actually, in canada, french is 40% of the population. and everybody learns it it school. if i was to start speaking french, all of my geek friends would understand.
Yes, it is really kewl that apart from DreamWeaver, most of the apps that I use come pre-installed on OS X. I really do spend most of the day with Mail, Safari, iTunes, iCal, AddressBook and Terminal/ssh windows open.
umm, this is vancouver we are talking about. alcohol is more closely regulated than marijuana.
NO drinking after 2
NO drinking after midnight on sundays.
NO selling of hard alchohol except in government liqour stores
NO drinking in public
NO smoking in bars
this is a place where during large events like fireworks and newyears, the cops stand at the subway exits downtown and search (illegally) and confiscate peoples' unopened and hidden alchohol.
well, saucepan, TV was always this bad. nostalgia is what makes watching the A-Team or Knight Rider bearable, not quality. Actually, you could argue the same about Dr. Who!
There are always a few jewels mixed in with the rough, time will tell what they are. Six Feet Under seems to be getting good reviews from people who's opinion I trust. If i had cable, I'd watch it.
One of the main reasons I cancelled the cable was, rather than sit through commercials, I conditioned myself to flick through programs when the commercial came on. This lead to me never watching a program in it's entirety. Hence my decision to rent videos. I can now fall asleep or just stop a video half way through, and continue the next day. If I only want to spend half an hour watching to TV, I can. I won't miss anything.
Actually, I do want goverment to get larger and create more regulation, and I do want free TV. OK, I live in Canada, I have a government I can trust .
I look at my favorite TV shows, including Black Adder, Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf, Dr. Who, Absolutly Fabulous, Monty Python etc. and realize that they all came out of a government funded, non-profit television network. The programming shows a creativity and reality unheard of in for-profit television production. Absolutly Fabulous couldn't even be produced in the current american environment, advertisers and producers are too afraid of controversy! Instead, we get Friends!
Never mind product placement, how about plain old commercials?. I opted out of having a cableTV feed a decade ago because I found the amount of commercials annoying, and use the local video store instead. Watching TV at friends houses on occasion, I am in awe at their conditioned tolerace for these commerecial's length, obnoxiousness, and frequency, which seem to have grown to the point where they overshadow the program iteself.
People get so obsessed with how they get from point A to point B, that sometimes they forget what point A and B are. If point A was designed properly, getting to point B would suddenly become much less important.
In the debate over public vs private transport, people overlook WHY there is so much traffic in the first place.
Low density suburbs with no commercial or industrial space cannot support mass transit. They barely have the tax base to support basic amenities like roads, police, sewers, water and firestations. It is a no-brainer that a high density neighbourhoods like those found in Manhattan, Tokyo or many European cities can support a lot more amenities per capita than can your typical American suburb. A city block like mine with 20 buildings each with 150 units has the same sewers, water pipes, telephone lines and other infrastructure under the street as any suburb. A look at policing cost will show that the neighbourhood is partly self-policing too.
When I moved into this neighbourhood (the West End of Vancouver, Canada), I quicky found that my car was useless. There is no parking anywhere for more than 2 hours at a time without a permit. Once I got my permit, the car didn't move from that spot for over a month. EVERYTHING is in walking distance. From specialty grocery stores to incredible restaurants to the commercial district for work, to bars, to the beach and forest (one block away), there is no need to drive. The only exception is the mountains for snowboarding, which take 45 mins by public transit or 25 min by car. Not worth the cost of owning a car! Needless to say, after three months, I sold the car and saved over $500 CDN/month, three quarters of the cost of my rent! That was seven years ago. Never looked back.
Part of the reason this neighbourhood developed the way it did is out of necessity. Long ago the city of Vancouver decided that they would never build a freeway. The suburbs built them, but they promptly end at the border of Vancouver. Parking is also limited. This makes driving in Vancouver difficult, to say the least. A city of only 2 million, we also have invested in 2 subway lines and we are building a third. This is not so much to help people get from existing neighbourhoods into downtown, as to to encourge more high density neighbourhoods to cluster around the stations.
