Am I THE single user who has no problems with Netscape 4.7x whatsoever?
It loads as fast as the Win32 version, loads and renders pages with blinding speed, its email and news clients kick ass, and there's Composer thrown in to boot. In my opinion, it's one of the best web browsers out there. The ONLY time it crashes is when a page has Flash, and THAT's because I'm too lazy to install the Flash plugin.
NS 4.7x is still rather OK. But it does show its age in quite a few ways very badly. It does support CSS much less than more up-to-date browsers and has a few other annoying features that are quite surely not going fixed anymore. Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror, IE and others will eventually let it rest in the carehouse of old browsers along Mosaic and friends.
Bullshit. The GeForce3 has a bunch of new features that other graphics cards don't even come close to. Ever heard of vertex and pixel shaders? Now you can write your own little program that runs on the graphics card for every vertex or for every pixel drawn.
Does anyone else think about those Amiga games that actually used the Copper to draw graphics by changing the color registers on the fly, instead of actually drawing pixels in the conventional way? In many ways the GF3 programmable shaders bring Copper to my mind, although that poor old component only had three instructions and seriously more limited capabilities.
(Well, has... my Amiga still works;)
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I downloaded the.9 release to see if they had made any progress with this release. It uses 32 megs, is slow to load, and renders slowly. On my box if I go to www.time.gov and view the Java based clock and then try to go anywhere else it hangs. Someone needs to shoot this piece of sh*t and bury it.
Yes, it still has plenty of room to improve; there are quite a few things that annoy me, like the occasional problems with images (seems to be connected to the landing of libpr0n) that previously worked nicely but are now every now and then broken.
But then again, download some milestone that was released a year ago, try it and say then that there hasn't been any significant improvements in stability, features and speed. My point is that while it certainly *still* has room for improvements in each of those areas, it has made quite a bit of progress in the last year. If the same goes on, it could be OK even for the more demanding persons sooner or later. (Probably later;)
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Well... Because there's quite a bit of commenting about speed improvments to the Messanger engine as well as the browser? Perhaps that's why? I'm just talking about what I see, not pushing an agenda.
Quite a few persons especially on Linux use other solutions than the built-in mail features of browser, and I don't think that it's entirely rare to use delicated mail clients on Windows either... In this respect the mail features are a bit off the mark, although I don't object to their existence; I know that "all in one" - ideology is preferred by many people. I just want to mention that it's not shared by everyone.
Yes, the actual mission is over. So? With the same logic we should dump everything that is no longer in actual use, even if the item in question has some novelty value. I'd guess that museums would cease to exist rather soon.;) Checking for its state should not take much resources if done once in a few months. And personally, I'm curious to see how long it is going to function and how far to get before contact is lost, even if that doesn't give much actual new and useful information.
While I notice this is a troll, I'd suggest at least a bit of orginality in the argument department next time. Cliches are effective in trolling, but honestly, a bit of orginality does not hurt anyone.
Linux has a lot of neat things going for it, and x86 boxes are awefully fast these days, especially compared to 68k-based Amiga hardware. But put a 700 MHz Linux box right next to a 50 MHz Amiga (which is exactly the situation that I have at home) and then copy a few megabytes from a CD to hard disk. See how slow the GUI gets? Now try it on the Amiga. Ah, smooooooth.
Try turning UDMA on (If you have a 700MHz machine, it quite probably has a controller capable of at least UDMA/33). It really helps both the transfer rates and CPU usage. Result: No jerkiness.
Just for a test, I created a 150 megabyte file and transfered it to another disk. I didn't notice any delays while playing with the GUI, and I know what to compare against, because I've had an A4000/40 since around -94...
I loved my Amigas (500 and 3000), but every time I see an article about the rising phonix called Amiga, can't help thinking that maybe the Amiga should be left in the past.
It was fun; it was a great computer, but like the rest of the 80's, I think the party is over.
Isn't time to move on? Promote BeOS, or GNU/Linux/GNOME/whatever_desktop instead.
But you're missing a point; the Amiga as the Amiga Inc. means it is not very similar at all to the Amiga you and I knew. (actually, I'd rather hope that they wouldn't use the name, as it is rather misleading, in both good and bad ways...)
The Amiga of 80's was a combination of custom hardware and a certain very different operating system compared to the others. This new 'Amiga' is very different in philosophy; not very hardware dependant and with an operating system that has rather little in common with the classic Amiga. So you're comparing apples and oranges.
I don't think it will be a big success, but at least don't let the name mislead you.
