We have Web Access as well, and I had no problem using it with either Mozilla (1.6) or Firefox. Also, what would be wrong with the layout here? I've never seen any problems with layouts, here or on other sites with the exception of a very few obscure sites.
I guess you have based that assumption on MS statistics, right? Just like in the US, most people over here got their Windows with their new pc, pre-installed.
As for what you'd do if you'd be MS, what could happen is that the EU pumps a lot of money towards all open source alternatives for MS software and gains total independency on desktop and server, thereby supporting indirectly everyone in the US who wants to dump MS. The marketshare for MS would plummet harder than a brick in a gravitywell and you can kiss "your" profit goodbye.
Nono.. There must be 7 because I use it too and I don't know any of you other 6 guys (or gals if there are any, but then this is slashdot and if even the Linux users can't get any, how on earth are dead FreeBSD users supposed to get any).
Yes, the server allows it, as long as you use Windows 2000, or XP pro, or pay a lot for seperate licenses to connect other Windows versions, which is HELL to add to the license manager in a large network as you have to connect each machine twice quickly before someone else takes the license and you can't restore it because all is deep connected with stupid license numbers. For *NIX all you need is an X server running on the client, and it doesn't matter what OS it runs. I like the whole terminal services, but it's too restrictive, and as someone else mentioned, running old software on those server chokes them. I'm the only one that installs and really manages the Citrix/Terminal servers in our company, so I've had my share of running into problems.
I'd say the simplest solution was to switch to another console, or log in with ssh from another box and restore/edit the conf for X or KDE. I've been messing about a lot with KDE on my FreeBSD boxes but never had to re-install because of a GUI or mouse problem.
Yeah, but that's in a terminal, not the real console, as platipsurc said. In a terminal it's either scrollwheel or the sidebar I often use. First thing I thought when I learned about the ability to scroll back in a console was why didn't dos have that abilty. *lol*
And I know I can bind some other function to the winkeys, but then they would still get in the way when I press one accidentally. I can disable them too, but then they're really uberuseless. For me, the keys alongside the spacebar should be modifiers, and not active keys. That way I'll only get a typo, and not a different application in front of me if I mistype.
I know tab completion is enable-able in XP, but I don't think it is in 2k without a 3rd party shell.
Actually, all you need to do is change the value of HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\CompletionChar to 9. Then you get the [ tab] functionality in W2K.
ScrollLock useless? No way, I use it often when I sit at the console of one of my FreeBSD servers/workstations to scroll back up. It's those damned Windows keys that are useless and annoying and get in the way of typing fast.
As someone also mentioned in a reply on that article, I use a Squid proxy server on my FreeBSD firewall to block adsites. It may not be easier than installing some plugin, but it does reduce the work I'd have to do to block adsites on all the machines I use at home, whether I use Mozilla/Firefox/IE, and whether the ad is a banner, pop-up, flash, whatever. And it blocks the jump to msn.nl after I log out of Hotmail. *grin* $DEITY do I hate it when it does that... I even installed one at work so I could browse with more comfort there.
Create a page on your webserver/host/whatever with all the links to your favorites. Works in any browser as long as you can get on the net. And if you can't get on the net, what use are favorites anyway?
When I first started testing listening to compressed music I compared LAME mp3 with Ogg Vorbis. I tested with Roger Water's Amused To Death specifically and found that -q7 ogg sounded better than mp3 in comparison. All the phase effects in the music were there. Also, quite often a complete album was smaller in size, so that was an extra. But the only thing that can be said is, try it yourself with your favorite music, and with different settings. It might take a while, but then you'll only feel better for knowing that you used what sounded best to you.
As an audiophile, I have to protest. A movie has nothing to do with being an audiophile. We are about music. *lol* Besides, I think music sounds better on GIMP than on Photoshop.
I make it even worse, getting the idea after my first install of FreeBSD, I split the disk(s) in partitions for the winnt directory, one for documents and settings, one for pagefile/temp, one for program files, and one for data with the help of some registry hacking. I use the same setup now for installing terminal servers at work and it saved one from total crash after the documents partition maxed out with user profiles. So your way doesn't sound that extreme to me. *lol* I still need to create images of the various partitions though...
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Speaking of gmail... There's one guy who could use several of those accounts.
We have Web Access as well, and I had no problem using it with either Mozilla (1.6) or Firefox.
Also, what would be wrong with the layout here? I've never seen any problems with layouts, here or on other sites with the exception of a very few obscure sites.
Kinda obvious where he stands seeing it's an MS Word doc instead of an open format. :-P
most people outside the US just steal it anyway
I guess you have based that assumption on MS statistics, right?
