... That I've used. I've used all the Windows crap, I've installed/upgraded MacOS, I've used a TON of different Linux Distro's. OpenLinux 2.3 is the easiest and most capable Install of an OS, ever.
The only thing it couldn't do was have two device drivers of the same type running. I had two NE2K ethernet cards, and it didn't like that very much. It installed one, recognized the other, but told me that it couldn't install the other card. I swapped one out for a 3c509 and voila! Found and configured both of them perfectly. MS sucks ass in comparison to this install.
If I had a friend who wanted to try Linux, who knew a little about computers, this is the Distro I'd reccomend.
Yeah, last I heard this is called "Bait-and-Swap". Used car dealers are notorious for it. It IS illegal here, but Mac-users seem to enjoy being bent over by a company that has screwed them over many, many times in the past.
If Slashdot (or readers) cannot responsibly research and report on Apple, it should cease doing so.
And you did, Congradulate yourself.
Slashdot makes no claim of authenticity to the stories IT LINKS TO. All Slashdot does, is grant us a forum to air our opinions on subject matter that matters to us. If you want to start an online newspaper, go ahead. Slashdot might link to one of YOUR RESPONSIBLY RESEARCHED STORIES.
Simply because you read it here doesn't imply truth. Not everything published is true. Slashdot doesn't publish any of it. You're angry at the wrong people.
Its really off to bash Apple over the events of late. After all it is Motorola who renegged on their end of the bargain AND released the flawed processors. Apple has no control over Motorola or IBM. The PowerPC line is not Apple exclusive.
True. But what is completely jacked about Apple is that they in lieu of the higher speed machine, they are shipping lower speed ones, and leaving the price the same. So, if you ordered a G4-500, if they ship it to you, it'll be a 450, and they aren't going to refund the difference in price to you.
Now, if you ordered a 450 and haven't recieved it yet, your order will be cancelled, you 'll get a refund if you've already paid, and you'll have to re-order. But, when you re-order, in order to recieve a G4-450, you'll have to pay the extra $300 that the G4-500 would have cost you before. The G4-400 is going for what the G4-450 was selling for when you first ordered.
Simply that Apple doesn't have enough chips is an understandable and forgiveable predicament. Things happen. It's poor planning on their part, but all new products have a ramp-up period. Apple has a very small inventory. That's good when you're in production. But, it means you have to really plan, though, and they kind of blew it.
The Beef is: Apple is doing their own loyal fans right up the poop-chute. It's like the late 80's all over again. Steve Jobs is back in town! Yeah!
I like to listen to Jazz, Techno, Trance-Ambient, Opera, Classical. I find that if I try to code (or do anything that requires a lot of concentration) listening to music with words that I understand, I get distracted.
Whatever it is, I have to play it really loud. I have these completely-cover-your-ear headphones that I use when I'm hard at work. It serves a double purpose of letting everyone know that I am not to be disturbed, as well. Big-ass headphones are somewhat intimidating. Just make sure your phone has a blinky light... or voicemail...
As an owner of a PalmPilot, and an owner of a Laptop, AND an owner of a Newton Messagepad (RIP), I can tell you that
A) A laptop is too big and bulky to carry around on a regular basis.
B) a Newton-sized object (slightly smaller than a VHS tape, and only half as thick) is too big and bulky to carry around on a regular basis. Oh sure, in teh beginning its no big deal. You show it off to your friends, use it to meet chicks on the bus or at the coffee shop. After about 2 months you start leaving it at home more often. Eventually, it sits in its special bag (the one you had to buy for it so that you could carry it around comfortably) collecting dust, and you only pull it out to program it, or to play games on when you're on an airplane.
C) The Palmpilot I've had for many moons and I still carry it with me. I don't have to have a special bag for it. I use it daily. I carry it everywhere. I use it when I'm on the throne. How's that for lifestyle integration?
This question is actually almost moot, now that Handsrping is manufacturing PalmOS devices for sub-$150, the question of cash vs. power just went out the door. When I palm can be had for about 1/10th the cost of a subnote, where's the comparison?
It killed Linux, dude. DEAD. Could not break. Could not open another terminal. Could not open another console via keyboard commands. Could not slay X server. Nada. did not respond to three finger salute. Dead. Deceased.
