Fink doesn't contaminate your OS install. It installs everything in/sw. To remove it just 'rm -rf/sw'.
I tried installing OpenDarwin once. It put things where you'd expect them to go (/usr/lib;/usr/bin; etc.), often overwriting what was already there. In my case this was a disaster.
I like the way fink does things. The only time it has broken the problems were caused by major Apple software updates changing the system around Fink. eg. new versions of gcc and libc when upgrading to Jaguar.
Actually the OS, gui and all, fit on a single floppy. Even Kickstart was originally on floppy though it found it's way into ROM, probably with the release of the A500.
Hard disk? Well OK I did know a guy with a hard disk but most of us made do with the single floppy drive.
Besides, Mono is a GPL implementation of the.NET development framework and I don't see anything wrong with that.
I don't like Microsoft's business practices and I can't stand Windows, MS Office, etc. but Mono, C#, the CLR and, by inference,.NET are all pretty cool if you can get past the basic aversion to anything that comes out of Redmond.
I recall Douglas Adams joking that he'd decided against Ivan Reichman as director on a previous attempt to develop the film when Reichman complained that he had a problem with the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. Apparently he felt '42' lacked a certain panache or something.
Anyway, I'm curious to see how those turns out but I fear it will be a total disaster.
Sure it does. I use Gnome on my Linux box and OS X on my G4. On both systems I run a whole bunch of apps in these little window things that I can move and resize. I can drag and drop and copy and paste and all that good stuff.
With Aqua everything looks wet and moves very slowly. On Gnome everything looks like whatever theme I've selected and moves very quickly even though the machine has half the grunt of the OS X box.
Gnome and KDE are both fantastic desktop environments and with the wealth of applications available for both there's really no reason not to use Linux on the desktop unless you happen to have a specific proprietary app you can't live with out (eg. Photoshop).
So you switched to OS X because it was *nix but prettier or something. And then your iBook broke a few times so you're going to switch back to Linux but you're going to run it on the Apple hardware that you've found unreliable?
And the switch is largely motivated by the hardware problems, not dissatisfaction with the OS?
And if I understood correctly this means you can move work b/w your laptop and your Linux desktop so that if the iBook dies again you can keep working on the desktop?
Except didn't you start out running Linux so the work you're doing is probably some kind of bodacious nerd crap that you could do on OS X or Linux? Like, for example, all the nerd crap that I do (coding, web sites, web applications and the like) which I move b/w OS X, PPC Linux and x86 Linux with no problems at all.
So anyway you're a moron but Linux on iBook is the business. The GUI is way faster than OS X and I can't run OS X software updates in Linux which is great because I swear those things randomly destroy iBook batteries.
OK, so you've got your Gnome panel. You add icons to launch the terminal, the browser, the e-mail client and emacs. And maybe Gimp and Inkscape because they're pretty cool too. Remove all the icons from the desktop except for home and trash. Never click on them, they just look cool. Now you have solved all your clutter problems.
As for desktop window chaos, virtual desktops. The browsing desktop, the emacs desktop, the e-mail desktop. It's so simple.
What does Roxio's CD authoring software have to do with toast? Is Roxio being disrespectful?
Damn straight they are. I take my breakfast very seriously and these Roxio freaks will burn in the deepest pits of hell for trying to pass off their lame software as a viable alternative to the undisputed breakfast of champions, my beloved little burnt slices of bread. It is deliberately misleading, it is deceptive. Falsehoods, lies. It's about twelve of the seven deadly sins rolled in to one and foisted upon an unsuspecting public first thing in the morning, a time when many of us are at our most vulnerable.
The link is to a third party developers as yet incomplete port of the GPLed X11 version of Qt to Windows. Checking the Trolltech web site they clearly don't distribute a GPL version of Qt for Windows.
Fedora is a freely distributed Linux distro. sponsored by Redhat but not supported by Redhat.
ie. if you want support for a distro you get from Redhat you buy one of the new Redhat branded products for about a gazillion dollars, otherwise download the free Fedora ISOs or use a different distro.
Looking at my local Fedora mirror I see there are RPMs for i386, ia64, ppc, ppc64, s390, s390x and x86_64, however there are no ISOs for platforms other than x86 and soon AMD64, though that hasn't hit my mirror yet.
