Did Netscape ever fix the annoying UNIX bug where if you selected a box which had a lot of menu items, you'd lose your keyboard until you minimized then restored Netscape?
This has to be the most annoying bug ever.. and they have *NEVER* fixed it!
Netscape, if you're listening, please fix this bug!
Only try to get surgery if it's a last option - do not go there first! I used to work in a car seat factory and started having CT symptoms. I went to a therapist and modified my work routines - that helped tremendously! I was having pain that was enough to keep me from sleeping, within a month I was feeling much better.
I now work on a computer about 12 hours a day. I have invested in an ergonomic keyboard and I still do exercises to keep from relapsing. If I use a "straight" keyboard too long, I'll start getting pain and numbness...you never get entirely over it, but it's much better.
I've talked to many people who have had surgery and the consensus that I have run across is that you never have full function again or the same level of strength. I imagine that the surgery has come a long way since 1994, but I still would heavily advise against CT surgery unless it's a last resort.
I worked for 2 years as a MS Exchange admin (4.0, 5.0, 5.5) before I wised up and took a job doing Sun Solaris:)
We had Microsoft consultants come in and design the network. Now get this: we had roughly 30 leaf Exchange sites in the state of NJ, but with only *1* hub. In Pennsylvania, we had 1 hub serving 1 leaf node. How screwed up was that?
Result: Exchange, furiously trying to run as its own MTA would have the NJ hub clobbered with messages waiting to get transferred. It was a total nightmare for us. (Not to mention the fact that the Microsoft consultants who set up the infrastructure for us totally screwed up.)
Sendmail as an MTA would work perfectly in this situation. I don't know how reliable it would be running under NT.
We once set up a Solaris 2.61 on a Sun Enterprise 250 and send a million messages at it with 1 meg attachments with a script. The box didn't even BLINK! The only problem which made it poop out was a full/var partition.
What would happen if we aimed a million messages with 1 meg attachments at an Exchange MTA? BSOD. How about Sendmail for NT? Only time will tell..
-= NJV =-
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Posted by Nr9:
taipei...it was like 2am in the morning and first the power went out and then the building started to shake hard(16th floor). i woke up, and slept. my chen shui bian flag and badminton racket fell down. a cd rack also fell down. mankit mankit mankit. the power was off for more than 24 hours... i think only one building in taipei, a 12 story hotel collapsed. in taipei county, a building completely uprooted and fell down sideways intact(i think it was also 12 stories). the focus was only 1 km under the epicenter. it was under the center of Taiwan. it wasn't in the ocean or something. i think there is only one way. Vote for Chen Shui Bian for 2000 president
Hmmm...Is English your first language? I think the proper phrase is "doing anything TO Linux" not "for." Corel's not doing anyone any favors - they're trying to profit from a community they didn't build. When in Rome, do as the Romans do - if you can't, then screw you.
Cuz its no emulation. software or hardware no decoding. it is the same instruction set 64 bit PowerPC is designed with binary compatibility with 32 bit powerpc. intel 686 CPUs run them natively cuz thats the only ISA they can run.
Oh yes, I'm sure the military run-up was designed to end the cold war and not fill the larders of the companies that supply weapons. That's it. The Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse for years, Reagan did not have a significant impact on it.
Reagan was clueless and did nothing significant to end the "cold war" - the Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of an economic system that wasn't viable. That it happened during the Bush / Reagan years is a coincidence. If I recall correctly the country was still in an economic slump when he left office, and tax cuts are nothing to brag about if you sacrifice environmental programs and social programs to do it. I'll be impressed by tax cuts when the cuts are applied to lower income brackets not higher ones. Grandpa Caligula was no prize for this country...not that any president in recent history has been...but Reagan was only popular because he was affable and telegenic. It was comforting (if you turned off your brain) to see Reagan on TV because he had a great personal presence. He was also frequently inaccurate in public statements, presided over one of the most corrupt administrations ever, and was basically a puppet of his administration.
Hey, I'm actually impressed with the old Babelfish. I could certainly follow it much better than I could in German, seeing as I don't read in German. And the translation was pretty fast, too. Kudos to AltaVista for that nice service.
As to the guy who posted the Pig Latin translation -- please tell me you wrote a program to do that. If not, then slowly step away from the computer with your hands where I can see them. Then go outside and enjoy life more.
The IRC client consists of a pile of XUL/JS for UI and protocol implementation and a thin library to provide raw socket access. (The library will be replaced by use of the necko raw-socket API in the nearish future as well, and then there'll be no ``native'' code involved at all.)
