Why is it every piece of new tech is the size a a credit card? Can't be the size of a dollar bill? or what about a piece of sliced bread, considering all this new tech is the greatest thing since.
I just want to know what every tech inventor's opbession is with everything being the size of a credit card. It's not like we are going to fit these in our wallets. "Sure Mr. Tanaka, I have my 20 terabyte database here in my wallet, care to swap?"
I dunno, I just wish technology came in different sizes I guess.
With the execption of our teeth and eyes. We are only about 30 days old. All your old cells die, and new ones take their place. The real question on aging is, why do we even age at all? Dispite the fact that we competely replace our cells about one a month, we still age.
This could go a long way to heal things like heart disease, cancer, etc. Where the problems are they cells can't regenerate like they should. But this won't save you from aging.
NOTE: this is just what I remember from what biology I've had in the past. Anyone wants to prove me wrong, feel free.
then you would see that is wasn't the DoJ, but the Federal Court of Appels. The judge being biased was one of the grounds that Mircosoft wanted to have the ruling overturned. In the appels process, it was determined he wasn't biased.
For more into RTFA! I'd say more, but I don't want to be flamebait.
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I've been using the December 3rd Build since it was the lastest. It's been really stable(this it's crashed twice) SSL works(I've orderd mose then 3 things using it so far), Netscape's Java plugin and even the flash player plugin works without problems.
It's also pretty speedy. At least as fast as Netscape 4, and it renders pages alot faster.I also use the mail and news client. It's a little slow when you have a alot of e-mail(200+ messages in a folder), but I think it's a really nice e-mail program.
To really use mozilla, you just have to find a good nightly, and stick with it. The 2000121306 build is what I've been using as it's worked great. The only thing I hope doesn't happen is that it timebombs in 30 days, because I'll have to hunt for another nightly that works as well as this one.:-/
For those that want to finally kill off Netscape 4 and use Mozilla. Actually, it's alot easier then people make it out to be.
1. untar the package somwhere. (duh!). But here's the tricky part. If you want to install software though it(plugins, themes, etc.) you have to have write acess. So do two things. Install it in/home/username , if you're the only one that uses your machine. Or make a mozilla group.
2. set two envioment variables. MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Both should point to where you installed Mozilla, eg./home/username/package
3. copy mozilla-bin to/usr/bin , or somewhere in your path. Then make a symlink called netscape that points to it.
Have fun. I've been running nightlies for awhile, with varying success. Some are really good, then you get one the next day that's just dog slow. Then three days later it's ok again, with a couple more bugs fixed. So if you get another nightly, don't delete your old mozilla install before you try it for a few minutes.
Take a website, let's say slashdot.org. Ok, now it's perfectly fine to have slashdot.coop, slashot.linux, slashdot.whateveryouwant. Seems like a good idea.....
but what about slashdo.torg? or slash.dotorg? Or apply it to other websites? is that www.theregister.co.uk? or www.theregister.couk?
That's why you have a limited amount. It saves confusion, and you can't just move the "dot" around and have your pick of anyname you want, most likely infringing on well-known websites. Would it be right for me to register slashdoto.rg , and then have it re-direct to my site, just to get slashdot traffic? Or what about toysrus.com getting etoysc.om, to get their mistyped traffic.
You think cybersuatting and re-driection typo'ed URL's is bad now? Wait until some goofy gorup decides to give out vanity TLDs.
After reading an earlier slashdot article about actually becoming a member of the EFF, I went to their website and became a student member for $20
For all the work they are doing to help you, have you contributed? $20 isn't alot for anyone here. I'd wager that most probably spent that in time posting to slashdot and preaching to the choir about what the EFF is fighting for.
I'm sure anyone could do the quick math, and realize how much financial support the slasdhot community can give to the EFF. So go and contribute your part to what this organization is doing.
I'll step off my soapbox now. I'll now bring you back to your normally scheduled trolls, already in progress. (^_^)
Now, X on something like a palm pilot or visor is just a waste of space. But X on one of these wireless webpads that everyone likes to demo but not sell...that's the best thing they can do.
The whole point of one of these webpads is that it's just an extension of the desktop. It's not like my visor, where I keep track of phone numbers, etc. It's soposed to be for when I want to read slashdot on the throne.
