I have smooth scrolling turned off... I turned it on just to see what happens and yes, there's some weird, annoying effect plus scrolling./ pages with a lot of comments is still very slow.
Yet another off-topic: couple of months ago I had a FF extension that let me fold/expand comment trees on slashdot. I tried to find it today with no luck. Anyone knows the URL? (and yes, I tried searching for it).
Sorry for bugging you if you feel it's off-topic. After many years of using Opera almost exclusively (I recently started using FF for some neat extensions, but only on occassion) I decided to switch to FF yesterday, since most of issues that ticked me in FF were solved by either 1.5 or some extensions. Plus, somehow./ was rendering awfully slow on my Opera (version 8.51 under Ubuntu) -- must be some nasty bug - scrolling is very slow and it seems to engage CPU as it was some _really_ demanding task (and no, I don't have legacy hardware). Things that I didn't like about FF that got fixed.
-- session restoring on a startup - Session Saver extension (link in parent's post)
-- tab duplication (I use this A LOT) - Duplicate Tab extension
-- not opening new window like 5 times per hour of normal work, which annoyed me the most - almost fixed in 1.5 (some things, like "get more extensions" still spawns a new window)
-- back button loads pages from cache (huge speed increase) - new in 1.5, I'm not sure if it needs Fasterfox extension (which is really cool, btw, just make sure you don't want to be a nasty boy who has pre-fetching turned on:) ).
-- tab reordering - new in 1.5
These are all things that are in Opera by default and I really didn't like FF 1.0.7 and earlier behavior in these areas. But - apart from zillions of cool extensions - it has some nice things by default:
-- right click on some website's search input field and select "add a keyword for this search". example: assing a "wp" to Polish wikipedia. Now you may simply type "wpl Kiebasa" in the address bar to make this search. It's doable in Opera, but requires manual editing of some ini file(s) (haven't done it, was too lazy).
-- writing a string in address bar and hitting enter works like "I'm feeling lucky" on google.com - it gets you to google's first result for that string. Saves precious time when you can't remember exact address of some website, but you're sure it will be first in SERPS for some string. Example: typing "ubuntu forums" in address bar will get you straight to ubuntuforums.org.
http://gimp.org/
The only Shop you'll ever need. And it's free too.
I'm neither a graphics pro, nor a fan of proprietary soft, but according to my good friend who's deep in this field, Gimp, even though it's been alive for 10 years, still lacks many important features. Stuff like styles applied to layers and other things, which I can't remember or simply can't repeat because that's just not my area of expertise.
How about Google demanding money for the free service they provide to Bell South's customers?
It's just a pure nonsense. Either side (wire owners and content providers) would not survive without each other. Either side would not want customers not being able to use the service over those wires.
Just wait till hardware producers demand their cut ("hey, pay us or we won't pass any traffic from *.google.* through our modems. After all, we need to make them faster than if they didn't have to handle additional traffic").
Sorry for my grammar. And while you're reading this, please ask your ISP to pay me $0.01 for your access to this post (and another $0.01 to OSTG, off course).
As a full-time Opera user, I barely ever have problems with websites (but sure, I don't often compare the way they're rendered to IE/firefox). As a designer, I have far few problems getting what I want in Opera/FF than in IE [obligatory 10 lines of frustration-driven foul language cut off by./ filters]. So yes, for designers such deal would be a Good Thing (I can't see that happening, though).
On the other side, I'm really used to O and I'd have a bit of a hard time having to switch to FF/Epiphany/whatever else (already tried and there are dozens of little things that annoy me, like being unable to find a way to use google straight from address bar, it's g string in O)... and certainly couldn't look in the mirror if I decided to stay with my favorite browser in case it would have "where do you want to go today?" thingy as a splash screen.
There's a 0.274% chance that any event in history happened on the 5th January
Unless you take into consideration the fact that most people don't want to go outside when it's so freaking cold. Certainly, everything I did that was mentioned in history books was made during either spring or summer.
P.S. Deep apologies to people in Australia for leaving the out of the picture.
on note-taking... try Tomboy. It's sticky notes combined with wiki-like crosslinking. It's not very mature app yet, but I use it a lot since I found it couple of days ago.
