Ive had pretty good experience's with yahoo mail and spam myself, well lack of spam actually. Ive been pretty smart with my yahoo address as well, the only spam I get is from stuff I know Ive signed up for. I've liked the service enough to pay for the mail plus thing(ad free, pop,disposable addresses).
As for the beta it seems pretty good, I can't comment on the annoyance of the ads sence I don't see them (the mail plus transfers over to the beta it seems) but it does work under linux firefox
The main advantage of linspire/freespire is that it works very well out of the box nvidia/ati drivers, printer/network printer/ media codecs (divx/mpg/quicktime/wm/real/ect) all preinstalled wich makes it a good choice for small OEMS that want to install linux and not have to do a lot of tweeking to get the distro to work with the hardware
as far as maintenance/updates spire follows sorta debian stable aproach in that it takes them a long time to update software unless there is a security problem (spire is not for people who want the latest and greatest)
The major drawbacks I found with freespire/linspire 1) Its dog slow, takes a long time to bootup, apps take longer to start compared to other distros 2) doesnt setup the monitor corectly, requires setting the resolution and refresh rate in its controll panal, possible to set it outside the spects of the display (i.e 100 hz on a 75hz max monitor) 3) A lot of outdated software such as kde 3.3
I wish there was a modern version of the "Turbo" button
for thoes that don't know.. so many games and programs were made for the 8086/8088 that when they started upping the clockspeed many games ran too fast so they implimented the turbo button so that you could slow down the cpu to make old games and such useable
would be nice now to beable to push a button and have games from around 1995~ or so that I have lieing around playable again.. but alas that would be an interesting trick sence you'd have to impliment 3dfx voodoo 1, soundblaster and true dos in software/hardware
As far as I know linspire is the only linux company to try and get a windows media license. And sence microsoft doesnt make money on windows media players, only the development tools and drm stuff they went "meh here you go, that will be $100k"
Most licenced products like the ones included with freespire do have bulk fees ware the company just pays a flat amount for unlimited/per year/per 100k users/ect
Linspire and I assume freespire as well, has always focused on small OEMs rather then businesses or individuals.
A person may not care if the mp3 player is legal to play their pireted mp3s, a business maynot care if the employies have access to mp3/flash/ect, However a small OEM thats looking for an alternative to windows does care. Its a lot easier and PR friendly to use a distro that has legal access to such things, then deal with support calls asking how to play mp3s or demands for windows xp from people wondering why their new computer does less then the old XP/98 box did
Very little can be done about bad caps. bad capacitors have been a problem with electronics sense.. well.. they were invented.
A cap is basically a chemical rechargeable battery made for quick charging and discharging. The best you can hope for is the use of high quality chemicals. You have to understand however the people who make them make millions of them and its very difficult to maintain a low impurity count in the chemicals while still making a profit.
There is a reason why most electronics have a 90 warranty min. As most bad caps (as well as shoddy solder points) will show up in the first 90 days of use
you cant live you life under feer that terrorists are going to do something. If someone wanted to do something terrorist like blocking RFID tags would be pretty far down the list, knocking out the power to the airport would be a far more efective thing. RFID tags are a good idea for airports, yeah there will be bugs but there are also bugs in the barcode system least with rfid tags when the system come back online they know exactly ware your stuff is, and if its setup corectly could tell if you stuff got sent to another airport, notify who ever is in charge and have it sent to the right place rather fast as they dont have to search for it, they can just pick it up and throw it on a plane to ware it needs to be
It dates back to the wild west days, back then there was so much free to cheep land that people would just pick a spot far from everyone (more land for themselfs and safer from outlaws) when they needed things from town they get on thier horse and travel a few days to town. very few people lived in the towns becouse of the cost or need if you were a rancher what point would there be. the result was a very spread out areas, when cars showed up land was still very spred out that even if you worked in town it was and still is much cheaper to live far from town and buy a car. all this happend before masstransit was around. Trains were basicly used for transport of goods and for long distance travel.
I was under the impression that their fix was simply make http(s)://user:password@www.address.net invalid. If so, that's not so much a fix, as just deciding to break some functionality. Can someone confirm that this is what the "fix" actually is?
