As long as things like this [mozilla.org] continue to exist, there will be many people like my self who will not use mozilla. As more people find out what mozilla is all about, the adoption of the software will be hurt.
What Mozilla is "about"? You mean Communism?:P
Seriously, nobody who stops by the Mozilla website and reads the Firefox product page is even going to see that picture. And even if they did why should it matter? To me it's petty to avoid Mozilla simply because of an attempt to make a humorous play on the whole open-source thing.
Had this person really gotten OS X to run on a 68040, I'd consider it somewhat cool.
Yes, but older Macs used a totally different type of processor. Running OS X on a 68040 without an emulator would be like running Windows 2000 on a 68040 without an emulator -- it's just not going to happen without getting access to the full source code, then porting and recompiling.
I don't know if it's part of the culture of the things or what, but there are TONS of mac appps out there that "phone home" to an extent that is generally not tolerated in PC software.
Are you serious? If you want to talk about a culture of tolerance for software doing its own thing without consent, let's take a look at the average Windows machine.
You do realize the parent to your post linked to Apache, which has nothing to do with P2P. Right?:) The point was all you have to do is run a web server and drop some files in it to get just what you wanted.
I'll still continue to use Gaim until another GPL/LGPL multiple IM client comes along.
Disclaimer: I've never used Miranda as it is a Windows program and my home machines run Linux and Mac OS X. That said, check out http://miranda-im.org/
It supports multiple protocols and is distributed under the GPL.
be careful of wires attached from the removable hardware to the case, when opening your notebook
Yes, exactly. I've opened a few laptops and it's often quite difficult even with the service manual because things are packed in so tight. It's probably best to not even try it until you have the official disassembly instructions.
True, and that is what I was hinting at with the second part of my comment. Even though security is great it's scary when there's so much potential for abuse.:)
Exactly! There's nothing wrong with hardware-based enforcement of security if the owner has full power to disable it completely.
Trusted computing scares people, and rightly so, because it's new territory with lots of potential for abuse if it's not implemented properly in the future.
Actually this is a known problem I've read about on the MozillaZine Forums. Norton (and maybe others) do delete (or at least disable, whatever) your whole Thunderbird inbox file when it finds a virus. If anything this is a failing of the antivirus software.
I agree. I'd like to see something like an "Import Firefox cookies for this site" option when adding a new subscription in Thunderbird. The current workaround is functional but certainly not ideal.
On a related note, I've noticed most RSS clients have no support for cookies. Bad news if you read blogs that have friends-only posts which you can only view when logged in.
But with Thunderbird there is a workaround for it. Just copy cookies.txt from your Firefox or Mozilla profile folder into your Thunderbird profile! Then you'll be able to see all the posts you have permission to view, not just public ones. Just make sure you have set an option to remain logged for future sessions before copying the file.
You're right, I misused the term. But the point is that it'd be safer even if it were no more secure inherently. Worms and virus-makers are not targeting it, as it is not a common mainstream desktop system. Not the best type of security but it helps.
Mandrake may not be the perfect distro/OS but at the very least it has security by obscurity as most exploits are aimed at Windows. Obviously that's not the best kind of security but it's better than the alternative!
If you think that marriage should be none of the governments business, are you saying that it shouldn't be a government sanctioned activity?
(I am not the original poster you replied to.)
Actually that is what I believe. Marriage is a church institution that happens to come with some legal benefits. The government should have anything to do with marriage.
Instead, there should be some generic civil union in which anyone living in the same house can participate to get benefits in taxes and medical input/visitation in emergencies, regardless of whether their relationship is that of a life partner or just a couple roommates, regardless of sex/gender. Leave it up to religious institutions (or even the people themselves) to approve of one type of relationship over another.
In case you didn't know, I believe he was actually referring to OmniWeb's specific style of tabs (a sidebar of thumbnails) rather than tabs as a whole. Camino does have a regular tab bar like Safari, Firefox, etc.
There are not many reasons to use it vs. Fire or Adium. Until Gaim for Mac OS X breaks free of X11 (or until X11 itself allows for more integration with the OS) there is no good way to receive notification of new incoming messages.
If X11 apps each automatically got their own Dock icon and could modify their icons to indicate state changes, it would be a different story.:)
I merely want to setup IM clients for 20-30 employees, and have their buddy lists controlled by the server itself, so when a new employee is added, all 20-30 existing employees don't have to add them.
It sounds like the existing Rendezvous messaging in iChat would be a good solution for you. No need for server-side buddy lists, or a chat server at all for that matter. Just fire up iChat on the new employee's machine and they will automatically show up in everyone's buddy list.
