I tried to switch a friend to Firefox. He loaded one of his favorite webpages (some Saturn car place... he's one of those people, you know) and he said "it's not as fast" as IE. So he refused to use it.
I told him I will never diagnose any computer problems if he sticks with IE. Fine by me, one less Windows user to contend with.
I see all these analogies to a car. If a knowledgeable Honda person told me I should change something I do to improve safety, would I listen to them? Probably so. But clueless computer users just don't care.
That looks like to be a copy of Wikipedia, which was already linked to in the main story. Do you have something to gain from the ads on that site or something? I don't know why anybody would use such an ad infested place that's just a copy of Wikipedia.
Who moderated this lunitic +5? He is absolutely WRONG. My sibling poster already pointed this out but anybody who can google for "openldap kerberos" sees that people do use it.
A HOW-TO is even available here: http://www.bayour.com/LDAPv3-HOWTO.html
Moderators need to only moderate on what they know about. These ones don't.
No, this is the job of package management systems under Linux, be it apt-get, emerge, urpmi, yum, etc. Individual programs don't need to start implementing their own update schemes. For third party packages there will be autopackage.org one day I hope, and updates could be done through that.
The Java GUI library is crap, and with rare exceptions (sweet sweet firefox) doesn't produce attractive apps.
Where did you get the idea that Firefox was written in Java? It's derived from Mozilla (which is C++) and makes heavy use of XUL which uses JavaSCRIPT. That has nothing to do with Sun's Java one single bit.
Why would they port Groupwise when they have Evolution? They both have the same goal and Evolution can already integrate with Groupwise servers. That was one of the big reasons to buy Ximian.
To extend battery life you need to use one of the CPUFreq modules to clock down your CPU and its voltage. For Intel these are the SpeedStep ones. AMD also has their own. Then install a simple power management daemon like powernowd which will upclock your processor only when it needs to. There are also the laptop-tools which will spin down your harddrive and keep Linux from flushing its buffers to it when it really doesn't have to.
Neither of these things require ACPI support, I believe.
So what do you want, no change at all? Sure it's a small dent in IE's market share, but on the other hand it is a large boost to the number of users using Mozilla/Firefox. The whole wolrd isn't going to switch at once. Like everything else, it will be a gradual process. Don't act like just because not everybody switches today means it's a failure.
While Debian doesn't have corporate backing directly, there are a good number of distributions out there that are based on Debian, therefore would greatly benefit if it were LSB compliant. Lindows^H^H^H^spre is a big one that comes to mind, but there are others too.
I bet they have an algorithm that looks at how much profit they have made from you. If the profit they made is very high, they would offer you a discount to keep you (because you're a good customer and don't cost them much money). If they aren't making much from you, they probably won't offer you a discount because it'd cut even more into their bottom line, so they'd let you go.
If you're using the nvidia driver because of the vastly superior 3d acceleration, then I doubt that you'll be able to replace that soon. Due to how nVidia develops its drivers (ie, they're basically the same from platform to platform) there is a lot of work already put into those, along with the fact that they have the specifications to do it.
I've used the nv driver before, and the 2d performance wasn't that bad.
I have seen a Microsoft developer post on the MIT Kerberos dev list before, asking a question about code. Was probably 4 months or so ago. Didn't check the headers, though, just saw the FROM field. Seemed legit to me.
MIT chose to license it under their license. There's no reason anybody should be pissy at Microsoft if they used free code. Obviously this is what the MIT Kerberos developers wanted, so nobody has a right to bash Microsoft if they did use the code. There are plenty of other reasons to bash them that they deserve.
I have had better luck with upgrading on Debian, and I wish my boss could agree with me... he loves that i586 extension on Mandrake, and seeing i386 makes him nervous.
Debian provides optimized kernels for i686, k7, and so forth. They also provide a libc6-i686 package for libc 686 optimizations.
I've used Gentoo and Debian on the same machine. I have not noticed any difference in speed. For any time you save in Gentoo due to compilation optimizations, you probably spend 100x that time compiling.
You're leaving out some important facts. While both George Bush and John Kerry do not support "marriage" for gay people, that is where the similarities end. My guess is Kerry does this to not offend some of the more conservative democrats.
However:
1. John Kerry supports civil unions. 2. John Kerry supports non-discrimination laws. 3. John Kerry received a 100% rating from the Human Rights Campain (HRC, a Washington gay lobby group).
Just saying John Kerry doesn't support gay marriage doesn't give the whole picture. George W. Bush is a homophobe who does not support any gay rights. Compassionate conservative my ass.
