Man when are we ever going to catch up? Once again Explorer developers have surpassed the OS browser engineers with a new, insecure, unwanted feature. If OS doesn't want to be marginalized, it needs to add this feature. We still don't have nearly the number of downloadable exploits as Explorer, and now this! Man I feel so obsolete.
What they did is take a material handling robot (like you would find in any automotive plant) and put 2 seats on it.... With everything it can do and more... it could start replacing rollercoasters.. perhaps?"
More like it will start replacing failed US auto companies.
Two cases now of people stricking back at the power mongers/war pigs using their own weapons (somewhat). I've been questioning technology and its uses over the last few years, and I think I've finally found a reason why it's okay that computers exist: political defiance.
These bastards can track my defecation patterns and make rorschach analysis of the TP, but using our own tools and our own creativity, we can show them what it's like.
With so many blockbusters due out this holiday season this problem will only increase in the coming months.
I was going to make a bitter riposte to this about how sucky the holidy movie fare really looks, then I remembered that blockbusters and good movies tend to share little in common anyway.
I just got off the phone with a gent who bought an Xserve with OS X server. He thought, as most folks here do, that it would run smoothly out of the box. He ported his PHP/MySQL inventory control system over to OS X from an Intel Linux solution. The darn thing wouldn't run! PHP timed out and it was hosed. Further, there was no solid backup solution for his machine either. He was left in the dust as long as he was running OS X.
He could strip OS X server out of there and just install BSD. Maybe that would be a better option for him, but Linux support seems really solid on Apple hardware. Also, he has the support of our company. He'll call, I'll answer his questions, and he'll be doing everything in YDL that OS X brags about. Try that with Apple.
I ran into the same ethical problems. Then my mom gave me her first engagement and wedding bands to give to my wife. The ring is more beautiful than anything I could find new these days. Yeah people still suffered, to get the diamond into that ring, but by re-using an existing heirloom, I saved the world some suffering, gave my wife a beautiful ring, and the bloody conglomerate didn't get one dime of my $$.
If you don't have a family member who can help, look for a used ring.
...imagine trying to provide warranties on all the packages available to Debian users, for instance, or every bit of software included with Mandrake Linux.
Well okay, here's my shot:
Purpose of the software: To fill your terminal with strange characters as you attempt to install it.
Warrantee: We at Buskaatt Inc. guarantee that, when you attempt to configure and (if you get this far) actually compile the software, you will see a bunch of gibberish cross your terminal.
As the relationship with Motorola seems to be weaning the question may be what chip would you like to see in next-generation Macs and why?
How about the Cell chip in 2005? The article above says IBM plans to use elements of it in high-end computers, yet it's also going to power the Playstation 3. Seems like a Mac falls between those two extremes quite nicely.
Okay, did that work? I didn't think so. Commercials don't work either, at least not how we think.
The entire advertising industry is just a back door for the companies who offer $$ for ads to control content by, for instance, not advertising on shows they feel don't fit their image. If we can skip commercials, they don't lose this choke-hold on the networks, because they still pay the networks off to control what we see.
Advertising doesn't shape us by the ads, but by the content that the ads pay for anyway. So let them keep bribing the networks to make us all fat, lazy, dependent, racist, money-grubbing, sexist idiots, and we can skip the commercials like we have since the beginning of TV-time.
What big, IPO-rich Linux companies?? RH has a couple hundred employees or so. If you mean them, look to other replies.
Or maybe you meant Linuxcare... oh wait they bailed on their IPO because they couldn't make enough money. Despite that, you will see more names of the 30 or so employees left there (and the hundreds of ex-employees) contributing open source code than you ever will from Apple.
Aqua, which works quite well?? On a G4 with 32 MB video card maybe. Whereas X-windows works on a PowerMac 7500 with its original video card juuust fine.
Honestly, when you said 'big Linux companies' I immediately thought of IBM. That's how funny it is.
We all see software that sucks, but most software actually works great.
My microwave works flawlessly... every time I call my wife, it goes right through... and my car regulates its own emissions (even though I haven't changed the oil in 6000 miles). Well I could go on.
So when Watts S. Humphrey says, "Software's simply terrible today," I just laugh. I spend all day on a computer, but 80% of the software I use I never see, and it performs flawlessly.
I am doing all I can not to slip into a ranting rage at this lame article....
The journalists aren't the problem, nor the schools. Because of the structure of media, you read/hear/see a tiny percentage of the journalists out there, and those are there to advance their trademark, not tell a story.