Problem is, the whole reason Intel switched architectures is because the P3 was reaching the limits of its design, while the P4 is capable of much, much more. In a few short months the P4 should be up to 2 GHz, and promises to run even faster. When this happens, AMD will be hard pressed to compete without fielding a new design itself, and then it'll be back to Intel out front with the other chip makers playing catch-up.
Isn't the forthcoming Palomino more or less a new design? (afaik it's not radically different like P4, but should consume less power and allow clock frequencies close to 2GHz) Somebody more informed, please correct me if I'm wrong?
Why would detecting nutrinos matter at all? The article said something about knowing the path that the nutrino came from...uhm so what? It is most likely so far out in space we have no idea where it originated. And knowing where it came from matters how? Didn't they say things like stars give them off? Pick a star, there you go, theres an origin for nutrinos. Can we detect how old they are, if they contain life or anything like that, from what I understand - no. Then why are we spending all this money to look at things that ar invisible (and yet that makes sense) instead of putting it in something worthwhile?
Oh well. If something does not have immediately apparent practical use, it's not worth anything to study? I guess we'd still be in the middle of dark ages if this guideline would have been strictly adhered to. Everything does NOT have immediately apparent practical applications.
Hey if your pissed off at your tax cut send it to NASA directly. they will get more of it and you don't need to make stupid comments about it.
So, if someone outside the US thinks that keeping forever with the aging shuttle technology is a bad idea, they should stay quiet too? Isn't that a bit too US-centric?
Corporations need to motivate people to buy their products. People need to find the companies that make the products that they need. Advertisements are the way for the companies and customers to find each other. Without ads there would be no free market, only big monopolies could survive.
While I think that this is a piece of parody, I will reply like it's an entirely honest and serious posting.
It's nice to have tools like Junkbuster and the native blocking features of Mozilla to get rid of that trash. Personally, I don't know a single person that likes pop-ups, even if they accept other kinds of banners. I guess the advertising folks are shooting themselves to their collective foot with the increasing amount of pop-ups, but somehow I can't make myself feel any significant sympathy for that.;)
I don't need the manufacturer to force information about their products down my throat. When I want something, I can hunt information about products of interesting category myself with search engines, word-of-mouth and other methods that don't have much to do with that kind of advertising. Maybe there are people that are too clueless to find information themselves and need to have it fed to them with a virtual spoon, but personally I hate force-feeding information about some product and will far more likely react negatively than get interested.
...is that gaming genres experience the same thing as almost anything else; something disappears almost completely for a long time, maybe even for a decade or two, and then surfaces again. So even if turn-based games are currently few and far bewtween, out of fashion and considered uninteresting, I bet that they will be popular at some point again. Remember how role-playing games were pretty scarce for some time, but are now having a glorious renewal with the Baldur's Gate and its relatives and several other games from producers that have noticed the trend.
No one wants to spend 8 hours to play one game of heroes of might and magic.
Right, 8 hours is too little. I think that I've played HOMM III quite a few hours more at a time than that. It's not as bad as the now rather ancient Mechforce for Amiga though; that one I banged sometimes with a friend, sometimes just against the computer from dawn to the night.;)
I don't like Mangband. In theory the idea of multiplayer Angband variant is very nice, but somehow the movement seemed to be very jerky and kind of quantized. There were some hints how to enchance that, but I and my friend never quite got it working well. But I admit that the idea is nice, and who knows, maybe it's been implemented better in new versions...
Thank you for the correction (although tone down the aggression next time please;), it seems indeed that I had got some misinformation. I'll give it a try, maybe even this weekend. I guess it can't hurt, anyway.
Moderate me to Hell and back but folks Mozilla sucks.It's a buggy piece of shit and we all know it.Konqueror has come light years and is already far ahead of the stumbling lizard.
A browser tied to a particular operating system and particular desktop enviroment? No thank you.
Linux people live for their uptime stats.
Surely you're not telling him he should reboot. That's blasphemy!
For me, uptime in itself isn't the most important thing in universe. However, I find it annoying to stop and start programs before and after rebooting, instead of just keeping stuff open constantly.
THis is a game that I would truly love to see. I was positively addicted to the original and was always
surprised that a sequel was never made.
I'd like a MOM2 too; the original was (and still is; thank god it works on NT;) a damn fine game. Oh the joy of getting Malleus up the levels and enjoying the artificer pick by making him some nice items, then just sending him to nuke entire armies of the enemy by himself...;) Some company, please get rights for a sequel!
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course it was turn based multi-player (suck!) Otherwise it was a blast...
