It would really be a story if you could do this without his knowledge. Hehehe... suddenly, Celine Dion plays through his speakers at top volume, and he can't turn it off....
I don't think I'm ever getting a shell account again on one of my friend's machines because of that.
"Hey, look, a whole directory full of reggae MP3s. And he's got mpg123 installed. Ah, it's only 2am, I'm sure Steve's still up."
For the record, it's not something people find amusing.
The point isn't to be John Galt-- the point is to be your own person.
Maybe you need to actually read that book.
Assuming that you're responding to my sig, I didn't claim to read the book. I just thought it was a funny post. That's all.
(For some reason I've never been able to actually finish an Ayn Rand book. There's just always too much stuff on my "to read" list that seems a lot more appealing. But that's more a matter of taste than anything else.)
Another possibility is that Apple realizes how many incoming students are buying their college dorm room computers right now, and want to capture a little more of that slice of pie.
You know, for all the complaints about the GXP drives, I haven't had a single problem with the 75GB one that I put into my old iMac a couple of years ago.
I just don't think people speak up when their hardware works properly.
Seems to me that's a better rationalization for iCal's existence than trying to push Palm out of the Palm Desktop business... even if Palm Desktop for Mac could use the competition.
I always thought iCal existed to provide somewhere to shove Apple programmers who can't come up with a decent interface.
Perhaps I'm just spoiled by the rest of the iApps, but iCal really blows. If Palm Desktop wasn't an even more dreadful piece of shit, I wouldn't use it at all.
As far as I can tell, the Windows version is only available from the edu store, but it's well under a hundred dollars. I used Appleworks instead of MS Office on my work machine for months, and nobody had any problems with the file format conversions or anything when receiving files from me. And I was able to open everything, as well.
In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even SimpleText is straining to keep up as I type this.
It's called TextEdit in OS X. Nice job otherwise, though.
I do wish they would bring back the purse design laptop though, or make something new like it.
Amen. My first generation Lombard (Powerbook G3/333) was among the oldest machines I saw at WWDC this year, but the dual bays (both of which I had batteries in) meant I could take notes and such all day while the people with the 17" Powerbooks were recharging at lunch.
And peripherals like the iSight are not going to help the situation any. I overheard someone who was using an iSight and a bus-powered Firewire drive on his 17" Powerbook lamenting his low battery life. I wonder what could have caused it.
Golf is a major thinking man's game, if you're not psychologically there, you're toast. Of course there's coordination involved, but there's also a lot of thinking required.
I've picked up Racquetball in the last couple of years, and surprisingly, it's the same way. For the first month or so you're learning how to move around the court and hit the ball accurately. Forever after, you're learning the strategy of the game.
Well, that aspect surprised the hell out of me, anyway. At least the first time I got my ass whooped by a 60+ year old professor.
I always did think that the section at the back entitled "A Portrait of J. Random Hacker" read more like "A Portrait of Eric S. Raymond".
Yeah, no kidding. I just reread that section for the first time in years and I was surprised to find that I'm not really a hacker. Unfortunately, I have too much of a propensity for exercise, hygeine, and pacifism.
Oh, well. Maybe I can find another rigidly defined stereotype that's more "me".
I'd rather read about window managers, even ones that have been around for years, even ones that I already know about, than the sort of crap that's been on the front page lately.
"Ooh, boy, the CEO of SCO took a big shit today. Hurrah!"
Cons like this seem to be getting far more press than ones which, while they might not be bigger, certainly have a longer history and delve far deeper technically.
Amen. If anyone cares, WWDC is in a scant three weeks. And they actually have decent presentations by real engineers, rather than incoherent rambling by goateed dot-com assholes. Prerelease copy of Panther, here I come!
--saint
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I don't like the look of Gnome and KDE . Does anyone else share my thoughts ?
Yes. But then, I'm a Windowmaker freak, and Not To Be Trusted.
The article is loading (slowly), but I just have to hope that the Maxtors in my home server aren't affected. After all, I'm using them to back up all the data on my Quantum Fireball and my IBM Deskstar 75GXP.
Is it possible for me to purchase hardware that isn't utter shit any more?
You buy 20 10$ 333mhz computers off Ebay or some cheap wholesale outlet.
Retrofit them with BSD/Linux/Whatever, put this on it as the primary interaction with the machine, and install all these computers in a programming class or something.
