Well, it's not hard to sort your bookmarks. Just click bookmarks, then manage bookmarks, and then right click on any link and select "sort by name". There's also a plugin called "sort bookmarks" that does this and more.
Regarding the importing of passwords, the mozilla site says:
"Firefox imports your existing settings from Internet Explorer. An import wizard will run when you first install Firefox (and is also available later through the File menu, File > Import), and it imports your Favorites, options, cookies, stored passwords, and a variety of other data. This saves you time customizing Firefox to fit your needs."
I haven't tried using this but if this didn't work as advertised for you then that is certainly a cause for concern.
If you don't like the spinning circle at the top you can simply install another theme that doesn't feature this. Right now the mozilla site is really slow so you probably won't be able to reach the themes site, so try later.
Personally I could not live without tabbed browsing so IE is no longer an option for me. Also there are plugins like Adblock (I use these filters) that make it indispensible for me.
The register has an article on this. If this is done on purpose it's really ridiculous. What about all the over-seas Americans trying to access the website?
"It's legal but it ain't hundred percent legal, I mean, you just can't walk into a restaurant, roll a joint and start puffin' away. They want you to smoke in your home or certain designated places." "known as the hash bars ?" "ok, it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it, and if you're the proprietor of a hash bar, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, but...but that dosen't matter, 'cause, get a load of this; all right, if you get stopped by a cop in Amsterdam, it's illegal for them to search you. I mean that's a right the cops in Amsterdam don't have."
Don't think that this is about Europeans wanting to lecture Americans about how democracy. The process of economic globalisation, and the fact that politics continues to influence that process means that it is in their interest to know whether the American democratic process is somehow being hijacked.
Just look at what the result in Florida in 2000 has meant for Europe. Do you think that a Gore administration would have taken such a hostile stance towards Germany or France? Do you think French and German businesses have lost money because of the current political climate in the US? Of course!
So this is not Europe trying to babysit America. Rather it is Europe treating America as an equal, and standing up for its own interests. I don't see anything wrong with that.
Wikalong is a Firefox Extension that embeds a wiki in the SideBar of your browser, indexed off the url of your current page. It is probably most simply described as a wiki-margin for the internet. (Ctrl-Shift-A to activate). I think this is the kind of extension that will really set Firefox apart from IE. Very inventive, shows why having a plugin architecture is cool. Of course, being based on wiki software, this feature needs to obtain a critical mass of users to become truly usefull. However, having a user-maintainted commentary box for every website seems like a great idea. Homepage.
Yoper Linux v2.1 Review Posted by qub333 at Mon Sep 13, 2004 8:32 pm
Yoper Linux v2.1 Website: www.yoper.com
Introduction Ok, this is my first review and the kickoff to Linuxforums.org's Editorial Content Section, so lets get started. Yoper Linux is built around the idea of light, compact and wicked fast distro that is available to the average Linux user. Its 100% GPL compliant and the full ISO is free to anyone with an Internet connection. Yoper's popularity has absolutely skyrocketed with the release of v2.1 and is currently sitting at #18 on the distrowatch.com Page Hit Ranking.
Yoper's claim to fame is the speed at which it runs, out of the box. Yoper is a distro that targets the desktop Linux user from a brand new convert to the legendary guru. The latests release (2.1) improves upon the the installer, making it more user friendly and now includes non-destructive partitioning.
Speed applies to every aspect of the system. The install was completed, start to finish, in under 15 minutes. Once the system booted, the kernel took little time to load. It may seem little slow as compared to a custom kernel (like one created in a Gentoo install), but thats to be expected with a universal build. Once KDE started to load I noticed the speed kick. It was loaded in less than 10 seconds - which is good compared to my lovingly tweaked Gentoo system. Applications opened almost instantly and the overall feel of the system is similar to that of a fine Italian sports car, suave and fast.
The Yoper team accomplished this with the use of several methods that have always been available to those with enough experience, but generally beyond the average user, They include, but are by no means limited too:
Several performance enhancing patches to the kernel
All packages compiled specifically for the i686 against the latest and greatest of the gcc
All the binaries were 'stripped' (ie. all the debug symbols and other nonessential data are removed.) in order to create an even faster base system.
