X11 is also a protocol. Anyone know if there's an X9 or X12?
It seems like X is the industry's favourite letter. Windows XP, Athlon XP, XFS, X Windowing System, Mac OS X, Linux... not forgetting xxx, the favourite combination passtime of Slashdot lusers (other than reloading Slashdot).
More seriously than my cynical comment above, you can look in the status bar to see when Mozilla blocks a pop-up. It is a simple matter to double click it and add the site to your exceptions list.
This puzzled me too until it was explained to me the other day!
I have seen many pages in Mozilla where a really nasty annoying blinky icon comes up in the bottom right hand corner of the status bar. I believe this is known as a "pop-up" because it pops up an ugly blinky icon. I for one hate this little guy and can see why it upsets so many web users! Down with pop-ups now! Get rid of them!
What are you talking about? Gnome 2.6 will not be dropping metacity or gconf-editor, since they serve their purposes very well. What exactly is wrong with them? If you want new features, request them, but don't just badmouth them. Sounds to be like you prefer KDE anyway (IMO Crystal is butt ugly, but I really like Plastik!).
Also, since when is debian a non-standard package format? It's used by more than just debian these days, and who sets these standards anyway? I don't see your problem with apt-get, especially considering it's far superior to rpm in some respects.
If this is true, then I'll save my money a little longer and hold out for a G5 rather than a G4 PowerBook. I had just heard some bad reports about its thermals in a couple of places. That said, a few weeks back people were claiming you'd never be able to put the G5 in an Xserve, but it looks like they've done it...
I think the spark theory is a bit silly. I mean, half of us have been wearing battery powered watches for the better part of 30 years, and they're much closer than a mobile phone to the fuel nozzle (as well as being constantly turned on). I don't recall ever hearing of a petrol station exploding because someone was trying to work out whether they would make it home in time for Pop Idol.
IMVHO, there's no technical reason whatsoever. The reason they tell you to turn them off is so that you don't start yakking to someone and spend longer at the pumps when other potential profits^H^H^H^H^H^Heople are queuing up behind you
Hey, whenever I use a Winbox and I type a URL into the address bar in a file manager window it seems to launch Internet Explorer too, despite Mozilla being the default browser. I wonder why.
Effectively though, they are doing something "evil", or rather illegal - by not complying with the federal antitrust ruling.
FWIW, I would advise all users to take advantage and ditch IE/OE and use Mozilla instead. I doubt you'd still be able to if this antitrust ruling had never happened.
Similar story, an old laptop of mine died a few years back and I wanted to re-use the 2.5" hard disk drive. I bought a proper 2.5-3.5" hard disk adapter but it had two pin sockets blanked whereas the hard disk had all 44 pins present. My solution was to waggle the excess pins back and forth until they broke off, and the hard disk has stored my MP3 collection ever since.
Trolltech doesn't understand the GPL. They claim that you can't use their GPL'd libraries in a commercial application. Try reading the license, they're wrong. You CAN, you just have to release the source code under the GPL. Legally, there's nothing Trolltech can do to stop you selling your work. Stallman himself says that selling GPL'd software is perfectly okay and indeed he encourages it.
I don't know why this guy spends so long complaining about Netfilter. If he wants ease-of-configuration, then download something like Shorewall. I am not a Linux newbie, but I am fairly new to software firewalls. However when I moved one of my boxes out from behind its hardware firewall/router for a few days, I downloaded Shorewall and had it up and running in less than 10 minutes, then it took me about a minute to work out how to open port 22 for SSH.
The point with easily memorable phone numbers is usually that they sound musical or rhyme, or that they make a logical pattern on the keypad of a typical telephone. When you can have words instead of numbers, it strikes me that web addresses are already far more easily memorable than the typical telephone number which is just a random string of digits, maybe with a few double digits, or if you're lucky, triple digits.
