Are you using the Linux port? I've tried yesterdays daily and 0.9.2 and it is still more than twice as slow 4.7 to start up and much slower to render a page. I do agree that its stability is vastly improved.
Has anyone else heard the rumor that Mozilla is written in java? I know it is not and I try to inform people who propogate this. Their confusion seems to be that Mozilla's menus are slow to appear the way swing drop down/menus are.
mozilla used to be way too slow on linux...but since 0.7 or 0.8, and upgrading to 256 megs of ram, its performance is enough for me. I use it all the time, and finally stopped using netscape 4 mail a few months ago. of course, mozilla scrambled 25 megs worth of Inbox a couple of days ago:(
as for the java thing, it's kind of funny, when I first started using mozilla over a year ago, I was in a java programming class. mozilla looked kind of similar to swing, as I recall, and it was just as slow. and it was cross-platform... I remember I told one person it was written in java, I don't remember if I read it somewhere or came to that conclusion myself. the circumstantial evidence was overwhelming, though...
what in the crap is up with everybody saying "linux is married and has kids?"
same thing on the mandrake story
do people not understand that operating systems cannot get married, while maybe creators of operating systems (say...linuS torvalds) can?
So why would someone want to invest money in Mandrake when the alternatives look alot snappier? They'd either be desperate, and going out of business hoping some quick investors would be clueless to invest in them so they could continue, or as arrogant as people depict the French.
Maybe because Mandrake is the most user-friendly distro made. I started out with Slakware around 2.0.36, went to RedHat 6.0 when that machine died, and now I'm a Mandrake devotee, especially since 8.0. Everything comes set up beautifully...reiserfs, xfree4, kde2, cups, etc etc, and mandrake cooker stays on top of new releases (the main reason I killed progeny after a coupla hours). I could opt to run slak and spend all my time setting things up, installing software, etc...but honestly I don't have that kind of time anymore.
I don't know, I think Mandrake has a decent chance, seeing as how they arguably have the nicest install and the most pleasant end-user experience of any linux distro. If I weren't flat broke I'd be in on it too:)
off topic, I know...but I can't resist:
"Tom Waits, Randy Newman, and Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart have filed a $40 million copyright-infringement lawsuit against MP3.com....."
from the newest rolling stone. argh, people piss me off.
"Also feeding into the effort to get Linux to work on larger systems is continuing work on software IBM released in January that lets programs run several tasks simultaneously under a process called 'multithreading.'"
So, basically, the only good thing for Mandrake to do is ban the end user from downloading their distro until the user put in his credit card number and sent them $50?
I hope all the slashdot hippies will excuse my non-pc vocabulary, but you, sir, are retarded.
No, there's a version of WinCE on every game cd (gd? what do you call the media for a "gd-rom"?). Anyway, I don't own a dreamcast, this is just one of those things I've read a coupla times along the way.
one word: MAES. yes, it's a shameless self-plug, but it works.
Multiple users, apache authentication integration, searching, browsing, multiple database support, id3v1/2 viewer/editor, playlist creation and storage, windows support as a server in the pipe (working on a couple of odbc issues)...I use it all the time, as do quite a few other people. It's worth trying, and I always answer any questions that arise.
> If you are going to denounce sweatshops, what's your alternative?
I'm not an activist; I'm a staunch conservative. but I hate nike, and most companies like it (selling normal clothes/items at retarded prices because of a brand name). sure, maybe they're better off with a job than without it, but that's not an excuse. I'm a spoiled kid, worried about money because I have a student loan. that is nothing. it's sick, really. Ok, back to your question, "what's your alternative," I got one. no, it will never happen, no, it's not really plausible. according to nikebiz.com, the average per capita income is $47 a month, and minimum wage in West Java is $34.90 a month. according to nikewages.org, they're making less. but whatever. anyway, out of the hundreds of pairs of shoes every worker makes a month, why not give him/her the return from one of those ridiculously priced pair of shoes?
