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Apple Releases Darwin 6.7, 6.8
PowerMacDaddy writes "In an ongoing effort to keep the FreeBSD core of OS X open source, Apple has updated Darwin to 6.7 and 6.8, which corresponds to the OS X 10.2.7 and 10.2.8 updates, respectively. Source code is available."
Not only that, he already posted the exact same story twice in other comments belonging to other stories.
(bweurgh, damned slashdot search function won't let me find them)
(reply to self:)
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At least here's one of them: http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=79362&c
Responding to it isn't going to help make it go away.
YHBT YHL HAND.
Only twice? I swear I've seen it more than that. That and the one about the dumbfuck cutting apart somebody's PowerBook to install an AirPort card.
Depending on how all those MMORPG cases turn out, I think I might sue the mods here for THEFT OF KARMA. Had I given it out in a troll, that would have been one thing. I didn't, it was a joke. Chill back.
yep, that modderation looks to be perfectly correct
I need to vent guys and here I hope I find sympathy! I HATE MACS
Today I spent the good part of five hours helping a friend with a titanum powerbook put an 802.11 card in, she bought an apple Airport one. The first amazing thing comes when it doesn't fit in the slot, but a quick call to the apple seller and they tell me it has to go INSIDE THE MACHINE. My friend had opted not to get them to install it as it was an extra $20 fee, so she took it home and I got the job as I'm the "Computer Guy" and can generally help friends and family with there computer problems. I have never seen such a tragedy of design as the TiBook!
First I had to take the entire thing apart. This, if you've been inside a laptop, is not an easy trivial task. It needs the battery and case to come off, the drive and optical drive to come out, and apples STUPID design inside them meant I had to file away some parts as they were put in without obviously meaning to be taken apart again. Now I know computers are throwaway things nowadays but that's ridiculous! We also had to use snips to cut some tiny pieces of shielding off to get to the right screws. I can see why they were charging so much to put the card in, she should have gone with that option! In the end finally I was able to lever up a part of the inside to push the airport card inside and click it in place. But that wasn't enough, an aerial cable then needed to be connected, and getting it out of its holder was another half hour of work where I had to pull the airport card out again!. Finally with it all back together it works. The inside I think is back where it should go. But, the back doesn't go back on how it should and I think it is a little bent.
I don't, I really don't, see how Apple can claim to be tops in design. Even my A600 was a dream to work on compared to this and it was pretty compact too! Why they couldn't put it in an easily accessed slot like normal PC notebooks I don't know. Anyway, I've talked my friend into getting rid of her Mac addiction, she will definitely be buying a Dell next!
How much could she get for her Dell in a couple of years?
This is funny. It's the combination of the two trolls - one about the freelance gig and the powermac 8600, the other about the TiBook and airport installation via tinsnips
:)
That was amusing
Heh, worse. It got modded down as overrated!
I think you got a raw deal there, ZackSchil. Amusing and articulate, but apparently too complex for the moderator to properly parse during his three second attention span.
This is offtopic, not a troll. Would the mods please put down the crack pipe here?
FUCKING DUH!
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dying.
Fact: *BSD is dying
In Soviet Russia, Apple releases YOU! ;)