I know this is a less than optimal solution, but, editing c:\program files\opera\search.ini (or ~/.opera/something/search.ini, for Unix users, or c:\settings and documents\username\opera\search.ini for windows users with multiple user accounts, i think) allows you to fairly easily add whatever you want to the address search bar, and will also add it to the search bar next to the address bar.
Yes, it would be nice to have an easy way to add to that from within Opera, but although Firefox has an easy way to make a search, it probably doesn't have a way to change it once it's created. (i'm guessing, I haven't used Firefox since 1.0)
Considering that virtually all commonly requested features of Firefox, and a HUGE amount of extensions to Firefox/Mozilla are already built into faster/more standards compliant/less resource hungry/more secure Opera... why would anyone bother with the alternatives?
I think it's more along the lines of "licensing the software to corporate users and selling support contracts will make a lot more money and give us a lot less hassle when compared to dealing with individual users and their registration codes".
I've never liked any Nintendo console (they STARTED this whole gamepad bullshit, and I fucking HATE gamepads), and this has me excited to at least get a try-out of it.
router is setup fine.. the only bittorrent i've ever had fill my entire 128kbps pipe (oooh, big bandwidth there) was a video hosted on a political site. Everything else will spike to full throttle for a little while and then go dead, while it's presumably trying to find people that have the parts i'm missing. Perhaps Opera's built in bittorrent is odd? But then, I've had it work perfectly that one time.. everything else, even with double digit connections, just drags...
what i'm curious about...
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Are there any P2P networks left that you can actually transfer data at a reasonable rate, that aren't full of viruses?
eDonkey/eMule take hours to download small files, and days/weeks to download big files
bittorrent is virtually useless, apparently everyone only has parts of any data that i want not equalling a whole
default on XP pre-SP2 (I just checked, as I don't have SP2 on this box) is to ask for any code.
I think it was 5.5 IE that had the defaults to run anything signed automatically, and prompt for unsigned.
I didn't say that Firefox users should be the most intelligent. I said that it's automatically assumed that Firefox users will be more intelligent. Why is this? Because it's developed by open source developers. I have never found a single open source project that had "ease of use for non-developers" as any point that it was ever striving for.
How about just have the browser automatically check the URL of the extension the user has asked to install (wether knowing so or not) with some database on mozilla.org, at which point, it will automatically bring you anything known about that extension, and it would be required that you at least acknowledge it?
Because in theory, someone educated enough to run Firefox would also be educated enough to not allow it to run untrusted things.
On the other hand, I allow all of my software to update themselves automatically, I allow every thing that has extensions to install them automatically when I request an extension, and I trust that virtually any program I run across will be ok.
And I've only seen two viruses in the last 2 decades (except on my brother's Amiga), both of which were on computers or hard drives that I inherited from someone else.
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actually, he said we all know why [computer graphics] advanced so quickly
oh, and setting Opera's quick preference to identify as IE loads the page just fine. not sure if it actually functions, as I'm not going to go through with that, but it does get past the browser check.
Actually, I had been using GNOME for the last oh, 4 or 5 months until I switched to Windows about a month ago, and I never even TRIED to edit the menus. I never even bothered USING the menus because they were full of crap I never used. Just throw some launchers on the panel, or on the desktop, and command line for anything else.
Never tried to edit the menus because I knew it would be an exercise in futility, and I figured it would probably seriously break debian's upgrade process, as virtually any change to any configuration file would do.
...being taken over. Ya know, people don't just "take over" companies, for the most part. Besides, 99% of the world probably hasn't even got the slightest idea what TT sells. (I don't, all their products that I'm aware of are GPL)
"impossible and illegal to develop proprietary applications for KDE using QT".. uh.. do you know anything about the GPL? Or the BSD license that QT would automagically revert to if Trolltech disappeared?
Windows/Mac versions + compatability = myth.
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see, here's the problem:
You are expecting Unix developers to care one bit about the smallest Unix market segment there is. And one that has so much other stuff jammed into it, that not even God knows where your issues are.
If the problems amongst the software were as bad as you say they are, do you think there'd even BE a Mac release? From what you're talking , not a single part of it functions.. so, either grab the source, and get to work, or figure out where the problem on your system is, since i doubt it's shared by everyone.
So, what you're saying, is that by working for Microsoft, these people have no concept of how to operate a business? But isn't Microsoft one of the largest businesses out there?
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I know this is a less than optimal solution, but, editing c:\program files\opera\search.ini (or ~/.opera/something/search.ini, for Unix users, or c:\settings and documents\username\opera\search.ini for windows users with multiple user accounts, i think) allows you to fairly easily add whatever you want to the address search bar, and will also add it to the search bar next to the address bar.
Yes, it would be nice to have an easy way to add to that from within Opera, but although Firefox has an easy way to make a search, it probably doesn't have a way to change it once it's created. (i'm guessing, I haven't used Firefox since 1.0)
Considering that virtually all commonly requested features of Firefox, and a HUGE amount of extensions to Firefox/Mozilla are already built into faster/more standards compliant/less resource hungry/more secure Opera... why would anyone bother with the alternatives?
