They're not worried about the hardware envy crowd. They want people who want "it just works" ease of use and stylish design in their accessories. Tech toys are becoming 'lifestyle appliances'. You don't expect radical new features in your toaster every 2 years, do you? What cutting edge features have stereos added in the last 20 years? CD players and MP3 playback. That's it.
Then again, this is/. where most people DO expect radical new features in their toaster every two years...
I haven't done it on my mini yet, but I did install YDL 4 on my iBook last week. It was the easiest linux install I've ever done. If you've used any version of Red Hat > 8.0 then YDL will be very familiar. It's basically a PPC port of Fedora Core 3.
Software Update is a system tool. It can be set to check for updates daily, weekly, or monthly (IIRC).
They do a mix of patches depending on what's needed. If there's just a small hotfix, that's what's there. If there's several unrelated fixes, they're all there. Other times it's big fixes like this. Also note that every few months they'll roll up a bunch of fixes into one big one to make it easier on people.
I think a lot of people opposed to ID are looking at it all wrong. Sure it's a load of nonsense, but that can be used to your advantage. When the local fundies start trying to force their god into the schools, go to the school board meetings. Insist on equal representation for ALL mythologies. Threaten discrimination lawsuits. Get Thor back in there. And Apollo. And Mars. And Baal. And so on and so on and so on. They can't prove that the gods of Norse mythology are any less real than their Bible based god.
You'd be surprised what a novel concept this is to a lot of web developers. Particularly ones that came from other languages and learned web dev on the job. A directive like this coming from IBM may actually penetrate the thick COBOL* muddled minds of a lot of less than stellar developers I've worked with.
* feel free to substitute VB here, as I've worked with young programmers who only learned VB in college for whom this approach is beyond their comprehension. Their normal solution is "More RAM".
You forget that capitalism defines property as being the most important entity in the society. Crimes against property are more serious than crimes against a person.
IBM has been heavily promoting WebSphere and DB2 on Linux to the agencies I'm aware of. Sure, I'd rather be running tomcat and postgre, but you know, babysteps.
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For all the complaints about the currency of terraserver, the google pic of my neighborhood is over two years old, based on some of the buildings that are (and aren't) in the pic.
The terraserver pic appears to be slightly older but I can get a much closer view than with google.
Just because it's from google doesn't necessarily mean it's cooler.
Yea, I had to go find the original sentencing news reports to verify. It was a fairly content free article, but that's par for the course for links on/.;)
To all the people screaming "What, MS is part of the government now?":
The judge determined that the convicted owed MS damages of about $500,000. MS at their own discretion opted to allow him to to do community service in lieu of cash. As long as the agreement is acceptable to both parties, the judge will generally go with it.
I work in St Louis City. There is a 1% employment tax on all income you earn in the city. If I worked 50% of the time in our office outside the city and 50% in the city, I'd pay 1% of 50% of my income to the city.
People always bitch and moan about the evils of taxes, but those taxes pay for minor conveniences like roads, street lights, stop signs, police, firefighters, etc etc. If you work in the city, you are getting a benefit from those and many other services, it's only reasonable that you help pay for them.
Anyone who says "But it only has a one button mouse" has effectively held up a big flashing sign saying "Hi, I'm ignorant and have no clue what I'm talking about but feel the need to say something anyway."
Add those people to your foes list because it's doubtful they've got anything useful to say on any other tech subject as well.
I tried using the touchpad. I hate it as much as I hate touchpads in intel laptops. I hate it almost as much as the thinkpads pencil eraser. THe touchpad/eraser are useless for getting any real work done. Why do you think those tiny little laptop mice by Belkin et al are so popular? I have an IOGear bluetooth mini mouse and it makes my iBook so nice to use.
When it came time for me annual system upgrade, I did the math and realized that I could get more bang for my buck switching to a Mac Mini. Two months in and I couldn't be happier. My old linux workstation is now my file server, and my old file server is now a doorstop.
