I said "PowerPC", not MacOS X. The two are not the same thing. Ever heard of Linux or X11? Just because the article is about Apple hardware doesn't mean the solution is Apple's OS.
Download the tar.gz, untar, and grep for PowerPC. You can even do it under MacOS X since it is Unix underneath the pretty GUI.
Open source has a much easier time convincing people to upgrade to the most current release because in most cases it costs nothing but a little time to move to the latest stable release.
Open Source also has a higher common denominator in terms of technical sophistication. Even Microsoft is aware of the "paper MCSE" problem. It is also worth noting that the problems Microsoft faces aren't just upgrades, but getting users to apply patches, patches being free.
User inertia plays a much larger role in uptake of patches and upgrades than I think most would like to admit.
Unfortunately, those of us who play in the Open Source world are faced with our own technical upgrade/migration challenges now. By show of hands, how many out there are trying to figure out what to do with their Red Hat boxes and aren't willing to roll the dice on Fedora Core 2?
Sun has been an enemy of Linux for some time now, every since McNealy did his flipflop in October of last year: Sun radically changes Linux Mantra.
Sun is much more of an ally to Microsoft's cause than many realize. Personally, I don't blame Microsoft for treating Linux like a competitor (although I don't care for many of their tactics in combating the threat Linux poses), but Sun's stance feels like betrayal. Of course, it only feels that way because of a small shred of naive "UNIXes should stick together!" sentiment. There is no rational reason to expect Sun to not view Linux as a threat, but its pretty dirty of them to barely hide that they are allied with Microsoft.
I didn't say they couldn't innovate. I still dispute that they put out products that people want, at least enough to buy when they are Apple products or standards. Hey, maybe it isn't that people don't want the products and standards... maybe they just don't want them from Apple?
... maybe get her into City of Heroes. Of course if you do nothing but game all the time, then no wonder she hates it. If you game fairly moderately and she needs to be the center of attention all the time then maybe she is the one who needs to grow up.
There are a number of computer games my wife and I like to play together, separately, etc. Gaming and relationships are not mutually exclusive, so you need to figure out if the gaming is the problem or not. I've had girlfriends that were the problem, but that is what "breaking up" is for.
On the one hand one has MS which has the economy of scale and flouts standards as a competative tactic. and ont he other one has Apple which knows how to create products and create standards that people really want. In the middle SUN has none of these attributes except in a very niche area of sun fanatics.
I think perhaps you are confused. Which products and standards that "people really want" are you referring to? Surely not those that comprise a mere estimated 5% of the desktop market? That doesn't translate to too many people really wanting those products... oh wait, I forgot... WAHH MICROSOFT CHEATED!
Apple owned the desktop market in the 80s and got beat down by the new guy named Billy Gates. IMHO, now they are the niche player catering to fanatics.
Meanwhile Sun has a pretty good grasp on the large scale server market that Microsoft thinks it has products for (but doesn't) and Apple can barely comprehend. Bare in mind that I don't like Sun, Solaris, or much of what they do... but reality is reality, and no amount of head_in_sand and dreams of Apple computers in every home will change that.
I'm a fan for Blackbox or Fluxbox for my simplistic Window Manager needs. I don't tend to have to use boxes slow enough to justify a "no X, console only" approach, and there is rarely a very good functionalty reason to go with that approach anyways, IMO.
I'd say the life of somebody who would attack another for a piece of electronics is worth it.
Of course, thats easy to say. My strategy to protecting my belongings is to live in Canada where we all live 10 km from each other and have to use snowshoes to get around;) In all seriousness, I choose to live in a city where muggers don't prey on people because they have nice headphones. Muggers are a rarity, the prevalent threat to one's property is a homeless person or drunk asshole asking for extra change. I defend against them buying pulling out a "no, sorry". Sometimes I walk around with a confident proactive "no, sorry" demeanor, and they don't ask... but if I had to, I would use that "no, sorry" on them.
Heh. You can never get a real troll to admit defeat, that is what makes them a troll;)
The only hope for them, if you care about them at all, is that they will eventually be able to think and evolve from troll (maybe into clever troll... they are insightful).
In Canada, "EI" is Employment Insurance, formerly known as Unemployment Insurance. It is what people who work pay so that people who don't work can get money anyways.
A small part of my brain that is normally kept in solitary confinement made the link between EI and EIOffice initially, and somewhere from there I thought that this would have something to do with outsourcing and "Canadian" jobs moving overseas.
I'm comforted to discover that the scariest thing in this article is an office suite coded in Java, aka Consume All Resources And Make My Machine Unusuable;)
There are also a few people on./ who can think critically, and will give credit where credit is due (yes, that includes Microsoft). Not everybody here is a drooling irrational Linux zealot who spews knee-jerk anti-Microsoft rants whenever the opportunity arises.
There is no point in fearing the trolls... it is much more fun to let them come out and beat them down with well-thought out arguments.
Are you joking or just completely ignorant of history outside of your own lifespan?
Do witch burnings, public hangings for horse theft, etc ring any bells?
"Get tough on crime" is a reaction of the steady lessening of punishment as free societies move more towards a "forgive and rehabilitate" model of doling out consequences. That is why the "get tough on crime" stuff is often associated with politicians with a conservative ideological affiliation. Please note that "conservative" implies a tendency towards wanting to do things like grandpappy did in tha old days...
I love urpmi. The suite of tools for package management in Mandrake impresses me far more than Debian. I still find myself occasionally trying to emerge something on my Mandrake box, though;)
The crux of you perceiving problems with 25/TCP blocks is the matter of choice. Blocking 25/TCP outbound doesn't, as another post comments, break email whatsoever. It merely stops that traffic destined to that port from leaving the network. Solution? Simple. Stupid relying on off-net SMTP servers to send mail. Send it through whatever server is on your network and allows relaying outside of the network.
