I believe he meant between OSR 2.0, 2.1 and 2.5. And he's correct.
OSR 2.0 -> OSR 2.1: Wow, the USB updates are now included on the CD!
OSR 2.1 -> OSR 2.5: IE4 is included on the CD, and installs if you leave the CD in the drive after Windows 95 has completed its installation completely.
I've been using Mozilla since 2002 on a Pentium II 233 Mhz. It has always ran acceptably. Start-up time even got better with the release of Mozilla 1.7.
Wasn't Firefox supposed to be the Non-bloated sister of Mozilla?
No. This is popular misinformation. From the Roadmap:
"The goal was, and is not to have more or less features than any other client (Mozilla included) but to have the right set of features to let people get their jobs done."
Mozilla never was bloated, that's something the Firefox fanboys and fangirls made up.
I wonder when the XHTML hippies will realise that XHTML is dead, and never was a good idea. Did you actually take the time to read the XHTML2 specification? It's a mess.
The point is that on IRC you see a bunch of people connected, and often no one talking. So why use it?
Truly, idling is a disease. It exists on IM clients too, but the ratio is far better than on IRC, where 90% of the connected people seem to idle at any time.
I'm the project owner of the msnmsgr project at MozDev, and I looked into this. I don't know what version of the protocol Adium uses, but mine uses MSNP8. When my message contains one of the things it censors, the switchboard server immediately closes the connection. It's not just censorship; you get booted.
The same thing can be done to MSN. A couple weeks ago my brother alerted me to a new MSN virus that sends itself with the message "nude pics of my friend look!".
Optimise it. Give it a smaller window manager, disable the effects, or something. Or just put Windows 95 OSR 2.x on it, that's blazing fast on any PC of the last decade.
Just sit on the toilet. Don't pee standing up, it was never efficient in the first place. You always have the chance to not aim well, and the pee that gets in the toilet also splashes up, which can leave drops on the side of the toilet.
Most people argue back that real men pee standing up, but I don't buy that.
As an additional bonus, I've been told that peeing sitting is better for your health, as it empties your 'reservoir' better.
Nintendo on the other hand went in the other direction which more or less denies the tech trends gamers have been demanding. No matter how cheap and simple the Wii is, will we see a hugely complex game on it?
Wow, that's a really compelling argument you got there. Seriously, why wouldn't there be complex games on the Wii? Come on.
Actually, Sega didn't make them, but a company named Dimps. From what I hear, Sonic Advance was passable, and the two sequels dropped the ball. It's with Sonic Rush that they got it right.
Sega has severed contact with Dimps since then, though, apparently.:(
Windows NT is a services-based OS, and XP has tons of services enabled by default. Look at all the open ports after a default install, listening for connections from the outside. What's worse, you're required to have RPC up just so that the system can talk to itself to do things. Not to mention that Microsoft's RPC implementation is flawed (see Blaster for one example). In short, the system is just asking to get owned.
User separation? With all the exploits that make it easy for a process to get admin priviledges, this is close to useless.
The NT kernel? How is it any better? Win9x has implemented the Intel segmentation model in a lot of places in the system, while NT hasn't implemented it anywhere, so it's easy to trick the system into executing code.
Meanwhile, on a Win9x system, except for the ones you asked to be opened by launching a browser, FTP client, or other network-enabled program, you don't have open ports if you opt to not enable file and printer sharing. This is easily done in Win95 setup. I don't know about Win98, but I will soon. It's quite easy to disable later anyway, while with NT there's a lot of stuff, and it's all lumped together as "Services", while servers should be categorised as "Daemons" (Linux does this).
Yes, processes have close to total control on Win9x. How is this a problem? If you let a virus in, you've already lost.
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I believe he meant between OSR 2.0, 2.1 and 2.5. And he's correct.
OSR 2.0 -> OSR 2.1: Wow, the USB updates are now included on the CD!
OSR 2.1 -> OSR 2.5: IE4 is included on the CD, and installs if you leave the CD in the drive after Windows 95 has completed its installation completely.
I've been using Mozilla since 2002 on a Pentium II 233 Mhz. It has always ran acceptably. Start-up time even got better with the release of Mozilla 1.7.
This makes me remember a Slashdot comment from many months ago. Someone's dad was telling his son that he didn't like the new Google.
What happened? The IE7 update had been installed, replacing IE6.
The son told him to use Firefox instead, as he should have been, and that was that.
