You have just described the MacOS HFS+ filesystem exactly. HFS+ (pronounced H F S Plus) is case-aware, but not case sensitive. It's the default disk format under OSX (although you can choose UFS if you want a case-sensitive filesystem).
My previous employer was almost bought out by SONICBlue. Ken Potashner even came to the office and spewed his "business philosophy" to us.
Then the SB lawyers got ahold of the deal. The LOI (letter of intent) was signed, but they came up with a 50 page document for the Definitive Agreement (a legal term for a binding contract tp buy us). One of the honchos at our company said that that is about 40 pages longer than it should be.
They were such jerks at the negotiating table that eventually our major partner backed out of the deal, leaving our company and its product to wither on the vine.
I hope TiVo runs SB into the ground. If it comes down to it, TiVo could be bought out by AOL (a mahor shareholder) to boost their legal fund. Hell, why not, I worked for one of their companies too once.
When did it happen? When did society move from a goods-based economy to a service-based one? I was reading the comments on this story, thinking about my cable bill going up again. How many things do we pay for with recurring costs these days? Let's see, here is my list:
1) Cable TV: no premium channels, now $42 a month
2) Cable Modem: $40 a month
3) TiVo: $10 a month
4) My cell phone: $30 a month
5) My wife's cell phone: $30 a month
That's $152 a month for junk I don't even need! And that's on top of:
1) my mortgage
2) car payment
3) car insurance
4) homeowners insurance
5) lawn care contract
6) trash pickup
7) termite contract ( I live in the south)
8) water
9) electric
10) gas
11) landline phone
Now we're talking $2500-$3000 a month or more in recurring costs.
Should I add premium channels, digital cable, more minutes on my cell phones? How much is it now? Do I want to add another $10 a month for XMSatelite, even if it is good?
This service-based stuff sucks. I bet some of you have even more things to add to the list.
I have some shareware that I sell online. I use Kagi as my payment processing company. They are VERY responsive to questions, both from sellers and buyers, and I have never had a problem with them in over 3 years of online sales.
Another thing I like about Kagi is that unless I sell something, I don't get charged anything. And when I do, it's a flat rate, and very reasonable for the ability to take checks, credit cards, and foreign currency.
I'm not affiliated with them, but I am a satisified customer. If you're looking for a way to safely process a small number of payments online, look no further.
No, it is running Linux (originally based off Red Hat, but not looking much like it anymore), and it has real WMA codecs licensed from Microsoft. The box played REALMedia at one point too, but Real wouldn't sign a reasonable licensing deal.
I used to work for ZapMedia. It's a great company, but (at least until recently) a very poorly-led one. While I was there the company went from 40 people to 120 and then down to 20. They blew through some $20 million in capital. I was laid off in the 5th round of layoffs (can you believe that)?
We were almost bought out several times. The box was even going to be marketed as a Harmon Kardon DMC-100 box, until we ran out of money and decided to keep the profit margins. We talked to several companies (who I should not mention since I could get sued), but every one of the deals fell through. One of the companies even has a competing box on the market now. Another one has a PVR box for sale, which is something we all wanted to be added to the Zapstation.
When I left in September, the box still crashed a lot. I wish them the best of luck. From the sound of this review, they're going to need it.
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I have a friend who works for a company here in Atlanta making "blade" systems. It's called Racemi (pronounced ray-see-me).
According to my friend, they have actual customers and a shipping product, which is more than most of the other blades on the market seem to have (although I would bet HP already has preorder customers). I wonder how a big company like HP will affect the market for smaller companies like Racemi and RLX.
The Racemi box is very open-source friendly in terms of software and the like. They do a lot of the scheduling code in python, which is one of my favorite languages.
How much do these things cost anyway (any of them)? Minaturization is always expensive. Just look at the (now dead) Apple Cube. Cool, but overpriced.
