks occasionally (this is all still bleeding edge and this comes with the territory -- if your clients aren't doing advanced stuff, you can afford to update CPANEL less often -- your choice), and that usually gets updated pretty quickly. Customers like it because it's very easy to use, and there are a number of themes available for your aesthetic pleasure.
150 domains is plenty to cause a headache, and by consolidating it onto CPANEL now you'll buy yourself some headroom. I also personally think it'll alleviate some support issues, as it is easy to offload some account management to your hosting clients.. it's that easy.
..MS's path to more "choice" will include more baseline restrictions and DRM.
If Apple can keep things a little simpler, and a little more limited, and offer the flexibility that they do (burning audio copies to CD, etc), as much as we geeks might complain, it's probably easier for the average consumer to grasp.
Sure, I'd love to see a mainstream offering with a huge library selling DRM-less MP3s, but that doesn't seem likely to happen, and it's certainly not going to come from Microsoft.
Up until recently, I switched between RH, Knoppix and Mandrake.
I'm done with RH and Knoppix (though I carry a Knoppix disc with me for good measure). Mandrake 9.2 RC2 is a wonderful experience and has been mostly stable for me (operationally it's stable -- the update Drake program has some problems but I'm assuming those will get fixed in the final release).
I heartily recommend the latest Mandrake. Good enough to send to my father, who's done with Windows hacks and viruses.
I have the same problem, but I think it's a Mozilla thing. IE never seems to have this problem, but it's reproduceable on Windows and Linux using any Mozilla version after 1.4.
I've lately switched to Konquerer, so it hasn't bothered me as much, but at home I only use Mozilla on XP.
It's really frustrating, and it's been about a month.
It seems to be cookie-related. If you can browse without saving your username into a cookie, it won't happen. The minute you login to post though, it's over.
I find it ironic that/. makes me load up IE to post this note.
I use Thunderbird for mail. The best mail client out there, great multi-account handling, and color quoting in the compose window. Available for both Windows and Mandrake.
There are a number of great editors. Ultraedit is relatively cheap and so advanced it's hard to believe. JEdit is pretty good, but has poor file dialogue handling on Windows. gEdit on Mandrake is nice.
If you want to keep a journal on the Windows side, I recommend The Journal. Sweet software.
Get a download manager like GetRight for Windows, master "wget" on Mandrake for big file downloads.
I know we'll get made fun of here, but if you don't watch TV for a few months, its charms fade very very quickly. I stay in hotels regularly, watch a little, and usually turn it off. I'm hardly a luddite, and I used to love it.
I do rent the occasional series on DVD -- 24, Sopranos. The rest, even shows I used to love (NBC's Thurs night line-up) I find I can very easily live without.
Dell is an impressive company to be sure, but here they seem to be getting their inspiration by merging the online music strategy of Apple and the consumer goods strategy of Gateway.
Not sure they can pull this off. Can they be as brave as Apple?
I'm pretty sure most people didn't understand the movie. Anything he did was predicated upon the shooting death statistics that started the movie. We have 10K+ deaths a year, most countries have, at most, hundreds. Everything he did afterwards, in the movie, is gravy.
I've been writing, too, and my instrument of choice is a Compaq Presario 1200 I inherited from a girlfriend. 10" screen, 450MHz. It's out in the garage, and there are practically no applications installed.
I've actually been using The Journal by David RM (http://davidrm.com/) for most of my writing. It's a wonderful app, and the only Windows application (outside of UltraEdit) I've ever paid for.
..if snort could be modified to be a web application error detection system. load it up with rules governing common errors that -- let's admit it now -- we don't always do a good job of coding into our actual applications.
Could the tablet architecture be a pre-mature effort on the part of MS to speed up the development of an alternative user interface that they believe the OSS world can't compete with?
Others here have pointed to OSS efforts regarding handwriting recognition, but it seems to me that given their huge R&D budget, a highly complex and refined user interface could be just the thing MS uses to further the dominance of their OS architecture.
Let's face it -- as much as I love Linux -- the refined nature of the Windows shell (which drives me batty but doesn't my parents) is something a lot of people won't give up for the switch to *nix (see excitement regarding Aqua).
Could this be their intended killer-app? I personally don't think it will work, but should they strike this ball out of the stadium (meaning, delivering a fine technical and user-oriented platform at a particularly appealing price), could this be a serious threat?
One other thing to note -- true Linux advocates tend to be command line junkies. I can type much faster than I can use the mouse. I can easily remember nice complicated command line arguments and do what I need with precision and speed. The average mouse-dependent sysadmin might love a tablet for configuring ISS... not sure we'll ever have an interface to use point and click to configure DNS, Apache, etc (OS X developments notwithstanding).
