As another comment above noted, "LinuxInsider" is not a computing news site in any real sense of the term. It is in fact little more than a FUD factory. The list of contributors reads like the who's who of Microsoft/SCO paid schills...
I'm surprised that Slashdot gave this latest garbage a front page headline. Hopefully if enough people ignore LinuxInsider it'll go away...
I kind of agree - I never block ads on Slashdot (even though I also subscribe), as it's a site I wish to support. I do block ads on sites that are festooned with banners and popups that make the sites hard to use though. If they're greedy, sod them;-)
I still shouldn't have to edit a text file to add a new hard drive or change my screen resolution...
Don't be ridiculous. You don't "have to" do that at all. There are GUI tools for Linux for both these purposes, and you can also do it by editing text files. Choice, you see. Have you ever tried administering a bunch of Windows machines over a modem/ISDN/saturated broadband link with VNC? It's soul destroying, and you'd be praying for the ability to edit a file quickly to resolve a problem.
Basically, Linux!=Windows, we do things a different way for a reason. The sooner you understand that, the sooner you'll appreciate the advantages.
Yeah, I had never come across this new fangled technology in 12 years of web development until I just read your article.
If Firefox is sharing a session between tabs, then it sounds like a pretty bad bug. Multiple browser instances, be they tabs or windows shouldn't have access to the session data of another. The only exception to this would be child windows.
Anyway, I still haven't heard why it's impossible for someone to open more than one instance of Firefox at a time when I do it pretty much every day!
As someone who's set up IPSEC for VPN under Windows 2000 and Windows XP, I can tell you categorically that editing a text config file is WAY faster and easier than fighting against the Microsoft Management Console, adding snapins, setting up dialogue after dialogue of rules and settings and connection specific options.... then crossing your fingers. Try it some time, it's great fun... not.
Sounds like a configuration problem. I can open multiple instances of Firefox in Windows, Linux and OSX with no problems. There's rarely a need for it of course, since Firefox has this handy feature known as "Tabbed browsing"... When you need a new "session" hit CTRL+T.
Maybe use a form? Or a field and button a visitor could hit to be sent your email address - hey you could even send your PGP public key or whatever too! Relying upon Javascript is rarely a good idea - unless your site specializes in such...
This would be hella useful for me, and probably a lot of other people where I work at least. If this plugin/feature allowed the user to see how the page would be split (using a semi-transparent outline maybe), then they could just resize the browser/font and maybe make changes to the page body border, then hit a button and have PDFs of the page created!
Even better for me would be for this ability to be available in a command-line mode so I could batch process pages. Maybe also have the ability to create thumbnails too for intranet links or something...
No, it doesn't. You're thinking of "Active scripting", which is Javascript in IE. Interestingly, disabling Javascript in the old NS4 browser used to also disable CSS (what little CSS it could manage anyway!)
Surely public key encryption could be built into the p2p clients so that at least there could only be proof that a client shared a single file. Any third party monitoring the network would only see digital static moving between nodes...
Not only that but did you see this part? will detect and remove infections from specific pieces of malware, including those in the families of Berbew, Doomjuice, Gaobot, Msblast, Mydoom, Nachi, Sassier...
It removes Sassier too! It's a lot like Sasser, but with more attitude...
Really? How useful to today's average system adminintrator is learning FTP, sendmail, and NFS? Written any sendmail.cf's lately?
Actually, yes? Well, technically anyone with any sense works mostly with sendmail.mc these days, but I admin systems running these services and many more on a daily basis. We're not all just running Linux at home you know;-)
Ah, I might try that when I start it again... I did get in the habit of carrying a sentry gun about in the prison to save ammo. The part with the big bug thing in the prison washroom was simple with the sentry - just walk to the room where you'd jump over the fence and trigger the bug, then walk back and get the sentry gun, then as you walk back into the washroom the bug is sitting there on the other side of the fence! Just aim the sentry at it and wait a while until it's dead;-)
I thought the manual was just missing from my box - only had a flimsy leaflet with no clue to the misson, or which keys I should use etc... Not that read the manuals anyway, of course...
I'm sorry, but if you honestly believe the lighting and textures were bad, then you must have played it on a mid to low-end rig. In fact, the biggest problem D3 had/has are people moaning about its performance on their Athlon 1200 with GF3MX GPU and 256MB of system RAM. Yes, it doesn't look cutting edge when you have to turn off all the eye candy to play the damned thing!
