It does take awhile to load the first time. but if you have enough memory (I run with 256 here, but also have mozilla, pronto, several other things running all the time), it loads pretty quickly on successive loads.
I thought the point of earning a degree was to learn how to think and do research? What the hell does knowing how to use some dumb software package have to do with that?
It always amused me in college how business majors actually had *CLASSES* on how to use spreadsheets. Sheesh. We had to use them for everything we did (ok, you could do everything by hand or write a quick FORTRAN program...did I just say that?...but no required class on it.
Computer Programs are just tools. They aren't the thing you are supposed to be getting an education on. It's sad the things colleges offer as courses of study these days.
Yes, and it does a very nice job of it too. No fighting the word processor to make it look the way you want it like you have to with word. The implementation is very clean and easy to use as well.
If all you need to do is read/show, just give them an acrobat file. WHy should you have to read/write to a format that is 1)not documented, and 2)not native? It doesn't make sense to be saving to.doc things that you created. If you don't need to edit, just have them give you acrobat files to read/print, and you can do the same. If you really do need to both edit the docs, well, too bad they are using a closed proprietary inefficient crap format on a word processor that does what it wants rather than what you want, eh?
The cost of the windoze licenses, i think, made his effort worth it. Long term savings, and not having to deal with the administration headache that is windows will be nice for them too.
Re:Q: Why should an IE user switch?
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What difference does launch time make, anyway?
If you browse throughout the day, leave the damned thing open. Your 'issue' then disappears.
Of course, with OS's with good memory management and disk caching, like linux, even if you *DO* close it, the next time you open it, assuming you haven't swapped the memory, it opens nice and quick.
Tab feature enhancement
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It'd be nice to be able to drag a link to an existing tab and that link would then be rendered in that tab's space. I really don't see any ways to open a page in an already existing tab, but think drag-drop of the link would be the best way.
Even better. If you have search engines enabled, just start typing in the URL window, then click "search google for..."
You configure this under Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Internet Search
Also, kill the search button in Edit->Preferences->Navigator
Re:Tabbed Browsing feature
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It is pretty nice.
What I would like to see:
An option to have new targets display on another tab instead of opening in another browser window.
The ability to have any new targets that would normally open a separate window open in a SINGLE tab (ie, first time it happens, a new tab is automatically created. Each consecutive time, that window's data displays in that tab)
So now there's actually a justifiable reason for SSL (not ONE credit card number has EVER been stolen by external network sniffing! On your work LAN, however, that is a different story). So what?
Apop, pgp, ssh, vpns, and ssl were created for this. If you don't want somebody mailsnarfing you, encrypt and authenticate. It's that simple.
...continue to run fine, having saturated their bandwidth long ago...they are turning away customers.
Why don't we just have more small-town ISPs? If I could get the funding (that's something I have absolutely no clue about) I'd even start something. It's a simple business. You just keep the servers up, charge people monthly, and have the cable company take care of the lines (ahhh...there's the problem!)
Seriously, though, I've had cable for close to 4 years, by a small ISP that caters to just this area. I was worried that we would be screwed when comcast bought out our local cable company, but it appears they let the ISP continue business as usual *whew*.
My only gripe is that although the service is reasonably good, when there is a problem, the admins are pretty clueless (microsoft shop, go figure). If I were to do it, I would certainly offer a better software solution than what they do for web-hosting, dns, dhcp, etc.
Re:this is what a palm really needs
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That's not what the original poster was talking about at all.
What he (and I) want is the ability to speak text into the palm. And IBM is certainly the company to make it happen. OS/2 had integrated voicenav long ago.
If you don't have a driver's license, you can get a state ID (DUI folks do this so they can still go drink, go figure). But why should you have to pay for something that would be required?
Mine has cost $49.95/month from day one, and I don't think they are going out of business any time soon (I've had it for going on 4 years now). The only drawback is they force you to have a cable TV subscription as well, so if you don't already watch TV, it's more like $80/month. Still a good deal for 500K/s both directions, and being allowed to run any damned service I want on my servers.
The thing that bothers me, is that you can have only one program associated per file type. Why? WHy not have several, and in the 'open with', those would come right up. Look at OS/2's wps, for example. You could have as many programs associated with a specific type as needed (and HPFS had EA's, so you didn't need to do it based on extension), one would be the default to launch with, the others would just show up on a context menu for the object you were pointing at.