Prelinking
A short description of prelinking:
Due to Yoper's success, the process has been getting a lot of talk recently, and I was intrigued by the mechanics of this intriguing little utility. The results are readily evident: incredible startup times, even for massive applications. Basically whenever you start a program it has to find all the libraries that it will draw upon and link them to the correct location in the program. Prelinking does this when you run the Prelink, so when you start the program, 1/2 of all the startup work is already completed. Now should you be a developer, you will need to re-run the prelink code (a simple command available on their website) more frequently. They recommend it after major upgrades (such as KDE 3.2 to 3.3).
Installation After downloading the single ISO and burning it, I booted into a BASH prompt. This might sound intimidating to those newer to Linux, but wherever a user is required to type something in there are directions included. In this instance it indicated 'type Yoper to begin setup'. A little fiddling reviled that the prompt had a few basic commands such as mount and access to Vim. Ready to begin the install, I typed Yoper, pressed enter and was greeted by the installer. Overall the feel of the install was similar to that of Slackware and comfortable enough for any user: even a Linux 'newbie'. While some may frown on the lack of a GUI installer, the Yoper team wanted to keep this all on one CD, resulting in a GUIless install. After a few simple steps (the installer holds your hand through the entire process) you arrive at qtparted, a graphical partition tool. The best part of this is that it not only makes the hardest part of the install possible through a simple GUI, but allows for non-destructive partitioning.
These are baseless accusations. I would suggest you keep the conspiracy theories to yourself unless you have some evidence to back them up.
Maybe you are actually someone hired by Microsoft to spread FUD on slashdot!
Miguel's a leader of the community who deserves our respect. I think it's become clear over the years he could have made as much money as he wanted but chose to do what he felt was right.
A claim contradicted by the words of RMS & the FSF
Ok, I stand corrected, though of course the GPL does still stand on copyright, so the GPL would be obsolete without copyright. For some reason I thought RMS thought like Larry Lessig on this issue, who of course is a strong believer in copyrights, but looks for a balance. Lessig, of course founded the Creative Commons project.
Easy- and pointless. Who would do that 'stealing'? A traditional commericial software company? They can't exist, because without copyright, they only get one customer for each product.
Here I have to disagree with you. Of course commercial software companies would not be able to make much of a profit, as you rightly point out. However, most software is not produced by commmercial software companies, but by in-house programmers found in every company. Right now the GPL compells these programmers to submit changes in software back to the community, whereas with public domain software this is not the case. Eric Raymond states: First, code written for sale is only the tip of the programming iceberg. In the pre-microcomputer era it used to be a commonplace that 90% of all the code in the world was written in-house at banks and insurance companies. This is probably no longer the case--other industries are much more software-intensive now, and the finance industry's share of the total must have accordingly dropped--but we'll see shortly that there is empirical evidence that approximately 95% of code is still written in-house.
Without copyright law all that in-house developed code does not have to be returned to the community. You might be a cynic and say that there is massive GPL violation going on anyway, or you might make the leap of faith and say organisations will be compelled to share (like Raymond does), however I remain unconvinced.
Of course my suggestion doesn't take into account the legal costs involved in cross-licensing and defending patents. Here too, however, I think some collaborative form of cost-sharing could be achieved. It's in IBM's interest to help defend Mono, since as soon as confidence in the GPL goes down because of patents, their Linux-related sales would also go down...
The GPL was not created because the FSF is against copyright. In fact, the GPL is based upon copyright law. Without copyright everything would be public domain, but it would be easy for people to 'steal' code like is often done with BSD licenses. The GPL keeps information Free, and this could not be achieved without copyright.
Now the parent of this thread suggests the FSF start patenting software. This would be surrender on the part of the FSF. I think we should do everything possible to fight the existance of software patents first.
Should this prove to be impossible, I think the creation of a collective bank of software patents would be the next step. Here companies like Red Hat, Novell, HP, IBM & the FSF should place software patents that could be used to defend any Free Software attacked by patents. So if MS were to attack the Mono project with patents, Mono could make use of the IBM patents as a shield against MS. This is the truth about software patents: you have nothing to fear from them when you have many of your own, since you can cross-license.
