I had no problem watching it in full screen on Fedora Core 3 using the mplayer and mplayerplug-in packages from the apt repositories of freshrpms.net etc.
If they are going to play an April fools joke on us, they might as well throw in a hot pic of the woman while they are at it.
I mean, what's the point of reading a nonsense article if there is no picture to accompany it?:)
Yes it does. Only it is called "inline find". Opera actually had inline find before Mozilla had type ahead find.
How do I use inline find? For type ahead find, all I have to do is start typing the text of the link I want to visit and that link is automatically highlighted. Then I can press enter to visit it..
I donot know precisely about 'target = _blank' links, but you can try the 'TabBrowser' extension. With that, you can make firebird operate solely in a single window mode, just like Opera.. That should solve your problem.
It does not have as sophisticated cookie and image blocking facilities.
You cannot limit the functionality of Javascript in ways that Firebird provides.
It is no faster than Firebird 0.5 or 0.6 in any respect.
It has an annoying advertisement.
It does not work well with Java applets (for me atleast).
The first 3 points are the major reason I chose to stick with Mozilla Firebird. Plus, you get a number of cool extensions for Firebird which you can install at a click of a button.
I found that the Tab management in Opera 7.1 was superior that Firebird's out of the box. But there is an extension called "Tabbrowser extensions" which make Firebird Tabs behave as well as Opera.
I for one don't see a reason to spend good money on Opera given that Firebird exists.
I downloaded the rpm package for Redhat 7.x / Mandrake 8 which uses a shared qt library and it did not install.. "Failed dependency libqt.so.3".. I don't know too much about qt library versions but I do know that I have qt installed (the default that came with Redhat 7.2 ) so it should work..
I guess everyone should just download the version with a static qt library to be safe..
I think a very important question on this subject is "Is cloning ethical?". I don't think it is, but I may not be able to see all the possibilities that cloning affords.
Having said that, there are too many loose ends with regards to cloning as of now. Will the person who makes a clone of a living thing own it, or is that thing (lets consider a human for now) free to do as it pleases like any other human being in a modern country?
This is just one of thousands of questions that must be asked and answered before cloning of human beings is allowed. I believe it will eventually happen and when it does, we should not be caught completely unawares.
I just had a look at the safari screenshots on the Apple website and it struck me that they both *look* almost identical. Both have just four buttons, an address bar, a search bar and not much else... Maybe this is a new trend for lightweight browsers, but I wonder who started it?
Think about it. The new generation is the generation that will make the bussiness decisions later. Get them hooked up on Windows and the future looks bright for MS.
The current batch is still Windows minded although Linux makes quite a groundswell because the current generation likes it and uses it. So better turn them back to Windows as soon as possible. And the best way to do this is to create an application that gives them what they need. Who cares for the advantages for bussiness and educational markets. If it's good they'll buy it anyway.
I thought about it and I think that you are giving GNU/Linux and Microsoft too much credit. Firstly, GNU/Linux is not nearly enough of a threat on the desktop for Microsoft to begin developing apps for the youth of today just to ensure they use Microsoft in the future. I think Microsoft are just trying to exploit a market in a way that hasn't been exploited before.
It is not like GNU/Linux is on their minds every time they start work a new application.
I say you are giving Microsoft too much credit because given the marketshare of GNU/Linux today, I doubt they have so much foresight so as to begin work on an application from which their main benefits will be realized only 15+ years in the future. That is in essence what you seem to be saying..
This is something that is not widely publicized, but Compaq
aggressively advertises Linux desktop computers in the most popular Indian newspaper
(Thats the only one I read, but they may be advertising elsewhere too).
Here
is the system in question. (Look at the bottom line of the specs) In
the ad they also mention that the linux machine comes with an office
suite and sells for Rs. 33,990 (~US$680) while the equivalent hardware
running windows and without an office suite sells for Rs.37,990
(~US$760).. Also, Compaq provides full support for their Linux PC.
