Could you explain what's wrong with mail.yahoo.com? I'm using Mozilla 1.4 here and I can't see anything odd. I'll try checking with Firefox later. I don't consider "different from IE" an error as log as it looks fine.
No, Mac OS X does not have scalable icons. The icons are bitmaps that are designed to look good when resampled. This comes up in every damn graphics thread.
This option has been in every version of Mozilla ever. In Firefox it's the clearly labeled "Always Use My Colors" checkbox in the Fonts & Colors dialog.
You should maybe look into IBM's SWT. I'm using Azureus, a Java bittorrent client using this toolkit, and it integrates fairly well with my Gnome desktop. It even puts an applet in the notification area.
The flagship SWT app is of course the Eclipse IDE.
I also hear Java 1.4.2 includes a GTK look & feel for Swing. Hopefully the Jedit texteditor I use for coding will be updated to support this.
The Firebird SQL server (based of Borland's Interbase) has been ported to C++. Actually, most C++ server software I know of tends to have a Windowsish background.
And no, Firefox doesn't need another damn manager. If the OS doesn't offer URI handling functionality it's broken. The number of telnet:// URIs is insignificant and a low priority.
The United States spends about 20-30% of GDP on military spending, compared with a really small % in Japan.
According to a State Department report I found on Google, the US spends 3-4% of GDP on defence, while Japan spends about 1% and the UK and France about 2.5% -- and if those countries did not have US security guarantees they'd surely spend significantly more.
I don't think the US has spent more than 20% of GDP on war except during WW II, and current relative budget levels are certainly much lower than during the Cold War. Since the US is so huge and rich, the weight of a million man army is relatively light.
Meanwhile, the Japanese governments reckless spending on useless construction projects, bad loans and other things has saddled the country with an absolutley staggering debt load while only very slowly making real reforms to the financal system and government regulations which caused the "lost decade" of the 90's.
There is no IDE, just command-line tools. The "build manager" referred to by the grandparent is msbuild.exe, a command-line tool that speaks a (N)Ant-like XML syntax.
As I understand it, VS.NET 2003 will use the same syntax, so you should be able to build a VS.NET project using the free SDK.
That's the old 6.4 interface, yes, but it lacks a lot of features that mplayerc.exe has that lets you watch DVDs and tweak oddly formatted video files. Particularly subtitled and multi-track audio.
Also, mplayerc.exe can play Quicktime and Real Video files in a non-bloated interface if you have those players installed.
I think Silent Storm can be considered original, even if there's an X-Com easter egg in one of the levels. Hopefully there will be more turnbased tactics games following the fair bit of success this game has had.
That's pretty odd. I can't seem to get Winamp 2.91 to use more than 11 MB right now, with the Media Library open and switching back and forth between MP3 and Ogg Vorbis playback. Are you using a visualization plugin?
The Xine GUI includes this functionality. There is a dropdown where you can select Beginner, Advanced, Expert and Master which controls the number of options in the Setup window. Of course, xine-ui is otherwise horrible in many, many ways.
You are talking about the XFree project, not the X system. Packard didn't get along with the XFree crowd, but his new project is still an X implementation and nothing else.
The Apollo went far further into space than any space shuttle ever has. I fail to see how being a shitty aircraft increases a veichle's spaceworthiness.
<acronym> works in IE (unstyled by default, but you get a tooltip when you hover over it), but <abbr> doesn't. The elements are redundant anyway - in fact, I think one of them will be dropped in XHTML 2.
KHTML has shoddy support for the title attribute, so <acronym> doesn't work in Konqueror or Safari... yet.
I've only seen a tiny number of sites with "useful" popups and most of the sites offer a clickable link or button as an alternative. Mozilla supports whitelists if you need a certain popup.
Personally, I consider any site with popups to be badly designed--there's always a more user-friendly alternative.
Slashdot's RSS feed is 2.51KB at the time of writing. The largest feed I subscribe to is 10K - after decompression. We're talking very little bandwidth here. Not to mention that the aggregator uses Conditional GETs so if there isn't an update you only transfer maybe 200-300 bytes of header.
RSS is just XML over HTTP folks. No special magic needed.
Actually, the MCH-ICH interconnect appears to be a weakness for the Canterwood. At only 266 MB/s and with more and more high-bandwidth peripherals (SATA, USB 2.0, FireWire, SCSI) this link could become saturated in some IO-intensive applications. Competing chipsets all have wider datapaths.
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Short version: There is a bug (217527) in Firefox. There is a fix, but it exposes a worse bug (246382), so the fix won't be checked included in 1.0.
The upside is that setting Slashdot to light mode means I don't have to see the horrible new color schemes :-\
Could you explain what's wrong with mail.yahoo.com? I'm using Mozilla 1.4 here and I can't see anything odd. I'll try checking with Firefox later. I don't consider "different from IE" an error as log as it looks fine.
