Alrihgt, so last weekend I was hangin' out with an old friend from high school. He knows all these strippers now, so we decided to stop by one of their houses for a litle party. Anyway, we get there, and the place is GORGEOUS, nice furniture and lots of locks on the doors. We're all sitting around the coffee table getting to know each other when all of the sudden one of the girls who lives there pulls out a bag of doorknobs and puts it on the table.
To make a long story short, we blew doorknobs off that table until the sun came up. I've never had doorknobs like that before, strippers know their doorknobs, I guess.
I can't agree. My experience is that they have to keep the code simple and modular enough to handle porting to so many archs, but also they have to support the most insane 'glue' between obscure system components. Hell, NetBSD runs on my 25MHz Mac Quadra, and it performs as expected (like ANY 25MHz machine!). Getting an OS to run on that machine is a feat unto itself though, Apple never documented the components, and the Quadra AV series has obscure DMA for the serial, ADB, and SCSI busses.
From what I've seen, they aren't code jockeys trying to get as many architectures running (the 'one box of an arch' you speak of), they try to make the users happy by getting that one box that the one guy on the mailing list wanted up-and-running.
I say this weekly on Slashdot, but there ARE open-source 3D drivers in xorg. I've got a RADEON 7500 and a 9200 which are both fully-accelerated for 3D in xorg and xfree.
If you're gonna use Linux, PLEASE buy hardware that works with it from the start. I wouldn't go out and buy a video card that I can't get accelerated 3D on out-of-the-box. Every time you buy a piece of hardware without open specs and interfaces you support the closed philosophy.
It's always been the case that the open-source drivers for 3D cards come out a while (sometimes a LONG while) after the cards are out, it takes a while for the developers to figure out the interfaces and get things working.
Well if you read freescale's product pages you'd see that they have a 'G4' series CPU that has a totally revamped front-side. I expect that this is what you'll see _instead_ of a PPC970-based PowerBook, you'll have a G4 with onboard memory controller (think Athlon FX). Check out this page:
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overvie w. jsp?nodeId=018rH3bTdG7249
for details. Basically, they have a pin-compatible PowerPC 7448, which is a drop-in replacement to the current 74xx line, and a much-awaited 8641 and 8641D, which are not pin-compatible, but fully instruction compatible, have 667MHz FSBs, and a dual-core model.
There's really almost no reason to have a PPC970 running on a laptop today, I don't think anyone can fit over 2GB of RAM into a portable anyway. Honestly, I'd RATHER have a 8641-based PowerBook than a 970-based one, the 8641 comes from a long line of portable-oriented CPUs, whereas the 970 will need massive cooling in a most un-Apple fashion.
I have to agree. I think there are FAR too many police on the streets. Not only is it costing BIG money to maintain, but the police seem to be doing a fair amount of the lawbreaking out there. Ideally, police behavior sets an example for the rest of us, courteous driving, not littering, respectful to women, etc. In reality, many cops consider themselves to be a class above others, drinking and driving, dealing and consuming confiscated drugs, picking up drunk college girls for who-knows-what after parties, etc.
I'd like to see a massive reduction of police ranks, and have neighborhoods 'hire' their police from the available pool with city-supplied funds. This would let the people who have the most interest in their neighborhoods choose the police they think would be best for themselves, and provides police with a reason to act properly and compete.
Hmm, Maybe it's just the city I grew up in, but I've been pepper sprayed by an officer on a horse and another in a car who were just spraying into a crowd of over 2000 kids waiting for their busses, because two kids were fighting. Seems to me that the guy on the horse should have just moved in on the kids fighting, eh? I guess it's easier to just spray EVERYONE to make the problem go away.
I was at a third-floor houseparty that was overcrowded when police showed up. Did they march in and make people go home? No! They pepper-sprayed us from the only exit, I sprained my ankle when the crowd pushed back and someone stepped on it. We were lucky someone didn't get pushed out of a window.
