I've seen the exact same problem on Linux. Also with multiple IMAP servers. All of a sudden the machine seems to chug along and Thunderbird is sucking up cpu cycles. Oddly enough Thunderbird still works even though the cpu is pegged.
Porsche is nowhere near the most profitable automaker in the world. According to their financial report, Nissan made upwards of $3.6 billion in 6 months last year with a profit margin of over 10%. In the same time frame, Porsche made a mere $336 million on $4 billion in sales.
The fact of the matter is that Ford and GM have been hamstrung by overly costly retirement plans and a number of poor decisions (like focusing too much on the SUV market). GM pays out a tremendous amount of its revenue in retirement/health plans for baby boomers that worked there after WW2, and I would assume Ford has similar obligations. If they were to replace those with plans with ones that similar to what Porsche offers, GM would probably be making a few billion a year.
Apple may be profitable in their own right, but eeking out a 5% niche in the market is never going to make you a ton of money. In addition, the majority of their profits come from iPod sales (where they have 50%+ of the market) rather than computer sales. Up their pc sales to 10 or 15% and Apple is suddenly going to making a lot more money.
The phone was software limited to forbid you to load more than 100 songs. The phone has a 512 meg flash card, so you should be able to have considerably more than 100 songs if the bitrate/length is right. Apple imposed the limit in spite of Motorola's objections because they didn't want to cannibalize their iPod sales. See the article in this month's Wired if you want to know more.
Just wanted to second you there. Deangelo's techniques rule and shed light on the subject that would have taken me years to discover. Helped me shed the nice guy sydrome and get the girl without having to talk about how much I make, etc.
So basically, movies should be free, so that people with too much free time can spend more time watching this crap? Just want to make sure I'm hearing you right.
It's pretty simple really. Don't like it? Don't buy it. Now more than ever people have access to IMDB and online reviews and can find out what sucks and what doesn't before they go and waste their money. So get some backbone and tell your friends to boycott these crappy movies.
Why not run the Linux version of Firefox under emulation? Install the linux gtk2 libraries and it should work fine.
FWIW, the typical problem here is that flash gets compiled with a different version of gcc than Firefox, and then Firefox can't load the plugin because of g++ ABI issues. So depending on whether you're using the Fedora Firefox or the mozilla.org Firefox or whatever, you can have different results on the same machine. The other thing to check is that the plugin ends up in the right directory, since that's changed at least 3 times in the last 6 months. I personally prefer ~/.mozilla/firefox/plugins/ since that doesn't get wiped out if you d/l a new mozilla.org build and install it. You go to about:plugins in Firefox to make sure the plugin is actually getting loaded.
I gotta agree with you there. Biden and McCain both rule. It'd just be a question of whether Republicans could get past the distaste of voting for a Democrat, regardless of his policies. Has Biden shown any indication of seeking higher office though. I've been quite impressed by his interviews, but haven't seen anything to suggest that he's looking at the Oval Office yet.
FWIW, a majority of the country doesn't favor gay marriage. Haven't seen poll number AFA civil unions go, but I just don't see the whole thing being that important to the moderates - pushing something like that only serves to scare the conservatives, and won't gain any ground for centrists. Gay marriage will come once the country is ready for it, trying to legislate it is going to piss off a lot of religious folk. It'd be a lot better if homosexuals pursued the issue by persuading the other side and winning support for their cause rather than trying to pull it off in the courts.
Fedora Core 1 (x86_64) shipped with a 32-bit version of Mozilla presumably because Mozilla wouldn't build for x86_64 at the time (there were patches but not in the official release). In Core 2, it's now 64-bit, so the same plugin no longer works.
That should actually be -march=cputype -mcpu dictates that the code should be scheduled for your cpu type, but will still be backwards compatible with 386's. Using march will let you use instructions that are only available on newer cpus. For personal use, there's seldom need for compatibility with other machines.
Drepper is talking about being able to mount disks with the noexec flag, which prevents programs on that partition from being executed. This is most often used on filesystems that could possibly be written by public users, like/var, to prevent any programs there from being uploaded and then run to take advantage of an exploit or other such issues.
