Erm.. yeah. I ordered a Mac Pro as soon as they came out, and by the time it was delivered Parallels had a beta version that worked just fine. I think the Mac Pro compatible version has been in proper release for quite some time now. Works lovely for me and my 5GB box.
It's not up to Apple to tell you about third party incompatibility. A brief perusal of any Parallels forum/list would have informed you of the problem.
I think a lot of the idea of.mobi is to create a set of sites *guaranteed* to work with phones. I'm sure plenty of sites on there will only be for phones, not for normal PCs, and have content/functionality commensurate with that aim.
The fact that they'll police all sites on there to ensure compliance is a fantastic idea, I reckon.
Errr, yeah. Perhaps you should read my post again.
To my knowledge, Windows doesn't recognise control-click as a right-click (at least, not by default - is there a way to enable this?). And why would it? Windows expects a 2-button mouse. Remember we're talking about Windows booting natively, so it has to be something Windows on its own can do, not "Windows via VPC".
And even if Windows does do ctrl-click, that's not "nice" like hacking the trackpad to recognise a certain movement/tap as being a right-click, which is the problem we were talking about in the first place.
Never have karma whored, never will... it's been "Excellent" since they stopped using numbers (and was 50 before). Maybe that's because I post vaguely useful comments...
Surely the problem is not so much getting right-click functionality under OS X, but getting it under Windows (where it's far more important). This probably won't be solved for a while yet.
Myself, I'd just get a small USB mouse to plug in. Then you get a scroll wheel too.
The secondary method would involve installing a program that the user can ALWAYS see. And if they can see it, they can kill it. Ergo, not too much spyware on Macs at the moment. (We'll see if spyware manufacturers figure out ways around this. It would be interesting to see Apple's response.)
Actually, it's pretty easy to write a programme for OS X that won't show up in the Dock or Force Quit list - you just toggle an option in XCode. I've done this so an app on our public internet kiosks will keep the browser running, etc, but force quitting the it is impossible.
So all you do is advertise a nice app, let people download, they open it and... nothing. And given I can update my startup items in System Prefs (at least in 10.3) without a password, surely an app could. (And for Tiger, there's usually at least one locally exploitable root hole lying around a given OS.)
I'm not saying it's likely, nor that it's any worse than Windows, but it is possible with only a tiny amount of social engineering.
In fact, in some domains (e.g. Physics), Wikipedia has oodles of good information that it becomes an excellent reference. Is it a 100% reliable reference? No.
Great. Now how do I find out *which* information is good, and which is unreliable? No way to tell? Then I must treat all entries with suspicion, and be no better off than before.
Harder to install?/stand/sysinstall (run from the boot CD) is functionally identical in 4 and 5. I've installed many FreeBSD servers down the years, and I can't say I've noticed any difference with 5. You just say "yes" or "no" to the options, hit install, then spend the next few minutes digging round the ports installing what you want (and the ports system is unchanged too).
I built an archive server a few weeks back using one of those 16-channel Adaptecs, on a nice Tyan motherboard with PCI-X. Works a treat, I'd definitely recommend it.
Streenet networks are a bit evil - round each lamppost they have 3 APs: one to transmit back to the previous lamppost, one to receive from the next lamppost, and one to actually provide the wireless at that point. This means that the wireless channels near to a streetnet network are pretty much totally swamped, and you tend to get a lot of interference.
They're also a bit evil because Streetnet appears to be an offshoot of a project that was initially helped by Mobile Bristol (http://www.mobilebristol.co.uk/ who funded and encouraged them, but they've never publicly acknowledged their help.
Municipal wifi is no bad thing, of course, but sometimes it's much better when done by independent volunteers such as http://www.eastonwireless.net/ rather than private companies who woo the local technically-naive council...
"that way you get one small advantage of SMP - not wearing out a single CPU - without any of the speed advantages which is mostly what people buy multicore/multiprocessor systems for."
Don't get me wrong, I love OpenBSD, and I can see the sense in their move, but I wouldn't call it "support" for SMP, more "yes, we'll run on it".
I thought yellow diamonds (depending on their exact colour) could be worth much more than normal ones. At least, that's what the Antiques Roadshow said on Sunday...
If you want a trippy Alice, go and look for Jan Svankmeyer's version. Absolutely the best, and the most nightmarish (in the truest sense). Oh, and watch all his other animation while you're at it, they blow Burton's semi-goth crap out of the water.
I think, because most prostitutes start doing it either because they're in dire financial need, or because they were abused as children and therefore think that it's natural for them to carry on being abused.