The workplace shell, and all of my apps speaking to each other and the shell itself (ie, drag a color, font, image to a piece of the app, like its menu, and *poof* new look happens) the way they did in that environment.
This is a very nice filer, and it uses the filesystem for everything, as opposed to trying to come up with some weird-assed scheme. For example, applications are simply directories with certain files within them. What could be simpler?
Yeah, and *USB* to load songs. God, I'd be waiting all day. Put a real ethernet or wireless interface in that thing. Wireless would be great, just drive into the garage and download.
Mozilla never runs for me as root, except on the initial install. Weird.
It scrolls through its debugging crap, then just hangs. As my normal user, it runs fine. This is 0.9.4, at the moment. This is with full rights to the X display. I also tried running even X as root, with the same result. Why won't mozilla run as root?
And if you have ever used OS/2 Warp with Netscape (which was speech enabled on the OS/2 platform), you'd see how crummy your gestures are. Try surfing hands free. No mouse required. Speak a link that is on the page, it goes there. No pointy-clicky required.
My default install of Apache on Redhat and Mandrake both have ALL KINDS of unnecessary shit running. Mandrake 7.2 even gave browse rights to/httpd/perl/ (A cgi-bin directory...BIG NO NO!!!) in their default install of their enhanced server (I forget what they call it).
Luckily I was smart enough to go in and disable everything I didn't need, but why was that the default behavior in the first place? If you need mod_perl, or PHP, or ASP, or Server stats, or directory listings...you should know how to enable that stuff on your own. It shouldn't be part of the default config.
Yeah, but you can't do quick/simple things like, i dunno, create a named pipe that you can print to, and it will create a PDF file instead (daemon listening to the named pipe just pipes to ps2pdf). Not a great example, but you get the point.
I use a named pipe for the commands that control my jukebox. Simple. Elegant. Easy to code. Why use complex sockets when you don't really need them? What can be easier than dumping commands to a file and having the listening daemon act accordingly?
Slashdot Mirror
heh.
It does take awhile to load the first time. but if you have enough memory (I run with 256 here, but also have mozilla, pronto, several other things running all the time), it loads pretty quickly on successive loads.
My resume was done in staroffice.
I thought the point of earning a degree was to learn how to think and do research? What the hell does knowing how to use some dumb software package have to do with that?
It always amused me in college how business majors actually had *CLASSES* on how to use spreadsheets. Sheesh. We had to use them for everything we did (ok, you could do everything by hand or write a quick FORTRAN program...did I just say that?...but no required class on it.
Computer Programs are just tools. They aren't the thing you are supposed to be getting an education on. It's sad the things colleges offer as courses of study these days.
Yes, and it does a very nice job of it too. No fighting the word processor to make it look the way you want it like you have to with word. The implementation is very clean and easy to use as well.
If all you need to do is read/show, just give them an acrobat file. WHy should you have to read/write to a format that is 1)not documented, and 2)not native? It doesn't make sense to be saving to .doc things that you created. If you don't need to edit, just have them give you acrobat files to read/print, and you can do the same. If you really do need to both edit the docs, well, too bad they are using a closed proprietary inefficient crap format on a word processor that does what it wants rather than what you want, eh?
The cost of the windoze licenses, i think, made his effort worth it. Long term savings, and not having to deal with the administration headache that is windows will be nice for them too.
What difference does launch time make, anyway?
If you browse throughout the day, leave the damned thing open. Your 'issue' then disappears.
Of course, with OS's with good memory management and disk caching, like linux, even if you *DO* close it, the next time you open it, assuming you haven't swapped the memory, it opens nice and quick.
It'd be nice to be able to drag a link to an existing tab and that link would then be rendered in that tab's space. I really don't see any ways to open a page in an already existing tab, but think drag-drop of the link would be the best way.
Even better. If you have search engines enabled, just start typing in the URL window, then click "search google for..."
You configure this under Edit->Preferences->Navigator->Internet Search
Also, kill the search button in Edit->Preferences->Navigator
What I would like to see:
So now there's actually a justifiable reason for SSL (not ONE credit card number has EVER been stolen by external network sniffing! On your work LAN, however, that is a different story). So what?
