Based on these results, GnomeICU and Gaim use the ISO 8859-1 Latin 1 character set. The European languages that use these character sets work fine. Languages such as Polish that use ISO 8859-2 Latin 2 only mostly work, and languages that use other character sets really don't at all.
I found no way to change your character set in either of these programs, although they may use your system's default character set.
Mozilla has no problem displaying any glyphs from these character sets on my computer. It would be nice if other Linux programs got to that point too. (I tested this by copying text from the World categories of the open directory project.)
I regularly use gaim and GnomeICU. They are AIM and ICQ clones respectivly. From my experience, they are just as good as the Windows clients. Better in some respects: they take much less memory, don't have ads, and have applets that run in my task bar.
I'm an English speaker, but I just opened a window in each and sent a friend a message copied and pasted from a Spanish website. The messages went through just fine with accented characters and all.
More and more people seem to be getting this one wrong. It isn't even hard to remember, if you think about it.
loose - rhymes with moose and goose. "I set the dog loose to run in the woods."
lose - present tense of lost. Related to loss. Those words only have one 'o', so "lose" has only one as well. "We need to get another goal, I don't want to lose."
Themes. This browser has yellow buttons that look pretty good but a bit bright. You can go in the prefs and rearrange the buttons with drag and drop or choose small icons.
Fine grained cookie management. No more "alert me" and "remember this decision".
Site Navigation Bar
Still there:
Ability to block popups without disabling javascript. (by default, no option not to)
Bookmarks and bookmarks manager
History
Javascript Conole
Download Manager
Search plugins
Tabbed browsing
Cache
Most of the stuff that is gone but planned just has a broken UI. You can set the prefs if you want to edit your javascript config files or copy the config files from your mozilla directory. Exceptions are the sidebar and the site navigation bar which need to be written. This information comes from my 5 minute review of the browser that I posted last time and the followup comments to it. (My apologies to Asa for getting a few of the details wrong in my first review)
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They cut out a lot of the Mozilla's best features to make a smaller browser. There is a note in the prefs under advanced saying "your favorite features will be here soon".
Gone:
Themes. This browser has yellow buttons that look pretty good but a bit bright. You can go in the prefs and rearrange the buttons with drag and drop or choose small icons.
Ability to block popups without disabling javascript.
Fine grained cookie management. No more "alert me" and "remember this decision".
Sidebar
Chatzilla, Mail, Composer
Site Navigation Bar
Still there:
Bookmarks and bookmarks manager
History
Javascript Conole
Download Manager
Search plugins
Tabbed browsing
Cache
Since my computer is fast enough and has enough memory to run Mozilla, I don't notice that Phoenix loads faster. An older computer with less memory would probably be a better test. Since my favorite privacy features are missing, I have no intention of switching, but if it runs faster on older computers I would recommend it for that. (Please try it on something slow and report.) It might also be appropriate for somebody who wants "just a browser" because of the lack of other applications. The lack of these applications seems to only save a couple megs of download, again I'll take the full featured Mozilla.
It's been free for some time now. I downloaded it and read it about a year and a half ago.
The first chapter is great. It gives a general overview of how cryptograhy works and how it can be defeated. It is somewhat technical, but it doesn't use formulas so it reads easily. If you don't know why security certificates on web sites need to be signed, or why accepting an unsigned certificate could be bad, I would highly recommend reading it. It also shows how different cryptography methods work in general and gives the stengths and weaknesses of each.
Beyond the first chapter things get a little bit hairy. I have a degree in computer science with a minor in mathematics and much of the math is over my head, or at the very least required several reads. If you are implementing cryptography algorithms I'm sure it is a must read, but for somebody, like me, who is more interested in applications of cryptography, I'd recommend skipping.
1 terabyte = 1024 gigabytes so you need 50,000 GB.
From an earlier slashdot story, you can get 300GB hard drives for around $1 a GB. So you are looking at spending $50,000 on hard drives. Figure 4 IDE drives per computer and you need about 50 computers. That would run you maybe $15,000 at around $300 per computer.
I'd say it would need 10 employees to set it up including a couple programmers, a couple sysadmins, and some techs, would probably cost you $200,000 if it took them four months.
I'd say you could do it for less than half a million. Throw in $150,000 a year for facilities and maintence and you have no worries.
Google does something like this. They have tons of cheap computers with cheap hard drives.
I fixed it so it works with IE. If you are interested:
Internet Explorer does not support [^] to mean any character at all in regular expressions, it gives a parse error. I had to replace that with (?:[a]|[^a]). (Note I don't want to use . as that does not include new lines.)
Internet explorer does not support spaces in the name of a window. I had been appending the date the the name of the window for the popup to give a new window each time (I want multiple calculators). Since a date contains spaces, it failed. I had to take the spaces out of the date.
Microsoft: fix these bugs! Since you (Microsoft) don't have a public bug database like Bugzilla, I'm reporting them here.
I don't know any physical calulators. I prefer a good software calculator that allows copy and paste.
I couldn't find one that did everything I wanted (mostly hex and binary in a sane fashion) so I wrote one. Its written in JavaScript, so it runs in your web browser (I always have mine open anyway). It has a bookmarklet so you can open it in a window that is sized nicely. It makes my life a lot easier.
