172.16 is a private class B IP address, like 10.x.x.x is class A and 192.168.x.x is class B. You've just unleashed a packet storm on your own subnet that will never pass the first router.
Everytime an article links to OSNews, 26 people have to chime in about why should they care what Eugenia thinks.
But the fact remains: If Gnome wants to increase userbase, they must satisfy basic needs and address the concerns of at least some portion of their users, not just one subsection, like corporate users. If they don't, they should at least have a simple way to allow users to share feedback. Bugzilla is NOT that way.
Perhaps it is true that Gnome, or any large OSS project, can't cater to all users, but how do they know what the "majority" of users even want? Certainly not by viewing the Bugzilla feature requests. Bugzilla is for developers. Real users wants a dead-ease feedback page that doesn't require registration.
Love her or not, Eugenia is right on on this one. And I am right on.... to XFCE.
Sorry buddy, but there's no file system upgrade here. WinFS is a Windows Service that runs on top of NTFS - the same version of NTFS, incidentally, that is present in Windows XP.
What's funny is that Google was so much better at doing what Yahoo did 'for years' that Yahoo used their technology for their searches and indexing up for a few years up until the latest version of Slurp! started crawling.
MSN sucked. They had to rewrite their engine.
Hotbot started to suck. It now uses Google. iwon.com sucked. They use Google. Dogpile/webcrawler - yep, they primarily use Google to build their own index.
Google didn't just walk in and do the same thing, they reinvented the way it was done. For everyone!
In this world, as soon as a company becomes the best at something, people begin to hate them just because they're they best. That's you, dude.
Google's competency is searching and effective indexing.
Google maps, Google suggest, Google local, Google movies, Gmail, Google weather - all of that is just searching their indexes and getting results in a more customized template.
Google hasn't strayed so far from their original aim. Remember they said they wanted to index the entire internet? Well, they are.
Rrrrr... I did get my facts crossed. Somehow, I got Whitebox, which we actually used on one server, confused with cAos Linux and CentOS, which are both projects from the same peeps. My bad, definitely.
Incidentally, I have installed packages, in a previous server install, from a Fedora yum repo to Whitebox. It worked just fine.
It's not new. It used to be Whitebox Linux, and then the two projects merged. It's certainly not a novel idea to recompile all of Red Hat's SRPMs. Remember linuxinstall.org? Or JAMD? All of these projects are essentially recompiles plus one or two tweaks.
Whitebox is/was pretty popular, and CentOS looks to be a good product too. It's not quite the new fledling it seems you think. You should try it. It even works with regular RHEL/Fedora yum repositories.
Good interface: Microsoft's Anti-spyware. My mom gets it. Bad: Sybot Search & Destroy. I still think it's strange.
Good interface: SmartFTP. Makes perfect sense. Bad interface: Filezilla. Different from the UI of every other (successful) FTP client out there.
Good UI: Google. So good that all other search engines basically adopted their interface.
A good UI can contain a ton of options, but doesn't crowd or confuse the user. Only the common options are immediately available. The mouse OR keys can accomplish most tasks alone. The menus are logical. The widgets are where they are supposed to be. The fonts fit the system. The images aren't crappy and dithered. The interface doesn't behave in unexpected ways (sudden resizing, etc). Users don't get frustrated (meaning, it doesn't steal control of your session.
Most importantly, don't underestimate the power of simplicity.
Ha ha. I don't think "IE" can go below "IE" in this game.
Firefox gets "lumped" with Netscape because Mozilla started from Netscape and Firefox derives from Mozilla.
We all know that, but they haven't been the same in literally years - Netscape hasn't been a credible force since Communicator 4.7 (truthfully, barely even then...), and it wasn't until 6 that there was Mozilla code. That was a lifetime ago in open source code years. Born of the same cloth doesn't make you the same today - and they most definitely aren't. If you argue that, I'd ask you to spend a few weeks using that UI disaster that was the Netscape 8 preview based on FF1.0.
Also, the editors are lazy. Have they updated the Gnome icon yet?
But how can they be lazy, I wonder? Most people come to this site for FUN. I'd expect they might enjoy mixing it up with current icons.
Firefox is getting to be a force to be reckoned with, but for some reason, even the Slashdot editors, supposed OpenSource proponents, continue to lump it with Netscape in their topic pool.
How about a little legitimacy for Firefox/Mozilla with its own topic icon? It's the #2 browser in the world, something BILLIONS of people use everyday (a browser, not ff itself). How does "Apple" get a handful of topics, but Firefox, used by more people then Apple computers all together, get relegated to a 4 year old dead browser?
C'mon editors! How about giving Firefox some props?
Let me be the first to say that this is a GOOD thing.
