OS X is a single FreeBSD/NetBSD hybrid OS running on a microkernel. For all intents and purposes, it's a macrokernel with a few realtime modifications, thus filesystems are implemented through standard kernel modules.
Now Apple embraces open standards such as Unix / BSD and throws their beautiful GUI on top of it. I personally enjoy using the Mac whereas when I used my PC I didn't enjoy it, I just used it. Plus after using PC's for so many years you come to release everything keeps repeating itself (better 3d cards, more RAM, faster CPU's, etc)
So, basically, you're bemoaning the fact that the PC has a faster upgrade cycle. You just have to choose not to upgrade. However, that competition brings better products.
however in the Mac world things do get quicker like PC's however they veer off into the 64-bit RISC world which most PC fans only dream of.
Um, ever heard about AMD's X86-64s? 64 bits, much more sane than standard x86, and more prevalent than the mac.
I dig Mac in a big way and anybody who disagrees, go and try using a Mac for a bit if you can. You will find you enjoy computing again.
I tried. It sucked. It tried to force me to do things its way instead of letting me choose my own workflow. Plus, the interface was a hell of a lot uglier than a well tuned KDE install.
The problem is that if there is no plate tectonics on a planet, then the planet will become pockmarked with craters regardless of the thickness of the atmosphere. The earth has a fairly dense atmosphere and still has some pretty significant cratering.
The belief that god made the world only rings true if you believe that silly little book of fractured fairy tales. My interpretation of the bible is that god is a manic depressive schitzophrenic fool who I wouldn't want to spend eternity with anyways.
Agreed. Pretty much the first thing I do in any environment is get it looking as close to NeXTStep as possible. The environment Just Works much better than pretty much anything else out there. I use KDE right now almost entirely because of juk, but my desktop is much more nextish than anything else.
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I also asked this recently, but didn't get a reasonable answer, do these beasts have screen savers? if so, Are they just blackout type, or busy 3d rendered whizbang super cool ones "Just because we can"?
3d screen savers, of course. In fact, this entire universe is actually a screen saver simulation running on one of these boxes. Just hope that no one decides to move the mou
No need to go through all that effort. All you need to do is create a simple.htaccess directive and use mod_rewrite to redirect anyone referred to the image from fedora-redhat.com to an image saying something like "this is fake." No need to recode the entire site.
Oftentimes, these trojans are usually just the tip of the iceberg. If they hadn't disassembled the trojan, the email address the virus sends its results to wouldn't be known and the other part of the attack wouldn't be known.
I think the news is more the fact that it's utterly opposite to the typical store opening. That is, absolutely no fanfare; barely a whisper about the store opening anywhere. In short, newsworthy because there has been no news.
Being prepared to fight and willing to fight are two separate things. Being unprepared to fight leads to incidents like rwanda, where hundreds of thousands of people died because the UN was unwilling and/or unprepared to fight to try to keep the country together. Yes, it is immoral to fight unprevoked. It is just as immoral to prevent a fight if you have the power to do so.
Face it, supermarkets are low tech by design. You can't have anything that's even remotely fragile in an environment with foods, rushed people, kids, and low profit margins. Yes, the concepts seem good, but there's too much maintainence. A better idea would be to use GSM picocells. Use pre-existing cell phones and let people find products that way. There are lots of wap-enabled phones out there, why not use them for the display technology?
No, their account is infected. Which means that instead of a 2+hour problem, it becomes a half hour problem. Nuke the infected account, reinstall a recent backup, you're good.
No, set up the damn computer so that he's got a locked down account. Have him install everything in his documents and settings folder. If it doesn't install into documents and settings\username, it's craptastically written and doesn't need to be installed. If something goes wrong, it means reinstalling a user account over rdp or vnc. This way, you get the software advantages of a PC without the real problems of malware that happen to machines with overprivlidged regular users.
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Your entire argument boils down to the fact that you dislike the fact that many different visual operating environments can live on one binary platform. Let me guess, you don't like a mixture of carbon and cocoa apps, because there are differences in the ways those two apps run as well, right? Also, your distro does have a bearing on behaviors; most distros come with tweaks to kde and gnome to make them much more consistent. You're comparing a server distro to a desktop OS, of course the desktop-oriented OS is going to work better out of the box and be more consistent. Try comparing Apples to Apples here (pardon the pun)
With regards to driver support, where is 3dlabs' support of OS X anyways, I mean, it's easy to get Linux drivers for high end cards. Googling for support for the same company for OS X was much less fruitful. Additionally, licensing has everything to do with drivers. Were nVidia and ATi much more open with the distribution of their binary modules, it would be easier for desktop-oriented distro makers to create a better, more consistent product. Apple can ship with ATi drivers in the box; there's no need to go to ATi's site to download drivers; ATi, and nvidia, don't afford the same luxury to Mandrake users.
