Your comparison just reminds me of this. Just save yourself the trouble and get the real thing.
Ah, but that x86 machine offers much greater functionality compared to the eye candy-laden monstrosity that is OS X. The real difference between the two environments is that I can much more readily turn off the eye candy and get down to work in Linux. Besides, Apple still hasn't come out with a 64 bit laptop. Why would I want to get a more expensive machine from a company that's less technologically advanced than emachines when it comes to making laptops?
Different segments of the market. The Mini-ITX is for a very specific purpose -- low power, decent performance computing. You can still buy mobos with a half dozen or so PCI slots that have integrated peripherals, they're just a couple feet down the aisle. Yes, lots of people like integrated solutions, but lots of people like to build their own. From what I've seen, there are no signs of mobos with lots of lots being a dying breed.
The.mp3 was just a proof of concept. Compression is how a lot of windows viruses in the loose work in very similar means now, as many mail servers now block file formats like.exe . Yes, most people won't be fooled by a.mp3.sit but what about something like a.doc.sit?
Feedback: I'll admit that can be a bit of an issue, but these things have always done that. I think it's just the difference between loading a BIOS and loading open firmware.
I've got a Sun workstation which uses OF. Even an antique decade old machine takes less than a second to start showing a splash screen.
It depends on the keyboard. Yes, a lot of recent US keyboards have a 1 row tall enter key, but a lot have 2 tall, l shaped keyboards that you seem to like more. I also had a weird IBM point of sale type keyboard that was 2 tall and one wide. Additionally, you probably just need they keycaps for the UK keyboard; most likely the keyboards send out the same scancodes, it's just the software that remaps them.
Ah, but I can get a machine with SuSE preinstalled pretty easily as well. I can say to any competant system builder to throw it on and they will do it for me. However, preinstallation doesn't help when six months down the road, a failed update to the system requires you to install your original operating system. The blind SuSE user can install their OS and carry on like nothing happened, the blind OS X user has to rely on a sighted person to perform the reinstall.
Uh, My copy of SuSE that's a few years old had screenreader drivers built-in, so blind people could install the OS. No extra work needed. Also, what use is an accessible desktop if the installer isn't blind-friendly?
Once agin, OS X is years behind hat's easly to do in Linux.
Yes, OS X has crontabs, and at, and NetInfo manager. If you think PC viruses are bad, wait until a bored person with a few dozen lines of code sets up their worm to install itself in all the different places OS X uses to store time-delayed scripts. The only thing that keeps OS X relatively malware-free is its low marketshare. Give enough people who are relatively un-tech savvy a Mac, and you'll see a just as bad, if not worse, virus/worm problem.
The difference is that once you do find a good quality case, you can usually make it last for several upgrade cycles. Apple makes you buy a new garish case every time you want to upgrade the rest of the system. Plus, tell me where I can find an apple case with room for even 2 CD drives?
For nongeeks, it's pretty easy. They find a geek friend and they say, build me a computer, I'll pay ya a bit and buy you beer.
Though realy, the installing the OS is a nonissue. You know how I install an OS? I throw on a good movie, or read a book or something and occasionally glance over at the computer and provide whatever input it needs. Unless you're in an absolute hurry to build a system, nothing's going to be hurt if your computer has to wait. Plus, add to the fact that I dislike pretty much the entire gamut of the iApps as being oversimplified, waered down versions of real programs, software installation for both systems takes about the same amount of time. Add in the time spent looking for applications needed to make an OS X install looking halfway decent, and you're winding up spending the same amount of time getting either platform the way you want it.
Then why is it that XFree 86 goes through, as does XFree87, XFree69, X86Free, etc unfiltered. Definitely worth at least a raised eyebrow here. I could understand if it were Advertised in porn sites or something, but it's a server product. Though admittedly, MS is proving themselves to be silly in the fact that we're talking about this over a half a day later. It just seems to me that something like this would have been handled quickly; it's not like it would be that hard to add xfree86 to the exclusionary filter when determining the "pornness" of a keyword.
Really, kernel releases in the Linux world are more related to how fast the kernel gets to the point of stability than anything else. If you look at the history of the 2.4 kernel, you see that there were a lot of early problems with areas like the memory manager which caused a lot of releases in an attempt to get the problems taken care of. 2.4 really didn't stabilize in most people's eyes until 2.4.15 or so. Plus, once a new stable kernel comes out, the old stable enters a sort of maintenance mode. Few, if any, new drivers, and almost entirely security and bug fixes.
