I seemed to have figured out what the problem was on my own. When im selecting text to highlight, i hold down ctrl early (before i hit c) and these causes the the problem. Not even a bug, just selecting webpage items i think using just ctrl and clicking on something. Something that IE didnt have.
Thank you very much for the info.
As for the highlighting problem, i just reproduced it right now by highlighting your text a couple times. I get a grey box appear outside the entire text area and can no longer highlight text anywhere on the page (the grey box stays). only way to solve is to refresh . I took a screenshot of the bug hopefully this will help people understand the problem a little better.
Thats one of the many things i like about idsoftware. They also made a port of doom 1 & 2 to linux console, to my knowledge. Too bad idsoftware doesnt make games anymore, just oversees them and provides their quake engine.
In Windows, there are only two modes: clone screen and make all the screens a single desktop.
This isn't totally true. If you have a decent graphics card there may be extra support.
For instance, I own a geforce4 with tv-out and there are more then 2 modes.
There are 5 modes I can set in the Nvidia Settings:
Dual View, Vertical Span, Horizontal Span, Clone, and Single Display
The number of things you can do with XFree86 and Linux is endless,
Not in terms of gaming unfortunately. There is nothing like DirectX. There is only really OpenGL, which is great and all, but not nearly as complete or well documented as the DirectX api (Direct3D, DirectSound, DirectInput, etc..)
DirectX is great for game programming in windows (to my knowledge xbox uses DirectX aswell). Linux needs something like DirectX imo, not a distribution designed solely for games.
I'm not trying to sell DirectX, i'm just saying its ALOT easier to program games in Windows over Linux, and this is one of the main reasons why there arent many quality games for linux as of yet. I do hope this changes as linux is a much better OS and deserves some good games, not just windows ports.
I would agree with you about Mozilla, except for a few issues I have.
1) Sometimes the helper application work, sometimes they dont. For example, clicking on a.torrent will sometimes do the appropriate thing, sometimes it will just open the raw data in mozilla. Not sure if this is problem related to mozilla though.
2) Ctrl+C (copying text), Sometimes when I highlight text to copy, it selects like an invisible box around the text region. Only way to fix this is to reload the page and try highlighting the text again.
I agree 100% with you holy smoke.
There is a need for out of the box applications. All operating systems come with built-in software.
Without that built in software, you would have to go out and buy even more 3rd party software. Who wants to have to go out and buy a simple text editor or calculator for their pc?
What if Microsoft HAD 0 software.
Would you have to go out and buy your own calc.exe, notepad.exe, browser.exe, program-to-view-extension.exe, etc..
How would you download software from the internet? if Microsoft doesnt HAVE any (out of the box) software to access the internet?
Personally, i like being able to click on a file and have a helper application that can open it without having to search the internet for programs to handle all the 1000+ file types.
With Linux you have different distributions, why can't Windows work on the same principle?
Linux is open source, Windows is not.
Having Windows distributions is the only way I see of overcoming Microsoft's anti-competitive monopoly.
You mean like 3.1, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2k, XP, etc.
I dislike Microsoft, but I DISLIKE Lindows even more..
Lindows gives the Linux Community a bad name.
Honestly, I think the majority of linux users hope Lindows goes belly up.
If I were Microsoft...
I would say to EU, fine, you dont like windows? You dont have to use it...and then I would proceed to remove all windows' products from their country..
No one is forcing anyone to use microsoft windows, if you dont like it or any applications "bundled" with it, you do not have it use it, simple as that.
The good thing about Windows is you dont have to recompile its kernel every week when a newer version comes out.
You can't tell me that Linux is easier to use and install hardware drivers for than Windows.
Maybe not easier, but just as easy. Ever try booting knoppix? detects everything for me just fine.
My only qualms with linux, or more specifically, X and KDE, is that it takes atleast twice as long to bootup as Windows XP.
While I dislike WMP, I do not believe that Real can tell another company which formats they MUST use/support.
