Mac OS X DP4... or in 2001 Mac OS X. Mac OS X Server... (not as essential as OS X will be). If you say NT compares to OS X... it really doesn't. NT still BSODs... the frequency of kernel panics with UNIX-based systems is 1/100th of that in NT/2000. Also Windows ME is still DOS based... gag... you would have thought they'd make the switch now with 2000. 2000 Professional plays all the games (95%) that I needed 98 for... why not make the switch now?
And because Macs are faster not the other way around. 300 Mhz iMac's best 600Mhz Pentiums on like software... i.e. compile something on Redhat Linux and compare it on both platforms. But of course this is always flame-bait for the Mhz morons. I think if there are roughly 20-50 K PC titles in all, there are something like 4-5K Mac titles... so this is roughly 1/5th not 1/100th. And to say a 433Mhz Celeron even is faster than a 333 Mhz iMac is stupid. Celerons if they were full Pentium III's wouldn't be faster... the only current competitor chip slower than a Celeron is a crappy Cyrix M series.
So I say just hack into the remote machine and upgrade every bit of security on it you can. If it is a bystander... they'll be happy because now the original hacker can't attack anymore. If one installs packet sniffing they could follow the "carbon chain" so to speak to get to the next machine until they found no more suspicious activity. If you are actually on the hacker's machine you would then be able to tell with reasonable certainty. Send a message that says You will now be leaving my machine... your ip has been logged.. have a nice day... >/usr/sbin/shutdown -h now... unless it's windows... but one can get the point. Andrew
One other great way to delete hidden files is to use Citrix ICA and connect to an NT Terminal Server... then make sure you are exporting your local drives... fire up explorer and you will see all the hidden stuff... This is a great way to learn the filesystem structure of the MacOS as well.
NAh remember MS stands by its own mediocre software and swears it is the better more efficient and more advanced way to do things. They actually believe a VMS-based OS such as NT is superior to UNIX-based OS's. Why does their OS still crash... (for semi-unprovoked reasons not legitimate hardware errors). If they could write one piece of code that would cause a STOP Error to become a WHOA error instead and warn the user to shutdown, and/or throw out the bad data completely and keep going from where they left off, they'd be able to have a leg up on UNIX. Why is it so hard to recover from an unhandled kernel exception for instance? Anyone with some useful data please reply to ajwdsp@cloud9.net. I think a goal for Linux should be to do the same thing in the rare event of an OOPs or Panic.
You don't need UNIX gurus for OS X! Only OS X Server for that matter which will shortly be an EOL product after Jan 2001. OS X's increased success may have something to do with OSS, but Apple will get along fine if OSS fails. Remember Aqua and Quartz are still proprietary and Apple will still pay people to develop the OS... even the OSS portions. A/UX wasn't designed to be that easy nor was it designed to replace MacOS. MacOS X is designed to replace the MacOS.
And don't forget Mac OS X (aka OpenSTEP 6) One of John Carmack's favorite OS's. I believe Quake 3 came to OS X Server first before MacOS, Linux, and Windows. With the release of OS X, Microsoft will have the only non UNIX-based OS on the market, and ME is another DOS-HACK still... so they still don't GET IT. With the advent of OSX, Mac hardware will begin to outshine Intel by leaps and bounds instead of by baby steps. Andrew
Of course if I had a quarter for every pundit (PC pundits mainly) who predicted something being right I would be richer than Bill himself. PC pundits are ALWAYS wrong. Read any issue of PC Magazine and look at the subject matter they allow in their magazine. I love reading John Dvorak simply because he is funny, but given that he is the sanest of the bunch he is wrong too often as well. I usually check out his stuff followed by the jokes on the back page and then the circular filing cabinet. Andrew
Plug n' play would need to be re-implemented Macintosh style, and/or not hidden. I'd love to change in the BIOS what my hardware thinks is ok, because sharing interrupts is stupid when I have enough of them not to share. My single pentium pro kept doing this when I had just enough interrupts for everything but not more... it kept sharing at least one. I had to do musical chairs with my cards... I'd rather just say to the machine in the BIOS no computer Windows 98 is a dumb fsck! use this interrupt instead. Fortunately with dual and quad boards... of which I'm the owner of the former APIC takes care of this. Andrew
