I won't worry about getting rated troll, because some idiot already did.
If you have a problem with the source license of djbdns, and I support you on this, why did Postfix get taken off the Powertools? In fact, why not use something GPL (EXIM). Exim is a very good mailserver, and I've found it to be more powerful than sendmail, and much easier to configure.
KHTML crashed consistently on me when I closed the file manager panel. CSS2 support the best? check your figures. Who said anything bout IE6? IE6 isn't even in the race dude.
You can flame me... but upgrade to a recent release of mozilla, _NOT_ M18. Mozilla 0.9.5 loads in 5 seconds on my machine, Konqueror loads in 8. Again, check your figures.
KHTML is way less stable than Mozilla, even though Mozilla isn't to 1.0 yet, it's the most stable browser ever made. I've had repeated problems in Konqueror when using kde 2.2.1, plus Mozilla already has windows supported quite well... If people are going to switch to Linux, why are they using AOL?
Plus Mozilla is truly a bigger browser than Konqueror. You have email, an address book, a WYSIWYG editor, and email handling just works better if it's in the same application as your browser. All that and I didn't even get into the speed advantage...
IE definatly had netscape compatibility problems when it was released, and it still does. Mozilla is very compatible with netscape pages, more than IE. Also, when AOL switches to Mozilla, the total of Mozilla+Netscape will be around 70%, so there is no way IE compatibility is even an issue. Way to go AOL!
ADSL is capable of 50Mbps down,
SDSL is capable of about 80Mpbs both ways.
Last time I saw a technical limit of Cable, it was 30Mbps, though Cable is a "Shared" service so there's no way you can get that kind of actual speed.
I'd say that likely they are really trying to help stop spam, though second to making a big amount of money. Is there something wrong with this? Considering that spam is illegal (in the US) I don't think so.
But, MAPS does a very poor job of accomplishing this goal. It stops people from using their own email server on a standard connection, and doesn't really stop much spam.
How do we fix it?
It's simple, it would work, but it might cost a little bit...
Block by DNS, not by IP#/IP subnet. And if there is no TLD (top level domain), block the email.
Why?
Someone can get a static dialup account, send out 5k emails, get dumped, switch providers, repeat.
If they blocked against TLD:
First, people who want to run an email server on their box using a dynamic ip, and their domain name can do so without any trouble, but not if they spam people.
Second, Spam is illegal, but when it's so and so at an isp who left, you can't do anything about it. When they need a domain name to send emails, they need to get a new one everytime they send out a pile of junk mail, and eventually either the law enforcement will get after them, or the MAPS provider will stick any domain at that address.
You're right, but that's only part of it. When I signed up for my ISP, they didn't tell me that I'd get sensored because they put their subnet in the DUL (mail-abuse.org). To me this is even more important, because if I don't like their methods of email servers, I can't run my own server. Don't get the opinion that MAPS stops spam, if it did I wouldn't be writing this. MAPS is extremely ineffecient.
You are being stupid to suggest that mail-abuse.org is actually helping things. Take my example...
I have exim running, I cannot email to afn.org. I also have a account on afn.org, I get spam very very often. Obviously the "solution" that mail-abuse.org is not only taking away the ability for people to email, it's also not working. First, they aren't working hard enough.
By banning against domains instead of ip addresses, the true spammers would also have a harder time. First they wouldn't be able to send from a static ip address (unless they have it on a domain name).
Second, the spammer, after dropping a load of emails, would have to get a new domain, and people would be able to, on their own, notice when he got a new one. The fact that domain names are mapped to people would make it more dangerous, and easier for law inforcement to stop.
In the current situation, MAPS providers don't block against an ip address, so a spammer can just get a static dialup account, drop a bunch of emails, switch providers, and so on.
Wether you are big into free speech, or if you really want to stop spam, you shouldn't be defending MAPS.
Ah, that's cheap stuff. I use Motherboard packaging for lack of other stuff. It keeps shorts from happening, but I can't really say wether or not it's using any power.
Dayrll Stuass didn't comment at all in this article, it would have been nice if he had, considering he's the only one who knows anything about hardware! Also, they didn't mention Video, at least they didn't make it a main point, which it should be.
SCSI? I didn't have any IRQ problems until I added SCSI hardware. In fact, I have free irq's but there's still major lockups when I use my AM12S. You can scream about scsi being faster, but is it really worth it? My ATA66 Segate performs at 7mb/s pretty solid, without even dma33 on. You need to optimize these to get speed out of them. Hdparm is your friend. SCSI has a way of being more than twice the cost, and a reviewer at linuxhardware.org found the Segate ATA Baracuda IV (a 80gb drive for $180) to be the fastest he ever tested, including scsi, this drive is also extremely quiet.
