Do you still have to shut down and hand edit a configuration file to set the user agent?
No, as far as I remember even in KDE 3.0 you can select the user agent in Konqueror's settings dialog. And in KDE 3.1 you can definetely select it via Tools->Change Browser Identifaction toolbar menu, as in Opera.
Anyway Apple and KDE are killing Mozillas market share on the Unix desktop
Luckily, this is not the case. One example: my company provided a large german health organisation with Linux desktops with KDE for all employees and we have to use Mozilla as the default browser since Konquerer is really nice (and I love it) but Mozilla is still ahead in terms of "compability" (read: ability to display web pages correctly, even ones that aren't valid HTML).
While the Konqueror/KHTML people do a great job I don't think that they are able to catch up to Mozilla any time soon (not that this would matter, since Mozilla runs on way more platforms than Konqueror).
and yet people still use IE. As a web designer, I have to ask, "WHY!?"
Simple: because people are fucking lazy ! They get their IE with their Windows, and they are just too lazy to download and install Mozilla or Opera (and they don't care about them since every web designer/developer out there supports IE with their web pages).
If someone visits my homepage with IE the background is replaced with simply white since IE can't handle transparent PNGs and a red warning box is diplayed explaining that IE is just not able to correctly display my homepage (while Mozilla, Opera and Konqueror do).
If more web-pages would do this people would finally think, but this will take some months. MicroSoft gladly doesn't want to update IE any more, so people have to wait for the next Windows to get an update to IE, which is due in 2005 I think. Lots of time which could make a difference if the other browser developers and web designers/developers use that time. And features like good SVG support could really be that difference (and tabs, and blocking of JavaScript pop-ups, and...).
IE is out of date just now, but people don't care about this, that's the propblem...
Well, fortunately Munich is not Germany's biggest city. That's Berlin, with 3.5 million people, followed by Hamburg with about 1.7 million and then Munich with about 1.5 million...
I don't own an Apple II but I know what keeps it going: love:-)
This has always been the strength of Apple: they create computers that their users love, something MS never accomplished (okay, they don't make computers... yet).
Guybrush Threepwood is my best friend for years now ! And I still play his adventures every now and then (all four parts, but I love the second part the most).
is not the hackers. Or viruses. Or trojans. Or bugs. It's the money.
Most software still is propietary and someone wants to make money with it. So he wants to see it protected. He doesn't want his software to be secure since that costs money. Having someone thrown into jail costs less money, so that's the preferred way.
At least this is my experience with the thoughts of suits. Many think of software like it would be, say, a car: with enough brute force you can get into any car you like easily. They don't realize that this is not how software works. You don't hack software (i.e. servers) by using brute force attacks but by cleverly exploiting weak spots, like the lock or the window seal.
But since many suits don't get this they think no matter what, their software can be hacked by Joe Average and thus that they need fierce laws that prevent them from doing so instead of securing their software in the first place.
Come on... PAE is just plain old bank switching technology.
Didn't knew that... well, but at least it's possible to access more than 4GB RAM;-)
I really like P4s (so fast!). But if/when Hammer becomes a reality it will be the only sensible choice for our servers.
I don't like P4s, but that's another story. But the new 64bit Athlons are definetely nice CPUs and I can't wait to get one:-) They have a far cleaner and better design than Intel's way of 64bit...
The only good reason to switch to 64-bit computing is *memory*. The 4GB limit is a real problem for modern CAD tools.
Since the Pentium, there's an extension called PAE (Physical Address Extension or something like this) which overcomes this limit and allows to use up to 64GB (IIRC) on x86 platforms.
Don't ask MicroSoft about it, they don't support it in their normal products, AFAIK you have to buy their ultra-expensive high-end server products.
But Linux supports it just fine, of course;-) I know that SuSE delivers four kernels with their distribution, with/without SMP and with/without PAE. I'm pretty sure other distributions do support PAE as well.
Unfortunately VMWare Workstation hates PAE, I had to learn:-(
Seriously, first ensure through the use of traffic shapers if the bad satellite network latencies are no problem for you before you go on thinking more deeply about the real implementation.
