As a matter of fact, XFree 4.0.1 will autodetect any reasonably modern monitor's VESA modes and use them. There are no longer any modelines in the XF86Config file unless you feel a pressing need to put them there.
I'm saddened by seeing that Netscape-bashing has become so popular. Netscape is not just getting a free ride from the hard work of the Mozilla contributors. Speaking as a Mozilla contributor, I have to say that it's Netscape engineers who do about 70-90% of the work (my estimate). This means that Mozilla would have taken more like 15 years to get to where it is right now if it were not for the time and money invested by Netscape
Having tried Netscape 6.0 on Linux, I have to say that it is noticeably faster than the current Mozilla nightlies and somewhat more stable. Yes, there are several known bugs, but overall it is an excellent product.
You ask whether Netscape has gone too far? I ask you whether you have gone so far in your hubris that somehow an open-source project to which you have not contributed (and yes, in this case that means Netscape) owes you something. Netscape is offering its Netcenter service to the people using its browser. No one is forcing you to use these menu options or buttons. All the buttons that go to netcenter can be turned off in the preferences! A desktop icon can be deleted. From what I recall of the last time I installed Windows software, creating a courtesy desktop shortcut to the software or to resources related to that software was a common practice....
As for those Slashdor readers who have contributed to Mozilla, I would like to hear your views on the matter. I believe that the Mozilla community has a much better opinion of Netscape than the Slashdot community at large.
So you just give everyone write access to PSM????
Um, that's stupid. This means people can modify it out from under you, which is not so good for an encryption and authentication module...
I'd guess that getting zip drives to work with Solaris is certainly feasible, since the campus computer labs at MIT have zip drives on some of the Ultra 5s...
You weren't paying attention. The gcc version in question was already numbered 2.96.0. The gcc team was using that version number internally and that was the version number associated with the snapshots.
RedHat is not putting random version numbers on someone else's software.
> The only thing I can think of would be to download songs > you already own on CD, but that's just too impractical to be useful. > There are plenty of rippers out there that make it really easy to rip > your songs into mp3 - and it's a hell of a lot faster than downloading it > over a 56k Modem.
Um. I only download MP3s I already own on CD and I use Napster. I also download from my friends. The fact of the matter is that I have a AMD K5-75 processor that makes ripping CDs a very long and painful process. I also have an Ethernet connection that makes downloading them trivial. Of course when I get desperate I just get friends with fast computers to rip for me and _then_ copy the files over...
> Paragraph spacing is "odd". Anyone who writes > pages to fit just right is going to go insane > trying to get pages to look identical on IE/NN > and Opera!
Um. How does one go about writing pages to fit just right? This sort of involves knowing the resolution being used by the client, the font size, and a bunch of other details that there is no way to know.
Not to mention the fact that the whole concept is anathema to the logical-formatting ideal that HTML should strive for.
As someone who is currently developing a web interface to a system, I have to say that rendering speed is an issue even on today's machines.
The system uses tables for layout, and often nests tables 3 or 4 deep. Current browsers on middle-range hardware (PII 400) take on the order of 5-10 seconds to render an average page. Needless to say, this is suboptimal.
I don't see what this guy's problem was for the Linksys card... go figure.
If you notice he only had problems with both network cards in. Either one on its own was detected fine. Not completely surprising that multiple-network-interface support would be somewhat lacking in Win98, I suppose -- that's not really something its intended market would have
PostScript files are not easily editable. Thus if one wishes to send a file and have it returned with corrections, it is not an acceptable format. Also, most windows machines do not have a PostScript viewer installed, that I know of.
Now sending plaintext (or HTML or RTF if one must have formatting) may be a decent idea. That way anyone could read it.
'/me string' sends "* nick string *" to the whole channel. In my case, '/me shrugs' would produce "* BZ shrugs *".
As for what's wrong with just saying "my mind boggles at the concept," there's nothing wrong with it. People get used somewhat used to the sort of shorthand one would use with IRC or other chat software (/me, imho, ttyl, and so on) and begin to use it in other contexts, including those in which it is rather inappropriate. No cure has been found for this yet.:)
> Since my work computer is a Pentium III and my > home computer is 486DX4-100, there is some sort > of speed issue, like my 486 can receive data > quickly, but hasn't got the horespower to send > it out quickly. (This doesn't sound right, but > its a possibility.)
That could actually do it. When receiving, the file is buffered to RAM, then written to disk; it has to be read from disk when it is being sent. So the sending computer's drive would always be the bottleneck. Also, sending TCP/IP packets is more processor-intensive than receiving them.
