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Re:Wow...Yeah, I was surprised too. I'm heterosexual, but it's great to see a highly respected geek who is responsible for most of the smtp traffic in the world being so open about his sexual preference.
Swallow that, you filthy homophobes!
Next time I hear someone go hard on gay people, I will remind them that some gay person is responsible for his/her e-mail delivery.
That'll teach 'em...
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Re:whoa, deja vu
Watch it, people! The above is a goatse.cx link...
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Re:already /.'ed cached here
That's because it not a railgun, that page is about a golf putter called 'the railgun'. This thing can make dents in stuff, but only in close range compared to a *real* railgun
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slashdotted already?
...or is it just me? This sucks, because I was kinda looking forward to reading the damn article. Well, I guess I'd have to wait for a while... Unless some people dare to post mirrors of course.
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Re:My own patent ideaRight...
I'm going to patent the 20% Oxygen and 80% Nitrogen mixture as "Inhalable substance that can sustain survivability for extended periods of time" when I get the chance.
Every time you breathe, you would have to pay...
It occurs to me that if they have a description that a layperson can't make any sense of the patent office okays it. That really shows what kind of people are running the thing, don't it?
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Re:slashdotted already?!?You can also download the damn thing and just try it! (I'm posting this from the new Nautilus, BTW)
It works great. Haven't stumbled onto anything nasty yet. No doubt I will soon
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Re:The bottom line (was: FUD)
Novell, OS/2 and Mac OS aren't exactly free you know. The free OS's don't really share that burden. And I said Linux *practically* won the serverroom. Maybe that was a bit of a misnomer. Just do a sed -e s/linux/free operating systems/g on that sentence.
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Re:The bottom line (was: FUD)Whoah there. I said we won because they finally see Linux as a threat. From now on, Microsoft will go down hill. They are trying to beat a omnipresent ghost called Free Software. I really hope they will put all their energy in trying to discredit us. They can't beat our price, and userfriendlyness will be here soon.
We practically won the serverroom already, now let's take the desktop from them
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Re:On the other hand...Before they had akamaized DNS servers they were off the net, remember? That was *without* linux.
Your turn.
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Re:Leading
Yeah, and
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The bottom line (was: FUD)We Won
What was that saying again? The one from Ghandi? First they laugh at you... (finish it yerself)
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Oh dear...
Let the shitslinging begin! I can't wait to see what M$ will dredge up. Put on your debunking hats! We got work to do!
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Re:MouseBullshit claim alert!
I use a Logitech 3 button USB mouse with my Mac, and both Mac OS = 9 and Mac OS X PB are able to use all buttons of it. Even the mousewheel works (although not with Carbon apps in OS X *grmbl*)
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Re:Oh no, not again...stuff it, troll boy...
What the hell has *my* website to do with some people that want to run Mac OS X on intel machines?
Get a life.
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Re:Reminds me of...A BIG mistake by Apple
Strange, I have been running Mac OS X PB on my iMac (G3 350Mhz) for a few months now, and no performance problems whatsoever. (Yeah you need 128 MB, but that's also what the minimal system requirements say, so I'm right up to spec)
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Oh no, not again...I'll probably get modded down for this, and my karma will go to hell, but I'm gonna post it anyway... (Like I care about karma... *NOT*)
Every once and a while I hear of some nuts wanting Mac OS X on Intel. Although I don't blame them, Apple probably won't do that. Apple isn't *just* a OS vendor, it's a hardware vendor as well, just like Sun. Sun has the serverroom, and Apple owns the desktop. Apple would loose a considerable amount of money if they release Aqua for the x86.
Although Darwin seems to run on Intel (only one tested configuration though), why would you think Aqua + the rest would? There are lots of issues, like hardware support for instance. Right now there are only supported Apple machines and there are a finite number of combinations, which is easier to support. With x86 you have too much diversity for the OS to be straight plug and play. Just look at the Windows Plug and Play fiasco to see what I mean. Mac OS X works right out of the box, and all your peripherals work right away (as long as they are Apple peripherals).
Just face it, we can whine and scream all you want. My bet is that Apple won't give in. They got too much at stake to do such a geek-friendly move. Apple is consumer oriented, and with consumer I mean your next door computer-illiterate (yes, the irritating luser kind that still outnumber us geeks).
Surely I do not oppose having Mac OS X on my turbocharged x86 box, but I just don't see this happening in *this* life. Not that Apple is being stupid and childish, they have a buisness to run.
End of rant
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Very OTIs fuck-you.org down? Did you find the guy that stole your bike?
