After all, each copy of VPC represents another Windows license (for the most part). I would think it would be to their advantage to get as many mac users as possible using VPC.
Or maybe it's just a way to extend the Windows monopoly, and maybe DRM/Paladium/etc. A few years ago, I was in a store where a customer was returning an iMac, complaining that it was constantly crashing. Turned out that the user ran VPC full time, and didn't know what the MacOS was.
A few sites I use on a regular basis don't work with my preferred browsers (Safari and OmniWeb) . My online banking refuses to work with anything other than Netscape 4 (including Mac IE!). I can spoof as Windows IE for some sites, but with others (such as the banking site) I usually receive an error when I actually try to do something. Maybe they're trying to check for 128-bit security, but since my browser works on some of their pages (and it's a server side error when it does blow up), my browser is capable of handling their app.
There are many "webmasters" who develop on IE, serve the site with IIS, and either assume or don't know that there are browsers other than IE on windows.
I develop most of my sites using Omniweb (it has the best view source feature I've ever seen), but I test them against IE and Netscape whenever I make major changes. I also check my logs to see what browsers are actually being used (and I appear to be the only non-IE user)
My ISP, running on NetBSD, was hit really hard. They weren't vulnerable to the worm, but because of the high traffic load, the various machines were knocked off the net.
I don't run MS software at home either, and yet my firewall received almost 4000 hits that day. And I'm sure that many others were filtered/rate-limited by my cable company.
One of my machines runs on RedHat 7.2. I update it on a regular basis using RHN. The machine has been running continously since it was setup (uptime of 325 days), and since it serves my DNS and DHCP (among other things), pulling it down for upgrades isn't much of an option.
Does this mean that I'm forced to upgrade the entire machine every so often in order to keep using RHN? If I have the latest versions of the installed packages, why does it matter if I run on 7.2, 8.x, or even 9.x?
Basically, what I'm asking is what benefit is there for me to completely shutdown the machine, upgrade the OS, and rebuild the software that isn't rpm'ed if necessary, rather than just updating the individual packages?
FWIW, some of my servers at home are older than the computers at the school I work at. We upgraded last summer, and anything slower than a P133 was dumped (including the 5 year old P75 lab, and 486's so old that the battery was dead). Our oldest computers (until they die) are 25 PII-233's, of about 300 machines. The machines were collected for recycling when by the company that supplied our new computers, but I have no idea what actually happened to them.
Schools have IT departments like any other business. How many IT departments do you know of that will support a mix of machines, let alone old machines with unusual configs? We've standardized our machines, configs, and images - we have roughly 4 series of machines, and the 2 most common ones are from a single company. (ignoring the Macs, which we ordered independantly of IT). Machines under P133's aren't allowed on the network (at least officially - they overlooked our P75 lab and staff P100's) A few old machines remain, but serve as UPS network monitors, etc.
Still, there are organziations that do take old computers. One that I know of distributes computers to people who need them, and at the same time trains the people who work on them.
I use a PodiumPad with my PowerBook. I find that elevating the screen really helps, however I'm usually working at a desk.
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I've had my address for just over 3 years. I receive 1 piece of spam every few months. To minimize spam, I didn't give out my address publically. Instead, I had 2 "throwaway" accounts, which forwarded to my main account. Too much spam, and I'd kill the account. Now, I have my own domain, and each site gets its own email address.
I read somewhere that IBM can produce faster chips, but can't release them due to a contract with Motorola. I really wish that Motorola would just drop out of the contract, since they're no longer interested in devoting the resources to the PPC.
At the same time, make it simple! My home entertainment system now has 6 remotes (TV, VCR, DVD, Digital Cable, CD, Receiver). TV power and volume is one remote. Changing other channels is another. Except if it's a digital channel, when volume is on the receiver instead. Or the receiver remote which will turn on the dvd player and tv, set the receiver to dvd, but won't adjust the tv's input. Adding a universal remote has helped a bit, but it is still clumsy.
Why can't I just stick a DVD in to the player, hit one button and everything will automatically turn on and switch to the right mode (TV to Video 2, mute, Receiver to Digital In 1, Surround mode on). Yes, I know about macros on the remote, the problem is that I can't guarantee what device is in what mode. And sometimes it's just the TV speakers, not the entire surround system.
Technology should not need to be this complicated. Either we need one device that does everything well (allowing for things like digital cable tuners), or some way for devices to talk to each other.
... and stick with it! I've had to tell many users that the upgrade from 98 is ME, not 2000. 2000 of course is the upgrade to NT. (officially anyways - ME is junk. And yes I know why 2000 is called 2000)
Or, put the following in order based on release date: 98SE, XP, 3.1, NT4, 95,.Net, 98, ME, NT 3.51, 2000. Bonus points for identifying the two different windows branches.
I finally broke down and bought a Powerbook last summer. Then the DVD writer was added (one feature I would have waited for). Now, it's a 17" screen, bluetooth, faster Airport, better Airport antennas... I want this machine!
At least I can still boot into MacOS 9. Which I still need to do every so often since Umax *still* hasn't heard of MacOS X, and won't support my scanner.
