I work in a K12 school district, another issue will be. "But NT is what the kids are going to use in the Real World."
Yes...you will be hard pressed to have a Macintosh or Linux server or workstation because "NT is what the kids are going to use in the Real World."
You will be defending yourself against idiots for monthes...no years...why?
Because MS has flooded teachers and administrators with advertising. "Where do you want to go today?" If you want something other than Windows...be ready to fight.
That is something I feel *is* a good use of American tax dollars. It's not theft...not anymore than DeCSS is theft.
American companies are staffed by American taxpayers, and IMHO using the US Intellegence system to run both counter-intel and intel gathering operations against foreign governments that are doing the same to the US isn't wrong, it's the right thing to do.
And the Powerbook has the Airport slot under the keyboard, and it supports an external monitor. And it has the same Rage128 chip set that the new iMac and iMac DVs have...and it ain't shabby playing Quake3 or UT on.
Of course the Airport adds 100 bucks to the price, but the Lucent PCMCIA cards are...$140? Or was it $170?
Intel® Mobile Pentium III 500MHz 64 MB SDRAM 12GB Hard Drive 2 Type I/II or 1 Type III CardBus and Zoomed Video support slots 13.3" 1024x768 -- TFT - active matrix 24x max-10x min4 CD-ROM 56K5 v.90 KBps Modem
So yes the Thinkpad has a faster CPU (smaller cache) and a bigger HD, but theres no Ethernet in the Thinkpad, thats an option. Smaller screen in the Thinkpad and no DVD-ROM. If you jump up to the 500MHz Powerbook...you spend $200 more than on the IBM, but you get 128MB of RAM. Plus you are getting the 2 Firewire ports for video and storage. (and if you say..."theres no Firewire devices out there!!!" You need to close your mouth and open your eyes...cause theres alot of Firewire devices out there.)
I'll bet it was the great Sengan - "The US is attacking Iraq illegally and I am disabling posts to the story" story of Dec. 98 or one of the Columbine Shooting/Jon Katz stories.
I havn't ever MUDed or played alot on FPSes or on IRC...I MUSH and theres always been alot of men playing female characters, and it's funny how different a male playing a male will act towards a female character or Admin. Very difficult players will be totally passive towards a female admin.
Wasn't there a big deal going on with IBM...oh...12-18 monthes ago?
/. had a nice 3D looking IBM logo...and then the IBM lawyers came down on Rob...and after a week or so it was decided that/. could use just the "official" IBM logo?
I use Linux (Red Hat 5.2, 6.1, 6.2 and COL) at home and I use OS X Server at work on a couple of boxes, and I agree - it's going to be OS X that puts a *NIX on my three Macs, my mothers iMac, my cousins iMac, G4 and iBook. It's going to be OS X that puts a *NIX on the desk of my grandmother...not Red Hat. It's going to be OS X that puts a *NIX on the desk of my boss...not SUSE that he ditched.
I screwed around with Yellow Dog PPC Linux this summer...but just wanted my old Mac OS functionality back. Now OS 9 on my five boxes is pretty danged stable...I have a couple of issues with Adobe products...but otherwise it just works. I can't wait for OS X.
I'm sure we're gonna get flames for this...but hey.
Lets see...VST is shipping a buttload of Firewire devices. http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000215/vst_techno_2.html
The little 2.5 inch VST Firewire drives are sweet, small, fast and don't need an external power supply. They also have larger 3.5 inch Firewire drives. Sony and LaCie are shipping Firewire CD-R and CD-RW drives. All those digital video cameras, scanners all kinds of goodies.
Firewire is going to replace SCSI for things like scanners, USB scanners just don't cut it after you've used a SCSI or Firewire scanner.
Airport is completly IEEE 802.11 compliant, it's from Lucent.
While the old "Apple ain't compatible - look at Nubus" just isn't an arguement anymore. PCI, AGP, Airport, USB and Firewire...doesn't look propitary to me.
The iBookSE is the only Graphite one, the Blueberry and Tangerine are still out. But the SE is the 366MHz one. They all come with 64MB of RAM now and they all come with 6BG HDs...but the old ones only had a 3.2.
I think it's pretty sweet that every Macintosh model now has Airport capability, and 3 out of 4 models have Firewire.
Of course you could add an Airport compatible card to the PCMCIA slot of the old Powerbook...but it was $299 where the Airport card is $99 and you still have your PCMICA slots free since it goes under the keyboard.
I use Macs...have used Macs ever since I stopped using my C-64. I've been trying to work with Linux on IA-32. Right now...I'm at the point, 11 monthes later, where I feel comfortable using Linux as a Server. It's just too much effort to retrain myself to use Linux as a desktop OS. I've found the documentation for Linux to be less than helpful for the most part...there is no central place where I can get information. I'm used to the Macintosh world or the Novell...where I get help from fellow users...not told to RTFM.
