When I began the switch from windows to alternate operating systems over two years ago, I used the 'desktop metaphor' with Gnome. As Gnome grew, I upgraded. I was so pleased with the stability of new operating systems, and all the features of different window managers, that I was satisfied with the taskbar/start-menu clones.
However, with the first release of Nautilus (which looks cool), Gnome was unable to perform to my expectations on my current hardware. So I began looking for alternatives and decided to use WindowMaker, an old favorite of my friends.
I have no desktop icons, no taskbars, no start-menu. The clock, cpu-monitor, and xterm launcher are the only icons 'on top'. The 'main' menu is accessable everywhere with a right-click or a function key. It's not burdended with icons and remains fully resident in memory for instant access.
My pII 233 with 512mb has never felt speedier! I'm able to get more work done due to almost no screen real estate loss. When I see people 'minimizing' several windows to hunt for icons on their slow desktops, then restoring them individually, I cringe. The loss of the desktop to me was like discovering ALT+TAB in windows (look mom, no slow mouse!). Good riddance to the desktop.
everyone knows netscrape 4.x that still comes with most distributions sucks. if your box isn't fast, use konqueror or galeon or opera. if you have a new machine, try mozilla. I *love* galeon (with junkbuster).. it's fast on my 233, I can customize search bars which I often use, and fonts scale beautifully. I agree that fonts are still a big problem in linux (especially in X), but even using abiword, things are getting better. Slight modification to some configs and you can even use windows TTFs.
Look at the comments from this poll. Particularly note this comment.
my favorite part:
The accepted pronunciation of the initial G of "giga-" was
once soft,/ji'ga/ (like "gigantic"), but now the hard
pronunciation,/gi'ga/, is probably more common.
hmm.. comment hall of fame (or flame) might be a good idea. the option to include a comment should probably be up to the moderators, but it would still be pretty cool.
QUESTION: Is there a way that shareholders can get more information about [what effort is there to ensure that Microsoft is complying with its own business practice standards, and compliance policies]?
MR. BALLMER: We don't have a published document. But, I feel very good about where we are, there are no violations, none known to any of the executive management team, and I feel like we're in very good touch.
Microsoft has grown so large, even it's shareholders want to know if there are checks and balances within the company. Anyone have information on what other companies do for compliance of their own standards?
why is mozilla engine so slow?
on
Netscape 6.2
·
· Score: 1, Troll
Netscape 6.x, Galeon, Mozilla, etc. use the mozilla rendering engine. Is it because it's parsing poor html? If more people used the validator, would it be faster?
You should never look at the -rebate price because you'd should never get the shitty service offered from rebates. MSN for 3 years at $22/mo is outrageous. Shit, next year you might get free wireless from your cool neighbor across the street.
besides, the listed box has no nic and ms software bundled...
A major decision of theirs was to use SCSI for hard disks. They claimed that bus bandwidth was large factor in overall system speed -- so they scrapped ATA for higher throughput and fewer IRQ conflics.
I realize the SCSI disks, especially the close to "SCSI 3" mentioned in the article, would decrease disk latency, but is it really that much different than 7200 or even 10000 rpm ATA100/ATA133 drives? An unless you have onboard SCSI, you have to go through the already busy PCI bus. As far as I'm concerned, it's not worth the price difference.
The first chart shows an interesting correlation between IIS and Apache.
First look above may99, apache goes up, and IIS goes down. Right after that, apache slightly drops while IIS slightly peaks.
The same thing happens right above the J in july00 and halfway between july00 and aug01 as well as right above the U in aug01.
Offtopic, but still amusingly interesting. It almost seems as if few new webservers are being added in the results -- possibly companies shifting back and forth. (since we know that Apache also runs on windows and IIS also runs on HPUX and other unicies.)
IIS also runs on HPUX. I'm too lazy to find the links at microsoft or HP, but for an example, see:
www.uidaho.edu. It's sad, really. The only reason UI switched from apache was for frontpage extentions.
sorry, but who is honestly trying to _sell_ a browser plugin? especially for mozilla? ever since netscape, ie, and countless others have been 'free' to use, selling software components for the browser have failed. I *suppose* people bought RealPlayer platinum or whatever, but my University didn't and I'm guessing most people didn't and probably never will.
now for giving away proprietary plugins that your company does not want to open, I agree, the sample code should be a BSD-style license. But in the future, I really don't see proprietary third-party products being used. For example, people will use windows media because it's shipped with the os, so they'll buy the software to encode in winmedia. Real will be less used and supported so fewer will want to purchase it -- especially if there are open source alternatives.
what! Battlebots allow all societies to wage war and proclaim violence on one another. While the bots are being destroyed, the development teams are innovating and creating. It's a win-win situation for everyone involved -- the spectators even get to see cool shit and enough violence to keep them happy.
