My Athlon CPUs have not crashed on me either, it's normally just Windows that crashes:p
On the serious side, neither OS X on G4 and Linux on Athlon has really crashed on me to the point that requires rebooting. XP on Athlon though, sometimes just reboot itself:p
Not to mention that the certification is only valid for a specific version of the OS (what Microsoft neglected to say back when they were selling NT 4.0 was that it's NT 3.5 that is C2-certified).
The Advanced Server is released every one and a half year or so - the desktop OS every six months. Personally I find it a very agreeable deal - the free users get faster releases and contribute towards bug testing, the paying customers get what they want, slower but longer-supported (and now certified too) releases.
That is quite a bad situation indeed. You do get quite a bit more choice than us in Britain though; here in most smaller cities you get about 5 FM channels, not enough to cater to nearly every demographics out there.
3 pop channels, 1 classical/jazz and 1 news... I could be wrong, I don't even listen to radios anymore (no car:p)
Clear Channel does not own every radio station in the States... for one, there is NPR in the non-commercial sector, and Sirius in the satellite radio market.
I am not American but according to Andy Patrizio at Byte.com, Clear Channel stations all basically play the same songs and are full of ads?
Clear Channel (owner of every radio station in America)
They do not own all the radio stations.. even by their own admission. .
And according to this Byte article they are not even that good. Too many advertisements, the same dull chart songs everywhere. Apparently they have real competition in the satellite radio market too, but I am not American so this is just all hearsay to me:)
You know, I should have sympathy for the victims of this, but I don't. The solution is simple; don't use IE!
Sometimes, alas, that is not possible. In my workplace during my internship we had to use IE since the intranet was designed with customized DHTML; even using Mozilla with a faked User Agent string.
That was not too bad, I just installed Mozilla to browse the Internet and use IE just for the intranet. Then my university shifted its desktop PCs to Windows 2000 and Phoenix would not run from my network home directory...
I could still use Linux from the computing department, but for many users IE is simply forced upon them. Granted, in that case your comment is still valid but it would be 'blame management, pity the users'...
Funny how you are bashing windows for crashing when the problem lies with drivers from a 3rd party driver from Handspring
The two are related; the relatively few Windows SMP boxes lead to most developers only testing on single-CPU systems. And the lack of consumer-grade SMP-capable OSes for a long time (even now Windows XP Home does not support SMP) partially contributes to this.
Contrast to BeOS which debuted as a dual-CPU computer. The accepted norm is to develop multi-threaded apps by default, not as an afterthought.
Oh, and I am not a Mac troll. An anti-Windows troll maybe, and a pro-Unix troll probably, but are you not like a pot calling a kettle black? At least I don't declare in public my obsession with young actresses:p
No, but Debian is rather unique in being more decentralized and having weaker central authority. And as I mentioned, the ruckus over the Bitstream license seems rather unnecessary...
Sorry, but from personal experience that does not always happen: witness the fact that Debian's gnome-pilot somehow was compiled without USB support and nobody noticed for months, and the developer never replied to my bug report.
In the end it was fixed after 5 months. Debian packages might be of high quality but their handling of bug reports sometimes.. fall short.
If Mandrake is too adventurous in packaging, Debian is the opposite...
Debian can indeed be very political. I still don't understand their problem with the GNOME/Bitstream font licensing agreement, for one.
It's quite sad, really, watching innovation dies within Debian to be replaced by excessive political correctness. Debian used to lead in packaging (apt+deb) but now apt has been ported to RPM (see Conectiva and FreshRPMS), Mandrake has uRPMi, and the Fink project has co-opted apt/deb for binary distribution but added their parallel build-from-source-with-dependency system.
I have packaged quite a few RPMs in the past, mostly due to the lack of compatible RPMs after RH8 came out - but the horrible mess that is debian build scripts put me off. There are even some alternative packaging scripts for Debian, surely a sign of problems, but they never really take off.
Here's my wishlist as an ex-Debian, soon-to-be Fink user (for the second time, my first OS X experience was held back by the lack of vector instructions in G3): - Peace among developers - Debian Desktop to succeed in making Debian more customer-friendly - Faster release cycles (I thought their new testing system was meant to do that) - Compile from source a'la Fink
Fair enough, although under Linux the 'tax' is payable if you want to run Win32 browser plugins or apps using Crossover Plugin/Office; as I posted before Palm synchronisation is free (though less integrated).