Maybe I should pretend to be Eric Raymond and right a article about a real dream system:-)
Who said anything about Redhat?
Obviously you don't know what you're talking about, If you are concerned with security, you should be using slackware, or maybe debian.
To me calling Linux Linux/GNU would be better than calling it GNU/Linux, in that Linux is more important than GNU, but that may be just the inverse of what RMS is stressing?
The only problem is, Joe's geek friend doesn't know that the Athlon XP 1800+ is actually faster than a P4 2ghz. I think this is also where Cyrix fell apart (yeah, and they froze up). By saying it's better then the MHZ they are actually getting off. This thing is a good processor though, and if it ever comes down from the stratosphere in price, it might be a steal. It's really not that much better than a Athlon 1.4ghz, which is currently $100 less... ($99). The only thing I don't understand about this is why aren't they just crushing intel with a 2.4ghz processor? AMD announced they would release 1.6ghz in October LAST year. I can't help but think that this isn't a desperate move, but more marketing. They gotta have that kind of technology.
In the mean time get a dual Athlon MP system. You can beat intel with megahertz, and also have a system that runs twice as fast. You can get 2 1.2ghz mp's, and a TigerMP motherboard for about $500, $50 less than a single P4 2ghz, and it doesn't come with a motherboard.
Did it occur to anyone that perhaps the reason why it gets better fpu performance... you mean flops, is because of Altivec? It doesn't really matter because they all suck on Linux.
If we use a bunch of energy efficient cars nobody will ever develop a Electric car that actually works. SUV's and Minivans can also hold a lot more people than your tipical 4 door sports car. When you get right down to it, a Mustang can use more than a lot of SUV's. If the price of gas went out of sight, it would be simple to use Alchohol... but do to a bunch of people who drink, um "beer" and the like, it's illegal.
Ultimatly I'd rather have a flying saucer than a energy efficient car.
Don't think you're going to be able to sell a electric car because it "saves the envirenment", in truth the power plants are ruining it with Coal just about as much as cars do with gas. The advantages of a electric car would be humoungus, but not including envirenmental, unless the government actually starts encouraging nuclear power.
An electric car (without heavy batteries...) would be able to
1. Accellerate faster
2. Have a higher top speed
3. Faster stoping (just flip it in reverse)
4. No Transmission, therefore lighter.
Stop complaining about Intel, and do something to help... BUY AMD! Why would you even consider a Taulatin for $400, when you can get Athlon MP for $150? Get 2 of them, and a TigerMP Mainboard for $500, just $100 more than on Taulatin. Btw, the Athlon MP's overclock quite well to 1.4ghz, a speed that beats 2.2ghz p4 easily, get 2 of them... big bragging power!:-)
I've found for usability, Afterstep is the best. Before CmdrTaco had 1.5gigs of ram he used it:-) Afterstep is faster in my testing than blackbox, and it looks better/works better. I just don't like the lack of Afterstep support, but then again usually the elite are few.
Most people ignore the stuff on Mozilla.org that says they haven't even started optimizing. They want to make a virtially bug-free, standards compliant, stable base, then make it fast.
As a web designer I applaud this greatly. Go ahead and compare it against IE, because it's slower than lynx, but don't compare vs Konqueror, and act like Mozilla is behind. Mozilla beats the tar.gz out of Konqueror for stability:-)
"I tried M18 and it was slow" isn't a very good excuse, M18 is a year old. 0.9.x is very usable on 300-500mhz machines with 64mb ram.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for
days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also -- Genesis 1:14-16
Truth is, the first Celestial body was Earth. If you really want to get into origins you have to go back to the Creator.
If you're comparing against MS Office, it's a unfair comparison, because they load up most of it when windows starts. Also, this is a Notebook computer, remember that the hard drives in them are very slow. So, on a desktop with 550mhz desktop with 256mb of ram it ought to be more like 8 seconds... especially if you aren't running kde:-)
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I won't worry about getting rated troll, because some idiot already did.
If you have a problem with the source license of djbdns, and I support you on this, why did Postfix get taken off the Powertools? In fact, why not use something GPL (EXIM). Exim is a very good mailserver, and I've found it to be more powerful than sendmail, and much easier to configure.
I'd like to learn both EMacs, I already move around in VI pretty well, but where do we start? Is there a "Getting Started with Emacs" anywhere?