You ever been searched top-to-bottom and interrogated for walking up to a police car and asking how things are in the neighborhood these days? I have! They detained me and a friend for over an hour and a half because we were walking around the parking lot of the school we went to at night.
Ever get arrested, had the case thrown away because it was a misunderstanding, and get an expungement to get your record clean, only to have the police keep you in their database? Even after you point it out and ask about it? Can you imagine what it's like to have to explain that at a job interview? I can, it sucks.
Police now might be less violent and crooked than they once were, but for one decent kid to have gone through this and more after only 22 years is a bit much. There's still a LOT of work to do. Thank god that judges hate cops more than anyone and they have the final say.
Sure, RAM matters a lot, which is why I keep over 512MB in all my systems, including the EPIA and the G3.
The 'benchmark' I used was compiling software, which the G3 dominated. Considering that the I/O on the systems was so different (2.5" ATA vs 10K RPM SCSI), I know that benchmarks that depend heavily on disk I/O (encoding, unzipping, launching apps, etc.) were inherently unfair. Compiling, however is much less dependent on disk I/O, given enough RAM and multithreaded makes.
I was truly optimistic about the C3 chip, but it's let me down time and again, consistently underwhelming me. I'd much rather run a Pentium-M or Sempron on a Mini-ITX board than a C3. Ideally, there'd be decent PowerPC motherboards on the market, because that platform rocks when you're confined to low-power and heat situations, but alas, there aren't any reasonably priced PowerPC Mini-ITX boards around.
As for RAM and OS X, I work with OS X all day and can say that the system comes into it's own at about 512MB and gets better the more you feed it. It'll work reasonably well with 256MB, but once you taste 512MB or 1GB, you can't turn back.
the Mac mini has a slightly faster CPU (and i'm willing to bet the G4 will out-perform the Via Eden in most cases)
Alright, maybe you haven't actually used VIA's chips in real life, or maybe you haven't used a PowerPC yet.
My G3 clocked at 300MHz kicks the CRAP out of my 800MHz C3-ezra. The 7447a G4 seems to be comparable clock-for-clock to an AMD Athlon Barton, while the C3 feels more like a watered-down and underclocked P4.
Trust me, unless you want to do oddball hobbyist stuff and like to toy with a screwdriver, the Mini is a much better deal.
The idea of 'su' or the more modern 'sudo' is that you can let users run as 'users' and still have the ability to escalate to 'admin' rights to do priviliged operations, some users can escalate and others cannot, but all run as 'users' for normal operations. This is demonstrably the best way to implement user rights on the modern desktop, it prevents stuf flike viruses and spyware from being able to proliferate to non-user areas of the disk where they can affect other users. See Mac OS X, which has a well thought-out implementation, out-of-the-box Linux is not exemplary of what you can do with sudo.
As for 'too hard for the average user'... I've converted two housemates to Linux, these are people who know nothing but email, chat, wordprocessing, and web. After a few days of occasional questions, they're total converts. Linux is NOT hard to use, it's hard to geek on, especially if you've been perverted by a Windows-only experience so far. Windows is really the ugly bastard child of operating systems as far as I'm concerned, it's still trying to reconcile it's past as a permissions free-for-all.
Dammit, Microsoft thinks 'Documents and Settings' is a more intuitive location for user profiles than 'Users' or 'home'! They don't offer a decent CLI shell and SSH-alike for people who need to admin their servers from cellular links on their PDAs! They ship a desktop OS that loads with defaults to prompt 'yes or no' to -execute unsigned binary code- right from a browser window. They ship this same OS with services for file serving, directory services, remote desktop, remote registry access, and lord-knows-what-else listening out of the fscking box, and they rectify it by enabling a software firewall that defaults to 'on' -three years later-.
