The article does make a few good points, which perhaps should be listened to. Users will have to download Firefox from a server that they've never heard of, and the package is unsigned. It would be nice if people could go to getfirefox.com and download FF directly from that URL - of course it wouldn't be easy for mozlla to supply all the bandwidth from a single server.
I the signature issue depends on how you rate digital signatures - are they actually a useful way of bringing security to the web, or just a cheeky way to commercialise it?
Yep "find / | grep whatever-I-Want" works great for me too
Should I take this seriously, or are you being sarcastic. Yeah, find / is great - but only if you're willing to wait hours for an answer. It's probably no quicker that the built in Find option in Windows. GDS will find everything you want in not much more than a microsecond.
The article *you* linked to states that unmanned Soviet missions left reflectors on the moon.
You are correct - perhaps I should have found better links.
Isn't it easier to accept that the Americans just use those reflectors, rather than believing that they conveniently left their own while they were up there?
The location of the US reflectors is well documented, as with the Russian ones. Other insitutions have confirmed the existance of the reflector left by apollo. Of course consipiricists will refuse to believe that, which was my original point.
Sadly I doubt it.
If they weren't convinced by the reflectors, nothing will convince them
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/Apollo11/A11_Exper iments_LRRR.html
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog? sc=1969-059C&ex=4
If not, what could entice you? If so, what would be your motivation? Eh, a small slice of the profits they make from selling the fruits of my labour would be nice.
One of the teachers I had on high school gave me a negative score on a test because I wrote that HTML is not a programming language.
Dear Miss Manners:
My home economics teacher says that one must never place one's
elbows on the table. However, I have read that one elbow, in between
courses, is all right. Which is correct?
Gentle Reader:
For the purpose of answering examinations in your home
economics class, your teacher is correct. Catching on to this
principle of education may be of even greater importance to you now
than learning correct current table manners, vital as Miss Manners
believes that is.
Gecko is the rendering engine used by Mozilla, Firefox, and Camino; KHTML is an entirely different rendering engine used by Konqueror and Safari.
The author of the article appears to be under the impression that Konqueror uses Gecko, which is not the case. Konqueror is as differnt from Mozilla as it is from Opera and IE.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:FTEeKuPuN_I J:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML+khtml+wikipedia&hl=e n
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:LUEBh1TOb80 J:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_layout_engine+gecko+ wikipedia&hl=en
(wikipedia seems to be down right now, so I've linked to Google caches)
Sorry, I should have explained it more clearly. Text selection often doesn't work quite how it should; the ability to select text is sometimes lost, or occasionally a piece of text becomes selected and cannot be deselected. Text entry just seems to be rather buggy.
I can't find anything in bugzilla acknowleging the problem, but I do experience it myself, and have read about it in many other places.
I can only find one link which only just mentions it right now, but for me it is quite an annoying probem:
The Mozilla browser is technically better than IE. That is plain fact.
And that's where I stopped reading.
Of course that is not a 'plain fact'. IE does a lot of things that Mozilla doesn't (form entry isn't broken, for example). On the other hand I'm sure everyone here can name plenty things Mozilla does that IE doesn't. Mozilla may be better in the opinion of the author, and it may be better at the things that matter more to the author, but to state it's superiority as fact is a perfect example of ignorance.
The fact that the author can't spot the difference between KHTML and Gecko shows he is no position to be comparing browsers.
is there a way to put a limiter on traffic to mitigate, perhaps even stop the/. effect?
You could set up your site so that any referals from/. get redirected to the google cache. People who want to see the real site can still visit, but if slashdot ever does find you, you'll be safe from most of the traffic.
This should be do-able with just a few lines of PHP. Test to see whether $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] contains "slashdot.org", and if so send header('Location: [http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:foo'); to redirect.
You could probably do more efficiently using.htaccess
I know there are several problem with this approach. Not all browsers will send referrer headers, any many/.ers will just open a new browser window and go directly too the site - I imagine it would drastically cut down the traffic though.
We made a promise to each other and God that we would be together. That's something meaningful and solemn and we couldn't be happier with our marriage.
If you don't believe in any God, then a traditional wedding can seem just as silly. To an athiest, speaking to an invisible man in the sky while a man in medieval dress reads from an ancient story book isn't quite so far from wearing bunny-ears.
Some people just see it as a civil ceremony. They can dress up and have a day that they will both enjoy and remeber for the rest of their lives.
Stress and responisility come with any skilled job. You'll certainly feel less stress working on a production line, but you'll constantly feel undervalued, as you won't be getting used to anywhere near your full potential.
Saying that, my friend's father has a PhD from Oxford, and now drives a bus. He's far happier than he used to be. Maybe you should eventually give up the hard work, but not until far later in life.
Clicking on Word launches OO.org Writer.
Clicking Internet Explorer launches Mozilla.
Clicking Outlook launches KMail.