Again, I'm not pro-Microsoft, in fact quite the opposite (my boxes are Linux Desktops all the way), but it's not as clear cut as you make out. All systems need support, and it is more difficult to find OSS/NIX specialists who know how to administer huge networks whereas there always seems to be a surplus of MSCE geeks (a 15 year old can get this qualification if they work hard enough!). A simple supply-and-demand curve shows you that the Linux support techies can demand more money, and depending on how much support you want (i.e. who does your line manager want to shout at down the phone and how often?) it may actually be more costly to deploy Linux
That said - it looks like we've finally moved in to a time when a Linux bid can be accepted in the rare instance that it higher priced. Firstly you're not tied in to end of life problems or compulsary software upgrades when MS decides on a whim to change their software licensing, but as we've seen from examples Linux is now in a position where it can be faster (Samba) AND more secure (Apache) AND more customisable AND as easy to use or easier (Gnome, KDE usability testing) on the SAME hardware and in the SAME role as a Windows server.
Doesn't bode too well for Microsoft, although I suspect Windows 2003 could run twice as fast as it does at the moment if they didn't compel you to run a GUI on a server that doesn't even have a monitor!
I wouldn't worry, their software is not Free Software, so it's not going to have a significant impact on the Linux community (much like Crossover Office).
Alternatively: buy a Mac! Pretend your beloved operating system is now one of the most widespread consumer *nixes! Because we all know that Aqua has nothing to do with it, Mac is BSD!
Although the results compared with BSD are fairly interesting, the results difference between Linux 2.4 & 2.6 are truely astounding. For those who can't see the graphs or can't be bothered to RTFA...
bind() to port 0 n = number of processes:
2.4: O(n) rise number of processes
2.6: around 0 even with 10000 ports
nmap every other page in a 200MB file: n = latency in microseconds:
2.4: O(n) rise
2.6: constant (basically no latency)
The kernel guys have certainly done some fantastic work in this last year. I can't wait for 2.6.0!
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X11 is also a protocol. Anyone know if there's an X9 or X12?
It seems like X is the industry's favourite letter. Windows XP, Athlon XP, XFS, X Windowing System, Mac OS X, Linux... not forgetting xxx, the favourite combination passtime of Slashdot lusers (other than reloading Slashdot).
More seriously than my cynical comment above, you can look in the status bar to see when Mozilla blocks a pop-up. It is a simple matter to double click it and add the site to your exceptions list.
This puzzled me too until it was explained to me the other day!
I have seen many pages in Mozilla where a really nasty annoying blinky icon comes up in the bottom right hand corner of the status bar. I believe this is known as a "pop-up" because it pops up an ugly blinky icon. I for one hate this little guy and can see why it upsets so many web users! Down with pop-ups now! Get rid of them!
What are you talking about? Gnome 2.6 will not be dropping metacity or gconf-editor, since they serve their purposes very well. What exactly is wrong with them? If you want new features, request them, but don't just badmouth them. Sounds to be like you prefer KDE anyway (IMO Crystal is butt ugly, but I really like Plastik!).
Also, since when is debian a non-standard package format? It's used by more than just debian these days, and who sets these standards anyway? I don't see your problem with apt-get, especially considering it's far superior to rpm in some respects.
Your last point doesn't make any sense either...
I wonder how dual Xeon boxes would do using Infiniband? Probably a lot better than they're doing at the moment.
If you don't see the difference between them, why did you switch? I use Firebird because I think it is a superior browser.
If this is true, then I'll save my money a little longer and hold out for a G5 rather than a G4 PowerBook. I had just heard some bad reports about its thermals in a couple of places. That said, a few weeks back people were claiming you'd never be able to put the G5 in an Xserve, but it looks like they've done it...
Unlikely with the current G5s because they produce too much heat. If the chip fab moves to a smaller process then maybe.
I think the spark theory is a bit silly. I mean, half of us have been wearing battery powered watches for the better part of 30 years, and they're much closer than a mobile phone to the fuel nozzle (as well as being constantly turned on). I don't recall ever hearing of a petrol station exploding because someone was trying to work out whether they would make it home in time for Pop Idol.
IMVHO, there's no technical reason whatsoever. The reason they tell you to turn them off is so that you don't start yakking to someone and spend longer at the pumps when other potential profits^H^H^H^H^H^Heople are queuing up behind you
Hey, whenever I use a Winbox and I type a URL into the address bar in a file manager window it seems to launch Internet Explorer too, despite Mozilla being the default browser. I wonder why.
