If an average session is 10 pageviews long and with Firefox your stuck to the homepage due to some stupid javescript-only (hey, it's not even real javscript) navigation, you'll get an average session that's 1 pageview long. So even if you have 10% Firefox users on your homepage you'll have 1% Firefox pageviews. If you take into account that those Firefox users will never come back, the percentage will even be below 1%. So a percentage of 10% Firefox users as a whole will still be invisible if the web dev is ignorant enough.
So the only thing you can do is to WRITE THEM AN EMAIL AND COMPLAIN!
Tell them, that they've lost business in this very moment. Tell them, that you prefer to do business with people who care about customers and let them surf with a browser that's not so insecure that you can be hacked by simple browsing. And tell them, that the browser they prefer is unsafe as hell.
Ok come on: A born and living iraqian child is of course not as unbelievable wonderful and uncomprehensible adorable as an American embryo. We all know that. </cynicism>
You could check out the reviews at sfftech. They always have a some noise measurements and comparisons in the benchmark section of their reviews. While there are terribly loud Shuttles, they have some quiet ones too. Especially the SN45 Zen is rather quiet and has an external PSU. The other nice thing is that this mainboards allows undervolting and clocking by software (8rdavcore), which makes this box even quieter if you don't need full performance. Fan regulation by software (speedfan) is possible as well. When an Athlon is enough for you, this box is a rather good way to built a cheap, nice and quiet box.
Shuttle has IIRC the third PSU generation in their boxes now. They are much better (=quieter) than the first models.
First this is a per capita number. Not sure if you got this.
Second: godds *could* travel by train. Would use less energy. But if you don't care, you don't care...
If you compare the distances: Compare Europe to the US. Results won't be that different.
An example: Do you think that for example a Volkswagen is built in Germany as a whole? No, it is build from brakes produced in the Czech Republic, wheels from Portugal, seats from Slovakia, etc. pp.
Crabs from the north sea are transported to Marocco, cleaned there (wages are much lower in Africa) and are transported back to northern Europe.
No no, the degree at which the European economies are coupled/interweaved isn't that much lower.
I don't have a link, but even if you take into account that the US is much bigger and that US people cummute farther than typical Europeans, the average consumption of a US car is higher than the European car. In fact, the consumption in the US has gone up over the last 20 years, where in Europe it has gone down (although not much).
You can look at energy consumption of the houses: Much lower in Europe than in the US. It's that extreme: Houses in scandinavia, where it's much colder than the US, use less energy, despite the fact that they need a lot energy to heat their houses.
An American fried who was over here some years ago always wondered, why we close the doors inside our house. It's simple; when we sit in the living room, we heat the living room and not the whole house. This was unimaginable for him.
Just let me state: We're not the good ones and your the bad ones. Energy is just much more expensive here than in the US (due to taxes). And people do what they're supposed to do: In the US people don't care cause it doesn't cost, in Europe people care, cause it is expensive.
not mentioned before in this thread so I'll do it.
Per capita the US uses more than 12000 KWh per year, Japan ~7500 and Germany ~6000 (source) ). Same for oil: US per capita: 68 gallons, Japan: 42, Germany 33 (source: source). So we're comparing the three of the whealthiest and industrialized nations on Earth and one uses more than two times the energy. There's not a single reason for this depite the fact that the US wastes energy like noone else on this planet.
When atke into account that less than half of the US energy comes from Oil and that a not that small part comes from domestic sources, I guesstimate that by saving less than a third of the current energy usage the USA could become completly independent from foreign oil. And you would still use more energy than Japan for example.
This goal is reachable rather easy as you can see in Japan or Germany.
Sell your SUV, buy a Volkswagen/Audi TDI (will use less than half of your energy). Switch off your AC when you leave or when you don't need it. Change to energy saving light bulbs (will use less than 15% of your original energy usage). Throw away your old fridge and buy an energy saving new one (will use less than half of your old). Etc. pp.
Unemployment rate has gone up (1.1 million jobs less than 2000 when Bush took over). Budget deficit has skyrocketed. Trade deficit has gone up to record levels. Dollar is weaker. Homeland security has gone down. Personal freedom has gone down (no link, cause apparently you read slashdot...) America has fewer friends in the world. America has killed 100.000 people in Iraq. Iraq is more insecure than ever. Iraq is poorer than ever.
Add your list of positive things Bush has done here. Mine is empty.
. . .
And the Bush administration is a bunch of liars. WHY for god's sake vote them?
