The product is named "Navigator" or "Communicator", the company is named "Netscape". If people don't even know what the product is called, it's going to be hard convincing them that it's not all bad.
The last time I stayed awake in excess of 40 hours I only had Red Bull and coffee. That was getting a university project finished at the last minute. With Red Bull giving energy as well as caffeine, I'd imagine it would be good for game playing too.
My post wasn't comparing Linux and Mac OS. I was talking about PC software. I'd happily use OSX. The things I was talking about were far from unique. They were however, better implemented on Linux than on Windows software. I agree, the Mac versions of things, and the OS in general, tend to be cleaner and more refined. I like it that way.
I don't use Microsoft Windows, or Office, or Developer Studio. I choose not to use their software, not because they are a monopoly or a horrible nasty company, but because their software doesn't suit my needs. I want software that follows standards and open formats, and runs without degrading over time. Red Hat provides software that does this. My Red Hat CD has several compilers, Perl, KDevelop and some office apps, a browser and mail client. And what's more, they all do what they're meant to and still provide compatability. I like the software Red Hat provides much more than I like the software MS provides. Even if Red Hat behaves like MS, they still provide good software that does what I need it to, so I'll still use it. Some people say Apple has a monopoly, but I'd have nothing against using a Mad with OSX and OpenOffice (if they do it for Macs).
When i click on a tab with my middle button, it closes, and the tab that pops to the front tries to load the URL that is in the copy/paste clipboard. I'm using Linux, and it's fairly normal on UNIX for a browser to navigate to the URL that is in the clipboard when the middle mouse button is clicked. Is there any way to stop Mozilla doing this imediately after a tab has been closed, because it is quite annoying?
I don't have a lot of spare time, but I put Linux on my PC when I built it. I have Windows 2000 too beacuse I occasionally have to do some Windows-compatible development work. I prefer using Linux though, because everything just seems to be in the right place, and the range of applications to choose from seems much nicer (Browsers: Mozilla, Konqueror, Dillo, Netscape, Galeon, Opera). Installing things is easier (RPM). Development work is easier with decent text editors. And what's more, as long as I don't do anything as silly as giving users write permission to anything outsite/home and/var/tmp, then my machine never messes up. The only installation of Linux I do is to upgrade. Oh yeah, and for those of us without much time to visit opticians, proper anti-aliasing the Linux offers (better than WinXP Cleartype) saves your eyes as well as your time:-)
Then doesn't it seem a huge coincidence that nearly ALL number that have this procedure applied to them come out as palindromes? That has got to be significant. We just don't know why yet.
The current laws do not protect security or privacy...
Well, there is a flaw in the laws regarding IP networks.
...nor do they allow law enforcement access for wiretaps
Again, I'd say this is a flaw in the law.
The article points out that older analog telephone lines are covered by laws that prevent people from tapping the lines unless it is someone with the authority and authorization to do so. The article makes it look like the laws regarding VoIP are less advanced, and desperately need updated.
Legal things aside, I would have thought that by now, in this day and age, people would consider security when providing a new service that runs over a computer network. I'm dissapointed in the comapnies who have disregarded security here.
Is there no easy way to make it all tunnel through SSH?
That's the fault of the GUI/Desktop environment, not the browser's name. If the menu option or icon for the browser was called "Surf the web" or "Internet", then people would question Mozilla just as much as they questionned Netscape - in fact, they'd probably question both a lot less. My mum's quite happy using Konqueror to surf the web. She finds it on a sub-menu called "Internet", which makes it plainly obvious what it is for.
Pop-up ads are one of the reasons why I choose not to use mainstream browsers such as Internet Explorer and Netscape (aside from liking proper CSS1 support like Konqueror has). I like the way Konqueror and Mozilla give you the option of filtering them out. People have pointed out that it is easy to modify Netscape 7 to do this filtering too, so there is nothing to moan about (apart from the XPI links going to servers running IIS that are falling over under the demand for this file). Recent Mozillas are small and fast (relatively) and give you all the nice features. It's your choice.
Steve White says the Berman bill is "stupid and counterproductive", and he believes it will lead to an online arms race as PC owners and the networks seek to thwart the efforts of copyright holders.
Yeah, they'll have to get through my firewall and figure out my SSH passwords first. Do they have a hope in hell?
How exactly do they intend getting access to computer systems. Realistically, a lot of home computers (the non-geek ones) don't even have any form of remote access software running (at least not until MS convinces them to "upgrade" to XP).
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Yet another reason why people should be given real computers with proper e-mail software and web browsers. I highly doubt anyone is going to cause any such problems on the Sun Blade workstation on my desk at work with KMail and Konqueror. And before someone complains about it not being "standard" or not being "easy to use" by normal office people: Star Office and KDE.
Try looking at the parent comment before being sarcastic. It went along the lines of "Try moving/bin to/hoobookie and let me know how your boot goes...". I was only po9inting out that the same thing happens on Windows and UNIX.
