Funny story: Today i was browsing the web in Mozilla with that purply color theme on my laptop and some girl came up to me and said "Hey you got the new Netscape, so did I!" Since she wasn't that good looking I wanted to slap her so fucking hard. Before i could even raise the back of my hand she then said "how did you change the N to an M? I promtly told her that it's not Netscape but the Open source browser that netscape is based on (I know it's more complicated than that but on her laptop the background was of the backstreet boys(or Nsinc) so i decided not to explain it all to her...that and i didn't want to have to look at her face)
(5) IE is available across all the Win32 platforms and the MacOSs as well as some UNIX platforms as well (AIX? Solaris? HPUX?) The only meaninful platforms its not on are Linux and FreeBSD
Have you actually TRIED IE on any of the unixes? Not only were they obsolete by the time they were available they were about as stable as my grandmother on rollerblades.
I tried IE on both Solaris and HP-UX and it's far worse than netscape as far as browsers in UNIX goes. In my opinion, the only real things that make IE better than netscape is all the third party web appz that only support IE, but most of these only run on windows and maybe macs.
And I don't even think anybody even used the UNIX IEs. I downloaded it and installed it myself at the school labs because i was curious. It didn't take me long to realize that I was wasting space. And how long has it been since there has been any major IE release for UNIX???
Mozilla has worked with Java for a long time. just download the latest runtime enviroment. the copy npjava12.dll npjava11.dll and npjava.dll into the bin\plugins directory for mozilla (that's if your using windows)
I wasn't referring to you as stupid with regards to stability, i was reffering to security. the was i phrased it was it was stupid to be running win2000 on the internet WITHOUT the latest paches. I only hope you are running a good firewall.
ok, i was also wrong about price, i only was quoting from memory and i guess i was thinking of win2000 Datacentre instead.
It still seems like you are overkilling with adv. server(IMHO), but since A-server does exactly what you want then that's your choice.
I appologize if it seemed like I was starting a flame war.
Then you must not be connected to the internet(or you're incredibly stupid, if you didn't install any service packs).Even if the load is tough if you are only runnin a few different services off of it, it's not gonna me subject to to many instabilities. Considering advanted server, a $10,000 OS, which is designed for powerfull computers that are running hundreds, if not 1000s, of requests for a large corporation. Now either you are using a pirated version of advanced server, you're part of a small business, or you like throwing away money. Either way, you are overkilling with Advanced Server for something that small....
ya, we all have many old comps (or pieces of) lying around, but we don't expect them to be able to run gnome at 1600x1200 with enlightenment. when we talk about running linux on old computers we mean fileservers and firewalls. we set them up in console and we probably don't even install X....
Nah, mandrake is a desktop linux, if you want to do something with an old pentium put debian or redhat on it then run it as a firewall, print/file server, or router. I trief red hat 6.2 on my old p120. None of the current window managers would work, so you're best of not using it for anything but a server of some kind.
Just out of curiosity, what are you still doing with Dos 6.22 and Win 3.1? I nuked my old computers long ago and put NetBSD and linux on them to act as servers/firewalls.
But how do you know people aren't reading/posting from school/work? At most schools they run windows 9x. If you check the windows stats a high percentage are windows NT. Now i'm sure that some people do, but MOST people don't run windows NT as a desktop...
The GeForce 2 Ultra and GeForce 2 GTS are Nvidia's high end cards. They are extremely expensive, though. Nvidia sells it's chipsets to different companies, so extras will cary. I have seen some with built in hardware MPEG deconders.
The VooDoo5 6000 is the lastest card from 3dfx. Technologically there's nothing much in them..In my opinion the card is an oversized, inefficient(it requires an EXTERNAL POWER SOURCE), expensive piece of crap. It's about on par with the Geforce2s in price, but the Nvidia cards are doing better on the benchmarks.
Then there is the ATI all-in-wonder Radeon 64 Meg DDR. It's framerates are slightly slower than the Geforce, but with it you get built-in hardware MPEG (for DVD) decoder, TV in/out, and a DVD player that takes full advantage of the MPEG decoder. Now you might be saying "wow, the RADEON IS DEFINATELY BETTER!!" But ATI has been known to have REAL shitty drivers on it's new products, so you'd probably have to wait a few months to get it going stabily, but by then the price would have droped by at least 30%...
as for DVD drives, they are all pretty much the same, the question you should be asking yourself is how are you going to play the DVDs. By this I mean hardware Decoder card(either separate or built into a video card) or a software player...