When SDMI becomes the standard, and it becomes far too complicated.....
for something to become a standard, practically and not just technically, it has to be mass-accepted. well, I expect that's the case when it comes to SDMI....I'm not going to support it. are you?
what I usually find is that incompetent users, the ones who buy a computer with windows 95, play solitaire, and go on aol, (never using over 50 megs of their hard drives) are the ones with no problems. when you actually try to do something in windows, say, install software....well....then you're just asking for trouble.
miles, apparantly high-up in the OIT or resnet chain of command, said "we're not gonna ban it." he said it's up to us to check ourselves in what we do with the bandwidth, tech's just the isp. who knows what the administration will think...but they probably don't know a whole lot about network admin.
no kiddin I like mozilla, and microsoft has really pissed me off with their last outrage (no windoze cds), but I'm still not too good to say that IE is by far the best browser. I bought a stupid maximum linux magazine last week cause it said that it came with IE. after opening up the magazine and reading, they said something stupid like "here's IE under wine". the whole maximum______ magazine series is dumb, as is imagine publishing in general. anyway
>why the Hell did you support MP3.COM's database of talentless music?
you better have a pretty singing career/band/orchestra/a capella group to call all of mp3.com "talentless music." after spending some time using my.mp3, I actually went and looked at the selection of "talentless music." there are some incredibly talented artists on there...especially in punk, emo, ska, etc. as good or better than the "talented music" that the RIAA has given their stamp of approval to.
>This is exactly why artists are scared. if they don't sell CD's they don't make any money!
don't make any money...hmmm I wonder what happens to the $15-$50 I pay for tickets to shows/concerts? How about the $20 I pay for a shirt? If I like a band enough where I actually/would/ buy their cd...then I do. you're making some incredibly idiotic statements here...
Somebody much more proficient in programming than myself should take it upon himself to take some Icecast code, screw with it somehow, and clone my.mp3.com Thousands of college students on our t3's, running some variant of some free OS, streaming to our workplaces, our friends' houses.... ahhh
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you call the temple of doom good? I think I spent most of the time cringing from the bad acting.
no, actually they put a few different open source licenses on their blacklist by name, including the GPL and MPL.
yeah I noticed that.
how retarded.
Has anyone else heard the rumor that Mozilla is written in java? I know it is not and I try to inform people who propogate this. Their confusion seems to be that Mozilla's menus are slow to appear the way swing drop down/menus are.
mozilla used to be way too slow on linux...but since 0.7 or 0.8, and upgrading to 256 megs of ram, its performance is enough for me. I use it all the time, and finally stopped using netscape 4 mail a few months ago. of course, mozilla scrambled 25 megs worth of Inbox a couple of days ago :(
as for the java thing, it's kind of funny, when I first started using mozilla over a year ago, I was in a java programming class. mozilla looked kind of similar to swing, as I recall, and it was just as slow. and it was cross-platform... I remember I told one person it was written in java, I don't remember if I read it somewhere or came to that conclusion myself. the circumstantial evidence was overwhelming, though...
what in the crap is up with everybody saying "linux is married and has kids?"
same thing on the mandrake story
do people not understand that operating systems cannot get married, while maybe creators of operating systems (say...linuS torvalds) can?
man I hate living in the south...operating system marriages aren't even allowed here!
Maybe because Mandrake is the most user-friendly distro made. I started out with Slakware around 2.0.36, went to RedHat 6.0 when that machine died, and now I'm a Mandrake devotee, especially since 8.0. Everything comes set up beautifully...reiserfs, xfree4, kde2, cups, etc etc, and mandrake cooker stays on top of new releases (the main reason I killed progeny after a coupla hours). I could opt to run slak and spend all my time setting things up, installing software, etc...but honestly I don't have that kind of time anymore.
I don't know, I think Mandrake has a decent chance, seeing as how they arguably have the nicest install and the most pleasant end-user experience of any linux distro. If I weren't flat broke I'd be in on it too:)
off topic, I know...but I can't resist: "Tom Waits, Randy Newman, and Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart have filed a $40 million copyright-infringement lawsuit against MP3.com....." from the newest rolling stone. argh, people piss me off.