Where are the file extensions? Good fscking question. Last time I looked Windows just chopped off the dot and the last three letters of the files and presented them that way, it also hides the entire root of your drive and the system folder. All the competitors use this really cool utility and library called 'file' that has the ability to type a file based on it's CONTENT, which is much safer and more sane. Some systems even use the filesystem to store -metadata- about a file, which is superior to both methods but not nearly as easy to work with or support from a developer's POV.
Alright. I've eaten your flamebait, and spat back burning embers. I await a response. I'll be asleep until 6 am EST.
Yeah, I think I'll just wire the house and do this 'old school', but with a modern flare. remote-control switchbox switching the digital signal on and off to multiple speaker sets throughout the apartment.
Interesting, though I diodn't think there were many USB-equipped fanless notebooks, I thought USB got first use at about the time the PII mobile came about, and they mostly needed fans, IIRC.
The problem you'll get there is that the power from your USB port might be polluted by the internals of your machine as well, making the output 'buzzy'. No doubt that a breakout box would HELP, but if you want professional sound, replace your amp with one that accepts digital inputs, isolate and clean all your power, or get a digital-to-analog converter and put it on the same circuit as your audio equipment.
Er, every reasonable motherboard and sound card sold in the last three years has 'digital' and/or 'optical' output ports, these ports spit binary to amps or speakers with corresponding inputs. There's no interference.
I've got an old Soundblaster Live 5.1 card (about $10 on eBay) and a Cambridge Soundworks sub and speakers ($80) and I get ZERO interference.
I'll never understand why Hollywood and New York demand that women look like heroin addicts to be beautiful.
I'm sorry, but even hollywood has a cutoff, and that picture is past it. Everyone agrees that Gillian was hot before, when she had 'meat on her bones'. This sort of weight loss isn't caused by hollywood, it's caused by an internal weakness and a desire to dominate one's own body.
Alright, what you need is a plastic case, like a millitary ammo case. You drill a few small holes for the cables (don't expose the ports!) and some silicone putty to seal it up. Before you deploy this, make sure it's air-tight by removing the board and heating it in the oven for a few minutes and seeing if the expansion of gas is contained (it will 'pop' when you open it; if it doesn't, try again. Put the board back in, toss a few big packs of silica gel in there (you can buy milspec silica packets that are the size of an iPod) an seal it up.
Don't use moving parts, and keep the thing from vibration and direct sunlight when it's out in the field.
Oh yeah, use a silicone lube on the rubber gasket that lines the opening, it will last a LONG time that way.
um, the term 'greek text' is a generic term for 'stuff I don't understand' or 'stuff you shouldn't look too hard at'.
'greek text' in computer products is obfuscated but real-looking text for use when you're laying out a page while zoomed out. It's generated nonsense to fill space.
I'm pretty sure Steve knows the difference between Greek and Latin, the man does dress himself in the morning.
I LOVE WindowMaker, the KISS design strategy and the lack of an integrated file manager make it ideal for how I use the machine. It's designed from the bottom up for desktop paging, and the fact that I use OS X at work makes for an easy transition.
My only feature requests are:
1. History pull-downs for text-entry boxes (like the 'run command...' dialog.
2. A way to pull the same menus out of WM docked apps as the KDE kicker, I'm a noatun user and it's possible to LOSE the noatun UI and end up having to 'killall' it.
3. Apple-style XML plist files for preference files, and Apple-compatible file structure. It looks like the current system is CLOSE but it has to be dead-on to keep one home directory sane when switching back-and-forth between systems. This is something I'd like to see for all programs though, the whole '~/Library/Preferences/org.windowmaker.wprefs.plis t' layout would be way cool. Maybe it would have to be a build-option to keep current users happy.
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I think it's a bit suspicious that the founder of Yahoo! is Timothy Koogle.
Methinks the google guys sorta put their competitor's name and a word that conveys 'hugeness' together, but they can't say that it's based on Koogle's name for legal reasons.
