This is a troll, why did it get modded up?
It takes less than 2 sec to load on my machine with the always-in-memory loader turned off. And it uses up about 12 megs of ram at idle (blank page), the rest is just the html and images in memory which every browser has.
Seriously, I think it's comparable if not slightly higher than IE. And some dists of Mozilla, like Phoenix, Galeon, and K-Meleon are actually smaller than IE.
IMO, you are absolutely right when you say it being "Free as in speech" is a big advantage. However, neither of our opinions will make open source software competitive to MS's products in the mainstream market. The average person could care less about the source being available.
And if open source stuff doesn't dent MS's products, how's it supposed to promote innovation? Competition breeds innovation, non-competitive alternative products do not necessarily.
The usual opinion seems to be that MS will eventually bring itself down because of oppressive licensing tactics, etc.
The unfortunate thing is that they have actually been getting better in stability and security in their products. If they continue to improve their products to a point where they are actually half-decent, the only upperhand we'll still have is that opensource software is free as in beer.
I like seeing opensource stuff because it is free, but also because it's an alternative. Having competition means innovation and better products all around. But if people stop seeing Microsoft software as crappy and crash-prone then what incentive is there to switch away from it?
You were modded as flamebait because you expressed a fairly strong opinion without backing it up.
In this later post you did indeed say why you enjoy using FreeBSD, but again there was no stated reason to lead us to believe "linux sucks" for everyone. Many people take this type of posting as trolling.
To avoid such a rating, you could have said "I disagree with the ideology of the Linux community." Or "FreeBsd does everything I need it to, and I get the benefit of saying that I don't belong to the all-too-trendy group running RedHat's latest release."
From what I know of Active Directory, it's an LDAP implementation. There are quite a few resources on the internet that describe setting up a linux server using samba and openldap as a primary domain controller. My understanding of the Windows IT world is fairly limited, but I think this is basically how Windows does it.
I've made a linux server that was used by a network of windows machines for authentication. The user data was kept in an openldap database.
I just listen to music and am annoyed that the RIAA attempts to prevent me from doing that. I'm not out a fundamental change in anything.;)
And although I am in favor of free software, that by no means is because I think commercial software should not exist.
Taking a hard line like this isn't going to get you anywhere. My favorite musicians are under the RIAA umbrella because it makes it easier to do what they really want to do; make music.
The majority of webcasters already pay money for the use of the content. They currently have been paying the same rates as normal radio stations. The RIAA wants them to pay MORE money because they are capable of broadcasting "near CD quality music."
I am going to continue to badmouth the RIAA because they are money-grubbing bastards.
Tough shit. It's called due process and is guaranteed by the Constitution. Deal with it.
Not to be contrary, but does a user having their account terminated by an isp have a right to due process? I don't think so, but an isp forced by law to terminate a user might.
Eh? I run trillian. I use it to connect to AIM, ICQ, and MSN. I don't use it to spam you with advertisements, and in fact it's not even a feature of trillian.
This concept you talk about of being "slammed" while online sounds pretty stupid. I get maybe one ad every a few days, and that's always from ICQ. I've never gotten one from an AIM user (or someone running an AIM client clone).
Having separate networks that people talk on is annoying. Before trillian, I had to run three separate clients. Each with their own adbars and little icons in my system tray. A single client is awesome.
Denial of Service attacks are an attack that uses a service in a way that is although technically possible, is not within the spirit of the service. There's no law that saws you can't hit a server, nor a law that saws you can't hit a server multiple times. Yet when this is done repeatedly enough to cause downtime, it's called a DoS attack.
Likewise, no one ever said you can't share crappy files, nor that you couldn't share many crappy files. But when it is obviously in the spirit of causing problems on the P2P network then it is most definately a DoS attack.
I sure hope the FBI gave those people better information than that story gave us. It sounds to me like they raided peoples' homes, and then didn't charge them with anything.
This wasn't a case where they should have been involved. The cable company could have easily just disabled those users' account.
So much for the focus on homeland security, eh? I'm sure the FBI has much, much better things to follow up on than a couple of high school students ripping off their local isp.
Mozilla is not meant as an end user application. It is meant as a resource for developers and bug testers. The fact that you even thought it was for end users shows how good of a job they are really doing. This point as been mentioned numerous times, and it's even stated when you download Mozilla.