I like that way of doing it in some instances, but usually it isn't what I want. I would expect it to behave like alt-tab on windows where ctrl-pgdn (soon to be ctrl-tab, btw) or closing a window goes back to the tab you used most recently.
Three years ago, as I left college, I interviewed with about sixty companies. Most asked some programming questions, and some kind of riddle. You know the kind of stuff:
If you have a cabbage, a goat, and a wolf, how do you get all three accross the river without the wolf eating the goat, or the goat eating the cabbage given that your boat can only carry you and one other item.
(You of course have to take the goat, come back for the cabbage, take the goat back, bring the wolf, then retrieve the goat one more time.)
I don't know if these actually show anything, but they were popular, I probably got asked 30 distinct riddles.
For programming questions I tend to ask high stress problem. Such a problem has a simple solution, but it is non-obvious, and puts people in a time crunch. One such problem I would use is find a regular expression that you can put into the search box of your text editor to find the first c-style comment (no "\/\*[^]*\*\/", and "\/\*.*\*\/" don't work, although they are the most common first answers). Things that I've run across that were harder than I thought they would be or have elegant solutions that I didn't think of right away. I have several from my college classes where the professor presented something and the whole class gasped, and said, "Why didn't I think of that?".
I don't know what is out there, but if I were picking a tool, I would make sure that it measures real world cases. This means that you should be able to give it your server log for a week (make sure you log post data and cookies) and the tool would test your server just like it is actually used. It would also be able to test for increased traffic by combining several weeks at a time (Like all the visitors that came on 4 Wednesdays came on one day).
I would also think that it would have to be distributed (at least across several computers) to ensure that bandwidth and cpu/memory of the testing computer are not the limiting factors.
How hard can it be to write something like that? The hardest part would probably be parsing the log files. I would not be suprised if there are several testing tools that would do an adequate job.
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Televesion isn't the problem, its the stuff on it. They should just make WWF, and other Hollywood crap illegal.
You can't do that for this service. Your *friends* give them your email address. I'd like to find out which of my "friends" gave my personal email address to crushlink.com (a similar service) and beat them. However it looks like the only way I can find out is by entering the email addresses of all my friends so they all get spammed.
The reviewer puts a lot of weight on IE's "professional polish". This seems to boil down to the fact that IE uses colors, sizes, and fonts specified in the Windows control panel. The reviewer says that IE's arrangement is more flexible. Since I can change the skin on Mozilla, I'd say that Mozilla is more flexible, and I can get it to look the way I want mare easily, (including getting a skin to make it look like a windows program).
I feel that IE has little polish and I am constantly reminded of it every time I use the product. Most annoying is that I use a dvorak keyboard but my default layout on my computer is qwerty because other people use the computer. Every time you open a new window or dialog, IE uses the default keyboard layout. I have to switch layouts for every little popup including pressing ctrl-f for find on page. The other major annoyance is IE's new page logic. I can't for the life of me figure out why they put the same page you are looking at in the new window. I set my homepage to about:blank and new windows should be blank. The only reason I can see for opening a new window would be to get away from what you were doing and go somewhere else. IE gives you exactly what you were doing. This is very annoying for slow loading pages. It has also caused me to submit numerous forms more than once.
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- Arabic - Lots of question marks.
- Chinese Simplified - Lots of question marks.
- Chinese Traditional - Lots of question marks.
- German - Works!
- French - Works!
- Hebrew - Lots of question marks.
- Japanese - Lots of question marks.
- Polish - Mostly works, some question marks.
- Spanish - Works!
- Italian - Works!
Based on these results, GnomeICU and Gaim use the ISO 8859-1 Latin 1 character set. The European languages that use these character sets work fine. Languages such as Polish that use ISO 8859-2 Latin 2 only mostly work, and languages that use other character sets really don't at all.I found no way to change your character set in either of these programs, although they may use your system's default character set.
Mozilla has no problem displaying any glyphs from these character sets on my computer. It would be nice if other Linux programs got to that point too. (I tested this by copying text from the World categories of the open directory project.)
I'm an English speaker, but I just opened a window in each and sent a friend a message copied and pasted from a Spanish website. The messages went through just fine with accented characters and all.
But what about in the sentence:
"The mime's opinion was a mute point."
The solutions for syncing to a palm pilot are much better on linux. Sell your current PDA and get one that is easier to support.
Gone but planned:
Still there:
Most of the stuff that is gone but planned just has a broken UI. You can set the prefs if you want to edit your javascript config files or copy the config files from your mozilla directory. Exceptions are the sidebar and the site navigation bar which need to be written. This information comes from my 5 minute review of the browser that I posted last time and the followup comments to it. (My apologies to Asa for getting a few of the details wrong in my first review)
I'm going to dress up as a pirate. I'll have a steering wheel mounted on my crotch.
If anybody asks I'll say, "Arrghhh... Its driving me nuts!".
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Can't decide where to apply?
