Although I'm talking about a laptop not a desktop. I'd rather use the touchpad, my point was more they shouldn't have right click menus on a computer that doesn't come with a right mouse button.
You keep writing this but everyone keeps pointing out that it is wrong. I'm not sure if you are legitimately missing the responses or are afraid to admit your mistake.
It's not as easy as just enabling root, it's that Mac OSX wasn't designed to read the/etc/hosts file, you have to do something like set it up that way in single user mode, it's a real hassle and involves restarting the computer twice, at least out of the box updating Window's version of the/etc/hosts file doesn't require a restart or any special config options. It "just works."
Another one that you keep repeating but again you keep missing the posts that correct you on this. You do not need to enable the root account to edit the/etc/hosts file. There is sudo at the prompt and a gui method.
...I know how to edit text files, but simply editing/etc/hosts on a mac DOESN'T WORK. You need to be root, the root account is disabled by default. Once you figure out how to enable that you need to edit your/etc/hosts file, normally on any unix system I've ever used that's it. Hell, even in windows all I have to do is edit one file and I'm done (although it's not in/etc/hosts.) On a Mac, you need to run some commands to reload some database or do some other such stuff. Sometimes it works sometimes you need to do more. It's not very obvious and it took a while for me to get it working.
There is no reason to enable the root account in OS X. sudo is your friend.
Also, you don't even have to go to a prompt to edit/etc/hosts just open Applications/Utilities/Netinfo Manager
Well one benefit to having the same hardware is you know the OS is going to run without having driver issues. The same cannot be said for the plethora of PC configurations that run Windows.
It would not surprise me at all if everyone that reads and posts on Slashdot has experienced or knows someone that has experienced a Windows driver issue. Can the same be said about Macs? (Yeah, I know that there are a lot less Mac users here than PC users)
You must have a very heavy left finger. I have never experienced that problem and always have my index finger and my middle finger on the top left and right sides of the mouse.
I can confirm that Bell does offer dry loop DSL. I was mostly signed up for it about 2 months ago. Then a check of the lines showed that I couldn't get their highest speed. Something weird in my apartment building where the highest speed was available only up to the 5th floor and no higher. So I ended the whole thing there and stayed with Rogers. I was in a Bell World store if that makes any difference.
I totally agree! I LOVED COH. I stopped playing about 6 months after the release of COV and started on WOW. Now I'm bored of WOW and tried to go back to COH. Unfortunately it is no longer the game I remember. Most servers are deserted and the ones that aren't (Freedom and Virtue pop into mind here) just seem to be filled with people standing in Atlas Park using it as a big chat room.
Too bad it was an excellent game. (I never liked COV...to me it was just COH with different skins. Nothing villainous about it more of a vigilante feeling.)
The die-hard fans are going to tell you it gets better and there is more to the game, but honestly you really have the basics down. Even if you do group with other people is pretty much the same thing. Kill the mob, get the loot, get xp. All that changes is WHERE you kill the mob. In a jungle, in a forest, on a beach, in a desert, in a dungeon, in a castle, in a house, in a field, in a graveyard, underwater, etc.
And yes, it is VERY slow walking around which you get to do until level 40 where you can finally spend a large amount of gold to buy a mount and learn to ride it. There is "public" transportation but you still have to walk around a lot.
Please actually read the article that is linked. The French are reporting that apparently the Canadians are considering implementing this policy. That's second hand hearsay at best. And the quote included in the Slashdot article is from whomever made the original post on Techdirt.
Isn't it actually Gizmo that is making and receiving the free phone calls? So why not just use it? Or did I miss a big piece of the article because to me it just looks like the author is using Grand Central to push a call through Gizmo.
Oh please. I am so sick of hearing about how the US defends Canada. Exactly when has the US ever risen to the defense of Canada? We prosper because of our foreign policies not because of their military.
Ok, on the whole sneaky, manipulative, underhanded thing: we're all (girls) guilty of this. This is how women interact with each other as well. That doesn't make it right but I'm afraid we can't always see that we're doing it so from my whole gender: sorry.
