"What's the point? To say you can or to visit all 3 sites that break under any browser except IE6?"
Exactly, there are some sites that my wife hits that simply will not work in Firefox, even when you spoof the useragent to appear as IE 6 on XP; the page may load, but it's unreadable and unuseable. She always emails complaints to point this out to the webmasters, but still, again, some sites HAVE to have IE to work.
While this version is only available on Windows, the app's welcome screen tells you that:
"Songbird is a media browser and Web player built from Firefox's browser engine. Songbird is open source, will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions."
Dunno, one would just assume that they're afraid that ppl would then consider Linux over OSX as a desktop, but I can't think that would happen. Yeah, having it avail to Mac/Win/Lin would be a coup for them one would think, and don't think anyone would be swayed towards Linux just for iTunes. Also, looks like Songbird WILL be on linux:
Songbird is a media browser and Web player built from Firefox's browser engine. Songbird is open source, will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions.
As much as I used to like Rhythmbox, and now like aMorak, the idea of a more 'iTunes' style player for Linux has been sorely needed. I hope this get's ported soon, until then, anyone have luck running this via Wine? I have the 9.5.0-pre version, and it's so fun to just have a simple shortcut now to run IE6 (installed easily with Wine Tools).
"Having tried Tiger I realised I've been spoiled with Linux desktops over the years; I set up a desktop once just how I like it and take that with me to whatever machine I'm using. KDE in particular offers a wide range of sensible customisations without hunting around and reading endless HOWTO's. OSX just doesn't seem to offer what I need to be productive out of the box - it takes far too much work tweaking and hunting around online to make it a personalised experience. While it was fun to try OSX for a sustained period, the G5 now runs Ubuntu."
Thanks for that comment, this is EXACTLY what I try to get across when ppl see my iBook and wonder why I don't run OSX on it! "OSX has the best gui out there" just misses the point of running Gnome/Openbox/whatever for me. The freedome to do whatever with your desktop spoils you, once in OSX you can do...some things, and with 'shareware' you can do...more things, but you can never do ALL the things that you just take for granted using Linux (or BSD) as a desktop/workstation. I've never been more content and productive as when I ran Openbox at work; I had 6 virtual desktops (one for web, one for email, one for dev, one for terms, etc) that I could switch around to via the scrollwheel! Perfect. Yes, you can do SOME of this in OSX, but you'll never be able to match the speed and simplicity that you can in a free and open DE.
I know OSX is perfect for some since it's "The best GUI on top of UNIX!" but those ppl are not me, and do not work as I do. As for hating finder, yeah, it blows, and the thing is I never even use Nautilus in Linux; I'm just too used to the comamand line. You can never get faster or more precise than doing things CLI, plus it's the way you *have* to do it on your servers, so why not be used to it?
Yes, but the fact that it's protecting a part of your car that never gets seen because it's being protected by something that doesn't look as good as that part of your car so that it doesn't get scratched, even though no one will ever see it because it's protected by something that doesn't look as good as that part of your car so that it doesn't get scratched...
I like the circular logic of people not wanting their precious iPods to get scratched, so they buy a case that looks like a wallet, but protects their iPod from scatches, that no one will ever see since the cool design of the iPod and the non-existant scratches will never been seen! Same logic goes for ppl that buy bras for their cars.
My 20G iPod is scratched to hell, and it should be; I've used it daily for almost 2 years! My car has marks on the front, and it should: I've driven it for almost 2 years, will allot of highway driving!
Don't get me started on Grecim's men's forumla or botox treatments...
please tell me activision didn't responded with smoke signals - that's just so wrong of them, you'd think they'd want to offer a peace pipe to their detractors. next we'll hear they don't run apache.
Yep, this is what I did, run a ReactOS dev version under a bundled QEMU downloaded from their site; and it functions allot like a VMware session running Windows (without the annoying icons;)). I haven't had time to try to install Office or IE, but that would be a coup since some websites still rely on IE. Since we only run Linux/OS X/Freebsd at home, having IE ability without an MS OS would rock.
I installed ReactOS from a dev build just before all of this hit and I was amazed. It's a great piece of software, and would offer some the ability to keep running Windows apps even if they didn't want to fall for the upgrade cycle that MS perpetuates. I want to try to install the new IE 7 Beta 2 and see if the new DoS attack against it works! Hehe
Eeek! Yeah, I knew, that, damn. I suppose that doesn't bode well for a LinuxPad from IBM as I'm sure they will "Recommend" XP. Oh well, I think the MacBook Pro, or just the 'non-pro' MacBook, would be nice with OS X and Linux installed.