I think it's more along the lines of "licensing the software to corporate users and selling support contracts will make a lot more money and give us a lot less hassle when compared to dealing with individual users and their registration codes".
If you're a pinball fan, look into VPinMAME... it's freakin WONDERFUL.
I've never liked any Nintendo console (they STARTED this whole gamepad bullshit, and I fucking HATE gamepads), and this has me excited to at least get a try-out of it.
well, yes, i'm aware of how bittorrent works.
I'm 112k down, 32k up, i think. speed tests show that i've got 1.5Mb up, which makes no sense, so i presume that number is garbage.
Opera's bittorrent regularly reports me at 0 coming in, with up to 12k/sec going out. makes no sense.
router is setup fine.. the only bittorrent i've ever had fill my entire 128kbps pipe (oooh, big bandwidth there) was a video hosted on a political site. Everything else will spike to full throttle for a little while and then go dead, while it's presumably trying to find people that have the parts i'm missing. Perhaps Opera's built in bittorrent is odd? But then, I've had it work perfectly that one time.. everything else, even with double digit connections, just drags...
Are there any P2P networks left that you can actually transfer data at a reasonable rate, that aren't full of viruses?
eDonkey/eMule take hours to download small files, and days/weeks to download big files
bittorrent is virtually useless, apparently everyone only has parts of any data that i want not equalling a whole
limewire is all viruses
works fine for me, using Opera's built in RSS support.... Maybe your client is broken?
default on XP pre-SP2 (I just checked, as I don't have SP2 on this box) is to ask for any code.
I think it was 5.5 IE that had the defaults to run anything signed automatically, and prompt for unsigned.
I didn't say that Firefox users should be the most intelligent. I said that it's automatically assumed that Firefox users will be more intelligent. Why is this? Because it's developed by open source developers. I have never found a single open source project that had "ease of use for non-developers" as any point that it was ever striving for.
How about just have the browser automatically check the URL of the extension the user has asked to install (wether knowing so or not) with some database on mozilla.org, at which point, it will automatically bring you anything known about that extension, and it would be required that you at least acknowledge it?
Because in theory, someone educated enough to run Firefox would also be educated enough to not allow it to run untrusted things.
On the other hand, I allow all of my software to update themselves automatically, I allow every thing that has extensions to install them automatically when I request an extension, and I trust that virtually any program I run across will be ok.
And I've only seen two viruses in the last 2 decades (except on my brother's Amiga), both of which were on computers or hard drives that I inherited from someone else.
actually, he said we all know why [computer graphics] advanced so quickly
did you call it and check? and what about cell phones? what if you call from a pay phone? boggle.
Think before you respond, dork.
well, it does say specifically, IE 6.0.
It's not kidding.
oh, and setting Opera's quick preference to identify as IE loads the page just fine. not sure if it actually functions, as I'm not going to go through with that, but it does get past the browser check.
In the middle of the largest disaster ever to befall the country, Slashdot goes and performs the Slashdot effect upon the website that takes claims.
Good work and foresight, there, editors.
And, you don't HAVE to Have IE 6 with JS enabled to file a claim. You could just use a TELEPHONE.
Actually, I had been using GNOME for the last oh, 4 or 5 months until I switched to Windows about a month ago, and I never even TRIED to edit the menus. I never even bothered USING the menus because they were full of crap I never used. Just throw some launchers on the panel, or on the desktop, and command line for anything else.
Never tried to edit the menus because I knew it would be an exercise in futility, and I figured it would probably seriously break debian's upgrade process, as virtually any change to any configuration file would do.
a MENU EDITOR? jeesus. Now the users won't have to directly manipulate obscure data files?
That's so.. uh.. 1982.
how about the 4 kids here who spend all of their waking moments that they aren't doing homework farking around on 'neopets.com' ? hmm.
...what is Linux about?
Linux isn't about free software.
Get a clue, and STFU yourself, moron.
...being taken over. Ya know, people don't just "take over" companies, for the most part. Besides, 99% of the world probably hasn't even got the slightest idea what TT sells. (I don't, all their products that I'm aware of are GPL)
.. uh.. do you know anything about the GPL? Or the BSD license that QT would automagically revert to if Trolltech disappeared?
"impossible and illegal to develop proprietary applications for KDE using QT"
Windows/Mac versions + compatability = myth.
see, here's the problem:
You are expecting Unix developers to care one bit about the smallest Unix market segment there is. And one that has so much other stuff jammed into it, that not even God knows where your issues are.
If the problems amongst the software were as bad as you say they are, do you think there'd even BE a Mac release? From what you're talking , not a single part of it functions.. so, either grab the source, and get to work, or figure out where the problem on your system is, since i doubt it's shared by everyone.
So, what you're saying, is that by working for Microsoft, these people have no concept of how to operate a business? But isn't Microsoft one of the largest businesses out there?
Use your hate for something more appropriate.