Funny thing is when ran fortune this morning I got: PANIC: Can't find/ Which is also the quote at the bottom of MacSlash right now. Felt alot more like:
PANIC: Can't find/.
I was just leaving my house to go demand my News for Nerds and/or Stuff that Matters, when something hit me: THIS IS SPECTACULAR RESOLUTION!!!
When I stepped outside it looked like everything was being generated by 500,000,000 GeForce3s!!! The trees looked REAL!! It must have been at least 1,600,000,000 x 1,240,000,000!!! I couln't even see any jaggies! Talk about anti-ailiasing!!
After spending 2 days outside sue to lack of Slashdot it's hard to come back to my Power Mac 6100/60 with a 14" monitor at 640x480. I wish I had reality's 3D card...
And it seem's Slashdot has slashdotted itself. How did that happen??
By porting NetBSD to an machine that exists only in the future you are messing up the delicate time-space continuum! The fact that this impossible OS exits is just causing the earth to collapse on itself.
If this goes on we are going to have the Pentium 9 avalible before the Pentium 5, Office 2005 before Office 2003. And when that happens any Pentium 9 computer will collapse on itself, being so fast that the universe will not have sped up to account for Moore's law! Don't you ever wonder why Windows 3.11 on a 386 with 4MB of RAM was as fast as Windows XP on an Athlon 4 with 512MB of RAM???
By running NetBSD on an x86-64 simulator you are creating a gap in time. The more people use the x86-64 simulator the bigger the gap will be. Eventually the gap will become so big that stuff will start coming through. First software such as WindowsZX/2023. Unfoutonetly WindowsZX will require a 2.4 THz Pentium 13(801986) with 512GB of RAM.
So of course Intel or AMD will build a 1986/P13 simulator to run WindowsZX. The motherboard of the computer will collapse causing a HUGE reverse black hole to spit out a a REAL Pentium 13. As well as 512GB or RAM.
If you thought running an operating system from 2023 was bad you can't imagine what a Pentium 13 would do! When they turn the Pentium 13 box on it would completly deplete California's power supply. That is until the entire California from 2099 gets sucked to where California is now.
Now that California has technology from 2099 such as WindowsBLT and the Pentium 86, the Universe hasn't ajusted to Moore's law and part of the world is running 3GGLHz (Googol Hertz) machines. California is now running 300 times slower than the rest of the world, and is causing random stuff from the future to appear. Which sets those parts of the world out of sync.
By now no part of the world is in sync and parts of the future are appearing everywhere. As you probably have figured out, this will eventualy spread to the rest of the universe. Destroying it.
Motto of this story: By running NetBSD on an x86-64 simulator, you have already doomed the universe.
Yes I know is is somewhat offtopic, but CmdrTaco did link to the wrong place with the LiViD link. www.livid.org goes to someguy's homepage while www.linuxvideo.orrg goes to LiViD. So this is ontopic. And it makes fun of Smart Tags.
I didn't know Word sucked at importing WP so much. Luckily I've didn't have to import anything from WP to Word on my Mac when I bought it because the only.WPD files I had were stuff from when I was like 5 years old messing around on the 286. When ever I have to use a.DOC file on my parent's PC I just open the copy of Word that Conpaq was so nice to install for us...
Thanks, I got bored and wrote it and then decided to put it on my crappy nameless site that isn't done yet. Or has been for 6 months.
I bought my Mac myself about a month ago and am still owe my dad's mac using friend 11 bucks for the monitor. Once I get that paid off I getting a modem for it and then desining my page using it and photoshop, one of the reasons I bought it.
What KWord and that need are filters for other formats, paticularily WordPerfect 6-10. The thing about WordPerfect is that once you get WP6's format working you can open WP7, WP8, WP9 and WP10 because Corel never changes the format, unlike MS.
Without this my Dad can't switch to KWord or anything else (doubt he would want to though, he like WP8 too much) because he is an Auto Teacher and he has about 10 years worth of tests and stuff in WP format dating back to WP 5.1 on a 286 and DOS 5.1. (I remember that 286. Orange and black monitor. Those were the good old days.:-) And I know WP runs on Linux but everyone that I know hates WP for Linux.
While it would be possible to convert them all to RTF or something, he has hundreds and hundreds of files it won't be easy or fast.
