I don't like responding to trolls but I'm going to say it till I kill myself.. slashdot = what rob and the other editors like, they seem to all like mozilla, therefore mozilla milestones get posted because they like mozilla. I had actually heard that M18 was supposed to be out late next week so I'm glad this got posted, otherwise I wouldn't have known about it till tomarrow. That being said, the nightlies for linux are rock stable FOR ME. 2000101021 hasn't crashed in 3 days of use after I chown'd psm.
I'll keep this brief, Slashdot is not about "us geeks" it's about what rob malda finds interesting. This does not include NT, but does include linux, I personally think both have their place and try to stay as operating system agnostic as possible, but you can't expect everyone to do the same. Slashdot has ALWAYS been about what Rob Malda finds interesting, and judging by your user number you should know that.
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Usually with Bios updates comes increased speed and stability, and support for devices that weren't around when the motherboard was manufactured. I would assume the same applies to kernel versions, which is also why people want the "latest and greatest." I know I had to flash my bios twice to get optimum performance and stability out of my system, which has a record uptime of 10 days with windows 98. Some sort of a record I would imagine. Anyway, back on to the topic at hand, if you're satisfied with the way your computer works, don't download the new kernel. I however am never satisfied with the way my computer is working and always try to bleed more stability/performance/capability out of it, so I flash my bios, download the latest version of everything and that's the way I like it.
I must disagree that Escaflowne targets the 13-14 year old older pre-teen crowd. I'm 20 and was completely enthralled with it's very good storyline and character development. I think it may be targeted towards older teens 17-19 or so.
If I recall my Linux lore correctly, you'll excuse me if I'm wrong, it's been a year since I last used it, Slackware was supposed to have been the bare bones "secure" distro that you added to it what you wanted. I'm not sure if this is still true or not with slack 7, but that's why sysad's were so in love with slack. Now then, on the process of auditing the code like Theo and his tribe of BSDites did in 18 months, was in my opinion a direct result of the liscensing used. BSD allows for this sort of thing more freely than the GPL by letting one person take all of the BSD liscenced apps and rewriting them to fit his needs, in this case, to be more secure. With the GPL you can't do this without a nasty code split that results in incompatibilities in libraries and apps, like say there's a "kernel-secure" and "kernel-normal" I would think the "kernel-secure" would be incompatible with a great many things "kernel-normal" would be and then linux would lose it's great asset, of being flexible. This is all just my opinion though, and I must say, linux is "secure enough" for the majority. Windows I don't believe is, and I'm nearly ashamed to be using it, but Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Illustrator are only available for win and mac, and macs don't have games I want to play.
You're right sir, ten dollars per spam isn't very much, but when you consider on my hotmail spam collector account I get 20-25 spams per day, that's about 250 bucks I'd be making per day by suing these people, I could make a pretty decent living off of that, and that my friend.. is both fantastic. I'd just have to wait a month or so, collect my 600 spams in my account and then Sue the biznatches, and make my 6,000 dollars a month. YAY for me! Yet another way porn is profitable, only this time not for the site owners.:)
the reason Word, Excel, and Outlook are dangerous, is the scripting language they use has the capabitlities to access any information on your harddrive and change that information, making it very powerful in good hands, but not so good in the wrong hands. As far as I know, Javascript 1.5 has no capabilities to directly access the information on your harddrive, other than saving cookies and possibly files.
It is not implied that it's "just Mozilla" that could be powerful enough for Pacman, but since Mozilla is in the limelight these days and it features XML and powerful things of that nature, they chose to use it. Since O'reilly has been a known supporter of Mozilla they'll probably post any cool news about Mozilla, I can't see where it's implied in the article that it's remarkable, but rather just a nifty thing to try and do. I for one, think it's cool.
I'm sorry, but I can't resist responding to this. Theming is not only for people that have too much time on their hands, it's also for people that think default "themes" are ugly, (witness win9x) I theme win9x to make it more useable (via litestep) and to make it not ugly (windowblinds) I'm sorry you feel the way you do. I just happen to like technology for both of the reasons you mentioned, the aren't mutually exclusive you know.
