Opera had a super useful function that is missing in Mozilla. You could right click a link and "open link in background page." I would always browse my news site and start popping interesting links up in background tabs while I finished reading the article I was on.
I'm in the same boat. I was a dedicated Opera user and decided to switch to firebird.
Firebird is awesome, but there are still a lot of things that Opera did better.
Most of them are minor, but they're things I used regularly and I miss greatly.
For instance. 1. When you browse forward and back the keyboard doesn't have the focus on a page, so if you use the page up/down keys you get nothing. If you hit control F to search the page, it pops up but doesn't search the page. 2. I liked Opera's save session ability. Mozilla has this and it works pretty well, but not quite as well as Opera. For instance, I like having the ability to force my groups of pages load up in a new tabbed browser. Mozilla throws them into the current browser. 3. I really really miss the ability to save the pages I was on when I close the browser and also to load those same pages up in the event the browser crashes. Mozilla *almost* has this setting. It has visit the last page on startup, but I want to visit the last tabbed group on startup. 4. This one really bugs me. Maybe it's just a bug because it doesn't happen everytime, but when you jump forward and back through pages, sometimes the page doesn't go back to where you were scrolled, it goes back to the top of the page. Ugh! Makes it a pain to search ebay because you go to an item and then go back and you're at the top of the page, you hit page down or control F but the page doesn't have focus! argh!
I think those are my top 4 pet peeves. As a developer there are a couple of css issues (margins and borders) that I don't like, but those are minor and generally workable.
OE has one of the best user interface in my opinion.
Despite all the viruses (I've never gotten one) the biggest thing I wish it had was the ability to do more complex searches (SQL queries) Built in public/private key would be good as pgp/gpg are kind of a joke unless everyone is using them.
The only other feature I can think of is the ability to create views within folders. So maybe I have a Folder called orders and I have a view that is just a saved query and it quickly pulls all orders from any specific vendor, etc.
The URL I entered redirected to an IIS server. I forgot I had it setup that way. Regardless though, now it's counting two servers as IIS instead of one so they're still wrong.
While I agree that the patriot act is a scary thing, I think John Ashcroft is an honest person and won't abuse the power. What I'm more worried about is who gains that power through the years.
John Ashcroft did great things for Missouri. The only complaint I ever heard about him from someone I actually knew was that he stopped some state officials from receiving their raises. I can't remember the exact situation but it sounded like he did Missourians a huge favor to prevent already over-inflated salaries from getting even larger.
I know there are a lot of liberals on here, but give the guy a chance. I think history will show that he will make a positive impact on our country.
Maybe I'm wrong but I would think even the most basic users would recognize the difference. I mean there are a lot of people that freak out when they don't have a mouse pointer on the screen.
Granted, maybe those aren't the right audience to be selling on using linux on their desktop anyway, but I kind of think without those people it will be tough to gain market share.
I'm personally moving all of my servers from SuSE 7.3-8.2 to Debian. For server installs I don't care about GUI. The Debian install worked great when I started with the 2.4 kernel and it detected my compaq smart array 3200 controller.
However, an average desktop user needs a graphical install. Maybe not through debian though... I mean maybe debian becomes the server/power user version and knoppix becomes the desktop install for the average computer user.
That being said, knoppix's hardware detection locks up on some of my off the shelf compaq servers. I never troubleshot the problem to see which piece of hardware it was hanging on.
While I agree with you that this mostly just annoys legit customers.
I do know of some people who finally went out and bought winXP because their cracked copy couldn't install the service pack which they needed for USB 2.0 support.
They should have just sent each user an email and let them opt-in or even opt-out.
That's a dumb point...
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>> Disney campaigns against digital piracy while making a movie, "Pirates of the Caribbean", pushing a theme park ride that celebrates life under the Jolly Roger
Give me a break... And the studios that create films about horrible murders but are against murdering people are hypocrites too right?
I worked with MO State Rep. Carl Bearden quite a bit to get the original legislation in place which was shot down until they came up with the current revision.
I'm really glad to see that the AGO is attempting to shut them down. This is a HUGE success! I was very worried that they wouldn't have the enforcement power to even attempt to put a stop to this.
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Opera had a super useful function that is missing in Mozilla. You could right click a link and "open link in background page." I would always browse my news site and start popping interesting links up in background tabs while I finished reading the article I was on.
I'm in the same boat. I was a dedicated Opera user and decided to switch to firebird.
Firebird is awesome, but there are still a lot of things that Opera did better.
Most of them are minor, but they're things I used regularly and I miss greatly.
For instance.
1. When you browse forward and back the keyboard doesn't have the focus on a page, so if you use the page up/down keys you get nothing. If you hit control F to search the page, it pops up but doesn't search the page.
2. I liked Opera's save session ability. Mozilla has this and it works pretty well, but not quite as well as Opera. For instance, I like having the ability to force my groups of pages load up in a new tabbed browser. Mozilla throws them into the current browser.
3. I really really miss the ability to save the pages I was on when I close the browser and also to load those same pages up in the event the browser crashes. Mozilla *almost* has this setting. It has visit the last page on startup, but I want to visit the last tabbed group on startup.