God knows, Microsoft would not be the only group to have the need to strip/edit source code comments. I believe we should try to be constructive instead of 320 comments rated 0 or 1 that trash Microsoft for having naughties in the comments. Every bit of code I've ever seen tends to have jokes, sarcastic quips, etc embedded.
I can only imagine what the comments might be though. Maybe stuff like
/* next 10 lines stolen directly from OpenBSD */
or maybe
/* add the next bit to ensure that this code will *never* work in Gecko!! Hahahaha */
and by far, the best is readysetconnect. I tried wholemilk, liquidweb, addr.com, Xlan, and several others with my many domains.
Most hosts have their own personal strengths and weakness, like for example, Xlan.org is fantastic if you want a Scoop site, but not as good if you need to have immediate support available. Addr.com is completely reliable, but their plans suck.
Take my advice - go for whomever you want, but make sure they use cPanel. It's WELL worth it, and you can pretty much control your own destiny.
Until FOSS can replace Outlook, Office is a necessity. In fact, most people I work with use Outlook all day everyday and would be perfectly happy on Writer and Calc. But until we can't ditch Outlook, because that's what everyone knows.
Just have some mercenary script kiddie write a virus to infect Windows machine to reset the activation bit. Imagine getting hit with this over and over before you get a chance to patch your system. Reactivate, get infected, reactivate, get infected, reactivate, get infected...
Look, everyone's going to be excited about this, but let's just say this and get it out of the way:
All this did was correct stuff that was already WAY overpriced to begin with. I'm thrilled, and this pretty much seals up that I'll buy a mini, but I don't think it makes a huge difference to most people, maybe just to those on the fence. If they weren't going to buy one before, they probably won't now just because of these incremental price "normalizations."
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Gee, thanks for correcting me!!
I bet you're a loty of fun at parties, huh?
er...192.168.x.x is class C. Sorry for that typo.
Nice work.
172.16 is a private class B IP address, like 10.x.x.x is class A and 192.168.x.x is class B. You've just unleashed a packet storm on your own subnet that will never pass the first router.
Before anybody starts up with the name, let me quickly quote the Kubuntu FAQ:
What does kubuntu mean?
It means "towards humanity" in Bemba.
I run Mandrake because it's "easy," and I've never used a non-RPM based distro
Really? What exactly is Mandrake? Have you ever used urpmi?
Everytime an article links to OSNews, 26 people have to chime in about why should they care what Eugenia thinks.
But the fact remains: If Gnome wants to increase userbase, they must satisfy basic needs and address the concerns of at least some portion of their users, not just one subsection, like corporate users. If they don't, they should at least have a simple way to allow users to share feedback. Bugzilla is NOT that way.
Perhaps it is true that Gnome, or any large OSS project, can't cater to all users, but how do they know what the "majority" of users even want? Certainly not by viewing the Bugzilla feature requests. Bugzilla is for developers. Real users wants a dead-ease feedback page that doesn't require registration.
Love her or not, Eugenia is right on on this one. And I am right on.... to XFCE.
Sorry buddy, but there's no file system upgrade here. WinFS is a Windows Service that runs on top of NTFS - the same version of NTFS, incidentally, that is present in Windows XP.
but as the old saying goes, however hard you try, you can't polish a turd
Actually, the saying goes:
"You can polish a turd all you want, but it's still a turd."
What's funny is that Google was so much better at doing what Yahoo did 'for years' that Yahoo used their technology for their searches and indexing up for a few years up until the latest version of Slurp! started crawling.
MSN sucked. They had to rewrite their engine.
Hotbot started to suck. It now uses Google.
iwon.com sucked. They use Google.
Dogpile/webcrawler - yep, they primarily use Google to build their own index.
Google didn't just walk in and do the same thing, they reinvented the way it was done. For everyone!
In this world, as soon as a company becomes the best at something, people begin to hate them just because they're they best. That's you, dude.
Not really. The biggest benefit of Gmail is the ability to search, not organize. Same with Groups.
And Picasa indexes your photos.
All Google projects tend to make it more practical to search than to organize.
and if only the introduced folders and got of their weird no folder notion..
Dork. You should go use Hotmail. The notion of labels is why most people LIKE Gmail!
Google's competency is searching and effective indexing.
Google maps, Google suggest, Google local, Google movies, Gmail, Google weather - all of that is just searching their indexes and getting results in a more customized template.
Google hasn't strayed so far from their original aim. Remember they said they wanted to index the entire internet? Well, they are.
This is why I was confused.
Rrrrr... I did get my facts crossed. Somehow, I got Whitebox, which we actually used on one server, confused with cAos Linux and CentOS, which are both projects from the same peeps. My bad, definitely.
