Omitting the referer would break http spec, it's understandable why an user would want to (at least temporarily) toggle such a setting, but it would not make be a good default - which is why it isn't one.
Pretty sad when a 0.8 versioned browser runs better and works better than one built into the o.s. itself that's on version 6.0.
Of course I suppose you could argue that ms is versions are only 1/10 as significant as Firefoxes. But I don't see as that helps ms look any better.
You could also argue that version numbers are insignificant, arbitrarily selected strings and everyone knows they can't, in any way be used to compare either programs age or it's stability across different projects.
If you want to draw conclusions, compare age or number of releases. Even those won't work on Firefox, since it started on already stable and mature Seamonkey codebase.
Large resource usage in complex program is not necessarily a sign of poor coding!
I'm sure there's lot of poor code in Firefox, but even if every last line of it were perfect, it's still damn complex application and would still eat memory. There's no magic "640kb is enough for everyone" switch.
There's an extension for moz/ffox that does this as well.
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I agree.
Even if the new theme would be as good as Qute - and it's not even NEAR, nor do I think it's any more "consistent across the platforms" - there is still the whole point of branding.
Now that they've finally stuck with a name, and the new, admittedly damn nice, icons they start juggling around yet ANOTHER part of brand identity, the looks. Have they gone totally bonkers? Or are they just trying to drive away everyone for the hell of it?
If the current license of Qute is not acceptable, negotiate with Arvid, he already stated on thread linked from the story that he's perfectly okay with changing it to something more open.
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You're not supposed to pronounce that. You're supposed to look at it.
And no, as a default theme it's called "Default". As a stand alone theme the same was called qute by it's author.
Might, or might not be easy depending on how hard Shareaza pushes MFC limits.
wxWidgets (as it's now called after MS did their trademark lawsuit thingy) is due to it's nature obviously the lowest common denominator between mfc and gtk and whatever else it supports as a back end and may not have all the features of one if any one of the others doesn't support it.
SSH can have compression but it's pretty generic, and probably does not get already better (and optimized for image data) compressed tightvnc stream any smaller. Quite probably it actually grows it a bit.
You're perfectly free to fix or complain about your email program, gimp, and openoffice if any of those three does not properly work. I think gimp works, email may or may not, and good luck trying to get anything in the mammoth called openoffice changed.
(oddly enough if I drag from Firefox to Nautilis they save only the URL, probably a bug in Nautilus)
Well, it's probably that way because: a) Nautilus controls desktop as well. Links make sense there. b) That's how it works on Windows Explorer.
Of course it could have different behaviour when dragging to desktop instead of directory windows, but that would confuse things too. Unless I remember wrong, you can keep ctrl/alt/shift and/or some combination of those pressed when dragging to force one specific behaviour instead of the default, or in one case pops up a menu that asks what you would like to do with that dragged thingy.
Pretty good case of "feature, not a bug", since it basically boils down to user preference instead of either of those being absolutely "correct".
At least gnome-terminal (not sure about konsole) takes the kind-of-makes-sense route of shift+ctrl+c/v for copy/paste that only slightly changes from the normal, instead of switching to totally different (funnily enough, X-ish) method like windows console windows, as if that's not enough it's totally different in w9x and nt++
Then you approve of this DRM scheme? (allows up to 5 copies) Or am I missing something?
I might, if it were transparent, magical omnipresent force that would not add an inconvenience or monetary factor (as in installing new software or buying hardware that support this) and would automatically know what a limit is, something not even the law says or knows because it's obviously on per case basis and not something written in the stone.
Unfortunately, unless they've recruited God(s) or included an AI thousand years from future on each disk to handle these things, that's not going to happen. So no, I'm not approving this stupid DRM scheme.
Not that anyone should lose their sleep over that because I don't tend to make more than two copies anyway (mp3/ogg to avoid disk switching every time I want to listen to something and second to car).
And that's probably the case with 99.9% of other people as well, they stay withing that 5 copy limit without artificial restrictions, so tell me why is this needed in the first place? That 0.01% has incentive to crack the damn thing and resources to do so in about five seconds anyway so they gain nothing, and lose the customers who don't want the bundled inconvenience factor.
If you run your own copy through your copier for your own use, fine. If you make 10-10,000 copies to give away to all who ask - not fine.
You claimed you need to be paid for EVERY COPY taking place, unless the meaning of "every" has been changed lately, that includes the one for your own use.
There's also a third case where you make, say 1-5 copies and give them not to everyone that asks but your closest friends or family members - this is perfectly legal in quite a few countries by the fair use law, not sure about US. Even if it isn't, loaning them to a friend who then makes a copy himself is fine, and those are so near each other the difference is irrelevant.
Wrong. It can also happen when they are on separate drives. Happened here when installing FC2 to hdb with w2k pro on hda, not big deal, but it did happen.
Just because you didn't experience the problem doesn't mean it can't happen, I bet there are plenty of people who installed on same drive without any problems.
Anaconda doesn't write CHS values to hard drive by itself, it uses parted to do it.
