Time. It's not that big a problem, but I'd rar and split them anyway so that all the attachments were fairly small, and 30% less download time is nothing to be sniffed at when it's 3 figures of megabytes over dialup.
The UI. It feels like something that was designed by someone who knows you and really thought about what you would want to be able to do and where you would look for it, rather than just thinking "a browser needs these buttons". At least it feels that way to me. If you don't like it, by all means don't use it.
Well, we can be pretty confident that Mozilla is more secure than IE because Netscape was in the same market position as IE is now for a long time, and yet didn't see the same problems we now have with IE. As for opera etc., we can just compare them to Mozilla and see that they don't seem to have many more vulnerabilities than it.
Sights, not sites. And I think Mozilla has a long way to go before it can stand up to Opera in the embedded market. Just try running both on a pentium 1 if you have one knocking around, to get an idea of how good they are for embedded performance.
Nonsense. Opera is far more useful than firefox. It's faster to load, much smaller binary, manages to have much more functionality in the chrome and yet still have it take up less space, and it looks a lot nicer. It feels far more responsive, thanks in no small part to the status bar at the bottom which unlike other browsers is actually very useful (shows how much you have really downloaded, in kb, along with real status). The tabs are better integrated and can be separated so you have two pages in the same window, the sidebar down the left is very useful yet doesn't get in the way, and the whole UI oozes polished design.
For personal preference I use Konqueror, but I have yet to see an opera-beating browser on windows, even with the ads.
But the complicated instructions are usually because linux people giving advice make less assumptions. I ended up writing a paragraph on installing ut2003 for linux when in fact the process is exactly the same as for windows. Well, OK, one operation harder if you have autorun turned on for windows, but that's a security feature of linux that's worth the extra effort imo. Ditto with chmod +xing a downloaded binary.
Switch to Konqueror if you can. The browser is a thinish wrapper around khtml, and you can set it up to preload at login. (Running at boot is probably a bad idea, which user would it run as? The only options I can see are root (very bad idea from a security perspective) or it's own GREd user (problems using it from other users)).
You really prefer viewing the email in a web browser? Whenever I get a webmail account, the first thing I do is try and access it through IMAP and POP3, the second thing I do is try and write a script to pretend it's a pop3 account, and the third thing I do is dump it. There is no web ui that integrates with every platform I work on, and they're too slow anyway.
How about emailing your holiday snaps to your mum on 56k? Especially if she's paying by the minute, this will be a big advantage, as she can download your archive and then unpack it offline.
I connect my linux box to the DMZ port on my router. Haven't had any trouble. Why should I? The only port with anything listening on it is 80 with apache, which I'd have to put a hole in my firewall for anyway. If I don't have any other open ports than the ones I'm actually using, I don't need to firewall them off. Why doesn't windows work the same way?
I think they mean the patch changes security policies on win2K without actually patching anything. Which is something they still want happening on as many machines as possible.
The IDE CD burning drivers is the main issue for me although there are some other issues with that as well. The replacement driver was rushed and doesn't work for me, and SCSI emulation was deprecated and dropped rather hastily (it seemed to me). In months of asking on discussion fora why it was removed so quickly rather than being left as deprecated, the only reason anyone has ever given has been "Torvalds didn't like it". Which seems to be pure politics.
That's technical discussion, not politics, which is different. If you reject a patch because it doesn't work, or it interferes with something else, or another patch does the same thing better (even when it plainly doesn't), that's fine. But if you reject a working patch because you feel it doesn't fit in with some design idea, then that's being too political.
I think it's more because the mechanics suck from being squeezed down an internet connection (1982 called, they want their collision detection back), and also because you normally have lots of people saying OOC things, so you're never fully immersed in the game world the same way as with other genres.
Windows media player like it should be. Low resource usage, plays dvds and any file you have the codecs for installed, without any network access at all. (Unless you're playing a stream or course)
Most IT departments have a set budget. If they can save £1000000 by not having to license windows/office/etc., some of that may well be spent on new servers. And guess who they're going to buy them from?
I probably have the original knoppix as well (every linux magazine gives you a copy quite frequently) but my main live cds are as follows:
STUX, a live cd with pretty much everything, but very "heavy", only for 256mb+ machines
Knoppix STD, primarily because it's still the best for working wireless cards. Also some mp3s on the cd to listen to, and some fiddling with mkisofs means that from non-nix OSes it looks like that's all that's on the cd
SLAX, plus a few modules. I like modularness and I really really like ovlfs - basically you can treat the cd like a normal filesystem, and install new programs on it or anything.
Austrumi - simply AMAZING 50mb business card CD. Full versions of abiword, gnumeric, mplayer, the GIMP, Opera, nmap, skype, and more on the linux boot, plus they've included aida, chntpw etc. all on the 50mb cd
Finally, MoviX for some relaxation when I've finished fixing systems.
Austrumi is a much better alternative to DSL imo. You get more apps, and they're "full" programs like abiword, gnumeric and the GIMP.
Based off DSL but nicer in terms of included programs is Feather Linux. It's 14mb more, but unless you're putting it on an actual business card cd it's well worth it for the extra apps.
