i disagree. you are thinking to much horizontal market (i.e. netscape, wordperfect etc.)
where people really benefit from the microsoft monoply is the vertical market, software for solicitors, craftsman, real estate firms etc. you still can make a lot of bugs with (mostly badly written) software for very specific professional groups because you write it for windows and everyone has windows. think visual basic;) (and ask yourself why you won't find such software for linux desktops..
what the hell are you talking about? you don't need httpd at all (webmin brings it's own with it) and the last (known) security problem was some months ago and was fixed immediately.
although it may be a statistical glitch, it fits with my own experience, since firefox 0.9 i install it on almost all of my clients pc's. reason is the similarity in the UI, the flawless import of all bookmarks, cookies and preferences and the huge amount of new security holes in IE.
i desperately tried to create a petition to opera to transfer their browser to palm, but somehow petitiononline.com doesn't work for me.. is there a similar serious petition platform?
here you have it here
the email client is the one gmail got it's ideas from. wouldn't be surprised if it gets the default non-webbased email frontend to gmail - so much both fit together..
PAT
i just foud a site i redesigned lately twice in the search results. one version with the old title, and description, one with the new one - so i think they put together two databases (googles and there own?)
the problem is, you would have to enable the clients (ssh, ftp (which means for instance dreamweaver's ftp code) etc..) to use it on a public system. and the public systems (i.e. webservers) are the systems we need this on, because they are the targets of the crackers..
so, good idea, but will it ever happen?
but IF it happened, i could think of methods to use it like we use passwords today. translate the knocks into letters and these build a password, a meta-passowrd in this sense..
as i just realized, alltheweb.com does clustering to, but not so prominently. its on the bottom of the page.
and it does it in almost google-like time..
what i realized too is, that i should have spared myself some 5 minutes when i searched a recipe for the mayr-diet this morning for my mother (i did the search in german, results in english may vary). google was completely filled up with pseudo-sites.. alltheweb has much more sensible results..
fortunately i use opera, so next time it's just a switch from "F2 g mayr-diet" to "F2 a mayr-diet".. won't be so hard..
how difficult is it for a company to have database for all domainnames they have, and a field "exp_date"? or do they have one and it's accesss based, written in VB?
even ebook advocates tend to forget (or didn't even realized?!) the hidden pros of ebooks:
- taking books on a trip
i remeber spending some time in irland some five years ago. i had 20 kg of books with me, after arrival i had to spend a day in bed - my back ached like hell - and i read maybe just 5 kg of them! this year i spend a whole month in ireland with some 20 books on my clie - ok, i just read 3 of them, but without any of the problems five years ago..
- reading in the darkness:
it's just a total difference (at least for me) between reading in the darkness without any distractions like even a bird flying by or my cat entering the room - i get much more sucked into a book when reading in the darkness..
- reading one-handed
if you like to read a book in bed you know what it means! you read on the left side, you left arm begins to hurt, the right gets stiff, you turn right.. - reading on my clie the problem suddenly completely disappeared!
- reading in the cold
if you ever read in a cold bedroom, you must know about the uncomfortable situation. after 10 minutes, both arms are cold. ok, you put them under the blanket - you hands get cold. nowadays i just crawl completely under the blanket and read in the darkness - and my cat loves that!;)
all thes sounds a bit silly - but for me it's such a difference!
for writing, creative writing, i use the psion series 5 (or series 5MX meanwhile) - and can't imagine anything better - in the built in word processor you can turn off all scroll/toolbars, you can set up a really big font and, the killer reason: you can do thumb writing - you hold the handheld in both hands and can reach all keys with your left and right thumb. this way you can write in cars (not while driving!;) ) in the train, lying in the bed - it's just perfect..
when finished you sync the text with the pc directly into your favorite wordprocessor for spellchecking and formating....and the device is small enough to take it with you all the time..
