How many janitors, guys selling chewing gum, and washroom attendents use FrameMaker? From all appearances the reason FrameMaker for Mac was dropped is because of a lack of demand for it. It could have been that when Adobe ported FrameMaker to Mac it thought that demand for FrameMaker would grow enough to justify porting it to Mac; but they guessed wrong. Keeping up an old Mac version of FrameMaker may not have been much of a cost burden for Adobe (even though the growth of Mac was less than 1%). After 13 years of experience with writing/porting software to Macs, the cost of porting FrameMaker to OS X may not be considered cost effective. Growing from 3.51% in 1991 to 4.49% in 2004 is less than 1% growth in 13 years (and remember that this is a best case, stretching things growth number), most trees grow faster than that.
There are many ways to thwart loyalty cards.
Some of them are:
*** Always give a different bogus name and address fro every card.
Have multiple cards. Be creative in which ones are used for each purchase. One card is used to buy only beer and pretzles, another card is used only for buying butter, oil, and shortening. Keep up interesting patterns for each card.
Trade cards with another person in line.
Give the person in front of you in line one of your cards if they don't have one.
Keep a special card to use out of town. Make a special point to use the special out of town card whenever you go out of town, even if it is just to buy a soda.
Use the same card at several different stores within the same town.
Leave old cards stuck in shopping carts.
I am not a lawyer and I agree with you in principle. I also believe that there should be laws similar to the German law that essentially says "put up or shut up". In this case, it is not a matter of waiting for a US court to decide whether Linux contains SCO's IP, it is a matter of waiting for a US court to decide whether SCO even owns the IP at all. I believe that the US has jurisdiction in deciding who owns the copyright for Unix System V code. After that decision is made, then let the lawsuits (against SCO) begin!
I am not real sure what the offending link was, but a search for Mark + Maughan + cpa goes to a List of Disciplinary Actions for California Board of Accountancy?s Licensees site. The site shows that he admitted his guilt and was disciplined in 2000. Among other things, he got 30 days suspension, three years probation, and had to pay a fine and costs of over $5000.
This guy is a CPA and should be very knowlegable regarding the regulations that regulation his profession.
According to his entry: "... Respondent and his accountancy corporation engaged in the practice of public accounting with expired licenses... failed to pay an administrative fine imposed by the Board... failure to pay the administrative fine caused the Board to withhold renewal of his CPA license."
It appears that Google worked as it should and it does not appear that there was any deliberate attempts to skew Google's results for this search.
In many ways it would. Besides cost there would be other benefits, such as negligible latency, easier station keeping, faster deployment, less regulatory hassles (probably), far fewer politics involved, less crowding (for now). There would also be less power required due to the far closer distance, which means better engineering trade-offs. Geosynchronous satellites are a genuine pain in the ass, these would help the situation greatly. Currently, geosynchronous satellites are operated in a very limited number of bands, these aircraft could broadcast TV and radio in standard broadcast bands. These aircraft could not only replace some satellite applications, they could also replace some terrestrial radio applicaitons. There are potential applications that couldn't be done with terrestrial or satellite radio.
BULLSHIT The lowest security classification is "Confidential". The poster's description of the requirements for a security container is pure horseshit. The secure container requirements are wierd, and generally require a GSA-approved Security Container, but no where does it say to use graphite. There are different requirements if information is stored in a vault, which may be where the "armed gate" thing came in. A secure vault requires 8 inch thick concrete walls - still no mention of graphite.
For info see chapter 8 of
http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/dod/5200-1r/
I couldn't find the authoritative requirements for a GSA-approved security container, but it appears that it must have a combination lock and that it must withstand the following:
10 man-minutes against forced entry.
20 man-hours against surreptitious entry
And possibly
30 man-minutes against covert entry.
No graphite requirents
The World Wildlife Fund successfully sued the World Wrestling Federation to stop using the name "WWF". The World Wrestling Federation changed it's name to World Wrestling E-something. I think it started with a dispute over the "wwf" domain name.
Retain the logs for three days and then delete them. Three days is long enough to investigate abuse (spam) and to comply with subpoenas involving life and limb, but it is not long enough for the customer to be abused by John Doe lawsuits. Yeah, so what if it's not long enough for fraud or kiddie pron investigations.