I know of an organisation where someone from management decided that for the new infrastructure they'll go for satellite instead of DSL... 'for reliability reasons'.
Well it turns out that an (extremely crappy) application they depend on is not able to accept latencies above 1sec, which the satellite turns out to have. And then one day the satellite link failed for some hours (I don't know why).
Now they still pay for the satellite they don't use plus the DSL lines they wanted to avoid... because DSL turns out to be more reliable and has far lower latencies... D'oh !
But try convincing such a suit that a satellite would be a bad idea in the first place:-) He didn't believe us and now he has to justify the consequences (= more money spent than necessary)
You might want to check out psnup. Unfortunately I can't provide a link to the homepage as the old homepage says that it's moving to a new location but the link leading to that new location is dead:-(
Anyways, psnup should be easily avaible via rpmfind or something, many distributions should also have it around (I'm pretty sure it comes with SuSE at least).
psnup works pretty good for me although it seems to have problems with posters of size A0 or bigger
Well, EA has made some good games but for me it's more and more a game-studio killer, buying other game makers and shutting them down (more or less)...
The interview with Lord British that was posted recently on/. gives some insight into EA's thinking: make money fast, even at the cost of quality, it seems.
How many people still use Ximian's desktop? As opposed to Evolution?
Ask corporations which use Linux on the desktop and want some support:-) My company is doing a roll out of Linux based workstations (actually thinclients) to a health related organisation, and if budget would be higher it'd be nice to have more software for which you pay but get support when some problems occur...
Well, someone else already meantioned it, Parrot is Perl's way of doing a VM and looks really nice. So there already is a VM... beside other languages which use VMs already.
But I also think that too much competition in this field wouldn't be that good either. Don't get me wrong, competition is always good, but too much isn't since those competiting VMs targeted at the same market would stiffle its own distribution, IMHO, since it COULD happen that none gets a really broad distribution.
And a widespread VM is a good one, at least for the programmer, because he can assume the most widespread VM to be avaible to most to users, that is they already have it and don't need to install it first so that you're able to install your software. And requiring the user to install as few files as possible is a Good Thing(tm):-)
And this is the reason why I think CLI will succeed, despite me not liking MS: it will be widespread, users won't have to install it since it already comes with your Windows. And others can use either MS's FreeBSD implementation or Mono. Would Parrot or another VM be included in Windows this one would succeed. It already was the reason for Javas success so far: the reason you already had it in you Netscape and former IE (AFAIK) made it very easy to use for end users. Had MS distributed an up-to-date JVM in XP, Java would have left no room for CLI, I guess.
Having others VM would be nice but with many people focussing on one VM the avaibility of good tools is better for that VM, thus enabling programmers to more easily write good programs.
On the other side there should always be an alternativ, just because there is no one true way of doing things and every application has a different need and thus you could choose the VM that fits your need more closely:-)
... is a real world, large scale client side Java example, IMHO. At least my bank luckily provides a Java applet for online banking (in three versions: one that can be installed, one that is always loaded from the net and one specifically for Macs).
If they wouldn't provide this applet I'd have a problem, since I don't have any Windows versions installed anymore, for years now... not even at work;-) And this is were Java shows it true power: the people at my bank don't support Linux, but that doesn't matter to me because they support Java:-)
I could put Tim Patterson, who wrote Q-DOS and then had it bought by Bill Gates to become Windows XP:-), but why not say Gary Kildall who wrote CP/M which Q-DOS is a rip-off of.
I know, this is totally off-topic but I can't resist:-)
While doing a little research on a little paper I'm currently working on I learned a bit about the history of MicroSoft. Windows XP is based on Windows 2000 which is based on Windows NT which in turn is based on... OS/2 ! MicroSoft worked together with IBM to create OS/2, the two had a dispute and parted and each one went a different way with their parts of OS/2.
