Download and install the latest version (1.6) of Mozilla or MozillaFirebird. Turn off pop-ups AND also go to the extensionroom and get the Adblock extensions. This will let you block ANY content on a regex. For example, put in *servedby* and wham, no more crap form servedby.XXX.com. If you get one of these commercial ads, just look at the host they come from and put it in your Adblock list and it will be no more.
Just don't use crappy IE and you won't be exploited by this crap.
I live about 28 miles outside of Orlando FL in the suburbs. It will be a while until there is general wireless coverage. Though I do like the ideas. Actually, downtown Orlando is getting complete wireless internet access soon. This way all the torists or anyone downtown can have free internet access. Once the technology is wide-spread, the possibilies could be endless. Though I am sure some greedy corps will mess things up some how and try to control it all.
When you have wireless, you have unlimited storage - it is just remote to the device.
How do you have unlimited storage?
Can I add/remove songs when I am 5 miles from my home on a run?
Can I add/remove songs when I am at the gym working out?
Can I add/remove songs when I am doing my 28 mile commute to the office?
1.5GB is a very limited amout of storage for the price. Also, have you ever tried to send 1GB over a 11/Mbs wireless link? Talk about slooooow. I personally see the wireless feature as "neat" but "useless" for me anyway. I personally transfer my music and that is that. I don't add/remove tons of songs. Also, does this device support OGG, AAC, FLAC, WMA(uggh)? I need OGG for any portable I would purchase. Many other users will want DRM'ed enabled WMA or AAC for iTMS or the WMA based musics stores.
Actaully I am talking to everyone where I work to switch our PIA to Linux. We would get so much better performance at a much better cost. However, instead of asking them to support KHTML, ask them to get their Portal to be more standards compliant and NOT to hard code absolute positions. Some of the portal pages look ugly under Mozilla because Mozilla is so standars compliant and does exactly what the HTML tells it to do. Some of the elements get all ugly under Portal like the News pagelet and the Layout and components pages.
I agree. I think there DB is great, though I am not fond of their J2EE server. It is EXTREMLY bloated. The managers at the fortune 500 I am a developer at are forcing us to use 9iAS (though at least they let me install it on Linux servers). It is a resource hog. Our applications scream under Tomcat 5.x, it handled all of our needs, is free and Open Source and has far better resource utilization. Sadly, in the end we lost out to politics and are running Oracle 9iAS as our production J2EE servers, though we still use tomcat 5.x for dev. Again, I really like Oracle's DB (though that too sucks up resources), I just think their J2EE server is way overkill compared to tomcat or JBoss.
Included into every KDE installation, which has 70% of Linux desktop market share according to Recent surveys.
The last survey I read had KDE at around 43%of the votes or so.
Included in Mac OSX Panther Edition
Does it runs under MS Windows, Solaris? Moz does and that gives it a far greater edge then just running under Mac O X. Moz also runs under Mac OS X.
Faster and less complex than Gecko
That is highly subjective. Do you have any links to speed tests to prove it?
Mozilla stomps KHTML/Konq for usage share. Mozilla and Mozilla based browsers have about a 68% share compared to KHTML.
Also, wait about a year and see how KDE usage drops considerably in numbers compared to Gnome, or how Gnome usage surges past KDE. Why? Because Novell purchased Ximian's XD2 which is Gnome based and Novell WILL leverage that investment. Evolution is critical for an Enterprise roll-out, since many Enterpriese use MS Exchange. KDE has nothing that can connect and use and MS Exchange server, while Novell/Ximian Evolution with Novell/Ximian Connector works great. And no, Enterprises are not going to be doing a large scale replacement of MS Exchange for KGroupware. With Novell buying SuSE, you may see some using Novell/SuSE MS Exchange replacement, again with is integragted and supported by Evolution.
Also, Sun's Linux desktop uses GNome and Solairs 9 now uses Gnome as well. Sun also just did that 1,000,000 Linux desktop deal with China, that will be a LOT of new Gnome desktops out there.
