There's a way to do it with most IM clients on windows. Trillian has native transparency, and an always on top mode. Other IM clients can join in the fun by using one of the transparent windows tweaks and using their always on top mode. There may be some interesting things in Apple's approach, but they're hardly the only game in town.
I don't see why they wouldn't. You've got two cards with two different PCI IDs and bus numbers. The OS simply needs to say, "Okay, this video packet is going to 1,0,0 and this one is going to 1,0,1". The comm protocols have been there for a very long time; I can remember playing around with using a couple different PCI video cards by different makers, or even the oldschool dual head back in the days when both video cards needed to be in 8 bit slots to work. Yeah, you'll probably get better performance by having two of the same card -- lover driver overhead being the key feature -- but nothing is stopping you from doing it right now.
I wonder if it's possible to use something like iso9660 as a standard hard disc partiton if you're going to be dual booting, seeing as the rockridge extensions support unix style filenames and permissions. Haven't really played with it; anyone know if it would work, or are we getting into the zone of evil hack here?
Unlike other commercial software vendors, who don't have any live version at all to test with. Drivers sometimes don't like certain hardware cards, or certain configurations of cards. As its impossible to test all configurations of hardware due to the simple nature of the x86 market, I find SuSE's method to be much better than buying a software package sight unseen.
Uhm, have you ever heard of the phrase testing server? SuSE just makes it easy to set up a testing server that'll be far, far away from the real internet at all times.
They just have to provide the source to the people who get the binaries. Legally, they don't have to give a copy of the source to anyone else, not even the developers. I've bought GPLed software before; a tweaked version of GCC from Cygnus back when nicities such as the EGCS branch and the graphical debugger weren't in regular gcc, and I only got the source on the CD, it wasn't on their website at all.
Someone should link the gpl here; I'm too lazy and need to take a shower and head out for debauchery and stuff. But the relevant verbage is in there. The only reasons Linux companies provide the source to the General Public is because it's good Karma.
MS is notorious about ensuring that their OSes have insane backwards compatibility. By and large, one can run Windows 3.x applications on Windows XP without breakage. Apple, on the other hand, seems to love breaking legacy app and hardware support for no real reason, I wonder how much will break when 10.4 will come out...
Two things stop that. The first is that when you log out, it asks you if you'd like to save your session. If you say no, it doesn't save it, you reboot to your older, clean session. Second is that you can configure it to ask you what session you want to load. Thus, you can have a media session, and an office session, and a failsafe session, in case everything goes crazy. It's been a feature of X for many, many years. Session management is one of the many things in X apple wishes they thought of, because it just kicks so much ass.
I wasn't able to find a fix for this, so I switched to Thunderbird for its excellent html support. It works well for the most part, although there are some annoying Mozilla quirks (separate inbox required for each account, for example)
Personally, I love the fact that mozilla has a different inbox for every account. It makes it real easy to do a very rough presorting of all my mail. I use different email accounts for different purposes. I guess if you wanted to, you could setup mozilla to forward all messages to one account on delivery, but to me, that seems like a waste of a good prefilter.
I just wonder how long it'll be until we'll be able to design our own dentata. I'm more than a bit curious as to the thought of having a nice set of fang implants, but at the same time, the fact that most designer teeth are just fancy dentures is kind of a let down. A nice set of fangs, along with a real bite, would be awesome, IMNSHO.
Typical mac elitism. I like upgradability and future-proofing my systems. Yes, the current batch of software may not need 64bit processors, but what about next year's? or the year after? Apple would rather sell me a $1000 computer now, and then another one in a couple years once Jobs on his holy hill announces that 32 bit machines are unsupported.
The market's going 64 bit, and going there fast. I want to already be there.
naw. Assembly can be pretty readable if you follow basic coding conventions and make extensive comments. yeah, if you use a lot of jumps, etc, it can get messy, but well written, and using a decent optimizing assembler to let the computer do the work on whether or not you should use a short jump or a long jump, you can have code you can come back to and understand it.
And hey, I don't see what so bad with being stuck with the iPod and iTunes. Even if I could play AAC files in other software / hardware media players, I'd STILL use iTunes and an iPod.
On the flip side, there are many of us who feel that iTunes on both the Mac and Windows platform are overly bloated for what the program does. Not to mention those of us who use software and hardware platforms that are unsupported by iTunes. Yeah, the ITMS is a great idea, but I'd rather have a solution that believes in cross-platform compatibility.
debian stable is like that, but that's because it is designed to be just that, rock stable. Debian unstable or testing, however, are pretty current; unstable's got 2.6.5 and everything now.
Actually, the problem is that binary-only program developers don't specify their own libraries. Instead of including their preferred version of glibc or whatever, which is essentially what they do in Windows for certain library files, they assume that the distro already has the version they want. Once binary app makers perform this extremely simple, logical action, you'll see that commercial linux apps will do much better in terms of volume sold, because there won't be anywhere near as much as a program installation problem.
I played around a bit with the iTMS site a year back, by manually hacking URLs to pass to the site, and the search feature itself, at least as far as I could tell, is pretty much all standard XML. Never saw it ask for even as much as an SSL enabled connection. My only question is why it took so long for someone to hack together the requisite perl. I probably would have done it myself if it hadn't been for the fact that I have the attention span of a crack smoking otter.