What better way to have it an extention of my desktop, then to run all my desktop aps nativly. This is one of the underrated uses of X. THe fact that it can display remotely. The webpad doesn't need any real power, just enough to run the display. My desktop is taking all the cpu load runing the ap.
When this comes, I'll spend money on one. I'd love to be able to do stuff like control xmms form anywhere, read salshdot on the can, and go to landolakes.com in the kitchen so I know how to make a turkey. That's what these things are soposed to be able to let me do. What better way then to do it with X? After all, that's what it's for.
And this just isn't a linux pipedream either. MacOS X having an X server, will be able to do the same thing. And also if I'm not mistaken, doesn't Corel, or one of it's partners ship a product that lets Windows display it's aps remotely to an X server?
It doesn't matter what "standards" there are, they are all meaningless. A standard isn't only as good as the number of people that actually use it. Here's an example.
I'm creating a website. I look and go "Foobar would work really well here". SoI look up and see what the "standard" way to use foobar is. W3C says foobar should be done this way. So I do it and it doesn't work. Why? Because Netscape 4.x doesn't fully support foobar. Mozilla/Netscape 6 is "working" on full foobar support. IE supports enough foobar not to screw up the page. But Mircosoft being Microsoft they have intelifoobar. Does everything foobar does, and then some.
So what choice do I have? Use intelifoobar. Why? I can make foobar strictly to the "standard". But then nothing can really use it NOW. I can use Intelifoobar and have it work with 80% of the market today. Netscape is a non factor, because it can't do standards compilant foobar anyways. I'd have to re-work everything just to support it. that 15% or so isn't really worth the effort to do something that special for.
Here's my point. If "standards" are set that no one uses. It's useless. I just used foobar in the example, but it's relevant to alot of things. If Netscape and everyone else doesnt' follow all the standards that are set by standards bodies such as the W3C, then they are useless. It less Microsoft dictate what will, and won't be used. So Netscape, do you want to follow the true standards? Or do you want Mircosoft dictate what will and will not work on the web?
I thought one of the most disturbing features of the UCITA was they they could just do this remotely. They could just kill all their licences with a click of a button on their side. Saying that VA Beach was in a license violation, and pulling their licenses until they could validate everything.
The only thing VA Beach would get is a letter, and the fact that none of their computers would boot because Microsoft would have remotely pulled all their licenses in the wee hours of the morning.
Wait until all this really goes in to effect, and some local gov't is shut down by Microsoft. Or what about a university? or even one of Microsoft's competitors. Some company pissing Microsoft off? Teach them a lesson they won't forget by remotely pulling all their Windows liceneses. That kind of power honesly makes Bill Gates one of the most powerful people in the world? How many other companies could just go in and gind the US gov't to a halt on day-to-day operations?
You only need to install one thing, the interent connection. Then after the net connection is up, a small program is run and just grabs whatever drivers for whatever hardware you have.
But that sucks you say? I'm on a modem and that would take forever. You could save the modules to a harddisk(doesn't matter what file system it is), then the game can just load the drivers from there. I vision a standard site for all games that use the system to look for new drivers, and a third-party to maintain them. Then anyone that uses this wouldn't have to worry about driver support at all. It's already done.
The best part about that is, it you can have an auto-update utility. An apt-get like program that could just see what new drivers are avalible. Just have a message before you start a game that new drivers are avaliabe.
Something that could really take off if done correctly.
AMD, like Intel, doesn't give a rat's ass what you do to your own cpu. Burn it out? They don't care one way or another.
It's the grey market area that they want to stop. These shaddy OEMs, and local PC shops that like to OC a 600 chip to 800, then sell it off as a genuine 800mhz system. While the novice computer user that buys these secretly OC'ed systems isn't any the wiser.
What happens? Their cpu burns out way too eary, and when their computer stops working due to a dead cpu, they don't give any though out to OEM that sold it. The consumer just thinks that AMD makes crappy cpus, and will just get an Intel chip the next time.
So, I dont' blame one bit for AMD to stop as much as they can on OC'ing their chips. It's not to stop your or me from taking one of their chips up a few extra mhz. It's for the bonehead local OEMs from selling a Duron OC'ed to 850+ as a genuine 850+ chip. Which sadly to say, I've seen it done all too often.