That said, HL2 was a great game too, but in a different way - I loved Doom III's tense atmosphere and amazing (on my system at least) graphics and lighting. HL2, on the other hand had more variety, although it was impossibly tough in places (I became so bored trying to finish the prison section where you must set up 3 sentry guns and survive against an entire fucking army at close range that I just switched on the God mode).
Doom III *IS* a showcase for the engine though; I'm reallying looking forward to seeing it running Q4 and hopefully another Wolfenstein episode. Likewise, I'll be looking for games based on Valve's Source engine (I do hope they drop Steam though, it really, really sucks...)
"...For example, one thing that normally comes up is that Microsoft is anti-open source, and they've used some of our activities as Microsoft versus open source. This is definitely not the case. Yes..."
And that's the point at which Martin Taylor (the MS talking head) confirmed that this discussion was yet another dull FUD exercise and I stopped reading. Seriously, this is getting very old now. They need some fresh new script-writers over at MS, otherwise they're in danger of losing even their most avid fans!
Enterprises do not want to run around trying to find stable kernels and stable machines to run them on.
Yep, and that's why we pay for Enterprise versions of Linux. Solaris on SPARC provides them with an OS which is specifically tuned to that hardware. That is an option you simply do not have with Linux, which is not tuned to any hardware specifically.
Hmm, I'm getting the impression that you have no idea what you're talking about (on Slashdot! What are the odds?) The kernel is "tuned" to run on x86 - hey you can even "tune" it to a specific version of an Intel, AMD, PPC or whatever CPU. And funnily enough, the drivers are "tuned" to drive specific pieces of hardware.
It becomes more of a problem when you get into fairly big multiway SMP boxes with more than four processors. Such machines are not readily available under x86, and if they were it's hard to say exactly how well Linux would run on them.
I'd say it would handle them very well, bearing in mind that fact it's currently running the fastest cluster of 512 way machines on the planet.
Seems like it's not just Linus who's not up to date here;-)
I'd recommend the mambo content management system. It's template based (there are loads to download to get you started), it's expandable via modules, to add calendars, forums, document management, news articles, etc. Simple to get up and running for just about anyone. I set it up as our new company intranet, and after a few days it was being administered and populated by the HR dept (very much non techies;-)
It's also reputedly faster than Plone, and written using PHP, so it's simpler to mate it with other LAMP projects (I've modified our install pretty heavily to link it to our other backend systems).
I've always written sites from scratch with Perl, PHP, DHTML and Java, but I'll almost certainly be using Mambo as the basis of my next few sites... Very impressed;-)
It's hardly a new idea! I did this on an intranet project 2 years ago! Ok, it wasn't a generic web search, but a search on product codes from a mysql database; but it was essentially the same...
Hmm, I think (if you're bothered;-) then it's worth identifying the problem there. Even on my old Sony Vaio laptop IE launches intantly. The laptop is running a P3 866 (600mhz when on batteries) and has 384MB RAM. Hardly a screamer;-)
Ah, but then I don't run XP on anything. I noticed it was much slower for me than w2k, and since I wasn't worried about losing the "advanced" Fischer price toy look of the interface, I gave my copies away.
I have seen serious problems with slowness and lockups in IE on PCs at work which seem to have the same root cause; the cache becomes corrupt. One symptom of this is that in the "Temporary internet files" dialog, the cache size cannot be set above zero and IE cannot write to the disk. I've had to actually move the location of the cach e on the disk to fix this on machines (I also install Firefox at the same time and the users don't tend to use IE much after that anyway;-)
Firefox typically opens within a couple seconds of clicking whatever needs to use it. I routinely had IE take half a minute.
Ok, I use Firefox as my main browser on Windows, OSX and Linux. I rarely use IE on Windows for any reason any more, BUT it launches instantly when I do use it. This is much faster than Firefox, and understandable since much of it is already loaded after bootup. If you really were waiting for 30 seconds for IE to come up, then something is seriously screwed up on your system...
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As another comment above noted, "LinuxInsider" is not a computing news site in any real sense of the term. It is in fact little more than a FUD factory. The list of contributors reads like the who's who of Microsoft/SCO paid schills...