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Your technical point is taken, you could relax on the insults though.
There's plenty of room on the debate either way.
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Really?
I wonder why the RIAA isn't sending street teams out to every bar in the country (think of the thousands, nay 10s of thousands of bands, every weekend, playing in bars all over this great land of ours not paying royalties) with bands, or a stack of CDs.
All those street musicians (licensed even, say in the subways of NYC) who aren't paying royalties.
There's no great dust-up over these (potential) infractions. It wouldn't occur to most to think of it in moral terms either.
The spirit and letter of the laws differ, since Real Life is so analog (and unquantifiable). Digital life is, obviously, digital, and when network, ostensibly quantifiable, trackable, loggable.
It's still a bad move.
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Performance allows one to play (using the traditional term here) any song at any time without owing anyone.
Why did cultural views change so drastically when digitization became so handy? Why do we lose more rights as technology progresses?
Why is recording so damned special? I posit: because corporations have convinced you it is.
Uh, no they aren't. And whether, for the purposes of the trial MS is denying their product is modular, we all know it is.
What you're talking about is software design. The remedy is not about that.
And as for "unnecessarily mangling" the browser into the rest of the system, are you not paying attention to the trends within other OSes? Awright, KDE/GNOME aren't OSes, but in many respects they function as them. When Sun starts shipping Solaris with GNOME as the default windowing manager, how integrated do you think those differing, modular components are going to be?
One more thought I've always had in the back of my brain: why mandate that MS release their OS in modular format when it's not a natural request and it's not something that we'd ever require of other OS manufacturers.
It's always seemed significant to me that we don't admonish Sun for including a browser with their OS, HP with their workstations, etc. It's normal, desirable, it's A Good Thing.
Hence, the objection to MS and its behavior cannot simply be that they included a browser in their operating system. A browser BELONGS in the operating system.
The whole IE vs Netscape arguments notwithstanding, it's important to find a remedy that's: a) somewhat natural and b) free from exessive oversight (MS will win this game, as this parent poster wisely elaborated on).
I think those are nice ideas, but I don't think MS would sit by and let an active marketplace for these substitutions to develop.
As it was, though XP wasn't really all that significant an upgrade to W2K, a LOT of software broke and had to be tweaked work properly. With each of these revisions, MS leaves other developers by the wayside.
I do think this should be possible, but I think it should be a detail within the general remedies; but it seems to be the main focus of the states' efforts right now.
If what the states win in this antitrust trial is a modular version of windows, it will not sufficiently address MS' behavior nor really hamper their monopoly behavior over an period of time. It's not really that much a win for one of the most important anti-trust trial in a really, really long time.
..but I do think MS needs to be slapped with a serious remedy that will improve the marketplace, improve the offerings for the consumer (home and business), etc.
This will not be it. This would be a disaster of monstrous proportions. The primary reason this would be a disaster is that it's a business solution to a technical problem -- MS is a master at wiggling out of things like this. MS WILL create a disastrous modular marketplace where consumers will rush back into their all encompassing embrace. That's exactly what they are good at.
The remedies that have been proposed by commenters on/. have been more sophisticated and reasonable. Their tactical simplicity is their advantage.
Such as:
mandatory open APIs
open file formats
rational pricing
no "comprehensive" licensing
mandatory list pricing of OS for computer sales (my own contribution)
Actually, it's not non-sensical at all. It's just non-sensical if you insist that "they" and "their" is plural. Their's no reason for it not to be optionally singular, as well.
Ironically, there is evidence that they/their may have been the dominant verbal form of the gender neutral singular pronoun and only fell out of favor when certain religious orders began to record the first grammar books. Guess who attended schools and universities? They had exclusively male attendees. For such a closed demographic, there wasn't a high need for gender inclusive grammatical examples in the textbooks.
What comes around goes around.. and it's about time.
With a little time and attention, "he" begins to seem awfully non-representative. The whole "he or she" construction is so freakin' awkward as to distract attention from the point in hand.. particularly in spoken conversation.
I was expecting it too, and when we missed him in the montage, it was argued by others that he was in last year's show. If I remember correctly, EYES opened in early June, which means he would finished editing a few months before that and probably died before last year's show.
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..properly first on a fully powered desktop before shoving it into a PDA?
Personally, I like CPANEL. I've used it across three different hosting providers and now I offer it on my own as an e-commerce focused webhosting provider (not the URL in my SIG).
