I certainly hope it isn't snake oil. It would be nice to be able to watch a DVD movie on my laptop all the way through on battery alone. I always miss the ending because the battery runs out 10 minues before the movie ends!
I've been following rawhide, and I can tell you there has been much more active development lately. GNOME 2.9 is one of the big things introduced recently. Hardly a week goes by there aren't 100 packages or more that have been patched/updated. It's exciting to follow now.
Hm, Firefox's built-in pop-up blocking hasn't yet failed to block a pop-up ad, and the Adblock extension has gotten all the rest, once the offending sites were added to its blacklist. I rarely see an ad anymore, of any type, unless I'm looking for it.
In any event, it's going to be something of an arms race between advertisers and pop-up blockers. Ideally, these jerkwad marketers should realize that people using pop-up blockers do not want to see their ads and display them to someone else who does want to see them. If they can find anyone like that.
ISPs currently aren't treated as "common carriers" under FCC rules. They can, therefore, discriminate for or against any traffic in any arbitrary manner they wish. They can screw with the competition's VoIP traffic while giving the best service to their own VoIP traffic, for instance. They can keep your VPN from working. They can tell you you can't run servers. They can tell you how much email you can send per day and what server you have to send it all through...
OK, Switchvox has got the nicest GUI for an Asterisk-based system I've yet seen. Too bad it only comes on their PBX systems (starting at $995). I'd love to have GUI-based software like that to go along with my home asterisk setup.
The three Bells are using technology from Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), a coup for the software maker after a decade of frustrated attempts to extend its software's dominance from the personal computer to cable television.
Many bemoan that dominance in the PC world, but the choice of Microsoft might mean greater ease in the effort to meld TV with the Internet.
"If you're going to be implementing some new capability that requires software, they're the go-to company," regardless of whether they have the best technology, said Leigh. "Who's going to fire you if you choose Microsoft? If you choose Digital Data Wack, and it doesn't work, then you're going to get fired."
It's sorely disappointing to continue to see this attitude. Many of us "bemoan" Microsoft because their software doesn't work, exactly what this analyst claims they're trying to avoid. Do you get fired if you choose Microsoft and it doesn't work? What's wrong with this picture?
Firefox didn't really focus THAT much on speed for 1.0, but in creating a standards compliant browser that's incredibly easy to use and extend. I don't doubt that for Firefox 2.0 there will be a big focus on speed and hand optimization of various slow bits of the code.
The driver license changes are one thing. But it's quite another to coerce the states into passing laws they don't want to pass, or that are contrary to their state constitutions, in order to receive highway funds. Hopefully the Senate kills this quickly.
There is already a database of violators (the Nonresident Violator Compact) being shared between most of the states.
Of course they have nuclear weapons. Everybody knows that. Everybody also knows that their missiles will only go about as far as Japan, too, which they seem to hate almost as much as the U.S.
This particular model is famous for misfeeds, paper jams, and occasionally smearing toner all over your pages. It's a design flaw. HP used to provide a free replacement part to anyone with an 1100 which fixed the problem, but for some reason has stopped doing it, much to the annoyance of all of us who inherited one of these things.
I got mine, knowing nothing about its intrinsic problems, from a junk computer store, for $FREE. He had two of them and was having trouble giving them away. I had no idea, and figured what the hell...
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Indeed. I do screenshots in PNG format, and the 640x480 black-and-white shots come out between 4-8K. And all the shots look better, since it's lossless. The thumbnails look a lot better, too, since I used mogrify to create them. There's just no excuse for using BMP (or JPEG, for that matter).
Actually I really like this idea. And I'd like it even more if they took it one step farther and arranged for the fans to pay the distribution costs, so they could run commercial-free. And, just to make it even juicier, a few more bucks for another 15 minutes of show. With the commercials stripped out, it's going to come out to about 43 minutes. You can't easily fit that into a broadcast schedule, so let's make the show 58 minutes. Hey, we're paying for it, right?
Yes, they really do run that many commercials in a "one hour" show.
It's true enough that common sense isn't common. What isn't true is that common sense is easily applied to the Internet.
For those of us who grew up with computers, it's common. We know what to do and what to avoid and how to get ourselves out of trouble. What about your parents? They grew up in the 60's and the 70's. There were no personal computers then. Hell, many of them didn't have a touch-tone phone until they were adults. Give them a computer, without any sort of training or advice, and what did you think would happen?
What we need is maybe something like a "Tip of the Day" in Firefox which will give users useful security information, like "Don't install extensions from anyone you don't know, or anyone promising it will make you money."
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To apply the changes, I just rebooted and now the network worked!
OK, so much for this reviewer.
Oh well, at least Arch has it in pacman. I was just about to open up Gnome Terminal and get pacman to install netstatus but I look through all the menus and a terminal application! Wow...no distribution I've ever tried didn't have a terminal application.
OK, so much for Arch. (Turns out you have to pacman gnome-extra to get everything.)
Turns out that Arch is extremely minimalist; you get only what you asked for and sometimes less than you asked for. This is probably good for, say, embedded systems, but for most of us with our 100GB+, 200GB+, drives, there's not a whole lot of point to leaving things out. Though there are people who will be quite happy with this.
I'm not one of them.
