When you right-click over an image, the Back function on the context menu disappears.
Er, isn't the whole point of context menus that they're kinda, you know, contextual in their function?
The act of context-clicking on an image most likely indicates an urge to do something with that image, like save, open or deface it. Navigation items are much more appropriate in the context of clicking on a blank area of the page.
Incidentally, Galeon approaches this by taking the navigation tools onto the bottom of the image context menu. It makes for a really, really ugly and annoyingly large context menu. I consider this a bug.
You can run Shake on x86 to your heart's content, as long as you run it on Linux. This being slashdot, you'd think the story editors would be clued up on this sort of thing...
"The DUL" isn't stopping you from mailing anybody. The thing stopping you from emaling your unnamed slash coder is the fact that his ISP has chosen to block mail based on the DUL. If this is such a pain in the ass, one or both of you should vote with your dollars and feet: either he should move to an ISP that doesn't use the DUL, or you should stop being a cheap bastard and trying to run a mail server from a dynamic IP address.
Why is trolling a bad thing when done in comments, but apparently entirely acceptable when done by editors in story submission addenda?
Apple people laughing at X Window system, while they know that Apple leech the community and refuse to share Aqua. (If you don't wanna share Aqua, fine. But why flame X? Did we ask for humiliation?)
The chip isn't the problem, actually. The PowerPC chip line has never broken binary compatibility, and IBM has shipped numerous powerpc-based AIX servers. (I'm not sure if you can run PowerPC executables on POWER3/POWER4 chipsets, but I suspect you can do that too.)
The problem is, well, everything else: the memory controller, disk controller, motherboard support chipsets are all vastly different on a modern PowerMac than on any of IBM's current kit. AIX would never boot.
Several people have noted that AIX did run on Apple's short lived Network Server products (the only OS that ever did run on them). Also, several rumors sites back in 98 or so claimed that it was possible to boot MacOS 8.0 on some of IBM's lower-end (PReP-based) PowerPC servers, but I never saw any real confirmation of that.
First, there's stability. It's very good, orders of magnitude better than classic Mac OS, but still well behind most other UNIXes. In my group at work, we have a mix of about 25 IRIX and Solaris boxes. Of those, we get maybe one or two crashes a year due to memory parity errors. I have yet to crash my FreeBSD box at home after a year and a half. The Mac, since I got it 2 months ago, has crashed or locked up at least 4 times. Stock hardware, stock OS X install with the latest updates. Twice a month is great if you're used to Windows, but for UNIX, it stinks.
Flakiness/weirdness. Occasionally I'll type a command at the tcsh prompt and it will coredump for no reason. "ls" gets a bus error or something. Then it works fine after that. This certainly isn't every day, and it always seems to work the next time, but it's not indicative of a truly mature OS.
This is unintentional irony at its finest.:)
Random bsd-layer application coredumps are not normal behavior under OSX, and the number of complete system crashes/lockups you describe are way above the average that I've observed. I would wager any amount of beer that you have a hardware problem.
The ironic part: odds are very high that you have a memory parity error happening. Unfortunately, one of the reasons that those SGIs cost 5X as much as a PowerMac is that they support ECC memory, and can thus recover a bit more gracefully from such errors.
Swap out your DIMMs with registered CL2 sticks from Mushkin, Kingston or Crucial, and I suspect you'll be suitably impressed by the results. (Also, check and make certain that the CPU and case fans are operating at their indicated voltage and RPM...)
Oh, Lucas said that dozens of times...after Campbell adopted Star Wars as his pet example of Themes of Mythology in Popular Culture. You won't have any trouble finding such quotes, but I'll bet money that you won't be able to find one that predates Campbell's original ruminations on the topic.
Because if I try to set up a low-power FM station out of my bedroom here in Brooklyn to broadcast my favorite tracks to my neighbors, the FCC will throw my ass in jail for interfering with the signals of the local ClearChannel Inc. "Classic Rock" and "Alternative" stations.
The FM radio band is a scarce resource regulated by the government. In most major urban areas, there hasn't been a new station license granted in years, sometimes decades.
Internet broadcasting, on the other hand, is limited only by aggregate bandwidth. A thousand stations can sound just as good as two. And the startup costs are much, much lower: get a PC, a copy of IceCast, a $100 sound card and microphone, and suddenly you're a DJ. Sure, maybe only ten people are listening, but that's the whole point: those ten people found just the thing they were looking for.
Frankly, I'm surprised that this hasn't become more widespread, and long before this. My present employer's internal network was crippled for days by the nimda worm, all because some idiot salesdroid double-clicked on an attachment in her Hotmail account.
As the sole unix admin there, I mostly got to sit back and chuckle evilly, but half a week's lost productivity is no laughing matter when you're tallying up the balance sheets at the end of the month.
The bottom line here is that you are being paid to work, not to check your personal email, IM your friends, or post to Slashdot. If that seems unreasonable, start your own damn company.
...but you've hit on the hidden secret of the drive market.