Well, if you could hook your phone up to a full screen display and a keyboard & mouse, and you would have all the software you liked, would you still not want to use your phone as a computer? How long till handhelds have enough firepower to run things like KDE? Of course you might not be able to run Doom3, but even that might one day be feasable. Things like the PSP show 3D graphics can be put into mobile devices.
You would of course have KDE mode going for full screen displays, and something like QTopia when using the phone display.
You say you just want a phone that can make calls. Well guess what, that's not how most other people feel. Convergence of devices is inevitable. I don't want to carry around my laptop, ipod, phone, PDA, digital camera, gameboy etc around with me all the time. If a company can provide all these features in one device, they've got me as a customer!
Do one thing and do it well is someting we hear all the time these days on slashdot. However, the PC as we know it is the most clear example of a multi-purpose device! You just want to run Make, emacs and ical. Other people use it for totally different purposes.
The PC will probably be with us for a while yet, but eventually I do see smartphones replacing them. It's just a matter of time.
I think the real problem is that spammers aren't likely to look at how you've configured spiders to handle your site. So even if you do this i'm sure it won't get rid of the spammers.
But it's very easy to implement some form of blog framework inside a wiki, like the discussion pages on mediawiki (wikipedia). The same cannot be said the other way around.
And licensing their materials under a creative commons license does not mean that revenue has to end. They can give it away to the public for free while forbidding commercial use (without paying for that right).
Well HP doesn't own their own platform like IBM does with WebSphere. However, they do support plenty of other solutions.
I think HP is taking the right approach by saying to customers: what software would you like to use on linux? Oracle? BEA? We'll support it for you. IBM seems to always want to impose Websphere, is that the better approach? There's plenty of software competition in this area, if HP were to introduce their own software they would:
- alienate microsoft - fail at getting a wide userbase.
You don't have to impose the wiki markup on people. WackoWiki has a visual wiki editor. I'm sure there are other wiki engines out there that have a similar functionality, but this shouls solve the problem you're having...
Slashdot Mirror
Did I just say "I could not live without tabbed browsing"?
:)
Geez I need to get out more
Well, it's not hard to sort your bookmarks. Just click bookmarks, then manage bookmarks, and then right click on any link and select "sort by name". There's also a plugin called "sort bookmarks" that does this and more.
Regarding the importing of passwords, the mozilla site says:
"Firefox imports your existing settings from Internet Explorer. An import wizard will run when you first install Firefox (and is also available later through the File menu, File > Import), and it imports your Favorites, options, cookies, stored passwords, and a variety of other data. This saves you time customizing Firefox to fit your needs."
I haven't tried using this but if this didn't work as advertised for you then that is certainly a cause for concern.
If you don't like the spinning circle at the top you can simply install another theme that doesn't feature this. Right now the mozilla site is really slow so you probably won't be able to reach the themes site, so try later.
Personally I could not live without tabbed browsing so IE is no longer an option for me. Also there are plugins like Adblock (I use these filters) that make it indispensible for me.
Help out grassroots advocacy for Firefox @ Spread Firefox. This is the community that organised the NYTimes add.
The site seems to be down so here is the Google cache and the Corel link.
You forgot to post your adress so they can send you a free gamecube!
The register has an article on this. If this is done on purpose it's really ridiculous. What about all the over-seas Americans trying to access the website?
link
"It's legal but it ain't hundred percent legal, I mean, you just can't walk into a restaurant, roll a joint and start puffin' away. They want you to smoke in your home or certain designated places."
"known as the hash bars ?"
"ok, it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it, and if you're the proprietor of a hash bar, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, but...but that dosen't matter, 'cause, get a load of this; all right, if you get stopped by a cop in Amsterdam, it's illegal for them to search you. I mean that's a right the cops in Amsterdam don't have."
Just look at what the result in Florida in 2000 has meant for Europe. Do you think that a Gore administration would have taken such a hostile stance towards Germany or France? Do you think French and German businesses have lost money because of the current political climate in the US? Of course!
So this is not Europe trying to babysit America. Rather it is Europe treating America as an equal, and standing up for its own interests. I don't see anything wrong with that.
Wikalong is a Firefox Extension that embeds a wiki in the SideBar of your browser, indexed off the url of your current page. It is probably most simply described as a wiki-margin for the internet. (Ctrl-Shift-A to activate). I think this is the kind of extension that will really set Firefox apart from IE. Very inventive, shows why having a plugin architecture is cool. Of course, being based on wiki software, this feature needs to obtain a critical mass of users to become truly usefull. However, having a user-maintainted commentary box for every website seems like a great idea. Homepage.
