More secure than IE: I'll give you this one for now, but I guarantee that if Mozilla ever gets 90% marketshare you'll be funding security bugs in that thing too.
well, probably u're right, but IE is so tight to windows that a security hole in IE often mean a security hole in Windows. That's a Bad Thing, and obviously can't happen with Mozilla, no ?
what doesn't work in my experience is Java Applets created for Java 1/1.1. Well, almost all of them that are a bit complex. But i can't tell if it comes from the Sun plugin or anything else.
for more recent Applets, there are some, even very complex, that work very well... like all those irc chat plugins hanging around all there.. or the yahoo chat...
i'm postmaster@ for 3 domains. it's a nightmare. i don't even read those stupid mails... when i see the topic or a silly "From" email address, i simply delete it.
i wonder why people are wasting time for such little result (i don't think any postmaster is an internet beginner..)
I have OpenOffice installed right now. It's a nice product for a secretary, but useless for a publisher. All word processors are not created equal, and for someone who works with words and publishing on a professional level, OpenOffice is way, way short on features.
One of my best friends is an engineer, who tells me that the number of built-in functions in OpenOffice is only a fraction of the number of built-in function in Quattro Pro (part of WordPerfect Office).
So, if you are a coder who only now and then needs to type a letter or work on your personal budget, I think OpenOffice is a great choice. But if you are a publisher trying to bring titles to press or an engineer trying to do some design calculations, OpenOffice is just not a pro-quality tool.
The same goes for GIMP, by the way... As someone who works in publishing, I can tell you that GIMP lacks important features found in Corel's Draw+PhotoPaint package, despite what some clueless Web designers will tell you.
I'm not a journalist. I'm not a coder. I'm software engineer. I use OpenOffice a lot to write specifications, and never had the slightest little problem working with it. It has all the features we need, even for large projects, where we have to work as a team.
I also think that only a few people need such features, and that in the great majority of cases, people could simply switch to OpenOffice without any problem.
Maybe journalists have some special needs. Maybe revision marks are too light in OpenOffice. Maybe journalists don't know how to make revision marks work in StarWriter.;-))
well.. i should have precised "as for computer related stuff".
though i use it also to listen to music or watch TV.
but, for fun, i prefer far much to have it in the real life, u know, the life where there are bars, pubs, restaurants, cinemas, girlfriend and so on;-))
Well. First i don't think you've tried StarOffice 6.0 beta, nor the latest OpenOffice.
Then, what i am saying is exactly not "Linux is for PROGRAMMERS and ADMINS ONLY. Everybody else, GET THE HELL OUT!". I'm saying the contrary actually.
I'm saying for now the problem is that linux users are like that, and that it is a pity, because broader access is needed, but that there is somehow the problem of the chicken and egg with that.
You know what, i use linux, and only linux, some people around me use linux and only linux. But none of those who use linux and only linux play games. Simply.
Nobody tried to say that, but, for many of us, fun is more in programming a module for the kernel or some kde app. Sometimes i play, but i get bored with a game very quickly. I played maybe 5 times to tuxracer, and 6 to Quake. Both games have free or sharewares versions, and there was no need for me to buy them for such little use.
Moreover, people that use linux but love to play games as well, usually have double boot computers, simply because the vast majority of games are released for windows.
Well.. maybe i'm wrong about games after all, but my point isn't 100% invalid. Games on Linux are the problem of the egg and the chicken: no games, no "regular" desktop home users, and no "regular" desktop home users, no games.
As for Corel WordPerfect or Draw, just let me laugh.
At the same time, Sun/StarDivision was providing Star/OpenOffice for free. So who would BUY that Corel product ? I don't think the difference of quality and features between the two can justify to PAY for WordPerfect.
As for Draw, i have no clue about what it does exactly, since all the computer graphists around me use Adobe products, that don't exist on Linux.
