Depends on the model. The little shuffle guys are actually the most evil, but it's random for each unit. The first few model's evil is proportional to the half-life of the battery unit.
Same here. Work was willing to buy me the PowerBook, but I went with the iBook because the battery life was so much longer. (As it turns out, so is the wireless range and reliability.)
Considering I've happily managed on my 12" iBook with neither, no big deal.
Seriously, what does FW 800 give you that FW 400 isn't already overkill for?
Dude, your PowerBook is now a "Classic". With that manly titanium case. Those silver keys. Hers may be faster and more powerful and all, but your PowerBook will have style.
Or just order 2. If it enough to complain about, it's enough to open the checkbook to fix. Otherwise STFU and deal.
See, now I thought they were looking to market the machine as a portable desktop for big rig trucks. They keep talking about power and speed after all.
And for some reason these Yo-Yo's always seem to do this crap right next to streams or in areas with high water tables. It's like trailor parks to tornadoes.
At which point I will happily repackage Canola into T#CH-GR#@$#, and sell it to you for $50 a liter. For an extra $5, you can buy GR##N-GR#@$# which will be biodegradable.
I've been more or less glued to a computer since the age of 7 (in 1982). I will go through periods where it feels like my eyes aren't working properly. They kinda lock in place, and I find myself staring through people instead of making eye contact. When it is really bad, the world is blurry.
The fix is to just get outside for a few days. It goes away. If I can't get out for whatever reason, I perform eye exercises. Basically a deliberately unfocus and go crosseyed, and then snap them back to attention.
Another technique I use to limit eyestrain is to keep a few colorful object in the periphery of my monitor. Every few minutes one of the objects catches the eye, and lets them blow off a little steam. Regular breaks for coffee, eats, or smokes also help. Though frankly I'm a bit of binge programmer myself. In my natural element I'll easily code until I fall over.
The best long term fix is to get married and have kids. Families are the best cure for repetitive eye injuries. They call. They email. They distract you from what you are doing. Sure your productivity plummets. But productivity kills.
One's eyes were meant to follow things in real life, not on the screen.
I just want 10.4 to stop crapping out as a Domain controller. We are rebooting our domain controller and file servers so often management is actually having me put together a proposal to migrate back to Linux.
For those of you not in the Know, 10.4 server has a nasty bug that locks of the server when a particular sequence of events occur, usually during replication. (Which on an active Windows Domain happens every few minutes.) Apple has acknowledged the problem and a fix has been "any day now" ever since Tiger was released.
This line of work in Comp Sci is just like a soap opera. The characters change and the fads change, but after years and years of study they have yet to make a machine convincingly human like.
Largely because it's really hard to fit years of human experience into a few GB of disk space.
Perhaps you are too young to remember when Linux was considered Malware by ISPs and employers alike. I remember having to dual boot one computer into Windows 98 just to get Comcast to issue it an IP address.
Whatever happened to "drink lots of fluids and rest up?"
I know the Bird flu is nasty, but the human body is actually pretty good at fighting this stuff off. Given half a chance.
I've run a networks for 8 years. Stayed up on patches. Monitored systems. Cleaned up after intrusions. A Windows box on an unsecure network is like a woman alone with the Boston strangler. And god help you if you have to install from media in the field.
I have operated at least 30 servers, and I can count the number of intrusions I've cleand up under Linux with one hand. 2 bind compromises from the '90s, and an SSH brute force password attack 2 years ago. One of the bind compromises was repairing a friend's box.
I have had a windows box infected by a virus over a dialup line, in less than 30 seconds. You can't talk about an uncompromised Windows box. You talk about shades of compromised. Does it have a backdoor, or merely a few trojens?
A linux box can be utterly locked down. There are no hidden "services" running in the background, waiting to be exploited. You have either installed and configured the service, or it's not running. And if you are utterly paranoid IPTABLES -P INPUT DROP makes sure your box will not talk to strangers. Your web browser is not knitted into the security layer.
Having worked in the Semiconductor industry, I can tell you that American made chips are few and far between. Especially the stuff that would fit in a consumer device.
(Also what keeps in-house wizards like me on the payroll.)
Me: (Some vague hand movement, a muttered incantation.)
User: It's working, how did you do that?
Me: I could tell you but your eyes will glaze over...
User: Tell me anyway.
Me: (Detailed techical explaination)... or I'm just magic.
User: Wow, my eyes did glaze over. You must be magic.
Besides, a sword is much better at that sort of task. Less noise. You can tailor the splatter to the how much of an example you are seeking to make of the subject. Just make sure to rubberize the grip to protect you from accidentally punching a high voltage source like a CRT transformer.