But Windows ME is just a pretty big DOS application:-)
there's SelfHTML, an excellent HTML reference. It explains everything you want to know, together with examples and what versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer support the feature/tag/whatever in question. It covers HTML, DHTML, JavaScript and CSS 1/2. If there were also an english version avaible it could easily be the best HTML reference avaible, it certainly is for german speaking web-developers:-)
We used to have lots of pay phones everywhere, in cabins. Very convenient when it's raining or snowing and you'd like to ask someone to pick you up from the train station;-) For some time now (I guess two years) they have completely disappeared and were sometimes (if you're lucky) replaced with what I call "phones-on-a-stick"... and try to find one that accepts coins instead of pre-paid phone cards. Very annoying if you refuse to buy a handy;-)
Well, one way to slow them down (and thus make those spam-bursts more bandwidth/load friendly to your server) is to delay the server responses: with Postfix you can delay those error messages like this:
smtpd_error_sleep_time = 30
which would take 30 seconds from the wrong/blocked SMTP command until Postfix gives an error message. With this easy measure you can seriously slow down those spam-bursts, especially when they try to send several spam mails within the same SMTP session.
It's only disturbing when you try to debug your SMTP with telnet, but that's ok:-)
I'm not sure whether this is true, hopefully someone here with more knowledge about that subject could clarify this.
As most of you might know, the germans did some early rocket science in WWII, with the famous V2 rocket on which both the russians and americans based their first rockets being only one of many attempts.
So I guess the first space junk may result from those experiments, perhaps around 1944. And whatever the first piece of space-junk was, I guess it wasn't space-junk for a long time because they couldn't get very high with those early rockets.
I guess Wernher von Braun could have answered that question, but my guess is the first piece of space-junk was some screw that got loose;-)
two days ago, but only with my one server which is co-lo'd by a friend of mine who is an ISP. They simply set up routing so both the old and new IP adresses could reach my machine and then I only had to set up a second IP adress on my ethernet adapter like this:
That's it. Now the people at my friend's company have set up the DNS to report the new IP adress and let it propagate through the 'net. One hour later or so all my domains targeted the new IP adress, everything went fine, with zero downtime.
The best is: everything was done through ssh, I didn't had to move my lazy ass;-)
Only one pit to be aware of: don't forget to tell your firewall ! In my case it was simply adding eth0:1 to the list of firewalled interfaces in SuSEs/etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 and running "rcSuSEfirewall2 restart"
Now that everything works I could kick out the old IP adress and stuff... but I'm lazy;-)
...we would loose games that let us be childs again:-) And, BTW, what's wrong about targeting children and never-grown-ups ? As long as they are able to pay (or let pay) for Nintendo's consoles and games, everything is OK.
Without Miyamoto Nintendo would be toast already, I guess. And I wouldn't love Nintendo as much as I do without him. Except for the GameCube which I have yet to buy I own every console Nintendo has released in Europe and the charm of Mario and Zelda is... unique. And they managed to make a cult out of it.
One strength of Miyamoto's games is simple gameplay. They are easy to learn and understand but yet get challenging lateron in the game, without getting boring. And this is something very special that is not often found in games, unfortunately. And I guess focussing on children helps him keeping this concept of easy to use/learn games that get challenging (but seldom unfair).
The main reason I'm only playing consoles now is retrogaming in the future: from time to time I like to play my old games.
I just plain hate tuning DOS each time to be able to play whatever DOS game I'd like to play (I just had to build an extra PC only for playing old DOS games). When I realized that this isn't any better with Windows years ago I switched from PC + console to console only.
If I want to play Super Mario Bros. 1, I just take the module and put it in my NES, et voila everything works with no hassle. That's the main reason for playing consoles, IMHO: it just plain works, at optimal speed too.
Besides, the games are different on consoles and PC (even between different consoles): you find more interesting puzzle games on consoles than on PC, IMHO, while there are more ego-shooters avaible on the PC. If you like jump'n'runs you need a console, if you want to play online games a PC is the weapon of choice.
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Do you still have to shut down and hand edit a configuration file to set the user agent?