Does the MONO community believe that MS will stick to the.NET ECMA spec, and if so what makes you believe that ?
Well consider it this way. If Microsoft decides to break.NET to break Mono, then they will end up breaking backwards compatabilities for Microsoft.NET customers. And if it's one thing Microsoft bends over backwards to do it is backwards compatability.
It's not my idea of a fun time to manually look at the TV schedule, figure out what shows I want to see, decide if I've seen that episode already or not, then program the VCR.
I find it easier to tell the PVR to always record a show, then it always gets done for me. Never have to think about it again.
And you don't have to worry about replacing the tapes, rewinding them, making sure everything is set.
And can a VCR pause live TV, then resume? Does it provide a EPG (electronic programming guide)?
These are why PVR's exist. Using a VCR for the same purpose is not a valid option.
I'm not the parent, but I have used binary distributions as well as Gentoo. I think it is a good recommendation because with Gentoo you have to do a little more work yourself rather than have a GUI tool do it for you. Therefore, you are able to truly learn how the system works, not just the GUI tools on top of it. So, when you need to change something not allowed by the GUI or when the GUI fails, you know how to fix it.
In addidition, Gentoo seems to have one of the largest and most active forums around, which makes for easy help as well as searching for past problems.
I don't think Gentoo is a cure-all. Binary distributions definitely have their place, but so does Gentoo. For this technically inclined person, it is a good suggestion.
VNC performance has always been unacceptable to me, even on LAN's. NX uses the X11 protocol, but it encrypts (via SSH) and compresses by itself so you don't have to open an SSH tunnel, etc. It can also play the sound on the local host.
My dad runs Windows XP on a Celeron 300 with 384 MB of RAM. I just threw all the old style RAM in there I had available. Right now, the really old harddrive is the bottle neck. XP runs fine on old machines.
Apple had not spent billions of dollar and many years developing something on the scale of Windows NT like Microsoft did. There's no way they will be switching to a BSD based system. Not only do they have all that money invested in NT, but all of their systems built around it.
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UID/GID spoofing because there's no real authentication. This is being addressed in NFSv4 but it's not ready for production.
If you want want authentication and authorization for file sharing under Linux, AFS is probably your only real choice besides Samba.
I tried to switch a friend to Firefox. He loaded one of his favorite webpages (some Saturn car place... he's one of those people, you know) and he said "it's not as fast" as IE. So he refused to use it.
I told him I will never diagnose any computer problems if he sticks with IE. Fine by me, one less Windows user to contend with.
I see all these analogies to a car. If a knowledgeable Honda person told me I should change something I do to improve safety, would I listen to them? Probably so. But clueless computer users just don't care.
That looks like to be a copy of Wikipedia, which was already linked to in the main story. Do you have something to gain from the ads on that site or something? I don't know why anybody would use such an ad infested place that's just a copy of Wikipedia.
Who moderated this lunitic +5? He is absolutely WRONG. My sibling poster already pointed this out but anybody who can google for "openldap kerberos" sees that people do use it.
A HOW-TO is even available here:
http://www.bayour.com/LDAPv3-HOWTO.html
Moderators need to only moderate on what they know about. These ones don't.
The OS X GUI rendering is offloaded to the GPU--a job which it is good at. I don't call that wasting CPU power.
No, this is the job of package management systems under Linux, be it apt-get, emerge, urpmi, yum, etc. Individual programs don't need to start implementing their own update schemes. For third party packages there will be autopackage.org one day I hope, and updates could be done through that.
Where did you get the idea that Firefox was written in Java? It's derived from Mozilla (which is C++) and makes heavy use of XUL which uses JavaSCRIPT. That has nothing to do with Sun's Java one single bit.
Ahead in what way? For a user who wants to just go into Best Buy, grab something, and plug it in and have it (usually) work? Sure.
Ahead for a workstation? Depends on its use.
Ahead on a server? Hard to justify that when Apache runs over 65% of the world's websites, according to Netcraft.
Why would they port Groupwise when they have Evolution? They both have the same goal and Evolution can already integrate with Groupwise servers. That was one of the big reasons to buy Ximian.
To extend battery life you need to use one of the CPUFreq modules to clock down your CPU and its voltage. For Intel these are the SpeedStep ones. AMD also has their own. Then install a simple power management daemon like powernowd which will upclock your processor only when it needs to. There are also the laptop-tools which will spin down your harddrive and keep Linux from flushing its buffers to it when it really doesn't have to.