Well AD has it's ups and downs. Where I work we're finding that a lot of the appliances and databases we want to use would work much better if we used OpenDirectory from the start, Active Directory is great because it's a 'turnkey' solution, but when you need flexibility, seek something else.
Also, I think Windows is a total PITA to run in the server room, it really isn't a good server platform from my experience. My experience with Linux and BSD involves a lot of -waiting- while Windows seems to involve a lot of -patching-.
Fully featured, responsive, and with the new security built into SP2, practically invulnerable to virii or hacker intrusion. (God help you if you want to run with the firewall down, but that goes for anything, don't it?)
I'm still cleaning out tons of mal|spy|ad-ware laden SP2 machines every day. They still seem to get viruses too.
As for running with no firewall, proper behavior for ANY IP stack is to reject ALL connections unless there's a service up-and-running waiting for a connection. The problem is that on Windows, default users have the ability to open privileged ports. Firewalls add a layer of complexity and frustration to everyone, admins, users, and hackers alike. Properly implementing an OS that defaults to security settings that reflect the mean intelligence of your user base are what Windows needs, not more bubble-gum and shoelace to hold a bad thing together.
right now is THE time to move in on all those businesses still running NT 4 and sell Linux/SAMBA boxes.
Use the line:
It'll be an even better domain controller, and if a user comes in with an exploited laptop you can be safe knowing that your PDC isn't hosed by it.
I've been using SAMBA as a windows PDC for several years now, I had one setup that was so sucessful that I started charging them for all the months I didn't come and fix it (it was so reliable I had to switch from a charge-to-fix to a service contract).
hmm. that explains why the flyers are always rolled-up in the little 'newspaper hanger' rather than inside the maibox. I had no idea there was a distinction.
...Politically incorrect things like "tribe A is stupider than tribe B" will get you put in jail.
Er, I might be misunderstanding you, but in the USA you are free to shout racism and hate from the mountaintops, whereas in a lot of European countries you'd get tossed in jail.
Over here, speech is protected, and that includes virtually all forms of communication. Personally, I prefer it this way too, every now and then I get neo-nazi flyers in my mailbox, but that itself isn't hurting anyone. I'd defend their right to pamphlet and rally, as I'd expect all citizens to defend mine if I felt so strongly about an issue.
What bothers me most are the 'liberals' who really seem to want to take away those rights, the ones pushing political correctness as a way of life. I consider myself a liberal, but only as far as the root of the word allows, there's nothing 'liberal' about dismissing facts that conflict with political correctness.
Up here in the Boston area I deal with a LOT of people who are just as backward to the left as we all think people down south are backward to the right. Try telling someone up here you don't feel at all guilty for slavery, or that you think public schools should separate kids based on performance, or that racism is 'mostly dead in the 21st century' and people will think you're a crazy bible-thumping hood-wearing nigger-lynching whacko.
I disagree. Asbestos, when UNDERSTOOD and properly handled is harmless. There wouldn't be a problem if people hadn't died from BEFORE we knew how to properly handle it.
I'm sitting under a ceiling made out of asbestos tiles right now, and I'm perfectly safe as long as I don't dick with it. Should I want to dick with it I'd have to set up a quarantined and ventilated zone to modify it, it's not rocket-science.
I'm drinking water from lead pipes, and my walls are lead painted, but my blood levels are BELOW average, because I make sure not to sand the paint and I run the water for a few minutes after the plumber comes.
Should we outlaw glass because it breaks into sharp, hard-to-clean shards? Should we demonize wood homes because they burn and collapse easily compared to cement and brick? How about legislating gas stoves away because they release radon, despite their superior culinary contribution?
Virtually all the problems we had with lead and asbestos could be solved by educating consumers, developing a 'deposit' system, and making parents responsible for lead poisoning. We'd all have better plumbing, motherboards, and lower heating bills.
