If you want the FF2 style address bar go to about:config and change browser.urlbar to browser.urlbar.matchOnlytyped then restart Firefox
If you want the address bar to not match anything then go to browser.urlbar.matchBehavior, change the value in the popup to 0, and click OK Then Double-click browser.urlbar.maxRichResults change the value in the popup to 0, and click OK then restart Firefox.
There are hundreds of millions of non-meaningful urls and it gets harder every day to register a meaningful one. Turn the awesomebar off if you just don't get it but understand that it does prevent other people from having to keep dozens (hundreds?) of bookmarks or remember urls like clicktoshipitblalablablablablbl.com if they don't have to.
For me Firefox is now bookmarking every site I visit
That's the problem. The awesome bar conflates two different and important functions, the address bar and bookmarks. If they had provided a smart bookmarks feature instead of ruining the address bar, no one would be complaining.
Fair enough. You used bookmarks and so the awesomebar does not work for you. I have 5 bookmarks on my bookmark toolbar. I stopped manually keeping any more bookmarks than will fit on my toolbar because as soon as I have to keep a list of nested bookmarks I am unable to easily access most of them.
I started using del.icio.us a few years ago so that I would be able to manage my bookmarks better. Now I have 800+ bookmarks and can't really remember any of them without reviewing the tags I've applied over the years so del.icio.us is useless for day to day browsing as well.
The awesomebar has been a godsend for day to day browsing and allows me to not have to keep track of bookmarks and, more importantly, prevents me from having to repeatedly organize these bookmarks.
My kid has a myspace page and I hate myspace and am completely unable to navigate it. I do, however, make a point of checking up on his page from time to time but since I'd given up bookmarks the only way to do this using FF2 was to go to myspace.com and then search for his username (the search feature on myspace sucks btw and I often wasted time trying to find his page again). Now all I have to do is type his username in the address bar. This is extremely convenient and from what I've observed of other people as they surf the web much more intuitive than bookmarks.
I don't know why you are being presented maps.google.com when you enter an "s". Personally I love this feature. Now if I want to go to the University of Houston's website I can start typing "Houston" rather than remember something conter-intuitive like https://www.ed2go.com/ (which is the UofH homepage)
For me Firefox is now bookmarking every site I visit and allowing me to search for these sites by keywords in the url or title of the webpage. This is much more useful than manually keeping a list of bookmarks that become useless as soon as there are too many to view without scrolling.
But he definitely overstates Microsoft's success on the mobile platform. Microsoft, is at best, a bit player on the global stage with Symbian currently dominating. Yes - you are correct. My point, which has more to do with slashdot than Windows C, I suppose, is that execs overstate and bluster all the time, but it's only when a Microsoftian does this that people get all up in arms. So I guess you did not read the slashdot article posted two days ago in which Symbian blasts Android? http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/07/142247 I think people got as up in arms with Symbian as they did with Microsoft.
This is just not true. For every RMS or ESR we have a Linus Torvalds or an Andrew Tridgell who seem to do a very good job of making clear points and get quoted often. Part of what I respect about Linus is that he knows when to speak up and when to shut up. I still stand by my point that this is rare amongst hackers.
Wow, I have no idea how I touched such a raw nerve. Joel Spolsky and Paul Graham have a decent mastery of English and essay writing and so will often be quoted. The best hackers and coders wind up alienating or confusing people when they try to make their points understood (think RMS) and so won't be quoted as often, at least in a positive light.
Cringely may want to do a little more reading
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The most pertinent part of the article I've linked is:
Management's primary responsibility to create the illusion that a software company can be run by writing code, because that's what programmers do. And while it would be great to have programmers who are also great at sales, graphic design, system administration, and cooking, it's unrealistic. Like teaching a pig to sing, it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
Microsoft does such a good job at creating this abstraction that Microsoft alumni have a notoriously hard time starting companies. They simply can't believe how much went on below decks and they have no idea how to reproduce it.
Some of the perks that google gives its employees are quite devious. Why risk your money and time starting your own venture when you have it made at google?
Why do you think that the most innovative and radical ideas come from unemployed hungry developers? Who has made a concerted effort to hire said hungry developers? That's who I'd bet on to hurt google's bottom line.
Guess you were too busy to read this. From DELL's site on the Ubuntu page.
"Not sure Open Source is for You?
The main thing to note is that when you choose open source you don't get a Windows® operating system. If you're here by mistake and you are looking for a Dell PC with Windows, please use the following link." And history has proven most Windows users read instructions/fine print?
