But he had already had a contract with another part of Apple for earlier development, with his parents co-signing, and Apple was fine with it. They seem to be deliberately screwing him rather than making arrangements like before (and screwing themselves... Finlay's a force to be reckoned with, he's put a lot of effort into OSX).
All of our servers are named after things that are evil.
MP3 server: Manilow
backup server: "Oprah" (wouldn't want her to back up!)
NFS server: Nefarious
And then various other servers:
Zuul
Cthuga
Congress (a gateway, proxies to House and Senate)
There's more I can't think of at the moment... It's always great fun coming up with names. We try to make them somehow relate to what they do, so that we know what they are without having to think about it.
Our old naming scheme was "deliberately hard to refer to", which we ended up having to get rid of because management couldn't tell what we were talking about. I'm not kidding. (server names like "everything", "everything-else", "nothing", "the-server", etc.) It was always fun when the conversation turned to "Hey, everything's down." "You mean everything everything, or just the server everything?" "Everything, and everything else, not the-server."
You're making my point. I never said their technology wasn't great. BeOS was (is!) freakin' amazing on whatever hardware they put it on.
All of the things that were wrong with Be had *nothing* to do with BeOS and the technology around it, only with Be, Inc. What killed them was that they changed their business plan in fairly major ways a number of different times. That's not how you get long-term viability as a company. It's a sign that, other than their engineers, they had no idea what the hell they were going to do.
They made a great technology first and then tried to decide how to sell it, and I think that is what did them in.
From hardware provider with custom OS to
software-only provider using Mac hardware.
From "strong niche Media OS" on Mac hardware
to "focus on media but try to be everything for
everyone" on Mac and PC hardware.
From OS vendor to "internet appliance" embedded
vendor.
Note how none of these relate very much to the
previous focus.
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BS.
An evil monopoly didn't kill BeOS; Be, Inc. did. Every time they got momentum doing one thing, they decided it wasn't going to work and changed business plans. If Be had picked a good business plan and stuck to it, they could have at least carved out a niche. Instead they kept changing their minds about what their core business is.
They had a great (amazing!) piece of technology first, and then tried to decide how to make money from it, and screwed up over and over. BeOS was the nicest, cleanest, most well-engineered OS I've ever used, but it didn't have a chance.
Actually, it's the opposite. TiVo and their ilk make TV good again. I've started catching all kinds of great shows I had no idea existed (or still ran) because they're on at non-prime times. I could care less about most of the pap on prime-time network TV.
...an editorial from RMS that I not only agree with, but also one in which he doesn't sound like a raving madman. =)
While often I agree with him, half the time I can't stand the way he browbeats you with how wrong you are. I think this article was well-written and reasonable...
That's not a function of dpkg, though, it's a function of apt and Debian's very strict policies for the naming and interdependence of packages.
Functionally, dpkg and rpm are almost identical. The powerful part of Debian's system is the convenience of apt as a delivery mechanism, and the power of the human part of their package management. Not the actual binary packages themselves. The real power of Debian is here.
It seems like openpkg has used something similar to BSD ports as their delivery mechanism and used RPMs instead of.pkg's... Whether their packaging guidelines are good, however, is to be determined.
Yeah, but my main thing is that all of the regular inputs on my TV are filled, so I have to run it through the VCR instead of going straight to the TV...
It wouldn't really do anything for quality, but it would make navigating all my inputs much easier. =)
It's unclear on that little blurb whether it will have HDTV outputs... anyone have any more information on this? It would be great to have the outputs so that I could use the empty component in on my TV.
I thought it was a neat concept, so I signed up... To sign up for Majestic, you sign up for EA's online game service for $10/month. The only thing that was any good on it is Majestic; the rest of the games were pretty lame.
So I made it through the first teaser "episode" and then episode 1 in a total of about a week and a half. Then it turns out they hadn't finished any other episodes yet. So I was paying $10 for a week and a half of play, and then nothing until they finished the next episode.
It was a halfway decent game, if a bit linear, and a really neat idea, but there's no way in hell I'm paying essentially $10 a week...
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But he had already had a contract with another part of Apple for earlier development, with his parents co-signing, and Apple was fine with it. They seem to be deliberately screwing him rather than making arrangements like before (and screwing themselves... Finlay's a force to be reckoned with, he's put a lot of effort into OSX).
But, Apple had already worked with him previously, and he *had* an agreement with them that his parents signed for, and they were OK with it.
But the ADC is a different "department" of Apple, and decided to cut him off, without any warning or checking for prior arrangements.
It's a *theme*. It was meant to look like windows... keramik's not the default KDE theme.