What RedHat and others can to focus on is telling the Average Consumer that Windows XP is violating their privacy, among other things. Every few days I tell my dad about Windows XP's evil features (Such as Hardware ID stuff) and he considers switching to Macs or Linux more and more. But again the biggest thing keeping him back is lack of ANY WordPerfect format compatibility. (Minus WP it's self). The biggest thing keeping me form switching from my Mac and Word is lack of good consistant GUI.
I should stop rambling on and sum my post up: WordPerfect compatibility is important too!
I realized after I posted my comment that I should have put the discaimer "This is completly unscientific." I didn't run any benchmarks or anything. It was just what it felt like. Mozilla felt faster than IE6. The Interface felt about the same. But these are the kind of "Bechmarks" that matter, real-world opinions, not any tests of actual rendering speed or anything. Use a browser that feels faster, not one that has proven in benchmarks to be 5/12ths of a second faster. And I'm using an old 380Mhz K6-II, and I can agree that you wouldn't want to put Mozilla on a 386 with 4MB of RAM but, with any machine sold from a few years ago to today the interface should feel about the same.
And about the sidebar, I still say that Microsoft "Innovated" the sidebar from Mozilla. The IE4-5 sidebar has only for history. The IE6 sidebar now has stocks and weather and a cruddy MSN search. It sounds like Mozilla's sidebar to me, and in about 3 or so months it has felt like Moz's sidebar. And MS shouldn't drop the "Personal Bar" as it is useful. I use it quite a bit for getting the weather and seeing what BEOS, AAPL, MSFT and RHAT are at right now. The only thing they should rip out is the media player. I want to use WinAmp, not the embedded MS-Media Player.
I have been using Microsoft's IE6 Beta on my parent's PC (my Mac doesn't have a modem) for the past while for my browsing. I just downloaded Mozilla 0.9.1 and I'll do a quick comparison:
Disclaimer: IE6 is in Beta. But so is Mozilla.
Startup Speed: IE6. But IE Programmers probably know a bit more about Windows than Moz Developers... And someone else said Moz now has an IE like always on mode now. Winner: IE6
Interface: I used to hate the Old Modern theme. The new one is 10x better. I can say Moz wins by a long shot. Winner: Moz 0.9.1
Rendering Speed: When I downloaded IE6 I thought nothing could get faster than it. There was next to no waiting for a page to render. Even my copy of Moz at the time (I think 0.8.1) wasn't as fast. This new copy of Moz is just a tiny bit faster, but it is faster. Winner: Moz 0.9.1 but not by much
Image Rendering: With Moz's new libpr0n it beat's IE6 by a small->meduim amount. Winner: Moz 0.9.1
Interface Speed: I no longer notice the "XUL Lag" I did with older Mozillas. But as IE6 is Win32 native it is a little faster. Winner: IE6 but not by much
Download & Install: I have a 56k modem because I live in the middle of nowhere, so I can tell you that downloading big stuff sucks. IE6 brings up this smart installer like NS6 so you can select what more Microsoft software you want. I chose Outlook Express and Internet Explorer. Rougly what is included in the Mozilla.EXE installer. Moz is about 9MB while IE6+OE6 was something like 13MB. Plus IE rebooted my PC and updated a bunch of stuff which took like 10 minutes alltogether. Moz installed easily and with out a reboot. Winner: Moz 0.9.1
Editable Text Boxes: About the only thing that I hate about Mozilla is the Slashdot comment box type thing. IE6 uses a native embedded notepad type thing while Moz uses the horrible XUL Text Box. The XUL Box sometimes doesn't catch my keystrokes and it is horrible for navigating with the mouse. It take me about three trys to get where I want it the XUL box. Winner: IE6 by a long, long shot.
Stability: I haven't used Moz 0.9.1 long enough to get an opinion, but the IE6 beta has only crashed about 4 times in about 3 months of heavy use. Winner: Probably IE6
Loading Cached Pages: Mozilla loads and renders cached pages instantly or near instanly. IE6 takes a second to load it from my disk. Winner: Moz 0.9.1
Sidebar: IE6 ripped off Moz's sidebar. There are more stuff for the Moz sidebar but for the two things I look at the most (stocks & weather (no I don't own any stocks, I'm 13...)) Moz always want's me to log back into NS's Server. Yes I know this is NS's Fault but I have to count it. Plus when the Browser-With-90%-Market-Share(tm) debuts in non-beta for with sidebars everyone will make an IE6 sidebar, mark my words... Winner: Tie For Now
Overall Winner: Moz 0.9.1! But IE6 has some yet unimplemented features such as privacy protection (gasp!) and a bunch of other stuff. I will try to give a Browser comparison every few browser releases to keep up.