I've been trying to find out if there is a way I can mount Sever Volumes on my Mac like I can with AppleShare or Novell...for eleven monthes I have been looking and have found nothing that says yea or nay. I don't have any Linux friends to ask, I'm on my own here...and it's not that easy of a path. I want to put an Orb Drive in my dual boot NT/Red Hat 6.1 box...but where the hell do I get a yea or a nay about this? No where that I see.
I think the American love of lethal firearms comes from the Bill of Rights and the fact that Americans used firearms to remove a large, well established British Army from the US from 1775-1781...with the help of the French, Spanish and Dutch...but we used our guns for alot of it.
Alot of Federal and Confederate units at the start of the Civil War were also equipted with thier own rifles, and there is a tradition in the West of using guns to fend one's home and farm or ranch against preditors of the two and four legged variety.
It's tradition.
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Perhaps not as many people would be starving in the Thrid World if they didn't breed like rabbits.
Bangladesh - Smaller than Wisconson in the US. 127,000,000 people living on a flood plain. Fertility rate 2.85 children
India - 1/3 the size of the US. 1 billion people. Fertility rate 3.18 children
Thats just two examples of wild population expansion without any responsability.
It's not America or Europes fault that alot of the starving peoples in the Third World have dangerous ideas about family size due to religion.
I use IE on my Macs because all of the 4.x releases of NS blow.
1. Don't support MacOS text clippings that turn into universal URLs 2. Crash, crash, crash 3. If I turn my cache to 0...NS will not save my cookies. I browse cacheless and I don't want to log back into/. everytime I reload it. 4. IE lets me scope out all my cookies 5. NS reloads the page every damned time I resize the window
Some of us had to go to IE because NS was just plain worthless. There are still a couple of features that NS has...so I keep it on my system...but I don't surf with it on a daily basis. I'll give this new "milestone" a spin, but after the other M releases...I'm not expecting much.
I love corporations when they do things like this.
Cisco don't care why...as long as theres a check with it. Lets build a vast firewall so the same idiots that crushed hundreds in Tianiman (I spelled that wrong I know it) Square can keep proping Maoism/Communism up through isolation and censorship.
Wonderful. Whats next...Microsoft or Oracle going to bid on the software for tracking political prisoners and suppling the spreadsheets so the can bill the families of executed prisoners in a timly manner?
He's the man that sued Playboy back in the late Eighties.
He said that Playboy was dealing in Kiddie P0rn. If I remeber correctly, no women actually exsist in the mesurements of the average Playmate. What Playboy was doing is this - they got collages of kiddie p0rn, feed it through a computer and "made" a Playmate...it was a dastardly plot to enslave children and so on.
I'll have to look back in some of my 87-90 Playboys...theres alot about Rev Wildmon in em.
After going through hoops with TCI/ATT in an attempt to get Digital Cable, I don't want HDTV/DTV. Why?
I'll simplify this. Because your going to get screwed by the cable companies. Take my Digital Cable fun as an example.
I have xDSL at home, ummm addictive bandwidth. Then I decided I wanted TCI/ATT Digital Cable. Guess what. The analog modem in the Digital Cable box won't work in my house. No I have to get a seperate analog phone line if I want all the Digital goodness that TCI will give me. Even better...lets spam your phone with calls about @Home once we know your a DSL user.
Now with all this "interactive" menuing and channel guides that you get with DSS and Digital Cable, your going to need analog phone lines aren't you?
I don't want the hastle of a new medium. I don't want to buy boxes for my current TV, I don't want to have my boxes jacked into analog phone lines that I'm going to be shelling $14 a month for, and I really don't want to have to deal with a freaking antenna for HDTV.
I would like Star Wars and the Indiana Jones movies on DVD though
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I work in a K12 school district, another issue will be. "But NT is what the kids are going to use in the Real World."
Yes...you will be hard pressed to have a Macintosh or Linux server or workstation because "NT is what the kids are going to use in the Real World."
You will be defending yourself against idiots for monthes...no years...why?
Because MS has flooded teachers and administrators with advertising. "Where do you want to go today?" If you want something other than Windows...be ready to fight.
That is something I feel *is* a good use of American tax dollars. It's not theft...not anymore than DeCSS is theft.
American companies are staffed by American taxpayers, and IMHO using the US Intellegence system to run both counter-intel and intel gathering operations against foreign governments that are doing the same to the US isn't wrong, it's the right thing to do.
And the Powerbook has the Airport slot under the keyboard, and it supports an external monitor. And it has the same Rage128 chip set that the new iMac and iMac DVs have...and it ain't shabby playing Quake3 or UT on.
Of course the Airport adds 100 bucks to the price, but the Lucent PCMCIA cards are...$140? Or was it $170?
