yahoo did the same thing with geocities. back a LONG time ago, when i didn't know better(before the annoying ads). i had a geocities site which. I eventually forgot about it. recently, just after yahoo bout geo, i remembered that site and I decided enough was enough, so I tried to remove it, only that my old login/pass didn't work anymore. They said I had to sign up for a yahoo ID to access my site. It was a general headache and eventually i just said screw it.
"Believe it or not there are those of us who actually prefer Unix desktops."
Read the last line in my Post.:-) I was stating what I prefer. I love UNIX, but I don't like its GUI interfaces. So why waste my time.
I have no doubt that Mozilla WILL BE a great browser. But its still not near enough to IE (again, IMHO). And don't get me wrong on anything, I'm not a Microsoft hoar, I will not install XP until enough hacks come out where i can get rid of all the things i don't like about it.
I guess I just don't let politics bother me, bah.
I've been wanting to see how productive I'd be under an OS X box, but i havnen't had the chance to use one long enough, and I'm ot going to buy one to end up not liking it:-/. I haven't even tried it under OS X.1, though it looks pretty and on the G4 I breifly tried it on seemed pretty snappy.
I've said it once and I'll say it again. PuTTY Rules. I still have yet to see a UNIX Desktop that can combine elegance, cleanliness, and functionality. They are either to damn simple, or too damn bloated/slow. Give me a Windows desktop with a nice big monitor, like those LGE 22" Widescreen LCD (the PC version of the Apple 22" LCD).
Right now I have a 21 inch flatscreen CRT with a 1600x1200 resolution with about 13 putty sessions open. It runs Windows2K and I get an OS where I can run almost any sofytware I want.
Keep in mind this is MY OPINION. Don't flame me for liking it this way. I never said that anybody else was stupid or useless for liking any of the UNIX desktops.
I think the damage she is worried about will be minimal. I think that most of the professional digital photographers won't just delete pictures at random, and will have plenty of memory(if they are smart).
Sure, we may never get to sort through many pictures and see the next hitler's picture of him in a crowd because somebody deleted it because he didn't see the picture as important then...but i don't think we're at that big of a loss.
Unless there are more than 1000 and he's just perplexed as to how he should store the footage of these cameras. Next time you're in vagas, look around one of the larger casinos, they have much much more than 1000 cameras
since there is a huge bunch of lurkers that read slashdot, I would guess that there is still going to be a lot of people wiht it still there. Most of the/.ers that i know personally only read slashdot, they never post or anything. Taco said that only if you signup can you rid yourself of that thing.
I'm going to give it a few days before i get rid of it. The normally take new things is to at least give it a chance. Think about it, as usless as it probably is, if people didn't stick to things they didn't like at first, we wouldn't have coffee, cigarettes, etc.
Just what the hell are you doing running a Desktop manager, hell even X, on a server...especially a database(performance) or webserver(security). Those kind of servers should only be console. Do what i do. Just use a laptop and connect with PuTTy through Windows 2000 Pro/XP (or SSH through linux/freeBSD if you really prefer). The average PuTTy sessions I have are insane. I usually have like 14 sessions going:-)
Plus you have a more consistant Desktop to work with. Just 1 on the laptop. So you can have your mp3s, background of the playmate of the month, ICQ/yahoo messenger, etc all without worrying what other people are doing to the servers with your stuff on it.
I hate almost every UNIX desktop i've ever come across. They always look neat in screenshots, but when i start using them I get so fustrated. Don't get me wrong, UNIX is my favorite OS, but I still feel it belongs on the server.
The only possible success story with a UNIX Desktop that i can see is OS X, but i don't really have the right to comment on it yet as the only exposure I have to it is 5 minutes on a Powerbook Titanium in a store.
SO what are you saying? that we should just drop all reaseach and development and settle on what we have becasue its good enough? If we did that then we'd probably still be stuck with 486s because then, everybody thought "what the hell else can we put in a computer? why would we need anything else? 640K aghta be enought for anybody...
they later joined the UFP, with which the Klingons were at war, then the humans, who've only proven themselves once, are now part of the enemy, and thus the war with humans, and bad first contact with the UFP.
nonononono:-) The Humans are one of the founding members of the Federation, along with the Vulcans and a handful of other races (i believe the Andorians and i THINK the Bolians).
Starfleet is the "navy" of the Federation. My guess is it was origionally Earth's "navy" and then later merged with the Federation when it formed.
Nice that the transition to 64-bit G5 looks like it will be as easy on the user as the transition from G3 to G4.
Well the transition from the G3 to the G4 was relativly minor, say like from PII to PIII. Software will run equally well (except for performance) on the G4 or G3. This will probably me more like the switch from the 68K chips to the modern PPCs...
exactly, nobody was concerned about making money today. in case nobody who also watched CNN all day today, they didn't have 1 commercial break the whole day.
Sun now has reasonably strong software (Solaris), quite weak hardware (Sparc, although it is quite strong as far as scalability goes)
What are you talking about? try compiling a linux kernal on a P4 1.7 GHZ and an UltraSPARC-IIe 450 MHz and we'll see who has the stronger hardware. Hell, why not go all the way up to an UltraSPARC-III 700 MHz?
Isn't it funny how many developers can write their own unix-like-OS, yet a whole team of developers haven't yet fully implement the windows 32 bit libraries of top of linux?
well that team of developers has many fundamental problems. many include preferences and ability. in large groups there is probably more talk than code. this one guy decided himself what he wanted and went that way not having to prove anything to anybody.
