Re:Then why am I not impressed?
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You have the same one I have. It has the Radeon 7500 and DVI out and audio in ports. I think you had the same problem I had. Mine was loose near the optical drive on the corner, and I sent it in and they went over it with a fine-toothed comb. I haven't had a problem since.
It would all be over too quickly with a rifle. I would use an old blunderbuss packed with jacks. At least let the poor fucker suffer for defending a multiple convicted felon out for no less than your very soul.
I think its pretty funny to hear somebody spout such bullshit. Apple still has SCSI built into every computer, except they're calling it Firewire now and it travels over a 6-pin hot-pluggable cable. Maybe you should do some reading into Firewire - you may discover that it is just basically SCSI over a different cable.
You are missing a big chunk of the details here. MS will, undoubtedly, embrace zeroconf in the next year or two. It only makes sense. However, MS can't embrace without extending. Pretty soon they'll have a version of zeroconf that'll work only with other Windows machines. Once this happens, every luser out there will think that everyone else's products are broken, and no wonder - MS is the biggest company in the world, therefore their software is the best. We've seen it before a million times.
Maybe he means scraping the registry for the shattered corpse of an unsucessfully uninstalled program? Or perhaps he means the constant rebooting even in XP. Or, maybe, just maybe, it is Bonzi Buddy that is meaningful to him.
Re:Then why am I not impressed?
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Actually, there is no thin plastic to be had on the TiG4 except the keyboard, trackpad, and the Apple logo on the lid. The white wrap-around fram is carbon fiber IIRC.
I've had my TiG4 (DVI 666) for about 8 months now and it is solid as fuck. I have dropped it onto concrete, sat on it, and generally abused it since I recieved it. The only compaint I have is that I have one dead green subpixel. It used to bother the crap out of me, but I don't even see it anymore. Also, the paint is coming off the frame, but that's fine with me. It looks kind of crappy but probably deters casual theft.
And then there's my old 5300c. I have had this thing for years and years, and it still chugs along. The pin inside the socket where the PSU plugs into the machine broke off years ago, and I run it with a VST expansion-bay power adapter that takes virtually any kind of power. The battery lasts all of 15 minutes now. No dead pixels on this baby. In use as a serial console (because GRRR my G4 doesn't have a proper serial port).
I think you've been having problems with the older rev 1 or 2 Powerbook TiG4s. The last 3 generations have been golden, however.
Re:Baked a SUN server once
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Once the smoke gets let out of a computer, you are screwed. Unless you figure out a way to put the smoke back in.
On a similar note, I accidentally left the ethernet cable that I use at work for my TiG4 unplugged. When I got back, there was ether all over everything. Sticky little pools of it. It kinda smells.
If you have a free partition, you can have BeOS install itself to it, thus eliminating the need to run BeOS from a file on a windows / linux partition.
Hear, hear. Sun can't decide what they want to do. They hate Linux, they sell Linux. This is the sort of dichotomy that will destroy them in the end. Not to mention that the only place the SPARC can compete is in massively parallel servers. They no longer have the high-end workstation market. One can get a MP Athalon or PIII (did somebody say Xeon?) that blows the doors off Sun workstations now for much less money. They refuse to let Java become a standard, instead they retain control and whine that MS has poisoned Java (which they have, but that doesn't stop anyone from downloading and installing Sun Java).
Sun, vi, Bill Joy. Dinosaurs still roam the earth!
Actually, most Linux distros are cluttered and sluggish compared to FreeBSD. The Linux kernel tends to undergo frequent experimental revision, whereas FreeBSD stays basic and functional.
After some FreeBSD goodness, with the ports system, Linux feels bloated and primitave.
Thank you. The BBB is totally unreliable. I have tried to get a company off the list for shady practices, and was told to send a letter with my greivance to the BBB. They replied that the business in question denied any wrongdoing, and said there was nothing they could do. When I asked if there was any way to for a company to be delisted, they said no.
It may as well be. This is the whole point of the GPL: IBM (or any other entity that improves Linux) has no choice about sharing their changes. That's why the GPL was chosen as the license for Linux.
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You have the same one I have. It has the Radeon 7500 and DVI out and audio in ports. I think you had the same problem I had. Mine was loose near the optical drive on the corner, and I sent it in and they went over it with a fine-toothed comb. I haven't had a problem since.
Send it back for service!
It would all be over too quickly with a rifle. I would use an old blunderbuss packed with jacks. At least let the poor fucker suffer for defending a multiple convicted felon out for no less than your very soul.
Shame on you.
So the Atari Jaguar is better than the latest P4? Because the P4 is 32-bit and the Jaguar was 128-bit.
At least by your logic it should be.
