M14 is ancient history. They are old pretty much already the next day after they get released. That's why you should always get a nightly build. Especially if it's a long time since the last milestone.
In my Mozilla build 2000031715 the cookie setting is: "Accept only cookies that get sent back to the originating server" while M14 had that old setting you mentioned.
Many people have pointed out how M14 is unstable and how there's still so many bugs in Mozilla. As I've been testing many milestones and nightly builds, I'd like to tell a few things about how Mozilla has developed.
First of all. Don't run that M14 milestone any more. Go and download a nightly build and give it a try. If it crashes or has annoying bugs, report them and download a new one a few days later. Some builds are really keepers. They are nice and stable. Some builds may have more bugs.
There's also been lots of improvements in Mozilla. M12 or M13 choke on Slashdot. Incremental table rendering was a nightmare. A long Slashdot page could take minutes. But in the beginning of this year Netscape got it right. Slashdot is loading nicely and most pages I often visit work perfectly. Actually I use Mozilla way more than Netscape 4 already.
Someone also got moderated to 5 - insightful for bashing Mozilla's skins. It's pretty weird as he really didn't give any hard facs. It was just opinions. Well Mozilla is really skinnable. You can make Mozilla act and look like whatever you want. And it's not only about looks, it's also about functionality. And the most important is that thanks to skins Mozilla is really cross platform. The bonus is that we don't have to wait for Linux ports or curse the differences between platforms. Mozilla will really be the same on Win32, Linux, Mac, BSD, you name it. And when there's tens of different skins for Mozilla after a year, there should be absolutely no reason not to like skins.
Memory footprint and speed? The newsgroups are slow and Mozilla still eats a bit too memory. But I can remember when the browser's scrolling had a one second delay and the whole UI was sticky. Now it's really fast at least on Win32. So what makes you think that those slow parts won't be fixed?
I'm absolutely positive that Mozilla will be a success.
As several people have already asked about Delphi for Linux, I'd like to give a pointer to Lazarus. It's a project that is aiming to create a free Delphi for Linux. Medigo was another project but it apparently died while Lazarus is moving faster than ever.
Lazarus uses the Free Pascal Compiler which is already a great pascal compiler. It's semanticly compatible with Turbo Pascal 7.0 but it also contains a lot of Delphi extenstions like long strings. The Lazarus team is writing all the class libraries and an editor.
At the moment lots of classes are done but they could use some help with remaining classes and the editor. Check out their home page and have a look.
If you buy a keyboard where your arms don't move around, you're asking for trouble. A split keyboard is ok but this one mounted on a chair could harm your arms more than help them.
I had bad arm pain during a period of two years. It came and went before the last time I suffered for more than half a year. After visiting many doctors, I finally got some really good advice that helped me solve the problem. Since then I haven't had any problems whatsoever.
First of all, don't rest your hands in front of the keyboard when you type. This kills your wrists as all the finger movement is applied at the exactly same spot inside your wrist. Also blood circulation is not good enough as your arms don't move. So keep your hands in the air and move them around while you type. Feel free to rest your arms on the support between typing, though.
Also do work out. Lift heavy weights or play some ball game. Shot put throwing is great as it's both heavy and explosive. Exercise strenghtens your muscles and gives them something heavier to do as typing is not heavy enough to keep you muscles in shape.
Quite frankly, I'd throw most ergonomic keyboards away. As there's not that much research done about typing injuries, many of them end up causing trouble.
It's actually Microsoft's Proposed Conclusions of Law. I didn't read through it but I guess they are just trying to show that what they did is actually legal.
Paul, you miss the point. I'm not spending time here ranting in other subjects how there should be less Linux- or science news and more Katz. Katz is just one subject among tens of other ones.
Robinjo, who as a Finn is really not obsessed by free speech:-)
Are you the Paul Dunne who has written Linux for Webmasters, Red Hat Linux 6.0 Application Development Tools with CDROM and The Complexity of Boolean Networks? And are you the Paul Dunne who was the editor of British Exonomy After Oil and Quantitative Marxism?