Clicking My Documents launches Nautilus or Konqueror.
Changing the name of the Mozilla icon to 'Web Browser', and home to 'Home Folder' wouldn't be a bad idea, but giving them the names of Microsoft products is very misleading. Why not just rename Linux to 'Microsoft Windows' while your at it?
Non-techy people have been able to successfuly using word processors since long before Word version 1.0. People can easily learn the name of a new application, as they did with MS Word, Claris Works, and Word Perfect.
Even in the default Windows XP start menu, Internet Explorer's title is 'Internet', and Outlook's is 'Email'.
You don't really have to give a "pdf warning". PDF is an open format, with free-as-in-rms viewers.,
The warning is useful - I know to right click on the link and 'save' rather than letting the PDf viewer open up in my browser and slow everything to a crawl.
When I turned my Tivo on for the very first time, it asked me very clearly if I would mind them recording anonymous usage data. I said 'Yeah, why the hell not', but anyone has the option to decline.
I've got heaps of kit all plugged into a single good ol' brittish 240V outlet. I have 2 extension leads, 3 4-way trailing sockets, a 6-way and 2 3 way adaptors. Right now I have 16 items plugged into it all. I've never blown a fuse yet, and the house seems to find enough power without any problems. I've got a circuit breaker at the socket, and it has never tripped. I can't be arsed doing the maths, but I'd be very surprised if my entire room uses as much power as a single kettle. It's all fairly low rated stuff, like TV, Tivo, hubs, 2 PCs, digibox, amp etc. I wouldn't chance plugging an electric fire in here though .
Nothing beats the flexibility, scalability and useability of Microsoft Windows® XP.
For starters it's mostly just a matter of opinion. Plenty of user much prefer Gnome/KDE to explorer (which still crashes at least once a day on me). And what about OSX? Most would agree that it beats the crap out of Windows for usability!!
Slashdot Mirror
Lines cannot be longer than 80 chars - it's the law :)
The article does make a few good points, which perhaps should be listened to. Users will have to download Firefox from a server that they've never heard of, and the package is unsigned. It would be nice if people could go to getfirefox.com and download FF directly from that URL - of course it wouldn't be easy for mozlla to supply all the bandwidth from a single server.
I the signature issue depends on how you rate digital signatures - are they actually a useful way of bringing security to the web, or just a cheeky way to commercialise it?
I wish to god IE would do the same thing with Browser Helper Objects, and any ActiveX objects for that matter.
IE does, in fact it was implemented in IE first (with betas of SP2) - Firefox copied them.
"it's almost a carbon copy of the new Internet Explorer Information Bar"
And it's just been spirdered, so you'll be getting buckets 'o spam now!! :)
Yep "find / | grep whatever-I-Want" works great for me too
Should I take this seriously, or are you being sarcastic. Yeah, find / is great - but only if you're willing to wait hours for an answer. It's probably no quicker that the built in Find option in Windows. GDS will find everything you want in not much more than a microsecond.
The article *you* linked to states that unmanned Soviet missions left reflectors on the moon.
You are correct - perhaps I should have found better links. Isn't it easier to accept that the Americans just use those reflectors, rather than believing that they conveniently left their own while they were up there?
The location of the US reflectors is well documented, as with the Russian ones. Other insitutions have confirmed the existance of the reflector left by apollo. Of course consipiricists will refuse to believe that, which was my original point.
Some poeple are so gullible...
I'm not sure what you mean by that
Sadly I doubt it. If they weren't convinced by the reflectors, nothing will convince them http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/Apollo11/A11_Exper iments_LRRR.html
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog? sc=1969-059C&ex=4
If not, what could entice you? If so, what would be your motivation?
Eh, a small slice of the profits they make from selling the fruits of my labour would be nice.
My home economics teacher says that one must never place one's elbows on the table. However, I have read that one elbow, in between courses, is all right. Which is correct?
Gentle Reader:
For the purpose of answering examinations in your home economics class, your teacher is correct. Catching on to this principle of education may be of even greater importance to you now than learning correct current table manners, vital as Miss Manners believes that is.
Gecko is the rendering engine used by Mozilla, Firefox, and Camino; KHTML is an entirely different rendering engine used by Konqueror and Safari.
I J:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML+khtml+wikipedia&hl=e n
0 J:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_layout_engine+gecko+ wikipedia&hl=en
The author of the article appears to be under the impression that Konqueror uses Gecko, which is not the case. Konqueror is as differnt from Mozilla as it is from Opera and IE.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:FTEeKuPuN_
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cache:LUEBh1TOb8
(wikipedia seems to be down right now, so I've linked to Google caches)
Sorry, I should have explained it more clearly. Text selection often doesn't work quite how it should; the ability to select text is sometimes lost, or occasionally a piece of text becomes selected and cannot be deselected. Text entry just seems to be rather buggy.
e q=show&file=faq04.010.htp
I can't find anything in bugzilla acknowleging the problem, but I do experience it myself, and have read about it in many other places.