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Alrihgt, so last weekend I was hangin' out with an old friend from high school. He knows all these strippers now, so we decided to stop by one of their houses for a litle party. Anyway, we get there, and the place is GORGEOUS, nice furniture and lots of locks on the doors. We're all sitting around the coffee table getting to know each other when all of the sudden one of the girls who lives there pulls out a bag of doorknobs and puts it on the table.
To make a long story short, we blew doorknobs off that table until the sun came up. I've never had doorknobs like that before, strippers know their doorknobs, I guess.
I can't agree. My experience is that they have to keep the code simple and modular enough to handle porting to so many archs, but also they have to support the most insane 'glue' between obscure system components. Hell, NetBSD runs on my 25MHz Mac Quadra, and it performs as expected (like ANY 25MHz machine!). Getting an OS to run on that machine is a feat unto itself though, Apple never documented the components, and the Quadra AV series has obscure DMA for the serial, ADB, and SCSI busses.
From what I've seen, they aren't code jockeys trying to get as many architectures running (the 'one box of an arch' you speak of), they try to make the users happy by getting that one box that the one guy on the mailing list wanted up-and-running.
I say this weekly on Slashdot, but there ARE open-source 3D drivers in xorg. I've got a RADEON 7500 and a 9200 which are both fully-accelerated for 3D in xorg and xfree.
If you're gonna use Linux, PLEASE buy hardware that works with it from the start. I wouldn't go out and buy a video card that I can't get accelerated 3D on out-of-the-box. Every time you buy a piece of hardware without open specs and interfaces you support the closed philosophy.
It's always been the case that the open-source drivers for 3D cards come out a while (sometimes a LONG while) after the cards are out, it takes a while for the developers to figure out the interfaces and get things working.
Well if you read freescale's product pages you'd see that they have a 'G4' series CPU that has a totally revamped front-side. I expect that this is what you'll see _instead_ of a PPC970-based PowerBook, you'll have a G4 with onboard memory controller (think Athlon FX). Check out this page:
e w. jsp?nodeId=018rH3bTdG7249
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overvi
for details. Basically, they have a pin-compatible PowerPC 7448, which is a drop-in replacement to the current 74xx line, and a much-awaited 8641 and 8641D, which are not pin-compatible, but fully instruction compatible, have 667MHz FSBs, and a dual-core model.
There's really almost no reason to have a PPC970 running on a laptop today, I don't think anyone can fit over 2GB of RAM into a portable anyway. Honestly, I'd RATHER have a 8641-based PowerBook than a 970-based one, the 8641 comes from a long line of portable-oriented CPUs, whereas the 970 will need massive cooling in a most un-Apple fashion.
I have to agree. I think there are FAR too many police on the streets. Not only is it costing BIG money to maintain, but the police seem to be doing a fair amount of the lawbreaking out there. Ideally, police behavior sets an example for the rest of us, courteous driving, not littering, respectful to women, etc. In reality, many cops consider themselves to be a class above others, drinking and driving, dealing and consuming confiscated drugs, picking up drunk college girls for who-knows-what after parties, etc.
I'd like to see a massive reduction of police ranks, and have neighborhoods 'hire' their police from the available pool with city-supplied funds. This would let the people who have the most interest in their neighborhoods choose the police they think would be best for themselves, and provides police with a reason to act properly and compete.
Hmm,
Maybe it's just the city I grew up in, but I've been pepper sprayed by an officer on a horse and another in a car who were just spraying into a crowd of over 2000 kids waiting for their busses, because two kids were fighting. Seems to me that the guy on the horse should have just moved in on the kids fighting, eh? I guess it's easier to just spray EVERYONE to make the problem go away.
I was at a third-floor houseparty that was overcrowded when police showed up. Did they march in and make people go home? No! They pepper-sprayed us from the only exit, I sprained my ankle when the crowd pushed back and someone stepped on it. We were lucky someone didn't get pushed out of a window.
