X crashing is almost always a sign that the display driver is at fault, and not the application. True, the application might have tried to do something unusual, but it is then the task of the display driver to respond in a correct way, and ensure that X continues running. Applications, running on X with a proper driver, should not have any capability to crash X.
I've never had service pack or update installations change my homepage settings. The only MS program that wanted to change this during installation was MSN Messenger, and it clearly indicated it was going to change it, and allowed you to tell it not to do so. I change the default homepage as soon as I install Windows, and I've never had to reset it due to it being changed by another program.
Then again, there are various programs which can and do change your default homepage as part of your agreement to using that program. I remember someone's computer always resetting its homepage to search.com or something like that, because he was using a POP3 mail-indicator ala xbiff, which had as part of its usage agreement that it would always reset your homepage. At least this page had a link explaining why you might keep seeing this page, and that it was in fact linked to this program.
Replying to self because I forgot to mention about the entire AWT/Swing/SWT debacle. I don't think Swing was a good idea, because it was introducing another level of inconsistency. The GUI objects in desktop apps should look and behave the same, unless they have very good reason not to. SWT and its native objects are definitely a step in the right direction.
I've been developing in Java for close to 7-8 years now, and am a great advocate of Java - for those tasks that fit it. I think Java on the server-side is a very powerful thing, but that it just wasn't ready for the desktop up to and including v1.4. Try running 10 copies of Notepad - and then try running 10 Notepad-equivalents in Java, and see the difference. Having said that, v1.5 bringing virtual machine sharing should have a big impact on this, but I have not yet had the opportunity to evaluate how much of a difference this makes on the footprint.
I recently had to demo an old application that we developed back in '98 for Java 1.1/1.2, on both Windows and Linux using Sun's 1.4 virtual machine. I was appalled to see that the application, which had very good performance on Windows, was unfortunately having quite dramatic performance issues when run on Linux (Tests were done on a dual-boot machine).
Java on the desktop - yes, great. But up until 1.5, it wasn't the time. Maybe things will change now.
curl and wget can both store and use cookies between invocations. A simple three-liner then to request the first page, perform the post to a preview, and then confirm the preview.
So now that we finally DO get all the fun, what were the first few sites you went to to actually experience our newly acquired proper flash abilities on Linux? First two sites that I hit were Ninjai and The Rasterbator.
x0rfbserver let's you do this. It allows a VNC client to connect to your currently running X session, but unfortunately the project seems to have died. A quick google search found x11vnc which seems to do the required.
I've recently stumbled across MultiSync. It synchronizes information between Evolution, PIM, phone, Palm, LDAP, etc. Haven't installed it yet, but it sounds very powerful. If your phone supports either IrMC or SyncML-based synchronization, then you're in luck.
hehe - liked the "From the street-hawk-returns-dept" in the posting. Sure bring back memories. Who else can remember Streethawk ? Used to love that as a kid, although there was only one series of it which was aired.
That's because Microsoft's IIS servers are hidden behind Akamai's layer of Linux redirection/load-balancing servers, which is what Netcraft actually sees/identifies here.
I'm just switching over to Dvorak at the moment. Have been a QWERTY touch-typer for over 10 years now, and have finally convinced myself to switch. Swapping the keytops on the keyboard I use at the moment has made it a bit awkward, since the keytops have a slant which depended on the QWERTY layout, and now I've gone and screwed that, so the keys have all kinds of different slants. I'm waiting for my Touchstream LP to arrive any day now.
From the OpenSSH website:
"OpenSSH is primarily developed by the OpenBSD Project,"... "Managing the distribution of OpenSSH is split into two teams. One team does strictly OpenBSD-based development, aiming to produce code that is as clean, simple, and secure as possible. "... " The other team then takes the clean version and makes it portable, by adding the portability "goop" so that it will run on many operating systems (these are known as the p releases, and named like "OpenSSH 3.7.1p1"). "
I was wondering about this just two or three weeks ago, and tested with Mozilla and IE 6. Both of them can display PNG files, but it's only Mozilla that could render the 256-level alpha channel properly. Made for some very neat effects. IE didn't manage the transparency at all.:-(
Have already seen something similar, been available for quite some time:
CGI Telnet
Although the CGI Telnet doesn't seem to be as full featured as today's featured app
I've been using Cygwin/XFree86 for about a month or two now, and don't have any complaints. It may be a tad slower than what one is used to, but overall it works quite well. You can also run WindowMaker on Cygwin (comes bundled now), or any other window manager, as long as you can compile it on Cygwin, on Cygwin/XFree86
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X crashing is almost always a sign that the display driver is at fault, and not the application. True, the application might have tried to do something unusual, but it is then the task of the display driver to respond in a correct way, and ensure that X continues running. Applications, running on X with a proper driver, should not have any capability to crash X.
