nicely? It crashes frequently, gives random errors, and looks fugly. Plus installing involves installing it on Windows first, exporting the registry and program files folder from the windows install, and importing it in WINE (the installer won't work, thanks to the antipiracy crap that doesn't stop pirates anyway).
I have Photoshop 7 under WINE, but I avoid it at all cost, i prefer the Gimp and Krita over Photoshop on WINE.
I'd agree. I have none of the problems grandparent describes. The only thing that might be slower than Windows is that Firefox and some other apps seem to take longer to start up compared to Windows. But I don't really care about that "delay". I guess Windows' prefetching code is a little more aggressive than the way Linux does it.
I'm using Ubuntu, with the binary nvidia drivers and beryl as a WM, btw.
Opera can encrypt the passwords with a key that's compiled in the program itself. It's hard to do that in an open source application, as anyone can just find the key in the source code of the program. You just have to pray nobody figures out Opera's key by decompiling it or brute-forcing it. Having a master password is safer, and it's similar in how keychains work in GNOME,KDE and OS X.
How about LaCie? They even offer the source codes for download to everyone, you don't even need to buy one of those disks.
The GPLv3 might force them to make it easier to tinker with the drives, but i'm not sure about that (currently it involves operations that are sure to void your warranty).
I doubt that. Every major ISP here limits the amount of traffic per month, which means that people tend to either leech (=not share on p2p networks) or use newsgroups or rapidshare. Bur hey, prove me wrong by providing a source if you like.
I'm not sure how they got the right to ask that, but they can force you to pay. If you throw a (public) party and you play music, you have to pay them too.
In Belgium it is. You can't sell a phone and force people to use a certain carrier. I'm curious what will happen to the iPhone here then (I guess Apple can afford to just skip Belgium)...
The man pages for pretty much anything are mirrored all over the web, so I don't see why you wouldn't use Google. If the answer is on a man page, Google will find it anyway. The 5KB you spent downloading the answer means nothing any more, nowadays.
I agree with this. It's way easier to just put everything on a fileserver (or a NAS, they run Linux too but make less noise), and use locate/Beagle to find your stuff.
Even if you manage to catalog all the data on your cd's/dvd's, you'll have to keep working on keeping it updated, and it still doesn't allow you to figure out where you left your stuff anyway (did a friend borrow it? did it fall under the sofa?). You can't use locate to find physical items yet, so even if you've catalogued everything, what do you win with it?
TUGzip has a nicer interface (supports drag & drop for one, while 7-zip doesn't, last time i checked). And tugzip can also compress/decompress.7z files, so you can still use 7-zip's superior compression in a nice interface.
Outpost alters it, but I'm certain there are some others that just block it (ie. send an empty referrer), so depending on how you wrote your site, those people might be affected too.
I personally think it's a stupid feature to add to a personal firewall, but it's there, so we have to deal with it;).
So those suckers that use personal firewalls that block/overwrite the referrer are blocked from using your site? You haven't seen 'Field blocked by Outpost firewall (http://www.agnitum.com)' anywhere in your logs?
Using the referrer logs for anything other than logging/statistics is a stupid thing to do, IMHO.
If Apple ships an app that's so out of place on a Windows desktop (seriously, even the scrollbars are OS X-style!), they better make sure you can skin it so it doesn't look like an eyesore.
It's not even the fastest. I compared both Firefox and Safari in a vmware image containing Windows, and Firefox beat out Safari on every page I threw at it. I'd test it natively, but for some reason Safari wouldn't install in WINE. Actually, when I compare konqueror's rendering speed with Firefox on Ubuntu, Konqueror is slower than Firefox too (on Ubuntu).
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Did you notice any stability improvements aswell? Flash still causes Firefox to crash way too much with the latest non-free 'stable' version...
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Yeah, because
nicely? It crashes frequently, gives random errors, and looks fugly. Plus installing involves installing it on Windows first, exporting the registry and program files folder from the windows install, and importing it in WINE (the installer won't work, thanks to the antipiracy crap that doesn't stop pirates anyway).
