I have been importing my PhotoCDs... I may be the only one who used this excellent (if becoming obsolete) technology
You were.
My father worked at Kodak, and PhotoCD sales were so low that they started giving away the players to employees who worked overtime. So it's been sitting on the stereo cabinet, playing nothing but audio discs, ever since.
It's going to find the same niche in history that the Disk Camera and the Instamatic did. And George Eastman will continue spinning like a drill bit in his grave, watching the hash people have made of his company.
Seems odd that major players are dropping out of the FreeBSD core, but Net and Open are doing just fine.
Hope they finish SMPng before the project implodes - means I might finally buy a second proc for my OpenBSD machine when the code finds its way into that fork.
Good, so that Quake-engined game where I bludgeon people to death with safety goggles and old Smith Corona typewriters can still sell over the counter to the local toddlers, then.
What other options for email clients do we HAVE besides Outlook/Outlook express in a windows environment?
The official Windows mailer here is Mulberry, which is pretty nice once you get past the horrible interface. We recommend a webmail package to most users, but if its not flexible enough, Mulberry is what they get.
Is there a version of Godwin's law for gratuitous references to terrorism or the WTC yet?
I hearby institute "Ridge's Law," named for our illustrious Homeland Defense Minister. Any gratuitous reference to terrorism, Bin Laden, or the WTC "incident" will be considered automatic loss of a debate.
After all, any Slashdot thread long enough will eventually end up in a why-the-gov't-is-evil mode and its probability of invoking Ridge's Law will inexorably approach 1.
#154319 Info) Obviously the OS X keynote will focus more specifically on Jaguar
Jaguar? You mean that cool "64-bit" game console from the wizards at Atari? Man, that rocks. I can't wait to play Doom on one of those.
On a serious note, though, I'm taking some basic programming courses right now, and they're all in Java. Does anyone have links for good resources for using Java in OS X?
Well, the only OS that ran on them from the factory. I'm fairly sure applefritter.com (or is it applefritters? The one with the case mods, anyhow) is running on Linux on an ANS. There's details up there, if I recall correctly.
It's primarily targeted at the education market, and boasts a 700mhz G4 processor and a flat 17" monitor.
I was seriously considering getting one of the new lamp-style iMacs, but I didn't particularly like the smaller screen (or what my cats are likely to do to an LCD panel). This is ideal -- a bigger tube and a G4 processor are the only things really missing from my current 1999 issue iMac.
What would you like to see improve about tech support?
How about some training and a fair wage for the poor bastards that work in the call centers?
I used to work as a support whore for Verizon DSL -- that is, until my entire call center was laid off. The jobs were moved to another center in Canada, where Customer Service employees were handed a database full of canned answers and told that they had to start handling tech support calls.
In the meantime, the actual trained techs like myself were all out of a job. And the other center that was on the same level as us - same training, same subcontractor, same call queues - took a savage pay cut.
The technology economy of today is based on some seriously thin margins - and frankly, once a company has your money, they are happy to screw you out of decent support to save a few bucks.
Anyone know anything about places like this in New York? Preferably the Rochester area.
Since it sounds like you're looking to acquire old hardware rather than discard of it, check out the Rochester Hamfest at the end of next month. Info is at www.rochesterhamfest.org -- the swap meet is huge, and I've gotten tons of toys there over the years. Right up the street from RIT.
Besides being a horrible company, their drive is shit too, but some of that I fear has something to do with the speed of USB.
It probably does. I've got the QPS Que!Fire drive on my iMac here, and it works like a champ. Not a single coaster yet, and the Apple stuff (iTunes, for instance) supports it as well.
leads to "rich get richer" or "winner's take all" behaviour where a small number of sites get the vast majority of links and traffic
No kidding. Look at the hit counter on my homepage, and compare it to Slashdot's. I've probably gotten as many hits in the last year as Slashdot has gotten since I started typing this reply.
I'm off to work now, so I don't have time to check, but does the article address the massive amount of advertising that Amazon did to get where it is today? Inertia has to come from somewhere.
Just go to support.dell.com, select home or small business, pick any dimension or optiplex system. You'll get a search box in the upper left of the screen and search for the word "deskstar", two links for different series' of these drives will appear.
Hey, great. So how do I use this to upgrade the firmware in the 75GXP that's humming away in this iMac?
IBM is not alone in this among drive manufacturers, but they seem to have forgotten that Mac geeks buy IDE drives too.
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But I'm not gonna spit out extra syllables and keystrokes just to appease anyone.
That's okay. You'd probably just misspell them, anyhow.
--saint
I can understand if it's news from the 70s or 1995
No, that belongs under the "science" topic.
(20 seconds passing....)
--saint
I have been importing my PhotoCDs... I may be the only one who used this excellent (if becoming obsolete) technology
You were.
My father worked at Kodak, and PhotoCD sales were so low that they started giving away the players to employees who worked overtime. So it's been sitting on the stereo cabinet, playing nothing but audio discs, ever since.
It's going to find the same niche in history that the Disk Camera and the Instamatic did. And George Eastman will continue spinning like a drill bit in his grave, watching the hash people have made of his company.
--saint
Seems odd that major players are dropping out of the FreeBSD core, but Net and Open are doing just fine.
Hope they finish SMPng before the project implodes - means I might finally buy a second proc for my OpenBSD machine when the code finds its way into that fork.
--saint
killing of humans with lethal weapons
Good, so that Quake-engined game where I bludgeon people to death with safety goggles and old Smith Corona typewriters can still sell over the counter to the local toddlers, then.
Super.
--saint
What other options for email clients do we HAVE besides Outlook/Outlook express in a windows environment?