I think its pretty funny to hear somebody spout such bullshit. Apple still has SCSI built into every computer, except they're calling it Firewire now and it travels over a 6-pin hot-pluggable cable. Maybe you should do some reading into Firewire - you may discover that it is just basically SCSI over a different cable.
You are missing a big chunk of the details here. MS will, undoubtedly, embrace zeroconf in the next year or two. It only makes sense. However, MS can't embrace without extending. Pretty soon they'll have a version of zeroconf that'll work only with other Windows machines. Once this happens, every luser out there will think that everyone else's products are broken, and no wonder - MS is the biggest company in the world, therefore their software is the best. We've seen it before a million times.
Maybe he means scraping the registry for the shattered corpse of an unsucessfully uninstalled program? Or perhaps he means the constant rebooting even in XP. Or, maybe, just maybe, it is Bonzi Buddy that is meaningful to him.
Evidently, you knew exactly what he meant. Why make a fuss about his grammar then? Not that you are qualified with your horrid capitalization.
Why? Just 'cuz?
Actually, there is no thin plastic to be had on the TiG4 except the keyboard, trackpad, and the Apple logo on the lid. The white wrap-around fram is carbon fiber IIRC.
I've had my TiG4 (DVI 666) for about 8 months now and it is solid as fuck. I have dropped it onto concrete, sat on it, and generally abused it since I recieved it. The only compaint I have is that I have one dead green subpixel. It used to bother the crap out of me, but I don't even see it anymore. Also, the paint is coming off the frame, but that's fine with me. It looks kind of crappy but probably deters casual theft.
And then there's my old 5300c. I have had this thing for years and years, and it still chugs along. The pin inside the socket where the PSU plugs into the machine broke off years ago, and I run it with a VST expansion-bay power adapter that takes virtually any kind of power. The battery lasts all of 15 minutes now. No dead pixels on this baby. In use as a serial console (because GRRR my G4 doesn't have a proper serial port).
I think you've been having problems with the older rev 1 or 2 Powerbook TiG4s. The last 3 generations have been golden, however.
Once the smoke gets let out of a computer, you are screwed. Unless you figure out a way to put the smoke back in.
On a similar note, I accidentally left the ethernet cable that I use at work for my TiG4 unplugged. When I got back, there was ether all over everything. Sticky little pools of it. It kinda smells.
If you have a free partition, you can have BeOS install itself to it, thus eliminating the need to run BeOS from a file on a windows / linux partition.
Whoopee! Swap file enabled!
I could have sworn that Dell did in fact get to be where they are by being stupid. And by lying.
Dell is about 4 years behind Apple. Right on schedule if you ask me.
In all seriousness, who ever uses floppies anymore? we have a USB floppy drive here at the office, and it gets plugged in every once in a great while.
Too many dashes. rm -rf / works with 2 less keystrokes.
This is the reason that the low bandwidth x proxy (man lbxp) is included by default with X.
Hear, hear. Sun can't decide what they want to do. They hate Linux, they sell Linux. This is the sort of dichotomy that will destroy them in the end. Not to mention that the only place the SPARC can compete is in massively parallel servers. They no longer have the high-end workstation market. One can get a MP Athalon or PIII (did somebody say Xeon?) that blows the doors off Sun workstations now for much less money. They refuse to let Java become a standard, instead they retain control and whine that MS has poisoned Java (which they have, but that doesn't stop anyone from downloading and installing Sun Java).
Sun, vi, Bill Joy. Dinosaurs still roam the earth!
How do you figure? Or does using "quotes" make your "arguement" "valid"?
Pippin also had a Legend of Zelda game as well. It blew chunks.
Actually, most Linux distros are cluttered and sluggish compared to FreeBSD. The Linux kernel tends to undergo frequent experimental revision, whereas FreeBSD stays basic and functional.
After some FreeBSD goodness, with the ports system, Linux feels bloated and primitave.
Easy! Just change your viewing prefs to not show signatures. That way you won't have to bitch to the world about it EVER again!
Would you mind following that hug up with a kick to either the shins or balls? I knew you would!
Thank you. The BBB is totally unreliable. I have tried to get a company off the list for shady practices, and was told to send a letter with my greivance to the BBB. They replied that the business in question denied any wrongdoing, and said there was nothing they could do. When I asked if there was any way to for a company to be delisted, they said no.
They are shills and are not to be trusted.
Granted it's not out of charity...
It may as well be. This is the whole point of the GPL: IBM (or any other entity that improves Linux) has no choice about sharing their changes. That's why the GPL was chosen as the license for Linux.
FYI, there's no vDSP that I know of included with MS or Intel compilers.
Apple should stop shipping IE now. Put Safari in there, instead. Which is what they'll probably do once it hits 1.0.
I deleted IE straight away. It was an ugly Carbon bruise in the soft flesh of my Cocoa goodness.