It works well, only breaks occasionally (this is all still bleeding edge and this comes with the territory -- if your clients aren't doing advanced stuff, you can afford to update CPANEL less often -- your choice), and that usually gets updated pretty quickly. Customers like it because it's very easy to use, and there are a number of themes available for your aesthetic pleasure.
150 domains is plenty to cause a headache, and by consolidating it onto CPANEL now you'll buy yourself some headroom. I also personally think it'll alleviate some support issues, as it is easy to offload some account management to your hosting clients.. it's that easy.
Good luck.
..MS's path to more "choice" will include more baseline restrictions and DRM.
If Apple can keep things a little simpler, and a little more limited, and offer the flexibility that they do (burning audio copies to CD, etc), as much as we geeks might complain, it's probably easier for the average consumer to grasp.
Sure, I'd love to see a mainstream offering with a huge library selling DRM-less MP3s, but that doesn't seem likely to happen, and it's certainly not going to come from Microsoft.
Up until recently, I switched between RH, Knoppix and Mandrake.
I'm done with RH and Knoppix (though I carry a Knoppix disc with me for good measure). Mandrake 9.2 RC2 is a wonderful experience and has been mostly stable for me (operationally it's stable -- the update Drake program has some problems but I'm assuming those will get fixed in the final release).
I heartily recommend the latest Mandrake. Good enough to send to my father, who's done with Windows hacks and viruses.
I have the same problem, but I think it's a Mozilla thing. IE never seems to have this problem, but it's reproduceable on Windows and Linux using any Mozilla version after 1.4.
/. makes me load up IE to post this note.
I've lately switched to Konquerer, so it hasn't bothered me as much, but at home I only use Mozilla on XP.
It's really frustrating, and it's been about a month.
It seems to be cookie-related. If you can browse without saving your username into a cookie, it won't happen. The minute you login to post though, it's over.
I find it ironic that
What, exactly, is it about "this country" that it would be the only place such a lawsuit would get filed?
I don't entirely disagree, but I think it's a slightly overused expression.
Let's stick with, only in "this country" do handguns kill 11,000+ people per year. Now we're on to something.
I use Thunderbird for mail. The best mail client out there, great multi-account handling, and color quoting in the compose window. Available for both Windows and Mandrake.
There are a number of great editors. Ultraedit is relatively cheap and so advanced it's hard to believe. JEdit is pretty good, but has poor file dialogue handling on Windows. gEdit on Mandrake is nice.
If you want to keep a journal on the Windows side, I recommend The Journal. Sweet software.
Get a download manager like GetRight for Windows, master "wget" on Mandrake for big file downloads.
I don't see how they're essential to education at that grade level.
These kids have the rest of their lives to spend in front of a keyboard and screen. Give them a few more years of relief before they get chained up.
I know we'll get made fun of here, but if you don't watch TV for a few months, its charms fade very very quickly. I stay in hotels regularly, watch a little, and usually turn it off. I'm hardly a luddite, and I used to love it.
I do rent the occasional series on DVD -- 24, Sopranos. The rest, even shows I used to love (NBC's Thurs night line-up) I find I can very easily live without.
Dell is an impressive company to be sure, but here they seem to be getting their inspiration by merging the online music strategy of Apple and the consumer goods strategy of Gateway.
Not sure they can pull this off. Can they be as brave as Apple?
I'm pretty sure most people didn't understand the movie. Anything he did was predicated upon the shooting death statistics that started the movie. We have 10K+ deaths a year, most countries have, at most, hundreds. Everything he did afterwards, in the movie, is gravy.
I've been writing, too, and my instrument of choice is a Compaq Presario 1200 I inherited from a girlfriend. 10" screen, 450MHz. It's out in the garage, and there are practically no applications installed.
I've actually been using The Journal by David RM (http://davidrm.com/) for most of my writing. It's a wonderful app, and the only Windows application (outside of UltraEdit) I've ever paid for.
..if snort could be modified to be a web application error detection system. load it up with rules governing common errors that -- let's admit it now -- we don't always do a good job of coding into our actual applications.
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Could the tablet architecture be a pre-mature effort on the part of MS to speed up the development of an alternative user interface that they believe the OSS world can't compete with?
Others here have pointed to OSS efforts regarding handwriting recognition, but it seems to me that given their huge R&D budget, a highly complex and refined user interface could be just the thing MS uses to further the dominance of their OS architecture.
Let's face it -- as much as I love Linux -- the refined nature of the Windows shell (which drives me batty but doesn't my parents) is something a lot of people won't give up for the switch to *nix (see excitement regarding Aqua).
Could this be their intended killer-app? I personally don't think it will work, but should they strike this ball out of the stadium (meaning, delivering a fine technical and user-oriented platform at a particularly appealing price), could this be a serious threat?
