Not that I disagree with your diagnosis, but why do you think/. is the ONLY site on which I see this problem? Firefox is perfect on every single other site.
The ONLY website, in my experience, which fails to render correctly, is freakin' Slashdot. Come on guys! When is it going to get fixed? You can't go on blaming the other party forever.
I have a Sony VAIO PCG-C1F with very similar specs (1024x480, 266MHz, 128Mb RAM). Running Slack 9 and Gnome 2.6 perfectly happily. I wouldn't want to use it as a main machine, but I control the HiFi PC with it via SSH, use it to check email and occasionally a bit of web access with Firefox. If only the battery wasn't sh{o,i}t, it would be great to take on train journeys rather than lugging my Inspiron 8200 behemoth.
So frequently I have five or six shells open on different hosts and start typing, assuming that the window I am looking at has focus... doh! I want one of these so that the window I look at always WILL have focus!!
I actually predicted this ages ago (sadly just to my friends who have an unhealthy interest in www.aminaked.com). The way I saw it was that if, via a worm or virus, you could trawl a few shots of PC users doing "one handed typing" and then threaten to send the images to all of their email address book, you'd have a pretty good blackmail setup...
Sorry to reply to my own comment... but when I say "psychological rather than physical"... I mean there is ALWAYS a physical element (otherwise we wouldn't get addicted), but it is usually not the strongest force in the addiction.
I know from experience that virtually all addictions are psychological, not physical which can to be "vaccinated" against. Therefore the important question is, what part of the psyche/brain/whatever are these "vaccinations" destroying to prevent people from becoming addicted to drugs/smoking/alcohol/sex/chocolate/carbohydrates/ (insert your preference here)????
I'd LOVE to have a PC of this size. But it would have to have Linux on it... and Sony are just too proprietary with their hardware... my old Vaio PCG-C1V (Picturebook) runs Slackware just great... apart from the camera (I know Tridge has got some of these to work... doesn't work on my model) and the firewire port, which is a pain.
I use a tray with a "bean bag" attached to the bottom - they're commonly available over here in the UK for people who eat TV dinners etc - it's just the right size for my Linux Laptop, it's rigid, and no heat! I wouldn't want to carry it around outside the house though...
Apologies for only just vaguely being on-topic - but does anyone know what the progress is on the Slashdot rendering problem under Firefox (it gets mentioned regularly when Firefox comes up as a topic). I would have thought it would be an important fix for the Slash guys to put in, as I regularly have to refresh a page three or four times before I get any text in the main boxes. This can't help bandwidth...
I use an Amacom external disk as backup for my 2.4.20 kernel based system over firewire - no problems. Works fine.
Interestingly I had a Lacie before but it died after about three months. The supplier swapped it with no question - apparently they've had other problems with Lacie units. Not sure how much I'd like to entrust 1Tb to that unit...
this represents the first leap beyond what the ordinary person could ever hope to use
I remember thinking that about my first business computer, a Compaq, which, with a 30Mb HDD was THREE times bigger than all the XTs on everyone else's desk. I honestly could not comprehend ever needing all that space. You couldn't even fit one uncompressed CD track on there now... it will be the same in the next ten years. 1Tb will seem so... quaint.
Agree entirely... not sure whether this figures in the review (Cannot RTFA as it's/.'d). I stuck one of these Zalman "Flowers" on an AMD in one of my servers (also with an Enermax PSU, again with fan control). A friend came over and couldn't believe the machine was actually turned on (the fact I hadn't hooked up the case LEDs also contributed to the illusion...:)
It's at times like this I wish there wasn't a limit to how far something can be modded up... it's not often I laugh out loud at a post, but this was one of them... thanks Mr Person!
almost every site seems to render correctly with Gecko based browsers
Anyone else seeing that virtually EVERY site except Slashdot renders OK? I'm using Firebird 0.7 (on Linux) and sometimes when I refresh/. I get no text at all, other times text overlaps the sidebars. It all seems kind of random. Any kind souls got any suggestions / workarounds? It's kind of annoying. And YES I have tried Googling and searching/. to no avail:)
Slashdot Mirror
It's not a timing issue. I'm on low-contention DSL and I get it as much as the next guy.
Not that I disagree with your diagnosis, but why do you think /. is the ONLY site on which I see this problem? Firefox is perfect on every single other site.
The ONLY website, in my experience, which fails to render correctly, is freakin' Slashdot. Come on guys! When is it going to get fixed? You can't go on blaming the other party forever.