What you should have searched for is "md5sum tar gz" - what you're looking for is on the 1st page of hits - try to search for text you think will appear on the page that the link is on. Most likely the filename, as it could easily be a directory listing given back from Apache on a mirror site.
I've moved/usr/local/staroffice/ before - i orignally installed it on another drive. This doesn't work for Office 2000, although for Office 97, Word and Excel still worked after moving. If you suggest moving my/bin directory (the place where operating system commands are kept), then you should try moving C:\WINNT\ and see what happens. Oh, "It won't let me move it", I hear you say. Hmmm, while logged in as my on my *nix box, I can't move/bin either. Try writing an app that runs with System priviledges on Windows, that moves C:\WINNT\, then reboot.
It is one file. If someone gains access to it, they gain access to all the information in it - not very secure. With the "multiple small files" approach, some files could be read-only, meaning that nobody within the operating system (except root/Administrator) could write to them. You could even mount / and/etc on a disk that is read-only at a hardware level, giving guranteed protection. Try doing this with a Windows registry.
concurrent, multi-user
Again, it is just one file. It has one file handle. Without using mmap() or the like, it can be written to by only one process. This problem doesn't occurr with multiple files. It's not so much a problem as Windows was never intended to be a multi-user system anyway.
hierarchical, distributed database
If you have the slightest clue what this means, you'll know the Registry concept falls very far short of it.
X86 hardware cool? It's got BIOS for god's sake. That's cool in the same way as Windows version 2 is cool. It's history (or at least it should be). There's no sensible reason for people to write OSs that require a BIOS any longer.
If having DRM in the hardware and forcing the OS to comply will be law, why not make all precomipled linux distros fit in with this. If someone so wishes, they could check the source out of CVS and compile it with -DNODRM as an option and miss out on the crappy standard. That way Average Joe, who downloads pirated MP3's and doesn't know how to compile his own OS still won't be able to play them. Simple.
Your description sounds exactly like one of the apps on the Palm m100, which is accessible through a physical button on the front of the device. Press the button and start writing and seemlessly integrating hand-drawn images. And no need to save it because it's being done as you draw/write it. What does the m100 lack that a paper notepad doesn't? resolution and greyscales. If this application had a resolution high enough so that you had to look closely to see the pixels and the shade changed depending on the amount of pressure you apply, it would most definitely be as useable as a pad of paper and a pen.
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The product is named "Navigator" or "Communicator", the company is named "Netscape". If people don't even know what the product is called, it's going to be hard convincing them that it's not all bad.
The last time I stayed awake in excess of 40 hours I only had Red Bull and coffee. That was getting a university project finished at the last minute. With Red Bull giving energy as well as caffeine, I'd imagine it would be good for game playing too.
My post wasn't comparing Linux and Mac OS. I was talking about PC software. I'd happily use OSX. The things I was talking about were far from unique. They were however, better implemented on Linux than on Windows software. I agree, the Mac versions of things, and the OS in general, tend to be cleaner and more refined. I like it that way.
I don't use Microsoft Windows, or Office, or Developer Studio. I choose not to use their software, not because they are a monopoly or a horrible nasty company, but because their software doesn't suit my needs. I want software that follows standards and open formats, and runs without degrading over time. Red Hat provides software that does this. My Red Hat CD has several compilers, Perl, KDevelop and some office apps, a browser and mail client. And what's more, they all do what they're meant to and still provide compatability. I like the software Red Hat provides much more than I like the software MS provides. Even if Red Hat behaves like MS, they still provide good software that does what I need it to, so I'll still use it. Some people say Apple has a monopoly, but I'd have nothing against using a Mad with OSX and OpenOffice (if they do it for Macs).
When i click on a tab with my middle button, it closes, and the tab that pops to the front tries to load the URL that is in the copy/paste clipboard. I'm using Linux, and it's fairly normal on UNIX for a browser to navigate to the URL that is in the clipboard when the middle mouse button is clicked. Is there any way to stop Mozilla doing this imediately after a tab has been closed, because it is quite annoying?
I don't have a lot of spare time, but I put Linux on my PC when I built it. I have Windows 2000 too beacuse I occasionally have to do some Windows-compatible development work. I prefer using Linux though, because everything just seems to be in the right place, and the range of applications to choose from seems much nicer (Browsers: Mozilla, Konqueror, Dillo, Netscape, Galeon, Opera). Installing things is easier (RPM). Development work is easier with decent text editors. And what's more, as long as I don't do anything as silly as giving users write permission to anything outsite /home and /var/tmp, then my machine never messes up. The only installation of Linux I do is to upgrade. Oh yeah, and for those of us without much time to visit opticians, proper anti-aliasing the Linux offers (better than WinXP Cleartype) saves your eyes as well as your time :-)
Dillo is faster.
<sacrasm> Nice to see America being ahead of the rest of the developed world again! </sarcasm>
Then doesn't it seem a huge coincidence that nearly ALL number that have this procedure applied to them come out as palindromes? That has got to be significant. We just don't know why yet.
Windows users can do something about it, they could use a better web browser such as Netscape 7 or Mozilla 1.1b.