You can take pretty much anything you want out of Mozilla, either at compile- or run-time. Including, of course, the much maligned mailnews stuff: just delete the components you don't want and get on with your life. (Note: some components are required for the browser to work, if that's the Mozilla app you're interested in, and there are some bugs in the form of compile- and run-time entanglements, but if you care at all they'd not be hard to fix.)
There are still lots of things left to fix in Mozilla (performance isn't yet anywhere near its potential and there are lots of big and small memory leaks to kill before beta, for example), but nobody here is talking about the real issues. It's just kneejerk responses to ``new thing available'' and wildly ignorant assumptions about the architecture of the software. Do people complain about bloat when someone releases a new GNOME app on slashdot, too?
People can trash Mozilla for bloat or hostility to left-handers or an extreme bias towards windowing systems if they want; there's no way to stop them, and I'm not sure it's really worth the bother anymore anyway. People who care will discover the facts of the matter, and try to help fix what they don't like. And who has time for the posers?
Anyway I am not just a Win programer. I think every program wich run under Win can give you the kind of 'pleasure' you are thinking of. Look with SoftIce in Win code, while you are trying to do some driver stuff.
So, I misspelled some of the words. That's because I am not a writer, just a simple programmer. My mothertongue is not English. I'll try to improve myshelf.
I was off topic anyway. I was angry on M$ products (which I must use day by day).
I think its a great idea, even if it sends to that user that there comment has been moderated and why, even if it doesnt show who it is. This would let people know why there comment was taken off.
Have you done VxD programming ever under Win9x? Try it with the DDK help only. Good luck ! M$ sucks !, The OSS is the only good thing here. If you cannot understand the internal kernel code, no docs will help you. I think than more people understand good part of the kernel Linux code than M$ programmers understands their API. Whics one API? All of them !
By the way if you know the internals of the file system architecture of Win9x, told me wy is so crapy? Whos desing is this ? Can docs be writen for W*Dose ?
You are a person of conviction and honor - I respect that. Too damn bad you're likely to be jobless with those qualities. Speaking out about or refusing to enforce company policy is a very fast way to find yourself out of a job - I know. I got fired once for loudly protesting a random drug testing policy. I'd do it again, but this time I'd have more $ in the bank before I did it... Zonker
Unfortunately, legally the company has the right to do that - and I can't say that I think that anyone really has the RIGHT to be downloading porn on company time, either. If they ask to scan for something like content of email or something, that's fairly repulsive - but if they're asking to do a general scan for jpegs and whatnot, then simply ask that you're allowed to do a warning first, then scan a week later. If it's the first time that the company has tried to enforce a policy it wouldn't hurt to simply re-announce the policy and tell people to expect it to be enforced soon.
It's one thing for a company to check if you're downloading porn or something like that vs. a company saying anyone who's ever used company email for private use is going to be fired, or scanning content of email for comments about the boss or something.
Tarot Cards, Ouija Boards, and Halloween? You're joking, right? Tarot cards is a form of divination, a method (tool, prop, etc) of unlocking the sub conscious mind and using what knowledge you have stored there.
Ouija Boards are made by Parker Brothers. Nuff said.
Halloween has many originations, in many cultures. In places such as Mexico, it was celebrated as the night of the dead, the night when the viel between this world and the next was thinnest, when people could celebrate their ancestors and loved ones. Nothing evil about that. In the Pagan religion, it is Samhain, one of the many holidays; but of course, with your original statement you probably think Pagans are evil too.
Bad Idea. Than we'd have a barrage of people once they figured it out running around going, "First human post!", or simply "Second post", and so on and so forth..
Might as well just let them have their fun, it's obvious they don't get to go out anywhere to have any sort of real life anyways.;-)
Humanity must look elsewhere to live and prosper, or we're going to go the same way as the dinosaurs,
Go the way of the dinosaurs? We'd be lucky to go the way of the dinosaurs, instead of the direction we're heading now.
After all, they did live and rule the earth for millions upon millions of years. In comparison, our somewhere between a few thousand to 10,000+ years (depending on who you listen to) years here is nothing. We've been a blink of the eye compared to how long they lasted, and yet we're already doing a good job of making the place unlivable for ourselves.. and worrying that things are going to come to an end.. and this and that and the next thing.
Pretty pathetic on our parts if you ask me, which you didn't.