I think that Linux has the largest potential to explode as a desktop
OS in developing markets like India. This is for 2 reasons..
Arelatively small percentage of the population knows how to
use computers so they will not have to make a 'switch' to linux as many
in western countries have to. Thus there will be no apprehension when
using linux.
The other alternative to buying branded computers in India is
through local assemblers. Most people are usually very apprehensive of
buying from them beacause of lack of support and because these
assemblers are not trustworthy. The only reason people do make purchases
from assemblers is beacause of the lower prices. The assemblers can
afford to sell computers for Rs.4000-5000 less than the equivalent
branded piece because they sell pirated software along with the
computers. So the software cost is 0.The price of this Linux
based Compaq PC can match any other assembled computer in its class.
Given the brand, many first time buyers may consumers may go ahead and
buy it.
So while Linux may not be the best desktop system available, as we
have seen before the best solution does not necessarily win.
Now, solitaire won't frame anymore and I can keep my beer cool right inside my cabinet so I don't have to make frequent trips to the fridge while playing!!
How about giving these people some food;
Who will give them food?
I think that it is a major misconception of the west that India is short on food grain. India has one of the largest food surpluses in the world. It is simply that there are too many people who cannot afford it and the infrastructure is not good enough to transport the surplus grain all over the country economically. Why does the govenrment not do anything about it? Well, thats massive debate in itself.
So your comments about starving people may be ultimately accurate but I get the impression you feel that poor Indians starve because there is not enough food in the country. That is incorrect.
I am an Indian student studying computer engineering in Bombay. Most of my classmates are not interested in using/developing free software and as you say, they seem to be more inclined to learn tools that will fetch them competent jobs.
However, haven't you noticed the recent flurry of ads in the leading newspapers advertising Compaq Precarios selling for Rs.33,990 and running Linux out of the box? The same computer can be bought from Compaq with Windows XP preinstalled, but for Rs 4000 extra.
Now, throw in the office suite the linux machine comes bunfled with, which way do you think the highly price concious first time customer will go? Given the number of homes yet to buy a computer in India, such cheap computers that come with support and warranry and a brand name must seem very attractive. Especially given the FUD most of them experience when buying from local assemblers. I emphasize first time customers because they do not have to relearn anything or get used to anything new. A linux box will work for them out of the box just like a windows box would.
There certainly is a chance for 2003 to become the year of linux in India. I think you are being a bit too pessimistic.
I came across this excellent article
in an Indian business newspaper discussing the economics behind the use of
free software vs proprietary software in developing countries like India.
It also touches upon the adoption of Linux in Madhya Pradesh. In a nutshell,
the article presents a strong argument in favour of free software mainly
from the economic standpoint.
I have been using a bayesian spam filter for about a month now and have found it to be highly effective (Not a single spam has got through it yet, and no false positives). I feel that it will become the de facto standard for spam filtering, and one that spammers cannot effectively combat.
I am not the only one who swears by bayesian filtering and once all the major email providers (Hotmail, Yahoo, Aol, etc.. ) provide server side bayesian filters, the spammers will find it unsustainable to send spam because most (all?) of it will be effectively filtered out. While blacklists will still be employed to an extent, I do not think they will need to be as harsh as they are now. And e-mail will live happily ever after;)
Well, I have still not completed my course and so far, we have not had to use any unix systems. I spoke to a few seniors and they have not done any programming on unix either. BTW, where do you study?
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As a student studying at an Indian university in Mumbai(Bombay) I have observed that Microsoft far more dominant that Linux.
_None_ of our computers in any lab or any faculty run Linux. They all run Windows ( Pirated copies BTW..).
I study Computer science, and none of my teachers are familiar with Unix/Linux. They have a very superficial knowledge, if at all. At the same time, they are proficient at administering windows systems.
This is all contrary to the articles that have been posted on slashdot about the Indian government promoting linux in universities. It is not happening.
