Solaris 10's source is released under an open source license, open source will have the same capability (well, no need for.NET though).
What makes you think Sun is going to release everthing that goes with the Solaris 10 distribution as open source? Sure, they're going to open source the kernel and core utilities, but Apple has been doing that for years already. And you're not likely to see an open source licensed version of Quartz graphics any time soon.
What a ripoff. I can store about 400 of 'em on a 9 cent CD-R that plays on an unmodified Dreamcast. (Okay, so not all of them run at 100% speed, but still...)
What the hell? There's a big difference here. The **AA are going against personal copying and sharing. This is outright blatant commercial piracy. I'm just surprised it took them this long to do something, since they've been around for a few years so far, and are being sold openly in many shopping malls. Hell, they were even sold on QVC a while back.
Super Mario Brothers was playing about 10% too fast
So not only are they running hacked pirate ROMs, they're running hacked, pirate, PAL ROMs on NTSC hardware? I'm just surprised it took N so long to notice.
I see that mine is not the only post you've replied to like this.
Look, if you want to spend three times the price just for looks, go ahead. It's your money, not mine. I'm not trying to rice out my AV systems. I just want to 1) get it to fit on a shelf and 2) not be so loud as to be distracting while watching videos, not to mention loud enough to keep me awake halfway across the house in the bedroom. Meanwhile, me and my JBL speakers are going to laugh at your oxygen-free directional speaker cables. (Because of course you can't compare mere Monster cables with the real quality stuff. $200 a foot, baybee!)
I got an Antec Overture. It wasn't cheap ($120), and it's heavy (19 pounds empty), but it's better than the average case for being quiet, takes a full-size ATX mobo, and most importantly, it's horizontal. Tower cases don't fit very well on shelves, and it's a pain in the butt to have to use a sideways DVD-ROM drive. They also don't have hard drive bays that are mounted with rubber bumpers.
It's not completely quiet, but then I've got a Duron 1300 in there. AMD fans are loud. Liquid cooling would probably quiet the thing down, but that's more trouble than I want to go to. I'd really rather underclock a faster CPU to the point where I could use a fanless heat sink, but AMD's anti-overclocking also prevents underclocking.
This young kids should be learning to read source code and hack it, or how to use the internet to do interesting research.
Absolutely! We need to carpet-bomb China with Gentoo install CDs immediately! Then they can use their bandwidth for something useful, like downloading the latest and greatest source code, instead of silly talk talk stuff.
And did you know you can even stop fink from installing from source all the time? Just use apt-get! I try to avoid fink's source installs as much as possible.
I dropped linux entirely a year ago (I was only using it for servers at home anyhow). It was just too much of a pain in the butt. A blue & white G3 makes a great replacement for a linux server. They're cheap and upgradeable. And they'll run 10.4 with no problems, too.
Oh crap, it's true. When there is no existing/Library/StartupItems, the Aironet installer is creating one with 775 me:staff permissions. And even when there is, I bet it creates/Library/StartupItems/Cisco with the same permissions. Which means that any admin user (or me without doing a sudo) can change the scripts inside. Scripts that get run as root during startup.
Anyone out there who has installed Aironet wireless drivers, you might want to do something about your permissions in/Library/StartupItems.
I probably did this myself, but on my powerbook it's drwxrwxr-x owner:me group:staff. On my three other OS X machines, it's drwxr-xr-x root:admin, so go figure.
I think I'll just change it on my powerbook to drwxr-xr-x root:admin and avoid the possiblity of getting trojaned someday...
Looking further, I see that the only subdirectory in there is "Cisco", from when I installed the Aironet drivers, and it's also 775 me:staff. I wonder if the Aironet installer created/Library/StartupItems with bad permissions? I sure hope not, but I'm going to investigate this.
but have companies such as AT&T or the like taken this into consideration: that many of their MS knowledgeable IT staff may not know Unix systems, care to, or even be *capable* of learning them?
By the way, tell me again where it was that Unix was invented?
It would be truly sad and ironic for AT&T to have an IT staff incapable of learning Unix.
The Newton used a 16-25 MHz or so ARM, and even then it lagged quite a bit. The final models (before Steve killed it) had 166 MHz or so CPUs. The Palm has a 16 MHz 68000, so there's no chance there. On the other hand, modern PDAs (PocketPC, Palm ARM, Zaurus) use 200+ MHz ARM CPUs, so they ought to run the Newton OS in an emulator environment with no trouble at all. The important part is the total lack of need for CPU emulation.
You have forgotten about Steve and the RDF factor. Steve will love A, but probably hate B. After all, in the early days of Apple, IBM was The Enemy. Not the corporate enemy, but the cultural enemy. They represented everything Apple was fighting against.
C is the old "clones" argument. That's been tried and killed off once. The problem is when the clone makers start to make high-end systems.
D would be interesting, but right now the Windows/Office combo is so entrenched that they can't do that. Microsoft is too in bed with Intel (and AMD) to want to revive the "PPC Edition" of Windows.
E is interesting, but a main problem is that Apple still hasn't done much to support the ELF object format, which is the standard in Linux. And then that would only be app-level compatibility. Drivers and other sorts of kernel extensions (like ClearCase as I mentioned above, which supports a "live" file system) would have to work to a different API.
My company likes ClearCase. A company with a 5-digit number of employees. Not everybody lives in the dreamworld where they only work on open source software. And I like the Mac and would like to use my Powerbook along with the Solaris and x86 Linux machines that are all over the place.
