Has anyone at MS ever had an original thought? Ever? The newsbot reinforces the fact that they have not. Everything they have ever sold or offered is pilfered from someone else. I used to think they had some smart folks over in Redmond, but it appears they are just greedy and lazy. Say what you will about the likes of Apple and Sun, but at least theytry to innnovate.
Listening to people yabber on the phone is much more annoying than having normal conversation around you. People tend to talk much louder when on the telephone -- go into any coffee shop and see for yourself. Their voice is adjusted for the person on the other end of the line, rather than for those in the room. Aside from that, having to deal with non-stop ringing throughout the cabin would be just as bad. Its bad enough when you land, and have to put up with everyone's cell phone going off. An entire flight of that would be maddening.
As you can tell, I despise cell phones. I am waiting for personal cell interference devices that block cell signals within some radius. I know that some have been developed for places like theaters, but it would be wonderful if there were portable versions.
Print FRAGILE on a box that you give to UPS or anyone else. I know several ***holes who work for one of these companies; "fragile" is their cue to kick the hell out of the package.
Theres a pretty good consensus these days that the earth is anything but in balance; in fact non-equilibrium is the rule, rather than the exception!
I think the uncertainty associated with releasing modestly-altered insects as a biocontrol agent is better than the morecertain damage that would be caused trying to do the job with pesticides.
You do not know how many times that I have been reduced to tears by Netscape 4.7 for linux. It crashes a dozen times a day, easy. I get no better preformance from the Mozilla builds, but hey, they are pre-beta, so I cant complain about that. I WILL EASILY PAY $40 FOR A BROWSER THAT WORKS. After my trusty XFMail, Netscape is the application that I use most, and it does not fit the bill. It would be great if Opera were free, but its not, but in the meantime, I will support good software.
Have a look at the relative size of your Mozilla and this so called "bloated browser". The Opera that I downloaded was about 900K. I cant remember how big the last Mozilla nightly build was, but it was no less than 7MB!! It should be harpooned for blubber.
The following is Darren Starr's posting to the Opera newsgroup. Among the goals, he states that making Opera friendly with the various window managers is among theirt current tasks:
--Begin Quote --
Well, it's been a while since I've talked in the news group. I've really preferred to try and keep things as quiet as possible while making the "Feature Complete" landmark. We've been doing a whole lot of work on the project and we're getting dangerously close to beta 1. Beta 1 will sybolize the point in time where we'll ask the users to start slamming the bug reporting system so we can work out every little detail in the product. In order to reach the Beta 1 point, the goals that need to be met by the development team are as follows : - Implement 100% of the features to be in the final version - Increase stability (as much as possible, but that's really the beta test thing) - Create packages for all major packaging systems - Organize packages or links to packages for Qt 2.1 - Setup a web server specifically for the "Opera for Linux Project" - Make the browser friendly with a few window managers, Gnome and KDE then others - Get Opera to work with several e-mail packages - Port to big endian systems (image decoders are a little rough) - Create documentation - IMPLEMENT THE DANG OPERA 4.0 FOR LINUX SPLASH SCREEN (about box too)
To make all this happen, we're going to get the Opera for Linxu web server up and running over the next week. The page will initially be really rough. The reasoning is, it will be handled by the development team directly (this cuts down on the need to get one of our web developers to assist every time we need a change). The server will be named http://linux.opera.no and should be updated very regularly. We also will begin to make builds ready within 15 days of each other. Possibly more often is possible.
We're now beginning to implement a rough make system that will generate compact executables and packages. Once this system is fully functional, we hope to generate files for the following : Redhat 6.X RPM & Tarball (x86, Alpha, Sparc) Suse 6.X RPM & Tarball (x86) Debian 2.1 DEB & Tarball (x86) This of course is only a very partial list, but it will grow with time.
The last point that I've always found fun is, we're going to start making.plan files for the developers. In these plans we'll make all kinds of crazy remarks and comments and we'll talk about what we're working on. Some of the guys aren't interested, but at least the leaders on the project will contribute to this. I'm sure that I will.
I guess for now, it's best to leave what has been said at that and we'll say more on the new web site.
Thanks for being a great group of users and testers! Darren
P.S. - Currently I receive in excess of 400 new e-mails a day (strictly from this project) and I work very hard to take care of as many as possible, however my primary goal at all times is making this project successful. So please do not e-mail me directly unless it is of critical importance. We'll have a bug reporting e-mail address in place soon. We'll even get a wishlist4.1@linux.opera.no mailing address setup.
I'm running it just fine from CorelLinux, which is Debian-based. I had a lot of trouble with the.deb that they've posted, and fell back to the tarball. Are your qtlib's the right version (2.1)?
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it is *UGLY*.
.NET apps, I predict that it is *SLOW*. Just a prediction, though.
You have to admit that. And as with all
Has anyone at MS ever had an original thought? Ever? The newsbot reinforces the fact that they have not. Everything they have ever sold or offered is pilfered from someone else. I used to think they had some smart folks over in Redmond, but it appears they are just greedy and lazy. Say what you will about the likes of Apple and Sun, but at least theytry to innnovate.
W. may be stupid, but he isn't evil. Same can't be said for president vegetable.
True enough, you win.
God, he's a dork.
So, people actually download that hippie crap, huh?
IBM could end this quickly by buying SCO outright, then promptly disbanding the company. I hope that is what happens, because SCO deserves it.
The attitude is easy to explain: VB sucks ass.
