I'm not following the whole SCO/IBM/Novell/Groklaw drama, but I read the article you linked to... and was surprised to see a quote by Maureen O'Gara. I googled some portion of (there was no link on Groklaw) and found the source - http://search.sys-con.com/read/502009.htm (sorry, I'm not gonna link to them either). Wasn't O'Gara kicked out from sys-con after she went too far and published personal details (address, telephone number, photo) of PJ?
Yep. In Poland many smaller ISPs used to do the same, but they faced the law. The smaller you are, the easier it is to go below the radar.
My friend runs a local network in his neighborhood (few apartament blocks, ~200 computers) and they've set up both DC and an FTP server to aid everybody's piracy needs. One of the side effects (besides everybody being able to get pretty much whatever they want in minutes) is that they've been running on something like one 2Gbps/256kbps DSL line (for http, games, ssh and stuff like that) and one 2Gbps/2Gpbs line (something much more expensive, I don't know much about this stuff though) for a few years and owners of ~200 computers are happy with it (partly because it costs peanuts).
It's no different than Rob Weir (a full-time salaried employee of IBM) commenting on OOXML. Whatever he has to say is tainted by the fact that his employer has products that compete with the ones he spends most of his work hours slamming. The fact that out of all FUD that's been spread over the years in the IT world you've chosen this outrageous example (ya know, the one where evil forces prevent innocent geniuses from bringing innovation to the World) says a lot, mate.
In 10.5, when you rename a file by default it selects the entire file name except the extension and period before it. This is very handy, I don't know why someone else didn't think of it before.
Someone did. Nautilus had this for a while now. Can't remember for how long, but given that even the latest Gnome (2.20) is older than OSX 10.5... .
It took 20 months (Feb. 2005 - Oct. 2006) from ie7 announcement to the release.
It's been 14 months since the release. One of my sites caters to very non-geeky audience (horoscopes and crap like that), so it should be good for "general audience monitoring". Quck peek at google analytics - 83% of people use IE. 54% _of them_ use v6, 43% use v7. It's been 14 freaking months from the release and almost 3 years from announcement.
2012 is in 49 months... I seriously doubt pre-8 versions will be anywhere near 5%...
He bought a server that's "MS SQL 2005 Capable". Unfortunately, queries that would return more than 1 row of data on truly capable hardware (min. 4GB of RAM) get access denied error instead. If you turn the profanity lang switch in conf file, it says "we don't like cheap bastards like you. come back when you have craploads of cash".
Yeah, and there's definitely no correlation between SuSe losing market share according to the same freaking survey as one year ago and sun losing real market share.
What extension do you use to replicate the remember-scroll-position-on-reload function, or is this something you don't have? that's something I don't have. haven't looked for it though, so there's a chance some dev felt like doing it.
but at the moment there aren't a huge amount of FF functions/extensions that I miss that I can't replicate under Opera I use two kinds of extensions - ones that add "general" functionality (either modify FF's behavior to my liking, like Tab Mix Plus or add some little feature, like MeasureIt) and ones that are specific to a site, like Slashdotter (javascript-based collapsing of threads is its coolest feature) or AdSense Notifier. Some of these, especially from the latter group, will never be introduced by Opera folks - the only hope is to let 3rd party developers provide them.
I've used Opera since 3.something (when it required some 3rd party patch to display Polish characters properly) and I've always loved it. Until half a year ago or so when it suddenly started to work really slow (and slower as the session got longer). I gave up after couple days of trying to do everything with no success. I think it must have been something with QT (I'm on Ubuntu). Switched to Firefox and still, after that half a year, I really miss it.
FF is decent, but it's all about those little things. Open a page, scroll down a bit and refresh. Opera automatically scrolls back to a previous position, FF displays the top. Many of those things can be opened with extensions, but it's a lot of work to find all of them. Again, simple things like re-opening a closed tab (CTRL+Z in Opera, Tab Mix Plus introduces this functionality in FF). Or clicking on a "back" button - Opera instantly loads it from the cache, firefox re-loads the page (not always, I don't know what's the reason of either behavior), which is not only a waste of time and concentration (anything longer than instant is), but can be really annoying on those rare occasions when you submit a form and something goes wrong (i.e. server doesn't respond) - often after going back you're presented with a nice clean form.
On the other hand, FF's extensions are a huge help once you get to know and use them. I wish I could get a combo (Opera + FF's extensions).
