Michael already duped a story that was still on the front page earlier today. I imagine yet another dupe (YES, Firefox 0.9 was released earlier, it wasn't just a Release Candidate despite all those false posts that downloaded the wrong file) of a story still on the front page would have been too embarrassing.
This is ridiculous. You're basically arguing that you can't call a computer running Linux a Linux box. I merely pointed out how different things would be reported if Akamai ran on Windows boxes. Several major websites were wiped out for a while today.
It is misleading to refer to the box as a "Linux" box. Was it really the kernel that was at fault for the machine being cracked, or was it a bug in one of the daemons that the machine was running? There are differences between a Linux box that runs BIND and another that runs EZ-DNS (or whatever).
What you're effectively saying is, "Uh, you can't call a machine running Linux a Linux box, because that would sound, like, detrimental to Linux!" I'm sorry, a Linux box is a Linux box. There's no judgment going on there. And this website has no problem with calling a user-ran executable trojan a "Microsoft hole" whenever they can.
I'm not going to call a Linux box a "BIND machine" just because it's running BIND. You're splitting hairs here. I'm sorry, most people will refer to a computer running Linux as a Linux box. It's just a generic term and not an indictment! I made no such judgment other than on Slashdot journalism. For the record, I happily run Gentoo Linux.
Don't know what you downloaded, but my About Box correctly says 0.9 and the right date.
0.9 IS OUT. It's even announced on The Burning Edge website. Please, people stop downloading the wrong file from an old mirror and coming on here claiming that it's not out yet.
I hear constantly how much faster and "leaner and meaner" Firefox is supposed to be, but is there any actual evidence of this other than personal anecdotal experiences?
Firefox takes up almost the same amount of memory as the standard Mozilla browser, and I see absolutely no difference in speed. In fact, I still like Mozilla better because when a URL doesn't load in a background tab, I get the error message, but the URL doesn't disappear from the address bar like it does in Firefox, so I can remember what the hell it was I was trying to connect to.
As far as I can tell, Firefox doesn't offer actual performance changes from Mozilla, and the real difference involves core architectural changes, like plug-ins. If you want a "leaner and meaner" Mozilla clone, you have to code a native Win32/GTK/whatever app that simply uses the Gecko engine. Otherwise, every time you load the app you'll still be loading all that bloated widget code, XUL, etc.
After all, consumers just don't want the iPod Mini, as the iPod is good enough, and you're paying extra money for just a few more gigabytes of storage space!
Don't pretend to speak for everybody unless you've actually talked to everybody. Everyone I know would love upgraded resolution and sound for their movies--ever played a movie on a computer before? The blurry image is enough to make my eyes water. Think of the detail you're losing.
Cassette tapes were "good enough" too, and they even let you make copies if you wanted! Yet, CDs caught on long before CD-Rs became commonplace. HD-DVD will be pushed out the door and onto consumers, and consumers will buy them.
The second disc contains a high-resolution surround-sound version of the film in WMV9. It recommends up to 3GHZ and 512MB of RAM.
I got some 0.2 fps out of it! But damn, the still shots I saw were sweet (and to think, my 1024x768 resolution was still missing about half the detail). I cannot wait for HD-DVD. Imagine the Lord of the Rings trilogy or animation like Spirited Away/Finding Nemo.
I guess seeing things like "PWD=/usr/ms/win2k_sp1/private/security/msv_sspi" isn't enough to convince this troll. So do a Google search, like I said. The code was taken from one of Mainsoft's hacked Linux machines. This was already reported in the past on other sites.
The code was taken from a hacked Linux computer at Mainsoft. It was reported elsewere (you might even find the old articles via Google)--but it wasn't reported on Slashdot. One poster even investigated things for himself:
Thanks to the "wonders" of XPI, now we're getting stupid executable spyware crap again like WeatherBug.
I stick with Opera and have been quite happy. No goofy custom executable formats, no goofy pointless reimplementations of entire widget systems--just a small, blazingly fast browser that even changes skins in less than a second without a restart and takes half the memory of my newly downloaded Mozilla Firefox 0.9.
I will never understand why so many people keep trying to make their browsers into something more than browsers. Mozilla is complete overkill. Opera just stays what it is, and I like that a lot.
I remember when people were bashing Microsoft for using Akamai caching to avoid Windows Update getting hit by the first RPC worm (the one that was patched two months beforehand), since Akamai used Linux and it was somehow amusing that Microsoft chose that caching service.
If Akamai was running on Windows servers, I guarantee it would have been mentioned in both the headline and in the article summary today. But instead it's just mysterious "DNS issues." It's kind of like how when that Windows source code was stolen, Slashdot reported on it yet neglected to mention that the code was stolen from a hacked Linux computer at a company called Mainsoft.
Just little slants in reporting I can't help but notice.
I simply do not trust any hard drive larger than that. Had too many instances where they fucking died on me. I'm happy with an 80GB and a 20GB master/slave combo.