Now don't go and tell me that Lenovo produces the MacBooks...;)
IBM has certainly come a long way in the past few years in regards to recognizing the value of open source software. Now that they have a 'real' free offering(they used to have a bastardized one, and some will argue that this is only free as in beer, that this isn't free either, but...) this should change the dynamic of their marketshare. I know most goverment projects now pretty much want DB2 (at least the ones I've been involved in) but this will open the door for all sorts of options, ppl running CMSs, ppl using Databases for virtual mail users...wow, this is actually a pretty big deal, I think.
Now, IBM, when will you offer either a 'naked' Thinkpad, or one that comes preinstalled with Linux (or FreeBSD) for us who want a real workstation?
Troops write articles presented as news reports. Some officers object to the practice.
By Mark Mazzetti and Borzou Daragahi, Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON -- As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.
The articles, written by U.S. military "information operations" troops, are translated into Arabic and placed in Baghdad newspapers with the help of a defense contractor, according to U.S. military officials and documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
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Many of the articles are presented in the Iraqi press as unbiased news accounts written and reported by independent journalists. The stories trumpet the work of U.S. and Iraqi troops, denounce insurgents and tout U.S.-led efforts to rebuild the country.
Though the articles are basically factual, they present only one side of events and omit information that might reflect poorly on the U.S. or Iraqi governments, officials said. Records and interviews indicate that the U.S. has paid Iraqi newspapers to run dozens of such articles, with headlines such as "Iraqis Insist on Living Despite Terrorism," since the effort began this year.
The operation is designed to mask any connection with the U.S. military. The Pentagon has a contract with a small Washington-based firm called Lincoln Group, which helps translate and place the stories. The Lincoln Group's Iraqi staff, or its subcontractors, sometimes pose as freelance reporters or advertising executives when they deliver the stories to Baghdad media outlets.
"Outlook not so good"
It's funny cause it's true; I contribute to projects and code because others do, and the whole community aspect spurs us on. I hate it when I see the "Please donate, this software cost over 2000$ in development for me!", come on...if you want money for your project, try to sell it, if you want people to contribute to your project make it really, really good.
This is like the old dropping the leaflets out of the planes with the "Surrender or you will be attacked" in different languages. Still, during the current conflict the US has been found to have been paying newspapers to print positive stories about the war to influence public opinion - but with more and more ppl getting news from the internet spreading it there makes sense too. I don't like it though, think about it, we're fighting for "Iraqi's freedom" yet we shortcircut their right to freedom of the press? I know that's probably not a popular opinion around here, but wouldn't it be nice if we could rely on positive stories that no one was forced to write? Perhaps I'm being nieve.
Of course I'm also reminded of, "You have no chance to survive make your time. Ha Ha Ha Ha" which makes me smile.
So for the single digit percentage of folks that need support for a modem they could go with an external USB modem, like Firewire 800 there's just not the demand for either of these, so it makes sense to drop them. In this vein the reviewer could bemoan the lack of a 100Meg Zip drive, a BNC connector or an AT keyboard plug;)
Ok, sorry, just kidding. Really though, I'd like to have a laptop where even the cdrom is option; so there would not be a cdrom slot on the system, you'd have to install via a external USB/firewire cdrom, and then not have to worry about the xtra weight that *I* never use. Again, there's a big market of folks that want a Souper-drive on their Mac's, so they're not going anywhere but for me it's just wasted weight.
so using a single data point to "prove" that "global-warmers are idiots" for using a single data point implies you are what exactly?
Thank you. Yeah, perhaps I shouldn't have given any thought of my concern, perhaps then I wouldn't have been called an idiot? I suppose point to the fact that 2005 Was the Hottest Year on Record (a report by NASA) makes me what...a retard? Ah, I love how everybody on the internet is smarter than the original poster!
Thanks for your support.
Yep, I've read evidence from both sides, but still, the fact that today (in January) it's supposed to get to 57 degress in St. Louis, the ice caps are melting and this, that we had the warmest year ever, should give pause for thought. After the Sago mine accident I learned that we still rely on COAL for ~50% of our power production! Can you believe that, this is freaking 2006! Now please go off on me for thinking that Solar or Wind are opinion; no, they will not take over our dependance on coal/oil, but it's a start and will take xx% off of that while we look for other alternatives. It is my feeling that we're living in denial without any concern for the future of our environment or our planet. Someone has to turn this around, why not us and not our children?
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"What's the point? To say you can or to visit all 3 sites that break under any browser except IE6?" Exactly, there are some sites that my wife hits that simply will not work in Firefox, even when you spoof the useragent to appear as IE 6 on XP; the page may load, but it's unreadable and unuseable. She always emails complaints to point this out to the webmasters, but still, again, some sites HAVE to have IE to work.
While this version is only available on Windows, the app's welcome screen tells you that:
"Songbird is a media browser and Web player built from Firefox's browser engine. Songbird is open source, will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions."
I for one say, Bring it on!
