According to this page make reference to deferring and discontinuing Solaris for Intel...
Who knows why they say "We no long offer Solaris on Intel" on one page, and "yes, I want a free copy" on another page.
Developers: There is NO WAY IN HELL that we can develop or maintain Solaris Intel binaries. Not enought staff. We have enough work as it is! We should drop the whole projet.
Marketing translation: Coming in Q4, Solaris on Intel!
I'd love to upgrade my CPU, but I've got one of these Slot A things that Intel abandoned so many years ago.
So really, to upgrade my CPU, I need to get a new motherboard. To get a new motherboard, I probably need to get a new case & power supply, maybe some new RAM... and hell, at that point I might as well get a new computer and plug in some of my old peripherals.
Either way I'm out $500-1000... think I'll just stick with my Celeron 366, it functions well enough...
Look, we're all built a little differently, we've all had different physical histories, and our work habits are different. We're all different. So it make sense that ONE ergonomic solution for ALL people won't work.
Some people are going to strongly prefer the MS Natural keyboards, some people need the 1993 Sun keyboard.
If you experience pain with your current setup, you'll probably need to try a few different keyboards before you find one that works for you.
Personally, I strongly prefer to use the MS Nautral keyboards. Except for the small arrow keypad, I find that it causes the least amount of pain or discomfort of any keyboard that I've used. I work 8+ hours a day on a keyboard.
I use a Sun Ultra5 at work, with a MS Natural keyboard plugged into a converter. I can't get PS/2 mice to work correctly (THe middle button doesn't cut-n-paste), so I use a 3-button boxy Sun mouse (Plugged into a second Sun keyboard which hides under my desk).
My biggest gripe isn't the keyboard, it's the mouse. Sun has a small selection of mice, and their standard box mouse just doesn't work. Most PS/2 mice do not work with a converter (The middle button doesn't cut and paste).
The latest version for Solaris is Release Candidate 1. Does anyone know why they skipped both RC2 & RC3? (Maybe RC3 will be out soon, and I'm just impatient:)
I use Mozilla as my primary browser on Linux & Windows (On a Celeron 366 with 512Mb of ram), and it's great.
Mozilla on Solaris is about 10 times slower then Netscape 4.7 at everything except rendering an HTML page. On a Sparc 266 with 512 Mb or ram, Mozilla takes 20 seconds to start up, mouseclicks usually take 1+ second to respond, etc. It needs alot of work to be usable.
And I can't get Mozilla or Galeon to compile, so I'm stuck with released version.
Is there a reason you need an old version of Flash installed?
Because version 5 is readily available. When I click on "MacroMedia Flash Player" on this page, I am directed to Flash 5, not Flash 6. I have never heard of Flash 6 (or Flash MX) until your post. Poor (or purposeful) marketing on Macromedia's part.
Windows Media plays inside Mozilla with no problems
Thanks for the link, I'll give it a try.
Here is one major difference between Netscape & Mozilla: I searched all over mozilla.org for the word "Shockwave" and never found a link to a working product. For Netscape, the link was readily available.
Sorry mom, I can't clean my room! The terrorists might find all the girlie magazines that I have hidden under the covers; and that would be bad for National Security.
I don't particularly like the fact that it features a song from the previous
This is very common, unfortunately. They probably because a) the soundtrack isn't done yet, or b) they want to keep the soundtrack a secret (since it's a part of the whole movie experience, and they don't want to take away too much of that experience with one ad).
The Attack of the Clones ad has music from Episode I. The most recent add for the Twin Towers (At the end of FotR) has the soundtrack from FotR.
And still, to this day, many action movie ads use the sound track from Aliens (during the part where the Terraforming Plant is exploding); and that song is nearly 16 years old!
and sometimes it's interesting to see someone on *this* side of the political fence pull a stunt like this.
Oh no worries, I'm sure America will find a reason to put them on the *other* side of the political fence.
Since after all, Iraq & Saddam were on *this* side of the political fence 20 years ago, and Afghanistan was a friend (The enemy-of-an-enemy kind of friend) what, 10 years ago?
THEN it will be safe to call them dictators or barbarians or something.
Thinkgeek is great, but why not buy directly from the family that makes these things: http://www.photonlight.com
I've owned two Photon Lights for 2 years now... carry it with me every day. Probably use it once evevery two weeks, and man does it come in handy. Nice small profile, about as bulky as a typical housekey.
While the process is far from perfect, monoculture with corn is still better for the planet then the petroleum industry, even if corn monoculture depends on petroleum-based fertilizers & pesticides.
The amount of waste produced by the plastics industry is far greater then the amount of waste produced by the corn industry. And at least the corn, and petrol-based chemicals won't remain in the environment for more then a centry, but that plastic Dixy Cup will sit there for thousands of years.
