"The web is usually designed after the weakest link "
Since when? The web is designed after the market leader, which now there is none (FF, IE, Chrome, Opera all have a significant share). That's why the web was so broken years ego and you could only use IE. So if IE falls down under 10% it will not matter anymore and Microsoft will be forced to implement the HTML standard very accurate to be used at all.
So what? That is what innovation is all about. Look around you, everything is a rip-of or an improvement of previous inventions. It's that what the whole "content industry", the governments, other industries don't get. They all looking to maximize their profits and not looking at the costs.
The whole humanity and modern civilization is based on rip-offs and incremental improvements. No idea is original and nobody could do anything without the previous people's hard work. Please, I dare you, while looking around your room or apartment, give me one example of a really original idea that was born in a vacuum.
That is why copyright laws are horrible for innovation, and patents are a big tax on the industry as well.
Your "original" band is a rip-of or improvement of another band that came before them, and they again are a rip-of or improvement of the previous musicians. Angry birds are the really successful band, so good for them. They had the right timing, strategy and a bit of luck. Sucks for the previous games I guess, but that's live.
An article about the history of computer viruses that mentions Microsoft, Windows or IIS only 7 times? Lets start with a better list (thank you Wikipedia):
* Michelangelo: The virus was designed to infect DOS systems * Melissa: It can spread on word processors Microsoft Word 97 and Word 2000 and also Microsoft Excel 97, 2000 and 2003. It can mass-mail itself from e-mail client Microsoft Outlook 97 or Outlook 98. * I LOVE YOU: is a computer worm that successfully attacked tens of millions of Windows computers in 2000 * Code Red: 359,000 Microsoft's IIS web server. * Sasser: running [on] vulnerable versions of the Microsoft operating systems Windows XP and Windows 2000 * Zotob: [runs on] Microsoft operating systems like Windows 2000, * Storm botnet: The botnet, or zombie network, comprises computers running Microsoft Windows as their operating system, with the Storm worm at one point accounting for 8% of all malware on Microsoft Windows computers. * Koobface: is designed to infect Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, but also works on Linux (in a limited fashion) * Conficker: targeting the Microsoft Windows operating system, with more than seven million government, business and home computers in over 200 countries now under its control. * Stuxnet: is a Windows computer worm discovered in July 2010 that targets industrial software and equipment. Iran 62,867; Indonesia 13,336; India 6,552; United States 2,913;Australia 2,436;United Kingdom 1,038;Malaysia 1,013;Pakistan 993, all Windows.
What’s next? Are you kidding me? More Windows infected machines, more spam and more attacks on governments and industry that are stupid enough to pay for this system.
The first post was a joke because I couldn't care less if some stupid JavaScript runs 500ms faster or not. Normally I deactivated all JS anyway and I'm in the web to read text not to play some JS games. So since the new FF4 won't download anything faster I'm always very uninterested with the penis comparisons of Mozilla, Google and Microsoft.
Not sure what might be up with yours if you're not seeing a difference.
Maybe I don't have a broken computer? I have been running FF3 on Fedora 14 on a Asus Netbook with Intel card and Atom CPU, a Notebook from Lenovo with Intel and 4 core (or 2 core and hyper threading) and my old Lenovo notebook with a Nvidia and Intel Core Duo with 2.6GHz (the current one). Open tabs are 10 to 20, Slashdot, Youtube, and other sites.
How about you fix your stupid copyright laws and stop bitching about Wikipedia? Write to your representatives and vote. What's next, bitch about drivers because they stop at red?
It's all relative what "possible" means. The current state is that only for few geeks it's "possible". The iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, and certainly in the future Meego are all nice locked in. Sure, you can unlock the iPhone and WM, and you can use a different market or no market for the Android. In the case of the iPhone and WM you loose your warranty if you do it and Android is locked down from the cell phone manufactures or carriers.
I wonder how people would react if Microsoft decides to delete software from their desktop computer or notebook. (But maybe it would be a good thing. Last time I saw a IE on a notebook is was full of tool bars from various vendors to the extend that only 60% of the display was usable.)