Do the most clueless users even really know what Windows is? I'm talking about the ones who can't tell the difference between a Windows Vista desktop and an OS X Desktop if they are presented with both. I agree with almost all of Dell+Canonical's strategies involving Dell's Ubuntu foray and I rarely give Dell credit for anything. If Dell does not make it extremely clear that a user is buying a non-Microsoft OS (if necessary by setting up dell.com so that only linux savvy people will find the Ubuntu dells) then you can bet that you'll hear Ballmer claim that people only bought Dell's Ubuntu offerings because they thought it was a way to get a cheap Windows computer.
... But you can get even better deals on Dells by hunting around at Edealinfo or Fatwallet. I just ordered a Dell laptop yesterday that ended up being significantly cheaper than the e1505n, and yet it comes with Vista Home Premium (it was some kind of educational/affiliate/whatever discount that I found on Fatwallet).
Also, it bugs me that none of the Ubuntu systems have AMD processors! Most of us who run Linux want 64-bit these days, since 64-bit "just works" under Linux, and gives a pretty good performance boost. And among Intel Desktop processors, only the Core 2 Duo support 64-bit, while *ALL* the AMD processors now support 64-bit, from the lowly Sempron on up.
Anyone know if Dell will offer an AMD system with Ubuntu? I spoke with a Dell rep yesterday and he told me that all of the Ubuntu Dell options are 64 bit. I don't think you can fault Dell here. They do have to make an investment to make Linux a viable option and I don't see why they should have to offer more than a few base systems right now. If people are buying Ubuntu Dells, we'll see what happens.
even if you want to run basic 3D/OpenGL apps with an Intel card you might have issues. I can not effectivly run any 3D/OpenGL app on my Intel graphics card system when booting to linux. This is a historical problem with poor driver support from Intel.
I strongly recoment the Upgrade to the Nvidia Graphics card ($50) Nvidia traditionally has good binary driver support for linux. and hey Tuxracer is fun!!! Thank you
Could you please post the computer (model, additions, etc) that you purchased? I am in the market for a new laptop myself, and am looking for one like you mentioned here (similar requirements, for VM's, etc). While the Ubuntu Dell laptop is too underpowered for my liking, I am considering a Dell to support them for their Linux support...
Thanks Ok, it's $1000 because I already have a monitor and because of the typical Dell instant discounts.
Dell Dimension E520N Upgrade Processor to most expensive option Intel® Core(TM) 2 E6420 Duo Processor(4MB L2 cache,2.13GHZ,1066FSB) Select Ubuntu 7.04 w/o support Select no monitor Upgrade to 4 gigs of RAM Select standard HardDrive 250 GB Select DVD Burner upgrade Select Standard Graphics option Select Standard Sound Card Select No Speakers
As I see the situation: those are are technically minded and wanted to taste something different have experimented with Linuzzz at this time and are able to download and install the thing/almost) without help, so they are not the target of this new item.
Those who are not so technically minded and buy the thing candidly thinking that they will come home and install World of Warcraft or Photoshop and use iTunes will be having a hard time with this...
So really, why don't pay, say 10 USD more to get Windows and THEN if you like to be cool, get the Linuzz pain and install it?
I must say that I'm really skeptic about this whole thing.... but who knows... After all we all know that THIS is the year of Linuzzz on the desktop.
I can now buy a 64 bit computer with 4 gigs of RAM that is guaranteed to work with Linux for $1000. This will allow me to have one machine that can comfortably run 1 desktop-friendly virtual machine and several developer-friendly virtual machines using Xen or VmWare. Last week I would have to wonder if my $1000 "bargain" would have caused me lots of grief because of Linux incompatibilities. Dell just eased my mind and made a grand off of me.
You are assuming that the Dell+Ubuntu deal will change every aspect of the GNU/FreeSoftware/Linux movement. It will probably change the way that mainstream business users see Linux but the deal won't change much else. http://distrowatch.com/ has as many distros as it does because it's easy to scratch an itch with Linux and go your own way whenever you choose to do so. Most Linux/Windows/OSX users don't care about ROI or even know what it really means. Most Free Software hackers don't really care about economic feasibility and will continue to plug away with their preferred tools if given the opportunity. Dell is not going to change any of that.
I don't really want Dell selling Ubuntu-equipped PC's. It will be bad for distro diversity. How will it be bad for distro diversity? People who don't know how or don't want to learn how to install linux won't buy a machine that makes them install their own OS. People who know how to install linux will simply do what they've always done when buying from Dell. Now, however, they don't have to wonder if the Dell in question will have some Windows specific piece of hardware that will prevent them from installing Red Hat, Slackware etc.
eMusic is considered to be the #2 player in the online music business, and they're subscription based. You can argue how much of eMusic's #2-ness is because of DRM backlash, or favoring independent labels, or whatever, but eMusic is proof that subscriptions are not a deal-breaker, and certainly not failures. And before anyone confuses the subject, subscription != rental. Once a credit goes towards a track on eMusic (citing them as that's what I'm familiar with), you get to download that from wherever you want, as many times as you want, and you can do whatever you want with the file.
