You cannot be 'misinformed' about your impressions of KDE/GNOME as you look at it and worth with it. Your impressions are your impressions. And you can't expect potential users to 'inform' themselves before they drop the feeling and start thinking that the software is actually good. I believe you are seeing what you want to see.
Why not skip the G5 and get the display instead? MUCH better purchase IMHO... I'm still using an old computer but I recently got 2 17-inch LCDs to put on my desk, best upgrade for it ever.
We'll see how not running Nortn anything works for you when Outlook auto-installs the next mass-email worm.
I don't use Outlook, but it's well known that that isn't the default behaviour anymore anyway. I use PINE on a separate system.
Got Windows? Connect to any other system, ever, including using removable media? You need antivirus software.
No you don't. I connect to all kinds of machines and have never had a virus, ever. Although I hardly ever share removeable media. How do you think I'm meant to get one? Connecting to machines doesn't mean getting infected. The only way I can think of is by running a suspicious.exe or a macro in a Word document or whatever. Never done anything like that myself.
It amazes me that people think they're somehow an isolated little island. "Oh, nobody will infect me, I'm too small."
Nobody will infect me because they can't directly connect to me and I have enough experience and common sense to avoid getting into trouble. I don't see why that sounds too good to be true - I find it quite easy. What amazes me is the amount of crap people install on their Windows machines in the name of protection...
I'm putting XP on my laptop next to me right now actually. I think it is pretty safe because a) it is connected to the net using NAT, not directly to the modem and b) I slipstreamed SP1 into my XP CD, so that when I install it I'm already at SP1 level. See here for instructions (that's win2k, but same for winxp of course). And I dunno why you'd bother with Norton Anything quite frankly. Maybe you can just buy a cheap router doing NAT and put it between the modem and computer while you get updates.
I'm sick of reading reviews that compare new products with other new products. Example on MBReview: comparing P4s that are all pretty much brand new, all expensive, hardly any difference between them. I want to see how it stacks up against my P3-866, not another P4 that I've never even seen. At least throw an older proc in there for comparison. Same with video card reviews. I don't give a hoot how the Radeon 9600 compares with the 9500... how does it compare with my GF3? FFS these reviews suck. At least throw in an older chip just for a relevant comparison. And stop mentioning how Quake 3 is getting old but is still useful: "this benchmark is slowly progressing towards an archaic stage". STFU. Who keeps regurgitating this crap.
Thanks, I guess that'd do. The whole app feels a bit awkward though. And it appears you can't force plain-text everywhere, ie. turn off HTML completely. I should give it a longer shot but I reckon I'll keep using good old pine for now.
Thanks dude, the toolbar one was obvious enough...
Actually what I meant by toggle headers was whether there is a key mapping for that. I found the menu item, but in pine/mutt you can just press 'h' when viewing a message to toggle headers on/off.
I seem to find regular sites the same, but there are quite a few where Mozilla scrolls a lot slower. I guess scrolling != rendering speed. Can't think of any examples ATM but it seems to happen on sites with a lot of CSS / table-less code. The scrolling gets awfully slow sometimes, ie. when you drag the scrollbar it is very jerky.
Also I do tend to close/open windows a lot, because if I leave Mozilla open I occasionly get a stray mozilla.exe on Windows consuming all my CPU time. Must be a plugin crashing or something.
Anyway, I always get modded as flamebait whenever I say something negative about Mozilla! Boo hoo.
What would be the features adding 'soul' to Mozilla and Firefox?
- The ugly, non-standard user interface that looks wrong on every platform?
- The collection of themes? Do they add soul? Or the bickering and complaining in the community over stuff like what new theme to use as default? And the apparent rejection of their comments?
- The generally lower speed and reliability compared to IE on Windows?
Well, this is what I've noticed recently anyway. Don't get me wrong, I use Mozilla myself everyday and haven't touched IE in a year or more. But when I look at Mozilla, it's about as soulful as a dirty sock. A dirty sock with tabs and popup-blocking, though.
What are wikis good for anyway? Whenever I see a wiki I automatically select some text and delete it and save the changes, or type in some random crap. I just can't help myself! Do my changes actually get saved or what? It's weird. I've never bothered to find out what the point of a wiki is meant to be. And you can't even seem to have SPACES anywhere, you've gotta have ThisIsATopic or This-Topic. Wikis suck!
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I believe you are misinformed about Linux.
You cannot be 'misinformed' about your impressions of KDE/GNOME as you look at it and worth with it. Your impressions are your impressions. And you can't expect potential users to 'inform' themselves before they drop the feeling and start thinking that the software is actually good. I believe you are seeing what you want to see.
What is NAS backup? What is staggered Tower of Hanoi method? Thx.
Why not skip the G5 and get the display instead? MUCH better purchase IMHO... I'm still using an old computer but I recently got 2 17-inch LCDs to put on my desk, best upgrade for it ever.