Execution Protection is probably referring to making the code pages of a program non-writeable. The goal is to prevent buffer overflows from allowing a script kiddie to write to the code segments and load the shell code. Take a look at OpenBSD's W^X (write xor execute) for more info.
All the guys that were hired by IBM were, to the best of my knowledge, brought on to continue working on Mozilla. doron was definitely hired to do Mozilla development. Shortly before the dissolution of Netscape, IBM was running an ad looking for an experienced Mozilla developer to help get their enhancements landed.
If you're having that many difficulties with the updates, could you Ghost the drives in case something goes wrong. While not the best solution, you could at least test the patch on one machine and then Ghost it to all the others once you've confirmed it works ok.
I haven't seen that many issues with Windows Updates. Updating 20+ customer computers at an ISP, I don't think I had but 2-3 problems and those were minor (e.g. non-necessary stuff like installing updated drivers) and one customer who had issues installing herself. And a number of these machines were Windows XP starting with no updates applied at all. Generally, the biggest issues were caused by computers that came in with viruses. Those caused all sorts of havok and in a few cases may have prevented updating until cleaned up. Might be worth a shot to run a scan on the problem boxes if you haven't already.
You could just sort the themes on Freshmeat by popularity and contact the theme authors to request they do a port to the other toolkit, but a conversion tool would be even better.
What would be cool is if QT and GTK shipped with a theme that matched the other's default theme, so that way you could just flip a switch and have your QT apps match your Gnome desktop or vice versa.
Why not post a message to their mailing list advocating your lib or better yet a patch to use it. Moaning on slashdot seems unlikely to get their attention.
There are a couple reasons that I prefer FreeBSD for my servers.
1. FreeBSD's development model is ridiculously stable. 4-6 months between releases, which have relatively minor changes means that everything works perfectly. With Gentoo, you don't really have as fixed of sync points and the code hasn't been sitting in the repository for nearly as long. At the same time, it's not 8 releases too old like Debian stable can be. This is also true of the kernel. You have one filesystem that has been around for 10 years and never suffers corruption. There's very few times anything is wrong with the stable kernel ala the Linux VM switch, etc. I also like the BSD kernel boot messages a lot better vs. the various inconsistent output and copyrights that you get when Linux boots.
2. The FreeBSD tools are better. In general, I don't like GNU tools very much, they often seem lower quality. They also tend to have much weaker man pages, and I prefer single letter flags over GNU's --options. Additionally I like the way things like iostat, top, and a few others handle their output on FreeBSD.
3. I prefer FreeBSD's kernel configuration. Copy the file over, read it, make a few additions and recompile on another machine.
4. FreeBSD is a one step install. It's ridiculously simple to install FreeBSD (for me at least). For example when I'd set up a webserver, I just do bin install and install bash, vim, and apache from ports, and every other tool I use regularly is already installed. Typically, I'll update the base system from source at each release and leave Apache/Mysql/other services alone. I'm not sure how I'd do this on Gentoo but I suppose it would be possible.
Gentoo is the first version of Linux that I actually like much. Debian is alright but has too many issues between setting it up, getting updated packages, and configuration files being a pain to figure out. Gentoo is pretty heavily inspired by FreeBSD in it's layout and config files, so really there's not that much difference between it and Free. If I could have the FreeBSD userland running on top of a Linux kernel (for the added hardware support and ease of running games), that would be my perfect setup.
However up until the last 6 months or so, I wouldn't really have considered Gentoo stable enough to put on a server. It's not very old and has only recently become popular. So prior to me discovering Gentoo, the choices were Debian (which despite it's good package system has terrible config files) and Red Hat (which is even worse).
If I were putting together a box now, I'm sure either Gentoo or FreeBSD would do fine. However, I would still go FreeBSD because I know it will work extremely well and has the better documentation. FreeBSD behaves like an integrated system, while with Linux you get a whole mix of various tools and approaches.
The whole reason these forks exist is because Netscape managers won't let anybody fix the absolutely broken UI that's in Mozilla.
There are something like 30 pref panels for stuff that is absolutely useless to 90% of users like:
Validating CRLS
Choosing whether Chatzilla italicizes text
Playing sounds when a popup doesn't popup because no one is allowed to decide what should go. Instead more bloated features keep getting added and the problem gets worse. For christ sakes, why is View background image in the context menu.
