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Jamie Zawinski Switches to Mac OS X
iskander writes "After a disappointing experience with sound, Jamie Zawinski has finally given up on desktop Linux and switched to Mac OS X. The future of apps like xscreensaver and Gronk is now ``highly ambiguous''. He has already ditched a free/open platform before, but he seems a lot angrier this time. Indeed, twisted by the Dark Side of the Source, young Zawinski has become."
three-button+wheel USB mouse out-of-box or that setting up a TV card requires you to edit some config-files by hand
Mmkay, just one quick showcase. My logitech usb mouse has a windows driver, which needs restart when installed, then I tweak its settings. My pinnacle tv card needs a windows driver installed, which also needs a restart to work. In linux my mouse works without any fuss, my tv card also works great with the bttv and I only need to seelect the tuner type in a config file. Then I'm good to go. How is the latter more hard than the first ? Oh, I know, it needs you to know what you're doing, and that usually needs some brainwork.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
We've had blogs, now *Livejournal* ?!
Can Slashdot get any lower than this?
...like he SAID: who the hell is Jamie Zawinski?
So he worked on Netscape/Mozilla and then quit right before they started to really innovate again with Firefox because he didn't want the rewrite & bitched about how they weren't innovating.
He also did something with Emacs back in the day & does xscreensaver, which, let's all be honest here - isn't all that fucking spectacular.
So why do we care that he got his ass kicked by ALSA? Seriously, it's a pain in the ass, but "Man baffled by Linux sound; switches to Mac & says it's much easier!" doesn't exactly blow my skirt up as a story.
[rolls mouse wheel, wheel-mouse clicks on a link]
or that setting up a TV card requires you to edit some config-files by hand.
[Looks at TV in desktop app]
[Drops to shell prompt]
[scratches head]
A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
Shit. I guess we'll have to give you your money back.
:(
Sorry to lose you as our customer.
If you open yourself to the foo, You and foo become one.
Faith is for children and idiot religious types. Faith in software is no better than somebody who has faith that Jesus will save them or Santa Claus will come down their chimney. Faith is for people with very low IQ's.
jwz is a pretentious whiner, that's who he is.
Oh my God! jwz is switching to OS/X.
Who gives a shit?
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
* those who can't
I'll grant that in the past he seems to have done some significant work (of course, if he hadn't done it, somebody else would have) but he's behaving like a petulant child.
So what if he had some trouble with sound on Linux. Big deal; acting like it's personally betrayed him because he "can't play two sounds at once" is childish. If it's so important to him to "play two sounds at once" I suggest he farts while whistling.
Ah, well, what can you do? Somebody else will pick up XScreensaver. That's the nice thing about open source. A developer can't REALLY say "screw you guys"...
Farewell! It's been a fine buncha years!
Has he ever heard of a sound daemon? Like esd or arts? The likes that are set up as defaults in Red Hat or SUSE?
Ohmygod. OK, go use yer Mac. I for one will stay with my desktop Linux (12+ years now, and still satisfied).
And while we're at it - when I'm hearing music, I don't want every second friggin' web page with a Flash to spoil my hearing experience.
open (SIG, "</dev/zero"); $sig = <SIG>; close SIG;
Exactly!
A couple of months ago I was asked to a class on a PCL tool so that I could teach how to use it to the guy who asked me. He gave me a new Gateway M675PRR laptop to use (sweet box!) and I decided to buy a copy of XP Pro and put it on one of my Linux boxes (2 years old) as a backup, just in case the laptop went out before my mission was complete. That copy of XP Pro cost $214 (the cheapest I could find on the web) and I ended up installing it TWICE because making VFAT the default OS for C:\ didn't work. (I wanted to be able to read and write all the HD partitions) After the second install the only thing that XP recognized was the HD, monitor, keyboard and mouse. Nothing else. No sound. No DVD. No CD. No WonderTV card. No scanner. No printer. It took several more hours to run down drivers to get everything working. Installing SimplyMEPIS-3.3 on that whitebox took 15 minutes and EVERYTHING was recognized.
Running with Linux for over 20 years!
OS X just 'stole' a Linux developer by being easier to set up sound cards.
OS X just stole a burned-out whiner that not everybody agrees was ever particularly good, you mean.
Have you got your LWN subscription yet?
And yet he quit in a hissy fit after calling them names names. Lucky for him the mozilla foundation had great hackers and they stuck to their guns and created firefox.
So in the end JWZ was wrong on top of being an asshole.
evil is as evil does