"Also feeding into the effort to get Linux to work on larger systems is continuing work on software IBM released in January that lets programs run several tasks simultaneously under a process called 'multithreading.'"
>This is the first that I've seen of a country supporting monopolization.
ever heard of the USPS?
So, basically, the only good thing for Mandrake to do is ban the end user from downloading their distro until the user put in his credit card number and sent them $50?
I hope all the slashdot hippies will excuse my non-pc vocabulary, but you, sir, are retarded.
No, there's a version of WinCE on every game cd (gd? what do you call the media for a "gd-rom"?). Anyway, I don't own a dreamcast, this is just one of those things I've read a coupla times along the way.
one word: MAES. yes, it's a shameless self-plug, but it works. Multiple users, apache authentication integration, searching, browsing, multiple database support, id3v1/2 viewer/editor, playlist creation and storage, windows support as a server in the pipe (working on a couple of odbc issues)...I use it all the time, as do quite a few other people. It's worth trying, and I always answer any questions that arise.
I'm not an activist; I'm a staunch conservative. but I hate nike, and most companies like it (selling normal clothes/items at retarded prices because of a brand name). sure, maybe they're better off with a job than without it, but that's not an excuse. I'm a spoiled kid, worried about money because I have a student loan. that is nothing. it's sick, really. Ok, back to your question, "what's your alternative," I got one. no, it will never happen, no, it's not really plausible. according to nikebiz.com, the average per capita income is $47 a month, and minimum wage in West Java is $34.90 a month. according to nikewages.org, they're making less. but whatever. anyway, out of the hundreds of pairs of shoes every worker makes a month, why not give him/her the return from one of those ridiculously priced pair of shoes?
I leave you with the math
for something to become a standard, practically and not just technically, it has to be mass-accepted. well, I expect that's the case when it comes to SDMI....I'm not going to support it. are you?
what I usually find is that incompetent users, the ones who buy a computer with windows 95, play solitaire, and go on aol, (never using over 50 megs of their hard drives) are the ones with no problems. when you actually try to do something in windows, say, install software....well....then you're just asking for trouble.
hmmmm...sounds familiar....oh! Offspring!
then don't read it! nobody's forcing you to.
miles, apparantly high-up in the OIT or resnet chain of command, said "we're not gonna ban it." he said it's up to us to check ourselves in what we do with the bandwidth, tech's just the isp. who knows what the administration will think...but they probably don't know a whole lot about network admin.
no kiddin I like mozilla, and microsoft has really pissed me off with their last outrage (no windoze cds), but I'm still not too good to say that IE is by far the best browser. I bought a stupid maximum linux magazine last week cause it said that it came with IE. after opening up the magazine and reading, they said something stupid like "here's IE under wine". the whole maximum______ magazine series is dumb, as is imagine publishing in general. anyway
no you see the problem here is dell equating "Red Hat" with "Linux"
Any body notice that the "Linux-loaded Latitude laptop" came with "Linux 6.2"?
>why the Hell did you support MP3.COM's database of talentless music?
you better have a pretty singing career/band/orchestra/a capella group to call all of mp3.com "talentless music."
after spending some time using my.mp3, I actually went and looked at the selection of "talentless music." there are some incredibly talented artists on there...especially in punk, emo, ska, etc.
as good or better than the "talented music" that the RIAA has given their stamp of approval to.
>This is exactly why artists are scared. if they don't sell CD's they don't make any money!
/would/ buy their cd...then I do.
don't make any money...hmmm
I wonder what happens to the $15-$50 I pay for tickets to shows/concerts? How about the $20 I pay for a shirt?
If I like a band enough where I actually
you're making some incredibly idiotic statements here...
Somebody much more proficient in programming than myself should take it upon himself to take some Icecast code, screw with it somehow, and clone my.mp3.com
Thousands of college students on our t3's, running some variant of some free OS, streaming to our workplaces, our friends' houses....
ahhh