The other problem that may drive *nix browsing market share is that there is a gazillion browsers who all have different identification strings. Very often, poorly designed stats system will not even notice that a given browser is actually a linux one, and will classify it as unknown.
Also, many poorly designed sites ony lets people with Ms IE 4 or Netscape 4 visit the site. Opera, mozilla, konqueror users have to fake the identification strings to be able to see the site. And, as a matter of fact, I know several people who have set their browsers' id string to be IE like, to avoid troubles.
There's no arguing that Linux's desktop market share is far lesser than that or windows and mac, but I do think and hope it's above 0.24%
* This is using an external graphics card - the GeForce 3. The nForce has a GeForce 2 MX equivalent, and I imagine that comparing the speed of the nForce to a KT266A with GeForce 2 MX would prove insightful, too.
This isn't true. The benchmark was fair indeed for, when testing the nforce boards, they disabled the onboard graphic chip and used the geforce3 as well. See the test setup.
* The nForce, IMHO, is aimed at the OEM market. It has not just graphics, but sound integrated onto the motherboard, at a significant cost saving compared to buying them seperately.
However, if you're a geek who upgrades his computer every once in a while, you're better off with separate nic / graphic / audio cards that you can reuse in your new computer.
* I cannot find any reference to stability, and my experience of Via chipsets, compared to Intel and AMD chipsets, is that they are less stable and more likely to have problems
I don't have enough experience with via chipsets to respond to that. However, I bought a via kt266A motherboard last week (the epox one), and have had absolutely no problems with it. So far, it is as stable as my previous all intel setup (p3+bx chipset).
Other reviews
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XBox Released
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· Score: 3, Informative
Here's a few links to other and may be more objective reviews
I attended the paris air show in June, and saw a flying demonstration of the zeppelin.
I had read stories and saw pictures of the original zeppelins, and I was almost as excited as the rest of the/. crowd at the idea of seeing a resurrected Zeppelin. I must say that I, and a big part of the rest of the crowd, got really disappointed when we actually saw it. It's a mini zeppelin, barely 80 meters long. The Hindenburg was 250M meters long, that makes the Zeppelin NT a 1/3 replica!
In a nutshell, it was not really exciting. It looked very much like the average airships which are used for advertising purposes at big sport events.
In the article they say that Hotmail's spam filter (called inbox protector) filters about 2/3 of the received spam. I got approx. the same figures with my own hotmail account.
However, since last week end hotmail not only has a new design, but also a new spam filter. It is disabled by default, but you can enable it in the 'Options' section by setting the inbox protector filter to "High"
And it works very well so far (ok only 5 days is a bit short for an experiment). My 10-spams-a-day trash hotmail account that I only used to register on sites where you need to is now usable!
Well, it is until the spammers find a new way to circumvent it:/ Unfortunately, I don't think circumventing a spam filter is in the scope of the DMCA
Are you suggesting that cnet.com, slashdot, and I invented this whole story to entertain the/. community during the summer?:)
Of course there is the possibility that I made something wrong. However, my previous experience at copying audio CDs, the time I spent trying to copy that particular CD, and the results I got that match the effects of macrovision listed in the cnet article make me strongly believe that the cd is copy protected and that I did nothing wrong.
And for those who asked, the disc in question is called Harmony Voix, it's a compilation of classical music distributed by Virgin France. Definetely not a top selling record, but probably a good one to test the reaction of the public.
I bought a copy protected CD audio once. There wasn't anything special mentioned on the case or even on the CD itself. It played fine on my computer, but when trying to copy it with normal software (I tried with easy cd creator & cdrwin for windows and cdrdao for linux) the copy was full of pops and scratches (even in 1x) and didn't work in some cd players. And I know my cdrom drive & cd burner are not faulty because it's the first and only time I had troubles copying an audio cd.
However, I eventually managed to copy the cd by extracting all the tracks with cdparanoia under linux (with all the possible jitter correction options turned on), and then burning the wav files on a cdaudio.
Your mileage may vary, it worked for me but I'm not sure it will work for every kind of copy protection system on the market.
What influence can the European Union have on an american company like microsoft?
Sure, Microsoft sells billions of dollars of software in Europe each year, but I hardly see what kind of "punishment" the EU could inflict to Microsoft.
-Ban their Microsoft products? Then it would pose some serious problems to european businesses and their competitivness.
-Impose an extra tax on Microsoft Products? As Microsoft is a monopoly, I guess people will still buy their products even if it's more expensive.