In short, increasing population density is the solution to many of the problems facing American cities today. Counter-intuitively, lack of transportation can actually encourage good urban planning. Dense neighbourhoods save the government money , and save the consumer money. It is a win-win situation. Suburbs are simply, unsustainable. Want to fix the transportation problem? Don't build any more transportation infrastructure. Just loosen your zoning laws so developers can build up instead of out, stop subsidizing new developments farther out in the burbs, and let the marker do the rest.
In downtown Vancouver, pot is legal in the sense that jaywalking is legal. You "could" get ticket for it, and you don't do it in front of a bunch of idle cops, but you don't think twice about it most of the time. When you walk down the street, some people are smoking cigarettes, some people are smoking weed. Noone looks twice. I personally smoke it after dinner once at least a few times a year, and I generaly go outside for a walk and do it like every one else. Kinda like an aperatif.
one place where I used to work had their OS 9 network go down overnight because a book fell off a shelf above the server and was holding the mouse button down!
My theory is that if a hardware component is going to fail, it is most likely to fail in the first year of use. (harddrives excluded) This applies more to desktops than to laptops, but it has proven true even with my iBook. In the first 6 months, the inverter board for the LCD screen failed on my iBook,, and the default applecare took care of it. I have been applecareless for almost a year now, and no problems.
I also believe that after a year of use, it would be hard to prove that a hardware failure is not due to negligence or abuse on the part of the owner anyways. I treated my first iBook pretty hard and it is pretty banged up. In fact, the iBook was my first laptop and I just assumed you could treat it roughly. My dell and IBM toting friends were shocked to find out that I dropped it, multiple times, carried it on a bike in a simple backpack, got the keyboard and screen pretty wet on many occasions next to the shower, and even flung it clear across a room once. Not that I am recommending these activities without making a backup first, but these iBooks are pretty well put together.
AddressBook stores it's information in binary files, and can only export to vCard
So, any information that you enter into AddressBook will not be accessible to other machines over LDAP, unless you use something like the horde as a front-end to a LDAP server, and then manually import your vCards. This is the same problem as the first post in the thread. Back to square one! Apple expects us to buy a subscription to.Mac and use iSync to share addressbooks. Not exactly the solution I had in mind!
I agree. I have a 500 Mhz iBook, and I am now upgrading to a 900 Mhz iBook. I just don't see having a G4 over a G3 as being that valuable. Screw the TiBook. The real reason I am upgrading from the 500Mhz iBook is the crappy video card in that machine. The 500 Mhz iBook shipped before Quartz Extreme, and the video card in it can't take advantage of Jaguar's optimation. Who wants to do the genie effect in a 500 Mhz CPU???
I agree. I will sign up for this service as soon as it is available in canada. All my disks end up getting ripped into iTunes anyways. Feed the harddrive. More mp3s. mmm.
I am having the same problem. I am using the stock Apache server too. Very annoying. I have found no solutions yet and I am not about to compile a new version of apache.
I am running a machine that has been upgraded steadily from 10.0 up 'till now with every new version and patch of OS X as they come out. No problems going to 10.2.4 except for the aforementioned httpd.conf.
Silly that although PHP is installed, and the AddModule and LoadModule lines for the PHP module are in httpd.conf ready to be uncommented and spring into action, that a simple commented out line like AddType application/x-httpd-php.php
is not present in the httpd.conf. It would be nice to simply find and uncomment all the lines in httpd.conf that contain the letters PHP and have it do its thing!
Not really. OS X applications use Aqua. If you are a Mac user and you have a choice between an Aqua program and an X11 platform, you will choose Aqua every time. Most Mac users won't bother to download X11. (I didn't, and I am a linux user of many years). Aqua is just too dambed nice.
If you were developing on the mac, you have some cross-platform options that allow you to leverage Aqua and still work on other platforms. Java and Qt are two. ( I have a strong preference for the first ).