Meanwhile, quality fixes like the Customizable Toolbar from Phoenix don't get added. And because there is all this crap in XUL, half of which is overlays to support additional XUL files for the commercial Netscape tree, startup time takes like 10 seconds on an Athlon XP 1700. Instead, Phoenix at least takes more like 5, uses like 10 mb less memory, and actually improves from time to time. Plus the UI feels more friendly and professional. Now Phoenix hasn't had added lately, but at least it doesn't go backwards like Mozilla does.
I don't think you're really an ex-Mozilla or ex-Netscape guy, because if you were, you'd point the finger at Netscape management. Because from meeting a number of Mozilla developers in person and chatting with them on IRC, I have a decent understanding of some of the things that Netscape does which waste far more time than "pet projects". Things like:
Preventing key developers and contributors to the project from working by holding constant meetings to the point where they spend more time in meetings than actually working
Compromising the Mozilla tree to support stuff for the commercial release that doesn't belong in Mozilla
Showing _no_ respect for their developers. Case in point: Dave Hyatt hated all the shit he took from Netscape, so he left for Apple and loves it, because they actually let him work. Countless guys quit from being overworked and being treated poorly
Stopping anybody from actually addressing the UI issues, because people like Marlon (who may no longer be at Netscape) hold complete design control over the UI. And based on her decisions, backed by Netscape's usability studies which were never made publicly available, we have great features like having the Home button on the personal toolbar.
If you want to point fingers, why not direct them at the guys at AOL who are _being paid_ to write AOL Communicator. AOL Communicator doesn't attempt to address the UI issues in Mozilla Mail even though it is closely related to Netscape, and instead does a Minotaur-like facelift, only you'll never see the source code for it and it won't run on Linux, OS/2 and maybe Mac. Scott McGregor, Blake Ross, Dave Hyatt, et al who are working on Phoenix and Minotaur are doing it on their spare time. That's right, they make $0 to produce this. So why do they have any obligation at all to you.
Way to go dude, you're my hero. You won't even state your name, yet you'll shamelessly bash anybody who's actually _working_ on the Mozilla codebase. Why don't you come back when you're actually committing patches to address these issues in the Mail client which you don't bother to state either.
But at least XMMS and esp. Winamp have mildly useable skins as their default. The simple default skin for Winamp never impeded me in using the program - the cd player paradigm they use is familiar. So even though most of the skins suck hard, users bring it on themselves when they install the crap skins.
MPlayer has skin issues regardless of which one you use, because you can't figure out what half the buttons do, regardless of which skin you choose (including the default). Not to mention that the gui itself doesn't work all that well - two different playlists, no way to play out of the playlist, issues with the volume control.
The important thing is that skin support not be a substitute for usability. But for non-production apps like media players and games, themes are perfectly fine. Just get the default right.
Sounds like you have some configuration issues. I'm running a Geforce3 with the 3123 drivers and it takes 3-4 seconds to switch from X to console and the same to switch back. If you're seeing that starting X, chances are that you've set your hostname wrong/having difficulty resolving dns.
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The thing is IMDB ratings tend to start out at the top and work their way down. A movie will get its best reviews while it's still in the theater and then as time goes on it'll slip a few points as it hits video.
Fellowship of the Ring made it all the way up to #1 on their top 250 but since then has lost.3 points and is around #7 now. Watching any movie on the big screen makes it seem better, plus the audience that goes to those movies is generally younger and potentially skewed towards that movie. You can bet every Trekkie will go see it in the theater and review it immediately. Joe Parent will wait for the DVD.
Besides, it only has 52 votes so far. See where it stands after 6 months, and I bet it'll be behind Insurrection (which I liked).
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I've seen the exact same problem on Linux. Also with multiple IMAP servers. All of a sudden the machine seems to chug along and Thunderbird is sucking up cpu cycles. Oddly enough Thunderbird still works even though the cpu is pegged.
If you have ssh access to the server, then why not just use ssh to port forward to the database?
