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  1. Re:mozilla on xdarwin on OmniWeb 4.1 Beta Available · · Score: 1

    Java support on IE and/or mozila sucks too.

  2. Re:CSS on OmniWeb 4.1 Beta Available · · Score: 1

    The first reason is can go away if Microsoft would use ATUI instead of the old quickdraw drawing before the next version of Mac OS X comes out.
    I know of many Carbon apps which can use quartz text.

  3. Use on OmniWeb 4.1 Beta Available · · Score: 1

    I use OmniWeb for all my web browsing and it is great. It blocks the ads in /. and others. It even blocks pop-up javascript windows.
    The only problem I have with 4.1 is that there is no way to use a proxy.
    If the javascript does not work, I use IE to see if it is OmniWeb that is causing the problem.

    Java can crash OmniWeb but I always send the backtrace in with a description of what I was doing, mainly http://games.yahoo.com.

  4. Re:This has massive implications on Quartz Extreme Demo Movie · · Score: 1

    What is wrong with Perl?
    File a bug report if there is something wrong: http://bugreport.apple.com.

  5. Re:Criticisms missing... on Xserve Outside the Reality Distortion Field · · Score: 1

    Altivect is not only for floating-point, it includes 8/16/32/64bit integers vectors of size 16/8/4/2 respectively. So it can be used to copy data from a specific spot in memory to any other spot fast.

  6. Re:I'm wondering... on Microsoft Battles Free Software at Pentagon · · Score: 1

    UCB still does not like the fact it BSD has an open source license.
    there was an article on slapdash about science, grants, and public domain.

  7. Re:any lawyers in the house? on Microsoft Battles Free Software at Pentagon · · Score: 1

    Like Microsoft does provide gcc with the POSIX extensions to WinNT/Win2K, see Microsoft was even lying to itself. Micosoft should be fined for the lie they should committed.

  8. Re:I'm wondering... on Microsoft Battles Free Software at Pentagon · · Score: 1

    The Best Ada compiler available is part of gcc now.

  9. Re:And reinstall DUN on AOL Settles Class Action Suit Over Client Software · · Score: 1

    Actually I would say this is a windows problem for being able to replace DUN DLL's.
    On the Mac there is an aol driver that looks like an ethernet card/dail-up(ppp) also there are different drivers for slip.

  10. Re:Quite sad on Using the USPTO Against Itself · · Score: 1

    The DNA sequence cannot be patented but drug targets can be though.

  11. Re:Using the NULL pointer feature in C++ on Standard C++ Moves Beyond Vapor · · Score: 1

    both

  12. Re:No linux kernel compile, sorry on Standard C++ Moves Beyond Vapor · · Score: 1

    Actually the GNAT will be included in gcc 3.1
    read about it on http://gcc.gnu.org

  13. Re:Great. on Standard C++ Moves Beyond Vapor · · Score: 1

    don't use gcc's man page but use its info page, by `info gcc'

  14. Re:what am I missing? on Standard C++ Moves Beyond Vapor · · Score: 1

    It will not be less code bloat, the code size would be the same but the code will compile faster because the compiler would have to go through as much code.

  15. Re:GCC is missing stuff? on Standard C++ Moves Beyond Vapor · · Score: 5, Informative

    gcc is missing export and some other stuff see http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html for more examples of what is missing, scroll down.

  16. older phones on A Cordless Phone's Major Problem - Dealing w/ Batteries? · · Score: 1

    some older phones pre-800MHz are much better than most news dealing with batters they last longer.

  17. Re:This is something BERO BARF. Regugitate. on Interview with Mark Mitchel, GCC's Release Engineer · · Score: 1

    But there was some talk about releasing a 2.95.4 release but that talk fized down now.

  18. Re:Question? on Benchmarking Intel C++ 6.0 to GNU g++ 3.0.4 · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows that the BSD random(3) is better and faster than the ISO rand(3).

  19. Re:Why use -fast-math? on Benchmarking Intel C++ 6.0 to GNU g++ 3.0.4 · · Score: 1

    That is why gcc is changing the option name to -funsafe-math-optimizations.

  20. Re:Please on Benchmarking Intel C++ 6.0 to GNU g++ 3.0.4 · · Score: 1

    One of the bug reports for gcc against the linux kernel was strcpy(string,"a"+0X40000) was being optimized into string[0]="" which is a legal optimization in ISO C(aka ANSI C) with -O2.
    Even Linus got involved but he even says that linux needs to compile with -O2 which is wrong for any program for that to happen. So linux is busted in terms of complicy with the ISO C. Also linux depends on some gcc extensions.

    Also gcc 3.0 start the depeation of strings that wrap over more than one line which was an undocumented extension and made the compiler not compliant. The source code of Linux used this a lot so they need to fix all of those problems before using gcc 3.0 and above.

  21. Re:How can 'open' win against this? on MS Putting the Squeeze on Alternative Audio · · Score: 1

    When you run an office program on Mac OS X there is stupid background app that runs and takes up memory and cpu time, I say it is useless, why don't they just use a shared library and put the code in each app. I think it used for OLE but there mach messages for that.

    Also Office should start using mach messages for OLE instead of just shared memory because mach messages can go between computers, not just between apps.

  22. Re:Why this fixation on Modular Windows? on MS Putting the Squeeze on Alternative Audio · · Score: 1

    I would also open up the API that INTERX uses, and win32.dll uses.

  23. Re:Let's not forget ... on MS Putting the Squeeze on Alternative Audio · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has Windows Media Player out for the Mac, it should have been just called NetPlay and not changed its name

  24. Re:Don't Forget SubLogic! on Microsoft's Sleazy Tactics in the Video Game Industry? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft was selling a version for the Mac until Winblows95 came out.

  25. Re:I wonder... on Microsoft's Overlooked Code Theft · · Score: 1

    Even the earlier stuff was trying to emulate UNIX software.
    There has been some non-emulating projects, emacs.