I'm concerned why they're so impressed with these improvements as to trumpet them on their homepage as real improvements.
Our brakes don't short out any more!
No more cheap plastic washers!
Brake lines that don't pop when you press the pedal!
No more sharp metal edges pointed directly at your heart!
Of course a commuter car would have these things. The kinds of upgrades consumers care about are 50% more range, shorter charging time, heated seats, etc. The safety of your braking system is kinda a given.
Along those lines, this is probably the tip of the iceberg for future Linux vulnerabilities. Mozilla requires that you install.jar and.xpi code from untrusted sources to add simple things like themes. RPMs and other binaries are rarely signed in an easily-confirmable way. Who doesn't download RPMs for their distro from a 3rd-party site? Who checks every line of code before compiling?
I feel that Quake is the first truly modern FPS. Sure, it would run like shite on older hardware, but if you had the hardware it was amazing. (To say nothing of later GLQuake.) Going back to Doom after playing Quake made me realize just how much I longed for true 3D in a game. Doom just seemed so cheap after it, with the three-frame death animations, the sprites that always face you, the bright pixely colors.
Last I checked, moving a mouse and applying single and double clicks on a variety of mouse buttons is a 'manual' process. The computer does not perform these actions for you.
Am I missing something critical about Mozilla's handling of multiple instances? It displays the profile prompt if the program is launched again. The other annoyance is Thunderbird/Firefox interaction. Unless I'm wrong, a custom script is required to have Thunderbird launch URLs in a new Firefox tab. Any suggestions?
My users have experienced almost no downtime in productivity apps (even with advanced Excel macros) and excellent uptime with Win2k3 servers running.NET apps on IIS/SQL. I've integrated with open source servers, and the only downtime has been the result of misconfiguration on the Linux/Apache end. Four nines on Windows, much less on Linux. All of that said, I'm posting this from a Linux box...I love it. But to totally write off Windows because it's closed-source and has a $500 license is closed-minded. Lower end administrators means the average small-to-mid-size office can afford an admin, instead of farming it out to a $125k/yr. Linux geek.
My apologies to everyone whose blood pressure is rising after reading my comment. I misread the writeup as 'Google is considering Atom and RSS.' I regret the inconvenience.
You mean Atom, the sorta-standard that a recently acquired company uses? If they adopt it they'll be creating the standard. In that case, Google's taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook.
I recently upgraded from SuSE 9.0 to 9.1 which includes the 2.6.4 kernel. Much faster (finally equivalent in medium use filesystem performance to XP), fixed multimedia keyboard support, and better USB compatibility. That said, my external DVD burner still won't work after the upgrade despite being on the approved HW list, and getting the damn thumb button on my mouse working requires the installation of two packages and three manual config file changes.
Despite this, I've been WinXP-free for my first month (thanks to UT2004 and America's Army being on Linux.)
Why fly when you can drive and sail? Because it's faster and more efficient. Why carry around a cameraphone when you can easily carry a brick phone and your Nikon 35mm? Because it's smaller and more efficient.
It's a political commentary. I distinctly remember Moore ham-fistedly crossing this line when walked to a tree outside Heston's house with his shoulders slumped, and solemnly set up the little girl's picture. And so soon after the heavily-edited ambush interview. What a hack.
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Our brakes don't short out any more!
No more cheap plastic washers!
Brake lines that don't pop when you press the pedal!
No more sharp metal edges pointed directly at your heart!
Of course a commuter car would have these things. The kinds of upgrades consumers care about are 50% more range, shorter charging time, heated seats, etc. The safety of your braking system is kinda a given.
What benefits would Slackware have over SUSE other than X.org? SUSE has the 2.6 kernel.
Along those lines, this is probably the tip of the iceberg for future Linux vulnerabilities. Mozilla requires that you install .jar and .xpi code from untrusted sources to add simple things like themes. RPMs and other binaries are rarely signed in an easily-confirmable way. Who doesn't download RPMs for their distro from a 3rd-party site? Who checks every line of code before compiling?
I feel that Quake is the first truly modern FPS. Sure, it would run like shite on older hardware, but if you had the hardware it was amazing. (To say nothing of later GLQuake.) Going back to Doom after playing Quake made me realize just how much I longed for true 3D in a game. Doom just seemed so cheap after it, with the three-frame death animations, the sprites that always face you, the bright pixely colors.
Is two minutes really that big a deal?
Here's a very good link for both this and mailto: links in Firefox. I agree that this is a MAJOR design flaw in Firefox and Thunderbird.
I prefer AvantBrowser when IE is necessary.
The ideas of the Director of MIT's Media Laboratory somehow have a little more credibility than millions of Anonymous Cowards.
Last I checked, moving a mouse and applying single and double clicks on a variety of mouse buttons is a 'manual' process. The computer does not perform these actions for you.
Found a better one if you're interested. Thanks for the response, tho.
4 actions instead of one.
Am I missing something critical about Mozilla's handling of multiple instances? It displays the profile prompt if the program is launched again. The other annoyance is Thunderbird/Firefox interaction. Unless I'm wrong, a custom script is required to have Thunderbird launch URLs in a new Firefox tab. Any suggestions?
My users have experienced almost no downtime in productivity apps (even with advanced Excel macros) and excellent uptime with Win2k3 servers running .NET apps on IIS/SQL. I've integrated with open source servers, and the only downtime has been the result of misconfiguration on the Linux/Apache end. Four nines on Windows, much less on Linux. All of that said, I'm posting this from a Linux box...I love it. But to totally write off Windows because it's closed-source and has a $500 license is closed-minded. Lower end administrators means the average small-to-mid-size office can afford an admin, instead of farming it out to a $125k/yr. Linux geek.
It is entirely wrong. My experience was that of a once-nightly dialup to corporate accounting after everything had been gone over on the local system.
Which is to say that they get paid a hell of a lot more.
My apologies to everyone whose blood pressure is rising after reading my comment. I misread the writeup as 'Google is considering Atom and RSS.' I regret the inconvenience.
You mean Atom, the sorta-standard that a recently acquired company uses? If they adopt it they'll be creating the standard. In that case, Google's taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook.
No, it pulls up the browser's home page and no tabs. At least it's Ctrl+N though, and not Ctrl+M like it is in Thunderbird for a new message.
Despite this, I've been WinXP-free for my first month (thanks to UT2004 and America's Army being on Linux.)
So when you finally _do_ get the money and buy the rack of your dreams, you can fulfill your dead relatives' wishes - the top SETI team.
Why fly when you can drive and sail? Because it's faster and more efficient. Why carry around a cameraphone when you can easily carry a brick phone and your Nikon 35mm? Because it's smaller and more efficient.
I have a linux e-penis, and I've noticed that the stability during prolonged uptime is comparable to WinXP.
It's a political commentary. I distinctly remember Moore ham-fistedly crossing this line when walked to a tree outside Heston's house with his shoulders slumped, and solemnly set up the little girl's picture. And so soon after the heavily-edited ambush interview. What a hack.
This was made before he realized that you can't make a living as a cult filmmaker.
Surely the dreamers behind the GPL thought to include a non-Microsoft clause?