Linux supports new hardware like wireless routers, lots of multimedia devices, etc, and he thinks MS making a Linux distro with a proprietary driver layer for a bit better compatibility will "kill Linux"? He can't have understood much of why so many people use Linux and not Windows. Why they even struggle to get stuff that don't work as easily on Linux, but still don't say "bah" and switch to Windows.
I like how New York Times has adapted to/.'ers and their care for reading through long articles. This time, the non-membership Slashdot version seeems to be:
Floater Ads, the Cousins to Pop-Ups, Evade the Blockers
By JONATHAN MILLER Published: February 24, 2005
Floater ads, which open new windows and clutter virtual desktops, can evade the pop-up blockers that many Web browsers have incorporated.
Yes, Firefox, even the 1.1 nightlies is known to grow beyond its own bound of the memory cache. When you have bad memory problems, type about:cache in the address bar and you'll likely see the maximum cache size is lower than your current size. This has been going on for a pretty long time by now, and I've personally had Firefox use over 100 MB myself quite easily, and when I stress tested it once, I got it over 700 MB.
When I was having a single browser open, with a single tab, showing Firefox.com.
And don't tell me Firefox is deciding how to best use the RAM, and it's using that much to improve browser performance, since the entire OS was sluggish as hell after this until I closed its process.
Browse e.g. DeviantArt images for a while back and forth, then visit some other image heavy pages, and then come back with your results from about:cache. At least I usually then get storage in use > maximum storage size. And it doesn't fix itself by closing all tabs. If there isn't a bug filed for this, there really should be.
IIRC they just turned off IDN support, and did not remove it.
They didn't even turn it off, just the "pretty printing" part of it when presenting the entered URL. If you type www.räksmörgås.se you can be sure to be transferred to the proper site as usual, also in 1.0.1 without fiddling with settings.
Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts. It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs.'
Ooh, Michael Gorman, I see you have mastered the skill of making generalizations...
The way I understood his question about app support was how well they're written with paralllell threads etc. I.e. not if they'll take advantage of the dual cores or not (yes, that's up to the OS to take care of), but how well they'll do it due to their design. An OS can't just take a thread and split up the work 50/50 on the two cores after all.
First, I think Microsoft has previously said they'll only charge one license per physical processor. However, the problem is that Windows XP Pro supports only 1 or 2 logical CPU's. I wonder how it'll react. It seems like you'd not make optimal use of your system. And in case it does restrict itself upon working on two logical CPU's, you should hope Windows XP restrict itself upon the two cores instead of one of the cores and the HT feature on it!
Now, also, how many OSs (and applications) are prepared for dual-core support?
I won't go into detail of applications since I have no idea which apps you're interested in, but Windows XP Pro supports dual cores (it runs its multi-core kernel even if you just have a Pentium 4 with hyperthreading).
Windows XP Home will not suffice though, which is a bit amusing since this might be the most common OS sitting in homes of gamers which are often the early adopters of this kind of tech nowadays. Unless they just pirated Windows XP Pro with a volume license key of course.:-)
Windows XP Media Center Edition, and Windows XP Tablet PC will support multiple cores though, probably in the same fashion as Pro.
Another one may give details about the common Linux distros, but I'd be very surprised if this support isn't in by far most modern distros, or can be enabled fairly easily.
Searching for movie:Titanic yields this short message:
"No movie showtimes or reviews were found for Titanic."
Yes, in english and all, strangely enough. If Google can display a message in english, what's the deal about not being able to show reviews in english? And even if you wouldn't *understand* english, surely you'd still understand what "3.8 / 5" meant. Or what 4 stars of 5 meant.
So I have to wonder why the service is only semi-enabled for international Google?
It doesn't even list reviews for movie:Fucking Åmål when searched in swedish Google, even if it's a swedish movie.
Ah, I see it's mp3 music, with a large selection, but seems like their flat rate option BonoMusic cost 44 for a month.:-/ Then I have to wonder if there aren't better options out there.
mp3 and wma formats, this time a spanish site supposedly exploiting copyright loopholes.:-) Ironically enough, I didn't learn of it from piracy discussions, but from CNet in this very article.:-)
They started their site in 1997, and according to CNet have been sued once and survived. There were two sites sued at that time, and the other, Puretunes.com, had to settle with the industry for $10 million. Not sure how WebListen managed to survive.
In that case, why would you use allofmp3.com when you could get the same music off filesharing networks for free?
For a very small fee easily get your music from some other place than a P2P network that's monitored by the RIAA?
Still looking from a piracy perspective; to get music in other formats than e.g. 128 kbps mp3's? There *may* be higher qualities available on P2P networks but there may not. On allofmp3.com you effortlessy usually get music up to 320 kbps mp3's if you wish, or Ogg, or sometimes even losslessly.