Apop, pgp, ssh, vpns, and ssl were created for this. If you don't want somebody mailsnarfing you, encrypt and authenticate. It's that simple.
umm...
You wouldn't have received the phone call from your girlfriend if you hadn't taken your cell phone with you.
...continue to run fine, having saturated their bandwidth long ago...they are turning away customers.
Why don't we just have more small-town ISPs? If I could get the funding (that's something I have absolutely no clue about) I'd even start something. It's a simple business. You just keep the servers up, charge people monthly, and have the cable company take care of the lines (ahhh...there's the problem!)
Seriously, though, I've had cable for close to 4 years, by a small ISP that caters to just this area. I was worried that we would be screwed when comcast bought out our local cable company, but it appears they let the ISP continue business as usual *whew*.
My only gripe is that although the service is reasonably good, when there is a problem, the admins are pretty clueless (microsoft shop, go figure). If I were to do it, I would certainly offer a better software solution than what they do for web-hosting, dns, dhcp, etc.
That's not what the original poster was talking about at all.
What he (and I) want is the ability to speak text into the palm. And IBM is certainly the company to make it happen. OS/2 had integrated voicenav long ago.
If you don't have a driver's license, you can get a state ID (DUI folks do this so they can still go drink, go figure). But why should you have to pay for something that would be required?
Mine has cost $49.95/month from day one, and I don't think they are going out of business any time soon (I've had it for going on 4 years now). The only drawback is they force you to have a cable TV subscription as well, so if you don't already watch TV, it's more like $80/month. Still a good deal for 500K/s both directions, and being allowed to run any damned service I want on my servers.
The thing that bothers me, is that you can have only one program associated per file type. Why? WHy not have several, and in the 'open with', those would come right up. Look at OS/2's wps, for example. You could have as many programs associated with a specific type as needed (and HPFS had EA's, so you didn't need to do it based on extension), one would be the default to launch with, the others would just show up on a context menu for the object you were pointing at.
The workplace shell, and all of my apps speaking to each other and the shell itself (ie, drag a color, font, image to a piece of the app, like its menu, and *poof* new look happens) the way they did in that environment.
Try ROX-Filer:
http://rox.sourceforge.net/
and some apps I've written to work with it:
http://freefall.homeip.net/code/
This is a very nice filer, and it uses the filesystem for everything, as opposed to trying to come up with some weird-assed scheme. For example, applications are simply directories with certain files within them. What could be simpler?
Light, fast, elegant, and it makes sense.
Yeah, and *USB* to load songs. God, I'd be waiting all day. Put a real ethernet or wireless interface in that thing. Wireless would be great, just drive into the garage and download.
Mozilla never runs for me as root, except on the initial install. Weird.
It scrolls through its debugging crap, then just hangs. As my normal user, it runs fine. This is 0.9.4, at the moment. This is with full rights to the X display. I also tried running even X as root, with the same result. Why won't mozilla run as root?
Anybody know wazzupwiddat???
And if you have ever used OS/2 Warp with Netscape (which was speech enabled on the OS/2 platform), you'd see how crummy your gestures are. Try surfing hands free. No mouse required. Speak a link that is on the page, it goes there. No pointy-clicky required.
Maybe $150. $600? no way. I paid less than that for my main box.
Ummm...
/httpd/perl/ (A cgi-bin directory...BIG NO NO!!!) in their default install of their enhanced server (I forget what they call it).
My default install of Apache on Redhat and Mandrake both have ALL KINDS of unnecessary shit running. Mandrake 7.2 even gave browse rights to
Luckily I was smart enough to go in and disable everything I didn't need, but why was that the default behavior in the first place? If you need mod_perl, or PHP, or ASP, or Server stats, or directory listings...you should know how to enable that stuff on your own. It shouldn't be part of the default config.
I use a named pipe for the commands that control my jukebox. Simple. Elegant. Easy to code. Why use complex sockets when you don't really need them? What can be easier than dumping commands to a file and having the listening daemon act accordingly?
Because it's a dumb idea to begin with, and there are better ways to accomplish the same thing?