Why hasn't the Canadian Department of National Defence updated it's name to Defense Canada, like Health Canada and some other agencies have? "Defense Canada" has a much nicer ring to it than "Canadian Department of National Defence".
No, Earthlink will not unblock your port 25 if you call and threaten to drop -- and this is a Good thing. Allowing open port 25 on consumer (and most other classes of users too) is a BAD thing. I believe that if all dialup and broadband consumer users had port 25 blocked that it would stop almost all viruses that are spread via email. Tough titties if somebody doesn't want to use their ISP's mail server -- I don't want to drive 55 either.
Yes it well within the ISP's right (at least for users without pink contracts). The user is bound to the ISP's TOS/other agreements and if the user is in violation of those agreements the ISP can suspend or terminate service. I believe that sending spam and viruses is against the TOS of all legitimate ISPs (even on a hijacked machine). Remember that ISPs are NOT common carriers. I just wish that broadband providers would restrict SMTP traffic only to the ISP's mail relay for residential accounts. Most, if not all, dialup providers now restrict port 25 and it has dramatically cut down on the spam and virus propogation from dialup machines.
Of course, you could add a battery to anything in order to get rid of the power cord. The problem is that batteries have a very finite amount of power stored in them and you either have to replace or recharge the batteries when they no longer have sufficiant power stored in them to operate the device that they are connected to. In some cases, such as clocks, the current drain on the battery is so small that using disposable batteries is a reasonable solution. In other cases, such as the DVD burner and hard drive that you specifically mention, the power usage by the device makes the use of disposable batteries very costly and many people prefer to use rechargable batteries. Although there are potentially several ways to recharge batteries, such as wind up chargers and solar panels, most people just connect the device to a battery charger/power supply that is powered by an AC power source and the power cord issue does not go away, it's need is simply reduced. The point of some posters is that many devices don't really need to have wireless connectivity because the nature of the data stored in the device is such that it can wait until the battery in the device requires charging and a data cord can be connected at the same time that a power cord is connected. Of course there are devices that require data connectivity at times when the battery within the device does not require charging, in these cases a wireless data link is very desirable. As with many engineering problems the need for a specific technology depends upon the use of the system or device that is being engineered.
I may be a bit naive, but unless there are onerous conditions to a license, what difference does it make if open source licenses are not "compatible with the GPL"? Open source software is released under several different types of licenses, such as BSD, Apache, GPL, Perl, etc., each with it's own peculiarities. A distribution is a collection of different programs that hopefully play nice together. A Linux distribution is essentially a kernel released under a GPL license with a bunch of other stuff. A *BSD distribution is essentially a kernel released under a BSD license with a bunch of other stuff. In both of these cases the "bunch of other stuff" is pretty much the same stuff, all released under a variety of licenses. There are purist distributions that won't include stuff with certain types licenses either due to some sort of moral issue or due to perceived onerous licensing requirements, such as the new XFree86 license. To the user these different license types don't make any difference, as long as they are open source. These licensing differences do make a difference to anybody who wishes to distribute software based on an open source sofware because the developers have to actually read and heed the license and they may not be able to distribute the code as they would want to. Guess what, the owner of the copyright of the code has the right to place pretty much any restrictions on it's distribution as he wishes.
Yes, it would be much simpler for all open source sofware to use the same license; just as it would be much simpler for all auto manufacturers to put headlight and windshield wiper switches in the same places. The user does not care what software licenses are used any more than he cares where the headlight switches are placed as long as they both work for him.
Except for phone numbers that the government specifically says are portable, such as cell phone and 800 numbers; telephone numbers are "owned" by the phone companies much the same way as IP addresses are owned. It is up to the phone company, their tariffs, and the state regulators to specify how non-portable phone numbers can be transferred. Remember that most phone numbers are assigned by regulated entities with published tariffs and LOTS of governmental regulation (state and federal) and Bellcore coordination. This also explains why there could be differences between the transfer policies of Verizon in New York and Bell South in Tennesee.
I am not sure what driver problems you have had because I either have seen driver problems or haven't depending upon how you mean the question.
Except for 5.2.1-RC, which seems to have a bug that caused problems with loading the NIC driver, I haven't had any problems with FreeBSD 5 recognising any of the drivers on my relatively simple Asus P2B and Dell OptiPlex systems. The only driver hassle at all could be in configuring X11. So, no, I haven't had any driver problems with a released version of FreeBSD.
