(And "Use Adblock and stop using Java/Flash/PDF" is a workaround, not a real solution.)
Though, even with a fully process-separated browser, the adblock/noscript-workarounds would still be necessary. Not to work around the problem of browser hangups, but to work around the problem of sites having too much ads and scripts, the solution to which is a total redesign of a large percentage of all websites. =)
This is an honest question, because there/are/ many alternatives.
What are the alternatives to itunes if you have an iphone or ipod and want to transfer files, music or movies to or from it? I'm very interested since I have an iphone and actually donÂt use itunes, which also means that I have no music on my iphone, except for streamed internet radio.
Nope. Their justification for the somewhat higher prices are "We can charge what we want for OSX-compatible hardware since we are the only ones allowed to sell such hardware." Apple hardware have better finish than most but not higher quality and you still have to muck around with it if you want to, say, expand the memory or disks, switch to a better graphics- or audio-card or switch faulty components... It's just that it's usually much more complicated to do those things on an Apple than on other computers, so most Apple-users choose not to. For instance, try switching a faulty SODIMM in a Mac Mini. Doesn't get much muckier than that. ^_^
Wonder if it takes on oil. Both my father and both my brothers has had several phones dropped into the manholes of tanker-trucks or oil-cisterns. (Phone in breast pocket while inspecting...) Even if the tank is empty, there's usually enough oil in the bottom to kill most phones.
Big difference that you seem to be willfully ignoring. Neither Apple or any Linux vendor strong armed OEMs into exclusively installing their browser.
Ahem... Not to be nit picking, but the only OEM that produces OSX-compatible hardware exclusively install Safari and I don't think the creators of Safari would allow that OEM to install anything else. =)
In Vista, you can open the "File"-menu in the "Computer"-view of an explorer-window and "Add a Network Location" which points to an ftp-site. I'd wager that Windows 7 has something similar. You can also open a standard explorer-window and type ftp://ftp.mozilla.org where you normally see your current directory. Or, if you dislike using a GUI-interface to get your Firefox-installation, you can use the ftp DOS utility in a command window.
What would be nice, though, is if there where something like Aptitude for windows so that you had a central tool where you could simply select which freeware or open source applications you wanted and then have them downloaded, installed and kept up to date automatically. The worst part about a new Windows or OSX installation is hunting for, downloading and installing all the damn applications and utilities.
How about payment for work done? You know, like nearly every other industry. Or should plumbers demand a payment every time you have guest use your toilet?
So, the way you want it to be, if you want to have an mp3 you'll contact a songwriter, a couple of artist and a guy with a studio and then pay them an hourly fee for the time it take them to create the mp3?
Mu. This is an old argument, and regardless of how much you want it to be so, sharing is not stealing.
But is it ok for you to use or share the fruits of someone else's labour? If you build a pool, is it ok for me to use it and share it with my friends a hot summer day? I'm not stealing it. It's still there in your garden. I'm just sharing it.
On the other hand, Microsoft has the enviable position where most proprietary software used professionally are only available to users of their OS. Some are available to OSX-users too, and a small subset are also available to Unix-users. OSX can only be run on Apple PC's, so other OEM's can't ship OSX instead of Windows if they should want to ditch Microsoft.
As I work in a mostly Novell-based environment, I won't be advocating anything past XP32 yet in a while. There is no Novell client for XP64 and the Vista (and thus also W7) client is a complete disaster that is more or less useless.
If one can accept to take a small performance-hit, you simply dremel-away the back-end of a x1-slot and maybe, if necessary, cut away part of the card-edge on the second card if there's components in the way. (I had to cut down my secondary card so that is only has a x4-pcie connector...) It's a bit hit and miss though. Doesn't work with all mainboards, nor with all graphics-cards and it's not always that crossfire and such will work, since the mainboard manufacturer might not have bothered with support since the board usually can't host several pcie-graphicscards... =) Should work if you have 2 x16-slots but want a third card too...