I wonder if there are any plans to build ISOs for some of these platforms. PPC and PPC64 would be especially interesting to me as I already run Linux on a Mac and the Fedora packages are newer than those in the distro I'm using now. (eg. Gnome 2.4 vs. 2.2)
Apparently it's already possible to install Fedora on a Mac. First build a minimal YDL 3.01 system, then reconfigure the yum package manager to get Fedora PPC packages instead of YDL packages. Haven't tried it myself. Interesting though.
Once you get used to the idea that you right-click on an image to perform an operation on it, it's pretty good.
The right-click drop down menu still works, but now each image also has a conventional menu at the top of the window. Makes things a lot easier.
The lack of MDI is typical of Gnome apps. Now that I'm accustomed to Gnome it doesn't bother me.
I've been using Gimp 1.3.2 for awhile. It has a lot of the features of 2.0 including the new improved interface. I think it's fantastic. Millions might disagree.
I have KDE 3.1. My build of KWord doesn't know anything about.doc files. I assumed it was some sort of statement and a pretty cool one at that. Oh well.
Probably worth noting that gtk stands for Gimp Tool Kit. It's a widget set originally developed for Gimp . Later the Gnome team adopted it as their widget tool kit.
Same problem, same solution. Took me a little longer but I also replaced the original 10Gb HD with a new 40Gb drive. Sweet.
That hinge arrangement is an absolute disgrace.
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In my experience most people don't upgrade computers anymore, they replace them. And most people don't modify their cars either.
I actually know somebody who recently replaced a computer because she couldn't work out how to fix a simple virus infection and figured the machine was ruined.
...actually take the risk and do what needed to be done and were from America, a rule imposed when the contracts were put up to tender and were Halliburton, pretty much the only company to have been successfully tendered for any of the work.
Of course clear commercial links to the likes of Dick Cheney are purely coincidental. None of the people responsible for systematically destroying the infrastructure of Iraq are now benefiting in any way from it's reconstruction. After all, that would be unethical.
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Fink doesn't contaminate your OS install. It installs everything in /sw. To remove it just 'rm -rf /sw'.
/usr/bin; etc.), often overwriting what was already there. In my case this was a disaster.
I tried installing OpenDarwin once. It put things where you'd expect them to go (/usr/lib;
I like the way fink does things. The only time it has broken the problems were caused by major Apple software updates changing the system around Fink. eg. new versions of gcc and libc when upgrading to Jaguar.
Buy a new CD drive. They are not expensive.
Actually the OS, gui and all, fit on a single floppy. Even Kickstart was originally on floppy though it found it's way into ROM, probably with the release of the A500.
Hard disk? Well OK I did know a guy with a hard disk but most of us made do with the single floppy drive.
I appreciate your consideration for others. Thank you.
Yeah, small actions can only have a small effect which is completely quantifiable and the whole chaos theory is a lie.
Nothing in Gnome is based on Mono.
.NET development framework and I don't see anything wrong with that.
.NET are all pretty cool if you can get past the basic aversion to anything that comes out of Redmond.
Besides, Mono is a GPL implementation of the
I don't like Microsoft's business practices and I can't stand Windows, MS Office, etc. but Mono, C#, the CLR and, by inference,
I recall Douglas Adams joking that he'd decided against Ivan Reichman as director on a previous attempt to develop the film when Reichman complained that he had a problem with the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. Apparently he felt '42' lacked a certain panache or something.
Anyway, I'm curious to see how those turns out but I fear it will be a total disaster.
Sure it does. I use Gnome on my Linux box and OS X on my G4. On both systems I run a whole bunch of apps in these little window things that I can move and resize. I can drag and drop and copy and paste and all that good stuff.
With Aqua everything looks wet and moves very slowly. On Gnome everything looks like whatever theme I've selected and moves very quickly even though the machine has half the grunt of the OS X box.
Gnome and KDE are both fantastic desktop environments and with the wealth of applications available for both there's really no reason not to use Linux on the desktop unless you happen to have a specific proprietary app you can't live with out (eg. Photoshop).
So you switched to OS X because it was *nix but prettier or something. And then your iBook broke a few times so you're going to switch back to Linux but you're going to run it on the Apple hardware that you've found unreliable?
And the switch is largely motivated by the hardware problems, not dissatisfaction with the OS?
And if I understood correctly this means you can move work b/w your laptop and your Linux desktop so that if the iBook dies again you can keep working on the desktop?
Except didn't you start out running Linux so the work you're doing is probably some kind of bodacious nerd crap that you could do on OS X or Linux? Like, for example, all the nerd crap that I do (coding, web sites, web applications and the like) which I move b/w OS X, PPC Linux and x86 Linux with no problems at all.
