No doubt actually finding and verifying(good luck) alien signals would a great discovery. But at the same the practically speaking its a complete waste. All of these people could and should be donating to something like Folding or some other distributed effort that actually will probably help humanity by finding a cure for cancer or some other disease. But I guess actually helping your fellow humans is less glamourous then being the first nerd or geek to discover some faint signal which when discovered probably won't even be accepted by the rest of the world and will be debated forever.
Seti being first and all earned its user base, but since other more practical and worthy uses for distributed computing have come about its time to shift resources to tasks which will actually may improve the world's quality of life.
Well you could head over to mozdev.org and see for yourself. To say that once something is mature you can't innovate with new features has been proven wrong over and over with any number of software projects.
"Remember that a lot of MS software won because they were "good enough", not because they were "the best"."
Well being "good enough" was part of the reason. The reason people stick with MS as we all know is because of strongarmed OEM bundling and a large marketing budget. MS with Window 95 struck at the right time and has rode that wave up till now. By the time Win 98 came out MS had the world by the balls and could do whatever they want, and they did. This of course has created a market where ISV's are encouraged to stick only with MS and to avoid working with other OS's like linux. Part of this is due to linux's small market share, part of it is due to MS's considerable power. Developing for the linux desktop market can be absolutly brutal, but also anyone remember Corel dropping linux after a "deal" with MS? The pressure they've put on companies like Dell? How many other companies has MS threatened over the years to tow the MS line. This applies to ANY OS trying to gain marketshare, not just Linux.
Now after 8 years of this companies, let alone people are conditioned to think that computing=Windows. That kinda sucks and its the reason people "stick with windows".
My fiancee was at lunch last week and at the time they got on the subject of computers and how they keep crashing all the time, how unstable they can be.(They run Win98 campus-wide). Anyway, she mentioned that there ARE alternative but people just don't know about them. That the people at her table didn't even know that speaks volumes as to how well MS's bundling tactics have worked and how good a job their marketing department does.
So because your friend doesn't know what he's doing and your too lazy to learn linux and would rather spend $200, that somehow proves something?
" I hate this term. Goddamn do I hate this term."
Deal with it. How would you feel if every single PC sold came with Linux and you had to pay for it if you wanted it or not? Oh and contrary to popular belief, not every linux user knows how or wants to build their own PC's. MS earned that term with their strong armed OEM bundling tactics. So if you don't like it, tough fscking cookies.
Sorry I don't buy your "pay $200 and everything is rosy" routine and your post reeks of being a Microsoftie.
" As an avid Microsoft fan, one of my biggest beefs was the inferior performance of the Linux GUI and its components."
That would depend on exactly what you talking about. Those linux users running something like Blackbox would laugh at you for saying so. I'd also suggest as a user of both, KDE and XP have about the same interactive performance as well.
There's no doubt Windows still has more polish than Linux as a whole when it comes to the desktop. And while anything that improves any of LInux's many "gui's" is a welcome event, Linux's gui's are hardly inferior performance-wise across the board like your implying.
"Maybee this will finally blur the line between OS's enough to get more people to switch over."
Performance doesn't rate very high on why windows users aren't switching over. Lack of familiar apps and games, lack of widespread OEM bundling, and lack of millions in marketing are what's keeping people from switching over.
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" Outlook is far far more secure "out of the box" than it once was."
New versions, Yes. Old versions like Outlook 97/2000 which are some of the most common email clients in the world are not. There is also no automatic feature built into Office 2K or below which can apply security updates. If your not savy enough(most aren't) to be able to find and use the Office update site your a sitting duck.
Its a fact that most Windows users run Windows 98 and a version of Office before XP. Broadband is also more common then ever. It will be a few more years before MS Windows gives up its role as the biggest danger to the Internet and viruses like Melissa and ILoveYou are hardly a thing of the past.
Doesn't mean they don't want them. Tabs are one of the improvements in web browsers which someone has to tell you about for you to appreciate or know that they're available. If Apple made it a point to "hype" tabs like they do whatever other features their products have, you can be dam sure people would be using and crowing about them.