I dont hear Apple threatening to sue because MLB wont make.mov formats available.
What If i own a porn site with wmp movies only? Will I get a letter from Real's lawyers?
Maybe US and Canada will be able to understand each other too now. Maybe this will prevent another friendly-fire accident. Like when in Afghanistan, a US pilot on "uppers" bombed and killed a few Canadian troops.
I hope that 6th grade teacher was at a private school? NO TEACHER should be preaching their values to students in public school.
Do they realize that the majority of students come from different backgrounds and religions?
Passion of the Christ IS a fictional movie based off a fictional book.
There was an article in my paper about a dad that took his 6 year old son and 10 year old daughter to that movie. That is so outrageous, how much of a religous nut are you that you bring such young kids to a violent movie.
Game violence is fictional as any person with a brain knows. Try turning on CNN for a while and watch Dubya's War on Iraq...great footage of innocent families being killed.
Most people i know have 1gig of ram whether its the gamers, software developers or computer graphics/animation peeps that need it for rendering.
512mb was good last year. 1gb is good now. I'll probably need 2gb next year.
There is the same ability to access porn on IE as mozilla, tabbed browsing or not.
And i don't see how firefox could tempt you to look at porn when you normally wouldn't...for the simple excuse that without tabbed browsing, it is impossible to look at porn.
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I seemed to have figured out what the problem was on my own. When im selecting text to highlight, i hold down ctrl early (before i hit c) and these causes the the problem. Not even a bug, just selecting webpage items i think using just ctrl and clicking on something. Something that IE didnt have.
Thank you very much for the info.
As for the highlighting problem, i just reproduced it right now by highlighting your text a couple times. I get a grey box appear outside the entire text area and can no longer highlight text anywhere on the page (the grey box stays). only way to solve is to refresh . I took a screenshot of the bug hopefully this will help people understand the problem a little better.
btw, i am using Mozilla 1.6 on XP Pro
Thats one of the many things i like about idsoftware. They also made a port of doom 1 & 2 to linux console, to my knowledge. Too bad idsoftware doesnt make games anymore, just oversees them and provides their quake engine.
In Windows, there are only two modes: clone screen and make all the screens a single desktop.
This isn't totally true. If you have a decent graphics card there may be extra support.
For instance, I own a geforce4 with tv-out and there are more then 2 modes.
There are 5 modes I can set in the Nvidia Settings:
Dual View,
Vertical Span,
Horizontal Span,
Clone,
and Single Display
The number of things you can do with XFree86 and Linux is endless,
Not in terms of gaming unfortunately. There is nothing like DirectX. There is only really OpenGL, which is great and all, but not nearly as complete or well documented as the DirectX api (Direct3D, DirectSound, DirectInput, etc..)
DirectX is great for game programming in windows (to my knowledge xbox uses DirectX aswell). Linux needs something like DirectX imo, not a distribution designed solely for games.
I'm not trying to sell DirectX, i'm just saying its ALOT easier to program games in Windows over Linux, and this is one of the main reasons why there arent many quality games for linux as of yet. I do hope this changes as linux is a much better OS and deserves some good games, not just windows ports.
LOL.... who woulda thought!
I would agree with you about Mozilla, except for a few issues I have. 1) Sometimes the helper application work, sometimes they dont. For example, clicking on a .torrent will sometimes do the appropriate thing, sometimes it will just open the raw data in mozilla. Not sure if this is problem related to mozilla though.
2) Ctrl+C (copying text), Sometimes when I highlight text to copy, it selects like an invisible box around the text region. Only way to fix this is to reload the page and try highlighting the text again.
I agree 100% with you holy smoke. There is a need for out of the box applications. All operating systems come with built-in software. Without that built in software, you would have to go out and buy even more 3rd party software. Who wants to have to go out and buy a simple text editor or calculator for their pc?
Dont forget, IE is required to view windows update in the first place.. Because all other browsers dont support insecure activeX i guess.