No, as far as I remember even in KDE 3.0 you can select the user agent in Konqueror's settings dialog. And in KDE 3.1 you can definetely select it via Tools->Change Browser Identifaction toolbar menu, as in Opera.
Anyway Apple and KDE are killing Mozillas market share on the Unix desktop
Luckily, this is not the case. One example: my company provided a large german health organisation with Linux desktops with KDE for all employees and we have to use Mozilla as the default browser since Konquerer is really nice (and I love it) but Mozilla is still ahead in terms of "compability" (read: ability to display web pages correctly, even ones that aren't valid HTML).
While the Konqueror/KHTML people do a great job I don't think that they are able to catch up to Mozilla any time soon (not that this would matter, since Mozilla runs on way more platforms than Konqueror).
and yet people still use IE. As a web designer, I have to ask, "WHY!?"
Simple: because people are fucking lazy ! They get their IE with their Windows, and they are just too lazy to download and install Mozilla or Opera (and they don't care about them since every web designer/developer out there supports IE with their web pages).
If someone visits my homepage with IE the background is replaced with simply white since IE can't handle transparent PNGs and a red warning box is diplayed explaining that IE is just not able to correctly display my homepage (while Mozilla, Opera and Konqueror do).
If more web-pages would do this people would finally think, but this will take some months. MicroSoft gladly doesn't want to update IE any more, so people have to wait for the next Windows to get an update to IE, which is due in 2005 I think. Lots of time which could make a difference if the other browser developers and web designers/developers use that time. And features like good SVG support could really be that difference (and tabs, and blocking of JavaScript pop-ups, and ...).
IE is out of date just now, but people don't care about this, that's the propblem...
Well, fortunately Munich is not Germany's biggest city. That's Berlin, with 3.5 million people, followed by Hamburg with about 1.7 million and then Munich with about 1.5 million...
I don't own an Apple II but I know what keeps it going: love :-)
This has always been the strength of Apple: they create computers that their users love, something MS never accomplished (okay, they don't make computers... yet).
Guybrush Threepwood is my best friend for years now ! And I still play his adventures every now and then (all four parts, but I love the second part the most).
is not the hackers. Or viruses. Or trojans. Or bugs. It's the money.
Most software still is propietary and someone wants to make money with it. So he wants to see it protected. He doesn't want his software to be secure since that costs money. Having someone thrown into jail costs less money, so that's the preferred way.
At least this is my experience with the thoughts of suits. Many think of software like it would be, say, a car: with enough brute force you can get into any car you like easily. They don't realize that this is not how software works. You don't hack software (i.e. servers) by using brute force attacks but by cleverly exploiting weak spots, like the lock or the window seal.
But since many suits don't get this they think no matter what, their software can be hacked by Joe Average and thus that they need fierce laws that prevent them from doing so instead of securing their software in the first place.
Come on... PAE is just plain old bank switching technology.
Didn't knew that... well, but at least it's possible to access more than 4GB RAM ;-)
I really like P4s (so fast!). But if/when Hammer becomes a reality it will be the only sensible choice for our servers.
I don't like P4s, but that's another story. But the new 64bit Athlons are definetely nice CPUs and I can't wait to get one :-) They have a far cleaner and better design than Intel's way of 64bit...
The only good reason to switch to 64-bit computing is *memory*. The 4GB limit is a real problem for modern CAD tools.
Since the Pentium, there's an extension called PAE (Physical Address Extension or something like this) which overcomes this limit and allows to use up to 64GB (IIRC) on x86 platforms.
Don't ask MicroSoft about it, they don't support it in their normal products, AFAIK you have to buy their ultra-expensive high-end server products.
But Linux supports it just fine, of course ;-) I know that SuSE delivers four kernels with their distribution, with/without SMP and with/without PAE. I'm pretty sure other distributions do support PAE as well.
Unfortunately VMWare Workstation hates PAE, I had to learn :-(
then don't do that then !
Seriously, first ensure through the use of traffic shapers if the bad satellite network latencies are no problem for you before you go on thinking more deeply about the real implementation.
