How can you be so ignorant? MacOS-Ten does not contain code from ANY of the free BSD's. It is based on NeXT which was based in part on some old BSD code from yesteryear.
Or, actually, it does. Darwin (the actual kernel bit of Mac OS X) was derived from FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE sources and Mach 3. Go look it up.
There've been quite a few cases recently where transatlantic flights from New York and Boston to places like London have been diverted to Bangor (Maine) International Airport due to disruptive passengers. Out of the seven cases I know about, five of them were drunk Brits starting fights. I guess they chose Bangor because it was the closest place that has a Federal Courthouse.
I read an editorial in some gov/military saftey magazine advocating just that several years ago. Remove all the warning lables, repeal all laws requiring things like safety belts and helmets, and let nature take its course. It'll help cut back on stupid people, and provide more candidates for those every so entertaining darwin awards.
Everybody that dies from accidents is stupid?
Tell that to the families of sober people who happened to be in a car that was hit by one being driven by a drunk driver.
NYNEX (Northeast) merged with Bell Atlantic (Mid-Atlantic States), then tried to merge with BellSouth.
Hell, even before that, New England Telephone (New England) merged with NYNEX (New York and other sundries). You can still see the places on the BA vans where NYNEX and sometimes even New England Telephone were painted on them.
I had a similar problem. I bought an Athlon 750 with an Asus K7M Motherboard. I have 320MB of RAM now, but only 192MB when a friend of mine discovered the reason for the sluggishness:
[I can only verify that this works on an Asus K7M and may not even work for your Asus K7M. Do not do this if you feel litigious or are just plain retarded. You have been warned.]
Go into the BIOS setup area. Then go to Advanced. Arrow down to Internal cache. It might say write-thru or enabled or something. Hit F5. A little box will come up saying "Load Optimal Settings." Hit Enter. It should now say "Reserved." At this point, you need to go back into your other settings and configure things back the way you wanted them.
As an aside, you have to go through this whole rigamarole EVERY TIME you enter the BIOS. Yay Asus.
As another aside, a friend of mine discovered this while I was visiting him and other friends for a Local Area Network Object. This was a several-hundred-mile trip and involved the purchase of a moose. 3=) 3=) 3=).
Part of the problem here is that these laws only give corporations the rights of people, not the responsibilities.
Which responsibilities do corporations not have that regular citizens do (under US law)? They have to pay taxes. They have to follow the laws, or else face the consequences. Yes, they can *SHAPE* the laws and get laws which favor them put in place, but so could a similarly-equipped private citizen. Thus corporations soon become more powerful that real people.
I have copyright to programs I put under the GPL - but/so does everybody else/. Uhhh...no. Everybody else has a license to modify and distribute your programs according to the terms and conditions of the GPL. Nothing more, nothing less. You retain sole copyright unless you SPECIFICALLY state differently. How do you even think software and technology licensing work? A company/sells/ the rights to other companies. BOTH can "own" the same thing. No, the company licenses a limited subset of its rights to another entity. Look at a shrinkwrap license sometime.
There's nothing illegal about being big or even having a monopoly.
Yay. Glad to see people understand this.
You can thank the DOJ lawsuit for the fact that today you can buy a PC without Windows pre-installed, or even with Linux pre-installed. MS did not allow this before the DOJ started getting on their case.
This isn't entirely true. They allowed manufacturers to sell computers without Windows pre-installed. They just wouldn't license Windows to you, or made the license fee per PC exorbitantly high enough so it didn't matter.
Yes, this is a Bad Thing too, but don't spread misinformation.
Again it goes back to the point of SuSE trying to force you to pay for there cdroms.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. They can produce a Linux distribution on CD or DVD and have absolutely NO OBLIGATION under the GPL to give ISOs or tarballs away for free. Their only obligation is to release the source to any GPLed binaries they distribute.
MOSR obviously has not the best reputation, but they're much more reliable than most people seem to think.
No. I refer you here for a straightforward rundown of Ryan's reliability.
I read slashdot cuz it's not just about linux anymore... but mosr has nothing to do with linux.
Not exactly true. Ryan was pretty friendly with Jason Haas of LinuxPPC, Inc. for a while and tried to bamboozle him into some strategic partnership. Then there's the fact that Ryan thought that Linux was Hot Shit until he caught wind that Mac OS X had a BSD layer that was derived from FreeBSD 3.2, at which point he, without consulting his then-sysadmin/bitchslave (me), DECREED that BLM's LIVE PRODUCTION SERVERS (oh wait, there was only one left by then--the power supply in the other exploded and he didn't feel like paying to get the computer fixed) would be switched over to FreeBSD early one Sunday Morning, despite the fact that I had informed him beforehand that I had absolutely no FreeBSD experience, and neither did anybody on his pay^H^H^Hwork-for-free-roll. What a fucking genious.
