I think the flamefest going on here over the best browser underscores an important point: there is no clear best choice for a web browser for Linux.
Mozilla? Bloated. Netscape? Bloated and proprietary. Opera or Arachne? Proprietary. Lynx? Nice and fast, open source, but no graphics. Konqeror? Dunno, never tried it. Probably several others I've never even heard of.
But clearly, if there were one good choice, there would be some degree of consensus. We don't see flamewars about the best C compiler for Linux. It's gcc. Period.
Clearly, there is a crying need for a web browser that is GPLed, graphical, small, fast, and robust. There ain't no such animal yet. We need to build one.
...ultimately rendering any technological attempt to produce smaller circuitry quite pointless.
Ah, yes, of course. And we will never get any useful amount of energy from atoms, and space travel is utter bunk, and there's a world market for maybe five computers. And an operating system written by unpaid amateurs could never compete with MS-Windows.
There's a jargon file entry that mentions "a paper from the late 1970s that computed a purported ultimate limit on areal density for ICs that was in fact less than the routine densities of 5 years later."
[ping]...[ping]...[ping] Seaman: Sir! Sonar detected! Captain: Get a fix on it, mister! Seaman: Yessir...it's coming from 10.128.144.6! Captain: Torpedo room! Lock onto ping source and fire at will!
Well, rootprompt got/.ed before I could read any of it, but in the meantime, here's a scenario I thought of a while back, that doesn't seem to have been dealt with much.
OK, some kiddie has cracked your box, played around with files, executables, logs, etc. So you start from scratch: boot off a CD, fdisk the partitions to hell, reinstall. Great. Everything's clean.
Now: what if you have flash BIOS?
At the very least he could zero out your BIOS and make your machine unbootable. If your version of Un*x uses the BIOS for anything but booting, it might be possible to leave a back door, too.
...they had every right to ask for iMacs to be covered.
Of course they did. They also had every right to ask the entire Harvard faculty to drop and give them twenty. Microsoft has every right to ask for our firstborn children in their next EULA. I have every right to ask you to kiss my bum.
The point is, Harvard should not have knuckled under and handed Intel whatever they asked for on an iridium platter. I think we should expect a little more backbone from one of our most prestigious educational institutions. It's not Intel who deserves the most criticism here.
(Come to think of it, whose fault is it really, that Microsoft gets away with those EULAs?)
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I seem to recall that Microsoft owns 20% of SCO. One wonders if this was decided over their objections, or if it's another M$ plot, or what.
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I think the flamefest going on here over the best browser underscores an important point: there is no clear best choice for a web browser for Linux.
Mozilla? Bloated. Netscape? Bloated and proprietary. Opera or Arachne? Proprietary. Lynx? Nice and fast, open source, but no graphics. Konqeror? Dunno, never tried it. Probably several others I've never even heard of.
But clearly, if there were one good choice, there would be some degree of consensus. We don't see flamewars about the best C compiler for Linux. It's gcc. Period.
Clearly, there is a crying need for a web browser that is GPLed, graphical, small, fast, and robust. There ain't no such animal yet. We need to build one.
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Dude...get a clue. This is not Richard M. Stallman of the FSF. This is some lame troll.
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Ah, yes, of course. And we will never get any useful amount of energy from atoms, and space travel is utter bunk, and there's a world market for maybe five computers. And an operating system written by unpaid amateurs could never compete with MS-Windows.
There's a jargon file entry that mentions "a paper from the late 1970s that computed a purported ultimate limit on areal density for ICs that was in fact less than the routine densities of 5 years later."
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Um, that was a joke, referring to the fact that about a dozen people had already mentioned the idea. Independently.
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Ah, well, you see, that particular computer was supposed to be sent overseas...and they couldn't get an export license from the BATF.
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I can see it now...
[ping]...[ping]...[ping]
Seaman: Sir! Sonar detected!
Captain: Get a fix on it, mister!
Seaman: Yessir...it's coming from 10.128.144.6!
Captain: Torpedo room! Lock onto ping source and fire at will!
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...would a cellular phone one mile up cover thousands of cells?
Maybe someone could post something about that. ;-)
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Well, rootprompt got
OK, some kiddie has cracked your box, played around with files, executables, logs, etc. So you start from scratch: boot off a CD, fdisk the partitions to hell, reinstall. Great. Everything's clean.
Now: what if you have flash BIOS?
At the very least he could zero out your BIOS and make your machine unbootable. If your version of Un*x uses the BIOS for anything but booting, it might be possible to leave a back door, too.
Thoughts?
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I don't need the power grid for my PC. I'm powered by Red Hat!
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Of course they did. They also had every right to ask the entire Harvard faculty to drop and give them twenty. Microsoft has every right to ask for our firstborn children in their next EULA. I have every right to ask you to kiss my bum.
The point is, Harvard should not have knuckled under and handed Intel whatever they asked for on an iridium platter. I think we should expect a little more backbone from one of our most prestigious educational institutions. It's not Intel who deserves the most criticism here.
(Come to think of it, whose fault is it really, that Microsoft gets away with those EULAs?)
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Apparently the Intel provided covers trapped heat, forcing the machines to not only be covered, but also powered down.
Not only that, but you couldn't insert or remove a floppy, either...oh, wait...
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