It's a dangerous path we going down. When people start to trade convenience for freedom, they don't deserve either.
Welcome in the brave new world, where devices you bought don't belong to you anymore. Amazon remotely deletes bought books, Sony sues hackers that modifying their own PS3s, Microsoft threats to sue everyone who tries to use their Kinec with not approved means, and now Google remotely deletes applications and installs new ones.
How are they going to explain to the million of Windows users that no application they know will work on ARM Windows? It's the same as with Windows 64 bit and why we didn't saw much of it despite the prices for RAM are very low. I guess with Windows 7 the developers finally released some software for 64 bit. That's what, like 9 to 10 years since AMD came with the amd64 architecture?
Well, at least I can then finally buy some ARM notebooks and put a decent Linux distribution on it.
I did the same as you and I had a nice graph with compared the Ubuntu 10.04 benchmarks with different settings and the benchmarks are all including the Nvidia Geforce Gtx 580.
The site is complicated because the benchmarks are not just generic score, like X is 10 points better then Y, but a detailed benchmark, with different software. The first benchmark have it use if you are a consumer, searching a fast CPU, the latter have use for "power user" who want to know what hardware and system runs the Apache server fast.
I'm sorry that you are not the audience for the openbenchmarks.org site. But the site have a big audience nevertheless.
I can't figure out how to see the results for a given system.
Maybe you overlooked in the middle of the homepage with big blue letters:
Top Searches
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Debian 6.0 FreeBSD Intel Core i5-2500K Intel Core i7 970 Intel Core i7-2820QM Linux 2.6.38- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Radeon HD 4850 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 11.04
Top Hardware
AMD Phenom II X4 955 AMD Phenom II X6 1055T ATI Radeon HD 5700 1024MB InnoTek VirtualBox Intel Core 2 Duo Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Intel Core i5-2500K Intel Mobile 4 IGP 256MB MacBook Pro VMware SVGA II innotek VirtualBox v1.2
Top Software
Arch Debian 6.0 Debian testing Fedora 14 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) Linux Mac OS X 10.6.6 Microsoft Windows [ 6.1.7600] SUSE LINUX 11.3 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 11.04
Now, just click what you like and after that you will get a site with the benchmarks. Click a benchmark and you have the comparison. You can even group different benchmarks together and get a comparison.
Also you have: 1. Most Popular Tests
2. Apache Benchmark
3. 7-Zip Compression
4. C-Ray
5. LAME MP3 Encoding
6. OpenArena
1. Most Popular Suites
2. Audio Encoding
3. Timed Code Compilation
4. Chess Test Suite
5. Timed File Compression
6. Disk Test Suite
1. Latest Test Profiles
2. Xonotic
3. X-Plane Image Quality
4. X-Plane
5. x264
6. x11perf
I'm sorry but if there was 35,000 benchmarks in just one week then the site can't be that bad. That's 5000 benchmarks a day.
It's against the spirit of the GPL, isn't it? To take from the community but to put stumbling blocks in the form of that the community can't see the history of changes or to reapply certain patches. Since Oracle is developing on the Linux kernel they are a part of the community (I didn't read about a case were Oracle is making parts of the kernel propriety).
If you want to see who is on the evil site, just swap out the names. For Oracle put "Debian" and for Red Hat put "Canonical". So Canonical is developing patches but they are now making only the complete Kernel as a tar ball available, so Debian can't see the history and reapply some patches anymore. This change appears to be aimed at Debian, Mint, Lubuntu, and like others, repackage Ubuntu's source as the basis for its Linux.
and I hope the people who truly screwed up the amazing Linux opportunity that was the N900 get shut down in the process.'"
That is not how it works. The people responsible for this mess will blame Linux and tell it's not ready for "prime time" and go with Microsoft's Windows Mobile instead.
What the end user is concerned Linux and Windows behave almost the same. Except maybe for the package manager, but anything else behaves almost the same as in Windows. And of course that you don't install drivers for your devices, you just plug them in and they just work.
You plug your USB drive in, a window pops up with the option to open a file manager. Drag&Drop your files to copy/move. The "start menu"; click on an icon to start the application. Download an application, extract it somewhere and click on the executable to start. You have even a "control manager" or "system manager" (or whatever it is called in Windows).
