Basically, it loads Mozilla into memory and never leaves. When you click the Moz icon, the window pops up instantly. Downside of this? You have a browser running 100% of the time. It requires memory, but if you have 640MB memory (I love cheap SDRAM!) it's not much of a problem.
Crash or just stop loading? I have hade several cases where Mozilla has just showed the spash screen and then stopped. However, when killing an extra Outlook process, it loaded just fine. Do you have double processes of some app where that is not what you want?
If that's new and pretty, I don't want to even consider looking at old and ugly interfaces. Who designed the Motif widget set anyway? Must have been Stevie Wonder.
So, instead of Ctrl-C Ctrl-V the wanted search phrase in a new browser window with Google, you click a purple line that Ctrl-C Ctrl-V the wanted search phrase in a new browser window with Google? Oooh, that sounds very useful. About as useful as a blow in the head.
It's an open source product. How the hell can it be cancelled? Besides, Mozilla *is* better than IE, especially when you compare the startup time under Linux (a doubleclick versus reboot and installation of Windows).
Yes, I know it's only a C compiler, but you'd be surprised how coding in the Win32API instead of MFC can speed up and un-bloat your code.
Not to mention that development takes 10x the time compared to using a real object-oriented library like VCL or Qt instead of retard-oriented like MFC. Have you ever tried to maintain an application written in MFC or pure Win32-API? It's like having a PGP-encrypted "Hello World" and no key: you want to start over and use something human-friendly.
In the computers of today, we don't care about a few clock cycles lost. We can afford to use things like C, C++ and Java instead of pure Assembler. The small performance hit is immediately regained when trying to fix bugs or adding functions, since the programmer can do it very fast and with ease.
Our company is located in Sweden, but we only use english software for several reasons (one is shoddy translations). Therefore, we buy US English versions of all software - including Windows 2000. Does this mean that they must deliver a GPS kit with every license, and check in which country you are located?
If this feature will ever be implemented - make it extremely optional. You can't beleive how annoying it is getting tax tips that don't apply at all here in Sweden.
Eww, that's one ugly phone, most Nokias around here are much nicer. I prefer the new from Ericsson with GPRS, Bluetooth and all the other stuffs you might start using next year. Or is this model only available in Sweden yet?
You are just too correct. Gimp is a very good application, but the GUI sucks. It seems like the designers forgot about 'User' in GUI. Have you seen the Win32 port? It has the same features and (unfortunately) the same non-native controllers, thanks to using GTK. I know, there are no native controllers for X, but isn't it about time that somebody fixed that?
The one thing that annoys me most is the lack of uniform look and feel among applications. All the different toolkits and incompatible desktop environments are a product of this. There is no way that you can say "give me a button" or "add an alias/shadow/shortcut/link to this application" and make it work as you wanted. You can't specify that all applications should behave the Gnome way in your user account, or the KDE way for another user.
X is built for remote displaying: run the apps on one computer, see the results on another. This is a smart feature, but again solved in a bad way. Every pixel changed is transmitted, instead of high-level commands like "draw button with text 'blah' and dimensions 80, 35 at 3, 3".
If you want to do something for the open source community right now, the last thing you would want to do is write another OS. Linux, and all other open source OS:es, lacks a good graphical user environment. Notice "good", which rules out X immediately. A completely new, OOUI environment with standard libs for widgets would help out incredibly much. It would remove most of the arcane design choices that were taken with X.
Remember? The phrase "release early, release often" is very often linked open source software. Since when is it bad to release bug fixes, performace enhancements and new functions two times a month?
So if I ship a Linux without vi, ls, cp and X, but includes CDE, it's a UNIX?
Who gives a fuck about this, anyway? MacOS X might not technically be a UNIX, but it's still a damn good operating system. Isn't it time for the Linux open source crowd to stop developing applications for X, and create a worthy replacement without the moronic solutions?
I'm a programmer living in Sweden. According to my contract, I work 40 hours a week at any hour that I prefer, and receive 5 weeks payed vacation. Overtime is not mandatory, but will give you more money. That, and I get to spend some time every year for further education. This is simply great: I'm allowed to start working when I'm awake and ready to start coding. My employer loves it too, since it makes me very much more effective.