Porsche is nowhere near the most profitable automaker in the world. According to their financial report, Nissan made upwards of $3.6 billion in 6 months last year with a profit margin of over 10%. In the same time frame, Porsche made a mere $336 million on $4 billion in sales.
The fact of the matter is that Ford and GM have been hamstrung by overly costly retirement plans and a number of poor decisions (like focusing too much on the SUV market). GM pays out a tremendous amount of its revenue in retirement/health plans for baby boomers that worked there after WW2, and I would assume Ford has similar obligations. If they were to replace those with plans with ones that similar to what Porsche offers, GM would probably be making a few billion a year.
Apple may be profitable in their own right, but eeking out a 5% niche in the market is never going to make you a ton of money. In addition, the majority of their profits come from iPod sales (where they have 50%+ of the market) rather than computer sales. Up their pc sales to 10 or 15% and Apple is suddenly going to making a lot more money.
The phone was software limited to forbid you to load more than 100 songs. The phone has a 512 meg flash card, so you should be able to have considerably more than 100 songs if the bitrate/length is right. Apple imposed the limit in spite of Motorola's objections because they didn't want to cannibalize their iPod sales. See the article in this month's Wired if you want to know more.
Just wanted to second you there. Deangelo's techniques rule and shed light on the subject that would have taken me years to discover. Helped me shed the nice guy sydrome and get the girl without having to talk about how much I make, etc.
Neat sig. Where did you find that quote?
So basically, movies should be free, so that people with too much free time can spend more time watching this crap? Just want to make sure I'm hearing you right.
It's pretty simple really. Don't like it? Don't buy it. Now more than ever people have access to IMDB and online reviews and can find out what sucks and what doesn't before they go and waste their money. So get some backbone and tell your friends to boycott these crappy movies.
Why not run the Linux version of Firefox under emulation? Install the linux gtk2 libraries and it should work fine.
FWIW, the typical problem here is that flash gets compiled with a different version of gcc than Firefox, and then Firefox can't load the plugin because of g++ ABI issues. So depending on whether you're using the Fedora Firefox or the mozilla.org Firefox or whatever, you can have different results on the same machine. The other thing to check is that the plugin ends up in the right directory, since that's changed at least 3 times in the last 6 months. I personally prefer ~/.mozilla/firefox/plugins/ since that doesn't get wiped out if you d/l a new mozilla.org build and install it. You go to about:plugins in Firefox to make sure the plugin is actually getting loaded.
Excellent post. Mod parent up.
I gotta agree with you there. Biden and McCain both rule. It'd just be a question of whether Republicans could get past the distaste of voting for a Democrat, regardless of his policies. Has Biden shown any indication of seeking higher office though. I've been quite impressed by his interviews, but haven't seen anything to suggest that he's looking at the Oval Office yet.
FWIW, a majority of the country doesn't favor gay marriage. Haven't seen poll number AFA civil unions go, but I just don't see the whole thing being that important to the moderates - pushing something like that only serves to scare the conservatives, and won't gain any ground for centrists. Gay marriage will come once the country is ready for it, trying to legislate it is going to piss off a lot of religious folk. It'd be a lot better if homosexuals pursued the issue by persuading the other side and winning support for their cause rather than trying to pull it off in the courts.
You can turn off the buttons (which are pretty much useless anyway) in the prefs and resize the window.
However, gaim really needs an interface redesign. Other clients have a lot nicer buddy list and chat windows.
Fedora Core 1 (x86_64) shipped with a 32-bit version of Mozilla presumably because Mozilla wouldn't build for x86_64 at the time (there were patches but not in the official release). In Core 2, it's now 64-bit, so the same plugin no longer works.
That should actually be -march=cputype
-mcpu dictates that the code should be scheduled for your cpu type, but will still be backwards compatible with 386's. Using march will let you use instructions that are only available on newer cpus. For personal use, there's seldom need for compatibility with other machines.
Those are two totally different things.
/var, to prevent any programs there from being uploaded and then run to take advantage of an exploit or other such issues.
