i can verify that there is no connection between OS X and NetBSD, there is a connection between FreeBSD and OS X...OS X is based (note i say "IS BASED" and not that OS X "IS") on FreeBSD...
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Well you haven't quit... you just posted on the dotster, bub.
That small point aside, you are substantially correct that slashdot is loaded with assholes... opinions and assholes, everyone's got 'em.
I do not come here to be informed by the majority of posters who have about ZILCH to say of any intellectual value, I do come here for laughs and to let off some steam occasionally... And the links provided to the offsite info can be informative. Slashdot itself, as a website and as a forum for insightful commentary? As is the case with *most* everything, it is not what it used to be even a few years ago. Oh well... "When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around."
And now I see that there is another post, that came CHRONOLOGICALLY AFTER the one by "gdiersing" that has EXACTLY THE SAME POINT, and guess what? THAT post got a +2!!!!
see for yourself:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=27735&cid=29 82 199
fuck you, fuckwit moderators. and FUCK karma too...
"Connecting to your neighbour is also illegal if you take a cat5 cable and run it over the wall! "
My gawd they've got too much time on their hands if they actually enforce that bullshit... I'd bloody well run my cat-5 to the neightbor's if I wanted to, and to hell with the damned Telkom.
a phrase that goes something like, "Hate the sin, not the sinner." Think about it this way, "Hate MS and their damned software, not the user of that software." Whatever, inclusion is where it's at, NOT exclusion.
i'm using Sputnix (AudioGalaxy client for OS X), and spyware is not an issue! of course, historically there has been no spyware in Mac software... heh heh, life is and always has been very good without wintel. btw, what is a virus? hooooo ha. (yes, i realize that with the advent of OS X that Macs are more vulnerable to virii. still, heh heh.)
heh heh... some years ago i used to be an administrator at a well-known website that catered to users of a certain platform and we had a forum at that site. of course we had a few punkassbitch users who could never behave on the forum and they were invariably teeniepoopers living off the fat of the land (parent's house). i'd get their personal info and call their moms. hoooo ha, now *that's* entertainment!
You are out of your pea-sized mind. Money-grubbing swine can be found in all ethnicities. I'd support genocide if it meant ridding the world of people like yourself (if you truly mean what you say) EXCEPT for the fact that genocide is genocide and it's wrong. Like you are. One day, you will be dead wrong and no one will have killed you. Heh heh.
i use it myself (PS), full version. i use Graphic Converter more often, it does the fast image editing i most often require and with very low overhead: low RAM usage, launches in a half of a blink... as opposed to PS on both counts.
heh heh, clever... i am sure that i was hardly the only one to beseech Apple to do *something* for opensource as regards OS X. i merely meant to imply that it is nice that they likely listened to us (as they most/so often do) and made some effort.
Don't look now, but if all I wanted to do was edit pics for a homepage I'd use Graphic Converter shareware, $30 I think. I bought it so many years ago now I forget the price. It is fast and powerful and works with any image filetype you can mention. Yes, I am now and forever a Mac user. Always have been and I am fairly old. I should mention that a couple of years before OS X came out I sent several long and thoughtfully worded emails to Apple BEGGING them to opensource a large part of what is now called OS X. Lo and behold, they did.
earthlink DSL in Manhattan was a bit rocky at first (due solely to that damned Verizon) and was rocky again for a week or so after that problem we had here due to some vile, evil, damned-to-burn-eternally-in-hell terrorists... but go back to dialup? give me a break! reliable? disconnects were always frequent using dialup. all in all, DSL has been WORLDS better... and, i'd not live ANYWHERE that did not have broadband.
