Heh, my 12" powerbook has ports on the left hand side and are in order of what appears to be most commonly used to least common. Although the modem port could be removed entirely in my case.
But that isn't the reason I am going to buy one of these puppies.
Right now I have been on a kick to learn other languages. In my French class I have to memorize MANY words through audible clues only.
4G is more than enough for that purpose. And I still have my gigantic (by this things size) regular iPod for the rest of my collection. But to be honest even 20G of space is more than I need right now. So 1000 songs (at 5minutes a song that is ALOT of music) is plenty.
This is JUST what I didn't realize I wanted. Damn you Apple!
For those not in the know, das Eck or die Ecke (side note, who came up with the plural form of the former to be the singular of the latter?) is German for corner. Interesting coincidence that OS X can sound phonetically close to that.
(I know the X is a roman numeral, but few people actually say ten)
I think his point was we should learn the grammar of our language. Not depend upon a computer to catch "errors". Am I the only one that just gets annoyed when word thinks my sentence is wrong when it cannot determine the context?
Spell check is more of a grey area, but less of a crutch in my opinion. Almost all of the things it catches are errors in typing since I typed too fast.
As always, proof it before you send it. Read it aloud if you need to. Or at the worst have a co-worker/classmate look your writing over.
No it doesn't. It only needs one filesystem type it uses. GRUB can chainload 2000/XP off of NTFS partitions without any knowledge of the filesystem layout.
Basically you format a/boot partition with all your GRUB setup. I personally throw my kernel bzImages in there as well. I use ext2 since it doesn't need anything advanced. Then adjust grub.conf accordingly.
It really isn't bad, especially when I upgrade kernels. I just move bzImage to a bzImage.old and move a existing bzImage.old to bzImage.DDMMYY. (it is in a script)
With this setup I don't need to worry at all about kernel updates causing problems. If they do, I just boot again with my existing bzImage.old option. Or if needed I can boot the other bzImages manually.
Whereas with LILO I have to modify alot more after a kernel update, or if the kernel I compiled just doesn't work.
This is the reason I love GRUB. It just works(tm)*
I know a way to re-ionize them.
how about a million volt tesla coil
Now whether unionized employees are like herding cats when you try to re-ionize them. I don't know. Lets create a crack squad of tesla coil ionizing squads and go to Canada!
Least us americans can do for our neighbors north. We shock them in other ways, why not with electricity?
Ok I am still in shock about the choices (less so on python) of languages to add here.
I have been having a hard enough time getting people I work with to understand Ruby isn't some weird language. Until I show them Ruby code with equivalent Perl code.
I just found their reasons reaffirming. Ruby is an excellent sys-admin glue language.
This is an easier way than what everyone using perl/php/etc.. is giving you. man date is your friend. You still have to be a geek to wonder about this though. (Note: this is on my Mac, so the date command might not behave the same on your unix)
$ date Thu Mar 17 17:59:22 CST 2005 $ date -u Thu Mar 17 23:59:24 GMT 2005 $ date +%s 1111103969 $ date -r 1111111111 Thu Mar 17 19:58:31 CST 2005 $ date -u -r 1111111111 Fri Mar 18 01:58:31 GMT 2005
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But why do they insist on, then, "cutting off the oxygen supply", copy-catting instead of innovating, and buying up rival companies merely to bury their technology? Why don't they just compete on quality, instead of gamesmanship?
Quite simply, because they can. Why compete if you can buy them and then use the technology elsewhere? It is more cost effective that way. Reinvent the wheel or buy the wheel and the inventor, then change it to suit your needs.
I do not necessarily like the actions, but this is the way things work in big business.
There is no business code of ethics anywhere that says we need to compete in the marketplace instead of buying everyone. It will eventually get sorted out, but the damage we will suffer in the mid-term will be large./resume your disorder
After you have listened to a classical cd that has been compressed to wmv, then to mp3, then back to cd-audio, then come back in here and say that.
The true test to audio is good audio. As much as I love rock music and all that stuff, jazz and classical are the true tests of sound.
Don't believe me? Get a decent pair of headphones and listen to the cd. Rip that to a mp3/wma/aac/etc... at 128k, listen again. The varied ranges of both Jazz and Classical cry havoc on lossy compression codecs. I tried out all the lossy codecs, you can hear artifacts in each one. Apples' lossless codec they just thew in iTunes 4.6 is the best. Or flac too I suppose, but find me a hardware player like the iPod that will play flac files.
But nothing beats being there to hear the music.
If they give me the option of getting a uncompressed version (basically like the cd), then I would be fine. I wish Apple would do that with the iTunes store too. That and unlimited downloads of what you buy. Or at least a limit to them. A limit of not 1.