Please what behaves completely differently from Windows in a modern Linux desktop like Gnome or KDE?
The package manager for installing drivers, software and libraries (if you a developer) and the wide "out-of-the-box" hardware support in Linux are the only differences from Windows.
OMG 5 seconds of naked breasts. This monster who ever posted the video should be stoned to death. What if a child sees it? It will be scared for live and probably became a sexist rapist and a murderer.
What ever is wrong with American people? Why you are so scared of nudity, shouldn't you be so proud living in "the most free country in the world" with the first amendment and so?
Welcome in the ever growing militarist America. First it was WWII, the Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, War on Terrorism and now the Cyberwar. See also Wikipedia for a more complete list. Ask your self why the budget for the military is continuing to rise year after year and never returns down even to the level at the Cold War. Ask your self why America continuing to have a standing army of no less then 1,4 Million active personnel and another 1,4 Million in reserve.
Imperialist America here we go again. Stop try to be the police and the "protector of democracy" of the world. How about stop killing innocent people in other countries first, like in Afghanistan and Iraq? How about be accountable for war crimes, ratify the International Criminal Court. How about to follow the Geneva Convention and stop treat captured people as "unlawful combatant" How about to sign and ratify the Kyoto Protocol which are 187 countries adopted but of course not the USA.
Why, what happens? We are talking about the MS drive extender and with LVM2 you can use such feature with every major Linux distribution since 13 years and that without the risk to loose any data.
If MS only just implemented LVM2 for Windows you would have now a nice space expansion feature which is proven to work.
I have used LVM2 now for two years with my various notebooks and netbooks. They had various crashes and power downs but I never loosed one bit of data. My small home server is using LVM2 as well with my 3 USB hard disks, serves videos and music to my home.
With my notebooks and netbooks I can grow or shrink my root or home partition and with my server I can just plug in another USB hard disk and grow my partition. No fuss not complicated at all and works all the time.
All that for free, just download Fedora, Debian or Ubuntu and install it in 10 minutes. If you want, setup a FTP server, apache server or what ever you like. Or you get what you pay for with Windows for 100$ or more.
I don't think a game is the right comparison. A game is designed to be a distraction (from the hard life). But an application should just blend in the work process and don't distract.
The worst kind of distraction are unnecessary animations because the human eyes can perceive animations very good, animations are always staying out and we concentrate more on the animation.
But in the URL bar it's not important that the user is hover over a link. The user known already that he is hovering over a link and he probably have a good idea where the link is going. So why distract him to look up at the URL bar?
Yes, I miss the status bar. Now it's always something changing at the top and it's really distracting and annoying. I think they have even a little animation in the URL bar, which will get more distracting and annoying.
Why it have to be always with animation? It's only distracting and annoying.
I hate slideshare. What ever happened with good old Pdf downloads? But now Pdfs need to be embedded in Web2.0 crap. We ain't on the cloud yet, every PC out there have have a Pdf viewer installed. If they at least would use JavaScript so you don't need Flash for it like Google Maps.
"Download is disabled by the owner". If the owner don't like the Pdf be in public than why the hell are they posting it on a freely accessible website? Does the owner really thinks I'm going to copy it and distribute it as my own work? Does the owner trusts me with nothing? Should I blank my brain after I saw the slides?
If the owner want that I see his stupid slides then he should trust me more and not forbidding me of open my favorite Pdf viewer, print the slides out or to copy his stupid slides on a different device.
He can take his slides and put them where the sun don't shine. Then he can be really sure that nobody is going to copy his work.
Slashdot Mirror
"The web is usually designed after the weakest link "
Since when? The web is designed after the market leader, which now there is none (FF, IE, Chrome, Opera all have a significant share). That's why the web was so broken years ego and you could only use IE. So if IE falls down under 10% it will not matter anymore and Microsoft will be forced to implement the HTML standard very accurate to be used at all.
Don't run on Linux either.
