India has a lot of social problems (concerning sikhs and poorness). Isn't it better for them to first solve those problems instead of burning money on a project like this? Or is it another try to intimidate neighbour Pakistan...
Well, I started using Mozilla mostly 'cuz Nescape 4.72 gives me bus errors on start up (it doesn't start nomore from a user other than root) and it looks cool, works fairly fast and renders pages better than 4.72.
On the other side.. Like Netscape Mozilla has a habit of crashing every now and then, and the most annoying bug (??) in the browser is that it doesn't remember where you were on a page when you clicked a link, so when you go back, it's on the top again (try it with freshmeat, it's annoying). I hope they fix that soon!:)
Is probably the best browser you can install at the moment, though Opera is pretty good too. Too bad Opera isn't free (as in beer and speech) and doesn't render some sites too well, mostly to blame to not so good HTML.
I downloaded the previous version of Opera for Linux, which was pretty Stable (at least, it didn't crash too much on me). Too bad though a whole lot of websites are written in a HTML look-a-like. That causes that Opera doesn't always render a page too well. Keep up the good work, Opera!
The great thing behind napster is the whole idea, too bad that the implementation is a disaster. I already read complaints about the 'x' not exitting the program, and the lack of an stop button. But the most annoying thing of napster is the fact that you cannot resume a file. When your link hickups you loose connection (protocol problem?) and you can forget the last 5% you had left to complete. $olid
I think it's comparable to the battle between the different Video standards. Philips produced Video-2000 which was far more superior than VHS, but Philips didn't allow porno being produced on Video2000, which meant the end of the standard.
Almost nobody admits that they bought a computer just for games, like almost nobody admits they bought a video for porno.
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And a mega bonus discount if you buy a 124 node Beowulf cluster:)
That's not the only moral. The other thing they try to say is that have professionals look at your GUI, 'cuz when you let your developers on the loose you can get something like this.
I worked for a GUI team in a rather large organisation and I found out that it's rather difficult to design a good gui. It takes several hours of talking to users of the future product.
To get some sort of standard they made a Styleguide. We (I'm a developer too) have that GUI handy whenever we need to make windows.
It's fun to see that M$ doesn't always follow their own styleguide (For instance, look at powerpoint, which is a complete UI disaster)
Funny how they say NT is more stable. Last time I tried to install NT, it gave me a blue screen during install. After a few weeks of trying to find out why it didn't work, I found out that my AHA7890 was not supported. This chip wasn't out when they first released NT, but it wasn't either when Linux 2.0 was released. But with 2.1.1XX (dunno the number) the Linuxcommunity fixed the problem, while NT still can't be installed without doing a lot of copying and freaking around. Haven't tried Win2K yet, and I'm not going to. The more M$ is spreading FUD the more confidence I have in Linux. Oh... I've got another anekdote too. Ever tried to install a Teles BRI 16.3 ISDN adaptor with NT? Took me about 1 hour on Linux (including the compiling of ISDN4Linux tools). On NT it took me a whole weekend (failed once, reinstall NT or else you will never succeed)
What seems to work for management where I work is, that they just make the project smaller and smaller by subtracting features and in the end say that you made the project in time
I'm currently using Netscape 4.61 too, and without the Javascript and Java turned off, It would crash immediately when running into a Java applet. Doesn't matter which site I go to. It leaves only one error saying: Bus error. Anyone know what that means??
Well I think Toshiba is doing a pretty good job. I don't have experience with them, but I read they are going to support Linux fully. I just wish I could pay for a neat linux machine for in my lap.
Naah.. I like being a nitpicker:)) It's the same with those videocards which can display 2^32 colors on just 640x480. Or even better with scanners which can produce 36 bit color... but now I'm offtopic I think. Or *grin* how about those marketing guys who say that WinNT is a real stable platform which you can trust your life to.
Hmm.. Sounds cool 65000 colors Resolution: 240 x 160 pixels Maximum colors to be displayed simultaneously: 65,000 240 times 160 is 38400. Why can't marketing guys do math?
I'm not an American, but I'm truly amazed by the statements some people from that rather large country over there. Do those people really believe that displaying the ten commandments is solving the violence problems? Or is it just a way to force religion.
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I wonder.. are they gonna use Fuzzy logic to retain lost memories? :)
India has a lot of social problems (concerning sikhs and poorness). Isn't it better for them to first solve those problems instead of burning money on a project like this? Or is it another try to intimidate neighbour Pakistan...
Well, I started using Mozilla mostly 'cuz Nescape 4.72 gives me bus errors on start up (it doesn't start nomore from a user other than root) and it looks cool, works fairly fast and renders pages better than 4.72.