Tell it, bro. You have got it down, especially: "the people who were likeliest to be affected (users who are already running 10.1 as their base OS, have multiple partitions, and don't read the instructions thorougly because - after all - "it's a Mac, who needs instructions?") are exactly the kind of Mac "power users" who swarm Apple's servers constantly looking for new stuff and install it the second it's posted." Damn straight! And, fortunately for me, the only difference between said "power users" and myself is that I CAN READ and I DO READ. So, as instructed by the iTunes2 ReadMe , I deleted the previous version of iTunes2 (beta, got it from a Hotline server in Japan) from my OS X partition of my HD which has THREE partitions, BEFORE I installed the official release of iTunes2. Go figure, my partitions are intact. No loss of data. iTunes2 is freakin' great.
YOU and all that think in such simplistic, narrow-minded ways are nothing more than brownshirts. Don't know what a brownshirt is? Look it up. And while you are looking it up (use Google), consider this: a well-known commie pinko, Benjamin Franklin, once remarked that anyone that would give up some of their civil liberties in the defense of freedom deserved neither liberties nor freedom. Yes, I am paraphrasing Franklin, but that was the gist of his remark. And your sort disgusts me. Read this, from http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/ :
In the darkest 1950s Cold War hysteria, when U.S. Sen. Joe McCarthy, R-Wi., was demanding that Congress toss aside the Constitution in order to hunt down the agents of his "red menace," a move was made by the Republican attorney general of the United States to expand the the use of information gathered through wiretapping in cases of espionage and sabotage. The proposal required Senate approval, which seemed assured as the shadow of McCarthyism hung heavy over the Capitol.
One senator, Wayne Morse, a Republican senator from the state of Oregon, stood alone in opposition to increased use of wiretaps on the phone lines of those suspected of subversion. Wiretapping phones was, Morse said, "a police state tactic." When the attorney general pressed his case before the Senate, Morse countered that, "I am shocked that an attorney general of the United States should believe Gestapo methods are needed in detecting Gestapo elements."
At every turn, and at considerable political cost, the Oregon senator fought the wiretapping plan. And his relentless defense of the right to privacy paid off. As Morse's biographer, Mason Drukman, recalls, "the bill ultimately died in the Judiciary Committee, one of the few measures of its kind to fail during the McCarthy era."
Morse's battle against the wiretapping scheme was recalled this week when, in an equally hysterical moment, the Senate was again asked to massively increase the ability of a Republican attorney general to wiretap phones -- and, now, Internet communications. Again, one senator stood up to the rush to rip of the Constitution.
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold's courageous moves to challenge the most irresponsible and unnecessary components of Attorney General John Ashcroft's "anti-terrorism" agenda won him few friends in the Senate. The Wisconsin Democrat broke not just with Republicans but with the overwhelming majority of fellow Senate Democrats -- who were willing to sacrifice fundamental rights on the altar of Ashcroft's ambition.
Ashcroft and his Senate allies have been promoting a grab bag of police-state proposals that will do little to reduce the threat of terrorism, while doing much to increase the threat to civil liberties. In addition to seeking permission to conduct "roving wiretaps," the Ashcroft proposal was written to permit greatly expanded computer surveillance, and to permit government agents to secretly search private homes.
Feingold, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee's constitution subcommittee, was as blunt as Morse when he stood alone to slow the Senate's rush to judgement. Feingold was not trying to tie the hands of the attorney general in the fight against terrorism. But he was trying to assure that the fight did not become a war on civil liberties.
read more at: http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/
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i can verify that there is no connection between OS X and NetBSD, there is a connection between FreeBSD and OS X...OS X is based (note i say "IS BASED" and not that OS X "IS") on FreeBSD...
your link pertains to OS X Server, btw... just to be precise... (you seem to *ahem* care about precision)
and why not? everyone copies what Apple does... this industry would be soooo much different if it were not for Apple. they innovate, the rest imitate.
Bash/flame away, mod me down, i do NOT care. i speak the truth and if you don't like it, too bad. read my email addy.
yeah, OS X is based on FreeBSD... and yes the person was talking about OS X in the blurb when he mentioned Apple.
and yes OS X is freakin' nice. leave it to Apple to do what no one else has/can.
flames? who cares? look at my email addy.
no, capitalism doesn't stink, it just smells funny
Well you haven't quit... you just posted on the dotster, bub.