So youre an idiot, and now everyone knows it.
Listening to people yabber on the phone is much more annoying than having normal conversation around you. People tend to talk much louder when on the telephone -- go into any coffee shop and see for yourself. Their voice is adjusted for the person on the other end of the line, rather than for those in the room. Aside from that, having to deal with non-stop ringing throughout the cabin would be just as bad. Its bad enough when you land, and have to put up with everyone's cell phone going off. An entire flight of that would be maddening.
As you can tell, I despise cell phones. I am waiting for personal cell interference devices that block cell signals within some radius. I know that some have been developed for places like theaters, but it would be wonderful if there were portable versions.
Worst distribution I've ever seen ... good riddance.
What the hell are you talking about?
Kodak is one of the real losers when it comes to releasing specs. Scratch them from the list, and add them to your blacklist.
Gordon Campbell is one shady character though, you gotta admit. They were elected by default.
cjf
Athens, GA
Never quote Tori Amos. It is a fatal blow to your credibility. Not even she knows what she says half the time.
Print FRAGILE on a box that you give to UPS or anyone else. I know several ***holes who work for one of these companies; "fragile" is their cue to kick the hell out of the package.
I agree. Galeon is about as good as it gets. I especially like the "no popups" option.
Always adds to your credibility when you know how to spell ...
Theres a pretty good consensus these days that the earth is anything but in balance; in fact non-equilibrium is the rule, rather than the exception!
I think the uncertainty associated with releasing modestly-altered insects as a biocontrol agent is better than the morecertain damage that would be caused trying to do the job with pesticides.
It tends to freeze up, and take the CPU to about 90%. I've reinstalled it, cleared caches, changed versions. Chronic problem.
Make sure that your QT libraries are v. 2.1 and use the tarball rather than the .deb
You do not know how many times that I have been reduced to tears by Netscape 4.7 for linux. It crashes a dozen times a day, easy. I get no better preformance from the Mozilla builds, but hey, they are pre-beta, so I cant complain about that. I WILL EASILY PAY $40 FOR A BROWSER THAT WORKS. After my trusty XFMail, Netscape is the application that I use most, and it does not fit the bill. It would be great if Opera were free, but its not, but in the meantime, I will support good software.
Have a look at the relative size of your Mozilla and this so called "bloated browser". The Opera that I downloaded was about 900K. I cant remember how big the last Mozilla nightly build was, but it was no less than 7MB!! It should be harpooned for blubber.
The following is Darren Starr's posting to the Opera newsgroup. Among the goals, he states that making Opera friendly with the various window managers is among theirt current tasks:
.plan files for the developers. In these plans we'll make all
- -------------------------
--Begin Quote --
Well, it's been a while since I've talked in the news group. I've really
preferred to try and keep things as quiet as possible while making the
"Feature Complete" landmark. We've been doing a whole lot of work on the
project and we're getting dangerously close to beta 1. Beta 1 will
sybolize the point in time where we'll ask the users to start slamming
the bug reporting system so we can work out every little detail in the
product. In order to reach the Beta 1 point, the goals that need to be
met by the development team are as follows :
- Implement 100% of the features to be in the final version
- Increase stability (as much as possible, but that's really the
beta test thing)
- Create packages for all major packaging systems
- Organize packages or links to packages for Qt 2.1
- Setup a web server specifically for the "Opera for Linux Project"
- Make the browser friendly with a few window managers, Gnome and
KDE then others
- Get Opera to work with several e-mail packages
- Port to big endian systems (image decoders are a little rough)
- Create documentation
- IMPLEMENT THE DANG OPERA 4.0 FOR LINUX SPLASH SCREEN (about box
too)
To make all this happen, we're going to get the Opera for Linxu web
server up and running over the next week. The page will initially be
really rough. The reasoning is, it will be handled by the development
team directly (this cuts down on the need to get one of our web
developers to assist every time we need a change). The server will be
named http://linux.opera.no and should be updated very regularly. We
also will begin to make builds ready within 15 days of each other.
Possibly more often is possible.
We're now beginning to implement a rough make system that will generate
compact executables and packages. Once this system is fully functional,
we hope to generate files for the following :
Redhat 6.X RPM & Tarball (x86, Alpha, Sparc)
Suse 6.X RPM & Tarball (x86)
Debian 2.1 DEB & Tarball (x86)
This of course is only a very partial list, but it will grow with time.
The last point that I've always found fun is, we're going to start
making
kinds of crazy remarks and comments and we'll talk about what we're
working on. Some of the guys aren't interested, but at least the leaders
on the project will contribute to this. I'm sure that I will.
I guess for now, it's best to leave what has been said at that and we'll
say more on the new web site.
Thanks for being a great group of users and testers!
Darren
P.S. - Currently I receive in excess of 400 new e-mails a day (strictly
from this project) and I work very hard to take care of as many as
possible, however my primary goal at all times is making this project
successful. So please do not e-mail me directly unless it is of critical
importance. We'll have a bug reporting e-mail address in place soon.
We'll even get a wishlist4.1@linux.opera.no mailing address setup.
-----------------------------------------------
Darren R. Starr - Lead Developer of Opera for Linux
Opera Software A.S.
dstarr@opera.com
-- End Qoute --
I'm running it just fine from CorelLinux, which is Debian-based. I had a lot of trouble with the .deb that they've posted, and fell back to the tarball. Are your qtlib's the right version (2.1)?