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Slashdot coverage might just have something to do with the fact that Mozilla is open-source and free (AIB), while Opera is still ultimately an artifact of consumer-ware.
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Interesting that you should mention this...
Over the years, I've become accustomed to flaky banking support in various browsers. I deal with a number of Australian banks, some of which cope perfectly with any browser I throw at them, while others...suck big-time.
Since I upgraded to 1.2beta, I've had no problems.
FWIW, I've been using Mozilla as my default browser on Linux since the early 0.9x days, and have found it to be at least as stable as IE on any Windows box.
There are some improvements in this Flash player, but I still hit sites where it simply doesn't work. All in all, my life would probably be happier without webpages based on Flash.
Given that the so-called "classic" theme belongs to Netscape 4, I find it a bit hard to understand why they persist in making it the default. Sure, it (sort of) works on a 16-bit display, but I think this browser is really targeted at users with more modern hardware. I always immediately change the theme to "Modern" on any machine I install Moz on.
one *must* admit that Windows 3.1 is a very, very bad operating system
Nope. It isn't an operating system at all, it's a GUI. It was pretty bad, though...:-). That said, it was a lot less bloated than subsequent wins, and didn't crash any more frequently than win98.
A DOS boot floppy is still useful for those of us who maintain a Windows partition on their *NIX boxen (I only do because I have a UMAX parallel port scanner which doesn't work with SANE).
Most of us have had occasion to groan when we find that a previously functioning program either no longer works or has evaporated completely, and a C:\ prompt is a friendly thing to behold...
Probably not, but I've always thought calling the extra stuff "junk DNA" just because we don't know what it codes for is presumptious, to say the least.
1: You say Slackware's user base has dwindled: I wonder about this - many posts I've seen in the forums are from people who have been using Slackware since '93, while there is still a steady number of posts from newbies. Sure, it doesn't have RedHat's market share now, and there has probably been some attrition from the source distros, but If there was any good way to find out, I think we might find Slackware have a larger slice than we might suppose...
2: What's wrong with Mandrake? Not much: I liked 8.1 and was disappointed with 8.2.
Now I'm back to using Slackware as my desktop system. Contrary to popular belief, it does this very well - you just have to know what you're doing, that's all:-)
PGP/GPG signatures are fine and dandy for those of us who know how to use them. I do, and I guess the majority of/.ers probably do too. Trouble is, I can't see my parents in the Channel Islands learning how to do it, and I can't see 90% of my friends doing so, either (being blessed with many friends who are woefully non-geekish).
A good way to make yourself feel alone in the world:-) but for the moment I'll stick to sending my messages en clair and making sure that my primary email address does not fall into the wrong hands.
Seriously, though, it may be (partly) due to the fact that we haven't fscked up the atmosphere (yet, though some of us are working on it) to the extent that we can see beyond it. Also, we don't have to drive very far to escape the "light pollution" which makes (non-solar-related) observations hard...
This Yahoo user is called Sir Mudge Pinkerton-Bottomley and lives at 42 Bonkalot Street, Didjabringabeer in Western Australia, and his phone number is 9221 1111 (which is coincidentally also that of the Western Australian Police).
and I fail to see that the "restrictions" imposed on the free email accounts are any different to what they are currently (i.e. 4 Mb storage, limit of 3 attachments)... Anybody care to enlighten us?
Even with these restrictions, it seems to me that their service is still much better than that of a lot of other free email providers.../p
Yes, I looked at a lot of benchmark studies a few months ago when I was overhauling my systems.
In the end i figured that I would stay with ext2 for the time being.
I'm not simply being reactionary here. Being an old-timer (since late '70s) as a sysadmin and sysprog, I have always placed a high value on good backups carried out rigorously and systematically, e.g. grandfather/father/son in daily, weekly, monthly etc cycles as required by the data turnover, even for desktop boxen.
I've seen all too many people (often very technically savvy) lose important stuff by ignoring backups and trusting journalling systems.
With my setup (on the basis of the benchmarks I read) ext2 outperforms any of the journalling systems, and I'll live with the risk of an occasional fsck on bootup.
well, two really, why I still keep a Windows partition.
One: I have a Umax 610P parallel port scanner for which there is no SANE backend, and I don't use the thing often enough to justify replacing it at this stage;
Two: I have a Texas Instruments TI-89 calculator, and the TI software for windows is all that seems to handle OS and Flash software upgrades sweetly. Tilp is fine for anything else on Linux.
However, I don't think I've fired up Windows for ~3 months, and I certainly don't miss it...
I apologise in advance if the following comes across as flamebait, but in my experience, 97% of the spam I get (I live in Australia) originates from the USA. 1% originates from.kr,.tw and.jp, and 2% originates from.ru IPs.
I have been tempted at times to adopt a simple shotgun approach of blocking all US netblocks, except that a small proportion of my email from US domains is legit.
I loaded up Nvidia's drivers for Linux a couple of weeks ago.
There are heaps of really cool and nifty features, but X11's memory footprint immediately exploded to 150 megs.
Needless to say, I reverted to the stock "nv" driver that comes with XFree86 damn quick.
I am willing to accept that there might be something unusual with my setup that the configuration routines were not designed to cope with (Slackware), but the features aren't so cool as to be worth the investment of my time to find out.
I've always thought of Linus' tree as more of a kernel testing ground - even for the "stable" releases
Actually, Slackware uses the stock Linus tree - I guess on the principle that Patrick Volkerding knows that his target market knows what patches (if any) they want to apply...