I've Tried to give an unbiased opinion. I don't really hate MS that much as I use MS Office 6 on my Power Mac 6100 and I like it. And I can say that IE6 is very good. But Moz just tied/exceeded IE6 for now. But any new features will be assimilated, see My SideBar.
--Volrath50
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570. Add euro locales and some other missing locales to locale.alias and
locale.dir (#4662, 4665, 4667, Mike Harris).
569. Fix Romanian XKB map (#4664, Mike Harris).
568. Spell Portuguese correctly in XKB lst files (#4663, Mike Harris).
EEK! Mike Harris is the premier of Ontario, Canada. And also I guy I hate. Now he's working on Free Software?!?! What is the world coming to....
It gets worse: I have a Conpaq that refuses to boot from a floppy. The RedHat CD was bootable so I was able to install it. I've looked into it and the only way for me to get FreeBSD without driving to the US or Toronto or something is to buy that FreeBSD book for $110Can. It looked quite good but I can't remember the name...
I'd download FreeBSD if I could even with my 56k connection, but I don't have a CD-Burner. I got RedHat in the book "RedHat Linux for Dummies". The book was crap but it's the only way I could get any UNIX in the Middle of Nowhere(tm) (Southern Ontario). It sucks when the only way I can upgrade to RedHat 7.X is to buy a new dummie book.
In short I was generalizing, I guess a little too much for some people...
I do know that all Unices have there strengths and weaknesses, and I know most of them, I just didn't want to spend 10 more minutes I don't have typing out all the strengths. I figured that the average/.er would already know them. My post was more "Would you please stop fighting over which is best! They are all good!"
Someone else pointed out that many GNU/Linux apps won't compile on some POSIX systems. I know that. I said most. I should have said "Most POSIX compliant programs designed for GNU/Linux will compile with little or no modification, others with much more modification." Again, I figured most people would know that not all programs will compile.
Anyways I guess in futre post I'll have to point out every last thing about UNIXs that I know for risk of someone saying that I should have said that. You'd think that people would be able to know that I was just generalizing....
Over in the Linux on PS1 forum I posted a responce to a BSD guy saying Linux is pointless then I come and see that there is a BSD story and that a flamewar will probably erupt. This forum is the much more appropriete place for it. I'm going to post my post minus the stuff on the PS1. Of course some idiot moderator will mod me down redundent but...
First of I have nothing against BSD, heck anything I write*, is being released under the BSD licence. The only reason I have RedHat GNU/Linux rather than FreeBSD on my parent's PC is because I live in a small town and the only way to get FreeBSD is to drive two hours away and buy a $110CAN Book and I'm 13 and have no credit card to buy it online.
Now that the disclaimer is out of the way... Until I got my Macintosh I did all my work in KOffice using XFce as my Window Manager. I found it quite easy to use and powerful for the price of $0. I'm sure I could do just the same on FreeBSD or any UNIX. I really don't see why anyone makes a big deal about which UNIX they run. When someone asks me what I run I Anwser "My Mac for working and gaming and UNIX for Programming."
Arguing over which UNIX is better is pointless because until you get to the source level they look, feel and behave about the same. Most GNU/Linux programs will Compile on BSD/Tru64/AIX/HP-UX/QNX/BeOS or anything that has a POSIX layer, thus making the argument that "My UNIX is better than your UNIX!" worse. I don't see why UNIX people can't get along: vi vs emacs, KDE vs GNOME, GUI vs CLI, BSD vs GNU/Linux...
The funny thing is the only thing UNIX people will agree on is that UNIX is the best.
*All I've got written right now is a dice roller in Perl, I AM only 13...
First of I have nothing against BSD, heck anything I wright*, is being released under the BSD licence. The only reason I have RedHat GNU/Linux rather than FreeBSD is because I live in a small town and the only way to get FreeBSD is to drive two hours away and buy a $110CAN Book and I'm 13 and have no credit card to buy it online.