I really have no clue on how the EU could force Microsoft to do something against its will.
Konqueror's HTML rendering: too good to be truth?
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· Score: 3
I often see comments like "I don't care if mozilla / netscape dies because we have Konqueror now" or "Mozilla is bloatware / gecko/galeon sucks" on/. or irc.
And I admit that the way Konqueror renders HTML pages is really impressive for such a small project (I read somewhere that there's only one full time konq developper).
It seems almost to good to be truth: one small team of KDE developper made a browser that is on par with that of a huge organization with many developpers like Netscape / AOL / Mozilla community?
It seems to good to be truth!
So I always wondered whether the Konqueror team has not re-used some code from Mozilla / Gecko.
If not, then congrats to the KDE guys. Too bad there have been duplicate efforts to develop these 2 terrific web browsers
If they did reuse some code (I'm not 100% sure that the mozilla licence permits that though), then I hope that Konqueror fans will stop bashing mozilla and galeon.
Konqueror is good but it has its share of issues
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Konqueror is great, and web pages look terrific with anti aliasing is turned on. Galeon / moz can't do it as far as I know (may be with GTK 2?)
However Konqueror has a number of issues, and I find myself using mozilla more than konqueror although I use KDE as my desktop environment
- First Konqui can't display several charsets on a page. So, for example the bottom of the page on www.debian.org (where you have the lists of available language for the page written in the native languagem like "ú-{OEê for japanese etc.) does not display correctly. Mozilla and even Netscape 4.7 have absolutely nop problem with this. This issue is fixed with qt 3.0, and new releases of KDE (after 2.2) may switch to qt3, hence clearing this bug.
- Some pages do not display correctly (they're 10 times too wide with many blank spaces for example), even when faking the user agent to that of moz or netscape (with which the page works) (but this is very rare, most pages display correctly).
- IIRC Konqueror does not have separate options for http and https proxies
- And I also have that very annoying bug with AA turneed on: if a web page does not specify to use a given font, then konqueror uses the first font in the list. In my case, it's a fantasy font, which makes reading pages like http://lists.debian.org a real nightmare. There's a default font option in my KDE 2.2 post alpha 2 build, but it doesn't seem to work.
There are some proxies out there that filter banner ads / cookies / and web bugs.
One of the most interesting ones is webwasher (http://www.webwasher.com - for windows & linux, free for personal use, not open source).
Webwasher does not use regular expressions to filter images: it filters them by size. Most banner ads have a standard size (for ex 468x60). Webwasher has a list of known banner sizes and filters all images which match the list of sizes. And it's efficiency is very impressive!
Thus, using webwasher, it's very easy to filter all web bugs which are usually 1x1
Alas, webwasher is not opensource and has some issues. But I think that the idea behind this product is great and I'd love to see it implemented in an opensource proxy:)
The way webwasher handles cookies is also very interesting: you can specify 3 sorts of cookies
- the good ones (allow them, keep them)
- the neutral ones (allow them, delete them after 24 hours)
- the bad ones (always block)
The default policy for unknown cookies is to set them to neutral; that lets the user visits site normally (without the occasional glitches that happen when you block all cookies with sites that won't let you browse without allowing them), without compromising the privacy of the users for cookies are deleted after 24 hours.
Following a recent spate of DDoS attacks on his grc.com (home of Shields UP!), Steve Gibson investigated, finding a website run by open source hackers (Note from C.T: crackers) called "News for nerds, stuff that matters" where people post website that are to be DOSed.
Nicknamed the "slashdot effect", it has already brought down countless of web servers in the past.
Debian has a sparc port for stable / testing / unstable.
See www.debian.org
Try it, you may like it and even praise redhat for discontinuing sparc support. Yes I know, the more competitors, the better (up to some point), but one's first contact with apt-get or make-kpkg is unforgetable:)
I bet the reason why you can log into your hotmail account is that mozilla doesn't have SSL (secured Socket Layers) built in. Damn crypto exports restrictions:(
Slashdot Mirror
The other problem that may drive *nix browsing market share is that there is a gazillion browsers who all have different identification strings. Very often, poorly designed stats system will not even notice that a given browser is actually a linux one, and will classify it as unknown.
Also, many poorly designed sites ony lets people with Ms IE 4 or Netscape 4 visit the site. Opera, mozilla, konqueror users have to fake the identification strings to be able to see the site. And, as a matter of fact, I know several people who have set their browsers' id string to be IE like, to avoid troubles.