There's nothing about the SCSI interface that makes drives more reliable, but because SCSI drives are sold to the higher-spec portions of the marketplace (professional workstations and servers), drive manufacturers send their higher-quality parts in that direction.
Check the MBTF numbers on any manufacturer's similar-size IDE and SCSI parts, and you may be rather surprised. Remember: you get what you pay for.
BSD/OS 5.0 and other future releases of the product will target servers, server appliances, and purpose-built server applications, as well as non-real-time embedded systems that require a full-featured UNIX-based operating system. Such systems often have high degrees of software complexity and need the capability to run applications developed for UNIX-style operating systems.
Wind River's VxWorks(TM) real-time operating system will continue to be Wind River's core offering for embedded applications that require real-time, deterministic performance and constrained memory footprints.
Heh, yeah, it was too good not to nick. I've been an adsubtract user since back when it was "interMute" and Barry was distributing it from his MIT account. Easily the best $30 I have ever spent on any software ever.
and forces the device into big-endian (mac fag) mode
Hey now. That's also "Sun Fag", "IBM Fag", "MIPS Fag", "Alpha Fag" and even "Cray Fag" mode. Oh no mister bill, those dang homosexuals have corrupted the entire industry!
You must be thinking of Ogg Vorbis, which has far less than 1% of any mainstream market. WMV, otoh, apart from already having worked in Linux via mplayer [mplayerhq.hu] for many moons, possesses quite possibly a majority of the web browsing video market. Should it not, then I would assume that it's second only to RealMedia. Please purchase yourself a clue. Thank you.:)
I was referring to Linux's share of the web browsing market. Please try to read more carefully next time.
"As much I would not like to see or support sites that use Windows Media shite, its still really nice to have this option.
Since being able to play WM files is not an "option" under Windows, it is clear that he is referring to using Crossover for this purpose. (The title and focus of the whole story is also a not-so-subtle hint.)
Not too mention
In standard American (and, I believe, British) English, the phrase "not to mention" indicates a continuation of a previous description or comparison. Additionally, there is nothing to indicate that he has switched gears and is now comparing Quicktime to WMV or is suddenly speaking of either of them in a more general sense.
kick ass QuickTime playing."
"Kick ass Quicktime playing" has a completely different meaning from "QuickTime is kickass." (Hint: different verbs.) No comparison to any other product was made or implied: he is stating only that Crossover does an excellent job of playing QuickTime videos.
That's all well and good, but Mr. Lee wasn't talking about Quicktime under Windows. He said, and I quote:
As much I would not like to see or support sites that use Windows Media shite, its still really nice to have this option. Not too mention kick ass QuickTime playing."
He is clearly referring to using the Crossover Plugin to play Quicktime under Linux, which it indeed does a "kick-ass" job of doing.
You might want to have that jerking knee attended to by a physician.
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...because Seth Warshavsky never handed anybody a real check. :-)
When you right-click over an image, the Back function on the context menu disappears.
Er, isn't the whole point of context menus that they're kinda, you know, contextual in their function?
The act of context-clicking on an image most likely indicates an urge to do something with that image, like save, open or deface it. Navigation items are much more appropriate in the context of clicking on a blank area of the page.
Incidentally, Galeon approaches this by taking the navigation tools onto the bottom of the image context menu. It makes for a really, really ugly and annoyingly large context menu. I consider this a bug.
You can run Shake on x86 to your heart's content, as long as you run it on Linux. This being slashdot, you'd think the story editors would be clued up on this sort of thing...
"The DUL" isn't stopping you from mailing anybody. The thing stopping you from emaling your unnamed slash coder is the fact that his ISP has chosen to block mail based on the DUL. If this is such a pain in the ass, one or both of you should vote with your dollars and feet: either he should move to an ISP that doesn't use the DUL, or you should stop being a cheap bastard and trying to run a mail server from a dynamic IP address.
Why is trolling a bad thing when done in comments, but apparently entirely acceptable when done by editors in story submission addenda?
Apple people laughing at X Window system, while they know that Apple leech the community and refuse to share Aqua. (If you don't wanna share Aqua, fine. But why flame X? Did we ask for humiliation?)
Yes, you did..
No. It's a fairly different chip.
The chip isn't the problem, actually. The PowerPC chip line has never broken binary compatibility, and IBM has shipped numerous powerpc-based AIX servers. (I'm not sure if you can run PowerPC executables on POWER3/POWER4 chipsets, but I suspect you can do that too.)
The problem is, well, everything else: the memory controller, disk controller, motherboard support chipsets are all vastly different on a modern PowerMac than on any of IBM's current kit. AIX would never boot.
Several people have noted that AIX did run on Apple's short lived Network Server products (the only OS that ever did run on them). Also, several rumors sites back in 98 or so claimed that it was possible to boot MacOS 8.0 on some of IBM's lower-end (PReP-based) PowerPC servers, but I never saw any real confirmation of that.
This is unintentional irony at its finest.
