LMAO you dipshit. Lemme try that... wait, the windows key brings up the kmenu... r... no effect. I wonder what happens if I bring up the "run app" window and type calc in it anyhow. Nope, no such animal. I do have a nice calculator, but like I say, I don't like having to bring it up, often obscuring whatever I've got in the foreground. I always have a mousepad, though...
Of all the things, I've actually been looking for a mousepad/calculator for quite a while - someone at work has one, but can't remember where she got it. I'd honestly use the hell out of such a thing - I frequently need to bang off a few calculations, and am annoyed by the added clickage of bringing up a calculator on the computer. Call me a geek, you're probably not too far off the mark. Now where'd I leave my slide rule...
I bought a dead-tree version for one very simple reason: it perches on the back lid of a porcelin office-type chair known to contain liquids on a frequent or constant basis. Call it insurance. Here's my math:
Loss of the dead-tree version should it fall in: US$50
Loss of the laptop should it fall in: US$1400 plus hundreds of hours of lost productivity that went in as well.
Heh. I use that codec pretty much daily on my linux box to do VOIP. My client of choice (which may tell something about my predelictions) is TeamSpeak - a smallish app that will teach you how to configure alsa, but once it works, it works well - decent sound quality right there with POTS, doesn't use much bandwidth at all - if it did, my ping would be high... not something a gamer will tolerate... and light footprint. But damn! You've gotta tweak with your mixer to get it working =]. And forget about using artsd. Forget artsd anyhow. But I digress.
It's a neat little client/server app. I recommend checking it out if you're curious.
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Out of office all day. No access to voicemail or email. I bet. I'd be out of the office too. Way, way out. With the cellphone turned off and wedged in the seatcushions of the boat in the garage or something. Heh.
I always get turned around when viewing screenshots which use the same theme as I do - I always end up trying to click on the widgets on the screenshot instead of my own =]
Here's how I'm seeing it: SCO considers it's code to be trade-secret, proprietary information, etc etc. The fact that SCO code is already on thousands of hard disks is irrelevant, particularly if that code is there illegally. Publishing the code, however, would instantly and forever make that code part of the public domain - the very thing SCO claims to be hoping to avoid.
My guess is that the code, IF it exists at all, will be brought forward in a closed courtroom - trade secrets etc etc just like Microsoft did in the antitrust suit.
Note that all this is totally seperate from their FUD campaign, which regardless of any merit in their claims against IBM/SGI, is totally reprehensible, and will do them no good in the courtroom either.
Actually, I'm sure that any lawyer would probably tell you that, assuming what McBride says about his licenses is true, then showing ANY of the SysV sourcecode would put him in violation of his own licenses, which could land SCO in hot water with it's licensees.
As an analogy, I had a neighbor who got a big dog. Our lease agreement (contract) at this apartment place states that you can have only 20 pounds of live animal living at your place, and this guy's German Shepherd pretty much tripled that figure. Even though the guy was only violating part of the lease agreement (the part related to pets), and was in compliance with regard to the rest of the lease, the management still successfully evicted him.
As much as I'd like to find a way to settle this once and for all, and as sick as I am of the BS that SCO is inflicting on anyone willing to listen, I have to agree that they probably can't release any of their code. IANAL, so I'm also probably wrong =]
Hmm... where's my LART? Oh, well, nevermind. Look, grumble all you want, but remember that the actions of one school district or other educational institution in no way represents the behavior of all educational institutions. You big dope - you should know better.
As far as we're concerned, computers which are too old to work anymore are pieced together and made into thin clients - go LTSP =] so don't go pointing a wasted tax dollar finger at me bub... I won't do it.
Oh, puh-lease. I probably shouldn't feed the trolls here, but you've laid down a rather nasty insult.
FYI, I'm a sysadmin for a small K-12 school district. We have about 800 computers, and an AD with about 2400 users. I get paid about $20k per year for my efforts, but the beneifts are nice.
I have some ideas about where you should stick your astroturf, but they don't bear mentioning here.
Hmm. I think you are missing just about every possible point here. I'll try to hit some of them without trolling.
First of all, you've got the people who do media editing... sound/video/still... They are going to continue to shell out the big bucks for the best Apple hardware because it will continue to put them in a competitive advantage over their collegues who need to spend more time every day waiting for numbers to crunch. In the case of this market, the dual G5 will pay for itself quickly, on speed alone. Then there's the sciences, which if you'd read the article is one of the very things being tested on this monster. I've got a friend who works in bioinformatics, and I can't wait to tell him that BLAST is being compiled for the dual G5. He will curse me as he picks up the phone to call Apple =] Finally, there's this myth of incompatibility... for your average desktop luser, what applications are important to run? Well, hello, we have the Suite of the Beast, which runs natively, and rather well, on OS X... Exchange connectivity included, thank you very much. What else? Oh, you mean something that doesn't already exist on the unix side and has been ported by the Fink project? Hello? Are you still there?
I was helping a frind of mine to try to save his win98 box from an inevitable wipe-and-reinstall, and I asked him how he liked OS X on his dual-G4. This guy used to flip front-panel switches on PDP-8s for a living (but only when the tape reader was shredding paper), and hasn't left the industry since... I regularly pick his brain on "bigger-picture" type issues, and his ignorance of how to keep his teenaged children from b0rking win98 configs notwithstanding, he really knows his s**t. His reply about OS X:
...what I've always thought a computer ought to be like.
