Still, if you want to be fair, the most flawed application in Windows is by far Internet Explorer. Which I cannot UNinstall, and which is a full part of Windows. I can choose not to use it, but it remains in my system.
If any major Linux application had so many exploits, well I'd just remove it and use another one, end of story.
As far as I understand, the reason why the current DSL offers are so cheap in France is because of the privatisation! Companies like Free.fr, 9 Telecom or Easynet are not just ISPs, they are full telecom operators. And that's why ADSL is so cheap. Those companies do not depend on France Telecom lines.
In comparison, in the UK, you need a BT landline to get ADSL.
I agree with your point relating to coverage though. Most places in France do not have "degroupage" yet - meaning they have to stick to the FT based ADSL solutions (capped at 2Mb and not always cheaper than the 15Mb), and even so general ADSL coverage is probably not as good as it is in the UK, but it's so much cheaper and faster. *jealous*
Are you in the UK? I moved to the UK from France a few years back, when France was far behind. Now for £20 a month you get 15mbs, free phone, and TV over ADSL. Meanwhile, I believe the UK is now the European country where the value for money of a broadband connection is the poorest. £20 a month: 512kbps, and only few ISPs will offer no download restriction for that price.
That would be down to the large number of open SMTP servers there. I haven't checked lately, but a couple of years ago, most universities/schools in China seemed to have an open SMTP server...
Does it include a popular online retail music site built specifically for it? Does it have 'best of breed' management software integrated tightly with both the retail store and the hardware?
That's one of the arguments for the iPod that I just can't understand. However good iTunes may be, it needs to be installed. Good for portability? No. If the IRiver H10 is like the other models of HD based IRivers, then it will be seen by your OS as a USB hard drive. Basically, plug it into any computer and you can start transferring files. So, why would I want iTunes?
I totally agree with you there. Same thing with CDs. People can still play them in their stereo, so they don't care. Or the tech-savvy people will manage to get round the DRM and keep the CDs.
If only everyone could return the DRM CDs and DVDs they bought, explaining that they have a crippled product, then maybe the industry would give it up. But as long as 95% of people just ignore it... *sigh*
I don't need the whole Mozilla suite and I'm not the only one. Firefox is customisable. It has twice as many extensions as Mozilla 1.7.x. on update.mozilla.org It's just simple things like having a search box instead of using the address box that make the little differences that matter. And I can still use the address bar for a Google "I feel lucky" search. Mozilla does not understand ctrl+enter to add www. and.com. If you use Firefox and want an email client that goes with it, get Thunderbird. If you need a chat client, it exists as an extension. If you need more configuration options, there are extensions too that allow to go further without having to do it manually in about:config. Firefox provides a simpler interface, and should you need more, extensions are there.
When you click on Windows Update in the Start Menu, it opens an IE window, not whatever your default browser is. That's Windows XP behaviour I'm sure, and Windows 2000 I believe.
You also need to be admin to run Windows Update, at least doing it that way. (I'm afraid I don't know much about automatic updates, as that is the first thing I disable:) Ok, students on the campus are going to use their personal computers with whatever account they usually use, but computers in the library etc? They would be incompetent if they let student use admin accounts on those.
And if you are talking of automatic updates, I don't see how using an alternative browser could prevent them from working?
AFAIK the Mozilla browsers support proxies, and also support SOCKS. The lack of SOCKS support was one of the reasons why I ditched Opera for Firefox (well, Phoenix at the time). I haven't really looked at Opera since then - about 3 years ago - so I don't know whether that is still an issue.
We have stopped using proxies in my workplace, but the Firefox SwitchProxy extension was a great help many times. Save a few proxy configurations, and when you need to switch, it only takes a few seconds. Fantastic.
About the Thinkpad 600, don't be cheap! A backup battery bought through spare parts will cost you £10/$20 maximum. (Go to your country IBM website, products, then maintenance parts). A new motherboard for the T20 most probably isn't worth the money though.
Blunkett is not backing down on the idea of an ID card. There just won't be combined cards (ie passport + driving license + ID card) but a standalone ID card instead. And it will still cost £35 and contain I don't know how much biometric data.
Not just an iPod 'beater' or an iPod 'killer', it is the iPod slayer I suppose there are so many of those by now, that people had to come up with a new term for this one...