I have a Sony VAIO PCG-C1F with very similar specs (1024x480, 266MHz, 128Mb RAM). Running Slack 9 and Gnome 2.6 perfectly happily. I wouldn't want to use it as a main machine, but I control the HiFi PC with it via SSH, use it to check email and occasionally a bit of web access with Firefox. If only the battery wasn't sh{o,i}t, it would be great to take on train journeys rather than lugging my Inspiron 8200 behemoth.
So frequently I have five or six shells open on different hosts and start typing, assuming that the window I am looking at has focus... doh! I want one of these so that the window I look at always WILL have focus!!
Er... that would be 1991...
I actually predicted this ages ago (sadly just to my friends who have an unhealthy interest in www.aminaked.com). The way I saw it was that if, via a worm or virus, you could trawl a few shots of PC users doing "one handed typing" and then threaten to send the images to all of their email address book, you'd have a pretty good blackmail setup...
In other news, Bill Gates says Windows is secure...
Sorry to reply to my own comment... but when I say "psychological rather than physical"... I mean there is ALWAYS a physical element (otherwise we wouldn't get addicted), but it is usually not the strongest force in the addiction.
I know from experience that virtually all addictions are psychological, not physical which can to be "vaccinated" against. Therefore the important question is, what part of the psyche/brain/whatever are these "vaccinations" destroying to prevent people from becoming addicted to drugs/smoking/alcohol/sex/chocolate/carbohydrates/ (insert your preference here)????
Or she could be like Microsoft applications... you do one thing wrong and she turns blue and dies...
I realise this is projector technology - but I wonder whether any of this can be put to use on laptop screens?
I've been frustrated over the last few weeks by not being able to read my laptop's screen when out in the garden on a sunny day. Any thoughts?
I'd LOVE to have a PC of this size. But it would have to have Linux on it... and Sony are just too proprietary with their hardware... my old Vaio PCG-C1V (Picturebook) runs Slackware just great... apart from the camera (I know Tridge has got some of these to work... doesn't work on my model) and the firewire port, which is a pain.
I use a tray with a "bean bag" attached to the bottom - they're commonly available over here in the UK for people who eat TV dinners etc - it's just the right size for my Linux Laptop, it's rigid, and no heat! I wouldn't want to carry it around outside the house though...
Apologies for only just vaguely being on-topic - but does anyone know what the progress is on the Slashdot rendering problem under Firefox (it gets mentioned regularly when Firefox comes up as a topic). I would have thought it would be an important fix for the Slash guys to put in, as I regularly have to refresh a page three or four times before I get any text in the main boxes. This can't help bandwidth...
Xine
Mplayer
gnuCash
Open Office
JEdit
Audacity
Evolution
Firefox
KDevelop
LAMP
Of course, a lot of these already come with most distros anyway...
I use an Amacom external disk as backup for my 2.4.20 kernel based system over firewire - no problems. Works fine.
Interestingly I had a Lacie before but it died after about three months. The supplier swapped it with no question - apparently they've had other problems with Lacie units. Not sure how much I'd like to entrust 1Tb to that unit...
this represents the first leap beyond what the ordinary person could ever hope to use
I remember thinking that about my first business computer, a Compaq, which, with a 30Mb HDD was THREE times bigger than all the XTs on everyone else's desk. I honestly could not comprehend ever needing all that space. You couldn't even fit one uncompressed CD track on there now... it will be the same in the next ten years. 1Tb will seem so... quaint.
Agree entirely... not sure whether this figures in the review (Cannot RTFA as it's /.'d). I stuck one of these Zalman "Flowers" on an AMD in one of my servers (also with an Enermax PSU, again with fan control). A friend came over and couldn't believe the machine was actually turned on (the fact I hadn't hooked up the case LEDs also contributed to the illusion...:)
I think you mean "Merging QT and GTK" or "KDE and Gnome". KDE is based on Trolltech's QT, Gnome is GTK.
It's at times like this I wish there wasn't a limit to how far something can be modded up... it's not often I laugh out loud at a post, but this was one of them... thanks Mr Person!
almost every site seems to render correctly with Gecko based browsers
/. I get no text at all, other times text overlaps the sidebars. It all seems kind of random. Any kind souls got any suggestions / workarounds? It's kind of annoying. And YES I have tried Googling and searching /. to no avail :)
Anyone else seeing that virtually EVERY site except Slashdot renders OK? I'm using Firebird 0.7 (on Linux) and sometimes when I refresh
You can have my Windows CE-powered car when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. Oh, wait...
:-) It's a shame I can't use my mod points on your reply - that made me laugh
No! That's normal, perfectly natural mingling of the gene pool. How the hell would you get a sea coral to mate with zebra fish?