Macs are not popular with the linux crowd? I admit that before OS X I wasn't that impressed with apple's offerings, but when jaguar came out this summer, I paid a visit to the local mac dealership. I tested out the command line for hours at the store; Everything that I would come to expect from any UNIX is there. I felt at home immediatly. Then I thought: photoshop, dreamweaver, flash on a UNIX machine? And its so pretty. I had to have one. So I bought a little iBook...and six months later, I can say that I am not looking back.
Stop equating judaism with christianity. Christianity is the religion that has the problem with pagans and "oriental misticysts". Jews are not concerned what non-jews are doing. It is not threatened by other belief systems. It stands on its own. It was christianity that went from continent to continent forcing people to convert at gunpoint. How many jewish missionaries do you know? In fact, it is almost impossible to convert to judaism. They don't want you to join, they just want to be left alone!
To a jew, a gentile is a gentile. Judaism started when Abraham smashed the idols. If pray to a statue, you are not jewish. If you pray to many statues, you are even less jewish. In that respect, a buddist is more jewish than a catholic.
All jewish laws are null and void if human life is at risk. If it was an air-traffic control system that went down during shabbas, no rabbi anywhere would say wait until sunrise to fix the problem.
The word barah in the torah is translated into english as "creation", but in hebrew it has a slightly different meaning. Man is spoken of as "making" things, like making a pot out of clay, but not "creating", ie, making something out of nothing.
Two important things should be noted about this book. First, about what it
does not contain: although I am sure many people will see the Rare Earth Hypothesis
as another proof for the superority of the capitalist system, this notion of
a proof is completely unrelated to the authors' ideas. The hypothesis claims
that the conditions for creating a capitalist system are rare; but we know for
a fact that at least in one case, all the required conditions were met. Additionally,
anyone who insists on taking the ideas of this book as a proof for the superority
of the capitalist system will also have to accept the authors' prepositions
that other economic systems may in fact count as complex life, and that the
theory of evolution may include the possibilty for other economic systems to
evolve.
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actually, in canada, french is 40% of the population. and everybody learns it it school. if i was to start speaking french, all of my geek friends would understand.
Yes, it is really kewl that apart from DreamWeaver, most of the apps that I use come pre-installed on OS X. I really do spend most of the day with Mail, Safari, iTunes, iCal, AddressBook and Terminal/ssh windows open.
- NO drinking after 2
- NO drinking after midnight on sundays.
- NO selling of hard alchohol except in government liqour stores
- NO drinking in public
- NO smoking in bars
this is a place where during large events like fireworks and newyears, the cops stand at the subway exits downtown and search (illegally) and confiscate peoples' unopened and hidden alchohol.You want to have drive-through bottle shops??
I don't know about you, but if i need to go to the bathroom for 4 minutes at least three times in a half hour, i would see a doctor.
well, saucepan, TV was always this bad. nostalgia is what makes watching the A-Team or Knight Rider bearable, not quality. Actually, you could argue the same about Dr. Who!
There are always a few jewels mixed in with the rough, time will tell what they are. Six Feet Under seems to be getting good reviews from people who's opinion I trust. If i had cable, I'd watch it.
One of the main reasons I cancelled the cable was, rather than sit through commercials, I conditioned myself to flick through programs when the commercial came on. This lead to me never watching a program in it's entirety. Hence my decision to rent videos. I can now fall asleep or just stop a video half way through, and continue the next day. If I only want to spend half an hour watching to TV, I can. I won't miss anything.
Actually, I do want goverment to get larger and create more regulation, and I do want free TV. OK, I live in Canada, I have a government I can trust .
I look at my favorite TV shows, including Black Adder, Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf, Dr. Who, Absolutly Fabulous, Monty Python etc. and realize that they all came out of a government funded, non-profit television network. The programming shows a creativity and reality unheard of in for-profit television production. Absolutly Fabulous couldn't even be produced in the current american environment, advertisers and producers are too afraid of controversy! Instead, we get Friends!