That was my thoughts as I was reading the topic. Hooligans have been using the internet as a means to organise fights for years now. There's a post below about the same thing in Poland as well.
I think this is sadly widespread amongst European hooligans these days.
Even though it will surely have more advanced functions than the current D-Link switch, I very much doubt that the Cisco will be different in the number of ports it has: 14 internals (for the maximum of 14 blades) and 4 external. Unless your Blade Center doesn't hold many Blades and your network configuration is very basic, you will still need more switches.
Firebird! Just unzip, no need to be an Admin to install.
Same story where I work, IE is the only browser installed on our workstations, however the guys are not too bothered if we use something else, as long as we don't ask them to install anything, as they are not allowed to.
Same story here, moved from Opera to Firebird. Opera is fast, but Firebird is faster still, it renders pages better than Opera does. Another plus is SOCKS support which Opera does not (or did not?) have. Firebird comes with less options than Opera basically, but so many add-ons exist, like the mouse gestures. And if you have a small screen with a resolution that is not higher than 1024*768, Firebird gives far less space for its toolbars, leaving more for the pages.
Just back from a training, more a freshening up than anything.
Main annoyance today: Updating from the basic suse 6.4 kernel (2.2.12? if I remember right) to 2.4.21 (bad support of the IDE controller in 2.2.12). Compilation went fine. Then i found out that there is no mkinitrd. I thought I'd do it dirty by installing a Red Hat RPM, but that was too recent and I would have needed to install or upgrade 5 other things. I then found out that there is a mk_initrd. Which doesn't work like mkinitrd. And would only make init disks for the 2.2.X kernels. Hmph.
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I don't drive - but could you take me for a ride if you should get it? :D
Still, if you want to be fair, the most flawed application in Windows is by far Internet Explorer. Which I cannot UNinstall, and which is a full part of Windows. I can choose not to use it, but it remains in my system.
If any major Linux application had so many exploits, well I'd just remove it and use another one, end of story.
Ooh and guess what... I Own any Linux box I have physical access to with any Gentoo/Slackware CD I happen to carry with me.
And I don't even need to login!!!11LOL!!!111fucktardsausage!!111
Next?
As far as I understand, the reason why the current DSL offers are so cheap in France is because of the privatisation! Companies like Free.fr, 9 Telecom or Easynet are not just ISPs, they are full telecom operators. And that's why ADSL is so cheap. Those companies do not depend on France Telecom lines.
In comparison, in the UK, you need a BT landline to get ADSL.
I agree with your point relating to coverage though. Most places in France do not have "degroupage" yet - meaning they have to stick to the FT based ADSL solutions (capped at 2Mb and not always cheaper than the 15Mb), and even so general ADSL coverage is probably not as good as it is in the UK, but it's so much cheaper and faster. *jealous*
Are you in the UK?
I moved to the UK from France a few years back, when France was far behind. Now for £20 a month you get 15mbs, free phone, and TV over ADSL.
Meanwhile, I believe the UK is now the European country where the value for money of a broadband connection is the poorest. £20 a month: 512kbps, and only few ISPs will offer no download restriction for that price.
That would be down to the large number of open SMTP servers there. I haven't checked lately, but a couple of years ago, most universities/schools in China seemed to have an open SMTP server...
Does it include a popular online retail music site built specifically for it? Does it have 'best of breed' management software integrated tightly with both the retail store and the hardware?
That's one of the arguments for the iPod that I just can't understand. However good iTunes may be, it needs to be installed. Good for portability? No.
If the IRiver H10 is like the other models of HD based IRivers, then it will be seen by your OS as a USB hard drive. Basically, plug it into any computer and you can start transferring files. So, why would I want iTunes?
I totally agree with you there. Same thing with CDs. People can still play them in their stereo, so they don't care. Or the tech-savvy people will manage to get round the DRM and keep the CDs.
If only everyone could return the DRM CDs and DVDs they bought, explaining that they have a crippled product, then maybe the industry would give it up. But as long as 95% of people just ignore it... *sigh*
I don't need the whole Mozilla suite and I'm not the only one. Firefox is customisable. It has twice as many extensions as Mozilla 1.7.x. on update.mozilla.org .com.
It's just simple things like having a search box instead of using the address box that make the little differences that matter. And I can still use the address bar for a Google "I feel lucky" search.