My 420MB hard drive from my 1994 AST Advantage computer still works perfectly.
"Stupid M$, now I have to reboot my Windows machine for a whole entire minute of downtime. My IT department will have to spend three months 'testing' this patch first, meanwhile allowing all the exploits in the wild to infect our network. Stupid Micro$loth sluts."
Linux patch released:
"This is just more evidence of the power and flexibility of Open Source Software. The patch is already released, and I'm recompiling my entire kernel on the production server and rebooting now. OSS is so much better than M$."
For the longest time, you could get full root access to any local Linux machine without needing a password just by passing the right command parameter to the LILO prompt.
Nothing is perfect. I don't care how many fanboys from either side try to convince me otherwise. Operating systems are not religions, they're fucking software made by humans.
You're kidding, right? An easy argument could be made about how biased this site is. "Microsoft Violates Human Rights In China" is a past article that comes to mind...
Taco: "First-time caller, you're on the air--" Caller: "Frist p0st!" *click* Taco: "Okay, caller #2, you're on--" Caller: "GNAA owns the radio waves--" Taco: "Moving right along. Caller #3, you're on the air with Slashdot radio. What's on your mind?" Caller: "I for one welcome our new GNAA overlords--" Taco: "Fucking hell. Is there a single sane individual out there?"
People see "DVD," they'll expect extras. Will DVD-A permit enough space to have menus, music videos, making-of documentaries, and interviews? I'll feel ripped-off otherwise. At the least, there should be the DVD-A album, and as a second disc a normal DVD with the included extras.
I imagine albums becoming the huge, massive 2-disc experiences that movies are. Imagine the material that would be included on, say, a Tool album.
Nobody's putting a gun to your head to rebuy your albums. If you're happy with them on CD, vinyl, or MP3, then don't rebuy them! What exactly is the problem?
There are technologies that simulate surround sound using two speakers. Not the same, but better than nothing. TruSurround XT and Dolby Surround Headphone come to mind.
Any SACD/DVD-A player concerned with quality will probably have those technologies built in.
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I haven't had the account in close to a year. Lame.
Michael already duped a story that was still on the front page earlier today. I imagine yet another dupe (YES, Firefox 0.9 was released earlier, it wasn't just a Release Candidate despite all those false posts that downloaded the wrong file) of a story still on the front page would have been too embarrassing.
Congratulations on working in a completely irrelevant and off-topic Windows bash, and actually getting some crackhead to mod it up as "Interesting."
Is there some way we can work a random, irrelevant Microsoft bash into this discussion about viruses?
This is ridiculous. You're basically arguing that you can't call a computer running Linux a Linux box. I merely pointed out how different things would be reported if Akamai ran on Windows boxes. Several major websites were wiped out for a while today.
It is misleading to refer to the box as a "Linux" box. Was it really the kernel that was at fault for the machine being cracked, or was it a bug in one of the daemons that the machine was running? There are differences between a Linux box that runs BIND and another that runs EZ-DNS (or whatever).
What you're effectively saying is, "Uh, you can't call a machine running Linux a Linux box, because that would sound, like, detrimental to Linux!" I'm sorry, a Linux box is a Linux box. There's no judgment going on there. And this website has no problem with calling a user-ran executable trojan a "Microsoft hole" whenever they can.
I'm not going to call a Linux box a "BIND machine" just because it's running BIND. You're splitting hairs here. I'm sorry, most people will refer to a computer running Linux as a Linux box. It's just a generic term and not an indictment! I made no such judgment other than on Slashdot journalism. For the record, I happily run Gentoo Linux.
Uh, 0.9 is out. Sorry to discredit your post.
Don't know what you downloaded, but my About Box correctly says 0.9 and the right date.
0.9 IS OUT. It's even announced on The Burning Edge website. Please, people stop downloading the wrong file from an old mirror and coming on here claiming that it's not out yet.
Not only according to the mailing lists and the About dialog box of the installer, but even The Burning Edge Firefox build blog states such.
As an aside, The Burning Edge is the place to go for almost nightly updates of prerelease versions of Firefox. I've been using 0.9RCs up until today.
I hear constantly how much faster and "leaner and meaner" Firefox is supposed to be, but is there any actual evidence of this other than personal anecdotal experiences?
Firefox takes up almost the same amount of memory as the standard Mozilla browser, and I see absolutely no difference in speed. In fact, I still like Mozilla better because when a URL doesn't load in a background tab, I get the error message, but the URL doesn't disappear from the address bar like it does in Firefox, so I can remember what the hell it was I was trying to connect to.
As far as I can tell, Firefox doesn't offer actual performance changes from Mozilla, and the real difference involves core architectural changes, like plug-ins. If you want a "leaner and meaner" Mozilla clone, you have to code a native Win32/GTK/whatever app that simply uses the Gecko engine. Otherwise, every time you load the app you'll still be loading all that bloated widget code, XUL, etc.