If so, then those are quite a good CV. However, your writings here do give a nasty image of you. I just don't find it appropriate that a writer flames another writer because he writes differently.
No, you're not a flamer. Flamers have style, you not. You're just a ranting idiot who don't accept any opinions if they are not yours. Heck, you were the example of Katz's article and you actually are more than that. The perfect poster boy and you're still not getting it.
Now, if you and a bunch of other narrow sighted people have a problem with Katz, then go look in the mirror and don't come back before you get it. Like many have pointed out, filter the guy out and let us make the decision ourselves. What is it again that Americans rant about? Freedom? Ring a bell?
Have you actually understood that people have different opinions? I don't have any problems whatsoever with Katz's articles. I even find them nice and interesting as they show a different view to matters. No, he's not a geek and he won't become one but is that a reason to hate him? If so, then how does it feel like to hate 99% of the world's population?
Then there are posters who are afraid that Slashdot will become something else if Katz keeps posting stories. This is just priceless. So Slashdot should be exactly one thing because there are some totalitarian geeks trying to dictate That everything should be like they want? I have news for you. There are options where you can configure Slashdot the way you want. Don't like Katz? Filter him off. Don't like Amiga? Filter that too. And do it to Microsoft also if you feel like it. And if that's not enough, then make an own site. As you think that most people agree with you anyway, it would be a huge success.
Robin, who couldn't care less how long it takes someone to install Linux.
First of all, I think that Distributed.net is valuable and don't want people to jump ship. But if you're searching for another project, then check out the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. The project has already succeeded in finding many primes and is counting at about 1000 gigaflops. There is software for Linux, Freebsd, OS/2, Mac and Windows. And as a nice carrot, there's also a $100,000.00 contest for the next research discovery of a 10 million digit prime.
OTOH, I really think that Seti@Home is a waste of time and energy. It sure sounds sexy to search for E.T. but the probability of finding something is really next to nothing.
Managers understand complaints - intelligent and polite complaints. So if you care about Codewarrior, then do call them and write polite letters. If you're depending on their product like one writer already told, then go and set up a meeting with one of their top managers.
There's no need to install any new gadgets and satellites. There's already a system that can be used to monitor car speeds, surveillance etc. About 2/3 of Finns carry it voluntarily; it's the cell phone.
The cell phone communicates constantly with the GSM network. Even if you don't speak, it tells the network where you are and tries to find a better connection. Now you only have to monitor how fast a cell phone travels from point A to point B and you can count the average speed of the car.
Cell phones are also a great way of monitoring where people are. Many criminals are already caught because they were carrying their phones at the place of the crime. "Hmm, so you were at home all asleep while your cell phone travelled 200 km?"
The Finlandia House in Helsinki is covered with big bricks made of Italian Carrara marble. It is a beautiful building, a masterpiece by Alvar Aalto.
However, over the years the bricks started bending and falling because the marble couldn't take the weather and air pollution. As the building is the most important congress center of Finland, the problem had to be solved and so the city started searching for a better material that would last. Lots of money was used and they found a few materials that would solve the problem. This only took many years, lots of meetings and money. But finally it was time to choose and solve the problem.
The City Council chose the same Italian Carrara marble again.
It's great to get Opera for Linux too. As we so often want to point out: the freedom to choose is important. Also Opera and Mozilla will definitely battle each other and result in better products.
I downloaded both. Opera starts up fast. I pressed enter and there was the window. Then I visited slashdot with it. The front page loaded fast and it also showed this topic nicely. The feeling I got is that Opera loads slashdot pages faster than Mozilla but Mozilla renders the page faster. Just resize the window to see the difference. However, Mozilla's slowness with big Slashdot pages come from early incremental reflow code and still unoptimized table code. However, some new code has gone in lately to make Mozilla faster.