KHTML crashed consistently on me when I closed the file manager panel. CSS2 support the best? check your figures. Who said anything bout IE6? IE6 isn't even in the race dude.
You can flame me... but upgrade to a recent release of mozilla, _NOT_ M18. Mozilla 0.9.5 loads in 5 seconds on my machine, Konqueror loads in 8. Again, check your figures.
KHTML is way less stable than Mozilla, even though Mozilla isn't to 1.0 yet, it's the most stable browser ever made. I've had repeated problems in Konqueror when using kde 2.2.1, plus Mozilla already has windows supported quite well... If people are going to switch to Linux, why are they using AOL?
Plus Mozilla is truly a bigger browser than Konqueror. You have email, an address book, a WYSIWYG editor, and email handling just works better if it's in the same application as your browser. All that and I didn't even get into the speed advantage...
IE definatly had netscape compatibility problems when it was released, and it still does. Mozilla is very compatible with netscape pages, more than IE. Also, when AOL switches to Mozilla, the total of Mozilla+Netscape will be around 70%, so there is no way IE compatibility is even an issue. Way to go AOL!
ADSL is capable of 50Mbps down,
SDSL is capable of about 80Mpbs both ways.
Last time I saw a technical limit of Cable, it was 30Mbps, though Cable is a "Shared" service so there's no way you can get that kind of actual speed.
8Mbps will trash a $50 dsl connection. And 1mbps uplink is like a T1... they cost at least $400, though more like $1200 where I am.
What's the idea of MAPS?
I'd say that likely they are really trying to help stop spam, though second to making a big amount of money. Is there something wrong with this? Considering that spam is illegal (in the US) I don't think so.
But, MAPS does a very poor job of accomplishing this goal. It stops people from using their own email server on a standard connection, and doesn't really stop much spam.
How do we fix it?
It's simple, it would work, but it might cost a little bit...
Block by DNS, not by IP#/IP subnet. And if there is no TLD (top level domain), block the email.
Why?
Someone can get a static dialup account, send out 5k emails, get dumped, switch providers, repeat.
If they blocked against TLD:
First, people who want to run an email server on their box using a dynamic ip, and their domain name can do so without any trouble, but not if they spam people.
Second, Spam is illegal, but when it's so and so at an isp who left, you can't do anything about it. When they need a domain name to send emails, they need to get a new one everytime they send out a pile of junk mail, and eventually either the law enforcement will get after them, or the MAPS provider will stick any domain at that address.
You're right, but that's only part of it. When I signed up for my ISP, they didn't tell me that I'd get sensored because they put their subnet in the DUL (mail-abuse.org). To me this is even more important, because if I don't like their methods of email servers, I can't run my own server. Don't get the opinion that MAPS stops spam, if it did I wouldn't be writing this. MAPS is extremely ineffecient.
You are being stupid to suggest that mail-abuse.org is actually helping things. Take my example...
I have exim running, I cannot email to afn.org. I also have a account on afn.org, I get spam very very often. Obviously the "solution" that mail-abuse.org is not only taking away the ability for people to email, it's also not working. First, they aren't working hard enough.
By banning against domains instead of ip addresses, the true spammers would also have a harder time. First they wouldn't be able to send from a static ip address (unless they have it on a domain name).
Second, the spammer, after dropping a load of emails, would have to get a new domain, and people would be able to, on their own, notice when he got a new one. The fact that domain names are mapped to people would make it more dangerous, and easier for law inforcement to stop.
In the current situation, MAPS providers don't block against an ip address, so a spammer can just get a static dialup account, drop a bunch of emails, switch providers, and so on.
Wether you are big into free speech, or if you really want to stop spam, you shouldn't be defending MAPS.
Ah, that's cheap stuff. I use Motherboard packaging for lack of other stuff. It keeps shorts from happening, but I can't really say wether or not it's using any power.
Dayrll Stuass didn't comment at all in this article, it would have been nice if he had, considering he's the only one who knows anything about hardware! Also, they didn't mention Video, at least they didn't make it a main point, which it should be.
:-)
SCSI? I didn't have any IRQ problems until I added SCSI hardware. In fact, I have free irq's but there's still major lockups when I use my AM12S. You can scream about scsi being faster, but is it really worth it? My ATA66 Segate performs at 7mb/s pretty solid, without even dma33 on. You need to optimize these to get speed out of them. Hdparm is your friend. SCSI has a way of being more than twice the cost, and a reviewer at linuxhardware.org found the Segate ATA Baracuda IV (a 80gb drive for $180) to be the fastest he ever tested, including scsi, this drive is also extremely quiet.
