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  1. UML Windows port? on User-Mode Linux Merged Into 2.5 Kernel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now we need somebody porting UML to run under Windows, pehaps using cygwin. Then we could have easy "try-linux.exe" for windows users.. :)

  2. We need web caches on Where The Bandwidth Goes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We need web caches... It's stupid to have files crossing the ocean thousands of times. Besides not using web caches causes that those who cannot afford bandwidth costs cannot put content in the web... Caches now!.

    Web developers must not be afraid of web caches, since the HTTP/1.1 protocol allows them to precisely define how and when their content will be cached.

  3. Re:I want to believe... on Mozilla Rising ... As A Platform · · Score: 1
    All Mozilla needs is to have ONE killer XUL-based pseudo-application. The question is what? If I knew the answer to that I'd certainly not be talking about it here.
    It's easy! A P2p file sharing client. That's the software everyone downloads and install, and it's the software that usually comes with some "hidden bonus". Of coure, Mozilla will be a benefical bonues instead of thata "Bonzi buddy" (or whatever) crap...
  4. SVG and XBL on Mozilla Rising ... As A Platform · · Score: 2

    These two technologies will interact very well. XBL is a Mozilla technology wich is used to "create new tags" in terms of existing ones. Then you can create a tag, with attributes, events, etc. This new tag will appear native to its users, but it will be coded in simple JavaScript and an XML description. Many Mozilla features are currently implemented with XBL.

  5. Wow! on Crushing Experience · · Score: 2

    I know this will be moderated as "troll", but I can't help posting this. I don't see anything here but a big "hey, we the rich of earth can destroy things. We have so much... Our next show will be throwing a couple of tons of food to the ocean".

  6. We need massive use of web caches... on Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Trailer · · Score: 2

    The mpeg file is gone... See? We need web caches... It's stupid to have this file crossing the ocean thousands of times. Besides not using web caches causes that those who cannot afford bandwidth costs cannot put content in the web... Caches now!.

  7. Re:Learn Japanese on Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Trailer · · Score: 1

    You really know nothing, there's lot of good literature written in Spanish. Borges, Cortázar, García Márquez...

  8. Wouldn't it be nice? on HP Drops Microsoft Word in Favor of WordPerfect · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... if they also included Mozilla installed on their machines? :)

  9. Re:the church and the marketplace on Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street · · Score: 1

    Too late, Linux is already ahead of BSD. Stop reimplementing what's already in Linux!

  10. Re:Hello World not OO? Hello MCFLY! on What's wrong with HelloWorld.Java · · Score: 1
    The system will know how to print a string, but it can't be expected to know how to print an inventory, a window, or a report.
    Yes, you just need to tell objects how to print themselves by overriding the toString() method.
  11. Already done in Buenos Aires, Argentina last year. on Animated Ads in a Subway Near You · · Score: 2

    As it was already done in other places, in Argentina it was done last year. Here is a newspaper article about this (translation by Google.

  12. PostgreSQL still adviseable over MySQL on What is Holding SAP-DB Back? · · Score: 2

    PostgreSQL will run in that smallest box and be faster, safer and easier to program. There's really no place left for MySQL other than nostalgia.

  13. Slashdot fight agains standards. on New Ext3 vs ReiserFS benchmarks · · Score: 3, Informative
    Also: Slashdot (the founders/owners/editors) is notorious for saying one thing and doing another. Witness the virulent anti-DMCA stance, yet, notice also how they support the very companies who forced it upon us (aka Sony). Witness their yammering about IE/MS not following standards when in fact their own HTML on thier own site is grossly out of established standards.

    Completely true. I've filed a bug to the slashdot bug report page in sourceforge to add some semantic tags to the ones we are allowed to use. I'd like to use , , etc. The bug was deleted as quick as it was posible, with no explanation.

    Besides, not only the HTML code doesn't validate. but also Slashdot has blocked the W3C validator!. That's very stupid, as anyone can just download and validate the page uploading it to the validator. Here is the validation result.

  14. Re: the emperor's the last to admit he's naked on Spielberg Denied Crack at Star Wars · · Score: 2

    Wow, what an ugly quote. A quote defending the "status quo", defending the stablishment. A quote defending the powerful ones, even if they are sitting (in all their naked-ness) on top of a bunch of lies and false philosophies.

  15. Re:One reason for PGP over GPL on Zimmermann Suggests Freeing PGP Source · · Score: 3, Insightful
    In fact, this is a good thing. Accessing to the gpg process through pipes gives you the greatest security. If you link GPG with your favorite GUI program, any hole or fault in GTK+ or your program could compromise your keys.

    Other programs do the same (have a separate security dedicated process). Check ssh and its privilege separation, and postfix and its multitude of little processes.

  16. Sun's GetJava site on Java Thrown Back in Windows, For Now · · Score: 2

    Sun created a site targeted to end users, this is the Get Java site. It features an automatic install of Java 1.3 for XP users, and a download for other platforms. There are Java demos too.

  17. Re:IE compatibility patch... on Mozilla 1.1 Alpha Released · · Score: 1

    Why on earth would one want to do that? It would be very easy to add support to Microsoft'isms in Mozilla proper. Why don't we do that? Because it shouldn't be done.

  18. Re:Unbelievable on Mozilla 1.0 Officially Here · · Score: 1

    Do you have a talkback id? Talkback is the program which starts when there's a crash and sends that info to mozilla.org.

  19. Re:User discussion newsgroups on Mozilla 1.0 Officially Here · · Score: 3, Informative

    Make sure you are accessing the secure server secnews.netscape.com.

  20. Re:Talkback packages only on Mozilla 1.0 Officially Here · · Score: 1

    Appearantly you were right:

    http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5348 6

    It seems there were some problems with broken gcc optimizations.

  21. Re:Talkback packages only on Mozilla 1.0 Officially Here · · Score: 2

    Rubbish. Mozilla binaries are fully optimized and have no debugging code. They are apt for end user use. You'll see that Netscape production releases also have talkback included.

  22. Come and get Java and Flash! on Mozilla 1.0 Officially Here · · Score: 4, Informative
  23. User discussion newsgroups on Mozilla 1.0 Officially Here · · Score: 5, Informative

    Please, don't use the developer groups for your questions. A good place for user discussion where you can ask for support or discuss and propose features is the new newsgroup:

    snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla. user.general

    (Note that slashdot adds a space inside the link)

  24. Re:IE often HAS to be your browser of choice on Opera 6.03 - The Wild Child of Browsers? · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'd like to see one of your sites. There we will learn that the reason you really don't support other browsers is ignorance.

  25. Designing sites which work in Mozilla and IE on Opera 6.03 - The Wild Child of Browsers? · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's FUD and your web designing license should be revoked.

    Explorer and Mozilla are very similar in their object model. You have just to take care of 3 or 4 things like:

    • Both support document.getElementById, but IE4 only support document.all. If you care about the old IE you must use a tiny function which will try both.
    • Event handlers in Mozilla get the event object in the argument instead of window.event. So you need to do function handler(event) { if(!event) event=window.event;
    • Mozilla is very tidy and bind objects only where they need to be. IE binds objects everywhere, so something like window.myForm won't work in Mozilla, you should the old and standard way.

    That's almost all the most seen problems. It takes no extra time to support both browsers.