Now that the disclaimer is out of the way... The fact that someone ported Linux to the PS1/Dreamcast/PS2 does not make it so you can not do work on it. Until I got my Macintosh I did all my work in KOffice using XFce as my Window Manager. I found it quite easy to use and powerful for the price of $0. I'm sure I could do just the same on FreeBSD or any UNIX. I really don't see why anyone makes a big deal about which UNIX they run. When someone asks me what I run I Anwser "My Mac for working and gaming and UNIX for Programming."
Arguing over which UNIX is better is pointless because until you get to the source level they look, feel and behave about the same. Most GNU/Linux programs will Compile on BSD/Tru64/AIX/HP-UX/QNX/BeOS or anything that has a POSIX layer, thus making the argument that "My UNIX is better than your UNIX!" worse. I don't see why UNIX people can't get along: vi vs emacs, KDE vs GNOME, GUI vs CLI, BSD vs GNU/Linux...
The funny thing is the only thing UNIX people will agree on is that UNIX is the best.
*All I've got written right now is a dice roller in Perl, I AM only 13...
Dude! That's my post!! Now if I were a big company I'd probably sue you... But seeing as I'm not I'm glad more people get to see my post, which I came up with at 2.4.4-pre6 or something and had to wait until 2.4.4...
But anyway glad you got modded upto 3 so I don't have to look like moron "recycling" my old post...
Also, will it run under the different Graphical User Interfaces (GUI's) available for Linux? GNU, KDE, and GNOME are the most popular, but there are others available too.
Gee, I always though GNU Wasn't UNIX, not a GUI... Does anyone have an idea for what GNU stands for now that it's a GUI?
GNU's Not Ugly?
GUIs not UNIX?
Any other ideas?
And why is it that Microsoft keeps stating that Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. but not that Linux is a Registered trademark of Linus Torvalds?
Dear Mr. Coward;
Yes I am aware that people use Windows when they would like to use Linux. Infact I'm using Windows right now due to reasons beyond my control. I was just pointing out that it was a little suprising to see only 13% UNIX on a UNIX site. And most of the 4% or so that is unknown is probably Konqueror. I use the same stat page on my site and Konqueror doesn't identify itself. And only 80% of the hits are from the/. effect. Alltogether the stat raises to probably 20% UNIX. Though I can't be sure.
At least I don't post as an AC when I have something "Offtopic" to post.
What I find very interesting is two links away from the/.ed page is a page that has logs it's not a direct/.ing but still interesting. Only 11% of the people use Linux. And I do know I'll probably get modded offtopic for this so unless I post something releted to Quake. I'll try to think of something about Quake....
Has anyone tried the Fisheye Quake? It looks quite interesting only I tried it on my Win98 Box with Quake and now I'm in DLL hell. Can't find WDIRxxF.DLL. Anyway I'll see if I can get the other one working. Though on my cruddy Win98 box (or any of my boxen for that matter) it'll probably suck as It's just a Conpaq K6-II 380MHz with a 4Meg non-3d card.
Internet Access via Carrier Pigeons... It'll be good for everyone in areas where there's no broadband schedualed for the next 5 years (like me, damn 56k, three hours for the Linux Kernel). Unfourtunatly it will be more limited to my Central Office than DSL. I'll have five "plans": One Pigeon with One packet at a time (2-300bps). 10 Pigeons with one Packet each. (20bps-3k). 1 Pigeon with 10 Packets (20bps-3k). 10 Pigeons with 10 Packets each (200bps-30k). Or for the Wealthy, the BroadPigeon option, 100 Pigeons with 10 packets each, (2k-300k).
Of course you'll be more likley to get closer to 2bps-2k but becuase someone MIGHT live next door to me I can advertise "Up to 300k Per Second!!!*" The more pigeons you have the more expensive it is but the more packets they carry the more chance one of them will faint and you'll get packet loss...
*Depending on how close you are to the Central Office of PigeonBand Inc.
Slashdot Mirror
PANIC: Can't find
Which is also the quote at the bottom of MacSlash right now. Felt alot more like:
PANIC: Can't find
--Volrath50
When I stepped outside it looked like everything was being generated by 500,000,000 GeForce3s!!! The trees looked REAL!! It must have been at least 1,600,000,000 x 1,240,000,000!!! I couln't even see any jaggies! Talk about anti-ailiasing!!