One other point, KHTML is no where near as standards compliant and ready for the web as Mozilla is. I have been to tons of sites that just don't work with KHTML/Konq that work fine with Moz. I am a developer for a fortune 500, we have a lot of Oracle and People Soft Enterprise apps that are now web enabled. Most of them work perfect with Moz 1.5/1.6 and puke with KHTML, though as this topics suggest, there are still some that require IE only : (
That is because they want admins to use it over Linux. Though the x86 version is still pretty limited for non-commercial use. It also has very poor hardware support for x86 compared to Linux. I tried it on my laptop and a small server for kicks, and it just wouldn't support squat. I put Linux back on my laptop and the small server and everything worked. I'll personally pass on Solaris x86.
The x86 version will let you use a P4 3.x GHz with HT, which is a good processor. Though I personally don't care for Solaris, especially the x86 version. I think Linux has a much more modern tool chain. I work with Solaris 8/9 and Linux boxes at work, and the basic tools on Solaris like find, grep, etc make me want to pull my hair out. I know they could be upgraded, though our Solaris admin won't do it. He won't even put NFS on his Solaris boxes, SSH only.
Solaris is actaully still free. When you pay thousands of dollars for their bigger hardware, Sun "gives" you Solaris at no extra cost. However, the support contracts are pretty expensive, which more then makes up for the "free" Solaris OS.
Updates are usually still handled manually with apt-get update/upgrade. RedHat has live notification, but it's still done manually for the most part, which slows down the process.
BS. Red Hat has the Red Hat Network. It allows you to automate the updates for ALL your servers/desktops. You can group your boxes into any structure you want to create and push updates out to those groups as a whole or any individual box. I have been using this to updates many Red Hat servers for a while now with out any breakage. I cannot say the same for some MS Windows updates. In fact, I never have to physically touch the Red Hat boxes. I get an email when there is an update. I go to the web site and can push the update out right away or schedule it. I then get an email when it is finished. It cannot be any easier.
This is going to sound like a flame, however it is not.
What is your damage? Why are you drugging up your daughter? I have a two year old and would NEVER put her on that Ritalin crap. ADD, ADHD and Ritalin are all trendy things for psychologist these last few years.
I am 31 and have a 2 year old daughter with a son coming in about 2 months. I was told I had ADD and/or ADHD as a child. It is all a load of crap! My parents were smart enough to NOT put me on any medication. Now I have a successful career as a senior programmer making 3x what the average American makes. I am not saying that to brag, just to state that most of those Ritalin pushing psychologists are fools.
I personally do not want to know a young child that is NOT a day-dreamer or a little "spacey" at times. IT IS CALLED HAVING AN IMAGINATION.
Take your little girl OFF of Ritalin. Let her be NORMAL. Most kids out-grow that ADD/ADHD crap. If she is a teen and is still having problems, deal with that psychologically first, drugs should be the LAST damn thing that you, as a father would ever push on your kid[s].
Do you think that "tics, grunting, odd little noises, words and so forth..." are acceptable side effects in a freaking 6 year old little girl?.
Today, at 31, I still have some idiots that try to tell me that I have ADD/ADHD. I can be sitting at my computer programming and someone in the room could be 3 feet away and talking about me loudly and I will NOT hear one work they are saying. I personally consider this CONCENTRATION and not some trendy physiological disorder to be treated with drugs. I actually welcome this behavior and think it has helped me in my career.
Here is something you can try instead of rushing your daughter to all these "experts" and drugging her/putting her through all types of psycho therapy. Sit down with her EVERY NIGHT and work on social skills and concentration skills. Do her homework with her. Maybe, just maybe you have been blessed with a little girl who will be extremely intelligent, though not one of the "trendy, popular" girls at school. Who the hell cares.
