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i press the back button and i am on top of the slashdot page!
I used to find that frustrating; I think it's a problem in Netscape's history not handling enormous table-riddled pages very well, but I've never cared enough to look into that.
(I'm confident, though, that's it not because the banners are at the top of the page, as the other AC suggested; I found it didn't always return to the top of the page, but somewhere lower, but not nearly as far down as I was reading.)
i'd rather have it open new window with the link than me trying to search for where i was when i was reading that page.
So open it in a new window. "Open link in New Window" is in the context menu of the link. I use middle-click on Linux (maybe there's another shortcut on Windows and Mac, I don't know).
All the consumer (the ones with money) care is if their new Dell or Gateway or whatever comes with a browser with which they can go Yahoo!ing with or check stock quotes
... And that is exactly why web standards are a good thing. The end user doesn't need to care. If the browser and content authors care, the consumer doesn't have to - it just works.
Although part of me wants to see Microsoft broken up just out of spite, I really don't see how it would benefit competition. It seems to me that tearing Microsoft down is even more unreasonable.
What I'd like to see is restrictions against Microsoft's dirty tactics: imagine, f'rexample, if they weren't allowed to announce products until they're in the distribution channel. No more MS vapourware.
I'd also like to see them prevented from implementing non-open protocols and file formats - it should be feasible for any competitor to provide an alternative to a Microsoft product without resorting to reverse engineering.
Unfortunately, I suspect this wouldn't be enforceable.
Given that only HomeSite provides any easy preview pane (thanks to the integration of IE with Windows, something you zealots have always whined about)
It's not "integration of IE with Windows" that makes that possible. It's just a matter of having a decent API to the browser. IBM's WebExplorer OS/2 browser let you do this 5 or 6 years ago, just by supplying a DLL that let you embed its browser window in your own apps.
Netscape's clipboard handling is... quirky. It seems to have its own internal clipboard (which corresponds to the Edit menu Cut/Copy/Paste), and that seems to be completely independent of the X clipboard functionality: you can select text in a browser window, then paste it to the editor using the middle button, but if you want to use Edit/Paste (or Alt+V) you have to do Edit/Copy (Alt+C) first.
As for alt-vs-ctrl in Netscape: Why??? I can't think of any reason why alt would be used rather than ctrl
ISTR reading that they use Alt for the accelerators instead of Ctrl because Unix users are probably familiar with, and would want to use, Ctrl+A to move to the start of the line, Ctrl+E to move to the end of the line, Ctrl+K to delete to the end of the line, that sort of thing. This would clash with the menu accelerator keys if they hadn't used Alt for them instead.
The austrialian government's opinion in a Seatle case shouldn't matter, this isn't global terrorism regardless of what they want you to think.
The Australian government has nothing to do with it. Anthea Kerrison wasn't acting in any official capacity, she just happens to read the newsgroup (and has, according to one of her websites, gone skiing with one of the people involved).
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Compare usenet postings to real life- if someone is sending you threatening letters, you don't have to read them. You can throw them out. Or if someone calls you by the telephone and harasses you, again, you don't have to answer the phone./But/ if someone is doing these things to you, the law is on your side, because their rights do not extend so far that they may trample all over yours.
That's not quite like Usenet. Your mailbox and your phone are ways of contacting you privately, and Usenet is a public forum. Your analogy would work if it was restraining order forbidding email directly to the "victim".
I don't think there should be a restraining order at all, but I haven't read the actual posts concerned. If there truly had to be a restraining order, the judge should have forbidden either poster to reply to each others' messages.
flamebait? hey moderator, just because YOU don't understand why running a news spool off BFS would be a catasrophicly bad idea, doesn't make this AC any less correct.
I'm not the moderator responsible, but I do agree it's flamebait. Let's have a look, shall we?
Modern times? BFS? Yeah, right. That crud is fine for BeOS, but would die under multi-user stress. Want to run INN on BFS? That's what I thought.
Ooh, look! Flamebait! And now, apply Instant Flamebait-Away(tm):
BFS is fine for BeOS, but would die under multi-user stress. Want to run INN on BFS?
It's saying the same thing (that BFS isn't appropriate for servers), but it's not so inflammatory any more.
To ALL moderators: IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE SUBJECT, DON'T MODERATE THE COMMENTS!
I think that this would have been a better article had the first few paragraphs, which seemed to be little more a misinformed attack on ESR's politics than anything else, been omitted altogether.
Yuck - an os capable of getting alt, ctrl, etc. stuck in the wrong state. How do they do that?
Prepare to wish you hadn't asked::-)
When you press down Alt, the keyboard sends an "Alt pressed" message, and sends an "Alt released" message when you release the key. If the OS somehow misses this "released" message, it thinks you're still holding Alt down. Thus Tab is interpreted as Alt+Tab.
Pressing Alt will send a new press and release message, the latter fixing the problem.
What's worse is the dictionary doesn't use either of the definitions we have for hacker. A hacker is someone who either makes furniture with an axe, or just is plain not good at something.