You ever been searched top-to-bottom and interrogated for walking up to a police car and asking how things are in the neighborhood these days? I have! They detained me and a friend for over an hour and a half because we were walking around the parking lot of the school we went to at night.
Ever get arrested, had the case thrown away because it was a misunderstanding, and get an expungement to get your record clean, only to have the police keep you in their database? Even after you point it out and ask about it? Can you imagine what it's like to have to explain that at a job interview? I can, it sucks.
Police now might be less violent and crooked than they once were, but for one decent kid to have gone through this and more after only 22 years is a bit much. There's still a LOT of work to do. Thank god that judges hate cops more than anyone and they have the final say.
Sure, RAM matters a lot, which is why I keep over 512MB in all my systems, including the EPIA and the G3.
The 'benchmark' I used was compiling software, which the G3 dominated. Considering that the I/O on the systems was so different (2.5" ATA vs 10K RPM SCSI), I know that benchmarks that depend heavily on disk I/O (encoding, unzipping, launching apps, etc.) were inherently unfair. Compiling, however is much less dependent on disk I/O, given enough RAM and multithreaded makes.
I was truly optimistic about the C3 chip, but it's let me down time and again, consistently underwhelming me. I'd much rather run a Pentium-M or Sempron on a Mini-ITX board than a C3. Ideally, there'd be decent PowerPC motherboards on the market, because that platform rocks when you're confined to low-power and heat situations, but alas, there aren't any reasonably priced PowerPC Mini-ITX boards around.
As for RAM and OS X, I work with OS X all day and can say that the system comes into it's own at about 512MB and gets better the more you feed it. It'll work reasonably well with 256MB, but once you taste 512MB or 1GB, you can't turn back.
the Mac mini has a slightly faster CPU (and i'm willing to bet the G4 will out-perform the Via Eden in most cases)
Alright, maybe you haven't actually used VIA's chips in real life, or maybe you haven't used a PowerPC yet.
My G3 clocked at 300MHz kicks the CRAP out of my 800MHz C3-ezra. The 7447a G4 seems to be comparable clock-for-clock to an AMD Athlon Barton, while the C3 feels more like a watered-down and underclocked P4.
Trust me, unless you want to do oddball hobbyist stuff and like to toy with a screwdriver, the Mini is a much better deal.
Are you trolling or is this for real?
The idea of 'su' or the more modern 'sudo' is that you can let users run as 'users' and still have the ability to escalate to 'admin' rights to do priviliged operations, some users can escalate and others cannot, but all run as 'users' for normal operations. This is demonstrably the best way to implement user rights on the modern desktop, it prevents stuf flike viruses and spyware from being able to proliferate to non-user areas of the disk where they can affect other users. See Mac OS X, which has a well thought-out implementation, out-of-the-box Linux is not exemplary of what you can do with sudo.
As for 'too hard for the average user'...
I've converted two housemates to Linux, these are people who know nothing but email, chat, wordprocessing, and web. After a few days of occasional questions, they're total converts. Linux is NOT hard to use, it's hard to geek on, especially if you've been perverted by a Windows-only experience so far. Windows is really the ugly bastard child of operating systems as far as I'm concerned, it's still trying to reconcile it's past as a permissions free-for-all.
Dammit, Microsoft thinks 'Documents and Settings' is a more intuitive location for user profiles than 'Users' or 'home'! They don't offer a decent CLI shell and SSH-alike for people who need to admin their servers from cellular links on their PDAs! They ship a desktop OS that loads with defaults to prompt 'yes or no' to -execute unsigned binary code- right from a browser window. They ship this same OS with services for file serving, directory services, remote desktop, remote registry access, and lord-knows-what-else listening out of the fscking box, and they rectify it by enabling a software firewall that defaults to 'on' -three years later-.
