I've seen Mozilla be faster than IE in Win2k Pro since version 0.9.7. I never use IE anymore. How can I say it's faster? Easy - put the two quicklaunch buttons next to each other on your tool bar. Quickly click both (clearly a fraction of a second is something you'll have to forgive here). I had them both set to the same homepage, and Mozilla *always* beat IE. Of course, I am using -turbo for my quick start, but as you say, IE does this too, so it's fair. I don't know what's different about your experience, but everywhere I've used Mozilla on Win it's faster than IE.
No one says that once you graduate, you aren't allowed to take any more classes. Many people continue to take classes after they get their degree.
This guy doesn't want to start over - he's nearly finished with his school. I'd say finish up as soon as possible, go ahead and get both, then keep taking classes afterward. Sure, maybe not full time, but why stop taking classes? Especially ones that are "just for fun"?
I switched to YDL from OS X because I wanted to run X Windows apps. Sure, there is an X server for Darwin, but why not just go all of the way and use Linux? Also, back in the day that I tried it, there where so few apps available for OSX that dispite the (arguably) less mature GUI that Linux provides, the application base was far larger.
This sounds like a great idea - however, on OpenBSD, how useful could this be? I don't know of any program that is released as a "binary-only" for OpenBSD. In Linux this could definately useful, as there are many binary only programs. It seems to me that with OpenBSD, you are basically required to compile. Which isn't really a problem - as long as you only want to use OSS.
Try Black & White - it has a wonderful interface. I'll admit it takes a bit of getting used to, but the game starts with a very helpful tutorial on how to navigate, and continues to help you play throughout the game.
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As someone else pointed out, the lack of etc filesystem use was a major annoyance. Also, I search all of the net trying to find those damn developer tools, but back then (10.0, just released...) they weren't yet available for download. I could have also got YDL for free, they provide ISOs, but I prefer to support their work. As far as applications - there was nothing - I repeat NOTHING - available as a native OS X app back then. When I got YDL, I had everything I needed and more. And what "development environment" that comes with OS X is so much better than the ones that come with Linux (Kdevelop, GNU tools, etc....)?
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I got a TiBook soon after OS X came out, and was excited to try it. I had previously been using Linux on i386, but I thought - hey - Aqua looks really cool, and it's Unix, what's not to love? Then I actually got it. This was back in the X.0 days, so things may have changed some by now.
First, everything on the file system was put in very strange places - the directories didn't follow any standard convention I'd ever heard of. Next, there was no compiler! (Note - I got OS X from being included with my TiBook, and Apple didn't include the DevTools with that). So my favorite OSS tools were beyond my grasp. At this point in time, there were very few native OS X apps. Not having a compiler made it worse, and knowing that even if I did have a compiler, I couldn't get some of my favorite OSS GUI apps.
So dispite the cool looking Aqua GUI, I threw down the $30 and bought myself Yellow Dog Linux. I haven't looked back since. I have to say, YDL supports practically every device on my TiBook, and I am quite happy with it.
If you are so worried about your employees, set up the firewall in such a way that only allows connections from your webserver and your DBA station (etc... whatever other "trusted" machines are out there). In Oracle 9i's case, this doesn't seem to work as well, considering the webserver and database server are packaged together (this is a good idea???). However, since it is Apache, it shouldn't be too risky to leave port 80 open. Close off the rest.
Why would any admin put their database server out on the open internet, exposed to this anyway? Databases should be kept behind firewalls, where it's safe.
Passport allows a single login (Held by MS, how nice of them) to access the multitude of services that they and their partners (eBay is one I think, Amazon may be another) use to keep track of you. All tied by MSN.
If MSN is only available to IE users, then you have to use IE to get the full functionality from these large sites.
IE is only available for Windows and Mac. So that means Microsoft can effectively dictate which OS you can use, or can not use.
I am a software engineer at the University of Alaska Anchorage. We have recently unveiled a campus wide (10,000+ user) implementation of Blackboard 5. The cheapest version is $5,000. It is available for Linux, Solaris, and NT. I was pleased to discover it uses primarily OS tools - Apache, MySQL, Perl and mod_perl (of course). There is a more expensive version that uses Oracle. In the base product, users all have to be created manually. This can be overcome by writing some scripts to plug more data into the MySQL database. This should be a major point for most power users looking for some standards - based systems - although you can't (under the license) change their code, the system is open and side things can be done (like inserting into the database). The blackboard code has proven to be scalable enough to handle this workload, and the end users enjoy the flexiblity and power that it provides. It is a shame that it isn't free, but I doubt that the university would endorse it if it were.
