I i wonder if many those who now champion linux will search for the next exclusive thing. It's already happening to some degree with the more mainstream distros of linux.
i have used firebird ever since it started, ever since its first release or even prerelease, and while it has moved on a lot over the milestones, i have been prefering the good ol' dear mozilla over firebird ever since firbired 0.5 and mozilla 1.3.
Things that put me off using firebird for the time being are lack of a a true ala mozilla sidebar with sidebar tabs, lack of those folding twisties on toolbars so i can easily access them yet reclaim my precious pixels, mozilla's fullscreen view is still better and more reliable than firebird, and this perhaps annoys me more than any; recently firebird seems to have been becoming too much of an IE!
Not to say firebird is bad, kudos to all the guys for the work they're doing, and previous i have enjoyed using firebird, it's just that recently i've appreciated mozilla even more.
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Good news for Mandrake users. (Score:2, Interesting)
by Meat Blaster (578650) on Wednesday August 27, @06:30PM (#6806950)
"It was one of the distributions I tried after deciding to move off of Slackware a couple of years ago."
why did you decide to move off of slackware, if i may ask? *pure curiosity*
you're so absolutely right; coming from a guy who once considered, albeit for only briefly, learning applescript 'cos i just had a new mac. Eventually i decided to remain/go with open source languages such as python/perl/ruby/tcl, but only 'cos my interest was scripting general mini-apps.
that said though, applescript on apple is interesting, if your intention is to keep your mac for a considerably long period for it to be worth is. I don't think the comparison with perl/python/js is a fair one 'cos applescript seemed to have a certain application, it was more like a macro language for the mac, if i remember well, which i'm almost sure it was more capable for that role for which it was made than general-purpose cross-platform OSS scripting languages. Since i didn't intend to keep that mac, it wasn't worth learning for me.
i have windows xp on a laptop and i really got so sick of crashes, it was almost once a day, that i decided to install linux on it. While trying different distributions one debian based distro fed back to me during the expert bootup that i may need to update my BIOS, so i went to the vaio link update to see if they had any BIOS updates and they had none, however they had 3 driver updates for the ps2 touchpad and sound and some other thing i forgot, altogether over 10mb in downloads. Those updates weren't actually listed on the windows update site. I installed those on the windows XP and ever since it's been rock solid, i've been very satisfied with its stability. I then remembered that, having had this machine for almost a couple of years now, that i have done this a long time ago, and as a result i had gone for many many months, i'm sure over 6, maybe 8 or 9, without a crash bringing down the OS. Perhaps till i suddenly decided to format the HD, i think i was testing redhat/mandrake 8 or something, and forgot about those drivers updates.
Maybe you need to get some driver updates from device manufacturers as in my experience, although good, windows update is not so comprehensive, and also, from my experience above, if it crashes too often it's a sign something is wrong rather than it being inherently a problem with the OS. Windows XP can actually be very very stable if this stuff is sorted out, which is something you could easily do.
According to the legendary aeronautical designer, Burt Rutan, the shuttle is a very expensive and very dangerous vehicle.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.07/space.htm l
Ironically, I introduced my senior at work, who is more than twice my age and approaching retirement, to PDAs and he reintroduced me to video games. After less than six months working together he bought a handheld and i bought a PS2.
Erik Erikson, the Einstein of psychosocial stuff, had a book with the title of "Play". In that book he mentions a follow-up to a study of some children, whom when interviewed decades later were found that those of them who managed to retain a playful attitude to the world had the most satisfying lives.
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I'd totally agree with you. During the Clinton years the US was a very admirable nation. It actually still is, had it not been for Dubya and Fox News.
I i wonder if many those who now champion linux will search for the next exclusive thing. It's already happening to some degree with the more mainstream distros of linux.
i have used firebird ever since it started, ever since its first release or even prerelease, and while it has moved on a lot over the milestones, i have been prefering the good ol' dear mozilla over firebird ever since firbired 0.5 and mozilla 1.3. Things that put me off using firebird for the time being are lack of a a true ala mozilla sidebar with sidebar tabs, lack of those folding twisties on toolbars so i can easily access them yet reclaim my precious pixels, mozilla's fullscreen view is still better and more reliable than firebird, and this perhaps annoys me more than any; recently firebird seems to have been becoming too much of an IE! Not to say firebird is bad, kudos to all the guys for the work they're doing, and previous i have enjoyed using firebird, it's just that recently i've appreciated mozilla even more.
Good news for Mandrake users. (Score:2, Interesting) by Meat Blaster (578650) on Wednesday August 27, @06:30PM (#6806950) "It was one of the distributions I tried after deciding to move off of Slackware a couple of years ago." why did you decide to move off of slackware, if i may ask? *pure curiosity*
about this version 2.0 of openoffice.org; does anyone have a link to some information? i'm really curious about what's being planned
you're so absolutely right; coming from a guy who once considered, albeit for only briefly, learning applescript 'cos i just had a new mac. Eventually i decided to remain/go with open source languages such as python/perl/ruby/tcl, but only 'cos my interest was scripting general mini-apps. that said though, applescript on apple is interesting, if your intention is to keep your mac for a considerably long period for it to be worth is. I don't think the comparison with perl/python/js is a fair one 'cos applescript seemed to have a certain application, it was more like a macro language for the mac, if i remember well, which i'm almost sure it was more capable for that role for which it was made than general-purpose cross-platform OSS scripting languages. Since i didn't intend to keep that mac, it wasn't worth learning for me.
i have windows xp on a laptop and i really got so sick of crashes, it was almost once a day, that i decided to install linux on it. While trying different distributions one debian based distro fed back to me during the expert bootup that i may need to update my BIOS, so i went to the vaio link update to see if they had any BIOS updates and they had none, however they had 3 driver updates for the ps2 touchpad and sound and some other thing i forgot, altogether over 10mb in downloads. Those updates weren't actually listed on the windows update site. I installed those on the windows XP and ever since it's been rock solid, i've been very satisfied with its stability. I then remembered that, having had this machine for almost a couple of years now, that i have done this a long time ago, and as a result i had gone for many many months, i'm sure over 6, maybe 8 or 9, without a crash bringing down the OS. Perhaps till i suddenly decided to format the HD, i think i was testing redhat/mandrake 8 or something, and forgot about those drivers updates. Maybe you need to get some driver updates from device manufacturers as in my experience, although good, windows update is not so comprehensive, and also, from my experience above, if it crashes too often it's a sign something is wrong rather than it being inherently a problem with the OS. Windows XP can actually be very very stable if this stuff is sorted out, which is something you could easily do.
According to the legendary aeronautical designer, Burt Rutan, the shuttle is a very expensive and very dangerous vehicle. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.07/space.htm l
i should clarify... the most successful and satisfying lives.
Ironically, I introduced my senior at work, who is more than twice my age and approaching retirement, to PDAs and he reintroduced me to video games. After less than six months working together he bought a handheld and i bought a PS2. Erik Erikson, the Einstein of psychosocial stuff, had a book with the title of "Play". In that book he mentions a follow-up to a study of some children, whom when interviewed decades later were found that those of them who managed to retain a playful attitude to the world had the most satisfying lives.