Why would any of the 100's of customers you deal with a month ask why Safari doesn't have tabs if they don't even know tabs exist? The vast majority of Safari users like everyone else just used to use IE. Now that the "God that is Apple" has come out with a new product all the Apple fans/weenies will drool all over it because "it's an Apple product". These aren't techies who used to use Chimera or Mozilla and are looking for an alternative, these are normal Apple users who see Safari as just another Apple product. Hence they would have NO idea what they're missing.
They went from no one ever hearing them to having their first beta version capture number one distrowatch.
Any linux company that has the nerve to rig distrowatch just to gain attention for their alpha is pretty sad and more importantly not to be trusted.
If they didn't do it, then why are they crowing about it on their website? So either they A) did it and are stupid enough to gloat about it, or B) didn't do it, but are stupid enough to think their prerelease OS is now the most widely used one ahead of Redhat, Mandrake et al out of the nowhere.
I smell a PR driven company like Lindows who will do anything for a buck.
My Inspiron is a total piece of shit as well. If your interested in the details click my profile, my last post before this was all the problems I had.
Dell may make decent whitebox/generic desktops, but I don't have that good an impression of their laptops. A trip to their support forums confirms that for me.
Got a new hard drive out of own pocket because of the Hitachi "clicking" problem. No the bios update didn't help that much.
The trackpad is a piece of shit and goes nuts if I don't have the Synaptics software's "Plam Check" feature turned all the way up. This btw makes using Linux impossible for more than 5 minutes because of the random mouse freakouts. (Great I'm stuck with POS windows, thanks Dell)
The lower part of the screen makes a buzzing noise like a fluorescent light about to burn out. I'm told this may be due to some sort of faulty fan.
I had to replace the POS Actiontec network card/modem because it couldn't do 100MB without crashing.
In short my impression of Dell laptops is that they are pieces of shit. I won't ever be buying another one again nor allowing any of my clients when possible.
The only thing those assholes at dell would replace for me is that NIC/modem. Fuck dell and their shitty trackpads and poor quality laptops. Next time I'll buy an IBM.
"Saying the japanese do it better is just a faulty argument. "
Hardly, the Japanese cars are consistantly rated better in quality,repairs, and resale value then Amercian cars year after year by auto experts. They also tend to reach that 200k mark on a much more regular basis then American cars do.
The Americans gave up on trying to produce decent cars back in the 80's once they lost to the Japanese. As a general rule the parent was correct, they mostly care about trucks and SUV's. To study the U.S. auto market over the past 30 years and to come to any other conclusion is to be in complete denial.
Talk to any automotive journalist worth a dam and he'll tell you the same thing.
Saying the Japanese let alone someone like the Germans "do it better" is an understatement.
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"So you're all for more articles making a big deal out "security holes" that aren't "security holes" at all?"
No I just don't care. You think there is every going to be any really change or accountabililty for MS?
"Focus on Microsoft's real problems."
See previous sentence
"You should not support Microsoft-bashing for the sake of Microsoft-bashing when there's nothing behind it, it only lowers your own credibility"
Its a free country and I'll bash when I want to. Your delusional thinking what people say on a messageboard or in the press about MS makes the slightest bit of difference.
Seriously. Yea a stupid error was made and several sites reported on it. I am supposed to feel bad to bill or do what Tim Mullen says and "Give Bill a Break"?
No I won't be giving Bill G. a break. I'll continue to point out that of the billions of dollars in virus damage are done every year and MS is responsilbe in the vast majority of the cases. If MS has the occasionally mud kicked in their face well too bad for them. If there is such a thing as karma then MS has a lot more of this coming. I for one don't pity them based on the dirty illegal tactics they've been using for a decade now.
MS doesn't get nearly enough flack for the amount of damage their poorly coded software causes. Maybe if more articles are written which say how bad MS software is MS might actually have to be accountable one day. For me that day can't come soon enough.
