Re:I wonder what slashdot's percentages are....
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Netscape 7.0 is Out
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5% Konquerer (hey, it came with my distro)
Konqueror is the only browser on this planet that reopens all the links just like they were yesterday when I logged out. All on the right desktop with the right window-dimensions.
Hey, think of that, no more temporary bookmarks to find your forums! No more temporary bookmarks to mark where you stopped reading! If you encounter a site and you think "Gawn, I read that tomorrow" you just leave it open without wasting time bookmarking it.
Konqueror is much, much more than just a "it came with my distro" browser.
Well next time your Brand A TV or what-have-you breaks I don't want to hear shit from you, because, after all, there was a Brand B one sitting on the store shelf right next to it.
Correct, and I certainly won't buy from Brand A again.
I don't see why Microsoft should be excepted from basic market mechanisms.
If you are not able to understand a simple sentence, maybe you should not reply.
As I said, if it's too late, it's too late. Some stupid decisions can't be undone, it's a fact of life.
Got that now? Shall I say it again?
But when you start a new project (or even a new enterprise) you can develop platform-agnostic and support Windows just fine and you are much more flexible. Platform-agnostic is a superset of Windows-only, so by definition there can't be more money in Windows-only.
Re:My MS Activation Story: True Story.
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Microsoft News Update
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You do realize that exactly this was my point?
Just because you have driven off the cliff and it's too late now doesn't mean that driving off the cliff was a good idea.
There are many OS-agnostic development platforms like Java, Qt, Delphi/Kylix and many more.
And guess what! They also work with Windows, so you can use Windows without chaining yourself to Microsoft.
Re:My MS Activation Story: True Story.
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Microsoft News Update
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Why should Microsoft care as long as you keep sinking in your money?
The main point of this story is not how incompetent Microsoft is. - The main point (IMO) is that this is yet another story about yet another Windows-user that will go to hell and back to use Windows but will not even look at alternatives because Microsoft has successfully implanted the delusion that only Microsoft can solve their problems.
In a free market customers do not put up with crap like this.
I don't feel the slightest pity for you. If you chain yourself to a single vendor with no way out you are asking for being raped. And it's irrelevant if that single vendor is called Microsoft, Apple or Sun.
And you know what the message for Microsoft is?
The message is "If they are willing to spend 10 hours on the phone, they are also willing to pay 200$ more"
It should be stated this is only an academic point.
Huh?
What do you mean? What guarantees do I get that Microsoft isn't changing policies again and starts to do really nasty things? Face it: *Anything* can happen. Microsoft might never use their power or they might start deleting warez tomorrow.
It's stupid to be dependent on a single-vendor solution. And it doesn't matter if the vendor is called Microsoft, Apple or Sun.
Redhat doesn't force you to run Gnome. I run KDE just fine on my Redhat 7.2 install for Kylix work.
The problem is that the first-time user is dropped into a GNOME desktop.
And that's the reason why Linux-desktop-marketshare in the US sucks (~1%) and in areas where RedHat isn't dominant isn't bad at all (for example in Germany about 5%)
This delusion is amazing. You hear it so often people started to believe it.
Fact remains that Microsoft was very late on the GUI and literally slowed the industrie's adoption of GUIs. (Unix and Apple had it long before MS)
The same goes for the internet. Bill "Internet will never be popular" Gates fought the Internet for years and slowed its adoption while trying to put proprietary MSN down peoples throats.
Or what about PenWindows? A project which sole purpose was to kill a innovative company (Go). After Go was dead, PenWindows has fullfilled its purpose and was dropped, too. (Then Palm came along and picked up the ball.)
The whole PenWindows thing threw back PDAs for years.
Microsoft was never an innovator, they are the biggest roadblock in computing
Anybody knowing anything about user-interfaces will tell you the dock in MacOSX is probably the worst implementation of a panel (maybe the best looking, but certainly the worst productivity-wise) found in desktop environments.
EVERYTHING Apple does will be hyped up as user-friendly. EVERYTHING a Linux-organization does will be bashed as being unuseable.
I stopped caring. I *know* KDE is the best DE *right now* because I've tried *all* of the major DEs.
Re:Now change the name of KPP and KMAIL
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KDE Gets The Hat
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Come on, if Apple does it, it's easy and user-friendly.
If anything Linux-related does it, it's hard, horribly complicated and only for geeks.
Re:choice / customization is a *GOOD* thing
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Actually, that's wrong.
You only have to standardize on the platform. If you platform is StarOffice, you can use Linux and Windows. If you platform is KDE, you can use Linux, BSD and Solaris (and other stuff, too). If your platform is Java, you can use pretty much every OS around.
I use the mouse with my right hand and rest the left hand on the keyboard which closes a Window on "Ctrl+Esc" (my custom setting, whoever thought up Alt+F4 should be shot).
I open new links with the middle mousebutton and when I go back close the Window. Can't become any faster than that.
(But it doesn't work with Mozilla-Tabs, is there any way to make Mozilla close a Tab by hitting Esc?) I couldn't find any keybindings...