I have been playing around with Fedora and I was REAL surprised when it identified and configured the drivers for my sound and video cards, and even properly identified the monitor on the Optiplex. BUT, Fedora misidentified the NEC Multisync LCD monitor on the Asus as being an NEC Multisync CRT monitor -- with really BAD results. So in this regard, I think that the sound and X11 configuration in FreeBSD is a bit behind Fedora in identifying cards and configuring drivers, and Fedora's X11 configuration is not perfect. Can you fault FreeBSD for not automating X11 configuration or can you fault Fedora for not having a really new model monitor in it's database?
I have finally stopped feeling sorry for the lusers that won't listen to advice on how not to get burned. It used to be that folks who got viruses, had their computer dial expensive phone numbers, had disgusting pictures display on their screen could claim that the Internet is all new to them and they could claim ignorance. Things have changed, if people don't know by now that the Internet is a dangerous place and how to protect themselves, then they are just plain stupid. Some people blame the bad guys and Microsoft for people doing really stupid things on the Internet, the problem is with lusers that don't listen when they are told how to prvent this shit. Maybe a license isn't such a bad idea.
This is not a story, it is a Microsoft sponsored FUD piece. A site with Microsoft as an advertiser, running IIS on Windows 2000 trying to find something to spread FUD against OSS.
I wonder if Devx would comment on how many security vulnerabilies have been exploited in IIS vs. the number of exploited vulnerabilities in Apache?
Not necessarily related: Does Devx want to discuss why their IIS website uptime is so pathetic compared to most OSS web servers? Netcraft is showing a moving 90 day average uptime for www.devx.com of about three weeks.
IANAL and this pertains to US (maybe others). No it would probably not be OK to advertise or sell a car from a company called Yolkswagen because Volkswagon is a registered trademark. You also could not sell software named Microsloth Windows because Microsoft Windows is a trademark and there would be confusion. The question is whether Microsoft can claim a trademark on the word "windows" in the context of software. I believe that Xerox called their invention that displayed a window-like object on a screen a "window" and I believe that Apple also calls their window-like object displayed on a screen a "window" -- and they both used the term "window" prior to Microsoft trademarking and selling a product named "Microsoft Windows". Trademarking the word "windows" is the same as trademarking the word "automobile". Imagine Acme Automobile (TM) suing Smith Automobile (TM) for trademark infringment over the word "automobile".
I can run computers just fine, what I want are the new appliances to be as easy to use as my computers. The new digital cameras totaly suck for ease of use and some of the new televisions have menus that make mord processor menus look simple. I want a television that is as easy to set up as FreeBSD is to install. I want an easy to use telephone that doesn't require a 40 page user manual. Don't get me started on the new receivers -- not only do you have to select the input jacks, I now have have to tell the receiver the format of the input and how I want it processed. I just want to be able to switch the receiver from the CD player to the DVD player. Speaking of CD players, why did Sony make a 400 disk CD player without an Ethernet jack and computer interface? Yeah, computers can be a bitch to use, but no worse than many other appliances.
Why is it that on occasion that the top 10 to 50 "hits" all show urls with different domain names but they all point to the same website?
Why is it that there are so many fake search engines that get top spots on Google - many times with totally random words.
I am starting to get tired of Google allowing this sort of gaming. Now, I just need to find a suitable replacement....
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I believe that many people in the US have a very strong habit of labling anything that doesn't obviously have a $PROFIT motivation as being socialistic, communistic, or anti-American. The propoganda spread by the religious zealots, the US government, and by US corporations has made many Americans scared of anything that has the appearance of being socialistic, communistic, or anti-American. Remember that the propogandists get to choose what is socialistic, communistic, or anti-American. The rest of the world does not seem to have had the same level of socialist and communist aversion training as American citizens have had.
On Win2k, FreeBSD, and Linux I very much prefer to use Opera. I frequently have to use Mozilla on the BSD and Linux boxes because some web pages don't like to play with Opera. I sometimes have to use Firebird or even MSIE because some web pages don't like to play with Opera, Firebird, Mozilla, or even Netscape 7. On Solaris I use Mozilla and have to go to the Win2k box for some sites. The lack of installer included with Firebird is sort of a nice thing as I don't really like most installers.
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Dell was (half assed) trying to sell Linux to people running MS Windows, HP will be trying to sell Linux to people running Unix.
