Well, It needs some work. Not only does the display look funny, but configuring networking is a bit of a pain...especially if you are using an Airport card in an iBook (you take what you can get). It eventually worked, but it was an adventure.
We found that classic support worked better if you launched the classic enviornment manually using "macos.app" instead of "classic.app" from the/system/applications folder.
oh well, this is slightly off topic, but oh well.
I'll say this though, it is most definately the coolest desktop environment I've played with. Granted a number of features need the bugs ironed out, but we're still months away from a final version and apple is typically behind schedule with operating system releases, so we've got a way to go.
Thank you for taking the time to write thought provoking and inciteful stories for Slashdot.
As you briefly point out in one of your answers, not everyone here in the Slashdot Community(tm) hates you, or your writing (I'm particularly curious about the dept. heading which refers to you as a gasbag..but..i digress).
In fact, as tends to be true in most communities subscribing to a common ideological principle, the most vocal and reactionary members tend to be the least representative of the majority. I submit that that is much the case with Slashdot as well.
In keeping with the general gist of some writings by you and others on flaming in general, I imagine that the ferocity and venom with which this "Vocal Minority" attack you ultimately discourages the majority of people from posting positive comments. I believe to that the amount of upword moderation that such comments receive also contributes to their hesitance (not to mention the contribution such moderation must make to the impression that you are, on the whole, disliked).
Finally, I would like to say this: I have appreciated the fact that every time I have taken the liberty of e-mailing you, you have always responded promptly and thoughtfully. This to me clearly demonstrates your sincerity and passion for the subjects about which you write.
I appreciate this level of honesty and transparency in a social context usually littered with the intellectual pissing matches and pretense.
This move is boneheaded not only because it furthers conspiracy theorists musings, but because it actually limits the technical scope of the solution.
Of the 6-8 Linux file/web servers we run, none of them run on Intel boxes. A couple are running on apple hardware (LinuxPPC) and a number are running on mips...
no matter how much I want to, I can't do anything with these.
I am aware of at least one college in Pennsylvania that has provided a brand new notebook computer to each freshman every september.
They don't, however, upgrade the computers for students, which means that after 4 years you have a paper weight...but it still remains to be seen how Ford will deal with the implications of Moore's Law.
(NOTE: In order to keep the computer, you must graduate. If you leave early, you gotta give it back)
I'll be the first to say that standardized testing is bunk. While the LEGOs test may also be a bit silly on the face of it, I suggest that it's better to try new things and learn from them than it is to keep doing it the old way just because "That's the way it's always been done."
I scored a 1470 on my SATs to get into the University of Washington (not an amazing score, but good enough to overcome my crappy H.S. GPA and better than most of my peers at UW) and ended up dropping out after my freshman year because I was on acedemic probation.
There are probably a number of reasons that I ended up leaving, but I think that standardized testing is a joke. It measures nothing useful (except maybe test taking ability) and the tests are continually modified to artificially inflate lower scores.
Read @ Large (forget the authors at the moment) but it details a story (from the mid 90's) very similar to the one presented in Cuckoo's Egg. Same attitude, same lack of security.
Also, take a look at all of the defaced web pages on 2600.com or Hacker News Network...more than 50% are gov't sites, and more than half of those are military installations. While web sites may not qualify as "sensitive", I find that good security professionals tend to secure all machines in their purview, whether or not they really need it.
As far as I can tell, the point of Open Source and Free Software, and ultimately the linux mentality is on of collaboration.
Well, then, collaborate. If you can't/wont contribute (code) to the solution, quit bitching. If you don't like a particular browser, write yourself a new one or contribute to a project like Mozilla.
I personally found the article interesting. Was it perfect? Nope. Was the guy wrong about some things? Maybe. Some things said were opinions *gasp*.
In 1996 I enrolled @ UW and moved into a dorm w/ 10Base-T ethernet. I then proceeded to realize two things:
1) My time spent on-line was interfering greatly w/ my studies.
2) College was interfering w/ my life
I then proceeded to quit school (was pursuing a CS degree) and got a job in my field of choice instead. I figure it this way... (not to detract from those that find college useful) if I work for 5 years (that's how long the degree I was pursuing would have taken) instead of going to school for that time, I'll a) save about $50,000 and I'll make 20,000 to $60,000+ per year (increasing over time). So, basically, college would have cost me about $50,000 to get to the same place I'll be at anyway in about 2 years (that's how much time I have left).
High bandwidth is like a drug ('specially if your used to dail-up pre-college) and you feel almost compelled to take advantage of the increadible speeds....I mean...wouldn't it be borderline evil not to?
Pardon me for seeming slightly off-topic, but bear w/ me for a moment:
In light of the recent discussions here on/. regarding the issues w/ DVD and encryption I find the assertion that the industry at hand is paying too much attention to copy protection (ultimately what the DVD encryption scheme was) a bit ironic.
Haven't I read oh so many posts here about how the film industry didn't take enough time/effort to develop adaquate (read uncrackable) copy protection and so they therefore 'deserve' to have their algorithm cracked?
If that's the case, and this were my decision, I too would want to take care to make sure that my copy protection was adaquate, especially after reading the press that the DVD issue has received.
And the comment (#2) about the difference between digital/analog reproduction is a significant part of this discussion anyway.
Though all of the above rests on the assumption that one holds the opinion any copy protection at all is needed...
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I'm trying to remember when they had "name" they could redeem. As long as I can remember cyrix chips have been flaky.
I'm no expert, but I've always had crappy luck.