Try using a real desktop-oriented distro some time, you'll see that your experience of Linux on the desktop has been soured by trying to use an environment designed for servers to perform desktop tasks. Other distros are a lot more friendly.
Until I have to run a KDE app in the GNOME environment. Or a GNOME app in KDE. Suddenly, consistency and proper interaction completely goes out the window.
So find an alternative. Gnome and KDE have pretty much the same base of apps, it's just a matter of finding the app you want to use.
The problem isn't the technology of X11 - X is actually a really good system, save one facet - the toolkit insanity. Upgrading to X.org or using Xsgi or X11.app doesn't change the fundamental problem that everything looks and acts differently. I've been working on a spec to map GTK and Qt onto a single widget set, so that a consistent interface can be done on X11 and still retain everyone's desire to do things differently.
So once again, you just need to choose one and stick with it. It's just that simple.
And then there's the graphics driver support.
What, nVidia's silly licensing so that distro makers can't include the graphics drivers with the kernel? Most desktop oriented distros make it real easy to install and upgrade the graphics drivers, and the support is for a much greater base of cards than is available for the mac.
As for distribution, I was running various Slackwares from 1995 to 2000 or so, when I finally gave up on Linux. I do know, more or less, what I'm doing with the system, and I got tired of constantly having to fight to make it do something that windows (or OSX now) just does without a problem... I'd rather just sit down and work, than fight with the system.
I do keep up with things on my FreeBSD-based server, and KDE/GNOME still don't get along, and nothing ever feels like it was designed to work with anything else
Again, the problem was/is your distro. The distro you are using isn't designed to give you a desktop, the distro you are using is designed to give you everything, with the caveat that you have to go through some work to set things up. I use mandrake on my desktop system for the simple reason that things do have a tendency to Just Work a lot more often than with debian or with slackware.
It would probably be possible to write a userland nfs type system, sort of how certain encrypted filesystem setups worked. Though I'm not an NFS hacker, so don't look at me to write it. Though a hint to the person who writes it - use one meg block sizes, email headers as pseudo inodes.
Everything always looks and acts the same, unless it's a ported OSS app. You have no idea how nice this is, until you've tried it for a month or two.
Fine, then use just gnome or just kde. Problem solved.
It doesn't use X11, so you actually get a consistent, clean UI that actually works.
Or use X.org 6.8. Now that it's obvious where the dead weight really was in X, change will come real fast. Plus you get virtual desktops, real good virtual window support, the ability to run cross-platform apps, and the knowledge that you're running the first operating system that had opengl-assisted compositing
Photoshop. No, the GIMP is just a toy, no matter what you think.
Photoshop runs under wine. Also, not all of us are graphics geeks.
Driver support! They don't offer much, but what they do, works flawlessly. Contrast with spending a week trying to get a Wacom tablet to both a) insert the module correctly into the kernel, and b) get Xf86 to acknowledge it correctly.
Depends on the hardware, I guess. I'm not a graphics guy, but support for my antique bt848 card is a lot better for Linux than for the Mac.
Also, out of curiosity, what distribution were you using? different distros are more suited for the desktop than others; more often than not, I've noticed that those that bitch loudest about Linux on the desktop use Debian or Slackware rather than something designed for desktop work, like Mandrake or Suse or the likes.
Uh, maybe your browser just sucks. I can click the print button and the email button just fine in firefox. It opens up the links in new windows, maybe you just need to change your popup blocking settings.
Unfortunately, that tight integration will keep apple as a niche player. One of the reasons that the PC market has such a large share is the number of different configurations. You can have a $300 bargain basement computer, or a $5000+ god rig that'll blow anything away. This means that you can find the system that is absolutely right for you, instead of almost right. I tried apple for a while, and while it was almost right, I found that a lot of the included programs didn't have the power I expected in the Linux world, so in the end, moved back to my trusty, if a bit cranky, Linux box. I even find that a Windows box is much nicer than a mac, after a few customizations, like Litestep and one of the transparent windows mods out there. Yeah, it's nice to have a well-made car with the hood welded shut while it runs well, but it, much like the mac, starts showing its weaknesses when you start to think differently.
Food production is solved on the scientific front. It's the delivery vectory that's the problem -- getting dictators to stop playing food politics would probably end a great deal of the hunger on the planet. That, and serving the neoluddite anti-gm people a big glass of STFU.
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OS X is a single FreeBSD/NetBSD hybrid OS running on a microkernel. For all intents and purposes, it's a macrokernel with a few realtime modifications, thus filesystems are implemented through standard kernel modules.
The problem is that if there is no plate tectonics on a planet, then the planet will become pockmarked with craters regardless of the thickness of the atmosphere. The earth has a fairly dense atmosphere and still has some pretty significant cratering.
