Huh? XFree86 is remarkably easy to compile. The minimum is to download the tarballs and uncompress them, run make World, make install. That process has worked just fine in every of the 20 or 30 times I've compiled X from source.
Perhaps Microsoft's IE is broken? I don't use IE, that example came direct from the knowledge base article, dingwad. (with websites changed to make it more clear as to why this is a problem.)
By doing this, you can see the full URL for any hyperlink and you can examine the address that Internet Explorer will use. The following list shows some of the characters that may appear in a URL that could lead to a spoofed Web site:
* %00
* %01
* @
For example, a URL of the following form will open http://example.com, but the URL in the Address bar or the Status bar in Internet Explorer may appear as http://www.wingtiptoys.com:
So this random guy on the internet takes two hours to figure out what the master/slave jumpers are for and somehow that translates into Linux PVRs are just too hard?
Anyone who has followed the trend of software patents must realize that Microsoft could have dozens of patent claims covering.NET before Mono rises to prominence.
Has Mono risen to prominence yet? Nope. Therefore this sentence is talking about sometime in the future. If you have access to a database of patents that will be filed sometime in the future, I'd love to see it!;)
Slack's installer has always been my favorite installer. It's better than anaconda, yast, that thing that mandrake uses and definately better than the Debian installer.
I don't know why everybody today thinks that pretty and dumbed down is better. Prime example, see the monstrosity that is Gnome2.
Of course nothing is new in Netscape 6.2. It was released 14 months ago. Get your facts straight before bitching. Or do you just get off on bitching and don't need a real reason?
Now this whole episode took me a matter of hours. Whereas Windows would take me a whole 30 minutes to choose what I did/didn't want to install and then download my fixes.
Why didn't you just drop them all in a directory and execute rpm -Uvh * instead of manually installing one at a time? That let the package manager do what it does best . ..figure out the best way to install your packages.
As far as the 30 minutes on windows deal, on my Debian box I type apt-get update; apt-get upgrade and walk away. On my Gentoo box I type emerge sync; emerge -u world and walk away. Mandrake has urpmi that does the same thing, Connectiva has apt for rpm. If you would have looked, Redhat8 has an automatic updater that will do it for you. Shit, even Slackware has an automatic updater in the works.
Get your information straight before you bitch. Just because you can't figure it out doesn't mean it doesn't have that capability.
I use a 450 MHz desktop, which is perfectly adequate speed-wise for every other application that I use (including software development on both Windows and Linux). ... And finally, we're not talking about a minor optimization of 5% here, we're talking about the application being actually unusable for someone with a computer that is perfectly adequate for all other apps on the desktop, including software development.
You gotta be joking. You claim that Mozilla on a 450 is unuseable?? I regularly use Mozilla on an old AMD 350 and it is just fine.
Actually, it isn't. I just built a new system, Athlon 2200, 512MB of pc2700 RAM, etc. I need win98 to run some old software for classes so it has a spare hard drive. And I tell you, it is no faster than it was on my old AMD 350 w/ 64MB. Dunno why, I've never tried to debug it, don't care much. I just thought that was interesting. Maybe I should try loading an old copy of win3.1 . . .;)
What do these have to do with using X on Linux? Using native widgets means (dadadum!) using the graphics server already existing for that platform. To get C# to use something besides X for Linux you'd have to write a new graphics layer. Which, by the way, is what the conversation was about to begin with.
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Huh? XFree86 is remarkably easy to compile. The minimum is to download the tarballs and uncompress them, run make World, make install. That process has worked just fine in every of the 20 or 30 times I've compiled X from source.
Slashdot filters URLs to make life easier for the poor slobs still running IE ;)
Perhaps Microsoft's IE is broken? I don't use IE, that example came direct from the knowledge base article, dingwad. (with websites changed to make it more clear as to why this is a problem.)
By doing this, you can see the full URL for any hyperlink and you can examine the address that Internet Explorer will use. The following list shows some of the characters that may appear in a URL that could lead to a spoofed Web site:
* %00
* %01
* @
For example, a URL of the following form will open http://example.com, but the URL in the Address bar or the Status bar in Internet Explorer may appear as http://www.wingtiptoys.com:
http://www.wingtiptoys.com%01@example.com
http://www.microsoft.com%01@example.com
/. already filters this attack.