The current laws do not protect security or privacy...
...nor do they allow law enforcement access for wiretaps
Well, there is a flaw in the laws regarding IP networks.
Again, I'd say this is a flaw in the law.
The article points out that older analog telephone lines are covered by laws that prevent people from tapping the lines unless it is someone with the authority and authorization to do so. The article makes it look like the laws regarding VoIP are less advanced, and desperately need updated.
Legal things aside, I would have thought that by now, in this day and age, people would consider security when providing a new service that runs over a computer network. I'm dissapointed in the comapnies who have disregarded security here.
Is there no easy way to make it all tunnel through SSH?
That's the fault of the GUI/Desktop environment, not the browser's name. If the menu option or icon for the browser was called "Surf the web" or "Internet", then people would question Mozilla just as much as they questionned Netscape - in fact, they'd probably question both a lot less. My mum's quite happy using Konqueror to surf the web. She finds it on a sub-menu called "Internet", which makes it plainly obvious what it is for.
I have flash running fine in Mozilla 1.1a on both Linux and Solaris.
Pop-up ads are one of the reasons why I choose not to use mainstream browsers such as Internet Explorer and Netscape (aside from liking proper CSS1 support like Konqueror has). I like the way Konqueror and Mozilla give you the option of filtering them out. People have pointed out that it is easy to modify Netscape 7 to do this filtering too, so there is nothing to moan about (apart from the XPI links going to servers running IIS that are falling over under the demand for this file). Recent Mozillas are small and fast (relatively) and give you all the nice features. It's your choice.
Ximian Connector for Evolution will allow a desktop Linux box to make use of the functionality of an Exchange server, just like Outlook 2000 does.
Steve White says the Berman bill is "stupid and counterproductive", and he believes it will lead to an online arms race as PC owners and the networks seek to thwart the efforts of copyright holders.
Yeah, they'll have to get through my firewall and figure out my SSH passwords first. Do they have a hope in hell? How exactly do they intend getting access to computer systems. Realistically, a lot of home computers (the non-geek ones) don't even have any form of remote access software running (at least not until MS convinces them to "upgrade" to XP).
Yet another reason why people should be given real computers with proper e-mail software and web browsers. I highly doubt anyone is going to cause any such problems on the Sun Blade workstation on my desk at work with KMail and Konqueror. And before someone complains about it not being "standard" or not being "easy to use" by normal office people: Star Office and KDE.
Try looking at the parent comment before being sarcastic. It went along the lines of "Try moving /bin to /hoobookie and let me know how your boot goes...". I was only po9inting out that the same thing happens on Windows and UNIX.
What you should have searched for is "md5sum tar gz" - what you're looking for is on the 1st page of hits - try to search for text you think will appear on the page that the link is on. Most likely the filename, as it could easily be a directory listing given back from Apache on a mirror site.
I've moved /usr/local/staroffice/ before - i orignally installed it on another drive. This doesn't work for Office 2000, although for Office 97, Word and Excel still worked after moving. If you suggest moving my /bin directory (the place where operating system commands are kept), then you should try moving C:\WINNT\ and see what happens. Oh, "It won't let me move it", I hear you say. Hmmm, while logged in as my on my *nix box, I can't move /bin either. Try writing an app that runs with System priviledges on Windows, that moves C:\WINNT\, then reboot.
secure
/etc on a disk that is read-only at a hardware level, giving guranteed protection. Try doing this with a Windows registry.
It is one file. If someone gains access to it, they gain access to all the information in it - not very secure. With the "multiple small files" approach, some files could be read-only, meaning that nobody within the operating system (except root/Administrator) could write to them. You could even mount / and
concurrent, multi-user
Again, it is just one file. It has one file handle. Without using mmap() or the like, it can be written to by only one process. This problem doesn't occurr with multiple files. It's not so much a problem as Windows was never intended to be a multi-user system anyway. hierarchical, distributed database
If you have the slightest clue what this means, you'll know the Registry concept falls very far short of it.
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but so is x86 hardware
X86 hardware cool? It's got BIOS for god's sake. That's cool in the same way as Windows version 2 is cool. It's history (or at least it should be). There's no sensible reason for people to write OSs that require a BIOS any longer.
If having DRM in the hardware and forcing the OS to comply will be law, why not make all precomipled linux distros fit in with this. If someone so wishes, they could check the source out of CVS and compile it with -DNODRM as an option and miss out on the crappy standard. That way Average Joe, who downloads pirated MP3's and doesn't know how to compile his own OS still won't be able to play them. Simple.
Your description sounds exactly like one of the apps on the Palm m100, which is accessible through a physical button on the front of the device. Press the button and start writing and seemlessly integrating hand-drawn images. And no need to save it because it's being done as you draw/write it. What does the m100 lack that a paper notepad doesn't? resolution and greyscales. If this application had a resolution high enough so that you had to look closely to see the pixels and the shade changed depending on the amount of pressure you apply, it would most definitely be as useable as a pad of paper and a pen.