I believe 0.9.8 is due out tomorrow. Well, as 0.9.8 branched only yesterday, i'd reather think 0.9.8 will be out som time early next week, and mozillazine seems to say the same;-)
FYI, pre-0.9.8 builds are already available.
actually, it's not useless. if konqueror is that slow to load it's partly because it has to load many icons for the spinning wheel, instead of just one animated icon...
as for the Klipper, the problem doesn't rely only on KDE.. actually, there as been a bug sneaking in QT, more or less fixed in Klipper, and then fixed in QT, so problems occured in Klipper... well... as u can see, it's a complex mess.
what is as stake is copy-pasting URLs. If you deactivate "Actions" in Klipper, it works much better. Or using a good couple of QT/KDE. The work done by RedHat in their last updates is good, and everything works fine for me (seems Bero finally went back to qt-2.3.1).
FYI LICQ has the same problems as Klipper.
The KDE gui is looks better than the Windows one even now... Well, everything except the fonts that looks bad when small/italized.
More likely you have a problem with small/italized antialiased (or not) fonts.
Try adding:
# antialias adjusting
match any size > 8 any size < 12 edit antialias = false;
at the end of your XftConfig file (well, if you're using freetype, which i do)
I think it has nothing to do with the market, but with the State.
In France, France Telecom has a great network (phone network), because in the 70's, State gave a lot of money to dramatically improve the phone network.
Then in the late 90's, they created ART (Autorite de Regulation des Telecommunications), to ensure that the use of the phone lines between France Telecom and its competitors is fair (since FT didn't pay for them).
As a result, the only tactic for FT to reimpose their monopoly, is dumping prices, because, technically, ART is there to regulate (it's far more difficult to regulate prices, provided the complex structure of costs involved, than technical issues).
The article is not complete. In fact, there are two possibilities for ISP to sell ADSL connexions using FT phone lines:
1- ISP buy from FT ADSL connexion, package it with IP access, and sell everything to the customer.
2- the customer buys ADSL from FT, and IP from ISP.
Till quite recently, only solution 2 was broadly available, and it is still in that solution that you have the best choice of offers as for IP access.
Wanadoo, FT's ISP, is by far the worst ISP for ADSL. IP connexion is barely ok, but everything else is between bad and very bad (mail, news, etc.). And it is 100% true that FT is dumping prices in irregular ways. Moreover, if u buy ADSL access from FT, and not IP, Wanadoo tries however to get you buying their IP access, using dumping techniques, like offering the modem, or offering cuts on ur.. phone bill ! (this is my personal experience with them).
And remember: FT is still a state-owned company...
well... Enhydra Entreprise has small market share, but Enhydra hasn't a small one.
i think what happened there is very unclear, though i suspect some changes at Lutris.. see layoffs and so on.
so i would rather say that the problem is that they should have focused on Enhydra rather than Enhydra Entreprise, which is barely useless: how many projects really need J2EE ? very few. And Enhydra is not J2EE, but uses JDBC, and can use JNDI or EJB without any problem...
well anyway, i just thought it would be a good idea to clarify the situation with Sun, because Lutris is using their license for J2EE certification as an excuse, so i would have liked to have found the real truth in all that...
Well.. I would add to your question another, which is linked:
Could you clarify what happened with Enhydra Entreprise 4, which is no longer opensource, apparently due to licensing problems for J2EE certification (and so because of Sun's attitude towards J2EE in general) ?
Enhydra is a very good appserver too... (version 3 is still opensource btw, but not J2EE)
gcc 2.96 helped a lot in giving a more modern and stable gcc, especially for C++. this was a need for the market.
moreover, if u take last gcc2.96 update from RH (for RH7.2), it's stable and gives relatively good compiled progs.
as for mplayer's coders, i think their attitude is just plain stupid. gcc3 (it IS distributed with RH7.2) is far more buggy than 2.96 (gcc team itself admit it).
if u want my opinion, what the mplayer team should work on, instead of supporting old quicktime format that nobody uses, is a way to dynamically choose the best code for the computer. I explain: for now (well.. i last tried 0.50), u have to compile mplayer on each computer u wanna use it, because at build-time it chooses the best code for ur CPU and so. it's impossible to make RPMs from it. That's a HUGE drawback, preventing it from being widely used.