Even though they probably have no idea of MOSR's track record.
The article I found said that the BLM/Slashdot partnership STARTED in mid-april '98, but in the comment you linked to, you say they broke it off at mid-april...?
Mid-April 1999. Fun month. Ryan sent the/. guys a 13.3"/233 PowerBook G3 (the one he got in July '98 to take to MWNY that year) to try to stop the partnership's hemorrhaging, but they didn't buy it and sent it back, so, in lieu of yet more payment, he gave the fucker to me. It's currently sitting on my desk with a half-broken LCD, broken headphone jack, and a left media bay that won't take a battery to save its life.
Maybe Rob likes sending much needed traffic to an old friend?
As a former BLM "employee" (read: Ryan's bitch for nine months), I had the wonderful joy of watching him work. He greatly overstates the amount of email he receives. He makes stuff up out of whole cloth. I HAVE SEEN HIM DO THIS. I once said "Wouldn't it be neat if Apple did x?" About an hour or so later, I read on Rumors that "reliable sources" had informed him that Apple was indeed planning to do x.
I was also around during the time when/. and BLM parted ways. It was a Very Big Deal, and not amicable for either party. (Hint: It was near mid-April 1999. What happens in the middle of April? Bingo. Ryan lost all of BLM's financial data in his Hard Drive Crash of December 1998. He kept no backups. Smart guy.)
Additonally, BLM's "business model" changed no less than four times during the nine months I was there, and has changed a couple of times since. I came to the office for "strategy sessions" which consisted of him rambling about wanting to finance research to facilitate leisure space travel for about five minutes before retiring to his desk to smoke a bowl and play Quake. Working for a company that would rather buy illicit substances than pay its employees instills such a wonderful sense of morale.
Indeed, Ryan Meader's sole skill appears to be getting people to do work for him for free until they finally realize what he's doing to them. There are no less than five people (which basically comprises most of BLM's non-Ryan and non-Sarah entire core workforce throughout its existence) that have been burned by him within the past eighteen months.
This is being posted non-anonymously for two reasons. Firstly, I hope it lends some sort of credibility to my statements, as it is indeed all true. Secondly, I don't really give a flying fuck what Ryan has to say or do about it.
Steve Jobs was referring to version 5.0 of IE which is not even available yet (looks to be late Feb/March).
Wow...he was referring IE 5 back at MacWorld New York 1998 when he said that the best browser on the market ran on the Mac and was IE? He must be a visionary! IE 4 was the latest version out then, and I didn't like it very much. IE 4.5 approached usability. I hope 5.0 is decent and not a downgrade like OE 5.0 was.
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There've been quite a few cases recently where transatlantic flights from New York and Boston to places like London have been diverted to Bangor (Maine) International Airport due to disruptive passengers. Out of the seven cases I know about, five of them were drunk Brits starting fights. I guess they chose Bangor because it was the closest place that has a Federal Courthouse.
No, just you. 100 is the average IQ. 50% of the population has an IQ under 100. Not 80.
Everybody that dies from accidents is stupid?
Tell that to the families of sober people who happened to be in a car that was hit by one being driven by a drunk driver.
Hell, even before that, New England Telephone (New England) merged with NYNEX (New York and other sundries). You can still see the places on the BA vans where NYNEX and sometimes even New England Telephone were painted on them.
[I can only verify that this works on an Asus K7M and may not even work for your Asus K7M. Do not do this if you feel litigious or are just plain retarded. You have been warned.]
Go into the BIOS setup area. Then go to Advanced. Arrow down to Internal cache. It might say write-thru or enabled or something. Hit F5. A little box will come up saying "Load Optimal Settings." Hit Enter. It should now say "Reserved." At this point, you need to go back into your other settings and configure things back the way you wanted them.
As an aside, you have to go through this whole rigamarole EVERY TIME you enter the BIOS. Yay Asus.
As another aside, a friend of mine discovered this while I was visiting him and other friends for a Local Area Network Object. This was a several-hundred-mile trip and involved the purchase of a moose. 3=) 3=) 3=).
Nope.
The first version of Windows NT was released as Windows NT 3.1. Then came 3.5 and 3.51. Then we had NT 4.
Now we have Windows 2000.
Yeah, but people keep making noises about wanting to move to IPv6 RSN, so that'll break in a few years.
Which responsibilities do corporations not have that regular citizens do (under US law)? They have to pay taxes. They have to follow the laws, or else face the consequences. Yes, they can *SHAPE* the laws and get laws which favor them put in place, but so could a similarly-equipped private citizen. Thus corporations soon become more powerful that real people.
No area code? So only 10,000,000 people can have one? Nuts. :(
And your proof of this lies where?
