If you're talking about patches and updates, well, a few months ago I ran Windows Update and Mandrake's update application one after the other, both on more-or-less unpatched installs. The Mandrake one had about 10 times the amount (by byte count) of updates that I selected (let alone available) than XP did.
I know I don't have any specific facts to back this up, and it's mostly just putting forward an idea, but could this be (at least in part) because Linux developers patch and release more bugs more often than M$, which has been known to leave certain known, serious bugs/security holes unpatched (or, at least, unpublicized) for a long time?
Those who know better may now shoot holes in this (or fill up holes with evidence and clarification if such is warranted);)
The "Original" USS Enterprise (NCC-1701 after refit) did enter the atmosphere of the Genesis Planet in Star Trek III.
Of course, this was after having its saucer section and various other parts blown up by the auto-destruct sequence. (which leads me to wonder why the auto-destruct wasn't a little more thorough in the first place, leaving that much ship behind)
It would be interesting to see how the partially destroyed USS Enterprise would have survived in the wind tunnel.
The Bayesian Project was our last, best hope for peace.
It failed...
But in the year of the Spammer War, it became something greater: Our last, best hope for spam-free inboxes.
The year is 2003, the place: Bayesian 5.
They are moving in that direction.
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According to the roadmap, after releasing a stable version on which other browsers can be based, they're moving away from Seamonkey (the suite) to an architecture like that of Mozilla Firebird and Thunderbird.
It is counter-productive for Free Software projects to fight against eachother. Deep divides are just what M$ and the proprietary world wants to see. Lets beat them together.
Yes, thank you. KDE and Gnome can coexist peacefully.
I happen to prefer KDE's interface, but, as long as KDE can run Gnome/GTK(+) apps and Gnome can run KDE/QT apps, I'm not going to go insulting Gnome or Gnome users.
Gnome does some things better than KDE; KDE does some things better than Gnome. Both are excellent, free, environments that contribute to the Linux desktop.
Instead of making major corporations, such as Microsoft, open their formats, perhaps Word and similar programs should be required to have the ability to read and/or write major open formats, such as StarOffice/OpenOffice formats.
Yes, I could see arguments along the lines of "but we can't possibly support every format," but in the case of behemoth corporations, it should be doable for at least the major formats. This could also be said to stifle competition, but in Microsoft's case, it has already done enough of this, and this measure could actually restore competition.
one of my accounts is glutted with spam. (unfortunately, it's not one that I can just close down.) I highlight the spam messages (ctrl+A, usually) and mark them as junk, but Mozilla Mail 1.3 doesn't seem to classify incoming messages as junk, even after several weeks of training.
I know basically how Bayesian filtering operates, but how do I get it to work?
I grew up on OS/2 (well, after moving up from an old Sony SMC-70 and a variety of 8088s and 286s). I loved it's GUI. (yes, even without stable virtual desktops) It was just about the only thing that would handle our old P75's aging graphics card gracefully at anything other than 800x600. (sadly, we now use that box as a monitorless linux printserver and no longer have OS/2 installed anywhere else in this house)
Even now that I have happily switched over to Linux and KDE, I find that there's one feature that OS/2 got right, and that I still miss: right-click-drag.
It had the rmb handle dragging, leaving the lmb free for selection, which came in handy when I wanted to select a group of icons that weren't all in a convenient rectangle without having to move my hand to the keyboard and repeatedly click. It was nice when I wanted to select alot of email messages quickly in PMMail. I didn't have to use shift+click or ctrl+click. All I had to do was hold the left button and swipe over the icons that I wanted highlighted. Emelfm, the file manager I use, comes close to this with its chord/middle-click drag, but it just isn't the same.
heh... This much nostalgia in someone of my age can't be good...
flash ads would be more annoying than full page pop-ups.
Mozilla can block pop-ups; Mozilla can block images from ad sites; what Mozilla can't do* is block flash animations.
* from what I know. If anyone knows how to do it without getting rid of the plugin or switching to Mozilla Firebird, I would really like to know.