WINE.
if i can play half-life under linux with decent stability and full openGL support then I'll be happy. if the source code was released this would be of immense help to wine.
sure, they wouldn't HAVE to copy the code, but they could look at it and say "oh, that's how it works" and then write WINE acordingly...
They used windows 3.11 in True lies(or at least the people who arnold was stealing from). I couldn't stop laughing. I just knew Micro$oft paid them money to show off windows and they used it as the operating system that was having information stolen from..haha
how is roadrunner's service compared to most @home ones...i've heard some horror stories with it too. Then again most people don't have a choice in which cable company to use because of non-competitive agreements. It's either @home or AOL/Time-Warner/Roadrunner. sigh...
I have heard so many mixed reports about @home's reliability that I've decided that MOST of the time it's the cable companies UNDER @home and not @home itself. I've used Rogers@home in Ottawa and am now using Cogeco@home here in Toronto and I have always had awsome connections and 99.99% uptime.
Then again i live in a part of Toronto(more specifically Oakville) that most of the people are lower income/retired. So i have most of the pipes to myself and the network isn't under a great deal of stress.
I'm just a college kid in a house with a bunch of other students, luckily the other people are all arts or some other non-tech related fields so there is nothing bogging me down. Not bad for $39.95 canadian a month (somebody else is paying for cable TV, so i got the discount package, split the cable in my room that the cable guy put in for my cablemodem, and now i get 72 channels free too!).
Tell me Signal, do you have any friends? You seem to be posting at/. every few minutes. Did people make fun of you in school? Maybe if you weren't such a whiney obnoxious prick everyone wouldn't be insulting you more than they do JonKatz.
Think about it, there are better things to do than annoying Taco about the moderation system, the Karma cap, or whatever else is preventing you from getting 1 more karma.
Nobody likes you. Nobody likes you becuase it's people like you that are ruining slashdot by co plaining again and again and again...so one more time LOUD AS WE CAN: SHUT THE F*CK UP!!!
Hey i live in stitsville too! well that's where HOME is...I'm in Oakville(toronto) going to Sheridan right now...@home is pretty quick there and DSL is available, though I don't know how reliable/fast it is...
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Funny story: Today i was browsing the web in Mozilla with that purply color theme on my laptop and some girl came up to me and said "Hey you got the new Netscape, so did I!" Since she wasn't that good looking I wanted to slap her so fucking hard. Before i could even raise the back of my hand she then said "how did you change the N to an M? I promtly told her that it's not Netscape but the Open source browser that netscape is based on (I know it's more complicated than that but on her laptop the background was of the backstreet boys(or Nsinc) so i decided not to explain it all to her...that and i didn't want to have to look at her face)
Have you actually TRIED IE on any of the unixes? Not only were they obsolete by the time they were available they were about as stable as my grandmother on rollerblades.
I tried IE on both Solaris and HP-UX and it's far worse than netscape as far as browsers in UNIX goes. In my opinion, the only real things that make IE better than netscape is all the third party web appz that only support IE, but most of these only run on windows and maybe macs.
And I don't even think anybody even used the UNIX IEs. I downloaded it and installed it myself at the school labs because i was curious. It didn't take me long to realize that I was wasting space. And how long has it been since there has been any major IE release for UNIX???
Fear not, for somebody always writes a program for a writer that ignores copy protection...
Mozilla has worked with Java for a long time. just download the latest runtime enviroment. the copy npjava12.dll npjava11.dll and npjava.dll into the bin\plugins directory for mozilla (that's if your using windows)
he wasn't trolling, he was joking ;-)
ok, i was also wrong about price, i only was quoting from memory and i guess i was thinking of win2000 Datacentre instead.
It still seems like you are overkilling with adv. server(IMHO), but since A-server does exactly what you want then that's your choice.
I appologize if it seemed like I was starting a flame war.
M18 is NOT a nighlty build, it's a milestone build. the nighlty builds are the ones that are compiled every night. with the latest fixes.
