"The United States on Tuesday was accused of trying to derail a new draft international treaty against torture that has taken a decade to
negotiate."
"The treaty, which is to be debated in the U.N. Economic and Social Council beginning on Wednesday, would set up an international system
of inspections for all sites where prisoners were held, to insure that torture was not taking place. "
I don't think Moore's film is the cause of "controversy". I think the hawkish Bush administration and previous republican ones are the cause of controversy. Don't shoot the messenger.
Old news. Mozilla and Netscape 7.x both feature "Bookmark Keywords"... one of the hidden gems of Mozilla Browser Suite.
1. Go to your favorite web page (say www.nytimes.com).
2. Bookmark it (CTRL-D)
3. Go to the Bookmarks Manager (CTRL-B)
4. Scroll down to the entry you just added and press CTRL-I to edit it.
5. On the dialog that appears, there's a "Keyword" entry field, enter the "keyword" that you want to use for this web page you have bookmarked (example: nyt).
6. That's it!. Next time you enter "NYT" (unquoted of course) on the url entry field and press [enter] you're taken to www.nytimes.com
7. repeat for every web page that you want to create your personal keyword.
Some other suggestions:
1. Drop Internet Explorer and MS-Lookout! ^R^R^R^R^R^R Outlook.
2. Install Mozilla as your primary browser and e-mail client.
3. set your IE proxy to some non-existant internal IP address (10.x.x.x), on the exceptions list, put the windowsupdate page (makes it impossible for IE to reach out any page on the net, except windowsupdate).
Sun is in a very good position right now, because if customers want Unix, they can give them Solaris on Sparc. If they think Sparc gear is too expensive, Sun can offer them Solaris x86 running on inexpensive intel/amd white boxes.
If they insist on moving away from unix and getting Linux, Sun has a great linux offering with their Java Desktop System (JDS) Release 2.
And most important, both Solaris and Sun JDS Linux have standarized on GNOME as the desktop / UI, so the re-training costs are minimum and the affected employees can continue working seamlessly with the previous look-and-feel.
That is, if they're running recent solaris instead of ages-old SunOS.
I'm getting tired of some of the press and financial analysts attitude of "let's kick McNealy some more and see if he finally leaves". Remember the wall street know-it-alls are the same people that 2 years ago said "they should drop software and should focus on their core business: sparc hardware".
Today, it's just the opposite, a very innovative software company. Do I have to mention Sun's contributions to open source (OpenOffice), to web standards (indirectly via their Mozilla support on Solaris and their JDS linux), to cross-platform computing (with Java) and to desktop standarization across linux/unix (with their support of Gnome)?.
I agree 100% with you. Yet, the small towns that are dying are the same places voting Republican, so I guess what you propose won't happen, and people will have to move away to get broadband.
A nice article has been published in a recent Harper's magazine (April 2004), titled "Lie down for America - How the Republican Party Sows Ruin on the Great Plains". I wish it were online, but it's not.
Mozilla = an integrated browser, email client, and address book, plus the ability to edit HTML occasionally when you need to.
Firefox = a dumbed down Mozilla for retards.
Netscape 7.2 = everything Mozilla 1.7 is, with the essential plug-ins included, a good theme as the default (Modern instead of Classic), plus a very lightweight AIM and ICQ client (coded in XUL like the rest of the UI) in the sidebar tab.
Guess what? I like it.
Want a skinny dumb browser? get opera. Or why not Lynx?
I guess you think that leaving users running Firefox and MS-Lookout! as their e-mail client is a wise combo.
BTW: add up the download/install sizes of Firefox, and thunderbird and you get roughly the same app size as Mozilla.
Some thing de-integration is cool. I think the opposite.
What a dumb post manavendra.
Netscape 7.2 *IS* Mozilla 1.7, with the modern theme as the default (instead of the ugly Classic that Moz uses)
The differences:
1. Different throbber
2. Different "splash screen"
3. Custom "Help" screens
4. AIM and ICQ coded in XUL, available in a sidebar tab (same as Netscape 7.1)
5. Support for @netscape.net proprietary webmail accounts as part of the email client. (@aol.com accounts can now use standard IMAP).
6. Latest Flash (and I hope, Java) bundled with the browser, unlike Mozilla which comes with no plugins.
7. A native XUL (xpi) implementation of the Netscape Toolbar.
8. Probably some other third party software bundled, for marketing reasons. You don't have to install it if you don't want it (select "Custom install).
Ian,
If you digged a little you'd have realized that AOL actually HIRED a few of the guys laid off to do NS 7.2, plus they hired other folks previously involved in Mozilla to create a native XUL version of the "Netscape Toolbar", previously only available as an ActiveX control for MSIE.
But then it's easy to take a cheap shot at AOL...
Fernando
Irony aside, it seems both of your main complaints are gone (Viewpoint and Winamp).
Despite your hatred towards AOL, at least Netscape 7.2 offers the stability of Mozilla 1.7, and gives users a good end-user experience, since all the required plugins are already bundled (Flash, Java), and the default theme is modern, instead of the ancient, ugly-looking "Classic" that for some reason is the default in Moz 1.7.
Plus, the Netscape toolbar (that can remember your recent searches, show you a count of pop-ups blocked and more) has been ported to a native mozilla XUL xpi. (The NS toolbar has been until now an ActiveX control for MSIE, now both browsers are at parity with a NS Toolbar with the same functions).
But then you must be part of the Firefox Jihad.
I like an integrated browser and e-mail client, thanks very much.
