This is very interesting to see since the last guy in the news to blog about Microsoft's Macs got fired for it. Perhaps this is the rebound from the bad press they recieved over that incident?
SETI@Home joined the BOINC project long ago, at least a year ago. There has also been an account migration service since the beginning of the BOINC integration. The only news here is that they are discontinuing support for the old SETI@Home client.
Mozilla gives you access to the really advanced features of Gecko and Necko such as HTTP pipelining right from the preferences pane instead of having to manually adjust the preferences values yourself.
Firefox looks and acts kind of like Internet Explorer.
Mozilla supports roaming profiles, Firefox does not.
If you run both Firefox and Thunderbird at the same time, you are wasting resources by having two instances of Gecko running at once. Much better to just open the suite. I can show you tests I've done to back up this claim. You just about cut memory usage in two. It's also a much smaller download.
The sidebar search feature is intuitive and much more convenient than Firefox's search capabilities.
Firefox is a fruity name. Kinda cute and all, but not what I want my web browser to be called.
Mozilla Composer is really useful.
Firefox users tend to like to download extensions, and then complain that Mozilla is too bloated with its extra features. If your are an extensions fiend, then Firefox is not what you should be using.
New features are typically found in the Mozilla trunk sometimes months before they'll appear on the aviary branch destined for release. If you don't believe me, check the roadmap on Mozilla.org.
The idea behind roaming profiles is that you do not need to use the flash media for profile storage. The profile can be on an HTTP or FTP server. There is however a "file copy" option for roaming profiles that would allow for what you describe.
If you need to use both a web browser and an email client on a regular basis in multiple locations, then you don't need these customized builds, there is already something around for you, it's called Mozilla. Maybe some of you recent Firefox-from-IE converts have never used Mozilla or think it reminds you of Netscape (Firefox reminds me of IE). Give it a chance though. It allows you to use roaming profiles which is exactly what this article is about. You also aren't wasting your system resources like you are when you run Thunderbird and Firefox at the same time. You generally save over 30MB of RAM by just running the Mozilla Application Suite. This is because you only have one instance of the Gecko engine running instead of two. Oh, and you can plop Mozilla right onto a flash drive from the zip file builds available from the Mozilla.org Foundation.
I am personally waiting for drives that can burn to dual-layer DVD-R media. The steering committee of the DVD Forum just approved version 2.9 of their dual-layer DVD-R specification in a meeting that occured on September 22nd. It shouldn't be too long now. Getting a drive that supports both dual-layer formats is more important to me than the cost of the media itself.
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During a custom install of Mozilla, you can actually unselect components that you might not want, anyway.
These are points worth considering. Though the GUI is one of the few major differences, some of the new GUI enhancements are indeed nice. As far as the toolbars go, there are Mozilla bugs such as 47418 (would link but bugzilla rejects slashdot referrals) that requests more control over toolbars in the main Mozilla branch. If you feel its a feature you'd like added to Mozilla, you can vote for the bug. As far as startup time is concerned, Mozilla has been admittedly notorious for its slow startup times in the past but this has vastly improved in the current 1.7 tree, and if you're a windows user, there's always the Mozilla startup agent which allows Mozilla to behave in a somewhat similar fashion to Internet Explorer in the way that you describe.
Actually, running Mozilla is faster than running both Firefox and Thunderbird at the same time, because the mail/news and navigator components of Mozilla use the same instance of the Gecko Rendering Engine without wasting system resources. There is NO reason that I can possibly think of for switching from Mozilla [SeaMonkey] to Firefox+Thunderbird until Firefox+Thunderbird can utilize the same instance of the GRE. Moreover, if you want standalone, you can always select the specific components you want installed during the graphical installation or during compile.
Yea, the appalling behavior of Swaret's previous developer has left a sour taste. Slapt-get is definetely a good alternative, and can delve into the -current branch just as easily.
"mp4" is here allready, as a matter of fact. However, any audio encapsulated in an MPEG-4 file that employs a bitrate higher than 64kbps is most commonly going to be MPEG-2 AAC encoded audio, and MPEG-2 AAC is nothing new. There are some fancier stuff for the lower bitrate audio streams in the MPEG-4 standard, but if you're like me, you tend to encode your music files at bitrates above 64kbps.
For more information regarding MP4 (MPEG-4), see this FAQ from the Motion Picture Experts Group.
Please note that iRiver has actually had a multimedia player capable of playing OGG Vorbis files for quite some time now. I refer to their iHP-120, their 20GB hard drive player. Nevertheless, it's nice to see OGG Vorbis support on their flash devices as well now.