That method of user/password should have never been alowed in the first place. Sure its easy but come on, yah broadcasting your username and password to every node along the way is such a good idea, saves some trouble of pharseing the html. not to mention any spyware that sends back what you type into the adress bar
the athlon64 fx uses the same pin layout as the opteron and can be used in the same mother board but lacks SMP support, the plain athlon64 is sorta the budget version of the cip if you can call it that, 450$ as aposed to 750$ and does not work with opteron mother boards, there are many other things that would be best to just google for
Its a matter of a company claiming they are selling a secure product, then saying ohh yeah, if you want to make it secure you have to pay someone else to do it, its crazy. Im not talking aout upgradeing to the newest software for free, im saying security flays in things like the kernel, sendmail, openssh, ect. If MS tried charging for windowsupdate everyone would be up in arms about how evil MS is. Saying that becouse its OSS your free to patch it yourself, or pay someone else to do it, is a good way to get people to switch to windows, or another distro that doesnt charge for security updates such as debian
starting from scratch seems like a good idea at first to you realize that what you end up with is an OS that has no software, and is difficult to port to because you changed the API too much A.K.A beos (whoops we forgot mmap() sorry guys no mozilla for you) as far as apple doing it, well they didn't write from scratch they built on top of BSD and others and said basically "you want to write MacOS software your going to switch too it whether or not you want to because we are not supporting classic for much longer" and they had the money and the fan base to do it
Its most likely vapor ware, every other day there is news about a new system to replace X, but none of them ever made it out of the tech preview stage at best, X really needs to be replaced for desktop/home based systems, for server/thin client based its OK, but its far too basic to truly support all GUI functions of windows/macos what I would like to see is something similar to how qnx works with X windows apps, ware it seems to load X in the background but displays the apps as if they are normal apps, I assume that this idea of xlibs comp. would mean that X apps can load hopefully without requiring a recompile. unfortunately at this point switching the GUI isn't feasible as it would require that video card drivers and software be made for it, and its hard enough getting hardware makers to release X drivers, much less drivers for another windowing system
hate to break this to you, but, there have been viruses that do that already, as early back to when the first flashable bioses apeared, they normaly just blank out the bios makeing it impossible to boot. The only thing you can do is replace the bios or MB. Most bioses have an option to disable flashing, or a jumper on the motherboard. its a good idea to disable flashing and only turn it on when you need to flash
FF XIII had to be the easyest FF, every fight was the same thing, summon, steal, summon,summon,summon,steal. weapons became worthless after about 15min, even the most powerfull weapon upgrades were crap compaired to to the summons you got at the start of the game, and becouse you could summon the same one over and over again, and there was so many of them, there was no reason to even use the fight command, if one died you still had plenty more to use. not to mention, having to sit and watch the summon every frigin time
redhat has had support for reiserfs for a while now, version 8+ at least, when you boot off the cd you have to type "linux reiserfs" (or is it just reiserfs) and it will reiserfs will be in the installer. You may want to check out mdk 9.2 before switching the 9.2rc2 is very nice
the thing about it is that lets say the game has a fps of 30, thats an adverage score, which meens there was a high and a low, in some parts the fps may drop to as low as 0 or as higher then 60, if your trying to frag someone and your fps goes down to 3 your in trouble, the higher the fps rating is the higher the min fps is
the only way we'll see a system start up instantly is if this new ram replaces both the ram and a harddrive, if you were useing the tech as just standerd ram, sure the system would start up faster, but when you started an app it would still load from the hard drive to the ram(unless you just start every app in your system and left them running 24/7 but you would run out of ram rather fast), and when you saved anything it would load from the ram to the hard drive, the way the person in the article explained it, the new ram would replace the hard drive as well. the closest thing we have now would be like handhelds, that your programs are stored on a ramdrive but even then it takes time to start apps couse it has to load from the ramdisk to the ram. for true instant starting of apps the new ram would have to be realy fast or the OS and programs have to be written in such a way that it doesnt have to load anything into ram