The main thrust for promoting Linux comes from the students. The student bodies try to organize workshops to familiarize other students about Linux. I have helped in such ventures and my experience is that most other students do not care much about Linux. Their thinking is that knowing how to use Microsoft products will help them more in getting a job than knowing about Linux. And thats all they care about.
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I had no problem watching it in full screen on Fedora Core 3 using the mplayer and mplayerplug-in packages from the apt repositories of freshrpms.net etc.
They both combine well with firefox.
If they are going to play an April fools joke on us, they might as well throw in a hot pic of the woman while they are at it. I mean, what's the point of reading a nonsense article if there is no picture to accompany it? :)
You can also read Linus' post here.
Yes it does. Only it is called "inline find". Opera actually had inline find before Mozilla had type ahead find.
How do I use inline find? For type ahead find, all I have to do is start typing the text of the link I want to visit and that link is automatically highlighted. Then I can press enter to visit it..
I donot know precisely about 'target = _blank' links, but you can try the 'TabBrowser' extension. With that, you can make firebird operate solely in a single window mode, just like Opera.. That should solve your problem.
I used the Opera 7.1 beta for GNU/Linux for a couple of weeks and find that it loses out to Firebird in the following areas:
The first 3 points are the major reason I chose to stick with Mozilla Firebird. Plus, you get a number of cool extensions for Firebird which you can install at a click of a button.
I found that the Tab management in Opera 7.1 was superior that Firebird's out of the box. But there is an extension called "Tabbrowser extensions" which make Firebird Tabs behave as well as Opera.
I for one don't see a reason to spend good money on Opera given that Firebird exists.
I downloaded the rpm package for Redhat 7.x / Mandrake 8 which uses a shared qt library and it did not install.. "Failed dependency libqt.so.3".. I don't know too much about qt library versions but I do know that I have qt installed (the default that came with Redhat 7.2 ) so it should work..
I guess everyone should just download the version with a static qt library to be safe..
I think a very important question on this subject is "Is cloning ethical?". I don't think it is, but I may not be able to see all the possibilities that cloning affords.
Having said that, there are too many loose ends with regards to cloning as of now. Will the person who makes a clone of a living thing own it, or is that thing (lets consider a human for now) free to do as it pleases like any other human being in a modern country?
This is just one of thousands of questions that must be asked and answered before cloning of human beings is allowed. I believe it will eventually happen and when it does, we should not be caught completely unawares.
I just had a look at the safari screenshots on the Apple website and it struck me that they both *look* almost identical. Both have just four buttons, an address bar, a search bar and not much else... Maybe this is a new trend for lightweight browsers, but I wonder who started it?
Think about it. The new generation is the generation that will make the bussiness decisions later. Get them hooked up on Windows and the future looks bright for MS.
The current batch is still Windows minded although Linux makes quite a groundswell because the current generation likes it and uses it. So better turn them back to Windows as soon as possible. And the best way to do this is to create an application that gives them what they need. Who cares for the advantages for bussiness and educational markets. If it's good they'll buy it anyway.
I thought about it and I think that you are giving GNU/Linux and Microsoft too much credit. Firstly, GNU/Linux is not nearly enough of a threat on the desktop for Microsoft to begin developing apps for the youth of today just to ensure they use Microsoft in the future. I think Microsoft are just trying to exploit a market in a way that hasn't been exploited before.
It is not like GNU/Linux is on their minds every time they start work a new application.
I say you are giving Microsoft too much credit because given the marketshare of GNU/Linux today, I doubt they have so much foresight so as to begin work on an application from which their main benefits will be realized only 15+ years in the future. That is in essence what you seem to be saying..
..because RMS is holding a seminar on Free Software and the GNU project at a local college on Feb 14th. I am in Mumbai, India BTW..
This is something that is not widely publicized, but Compaq aggressively advertises Linux desktop computers in the most popular Indian newspaper (Thats the only one I read, but they may be advertising elsewhere too).