All I'm saying is: It don't matter what OS you use if the software on top of it so crappy that it can kill a multi-threaded secure kernel.
The NT workstations at my school crash regularly. All I have to do is open a terminal window and a few Netscape windows, and *BOOM* hard lock
I have no idea what the idiots at your school have done to your machines, but it's not NT's fault. I'v ebeen running NT for almost 2 years now on two home machines and can count the number of full system locks on two fingers. And both of thsoe times were because I stupidly dl'd and ran sketchy software (services both times).
Just because your school is run by inept dillwads doesn't make NT a terrible OS. There are many VALID reasons to dislike NT, but none of yours are.
I have a third machine that I installed RedHat Linux 6.0 on and guess what? Netscape killed it. DEAD. Had to reboot.And it continued to do so until the 4.6 upgrade became available. Imagine my surprise when the "Super Stable" OS Linux found itself completely at the mercy of shitty software.
You've never had the urge to treat your equipment poorly? I'd much rather have a machine that I don't have to worry about spilling stuff on, that I can drop, that I can punch or throw across the room in a fit of rage.
It'd kick much ass to have a party-proof laptop. Besides, Quake3 is best on the desktop.
Ther responded with a letter to all the petitioners from one of their engineers that said that he had personally worked on the MWave project and that it was a very complicated programming environment, and since it would not be as simple as porting a device driver, they would not be releasing the specs.
That's the reason they gave. I'll dig up the letter and post it.
Maybe IBM'll finally realease the MWave specs instead of just saying "MWave is too complicated for you Linux people to grok", which is how they responded to the Linux MWave petition.
I think mayhaps because TurboLinux optimizes the kernals they distribute for the processor it's going to be run on. Perhaps, like IBM, Intel is interested in their Clustering distribution.
TurboLinux also seems to be more of a corporate player than any of the other Distro's. Who knows? Maybe they are agressively seeking corporate partenerships, which is how they scored IBM as well.
Is it me, or is it just that the corporates are buying into more corporate culture because they just don't understand the whole Linux philosophy?
Is it necessary for the large corporations to buy into the Linux Philosophy, for everyone to benefit? The way the GPL is worded, any contributions that these corporations make benefit all of us, regardless of their profit motive.
Unfortunately, it seems that for Linux to penetrate further into the market, Corporations are going to have to be involved in some capacity, either by creating non-GPL'ed software packages, or by funding GPL'd Distro's.
Personally, I'd rather see them funding GPL'd distro's than creating scads of new neat software that I can't afford to buy. Not that I'm against commercial software, I just can't afford to buy much of it now.
The Linux Philosophy was a great starting point, but in the end, it is just a philosophy. Any system that can't an influx of ideas new to them (ie Profits) will surely stagnate and atrophy.
Why should he have to respond? Because some people question the validity of his OPINIONS?
Q: How do we evaluate someone elses OPINIONS?
A: The same way we evaluate anything else, if you want to, go for it, if you don't like him, don't read him.
Apparently, not reading his articles has expanded to the realm of trash-talking him from the comfort and safety of the AC post.
If you're going to lay into somebody, please, have the courage to accept personal responsibility, and link to the allegations instead of giving a vague, biased (but presented as unbiased) description of what these allegations were.
You're lucky I ran out of moderator points already.
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Lizard's GPL'd, make it do what you want it to do.
... That I've used. I've used all the Windows crap, I've installed/upgraded MacOS, I've used a TON of different Linux Distro's. OpenLinux 2.3 is the easiest and most capable Install of an OS, ever.
The only thing it couldn't do was have two device drivers of the same type running. I had two NE2K ethernet cards, and it didn't like that very much. It installed one, recognized the other, but told me that it couldn't install the other card. I swapped one out for a 3c509 and voila! Found and configured both of them perfectly. MS sucks ass in comparison to this install.
If I had a friend who wanted to try Linux, who knew a little about computers, this is the Distro I'd reccomend.
Caveat: I haven't tried Redhat 6.1 yet.
Yeah, last I heard this is called "Bait-and-Swap".
Used car dealers are notorious for it. It IS illegal here, but Mac-users seem to enjoy being bent over by a company that has screwed them over many, many times in the past.