So anyway you're a moron but Linux on iBook is the business. The GUI is way faster than OS X and I can't run OS X software updates in Linux which is great because I swear those things randomly destroy iBook batteries.
And maybe while we're at it we could pretend episode six never happened too. Stupid Muppet movie.
OK, so you've got your Gnome panel. You add icons to launch the terminal, the browser, the e-mail client and emacs. And maybe Gimp and Inkscape because they're pretty cool too. Remove all the icons from the desktop except for home and trash. Never click on them, they just look cool. Now you have solved all your clutter problems.
As for desktop window chaos, virtual desktops. The browsing desktop, the emacs desktop, the e-mail desktop. It's so simple.
Don't know, that's just a list of directory names. Some of the names are a little more obvious that others.
What does Roxio's CD authoring software have to do with toast? Is Roxio being disrespectful?
Damn straight they are. I take my breakfast very seriously and these Roxio freaks will burn in the deepest pits of hell for trying to pass off their lame software as a viable alternative to the undisputed breakfast of champions, my beloved little burnt slices of bread. It is deliberately misleading, it is deceptive. Falsehoods, lies. It's about twelve of the seven deadly sins rolled in to one and foisted upon an unsuspecting public first thing in the morning, a time when many of us are at our most vulnerable.
Thank you.
The link is to a third party developers as yet incomplete port of the GPLed X11 version of Qt to Windows. Checking the Trolltech web site they clearly don't distribute a GPL version of Qt for Windows.
Fedora is a freely distributed Linux distro. sponsored by Redhat but not supported by Redhat.
ie. if you want support for a distro you get from Redhat you buy one of the new Redhat branded products for about a gazillion dollars, otherwise download the free Fedora ISOs or use a different distro.
More info here.
Looking at my local Fedora mirror I see there are RPMs for i386, ia64, ppc, ppc64, s390, s390x and x86_64, however there are no ISOs for platforms other than x86 and soon AMD64, though that hasn't hit my mirror yet.
I wonder if there are any plans to build ISOs for some of these platforms. PPC and PPC64 would be especially interesting to me as I already run Linux on a Mac and the Fedora packages are newer than those in the distro I'm using now. (eg. Gnome 2.4 vs. 2.2)
Apparently it's already possible to install Fedora on a Mac. First build a minimal YDL 3.01 system, then reconfigure the yum package manager to get Fedora PPC packages instead of YDL packages. Haven't tried it myself. Interesting though.
Once you get used to the idea that you right-click on an image to perform an operation on it, it's pretty good.
The right-click drop down menu still works, but now each image also has a conventional menu at the top of the window. Makes things a lot easier.
The lack of MDI is typical of Gnome apps. Now that I'm accustomed to Gnome it doesn't bother me.
I've been using Gimp 1.3.2 for awhile. It has a lot of the features of 2.0 including the new improved interface. I think it's fantastic. Millions might disagree.
I have KDE 3.1. My build of KWord doesn't know anything about .doc files. I assumed it was some sort of statement and a pretty cool one at that. Oh well.
I think Qt is released under different licenses for different platforms. It isn't GPL for Windows.
Gnome libraries (glib, gtk, etc.) are released under the LGPL while Gnome, Gnome apps and other GNU software are released under the GPL.
Incidentally I believe RMS favours emacs, full screen in a text console, as his main desktop environment.
Probably worth noting that gtk stands for Gimp Tool Kit. It's a widget set originally developed for Gimp . Later the Gnome team adopted it as their widget tool kit.
Actually I think KOffice is pretty neat. I especially like the way it doesn't support any proprietary formats eg. MS Office.
Same problem, same solution. Took me a little longer but I also replaced the original 10Gb HD with a new 40Gb drive. Sweet.
That hinge arrangement is an absolute disgrace.
In my experience most people don't upgrade computers anymore, they replace them. And most people don't modify their cars either.
I actually know somebody who recently replaced a computer because she couldn't work out how to fix a simple virus infection and figured the machine was ruined.
if hope(horny(you))
fuck(you);
else
pub_crawl();
...actually take the risk and do what needed to be done
and were from America, a rule imposed when the contracts were put up to tender and were Halliburton, pretty much the only company to have been successfully tendered for any of the work.
Of course clear commercial links to the likes of Dick Cheney are purely coincidental. None of the people responsible for systematically destroying the infrastructure of Iraq are now benefiting in any way from it's reconstruction. After all, that would be unethical.