The new Powerbooks are not that expensive when compared to another top of the line laptop like a Thinkpad.
Powerbook - $2,499.
14.1-inch TFT screen
400MHz/1MB L2 cache
64MB SDRAM
6GB Ultra ATA
DVD-ROM/DVD-Video
8MB video memory
10/100BASE-T Ethernet
56K internal modem
2 Firewire ports
Thinkpad 600X - $3,299
Intel® Mobile Pentium III 500MHz
64 MB SDRAM
12GB Hard Drive
2 Type I/II or 1 Type III CardBus and Zoomed Video support slots
13.3" 1024x768 -- TFT - active matrix
24x max-10x min4 CD-ROM
56K5 v.90 KBps Modem
So yes the Thinkpad has a faster CPU (smaller cache) and a bigger HD, but theres no Ethernet in the Thinkpad, thats an option. Smaller screen in the Thinkpad and no DVD-ROM. If you jump up to the 500MHz Powerbook...you spend $200 more than on the IBM, but you get 128MB of RAM. Plus you are getting the 2 Firewire ports for video and storage. (and if you say..."theres no Firewire devices out there!!!" You need to close your mouth and open your eyes...cause theres alot of Firewire devices out there.)
I'll bet it was the great Sengan - "The US is attacking Iraq illegally and I am disabling posts to the story" story of Dec. 98 or one of the Columbine Shooting/Jon Katz stories.
Or a flame war about Gnome vs. KDE.
Of course I am just guessing.
I havn't ever MUDed or played alot on FPSes or on IRC...I MUSH and theres always been alot of men playing female characters, and it's funny how different a male playing a male will act towards a female character or Admin. Very difficult players will be totally passive towards a female admin.
The Oil Industry might go along with it, as other posters have stated.
But what about the OPEC nations? What happens to the Middle Eastern nations? What happens to Mexico, Congo, Indonesia and Scotland/Norway?
Replacing oil with H would be a crushing blow to Texas, Alaska, Louisana and Oklahoma.
I'm all for replacing Oil with H as fuel.
Umm.
The movie linked above there didn't seem to be a QTS - I was able to use the tab in the lower right hand corner to download to my disk.
At least on 2.19.00 @ 8amPST
If I remeber right...didn't the Stereo Component maker Mackintosh sue Apple too? Trademark violation because of the Macintosh computer...
Wasn't there a big deal going on with IBM...oh...12-18 monthes ago?
/. could use just the "official" IBM logo?
/. had a nice 3D looking IBM logo...and then the IBM lawyers came down on Rob...and after a week or so it was decided that
I'm showing my age here right?
I use Linux (Red Hat 5.2, 6.1, 6.2 and COL) at home and I use OS X Server at work on a couple of boxes, and I agree - it's going to be OS X that puts a *NIX on my three Macs, my mothers iMac, my cousins iMac, G4 and iBook. It's going to be OS X that puts a *NIX on the desk of my grandmother...not Red Hat. It's going to be OS X that puts a *NIX on the desk of my boss...not SUSE that he ditched.
I screwed around with Yellow Dog PPC Linux this summer...but just wanted my old Mac OS functionality back. Now OS 9 on my five boxes is pretty danged stable...I have a couple of issues with Adobe products...but otherwise it just works. I can't wait for OS X.
I'm sure we're gonna get flames for this...but hey.
Compatable Devices?
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Lets see...VST is shipping a buttload of Firewire devices.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000215/vst_techno_2.htm
The little 2.5 inch VST Firewire drives are sweet, small, fast and don't need an external power supply. They also have larger 3.5 inch Firewire drives. Sony and LaCie are shipping Firewire CD-R and CD-RW drives. All those digital video cameras, scanners all kinds of goodies.
Firewire is going to replace SCSI for things like scanners, USB scanners just don't cut it after you've used a SCSI or Firewire scanner.
Airport is completly IEEE 802.11 compliant, it's from Lucent.
While the old "Apple ain't compatible - look at Nubus" just isn't an arguement anymore. PCI, AGP, Airport, USB and Firewire...doesn't look propitary to me.
Actually...
The iBookSE is the only Graphite one, the Blueberry and Tangerine are still out. But the SE is the 366MHz one. They all come with 64MB of RAM now and they all come with 6BG HDs...but the old ones only had a 3.2.
I think it's pretty sweet that every Macintosh model now has Airport capability, and 3 out of 4 models have Firewire.
Of course you could add an Airport compatible card to the PCMCIA slot of the old Powerbook...but it was $299 where the Airport card is $99 and you still have your PCMICA slots free since it goes under the keyboard.
After reading this...I think the guy is right on.