You missed the point. The point is that the big burly computer will house 2,500 Alphas running at 1 Ghz or 2,000 running at 1.25 Ghz. This will put that at or near the very tip top of fastest supercomputer ever built by man's hand. To say, "nothing new here" is a gross discredit to this behmoth of power. In fact, I shall from this day forward, worship the 2000 CPU alpha box as my lord and savior.
You mean like the next generation of Athlon motherboards that will feature DDR-SDRAM at 133(2) Mhz memory for a bandwidth of 2.1 GB/s. The EV6 bus that we all love running at 133(2) Mhz and 200(2) for server boards and AGP 4x/PRO? Oh, don't forget UltraWide SCSI 3 and ATA100 is also just around the corner. HDD manufacturers are also in the final stages of design and testing of 10,000 rpm IDE drives and before long 15,000 rpm SCSI drives will be commonplace. But you're right, faster processors are pretty useless. When the performance difference between an Athlon 650 and Athlon 700 is 7-8% realworld and 9.3% hypothetical, that 1-2 percent is just too much to bare. Optical Storage is vaporware, UltraWide SCSI 3 is not.
Now that the initial reaction has passed, I'm wondering at what megahertz the Thunderbird and Spitfire revisions of the Athlon will be released. Initial reports were 1.1 Ghz, but if this "my dick is bigger than your dick" match continues they may end up being released at a considerably higher frequency. They aren't scheduled to be released till the end of April, beginning of May. 1.5Ghz anyone?
My AMD K6-2 shuts down perfectly in Windows 98 every time, what you're referring to is a motherboard issue more than a processor issue. But since you mention it, when I had the Pentium 200 MMX in this computer, the shutdown wouldn't work. My computer has had 120 hour uptimes in win98 of near constant use which is some sort of record I'm sure. As with any processor your mileage may vary as it's more than just the processor. My old roomates PII333 wouldn't even boot windows without shutting the computer off and trying again a few times.
If I had the money, I'd buy an Athlon 750 and OC it on a shiny new KX133 based motherboard. That's just me though.
Hotmail does use illegal cookies, however, the reason our favorite webmail won't work with Mozilla is this. Hotmail passes you through a page with SSL before letting you read your mail, and Mozilla doesn't have any SSL implementation yet because of the US crypto laws. However, these same crypto laws were relaxed and it is estimated that SSL should be in Mozilla by M15 or M16.
Normally I'm not one to speak about the quality of posts to slashdot. But this story has me irked, not so much the story itself but the "update." Saying anything from MacOSRumors.com is true and using an anonymous source to do so seems rather unprofessional. MacOSrumors.com is just that, Macintosh Operating System RUMORS. They're not operating under any false pretenses of truth. Nor will an "anonymous source" be enough to elevate one of their stories into the realm of truth. An appeal to anonymous authority is a logical fallacy and this makes/. look very bad IMO. I say disregard the update until we hear who this anonymous source is. Take it as a rumor and ONLY as a rumor. Just my thoughts.
Choices are fine, I love choices. I'm just saying why not try to make one of them both corruption resistant AND fast. Granted I'm not a filesystem hacker but it seems to me like in the need for choices we sacrifice some quality. We wouldn't necessarily need 4 different choices if one of them was bullet proof and fast. Just my thoughts.
How many journalling filesystems does linux really need? I realize that after the Microsquish FUD wars, it came to the attention of linux developers that we needed a jfs, but this is rediculous. We need one good jfs, ONE not 4 or 5. While I am happy IBM decided to contribute their hard work to the linux movement, I would rather they contribute developers to make one of the options we currently have as stable and fast as possible. Just my thoughts on the matter though.
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I don't like responding to trolls but I'm going to say it till I kill myself.. slashdot = what rob and the other editors like, they seem to all like mozilla, therefore mozilla milestones get posted because they like mozilla. I had actually heard that M18 was supposed to be out late next week so I'm glad this got posted, otherwise I wouldn't have known about it till tomarrow. That being said, the nightlies for linux are rock stable FOR ME. 2000101021 hasn't crashed in 3 days of use after I chown'd psm.
sorry I couldn't resist with new version numbers and minor pointless configuration changes, just like stereos and TVs (and WinDoze :-). and linux ;)
let it be known I'm running debian 2.2 and win98 so it's not a flame.. it's funny.