Well, until now, you had two options: electric heaters that keep a large amount of water hot at all times, or natural gas heaters that heat up water on-demand.
My parents have a bathroom with two "water-heaters", working in exactly opposite manner:
1. an electric one that heats up water on demand (but I admit the water's not too hot, which, btw, saves a lot of water cuz nobody wants to take long showers then:P ).
2. gas-based one that stores some hot water all the time (it's enough for a 5 minutes-long shower).
yeah, totem sucks big time. I use vlc for most of videos I watch. If something doesn't want to work, I try Xine (sometimes it helps). If I need subtitles for some reason, MPlayer is the way to go (it needed some tweaking, though... like adding a default font and changing some setting to make full screen work correctly).
anyways, it's a good idea to run Easy Ubuntu after you install the system. It downloads and installs a lot of proprietary stuff (various audio and video codecs, skype, etc).
I have just completed a study. It took me 47 minutes to remove most of the malware from my sisters XP laptop. I was unable to remove any malware from my Ubuntu box. I swear to God, I did not take a penny from MS to conduct that experiment.
Is there a way to "specialize" a RSS feed in such manner? Like "I'm illiterate, I don't want to see book reviews; I want to see everything about Apache, etc.".
I think every review's focus on installed is caused by the way those reviewers use computers: they spend half of their time installing distro's and the other half describing them. What you do a lot is important for you. And people use to think that what's important for them must be important for everybody.
My note on the installer (ubuntu 5.04 or Ubuntu/Edubuntu 5.10, sorry, I can't remember but it shouldn't matter cause the installer is identical or almost identical): sometimes it lacks descriptions. I recall spending a minute or so on figuring out how to move on. I had to press "tab" key but it was neither writter on screen nor intuitive. My mom would finish her Ubuntu adventure at that point. Other than that, I don't understand why graphical installers are important.
"polka" is a Czech dance, not Polish (although in Polish "polka" means "a female from Poland"). "piwa" should be "piwo" (if you meant "beer") and - being Polish - I have no idea what "ponzca" could mean - it's not close to any word I know. you got "kielbasa" right, gratz;)
One of the developers I work with yesterday switched from Fedora Core 4 to Ubuntu (we had some issues due to different packages versions - our dev server runs on Ubuntu).
He said "Ubuntu is great" few hours after I advised him to make the switch. All hardware was properly detected (he had no sound under FC4) and he loves apt/synaptic.
I've used U for over 6 months now and I have almost no problems. It's certainly much smoother than FC3 that I used before (fewer services installed and running by default). I only have some weird problem with the microphone (standard SB Audigy) - it "records" things I have heard in headphones couple seconds earlier. Also, a dist-upgrade from Hoary (5.04) has been a bit nasty. I succeeded after struggling for couple hours, but still had some unsolved problems and decided it's gonna take less time to just reinstall.
Stop whining guys. I'm paying circa $90 for 2Mbps down / 256kbps up and there's nothing else I could do if I don't want to go back to "connect-via-some-crappy-ISP-for-$20-a-month-and-s hare-1Mbps-with-100-people-and-be-sure-to-have-at- least-5%-downtime" solution. Back then (I got that $90 DSL 4 months ago I was losing couple days of work each month on waiting for the connection to get up, calling ISP, running arround like crazy and tearing my hair off. I figured out paying $70 less is not worth it. Welcome to the third world, welcome to Poland.
Oh... have I said that average salary is $700 or so around here?
Slashdot Mirror
* to start thinking
I think impatient individuals such as myself should be allowed to edit own posts. At least for the first 30 seconds after posting.
I think it's the right time start thinking about slipping some go-to-Redmond-and-kill-kill-kill code into the kernel.
I have smooth scrolling turned off... I turned it on just to see what happens and yes, there's some weird, annoying effect plus scrolling ./ pages with a lot of comments is still very slow.
Yet another off-topic: couple of months ago I had a FF extension that let me fold/expand comment trees on slashdot. I tried to find it today with no luck. Anyone knows the URL? (and yes, I tried searching for it).
