Anyone know where I can download a free, full linux system for itanium?
Can't find anything on the red hat and suse sites, and the debian distribution I found was only text mode, no X etc. Yet, it took so long just to install such a simple system.
Ok, enough complaining. To regurgitate: does anyone know where I can download a good linux itanium dist for free =) ?? Where? URL's?
Right, sorry. My comments were overly negative, I've been grumpy lately in the morning.
However, my point still stands. Just because you didn't literaly say a particular word doesn't mean you didn't imply it or start the ad hominem yourself, despite your claims to the contrary.
Ha, another European that thinks 300 million Americans think with the same mind.
Maybe if you actually read his post you would have gathered that he didn't make any kind of negative statement about other countries. He was making an observation.
He may or may not be technically correct, like you, but at least he does not come off as being so small, smug and superior.
This an attitude I encounter frequently when I am traveling and meet people from the UK, and I mention I am American. I find it distasteful, and the funny thing is, I encounter it _much_
more often than I meet stupid, ugly Americans.
Umm, no. You do a standard install with the volume license key. Couldn't be easier, unless you move to linux. It is no different than the serial number for 98 you mention.
I simply think they should improve mozilla rather than starting from scratch, and losing much of it's wonderful functionality. If you want a no-frills-lean browser, use galeon, and leave my mozilla alone to grow.
Mozilla is the best browser available, why lose that momentum for a year? Just because it is free software doesn't mean it can keep surviving bad decisions.
Read the link I posted that explains why, more elegantly than I can.
This speed thing is dubious though. I just installed both on an extra 1ghz machine. I can't tell any difference except on app load time.
Seeing as I load mozilla about once a week after warcraft crashes, I don't see how this makes much difference.
Phoenix doesnt seem to have lots of functionality that moz has either. For instance, most of the managers, and instead of my slick keyword bookmark, "g enter keywords" in the location bar, there is some stupid google bar I can't get rid of. Most of the advantages I see people mention about phoenix were included in moz in 1.2 or 1.3. Oh, and it has better standard defaults, but I just made a user.js file and havent looked back.
It certainly doesn't make it worth while to lose all this funtionality just to improve load time.
Work flow improvements are fine, but moz should be refactored to add this functionality, not restarted from almost scratch.
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I do agree with it. You say in the next sentence you don't really use the original Mac OS, and that's the problem. The gui's you mention are all just poor copies of each other. Maybe you used it a few times and didn't see what the fuss is about.
Really, until you sit down in front of an old mac for 6 months, without anything else available, you wont understand. About 10 years ago this was what happened to me at a job, until they coughed up a PC for me to use as well. Once you learn how things should work, it just sucks to go back.
Imagine a computer where you almost always know where your shit is, because you recognize it by sight, as well as name. If you don't like an application in this folder..... move it to that folder, and it still works!! Try such a simple thing on dos or unix and watch it crash and burn, bitching and complaining about its libraries, as if I care.
They solved that problem 20 years ago for crying out loud.
Of course this simplicity is also saddled by piss poor multitasking and Windows 95 level stability. It is an imperfect world =(.
OS X still hasn't reached the goal of a mac gui on a modern kernel, although it is arguably the closest.
Acutally I prefer the fonts and feel of the gui on windows xp (de-fischer-priced, of course), although it still doesn't have the elegance of the finder a decade ago. YMMV.
Benchmarking the new workstation quadro cards with Quake 3 !!! heh hheh.
This type of card is optimized for giant data sets, zillions of polygons or nurbs at once. CAD/3D Modeling, etc. Think of the golum guy in LOTR.
Quake 3 has lots of blocky square guys running around at 300 fps on modern machine. Makes about as much sense as benchmarking it with the original wolfenstein.
This isn't what the card is designed for and it isn't probably going to perform as well as a card several hundred $ cheaper that is.
yeah, but your features would require only little bit of dev time, to separate some libs, and put in application defaults for browser, mail, etc. What, a couple of weeks(?), tops.
Instead they want to rewrite the damn thing.....again. It took them ~5 years to get here, losing mindshare all the way.
Why cant mozilla be refactored? Instead of thrown out? http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.h tml
Rewrite again and mozilla is as good as dead as a mainstream browser. Winamp also is pulling this crap too, maybe they share the same idiot management.
If you cant keep the technical lead over microsoft, you are doomed. Take a step back in features, and delay 6 months or a year and watch IE7 crush whatever feeble beachhead they made in the browser wars.
Sorry to go against the grain here but I love mozilla, it does everything I want, and fast.
I installed the browser and mail on my machine that I use for mail, and just the browser on my machine at work. After years of waiting, all the functionality I need is complete, close to perfect even. I've got tabs, popup, image, and spam blocking too!
If you don't want one of the other components, don't #@$#%ing install them! (And quit yer whining.)
Why would I want to go back to another half finished browser?? I think this decision is a mistake, and just serves to lose momentum.