Okay, if Intel have anything to do with human interface devices, why is it that I'm typing this message on a USB keyboard and using a USB mouse? Not to mention my using of a USB webcam. Last time I checked, USB was primarily an intel-developed standard. Yes, bluetooth may be fine for low-grade audio, but what about streaming cd-quality music and compressed, decent-looking video? Yes, bluetooth is fine for now, but it doesn't scale, doesn't grow, and thus, is going to die. Wireless USB is so beneficial for future applications because it's a helluva lot faster, and, if Intel is smart, will follow the wired USB spec close enough that wired USB devices can be converted to wireless with a minimum of effort as far as driver rewrites are concerned.
I'd say firedrake, for it shall lay all its competitors to burnination. Manfox, though a nice yiffy sounding name, doesn't have the implications of turning the competition to cinders.
Though I'd like the name (mmmm, homoerotica;3) the sexually insecure louts out there would be uncomfortable using a product with such a name. It's not marketable, thus would never fly past sales.
But if you read that page, you'd learn that it's not some inherent flaw responsible for the A20 gate, but rather the chipset. Thus, it's more than possible to have an x86 processor without an A20 gate. It's just that most people dig backwards compatibility, even if it makes systems-level programming a bit more difficult.
You mean that microsoft apologists might actually admit that their products are more difficult to secure and remotely administer by design? Or are you just tired of people pointing out that your chosen platform is far from perfect, or even good in many cases?
And to answer your sig,
"Linux: Where do you want to stay today?"
In bed, arms around a cute sexy guy, snuggling, because I can administer a Linux-running server on practically any internet-connected device which can take an input, and deliver an output.
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And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced.
AOL's killing of the netscape brand as a web browser, and the subsequent laying off of the dev team.
But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them.
The rebirth of the Mozilla project as a non-profit and the rebirth of Mozilla as separate browser and mail components.
For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
I hate to be one to defend to microsoft here, but get off your high horse. The main reason that Macs seem so relatively bug-free is because the platform is so obscure and tightly controlled. You don't have the variety of hardware that you have on a PC, you don't have the variables PCs have. And before you try to get off acting like a mac is immune to viruses, think again. It's entirely possible to write a virus for a mac, even OS X that can be quite destructive. Probably wouldn't take more than a few hours by a bored enough person. I'd do it myself, but I have better things to do with my time, like sex, than to write viruses. Also, last time I checked, the near-month service packs that Apple puts out for their OS take longer than 5 minutes to download and install.
In conclusion, please share whatever pills you are taking to get to that reality, because they seem like they're pretty fun.
Well, I for one enjoy the benefits of having a solar system which features sapient life and would like that to continue even if an asteroid to plow into this planet, like said extraplanetary features have a tendency to do. Thus, space research is more than worth it to me if it means that it means that sapient life will continue regardless of what happens on earth. This includes the risks involved in extraplanetary research, which are extremely slim.
Nope. System was made April 17, 1998. 5 years old. I have a similar vintage x86 system that I used as my backup/fun system that runs XP without a problem and with damn good reliability, too. The big difference is that I can turn off XP's eye candy and get down to work. I can't do that with OS X very easily.
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Except that ActiveX is available for mozilla. So really, the only reason that MS requires IE is to lock you in, not any real technical reason.
Different segments of the market. The Mini-ITX is for a very specific purpose -- low power, decent performance computing. You can still buy mobos with a half dozen or so PCI slots that have integrated peripherals, they're just a couple feet down the aisle. Yes, lots of people like integrated solutions, but lots of people like to build their own. From what I've seen, there are no signs of mobos with lots of lots being a dying breed.
The .mp3 was just a proof of concept. Compression is how a lot of windows viruses in the loose work in very similar means now, as many mail servers now block file formats like .exe . Yes, most people won't be fooled by a .mp3.sit but what about something like a .doc.sit?
I've got a Sun workstation which uses OF. Even an antique decade old machine takes less than a second to start showing a splash screen.
It depends on the keyboard. Yes, a lot of recent US keyboards have a 1 row tall enter key, but a lot have 2 tall, l shaped keyboards that you seem to like more. I also had a weird IBM point of sale type keyboard that was 2 tall and one wide. Additionally, you probably just need they keycaps for the UK keyboard; most likely the keyboards send out the same scancodes, it's just the software that remaps them.
Ah, but I can get a machine with SuSE preinstalled pretty easily as well. I can say to any competant system builder to throw it on and they will do it for me. However, preinstallation doesn't help when six months down the road, a failed update to the system requires you to install your original operating system. The blind SuSE user can install their OS and carry on like nothing happened, the blind OS X user has to rely on a sighted person to perform the reinstall.