A few years ago, the most of the cable system in Ontario (as well as other ISP's) lost internet access when the fiber lines were cut. The lines ran along railway right-of-way to the @home connection in the U.S.
One night, two drunk guys decided to dig up telecom cables and sell the copper (not realizing it's all fiber). In the process, they cut the primary and backup lines.
The most commonly known abandoned station is Lower Bay, the lower level of the Bay station. It was used for a few months when the Bloor-Danforth line first opened, to allow the trains to interline with the Yonge-University line.
When the Yonge line was planned, it was thought that a streetcar subway would run under Queen Street (rather than the Bloor-Danforth line we have today). A roughed-in platform was built for the streetcars under Queen Station. At Osgoode (Queen St, University line), there is no second platform, although utlities were moved to accomodate a line (should it be built).
Another abandoned "station" is located at Allen Road, along the cancelled Eglinton line. The station was the first to be built, but the new government at the time cancelled the line and the station was filled in. Work never progressed far enough for it to be called a station though.
Keele and Woodbine stations on the Bloor line were terminal stations when the Bloor-Danforth line first opened. Special tunnels were built to make it easier for passengers to transfer to/from the streetcars, but were later abandoned.
"We come very much from the side of the consumer and we believe the consumer should have the right to reproduce content for their own use," said Philips spokesman Jeremy Cohen.
The bios is set so you can only put in the amount of memory that was specified by the card. So If I purchased the 2Gig empty card. My only option is to put in 4 sticks of 512 pc133 memory. If I wanted to upgrade my card to 4gig. I would have to pay for an upgrade, and then replace all the sticks of memory with 1024Meg sticks.
Inter.net was created by PSINet (read: Pissy-Net) after buying a number of smaller ISP's. I used Interlog which was an amazing ISP until it was bought by PSI. After that point, service declined until it was completely useless - the dialup lines didn't work properly, the web/mail servers started having problems, the news server was replaced with a useless machine. The final straw was the elimination of shell access, at which point I switched providers.
Although I don't know the complete story, I would tend to blame Inter.net unless they have made some drastic changes to their organization.
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After all, each copy of VPC represents another Windows license (for the most part). I would think it would be to their advantage to get as many mac users as possible using VPC.
Or maybe it's just a way to extend the Windows monopoly, and maybe DRM/Paladium/etc. A few years ago, I was in a store where a customer was returning an iMac, complaining that it was constantly crashing. Turned out that the user ran VPC full time, and didn't know what the MacOS was.
A few sites I use on a regular basis don't work with my preferred browsers (Safari and OmniWeb) . My online banking refuses to work with anything other than Netscape 4 (including Mac IE!). I can spoof as Windows IE for some sites, but with others (such as the banking site) I usually receive an error when I actually try to do something. Maybe they're trying to check for 128-bit security, but since my browser works on some of their pages (and it's a server side error when it does blow up), my browser is capable of handling their app.
There are many "webmasters" who develop on IE, serve the site with IIS, and either assume or don't know that there are browsers other than IE on windows.
I develop most of my sites using Omniweb (it has the best view source feature I've ever seen), but I test them against IE and Netscape whenever I make major changes. I also check my logs to see what browsers are actually being used (and I appear to be the only non-IE user)
HR exists for the company's benefit, not yours.
My ISP, running on NetBSD, was hit really hard. They weren't vulnerable to the worm, but because of the high traffic load, the various machines were knocked off the net.
I don't run MS software at home either, and yet my firewall received almost 4000 hits that day. And I'm sure that many others were filtered/rate-limited by my cable company.
One of my machines runs on RedHat 7.2. I update it on a regular basis using RHN. The machine has been running continously since it was setup (uptime of 325 days), and since it serves my DNS and DHCP (among other things), pulling it down for upgrades isn't much of an option.
Does this mean that I'm forced to upgrade the entire machine every so often in order to keep using RHN? If I have the latest versions of the installed packages, why does it matter if I run on 7.2, 8.x, or even 9.x?
Basically, what I'm asking is what benefit is there for me to completely shutdown the machine, upgrade the OS, and rebuild the software that isn't rpm'ed if necessary, rather than just updating the individual packages?
IIRC, DVD-R's only store a maximum of 90 minutes (early ones were 60).
Commercial DVD's get around this by making multi-layer discs. Consumer DVD-R burners currently burn single layer discs only.
FWIW, some of my servers at home are older than the computers at the school I work at. We upgraded last summer, and anything slower than a P133 was dumped (including the 5 year old P75 lab, and 486's so old that the battery was dead). Our oldest computers (until they die) are 25 PII-233's, of about 300 machines. The machines were collected for recycling when by the company that supplied our new computers, but I have no idea what actually happened to them.
Schools have IT departments like any other business. How many IT departments do you know of that will support a mix of machines, let alone old machines with unusual configs? We've standardized our machines, configs, and images - we have roughly 4 series of machines, and the 2 most common ones are from a single company. (ignoring the Macs, which we ordered independantly of IT). Machines under P133's aren't allowed on the network (at least officially - they overlooked our P75 lab and staff P100's)
A few old machines remain, but serve as UPS network monitors, etc.