There's a review of yoper 2 (not 2.1) on Osnews.
The article:
Yoper Linux v2.1 Review
Posted by qub333 at Mon Sep 13, 2004 8:32 pm
Yoper Linux v2.1
Website: www.yoper.com
Introduction
Ok, this is my first review and the kickoff to Linuxforums.org's Editorial Content Section, so lets get started. Yoper Linux is built around the idea of light, compact and wicked fast distro that is available to the average Linux user. Its 100% GPL compliant and the full ISO is free to anyone with an Internet connection. Yoper's popularity has absolutely skyrocketed with the release of v2.1 and is currently sitting at #18 on the distrowatch.com Page Hit Ranking.
Yoper's claim to fame is the speed at which it runs, out of the box. Yoper is a distro that targets the desktop Linux user from a brand new convert to the legendary guru. The latests release (2.1) improves upon the the installer, making it more user friendly and now includes non-destructive partitioning.
Speed applies to every aspect of the system. The install was completed, start to finish, in under 15 minutes. Once the system booted, the kernel took little time to load. It may seem little slow as compared to a custom kernel (like one created in a Gentoo install), but thats to be expected with a universal build. Once KDE started to load I noticed the speed kick. It was loaded in less than 10 seconds - which is good compared to my lovingly tweaked Gentoo system. Applications opened almost instantly and the overall feel of the system is similar to that of a fine Italian sports car, suave and fast.
The Yoper team accomplished this with the use of several methods that have always been available to those with enough experience, but generally beyond the average user, They include, but are by no means limited too:
Several performance enhancing patches to the kernel
All packages compiled specifically for the i686 against the latest and greatest of the gcc
All the binaries were 'stripped' (ie. all the debug symbols and other nonessential data are removed.) in order to create an even faster base system.
Prelinking
A short description of prelinking:
Due to Yoper's success, the process has been getting a lot of talk recently, and I was intrigued by the mechanics of this intriguing little utility. The results are readily evident: incredible startup times, even for massive applications. Basically whenever you start a program it has to find all the libraries that it will draw upon and link them to the correct location in the program. Prelinking does this when you run the Prelink, so when you start the program, 1/2 of all the startup work is already completed. Now should you be a developer, you will need to re-run the prelink code (a simple command available on their website) more frequently. They recommend it after major upgrades (such as KDE 3.2 to 3.3).
Installation
After downloading the single ISO and burning it, I booted into a BASH prompt. This might sound intimidating to those newer to Linux, but wherever a user is required to type something in there are directions included. In this instance it indicated 'type Yoper to begin setup'. A little fiddling reviled that the prompt had a few basic commands such as mount and access to Vim. Ready to begin the install, I typed Yoper, pressed enter and was greeted by the installer. Overall the feel of the install was similar to that of Slackware and comfortable enough for any user: even a Linux 'newbie'. While some may frown on the lack of a GUI installer, the Yoper team wanted to keep this all on one CD, resulting in a GUIless install. After a few simple steps (the installer holds your hand through the entire process) you arrive at qtparted, a graphical partition tool. The best part of this is that it not only makes the hardest part of the install possible through a simple GUI, but allows for non-destructive partitioning.
After that I hopped through t
Google uses a special algorithm that analyses your mail to see if you are "cool". If so, it gives you Gmail invites...
These are baseless accusations. I would suggest you keep the conspiracy theories to yourself unless you have some evidence to back them up.
Maybe you are actually someone hired by Microsoft to spread FUD on slashdot!
Miguel's a leader of the community who deserves our respect. I think it's become clear over the years he could have made as much money as he wanted but chose to do what he felt was right.
A claim contradicted by the words of RMS & the FSF
Ok, I stand corrected, though of course the GPL does still stand on copyright, so the GPL would be obsolete without copyright. For some reason I thought RMS thought like Larry Lessig on this issue, who of course is a strong believer in copyrights, but looks for a balance. Lessig, of course founded the Creative Commons project.
Easy- and pointless. Who would do that 'stealing'? A traditional commericial software company? They can't exist, because without copyright, they only get one customer for each product.