No, Mac OS X does not have scalable icons. The icons are bitmaps that are designed to look good when resampled. This comes up in every damn graphics thread.
This option has been in every version of Mozilla ever. In Firefox it's the clearly labeled "Always Use My Colors" checkbox in the Fonts & Colors dialog.
Scalability, stability are the main reasons. There are also some cool features like DTrace that aren't available in Linux.
But it isn't. It's bug 217527.
You should maybe look into IBM's SWT. I'm using Azureus, a Java bittorrent client using this toolkit, and it integrates fairly well with my Gnome desktop. It even puts an applet in the notification area.
The flagship SWT app is of course the Eclipse IDE.
I also hear Java 1.4.2 includes a GTK look & feel for Swing. Hopefully the Jedit texteditor I use for coding will be updated to support this.
The Firebird SQL server (based of Borland's Interbase) has been ported to C++. Actually, most C++ server software I know of tends to have a Windowsish background.
This is bug 217527. Fixed on trunk, but backed out of the Mozilla 1.7 and Firefox 1.0 branches because the fix exposed bug 246382.
Bug 235948, marked fixed 2004-03-11 20:07 PDT
And no, Firefox doesn't need another damn manager. If the OS doesn't offer URI handling functionality it's broken. The number of telnet:// URIs is insignificant and a low priority.
According to a State Department report I found on Google, the US spends 3-4% of GDP on defence, while Japan spends about 1% and the UK and France about 2.5% -- and if those countries did not have US security guarantees they'd surely spend significantly more.
I don't think the US has spent more than 20% of GDP on war except during WW II, and current relative budget levels are certainly much lower than during the Cold War. Since the US is so huge and rich, the weight of a million man army is relatively light.
Meanwhile, the Japanese governments reckless spending on useless construction projects, bad loans and other things has saddled the country with an absolutley staggering debt load while only very slowly making real reforms to the financal system and government regulations which caused the "lost decade" of the 90's.
There is no IDE, just command-line tools. The "build manager" referred to by the grandparent is msbuild.exe, a command-line tool that speaks a (N)Ant-like XML syntax.
As I understand it, VS.NET 2003 will use the same syntax, so you should be able to build a VS.NET project using the free SDK.
That's the old 6.4 interface, yes, but it lacks a lot of features that mplayerc.exe has that lets you watch DVDs and tweak oddly formatted video files. Particularly subtitled and multi-track audio.
Also, mplayerc.exe can play Quicktime and Real Video files in a non-bloated interface if you have those players installed.
You'll notice that this ship was built in Australia, using parts from many countries (eg. the water jets are from Wartsila, a Finnish company).
(Stupid slashcode ate the umlauts in Wartsila.)
I think Silent Storm can be considered original, even if there's an X-Com easter egg in one of the levels. Hopefully there will be more turnbased tactics games following the fair bit of success this game has had.
That's pretty odd. I can't seem to get Winamp 2.91 to use more than 11 MB right now, with the Media Library open and switching back and forth between MP3 and Ogg Vorbis playback. Are you using a visualization plugin?
The Xine GUI includes this functionality. There is a dropdown where you can select Beginner, Advanced, Expert and Master which controls the number of options in the Setup window. Of course, xine-ui is otherwise horrible in many, many ways.
You are talking about the XFree project, not the X system. Packard didn't get along with the XFree crowd, but his new project is still an X implementation and nothing else.
The Apollo went far further into space than any space shuttle ever has. I fail to see how being a shitty aircraft increases a veichle's spaceworthiness.
<acronym> works in IE (unstyled by default, but you get a tooltip when you hover over it), but <abbr> doesn't. The elements are redundant anyway - in fact, I think one of them will be dropped in XHTML 2.
KHTML has shoddy support for the title attribute, so <acronym> doesn't work in Konqueror or Safari... yet.
I've only seen a tiny number of sites with "useful" popups and most of the sites offer a clickable link or button as an alternative. Mozilla supports whitelists if you need a certain popup.
Personally, I consider any site with popups to be badly designed--there's always a more user-friendly alternative.
Slashdot's RSS feed is 2.51KB at the time of writing. The largest feed I subscribe to is 10K - after decompression. We're talking very little bandwidth here. Not to mention that the aggregator uses Conditional GETs so if there isn't an update you only transfer maybe 200-300 bytes of header.
RSS is just XML over HTTP folks. No special magic needed.
Try Straw, a three-pane aggregator for GNOME 2 (screenshot). It's almost as good as SharpReader (and some things are better.)
SharpReader and Straw are my primary interface to the web these days.
So what's the keyboard shortcut for the search field?
Actually, the MCH-ICH interconnect appears to be a weakness for the Canterwood. At only 266 MB/s and with more and more high-bandwidth peripherals (SATA, USB 2.0, FireWire, SCSI) this link could become saturated in some IO-intensive applications. Competing chipsets all have wider datapaths.