*Note* I haven't followed this closely, so if someone has an answer, feel free to reply.
What is so special about this barcode reader. I mean other then the fact that it is free? There are many MANY point-of-sale places that sell barcode readers rather inexpensively.
What is the "driver" situation? Most barcodes readers are just a keyboard wedge device that just emulates the keyboard. The decoding of bar codes is done in the reader itself, not the drivers. That is, unless this one is like a "winbarcode reader". In which case, I wouldn't touch it with a 40 foot poll anyways.
Again, if I'm just talking out of my ass, reply and tell me what the big deal is with THIS reader. That is, other then it's free.
Probably sitting around the office going "hey, this kid ripped off linux.com Let's show him buy/.'ing his box. That'll learn him"
There are plenty of websites that have blatently stolen the/. "look and feel" How many companies ripped off Yahoo!? Did Yahoo! put a link on their front page and say "click here to overload thier systems! They are puny compared to our massive bandwidth!!! [evil laugh here]" No.
Of course, it is sometimes fogotten that/. isn't really a news site. None of the staff are educated in jounalism. It just happens to be a site that reported stuff from other sites that just happen to get kinda popular and big. Jounalism is more then just how many people read what you write. I don't really consider Slashdot jounalism any more then I'd consider National Enquirer or Weekly World News. All three are read by millions. None of it is journalism.
That's nothing really against any of them either. All three are very entertaining to read. But to call it journalism your head is either in two places, in the clouds, or in your arse.
This is just like anything that you will encounter in the job world. A company wanting you to use a certian product. This is what they use, for some reason or another. So you use it. Don't like using it? Look for another job where they use what you want.
Should you learn differnt enviroments? Yeah. But looking for a school is just like looking for a job. You should have checked to see what they used for their classes. My old college got into bed with Microsoft pretty nicely. Their whole CS program ended up being a glorified MCSE program. So I transfered. Maybe you could do the same.
But my point being. Just use what they have and like it. You're in no real position to really change it. And they really don't care what one guy thinks. If you get enough student support or something to warrent a change then maybe. But here's the big thing alot of people don't understand. The world doesn't revolove around them.
Too many open-source zealots go into places and as soon as they get there babble on to no end about it. And just expect everywhere they go to just to drop whatever they are using now, and use something open source. Yeah, this has being working really well, but this new kid says open source is the way to go, so let's drop what works and do it. It doesn't work that way.
But oh well, this will just be marked flaimbait anyways. Don't even know why I posted it.
Ok, here is a point that I'm sick of hearing, and am going to put to rest right now. Mircosoft products for linux isn't the reason it's not on business desktops.
If that were the case, MacOS would have the lion's share of the market here. Both IE and Office for the MacOS are better then their WIndows counterparts. IE5 being the most standards compliant browser there is. Office for MacOS being just as good. And with Office 2001 being completly carbonized, it will also be better then their Windows version.
There are reasons that people say why businesses aren't using linux on their corprate desktops. Inconsistant user interface, lack of bussiness apps for linux, fear of open source, etc. The MacOS doesn't have any of these "shortcommings". So why doesn't it own this market? Bases on the reasons that people give for lack of linux use in my eyes are invalid. There are other os'es that do everything they say is needed. Yet they are realatively unused and passed over.
The only negatives I can see to using MacOS on a corp. desktop would be cost of Apple hardware. But cost isn't something these businesses aren't concerned with. MacOS may not be a rock of stability, but is Win9x?
So what is the real reason that linux isn't on the business desktop? Or better yet, why hasn't MacOS been able to get to this market? And as a follow-up.....if linux gets to where the MacOS is in number of aps, ease of use, etc., will it even matter?
Look at Office 2001 for the mac, you can see what I mean. Mircosoft knows Mac users dont' like Microsoft. So they are downplaying everything that says Mircosoft. It's totally carbonized, etc.
I'd expect the same with a linux port. I'd assume the first version would be just a MainWin "port". But then a linux ap division. Which I hope is as talented as their MacOS divsion. Thier 2nd offering of Microsoft products would use all gnome services, bonobo, corba, gtk. etc.
And for all you doubting thomas's. Interenet Exploer 5 for MacOS is the most standards compiant browser on the market. I'd execpt no less form Microsoft on a linux port.
