"they've always considered themselves more "directory" than search engine"
Until about a year ago when they began heaviliy advertising "Yahoo Search".
Also thier directory has been reduced to about a quarter of the size it used to get on thier home page.
Most people only land in the directory there now when using the search engine which responds to the search with google-like entries, along with any applicable directory entries.
Speaking of FreeBSD, I've never gotten why they are such slaves to Microsoft if they run their site with FreeBSD. Their web mail and Messenger product are far more feature-laden when used in conjunction with IE than with say Firefox or Mozilla.
All I know is, I had DSL for 4 years with BellSouth and was very happy with it. Then due to circumstances which are irrelevant to this post, I switched from DSL to Cable Internet with Comcast. And to my surprise I saw no degradation in speed. If anything I saw an increase and that probably had a lot to do with their advertised "up to" 4 MB/s download speed.
A few months later, I landed in Phoenix were were the person I'm living with has Cox High Speed Internet has roughly the same speeds as I did with Comcast.
So, I've spent far more time with DSL (with one of the fastest DSL connections available) than with Cable and I've found that overall in many cases cable is faster (not slower) than DSL.
Oh and you don't have to have Cable TV to have Cable Internet either (some seem to think you do).:-)
I overlooked the "installed by default part". Thanks for the clarification.
And it's a good thing they do come with most distros now (I've not touched Linux in several years) because that link you pointed me to was informative, but the process it described was overly complicated.:-)
Very interesting page. It also got me to use my (recently-learned) cntrl+scroll-down entry with Firefox in order to get the font to a readable size....
DSL doesn't guarantee speeds either. I had DSL for several years with BellSouth. They always said "up to 1.5 MB/s download. My average was around 1.
I later had Comcast Cable in Atlanta (speeds "up to" 4 MB/s download - I averaged 2.5). In Phoenix now we have Cox Cable and the average speed is probably about the same as Comcast in Atlanta (maybe even a bit higher).
Yes it does vary and at times it's slowed to a crawl, but with a pipeline that's substantially bigger than DSL, overall I average higher speeds for around the same cost.
Yes, but let's say I want to go to a Linux-only box (no dual booting). Am I going going to get the high quality fonts I want without scarfing them off of Windows somehow. If not, then that's a problem.
On a related note, Microsoft no longer distributes it's "fonts for the the web" outside of Windows.
From my POV, it's who offers the best overall deal. I've had broadband in two metropolitan areas (Atlanta and Phoenix) and in both places Cable offered a faster connection (4 MB/s download vs 1.5 MB/s download for DSL) for approximately the same price.
Advantage:cable
Also having cable broadband allows one to completely free themselves of a landlines phone. Get a cell phone with unlimited local calling along with your cable internet and who needs a landline phone?
I was more or less inclined to say the same thing. This is one of my biggest peeves about Linux. Why can't it (or X, rather) get something as basic as font rendering right. Windows can (So can the Mac). I thought Windows was supposed to be inferior.....
Sure there is. used is well.... "used" (scratched, nicked, whatever - I'm also referring to the packaging). In some instances where I don't care, that much and find good deal, I'd go for used. But in most, not.
Agreed. Firefox has this feature and I use it all the time. I picked about 15 searches to choose from (including: Sourceforge, IMDB, Netflix, Supernova and All The Web - to name a few).
I agree but it's still cheaper, even if you only watch one movie a week. Especially when you factor in late fees. I was awful at getting movies back to Blockbuster within a week of renting them.
In addition, Netflix beats Blockbuster's selection, hands down.
Because if I'm gonna buy, I want a new DVD (not a used one). And for $20.00 a month I can see them as fast Netflix can ship them. Also, the majority of movies I see I don't want to own.
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OK, you lost me there. But actually LOTR was well known long before the movie. Everyone I knew was reading the books when I was in school (1970's).
Maybe I should have said Star Wars or Star Trek, instead. My point being that it seems to be a law that if you;'re a geek/nerd (into computers) that you also must be into Sci-Fi/Fantasy.
I'm the former, but not the latter.
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MSNBC hosts Newsweek.com. The article is from Newsweek, not MSNBC. Newsweek is actually part of The Washington Post Company.
Would someone tell me what's wrong with Weatherbug (which is not, from AOL, btw). I've been using it for a few years now and quite like it.
I find version numbers pretty meaningless in open source software anyway. Even "real" ones. OSS is seemingly always in beta/development anyway. :-)
Until Gaim gets all the functionality of the "Official" clients from Yahoo!, MSN, AOL & ICQ, I'm not gonna be all that interested.
I've played with it and I downloaded 1.0.0 today but I don't use Gaim nearly as much as the previously mentioned individual clients.
"they've always considered themselves more "directory" than search engine"
Until about a year ago when they began heaviliy advertising "Yahoo Search".
