it's early - or late - re-read the article after coffee/sleep and you'll see that it addresses QT: standalone is flaky, embedded rocks, and it's "just like Windows" version to the reviewer.
It's free software after all, how else are the developers supposed to make money?
Yeah, I mean it's not like they aren't providing a service. I mean they're helping people get their music for free, 'cause, you know, music is just digital but programs are, well, they have themes and skins and stuff.
Oh, the irony. Someday I suppose Morpheous will join the BSA and enforce their rights to takeover your browser. That'd be cool.
Who wasted a mod point on this? It's a Score:0 AC post that would be trashed by the system once archived. Who would be distracted by a threaded 0 Score post? Isn't there some comment at 0 or 1 that is Interesting, Insightful, Funny? Or a level 2 or higher that is overrated, flamebait, or in need of further promoting? Are all the other candidate posts moderated sufficiently and this lowly, unobtrusive post was the only option remaining? Or did the moderator have too many mod points and was trying to dump them quickly (like dot.com options)?
Oh - one other thing - it arguably was on topic. It was a direct reply to a direct reply that was itself on topic.
I just got a Titanium G4 550 Powerbook which replaces my workhorse Toshiba 2805 (running Linux,Win4Lin and, for DVDs, booting in the WinME that came with it). What impressed me was, of course, OS X with Darwin underneath (very solid:
) but also the impressive marriage of software and hardware. Apple's careful crafting admired by many in Aqua is evident in the sleek design of the Titanium's case -- even the packaging.
Moreover, when I plugged in my older Sony DV8 video camera (having iMovie open) immediately iMovie reported "Camera Connected" and I was slurpping video instantly. Yes, I've done that on a PC -- October 1999 I spent the better part of a day making my Sony accessible over the fireware card I bought at Fry's. It was a nightmare of drivers and procedural steps to connect the wires and run the program. It never worked the first time and sometimes it wouldn't work. Having a machine crafted as an elegant and working unit is new to me.
I don't doubt Apple could have OS X run on Intel-based hardware -- afterall NeXTSTEP, the base of OSX in many ways, ran on x86 hardware eventually. I just don't think the experience would be as enjoyable.
"Except as otherwise permitted by the NetMeeting, Remote Assistance, and Remote Desktop features described below, you may not use the Product to permit any Device to use, access, display, or run other executable software residing on the Workstation Computer, nor may you permit any Device to use, access, display, or run the Product or Product's user interface, unless the Device has a separate license for the Product."
(All your emphasis belong to me) It's not that you have to use WTS. It's that you must have a client license on the remote machine.
Windows Licensing: turning an industry to Linux since 1996.
3)FreeBSD was a good enough OS to have Apple base their new flagship OS (MacOSX) on it. (I don't see them planning to make a Linux based MacOS)
To be fair, Apple doesn't incorporate *anything* GPL'ed but many things BSD/MIT licensed; case in point: curl (not to be confused with Curl) is included not the supperior wget. So, regardless of the technological merits Apple would not base its flagship product based on Linux.
Until, perhaps, the GPL is determined unenforceable and deemed just plain wacky by the Supreme Court (SCOTUS).
Ok...all my development work is rsynced to my laptop so that I have a portable work environment. The code base is pretty significant to my company and my client. How do I stop someone from getting at my data once my machine is in their possession? Requirement: it has to be seemless for authorized users. I'm thinking about an encrypted filesystem -- I looked briefly for one for Linux/FreeBSD but wasn't satisfied.
Take a chill pill. My point wasn't that MS did something WRONG by using BSD code. Not even that they did something HYPOCRITICAL (they haven't; they have clearly come out in favor of the BSD license). The point was, I thought clear, that if one wanted to determine WHICH project MS adopted for a particular purpose one need not wait for a characteristic bug, but could scan for signitures in the compiled code. Even though MS has the requisite BSD copyright, there is not a clear deliniation fro m MS exactly what code, or to what extent, MS used in their product. The use of the BSD copyright just let people know that there was SOME part of Windows using BSD code. It was left as an excercise to the user to figure out which piece.
Last summer I created a prescription delivery system that received a faxed prescription (the Rx was faxed from another company's software to a Pharmacy; in our case the "pharmacy" was a fax-to-email company in Vancouver, B.C.) as a TIFF attachment to an email. Then I parsed the email, scanned the distinct areas (well-defined, thankfully) of the fax for the details of physician, patient, prescription, sliced the fax into pieces and reformed those pieces to create a label to be printed on the drug to be dispensed. Then I popped the Rx to the correct awaiting browser (real-time dispensing) and an authorized user OK'ed the print and dispensed the drug.
It took 2 weeks and used all open source tools:
Perl
Apache
Linux
Fetchmail
Imager.pm
Mime::Parser
JOCR (was Gnu OCR but renamed for SourceForge)
other stuff
Of course, that was for proof-of-concept: I then redid the application using SOAP::Lite for receiving an XML payload with the same data.
It was a load of fun and proved to me that CPAN, SourceForge, Freshmeat, and Google are the only tools I need to get stuff done on a grand scale
Regarding JOCR - it's not OmniPage by a long shot, but for specific OCR needs is worth looking at.