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what about testing fritz before judging? i play against fritz because it's IMHO the most adjustable chess program out there. in "friends" mode it adjusts to your strenght quite well if you play some 10 or 20 rounds.. and if you really played chess a bit more than once a year you came to the point that you wondered how you should have reacted to this or that opening and in this case a program like fritz or chessbase is just helpfull...
and not to forget that the internet chess servers at fritz have much more sophisticated playes compared to that yahoo crap, not to forget that it is much more pleasing for the eyes and that there are live transmissions of games and that there are weekly teaching sessions with GMs and... to try the latter go here
Microsoft, love it or hate it, understands that you can't expect [...]customers to buy it if you regularly break their software with OS upgrades
right, they expect from you to buy new products before they become obsolete by a) ending the support or b) let you buy a "software insurance" even before a) to get the next update to a reasonable;) price before a) finally kicks in... very sensible..:))
"The message is clear - there is no place on the Internet for services that exploit creators' work without fair compensation," added Edward P. Murphy, President and CEO, NMPA.
this should be the end to most musiclabel websites on the net;))
PAT
for the server part of the answer - take e-smith (www.e-smith.org). it sets up in 15 minutes, has appletalk, samba and nfs, has all sorts of VPN included, mailserver even and a lot of ways to connect to the net - installation and administration (web-interface, but it's based on redhat, so administer it like you like) is such a breeze that i sometimes don't believe it myself.. the most underestimated linux distro ever..
as far as programming is concerned, the question is a no brainer:
why should i limit my field of editing to a 80x25 character display when i can have the same functionality/and/ some information to the right, the left, top and bottom of my editor window?
question is if you have the same keyboard comfort in kdevelop as you have in emacs (for instance) - but you can't dispute that all modern IDE's have customizable keyboard shortcuts and even (imperfect most of the time) emulations of other editors...
i think, after all the lay offs we see this summer, the R&D of comercial software projects will get the big break down in the next months - and, what will the layed off programmers do meanwhile? open source...
so try opera.. you won't find better shortkeys (btw, how do you do back with alt-backspace and one hand?!).
in opera, back and forth is "z" and "x", switch between open sites is "1" and "2" (comparable to alt-tab), switching graphics on and off is "g", switching between the user.css (for instance big letters, black on gray for better reading) is ctrl-g, zooming in/out is "+" and "-" and so on...
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"you still can make a lot of bugs" - nice pun :))
i meant "bucks" of course..
PAT
i disagree. you are thinking to much horizontal market (i.e. netscape, wordperfect etc.)
;) (and ask yourself why you won't find such software for linux desktops..
where people really benefit from the microsoft monoply is the vertical market, software for solicitors, craftsman, real estate firms etc. you still can make a lot of bugs with (mostly badly written) software for very specific professional groups because you write it for windows and everyone has windows. think visual basic
PAT
what the hell are you talking about? you don't need httpd at all (webmin brings it's own with it) and the last (known) security problem was some months ago and was fixed immediately.
PAT
although it may be a statistical glitch, it fits with my own experience, since firefox 0.9 i install it on almost all of my clients pc's. reason is the similarity in the UI, the flawless import of all bookmarks, cookies and preferences and the huge amount of new security holes in IE.
where do I know this from? somehow it rings a bell..
PAT
i desperately tried to create a petition to opera to transfer their browser to palm, but somehow petitiononline.com doesn't work for me.. is there a similar serious petition platform?
here you have it here the email client is the one gmail got it's ideas from. wouldn't be surprised if it gets the default non-webbased email frontend to gmail - so much both fit together.. PAT
and not to forget that the opera browser is bundeled with another phone.. i wonder if it can become a defacto-standard.. Press statement..
they will sell it as the best thing since sliced bread - and will claim the invention..
PAT
i just foud a site i redesigned lately twice in the search results. one version with the old title, and description, one with the new one - so i think they put together two databases (googles and there own?)
PAT
the problem is, you would have to enable the clients (ssh, ftp (which means for instance dreamweaver's ftp code) etc..) to use it on a public system. and the public systems (i.e. webservers) are the systems we need this on, because they are the targets of the crackers..
so, good idea, but will it ever happen?
but IF it happened, i could think of methods to use it like we use passwords today. translate the knocks into letters and these build a password, a meta-passowrd in this sense..
sounds cool to me..