Then again, there are various programs which can and do change your default homepage as part of your agreement to using that program. I remember someone's computer always resetting its homepage to search.com or something like that, because he was using a POP3 mail-indicator ala xbiff, which had as part of its usage agreement that it would always reset your homepage. At least this page had a link explaining why you might keep seeing this page, and that it was in fact linked to this program.
Replying to self because I forgot to mention about the entire AWT/Swing/SWT debacle. I don't think Swing was a good idea, because it was introducing another level of inconsistency. The GUI objects in desktop apps should look and behave the same, unless they have very good reason not to. SWT and its native objects are definitely a step in the right direction.
I've been developing in Java for close to 7-8 years now, and am a great advocate of Java - for those tasks that fit it. I think Java on the server-side is a very powerful thing, but that it just wasn't ready for the desktop up to and including v1.4. Try running 10 copies of Notepad - and then try running 10 Notepad-equivalents in Java, and see the difference. Having said that, v1.5 bringing virtual machine sharing should have a big impact on this, but I have not yet had the opportunity to evaluate how much of a difference this makes on the footprint. I recently had to demo an old application that we developed back in '98 for Java 1.1/1.2, on both Windows and Linux using Sun's 1.4 virtual machine. I was appalled to see that the application, which had very good performance on Windows, was unfortunately having quite dramatic performance issues when run on Linux (Tests were done on a dual-boot machine). Java on the desktop - yes, great. But up until 1.5, it wasn't the time. Maybe things will change now.
curl and wget can both store and use cookies between invocations. A simple three-liner then to request the first page, perform the post to a preview, and then confirm the preview.
Windows DrunkenMouse.exe and ChristmasLights.exe were always quite amusing to run on remote computers. :-)
So now that we finally DO get all the fun, what were the first few sites you went to to actually experience our newly acquired proper flash abilities on Linux? First two sites that I hit were Ninjai and The Rasterbator.
x0rfbserver let's you do this. It allows a VNC client to connect to your currently running X session, but unfortunately the project seems to have died. A quick google search found x11vnc which seems to do the required.
I've recently stumbled across MultiSync. It synchronizes information between Evolution, PIM, phone, Palm, LDAP, etc. Haven't installed it yet, but it sounds very powerful. If your phone supports either IrMC or SyncML-based synchronization, then you're in luck.
hehe - liked the "From the street-hawk-returns-dept" in the posting. Sure bring back memories. Who else can remember Streethawk ? Used to love that as a kid, although there was only one series of it which was aired.
And here's the start of a comic thread at User Friendly
That's because Microsoft's IIS servers are hidden behind Akamai's layer of Linux redirection/load-balancing servers, which is what Netcraft actually sees/identifies here.
Replying to self :-)
Of course, I mean the Dvorak Version
I'm just switching over to Dvorak at the moment. Have been a QWERTY touch-typer for over 10 years now, and have finally convinced myself to switch. Swapping the keytops on the keyboard I use at the moment has made it a bit awkward, since the keytops have a slant which depended on the QWERTY layout, and now I've gone and screwed that, so the keys have all kinds of different slants. I'm waiting for my Touchstream LP to arrive any day now.
From the OpenSSH website: "OpenSSH is primarily developed by the OpenBSD Project," ... "Managing the distribution of OpenSSH is split into two teams. One team does strictly OpenBSD-based development, aiming to produce code that is as clean, simple, and secure as possible. " ... " The other team then takes the clean version and makes it portable, by adding the portability "goop" so that it will run on many operating systems (these are known as the p releases, and named like "OpenSSH 3.7.1p1"). "
I was wondering about this just two or three weeks ago, and tested with Mozilla and IE 6. Both of them can display PNG files, but it's only Mozilla that could render the 256-level alpha channel properly. Made for some very neat effects. IE didn't manage the transparency at all. :-(
Have already seen something similar, been available for quite some time: CGI Telnet Although the CGI Telnet doesn't seem to be as full featured as today's featured app
you can use the /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh script, and it'll handle this for you.
twm is just the default window manager, but newer Cygwin installations also provide WindowMaker binaries (my personal favourite)
I've been using Cygwin/XFree86 for about a month or two now, and don't have any complaints. It may be a tad slower than what one is used to, but overall it works quite well. You can also run WindowMaker on Cygwin (comes bundled now), or any other window manager, as long as you can compile it on Cygwin, on Cygwin/XFree86