And for an in between option where the business card distros don't quite have enough, try SLAX. Can do more or less anything that knoppix can, but only includes one program for any one job.
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Time. It's not that big a problem, but I'd rar and split them anyway so that all the attachments were fairly small, and 30% less download time is nothing to be sniffed at when it's 3 figures of megabytes over dialup.
The UI. It feels like something that was designed by someone who knows you and really thought about what you would want to be able to do and where you would look for it, rather than just thinking "a browser needs these buttons". At least it feels that way to me. If you don't like it, by all means don't use it.
Well, we can be pretty confident that Mozilla is more secure than IE because Netscape was in the same market position as IE is now for a long time, and yet didn't see the same problems we now have with IE. As for opera etc., we can just compare them to Mozilla and see that they don't seem to have many more vulnerabilities than it.
Sights, not sites. And I think Mozilla has a long way to go before it can stand up to Opera in the embedded market. Just try running both on a pentium 1 if you have one knocking around, to get an idea of how good they are for embedded performance.
For personal preference I use Konqueror, but I have yet to see an opera-beating browser on windows, even with the ads.
I compare modern linux (slackware 10) to windows 98 because that's what I can get on my budget.
But the complicated instructions are usually because linux people giving advice make less assumptions. I ended up writing a paragraph on installing ut2003 for linux when in fact the process is exactly the same as for windows. Well, OK, one operation harder if you have autorun turned on for windows, but that's a security feature of linux that's worth the extra effort imo. Ditto with chmod +xing a downloaded binary.
Switch to Konqueror if you can. The browser is a thinish wrapper around khtml, and you can set it up to preload at login. (Running at boot is probably a bad idea, which user would it run as? The only options I can see are root (very bad idea from a security perspective) or it's own GREd user (problems using it from other users)).
You really prefer viewing the email in a web browser? Whenever I get a webmail account, the first thing I do is try and access it through IMAP and POP3, the second thing I do is try and write a script to pretend it's a pop3 account, and the third thing I do is dump it. There is no web ui that integrates with every platform I work on, and they're too slow anyway.
An image compression comparison with no lenna? What's the world coming to?
How about emailing your holiday snaps to your mum on 56k? Especially if she's paying by the minute, this will be a big advantage, as she can download your archive and then unpack it offline.
I connect my linux box to the DMZ port on my router. Haven't had any trouble. Why should I? The only port with anything listening on it is 80 with apache, which I'd have to put a hole in my firewall for anyway. If I don't have any other open ports than the ones I'm actually using, I don't need to firewall them off. Why doesn't windows work the same way?
I think they mean the patch changes security policies on win2K without actually patching anything. Which is something they still want happening on as many machines as possible.
The IDE CD burning drivers is the main issue for me although there are some other issues with that as well. The replacement driver was rushed and doesn't work for me, and SCSI emulation was deprecated and dropped rather hastily (it seemed to me). In months of asking on discussion fora why it was removed so quickly rather than being left as deprecated, the only reason anyone has ever given has been "Torvalds didn't like it". Which seems to be pure politics.
But even number releases *should* be "known stable". "Latest and greatest" is what the odd number branches and -ac patchsets are for.
That's technical discussion, not politics, which is different. If you reject a patch because it doesn't work, or it interferes with something else, or another patch does the same thing better (even when it plainly doesn't), that's fine. But if you reject a working patch because you feel it doesn't fit in with some design idea, then that's being too political.
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I think it's more because the mechanics suck from being squeezed down an internet connection (1982 called, they want their collision detection back), and also because you normally have lots of people saying OOC things, so you're never fully immersed in the game world the same way as with other genres.
Just to add to this, postal (2?) recently got a linux port.
Glad I'm not the only one. 4+ hours of any fps and I strafe out of the computer room
Windows media player like it should be. Low resource usage, plays dvds and any file you have the codecs for installed, without any network access at all. (Unless you're playing a stream or course)
Most IT departments have a set budget. If they can save £1000000 by not having to license windows/office/etc., some of that may well be spent on new servers. And guess who they're going to buy them from?
STUX, a live cd with pretty much everything, but very "heavy", only for 256mb+ machines
Knoppix STD, primarily because it's still the best for working wireless cards. Also some mp3s on the cd to listen to, and some fiddling with mkisofs means that from non-nix OSes it looks like that's all that's on the cd
SLAX, plus a few modules. I like modularness and I really really like ovlfs - basically you can treat the cd like a normal filesystem, and install new programs on it or anything.
Austrumi - simply AMAZING 50mb business card CD. Full versions of abiword, gnumeric, mplayer, the GIMP, Opera, nmap, skype, and more on the linux boot, plus they've included aida, chntpw etc. all on the 50mb cd
Finally, MoviX for some relaxation when I've finished fixing systems.
Well, there are many better alternatives to knoppix imo.
Based off DSL but nicer in terms of included programs is Feather Linux. It's 14mb more, but unless you're putting it on an actual business card cd it's well worth it for the extra apps.
And for an in between option where the business card distros don't quite have enough, try SLAX. Can do more or less anything that knoppix can, but only includes one program for any one job.