Sorry for bugging you if you feel it's off-topic. After many years of using Opera almost exclusively (I recently started using FF for some neat extensions, but only on occassion) I decided to switch to FF yesterday, since most of issues that ticked me in FF were solved by either 1.5 or some extensions. Plus, somehow ./ was rendering awfully slow on my Opera (version 8.51 under Ubuntu) -- must be some nasty bug - scrolling is very slow and it seems to engage CPU as it was some _really_ demanding task (and no, I don't have legacy hardware). Things that I didn't like about FF that got fixed.
:) ).
-- session restoring on a startup - Session Saver extension (link in parent's post)
-- tab duplication (I use this A LOT) - Duplicate Tab extension
-- not opening new window like 5 times per hour of normal work, which annoyed me the most - almost fixed in 1.5 (some things, like "get more extensions" still spawns a new window)
-- back button loads pages from cache (huge speed increase) - new in 1.5, I'm not sure if it needs Fasterfox extension (which is really cool, btw, just make sure you don't want to be a nasty boy who has pre-fetching turned on
-- tab reordering - new in 1.5
These are all things that are in Opera by default and I really didn't like FF 1.0.7 and earlier behavior in these areas. But - apart from zillions of cool extensions - it has some nice things by default:
-- right click on some website's search input field and select "add a keyword for this search". example: assing a "wp" to Polish wikipedia. Now you may simply type "wpl Kiebasa" in the address bar to make this search. It's doable in Opera, but requires manual editing of some ini file(s) (haven't done it, was too lazy).
-- writing a string in address bar and hitting enter works like "I'm feeling lucky" on google.com - it gets you to google's first result for that string. Saves precious time when you can't remember exact address of some website, but you're sure it will be first in SERPS for some string. Example: typing "ubuntu forums" in address bar will get you straight to ubuntuforums.org.
5) Vista will be a secure OS, thus it will not need any protection ;)
Unless every copy has add-ons in different places.
http://gimp.org/
The only Shop you'll ever need. And it's free too. I'm neither a graphics pro, nor a fan of proprietary soft, but according to my good friend who's deep in this field, Gimp, even though it's been alive for 10 years, still lacks many important features. Stuff like styles applied to layers and other things, which I can't remember or simply can't repeat because that's just not my area of expertise.
How about Google demanding money for the free service they provide to Bell South's customers?
It's just a pure nonsense. Either side (wire owners and content providers) would not survive without each other. Either side would not want customers not being able to use the service over those wires.
Just wait till hardware producers demand their cut ("hey, pay us or we won't pass any traffic from *.google.* through our modems. After all, we need to make them faster than if they didn't have to handle additional traffic").
Sorry for my grammar. And while you're reading this, please ask your ISP to pay me $0.01 for your access to this post (and another $0.01 to OSTG, off course).
As a full-time Opera user, I barely ever have problems with websites (but sure, I don't often compare the way they're rendered to IE/firefox). As a designer, I have far few problems getting what I want in Opera/FF than in IE [obligatory 10 lines of frustration-driven foul language cut off by ./ filters]. So yes, for designers such deal would be a Good Thing (I can't see that happening, though).
On the other side, I'm really used to O and I'd have a bit of a hard time having to switch to FF/Epiphany/whatever else (already tried and there are dozens of little things that annoy me, like being unable to find a way to use google straight from address bar, it's g string in O)... and certainly couldn't look in the mirror if I decided to stay with my favorite browser in case it would have "where do you want to go today?" thingy as a splash screen.
May someone enlighten me what's wrong with this **Beatle-Beatle guy?
There is no god, no matter what religion you are. I've searched.
o ff=1&client=opera&rls=en&q=god&btnG=Search
You use some shitty search engine, brother.
http://www.google.com/search?hs=d3X&hl=en&lr=&c2c
There's a 0.274% chance that any event in history happened on the 5th January
Unless you take into consideration the fact that most people don't want to go outside when it's so freaking cold. Certainly, everything I did that was mentioned in history books was made during either spring or summer.