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With some of them, yes. They come with a serial port so you can use a modem as a backup connection in case the primary network goes down.
Like any large organization, they have to recruit, get volunteers. Everyone's got to advertise. Unless of course you like the draft.
There's a way to do it with most IM clients on windows. Trillian has native transparency, and an always on top mode. Other IM clients can join in the fun by using one of the transparent windows tweaks and using their always on top mode. There may be some interesting things in Apple's approach, but they're hardly the only game in town.
I don't see why they wouldn't. You've got two cards with two different PCI IDs and bus numbers. The OS simply needs to say, "Okay, this video packet is going to 1,0,0 and this one is going to 1,0,1". The comm protocols have been there for a very long time; I can remember playing around with using a couple different PCI video cards by different makers, or even the oldschool dual head back in the days when both video cards needed to be in 8 bit slots to work. Yeah, you'll probably get better performance by having two of the same card -- lover driver overhead being the key feature -- but nothing is stopping you from doing it right now.
Hah. I spit on your poutine. There is but one true way to eat your fries, and that's with chili and cheese. Lousy hosers can't get anything right.
I wonder if it's possible to use something like iso9660 as a standard hard disc partiton if you're going to be dual booting, seeing as the rockridge extensions support unix style filenames and permissions. Haven't really played with it; anyone know if it would work, or are we getting into the zone of evil hack here?
Unlike other commercial software vendors, who don't have any live version at all to test with. Drivers sometimes don't like certain hardware cards, or certain configurations of cards. As its impossible to test all configurations of hardware due to the simple nature of the x86 market, I find SuSE's method to be much better than buying a software package sight unseen.
Uhm, have you ever heard of the phrase testing server? SuSE just makes it easy to set up a testing server that'll be far, far away from the real internet at all times.
The difference is that SuSE already provided a full refund of the .iso's purchase price for all those affected by this security hole ;3
Someone should link the gpl here; I'm too lazy and need to take a shower and head out for debauchery and stuff. But the relevant verbage is in there. The only reasons Linux companies provide the source to the General Public is because it's good Karma.
MS is notorious about ensuring that their OSes have insane backwards compatibility. By and large, one can run Windows 3.x applications on Windows XP without breakage. Apple, on the other hand, seems to love breaking legacy app and hardware support for no real reason, I wonder how much will break when 10.4 will come out...
Two things stop that. The first is that when you log out, it asks you if you'd like to save your session. If you say no, it doesn't save it, you reboot to your older, clean session. Second is that you can configure it to ask you what session you want to load. Thus, you can have a media session, and an office session, and a failsafe session, in case everything goes crazy. It's been a feature of X for many, many years. Session management is one of the many things in X apple wishes they thought of, because it just kicks so much ass.
Though I guess this exercise does prove one thing. Reality mostly sucks.
Personally, I love the fact that mozilla has a different inbox for every account. It makes it real easy to do a very rough presorting of all my mail. I use different email accounts for different purposes. I guess if you wanted to, you could setup mozilla to forward all messages to one account on delivery, but to me, that seems like a waste of a good prefilter.
I just wonder how long it'll be until we'll be able to design our own dentata. I'm more than a bit curious as to the thought of having a nice set of fang implants, but at the same time, the fact that most designer teeth are just fancy dentures is kind of a let down. A nice set of fangs, along with a real bite, would be awesome, IMNSHO.
Typical mac elitism. I like upgradability and future-proofing my systems. Yes, the current batch of software may not need 64bit processors, but what about next year's? or the year after? Apple would rather sell me a $1000 computer now, and then another one in a couple years once Jobs on his holy hill announces that 32 bit machines are unsupported. The market's going 64 bit, and going there fast. I want to already be there.
Well, with most opensource applications, if it breaks, the developer will gladly refund the purchase price ;3
Naw. If I'm going to spend 1000 on a system, I'm going to make sure it is 64 bits. Can Apple match that?
It's a lossy codec...figures...british cars leak oil, british codecs leak bits...
Hello universal turing machine. If TCPA becomes a reality, it will be cracked and emulated and life will go on as usual.
naw. Assembly can be pretty readable if you follow basic coding conventions and make extensive comments. yeah, if you use a lot of jumps, etc, it can get messy, but well written, and using a decent optimizing assembler to let the computer do the work on whether or not you should use a short jump or a long jump, you can have code you can come back to and understand it.
debian stable is like that, but that's because it is designed to be just that, rock stable. Debian unstable or testing, however, are pretty current; unstable's got 2.6.5 and everything now.
Actually, the problem is that binary-only program developers don't specify their own libraries. Instead of including their preferred version of glibc or whatever, which is essentially what they do in Windows for certain library files, they assume that the distro already has the version they want. Once binary app makers perform this extremely simple, logical action, you'll see that commercial linux apps will do much better in terms of volume sold, because there won't be anywhere near as much as a program installation problem.
I played around a bit with the iTMS site a year back, by manually hacking URLs to pass to the site, and the search feature itself, at least as far as I could tell, is pretty much all standard XML. Never saw it ask for even as much as an SSL enabled connection. My only question is why it took so long for someone to hack together the requisite perl. I probably would have done it myself if it hadn't been for the fact that I have the attention span of a crack smoking otter.