Source that you have can never be taken back, even under the NPL, and you (and should!) contribute your own code under the MPL instead, of which the NPL is a superset. (The MPL is basically ``you must make your changes available'', at its core. It and the NPL both use ``file boundary'' to delineate license domains, so you could combine an MPL-licensed file with a BSD-licensed one without difficulty.) There are a good annotation and FAQ hanging off of http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/. Most of the source in the tree is NPL, but most new files are MPL these days. Hope that helped.
We have media newsgroups. Really. But I don't know if anyone's done one for Linux media, and even if they did, the non-tech savvy reporters you want to reach wouldn't know where to look!
Not a bad idea, really. Maybe Linux.com could throw something together, possibly include a primer on Linux itself, get a timeline and history of the project....
If anybody wants to work on this, drop me an e-mail and I'll help with the info -- AFTER we get Linus' approval, of course.
If y'all don't know me, I'm the tech reporter at ABCNEWS.com. I've had occasion to talk with Linus on a number of occasions, and he's been very nice, very thoughtful, and I think has given my stories a unique and powerful perspective that they wouldn't have otherwise had.
I've noted on here that many of the posts are aimed at the journalists, and some rightfully so. But believe it or not, we're not all twinks, dweebs, shmucks and newbies. Some of us actually take the time to RTFM before we bother people.
Of course, many don't, and I don't blame Linus for putting up the shields.
Still, Linux isn't the underground project it was two years ago. This OS has become a powerful force in both business and technology, and the guy who continues to lead the project is obviously going to be in demand.
I would hope Linus continues to work with reporters (like me, hint hint) to get Linux out into the mainstream media. And I hope he and many of the other folks whom we constantly pester continue to exhibit their characteristic patience with the media.
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Posted by NJViking:
Did Netscape ever fix the annoying UNIX bug where if you selected a box which had a lot of menu items, you'd lose your keyboard until you minimized then restored Netscape?
This has to be the most annoying bug ever.. and they have *NEVER* fixed it!
Netscape, if you're listening, please fix this bug!
-= NJV =-
Posted by polar_bear:
Only try to get surgery if it's a last option - do not go there first! I used to work in a car seat factory and started having CT symptoms. I went to a therapist and modified my work routines - that helped tremendously! I was having pain that was enough to keep me from sleeping, within a month I was feeling much better.
I now work on a computer about 12 hours a day. I have invested in an ergonomic keyboard and I still do exercises to keep from relapsing. If I use a "straight" keyboard too long, I'll start getting pain and numbness...you never get entirely over it, but it's much better.
I've talked to many people who have had surgery and the consensus that I have run across is that you never have full function again or the same level of strength. I imagine that the surgery has come a long way since 1994, but I still would heavily advise against CT surgery unless it's a last resort.
Posted by NJViking:
:)
/var partition.
I worked for 2 years as a MS Exchange admin (4.0, 5.0, 5.5) before I wised up and took a job doing Sun Solaris
We had Microsoft consultants come in and design the network. Now get this: we had roughly 30 leaf Exchange sites in the state of NJ, but with only *1* hub. In Pennsylvania, we had 1 hub serving 1 leaf node. How screwed up was that?
Result: Exchange, furiously trying to run as its own MTA would have the NJ hub clobbered with messages waiting to get transferred. It was a total nightmare for us. (Not to mention the fact that the Microsoft consultants who set up the infrastructure for us totally screwed up.)
Sendmail as an MTA would work perfectly in this situation. I don't know how reliable it would be running under NT.
We once set up a Solaris 2.61 on a Sun Enterprise 250 and send a million messages at it with 1 meg attachments with a script. The box didn't even BLINK! The only problem which made it poop out was a full
What would happen if we aimed a million messages with 1 meg attachments at an Exchange MTA? BSOD. How about Sendmail for NT? Only time will tell..
-= NJV =-
Posted by Nr9:
taipei...it was like 2am in the morning and first the power went out and then the building started to shake hard(16th floor). i woke up, and slept. my chen shui bian flag and badminton racket fell down. a cd rack also fell down. mankit mankit mankit. the power was off for more than 24 hours... i think only one building in taipei, a 12 story hotel collapsed. in taipei county, a building completely uprooted and fell down sideways intact(i think it was also 12 stories). the focus was only 1 km under the epicenter. it was under the center of Taiwan. it wasn't in the ocean or something. i think there is only one way.
Vote for Chen Shui Bian for 2000 president
Posted by polar_bear:
Hmmm...Is English your first language? I think the proper phrase is "doing anything TO Linux" not "for." Corel's not doing anyone any favors - they're trying to profit from a community they didn't build. When in Rome, do as the Romans do - if you can't, then screw you.