It's not true - they wanted to provide beachside access. Understand that this hotel is pretty swanky ($400+/room/night 14 months ago) and has cabanas with chairs on the beach. It's not a typical beach setting.
Spent a week on Maui just over a year ago. Took the wife and kids - stayed in the Sheraton Black Rock. Very nice. Relaxing. And, yes, I spent some time in the hotel's business center. While there I noticed they rented laptops - but the only Internet connectivity was through ethernet which didn't help at the beach. I enlightened the proprietor about 802.11b and Access Points. I wonder if they're set up by now? Anyone been there lately?
To be honest, there's enough down-time on vacations to enjoy a little work. I guess you just gotta like what you do - or be obsessive-compulsive...//* Pops another Paxil *//
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it's early - or late - re-read the article after coffee/sleep and you'll see that it addresses QT: standalone is flaky, embedded rocks, and it's "just like Windows" version to the reviewer.
Yeah, I mean it's not like they aren't providing a service. I mean they're helping people get their music for free, 'cause, you know, music is just digital but programs are, well, they have themes and skins and stuff.
Oh, the irony. Someday I suppose Morpheous will join the BSA and enforce their rights to takeover your browser. That'd be cool.
Rename the screen saver Mystify to "Misty-Eye".
I don't know...the thought of direct retinal imaging with a laser makes me feel awkward.
Oh - one other thing - it arguably was on topic. It was a direct reply to a direct reply that was itself on topic.
I'm always bemused at worthless moderating.
Unfortunately the court is HFS+
Doesn't (er, didn't) he ever read Slashdot?
- [localhost:~] rjt% uptime
) but also the impressive marriage of software and hardware. Apple's careful crafting admired by many in Aqua is evident in the sleek design of the Titanium's case -- even the packaging.8:00PM up 5 days, 23:20, 3 users, load averages: 0.76, 0.57, 0.54
Moreover, when I plugged in my older Sony DV8 video camera (having iMovie open) immediately iMovie reported "Camera Connected" and I was slurpping video instantly. Yes, I've done that on a PC -- October 1999 I spent the better part of a day making my Sony accessible over the fireware card I bought at Fry's. It was a nightmare of drivers and procedural steps to connect the wires and run the program. It never worked the first time and sometimes it wouldn't work. Having a machine crafted as an elegant and working unit is new to me.
I don't doubt Apple could have OS X run on Intel-based hardware -- afterall NeXTSTEP, the base of OSX in many ways, ran on x86 hardware eventually. I just don't think the experience would be as enjoyable.
Beware of the Leopard.
- "Except as otherwise permitted by the NetMeeting, Remote Assistance, and Remote Desktop features described below, you may not use the Product to permit any Device to use, access, display, or run other executable software residing on the Workstation Computer, nor may you permit any Device to use, access, display, or run the Product or Product's user interface, unless the Device has a separate license for the Product."
(All your emphasis belong to me) It's not that you have to use WTS. It's that you must have a client license on the remote machine.Windows Licensing: turning an industry to Linux since 1996.
I *love* OS X.
Thanks for that explanation of curl vs. wget. My appreciation for curl just increased. I'll check it out for automating form submission...
To be fair, Apple doesn't incorporate *anything* GPL'ed but many things BSD/MIT licensed; case in point: curl (not to be confused with Curl) is included not the supperior wget. So, regardless of the technological merits Apple would not base its flagship product based on Linux.
Until, perhaps, the GPL is determined unenforceable and deemed just plain wacky by the Supreme Court (SCOTUS).
BTW, Mac OS X rocks.
Ideas?
Leave it running in Console mode. Nobody will touch it.
Was it PIII-based? If so...maybe it could have been. (nah...)
There, now my response doesn't sound like a criticism of MS, does it? Well, it actually is. Though MS is right to use and repeat the BSD © not specifying what was used and where makes identifying vulnerabilities difficult to the user (but not to exploits). Closed Source is sucky that way.
She just left CNN. Perhaps she was embarrassed by this article (or, perhaps, your post)?
It took 2 weeks and used all open source tools:
- Perl
- Apache
- Linux
- Fetchmail
- Imager.pm
- Mime::Parser
- JOCR (was Gnu OCR but renamed for SourceForge)
- other stuff
Of course, that was for proof-of-concept: I then redid the application using SOAP::Lite for receiving an XML payload with the same data.It was a load of fun and proved to me that CPAN, SourceForge, Freshmeat, and Google are the only tools I need to get stuff done on a grand scale
Regarding JOCR - it's not OmniPage by a long shot, but for specific OCR needs is worth looking at.
"The first hit is always free"
What's CNN?
Unfortunately this means we won't need to hire a desk-jumper to click 'Ok' every ten minutes, so unemployment will remain unchanged. Sorry.
Why wait for a bug? Scan for "signatures". That's how the use of BSD's TCP/IP stack was determined (that, and the "Regent" copyright).
It's not true - they wanted to provide beachside access. Understand that this hotel is pretty swanky ($400+/room/night 14 months ago) and has cabanas with chairs on the beach. It's not a typical beach setting.
Really - out of a week spending 3 to 5 hours (total) checking logs, email, noodling co-workers...it's part of the relaxation.
To be honest, there's enough down-time on vacations to enjoy a little work. I guess you just gotta like what you do - or be obsessive-compulsive... //* Pops another Paxil *//