NN6, at least, implemented CSS in a sloppy fashion, making life harder for the designer but not regular users
That's so untrue, you must be a lousy developer. Netscape 6.0 was bad but not at the rendering level. It's mail client was very unpolished, and it had many things wrong in the app itself. But the "gecko" rendering engine has been better than any IE for a long long time.
Re:Mozilla employs security through obscurity....
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Mozilla 1.0 RC2 is out
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· Score: 4, Insightful
That's not the right conclusion. That measure is taken in addition to many others. And is designed to protect your profile from attacks to other software too!
Suppose your profile were stored in a fixed well-known location like c:/program files/mozilla/profiles. Suppose you still used outlook (eew!). A worm which gains access to reading files could easily get your profile! And there was no security bug in mozilla in that. So randomizing the directory avoids some kind of attacks. Everything counts!
But being PostgreSQL just as easy, why not have a normal RDBMS? MySQL has really no place nowadays. It might be sad for a project but it's true. Its only use is when other applications were designed for it and require it.
MySQL is designed to appeal to sysadmins with no SQL or programming experience. They are surely used to Oracle and MS SQL server. They will expect views, transactions, foreign keys, stored procedures which are included in PostgreSQL but not in MySQL (unless you use experimental and beta code). They will laugh at you if you teach them MySQL.
Yes, we the non-US people often regard you USians as an informed, sophisticated and knowledgeable crowd. Something needs to have very high quality, and hidden and subtle meanings in order to be a hit in the US.
Objective C would have been nice. The object model of GTK is similar, so it would have been more natural to use ObjC. The code would have looked pretier.
An ARM base Palm would be so much powerful that it would be able to easily emulate the Motorola CPU of the current Palms. In fact there is a port of the POSE Palm emulator to the ARM based iPaq.
Some time ago it was announced that Palm will (dramaticaly) upgrade its hardware (and software) to use ARM. That's what every Palm fan should be waiting for. Any news about that?
When will the ARM based Palm be released?
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A Real Tabletop PC
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Some time ago it was announced that Palm will (dramaticaly) upgrade its hardware (and software) to use ARM. That's what every Palm fan should be waiting for. Any news about that?
True, I see them also adding some silly features just to say the format is better. E.g.: space for lyrics, metainfo about the CD and a digital version of the CD cover so that a CD player could show you that in a LCD screen.
Linux viruses needed.
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Linux Virus Alert
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As we speak (write?) there are surely a couple of computer labs paid by McAfee, Norton, etc. trying to create some kind of successful Linux virus/worm. =)
libtool compiles every file twice because the options needed for statically linked code aren't the same as the ones needed for dinamically linked objetct files.
When a.o file that will be used in a shared library is built, you need to pass -fPIC in order to tell gcc to create "position independent code". With this options gcc uses a register to provide this feature. As this register is lost for normal variable optimizations, statically linked code should not be compiled with this option turned on.
GTK+ and Objective C
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GTK-- vs. QT
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As it was mentioned before (and many times) GTK+ is coded in C, but is still object oriented. It uses an ad-hoc object system with dynamic typing, single inheritance. It's clean, but it's rather clumsy looking. If it had some kind of pre-processor it would look much nicer... wait! that would be just objective C! Wouldn it be nicer to have implemented gtk in Objective C? Just a random thought..
Slashdot Mirror
It destroyed the url, just copy and paste it :).
There's a newgroup for user discussion and questions. You can get support there, please don't use the developer forums. This the users' group:
. user.general
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla
For discussing these things and/or Mozilla problems or suggestions you can go to this Mozilla newsgroup.
So much worse than 4.78?
That's not the right conclusion. That measure is taken in addition to many others. And is designed to protect your profile from attacks to other software too!
Suppose your profile were stored in a fixed well-known location like c:/program files/mozilla/profiles. Suppose you still used outlook (eew!). A worm which gains access to reading files could easily get your profile! And there was no security bug in mozilla in that. So randomizing the directory avoids some kind of attacks. Everything counts!
Be my guest. =) You can include a pointer to my page for installing plugins too (check it out).
Mozilla 1.0 RC 2 has just been released and is already available for download. This is what has changed from the previous RC. New stuff include support for "HTTP pipelining", something which can increase performance by 50%! (disabled by default, check the releases notes).
This was the story I have submitted, Slashdot staff is weird, really.. =)
But being PostgreSQL just as easy, why not have a normal RDBMS? MySQL has really no place nowadays. It might be sad for a project but it's true. Its only use is when other applications were designed for it and require it.
MySQL is designed to appeal to sysadmins with no SQL or programming experience. They are surely used to Oracle and MS SQL server. They will expect views, transactions, foreign keys, stored procedures which are included in PostgreSQL but not in MySQL (unless you use experimental and beta code). They will laugh at you if you teach them MySQL.
Yes, we the non-US people often regard you USians as an informed, sophisticated and knowledgeable crowd. Something needs to have very high quality, and hidden and subtle meanings in order to be a hit in the US.
Objective C would have been nice. The object model of GTK is similar, so it would have been more natural to use ObjC. The code would have looked pretier.
He trolls the X window system.
Audio and video? Why? Specially video, which is hardly a nice thing to the current bandwidth capacity of the Internet.
I guess this is the most relevant quote Judge Saris made clear that she sees the GNU GPL to be an enforceable and binding license.
The problem is that the workd is full of... you.
An ARM base Palm would be so much powerful that it would be able to easily emulate the Motorola CPU of the current Palms. In fact there is a port of the POSE Palm emulator to the ARM based iPaq.
Some time ago it was announced that Palm will (dramaticaly) upgrade its hardware (and software) to use ARM. That's what every Palm fan should be waiting for. Any news about that?
Some time ago it was announced that Palm will (dramaticaly) upgrade its hardware (and software) to use ARM. That's what every Palm fan should be waiting for. Any news about that?
True, I see them also adding some silly features just to say the format is better. E.g.: space for lyrics, metainfo about the CD and a digital version of the CD cover so that a CD player could show you that in a LCD screen.
As we speak (write?) there are surely a couple of computer labs paid by McAfee, Norton, etc. trying to create some kind of successful Linux virus/worm. =)
libtool compiles every file twice because the options needed for statically linked code aren't the same as the ones needed for dinamically linked objetct files.
.o file that will be used in a shared library is built, you need to pass -fPIC in order to tell gcc to create "position independent code". With this options gcc uses a register to provide this feature. As this register is lost for normal variable optimizations, statically linked code should not be compiled with this option turned on.
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As it was mentioned before (and many times) GTK+ is coded in C, but is still object oriented. It uses an ad-hoc object system with dynamic typing, single inheritance. It's clean, but it's rather clumsy looking. If it had some kind of pre-processor it would look much nicer... wait! that would be just objective C! Wouldn it be nicer to have implemented gtk in Objective C? Just a random thought..