Posted by Nr9:
Cuz its no emulation.
software or hardware
no decoding.
it is the same instruction set
64 bit PowerPC is designed with binary compatibility with 32 bit powerpc.
intel 686 CPUs run them natively cuz thats the only ISA they can run.
Posted by polar_bear:
Oh yes, I'm sure the military run-up was designed to end the cold war and not fill the larders of the companies that supply weapons. That's it. The Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse for years, Reagan did not have a significant impact on it.
Posted by polar_bear:
Reagan was clueless and did nothing significant to end the "cold war" - the Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of an economic system that wasn't viable. That it happened during the Bush / Reagan years is a coincidence. If I recall correctly the country was still in an economic slump when he left office, and tax cuts are nothing to brag about if you sacrifice environmental programs and social programs to do it. I'll be impressed by tax cuts when the cuts are applied to lower income brackets not higher ones. Grandpa Caligula was no prize for this country...not that any president in recent history has been...but Reagan was only popular because he was affable and telegenic. It was comforting (if you turned off your brain) to see Reagan on TV because he had a great personal presence. He was also frequently inaccurate in public statements, presided over one of the most corrupt administrations ever, and was basically a puppet of his administration.
Just my 2 cents...
Posted by Mike@ABC:
Hey, I'm actually impressed with the old Babelfish. I could certainly follow it much better than I could in German, seeing as I don't read in German. And the translation was pretty fast, too. Kudos to AltaVista for that nice service.
As to the guy who posted the Pig Latin translation -- please tell me you wrote a program to do that. If not, then slowly step away from the computer with your hands where I can see them. Then go outside and enjoy life more.
I can't find any bugs in bugzilla reported by "rombuu", so I'm not sure which rendering flaws or crashes you're talking about.
Could you point me to bugs you've filed to report these deficiencies in Mozilla? Are you maybe using a different email address?
The IRC client consists of a pile of XUL/JS for UI and protocol implementation and a thin library to provide raw socket access. (The library will be replaced by use of the necko raw-socket API in the nearish future as well, and then there'll be no ``native'' code involved at all.)
You can take pretty much anything you want out of Mozilla, either at compile- or run-time. Including, of course, the much maligned mailnews stuff: just delete the components you don't want and get on with your life. (Note: some components are required for the browser to work, if that's the Mozilla app you're interested in, and there are some bugs in the form of compile- and run-time entanglements, but if you care at all they'd not be hard to fix.)
There are still lots of things left to fix in Mozilla (performance isn't yet anywhere near its potential and there are lots of big and small memory leaks to kill before beta, for example), but nobody here is talking about the real issues. It's just kneejerk responses to ``new thing available'' and wildly ignorant assumptions about the architecture of the software. Do people complain about bloat when someone releases a new GNOME app on slashdot, too?
People can trash Mozilla for bloat or hostility to left-handers or an extreme bias towards windowing systems if they want; there's no way to stop them, and I'm not sure it's really worth the bother anymore anyway. People who care will discover the facts of the matter, and try to help fix what they don't like. And who has time for the posers?
Posted by cookieman.k:
Don't be scared.
You won't use my programs.
Anyway I am not just a Win programer.
I think every program wich run under Win
can give you the kind of 'pleasure' you are
thinking of.
Look with SoftIce in Win code, while you are
trying to do some driver stuff.
Thanks anyway for your reply.
Posted by cookieman.k:
So, I misspelled some of the words.
That's because I am not a writer, just a
simple programmer. My mothertongue is not
English. I'll try to improve myshelf.
I was off topic anyway. I was angry on M$
products (which I must use day by day).
Thanks anyway.
I think its a great idea, even if it sends to that user that there comment has been moderated and why, even if it doesnt show who it is. This would let people know why there comment was taken off.
Posted by cookieman.k:
...
Have you done VxD programming ever under Win9x?
Try it with the DDK help only.
Good luck !
M$ sucks !, The OSS is the only good thing here.
If you cannot understand the internal kernel code, no docs will help you.
I think than more people understand good part of the kernel Linux code than M$ programmers understands their API.
Whics one API?
All of them !
By the way if you know the internals of the file system architecture of Win9x, told me wy is so crapy?
Whos desing is this ?
Can docs be writen for W*Dose ?