That and don't forget us vi users. That looks like a nightmare to mode switching unless it has a button for escape and:
Ironically enough, one reason I love the japanese keyboard layout, the colon is it's own key, no shift.:)
The shifted letters over the numbers really messes with you when you are used to your paren's to be at 9 and 0, not 0 and -. That threw me off for months.
As an old BeOS user (R3 to the end) and new MacOSX Panther user. I can easily say MacOS X has a long way to go in the filesystem regard. (I refuse to speculate on unreleased products like Tiger) OT: How many more cats can they go through before they run out? I mean leopard, cheetah, what next siamese?:)
I so miss my file finds on metadata. I had all my MP3's indexed with metadata. Soundplay (awesome mp3 player) would then just pull the playlists from the find, which updated immediately with any new files added.
But the real fun thing was email in BeOS. It was so easy to find anything, a regular filesystem find was all you needed to search where something came from, when, etc... I had a very elaborate system setup using saved finds to not sort anything, everything was done by finds./getting nostalgic and almost want to buy a old box to install R5 on just to relive the memories.
Remember that to get GNU/Linux to act like Windows, the GNOME and KDE teams have actually had to do a lot of work underneath to duplicate redundant Windows functionality, from creating somewhat multiple redundant* object frameworks to the "It's better than the Registry, honest!" GConf system.
Keep in mind Windows itself is a evolved (english lacks a good word for this) windowing system. There fore it is not the best way.
Didn't you notice that Gnome and KDE also allow you much more options than any widget set in Windows? Not only programmatically, but functionally. Windows is only one mask these window managers wear.
GNU/Linux isn't Windows underneath, and the amount of work that's necessary to put a Windows GUI on it cannot be underestimated, nor the disasterous consequences for efficiency, speed, memory usage, and security. As a result, any GNU/Linux system designed to look as similar to Windows as possible will be slower, less secure, and less efficient, than the real thing.
Yay for pulling fallacies out of the air. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Of course Linux isn't the same as Windows. It has a different process scheduler, memory manager, etc.... And the best part about Unix os's (of which Linux more resembles) is that you don't need the gui. Don't want all that unnecessary stuff, don't install it.
And just because I might make a burger that looks like something made from McDonalds. It does not follow that it is guaranteed to be drier, and taste worse than McDonalds. (Yes I hate McDonalds, the logic used is the point here)
To fully backup your claims that KDE/Gnome/XFCE/Openstep/fvwm are a: slower b: less secure (very vague) c: less efficient (also vague)
We would have to test concrete things like window creation speed with comparable widgets and functions. Now we also would have to make sure the compilation settings are comparable as well. Oooh, and ideally we should use gcc on both.
Starting to see the problem with the rhetoric you posted?
I am not trying to flame here. I am just sick and tired of reading untested and unverified claims. Especially when posted as if they were fact.
I have installed Linux on some old 200mhz Pentiums. They ran Firefox just fine, granted I am not trying to run this on a 486. But I would ask that if you are comparing Linux now with KDE/Gnome with transparency, etc... and all sorts of useless effects, then try and run XP or 2000 on that 486 and see how far you get. I know I could get a useable system for email, web browsing, and word processing out of a 486 with Linux.
The key factor about Linux is you can make it what you want. Freedom to install what you want. New software isn't guaranteed to run on old hardware fast or efficiently.
Off to bed for me, I need some hard liquor now. Hope I didn't offend, I mean no ad hominem tu quoque-ness here. I just fail to see how you came to those conclusions.
Yay for me living in a big city. I emailed my cohorts at work and we will be hitting the Bloomington location tomorrow. (Unless the fools decide to go somewhere else, I have a very indecisive bunch of co-workers)
Thank you for reminding me, I totally forgot about this.
When will they get rid of this theming junk and integrate things with MacOS X the way it does things?
Keep in mind, I only use Firefox when I am in windows or Linux/FreeBSD. But after using Firefox on MacOSX (even with the theme), it just seems wrong. It doesn't follow the interface guidelines. Camino is about the best gecko browser, but Safari isn't as braindead as IE, so less of a need for a decent browser. As far as Thunderbird goes, I just couldn't use it until it actually uses cocoa widgets. It is painfully obvious that the theme doesn't work like MacOS X.
Well there goes my karma./proceeds to prepare for negative moderation.
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Heh, my 12" powerbook has ports on the left hand side and are in order of what appears to be most commonly used to least common. Although the modem port could be removed entirely in my case.
Quartz 2D Extreme requires at least 32Mb of video ram.
And if you call a GeForce FX 5200 fast then my powerbook is awesome.
Yes I love iPods and now have more macs than pcs.
But that isn't the reason I am going to buy one of these puppies.
Right now I have been on a kick to learn other languages. In my French class I have to memorize MANY words through audible clues only.
