He's not whining you arsehole. He's just stated that it doesn't work for him. Do you think he just typed in that error message for the hell of it. Get off your high-horse.
I don't think open source is the be all and end all. If there are two equivalent apps and one is commerical, and the other is free/open source, I'll choose the OS one. However, if the commercial one does soemthing I want/need and the OS one doesn't I'll use the commercial one. In a perfect world everyone would code the missing featurs as they come across them and everything would be dunky horey. Life doesn't work like that.
It seems that/. rarely if ever corrects a spelling mistake when that mistake is made by the submitter of the story. So its up to the submitters to learn to spell and use grammar correctly. In which case, we could be here a damn long time...
Unless you deliberately go looking for a terminal and start poking around in files, you wouldn't know it's there. Apart from the fact that a crashing app doesn't bring down the whole system that is...;)
I have graphics dudes around me, and they like Apple Macs, and, in a few cases, Windows - they don't like Unix, and couldn't use it.
If they use Macs then sooner or later they will be using Unix. I'm using MacOS X right now, and although the Unix side of it is pretty well hidden, it's still there. It's a good example of a very usable GUI on top of a stable Unix kernel. Pity Gnome and KDE are not as far along.
I'm sorry, but I completely disagree. If I want to go shopping for a new toy, I want to deal with a UK company, and see prices in UK pounds. And I don't want to have to use the transatlantic pipes to do so. A.uk site will always get chosen by me before a.com. A study here in the UK has shown that UK companies using.com domains are actually losing business, because people think they are US based. Physical boundaries do apply, when it matters.
Compared to cancer, diabetes, the plague and malaria, AIDS is an outbreak that mankind should be grateful for due to its limited means of transmission
Hmmm.. I've had diabetes for 20 years and I've not yet given it to anyone else. I didn't know cancer was contagious either. Where did you get this one from?
Btw, not everyone believes in some "Lord" who created the universe. I certainly dont.
Right on. I'm firmly belive that the universe its just the inside of a giant marble, being played with by aliens. Well, it's just as sensible a theory as all the crackpot religious ones, ain't it?;-)
I've just finished reading the book myself. While I didn't contemplate trying to break the codes (I don't have the patience for it) I found the book itself extremely interesting. I would certainly recommend it to anyone even remotely interested in cryptography, and not just computer users. It talks about all sorts of code breaking, including how they used the Rosetta Stone to crack the Egyptian Hieroglyph's. A very good read.
Looking through these comments I can see they are evenly divided between "it's slow and bloated and doesn't work" to "it's lean and fast and really much better". I guess the moral is that just because it works for you, doesn't mean it'll work for someone else. And if it doesn't work for you, there's light at the end of the tunnel. Mozilla has now become my main browser, the only thing I need netscape 4.x for is to log into some sites because of bug 53182. Vote for it, if you haven't. It's important.
Why bother to rush? All the software contained therein has been available for ages anyway. If you really needed it you would have upgraded it manually by now. Beats me why anyone bothers.
In theory you can use any JVM with Mozilla. I haven't tried it myself, and don't know if the full support is there yet, but when it is, it'll be far more powerful than Netscape 4.x in this respect. The flash plugin works right now, in fact I was using it yesterday. Just download it and bung it in the plugins directory. Done job.
The web configurator you describe is already present in a simpler way with the installer program. You can choose which components you wish to install and it will download those only. It doesn't deal with plugins, but I see no reason why it shouldn't in the future.
I find it exceptionally fast, except when it forces my machine to swap, which it does too often for my liking. Speed doesn't seem to be the problem, memory usage is. The only other major quibble I have is with the ftp client. It's pretty poor compared to even the 4.x version. I only use 4.x for checking my bank details and other security related sites. Other than that I'm using Mozilla all day every day.
Clarke is very fond of creating amazing structures in his stories. My favourite one was from 3001. This consisted of four huge towers in four equally spaced positions around the equator. Each of these towers was then connected at the top by a huge ring circling the earth. All of this was of course a habitat for the ever expanding population of earth. It also eliminated the need for satelites. Now that would be quite an engineering feat, not to mention a spectacular view. Imagine a base jump off of one of those;)
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He's not whining you arsehole. He's just stated that it doesn't work for him. Do you think he just typed in that error message for the hell of it. Get off your high-horse.
I don't think open source is the be all and end all. If there are two equivalent apps and one is commerical, and the other is free/open source, I'll choose the OS one. However, if the commercial one does soemthing I want/need and the OS one doesn't I'll use the commercial one. In a perfect world everyone would code the missing featurs as they come across them and everything would be dunky horey. Life doesn't work like that.
