is that hardware is now so cheap. Companies who use w2k for DHCP/DNS functions, where a smaller machine can do the job with linux are quite foolish though.
Also, remote administration on a windows box is still a major hassle, with many products *cough* webtrends *cough* demanding that they run on the console, even though they are scheduled jobs by nature. You are forced to use VNC to remotely administer these pieces of crap. Not that TS is much better. For GUI remote admin, X11 is still far beyond anything windows has to offer.
Win2k itself is pretty decent (except for the hardware requirements). The problem is the way developers still write their apps as if they are for a single-user system with no concept of security. And, as shown above, they assume you like to walk out to your datacenter and actually sit at a machine to administer it. Dumb.
That said, I still prefer linux solutions for most tasks. Hell, with the mod_ldap module we can even authenticate users on apache using active directory now. No more need for IIS!
Actually, if you look on mozdev's theme site, you will see that there are themes that do support this. Pinball is one of them. I think native GTK only happens with classic, though?
Same here. I use a toshiba libretto quite frequently (233 MHz, 64MB of ram), and decided to try phoenix on it. There was no noticeable speed advantage, and you lose all of the stuff that makes mozilla great. If it really were faster and lighter on resources, it would be a good thing, but I fail to see it.
Yeah, but '1' is a base-10 number. I always wonder about why all base-n is represented from base-10, other than the fact that we have 10 toes and 10 fingers...so why not base-20 as our standard through evolution? Hrm.
People used to get called lazy because they didn't want to leave the couch to change the channel...
What do you call a person who doesn't want to have to *look* at the remote?
So, what do you think of gear shifts in cars? Gas/brake/clutch pedals? Steering wheel? Turn signal? Radio knobs? Are you saying that I should have to look at them to use them, when my attention is focused on the road?
Why, then, do you think that an interface that distracts me from the tv is good?
Just curious. (I do own the omniremote software for my Clie, however still use the regular remotes for simple channel flipping/etc for the tactile feedback).
Just use spamassassin at home. My annoying cousin gets sent to the 'likely spam' folder quite frequently. Anything higher than 12 hits, however is/dev/null'd
Bad analogy. When a mechanic fixes somebody else's car, it doesn't typically break mine (filtering ports 80/25/22, for example).
Likewise, most people have locks on their doors and windows. They don't leave their door open with a sign that says 'free stuff inside!' like people are doing by connecting their computers to the Internet without properly securing them.
No, ISPs should NOT be blocking ANY ports. I pay them for a connection. Perhaps email, news, etc. Securing my machine is my responsibility. If there is a machine on their net causing a problem, then yes, they should kill THAT machine's connection. Filtering anything is not the right thing for them to be doing.
IMNSHO, anybody who is using font tags in their HTML is wrong.
A browser is for displaying information in an efficient way. It is not for page layout. You want a nicely-printed book, paper, etc, use a document processor. You want to look up information or view pr0n easily, use a web browser.
Well, I don't know how to do this in windoze (I believe it is possible, though), but if your secretary were using a *nix box, you could just create a named pipe that she would print to, the back end being ps2pdf piped to lpr.
End users shouldn't HAVE to be system administrators. Sysadmins should be able to give stuff like the above to their users so they can be *gasp* productive.
Sounds like you should just write a client then. DHTML misses the whole point of using a web interface in the first place -- all clients being able to use the web. None of my pages depend on DHTML, but they may use it here and there, but it is never a requirement just to use the fscking site. It really pisses me off that places like the Pennsylvania government, of all entities, rely on client-side processing or don't work at all.
How do you explain 60+fps in quake3 on my Athlon at home then? KDE/Gnome == bloat. Windowmaker, otoh, is very snappy. Need drag/drop filemanager? Try out Rox-Filer. There is no reason for crap like nautilus to even exist. It's bloated useless crap.
Why is it that we get ?'s on the main page, but when you read the article, stuff displays properly on that page? Please either reject people who insist on submitting with this crap, or fix it consistently throughout slashdot.
If it is easy to 'steal' commission by replacing yourself as the affiliate, there seems to be an authentication issue in the way the affiliate program works in the first place, no?
While sad that it takes something like this, and even sadder that someone would exploit it, it will force a better system into existence.
Mandrake is snappy on my 64MB libretto (P233). The thing is, you just have to customize a bit. Remove all the cruft, and use a lighter window manager (I use windowmaker). I do this no matter what distro I use anyway. That's the whole point of linux...being able to run what you want, only what you want, and how you want to run it. Right?
Another thing I did was to remove many of the scripts in/etc/profile.d along with disabling medusa from running every time X starts. The scripts in profile.d by default run jobs that index all kinds of stuff that I really don't need indexed.