I don't play games that require me to use a crossfire-setup, so my goal was to connect two more monitors... (Quadrahead for the win!)
The only way to do backups properly is to have a complete set, offline, in a separate location.
Hear, hear! Massive backups for the people and unreasonably harsh punishements for hackers who destroy other peoples data, regardless of if the data is backed up or not!
Not only should a preinstalled Linux be pretty easy to make fully usable out of the box. The preinstalled Windows-installation that comes with most OEM-system is rarely, if ever, "ready to go" out of the box. I have yet to see a Windows-laptop come preinstalled with, say, Openoffice, Gimp or other useful open source or freeware software. Usually, you have no real software at all. Maybe a few trial-apps, like a 30 day trial version of MS-Office and a 30 day trial of Norton antivirus, but that's it. The first thing you have to do is spend hours uninstalling trial-versions of software and finding, downloading and installing real versions of software via a webbrower.
Messege to OEM's: Trial software is useless and does not make a system "ready to go"!
I thought that (one thing crashing not taking down the entire application) was what this was all about? Today when Flash, or any other plugin, crashes it takes down Firefox. Preferably, it would take down the Flash-content on the tab whose Flash-process crashed, or at least only the tab.
Looking at how it is with all the laptops sold today with built-in 3G:
1. You can buy one just like you buy any other laptop, then either not use it or use any 3G-service you want with it. 2. You can buy one bundled with a 3G-data service.
Just like the "real" cost of a phone call is also practically zero for the operator, as the extra electricity used for one call is basically nothing.
It is only zero if the cost of building and maintaining the infrastructure needed to make that call is zero. The reason why SMS, in certain ways looking at it, is costless, is that it was made possible as a software-only addon the existing mobile infrastructure. There is no extra cost to also deliver or receive SMS from a handset that already has the ability to make or receive calls, since the ability to make calls is dependent on the handshake-traffic that, as a side effect, also can deliver SMS.
Obligatory stupid analogy: The UPS-guy delivering a parcel to you might give you a short oral message from someone whom he has picked up another parcel from without it costing UPS a tenth of a cent, if this message is short enough to not delay him. Thus the cost of him delivering you this message was zero.
OSX is rather virus and malware-resilient, unless you enter your administrative password when the virus or malware asks you to... Like when installing a pirated version of CS4. ^_^
The question is; How high would the toll of a commercially built road need to be for it to cover the expenses of building and maintaining a very long road stretching through a sparsely populated area with rather few travellers?
Yeah, and now people disable it because they think it'll give them a virus.
It was only Friday I last encountered a usb-stick infected with a virus that uses the autorun function.
Autorun is a function that should be off by default.
Seems to me that CD AutoRun pretty much proves his assumption of what would happen of the feature was on floppy drives.
Autodetect and autorun is two completely different things. I want the OS to autodetect CD's, floppys, usb-sticks and any other media. I don't want the OS to automatically run anything on any media it autodetects.
Totally unbiased news is impossible, since people have bias and sometimes doesn't even know when they act on this. But any news-channel or newspaper that wants to be taken serious should have being as unbiased as possible as their main agenda.
This would be more like renting out sound- and wiretap-proof rooms to anyone who wish to do business-deals, or any other activity, in privacy. Government agencies, suspicious spouses and corporate spies can see who goes in and out of your establishment but don't know what they do or say there, nor be sure of with whom of the other visitors they meet.
If you don't connect via a VPN-tunnel, everyone on that same WLAN can sniff your username and password. If you don't have access to a VPN of your own, you'll have to use a third-party VPN. Using one provided by Pirate Bay is as legal and logical as using any other VPN-provider.
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(And "Use Adblock and stop using Java/Flash/PDF" is a workaround, not a real solution.)
Though, even with a fully process-separated browser, the adblock/noscript-workarounds would still be necessary.
Not to work around the problem of browser hangups, but to work around the problem of sites having too much ads and scripts, the solution to which is a total redesign of a large percentage of all websites. =)
This is an honest question, because there /are/ many alternatives.