I have been playing Giants: Citizen Kabuto(review) lately, and it's a blast. You can think of it as three games in one. First, you play as the Meccs, then as the Sea Reapers, and finally as Kabuto himself, a 100-foot tall monster that attacks with a viscious belly flop, and simply eats his opponents to pick up health! When you get sick of it, there's a full multiplayer version as well. Think Starcraft in real 3D using the aforementioned races.
It's been mentioned before, but Return to Wolfenstein looks amazing, and the multiplayer demo is a blast. I will refrain from recapping what has already been said about this cool looking game.
I was watching TechTV's Extended Play recently on my TiVo and they had a Holiday Gift Guide show on games for the holidays. It discussed the PC, as well as PS2, GameCube, and XBox and made recommendations on games for all of them.
The new AirPort software showed up on my OSX 10.1 Software Update panel today. I installed it, and when I ran the admin utility it offered to upgrade my base station. I did, and now I am running the newest software on it.
Apple really did it right with OSX's networking. Plug in Ethernet, and the Mac uses it. Unplug it, and it automatically switches to wireless, within a second or two. It's very smooth.
www.emulation.net is the best site around for Mac users. They have links to every mac emulator under the sun, from Palm to Playstation to Amiga. They do Arcade machines, Computers, Consoles, and Handheld devices.
With this site someone could make a MUCH better picture than the one shown.
I send an email to my representative, Max Cleland (GA) about strong encryption a couple of years ago. I got back a personal letter via snail mail disussing it. He did not really agree with my thoughts on the issue, but the letter was signed by him and seemed well-researched. If he did not write it, one of his staffers at least looked into it before sending me a reply.
>I don't see this happening. Ogg Vorbis (like MP3)
>doesn't support DRM, which is the new "must-have"
>for music playing. Support will most likely
>remain "unofficial" for a long time.
Neither does mp3 (at least not the version that everyone uses). I think that there are lots of companies that would be willing to support.ogg files if the consumer demand was there to warrant it.
This box runs DNS for 4 domains, as well as a web server and email SMTP/POP. It's an 8-year-old 9500/200 running LinuxPPC.
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Readmy bio. It runs Linux 2.2.x and includes Windows Media Player. It's a fact. Microsoft didn't do the port, ZapMedia did. I have one on my desk at work, and another one in my entertainment center at home, so it's not vapor. We've shown it at Comdex and ALS. It'll be at CES too.
I am biased, but I still think the ZapMedia DMC (a.k.a. ZapStation) is the best solution. I have seen the APEX, the Raite, and some others. The ZapStation has:
) DVD player
) MP3 Jukebox (30GB storage)
) Full-screen MPEG1 player (VCD)
) CD player
) Broadband network connection
) web browser
) runs Linux
) plays streaming MP3 and WMF files off the internet
Plus, it's just cool. I'm going to put a Quake 3 server on mine.
Digital Creations is a great company. I think this is a very good thing for Python and for Zope (which is a truly kick-ass product, even if the learning curve is a bit steep).
I've been a Python evangelist for 4 years, and a Zope evangelist ever since I started using it in May. Two great products that will only get better with this announcement.
It DOES run Linux (a variant of Red Hat 6.2 I believe). It uses a licensed hardware DVD decoder. And it has Windows Media player too (which was licensed from MicroSloth, see the press release).
In addition to being a Linux user (my desktop at work, my server at home), I have been a Mac user for 12 years. Mac users have struggled for years with the issue of getting games ported, the same issue that Linux users are now facing. There is no market for the games, because there are no games to build the market.
The iMac changed game publishers' perceptions that there were not enough Mac users. The users were already there, but the perception was not. At some point, there will be an end-user Linux revolution, when Linux is easy enough for regular people to use. The Linux user experience has improved 100-fold over the last two years, but it's still not something I would give to my wife or my mom to use. When that happens, the games will come.
You'll all be happy to know I deleted a big rant about computer users that was here and replaced it with this sentence. Have a nice day:)
No current Mac has a ROM in hardware. They all use a ROM file (which as we all know is not really a ROM at all). Ever since the United Motherboard Architecture (UMA) was put into production Apple has done away from hardware ROMs.