That's bad, because apart from that, it's really a good player, maybe the best player for linux.
The fact is that, unfortunately, in many cases, design patterns are percieved as a substitute for forming ones own opinions.
I mean, it's not the goal, but many programmers just use them saying it's God on Earth, without trying to have their own opinion. Why ? Many (bad) reasons, the main being : because that way "the next programmer who will read the code will understand straight: you just have to say 'this code follow the Observer pattern', and he will understand everything straightforward". NOOOOO !!! Code is understandable because it is written clearly (good indentation, and stuff), with good specs, docs and everything (javadoc is far more useful for the programmer than design patterns if u want my opinion).
So, theoretically, u're right. Practically, unfortunately, u're far from always right (((((((((((
No need to discuss that point on bugtraq, everybody in the web industry knows about it.
I found that bug (or feature, according to MS), months ago (even years maybe), when trying to generate on-the-fly pdfs as part of the web application i was working on. I think that almost any engineer or prgrammer working on web sites should know it. This is not a problem of security by obscurity, but a problem of unsecurity by stupidity (from MS).
In fact, this is an argument to null the whole "security by obscurity" strategy. When every engineer or programmer knows about the bug, then there's no obscurity anymore. And with many of the security bugs found on MS OSes, it's what indeed happens, sooner or later. In fact, i think this is what happens with most software, not only MS', and that's why it's not responsible from them to use such a strategy.
Actually, the Mig 31 is heavier than the 25, so its max speed is only Mach 2.83 Well, i think you're right, but i got another information here, and there's the same information on all the links from that site.
Also i don't think Mig-25 is still in service in many many countries. Tumanski engines are very powerful, but they eat a lot of fuel and need to be replaced very often. Also its interceptor-only design makes in non versatile, which is also economically very bad. Somehow, Mig-25 is the contrary of Mig-21 (or Mig-29). Powerful, expensive and non-versatile.
And too, between the original B1 (B1A) and B1B, the specs changed a lot. B1A was to be very fast, B1B had to be stealth (well.. or having a significantly lower radar signature).
Seen what happened to ur program when u change the specs while programming it ? Well, it's pretty much the same to an airplane...
yes, it's yugoslavia, not Serbia, in the article, but pay attention that:
1- Beograd is both capital of Serbia and Yugoslavia.
2- Lots of serbs live in Montenegro.
> No, the Mig-25 could fly at Mach 3, even the ones without rocket engines.
guess what ? Mig-31 has the same characteristics (Mach 3), and is still on duty (it's an evolution of Mig-25). Those planes are very basic interceptors, they were made in fact exactly to intercept high flying spying planes, such as U2 or SR-71. They can just take off, climb quickly and high, shoot, and land (well, i simplify). They can't act as regular fighters, and have a short range (unlike SR-71). But i think that the famous U2 (it's called TR-1 in latest evolutions), was shot by a SAM, not that Mig.
BTW, SR-71 shouldn't have been called that way, it's a mistake from Carter. I think it should have been RS-71.
yeah, actually X-15 was used for astronauts to learn driving in the space. it doesn't use flaps or others small wings to turn, but small rockets, exactly like the space shuttle does.
moreover, it's doesn't take off my itself, but is dropped from a B-52 (yes, i'm not THAT OT!!!), and is propelled by rocket engine, not ramjets.