That small point aside, you are substantially correct that slashdot is loaded with assholes... opinions and assholes, everyone's got 'em.
I do not come here to be informed by the majority of posters who have about ZILCH to say of any intellectual value, I do come here for laughs and to let off some steam occasionally... And the links provided to the offsite info can be informative. Slashdot itself, as a website and as a forum for insightful commentary? As is the case with *most* everything, it is not what it used to be even a few years ago. Oh well... "When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around."
And now I see that there is another post, that came CHRONOLOGICALLY AFTER the one by "gdiersing" that has EXACTLY THE SAME POINT, and guess what? THAT post got a +2!!!!
9 82 199
see for yourself:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=27735&cid=2
fuck you, fuckwit moderators. and FUCK karma too...
"Connecting to your neighbour is also illegal if you take a cat5 cable and run it over the wall! "
My gawd they've got too much time on their hands if they actually enforce that bullshit... I'd bloody well run my cat-5 to the neightbor's if I wanted to, and to hell with the damned Telkom.
I dunno, sounds more like OpenStep/OpenDoc to me...
Sure as hell did, that is no misstatement, GF4 is a reality.
a phrase that goes something like, "Hate the sin, not the sinner." Think about it this way, "Hate MS and their damned software, not the user of that software." Whatever, inclusion is where it's at, NOT exclusion.
i'm using Sputnix (AudioGalaxy client for OS X), and spyware is not an issue! of course, historically there has been no spyware in Mac software... heh heh, life is and always has been very good without wintel. btw, what is a virus? hooooo ha. (yes, i realize that with the advent of OS X that Macs are more vulnerable to virii. still, heh heh.)
heh heh... some years ago i used to be an administrator at a well-known website that catered to users of a certain platform and we had a forum at that site. of course we had a few punkassbitch users who could never behave on the forum and they were invariably teeniepoopers living off the fat of the land (parent's house). i'd get their personal info and call their moms. hoooo ha, now *that's* entertainment!
http://www.dealtime.com/dealtime2000/Pages/LowerMy BillsPages3/1,7040,40530--1,00.html?CG=1&DCG=1&Lin k_id=4-50509&SiteSection=47&FormId=
as a born and raised citizen of the USA, i would mod it (the retort by cperciva, that is) up to +20 at least...
Installing Kazaa compromises your comp. Spyware, anyone? Can you say Gator? To hell with Kazaa.
You are out of your pea-sized mind. Money-grubbing swine can be found in all ethnicities. I'd support genocide if it meant ridding the world of people like yourself (if you truly mean what you say) EXCEPT for the fact that genocide is genocide and it's wrong. Like you are. One day, you will be dead wrong and no one will have killed you. Heh heh.
i use it myself (PS), full version. i use Graphic Converter more often, it does the fast image editing i most often require and with very low overhead: low RAM usage, launches in a half of a blink... as opposed to PS on both counts.
heh heh, clever... i am sure that i was hardly the only one to beseech Apple to do *something* for opensource as regards OS X. i merely meant to imply that it is nice that they likely listened to us (as they most/so often do) and made some effort.
Don't look now, but if all I wanted to do was edit pics for a homepage I'd use Graphic Converter shareware, $30 I think. I bought it so many years ago now I forget the price. It is fast and powerful and works with any image filetype you can mention. Yes, I am now and forever a Mac user. Always have been and I am fairly old. I should mention that a couple of years before OS X came out I sent several long and thoughtfully worded emails to Apple BEGGING them to opensource a large part of what is now called OS X. Lo and behold, they did.
earthlink DSL in Manhattan was a bit rocky at first (due solely to that damned Verizon) and was rocky again for a week or so after that problem we had here due to some vile, evil, damned-to-burn-eternally-in-hell terrorists... but go back to dialup? give me a break! reliable? disconnects were always frequent using dialup. all in all, DSL has been WORLDS better... and, i'd not live ANYWHERE that did not have broadband.