What are the alternatives to itunes if you have an iphone or ipod and want to transfer files, music or movies to or from it?
I'm very interested since I have an iphone and actually donÂt use itunes, which also means that I have no music on my iphone, except for streamed internet radio.
Nope.
Their justification for the somewhat higher prices are "We can charge what we want for OSX-compatible hardware since we are the only ones allowed to sell such hardware."
Apple hardware have better finish than most but not higher quality and you still have to muck around with it if you want to, say, expand the memory or disks, switch to a better graphics- or audio-card or switch faulty components...
It's just that it's usually much more complicated to do those things on an Apple than on other computers, so most Apple-users choose not to.
For instance, try switching a faulty SODIMM in a Mac Mini. Doesn't get much muckier than that. ^_^
Wonder if it takes on oil. Both my father and both my brothers has had several phones dropped into the manholes of tanker-trucks or oil-cisterns. (Phone in breast pocket while inspecting...)
Even if the tank is empty, there's usually enough oil in the bottom to kill most phones.
Big difference that you seem to be willfully ignoring. Neither Apple or any Linux vendor strong armed OEMs into exclusively installing their browser.
Ahem... Not to be nit picking, but the only OEM that produces OSX-compatible hardware exclusively install Safari and I don't think the creators of Safari would allow that OEM to install anything else. =)
You can use FTP.
In Vista, you can open the "File"-menu in the "Computer"-view of an explorer-window and "Add a Network Location" which points to an ftp-site. I'd wager that Windows 7 has something similar.
You can also open a standard explorer-window and type ftp://ftp.mozilla.org where you normally see your current directory.
Or, if you dislike using a GUI-interface to get your Firefox-installation, you can use the ftp DOS utility in a command window.
What would be nice, though, is if there where something like Aptitude for windows so that you had a central tool where you could simply select which freeware or open source applications you wanted and then have them downloaded, installed and kept up to date automatically.
The worst part about a new Windows or OSX installation is hunting for, downloading and installing all the damn applications and utilities.
How about payment for work done? You know, like nearly every other industry. Or should plumbers demand a payment every time you have guest use your toilet?
So, the way you want it to be, if you want to have an mp3 you'll contact a songwriter, a couple of artist and a guy with a studio and then pay them an hourly fee for the time it take them to create the mp3?
Mu. This is an old argument, and regardless of how much you want it to be so, sharing is not stealing.
But is it ok for you to use or share the fruits of someone else's labour?
If you build a pool, is it ok for me to use it and share it with my friends a hot summer day? I'm not stealing it. It's still there in your garden. I'm just sharing it.
On the other hand, Microsoft has the enviable position where most proprietary software used professionally are only available to users of their OS.
Some are available to OSX-users too, and a small subset are also available to Unix-users.
OSX can only be run on Apple PC's, so other OEM's can't ship OSX instead of Windows if they should want to ditch Microsoft.
But 1 or 2TB per drive will get you quite a data-density.
You can fit 448TB of storage in a single 48U rack using 2TB-drives. =)
As I work in a mostly Novell-based environment, I won't be advocating anything past XP32 yet in a while.
There is no Novell client for XP64 and the Vista (and thus also W7) client is a complete disaster that is more or less useless.
If one can accept to take a small performance-hit, you simply dremel-away the back-end of a x1-slot and maybe, if necessary, cut away part of the card-edge on the second card if there's components in the way. (I had to cut down my secondary card so that is only has a x4-pcie connector...)
It's a bit hit and miss though. Doesn't work with all mainboards, nor with all graphics-cards and it's not always that crossfire and such will work, since the mainboard manufacturer might not have bothered with support since the board usually can't host several pcie-graphicscards... =)
Should work if you have 2 x16-slots but want a third card too...
I don't play games that require me to use a crossfire-setup, so my goal was to connect two more monitors... (Quadrahead for the win!)