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No, that won't work exactly. Darwin certainly can be ported to other platforms (it was ported TO the Mac originally after all from NeXT). The problem is that a lot of the stuff that makes MacOS X different from Darwin (Blue Box, Carbon, Quartz, Cocoa, and Aqua come to mind offhand) will not be ported. An enterprising programmer might get X running on Darwin (John Carmack of ID has already expressed interest in working on it), but:
1) If a mac isn't doing what you expect then it gives you NO debugging information to "figure out what's wrong with it" - trust me.. I work on a help desk. How do you ping something from a mac? erm. there's a COMMERCIAL PACKAGE that can do it.. sheesh. So if it says "can't connect to mail host smtp.foo.com" I have no idea if it's a DNS problem or a TCP problem or an IP problem, and I'm trying to work this out through some 'kwit down the phone who bought a mac fooled into thinking it would be easy to use.
Well, there are several dozen freeware and shareware tools to do this as well. I personally use IPNetMonitor and WhatRoute. With MacOS X, there will be a BSD layer underneath that you can force your users to use if you didn't give them the tools they needed to start with. I've been using Macs for 11 years, and I have two friends who do Mac consulting for a living. They don't seem to have these problems. Seems to me the failing is not with Apple, but with your techs or your company.
The mostly monochrome desktop is far from "elegant" and the interface is too damn illogical
You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but most people would disagree with you. Believe it or not, Enlightenment with an undulating background and neon translucent windows is not what most people would consider an intuitive interface. The Mac GUI follows a simple set of rules that is consisitent between applications and the Finder. Windows hasn't even gotten this one down yet, let alone Linux.
how much you configure FVWM to do what you want (you mean you can actually define your OWN button menus? wow!).
That's just it -- the average user doesn't want to reconfigure their menus. They don't want the menus to vary from computer to computer doing the same tasks either. They want all the things that they need access to already be there for them in a logical fashion.
Sounds to me like the article was written by a mac advocate trying to get linux users to use macs.
As a Mac advocate (and a Linux advocate too), I have to disagree. If anything, this article was balanced, leaning towards Linux. Then again, I'm an advocate, not a zealot.
If Apple shipped a complete development environment with their OS and stopped sueing people I might consider it.
Well for one thing, the average user doesn't care about devlopment tools. It's just a bunch of useless, scary stuff that they will not be able to use. It does not belong in the distribution of a consumer OS.
Also, with Apple's server OS, MacOS X Server, Apple does ship a complete set of GNU compilers, linkers, etc. They also include the soure code for the Darwin kernel if you want to look at it.
Finally, as to Apple suing people, what does that have to do with you? They are just protecting their hard work and technology. Whether you agree with their legal proceedings should not be relevant to your thoughts on the relative merits of the OS. This is just some Apple-bashing you threw in at the end, but it exposes your true character and opinion better than the rest of your message.
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You have just described the MacOS HFS+ filesystem exactly. HFS+ (pronounced H F S Plus) is case-aware, but not case sensitive. It's the default disk format under OSX (although you can choose UFS if you want a case-sensitive filesystem).
My previous employer was almost bought out by SONICBlue. Ken Potashner even came to the office and spewed his "business philosophy" to us.
Then the SB lawyers got ahold of the deal. The LOI (letter of intent) was signed, but they came up with a 50 page document for the Definitive Agreement (a legal term for a binding contract tp buy us). One of the honchos at our company said that that is about 40 pages longer than it should be.
They were such jerks at the negotiating table that eventually our major partner backed out of the deal, leaving our company and its product to wither on the vine.
I hope TiVo runs SB into the ground. If it comes down to it, TiVo could be bought out by AOL (a mahor shareholder) to boost their legal fund. Hell, why not, I worked for one of their companies too once.