the things the size of a bic are not the fuel cells themselves but rather just the fuel, I'm pretty sure the actual fuel cell, is at least the size of a normal battery, as far why not make the fuel packs bigger, prob has to do with a number of things such as space, cost, and the fact that people like the idea of these things being that small, or may have something to do with air ports not allowing over a set amount of flammable liquid, (basically anything larger then a bic)
What's bad is windows 3.11 they havn't updated that in forever, no usb, 3d video, directx, fat32, support for more then 16 megs of ram, ms should support my copy of win3.11 till the end of time. I dont care if the os doesn't have the ablity to support these things, I want them damn it
You've never been to a party that had free beer, ohh man, thats about the only reason many people go to parties is the free food and beer, It's not legal for say the 7-11 to offer beer for free, but I don't think there is any laws for giving beer to your friends for free, unless you live in a "dry county"
uhh, no. if your running old standard hardware and a video card that doesn't support modern 3d, then maybe, and its more then 20 min to install mandrake, on my hardware a p4 2ghz a 48xcdrom drive 1 gig of ram 180 gigs of hard drive space it takes about 40 min to install mandrake NOT counting the time it takes to set up my 3d card. it takes me about 2 hours to get my radeon 9000 to work with my mb in linux, lots of trial and error with the agpgart mod. and mucking with XF86config, (o.k in all honesty thats when I forget how to do it and have to do a lot of searching on how to get it to work) not to mention thats only when I use the very crapy 3d drivers that come with xfree 4.3, I never did manage to get the ati drivers to install (there is drivers for xfree4.3 floating around the net, ati doesn't host them on their site, they don't seem to work with my mb), on my system the time it takes to install winxp pro, office xp, and all the drivers in my system and even download all the windows updates takes about an hour and a half. and after that installing a new sp, or update or new software is only a few min.
download service pack 1a, double click on the file and click ok, wait for it to finish and reboot. ohh man that was so hard, the XP sp1/a updates just about every part of the OS including kernel32.dll, and get this you don't have to muck around with your drivers, or the utilities to install them
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Ive had pretty good experience's with yahoo mail and spam myself, well lack of spam actually. Ive been pretty smart with my yahoo address as well, the only spam I get is from stuff I know Ive signed up for. I've liked the service enough to pay for the mail plus thing(ad free, pop,disposable addresses).
As for the beta it seems pretty good, I can't comment on the annoyance of the ads sence I don't see them (the mail plus transfers over to the beta it seems) but it does work under linux firefox
The main advantage of linspire/freespire is that it works very well out of the box nvidia/ati drivers, printer/network printer/ media codecs (divx/mpg/quicktime/wm/real/ect) all preinstalled wich makes it a good choice for small OEMS that want to install linux and not have to do a lot of tweeking to get the distro to work with the hardware
as far as maintenance/updates spire follows sorta debian stable aproach in that it takes them a long time to update software unless there is a security problem (spire is not for people who want the latest and greatest)
The major drawbacks I found with freespire/linspire
1) Its dog slow, takes a long time to bootup, apps take longer to start compared to other distros
2) doesnt setup the monitor corectly, requires setting the resolution and refresh rate in its controll panal, possible to set it outside the spects of the display (i.e 100 hz on a 75hz max monitor)
3) A lot of outdated software such as kde 3.3
I wish there was a modern version of the "Turbo" button
for thoes that don't know.. so many games and programs were made for the 8086/8088 that when they started upping the clockspeed many games ran too fast so they implimented the turbo button so that you could slow down the cpu to make old games and such useable
would be nice now to beable to push a button and have games from around 1995~ or so that I have lieing around playable again.. but alas that would be an interesting trick sence you'd have to impliment 3dfx voodoo 1, soundblaster and true dos in software/hardware
As far as I know linspire is the only linux company to try and get a windows media license. And sence microsoft doesnt make money on windows media players, only the development tools and drm stuff they went "meh here you go, that will be $100k"
Most licenced products like the ones included with freespire do have bulk fees ware the company just pays a flat amount for unlimited/per year/per 100k users/ect
Linspire and I assume freespire as well, has always focused on small OEMs rather then businesses or individuals.