How many janitors, guys selling chewing gum, and washroom attendents use FrameMaker? From all appearances the reason FrameMaker for Mac was dropped is because of a lack of demand for it. It could have been that when Adobe ported FrameMaker to Mac it thought that demand for FrameMaker would grow enough to justify porting it to Mac; but they guessed wrong. Keeping up an old Mac version of FrameMaker may not have been much of a cost burden for Adobe (even though the growth of Mac was less than 1%). After 13 years of experience with writing/porting software to Macs, the cost of porting FrameMaker to OS X may not be considered cost effective. Growing from 3.51% in 1991 to 4.49% in 2004 is less than 1% growth in 13 years (and remember that this is a best case, stretching things growth number), most trees grow faster than that.
There are many ways to thwart loyalty cards. Some of them are: *** Always give a different bogus name and address fro every card. Have multiple cards. Be creative in which ones are used for each purchase. One card is used to buy only beer and pretzles, another card is used only for buying butter, oil, and shortening. Keep up interesting patterns for each card. Trade cards with another person in line. Give the person in front of you in line one of your cards if they don't have one. Keep a special card to use out of town. Make a special point to use the special out of town card whenever you go out of town, even if it is just to buy a soda. Use the same card at several different stores within the same town. Leave old cards stuck in shopping carts.
I am not a lawyer and I agree with you in principle. I also believe that there should be laws similar to the German law that essentially says "put up or shut up". In this case, it is not a matter of waiting for a US court to decide whether Linux contains SCO's IP, it is a matter of waiting for a US court to decide whether SCO even owns the IP at all. I believe that the US has jurisdiction in deciding who owns the copyright for Unix System V code. After that decision is made, then let the lawsuits (against SCO) begin!
I am not real sure what the offending link was, but a search for Mark + Maughan + cpa goes to a List of Disciplinary Actions for California Board of Accountancy?s Licensees site. The site shows that he admitted his guilt and was disciplined in 2000. Among other things, he got 30 days suspension, three years probation, and had to pay a fine and costs of over $5000. This guy is a CPA and should be very knowlegable regarding the regulations that regulation his profession. According to his entry: "... Respondent and his accountancy corporation engaged in the practice of public accounting with expired licenses... failed to pay an administrative fine imposed by the Board... failure to pay the administrative fine caused the Board to withhold renewal of his CPA license." It appears that Google worked as it should and it does not appear that there was any deliberate attempts to skew Google's results for this search.
In many ways it would. Besides cost there would be other benefits, such as negligible latency, easier station keeping, faster deployment, less regulatory hassles (probably), far fewer politics involved, less crowding (for now). There would also be less power required due to the far closer distance, which means better engineering trade-offs. Geosynchronous satellites are a genuine pain in the ass, these would help the situation greatly. Currently, geosynchronous satellites are operated in a very limited number of bands, these aircraft could broadcast TV and radio in standard broadcast bands. These aircraft could not only replace some satellite applications, they could also replace some terrestrial radio applicaitons. There are potential applications that couldn't be done with terrestrial or satellite radio.
BULLSHIT The lowest security classification is "Confidential". The poster's description of the requirements for a security container is pure horseshit. The secure container requirements are wierd, and generally require a GSA-approved Security Container, but no where does it say to use graphite. There are different requirements if information is stored in a vault, which may be where the "armed gate" thing came in. A secure vault requires 8 inch thick concrete walls - still no mention of graphite. For info see chapter 8 of http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/dod/5200-1r/ I couldn't find the authoritative requirements for a GSA-approved security container, but it appears that it must have a combination lock and that it must withstand the following: 10 man-minutes against forced entry. 20 man-hours against surreptitious entry And possibly 30 man-minutes against covert entry. No graphite requirents
The World Wildlife Fund successfully sued the World Wrestling Federation to stop using the name "WWF". The World Wrestling Federation changed it's name to World Wrestling E-something. I think it started with a dispute over the "wwf" domain name.
US ISPs are not required to maintain connection records. I do not know about Canadian ISPs, it sounds like they are not required to do so.
Retain the logs for three days and then delete them. Three days is long enough to investigate abuse (spam) and to comply with subpoenas involving life and limb, but it is not long enough for the customer to be abused by John Doe lawsuits. Yeah, so what if it's not long enough for fraud or kiddie pron investigations.