After spending 2 days outside sue to lack of Slashdot it's hard to come back to my Power Mac 6100/60 with a 14" monitor at 640x480. I wish I had reality's 3D card...
And it seem's Slashdot has slashdotted itself. How did that happen??
--Volrath50
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If this goes on we are going to have the Pentium 9 avalible before the Pentium 5, Office 2005 before Office 2003. And when that happens any Pentium 9 computer will collapse on itself, being so fast that the universe will not have sped up to account for Moore's law! Don't you ever wonder why Windows 3.11 on a 386 with 4MB of RAM was as fast as Windows XP on an Athlon 4 with 512MB of RAM???
By running NetBSD on an x86-64 simulator you are creating a gap in time. The more people use the x86-64 simulator the bigger the gap will be. Eventually the gap will become so big that stuff will start coming through. First software such as WindowsZX/2023. Unfoutonetly WindowsZX will require a 2.4 THz Pentium 13(801986) with 512GB of RAM.
So of course Intel or AMD will build a 1986/P13 simulator to run WindowsZX. The motherboard of the computer will collapse causing a HUGE reverse black hole to spit out a a REAL Pentium 13. As well as 512GB or RAM.
If you thought running an operating system from 2023 was bad you can't imagine what a Pentium 13 would do! When they turn the Pentium 13 box on it would completly deplete California's power supply. That is until the entire California from 2099 gets sucked to where California is now.
Now that California has technology from 2099 such as WindowsBLT and the Pentium 86, the Universe hasn't ajusted to Moore's law and part of the world is running 3GGLHz (Googol Hertz) machines. California is now running 300 times slower than the rest of the world, and is causing random stuff from the future to appear. Which sets those parts of the world out of sync.
By now no part of the world is in sync and parts of the future are appearing everywhere. As you probably have figured out, this will eventualy spread to the rest of the universe. Destroying it.
Motto of this story: By running NetBSD on an x86-64 simulator, you have already doomed the universe.
Have a nice day!
--Volrath50
Dude! The LiViD link links to the wrong place! You should check your linksto make sure they go to the right place.
Perhaps someonecould write an open source Perl script that checks links and put it in Slashcode so that CmdrTaco never links to the wrong place again.
Or perhaps Microsoft just put some smart tag code in Slash.
Yes I know is is somewhat offtopic, but CmdrTaco did link to the wrong place with the LiViD link. www.livid.org goes to someguy's homepage while www.linuxvideo.orrg goes to LiViD. So this is ontopic. And it makes fun of Smart Tags.
--Volrath50
Here are some relevent links:
An Opinion from OsOpinion
The Gartner Report Itself
--Volrath50
Gender Recognition: Opera has it. IE and Mozilla don't.
Winner: Opera, by far.
EEK! Opera has gender recognition! Holy hell! How did they do that?!?! Is this going to be sold to DoubleClick??? :-)
--Volrath50
I didn't know Word sucked at importing WP so much. Luckily I've didn't have to import anything from WP to Word on my Mac when I bought it because the only .WPD files I had were stuff from when I was like 5 years old messing around on the 286. When ever I have to use a .DOC file on my parent's PC I just open the copy of Word that Conpaq was so nice to install for us...
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Thanks, I got bored and wrote it and then decided to put it on my crappy nameless site that isn't done yet. Or has been for 6 months.
I bought my Mac myself about a month ago and am still owe my dad's mac using friend 11 bucks for the monitor. Once I get that paid off I getting a modem for it and then desining my page using it and photoshop, one of the reasons I bought it.
--Volrath50
What KWord and that need are filters for other formats, paticularily WordPerfect 6-10. The thing about WordPerfect is that once you get WP6's format working you can open WP7, WP8, WP9 and WP10 because Corel never changes the format, unlike MS.
Without this my Dad can't switch to KWord or anything else (doubt he would want to though, he like WP8 too much) because he is an Auto Teacher and he has about 10 years worth of tests and stuff in WP format dating back to WP 5.1 on a 286 and DOS 5.1. (I remember that 286. Orange and black monitor. Those were the good old days. :-) And I know WP runs on Linux but everyone that I know hates WP for Linux.
