Safari is based on the KDE projects KHTML engine. I find KHTML and Konqueror work quite well for most web browsing needs, but try something like loading the full manual of PHP in there. It's 10MB that firefox handles brilliantly, but Konqueror has trouble. It takes ages to load in KHTML browsers, then ages to browse through the document. Firefox takes a while to load at first, but then document navigation is done in less than a second.
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Perfectly valid point, Opera is one of the smallest browsers. I would rather use seamonkey than opera for several reasons: * it's free and Free (FSF) * it looks better * runs better on linux * XUL * etc.
Updating a Debian system for dummies: (security patches) 1. log in 2. Open a console 3. su to root 4. connect to the net (if you use dialup) 5. apt-get update 6. apt-get upgrade 7. Done!
A mac os X wizard only works for people with macs. A new cone? That's a huge improvement. A new codec loader: the only *useful* improvement that's listed in the article. This is only a *minor* release.
The story does not mention that the graphical installer is still considered alpha/experimental. The graphical installer is in its early stages at the moment.
I think Ubuntu Dapper Drake will have the graphical installer as it is always based on Debian Sid.
Andrew
The situation is more complicated than that. You can't have conflicting IP addresses without having completely separate networks, which is impractical (everyone will want to be able to connect to sites under the American Hegemony), and you don't want to have conflicting DNS records either. Indeed the rest of the world can set up their own DNS servers for a new TLD (say '.earth'), but they can't force anyone to contact the root server for that domain. The result will be chaos.
What makes you say that?
1. ARPANET was funded by US taxpayers 2. Same with some other networks: MILNET, etc 3. But many other networks were created overseas, without the US 4. The internet was formed through ALL the networks together.
So america didn't invent the net. It only started it.
It's true that DNS is a small part of what the internet is and does, but it is a vitally important part. It's much much easier to type http://slashdot.org/ than 66.35.250.150. ICANN is behaving undemocratically and has a monopoly. That's what I'm worried about: abuse of power.
And to those who'll reply now and tell me that I can't modify the GPL because the license as such is itself copyrighted to the FSF... I insist that that's irrelevant, as a license is not a creative work but rather a technical description of the terms the author offers you the software under.
The FSF actually does allow modification of the license, as long as it uses a different preamble etc. The license under which you can modify the GPL is not actually free, but that's needed because it is a legal document.
Funny. But the.com domain can be controlled by a nonprofit. Companies are out to make money, and they will misuse their power if it makes them money. Every company except for verisign will benefit with a nonprofit on.com.
Verisign has been known to go around policy: who authorised.root? ICANN is known to be undemocratic and hold meetings in places where people can't access them. Could some non-profit organisation take over.com and make the internet fair again?
This guys level of expertise is showing. Users just want to remove an object from the scene? One of the hardest things to do in ANY package - I suppose he expects to just click a button, then click the object and voila! It's gone! The closest thing to that function is the selection wizard - and those that use it know how prone to "error" it can be.
There is a Free tool in development called SIOX that allows selection of foreground objects through just a rough line drawn through it. It will be part of GIMP 2.4. This could be a huge advantage to GIMP.
I'm comparing between PgSQL and the current released version of MySQL (currently 4.1, soon will be 5.0). About MaxDB: never tried it. Also the GPL problem: _software_ is covered by the GPL, not _protocols_. MySQL says that any program which _even connects_ to a MySQL database must be GPL. A protocol description can be under the GPL, but not the protocol itself. (think: you can copyright a dictionary but not the language).
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Safari is based on the KDE projects KHTML engine. I find KHTML and Konqueror work quite well for most web browsing needs, but try something like loading the full manual of PHP in there. It's 10MB that firefox handles brilliantly, but Konqueror has trouble. It takes ages to load in KHTML browsers, then ages to browse through the document. Firefox takes a while to load at first, but then document navigation is done in less than a second.
No, and I won't because I support the Free Software movement and believe that proprietary software is wrong.