There are distributions of Mozilla meant for end users. Netscape 6.0+, Galleon, hopefully AOL soon. =)
is awesome. I'm on a 28.8 modem connection for the summer, and I was pretty bummed about how slow webpages were loading up. After turning on the pipelining option, load times dramatically decreased.
Go buy the newest version of Bjarne Strostrup's book, and try out his example programs in the majority of C++ compilers.
You'd be amazed at how much has been missing. Mainly the STL stuff, but there's some bugs in templating in some compilers too.
It sucks when you try to write portable code in C++ and you end up not being able to use some cool stuff because not all compilers support it. A friend of mine switched to Java specificly because of this.
But while we're back (still?)on the topic, has anyone translated the original FUD letter [gnu.org.pe] from the M$ Peru guy (might be mirrored [gnu.org.pe], which the honorable Sr. Nunez so elquently rebutted, into English?
The Register did, check out the bottom of this article.
"triumphs"? You really think so?
MS Office -owns- the office productivity market at the moment. They will make -billions- on it.
For OSS to triumph, that would imply that they are beating them in some respect.
Eventually though I started hearing voices, falling asleep for very small amounts of time and waking with a bang, so went to bed.
It's interesting that you described it that way. I've had this happen to me quite frequently over the past year or so and could never figure out the cause of it. I generally get a low amount of sleep per day (this seems common among the/. crowd.
I wonder if this is related at all to not getting enough sleep. You'll have to understand, the thought never even ocurred to me.;)
Starting with version 0.9.8, I finally switched fully over to Mozilla.
It's really turned into a great app. Not only is it not playing catch-up with Internet Explorer anymore, but I'd argue that they are beating it with some of its new features like tabbed browsing.
Here's to hoping Mozilla will give open source a nice rebound in the desktop market.
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This is a troll, why did it get modded up? It takes less than 2 sec to load on my machine with the always-in-memory loader turned off. And it uses up about 12 megs of ram at idle (blank page), the rest is just the html and images in memory which every browser has. Seriously, I think it's comparable if not slightly higher than IE. And some dists of Mozilla, like Phoenix, Galeon, and K-Meleon are actually smaller than IE.
IMO, you are absolutely right when you say it being "Free as in speech" is a big advantage. However, neither of our opinions will make open source software competitive to MS's products in the mainstream market. The average person could care less about the source being available. And if open source stuff doesn't dent MS's products, how's it supposed to promote innovation? Competition breeds innovation, non-competitive alternative products do not necessarily.
The usual opinion seems to be that MS will eventually bring itself down because of oppressive licensing tactics, etc.
The unfortunate thing is that they have actually been getting better in stability and security in their products. If they continue to improve their products to a point where they are actually half-decent, the only upperhand we'll still have is that opensource software is free as in beer.
I like seeing opensource stuff because it is free, but also because it's an alternative. Having competition means innovation and better products all around. But if people stop seeing Microsoft software as crappy and crash-prone then what incentive is there to switch away from it?
You were modded as flamebait because you expressed a fairly strong opinion without backing it up.
In this later post you did indeed say why you enjoy using FreeBSD, but again there was no stated reason to lead us to believe "linux sucks" for everyone. Many people take this type of posting as trolling.
To avoid such a rating, you could have said "I disagree with the ideology of the Linux community." Or "FreeBsd does everything I need it to, and I get the benefit of saying that I don't belong to the all-too-trendy group running RedHat's latest release."
Where the hell does the RIAA come into this? Could you please read the article?
From what I know of Active Directory, it's an LDAP implementation. There are quite a few resources on the internet that describe setting up a linux server using samba and openldap as a primary domain controller. My understanding of the Windows IT world is fairly limited, but I think this is basically how Windows does it. I've made a linux server that was used by a network of windows machines for authentication. The user data was kept in an openldap database.
I just listen to music and am annoyed that the RIAA attempts to prevent me from doing that. I'm not out a fundamental change in anything. ;)
And although I am in favor of free software, that by no means is because I think commercial software should not exist.
Taking a hard line like this isn't going to get you anywhere. My favorite musicians are under the RIAA umbrella because it makes it easier to do what they really want to do; make music.
The majority of webcasters already pay money for the use of the content. They currently have been paying the same rates as normal radio stations. The RIAA wants them to pay MORE money because they are capable of broadcasting "near CD quality music."
I am going to continue to badmouth the RIAA because they are money-grubbing bastards.
Tough shit. It's called due process and is guaranteed by the Constitution. Deal with it.