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More secure than IE: I'll give you this one for now, but I guarantee that if Mozilla ever gets 90% marketshare you'll be funding security bugs in that thing too.
well, probably u're right, but IE is so tight to windows that a security hole in IE often mean a security hole in Windows. That's a Bad Thing, and obviously can't happen with Mozilla, no ?
well, as far as i've tried, u're 100% right.
what doesn't work in my experience is Java Applets created for Java 1/1.1. Well, almost all of them that are a bit complex. But i can't tell if it comes from the Sun plugin or anything else.
for more recent Applets, there are some, even very complex, that work very well... like all those irc chat plugins hanging around all there.. or the yahoo chat...
yep, u're right.
i'm postmaster@ for 3 domains. it's a nightmare. i don't even read those stupid mails... when i see the topic or a silly "From" email address, i simply delete it.
i wonder why people are wasting time for such little result (i don't think any postmaster is an internet beginner..)
Well, strangely, i already asked that guy the same question.
;-))
here is the thread., and here is his answer:
I have OpenOffice installed right now. It's a nice product for a secretary, but useless for a publisher. All word processors are not created equal, and for someone who works with words and publishing on a professional level, OpenOffice is way, way short on features.
One of my best friends is an engineer, who tells me that the number of built-in functions in OpenOffice is only a fraction of the number of built-in function in Quattro Pro (part of WordPerfect Office).
So, if you are a coder who only now and then needs to type a letter or work on your personal budget, I think OpenOffice is a great choice. But if you are a publisher trying to bring titles to press or an engineer trying to do some design calculations, OpenOffice is just not a pro-quality tool.
The same goes for GIMP, by the way... As someone who works in publishing, I can tell you that GIMP lacks important features found in Corel's Draw+PhotoPaint package, despite what some clueless Web designers will tell you.
I'm not a journalist. I'm not a coder. I'm software engineer. I use OpenOffice a lot to write specifications, and never had the slightest little problem working with it. It has all the features we need, even for large projects, where we have to work as a team.
I also think that only a few people need such features, and that in the great majority of cases, people could simply switch to OpenOffice without any problem.
Maybe journalists have some special needs. Maybe revision marks are too light in OpenOffice. Maybe journalists don't know how to make revision marks work in StarWriter.
well.. i should have precised "as for computer related stuff".
;-))
though i use it also to listen to music or watch TV.
but, for fun, i prefer far much to have it in the real life, u know, the life where there are bars, pubs, restaurants, cinemas, girlfriend and so on
Well. First i don't think you've tried StarOffice 6.0 beta, nor the latest OpenOffice.
Then, what i am saying is exactly not "Linux is for PROGRAMMERS and ADMINS ONLY. Everybody else, GET THE HELL OUT!". I'm saying the contrary actually.
I'm saying for now the problem is that linux users are like that, and that it is a pity, because broader access is needed, but that there is somehow the problem of the chicken and egg with that.
You know what, i use linux, and only linux, some people around me use linux and only linux. But none of those who use linux and only linux play games. Simply.
Nobody tried to say that, but, for many of us, fun is more in programming a module for the kernel or some kde app. Sometimes i play, but i get bored with a game very quickly. I played maybe 5 times to tuxracer, and 6 to Quake. Both games have free or sharewares versions, and there was no need for me to buy them for such little use.
Moreover, people that use linux but love to play games as well, usually have double boot computers, simply because the vast majority of games are released for windows.
Well.. maybe i'm wrong about games after all, but my point isn't 100% invalid. Games on Linux are the problem of the egg and the chicken: no games, no "regular" desktop home users, and no "regular" desktop home users, no games.
As for Corel WordPerfect or Draw, just let me laugh.
At the same time, Sun/StarDivision was providing Star/OpenOffice for free. So who would BUY that Corel product ? I don't think the difference of quality and features between the two can justify to PAY for WordPerfect.
As for Draw, i have no clue about what it does exactly, since all the computer graphists around me use Adobe products, that don't exist on Linux.