I use Macs...have used Macs ever since I stopped using my C-64. I've been trying to work with Linux on IA-32. Right now...I'm at the point, 11 monthes later, where I feel comfortable using Linux as a Server. It's just too much effort to retrain myself to use Linux as a desktop OS. I've found the documentation for Linux to be less than helpful for the most part...there is no central place where I can get information. I'm used to the Macintosh world or the Novell...where I get help from fellow users...not told to RTFM.
I've been trying to find out if there is a way I can mount Sever Volumes on my Mac like I can with AppleShare or Novell...for eleven monthes I have been looking and have found nothing that says yea or nay. I don't have any Linux friends to ask, I'm on my own here...and it's not that easy of a path. I want to put an Orb Drive in my dual boot NT/Red Hat 6.1 box...but where the hell do I get a yea or a nay about this? No where that I see.
Well you can now.
Since...what OS 8.1 or was it 8.5? And wern't there shareware/freeware extensions that allowed you to do this all the way back to 7.5?
Sounds like a really nitpicky problem to me.
I use OS X Server at work and I really dislike the NeXT browser in there.
I think the American love of lethal firearms comes from the Bill of Rights and the fact that Americans used firearms to remove a large, well established British Army from the US from 1775-1781...with the help of the French, Spanish and Dutch...but we used our guns for alot of it.
Alot of Federal and Confederate units at the start of the Civil War were also equipted with thier own rifles, and there is a tradition in the West of using guns to fend one's home and farm or ranch against preditors of the two and four legged variety.
It's tradition.
Perhaps not as many people would be starving in the Thrid World if they didn't breed like rabbits.
Bangladesh - Smaller than Wisconson in the US. 127,000,000 people living on a flood plain. Fertility rate 2.85 children
India - 1/3 the size of the US. 1 billion people. Fertility rate 3.18 children
Thats just two examples of wild population expansion without any responsability.
It's not America or Europes fault that alot of the starving peoples in the Third World have dangerous ideas about family size due to religion.
No it's not. You can't go around banning things that havn't been invented yet. Thats like patenting things that havn't been invented yet.
It's just plain dumb to try and ban things before they are invented.
I use IE on my Macs because all of the 4.x releases of NS blow.
/. everytime I reload it.
1. Don't support MacOS text clippings that turn into universal URLs
2. Crash, crash, crash
3. If I turn my cache to 0...NS will not save my cookies. I browse cacheless and I don't want to log back into
4. IE lets me scope out all my cookies
5. NS reloads the page every damned time I resize the window
Some of us had to go to IE because NS was just plain worthless. There are still a couple of features that NS has...so I keep it on my system...but I don't surf with it on a daily basis. I'll give this new "milestone" a spin, but after the other M releases...I'm not expecting much.
You go hang out in Lower Earth Orbit for a decade and see how you turn out.
Solar panels tend to wear out when they are exposed to extreme temprature variations and cosmic radiation.
The gyros and the mirrors were flawed designs however.
I love corporations when they do things like this.
Cisco don't care why...as long as theres a check with it. Lets build a vast firewall so the same idiots that crushed hundreds in Tianiman (I spelled that wrong I know it) Square can keep proping Maoism/Communism up through isolation and censorship.
Wonderful. Whats next...Microsoft or Oracle going to bid on the software for tracking political prisoners and suppling the spreadsheets so the can bill the families of executed prisoners in a timly manner?
Lets see...20 million of 1.3 billion is...
About 1.5 percent of the population.
Thats a boom alright.
Sorry, this is no differnt than if Microsoft giving free software to schools.
No better, no worse.
He's the man that sued Playboy back in the late Eighties.
He said that Playboy was dealing in Kiddie P0rn. If I remeber correctly, no women actually exsist in the mesurements of the average Playmate. What Playboy was doing is this - they got collages of kiddie p0rn, feed it through a computer and "made" a Playmate...it was a dastardly plot to enslave children and so on.
I'll have to look back in some of my 87-90 Playboys...theres alot about Rev Wildmon in em.
After going through hoops with TCI/ATT in an attempt to get Digital Cable, I don't want HDTV/DTV. Why?
I'll simplify this. Because your going to get screwed by the cable companies. Take my Digital Cable fun as an example.
I have xDSL at home, ummm addictive bandwidth. Then I decided I wanted TCI/ATT Digital Cable. Guess what. The analog modem in the Digital Cable box won't work in my house. No I have to get a seperate analog phone line if I want all the Digital goodness that TCI will give me. Even better...lets spam your phone with calls about @Home once we know your a DSL user.
Now with all this "interactive" menuing and channel guides that you get with DSS and Digital Cable, your going to need analog phone lines aren't you?
I don't want the hastle of a new medium. I don't want to buy boxes for my current TV, I don't want to have my boxes jacked into analog phone lines that I'm going to be shelling $14 a month for, and I really don't want to have to deal with a freaking antenna for HDTV.
I would like Star Wars and the Indiana Jones movies on DVD though