Actually it's not BSD-like services it's mach with a layer of NetBSD (maybe you've heard of it) services around that.
like full body condoms!
I'll keep this brief, Slashdot is not about "us geeks" it's about what rob malda finds interesting. This does not include NT, but does include linux, I personally think both have their place and try to stay as operating system agnostic as possible, but you can't expect everyone to do the same. Slashdot has ALWAYS been about what Rob Malda finds interesting, and judging by your user number you should know that.
Usually with Bios updates comes increased speed and stability, and support for devices that weren't around when the motherboard was manufactured. I would assume the same applies to kernel versions, which is also why people want the "latest and greatest." I know I had to flash my bios twice to get optimum performance and stability out of my system, which has a record uptime of 10 days with windows 98. Some sort of a record I would imagine. Anyway, back on to the topic at hand, if you're satisfied with the way your computer works, don't download the new kernel. I however am never satisfied with the way my computer is working and always try to bleed more stability/performance/capability out of it, so I flash my bios, download the latest version of everything and that's the way I like it.
Oh, I was unaware of when it was televised, I don't watch much tv.
I must disagree that Escaflowne targets the 13-14 year old older pre-teen crowd. I'm 20 and was completely enthralled with it's very good storyline and character development. I think it may be targeted towards older teens 17-19 or so.
More anime? I thought this was "News for Nerds" not "News for Losers"
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I wasn't aware there was a difference.
If I recall my Linux lore correctly, you'll excuse me if I'm wrong, it's been a year since I last used it, Slackware was supposed to have been the bare bones "secure" distro that you added to it what you wanted. I'm not sure if this is still true or not with slack 7, but that's why sysad's were so in love with slack. Now then, on the process of auditing the code like Theo and his tribe of BSDites did in 18 months, was in my opinion a direct result of the liscensing used. BSD allows for this sort of thing more freely than the GPL by letting one person take all of the BSD liscenced apps and rewriting them to fit his needs, in this case, to be more secure. With the GPL you can't do this without a nasty code split that results in incompatibilities in libraries and apps, like say there's a "kernel-secure" and "kernel-normal" I would think the "kernel-secure" would be incompatible with a great many things "kernel-normal" would be and then linux would lose it's great asset, of being flexible. This is all just my opinion though, and I must say, linux is "secure enough" for the majority. Windows I don't believe is, and I'm nearly ashamed to be using it, but Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop and Illustrator are only available for win and mac, and macs don't have games I want to play.
You're right sir, ten dollars per spam isn't very much, but when you consider on my hotmail spam collector account I get 20-25 spams per day, that's about 250 bucks I'd be making per day by suing these people, I could make a pretty decent living off of that, and that my friend.. is both fantastic. I'd just have to wait a month or so, collect my 600 spams in my account and then Sue the biznatches, and make my 6,000 dollars a month. YAY for me! Yet another way porn is profitable, only this time not for the site owners. :)
the reason Word, Excel, and Outlook are dangerous, is the scripting language they use has the capabitlities to access any information on your harddrive and change that information, making it very powerful in good hands, but not so good in the wrong hands. As far as I know, Javascript 1.5 has no capabilities to directly access the information on your harddrive, other than saving cookies and possibly files.
It is not implied that it's "just Mozilla" that could be powerful enough for Pacman, but since Mozilla is in the limelight these days and it features XML and powerful things of that nature, they chose to use it. Since O'reilly has been a known supporter of Mozilla they'll probably post any cool news about Mozilla, I can't see where it's implied in the article that it's remarkable, but rather just a nifty thing to try and do. I for one, think it's cool.