Well, the thing I'm most worried is that the new MOO 3 will be too much realtime in combat; I and probably quite a few old grumpy gamers from the 80's love turn-based games.;)
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I don't think that I'm bitching just because in my opinion it's rather bad to be forced to scroll to the end of page to find Previous/Next day links, which used to be at the top right area of page before, and therefore instantly accessible.
I don't want to say that the new layout is fully from somewhere that the sun doesn't shine to, but it certainly isn't only better than the old one.
Now I'm waiting for it to be put in distros. I guess I find it annoying how some distros (Mandrake,
RedHat) go crazy if you change their kernel. However, they are better for getting a desktop to JUST
WORK out of the box.
Heh. I'm currently running kernel 2.2.17 on this box that started it's life as RH 5.2. Sure, I've upgraded stuff via RPM and source tar.gz:s quite a lot during the last almost two years, but it works.;) I haven't even used the distribution upgrade options available via the newer distributions.
And no, it's not just a localized phenomenon. It's cold in CA. Siberia is having their coldest winter
ever. It's 30F in Florida! It's so cold that oil and electricity demand for heating is at near
strangulation levels. There is no global warming.
And it's about the most warm winter I've seen in my life at Finland, and supposedly in rest of Europe too for quite a while...
I try to keep track of the mozilla nighltlies, and have never seen a single version that doesn't lock
*hard* when asked to do SSL. Older ones used to be able to crash X, on occasion.
For example, try http://www.co-operativebank.co.uk, click on the top left icon to start the java
applet. This locks mozilla solid.
Tried it with nightly build 2001011608 for Linux. The applet loaded and started nicely, although I couldn't try onward from the beginning, as I do not have any account on that bank, so I couldn't go further.
www.barclaycard.co.uk, try to click on something. Nothing works - Javascript errors... the code
looks fine to me.
A few clicks worked nicely. Here's what mozilla dumped into the debug output for me:
So, one error but everything seemed to work nicely. Feel free to try the same nightly build if you doubt my results. I've used Mozilla with the now included as standard - PSM for https banking myself, and had no problems after a certain Finnish bank added NS6 (and Mozilla with it) to the list of user agents that are allowed.
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And IE 5.5 is the most stable browser I've ever used.
Then you haven't ever used Lynx.
Am I THE single user who has no problems with Netscape 4.7x whatsoever?
It loads as fast as the Win32 version, loads and renders pages with blinding speed, its email and news clients kick ass, and there's Composer thrown in to boot. In my opinion, it's one of the best web browsers out there. The ONLY time it crashes is when a page has Flash, and THAT's because I'm too lazy to install the Flash plugin.
NS 4.7x is still rather OK. But it does show its age in quite a few ways very badly. It does support CSS much less than more up-to-date browsers and has a few other annoying features that are quite surely not going fixed anymore. Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror, IE and others will eventually let it rest in the carehouse of old browsers along Mosaic and friends.
Bullshit. The GeForce3 has a bunch of new features that other graphics cards don't even come close to. Ever heard of vertex and pixel shaders? Now you can write your own little program that runs on the graphics card for every vertex or for every pixel drawn.
Does anyone else think about those Amiga games that actually used the Copper to draw graphics by changing the color registers on the fly, instead of actually drawing pixels in the conventional way? In many ways the GF3 programmable shaders bring Copper to my mind, although that poor old component only had three instructions and seriously more limited capabilities. (Well, has... my Amiga still works ;)
I downloaded the .9 release to see if they had made any progress with this release. It uses 32 megs, is slow to load, and renders slowly. On my box if I go to www.time.gov and view the Java based clock and then try to go anywhere else it hangs. Someone needs to shoot this piece of sh*t and bury it.
Yes, it still has plenty of room to improve; there are quite a few things that annoy me, like the occasional problems with images (seems to be connected to the landing of libpr0n) that previously worked nicely but are now every now and then broken.
But then again, download some milestone that was released a year ago, try it and say then that there hasn't been any significant improvements in stability, features and speed. My point is that while it certainly *still* has room for improvements in each of those areas, it has made quite a bit of progress in the last year. If the same goes on, it could be OK even for the more demanding persons sooner or later. (Probably later ;)
Well... Because there's quite a bit of commenting about speed improvments to the Messanger engine as well as the browser? Perhaps that's why? I'm just talking about what I see, not pushing an agenda.
Quite a few persons especially on Linux use other solutions than the built-in mail features of browser, and I don't think that it's entirely rare to use delicated mail clients on Windows either... In this respect the mail features are a bit off the mark, although I don't object to their existence; I know that "all in one" - ideology is preferred by many people. I just want to mention that it's not shared by everyone.