Compare the "journalists" you see spouting drivel on the Great Interchangeable News Channel (CNNFOXMSNBC) to the independent ones, or hell even the BBC, and you will see what a journalist is and isn't.
The schools are too respectable. They do a bad job of preparing future journalists to enter the world of corporate-governed media empires, but they do teach people to write and think at the same time. That is rare on blogs.
"Accuracy, Accurracy, Accuracy" -- Bob Woodward (my prof not the "other guy")
I'm trying to figure out a way to boot Linux on old world Macs that run OS X (beige G3s, etc). I was hoping this was a way to get into firmware, because as it stands, the firmware bootloader (yaboot) doesn't work, and since it's OS X, a BootX extension doesn't work either without forcing the user into OS 9.
I read this on the Apple Care page linked to this article:
Hardware Requirements * none
But from what you say, this isn't true.
For what it's worth, yaboot, the Open Firmware boot loader that comes with most (all?) PPC Linux distros, has password protection as well. (http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/yaboot-h owto/ch6.en.html)
News is news. Read the/. tagline. Is this news for nerds? Yep. Is it stuff that matters? Yep. I guess it's also news for whiners who like to bitch about slashdot. Maybe whe need a new site: slashwhine.org where people can go and complain about stuff.
I came here to see what peoples' reactions to the install of 3.0 were. Now I have carpal tunnel from scrolling through thousands of bytes of people who screech like a penguin with a cpu fan up its wazoo. Guess I entered the wrong "community."
Last, sigh, then maybe I'll shut up. News isn't to protect the subject, it's to inform the public. You decide what to do with it.
Hm, these aren't apple products, and while they run MacOS X they the story says they're being sold by a Linux company. Why is this at apple.slashdot.org and not the mother site?
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Man when are we ever going to catch up? Once again Explorer developers have surpassed the OS browser engineers with a new, insecure, unwanted feature. If OS doesn't want to be marginalized, it needs to add this feature. We still don't have nearly the number of downloadable exploits as Explorer, and now this! Man I feel so obsolete.
You're right, and I'm actually really stoked about this decision. Read this to see another take on the situation.
I like the idea of users being able to encrypt all their stuff without having to install additional software. Am I reading this right?
What they did is take a material handling robot (like you would find in any automotive plant) and put 2 seats on it .... With everything it can do and more... it could start replacing rollercoasters.. perhaps?"
More like it will start replacing failed US auto companies.
Two cases now of people stricking back at the power mongers/war pigs using their own weapons (somewhat). I've been questioning technology and its uses over the last few years, and I think I've finally found a reason why it's okay that computers exist: political defiance.
These bastards can track my defecation patterns and make rorschach analysis of the TP, but using our own tools and our own creativity, we can show them what it's like.
... and pick up a book.
Here are Terra Soft's specs on the board. It does include onboard 10/100 ethernet.
With so many blockbusters due out this holiday season this problem will only increase in the coming months.
I was going to make a bitter riposte to this about how sucky the holidy movie fare really looks, then I remembered that blockbusters and good movies tend to share little in common anyway.
Just to make it a little easier, Asterisk is the software solution to go with Digium. It's GNU.
... I work for a company that resels their cards, so take that last with the preferred grain of salt.
From my limited exposure, the Digium folks are very helpful to potential clients.
Uh
CNN reporters will go to any length to get the scoop, I guess. Including kickin' it on the couch and watching the Discovery Channel.
Developer: (click-click), "#!/usr/bin/python"
Paper Clip: "Hi! It appears as if you are violating a patent! Would you like to:
Of course that would be violating a patent too
Disclaimer: I work for Terra Soft.
I just got off the phone with a gent who bought an Xserve with OS X server. He thought, as most folks here do, that it would run smoothly out of the box. He ported his PHP/MySQL inventory control system over to OS X from an Intel Linux solution. The darn thing wouldn't run! PHP timed out and it was hosed. Further, there was no solid backup solution for his machine either. He was left in the dust as long as he was running OS X.
He could strip OS X server out of there and just install BSD. Maybe that would be a better option for him, but Linux support seems really solid on Apple hardware. Also, he has the support of our company. He'll call, I'll answer his questions, and he'll be doing everything in YDL that OS X brags about. Try that with Apple.
I ran into the same ethical problems. Then my mom gave me her first engagement and wedding bands to give to my wife. The ring is more beautiful than anything I could find new these days. Yeah people still suffered, to get the diamond into that ring, but by re-using an existing heirloom, I saved the world some suffering, gave my wife a beautiful ring, and the bloody conglomerate didn't get one dime of my $$.
If you don't have a family member who can help, look for a used ring.
