I'd just like to point out that this post is a classic example of the ORIGINAL definition of "troll" - posting something so incredibly stupid that anyone with a sense of humor should be able to figure out it's a joke, and then reading the replies from the people who didn't get it.
Somewhere along the way, "troll" became synonymous with "flamebait", and internet vocabularly lost an invaluable word.
Yeah, I should have been a bit more clear. It's about as significant as any die shrink, but people were making posts about this shattering Moore's law and quantum computing. And THAT is what was ridiculous.
Are this many people on Slashdot ignorant of basic mathematics?.1 is not much smaller than the current.13, people. Intel's next gen P4, Prescott is.09, as is AMD's secend generation of Hammers.
As the owner of a Deathstar 75gxp, I'm realizing I need to get my data off there as soon as possible. It's operated flawlessly so far, but it's increasingly seeming like my days are numbered. Since this isn't a boot drive, I was wondering if I might see increased longevity if I were to buy a 5400 rpm drive. I was expecting a price break, but the people I can find who sell Western Digital's 5400rpm drives aren't selling for any less. Is there any benefit, or should I just get the 7200?
The reason moz/nscp6 is slower than 4.x is that the entire user interface is built out of XML, CSS, and javascript (something collectively referred to as XPFE). This approach ensures that there's as little platform-specific code as possible, making mozilla available on a wide number of platforms that simply wouldn't have been plausible if everything was being done natively. It's been said many times that if not for XPFE, there wouldn't have been versions for anything but Windows and possibly Macintosh.
The good news is that UI responsiveness improves with each release, and I fully expect it to equal 4.x in time. However, I've read that GTK is a bottleneck of some sort, so that's why Windows has a performance advantage over *nix.
For anyone out there reading who can't imagine StarOffice competing with much of anything, I urge you to go to openoffice.org and download the latest build. (The StarOffice/OpenOffice situation is much like Netscape/Mozilla)
It really is a completely different experience. No more desktop, normal individual apps. While the the apps are rather memory hungry (so what, memory is $.15/MB), it's instantly responsive on my 700mhz machine. Everything I do with Word/Excel is there, with an interface that was quite familiar. It's more than ready for prime time.
I first started listening to music more than casually in the mid-late 80's, and just about everyone I knew dubbed tapes for each other. Lots of portable stereos (every one now) came with dual decks - many times the amount of people with CD burners today. The music industry survived.
The real reason for a dip in music sales isn't even economic downturn, but the simple fact that there's been an absolute dearth of quality mainstream music this year. For me, the real joy of napster wasn't even getting a free lunch, but rather the joy of discovering new music effortlessly and without risk. I'm sick of hearing it said myself, but I really did buy quite a number of CDs because of napster discoveries. The industry's real fear is the democratization of music. Internet distribution and easy CD creation are threaten the racketeering business they've been running for decades. It's in their best interest to limit the freedom to burn discs early; before the concept can become entrenched.
In a near future when broadband is more common, who's going to venture into meatspace to pay $18 for a CD when you could download directly from the artist at a fraction of the cost?
One scenario I've been kicking around for a while now... if a teenager were to distribute explicit photos of himself via the internet, what do you imagine the legal repercussions would be? Hopefully he'd have his record expunged, being a minor and all.
Screw 0.6 - You're Still Better Off With Nightlies
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Remember the whole controversy about the mozilla trunk being branched in order to rush Netscape out the door, and how they didn't incorporate Really Important Bugfixes from the trunk? 0.6 is another release from that branch. Its purpose is to provide a basis for Netscape 6.0x
If you're a mozilla enthusist who likes to see contnued bugfixes and improvements, keep downloading the nightlies.
Running helix-update and upgrading the gnome-* packages will close all the ports that were indeed open on previous versions of gnome. I'd wondered about their purpose myself, but was never able to get a straight answer as to why they were ever open in the first place. Incidentally, you may find that after running a portscan on yourself, you have open ports that give no clue as to who owns them. This handy command will tell you:
fuser 000/tcp
where 000 is the port number. The result will be the process ID of the port's owner. fuser may be in a place that's not in your path depending on your distro, so you might need to look around for it.
The problem is really with the abysmal state of fonts in X in general. The best thing any person using Netscape under X can do for themselves is get the Microsoft web fonts and install them. Web pages look dramatically better in both Netscape and Mozilla.
xfstt is probably the easiest X truetype font server to configure. If you went nutty trying to get the patched xfs in RedHat to work, give xfstt a try.
Debian vs. W2k isn't really a fair comparison, because (as you note) Debian is a 2GB distro with tons of applications. If Debian was scaled back to the same level of features, I'd expect the bug count to decrease substantially.
