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Cross Platform Performance Improving
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Mozilla 0.9.9 Released
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I commented on Mozilla's cross platform performance during the.9.6 release, and I must say, thought still noticeably slower in linux than windows - the linux performance has improved substantialy. Mozilla has been my standard browsers on my win32 platforms and it's startup time has improved enough in linux to really be useable.
/me raises beer to the mozilla linux guys.
On another note, anyone feel that that "turbo mode" should be kept in the windows builds only? This might sound silly, but I expect every program to jam itself in my window system tray, but for some reason, I don't want it anywhere near my linux box, it's Just Not Right(tm).
True, but considering that a lot of people still think that Mozilla == Netscape, it still becomes a problem for Mozilla, granted it's only perception, but try explaining that to the "average" user.
Generic surveys or something would be a good idea. I like the idea of Slashdot being a gathering place for early adopters and geeks - unfortunately trolls and the such bring the site down (try browsing at 0 or something and you'll get the point).
Generic surveys for subscribers would rock. I'd definately participate if I knew that Tivo was surveying slashdot users. Or a Compaq survey for "what would you want in a rackmount". If anything, some of us are in positions that make purchasing decisions, we need to advertise this.
Considering that most of us are early adopters of technology, I would *guess* that companies like Tivo, PDA manufacturers, IBM, Compaq, etc. would be lining up to get our input.
Heh, not like it matters, they were stupid in putting the advertisement in the article area, an area notoriously known for the LACK of attention paid to it.
Well, considering even "average Joe" has a hard time networking his computer - I think this is a good thing.
Explaining to a newbie that there is no Network Neighborhood confuses alot of people. If anything it'll make a transition easier.
Re:this is an enterprise ready os?
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Linux 2.4.18 Released
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Redhat and Suse provide some damn good kernels. I've had no problems whatsoever. They really stress test those things.
Boy, everyone sure loves to jump on the "2.4.x sucks" bandwagon. Sure, there were some issues in the past, but I would like to know how many people reading slashdot right now are really seeing all of these problems.
90% of you who got burned and will "go back to 2.2.x" were probably being stupid and tried it on a production server and got properly burned.
Test your shit before you deploy, if you're not doing that then you're an idiot.
Postnuke is a fork of PHPNuke with a focus on security and performance and is also dreadfully simple to setup. Still in alpha, but getting better.
Right now the Postnuke team is gearing up for a major release,.71, and from what I've seen of it so far, it is moving forward at a nice pace. I've anyone has ever been frustrated with the installation of Scoop, Slash, or PHPnuke, you might want to give postnuke a try.
Well, if said book helps more people run Slash and makes it a more popular - then yes it does help the movement in an indirect way.
Re:Oh, no! They are going to ruin a(pretty bad) th
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The Future of MREs
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· Score: 4, Insightful
I hate the fact that most Army units get screwed and are only given MREs for long periods of time.
I served as an OPFOR Support Platoon Leader at the National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, CA. Unfortuantely for guys like you, the chains-of-command of visiting units (especially Guard units) were too lazy to bother to get hot food, and would just go for an entire 3-4 weeks on MRE-only for their soldiers because its an easy out. Don't take this as an accusation or anything against you and your unit, I just think its a shame that the Army has spent millions of dollars working on ways to get fresh food for Joe, and most leaders choose to just use MREs.
The US Army has mobile kitchens, and tons of creative ways of getting hot chow to soldiers, unfortunately most of the officers are too lazy to coordinate that kind of support.
Now there is a difference when training for war and just being stupid, but after an extended period of time, the nutrition of troops becomes highly important. MREs are meant as a supplement to regular meals - we usually went Hot-MRE-Hot for Break/Lunch/Dinner, for normal missions, and used that as a baseline.
Naturally that changes according to the mission, but you'd be suprised at how many REMFS (Rear-echelon motherfuckes) would rather say "We'll go all-MRE" because they are too lazy to plan hot food for their soldiers.
Re:I've had an MRE (and I'm not military)
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The Future of MREs
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· Score: 2
Yep... take the guts out, throw it all in an empty two liter, add water, close... throw... instant training device....:)
Anyone ever wonder why the military, with its tomes of regulations and procedures succumed to the "Rock or something" on an MRE?
The little heater thingies (mmm, smell like acid), need to lean at an angle to work good... so on the instructions there is a picture of a rock with an MRE leaning on it, and the caption for the rock is "Rock or something"
I may sound like a complete moron, but man, in the middle of the desert with no sleep, some dude brings up "Rock or something" and I keel over in laughter.
/me thinks we've spent too much effort arguing about this.
Ximian is going to develop Mono - that much is clear. It doesn't matter what anyone says, they're going to use it.
Wether 'official' Gnome uses it or not doesn't matter. Enough people hate the idea that that probably won't happen. And if it does happen, they'll either be a fork, or massive exodus away from Gnome.