Opera also lacked features. If you click on submit buttons, nothing happens. Also it has big problems with some web pages. But as programmers know, this is very normal at this stage.
Check out the latest Mozilla. The Linux version has become a lot faster lately. It also crashes a lot more seldom and renders pages better than ever. There's still a lot of bugs left but this one is almost good enough for daily browsing. And as Mozilla could use some good testers, report the bugs you find at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org
In a nutshell: Opera is still far behind Mozilla. It's not possible to use it for daily browsing. Mozilla is almost there.
Check out bug 17325. Then make an Bugzilla account and vote for this bug. As you can see, the slowness comes from incremental reflow and yet not optimized table handling. They have checked in some new code to improve it but it's not yet optimized.
You can also change settings to control incremental reflows. Slashdot is still a pain to read but it should help with other sites.
Well resting your palms when you type is a definite no-no. Your arms are not getting enough movement and the blood circulation is bad. Also you risk getting CTS because of all the static movement that your finger movement causes on the carpal tunnel.
Resting your elbows is ok, though. But don't restrict the natural movement of your hands.
I had arm problems four years ago. I got them about once a year and they lasted for a month. I never knew what caused them and what helped. I just knew that I'll heal. Until the last time of course when I got it twice a year and it lasted 3-4 months. Even when I rested, it just didn't heal and I grew desperate after doctors couldn't do anything.
In the end a doctor told me: "What I find in you is not really anything. But if resting doesn't help, then how about using your arms?" He told me to start working again, do some heavy with my arms and exercise. Needless to say that I was shocked.
But I tried it. I started throwing the shot put and my arms did heal in a few days. Since then I've been doing weight training regularly and haven't had any problems whatsoever.
Here's what's bad to your arms. If you have a wrist support in front of your keyboard, don't rest your hands on it when you type. That way your arms are not moving enough. I nowadays put the rest under the fron of the keyboard so that it's impossible for me to rest my arms on anything while typing. Also don't be too careful to type. Our arms are made for heavy work, so they don't take small repetitive movement as well.
But I can't stress enough how important it is to exercise. If you just sit by the keyboard all day and don't do any sports, your muscles are going to get smaller until you get problems. If you exercise and have stronger muscles, your arms are going to take anything. You can see it in the construction workers. Their work contains a lot of repetitive movements but they don't have arm problems like we do.
Now, if you do have bad pain already, don't run to abuse your arms by typing along. If you can take heavy housework, do it. But talk to your doctor about this first as your case may be worse than mine was. And all you healthy ones, go lift some heavy weights to keep yourself healthy.
That's what MozillaZine asks us. There is a survey where they ask about readers' feelings regarding the current builds.
I have been trying Mozilla for months already. It has improved steadily but they are still making big changes there. For example they started doing incremental reflow. While it's nice, it caused some pages to load very slowly. IMO, that's still one thing to fix before Alpha.
I guess it's good to delay Mozilla until it's ready and free of bugs. Mozilla is designed from ground up, small, fast and supports standards beautifully. It'll be a pleasure to use it.
But I couldn't but notice some fear. Some people are scared that AOL will fill Mozilla with ads and make it unusable. While AOL might do it, remember that the source code of Mozilla is free. It's right there at ftp.mozilla.org and you're free to get it any day. So we can very well build custom versions of Mozilla without any AIM or other annoyances.
I can't believe the amount of negative posts about Netscape in this topic. The story itself was already crap but it looks like all the backstabbers are busy this weekend. I can't but wonder if some ACs are here to try to boost opinions that Netscape lost because of an inferior product.
Now let's have a reality check. Netscape is not about Communicator anymore. It's been about Mozilla already for more than a year. Sure they have released new versions of Communicator, but all the hard development and hopes are on Mozilla. And believe me, Mozilla is looking better and better every day. Just grab a nightly build from ftp.mozilla.org and see with your own eyes.