Actually, this is more than an urban legend; many many years ago, I was working as a junior sysprog at a Burroughs B3700 site, where the vertically-mounted fixed-head hard disks were something like 3 feet in diameter. One of these came adrift from its bearing one day, and I saw the thing bust through the casing, a brick wall and continue sailing over a road, a sea-wall and into the sea. Could have killed someone...
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Slashdot coverage might just have something to do with the fact that Mozilla is open-source and free (AIB), while Opera is still ultimately an artifact of consumer-ware.
Over the years, I've become accustomed to flaky banking support in various browsers. I deal with a number of Australian banks, some of which cope perfectly with any browser I throw at them, while others...suck big-time.
Since I upgraded to 1.2beta, I've had no problems.
FWIW, I've been using Mozilla as my default browser on Linux since the early 0.9x days, and have found it to be at least as stable as IE on any Windows box.
There are some improvements in this Flash player, but I still hit sites where it simply doesn't work. All in all, my life would probably be happier without webpages based on Flash.
Given that the so-called "classic" theme belongs to Netscape 4, I find it a bit hard to understand why they persist in making it the default. Sure, it (sort of) works on a 16-bit display, but I think this browser is really targeted at users with more modern hardware. I always immediately change the theme to "Modern" on any machine I install Moz on.
Personally, I would like to see Flash banned :-).
Nope. It isn't an operating system at all, it's a GUI. It was pretty bad, though... :-). That said, it was a lot less bloated than subsequent wins, and didn't crash any more frequently than win98.
Most of us have had occasion to groan when we find that a previously functioning program either no longer works or has evaporated completely, and a C:\ prompt is a friendly thing to behold...
Probably not, but I've always thought calling the extra stuff "junk DNA" just because we don't know what it codes for is presumptious, to say the least.
1: You say Slackware's user base has dwindled: I wonder about this - many posts I've seen in the forums are from people who have been using Slackware since '93, while there is still a steady number of posts from newbies. Sure, it doesn't have RedHat's market share now, and there has probably been some attrition from the source distros, but If there was any good way to find out, I think we might find Slackware have a larger slice than we might suppose...
2: What's wrong with Mandrake? Not much: I liked 8.1 and was disappointed with 8.2.
Now I'm back to using Slackware as my desktop system. Contrary to popular belief, it does this very well - you just have to know what you're doing, that's all :-)
A good way to make yourself feel alone in the world :-) but for the moment I'll stick to sending my messages en clair and making sure that my primary email address does not fall into the wrong hands.
Correction, that should be "can't see"... my bad.
If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand... :-)
Seriously, though, it may be (partly) due to the fact that we haven't fscked up the atmosphere (yet, though some of us are working on it) to the extent that we can see beyond it. Also, we don't have to drive very far to escape the "light pollution" which makes (non-solar-related) observations hard...
This Yahoo user is called Sir Mudge Pinkerton-Bottomley and lives at 42 Bonkalot Street, Didjabringabeer in Western Australia, and his phone number is 9221 1111 (which is coincidentally also that of the Western Australian Police).
Even with these restrictions, it seems to me that their service is still much better than that of a lot of other free email providers.../p
Yes, I looked at a lot of benchmark studies a few months ago when I was overhauling my systems.
In the end i figured that I would stay with ext2 for the time being.
I'm not simply being reactionary here. Being an old-timer (since late '70s) as a sysadmin and sysprog, I have always placed a high value on good backups carried out rigorously and systematically, e.g. grandfather/father/son in daily, weekly, monthly etc cycles as required by the data turnover, even for desktop boxen.
I've seen all too many people (often very technically savvy) lose important stuff by ignoring backups and trusting journalling systems.
With my setup (on the basis of the benchmarks I read) ext2 outperforms any of the journalling systems, and I'll live with the risk of an occasional fsck on bootup.
well, two really, why I still keep a Windows partition.
One: I have a Umax 610P parallel port scanner for which there is no SANE backend, and I don't use the thing often enough to justify replacing it at this stage;
Two: I have a Texas Instruments TI-89 calculator, and the TI software for windows is all that seems to handle OS and Flash software upgrades sweetly. Tilp is fine for anything else on Linux.
However, I don't think I've fired up Windows for ~3 months, and I certainly don't miss it...
I have been tempted at times to adopt a simple shotgun approach of blocking all US netblocks, except that a small proportion of my email from US domains is legit.
calling crackers hackers?
There are heaps of really cool and nifty features, but X11's memory footprint immediately exploded to 150 megs.
Needless to say, I reverted to the stock "nv" driver that comes with XFree86 damn quick.
I am willing to accept that there might be something unusual with my setup that the configuration routines were not designed to cope with (Slackware), but the features aren't so cool as to be worth the investment of my time to find out.
Actually, Slackware uses the stock Linus tree - I guess on the principle that Patrick Volkerding knows that his target market knows what patches (if any) they want to apply...
I think you'll probably find most of Australia's aliens on the Federal Government's front benches :-)
I wouldn't mind devoting some CPU cycles to protein folding, but last time I looked there were no Linux clients...
Actually, this is more than an urban legend; many many years ago, I was working as a junior sysprog at a Burroughs B3700 site, where the vertically-mounted fixed-head hard disks were something like 3 feet in diameter. One of these came adrift from its bearing one day, and I saw the thing bust through the casing, a brick wall and continue sailing over a road, a sea-wall and into the sea. Could have killed someone...
Maybe Celine Dion's publishers should condider this?