Effectively though, they are doing something "evil", or rather illegal - by not complying with the federal antitrust ruling.
FWIW, I would advise all users to take advantage and ditch IE/OE and use Mozilla instead. I doubt you'd still be able to if this antitrust ruling had never happened.
Similar story, an old laptop of mine died a few years back and I wanted to re-use the 2.5" hard disk drive. I bought a proper 2.5-3.5" hard disk adapter but it had two pin sockets blanked whereas the hard disk had all 44 pins present. My solution was to waggle the excess pins back and forth until they broke off, and the hard disk has stored my MP3 collection ever since.
Unfortunately not all countries are blessed with switches on their electrical sockets. Makes the job more fun!
Trolltech doesn't understand the GPL. They claim that you can't use their GPL'd libraries in a commercial application. Try reading the license, they're wrong. You CAN, you just have to release the source code under the GPL. Legally, there's nothing Trolltech can do to stop you selling your work. Stallman himself says that selling GPL'd software is perfectly okay and indeed he encourages it.
I don't know why this guy spends so long complaining about Netfilter. If he wants ease-of-configuration, then download something like Shorewall. I am not a Linux newbie, but I am fairly new to software firewalls. However when I moved one of my boxes out from behind its hardware firewall/router for a few days, I downloaded Shorewall and had it up and running in less than 10 minutes, then it took me about a minute to work out how to open port 22 for SSH.
Don't worry about this guy, based on his posting history he's the worst kind of FUD-spreading Microsoft apologist.
The point with easily memorable phone numbers is usually that they sound musical or rhyme, or that they make a logical pattern on the keypad of a typical telephone. When you can have words instead of numbers, it strikes me that web addresses are already far more easily memorable than the typical telephone number which is just a random string of digits, maybe with a few double digits, or if you're lucky, triple digits.
Again, I'm not pro-Microsoft, in fact quite the opposite (my boxes are Linux Desktops all the way), but it's not as clear cut as you make out. All systems need support, and it is more difficult to find OSS/NIX specialists who know how to administer huge networks whereas there always seems to be a surplus of MSCE geeks (a 15 year old can get this qualification if they work hard enough!). A simple supply-and-demand curve shows you that the Linux support techies can demand more money, and depending on how much support you want (i.e. who does your line manager want to shout at down the phone and how often?) it may actually be more costly to deploy Linux
That said - it looks like we've finally moved in to a time when a Linux bid can be accepted in the rare instance that it higher priced. Firstly you're not tied in to end of life problems or compulsary software upgrades when MS decides on a whim to change their software licensing, but as we've seen from examples Linux is now in a position where it can be faster (Samba) AND more secure (Apache) AND more customisable AND as easy to use or easier (Gnome, KDE usability testing) on the SAME hardware and in the SAME role as a Windows server.
Doesn't bode too well for Microsoft, although I suspect Windows 2003 could run twice as fast as it does at the moment if they didn't compel you to run a GUI on a server that doesn't even have a monitor!
I wouldn't worry, their software is not Free Software, so it's not going to have a significant impact on the Linux community (much like Crossover Office).
Alternatively: buy a Mac! Pretend your beloved operating system is now one of the most widespread consumer *nixes! Because we all know that Aqua has nothing to do with it, Mac is BSD!
Although the results compared with BSD are fairly interesting, the results difference between Linux 2.4 & 2.6 are truely astounding. For those who can't see the graphs or can't be bothered to RTFA...
bind() to port 0
n = number of processes:
2.4: O(n) rise number of processes
2.6: around 0 even with 10000 ports
nmap every other page in a 200MB file:
n = latency in microseconds:
2.4: O(n) rise
2.6: constant (basically no latency)
The kernel guys have certainly done some fantastic work in this last year. I can't wait for 2.6.0!
Horray for Haxalot! Oh, and the PDF is quite interesting, too.
COME ON! Where the frell is Haxalot, it's gonna get /.'d any minute!!!!!
It's probably just a metadata and VFS system built on top of NTFS. By the time Longhorn comes out Reiser4 will have had this for three years.
A lot of the commercialized country TLDs do this. For example, cx, tv.