But the misconception that free/open source operating systems are "Hacker Operating Systems" seems to be a common misconception among collegiate IT departments. Woodbury University's IT department would absolutely NOT let me bring my Linux ThinkPad to campus and connect to the WiFi, even though I was more than happy to give them the MAC address of my Orinoco card. "Come back with Windows and we'll talk" was their attitude. Luckily my aunt had an original clamshell iBook that was just sitting on a shelf, so I brought that there. Macs were also acceptable to WU IT so that solved my problem. Eventually I wound up with a Core 2 Duo (Merom) MacBook. Of course, I have the evil, daemonic TERMINAL WINDOW available to me on Mac OS X too...bwahahahahahaha! And my MacBook is Daemon Possessed! Ahahahahahahahah!!!!
OK, let's go do some crimes. Like, go get sushi and not pay...^_^
Grandma would be well served, if that's all she does, with a Mac mini, an inexpensive LCD monitor and an inexpensive USB keyboard and mouse. It doesn't even have to be a new keyboard...you can eBay an old iMac keyboard for about $10 and be happy. Bonuses: no delousing the computer after Grandma picks up viruses and spyware, an easy way to reset the password if Grandma forgets her password, and an OS that is easier for tyros to use. Make sure Grandma uses a regular user account instead of an administrative account, a doable thing because Mac OS X is a UNIX and designed from the ground-up as a multi-user system. It's not like Windows where poorly coded apps require running as admin.
Yes, it's more money than a bargain-basement PC. However, it's not much more, and besides, the advantages are worth the price of admission.
And what about upgrades? The Mac mini continues to have several USB2 ports and a Firewire 800 port. You can go a long way to upgrading the system using USB and Firewire external peripherals. RAM is a production number for sure. But 1GB is fine if you run low stress apps, and for $200 more you can get the higher-end model with almost double the storage as well as 2GB RAM.
I have been running on a Merom-based 2GHz MacBook since November of 2006 with 2GB of RAM, and aside from high-end games that don't like Intel Integrated Graphics there's nothing that can stop it. Finest damn machine in my arsenal. Mac OS X is actually a really good UNIX that stacks up to both UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems like Linux. But unlike Solaris or one of the BSDs or Linux you don't have to deal with the command line if you don't want to.
Give Grandma a Mac and I assure you, she will not be coming back to you for tech support.
Bill Clinton: In recognition of your great service, I'm appointing you honorary agents in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Butt-head: Whoa. Alcohol and tobacco? Beavis: Yeah. And firearms! Yeah. Bill Clinton: Cool, huh? Butt-head: Cigarettes and beer kick ass. Beavis: Yeah, yeah. We're in the bureau of beer and fire and cigarettes. And maybe some chicks, too.
Oh yeah...he wants the "Rapture" mod. You know, the one where you type in a code and the Rapture happens. The virtuous peasants get taken to Heaven by Jesus, and you, the evil warlord, gets to gather up their stuff. Simple.
Boucher hasn't been 100% perfect, but I'm sure the Content Cabal wanted their fair-haired kept boy in there instead. For the record, Berman IS my congresscritter. And I didn't vote for him this time. Just as I didn't vote for him two years ago.
Ummm...this is Mac OS X 10.5.x, codename Leopard, the first Mac OS X to be certified as a UNIX. So yeah, Mac OS X geeks are UNIX geeks. Oh yeah, Jordan Hubbard, one of the main FreeBSD guys, is now working at Apple. On Mac OS X.
...have been in CANADA. Where they don't have to pay for crippling, expensive, private health insurance. The workforce in Indiana, Kentucky and Alabama are also of such poor quality there (low education level) that they have had to stoop to pictogram instructions at work stations. And Canada? High literacy rate, great quality workforce.
Time to get back to basics...invest in educating our populace and cease to be the last industrialized nation without some sort of guaranteed health care for all. Otherwise the rest of the world will continue to eat our lunch.
Actually, the Betamax cassette DID win. There are still thousands and thousands of TV newsrooms that use Digital Betacam for one application or another -- usually for ENG camcorders. And because of this, the tapes won't go away that quickly.
Here in LA County, the reader/verifiers used in the InkaVote system run Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Unfortunately the Sequoia units used to do the count that matters are all closed-source pieces of shit. At least we have one thing to be happy about: according to LA County election law, the paper ballot is the vote of record. Any recounts are done by humans looking at a key, looking at a ballot, and then determining voter intent for each paper ballot.
Someone needs to build an OCR reader capable of reading InkaVote ballots that runs on F/OSS and is completely F/OSS. And then LA County should drop the Sequoia readers like a bad habit.
WRT the Diebold lawsuit...couldn't have happened to a more deserving fictive person.:P
How many people drink bathtub gin anymore? Moonshine? Rotgut? When alcohol prohibition was lifted in 1933, people went back to "the good stuff." I guarantee that if certain controlled substances were legal you'd see certain very unsafe and insane substitutes become a whole lot less popular.
Ha! B-Trees! And Linus Torvalds calls Macintosh HFS+ "retarded!" Soooooo funny! That's the newest and kewlest? Come on, HFS has been around since Macs had hard drives, and it used B-Trees! Seriously, nobody benchmarked ZFS, and that's where the real action is going to be headed. Lose two hard drives, your RAID is still AOK, and you can rebuild it on the fly!!! ZFS is the future.
