Why hello troll, I guess you didn't happen to notice that this is an article *about* Mandrake, now did you?
Mandrake is a perfectly decent distro, that is in no way lacking in capabilities compared to others. Just because it actually is *usable* by people who don't feel like hand-configuring doesn't impair it.
On my 750 MHz Athlon even just dragging the window is laggy. A lot of people are experiencing problems like this. Like I said, Winamp3 is more responsive. I've used iTunes for Mac, and while I'm not a fan of the general interface, it works a *lot* better than on the PC.
The fact that it's impossible to maximize the window is another major annoyance, and a stupid one to even exist.
I also am one of those people who would love nothing better than for brushed metal to be made a crime punishable by death. I'll admit this is just a matter of preference, but if you're going to have a non-default UI, at least have the decency to allow it to be skinned to the user's choice.
*mumbles something about the existence of the ? key*
They don't care about how the desktop looks? Then why'd they take the time to develop Galaxy so users don't have to suffer Keramik in KDE, and so that QT and GTK apps look similar, and look good?
Seriously, Galaxy is one of the nicest default UIs I've seen on an OS.
Of course, I've moved to SuSE because I like the KDE focus, but Mandrake is still quite nice.
And a helluva lot better than crappy ports of Apple software. If I were interested in the iTunes store, I might keep the program, but being slow as shit, insisting on a Mac interface on the PC, and installing and activating the iPod system service without asking me are too many marks against it.
TBE *will* install to your profile. However, installing to your profile when you already have a global copy installed can cause problems, so TBE doesn't give you that option. Uninstall it (it can keep your settings for you) and upon reinstallation, you'll see the option.
Chatzilla is already an extention for FB, and Composer+ has been a standalone project for a couple of months now. Personally I think Chatzilla should go standalone as well. Anyway, Mozilla will remain complete after the big switch.
Never mind that banks and other major websites *are* responding and are getting their act together. As more people start moving to Firebird, this will only increase.
Are you by any chance using Opera 6? (AKA the "slow startup time significantly from O5 without adding anything particularly useful" release) 7 was the first Opera to have anything resembling decent CSS rendering, and it shows up perfectly in 7.
Well, almost perfectly. All the links are bizarrely outlined in red on hover, for some reason. O.o At any rate, Opera shows the "local links" just fine.
Would you mind pointing these links out to me? If you're referring to the links in the sidebar (since all the other links are the traditional underlined variety) you ought to try the page in a real web browser -- you'd be able to use your magical powers of reading then, and see that those links are in a box labeled "local links."
Heck, IE even inadvertently sets apart the links through its misrendering, as it puts "Also," the only word in that section that isn't part of a link, in black instead of the white it's supposed to be.
You may be fine in all that you use the web for (that you know of) but everybody else who uses the web for anything more needs a better product than IE.
I know it's not a safe way to live, and I think that if my computer were destroyed right now I'd shrug and say "meh." And then build another one.
Maybe others feel the same?
I think others don't have the time and money to do this whenever their system gets FUBAR. There's also the issue of personal files that they may not have backed up.
Of course, for businesses, this way of thinking is even more ridiculous.
Does ANY of the other browers somehow render web pages better or worse?
Umm... how about all the other browsers out there? Seriously, have you never tried to look at a proper CSS2 page in IE? (e.g. the W3 CSS page, which isn't complex CSS at all) IE's pathetic rendering is the bane of good web designers everywhere who are forced to use ridiculous hacks so IE will display their valid content at all.
Oh XYZ is unsafe. Well you feel that way turn it off.
Even if you *could* make IE 100% safe by disabling XYZ, quite probably reducing your browser's capabilities in the process, that's not enough. IE is a horrible product by virtue of the fact that the default settings leave you at the mercy of script kiddies everywhere. If there's no way to make ActiveX et. al. more secure, they should be OFF by default.
IE is very customizable.
Hooray, I can... move the toolbar! And I can change the buttons! And I can... move it again! I'm going to switch to IE forever now!
You can get 1.3.x for Win32 though it's a bit of work to get it to run. The instructions there aren't 100% complete, meaning you'll have to hunt for a few DLLs. A few of them are just in the lib directory, while a few more are in Expat.
It's better than before, but still not great.
Re:troll, not a real graphic designer
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GIMP goes SVG
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The current stable version of GIMP is ugly, ugly GTK1, using ugly fonts. 1.3.x looks better with GTK2, but the 763242 different windows approach still really isn't intuitive.
And who forgot to tell me when professions started wanting features, too? I guess they didn't want the professionals to have all the fun.
Re:troll, not a real graphic designer
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GIMP goes SVG
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Because, you know, there are no *other* types of grapic designers out there.
It's still amazing to me that Apple hasn't ported OS-X to x86 platforms. The operating system could be ported quite easily, and they'd be going toe-to-toe with Microsoft for the entire PC installed OS market.
