I haven't really been much of a Netscape fan, but I always give their new browsers a spin to see if they have finally fixed many of the age-old annoyances of the past. Netscape 8 seems to be a very well constructed browser, and the ability to use the IE rendering engine is actually very helpful. I put it through the fire test: I used it to do Windows Updates. It worked flawlessly. I think Netscape had a good idea, and their browser seems to do a good job of implementing both standards well. One of the worst problems has been that most 3rd party browsers can't support some of the IE-specific CRAP that some websites use. I still like Firefox, and with Netscape 8 you get the best of both worlds. One problem is that Netscape doesn't have the feature to use ALT-D to get to the address bar without a mouse, but if that's the biggest irritation about it, then they're doing well.
So, instead of measuring the number of albums sold and using terms like Gold, single, double, triple, or other varients of Platinum, etc, would they instead measure the number of downloads and say that the artist has gone Silicon or Mega/Giga of some term?
Great, just what we needed...now we get to listen to our MP3s on Linux AND have Real Networks spamming us to death with advertisements...just what I always wanted! NOT!
All sarcasm aside, I don't see this being a big hit with Linux users, except for the novices that stick to runlevel 5 and never see a character prompt.
I'm unsure if this was a point made in a previous post, since there are way too many of them to sort through, so I'll just get to the point.
Creation could have happened ANY number of ways. The Bible cites it being done in a number of days, but since God exists outside of time, who is to say how long one if His "days" are? What reference is being used? Also, just because it says he snapped his fingers and "it was done" doesn't mean that it couldn't have been something that He simply initiated...the Big Bang could have been the direct result of God's creation. It doesn't mention the creation of the Universe itself, only the way He created everything on Earth. He could have easily used what is known as the Big Bang to set the Universe into a creation cycle...it only says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth"...NOTHING about how long it took or the method implemented.
Using this, one can easily see that it is entirely possible for God to have used a "Big Bang" method of creating everything in the first place. Not only that, the Bible only mentions how God created Adam and Eve, but by the time Cain was sent out into the world, there were entire races of human beings out there already. How was this possible, and who is to say that God didn't evolve everyone else into being while he scrapped up Adam and Eve from clay dirt? The Bible is extremely vague, if not totally evasive, on those points.
Thinking for ourselves and reasoning are two gifts that God gave us. Use them.
Obviously the advisory is simply to inform people who haven't upgraded that it might be prudent to do so. Of course software will always have bugs, and for every one bug you kill, a few more will rise in its place until you get everything right. That is a long and arduous process, especially given the complexity involved in providing the functionality of today's software. Thankfully, the folks who wrote the Mozilla line of software seem to fix their problems rather quickly, so I'm sure that if they haven't already been fixed (as is rumored to have been done in Firefox 1.0 and the newest Mozilla) they will be sometime in the very near future. Patience, grasshopper.
If we can manage to have more ISPs grow a backbone, maybe we can once and for all eliminate the witch hunt that the RIAA and MPAA are going on. This is simply uncalled for, and has spurned a response by an anonymous source. http://noriaa1.tripod.com/ There is explicit language used in this, but it makes a good point.
They also are there to be sock puppets for the politicians that put them there as well as whatever company pays them off. Did you know that there is not ONE technical person on the board of the FCC? Doesn't seem like a very good lot to be making decisions about our radio spectrum and electronic devices. This is why Broadband over Power Lines is going to flop horribly, as well as costing everyone millions of dollars. It may also result in the loss of many lives, since the FCC, who is just SO in tune with our spectrum, thinks they can govern physics. See, the BPL spectrum is the same as our fire, police, airline, and emergency radios. BPL will interfere because unlike the cable TV system that is closed, BPL will radiate all over the place through those power lines. Anything in its RF spectrum will be interfered with. This is why we need technical people in the FCC instead of the political sock puppets we have now. Many large companies pay off the FCC to support their ideas, so their "fair" judgement is not as fair as one may think.
The problem with Pico is that it chops lines incorrectly, causing untold havoc on the config files. THIS is why I don't want him using pico. Vi will not chop the line up, it will simply wrap the text around but continue the line. I have told him about that, and he agrees that pico isn't the tool for the job. He just doesn't use vi enough to know what to do with it. I told him to download the cheat sheets and print them out, but apparently that's too much work.
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but 2.4.22 runs a whole lot better without the alleged System V code. I've noticed performance has picked up tremendously. Leave it up to the open source community to outdo the proprietary community.
While I use a command line for just about everything I do, I have a business partner who can't seem to grasp the concept of the Vi editor, and I have forbidden him from using that atrocity of an editor, Pico. I've had simply no choice but to put webmin on our boxes we distribute only because it's the only way he can manage them. It also helps when you're installing one at a site that doesn't want a maintenance plan, but wants to be able to manage it all easily. Unfortunately, the computing world has changed so that people have become dependent on GUIs to step them through everything. I do give webmin quite a bit of credit, though, and if you use Usermin you can let users access the server through that to manage their accounts. It is a nice add-on for Linux, but I rarely use it unless I'm configuring something that has a script that's simply too difficult to edit by hand.
I think hard disk manufacturing companies also seem to have trouble with hard disk size lingo...they don't seem to understand that a gigabyte should be 1024 megabytes (1048576 Kbytes, 1073741824 bytes), so now we get cheated out of literally GIGABYTES worth of data storage with the new, bigger hard drives coming out. For example, my 60 GB hard disk is 3 GB short of its advertised size. As far as having a real problem with understanding computing lingo goes , I think hard disk manufacturing companies take first prize.