PAT
as i just realized, alltheweb.com does clustering to, but not so prominently. its on the bottom of the page.
and it does it in almost google-like time..
what i realized too is, that i should have spared myself some 5 minutes when i searched a recipe for the mayr-diet this morning for my mother (i did the search in german, results in english may vary). google was completely filled up with pseudo-sites.. alltheweb has much more sensible results..
fortunately i use opera, so next time it's just a switch from "F2 g mayr-diet" to "F2 a mayr-diet".. won't be so hard..
PAT
come on guys, for George W. Apache is a Helicopter and IIS a space station..
how difficult is it for a company to have database for all domainnames they have, and a field "exp_date"? or do they have one and it's accesss based, written in VB?
PAT
even ebook advocates tend to forget (or didn't even realized?!) the hidden pros of ebooks:
;)
- taking books on a trip
i remeber spending some time in irland some five years ago. i had 20 kg of books with me, after arrival i had to spend a day in bed - my back ached like hell - and i read maybe just 5 kg of them! this year i spend a whole month in ireland with some 20 books on my clie - ok, i just read 3 of them, but without any of the problems five years ago..
- reading in the darkness:
it's just a total difference (at least for me) between reading in the darkness without any distractions like even a bird flying by or my cat entering the room - i get much more sucked into a book when reading in the darkness..
- reading one-handed
if you like to read a book in bed you know what it means! you read on the left side, you left arm begins to hurt, the right gets stiff, you turn right.. - reading on my clie the problem suddenly completely disappeared!
- reading in the cold
if you ever read in a cold bedroom, you must know about the uncomfortable situation. after 10 minutes, both arms are cold. ok, you put them under the blanket - you hands get cold. nowadays i just crawl completely under the blanket and read in the darkness - and my cat loves that!
all thes sounds a bit silly - but for me it's such a difference!
PAT
for writing, creative writing, i use the psion series 5 (or series 5MX meanwhile) - and can't imagine anything better - in the built in word processor you can turn off all scroll/toolbars, you can set up a really big font and, the killer reason: you can do thumb writing - you hold the handheld in both hands and can reach all keys with your left and right thumb. this way you can write in cars (not while driving! ;) ) in the train, lying in the bed - it's just perfect..
..and the device is small enough to take it with you all the time..
when finished you sync the text with the pc directly into your favorite wordprocessor for spellchecking and formating..
PAT
PAT
and not to forget that the internet chess servers at fritz have much more sophisticated playes compared to that yahoo crap, not to forget that it is much more pleasing for the eyes and that there are live transmissions of games and that there are weekly teaching sessions with GMs and... to try the latter go here
PAT
for the server part of the answer - take e-smith (www.e-smith.org). it sets up in 15 minutes, has appletalk, samba and nfs, has all sorts of VPN included, mailserver even and a lot of ways to connect to the net - installation and administration (web-interface, but it's based on redhat, so administer it like you like) is such a breeze that i sometimes don't believe it myself.. the most underestimated linux distro ever..
PAT
www.directbox.com allegedly already uses the adblocker-blocker software on it's server.
try the button "gastzugang" on the bottom right...
PAT
as far as programming is concerned, the question is a no brainer:
/and/ some information to the right, the left, top and bottom of my editor window?
why should i limit my field of editing to a 80x25 character display when i can have the same functionality
question is if you have the same keyboard comfort in kdevelop as you have in emacs (for instance) - but you can't dispute that all modern IDE's have customizable keyboard shortcuts and even (imperfect most of the time) emulations of other editors...
so what, take a GUI...
regards,
PAT
i think, after all the lay offs we see this summer, the R&D of comercial software projects will get the big break down in the next months - and, what will the layed off programmers do meanwhile? open source...
so try opera.. you won't find better shortkeys (btw, how do you do back with alt-backspace and one hand?!).
in opera, back and forth is "z" and "x", switch between open sites is "1" and "2" (comparable to alt-tab), switching graphics on and off is "g", switching between the user.css (for instance big letters, black on gray for better reading) is ctrl-g, zooming in/out is "+" and "-" and so on...