What if Microsoft HAD 0 software.
Would you have to go out and buy your own calc.exe, notepad.exe, browser.exe, program-to-view-extension.exe, etc..
How would you download software from the internet? if Microsoft doesnt HAVE any (out of the box) software to access the internet?
Personally, i like being able to click on a file and have a helper application that can open it without having to search the internet for programs to handle all the 1000+ file types.
With Linux you have different distributions, why can't Windows work on the same principle?
Linux is open source, Windows is not.
Having Windows distributions is the only way I see of overcoming Microsoft's anti-competitive monopoly.
You mean like 3.1, 95, 98, ME, NT, 2k, XP, etc.
I dislike Microsoft, but I DISLIKE Lindows even more.. Lindows gives the Linux Community a bad name. Honestly, I think the majority of linux users hope Lindows goes belly up.
If I were Microsoft... I would say to EU, fine, you dont like windows? You dont have to use it...and then I would proceed to remove all windows' products from their country.. No one is forcing anyone to use microsoft windows, if you dont like it or any applications "bundled" with it, you do not have it use it, simple as that.
What is the point of an operating system if it doesnt come with software.
What if windows didnt come with iexplore.exe or ftp.exe, etc.. How would you download mozilla?
What if windows didnt come with any programs at all, u had to find ur own calc.exe and notepad.exe tool.
Sounds pretty silly to me.
Lets provide a Linux dist, with no cp, mv, ls, rm, etc. etc..
The point is, Operating systems need bundled software if they want to be useful.
This sounds like a good idea to me.
The way I figure it, if 1 million people were regular (once a day) in a city, that would produce 5.1 million watts per day.
What about china with 1 billion people, say they were all regular aswell. Thats 1 billion watts per day to add onto your power grid.
What about non-human waste aswell? Cows, pigs, etc.. Surely you can produce energy out of that aswell?
The good thing about Windows is you dont have to recompile its kernel every week when a newer version comes out. You can't tell me that Linux is easier to use and install hardware drivers for than Windows. Maybe not easier, but just as easy. Ever try booting knoppix? detects everything for me just fine. My only qualms with linux, or more specifically, X and KDE, is that it takes atleast twice as long to bootup as Windows XP.
I'd say when you control 90% or more of the market, you have an effective and profitable OS, whether its Windows or not.
While I dislike WMP, I do not believe that Real can tell another company which formats they MUST use/support. I dont hear Apple threatening to sue because MLB wont make .mov formats available.
What If i own a porn site with wmp movies only? Will I get a letter from Real's lawyers?
Why would you need MS Office or OpenOffice? My brain does word processing just fine.
Why pay for a word processor when there are great programs like notepad.exe and write.exe
Maybe US and Canada will be able to understand each other too now. Maybe this will prevent another friendly-fire accident. Like when in Afghanistan, a US pilot on "uppers" bombed and killed a few Canadian troops.
I hope that 6th grade teacher was at a private school? NO TEACHER should be preaching their values to students in public school. Do they realize that the majority of students come from different backgrounds and religions? Passion of the Christ IS a fictional movie based off a fictional book.
There was an article in my paper about a dad that took his 6 year old son and 10 year old daughter to that movie. That is so outrageous, how much of a religous nut are you that you bring such young kids to a violent movie.
Game violence is fictional as any person with a brain knows. Try turning on CNN for a while and watch Dubya's War on Iraq...great footage of innocent families being killed.
Most people i know have 1gig of ram whether its the gamers, software developers or computer graphics/animation peeps that need it for rendering. 512mb was good last year. 1gb is good now. I'll probably need 2gb next year.
Users don't need more then 640k of mem
There is the same ability to access porn on IE as mozilla, tabbed browsing or not. And i don't see how firefox could tempt you to look at porn when you normally wouldn't...for the simple excuse that without tabbed browsing, it is impossible to look at porn.
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