After all, consumers just don't want the iPod Mini, as the iPod is good enough, and you're paying extra money for just a few more gigabytes of storage space!
Don't pretend to speak for everybody unless you've actually talked to everybody. Everyone I know would love upgraded resolution and sound for their movies--ever played a movie on a computer before? The blurry image is enough to make my eyes water. Think of the detail you're losing.
Cassette tapes were "good enough" too, and they even let you make copies if you wanted! Yet, CDs caught on long before CD-Rs became commonplace. HD-DVD will be pushed out the door and onto consumers, and consumers will buy them.
The second disc contains a high-resolution surround-sound version of the film in WMV9. It recommends up to 3GHZ and 512MB of RAM.
I got some 0.2 fps out of it! But damn, the still shots I saw were sweet (and to think, my 1024x768 resolution was still missing about half the detail). I cannot wait for HD-DVD. Imagine the Lord of the Rings trilogy or animation like Spirited Away/Finding Nemo.
I guess seeing things like "PWD=/usr/ms/win2k_sp1/private/security/msv_sspi" isn't enough to convince this troll. So do a Google search, like I said. The code was taken from one of Mainsoft's hacked Linux machines. This was already reported in the past on other sites.
The code was taken from a hacked Linux computer at Mainsoft. It was reported elsewere (you might even find the old articles via Google)--but it wasn't reported on Slashdot. One poster even investigated things for himself:
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=96614&cid=826
Do a Google search, it was widely reported on most of the other tech sites.
Thanks to the "wonders" of XPI, now we're getting stupid executable spyware crap again like WeatherBug.
I stick with Opera and have been quite happy. No goofy custom executable formats, no goofy pointless reimplementations of entire widget systems--just a small, blazingly fast browser that even changes skins in less than a second without a restart and takes half the memory of my newly downloaded Mozilla Firefox 0.9.
I will never understand why so many people keep trying to make their browsers into something more than browsers. Mozilla is complete overkill. Opera just stays what it is, and I like that a lot.
I remember when people were bashing Microsoft for using Akamai caching to avoid Windows Update getting hit by the first RPC worm (the one that was patched two months beforehand), since Akamai used Linux and it was somehow amusing that Microsoft chose that caching service.
If Akamai was running on Windows servers, I guarantee it would have been mentioned in both the headline and in the article summary today. But instead it's just mysterious "DNS issues." It's kind of like how when that Windows source code was stolen, Slashdot reported on it yet neglected to mention that the code was stolen from a hacked Linux computer at a company called Mainsoft.
Just little slants in reporting I can't help but notice.
I simply do not trust any hard drive larger than that. Had too many instances where they fucking died on me. I'm happy with an 80GB and a 20GB master/slave combo.
My 420MB hard drive from my 1994 AST Advantage computer still works perfectly.
Windows patch released:
"Stupid M$, now I have to reboot my Windows machine for a whole entire minute of downtime. My IT department will have to spend three months 'testing' this patch first, meanwhile allowing all the exploits in the wild to infect our network. Stupid Micro$loth sluts."
Linux patch released:
"This is just more evidence of the power and flexibility of Open Source Software. The patch is already released, and I'm recompiling my entire kernel on the production server and rebooting now. OSS is so much better than M$."
For the longest time, you could get full root access to any local Linux machine without needing a password just by passing the right command parameter to the LILO prompt.
Nothing is perfect. I don't care how many fanboys from either side try to convince me otherwise. Operating systems are not religions, they're fucking software made by humans.
Windows ME is four years old. You don't use a Mandrake CD from four years ago to install with, do you?
You're kidding, right? An easy argument could be made about how biased this site is. "Microsoft Violates Human Rights In China" is a past article that comes to mind...
Taco: "First-time caller, you're on the air--"
Caller: "Frist p0st!" *click*
Taco: "Okay, caller #2, you're on--"
Caller: "GNAA owns the radio waves--"
Taco: "Moving right along. Caller #3, you're on the air with Slashdot radio. What's on your mind?"
Caller: "I for one welcome our new GNAA overlords--"
Taco: "Fucking hell. Is there a single sane individual out there?"
Is it the spatial navigator so much as the awful directory structure that buries things 10 folders deep?
People see "DVD," they'll expect extras. Will DVD-A permit enough space to have menus, music videos, making-of documentaries, and interviews? I'll feel ripped-off otherwise. At the least, there should be the DVD-A album, and as a second disc a normal DVD with the included extras.
I imagine albums becoming the huge, massive 2-disc experiences that movies are. Imagine the material that would be included on, say, a Tool album.
Nobody's putting a gun to your head to rebuy your albums. If you're happy with them on CD, vinyl, or MP3, then don't rebuy them! What exactly is the problem?
I fail to see where you're the victim in this.
There are technologies that simulate surround sound using two speakers. Not the same, but better than nothing. TruSurround XT and Dolby Surround Headphone come to mind.
Any SACD/DVD-A player concerned with quality will probably have those technologies built in.