Mozilla does not understand ctrl+enter to add www. and
If you use Firefox and want an email client that goes with it, get Thunderbird. If you need a chat client, it exists as an extension. If you need more configuration options, there are extensions too that allow to go further without having to do it manually in about:config.
Firefox provides a simpler interface, and should you need more, extensions are there.
...that makes me love my Iriver with OGG support even more :)
When you click on Windows Update in the Start Menu, it opens an IE window, not whatever your default browser is. That's Windows XP behaviour I'm sure, and Windows 2000 I believe.
:) Ok, students on the campus are going to use their personal computers with whatever account they usually use, but computers in the library etc? They would be incompetent if they let student use admin accounts on those.
You also need to be admin to run Windows Update, at least doing it that way. (I'm afraid I don't know much about automatic updates, as that is the first thing I disable
And if you are talking of automatic updates, I don't see how using an alternative browser could prevent them from working?
AFAIK the Mozilla browsers support proxies, and also support SOCKS. The lack of SOCKS support was one of the reasons why I ditched Opera for Firefox (well, Phoenix at the time). I haven't really looked at Opera since then - about 3 years ago - so I don't know whether that is still an issue.
We have stopped using proxies in my workplace, but the Firefox SwitchProxy extension was a great help many times. Save a few proxy configurations, and when you need to switch, it only takes a few seconds. Fantastic.
About the Thinkpad 600, don't be cheap! A backup battery bought through spare parts will cost you £10/$20 maximum. (Go to your country IBM website, products, then maintenance parts).
A new motherboard for the T20 most probably isn't worth the money though.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/live-bookm arks.html
"Headlines from Slashdot (RSS ) and the BBC News (RSS ) displayed in the Bookmarks Sidebar. Clicking on a headline takes you right to the article."
Hm.. has anyone here tried reading /.'s feed using the Firefox rss reader? (the new integrated one, not Sage!)
Well, this is the page you get.
Blunkett is not backing down on the idea of an ID card. There just won't be combined cards (ie passport + driving license + ID card) but a standalone ID card instead.
And it will still cost £35 and contain I don't know how much biometric data.
I think he simply means that IE is very secure in a non-networked environment...
Not just an iPod 'beater' or an iPod 'killer', it is the iPod slayer I suppose there are so many of those by now, that people had to come up with a new term for this one...
If your dad's box is hardly good enough for Win98, I very much doubt it will have enough resources for Mandrake 10.
Mandrake 10 hardware recommendations
Other than that I would definitely recommend it, although I haven't tried reading my digital camera on it yet.
That was my thoughts as I was reading the topic. Hooligans have been using the internet as a means to organise fights for years now. There's a post below about the same thing in Poland as well.
I think this is sadly widespread amongst European hooligans these days.
Even though it will surely have more advanced functions than the current D-Link switch, I very much doubt that the Cisco will be different in the number of ports it has: 14 internals (for the maximum of 14 blades) and 4 external. Unless your Blade Center doesn't hold many Blades and your network configuration is very basic, you will still need more switches.
Firebird!
Just unzip, no need to be an Admin to install.
Same story where I work, IE is the only browser installed on our workstations, however the guys are not too bothered if we use something else, as long as we don't ask them to install anything, as they are not allowed to.
Same story here, moved from Opera to Firebird.
Opera is fast, but Firebird is faster still, it renders pages better than Opera does. Another plus is SOCKS support which Opera does not (or did not?) have.
Firebird comes with less options than Opera basically, but so many add-ons exist, like the mouse gestures.
And if you have a small screen with a resolution that is not higher than 1024*768, Firebird gives far less space for its toolbars, leaving more for the pages.
Just back from a training, more a freshening up than anything.
Main annoyance today:
Updating from the basic suse 6.4 kernel (2.2.12? if I remember right) to 2.4.21 (bad support of the IDE controller in 2.2.12). Compilation went fine. Then i found out that there is no mkinitrd. I thought I'd do it dirty by installing a Red Hat RPM, but that was too recent and I would have needed to install or upgrade 5 other things. I then found out that there is a mk_initrd. Which doesn't work like mkinitrd. And would only make init disks for the 2.2.X kernels. Hmph.
...the coffee pot computer.
Now what if those 2 could be combined? Hmmmm...
yeah i hear it's available in some markets in scotland...