Parted, on the other hand, is confused by the new 2.6 kernel reporting values differently than before, so depending on which way you look at it, the real bug is in either kernel or gnu parted.
Umm, having source included in distribution does not make something open source. Or if it does, Windows is open source, be big enough and have plenty of money and M$ will happily show it to you.
Licensing does, the ability to modify and redistribute it.
Minix not being open source was probably one of the main reasons Linus started to write his clone that he initially called "Freax" that evolved to Linux. Minix is open source now, but not back then.
Third as an elective; it's really fourth, because the schools are required to teach Swedish.
Actually English is compulsory in a vast majority of schools, so that would be second elective.
And quite a few of us don't speak Swedish as well as you folks make it sound, I hate the damn thing, and probably would speak it much better if it weren't required... as it is now, you'll read it enough to barely get trought tests and forget all about it next day.
The television is never dubbed; at most it has subtitles.
I couldn't stand dubbed tv... it's always crap. *shudder*
Some people have told me that since in Finland both Finnish and Swedish are official languages they are required by law to have Finnish and Swedish subtitles in foreign movies, and it may be difficult to see what's going on under the text. It's just an exageration surely.
They were (at least partially) right. The movies in theaters are dual-dubbed. I don't know if it's by law or if it's just easier to make one wheel instead of second one for the swedish talking areas.
Television programs, however, are only subtitled in Finnish.
Otherwise you'll be stuck forever in that tiny, semi-frozen corner of the planet.
Hey, we like it here in the tiny semi-frozen corner of the planet, you insensitive clod!
So what if it's frozen 8 months in a year.... hey, why are you looking at me like that? I'm not insane, I swear!
Funny thing is, to someone who has lived in the American Midwest, there's absolutely nothing alien about Finland except that language. It's just like Minnesota or Wisconsin or Ontario - except for the language.
Well, we don't have as much insane laws (yet, trying to get there, though!) nor as much litigious atmosphere to use them. <g>
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Would not have, and should not have.
Omitting the referer would break http spec, it's understandable why an user would want to (at least temporarily) toggle such a setting, but it would not make be a good default - which is why it isn't one.
Pretty sad when a 0.8 versioned browser runs better and works better than one built into the o.s. itself that's on version 6.0.
Of course I suppose you could argue that ms is versions are only 1/10 as significant as Firefoxes. But I don't see as that helps ms look any better.
You could also argue that version numbers are insignificant, arbitrarily selected strings and everyone knows they can't, in any way be used to compare either programs age or it's stability across different projects.
If you want to draw conclusions, compare age or number of releases. Even those won't work on Firefox, since it started on already stable and mature Seamonkey codebase.
Let's put it the other way:
Large resource usage in complex program is not necessarily a sign of poor coding!
I'm sure there's lot of poor code in Firefox, but even if every last line of it were perfect, it's still damn complex application and would still eat memory. There's no magic "640kb is enough for everyone" switch.
Galeon also restores everything after a crash.
There's an extension for moz/ffox that does this as well.
I agree.
Even if the new theme would be as good as Qute - and it's not even NEAR, nor do I think it's any more "consistent across the platforms" - there is still the whole point of branding.
Now that they've finally stuck with a name, and the new, admittedly damn nice, icons they start juggling around yet ANOTHER part of brand identity, the looks. Have they gone totally bonkers? Or are they just trying to drive away everyone for the hell of it?
If the current license of Qute is not acceptable, negotiate with Arvid, he already stated on thread linked from the story that he's perfectly okay with changing it to something more open.
You're not supposed to pronounce that. You're supposed to look at it.
And no, as a default theme it's called "Default". As a stand alone theme the same was called qute by it's author.
Might, or might not be easy depending on how hard Shareaza pushes MFC limits.
wxWidgets (as it's now called after MS did their trademark lawsuit thingy) is due to it's nature obviously the lowest common denominator between mfc and gtk and whatever else it supports as a back end and may not have all the features of one if any one of the others doesn't support it.
SSH can have compression but it's pretty generic, and probably does not get already better (and optimized for image data) compressed tightvnc stream any smaller. Quite probably it actually grows it a bit.
You're perfectly free to fix or complain about your email program, gimp, and openoffice if any of those three does not properly work. I think gimp works, email may or may not, and good luck trying to get anything in the mammoth called openoffice changed.
X itself does support what you described.
(oddly enough if I drag from Firefox to Nautilis they save only the URL, probably a bug in Nautilus)
Well, it's probably that way because:
a) Nautilus controls desktop as well. Links make sense there.
b) That's how it works on Windows Explorer.
Of course it could have different behaviour when dragging to desktop instead of directory windows, but that would confuse things too. Unless I remember wrong, you can keep ctrl/alt/shift and/or some combination of those pressed when dragging to force one specific behaviour instead of the default, or in one case pops up a menu that asks what you would like to do with that dragged thingy.
Pretty good case of "feature, not a bug", since it basically boils down to user preference instead of either of those being absolutely "correct".