I can only find one link which only just mentions it right now, but for me it is quite an annoying probem:
http://db.cs.helsinki.fi/~hendry/faqwiz/faqw.py?r
Of course that is not a 'plain fact'. IE does a lot of things that Mozilla doesn't (form entry isn't broken, for example). On the other hand I'm sure everyone here can name plenty things Mozilla does that IE doesn't. Mozilla may be better in the opinion of the author, and it may be better at the things that matter more to the author, but to state it's superiority as fact is a perfect example of ignorance.
The fact that the author can't spot the difference between KHTML and Gecko shows he is no position to be comparing browsers.
"memory that has been literally hard-wired"
That should say hand wired. The Apollo computer used a derivative of magnetic core memory, which was literally hand-wired.
/. - just for the pedantry
is there a way to put a limiter on traffic to mitigate, perhaps even stop the /. effect?
/. get redirected to the google cache. People who want to see the real site can still visit, but if slashdot ever does find you, you'll be safe from most of the traffic.
This should be do-able with just a few lines of PHP. Test to see whether $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] contains "slashdot.org", and if so send header('Location: [http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:foo'); to redirect.
.htaccess
/.ers will just open a new browser window and go directly too the site - I imagine it would drastically cut down the traffic though.
/.proof my own site now :)
You could set up your site so that any referals from
You could probably do more efficiently using
I know there are several problem with this approach. Not all browsers will send referrer headers, any many
I'll go off and
We made a promise to each other and God that we would be together. That's something meaningful and solemn and we couldn't be happier with our marriage.
If you don't believe in any God, then a traditional wedding can seem just as silly. To an athiest, speaking to an invisible man in the sky while a man in medieval dress reads from an ancient story book isn't quite so far from wearing bunny-ears.
Some people just see it as a civil ceremony. They can dress up and have a day that they will both enjoy and remeber for the rest of their lives.
Stress and responisility come with any skilled job. You'll certainly feel less stress working on a production line, but you'll constantly feel undervalued, as you won't be getting used to anywhere near your full potential.
Saying that, my friend's father has a PhD from Oxford, and now drives a bus. He's far happier than he used to be. Maybe you should eventually give up the hard work, but not until far later in life.
Clicking on Word launches OO.org Writer.
Clicking Internet Explorer launches Mozilla.
Clicking Outlook launches KMail.
Clicking My Documents launches Nautilus or Konqueror.
Changing the name of the Mozilla icon to 'Web Browser', and home to 'Home Folder' wouldn't be a bad idea, but giving them the names of Microsoft products is very misleading. Why not just rename Linux to 'Microsoft Windows' while your at it?
Non-techy people have been able to successfuly using word processors since long before Word version 1.0. People can easily learn the name of a new application, as they did with MS Word, Claris Works, and Word Perfect.
Even in the default Windows XP start menu, Internet Explorer's title is 'Internet', and Outlook's is 'Email'.
You don't really have to give a "pdf warning". PDF is an open format, with free-as-in-rms viewers.,
The warning is useful - I know to right click on the link and 'save' rather than letting the PDf viewer open up in my browser and slow everything to a crawl.
On "A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius : A Memoir Based on a True Story", one the books mentioned in the article, we have Customers interested in this title may also be interested in: Genius Computer Products Mice, Keyboards, Trackballs Tablets... Is this a new slashdot effect?
When I turned my Tivo on for the very first time, it asked me very clearly if I would mind them recording anonymous usage data. I said 'Yeah, why the hell not', but anyone has the option to decline.
... is on off of one of ...
You get 10 points for spectacular use of language.
If you're confused by the subject line in my above post, I forgot to make sure the less than sign wouldn't get stripped out
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I've got heaps of kit all plugged into a single good ol' brittish 240V outlet. I have 2 extension leads, 3 4-way trailing sockets, a 6-way and 2 3 way adaptors. Right now I have 16 items plugged into it all. I've never blown a fuse yet, and the house seems to find enough power without any problems. I've got a circuit breaker at the socket, and it has never tripped. I can't be arsed doing the maths, but I'd be very surprised if my entire room uses as much power as a single kettle. It's all fairly low rated stuff, like TV, Tivo, hubs, 2 PCs, digibox, amp etc. I wouldn't chance plugging an electric fire in here though .
Nothing beats the flexibility, scalability and useability of Microsoft Windows® XP.
For starters it's mostly just a matter of opinion. Plenty of user much prefer Gnome/KDE to explorer (which still crashes at least once a day on me). And what about OSX? Most would agree that it beats the crap out of Windows for usability!!
Oh, sorry, I just modded you down for that one (and I didn't mod the goatse poster down!), oh well, that's what /. moderation's all about