Kindle has an SD slot, so you can add a GB or four of storage dirt cheap (not that ebooks take much space at all). Also makes for an easy way to get stuff onto it.
The URL protocol registration is actually a defacto standard residing in the web client, like Firefox or IE. Both of those registries should be part of the OS, so all apps can use them - even if there's no desktop, like on a server.
Clicking for details on the specs, I found:
KDE is planning to support it for their next major release.
I like the widget and window theme, but the kicker replacement at the bottom looks pretty tacky. It was the same in beta, and I'd hoped they'd change it for release, but it seems like they're sticking with it.
This reminds me of a thread a while back when someone representing the Gnome community complained about the Gnome logo being out dated, this lead to a lot of funny spoofs where Bill Gates was writing about getting the Microsoft logo updated.
I mean you've finally managed to replace the similarily outdated GNOME logo so get your ass in gear.
I will never understand what lead the Gnome community's decision of making a foot on a penis logo.
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Why do I want a giant clock or battery widget on my desktop?
I don't know why, but if you don't like it, you can turn it off.
That's the best they can come up with to show off their spankin' new window manager?
I didn't think KDE was into showing off as much as working right.
Why is it that everything KDE has to be GIANT and UGLY?
While many applications to begin with a K, there are many that don't. I also don't see it being any worse than Apple naming a bunch of applications that begin with 'i', or companies sticking their company name in front of every software product name (Microsoft, Adobe do this a lot).
Do you know if KDE is now using the same standards and implementation of registering URL protocols (like http:) and MIME types (like text/plain =.txt) so any app can hand a URL to the "OS"
There is a standard? I can't find it on freedesktop.org. Got a link?
Mask as: as most sites don't work because of improperly and outdated sniffing code, you can make Opera pretend to be IE or Fx, this setting can be global, or can be per domain.
The issues I had were Javascript related, not browser identification (yes, I have tried).
Opera Sync: The upcoming Opera 9.5 has syncing between accounts too.
Which doesn't encrypt the information from the hoster (like Google browser sync, which uses RSA encryption), nor will it synchronize passwords or cookies - which is important to me.
Perhaps it's waiting for YOU to create it (why not, if you have the skills, you know?).
Seeing how small projects like Firebug can consume huge amounts of time for it's developers, I doubt that there are many people who want to dedicate themselves to a single project like Firebug when they could be doing *insert thing they aspire more to doing*.
I have to say, I don't think this attitude of "don't like it? Go make it yourself!" makes a product you are promoting look good.
In any event, the analysis done that illustrates memory fragmentation creates uncontiguous blocks of RAM which FireFox allocates & uses & HAS TO GROW QUITE A LOT to operate, was interesting...
Seeing how K-meleon uses the same rendering engine as Firefox and yet uses barely any memory, I wonder if the whole XUL GUI framework that Firefox uses is the cause of these memory issues.
Nothing like proving a GOOD point, vs. the "industry gurus"... & Windows VISTA's showing thusfar (also a RAM eater by way of comparison to Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003) under Dr. Russinovich's tenure @ MS is another... apk
...given that 123-reg's nameserver failure at the weekend left thousands of customers without a working site.
Pretty poor redundancy - goes to show you can't even trust the big players to get it right, and probably should run your own nameservers within your domains too, just in case...
The hell? Even xname's DNS service isn't that bad.
And they're a free DNS provider that gets huge DDoS attacks.
If you care about security, speed and ease of use shouldn't you be running Safari?
Shouldn't you be running OpenBSD and Lynx?
Speed Apple claims that Safari's HTML rendering is 1.7x faster than FF and their JavaScript is 2.4x faster on Windows. On the Mac the difference is even greater - 3.1x and 2.7x.
Lynx beats Safari's HTML rendering.
Ease of use This is what Apple products are all about. They might not have all of the advanced features of Firefox and IE but they excel at simple, easy-to-use interfaces.
I don't know.. The fact you can use Lynx with two keys and enter seems easier than this whole aim and click thing:P
Now in all seriousness, I don't think the issues Firefox currently has in security is even significant (nothing really in the wild). I don't find Safari easier because of the windowing scheme in OS X (no maximization, each site having it's own 'optimum size') and I certainly don't think tabs being disabled by default is 'ease of use'. The only point you have in my opinion is with speed. But even then, the javascript statistics are skewed and I can't recall when I last saw someone complaining about Firefox's speed outside of Slashdot.
By not wasting their time with 3 times as many lines of C# code?
Heh... I've written C# programs that took a lot less lines than the equivalent program in C and vice versa.
By having a much faster compilation time so tests can be done more quickly?
Since when is compilation a issue with Microsoft Visual Studio.net? You can literally rewrite the code as the program is running.
By having free high quality profiling and debugging tools?
Other than the fact that they didn't know how to use the debuggers that come with Visual Studio.net, I really don't think they would of done any better with the same debuggers writing in C under Visual Studio.net.
By being forced to think about what their functions actually pass to each other, instead of waving their hands and saying "then a miracle occurs"?
There are tonnes of libraries in C that do automatically garbage collection, who says they wouldn't of done that in C?
By having such basic errors fail more quickly, rather than after testing and in the field?
Seeing how the data is accumulated by how many obstacles avoids at a specific speed. I don't see how using C would make it faster.
Take your pick. I've done some comparisons for simple programs written in C and in C#, though I'm hardly expert in C#, and seen each of these apply at least once.
but when I upgraded to Kubuntu 7.10 my modem that has had zero support forever was suddenly recognized and had a driver available. So maybe things have improved...
Same thing happened here (although I still have no use for it).
There is something very wrong with the reviewers, I keep clicking "Read all reviews by this reviewer", and the reviewer only did this single review on a product. Which is unusual for people who write their reviews on products (usually they'll have a few others they've written reviews for). They all write excellent English, no grammar mistakes, punctuation mistakes or anything.
I wanted the functionality they offered badly enough to switch to Firefox. I would happily try any other browser as long as it included the functionality of those two add ins.
My killer feature that keeps me on Firefox on every platform is Google browser sync
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Koffice is not part of KDE. It's a separate suite of applications that is built upon KDE.
Yes, I played with the Opera 9.5 alpha.
I have to say, I don't think this attitude of "don't like it? Go make it yourself!" makes a product you are promoting look good.Seeing how K-meleon uses the same rendering engine as Firefox and yet uses barely any memory, I wonder if the whole XUL GUI framework that Firefox uses is the cause of these memory issues.This is like gibberish now...
And they're a free DNS provider that gets huge DDoS attacks.
Now in all seriousness, I don't think the issues Firefox currently has in security is even significant (nothing really in the wild). I don't find Safari easier because of the windowing scheme in OS X (no maximization, each site having it's own 'optimum size') and I certainly don't think tabs being disabled by default is 'ease of use'. The only point you have in my opinion is with speed. But even then, the javascript statistics are skewed and I can't recall when I last saw someone complaining about Firefox's speed outside of Slashdot.
There is something very wrong with the reviewers, I keep clicking "Read all reviews by this reviewer", and the reviewer only did this single review on a product. Which is unusual for people who write their reviews on products (usually they'll have a few others they've written reviews for). They all write excellent English, no grammar mistakes, punctuation mistakes or anything.
I suspect manipulation of reviews.