Dunno, one would just assume that they're afraid that ppl would then consider Linux over OSX as a desktop, but I can't think that would happen. Yeah, having it avail to Mac/Win/Lin would be a coup for them one would think, and don't think anyone would be swayed towards Linux just for iTunes. Also, looks like Songbird WILL be on linux:
Songbird is a media browser and Web player built from Firefox's browser engine. Songbird is open source, will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions.
As much as I used to like Rhythmbox, and now like aMorak, the idea of a more 'iTunes' style player for Linux has been sorely needed. I hope this get's ported soon, until then, anyone have luck running this via Wine? I have the 9.5.0-pre version, and it's so fun to just have a simple shortcut now to run IE6 (installed easily with Wine Tools).
"Having tried Tiger I realised I've been spoiled with Linux desktops over the years; I set up a desktop once just how I like it and take that with me to whatever machine I'm using. KDE in particular offers a wide range of sensible customisations without hunting around and reading endless HOWTO's. OSX just doesn't seem to offer what I need to be productive out of the box - it takes far too much work tweaking and hunting around online to make it a personalised experience. While it was fun to try OSX for a sustained period, the G5 now runs Ubuntu."
Thanks for that comment, this is EXACTLY what I try to get across when ppl see my iBook and wonder why I don't run OSX on it! "OSX has the best gui out there" just misses the point of running Gnome/Openbox/whatever for me. The freedome to do whatever with your desktop spoils you, once in OSX you can do...some things, and with 'shareware' you can do...more things, but you can never do ALL the things that you just take for granted using Linux (or BSD) as a desktop/workstation. I've never been more content and productive as when I ran Openbox at work; I had 6 virtual desktops (one for web, one for email, one for dev, one for terms, etc) that I could switch around to via the scrollwheel! Perfect. Yes, you can do SOME of this in OSX, but you'll never be able to match the speed and simplicity that you can in a free and open DE.
I know OSX is perfect for some since it's "The best GUI on top of UNIX!" but those ppl are not me, and do not work as I do. As for hating finder, yeah, it blows, and the thing is I never even use Nautilus in Linux; I'm just too used to the comamand line. You can never get faster or more precise than doing things CLI, plus it's the way you *have* to do it on your servers, so why not be used to it?
Yes, but the fact that it's protecting a part of your car that never gets seen because it's being protected by something that doesn't look as good as that part of your car so that it doesn't get scratched, even though no one will ever see it because it's protected by something that doesn't look as good as that part of your car so that it doesn't get scratched...
See it now?
I've seen this, and it does indeed make tons more sense to me than the other 'covers'; you keep the look/size/shape of the iPod but have it protected.
Homer: "Welcome to the Internet my friend. How can I help you?"
I like the circular logic of people not wanting their precious iPods to get scratched, so they buy a case that looks like a wallet, but protects their iPod from scatches, that no one will ever see since the cool design of the iPod and the non-existant scratches will never been seen! Same logic goes for ppl that buy bras for their cars.
My 20G iPod is scratched to hell, and it should be; I've used it daily for almost 2 years! My car has marks on the front, and it should: I've driven it for almost 2 years, will allot of highway driving!
Don't get me started on Grecim's men's forumla or botox treatments...
"They have the internet on computers now?"
please tell me activision didn't responded with smoke signals - that's just so wrong of them, you'd think they'd want to offer a peace pipe to their detractors. next we'll hear they don't run apache.
Yep, this is what I did, run a ReactOS dev version under a bundled QEMU downloaded from their site; and it functions allot like a VMware session running Windows (without the annoying icons ;)). I haven't had time to try to install Office or IE, but that would be a coup since some websites still rely on IE. Since we only run Linux/OS X/Freebsd at home, having IE ability without an MS OS would rock.
I installed ReactOS from a dev build just before all of this hit and I was amazed. It's a great piece of software, and would offer some the ability to keep running Windows apps even if they didn't want to fall for the upgrade cycle that MS perpetuates. I want to try to install the new IE 7 Beta 2 and see if the new DoS attack against it works! Hehe
If you want to try it again you can...
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http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/missil
[[ GAME OVER ]]
Eeek! Yeah, I knew, that, damn. I suppose that doesn't bode well for a LinuxPad from IBM as I'm sure they will "Recommend" XP. Oh well, I think the MacBook Pro, or just the 'non-pro' MacBook, would be nice with OS X and Linux installed. Now don't go and tell me that Lenovo produces the MacBooks... ;)
IBM has certainly come a long way in the past few years in regards to recognizing the value of open source software. Now that they have a 'real' free offering(they used to have a bastardized one, and some will argue that this is only free as in beer, that this isn't free either, but...) this should change the dynamic of their marketshare. I know most goverment projects now pretty much want DB2 (at least the ones I've been involved in) but this will open the door for all sorts of options, ppl running CMSs, ppl using Databases for virtual mail users...wow, this is actually a pretty big deal, I think.