It sounds like he's let his life get consumed by spam. Spam is a huge problem but its also pretty obvisous he's gone into obsession mode and isn't sounding rational anymore.
He may also just really not know what hes doing with regarding spam filtering. I know other ISP's have had spam problems in the past but with the new spam filters that are out there its gotten a lot more manageable.
Either way I pity someone who does nothing day after day but fight spam. That's no way to live.
Maybe have a look at nvnews.net forums. I know the topic of nvidia drivers and phoebe has come up a bunch of times there. I think I recall someone evening posting fixed 3123 drivers.
On a side note if you happen to read this post let me know if right clicking and dragging in gnome 2.2 works for you in beta 2. Right on my laptop you can't right click and drag anymore, you only get a context menu. Your supposed to be able to right click in Nautilus and then when you let you it usually asks if you want the file copied,moved,linked etc.
Its got Gnome 2.2, KDE 3.1, kernel 2.4.20, OpenOffice 1.02, CUPS as default, etc
So far I've found some bugs and the occasional app crash, but its shaping up to be real nice. Speed is better than 8.0, mostly due to the new kernel I suspect. (RH 8.0 sped up a lot for me by going to 2.4.20) Its great to see Redhat finally actually trying to put out a good desktop and the effort is really paying off. One last thing I've mentioned before, I pitty the distro that doesn't ship with as good a font setup as Redhat uses. They'll get put to the wall for it and rightly so. Its high time that not a single distro ships with shitty fonts anymore.
Anyway its worth a look if you have the bandwidth.
They also list the Palm i705 for $89 and say stupid things like "Loaded with 16 MB of memory". I realize it wasn't intended to be a full review, but the entire aritcle reeks of a half hour cut and paste job. I mean really did a robot do this or what?
From the Palm Zire part "Replace bulky paper planners, to-do lists and sticky notes with a convenient" etc etc. Me right clicks does web search for this phrase....197 hits on Google.
Like I said lame cut-n-paste job and not worth a/. submission.
"Unreal Tournament 2003 runs about 5-10 times quicker on Debian GNU/Linux than Windows 98SE (and Windows is on the faster drive.)"
Your Windows install is completely borked then. There is no way UT run 5-10 times or even 2 times faster under linux than it does under Windows. Its generally accepted that UT2k3 is slower on linux(OpenGL) than on windows(Direct3d) as the developer himself states here. For myself personally(XP1900,512MB,GF4200,~10,000 3dmarks) its defintely much slower in linux and that's a direct result of Epic foolishly(direct3d ain't cross-platform) making UT2k3 a direct3d game from the ground up. Luckily RTCW has no such problems so its what I continue to play daily.
For a databook/addressbook/variousMobileDB's it still works great and is supported by every OS on the planet. Right now I sync with Evolution and it works very well. Another bonus is the batteries last a long time. I know if I leave it for weeks on end it won't be dead when I go to use it.
I think most users buy these new(read:expensive) PDA's thinking of all the cool things they can do and then over time just end up doing the basics. There are definitely some really cool features on the new PDA's(wireless etc), but before you go blowing $300-$500 on the lastest and greatest consider if you really need those features and if a mini-notebook(more capabilities) or used Palm(just the basics) might serve you better.
BTW anyone else have their car buried in a 5 foot snow drift.
Most people already know, but if your new to linux I'll mention it anyway. With Mplayer http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
the quicktime codecs and the Mplayer Plugin (there is one at mozdev.org but I haven't tried it) http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
You can easily watch quicktime movies in Mozilla. Not to mention many windows media files as well. It sucks to have to do a "workaround" but besides paying for the crossover plugin its your best bet for proprietary media types.
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No doubt actually finding and verifying(good luck) alien signals would a great discovery. But at the same the practically speaking its a complete waste. All of these people could and should be donating to something like Folding or some other distributed effort that actually will probably help humanity by finding a cure for cancer or some other disease. But I guess actually helping your fellow humans is less glamourous then being the first nerd or geek to discover some faint signal which when discovered probably won't even be accepted by the rest of the world and will be debated forever.
