"They're aiming to be Windows-like, and Mozilla is an app that crosses the Lin/Win border. Granted, most Windows users are more familiar with IE, but the folks who are already familiar with Mozilla or Netscape will presumably be more comfortable with that, than with the completely-new-to-them Konqueror."
In the Xandros default install the file manager IS Konqueror - but the browser is Moz. This is confusing to the average Windows user, where one can browse local files in IE and then browse the web in IE - its seemless, and you dont need to load another app. That's the whole point of Konqueror - smooth viewing between local and internet files and no need to launch a new app.
Major error on Xandros's part and I honestly dont like it - it's clunky and it's not nice to Joe Six pack.
who cares about this - i certainly dont. I'm a regular Lopster user,and there are certain Lopster networks that are INVITE ONLY - in other words , private P2P networks. Ok, i'm not invited to these networks, but just seeing them (by trying to connect - "no - its invite only , sorry bye" ) lifts my hope up and gives me cheer.
Xandros 2.0 Desktop was given away free on the cover of Linux Magazine in the UK this month.
The install went like a breeze. I really liked it compared to the Mandrake install because it asked for all the usual information (ip address/dhcp, root pass, users and passwords etc etc) up front rather than after the install process.
My impression of the desktop was rapidly lowered when it booted up into KDE after the install. I'm a major KDE fan, so why the default browser was Mozilla rather than Konqueror?
And it was the full Mozilla, rather than the nippy, lightweight Firebird
But I digress here - i think Xandros made a strategic error here. Konqueror is tightly integrated into KDE - that's the whole point of KDE - make it easy , make it integrated. Ok, this sounds like Micro$oft, but the strategy is clearly aimed at Grandma/Joe Six pack end user.
Why lump them with Moz , when even Moz themselves say that the Moz browser is too bloaty?
I couldn't find Kmail either - i had to use the Moz emailer (urggh), and loading times on my test 700 mhz , 128mb box were appalling - about 5 seconds to load the Moz browser.
My honest advice to Xandros is - dump Moz, keep OpenOffice, and make Konqueror/Kmail the default browser & email system.
And yes folks - i know how to change this on Xandros to my own preferences, but that's not the point - we're talking about Joe Six Pack end user here. The distro initial decisions ARE important. Incredibly important.
But on that negative note, i must leave with a very positive note - the install process is best i've ever seen in distro so far. It's awesome - and highly professional and well presented. It's a new benchmark that other distro's should follow. (well, i haven't tried out Mepis yet - or texstar's PCLinuxOS...)
the jump from KDE 2.x to 3.x was immense. I remember upgrading from 2 to 3 and i couldnt believe the performance increase. 2 was clunky, 3 was smooth.
By all accounts i've read , 3.2 looks like its a major leap forward in removing bloat. Apparently it works well on lower end systems - systems that simply weren't powerful enough for 3.1 , although i've yet to try it out on my 700mhz 128mb system.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but isnt the KDE team currently getting a version of KDE ready for Mac OS X? It doesnt take a genius to figure out where this is heading.
"One major reason for this is so that they can get a better understanding of what is going on in IT and how it impacts the company overall."
In other words, "we want to justify the relocation of the IT department to India. So we'll get a few I.T. guys drunk and they'll justify for us in spades...."
If I were you, i wouldnt have the dinner - just have a regular normal meeting , sober, and within a meeting room on the company premises.
The dinner aspect is a well known wheeze to butter you up and lower your defences - its a classic power play.
"When something like this was possible, maybe all that stuff could be unbundled so that one could download kopete without getting the rest of the damn kdenetwork package."
But that's the price you pay for tighter integration and interoperability between apps, which is what Joe Six Pack user wants. That's the whole point of the KDE project. Make the experience easy , fun and integrated.
The DCOP messaging system is pretty cool as well, and not very well documented (i think... well, i cant find much on it)
Konqueror integrates far far better than Moz with the KDE environment - so in that respect, Konqueror wins over Moz hands down , from a Joe Six Pack "user" point of view. That's why Xandros is such a mess (KDE desktop - default browser is Moz. Not a happy marriage.)
it's a bad bad move on google's part. The infrastructure needed (and the sysadmin) to provide a robust, spam-free , web based email system is of a sheer magnitude greater than just being pure search.