Incidentally, I have installed packages, in a previous server install, from a Fedora yum repo to Whitebox. It worked just fine.
It's not new. It used to be Whitebox Linux, and then the two projects merged. It's certainly not a novel idea to recompile all of Red Hat's SRPMs. Remember linuxinstall.org? Or JAMD? All of these projects are essentially recompiles plus one or two tweaks.
Whitebox is/was pretty popular, and CentOS looks to be a good product too. It's not quite the new fledling it seems you think. You should try it. It even works with regular RHEL/Fedora yum repositories.
Good interface: Microsoft's Anti-spyware. My mom gets it.
Bad: Sybot Search & Destroy. I still think it's strange.
Good interface: SmartFTP. Makes perfect sense.
Bad interface: Filezilla. Different from the UI of every other (successful) FTP client out there.
Good UI: Google. So good that all other search engines basically adopted their interface.
A good UI can contain a ton of options, but doesn't crowd or confuse the user. Only the common options are immediately available. The mouse OR keys can accomplish most tasks alone. The menus are logical. The widgets are where they are supposed to be. The fonts fit the system. The images aren't crappy and dithered. The interface doesn't behave in unexpected ways (sudden resizing, etc). Users don't get frustrated (meaning, it doesn't steal control of your session.
Most importantly, don't underestimate the power of simplicity.
Just wisely disallowed Slashdot as a referrer.
[Click here] for the homepage, and follow the link to the burgler page.
That was one of the best laughs I've gotten from Slashdot in a LONG time. Nice work!
Actually, the #2 browser under IE6 is IE5. :P
Ha ha. I don't think "IE" can go below "IE" in this game.
Firefox gets "lumped" with Netscape because Mozilla started from Netscape and Firefox derives from Mozilla.
We all know that, but they haven't been the same in literally years - Netscape hasn't been a credible force since Communicator 4.7 (truthfully, barely even then...), and it wasn't until 6 that there was Mozilla code. That was a lifetime ago in open source code years. Born of the same cloth doesn't make you the same today - and they most definitely aren't. If you argue that, I'd ask you to spend a few weeks using that UI disaster that was the Netscape 8 preview based on FF1.0.
Also, the editors are lazy. Have they updated the Gnome icon yet?
But how can they be lazy, I wonder? Most people come to this site for FUN. I'd expect they might enjoy mixing it up with current icons.
Firefox is getting to be a force to be reckoned with, but for some reason, even the Slashdot editors, supposed OpenSource proponents, continue to lump it with Netscape in their topic pool.
How about a little legitimacy for Firefox/Mozilla with its own topic icon? It's the #2 browser in the world, something BILLIONS of people use everyday (a browser, not ff itself). How does "Apple" get a handful of topics, but Firefox, used by more people then Apple computers all together, get relegated to a 4 year old dead browser?
C'mon editors! How about giving Firefox some props?
Let me be the first to say that this is a GOOD thing.
God knows, Microsoft would not be the only group to have the need to strip/edit source code comments. I believe we should try to be constructive instead of 320 comments rated 0 or 1 that trash Microsoft for having naughties in the comments. Every bit of code I've ever seen tends to have jokes, sarcastic quips, etc embedded.
I can only imagine what the comments might be though. Maybe stuff like
/* next 10 lines stolen directly from OpenBSD */
or maybe
/* add the next bit to ensure that this code will *never* work in Gecko!! Hahahaha */
and by far, the best is readysetconnect. I tried wholemilk, liquidweb, addr.com, Xlan, and several others with my many domains.
Most hosts have their own personal strengths and weakness, like for example, Xlan.org is fantastic if you want a Scoop site, but not as good if you need to have immediate support available. Addr.com is completely reliable, but their plans suck.
Take my advice - go for whomever you want, but make sure they use cPanel. It's WELL worth it, and you can pretty much control your own destiny.
One word: Outlook.
Until FOSS can replace Outlook, Office is a necessity. In fact, most people I work with use Outlook all day everyday and would be perfectly happy on Writer and Calc. But until we can't ditch Outlook, because that's what everyone knows.
Uh, yeah, great solution.
Just have some mercenary script kiddie write a virus to infect Windows machine to reset the activation bit. Imagine getting hit with this over and over before you get a chance to patch your system. Reactivate, get infected, reactivate, get infected, reactivate, get infected...
Look, everyone's going to be excited about this, but let's just say this and get it out of the way:
All this did was correct stuff that was already WAY overpriced to begin with. I'm thrilled, and this pretty much seals up that I'll buy a mini, but I don't think it makes a huge difference to most people, maybe just to those on the fence. If they weren't going to buy one before, they probably won't now just because of these incremental price "normalizations."