I haven't used DP since it originaly started (and I have to say it didn't sound either right- or left-wing. to me it was just plain stupid). Does the linux version stil suck? It was pretty unusable back then.
hmmmm... when Matt Zimmerman announced Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Edition, he was delighted to be working with Intel on this version of Ubuntu. Is there really a reason to create a separate project?
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Food? Are car analogies not good enough for you?
I'm not following the whole SCO/IBM/Novell/Groklaw drama, but I read the article you linked to... and was surprised to see a quote by Maureen O'Gara. I googled some portion of (there was no link on Groklaw) and found the source - http://search.sys-con.com/read/502009.htm (sorry, I'm not gonna link to them either). Wasn't O'Gara kicked out from sys-con after she went too far and published personal details (address, telephone number, photo) of PJ?
You have an error there... you said 50 downloads per day, yet you assume 50/month in your calculations. So it's $1.80*365.25/12 = $54.78.
Yep. In Poland many smaller ISPs used to do the same, but they faced the law. The smaller you are, the easier it is to go below the radar.
My friend runs a local network in his neighborhood (few apartament blocks, ~200 computers) and they've set up both DC and an FTP server to aid everybody's piracy needs. One of the side effects (besides everybody being able to get pretty much whatever they want in minutes) is that they've been running on something like one 2Gbps/256kbps DSL line (for http, games, ssh and stuff like that) and one 2Gbps/2Gpbs line (something much more expensive, I don't know much about this stuff though) for a few years and owners of ~200 computers are happy with it (partly because it costs peanuts).
90% of the supply for a gigantic market is gone? Seems like a perfect business opportunity :)
Earlier today, I read Ubuntu Hardy Heron, Alpha 4 release announcement (due in two days). Vinagre is going to be installed by default... it looks like it might be inherited from Gnome.
Someone did. Nautilus had this for a while now. Can't remember for how long, but given that even the latest Gnome (2.20) is older than OSX 10.5... .
don't know about KDE, but in GNOME alt + prnt scrn takes a screenshot of the active window.
He bought a server that's "MS SQL 2005 Capable". Unfortunately, queries that would return more than 1 row of data on truly capable hardware (min. 4GB of RAM) get access denied error instead. If you turn the profanity lang switch in conf file, it says "we don't like cheap bastards like you. come back when you have craploads of cash".
Yeah, and there's definitely no correlation between SuSe losing market share according to the same freaking survey as one year ago and sun losing real market share.
Yeah, but you can't really call something a beta when 110% of world's population is using it as a primary email service.
Ubuntu won't tell you to upgrade, unless you run update-manager --dist-upgrade. AFAIR there's no point & click way to do this.
Shut up! Have you seen his UID? You're gonna get all of us killed.
they don't take under consideration all of those IT guys taking care of server farms.
I've used Opera since 3.something (when it required some 3rd party patch to display Polish characters properly) and I've always loved it. Until half a year ago or so when it suddenly started to work really slow (and slower as the session got longer). I gave up after couple days of trying to do everything with no success. I think it must have been something with QT (I'm on Ubuntu). Switched to Firefox and still, after that half a year, I really miss it.
FF is decent, but it's all about those little things. Open a page, scroll down a bit and refresh. Opera automatically scrolls back to a previous position, FF displays the top. Many of those things can be opened with extensions, but it's a lot of work to find all of them. Again, simple things like re-opening a closed tab (CTRL+Z in Opera, Tab Mix Plus introduces this functionality in FF). Or clicking on a "back" button - Opera instantly loads it from the cache, firefox re-loads the page (not always, I don't know what's the reason of either behavior), which is not only a waste of time and concentration (anything longer than instant is), but can be really annoying on those rare occasions when you submit a form and something goes wrong (i.e. server doesn't respond) - often after going back you're presented with a nice clean form.
On the other hand, FF's extensions are a huge help once you get to know and use them. I wish I could get a combo (Opera + FF's extensions).
take your pills honey and turn off the light. mommy will sing you a lullaby
I knew it... it's a feature!
it's the first slashvertisment that makes you search for the shop yourself...
I haven't used DP since it originaly started (and I have to say it didn't sound either right- or left-wing. to me it was just plain stupid). Does the linux version stil suck? It was pretty unusable back then.
hmmmm... when Matt Zimmerman announced Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Edition, he was delighted to be working with Intel on this version of Ubuntu. Is there really a reason to create a separate project?
take flight
v : run away quickly; "He threw down his gun and fled" [syn: flee,
fly]
taked from the Gnome's "Dictionary look up" panel widget. I have no idea which dictionary(-ies) is/are being used by it.