Also, Firefox and mozilla/Seamonkey runs quite well on my system: Debian GNU/linux 3.1, athlon XP 1800+, 256MB RAM, which is less than yours.
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Perfectly valid point, Opera is one of the smallest browsers. I would rather use seamonkey than opera for several reasons:
* it's free and Free (FSF)
* it looks better
* runs better on linux
* XUL
* etc.
Galeon is based on Mozilla.
Galeon is a minor browser because it only runs on Linux, requires GNOME and doesn't have all the cool extensions that Fx gets.
It's a pretty good browser though.
Fx 1.5 RC1? I'd like to see it with RC3, thank you.
Debian wins against Windows and RedHat/Fedora.
Updating a Debian system for dummies: (security patches)
1. log in
2. Open a console
3. su to root
4. connect to the net (if you use dialup)
5. apt-get update
6. apt-get upgrade
7. Done!
GNU/Linux definately wins this one, by far.
A mac os X wizard only works for people with macs. A new cone? That's a huge improvement. A new codec loader: the only *useful* improvement that's listed in the article. This is only a *minor* release.
The story does not mention that the graphical installer is still considered alpha/experimental. The graphical installer is in its early stages at the moment. I think Ubuntu Dapper Drake will have the graphical installer as it is always based on Debian Sid. Andrew
Wasn't it the Australian DSD director that officially revealed echelon?
The situation is more complicated than that. You can't have conflicting IP addresses without having completely separate networks, which is impractical (everyone will want to be able to connect to sites under the American Hegemony), and you don't want to have conflicting DNS records either. Indeed the rest of the world can set up their own DNS servers for a new TLD (say '.earth'), but they can't force anyone to contact the root server for that domain. The result will be chaos. What makes you say that?
why does efficiency matter? Transperancy is much more important. Of course we could just all use http://www.orsn.net/ for DNS.
And the US is all for democracy.
1. ARPANET was funded by US taxpayers
2. Same with some other networks: MILNET, etc
3. But many other networks were created overseas, without the US
4. The internet was formed through ALL the networks together.
So america didn't invent the net. It only started it.
It's true that DNS is a small part of what the internet is and does, but it is a vitally important part. It's much much easier to type http://slashdot.org/ than 66.35.250.150. ICANN is behaving undemocratically and has a monopoly. That's what I'm worried about: abuse of power.
There's still the possibility of an alternate internet. The US can't enforce rules online.
The FSF actually does allow modification of the license, as long as it uses a different preamble etc. The license under which you can modify the GPL is not actually free, but that's needed because it is a legal document.
Is the rootkit actually DRM? It seems to be software installed along with DRM, and it also seems to not be protected by an EULA.
So it's only at night is it? It's just as annoying when it interrupts work in the day.
The US? It's even worse in Australia!
Convert all that into IPv6!
Funny. But the .com domain can be controlled by a nonprofit. Companies are out to make money, and they will misuse their power if it makes them money. Every company except for verisign will benefit with a nonprofit on .com.
* .root - a system TLD created without authorisation - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.root
* ICANN - meetings held in Ghana and Tunisia and other countries that most people don't even know exist - see http://icannwatch.org/
And why is ICANN controlling instead of ITU? Because America doesn't want it to. The US govt. can't cope with losing control of the net.
Verisign has been known to go around policy: who authorised .root? ICANN is known to be undemocratic and hold meetings in places where people can't access them. Could some non-profit organisation take over .com and make the internet fair again?
There is a Free tool in development called SIOX that allows selection of foreground objects through just a rough line drawn through it. It will be part of GIMP 2.4. This could be a huge advantage to GIMP.
I'm comparing between PgSQL and the current released version of MySQL (currently 4.1, soon will be 5.0). About MaxDB: never tried it. Also the GPL problem: _software_ is covered by the GPL, not _protocols_. MySQL says that any program which _even connects_ to a MySQL database must be GPL. A protocol description can be under the GPL, but not the protocol itself. (think: you can copyright a dictionary but not the language).