A long time ago I use to think WinAMP was the bomb, and then I found Sonique, and found the sound quality far superior ( I use a pair of $500 stereo speakers). When I moved to Windows 2000 I found that Sonique was unstable, and was forced to move back WinAmp.
Well, Approx. 1 1/2 years ago I began using Linux -- Trying different distribution ( RedHat 9/ Fedora 1/2, Mandrake 9/9.1/10, and Suse 9.1 ) I found that will all the distributions the sound quality was leap & bound superior to anything on Windows. I don't know if this was XMMS or the sound system in Linux or what, but I knew there was a clear quality difference.
Anyways, I'm still forced to use Windows because of my job, but I have not been able to find a GOOD audio player -- Quintessential is the best I've found, and the audio quality is not much better than WinAmp
"...Though it's being drowned out by the Halo 2 news, Everquest 2 officially launches today...."
Personally, Halo 2 doesn't excite me at all -- There are already too many 1st person shooter games out there, and not enough true RPGs.
I remember playing EverQuest back when it use to be called Dragon Warrior -- the memories. I even managed to download copies of the versions only released in Japan, and Emulate them on my PC with a translator.
PS: EverQuest 2? EverQuest 2 was released in Japan for the SNES a long time ago -- What gives?
This is one more reason to not support the record Industry in anyway! I refuse to buy music. Don't give me the BS that I'm stealing from the artists. I go to approx. 12 to 18 concerts a year, and feel that I support the bands more from buying a ticket! When buying a CD all I support is a record label who steals from the band (this is why so many bands have taken record labels to court or refuse to use record companies).
Record companies don't give 2 shytes about the artists. They care about piracy because they loose money, and this is one more way to squeeze another dollar out of people.
In my opinion, if the record labels want a charge a yearly fee for such 'services' I beLIEve dentist should be allowed to get as many CDs they want for free -- after all they'll be paying for their customers to listen to their music.... Who am I kidding -- this will never happen. The music industry will make dentist (and others) pay twice!
This bug only happens when you dual boot from the same physical disk. Dual boot from two seperate physical disks (ie: Win2k on Disk1, FC2 on Disk2) and this NEVER happens.
Maybe the cost difference is that the Electrolux Trilobite 2.0 can actually clean a carpet beneath the surface. I've seen the roomba in action in stores, and it only cleans the top of the carpet -- who cares! This doesn't mean you have a clean carpet. I will only spend the money on one of these things if it does the following:
i. Contains on or two brushes that LIFT the carpet similar to how *most uprights do.
ii. Provide similar cleaning/sucking power as a 12amp Hoover.
What I saw from the Roomba is nothing but a Dust Buster - it cleans the surface, but nothing more!
Finally Progress. Eventually I would like to see a 40 or 80GB compact flash drive (with similar or better performance to a SATA drive) replace standard hard drives. Standard hard drives may be larger, but they still fail more frequently than flash cards. If the performance were the same I would sacrifice size for reliability any day.
the only additional functionality I would like to see would be for 'resume' downloads.
PS: If you want to see it added you can vote for the feature using Bugzilla
Does the Mozilla team have plans to bundle together FireFox, and Thunderbird similar to how Kmail, and Korgranzier (and a few other appz) were bundled using Kontact?
I know Linux/Unix users like to have seperate applications that are small and powerful, but I find that many Windows user want an application that does everything -- regardless of how poorly it works *cough* Look-Out... I mean Outlook *cough*
Actually, I recall reading some time ago that a 3000+ is equiv. performance of an 1Ghz Duron multiplied by 3 ( 1000 * 3 = 3000 ). While a 2700+ provides the performance of 1Ghz Duron * 2.7, etc...
I haven't had this issue dual booting Fedora Core 2 test 2 with Win2k SP4.
Currently dual booting with each OS on seperate physical drives - NOT partitions.
I'm also using a Promise ATA-100 IDE controller card (no raid) installed in a PCI slot with both drives connected to seperate channels.
Mozilla 1.8alpha Released.....
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I thought it would be nice for slashdot to report the release of Mozilla 1.8a since it's already doing a mozilla article. As reported on osnews.com
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/re le ases/mozilla1.8a1/
Is this a beginning of a new virus era....?
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Is this a beginning of a new virus era? I can see virus programmers making holes in their code on purpose just to release a second virus to take advantage of it. virus 'a' is programmed with a hole - virus 'b' takes advantage of it!
A fine case of hit them when they are down!
Slashdot Mirror
I really lucked out - I got almost a 29% increase (28.something)
I'm the proud owner of 69,000 a year (barely 5 yrs. experience).
Uh, Mozilla Mail has done this since at least version 1.4 - except for integrating with messenger. Old news to me - sorry bud!
If it won't include the Novell Exchange Connector this will be a complete waste of development.
This is hoping it will include it!
OpenOffice.org is also having a contest for a new splashscreen for vers. 2. Why doesn't slashdot post for them...???