I do. Two computers at home and one at work runs Slackware 7.1 (patched, of course). The reason it simple: you have full control over your system, and can remove anything you don't like. A file server here doesn't even contain the ls, rm, rmdir etc commands. It serves files, and does it very well. Runs 24/7 without attendance other than installing security patches, and only if it affects the setup in my machines.
Tried Debian, didn't like it. Not sure why. A friend prefers it though, but everyone is free to choose their distro.
OS/2 is/was actually very user friendly. The object oriented user interface was incredibly powerful for power users, and easy to learn for ordinary users. The first time you started OS/2, you got a nice tutoriel guiding you through files, folders, properties, drag-and-drop, object menus and all the other stuff. None of this "click Start to begin" crap.
Implementing a full IP stack for my keyboard sounds stupid. The whole point of Bluetooth is that devices that work on battery should be able to communicate without wires. Having a wireless mouse and keyboard is just great, and I don't think a 802.11 solution could continue to run for months using simple AA batteries.
The IP address is plain stupid when you consider the benefits you get from the piconet technology. Imagine that you sit down on a train. Pick up your GSM phone, which now is connected to the trains piconet, and tell it to wake you up when you are five kilometers from your end station. The train will compensate for any delays and tell you when you are almost there. Try doing the auto-piconet method with a solid IP address.
Since you seem to know a few things about this programmable filename completion thing... Is it possible for the shell to work around the brain-dead file naming rules of Unix, so that if I type 'cat r' it will fill with README, and not complain about no file with first letter 'r' is found? This single feature is incredibly useful for people who just wants to work instead of wrestling with the OS.
The system will probably not check your speed constantly and shut down your engine if you are 1km/h over speed limit. Say you get a warning signal for 15 seconds before the engine revs down, and that you will gain full control again when you have reached the speed limit.
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Basically, it loads Mozilla into memory and never leaves. When you click the Moz icon, the window pops up instantly. Downside of this? You have a browser running 100% of the time. It requires memory, but if you have 640MB memory (I love cheap SDRAM!) it's not much of a problem.
Crash or just stop loading? I have hade several cases where Mozilla has just showed the spash screen and then stopped. However, when killing an extra Outlook process, it loaded just fine. Do you have double processes of some app where that is not what you want?
it's got a pretty new X interface
If that's new and pretty, I don't want to even consider looking at old and ugly interfaces. Who designed the Motif widget set anyway? Must have been Stevie Wonder.
So, instead of Ctrl-C Ctrl-V the wanted search phrase in a new browser window with Google, you click a purple line that Ctrl-C Ctrl-V the wanted search phrase in a new browser window with Google? Oooh, that sounds very useful. About as useful as a blow in the head.
It's an open source product. How the hell can it be cancelled? Besides, Mozilla *is* better than IE, especially when you compare the startup time under Linux (a doubleclick versus reboot and installation of Windows).
Yep, AudioGalaxy sure rocks. The featured artists section is good, and has introduced me to a few bands I had never heard of.
Yes, I know it's only a C compiler, but you'd be surprised how coding in the Win32API instead of MFC can speed up and un-bloat your code.
Not to mention that development takes 10x the time compared to using a real object-oriented library like VCL or Qt instead of retard-oriented like MFC. Have you ever tried to maintain an application written in MFC or pure Win32-API? It's like having a PGP-encrypted "Hello World" and no key: you want to start over and use something human-friendly. In the computers of today, we don't care about a few clock cycles lost. We can afford to use things like C, C++ and Java instead of pure Assembler. The small performance hit is immediately regained when trying to fix bugs or adding functions, since the programmer can do it very fast and with ease.
Our company is located in Sweden, but we only use english software for several reasons (one is shoddy translations). Therefore, we buy US English versions of all software - including Windows 2000. Does this mean that they must deliver a GPS kit with every license, and check in which country you are located?
If this feature will ever be implemented - make it extremely optional. You can't beleive how annoying it is getting tax tips that don't apply at all here in Sweden.
Eww, that's one ugly phone, most Nokias around here are much nicer. I prefer the new from Ericsson with GPRS, Bluetooth and all the other stuffs you might start using next year. Or is this model only available in Sweden yet?