For starters , the tech support will ramp up,and add to google's costs. And Googlemail will become the numero uno target for spammers.
If I were the Google founders, I quite honestly wouldn't bother - it's to much hassle and dilutes the Google "brand".
But then again, the IPO is coming up, so having a "webmail" component is an easy sell to "analysts" in Five Points...ahem... Wall Street I mean.
after the astonishing blue-red 3D pictures taken by Spirit, i'm a bit dissapointed by these ESA pictures.
I was on the cusp of getting my 3D glasses out.
ran a nessus scan against pharmacourt.biz
here's the results.
IIS 5 has support for the Internet Printing Protocol(IPP), which is enabled in a default install. The protocol is implemented in IIS5 as an ISAPI extension. At least one security problem (a buffer overflow) has been found with that extension in the past, so we recommend you disable it if you do not use this functionality.
The IIS server appears to have the.IDA ISAPI filter mapped.
At least one remote vulnerability has been discovered for the.IDA (indexing service) filter. This is detailed in Microsoft Advisory MS01-033, and gives remote SYSTEM level access to the web server.
It is recommended that even if you have patched this vulnerability that you unmap the.IDA extension, and any other unused ISAPI extensions if they are not required for the operation of your site.
The remote web server type is :
Microsoft-IIS/5.0
The Terminal Services are enabled on the remote host.
Terminal Services allow a Windows user to remotely obtaina graphical login (and therefore act as a local user on the remote host).
radmin is running on this port.
Make sure that you use a strong password, otherwise a cracker may brute-force it and control your machine.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030819/latu060_1.html
"LINDON, Utah, Aug. 19/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), the owner of the UNIX(R) operating system, today announced the appointment of Gregory Blepp as vice president of SCOsource. Blepp will report to Chris Sontag, the senior vice president and general manager of SCOsource, the division of SCO tasked with protecting and licensing the company's UNIX intellectual property."
thanks to this worm, i've noticed a dramatic decrease in the amount of spam i'm getting - roughly 150 to 200 per day is trapped by my spamassassin install.
Today, only around 10 spams.
Slashdot Mirror
"They're aiming to be Windows-like, and Mozilla is an app that crosses the Lin/Win border. Granted, most Windows users are more familiar with IE, but the folks who are already familiar with Mozilla or Netscape will presumably be more comfortable with that, than with the completely-new-to-them Konqueror." In the Xandros default install the file manager IS Konqueror - but the browser is Moz. This is confusing to the average Windows user, where one can browse local files in IE and then browse the web in IE - its seemless, and you dont need to load another app. That's the whole point of Konqueror - smooth viewing between local and internet files and no need to launch a new app. Major error on Xandros's part and I honestly dont like it - it's clunky and it's not nice to Joe Six pack.
who cares about this - i certainly dont. I'm a regular Lopster user,and there are certain Lopster networks that are INVITE ONLY - in other words , private P2P networks. Ok, i'm not invited to these networks, but just seeing them (by trying to connect - "no - its invite only , sorry bye" ) lifts my hope up and gives me cheer.
The install went like a breeze. I really liked it compared to the Mandrake install because it asked for all the usual information (ip address/dhcp, root pass, users and passwords etc etc) up front rather than after the install process.
My impression of the desktop was rapidly lowered when it booted up into KDE after the install. I'm a major KDE fan, so why the default browser was Mozilla rather than Konqueror?
And it was the full Mozilla, rather than the nippy, lightweight Firebird
But I digress here - i think Xandros made a strategic error here. Konqueror is tightly integrated into KDE - that's the whole point of KDE - make it easy , make it integrated. Ok, this sounds like Micro$oft, but the strategy is clearly aimed at Grandma/Joe Six pack end user.
Why lump them with Moz , when even Moz themselves say that the Moz browser is too bloaty?
I couldn't find Kmail either - i had to use the Moz emailer (urggh), and loading times on my test 700 mhz , 128mb box were appalling - about 5 seconds to load the Moz browser.
My honest advice to Xandros is - dump Moz, keep OpenOffice, and make Konqueror/Kmail the default browser & email system.
And yes folks - i know how to change this on Xandros to my own preferences, but that's not the point - we're talking about Joe Six Pack end user here. The distro initial decisions ARE important. Incredibly important.