A long time ago I use to think WinAMP was the bomb, and then I found Sonique, and found the sound quality far superior ( I use a pair of $500 stereo speakers). When I moved to Windows 2000 I found that Sonique was unstable, and was forced to move back WinAmp.
Well, Approx. 1 1/2 years ago I began using Linux -- Trying different distribution ( RedHat 9/ Fedora 1/2, Mandrake 9/9.1/10, and Suse 9.1 ) I found that will all the distributions the sound quality was leap & bound superior to anything on Windows. I don't know if this was XMMS or the sound system in Linux or what, but I knew there was a clear quality difference.
Anyways, I'm still forced to use Windows because of my job, but I have not been able to find a GOOD audio player -- Quintessential is the best I've found, and the audio quality is not much better than WinAmp
"...Though it's being drowned out by the Halo 2 news, Everquest 2 officially launches today...."
Personally, Halo 2 doesn't excite me at all -- There are already too many 1st person shooter games out there, and not enough true RPGs.
I remember playing EverQuest back when it use to be called Dragon Warrior -- the memories. I even managed to download copies of the versions only released in Japan, and Emulate them on my PC with a translator.
PS: EverQuest 2? EverQuest 2 was released in Japan for the SNES a long time ago -- What gives?
Or it could be that the new website cost too much for the small bank they have.
How many Mbits is the camera?
Get ready for another Icon placed on the Windows Desktop *sigh*
This is one more reason to not support the record Industry in anyway! I refuse to buy music. Don't give me the BS that I'm stealing from the artists. I go to approx. 12 to 18 concerts a year, and feel that I support the bands more from buying a ticket! When buying a CD all I support is a record label who steals from the band (this is why so many bands have taken record labels to court or refuse to use record companies).
Record companies don't give 2 shytes about the artists. They care about piracy because they loose money, and this is one more way to squeeze another dollar out of people.
In my opinion, if the record labels want a charge a yearly fee for such 'services' I beLIEve dentist should be allowed to get as many CDs they want for free -- after all they'll be paying for their customers to listen to their music.... Who am I kidding -- this will never happen. The music industry will make dentist (and others) pay twice!
Linux still needs a blue screen of death....
Anyone know of a tool for Mozilla or Thunderbird that I can check a gmail account without using a browser.
I'm currently using YahooPops to check my Yahoo Account, but if their was a tool for Gmail I would convert in a sec.
Thanks,
bl
This bug only happens when you dual boot from the same physical disk. Dual boot from two seperate physical disks (ie: Win2k on Disk1, FC2 on Disk2) and this NEVER happens.
Maybe the cost difference is that the Electrolux Trilobite 2.0 can actually clean a carpet beneath the surface. I've seen the roomba in action in stores, and it only cleans the top of the carpet -- who cares! This doesn't mean you have a clean carpet. I will only spend the money on one of these things if it does the following: i. Contains on or two brushes that LIFT the carpet similar to how *most uprights do. ii. Provide similar cleaning/sucking power as a 12amp Hoover. What I saw from the Roomba is nothing but a Dust Buster - it cleans the surface, but nothing more!
Finally Progress. Eventually I would like to see a 40 or 80GB compact flash drive (with similar or better performance to a SATA drive) replace standard hard drives. Standard hard drives may be larger, but they still fail more frequently than flash cards. If the performance were the same I would sacrifice size for reliability any day.
I just flamed Napter quoting your message!
LOL
Why would I pay 'Full' (or even a fraction of the) price for an audio file recorded at 128bit while CD quality is 168bit? WHY? WHY? WHY?
the only additional functionality I would like to see would be for 'resume' downloads. PS: If you want to see it added you can vote for the feature using Bugzilla
Does the Mozilla team have plans to bundle together FireFox, and Thunderbird similar to how Kmail, and Korgranzier (and a few other appz) were bundled using Kontact?
... I mean Outlook *cough*
I know Linux/Unix users like to have seperate applications that are small and powerful, but I find that many Windows user want an application that does everything -- regardless of how poorly it works *cough* Look-Out
Actually, I recall reading some time ago that a 3000+ is equiv. performance of an 1Ghz Duron multiplied by 3 ( 1000 * 3 = 3000 ). While a 2700+ provides the performance of 1Ghz Duron * 2.7, etc...
I haven't had this issue dual booting Fedora Core 2 test 2 with Win2k SP4. Currently dual booting with each OS on seperate physical drives - NOT partitions. I'm also using a Promise ATA-100 IDE controller card (no raid) installed in a PCI slot with both drives connected to seperate channels.
I thought it would be nice for slashdot to report the release of Mozilla 1.8a since it's already doing a mozilla article. As reported on osnews.com
e le ases/mozilla1.8a1/
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/r
In the future get a real OS.
Did I hear the word Linux?
Is this a beginning of a new virus era? I can see virus programmers making holes in their code on purpose just to release a second virus to take advantage of it. virus 'a' is programmed with a hole - virus 'b' takes advantage of it! A fine case of hit them when they are down!
Will Mozilla be integrating the connector?