As I have mentioned before, Arch feels a bit like a modern version of Slackware. I wouldn't be surprised if a few Slack users jumped ship to Arch.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if every Slackware user dropped Slack and went to Arch. It sounds like a much better Slackware than Slackware. But, again, this approach is not for me. Ironically, my favorite distributions are Gentoo and Fedora (in that order). Yes, I'm weird.
Furthermore, why aren't Sparkle or Antec power supplies tested?
Maybe because the test was conducted in Germany? And Tagan is widely regarded as some of the best around (example review) in Europe? (Though not so easy to find in the U.S. yet, a few places have them.)
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I certainly hope it isn't snake oil. It would be nice to be able to watch a DVD movie on my laptop all the way through on battery alone. I always miss the ending because the battery runs out 10 minues before the movie ends!
I went there, but nothing happened. As I said, Adblock already had all their evil ad scripts blocked...
I've been following rawhide, and I can tell you there has been much more active development lately. GNOME 2.9 is one of the big things introduced recently. Hardly a week goes by there aren't 100 packages or more that have been patched/updated. It's exciting to follow now.
In any event, it's going to be something of an arms race between advertisers and pop-up blockers. Ideally, these jerkwad marketers should realize that people using pop-up blockers do not want to see their ads and display them to someone else who does want to see them. If they can find anyone like that.
XForms:
- Doesn't require scripting
- Is not backward compatible
- Microsoft doesn't support it
Web Forms 2.0:- Requires scripting
- Is backward compatible
- Microsoft doesn't support it
No clear winner here, yet, but I'll put my money on XForms.You want the Happy Hacking Keyboard.
This sounds like a recipe for shoplifting to me.
What's next, Mafia-style "hits" on politicians who don't do what Microsoft wants?
Cost $27 for the image intensifier, and $5 each for several trips to the laundromat after dumpster diving.
So this is a mixed blessing.
OK, Switchvox has got the nicest GUI for an Asterisk-based system I've yet seen. Too bad it only comes on their PBX systems (starting at $995). I'd love to have GUI-based software like that to go along with my home asterisk setup.
It's sorely disappointing to continue to see this attitude. Many of us "bemoan" Microsoft because their software doesn't work, exactly what this analyst claims they're trying to avoid. Do you get fired if you choose Microsoft and it doesn't work? What's wrong with this picture?
This is old news. The Pentium chip first implemented unpredictability in its floating-point core.
Firefox didn't really focus THAT much on speed for 1.0, but in creating a standards compliant browser that's incredibly easy to use and extend. I don't doubt that for Firefox 2.0 there will be a big focus on speed and hand optimization of various slow bits of the code.
Yes, but he's got a great future in sales and marketing! Actually, he probably IS in sales and marketing.
There is already a database of violators (the Nonresident Violator Compact) being shared between most of the states.
Of course they have nuclear weapons. Everybody knows that. Everybody also knows that their missiles will only go about as far as Japan, too, which they seem to hate almost as much as the U.S.
You forgot one:
- Using an HP LaserJet 1100
This particular model is famous for misfeeds, paper jams, and occasionally smearing toner all over your pages. It's a design flaw. HP used to provide a free replacement part to anyone with an 1100 which fixed the problem, but for some reason has stopped doing it, much to the annoyance of all of us who inherited one of these things.
I got mine, knowing nothing about its intrinsic problems, from a junk computer store, for $FREE. He had two of them and was having trouble giving them away. I had no idea, and figured what the hell...
Indeed. I do screenshots in PNG format, and the 640x480 black-and-white shots come out between 4-8K. And all the shots look better, since it's lossless. The thumbnails look a lot better, too, since I used mogrify to create them. There's just no excuse for using BMP (or JPEG, for that matter).
Yes, they really do run that many commercials in a "one hour" show.
It's true enough that common sense isn't common. What isn't true is that common sense is easily applied to the Internet.
For those of us who grew up with computers, it's common. We know what to do and what to avoid and how to get ourselves out of trouble. What about your parents? They grew up in the 60's and the 70's. There were no personal computers then. Hell, many of them didn't have a touch-tone phone until they were adults. Give them a computer, without any sort of training or advice, and what did you think would happen?
What we need is maybe something like a "Tip of the Day" in Firefox which will give users useful security information, like "Don't install extensions from anyone you don't know, or anyone promising it will make you money."
OK, so much for this reviewer.
OK, so much for Arch. (Turns out you have to pacman gnome-extra to get everything.)
Turns out that Arch is extremely minimalist; you get only what you asked for and sometimes less than you asked for. This is probably good for, say, embedded systems, but for most of us with our 100GB+, 200GB+, drives, there's not a whole lot of point to leaving things out. Though there are people who will be quite happy with this.
I'm not one of them.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if every Slackware user dropped Slack and went to Arch. It sounds like a much better Slackware than Slackware. But, again, this approach is not for me. Ironically, my favorite distributions are Gentoo and Fedora (in that order). Yes, I'm weird.
Maybe because the test was conducted in Germany? And Tagan is widely regarded as some of the best around (example review) in Europe? (Though not so easy to find in the U.S. yet, a few places have them.)
See this posting.
http://spot.colorado.edu/~marscase/cfm/terrabib.ht ml contains references to nearly 100 books, articles, papers, etc., on terraforming.