Except her, lover her, encourage her, and nourish what unique traits she has instead of trying to fit her into the typical American mold of a young girl.
And posting about these projects on slashdot may be what is required to get enough attention that someone examines it's functionality, and discovers that the useless project has something working, that their project does not...
This works fine-and-dandy when the projects are all Open Source such as Linux and FreeBSD. SkyOS is NOT open in any way. What have they contributed to Open Source?
The code is actually Open Source. You should be able to find a link on their site. It runs great under Linux. There is a firmware update from the vorbis guys that let you play/record OGG. Many sites still list just MS Windows as a requirement. For example, my HP PSC printer/scanner/copier works great under Linux with open source drivers from HP, though on the box it has MS Windows as a requirement.
IBM also does billions in Linux sales. IBM does not sell Linux or MS Windows. They sell hardware and services. In the end, IBM does not care if you buy their hardware to run MS Windows or Linux. They also will have their massive global services come and help you with MS Windows or Linux deployments/solutions. IBM wants to help customers to exercise their choice and not have that choice limited to only MS Windows.
IBM is not going to stop selling thier customers MS Windows hardware or services that want them. They are only trying to move as much of their internal systems to Linux. IMO, this could help leverage the monopoly playing field that MS has. Now, if IBM were to say that they will only sell Linux hardware and services, then yes, that would be stupid. However they are doing no such thing. I also think that this will be great for other companies out there that DO want Linux, but are a little worried about making a big change to their internel IT.
What in the world makes you think that IBM would be throwing away their MS Windows services just because they may end up using more Linux internally? IBM's internal IT structure has nothing in the world to do with their hardware sales or their global services.
Then get a Neuros. They have a nice 20GB player that plays OGG and MP3 for $199. It has MyFi which allows you to broadcast the music on your Neuros through any FM radio, an FM tuner to listen to the radio, it allows you to record from the FM tuner or from an line input or the built-in mic. It also has someting called HiSi that lets you record a 30 second MP3 and it can identify that song for you from the Neuros online database. And, it has 10 hours of continuous playback with rechargeable Lithium Ion battery. I liked it because of the price and it supported OGG. It is a very good deal that is hard to beat.
I thought Walmart uses DRM'ed WMA files that don't work under Linux? I know that the "test" example from Walmart played fine in MPlayer, though I don't think that had any DRM.
How in the world is it piracy to do what you want with a product that you purchased? Taking a downloaded song and removing the DRM is not piracy. Taking a downloaded song and giving it to tons of people or putting on p2p is piracy. STOP CONSIDERING FAIR USE PIRACY
$200+ for a device that only has 2GB? No thanks. For $199 I can get a Neuros player that is 20GB and can play OGG and MP3. The code for the Neuros is also Open Source, unlike the proprietary software that comes with the iPod. Doe Apple realease Linux software for their iPod? Or would one have to use unofficial software? I personally would rather support a company that wants to let their users work in the environment that they choose by either making the code Open Source or putting out an official client.
Well it DOES come with MS Windows. MS shipped their own version of a JRE. That is why Java Applets worked in IE without the need to download a JRE from SUN. The problem with this is that MS again wanted to control a monopoly and ship a non standard JRE which in the end bit them in the arse when SUN won a lawsuit against them. That is also why MS had to discontinue certain versions of their software recently.
Ok, bone head, I'll bite. The downloads are so big because they INCLUDE a JRE. Mac users need to download Java3D, not Java. The Linux install is actaully EASIER then the Mac install since there are no extra downloads.
Here are the steps for MS Windows.
Download file which includes a JRE.
Double click file and install
(the easiest of all systems, but only by one step)
Done
Here are the steps for Linux.
Download file which includes a JRE.
Doubl click it in Nautilus to open it (It is a tar file and will open in FileRoller which is no different then opening a zip file in WinZip.)
Extract the contents to where ever you please
In Nautilus just double click the install-Maestro file to install.
Done.