Mozilla has been built from ground up. It's well designed and has some really ground breaking code. It's already faster than IE and there's still a lot to optimize. The nightly build for win32 is just 5,2 MB. Compare that to the 18,1 MB bloat of Communicator and tens of megs of MSIE. Those who have programmed know that the bigger the executable, the more it contains ugly spaghetti code. Mozilla is also perfect for cell phones and hand held devices as it's small, componentized and runs on a free OS. That gives Mozilla a difinite edge compared to MSIE.
We've been patiently waiting for Mozilla for a year already. Now that Mozilla is getting close to ready, we get to read all these horror stories about Netscape being dead. It's just FUD and if you read the Findings of Fact-document, you don't have to be a genious to figure out who's feeding these news. But it doesn't matter what ZDNet, Gartner or Microsoft say. Mozilla will ship within 2-3 months and it will be a great product.
...that people post their opinions of the case without doing their home work. That results in posts where writers make fools of themselves. For example:
The government's lawsuit is totally bogus. The only reason Microsoft has achieved dominance is through the incompetence of its competitors.
If Tim would have read the FoF-document, he would have found tens of pages of ugly monopolistic actions by Microsoft.
Netscape? They lost because their browser sucked. The only reason they survived as long as they did is momentum and anti-Microsoft sentiment.
Well here Tim got 50% right. They really survived thanks to it's momentum and anti-Microsoft sentiment. But if Tim would have read the FoF, he would have learned how Microsoft did everything short of manslaughter to kill Netscape. After that document nobody should say that Netscape lost because of worse quality. Even Microsoft admitted it in their numerous internal e-mails.
People, please read the document. It's worth the time.
Not really a good idea. Imagine the horrendous amounts of hits that one would get every day. Also delays would be quite horrendous and make reading e-mail a pain.
Just make a deal with Russia and send all the spammers to Siberia:-)
Guys, stop talking about laptops. They are really the tip of the iceberg here and they have nothing to do with this trial. Have you actually bothered reading the Findings of Fact? It's a big document but worth reading.
This document is not an anti-MS rant. It's a detailed documentation of what Microsoft did to kill Netscape and Sun. They didn't spare any money doing it and they certainly played dirty. But don't take my word for it. Go and read the whole document yourself.
But have a look at The Netcraft Web Server Survey. Apache took a beating of -1.65 percents while IIS gained 2.78 percents. Even when Webjump is the reason, it's quite a massive loss for Apache.
What could we do to gain more share? It looks like the Mindcraft "tests" are still hurting and badly. But we have to fight back and with style. Apache on a unix box has lots of advantages. It's free, fast, secure and rock solid. It doesn't need expensive hardware. There are also many big sites using Apache. But somehow it is not enough.
I guess Apache needs an "Web hosting for Dummies"-book as it's more a rule than exception that IIS-sites are run by dummies. Also it would be cool to start "selling" Apache. Sell a Linux+Apache-installation for exactly the same price as NT but donate all the money to for example the Red Cross. That would make a nice ad:-)
Well Corel is contributing extensively in the Wine project. Their contribution is valuable in both running other Windows-software on Linux and developing winelib for porting Windows software to Linux.
IMHO Wine is an important piece of software to help people to move away from Windows. Most have at least one critical app that they have to run on Windows. That's a major reason not to change OS. Wine can break that hinder and help Linux gain more users.
Salman Rushdie got a fatwa for writing his book Satanic Verses. We all, US included, condemned the fatwa and tried to get Iran to change their minds. "This would never happen in the free world", we think. But wait, it happens!
There's a lot of doctors living under a religious fatwa in US. You just have to do legal abortions and you may loose your head to religious fundamentalists. Fundamentalists, kill while preaching: "You shall not kill."
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M14 is ancient history. They are old pretty much already the next day after they get released. That's why you should always get a nightly build. Especially if it's a long time since the last milestone.
In my Mozilla build 2000031715 the cookie setting is: "Accept only cookies that get sent back to the originating server" while M14 had that old setting you mentioned.