I have a palm IIIc -- the color model with rechargeable battery. It has lasted for more than 3+ weeks with normal use (probably more, but my "normal use" may be higher than most -- I play a lot of games). When I'm playing full-motion games like SimCity and others, batter life will still last for a week+.
I even used it for a week, then left the screen on accidentally (application failure) for 14 hours. I still had a few hours left for games in the airport.
I turn my contrast all the way down, and I would like to see an even lower contrast mode for using in dark rooms or at night.
The point: battery life for color is extremely long if you're somewhat conservative and have a rechargeable battery.
..never use SSN (or even SSN+name+etc) as the primary key. Use a unique identifier like a sequence. My DB prof always used the example of George Foreman. He told use that George named all five of his children "George Foreman". He also told us that there were several instances of duplicate SSNs and commonly saw problems with large databases. He used to teach DB design for Oracle.
I agree that most consumers want light, portable laptops, but most businesses would prefer durable portables so there's less future cost of repair and replacement.
I used to work in the IS dept. of a small/medium-sized company. Field engineers and salespeople would bring their laptops back from africa and othe places in the world with sand inside them, and broken corners, etc.
A business about to spend $1,800 on each laptop for 20 field engineers would gladly spend $2,000 each if the machines would last longer. When a portable breaks in another country, it's time-consuming and expensive to have it repaired.
When I was in the dorms..
on
Dorm Storm?
·
· Score: 1
my school would give out stacks of forms at the beginning of the semester. It had a list of steps for getting the MAC address and other info. The students would then turn these in and some sorry students employees would sort them based on building/hall/room/etc. Then every few days people would go to the hub/switch closets and patch people in; then do all the config via the web (my university has an in-house web-based NMS).
I don't know if it's the best way to do it, but it worked and depending on the day the student's form was delivered, they would know exactly how many days until they were connected. Keep in mind this was a simple wire-only IP connection -- the users bold enough to try Novell would then visit a website and download, install, and setup the client. Troubleshooting was a pain in the ass, but most dorms had a few students willing to help out -- I helped my hall since it was that much faster to better gaming and file sharing.;)
I thought it was a cool sig as well and played around with it for a bit. It appears that h36 is the optimal number, instead of h38 -- has to do with the length (see camel book).
fortunately, it's just executing a print statment, however, you could easily replace "print" with "system" and your encoded command.
I agree. ZModem worked fine on the 1200bps modems (was never fortunate enough to have a 300;)
Most people in windows use CRT for telnet (or secureCRT for ssh). The easiest way to transfer files is still Zmodem over an ssh/telnet connection (no extra protocol or path-typing as with scp or ftp).
I'm glad at least someone writes here, because just news stories get old.
I also read Open magazine which often features Mr. Katz. Unfortunately, I feel Mr. Katz should read more often that he writes -- it would make him a better writer. I've been reading slashdot for almost 2 years and I must say that Mr. Katz has improved; but for an audience as large as slashdot, he should rewrite each post at least once to make it more concise.
Slashdot Mirror
However, with the first release of Nautilus (which looks cool), Gnome was unable to perform to my expectations on my current hardware. So I began looking for alternatives and decided to use WindowMaker, an old favorite of my friends.
I have no desktop icons, no taskbars, no start-menu. The clock, cpu-monitor, and xterm launcher are the only icons 'on top'. The 'main' menu is accessable everywhere with a right-click or a function key. It's not burdended with icons and remains fully resident in memory for instant access.
My pII 233 with 512mb has never felt speedier! I'm able to get more work done due to almost no screen real estate loss. When I see people 'minimizing' several windows to hunt for icons on their slow desktops, then restoring them individually, I cringe. The loss of the desktop to me was like discovering ALT+TAB in windows (look mom, no slow mouse!). Good riddance to the desktop.
The problem is the bad formatting. If more time was spent on it, it would be readable and thus funny.
everyone knows netscrape 4.x that still comes with most distributions sucks. if your box isn't fast, use konqueror or galeon or opera. if you have a new machine, try mozilla. I *love* galeon (with junkbuster).. it's fast on my 233, I can customize search bars which I often use, and fonts scale beautifully. I agree that fonts are still a big problem in linux (especially in X), but even using abiword, things are getting better. Slight modification to some configs and you can even use windows TTFs.
my favorite part:
hmm.. comment hall of fame (or flame) might be a good idea. the option to include a comment should probably be up to the moderators, but it would still be pretty cool.
