The site www.ns.nl is running Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6 DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4.0.4pl1 mod_perl/1.24_01 on Linux.
And wget -S gives:
Yeah man, it's about time the hip dudes were in charge!
Hipocracynoun Rule of the terminally hip.
But where's the hypocrisy here, it looks like Agenda will be offering an interesting handheld combining serious processing power and expandibility at an attractive price. There is nothing incredible about people being enticed by this prospect. And it seems that Agenda's interface is a near clone of Palm's, with a few enhancements made possible by the greater procesing power available. So what if isn't totally original, why bother re-inventing the wheel, unless some lawyers force you to.
If the Agenda is well made product, and proves to be as stable as Linux desktops are, I'll buy one.
I recall that in an interview he said it had to do with the obsessiveness of some Star Wars fans, which disturbed him greatly. In particular a very young boy who begged for an autograph and bragged about seeing Star Wars dozens of times. Guinness apparently told the boy's mother to take away all his Star Wars toys and to forbid him seeing the film again. It wasn't so much the film he disliked as the phenomena and hype surrounding it. He wasn't really being arrogant just concerned.
He was a truly great actor, perhaps the finest comic actor of his generation, check out the Lavender Hill Mob (THE classic caper comedy), The Man in the White Suit (a sort of science fiction comedy, funny, insightful and just plain brilliant), and Kind Hearts and Coronets (which features Sir Alec in multiple roles) if you haven't seen them. There are so many other terrific films he appeared in, if all you know of him from is Star Wars you're missing alot. His memoirs are worth reading too.
We'll miss you Sir Alec.
No, that's no what they need to do. There is a real need for a cross-platform integrated internet application, which is precisely what Mozilla is. I use Linux almost exclusively at home from a dial-up account. It is an enormous hassle to have to configure a separate mail client like mutt to read my mail, a mail transfer agent such as Sendmail( a real PITA to configure) or exim, better but still mangles my headers, Fetchmail (so I can get mail from my POP3 account without having it deleted or having it downloaded over and over), and then a separate newsreader. I really want the one stop shopping approach to the ineternet. After doing all of the above and having problems with all of the aformentioned programs misbehaving in various ways, e.g. random segfaults on Fetchmail, and mutt complaining about metamail or was it the other way around I went back to Netscape for mail reading, and the bulk of my newsreading too, because it was at least reliable and painfree. I would like some thing more powerful though and Mozilla promise to be that, its amil program already crashes far lesss on me than Balsa, Kmail, or even Pine did. Yeah I tried 'em all.
This may be slightly off-topic but I haven't been able to access www.yahoo.com for almost twenty-four hours. I first thought it might have been a Mozilla M16 bug but the same problem occurs with Netscape,Lynx and Konqeror. I couldn't find any news items about a Yahoo dos today. Just my isps dns?
It's not about *BSD moving to the forefront, it's about maintaining choice. If the whole world were to be stuck with Linux as the dominant OS it would only make things marginally better than the current situation. I personally think that there is much to be said in favour the BSD licence. It makes it more palatable to commercial developers and that is not a bad thing. The strictest Linux distro in terms of its application of the GPL is debian and their latest 'official' release is a year and a half old. Yes you can download a newer version or upgrade it from the ftp servers, but if you don't have broadband, or you find that the apt-get system on your box is broken you're in for a lot of grief. Commercial distros pay attention to keeping releases up to date. So do the BSDs. Sorry about the debian rant but I've put in way too many late night hours trying to fix my broken debian install and I'm rather upset about it. Choice and competition improve software. I'm less interested in seeing a dominance of open-surce software( though that would be nice ) than in seeing better and more reasonably priced sofware.
I never use the command line for managing files anymore, not since moving my ~/ directory into/usr/share/kde because I forgot a space. Ooops! I AM a lousy typist:-/
Chief among these is the way it switches desktops when you move the mouse off the screen. That really threw her and cause me trouble still. I don't think it should be possible to switch desktops by moving the mouse.
It drove me nuts when I first encountered this too, but I found athat after a while I really do prefer this feature, its almost like having a giant monitor, almost... The key to getting it to work right for you is to make sure that you have the edge sensitivity settings right, it may take a bit of experimenting to find the most comfortable setting. If you cant get comfortable with it you can disable the feature on every window manager I've tried.
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Chill out man! Have you been reading too much Ayn Rand lately or watching too much of the 700 club?