Where are the file extensions? Good fscking question. Last time I looked Windows just chopped off the dot and the last three letters of the files and presented them that way, it also hides the entire root of your drive and the system folder. All the competitors use this really cool utility and library called 'file' that has the ability to type a file based on it's CONTENT, which is much safer and more sane. Some systems even use the filesystem to store -metadata- about a file, which is superior to both methods but not nearly as easy to work with or support from a developer's POV.
Alright. I've eaten your flamebait, and spat back burning embers. I await a response. I'll be asleep until 6 am EST.
Yeah, I think I'll just wire the house and do this 'old school', but with a modern flare. remote-control switchbox switching the digital signal on and off to multiple speaker sets throughout the apartment.
Interesting, though I diodn't think there were many USB-equipped fanless notebooks, I thought USB got first use at about the time the PII mobile came about, and they mostly needed fans, IIRC.
The problem you'll get there is that the power from your USB port might be polluted by the internals of your machine as well, making the output 'buzzy'. No doubt that a breakout box would HELP, but if you want professional sound, replace your amp with one that accepts digital inputs, isolate and clean all your power, or get a digital-to-analog converter and put it on the same circuit as your audio equipment.
Er, every reasonable motherboard and sound card sold in the last three years has 'digital' and/or 'optical' output ports, these ports spit binary to amps or speakers with corresponding inputs. There's no interference.
I've got an old Soundblaster Live 5.1 card (about $10 on eBay) and a Cambridge Soundworks sub and speakers ($80) and I get ZERO interference.
Your wish was granted a long time ago.
I'll never understand why Hollywood and New York demand that women look like heroin addicts to be beautiful.
I'm sorry, but even hollywood has a cutoff, and that picture is past it. Everyone agrees that Gillian was hot before, when she had 'meat on her bones'. This sort of weight loss isn't caused by hollywood, it's caused by an internal weakness and a desire to dominate one's own body.
Alright, what you need is a plastic case, like a millitary ammo case. You drill a few small holes for the cables (don't expose the ports!) and some silicone putty to seal it up. Before you deploy this, make sure it's air-tight by removing the board and heating it in the oven for a few minutes and seeing if the expansion of gas is contained (it will 'pop' when you open it; if it doesn't, try again. Put the board back in, toss a few big packs of silica gel in there (you can buy milspec silica packets that are the size of an iPod) an seal it up.
Don't use moving parts, and keep the thing from vibration and direct sunlight when it's out in the field.
Oh yeah, use a silicone lube on the rubber gasket that lines the opening, it will last a LONG time that way.
um, the term 'greek text' is a generic term for 'stuff I don't understand' or 'stuff you shouldn't look too hard at'.
'greek text' in computer products is obfuscated but real-looking text for use when you're laying out a page while zoomed out. It's generated nonsense to fill space.
I'm pretty sure Steve knows the difference between Greek and Latin, the man does dress himself in the morning.
I LOVE WindowMaker, the KISS design strategy and the lack of an integrated file manager make it ideal for how I use the machine. It's designed from the bottom up for desktop paging, and the fact that I use OS X at work makes for an easy transition.
s t' layout would be way cool. Maybe it would have to be a build-option to keep current users happy.
My only feature requests are:
1. History pull-downs for text-entry boxes (like the 'run command...' dialog.
2. A way to pull the same menus out of WM docked apps as the KDE kicker, I'm a noatun user and it's possible to LOSE the noatun UI and end up having to 'killall' it.
3. Apple-style XML plist files for preference files, and Apple-compatible file structure. It looks like the current system is CLOSE but it has to be dead-on to keep one home directory sane when switching back-and-forth between systems. This is something I'd like to see for all programs though, the whole '~/Library/Preferences/org.windowmaker.wprefs.pli
I think it's a bit suspicious that the founder of Yahoo! is Timothy Koogle.
Methinks the google guys sorta put their competitor's name and a word that conveys 'hugeness' together, but they can't say that it's based on Koogle's name for legal reasons.
Agreed. That's why Apple's *NIX implementation is gaining ground, it does that sort of thing better than any Linux distro I know of.
