Mozilla 2.0 is not ready yet, but in the mean time Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 6 has been released. It has better support for XForms, CSS3, SVG and is more compatible with Solaris. I wrote some info about it here.
If by public education you mean advertising, please consider that Amazon is able to sell books in very low prices because they stopped advertising in TV. Mandrakesoft would better pay for development and new products or services, rather than advertising.
When traditional media in USA become more and more controlled by suspicious interests, blogs offer a unique free approach to journalism. But writing on a blog can cost you your job or even land you in the court, as the BBC says. When blogs will become more popular, the media empires will understand that they are losing ground so they will try to attack the bloggers over various excuses such as "innappropriate images", "published sensitive information", "libel", "innappropriate use of trade marks" et cetera.
I have founded a federation of wikis (called Wikinerds.org) that use this idea. Every article has a maintainer who ensures it is of high quality. For more information, see this page.
Wikipedia article on Larry Sanger (permanent link) states that: "Lawrence Mark Sanger (born July 16, 1968 in Bellevue, Washington and raised in Anchorage, Alaska) is best known as the cofounder of Wikipedia, along with Jimmy Wales."
This is in response to your statement that: "First, about the title of this thread - calling Larry Sanger a co-founder of Wikipedia is a bit of a stretch."
[funny]People seem to trust M$ so much that they refuse to use any product not built by them. I wonder how much would it cost to buy the M$ and Windows trademarks. We could all of us donate a portion of the money and then give it to M$ in order to buy the rights to their trademarks. Then, we could market a version of GNU/Linux or *BSD as "Microsoft GNU Windows" or "Microsoft BSD Windows". In fact, KGX is not more difficult to use than Windoze. Most users wouldn't even understand the difference if they were told that KGX is a special version of Microsoft Windows.[/funny]
nmap is not a crack tool. It is a dual-use product useful to netadmins. While it can be used by crackers, its intended function is to investigate networks. Money can be used by terrorists to buy weapons, but I haven't seen anybody to say that money is a terrorist tool. Also, we should say "cracking" instead of "hacking".
British Phonographic Industry - everytime I read the word Phonographic, I mistakenly read something else. I think that if BPI wants to maintain good public relations it should, at least, change its name!
I believe that video card manufacturers should embrace dual-core GPU designs. I don't think that dual video cards will ever become mainstream and will always remain an expensive high-end solution. A dual-core GPU, on the other hand, may even turn all single-core designs obsolete. Read more in my blog.
Where does it says that the assignee of this patent is Microsoft? The word "microsoft" appears just a few times in references to Microsoft programming language products, but nowhere it mentions that MS has rights over IsNot. The "inventors" are Vick, Paul A. JR.; (Seattle, WA) ; Barsan, Costica Corneliu; (Bellevue, WA) ; Silver, Amanda K.; (Seattle, WA) and a corporation named WOODCOCK WASHBURN LLP is cited as "Correspondence". The patent was filed on 14 May 2003 but the USPTO gave it the code 20040230959 and published it on 18 November 2004. It appears that it is not an actual patent yet, but just an application. I don't pay any attention to patent applications. Here in my country I have seen many applications in our patent office for UFO constructions et cetera. Of course they are never accepted.
The Linux-based X2 Megaview seems nice, but the site says it costs $4000 $-( Not in my range, but I suspect the competition will drive the prices down. Does anybody here uses this model?
The security vulnerability involves inline frames (IFRAME). I always knew that HTML frames are evil, but now I feel like wanting to email every webmaster who uses frames!:)
I propose to stop using frames and always click the "no frames" option in every website which provides it. If you believe that frames are evil, please read my relevant blog entry and say all over the world that you hate frames. Perhaps we can make a difference and teach webdevelopers that frames are annoying.
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Mozilla 2.0 is not ready yet, but in the mean time Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 6 has been released. It has better support for XForms, CSS3, SVG and is more compatible with Solaris. I wrote some info about it here.
If by public education you mean advertising, please consider that Amazon is able to sell books in very low prices because they stopped advertising in TV. Mandrakesoft would better pay for development and new products or services, rather than advertising.
If you are interested, I have included a bit more info about this news here.
I thought all US Government material was in the public domain.