Why hasn't the Canadian Department of National Defence updated it's name to Defense Canada, like Health Canada and some other agencies have? "Defense Canada" has a much nicer ring to it than "Canadian Department of National Defence".
No, Earthlink will not unblock your port 25 if you call and threaten to drop -- and this is a Good thing. Allowing open port 25 on consumer (and most other classes of users too) is a BAD thing. I believe that if all dialup and broadband consumer users had port 25 blocked that it would stop almost all viruses that are spread via email. Tough titties if somebody doesn't want to use their ISP's mail server -- I don't want to drive 55 either.
Yes it well within the ISP's right (at least for users without pink contracts). The user is bound to the ISP's TOS/other agreements and if the user is in violation of those agreements the ISP can suspend or terminate service. I believe that sending spam and viruses is against the TOS of all legitimate ISPs (even on a hijacked machine). Remember that ISPs are NOT common carriers. I just wish that broadband providers would restrict SMTP traffic only to the ISP's mail relay for residential accounts. Most, if not all, dialup providers now restrict port 25 and it has dramatically cut down on the spam and virus propogation from dialup machines.
Of course, you could add a battery to anything in order to get rid of the power cord. The problem is that batteries have a very finite amount of power stored in them and you either have to replace or recharge the batteries when they no longer have sufficiant power stored in them to operate the device that they are connected to. In some cases, such as clocks, the current drain on the battery is so small that using disposable batteries is a reasonable solution. In other cases, such as the DVD burner and hard drive that you specifically mention, the power usage by the device makes the use of disposable batteries very costly and many people prefer to use rechargable batteries. Although there are potentially several ways to recharge batteries, such as wind up chargers and solar panels, most people just connect the device to a battery charger/power supply that is powered by an AC power source and the power cord issue does not go away, it's need is simply reduced. The point of some posters is that many devices don't really need to have wireless connectivity because the nature of the data stored in the device is such that it can wait until the battery in the device requires charging and a data cord can be connected at the same time that a power cord is connected. Of course there are devices that require data connectivity at times when the battery within the device does not require charging, in these cases a wireless data link is very desirable. As with many engineering problems the need for a specific technology depends upon the use of the system or device that is being engineered.
I may be a bit naive, but unless there are onerous conditions to a license, what difference does it make if open source licenses are not "compatible with the GPL"? Open source software is released under several different types of licenses, such as BSD, Apache, GPL, Perl, etc., each with it's own peculiarities. A distribution is a collection of different programs that hopefully play nice together. A Linux distribution is essentially a kernel released under a GPL license with a bunch of other stuff. A *BSD distribution is essentially a kernel released under a BSD license with a bunch of other stuff. In both of these cases the "bunch of other stuff" is pretty much the same stuff, all released under a variety of licenses. There are purist distributions that won't include stuff with certain types licenses either due to some sort of moral issue or due to perceived onerous licensing requirements, such as the new XFree86 license. To the user these different license types don't make any difference, as long as they are open source. These licensing differences do make a difference to anybody who wishes to distribute software based on an open source sofware because the developers have to actually read and heed the license and they may not be able to distribute the code as they would want to. Guess what, the owner of the copyright of the code has the right to place pretty much any restrictions on it's distribution as he wishes.
Yes, it would be much simpler for all open source sofware to use the same license; just as it would be much simpler for all auto manufacturers to put headlight and windshield wiper switches in the same places. The user does not care what software licenses are used any more than he cares where the headlight switches are placed as long as they both work for him.
Except for phone numbers that the government specifically says are portable, such as cell phone and 800 numbers; telephone numbers are "owned" by the phone companies much the same way as IP addresses are owned. It is up to the phone company, their tariffs, and the state regulators to specify how non-portable phone numbers can be transferred. Remember that most phone numbers are assigned by regulated entities with published tariffs and LOTS of governmental regulation (state and federal) and Bellcore coordination. This also explains why there could be differences between the transfer policies of Verizon in New York and Bell South in Tennesee.
I am not sure what driver problems you have had because I either have seen driver problems or haven't depending upon how you mean the question.
Except for 5.2.1-RC, which seems to have a bug that caused problems with loading the NIC driver, I haven't had any problems with FreeBSD 5 recognising any of the drivers on my relatively simple Asus P2B and Dell OptiPlex systems. The only driver hassle at all could be in configuring X11. So, no, I haven't had any driver problems with a released version of FreeBSD.