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Depends on the model. The little shuffle guys are actually the most evil, but it's random for each unit. The first few model's evil is proportional to the half-life of the battery unit.
Of course my first thought when scanning a post apocalyptic radioactive wasteland is: Will I have my iTunes?
Or would that make it sound too much like the Apple][?
Same here. Work was willing to buy me the PowerBook, but I went with the iBook because the battery life was so much longer. (As it turns out, so is the wireless range and reliability.)
Considering I've happily managed on my 12" iBook with neither, no big deal. Seriously, what does FW 800 give you that FW 400 isn't already overkill for?
Dude, your PowerBook is now a "Classic". With that manly titanium case. Those silver keys. Hers may be faster and more powerful and all, but your PowerBook will have style. Or just order 2. If it enough to complain about, it's enough to open the checkbook to fix. Otherwise STFU and deal.
Somewhere in my mother-in-laws house is my Wife's Powermac 7100/66. I donated my 7100 to a museum. Literally.
See, now I thought they were looking to market the machine as a portable desktop for big rig trucks. They keep talking about power and speed after all.
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And for some reason these Yo-Yo's always seem to do this crap right next to streams or in areas with high water tables. It's like trailor parks to tornadoes.
Actually my thought was to use the computer to power the oil-filled space heater in the basement.
At which point I will happily repackage Canola into T#CH-GR#@$#, and sell it to you for $50 a liter. For an extra $5, you can buy GR##N-GR#@$# which will be biodegradable.
The fix is to just get outside for a few days. It goes away. If I can't get out for whatever reason, I perform eye exercises. Basically a deliberately unfocus and go crosseyed, and then snap them back to attention.
Another technique I use to limit eyestrain is to keep a few colorful object in the periphery of my monitor. Every few minutes one of the objects catches the eye, and lets them blow off a little steam. Regular breaks for coffee, eats, or smokes also help. Though frankly I'm a bit of binge programmer myself. In my natural element I'll easily code until I fall over.
The best long term fix is to get married and have kids. Families are the best cure for repetitive eye injuries. They call. They email. They distract you from what you are doing. Sure your productivity plummets. But productivity kills.
One's eyes were meant to follow things in real life, not on the screen.
Others have said this better in this thread: This study is garbage.
I just want 10.4 to stop crapping out as a Domain controller. We are rebooting our domain controller and file servers so often management is actually having me put together a proposal to migrate back to Linux. For those of you not in the Know, 10.4 server has a nasty bug that locks of the server when a particular sequence of events occur, usually during replication. (Which on an active Windows Domain happens every few minutes.) Apple has acknowledged the problem and a fix has been "any day now" ever since Tiger was released.
Largely because it's really hard to fit years of human experience into a few GB of disk space.
Perhaps you are too young to remember when Linux was considered Malware by ISPs and employers alike. I remember having to dual boot one computer into Windows 98 just to get Comcast to issue it an IP address.
Whatever happened to "drink lots of fluids and rest up?" I know the Bird flu is nasty, but the human body is actually pretty good at fighting this stuff off. Given half a chance.
Oh wait, Jesus was the only regular drinker in the bunch.
I have operated at least 30 servers, and I can count the number of intrusions I've cleand up under Linux with one hand. 2 bind compromises from the '90s, and an SSH brute force password attack 2 years ago. One of the bind compromises was repairing a friend's box.
I have had a windows box infected by a virus over a dialup line, in less than 30 seconds. You can't talk about an uncompromised Windows box. You talk about shades of compromised. Does it have a backdoor, or merely a few trojens?
A linux box can be utterly locked down. There are no hidden "services" running in the background, waiting to be exploited. You have either installed and configured the service, or it's not running. And if you are utterly paranoid IPTABLES -P INPUT DROP makes sure your box will not talk to strangers. Your web browser is not knitted into the security layer.
Laugh, but we aren't going to have a "Global" economy until citizens in poor countries actually have money in their pockets.
Having worked in the Semiconductor industry, I can tell you that American made chips are few and far between. Especially the stuff that would fit in a consumer device.
Or you own a Suburu that doesn't HAVE an automatic choke.
(Also what keeps in-house wizards like me on the payroll.) Me: (Some vague hand movement, a muttered incantation.)
User: It's working, how did you do that?
Me: I could tell you but your eyes will glaze over...
User: Tell me anyway.
Me: (Detailed techical explaination)... or I'm just magic.
User: Wow, my eyes did glaze over. You must be magic.
Besides, a sword is much better at that sort of task. Less noise. You can tailor the splatter to the how much of an example you are seeking to make of the subject. Just make sure to rubberize the grip to protect you from accidentally punching a high voltage source like a CRT transformer.