Why am bothering myshelf to reply to you
Posted by polar_bear:
You are a person of conviction and honor - I respect that. Too damn bad you're likely to be jobless with those qualities. Speaking out about or refusing to enforce company policy is a very fast way to find yourself out of a job - I know. I got fired once for loudly protesting a random drug testing policy. I'd do it again, but this time I'd have more $ in the bank before I did it... Zonker
Posted by polar_bear:
Unfortunately, legally the company has the right to do that - and I can't say that I think that anyone really has the RIGHT to be downloading porn on company time, either. If they ask to scan for something like content of email or something, that's fairly repulsive - but if they're asking to do a general scan for jpegs and whatnot, then simply ask that you're allowed to do a warning first, then scan a week later. If it's the first time that the company has tried to enforce a policy it wouldn't hurt to simply re-announce the policy and tell people to expect it to be enforced soon.
It's one thing for a company to check if you're downloading porn or something like that vs. a company saying anyone who's ever used company email for private use is going to be fired, or scanning content of email for comments about the boss or something.
Zonker
Posted by Synsthe:
Oh come now, stop being silly.
Tarot Cards, Ouija Boards, and Halloween? You're joking, right? Tarot cards is a form of divination, a method (tool, prop, etc) of unlocking the sub conscious mind and using what knowledge you have stored there.
Ouija Boards are made by Parker Brothers. Nuff said.
Halloween has many originations, in many cultures. In places such as Mexico, it was celebrated as the night of the dead, the night when the viel between this world and the next was thinnest, when people could celebrate their ancestors and loved ones. Nothing evil about that. In the Pagan religion, it is Samhain, one of the many holidays; but of course, with your original statement you probably think Pagans are evil too.
Oh.. this is also off topic. =)
--
Mark Waterous (mark@projectlinux.org)
Posted by Synsthe:
;-)
Bad Idea. Than we'd have a barrage of people once they figured it out running around going, "First human post!", or simply "Second post", and so on and so forth..
Might as well just let them have their fun, it's obvious they don't get to go out anywhere to have any sort of real life anyways.
--
Mark Waterous (mark@projectlinux.org)
Posted by Synsthe:
Humanity must look elsewhere to live and prosper, or we're going to go the same way as the dinosaurs,
Go the way of the dinosaurs? We'd be lucky to go the way of the dinosaurs, instead of the direction we're heading now.
After all, they did live and rule the earth for millions upon millions of years. In comparison, our somewhere between a few thousand to 10,000+ years (depending on who you listen to) years here is nothing. We've been a blink of the eye compared to how long they lasted, and yet we're already doing a good job of making the place unlivable for ourselves.. and worrying that things are going to come to an end.. and this and that and the next thing.
Pretty pathetic on our parts if you ask me, which you didn't.
--
Mark Waterous (mark@projectlinux.org)
Posted by shaver@netscape.com:
Source that you have can never be taken back, even under the NPL, and you (and should!) contribute your own code under the MPL instead, of which the NPL is a superset. (The MPL is basically ``you must make your changes available'', at its core. It and the NPL both use ``file boundary'' to delineate license domains, so you could combine an MPL-licensed file with a BSD-licensed one without difficulty.) There are a good annotation and FAQ hanging off of http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/. Most of the source in the tree is NPL, but most new files are MPL these days. Hope that helped.
Posted by Mike@ABC:
We have media newsgroups. Really. But I don't know if anyone's done one for Linux media, and even if they did, the non-tech savvy reporters you want to reach wouldn't know where to look!
Posted by Mike@ABC:
Guys, there's no way I'm going to respond to another reporter's work.
Posted by Mike@ABC:
Not a bad idea, really. Maybe Linux.com could throw something together, possibly include a primer on Linux itself, get a timeline and history of the project....
If anybody wants to work on this, drop me an e-mail and I'll help with the info -- AFTER we get Linus' approval, of course.
Posted by Mike@ABC:
If y'all don't know me, I'm the tech reporter at ABCNEWS.com. I've had occasion to talk with Linus on a number of occasions, and he's been very nice, very thoughtful, and I think has given my stories a unique and powerful perspective that they wouldn't have otherwise had.
I've noted on here that many of the posts are aimed at the journalists, and some rightfully so. But believe it or not, we're not all twinks, dweebs, shmucks and newbies. Some of us actually take the time to RTFM before we bother people.
Of course, many don't, and I don't blame Linus for putting up the shields.
Still, Linux isn't the underground project it was two years ago. This OS has become a powerful force in both business and technology, and the guy who continues to lead the project is obviously going to be in demand.
I would hope Linus continues to work with reporters (like me, hint hint) to get Linux out into the mainstream media. And I hope he and many of the other folks whom we constantly pester continue to exhibit their characteristic patience with the media.