I believe 0.9.8 is due out tomorrow. ;-)
Well, as 0.9.8 branched only yesterday, i'd reather think 0.9.8 will be out som time early next week, and mozillazine seems to say the same
FYI, pre-0.9.8 builds are already available.
to the totally useless (animated mimetype icons)
actually, it's not useless. if konqueror is that slow to load it's partly because it has to load many icons for the spinning wheel, instead of just one animated icon...
as for the Klipper, the problem doesn't rely only on KDE.. actually, there as been a bug sneaking in QT, more or less fixed in Klipper, and then fixed in QT, so problems occured in Klipper... well... as u can see, it's a complex mess.
what is as stake is copy-pasting URLs. If you deactivate "Actions" in Klipper, it works much better. Or using a good couple of QT/KDE. The work done by RedHat in their last updates is good, and everything works fine for me (seems Bero finally went back to qt-2.3.1).
FYI LICQ has the same problems as Klipper.
gosh... we're very lucky here (France) then:
45 / month 512/128, no DL/UL limit, static IP.
I understand why we had 500% more broadband users in 2001, and not some other EU countries.
The KDE gui is looks better than the Windows one even now... Well, everything except the fonts that looks bad when small/italized.
More likely you have a problem with small/italized antialiased (or not) fonts.
Try adding:
# antialias adjusting
match any size > 8 any size < 12 edit antialias = false;
at the end of your XftConfig file (well, if you're using freetype, which i do)
I think it has nothing to do with the market, but with the State.
In France, France Telecom has a great network (phone network), because in the 70's, State gave a lot of money to dramatically improve the phone network.
Then in the late 90's, they created ART (Autorite de Regulation des Telecommunications), to ensure that the use of the phone lines between France Telecom and its competitors is fair (since FT didn't pay for them).
As a result, the only tactic for FT to reimpose their monopoly, is dumping prices, because, technically, ART is there to regulate (it's far more difficult to regulate prices, provided the complex structure of costs involved, than technical issues).
The article is not complete. In fact, there are two possibilities for ISP to sell ADSL connexions using FT phone lines:
1- ISP buy from FT ADSL connexion, package it with IP access, and sell everything to the customer.
2- the customer buys ADSL from FT, and IP from ISP.
Till quite recently, only solution 2 was broadly available, and it is still in that solution that you have the best choice of offers as for IP access.
Wanadoo, FT's ISP, is by far the worst ISP for ADSL. IP connexion is barely ok, but everything else is between bad and very bad (mail, news, etc.). And it is 100% true that FT is dumping prices in irregular ways. Moreover, if u buy ADSL access from FT, and not IP, Wanadoo tries however to get you buying their IP access, using dumping techniques, like offering the modem, or offering cuts on ur.. phone bill ! (this is my personal experience with them).
And remember: FT is still a state-owned company...
well... Enhydra Entreprise has small market share, but Enhydra hasn't a small one.
i think what happened there is very unclear, though i suspect some changes at Lutris.. see layoffs and so on.
so i would rather say that the problem is that they should have focused on Enhydra rather than Enhydra Entreprise, which is barely useless: how many projects really need J2EE ? very few. And Enhydra is not J2EE, but uses JDBC, and can use JNDI or EJB without any problem...
well anyway, i just thought it would be a good idea to clarify the situation with Sun, because Lutris is using their license for J2EE certification as an excuse, so i would have liked to have found the real truth in all that...
Well.. I would add to your question another, which is linked:
Could you clarify what happened with Enhydra Entreprise 4, which is no longer opensource, apparently due to licensing problems for J2EE certification (and so because of Sun's attitude towards J2EE in general) ?
Enhydra is a very good appserver too... (version 3 is still opensource btw, but not J2EE)
gcc 2.96 helped a lot in giving a more modern and stable gcc, especially for C++. this was a need for the market.
moreover, if u take last gcc2.96 update from RH (for RH7.2), it's stable and gives relatively good compiled progs.
as for mplayer's coders, i think their attitude is just plain stupid. gcc3 (it IS distributed with RH7.2) is far more buggy than 2.96 (gcc team itself admit it).
if u want my opinion, what the mplayer team should work on, instead of supporting old quicktime format that nobody uses, is a way to dynamically choose the best code for the computer. I explain: for now (well.. i last tried 0.50), u have to compile mplayer on each computer u wanna use it, because at build-time it chooses the best code for ur CPU and so. it's impossible to make RPMs from it. That's a HUGE drawback, preventing it from being widely used.