Sorry for the offtopicness, mod it down if you like.
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ObLoginDanceCircumventionPost
username: dotslash
passwd: slashdot
Have fun...
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Re:Why bother?
For me this shows the problm with open source - people are more interested in playing silly games than actually getting something constructive done.
Time enjoyed wasting is *not* wasted time. Think about it...
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Re:TacoKnowing how Exchange performs and *loses mail* under high load, that doesn't surprise me...
Thank god I converted my company to use postfix
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Re:RHAAAH
Yep, and it also uses the Netinfo domains for the settings, which reflect back in ~/Library/Preferences/*.plist which are all XML files. This just breathes coolness
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Re:partitions NOT needed
That does not take away the fact that Carbon apps can still moan and flake if they were programmed for Mac OS 9. This is actually the main reason not to use UFS yet.
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NYTimes login dance evasion postNobody posted this yet...
username: dotslash
passwd: slashdotThere goes my karma
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Re:Whats all this IE hate?
I know about fizzila. It's not ready. I will rejoice when they do.
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Re:vertical dock? Hello!Yes, I noticed that too
Back on topic: There's also lots of stuff hidden in the PB that hints about inclusion in the final release. For example, Terminal.app with transparancy can be turned on with:
$ defaults write com.apple.Terminal TerminalOpaqueness 0.8
And that's an *undocumented* feature. There's more stuff like that, just scour the web for Mac OS X tips and tricks
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Re:partitions NOT neededYou don't want to use UFS yet. If you did, it will cause you lots of problems with carbon apps (like stuffit expander). Actually, HFS+ is faster, because it has less features and is simpler. Also, Classic doesn't like UFS either.
It's better to hold off using UFS for now. Just wait until support is better. For now stick with HFS+.
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Re:Whats all this IE hate?
Trust me, you don't want to use the HP-UX and Slowaris versions...
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Re:SSH instead of telnet???Having access to a command line *is* remote administration. Netinfo can also be administered through command line tools (try man netinfo on a mac os x box sometime). Heck, you can even write your own netinfo aware tools, the headerfiles and calls to use are on the same manpage
I am still waiting for the VNC server to be ported to it. I *do* have VNC clients for MacOSX though
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Re:And another thing
*of course* I mean on top of the mach layer... Consider it a typo or a brainfart.
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Re:How about Apple's new core dumps?
When Quartz and/or Aqua crashes (*if* they crash, it only happened once to me), you end up in the console. When the kernel panics (only happened once with me), you end up in the kernel debugger. I don't know if that will change in the final version though.
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Re:And another thing
No, because Mach takes care of that...
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Re:And another thingNo, i didn't. They *are* using the FreeBSD kernel, and PB is running a heavily modified FreeBSD 3.3 on a heavily modified Mach kernel.
It's documented on the apple website somewhere.
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Re:Is it just me...
Trust me, it's not the same... Well, in the PB it isn't at least
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Re:MS Office for OS XThat's probably not going to happen unless someone decides to reverse engineers and implement Carbon, Cocoa en Aqua to other unices *and* implements an ABI for Mach-O binaries (which is the executable format for MOSX).
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Re:And another thing
How do you know? I hope they synced up with the current 4.x FreeBSD instead of the version Mach-FreeBSD 3.3 the PB uses. That would constitute quite an update, imho.
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Re:Whats all this IE hate?It might just be that IE on OSX is kinda beta-ish, but it's slow, and has lots of bugs. It *is* workable however, only don't load java applets and don't be too enthousiastic minimizing and restoring it (and saying: "wow, that genie-effect is really cool") while it loads a page, or you will end up having to kill it through Option-Apple-Esc.
Not that OmniWeb (the other browser for MacOSX) is bulletproof, but it's more stable.
I can't wait until the mozilla porting effort to macosx is getting some results.
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Re:You don't need to put up with Exploder.Have you even tried OmniWeb on Mac OS X PB? You'll be surprised of what it can do.
My guess is that you are an idiot, and I'll leave it at that.
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Re:SSH instead of telnet???
SSH has always been there (using it a lot in the public beta too). You just needed to edit a file in
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Re:RHAAAHWell, just drag it out, realease it, see the 'poof' and it's gone. Oh, and delete
Uninstalling IE just became easier
(Yes, I use OmniWeb on MacOSX PB for my Webbrowsing)
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Re:Not a major problem?Right, I am a FreeBSD and Mac OS X user (and sometimes Linux too).
