Yeah, but no more security patches or bugfixes for that OS. Thanks, Apple. Linux OTOH will remain current for the forseeable future.
Linux is also 100x more configurable for file serving, group permissions, etc.
We've got three legacy PPC machines running Debian and they work dandy as file and web servers. Even a 600Mhz G3 running Yellow Dog. Power draw is an issue, I guess, but we're not going to run out and buy a bunch of low-wattage servers tomorrow, so using them is a lot better than throwing them out.
I read the same story. It's "The Verger" by Somerset Maugham. The title is the name of the guy's position at the church.
Same punchline, different era. It's about a guy who loses his job in a church because he can't read. So he opens a tobacco/convenience store and then several such stores and is a big success. Punchline at the end is:
"And do you mean to say that you've built up this important business and
amassed a fortune of thirty thousand pounds without being able to read or
write? Good God, man, what would you be now if you had been able to?"
"I can tell you that sir," said Mr. Foreman, a little smile on his still
aristocratic features. "I'd be verger of St. Peter's, Neville Square."
This urban legend is shameless swiped from this story.
That "mother tongue" stuff was a cheap plot device to allow the characters to speak English with the Atlanteans. I can't believe any linguist would condone the idea that a "mother tongue" could allow the speaking/understanding of ANY language EVER concocted post-mother tongue. It doesn't make any sense. It's stupid. (And they don't speak English slowly--they speak it fluently, and even to each other in private. Dumb.) Anybody got a link to the linguist interview?
Another bad plot element was the "illiterate" Atlanteans. If Princess Whatsername was a little girl when Atlantis sank--and she is "100 years old" as she says in a conversation with Milo--then we are supposed to believe two ridiculous things:
Atlantis sank only 100 years ago, not 8000 years ago.
The Atlanteans lost their ability to read Atlantean over the same period of time--i.e., over the single lifetime of a little girl.
There was already a great Iron Chef-inspired film: Stephen Chiao's hilarious 1996 God of Cookery, which is available on VHS and DVD. I had the good fortune to see it on the big screen, where its stylish visuals really shine. Iron Chef fans need to check it out--the source material is parodied very well.
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Yeah, but no more security patches or bugfixes for that OS. Thanks, Apple. Linux OTOH will remain current for the forseeable future.
Linux is also 100x more configurable for file serving, group permissions, etc.
We've got three legacy PPC machines running Debian and they work dandy as file and web servers. Even a 600Mhz G3 running Yellow Dog. Power draw is an issue, I guess, but we're not going to run out and buy a bunch of low-wattage servers tomorrow, so using them is a lot better than throwing them out.
I mean, an upgrade the *users* can't install. Duh.
How nice that all the 10.3.9 boxes on my office LAN will now be getting nags for an upgrade they can't install. How Windows-like.
Another bad plot element was the "illiterate" Atlanteans. If Princess Whatsername was a little girl when Atlantis sank--and she is "100 years old" as she says in a conversation with Milo--then we are supposed to believe two ridiculous things:
- Atlantis sank only 100 years ago, not 8000 years ago.
- The Atlanteans lost their ability to read Atlantean over the same period of time--i.e., over the single lifetime of a little girl.
Bad sci-fi. Bad.There was already a great Iron Chef-inspired film: Stephen Chiao's hilarious 1996 God of Cookery, which is available on VHS and DVD. I had the good fortune to see it on the big screen, where its stylish visuals really shine. Iron Chef fans need to check it out--the source material is parodied very well.