Air conditioning in auto plants is quite a recent development. I remember working very briefly at the Ford Rouge plant straightening out some mis-stamped rocker panel mouldings for the Mustang shortly after I got out of High School back in the late seventies. It was in August and temperatures on the assembly line were about 110F. I weighed about five lbs less at the end of every nine hour shift.
I really dislike Windows, it looks awful, and whatever problems X11 has with font rendering, Windows is only marginally better, but mostly it is just too unreliable. But, there is a critical shortage of business apps for Linux at this time, I don't mean that there aren't any office suites, there are and they're very good, and I know that there are reliable e-commerce applictions and the like, what I'm talking about are the third party add-ons which support M$Office, I know of several university,and local government departments that in the last several years switched to M$ Office, not because the clerical workers or the IT staff thought it was in itself a better product than WordPerfect or Lotus, products that these departments had been using previously, but rather because a third party add-on package, in one case an APA formatting tool and in another case some software which allowed Excel to interact with Oracle databases, offered a functionality that couldn't be matched by competing products. M$'s ubiquity is its biggest advantage, unless you are either a very large company and can afford to develop cutom extensions for Star Office or Applix. or have little need for such extensions, or need ones so specialized that there are no commercial packages available, you'll find it often makes more sense to go with M$ and put up with support headaches when it crashes.
I second that. One of its best features is the small size, it allows one to place one's trackball or rodent in the proper position, closer to the body's centreline. If you need a numeric keypad, get a separate one, I prefer mine on the left anyway and that's not an option with a standard keyboard. If you like vi you'll apreciate not having the escape key up in Alaska! I would also recommend a good trackball, I use the Logitech Marble Mouse (its really a trackball in spite of its name) is good and fairly inexpensive, also the Mousetrak models from ITAC are good well made products, they can take a pounding from the crowd at Detroit's auto show without breaking down. The downside is that they are a bit pricey, and noisy,very smooth, but noisy.
Amen. Way too many big corporations, some small ones, as well as some non-profit organisations, waste their money and squander my and everyone else's limited bandwiwdth and time with overdone graphics and gimmicks that make their sites less accessible to those who are visually impaired, and less accessible and harder to navigate for just about everyone else. I'm stuck on a 56k connection and if I visit some sites, those of the auto companies here in my native Detroit are among the worst offenders,it can take three to five minutes to load one page! Many of these sites won't work at all if you don't have the latest versions of IE or Netscape, if you're browsing with BeOS or in console mode on Linux you are SOL. What is worse is what a pain many of these sites are to navigate even if you have a supported browser and aren't disabled, Ford's and Saabs sites are particularly bad, you can't even find a webmaster's address to send complaints to.
The only redeeming feature about this is that on many of these sites it really doesn't matter if they aren't accessible because they have so little worthwhile information on them. It's as if they never considered why they might need a website but just decided that they had to have one and it might as well be "state of the art" with all the available bells and whistles.
So, give us a break all you high flying web designers and quit wasting my bandwidth and my time and just keep it simple and give me some useful information instead of a pointless sensory assault.
I am gald to see a major copmputer company selling laptops with Linux pre-insatlled. But why only on their most expensive model? I'm a returning student without a lot of cash to spare and $3500 is out of my range. Other than requiring card modem which is more expensive, Linux's hardware requirements would seem to fairly modest. Yes, if I had a disposable income or some-one wants to buy me one, the I7500 is nice machine, but I would settle for a more modest and affordable model, A celeron 400, 4GB hardrive, 12"-14" screen... And BTW at $3500 Dell doesn't list any bundled software, they really ought to be throwing in at least the full versions of WordPerfect and Xess,or Apllxware, and maybe Railroad Tycoon as well.
Yes KDE is a better GUI than Windows, more stable, more configurable, and better looking to boot! And with Linux you get a choice of several others if you don't like KDE.
I would agree with you, so far, on some other points; there is still a shortage of decent financial software for small business users on Linux,nothing comparable to, for instance,Qicken, and there is a limited choice of CAD software, viz. no Autocad, and that is pretty much the industry standard. Is anyone at Autodesk listening? Linux also needs some high level applications aimed at the web publishing market, it has nothing I'm aware of that is comparable to ColdFusion or Page Mill, and nothing comparable to Quark Express for page layout and typographic design.
But back to kernel stability, there is a difference of at least, several minutes between what happens when an app. crashes, or when an X-server crashes in Linux and when the whole OS goes down with Windows,so yes you ultimately do get your work done with the kernel! My experience with KDE 1.1 crashing, is one crash so far, and with that I was able to continue working onthe apps I had open, I just couldn't open any new ones. Recovering took a relaunch of the X-server, less than one minute!