Seti being first and all earned its user base, but since other more practical and worthy uses for distributed computing have come about its time to shift resources to tasks which will actually may improve the world's quality of life.
"We don't need another RedHat."
Where's the mod point for Stupidity? Get a clue.
Well you could head over to mozdev.org and see for yourself. To say that once something is mature you can't innovate with new features has been proven wrong over and over with any number of software projects.
"Remember that a lot of MS software won because they were "good enough", not because they were "the best"."
Well being "good enough" was part of the reason. The reason people stick with MS as we all know is because of strongarmed OEM bundling and a large marketing budget. MS with Window 95 struck at the right time and has rode that wave up till now. By the time Win 98 came out MS had the world by the balls and could do whatever they want, and they did. This of course has created a market where ISV's are encouraged to stick only with MS and to avoid working with other OS's like linux. Part of this is due to linux's small market share, part of it is due to MS's considerable power. Developing for the linux desktop market can be absolutly brutal, but also anyone remember Corel dropping linux after a "deal" with MS? The pressure they've put on companies like Dell? How many other companies has MS threatened over the years to tow the MS line. This applies to ANY OS trying to gain marketshare, not just Linux.
Now after 8 years of this companies, let alone people are conditioned to think that computing=Windows. That kinda sucks and its the reason people "stick with windows".
My fiancee was at lunch last week and at the time they got on the subject of computers and how they keep crashing all the time, how unstable they can be.(They run Win98 campus-wide). Anyway, she mentioned that there ARE alternative but people just don't know about them. That the people at her table didn't even know that speaks volumes as to how well MS's bundling tactics have worked and how good a job their marketing department does.
So because your friend doesn't know what he's doing and your too lazy to learn linux and would rather spend $200, that somehow proves something?
" I hate this term. Goddamn do I hate this term."
Deal with it. How would you feel if every single PC sold came with Linux and you had to pay for it if you wanted it or not? Oh and contrary to popular belief, not every linux user knows how or wants to build their own PC's. MS earned that term with their strong armed OEM bundling tactics. So if you don't like it, tough fscking cookies.
Sorry I don't buy your "pay $200 and everything is rosy" routine and your post reeks of being a Microsoftie.
Every new release of Windows wasn't vastly slower and more bloated then the release before it...
Oh wait. No there wasn't.
" As an avid Microsoft fan, one of my biggest beefs was the inferior performance of the Linux GUI and its components."
That would depend on exactly what you talking about. Those linux users running something like Blackbox would laugh at you for saying so. I'd also suggest as a user of both, KDE and XP have about the same interactive performance as well.
There's no doubt Windows still has more polish than Linux as a whole when it comes to the desktop. And while anything that improves any of LInux's many "gui's" is a welcome event, Linux's gui's are hardly inferior performance-wise across the board like your implying.
"Maybee this will finally blur the line between OS's enough to get more people to switch over."
Performance doesn't rate very high on why windows users aren't switching over. Lack of familiar apps and games, lack of widespread OEM bundling, and lack of millions in marketing are what's keeping people from switching over.
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" Outlook is far far more secure "out of the box" than it once was."
New versions, Yes. Old versions like Outlook 97/2000 which are some of the most common email clients in the world are not. There is also no automatic feature built into Office 2K or below which can apply security updates. If your not savy enough(most aren't) to be able to find and use the Office update site your a sitting duck.
Its a fact that most Windows users run Windows 98 and a version of Office before XP. Broadband is also more common then ever. It will be a few more years before MS Windows gives up its role as the biggest danger to the Internet and viruses like Melissa and ILoveYou are hardly a thing of the past.
Doesn't mean they don't want them. Tabs are one of the improvements in web browsers which someone has to tell you about for you to appreciate or know that they're available. If Apple made it a point to "hype" tabs like they do whatever other features their products have, you can be dam sure people would be using and crowing about them.