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"I ph34r teh Geeks, even when bearing .GIFs." -- Cassandra (Paraphrased)
But the misconception that free/open source operating systems are "Hacker Operating Systems" seems to be a common misconception among collegiate IT departments. Woodbury University's IT department would absolutely NOT let me bring my Linux ThinkPad to campus and connect to the WiFi, even though I was more than happy to give them the MAC address of my Orinoco card. "Come back with Windows and we'll talk" was their attitude. Luckily my aunt had an original clamshell iBook that was just sitting on a shelf, so I brought that there. Macs were also acceptable to WU IT so that solved my problem. Eventually I wound up with a Core 2 Duo (Merom) MacBook. Of course, I have the evil, daemonic TERMINAL WINDOW available to me on Mac OS X too...bwahahahahahaha! And my MacBook is Daemon Possessed! Ahahahahahahahah!!!!
OK, let's go do some crimes. Like, go get sushi and not pay...^_^
Grandma would be well served, if that's all she does, with a Mac mini, an inexpensive LCD monitor and an inexpensive USB keyboard and mouse. It doesn't even have to be a new keyboard...you can eBay an old iMac keyboard for about $10 and be happy. Bonuses: no delousing the computer after Grandma picks up viruses and spyware, an easy way to reset the password if Grandma forgets her password, and an OS that is easier for tyros to use. Make sure Grandma uses a regular user account instead of an administrative account, a doable thing because Mac OS X is a UNIX and designed from the ground-up as a multi-user system. It's not like Windows where poorly coded apps require running as admin.
Yes, it's more money than a bargain-basement PC. However, it's not much more, and besides, the advantages are worth the price of admission.
And what about upgrades? The Mac mini continues to have several USB2 ports and a Firewire 800 port. You can go a long way to upgrading the system using USB and Firewire external peripherals. RAM is a production number for sure. But 1GB is fine if you run low stress apps, and for $200 more you can get the higher-end model with almost double the storage as well as 2GB RAM.
I have been running on a Merom-based 2GHz MacBook since November of 2006 with 2GB of RAM, and aside from high-end games that don't like Intel Integrated Graphics there's nothing that can stop it. Finest damn machine in my arsenal. Mac OS X is actually a really good UNIX that stacks up to both UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems like Linux. But unlike Solaris or one of the BSDs or Linux you don't have to deal with the command line if you don't want to.
Give Grandma a Mac and I assure you, she will not be coming back to you for tech support.
-- from Beavis and Butt-Head Do America.
Sounds like another late '70s space comedy show.
And Forry is spinning in his grave at the news. For shame, NBC/Uni!
But you still can't stop the signal. It remains quite likely that Serenity will be the final choice.
No, I wasn't going to "whoosh" you. However, I will point out that you are a pedantic snob. End of line.
Anyone else think that the ship should have been called Bishoujou Senshi Sera Moon? It is a Japanese spacecraft in lunar orbit, after all.
Oh yeah...he wants the "Rapture" mod. You know, the one where you type in a code and the Rapture happens. The virtuous peasants get taken to Heaven by Jesus, and you, the evil warlord, gets to gather up their stuff. Simple.
And Google is managing to accomplish it without Amazon.
More like "Won't see you, space cowboy..."
"You're watching a stage play. The actors are eating at a banquet. The appetizer is raw oysters. The entree is boiled dog."
Boucher hasn't been 100% perfect, but I'm sure the Content Cabal wanted their fair-haired kept boy in there instead. For the record, Berman IS my congresscritter. And I didn't vote for him this time. Just as I didn't vote for him two years ago.
Ummm...this is Mac OS X 10.5.x, codename Leopard, the first Mac OS X to be certified as a UNIX. So yeah, Mac OS X geeks are UNIX geeks. Oh yeah, Jordan Hubbard, one of the main FreeBSD guys, is now working at Apple. On Mac OS X.
This is an artist's rendering of the new mode of transit that is being imported from Japan to solve our dependence on foreign oil.
...have been in CANADA. Where they don't have to pay for crippling, expensive, private health insurance. The workforce in Indiana, Kentucky and Alabama are also of such poor quality there (low education level) that they have had to stoop to pictogram instructions at work stations. And Canada? High literacy rate, great quality workforce.
Time to get back to basics...invest in educating our populace and cease to be the last industrialized nation without some sort of guaranteed health care for all. Otherwise the rest of the world will continue to eat our lunch.
Los Angeles: California ScienCenter, Spring 2007.
My guess? Blu-Ray, unless Sony allows small producers to reasonably produce BluRay discs.
Actually, the Betamax cassette DID win. There are still thousands and thousands of TV newsrooms that use Digital Betacam for one application or another -- usually for ENG camcorders. And because of this, the tapes won't go away that quickly.
Here in LA County, the reader/verifiers used in the InkaVote system run Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Unfortunately the Sequoia units used to do the count that matters are all closed-source pieces of shit. At least we have one thing to be happy about: according to LA County election law, the paper ballot is the vote of record. Any recounts are done by humans looking at a key, looking at a ballot, and then determining voter intent for each paper ballot.
Someone needs to build an OCR reader capable of reading InkaVote ballots that runs on F/OSS and is completely F/OSS. And then LA County should drop the Sequoia readers like a bad habit.
WRT the Diebold lawsuit...couldn't have happened to a more deserving fictive person. :P
Endorsed by Il Palazzo!!! But what about Pedro?
How many people drink bathtub gin anymore? Moonshine? Rotgut? When alcohol prohibition was lifted in 1933, people went back to "the good stuff." I guarantee that if certain controlled substances were legal you'd see certain very unsafe and insane substitutes become a whole lot less popular.
...where this guy's doctor was talking him through doing an appendectomy. "It's very straightforward."
Ha! B-Trees! And Linus Torvalds calls Macintosh HFS+ "retarded!" Soooooo funny! That's the newest and kewlest? Come on, HFS has been around since Macs had hard drives, and it used B-Trees! Seriously, nobody benchmarked ZFS, and that's where the real action is going to be headed. Lose two hard drives, your RAID is still AOK, and you can rebuild it on the fly!!! ZFS is the future.