It seems that /. rarely if ever corrects a spelling mistake when that mistake is made by the submitter of the story. So its up to the submitters to learn to spell and use grammar correctly. In which case, we could be here a damn long time...
Surely thats just a definition using mass. If the mass is above a certain threshold, the gravitational pull will be too strong to permit spacejumping.
Whats the scientific defintion of a planet?
I never said it did. I was actually refering to MacOS 9 and earlier.
Unless you deliberately go looking for a terminal and start poking around in files, you wouldn't know it's there. Apart from the fact that a crashing app doesn't bring down the whole system that is... ;)
I have graphics dudes around me, and they like Apple Macs, and, in a few cases, Windows - they don't like Unix, and couldn't use it.
If they use Macs then sooner or later they will be using Unix. I'm using MacOS X right now, and although the Unix side of it is pretty well hidden, it's still there. It's a good example of a very usable GUI on top of a stable Unix kernel. Pity Gnome and KDE are not as far along.
I'm sorry, but I completely disagree. If I want to go shopping for a new toy, I want to deal with a UK company, and see prices in UK pounds. And I don't want to have to use the transatlantic pipes to do so. A .uk site will always get chosen by me before a .com. A study here in the UK has shown that UK companies using .com domains are actually losing business, because people think they are US based. Physical boundaries do apply, when it matters.
What an American centred view. Still, nothing new there I guess.
Me too. And, err, isn't this an example of prior art? Well, a use of the name anyhoo. Watch out Sun... ;-)
Compared to cancer, diabetes, the plague and malaria, AIDS is an outbreak that mankind should be grateful for due to its limited means of transmission
Hmmm.. I've had diabetes for 20 years and I've not yet given it to anyone else. I didn't know cancer was contagious either. Where did you get this one from?
Btw, not everyone believes in some "Lord" who created the universe. I certainly dont.
;-)
Right on. I'm firmly belive that the universe its just the inside of a giant marble, being played with by aliens. Well, it's just as sensible a theory as all the crackpot religious ones, ain't it?
I've just finished reading the book myself. While I didn't contemplate trying to break the codes (I don't have the patience for it) I found the book itself extremely interesting. I would certainly recommend it to anyone even remotely interested in cryptography, and not just computer users. It talks about all sorts of code breaking, including how they used the Rosetta Stone to crack the Egyptian Hieroglyph's. A very good read.
If your processor has failed I'm sure that the fact your serial port no longer works is going to be the least of your worries.. ;-)
Looking through these comments I can see they are evenly divided between "it's slow and bloated and doesn't work" to "it's lean and fast and really much better". I guess the moral is that just because it works for you, doesn't mean it'll work for someone else. And if it doesn't work for you, there's light at the end of the tunnel. Mozilla has now become my main browser, the only thing I need netscape 4.x for is to log into some sites because of bug 53182. Vote for it, if you haven't. It's important.
Arse. I used to know that. Damn these version number changes! ;)
Due to known problems with later versions of gcc, version 2.91.66 must be used when compiling XFS and the associated kernel.
Does this mean that gcc 2.9 is officially supported by Linus and co to compile 2.4, or is this just required for XFS?
Why bother to rush? All the software contained therein has been available for ages anyway. If you really needed it you would have upgraded it manually by now. Beats me why anyone bothers.
uh huh, and the second best is to post a lame reply to one.. ;)
... you'll just stand back and wait for the winner to emerge. Don't end up being Betamax man, even if it is the better technology... ;)
In theory you can use any JVM with Mozilla. I haven't tried it myself, and don't know if the full support is there yet, but when it is, it'll be far more powerful than Netscape 4.x in this respect. The flash plugin works right now, in fact I was using it yesterday. Just download it and bung it in the plugins directory. Done job.
The web configurator you describe is already present in a simpler way with the installer program. You can choose which components you wish to install and it will download those only. It doesn't deal with plugins, but I see no reason why it shouldn't in the future.
I find it exceptionally fast, except when it forces my machine to swap, which it does too often for my liking. Speed doesn't seem to be the problem, memory usage is. The only other major quibble I have is with the ftp client. It's pretty poor compared to even the 4.x version. I only use 4.x for checking my bank details and other security related sites. Other than that I'm using Mozilla all day every day.
Yeah, but if you look down the list of companies they thank, one of them is absent... ;-)
Clarke is very fond of creating amazing structures in his stories. My favourite one was from 3001. This consisted of four huge towers in four equally spaced positions around the equator. Each of these towers was then connected at the top by a huge ring circling the earth. All of this was of course a habitat for the ever expanding population of earth. It also eliminated the need for satelites. Now that would be quite an engineering feat, not to mention a spectacular view. Imagine a base jump off of one of those ;)