I hate those *false* links that redirect to a registration page. Even if it's free, do they imagine anyone is going to fill those long forms for every page they visit.
Fortunately, the bugmenot bookmarklet did the trick.
About the story : so we have *one* situation where a problem happenned between SAP and linux. That kind of conflicts happens all the time in IT. Either you solve it or you change one component.
In both cases, drawing general conclusions on the abandonned product is common but unfair and a sign of lower qualifiquations.
What you wrote would be true if there was no memory leak but that is not the case, the algorithm does *not* work like expected.
If you do not set browser.cache.memory.capacity, the memory used on your system can grow limitless. It has been seen by many users, just search "firefox memory leak" on the web.
Now you can set it to a lower number if you want or need it.
1)Type about:config into the location bar and press enter 2)Right click any line to bring up a sub-menu 3)Choose "new">"integer" 4)paste this into the dialogue that appears: browser.cache.memory.capacity 5)Next click Okay 6)Specify the amount in kb (about 60000 should do) in the next dialogue that appears 7)Restart Firefox and happy surfing.
This comment said it before, the analyst quoted in the article has a long history of bullshit statements. Well in this case, she teamed with an organization who also has a long history of BS statements (techdirt will explain it better than I could ever do).
BS + BS = more BS, too bad the press (and slashdot) just pass the FUD along.
The article:
As Internet use broadens, it is likely that software piracy also will expand, according to a study done by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and research firm IDC.
Currently, about one-third of software used is illegally made copies. But within five years, that number could boom to two-thirds, with the value of pirated software nearing US$200 billion.
Worldwide revenue loss due to software piracy was estimated at $33 billion for 2004.
"These losses have a profound economic impact in countries around the world," said BSA president Robert Holleyman. "Every copy of software used without proper licensing costs tax revenue, jobs and growth opportunities for burgeoning software markets."
Disturbing Numbers
Another key finding in the report focused on piracy rates per country. Piracy decreased in 37 countries, increased in 34 and remained consistent in 16.
In 24 of the countries studied, the piracy rate exceeded 75 percent. Countries with the highest rates were Vietnam, Ukraine, China, Zimbabwe and Indonesia.
Those with the lowest piracy rates were the United States, New Zealand, Austria, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Culture Clash
The BSA anticipates continued spikes in piracy activities due to a continued influx of new users in emerging markets and increased availability of pirated software through P2P networks.
Piracy operating as business-as-usual in some countries is a major factor, said Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio.
"There are some places where they don't really think of it as piracy; they're just buying discounted software," she said. "Companies and the BSA are going to have to address the way that piracy has become the norm in some countries."
Class in Session
The BSA hopes to launch more education programs, policy initiatives and enforcement efforts in an attempt to lessen piracy.
The tactics have been used effectively in some locations. IDC noted that the United Arab Emirates adopted policies for curbing piracy in the 1990s, and now is on the list of low-piracy nations.
But it is likely that piracy still will be a difficult scourge in the years ahead. As IDC points out in the study, piracy is not uniform within a country -- it varies from city to city, and even among age groups within the same city.
1. (near) Instant music. You don't need to wait for a download.
2. Excellent audio quality : no "buffering" wait, until now.
3. You can't find any song, but you can find a lot of artists.
4. You can browse other users music like in good old napster days. Yipee. BUT each user only broadcast one song at a time so you can't listen to them. Unyipee.
seems to have excellent photo quality for a mobile phone. It has pretty much functions from normal digital camera that makes it very usefull.
I have just played with it at a local store. Yes it's nice but the price was 800 euros. That's an insane price for a mobile phone. With as much money, you can buy a very good small digital camera AND a very good mobile phone.
* Number of Linux distributions in the database: 344
* Number of BSD distributions in the database: 9
* Number of discontinued distributions: 42
* Number of distributions on the waiting list: 77
This story reminds me of the day we went to brussels in a renault megane diesel and the motor began to exhaust fume so we stopped and guess what, after turning off the key, the engine continued to function ! After a few minutes, it started to burn oil and that made a large cloud on the road. It finally stopped when there was no oil with a strange sound and the engine was dead.
What kind of Linux user would buy a computer with Windows preinstalled
All users who discovered linux *after* buying a complete computer. I payed m$ twice (3.11 and 95), because at that time, I was just discovering linux and discovering computers at the same time.
In fact, it makes some sense that if you buy, your first computer, you are not going to build it yourself and install linux on it, unless you are close to someone who will help you to do it.
Now, experienced users (older usually) are often busy and even if they can build a computer, they choose to buy a complete system.
And as another comment pointed out, there is the case for portable computers.
Completely disagree about that, I used to find anything on napster even unreleased remixes, live concerts. I once downloaded an old techno song heard in a movie impossible to find anywhere (not sold anymore) and 5 or 6 remixes.
Slashdot Mirror
I hate those *false* links that redirect to a registration page. Even if it's free, do they imagine anyone is going to fill those long forms for every page they visit.
Fortunately, the bugmenot bookmarklet did the trick.
About the story : so we have *one* situation where a problem happenned between SAP and linux. That kind of conflicts happens all the time in IT. Either you solve it or you change one component.
In both cases, drawing general conclusions on the abandonned product is common but unfair and a sign of lower qualifiquations.
What you wrote would be true if there was no memory leak but that is not the case, the algorithm does *not* work like expected.
If you do not set browser.cache.memory.capacity, the memory used on your system can grow limitless. It has been seen by many users, just search "firefox memory leak" on the web.