$ wine IE9-WindowsVista-x86-enu.exe
fixme:advapi:RegisterTraceGuidsW (0x6cd15f38, 0x6cd20180, {e2821408-c59d-418f-ad3f-aa4e792aeb79}, 1, 0x33de50, (null), (null), 0x6cd20188,)
fixme:commctrl:TaskDialogIndirect 0x33d970, 0x33d9d4, (nil), (nil)
The same with Windows7 version.
So what? That is what innovation is all about. Look around you, everything is a rip-of or an improvement of previous inventions. It's that what the whole "content industry", the governments, other industries don't get. They all looking to maximize their profits and not looking at the costs.
The whole humanity and modern civilization is based on rip-offs and incremental improvements. No idea is original and nobody could do anything without the previous people's hard work. Please, I dare you, while looking around your room or apartment, give me one example of a really original idea that was born in a vacuum.
That is why copyright laws are horrible for innovation, and patents are a big tax on the industry as well.
Your "original" band is a rip-of or improvement of another band that came before them, and they again are a rip-of or improvement of the previous musicians. Angry birds are the really successful band, so good for them. They had the right timing, strategy and a bit of luck. Sucks for the previous games I guess, but that's live.
An article about the history of computer viruses that mentions Microsoft, Windows or IIS only 7 times? Lets start with a better list (thank you Wikipedia):
* Michelangelo: The virus was designed to infect DOS systems
* Melissa: It can spread on word processors Microsoft Word 97 and Word 2000 and also Microsoft Excel 97, 2000 and 2003. It can mass-mail itself from e-mail client Microsoft Outlook 97 or Outlook 98.
* I LOVE YOU: is a computer worm that successfully attacked tens of millions of Windows computers in 2000
* Code Red: 359,000 Microsoft's IIS web server.
* Sasser: running [on] vulnerable versions of the Microsoft operating systems Windows XP and Windows 2000
* Zotob: [runs on] Microsoft operating systems like Windows 2000,
* Storm botnet: The botnet, or zombie network, comprises computers running Microsoft Windows as their operating system, with the Storm worm at one point accounting for 8% of all malware on Microsoft Windows computers.
* Koobface: is designed to infect Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, but also works on Linux (in a limited fashion)
* Conficker: targeting the Microsoft Windows operating system, with more than seven million government, business and home computers in over 200 countries now under its control.
* Stuxnet: is a Windows computer worm discovered in July 2010 that targets industrial software and equipment. Iran 62,867; Indonesia 13,336; India 6,552; United States 2,913;Australia 2,436;United Kingdom 1,038;Malaysia 1,013;Pakistan 993, all Windows.
What’s next? Are you kidding me? More Windows infected machines, more spam and more attacks on governments and industry that are stupid enough to pay for this system.
Not sure what might be up with yours if you're not seeing a difference.
Maybe I don't have a broken computer? I have been running FF3 on Fedora 14 on a Asus Netbook with Intel card and Atom CPU, a Notebook from Lenovo with Intel and 4 core (or 2 core and hyper threading) and my old Lenovo notebook with a Nvidia and Intel Core Duo with 2.6GHz (the current one). Open tabs are 10 to 20, Slashdot, Youtube, and other sites.
the speed compared to 3.x is incredible
I tried FF4 and the sites are loading as fast as in FF3. What have you done so that you can browse the web faster?
How about you fix your stupid copyright laws and stop bitching about Wikipedia? Write to your representatives and vote. What's next, bitch about drivers because they stop at red?
It's all relative what "possible" means. The current state is that only for few geeks it's "possible". The iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, and certainly in the future Meego are all nice locked in. Sure, you can unlock the iPhone and WM, and you can use a different market or no market for the Android. In the case of the iPhone and WM you loose your warranty if you do it and Android is locked down from the cell phone manufactures or carriers.
I wonder how people would react if Microsoft decides to delete software from their desktop computer or notebook. (But maybe it would be a good thing. Last time I saw a IE on a notebook is was full of tool bars from various vendors to the extend that only 60% of the display was usable.)
It's a dangerous path we going down. When people start to trade convenience for freedom, they don't deserve either.
