In my experiences with users, I have noticed you almost never see a user go from using MSIE/Outlook and Windows to migrate to *BSD or Linux. It seems an MSIE/Outlook Windows user will migrate to Firefox (typically) for their browser. Then, they will migrate to Thunderbird or gmail. After that, they get interested in Linux (it seems almost impossible to explain to them about the *BSDs). Based on this logic, I think Firefox (and sometimes Thunderbird) is where the migration to OSS starts for the typical user. For corporations, this may be different because Firefox is harder manage using traditional means (no group policies), but I think you could have a bunch of X terminals setup to go to one machine and one Firefox installation instance for all users of a particular group on *nix.
I am worried about the future. With IE7 on it's way, is this going to slow down the adoption of Firefox by the masses? Is Microsoft going to start advertising everywhere that IE7 is on the way so users will think "Nevermind Firefox, I can just use IE6 because IE7 will be out soon and it will work better with my sites"? (re: vapourware effect, not that I don't think Microsoft won't release it) Also, the bug that causes the user to lose the entire contents of their hard disk drive while uninstalling Firefox 1.0 is worrysome. But I've warned all my coworkers, relatives and friends (who run Firefox 1.0) to not upgrade by uninstalling and installing Firefox 1.01.
Is Google doing anything to stop Google bombing? Is there anything they can do? I'm hoping Google will improve their GoogleBot so that sites that Google bomb to get into the top ten ranking stop getting in the top ten ranking, unless they truely what the user wants to see (informative). Wikipedia is likely to be quite informative though, so IMO this particular Google bomb is justified.
Is the money these lawsuits still giving them a net profit after paying for the lawyers, the labour to track down the pirates, etc.? Or is the purpose of this just to set an example and scare all the other pirates away? Maybe it's the coffee, but I for one see a future where the music industry becomes almost dead due to pirating and music becomes opensource, like *BSD or Apache. Musicians no longer are paid significantly by percentages of record sales. Instead, music is freely and legally downloaded. The musicians perhaps will get their money some other way, like commercials and live performances.
It is good that LinuxWorld has dismissed Dvorak's FUD. Dvorak is more of a source of entertainment than real insight. I remember Dvorak ranting about the "System Idle Process" in the Windows task manager "eating" 98% CPU. If we want his FUD to stop, we need to stop paying attention to him and editors of Slashdot and others need to stop articles linking to his BS.
It is the fault of the students. Even my private school has had this problem. I have excelled in all my classes and received high honours. However, 85% of the students get poor grades that are not honourable. And it is all their fault. Their mindset "chemistry is boring, and math is too hard" is their own fault and they don't deserve an education if they don't even care about learning.
Perhaps Intel processors are easier to support (overheating perhaps just makes an Intel chip slowdown or reset, and AMD chips become damaged?). But IMNSHO if Dell wants to keep their server market share, I think they should be using AMD. Italium isn't selling. Even if Intel did lose Dell as a customer for Pentium 4, it wouldn't hurt Intel much. Intel still has alot of other cool things like PCI Express to keep them going. I think in the future Intel will stop so much precedence on their CPUs and focus more on complimentary components like PCI Express.
They get Intel jealous by flirting with AMD and when Intels reluctantly lowers their price Dell goes back to Intel. It is likely that they would do to Microsoft with Linux or *BSD to get the price of Windows down.
The United States is not non restrictive. There are certainly restrictions. In some states, you are not allowed to view certain pornography. Even cryptography is restricted by the government, making the European version of putty.exe (SSH client) illegal in the United States.
With dual core CPUs coming from AMD and Intel, Oracle is going to be forced to change their licensing policy. Their customers will likely think of a CPU as one chip, not one core, and refuse to pay for two CPUs.
With dual core CPUs coming from AMD and Intel, Oracle is going to be forced to change their licensing policy. There customers will likely think of a CPU as one chip, not one core, and refuse to pay for two CPUs.
I have noticed that the teacher's computers where I am attending are loaded with spyware. They were all using Internet Explorer. A few switched over to Firefox right after I told them MSIE lets spyware in. But most couldn't care less. Finally, I found something that is getting the others to switch over. I ask them "Would you use a web browser created by a convicted monopolist?" They always say "No." Then I tell them they are using one (Internet Explorer). This gets there interest and then I get them to download and switch over to Firefox.
Actually, contrary to popular belief, there were two Ajaxes in the Odyssey, there was "little" Ajax and "Big" Ajax. Both dided a different death. (I can't remember exactly, I think little Ajax pissed off a god and was then killed). Ignorantly, most movies depict the Oddysey with one Ajax.