Not to be contrary, but does a user having their account terminated by an isp have a right to due process? I don't think so, but an isp forced by law to terminate a user might.
Eh? I run trillian. I use it to connect to AIM, ICQ, and MSN. I don't use it to spam you with advertisements, and in fact it's not even a feature of trillian.
This concept you talk about of being "slammed" while online sounds pretty stupid. I get maybe one ad every a few days, and that's always from ICQ. I've never gotten one from an AIM user (or someone running an AIM client clone).
Having separate networks that people talk on is annoying. Before trillian, I had to run three separate clients. Each with their own adbars and little icons in my system tray. A single client is awesome.
That's absurd.
Denial of Service attacks are an attack that uses a service in a way that is although technically possible, is not within the spirit of the service. There's no law that saws you can't hit a server, nor a law that saws you can't hit a server multiple times. Yet when this is done repeatedly enough to cause downtime, it's called a DoS attack.
Likewise, no one ever said you can't share crappy files, nor that you couldn't share many crappy files. But when it is obviously in the spirit of causing problems on the P2P network then it is most definately a DoS attack.
I sure hope the FBI gave those people better information than that story gave us. It sounds to me like they raided peoples' homes, and then didn't charge them with anything.
This wasn't a case where they should have been involved. The cable company could have easily just disabled those users' account.
So much for the focus on homeland security, eh? I'm sure the FBI has much, much better things to follow up on than a couple of high school students ripping off their local isp.
Quit being ignorant.
Mozilla is not meant as an end user application. It is meant as a resource for developers and bug testers. The fact that you even thought it was for end users shows how good of a job they are really doing. This point as been mentioned numerous times, and it's even stated when you download Mozilla.
There are distributions of Mozilla meant for end users. Netscape 6.0+, Galleon, hopefully AOL soon. =)
is awesome. I'm on a 28.8 modem connection for the summer, and I was pretty bummed about how slow webpages were loading up. After turning on the pipelining option, load times dramatically decreased.
There's an explanation on how it works here.
I've bought every other game Blizzard has developed, but I'm not buying War3. When I said I wasn't going to play War3, I meant it.
;)
Stop assuming everyone else's conviction is as weak as your own.
Easy fix as far as keeping people from sharing files that should be kept secret, run a firewall.
It's fairly easy to block incoming requests, and in a closed-environment like a company lan it's easy to just open it up for the stuff you want.
It's kinda sad that the highest thread is someone picking on the poster. Are there any intelligent comments coming? :)
Go buy the newest version of Bjarne Strostrup's book, and try out his example programs in the majority of C++ compilers.
You'd be amazed at how much has been missing. Mainly the STL stuff, but there's some bugs in templating in some compilers too.
It sucks when you try to write portable code in C++ and you end up not being able to use some cool stuff because not all compilers support it. A friend of mine switched to Java specificly because of this.
I wonder how hard it would be to have a confirmation screen when articles get posted. It would the results of a search of keywords in the title.
Might cut down on reposts a bit.
But while we're back (still?)on the topic, has anyone translated the original FUD letter [gnu.org.pe] from the M$ Peru guy (might be mirrored [gnu.org.pe], which the honorable Sr. Nunez so elquently rebutted, into English?
The Register did, check out the bottom of this article.
"triumphs"? You really think so?
MS Office -owns- the office productivity market at the moment. They will make -billions- on it.
For OSS to triumph, that would imply that they are beating them in some respect.
Heh. Forced to use Win2k over Win98.
;)
I've had better luck getting most games to run under Win2k than I did with any version of Windows before that.
WinNT 4.0 and under were a different story though.
It sounds like people are assuming the use of ogg is limited to music.
I didn't see that it said anywhere, but I can think of no reason why sound effects wouldn't be in ogg too.
Eventually though I started hearing voices, falling asleep for very small amounts of time and waking with a bang, so went to bed.
/. crowd.
;)
It's interesting that you described it that way. I've had this happen to me quite frequently over the past year or so and could never figure out the cause of it. I generally get a low amount of sleep per day (this seems common among the
I wonder if this is related at all to not getting enough sleep. You'll have to understand, the thought never even ocurred to me.
Starting with version 0.9.8, I finally switched fully over to Mozilla.
It's really turned into a great app. Not only is it not playing catch-up with Internet Explorer anymore, but I'd argue that they are beating it with some of its new features like tabbed browsing.
Here's to hoping Mozilla will give open source a nice rebound in the desktop market.