Also thier directory has been reduced to about a quarter of the size it used to get on thier home page.
Most people only land in the directory there now when using the search engine which responds to the search with google-like entries, along with any applicable directory entries.
Speaking of FreeBSD, I've never gotten why they are such slaves to Microsoft if they run their site with FreeBSD. Their web mail and Messenger product are far more feature-laden when used in conjunction with IE than with say Firefox or Mozilla.
All I know is, I had DSL for 4 years with BellSouth and was very happy with it. Then due to circumstances which are irrelevant to this post, I switched from DSL to Cable Internet with Comcast. And to my surprise I saw no degradation in speed. If anything I saw an increase and that probably had a lot to do with their advertised "up to" 4 MB/s download speed.
:-)
:-)
A few months later, I landed in Phoenix were were the person I'm living with has Cox High Speed Internet has roughly the same speeds as I did with Comcast.
So, I've spent far more time with DSL (with one of the fastest DSL connections available) than with Cable and I've found that overall in many cases cable is faster (not slower) than DSL.
Oh and you don't have to have Cable TV to have Cable Internet either (some seem to think you do).
So what it comes down to is this.:
Whatever floats your boat.
I overlooked the "installed by default part". Thanks for the clarification. And it's a good thing they do come with most distros now (I've not touched Linux in several years) because that link you pointed me to was informative, but the process it described was overly complicated. :-)
Very interesting page. It also got me to use my (recently-learned) cntrl+scroll-down entry with Firefox in order to get the font to a readable size....
DSL doesn't guarantee speeds either. I had DSL for several years with BellSouth. They always said "up to 1.5 MB/s download. My average was around 1.
I later had Comcast Cable in Atlanta (speeds "up to" 4 MB/s download - I averaged 2.5). In Phoenix now we have Cox Cable and the average speed is probably about the same as Comcast in Atlanta (maybe even a bit higher).
Yes it does vary and at times it's slowed to a crawl, but with a pipeline that's substantially bigger than DSL, overall I average higher speeds for around the same cost.
Once again, advantage cable.
Yes, but let's say I want to go to a Linux-only box (no dual booting). Am I going going to get the high quality fonts I want without scarfing them off of Windows somehow. If not, then that's a problem.
On a related note, Microsoft no longer distributes it's "fonts for the the web" outside of Windows.
Yep.
Did I not say 0.9.3?
One would think so. Perhaps you had an extension (or two) that was the cause of the problem.
From my POV, it's who offers the best overall deal. I've had broadband in two metropolitan areas (Atlanta and Phoenix) and in both places Cable offered a faster connection (4 MB/s download vs 1.5 MB/s download for DSL) for approximately the same price.
Advantage:cable
Also having cable broadband allows one to completely free themselves of a landlines phone. Get a cell phone with unlimited local calling along with your cable internet and who needs a landline phone?
Who needs DSL? Cable is faster..
Also true for BellSouth and Qwest. I've never heard of anything but a dead line if you don't have service or if it's disconnected.
How can it have "no service", yet have a dial tone.?
Everywhere I've lived if your phone is cut off, the line is dead (no dial tone)?
I was more or less inclined to say the same thing. This is one of my biggest peeves about Linux. Why can't it (or X, rather) get something as basic as font rendering right. Windows can (So can the Mac). I thought Windows was supposed to be inferior.....
Try upgrading to 9.3. 9.0 on Windows has a security issue.
The menus work fine..
Sure there is. used is well.... "used" (scratched, nicked, whatever - I'm also referring to the packaging). In some instances where I don't care, that much and find good deal, I'd go for used. But in most, not.
Agreed. Firefox has this feature and I use it all the time. I picked about 15 searches to choose from (including: Sourceforge, IMDB, Netflix, Supernova and All The Web - to name a few).
I agree but it's still cheaper, even if you only watch one movie a week. Especially when you factor in late fees. I was awful at getting movies back to Blockbuster within a week of renting them.
In addition, Netflix beats Blockbuster's selection, hands down.
Nope. It's 81% owned by another media conglomerate.: Viacom
Even so, it still beats Blockbuster. They have far better selection and there is no hurry to return the movie.
Because if I'm gonna buy, I want a new DVD (not a used one). And for $20.00 a month I can see them as fast Netflix can ship them. Also, the majority of movies I see I don't want to own.
OK, you lost me there. But actually LOTR was well known long before the movie. Everyone I knew was reading the books when I was in school (1970's).
Maybe I should have said Star Wars or Star Trek, instead. My point being that it seems to be a law that if you;'re a geek/nerd (into computers) that you also must be into Sci-Fi/Fantasy.
I'm the former, but not the latter.
Where does LOTR fit in to this?
I went there and got no popups....