4. This one really bugs me. Maybe it's just a bug because it doesn't happen everytime, but when you jump forward and back through pages, sometimes the page doesn't go back to where you were scrolled, it goes back to the top of the page. Ugh! Makes it a pain to search ebay because you go to an item and then go back and you're at the top of the page, you hit page down or control F but the page doesn't have focus! argh!
I think those are my top 4 pet peeves. As a developer there are a couple of css issues (margins and borders) that I don't like, but those are minor and generally workable.
These were great books and I still have the set at my parents house somewhere.
It seems like they would be aimed towards kids movies like Harry Potter vs how LOTR was aimed at adults more than children.
There are some cheesy versions of the movies floating around at your local blockbuster.
Amazing prediction. Call my pyschic.
Both window managers are improving. Strike a point up for Gnome and let the game continue.
When I read that I thought of the old Nes title Star Voyager which was one of the worst games ever invented for the 8-bit nintendo.
Oh man it was awful. Sends shivers through my spine.
Bah!!!!
If you literally had to spend weeks getting XP configured you really don't know what you're doing.
It took me about 15 minutes to get XP pro setup the way I wanted.
In my opinion, the only thing 98SE can do that XP can't is run on lower end hardware. Also XP home had stupid "simple" networking built in.
I should mention that the only other clients I've tried recently are Opera's and Thunderbird.
Thunderbird would be nice if they could get the mutliple email addresses tied to one account issue fixed up.
I know there are some hacks to do it, but I'd rather have it working through the UI.
I just want a mysql backend for Outlook express.
OE has one of the best user interface in my opinion.
Despite all the viruses (I've never gotten one) the biggest thing I wish it had was the ability to do more complex searches (SQL queries) Built in public/private key would be good as pgp/gpg are kind of a joke unless everyone is using them.
The only other feature I can think of is the ability to create views within folders. So maybe I have a Folder called orders and I have a view that is just a saved query and it quickly pulls all orders from any specific vendor, etc.
I've read bits and pieces and I'd actually like to try this series out.
Where do I start is the original game called Never Winter Nights?
Do the expansions go in order or are they each seperate games?
Thanks
They weren't totally at fault.
The URL I entered redirected to an IIS server. I forgot I had it setup that way. Regardless though, now it's counting two servers as IIS instead of one so they're still wrong.
I put in my apache/linux server and it said it was running IIS 5.0
While I agree that the patriot act is a scary thing, I think John Ashcroft is an honest person and won't abuse the power. What I'm more worried about is who gains that power through the years.
John Ashcroft did great things for Missouri. The only complaint I ever heard about him from someone I actually knew was that he stopped some state officials from receiving their raises. I can't remember the exact situation but it sounded like he did Missourians a huge favor to prevent already over-inflated salaries from getting even larger.
I know there are a lot of liberals on here, but give the guy a chance. I think history will show that he will make a positive impact on our country.
You have that many email addresses?
WOW!
Maybe I'm wrong but I would think even the most basic users would recognize the difference. I mean there are a lot of people that freak out when they don't have a mouse pointer on the screen.
Granted, maybe those aren't the right audience to be selling on using linux on their desktop anyway, but I kind of think without those people it will be tough to gain market share.
I'm personally moving all of my servers from SuSE 7.3-8.2 to Debian. For server installs I don't care about GUI. The Debian install worked great when I started with the 2.4 kernel and it detected my compaq smart array 3200 controller.
However, an average desktop user needs a graphical install. Maybe not through debian though... I mean maybe debian becomes the server/power user version and knoppix becomes the desktop install for the average computer user.
That being said, knoppix's hardware detection locks up on some of my off the shelf compaq servers. I never troubleshot the problem to see which piece of hardware it was hanging on.
So you're saying virus authors need to add product activation. That way when users get frustrated with the activation they won't run the virus.
While I agree with you that this mostly just annoys legit customers.
I do know of some people who finally went out and bought winXP because their cracked copy couldn't install the service pack which they needed for USB 2.0 support.
They should have just sent each user an email and let them opt-in or even opt-out.
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Disney campaigns against digital piracy while making a movie, "Pirates of the Caribbean", pushing a theme park ride that celebrates life under the Jolly Roger
Give me a break... And the studios that create films about horrible murders but are against murdering people are hypocrites too right?
Dumb.
They don't make money off selling the products in the spam. They make money off selling their spamming services to lousy companies.
Let's put things into perspective...
Would you rather have a 10 panel LCD system or a brand new 2005 Ford GT40?
I've got a bucket of change I'm saving for the GT40. I'm going to buy a used one when they're one year old. Not sure how, but I am.
http://www.moago.org/nospam/nospam.htm
I worked with MO State Rep. Carl Bearden quite a bit to get the original legislation in place which was shot down until they came up with the current revision.
I'm really glad to see that the AGO is attempting to shut them down. This is a HUGE success! I was very worried that they wouldn't have the enforcement power to even attempt to put a stop to this.
If you read the actual article:
"We are the only major cable company that has not as yet provided the RIAA a single datum of information,"
I kind of think vpn tunnels are going to be the only solution to problems like this. Sure it's slower, but better than not at all.