Then you must not be connected to the internet(or you're incredibly stupid, if you didn't install any service packs).Even if the load is tough if you are only runnin a few different services off of it, it's not gonna me subject to to many instabilities. Considering advanted server, a $10,000 OS, which is designed for powerfull computers that are running hundreds, if not 1000s, of requests for a large corporation. Now either you are using a pirated version of advanced server, you're part of a small business, or you like throwing away money. Either way, you are overkilling with Advanced Server for something that small....
ya, we all have many old comps (or pieces of) lying around, but we don't expect them to be able to run gnome at 1600x1200 with enlightenment. when we talk about running linux on old computers we mean fileservers and firewalls. we set them up in console and we probably don't even install X....
Unless you like old classic window managers....
Just out of curiosity, what are you still doing with Dos 6.22 and Win 3.1? I nuked my old computers long ago and put NetBSD and linux on them to act as servers/firewalls.
But how do you know people aren't reading/posting from school/work? At most schools they run windows 9x. If you check the windows stats a high percentage are windows NT. Now i'm sure that some people do, but MOST people don't run windows NT as a desktop...
The VooDoo5 6000 is the lastest card from 3dfx. Technologically there's nothing much in them..In my opinion the card is an oversized, inefficient(it requires an EXTERNAL POWER SOURCE), expensive piece of crap. It's about on par with the Geforce2s in price, but the Nvidia cards are doing better on the benchmarks.
Then there is the ATI all-in-wonder Radeon 64 Meg DDR. It's framerates are slightly slower than the Geforce, but with it you get built-in hardware MPEG (for DVD) decoder, TV in/out, and a DVD player that takes full advantage of the MPEG decoder. Now you might be saying "wow, the RADEON IS DEFINATELY BETTER!!" But ATI has been known to have REAL shitty drivers on it's new products, so you'd probably have to wait a few months to get it going stabily, but by then the price would have droped by at least 30%...
as for DVD drives, they are all pretty much the same, the question you should be asking yourself is how are you going to play the DVDs. By this I mean hardware Decoder card(either separate or built into a video card) or a software player...
I ove how laid back Mandrake is. They know that 90% of most people that will use thier distro are just regular shmucks like you and me.
WINE. if i can play half-life under linux with decent stability and full openGL support then I'll be happy. if the source code was released this would be of immense help to wine. sure, they wouldn't HAVE to copy the code, but they could look at it and say "oh, that's how it works" and then write WINE acordingly...
They used windows 3.11 in True lies(or at least the people who arnold was stealing from). I couldn't stop laughing. I just knew Micro$oft paid them money to show off windows and they used it as the operating system that was having information stolen from..haha
The source code for solaris is available...
how is roadrunner's service compared to most @home ones...i've heard some horror stories with it too. Then again most people don't have a choice in which cable company to use because of non-competitive agreements. It's either @home or AOL/Time-Warner/Roadrunner. sigh...
Then again i live in a part of Toronto(more specifically Oakville) that most of the people are lower income/retired. So i have most of the pipes to myself and the network isn't under a great deal of stress.
I'm just a college kid in a house with a bunch of other students, luckily the other people are all arts or some other non-tech related fields so there is nothing bogging me down. Not bad for $39.95 canadian a month (somebody else is paying for cable TV, so i got the discount package, split the cable in my room that the cable guy put in for my cablemodem, and now i get 72 channels free too!).
on a p2 300? yes it should be. especially if you are running windows 98 inside VMware(or windows 2000...eek, on a p2 300? *shudders*)
Think about it, there are better things to do than annoying Taco about the moderation system, the Karma cap, or whatever else is preventing you from getting 1 more karma.
Nobody likes you. Nobody likes you becuase it's people like you that are ruining slashdot by co plaining again and again and again...so one more time LOUD AS WE CAN: SHUT THE F*CK UP!!!
The new Open source version of star office (OpenOffice...real origional) nuked that damn desktop. I don't think anybody is going to miss it, either.
Ya, over the the past 3 years the bear has slowly been turning into Chez 106...
Hey i live in stitsville too! well that's where HOME is...I'm in Oakville(toronto) going to Sheridan right now...@home is pretty quick there and DSL is available, though I don't know how reliable/fast it is...
I'm using linux as a desktop with @home and it's great. It was a pain in the ass to set up, but once i got it running everything was fine!