No more frozen Canada or Siberia
And the fertile, temperate regions of today will be dessert wastelands... =)
The only way to do backups properly is to have a complete set, offline, in a separate location.
Hear, hear!
Massive backups for the people and unreasonably harsh punishements for hackers who destroy other peoples data, regardless of if the data is backed up or not!
Not only should a preinstalled Linux be pretty easy to make fully usable out of the box. The preinstalled Windows-installation that comes with most OEM-system is rarely, if ever, "ready to go" out of the box.
I have yet to see a Windows-laptop come preinstalled with, say, Openoffice, Gimp or other useful open source or freeware software.
Usually, you have no real software at all. Maybe a few trial-apps, like a 30 day trial version of MS-Office and a 30 day trial of Norton antivirus, but that's it.
The first thing you have to do is spend hours uninstalling trial-versions of software and finding, downloading and installing real versions of software via a webbrower.
Messege to OEM's: Trial software is useless and does not make a system "ready to go"!
I thought that (one thing crashing not taking down the entire application) was what this was all about?
Today when Flash, or any other plugin, crashes it takes down Firefox.
Preferably, it would take down the Flash-content on the tab whose Flash-process crashed, or at least only the tab.
Looking at how it is with all the laptops sold today with built-in 3G:
1. You can buy one just like you buy any other laptop, then either not use it or use any 3G-service you want with it.
2. You can buy one bundled with a 3G-data service.
Freedom of choice! =)
I quote myself as an answer to your post: "in certain ways looking at it"
But if a certain write needs to modify 100 blocks instead of 10 due to fragmentation, fragmentation is a major performance factor.
Just like the "real" cost of a phone call is also practically zero for the operator, as the extra electricity used for one call is basically nothing.
It is only zero if the cost of building and maintaining the infrastructure needed to make that call is zero.
The reason why SMS, in certain ways looking at it, is costless, is that it was made possible as a software-only addon the existing mobile infrastructure.
There is no extra cost to also deliver or receive SMS from a handset that already has the ability to make or receive calls, since the ability to make calls is dependent on the handshake-traffic that, as a side effect, also can deliver SMS.
Obligatory stupid analogy:
The UPS-guy delivering a parcel to you might give you a short oral message from someone whom he has picked up another parcel from without it costing UPS a tenth of a cent, if this message is short enough to not delay him.
Thus the cost of him delivering you this message was zero.
OSX is rather virus and malware-resilient, unless you enter your administrative password when the virus or malware asks you to...
Like when installing a pirated version of CS4. ^_^
The question is; How high would the toll of a commercially built road need to be for it to cover the expenses of building and maintaining a very long road stretching through a sparsely populated area with rather few travellers?
Yeah, and now people disable it because they think it'll give them a virus.
It was only Friday I last encountered a usb-stick infected with a virus that uses the autorun function.
Autorun is a function that should be off by default.
Seems to me that CD AutoRun pretty much proves his assumption of what would happen of the feature was on floppy drives.
Autodetect and autorun is two completely different things.
I want the OS to autodetect CD's, floppys, usb-sticks and any other media.
I don't want the OS to automatically run anything on any media it autodetects.
Totally unbiased news is impossible, since people have bias and sometimes doesn't even know when they act on this.
But any news-channel or newspaper that wants to be taken serious should have being as unbiased as possible as their main agenda.
That's not really a good analogy.
This would be more like renting out sound- and wiretap-proof rooms to anyone who wish to do business-deals, or any other activity, in privacy.
Government agencies, suspicious spouses and corporate spies can see who goes in and out of your establishment but don't know what they do or say there, nor be sure of with whom of the other visitors they meet.
Using FTP or POP on a public, unencrypted WLAN.
If you don't connect via a VPN-tunnel, everyone on that same WLAN can sniff your username and password.
If you don't have access to a VPN of your own, you'll have to use a third-party VPN. Using one provided by Pirate Bay is as legal and logical as using any other VPN-provider.