I think a better idea would be to work on making mozilla more modular and making other performance tweaks. Why reinvent the wheel again?
Windows shorcuts (.lnk) are not symlinks. They are simply a file with a path to somewhere else. They are only followed by explorer and generally useless anywhere else, unlike real symlinks.
Of course NT supports symlinks on NTFS, but they can only be created by obscure 3rd party tools that no one knows about, and so they are rarely used.
Well, you say that because you don't understand (like most people) that greater resolution _improves_ readability, if you know how to configure things correctly.
Also, running an LCD on a it's non-native resolution (800x600) is a great way to turn a $2000 monitor into something that looks worse than a $100 vga crt they sold about 10 years ago.
This is thanks to that blurry scaling they use these days. Kind of like buying a corvette and never taking it out of first gear.
It may be that buring coal and/or oil in a centralized location may be more efficient and cleaner than burning it in 10 million cars in random condition.
There are many ways to burn and reburn fossil fuels until you have friendly output, and ways to reduce emmissions etc by pulling things out of the smoke. These types of equipment aren't feasible in a car, but could be in a power plant.
(I read about a system years ago, where people took heavy dark smoke and sent it through a rapidly spinning cylinder. The cylinder spun so fast the smoke particles were trapped against the insides of the walls. It was then collected and pressed into bricks or something, I forget.... Never found out if it succeeded or not.)
Also, don't forget natural gas, hydro, solar, wind, etc for generating electricity. Much cleaner.
Can you tell me how to use my own stylesheets to change other's pages?
I use mozilla, and it would be nice if I could turn the override on an off with a hotkey. I generally like to keep the original look of the page, and then occasionally change it.
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Anyone know where I can download a free, full linux system for itanium?
Can't find anything on the red hat and suse sites, and the debian distribution I found was only text mode, no X etc. Yet, it took so long just to install such a simple system.
Ok, enough complaining. To regurgitate: does anyone know where I can download a good linux itanium dist for free =) ?? Where? URL's?
Right, sorry. My comments were overly negative, I've been grumpy lately in the morning.
However, my point still stands. Just because you didn't literaly say a particular word doesn't mean you didn't imply it or start the ad hominem yourself, despite your claims to the contrary.
Have a nice day. =)
umm, no. It's obvious you don't understand a word he is saying.
First you'll need a history class or two. Pay attention during the 18th century, french revolution and american independence quarter.
Ha, another European that thinks 300 million Americans think with the same mind.
Maybe if you actually read his post you would have gathered that he didn't make any kind of negative statement about other countries. He was making an observation.
He may or may not be technically correct, like you, but at least he does not come off as being so small, smug and superior.
This an attitude I encounter frequently when I am traveling and meet people from the UK, and I mention I am American. I find it distasteful, and the funny thing is, I encounter it _much_
more often than I meet stupid, ugly Americans.
Umm, no. You do a standard install with the volume license key. Couldn't be easier, unless you move to linux. It is no different than the serial number for 98 you mention.
That's not what I said at all.
I simply think they should improve mozilla rather than starting from scratch, and losing much of it's wonderful functionality. If you want a no-frills-lean browser, use galeon, and leave my mozilla alone to grow.
Mozilla is the best browser available, why lose that momentum for a year? Just because it is free software doesn't mean it can keep surviving bad decisions.
Read the link I posted that explains why, more elegantly than I can.
Ok, you have some good points.
This speed thing is dubious though. I just installed both on an extra 1ghz machine. I can't tell any difference except on app load time.
Seeing as I load mozilla about once a week after warcraft crashes, I don't see how this makes much difference.
Phoenix doesnt seem to have lots of functionality that moz has either. For instance, most of the managers, and instead of my slick keyword bookmark, "g enter keywords" in the location bar, there is some stupid google bar I can't get rid of. Most of the advantages I see people mention about phoenix were included in moz in 1.2 or 1.3. Oh, and it has better standard defaults, but I just made a user.js file and havent looked back.
It certainly doesn't make it worth while to lose all this funtionality just to improve load time.
Work flow improvements are fine, but moz should be refactored to add this functionality, not restarted from almost scratch.
I do agree with it. You say in the next sentence you don't really use the original Mac OS, and that's the problem. The gui's you mention are all just poor copies of each other. Maybe you used it a few times and didn't see what the fuss is about.
Really, until you sit down in front of an old mac for 6 months, without anything else available, you wont understand. About 10 years ago this was what happened to me at a job, until they coughed up a PC for me to use as well. Once you learn how things should work, it just sucks to go back.
Imagine a computer where you almost always know where your shit is, because you recognize it by sight, as well as name. If you don't like an application in this folder..... move it to that folder, and it still works!! Try such a simple thing on dos or unix and watch it crash and burn, bitching and complaining about its libraries, as if I care.
They solved that problem 20 years ago for crying out loud.
Of course this simplicity is also saddled by piss poor multitasking and Windows 95 level stability. It is an imperfect world =(.