The Earth is dying and humans have an argument over who will own the new land. How stupid.
There are a lot of free games. See http://www.freeciv.org
When traditional media in USA become more and more controlled by suspicious interests, blogs offer a unique free approach to journalism. But writing on a blog can cost you your job or even land you in the court, as the BBC says. When blogs will become more popular, the media empires will understand that they are losing ground so they will try to attack the bloggers over various excuses such as "innappropriate images", "published sensitive information", "libel", "innappropriate use of trade marks" et cetera.
...or Konqueror. The problem is their software, which I also used for my wikis but now I am migrating to TikiWiki.
What is the official position of Jimmy Wales on this issue?
I have founded a federation of wikis (called Wikinerds.org) that use this idea. Every article has a maintainer who ensures it is of high quality. For more information, see this page.
Wikipedia article on Larry Sanger (permanent link) states that: "Lawrence Mark Sanger (born July 16, 1968 in Bellevue, Washington and raised in Anchorage, Alaska) is best known as the cofounder of Wikipedia, along with Jimmy Wales."
Larry Sanger also says: "I co-founded Wikipedia".
This is in response to your statement that: "First, about the title of this thread - calling Larry Sanger a co-founder of Wikipedia is a bit of a stretch."
Firefox is not a full web browser like Mozilla (which is the successor of good old Netscape). I don't like Firefox.
1. Start a software company and fill up a new market with buggy software
2. Charge for bugfixes
3. Profit!!!
You can read more info about this here
[funny]People seem to trust M$ so much that they refuse to use any product not built by them. I wonder how much would it cost to buy the M$ and Windows trademarks. We could all of us donate a portion of the money and then give it to M$ in order to buy the rights to their trademarks. Then, we could market a version of GNU/Linux or *BSD as "Microsoft GNU Windows" or "Microsoft BSD Windows". In fact, KGX is not more difficult to use than Windoze. Most users wouldn't even understand the difference if they were told that KGX is a special version of Microsoft Windows.[/funny]
nmap is not a crack tool. It is a dual-use product useful to netadmins. While it can be used by crackers, its intended function is to investigate networks. Money can be used by terrorists to buy weapons, but I haven't seen anybody to say that money is a terrorist tool. Also, we should say "cracking" instead of "hacking".
British Phonographic Industry - everytime I read the word Phonographic, I mistakenly read something else. I think that if BPI wants to maintain good public relations it should, at least, change its name!
Asia doesn't want to be controlled by foreign interests, therefore it will adopt the IT technology it can implement by itself, i.e. GNU/Linux.
Now art experts will lose their job!
I don't think a pipeline can be described as a processing core. Pipelines are features of cores and a dual-core GPU would have 2x16 pipelines.
I believe that video card manufacturers should embrace dual-core GPU designs. I don't think that dual video cards will ever become mainstream and will always remain an expensive high-end solution. A dual-core GPU, on the other hand, may even turn all single-core designs obsolete. Read more in my blog.
Where does it says that the assignee of this patent is Microsoft? The word "microsoft" appears just a few times in references to Microsoft programming language products, but nowhere it mentions that MS has rights over IsNot. The "inventors" are Vick, Paul A. JR.; (Seattle, WA) ; Barsan, Costica Corneliu; (Bellevue, WA) ; Silver, Amanda K.; (Seattle, WA) and a corporation named WOODCOCK WASHBURN LLP is cited as "Correspondence". The patent was filed on 14 May 2003 but the USPTO gave it the code 20040230959 and published it on 18 November 2004. It appears that it is not an actual patent yet, but just an application. I don't pay any attention to patent applications. Here in my country I have seen many applications in our patent office for UFO constructions et cetera. Of course they are never accepted.
The Linux-based X2 Megaview seems nice, but the site says it costs $4000 $-( Not in my range, but I suspect the competition will drive the prices down. Does anybody here uses this model?
I propose to stop using frames and always click the "no frames" option in every website which provides it. If you believe that frames are evil, please read my relevant blog entry and say all over the world that you hate frames. Perhaps we can make a difference and teach webdevelopers that frames are annoying.
Q: "Is it even possible to function as a full scale webmaster without root access"
A: Yes.