A perfect example of this (and I am not being a pig) is women in management. Get two or more women in power positions in the same department or company and watch the fur fly...literally. Everything they do to one another is on a personal level. With men it is different. Sure the guy down the hall just backstabbed you but its business its not personal. Not so with women backstabbing women. My old boss actually moved my entire department to a different building because she couldn't get along with another female department head.
And you expect them to program this worm correctly with no bugs? This is Microsoft we are talking about here. No thanks, I agree with the others, "Stay the f*ck out of my computer."
Even still though in Episode 3 the other Jedi's treat him like he's still a student with much to learn. Why would he have an apprentice to teach if he's acting like a whiny little brat?
I think you've gone past the point the other poster was trying to get at. You're talking about a program running on a system. The other poster (and myself now as well) is questioning how does capability authorization allow a user onto a system, in the first place, without authentication. There still has to be some way of identifying the bag of meat that is sitting at the terminal or shelling in remotely.
I see little tidbits about annoyances but the "How to fix them" parts are missing.
And speaking of tech annoyances, why is it that everyone seems to be writing short articles but finds the need to spread them across three or more pages with each page containing only 5 or 6 small paragraphs? It should be full article then comments. Not 4 paragraphs, 1000 comments, 5 paragraphs, more comments, last 5 paragraphs, even more comments.
Comparing a fee for sharing music to part of your taxed paying for schools is worse than comparing apples to oranges. Education benefits the entire nation. This proposed tax will only benefit an elite (and elitist) few.
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Although I'm talking about a laptop not a desktop. I'd rather use the touchpad, my point was more they shouldn't have right click menus on a computer that doesn't come with a right mouse button.
You keep writing this but everyone keeps pointing out that it is wrong. I'm not sure if you are legitimately missing the responses or are afraid to admit your mistake.
It's not as easy as just enabling root, it's that Mac OSX wasn't designed to read the /etc/hosts file, you have to do something like set it up that way in single user mode, it's a real hassle and involves restarting the computer twice, at least out of the box updating Window's version of the /etc/hosts file doesn't require a restart or any special config options. It "just works."
Another one that you keep repeating but again you keep missing the posts that correct you on this. You do not need to enable the root account to edit the /etc/hosts file. There is sudo at the prompt and a gui method.
...I know how to edit text files, but simply editing /etc/hosts on a mac DOESN'T WORK. You need to be root, the root account is disabled by default. Once you figure out how to enable that you need to edit your /etc/hosts file, normally on any unix system I've ever used that's it. Hell, even in windows all I have to do is edit one file and I'm done (although it's not in /etc/hosts.) On a Mac, you need to run some commands to reload some database or do some other such stuff. Sometimes it works sometimes you need to do more. It's not very obvious and it took a while for me to get it working.
There is no reason to enable the root account in OS X. sudo is your friend.
Also, you don't even have to go to a prompt to edit /etc/hosts just open Applications/Utilities/Netinfo Manager
Well one benefit to having the same hardware is you know the OS is going to run without having driver issues. The same cannot be said for the plethora of PC configurations that run Windows.
It would not surprise me at all if everyone that reads and posts on Slashdot has experienced or knows someone that has experienced a Windows driver issue. Can the same be said about Macs? (Yeah, I know that there are a lot less Mac users here than PC users)
You must have a very heavy left finger. I have never experienced that problem and always have my index finger and my middle finger on the top left and right sides of the mouse.
Damn, I'm jealous. I think I just geeked out!
I have my doubts that they were laying fiber after WWII.
I can confirm that Bell does offer dry loop DSL. I was mostly signed up for it about 2 months ago. Then a check of the lines showed that I couldn't get their highest speed. Something weird in my apartment building where the highest speed was available only up to the 5th floor and no higher. So I ended the whole thing there and stayed with Rogers. I was in a Bell World store if that makes any difference.