I don't understand why people care about how loud a computer is. At the moment I have four Open/NetBSD machines running with humming HDDs and fans, and to be quite honest, it doesn't bother me. I can't really hear the fans and HDDs unless I put my ear on the case. Of course, Metallica is blasting.
I have K-Meleon working very well (and fast) in WINE version 20041201. It installs and runs fine without messing without any messing with DllOverides, etc. Also the Netscape-Branded firefox that was on/. works well in WINE too. So this is good news for *nix users too.
I have a similar scenario but I think it is because Firefox has been running for a few weeks.
I have four mozilla-firefox-bin processes that are taking 50% of my RAM total (which is about 256 MB of RAM)
Alot of the things that are nice in Firefox do not exist in this browser. Like the find-as-you-type. It doesn't have this. Instead it uses the default Windows find dialog in WINE, which is ugly. When you right click, there is never a menu that pops up. If you view the site as Internet Explorer, the browser hangs. I do have MSIE 6 installed and workung under WINE, but for some reason Netscape can't work as an IE control under WINE.
Okay, I downloaded NSBrowserSetup-Full.exe off of P2P and it installed flawlessly under WINE without messing with my config. Kudos to Netscape for creating a browser that runs so well under WINE. Playing with this Netscape-branded Firefox in Slackware Linux via WINE was fun. My complaints are that it feels like I'm using AOL's browser. There is too many bells & whistles for this browser to be practical however (the weather thing is annoying, and it tries to sign me in with my screenname. Also the browser seems to pop up a dialog everytime I do something!) The only thing that resembles Firefox really is the way it improperly renders Slashdot's crappy HTML.
It looks like you can download this Netscape-branded Firefox if you have an AIM screenname. If I am successful in downloading, I wonder how well this will run in WINE.
Broadband users are spoiled. In my area, the fastest connection is ADSL. The problem is that the ISP's half T1 connection is maxed out so much that you can only download at 6 kb/sec, and the service costs $200 USD to set up plus $50 USD per month. Dial-Up here is only $23.95 USD in my area. On my 100 mbit LAN, clients download through my FreeBSD router's 28.8k ISA hardware modem at about 1.8 kb/sec.
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In my experiences with users, I have noticed you almost never see a user go from using MSIE/Outlook and Windows to migrate to *BSD or Linux. It seems an MSIE/Outlook Windows user will migrate to Firefox (typically) for their browser. Then, they will migrate to Thunderbird or gmail. After that, they get interested in Linux (it seems almost impossible to explain to them about the *BSDs). Based on this logic, I think Firefox (and sometimes Thunderbird) is where the migration to OSS starts for the typical user. For corporations, this may be different because Firefox is harder manage using traditional means (no group policies), but I think you could have a bunch of X terminals setup to go to one machine and one Firefox installation instance for all users of a particular group on *nix.
I am worried about the future. With IE7 on it's way, is this going to slow down the adoption of Firefox by the masses? Is Microsoft going to start advertising everywhere that IE7 is on the way so users will think "Nevermind Firefox, I can just use IE6 because IE7 will be out soon and it will work better with my sites"? (re: vapourware effect, not that I don't think Microsoft won't release it) Also, the bug that causes the user to lose the entire contents of their hard disk drive while uninstalling Firefox 1.0 is worrysome. But I've warned all my coworkers, relatives and friends (who run Firefox 1.0) to not upgrade by uninstalling and installing Firefox 1.01.
Is Google doing anything to stop Google bombing? Is there anything they can do? I'm hoping Google will improve their GoogleBot so that sites that Google bomb to get into the top ten ranking stop getting in the top ten ranking, unless they truely what the user wants to see (informative). Wikipedia is likely to be quite informative though, so IMO this particular Google bomb is justified.
Is the money these lawsuits still giving them a net profit after paying for the lawyers, the labour to track down the pirates, etc.? Or is the purpose of this just to set an example and scare all the other pirates away? Maybe it's the coffee, but I for one see a future where the music industry becomes almost dead due to pirating and music becomes opensource, like *BSD or Apache. Musicians no longer are paid significantly by percentages of record sales. Instead, music is freely and legally downloaded. The musicians perhaps will get their money some other way, like commercials and live performances.
It is good that LinuxWorld has dismissed Dvorak's FUD. Dvorak is more of a source of entertainment than real insight. I remember Dvorak ranting about the "System Idle Process" in the Windows task manager "eating" 98% CPU. If we want his FUD to stop, we need to stop paying attention to him and editors of Slashdot and others need to stop articles linking to his BS.