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I've seen Mozilla be faster than IE in Win2k Pro since version 0.9.7. I never use IE anymore. How can I say it's faster? Easy - put the two quicklaunch buttons next to each other on your tool bar. Quickly click both (clearly a fraction of a second is something you'll have to forgive here). I had them both set to the same homepage, and Mozilla *always* beat IE. Of course, I am using -turbo for my quick start, but as you say, IE does this too, so it's fair. I don't know what's different about your experience, but everywhere I've used Mozilla on Win it's faster than IE.
No one says that once you graduate, you aren't allowed to take any more classes. Many people continue to take classes after they get their degree.
This guy doesn't want to start over - he's nearly finished with his school. I'd say finish up as soon as possible, go ahead and get both, then keep taking classes afterward. Sure, maybe not full time, but why stop taking classes? Especially ones that are "just for fun"?
This isn't linus. His last name is spelled "Torvalds" NOT "Thorvals". Just a troll begging for attention.
I switched to YDL from OS X because I wanted to run X Windows apps. Sure, there is an X server for Darwin, but why not just go all of the way and use Linux? Also, back in the day that I tried it, there where so few apps available for OSX that dispite the (arguably) less mature GUI that Linux provides, the application base was far larger.
This sounds like a great idea - however, on OpenBSD, how useful could this be? I don't know of any program that is released as a "binary-only" for OpenBSD. In Linux this could definately useful, as there are many binary only programs. It seems to me that with OpenBSD, you are basically required to compile. Which isn't really a problem - as long as you only want to use OSS.
Try Black & White - it has a wonderful interface. I'll admit it takes a bit of getting used to, but the game starts with a very helpful tutorial on how to navigate, and continues to help you play throughout the game.
As someone else pointed out, the lack of etc filesystem use was a major annoyance. Also, I search all of the net trying to find those damn developer tools, but back then (10.0, just released...) they weren't yet available for download. I could have also got YDL for free, they provide ISOs, but I prefer to support their work. As far as applications - there was nothing - I repeat NOTHING - available as a native OS X app back then. When I got YDL, I had everything I needed and more. And what "development environment" that comes with OS X is so much better than the ones that come with Linux (Kdevelop, GNU tools, etc....)?
I got a TiBook soon after OS X came out, and was excited to try it. I had previously been using Linux on i386, but I thought - hey - Aqua looks really cool, and it's Unix, what's not to love? Then I actually got it. This was back in the X.0 days, so things may have changed some by now.
First, everything on the file system was put in very strange places - the directories didn't follow any standard convention I'd ever heard of. Next, there was no compiler! (Note - I got OS X from being included with my TiBook, and Apple didn't include the DevTools with that). So my favorite OSS tools were beyond my grasp. At this point in time, there were very few native OS X apps. Not having a compiler made it worse, and knowing that even if I did have a compiler, I couldn't get some of my favorite OSS GUI apps.
So dispite the cool looking Aqua GUI, I threw down the $30 and bought myself Yellow Dog Linux. I haven't looked back since. I have to say, YDL supports practically every device on my TiBook, and I am quite happy with it.
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If you are so worried about your employees, set up the firewall in such a way that only allows connections from your webserver and your DBA station (etc... whatever other "trusted" machines are out there). In Oracle 9i's case, this doesn't seem to work as well, considering the webserver and database server are packaged together (this is a good idea???). However, since it is Apache, it shouldn't be too risky to leave port 80 open. Close off the rest.
Why would any admin put their database server out on the open internet, exposed to this anyway? Databases should be kept behind firewalls, where it's safe.
Part of .NET is the Passport functionality
Passport allows a single login (Held by MS, how nice of them) to access the multitude of services that they and their partners (eBay is one I think, Amazon may be another) use to keep track of you. All tied by MSN.
If MSN is only available to IE users, then you have to use IE to get the full functionality from these large sites.
IE is only available for Windows and Mac. So that means Microsoft can effectively dictate which OS you can use, or can not use.
Does this piss anyone else off?
I am a software engineer at the University of Alaska Anchorage. We have recently unveiled a campus wide (10,000+ user) implementation of Blackboard 5. The cheapest version is $5,000. It is available for Linux, Solaris, and NT. I was pleased to discover it uses primarily OS tools - Apache, MySQL, Perl and mod_perl (of course). There is a more expensive version that uses Oracle. In the base product, users all have to be created manually. This can be overcome by writing some scripts to plug more data into the MySQL database. This should be a major point for most power users looking for some standards - based systems - although you can't (under the license) change their code, the system is open and side things can be done (like inserting into the database). The blackboard code has proven to be scalable enough to handle this workload, and the end users enjoy the flexiblity and power that it provides. It is a shame that it isn't free, but I doubt that the university would endorse it if it were.