Never mind product placement, how about plain old commercials?. I opted out of having a cableTV feed a decade ago because I found the amount of commercials annoying, and use the local video store instead. Watching TV at friends houses on occasion, I am in awe at their conditioned tolerace for these commerecial's length, obnoxiousness, and frequency, which seem to have grown to the point where they overshadow the program iteself.
They made up for her lack of clothes by piling them on double-time in the Talons of Weng-Chiang. Not that I cared, I am, after all, a gay Dr. Who fan.
In the debate over public vs private transport, people overlook WHY there is so much traffic in the first place.
Low density suburbs with no commercial or industrial space cannot support mass transit. They barely have the tax base to support basic amenities like roads, police, sewers, water and firestations. It is a no-brainer that a high density neighbourhoods like those found in Manhattan, Tokyo or many European cities can support a lot more amenities per capita than can your typical American suburb. A city block like mine with 20 buildings each with 150 units has the same sewers, water pipes, telephone lines and other infrastructure under the street as any suburb. A look at policing cost will show that the neighbourhood is partly self-policing too.
When I moved into this neighbourhood (the West End of Vancouver, Canada), I quicky found that my car was useless. There is no parking anywhere for more than 2 hours at a time without a permit. Once I got my permit, the car didn't move from that spot for over a month. EVERYTHING is in walking distance. From specialty grocery stores to incredible restaurants to the commercial district for work, to bars, to the beach and forest (one block away), there is no need to drive. The only exception is the mountains for snowboarding, which take 45 mins by public transit or 25 min by car. Not worth the cost of owning a car! Needless to say, after three months, I sold the car and saved over $500 CDN /month, three quarters of the cost of my rent! That was seven years ago. Never looked back.
Part of the reason this neighbourhood developed the way it did is out of necessity. Long ago the city of Vancouver decided that they would never build a freeway. The suburbs built them, but they promptly end at the border of Vancouver. Parking is also limited. This makes driving in Vancouver difficult, to say the least. A city of only 2 million, we also have invested in 2 subway lines and we are building a third. This is not so much to help people get from existing neighbourhoods into downtown, as to to encourge more high density neighbourhoods to cluster around the stations.
In short, increasing population density is the solution to many of the problems facing American cities today. Counter-intuitively, lack of transportation can actually encourage good urban planning. Dense neighbourhoods save the government money , and save the consumer money. It is a win-win situation. Suburbs are simply, unsustainable. Want to fix the transportation problem? Don't build any more transportation infrastructure. Just loosen your zoning laws so developers can build up instead of out, stop subsidizing new developments farther out in the burbs, and let the marker do the rest.
In downtown Vancouver, pot is legal in the sense that jaywalking is legal. You "could" get ticket for it, and you don't do it in front of a bunch of idle cops, but you don't think twice about it most of the time. When you walk down the street, some people are smoking cigarettes, some people are smoking weed. Noone looks twice. I personally smoke it after dinner once at least a few times a year, and I generaly go outside for a walk and do it like every one else. Kinda like an aperatif.
It is better than "Mostly Harmless".
one place where I used to work had their OS 9 network go down overnight because a book fell off a shelf above the server and was holding the mouse button down!
My theory is that if a hardware component is going to fail, it is most likely to fail in the first year of use. (harddrives excluded) This applies more to desktops than to laptops, but it has proven true even with my iBook. In the first 6 months, the inverter board for the LCD screen failed on my iBook,, and the default applecare took care of it. I have been applecareless for almost a year now, and no problems.
I also believe that after a year of use, it would be hard to prove that a hardware failure is not due to negligence or abuse on the part of the owner anyways. I treated my first iBook pretty hard and it is pretty banged up. In fact, the iBook was my first laptop and I just assumed you could treat it roughly. My dell and IBM toting friends were shocked to find out that I dropped it, multiple times, carried it on a bike in a simple backpack, got the keyboard and screen pretty wet on many occasions next to the shower, and even flung it clear across a room once. Not that I am recommending these activities without making a backup first, but these iBooks are pretty well put together.