While eMusic is technically a subscription based service it is unlike every other "subscription" based provider. You keep your emusic mp3s as long as you want. You don't lose your library because you stopped paying a monthly fee. You simply can't download new music once you've cancelled your subscription.
Try creating a distro of your own and you should get a handle on the mysteries of the OS. If you don't have spare hardware check out virtualbox.org and try creating your lfs distro on a virtual x86 computer
I think you are partly right. Vista is receiving much more hate than Microsoft and most PC manufacturers thought it would but I doubt Vista deserves or is hated as much as Windows ME was. The fact that Dell feels the need to sell XP again may indicate that Dell has lost faith in Microsoft's "Reality Distortion Field" more than anything else. Everyone talks about Steve Jobs' RDF while neglecting to mention that Redmond has convinced people that they always need to upgrade and have no choice but Microsoft for the last 12 or so years. People far from the fringes now know that both Apple, Linux and XP are viable options for many folks and that means Microsoft's free ride is ending.
> I can't however understand why you would criticize Ionescu for enlightening us to the flaws in Vista's security/DRM strategy.
In which part of my post did I criticize Ionescu? I think his work is admirable, though I hardly find it surprising that a flaw was found in such a complex and new piece of software as Windows Vista. All complex software contains flaws.
I think that claiming that DRM is 'broken' is an overstatement. Its not broken, it still works fine. The security I accept needs more work, but the DRM works. It is a misleading summary.
I think you misunderstood me. I guess I did misunderstand you. I don't abhor DRM with every fiber of my being like some here do but I believe DRM needs to be non-intrusive and stable. It is rarely either right now.
> Why can XP and Windows 2000 play encrypted files?
The ability to play some DRM'd files was also added to XP and Windows 2000. I assume you already knew that though... Ok so your original quote that suggested Vista's DRM, which is clearly different when compared to XP's and 2000's DRM mechanisms, is somehow a good thing was wrong? Or were you trying to say that some type of DRM is necessary? If the latter, then I don't know yet if I disagree. I can't however understand why you would criticize Ionescu for enlightening us to the flaws in Vista's security/DRM strategy. Ionescu did not make Vista any less secure than it was a week ago. He's simply let some of us know that Vista is really not ready for the mainstream market. Who knows, maybe he's even inspired Redmond to get Vista SP1 out the door earlier.
I still use Windows 2000 from time to time and don't yet see what advantages Vista has but I'll give the OS some time to mature.
The addition of DRM in Vista allows you to play DRM-encrypted files on your computer. Without this feature, you would not be able to play DRM'd songs. Now at least you have the choice. You can't possibly mean what you just wrote. Vista's DRM is needed to play DRM-encrypted files? Why can XP and Windows 2000 play encrypted files?
an interested child can look at the source of Space Invaders and understand how this game works
Agreed. Probably half the type-in programs in early-80s computer magazines were Space Invaders clones-- but you learned something about programming in the process.
In fact, they should get rid of all that fancy-pants wireless stuff and make the kids type in their programs out of magazines. They might actually learn how to code. Magazines have been replaced by the web for many so I think the fancy-pants wireless stuff is necessary to get these kids with OLPCs some source material.
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If you want the FF2 style address bar go to about:config and change browser.urlbar to browser.urlbar.matchOnlytyped then restart Firefox
If you want the address bar to not match anything then go to browser.urlbar.matchBehavior, change the value in the popup to 0, and click OK
Then Double-click browser.urlbar.maxRichResults change the value in the popup to 0, and click OK then restart Firefox.
Why wouldn't they just use a subdomain?
I have no idea. That would be more intuitive than ed2go.edu or whatever it is they use. I'd have to google it everytime I want to login if not for FF3
There are hundreds of millions of non-meaningful urls and it gets harder every day to register a meaningful one. Turn the awesomebar off if you just don't get it but understand that it does prevent other people from having to keep dozens (hundreds?) of bookmarks or remember urls like clicktoshipitblalablablablablbl.com if they don't have to.
Yeah, but I take some of their continuing ed online courses which are not listed on the page you linked.
For me Firefox is now bookmarking every site I visit
That's the problem. The awesome bar conflates two different and important functions, the address bar and bookmarks. If they had provided a smart bookmarks feature instead of ruining the address bar, no one would be complaining.
