That's why it's not a done deal. We need to evaluate how much of a difference it makes. If it makes one, Firefox will be the deployed browser. If not, it's one more piece of software to support when we are trying to consolidate.
Firefox will probably remain my default browser, but that's what being in IT (and being self-supporting) gets you:D
For business, Mozilla is handy as it is a direct upgrade path from Netscape 4 without the baggage of Netscape 7. Maintaining FF/TB/nvu/etc is not attractive to this base. We use Mozilla 1.7 over IMAP.
In fact some companies may ditch FF if they ditch Mozilla. We are transitioning to Notes from Moz and CorporateTime and since we are an XP shop, we have to patch IE regardless so we might well just use it. Even if it is a piece of crap.
I work for a company that has bought almost 100 of those babies and I have three things to say:
1. Get QA's act together on build quality right now. I don't like telling users to flip out the battery or take a paperclip to their $500 hardware more than once a quarter, never mind once a week.
2. WTF is going on with all the JVM errors? I keep expecting to see a Windows logo.
3. Weren't you guys called "Lawsuits in Motion" by The Register?
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coz you know it will be GBP600 when it goes on sale in the UK just like it usually is with electronics:)
I mean, after the 79p itunes (vs 99 euro cent) we know Apple is capable of doing it to you...
The firm I work for uses Mozilla under 9x/XP (and previously Netscape). We don't want ActiveX support coz that's what IE (Internet-High Security + Trusted Sites) is for - let's face it, if a site uses ActiveX it probably has IE specific hacks too.
We are moving to Notes and the migration highlights how much the address book bites, since we couldn't import Netscape address books directly (had to export to LDIF) and now can't export to Notes (no vCard export support).
Mozilla has worked fairly well for us in a corporate environment and we would probably be retaining it except that we are using Domino for Blackberry Enterprise Server and IMAP doesn't mesh well with the setup.
Along with the manual suggested earlier, a "Mozilla in the Workplace" webpage series codifying what is spread out there on various other websites in terms of customising Mozilla for corporate installs is needed. If Mozilla wants to replace IE, the workplace must be a priority as that's where a lot of people use it eight hours a day.
Bill + USB = BSOD when demo-ing that technology in public in 1998.
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Rather than introduce ActiveX to default Firefox builds, you could just leave IE installed on max security (block all ActiveX, among other things) and only certain trusted sites enforced by IEAK, while deploying Mozilla 1.7 for mainline use. That's what we do.
And it's not just ActX now, we had to check all of our PCs for JRE when the recent vulnerability was announced, and installing JRE5 does not uninstall the defective JREs, annoyingly.
Corporate installs of FF 1.1 and/or Moz 2 would be nice with MSIs and options to retain trusted plugins like Flash, Acrobat and dictionaries. It's very annoying having to reinstall dictionaries when upgrading Mozilla.
TFA: "The president also instructed the Defense Department to develop plans to disable, in certain areas, an enemy's access to the U.S. navigational satellites and to similar systems operated by others. The European Union is developing a $4.8 billion program, called Galileo."
One of the nice things about OSS is it allows the end user to participate at a level at which he/she is comfortable.
User - happy to use what tools are to hand Administrator - pick the best tools at the price and level of configuring he/she is comfortable devoting Developer/Hacker - sees open source as being important enough to be evangelised and expanded.
I run WinXP, Firefox/Thunderbird and MS Office. I have used Linux and OpenOffice. I use what works for me, not what works for MS or OSS zealots.
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I can understand why ActiveX sites wouldn't work - but not Java!
I agree with some aspects of this comment - the usage of "CAG", the "BSG" as a substitute for CV/CVN.
:D
Baltar is too like Bashir for me. I also think the music blows and they should have hinted at the glorious bellow of the old theme tune.
That said, I watch it when I can, and as long as they don't make a "BSG 1980" remake, they are still ahead
Google aren't the only ones with bizarre directions...
The Register has a go at Streets and Trips
That's why it's not a done deal. We need to evaluate how much of a difference it makes. If it makes one, Firefox will be the deployed browser. If not, it's one more piece of software to support when we are trying to consolidate.
:D
Firefox will probably remain my default browser, but that's what being in IT (and being self-supporting) gets you
What are you looking at? Toronto looks fine to me on FF1.0, right down to max zoom.
For business, Mozilla is handy as it is a direct upgrade path from Netscape 4 without the baggage of Netscape 7. Maintaining FF/TB/nvu/etc is not attractive to this base. We use Mozilla 1.7 over IMAP.