Now you can set it to a lower number if you want or need it.
read this : http://fusion94.org/archives/2005/07/firefox_memor y.html
1)Type about:config into the location bar and press enter
2)Right click any line to bring up a sub-menu
3)Choose "new">"integer"
4)paste this into the dialogue that appears: browser.cache.memory.capacity
5)Next click Okay
6)Specify the amount in kb (about 60000 should do) in the next dialogue that appears
7)Restart Firefox and happy surfing.
This comment reminds me of the story of the guy falling from a skyscraper. On crossing each floor you could hear him saying "So far so good".
Always remember that as soon as you give your teenager a computer with net access in his room, it will be used to download porn.
BS + BS = more BS, too bad the press (and slashdot) just pass the FUD along.
The article
It was the 4th of february, 1998. It happened.
Seven years later, he dares to come back.
Have you tried it ?
:
I am now and I like it
1. (near) Instant music. You don't need to wait for a download.
2. Excellent audio quality : no "buffering" wait, until now.
3. You can't find any song, but you can find a lot of artists.
4. You can browse other users music like in good old napster days. Yipee. BUT each user only broadcast one song at a time so you can't listen to them. Unyipee.
We'll see if I still like mercora in a few days.
Message from the install :
Some microsoft updates that mercora needs [...] are not installed [...]. Mercora is dowloading and installing the necessary updates [...].
And then "setup_wm.exe" (windows media player) is trying to access the internet.
What is it ? DRM ?
It's not yet on mozilla.org (or I missed it) but you can read on http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1020 843 :
What's New In 1.0
Significant theme improvements for all platforms.
Migration improvements for Outlook 2003, Eudora and Mozilla Suite users.
Fix for a 0.9 regression on Mac OS X when creating folders with non ascii characters.
Saved Search Folder Improvements (i.e. lots of bug fixes)
Message Grouping Improvements (i.e. lots of bug fixes)
Improved RSS support (i.e. lots of bug fixes)
Improved support for Multiple Identities for an account.
Improved Account Central for Windows and Linux
Improvements to Global Inbox, in particular how we manage filters.
Fix problems creating folders with semicolons or # signs in the name
Stability Improvements
POP3 Filters can now filter messages to IMAP folders
RSS Feeds that require http authentication now work in Thunderbird
Fix an issue on Mac OS X where you could not paste text from Microsoft Word into the compose window
Offline UI is now installed by default for Windows (it already was for Linux and Mac OS X)
New quick search bar for address book and mail compose contacts sidebar.
Deleting a saved search folder now prompts you before it gets deleted.
New end user license agreeement.
At time of writing, the site is unreachable so it's time to remember the people at http://mirrordot.org/ who do what /. should have done long ago.
The images are here.
but the US can come up with their own plans for doing so (and do by the way).
come on, who can think that the current us administration will do anything on that matter ? Let's meet in four years and see what has been done.
seems to have excellent photo quality for a mobile phone. It has pretty much functions from normal digital camera that makes it very usefull.
...
I have just played with it at a local store. Yes it's nice but the price was 800 euros. That's an insane price for a mobile phone. With as much money, you can buy a very good small digital camera AND a very good mobile phone.
And if you ever lose it or have it stolen
Yes, instead, the iraqis will have to endure years of killings.
Wow, I thought the blink tag on webpages was dead.
I was wrong : http://webjay.org/about
Why another distribution ? From distrowatch :
DistroWatch database summary
* Number of Linux distributions in the database: 344
* Number of BSD distributions in the database: 9
* Number of discontinued distributions: 42
* Number of distributions on the waiting list: 77
But are axioms equations ? Or some axioms are equations ?
I suppose you are trolling but as your comment is high rated, I'll give some food to thought :
WHY the HELL would you bring the GOVERNMENT into this
it's called democracy.
Do you prefer to live in a world where the rules are established by a democratic government or a world where the strongest dictate their will ?
This story reminds me of the day we went to brussels in a renault megane diesel and the motor began to exhaust fume so we stopped and guess what, after turning off the key, the engine continued to function ! After a few minutes, it started to burn oil and that made a large cloud on the road. It finally stopped when there was no oil with a strange sound and the engine was dead.
http://www.renewabledevices.com/swift.htm
I wonder if it's possible to design silent ones like silent fans for computers cooling exist (not 100% silent, of course).
Maybe the tradoff would be less energy but it could be interesting for home electricity.
I found this with google : http://www.renewabledevices.com/swift.htm/
windows 3.11 on 486 DX 33 4Mo RAM, upgraded to linux slackware 1 with TWM on four floppy disks (in 1993 I think)
windows 95 on P133 32 Mo RAM, upgraded to redhat 4 (in 1995 I think)
What kind of Linux user would buy a computer with Windows preinstalled
All users who discovered linux *after* buying a complete computer. I payed m$ twice (3.11 and 95), because at that time, I was just discovering linux and discovering computers at the same time.
In fact, it makes some sense that if you buy, your first computer, you are not going to build it yourself and install linux on it, unless you are close to someone who will help you to do it.
Now, experienced users (older usually) are often busy and even if they can build a computer, they choose to buy a complete system.
And as another comment pointed out, there is the case for portable computers.
we should have a "voting for deletion" feature in /.
Completely disagree about that, I used to find anything on napster even unreleased remixes, live concerts. I once downloaded an old techno song heard in a movie impossible to find anywhere (not sold anymore) and 5 or 6 remixes.