Welcome in the brave new world, where devices you bought don't belong to you anymore. Amazon remotely deletes bought books, Sony sues hackers that modifying their own PS3s, Microsoft threats to sue everyone who tries to use their Kinec with not approved means, and now Google remotely deletes applications and installs new ones.
Is that the future of computing?
How are they going to explain to the million of Windows users that no application they know will work on ARM Windows? It's the same as with Windows 64 bit and why we didn't saw much of it despite the prices for RAM are very low. I guess with Windows 7 the developers finally released some software for 64 bit. That's what, like 9 to 10 years since AMD came with the amd64 architecture?
Well, at least I can then finally buy some ARM notebooks and put a decent Linux distribution on it.
Ah ok. LOL. But I'm pretty sure the USA have more prison camps around the world.
I did the same as you and I had a nice graph with compared the Ubuntu 10.04 benchmarks with different settings and the benchmarks are all including the Nvidia Geforce Gtx 580.
The site is complicated because the benchmarks are not just generic score, like X is 10 points better then Y, but a detailed benchmark, with different software. The first benchmark have it use if you are a consumer, searching a fast CPU, the latter have use for "power user" who want to know what hardware and system runs the Apache server fast.
I'm sorry that you are not the audience for the openbenchmarks.org site. But the site have a big audience nevertheless.
Are you kidding me?
I can't figure out how to see the results for a given system.
Maybe you overlooked in the middle of the homepage with big blue letters:
Top Searches AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Debian 6.0 FreeBSD Intel Core i5-2500K Intel Core i7 970 Intel Core i7-2820QM Linux 2.6.38- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Radeon HD 4850 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 11.04 Top Hardware AMD Phenom II X4 955 AMD Phenom II X6 1055T ATI Radeon HD 5700 1024MB InnoTek VirtualBox Intel Core 2 Duo Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Intel Core i5-2500K Intel Mobile 4 IGP 256MB MacBook Pro VMware SVGA II innotek VirtualBox v1.2 Top Software Arch Debian 6.0 Debian testing Fedora 14 Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) Linux Mac OS X 10.6.6 Microsoft Windows [ 6.1.7600] SUSE LINUX 11.3 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 11.04
Now, just click what you like and after that you will get a site with the benchmarks. Click a benchmark and you have the comparison. You can even group different benchmarks together and get a comparison.
Also you have: 1. Most Popular Tests 2. Apache Benchmark 3. 7-Zip Compression 4. C-Ray 5. LAME MP3 Encoding 6. OpenArena 1. Most Popular Suites 2. Audio Encoding 3. Timed Code Compilation 4. Chess Test Suite 5. Timed File Compression 6. Disk Test Suite 1. Latest Test Profiles 2. Xonotic 3. X-Plane Image Quality 4. X-Plane 5. x264 6. x11perf
I'm sorry but if there was 35,000 benchmarks in just one week then the site can't be that bad. That's 5000 benchmarks a day.
It's against the spirit of the GPL, isn't it? To take from the community but to put stumbling blocks in the form of that the community can't see the history of changes or to reapply certain patches. Since Oracle is developing on the Linux kernel they are a part of the community (I didn't read about a case were Oracle is making parts of the kernel propriety).
If you want to see who is on the evil site, just swap out the names. For Oracle put "Debian" and for Red Hat put "Canonical". So Canonical is developing patches but they are now making only the complete Kernel as a tar ball available, so Debian can't see the history and reapply some patches anymore. This change appears to be aimed at Debian, Mint, Lubuntu, and like others, repackage Ubuntu's source as the basis for its Linux.
I mean, what are they going to do to you?
I don't know, like say you are a terrorist and a Unlawful combatant, as such you don't have any rights and put you in to Guatemala Bay prison, torture you there and release you after a few months. If he tries to sue, the Obama administration will pressure the courts to not hear the case and to drop the charges. Oh wait, that was the CIA, o.k. never mind.
and I hope the people who truly screwed up the amazing Linux opportunity that was the N900 get shut down in the process.'"
That is not how it works. The people responsible for this mess will blame Linux and tell it's not ready for "prime time" and go with Microsoft's Windows Mobile instead.