If Slashdot (or readers) cannot responsibly research and report on Apple, it should cease doing so.
And you did, Congradulate yourself.
Slashdot makes no claim of authenticity to the stories IT LINKS TO. All Slashdot does, is grant us a forum to air our opinions on subject matter that matters to us. If you want to start an online newspaper, go ahead. Slashdot might link to one of YOUR RESPONSIBLY RESEARCHED STORIES.
Simply because you read it here doesn't imply truth. Not everything published is true. Slashdot doesn't publish any of it. You're angry at the wrong people.
Its really off to bash Apple over the events of late. After all it is Motorola who renegged on their end of the bargain AND released the flawed processors. Apple has no control over Motorola or IBM. The PowerPC line is not Apple exclusive.
True. But what is completely jacked about Apple is that they in lieu of the higher speed machine, they are shipping lower speed ones, and leaving the price the same. So, if you ordered a G4-500, if they ship it to you, it'll be a 450, and they aren't going to refund the difference in price to you.
Now, if you ordered a 450 and haven't recieved it yet, your order will be cancelled, you 'll get a refund if you've already paid, and you'll have to re-order. But, when you re-order, in order to recieve a G4-450, you'll have to pay the extra $300 that the G4-500 would have cost you before. The G4-400 is going for what the G4-450 was selling for when you first ordered.
Simply that Apple doesn't have enough chips is an understandable and forgiveable predicament. Things happen. It's poor planning on their part, but all new products have a ramp-up period. Apple has a very small inventory. That's good when you're in production. But, it means you have to really plan, though, and they kind of blew it.
The Beef is: Apple is doing their own loyal fans right up the poop-chute. It's like the late 80's all over again. Steve Jobs is back in town! Yeah!
I like to listen to Jazz, Techno, Trance-Ambient, Opera, Classical. I find that if I try to code (or do anything that requires a lot of concentration) listening to music with words that I understand, I get distracted.
Whatever it is, I have to play it really loud. I have these completely-cover-your-ear headphones that I use when I'm hard at work. It serves a double purpose of letting everyone know that I am not to be disturbed, as well. Big-ass headphones are somewhat intimidating. Just make sure your phone has a blinky light... or voicemail...
Well, it did, jackass, get over it.
Linux can suck just as bad as NT.
And no, I wasn't logged in as root, and didn't have root access on the account that I was using.
Wrap your piddly little brain around that one.
Disagree.
As an owner of a PalmPilot, and an owner of a Laptop, AND an owner of a Newton Messagepad (RIP), I can tell you that
A) A laptop is too big and bulky to carry around on a regular basis.
B) a Newton-sized object (slightly smaller than a VHS tape, and only half as thick) is too big and bulky to carry around on a regular basis. Oh sure, in teh beginning its no big deal. You show it off to your friends, use it to meet chicks on the bus or at the coffee shop. After about 2 months you start leaving it at home more often. Eventually, it sits in its special bag (the one you had to buy for it so that you could carry it around comfortably) collecting dust, and you only pull it out to program it, or to play games on when you're on an airplane.
C) The Palmpilot I've had for many moons and I still carry it with me. I don't have to have a special bag for it. I use it daily. I carry it everywhere. I use it when I'm on the throne. How's that for lifestyle integration?
This question is actually almost moot, now that Handsrping is manufacturing PalmOS devices for sub-$150, the question of cash vs. power just went out the door. When I palm can be had for about 1/10th the cost of a subnote, where's the comparison?
There is the Palm Programming: The Developer's Guide. Some people dis it because they say the examples are vague, but I think it's a good book.
Of course, I haven't wrote any Palm Programs, yet. I'm getting around to it... Get off my back!
Palm Programming: The Developer's Guide; O'Reilly & Associates; by Neil Rhodes and Julie McKeehan; ISBN 1-56592-525-4
Ahhhhh.... M.U.L.E. .......
I had almost forgotten about that. I wonder, does anyone have a copy? That'd be a great port. Net M.U.L.E.!
Irata here we come!
It killed Linux, dude. DEAD. Could not break. Could not open another terminal. Could not open another console via keyboard commands. Could not slay X server. Nada. did not respond to three finger salute. Dead. Deceased.
