Becuase one of the reasons why people have good experiances with OS X versus Windows / Linux has nothing to do with how good a software product OS X is, but rather that apple is very careful that the software and hardware work well together; if they open up the platform then you'll have manufacturers who'll stick OS X on a laptop where the network card only soft-of works right, or maybe things work fine except that when you suspend to ram the graphics card doesn't shut off and it still drains your battery. (I mean look what happened with linux based netbooks, every major vendor who sold them had some issues with misconfiguration on at least one model) If OS X loses it's reputation of "just working", which happens becuase Apple controls both hardware and software, people won't desire it as a product anymore.
Yes, it is that different; it's the difference between having something that isn't that bad to carry around if you know you'll need it, and something that you just take with on the off chance you'll want to use it. The Macbook Air is almost as portable a netbook (and prettier, w/ a better processor & display, but less peripheral ports, and no integrated wired networking) and about five times as expensive as basic model Mini 10v, Wind, or Apire One.
If you buy a copy of OS X from Apple, you are an Apple customer, even if you don't have a mac.
If you pirate a copy of Windows, then even though you are a Windows user, you aren't a Microsoft customer. (unless you also buy other stuff from them)
One thing is sure; whatever platform ends up dominating the netbook space really needs some work done in terms of optimizing the user interface for smaller screens, becuase, as it stands, some software is completely unusable (without plugging in an external monitor) due to windows being designed to be too tall. I think this is one space where Microsoft could potentially have done a lot more than they have; linux is also a mixed bag, but at least Intel and Canonical are working on the problem.
I think it's safe to say that that one came somewhere after 2.6.10.something and before 2.6.11.something, and that it's not a vanilla kernel (because then it would be just 2.6.11.8) but rather a patched version of the kernel.
Pets are expensive to "maintain", by this I mean feed, supply medical care for, and in some cases clothe. Things that you spend money on ussaully in some way involve consuming energy, therefore "expensive = bad for the environment". Keeping non-food / work animals around is a tremendous indulgence that is possible only becuase we live in a very affluent society. Of course it's also true that the energy consumption of a pet is still far less then the energy consumption of a human adult or even a human child, but if we are to continue to survive as a species, ceasing to reproduce is not exactly an option. However, for the amjority of human beings, not keeping pets IS.
ZFS is supposed to do this (on solaris), and you're right, the best way to take advanate of this would be smart system software; on the other hand, simply creating two folders:
Large_Files
and
Small_Files
and doing the management yourself shouldn't be that bad... anyway, I think this is probably the not-so-distant future of storage; "smart storage" where often accessed files or files where fast read/write speeds are the most critical should be on an SSD while other files, are stored to conventional spinning platter drives.
Unless you want to dual boot and share/home; it's a royal pain in the ass between BSD / Linux / Solaris ; then your only real option is ext2. Add windows and it becomes very hard; you're pretty much down to using NTFS or fat32 and then doing hackery with the mount options and even THEN it only really works if you have one partition for each user who's going to have a $HOME shared between OSes. (And this is the only reason why I ONLY boot linux)
Actually, one of the purported benifits of ZFS is that it's supposed to be able to increase performance on systems that have a combination of SSD and spinning platter disks by caching files on the SSD. I don't know what it buys you in practice, but it's one of Sun's big selling points of the filesystem, in fact they were building some servers specifically to take advantage of SSD + spinning platter "hybrid storage".
I beg to differ; I still think that the iphone looks ubsurd when actually being used as a phone... it pretty much looks the same as holding an iPod up to your ear... and don't even get me started on those bluetoth headsets.
If you're considering doing incremental or archival backups I would look into using dar. It's sort of like tar on steriods, and is great little utility. It's also nothing like bleeding edge, runs on both Linux / BSD platforms and has a windows port (that I've neever used). Combining dar w/ ssh and some simple shell scripts might be the sort of solution you're looking for.
The UIC's LUG has had a tutorial on how to connect to the UIC wireless network for some time, there's no "bypassing" anything, you just need a wireless client that supports IEEE8021x authentication, e.g. wpa_supplicant. I think only reason why the accc tells you need Secure W2, is becuase I don't think Windows XP supports 8021x natively. Note that OS X > 10.3 can connect natively, and the accc even links to the LUG instructions:
this link seems a bit screwed up, try reading the table of contents, at the top of the page though.