Just like in the US, most people over here got their Windows with their new pc, pre-installed.
As for what you'd do if you'd be MS, what could happen is that the EU pumps a lot of money towards all open source alternatives for MS software and gains total independency on desktop and server, thereby supporting indirectly everyone in the US who wants to dump MS. The marketshare for MS would plummet harder than a brick in a gravitywell and you can kiss "your" profit goodbye.
Offtopic!? :-P
Someone hasn't got enough sense of humour today. Or didn't get any.
Nono.. There must be 7 because I use it too and I don't know any of you other 6 guys (or gals if there are any, but then this is slashdot and if even the Linux users can't get any, how on earth are dead FreeBSD users supposed to get any).
Yes you are, you dirty, dirty person! :-P
Now you infected me with dirty thoughts.
Yes, the server allows it, as long as you use Windows 2000, or XP pro, or pay a lot for seperate licenses to connect other Windows versions, which is HELL to add to the license manager in a large network as you have to connect each machine twice quickly before someone else takes the license and you can't restore it because all is deep connected with stupid license numbers.
For *NIX all you need is an X server running on the client, and it doesn't matter what OS it runs.
I like the whole terminal services, but it's too restrictive, and as someone else mentioned, running old software on those server chokes them. I'm the only one that installs and really manages the Citrix/Terminal servers in our company, so I've had my share of running into problems.
I'd say the simplest solution was to switch to another console, or log in with ssh from another box and restore/edit the conf for X or KDE.
I've been messing about a lot with KDE on my FreeBSD boxes but never had to re-install because of a GUI or mouse problem.
Yeah, but that's in a terminal, not the real console, as platipsurc said. In a terminal it's either scrollwheel or the sidebar I often use.
First thing I thought when I learned about the ability to scroll back in a console was why didn't dos have that abilty. *lol*
And I know I can bind some other function to the winkeys, but then they would still get in the way when I press one accidentally. I can disable them too, but then they're really uberuseless.
For me, the keys alongside the spacebar should be modifiers, and not active keys. That way I'll only get a typo, and not a different application in front of me if I mistype.
I know tab completion is enable-able in XP, but I don't think it is in 2k without a 3rd party shell.
Actually, all you need to do is change the value of HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\CompletionChar to 9. Then you get the [ tab] functionality in W2K.
ScrollLock useless? No way, I use it often when I sit at the console of one of my FreeBSD servers/workstations to scroll back up. It's those damned Windows keys that are useless and annoying and get in the way of typing fast.
As someone also mentioned in a reply on that article, I use a Squid proxy server on my FreeBSD firewall to block adsites. It may not be easier than installing some plugin, but it does reduce the work I'd have to do to block adsites on all the machines I use at home, whether I use Mozilla/Firefox/IE, and whether the ad is a banner, pop-up, flash, whatever. And it blocks the jump to msn.nl after I log out of Hotmail. *grin* $DEITY do I hate it when it does that...
I even installed one at work so I could browse with more comfort there.
https is on 443, so no problem there...
Create a page on your webserver/host/whatever with all the links to your favorites. Works in any browser as long as you can get on the net. And if you can't get on the net, what use are favorites anyway?
*lmao* For once a country where being a computernerd is the envy of the jocks.
I guess the "Got root?" t-shirts do really well there, right? :-P
Except according to the alleged specifications you need a parkingspace the size of two 18 wheelers to park that Pinto... :-P
When I first started testing listening to compressed music I compared LAME mp3 with Ogg Vorbis. I tested with Roger Water's Amused To Death specifically and found that -q7 ogg sounded better than mp3 in comparison. All the phase effects in the music were there.
Also, quite often a complete album was smaller in size, so that was an extra.
But the only thing that can be said is, try it yourself with your favorite music, and with different settings. It might take a while, but then you'll only feel better for knowing that you used what sounded best to you.
Insitful? No, can't say that I felt inclined to sit in with that article.
Look for "chown for windows" on Google, I have used that to set ownership on files through cmd scripts on Windows.
As an audiophile, I have to protest. A movie has nothing to do with being an audiophile. We are about music. *lol*
Besides, I think music sounds better on GIMP than on Photoshop.
Yeah, I thought "They must really spit all over you while talking Klingon." too.
Maybe he IS a Klingon, pretending to be a human?
I make it even worse, getting the idea after my first install of FreeBSD, I split the disk(s) in partitions for the winnt directory, one for documents and settings, one for pagefile/temp, one for program files, and one for data with the help of some registry hacking. I use the same setup now for installing terminal servers at work and it saved one from total crash after the documents partition maxed out with user profiles. So your way doesn't sound that extreme to me. *lol* I still need to create images of the various partitions though...