Gone:
Still there:
Since my computer is fast enough and has enough memory to run Mozilla, I don't notice that Phoenix loads faster. An older computer with less memory would probably be a better test. Since my favorite privacy features are missing, I have no intention of switching, but if it runs faster on older computers I would recommend it for that. (Please try it on something slow and report.) It might also be appropriate for somebody who wants "just a browser" because of the lack of other applications. The lack of these applications seems to only save a couple megs of download, again I'll take the full featured Mozilla.
- The worst offender was the time that it takes to change channels. Digital takes almost half a second where my analog is almost instantaneous.
- The picture quality wasn't improved. In fact, I noticed significant mpeg like artifacts especially right after you changed the channel.
- The programming was almost the same. I never used any of the extra channels I got.
- I needed a cable box, but the analog plugs directly into my tv and tivo.
With digital, channel surfing was nearly impossible because of the channel change lag, and that was my biggest reason for switching back to analog.The first chapter is great. It gives a general overview of how cryptograhy works and how it can be defeated. It is somewhat technical, but it doesn't use formulas so it reads easily. If you don't know why security certificates on web sites need to be signed, or why accepting an unsigned certificate could be bad, I would highly recommend reading it. It also shows how different cryptography methods work in general and gives the stengths and weaknesses of each.
Beyond the first chapter things get a little bit hairy. I have a degree in computer science with a minor in mathematics and much of the math is over my head, or at the very least required several reads. If you are implementing cryptography algorithms I'm sure it is a must read, but for somebody, like me, who is more interested in applications of cryptography, I'd recommend skipping.
From an earlier slashdot story, you can get 300GB hard drives for around $1 a GB. So you are looking at spending $50,000 on hard drives. Figure 4 IDE drives per computer and you need about 50 computers. That would run you maybe $15,000 at around $300 per computer.
I'd say it would need 10 employees to set it up including a couple programmers, a couple sysadmins, and some techs, would probably cost you $200,000 if it took them four months.
I'd say you could do it for less than half a million. Throw in $150,000 a year for facilities and maintence and you have no worries.
Google does something like this. They have tons of cheap computers with cheap hard drives.
- Internet Explorer does not support [^] to mean any character at all in regular expressions, it gives a parse error. I had to replace that with (?:[a]|[^a]). (Note I don't want to use . as that does not include new lines.)
- Internet explorer does not support spaces in the name of a window. I had been appending the date the the name of the window for the popup to give a new window each time (I want multiple calculators). Since a date contains spaces, it failed. I had to take the spaces out of the date.
Microsoft: fix these bugs! Since you (Microsoft) don't have a public bug database like Bugzilla, I'm reporting them here.Internet Explorer has severe problems with it right now. Use Mozilla. (It used to work in IE, I hadn't tested it for a while though.)
I couldn't find one that did everything I wanted (mostly hex and binary in a sane fashion) so I wrote one. Its written in JavaScript, so it runs in your web browser (I always have mine open anyway). It has a bookmarklet so you can open it in a window that is sized nicely. It makes my life a lot easier.
Is the robot photographer gay?
C3P0 is such a drama queen.
There is only one simple reason that I don't have a broadband connection, oh wait, I do have a broadband connection!
I hope that if they put that much effort into it, it can act as man-in-the-middle for all your ssh traffic.
I like that way of doing it in some instances, but usually it isn't what I want. I would expect it to behave like alt-tab on windows where ctrl-pgdn (soon to be ctrl-tab, btw) or closing a window goes back to the tab you used most recently.
For programming questions I tend to ask high stress problem. Such a problem has a simple solution, but it is non-obvious, and puts people in a time crunch. One such problem I would use is find a regular expression that you can put into the search box of your text editor to find the first c-style comment (no "\/\*[^]*\*\/", and "\/\*.*\*\/" don't work, although they are the most common first answers). Things that I've run across that were harder than I thought they would be or have elegant solutions that I didn't think of right away. I have several from my college classes where the professor presented something and the whole class gasped, and said, "Why didn't I think of that?".
I would also think that it would have to be distributed (at least across several computers) to ensure that bandwidth and cpu/memory of the testing computer are not the limiting factors.
How hard can it be to write something like that? The hardest part would probably be parsing the log files. I would not be suprised if there are several testing tools that would do an adequate job.
Televesion isn't the problem, its the stuff on it. They should just make WWF, and other Hollywood crap illegal.
You can't do that for this service. Your *friends* give them your email address. I'd like to find out which of my "friends" gave my personal email address to crushlink.com (a similar service) and beat them. However it looks like the only way I can find out is by entering the email addresses of all my friends so they all get spammed.
I feel that IE has little polish and I am constantly reminded of it every time I use the product. Most annoying is that I use a dvorak keyboard but my default layout on my computer is qwerty because other people use the computer. Every time you open a new window or dialog, IE uses the default keyboard layout. I have to switch layouts for every little popup including pressing ctrl-f for find on page. The other major annoyance is IE's new page logic. I can't for the life of me figure out why they put the same page you are looking at in the new window. I set my homepage to about:blank and new windows should be blank. The only reason I can see for opening a new window would be to get away from what you were doing and go somewhere else. IE gives you exactly what you were doing. This is very annoying for slow loading pages. It has also caused me to submit numerous forms more than once.