The law is there to try to discourage women from harming themselves for the wrong reasons (prostitution isn't all sexy fun and games). However, the law *should* treat the prostitutes as being in need of help, and punish their pimps (or others who profit from their misery) severely instead.
In hand-drawn animation, things that don't need to move stay still (generally). I don't think there's a part of the talking-man animation that doesn't move. It looks totally computer-rendered: that standard "everything shifting a bit" thing you get.
Similar thing for walking (wo?)man - it's all too smooth, too perfect. The actual inking isn't bad, but don't make animations from it if you want them to look hand-drawn.
What they *don't* get from Apple (and what gives me a headache every time I use Windows) are the fonts. Beautiful windows and icons with crappy fonts in/under them makes for a hideous visual experience. Why does no-one get this?
We had a betamax player once (not for video, it was because you could do digital audio recording across the entire width of the tape if you had a PCM box - an early form of DAT). We did try playing a video once though, and the quality was *amazing*. Beautiful paused stills. Rather crisp definition. Beat the crap out of either VHS we had at the time.
Also, Sony's other "Beta" formats (Digi Beta, Beta SP, etc) are widely used in the film and television industries, and for good reasons.
Not saying that this one isn't crap, but the Beta stuff was alright.
I have to say I had the same problem with SA missing a lot (mind you, I have yet to upgrade to newer versions), and Dspam solved it. Having said that, I still use SA as a "first pass", and delete any mail with a score of >9 or so (I would put it lower, but any false positives and users would complain). This leads to less mail in the dspam quarantine.
It's a bugger to set up with Procmail, but if anyone wants a peek at my config file, just e-mail... One thing I did do was forget about that whole "forward spam to this e-mail address" thing: just too much trouble for users. Instead I created a special IMAP folder into which users could save spam, then a simple script corpus-feeds the contents of that folder into Dspam each night.
Average vagina is only a couple of inches long, that's why you can feel the cervix with your finger if you push one right in. It then stretches to accomodate the penis (whatever length it is) during intercourse.
Well, that's one sentence I didn't think I'd be writing today...
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Erm.. yeah. I ordered a Mac Pro as soon as they came out, and by the time it was delivered Parallels had a beta version that worked just fine. I think the Mac Pro compatible version has been in proper release for quite some time now. Works lovely for me and my 5GB box.
It's not up to Apple to tell you about third party incompatibility. A brief perusal of any Parallels forum/list would have informed you of the problem.
I think a lot of the idea of .mobi is to create a set of sites *guaranteed* to work with phones. I'm sure plenty of sites on there will only be for phones, not for normal PCs, and have content/functionality commensurate with that aim.
The fact that they'll police all sites on there to ensure compliance is a fantastic idea, I reckon.
Very stupid people, mostly. There's no shortage.
Errr, yeah. Perhaps you should read my post again.
To my knowledge, Windows doesn't recognise control-click as a right-click (at least, not by default - is there a way to enable this?). And why would it? Windows expects a 2-button mouse. Remember we're talking about Windows booting natively, so it has to be something Windows on its own can do, not "Windows via VPC".
And even if Windows does do ctrl-click, that's not "nice" like hacking the trackpad to recognise a certain movement/tap as being a right-click, which is the problem we were talking about in the first place.
Never have karma whored, never will... it's been "Excellent" since they stopped using numbers (and was 50 before). Maybe that's because I post vaguely useful comments...
Surely the problem is not so much getting right-click functionality under OS X, but getting it under Windows (where it's far more important). This probably won't be solved for a while yet.
Myself, I'd just get a small USB mouse to plug in. Then you get a scroll wheel too.
Notoriously corrupt TS dept? What's your evidence, because I've never seen a story that suggests they are?
Oliver.
Actually, it's pretty easy to write a programme for OS X that won't show up in the Dock or Force Quit list - you just toggle an option in XCode. I've done this so an app on our public internet kiosks will keep the browser running, etc, but force quitting the it is impossible.
So all you do is advertise a nice app, let people download, they open it and... nothing. And given I can update my startup items in System Prefs (at least in 10.3) without a password, surely an app could. (And for Tiger, there's usually at least one locally exploitable root hole lying around a given OS.)
I'm not saying it's likely, nor that it's any worse than Windows, but it is possible with only a tiny amount of social engineering.
Great. Now how do I find out *which* information is good, and which is unreliable? No way to tell? Then I must treat all entries with suspicion, and be no better off than before.
Wouldn't you want to use "tcpdump -X -s 1500 -w pr0n.log port 69", so as to make sure of capturing all the packet contents?