They did back then ($50 for Visa/MC, $100 for Amex/Disc. Or vice versa) and I assume they still do. But for the retail worker, the hassle of checking every single sig and the added bitching of customers when the slip doesn't match the card and they have to show their ID isn't worth the handful of times they might get a reward.
That's not true of all clerks, but I only had one who was vigilant about checking. She caught about 2 a month. What I always found most astounding was the people who wrote "check ID" in the signature place and then got MAD when you asked to check their ID...
I managed a record store for many years in the 90's. Retail clerks just don't care if a card is stolen or not. OK, some of them do, but the vast majority are getting paid too little and are too busy to really put that much effort into it.
A teenager making 5.15 an hour and being tasked with not only greeting an assisting every single person who walks through the door (whether they want help or not) but also straightening, restocking, sweeping, cleaning the windows, cleaning the bathroom, and a host of other menial tasks is hardly going to take the time to scrutinize the signature on every credit card they handle.
Aside from that, retail clerks are hardly expected to by handwriting experts...
Go into your expose settings and set the keyboard option "all windows" to something other than F9. builtins take precedence over third party configs, so expose catches the f9 before the mouseware gets it.
No offense, but if you're positing the theory of "past performance is predictive of future performance" then you've not learned anything at Harvard.
If it were then I would have to assume that all Harvard MBA's are inept egoists who value sycophants over all else and will gladly drive their company into the ground to 'prove' they are smarter than all the people that work for them and disagree with their plans, based on my experiences during the dotcom days.
However, I'm well aware of the truism that past performance is no guarantee of future results.
You haven't met many users outside the IT field apparently. I know plenty of family and friends who've turned off the firewall to play some game and oustide the IT field only a single one of my friends or family have heard of ZoneAlarm or anything like it.
You're confusing 'constituency' (the people who live in Alaska) with 'natural constituency' (the people who are ideologically aligned with the politician and provide financial support). Large corporations and industry groups provide financial support to politicians who share ideology regardless of what state they're in.
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They're not worried about the hardware envy crowd. They want people who want "it just works" ease of use and stylish design in their accessories. Tech toys are becoming 'lifestyle appliances'. You don't expect radical new features in your toaster every 2 years, do you? What cutting edge features have stereos added in the last 20 years? CD players and MP3 playback. That's it.
/. where most people DO expect radical new features in their toaster every two years...
Then again, this is
I haven't done it on my mini yet, but I did install YDL 4 on my iBook last week. It was the easiest linux install I've ever done. If you've used any version of Red Hat > 8.0 then YDL will be very familiar. It's basically a PPC port of Fedora Core 3.
You shouldn't be worried about the 4 star rating. It's out of 10.
And the process viewer in Win allows processes to hide as well, so it's basically useless.
A better description is here.
Software Update is a system tool. It can be set to check for updates daily, weekly, or monthly (IIRC).
They do a mix of patches depending on what's needed. If there's just a small hotfix, that's what's there. If there's several unrelated fixes, they're all there. Other times it's big fixes like this. Also note that every few months they'll roll up a bunch of fixes into one big one to make it easier on people.
I think a lot of people opposed to ID are looking at it all wrong. Sure it's a load of nonsense, but that can be used to your advantage. When the local fundies start trying to force their god into the schools, go to the school board meetings. Insist on equal representation for ALL mythologies. Threaten discrimination lawsuits. Get Thor back in there. And Apollo. And Mars. And Baal. And so on and so on and so on. They can't prove that the gods of Norse mythology are any less real than their Bible based god.
* feel free to substitute VB here, as I've worked with young programmers who only learned VB in college for whom this approach is beyond their comprehension. Their normal solution is "More RAM".
You forget that capitalism defines property as being the most important entity in the society. Crimes against property are more serious than crimes against a person.
I think cory doctorow best explains why this doesn't work in Metacrap.
