Managing to shave 5 seconds off boot? Not so much so, especially since it offers no other concrete advantages once you're booted.
If boot times can be dropped to a couple of seconds people will be less likely to leave their computers on for hours while away from their desks, just for the convenience of it.
Not to mention that it won't only be boot time, but possible load times of other software and files that is improved as well.
- Person 1 takes person 2's public key and encrypts their transfer encryption/decryption key with it
the big problem with public key cryptography is that you get a public key from person 2, how do you know this public key is actually from person 2 and not from person 3 trying to listen to the conversation? If there's a person listening in the middle they can intercept the traffic on both ends and replace each other person's public key with their own. That way they can pretend to be person 1 to person 2, and pretend to be person 2 to person 1.
It makes it more difficult, but it's still not impossible, to snoop on that traffic.
It's the delivery of the public key from person 2 and person 1 that is the biggest problem with public key cryptography, and a problem which certificates and Certificate Authorities have mitigated (to an extent). But for the greater Internet, it's a more difficult proposition to give everyone certificates.
if you happen to live in an area with an ADSL2 exchange provided by anyone other than Telstra, then you're fine (comparatively. When compared to the rest of the world, you're still getting screwed)
For those of us who live more than half an hour away from a major city, however, getting decently fast internet access without having a hobbling limit is impossible. I just have to sit on my current plan until some ISP upgrades the local exchange.
I haven't had a single crash with Firefox on Windows (which I use all the time at work, and have been using since beta 3). On Linux at home, the only crashes I had were due to flash.
I don't see much arm twisting going on. I see Mozilla creating a feature and the vast majority of people liking it and one or two people complaining.
Not everyone is going to be happy with every feature, just like how there are those who hate the GUI and prefer to do their browsing with lynx on the command line. I've been using Linux as my primary desktop for 3 years now and I never complain about any new feature, and it's just gone from strength to strength on the basis of new features that there have been many complaints about.
Whenever anything moves forwards there are always people complaining that the old way was better, hell there are still people bitching about the metric system (and still entire countries not using it).
I will agree, however, that perhaps I did get a bit out of hand with my response. It just frustrates me to see people putting hard effort into a project and creating these great features only to have people complain that it's not like it used to be (usually without even trying it). I often hear complaints that people are too scared to move away from Windows because "it's different", yet these same people are often complaining about the smallest change to their perfect world that they spent years getting used to.
it's called browser history, and every browser has it. You can, of course, quickly erase your tracks by pressing ctrl-shift-delete. The site info gives you information in the hopes of being able to identify the site you are visiting. If it looks like your usual site but firefox says you've never visited it before, then you might get suspicious.
Also telling you if it stores cookies and being able to quickly see those cookies is fantastic, imo.
why go to all of that effort to fix your problem when you can just complain about it on slashdot?
The vast majority of us love the new address bar, and yes, there is an extension that brings back the old behaviour (I have no idea as to the reliability of the extension as I don't use it, it took about 2 minutes with an open mind to get used to the new location bar and now everything is so much easier with it)
It's a shame developers always change behaviour without giving the option to change it back, there should be an option to revert every single user interface change ever made so that people who hate change can keep things exactly like they used to be while everybody else has to sift through a billion different options to change something important (such as the proxy settings). Or maybe those of you who hate change can just stick with IE5 on Windows 98.
For fuck's sake, it's not difficult to get used to the new location bar, and once you do I guaruntee you'll love it.
I see "it's" used correctly twice. However, the first sentence in grammatically incorrect, it should read "Because if there's something people aren't accustomed to, it's surbeys".
Can you please hand over your Grammar Nazi Nazi card?
BMI is generally not used seriously any more as a measure of health. It's completely inaccurate. Generally waist size vs height is considered much more accurate, as it takes more into account the fat as opposed to muscle mass, and due to the fact that fat around the waist is the most likely to lead to serious health issues.
huh? on feisty I plugged in another monitor, opened up the gui config program, and added the other monitor (with a different resolution) as either a clone, or side by side, and could switch modes without restarting X.
As soon as you try to play an MP3 file (or any other media it doesn't have the right plugins for) it pops up a window saying the plugins aren't available, and even offers to install them for you.
Three clicks later and you're playing your MP3s =) dvd's, unfortunately, are a different matter.
Of all Microsoft's products, you picked Excel as the one with the ironic name. If I had to name one Microsoft product that was clearly leaps and bounds better than all the competition, to the point of nothing else really being viable, I would have picked Excel.
Surely you could have talked about the greatest of Oxymorons, "Microsoft Works"
why does everything have to be so complicated? In Australia we get the candidate names on a piece of paper with big boxes next to each name. We simply write numbers 1-whatever indicating our preferences. If you're too stupid to work that out each party also hands out "how to vote" cards. The votes are counted by hand at the end of the election.
Since you don't have a preferential system in USA it should be even easier, all you need to do is tick a box. Even the voters of Florida should be able to handle that one.
No vandal in the world can change that the first sentence in that link is something other than "Slashdot, often abbreviated as/., is a science, science fiction, and technology-related news website owned by SourceForge, Inc."
Slashdot Mirror
Managing to shave 5 seconds off boot? Not so much so, especially since it offers no other concrete advantages once you're booted.
If boot times can be dropped to a couple of seconds people will be less likely to leave their computers on for hours while away from their desks, just for the convenience of it.
Not to mention that it won't only be boot time, but possible load times of other software and files that is improved as well.
couldn't you then conceivably use the same non-volatile RAM in the device memory?
The main problem is in step 1.