I can't wait for the G4es to come out! *baboom ching*
I'm sorry, but I can't resist responding to this. Theming is not only for people that have too much time on their hands, it's also for people that think default "themes" are ugly, (witness win9x) I theme win9x to make it more useable (via litestep) and to make it not ugly (windowblinds) I'm sorry you feel the way you do. I just happen to like technology for both of the reasons you mentioned, the aren't mutually exclusive you know.
I run vim under win98 from vim.org and the win32 binaries that are there. No need for cygwin at all.
You missed the point. The point is that the big burly computer will house 2,500 Alphas running at 1 Ghz or 2,000 running at 1.25 Ghz. This will put that at or near the very tip top of fastest supercomputer ever built by man's hand. To say, "nothing new here" is a gross discredit to this behmoth of power. In fact, I shall from this day forward, worship the 2000 CPU alpha box as my lord and savior.
You mean like the next generation of Athlon motherboards that will feature DDR-SDRAM at 133(2) Mhz memory for a bandwidth of 2.1 GB/s. The EV6 bus that we all love running at 133(2) Mhz and 200(2) for server boards and AGP 4x/PRO? Oh, don't forget UltraWide SCSI 3 and ATA100 is also just around the corner. HDD manufacturers are also in the final stages of design and testing of 10,000 rpm IDE drives and before long 15,000 rpm SCSI drives will be commonplace. But you're right, faster processors are pretty useless. When the performance difference between an Athlon 650 and Athlon 700 is 7-8% realworld and 9.3% hypothetical, that 1-2 percent is just too much to bare. Optical Storage is vaporware, UltraWide SCSI 3 is not.
See subject line for initial reaction.
Now that the initial reaction has passed, I'm wondering at what megahertz the Thunderbird and Spitfire revisions of the Athlon will be released. Initial reports were 1.1 Ghz, but if this "my dick is bigger than your dick" match continues they may end up being released at a considerably higher frequency. They aren't scheduled to be released till the end of April, beginning of May. 1.5Ghz anyone?
My AMD K6-2 shuts down perfectly in Windows 98 every time, what you're referring to is a motherboard issue more than a processor issue. But since you mention it, when I had the Pentium 200 MMX in this computer, the shutdown wouldn't work. My computer has had 120 hour uptimes in win98 of near constant use which is some sort of record I'm sure. As with any processor your mileage may vary as it's more than just the processor. My old roomates PII333 wouldn't even boot windows without shutting the computer off and trying again a few times.
If I had the money, I'd buy an Athlon 750 and OC it on a shiny new KX133 based motherboard. That's just me though.
It also runs on Macintosh.
Hotmail does use illegal cookies, however, the reason our favorite webmail won't work with Mozilla is this. Hotmail passes you through a page with SSL before letting you read your mail, and Mozilla doesn't have any SSL implementation yet because of the US crypto laws. However, these same crypto laws were relaxed and it is estimated that SSL should be in Mozilla by M15 or M16.
Normally I'm not one to speak about the quality of posts to slashdot. But this story has me irked, not so much the story itself but the "update." Saying anything from MacOSRumors.com is true and using an anonymous source to do so seems rather unprofessional. MacOSrumors.com is just that, Macintosh Operating System RUMORS. They're not operating under any false pretenses of truth. Nor will an "anonymous source" be enough to elevate one of their stories into the realm of truth. An appeal to anonymous authority is a logical fallacy and this makes /. look very bad IMO. I say disregard the update until we hear who this anonymous source is. Take it as a rumor and ONLY as a rumor. Just my thoughts.
Choices are fine, I love choices. I'm just saying why not try to make one of them both corruption resistant AND fast. Granted I'm not a filesystem hacker but it seems to me like in the need for choices we sacrifice some quality. We wouldn't necessarily need 4 different choices if one of them was bullet proof and fast. Just my thoughts.
How many journalling filesystems does linux really need? I realize that after the Microsquish FUD wars, it came to the attention of linux developers that we needed a jfs, but this is rediculous. We need one good jfs, ONE not 4 or 5. While I am happy IBM decided to contribute their hard work to the linux movement, I would rather they contribute developers to make one of the options we currently have as stable and fast as possible. Just my thoughts on the matter though.
With the trained chimps and grits boy?