Hmm. When you "told them" about all those features, did you remember to tell them that their kids (or them) wont be able to play any of the latest games, because they are still been made for Windows?
Yes, I know there are some big ones that are beign released for Linux, and yes I know about Wine, but Linux is still lightyears from providing the same gaming performance you would get from a Windows machine. Sad but true.
If this wasn't the case, I'd throw my XP into the trashbin in a second.
Honestly, I think the writer of this news article is just advertising this silly antispam idea.
I'll save my breath and just say that it's easy to see from all the replies on this thread how -stupid- idea this ABM thing really is. There's no way this would EVER be accepted as a "standard" solution for fighting spam.
Is it just me or does this just smell like a marketing gimmick?
Think about it: If the release was 1.5, noone would probably be too much exited, but when they suddenly call it "5" after 1.4, there's off course going to be more hype around it (=people hurrying to Sun site to find out what on earth is this about).
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I love the smell of new upgrades in the morning.
transparent caching anyone ?
http://www.squid-cache.org/
Don't have to worry about users changing any proxies on any program after this.
sxw torrent seems to -not- work. It gives "unexpected end of file" everytime.
Hmm. When you "told them" about all those features, did you remember to tell them that their kids (or them) wont be able to play any of the latest games, because they are still been made for Windows?
Yes, I know there are some big ones that are beign released for Linux, and yes I know about Wine, but Linux is still lightyears from providing the same gaming performance you would get from a Windows machine. Sad but true.
If this wasn't the case, I'd throw my XP into the trashbin in a second.
Honestly, I think the writer of this news article is just advertising this silly antispam idea.
I'll save my breath and just say that it's easy to see from all the replies on this thread how -stupid- idea this ABM thing really is. There's no way this would EVER be accepted as a "standard" solution for fighting spam.
Here's the thread about this cool article at MozillaZine:
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http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=9
Is it just me or does this just smell like a marketing gimmick?
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Think about it: If the release was 1.5, noone would probably be too much exited, but when they suddenly call it "5" after 1.4, there's off course going to be more hype around it (=people hurrying to Sun site to find out what on earth is this about).
I mean it got