So, any information that you enter into AddressBook will not be accessible to other machines over LDAP, unless you use something like the horde as a front-end to a LDAP server, and then manually import your vCards. This is the same problem as the first post in the thread. Back to square one! Apple expects us to buy a subscription to
I agree. I have a 500 Mhz iBook, and I am now upgrading to a 900 Mhz iBook. I just don't see having a G4 over a G3 as being that valuable. Screw the TiBook. The real reason I am upgrading from the 500Mhz iBook is the crappy video card in that machine. The 500 Mhz iBook shipped before Quartz Extreme, and the video card in it can't take advantage of Jaguar's optimation. Who wants to do the genie effect in a 500 Mhz CPU???
I agree. I will sign up for this service as soon as it is available in canada. All my disks end up getting ripped into iTunes anyways. Feed the harddrive. More mp3s. mmm.
I am having the same problem. I am using the stock Apache server too. Very annoying. I have found no solutions yet and I am not about to compile a new version of apache.
Any solutions out there?
I am running a machine that has been upgraded steadily from 10.0 up 'till now with every new version and patch of OS X as they come out. No problems going to 10.2.4 except for the aforementioned httpd.conf.
.php
Silly that although PHP is installed, and the AddModule and LoadModule lines for the PHP module are in httpd.conf ready to be uncommented and spring into action, that a simple commented out line like
AddType application/x-httpd-php
is not present in the httpd.conf. It would be nice to simply find and uncomment all the lines in httpd.conf that contain the letters PHP and have it do its thing!
Not really. OS X applications use Aqua. If you are a Mac user and you have a choice between an Aqua program and an X11 platform, you will choose Aqua every time. Most Mac users won't bother to download X11. (I didn't, and I am a linux user of many years). Aqua is just too dambed nice.
If you were developing on the mac, you have some cross-platform options that allow you to leverage Aqua and still work on other platforms. Java and Qt are two. ( I have a strong preference for the first ).
Macs are not popular with the linux crowd? I admit that before OS X I wasn't that impressed with apple's offerings, but when jaguar came out this summer, I paid a visit to the local mac dealership. I tested out the command line for hours at the store; Everything that I would come to expect from any UNIX is there. I felt at home immediatly. Then I thought: photoshop, dreamweaver, flash on a UNIX machine? And its so pretty. I had to have one. So I bought a little iBook ...and six months later, I can say that I am not looking back.
Don't forget about Mac OS X. It is BSD, but ease of use is an order of magnitude greater than anything else out there.
Stop equating judaism with christianity. Christianity is the religion that has the problem with pagans and "oriental misticysts". Jews are not concerned what non-jews are doing. It is not threatened by other belief systems. It stands on its own. It was christianity that went from continent to continent forcing people to convert at gunpoint. How many jewish missionaries do you know? In fact, it is almost impossible to convert to judaism. They don't want you to join, they just want to be left alone!
To a jew, a gentile is a gentile. Judaism started when Abraham smashed the idols. If pray to a statue, you are not jewish. If you pray to many statues, you are even less jewish. In that respect, a buddist is more jewish than a catholic.
All jewish laws are null and void if human life is at risk. If it was an air-traffic control system that went down during shabbas, no rabbi anywhere would say wait until sunrise to fix the problem.
The word barah in the torah is translated into english as "creation", but in hebrew it has a slightly different meaning. Man is spoken of as "making" things, like making a pot out of clay, but not "creating", ie, making something out of nothing.
Two important things should be noted about this book. First, about what it does not contain: although I am sure many people will see the Rare Earth Hypothesis as another proof for the superority of the capitalist system, this notion of a proof is completely unrelated to the authors' ideas. The hypothesis claims that the conditions for creating a capitalist system are rare; but we know for a fact that at least in one case, all the required conditions were met. Additionally, anyone who insists on taking the ideas of this book as a proof for the superority of the capitalist system will also have to accept the authors' prepositions that other economic systems may in fact count as complex life, and that the theory of evolution may include the possibilty for other economic systems to evolve.