Why would any of the 100's of customers you deal with a month ask why Safari doesn't have tabs if they don't even know tabs exist? The vast majority of Safari users like everyone else just used to use IE. Now that the "God that is Apple" has come out with a new product all the Apple fans/weenies will drool all over it because "it's an Apple product". These aren't techies who used to use Chimera or Mozilla and are looking for an alternative, these are normal Apple users who see Safari as just another Apple product. Hence they would have NO idea what they're missing.
Yea, he's just saying they would try to take credit for it if they could.
In all fairness NTFS had journaling years before any linux filesystem did.
They went from no one ever hearing them to having their first beta version capture number one distrowatch.
Any linux company that has the nerve to rig distrowatch just to gain attention for their alpha is pretty sad and more importantly not to be trusted.
If they didn't do it, then why are they crowing about it on their website? So either they A) did it and are stupid enough to gloat about it, or B) didn't do it, but are stupid enough to think their prerelease OS is now the most widely used one ahead of Redhat, Mandrake et al out of the nowhere.
I smell a PR driven company like Lindows who will do anything for a buck.
My Inspiron is a total piece of shit as well. If your interested in the details click my profile, my last post before this was all the problems I had.
Dell may make decent whitebox/generic desktops, but I don't have that good an impression of their laptops. A trip to their support forums confirms that for me.
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Got a new hard drive out of own pocket because of the Hitachi "clicking" problem. No the bios update didn't help that much.
The trackpad is a piece of shit and goes nuts if I don't have the Synaptics software's "Plam Check" feature turned all the way up. This btw makes using Linux impossible for more than 5 minutes because of the random mouse freakouts. (Great I'm stuck with POS windows, thanks Dell)
The lower part of the screen makes a buzzing noise like a fluorescent light about to burn out. I'm told this may be due to some sort of faulty fan.
I had to replace the POS Actiontec network card/modem because it couldn't do 100MB without crashing.
In short my impression of Dell laptops is that they are pieces of shit. I won't ever be buying another one again nor allowing any of my clients when possible.
The only thing those assholes at dell would replace for me is that NIC/modem. Fuck dell and their shitty trackpads and poor quality laptops. Next time I'll buy an IBM.
"Saying the japanese do it better is just a faulty argument. "
Hardly, the Japanese cars are consistantly rated better in quality,repairs, and resale value then Amercian cars year after year by auto experts. They also tend to reach that 200k mark on a much more regular basis then American cars do.
The Americans gave up on trying to produce decent cars back in the 80's once they lost to the Japanese. As a general rule the parent was correct, they mostly care about trucks and SUV's. To study the U.S. auto market over the past 30 years and to come to any other conclusion is to be in complete denial.
Talk to any automotive journalist worth a dam and he'll tell you the same thing.
Saying the Japanese let alone someone like the Germans "do it better" is an understatement.
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"So you're all for more articles making a big deal out "security holes" that aren't "security holes" at all?"
No I just don't care. You think there is every going to be any really change or accountabililty for MS?
"Focus on Microsoft's real problems."
See previous sentence
"You should not support Microsoft-bashing for the sake of Microsoft-bashing when there's nothing behind it, it only lowers your own credibility"
Its a free country and I'll bash when I want to. Your delusional thinking what people say on a messageboard or in the press about MS makes the slightest bit of difference.
Seriously. Yea a stupid error was made and several sites reported on it. I am supposed to feel bad to bill or do what Tim Mullen says and "Give Bill a Break"?
No I won't be giving Bill G. a break. I'll continue to point out that of the billions of dollars in virus damage are done every year and MS is responsilbe in the vast majority of the cases. If MS has the occasionally mud kicked in their face well too bad for them. If there is such a thing as karma then MS has a lot more of this coming. I for one don't pity them based on the dirty illegal tactics they've been using for a decade now.