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Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam in the 80se gime.change/rumsfeld.80s.jpg
http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2002/US/09/30/sproject.irq.r
America's WMD: Air Force tests "mother of all bombs"3 0311.html
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/2020/iraq_moab0
"In a flashy debut for its biggest non-nuclear bomb, the Air Force today dropped a 21,000-pound behemoth onto a test range in Florida"
"Anthrax sent to U.S. senate matches Army strain"n thrax.investigation/
http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/12/18/a
CNN: Army confirms anthrax production in Utah
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/12/army.anthrax/
BUSH SPURNS BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS BAN7 ,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,49425
"a 1972 treaty banning biological weapons has been added to the list of international protocols Bush has decided to ignore"
U.S. accused of trying to derail anti-torture pact
http://www.photius.com/rogue_nations/torture.html
"The United States on Tuesday was accused of trying to derail a new draft international treaty against torture that has taken a decade to negotiate."
"The treaty, which is to be debated in the U.N. Economic and Social Council beginning on Wednesday, would set up an international system of inspections for all sites where prisoners were held, to insure that torture was not taking place. "
and this:
Document details American plan to bug phones and emails of key U.N. Security Council members, 905936,00.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239
I don't think Moore's film is the cause of "controversy". I think the hawkish Bush administration and previous republican ones are the cause of controversy. Don't shoot the messenger.
1. Go to your favorite web page (say www.nytimes.com).
2. Bookmark it (CTRL-D)
3. Go to the Bookmarks Manager (CTRL-B)
4. Scroll down to the entry you just added and press CTRL-I to edit it.
5. On the dialog that appears, there's a "Keyword" entry field, enter the "keyword" that you want to use for this web page you have bookmarked (example: nyt).
6. That's it!. Next time you enter "NYT" (unquoted of course) on the url entry field and press [enter] you're taken to www.nytimes.com
7. repeat for every web page that you want to create your personal keyword.
Some other suggestions:
1. Drop Internet Explorer and MS-Lookout! ^R^R^R^R^R^R Outlook.
2. Install Mozilla as your primary browser and e-mail client.
3. set your IE proxy to some non-existant internal IP address (10.x.x.x), on the exceptions list, put the windowsupdate page (makes it impossible for IE to reach out any page on the net, except windowsupdate).
FC
If they insist on moving away from unix and getting Linux, Sun has a great linux offering with their Java Desktop System (JDS) Release 2.
And most important, both Solaris and Sun JDS Linux have standarized on GNOME as the desktop / UI, so the re-training costs are minimum and the affected employees can continue working seamlessly with the previous look-and-feel.
That is, if they're running recent solaris instead of ages-old SunOS.
I'm getting tired of some of the press and financial analysts attitude of "let's kick McNealy some more and see if he finally leaves". Remember the wall street know-it-alls are the same people that 2 years ago said "they should drop software and should focus on their core business: sparc hardware".
Today, it's just the opposite, a very innovative software company. Do I have to mention Sun's contributions to open source (OpenOffice), to web standards (indirectly via their Mozilla support on Solaris and their JDS linux), to cross-platform computing (with Java) and to desktop standarization across linux/unix (with their support of Gnome)?.
A nice article has been published in a recent Harper's magazine (April 2004), titled "Lie down for America - How the Republican Party Sows Ruin on the Great Plains". I wish it were online, but it's not.
You can see tha mag cover anyway here: http://www.harpers.org/Newsstand200404.html
Oh wait, it *is* online. Someone typed it up. Once again, Google saved my day:
http://vax.area.com/marc/liedown.txt
Mozilla = an integrated browser, email client, and address book, plus the ability to edit HTML occasionally when you need to. Firefox = a dumbed down Mozilla for retards. Netscape 7.2 = everything Mozilla 1.7 is, with the essential plug-ins included, a good theme as the default (Modern instead of Classic), plus a very lightweight AIM and ICQ client (coded in XUL like the rest of the UI) in the sidebar tab. Guess what? I like it. Want a skinny dumb browser? get opera. Or why not Lynx? I guess you think that leaving users running Firefox and MS-Lookout! as their e-mail client is a wise combo. BTW: add up the download/install sizes of Firefox, and thunderbird and you get roughly the same app size as Mozilla. Some thing de-integration is cool. I think the opposite.
What a dumb post manavendra. Netscape 7.2 *IS* Mozilla 1.7, with the modern theme as the default (instead of the ugly Classic that Moz uses) The differences: 1. Different throbber 2. Different "splash screen" 3. Custom "Help" screens 4. AIM and ICQ coded in XUL, available in a sidebar tab (same as Netscape 7.1) 5. Support for @netscape.net proprietary webmail accounts as part of the email client. (@aol.com accounts can now use standard IMAP). 6. Latest Flash (and I hope, Java) bundled with the browser, unlike Mozilla which comes with no plugins. 7. A native XUL (xpi) implementation of the Netscape Toolbar. 8. Probably some other third party software bundled, for marketing reasons. You don't have to install it if you don't want it (select "Custom install).
Ian, If you digged a little you'd have realized that AOL actually HIRED a few of the guys laid off to do NS 7.2, plus they hired other folks previously involved in Mozilla to create a native XUL version of the "Netscape Toolbar", previously only available as an ActiveX control for MSIE. But then it's easy to take a cheap shot at AOL... Fernando
Irony aside, it seems both of your main complaints are gone (Viewpoint and Winamp). Despite your hatred towards AOL, at least Netscape 7.2 offers the stability of Mozilla 1.7, and gives users a good end-user experience, since all the required plugins are already bundled (Flash, Java), and the default theme is modern, instead of the ancient, ugly-looking "Classic" that for some reason is the default in Moz 1.7. Plus, the Netscape toolbar (that can remember your recent searches, show you a count of pop-ups blocked and more) has been ported to a native mozilla XUL xpi. (The NS toolbar has been until now an ActiveX control for MSIE, now both browsers are at parity with a NS Toolbar with the same functions). But then you must be part of the Firefox Jihad. I like an integrated browser and e-mail client, thanks very much.