At least a few of the dept.'s at UIC run linux servers, I know the MSCS and CS dept.s do. The old tigger and icarus servers run a very old version of solaris. And there used to be some old G3 macs in the library running Debian, but I think these were phased out and replace w/ newer machines running Vista and OS X. I think the CS dept. has a bunch of labs full of red hat machines. Also, if you're on the campus network you can download a site-licensed copy of Red Hat.
So, there's actually a bunch of stuff on campus running Linux and while the accc doesn't support crap here, there's very little you can't do on the campus network if you run linux vs. Windows/OS X. Also, this is pretty much as good as it get's anywhere; I don't even know of any residential ISP's in Chicago that "officially" support linux. AT&T supposedly supports "unix", but if you ask them for help with linux on the phone they pretty much hang up on you.
I disagree; there's still (potentially) money to be made selling Iphone apps, probably more so than apps for any other smartphone platform, and most iphone users/ potential iphone users don't really care about c64 emulators or basic, so they won't pay much head to what Apple's doing here, so business will continue as usual. I'm not saying that's a good thing, but that's just the way things tend to turn out.
Touch-typing is one of those skills that hasn't changed much in the past century; it used to be helpful when you typed on a typewriter, it's still helpful and more or less the same process when you use a computer.
Okay, you've got a point in general, but this has been FSF tactics for a long time and I'm not seeing any progress here. Did "defective by design" work? Did "BadVista" work? I can't find much data on the history of FSF campaigns but they were probably doing the same thing back when XP and 2000 came out. I don't think this approach is working, here are some things I think are better ideas:
1) Advertise / fund advertizsing of the strengths of F/OSS, or just the availability, make people realize that a FREE alternative to windows exists.
2) Lobby Local/State/National governments to adopt F/OSS and non-patent encumbered, freely available file formats
3) Lobby agianst software patents
4) Support F/OSS projects with ANY copyleft license, don't re-implement things just becuase there's GPLv3 licensed project(GNU pdf, I'm talking about you). Also, give up the pretension that you guys actually provide an operating system (w/ no usable kernel, of course), GNU utilities make up a very important part of the base of most Desktop and Server linux distributions, but who's really gonna run Desktop linux w/ out X11? Who's gonna run a Server w/o one of Apache, Sendmail/Qmail/Other Mailserver, Samba, NFS, BIND/other DNS server?
5) Compile better lists (or better yet a searchable databese) of hardware that works well with free software. (Note free3d.org has such a list, but I don't think it's been updated in 2 years and it certainly doesn't cover much newer hardware)
6) Continue enforcing GPL complaince by weilding the threat of legal action.
Well, that's all I can really think of. To some degree the FSF does 4) and 5) and 1) already and certainly does 60, but doing any of these points better would be effort better spent then yet another Mud slinging campaign against windows.
While this is true and all, they really need to pick a better way of going about this sort of thing instead of slinging hyperbole around. As it stands the "FSF" campaigns are hard to take seriously, I mean they really come off sounding like crackpots. I guess maybe they are. When you've the FSF essentially sling FUD (mostly fact-based but presented w/ an exagerated and alarmist style) by association all Free and to the extent that it is confused Open software developers, distributors, and users become crackpots by association in the public eye.
The only possible good thing that can come from this suit will be if i4i wins, and Microsoft has to stop selling word for some period of time (I assume they'll release a non-infringing version ASAP) and then 'normal' people will actually realize that software patents are stupid, massively inconveniant, and stiffling innovation in software. Understand that this goes beyond the normal shadenfreude I have for whenever bad stuff happens to Microsoft, the patents invollved in this case are ridiculous, but are perfectly inline with other software patents granted to Apple, Microsoft, IBM, etc. The whole patent system needs massive reform, and pressure for that has to come from the general public, the software giants, (Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Oracle, etc.) have way too much invested in the current system to ever challenge it; even when they're found guilty of infringement in one of thier flagship products.
I got 84440 K, but that doesn't include depedancies; still you probably don't need the dependancies if all you want to do is edit text. Xemacs only takes 34448 K; I would think that if you compiled without X11 support, libsvg, libjpeg,... and bunch of other options, you slim either of them down quite a bit more in addition. but I guess both are huge when you compare them to the 1144 K nano. but Xemacs in particular doesn't seem that bloated compared to a 29101 K vim w/o X11 support.