I know of an organisation where someone from management decided that for the new infrastructure they'll go for satellite instead of DSL... 'for reliability reasons'.
Well it turns out that an (extremely crappy) application they depend on is not able to accept latencies above 1sec, which the satellite turns out to have. And then one day the satellite link failed for some hours (I don't know why).
Now they still pay for the satellite they don't use plus the DSL lines they wanted to avoid... because DSL turns out to be more reliable and has far lower latencies... D'oh !
But try convincing such a suit that a satellite would be a bad idea in the first place :-) He didn't believe us and now he has to justify the consequences (= more money spent than necessary)
You might want to check out psnup. Unfortunately I can't provide a link to the homepage as the old homepage says that it's moving to a new location but the link leading to that new location is dead :-(
Anyways, psnup should be easily avaible via rpmfind or something, many distributions should also have it around (I'm pretty sure it comes with SuSE at least).
psnup works pretty good for me although it seems to have problems with posters of size A0 or bigger
Well, EA has made some good games but for me it's more and more a game-studio killer, buying other game makers and shutting them down (more or less)...
The interview with Lord British that was posted recently on /. gives some insight into EA's thinking: make money fast, even at the cost of quality, it seems.
Very sad...
...for us gothics ! Where can I buy clothes and make-up with this material ?
How many people still use Ximian's desktop? As opposed to Evolution?
Ask corporations which use Linux on the desktop and want some support :-) My company is doing a roll out of Linux based workstations (actually thinclients) to a health related organisation, and if budget would be higher it'd be nice to have more software for which you pay but get support when some problems occur...
Well, someone else already meantioned it, Parrot is Perl's way of doing a VM and looks really nice. So there already is a VM... beside other languages which use VMs already.
But I also think that too much competition in this field wouldn't be that good either. Don't get me wrong, competition is always good, but too much isn't since those competiting VMs targeted at the same market would stiffle its own distribution, IMHO, since it COULD happen that none gets a really broad distribution.
And a widespread VM is a good one, at least for the programmer, because he can assume the most widespread VM to be avaible to most to users, that is they already have it and don't need to install it first so that you're able to install your software. And requiring the user to install as few files as possible is a Good Thing(tm) :-)
And this is the reason why I think CLI will succeed, despite me not liking MS: it will be widespread, users won't have to install it since it already comes with your Windows. And others can use either MS's FreeBSD implementation or Mono. Would Parrot or another VM be included in Windows this one would succeed. It already was the reason for Javas success so far: the reason you already had it in you Netscape and former IE (AFAIK) made it very easy to use for end users. Had MS distributed an up-to-date JVM in XP, Java would have left no room for CLI, I guess.
Having others VM would be nice but with many people focussing on one VM the avaibility of good tools is better for that VM, thus enabling programmers to more easily write good programs.
On the other side there should always be an alternativ, just because there is no one true way of doing things and every application has a different need and thus you could choose the VM that fits your need more closely :-)
... is a real world, large scale client side Java example, IMHO. At least my bank luckily provides a Java applet for online banking (in three versions: one that can be installed, one that is always loaded from the net and one specifically for Macs).
;-) And this is were Java shows it true power: the people at my bank don't support Linux, but that doesn't matter to me because they support Java :-)
If they wouldn't provide this applet I'd have a problem, since I don't have any Windows versions installed anymore, for years now... not even at work
I know, this is totally off-topic but I can't resist :-)
While doing a little research on a little paper I'm currently working on I learned a bit about the history of MicroSoft. Windows XP is based on Windows 2000 which is based on Windows NT which in turn is based on... OS/2 ! MicroSoft worked together with IBM to create OS/2, the two had a dispute and parted and each one went a different way with their parts of OS/2.