I'm surprised that Slashdot gave this latest garbage a front page headline. Hopefully if enough people ignore LinuxInsider it'll go away...
but it still doesn't look as snazzy or as futuristic as XP...
Futuristic!?! You're saying that one day the teletubbies with invade and conquer Earth?
I kind of agree - I never block ads on Slashdot (even though I also subscribe), as it's a site I wish to support. I do block ads on sites that are festooned with banners and popups that make the sites hard to use though. If they're greedy, sod them ;-)
I still shouldn't have to edit a text file to add a new hard drive or change my screen resolution...
Don't be ridiculous. You don't "have to" do that at all. There are GUI tools for Linux for both these purposes, and you can also do it by editing text files. Choice, you see. Have you ever tried administering a bunch of Windows machines over a modem/ISDN/saturated broadband link with VNC? It's soul destroying, and you'd be praying for the ability to edit a file quickly to resolve a problem.
Basically, Linux!=Windows, we do things a different way for a reason. The sooner you understand that, the sooner you'll appreciate the advantages.
You obviously don't know what an HTTP session is.
Yeah, I had never come across this new fangled technology in 12 years of web development until I just read your article.
If Firefox is sharing a session between tabs, then it sounds like a pretty bad bug. Multiple browser instances, be they tabs or windows shouldn't have access to the session data of another. The only exception to this would be child windows.
Anyway, I still haven't heard why it's impossible for someone to open more than one instance of Firefox at a time when I do it pretty much every day!
As someone who's set up IPSEC for VPN under Windows 2000 and Windows XP, I can tell you categorically that editing a text config file is WAY faster and easier than fighting against the Microsoft Management Console, adding snapins, setting up dialogue after dialogue of rules and settings and connection specific options.... then crossing your fingers. Try it some time, it's great fun... not.
Sounds like a configuration problem. I can open multiple instances of Firefox in Windows, Linux and OSX with no problems. There's rarely a need for it of course, since Firefox has this handy feature known as "Tabbed browsing"... When you need a new "session" hit CTRL+T.
Maybe use a form? Or a field and button a visitor could hit to be sent your email address - hey you could even send your PGP public key or whatever too! Relying upon Javascript is rarely a good idea - unless your site specializes in such...
This would be hella useful for me, and probably a lot of other people where I work at least. If this plugin/feature allowed the user to see how the page would be split (using a semi-transparent outline maybe), then they could just resize the browser/font and maybe make changes to the page body border, then hit a button and have PDFs of the page created!
Even better for me would be for this ability to be available in a command-line mode so I could batch process pages. Maybe also have the ability to create thumbnails too for intranet links or something...
No, it doesn't. You're thinking of "Active scripting", which is Javascript in IE. Interestingly, disabling Javascript in the old NS4 browser used to also disable CSS (what little CSS it could manage anyway!)
Surely public key encryption could be built into the p2p clients so that at least there could only be proof that a client shared a single file. Any third party monitoring the network would only see digital static moving between nodes...
I'd nearly finished that download too! Why don't the authorities pick on the torrents with a lot of seeds to give people a chance?...
Not only that but did you see this part?
will detect and remove infections from specific pieces of malware, including those in the families of Berbew, Doomjuice, Gaobot, Msblast, Mydoom, Nachi, Sassier...
It removes Sassier too! It's a lot like Sasser, but with more attitude...
Really? How useful to today's average system adminintrator is learning FTP, sendmail, and NFS? Written any sendmail.cf's lately?
;-)
Actually, yes? Well, technically anyone with any sense works mostly with sendmail.mc these days, but I admin systems running these services and many more on a daily basis. We're not all just running Linux at home you know
...I hope for this guy's sake that the goatse guy isn't bidding on this auction...
Ok, I'm on here, and I can see 10 other people using it too - wonder if anyone there have noticed the camera spazzing around yet? ;-)
Ah, I might try that when I start it again... I did get in the habit of carrying a sentry gun about in the prison to save ammo. The part with the big bug thing in the prison washroom was simple with the sentry - just walk to the room where you'd jump over the fence and trigger the bug, then walk back and get the sentry gun, then as you walk back into the washroom the bug is sitting there on the other side of the fence! Just aim the sentry at it and wait a while until it's dead ;-)
I thought the manual was just missing from my box - only had a flimsy leaflet with no clue to the misson, or which keys I should use etc... Not that read the manuals anyway, of course...