A person may not care if the mp3 player is legal to play their pireted mp3s, a business maynot care if the employies have access to mp3/flash/ect, However a small OEM thats looking for an alternative to windows does care. Its a lot easier and PR friendly to use a distro that has legal access to such things, then deal with support calls asking how to play mp3s or demands for windows xp from people wondering why their new computer does less then the old XP/98 box did
Very little can be done about bad caps. bad capacitors have been a problem with electronics sense .. well.. they were invented.
A cap is basically a chemical rechargeable battery made for quick charging and discharging. The best you can hope for is the use of high quality chemicals. You have to understand however the people who make them make millions of them and its very difficult to maintain a low impurity count in the chemicals while still making a profit.
There is a reason why most electronics have a 90 warranty min. As most bad caps (as well as shoddy solder points) will show up in the first 90 days of use
It wasn't meant to be run as a full time OS that would be silly. Its more of a "because we can" type thing.
Its not completely useless it would be good for testing cross-platform apps or web pages.
you cant live you life under feer that terrorists are going to do something. If someone wanted to do something terrorist like blocking RFID tags would be pretty far down the list, knocking out the power to the airport would be a far more efective thing. RFID tags are a good idea for airports, yeah there will be bugs but there are also bugs in the barcode system least with rfid tags when the system come back online they know exactly ware your stuff is, and if its setup corectly could tell if you stuff got sent to another airport, notify who ever is in charge and have it sent to the right place rather fast as they dont have to search for it, they can just pick it up and throw it on a plane to ware it needs to be
It dates back to the wild west days, back then there was so much free to cheep land that people would just pick a spot far from everyone (more land for themselfs and safer from outlaws) when they needed things from town they get on thier horse and travel a few days to town. very few people lived in the towns becouse of the cost or need if you were a rancher what point would there be. the result was a very spread out areas, when cars showed up land was still very spred out that even if you worked in town it was and still is much cheaper to live far from town and buy a car. all this happend before masstransit was around. Trains were basicly used for transport of goods and for long distance travel.
I was under the impression that their fix was simply make http(s)://user:password@www.address.net invalid. If so, that's not so much a fix, as just deciding to break some functionality. Can someone confirm that this is what the "fix" actually is?
That method of user/password should have never been alowed in the first place. Sure its easy but come on, yah broadcasting your username and password to every node along the way is such a good idea, saves some trouble of pharseing the html. not to mention any spyware that sends back what you type into the adress bar
Wal-mart: We plan on selling music online, we plan on giving you 40c per download
Record label: NO! We want 75c per song
Wal-mart: fine we will stop selling your music in our stores
record label: err.. damn.. fine 40c it is then
thats how wal-mart works
the athlon64 fx uses the same pin layout as the opteron and can be used in the same mother board but lacks SMP support, the plain athlon64 is sorta the budget version of the cip if you can call it that, 450$ as aposed to 750$ and does not work with opteron mother boards, there are many other things that would be best to just google for
Its a matter of a company claiming they are selling a secure product, then saying ohh yeah, if you want to make it secure you have to pay someone else to do it, its crazy. Im not talking aout upgradeing to the newest software for free, im saying security flays in things like the kernel, sendmail, openssh, ect. If MS tried charging for windowsupdate everyone would be up in arms about how evil MS is. Saying that becouse its OSS your free to patch it yourself, or pay someone else to do it, is a good way to get people to switch to windows, or another distro that doesnt charge for security updates such as debian
starting from scratch seems like a good idea at first to you realize that what you end up with is an OS that has no software, and is difficult to port to because you changed the API too much A.K.A beos (whoops we forgot mmap() sorry guys no mozilla for you) as far as apple doing it, well they didn't write from scratch they built on top of BSD and others and said basically "you want to write MacOS software your going to switch too it whether or not you want to because we are not supporting classic for much longer" and they had the money and the fan base to do it
