Slashdot, apparently, since it usually posts an article on just about every mention of Linus, every minor activity, every little comment, and every little speculation. People glorify him as the guy who single-handedly wrote Linux, when Linux is really the work of thousands of developers who just send patches to him (and now other delegates too).
You didn't think to click the blue apple in the upper-left and go to System Preferences? You didn't think to type "cd/dev"? I mean, what exactly are you talking about when you say you didn't know "how to get out of/home/user in terminal to check/dev"?
Missing from the summary was mention of Windows growth--"When it comes to operating systems, Unix and Windows servers continued to grow. Unix server revenue was $5.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2004 while the corresponding figure for Windows was $4.6 billion."
I have to disagree there. If there is one thing Windows does really BADLY it's the start menu.
Yes. Start menus themselves are poor interface mechanisms, as are taskbars. I don't know why both KDE and GNOME chose to clone both instead of making a new way.
I just find it amusing that the broken link has been up for about an hour now, and still no change. It's already been posted in the discussion, and surely someone has been e-mailed about it. What takes so long to edit an tag?
As of this post, the link points to "http://slashdot.org/%3CA%20HREF=". Does this mean the editors don't even read the submissions or check what they post? A completely broken link on, say, CNN.com would be kind of a big deal and grounds for reprimand to the webmaster.
That is one MASSIVE menu. The same redundancy I've been complaining about for years--"System," "Utilities," and "Settings"--is still there. Why are they even seperate menus? Why not remove all three menus and just have a link to the system configuration dialog? Oh, that's right, they have that too! That's four redundancies.
Why is there an "Edutainment" menu? Why is there an "Editors" menu? There should just be an "Applications" menu, and they let the user categorize their apps the way they want to. That menu is suffering from huge clutter overload!
And look at the apps. Basically, they have two names each. Instead of "AppName," you have "AppName (WhatItReallyIs)." Silly and redundant. If the original name isn't working well enough, rename it. Essentially, you're having to maintain two app names now instead of just one. When a name isn't descriptive enough, its icon should be--that's why Apple insists that OS X icons show the document type and some sort of action happening to that document or related tool, like the text editor showing a page with a pencil overlaid on it. Not all icons follow these guidelines, but they should, and the ones that do fit visually in the interface. Fishing through appnames with parenthetical descriptions is ugly and time-consuming.
Those are just a few examples. KDE is overloaded with buttons, tabs, sidebars, and input fields. A lot of that stuff is simply not needed but is only there because it seems like someone got happy with the form designer and stuck a bunch of stuff on all the forms to have multiple ways of doing things. You should have two or three really good ways of doing things, not seven ways that clutter up the really good ways.
This is Sony trying to stick it to Microsoft, who is their PS3 competitor. Sony is still pissed that Microsoft decided to enter the console market and push their DirectNext platform after they first offered it to Sony for the PS2, and Sony turned them down. Microsoft sells the X-Box at a loss because they're trying to push that software platform. They even offered it to Nintendo, who also turned them down. So, they decided to make their own console.
This is also why you saw Sony's head guy at MacWorld '05. Sony wants to get rid of Microsoft and will help out with doing that so far as it benefits them.
Do a search through Slashdot's past stories. They are what I am referring to. Slashdot posted with headlines similar to "Firefox Usage Increases On The Web," then you'd read the article and find out what really happened was that Firefox usage increased in some web dev site's logs. It's hardly representative of Firefox's global usage. It is those making claims that Firefox is taking over the web who need to be presenting the research to back up those claims.
I always knew the phony massive growth statistics Slashdot posted were anecodotal (they were always direct usage logs from tech websites...hardly a global source of Firefox's usage, but Slashdot happily posted them as such).
Internet Explorer has been blocking popups since SP2 came out last year, and most users don't need or want tabbed browsing. Firefox doesn't offer THAT much over Internet Explorer, not even in the security area, as recent vulnerabilities have shown.
If that is their policy, they don't follow it. Obviously, I'm unable to provide links, but several people here can attest to the fact that articles have disappeared from the main page. Most of them were very embarrassing dupes that for some reason got removed while others remain.