:) Not an acronym, it's just the start of the sentence, "ICANN-RON BUT ICANNOT-HYD".
All of our servers are named after things that are evil.
And then various other servers:
There's more I can't think of at the moment... It's always great fun coming up with names. We try to make them somehow relate to what they do, so that we know what they are without having to think about it.
Our old naming scheme was "deliberately hard to refer to", which we ended up having to get rid of because management couldn't tell what we were talking about. I'm not kidding. (server names like "everything", "everything-else", "nothing", "the-server", etc.) It was always fun when the conversation turned to "Hey, everything's down." "You mean everything everything, or just the server everything?" "Everything, and everything else, not the-server."
Awesome... works on OSX too, except it's command-click.
You're making my point. I never said their technology wasn't great. BeOS was (is!) freakin' amazing on whatever hardware they put it on.
All of the things that were wrong with Be had *nothing* to do with BeOS and the technology around it, only with Be, Inc. What killed them was that they changed their business plan in fairly major ways a number of different times. That's not how you get long-term viability as a company. It's a sign that, other than their engineers, they had no idea what the hell they were going to do.
They made a great technology first and then tried to decide how to sell it, and I think that is what did them in.
I see it as three:
Note how none of these relate very much to the previous focus.
BS.
An evil monopoly didn't kill BeOS; Be, Inc. did. Every time they got momentum doing one thing, they decided it wasn't going to work and changed business plans. If Be had picked a good business plan and stuck to it, they could have at least carved out a niche. Instead they kept changing their minds about what their core business is.
They had a great (amazing!) piece of technology first, and then tried to decide how to make money from it, and screwed up over and over. BeOS was the nicest, cleanest, most well-engineered OS I've ever used, but it didn't have a chance.
I expect it won't be any better.
NVIDIA drivers have to be rebuilt when you build a new kernel. As for PPP, you were probably just missing a driver when you configured.
Actually, it's the opposite. TiVo and their ilk make TV good again. I've started catching all kinds of great shows I had no idea existed (or still ran) because they're on at non-prime times. I could care less about most of the pap on prime-time network TV.
The difference is, PDF is perfectly readable with a number of tools, free and Free and not, without issues.
Unless things have changed, nothing reads word docs correctly all of the time...
While often I agree with him, half the time I can't stand the way he browbeats you with how wrong you are. I think this article was well-written and reasonable...
Scary. =)
That's not a function of dpkg, though, it's a function of apt and Debian's very strict policies for the naming and interdependence of packages.
Functionally, dpkg and rpm are almost identical. The powerful part of Debian's system is the convenience of apt as a delivery mechanism, and the power of the human part of their package management. Not the actual binary packages themselves. The real power of Debian is here.
It seems like openpkg has used something similar to BSD ports as their delivery mechanism and used RPMs instead of .pkg's... Whether their packaging guidelines are good, however, is to be determined.
nice try... apt works with RPM. The comparison is rpm <-> dpkg, not rpm <-> apt. In the correct comparison, they're almost equivalent.
I could give a shit about HDTV, but progressive scan and 16:9 is worth the price of a scratch-and-dent unit.
Nice try, though.
Yeah, but my main thing is that all of the regular inputs on my TV are filled, so I have to run it through the VCR instead of going straight to the TV...
It wouldn't really do anything for quality, but it would make navigating all my inputs much easier. =)
It's unclear on that little blurb whether it will have HDTV outputs... anyone have any more information on this? It would be great to have the outputs so that I could use the empty component in on my TV.
I've also packaged tomcat for fink, along with cocoon and the apache/tomcat warp connector. OSX rules. ;)
I thought it was a neat concept, so I signed up... To sign up for Majestic, you sign up for EA's online game service for $10/month. The only thing that was any good on it is Majestic; the rest of the games were pretty lame.
So I made it through the first teaser "episode" and then episode 1 in a total of about a week and a half. Then it turns out they hadn't finished any other episodes yet. So I was paying $10 for a week and a half of play, and then nothing until they finished the next episode.
It was a halfway decent game, if a bit linear, and a really neat idea, but there's no way in hell I'm paying essentially $10 a week...
That was exactly my point, I'm on Mac OSX on a PPC laptop...
Looking a little closer, the source is included in the archive, so I need to download x86 binaries just to get the source, which is a bit silly. =)
Because they only have i386 redhat and windows binaries on their download page...
I just think it's funny how he's already telling us how the unfinished "independent" surveys will turn out.
Is 802.11 really a good example to use when discussing securing something? Well, except maybe as a counter-example... =)
Hehe, yup. And actually, if you read the thread on dot.kde.org, mosfet was very open about where he got his algorithms and effects.