Of course I'm not counting stupid Linux trick # 42, moving your whole home directory into a graphics file.... Don't ask.
Have you used the BeOS, it's just plain fun to use and there are some good apps out there for it. GoBE Productive is the easiest to use office suite I've ever seen, even if it does lack some of the high level functionality of Corel or M$ Office. Someone with next to no experience can do basic desktop publishing almost immediately. It's a great OS for technophobes, better than the MacOS. It's good to see it being mentioned in the press these days, maybe more people will go out and try it, you should, and give it to a computer fearing friend for Xmas or something. BTW I'm also a Linux user.
What is the problem with Netscape? I'm using it now,and it sure certainly seems to work okay. Earlier today I was browsing in IE5, happily it didn't crash as it is wont to, I did so only because I keep hearing complaints about how badly Netscape renders certain sites, so I visited a few of the sites that are problematic under Netscape in Linux, and I noticed several things; they were poorly designed sites that caused problems with IE5 too, or they did look better in IE5 but also looked better in Netscape 4.7 for Windows, and Opera for Windows because all their fonts were True Type fonts which I do not currently have for Linux. I also did note that IE5 seemed marginally faster than Netscape 4.7 for Linux but slower than either Opera for Windows or KFM for Linux or Netpositive for BeOS, though the latter thre have either limited or no support for Java & Javascript. I had completely given up on IE5 several months ago when I was using Windows exclusively because I found it difficult to configure compared to Netscape and Opera, and mostly because it crashed WAY too often and always brought down the whole system with it, requiring a reboot and session with scandisk and a slew of cryptic error messages. When Opera or Netscape crashed they almost always graciously terminated themselves requiring only that I restart them. I realize that Netscape is not perfect, their install procedure for Linux( I just installed 4.7 last weekend on both Linux and Windows from their cdrom),is among the worst I've seen and I sent them an e-mail complaining about this. I still haven't got the spell checker to work either and I've yet to get a response from them on that matter or the Lack of full Java support with Linux, but it still does more for me than any other internet browser or news or mail application I've used and does it more conveniently and reliably to boot. I'm not a developer and can't speak to how Netscape behaves from that standpoint, but as a user I just don't see that many problems with Netscape overall, and other than the poor installation procedure the only serious problems I have with Netscape in Linux aren't Netscape's fault, they are a lack of plugins and a general over reliance on gimmicks by too many web designers, and the latter causes problems no matter which browser you use, including IE5.
Reading through some of the adolescent libertarian wannabe bullshit I've seen here tonight makes me sick and just plain sad. Grow up people. Quit bitching about the ADA, you or someone you love may need it someday! As for web page design, measures to improve accesibility generally make sites better, you get sites that are easier to navigate, available to people who aren't using the latest hardware and software, and load faster when you keep things simple. There are some good links on accessible web design posted here, thanks to those of you who put them in with your helpful comments.
I want an iBook, I want it in the new graphite colour like the new G4s, and I want running Linux. I guess I,ll have to wait a while, hmmmph, I don't have the money now anyway. It's not overpriced althiough it could use a better keyboard, IBM portables stilll have the best.
Yes, the one thing we of the "masses" want most right now is USB support! All those cool new toys are USB only, like the new Intel/Mattel microscope! I agree with you on that one. But quit dogging all the mere users out here they are a necessary source of support for Linux and they will form an important base of support in the corporate environment, someone in management who uses Linux at home will be much more accepting of its introduction, or the introduction of another unix into the business environment.And let's face it Linux is just more fun than M$'s junk. The scalability problem is an issue but it looks like thats being addressed a journalling file system would be very nice for both mission critical systems and for the family pc, little kids and cats seem to fascinated by the computer's power button.
I'm basically satisfiied with Netscape 4.61 which I use on both Linux an Windows, its reliable and convenient if a bit slow. I had heard how good IE was and tried it for a few days when I got my new system a few months ago, CRASH, the whole system, repeatedly, when Netscape has crashed, rarely under 4.61, Netscape alone crashes, same for Opera. KFM is a nice fast browser for Linux too, but without Java and Javascript support it wont always let you in to some sites.
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The oddest part is what Netcraft.com reports:
The site www.ns.nl is running Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6 DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4.0.4pl1 mod_perl/1.24_01 on Linux.