There's no arguing that Linux's desktop market share is far lesser than that or windows and mac, but I do think and hope it's above 0.24%
What is the status of pf as of now?
Is it stable, secure, and feature complete or is it recommended to install ipf from other sources?
* This is using an external graphics card - the GeForce 3. The nForce has a GeForce 2 MX equivalent, and I imagine that comparing the speed of the nForce to a KT266A with GeForce 2 MX would prove insightful, too.
This isn't true. The benchmark was fair indeed for, when testing the nforce boards, they disabled the onboard graphic chip and used the geforce3 as well. See the test setup.
* The nForce, IMHO, is aimed at the OEM market. It has not just graphics, but sound integrated onto the motherboard, at a significant cost saving compared to buying them seperately.
However, if you're a geek who upgrades his computer every once in a while, you're better off with separate nic / graphic / audio cards that you can reuse in your new computer.
* I cannot find any reference to stability, and my experience of Via chipsets, compared to Intel and AMD chipsets, is that they are less stable and more likely to have problems
I don't have enough experience with via chipsets to respond to that. However, I bought a via kt266A motherboard last week (the epox one), and have had absolutely no problems with it. So far, it is as stable as my previous all intel setup (p3+bx chipset).
Here's a few links to other and may be more objective reviews
Zdnet
Gamespy
Gamespot
FiringSquad
TeamXBox
Yahoo 2 3
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"Can I run a linux cluster of those?"
Argh!
:/
I had just finished downloading the athlon xp 1800 yesterday.
Great now I have to download the new one over my 28.8k modem
What? You mean it's not a piece of software?
I attended the paris air show in June, and saw a flying demonstration of the zeppelin.
/. crowd at the idea of seeing a resurrected Zeppelin. I must say that I, and a big part of the rest of the crowd, got really disappointed when we actually saw it. It's a mini zeppelin, barely 80 meters long. The Hindenburg was 250M meters long, that makes the Zeppelin NT a 1/3 replica!
I had read stories and saw pictures of the original zeppelins, and I was almost as excited as the rest of the
In a nutshell, it was not really exciting. It looked very much like the average airships which are used for advertising purposes at big sport events.
In the article they say that Hotmail's spam filter (called inbox protector) filters about 2/3 of the received spam. I got approx. the same figures with my own hotmail account.
:/ Unfortunately, I don't think circumventing a spam filter is in the scope of the DMCA
However, since last week end hotmail not only has a new design, but also a new spam filter. It is disabled by default, but you can enable it in the 'Options' section by setting the inbox protector filter to "High"
And it works very well so far (ok only 5 days is a bit short for an experiment). My 10-spams-a-day trash hotmail account that I only used to register on sites where you need to is now usable!
Well, it is until the spammers find a new way to circumvent it
Are you suggesting that cnet.com, slashdot, and I invented this whole story to entertain the /. community during the summer? :)
Of course there is the possibility that I made something wrong. However, my previous experience at copying audio CDs, the time I spent trying to copy that particular CD, and the results I got that match the effects of macrovision listed in the cnet article make me strongly believe that the cd is copy protected and that I did nothing wrong.
And for those who asked, the disc in question is called Harmony Voix, it's a compilation of classical music distributed by Virgin France. Definetely not a top selling record, but probably a good one to test the reaction of the public.
There's an xmms plugin that tries to "normalize" the volume between your different mp3 files.
It's called Volume normalizer and it works quite well if you manage to configure it properly.
Oh and you can also apt-get it if you use debian (it's in unstable)
I bought a copy protected CD audio once. There wasn't anything special mentioned on the case or even on the CD itself. It played fine on my computer, but when trying to copy it with normal software (I tried with easy cd creator & cdrwin for windows and cdrdao for linux) the copy was full of pops and scratches (even in 1x) and didn't work in some cd players. And I know my cdrom drive & cd burner are not faulty because it's the first and only time I had troubles copying an audio cd.
However, I eventually managed to copy the cd by extracting all the tracks with cdparanoia under linux (with all the possible jitter correction options turned on), and then burning the wav files on a cdaudio.
Your mileage may vary, it worked for me but I'm not sure it will work for every kind of copy protection system on the market.
What influence can the European Union have on an american company like microsoft?
Sure, Microsoft sells billions of dollars of software in Europe each year, but I hardly see what kind of "punishment" the EU could inflict to Microsoft.
-Ban their Microsoft products? Then it would pose some serious problems to european businesses and their competitivness.