Netscape 6.x, Galeon, Mozilla, etc. use the mozilla rendering engine. Is it because it's parsing poor html? If more people used the validator, would it be faster?
is that this will be a sweet merge between linux an BeOS. The more mergers and collaboration between software developers, the better.
besides, the listed box has no nic and ms software bundled...
I realize the SCSI disks, especially the close to "SCSI 3" mentioned in the article, would decrease disk latency, but is it really that much different than 7200 or even 10000 rpm ATA100/ATA133 drives? An unless you have onboard SCSI, you have to go through the already busy PCI bus. As far as I'm concerned, it's not worth the price difference.
First look above may99, apache goes up, and IIS goes down. Right after that, apache slightly drops while IIS slightly peaks.
The same thing happens right above the J in july00 and halfway between july00 and aug01 as well as right above the U in aug01.
Offtopic, but still amusingly interesting. It almost seems as if few new webservers are being added in the results -- possibly companies shifting back and forth. (since we know that Apache also runs on windows and IIS also runs on HPUX and other unicies.)
IIS also runs on HPUX. I'm too lazy to find the links at microsoft or HP, but for an example, see: www.uidaho.edu. It's sad, really. The only reason UI switched from apache was for frontpage extentions.
sorry, but who is honestly trying to _sell_ a browser plugin? especially for mozilla? ever since netscape, ie, and countless others have been 'free' to use, selling software components for the browser have failed. I *suppose* people bought RealPlayer platinum or whatever, but my University didn't and I'm guessing most people didn't and probably never will.
now for giving away proprietary plugins that your company does not want to open, I agree, the sample code should be a BSD-style license. But in the future, I really don't see proprietary third-party products being used. For example, people will use windows media because it's shipped with the os, so they'll buy the software to encode in winmedia. Real will be less used and supported so fewer will want to purchase it -- especially if there are open source alternatives.
what! Battlebots allow all societies to wage war and proclaim violence on one another. While the bots are being destroyed, the development teams are innovating and creating. It's a win-win situation for everyone involved -- the spectators even get to see cool shit and enough violence to keep them happy.
I even used it for a week, then left the screen on accidentally (application failure) for 14 hours. I still had a few hours left for games in the airport.
I turn my contrast all the way down, and I would like to see an even lower contrast mode for using in dark rooms or at night.
The point: battery life for color is extremely long if you're somewhat conservative and have a rechargeable battery.
..never use SSN (or even SSN+name+etc) as the primary key. Use a unique identifier like a sequence. My DB prof always used the example of George Foreman. He told use that George named all five of his children "George Foreman". He also told us that there were several instances of duplicate SSNs and commonly saw problems with large databases. He used to teach DB design for Oracle.
I used to work in the IS dept. of a small/medium-sized company. Field engineers and salespeople would bring their laptops back from africa and othe places in the world with sand inside them, and broken corners, etc.
A business about to spend $1,800 on each laptop for 20 field engineers would gladly spend $2,000 each if the machines would last longer. When a portable breaks in another country, it's time-consuming and expensive to have it repaired.
I don't know if it's the best way to do it, but it worked and depending on the day the student's form was delivered, they would know exactly how many days until they were connected. Keep in mind this was a simple wire-only IP connection -- the users bold enough to try Novell would then visit a website and download, install, and setup the client. Troubleshooting was a pain in the ass, but most dorms had a few students willing to help out -- I helped my hall since it was that much faster to better gaming and file sharing. ;)
Looks like the counter site couldn't handle the traffic.
whoot!
that makes total sense considering other forms of ice seem to be much more common in our solar system.
fortunately, it's just executing a print statment, however, you could easily replace "print" with "system" and your encoded command.
Most people in windows use CRT for telnet (or secureCRT for ssh). The easiest way to transfer files is still Zmodem over an ssh/telnet connection (no extra protocol or path-typing as with scp or ftp).
ZModem still rules.
I also read Open magazine which often features Mr. Katz. Unfortunately, I feel Mr. Katz should read more often that he writes -- it would make him a better writer. I've been reading slashdot for almost 2 years and I must say that Mr. Katz has improved; but for an audience as large as slashdot, he should rewrite each post at least once to make it more concise.
and for the classic image, go to geoshitties: MS's new OS