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If you're talking about patches and updates, well, a few months ago I ran Windows Update and Mandrake's update application one after the other, both on more-or-less unpatched installs. The Mandrake one had about 10 times the amount (by byte count) of updates that I selected (let alone available) than XP did.
;)
I know I don't have any specific facts to back this up, and it's mostly just putting forward an idea, but could this be (at least in part) because Linux developers patch and release more bugs more often than M$, which has been known to leave certain known, serious bugs/security holes unpatched (or, at least, unpublicized) for a long time?
Those who know better may now shoot holes in this (or fill up holes with evidence and clarification if such is warranted)
The "Original" USS Enterprise (NCC-1701 after refit) did enter the atmosphere of the Genesis Planet in Star Trek III.
Of course, this was after having its saucer section and various other parts blown up by the auto-destruct sequence. (which leads me to wonder why the auto-destruct wasn't a little more thorough in the first place, leaving that much ship behind)
It would be interesting to see how the partially destroyed USS Enterprise would have survived in the wind tunnel.
Story at 11
The Bayesian Project was our last, best hope for peace.
It failed...
But in the year of the Spammer War, it became something greater: Our last, best hope for spam-free inboxes.
The year is 2003, the place: Bayesian 5.
According to the roadmap, after releasing a stable version on which other browsers can be based, they're moving away from Seamonkey (the suite) to an architecture like that of Mozilla Firebird and Thunderbird.
It is counter-productive for Free Software projects to fight against eachother. Deep divides are just what M$ and the proprietary world wants to see. Lets beat them together.
Yes, thank you. KDE and Gnome can coexist peacefully.
I happen to prefer KDE's interface, but, as long as KDE can run Gnome/GTK(+) apps and Gnome can run KDE/QT apps, I'm not going to go insulting Gnome or Gnome users.
Gnome does some things better than KDE; KDE does some things better than Gnome. Both are excellent, free, environments that contribute to the Linux desktop.
Dhraakellian
(a KDE user)
Instead of making major corporations, such as Microsoft, open their formats, perhaps Word and similar programs should be required to have the ability to read and/or write major open formats, such as StarOffice/OpenOffice formats.
Yes, I could see arguments along the lines of "but we can't possibly support every format," but in the case of behemoth corporations, it should be doable for at least the major formats. This could also be said to stifle competition, but in Microsoft's case, it has already done enough of this, and this measure could actually restore competition.
one of my accounts is glutted with spam. (unfortunately, it's not one that I can just close down.) I highlight the spam messages (ctrl+A, usually) and mark them as junk, but Mozilla Mail 1.3 doesn't seem to classify incoming messages as junk, even after several weeks of training. I know basically how Bayesian filtering operates, but how do I get it to work?
I grew up on OS/2 (well, after moving up from an old Sony SMC-70 and a variety of 8088s and 286s). I loved it's GUI. (yes, even without stable virtual desktops) It was just about the only thing that would handle our old P75's aging graphics card gracefully at anything other than 800x600. (sadly, we now use that box as a monitorless linux printserver and no longer have OS/2 installed anywhere else in this house)
Even now that I have happily switched over to Linux and KDE, I find that there's one feature that OS/2 got right, and that I still miss: right-click-drag.
It had the rmb handle dragging, leaving the lmb free for selection, which came in handy when I wanted to select a group of icons that weren't all in a convenient rectangle without having to move my hand to the keyboard and repeatedly click. It was nice when I wanted to select alot of email messages quickly in PMMail. I didn't have to use shift+click or ctrl+click. All I had to do was hold the left button and swipe over the icons that I wanted highlighted. Emelfm, the file manager I use, comes close to this with its chord/middle-click drag, but it just isn't the same.
heh... This much nostalgia in someone of my age can't be good...
flash ads would be more annoying than full page pop-ups.
Mozilla can block pop-ups; Mozilla can block images from ad sites; what Mozilla can't do* is block flash animations.
* from what I know. If anyone knows how to do it without getting rid of the plugin or switching to Mozilla Firebird, I would really like to know.