Its most likely vapor ware, every other day there is news about a new system to replace X, but none of them ever made it out of the tech preview stage at best, X really needs to be replaced for desktop/home based systems, for server/thin client based its OK, but its far too basic to truly support all GUI functions of windows/macos what I would like to see is something similar to how qnx works with X windows apps, ware it seems to load X in the background but displays the apps as if they are normal apps, I assume that this idea of xlibs comp. would mean that X apps can load hopefully without requiring a recompile. unfortunately at this point switching the GUI isn't feasible as it would require that video card drivers and software be made for it, and its hard enough getting hardware makers to release X drivers, much less drivers for another windowing system
hate to break this to you, but, there have been viruses that do that already, as early back to when the first flashable bioses apeared, they normaly just blank out the bios makeing it impossible to boot. The only thing you can do is replace the bios or MB. Most bioses have an option to disable flashing, or a jumper on the motherboard. its a good idea to disable flashing and only turn it on when you need to flash
FF XIII had to be the easyest FF, every fight was the same thing, summon, steal, summon,summon,summon,steal. weapons became worthless after about 15min, even the most powerfull weapon upgrades were crap compaired to to the summons you got at the start of the game, and becouse you could summon the same one over and over again, and there was so many of them, there was no reason to even use the fight command, if one died you still had plenty more to use. not to mention, having to sit and watch the summon every frigin time
redhat has had support for reiserfs for a while now, version 8+ at least, when you boot off the cd you have to type "linux reiserfs" (or is it just reiserfs) and it will reiserfs will be in the installer. You may want to check out mdk 9.2 before switching the 9.2rc2 is very nice
the thing about it is that lets say the game has a fps of 30, thats an adverage score, which meens there was a high and a low, in some parts the fps may drop to as low as 0 or as higher then 60, if your trying to frag someone and your fps goes down to 3 your in trouble, the higher the fps rating is the higher the min fps is
the only way we'll see a system start up instantly is if this new ram replaces both the ram and a harddrive, if you were useing the tech as just standerd ram, sure the system would start up faster, but when you started an app it would still load from the hard drive to the ram(unless you just start every app in your system and left them running 24/7 but you would run out of ram rather fast), and when you saved anything it would load from the ram to the hard drive, the way the person in the article explained it, the new ram would replace the hard drive as well. the closest thing we have now would be like handhelds, that your programs are stored on a ramdrive but even then it takes time to start apps couse it has to load from the ramdisk to the ram. for true instant starting of apps the new ram would have to be realy fast or the OS and programs have to be written in such a way that it doesnt have to load anything into ram
the things the size of a bic are not the fuel cells themselves but rather just the fuel, I'm pretty sure the actual fuel cell, is at least the size of a normal battery, as far why not make the fuel packs bigger, prob has to do with a number of things such as space, cost, and the fact that people like the idea of these things being that small, or may have something to do with air ports not allowing over a set amount of flammable liquid, (basically anything larger then a bic)
What's bad is windows 3.11 they havn't updated that in forever, no usb, 3d video, directx, fat32, support for more then 16 megs of ram, ms should support my copy of win3.11 till the end of time. I dont care if the os doesn't have the ablity to support these things, I want them damn it
You've never been to a party that had free beer, ohh man, thats about the only reason many people go to parties is the free food and beer, It's not legal for say the 7-11 to offer beer for free, but I don't think there is any laws for giving beer to your friends for free, unless you live in a "dry county"
uhh, no. if your running old standard hardware and a video card that doesn't support modern 3d, then maybe, and its more then 20 min to install mandrake, on my hardware a p4 2ghz a 48xcdrom drive 1 gig of ram 180 gigs of hard drive space it takes about 40 min to install mandrake NOT counting the time it takes to set up my 3d card. it takes me about 2 hours to get my radeon 9000 to work with my mb in linux, lots of trial and error with the agpgart mod. and mucking with XF86config, (o.k in all honesty thats when I forget how to do it and have to do a lot of searching on how to get it to work) not to mention thats only when I use the very crapy 3d drivers that come with xfree 4.3, I never did manage to get the ati drivers to install (there is drivers for xfree4.3 floating around the net, ati doesn't host them on their site, they don't seem to work with my mb), on my system the time it takes to install winxp pro, office xp, and all the drivers in my system and even download all the windows updates takes about an hour and a half. and after that installing a new sp, or update or new software is only a few min.
download service pack 1a, double click on the file and click ok, wait for it to finish and reboot. ohh man that was so hard, the XP sp1/a updates just about every part of the OS including kernel32.dll, and get this you don't have to muck around with your drivers, or the utilities to install them