Heck, the latest version of MPlayer can even play back Quicktime and Windows Media Player videos on x86, using native Windows DLLs, and there is even a plug-in for Mozilla.
By the way, MPlayer is available with an OSX front-end too - I have not tried out the various video encoding solutions under OS X but certainly worth looking over (once my PB arrives).
This might get modded off topic so turning off my karma bonus:P Slashcode should allow private messaging...
... the informal college league table for University of Cambridge in UK, for example, have the women-only colleges, which have more students taking humanities subjects, averaging lower than the colleges with higher science students.
Of course we're starting to see ridiculous grade inflation in UK as well; some of the newer universities are so desperate for students (their funding depends on the intake, so there) that you can do a course in mathematics if you get a C grade at GCSE level (taken 2 years before the end of secondary school)
Sonys and Apples don't really mix anyway, considering they tend to be the Apple of the x86 world.
Consider that Palm and Handspring provides Mac versions of their software, but Sony doesn't. While you can use the standard Palm Desktop, there probably is no driver for the USB synchronization cable available for OS X.
That said, on the other hand, Handspring does not work well with *Windows*. I am biding my time until my 12" Powerbook arrives - sometime early next week, it just shipped yesterday (yay!) - under SMP Windows XP, synchronizing my Treo tends to crash the computer.
Windows uesrs are paying for Microsoft's tactic of squeezing as much money as they could by prolonging Win9x (read DOS)'s lifespan - most drivers are not tested under SMP conditions. Using earlier ATI drivers I could force the computer to reset by shaking an XMPEG window while it is encoding.
Back to the topic though, I had a Sony Vaio Picturebook last time and must say I am not really that impressed with Sony's build quality, nor their UI design - too flashy, lots of garish 3D silver buttons.
Would be interesting to see if now that XP is out with support for styles, Sony packages a theme switcher and default Sony look-and-feel. Anyone out there has one and can comment?
ABBYY FineReader - which is a very popular OCR program in Project Gutenberg circles - will let you train the program for that font
Nice. Will check that out - scanner's on the PC back home and it's my sister that mostly use it; I can't remember what software came with it to be honest - probably some cheap-ish lite version since it was an old consumer-model parallel port version that has been discontinued and the credit card company gave out as 'rewards' for loyal customers:p
.. when the font used is different from fonts it is programmed to recognise. I tried scanning a 40-year-old book - a drama script written in Indonesian - and the combination of unusual font *and* unrecognised language was enough to make the OCR software's output 50% rubbish.
Hmm, imagine scanning a 500-year-old book hand-written in Cyrillic... forgetting for one second the damage that scanning might do to the book in the first place.
Funny how BSD can be more 'free' than GPL sometimes. But of course, for a comparable pure-philosophy GPLed kernel we have to wait for the time Hurd developers ask for UltraSparc V specs...... assuming neither of them got cancelled in the meantime:p
and there's a open source solution that has to catch up to the new release that Sun just made.
Err, I can't confirm or deny this, having never tried SO6, but from what I heard and my experience running OO.org, the only things missing are some templates and fonts?
Oh, and Redhat's tweaked OO.org shipped with RH8 looks gorgeous. You can always use all your TTFs - including the ones Bitstream is releasing for free - in OO.org anyway.
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My Athlon CPUs have not crashed on me either, it's normally just Windows that crashes
On the serious side, neither OS X on G4 and Linux on Athlon has really crashed on me to the point that requires rebooting. XP on Athlon though, sometimes just reboot itself :p
Not to mention that the certification is only valid for a specific version of the OS (what Microsoft neglected to say back when they were selling NT 4.0 was that it's NT 3.5 that is C2-certified).
The Advanced Server is released every one and a half year or so - the desktop OS every six months. Personally I find it a very agreeable deal - the free users get faster releases and contribute towards bug testing, the paying customers get what they want, slower but longer-supported (and now certified too) releases.