Now, IBM, when will you offer either a 'naked' Thinkpad, or one that comes preinstalled with Linux (or FreeBSD) for us who want a real workstation?
Source? Sure, check out this from last November:
U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press
Troops write articles presented as news reports. Some officers object to the practice.
By Mark Mazzetti and Borzou Daragahi, Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON -- As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.
The articles, written by U.S. military "information operations" troops, are translated into Arabic and placed in Baghdad newspapers with the help of a defense contractor, according to U.S. military officials and documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
ADVERTISEMENT
Many of the articles are presented in the Iraqi press as unbiased news accounts written and reported by independent journalists. The stories trumpet the work of U.S. and Iraqi troops, denounce insurgents and tout U.S.-led efforts to rebuild the country.
Though the articles are basically factual, they present only one side of events and omit information that might reflect poorly on the U.S. or Iraqi governments, officials said. Records and interviews indicate that the U.S. has paid Iraqi newspapers to run dozens of such articles, with headlines such as "Iraqis Insist on Living Despite Terrorism," since the effort began this year.
The operation is designed to mask any connection with the U.S. military. The Pentagon has a contract with a small Washington-based firm called Lincoln Group, which helps translate and place the stories. The Lincoln Group's Iraqi staff, or its subcontractors, sometimes pose as freelance reporters or advertising executives when they deliver the stories to Baghdad media outlets.
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Fun stuff.
LAUNDRY WORKER: "We need more Calgon!"
CUSTOMER (to Asian cashier): "Ancient Chinese Secret, huh?"
http://dt2.prohosting.com/70s/adulttv/calgon.au
"Outlook not so good" It's funny cause it's true; I contribute to projects and code because others do, and the whole community aspect spurs us on. I hate it when I see the "Please donate, this software cost over 2000$ in development for me!", come on...if you want money for your project, try to sell it, if you want people to contribute to your project make it really, really good.
I can't believe the perfect picture they have for this story of Rumsfeld! It's like he's in the middle of saying, "All your base..."
g /_41265260_rumsfeld_afp203.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41265000/jp
This is like the old dropping the leaflets out of the planes with the "Surrender or you will be attacked" in different languages. Still, during the current conflict the US has been found to have been paying newspapers to print positive stories about the war to influence public opinion - but with more and more ppl getting news from the internet spreading it there makes sense too. I don't like it though, think about it, we're fighting for "Iraqi's freedom" yet we shortcircut their right to freedom of the press? I know that's probably not a popular opinion around here, but wouldn't it be nice if we could rely on positive stories that no one was forced to write? Perhaps I'm being nieve.
Of course I'm also reminded of, "You have no chance to survive make your time. Ha Ha Ha Ha" which makes me smile.
Anyone else see some redundancy in the story title: "Massively Multiplayer Games for Dummies"
(yeah, burn my karma, someone had to say it)
So for the single digit percentage of folks that need support for a modem they could go with an external USB modem, like Firewire 800 there's just not the demand for either of these, so it makes sense to drop them. In this vein the reviewer could bemoan the lack of a 100Meg Zip drive, a BNC connector or an AT keyboard plug ;)
Ok, sorry, just kidding. Really though, I'd like to have a laptop where even the cdrom is option; so there would not be a cdrom slot on the system, you'd have to install via a external USB/firewire cdrom, and then not have to worry about the xtra weight that *I* never use. Again, there's a big market of folks that want a Souper-drive on their Mac's, so they're not going anywhere but for me it's just wasted weight.
so using a single data point to "prove" that "global-warmers are idiots" for using a single data point implies you are what exactly? Thank you. Yeah, perhaps I shouldn't have given any thought of my concern, perhaps then I wouldn't have been called an idiot? I suppose point to the fact that 2005 Was the Hottest Year on Record (a report by NASA) makes me what...a retard? Ah, I love how everybody on the internet is smarter than the original poster! Thanks for your support.
I hope people can be more open minded on this, when I mntioned that Global Warming was something that we have to deal with now, I got harshly flamed:
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http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17456
Yep, I've read evidence from both sides, but still, the fact that today (in January) it's supposed to get to 57 degress in St. Louis, the ice caps are melting and this, that we had the warmest year ever, should give pause for thought. After the Sago mine accident I learned that we still rely on COAL for ~50% of our power production! Can you believe that, this is freaking 2006! Now please go off on me for thinking that Solar or Wind are opinion; no, they will not take over our dependance on coal/oil, but it's a start and will take xx% off of that while we look for other alternatives. It is my feeling that we're living in denial without any concern for the future of our environment or our planet. Someone has to turn this around, why not us and not our children?