That's bad, because apart from that, it's really a good player, maybe the best player for linux.
The fact is that, unfortunately, in many cases, design patterns are percieved as a substitute for forming ones own opinions.
I mean, it's not the goal, but many programmers just use them saying it's God on Earth, without trying to have their own opinion. Why ? Many (bad) reasons, the main being : because that way "the next programmer who will read the code will understand straight: you just have to say 'this code follow the Observer pattern', and he will understand everything straightforward". NOOOOO !!! Code is understandable because it is written clearly (good indentation, and stuff), with good specs, docs and everything (javadoc is far more useful for the programmer than design patterns if u want my opinion).
So, theoretically, u're right. Practically, unfortunately, u're far from always right (((((((((((
in France, there's a huge program about that, based on a distribution called Pingoo, based on Debian.
Informatiens about deployment here
Actually it's even worse.
No need to discuss that point on bugtraq, everybody in the web industry knows about it.
I found that bug (or feature, according to MS), months ago (even years maybe), when trying to generate on-the-fly pdfs as part of the web application i was working on. I think that almost any engineer or prgrammer working on web sites should know it. This is not a problem of security by obscurity, but a problem of unsecurity by stupidity (from MS).
In fact, this is an argument to null the whole "security by obscurity" strategy. When every engineer or programmer knows about the bug, then there's no obscurity anymore. And with many of the security bugs found on MS OSes, it's what indeed happens, sooner or later. In fact, i think this is what happens with most software, not only MS', and that's why it's not responsible from them to use such a strategy.
are 60GXPs more reliable ?
Actually, the Mig 31 is heavier than the 25, so its max speed is only Mach 2.83
Well, i think you're right, but i got another information here, and there's the same information on all the links from that site.
Also i don't think Mig-25 is still in service in many many countries. Tumanski engines are very powerful, but they eat a lot of fuel and need to be replaced very often. Also its interceptor-only design makes in non versatile, which is also economically very bad. Somehow, Mig-25 is the contrary of Mig-21 (or Mig-29). Powerful, expensive and non-versatile.
And too, between the original B1 (B1A) and B1B, the specs changed a lot. B1A was to be very fast, B1B had to be stealth (well.. or having a significantly lower radar signature).
Seen what happened to ur program when u change the specs while programming it ? Well, it's pretty much the same to an airplane...
yes, it's yugoslavia, not Serbia, in the article, but pay attention that:
1- Beograd is both capital of Serbia and Yugoslavia.
2- Lots of serbs live in Montenegro.
> No, the Mig-25 could fly at Mach 3, even the ones without rocket engines.
guess what ? Mig-31 has the same characteristics (Mach 3), and is still on duty (it's an evolution of Mig-25). Those planes are very basic interceptors, they were made in fact exactly to intercept high flying spying planes, such as U2 or SR-71. They can just take off, climb quickly and high, shoot, and land (well, i simplify). They can't act as regular fighters, and have a short range (unlike SR-71). But i think that the famous U2 (it's called TR-1 in latest evolutions), was shot by a SAM, not that Mig.
BTW, SR-71 shouldn't have been called that way, it's a mistake from Carter. I think it should have been RS-71.
yeah, actually X-15 was used for astronauts to learn driving in the space. it doesn't use flaps or others small wings to turn, but small rockets, exactly like the space shuttle does.
moreover, it's doesn't take off my itself, but is dropped from a B-52 (yes, i'm not THAT OT!!!), and is propelled by rocket engine, not ramjets.