Hah. I recently went to use my bank's online services with Opera, and got the following nice message:
Unsupported Browser You cannot access this application form using your Internet Browser. Please use a recent version of Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla or AOL (PC only).
Nice that they explicitly support Mozilla though. IIRC I tried to use it a while back with Firefox/Firebird/Phoenix/Mozilla (I really cannot remember when) and it blocked it. I ended up using Konq and spoofing the UA.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "Give me a valid use for bittorrent, apart for things like Distros?" Bittorrenthasmanylegituses... from your post it seems you realise this, but I'm not toally sure. However there are cases where there aren't official torrents, or the official torrents are being heavily hit after a release and so can't be accessed. I do agree that, sadly, the majority of usage is likely to be for copyright infringement, but I can still see it being useful for non-infringing purposes, and hopefully - unlike many other torrent sites - it won't be geared towards illegal content.
I guess it must vary. We (in Bath) were without ADSL for a few days, IIRC, then they managed to somehow cut voice as well. This lasted for a few weeks, with them claiming that it was a problem on our end. Eventually they realised that it WAS actually their problem, and fixed it.
I've used the blue background/white text recently; I had to use an ancient machine (running win2k with recent Office still) with the monitor set to 60Hz. White background + 60Hz == annoying. I'm personally glad that feature still exists.
Bundles are bad. What happens when a major vulnerability is found in a library which is used by a bunch of apps? With shared deps, you just update that and it's fixed. With bundles you have to update every single app.
Autopackage is targetted at end-user installation, not core distro packages; the intention is that the core is still managed with RPM/Deb et al. Read the FAQ posted elsewhere in the topic for more info.
It's a Gecko bug, which has been fixed and will be included in Firefox 1.1. The fact that it's a Gecko bug is proven by the fact that ctrl+plus / ctrl+minus fixes it - if it were an HTML problem, it would display the same after changing font size.
Also note that Slashdot works fine with Opera and KHTML-based browsers.
Copyright does help the GPL. Without copyright laws, any entity can just take "GPLd" (no copyright, no GPL) code and put it into a closed source application. Without copyright, everything would be public domain, which is not what the GPL is about.
If you're running with an nVidia card (if you're not, you have bigger problems), then the `nvidia-settings` app included with recent driver releases will let you tweak AA/AF.
If I'm understanding you correctly, no, the two don't go together at all. The same way that downloading Windows for free doesn't make it open source, downloading non-legally shared music doesn't make the music legally free. Open Source Software:Legally Free Music:: Closed Source, Sold Software:Sold Music.
I'm a strong supporter of OSS, that doesn't mean I'll just violate copyrights.
(If I'm mis-intepreting you, sorry. If IHBT, meh.)
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You could try installing Aardvark, and using "de-widthify" to see if that works.
And digging slightly deeper, it looks like there are actually technical problems with Opera. And they also explicitly support Firefox. Yay.
Nice that they explicitly support Mozilla though. IIRC I tried to use it a while back with Firefox/Firebird/Phoenix/Mozilla (I really cannot remember when) and it blocked it. I ended up using Konq and spoofing the UA.
Don't forget Darwinia and Uplink as decent indy games.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "IHBT, IHL, IWTTHAND". Apologies if you're not trolling.
Firstly, emule is open source.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "Give me a valid use for bittorrent, apart for things like Distros?" Bittorrent has many legit uses... from your post it seems you realise this, but I'm not toally sure. However there are cases where there aren't official torrents, or the official torrents are being heavily hit after a release and so can't be accessed. I do agree that, sadly, the majority of usage is likely to be for copyright infringement, but I can still see it being useful for non-infringing purposes, and hopefully - unlike many other torrent sites - it won't be geared towards illegal content.
I'll throw in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, Resident Evil, and Rogue Squadron III (off the top of my head).
Ah, yes, it's all GSM here; some providers do lock their handsets, but this isn't irreversable.
I guess it must vary. We (in Bath) were without ADSL for a few days, IIRC, then they managed to somehow cut voice as well. This lasted for a few weeks, with them claiming that it was a problem on our end. Eventually they realised that it WAS actually their problem, and fixed it.
Unless I'm misunderstanding your point #1, the UK has several multiple carriers too.w ay>
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Welcome to modern times, where search engines like AllTheWeb are actually decent. (I use a combination of Google + ATW + MSN search, myself.)
I've used the blue background/white text recently; I had to use an ancient machine (running win2k with recent Office still) with the monitor set to 60Hz. White background + 60Hz == annoying. I'm personally glad that feature still exists.
Have you tried a Debian netinstall? Small-ish ISO image, only installs the Debian base.
Isn't all software?
Not in this part of Europe (UK), we don't :P
I tend to find that PNG gives better compression than GIF - why use GIF? (Except for animation; MNG's not widely supported).
The fact that hotmail is one of the most common providers of webmail out there and so spammers generate likely addresses for it to spam?
Bundles are bad. What happens when a major vulnerability is found in a library which is used by a bunch of apps? With shared deps, you just update that and it's fixed. With bundles you have to update every single app.
Non-root installs are easily done in autopackage.
Autopackage is targetted at end-user installation, not core distro packages; the intention is that the core is still managed with RPM/Deb et al. Read the FAQ posted elsewhere in the topic for more info.
#autopackage probably being the best bet ATM, with sunsite being slashdotted.
It's a Gecko bug, which has been fixed and will be included in Firefox 1.1. The fact that it's a Gecko bug is proven by the fact that ctrl+plus / ctrl+minus fixes it - if it were an HTML problem, it would display the same after changing font size.
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Also note that Slashdot works fine with Opera and KHTML-based browsers.
Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2175
Note that bugzilla blocks slashdot referrers.
Copyright does help the GPL. Without copyright laws, any entity can just take "GPLd" (no copyright, no GPL) code and put it into a closed source application. Without copyright, everything would be public domain, which is not what the GPL is about.
If you're running with an nVidia card (if you're not, you have bigger problems), then the `nvidia-settings` app included with recent driver releases will let you tweak AA/AF.
If I'm understanding you correctly, no, the two don't go together at all. The same way that downloading Windows for free doesn't make it open source, downloading non-legally shared music doesn't make the music legally free. Open Source Software:Legally Free Music :: Closed Source, Sold Software:Sold Music.
I'm a strong supporter of OSS, that doesn't mean I'll just violate copyrights.
(If I'm mis-intepreting you, sorry. If IHBT, meh.)