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Becuase one of the reasons why people have good experiances with OS X versus Windows / Linux has nothing to do with how good a software product OS X is, but rather that apple is very careful that the software and hardware work well together; if they open up the platform then you'll have manufacturers who'll stick OS X on a laptop where the network card only soft-of works right, or maybe things work fine except that when you suspend to ram the graphics card doesn't shut off and it still drains your battery. (I mean look what happened with linux based netbooks, every major vendor who sold them had some issues with misconfiguration on at least one model) If OS X loses it's reputation of "just working", which happens becuase Apple controls both hardware and software, people won't desire it as a product anymore.
Yes, it is that different; it's the difference between having something that isn't that bad to carry around if you know you'll need it, and something that you just take with on the off chance you'll want to use it. The Macbook Air is almost as portable a netbook (and prettier, w/ a better processor & display, but less peripheral ports, and no integrated wired networking) and about five times as expensive as basic model Mini 10v, Wind, or Apire One.
If you buy a copy of OS X from Apple, you are an Apple customer, even if you don't have a mac. If you pirate a copy of Windows, then even though you are a Windows user, you aren't a Microsoft customer. (unless you also buy other stuff from them)
One thing is sure; whatever platform ends up dominating the netbook space really needs some work done in terms of optimizing the user interface for smaller screens, becuase, as it stands, some software is completely unusable (without plugging in an external monitor) due to windows being designed to be too tall. I think this is one space where Microsoft could potentially have done a lot more than they have; linux is also a mixed bag, but at least Intel and Canonical are working on the problem.
I think it's safe to say that that one came somewhere after 2.6.10.something and before 2.6.11.something, and that it's not a vanilla kernel (because then it would be just 2.6.11.8) but rather a patched version of the kernel.
If it's not a "web log", isn't it just a "log"?
Pets are expensive to "maintain", by this I mean feed, supply medical care for, and in some cases clothe. Things that you spend money on ussaully in some way involve consuming energy, therefore "expensive = bad for the environment". Keeping non-food / work animals around is a tremendous indulgence that is possible only becuase we live in a very affluent society. Of course it's also true that the energy consumption of a pet is still far less then the energy consumption of a human adult or even a human child, but if we are to continue to survive as a species, ceasing to reproduce is not exactly an option. However, for the amjority of human beings, not keeping pets IS.
ZFS is supposed to do this (on solaris), and you're right, the best way to take advanate of this would be smart system software; on the other hand, simply creating two folders: Large_Files and Small_Files and doing the management yourself shouldn't be that bad... anyway, I think this is probably the not-so-distant future of storage; "smart storage" where often accessed files or files where fast read/write speeds are the most critical should be on an SSD while other files, are stored to conventional spinning platter drives.
Unless you want to dual boot and share /home; it's a royal pain in the ass between BSD / Linux / Solaris ; then your only real option is ext2. Add windows and it becomes very hard; you're pretty much down to using NTFS or fat32 and then doing hackery with the mount options and even THEN it only really works if you have one partition for each user who's going to have a $HOME shared between OSes. (And this is the only reason why I ONLY boot linux)
Actually, one of the purported benifits of ZFS is that it's supposed to be able to increase performance on systems that have a combination of SSD and spinning platter disks by caching files on the SSD. I don't know what it buys you in practice, but it's one of Sun's big selling points of the filesystem, in fact they were building some servers specifically to take advantage of SSD + spinning platter "hybrid storage".
Screw that, Ubuntu server needs to reliably support installing on Software raid. (tried it, failed, used debian instead)
I beg to differ; I still think that the iphone looks ubsurd when actually being used as a phone... it pretty much looks the same as holding an iPod up to your ear ... and don't even get me started on those bluetoth headsets.
If you're considering doing incremental or archival backups I would look into using dar. It's sort of like tar on steriods, and is great little utility. It's also nothing like bleeding edge, runs on both Linux / BSD platforms and has a windows port (that I've neever used). Combining dar w/ ssh and some simple shell scripts might be the sort of solution you're looking for.
Well, Novel has that whole "interoperability" advertising campaign going, I imagine this might have something to do with this...
The UIC's LUG has had a tutorial on how to connect to the UIC wireless network for some time, there's no "bypassing" anything, you just need a wireless client that supports IEEE8021x authentication, e.g. wpa_supplicant. I think only reason why the accc tells you need Secure W2, is becuase I don't think Windows XP supports 8021x natively. Note that OS X > 10.3 can connect natively, and the accc even links to the LUG instructions: this link seems a bit screwed up, try reading the table of contents, at the top of the page though. At least a few of the dept.'s at UIC run linux servers, I know the MSCS and CS dept.s do. The old tigger and icarus servers run a very old version of solaris. And there used to be some old G3 macs in the library running Debian, but I think these were phased out and replace w/ newer machines running Vista and OS X. I think the CS dept. has a bunch of labs full of red hat machines. Also, if you're on the campus network you can download a site-licensed copy of Red Hat. So, there's actually a bunch of stuff on campus running Linux and while the accc doesn't support crap here, there's very little you can't do on the campus network if you run linux vs. Windows/OS X. Also, this is pretty much as good as it get's anywhere; I don't even know of any residential ISP's in Chicago that "officially" support linux. AT&T supposedly supports "unix", but if you ask them for help with linux on the phone they pretty much hang up on you.