All I'm saying is: It don't matter what OS you use if the software on top of it so crappy that it can kill a multi-threaded secure kernel.
The NT workstations at my school crash regularly. All I have to do is open a terminal window and a few Netscape windows, and *BOOM* hard lock
I have no idea what the idiots at your school have done to your machines, but it's not NT's fault. I'v ebeen running NT for almost 2 years now on two home machines and can count the number of full system locks on two fingers. And both of thsoe times were because I stupidly dl'd and ran sketchy software (services both times).
Just because your school is run by inept dillwads doesn't make NT a terrible OS. There are many VALID reasons to dislike NT, but none of yours are.
I have a third machine that I installed RedHat Linux 6.0 on and guess what? Netscape killed it. DEAD. Had to reboot.And it continued to do so until the 4.6 upgrade became available. Imagine my surprise when the "Super Stable" OS Linux found itself completely at the mercy of shitty software.
You've never had the urge to treat your equipment poorly? I'd much rather have a machine that I don't have to worry about spilling stuff on, that I can drop, that I can punch or throw across the room in a fit of rage.
It'd kick much ass to have a party-proof laptop. Besides, Quake3 is best on the desktop.
Sadly, I think they care more about Holier-than-thou posturing and communtiy standards than Nobel Prizes.
Ther responded with a letter to all the petitioners from one of their engineers that said that he had personally worked on the MWave project and that it was a very complicated programming environment, and since it would not be as simple as porting a device driver, they would not be releasing the specs.
That's the reason they gave. I'll dig up the letter and post it.
Maybe IBM'll finally realease the MWave specs instead of just saying "MWave is too complicated for you Linux people to grok", which is how they responded to the Linux MWave petition.
These are the facts that you should have put in the original post. This is informative.
Before, you made it sound like you had a personal beef with something he wrote.
Personally, I don't read Tom's Hardware Guide, I find it a bit sensational.
Thank you for clarifying. This is hella more useful than your previous post.
That might change now that they're in the Linux Biz.
I think mayhaps because TurboLinux optimizes the kernals they distribute for the processor it's going to be run on. Perhaps, like IBM, Intel is interested in their Clustering distribution.
TurboLinux also seems to be more of a corporate player than any of the other Distro's. Who knows? Maybe they are agressively seeking corporate partenerships, which is how they scored IBM as well.
This is all speculative.
Is it me, or is it just that the corporates are buying into more corporate culture because they just don't understand the whole Linux philosophy?
Is it necessary for the large corporations to buy into the Linux Philosophy, for everyone to benefit? The way the GPL is worded, any contributions that these corporations make benefit all of us, regardless of their profit motive.
Unfortunately, it seems that for Linux to penetrate further into the market, Corporations are going to have to be involved in some capacity, either by creating non-GPL'ed software packages, or by funding GPL'd Distro's.
Personally, I'd rather see them funding GPL'd distro's than creating scads of new neat software that I can't afford to buy. Not that I'm against commercial software, I just can't afford to buy much of it now.
The Linux Philosophy was a great starting point, but in the end, it is just a philosophy. Any system that can't an influx of ideas new to them (ie Profits) will surely stagnate and atrophy.
Why should he have to respond? Because some people question the validity of his OPINIONS?
Q: How do we evaluate someone elses OPINIONS?
A: The same way we evaluate anything else, if you want to, go for it, if you don't like him, don't read him.
Apparently, not reading his articles has expanded to the realm of trash-talking him from the comfort and safety of the AC post.
If you're going to lay into somebody, please, have the courage to accept personal responsibility, and link to the allegations instead of giving a vague, biased (but presented as unbiased) description of what these allegations were.
You're lucky I ran out of moderator points already.
Yeah, this isn't new, Macs have been locking up for years. That's why I don't use them. ;P
I wnat you to cite sources for the availability, not the theoretical performance specs, dumbass.
Yeah! Great! Awesome! Specs look Killer! Where can you get one of these?!?
Oops, I guess this whole line of thought is completely moot to the task at hand.
Well, with one of your free installs, try installing OS X server onto a new G4 machine.
Think Not.
I re-re-iterate: It would be nice to be able to buy a G4 with a decent OS.