There were some early ports of tools to Win32 that made it bearable in the early days of NT. Back in NT before 4.0, there were UNIX shops making a change over to NT and people brought some of their favorite tools along with them. In particular, there is a ps.exe, kill.exe, and nice.exe package that is really powerful and simple. You can still download it some places packaged as littles.zip. The binaries are about 18k each. And one of the nice things about them, actually, as opposed to the 'process viewer' that Sysinternals publishes, is that they are NOT network-wide. The Sysinternals equivalent that I tried out lets you scan processes over the network to somebody else's box, which brands them as highly malicious 'hacking tools' in many companies. The tinys.zip tool set is so small it fits in almost any space at all. Kill.exe won't let you kill any process, but it will let you snuff out anything running with your permissions.
To supplement this comment, I just tried to google littles.zip and found there are still a very few places it can be downloaded. It's slowly disappearing, in part probably because nobody seems to remember it's there. But there are people who know it's out there and want it gone. The last time I permitted the AVG antivirus package to 'protect' my W2K box, it silently deleted kill.exe as part of the 'protection' without announcing a thing. It's malware, you see.
The Interix package (now called 'Services for Unix' and crippled after Microsoft bought the publisher) runs on the Native API. It's a complete POSIX subsystem that runs alongside the Win32 subsystem, independently.
If you have real Interix, and not the gimped Microsoft product, you have an entire POSIX subsystem. It isn't like cygwin which is just a kludge that runs out of a Win32 dll file.
Back in about 1999 when Softway Systems (the creators of Interix) were looking for direction from their market on which way to go, they sent out a questionnaire to customers asking if they should open-source publish the Interix toolchain. Less than a year later they were bought and absorbed into Microsoft.
It's nice to have wget on a 'doze box, but I've not figured out how to get it to read a ~/.wgetrc file the way my NetBSD box does. You want the following line in your.wgetrc file, it allows you to mirror sites whether the site admin. approves or not:
The Macintosh was touted, gleefully, as 'hacker proof' back in 1984. Ever since we got that 'fuck you' from Steve Jobs, many of us have had a similar retort back at the guy.
I have many pieces of Apple hardware. Almost none of them run any of Apple's software. It's almost a point of honor to get something else running in a useful fashion on it.
Netbook is just a slow, cheap laptop running generic software.
Well, it's the user's option to run generic software if they choose. That's not ALL a netbook is, though.
And slow? Well, maybe compared to a desktop PC. Not compared to Apples new Ipad.
You're really making a spectacle of yourself in the forum today. It's pretty obvious you're not an Apple shill, because they only hire people for that role capable of subtlety. Did you know that some of us have been around long enough to have seen Apple Zeal in full bloom? You're at best a grade-B Apple zealot. You probably don't even know what 'Altivec' is and you've probably never spammed a thread with the phrase 'Industrial Design.'
Transferring a few movies will actually involve digging into menus to figure out what other movies, or big bunches of music, you want to delete. Shuffle shuffle shuffle. (am I allowed to use that word? is it an Apple trademark?)
They've really got a sucker this time. I would guess, since he's being sorta reckless, that this isn't an actual paid Apple shill. Just someone who has flipped into zealot mode for awhile.
It's interesting to watch them when their zeal crashes. They start having to admit things like 'the PowerPC is NOT the absolute insurmountable best' and eventually they even admit to the utility of a second mouse button.
Sometimes, anyhow. Other times, they're just lost to a loony state.
I have a Power 1 RS/6000 box. The Power chipset is on one of the Microchannel cards. Maybe I can get a processor upgrade in the form of a Power 7 chip on Microchannel card?
It is to serve as a locked-down platform for sales of books, magazines, videos. Entertainment content.
Apple used to be a company that was all about content creation. Now, with the Adobe customers, etc. having mostly migrated to Windows, Apple is rapidly becoming a company that produces only content delivery hardware.
Whenever someone tries to come up with a real-world equivalent of one of the evil powerful dudes from a James Bond film, it's funny how Larry Ellison always makes the list.
Be fair and don't call it insane. It's just what happens when a company is driven entirely by it's marketing department. A customer mentions a feature, it gets thrown into the stew. It doesn't matter if there's another way to do the same thing. Throw it in the stew. Make the kludge big and complex.