And wget -S gives:
2 Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:13:11 GMT
3 Server: Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6 DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4.0.4pl1 mod_perl/1.24_01
4 Last-Modified: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 09:24:48 GMT
I can't read Dutch but the site seems to make some mention of being 'incompabiliteit van diverse browsers'.
Any Nederlands speakers care to translate this site http://www.ns.nl/overig/pop_oversite.html ?
Yeah man, it's about time the hip dudes were in charge!
Hipocracy noun Rule of the terminally hip.
But where's the hypocrisy here, it looks like Agenda will be offering an interesting handheld combining serious processing power and expandibility at an attractive price. There is nothing incredible about people being enticed by this prospect. And it seems that Agenda's interface is a near clone of Palm's, with a few enhancements made possible by the greater procesing power available. So what if isn't totally original, why bother re-inventing the wheel, unless some lawyers force you to.
If the Agenda is well made product, and proves to be as stable as Linux desktops are, I'll buy one.
I recall that in an interview he said it had to do with the obsessiveness of some Star Wars fans, which disturbed him greatly. In particular a very young boy who begged for an autograph and bragged about seeing Star Wars dozens of times. Guinness apparently told the boy's mother to take away all his Star Wars toys and to forbid him seeing the film again. It wasn't so much the film he disliked as the phenomena and hype surrounding it. He wasn't really being arrogant just concerned.
He was a truly great actor, perhaps the finest comic actor of his generation, check out the Lavender Hill Mob (THE classic caper comedy), The Man in the White Suit (a sort of science fiction comedy, funny, insightful and just plain brilliant), and Kind Hearts and Coronets (which features Sir Alec in multiple roles) if you haven't seen them. There are so many other terrific films he appeared in, if all you know of him from is Star Wars you're missing alot. His memoirs are worth reading too.
We'll miss you Sir Alec.
No, that's no what they need to do. There is a real need for a cross-platform integrated internet application, which is precisely what Mozilla is. I use Linux almost exclusively at home from a dial-up account. It is an enormous hassle to have to configure a separate mail client like mutt to read my mail, a mail transfer agent such as Sendmail( a real PITA to configure) or exim, better but still mangles my headers, Fetchmail (so I can get mail from my POP3 account without having it deleted or having it downloaded over and over), and then a separate newsreader.
I really want the one stop shopping approach to the ineternet. After doing all of the above and having problems with all of the aformentioned programs misbehaving in various ways, e.g. random segfaults on Fetchmail, and mutt complaining about metamail or was it the other way around I went back to Netscape for mail reading, and the bulk of my newsreading too, because it was at least reliable and painfree. I would like some thing more powerful though and Mozilla promise to be that, its amil program already crashes far lesss on me than Balsa, Kmail, or even Pine did. Yeah I tried 'em all.
This may be slightly off-topic but I haven't been able to access www.yahoo.com for almost twenty-four hours. I first thought it might have been a Mozilla M16 bug but the same problem occurs with Netscape ,Lynx and Konqeror.
I couldn't find any news items about a Yahoo dos today.
Just my isps dns?
It's not about *BSD moving to the forefront, it's about maintaining choice. If the whole world were to be stuck with Linux as the dominant OS it would only make things marginally better than the current situation. I personally think that there is much to be said in favour the BSD licence. It makes it more palatable to commercial developers and that is not a bad thing. The strictest Linux distro in terms of its application of the GPL is debian and their latest 'official' release is a year and a half old. Yes you can download a newer version or upgrade it from the ftp servers, but if you don't have broadband, or you find that the apt-get system on your box is broken you're in for a lot of grief. Commercial distros pay attention to keeping releases up to date. So do the BSDs.
Sorry about the debian rant but I've put in way too many late night hours trying to fix my broken debian install and I'm rather upset about it.
Choice and competition improve software. I'm less interested in seeing a dominance of open-surce software( though that would be nice ) than in seeing better and more reasonably priced sofware.
I never use the command line for managing files anymore, not since moving my ~/ directory into /usr/share/kde because I forgot a space. Ooops!
I AM a lousy typist:-/
It drove me nuts when I first encountered this too, but I found athat after a while I really do prefer this feature, its almost like having a giant monitor, almost...
The key to getting it to work right for you is to make sure that you have the edge sensitivity settings right, it may take a bit of experimenting to find the most comfortable setting. If you cant get comfortable with it you can disable the feature on every window manager I've tried.
Chill out man!