Hear me now, believe me later, Mozilla is a failed project. It's not a useful browser, that is if you do more then read slashdot. Yow want to click on a link on shoutcast and have xmms load? You want Java? You want a browser that doesn't take up more memory then Homer does food at the all you can eat buffet? Then don't use Mozilla. Not now, not ever.
This is just a way for a failed project to salvage itself. By hoping that someone else(because they haven't been able to) will be able to make a browser that's 1/4 of what even Netscpae 4 is, let alone IE5.
The only way people will use any part of Mozilla, is if it's parts of other programs. Be it AOL software, Natualius, or whatever.
This isn't flamebait. It really isn't. But to say that Mozilla is useful for anything besides light browsing for more then 15 minutes at a time(before it segfaults) is just wishful thinking and sour grapes at IE5.
I really hope this last ditch effort saves something from the Mozilla project. Maybe other people other then Netscape/AOL employees will start to work on it and finally release something I'm not embarased to say is an open source project.
Could it be possible to have a program intercept HTML before it hits the browser? Have the program parse though the HTML and see if meets a set of conditions for it to be censored?
For example, a simple parse of the code for porn sites not only have offensive language in them, but also have images with names like "cumshot1.jpg". A condition for to be blocked could be 5 consored words in 10, and images with blocked words. This was, even a site that may have "fuck" in it(like this thread) would go though. While "fuck my tits with hard cock" would be blocked.
Maybe you could even take this idea a step further. Have the program re-script the web page. Be helpful in web searches. Have rules set up to what Yahoo!, Google, etc. search results HTML looks like, can have it filter out results based on the same set of rules. Then you can search for "breast cancer" and not get 50 porn sites as the top matches.
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Why is it every piece of new tech is the size a a credit card? Can't be the size of a dollar bill? or what about a piece of sliced bread, considering all this new tech is the greatest thing since.
I just want to know what every tech inventor's opbession is with everything being the size of a credit card. It's not like we are going to fit these in our wallets. "Sure Mr. Tanaka, I have my 20 terabyte database here in my wallet, care to swap?"
I dunno, I just wish technology came in different sizes I guess.
With the execption of our teeth and eyes. We are only about 30 days old. All your old cells die, and new ones take their place. The real question on aging is, why do we even age at all? Dispite the fact that we competely replace our cells about one a month, we still age.
This could go a long way to heal things like heart disease, cancer, etc. Where the problems are they cells can't regenerate like they should. But this won't save you from aging.
NOTE: this is just what I remember from what biology I've had in the past. Anyone wants to prove me wrong, feel free.
then you would see that is wasn't the DoJ, but the Federal Court of Appels. The judge being biased was one of the grounds that Mircosoft wanted to have the ruling overturned. In the appels process, it was determined he wasn't biased.
For more into RTFA! I'd say more, but I don't want to be flamebait.
you must see it for yourself
no it is December 3rd....it's build 2000120306 ...it was just a typo
I've been using the December 3rd Build since it was the lastest. It's been really stable(this it's crashed twice) SSL works(I've orderd mose then 3 things using it so far), Netscape's Java plugin and even the flash player plugin works without problems.
:-/
It's also pretty speedy. At least as fast as Netscape 4, and it renders pages alot faster.I also use the mail and news client. It's a little slow when you have a alot of e-mail(200+ messages in a folder), but I think it's a really nice e-mail program.
To really use mozilla, you just have to find a good nightly, and stick with it. The 2000121306 build is what I've been using as it's worked great. The only thing I hope doesn't happen is that it timebombs in 30 days, because I'll have to hunt for another nightly that works as well as this one.
For those that want to finally kill off Netscape 4 and use Mozilla. Actually, it's alot easier then people make it out to be.
/home/username , if you're the only one that uses your machine. Or make a mozilla group.
/home/username/package
/usr/bin , or somewhere in your path. Then make a symlink called netscape that points to it.
1. untar the package somwhere. (duh!). But here's the tricky part. If you want to install software though it(plugins, themes, etc.) you have to have write acess. So do two things. Install it in
2. set two envioment variables. MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Both should point to where you installed Mozilla, eg.