The official Windows mailer here is Mulberry, which is pretty nice once you get past the horrible interface. We recommend a webmail package to most users, but if its not flexible enough, Mulberry is what they get.
--saint
Is there a version of Godwin's law for gratuitous references to terrorism or the WTC yet?
I hearby institute "Ridge's Law," named for our illustrious Homeland Defense Minister. Any gratuitous reference to terrorism, Bin Laden, or the WTC "incident" will be considered automatic loss of a debate.
After all, any Slashdot thread long enough will eventually end up in a why-the-gov't-is-evil mode and its probability of invoking Ridge's Law will inexorably approach 1.
--saint
They're trying to avoid the controversial 'national ID' issue by creating what would be new drivers licenses with biometric information embedded.
That's a great evasive tactic. After all, when people ask me for identification, they hardly expect to see a driver's license.
Much like the Social Security Number has become a de facto customer ID number, the driver's license is essentially the official ID card of the nation.
Try buying a case of beer with a "non-driver identification card" some time. Or god forbid, a passport.
--saint
#154319 Info) Obviously the OS X keynote will focus more specifically on Jaguar
Jaguar? You mean that cool "64-bit" game console from the wizards at Atari? Man, that rocks. I can't wait to play Doom on one of those.
On a serious note, though, I'm taking some basic programming courses right now, and they're all in Java. Does anyone have links for good resources for using Java in OS X?
--saint
Ditto for the automobile and motercycle newsgroups.
A fellow on one of the automobile mailing lists I used to subscribe to signed every message:
[his name]
--
'00 George Foreman Grill
This was, of course, a direct response to the "look what I got!" signature style of most subscribers.
Offtopic, I know, but hell, I thought it was funny.
--saint
I can hardly wait to fill other people's TiVo drives with dreadful Cinemax softcore porn.
"So easy to exploit, no wonder its number one!"
--saint
with an LCD-suit, where would you put which app?
[Tycho voice]
On my wang. Everything... on... my... wang.
[/Tycho voice]
--saint
(the only OS that ever did run on them)
Well, the only OS that ran on them from the factory. I'm fairly sure applefritter.com (or is it applefritters? The one with the case mods, anyhow) is running on Linux on an ANS. There's details up there, if I recall correctly.
--saint
I wonder if the new Apple PowerPC's can run the POWERPC version of AIX?
No. It's a fairly different chip. The only Apples that ever ran AIX were the short-lived Apple Network Servers, which shipped with it.
--saint
It's primarily targeted at the education market, and boasts a 700mhz G4 processor and a flat 17" monitor.
I was seriously considering getting one of the new lamp-style iMacs, but I didn't particularly like the smaller screen (or what my cats are likely to do to an LCD panel). This is ideal -- a bigger tube and a G4 processor are the only things really missing from my current 1999 issue iMac.
--saint
What would you like to see improve about tech support?
How about some training and a fair wage for the poor bastards that work in the call centers?
I used to work as a support whore for Verizon DSL -- that is, until my entire call center was laid off. The jobs were moved to another center in Canada, where Customer Service employees were handed a database full of canned answers and told that they had to start handling tech support calls.
In the meantime, the actual trained techs like myself were all out of a job. And the other center that was on the same level as us - same training, same subcontractor, same call queues - took a savage pay cut.
The technology economy of today is based on some seriously thin margins - and frankly, once a company has your money, they are happy to screw you out of decent support to save a few bucks.
--saint
Anyone know anything about places like this in New York? Preferably the Rochester area.
Since it sounds like you're looking to acquire old hardware rather than discard of it, check out the Rochester Hamfest at the end of next month. Info is at www.rochesterhamfest.org -- the swap meet is huge, and I've gotten tons of toys there over the years. Right up the street from RIT.
--g
just install *Hot Date* and i can find cuter girls in my computer engineering classes (or girls period)
A friend of mine is just finishing up the last semester of his CS undergrad work. His comment on the girls in his classes?
"I'm gay, but they're _still_ ugly."
--saint
Then might just want to build a PC inside of your old classic mac.
"What's that steaming puddle of plastic for?"
"It's my new Athlon Mac SE. You like it?"
--saint
RIAA is not satisfied with the current deployment of CHIP teams
Of course not. Erik Estrada retired years ago, and it just hasn't been the same since.
--saint
PC users become more aware of the need to protect themselves from worms and viruses.
Awareness is rising? This is news to me -- also news to my webserver, which has taken 9000+ Nimda hits in the last three months.
Awareness of viruses may be rising, but awareness of how to secure one's own system from them is not.
--saint
Besides being a horrible company, their drive is shit too, but some of that I fear has something to do with the speed of USB.
It probably does. I've got the QPS Que!Fire drive on my iMac here, and it works like a champ. Not a single coaster yet, and the Apple stuff (iTunes, for instance) supports it as well.
--saint
What do you expect?
For anonymous cowards to be profane to the point of incoherency. Thanks for proving me right!
--saint
leads to "rich get richer" or "winner's take all" behaviour where a small number of sites get the vast majority of links and traffic
No kidding. Look at the hit counter on my homepage, and compare it to Slashdot's. I've probably gotten as many hits in the last year as Slashdot has gotten since I started typing this reply.
I'm off to work now, so I don't have time to check, but does the article address the massive amount of advertising that Amazon did to get where it is today? Inertia has to come from somewhere.
--saint
Just go to support.dell.com, select home or small business, pick any dimension or optiplex system. You'll get a search box in the upper left of the screen and search for the word "deskstar", two links for different series' of these drives will appear.
Hey, great. So how do I use this to upgrade the firmware in the 75GXP that's humming away in this iMac?
IBM is not alone in this among drive manufacturers, but they seem to have forgotten that Mac geeks buy IDE drives too.
--saint