Drepper is talking about being able to mount disks with the noexec flag, which prevents programs on that partition from being executed. This is most often used on filesystems that could possibly be written by public users, like
Execution Protection is probably referring to making the code pages of a program non-writeable. The goal is to prevent buffer overflows from allowing a script kiddie to write to the code segments and load the shell code. Take a look at OpenBSD's W^X (write xor execute) for more info.
All the guys that were hired by IBM were, to the best of my knowledge, brought on to continue working on Mozilla. doron was definitely hired to do Mozilla development. Shortly before the dissolution of Netscape, IBM was running an ad looking for an experienced Mozilla developer to help get their enhancements landed.
If you're having that many difficulties with the updates, could you Ghost the drives in case something goes wrong. While not the best solution, you could at least test the patch on one machine and then Ghost it to all the others once you've confirmed it works ok.
I haven't seen that many issues with Windows Updates. Updating 20+ customer computers at an ISP, I don't think I had but 2-3 problems and those were minor (e.g. non-necessary stuff like installing updated drivers) and one customer who had issues installing herself. And a number of these machines were Windows XP starting with no updates applied at all. Generally, the biggest issues were caused by computers that came in with viruses. Those caused all sorts of havok and in a few cases may have prevented updating until cleaned up. Might be worth a shot to run a scan on the problem boxes if you haven't already.
You could just sort the themes on Freshmeat by popularity and contact the theme authors to request they do a port to the other toolkit, but a conversion tool would be even better.
What would be cool is if QT and GTK shipped with a theme that matched the other's default theme, so that way you could just flip a switch and have your QT apps match your Gnome desktop or vice versa.
Why not post a message to their mailing list advocating your lib or better yet a patch to use it. Moaning on slashdot seems unlikely to get their attention.
Right on. Way to generalize. Seems to me that for every defense lawyer there's a prosecuting attorney there trying to put the defendant in jail.
Go back to your crack pipe.
There are a couple reasons that I prefer FreeBSD for my servers.
1. FreeBSD's development model is ridiculously stable. 4-6 months between releases, which have relatively minor changes means that everything works perfectly. With Gentoo, you don't really have as fixed of sync points and the code hasn't been sitting in the repository for nearly as long. At the same time, it's not 8 releases too old like Debian stable can be.
This is also true of the kernel. You have one filesystem that has been around for 10 years and never suffers corruption. There's very few times anything is wrong with the stable kernel ala the Linux VM switch, etc. I also like the BSD kernel boot messages a lot better vs. the various inconsistent output and copyrights that you get when Linux boots.
2. The FreeBSD tools are better. In general, I don't like GNU tools very much, they often seem lower quality. They also tend to have much weaker man pages, and I prefer single letter flags over GNU's --options. Additionally I like the way things like iostat, top, and a few others handle their output on FreeBSD.
3. I prefer FreeBSD's kernel configuration. Copy the file over, read it, make a few additions and recompile on another machine.
4. FreeBSD is a one step install. It's ridiculously simple to install FreeBSD (for me at least). For example when I'd set up a webserver, I just do bin install and install bash, vim, and apache from ports, and every other tool I use regularly is already installed. Typically, I'll update the base system from source at each release and leave Apache/Mysql/other services alone. I'm not sure how I'd do this on Gentoo but I suppose it would be possible.
Gentoo is the first version of Linux that I actually like much. Debian is alright but has too many issues between setting it up, getting updated packages, and configuration files being a pain to figure out. Gentoo is pretty heavily inspired by FreeBSD in it's layout and config files, so really there's not that much difference between it and Free. If I could have the FreeBSD userland running on top of a Linux kernel (for the added hardware support and ease of running games), that would be my perfect setup.
However up until the last 6 months or so, I wouldn't really have considered Gentoo stable enough to put on a server. It's not very old and has only recently become popular. So prior to me discovering Gentoo, the choices were Debian (which despite it's good package system has terrible config files) and Red Hat (which is even worse).
If I were putting together a box now, I'm sure either Gentoo or FreeBSD would do fine. However, I would still go FreeBSD because I know it will work extremely well and has the better documentation. FreeBSD behaves like an integrated system, while with Linux you get a whole mix of various tools and approaches.
The problem at Netscape is ego.
The whole reason these forks exist is because Netscape managers won't let anybody fix the absolutely broken UI that's in Mozilla.