Regions with a high percentage of their power coming from Nuclear have historically had some of the lowest rates. Perhaps these same regions should have their rates adjusted to reflect decommissioning and long term maintenance costs. Maybe even retroactively, and in a way that follows the consumers who lived in the area during the 'low rate' period and have moved away.
The Mac experience is built around the idea of consistency.
People of that ideology wouldn't be using Mozilla in the first place. So their lockstep opinion doesn't really matter.
The people still using 10.4 are by definition some of the non-koolaide drinkers. For instance, I have several G3 iMacs running 10.4 that I use occasionally as web terminals. I paid $5 each for them at a school auction, of course, so I am superdoublebad and probably Apple should hire a sniper to take me out.
I don't get your point. You're defending Steve Jobs by saying he's the same as Richard Stallman? Or is there some other twist in your statement that I don't understand. In any case, whatever you're trying to say is pretty surreal.
Now, I admit that Stallman may have actually had a toke or two in his life, but Jobs comes from the coke snorting scene. Two very different social sets. And that's just touching the surface of one aspect of the vast differences between the two.
Using wget to mirror the sites you want to read isn't the kind of thing a 'pop media marketer' does. It's almost completely the opposite. Besides which I suspect Mr. Stallman would make use of the browser within GNU Emacs if he wanted to read web content. And isn't lynx a GPL licensed project?
Slashdot Mirror
There were some early ports of tools to Win32 that made it bearable in the early days of NT. Back in NT before 4.0, there were UNIX shops making a change over to NT and people brought some of their favorite tools along with them. In particular, there is a ps.exe, kill.exe, and nice.exe package that is really powerful and simple. You can still download it some places packaged as littles.zip. The binaries are about 18k each. And one of the nice things about them, actually, as opposed to the 'process viewer' that Sysinternals publishes, is that they are NOT network-wide. The Sysinternals equivalent that I tried out lets you scan processes over the network to somebody else's box, which brands them as highly malicious 'hacking tools' in many companies. The tinys.zip tool set is so small it fits in almost any space at all. Kill.exe won't let you kill any process, but it will let you snuff out anything running with your permissions.
To supplement this comment, I just tried to google littles.zip and found there are still a very few places it can be downloaded. It's slowly disappearing, in part probably because nobody seems to remember it's there. But there are people who know it's out there and want it gone. The last time I permitted the AVG antivirus package to 'protect' my W2K box, it silently deleted kill.exe as part of the 'protection' without announcing a thing. It's malware, you see.
It's still downloadable at these sites it seems.
The Interix package (now called 'Services for Unix' and crippled after Microsoft bought the publisher) runs on the Native API. It's a complete POSIX subsystem that runs alongside the Win32 subsystem, independently.
If you have real Interix, and not the gimped Microsoft product, you have an entire POSIX subsystem. It isn't like cygwin which is just a kludge that runs out of a Win32 dll file.
Back in about 1999 when Softway Systems (the creators of Interix) were looking for direction from their market on which way to go, they sent out a questionnaire to customers asking if they should open-source publish the Interix toolchain. Less than a year later they were bought and absorbed into Microsoft.
It's nice to have wget on a 'doze box, but I've not figured out how to get it to read a ~/.wgetrc file the way my NetBSD box does. You want the following line in your .wgetrc file, it allows you to mirror sites whether the site admin. approves or not:
robots=off
Is this News for Nerds, or Appliance Rumours For Random Consumer?
It's apple.slashdot.org
Ever since they put in this section, it's been gnawing away at the geek cred of the rest of the site.
The Macintosh was touted, gleefully, as 'hacker proof' back in 1984. Ever since we got that 'fuck you' from Steve Jobs, many of us have had a similar retort back at the guy.
I have many pieces of Apple hardware. Almost none of them run any of Apple's software. It's almost a point of honor to get something else running in a useful fashion on it.
Fuck you, Steve Jobs.
Netbook is just a slow, cheap laptop running generic software.
Well, it's the user's option to run generic software if they choose. That's not ALL a netbook is, though.
And slow? Well, maybe compared to a desktop PC. Not compared to Apples new Ipad.