Have you been reading too much Ayn Rand lately or watching too much of the 700 club?
Penguins live in Antarctica man, how can you get any cooler than that?!
Air conditioning in auto plants is quite a recent development. I remember working very briefly at the Ford Rouge plant straightening out some mis-stamped rocker panel mouldings for the Mustang shortly after I got out of High School back in the late seventies.
It was in August and temperatures on the assembly line were about 110F. I weighed about five lbs less at the end of every nine hour shift.
I really dislike Windows, it looks awful, and whatever problems X11 has with font rendering, Windows is only marginally better, but mostly it is just too unreliable. But, there is a critical shortage of business apps for Linux at this time, I don't mean that there aren't any office suites, there are and they're very good, and I know that there are reliable e-commerce applictions and the like, what I'm talking about are the third party add-ons which support M$Office, I know of several university ,and local government departments that in the last several years switched to M$ Office, not because the clerical workers or the IT staff thought it was in itself a better product than WordPerfect or Lotus, products that these departments had been using previously, but rather because a third party add-on package, in one case an APA formatting tool and in another case some software which allowed Excel to interact with Oracle databases, offered a functionality that couldn't be matched by competing products.
M$'s ubiquity is its biggest advantage, unless you are either a very large company and can afford to develop cutom extensions for Star Office or Applix. or have little need for such extensions, or need ones so specialized that there are no commercial packages available, you'll find it often makes more sense to go with M$ and put up with support headaches when it crashes.
I second that. One of its best features is the small size, it allows one to place one's trackball or rodent in the proper position, closer to the body's centreline. If you need a numeric keypad, get a separate one, I prefer mine on the left anyway and that's not an option with a standard keyboard. If you like vi you'll apreciate not having the escape key up in Alaska!
I would also recommend a good trackball, I use the Logitech Marble Mouse (its really a trackball in spite of its name) is good and fairly inexpensive, also the Mousetrak models from ITAC are good well made products, they can take a pounding from the crowd at Detroit's auto show without breaking down. The downside is that they are a bit pricey, and noisy,very smooth, but noisy.
Amen. Way too many big corporations, some small ones, as well as some non-profit organisations, waste their money and squander my and everyone else's limited bandwiwdth and time with overdone graphics and gimmicks that make their sites less accessible to those who are visually impaired, and less accessible and harder to navigate for just about everyone else. I'm stuck on a 56k connection and if I visit some sites, those of the auto companies here in my native Detroit are among the worst offenders,it can take three to five minutes to load one page! Many of these sites won't work at all if you don't have the latest versions of IE or Netscape, if you're browsing with BeOS or in console mode on Linux you are SOL. What is worse is what a pain many of these sites are to navigate even if you have a supported browser and aren't disabled, Ford's and Saabs sites are particularly bad, you can't even find a webmaster's address to send complaints to.
The only redeeming feature about this is that on many of these sites it really doesn't matter if they aren't accessible because they have so little worthwhile information on them. It's as if they never considered why they might need a website but just decided that they had to have one and it might as well be "state of the art" with all the available bells and whistles.
So, give us a break all you high flying web designers and quit wasting my bandwidth and my time and just keep it simple and give me some useful information instead of a pointless sensory assault.
My $.02
I am gald to see a major copmputer company selling laptops with Linux pre-insatlled. But why only on their most expensive model? I'm a returning student without a lot of cash to spare and $3500 is out of my range. Other than requiring card modem which is more expensive, Linux's hardware requirements would seem to fairly modest.
Yes, if I had a disposable income or some-one wants to buy me one, the I7500 is nice machine, but I would settle for a more modest and affordable model, A celeron 400, 4GB hardrive, 12"-14" screen...
And BTW at $3500 Dell doesn't list any bundled software, they really ought to be throwing in at least the full versions of WordPerfect and Xess,or Apllxware, and maybe Railroad Tycoon as well.
Thew funniest one, by far, was the cat herders.
I laughed so hard my ribs ached for an hour.
I would agree with you, so far, on some other points; there is still a shortage of decent financial software for small business users on Linux,nothing comparable to, for instance,Qicken, and there is a limited choice of CAD software, viz. no Autocad, and that is pretty much the industry standard. Is anyone at Autodesk listening? Linux also needs some high level applications aimed at the web publishing market, it has nothing I'm aware of that is comparable to ColdFusion or Page Mill, and nothing comparable to Quark Express for page layout and typographic design.