Game companies were also going to great length to copy protect their media back in the early '80s, until consumers got too annoyed with fragile floppy disk CP schemes. Then they went back to unprotected, or "doc protected" (go to page 53 and choose the icon you see on that page). There has been a slow slide back to copy protection to the point that it's getting too annoying again, such as disks that won't run with certain software installed on your computer. (Sims 2)
As for product returns, I've heard of cases where the copy protection was so broken, people were returning CDs en masse. So the company decided that the returns must be due to everybody copying the disc and then returning it. Dumbasses.
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What makes you think Sun is going to release everthing that goes with the Solaris 10 distribution as open source? Sure, they're going to open source the kernel and core utilities, but Apple has been doing that for years already. And you're not likely to see an open source licensed version of Quartz graphics any time soon.
What a ripoff. I can store about 400 of 'em on a 9 cent CD-R that plays on an unmodified Dreamcast. (Okay, so not all of them run at 100% speed, but still...)
What the hell? There's a big difference here. The **AA are going against personal copying and sharing. This is outright blatant commercial piracy. I'm just surprised it took them this long to do something, since they've been around for a few years so far, and are being sold openly in many shopping malls. Hell, they were even sold on QVC a while back.
So not only are they running hacked pirate ROMs, they're running hacked, pirate, PAL ROMs on NTSC hardware? I'm just surprised it took N so long to notice.
Look, if you want to spend three times the price just for looks, go ahead. It's your money, not mine. I'm not trying to rice out my AV systems. I just want to 1) get it to fit on a shelf and 2) not be so loud as to be distracting while watching videos, not to mention loud enough to keep me awake halfway across the house in the bedroom. Meanwhile, me and my JBL speakers are going to laugh at your oxygen-free directional speaker cables. (Because of course you can't compare mere Monster cables with the real quality stuff. $200 a foot, baybee!)
It's not completely quiet, but then I've got a Duron 1300 in there. AMD fans are loud. Liquid cooling would probably quiet the thing down, but that's more trouble than I want to go to. I'd really rather underclock a faster CPU to the point where I could use a fanless heat sink, but AMD's anti-overclocking also prevents underclocking.
Absolutely! We need to carpet-bomb China with Gentoo install CDs immediately! Then they can use their bandwidth for something useful, like downloading the latest and greatest source code, instead of silly talk talk stuff.
I dropped linux entirely a year ago (I was only using it for servers at home anyhow). It was just too much of a pain in the butt. A blue & white G3 makes a great replacement for a linux server. They're cheap and upgradeable. And they'll run 10.4 with no problems, too.
The appropriate e-mails have been sent about this.
Anyone out there who has installed Aironet wireless drivers, you might want to do something about your permissions in /Library/StartupItems.
I think I'll just change it on my powerbook to drwxr-xr-x root:admin and avoid the possiblity of getting trojaned someday...
Looking further, I see that the only subdirectory in there is "Cisco", from when I installed the Aironet drivers, and it's also 775 me:staff. I wonder if the Aironet installer created /Library/StartupItems with bad permissions? I sure hope not, but I'm going to investigate this.
/milton
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I think you're missing something. The games still won't run. They're compiled for x86 CPUs.
The problem isn't the operating system, it's the CPU.
Hey, there's plenty of games for the Mac. There's Zork, Breakout, Super Breakout... uh, Photoshop...
And Breakout. And... uhhhhh... Super Breakout...
It should be a bit easier with the Xbox-2. After all, MS is shipping G5 Power Macs to developers as development platforms.
By the way, tell me again where it was that Unix was invented?
It would be truly sad and ironic for AT&T to have an IT staff incapable of learning Unix.
If it comes as a .BMP, it's mind-boggingly stupid.
The Newton used a 16-25 MHz or so ARM, and even then it lagged quite a bit. The final models (before Steve killed it) had 166 MHz or so CPUs. The Palm has a 16 MHz 68000, so there's no chance there. On the other hand, modern PDAs (PocketPC, Palm ARM, Zaurus) use 200+ MHz ARM CPUs, so they ought to run the Newton OS in an emulator environment with no trouble at all. The important part is the total lack of need for CPU emulation.
I presume the article submitter meant "company's per-employee". This is why just relying on a spelling checker isn't good enough.
C is the old "clones" argument. That's been tried and killed off once. The problem is when the clone makers start to make high-end systems.
D would be interesting, but right now the Windows/Office combo is so entrenched that they can't do that. Microsoft is too in bed with Intel (and AMD) to want to revive the "PPC Edition" of Windows.
E is interesting, but a main problem is that Apple still hasn't done much to support the ELF object format, which is the standard in Linux. And then that would only be app-level compatibility. Drivers and other sorts of kernel extensions (like ClearCase as I mentioned above, which supports a "live" file system) would have to work to a different API.
My company likes ClearCase. A company with a 5-digit number of employees. Not everybody lives in the dreamworld where they only work on open source software. And I like the Mac and would like to use my Powerbook along with the Solaris and x86 Linux machines that are all over the place.
As for product returns, I've heard of cases where the copy protection was so broken, people were returning CDs en masse. So the company decided that the returns must be due to everybody copying the disc and then returning it. Dumbasses.
Now if we could just get them to port ClearCase to OS X. It's already available for AIX, so the instruction set can't be a problem.