When did it happen? When did society move from a goods-based economy to a service-based one? I was reading the comments on this story, thinking about my cable bill going up again. How many things do we pay for with recurring costs these days? Let's see, here is my list:
1) Cable TV: no premium channels, now $42 a month
2) Cable Modem: $40 a month
3) TiVo: $10 a month
4) My cell phone: $30 a month
5) My wife's cell phone: $30 a month
That's $152 a month for junk I don't even need! And that's on top of:
1) my mortgage
2) car payment
3) car insurance
4) homeowners insurance
5) lawn care contract
6) trash pickup
7) termite contract ( I live in the south)
8) water
9) electric
10) gas
11) landline phone
Now we're talking $2500-$3000 a month or more in recurring costs.
Should I add premium channels, digital cable, more minutes on my cell phones? How much is it now? Do I want to add another $10 a month for XMSatelite, even if it is good?
This service-based stuff sucks. I bet some of you have even more things to add to the list.
Another thing I like about Kagi is that unless I sell something, I don't get charged anything. And when I do, it's a flat rate, and very reasonable for the ability to take checks, credit cards, and foreign currency.
I'm not affiliated with them, but I am a satisified customer. If you're looking for a way to safely process a small number of payments online, look no further.
No, it is running Linux (originally based off Red Hat, but not looking much like it anymore), and it has real WMA codecs licensed from Microsoft. The box played REALMedia at one point too, but Real wouldn't sign a reasonable licensing deal.
I used to work for ZapMedia. It's a great company, but (at least until recently) a very poorly-led one. While I was there the company went from 40 people to 120 and then down to 20. They blew through some $20 million in capital. I was laid off in the 5th round of layoffs (can you believe that)?
We were almost bought out several times. The box was even going to be marketed as a Harmon Kardon DMC-100 box, until we ran out of money and decided to keep the profit margins. We talked to several companies (who I should not mention since I could get sued), but every one of the deals fell through. One of the companies even has a competing box on the market now. Another one has a PVR box for sale, which is something we all wanted to be added to the Zapstation.
When I left in September, the box still crashed a lot. I wish them the best of luck. From the sound of this review, they're going to need it.
According to my friend, they have actual customers and a shipping product, which is more than most of the other blades on the market seem to have (although I would bet HP already has preorder customers). I wonder how a big company like HP will affect the market for smaller companies like Racemi and RLX.
The Racemi box is very open-source friendly in terms of software and the like. They do a lot of the scheduling code in python, which is one of my favorite languages.
How much do these things cost anyway (any of them)? Minaturization is always expensive. Just look at the (now dead) Apple Cube. Cool, but overpriced.
It's been mentioned before, but Return to Wolfenstein looks amazing, and the multiplayer demo is a blast. I will refrain from recapping what has already been said about this cool looking game.
I was watching TechTV's Extended Play recently on my TiVo and they had a Holiday Gift Guide show on games for the holidays. It discussed the PC, as well as PS2, GameCube, and XBox and made recommendations on games for all of them.
Apple really did it right with OSX's networking. Plug in Ethernet, and the Mac uses it. Unplug it, and it automatically switches to wireless, within a second or two. It's very smooth.
Apple was first to the wireless market with affordable bases by a year, and first with laptops that had built-in antennae for even longer.
With this site someone could make a MUCH better picture than the one shown.
I send an email to my representative, Max Cleland (GA) about strong encryption a couple of years ago. I got back a personal letter via snail mail disussing it. He did not really agree with my thoughts on the issue, but the letter was signed by him and seemed well-researched. If he did not write it, one of his staffers at least looked into it before sending me a reply.
>I don't see this happening. Ogg Vorbis (like MP3)
.ogg files if the consumer demand was there to warrant it.
>doesn't support DRM, which is the new "must-have"
>for music playing. Support will most likely
>remain "unofficial" for a long time.
Neither does mp3 (at least not the version that everyone uses). I think that there are lots of companies that would be willing to support
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Readmy bio. It runs Linux 2.2.x and includes Windows Media Player. It's a fact. Microsoft didn't do the port, ZapMedia did. I have one on my desk at work, and another one in my entertainment center at home, so it's not vapor. We've shown it at Comdex and ALS. It'll be at CES too.