Many people have pointed out how M14 is unstable and how there's still so many bugs in Mozilla. As I've been testing many milestones and nightly builds, I'd like to tell a few things about how Mozilla has developed.
First of all. Don't run that M14 milestone any more. Go and download a nightly build and give it a try. If it crashes or has annoying bugs, report them and download a new one a few days later. Some builds are really keepers. They are nice and stable. Some builds may have more bugs.
There's also been lots of improvements in Mozilla. M12 or M13 choke on Slashdot. Incremental table rendering was a nightmare. A long Slashdot page could take minutes. But in the beginning of this year Netscape got it right. Slashdot is loading nicely and most pages I often visit work perfectly. Actually I use Mozilla way more than Netscape 4 already.
Someone also got moderated to 5 - insightful for bashing Mozilla's skins. It's pretty weird as he really didn't give any hard facs. It was just opinions. Well Mozilla is really skinnable. You can make Mozilla act and look like whatever you want. And it's not only about looks, it's also about functionality. And the most important is that thanks to skins Mozilla is really cross platform. The bonus is that we don't have to wait for Linux ports or curse the differences between platforms. Mozilla will really be the same on Win32, Linux, Mac, BSD, you name it. And when there's tens of different skins for Mozilla after a year, there should be absolutely no reason not to like skins.
Memory footprint and speed? The newsgroups are slow and Mozilla still eats a bit too memory. But I can remember when the browser's scrolling had a one second delay and the whole UI was sticky. Now it's really fast at least on Win32. So what makes you think that those slow parts won't be fixed?
I'm absolutely positive that Mozilla will be a success.
As several people have already asked about Delphi for Linux, I'd like to give a pointer to Lazarus. It's a project that is aiming to create a free Delphi for Linux. Medigo was another project but it apparently died while Lazarus is moving faster than ever.
Lazarus uses the Free Pascal Compiler which is already a great pascal compiler. It's semanticly compatible with Turbo Pascal 7.0 but it also contains a lot of Delphi extenstions like long strings. The Lazarus team is writing all the class libraries and an editor.
At the moment lots of classes are done but they could use some help with remaining classes and the editor. Check out their home page and have a look.
If you buy a keyboard where your arms don't move around, you're asking for trouble. A split keyboard is ok but this one mounted on a chair could harm your arms more than help them.
I had bad arm pain during a period of two years. It came and went before the last time I suffered for more than half a year. After visiting many doctors, I finally got some really good advice that helped me solve the problem. Since then I haven't had any problems whatsoever.
First of all, don't rest your hands in front of the keyboard when you type. This kills your wrists as all the finger movement is applied at the exactly same spot inside your wrist. Also blood circulation is not good enough as your arms don't move. So keep your hands in the air and move them around while you type. Feel free to rest your arms on the support between typing, though.
Also do work out. Lift heavy weights or play some ball game. Shot put throwing is great as it's both heavy and explosive. Exercise strenghtens your muscles and gives them something heavier to do as typing is not heavy enough to keep you muscles in shape.
Quite frankly, I'd throw most ergonomic keyboards away. As there's not that much research done about typing injuries, many of them end up causing trouble.
The usual disclaimer. Do consult a doctor...
It's actually Microsoft's Proposed Conclusions of Law. I didn't read through it but I guess they are just trying to show that what they did is actually legal.
Paul, you miss the point. I'm not spending time here ranting in other subjects how there should be less Linux- or science news and more Katz. Katz is just one subject among tens of other ones.
Robinjo, who as a Finn is really not obsessed by free speech :-)
Are you the Paul Dunne who has written Linux for Webmasters, Red Hat Linux 6.0 Application Development Tools with CDROM and The Complexity of Boolean Networks? And are you the Paul Dunne who was the editor of British Exonomy After Oil and Quantitative Marxism?
If so, then those are quite a good CV. However, your writings here do give a nasty image of you. I just don't find it appropriate that a writer flames another writer because he writes differently.