Visit that link in IE and see where it takes you. You might be surprised. I'd have just linked it, but
My other post
You missed the point.
http://www.amazon.com%01@malicious-site.com
will show as http://www.amazon.com%01@malicious-site.com in Mozilla, Firebird, Opera, etc.
In IE, it will show as http://www.amazon.com
That is the flaw. It has everything to do with IE.
For the record, I build a Linux based PVR in about 30 minutes using Freevo.
So this random guy on the internet takes two hours to figure out what the master/slave jumpers are for and somehow that translates into Linux PVRs are just too hard?
Sheesh.
Please read the second to last line.
Anyone who has followed the trend of software patents must realize that Microsoft could have dozens of patent claims covering .NET before Mono rises to prominence.
;)
Has Mono risen to prominence yet? Nope. Therefore this sentence is talking about sometime in the future. If you have access to a database of patents that will be filed sometime in the future, I'd love to see it!
No, sorry, that was Adobe and it was a few years ago.
try www.microsoft.com instead.
GNOME is much smaller, but you have to sign a waver if you want to change a default configuration option (either of them).
Hehehe, I had to laugh at this because it is so true. The way they are going, they'll reach this point long before 2013 though.
ahem, what does installing a package have to do with compiling from source?
Do like I did and email directv informing them of your decision to not purchase their service, citing this as the reason why.
Slack's installer has always been my favorite installer. It's better than anaconda, yast, that thing that mandrake uses and definately better than the Debian installer.
I don't know why everybody today thinks that pretty and dumbed down is better. Prime example, see the monstrosity that is Gnome2.
Of course nothing is new in Netscape 6.2. It was released 14 months ago. Get your facts straight before bitching. Or do you just get off on bitching and don't need a real reason?
Netscape 6.2.3 release notes
Now this whole episode took me a matter of hours. Whereas Windows would take me a whole 30 minutes to choose what I did/didn't want to install and then download my fixes.
.figure out the best way to install your packages.
Why didn't you just drop them all in a directory and execute rpm -Uvh * instead of manually installing one at a time? That let the package manager do what it does best . .
As far as the 30 minutes on windows deal, on my Debian box I type apt-get update; apt-get upgrade and walk away. On my Gentoo box I type emerge sync; emerge -u world and walk away. Mandrake has urpmi that does the same thing, Connectiva has apt for rpm. If you would have looked, Redhat8 has an automatic updater that will do it for you. Shit, even Slackware has an automatic updater in the works.
Get your information straight before you bitch. Just because you can't figure it out doesn't mean it doesn't have that capability.
My desktop with mozilla calendar running.
Mozilla Calendar project page
I could have sworn that my wife's install of mozilla on winXP has a systray new mail notification. Maybe it is only if you enable quickstart?
Actually, Mozilla can do this too. And for that matter so can Konqueror. They have for a long time.
I use a 450 MHz desktop, which is perfectly adequate speed-wise for every other application that I use (including software development on both Windows and Linux).
...
And finally, we're not talking about a minor optimization of 5% here, we're talking about the application being actually unusable for someone with a computer that is perfectly adequate for all other apps on the desktop, including software development.
You gotta be joking. You claim that Mozilla on a 450 is unuseable?? I regularly use Mozilla on an old AMD 350 and it is just fine.
Actually, it isn't. I just built a new system, Athlon 2200, 512MB of pc2700 RAM, etc. I need win98 to run some old software for classes so it has a spare hard drive. And I tell you, it is no faster than it was on my old AMD 350 w/ 64MB. Dunno why, I've never tried to debug it, don't care much. I just thought that was interesting. Maybe I should try loading an old copy of win3.1 . . . ;)
What do these have to do with using X on Linux? Using native widgets means (dadadum!) using the graphics server already existing for that platform. To get C# to use something besides X for Linux you'd have to write a new graphics layer. Which, by the way, is what the conversation was about to begin with.
Oooh! Oooh! And then can we put a browser in the kernel too?
Sorry, check again.