Overall they say that mozilla would make a good substitute for IE 6 but there is no major reason to switch over.
No major reason? Standards compliance isn't a major reason? I admit, IE complies with most standards, but I still have pages which render correctly in Mozilla and improperly in IE.
That's the nice thing about Mozilla...there are enough people working on it who care about things like this to make it work correctly.
Since 1.0 came out, I haven't started IE. No need. There are other reasons, too. Tabbed browsing? It's a great feature. One window, multiple pages. This alone is a feature I think would make IE much better. I can't say anything about the other features of Mozilla (Chatzilla, Mail, etc) because I've only ever used the browser.
I must admit that IE loads faster. But with its other problems, I'd rather wait a few seconds for a page rendered properly.
But you really think they care about the LSB that much? I'm sure RH follows some standard as well, so what's the difference? I'd bet most every distro follows some standard, even if it's a lesser used one.
I'd be curious to see how this pans out...I still highly doubt that just because it follows a standard that it will be able to compete with RH. As I said earlier, it's all about the support.
Yay, another distribution to find problems with...
Personally, I don't think they can really compete with RH. I don't like RH much, but they've built themselves a good place with businesses. It's going to be really tough to shoot them down from there.
I think the best way to try and beat RH is to beat them in support. Building another 'standard' distribution won't help.
Well, it may be a bit more costly if there are a lot of WinWiFi cards, but I'm sure there would be some companies that will make real wireless cards. If not, I guess I'll just hope that the card I have now doesn't get outdated...
Ok, I'll admit that we only have one machine with that kind of uptime. However, our unix systems have excellent uptimes. They would be better, but everyone's favorite company (Sun) has so many security issues that they need to be purposely downed for patching. So, let me rephrase my statement.
Show me a windows box that, not excuding intentional downtime for patching, can "outlive" a unix box, and I'll change my thinking.
It's definitly an interesting case, both in its looks and in it's ease of portability. But, isn't part of the reason we have traditional cases because it's easier to upgrade? Adding and/or removing parts is much easier when they aren't completely surrouned by the case material.
Seems to me that there are better ways to create light weight cases which are both easy to upgrade/modify and portable.
If you're really looking for a gaming rig, or just something that's easily portable for a LAN part, go with something like that mini 1GHz machine that Thinkgeek has. It's not the perfect solution (aka, doesn't have that kick-ass graphics card you'd like for an FPS), but it's beyond portable.
So, the moral of the story is, use the tool that fits the job. If you want a handhelt PC, then WinCE is the way to go. However, as was said in previous posts, PalmOS wasn't built for big PC style apps. It was made to be an organizer, and to run on less hardware. If the Palm isn't enough for your need, then go with what will fit what you need.
WindowMaker is an excellent window manager. It works great for my low end laptop. (Pentium 150, 72 Megs RAM, 3 GB HDD) WindowMaker is small enough to run very well on my laptop.
Gnome is all pretty and whatnot, but if you want a simple window manager that works well on low end machines, I think WindowMaker or something similar is the way to go.
Our machines used to be named after video games...galaga, pong, breakout, digdug, tank, joust, frogger...now we've moved to candy names...milkyway, airhead, mars, and there's still a list for us to choose from. There are also beer names still around...oe800, schlitz, leines...
True, but they can still make their money blaming the people who wrote the software in the first place, even if they aren't talking to the clients at all, they provided an easier way for the masses to use the legal network in illegal ways.
I can understand where each side is coming from.
I can also understand that the MPAA and RIAA are going to prevail more times than not simply because they have the money and the majority of the backing.
The people who use the software aren't easy targets. It's much easier to blame one person for a problem than it is a few hundred thousand.
Unfortunately, that means that the legitimate users of the software are getting screwed if the company does have to give in.
Also, why are there so many file sharing programs these days, anyway? Do they not realize what happened to Napster will probably happen to them as well?
Maybe it's because Windows has Windows Update. It pops up that nice little reminder that there are critical upates that you should have for your machine. So everyone knows about them.
But as for linux news, specifically kernel releases, slashdot seems to be the place to find out. Perhaps someone should write a quick script to check for kernel updates and have it mail root@localhost or something. In fact, that sounds kinda fun.
It is somewhat stable, but how can you replace a major part of the OS in the middle of a "stable" release tree? Replacing the VM in the middle of a tree is something that happens in development, not in production. The only real exception is if there is a major flaw in the VM that cannot be corrected without major rewrites. And in that case, they shouldn't release new kernels with major bugs in the first place.
UW-Madison's College of Engineering just got a bunch of linux boxes. Very nice. P4s, piles of memory...sweet machines. However, this is only for the College of Engineering, not the entire university. DoIT has no linux support that I know of. I called once to report problems with their DHCP server...when the guy asked my OS and I replied linux, he suddenly couldn't hear me...the phone mysteriously died...
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That number seems a little low...I have somewhere in the range of 50 to 75 emails come in per day to my hotmail account, and it's all spam.
Probably because I use my hotmail account for anything that appears on the web, and never my real email address.
I guess if you include the number of people who actually use a hotmail account for their real email, that number still sounds about right.
Overall they say that mozilla would make a good substitute for IE 6 but there is no major reason to switch over.
No major reason? Standards compliance isn't a major reason? I admit, IE complies with most standards, but I still have pages which render correctly in Mozilla and improperly in IE.
That's the nice thing about Mozilla...there are enough people working on it who care about things like this to make it work correctly.
Since 1.0 came out, I haven't started IE. No need. There are other reasons, too. Tabbed browsing? It's a great feature. One window, multiple pages. This alone is a feature I think would make IE much better. I can't say anything about the other features of Mozilla (Chatzilla, Mail, etc) because I've only ever used the browser.