(Hint: "It's just something they would do because they're evil!@#!@" isn't a valid response.)
Is this a stated design goal?
And why doesn't McDonald's deserve the right to due process of law?
Yes, and C/C++ and perl are unrelated to email.
I believe he was suggesting you write your own solution.
I have copyright to programs I put under the GPL - but /so does everybody else/. Uhhh...no. Everybody else has a license to modify and distribute your programs according to the terms and conditions of the GPL. Nothing more, nothing less. You retain sole copyright unless you SPECIFICALLY state differently. How do you even think software and technology licensing work? A company /sells/ the rights to other companies. BOTH can "own" the same thing. No, the company licenses a limited subset of its rights to another entity. Look at a shrinkwrap license sometime.
If you take a look at the parent of the comment you replied to, you'll see why he was complaining:
So this was moderated up by an individual rather than an automatic moderation as you may have thought.
This isn't entirely true. They allowed manufacturers to sell computers without Windows pre-installed. They just wouldn't license Windows to you, or made the license fee per PC exorbitantly high enough so it didn't matter.
Yes, this is a Bad Thing too, but don't spread misinformation.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. They can produce a Linux distribution on CD or DVD and have absolutely NO OBLIGATION under the GPL to give ISOs or tarballs away for free. Their only obligation is to release the source to any GPLed binaries they distribute.
Clarification: Unaccelerated 16-color (4-bit), 640x480. In other words, base VGA.
You're half right. You wouldn't need an X server, but you'd need Linux framebuffer support, which Mac OS X doesn't have, and isn't likely to have.
Looks like a nifty hack for Darwin, though....
No. I refer you here for a straightforward rundown of Ryan's reliability.
Not exactly true. Ryan was pretty friendly with Jason Haas of LinuxPPC, Inc. for a while and tried to bamboozle him into some strategic partnership. Then there's the fact that Ryan thought that Linux was Hot Shit until he caught wind that Mac OS X had a BSD layer that was derived from FreeBSD 3.2, at which point he, without consulting his then-sysadmin/bitchslave (me), DECREED that BLM's LIVE PRODUCTION SERVERS (oh wait, there was only one left by then--the power supply in the other exploded and he didn't feel like paying to get the computer fixed) would be switched over to FreeBSD early one Sunday Morning, despite the fact that I had informed him beforehand that I had absolutely no FreeBSD experience, and neither did anybody on his pay^H^H^Hwork-for-free-roll. What a fucking genious.
Please see above.
Mid-April 1999. Fun month. Ryan sent the /. guys a 13.3"/233 PowerBook G3 (the one he got in July '98 to take to MWNY that year) to try to stop the partnership's hemorrhaging, but they didn't buy it and sent it back, so, in lieu of yet more payment, he gave the fucker to me. It's currently sitting on my desk with a half-broken LCD, broken headphone jack, and a left media bay that won't take a battery to save its life.
Yes. Read this for more info surrounding the circumstances of the parting of BLM and /.
As a former BLM "employee" (read: Ryan's bitch for nine months), I had the wonderful joy of watching him work. He greatly overstates the amount of email he receives. He makes stuff up out of whole cloth. I HAVE SEEN HIM DO THIS. I once said "Wouldn't it be neat if Apple did x?" About an hour or so later, I read on Rumors that "reliable sources" had informed him that Apple was indeed planning to do x.
I was also around during the time when /. and BLM parted ways. It was a Very Big Deal, and not amicable for either party. (Hint: It was near mid-April 1999. What happens in the middle of April? Bingo. Ryan lost all of BLM's financial data in his Hard Drive Crash of December 1998. He kept no backups. Smart guy.)
Additonally, BLM's "business model" changed no less than four times during the nine months I was there, and has changed a couple of times since. I came to the office for "strategy sessions" which consisted of him rambling about wanting to finance research to facilitate leisure space travel for about five minutes before retiring to his desk to smoke a bowl and play Quake. Working for a company that would rather buy illicit substances than pay its employees instills such a wonderful sense of morale.
Indeed, Ryan Meader's sole skill appears to be getting people to do work for him for free until they finally realize what he's doing to them. There are no less than five people (which basically comprises most of BLM's non-Ryan and non-Sarah entire core workforce throughout its existence) that have been burned by him within the past eighteen months.
This is being posted non-anonymously for two reasons. Firstly, I hope it lends some sort of credibility to my statements, as it is indeed all true. Secondly, I don't really give a flying fuck what Ryan has to say or do about it.
Wow...he was referring IE 5 back at MacWorld New York 1998 when he said that the best browser on the market ran on the Mac and was IE? He must be a visionary! IE 4 was the latest version out then, and I didn't like it very much. IE 4.5 approached usability. I hope 5.0 is decent and not a downgrade like OE 5.0 was.