Audio works fine on my G3 bronze running Debian. The software is there, it's just a matter of how YDL or Fedora has things set up by default.
That's one of the reasons I cling to this laptop; it's not the fastest, but everything from the sleep capability to the wireless to the audio works perfectly in Debian.
This would make a nice basis for a Myth machine, otherwise. And hell, I'd probably run a bunch of other apps on it too. If the thing's going to be on all the time anyway, I might as well use it.
Apple had IT tracks at the last couple of WWDCs as well. Too bad that the main focus was Windows/AD compatibility and integration and not anything unique to Apple's platform.
From the interview, on the topic of search engines:
Oh, sure, everybody is working on those things, but just take the idea of finding your local pizza place and doing that right; search doesn't do that well today.
Sounds like someone needs to clue Bill in to using Sherlock under OS X -- that's exactly what I used it for yesterday.
What are your reasons for running the old standby suite over the Firefox/Thunderbird combo?
I use Firefox and Thunderbird, but I also use the full suite because of Composer. As you can tell from the "horribly reminiscent of NCSA circa 1994" appearance of my website.
And last I checked nVu wasn't available for Linux/PPC.
I believe it was the Calvinists, but I'm not absolutely sure. Anyway, they thought that sex was really horrible, and so they never did it. Pretty soon, the movement was gone, since they never got any new members for some odd reason... something about children not appearing without sex...
The Shakers.
They thought that only adults capable of rationally converting should be part of their religious community. Seems pretty advanced to me.
Heh. I beat the Patriots 63-0 with that combination last time I played Super Tecmo Bowl. It was the day before the second Buffalo-New England game this season, which didn't turn out quite that well for us.
What about Aqua makes you want to replace it with icewm?
Keyboard shortcuts. I can't speak for anyone else, but one of the main reasons that I run Linux on my old Powerbook instead of OS X is that I hate using a trackpad, and I prefer to use keyboard shortcuts for as much as possible. Windowmaker is a hell of a lot more amenable to being used that way.
(That and the fact that my Powerbook is a G3/400 -- probably just on the hairy edge of usability for OS X, but nice and quick with Debian.)
Speaking as a former YDL user, I would recommend that everyone interested in Linux on PPC check out Debian as well. I've found it to be a lot more upgradeable, as well as a lot more stable than YDL ever was for me.
(Both of them, of course, are light years ahead of LinuxPPC, may it rest in peace. Yikes, that one was bad.)
A second question is who will run in 2008 for the republicans? It ain't gonna be Cheney, that's for sure. I wouldn't put it past them to try to run Bush again, or another Bush.
I think that's really what this whole election is going to come down to... so many of my american friends are voting "against bush" rather than "for kerry"
Not me. I was voting against Ashcroft. I could give a shit who sits in the white house, but I'm deeply irritated by the robber baron assholes that Bush appointed.
There needs to be a legal referendum process for deeply flawed choices like Rumsfeld or Ashcroft.
OpenBSD has a reputation for being the ideal platform for making into a router or firewall. That's true, but it's also a really nice general server OS for low power tasks. I run it at home as a file/web server, and it's really quite nice.
If you like Unix (as opposed to hating Microsoft), give it a shot.
I would suggest a slightly different route -- I use Windowmaker on my elderly Powerbook (400MHz G3) and it's smooth as can be. And ROX-Filer installes fine if you grab the RPMs and use alien to convert them into debs.
Slashdot Mirror
now-more-famous-than-it-was-thanks-to-"That 70's Show" Kenosha
Hey, that's not the only reason it's famous.
--saint
(Proud owner of a 1977 AMC Matador, built in Kenosha)
Here's a visual programming environment called SIVIL that one of the professors here at Canisius has been working on for a while.
http://www-cs.canisius.edu/~meyer/VP/home.html
--saint
Audio works fine on my G3 bronze running Debian. The software is there, it's just a matter of how YDL or Fedora has things set up by default.
That's one of the reasons I cling to this laptop; it's not the fastest, but everything from the sleep capability to the wireless to the audio works perfectly in Debian.
--saint
Figures. I just got an SGI O2. Dammit.
--saint
No TV-Out? Dammit.
This would make a nice basis for a Myth machine, otherwise. And hell, I'd probably run a bunch of other apps on it too. If the thing's going to be on all the time anyway, I might as well use it.
--saint
You can thank the Republicans for blacks in starring roles with no stereotypes.
Someone hasn't been watching UPN.
