Uhh, am I the only one here who was completely unaware that OpenBSD didn't have SMP support?
I guess I've been stuck in the Linux world too long. I never would have guessed this. I haven't been running a single-processor system, workstation or server, since 1998.
The bigger news here, for me, is that Linux just jumped way up on my totem pole of respect.
So, you're completely ignorant of what goes on in the OpenBSD world (hint: security); by your own confession you've been "stuck in the Linux world"; and now you respect Linux more? I guess I can see how you might think the OpenBSD guys are a bunch of non-SMP doofuses.
My girlfriend is as non-geek as you can get. When I removed IE from the Desktop and replaced it with a Firefox Icon, she didn't even miss a beat.
Same here with my wife (except in my case it's Mozilla). She didn't like Mozilla's default splash screen, though (I found a much nicer one, so easy to fix).
Yes, I agree you. which I ask only, am, how opera can do, also a those nearly the same is product, makes profit? if someone has free of charge more webbrowser, from where profit comes?
Yeah... how about a damn warning next time guys. So much for all my friggin' links. And thanks for removing my extensions and replacing my nice pretty theme.
None of this is a big deal if you have a backup of your profile folder. You _did_ do a backup, didn't you?
It's that simple. If this were not the case, there'd be real signs of things being fixed now that it's been over a year since the "Trustworthy Computing Initiative" was launched. Are there new firewall tools as part of new Service Packs? New security audit tools you can get from Windows Update? How about just turning _OFF_ default services for XP? Anything?!?! You'd think with 50 Billion in the bank and all the money they'll be saving from reduced employee benefits that they could afford to fix this junk, so you have to assume they choose not to.
I work for a firm that produces some enterprise software. We have a number of needed features that have been missing for _years_. These features don't affect the user interface, or even the users' interaction--they are for admin, failover, backup, clustering, etc. Every time I see a customer requesting info, they ask about these features, and the answers _never_ change. It's on their checklist, but they still buy the product, it's not killing us. So it never gets fixed.
While the IE users have had the same version for 3 years (+ updates), the Mozilla users (myself being one of them) have had Mozilla, Phoenix, Firebird, and now Firefox. Lots of flux. If they keep this name and maybe stay at version 1 for a while with minimal updates, it will be a great help to people trying to get others to use Mozilla.
Ha ha, news for you: Firefox is changing the default theme.
Opera (7.2.3 and 7.5) has been exhibiting severe intermittent lagginess.
I saw that happening at home with 7.51. Something got messed up with my primary home box (running Kerio Personal Firewall 4.0.16) with File sharing, and after about a week I uninstalled KPF, file sharing now worked OK. So I put on Zone Alarm, and the severe lagginess appeared! CYA ZA. Now I'm down to KPF 2.1.5, things work OK. I think it's my Windows 2000 install.
Support isn't one of the things that really pushes this decision. It's pushed by their entire philosophy of standardization. In the military, everything has a standard, from the uniform cuts to the style of your hair. That's how it is, and how it's almost always been with large militaries.
I worked at a war contractor, and we were in a building just off the main plant. We'd have to go to the main plant to get drawings from the vault. Generally, someone would say they were going, and would get things for several people, to save trips. So what we'd do is look up the mil spec numbers for jock straps, bras, condoms, M1 Abrams, you name it, and save it for the next time. Next guy to go would get a nice laugh when he pulled up an odd mil spec. If it exists, it had a mil spec.
Linux _has_ standardization. Choose a distribution, and stick with it.
Exactly--once you make your choice, the road is clear. Why do so many people point to the profusion of distros and assume that each company will have to manage among at least several of them? They just have to figure out the _one_ distro they're going to use. And it really should be Slack, BTW.
One other question - why are we trying to "complete with windows and os x?" Does it really matter if we have a "year of linux on the desktop"? I think that Linux is too focused on being a Microsoft Windows work-a-like, and why do we want to work like a product which we all claim to HATE?
Some folks don't want to dual-boot Windows just for certain apps (Quicken, games). They'd like Linux-native versions of those apps. Linux popularity supposedly makes that more likely.
That would require setting aside this childish "Linux has to do every single thing that every single person on the planet could want it to do, and then some" attitude that plagues the community.
