Actually I loved the look of the old site. It was above all clean, which is something you can't say about many websites these days. That by itself meant it stood out as a unique site.
The organisation of the site left a lot to wish for however. Some projects you couldn't find unless you googled for them. A cursory examination suggests that this has improved although how much I can't say at this stage.
The new look isn't too horrible but it is less clean and it has the ubiquitous butt ugly fake tabs. If the great unwashed like it and it drives downloads - fine.
There is still considerable debate in the cryptographic community about whether 3des is actually any stronger than des. Many people feel that if an attack is found to be effective against the des algorithm, the extra layers of stirring the bits around will not make the plaintext any more secure.
Well, I don't think the main reason for moving to 3des is that it would protect against vulnerabilities in des but rather that exhaustive key searches are becoming rather feasible and downright trivial on specialized hardware.
I'm not asking "why's it so slow?". I'm asking "why is it an order of magnitude slower?". Hell, I'd even be happy if it wasn't even half as fast, but much more than that and it starts becoming useless. I wasn't aware that VMWare was an interpreter.
As I said, I can't get to test it on my dual Athlon machine because none of the versions I've been able to get my hands on work.
Well it's not like it's going to use the memory if you add it. Sure, 128 may be too little, but my 512MB are essentially never more than half used even with a few firefoxes, thunderbirds and visual studios open. And yes, you still need to wait while it swaps when you move from one application to another.
I must say that I'm very disappointed by my admittedly limited experience of VMWare. On my work laptop with 512MB RAM, a 1.6GHz P4 and a 7200rpm disk (yes, I upgraded) a single hosted XP machine (inside my XP machine) is enough to make the computer essentially useless.
Installing a program that normally takes less than 30 seconds into the virtual machine takes not only 1 or 2 minutes but rather in the 5-10 minute range during which the disk light is continously lit and text appears seconds after being typed.
Of course a laptop is a laptop so I decided to try it on my dual CPU machine at home only to find that it refused to even start on that machine. I've subsequently tried a plethora of builds between 4.0 and 4.5. Some of them pop up a dialog saying that there was an internal error while some appear to understand the futility of that dialog and simply crash. I even tried a couple of GSX Server builds with just as abysmal results.
Troll? It's the exact same mechanism. The Bush Administration never ever answers questions. They merely repeat their statements and they get reported by the mainstream media and apparently this works and most people are perfectly happy with this. Why wouldn't the same thing apply to SCO?
IE doesn't support alpha transparency in PNGs, and that's substandard on their part, but I don't think the web would change much if it did unless everybody started bloating their sites with transparent effects where it is not needed.
You couldn't be more wrong. If people could use PNG the way it's supposed to be used, we could have rounded corner graphics that don't suck, change background colors without having to modify all images to match, have different background colors on different pages without the need for extra graphics for each different color background, allow user-selectable page colors, et cetera.
Are you trying to argue for or against muyuubyou? Disregarding his bloating comment, I think you just proved him right. Rounded corners? Userselectable background colors? Is that supposed to be somehow the epitath of usefulness? It sounds like just another excuse not to spend time on the actual content to me.
Never mind about the projectors. I want to be able to use my laptop outdoors. There must be a reason I have wireless lan and a balcony. Since the root of all problems is that screens have luminosity instead of reflecting existing light selective reflection seems very interesting.
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But you know, who cares? How about posting an opinion based on what we've learned in the last 200 years instead?
Actually I loved the look of the old site. It was above all clean, which is something you can't say about many websites these days. That by itself meant it stood out as a unique site. The organisation of the site left a lot to wish for however. Some projects you couldn't find unless you googled for them. A cursory examination suggests that this has improved although how much I can't say at this stage. The new look isn't too horrible but it is less clean and it has the ubiquitous butt ugly fake tabs. If the great unwashed like it and it drives downloads - fine.
I'm not asking "why's it so slow?". I'm asking "why is it an order of magnitude slower?". Hell, I'd even be happy if it wasn't even half as fast, but much more than that and it starts becoming useless. I wasn't aware that VMWare was an interpreter.
As I said, I can't get to test it on my dual Athlon machine because none of the versions I've been able to get my hands on work.
Well it's not like it's going to use the memory if you add it. Sure, 128 may be too little, but my 512MB are essentially never more than half used even with a few firefoxes, thunderbirds and visual studios open. And yes, you still need to wait while it swaps when you move from one application to another.
I must say that I'm very disappointed by my admittedly limited experience of VMWare. On my work laptop with 512MB RAM, a 1.6GHz P4 and a 7200rpm disk (yes, I upgraded) a single hosted XP machine (inside my XP machine) is enough to make the computer essentially useless. Installing a program that normally takes less than 30 seconds into the virtual machine takes not only 1 or 2 minutes but rather in the 5-10 minute range during which the disk light is continously lit and text appears seconds after being typed. Of course a laptop is a laptop so I decided to try it on my dual CPU machine at home only to find that it refused to even start on that machine. I've subsequently tried a plethora of builds between 4.0 and 4.5. Some of them pop up a dialog saying that there was an internal error while some appear to understand the futility of that dialog and simply crash. I even tried a couple of GSX Server builds with just as abysmal results.
Troll? It's the exact same mechanism. The Bush Administration never ever answers questions. They merely repeat their statements and they get reported by the mainstream media and apparently this works and most people are perfectly happy with this. Why wouldn't the same thing apply to SCO?
Are you trying to argue for or against muyuubyou? Disregarding his bloating comment, I think you just proved him right. Rounded corners? Userselectable background colors? Is that supposed to be somehow the epitath of usefulness? It sounds like just another excuse not to spend time on the actual content to me.
Never mind about the projectors. I want to be able to use my laptop outdoors. There must be a reason I have wireless lan and a balcony. Since the root of all problems is that screens have luminosity instead of reflecting existing light selective reflection seems very interesting.