There are something like 30 pref panels for stuff that is absolutely useless to 90% of users like:
Validating CRLS
Choosing whether Chatzilla italicizes text
Playing sounds when a popup doesn't popup
because no one is allowed to decide what should go. Instead more bloated features keep getting added and the problem gets worse. For christ sakes, why is View background image in the context menu.
Meanwhile, quality fixes like the Customizable Toolbar from Phoenix don't get added. And because there is all this crap in XUL, half of which is overlays to support additional XUL files for the commercial Netscape tree, startup time takes like 10 seconds on an Athlon XP 1700. Instead, Phoenix at least takes more like 5, uses like 10 mb less memory, and actually improves from time to time. Plus the UI feels more friendly and professional. Now Phoenix hasn't had added lately, but at least it doesn't go backwards like Mozilla does.
I don't think you're really an ex-Mozilla or ex-Netscape guy, because if you were, you'd point the finger at Netscape management. Because from meeting a number of Mozilla developers in person and chatting with them on IRC, I have a decent understanding of some of the things that Netscape does which waste far more time than "pet projects". Things like:
Preventing key developers and contributors to the project from working by holding constant meetings to the point where they spend more time in meetings than actually working
Compromising the Mozilla tree to support stuff for the commercial release that doesn't belong in Mozilla
Showing _no_ respect for their developers. Case in point: Dave Hyatt hated all the shit he took from Netscape, so he left for Apple and loves it, because they actually let him work. Countless guys quit from being overworked and being treated poorly
Stopping anybody from actually addressing the UI issues, because people like Marlon (who may no longer be at Netscape) hold complete design control over the UI. And based on her decisions, backed by Netscape's usability studies which were never made publicly available, we have great features like having the Home button on the personal toolbar.
If you want to point fingers, why not direct them at the guys at AOL who are _being paid_ to write AOL Communicator. AOL Communicator doesn't attempt to address the UI issues in Mozilla Mail even though it is closely related to Netscape, and instead does a Minotaur-like facelift, only you'll never see the source code for it and it won't run on Linux, OS/2 and maybe Mac. Scott McGregor, Blake Ross, Dave Hyatt, et al who are working on Phoenix and Minotaur are doing it on their spare time. That's right, they make $0 to produce this. So why do they have any obligation at all to you.
Way to go dude, you're my hero. You won't even state your name, yet you'll shamelessly bash anybody who's actually _working_ on the Mozilla codebase. Why don't you come back when you're actually committing patches to address these issues in the Mail client which you don't bother to state either.
I totally agree with this. It's the only technical fault in mplayer. If you need someone else to complain about it, let me know and I'll chime in.
But at least XMMS and esp. Winamp have mildly useable skins as their default. The simple default skin for Winamp never impeded me in using the program - the cd player paradigm they use is familiar. So even though most of the skins suck hard, users bring it on themselves when they install the crap skins.
MPlayer has skin issues regardless of which one you use, because you can't figure out what half the buttons do, regardless of which skin you choose (including the default). Not to mention that the gui itself doesn't work all that well - two different playlists, no way to play out of the playlist, issues with the volume control.
The important thing is that skin support not be a substitute for usability. But for non-production apps like media players and games, themes are perfectly fine. Just get the default right.
Sounds like you have some configuration issues. I'm running a Geforce3 with the 3123 drivers and it takes 3-4 seconds to switch from X to console and the same to switch back. If you're seeing that starting X, chances are that you've set your hostname wrong/having difficulty resolving dns.
The thing is IMDB ratings tend to start out at the top and work their way down. A movie will get its best reviews while it's still in the theater and then as time goes on it'll slip a few points as it hits video.
.3 points and is around #7 now. Watching any movie on the big screen makes it seem better, plus the audience that goes to those movies is generally younger and potentially skewed towards that movie. You can bet every Trekkie will go see it in the theater and review it immediately. Joe Parent will wait for the DVD.
Fellowship of the Ring made it all the way up to #1 on their top 250 but since then has lost
Besides, it only has 52 votes so far. See where it stands after 6 months, and I bet it'll be behind Insurrection (which I liked).