In fact some companies may ditch FF if they ditch Mozilla. We are transitioning to Notes from Moz and CorporateTime and since we are an XP shop, we have to patch IE regardless so we might well just use it. Even if it is a piece of crap.
The Register has an article on this - apparently UK mac minis are GBP22 more expensive even excluding VAT.
I work for a company that has bought almost 100 of those babies and I have three things to say:
1. Get QA's act together on build quality right now. I don't like telling users to flip out the battery or take a paperclip to their $500 hardware more than once a quarter, never mind once a week.
2. WTF is going on with all the JVM errors? I keep expecting to see a Windows logo.
3. Weren't you guys called "Lawsuits in Motion" by The Register?
coz you know it will be GBP600 when it goes on sale in the UK just like it usually is with electronics :)
I mean, after the 79p itunes (vs 99 euro cent) we know Apple is capable of doing it to you...
Dotster were the people Panix put their trust in before their domain was hijacked - not sure how good an eye they were keeping on that situation.
The firm I work for uses Mozilla under 9x/XP (and previously Netscape). We don't want ActiveX support coz that's what IE (Internet-High Security + Trusted Sites) is for - let's face it, if a site uses ActiveX it probably has IE specific hacks too.
We are moving to Notes and the migration highlights how much the address book bites, since we couldn't import Netscape address books directly (had to export to LDIF) and now can't export to Notes (no vCard export support).
Mozilla has worked fairly well for us in a corporate environment and we would probably be retaining it except that we are using Domino for Blackberry Enterprise Server and IMAP doesn't mesh well with the setup.
Along with the manual suggested earlier, a "Mozilla in the Workplace" webpage series codifying what is spread out there on various other websites in terms of customising Mozilla for corporate installs is needed. If Mozilla wants to replace IE, the workplace must be a priority as that's where a lot of people use it eight hours a day.
Bill + USB = BSOD when demo-ing that technology in public in 1998.
Rather than introduce ActiveX to default Firefox builds, you could just leave IE installed on max security (block all ActiveX, among other things) and only certain trusted sites enforced by IEAK, while deploying Mozilla 1.7 for mainline use. That's what we do.
And it's not just ActX now, we had to check all of our PCs for JRE when the recent vulnerability was announced, and installing JRE5 does not uninstall the defective JREs, annoyingly.
Corporate installs of FF 1.1 and/or Moz 2 would be nice with MSIs and options to retain trusted plugins like Flash, Acrobat and dictionaries. It's very annoying having to reinstall dictionaries when upgrading Mozilla.
TFA: "The president also instructed the Defense Department to develop plans to disable, in certain areas, an enemy's access to the U.S. navigational satellites and to similar systems operated by others. The European Union is developing a $4.8 billion program, called Galileo."
Attempting to disable Galileo/GLONASS when the EU or Russia is not attacking might be considered a hostile act.
One of the nice things about OSS is it allows the end user to participate at a level at which he/she is comfortable.
User - happy to use what tools are to hand
Administrator - pick the best tools at the price and level of configuring he/she is comfortable devoting
Developer/Hacker - sees open source as being important enough to be evangelised and expanded.
I run WinXP, Firefox/Thunderbird and MS Office. I have used Linux and OpenOffice. I use what works for me, not what works for MS or OSS zealots.
I seem to remember (from Private Parts?) that those who hated Stern listened for twice as long on average as those who liked him.
Could someone hack that lycos screensaver to DoS (ahem "slow down") the busybodies? :)
Hm. The FCC should have a referrer tag on those, like the comments from slashdotters on the US Weather Service internet service changes.
Tim Bray can be read.
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IIS says too many people connected on Joe Marini's.
I wish I could read why Joe M thinks closed is better but his closed source server won't let me
I thought Keaton was the best one of the big screen versions!! Especially as Wayne.
dunno mate, the relief from end-to-end tech is what makes Slashdot good for me... something magazines like "New Scientist" recognise too.
Given the profile of him in "Showstopper" De Niro could certainly do the wandering around MSFT yelling at folk :D
You'd think they'd have enough to do working on the so-called A380-killer the lapdogs in the aerospace and mainstream press fawned over last year.
Isn't that what John Glenn said to NASA [allegedly] :)
Congressional money good, private money BAD!
Hard to believe NASA isn't run by Europe, not ESA!
Tito struck a chord with the punters who said "onya you lucky b*gger, we'd do it too if we had the dosh".
NASA is worse than an Ivy League Equality Studies dept for attempted social engineering. Lord knows its not like NASA ever lied about anything eh??