No, you're not a flamer. Flamers have style, you not. You're just a ranting idiot who don't accept any opinions if they are not yours. Heck, you were the example of Katz's article and you actually are more than that. The perfect poster boy and you're still not getting it.
Now, if you and a bunch of other narrow sighted people have a problem with Katz, then go look in the mirror and don't come back before you get it. Like many have pointed out, filter the guy out and let us make the decision ourselves. What is it again that Americans rant about? Freedom? Ring a bell?
Have you actually understood that people have different opinions? I don't have any problems whatsoever with Katz's articles. I even find them nice and interesting as they show a different view to matters. No, he's not a geek and he won't become one but is that a reason to hate him? If so, then how does it feel like to hate 99% of the world's population?
Then there are posters who are afraid that Slashdot will become something else if Katz keeps posting stories. This is just priceless. So Slashdot should be exactly one thing because there are some totalitarian geeks trying to dictate That everything should be like they want? I have news for you. There are options where you can configure Slashdot the way you want. Don't like Katz? Filter him off. Don't like Amiga? Filter that too. And do it to Microsoft also if you feel like it. And if that's not enough, then make an own site. As you think that most people agree with you anyway, it would be a huge success.
Robin, who couldn't care less how long it takes someone to install Linux.
First of all, I think that Distributed.net is valuable and don't want people to jump ship. But if you're searching for another project, then check out the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. The project has already succeeded in finding many primes and is counting at about 1000 gigaflops. There is software for Linux, Freebsd, OS/2, Mac and Windows. And as a nice carrot, there's also a $100,000.00 contest for the next research discovery of a 10 million digit prime.
OTOH, I really think that Seti@Home is a waste of time and energy. It sure sounds sexy to search for E.T. but the probability of finding something is really next to nothing.
Managers understand complaints - intelligent and polite complaints. So if you care about Codewarrior, then do call them and write polite letters. If you're depending on their product like one writer already told, then go and set up a meeting with one of their top managers.
They are writing on their home page:
If you still have questions, feel free to ask. You can email us at info@metrowerks.com or give us a call at 1-512-873-4700
Why don't you just do it and keep on doing it. Signing some driver petitions doesn't help but it sure is better than flaming.
There's no need to install any new gadgets and satellites. There's already a system that can be used to monitor car speeds, surveillance etc. About 2/3 of Finns carry it voluntarily; it's the cell phone.
The cell phone communicates constantly with the GSM network. Even if you don't speak, it tells the network where you are and tries to find a better connection. Now you only have to monitor how fast a cell phone travels from point A to point B and you can count the average speed of the car.
Cell phones are also a great way of monitoring where people are. Many criminals are already caught because they were carrying their phones at the place of the crime. "Hmm, so you were at home all asleep while your cell phone travelled 200 km?"
The big brother is watching :-)
The Finlandia House in Helsinki is covered with big bricks made of Italian Carrara marble. It is a beautiful building, a masterpiece by Alvar Aalto.
However, over the years the bricks started bending and falling because the marble couldn't take the weather and air pollution. As the building is the most important congress center of Finland, the problem had to be solved and so the city started searching for a better material that would last. Lots of money was used and they found a few materials that would solve the problem. This only took many years, lots of meetings and money. But finally it was time to choose and solve the problem.
The City Council chose the same Italian Carrara marble again.
It's great to get Opera for Linux too. As we so often want to point out: the freedom to choose is important. Also Opera and Mozilla will definitely battle each other and result in better products.
I downloaded both. Opera starts up fast. I pressed enter and there was the window. Then I visited slashdot with it. The front page loaded fast and it also showed this topic nicely. The feeling I got is that Opera loads slashdot pages faster than Mozilla but Mozilla renders the page faster. Just resize the window to see the difference. However, Mozilla's slowness with big Slashdot pages come from early incremental reflow code and still unoptimized table code. However, some new code has gone in lately to make Mozilla faster.