If you're going to do that, just put on XFree86 and a lightweight WM. I use WindowMaker on a dual Celeron 366, and it works beautifully. And, just as important, doesn't look anything like the retina-battering screenshots of this product.
Hey slashdot community, what's the oldest program you've seen running at the office or home, not counting classic games? Personally I've been using Bank Street Filer on Apple//c (c. 1983) to catalog my game collection, just for kicks. Most of my collection is classic games, so it seems appropriate...
Back when I was still a regular reader of rec.games.video.classic, there was someone on there who was cataloging his collection with the built in business apps on a Commodore Plus-4.
Does anyone know if there's an easy way to update a box to a new version of OpenBSD without having to reinstall everything? Something like the "make world" from FreeBSD would be great.
Then there are the deals that are "too good to be true" like the $20 product - $20 rebate, and you end up paying the sales tax. Who gives away free product?
I bought a spindle of CDRs like this at Best Buy a while back. They were made by Verbatim, but every one had a AT&T Death Star logo on the front. Which means every time I burned a Linux ISO or an audio CD for a friend, I was handing out AT&Ts advertising for them.
Considering how little it probably cost Verbatim to make those discs, I would bet that they made a killing in ad fees from the phone people.
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It would really be a story if you could do this without his knowledge. Hehehe... suddenly, Celine Dion plays through his speakers at top volume, and he can't turn it off....
I don't think I'm ever getting a shell account again on one of my friend's machines because of that.
"Hey, look, a whole directory full of reggae MP3s. And he's got mpg123 installed. Ah, it's only 2am, I'm sure Steve's still up."
For the record, it's not something people find amusing.
--saint
And, yes, OS X rules. I don't see why you'd ever want to run Linux on Apple hardware to be honest.
OS X rules on reasonably modern hardware. OS X blows on the castoff Lombard I got from work.
"Video RAM? Why the fuck would we put any of that in a laptop?"
--saint
The point isn't to be John Galt-- the point is to be your own person.
Maybe you need to actually read that book.
Assuming that you're responding to my sig, I didn't claim to read the book. I just thought it was a funny post. That's all.
(For some reason I've never been able to actually finish an Ayn Rand book. There's just always too much stuff on my "to read" list that seems a lot more appealing. But that's more a matter of taste than anything else.)
--saint
Another possibility is that Apple realizes how many incoming students are buying their college dorm room computers right now, and want to capture a little more of that slice of pie.
--saint
You know, for all the complaints about the GXP drives, I haven't had a single problem with the 75GB one that I put into my old iMac a couple of years ago.
I just don't think people speak up when their hardware works properly.
I'm sure I'm not the only one.
--saint
Every time a distribution is released, someone invariably says, "I have XXX hardware set up like YYY and the installer didn't work for me".
Heh. Just another reason I'm glad to use Linux on Mac hardware.
YDL Just Works.
--saint
i'm thinking of Orvis, Eddie Bauer and LL Bean edition SUVs
Or the various "designer" AMCs back in the 70s. Mmmm, Gucci designed Hornet upholstery. And the denim filled Levi's Gremlin.
--saint
Seems to me that's a better rationalization for iCal's existence than trying to push Palm out of the Palm Desktop business... even if Palm Desktop for Mac could use the competition.
I always thought iCal existed to provide somewhere to shove Apple programmers who can't come up with a decent interface.
Perhaps I'm just spoiled by the rest of the iApps, but iCal really blows. If Palm Desktop wasn't an even more dreadful piece of shit, I wouldn't use it at all.
Ah, well.
--saint
Apple should make just Document for the PC and make it affordable.
Like this?
As far as I can tell, the Windows version is only available from the edu store, but it's well under a hundred dollars. I used Appleworks instead of MS Office on my work machine for months, and nobody had any problems with the file format conversions or anything when receiving files from me. And I was able to open everything, as well.
--saint
In addition, during this file transfer, Safari will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even SimpleText is straining to keep up as I type this.
It's called TextEdit in OS X. Nice job otherwise, though.
--saint
Somebody who doesn't know the difference between this and a $100 Palm buys the Palm.
Heh. I do know the difference, and I still bought a hundred dollar Palm.
Actually, that was more than two years ago. It's still more than enough.
--saint
I do wish they would bring back the purse design laptop though, or make something new like it.
Amen. My first generation Lombard (Powerbook G3/333) was among the oldest machines I saw at WWDC this year, but the dual bays (both of which I had batteries in) meant I could take notes and such all day while the people with the 17" Powerbooks were recharging at lunch.