I must admit that IE loads faster. But with its other problems, I'd rather wait a few seconds for a page rendered properly.
They're not always cool...The SCSI version didn't do much on the last two trials...just tripped a breaker. Not nearly the effect we were hoping for.
But there's always more drives to fry...
How about getting the company right...Sharp makes the Zaurus.
Ok, so it's not just another distro.
But you really think they care about the LSB that much? I'm sure RH follows some standard as well, so what's the difference? I'd bet most every distro follows some standard, even if it's a lesser used one.
I'd be curious to see how this pans out...I still highly doubt that just because it follows a standard that it will be able to compete with RH. As I said earlier, it's all about the support.
Yay, another distribution to find problems with...
Personally, I don't think they can really compete with RH. I don't like RH much, but they've built themselves a good place with businesses. It's going to be really tough to shoot them down from there.
I think the best way to try and beat RH is to beat them in support. Building another 'standard' distribution won't help.
"Gov. Jesse Ventura has come up with a 'great' way to get his campaign message..."
"In the meantime, the video game idea is still in its talking stages, and Ventura hasn't yet been approached with the suggestion."
Shouldn't that say "...Ventura's campaign committee..."?
Just a clarification...
Yeah, ain't it cool?
Personally, I would have just said 'move to another country'.
Well, it may be a bit more costly if there are a lot of WinWiFi cards, but I'm sure there would be some companies that will make real wireless cards. If not, I guess I'll just hope that the card I have now doesn't get outdated...
Ok, I'll admit that we only have one machine with that kind of uptime. However, our unix systems have excellent uptimes. They would be better, but everyone's favorite company (Sun) has so many security issues that they need to be purposely downed for patching. So, let me rephrase my statement.
Show me a windows box that, not excuding intentional downtime for patching, can "outlive" a unix box, and I'll change my thinking.
It's great that they have such a wonderful campaign going...can they show me something to back up what they're saying?
When you show me a Windows server that has an uptime of over 650 days, I might rethink my position.
It's definitly an interesting case, both in its looks and in it's ease of portability. But, isn't part of the reason we have traditional cases because it's easier to upgrade? Adding and/or removing parts is much easier when they aren't completely surrouned by the case material.
Seems to me that there are better ways to create light weight cases which are both easy to upgrade/modify and portable.
If you're really looking for a gaming rig, or just something that's easily portable for a LAN part, go with something like that mini 1GHz machine that Thinkgeek has. It's not the perfect solution (aka, doesn't have that kick-ass graphics card you'd like for an FPS), but it's beyond portable.
So, the moral of the story is, use the tool that fits the job. If you want a handhelt PC, then WinCE is the way to go. However, as was said in previous posts, PalmOS wasn't built for big PC style apps. It was made to be an organizer, and to run on less hardware. If the Palm isn't enough for your need, then go with what will fit what you need.
WindowMaker is an excellent window manager. It works great for my low end laptop. (Pentium 150, 72 Megs RAM, 3 GB HDD) WindowMaker is small enough to run very well on my laptop.
Gnome is all pretty and whatnot, but if you want a simple window manager that works well on low end machines, I think WindowMaker or something similar is the way to go.
Come on now...AOL doesn't use minor version numbers. If they did, they wouldn't keep up with the rest of the world.
.80 or 1.3.4, and they work so much better than the "newer" versions of other software.
Little linux utilities have versions of
Surpising? Not really...
How low can some people get?
Oh, six feet, apparantly...
Our machines used to be named after video games...galaga, pong, breakout, digdug, tank, joust, frogger...now we've moved to candy names...milkyway, airhead, mars, and there's still a list for us to choose from. There are also beer names still around...oe800, schlitz, leines...
All so much fun...
That's true...C and C++ aren't going away for a long time, and definitly not without a fight.
True, but they can still make their money blaming the people who wrote the software in the first place, even if they aren't talking to the clients at all, they provided an easier way for the masses to use the legal network in illegal ways.
I can understand where each side is coming from.
I can also understand that the MPAA and RIAA are going to prevail more times than not simply because they have the money and the majority of the backing.
The people who use the software aren't easy targets. It's much easier to blame one person for a problem than it is a few hundred thousand.
Unfortunately, that means that the legitimate users of the software are getting screwed if the company does have to give in.
Also, why are there so many file sharing programs these days, anyway? Do they not realize what happened to Napster will probably happen to them as well?
Maybe it's because Windows has Windows Update. It pops up that nice little reminder that there are critical upates that you should have for your machine. So everyone knows about them.
But as for linux news, specifically kernel releases, slashdot seems to be the place to find out. Perhaps someone should write a quick script to check for kernel updates and have it mail root@localhost or something. In fact, that sounds kinda fun.
It is somewhat stable, but how can you replace a major part of the OS in the middle of a "stable" release tree? Replacing the VM in the middle of a tree is something that happens in development, not in production. The only real exception is if there is a major flaw in the VM that cannot be corrected without major rewrites. And in that case, they shouldn't release new kernels with major bugs in the first place.
But that's just one man's opinion.
They'll stand up for the individual when doing so puts large wads of cash in their pockets.
One too many O's in your function call there...
:)
UW-Madison's College of Engineering just got a bunch of linux boxes. Very nice. P4s, piles of memory...sweet machines. However, this is only for the College of Engineering, not the entire university. DoIT has no linux support that I know of. I called once to report problems with their DHCP server...when the guy asked my OS and I replied linux, he suddenly couldn't hear me...the phone mysteriously died...