Well, it does that everywhere.
At least gnome-terminal (not sure about konsole) takes the kind-of-makes-sense route of shift+ctrl+c/v for copy/paste that only slightly changes from the normal, instead of switching to totally different (funnily enough, X-ish) method like windows console windows, as if that's not enough it's totally different in w9x and nt++
Then you approve of this DRM scheme? (allows up to 5 copies) Or am I missing something?
I might, if it were transparent, magical omnipresent force that would not add an inconvenience or monetary factor (as in installing new software or buying hardware that support this) and would automatically know what a limit is, something not even the law says or knows because it's obviously on per case basis and not something written in the stone.
Unfortunately, unless they've recruited God(s) or included an AI thousand years from future on each disk to handle these things, that's not going to happen. So no, I'm not approving this stupid DRM scheme.
Not that anyone should lose their sleep over that because I don't tend to make more than two copies anyway (mp3/ogg to avoid disk switching every time I want to listen to something and second to car).
And that's probably the case with 99.9% of other people as well, they stay withing that 5 copy limit without artificial restrictions, so tell me why is this needed in the first place? That 0.01% has incentive to crack the damn thing and resources to do so in about five seconds anyway so they gain nothing, and lose the customers who don't want the bundled inconvenience factor.
Macrovision depends on some very specific properties of VCR's and TV's, and does nothing to prevent using "analog hole" in general.
Not that it prevents it even in that case, just makes it bit more inconvenient, there are plenty of gizmos that filter Macrovision signals out.
If you run your own copy through your copier for your own use, fine. If you make 10-10,000 copies to give away to all who ask - not fine.
You claimed you need to be paid for EVERY COPY taking place, unless the meaning of "every" has been changed lately, that includes the one for your own use.
There's also a third case where you make, say 1-5 copies and give them not to everyone that asks but your closest friends or family members - this is perfectly legal in quite a few countries by the fair use law, not sure about US. Even if it isn't, loaning them to a friend who then makes a copy himself is fine, and those are so near each other the difference is irrelevant.
Wrong. It can also happen when they are on separate drives. Happened here when installing FC2 to hdb with w2k pro on hda, not big deal, but it did happen.
Just because you didn't experience the problem doesn't mean it can't happen, I bet there are plenty of people who installed on same drive without any problems.
Anaconda doesn't write CHS values to hard drive by itself, it uses parted to do it.
Parted, on the other hand, is confused by the new 2.6 kernel reporting values differently than before, so depending on which way you look at it, the real bug is in either kernel or gnu parted.
Heh. Other way here. Auto was using LBA and changing manually to CHS fixed it.
You don't need to be a rocket scientist to realize that aiming for "two or three MB of RAM" using Mozilla codebase is not realistic.
To even think that's in the realm of possibility is insane.
I don't think BeOS or QNX "debased the microkernel model".
BeOS is dead. QNX is a niche even in it's native embedded land. 'nuff said.
Heh. Tanenbaum is bashing macrokernels because Windows is insecure.
Kind of ironic considering the fact that Windows NT is actually more of a microkernel design.
That was surely open source unix before Linux
Umm, having source included in distribution does not make something open source. Or if it does, Windows is open source, be big enough and have plenty of money and M$ will happily show it to you.
Licensing does, the ability to modify and redistribute it.
Minix not being open source was probably one of the main reasons Linus started to write his clone that he initially called "Freax" that evolved to Linux. Minix is open source now, but not back then.
Third as an elective; it's really fourth, because the schools are required to teach Swedish.
Actually English is compulsory in a vast majority of schools, so that would be second elective.
And quite a few of us don't speak Swedish as well as you folks make it sound, I hate the damn thing, and probably would speak it much better if it weren't required... as it is now, you'll read it enough to barely get trought tests and forget all about it next day.
The television is never dubbed; at most it has subtitles.
I couldn't stand dubbed tv... it's always crap. *shudder*
Some people have told me that since in Finland both Finnish and Swedish are official languages they are required by law to have Finnish and Swedish subtitles in foreign movies, and it may be difficult to see what's going on under the text. It's just an exageration surely.
They were (at least partially) right. The movies in theaters are dual-dubbed. I don't know if it's by law or if it's just easier to make one wheel instead of second one for the swedish talking areas.
Television programs, however, are only subtitled in Finnish.
Otherwise you'll be stuck forever in that tiny, semi-frozen corner of the planet.
Hey, we like it here in the tiny semi-frozen corner of the planet, you insensitive clod!
So what if it's frozen 8 months in a year.... hey, why are you looking at me like that? I'm not insane, I swear!
Funny thing is, to someone who has lived in the American Midwest, there's absolutely nothing alien about Finland except that language. It's just like Minnesota or Wisconsin or Ontario - except for the language.
Well, we don't have as much insane laws (yet, trying to get there, though!) nor as much litigious atmosphere to use them. <g>
ATI doesn't have drivers for xorg or kernel 2.6 (yet), but it's possible to get them working.
here you go.