So what you're really saying is that Linux (GNU/Linux/KDE/GNOME/Etc.) is a system designed by a committee of camels?
"I founded and managed Linux Today in 1998, bringing it up from nothing into the most powerful and large Linux news website in the world, in less than a year. I am now calling on the Linux community to boycott my creation until its current owners stop accepting money from Microsoft to publish blatantly anti-Linux/pro-Microsoft ads."
You founded the company, then sold it, but want it to keep to the vision you have for it. Why did you sell it / relinquish control then?
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I guess I've been stuck in the Linux world too long. I never would have guessed this. I haven't been running a single-processor system, workstation or server, since 1998.
The bigger news here, for me, is that Linux just jumped way up on my totem pole of respect.
So, you're completely ignorant of what goes on in the OpenBSD world (hint: security); by your own confession you've been "stuck in the Linux world"; and now you respect Linux more? I guess I can see how you might think the OpenBSD guys are a bunch of non-SMP doofuses.
Watch Uni administrators battle grade inflation! (Don't hold your breath.)
The offense was you thinking we haven't had a war with the UK yet. 1812? 1776? Anyone? Bueller?
I hope you're not serious. If you are, I hope you don't vote.
It's in Lexington, Kentucky.
They might make it; sounds like they got the right kind of drugs going already. Coupla more hits and they'll make it.
It isn't. Just look at how large masses of people submit so easily to every encroachment to their liberty. Liberty is actually quite _un_ natural.
Same here with my wife (except in my case it's Mozilla). She didn't like Mozilla's default splash screen, though (I found a much nicer one, so easy to fix).
Dummies like me. I paid for Opera. I like it.
None of this is a big deal if you have a backup of your profile folder. You _did_ do a backup, didn't you?
I work for a firm that produces some enterprise software. We have a number of needed features that have been missing for _years_. These features don't affect the user interface, or even the users' interaction--they are for admin, failover, backup, clustering, etc. Every time I see a customer requesting info, they ask about these features, and the answers _never_ change. It's on their checklist, but they still buy the product, it's not killing us. So it never gets fixed.
Ha ha, news for you: Firefox is changing the default theme.
I saw that happening at home with 7.51. Something got messed up with my primary home box (running Kerio Personal Firewall 4.0.16) with File sharing, and after about a week I uninstalled KPF, file sharing now worked OK. So I put on Zone Alarm, and the severe lagginess appeared! CYA ZA. Now I'm down to KPF 2.1.5, things work OK. I think it's my Windows 2000 install.
I worked at a war contractor, and we were in a building just off the main plant. We'd have to go to the main plant to get drawings from the vault. Generally, someone would say they were going, and would get things for several people, to save trips. So what we'd do is look up the mil spec numbers for jock straps, bras, condoms, M1 Abrams, you name it, and save it for the next time. Next guy to go would get a nice laugh when he pulled up an odd mil spec. If it exists, it had a mil spec.
For the truly paranoid, any solution you offer is a problem.
I had to think for a minute about rtf. My first reaction: RTF What? The Manual or the Article? It's a short step from RTF to RTFM or RTFA.
"Proprietary Product: Caveat Emptor!" (sorry for mixing the latin with the greek chorus reference).
You guys make a wrong turn somewhere?
Exactly--once you make your choice, the road is clear. Why do so many people point to the profusion of distros and assume that each company will have to manage among at least several of them? They just have to figure out the _one_ distro they're going to use. And it really should be Slack, BTW.
Some folks don't want to dual-boot Windows just for certain apps (Quicken, games). They'd like Linux-native versions of those apps. Linux popularity supposedly makes that more likely.
So what you're really saying is that Linux (GNU/Linux/KDE/GNOME/Etc.) is a system designed by a committee of camels?
You founded the company, then sold it, but want it to keep to the vision you have for it. Why did you sell it / relinquish control then?
Don't laugh, I did that all the time when working at Dole, then Banana Republic, then Chiquita. And now that I work in El Salvador.
Linux for Dummies. Jumbo Shrimp. Military Intelligence. It just goes on and on.
You admit you're addicted, that you want to play this game all the time, but the girlfriend is the problem?! Where's Dr. Phil?