Only ONE more step the under MS Windows. You CAN make a self extracting and installing archive for Linux just as you can for MS Windows (this is one of the ways that Sun distributes Java for Linux. The people who made these installs chose not to. Maybe LEARN how to do something BEFORE you shoot your mouth off. Most Linux users won't use the simple point-n-click method I outlined above. Why? Because many love the command line and find it easier and faster. So the steps a command line lover might have followed would have been
tar -zxf Maestro-Linux.tar.gz
cd R2004*
sh install-Maestro
done
Where did you see it as two pieces? I think you are confusing the bundle package which is a smaller 128MB player AND the 20GB HD model. The 20GB player is one piece for $199. You can purchase it with the 128MB player if you want for a savings.
The Neuros does have a feature to let you upgrade it by removing the backpack and getting more storage down the road. You can't do that with the iPod.
The Neuros design includes a removable backpack to give you ultimate memory and storage flexibility and freedom to easily stay plugged in to product upgrades. As new technology is released, you will be able to upgrade your Neuros by switching out the backpack.
I do agree that Apple OS X is leagues better than MS Windows XP, or MS Windows Anything. If Apple would lower their price point to be competitive with other hardware, they could slap MS silly. Or, if Apple would port OS X to x86, their price could compete very well with anything from anything from MS Windows. I personally believe in Open Source and stick with Linux. However, if I had to choose between MS Windows anything and OS X, I'd pick OS X in a heart beat.
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I live about 28 miles outside of Orlando FL in the suburbs. It will be a while until there is general wireless coverage. Though I do like the ideas. Actually, downtown Orlando is getting complete wireless internet access soon. This way all the torists or anyone downtown can have free internet access. Once the technology is wide-spread, the possibilies could be endless. Though I am sure some greedy corps will mess things up some how and try to control it all.
Can I add/remove songs when I am 5 miles from my home on a run?
Can I add/remove songs when I am at the gym working out?
Can I add/remove songs when I am doing my 28 mile commute to the office?
1.5GB is a very limited amout of storage for the price. Also, have you ever tried to send 1GB over a 11/Mbs wireless link? Talk about slooooow. I personally see the wireless feature as "neat" but "useless" for me anyway. I personally transfer my music and that is that. I don't add/remove tons of songs. Also, does this device support OGG, AAC, FLAC, WMA(uggh)? I need OGG for any portable I would purchase. Many other users will want DRM'ed enabled WMA or AAC for iTMS or the WMA based musics stores.
Actaully I am talking to everyone where I work to switch our PIA to Linux. We would get so much better performance at a much better cost. However, instead of asking them to support KHTML, ask them to get their Portal to be more standards compliant and NOT to hard code absolute positions. Some of the portal pages look ugly under Mozilla because Mozilla is so standars compliant and does exactly what the HTML tells it to do. Some of the elements get all ugly under Portal like the News pagelet and the Layout and components pages.
I agree. I think there DB is great, though I am not fond of their J2EE server. It is EXTREMLY bloated. The managers at the fortune 500 I am a developer at are forcing us to use 9iAS (though at least they let me install it on Linux servers). It is a resource hog. Our applications scream under Tomcat 5.x, it handled all of our needs, is free and Open Source and has far better resource utilization. Sadly, in the end we lost out to politics and are running Oracle 9iAS as our production J2EE servers, though we still use tomcat 5.x for dev. Again, I really like Oracle's DB (though that too sucks up resources), I just think their J2EE server is way overkill compared to tomcat or JBoss.
Mozilla stomps KHTML/Konq for usage share. Mozilla and Mozilla based browsers have about a 68% share compared to KHTML.