BTW everquest is not a game, in a game there is a winner and a loser
That's a pretty narrow description of "game".
Some of the best games out there do not have a "winner" or "loser".
Dungeons & Dragons is one of the most popular games in the last couple of decades, and you don't necessarily "win" or "lose" (This always confused the hell out of my high school classmates, because as one guy said "Football is a real game. In football, there is no second place!").
I spent many hours and days playing D&D. If I wasn't playing a "game", what was I doing (besides wasting my time:)?
That's a pretty bold statement. Do you have actual, scientific evidence to back this up?
Are you saying that the increased displays of violence in the media (computer games, news shows, movies, etc) DOES NOT make people more suseptable and accepting of violence in real life?
Clearly we can't place ALL the blame on violent video games, but you can't completely ignore their impact either.
DId you know they have tapes is REAL, ACTUAL combat they show to soldiers to train them? Ban all VCRs and TVs!
Now YOUR the one making a jump in logic. At no point did the previous poster say "Let's ban computers because of the violent video games" as you suggest. He clearly suggested that we, as citizens, need to question the impact of these games on our society.
Or did the Erfurt shootings NOT just happen in your little universe?
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Great catch.
According to this page make reference to deferring and discontinuing Solaris for Intel...
Who knows why they say "We no long offer Solaris on Intel" on one page, and "yes, I want a free copy" on another page.
Developers: There is NO WAY IN HELL that we can develop or maintain Solaris Intel binaries. Not enought staff. We have enough work as it is! We should drop the whole projet.
Marketing translation: Coming in Q4, Solaris on Intel!
I'd love to upgrade my CPU, but I've got one of these Slot A things that Intel abandoned so many years ago.
... think I'll just stick with my Celeron 366, it functions well enough...
So really, to upgrade my CPU, I need to get a new motherboard. To get a new motherboard, I probably need to get a new case & power supply, maybe some new RAM... and hell, at that point I might as well get a new computer and plug in some of my old peripherals.
Either way I'm out $500-1000
Look, we're all built a little differently, we've all had different physical histories, and our work habits are different. We're all different. So it make sense that ONE ergonomic solution for ALL people won't work.
Some people are going to strongly prefer the MS Natural keyboards, some people need the 1993 Sun keyboard.
If you experience pain with your current setup, you'll probably need to try a few different keyboards before you find one that works for you.
Personally, I strongly prefer to use the MS Nautral keyboards. Except for the small arrow keypad, I find that it causes the least amount of pain or discomfort of any keyboard that I've used. I work 8+ hours a day on a keyboard.
I use a Sun Ultra5 at work, with a MS Natural keyboard plugged into a converter. I can't get PS/2 mice to work correctly (THe middle button doesn't cut-n-paste), so I use a 3-button boxy Sun mouse (Plugged into a second Sun keyboard which hides under my desk).
My biggest gripe isn't the keyboard, it's the mouse. Sun has a small selection of mice, and their standard box mouse just doesn't work. Most PS/2 mice do not work with a converter (The middle button doesn't cut and paste).
The latest version for Solaris is Release Candidate 1. Does anyone know why they skipped both RC2 & RC3? (Maybe RC3 will be out soon, and I'm just impatient :)
I use Mozilla as my primary browser on Linux & Windows (On a Celeron 366 with 512Mb of ram), and it's great.
Mozilla on Solaris is about 10 times slower then Netscape 4.7 at everything except rendering an HTML page. On a Sparc 266 with 512 Mb or ram, Mozilla takes 20 seconds to start up, mouseclicks usually take 1+ second to respond,
etc. It needs alot of work to be usable.
And I can't get Mozilla or Galeon to compile, so I'm stuck with released version.
Is there a reason you need an old version of Flash installed?
Because version 5 is readily available. When I click on "MacroMedia Flash Player" on this page, I am directed to Flash 5, not Flash 6. I have never heard of Flash 6 (or Flash MX) until your post. Poor (or purposeful) marketing on Macromedia's part.
Windows Media plays inside Mozilla with no problems
Thanks for the link, I'll give it a try.
Here is one major difference between Netscape & Mozilla: I searched all over mozilla.org for the word "Shockwave" and never found a link to a working product. For Netscape, the link was readily available.
Thanks for your helpful response.
Could somone enlighten me on why someone would ever want to use Netscape again?
.
There are numerous plugins which work with Netscape 6.x that do not work with Mozilla 1rc2
Some examples:
- Flash 5 (I recently needed it to play in a scavenger hunt)
- Microsoft OLE plugin, so you can view MS Mediaplayer clips without switching to IE
(Yes, I tried the "Copy the Netscape plugins directory to the Mozilla Plugins directory" trick, but that doesn't work).
Certainly, these plugins are fluff, and you may not want or need them. But Jane User might actually want Flash, and it's really should be her choice.