I have Photoshop 7 under WINE, but I avoid it at all cost, i prefer the Gimp and Krita over Photoshop on WINE.
I'd agree. I have none of the problems grandparent describes. The only thing that might be slower than Windows is that Firefox and some other apps seem to take longer to start up compared to Windows. But I don't really care about that "delay". I guess Windows' prefetching code is a little more aggressive than the way Linux does it.
I'm using Ubuntu, with the binary nvidia drivers and beryl as a WM, btw.
Opera can encrypt the passwords with a key that's compiled in the program itself. It's hard to do that in an open source application, as anyone can just find the key in the source code of the program. You just have to pray nobody figures out Opera's key by decompiling it or brute-forcing it. Having a master password is safer, and it's similar in how keychains work in GNOME,KDE and OS X.
Companies would love an OS that can't play most media formats. Their employees shouldn't be watching DVD's or wmv video's anyway.
If your processor is going to be recompiling stuff constantly anyway, you might aswell use Gentoo ;).
How about LaCie? They even offer the source codes for download to everyone, you don't even need to buy one of those disks.
The GPLv3 might force them to make it easier to tinker with the drives, but i'm not sure about that (currently it involves operations that are sure to void your warranty).
Does that song happen to be online somewhere (and under a permissive license)?
I doubt that. Every major ISP here limits the amount of traffic per month, which means that people tend to either leech (=not share on p2p networks) or use newsgroups or rapidshare. Bur hey, prove me wrong by providing a source if you like.
You're right, Jan ;). Although the listed address is outdated. Maybe I should update it or I won't get the mp3's.
I'm not sure how they got the right to ask that, but they can force you to pay. If you throw a (public) party and you play music, you have to pay them too.
Great, contact me to get my address, send whatever you like...
In Belgium it is. You can't sell a phone and force people to use a certain carrier. I'm curious what will happen to the iPhone here then (I guess Apple can afford to just skip Belgium)...
The man pages for pretty much anything are mirrored all over the web, so I don't see why you wouldn't use Google. If the answer is on a man page, Google will find it anyway. The 5KB you spent downloading the answer means nothing any more, nowadays.
I agree with this. It's way easier to just put everything on a fileserver (or a NAS, they run Linux too but make less noise), and use locate/Beagle to find your stuff.
Even if you manage to catalog all the data on your cd's/dvd's, you'll have to keep working on keeping it updated, and it still doesn't allow you to figure out where you left your stuff anyway (did a friend borrow it? did it fall under the sofa?). You can't use locate to find physical items yet, so even if you've catalogued everything, what do you win with it?
TUGzip has a nicer interface (supports drag & drop for one, while 7-zip doesn't, last time i checked). And tugzip can also compress/decompress .7z files, so you can still use 7-zip's superior compression in a nice interface.
TugZip isn't open source, even though it's an excellent app, especially since it opens pretty much any archive type.
He's probably talking about all of them.
Outpost alters it, but I'm certain there are some others that just block it (ie. send an empty referrer), so depending on how you wrote your site, those people might be affected too.
;).
I personally think it's a stupid feature to add to a personal firewall, but it's there, so we have to deal with it
So those suckers that use personal firewalls that block/overwrite the referrer are blocked from using your site? You haven't seen 'Field blocked by Outpost firewall (http://www.agnitum.com)' anywhere in your logs?
Using the referrer logs for anything other than logging/statistics is a stupid thing to do, IMHO.
If Apple ships an app that's so out of place on a Windows desktop (seriously, even the scrollbars are OS X-style!), they better make sure you can skin it so it doesn't look like an eyesore.
It's not even the fastest. I compared both Firefox and Safari in a vmware image containing Windows, and Firefox beat out Safari on every page I threw at it. I'd test it natively, but for some reason Safari wouldn't install in WINE. Actually, when I compare konqueror's rendering speed with Firefox on Ubuntu, Konqueror is slower than Firefox too (on Ubuntu).
Forget I even said that, I was drunk.
heh, see: I just couldn't find it, while Smultron looks exactly what I need. I should've posted here earlier ;).
thanks.