Yes, the actual mission is over. So? With the same logic we should dump everything that is no longer in actual use, even if the item in question has some novelty value. I'd guess that museums would cease to exist rather soon. ;) Checking for its state should not take much resources if done once in a few months. And personally, I'm curious to see how long it is going to function and how far to get before contact is lost, even if that doesn't give much actual new and useful information.
While I notice this is a troll, I'd suggest at least a bit of orginality in the argument department next time. Cliches are effective in trolling, but honestly, a bit of orginality does not hurt anyone.
Linux has a lot of neat things going for it, and x86 boxes are awefully fast these days, especially compared to 68k-based Amiga hardware. But put a 700 MHz Linux box right next to a 50 MHz Amiga (which is exactly the situation that I have at home) and then copy a few megabytes from a CD to hard disk. See how slow the GUI gets? Now try it on the Amiga. Ah, smooooooth.
Try turning UDMA on (If you have a 700MHz machine, it quite probably has a controller capable of at least UDMA/33). It really helps both the transfer rates and CPU usage. Result: No jerkiness.
Just for a test, I created a 150 megabyte file and transfered it to another disk. I didn't notice any delays while playing with the GUI, and I know what to compare against, because I've had an A4000/40 since around -94...
I loved my Amigas (500 and 3000), but every time I see an article about the rising phonix called Amiga, can't help thinking that maybe the Amiga should be left in the past. It was fun; it was a great computer, but like the rest of the 80's, I think the party is over. Isn't time to move on? Promote BeOS, or GNU/Linux/GNOME/whatever_desktop instead.
But you're missing a point; the Amiga as the Amiga Inc. means it is not very similar at all to the Amiga you and I knew. (actually, I'd rather hope that they wouldn't use the name, as it is rather misleading, in both good and bad ways...)
The Amiga of 80's was a combination of custom hardware and a certain very different operating system compared to the others. This new 'Amiga' is very different in philosophy; not very hardware dependant and with an operating system that has rather little in common with the classic Amiga. So you're comparing apples and oranges.
I don't think it will be a big success, but at least don't let the name mislead you.
Problem is, the whole reason Intel switched architectures is because the P3 was reaching the limits of its design, while the P4 is capable of much, much more. In a few short months the P4 should be up to 2 GHz, and promises to run even faster. When this happens, AMD will be hard pressed to compete without fielding a new design itself, and then it'll be back to Intel out front with the other chip makers playing catch-up.
Isn't the forthcoming Palomino more or less a new design? (afaik it's not radically different like P4, but should consume less power and allow clock frequencies close to 2GHz) Somebody more informed, please correct me if I'm wrong?
Why would detecting nutrinos matter at all? The article said something about knowing the path that the nutrino came from...uhm so what? It is most likely so far out in space we have no idea where it originated. And knowing where it came from matters how? Didn't they say things like stars give them off? Pick a star, there you go, theres an origin for nutrinos. Can we detect how old they are, if they contain life or anything like that, from what I understand - no. Then why are we spending all this money to look at things that ar invisible (and yet that makes sense) instead of putting it in something worthwhile?
Oh well. If something does not have immediately apparent practical use, it's not worth anything to study? I guess we'd still be in the middle of dark ages if this guideline would have been strictly adhered to. Everything does NOT have immediately apparent practical applications.
Hey if your pissed off at your tax cut send it to NASA directly. they will get more of it and you don't need to make stupid comments about it.
So, if someone outside the US thinks that keeping forever with the aging shuttle technology is a bad idea, they should stay quiet too? Isn't that a bit too US-centric?
Corporations need to motivate people to buy their products. People need to find the companies that make the products that they need. Advertisements are the way for the companies and customers to find each other. Without ads there would be no free market, only big monopolies could survive.
While I think that this is a piece of parody, I will reply like it's an entirely honest and serious posting.
It's nice to have tools like Junkbuster and the native blocking features of Mozilla to get rid of that trash. Personally, I don't know a single person that likes pop-ups, even if they accept other kinds of banners. I guess the advertising folks are shooting themselves to their collective foot with the increasing amount of pop-ups, but somehow I can't make myself feel any significant sympathy for that. ;)
I don't need the manufacturer to force information about their products down my throat. When I want something, I can hunt information about products of interesting category myself with search engines, word-of-mouth and other methods that don't have much to do with that kind of advertising. Maybe there are people that are too clueless to find information themselves and need to have it fed to them with a virtual spoon, but personally I hate force-feeding information about some product and will far more likely react negatively than get interested.