Finally somebody feels the way I do. (About people who should and shouldn't use computers). This opinion is strengthened when you have to service these people's machines 8+ hrs a day 6 days a week. And go on house calls which is excruciatingly painful. They watch over your shoulder, ask annoying questions, act suspicious when you realize you need parts that aren't on-site and they demanded on-sight service. AI YIYI On site service is for business only... The heck with home users. If they want on-site service they can grab a book at Borders and do it themselves. To sum this up MS has finally innovated slightly in that they have modified their business tactic so it works for once... that's an innovation... give these people X-Boxes. But that's about it and it's pretty pathetic too. In truth none of this harms consumers. MS dries up, we get a stronger Apple (much easier to use, and even 9.X is more stable than Windows...amazing since it's Win16-like (cooperative multi-tasking and no protected memory). And OS X is a bit like BSD, a bit like Linux, and a bit like the HURD. Bullet-proof and it'll have a world-class UI. Breaking microsoft will rid Apple and other companies of the big leech that is the Microsoft way. Andrew
To correct my original post I wasn't implying that NEXTSTEP is OS X Server and OPENSTEP is OS X respectively... I was saying that NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP is reflected in both future products. And that of course skips over all the Rhapsody DR's.
The only thing about NeXT that died was the Cube and the NeXT Station. NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP are both alive and well as Mac OS X Server and Mac OS X. Besides why should Apple who owns their own hardware designs let another company come in and compete. That's like saying Be come here and punch us in the teeth with our own brand of brass knuckles. Like NeXT, Be's hardware failed, unlike NeXT Be doesn't have a killer applications server for the enterprise (WebObjects), and unlike NeXT Be's OS will probably die. What makes me wonder is how they hung on so long given that Gassee was responsible for many of Apple's blunders. BeOS kicks butt, but I don't see how it can survive, and I'd rather see Apple survive... I like their OS and technology better (OS X not 9.X) Andrew
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Mac OS X DP4... or in 2001 Mac OS X. Mac OS X Server... (not as essential as OS X will be). If you say NT compares to OS X... it really doesn't. NT still BSODs... the frequency of kernel panics with UNIX-based systems is 1/100th of that in NT/2000. Also Windows ME is still DOS based... gag... you would have thought they'd make the switch now with 2000. 2000 Professional plays all the games (95%) that I needed 98 for... why not make the switch now?
And because Macs are faster not the other way around. 300 Mhz iMac's best 600Mhz Pentiums on like software... i.e. compile something on Redhat Linux and compare it on both platforms. But of course this is always flame-bait for the Mhz morons. I think if there are roughly 20-50 K PC titles in all, there are something like 4-5K Mac titles... so this is roughly 1/5th not 1/100th. And to say a 433Mhz Celeron even is faster than a 333 Mhz iMac is stupid. Celerons if they were full Pentium III's wouldn't be faster... the only current competitor chip slower than a Celeron is a crappy Cyrix M series.
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So I say just hack into the remote machine and upgrade every bit of security on it you can. If it is a bystander... they'll be happy because now the original hacker can't attack anymore. If one installs packet sniffing they could follow the "carbon chain" so to speak to get to the next machine until they found no more suspicious activity. If you are actually on the hacker's machine you would then be able to tell with reasonable certainty. Send a message that says You will now be leaving my machine... your ip has been logged.. have a nice day... > /usr/sbin/shutdown -h now... unless it's windows... but one can get the point. Andrew
One other great way to delete hidden files is to use Citrix ICA and connect to an NT Terminal Server... then make sure you are exporting your local drives... fire up explorer and you will see all the hidden stuff... This is a great way to learn the filesystem structure of the MacOS as well.
NAh remember MS stands by its own mediocre software and swears it is the better more efficient and more advanced way to do things. They actually believe a VMS-based OS such as NT is superior to UNIX-based OS's. Why does their OS still crash... (for semi-unprovoked reasons not legitimate hardware errors). If they could write one piece of code that would cause a STOP Error to become a WHOA error instead and warn the user to shutdown, and/or throw out the bad data completely and keep going from where they left off, they'd be able to have a leg up on UNIX. Why is it so hard to recover from an unhandled kernel exception for instance? Anyone with some useful data please reply to ajwdsp@cloud9.net. I think a goal for Linux should be to do the same thing in the rare event of an OOPs or Panic.