On the subject of other graphics card contenders, what about 3D-Labs, home of some of the world's most powerful graphics cards? Something tells me that 3D-Labs' Wildcat4 7210 offering 4 monitor outputs, 384 MB DDR RAM, and allegedely decent linux support is something worthy of notation. While the average price of a 3D-Labs card isn't consumer level, they are still in competition with ATI, nVidia, et al. in the field of professional quality graphics cards.
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This is very interesting to see since the last guy in the news to blog about Microsoft's Macs got fired for it. Perhaps this is the rebound from the bad press they recieved over that incident?
SETI@Home joined the BOINC project long ago, at least a year ago. There has also been an account migration service since the beginning of the BOINC integration. The only news here is that they are discontinuing support for the old SETI@Home client.
Yup, and the latest Mozilla trunk builds also support this. It's just not something found on the Aviary branch yet, and probably won't be for a while.
Or those who couldn't afford to read the sentance that came after the one you quoted.
The idea behind roaming profiles is that you do not need to use the flash media for profile storage. The profile can be on an HTTP or FTP server. There is however a "file copy" option for roaming profiles that would allow for what you describe.
If you need to use both a web browser and an email client on a regular basis in multiple locations, then you don't need these customized builds, there is already something around for you, it's called Mozilla. Maybe some of you recent Firefox-from-IE converts have never used Mozilla or think it reminds you of Netscape (Firefox reminds me of IE). Give it a chance though. It allows you to use roaming profiles which is exactly what this article is about. You also aren't wasting your system resources like you are when you run Thunderbird and Firefox at the same time. You generally save over 30MB of RAM by just running the Mozilla Application Suite. This is because you only have one instance of the Gecko engine running instead of two. Oh, and you can plop Mozilla right onto a flash drive from the zip file builds available from the Mozilla.org Foundation.
I am personally waiting for drives that can burn to dual-layer DVD-R media. The steering committee of the DVD Forum just approved version 2.9 of their dual-layer DVD-R specification in a meeting that occured on September 22nd. It shouldn't be too long now. Getting a drive that supports both dual-layer formats is more important to me than the cost of the media itself.
During a custom install of Mozilla, you can actually unselect components that you might not want, anyway.
These are points worth considering. Though the GUI is one of the few major differences, some of the new GUI enhancements are indeed nice. As far as the toolbars go, there are Mozilla bugs such as 47418 (would link but bugzilla rejects slashdot referrals) that requests more control over toolbars in the main Mozilla branch. If you feel its a feature you'd like added to Mozilla, you can vote for the bug. As far as startup time is concerned, Mozilla has been admittedly notorious for its slow startup times in the past but this has vastly improved in the current 1.7 tree, and if you're a windows user, there's always the Mozilla startup agent which allows Mozilla to behave in a somewhat similar fashion to Internet Explorer in the way that you describe.
Actually, running Mozilla is faster than running both Firefox and Thunderbird at the same time, because the mail/news and navigator components of Mozilla use the same instance of the Gecko Rendering Engine without wasting system resources. There is NO reason that I can possibly think of for switching from Mozilla [SeaMonkey] to Firefox+Thunderbird until Firefox+Thunderbird can utilize the same instance of the GRE. Moreover, if you want standalone, you can always select the specific components you want installed during the graphical installation or during compile.
Yea, the appalling behavior of Swaret's previous developer has left a sour taste. Slapt-get is definetely a good alternative, and can delve into the -current branch just as easily.
LimeWire isn't a network, it's a Gnutella client! =P
"mp4" is here allready, as a matter of fact. However, any audio encapsulated in an MPEG-4 file that employs a bitrate higher than 64kbps is most commonly going to be MPEG-2 AAC encoded audio, and MPEG-2 AAC is nothing new. There are some fancier stuff for the lower bitrate audio streams in the MPEG-4 standard, but if you're like me, you tend to encode your music files at bitrates above 64kbps. For more information regarding MP4 (MPEG-4), see this FAQ from the Motion Picture Experts Group.
Please note that iRiver has actually had a multimedia player capable of playing OGG Vorbis files for quite some time now. I refer to their iHP-120, their 20GB hard drive player. Nevertheless, it's nice to see OGG Vorbis support on their flash devices as well now.
On the subject of other graphics card contenders, what about 3D-Labs, home of some of the world's most powerful graphics cards? Something tells me that 3D-Labs' Wildcat4 7210 offering 4 monitor outputs, 384 MB DDR RAM, and allegedely decent linux support is something worthy of notation. While the average price of a 3D-Labs card isn't consumer level, they are still in competition with ATI, nVidia, et al. in the field of professional quality graphics cards.