--saint
IT instructors are holding the bottom spot in terms of gross revenues (salary could go as low as $43,250)
Try ~$2,500 per class, per semester. I'm glad I only teach because I like it and I have a day job as well.
(Ah, the wonders of working in the high pay, fast paced world of a Catholic college!)
--saint
Apple had IT tracks at the last couple of WWDCs as well. Too bad that the main focus was Windows/AD compatibility and integration and not anything unique to Apple's platform.
--saint
From the interview, on the topic of search engines:
Oh, sure, everybody is working on those things, but just take the idea of finding your local pizza place and doing that right; search doesn't do that well today.
Sounds like someone needs to clue Bill in to using Sherlock under OS X -- that's exactly what I used it for yesterday.
--saint
Weird -- I do support for ~400 or so Macs on a college campus, and I've never seen that problem. I wonder what's going on.
--saint
What are your reasons for running the old standby suite over the Firefox/Thunderbird combo?
I use Firefox and Thunderbird, but I also use the full suite because of Composer. As you can tell from the "horribly reminiscent of NCSA circa 1994" appearance of my website.
And last I checked nVu wasn't available for Linux/PPC.
--saint
I believe it was the Calvinists, but I'm not absolutely sure. Anyway, they thought that sex was really horrible, and so they never did it. Pretty soon, the movement was gone, since they never got any new members for some odd reason... something about children not appearing without sex...
The Shakers.
They thought that only adults capable of rationally converting should be part of their religious community. Seems pretty advanced to me.
--saint
Heh. I beat the Patriots 63-0 with that combination last time I played Super Tecmo Bowl. It was the day before the second Buffalo-New England game this season, which didn't turn out quite that well for us.
--saint
Speaking as a Bills fan, I refuse to play any football game with rosters after 1994. It's just too grim.
--saint
I have never seen anything so good at dying.
Apple?
--saint
So, who's got the watch these days?
--saint
What about Aqua makes you want to replace it with icewm?
Keyboard shortcuts. I can't speak for anyone else, but one of the main reasons that I run Linux on my old Powerbook instead of OS X is that I hate using a trackpad, and I prefer to use keyboard shortcuts for as much as possible. Windowmaker is a hell of a lot more amenable to being used that way.
(That and the fact that my Powerbook is a G3/400 -- probably just on the hairy edge of usability for OS X, but nice and quick with Debian.)
--saint
Speaking as a former YDL user, I would recommend that everyone interested in Linux on PPC check out Debian as well. I've found it to be a lot more upgradeable, as well as a lot more stable than YDL ever was for me.
(Both of them, of course, are light years ahead of LinuxPPC, may it rest in peace. Yikes, that one was bad.)
--saint
A second question is who will run in 2008 for the republicans? It ain't gonna be Cheney, that's for sure. I wouldn't put it past them to try to run Bush again, or another Bush.
Yeah, whatever happened to Neil?
(Christ, I hope I'm joking.)
--saint
I think that's really what this whole election is going to come down to... so many of my american friends are voting "against bush" rather than "for kerry"
Not me. I was voting against Ashcroft. I could give a shit who sits in the white house, but I'm deeply irritated by the robber baron assholes that Bush appointed.
There needs to be a legal referendum process for deeply flawed choices like Rumsfeld or Ashcroft.
--saint
Interestingly (but not surprising), the TEACHERS in the same schools also voted, 85/15 for Kerry.
It's probably because the teachers are the ones that understand the complete clusterfuck that is the Every Child Left Behind act.
--saint
OpenBSD has a reputation for being the ideal platform for making into a router or firewall. That's true, but it's also a really nice general server OS for low power tasks. I run it at home as a file/web server, and it's really quite nice.
If you like Unix (as opposed to hating Microsoft), give it a shot.
--saint
I would suggest a slightly different route -- I use Windowmaker on my elderly Powerbook (400MHz G3) and it's smooth as can be. And ROX-Filer installes fine if you grab the RPMs and use alien to convert them into debs.
--saint
Firefox still sometimes effs up Slashdot's rendering. Or is it the other way around?
Oddly, I've never seen that rendering bug under Linux/PPC. I run Debian on a Powerbook, and it works fine.
I used a machine at work with Firefox on Windows, and that's when I found out what you've all been carping about.
--saint
BTW, were you happy with the machine yourself?
Sure... I bought it really cheap on eBay and reflashed the ROM so I could use it as a network mp3 player for the living room.
I wouldn't have bought it as an actual internet appliance on a bet, but it works great for certain limited purpose stuff.
--saint