You don't need UNIX gurus for OS X! Only OS X Server for that matter which will shortly be an EOL product after Jan 2001. OS X's increased success may have something to do with OSS, but Apple will get along fine if OSS fails. Remember Aqua and Quartz are still proprietary and Apple will still pay people to develop the OS... even the OSS portions. A/UX wasn't designed to be that easy nor was it designed to replace MacOS. MacOS X is designed to replace the MacOS.
And don't forget Mac OS X (aka OpenSTEP 6) One of John Carmack's favorite OS's. I believe Quake 3 came to OS X Server first before MacOS, Linux, and Windows. With the release of OS X, Microsoft will have the only non UNIX-based OS on the market, and ME is another DOS-HACK still... so they still don't GET IT. With the advent of OSX, Mac hardware will begin to outshine Intel by leaps and bounds instead of by baby steps. Andrew
Of course if I had a quarter for every pundit (PC pundits mainly) who predicted something being right I would be richer than Bill himself. PC pundits are ALWAYS wrong. Read any issue of PC Magazine and look at the subject matter they allow in their magazine. I love reading John Dvorak simply because he is funny, but given that he is the sanest of the bunch he is wrong too often as well. I usually check out his stuff followed by the jokes on the back page and then the circular filing cabinet. Andrew
Plug n' play would need to be re-implemented Macintosh style, and/or not hidden. I'd love to change in the BIOS what my hardware thinks is ok, because sharing interrupts is stupid when I have enough of them not to share. My single pentium pro kept doing this when I had just enough interrupts for everything but not more... it kept sharing at least one. I had to do musical chairs with my cards... I'd rather just say to the machine in the BIOS no computer Windows 98 is a dumb fsck! use this interrupt instead. Fortunately with dual and quad boards... of which I'm the owner of the former APIC takes care of this. Andrew
Finally somebody feels the way I do. (About people who should and shouldn't use computers). This opinion is strengthened when you have to service these people's machines 8+ hrs a day 6 days a week. And go on house calls which is excruciatingly painful. They watch over your shoulder, ask annoying questions, act suspicious when you realize you need parts that aren't on-site and they demanded on-sight service. AI YIYI On site service is for business only... The heck with home users. If they want on-site service they can grab a book at Borders and do it themselves. To sum this up MS has finally innovated slightly in that they have modified their business tactic so it works for once... that's an innovation... give these people X-Boxes. But that's about it and it's pretty pathetic too. In truth none of this harms consumers. MS dries up, we get a stronger Apple (much easier to use, and even 9.X is more stable than Windows...amazing since it's Win16-like (cooperative multi-tasking and no protected memory). And OS X is a bit like BSD, a bit like Linux, and a bit like the HURD. Bullet-proof and it'll have a world-class UI. Breaking microsoft will rid Apple and other companies of the big leech that is the Microsoft way. Andrew
To correct my original post I wasn't implying that NEXTSTEP is OS X Server and OPENSTEP is OS X respectively... I was saying that NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP is reflected in both future products. And that of course skips over all the Rhapsody DR's.
The only thing about NeXT that died was the Cube and the NeXT Station. NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP are both alive and well as Mac OS X Server and Mac OS X. Besides why should Apple who owns their own hardware designs let another company come in and compete. That's like saying Be come here and punch us in the teeth with our own brand of brass knuckles. Like NeXT, Be's hardware failed, unlike NeXT Be doesn't have a killer applications server for the enterprise (WebObjects), and unlike NeXT Be's OS will probably die. What makes me wonder is how they hung on so long given that Gassee was responsible for many of Apple's blunders. BeOS kicks butt, but I don't see how it can survive, and I'd rather see Apple survive... I like their OS and technology better (OS X not 9.X) Andrew
Yes... Office98 for Mac kicks the PC-platforms butt... Ducking flames.... heh. IE works better too... esp 4.5 though 5. works well also. Andrew