Fair enough. You used bookmarks and so the awesomebar does not work for you. I have 5 bookmarks on my bookmark toolbar. I stopped manually keeping any more bookmarks than will fit on my toolbar because as soon as I have to keep a list of nested bookmarks I am unable to easily access most of them.
I started using del.icio.us a few years ago so that I would be able to manage my bookmarks better. Now I have 800+ bookmarks and can't really remember any of them without reviewing the tags I've applied over the years so del.icio.us is useless for day to day browsing as well.
The awesomebar has been a godsend for day to day browsing and allows me to not have to keep track of bookmarks and, more importantly, prevents me from having to repeatedly organize these bookmarks.
My kid has a myspace page and I hate myspace and am completely unable to navigate it. I do, however, make a point of checking up on his page from time to time but since I'd given up bookmarks the only way to do this using FF2 was to go to myspace.com and then search for his username (the search feature on myspace sucks btw and I often wasted time trying to find his page again). Now all I have to do is type his username in the address bar. This is extremely convenient and from what I've observed of other people as they surf the web much more intuitive than bookmarks.
I don't know why you are being presented maps.google.com when you enter an "s". Personally I love this feature. Now if I want to go to the University of Houston's website I can start typing "Houston" rather than remember something conter-intuitive like https://www.ed2go.com/ (which is the UofH homepage)
For me Firefox is now bookmarking every site I visit and allowing me to search for these sites by keywords in the url or title of the webpage. This is much more useful than manually keeping a list of bookmarks that become useless as soon as there are too many to view without scrolling.
h-j-k-l does work for navigation. I use it all the time
Wow, I have no idea how I touched such a raw nerve. Joel Spolsky and Paul Graham have a decent mastery of English and essay writing and so will often be quoted. The best hackers and coders wind up alienating or confusing people when they try to make their points understood (think RMS) and so won't be quoted as often, at least in a positive light.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Developmen
The most pertinent part of the article I've linked is:
Some of the perks that google gives its employees are quite devious. Why risk your money and time starting your own venture when you have it made at google?
Why do you think that the most innovative and radical ideas come from unemployed hungry developers? Who has made a concerted effort to hire said hungry developers? That's who I'd bet on to hurt google's bottom line.
"Not sure Open Source is for You?
The main thing to note is that when you choose open source you don't get a Windows® operating system. If you're here by mistake and you are looking for a Dell PC with Windows, please use the following link." And history has proven most Windows users read instructions/fine print?
Do the most clueless users even really know what Windows is? I'm talking about the ones who can't tell the difference between a Windows Vista desktop and an OS X Desktop if they are presented with both. I agree with almost all of Dell+Canonical's strategies involving Dell's Ubuntu foray and I rarely give Dell credit for anything. If Dell does not make it extremely clear that a user is buying a non-Microsoft OS (if necessary by setting up dell.com so that only linux savvy people will find the Ubuntu dells) then you can bet that you'll hear Ballmer claim that people only bought Dell's Ubuntu offerings because they thought it was a way to get a cheap Windows computer.
... But you can get even better deals on Dells by hunting around at Edealinfo or Fatwallet. I just ordered a Dell laptop yesterday that ended up being significantly cheaper than the e1505n, and yet it comes with Vista Home Premium (it was some kind of educational/affiliate/whatever discount that I found on Fatwallet).Also, it bugs me that none of the Ubuntu systems have AMD processors! Most of us who run Linux want 64-bit these days, since 64-bit "just works" under Linux, and gives a pretty good performance boost. And among Intel Desktop processors, only the Core 2 Duo support 64-bit, while *ALL* the AMD processors now support 64-bit, from the lowly Sempron on up.
Anyone know if Dell will offer an AMD system with Ubuntu? I spoke with a Dell rep yesterday and he told me that all of the Ubuntu Dell options are 64 bit. I don't think you can fault Dell here. They do have to make an investment to make Linux a viable option and I don't see why they should have to offer more than a few base systems right now. If people are buying Ubuntu Dells, we'll see what happens.
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even if you want to run basic 3D/OpenGL apps with an Intel card you might have issues.
I can not effectivly run any 3D/OpenGL app on my Intel graphics card system when booting to linux. This is a historical problem with poor driver support from Intel.
I strongly recoment the Upgrade to the Nvidia Graphics card ($50) Nvidia traditionally has good binary driver support for linux.
and hey Tuxracer is fun!!! Thank you
Thanks Ok, it's $1000 because I already have a monitor and because of the typical Dell instant discounts.