Maybe I should pretend to be Eric Raymond and right a article about a real dream system
Who said anything about Redhat?
Obviously you don't know what you're talking about, If you are concerned with security, you should be using slackware, or maybe debian.
To me calling Linux Linux/GNU would be better than calling it GNU/Linux, in that Linux is more important than GNU, but that may be just the inverse of what RMS is stressing?
The only problem is, Joe's geek friend doesn't know that the Athlon XP 1800+ is actually faster than a P4 2ghz. I think this is also where Cyrix fell apart (yeah, and they froze up). By saying it's better then the MHZ they are actually getting off. This thing is a good processor though, and if it ever comes down from the stratosphere in price, it might be a steal. It's really not that much better than a Athlon 1.4ghz, which is currently $100 less... ($99). The only thing I don't understand about this is why aren't they just crushing intel with a 2.4ghz processor? AMD announced they would release 1.6ghz in October LAST year. I can't help but think that this isn't a desperate move, but more marketing. They gotta have that kind of technology.
In the mean time get a dual Athlon MP system. You can beat intel with megahertz, and also have a system that runs twice as fast. You can get 2 1.2ghz mp's, and a TigerMP motherboard for about $500, $50 less than a single P4 2ghz, and it doesn't come with a motherboard.
Did it occur to anyone that perhaps the reason why it gets better fpu performance... you mean flops, is because of Altivec? It doesn't really matter because they all suck on Linux.
If we use a bunch of energy efficient cars nobody will ever develop a Electric car that actually works. SUV's and Minivans can also hold a lot more people than your tipical 4 door sports car. When you get right down to it, a Mustang can use more than a lot of SUV's. If the price of gas went out of sight, it would be simple to use Alchohol... but do to a bunch of people who drink, um "beer" and the like, it's illegal.
Ultimatly I'd rather have a flying saucer than a energy efficient car.
Don't think you're going to be able to sell a electric car because it "saves the envirenment", in truth the power plants are ruining it with Coal just about as much as cars do with gas. The advantages of a electric car would be humoungus, but not including envirenmental, unless the government actually starts encouraging nuclear power.
An electric car (without heavy batteries...) would be able to
1. Accellerate faster
2. Have a higher top speed
3. Faster stoping (just flip it in reverse)
4. No Transmission, therefore lighter.
You can get a speeding fine on a bicicle, consider 20mph zones... I've heard of people getting stopped for going over 20 in them.
Opera tries to be small, Mozilla will work on that later. Mozilla is probably more stable though.
Stop complaining about Intel, and do something to help... BUY AMD! Why would you even consider a Taulatin for $400, when you can get Athlon MP for $150? Get 2 of them, and a TigerMP Mainboard for $500, just $100 more than on Taulatin. Btw, the Athlon MP's overclock quite well to 1.4ghz, a speed that beats 2.2ghz p4 easily, get 2 of them... big bragging power! :-)
I've found for usability, Afterstep is the best. Before CmdrTaco had 1.5gigs of ram he used it :-) Afterstep is faster in my testing than blackbox, and it looks better/works better. I just don't like the lack of Afterstep support, but then again usually the elite are few.
Most people ignore the stuff on Mozilla.org that says they haven't even started optimizing. They want to make a virtially bug-free, standards compliant, stable base, then make it fast.
:-)
As a web designer I applaud this greatly. Go ahead and compare it against IE, because it's slower than lynx, but don't compare vs Konqueror, and act like Mozilla is behind. Mozilla beats the tar.gz out of Konqueror for stability
"I tried M18 and it was slow" isn't a very good excuse, M18 is a year old. 0.9.x is very usable on 300-500mhz machines with 64mb ram.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for
days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also -- Genesis 1:14-16
Truth is, the first Celestial body was Earth. If you really want to get into origins you have to go back to the Creator.
Kmail? Who said anything about evolution, mozilla is more than just a browser.
Konqueror? I must admit they have come quite far scince the origional kfm, but it still lags behind Mozilla.
KFM is really quite above Nautilus, but Nautilus doesn't look like Windows 95.
If you're comparing against MS Office, it's a unfair comparison, because they load up most of it when windows starts. Also, this is a Notebook computer, remember that the hard drives in them are very slow. So, on a desktop with 550mhz desktop with 256mb of ram it ought to be more like 8 seconds... especially if you aren't running kde :-)