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I'd just like to point out that this post is a classic example of the ORIGINAL definition of "troll" - posting something so incredibly stupid that anyone with a sense of humor should be able to figure out it's a joke, and then reading the replies from the people who didn't get it.
Somewhere along the way, "troll" became synonymous with "flamebait", and internet vocabularly lost an invaluable word.
I originally posted this as an AC like a dumbass.
This shell script seems to be just what you want.
Yeah, I should have been a bit more clear. It's about as significant as any die shrink, but people were making posts about this shattering Moore's law and quantum computing. And THAT is what was ridiculous.
Are this many people on Slashdot ignorant of basic mathematics? .1 is not much smaller than the current .13, people. Intel's next gen P4, Prescott is .09, as is AMD's secend generation of Hammers.
Tenths, hundreths, thousandths.
As the owner of a Deathstar 75gxp, I'm realizing I need to get my data off there as soon as possible. It's operated flawlessly so far, but it's increasingly seeming like my days are numbered. Since this isn't a boot drive, I was wondering if I might see increased longevity if I were to buy a 5400 rpm drive. I was expecting a price break, but the people I can find who sell Western Digital's 5400rpm drives aren't selling for any less. Is there any benefit, or should I just get the 7200?
The reason moz/nscp6 is slower than 4.x is that the entire user interface is built out of XML, CSS, and javascript (something collectively referred to as XPFE). This approach ensures that there's as little platform-specific code as possible, making mozilla available on a wide number of platforms that simply wouldn't have been plausible if everything was being done natively. It's been said many times that if not for XPFE, there wouldn't have been versions for anything but Windows and possibly Macintosh.
The good news is that UI responsiveness improves with each release, and I fully expect it to equal 4.x in time. However, I've read that GTK is a bottleneck of some sort, so that's why Windows has a performance advantage over *nix.
For anyone out there reading who can't imagine StarOffice competing with much of anything, I urge you to go to openoffice.org and download the latest build. (The StarOffice/OpenOffice situation is much like Netscape/Mozilla)
It really is a completely different experience. No more desktop, normal individual apps. While the the apps are rather memory hungry (so what, memory is $.15/MB), it's instantly responsive on my 700mhz machine. Everything I do with Word/Excel is there, with an interface that was quite familiar. It's more than ready for prime time.
I first started listening to music more than casually in the mid-late 80's, and just about everyone I knew dubbed tapes for each other. Lots of portable stereos (every one now) came with dual decks - many times the amount of people with CD burners today. The music industry survived.
The real reason for a dip in music sales isn't even economic downturn, but the simple fact that there's been an absolute dearth of quality mainstream music this year. For me, the real joy of napster wasn't even getting a free lunch, but rather the joy of discovering new music effortlessly and without risk. I'm sick of hearing it said myself, but I really did buy quite a number of CDs because of napster discoveries. The industry's real fear is the democratization of music. Internet distribution and easy CD creation are threaten the racketeering business they've been running for decades. It's in their best interest to limit the freedom to burn discs early; before the concept can become entrenched.
In a near future when broadband is more common, who's going to venture into meatspace to pay $18 for a CD when you could download directly from the artist at a fraction of the cost?
One scenario I've been kicking around for a while now... if a teenager were to distribute explicit photos of himself via the internet, what do you imagine the legal repercussions would be? Hopefully he'd have his record expunged, being a minor and all.
Remember the whole controversy about the mozilla trunk being branched in order to rush Netscape out the door, and how they didn't incorporate Really Important Bugfixes from the trunk? 0.6 is another release from that branch. Its purpose is to provide a basis for Netscape 6.0x If you're a mozilla enthusist who likes to see contnued bugfixes and improvements, keep downloading the nightlies.
Running helix-update and upgrading the gnome-* packages will close all the ports that were indeed open on previous versions of gnome. I'd wondered about their purpose myself, but was never able to get a straight answer as to why they were ever open in the first place. Incidentally, you may find that after running a portscan on yourself, you have open ports that give no clue as to who owns them. This handy command will tell you:
fuser 000/tcp
where 000 is the port number. The result will be the process ID of the port's owner. fuser may be in a place that's not in your path depending on your distro, so you might need to look around for it.
The problem is really with the abysmal state of fonts in X in general. The best thing any person using Netscape under X can do for themselves is get the Microsoft web fonts and install them. Web pages look dramatically better in both Netscape and Mozilla.
xfstt is probably the easiest X truetype font server to configure. If you went nutty trying to get the patched xfs in RedHat to work, give xfstt a try.
Debian vs. W2k isn't really a fair comparison, because (as you note) Debian is a 2GB distro with tons of applications. If Debian was scaled back to the same level of features, I'd expect the bug count to decrease substantially.