-FP
Well, It needs some work. Not only does the display look funny, but configuring networking is a bit of a pain...especially if you are using an Airport card in an iBook (you take what you can get). It eventually worked, but it was an adventure.
/system/applications folder.
We found that classic support worked better if you launched the classic enviornment manually using "macos.app" instead of "classic.app" from the
oh well, this is slightly off topic, but oh well.
I'll say this though, it is most definately the coolest desktop environment I've played with. Granted a number of features need the bugs ironed out, but we're still months away from a final version and apple is typically behind schedule with operating system releases, so we've got a way to go.
Mr. Katz,
Thank you for taking the time to write thought provoking and inciteful stories for Slashdot.
As you briefly point out in one of your answers, not everyone here in the Slashdot Community(tm) hates you, or your writing (I'm particularly curious about the dept. heading which refers to you as a gasbag..but..i digress).
In fact, as tends to be true in most communities subscribing to a common ideological principle, the most vocal and reactionary members tend to be the least representative of the majority. I submit that that is much the case with Slashdot as well.
In keeping with the general gist of some writings by you and others on flaming in general, I imagine that the ferocity and venom with which this "Vocal Minority" attack you ultimately discourages the majority of people from posting positive comments. I believe to that the amount of upword moderation that such comments receive also contributes to their hesitance (not to mention the contribution such moderation must make to the impression that you are, on the whole, disliked).
Finally, I would like to say this:
I have appreciated the fact that every time I have taken the liberty of e-mailing you, you have always responded promptly and thoughtfully. This to me clearly demonstrates your sincerity and passion for the subjects about which you write.
I appreciate this level of honesty and transparency in a social context usually littered with the intellectual pissing matches and pretense.
-FP
This move is boneheaded not only because it furthers conspiracy theorists musings, but because it actually limits the technical scope of the solution.
Of the 6-8 Linux file/web servers we run, none of them run on Intel boxes. A couple are running on apple hardware (LinuxPPC) and a number are running on mips...
no matter how much I want to, I can't do anything with these.
I am aware of at least one college in Pennsylvania that has provided a brand new notebook computer to each freshman every september.
They don't, however, upgrade the computers for students, which means that after 4 years you have a paper weight...but it still remains to be seen how Ford will deal with the implications of Moore's Law.
(NOTE: In order to keep the computer, you must graduate. If you leave early, you gotta give it back)
-FP
neat stuff
http://www.wavelan.com/news/news.html?id=76
I'll be the first to say that standardized testing is bunk. While the LEGOs test may also be a bit silly on the face of it, I suggest that it's better to try new things and learn from them than it is to keep doing it the old way just because "That's the way it's always been done."
I scored a 1470 on my SATs to get into the University of Washington (not an amazing score, but good enough to overcome my crappy H.S. GPA and better than most of my peers at UW) and ended up dropping out after my freshman year because I was on acedemic probation.
There are probably a number of reasons that I ended up leaving, but I think that standardized testing is a joke. It measures nothing useful (except maybe test taking ability) and the tests are continually modified to artificially inflate lower scores.
-FP
Not necessarily,
Read @ Large (forget the authors at the moment) but it details a story (from the mid 90's) very similar to the one presented in Cuckoo's Egg. Same attitude, same lack of security.
Also, take a look at all of the defaced web pages on 2600.com or Hacker News Network...more than 50% are gov't sites, and more than half of those are military installations. While web sites may not qualify as "sensitive", I find that good security professionals tend to secure all machines in their purview, whether or not they really need it.
-FP
As far as I can tell, the point of Open Source and Free Software, and ultimately the linux mentality is on of collaboration.
Well, then, collaborate. If you can't/wont contribute (code) to the solution, quit bitching. If you don't like a particular browser, write yourself a new one or contribute to a project like Mozilla.
I personally found the article interesting. Was it perfect? Nope. Was the guy wrong about some things? Maybe. Some things said were opinions *gasp*.
-FP
Well, here goes...
In 1996 I enrolled @ UW and moved into a dorm w/ 10Base-T ethernet. I then proceeded to realize two things:
1) My time spent on-line was interfering greatly w/ my studies.
2) College was interfering w/ my life
I then proceeded to quit school (was pursuing a CS degree) and got a job in my field of choice instead. I figure it this way... (not to detract from those that find college useful) if I work for 5 years (that's how long the degree I was pursuing would have taken) instead of going to school for that time, I'll a) save about $50,000 and I'll make 20,000 to $60,000+ per year (increasing over time). So, basically, college would have cost me about $50,000 to get to the same place I'll be at anyway in about 2 years (that's how much time I have left).
High bandwidth is like a drug ('specially if your used to dail-up pre-college) and you feel almost compelled to take advantage of the increadible speeds....I mean...wouldn't it be borderline evil not to?
-fp
Pardon me for seeming slightly off-topic, but bear w/ me for a moment:
/. regarding the issues w/ DVD and encryption I find the assertion that the industry at hand is paying too much attention to copy protection (ultimately what the DVD encryption scheme was) a bit ironic.
In light of the recent discussions here on
Haven't I read oh so many posts here about how the film industry didn't take enough time/effort to develop adaquate (read uncrackable) copy protection and so they therefore 'deserve' to have their algorithm cracked?
If that's the case, and this were my decision, I too would want to take care to make sure that my copy protection was adaquate, especially after reading the press that the DVD issue has received.
And the comment (#2) about the difference between digital/analog reproduction is a significant part of this discussion anyway.
Though all of the above rests on the assumption that one holds the opinion any copy protection at all is needed...
-FP
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