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Now someone just needs to find the source code, and recompile it but with "set_bugs=0". ;)
I haven't really been much of a Netscape fan, but I always give their new browsers a spin to see if they have finally fixed many of the age-old annoyances of the past. Netscape 8 seems to be a very well constructed browser, and the ability to use the IE rendering engine is actually very helpful. I put it through the fire test: I used it to do Windows Updates. It worked flawlessly. I think Netscape had a good idea, and their browser seems to do a good job of implementing both standards well. One of the worst problems has been that most 3rd party browsers can't support some of the IE-specific CRAP that some websites use. I still like Firefox, and with Netscape 8 you get the best of both worlds. One problem is that Netscape doesn't have the feature to use ALT-D to get to the address bar without a mouse, but if that's the biggest irritation about it, then they're doing well.
So, instead of measuring the number of albums sold and using terms like Gold, single, double, triple, or other varients of Platinum, etc, would they instead measure the number of downloads and say that the artist has gone Silicon or Mega/Giga of some term?
Great, just what we needed...now we get to listen to our MP3s on Linux AND have Real Networks spamming us to death with advertisements...just what I always wanted! NOT! All sarcasm aside, I don't see this being a big hit with Linux users, except for the novices that stick to runlevel 5 and never see a character prompt.
I'm unsure if this was a point made in a previous post, since there are way too many of them to sort through, so I'll just get to the point. Creation could have happened ANY number of ways. The Bible cites it being done in a number of days, but since God exists outside of time, who is to say how long one if His "days" are? What reference is being used? Also, just because it says he snapped his fingers and "it was done" doesn't mean that it couldn't have been something that He simply initiated...the Big Bang could have been the direct result of God's creation. It doesn't mention the creation of the Universe itself, only the way He created everything on Earth. He could have easily used what is known as the Big Bang to set the Universe into a creation cycle...it only says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth"...NOTHING about how long it took or the method implemented. Using this, one can easily see that it is entirely possible for God to have used a "Big Bang" method of creating everything in the first place. Not only that, the Bible only mentions how God created Adam and Eve, but by the time Cain was sent out into the world, there were entire races of human beings out there already. How was this possible, and who is to say that God didn't evolve everyone else into being while he scrapped up Adam and Eve from clay dirt? The Bible is extremely vague, if not totally evasive, on those points. Thinking for ourselves and reasoning are two gifts that God gave us. Use them.
Obviously the advisory is simply to inform people who haven't upgraded that it might be prudent to do so. Of course software will always have bugs, and for every one bug you kill, a few more will rise in its place until you get everything right. That is a long and arduous process, especially given the complexity involved in providing the functionality of today's software. Thankfully, the folks who wrote the Mozilla line of software seem to fix their problems rather quickly, so I'm sure that if they haven't already been fixed (as is rumored to have been done in Firefox 1.0 and the newest Mozilla) they will be sometime in the very near future. Patience, grasshopper.
If we can manage to have more ISPs grow a backbone, maybe we can once and for all eliminate the witch hunt that the RIAA and MPAA are going on. This is simply uncalled for, and has spurned a response by an anonymous source. http://noriaa1.tripod.com/ There is explicit language used in this, but it makes a good point.
They also are there to be sock puppets for the politicians that put them there as well as whatever company pays them off. Did you know that there is not ONE technical person on the board of the FCC? Doesn't seem like a very good lot to be making decisions about our radio spectrum and electronic devices. This is why Broadband over Power Lines is going to flop horribly, as well as costing everyone millions of dollars. It may also result in the loss of many lives, since the FCC, who is just SO in tune with our spectrum, thinks they can govern physics. See, the BPL spectrum is the same as our fire, police, airline, and emergency radios. BPL will interfere because unlike the cable TV system that is closed, BPL will radiate all over the place through those power lines. Anything in its RF spectrum will be interfered with. This is why we need technical people in the FCC instead of the political sock puppets we have now. Many large companies pay off the FCC to support their ideas, so their "fair" judgement is not as fair as one may think.
The problem with Pico is that it chops lines incorrectly, causing untold havoc on the config files. THIS is why I don't want him using pico. Vi will not chop the line up, it will simply wrap the text around but continue the line. I have told him about that, and he agrees that pico isn't the tool for the job. He just doesn't use vi enough to know what to do with it. I told him to download the cheat sheets and print them out, but apparently that's too much work.
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but 2.4.22 runs a whole lot better without the alleged System V code. I've noticed performance has picked up tremendously. Leave it up to the open source community to outdo the proprietary community.
While I use a command line for just about everything I do, I have a business partner who can't seem to grasp the concept of the Vi editor, and I have forbidden him from using that atrocity of an editor, Pico. I've had simply no choice but to put webmin on our boxes we distribute only because it's the only way he can manage them. It also helps when you're installing one at a site that doesn't want a maintenance plan, but wants to be able to manage it all easily. Unfortunately, the computing world has changed so that people have become dependent on GUIs to step them through everything. I do give webmin quite a bit of credit, though, and if you use Usermin you can let users access the server through that to manage their accounts. It is a nice add-on for Linux, but I rarely use it unless I'm configuring something that has a script that's simply too difficult to edit by hand.
I think hard disk manufacturing companies also seem to have trouble with hard disk size lingo...they don't seem to understand that a gigabyte should be 1024 megabytes (1048576 Kbytes, 1073741824 bytes), so now we get cheated out of literally GIGABYTES worth of data storage with the new, bigger hard drives coming out. For example, my 60 GB hard disk is 3 GB short of its advertised size. As far as having a real problem with understanding computing lingo goes , I think hard disk manufacturing companies take first prize.