Now please, get off your soapbox, back on your meds and next time, RTFA before showing everybody what a fool you are.
That's extremely hard to do in a community where he represent the majority.;-) (well except for the medication thing which I'm not sure where you get that from)
Does your comment has anything to do with the parent whatsoever? I doesn't seem so... I'll just assume you're strongly against breast feeding then, wishing breast feeders to be sent to lifetime prison and getting ass rammed.
I mean, if a few servers' databases survived, that may speak more of random luck of not being in a status so when the power outage occured nothing bad happened. If all of the databases survived, that speaks of MySQL being resistant to this sort of thing.
What's the point of 100Mbps though? A lot of servers are lucky to be sitting on their own 100MBps pipe.
Well, it's useful when downloading from more than one server.
It's also useful if the server had, say, a 30 MBps connection.
Anyway, for the statistics, personally I'm on an (unlimited) 10 Mbps up/down line for $49/month. I find that to usually be enough without overpaying.:-)
It's about people clicking on RAR archives said to contain Anna Kournikova pictures, and other women with hot grits? Well what's new there?
It's not a problem with RAR in specific... If they block RAR files, I'm sure they could instead just be guided to a web page and told to install an ActiveX control instead.:-P (of course a digitally signed one so they get a false sense of security)
If you could only patch the real serious security holes here -- the ones in the users' brains...
How about Microsoft testing their own programs?;-)
Yes, I agree with you as well in general, it's ridiculous to assume a major OS overhaul from a patch to be totally without problems. I've already had issues going from Linux kernel 2.4.x to 2.6.x. Who cares. It's life with complex software environments, where software beyond the OS developers' control is involved.
However, again, I must say I was still a bit surprised to see Microsoft's own software in the list.:-)
Anyone waiting with this patch should have by now had time to evaluate the effects of SP2, and complain about the software they run, and even install e.g. Windows 2000 instead, if necessary. Slashdotters often say the patch is Red Hat or whatever, but this is not always an option due to lack of operating system support and alternative software for other platforms. Wine is not always the miracle solution either. I do believe though there are good options to running unpatched versions of Windows XP.
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Linux supports new hardware like wireless routers, lots of multimedia devices, etc, and he thinks MS making a Linux distro with a proprietary driver layer for a bit better compatibility will "kill Linux"? He can't have understood much of why so many people use Linux and not Windows. Why they even struggle to get stuff that don't work as easily on Linux, but still don't say "bah" and switch to Windows.
Dan Pollock's hosts file
:-)
I find your lack of wildcards disturbing.
Don't a wildcarded Adblock (Mozilla) or filter.ini (Opera) do the job better?
This time, the non-membership Slashdot version seeems to be:
Brilliant!
Is this the browser memory cache perhaps?
Yes, Firefox, even the 1.1 nightlies is known to grow beyond its own bound of the memory cache. When you have bad memory problems, type about:cache in the address bar and you'll likely see the maximum cache size is lower than your current size. This has been going on for a pretty long time by now, and I've personally had Firefox use over 100 MB myself quite easily, and when I stress tested it once, I got it over 700 MB.
When I was having a single browser open, with a single tab, showing Firefox.com.
And don't tell me Firefox is deciding how to best use the RAM, and it's using that much to improve browser performance, since the entire OS was sluggish as hell after this until I closed its process.
Browse e.g. DeviantArt images for a while back and forth, then visit some other image heavy pages, and then come back with your results from about:cache. At least I usually then get storage in use > maximum storage size. And it doesn't fix itself by closing all tabs. If there isn't a bug filed for this, there really should be.
IIRC they just turned off IDN support, and did not remove it.
They didn't even turn it off, just the "pretty printing" part of it when presenting the entered URL. If you type www.räksmörgås.se you can be sure to be transferred to the proper site as usual, also in 1.0.1 without fiddling with settings.
Nope, that change log is ripped from the unofficial incomplete Firefox 1.1 release notes at Burning Edge. As wrong as you can be.
0 .1.html
Try this instead:
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.
Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts. It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs.'
Ooh, Michael Gorman, I see you have mastered the skill of making generalizations...
Still sounds stupid to me.
You'd think the actions mattered, not if someone just typed something.
The way I understood his question about app support was how well they're written with paralllell threads etc. I.e. not if they'll take advantage of the dual cores or not (yes, that's up to the OS to take care of), but how well they'll do it due to their design. An OS can't just take a thread and split up the work 50/50 on the two cores after all.
That's an interesting question. :-)
First, I think Microsoft has previously said they'll only charge one license per physical processor. However, the problem is that Windows XP Pro supports only 1 or 2 logical CPU's. I wonder how it'll react. It seems like you'd not make optimal use of your system. And in case it does restrict itself upon working on two logical CPU's, you should hope Windows XP restrict itself upon the two cores instead of one of the cores and the HT feature on it!