OO: less features, more bloat.
and ... ?
How can you know that if you don't use any protection?
Common sense.
How can you know what common sense is if you don't have any?
We'll see how not running Nortn anything works for you when Outlook auto-installs the next mass-email worm.
.exe or a macro in a Word document or whatever. Never done anything like that myself.
I don't use Outlook, but it's well known that that isn't the default behaviour anymore anyway. I use PINE on a separate system.
Got Windows? Connect to any other system, ever, including using removable media? You need antivirus software.
No you don't. I connect to all kinds of machines and have never had a virus, ever. Although I hardly ever share removeable media. How do you think I'm meant to get one? Connecting to machines doesn't mean getting infected. The only way I can think of is by running a suspicious
It amazes me that people think they're somehow an isolated little island. "Oh, nobody will infect me, I'm too small."
Nobody will infect me because they can't directly connect to me and I have enough experience and common sense to avoid getting into trouble. I don't see why that sounds too good to be true - I find it quite easy. What amazes me is the amount of crap people install on their Windows machines in the name of protection...
I'm putting XP on my laptop next to me right now actually. I think it is pretty safe because a) it is connected to the net using NAT, not directly to the modem and b) I slipstreamed SP1 into my XP CD, so that when I install it I'm already at SP1 level. See here for instructions (that's win2k, but same for winxp of course). And I dunno why you'd bother with Norton Anything quite frankly. Maybe you can just buy a cheap router doing NAT and put it between the modem and computer while you get updates.
None of those are classic American mistakes. You will hear shit like that everywhere English is used.
I'm sick of reading reviews that compare new products with other new products. Example on MBReview: comparing P4s that are all pretty much brand new, all expensive, hardly any difference between them. I want to see how it stacks up against my P3-866, not another P4 that I've never even seen. At least throw an older proc in there for comparison. Same with video card reviews. I don't give a hoot how the Radeon 9600 compares with the 9500... how does it compare with my GF3? FFS these reviews suck. At least throw in an older chip just for a relevant comparison. And stop mentioning how Quake 3 is getting old but is still useful: "this benchmark is slowly progressing towards an archaic stage". STFU. Who keeps regurgitating this crap.
Thanks, I guess that'd do. The whole app feels a bit awkward though. And it appears you can't force plain-text everywhere, ie. turn off HTML completely. I should give it a longer shot but I reckon I'll keep using good old pine for now.
Thanks dude, the toolbar one was obvious enough...
Actually what I meant by toggle headers was whether there is a key mapping for that. I found the menu item, but in pine/mutt you can just press 'h' when viewing a message to toggle headers on/off.
Is it possible to reduce the size of the toolbar icons, and remove the text under the icons?
Is it possible to toggle full headers view on/off as you can in eg. PINE or mutt?
Or, since when does stability of a webserver matter if you've gotta be rebooting the OS it's running on?
I seem to find regular sites the same, but there are quite a few where Mozilla scrolls a lot slower. I guess scrolling != rendering speed. Can't think of any examples ATM but it seems to happen on sites with a lot of CSS / table-less code. The scrolling gets awfully slow sometimes, ie. when you drag the scrollbar it is very jerky.
Also I do tend to close/open windows a lot, because if I leave Mozilla open I occasionly get a stray mozilla.exe on Windows consuming all my CPU time. Must be a plugin crashing or something.
Anyway, I always get modded as flamebait whenever I say something negative about Mozilla! Boo hoo.
What would be the features adding 'soul' to Mozilla and Firefox?
- The ugly, non-standard user interface that looks wrong on every platform?
- The collection of themes? Do they add soul? Or the bickering and complaining in the community over stuff like what new theme to use as default? And the apparent rejection of their comments?
- The generally lower speed and reliability compared to IE on Windows?
Well, this is what I've noticed recently anyway. Don't get me wrong, I use Mozilla myself everyday and haven't touched IE in a year or more. But when I look at Mozilla, it's about as soulful as a dirty sock. A dirty sock with tabs and popup-blocking, though.
the tools [...] don't even play games that well
Why?
What are wikis good for anyway? Whenever I see a wiki I automatically select some text and delete it and save the changes, or type in some random crap. I just can't help myself! Do my changes actually get saved or what? It's weird. I've never bothered to find out what the point of a wiki is meant to be. And you can't even seem to have SPACES anywhere, you've gotta have ThisIsATopic or This-Topic. Wikis suck!
Do you realise you're a dick?
Dumbest question I've ever seen here.
That sounds like the comment of a beer drinker. Get pissed and piss off.
I have had very numbers of beers
Why did you drink beer?
Reminds me how ugly C code is. *shudder*
Services != servers
You're right. DNS, FTP and proxy can all be done on a single server. Some news.