I read this article last night and just shook my head. Yes, it is very intersting that China plans to send humans to the moon. That makes an impressive headline for CNN.com. Actually, it's in the sub-headline. But where does it say that China will send a man to the moon within the article itself? Nowhere. Reading the piece from beginning to end left me bewildered. They announce something, give some background facts, and never investigate the chief fact of the article, not mentioning it even a single more time.
This is an important development. The world's most fearsome tyranny is attempting to take the lead in the space race. We deserve better reporting on these plans than this amateurish effort.
This doesn't happen to most users. Try uninstalling Mozilla and deleting all its leftover files. Then install a fresh copy of 0.9.6. You might also scan your hard disk for plugin directories. Maybe you have some old or buggy plugins.
Please file this as a bug with http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ .
In the meantime, here is a hint for your troubleshooting procedure. Look for "rogue plug-ins." Go to *all* of your Netscape 4.x, Netscape 6.x, and Mozilla binary directories. Look for "plugins" subdirectories. Mozilla seems to use plugins from all of these directories, which can be problematic. Get rid of plugin files that are out of date or questionable.
Here's a story. I was having major problems with crashing. Mozilla hung frequently. Mozilla would crash sometimes with an error report. Sometimes I would get a crash error report, but Mozilla wouldn't actually crash. I could move the report window out of the way and continue browsing indefinitely. Then I got rid of my old Quicktime Plugins, and out of date Java plugins from my Netscape 4x plugins subdirectory. Now Mozilla is rock solid stable. No hangs and no crashes so far. Just an anecdote.
One more note. Update your JRE if you haven't done so lately.
Please file a bug with http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ . This sounds like a memory leak as other posters have described. If so, it should be fixed before 1.0.
Another possible interpretation would be that the post-meteorite era is remembered as that era that followed mankind's banishment from the Garden of Eden. The region, the fertile crescent, was once a temperate, idyllic environment. Perhaps the people remembered that there was once a great civilization, even mythologizing it as utopia, but did not remember how that great age had passed.
As for the great flood, that was probably the merger of the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea when the Dardanelles, formerly a barrier between the two, gave way. Many people lived in what is now the Black Sea, since it wasn't nearly so deep until the flood-like cataclysm ensued.
The overlapping window paradigm makes the user's desktop a mess. One window gets in the way of another. This creates the need for some centralized window control mechanism that wastes users' time.
Why are we limited to a 2D environment? Games have used 3D heavily in the last several years. Why not bring 3D to the desktop? One way to do this would be to change the "look and feel" of the UI from a 2D window with sub-windows, to a polyhedron, such as a cube.
Each face of the polyhedron could display a separate application. The user would see all of the apps in perspective. To select a different app, you just click on it. During the task switching process, the user sees the polyhedron move into position. With a cube, you're pretty limited in how many faces you can view at once. If the polyhedron has 12 sides, however, each face would be hexagonal, and you could see more faces. With larger monitors, the wasted screen real estate is less important.
Or make the desktop the inside of a sphere. There is more than one possibility.
I have no problem with patents in W3C standards. I only have a problem with patents that generate royalties. Inevitably, the costs will be passed down the line to users. As more and more royalties complicate W3C standards, the costs will be borne by Internet users generally. This will stymie the efforts to get the rest of the world on the Internet. How will the Internet users of Sierra Leone, for example, be able to pay for this?
I swear, if the W3C puts royalty generating patents in any important standard, there will be a fork. A major fork. If necessary, I'll do it myself, even if I have to learn C.
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Right. I didn't realize that ASP's can be purely static html pages. I apologize for this slight mistake. Purely based on my own experience, however, "ASP sites" tend to be commercial sites. They have a lot of scripts, graphics, fonts, and crap. These are the kinds of sites where developers whine about how difficult it is to support Netscape. Bullsh*t. You can easily support Netscape. You just provide html. If you want to do lots of crap with Java, JS, marquees, etc, like most commercial sites, then, yes, IE is the better choice. If you want the best browser for that, though, just use your television set and shop at QVC.
The point of the Mozilla project, as far as I'm concerned, is not to defeat IE and become the better mimic of the television. The point is to be good enough to make users independent of monopolized software that forces you to pay Master Bill every few years for the privilege of using his commercialized, corporate, crash-prone intellectual property.
And the point of the Internet is not to become the next Cable TV, as IE attempts. The point is to provide information. There's a significant difference.
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In my experience, sites do render significantly faster if they use "correct" html or xml. I can only base this on my own experience, though.
If you're going to a lot of ASP sites, then IE seems to render those faster than Mozilla. (I know. Big Shock! MS always optimizes its products for its own platform.)
Rik, you rock. Why don't you release your own kernel series, like the "aa" series? It would allow more people to test your code. I bet you could find ftp space for it.