Taco should at least put "[Updated]" in the headline. RSS and other aggregators are going to put "Microsoft AntiSpyware thinks Firefox is Spyware" in thier news lists. It's really annoying how irresponsible Taco and company are with the unwarranted massive readership of Slashdot.
Another widely-reported concern. The Republican majority will never let this pass.
Your implication being that this is what the Republicans do, can you offer any actual proof that this occured in the last election?
Democrats were signing up dead people to vote, and there was actual proof of it. I'm tired of the vague, unproven claims being thrown around. And while it comes from both sides, I sure see it a lot more from conspiracy-laden mindsets on the left side of the fence.
Seriously. There have got to be better submissions in the queue than, "I think my iPod shuffle is preferring certain songs over others. It's a conspiracy!" Come on.
Congratulations on one of the lamest attempts at hitting all the Slashdot talking points for karma whoring purposes. "Uh, see, this is the first image on the web, so for some reason it's a copyright violation, and somehow that ties into P2P networks, and the RIAA is evil if they're gonna try to ban that and control music and the whole web and I AM NOT A ROBOT!!"
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Slashdot loves to post articles on Microsoft software vulnerabilities. It's only fair that OSS vulnerabilitie be covered as well.
"Who cares about Linus anymore?"
Slashdot, apparently, since it usually posts an article on just about every mention of Linus, every minor activity, every little comment, and every little speculation. People glorify him as the guy who single-handedly wrote Linux, when Linux is really the work of thousands of developers who just send patches to him (and now other delegates too).
Slightly off-topic: LinuxSecurity shows the weekly security advisories for all distro software, including the BSDs (it's actually quite a lot).
/me looks at his tabbed iTerm.
Me too!
You didn't think to click the blue apple in the upper-left and go to System Preferences? You didn't think to type "cd /dev"? I mean, what exactly are you talking about when you say you didn't know "how to get out of /home/user in terminal to check /dev"?
Isn't it weird how people use this site to complain about corporations and their less-than-stellar product, when meanwhile, that's Slashdot?
This site can be a great place, but boy it's been in the stinker for a while.
Wait, so we're not fighting for the artists now? I thought we were sticking it to the RIAA to protect them somehow by not paying for their music.
I'm confused by the pirate's reasoning.
Missing from the summary was mention of Windows growth--"When it comes to operating systems, Unix and Windows servers continued to grow. Unix server revenue was $5.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2004 while the corresponding figure for Windows was $4.6 billion."
That's really good for a non-UNIX server.
From summary:
This opens up the option of homebrewing your own dock into a mini for yourself...
I have to disagree there. If there is one thing Windows does really BADLY it's the start menu.
Yes. Start menus themselves are poor interface mechanisms, as are taskbars. I don't know why both KDE and GNOME chose to clone both instead of making a new way.
2004 stands out as a year in which open source consolidated its position as a valuable and accepted approach to business and technology policy.
It was a great article, but I've seen this said for every year since 1998.
I just find it amusing that the broken link has been up for about an hour now, and still no change. It's already been posted in the discussion, and surely someone has been e-mailed about it. What takes so long to edit an tag?
As of this post, the link points to "http://slashdot.org/%3CA%20HREF=". Does this mean the editors don't even read the submissions or check what they post? A completely broken link on, say, CNN.com would be kind of a big deal and grounds for reprimand to the webmaster.
Personally, I think KDE's interface hasn't really changed all that much. Every year I try it out, it feels the same.
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For instance, look at this screenshot from 3.4 RC1:
http://www.tuxmachines.org/gallery/view_photo.php
That is one MASSIVE menu. The same redundancy I've been complaining about for years--"System," "Utilities," and "Settings"--is still there. Why are they even seperate menus? Why not remove all three menus and just have a link to the system configuration dialog? Oh, that's right, they have that too! That's four redundancies.