Oh ya, but that's right. Jobs wants to "think different". Wonder what the shareholders think about that.
You've overlooked the problem they'd have with hardware support -- they'd have to start from scratch and getting any decent amount of hardware support would take time. Unless they decided to be Nazis about what hardware you can use on x86 platforms as well, but this would take away one of the major reasons to use x86.
I wouldn't be surprised if these new BIOSes were designed for Longhorn, with a lesser degree of backward compatability than would normally be expected.
Still, I don't doubt that whatever they come up with will eventually be cracked.
When did I say Dean's were public? No, they're not, and I don't agree with him doing that. However, my point was that trying to pass off Bush as open and honest just doesn't work. He tried his damndest to keep the papers away from the public in spite of the law (whereas Dean is going against no law, though that still doesn't make it ok) and is trying his damndest now to keep his and even other past presidents' records hidden for as long as possible.
The price is a bit of a turnoff, but it may be worth it. A good ogg player is just what I was waiting for to get started on phasing out mp3s in my collection.
There is one thing I wonder about though: what type of control is there for scrolling through playlists, as opposed to going a track at a time? The Zen has it's thumbwheel, the iPod has the doughnut thing, but I can't find anything along those lines on any pictures of the iRiver that I've seen. I'm hoping it's just the angle of the pictures.
The Auto Insert Notification isn't the same as Autorun. Autorun isn't even entirely dependent on Insert Notification. Insert Notification essentially means Windows mounts the CD drive as soon as you insert a disc and close the drive. Autorun means that specified commands are run upon mounting of the CD.
What about teenagers like me who try their friend's pair of Sennheisers and that very day go and buy their own? Sadly, most teens do seem to prefer the crappy wraparound atrocities disguised as headphones.
Still, I have a lot of 128kbps mp3s because it'd be too much work for me to go out and replace them. If I were going to do that, I'd probably end up going for ogg anyway. The main thing that keeps me from starting on that right now is that there's little to no support for them on portable devices, and the metadata editor in XMMS blows.
The difference is that in one case, the OS isn't providing the ability at all, and in the other case it's an individual program that doesn't use the ability. You can't blame Windows if Adobe doesn't want to use the clipboard, but you can blame Linux for not having as functional a clipboard.
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Why hello troll, I guess you didn't happen to notice that this is an article *about* Mandrake, now did you?
Mandrake is a perfectly decent distro, that is in no way lacking in capabilities compared to others. Just because it actually is *usable* by people who don't feel like hand-configuring doesn't impair it.
On my 750 MHz Athlon even just dragging the window is laggy. A lot of people are experiencing problems like this. Like I said, Winamp3 is more responsive. I've used iTunes for Mac, and while I'm not a fan of the general interface, it works a *lot* better than on the PC.
The fact that it's impossible to maximize the window is another major annoyance, and a stupid one to even exist.
I also am one of those people who would love nothing better than for brushed metal to be made a crime punishable by death. I'll admit this is just a matter of preference, but if you're going to have a non-default UI, at least have the decency to allow it to be skinned to the user's choice.
*mumbles something about the existence of the ? key*
They don't care about how the desktop looks? Then why'd they take the time to develop Galaxy so users don't have to suffer Keramik in KDE, and so that QT and GTK apps look similar, and look good?
Seriously, Galaxy is one of the nicest default UIs I've seen on an OS.
Of course, I've moved to SuSE because I like the KDE focus, but Mandrake is still quite nice.
Not a leak -- it's officially released.
And a helluva lot better than crappy ports of Apple software. If I were interested in the iTunes store, I might keep the program, but being slow as shit, insisting on a Mac interface on the PC, and installing and activating the iPod system service without asking me are too many marks against it.
TBE *will* install to your profile. However, installing to your profile when you already have a global copy installed can cause problems, so TBE doesn't give you that option. Uninstall it (it can keep your settings for you) and upon reinstallation, you'll see the option.
Chatzilla is already an extention for FB, and Composer+ has been a standalone project for a couple of months now. Personally I think Chatzilla should go standalone as well. Anyway, Mozilla will remain complete after the big switch.
Never mind that banks and other major websites *are* responding and are getting their act together. As more people start moving to Firebird, this will only increase.
Are you by any chance using Opera 6? (AKA the "slow startup time significantly from O5 without adding anything particularly useful" release) 7 was the first Opera to have anything resembling decent CSS rendering, and it shows up perfectly in 7.
Well, almost perfectly. All the links are bizarrely outlined in red on hover, for some reason. O.o At any rate, Opera shows the "local links" just fine.
Would you mind pointing these links out to me? If you're referring to the links in the sidebar (since all the other links are the traditional underlined variety) you ought to try the page in a real web browser -- you'd be able to use your magical powers of reading then, and see that those links are in a box labeled "local links."