Plus, it's just cool. I'm going to put a Quake 3 server on mine.
http://www.zapmedia.com/
Digital Creations is a great company. I think this is a very good thing for Python and for Zope (which is a truly kick-ass product, even if the learning curve is a bit steep).
I've been a Python evangelist for 4 years, and a Zope evangelist ever since I started using it in May. Two great products that will only get better with this announcement.
There will be ZapStations in stores this Christmas.
It DOES run Linux (a variant of Red Hat 6.2 I believe). It uses a licensed hardware DVD decoder. And it has Windows Media player too (which was licensed from MicroSloth, see the press release).
In addition to being a Linux user (my desktop at work, my server at home), I have been a Mac user for 12 years. Mac users have struggled for years with the issue of getting games ported, the same issue that Linux users are now facing. There is no market for the games, because there are no games to build the market.
:)
The iMac changed game publishers' perceptions that there were not enough Mac users. The users were already there, but the perception was not. At some point, there will be an end-user Linux revolution, when Linux is easy enough for regular people to use. The Linux user experience has improved 100-fold over the last two years, but it's still not something I would give to my wife or my mom to use. When that happens, the games will come.
You'll all be happy to know I deleted a big rant about computer users that was here and replaced it with this sentence. Have a nice day
No current Mac has a ROM in hardware. They all use a ROM file (which as we all know is not really a ROM at all). Ever since the United Motherboard Architecture (UMA) was put into production Apple has done away from hardware ROMs.
No, that won't work exactly. Darwin certainly can be ported to other platforms (it was ported TO the Mac originally after all from NeXT). The problem is that a lot of the stuff that makes MacOS X different from Darwin (Blue Box, Carbon, Quartz, Cocoa, and Aqua come to mind offhand) will not be ported. An enterprising programmer might get X running on Darwin (John Carmack of ID has already expressed interest in working on it), but:
(X + Aqua themed GNOME) != (Quartz + Aqua)
Minotaur was not a FPS. It was a goofy sprite-based RPG. Not their best work, but probably one of the first commercial, graphical multiplayer games.
Just another link amongst many. You might find what you are looking for if you were to click here
Well, there are several dozen freeware and shareware tools to do this as well. I personally use IPNetMonitor and WhatRoute. With MacOS X, there will be a BSD layer underneath that you can force your users to use if you didn't give them the tools they needed to start with. I've been using Macs for 11 years, and I have two friends who do Mac consulting for a living. They don't seem to have these problems. Seems to me the failing is not with Apple, but with your techs or your company.
The mostly monochrome desktop is far from "elegant" and the interface is too damn illogical
You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but most people would disagree with you. Believe it or not, Enlightenment with an undulating background and neon translucent windows is not what most people would consider an intuitive interface. The Mac GUI follows a simple set of rules that is consisitent between applications and the Finder. Windows hasn't even gotten this one down yet, let alone Linux.
how much you configure FVWM to do what you want (you mean you can actually define your OWN button menus? wow!).
That's just it -- the average user doesn't want to reconfigure their menus. They don't want the menus to vary from computer to computer doing the same tasks either. They want all the things that they need access to already be there for them in a logical fashion.
Sounds to me like the article was written by a mac advocate trying to get linux users to use macs.
As a Mac advocate (and a Linux advocate too), I have to disagree. If anything, this article was balanced, leaning towards Linux. Then again, I'm an advocate, not a zealot.
If Apple shipped a complete development environment with their OS and stopped sueing people I might consider it.
Well for one thing, the average user doesn't care about devlopment tools. It's just a bunch of useless, scary stuff that they will not be able to use. It does not belong in the distribution of a consumer OS.
Also, with Apple's server OS, MacOS X Server, Apple does ship a complete set of GNU compilers, linkers, etc. They also include the soure code for the Darwin kernel if you want to look at it.
Finally, as to Apple suing people, what does that have to do with you? They are just protecting their hard work and technology. Whether you agree with their legal proceedings should not be relevant to your thoughts on the relative merits of the OS. This is just some Apple-bashing you threw in at the end, but it exposes your true character and opinion better than the rest of your message.