When I wanna read highly likely baloney articles I visit http://digg.com/ (no offense Kevin, but it happens more often than not nowadays - unlike when digg was still new) I come to Slashdot because I favor and believe in the system article moderation system. So how then does nonsense like this reach the Slashdot front page?
My biggest problem, and this is with only a few sites, yet somehow they are the sites I use more frequently, is that I need IE to browse and access these sites. These are usually sites that need encryption or flash or java or something of some sort that only seems to want to work in IE. They specifically have some note mentioning how you need "...IE 5.5 or higher to access this site...". Maybe the problem lies with my inability to set up my Mozilla/Firefox correctly. In any case, my suggestion is making Firefox so that it would be able to atleast decently handle sites, that "needs IE" to work properly. Also, making it easy, and maybe even automatic, for Firefox to install and add in whatever is needed to browse whatever a website throws at it.
If this could happen, I would give IE the final boot I've been wanting to for so long.
yeah, i still remember my 486. my first pc was the XT, then went to some 386, which was nice, but the 486, oh !!! to me the 486 still resembles my favorite pc of all time, it was quick (was a dx2/66 i think) text based apps in dos, was stable, and it was fun screwing with it to optimize memory usage... I think that's why I still have this affinity towards text based apps, for their stability and speed, which has it's origin with the 486 apps...thus linux/bsd! Hmm, wonder if I have that old thing lying around somewhere...
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I'm not exactly sure how this stuff works, someone mentioned something about the libraries, such as glibc, GTk, ect... How often does these things get updated, or are they just expanded upon. If so, we've been expanding on something that was created eons ago. Maybe a rewrite of these, the building blocks of all the rest of the software we write, could help?
I totally agree that users should have more control over how and when things get swapped. For instance a mozilla process tree, I'd be searching stuff on the net, then go back to coding, which can go on for hours, then I quickly need to check something in the mozilla window, and it would be damn slow to reload everything from swap. This is related to swapping stuff that's been idle for x time. The sticky bit idea, or something similar would be nice...
I have to also say how impressed I am with the guys developing KDE. We once picked up a bug somewhere, mailed them with the problem,ect. Within a half an hour I think, they posted a patch for that specific problem. Amazing.
which i think is still a little over-priced compared to other nations. Hopefully this will just be a step to something bigger and better. Hopefully. Or do people disagree? R650 == +- US$100
Another issue I have with Gnome, and I dont know if this is just me, is to get the programs that's supposed to open a certain file type to work. I would associate OpenOffice with.doc ect, but no matter how I configure it, it just doesnt open. Ditto for alot of other assocs. This stuff only works if it's standard configured on install by the installer...
Ok, I didnt go here with exact figures, but as far as I know I seriously doubt that we even have anything more that 15Mbps. (If you take that most ppl have T1's, going at 1.54Mbps.)
Anyways, it comes down to the fact that we have very little bandwith and that you should be happy with what you have.:)
I am a student at a university in South-Africa. From campus you are only allowed internet if you have an account for which you pay, and once you have this you are only allowed HTTP. I had to use tunneling to get on IRC for instance. Another thing is our whole university probably has about the same amount of bandwith in total as about 10 computers in the US use. This is not the universities fault, but rather out countries weak communications infrastructure and the fact that we have one telco with no compitition.
All you students and other people in the US should stop complaining, you have _loads_ of bandwith.
Funny how the performace compares. Everyone's comparing ghz against ghz, but what's that help if 1.7 compares to 1.3?
Surely then the speed hasnt almost double either, coz a 2ghz wont be twice as fast as a 1ghz from before?
this means nothing then. only big numbers and not really better performance, (and i'm not taking sides against or for intel, i'm just stating).
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Yes. Exactly. All of the above and especially; the UNIX philosophy is the way it is for a reason.
Is this why my smart phones battery life is so bad?
When I wanna read highly likely baloney articles I visit http://digg.com/ (no offense Kevin, but it happens more often than not nowadays - unlike when digg was still new)
I come to Slashdot because I favor and believe in the system article moderation system.
So how then does nonsense like this reach the Slashdot front page?
My biggest problem, and this is with only a few sites, yet somehow they are the sites I use more frequently, is that I need IE to browse and access these sites. These are usually sites that need encryption or flash or java or something of some sort that only seems to want to work in IE. They specifically have some note mentioning how you need "...IE 5.5 or higher to access this site...". Maybe the problem lies with my inability to set up my Mozilla/Firefox correctly. In any case, my suggestion is making Firefox so that it would be able to atleast decently handle sites, that "needs IE" to work properly. Also, making it easy, and maybe even automatic, for Firefox to install and add in whatever is needed to browse whatever a website throws at it.
If this could happen, I would give IE the final boot I've been wanting to for so long.
yeah, i still remember my 486. my first pc was the XT, then went to some 386, which was nice, but the 486, oh !!! to me the 486 still resembles my favorite pc of all time, it was quick (was a dx2/66 i think) text based apps in dos, was stable, and it was fun screwing with it to optimize memory usage... I think that's why I still have this affinity towards text based apps, for their stability and speed, which has it's origin with the 486 apps...thus linux/bsd! Hmm, wonder if I have that old thing lying around somewhere...
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I'm not exactly sure how this stuff works, someone mentioned something about the libraries, such as glibc, GTk, ect... How often does these things get updated, or are they just expanded upon. If so, we've been expanding on something that was created eons ago. Maybe a rewrite of these, the building blocks of all the rest of the software we write, could help?
Just my 2c...
I totally agree that users should have more control over how and when things get swapped. For instance a mozilla process tree, I'd be searching stuff on the net, then go back to coding, which can go on for hours, then I quickly need to check something in the mozilla window, and it would be damn slow to reload everything from swap. This is related to swapping stuff that's been idle for x time. The sticky bit idea, or something similar would be nice...
I have to also say how impressed I am with the guys developing KDE. We once picked up a bug somewhere, mailed them with the problem,ect. Within a half an hour I think, they posted a patch for that specific problem. Amazing.
which i think is still a little over-priced compared to other nations. Hopefully this will just be a step to something bigger and better. Hopefully. Or do people disagree?
R650 == +- US$100
Another issue I have with Gnome, and I dont know if this is just me, is to get the programs that's supposed to open a certain file type to work. .doc ect, but no matter how I configure it, it just doesnt open. Ditto for alot of other assocs. This stuff only works if it's standard configured on install by the installer...
I would associate OpenOffice with
Ok, I didnt go here with exact figures, but as far as I know I seriously doubt that we even have anything more that 15Mbps. (If you take that most ppl have T1's, going at 1.54Mbps.)
:)
Anyways, it comes down to the fact that we have very little bandwith and that you should be happy with what you have.
I am a student at a university in South-Africa. From campus you are only allowed internet if you have an account for which you pay, and once you have this you are only allowed HTTP. I had to use tunneling to get on IRC for instance. Another thing is our whole university probably has about the same amount of bandwith in total as about 10 computers in the US use. This is not the universities fault, but rather out countries weak communications infrastructure and the fact that we have one telco with no compitition.
All you students and other people in the US should stop complaining, you have _loads_ of bandwith.
can i have that girl's phone number?
Funny how the performace compares. Everyone's comparing ghz against ghz, but what's that help if 1.7 compares to 1.3? Surely then the speed hasnt almost double either, coz a 2ghz wont be twice as fast as a 1ghz from before? this means nothing then. only big numbers and not really better performance, (and i'm not taking sides against or for intel, i'm just stating).