It is the fault of the students. Even my private school has had this problem. I have excelled in all my classes and received high honours. However, 85% of the students get poor grades that are not honourable. And it is all their fault. Their mindset "chemistry is boring, and math is too hard" is their own fault and they don't deserve an education if they don't even care about learning.
Perhaps Intel processors are easier to support (overheating perhaps just makes an Intel chip slowdown or reset, and AMD chips become damaged?). But IMNSHO if Dell wants to keep their server market share, I think they should be using AMD. Italium isn't selling. Even if Intel did lose Dell as a customer for Pentium 4, it wouldn't hurt Intel much. Intel still has alot of other cool things like PCI Express to keep them going. I think in the future Intel will stop so much precedence on their CPUs and focus more on complimentary components like PCI Express.
They get Intel jealous by flirting with AMD and when Intels reluctantly lowers their price Dell goes back to Intel. It is likely that they would do to Microsoft with Linux or *BSD to get the price of Windows down.
The United States is not non restrictive. There are certainly restrictions. In some states, you are not allowed to view certain pornography. Even cryptography is restricted by the government, making the European version of putty.exe (SSH client) illegal in the United States.
With dual core CPUs coming from AMD and Intel, Oracle is going to be forced to change their licensing policy. Their customers will likely think of a CPU as one chip, not one core, and refuse to pay for two CPUs.
With dual core CPUs coming from AMD and Intel, Oracle is going to be forced to change their licensing policy. There customers will likely think of a CPU as one chip, not one core, and refuse to pay for two CPUs.
I have noticed that the teacher's computers where I am attending are loaded with spyware. They were all using Internet Explorer. A few switched over to Firefox right after I told them MSIE lets spyware in. But most couldn't care less. Finally, I found something that is getting the others to switch over. I ask them "Would you use a web browser created by a convicted monopolist?" They always say "No." Then I tell them they are using one (Internet Explorer). This gets there interest and then I get them to download and switch over to Firefox.
Actually, contrary to popular belief, there were two Ajaxes in the Odyssey, there was "little" Ajax and "Big" Ajax. Both dided a different death. (I can't remember exactly, I think little Ajax pissed off a god and was then killed). Ignorantly, most movies depict the Oddysey with one Ajax.
I don't understand why people care about how loud a computer is. At the moment I have four Open/NetBSD machines running with humming HDDs and fans, and to be quite honest, it doesn't bother me. I can't really hear the fans and HDDs unless I put my ear on the case. Of course, Metallica is blasting.
Post a link to it's HTTP daemon on Slashdot.
I have K-Meleon working very well (and fast) in WINE version 20041201. It installs and runs fine without messing without any messing with DllOverides, etc. Also the Netscape-Branded firefox that was on /. works well in WINE too. So this is good news for *nix users too.
I have a similar scenario but I think it is because Firefox has been running for a few weeks. I have four mozilla-firefox-bin processes that are taking 50% of my RAM total (which is about 256 MB of RAM)
Alot of the things that are nice in Firefox do not exist in this browser. Like the find-as-you-type. It doesn't have this. Instead it uses the default Windows find dialog in WINE, which is ugly. When you right click, there is never a menu that pops up. If you view the site as Internet Explorer, the browser hangs. I do have MSIE 6 installed and workung under WINE, but for some reason Netscape can't work as an IE control under WINE.
Okay, I downloaded NSBrowserSetup-Full.exe off of P2P and it installed flawlessly under WINE without messing with my config. Kudos to Netscape for creating a browser that runs so well under WINE. Playing with this Netscape-branded Firefox in Slackware Linux via WINE was fun. My complaints are that it feels like I'm using AOL's browser. There is too many bells & whistles for this browser to be practical however (the weather thing is annoying, and it tries to sign me in with my screenname. Also the browser seems to pop up a dialog everytime I do something!) The only thing that resembles Firefox really is the way it improperly renders Slashdot's crappy HTML.
It looks like you can download this Netscape-branded Firefox if you have an AIM screenname. If I am successful in downloading, I wonder how well this will run in WINE.
Broadband users are spoiled. In my area, the fastest connection is ADSL. The problem is that the ISP's half T1 connection is maxed out so much that you can only download at 6 kb/sec, and the service costs $200 USD to set up plus $50 USD per month. Dial-Up here is only $23.95 USD in my area. On my 100 mbit LAN, clients download through my FreeBSD router's 28.8k ISA hardware modem at about 1.8 kb/sec.
With this bandwidth raise, I'll finally be able to get first post on slashdot!
Server is very slow. Are they hosting the site off of a homemade mp3 player?
Pff, real coders drink caffeinated coffee!
Are they going to port the *BSD beer maker to Mac OS X?