Here I have to disagree with you. Of course commercial software companies would not be able to make much of a profit, as you rightly point out. However, most software is not produced by commmercial software companies, but by in-house programmers found in every company. Right now the GPL compells these programmers to submit changes in software back to the community, whereas with public domain software this is not the case. Eric Raymond states:
First, code written for sale is only the tip of the programming iceberg. In the pre-microcomputer era it used to be a commonplace that 90% of all the code in the world was written in-house at banks and insurance companies. This is probably no longer the case--other industries are much more software-intensive now, and the finance industry's share of the total must have accordingly dropped--but we'll see shortly that there is empirical evidence that approximately 95% of code is still written in-house.
Without copyright law all that in-house developed code does not have to be returned to the community. You might be a cynic and say that there is massive GPL violation going on anyway, or you might make the leap of faith and say organisations will be compelled to share (like Raymond does), however I remain unconvinced.
Of course my suggestion doesn't take into account the legal costs involved in cross-licensing and defending patents. Here too, however, I think some collaborative form of cost-sharing could be achieved. It's in IBM's interest to help defend Mono, since as soon as confidence in the GPL goes down because of patents, their Linux-related sales would also go down...
The GPL was not created because the FSF is against copyright. In fact, the GPL is based upon copyright law. Without copyright everything would be public domain, but it would be easy for people to 'steal' code like is often done with BSD licenses. The GPL keeps information Free, and this could not be achieved without copyright.
Now the parent of this thread suggests the FSF start patenting software. This would be surrender on the part of the FSF. I think we should do everything possible to fight the existance of software patents first.
Should this prove to be impossible, I think the creation of a collective bank of software patents would be the next step. Here companies like Red Hat, Novell, HP, IBM & the FSF should place software patents that could be used to defend any Free Software attacked by patents. So if MS were to attack the Mono project with patents, Mono could make use of the IBM patents as a shield against MS. This is the truth about software patents: you have nothing to fear from them when you have many of your own, since you can cross-license.
Well, if you could hook your phone up to a full screen display and a keyboard & mouse, and you would have all the software you liked, would you still not want to use your phone as a computer? How long till handhelds have enough firepower to run things like KDE? Of course you might not be able to run Doom3, but even that might one day be feasable. Things like the PSP show 3D graphics can be put into mobile devices.
You would of course have KDE mode going for full screen displays, and something like QTopia when using the phone display.
You say you just want a phone that can make calls. Well guess what, that's not how most other people feel. Convergence of devices is inevitable. I don't want to carry around my laptop, ipod, phone, PDA, digital camera, gameboy etc around with me all the time. If a company can provide all these features in one device, they've got me as a customer!
Do one thing and do it well is someting we hear all the time these days on slashdot. However, the PC as we know it is the most clear example of a multi-purpose device! You just want to run Make, emacs and ical. Other people use it for totally different purposes.
The PC will probably be with us for a while yet, but eventually I do see smartphones replacing them. It's just a matter of time.
Don't forget Blogger! or picasa....
There was an article detailing the zend release on kuro5hin a few days ago. Quite a good read...
I think the real problem is that spammers aren't likely to look at how you've configured spiders to handle your site. So even if you do this i'm sure it won't get rid of the spammers.
But it's very easy to implement some form of blog framework inside a wiki, like the discussion pages on mediawiki (wikipedia). The same cannot be said the other way around.
And licensing their materials under a creative commons license does not mean that revenue has to end. They can give it away to the public for free while forbidding commercial use (without paying for that right).
Well HP doesn't own their own platform like IBM does with WebSphere. However, they do support plenty of other solutions.
I think HP is taking the right approach by saying to customers: what software would you like to use on linux? Oracle? BEA? We'll support it for you. IBM seems to always want to impose Websphere, is that the better approach? There's plenty of software competition in this area, if HP were to introduce their own software they would:
- alienate microsoft
- fail at getting a wide userbase.
Seems to me like they have a sound strategy...
Try out wordpress
It can be found here:
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/05/14/freed
You don't have to impose the wiki markup on people. WackoWiki has a visual wiki editor. I'm sure there are other wiki engines out there that have a similar functionality, but this shouls solve the problem you're having...