But Windows ME is just a pretty big DOS application :-)
Lord British (father of Ultima) and Shigery Miyamoto (father of Mario, Donkey Kong, etc.) ;-)
But a serious vote would be Bjarne Stroustrup (the C++ inventor)...
there's SelfHTML, an excellent HTML reference. It explains everything you want to know, together with examples and what versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer support the feature/tag/whatever in question. It covers HTML, DHTML, JavaScript and CSS 1/2. If there were also an english version avaible it could easily be the best HTML reference avaible, it certainly is for german speaking web-developers :-)
We used to have lots of pay phones everywhere, in cabins. Very convenient when it's raining or snowing and you'd like to ask someone to pick you up from the train station ;-) For some time now (I guess two years) they have completely disappeared and were sometimes (if you're lucky) replaced with what I call "phones-on-a-stick"... and try to find one that accepts coins instead of pre-paid phone cards. Very annoying if you refuse to buy a handy ;-)
Well, one way to slow them down (and thus make those spam-bursts more bandwidth/load friendly to your server) is to delay the server responses: with Postfix you can delay those error messages like this:
:-)
smtpd_error_sleep_time = 30
which would take 30 seconds from the wrong/blocked SMTP command until Postfix gives an error message. With this easy measure you can seriously slow down those spam-bursts, especially when they try to send several spam mails within the same SMTP session.
It's only disturbing when you try to debug your SMTP with telnet, but that's ok
I'm not sure whether this is true, hopefully someone here with more knowledge about that subject could clarify this. As most of you might know, the germans did some early rocket science in WWII, with the famous V2 rocket on which both the russians and americans based their first rockets being only one of many attempts. So I guess the first space junk may result from those experiments, perhaps around 1944. And whatever the first piece of space-junk was, I guess it wasn't space-junk for a long time because they couldn't get very high with those early rockets. I guess Wernher von Braun could have answered that question, but my guess is the first piece of space-junk was some screw that got loose ;-)
two days ago, but only with my one server which is co-lo'd by a friend of mine who is an ISP. They simply set up routing so both the old and new IP adresses could reach my machine and then I only had to set up a second IP adress on my ethernet adapter like this:
;-)
/etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 and running "rcSuSEfirewall2 restart"
;-)
ifconfig eth0:1 123.45.67.89 netmask 255.255.255.224 broadcast 123.45.67.255
That's it. Now the people at my friend's company have set up the DNS to report the new IP adress and let it propagate through the 'net. One hour later or so all my domains targeted the new IP adress, everything went fine, with zero downtime.
The best is: everything was done through ssh, I didn't had to move my lazy ass
Only one pit to be aware of: don't forget to tell your firewall ! In my case it was simply adding eth0:1 to the list of firewalled interfaces in SuSEs
Now that everything works I could kick out the old IP adress and stuff... but I'm lazy
...we would loose games that let us be childs again :-) And, BTW, what's wrong about targeting children and never-grown-ups ? As long as they are able to pay (or let pay) for Nintendo's consoles and games, everything is OK.
Without Miyamoto Nintendo would be toast already, I guess. And I wouldn't love Nintendo as much as I do without him. Except for the GameCube which I have yet to buy I own every console Nintendo has released in Europe and the charm of Mario and Zelda is... unique. And they managed to make a cult out of it.
One strength of Miyamoto's games is simple gameplay. They are easy to learn and understand but yet get challenging lateron in the game, without getting boring. And this is something very special that is not often found in games, unfortunately. And I guess focussing on children helps him keeping this concept of easy to use/learn games that get challenging (but seldom unfair).
The main reason I'm only playing consoles now is retrogaming in the future: from time to time I like to play my old games.
I just plain hate tuning DOS each time to be able to play whatever DOS game I'd like to play (I just had to build an extra PC only for playing old DOS games). When I realized that this isn't any better with Windows years ago I switched from PC + console to console only.
If I want to play Super Mario Bros. 1, I just take the module and put it in my NES, et voila everything works with no hassle. That's the main reason for playing consoles, IMHO: it just plain works, at optimal speed too.
Besides, the games are different on consoles and PC (even between different consoles): you find more interesting puzzle games on consoles than on PC, IMHO, while there are more ego-shooters avaible on the PC. If you like jump'n'runs you need a console, if you want to play online games a PC is the weapon of choice.