My middle mouse button works fine, thank you - and using the mouse buttons for cut and paste is an X11 oddity that has nothing to do with the operating system and isn't used by any windowing system except X11 based systems.
Well, first without X11 no "Unix desktop feel". MacOSX might *technically* be a Unix and Linux might *technically* be no Unix, but if you talk about look and feel, Linux is Unix and MacOSX simply isn't.
Then, that your middle button "works" is fine, but it's useless if the windowmanager (or whatever Aqua is) doesn't support it.
You can't paste with the MMB.
You can't put windows into the background with the MMB
You can't jump scrollbars with the MMB
You just threw all the cliches of Linux-users together and thought you will get a +1 Interesting, right? (Well, so far, it worked.)
I am a Linux user and have a Dual-Athlon 1600 with 1GB 266DDR RAM and a 15000rpm SCSI disk as a desktop machine. I wouldn't call that subpar hardware. You run your router/small server on outdated hardware, but not your Linux desktop.
"Familiar Unix feel" - I don't feel familiar when I can't paste with the middle mouse button. I don't feel familiar if I get Klaustrophobia on just one single desktop. "But it has a command-line" doesn't make it a Unix.
"sweet desktop" - But only one! And barely configurable! And not using the middle mouse button! And using unrecognizable thumbnails of pictures instead of icons!
"kick ass hardware" - That was true a couple of years ago, but today the RAM is too slow and they use the same slow 7200rpm disks as PCs. (or even 5400?!)
In the Windows DOS-box you have to copy using the menu...
But I disgress, highlightning to copy is Unix-style which works fine in every terminal I've tried (of course you have to paste it with the middle mouse button after that)
So if you use pine you just select the text and hit the middle mouse-button over your browser's "location"
No command-line program, be it on Windows, Linux or on any other platform can use Ctrl+XCV because Ctrl+C is traditionally used as exit signal already.
The average home user does care about cheap prices, more choices and being able to upgrade the goddamn thing easily.
That's why so few buy the "everybody needs 1Gb-Ethernet" - Macs. (No, I don't consider a computer with a fixed monitor a real computer)
There are many different vendors of DVD-players so there is enough choice and competition to drive the price down. Console-games are pretty expensive, though.
Sorry for being so harsh, but if you don't provide an example...
Anyway, OpenOffice has problems with Unix-style copy-paste, but so far I didn't have a single problem with MacOS-style copay-paste (which is what "Joe Sixpack" would use).
Oh yeah, the Klipper actions are pretty useless. Thankfully they are no longer activated by default in the last releases. You should just deactivate them.
Then, LICQ opens URLs just fine in browsers (any browser, you can use Konqu, Mozilla, Netscape4, Opera or any other)
OpenOffice doesn't support Unix-style copy-paste.
Well, Mr. Johnson would never know a difference because he doesn't use Unix-stlye copy-paste and just uses Ctrl+X/C/V which works just fine in any app. (Except the old Netscape4 which used Alt instead of Ctrl. But Mozilla is out for quite some time now)
But if you run an outdated KDE-version and don't disable Klipper's actions, yes that would confuse many.
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Konqueror is the only browser on this planet that reopens all the links just like they were yesterday when I logged out. All on the right desktop with the right window-dimensions.
Hey, think of that, no more temporary bookmarks to find your forums! No more temporary bookmarks to mark where you stopped reading! If you encounter a site and you think "Gawn, I read that tomorrow" you just leave it open without wasting time bookmarking it.
Konqueror is much, much more than just a "it came with my distro" browser.
What is so hard to understand about that?
Correct, and I certainly won't buy from Brand A again.
I don't see why Microsoft should be excepted from basic market mechanisms.
As I said, if it's too late, it's too late. Some stupid decisions can't be undone, it's a fact of life.
Got that now? Shall I say it again?
But when you start a new project (or even a new enterprise) you can develop platform-agnostic and support Windows just fine and you are much more flexible. Platform-agnostic is a superset of Windows-only, so by definition there can't be more money in Windows-only.
Just because you have driven off the cliff and it's too late now doesn't mean that driving off the cliff was a good idea.
There are many OS-agnostic development platforms like Java, Qt, Delphi/Kylix and many more.
And guess what! They also work with Windows, so you can use Windows without chaining yourself to Microsoft.
The main point of this story is not how incompetent Microsoft is. - The main point (IMO) is that this is yet another story about yet another Windows-user that will go to hell and back to use Windows but will not even look at alternatives because Microsoft has successfully implanted the delusion that only Microsoft can solve their problems.
In a free market customers do not put up with crap like this.
I don't feel the slightest pity for you. If you chain yourself to a single vendor with no way out you are asking for being raped. And it's irrelevant if that single vendor is called Microsoft, Apple or Sun.
And you know what the message for Microsoft is?
The message is "If they are willing to spend 10 hours on the phone, they are also willing to pay 200$ more"
Huh?
What do you mean? What guarantees do I get that Microsoft isn't changing policies again and starts to do really nasty things? Face it: *Anything* can happen. Microsoft might never use their power or they might start deleting warez tomorrow.