Sorry mom, I can't clean my room! The terrorists might find all the girlie magazines that I have hidden under the covers; and that would be bad for National Security.
Are you a COMM^h^h^h^hTERRORIST mom?
This is what happens when you have a system that allows the corporation to run amuck.
The lowest bidder cannot be trusted to create products that are safe.
In these cases, it is good to still have some government oversight.
I don't particularly like the fact that it features a song from the previous
This is very common, unfortunately. They probably because a) the soundtrack isn't done yet, or b) they want to keep the soundtrack a secret (since it's a part of the whole movie experience, and they don't want to take away too much of that experience with one ad).
The Attack of the Clones ad has music from Episode I. The most recent add for the Twin Towers (At the end of FotR) has the soundtrack from FotR.
And still, to this day, many action movie ads use the sound track from Aliens (during the part where the Terraforming Plant is exploding); and that song is nearly 16 years old!
and sometimes it's interesting to see someone on *this* side of the political fence pull a stunt like this.
Oh no worries, I'm sure America will find a reason to put them on the *other* side of the political fence.
Since after all, Iraq & Saddam were on *this* side of the political fence 20 years ago, and Afghanistan was a friend (The enemy-of-an-enemy kind of friend) what, 10 years ago?
THEN it will be safe to call them dictators or barbarians or something.
This is news?
I always see faces when listing to Aphex Twin if I sit there for long enough... although sometimes it helps to be in the right frame of mind.
:)
Note, it wasn't Timothy who said this. The heartless comment was direct from mrbrown1602.
Perhaps Timothy should have picked a different submission, but it's really not his job to remove words from a chosen submission.
I bet that half of their employees are browsing Slashdot all day.
And now they're browsing fuckedcompany.com
It's been what, 1.5 years and they still haven't removed the damn logos...
"Biodegradable chalk" my ass...
Thinkgeek is great, but why not buy directly from the family that makes these things: http://www.photonlight.com
I've owned two Photon Lights for 2 years now... carry it with me every day. Probably use it once evevery two weeks, and man does it come in handy. Nice small profile, about as bulky as a typical housekey.
Why limit something like this to the developing world?
It's not limited to the developing world. As a (presumably) employed, citizen of a developed world country at a variety of online or retail shops.
People in developing countries don't necessarily have that ability, as simple as it seems.
I got my email announcement several hours ago. Looks like several mirror sites already have a copy of the latest Apache version...
At last: Slashdot waits for the product to be ready before making a release announcement!
Hitting your mute button and closing your eyes is not a crime!
While the process is far from perfect, monoculture with corn is still better for the planet then the petroleum industry, even if corn monoculture depends on petroleum-based fertilizers & pesticides.
The amount of waste produced by the plastics industry is far greater then the amount of waste produced by the corn industry. And at least the corn, and petrol-based chemicals won't remain in the environment for more then a centry, but that plastic Dixy Cup will sit there for thousands of years.
It really bugged me that he didn't know how to use a mouse, but could still use Autocad and could type at 80 words per minute...
So they have qwerty keyboard training in Starfleet Academy or something?
Indeed. I remember people playing Neverwinter Nights on AOL in '89-90. It was graphical, it was Multi-user, and it had Dungeons.
NWN predates UO by many years.
BTW everquest is not a game, in a game there is a winner and a loser
:)?
That's a pretty narrow description of "game".
Some of the best games out there do not have a "winner" or "loser".
Dungeons & Dragons is one of the most popular games in the last couple of decades, and you don't necessarily "win" or "lose" (This always confused
the hell out of my high school classmates, because as one guy said "Football is a real game. In football, there is no second place!").
I spent many hours and days playing D&D. If I wasn't playing a "game", what was I doing (besides wasting my time
Or maybe video game violence isn't the main cause...
And I never said it was the main cause. We shouldn't completely discount it's effects either, at least not without some strong scientific backing.
Right now, it's the word of the video game companies vs the parent & teacher groups. The video game companies have a clear conflict of interest.
Virtual violence does NOT lead to real violence.
That's a pretty bold statement. Do you have actual, scientific evidence to back this up?
Are you saying that the increased displays of violence in the media (computer games, news shows, movies, etc) DOES NOT make people more suseptable and accepting of violence in real life?
Clearly we can't place ALL the blame on violent video games, but you can't completely ignore their impact either.
DId you know they have tapes is REAL, ACTUAL combat they show to soldiers to train them? Ban all VCRs and TVs!
Now YOUR the one making a jump in logic. At no point did the previous poster say "Let's ban computers because of the violent video games" as you suggest. He clearly suggested that we, as citizens, need to question the impact of these games on our society.
Or did the Erfurt shootings NOT just happen in your little universe?
That's what I said:
... antibiotics kill viruses; THEN you have a poor understanding of science."
"If you said that