3. copy mozilla-bin to
Have fun. I've been running nightlies for awhile, with varying success. Some are really good, then you get one the next day that's just dog slow. Then three days later it's ok again, with a couple more bugs fixed. So if you get another nightly, don't delete your old mozilla install before you try it for a few minutes.
Here's the problem with unlimited TLD's
Take a website, let's say slashdot.org. Ok, now it's perfectly fine to have slashdot.coop, slashot.linux, slashdot.whateveryouwant. Seems like a good idea.....
but what about slashdo.torg? or slash.dotorg? Or apply it to other websites? is that www.theregister.co.uk? or www.theregister.couk?
That's why you have a limited amount. It saves confusion, and you can't just move the "dot" around and have your pick of anyname you want, most likely infringing on well-known websites. Would it be right for me to register slashdoto.rg , and then have it re-direct to my site, just to get slashdot traffic? Or what about toysrus.com getting etoysc.om, to get their mistyped traffic.
You think cybersuatting and re-driection typo'ed URL's is bad now? Wait until some goofy gorup decides to give out vanity TLDs.
After reading an earlier slashdot article about actually becoming a member of the EFF, I went to their website and became a student member for $20
For all the work they are doing to help you, have you contributed? $20 isn't alot for anyone here. I'd wager that most probably spent that in time posting to slashdot and preaching to the choir about what the EFF is fighting for.
I'm sure anyone could do the quick math, and realize how much financial support the slasdhot community can give to the EFF. So go and contribute your part to what this organization is doing.
I'll step off my soapbox now. I'll now bring you back to your normally scheduled trolls, already in progress. (^_^)
Now, X on something like a palm pilot or visor is just a waste of space. But X on one of these wireless webpads that everyone likes to demo but not sell...that's the best thing they can do.
The whole point of one of these webpads is that it's just an extension of the desktop. It's not like my visor, where I keep track of phone numbers, etc. It's soposed to be for when I want to read slashdot on the throne.
What better way to have it an extention of my desktop, then to run all my desktop aps nativly. This is one of the underrated uses of X. THe fact that it can display remotely. The webpad doesn't need any real power, just enough to run the display. My desktop is taking all the cpu load runing the ap.
When this comes, I'll spend money on one. I'd love to be able to do stuff like control xmms form anywhere, read salshdot on the can, and go to landolakes.com in the kitchen so I know how to make a turkey. That's what these things are soposed to be able to let me do. What better way then to do it with X? After all, that's what it's for.
And this just isn't a linux pipedream either. MacOS X having an X server, will be able to do the same thing. And also if I'm not mistaken, doesn't Corel, or one of it's partners ship a product that lets Windows display it's aps remotely to an X server?
It doesn't matter what "standards" there are, they are all meaningless. A standard isn't only as good as the number of people that actually use it. Here's an example.
I'm creating a website. I look and go "Foobar would work really well here". SoI look up and see what the "standard" way to use foobar is. W3C says foobar should be done this way. So I do it and it doesn't work. Why? Because Netscape 4.x doesn't fully support foobar. Mozilla/Netscape 6 is "working" on full foobar support. IE supports enough foobar not to screw up the page. But Mircosoft being Microsoft they have intelifoobar. Does everything foobar does, and then some.
So what choice do I have? Use intelifoobar. Why? I can make foobar strictly to the "standard". But then nothing can really use it NOW. I can use Intelifoobar and have it work with 80% of the market today. Netscape is a non factor, because it can't do standards compilant foobar anyways. I'd have to re-work everything just to support it. that 15% or so isn't really worth the effort to do something that special for.
Here's my point. If "standards" are set that no one uses. It's useless. I just used foobar in the example, but it's relevant to alot of things. If Netscape and everyone else doesnt' follow all the standards that are set by standards bodies such as the W3C, then they are useless. It less Microsoft dictate what will, and won't be used. So Netscape, do you want to follow the true standards? Or do you want Mircosoft dictate what will and will not work on the web?
I thought one of the most disturbing features of the UCITA was they they could just do this remotely. They could just kill all their licences with a click of a button on their side. Saying that VA Beach was in a license violation, and pulling their licenses until they could validate everything.
The only thing VA Beach would get is a letter, and the fact that none of their computers would boot because Microsoft would have remotely pulled all their licenses in the wee hours of the morning.