Also, wait about a year and see how KDE usage drops considerably in numbers compared to Gnome, or how Gnome usage surges past KDE. Why? Because Novell purchased Ximian's XD2 which is Gnome based and Novell WILL leverage that investment. Evolution is critical for an Enterprise roll-out, since many Enterpriese use MS Exchange. KDE has nothing that can connect and use and MS Exchange server, while Novell/Ximian Evolution with Novell/Ximian Connector works great. And no, Enterprises are not going to be doing a large scale replacement of MS Exchange for KGroupware. With Novell buying SuSE, you may see some using Novell/SuSE MS Exchange replacement, again with is integragted and supported by Evolution.
Also, Sun's Linux desktop uses GNome and Solairs 9 now uses Gnome as well. Sun also just did that 1,000,000 Linux desktop deal with China, that will be a LOT of new Gnome desktops out there.
One other point, KHTML is no where near as standards compliant and ready for the web as Mozilla is. I have been to tons of sites that just don't work with KHTML/Konq that work fine with Moz. I am a developer for a fortune 500, we have a lot of Oracle and People Soft Enterprise apps that are now web enabled. Most of them work perfect with Moz 1.5/1.6 and puke with KHTML, though as this topics suggest, there are still some that require IE only : (
That is because they want admins to use it over Linux. Though the x86 version is still pretty limited for non-commercial use. It also has very poor hardware support for x86 compared to Linux. I tried it on my laptop and a small server for kicks, and it just wouldn't support squat. I put Linux back on my laptop and the small server and everything worked. I'll personally pass on Solaris x86.
Solaris is actaully still free. When you pay thousands of dollars for their bigger hardware, Sun "gives" you Solaris at no extra cost. However, the support contracts are pretty expensive, which more then makes up for the "free" Solaris OS.
Huh? You can get Solaris for Sparc and x86 for FREE
I thought Magnatunes had Flac? I only see wav, 128kb MP3 and high quality VBR MP3. I grabbed the VBR MP3, though I would have liked Flac.
What is your damage? Why are you drugging up your daughter? I have a two year old and would NEVER put her on that Ritalin crap. ADD, ADHD and Ritalin are all trendy things for psychologist these last few years.
I am 31 and have a 2 year old daughter with a son coming in about 2 months. I was told I had ADD and/or ADHD as a child. It is all a load of crap! My parents were smart enough to NOT put me on any medication. Now I have a successful career as a senior programmer making 3x what the average American makes. I am not saying that to brag, just to state that most of those Ritalin pushing psychologists are fools.
I personally do not want to know a young child that is NOT a day-dreamer or a little "spacey" at times. IT IS CALLED HAVING AN IMAGINATION.
Take your little girl OFF of Ritalin. Let her be NORMAL. Most kids out-grow that ADD/ADHD crap. If she is a teen and is still having problems, deal with that psychologically first, drugs should be the LAST damn thing that you, as a father would ever push on your kid[s].
Do you think that "tics, grunting, odd little noises, words and so forth..." are acceptable side effects in a freaking 6 year old little girl?.
Today, at 31, I still have some idiots that try to tell me that I have ADD/ADHD. I can be sitting at my computer programming and someone in the room could be 3 feet away and talking about me loudly and I will NOT hear one work they are saying. I personally consider this CONCENTRATION and not some trendy physiological disorder to be treated with drugs. I actually welcome this behavior and think it has helped me in my career.
Here is something you can try instead of rushing your daughter to all these "experts" and drugging her/putting her through all types of psycho therapy. Sit down with her EVERY NIGHT and work on social skills and concentration skills. Do her homework with her. Maybe, just maybe you have been blessed with a little girl who will be extremely intelligent, though not one of the "trendy, popular" girls at school. Who the hell cares.
Except her, lover her, encourage her, and nourish what unique traits she has instead of trying to fit her into the typical American mold of a young girl.
As for Linux support, it works great and there is a good Linux client
IBM is not going to stop selling thier customers MS Windows hardware or services that want them. They are only trying to move as much of their internal systems to Linux. IMO, this could help leverage the monopoly playing field that MS has. Now, if IBM were to say that they will only sell Linux hardware and services, then yes, that would be stupid. However they are doing no such thing. I also think that this will be great for other companies out there that DO want Linux, but are a little worried about making a big change to their internel IT.