While it would be possible to convert them all to RTF or something, he has hundreds and hundreds of files it won't be easy or fast.
What RedHat and others can to focus on is telling the Average Consumer that Windows XP is violating their privacy, among other things. Every few days I tell my dad about Windows XP's evil features (Such as Hardware ID stuff) and he considers switching to Macs or Linux more and more. But again the biggest thing keeping him back is lack of ANY WordPerfect format compatibility. (Minus WP it's self). The biggest thing keeping me form switching from my Mac and Word is lack of good consistant GUI.
I should stop rambling on and sum my post up: WordPerfect compatibility is important too!
--Volrath50
I realized after I posted my comment that I should have put the discaimer "This is completly unscientific." I didn't run any benchmarks or anything. It was just what it felt like. Mozilla felt faster than IE6. The Interface felt about the same. But these are the kind of "Bechmarks" that matter, real-world opinions, not any tests of actual rendering speed or anything. Use a browser that feels faster, not one that has proven in benchmarks to be 5/12ths of a second faster. And I'm using an old 380Mhz K6-II, and I can agree that you wouldn't want to put Mozilla on a 386 with 4MB of RAM but, with any machine sold from a few years ago to today the interface should feel about the same.
And about the sidebar, I still say that Microsoft "Innovated" the sidebar from Mozilla. The IE4-5 sidebar has only for history. The IE6 sidebar now has stocks and weather and a cruddy MSN search. It sounds like Mozilla's sidebar to me, and in about 3 or so months it has felt like Moz's sidebar. And MS shouldn't drop the "Personal Bar" as it is useful. I use it quite a bit for getting the weather and seeing what BEOS, AAPL, MSFT and RHAT are at right now. The only thing they should rip out is the media player. I want to use WinAmp, not the embedded MS-Media Player.
--Volrath50
I have been using Microsoft's IE6 Beta on my parent's PC (my Mac doesn't have a modem) for the past while for my browsing. I just downloaded Mozilla 0.9.1 and I'll do a quick comparison:
Disclaimer: IE6 is in Beta. But so is Mozilla.
Startup Speed: IE6. But IE Programmers probably know a bit more about Windows than Moz Developers... And someone else said Moz now has an IE like always on mode now.
Winner: IE6
Interface: I used to hate the Old Modern theme. The new one is 10x better. I can say Moz wins by a long shot.
Winner: Moz 0.9.1
Rendering Speed: When I downloaded IE6 I thought nothing could get faster than it. There was next to no waiting for a page to render. Even my copy of Moz at the time (I think 0.8.1) wasn't as fast. This new copy of Moz is just a tiny bit faster, but it is faster.
Winner: Moz 0.9.1 but not by much
Image Rendering: With Moz's new libpr0n it beat's IE6 by a small->meduim amount.
Winner: Moz 0.9.1
Interface Speed: I no longer notice the "XUL Lag" I did with older Mozillas. But as IE6 is Win32 native it is a little faster.
Winner: IE6 but not by much
Download & Install: I have a 56k modem because I live in the middle of nowhere, so I can tell you that downloading big stuff sucks. IE6 brings up this smart installer like NS6 so you can select what more Microsoft software you want. I chose Outlook Express and Internet Explorer. Rougly what is included in the Mozilla .EXE installer. Moz is about 9MB while IE6+OE6 was something like 13MB. Plus IE rebooted my PC and updated a bunch of stuff which took like 10 minutes alltogether. Moz installed easily and with out a reboot.
Winner: Moz 0.9.1
Editable Text Boxes: About the only thing that I hate about Mozilla is the Slashdot comment box type thing. IE6 uses a native embedded notepad type thing while Moz uses the horrible XUL Text Box. The XUL Box sometimes doesn't catch my keystrokes and it is horrible for navigating with the mouse. It take me about three trys to get where I want it the XUL box.
Winner: IE6 by a long, long shot.
Stability: I haven't used Moz 0.9.1 long enough to get an opinion, but the IE6 beta has only crashed about 4 times in about 3 months of heavy use.
Winner: Probably IE6
Loading Cached Pages: Mozilla loads and renders cached pages instantly or near instanly. IE6 takes a second to load it from my disk.
