Between Opera, IE, and Mozilla, the speed difference is small enough for your average user not to know the difference.
Rendering speed, yes. All three of them render pages in a heartbeat on virtually any hardware.
UI speed is something else entireley. On a 300Mhz K6 with 160MB RAM running FreeBSD 4.0, I can out-type Mozilla by a fair margin. This may not be the most modern hardware, but that is just plain ridiculous. It makes the app unuseable, which is a real shame. Galeon runs like a champ, as does Netscape 4.
Even on my dual 1Ghz P3 running W2k, the Mozilla UI is awfully sluggish. This is ridiculous.
On my 85 Mhz Sparcstation, IE5 is a bit slow but at least I can't out-type it.
(2) Why hasn't Worldcom's stock been delisted? I mean comeon now - I think its about time to hang up the saddle and go on home because this horse isn't getting back up.
Why in the world did each server cost them anything? They already had 32 servers, and I am sure Linux would have ran on them, so why didn't they save the 96,000 and just use existing hardware..
What makes you think that they would run Linux? The fact that they are $50,000 Unix boxes should give us a pretty good clue that these machines were NOT PC'S
Unix servers took 17 hours to calculate how much cash the bank needed in reserve to offset its investment risk. The Linux servers made the same calculation in 11 minutes
Once again, we have a pretty good clue that not only are these not PC's, but that they are obsolete as well.
Remember, they didn't say when they paid $50,000 for the machines.
You are absolutely correct, there should be a friendly warning.
I learned this lesson the hard way a few months ago when I upgraded my development box from 2000 Server to XP Pro a few months back. Since it won't let you do that as an upgrade and all I had on my C: drive was my Windows installation, I didn't think twice before telling it to just reformat the C drive....
And of course microsoft decided to come out with encryption in W2K so those files would pretty much be lost
NTFS encryption is an option that can be set on a volume/folder/file basis. You have to manually turn it on, so it's not like "oh this is a win2k box, this means all the files are encrypted and we are screwed".
On another note, you don't lose the encrypted files as long as you back up the encryption key (not hard). Using the file system encryption without backing this up is very irresponsible since a dead installation, system drive failure, etc will cause these files to be lost.
You act like file-system encryption is a bad thing. Oh wait, it's something from Microsoft and this is slashdot... never mind.
The pages you are currently watching are served by a web server running on a an Ethernet equipped 6510-based system with 64k RAM running at 1 MHz (a Commodore 64 with a TFE cartridge). The same system also exports two displays using VNC and the small uVNC server software. </clip>
Once again, a Commodore 64 gets slashdotted... Have you no shame? When will this madness end?
When you are leaching off of someone else's access point, only use it to establish a VPN tunnel.
When you are trying to harden your own access point, set it so it only allows direct communication with one server on one port---the VPN (pptp or whatever you happen to use) port on your VPN gateway.
Although it does smell a bit like Rambus, the situations aren't really similar at all.
The big difference here is that Rambus was a member of the standards body in question (JEDEC). The agreement they signed to become a member of this standards body obligated them to disclose patents. They didn't and thus violated a contract.
As far as I can tell, Forgent is not a member of the JPEG organization, nor did they ever propose to the JPEG body that they adopt their IP as a standard.
The two situations may look similar on the surface, but that is where the similarities end.
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GI Joe?
When *I* was a kid this is how we "operated" on any baby birds we found...
Your comment is flat out wrong.
Below are quotes of the exact text from the "Designed for Windows XP spec v2.3" document:
"The application must not require or suggest an unnecessary reboot during or after installation."
* Installing a Windows Service Pack or authorized system redistributable may require a reboot.
* Installing a Graphical Identification and Authentication dynamic link library (GINA) requires a reboot."
The above quote comes straight from the horse's mouth.
6,000 cards @ $200/pop = $300,000 ?
Was your next consulting gig with Enron?
They didn't sprout legs, they just climbed on the backs of all the Dogcows contained within them.
Macs and dogcows have always seemed pretty friendly, I just hope they get along with my sparcstation-toting rottweiler.
As soon as PalmUAE is released, I'm there, baby!
Hmmmm
Money and sexual stimulation
And we will get to watch the video of the moon collapsing for the next year
If we allow the resulting change in the tides to affect us, the terrorists will have won
Between Opera, IE, and Mozilla, the speed difference is small enough for your average user not to know the difference.
Rendering speed, yes. All three of them render pages in a heartbeat on virtually any hardware.
UI speed is something else entireley. On a 300Mhz K6 with 160MB RAM running FreeBSD 4.0, I can out-type Mozilla by a fair margin. This may not be the most modern hardware, but that is just plain ridiculous. It makes the app unuseable, which is a real shame. Galeon runs like a champ, as does Netscape 4.