...is that gaming genres experience the same thing as almost anything else; something disappears almost completely for a long time, maybe even for a decade or two, and then surfaces again. So even if turn-based games are currently few and far bewtween, out of fashion and considered uninteresting, I bet that they will be popular at some point again. Remember how role-playing games were pretty scarce for some time, but are now having a glorious renewal with the Baldur's Gate and its relatives and several other games from producers that have noticed the trend.
No one wants to spend 8 hours to play one game of heroes of might and magic.
Right, 8 hours is too little. I think that I've played HOMM III quite a few hours more at a time than that. It's not as bad as the now rather ancient Mechforce for Amiga though; that one I banged sometimes with a friend, sometimes just against the computer from dawn to the night. ;)
I don't like Mangband. In theory the idea of multiplayer Angband variant is very nice, but somehow the movement seemed to be very jerky and kind of quantized. There were some hints how to enchance that, but I and my friend never quite got it working well. But I admit that the idea is nice, and who knows, maybe it's been implemented better in new versions...
Thank you for the correction (although tone down the aggression next time please ;), it seems indeed that I had got some misinformation. I'll give it a try, maybe even this weekend. I guess it can't hurt, anyway.
Moderate me to Hell and back but folks Mozilla sucks.It's a buggy piece of shit and we all know it.Konqueror has come light years and is already far ahead of the stumbling lizard.
A browser tied to a particular operating system and particular desktop enviroment? No thank you.
Linux people live for their uptime stats. Surely you're not telling him he should reboot. That's blasphemy!
For me, uptime in itself isn't the most important thing in universe. However, I find it annoying to stop and start programs before and after rebooting, instead of just keeping stuff open constantly.
THis is a game that I would truly love to see. I was positively addicted to the original and was always surprised that a sequel was never made.
I'd like a MOM2 too; the original was (and still is; thank god it works on NT;) a damn fine game. Oh the joy of getting Malleus up the levels and enjoying the artificer pick by making him some nice items, then just sending him to nuke entire armies of the enemy by himself... ;) Some company, please get rights for a sequel!
Of course it was turn based multi-player (suck!) Otherwise it was a blast...
Well, the thing I'm most worried is that the new MOO 3 will be too much realtime in combat; I and probably quite a few old grumpy gamers from the 80's love turn-based games. ;)
I don't think that I'm bitching just because in my opinion it's rather bad to be forced to scroll to the end of page to find Previous/Next day links, which used to be at the top right area of page before, and therefore instantly accessible.
I don't want to say that the new layout is fully from somewhere that the sun doesn't shine to, but it certainly isn't only better than the old one.
Now I'm waiting for it to be put in distros. I guess I find it annoying how some distros (Mandrake, RedHat) go crazy if you change their kernel. However, they are better for getting a desktop to JUST WORK out of the box.
Heh. I'm currently running kernel 2.2.17 on this box that started it's life as RH 5.2. Sure, I've upgraded stuff via RPM and source tar.gz:s quite a lot during the last almost two years, but it works. ;) I haven't even used the distribution upgrade options available via the newer distributions.
And no, it's not just a localized phenomenon. It's cold in CA. Siberia is having their coldest winter ever. It's 30F in Florida! It's so cold that oil and electricity demand for heating is at near strangulation levels. There is no global warming .
And it's about the most warm winter I've seen in my life at Finland, and supposedly in rest of Europe too for quite a while...
I try to keep track of the mozilla nighltlies, and have never seen a single version that doesn't lock *hard* when asked to do SSL. Older ones used to be able to crash X, on occasion. For example, try http://www.co-operativebank.co.uk, click on the top left icon to start the java applet. This locks mozilla solid.
Tried it with nightly build 2001011608 for Linux. The applet loaded and started nicely, although I couldn't try onward from the beginning, as I do not have any account on that bank, so I couldn't go further.
www.barclaycard.co.uk, try to click on something. Nothing works - Javascript errors... the code looks fine to me.
A few clicks worked nicely. Here's what mozilla dumped into the debug output for me:
Document https://the.co-operativebank.co.uk/help/help_5.htm l loaded successfully
Document http://www.barclaycard.co.uk/ loaded successfully
Error loading URL http://www.barclaycard.co.uk/sniffer.html: 804b0002
So, one error but everything seemed to work nicely. Feel free to try the same nightly build if you doubt my results. I've used Mozilla with the now included as standard - PSM for https banking myself, and had no problems after a certain Finnish bank added NS6 (and Mozilla with it) to the list of user agents that are allowed.