That's it. Up until now, I thought that Microsoft was sometimes annoying, but, overall, it was harmless. Now, upon being unable to view MSN.com, I have realized that they are actually the unholiest subalterns of doom itself.
Are you mentally stable? Have you ever been chemically dependent? Are you rich? Do you consider yourself a loner or an extrovert, or are you isolated by an uncaring, bitter world?
A fully preemptible kernel is important to the future of Linux. Everyone knows that the system will lock up a lot if it's misconfigured, or if a piece of hardware is buggy.
So long as the console driver and the keyboard driver are alive, root should always be able to open a new shell and kill an offending process that is hanging the rest of the system. Right now, this is too frequently a non-option.
Let's think about it long-term. For a 3-4 minute song, WAV's are about 35MB. For the same song, MP3's and OGG's are about 4-6 MB. This means that we're an order of magnitude away from being able to store WAV's on generic equipment taking up the same space as MP3's and OGG's do currently. This order of magnitude will probably be reached within a single generation of technology.
Let me put it another way. We are already able to store WAV's in the lossless ZIP or CAB format, thus saving considerable space. In another generation of technology, CPU's and memory will be fast enough to make the decompression factor potentially negligible.
So go ahead and choose either OGG's or MP3's, I don't care. (I think either one is okay for now). Within a few years, however, there will be little reason to not have the original WAV's.
This reminds of ESR's old PC Clone Buyer's Guide. A lot has changed since '93, or whenever he last updated that. He's still stressing I/O performance, which says something about how little has really changed.
The old guide is at
http://www.double-barrel.be/linux_web/clone_hw_g ui de/contents.html
No Trek will ever beat the original, the classic: Star Trek.
The supporting cast is kind of interesting. At least there is no psychologist on board!
Archer is a good captain, but he's no Kirk. Kirk wouldn't have waited until that alien chick kissed him. He would have just planted one right on her, whether she was ready or not. And he would have left those aliens with a torpedo for a goodbye present.
As for the soft core porn, it's for the ratings. I guess Trek isn't going to be a family show anymore. Oh, how I long for the days of Bedtime for Bonzo and Green Acres!
Today, many of us civilians have crypto software, like PGP, that cannot be decrypted with or without brute force. (For the sake of argument, assume that quantum computing remains impractical.) We civilians have the ability and willingness to share this software with other civilians.
Suppose every government suddenly requires all civilian users of cryptography to provide additional decryption keys (ADK's) to the government. Any data encrypted with an ADK can be decrypted by the holder of the ADK. All ADK's will be kept in escrow by the applicable government.
Users keep using cryptography without ADK's.
Governments start intercepting random bits of Internet traffic. If any encyprted data is discovered, a script searches the escrow database for the ADK. If there's no ADK, the person who sent that data has committed a crime.
If there is an ADK, the script tries to decrypt the data with the ADK. If the ADK works, the government is happy.
If the ADK does not work, or if there was no ADK, that person is warned or thrown in jail. Many are thrown in jail in this way. Pretty soon, the script doesn't detect any data encyprted without ADK's that work.
The governments rejoice in defeating the free cryptography movement.
Actually, users have gotten smart. Any data they wish to encrypt is first encrypted by their copy of strong encryption software like PGP. Then, they encrypt the PGP output file (or other program's output file) with the weak encryption software with ADK.
The governments can dig only one level deep. Users are encrypting with to two levels deep. Governments have no way to fight this.
This face recognition scare can be put to rest if Madison Avenue just decides that the newest fashion trend will be masks. Yes, masks. We will all wear masquerade garb. It will be facial encryption.
Another alternative would be to figure out how to send an electronic signal of someone else's bone structure into the camera eye of the facial recognition device, perhaps with the use of an altered laser pen-like device.
Admittedly, this is all fantasy and science fiction. But I don't think speculation hurts us at this point.
I have to reconsider this. A single state attorney general probably couldn't break up Microsoft. What's worse, though, is what I read in an article on BBC (no link, sorry), that 18 of the AG's are already supporting the Bush Admin. I guess it's either EU or open source/free software.
The original subject line was, "but less and less," which served as a good quip against the subject line at the beginning of the thread. But the "lameness" filter caught me. I feel uplifted.
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This is an important development. The world's most fearsome tyranny is attempting to take the lead in the space race. We deserve better reporting on these plans than this amateurish effort.
This doesn't happen to most users. Try uninstalling Mozilla and deleting all its leftover files. Then install a fresh copy of 0.9.6. You might also scan your hard disk for plugin directories. Maybe you have some old or buggy plugins.
Please file your bug reports/feature requests with http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ .
In the meantime, here is a hint for your troubleshooting procedure. Look for "rogue plug-ins." Go to *all* of your Netscape 4.x, Netscape 6.x, and Mozilla binary directories. Look for "plugins" subdirectories. Mozilla seems to use plugins from all of these directories, which can be problematic. Get rid of plugin files that are out of date or questionable.