The only thing I haven't figured out is what causes modprobe to be called on the first console login/logoff. Not much of an issue, as I never really log off, but put the system into hibernation mode.
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Yeah, and then there's that other dead OS, OS/2...Oh, wait
Also, remote administration on a windows box is still a major hassle, with many products *cough* webtrends *cough* demanding that they run on the console, even though they are scheduled jobs by nature. You are forced to use VNC to remotely administer these pieces of crap. Not that TS is much better. For GUI remote admin, X11 is still far beyond anything windows has to offer.
Win2k itself is pretty decent (except for the hardware requirements). The problem is the way developers still write their apps as if they are for a single-user system with no concept of security. And, as shown above, they assume you like to walk out to your datacenter and actually sit at a machine to administer it. Dumb.
That said, I still prefer linux solutions for most tasks. Hell, with the mod_ldap module we can even authenticate users on apache using active directory now. No more need for IIS!
Classic, afaik, is still the only theme that uses native GTK though, or has that changed?
Actually, if you look on mozdev's theme site, you will see that there are themes that do support this. Pinball is one of them. I think native GTK only happens with classic, though?
Same here. I use a toshiba libretto quite frequently (233 MHz, 64MB of ram), and decided to try phoenix on it. There was no noticeable speed advantage, and you lose all of the stuff that makes mozilla great. If it really were faster and lighter on resources, it would be a good thing, but I fail to see it.
wouldn't it be a lot more practical to just dump it to text???
Yeah, but '1' is a base-10 number. I always wonder about why all base-n is represented from base-10, other than the fact that we have 10 toes and 10 fingers...so why not base-20 as our standard through evolution? Hrm.
So, what do you think of gear shifts in cars? Gas/brake/clutch pedals? Steering wheel? Turn signal? Radio knobs? Are you saying that I should have to look at them to use them, when my attention is focused on the road?
Why, then, do you think that an interface that distracts me from the tv is good?
Just curious. (I do own the omniremote software for my Clie, however still use the regular remotes for simple channel flipping/etc for the tactile feedback).
Just use spamassassin at home. My annoying cousin gets sent to the 'likely spam' folder quite frequently. Anything higher than 12 hits, however is /dev/null'd
Likewise, most people have locks on their doors and windows. They don't leave their door open with a sign that says 'free stuff inside!' like people are doing by connecting their computers to the Internet without properly securing them.
No, ISPs should NOT be blocking ANY ports. I pay them for a connection. Perhaps email, news, etc. Securing my machine is my responsibility. If there is a machine on their net causing a problem, then yes, they should kill THAT machine's connection. Filtering anything is not the right thing for them to be doing.
A browser is for displaying information in an efficient way. It is not for page layout. You want a nicely-printed book, paper, etc, use a document processor. You want to look up information or view pr0n easily, use a web browser.
oops. s/piped to lpr//
End users shouldn't HAVE to be system administrators. Sysadmins should be able to give stuff like the above to their users so they can be *gasp* productive.
So, basically it turns all actors into canadians.
"What's wrong with their heads?? It's ok, their canadian." (or something like that :)
Sounds like you should just write a client then. DHTML misses the whole point of using a web interface in the first place -- all clients being able to use the web. None of my pages depend on DHTML, but they may use it here and there, but it is never a requirement just to use the fscking site. It really pisses me off that places like the Pennsylvania government, of all entities, rely on client-side processing or don't work at all.
http://rox.sourceforge.net
if on linux, make sure your jre is a symlink, not a copy. This used to get me when copying my plugins from old moz version to new.
How do you explain 60+fps in quake3 on my Athlon at home then? KDE/Gnome == bloat. Windowmaker, otoh, is very snappy. Need drag/drop filemanager? Try out Rox-Filer. There is no reason for crap like nautilus to even exist. It's bloated useless crap.
Moving target? Why not just use autoconf and automake? ./configure && make && make install has worked on every linux system I've seen.
Why is it that we get ?'s on the main page, but when you read the article, stuff displays properly on that page? Please either reject people who insist on submitting with this crap, or fix it consistently throughout slashdot.
While sad that it takes something like this, and even sadder that someone would exploit it, it will force a better system into existence.
What's wrong with 'xset m speed threshold?'
Another thing I did was to remove many of the scripts in /etc/profile.d along with disabling medusa from running every time X starts. The scripts in profile.d by default run jobs that index all kinds of stuff that I really don't need indexed.
The only thing I haven't figured out is what causes modprobe to be called on the first console login/logoff. Not much of an issue, as I never really log off, but put the system into hibernation mode.
Here's my process list:
Which is exactly the reason it should not be allowed.