Tell it, bro. You have got it down, especially: "the people who were likeliest to be affected (users who are already running 10.1 as their base OS, have multiple partitions, and don't read the instructions thorougly because - after all - "it's a Mac, who needs instructions?") are exactly the kind of Mac "power users" who swarm Apple's servers constantly looking for new stuff and install it the second it's posted." Damn straight! And, fortunately for me, the only difference between said "power users" and myself is that I CAN READ and I DO READ. So, as instructed by the iTunes2 ReadMe , I deleted the previous version of iTunes2 (beta, got it from a Hotline server in Japan) from my OS X partition of my HD which has THREE partitions, BEFORE I installed the official release of iTunes2. Go figure, my partitions are intact. No loss of data. iTunes2 is freakin' great.
My trusty Keuffel & Esser sliderule model # 4041, patented June 5, 1900... You're all posers.
iTunes 2 has been released, for OS X and MacOS Classic. Now, there's something useful AND easy to install. So sue me.
YOU and all that think in such simplistic, narrow-minded ways are nothing more than brownshirts. Don't know what a brownshirt is? Look it up. And while you are looking it up (use Google), consider this: a well-known commie pinko, Benjamin Franklin, once remarked that anyone that would give up some of their civil liberties in the defense of freedom deserved neither liberties nor freedom. Yes, I am paraphrasing Franklin, but that was the gist of his remark. And your sort disgusts me. Read this, from http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/ : In the darkest 1950s Cold War hysteria, when U.S. Sen. Joe McCarthy, R-Wi., was demanding that Congress toss aside the Constitution in order to hunt down the agents of his "red menace," a move was made by the Republican attorney general of the United States to expand the the use of information gathered through wiretapping in cases of espionage and sabotage. The proposal required Senate approval, which seemed assured as the shadow of McCarthyism hung heavy over the Capitol. One senator, Wayne Morse, a Republican senator from the state of Oregon, stood alone in opposition to increased use of wiretaps on the phone lines of those suspected of subversion. Wiretapping phones was, Morse said, "a police state tactic." When the attorney general pressed his case before the Senate, Morse countered that, "I am shocked that an attorney general of the United States should believe Gestapo methods are needed in detecting Gestapo elements." At every turn, and at considerable political cost, the Oregon senator fought the wiretapping plan. And his relentless defense of the right to privacy paid off. As Morse's biographer, Mason Drukman, recalls, "the bill ultimately died in the Judiciary Committee, one of the few measures of its kind to fail during the McCarthy era." Morse's battle against the wiretapping scheme was recalled this week when, in an equally hysterical moment, the Senate was again asked to massively increase the ability of a Republican attorney general to wiretap phones -- and, now, Internet communications. Again, one senator stood up to the rush to rip of the Constitution. U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold's courageous moves to challenge the most irresponsible and unnecessary components of Attorney General John Ashcroft's "anti-terrorism" agenda won him few friends in the Senate. The Wisconsin Democrat broke not just with Republicans but with the overwhelming majority of fellow Senate Democrats -- who were willing to sacrifice fundamental rights on the altar of Ashcroft's ambition. Ashcroft and his Senate allies have been promoting a grab bag of police-state proposals that will do little to reduce the threat of terrorism, while doing much to increase the threat to civil liberties. In addition to seeking permission to conduct "roving wiretaps," the Ashcroft proposal was written to permit greatly expanded computer surveillance, and to permit government agents to secretly search private homes. Feingold, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee's constitution subcommittee, was as blunt as Morse when he stood alone to slow the Senate's rush to judgement. Feingold was not trying to tie the hands of the attorney general in the fight against terrorism. But he was trying to assure that the fight did not become a war on civil liberties. read more at: http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/