Neither of these things require ACPI support, I believe.
So what do you want, no change at all? Sure it's a small dent in IE's market share, but on the other hand it is a large boost to the number of users using Mozilla/Firefox. The whole wolrd isn't going to switch at once. Like everything else, it will be a gradual process. Don't act like just because not everybody switches today means it's a failure.
While Debian doesn't have corporate backing directly, there are a good number of distributions out there that are based on Debian, therefore would greatly benefit if it were LSB compliant. Lindows^H^H^H^spre is a big one that comes to mind, but there are others too.
I bet they have an algorithm that looks at how much profit they have made from you. If the profit they made is very high, they would offer you a discount to keep you (because you're a good customer and don't cost them much money). If they aren't making much from you, they probably won't offer you a discount because it'd cut even more into their bottom line, so they'd let you go.
Makes sense.
If you're using the nvidia driver because of the vastly superior 3d acceleration, then I doubt that you'll be able to replace that soon. Due to how nVidia develops its drivers (ie, they're basically the same from platform to platform) there is a lot of work already put into those, along with the fact that they have the specifications to do it.
I've used the nv driver before, and the 2d performance wasn't that bad.
I have seen a Microsoft developer post on the MIT Kerberos dev list before, asking a question about code. Was probably 4 months or so ago. Didn't check the headers, though, just saw the FROM field. Seemed legit to me.
MIT chose to license it under their license. There's no reason anybody should be pissy at Microsoft if they used free code. Obviously this is what the MIT Kerberos developers wanted, so nobody has a right to bash Microsoft if they did use the code. There are plenty of other reasons to bash them that they deserve.
Why is this weird? Linux has different modules for controlling CPU clock speed: speedstep-ich, speedstep-icu, p4-clockmod, among the AMD ones.
ACPI does also have a general throttling support but, at least under Linux, does not decrease the CPU voltage.
Star does though.
Debian provides optimized kernels for i686, k7, and so forth. They also provide a libc6-i686 package for libc 686 optimizations.
I've used Gentoo and Debian on the same machine. I have not noticed any difference in speed. For any time you save in Gentoo due to compilation optimizations, you probably spend 100x that time compiling.
You're leaving out some important facts. While both George Bush and John Kerry do not support "marriage" for gay people, that is where the similarities end. My guess is Kerry does this to not offend some of the more conservative democrats.
However:
1. John Kerry supports civil unions.
2. John Kerry supports non-discrimination laws.
3. John Kerry received a 100% rating from the Human Rights Campain (HRC, a Washington gay lobby group).
Just saying John Kerry doesn't support gay marriage doesn't give the whole picture. George W. Bush is a homophobe who does not support any gay rights. Compassionate conservative my ass.
Well consider it this way. If Microsoft decides to break
It's not my idea of a fun time to manually look at the TV schedule, figure out what shows I want to see, decide if I've seen that episode already or not, then program the VCR.
I find it easier to tell the PVR to always record a show, then it always gets done for me. Never have to think about it again.
And you don't have to worry about replacing the tapes, rewinding them, making sure everything is set.
And can a VCR pause live TV, then resume? Does it provide a EPG (electronic programming guide)?
These are why PVR's exist. Using a VCR for the same purpose is not a valid option.
I'm not the parent, but I have used binary distributions as well as Gentoo. I think it is a good recommendation because with Gentoo you have to do a little more work yourself rather than have a GUI tool do it for you. Therefore, you are able to truly learn how the system works, not just the GUI tools on top of it. So, when you need to change something not allowed by the GUI or when the GUI fails, you know how to fix it.
In addidition, Gentoo seems to have one of the largest and most active forums around, which makes for easy help as well as searching for past problems.
I don't think Gentoo is a cure-all. Binary distributions definitely have their place, but so does Gentoo. For this technically inclined person, it is a good suggestion.
VNC performance has always been unacceptable to me, even on LAN's. NX uses the X11 protocol, but it encrypts (via SSH) and compresses by itself so you don't have to open an SSH tunnel, etc. It can also play the sound on the local host.
My dad runs Windows XP on a Celeron 300 with 384 MB of RAM. I just threw all the old style RAM in there I had available. Right now, the really old harddrive is the bottle neck. XP runs fine on old machines.
Apple had not spent billions of dollar and many years developing something on the scale of Windows NT like Microsoft did. There's no way they will be switching to a BSD based system. Not only do they have all that money invested in NT, but all of their systems built around it.
To sum up: No. Frickin. Way.