IMHO the open source world needs a simple piece of software that does what every digital photographer needs:
* Eliminate red eyes * Lighten, darken picture (or areas of the picture) * change contrast * sharpen contrast of picture * cut picture frames * import pictures from camera * archive pictures * send pictures to online printer
Every piece is there. But not in one package and not user friendly.
When you read about GIMP, many people think it's not as good as Photoshop, cause it does no colour separation. But GIMP is featurewise more than enough for millions of digital photographers. But sadly not usable for Joe Sixpack.
IMHO open source could attract much more new users by making specialized solutions, that are simple to use, than by making the featurewise ultimate solution. But of course every developer is free to do what he wants to do...
Beware of the Tabbrowser extensions. Featurewise *everything* you'll ever need for tabbed browsing. But caused major performance and stability problems, not only for me...
This thread is about Mandrake 10.1, not 10.0. 10.0 was affected, 10.1 isn't. SuSE 9.1 was affected, 9.2 won't.
We often talk about OS being faster when fixes need to be done. And more than 4 months after the detection of this rather serious bug there simply won't be any new distro which still is affected.
But you're correct, older distros (kernel 2.4 based) aren't affected as well.
Underclocking alone doesn't do that much. Undervolting is much more effective. Many modern Athlons can be undervolted by more than 0,2 volts which saves 10 to 20 watts. Without any performance compromise.
Of course the best results come when you combine both techniques. My Epox Board runs at 866 MHz and 1,15 volt instead of 1433 MHz @ 1,5 volt. I do it with a wonderful little software gem called 8rdavcore. The software reduces the front side bus and the voltages as required by the load of your computer. You can do this manually on the command line if you like. A Linux kernel module is available as well. It only works with some nForce2 boards.
I know, that there is a similiar software available for the Athlon64, but can't remember the name now.
SilentPC Review is always THE place to go when you are concerned about PC noise.
And Sudhian had a review of the new Shuttle XPC a few weeks ago (hey, that how far ahead slashdot is:-( ). There's a noise comparison in all of their SFF tests (direct link for convinience. IMHO Sudhian is THE place to go when you're searching for SFF infos. The forums are very valuable resources on both sites.
1) English: Major Plus for Americans and Brits, BUT nor for everyone. People in France may prefer people in Africa speaking French.
Plus: In many African countries English is a widely spoken language, so that's not a major plus for India.
And Africa is not the one big chaotic continent. Some (OK, not that many) countries do get it (South Africa, Mauritius).
The single biggest problem for Africa is AIDS. In some countries mor than 20% of the population are infected. And without access to "our" expensive drugs all of them will die soon.
Good point with the movie! FOX news are no news. And the rest isn't much better.
Many and I guess most people on earth think that you can describe the US politics best in two words:
ignorance and arrogance.
If you don't like the US at all, you tend to think it's ignorance caused by arrogance; but some still prefer to think that it's arrogance caused by ignorance.
Hey, this is a attention grabbing, snappy headline...
Rumours, of course. But Comdex single biggest booth was rented by Microsoft. Microsoft was p***ed off by the Open-Source pavillions, that comdex offered for free at the last Comdex.
It's not totally implausibel, that Microsoft said: Us or them. Point.
Feel free to include your favourite conspiricy theeory here...
But a PC built for silence has a typical power usage of 80 - 120 watts. With a 400 watt PSU you'll never reach 50% load.
And your statement is only correct when you use a very good PSU, e.g. the Seasonic PSUs. They have good efficiency levels over a broad range of output levels. Cheap (bad) PSUs are worse especially at low loads.
Slashdot Mirror
Normally these systems should only ask for *parts* of you PIN, e.g. the second and third number.
If you listen long/often enough, you'll have all the numbers together, but still not in the right order. Safe enough for most applications.
Kind of offtopic though.
Bye egghat.
Yepp. Many web devs are that stupid (or lazy?).
If an average session is 10 pageviews long and with Firefox your stuck to the homepage due to some stupid javescript-only (hey, it's not even real javscript) navigation, you'll get an average session that's 1 pageview long. So even if you have 10% Firefox users on your homepage you'll have 1% Firefox pageviews. If you take into account that those Firefox users will never come back, the percentage will even be below 1%. So a percentage of 10% Firefox users as a whole will still be invisible if the web dev is ignorant enough.
So the only thing you can do is to WRITE THEM AN EMAIL AND COMPLAIN!
Tell them, that they've lost business in this very moment. Tell them, that you prefer to do business with people who care about customers and let them surf with a browser that's not so insecure that you can be hacked by simple browsing. And tell them, that the browser they prefer is unsafe as hell.