Wait until all this really goes in to effect, and some local gov't is shut down by Microsoft. Or what about a university? or even one of Microsoft's competitors. Some company pissing Microsoft off? Teach them a lesson they won't forget by remotely pulling all their Windows liceneses. That kind of power honesly makes Bill Gates one of the most powerful people in the world? How many other companies could just go in and gind the US gov't to a halt on day-to-day operations?
Here's what you do to handle drivers.
You only need to install one thing, the interent connection. Then after the net connection is up, a small program is run and just grabs whatever drivers for whatever hardware you have.
But that sucks you say? I'm on a modem and that would take forever. You could save the modules to a harddisk(doesn't matter what file system it is), then the game can just load the drivers from there. I vision a standard site for all games that use the system to look for new drivers, and a third-party to maintain them. Then anyone that uses this wouldn't have to worry about driver support at all. It's already done.
The best part about that is, it you can have an auto-update utility. An apt-get like program that could just see what new drivers are avalible. Just have a message before you start a game that new drivers are avaliabe.
Something that could really take off if done correctly.
How long until this is avaliable as a Visor module? (^_^)
AMD, like Intel, doesn't give a rat's ass what you do to your own cpu. Burn it out? They don't care one way or another.
It's the grey market area that they want to stop. These shaddy OEMs, and local PC shops that like to OC a 600 chip to 800, then sell it off as a genuine 800mhz system. While the novice computer user that buys these secretly OC'ed systems isn't any the wiser.
What happens? Their cpu burns out way too eary, and when their computer stops working due to a dead cpu, they don't give any though out to OEM that sold it. The consumer just thinks that AMD makes crappy cpus, and will just get an Intel chip the next time.
So, I dont' blame one bit for AMD to stop as much as they can on OC'ing their chips. It's not to stop your or me from taking one of their chips up a few extra mhz. It's for the bonehead local OEMs from selling a Duron OC'ed to 850+ as a genuine 850+ chip. Which sadly to say, I've seen it done all too often.
*Note* I haven't followed this closely, so if someone has an answer, feel free to reply.
What is so special about this barcode reader. I mean other then the fact that it is free? There are many MANY point-of-sale places that sell barcode readers rather inexpensively.
What is the "driver" situation? Most barcodes readers are just a keyboard wedge device that just emulates the keyboard. The decoding of bar codes is done in the reader itself, not the drivers. That is, unless this one is like a "winbarcode reader". In which case, I wouldn't touch it with a 40 foot poll anyways.
Again, if I'm just talking out of my ass, reply and tell me what the big deal is with THIS reader. That is, other then it's free.
I Agree.
/.'ing his box. That'll learn him"
/. "look and feel" How many companies ripped off Yahoo!? Did Yahoo! put a link on their front page and say "click here to overload thier systems! They are puny compared to our massive bandwidth!!! [evil laugh here]" No.
/. isn't really a news site. None of the staff are educated in jounalism. It just happens to be a site that reported stuff from other sites that just happen to get kinda popular and big. Jounalism is more then just how many people read what you write. I don't really consider Slashdot jounalism any more then I'd consider National Enquirer or Weekly World News. All three are read by millions. None of it is journalism.
Probably sitting around the office going "hey, this kid ripped off linux.com Let's show him buy
There are plenty of websites that have blatently stolen the
Of course, it is sometimes fogotten that
That's nothing really against any of them either. All three are very entertaining to read. But to call it journalism your head is either in two places, in the clouds, or in your arse.
This is just like anything that you will encounter in the job world. A company wanting you to use a certian product. This is what they use, for some reason or another. So you use it. Don't like using it? Look for another job where they use what you want.
Should you learn differnt enviroments? Yeah. But looking for a school is just like looking for a job. You should have checked to see what they used for their classes. My old college got into bed with Microsoft pretty nicely. Their whole CS program ended up being a glorified MCSE program. So I transfered. Maybe you could do the same.
But my point being. Just use what they have and like it. You're in no real position to really change it. And they really don't care what one guy thinks. If you get enough student support or something to warrent a change then maybe. But here's the big thing alot of people don't understand. The world doesn't revolove around them.