Still, there are organziations that do take old computers. One that I know of distributes computers to people who need them, and at the same time trains the people who work on them.
I use a PodiumPad with my PowerBook. I find that elevating the screen really helps, however I'm usually working at a desk.
I've had my address for just over 3 years. I receive 1 piece of spam every few months. To minimize spam, I didn't give out my address publically. Instead, I had 2 "throwaway" accounts, which forwarded to my main account. Too much spam, and I'd kill the account. Now, I have my own domain, and each site gets its own email address.
I read somewhere that IBM can produce faster chips, but can't release them due to a contract with Motorola. I really wish that Motorola would just drop out of the contract, since they're no longer interested in devoting the resources to the PPC.
At the same time, make it simple! My home entertainment system now has 6 remotes (TV, VCR, DVD, Digital Cable, CD, Receiver). TV power and volume is one remote. Changing other channels is another. Except if it's a digital channel, when volume is on the receiver instead. Or the receiver remote which will turn on the dvd player and tv, set the receiver to dvd, but won't adjust the tv's input. Adding a universal remote has helped a bit, but it is still clumsy.
Why can't I just stick a DVD in to the player, hit one button and everything will automatically turn on and switch to the right mode (TV to Video 2, mute, Receiver to Digital In 1, Surround mode on). Yes, I know about macros on the remote, the problem is that I can't guarantee what device is in what mode. And sometimes it's just the TV speakers, not the entire surround system.
Technology should not need to be this complicated. Either we need one device that does everything well (allowing for things like digital cable tuners), or some way for devices to talk to each other.
... and stick with it! I've had to tell many users that the upgrade from 98 is ME, not 2000. 2000 of course is the upgrade to NT. (officially anyways - ME is junk. And yes I know why 2000 is called 2000)
.Net, 98, ME, NT 3.51, 2000.
Or, put the following in order based on release date:
98SE, XP, 3.1, NT4, 95,
Bonus points for identifying the two different windows branches.
I've already looked into VueScan. It only supports the higher end umax scanners - my Astra 2200 is unsupported.
I finally broke down and bought a Powerbook last summer. Then the DVD writer was added (one feature I would have waited for). Now, it's a 17" screen, bluetooth, faster Airport, better Airport antennas... I want this machine!
At least I can still boot into MacOS 9. Which I still need to do every so often since Umax *still* hasn't heard of MacOS X, and won't support my scanner.
the equivalent of 421 times? After all, some connections are faster than others.
A few years ago, the most of the cable system in Ontario (as well as other ISP's) lost internet access when the fiber lines were cut. The lines ran along railway right-of-way to the @home connection in the U.S.
One night, two drunk guys decided to dig up telecom cables and sell the copper (not realizing it's all fiber). In the process, they cut the primary and backup lines.
The TTC has a number of abandoned stations and facilities. http://www.transit.toronto.on.ca/transit.cfm?tt=su bway&id=5006
The most commonly known abandoned station is Lower Bay, the lower level of the Bay station. It was used for a few months when the Bloor-Danforth line first opened, to allow the trains to interline with the Yonge-University line.
When the Yonge line was planned, it was thought that a streetcar subway would run under Queen Street (rather than the Bloor-Danforth line we have today). A roughed-in platform was built for the streetcars under Queen Station. At Osgoode (Queen St, University line), there is no second platform, although utlities were moved to accomodate a line (should it be built).
Another abandoned "station" is located at Allen Road, along the cancelled Eglinton line. The station was the first to be built, but the new government at the time cancelled the line and the station was filled in. Work never progressed far enough for it to be called a station though.
Keele and Woodbine stations on the Bloor line were terminal stations when the Bloor-Danforth line first opened. Special tunnels were built to make it easier for passengers to transfer to/from the streetcars, but were later abandoned.
to a windows-based notebook, instead of a macintosh based one. :)
Even the ants are switchers!
Google googles slashdot, then slashdot slashdots google?
(try saying that one quickly!)
"We come very much from the side of the consumer and we believe the consumer should have the right to reproduce content for their own use," said Philips spokesman Jeremy Cohen.
I use a PodiumPad with my TiBook. It's a swiveling base which elevates the back of the computer, without attaching to the screen.
The bios is set so you can only put in the amount of memory that was specified by the card. So If I purchased the 2Gig empty card. My only option is to put in 4 sticks of 512 pc133 memory. If I wanted to upgrade my card to 4gig. I would have to pay for an upgrade, and then replace all the sticks of memory with 1024Meg sticks.
Inter.net was created by PSINet (read: Pissy-Net) after buying a number of smaller ISP's. I used Interlog which was an amazing ISP until it was bought by PSI. After that point, service declined until it was completely useless - the dialup lines didn't work properly, the web/mail servers started having problems, the news server was replaced with a useless machine. The final straw was the elimination of shell access, at which point I switched providers.
Although I don't know the complete story, I would tend to blame Inter.net unless they have made some drastic changes to their organization.
There are a number of third-party ICQ clients for X. My favorite these days is Proteus (don't have a link handy, but it will be on MacUpdate.com)
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