Winner: Moz 0.9.1
Sidebar: IE6 ripped off Moz's sidebar. There are more stuff for the Moz sidebar but for the two things I look at the most (stocks & weather (no I don't own any stocks, I'm 13...)) Moz always want's me to log back into NS's Server. Yes I know this is NS's Fault but I have to count it. Plus when the Browser-With-90%-Market-Share(tm) debuts in non-beta for with sidebars everyone will make an IE6 sidebar, mark my words...
Winner: Tie For Now
Overall Winner: Moz 0.9.1! But IE6 has some yet unimplemented features such as privacy protection (gasp!) and a bunch of other stuff. I will try to give a Browser comparison every few browser releases to keep up.
I've Tried to give an unbiased opinion. I don't really hate MS that much as I use MS Office 6 on my Power Mac 6100 and I like it. And I can say that IE6 is very good. But Moz just tied/exceeded IE6 for now. But any new features will be assimilated, see My SideBar.
--Volrath50
570. Add euro locales and some other missing locales to locale.alias and locale.dir (#4662, 4665, 4667, Mike Harris). 569. Fix Romanian XKB map (#4664, Mike Harris). 568. Spell Portuguese correctly in XKB lst files (#4663, Mike Harris).
EEK! Mike Harris is the premier of Ontario, Canada. And also I guy I hate. Now he's working on Free Software?!?! What is the world coming to....
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In short I was generalizing, I guess a little too much for some people...
I do know that all Unices have there strengths and weaknesses, and I know most of them, I just didn't want to spend 10 more minutes I don't have typing out all the strengths. I figured that the average /.er would already know them. My post was more "Would you please stop fighting over which is best! They are all good!"
Someone else pointed out that many GNU/Linux apps won't compile on some POSIX systems. I know that. I said most. I should have said "Most POSIX compliant programs designed for GNU/Linux will compile with little or no modification, others with much more modification." Again, I figured most people would know that not all programs will compile.
Anyways I guess in futre post I'll have to point out every last thing about UNIXs that I know for risk of someone saying that I should have said that. You'd think that people would be able to know that I was just generalizing....
--Volrath50
Over in the Linux on PS1 forum I posted a responce to a BSD guy saying Linux is pointless then I come and see that there is a BSD story and that a flamewar will probably erupt. This forum is the much more appropriete place for it. I'm going to post my post minus the stuff on the PS1. Of course some idiot moderator will mod me down redundent but...
First of I have nothing against BSD, heck anything I write*, is being released under the BSD licence. The only reason I have RedHat GNU/Linux rather than FreeBSD on my parent's PC is because I live in a small town and the only way to get FreeBSD is to drive two hours away and buy a $110CAN Book and I'm 13 and have no credit card to buy it online.
Now that the disclaimer is out of the way...
Until I got my Macintosh I did all my work in KOffice using XFce as my Window Manager. I found it quite easy to use and powerful for the price of $0. I'm sure I could do just the same on FreeBSD or any UNIX. I really don't see why anyone makes a big deal about which UNIX they run. When someone asks me what I run I Anwser "My Mac for working and gaming and UNIX for Programming."
Arguing over which UNIX is better is pointless because until you get to the source level they look, feel and behave about the same. Most GNU/Linux programs will Compile on BSD/Tru64/AIX/HP-UX/QNX/BeOS or anything that has a POSIX layer, thus making the argument that "My UNIX is better than your UNIX!" worse. I don't see why UNIX people can't get along: vi vs emacs, KDE vs GNOME, GUI vs CLI, BSD vs GNU/Linux...
The funny thing is the only thing UNIX people will agree on is that UNIX is the best.
*All I've got written right now is a dice roller in Perl, I AM only 13...
--Volrath50
First of I have nothing against BSD, heck anything I wright*, is being released under the BSD licence. The only reason I have RedHat GNU/Linux rather than FreeBSD is because I live in a small town and the only way to get FreeBSD is to drive two hours away and buy a $110CAN Book and I'm 13 and have no credit card to buy it online.
Now that the disclaimer is out of the way... The fact that someone ported Linux to the PS1/Dreamcast/PS2 does not make it so you can not do work on it. Until I got my Macintosh I did all my work in KOffice using XFce as my Window Manager. I found it quite easy to use and powerful for the price of $0. I'm sure I could do just the same on FreeBSD or any UNIX. I really don't see why anyone makes a big deal about which UNIX they run. When someone asks me what I run I Anwser "My Mac for working and gaming and UNIX for Programming."