:)
On the other side.. Like Netscape Mozilla has a habit of crashing every now and then, and the most annoying bug (??) in the browser is that it doesn't remember where you were on a page when you clicked a link, so when you go back, it's on the top again (try it with freshmeat, it's annoying). I hope they fix that soon!
Is probably the best browser you can install at the moment, though Opera is pretty good too. Too bad Opera isn't free (as in beer and speech) and doesn't render some sites too well, mostly to blame to not so good HTML.
Aahh.. finally I can use those other 56cpu's :)
I downloaded the previous version of Opera for Linux, which was pretty Stable (at least, it didn't crash too much on me). Too bad though a whole lot of websites are written in a HTML look-a-like. That causes that Opera doesn't always render a page too well. Keep up the good work, Opera!
Why didn't they also make a nice ethernet socket in it, so if you aren't on the road, you could network it at home...
The great thing behind napster is the whole idea, too bad that the implementation is a disaster. I already read complaints about the 'x' not exitting the program, and the lack of an stop button. But the most annoying thing of napster is the fact that you cannot resume a file. When your link hickups you loose connection (protocol problem?) and you can forget the last 5% you had left to complete. $olid
I always call 'em a MOS... Movie Operating System. Give up hope that it ever changes. :)
Of course we need games for Linux.
I think it's comparable to the battle between the different Video standards. Philips produced Video-2000 which was far more superior than VHS, but Philips didn't allow porno being produced on Video2000, which meant the end of the standard.
Almost nobody admits that they bought a computer just for games, like almost nobody admits they bought a video for porno.
And a mega bonus discount if you buy a 124 node Beowulf cluster :)
I hope those guys will deliver internationally, 'cuz it seems that hardware in Europe is still more expensive than in the USA.
Didn't see any monitors btw. Are we still stuck with a grey monitor next to the very colorfull puter?
That's not the only moral. The other thing they try to say is that have professionals look at your GUI, 'cuz when you let your developers on the loose you can get something like this.
I worked for a GUI team in a rather large organisation and I found out that it's rather difficult to design a good gui. It takes several hours of talking to users of the future product.
To get some sort of standard they made a Styleguide. We (I'm a developer too) have that GUI handy whenever we need to make windows.
It's fun to see that M$ doesn't always follow their own styleguide (For instance, look at powerpoint, which is a complete UI disaster)
Maybe if you get yer enlightened windows non-transparent it won't be choppy :))
Funny how they say NT is more stable. Last time I tried to install NT, it gave me a blue screen during install. After a few weeks of trying to find out why it didn't work, I found out that my AHA7890 was not supported. This chip wasn't out when they first released NT, but it wasn't either when Linux 2.0 was released. But with 2.1.1XX (dunno the number) the Linuxcommunity fixed the problem, while NT still can't be installed without doing a lot of copying and freaking around. Haven't tried Win2K yet, and I'm not going to. The more M$ is spreading FUD the more confidence I have in Linux. Oh... I've got another anekdote too. Ever tried to install a Teles BRI 16.3 ISDN adaptor with NT? Took me about 1 hour on Linux (including the compiling of ISDN4Linux tools). On NT it took me a whole weekend (failed once, reinstall NT or else you will never succeed)
What seems to work for management where I work is, that they just make the project smaller and smaller by subtracting features and in the end say that you made the project in time
Too bad you can only see if the screen is darker than average, or lighter than average :)
I'm currently using Netscape 4.61 too, and without the Javascript and Java turned off, It would crash immediately when running into a Java applet. Doesn't matter which site I go to. It leaves only one error saying: Bus error. Anyone know what that means??
Ramdisk, to my knowledge, is just another filesystem. I would think it's strange if they would not cache it.
Well I think Toshiba is doing a pretty good job. I don't have experience with them, but I read they are going to support Linux fully. I just wish I could pay for a neat linux machine for in my lap.
Naah.. I like being a nitpicker :)) It's the same with those videocards which can display 2^32 colors on just 640x480. Or even better with scanners which can produce 36 bit color... but now I'm offtopic I think. Or *grin* how about those marketing guys who say that WinNT is a real stable platform which you can trust your life to.
The 6502 *sigh of happiness* That one was in the early C64's (later replaced by the 6510 if I'm not mistaken)
Hmm.. Sounds cool 65000 colors
Resolution: 240 x 160 pixels
Maximum colors to be displayed simultaneously: 65,000
240 times 160 is 38400. Why can't marketing guys do math?
I'm not an American, but I'm truly amazed by the statements some people from that rather large country over there. Do those people really believe that displaying the ten commandments is solving the violence problems? Or is it just a way to force religion.