That is quite a bad situation indeed. You do get quite a bit more choice than us in Britain though; here in most smaller cities you get about 5 FM channels, not enough to cater to nearly every demographics out there.
:p)
3 pop channels, 1 classical/jazz and 1 news... I could be wrong, I don't even listen to radios anymore (no car
Sorry for posting twice, could not find my posting listed on Slashdot for some reason and thought it did not go through.
I am not American but according to Andy Patrizio at Byte.com, Clear Channel stations all basically play the same songs and are full of ads?
They do not own all the radio stations.. even by their own admission.
.
And according to this Byte article they are not even that good. Too many advertisements, the same dull chart songs everywhere. Apparently they have real competition in the satellite radio market too, but I am not American so this is just all hearsay to me :)
There is always NPR too!
Sometimes, alas, that is not possible. In my workplace during my internship we had to use IE since the intranet was designed with customized DHTML; even using Mozilla with a faked User Agent string.
That was not too bad, I just installed Mozilla to browse the Internet and use IE just for the intranet. Then my university shifted its desktop PCs to Windows 2000 and Phoenix would not run from my network home directory...
I could still use Linux from the computing department, but for many users IE is simply forced upon them. Granted, in that case your comment is still valid but it would be 'blame management, pity the users' ...
The two are related; the relatively few Windows SMP boxes lead to most developers only testing on single-CPU systems. And the lack of consumer-grade SMP-capable OSes for a long time (even now Windows XP Home does not support SMP) partially contributes to this.
Contrast to BeOS which debuted as a dual-CPU computer. The accepted norm is to develop multi-threaded apps by default, not as an afterthought.
Oh, and I am not a Mac troll. An anti-Windows troll maybe, and a pro-Unix troll probably, but are you not like a pot calling a kettle black? At least I don't declare in public my obsession with young actresses
... until recently the most common bundled OSes with PCs, the Windows 9x series are based on DOS, and thus does not support SMP.
...
:|
Even today the only way to get a branded SMP box is if you splash out a *lot* of money on a 'workstation' model. Most people just build their own box.
Funny how a lot of these same users bashed MacOS (up to 9.x) for not having true preemptive multitasking, etc. etc.
I am still having problems even now with SMP under Windows... the driver for my Handspring Tréo keeps crashing
No, but Debian is rather unique in being more decentralized and having weaker central authority. And as I mentioned, the ruckus over the Bitstream license seems rather unnecessary...
Sorry, but from personal experience that does not always happen: witness the fact that Debian's gnome-pilot somehow was compiled without USB support and nobody noticed for months, and the developer never replied to my bug report.
In the end it was fixed after 5 months. Debian packages might be of high quality but their handling of bug reports sometimes.. fall short.
If Mandrake is too adventurous in packaging, Debian is the opposite...
Debian can indeed be very political. I still don't understand their problem with the GNOME/Bitstream font licensing agreement, for one.
It's quite sad, really, watching innovation dies within Debian to be replaced by excessive political correctness. Debian used to lead in packaging (apt+deb) but now apt has been ported to RPM (see Conectiva and FreshRPMS), Mandrake has uRPMi, and the Fink project has co-opted apt/deb for binary distribution but added their parallel build-from-source-with-dependency system.
I have packaged quite a few RPMs in the past, mostly due to the lack of compatible RPMs after RH8 came out - but the horrible mess that is debian build scripts put me off. There are even some alternative packaging scripts for Debian, surely a sign of problems, but they never really take off.
Here's my wishlist as an ex-Debian, soon-to-be Fink user (for the second time, my first OS X experience was held back by the lack of vector instructions in G3):
- Peace among developers
- Debian Desktop to succeed in making Debian more customer-friendly
- Faster release cycles (I thought their new testing system was meant to do that)
- Compile from source a'la Fink
Peace,
Fair enough, although under Linux the 'tax' is payable if you want to run Win32 browser plugins or apps using Crossover Plugin/Office; as I posted before Palm synchronisation is free (though less integrated).
:P Slashcode should allow private messaging...
Heck, the latest version of MPlayer can even play back Quicktime and Windows Media Player videos on x86, using native Windows DLLs, and there is even a plug-in for Mozilla.
By the way, MPlayer is available with an OSX front-end too - I have not tried out the various video encoding solutions under OS X but certainly worth looking over (once my PB arrives).
