Mouse gestures are *awful* for touchpad users like me. In fact, there seem to be some sort of default mouse gestures in Firefox which take me backward in browser history sometimes when I drag my finger across the touchpad - VERY annoying.
If I remember correctly, Netscape is going to have a "view as in IE" option which uses the IE rendering engine instead of Gecko. That would probably bring in all ActiveX stuff.
Even if you consider the lowering of prices, the fact remains that you could spend $400-$500 to bring the Mac Mini up to a reasonable configuration by today's standards. IMHO, this doesn't go against their business model.
Let me set the Reality Distortion Field straight for you... two months from now, Apple will release Tiger and then you'll send $140 to get that. So that's 60 bucks tacked on to the cost right there!
All of MP3 is a collection of lesser known and foreign songs
Try looking at the allofmp3 collection before you say that. I, personally, haven't not found any song/artiste that I was looking for on allofmp3, including ALL of "The Beatles" that isn't even available on iTMS.
Well, you may probably not have noted, but there are lots of system calls in their old and new versions in the kernel for backward compatibility. There is lots of cruft in the 2.6 kernel, such as OSS, devfs, etc. Backward compatibility is important, even with the kernel.
I've noticed that this is more likely to occur around 9 AM and at noon EST. Maybe this has something to do with people coming in their offices on the east coast and the west coast.
What I would like, however, is for google to release gmail as a downloadable product. That way I can replace Squirrel Mail with gmail. Imagine running your own e-mail server with gmail running the web interface for it. THAT is teh hotness. I think that this is the department where google can really shine. If they do something like this and make it quality they can start to take market share away from things like Exchange.
That's an interesting point. Can Google (or anyone) make a compelling product for email, like Apple did with iTMS+iTunes+iPod?
I use foo@bar.com very often. I didn't realize it until today that it could be a valid email address because bar.com seems like a reasonable e-store. Even if they don't have the email address, it would still have to be dealt by their mail server before it's discarded. Probably costs them bandwidth too.
The Linux Show had an interesting feature this week about SCO and the Linux editor, Steve Vaughan from Eweek presented his view of Darl McBride after having met him multiple times since the whole SCO issue started. According to him, Darl McBride is an achiever, and if you can, for a second, believe in what he's doing, like he does, you will make amazed at his dedication. According to him, McBride will not give up until the last vestiges of SCO are thrown out of court. He will accept anything other than a defeat in the court. It is an interesting show to listen to, give it a shot
With something like 256 megs of RAM, startup times should not be a problem for most commonly-used applications. I personally have a browser and email client open all the time (and I suspect most other people do too). The sluggishness (or the lack of it) becomes apparent in things like scrolling pages, searching for emails. Even if you close an application, it is very likely to load quickly the next time around because chances are that parts of it are already there in memory (assuming you didn't do too much in between that would've flushed the cache)
For what it's worth, there *are* valid reasons to move forward with newer versions. For instance, I could never get X working reliably with my laptop (ATI Radeon Mobility 9200) with XFree86 4.3.x. I had to finally use XFree86 4.4 that Mandrake pulled out due to licensing concerns. X.org sounds promising though, I might give it a shot.
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Mouse gestures are *awful* for touchpad users like me. In fact, there seem to be some sort of default mouse gestures in Firefox which take me backward in browser history sometimes when I drag my finger across the touchpad - VERY annoying.
... there won't ever be a monopolistic telecom company. There's no precedent for that.. oh wait, nevermind.
Carly worked at Lucent Technologies before she became CEO of HP. This is interesting!
If I remember correctly, Netscape is going to have a "view as in IE" option which uses the IE rendering engine instead of Gecko. That would probably bring in all ActiveX stuff.
Even if you consider the lowering of prices, the fact remains that you could spend $400-$500 to bring the Mac Mini up to a reasonable configuration by today's standards. IMHO, this doesn't go against their business model.
The Fedora CVS is available at http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/. Lots of goodies there!
Actually Firefox has a pretty decent about:config page that lets you modify configuration. It could use a description field too though.
I hate Opera for the zillion configuration menus. However, I use it for image-heavy (read: pr0n) pages that Firefox chokes on.
Let me set the Reality Distortion Field straight for you... two months from now, Apple will release Tiger and then you'll send $140 to get that. So that's 60 bucks tacked on to the cost right there!
I could get to the Canadian Apple store website to get the pictures and the specs at the time store.apple.com choked.
You mean, Pwn3d, don't you?
Everything bad is always the presidents fault! Even the stuff he has nothing to do with!
You, sir, are wrong. Blame Canada!
All of MP3 is a collection of lesser known and foreign songs
Try looking at the allofmp3 collection before you say that. I, personally, haven't not found any song/artiste that I was looking for on allofmp3, including ALL of "The Beatles" that isn't even available on iTMS.
Well, you may probably not have noted, but there are lots of system calls in their old and new versions in the kernel for backward compatibility. There is lots of cruft in the 2.6 kernel, such as OSS, devfs, etc. Backward compatibility is important, even with the kernel.
I've noticed that this is more likely to occur around 9 AM and at noon EST. Maybe this has something to do with people coming in their offices on the east coast and the west coast.
Note that they use text for the Google logo instead of the image for the error page. Smart!
That's an interesting point. Can Google (or anyone) make a compelling product for email, like Apple did with iTMS+iTunes+iPod?
What if I use my school's SMTP server to send my mail, with a FROM of, say, yahoo.com or gmail.com. Will I be prevented from doing such a thing?
You ARE aware that your new email address is visible on slashdot though, right? *biting my pinkie with an evil grin*
I use foo@bar.com very often. I didn't realize it until today that it could be a valid email address because bar.com seems like a reasonable e-store. Even if they don't have the email address, it would still have to be dealt by their mail server before it's discarded. Probably costs them bandwidth too.
The Linux Show had an interesting feature this week about SCO and the Linux editor, Steve Vaughan from Eweek presented his view of Darl McBride after having met him multiple times since the whole SCO issue started. According to him, Darl McBride is an achiever, and if you can, for a second, believe in what he's doing, like he does, you will make amazed at his dedication. According to him, McBride will not give up until the last vestiges of SCO are thrown out of court. He will accept anything other than a defeat in the court. It is an interesting show to listen to, give it a shot
Well, President Bush is trying to get resesarch into the nuclear bunker buster...
You mean the nucular bunker buster, don't you?
You're right. It's just a bunch of hot air, really.
With something like 256 megs of RAM, startup times should not be a problem for most commonly-used applications. I personally have a browser and email client open all the time (and I suspect most other people do too). The sluggishness (or the lack of it) becomes apparent in things like scrolling pages, searching for emails. Even if you close an application, it is very likely to load quickly the next time around because chances are that parts of it are already there in memory (assuming you didn't do too much in between that would've flushed the cache)
For what it's worth, there *are* valid reasons to move forward with newer versions. For instance, I could never get X working reliably with my laptop (ATI Radeon Mobility 9200) with XFree86 4.3.x. I had to finally use XFree86 4.4 that Mandrake pulled out due to licensing concerns. X.org sounds promising though, I might give it a shot.