People really should be more educated about computer basics.
No. This is popular misinformation. From the Roadmap:
Mozilla never was bloated, that's something the Firefox fanboys and fangirls made up.
And lay-out is not content. You also forgot that inside most of those tables would be content, and your tag wouldn't say anything about that.
They both define a section.
Your new tag is not semantic because it doesn't say anything about the content itself.
No way, that's going back to the old table mess. HTML is semantic, lay-out has no place in it. Your new tag is not semantic.
Just a heads-up: IE6 for XP SP2 already had pop-up blocking.
What else do you propose? Currently you have to use a div element to wrap a dialog/conversation in, which semantically doesn't mean anything.
Which "browsers"? There's only one, and it's called IE.
I wonder when the XHTML hippies will realise that XHTML is dead, and never was a good idea. Did you actually take the time to read the XHTML2 specification? It's a mess.
m / 03/14/xhtml-is-dead. html
http://www.spartanicus.utvinternet.ie/no-xhtml.ht
http://www.autisticcuckoo.net/archive.php?id=2005
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/03/19/dive-into-xml
The point is that on IRC you see a bunch of people connected, and often no one talking. So why use it?
Truly, idling is a disease. It exists on IM clients too, but the ratio is far better than on IRC, where 90% of the connected people seem to idle at any time.
I'm the project owner of the msnmsgr project at MozDev, and I looked into this. I don't know what version of the protocol Adium uses, but mine uses MSNP8. When my message contains one of the things it censors, the switchboard server immediately closes the connection. It's not just censorship; you get booted.
The same thing can be done to MSN. A couple weeks ago my brother alerted me to a new MSN virus that sends itself with the message "nude pics of my friend look!".
If you like to see tons of users idling, sure.
When I lend my laptop to my brother or sister, there are ALWAYS files (or some folder) to be found on the desktop.
Optimise it. Give it a smaller window manager, disable the effects, or something. Or just put Windows 95 OSR 2.x on it, that's blazing fast on any PC of the last decade.
No one is perfect. There is always the possibility of forgetting to check.
Just sit on the toilet. Don't pee standing up, it was never efficient in the first place. You always have the chance to not aim well, and the pee that gets in the toilet also splashes up, which can leave drops on the side of the toilet.
Most people argue back that real men pee standing up, but I don't buy that.
As an additional bonus, I've been told that peeing sitting is better for your health, as it empties your 'reservoir' better.
Wow, that's a really compelling argument you got there. Seriously, why wouldn't there be complex games on the Wii? Come on.
But it wasn't from your comfy couch. Depending on your country, it was also copyright infringement.
That's how you do it with Mario, but with Sonic you just have to be spinning. Be it by jumping, rolling on the floor, or a Spin Dash.
With Sonic you could still grab some of the rings he lost, which were also widely available in the levels. Not so with Mario.
Typical for platformers.
Almost every video game ever.
Sonic was about running fast while destroying robots. Mario is about jumping on things while trying to get through the level. Different dynamic.
Actually, Sega didn't make them, but a company named Dimps. From what I hear, Sonic Advance was passable, and the two sequels dropped the ball. It's with Sonic Rush that they got it right.
:(
Sega has severed contact with Dimps since then, though, apparently.
Actually, the author is a woman.
I was talking about network security.
Windows NT is a services-based OS, and XP has tons of services enabled by default. Look at all the open ports after a default install, listening for connections from the outside. What's worse, you're required to have RPC up just so that the system can talk to itself to do things. Not to mention that Microsoft's RPC implementation is flawed (see Blaster for one example). In short, the system is just asking to get owned.
User separation? With all the exploits that make it easy for a process to get admin priviledges, this is close to useless.
The NT kernel? How is it any better? Win9x has implemented the Intel segmentation model in a lot of places in the system, while NT hasn't implemented it anywhere, so it's easy to trick the system into executing code.
Meanwhile, on a Win9x system, except for the ones you asked to be opened by launching a browser, FTP client, or other network-enabled program, you don't have open ports if you opt to not enable file and printer sharing. This is easily done in Win95 setup. I don't know about Win98, but I will soon. It's quite easy to disable later anyway, while with NT there's a lot of stuff, and it's all lumped together as "Services", while servers should be categorised as "Daemons" (Linux does this).
Yes, processes have close to total control on Win9x. How is this a problem? If you let a virus in, you've already lost.