Once agin, OS X is years behind hat's easly to do in Linux.
Yes, OS X has crontabs, and at, and NetInfo manager. If you think PC viruses are bad, wait until a bored person with a few dozen lines of code sets up their worm to install itself in all the different places OS X uses to store time-delayed scripts. The only thing that keeps OS X relatively malware-free is its low marketshare. Give enough people who are relatively un-tech savvy a Mac, and you'll see a just as bad, if not worse, virus/worm problem.
For nongeeks, it's pretty easy. They find a geek friend and they say, build me a computer, I'll pay ya a bit and buy you beer.
Though realy, the installing the OS is a nonissue. You know how I install an OS? I throw on a good movie, or read a book or something and occasionally glance over at the computer and provide whatever input it needs. Unless you're in an absolute hurry to build a system, nothing's going to be hurt if your computer has to wait. Plus, add to the fact that I dislike pretty much the entire gamut of the iApps as being oversimplified, waered down versions of real programs, software installation for both systems takes about the same amount of time. Add in the time spent looking for applications needed to make an OS X install looking halfway decent, and you're winding up spending the same amount of time getting either platform the way you want it.
The testing versions, which have so many kickass features that its worth a bit of stability costs, do in fact have a filter/plugins menu.
Then why is it that XFree 86 goes through, as does XFree87, XFree69, X86Free, etc unfiltered. Definitely worth at least a raised eyebrow here. I could understand if it were Advertised in porn sites or something, but it's a server product. Though admittedly, MS is proving themselves to be silly in the fact that we're talking about this over a half a day later. It just seems to me that something like this would have been handled quickly; it's not like it would be that hard to add xfree86 to the exclusionary filter when determining the "pornness" of a keyword.
Really, kernel releases in the Linux world are more related to how fast the kernel gets to the point of stability than anything else. If you look at the history of the 2.4 kernel, you see that there were a lot of early problems with areas like the memory manager which caused a lot of releases in an attempt to get the problems taken care of. 2.4 really didn't stabilize in most people's eyes until 2.4.15 or so. Plus, once a new stable kernel comes out, the old stable enters a sort of maintenance mode. Few, if any, new drivers, and almost entirely security and bug fixes.
Okay, if Intel have anything to do with human interface devices, why is it that I'm typing this message on a USB keyboard and using a USB mouse? Not to mention my using of a USB webcam. Last time I checked, USB was primarily an intel-developed standard. Yes, bluetooth may be fine for low-grade audio, but what about streaming cd-quality music and compressed, decent-looking video? Yes, bluetooth is fine for now, but it doesn't scale, doesn't grow, and thus, is going to die. Wireless USB is so beneficial for future applications because it's a helluva lot faster, and, if Intel is smart, will follow the wired USB spec close enough that wired USB devices can be converted to wireless with a minimum of effort as far as driver rewrites are concerned.
and much more intellect, too.
I'd say firedrake, for it shall lay all its competitors to burnination. Manfox, though a nice yiffy sounding name, doesn't have the implications of turning the competition to cinders.
Though I'd like the name (mmmm, homoerotica ;3) the sexually insecure louts out there would be uncomfortable using a product with such a name. It's not marketable, thus would never fly past sales.
Uh, judging by the grandparent poster's URL, something tells me he knows the difference quite well.
I dunno. I love birds. A little bbq sauce, an open flame, delicious.
But if you read that page, you'd learn that it's not some inherent flaw responsible for the A20 gate, but rather the chipset. Thus, it's more than possible to have an x86 processor without an A20 gate. It's just that most people dig backwards compatibility, even if it makes systems-level programming a bit more difficult.
And to answer your sig,
In bed, arms around a cute sexy guy, snuggling, because I can administer a Linux-running server on practically any internet-connected device which can take an input, and deliver an output.
In conclusion, please share whatever pills you are taking to get to that reality, because they seem like they're pretty fun.
Well, I for one enjoy the benefits of having a solar system which features sapient life and would like that to continue even if an asteroid to plow into this planet, like said extraplanetary features have a tendency to do. Thus, space research is more than worth it to me if it means that it means that sapient life will continue regardless of what happens on earth. This includes the risks involved in extraplanetary research, which are extremely slim.
Nope. System was made April 17, 1998. 5 years old. I have a similar vintage x86 system that I used as my backup/fun system that runs XP without a problem and with damn good reliability, too. The big difference is that I can turn off XP's eye candy and get down to work. I can't do that with OS X very easily.