Harder to install? /stand/sysinstall (run from the boot CD) is functionally identical in 4 and 5. I've installed many FreeBSD servers down the years, and I can't say I've noticed any difference with 5. You just say "yes" or "no" to the options, hit install, then spend the next few minutes digging round the ports installing what you want (and the ports system is unchanged too).
What, precisely, did you have problems with?
I built an archive server a few weeks back using one of those 16-channel Adaptecs, on a nice Tyan motherboard with PCI-X. Works a treat, I'd definitely recommend it.
Streenet networks are a bit evil - round each lamppost they have 3 APs: one to transmit back to the previous lamppost, one to receive from the next lamppost, and one to actually provide the wireless at that point. This means that the wireless channels near to a streetnet network are pretty much totally swamped, and you tend to get a lot of interference.
They're also a bit evil because Streetnet appears to be an offshoot of a project that was initially helped by Mobile Bristol (http://www.mobilebristol.co.uk/ who funded and encouraged them, but they've never publicly acknowledged their help.
Municipal wifi is no bad thing, of course, but sometimes it's much better when done by independent volunteers such as http://www.eastonwireless.net/ rather than private companies who woo the local technically-naive council...
Don't you mean,
"that way you get one small advantage of SMP - not wearing out a single CPU - without any of the speed advantages which is mostly what people buy multicore/multiprocessor systems for."
Don't get me wrong, I love OpenBSD, and I can see the sense in their move, but I wouldn't call it "support" for SMP, more "yes, we'll run on it".
I thought yellow diamonds (depending on their exact colour) could be worth much more than normal ones. At least, that's what the Antiques Roadshow said on Sunday...
e.g. http://www.yellowdiamonds.co.uk/
Don't forget Darwin either. (3rd story down)
Bills Hicks, reincarnated and posting on /. Whooda thunk it?
If you want a trippy Alice, go and look for Jan Svankmeyer's version. Absolutely the best, and the most nightmarish (in the truest sense). Oh, and watch all his other animation while you're at it, they blow Burton's semi-goth crap out of the water.
I found (apart from some punctuation stuff, which would be *very* nit-picky and more a matter of taste):
Alot
disinterested (means impartial, not uninterested)
bunch of losers *that* have nothing (should be "who")
I would have said disenfrenchfried too, but I rather like that as a construction. What were your others?
I think, because most prostitutes start doing it either because they're in dire financial need, or because they were abused as children and therefore think that it's natural for them to carry on being abused.
The law is there to try to discourage women from harming themselves for the wrong reasons (prostitution isn't all sexy fun and games). However, the law *should* treat the prostitutes as being in need of help, and punish their pimps (or others who profit from their misery) severely instead.
In hand-drawn animation, things that don't need to move stay still (generally). I don't think there's a part of the talking-man animation that doesn't move. It looks totally computer-rendered: that standard "everything shifting a bit" thing you get.
Similar thing for walking (wo?)man - it's all too smooth, too perfect. The actual inking isn't bad, but don't make animations from it if you want them to look hand-drawn.
There comes a time when +5, Funny isn't good enough any more. We need +5 shit, this is actually happening.
Mods... that's not funny. It's true.
What they *don't* get from Apple (and what gives me a headache every time I use Windows) are the fonts. Beautiful windows and icons with crappy fonts in/under them makes for a hideous visual experience. Why does no-one get this?
We had a betamax player once (not for video, it was because you could do digital audio recording across the entire width of the tape if you had a PCM box - an early form of DAT). We did try playing a video once though, and the quality was *amazing*. Beautiful paused stills. Rather crisp definition. Beat the crap out of either VHS we had at the time.
Also, Sony's other "Beta" formats (Digi Beta, Beta SP, etc) are widely used in the film and television industries, and for good reasons.
Not saying that this one isn't crap, but the Beta stuff was alright.
I have to say I had the same problem with SA missing a lot (mind you, I have yet to upgrade to newer versions), and Dspam solved it. Having said that, I still use SA as a "first pass", and delete any mail with a score of >9 or so (I would put it lower, but any false positives and users would complain). This leads to less mail in the dspam quarantine.
It's a bugger to set up with Procmail, but if anyone wants a peek at my config file, just e-mail... One thing I did do was forget about that whole "forward spam to this e-mail address" thing: just too much trouble for users. Instead I created a special IMAP folder into which users could save spam, then a simple script corpus-feeds the contents of that folder into Dspam each night.
Oliver.
Average vagina is only a couple of inches long, that's why you can feel the cervix with your finger if you push one right in. It then stretches to accomodate the penis (whatever length it is) during intercourse.
Well, that's one sentence I didn't think I'd be writing today...