...imagine trying to provide warranties on all the packages available to Debian users, for instance, or every bit of software included with Mandrake Linux.
Well okay, here's my shot:
Purpose of the software: To fill your terminal with strange characters as you attempt to install it.
Warrantee: We at Buskaatt Inc. guarantee that, when you attempt to configure and (if you get this far) actually compile the software, you will see a bunch of gibberish cross your terminal.
After that you're on your own.
As the relationship with Motorola seems to be weaning the question may be what chip would you like to see in next-generation Macs and why?
How about the Cell chip in 2005? The article above says IBM plans to use elements of it in high-end computers, yet it's also going to power the Playstation 3. Seems like a Mac falls between those two extremes quite nicely.
Compare $19.95 to a free operating system (scroll down to "Another one bites the dust").
If you can hold off a few weeks you'll have a free operating system on this incredible hardware (which is infinitely cheaper).
And according to the link above, preliminary benchmarks show Linux to be much faster in some operations.
Okay, did that work? I didn't think so. Commercials don't work either, at least not how we think.
The entire advertising industry is just a back door for the companies who offer $$ for ads to control content by, for instance, not advertising on shows they feel don't fit their image. If we can skip commercials, they don't lose this choke-hold on the networks, because they still pay the networks off to control what we see.
Advertising doesn't shape us by the ads, but by the content that the ads pay for anyway. So let them keep bribing the networks to make us all fat, lazy, dependent, racist, money-grubbing, sexist idiots, and we can skip the commercials like we have since the beginning of TV-time.
What big, IPO-rich Linux companies?? RH has a couple hundred employees or so. If you mean them, look to other replies.
... oh wait they bailed on their IPO because they couldn't make enough money. Despite that, you will see more names of the 30 or so employees left there (and the hundreds of ex-employees) contributing open source code than you ever will from Apple.
Or maybe you meant Linuxcare
Aqua, which works quite well?? On a G4 with 32 MB video card maybe. Whereas X-windows works on a PowerMac 7500 with its original video card juuust fine.
Honestly, when you said 'big Linux companies' I immediately thought of IBM. That's how funny it is.
We all see software that sucks, but most software actually works great.
... every time I call my wife, it goes right through ... and my car regulates its own emissions (even though I haven't changed the oil in 6000 miles). Well I could go on.
....
My microwave works flawlessly
So when Watts S. Humphrey says, "Software's simply terrible today," I just laugh. I spend all day on a computer, but 80% of the software I use I never see, and it performs flawlessly.
I am doing all I can not to slip into a ranting rage at this lame article
The journalists aren't the problem, nor the schools. Because of the structure of media, you read/hear/see a tiny percentage of the journalists out there, and those are there to advance their trademark, not tell a story.
Compare the "journalists" you see spouting drivel on the Great Interchangeable News Channel (CNNFOXMSNBC) to the independent ones, or hell even the BBC, and you will see what a journalist is and isn't.
The schools are too respectable. They do a bad job of preparing future journalists to enter the world of corporate-governed media empires, but they do teach people to write and think at the same time. That is rare on blogs.
"Accuracy, Accurracy, Accuracy" -- Bob Woodward (my prof not the "other guy")
I'm trying to figure out a way to boot Linux on old world Macs that run OS X (beige G3s, etc). I was hoping this was a way to get into firmware, because as it stands, the firmware bootloader (yaboot) doesn't work, and since it's OS X, a BootX extension doesn't work either without forcing the user into OS 9.
h owto/ch6.en.html)
I read this on the Apple Care page linked to this article:
Hardware Requirements * none
But from what you say, this isn't true.
For what it's worth, yaboot, the Open Firmware boot loader that comes with most (all?) PPC Linux distros, has password protection as well. (http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/yaboot-
Make a decent OS.
News is news. Read the /. tagline. Is this news for nerds? Yep. Is it stuff that matters? Yep. I guess it's also news for whiners who like to bitch about slashdot. Maybe whe need a new site: slashwhine.org where people can go and complain about stuff.
I came here to see what peoples' reactions to the install of 3.0 were. Now I have carpal tunnel from scrolling through thousands of bytes of people who screech like a penguin with a cpu fan up its wazoo. Guess I entered the wrong "community."
Last, sigh, then maybe I'll shut up. News isn't to protect the subject, it's to inform the public. You decide what to do with it.
Hm, these aren't apple products, and while they run MacOS X they the story says they're being sold by a Linux company. Why is this at apple.slashdot.org and not the mother site?
School works when it teaches you to learn.
Don't you worry your pretty little head
Buy a Briq or Centricity instead
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