Here is the system in question. (Look at the bottom line of the specs) In the ad they also mention that the linux machine comes with an office suite and sells for Rs. 33,990 (~US$680) while the equivalent hardware running windows and without an office suite sells for Rs.37,990 (~US$760).. Also, Compaq provides full support for their Linux PC.
I think that Linux has the largest potential to explode as a desktop OS in developing markets like India. This is for 2 reasons..
So while Linux may not be the best desktop system available, as we have seen before the best solution does not necessarily win.
Now, solitaire won't frame anymore and I can keep my beer cool right inside my cabinet so I don't have to make frequent trips to the fridge while playing!!
How about giving these people some food;
Who will give them food?
I think that it is a major misconception of the west that India is short on food grain. India has one of the largest food surpluses in the world. It is simply that there are too many people who cannot afford it and the infrastructure is not good enough to transport the surplus grain all over the country economically. Why does the govenrment not do anything about it? Well, thats massive debate in itself.
So your comments about starving people may be ultimately accurate but I get the impression you feel that poor Indians starve because there is not enough food in the country. That is incorrect.
I am an Indian student studying computer engineering in Bombay. Most of my classmates are not interested in using/developing free software and as you say, they seem to be more inclined to learn tools that will fetch them competent jobs.
However, haven't you noticed the recent flurry of ads in the leading newspapers advertising Compaq Precarios selling for Rs.33,990 and running Linux out of the box? The same computer can be bought from Compaq with Windows XP preinstalled, but for Rs 4000 extra.
Now, throw in the office suite the linux machine comes bunfled with, which way do you think the highly price concious first time customer will go? Given the number of homes yet to buy a computer in India, such cheap computers that come with support and warranry and a brand name must seem very attractive. Especially given the FUD most of them experience when buying from local assemblers. I emphasize first time customers because they do not have to relearn anything or get used to anything new. A linux box will work for them out of the box just like a windows box would.
There certainly is a chance for 2003 to become the year of linux in India. I think you are being a bit too pessimistic.
That depends on how you look at it. It is perfectly natural to think that he meant 'rest'. But maybe I jumped the gun a bit.
Read on for the reast of Ben's review.
And they tell us to check 10 times before posting anything!!Now I won't be able to escape from /. anywhere.
I came across this excellent article in an Indian business newspaper discussing the economics behind the use of free software vs proprietary software in developing countries like India. It also touches upon the adoption of Linux in Madhya Pradesh. In a nutshell, the article presents a strong argument in favour of free software mainly from the economic standpoint.
I have been using a bayesian spam filter for about a month now and have found it to be highly effective (Not a single spam has got through it yet, and no false positives). I feel that it will become the de facto standard for spam filtering, and one that spammers cannot effectively combat.
I am not the only one who swears by bayesian filtering and once all the major email providers (Hotmail, Yahoo, Aol, etc.. ) provide server side bayesian filters, the spammers will find it unsustainable to send spam because most (all?) of it will be effectively filtered out. While blacklists will still be employed to an extent, I do not think they will need to be as harsh as they are now. And e-mail will live happily ever after ;)
Well, I have still not completed my course and so far, we have not had to use any unix systems. I spoke to a few seniors and they have not done any programming on unix either. BTW, where do you study? ---
As a student studying at an Indian university in Mumbai(Bombay) I have observed that Microsoft far more dominant that Linux.
_None_ of our computers in any lab or any faculty run Linux. They all run Windows ( Pirated copies BTW..).
I study Computer science, and none of my teachers are familiar with Unix/Linux. They have a very superficial knowledge, if at all. At the same time, they are proficient at administering windows systems.
This is all contrary to the articles that have been posted on slashdot about the Indian government promoting linux in universities. It is not happening.
The main thrust for promoting Linux comes from the students. The student bodies try to organize workshops to familiarize other students about Linux. I have helped in such ventures and my experience is that most other students do not care much about Linux. Their thinking is that knowing how to use Microsoft products will help them more in getting a job than knowing about Linux. And thats all they care about.
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