Dell Dimension E520N
Upgrade Processor to most expensive option Intel® Core(TM) 2 E6420 Duo Processor(4MB L2 cache,2.13GHZ,1066FSB)
Select Ubuntu 7.04 w/o support
Select no monitor
Upgrade to 4 gigs of RAM
Select standard HardDrive 250 GB
Select DVD Burner upgrade
Select Standard Graphics option
Select Standard Sound Card
Select No Speakers
Total $909
Those who are not so technically minded and buy the thing candidly thinking that they will come home and install World of Warcraft or Photoshop and use iTunes will be having a hard time with this...
So really, why don't pay, say 10 USD more to get Windows and THEN if you like to be cool, get the Linuzz pain and install it?
I can now buy a 64 bit computer with 4 gigs of RAM that is guaranteed to work with Linux for $1000. This will allow me to have one machine that can comfortably run 1 desktop-friendly virtual machine and several developer-friendly virtual machines using Xen or VmWare. Last week I would have to wonder if my $1000 "bargain" would have caused me lots of grief because of Linux incompatibilities. Dell just eased my mind and made a grand off of me.I must say that I'm really skeptic about this whole thing.... but who knows... After all we all know that THIS is the year of Linuzzz on the desktop.
You are assuming that the Dell+Ubuntu deal will change every aspect of the GNU/FreeSoftware/Linux movement. It will probably change the way that mainstream business users see Linux but the deal won't change much else. http://distrowatch.com/ has as many distros as it does because it's easy to scratch an itch with Linux and go your own way whenever you choose to do so. Most Linux/Windows/OSX users don't care about ROI or even know what it really means. Most Free Software hackers don't really care about economic feasibility and will continue to plug away with their preferred tools if given the opportunity. Dell is not going to change any of that.
While eMusic is technically a subscription based service it is unlike every other "subscription" based provider. You keep your emusic mp3s as long as you want. You don't lose your library because you stopped paying a monthly fee. You simply can't download new music once you've cancelled your subscription.eMusic is considered to be the #2 player in the online music business, and they're subscription based. You can argue how much of eMusic's #2-ness is because of DRM backlash, or favoring independent labels, or whatever, but eMusic is proof that subscriptions are not a deal-breaker, and certainly not failures. And before anyone confuses the subject, subscription != rental. Once a credit goes towards a track on eMusic (citing them as that's what I'm familiar with), you get to download that from wherever you want, as many times as you want, and you can do whatever you want with the file.
Check out http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/ and http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/
Try creating a distro of your own and you should get a handle on the mysteries of the OS. If you don't have spare hardware check out virtualbox.org and try creating your lfs distro on a virtual x86 computer
I think you are partly right. Vista is receiving much more hate than Microsoft and most PC manufacturers thought it would but I doubt Vista deserves or is hated as much as Windows ME was. The fact that Dell feels the need to sell XP again may indicate that Dell has lost faith in Microsoft's "Reality Distortion Field" more than anything else. Everyone talks about Steve Jobs' RDF while neglecting to mention that Redmond has convinced people that they always need to upgrade and have no choice but Microsoft for the last 12 or so years. People far from the fringes now know that both Apple, Linux and XP are viable options for many folks and that means Microsoft's free ride is ending.
In which part of my post did I criticize Ionescu? I think his work is admirable, though I hardly find it surprising that a flaw was found in such a complex and new piece of software as Windows Vista. All complex software contains flaws.
I think that claiming that DRM is 'broken' is an overstatement. Its not broken, it still works fine. The security I accept needs more work, but the DRM works. It is a misleading summary.
I think you misunderstood me. I guess I did misunderstand you. I don't abhor DRM with every fiber of my being like some here do but I believe DRM needs to be non-intrusive and stable. It is rarely either right now.
The ability to play some DRM'd files was also added to XP and Windows 2000. I assume you already knew that though... Ok so your original quote that suggested Vista's DRM, which is clearly different when compared to XP's and 2000's DRM mechanisms, is somehow a good thing was wrong? Or were you trying to say that some type of DRM is necessary? If the latter, then I don't know yet if I disagree. I can't however understand why you would criticize Ionescu for enlightening us to the flaws in Vista's security/DRM strategy. Ionescu did not make Vista any less secure than it was a week ago. He's simply let some of us know that Vista is really not ready for the mainstream market. Who knows, maybe he's even inspired Redmond to get Vista SP1 out the door earlier.
I still use Windows 2000 from time to time and don't yet see what advantages Vista has but I'll give the OS some time to mature.
In fact, they should get rid of all that fancy-pants wireless stuff and make the kids type in their programs out of magazines. They might actually learn how to code. Magazines have been replaced by the web for many so I think the fancy-pants wireless stuff is necessary to get these kids with OLPCs some source material.