Random bsd-layer application coredumps are not normal behavior under OSX, and the number of complete system crashes/lockups you describe are way above the average that I've observed. I would wager any amount of beer that you have a hardware problem.
The ironic part: odds are very high that you have a memory parity error happening. Unfortunately, one of the reasons that those SGIs cost 5X as much as a PowerMac is that they support ECC memory, and can thus recover a bit more gracefully from such errors.
Swap out your DIMMs with registered CL2 sticks from Mushkin, Kingston or Crucial, and I suspect you'll be suitably impressed by the results. (Also, check and make certain that the CPU and case fans are operating at their indicated voltage and RPM...)
Insightful comments otherwise, btw.
Can you run an X server on the mac?
Dude. Where have you been for the last year?
Oh, Lucas said that dozens of times...after Campbell adopted Star Wars as his pet example of Themes of Mythology in Popular Culture. You won't have any trouble finding such quotes, but I'll bet money that you won't be able to find one that predates Campbell's original ruminations on the topic.
Read the article. Embryonic stem cells were not used. They used his own stem cells.
I've seen the original and Superbit releases of Fifth Element, and I can see the improvement.
Really? So is Chris Tucker any less annoying in the Superbit version?
Because if I try to set up a low-power FM station out of my bedroom here in Brooklyn to broadcast my favorite tracks to my neighbors, the FCC will throw my ass in jail for interfering with the signals of the local ClearChannel Inc. "Classic Rock" and "Alternative" stations.
The FM radio band is a scarce resource regulated by the government. In most major urban areas, there hasn't been a new station license granted in years, sometimes decades.
Internet broadcasting, on the other hand, is limited only by aggregate bandwidth. A thousand stations can sound just as good as two. And the startup costs are much, much lower: get a PC, a copy of IceCast, a $100 sound card and microphone, and suddenly you're a DJ. Sure, maybe only ten people are listening, but that's the whole point: those ten people found just the thing they were looking for.
Frankly, I'm surprised that this hasn't become more widespread, and long before this. My present employer's internal network was crippled for days by the nimda worm, all because some idiot salesdroid double-clicked on an attachment in her Hotmail account.
As the sole unix admin there, I mostly got to sit back and chuckle evilly, but half a week's lost productivity is no laughing matter when you're tallying up the balance sheets at the end of the month.
The bottom line here is that you are being paid to work, not to check your personal email, IM your friends, or post to Slashdot. If that seems unreasonable, start your own damn company.
...but you've hit on the hidden secret of the drive market.
There's nothing about the SCSI interface that makes drives more reliable, but because SCSI drives are sold to the higher-spec portions of the marketplace (professional workstations and servers), drive manufacturers send their higher-quality parts in that direction.
Check the MBTF numbers on any manufacturer's similar-size IDE and SCSI parts, and you may be rather surprised. Remember: you get what you pay for.
Try harder next time, please.
John Gilmore is not just a clueless know-nothing who refuses to close his mail server out of ignorance.
Unfortunatly, you are correct. He is not doing this out of ignorance. He is doing this out of malice.
You're ruining a perfectly good rant with trivial facts. :)
and forces the device into big-endian (mac fag) mode
Hey now. That's also "Sun Fag", "IBM Fag", "MIPS Fag", "Alpha Fag" and even "Cray Fag" mode. Oh no mister bill, those dang homosexuals have corrupted the entire industry!
Hmm, why don't they let us audit their code?
Isn't it obvious? You can't accessorize.
He acquitted himself reasonably well in the last season of Oz. I'll give him a chance in this.
You must be thinking of Ogg Vorbis, which has far less than 1% of any mainstream market. WMV, otoh, apart from already having worked in Linux via mplayer [mplayerhq.hu] for many moons, possesses quite possibly a majority of the web browsing video market. Should it not, then I would assume that it's second only to RealMedia. Please purchase yourself a clue. Thank you. :)
I was referring to Linux's share of the web browsing market. Please try to read more carefully next time.
What does this say about microsoft's views towards java technologies?
Very little, since that language is lifted directly from Sun's own license for Java.
Since being able to play WM files is not an "option" under Windows, it is clear that he is referring to using Crossover for this purpose. (The title and focus of the whole story is also a not-so-subtle hint.)In standard American (and, I believe, British) English, the phrase "not to mention" indicates a continuation of a previous description or comparison. Additionally, there is nothing to indicate that he has switched gears and is now comparing Quicktime to WMV or is suddenly speaking of either of them in a more general sense."Kick ass Quicktime playing" has a completely different meaning from "QuickTime is kickass." (Hint: different verbs.) No comparison to any other product was made or implied: he is stating only that Crossover does an excellent job of playing QuickTime videos.
That's all well and good, but Mr. Lee wasn't talking about Quicktime under Windows. He said, and I quote:
He is clearly referring to using the Crossover Plugin to play Quicktime under Linux, which it indeed does a "kick-ass" job of doing.
You might want to have that jerking knee attended to by a physician.