Heh, that's funny. Nice try there. But every complaint you just listed is about specific software and not the OS.
And by the way, there is an option in iTunes for not automatically syncing when an iPod is connected. Don't blame the software because you can't read.
Wow that's interesting because I used a PAC file for 5 years and never had a single issue with Firefox.
I totally agree! I LOVED COH. I stopped playing about 6 months after the release of COV and started on WOW. Now I'm bored of WOW and tried to go back to COH. Unfortunately it is no longer the game I remember. Most servers are deserted and the ones that aren't (Freedom and Virtue pop into mind here) just seem to be filled with people standing in Atlas Park using it as a big chat room.
Too bad it was an excellent game. (I never liked COV...to me it was just COH with different skins. Nothing villainous about it more of a vigilante feeling.)
The die-hard fans are going to tell you it gets better and there is more to the game, but honestly you really have the basics down. Even if you do group with other people is pretty much the same thing. Kill the mob, get the loot, get xp. All that changes is WHERE you kill the mob. In a jungle, in a forest, on a beach, in a desert, in a dungeon, in a castle, in a house, in a field, in a graveyard, underwater, etc.
And yes, it is VERY slow walking around which you get to do until level 40 where you can finally spend a large amount of gold to buy a mount and learn to ride it. There is "public" transportation but you still have to walk around a lot.
I'm hardly smug about my freedoms and I don't need to live in China to know what its government is like.
Do you need live and work in North Korea to understand the government there?
Haha, nice try. You know there is more to the world than just the U.S.A., right?
Actually it was just boring. Wasn't very funny, so like others have said I hope it is BETTER than Bender's Big Score.
No thanks, I like my freedoms right where they are.
Dear everyone,
Please actually read the article that is linked. The French are reporting that apparently the Canadians are considering implementing this policy. That's second hand hearsay at best. And the quote included in the Slashdot article is from whomever made the original post on Techdirt.
Isn't it actually Gizmo that is making and receiving the free phone calls? So why not just use it? Or did I miss a big piece of the article because to me it just looks like the author is using Grand Central to push a call through Gizmo.
Oh please. I am so sick of hearing about how the US defends Canada. Exactly when has the US ever risen to the defense of Canada? We prosper because of our foreign policies not because of their military.
Ok, on the whole sneaky, manipulative, underhanded thing: we're all (girls) guilty of this. This is how women interact with each other as well. That doesn't make it right but I'm afraid we can't always see that we're doing it so from my whole gender: sorry.
A perfect example of this (and I am not being a pig) is women in management. Get two or more women in power positions in the same department or company and watch the fur fly...literally. Everything they do to one another is on a personal level. With men it is different. Sure the guy down the hall just backstabbed you but its business its not personal. Not so with women backstabbing women. My old boss actually moved my entire department to a different building because she couldn't get along with another female department head.
Agreed. I came here to say pretty much the same thing.
And you expect them to program this worm correctly with no bugs? This is Microsoft we are talking about here. No thanks, I agree with the others, "Stay the f*ck out of my computer."
Even still though in Episode 3 the other Jedi's treat him like he's still a student with much to learn. Why would he have an apprentice to teach if he's acting like a whiny little brat?
I think you've gone past the point the other poster was trying to get at. You're talking about a program running on a system. The other poster (and myself now as well) is questioning how does capability authorization allow a user onto a system, in the first place, without authentication. There still has to be some way of identifying the bag of meat that is sitting at the terminal or shelling in remotely.
I see little tidbits about annoyances but the "How to fix them" parts are missing.
And speaking of tech annoyances, why is it that everyone seems to be writing short articles but finds the need to spread them across three or more pages with each page containing only 5 or 6 small paragraphs? It should be full article then comments. Not 4 paragraphs, 1000 comments, 5 paragraphs, more comments, last 5 paragraphs, even more comments.
Comparing a fee for sharing music to part of your taxed paying for schools is worse than comparing apples to oranges. Education benefits the entire nation. This proposed tax will only benefit an elite (and elitist) few.