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What this means is that there is still only one reasonable option for technical typesetting under linux -- TeX (with maybe LyX as a gui)
As a matter of fact, XFree 4.0.1 will autodetect any reasonably modern monitor's VESA modes and use them. There are no longer any modelines in the XF86Config file unless you feel a pressing need to put them there.
I'm saddened by seeing that Netscape-bashing has become so popular. Netscape is not just getting a free ride from the hard work of the Mozilla contributors. Speaking as a Mozilla contributor, I have to say that it's Netscape engineers who do about 70-90% of the work (my estimate). This means that Mozilla would have taken more like 15 years to get to where it is right now if it were not for the time and money invested by Netscape
Having tried Netscape 6.0 on Linux, I have to say that it is noticeably faster than the current Mozilla nightlies and somewhat more stable. Yes, there are several known bugs, but overall it is an excellent product.
You ask whether Netscape has gone too far? I ask you whether you have gone so far in your hubris that somehow an open-source project to which you have not contributed (and yes, in this case that means Netscape) owes you something. Netscape is offering its Netcenter service to the people using its browser. No one is forcing you to use these menu options or buttons. All the buttons that go to netcenter can be turned off in the preferences! A desktop icon can be deleted. From what I recall of the last time I installed Windows software, creating a courtesy desktop shortcut to the software or to resources related to that software was a common practice....
As for those Slashdor readers who have contributed to Mozilla, I would like to hear your views on the matter. I believe that the Mozilla community has a much better opinion of Netscape than the Slashdot community at large.
It is open source, and getting integrated into the main tree over the next few weeks once all the Netscape people are done dealing with RTM.
Once that happens, Mozilla should have ssl support wherever it compiles
So you just give everyone write access to PSM???? Um, that's stupid. This means people can modify it out from under you, which is not so good for an encryption and authentication module...
The vast majority of the 7.0 _source_ rpms will happily compile on a 6.2 system....
I'd guess that getting zip drives to work with Solaris is certainly feasible, since the campus computer labs at MIT have zip drives on some of the Ultra 5s...
These are well-thought-out and well-written comments on why UCITA is not so good....
Soon after Apple decided to charge for using the term "Firewire".
You can file tax returns online. If it's good enough for the ever-paranoid IRS, it is most likely good enough for the balloting system.
Arguably, it is harder to manipulate an online voting system, since real voting can be manipulated at any voting place.
RedHat is not putting random version numbers on someone else's software.
> you already own on CD, but that's just too impractical to be useful.
> There are plenty of rippers out there that make it really easy to rip
> your songs into mp3 - and it's a hell of a lot faster than downloading it
> over a 56k Modem.
Um. I only download MP3s I already own on CD and I use Napster. I also download from my friends. The fact of the matter is that I have a AMD K5-75 processor that makes ripping CDs a very long and painful process. I also have an Ethernet connection that makes downloading them trivial. Of course when I get desperate I just get friends with fast computers to rip for me and _then_ copy the files over...
> pages to fit just right is going to go insane
> trying to get pages to look identical on IE/NN > and Opera!
Um. How does one go about writing pages to fit just right? This sort of involves knowing the resolution being used by the client, the font size, and a bunch of other details that there is no way to know.
Not to mention the fact that the whole concept is anathema to the logical-formatting ideal that HTML should strive for.
The system uses tables for layout, and often nests tables 3 or 4 deep. Current browsers on middle-range hardware (PII 400) take on the order of 5-10 seconds to render an average page. Needless to say, this is suboptimal.
I don't see what this guy's problem was for the Linksys card... go figure.
If you notice he only had problems with both network cards in. Either one on its own was detected fine. Not completely surprising that multiple-network-interface support would be somewhat lacking in Win98, I suppose -- that's not really something its intended market would have
My $0.02
Now sending plaintext (or HTML or RTF if one must have formatting) may be a decent idea. That way anyone could read it.
'/me string' sends "* nick string *" to the whole channel. In my case, '/me shrugs' would produce "* BZ shrugs *".
As for what's wrong with just saying "my mind boggles at the concept," there's nothing wrong with it. People get used somewhat used to the sort of shorthand one would use with IRC or other chat software (/me, imho, ttyl, and so on) and begin to use it in other contexts, including those in which it is rather inappropriate. No cure has been found for this yet. :)
> home computer is 486DX4-100, there is some sort
> of speed issue, like my 486 can receive data
> quickly, but hasn't got the horespower to send
> it out quickly. (This doesn't sound right, but
> its a possibility.)
That could actually do it. When receiving, the file is buffered to RAM, then written to disk; it has to be read from disk when it is being sent. So the sending computer's drive would always be the bottleneck. Also, sending TCP/IP packets is more processor-intensive than receiving them.