4G is more than enough for that purpose. And I still have my gigantic (by this things size) regular iPod for the rest of my collection. But to be honest even 20G of space is more than I need right now. So 1000 songs (at 5minutes a song that is ALOT of music) is plenty.
This is JUST what I didn't realize I wanted. Damn you Apple!
You have obviously learned some German.
For those not in the know, das Eck or die Ecke (side note, who came up with the plural form of the former to be the singular of the latter?) is German for corner. Interesting coincidence that OS X can sound phonetically close to that.
(I know the X is a roman numeral, but few people actually say ten)
And because he dodges bullets Avi.
Lets be fair. Gvim :)
I think his point was we should learn the grammar of our language. Not depend upon a computer to catch "errors". Am I the only one that just gets annoyed when word thinks my sentence is wrong when it cannot determine the context?
/. :)
Spell check is more of a grey area, but less of a crutch in my opinion. Almost all of the things it catches are errors in typing since I typed too fast.
As always, proof it before you send it. Read it aloud if you need to. Or at the worst have a co-worker/classmate look your writing over.
And no my grammar isn't perfect, this is
No it doesn't. It only needs one filesystem type it uses. GRUB can chainload 2000/XP off of NTFS partitions without any knowledge of the filesystem layout.
/boot partition with all your GRUB setup. I personally throw my kernel bzImages in there as well. I use ext2 since it doesn't need anything advanced. Then adjust grub.conf accordingly.
:)
Basically you format a
It really isn't bad, especially when I upgrade kernels. I just move bzImage to a bzImage.old and move a existing bzImage.old to bzImage.DDMMYY. (it is in a script)
With this setup I don't need to worry at all about kernel updates causing problems. If they do, I just boot again with my existing bzImage.old option. Or if needed I can boot the other bzImages manually.
Whereas with LILO I have to modify alot more after a kernel update, or if the kernel I compiled just doesn't work.
This is the reason I love GRUB. It just works(tm)*
* assuming you set it up intelligently
It is the flash ad, not the browser.
As for flash ads, they need to be burned a million times over.
I know a way to re-ionize them. how about a million volt tesla coil Now whether unionized employees are like herding cats when you try to re-ionize them. I don't know. Lets create a crack squad of tesla coil ionizing squads and go to Canada! Least us americans can do for our neighbors north. We shock them in other ways, why not with electricity?
Nope. Wikipedia disagrees. But mentions Intarweb as an alternate spelling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interweb
My account with firstname.lastname@gmail.com works fine. (note: that isn't my address)
I am thinking it is a problem somewhere else, not gmail.
Ok I am still in shock about the choices (less so on python) of languages to add here.
I have been having a hard enough time getting people I work with to understand Ruby isn't some weird language. Until I show them Ruby code with equivalent Perl code.
I just found their reasons reaffirming. Ruby is an excellent sys-admin glue language.
You do realize this is a developer and a pre-release copy of the os right?
Did you even watch the Keynote with Jobs? There is a reason they are still working on things and that is it.
Would you expect Microsoft to announce Longhorn running on Sparcs tomorrow to be stable? (Bad analogy but you get the idea :)
But why do they insist on, then, "cutting off the oxygen supply", copy-catting instead of innovating, and buying up rival companies merely to bury their technology? Why don't they just compete on quality, instead of gamesmanship?
/resume your disorder
Quite simply, because they can. Why compete if you can buy them and then use the technology elsewhere? It is more cost effective that way. Reinvent the wheel or buy the wheel and the inventor, then change it to suit your needs.
I do not necessarily like the actions, but this is the way things work in big business.
There is no business code of ethics anywhere that says we need to compete in the marketplace instead of buying everyone. It will eventually get sorted out, but the damage we will suffer in the mid-term will be large.
After you have listened to a classical cd that has been compressed to wmv, then to mp3, then back to cd-audio, then come back in here and say that.
The true test to audio is good audio. As much as I love rock music and all that stuff, jazz and classical are the true tests of sound.
Don't believe me? Get a decent pair of headphones and listen to the cd. Rip that to a mp3/wma/aac/etc... at 128k, listen again. The varied ranges of both Jazz and Classical cry havoc on lossy compression codecs. I tried out all the lossy codecs, you can hear artifacts in each one. Apples' lossless codec they just thew in iTunes 4.6 is the best. Or flac too I suppose, but find me a hardware player like the iPod that will play flac files.
But nothing beats being there to hear the music.
If they give me the option of getting a uncompressed version (basically like the cd), then I would be fine. I wish Apple would do that with the iTunes store too. That and unlimited downloads of what you buy. Or at least a limit to them. A limit of not 1.
For history of mice in general (including optical) go here. Microsoft is not even close to being innovative in this regard.