Here's a story. I was having major problems with crashing. Mozilla hung frequently. Mozilla would crash sometimes with an error report. Sometimes I would get a crash error report, but Mozilla wouldn't actually crash. I could move the report window out of the way and continue browsing indefinitely. Then I got rid of my old Quicktime Plugins, and out of date Java plugins from my Netscape 4x plugins subdirectory. Now Mozilla is rock solid stable. No hangs and no crashes so far. Just an anecdote.
One more note. Update your JRE if you haven't done so lately.
Then go to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ and file the feature request.
Please file a bug with http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ . This sounds like a memory leak as other posters have described. If so, it should be fixed before 1.0.
As for the great flood, that was probably the merger of the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea when the Dardanelles, formerly a barrier between the two, gave way. Many people lived in what is now the Black Sea, since it wasn't nearly so deep until the flood-like cataclysm ensued.
This is only late night speculation.
Why are we limited to a 2D environment? Games have used 3D heavily in the last several years. Why not bring 3D to the desktop? One way to do this would be to change the "look and feel" of the UI from a 2D window with sub-windows, to a polyhedron, such as a cube.
Each face of the polyhedron could display a separate application. The user would see all of the apps in perspective. To select a different app, you just click on it. During the task switching process, the user sees the polyhedron move into position. With a cube, you're pretty limited in how many faces you can view at once. If the polyhedron has 12 sides, however, each face would be hexagonal, and you could see more faces. With larger monitors, the wasted screen real estate is less important.
Or make the desktop the inside of a sphere. There is more than one possibility.
I swear, if the W3C puts royalty generating patents in any important standard, there will be a fork. A major fork. If necessary, I'll do it myself, even if I have to learn C.
The point of the Mozilla project, as far as I'm concerned, is not to defeat IE and become the better mimic of the television. The point is to be good enough to make users independent of monopolized software that forces you to pay Master Bill every few years for the privilege of using his commercialized, corporate, crash-prone intellectual property.
And the point of the Internet is not to become the next Cable TV, as IE attempts. The point is to provide information. There's a significant difference.
If you're going to a lot of ASP sites, then IE seems to render those faster than Mozilla. (I know. Big Shock! MS always optimizes its products for its own platform.)
Thanks for helping make Linux better.
That's it. Up until now, I thought that Microsoft was sometimes annoying, but, overall, it was harmless. Now, upon being unable to view MSN.com, I have realized that they are actually the unholiest subalterns of doom itself.
Are you mentally stable? Have you ever been chemically dependent? Are you rich? Do you consider yourself a loner or an extrovert, or are you isolated by an uncaring, bitter world?
I concede your point. But why does my Linux system sometimes hang when my (probably misconfigured) Netscape browser crashes?
I'm pretty sure that a buggy driver can take down the system. Wouldn't a pre-emptive kernel stop that?
So long as the console driver and the keyboard driver are alive, root should always be able to open a new shell and kill an offending process that is hanging the rest of the system. Right now, this is too frequently a non-option.
Let me put it another way. We are already able to store WAV's in the lossless ZIP or CAB format, thus saving considerable space. In another generation of technology, CPU's and memory will be fast enough to make the decompression factor potentially negligible.
So go ahead and choose either OGG's or MP3's, I don't care. (I think either one is okay for now). Within a few years, however, there will be little reason to not have the original WAV's.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Unix-Hardware-Buyer- HOWTO/
This reminds of ESR's old PC Clone Buyer's Guide. A lot has changed since '93, or whenever he last updated that. He's still stressing I/O performance, which says something about how little has really changed.
g ui de/contents.html
The old guide is at
http://www.double-barrel.be/linux_web/clone_hw_
No Trek will ever beat the original, the classic: Star Trek.
The supporting cast is kind of interesting. At least there is no psychologist on board!
Archer is a good captain, but he's no Kirk. Kirk wouldn't have waited until that alien chick kissed him. He would have just planted one right on her, whether she was ready or not. And he would have left those aliens with a torpedo for a goodbye present.
As for the soft core porn, it's for the ratings. I guess Trek isn't going to be a family show anymore. Oh, how I long for the days of Bedtime for Bonzo and Green Acres!
Wouldn't an asychronous microchip be fabricated as a disc rather than a square, to help make the wires closer to the same length?
Another alternative would be to figure out how to send an electronic signal of someone else's bone structure into the camera eye of the facial recognition device, perhaps with the use of an altered laser pen-like device.
Admittedly, this is all fantasy and science fiction. But I don't think speculation hurts us at this point.
I have to reconsider this. A single state attorney general probably couldn't break up Microsoft. What's worse, though, is what I read in an article on BBC (no link, sorry), that 18 of the AG's are already supporting the Bush Admin. I guess it's either EU or open source/free software.
The original subject line was, "but less and less," which served as a good quip against the subject line at the beginning of the thread. But the "lameness" filter caught me. I feel uplifted.