Opera also lacked features. If you click on submit buttons, nothing happens. Also it has big problems with some web pages. But as programmers know, this is very normal at this stage.
Check out the latest Mozilla. The Linux version has become a lot faster lately. It also crashes a lot more seldom and renders pages better than ever. There's still a lot of bugs left but this one is almost good enough for daily browsing. And as Mozilla could use some good testers, report the bugs you find at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org
In a nutshell: Opera is still far behind Mozilla. It's not possible to use it for daily browsing. Mozilla is almost there.
Check out bug 17325. Then make an Bugzilla account and vote for this bug. As you can see, the slowness comes from incremental reflow and yet not optimized table handling. They have checked in some new code to improve it but it's not yet optimized.
You can also change settings to control incremental reflows. Slashdot is still a pain to read but it should help with other sites.
Well resting your palms when you type is a definite no-no. Your arms are not getting enough movement and the blood circulation is bad. Also you risk getting CTS because of all the static movement that your finger movement causes on the carpal tunnel.
Resting your elbows is ok, though. But don't restrict the natural movement of your hands.
I had arm problems four years ago. I got them about once a year and they lasted for a month. I never knew what caused them and what helped. I just knew that I'll heal. Until the last time of course when I got it twice a year and it lasted 3-4 months. Even when I rested, it just didn't heal and I grew desperate after doctors couldn't do anything.
In the end a doctor told me: "What I find in you is not really anything. But if resting doesn't help, then how about using your arms?" He told me to start working again, do some heavy with my arms and exercise. Needless to say that I was shocked.
But I tried it. I started throwing the shot put and my arms did heal in a few days. Since then I've been doing weight training regularly and haven't had any problems whatsoever.
Here's what's bad to your arms. If you have a wrist support in front of your keyboard, don't rest your hands on it when you type. That way your arms are not moving enough. I nowadays put the rest under the fron of the keyboard so that it's impossible for me to rest my arms on anything while typing. Also don't be too careful to type. Our arms are made for heavy work, so they don't take small repetitive movement as well.
But I can't stress enough how important it is to exercise. If you just sit by the keyboard all day and don't do any sports, your muscles are going to get smaller until you get problems. If you exercise and have stronger muscles, your arms are going to take anything. You can see it in the construction workers. Their work contains a lot of repetitive movements but they don't have arm problems like we do.
Now, if you do have bad pain already, don't run to abuse your arms by typing along. If you can take heavy housework, do it. But talk to your doctor about this first as your case may be worse than mine was. And all you healthy ones, go lift some heavy weights to keep yourself healthy.
That's what MozillaZine asks us. There is a survey where they ask about readers' feelings regarding the current builds.
I have been trying Mozilla for months already. It has improved steadily but they are still making big changes there. For example they started doing incremental reflow. While it's nice, it caused some pages to load very slowly. IMO, that's still one thing to fix before Alpha.
I guess it's good to delay Mozilla until it's ready and free of bugs. Mozilla is designed from ground up, small, fast and supports standards beautifully. It'll be a pleasure to use it.
But I couldn't but notice some fear. Some people are scared that AOL will fill Mozilla with ads and make it unusable. While AOL might do it, remember that the source code of Mozilla is free. It's right there at ftp.mozilla.org and you're free to get it any day. So we can very well build custom versions of Mozilla without any AIM or other annoyances.
I can't believe the amount of negative posts about Netscape in this topic. The story itself was already crap but it looks like all the backstabbers are busy this weekend. I can't but wonder if some ACs are here to try to boost opinions that Netscape lost because of an inferior product.
Now let's have a reality check. Netscape is not about Communicator anymore. It's been about Mozilla already for more than a year. Sure they have released new versions of Communicator, but all the hard development and hopes are on Mozilla. And believe me, Mozilla is looking better and better every day. Just grab a nightly build from ftp.mozilla.org and see with your own eyes.