Too many open-source zealots go into places and as soon as they get there babble on to no end about it. And just expect everywhere they go to just to drop whatever they are using now, and use something open source. Yeah, this has being working really well, but this new kid says open source is the way to go, so let's drop what works and do it. It doesn't work that way.
But oh well, this will just be marked flaimbait anyways. Don't even know why I posted it.
Ok, here is a point that I'm sick of hearing, and am going to put to rest right now. Mircosoft products for linux isn't the reason it's not on business desktops.
If that were the case, MacOS would have the lion's share of the market here. Both IE and Office for the MacOS are better then their WIndows counterparts. IE5 being the most standards compliant browser there is. Office for MacOS being just as good. And with Office 2001 being completly carbonized, it will also be better then their Windows version.
There are reasons that people say why businesses aren't using linux on their corprate desktops. Inconsistant user interface, lack of bussiness apps for linux, fear of open source, etc. The MacOS doesn't have any of these "shortcommings". So why doesn't it own this market? Bases on the reasons that people give for lack of linux use in my eyes are invalid. There are other os'es that do everything they say is needed. Yet they are realatively unused and passed over.
The only negatives I can see to using MacOS on a corp. desktop would be cost of Apple hardware. But cost isn't something these businesses aren't concerned with. MacOS may not be a rock of stability, but is Win9x?
So what is the real reason that linux isn't on the business desktop? Or better yet, why hasn't MacOS been able to get to this market? And as a follow-up.....if linux gets to where the MacOS is in number of aps, ease of use, etc., will it even matter?
anti-linux = FUD ?
pro-linux = dispelling myths ?
Look at Office 2001 for the mac, you can see what I mean. Mircosoft knows Mac users dont' like Microsoft. So they are downplaying everything that says Mircosoft. It's totally carbonized, etc.
I'd expect the same with a linux port. I'd assume the first version would be just a MainWin "port". But then a linux ap division. Which I hope is as talented as their MacOS divsion. Thier 2nd offering of Microsoft products would use all gnome services, bonobo, corba, gtk. etc.
And for all you doubting thomas's. Interenet Exploer 5 for MacOS is the most standards compiant browser on the market. I'd execpt no less form Microsoft on a linux port.
Hear me now, believe me later, Mozilla is a failed project. It's not a useful browser, that is if you do more then read slashdot. Yow want to click on a link on shoutcast and have xmms load? You want Java? You want a browser that doesn't take up more memory then Homer does food at the all you can eat buffet? Then don't use Mozilla. Not now, not ever.
This is just a way for a failed project to salvage itself. By hoping that someone else(because they haven't been able to) will be able to make a browser that's 1/4 of what even Netscpae 4 is, let alone IE5.
The only way people will use any part of Mozilla, is if it's parts of other programs. Be it AOL software, Natualius, or whatever.
This isn't flamebait. It really isn't. But to say that Mozilla is useful for anything besides light browsing for more then 15 minutes at a time(before it segfaults) is just wishful thinking and sour grapes at IE5.
I really hope this last ditch effort saves something from the Mozilla project. Maybe other people other then Netscape/AOL employees will start to work on it and finally release something I'm not embarased to say is an open source project.
Good luck Mozilla....you're going to need it.
Could it be possible to have a program intercept HTML before it hits the browser? Have the program parse though the HTML and see if meets a set of conditions for it to be censored?
For example, a simple parse of the code for porn sites not only have offensive language in them, but also have images with names like "cumshot1.jpg". A condition for to be blocked could be 5 consored words in 10, and images with blocked words. This was, even a site that may have "fuck" in it(like this thread) would go though. While "fuck my tits with hard cock" would be blocked.
Maybe you could even take this idea a step further. Have the program re-script the web page. Be helpful in web searches. Have rules set up to what Yahoo!, Google, etc. search results HTML looks like, can have it filter out results based on the same set of rules. Then you can search for "breast cancer" and not get 50 porn sites as the top matches.
Just an idea......
This isn't flamebait, it's an honest observation.
With hard drive prices well under a penny a meg, who really cares about size? So IE takes up 25+ megs, and Mozilla takes up 6.
If having access to the useability of IE5 costs me a quarter's worth of HD space to have, then so be it.
From a user standpoint, I want something that is useable and works. If i have to spend a quarter for the space to get it, then I'm all for it.
Just my two cents.
I Blame Lev