This is assuming your organization is 100% Mac, of course. But Apple has released a Rendezvous SDK so hopefully some Windows/Linux clients will add support for this if they haven't already.
It is definitely a Gecko bug (the rendering component of Mozilla and Firefox) relating to incremental reflow, not a problem with Slashcode.
I'm not going to try questioning that statement because I don't know enough to prove or disprove it.
But the funny thing is, I personally have only seen this bug in Firefox 0.9.x (both OS X and Linux) while I have not seen it in Mozilla 1.7.x on the same platforms.
Is there any chance threre is something weird about Firefox itself that is causing this rather than Gecko in general?
Parent is absolutely correct. Sunbird is very early in development and it is reasonable that any calendaring app would look like the rest when they are still just getting the most basic functionality in place. Watch future releases and I'm sure a few distinguishing features will appear.
No, which is why it is still at version 0.2. It is not being promoted to regular end-users, and few people outside of Slashdot and MozillaZine readers probably know it exists. It is good to have the application available for testing and bug-reporting purposes, but it is certainly not supposed to be used by the general public at this point.
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Seriously, nobody who stops by the Mozilla website and reads the Firefox product page is even going to see that picture. And even if they did why should it matter? To me it's petty to avoid Mozilla simply because of an attempt to make a humorous play on the whole open-source thing.
Yeah, it looks like a nice little program. Almost makes me want to run Windows to try it out. Almost. ;)
... well now you do! :P
True, and that is what I was hinting at with the second part of my comment. Even though security is great it's scary when there's so much potential for abuse. :)
Exactly! There's nothing wrong with hardware-based enforcement of security if the owner has full power to disable it completely.
Trusted computing scares people, and rightly so, because it's new territory with lots of potential for abuse if it's not implemented properly in the future.
Actually this is a known problem I've read about on the MozillaZine Forums. Norton (and maybe others) do delete (or at least disable, whatever) your whole Thunderbird inbox file when it finds a virus. If anything this is a failing of the antivirus software.
I agree. I'd like to see something like an "Import Firefox cookies for this site" option when adding a new subscription in Thunderbird. The current workaround is functional but certainly not ideal.
On a related note, I've noticed most RSS clients have no support for cookies. Bad news if you read blogs that have friends-only posts which you can only view when logged in.
But with Thunderbird there is a workaround for it. Just copy cookies.txt from your Firefox or Mozilla profile folder into your Thunderbird profile! Then you'll be able to see all the posts you have permission to view, not just public ones. Just make sure you have set an option to remain logged for future sessions before copying the file.
Yeah, after posting the link I discovered that the one I downloaded was bad as well.
The original post neglected to mention that there is also an updated Mac version of the demo.
You're right, I misused the term. But the point is that it'd be safer even if it were no more secure inherently. Worms and virus-makers are not targeting it, as it is not a common mainstream desktop system. Not the best type of security but it helps.
Mandrake may not be the perfect distro/OS but at the very least it has security by obscurity as most exploits are aimed at Windows. Obviously that's not the best kind of security but it's better than the alternative!
Actually that is what I believe. Marriage is a church institution that happens to come with some legal benefits. The government should have anything to do with marriage.
Instead, there should be some generic civil union in which anyone living in the same house can participate to get benefits in taxes and medical input/visitation in emergencies, regardless of whether their relationship is that of a life partner or just a couple roommates, regardless of sex/gender. Leave it up to religious institutions (or even the people themselves) to approve of one type of relationship over another.
In case you didn't know, I believe he was actually referring to OmniWeb's specific style of tabs (a sidebar of thumbnails) rather than tabs as a whole. Camino does have a regular tab bar like Safari, Firefox, etc.
There are not many reasons to use it vs. Fire or Adium. Until Gaim for Mac OS X breaks free of X11 (or until X11 itself allows for more integration with the OS) there is no good way to receive notification of new incoming messages.
:)
If X11 apps each automatically got their own Dock icon and could modify their icons to indicate state changes, it would be a different story.
This is assuming your organization is 100% Mac, of course. But Apple has released a Rendezvous SDK so hopefully some Windows/Linux clients will add support for this if they haven't already.
But the funny thing is, I personally have only seen this bug in Firefox 0.9.x (both OS X and Linux) while I have not seen it in Mozilla 1.7.x on the same platforms.
Is there any chance threre is something weird about Firefox itself that is causing this rather than Gecko in general?
Parent is absolutely correct. Sunbird is very early in development and it is reasonable that any calendaring app would look like the rest when they are still just getting the most basic functionality in place. Watch future releases and I'm sure a few distinguishing features will appear.