OS X still hasn't reached the goal of a mac gui on a modern kernel, although it is arguably the closest.
Acutally I prefer the fonts and feel of the gui on windows xp (de-fischer-priced, of course), although it still doesn't have the elegance of the finder a decade ago. YMMV.
Benchmarking the new workstation quadro cards with Quake 3 !!! heh hheh.
This type of card is optimized for giant data sets, zillions of polygons or nurbs at once. CAD/3D Modeling, etc. Think of the golum guy in LOTR.
Quake 3 has lots of blocky square guys running around at 300 fps on modern machine. Makes about as much sense as benchmarking it with the original wolfenstein.
This isn't what the card is designed for and it isn't probably going to perform as well as a card several hundred $ cheaper that is.
So, the review turns out to be not so useful.
yeah, but your features would require only little bit of dev time, to separate some libs, and put in application defaults for browser, mail, etc. What, a couple of weeks(?), tops.
h tml
:-)
Instead they want to rewrite the damn thing.....again. It took them ~5 years to get here, losing mindshare all the way.
Why cant mozilla be refactored? Instead of thrown out? http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.
Rewrite again and mozilla is as good as dead as a mainstream browser. Winamp also is pulling this crap too, maybe they share the same idiot management.
If you cant keep the technical lead over microsoft, you are doomed. Take a step back in features, and delay 6 months or a year and watch IE7 crush whatever feeble beachhead they made in the browser wars.
My doomsday scenario, sure.
Sorry to go against the grain here but I love mozilla, it does everything I want, and fast.
I installed the browser and mail on my machine that I use for mail, and just the browser on my machine at work. After years of waiting, all the functionality I need is complete, close to perfect even. I've got tabs, popup, image, and spam blocking too!
If you don't want one of the other components, don't #@$#%ing install them! (And quit yer whining.)
Why would I want to go back to another half finished browser?? I think this decision is a mistake, and just serves to lose momentum.
I think a better idea would be to work on making mozilla more modular and making other performance tweaks. Why reinvent the wheel again?
My mozilla hasn't crashed in 6 months, and before that I cant remember how long.
Hmm, that shot looks very nice, and I've heard many people say that this looks better than XP and I just don't agree.
I use Cleartype subpixel rendering on a DVI flatscreen, and it is just gorgeous.
It isn't a blurry anti-aliasing as far as I can tell, it just increases the resolution 3xish.
My Browser Shot
or ... how bout a window to the OUTSIDE!!! ... gasp!! ...
middle click the tab, couldn't be faster, and no space wasted.
You might want to write an enhancement bug into their bugzilla, and then vote for it.
Windows shorcuts (.lnk) are not symlinks. They are simply a file with a path to somewhere else. They are only followed by explorer and generally useless anywhere else, unlike real symlinks.
Of course NT supports symlinks on NTFS, but they can only be created by obscure 3rd party tools that no one knows about, and so they are rarely used.
has anyone tried to hack your imap server "open to the world?"
Just wondering, because I might like to offer some services to the world, but am a little afraid these days.
Great answer... where are the mod points when ya need 'em?
Well, you say that because you don't understand (like most people) that greater resolution _improves_ readability, if you know how to configure things correctly.
Also, running an LCD on a it's non-native resolution (800x600) is a great way to turn a $2000 monitor into something that looks worse than a $100 vga crt they sold about 10 years ago.
This is thanks to that blurry scaling they use these days. Kind of like buying a corvette and never taking it out of first gear.
If you're proud of that, you go guy!
while I don't necessarily disagree, I think you have forgotten that most corps are multinational these days.
Prolly take coordinated action at the UN/NATO level to stick it to 'em.
Nah, you know the thing is, most anti-aliasing looks shitty because it isn't meant for reading, it is meant for graphics.
However, if you can get sub-pixel rendering of the fonts on an LCD, it absolutley ROCKS!! It effectively doubles (or triples?) the font resolution.
Maybe bunk, maybe not.
It may be that buring coal and/or oil in a centralized location may be more efficient and cleaner than burning it in 10 million cars in random condition.
There are many ways to burn and reburn fossil fuels until you have friendly output, and ways to reduce emmissions etc by pulling things out of the smoke. These types of equipment aren't feasible in a car, but could be in a power plant.
(I read about a system years ago, where people took heavy dark smoke and sent it through a rapidly spinning cylinder. The cylinder spun so fast the smoke particles were trapped against the insides of the walls. It was then collected and pressed into bricks or something, I forget.... Never found out if it succeeded or not.)
Also, don't forget natural gas, hydro, solar, wind, etc for generating electricity. Much cleaner.
* IANAPPE (I am not a power plant engineer)
Can you tell me how to use my own stylesheets to change other's pages?
I use mozilla, and it would be nice if I could turn the override on an off with a hotkey. I generally like to keep the original look of the page, and then occasionally change it.
Thanks if you can help,
The best way to handle this is to have it start up on about:blank, then go home when you want.
Browser is more responsive too, that way.