We couldn't take floppies, tapes, walkmans, radios, cameras, or video equipment to where I worked this summer due to security. If you have classified information, that makes sense, though. Loose lips sink ships, you know.
What I'm not surprised about is your willingness to forget the PC world's blunders in the interest of bashing Apple.
But that's not what apple is bashing. They're talking about how the problem was in ``big iron''
Back in the era of mainframe computers or big iron (a.k.a. the Iron Age), programmers used an abbreviated date format to conserve precious memory. Using two digits to denote the year for instance, 99 for 1999 turned out to be a bad idea. Apple solved the Year 2000 problem 15 years ago with the introduction of the Macintosh, a personal computer that could handle internally generated dates correctly all the way to the year 29,940
It says nothing about PCs. Just mainframes and macintoshes. I'll agree with you that much PC hardware is crap, and I'll agree with you that much Windows is crap.
I don't know about the Y2k compatibility of Linux. How safe is it?
Well, there's really no Y2K problem, but with all unices (and windows) there's a Y2038 problem, which is 2^31 seconds since 1970.
libc6 can compile using a 64-bit time_t cleanly. We'll all be using 64-bit native computers by 2010, probably, and by then libc6 might be stable. So we'll switch for all processors and non-64-bit processors will just not be so fast using time_t. Other programs will have to be recompiled, too, but if they are written well (ie time_t numsecs; rather than int numsecs; ) then they'll be pretty easy to port into a 64-bit date.
Macs are really good because some applications for some pre-1985 computers are bad? Buying a Mac to replace your aging AS/400 makes sense? Buy a mac to replace mission-critical computers?
I gues that would be thinking different, but not thinking well.
Apple spreads more fear and lies. Is anyone suprised by this?
I love ol(v)?wm too... just blackbox is prettier. I really like sticky menus and the pager in olvwm... but I use blackbox some now, too, because it is a little smoother. olvwm is there, though, whenver I'm doing heavy window moving across desktops.
Micron, Dell, and Gateway are NOT the best computer builders.
I am.
And if you know how to do it, you are too.
I can consistently configure better, cheaper computers by skimping on things I don't need to be all that great (sound, video on a server, etc) and can get quality parts that I know what they are.
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We couldn't take floppies, tapes, walkmans, radios, cameras, or video equipment to where I worked this summer due to security. If you have classified information, that makes sense, though.
Loose lips sink ships, you know.
But that's not what apple is bashing. They're talking about how the problem was in ``big iron''
It says nothing about PCs. Just mainframes and macintoshes. I'll agree with you that much PC hardware is crap, and I'll agree with you that much Windows is crap.
I don't know about the Y2k compatibility of Linux. How safe is it?
Well, there's really no Y2K problem, but with all unices (and windows) there's a Y2038 problem, which is 2^31 seconds since 1970.
libc6 can compile using a 64-bit time_t cleanly. We'll all be using 64-bit native computers by 2010, probably, and by then libc6 might be stable. So we'll switch for all processors and non-64-bit processors will just not be so fast using time_t. Other programs will have to be recompiled, too, but if they are written well (ie time_t numsecs; rather than int numsecs; ) then they'll be pretty easy to port into a 64-bit date.
I gues that would be thinking different, but not thinking well.
Apple spreads more fear and lies. Is anyone suprised by this?
I love ol(v)?wm too... just blackbox is prettier. I really like sticky menus and the pager in olvwm... but I use blackbox some now, too, because it is a little smoother. olvwm is there, though, whenver I'm doing heavy window moving across desktops.
I use blackbox, and I must say it's pretty sweet. A nice, clean, fast window manager. And prettier than olvwm. ;-)
I don't plan on changing to 2.2.x untill I find a feature I need.
Is this the same data that's in Street Atlas USA and stuff?
I am.
And if you know how to do it, you are too.
I can consistently configure better, cheaper computers by skimping on things I don't need to be all that great (sound, video on a server, etc) and can get quality parts that I know what they are.