But back to kernel stability, there is a difference of at least, several minutes between what happens when an app. crashes, or when an X-server crashes in Linux and when the whole OS goes down with Windows,so yes you ultimately do get your work done with the kernel! My experience with KDE 1.1 crashing, is one crash so far, and with that I was able to continue working onthe apps I had open, I just couldn't open any new ones. Recovering took a relaunch of the X-server, less than one minute!
Of course I'm not counting stupid Linux trick # 42, moving your whole home directory into a graphics file.... Don't ask.
Have you used the BeOS, it's just plain fun to use and there are some good apps out there for it. GoBE Productive is the easiest to use office suite I've ever seen, even if it does lack some of the high level functionality of Corel or M$ Office. Someone with next to no experience can do basic desktop publishing almost immediately. It's a great OS for technophobes, better than the MacOS. It's good to see it being mentioned in the press these days, maybe more people will go out and try it, you should, and give it to a computer fearing friend for Xmas or something. BTW I'm also a Linux user.
What is the problem with Netscape? I'm using it now,and it sure certainly seems to work okay. Earlier today I was browsing in IE5, happily it didn't crash as it is wont to, I did so only because I keep hearing complaints about how badly Netscape renders certain sites, so I visited a few of the sites that are problematic under Netscape in Linux, and I noticed several things; they were poorly designed sites that caused problems with IE5 too, or they did look better in IE5 but also looked better in Netscape 4.7 for Windows, and Opera for Windows because all their fonts were True Type fonts which I do not currently have for Linux. I also did note that IE5 seemed marginally faster than Netscape 4.7 for Linux but slower than either Opera for Windows or KFM for Linux or Netpositive for BeOS, though the latter thre have either limited or no support for Java & Javascript. I had completely given up on IE5 several months ago when I was using Windows exclusively because I found it difficult to configure compared to Netscape and Opera, and mostly because it crashed WAY too often and always brought down the whole system with it, requiring a reboot and session with scandisk and a slew of cryptic error messages. When Opera or Netscape crashed they almost always graciously terminated themselves requiring only that I restart them.
I realize that Netscape is not perfect, their install procedure for Linux( I just installed 4.7 last weekend on both Linux and Windows from their cdrom),is among the worst I've seen and I sent them an e-mail complaining about this. I still haven't got the spell checker to work either and I've yet to get a response from them on that matter or the Lack of full Java support with Linux, but it still does more for me than any other internet browser or news or mail application I've used and does it more conveniently and reliably to boot.
I'm not a developer and can't speak to how Netscape behaves from that standpoint, but as a user I just don't see that many problems with Netscape overall, and other than the poor installation procedure the only serious problems I have with Netscape in Linux aren't Netscape's fault, they are a lack of plugins and a general over reliance on gimmicks by too many web designers, and the latter causes problems no matter which browser you use, including IE5.
Reading through some of the adolescent libertarian wannabe bullshit I've seen here tonight makes me sick and just plain sad. Grow up people. Quit bitching about the ADA, you or someone you love may need it someday! As for web page design, measures to improve accesibility generally make sites better, you get sites that are easier to navigate, available to people who aren't using the latest hardware and software, and load faster when you keep things simple. There are some good links on accessible web design posted here, thanks to those of you who put them in with your helpful comments.
I want an iBook, I want it in the new graphite colour like the new G4s, and I want running Linux. I guess I,ll have to wait a while, hmmmph, I don't have the money now anyway. It's not overpriced althiough it could use a better keyboard, IBM portables stilll have the best.
Yes, the one thing we of the "masses" want most right now is USB support! All those cool new toys are USB only, like the new Intel/Mattel microscope! I agree with you on that one. But quit dogging all the mere users out here they are a necessary source of support for Linux and they will form an important base of support in the corporate environment, someone in management who uses Linux at home will be much more accepting of its introduction, or the introduction of another unix into the business environment.And let's face it Linux is just more fun than M$'s junk. The scalability problem is an issue but it looks like thats being addressed a journalling file system would be very nice for both mission critical systems and for the family pc, little kids and cats seem to fascinated by the computer's power button.
I'm basically satisfiied with Netscape 4.61 which I use on both Linux an Windows, its reliable and convenient if a bit slow. I had heard how good IE was and tried it for a few days when I got my new system a few months ago, CRASH, the whole system, repeatedly, when Netscape has crashed, rarely under 4.61, Netscape alone crashes, same for Opera. KFM is a nice fast browser for Linux too, but without Java and Javascript support it wont always let you in to some sites.