Even on my dual 1Ghz P3 running W2k, the Mozilla UI is awfully sluggish. This is ridiculous.
On my 85 Mhz Sparcstation, IE5 is a bit slow but at least I can't out-type it.
(2) Why hasn't Worldcom's stock been delisted? I mean comeon now - I think its about time to hang up the saddle and go on home because this horse isn't getting back up.
They were delisted from NASDAQ on July 30.
Make sure to tape the two ends of your black construction paper together once it's rolling through the machine...
Two or three hours of that ought to do the trick.
while (!nirvana())
{
die();
reincarnate();
}
How are you arriving at the conclusion that this dialog runs with system priviliges?
IT DOESN'T
The GUI comes from a DLL running inside the process space of MMC.EXE. It uses a fairly secure RPC/IPC mechanism to talk to Windows.
A simple trip through spy++ will even tell you the owner process in about 5 seconds.
Why in the world did each server cost them anything? They already had 32 servers, and I am sure Linux would have ran on them, so why didn't they save the 96,000 and just use existing hardware..
What makes you think that they would run Linux? The fact that they are $50,000 Unix boxes should give us a pretty good clue that these machines were NOT PC'S
Unix servers took 17 hours to calculate how much cash the bank needed in reserve to offset its investment risk. The Linux servers made the same calculation in 11 minutes
Once again, we have a pretty good clue that not only are these not PC's, but that they are obsolete as well.
Remember, they didn't say when they paid $50,000 for the machines.
You are absolutely correct, there should be a friendly warning.
I learned this lesson the hard way a few months ago when I upgraded my development box from 2000 Server to XP Pro a few months back. Since it won't let you do that as an upgrade and all I had on my C: drive was my Windows installation, I didn't think twice before telling it to just reformat the C drive....
Bybye porn collection
... Hollywoods biggest fear is that Britney Spears will try to make another movie.
No, Hollywood's biggest fear is that Britney Spears and Mariah Carey will try to make a movie together.
And of course microsoft decided to come out with encryption in W2K so those files would pretty much be lost
NTFS encryption is an option that can be set on a volume/folder/file basis. You have to manually turn it on, so it's not like "oh this is a win2k box, this means all the files are encrypted and we are screwed".
On another note, you don't lose the encrypted files as long as you back up the encryption key (not hard). Using the file system encryption without backing this up is very irresponsible since a dead installation, system drive failure, etc will cause these files to be lost.
You act like file-system encryption is a bad thing. Oh wait, it's something from Microsoft and this is slashdot... never mind.
The pages you are currently watching are served by a web server running on a an Ethernet equipped 6510-based system with 64k RAM running at 1 MHz (a Commodore 64 with a TFE cartridge). The same system also exports two displays using VNC and the small uVNC server software.
</clip>
Once again, a Commodore 64 gets slashdotted... Have you no shame? When will this madness end?
Three little letters...
VPN
When you are leaching off of someone else's access point, only use it to establish a VPN tunnel.
When you are trying to harden your own access point, set it so it only allows direct communication with one server on one port---the VPN (pptp or whatever you happen to use) port on your VPN gateway.
God damn, those ads really happened?!? I thought they were just a side effect of the drugs me and all my dotcom buddies were doing at my apartment.
Man, I miss the 90's!
Ever try sending a message on a keyboard? MAJOR pain in the ass
You're obviously doing it wrong -- use your fingers!!
Use his fingers? On his phone or his ass?
it's called AppleScript and it's been around for roughly 20 years.
Let's see here... 1993-2002 is roughly 20 years?
Has CowboyNeal been teaching you "new math"?
Although it does smell a bit like Rambus, the situations aren't really similar at all.
The big difference here is that Rambus was a member of the standards body in question (JEDEC). The agreement they signed to become a member of this standards body obligated them to disclose patents. They didn't and thus violated a contract.
As far as I can tell, Forgent is not a member of the JPEG organization, nor did they ever propose to the JPEG body that they adopt their IP as a standard.
The two situations may look similar on the surface, but that is where the similarities end.
When you said voice control for your X10, my first thought was "Take clandestine video of teenage girl undressing and then pan really slow"....
Damn popup ads...
Forbes always seemed more like BSD-ish folks than Linux. The BSD license is much more capitalism friendly, after all.
I have never had a problem selling clients on FreeBSD:
"If it's good enough for Yahoo..."
Hasn't failed yet.
Metal? Metal you say?
Conductive Polymers should solve that whole problem pretty well.