But on that negative note, i must leave with a very positive note - the install process is best i've ever seen in distro so far. It's awesome - and highly professional and well presented. It's a new benchmark that other distro's should follow. (well, i haven't tried out Mepis yet - or texstar's PCLinuxOS...)
the jump from KDE 2.x to 3.x was immense. I remember upgrading from 2 to 3 and i couldnt believe the performance increase. 2 was clunky, 3 was smooth. By all accounts i've read , 3.2 looks like its a major leap forward in removing bloat. Apparently it works well on lower end systems - systems that simply weren't powerful enough for 3.1 , although i've yet to try it out on my 700mhz 128mb system.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but isnt the KDE team currently getting a version of KDE ready for Mac OS X? It doesnt take a genius to figure out where this is heading.
"One major reason for this is so that they can get a better understanding of what is going on in IT and how it impacts the company overall." In other words, "we want to justify the relocation of the IT department to India. So we'll get a few I.T. guys drunk and they'll justify for us in spades...." If I were you, i wouldnt have the dinner - just have a regular normal meeting , sober, and within a meeting room on the company premises. The dinner aspect is a well known wheeze to butter you up and lower your defences - its a classic power play.
"When something like this was possible, maybe all that stuff could be unbundled so that one could download kopete without getting the rest of the damn kdenetwork package." But that's the price you pay for tighter integration and interoperability between apps, which is what Joe Six Pack user wants. That's the whole point of the KDE project. Make the experience easy , fun and integrated. The DCOP messaging system is pretty cool as well, and not very well documented (i think... well, i cant find much on it)
Konqueror integrates far far better than Moz with the KDE environment - so in that respect, Konqueror wins over Moz hands down , from a Joe Six Pack "user" point of view. That's why Xandros is such a mess (KDE desktop - default browser is Moz. Not a happy marriage.)
Nothing beat's KDE's Konqueror for pure popup elimination. I've not experienced a popup for over 2 years now.
it's a bad bad move on google's part. The infrastructure needed (and the sysadmin) to provide a robust, spam-free , web based email system is of a sheer magnitude greater than just being pure search. ,and add to google's costs. And Googlemail will become the numero uno target for spammers. ...ahem... Wall Street I mean.
For starters , the tech support will ramp up
If I were the Google founders, I quite honestly wouldn't bother - it's to much hassle and dilutes the Google "brand".
But then again, the IPO is coming up, so having a "webmail" component is an easy sell to "analysts" in Five Points
after the astonishing blue-red 3D pictures taken by Spirit, i'm a bit dissapointed by these ESA pictures.
I was on the cusp of getting my 3D glasses out.
ran a nessus scan against pharmacourt.biz here's the results. IIS 5 has support for the Internet Printing Protocol(IPP), which is enabled in a default install. The protocol is implemented in IIS5 as an ISAPI extension. At least one security problem (a buffer overflow) has been found with that extension in the past, so we recommend you disable it if you do not use this functionality. The IIS server appears to have the .IDA ISAPI filter mapped.
At least one remote vulnerability has been discovered for the .IDA (indexing service) filter. This is detailed in Microsoft Advisory MS01-033, and gives remote SYSTEM level access to the web server.
It is recommended that even if you have patched this vulnerability that you unmap the .IDA extension, and any other unused ISAPI extensions if they are not required for the operation of your site.
The remote web server type is :
Microsoft-IIS/5.0
The Terminal Services are enabled on the remote host.
Terminal Services allow a Windows user to remotely obtaina graphical login (and therefore act as a local user on the remote host).
radmin is running on this port.
Make sure that you use a strong password, otherwise a cracker may brute-force it and control your machine.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030819/latu060_1.html "LINDON, Utah, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), the owner of the UNIX(R) operating system, today announced the appointment of Gregory Blepp as vice president of SCOsource. Blepp will report to Chris Sontag, the senior vice president and general manager of SCOsource, the division of SCO tasked with protecting and licensing the company's UNIX intellectual property."
We use Linux and Macs - no infections here. Nyah nyah nyah nyah!
thanks to this worm, i've noticed a dramatic decrease in the amount of spam i'm getting - roughly 150 to 200 per day is trapped by my spamassassin install. Today, only around 10 spams.