It's stupid to be dependent on a single-vendor solution. And it doesn't matter if the vendor is called Microsoft, Apple or Sun.
Microsoft has the right to ignore all settings for auto-updating whenever they want.
Of course they can (and will) bundle the DRM-stuff with the next service packs anyway, so sooner or later they will get DRM into all Windows machines.
OpenOffice is as good, but also gets you flexibility of choosing an operating system.
Translation: I'm all for using alternate products, as long as they come from Microsoft.
The problem is that the first-time user is dropped into a GNOME desktop.
And that's the reason why Linux-desktop-marketshare in the US sucks (~1%) and in areas where RedHat isn't dominant isn't bad at all (for example in Germany about 5%)
This delusion is amazing. You hear it so often people started to believe it.
Fact remains that Microsoft was very late on the GUI and literally slowed the industrie's adoption of GUIs. (Unix and Apple had it long before MS)
The same goes for the internet. Bill "Internet will never be popular" Gates fought the Internet for years and slowed its adoption while trying to put proprietary MSN down peoples throats.
Or what about PenWindows? A project which sole purpose was to kill a innovative company (Go). After Go was dead, PenWindows has fullfilled its purpose and was dropped, too. (Then Palm came along and picked up the ball.) The whole PenWindows thing threw back PDAs for years.
Microsoft was never an innovator, they are the biggest roadblock in computing
Anybody knowing anything about user-interfaces will tell you the dock in MacOSX is probably the worst implementation of a panel (maybe the best looking, but certainly the worst productivity-wise) found in desktop environments.
EVERYTHING Apple does will be hyped up as user-friendly. EVERYTHING a Linux-organization does will be bashed as being unuseable.
I stopped caring. I *know* KDE is the best DE *right now* because I've tried *all* of the major DEs.
If anything Linux-related does it, it's hard, horribly complicated and only for geeks.
You only have to standardize on the platform. If you platform is StarOffice, you can use Linux and Windows. If you platform is KDE, you can use Linux, BSD and Solaris (and other stuff, too). If your platform is Java, you can use pretty much every OS around.
Wrong, it's the exact opposite of capitalism.
Capitalism is about free markets with low margins and low barriers of entry.
Patents are about closed markets (aka monopolies) with high margins and high barriers of entry.
Just because your grandmother can't use it, doesn't make it useless.
Keep the defaults simple but allow users to use advanced options.
I open new links with the middle mousebutton and when I go back close the Window. Can't become any faster than that.
(But it doesn't work with Mozilla-Tabs, is there any way to make Mozilla close a Tab by hitting Esc?) I couldn't find any keybindings...
Well, first without X11 no "Unix desktop feel". MacOSX might *technically* be a Unix and Linux might *technically* be no Unix, but if you talk about look and feel, Linux is Unix and MacOSX simply isn't.
Then, that your middle button "works" is fine, but it's useless if the windowmanager (or whatever Aqua is) doesn't support it.
You can't paste with the MMB.
You can't put windows into the background with the MMB
You can't jump scrollbars with the MMB
What exactly DO you use your MMB?
I am a Linux user and have a Dual-Athlon 1600 with 1GB 266DDR RAM and a 15000rpm SCSI disk as a desktop machine. I wouldn't call that subpar hardware. You run your router/small server on outdated hardware, but not your Linux desktop.
"Familiar Unix feel" - I don't feel familiar when I can't paste with the middle mouse button. I don't feel familiar if I get Klaustrophobia on just one single desktop. "But it has a command-line" doesn't make it a Unix.
"sweet desktop" - But only one! And barely configurable! And not using the middle mouse button! And using unrecognizable thumbnails of pictures instead of icons!
"kick ass hardware" - That was true a couple of years ago, but today the RAM is too slow and they use the same slow 7200rpm disks as PCs. (or even 5400?!)
But I disgress, highlightning to copy is Unix-style which works fine in every terminal I've tried (of course you have to paste it with the middle mouse button after that)
So if you use pine you just select the text and hit the middle mouse-button over your browser's "location"
No command-line program, be it on Windows, Linux or on any other platform can use Ctrl+XCV because Ctrl+C is traditionally used as exit signal already.
That's why so few buy the "everybody needs 1Gb-Ethernet" - Macs. (No, I don't consider a computer with a fixed monitor a real computer)
There are many different vendors of DVD-players so there is enough choice and competition to drive the price down. Console-games are pretty expensive, though.
Anyway, OpenOffice has problems with Unix-style copy-paste, but so far I didn't have a single problem with MacOS-style copay-paste (which is what "Joe Sixpack" would use).
Then, LICQ opens URLs just fine in browsers (any browser, you can use Konqu, Mozilla, Netscape4, Opera or any other)
OpenOffice doesn't support Unix-style copy-paste.
Well, Mr. Johnson would never know a difference because he doesn't use Unix-stlye copy-paste and just uses Ctrl+X/C/V which works just fine in any app. (Except the old Netscape4 which used Alt instead of Ctrl. But Mozilla is out for quite some time now)
But if you run an outdated KDE-version and don't disable Klipper's actions, yes that would confuse many.