The images I've seen seem to suggest a whitish planet, perfectly round and smooth. It's obvious. The planet is really an intergalactic billiard ball.
The belief that god made the world only rings true if you believe that silly little book of fractured fairy tales. My interpretation of the bible is that god is a manic depressive schitzophrenic fool who I wouldn't want to spend eternity with anyways.
Agreed. Pretty much the first thing I do in any environment is get it looking as close to NeXTStep as possible. The environment Just Works much better than pretty much anything else out there. I use KDE right now almost entirely because of juk, but my desktop is much more nextish than anything else.
No need to go through all that effort. All you need to do is create a simple .htaccess directive and use mod_rewrite to redirect anyone referred to the image from fedora-redhat.com to an image saying something like "this is fake." No need to recode the entire site.
Oftentimes, these trojans are usually just the tip of the iceberg. If they hadn't disassembled the trojan, the email address the virus sends its results to wouldn't be known and the other part of the attack wouldn't be known.
No. It's valid html 4.01 transitional. Try again.
I think the news is more the fact that it's utterly opposite to the typical store opening. That is, absolutely no fanfare; barely a whisper about the store opening anywhere. In short, newsworthy because there has been no news.
Being prepared to fight and willing to fight are two separate things. Being unprepared to fight leads to incidents like rwanda, where hundreds of thousands of people died because the UN was unwilling and/or unprepared to fight to try to keep the country together. Yes, it is immoral to fight unprevoked. It is just as immoral to prevent a fight if you have the power to do so.
Face it, supermarkets are low tech by design. You can't have anything that's even remotely fragile in an environment with foods, rushed people, kids, and low profit margins. Yes, the concepts seem good, but there's too much maintainence. A better idea would be to use GSM picocells. Use pre-existing cell phones and let people find products that way. There are lots of wap-enabled phones out there, why not use them for the display technology?
It's already been done. Find in text for John Moyer.
Dammit, I got this sudden image of Darl in a G-String. You're fucking evil. Now, excuse me while I wash my brain out with lye.
No, their account is infected. Which means that instead of a 2+hour problem, it becomes a half hour problem. Nuke the infected account, reinstall a recent backup, you're good.
No, set up the damn computer so that he's got a locked down account. Have him install everything in his documents and settings folder. If it doesn't install into documents and settings\username, it's craptastically written and doesn't need to be installed. If something goes wrong, it means reinstalling a user account over rdp or vnc. This way, you get the software advantages of a PC without the real problems of malware that happen to machines with overprivlidged regular users.
Any more excuses?
With regards to driver support, where is 3dlabs' support of OS X anyways, I mean, it's easy to get Linux drivers for high end cards. Googling for support for the same company for OS X was much less fruitful. Additionally, licensing has everything to do with drivers. Were nVidia and ATi much more open with the distribution of their binary modules, it would be easier for desktop-oriented distro makers to create a better, more consistent product. Apple can ship with ATi drivers in the box; there's no need to go to ATi's site to download drivers; ATi, and nvidia, don't afford the same luxury to Mandrake users.
Try using a real desktop-oriented distro some time, you'll see that your experience of Linux on the desktop has been soured by trying to use an environment designed for servers to perform desktop tasks. Other distros are a lot more friendly.
It would probably be possible to write a userland nfs type system, sort of how certain encrypted filesystem setups worked. Though I'm not an NFS hacker, so don't look at me to write it. Though a hint to the person who writes it - use one meg block sizes, email headers as pseudo inodes.
Also, out of curiosity, what distribution were you using? different distros are more suited for the desktop than others; more often than not, I've noticed that those that bitch loudest about Linux on the desktop use Debian or Slackware rather than something designed for desktop work, like Mandrake or Suse or the likes.
Uh, maybe your browser just sucks. I can click the print button and the email button just fine in firefox. It opens up the links in new windows, maybe you just need to change your popup blocking settings.
Unfortunately, that tight integration will keep apple as a niche player. One of the reasons that the PC market has such a large share is the number of different configurations. You can have a $300 bargain basement computer, or a $5000+ god rig that'll blow anything away. This means that you can find the system that is absolutely right for you, instead of almost right. I tried apple for a while, and while it was almost right, I found that a lot of the included programs didn't have the power I expected in the Linux world, so in the end, moved back to my trusty, if a bit cranky, Linux box. I even find that a Windows box is much nicer than a mac, after a few customizations, like Litestep and one of the transparent windows mods out there. Yeah, it's nice to have a well-made car with the hood welded shut while it runs well, but it, much like the mac, starts showing its weaknesses when you start to think differently.
Food production is solved on the scientific front. It's the delivery vectory that's the problem -- getting dictators to stop playing food politics would probably end a great deal of the hunger on the planet. That, and serving the neoluddite anti-gm people a big glass of STFU.