I have been playing around with Fedora and I was REAL surprised when it identified and configured the drivers for my sound and video cards, and even properly identified the monitor on the Optiplex. BUT, Fedora misidentified the NEC Multisync LCD monitor on the Asus as being an NEC Multisync CRT monitor -- with really BAD results. So in this regard, I think that the sound and X11 configuration in FreeBSD is a bit behind Fedora in identifying cards and configuring drivers, and Fedora's X11 configuration is not perfect. Can you fault FreeBSD for not automating X11 configuration or can you fault Fedora for not having a really new model monitor in it's database?
I have finally stopped feeling sorry for the lusers that won't listen to advice on how not to get burned. It used to be that folks who got viruses, had their computer dial expensive phone numbers, had disgusting pictures display on their screen could claim that the Internet is all new to them and they could claim ignorance. Things have changed, if people don't know by now that the Internet is a dangerous place and how to protect themselves, then they are just plain stupid. Some people blame the bad guys and Microsoft for people doing really stupid things on the Internet, the problem is with lusers that don't listen when they are told how to prvent this shit. Maybe a license isn't such a bad idea.
This is not a story, it is a Microsoft sponsored FUD piece. A site with Microsoft as an advertiser, running IIS on Windows 2000 trying to find something to spread FUD against OSS. I wonder if Devx would comment on how many security vulnerabilies have been exploited in IIS vs. the number of exploited vulnerabilities in Apache? Not necessarily related: Does Devx want to discuss why their IIS website uptime is so pathetic compared to most OSS web servers? Netcraft is showing a moving 90 day average uptime for www.devx.com of about three weeks.
IANAL and this pertains to US (maybe others). No it would probably not be OK to advertise or sell a car from a company called Yolkswagen because Volkswagon is a registered trademark. You also could not sell software named Microsloth Windows because Microsoft Windows is a trademark and there would be confusion. The question is whether Microsoft can claim a trademark on the word "windows" in the context of software. I believe that Xerox called their invention that displayed a window-like object on a screen a "window" and I believe that Apple also calls their window-like object displayed on a screen a "window" -- and they both used the term "window" prior to Microsoft trademarking and selling a product named "Microsoft Windows". Trademarking the word "windows" is the same as trademarking the word "automobile". Imagine Acme Automobile (TM) suing Smith Automobile (TM) for trademark infringment over the word "automobile".
I can run computers just fine, what I want are the new appliances to be as easy to use as my computers. The new digital cameras totaly suck for ease of use and some of the new televisions have menus that make mord processor menus look simple. I want a television that is as easy to set up as FreeBSD is to install. I want an easy to use telephone that doesn't require a 40 page user manual. Don't get me started on the new receivers -- not only do you have to select the input jacks, I now have have to tell the receiver the format of the input and how I want it processed. I just want to be able to switch the receiver from the CD player to the DVD player. Speaking of CD players, why did Sony make a 400 disk CD player without an Ethernet jack and computer interface? Yeah, computers can be a bitch to use, but no worse than many other appliances.
Why is it that on occasion that the top 10 to 50 "hits" all show urls with different domain names but they all point to the same website? Why is it that there are so many fake search engines that get top spots on Google - many times with totally random words. I am starting to get tired of Google allowing this sort of gaming. Now, I just need to find a suitable replacement ....
I believe that many people in the US have a very strong habit of labling anything that doesn't obviously have a $PROFIT motivation as being socialistic, communistic, or anti-American. The propoganda spread by the religious zealots, the US government, and by US corporations has made many Americans scared of anything that has the appearance of being socialistic, communistic, or anti-American. Remember that the propogandists get to choose what is socialistic, communistic, or anti-American. The rest of the world does not seem to have had the same level of socialist and communist aversion training as American citizens have had.
On Win2k, FreeBSD, and Linux I very much prefer to use Opera. I frequently have to use Mozilla on the BSD and Linux boxes because some web pages don't like to play with Opera. I sometimes have to use Firebird or even MSIE because some web pages don't like to play with Opera, Firebird, Mozilla, or even Netscape 7. On Solaris I use Mozilla and have to go to the Win2k box for some sites. The lack of installer included with Firebird is sort of a nice thing as I don't really like most installers.
There is an article about using a PLL to stabilize the frequency of microwave oven magnetrons at http://www.vhfdx.net/oven.html