What the end user is concerned Linux and Windows behave almost the same. Except maybe for the package manager, but anything else behaves almost the same as in Windows. And of course that you don't install drivers for your devices, you just plug them in and they just work.
You plug your USB drive in, a window pops up with the option to open a file manager. Drag&Drop your files to copy/move. The "start menu"; click on an icon to start the application. Download an application, extract it somewhere and click on the executable to start. You have even a "control manager" or "system manager" (or whatever it is called in Windows).
Please what behaves completely differently from Windows in a modern Linux desktop like Gnome or KDE?
The package manager for installing drivers, software and libraries (if you a developer) and the wide "out-of-the-box" hardware support in Linux are the only differences from Windows.
OMG 5 seconds of naked breasts. This monster who ever posted the video should be stoned to death. What if a child sees it? It will be scared for live and probably became a sexist rapist and a murderer.
What ever is wrong with American people? Why you are so scared of nudity, shouldn't you be so proud living in "the most free country in the world" with the first amendment and so?
Welcome in the ever growing militarist America. First it was WWII, the Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War, War on Terrorism and now the Cyberwar. See also Wikipedia for a more complete list. Ask your self why the budget for the military is continuing to rise year after year and never returns down even to the level at the Cold War. Ask your self why America continuing to have a standing army of no less then 1,4 Million active personnel and another 1,4 Million in reserve.
For further reverence please read The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
Imperialist America here we go again. Stop try to be the police and the "protector of democracy" of the world. How about stop killing innocent people in other countries first, like in Afghanistan and Iraq? How about be accountable for war crimes, ratify the International Criminal Court. How about to follow the Geneva Convention and stop treat captured people as "unlawful combatant" How about to sign and ratify the Kyoto Protocol which are 187 countries adopted but of course not the USA.
MS drive extender and
Well, not anymore do they?
What happens if you lose a disk?
Why, what happens? We are talking about the MS drive extender and with LVM2 you can use such feature with every major Linux distribution since 13 years and that without the risk to loose any data.
If MS only just implemented LVM2 for Windows you would have now a nice space expansion feature which is proven to work.
Raid is not a backup solution anyway so if you care about your data you need to have a backup strategy.
I have used LVM2 now for two years with my various notebooks and netbooks. They had various crashes and power downs but I never loosed one bit of data. My small home server is using LVM2 as well with my 3 USB hard disks, serves videos and music to my home.
With my notebooks and netbooks I can grow or shrink my root or home partition and with my server I can just plug in another USB hard disk and grow my partition. No fuss not complicated at all and works all the time.
All that for free, just download Fedora, Debian or Ubuntu and install it in 10 minutes. If you want, setup a FTP server, apache server or what ever you like. Or you get what you pay for with Windows for 100$ or more.
I don't think a game is the right comparison. A game is designed to be a distraction (from the hard life). But an application should just blend in the work process and don't distract.
The worst kind of distraction are unnecessary animations because the human eyes can perceive animations very good, animations are always staying out and we concentrate more on the animation.
But in the URL bar it's not important that the user is hover over a link. The user known already that he is hovering over a link and he probably have a good idea where the link is going. So why distract him to look up at the URL bar?
Yes, I miss the status bar. Now it's always something changing at the top and it's really distracting and annoying. I think they have even a little animation in the URL bar, which will get more distracting and annoying.
Why it have to be always with animation? It's only distracting and annoying.
I hate slideshare. What ever happened with good old Pdf downloads? But now Pdfs need to be embedded in Web2.0 crap. We ain't on the cloud yet, every PC out there have have a Pdf viewer installed. If they at least would use JavaScript so you don't need Flash for it like Google Maps.
"Download is disabled by the owner". If the owner don't like the Pdf be in public than why the hell are they posting it on a freely accessible website? Does the owner really thinks I'm going to copy it and distribute it as my own work? Does the owner trusts me with nothing? Should I blank my brain after I saw the slides?
If the owner want that I see his stupid slides then he should trust me more and not forbidding me of open my favorite Pdf viewer, print the slides out or to copy his stupid slides on a different device.
He can take his slides and put them where the sun don't shine. Then he can be really sure that nobody is going to copy his work.