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BeOS already did a lot of that thinking, but they still are going off in their own directions.
Hopefully some of the BeOS developers will take up this project as a hobby.
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Would it shock you to learn that Windows NT was ported to alpha??? I thought so...
yahoo did the same thing with geocities. back a LONG time ago, when i didn't know better(before the annoying ads). i had a geocities site which. I eventually forgot about it. recently, just after yahoo bout geo, i remembered that site and I decided enough was enough, so I tried to remove it, only that my old login/pass didn't work anymore. They said I had to sign up for a yahoo ID to access my site. It was a general headache and eventually i just said screw it.
Read the last line in my Post. :-) I was stating what I prefer. I love UNIX, but I don't like its GUI interfaces. So why waste my time.
I have no doubt that Mozilla WILL BE a great browser. But its still not near enough to IE (again, IMHO). And don't get me wrong on anything, I'm not a Microsoft hoar, I will not install XP until enough hacks come out where i can get rid of all the things i don't like about it.
I guess I just don't let politics bother me, bah.
I've been wanting to see how productive I'd be under an OS X box, but i havnen't had the chance to use one long enough, and I'm ot going to buy one to end up not liking it :-/. I haven't even tried it under OS X.1, though it looks pretty and on the G4 I breifly tried it on seemed pretty snappy.
Right now I have a 21 inch flatscreen CRT with a 1600x1200 resolution with about 13 putty sessions open. It runs Windows2K and I get an OS where I can run almost any sofytware I want.
Keep in mind this is MY OPINION. Don't flame me for liking it this way. I never said that anybody else was stupid or useless for liking any of the UNIX desktops.
I think the damage she is worried about will be minimal. I think that most of the professional digital photographers won't just delete pictures at random, and will have plenty of memory(if they are smart).
Sure, we may never get to sort through many pictures and see the next hitler's picture of him in a crowd because somebody deleted it because he didn't see the picture as important then...but i don't think we're at that big of a loss.
Unless there are more than 1000 and he's just perplexed as to how he should store the footage of these cameras. Next time you're in vagas, look around one of the larger casinos, they have much much more than 1000 cameras
since there is a huge bunch of lurkers that read slashdot, I would guess that there is still going to be a lot of people wiht it still there. Most of the /.ers that i know personally only read slashdot, they never post or anything. Taco said that only if you signup can you rid yourself of that thing.
I'm going to give it a few days before i get rid of it. The normally take new things is to at least give it a chance. Think about it, as usless as it probably is, if people didn't stick to things they didn't like at first, we wouldn't have coffee, cigarettes, etc.
or you could place it on a table in front of you and use the keys to play the game...
Just what the hell are you doing running a Desktop manager, hell even X, on a server...especially a database(performance) or webserver(security). Those kind of servers should only be console. Do what i do. Just use a laptop and connect with PuTTy through Windows 2000 Pro/XP (or SSH through linux/freeBSD if you really prefer). The average PuTTy sessions I have are insane. I usually have like 14 sessions going :-)
Plus you have a more consistant Desktop to work with. Just 1 on the laptop. So you can have your mp3s, background of the playmate of the month, ICQ/yahoo messenger, etc all without worrying what other people are doing to the servers with your stuff on it.
I hate almost every UNIX desktop i've ever come across. They always look neat in screenshots, but when i start using them I get so fustrated. Don't get me wrong, UNIX is my favorite OS, but I still feel it belongs on the server.
The only possible success story with a UNIX Desktop that i can see is OS X, but i don't really have the right to comment on it yet as the only exposure I have to it is 5 minutes on a Powerbook Titanium in a store.
SO what are you saying? that we should just drop all reaseach and development and settle on what we have becasue its good enough? If we did that then we'd probably still be stuck with 486s because then, everybody thought "what the hell else can we put in a computer? why would we need anything else? 640K aghta be enought for anybody...
nonononono :-) The Humans are one of the founding members of the Federation, along with the Vulcans and a handful of other races (i believe the Andorians and i THINK the Bolians).
Starfleet is the "navy" of the Federation. My guess is it was origionally Earth's "navy" and then later merged with the Federation when it formed.
Well the transition from the G3 to the G4 was relativly minor, say like from PII to PIII. Software will run equally well (except for performance) on the G4 or G3. This will probably me more like the switch from the 68K chips to the modern PPCs...
exactly, nobody was concerned about making money today. in case nobody who also watched CNN all day today, they didn't have 1 commercial break the whole day.
i'm suprised apple hasn't sued compaq for using i infront of PAQ :-)
actually ogg meant to "group kamakazie" something important, like a base or a ship with armies.
i heard that cx stands for christmas island. what that is i have no idea though...
lets not forget that computers do this many times a second
i don't think the G4s are 64-bit, are they?
What are you talking about? try compiling a linux kernal on a P4 1.7 GHZ and an UltraSPARC-IIe 450 MHz and we'll see who has the stronger hardware. Hell, why not go all the way up to an UltraSPARC-III 700 MHz?
VMWare isn't an emulator.
Licensing. Remember DVD is owned my a corporation.
well that team of developers has many fundamental problems. many include preferences and ability. in large groups there is probably more talk than code. this one guy decided himself what he wanted and went that way not having to prove anything to anybody.
Hopefully some of the BeOS developers will take up this project as a hobby.
it depends on the UNIX. Solaris (sparc), Digital Unix, etc, are all 64 bit already as they run on 64 bit processors.
there's a cisco router in Vancouver with an uptime of 14 years...