P.S. Deep apologies to people in Australia for leaving the out of the picture.
Nothing wrong with the games available on linux. You made me cry, sir.
I have to wait till my roommate goes to bed before I can get a dose of Civ IV.
on note-taking... try Tomboy. It's sticky notes combined with wiki-like crosslinking. It's not very mature app yet, but I use it a lot since I found it couple of days ago.
Well, until now, you had two options: electric heaters that keep a large amount of water hot at all times, or natural gas heaters that heat up water on-demand.
:P ).
My parents have a bathroom with two "water-heaters", working in exactly opposite manner:
1. an electric one that heats up water on demand (but I admit the water's not too hot, which, btw, saves a lot of water cuz nobody wants to take long showers then
2. gas-based one that stores some hot water all the time (it's enough for a 5 minutes-long shower).
yeah, totem sucks big time. I use vlc for most of videos I watch. If something doesn't want to work, I try Xine (sometimes it helps). If I need subtitles for some reason, MPlayer is the way to go (it needed some tweaking, though... like adding a default font and changing some setting to make full screen work correctly).
anyways, it's a good idea to run Easy Ubuntu after you install the system. It downloads and installs a lot of proprietary stuff (various audio and video codecs, skype, etc).
I have just completed a study. It took me 47 minutes to remove most of the malware from my sisters XP laptop. I was unable to remove any malware from my Ubuntu box. I swear to God, I did not take a penny from MS to conduct that experiment.
Is there a way to "specialize" a RSS feed in such manner? Like "I'm illiterate, I don't want to see book reviews; I want to see everything about Apache, etc.".
I think every review's focus on installed is caused by the way those reviewers use computers: they spend half of their time installing distro's and the other half describing them. What you do a lot is important for you. And people use to think that what's important for them must be important for everybody.
My note on the installer (ubuntu 5.04 or Ubuntu/Edubuntu 5.10, sorry, I can't remember but it shouldn't matter cause the installer is identical or almost identical): sometimes it lacks descriptions. I recall spending a minute or so on figuring out how to move on. I had to press "tab" key but it was neither writter on screen nor intuitive. My mom would finish her Ubuntu adventure at that point. Other than that, I don't understand why graphical installers are important.
"polka" is a Czech dance, not Polish (although in Polish "polka" means "a female from Poland"). "piwa" should be "piwo" (if you meant "beer") and - being Polish - I have no idea what "ponzca" could mean - it's not close to any word I know. you got "kielbasa" right, gratz ;)
One of the developers I work with yesterday switched from Fedora Core 4 to Ubuntu (we had some issues due to different packages versions - our dev server runs on Ubuntu).
He said "Ubuntu is great" few hours after I advised him to make the switch. All hardware was properly detected (he had no sound under FC4) and he loves apt/synaptic.
I've used U for over 6 months now and I have almost no problems. It's certainly much smoother than FC3 that I used before (fewer services installed and running by default). I only have some weird problem with the microphone (standard SB Audigy) - it "records" things I have heard in headphones couple seconds earlier. Also, a dist-upgrade from Hoary (5.04) has been a bit nasty. I succeeded after struggling for couple hours, but still had some unsolved problems and decided it's gonna take less time to just reinstall.
I read somewhere few words about a completely new look of Dapper (it will not be brownish). I might be wrong, but I think Shuttleworth wrote it.
8 hours per day? Why in the world would you turn off your computer for a longer time than swapping hdd's take?
Stop whining guys. I'm paying circa $90 for 2Mbps down / 256kbps up and there's nothing else I could do if I don't want to go back to "connect-via-some-crappy-ISP-for-$20-a-month-and-s hare-1Mbps-with-100-people-and-be-sure-to-have-at- least-5%-downtime" solution. Back then (I got that $90 DSL 4 months ago I was losing couple days of work each month on waiting for the connection to get up, calling ISP, running arround like crazy and tearing my hair off. I figured out paying $70 less is not worth it. Welcome to the third world, welcome to Poland.
Oh... have I said that average salary is $700 or so around here?
so software patents are wrong?