Well AD has it's ups and downs. Where I work we're finding that a lot of the appliances and databases we want to use would work much better if we used OpenDirectory from the start, Active Directory is great because it's a 'turnkey' solution, but when you need flexibility, seek something else.
Also, I think Windows is a total PITA to run in the server room, it really isn't a good server platform from my experience. My experience with Linux and BSD involves a lot of -waiting- while Windows seems to involve a lot of -patching-.
Fully featured, responsive, and with the new security built into SP2, practically invulnerable to virii or hacker intrusion. (God help you if you want to run with the firewall down, but that goes for anything, don't it?)
I'm still cleaning out tons of mal|spy|ad-ware laden SP2 machines every day. They still seem to get viruses too.
As for running with no firewall, proper behavior for ANY IP stack is to reject ALL connections unless there's a service up-and-running waiting for a connection. The problem is that on Windows, default users have the ability to open privileged ports. Firewalls add a layer of complexity and frustration to everyone, admins, users, and hackers alike. Properly implementing an OS that defaults to security settings that reflect the mean intelligence of your user base are what Windows needs, not more bubble-gum and shoelace to hold a bad thing together.
right now is THE time to move in on all those businesses still running NT 4 and sell Linux/SAMBA boxes.
Use the line:
It'll be an even better domain controller, and if a user comes in with an exploited laptop you can be safe knowing that your PDC isn't hosed by it.
I've been using SAMBA as a windows PDC for several years now, I had one setup that was so sucessful that I started charging them for all the months I didn't come and fix it (it was so reliable I had to switch from a charge-to-fix to a service contract).
hmm. that explains why the flyers are always rolled-up in the little 'newspaper hanger' rather than inside the maibox. I had no idea there was a distinction.
...Politically incorrect things like "tribe A is stupider than tribe B" will get you put in jail.
Er, I might be misunderstanding you, but in the USA you are free to shout racism and hate from the mountaintops, whereas in a lot of European countries you'd get tossed in jail.
Over here, speech is protected, and that includes virtually all forms of communication. Personally, I prefer it this way too, every now and then I get neo-nazi flyers in my mailbox, but that itself isn't hurting anyone. I'd defend their right to pamphlet and rally, as I'd expect all citizens to defend mine if I felt so strongly about an issue.
What bothers me most are the 'liberals' who really seem to want to take away those rights, the ones pushing political correctness as a way of life. I consider myself a liberal, but only as far as the root of the word allows, there's nothing 'liberal' about dismissing facts that conflict with political correctness.
Up here in the Boston area I deal with a LOT of people who are just as backward to the left as we all think people down south are backward to the right. Try telling someone up here you don't feel at all guilty for slavery, or that you think public schools should separate kids based on performance, or that racism is 'mostly dead in the 21st century' and people will think you're a crazy bible-thumping hood-wearing nigger-lynching whacko.
I disagree. Asbestos, when UNDERSTOOD and properly handled is harmless. There wouldn't be a problem if people hadn't died from BEFORE we knew how to properly handle it.
I'm sitting under a ceiling made out of asbestos tiles right now, and I'm perfectly safe as long as I don't dick with it. Should I want to dick with it I'd have to set up a quarantined and ventilated zone to modify it, it's not rocket-science.
I'm drinking water from lead pipes, and my walls are lead painted, but my blood levels are BELOW average, because I make sure not to sand the paint and I run the water for a few minutes after the plumber comes.
Should we outlaw glass because it breaks into sharp, hard-to-clean shards? Should we demonize wood homes because they burn and collapse easily compared to cement and brick? How about legislating gas stoves away because they release radon, despite their superior culinary contribution?
Virtually all the problems we had with lead and asbestos could be solved by educating consumers, developing a 'deposit' system, and making parents responsible for lead poisoning. We'd all have better plumbing, motherboards, and lower heating bills.