Mozilla has been built from ground up. It's well designed and has some really ground breaking code. It's already faster than IE and there's still a lot to optimize. The nightly build for win32 is just 5,2 MB. Compare that to the 18,1 MB bloat of Communicator and tens of megs of MSIE. Those who have programmed know that the bigger the executable, the more it contains ugly spaghetti code. Mozilla is also perfect for cell phones and hand held devices as it's small, componentized and runs on a free OS. That gives Mozilla a difinite edge compared to MSIE.
We've been patiently waiting for Mozilla for a year already. Now that Mozilla is getting close to ready, we get to read all these horror stories about Netscape being dead. It's just FUD and if you read the Findings of Fact-document, you don't have to be a genious to figure out who's feeding these news. But it doesn't matter what ZDNet, Gartner or Microsoft say. Mozilla will ship within 2-3 months and it will be a great product.
...that people post their opinions of the case without doing their home work. That results in posts where writers make fools of themselves. For example:
The government's lawsuit is totally bogus. The only reason Microsoft has achieved dominance is through the incompetence of its competitors.
If Tim would have read the FoF-document, he would have found tens of pages of ugly monopolistic actions by Microsoft.
Netscape? They lost because their browser sucked. The only reason they survived as long as they did is momentum and anti-Microsoft sentiment.
Well here Tim got 50% right. They really survived thanks to it's momentum and anti-Microsoft sentiment. But if Tim would have read the FoF, he would have learned how Microsoft did everything short of manslaughter to kill Netscape. After that document nobody should say that Netscape lost because of worse quality. Even Microsoft admitted it in their numerous internal e-mails.
People, please read the document. It's worth the time.
Not really a good idea. Imagine the horrendous amounts of hits that one would get every day. Also delays would be quite horrendous and make reading e-mail a pain.
Just make a deal with Russia and send all the spammers to Siberia :-)
Guys, stop talking about laptops. They are really the tip of the iceberg here and they have nothing to do with this trial. Have you actually bothered reading the Findings of Fact? It's a big document but worth reading.
This document is not an anti-MS rant. It's a detailed documentation of what Microsoft did to kill Netscape and Sun. They didn't spare any money doing it and they certainly played dirty. But don't take my word for it. Go and read the whole document yourself.
But have a look at The Netcraft Web Server Survey. Apache took a beating of -1.65 percents while IIS gained 2.78 percents. Even when Webjump is the reason, it's quite a massive loss for Apache.
What could we do to gain more share? It looks like the Mindcraft "tests" are still hurting and badly. But we have to fight back and with style. Apache on a unix box has lots of advantages. It's free, fast, secure and rock solid. It doesn't need expensive hardware. There are also many big sites using Apache. But somehow it is not enough.
I guess Apache needs an "Web hosting for Dummies"-book as it's more a rule than exception that IIS-sites are run by dummies. Also it would be cool to start "selling" Apache. Sell a Linux+Apache-installation for exactly the same price as NT but donate all the money to for example the Red Cross. That would make a nice ad :-)
Well Corel is contributing extensively in the Wine project. Their contribution is valuable in both running other Windows-software on Linux and developing winelib for porting Windows software to Linux.
IMHO Wine is an important piece of software to help people to move away from Windows. Most have at least one critical app that they have to run on Windows. That's a major reason not to change OS. Wine can break that hinder and help Linux gain more users.
Wow, you guys really did some cool work in only 48 hours. Could I ask for another 48 hours with the source code of Freeciv?
I'm drooling when I'm thinking what such a talented bunch of coders could do to my favourite game. :-)
Salman Rushdie got a fatwa for writing his book Satanic Verses. We all, US included, condemned the fatwa and tried to get Iran to change their minds. "This would never happen in the free world", we think. But wait, it happens!
There's a lot of doctors living under a religious fatwa in US. You just have to do legal abortions and you may loose your head to religious fundamentalists. Fundamentalists, kill while preaching: "You shall not kill."