You're really making a spectacle of yourself in the forum today. It's pretty obvious you're not an Apple shill, because they only hire people for that role capable of subtlety. Did you know that some of us have been around long enough to have seen Apple Zeal in full bloom? You're at best a grade-B Apple zealot. You probably don't even know what 'Altivec' is and you've probably never spammed a thread with the phrase 'Industrial Design.'
On the way down from your buzz, be careful.
Transferring a few movies will actually involve digging into menus to figure out what other movies, or big bunches of music, you want to delete. Shuffle shuffle shuffle. (am I allowed to use that word? is it an Apple trademark?)
Well, Apple hasn't sold a single iPad yet.
So pound on your chest awhile if it suits you. We all think it looks rather silly.
A digital picture frame that's been given a pep pill.
They've really got a sucker this time. I would guess, since he's being sorta reckless, that this isn't an actual paid Apple shill. Just someone who has flipped into zealot mode for awhile.
It's interesting to watch them when their zeal crashes. They start having to admit things like 'the PowerPC is NOT the absolute insurmountable best' and eventually they even admit to the utility of a second mouse button.
Sometimes, anyhow. Other times, they're just lost to a loony state.
I have a Power 1 RS/6000 box. The Power chipset is on one of the Microchannel cards. Maybe I can get a processor upgrade in the form of a Power 7 chip on Microchannel card?
No?
It is to serve as a locked-down platform for sales of books, magazines, videos. Entertainment content.
Apple used to be a company that was all about content creation. Now, with the Adobe customers, etc. having mostly migrated to Windows, Apple is rapidly becoming a company that produces only content delivery hardware.
You know. Shiney plastic stuff.
Unfortunately for Jobs, Flash isn't the new 3-1/2" floppy. It's actually got a lot of popular uses still.
There's still an inductor in there. A relatively hefty one, if you're talking about a more than trivial power output.
Also, a sweeping mechanism on the front of each vehicle to push the charred bodies of the various electrocuted life forms off to the side of the road.
Whenever someone tries to come up with a real-world equivalent of one of the evil powerful dudes from a James Bond film, it's funny how Larry Ellison always makes the list.
should somehow "keep doing" things that clearly contributed to its slide into bankruptcy..
I have yet to see anybody clearly demonstrate that this group contributed to Sun's slide to bankruptcy.
Can somebody present facts to back that assertion up?
if Sun choses not to contribute code to a particular portion of the source tree any more, so be it,
If they choose to renege on a commitment they made to contribute code to a particular project......
We're back where we were. Your smoothing over is a little lumpy....
It sounds like an opportunity for Red Hat to actually do something besides just sit there and still exist.
An almost insane level of customizability
Be fair and don't call it insane. It's just what happens when a company is driven entirely by it's marketing department. A customer mentions a feature, it gets thrown into the stew. It doesn't matter if there's another way to do the same thing. Throw it in the stew. Make the kludge big and complex.
And it really bugs you guys at Microsoft that it exists, eh?
And they want to up the rates.
It sounds like they'll need to.
Regions with a high percentage of their power coming from Nuclear have historically had some of the lowest rates. Perhaps these same regions should have their rates adjusted to reflect decommissioning and long term maintenance costs. Maybe even retroactively, and in a way that follows the consumers who lived in the area during the 'low rate' period and have moved away.
The Mac experience is built around the idea of consistency.
People of that ideology wouldn't be using Mozilla in the first place. So their lockstep opinion doesn't really matter.
The people still using 10.4 are by definition some of the non-koolaide drinkers. For instance, I have several G3 iMacs running 10.4 that I use occasionally as web terminals. I paid $5 each for them at a school auction, of course, so I am superdoublebad and probably Apple should hire a sniper to take me out.
I don't get your point. You're defending Steve Jobs by saying he's the same as Richard Stallman? Or is there some other twist in your statement that I don't understand. In any case, whatever you're trying to say is pretty surreal.
Now, I admit that Stallman may have actually had a toke or two in his life, but Jobs comes from the coke snorting scene. Two very different social sets. And that's just touching the surface of one aspect of the vast differences between the two.
Using wget to mirror the sites you want to read isn't the kind of thing a 'pop media marketer' does. It's almost completely the opposite. Besides which I suspect Mr. Stallman would make use of the browser within GNU Emacs if he wanted to read web content. And isn't lynx a GPL licensed project?
Correct. We have Democrats in charge now. The IRS is much more likely to be deployed than the Secret Service.