IBM has been heavily promoting WebSphere and DB2 on Linux to the agencies I'm aware of. Sure, I'd rather be running tomcat and postgre, but you know, babysteps.
The terraserver pic appears to be slightly older but I can get a much closer view than with google.
Just because it's from google doesn't necessarily mean it's cooler.
Hello kettle, this is pot. Dude, I'm SO wasted.
Yes, it's stupid, but I bet you laughed.
Yea, I had to go find the original sentencing news reports to verify. It was a fairly content free article, but that's par for the course for links on /. ;)
To all the people screaming "What, MS is part of the government now?":
The judge determined that the convicted owed MS damages of about $500,000. MS at their own discretion opted to allow him to to do community service in lieu of cash. As long as the agreement is acceptable to both parties, the judge will generally go with it.
I work in St Louis City. There is a 1% employment tax on all income you earn in the city. If I worked 50% of the time in our office outside the city and 50% in the city, I'd pay 1% of 50% of my income to the city.
People always bitch and moan about the evils of taxes, but those taxes pay for minor conveniences like roads, street lights, stop signs, police, firefighters, etc etc. If you work in the city, you are getting a benefit from those and many other services, it's only reasonable that you help pay for them.
Anyone who says "But it only has a one button mouse" has effectively held up a big flashing sign saying "Hi, I'm ignorant and have no clue what I'm talking about but feel the need to say something anyway."
Add those people to your foes list because it's doubtful they've got anything useful to say on any other tech subject as well.
I tried using the touchpad. I hate it as much as I hate touchpads in intel laptops. I hate it almost as much as the thinkpads pencil eraser. THe touchpad/eraser are useless for getting any real work done. Why do you think those tiny little laptop mice by Belkin et al are so popular? I have an IOGear bluetooth mini mouse and it makes my iBook so nice to use.
When it came time for me annual system upgrade, I did the math and realized that I could get more bang for my buck switching to a Mac Mini. Two months in and I couldn't be happier. My old linux workstation is now my file server, and my old file server is now a doorstop.
They did back then ($50 for Visa/MC, $100 for Amex/Disc. Or vice versa) and I assume they still do. But for the retail worker, the hassle of checking every single sig and the added bitching of customers when the slip doesn't match the card and they have to show their ID isn't worth the handful of times they might get a reward.
That's not true of all clerks, but I only had one who was vigilant about checking. She caught about 2 a month. What I always found most astounding was the people who wrote "check ID" in the signature place and then got MAD when you asked to check their ID...
I managed a record store for many years in the 90's. Retail clerks just don't care if a card is stolen or not. OK, some of them do, but the vast majority are getting paid too little and are too busy to really put that much effort into it.
A teenager making 5.15 an hour and being tasked with not only greeting an assisting every single person who walks through the door (whether they want help or not) but also straightening, restocking, sweeping, cleaning the windows, cleaning the bathroom, and a host of other menial tasks is hardly going to take the time to scrutinize the signature on every credit card they handle.
Aside from that, retail clerks are hardly expected to by handwriting experts...
Go into your expose settings and set the keyboard option "all windows" to something other than F9. builtins take precedence over third party configs, so expose catches the f9 before the mouseware gets it.
If it were then I would have to assume that all Harvard MBA's are inept egoists who value sycophants over all else and will gladly drive their company into the ground to 'prove' they are smarter than all the people that work for them and disagree with their plans, based on my experiences during the dotcom days.
However, I'm well aware of the truism that past performance is no guarantee of future results.
You haven't met many users outside the IT field apparently. I know plenty of family and friends who've turned off the firewall to play some game and oustide the IT field only a single one of my friends or family have heard of ZoneAlarm or anything like it.
You're confusing 'constituency' (the people who live in Alaska) with 'natural constituency' (the people who are ideologically aligned with the politician and provide financial support). Large corporations and industry groups provide financial support to politicians who share ideology regardless of what state they're in.