EMS? Why on earth would they want a memory standard used with DOS in the ages of the 286?
Just a question: exactly what does your mail server tell you when you receive a 600MB attachment?
You are just too correct. Gimp is a very good application, but the GUI sucks. It seems like the designers forgot about 'User' in GUI. Have you seen the Win32 port? It has the same features and (unfortunately) the same non-native controllers, thanks to using GTK. I know, there are no native controllers for X, but isn't it about time that somebody fixed that?
The one thing that annoys me most is the lack of uniform look and feel among applications. All the different toolkits and incompatible desktop environments are a product of this. There is no way that you can say "give me a button" or "add an alias/shadow/shortcut/link to this application" and make it work as you wanted. You can't specify that all applications should behave the Gnome way in your user account, or the KDE way for another user.
X is built for remote displaying: run the apps on one computer, see the results on another. This is a smart feature, but again solved in a bad way. Every pixel changed is transmitted, instead of high-level commands like "draw button with text 'blah' and dimensions 80, 35 at 3, 3".
If you want to do something for the open source community right now, the last thing you would want to do is write another OS. Linux, and all other open source OS:es, lacks a good graphical user environment. Notice "good", which rules out X immediately. A completely new, OOUI environment with standard libs for widgets would help out incredibly much. It would remove most of the arcane design choices that were taken with X.
Remember? The phrase "release early, release often" is very often linked open source software. Since when is it bad to release bug fixes, performace enhancements and new functions two times a month?
So, tell me this - what kind of pollution lowering agreement would you vote for? Or is it true that you don't give a fuck about the environment?
So if I ship a Linux without vi, ls, cp and X, but includes CDE, it's a UNIX?
Who gives a fuck about this, anyway? MacOS X might not technically be a UNIX, but it's still a damn good operating system. Isn't it time for the Linux open source crowd to stop developing applications for X, and create a worthy replacement without the moronic solutions?
I'm a programmer living in Sweden. According to my contract, I work 40 hours a week at any hour that I prefer, and receive 5 weeks payed vacation. Overtime is not mandatory, but will give you more money. That, and I get to spend some time every year for further education. This is simply great: I'm allowed to start working when I'm awake and ready to start coding. My employer loves it too, since it makes me very much more effective.
I do. Two computers at home and one at work runs Slackware 7.1 (patched, of course). The reason it simple: you have full control over your system, and can remove anything you don't like. A file server here doesn't even contain the ls, rm, rmdir etc commands. It serves files, and does it very well. Runs 24/7 without attendance other than installing security patches, and only if it affects the setup in my machines.
Tried Debian, didn't like it. Not sure why. A friend prefers it though, but everyone is free to choose their distro.
OS/2 is/was actually very user friendly. The object oriented user interface was incredibly powerful for power users, and easy to learn for ordinary users. The first time you started OS/2, you got a nice tutoriel guiding you through files, folders, properties, drag-and-drop, object menus and all the other stuff. None of this "click Start to begin" crap.
Implementing a full IP stack for my keyboard sounds stupid. The whole point of Bluetooth is that devices that work on battery should be able to communicate without wires. Having a wireless mouse and keyboard is just great, and I don't think a 802.11 solution could continue to run for months using simple AA batteries.
The IP address is plain stupid when you consider the benefits you get from the piconet technology. Imagine that you sit down on a train. Pick up your GSM phone, which now is connected to the trains piconet, and tell it to wake you up when you are five kilometers from your end station. The train will compensate for any delays and tell you when you are almost there. Try doing the auto-piconet method with a solid IP address.
Since you seem to know a few things about this programmable filename completion thing... Is it possible for the shell to work around the brain-dead file naming rules of Unix, so that if I type 'cat r' it will fill with README, and not complain about no file with first letter 'r' is found? This single feature is incredibly useful for people who just wants to work instead of wrestling with the OS.
Is that Windows-looking controls or native Windows controls? There is a difference.
The system will probably not check your speed constantly and shut down your engine if you are 1km/h over speed limit. Say you get a warning signal for 15 seconds before the engine revs down, and that you will gain full control again when you have reached the speed limit.