-Impose an extra tax on Microsoft Products? As Microsoft is a monopoly, I guess people will still buy their products even if it's more expensive.
I really have no clue on how the EU could force Microsoft to do something against its will.
I often see comments like "I don't care if mozilla / netscape dies because we have Konqueror now" or "Mozilla is bloatware / gecko /galeon sucks" on /. or irc.
And I admit that the way Konqueror renders HTML pages is really impressive for such a small project (I read somewhere that there's only one full time konq developper).
It seems almost to good to be truth: one small team of KDE developper made a browser that is on par with that of a huge organization with many developpers like Netscape / AOL / Mozilla community?
It seems to good to be truth!
So I always wondered whether the Konqueror team has not re-used some code from Mozilla / Gecko.
If not, then congrats to the KDE guys. Too bad there have been duplicate efforts to develop these 2 terrific web browsers
If they did reuse some code (I'm not 100% sure that the mozilla licence permits that though), then I hope that Konqueror fans will stop bashing mozilla and galeon.
Konqueror is great, and web pages look terrific with anti aliasing is turned on. Galeon / moz can't do it as far as I know (may be with GTK 2?)
However Konqueror has a number of issues, and I find myself using mozilla more than konqueror although I use KDE as my desktop environment
- First Konqui can't display several charsets on a page. So, for example the bottom of the page on www.debian.org (where you have the lists of available language for the page written in the native languagem like "ú-{OEê for japanese etc.) does not display correctly. Mozilla and even Netscape 4.7 have absolutely nop problem with this. This issue is fixed with qt 3.0, and new releases of KDE (after 2.2) may switch to qt3, hence clearing this bug.
- Some pages do not display correctly (they're 10 times too wide with many blank spaces for example), even when faking the user agent to that of moz or netscape (with which the page works) (but this is very rare, most pages display correctly).
- IIRC Konqueror does not have separate options for http and https proxies
- And I also have that very annoying bug with AA turneed on: if a web page does not specify to use a given font, then konqueror uses the first font in the list. In my case, it's a fantasy font, which makes reading pages like http://lists.debian.org a real nightmare. There's a default font option in my KDE 2.2 post alpha 2 build, but it doesn't seem to work.
There are some proxies out there that filter banner ads / cookies / and web bugs.
:)
One of the most interesting ones is webwasher (http://www.webwasher.com - for windows & linux, free for personal use, not open source).
Webwasher does not use regular expressions to filter images: it filters them by size. Most banner ads have a standard size (for ex 468x60). Webwasher has a list of known banner sizes and filters all images which match the list of sizes. And it's efficiency is very impressive!
Thus, using webwasher, it's very easy to filter all web bugs which are usually 1x1
Alas, webwasher is not opensource and has some issues. But I think that the idea behind this product is great and I'd love to see it implemented in an opensource proxy
The way webwasher handles cookies is also very interesting: you can specify 3 sorts of cookies
- the good ones (allow them, keep them)
- the neutral ones (allow them, delete them after 24 hours)
- the bad ones (always block)
The default policy for unknown cookies is to set them to neutral; that lets the user visits site normally (without the occasional glitches that happen when you block all cookies with sites that won't let you browse without allowing them), without compromising the privacy of the users for cookies are deleted after 24 hours.
...is to have your story posted on slashdot
Following a recent spate of DDoS attacks on his grc.com (home of Shields UP!), Steve Gibson investigated, finding a website run by open source hackers (Note from C.T: crackers) called "News for nerds, stuff that matters" where people post website that are to be DOSed.
Nicknamed the "slashdot effect", it has already brought down countless of web servers in the past.
Debian has a sparc port for stable / testing / unstable. See www.debian.org Try it, you may like it and even praise redhat for discontinuing sparc support. Yes I know, the more competitors, the better (up to some point), but one's first contact with apt-get or make-kpkg is unforgetable :)
If you're looking for a fast mp3 encoder, use gogo no coda
http://homepage1.nifty.com/herumi/gogo_e.html
It's an optimized version of LAMe for pentium class cpus. Quality remains high, and it also supports VBR
If you're looking for a cd ripper, get cdparanoia
To all of you who complained that the yopi has a start bar, it looks like it can be disabled:
See: http://www.gicom.de/yopy/dsc00354.jpg
BTW, any idea on the weight / battery life / price of the yopi?
I bet the reason why you can log into your hotmail account is that mozilla doesn't have SSL (secured Socket Layers) built in. Damn crypto exports restrictions :(