Let Ximian do what they want to do. Gnome is GPL - what's everyone so scared about? We've got bigger fish to fry.
All this does is provide - "Linux Community divided over.NET/Mono", "Linux desktop struggles" and "GNOME in Trouble" sensationalism for ZDNet headlines, and that's not going to help our cause one bit.
Re:GNOME vs KDE for the newbie
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GNOME 2.0 Beta
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· Score: 2
Go into the Nautilus preferences and there is a checkbox - [] Use Nautilus to draw the desktop (or something similar to that, I don't remember)
Turn it off and Gnome's responsiveness/speed will greatly increase.
Isn't Covalent selling an 'Apache 2.0' product? Does anyone have any experience with it?
I'd like to know the changes between their version and the 'official' version. It'd be interesting to note which features/bugfixes the Apache Foundation felt was worth waiting for.
No, that is an urban legend. Think about it. The Bradley shoots 25MM rounds - once you get past the range of the coax, you're supposed to switch to the HE (high explosive) rounds. That's the engagement in the book. Now, sometimes, I would accidentally shoot HE at targets less than 1000 meters - and it counted against me, because in order to save ammunition, your supposed to use 7.62 bullets at infantry closer than 1000 meters.
Mortars are 60, 81, and 120MM, and we shoot those at people all the time. MLRS will decimate an entire grid-square, there's noone complaining about international law in those cases. Heh.
That's not true. The only reason that larger caliber bullets are discouraged for use against personnel is because it's a waste. Why use a.50 cal against troops when you can use a rifle, and save the big bullets for the big trouble.
I'm not going to get into the Debian/Red Hat argument here. To me, they're both fine distributions that deserve the attention that they're due. I don't understand the "stability" issue that some Debian fanatics get into. Red Hat has been stable as a rock for me. The thing that makes Debian rule is how easy it is to maintain and keep up to date.
If you're a Red Hat/Mandrake user and has been looking to convert, this might be useful. FWIW, Debian is a mighty fine distro, give it a try, though you have been warned, it can be addictive.:)
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Getting Mozilla news from Mozillaquest is like getting kernel development news from ZDNet - it just shouldn't exist.
I commented on Mozilla's cross platform performance during the .9.6 release, and I must say, thought still noticeably slower in linux than windows - the linux performance has improved substantialy. Mozilla has been my standard browsers on my win32 platforms and it's startup time has improved enough in linux to really be useable.
/me raises beer to the mozilla linux guys.
On another note, anyone feel that that "turbo mode" should be kept in the windows builds only? This might sound silly, but I expect every program to jam itself in my window system tray, but for some reason, I don't want it anywhere near my linux box, it's Just Not Right(tm).
Crap, I got 1/2 the trailer at the end of malcolm, the other 1/2 in the beginning of the Xfiles ... so I can't watch it all at once ... ARGH!
I would guess one reason is the old "We're ok with BSD, its the evil GPL software like Linux that we have problems with."
You wouldn't happen to have a link to the NS 6.2.1 source code would you? There isn't one.
... Mozilla is.
Netscape 6 is definately NOT OSS
True, but considering that a lot of people still think that Mozilla == Netscape, it still becomes a problem for Mozilla, granted it's only perception, but try explaining that to the "average" user.
Mod parent up, good points:
Generic surveys or something would be a good idea. I like the idea of Slashdot being a gathering place for early adopters and geeks - unfortunately trolls and the such bring the site down (try browsing at 0 or something and you'll get the point).
Generic surveys for subscribers would rock. I'd definately participate if I knew that Tivo was surveying slashdot users. Or a Compaq survey for "what would you want in a rackmount". If anything, some of us are in positions that make purchasing decisions, we need to advertise this.
Considering that most of us are early adopters of technology, I would *guess* that companies like Tivo, PDA manufacturers, IBM, Compaq, etc. would be lining up to get our input.
Just in case I missed it:
Do comments display ads by default?
Do I get penalized for viewing them?
And if so, am I paying for that?
Can you explain all this again Taco? Just kidding.
(ducks and runs)
Heh, not like it matters, they were stupid in putting the advertisement in the article area, an area notoriously known for the LACK of attention paid to it.
Aha! That's what Aunt Tilly looks like!
Well, considering even "average Joe" has a hard time networking his computer - I think this is a good thing.
Explaining to a newbie that there is no Network Neighborhood confuses alot of people. If anything it'll make a transition easier.
Redhat and Suse provide some damn good kernels. I've had no problems whatsoever. They really stress test those things.
Boy, everyone sure loves to jump on the "2.4.x sucks" bandwagon. Sure, there were some issues in the past, but I would like to know how many people reading slashdot right now are really seeing all of these problems.