What in the world makes you think that IBM would be throwing away their MS Windows services just because they may end up using more Linux internally? IBM's internal IT structure has nothing in the world to do with their hardware sales or their global services.
Then get a Neuros. They have a nice 20GB player that plays OGG and MP3 for $199. It has MyFi which allows you to broadcast the music on your Neuros through any FM radio, an FM tuner to listen to the radio, it allows you to record from the FM tuner or from an line input or the built-in mic. It also has someting called HiSi that lets you record a 30 second MP3 and it can identify that song for you from the Neuros online database. And, it has 10 hours of continuous playback with rechargeable Lithium Ion battery. I liked it because of the price and it supported OGG. It is a very good deal that is hard to beat.
I thought Walmart uses DRM'ed WMA files that don't work under Linux? I know that the "test" example from Walmart played fine in MPlayer, though I don't think that had any DRM.
How in the world is it piracy to do what you want with a product that you purchased? Taking a downloaded song and removing the DRM is not piracy. Taking a downloaded song and giving it to tons of people or putting on p2p is piracy. STOP CONSIDERING FAIR USE PIRACY
This is a good player, though a little pricey IMO. I think the Neuros has the same features and cost much less.
$200+ for a device that only has 2GB? No thanks. For $199 I can get a Neuros player that is 20GB and can play OGG and MP3. The code for the Neuros is also Open Source, unlike the proprietary software that comes with the iPod. Doe Apple realease Linux software for their iPod? Or would one have to use unofficial software? I personally would rather support a company that wants to let their users work in the environment that they choose by either making the code Open Source or putting out an official client.
Well it DOES come with MS Windows. MS shipped their own version of a JRE. That is why Java Applets worked in IE without the need to download a JRE from SUN. The problem with this is that MS again wanted to control a monopoly and ship a non standard JRE which in the end bit them in the arse when SUN won a lawsuit against them. That is also why MS had to discontinue certain versions of their software recently.
Ok, bone head, I'll bite. The downloads are so big because they INCLUDE a JRE. Mac users need to download Java3D, not Java. The Linux install is actaully EASIER then the Mac install since there are no extra downloads.
Here are the steps for MS Windows.
Download file which includes a JRE.
Double click file and install
(the easiest of all systems, but only by one step)
Done
Here are the steps for Linux.
Download file which includes a JRE.
Doubl click it in Nautilus to open it (It is a tar file and will open in FileRoller which is no different then opening a zip file in WinZip.)
Extract the contents to where ever you please
In Nautilus just double click the install-Maestro file to install.
Done.
Only ONE more step the under MS Windows. You CAN make a self extracting and installing archive for Linux just as you can for MS Windows (this is one of the ways that Sun distributes Java for Linux. The people who made these installs chose not to. Maybe LEARN how to do something BEFORE you shoot your mouth off. Most Linux users won't use the simple point-n-click method I outlined above. Why? Because many love the command line and find it easier and faster. So the steps a command line lover might have followed would have been
tar -zxf Maestro-Linux.tar.gz
cd R2004*
sh install-Maestro
done
MPlayer HAS a GUI. Run gmplayer. I am pretty certain it has a playlist as well, though I have never needed a playlist for video.
The Neuros does have a feature to let you upgrade it by removing the backpack and getting more storage down the road. You can't do that with the iPod.
I do agree that Apple OS X is leagues better than MS Windows XP, or MS Windows Anything. If Apple would lower their price point to be competitive with other hardware, they could slap MS silly. Or, if Apple would port OS X to x86, their price could compete very well with anything from anything from MS Windows. I personally believe in Open Source and stick with Linux. However, if I had to choose between MS Windows anything and OS X, I'd pick OS X in a heart beat.