Spam, worms, etc prove that communications systems based on complete trust don't work in the real world anymore.
Ah, but why should an ISP care about impact to services it doesn't permit on its network anyways (at least for residential non-business users)? Soon every ISP will block 25/TCP outbound for residential users and spammers will have to find another way. They will, but at least it will put a crimp in their efforts.
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Download the tar.gz, untar, and grep for PowerPC. You can even do it under MacOS X since it is Unix underneath the pretty GUI.
I'd look really sexy in lederhosen...
Download the source, ./configure, etc. PowerPC is supported.
In addition to the MacOS X specific sites, this might be useful: Open Kiosk.
Open Source also has a higher common denominator in terms of technical sophistication. Even Microsoft is aware of the "paper MCSE" problem. It is also worth noting that the problems Microsoft faces aren't just upgrades, but getting users to apply patches, patches being free.
User inertia plays a much larger role in uptake of patches and upgrades than I think most would like to admit.
Unfortunately, those of us who play in the Open Source world are faced with our own technical upgrade/migration challenges now. By show of hands, how many out there are trying to figure out what to do with their Red Hat boxes and aren't willing to roll the dice on Fedora Core 2?
Hrm... could this be a use for Mono?
Sun is much more of an ally to Microsoft's cause than many realize. Personally, I don't blame Microsoft for treating Linux like a competitor (although I don't care for many of their tactics in combating the threat Linux poses), but Sun's stance feels like betrayal. Of course, it only feels that way because of a small shred of naive "UNIXes should stick together!" sentiment. There is no rational reason to expect Sun to not view Linux as a threat, but its pretty dirty of them to barely hide that they are allied with Microsoft.
I didn't say they couldn't innovate. I still dispute that they put out products that people want, at least enough to buy when they are Apple products or standards. Hey, maybe it isn't that people don't want the products and standards... maybe they just don't want them from Apple?
There are a number of computer games my wife and I like to play together, separately, etc. Gaming and relationships are not mutually exclusive, so you need to figure out if the gaming is the problem or not. I've had girlfriends that were the problem, but that is what "breaking up" is for.
Apple owned the desktop market in the 80s and got beat down by the new guy named Billy Gates. IMHO, now they are the niche player catering to fanatics.
Meanwhile Sun has a pretty good grasp on the large scale server market that Microsoft thinks it has products for (but doesn't) and Apple can barely comprehend. Bare in mind that I don't like Sun, Solaris, or much of what they do... but reality is reality, and no amount of head_in_sand and dreams of Apple computers in every home will change that.
I'm a fan for Blackbox or Fluxbox for my simplistic Window Manager needs. I don't tend to have to use boxes slow enough to justify a "no X, console only" approach, and there is rarely a very good functionalty reason to go with that approach anyways, IMO.
Of course, thats easy to say. My strategy to protecting my belongings is to live in Canada where we all live 10 km from each other and have to use snowshoes to get around ;) In all seriousness, I choose to live in a city where muggers don't prey on people because they have nice headphones. Muggers are a rarity, the prevalent threat to one's property is a homeless person or drunk asshole asking for extra change. I defend against them buying pulling out a "no, sorry". Sometimes I walk around with a confident proactive "no, sorry" demeanor, and they don't ask... but if I had to, I would use that "no, sorry" on them.
Perhaps AdTI will come out with a book about this too?
The only hope for them, if you care about them at all, is that they will eventually be able to think and evolve from troll (maybe into clever troll... they are insightful).
A small part of my brain that is normally kept in solitary confinement made the link between EI and EIOffice initially, and somewhere from there I thought that this would have something to do with outsourcing and "Canadian" jobs moving overseas.
I'm comforted to discover that the scariest thing in this article is an office suite coded in Java, aka Consume All Resources And Make My Machine Unusuable ;)
There is no point in fearing the trolls... it is much more fun to let them come out and beat them down with well-thought out arguments.
BTW, the Windows crowd might not be as clueless about BSD as some think: Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) 3.5. Apparently it is based on BSD (OpenBSD according to this OSNews.com thread). Its free now, and in some ways I like it a bit better than Cygwin. When I need to be on a Windows box, I tend to install either SFU or Cygwin. SFU is very handy once you get some of the stuff from the Interop UNIX tools warehouse installed.
Are you joking or just completely ignorant of history outside of your own lifespan?
Do witch burnings, public hangings for horse theft, etc ring any bells?
"Get tough on crime" is a reaction of the steady lessening of punishment as free societies move more towards a "forgive and rehabilitate" model of doling out consequences. That is why the "get tough on crime" stuff is often associated with politicians with a conservative ideological affiliation. Please note that "conservative" implies a tendency towards wanting to do things like grandpappy did in tha old days...
Damn, Russia used to kick ass. Now the porn stars have to do razor commercials. Oh democracy, what hell hath thou wrought?!
And no, I don't think it has occured to the brilliant minds firing projectiles up into the air that there are consequences beyond the fun loud noises.
For more urpmi goodness, check out Urpmi.org and the Easy Urpmi tool.
I wonder if that explains why Canadian soldiers, Afghani and Iraqi wedding celebrations, and Kurdish convoys get bombed now and then?
Spam, worms, etc prove that communications systems based on complete trust don't work in the real world anymore.
IBM stickin' it to tha man!
I want to see a Tux vs. Darl/SCO Flash game. That would kick ass.
Ah, but why should an ISP care about impact to services it doesn't permit on its network anyways (at least for residential non-business users)? Soon every ISP will block 25/TCP outbound for residential users and spammers will have to find another way. They will, but at least it will put a crimp in their efforts.