I suppose it depends on the dictionary: http://www.m-w.com/ gives both of these definitions among others.
Of course, the headroom required for this speedup was already provided in the original design... the Z-80 required 2-4 times more clocks for a given instruction to execute than the 6502!
Of course, it all balanced out, since the 6502 needed 2-4 times as many instructions to do anything...
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*shrug* It takes about 4% of the height of my browser window (in text only form).
I used to find that frustrating; I think it's a problem in Netscape's history not handling enormous table-riddled pages very well, but I've never cared enough to look into that.
(I'm confident, though, that's it not because the banners are at the top of the page, as the other AC suggested; I found it didn't always return to the top of the page, but somewhere lower, but not nearly as far down as I was reading.)
So open it in a new window. "Open link in New Window" is in the context menu of the link. I use middle-click on Linux (maybe there's another shortcut on Windows and Mac, I don't know).
Oh look! Over there! It's the point!
Oh too late ... you missed it.
... And that is exactly why web standards are a good thing. The end user doesn't need to care. If the browser and content authors care, the consumer doesn't have to - it just works.
Although part of me wants to see Microsoft broken up just out of spite, I really don't see how it would benefit competition. It seems to me that tearing Microsoft down is even more unreasonable.
What I'd like to see is restrictions against Microsoft's dirty tactics: imagine, f'rexample, if they weren't allowed to announce products until they're in the distribution channel. No more MS vapourware.
I'd also like to see them prevented from implementing non-open protocols and file formats - it should be feasible for any competitor to provide an alternative to a Microsoft product without resorting to reverse engineering.
Unfortunately, I suspect this wouldn't be enforceable.
It's not "integration of IE with Windows" that makes that possible. It's just a matter of having a decent API to the browser. IBM's WebExplorer OS/2 browser let you do this 5 or 6 years ago, just by supplying a DLL that let you embed its browser window in your own apps.
Fact: putting "Fact:" before your opinions doesn't make them absolute truths. Clearly this one is a matter of personal taste.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at that.
The Microsoft connection is NineMSN. Nine Network is owned by PBL.
I do.
IIRC publicly-funded privacy infringement is illegal here, but it's perfectly OK for private companies to do it.
*sigh*
Netscape's clipboard handling is ... quirky. It seems to have its own internal clipboard (which corresponds to the Edit menu Cut/Copy/Paste), and that seems to be completely independent of the X clipboard functionality: you can select text in a browser window, then paste it to the editor using the middle button, but if you want to use Edit/Paste (or Alt+V) you have to do Edit/Copy (Alt+C) first.
ISTR reading that they use Alt for the accelerators instead of Ctrl because Unix users are probably familiar with, and would want to use, Ctrl+A to move to the start of the line, Ctrl+E to move to the end of the line, Ctrl+K to delete to the end of the line, that sort of thing. This would clash with the menu accelerator keys if they hadn't used Alt for them instead.
The Australian government has nothing to do with it. Anthea Kerrison wasn't acting in any official capacity, she just happens to read the newsgroup (and has, according to one of her websites, gone skiing with one of the people involved).
That's not quite like Usenet. Your mailbox and your phone are ways of contacting you privately, and Usenet is a public forum. Your analogy would work if it was restraining order forbidding email directly to the "victim".
I don't think there should be a restraining order at all, but I haven't read the actual posts concerned. If there truly had to be a restraining order, the judge should have forbidden either poster to reply to each others' messages.
I'm not the moderator responsible, but I do agree it's flamebait. Let's have a look, shall we?
Ooh, look! Flamebait! And now, apply Instant Flamebait-Away(tm):
It's saying the same thing (that BFS isn't appropriate for servers), but it's not so inflammatory any more.
"Flamebait" is about tone, not content.
Apparently Mozilla's developers disagree with you. They seem to be considering doing just this to improve performance on the Mac in particular.
Interviewing the whole Slashdot team, eh?
I think that this would have been a better article had the first few paragraphs, which seemed to be little more a misinformed attack on ESR's politics than anything else, been omitted altogether.
Prepare to wish you hadn't asked: :-)
When you press down Alt, the keyboard sends an "Alt pressed" message, and sends an "Alt released" message when you release the key. If the OS somehow misses this "released" message, it thinks you're still holding Alt down. Thus Tab is interpreted as Alt+Tab.
Pressing Alt will send a new press and release message, the latter fixing the problem.
I suppose it depends on the dictionary: http://www.m-w.com/ gives both of these definitions among others.
Because mae-west has a cooler name, and thus gets all the attention.
That's because you're not someone selling the software that needs to be replaced after an upgrade...
Avoiding the word "viral" might've been a good start.
"Partial credit!"
I think the "Redundant" moderation option, which is relatively useless, should be replaced with the more useful "Totally Missed The Point" rating.
Of course, it all balanced out, since the 6502 needed 2-4 times as many instructions to do anything...