This might get modded off topic so turning off my karma bonus
... the informal college league table for University of Cambridge in UK, for example, have the women-only colleges, which have more students taking humanities subjects, averaging lower than the colleges with higher science students.
Of course we're starting to see ridiculous grade inflation in UK as well; some of the newer universities are so desperate for students (their funding depends on the intake, so there) that you can do a course in mathematics if you get a C grade at GCSE level (taken 2 years before the end of secondary school)
YMMV...
Heard they are scrapping DNF and working on the intended sequel: Duke Nukem-Quake (DNQ)
Ah, nice to know. Note that I said 'probably'. And you do have to pay for it, which makes the Mac a second-class platform to use a Sony Clie with.
For those on OS X, find the required software here:
Missing Sync
and Linux:
Pilot Link
True - you can get a nice digital camera for that price with proper manual control of focus and aperture, and have money left-over for a cheap PDA.
The movie it records is tiny anyway, and mono sound in ADPCM?! One would think with 400MHz under the hood it can do real-time MP3 encoding...
Extrapolating, you earn about $100k a year.. and you spend 5 bucks on glasses? Dang :p
:p
Actually I buy my glasses when I visit my parents in Indonesia. They turn heads and costed only $50
Sonys and Apples don't really mix anyway, considering they tend to be the Apple of the x86 world.
Consider that Palm and Handspring provides Mac versions of their software, but Sony doesn't. While you can use the standard Palm Desktop, there probably is no driver for the USB synchronization cable available for OS X.
That said, on the other hand, Handspring does not work well with *Windows*. I am biding my time until my 12" Powerbook arrives - sometime early next week, it just shipped yesterday (yay!) - under SMP Windows XP, synchronizing my Treo tends to crash the computer.
Windows uesrs are paying for Microsoft's tactic of squeezing as much money as they could by prolonging Win9x (read DOS)'s lifespan - most drivers are not tested under SMP conditions. Using earlier ATI drivers I could force the computer to reset by shaking an XMPEG window while it is encoding.
Back to the topic though, I had a Sony Vaio Picturebook last time and must say I am not really that impressed with Sony's build quality, nor their UI design - too flashy, lots of garish 3D silver buttons.
Would be interesting to see if now that XP is out with support for styles, Sony packages a theme switcher and default Sony look-and-feel. Anyone out there has one and can comment?
Nice. Will check that out - scanner's on the PC back home and it's my sister that mostly use it; I can't remember what software came with it to be honest - probably some cheap-ish lite version since it was an old consumer-model parallel port version that has been discontinued and the credit card company gave out as 'rewards' for loyal customers
... your relatives and friends live in a country with decent network infrastructure.
:p
I have tried Net2Phone and various cheap calling cards and find that while it works calling, say, Singapore, calling Indonesia is another matter.
Still, quite nice. Perhaps I'll start calling up people I know in the States
Time to get a world clock set up on my desktop...
Neat, thanks! Going to have a look once I get this little bit of overdue coding out of the way :p
Quite surprised to see a company still selling GEOS - last time I heard about it was a few years ago.. aimed at the personal organizer market AFAIR.
Would be interesting to see if OS/2 variants will still be around in... say, 15 years' time.
Thanks,
.. when the font used is different from fonts it is programmed to recognise. I tried scanning a 40-year-old book - a drama script written in Indonesian - and the combination of unusual font *and* unrecognised language was enough to make the OCR software's output 50% rubbish.
Hmm, imagine scanning a 500-year-old book hand-written in Cyrillic... forgetting for one second the damage that scanning might do to the book in the first place.
Funny how BSD can be more 'free' than GPL sometimes. But of course, for a comparable pure-philosophy GPLed kernel we have to wait for the time Hurd developers ask for UltraSparc V specs... ... assuming neither of them got cancelled in the meantime :p
Err, I can't confirm or deny this, having never tried SO6, but from what I heard and my experience running OO.org, the only things missing are some templates and fonts?
Oh, and Redhat's tweaked OO.org shipped with RH8 looks gorgeous. You can always use all your TTFs - including the ones Bitstream is releasing for free - in OO.org anyway.