Heck, IE even inadvertently sets apart the links through its misrendering, as it puts "Also," the only word in that section that isn't part of a link, in black instead of the white it's supposed to be.
Fixing the gimp (see the gegl project
:/
I clicked the link half-hoping it would be a project to do something about the Gimp's retarded UI, but no dice.
And yes, better goatse support
Praise the Lord!
Those in the know generally agree that dictionary.com lists more non-words than any other dictionary. (Slang dictionaries excepted, of course.)
You may be fine in all that you use the web for (that you know of) but everybody else who uses the web for anything more needs a better product than IE.
I know it's not a safe way to live, and I think that if my computer were destroyed right now I'd shrug and say "meh." And then build another one.
Maybe others feel the same?
I think others don't have the time and money to do this whenever their system gets FUBAR. There's also the issue of personal files that they may not have backed up.
Of course, for businesses, this way of thinking is even more ridiculous.
Does ANY of the other browers somehow render web pages better or worse?
Umm... how about all the other browsers out there? Seriously, have you never tried to look at a proper CSS2 page in IE? (e.g. the W3 CSS page, which isn't complex CSS at all) IE's pathetic rendering is the bane of good web designers everywhere who are forced to use ridiculous hacks so IE will display their valid content at all.
Oh XYZ is unsafe. Well you feel that way turn it off.
Even if you *could* make IE 100% safe by disabling XYZ, quite probably reducing your browser's capabilities in the process, that's not enough. IE is a horrible product by virtue of the fact that the default settings leave you at the mercy of script kiddies everywhere. If there's no way to make ActiveX et. al. more secure, they should be OFF by default.
IE is very customizable.
Hooray, I can... move the toolbar! And I can change the buttons! And I can... move it again! I'm going to switch to IE forever now!
Avant *is* IE, genius. It's just an alternate interface.
You can get 1.3.x for Win32 though it's a bit of work to get it to run. The instructions there aren't 100% complete, meaning you'll have to hunt for a few DLLs. A few of them are just in the lib directory, while a few more are in Expat.
It's better than before, but still not great.
The current stable version of GIMP is ugly, ugly GTK1, using ugly fonts. 1.3.x looks better with GTK2, but the 763242 different windows approach still really isn't intuitive.
And who forgot to tell me when professions started wanting features, too? I guess they didn't want the professionals to have all the fun.
Because, you know, there are no *other* types of grapic designers out there.
It's still amazing to me that Apple hasn't ported OS-X to x86 platforms. The operating system could be ported quite easily, and they'd be going toe-to-toe with Microsoft for the entire PC installed OS market.
Oh ya, but that's right. Jobs wants to "think different". Wonder what the shareholders think about that.
You've overlooked the problem they'd have with hardware support -- they'd have to start from scratch and getting any decent amount of hardware support would take time. Unless they decided to be Nazis about what hardware you can use on x86 platforms as well, but this would take away one of the major reasons to use x86.
I wouldn't be surprised if these new BIOSes were designed for Longhorn, with a lesser degree of backward compatability than would normally be expected.
Still, I don't doubt that whatever they come up with will eventually be cracked.
When did I say Dean's were public? No, they're not, and I don't agree with him doing that. However, my point was that trying to pass off Bush as open and honest just doesn't work. He tried his damndest to keep the papers away from the public in spite of the law (whereas Dean is going against no law, though that still doesn't make it ok) and is trying his damndest now to keep his and even other past presidents' records hidden for as long as possible.
And lo, the top Google results are all about how Bush tried to get around the Public Information Act by passing off his papers as federal property and not state. Gee golly.
The price is a bit of a turnoff, but it may be worth it. A good ogg player is just what I was waiting for to get started on phasing out mp3s in my collection.
There is one thing I wonder about though: what type of control is there for scrolling through playlists, as opposed to going a track at a time? The Zen has it's thumbwheel, the iPod has the doughnut thing, but I can't find anything along those lines on any pictures of the iRiver that I've seen. I'm hoping it's just the angle of the pictures.
The Auto Insert Notification isn't the same as Autorun. Autorun isn't even entirely dependent on Insert Notification. Insert Notification essentially means Windows mounts the CD drive as soon as you insert a disc and close the drive. Autorun means that specified commands are run upon mounting of the CD.
What about teenagers like me who try their friend's pair of Sennheisers and that very day go and buy their own? Sadly, most teens do seem to prefer the crappy wraparound atrocities disguised as headphones.
Still, I have a lot of 128kbps mp3s because it'd be too much work for me to go out and replace them. If I were going to do that, I'd probably end up going for ogg anyway. The main thing that keeps me from starting on that right now is that there's little to no support for them on portable devices, and the metadata editor in XMMS blows.
The difference is that in one case, the OS isn't providing the ability at all, and in the other case it's an individual program that doesn't use the ability. You can't blame Windows if Adobe doesn't want to use the clipboard, but you can blame Linux for not having as functional a clipboard.