Arguing over which UNIX is better is pointless because until you get to the source level they look, feel and behave about the same. Most GNU/Linux programs will Compile on BSD/Tru64/AIX/HP-UX/QNX/BeOS or anything that has a POSIX layer, thus making the argument that "My UNIX is better than your UNIX!" worse. I don't see why UNIX people can't get along: vi vs emacs, KDE vs GNOME, GUI vs CLI, BSD vs GNU/Linux...
The funny thing is the only thing UNIX people will agree on is that UNIX is the best.
*All I've got written right now is a dice roller in Perl, I AM only 13...
--Volrath50
Dude! That's my post!! Now if I were a big company I'd probably sue you... But seeing as I'm not I'm glad more people get to see my post, which I came up with at 2.4.4-pre6 or something and had to wait until 2.4.4...
But anyway glad you got modded upto 3 so I don't have to look like moron "recycling" my old post...
--Volrath50
Also, will it run under the different Graphical User Interfaces (GUI's) available for Linux? GNU, KDE, and GNOME are the most popular, but there are others available too.
Gee, I always though GNU Wasn't UNIX, not a GUI... Does anyone have an idea for what GNU stands for now that it's a GUI?
GNU's Not Ugly?
GUIs not UNIX?
Any other ideas?
And why is it that Microsoft keeps stating that Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. but not that Linux is a Registered trademark of Linus Torvalds?
--Volrath50
My proposal is as follows:
1: Get two boxes running something that can handle a HUGE load, such as FreeBSD or Linux.
2: Put them in California. Get an autoresponder going on both of them.
3: Have one forward all Spam collected in a month to the other one. It auto responds to the one that sent the mail.
4: The other box auto responds.
5: Repeat 3-4 until California is blacked out.
6: Blame it on Spam.
7: Repeat when California is back up.
8: Keep doing this until Spam is banned.
Or to just plain get email banned try Humorix's Soultion.
--Volrath50
Dear Mr. Coward; /. effect. Alltogether the stat raises to probably 20% UNIX. Though I can't be sure.
Yes I am aware that people use Windows when they would like to use Linux. Infact I'm using Windows right now due to reasons beyond my control. I was just pointing out that it was a little suprising to see only 13% UNIX on a UNIX site. And most of the 4% or so that is unknown is probably Konqueror. I use the same stat page on my site and Konqueror doesn't identify itself. And only 80% of the hits are from the
At least I don't post as an AC when I have something "Offtopic" to post.
--Volrath50
What I find very interesting is two links away from the /.ed page is a page that has logs it's not a direct /.ing but still interesting. Only 11% of the people use Linux. And I do know I'll probably get modded offtopic for this so unless I post something releted to Quake. I'll try to think of something about Quake....
Has anyone tried the Fisheye Quake? It looks quite interesting only I tried it on my Win98 Box with Quake and now I'm in DLL hell. Can't find WDIRxxF.DLL. Anyway I'll see if I can get the other one working. Though on my cruddy Win98 box (or any of my boxen for that matter) it'll probably suck as It's just a Conpaq K6-II 380MHz with a 4Meg non-3d card.
--Volrath50
Have you calculated the air-speed velocity of an unladen Pigeon?
African or European?
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Oh wait that's swollow....
--Volrath50
Internet Access via Carrier Pigeons... It'll be good for everyone in areas where there's no broadband schedualed for the next 5 years (like me, damn 56k, three hours for the Linux Kernel). Unfourtunatly it will be more limited to my Central Office than DSL. I'll have five "plans": One Pigeon with One packet at a time (2-300bps). 10 Pigeons with one Packet each. (20bps-3k). 1 Pigeon with 10 Packets (20bps-3k). 10 Pigeons with 10 Packets each (200bps-30k). Or for the Wealthy, the BroadPigeon option, 100 Pigeons with 10 packets each, (2k-300k).
Of course you'll be more likley to get closer to 2bps-2k but becuase someone MIGHT live next door to me I can advertise "Up to 300k Per Second!!!*" The more pigeons you have the more expensive it is but the more packets they carry the more chance one of them will faint and you'll get packet loss...
*Depending on how close you are to the Central Office of PigeonBand Inc.
--Volrath50