Bye egghat.
Ok come on: A born and living iraqian child is of course not as unbelievable wonderful and uncomprehensible adorable as an American embryo. We all know that.
</cynicism>
Bye egghat.
You could check out the reviews at sfftech. They always have a some noise measurements and comparisons in the benchmark section of their reviews. While there are terribly loud Shuttles, they have some quiet ones too. Especially the SN45 Zen is rather quiet and has an external PSU. The other nice thing is that this mainboards allows undervolting and clocking by software (8rdavcore), which makes this box even quieter if you don't need full performance. Fan regulation by software (speedfan) is possible as well. When an Athlon is enough for you, this box is a rather good way to built a cheap, nice and quiet box.
Shuttle has IIRC the third PSU generation in their boxes now. They are much better (=quieter) than the first models.
Bye egghat.
First this is a per capita number. Not sure if you got this.
...
Second: godds *could* travel by train. Would use less energy. But if you don't care, you don't care
If you compare the distances: Compare Europe to the US. Results won't be that different.
An example: Do you think that for example a Volkswagen is built in Germany as a whole? No, it is build from brakes produced in the Czech Republic, wheels from Portugal, seats from Slovakia, etc. pp.
Crabs from the north sea are transported to Marocco, cleaned there (wages are much lower in Africa) and are transported back to northern Europe.
No no, the degree at which the European economies are coupled/interweaved isn't that much lower.
I don't have a link, but even if you take into account that the US is much bigger and that US people cummute farther than typical Europeans, the average consumption of a US car is higher than the European car. In fact, the consumption in the US has gone up over the last 20 years, where in Europe it has gone down (although not much).
You can look at energy consumption of the houses: Much lower in Europe than in the US. It's that extreme: Houses in scandinavia, where it's much colder than the US, use less energy, despite the fact that they need a lot energy to heat their houses.
An American fried who was over here some years ago always wondered, why we close the doors inside our house. It's simple; when we sit in the living room, we heat the living room and not the whole house. This was unimaginable for him.
Just let me state: We're not the good ones and your the bad ones. Energy is just much more expensive here than in the US (due to taxes). And people do what they're supposed to do: In the US people don't care cause it doesn't cost, in Europe people care, cause it is expensive.
Bye egghat.
not mentioned before in this thread so I'll do it.
Per capita the US uses more than 12000 KWh per year, Japan ~7500 and Germany ~6000 (source) ). Same for oil: US per capita: 68 gallons, Japan: 42, Germany 33 (source: source). So we're comparing the three of the whealthiest and industrialized nations on Earth and one uses more than two times the energy. There's not a single reason for this depite the fact that the US wastes energy like noone else on this planet.
When atke into account that less than half of the US energy comes from Oil and that a not that small part comes from domestic sources, I guesstimate that by saving less than a third of the current energy usage the USA could become completly independent from foreign oil. And you would still use more energy than Japan for example.
This goal is reachable rather easy as you can see in Japan or Germany.
Sell your SUV, buy a Volkswagen/Audi TDI (will use less than half of your energy). Switch off your AC when you leave or when you don't need it. Change to energy saving light bulbs (will use less than 15% of your original energy usage). Throw away your old fridge and buy an energy saving new one (will use less than half of your old). Etc. pp.
It's doable. It's easy.
Bye egghat.
Look at the facts:
...)
Unemployment rate has gone up (1.1 million jobs less than 2000 when Bush took over).
Budget deficit has skyrocketed.
Trade deficit has gone up to record levels.
Dollar is weaker.
Homeland security has gone down.
Personal freedom has gone down (no link, cause apparently you read slashdot
America has fewer friends in the world.
America has killed 100.000 people in Iraq.
Iraq is more insecure than ever.
Iraq is poorer than ever.
Add your list of positive things Bush has done here. Mine is empty.
.
.
.
And the Bush administration is a bunch of liars. WHY for god's sake vote them?
Bye egghat.
walid information knowledge intelligence
;-)
Of course a misspeleed word in it, but it sound like sth.; it has intelligence and information.
Dilbert will understand
Bye egghat.
Has anybody tried to compile (and succeeded) Dasher for my beloved Zaurus?
Bye egghat.
Zaurus Software Index.
Duplication of efforts?
Bye egghat.
kind of sad that is not a player inthe Palm market any more. They offered good alternatives to the models offered by Palm themselves.
When I look at the new Tungsten I don't find a superior to the TH55 from Sony despite the 256 Meg built in RAM.
Palm: Please give me a TH55 without the f***ing Memory Stick and an SD-card slot instead. Would be everything I need.