I disagree; there's still (potentially) money to be made selling Iphone apps, probably more so than apps for any other smartphone platform, and most iphone users/ potential iphone users don't really care about c64 emulators or basic, so they won't pay much head to what Apple's doing here, so business will continue as usual. I'm not saying that's a good thing, but that's just the way things tend to turn out.
Touch-typing is one of those skills that hasn't changed much in the past century; it used to be helpful when you typed on a typewriter, it's still helpful and more or less the same process when you use a computer.
Okay, you've got a point in general, but this has been FSF tactics for a long time and I'm not seeing any progress here. Did "defective by design" work? Did "BadVista" work? I can't find much data on the history of FSF campaigns but they were probably doing the same thing back when XP and 2000 came out. I don't think this approach is working, here are some things I think are better ideas:
1) Advertise / fund advertizsing of the strengths of F/OSS, or just the availability, make people realize that a FREE alternative to windows exists.
2) Lobby Local/State/National governments to adopt F/OSS and non-patent encumbered, freely available file formats
3) Lobby agianst software patents
4) Support F/OSS projects with ANY copyleft license, don't re-implement things just becuase there's GPLv3 licensed project(GNU pdf, I'm talking about you). Also, give up the pretension that you guys actually provide an operating system (w/ no usable kernel, of course), GNU utilities make up a very important part of the base of most Desktop and Server linux distributions, but who's really gonna run Desktop linux w/ out X11? Who's gonna run a Server w/o one of Apache, Sendmail/Qmail/Other Mailserver, Samba, NFS, BIND/other DNS server?
5) Compile better lists (or better yet a searchable databese) of hardware that works well with free software. (Note free3d.org has such a list, but I don't think it's been updated in 2 years and it certainly doesn't cover much newer hardware)
6) Continue enforcing GPL complaince by weilding the threat of legal action.
Well, that's all I can really think of. To some degree the FSF does 4) and 5) and 1) already and certainly does 60, but doing any of these points better would be effort better spent then yet another Mud slinging campaign against windows.
While this is true and all, they really need to pick a better way of going about this sort of thing instead of slinging hyperbole around. As it stands the "FSF" campaigns are hard to take seriously, I mean they really come off sounding like crackpots. I guess maybe they are. When you've the FSF essentially sling FUD (mostly fact-based but presented w/ an exagerated and alarmist style) by association all Free and to the extent that it is confused Open software developers, distributors, and users become crackpots by association in the public eye.
For 2. intel atom's are 32 bit, so you don't have a choice. I guess you've got a choice if you've got a nano.
I wouldn't call the intel atom processor series legacy hardware or obscure.
The only possible good thing that can come from this suit will be if i4i wins, and Microsoft has to stop selling word for some period of time (I assume they'll release a non-infringing version ASAP) and then 'normal' people will actually realize that software patents are stupid, massively inconveniant, and stiffling innovation in software. Understand that this goes beyond the normal shadenfreude I have for whenever bad stuff happens to Microsoft, the patents invollved in this case are ridiculous, but are perfectly inline with other software patents granted to Apple, Microsoft, IBM, etc. The whole patent system needs massive reform, and pressure for that has to come from the general public, the software giants, (Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Oracle, etc.) have way too much invested in the current system to ever challenge it; even when they're found guilty of infringement in one of thier flagship products.
I got 84440 K, but that doesn't include depedancies; still you probably don't need the dependancies if all you want to do is edit text. Xemacs only takes 34448 K; I would think that if you compiled without X11 support, libsvg, libjpeg, ... and bunch of other options, you slim either of them down quite a bit more in addition. but I guess both are huge when you compare them to the 1144 K nano. but Xemacs in particular doesn't seem that bloated compared to a 29101 K vim w/o X11 support.
if emacs could run on the supercomputers of the 80s, surely it can run on the mobile phones of today.
For instance, Batman can breath in space