MS doesn't get nearly enough flack for the amount of damage their poorly coded software causes. Maybe if more articles are written which say how bad MS software is MS might actually have to be accountable one day. For me that day can't come soon enough.
It sounds like he's let his life get consumed by spam. Spam is a huge problem but its also pretty obvisous he's gone into obsession mode and isn't sounding rational anymore.
He may also just really not know what hes doing with regarding spam filtering. I know other ISP's have had spam problems in the past but with the new spam filters that are out there its gotten a lot more manageable.
Either way I pity someone who does nothing day after day but fight spam. That's no way to live.
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Maybe have a look at nvnews.net forums. I know the topic of nvidia drivers and phoebe has come up a bunch of times there. I think I recall someone evening posting fixed 3123 drivers.
On a side note if you happen to read this post let me know if right clicking and dragging in gnome 2.2 works for you in beta 2. Right on my laptop you can't right click and drag anymore, you only get a context menu. Your supposed to be able to right click in Nautilus and then when you let you it usually asks if you want the file copied,moved,linked etc.
I thought would point out that Redat 8.1 Beta 3 is also out.
t /2 003-February/002969.html
You can see the anouncement here
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/phoebe-lis
Its got Gnome 2.2, KDE 3.1, kernel 2.4.20, OpenOffice 1.02, CUPS as default, etc
So far I've found some bugs and the occasional app crash, but its shaping up to be real nice. Speed is better than 8.0, mostly due to the new kernel I suspect. (RH 8.0 sped up a lot for me by going to 2.4.20) Its great to see Redhat finally actually trying to put out a good desktop and the effort is really paying off. One last thing I've mentioned before, I pitty the distro that doesn't ship with as good a font setup as Redhat uses. They'll get put to the wall for it and rightly so. Its high time that not a single distro ships with shitty fonts anymore.
Anyway its worth a look if you have the bandwidth.
They also list the Palm i705 for $89 and say stupid things like "Loaded with 16 MB of memory". I realize it wasn't intended to be a full review, but the entire aritcle reeks of a half hour cut and paste job. I mean really did a robot do this or what?
/. submission.
From the Palm Zire part "Replace bulky paper planners, to-do lists and sticky notes with a convenient" etc etc. Me right clicks does web search for this phrase....197 hits on Google.
Like I said lame cut-n-paste job and not worth a
"Unreal Tournament 2003 runs about 5-10 times quicker on Debian GNU/Linux than Windows 98SE (and Windows is on the faster drive.)"
Your Windows install is completely borked then. There is no way UT run 5-10 times or even 2 times faster under linux than it does under Windows. Its generally accepted that UT2k3 is slower on linux(OpenGL) than on windows(Direct3d) as the developer himself states here. For myself personally(XP1900,512MB,GF4200,~10,000 3dmarks) its defintely much slower in linux and that's a direct result of Epic foolishly(direct3d ain't cross-platform) making UT2k3 a direct3d game from the ground up. Luckily RTCW has no such problems so its what I continue to play daily.
For a databook/addressbook/variousMobileDB's it still works great and is supported by every OS on the planet. Right now I sync with Evolution and it works very well. Another bonus is the batteries last a long time. I know if I leave it for weeks on end it won't be dead when I go to use it.
I think most users buy these new(read:expensive) PDA's thinking of all the cool things they can do and then over time just end up doing the basics. There are definitely some really cool features on the new PDA's(wireless etc), but before you go blowing $300-$500 on the lastest and greatest consider if you really need those features and if a mini-notebook(more capabilities) or used Palm(just the basics) might serve you better.
BTW anyone else have their car buried in a 5 foot snow drift.
Most people already know, but if your new to linux I'll mention it anyway. With Mplayer http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
the quicktime codecs and the Mplayer Plugin (there is one at mozdev.org but I haven't tried it)
http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
You can easily watch quicktime movies in Mozilla. Not to mention many windows media files as well. It sucks to have to do a "workaround" but besides paying for the crossover plugin its your best bet for proprietary media types.