And peripherals like the iSight are not going to help the situation any. I overheard someone who was using an iSight and a bus-powered Firewire drive on his 17" Powerbook lamenting his low battery life. I wonder what could have caused it.
--saint
Golf is a major thinking man's game, if you're not psychologically there, you're toast. Of course there's coordination involved, but there's also a lot of thinking required.
I've picked up Racquetball in the last couple of years, and surprisingly, it's the same way. For the first month or so you're learning how to move around the court and hit the ball accurately. Forever after, you're learning the strategy of the game.
Well, that aspect surprised the hell out of me, anyway. At least the first time I got my ass whooped by a 60+ year old professor.
--saint
I always did think that the section at the back entitled "A Portrait of J. Random Hacker" read more like "A Portrait of Eric S. Raymond".
Yeah, no kidding. I just reread that section for the first time in years and I was surprised to find that I'm not really a hacker. Unfortunately, I have too much of a propensity for exercise, hygeine, and pacifism.
Oh, well. Maybe I can find another rigidly defined stereotype that's more "me".
--saint
Oh great: more Fremch bashing. Will the madness never end?
That is the first Slashdot post I've seen in months that made me laugh out loud. Thanks.
--saint
Warning: Fremch
I'm so sick of these misspellings. It's supposed to be "Freedom" you illiterate git.
* This post brought to you by the 2003 "The Flag Sure Is Purty Act". *
--saint
Or is the X topic really that starved for news?
I'd rather read about window managers, even ones that have been around for years, even ones that I already know about, than the sort of crap that's been on the front page lately.
"Ooh, boy, the CEO of SCO took a big shit today. Hurrah!"
--saint
Cons like this seem to be getting far more press than ones which, while they might not be bigger, certainly have a longer history and delve far deeper technically.
Amen. If anyone cares, WWDC is in a scant three weeks. And they actually have decent presentations by real engineers, rather than incoherent rambling by goateed dot-com assholes. Prerelease copy of Panther, here I come!
--saint
I don't like the look of Gnome and KDE . Does anyone else share my thoughts ?
Yes. But then, I'm a Windowmaker freak, and Not To Be Trusted.
--saint
The article is loading (slowly), but I just have to hope that the Maxtors in my home server aren't affected. After all, I'm using them to back up all the data on my Quantum Fireball and my IBM Deskstar 75GXP.
Is it possible for me to purchase hardware that isn't utter shit any more?
--saint
You buy 20 10$ 333mhz computers off Ebay or some cheap wholesale outlet.
Retrofit them with BSD/Linux/Whatever, put this on it as the primary interaction with the machine, and install all these computers in a programming class or something.
If you're going to do that, just put on XFree86 and a lightweight WM. I use WindowMaker on a dual Celeron 366, and it works beautifully. And, just as important, doesn't look anything like the retina-battering screenshots of this product.
--saint
Just remember, you can use apt-get to upgrade to v3.0 without having to download all the ISOs and such if you have a working 2.3 install.
(In fact, I installed 3.0 a couple weeks ago by doing this -- just add the new apt repositories for 3.0 to your sources.list file.)
--saint
Hey slashdot community, what's the oldest program you've seen running at the office or home, not counting classic games? Personally I've been using Bank Street Filer on Apple //c (c. 1983) to catalog my game collection, just for kicks. Most of my collection is classic games, so it seems appropriate...
Back when I was still a regular reader of rec.games.video.classic, there was someone on there who was cataloging his collection with the built in business apps on a Commodore Plus-4.
Old school, indeed.
--saint
$ uname -a
OpenBSD yellow 3.0 GENERIC#94 i386
Hmm. That's not a good sign.
Does anyone know if there's an easy way to update a box to a new version of OpenBSD without having to reinstall everything? Something like the "make world" from FreeBSD would be great.
--saint
Then there are the deals that are "too good to be true" like the $20 product - $20 rebate, and you end up paying the sales tax. Who gives away free product?
I bought a spindle of CDRs like this at Best Buy a while back. They were made by Verbatim, but every one had a AT&T Death Star logo on the front. Which means every time I burned a Linux ISO or an audio CD for a friend, I was handing out AT&Ts advertising for them.
Considering how little it probably cost Verbatim to make those discs, I would bet that they made a killing in ad fees from the phone people.
--saint