Have you *used* OSX, even the preview release? It's miles ahead of the free OSes in ease of use, and not far behind in power and flexibility. Granted, a sophisticated Linux/*BSD user could config up a really slick system, but OSx gives that to ANYONE... including the ability to run free Mac OS apps. And all the free stuff too.
Erhm, you are forgetting that Mac OS X PB is time limited (rumoured to stop working May 15, 2001). Oh, and to run older MacOS apps you need MacOS 9 too. Sure, OSX will run fine on it's own, but there are not may apps out there, and porting is a little finnicky still. Mac OS X is taking a *lot* from older operating systems. After installing the developer tools it struck me that it's a *LOT* like NeXTSTEP/Rhapsody, even the ProjectBuilder.app, the UI designer, Core Foundation libraries and the FreeBSD kernel.For a pure server, OSX is overkill, with that GUI and everything. I bet it sucks speed away from any internet services the box may be running, and I would advise a straight BSD install for users needing hardcore Apache/PHP/etc. But for the desktop, I think it smokes any "freenix" distro you can name. And that's just the beta version.
That's a piece of crock, because you can switch that off. You just have to hack a little, but us FreeBSD/Linux admins are used to hacking startup scripts and the like.OSX's significant weaknesses, the things that will keep it from edging into BSD's/Linux's market share, are these: - It only runs on Mac hardware.
Arguably, Darwin runs on Intel. Apple is still unsure about this one. If Darwin runs on intel, Aqua will too (with minimal porting). They just need to port it- It isn't free. As in beer, speech, porn, rifles, or whatever.
Apple has come a long way, they contributed to FreeBSD (one apple developer has a FreeBSD cvs commit account even), and Darwin has an acceptable license now. So yeah, it's free. Aqua however is *not* free. Darwin != Aqua, but MacOS X == Darwin + Aqua + probably some more stuff.- It's mainstream, and image-conscious Linux/BSD advocates won't like that. Easy to use? That's for chumps!
Okay, name 10 people in your direct vicinity that *use* Mac OS X PB _right_ _now_. You can't huh? Well, *that*'s how mainstream it is...That said, MacOS X, Linux and the BSDs all have their place. Can't we stop fighting, and all get along? Side rant: Why are these things always couched in terms of the "threat to Linux?" There are other free Unix-like OSes out there, you know.
Everybody in the *nix world *does* get along. We just like to tease each other a little. About the 'threat for linux' part, who cares? Linus always hoped that something new would come along that would better than linux. But we owe a lot to linux, and we are gratefull for it. Heck, linux got me started (5 years ago)! Linux introduced me to *BSD, if you start nitpickingimho, you should check your facts better before you start spouting. I hope you don't mind my little interjections
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Re:Ugly lapidation
It accepts omniweb, because omniweb masquerades as an MSIE browser. Just check your setting in Omniweb (be sure to pick the advanced settings).
I believe the tab is called 'emulation'.
Oh, you can also use JunkBuster to modify your user-agent info. Piece of cake.
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Re:The Real Reason Behind the ChangeWhat about all that Chief Officer bullshit most other companies have then? Now *that* is really sad...
I'd rather be called a 'Rocket Scientist' instead of a 'Chief Systems Officer' any day...
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Re:IT...
Hah, just wait until he patents one-click acceleration, or something else braindamaged.
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Re:Beware IT, Badtimes ahead!
So, you say IT stands for Individual Terrorism? Hmm, I didn't know Jobs and Bezos were masochistic...
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Re:DC comics also has synchronized planets.DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK!
You can move your mouse over it, and read your status line. Then you will see why...
But if you want to get rid of your appetite for lunch/evening dinner, or perhaps even lose your lunch, by all means, go ahead...
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Re:Monolith?Cuttingt it open won't work. It also didn't work in the movie 2001 and 2010. But looking never hurts
On another note, *if* the wonderful thing should happen, will there be writing in alien for us to read? (see 2010)
SETI would be thrilled I guess...
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Nah, you're wrong...My bet is:
January 18th, 2038
I sure hope everybody has a 64 bit time_t by then...
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COO?
What the hell is that? A Chief Obfuscation Officer? If yes, I gues I found my niche
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Re:.net gain is less than zero
The only counter I can imagine to this right now comes out of those occasional rumors of AOL developing their own OS. I am sure everyone is just thrilled by that prospect.
Oh wow, and what would they call it? Spammix?
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Re:On the positive side....
Aha! Then they should sue microsoft and those annoying popups that happen when you screw up something... er wait, those aren't advertising
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