Now, also, how many OSs (and applications) are prepared for dual-core support?
:-)
I won't go into detail of applications since I have no idea which apps you're interested in, but Windows XP Pro supports dual cores (it runs its multi-core kernel even if you just have a Pentium 4 with hyperthreading).
Windows XP Home will not suffice though, which is a bit amusing since this might be the most common OS sitting in homes of gamers which are often the early adopters of this kind of tech nowadays. Unless they just pirated Windows XP Pro with a volume license key of course.
Windows XP Media Center Edition, and Windows XP Tablet PC will support multiple cores though, probably in the same fashion as Pro.
Another one may give details about the common Linux distros, but I'd be very surprised if this support isn't in by far most modern distros, or can be enabled fairly easily.
Huh? Try movie:christmas lights next time? :-) (no 's' in movies)
I mean, if you're trying to look for movies with this new feature.
Searching for movie:Titanic yields this short message:
"No movie showtimes or reviews were found for Titanic."
Yes, in english and all, strangely enough. If Google can display a message in english, what's the deal about not being able to show reviews in english? And even if you wouldn't *understand* english, surely you'd still understand what "3.8 / 5" meant. Or what 4 stars of 5 meant.
So I have to wonder why the service is only semi-enabled for international Google?
It doesn't even list reviews for movie:Fucking Åmål when searched in swedish Google, even if it's a swedish movie.
Ah, I see it's mp3 music, with a large selection, but seems like their flat rate option BonoMusic cost 44 for a month. :-/ Then I have to wonder if there aren't better options out there.
Anyone else know of other services with similar prices and selection?
:-) Ironically enough, I didn't learn of it from piracy discussions, but from CNet in this very article. :-)
How about WebListen?
mp3 and wma formats, this time a spanish site supposedly exploiting copyright loopholes.
They started their site in 1997, and according to CNet have been sued once and survived. There were two sites sued at that time, and the other, Puretunes.com, had to settle with the industry for $10 million. Not sure how WebListen managed to survive.
In that case, why would you use allofmp3.com when you could get the same music off filesharing networks for free?
For a very small fee easily get your music from some other place than a P2P network that's monitored by the RIAA?
Still looking from a piracy perspective; to get music in other formats than e.g. 128 kbps mp3's? There *may* be higher qualities available on P2P networks but there may not. On allofmp3.com you effortlessy usually get music up to 320 kbps mp3's if you wish, or Ogg, or sometimes even losslessly.
Now please, get off your soapbox, back on your meds and next time, RTFA before showing everybody what a fool you are.
;-) (well except for the medication thing which I'm not sure where you get that from)
That's extremely hard to do in a community where he represent the majority.
You, Mr. Techno Vampire, must be new here.
Does your comment has anything to do with the parent whatsoever? I doesn't seem so... I'll just assume you're strongly against breast feeding then, wishing breast feeders to be sent to lifetime prison and getting ass rammed.
They were lucky with that server?
I mean, if a few servers' databases survived, that may speak more of random luck of not being in a status so when the power outage occured nothing bad happened. If all of the databases survived, that speaks of MySQL being resistant to this sort of thing.
The link in the article is broken, here's the proper one:
http://wikimedia.org/fundraising/
What's the point of 100Mbps though? A lot of servers are lucky to be sitting on their own 100MBps pipe.
:-)
Well, it's useful when downloading from more than one server.
It's also useful if the server had, say, a 30 MBps connection.
Anyway, for the statistics, personally I'm on an (unlimited) 10 Mbps up/down line for $49/month. I find that to usually be enough without overpaying.
It's about people clicking on RAR archives said to contain Anna Kournikova pictures, and other women with hot grits? Well what's new there?
:-P (of course a digitally signed one so they get a false sense of security)
It's not a problem with RAR in specific... If they block RAR files, I'm sure they could instead just be guided to a web page and told to install an ActiveX control instead.
If you could only patch the real serious security holes here -- the ones in the users' brains...
How about Microsoft testing their own programs? ;-)
:-)
Yes, I agree with you as well in general, it's ridiculous to assume a major OS overhaul from a patch to be totally without problems. I've already had issues going from Linux kernel 2.4.x to 2.6.x. Who cares. It's life with complex software environments, where software beyond the OS developers' control is involved.
However, again, I must say I was still a bit surprised to see Microsoft's own software in the list.
Ready or Not, Here comes Windows XP SP2
This is really about time.
Anyone waiting with this patch should have by now had time to evaluate the effects of SP2, and complain about the software they run, and even install e.g. Windows 2000 instead, if necessary. Slashdotters often say the patch is Red Hat or whatever, but this is not always an option due to lack of operating system support and alternative software for other platforms. Wine is not always the miracle solution either. I do believe though there are good options to running unpatched versions of Windows XP.