- Person 1 takes person 2's public key and encrypts their transfer encryption/decryption key with it
the big problem with public key cryptography is that you get a public key from person 2, how do you know this public key is actually from person 2 and not from person 3 trying to listen to the conversation? If there's a person listening in the middle they can intercept the traffic on both ends and replace each other person's public key with their own. That way they can pretend to be person 1 to person 2, and pretend to be person 2 to person 1.
It makes it more difficult, but it's still not impossible, to snoop on that traffic.
It's the delivery of the public key from person 2 and person 1 that is the biggest problem with public key cryptography, and a problem which certificates and Certificate Authorities have mitigated (to an extent). But for the greater Internet, it's a more difficult proposition to give everyone certificates.
if you happen to live in an area with an ADSL2 exchange provided by anyone other than Telstra, then you're fine (comparatively. When compared to the rest of the world, you're still getting screwed)
For those of us who live more than half an hour away from a major city, however, getting decently fast internet access without having a hobbling limit is impossible. I just have to sit on my current plan until some ISP upgrades the local exchange.
actually I'm on linux and I have a legacy hotmail account from way back that I use for site registrations.
But then again, for the 10 seconds I need to check my email for the registration code, I couldn't care less whether it was "Live" or "Classic" mode...
there is an option in firefox to automatically delete all cookies when you close the browser... might want to check on that.
I haven't had a single crash with Firefox on Windows (which I use all the time at work, and have been using since beta 3). On Linux at home, the only crashes I had were due to flash.
I don't see much arm twisting going on. I see Mozilla creating a feature and the vast majority of people liking it and one or two people complaining.
Not everyone is going to be happy with every feature, just like how there are those who hate the GUI and prefer to do their browsing with lynx on the command line. I've been using Linux as my primary desktop for 3 years now and I never complain about any new feature, and it's just gone from strength to strength on the basis of new features that there have been many complaints about.
Whenever anything moves forwards there are always people complaining that the old way was better, hell there are still people bitching about the metric system (and still entire countries not using it).
I will agree, however, that perhaps I did get a bit out of hand with my response. It just frustrates me to see people putting hard effort into a project and creating these great features only to have people complain that it's not like it used to be (usually without even trying it). I often hear complaints that people are too scared to move away from Windows because "it's different", yet these same people are often complaining about the smallest change to their perfect world that they spent years getting used to.
just type the URL and hit enter, the awesome bar and its features are only accessed when you press down on your keyboard.
If you don't like it, don't use it, it's simple.
it's called browser history, and every browser has it. You can, of course, quickly erase your tracks by pressing ctrl-shift-delete. The site info gives you information in the hopes of being able to identify the site you are visiting. If it looks like your usual site but firefox says you've never visited it before, then you might get suspicious.
Also telling you if it stores cookies and being able to quickly see those cookies is fantastic, imo.
actually libflashsupport on ubuntu just causes flash to crash the browser. I uninstalled it and it works perfectly now, with sound.
why go to all of that effort to fix your problem when you can just complain about it on slashdot?
The vast majority of us love the new address bar, and yes, there is an extension that brings back the old behaviour (I have no idea as to the reliability of the extension as I don't use it, it took about 2 minutes with an open mind to get used to the new location bar and now everything is so much easier with it)
It's a shame developers always change behaviour without giving the option to change it back, there should be an option to revert every single user interface change ever made so that people who hate change can keep things exactly like they used to be while everybody else has to sift through a billion different options to change something important (such as the proxy settings). Or maybe those of you who hate change can just stick with IE5 on Windows 98.
For fuck's sake, it's not difficult to get used to the new location bar, and once you do I guaruntee you'll love it.
I see "it's" used correctly twice. However, the first sentence in grammatically incorrect, it should read "Because if there's something people aren't accustomed to, it's surbeys".
Can you please hand over your Grammar Nazi Nazi card?
BMI is generally not used seriously any more as a measure of health. It's completely inaccurate. Generally waist size vs height is considered much more accurate, as it takes more into account the fat as opposed to muscle mass, and due to the fact that fat around the waist is the most likely to lead to serious health issues.
Anyway, who moderated the parent troll?
you are using the word "tools". This would refer to more than one tool.
As far as I can tell, the original article was written by a single person, and I don't see anyone agreeing with it.
Can't people just show the default look?
kind of ironic that the Fedora Core pic is all browns and oranges, whereas the Ubuntu pic is all blues.
huh? on feisty I plugged in another monitor, opened up the gui config program, and added the other monitor (with a different resolution) as either a clone, or side by side, and could switch modes without restarting X.
should be even better in hardy...
tried the latest Ubuntu?
As soon as you try to play an MP3 file (or any other media it doesn't have the right plugins for) it pops up a window saying the plugins aren't available, and even offers to install them for you.
Three clicks later and you're playing your MP3s =) dvd's, unfortunately, are a different matter.
Of all Microsoft's products, you picked Excel as the one with the ironic name. If I had to name one Microsoft product that was clearly leaps and bounds better than all the competition, to the point of nothing else really being viable, I would have picked Excel.
Surely you could have talked about the greatest of Oxymorons, "Microsoft Works"
This is America! We've been handing out the same $1 billions of times! =)
why does everything have to be so complicated? In Australia we get the candidate names on a piece of paper with big boxes next to each name. We simply write numbers 1-whatever indicating our preferences. If you're too stupid to work that out each party also hands out "how to vote" cards. The votes are counted by hand at the end of the election.
Since you don't have a preferential system in USA it should be even easier, all you need to do is tick a box. Even the voters of Florida should be able to handle that one.
I could have sworn I was older than that, though...
actually there's also a new "failsafe graphics mode" which is supposed to make sure you always get a gui no matter how much you bork your xorg.conf
dunno how well it works though, I never really had any issues like that...
I bet Jimbo Wales could