actually what's keeping slashdot from being a superb news site is the fact that is not really trying to be a superb news site. I know you're new here so I invite you to take a look around, sit back and just observe for a little while. You will come to see that slashdot is a community, a forum for expressing opinions about things that are not always the most late breaking headlines. In fact a lot of the stories are actually headlines from other sites. They are sent in by fellow geeks, in case we hadn't noticed them yet and to see how we might feel about a particular subject. Now after reading your first post, I gave you the benefit of the doubt because of your high uid. But now I feel I must intervene before you embarrass yourself. After today's lesson you might be asking yourself, "Is slashdot really the place for me?" hmmm...
Actually I have a google search in my Opera toolbar. If you haven't tried Opera 6.0, you don't know what your missing. You can add lots of search boxes to the toolbar. Mine has only the google and "find in page", another cool option. You also have the choice of tabbed, mdi or sdi windows.
I finally made the switch around 5 or 6 IE exploit announcements back. Death of the last good browser indeed.
I don't run explorer.exe on my windows box at all. I use an open source 32-bit shell called Litestep. It is infinitely configurable and themeable. There are tons of themes to download, or you can dive right in and edit the rc files yourself. You can make it look like any Linux WM or desktop environment. I love desktop-click popup menus, which is one of the countless modules available. The main litestep.net site is down right now, but checkout Shellfront for info and links on Litestep and a few other replacement shells for windows. If you know Win32 programming, grab the source and dive in, the dev team is in a bit of disarray at the moment.
chavo
I run Mandrake 8.1 and there is an apt rpm for it. You just have to add your favorite mirrors to the sources list. You can add the cooker trees to the list if you want even more bleeding edge stuff. Cooker is Mandrake's development tree. Some things are a pain to update over a modem, but not too bad if you stay current.
Mandrake does have a gaming edition. Mandrake Gaming Edition. It's basically a standard distro with The Sims and TransGaming's Winex, but it could be a step in the right direction for gamers.
When you use the back button it goes back exactly where you were on the previous page, and very quickly. For some reason the other browser fail at this.
Also opera's crash recovery is awesome. It reloads the pages, exactly where you were on the page, with the full history list still intact.
Very cool stuff, everyone should at least try opera if they haven't. It's a very small download.
There are alot of other distros out there. If you don't want cutting edge try Debian. There are alot of people who like to use cutting edge stuff. This is good because this is where the testing comes from. Which is one thing that makes open source so great. Lots of brave beta testers.
I myself stick to mostly stable and update larger things when the distro updates. But I do like to experiment also.
Right now I'm in windows but I also run Mandrake on this machine. I love all the choices out there. I just wish I had more spare time to check them all out.
I think I've had pretty much the same experiences as you have with browsers. But what really stopped me from using opera in the past was MDI. But just like you, I decided to try it again after seeing the security alert. It has the coolest tabbed interface, or you can still use MDI. You can even drag tabs from one window to another.
I haven't had any problems with badly rendered pages. But I've only been using it for two days now. I even checked out the latest version 6 beta for Linux. It loads way faster than any other browser. The interface for the Linux version is a little different, but all the keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures work.
Everyone should try it out. It's not free in any way, but it's worth the download.
Like others have said before, this is a Windows 9X bug. It happens to me on IE under Windows 98 when I have moderator points also.
It's very annoying it usually makes any other app I have running unresponsive and can sometimes crash the system. If I see I have moderator points I'll try to skip the articles with hundreds of posts until I've used up the points.
Slashdot Mirror
actually what's keeping slashdot from being a superb news site is the fact that is not really trying to be a superb news site.
I know you're new here so I invite you to take a look around, sit back and just observe for a little while. You will come to see that slashdot is a community, a forum for expressing opinions about things that are not always the most late breaking headlines. In fact a lot of the stories are actually headlines from other sites. They are sent in by fellow geeks, in case we hadn't noticed them yet and to see how we might feel about a particular subject.
Now after reading your first post, I gave you the benefit of the doubt because of your high uid. But now I feel I must intervene before you embarrass yourself.
After today's lesson you might be asking yourself, "Is slashdot really the place for me?" hmmm...
Check your calendar. emacs is so 1985.
Just type the search terms in the address bar and hit alt+enter. completely configurable of course, but that is the default.
We should test it out for them, to make sure. We can get everyone on slashdot together, then click on a link to Google at the same time.
Speaking for all experts. We've got it all figured out. Nothing is possible, nothing is real.
Actually I have a google search in my Opera toolbar. If you haven't tried Opera 6.0, you don't know what your missing. You can add lots of search boxes to the toolbar. Mine has only the google and "find in page", another cool option. You also have the choice of tabbed, mdi or sdi windows.
I finally made the switch around 5 or 6 IE exploit announcements back. Death of the last good browser indeed.
Or you could just use a microphone.
I don't run explorer.exe on my windows box at all. I use an open source 32-bit shell called Litestep. It is infinitely configurable and themeable. There are tons of themes to download, or you can dive right in and edit the rc files yourself. You can make it look like any Linux WM or desktop environment. I love desktop-click popup menus, which is one of the countless modules available. The main litestep.net site is down right now, but checkout Shellfront for info and links on Litestep and a few other replacement shells for windows. If you know Win32 programming, grab the source and dive in, the dev team is in a bit of disarray at the moment.
chavo
I run Mandrake 8.1 and there is an apt rpm for it. You just have to add your favorite mirrors to the sources list. You can add the cooker trees to the list if you want even more bleeding edge stuff. Cooker is Mandrake's development tree. Some things are a pain to update over a modem, but not too bad if you stay current.
Mandrake does have a gaming edition. Mandrake Gaming Edition. It's basically a standard distro with The Sims and TransGaming's Winex, but it could be a step in the right direction for gamers.
Opera rules. I use it in windows and Linux.
Some other cool things about opera
When you use the back button it goes back exactly where you were on the previous page, and very quickly. For some reason the other browser fail at this.
Also opera's crash recovery is awesome. It reloads the pages, exactly where you were on the page, with the full history list still intact.
Very cool stuff, everyone should at least try opera if they haven't. It's a very small download.
There are alot of other distros out there. If you don't want cutting edge try Debian. There are alot of people who like to use cutting edge stuff. This is good because this is where the testing comes from. Which is one thing that makes open source so great. Lots of brave beta testers. I myself stick to mostly stable and update larger things when the distro updates. But I do like to experiment also. Right now I'm in windows but I also run Mandrake on this machine. I love all the choices out there. I just wish I had more spare time to check them all out.
You have entirely too much time on your hands.
Thank heavans you are not an English major.
Thank heavens you're not a grammar nazi.
I think I've had pretty much the same experiences as you have with browsers. But what really stopped me from using opera in the past was MDI. But just like you, I decided to try it again after seeing the security alert. It has the coolest tabbed interface, or you can still use MDI. You can even drag tabs from one window to another.
I haven't had any problems with badly rendered pages. But I've only been using it for two days now. I even checked out the latest version 6 beta for Linux. It loads way faster than any other browser. The interface for the Linux version is a little different, but all the keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures work.
Everyone should try it out. It's not free in any way, but it's worth the download.
chavo
Like others have said before, this is a Windows 9X bug. It happens to me on IE under Windows 98 when I have moderator points also.
It's very annoying it usually makes any other app I have running unresponsive and can sometimes crash the system. If I see I have moderator points I'll try to skip the articles with hundreds of posts until I've used up the points.
There is a project on mozdev called MultiZilla.It's still alpha and I haven't tried it though.
Keep your head up
chavo