90% of you who got burned and will "go back to 2.2.x" were probably being stupid and tried it on a production server and got properly burned.
Test your shit before you deploy, if you're not doing that then you're an idiot.
Postnuke is a fork of PHPNuke with a focus on security and performance and is also dreadfully simple to setup. Still in alpha, but getting better.
.71, and from what I've seen of it so far, it is moving forward at a nice pace. I've anyone has ever been frustrated with the installation of Scoop, Slash, or PHPnuke, you might want to give postnuke a try.
Right now the Postnuke team is gearing up for a major release,
Well, if said book helps more people run Slash and makes it a more popular - then yes it does help the movement in an indirect way.
I hate the fact that most Army units get screwed and are only given MREs for long periods of time.
I served as an OPFOR Support Platoon Leader at the National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, CA. Unfortuantely for guys like you, the chains-of-command of visiting units (especially Guard units) were too lazy to bother to get hot food, and would just go for an entire 3-4 weeks on MRE-only for their soldiers because its an easy out. Don't take this as an accusation or anything against you and your unit, I just think its a shame that the Army has spent millions of dollars working on ways to get fresh food for Joe, and most leaders choose to just use MREs.
The US Army has mobile kitchens, and tons of creative ways of getting hot chow to soldiers, unfortunately most of the officers are too lazy to coordinate that kind of support.
Now there is a difference when training for war and just being stupid, but after an extended period of time, the nutrition of troops becomes highly important. MREs are meant as a supplement to regular meals - we usually went Hot-MRE-Hot for Break/Lunch/Dinner, for normal missions, and used that as a baseline.
Naturally that changes according to the mission, but you'd be suprised at how many REMFS (Rear-echelon motherfuckes) would rather say "We'll go all-MRE" because they are too lazy to plan hot food for their soldiers.
Yep ... take the guts out, throw it all in an empty two liter, add water, close ... throw ... instant training device .... :)
Anyone ever wonder why the military, with its tomes of regulations and procedures succumed to the "Rock or something" on an MRE?
... so on the instructions there is a picture of a rock with an MRE leaning on it, and the caption for the rock is "Rock or something"
The little heater thingies (mmm, smell like acid), need to lean at an angle to work good
I may sound like a complete moron, but man, in the middle of the desert with no sleep, some dude brings up "Rock or something" and I keel over in laughter.
Agreed ... after all they problems I had with USB on the KT266 (non-A)boards, I'll glady ignore anything by VIA.
/me thinks we've spent too much effort arguing about this.
.NET/Mono", "Linux desktop struggles" and "GNOME in Trouble" sensationalism for ZDNet headlines, and that's not going to help our cause one bit.
Ximian is going to develop Mono - that much is clear. It doesn't matter what anyone says, they're going to use it.
Wether 'official' Gnome uses it or not doesn't matter. Enough people hate the idea that that probably won't happen. And if it does happen, they'll either be a fork, or massive exodus away from Gnome.
Let Ximian do what they want to do. Gnome is GPL - what's everyone so scared about? We've got bigger fish to fry.
All this does is provide - "Linux Community divided over
Go into the Nautilus preferences and there is a checkbox - [] Use Nautilus to draw the desktop (or something similar to that, I don't remember)
Turn it off and Gnome's responsiveness/speed will greatly increase.
Typical slashbot, busy opening my cakehole without bothering to think. Heh.
Isn't Covalent selling an 'Apache 2.0' product? Does anyone have any experience with it?
I'd like to know the changes between their version and the 'official' version. It'd be interesting to note which features/bugfixes the Apache Foundation felt was worth waiting for.
No, that is an urban legend. Think about it. The Bradley shoots 25MM rounds - once you get past the range of the coax, you're supposed to switch to the HE (high explosive) rounds. That's the engagement in the book. Now, sometimes, I would accidentally shoot HE at targets less than 1000 meters - and it counted against me, because in order to save ammunition, your supposed to use 7.62 bullets at infantry closer than 1000 meters.
Mortars are 60, 81, and 120MM, and we shoot those at people all the time. MLRS will decimate an entire grid-square, there's noone complaining about international law in those cases. Heh.
That's not true. The only reason that larger caliber bullets are discouraged for use against personnel is because it's a waste. Why use a .50 cal against troops when you can use a rifle, and save the big bullets for the big trouble.
My conversion has been detailed here.
:)
I'm not going to get into the Debian/Red Hat argument here. To me, they're both fine distributions that deserve the attention that they're due. I don't understand the "stability" issue that some Debian fanatics get into. Red Hat has been stable as a rock for me. The thing that makes Debian rule is how easy it is to maintain and keep up to date.
If you're a Red Hat/Mandrake user and has been looking to convert, this might be useful. FWIW, Debian is a mighty fine distro, give it a try, though you have been warned, it can be addictive.