One other thing to note -- true Linux advocates tend to be command line junkies. I can type much faster than I can use the mouse. I can easily remember nice complicated command line arguments and do what I need with precision and speed. The average mouse-dependent sysadmin might love a tablet for configuring ISS... not sure we'll ever have an interface to use point and click to configure DNS, Apache, etc (OS X developments notwithstanding).
Your technical point is taken, you could relax on the insults though.
There's plenty of room on the debate either way.
Really?
I wonder why the RIAA isn't sending street teams out to every bar in the country (think of the thousands, nay 10s of thousands of bands, every weekend, playing in bars all over this great land of ours not paying royalties) with bands, or a stack of CDs.
All those street musicians (licensed even, say in the subways of NYC) who aren't paying royalties.
There's no great dust-up over these (potential) infractions. It wouldn't occur to most to think of it in moral terms either.
The spirit and letter of the laws differ, since Real Life is so analog (and unquantifiable). Digital life is, obviously, digital, and when network, ostensibly quantifiable, trackable, loggable.
It's still a bad move.
Performance allows one to play (using the traditional term here) any song at any time without owing anyone.
Why did cultural views change so drastically when digitization became so handy? Why do we lose more rights as technology progresses?
Why is recording so damned special? I posit: because corporations have convinced you it is.
It's not the only way.
Uh, no they aren't. And whether, for the purposes of the trial MS is denying their product is modular, we all know it is.
What you're talking about is software design. The remedy is not about that.
And as for "unnecessarily mangling" the browser into the rest of the system, are you not paying attention to the trends within other OSes? Awright, KDE/GNOME aren't OSes, but in many respects they function as them. When Sun starts shipping Solaris with GNOME as the default windowing manager, how integrated do you think those differing, modular components are going to be?
One more thought I've always had in the back of my brain: why mandate that MS release their OS in modular format when it's not a natural request and it's not something that we'd ever require of other OS manufacturers.
It's always seemed significant to me that we don't admonish Sun for including a browser with their OS, HP with their workstations, etc. It's normal, desirable, it's A Good Thing.
Hence, the objection to MS and its behavior cannot simply be that they included a browser in their operating system. A browser BELONGS in the operating system.
The whole IE vs Netscape arguments notwithstanding, it's important to find a remedy that's: a) somewhat natural and b) free from exessive oversight (MS will win this game, as this parent poster wisely elaborated on).
I think those are nice ideas, but I don't think MS would sit by and let an active marketplace for these substitutions to develop.
As it was, though XP wasn't really all that significant an upgrade to W2K, a LOT of software broke and had to be tweaked work properly. With each of these revisions, MS leaves other developers by the wayside.
I do think this should be possible, but I think it should be a detail within the general remedies; but it seems to be the main focus of the states' efforts right now.
If what the states win in this antitrust trial is a modular version of windows, it will not sufficiently address MS' behavior nor really hamper their monopoly behavior over an period of time. It's not really that much a win for one of the most important anti-trust trial in a really, really long time.
This will not be it. This would be a disaster of monstrous proportions. The primary reason this would be a disaster is that it's a business solution to a technical problem -- MS is a master at wiggling out of things like this. MS WILL create a disastrous modular marketplace where consumers will rush back into their all encompassing embrace. That's exactly what they are good at.
The remedies that have been proposed by commenters on
Such as:
mandatory open APIs
open file formats
rational pricing
no "comprehensive" licensing
mandatory list pricing of OS for computer sales (my own contribution)
No way to leave "status bar" on by default (obviously Microsoft's way of dumbing down customer's knowledge of "links").
No way to specify a homepage with a blank launch page (obvious not-invented-here syndrome).
Bug: If you open a web site that errors out, and then you hit reload, it doesn't properly display a browser title on load.
Small things each, but enough for me. If only Mozilla rendered a little quicker.
Ironically, there is evidence that they/their may have been the dominant verbal form of the gender neutral singular pronoun and only fell out of favor when certain religious orders began to record the first grammar books. Guess who attended schools and universities? They had exclusively male attendees. For such a closed demographic, there wasn't a high need for gender inclusive grammatical examples in the textbooks.
What comes around goes around .. and it's about time.
With a little time and attention, "he" begins to seem awfully non-representative. The whole "he or she" construction is so freakin' awkward as to distract attention from the point in hand .. particularly in spoken conversation.
I was expecting it too, and when we missed him in the montage, it was argued by others that he was in last year's show. If I remember correctly, EYES opened in early June, which means he would finished editing a few months before that and probably died before last year's show.