I'm sorry, but if you honestly believe the lighting and textures were bad, then you must have played it on a mid to low-end rig. In fact, the biggest problem D3 had/has are people moaning about its performance on their Athlon 1200 with GF3MX GPU and 256MB of system RAM. Yes, it doesn't look cutting edge when you have to turn off all the eye candy to play the damned thing!
That said, HL2 was a great game too, but in a different way - I loved Doom III's tense atmosphere and amazing (on my system at least) graphics and lighting. HL2, on the other hand had more variety, although it was impossibly tough in places (I became so bored trying to finish the prison section where you must set up 3 sentry guns and survive against an entire fucking army at close range that I just switched on the God mode).
Doom III *IS* a showcase for the engine though; I'm reallying looking forward to seeing it running Q4 and hopefully another Wolfenstein episode. Likewise, I'll be looking for games based on Valve's Source engine (I do hope they drop Steam though, it really, really sucks...)
"...For example, one thing that normally comes up is that Microsoft is anti-open source, and they've used some of our activities as Microsoft versus open source. This is definitely not the case. Yes..."
And that's the point at which Martin Taylor (the MS talking head) confirmed that this discussion was yet another dull FUD exercise and I stopped reading. Seriously, this is getting very old now. They need some fresh new script-writers over at MS, otherwise they're in danger of losing even their most avid fans!
Enterprises do not want to run around trying to find stable kernels and stable machines to run them on.
;-)
Yep, and that's why we pay for Enterprise versions of Linux.
Solaris on SPARC provides them with an OS which is specifically tuned to that hardware. That is an option you simply do not have with Linux, which is not tuned to any hardware specifically.
Hmm, I'm getting the impression that you have no idea what you're talking about (on Slashdot! What are the odds?) The kernel is "tuned" to run on x86 - hey you can even "tune" it to a specific version of an Intel, AMD, PPC or whatever CPU. And funnily enough, the drivers are "tuned" to drive specific pieces of hardware.
It becomes more of a problem when you get into fairly big multiway SMP boxes with more than four processors. Such machines are not readily available under x86, and if they were it's hard to say exactly how well Linux would run on them.
I'd say it would handle them very well, bearing in mind that fact it's currently running the fastest cluster of 512 way machines on the planet.
Seems like it's not just Linus who's not up to date here
I'd recommend the mambo content management system. It's template based (there are loads to download to get you started), it's expandable via modules, to add calendars, forums, document management, news articles, etc. Simple to get up and running for just about anyone. I set it up as our new company intranet, and after a few days it was being administered and populated by the HR dept (very much non techies ;-)
;-)
It's also reputedly faster than Plone, and written using PHP, so it's simpler to mate it with other LAMP projects (I've modified our install pretty heavily to link it to our other backend systems).
I've always written sites from scratch with Perl, PHP, DHTML and Java, but I'll almost certainly be using Mambo as the basis of my next few sites... Very impressed
It's hardly a new idea! I did this on an intranet project 2 years ago! Ok, it wasn't a generic web search, but a search on product codes from a mysql database; but it was essentially the same...
Heh! Oh yeah... errr... damnit!
Hmm, I think (if you're bothered ;-) then it's worth identifying the problem there. Even on my old Sony Vaio laptop IE launches intantly. The laptop is running a P3 866 (600mhz when on batteries) and has 384MB RAM. Hardly a screamer ;-)
;-)
Ah, but then I don't run XP on anything. I noticed it was much slower for me than w2k, and since I wasn't worried about losing the "advanced" Fischer price toy look of the interface, I gave my copies away.
I have seen serious problems with slowness and lockups in IE on PCs at work which seem to have the same root cause; the cache becomes corrupt. One symptom of this is that in the "Temporary internet files" dialog, the cache size cannot be set above zero and IE cannot write to the disk. I've had to actually move the location of the cach e on the disk to fix this on machines (I also install Firefox at the same time and the users don't tend to use IE much after that anyway
Firefox typically opens within a couple seconds of clicking whatever needs to use it. I routinely had IE take half a minute.
Ok, I use Firefox as my main browser on Windows, OSX and Linux. I rarely use IE on Windows for any reason any more, BUT it launches instantly when I do use it. This is much faster than Firefox, and understandable since much of it is already loaded after bootup. If you really were waiting for 30 seconds for IE to come up, then something is seriously screwed up on your system...