That and don't forget us vi users. That looks like a nightmare to mode switching unless it has a button for escape and :
:)
Ironically enough, one reason I love the japanese keyboard layout, the colon is it's own key, no shift.
The shifted letters over the numbers really messes with you when you are used to your paren's to be at 9 and 0, not 0 and -. That threw me off for months.
3. Friends who visit you want to know why there are old-time movie reels
:)
stuck on your refridgerator(s).
Yeah right, a vax geek has friends? When pigs fly.
j/k I wasn't even born yet when these beasts of burden were unleashed.
just do this and submit as html.
" >text for the link </a>
<a href="http://www.wherever.com/subdir/etc/so/forth
As an old BeOS user (R3 to the end) and new MacOSX Panther user. I can easily say MacOS X has a long way to go in the filesystem regard. (I refuse to speculate on unreleased products like Tiger) :)
/getting nostalgic and almost want to buy a old box to install R5 on just to relive the memories.
OT: How many more cats can they go through before they run out? I mean leopard, cheetah, what next siamese?
I so miss my file finds on metadata. I had all my MP3's indexed with metadata. Soundplay (awesome mp3 player) would then just pull the playlists from the find, which updated immediately with any new files added.
But the real fun thing was email in BeOS. It was so easy to find anything, a regular filesystem find was all you needed to search where something came from, when, etc... I had a very elaborate system setup using saved finds to not sort anything, everything was done by finds.
Remember that to get GNU/Linux to act like Windows, the GNOME and KDE teams have actually had to do a lot of work underneath to duplicate redundant Windows functionality, from creating somewhat multiple redundant* object frameworks to the "It's better than the Registry, honest!" GConf system.
Keep in mind Windows itself is a evolved (english lacks a good word for this) windowing system. There fore it is not the best way.
Didn't you notice that Gnome and KDE also allow you much more options than any widget set in Windows? Not only programmatically, but functionally. Windows is only one mask these window managers wear.
GNU/Linux isn't Windows underneath, and the amount of work that's necessary to put a Windows GUI on it cannot be underestimated, nor the disasterous consequences for efficiency, speed, memory usage, and security. As a result, any GNU/Linux system designed to look as similar to Windows as possible will be slower, less secure, and less efficient, than the real thing.
Yay for pulling fallacies out of the air. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Of course Linux isn't the same as Windows. It has a different process scheduler, memory manager, etc.... And the best part about Unix os's (of which Linux more resembles) is that you don't need the gui. Don't want all that unnecessary stuff, don't install it.
And just because I might make a burger that looks like something made from McDonalds. It does not follow that it is guaranteed to be drier, and taste worse than McDonalds. (Yes I hate McDonalds, the logic used is the point here)
To fully backup your claims that KDE/Gnome/XFCE/Openstep/fvwm are
a: slower
b: less secure (very vague)
c: less efficient (also vague)
We would have to test concrete things like window creation speed with comparable widgets and functions. Now we also would have to make sure the compilation settings are comparable as well. Oooh, and ideally we should use gcc on both.
Starting to see the problem with the rhetoric you posted?
I am not trying to flame here. I am just sick and tired of reading untested and unverified claims. Especially when posted as if they were fact.
I have installed Linux on some old 200mhz Pentiums. They ran Firefox just fine, granted I am not trying to run this on a 486. But I would ask that if you are comparing Linux now with KDE/Gnome with transparency, etc... and all sorts of useless effects, then try and run XP or 2000 on that 486 and see how far you get. I know I could get a useable system for email, web browsing, and word processing out of a 486 with Linux.
The key factor about Linux is you can make it what you want. Freedom to install what you want. New software isn't guaranteed to run on old hardware fast or efficiently.
Off to bed for me, I need some hard liquor now. Hope I didn't offend, I mean no ad hominem tu quoque-ness here. I just fail to see how you came to those conclusions.
Cheers!
Yay for me living in a big city. I emailed my cohorts at work and we will be hitting the Bloomington location tomorrow. (Unless the fools decide to go somewhere else, I have a very indecisive bunch of co-workers)
Thank you for reminding me, I totally forgot about this.
Duck tape rules!
Umm, it is Duct tape. Meant to patch holes in ductwork originally.
But if you are taping up ducks, who am I to judge?
When will they get rid of this theming junk and integrate things with MacOS X the way it does things?
/proceeds to prepare for negative moderation.
Keep in mind, I only use Firefox when I am in windows or Linux/FreeBSD. But after using Firefox on MacOSX (even with the theme), it just seems wrong. It doesn't follow the interface guidelines. Camino is about the best gecko browser, but Safari isn't as braindead as IE, so less of a need for a decent browser. As far as Thunderbird goes, I just couldn't use it until it actually uses cocoa widgets. It is painfully obvious that the theme doesn't work like MacOS X.
Well there goes my karma.