Why is there an "Edutainment" menu? Why is there an "Editors" menu? There should just be an "Applications" menu, and they let the user categorize their apps the way they want to. That menu is suffering from huge clutter overload!
And look at the apps. Basically, they have two names each. Instead of "AppName," you have "AppName (WhatItReallyIs)." Silly and redundant. If the original name isn't working well enough, rename it. Essentially, you're having to maintain two app names now instead of just one. When a name isn't descriptive enough, its icon should be--that's why Apple insists that OS X icons show the document type and some sort of action happening to that document or related tool, like the text editor showing a page with a pencil overlaid on it. Not all icons follow these guidelines, but they should, and the ones that do fit visually in the interface. Fishing through appnames with parenthetical descriptions is ugly and time-consuming.
Those are just a few examples. KDE is overloaded with buttons, tabs, sidebars, and input fields. A lot of that stuff is simply not needed but is only there because it seems like someone got happy with the form designer and stuck a bunch of stuff on all the forms to have multiple ways of doing things. You should have two or three really good ways of doing things, not seven ways that clutter up the really good ways.
This is Sony trying to stick it to Microsoft, who is their PS3 competitor. Sony is still pissed that Microsoft decided to enter the console market and push their DirectNext platform after they first offered it to Sony for the PS2, and Sony turned them down. Microsoft sells the X-Box at a loss because they're trying to push that software platform. They even offered it to Nintendo, who also turned them down. So, they decided to make their own console.
This is also why you saw Sony's head guy at MacWorld '05. Sony wants to get rid of Microsoft and will help out with doing that so far as it benefits them.
What you don't mention is that the bug lasted for five years. It was known about and marked "confidential."
Not any more than Mozilla is/will be.
Note that the vulnerability in that last link was marked "confidential" for five years. Rather Microsoft-ish.
Do a search through Slashdot's past stories. They are what I am referring to. Slashdot posted with headlines similar to "Firefox Usage Increases On The Web," then you'd read the article and find out what really happened was that Firefox usage increased in some web dev site's logs. It's hardly representative of Firefox's global usage. It is those making claims that Firefox is taking over the web who need to be presenting the research to back up those claims.
Kind of like what Slashdot does with its news posts... :P
I always knew the phony massive growth statistics Slashdot posted were anecodotal (they were always direct usage logs from tech websites...hardly a global source of Firefox's usage, but Slashdot happily posted them as such).
Internet Explorer has been blocking popups since SP2 came out last year, and most users don't need or want tabbed browsing. Firefox doesn't offer THAT much over Internet Explorer, not even in the security area, as recent vulnerabilities have shown.
I've said it before and gotten modded down for it, but I'll say it again. Slashdot has become the Ain't-It-Cool-News of the geek tech niche.
If you're familiar with AICN, you know what I mean.
If that is their policy, they don't follow it. Obviously, I'm unable to provide links, but several people here can attest to the fact that articles have disappeared from the main page. Most of them were very embarrassing dupes that for some reason got removed while others remain.
Taco should at least put "[Updated]" in the headline. RSS and other aggregators are going to put "Microsoft AntiSpyware thinks Firefox is Spyware" in thier news lists. It's really annoying how irresponsible Taco and company are with the unwarranted massive readership of Slashdot.
Another widely-reported concern. The Republican majority will never let this pass.
Your implication being that this is what the Republicans do, can you offer any actual proof that this occured in the last election?
Democrats were signing up dead people to vote, and there was actual proof of it. I'm tired of the vague, unproven claims being thrown around. And while it comes from both sides, I sure see it a lot more from conspiracy-laden mindsets on the left side of the fence.
Seriously. There have got to be better submissions in the queue than, "I think my iPod shuffle is preferring certain songs over others. It's a conspiracy!" Come on.
Congratulations on one of the lamest attempts at hitting all the Slashdot talking points for karma whoring purposes. "Uh, see, this is the first image on the web, so for some reason it's a copyright violation, and somehow that ties into P2P networks, and the RIAA is evil if they're gonna try to ban that and control music and the whole web and I AM NOT A ROBOT!!"
You fail it.