Bye egghat.
Thanks. Looks like a very good match for my (and a lot of others) needs.
I'll definitly check it out!
Bye egghat.
Yepp, know it. But sadly not Open Source and not for Linux.
Bye egghat.
IMHO the open source world needs a simple piece of software that does what every digital photographer needs:
...
* Eliminate red eyes
* Lighten, darken picture (or areas of the picture)
* change contrast
* sharpen contrast of picture
* cut picture frames
* import pictures from camera
* archive pictures
* send pictures to online printer
Every piece is there. But not in one package and not user friendly.
When you read about GIMP, many people think it's not as good as Photoshop, cause it does no colour separation. But GIMP is featurewise more than enough for millions of digital photographers. But sadly not usable for Joe Sixpack.
IMHO open source could attract much more new users by making specialized solutions, that are simple to use, than by making the featurewise ultimate solution. But of course every developer is free to do what he wants to do
Bye egghat.
The site looks as if the project is somewhat dead.
Or are there other, more up-to-date installation images available somewhere else?
Bye egghat.
Session Saver.
...
Beware of the Tabbrowser extensions. Featurewise *everything* you'll ever need for tabbed browsing. But caused major performance and stability problems, not only for me
Bye egghat.
This thread is about Mandrake 10.1, not 10.0. 10.0 was affected, 10.1 isn't. SuSE 9.1 was affected, 9.2 won't.
We often talk about OS being faster when fixes need to be done. And more than 4 months after the detection of this rather serious bug there simply won't be any new distro which still is affected.
But you're correct, older distros (kernel 2.4 based) aren't affected as well.
Bye egghat.
If I understand things correctly, you shouldn't be hit by this bug any more especially with a new distro like the new Mandrake.
Read more about this here, especially about resolving this when you have been hit (you won't lose any data):
Fedora Mailing List post
Bye egghat.
Featurewise it is abolutely brilliant. But it made Firefox behaven like Netscape 4.02: Slow and unstable like a super nova.
I'm looking for a replacement.
Bye egghat.
Underclocking alone doesn't do that much. Undervolting is much more effective. Many modern Athlons can be undervolted by more than 0,2 volts which saves 10 to 20 watts. Without any performance compromise.
Of course the best results come when you combine both techniques. My Epox Board runs at 866 MHz and 1,15 volt instead of 1433 MHz @ 1,5 volt. I do it with a wonderful little software gem called 8rdavcore. The software reduces the front side bus and the voltages as required by the load of your computer. You can do this manually on the command line if you like. A Linux kernel module is available as well. It only works with some nForce2 boards.
I know, that there is a similiar software available for the Athlon64, but can't remember the name now.
Bye egghat.
SilentPC Review is always THE place to go when you are concerned about PC noise.
:-( ). There's a noise comparison in all of their SFF tests (direct link for convinience. IMHO Sudhian is THE place to go when you're searching for SFF infos. The forums are very valuable resources on both sites.
And Sudhian had a review of the new Shuttle XPC a few weeks ago (hey, that how far ahead slashdot is
Bye egghat.
1) English: Major Plus for Americans and Brits, BUT nor for everyone. People in France may prefer people in Africa speaking French.
Plus: In many African countries English is a widely spoken language, so that's not a major plus for India.
And Africa is not the one big chaotic continent. Some (OK, not that many) countries do get it (South Africa, Mauritius).
The single biggest problem for Africa is AIDS. In some countries mor than 20% of the population are infected. And without access to "our" expensive drugs all of them will die soon.
Good point with the movie! FOX news are no news. And the rest isn't much better.
Many and I guess most people on earth think that you can describe the US politics best in two words:
ignorance and arrogance.
If you don't like the US at all, you tend to think it's ignorance caused by arrogance; but some still prefer to think that it's arrogance caused by ignorance.
Bye egghat.
Hey, this is a attention grabbing, snappy headline ...
...
Rumours, of course. But Comdex single biggest booth was rented by Microsoft. Microsoft was p***ed off by the Open-Source pavillions, that comdex offered for free at the last Comdex.
It's not totally implausibel, that Microsoft said: Us or them. Point.
Feel free to include your favourite conspiricy theeory here
Bye egghat.
But a PC built for silence has a typical power usage of 80 - 120 watts. With a 400 watt PSU you'll never reach 50% load.
And your statement is only correct when you use a very good PSU, e.g. the Seasonic PSUs. They have good efficiency levels over a broad range of output levels. Cheap (bad) PSUs are worse especially at low loads.
Bye egghat.