So true. I use and enjoy Linux on my peecee, and have no intention of leaving it behind as an OS - it's still much too useful for me for lots of things - but I have to say, Apple has done a fantastic job with OS X. It is fantastically easy to teach n00bs on, and I have found it to be superb for administering a very heterogenous network consisting of various windoze clients and servers, Apple machines from ][e to current models, and various *nix servers and a few clients... best of all, I can do all this with tools native to OS X - I've got the windoze Remote Desktop Connection, Apple Remote Desktop, and X11 or even Terminal.app for the real work =]
I don't want to sound like a cheerleader, although I admit I've probably done just that. It's just that when you find a really useful tool to get your job done, it's hard not to wax enthusiastic.
I just wish they'd open the friggin' source, or somehow make the codec generically available. Thing is, Quicktime has always been my favorite video player in terms of overall quality. I guess they just like to sit real tight on that gem. Pity.
We're sorry, but you seem to suffer from terminal crabinitis. Please temporarily restrict yourself from posting until you've looked under the couch or wherever it is and found your currently-missing sense of humor.
Personally, when referring to the location of the server, I'd point straight to the floor, but then again that would involve actually thinking. Most people I know point at the roof.
LOL, you're so far from right in this case - I spend much of my work time piecing together old spare parts into useful computers and making them into thin client computers... it's not that I don't know how to do it, but jeez - my 12" powerbook is seriously the most amazing computer I've seen, and it's not an elite machine at $1300 US either. As far as your contention of class warfare is concerned, I need to remind you that you were the one who opened the door with your remark comparing Apples to Jaguars. And I wasn't joking when I said that Macs age more gracefully - I "maintain" a large number of 10-year-old Apple computers which can actually function as stand-alone machines, surf the internet, connect to our fileservers and shared printers, and keep the users happy. 10-year-old PCs are thin clients or landfill. Oh, and "management type" would be a pretty wide stretch for my job title to fill as well. I'm a trench man - Computer Support Specialist to be precise. If I say hardware is good, then that means I see it all the time and never have to hassle with it.
I tinker like mad with my own peecee at home, but that's mainly Quake-related =]
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Here's my best story to date:
I work for a school district. The week before last, I got a voicemail from a kindergarten teacher complaining that I had brought here a PC, when the software she had was all written for the Mac. Her message was about three minutes long, but overall it went something like this (just repeated a couple of times):
"Hi, this is Mrs. X at the elementary school. When I got to work this morning I noticed that you had brought me a PCP instead of a Macintosh computer. We talked about this before, and I explained to you at that time that I can't use any PCP with my students, and my students can't use the PCP either, because none of the programs will run on the PCP. Please get this PCP out of my classroom and bring me a Macintosh instead. Thanks."
I had a talk with the principal at the elemtary school, and between tears we managed to figure out how to get the PCP out of that teacher's classroom and replace it with a much more useful (and safer!) Macintosh instead. I'm thinking of petitioning to have my job title changed - surely I'd qualify for hazard pay as a PCP Support Specialist!
Oh, man, tell me, did the bad guy's computers have that special program installed that sounds the system bell with each and every keystroke? That'd fit right in there, too, don't you think?
And you didn't find that funny? It's funny - laugh! How the hell else are we supposed to deal with the constant stress of people disparaging our profession and tools because somebody wrote crappy software that our unlarted masses were then expected to operate?
And, for the counterpoint to these, don't miss the Chronicles of George - the real-life helpdesk tickets written by that idiotic tech you always seem to get after spending 45 minutes in the hold queue who is utterly helpless and ends up "escalating" your call back into the hold queue again - if he doesn't accidentally terminate the call instead! Source of the word "havening" by the way.
Sure, the meta key is that round one on the tower part of the computer that looks like a circle with a line going partway into it. Push that down and then hit the any key and you'll be able to use your iMacs in your computer.
No, it's a sure sign that either someone spends too much time in AOL chat, or they have been using MS Nerd for too long to do text editing (automagically swaps teh/the without bugging you about it).
No doubt - I can't tell you how many times I've had to explain to users that they don't need to enter their username and password into our webmail form in order to "log onto the internet." Or had complaints of a computer "always making this error" but never writing it down - that error message is randomly generated and thus meaningless, after all. And so help me, the next time I have someone point to the monitor and call it the "Computer"...
Oh, wow, they're right... there isn't any "any" key anywhere on my keyboard. I never noticed that - whenever I saw that message on my screen before, I just called my housecat who knows everything about computers and she jumped up on the keyboard and fixed it for me.
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LMAO you dipshit. Lemme try that... wait, the windows key brings up the kmenu... r... no effect. I wonder what happens if I bring up the "run app" window and type calc in it anyhow. Nope, no such animal. I do have a nice calculator, but like I say, I don't like having to bring it up, often obscuring whatever I've got in the foreground. I always have a mousepad, though...
Of all the things, I've actually been looking for a mousepad/calculator for quite a while - someone at work has one, but can't remember where she got it. I'd honestly use the hell out of such a thing - I frequently need to bang off a few calculations, and am annoyed by the added clickage of bringing up a calculator on the computer.
Call me a geek, you're probably not too far off the mark. Now where'd I leave my slide rule...
I bought a dead-tree version for one very simple reason: it perches on the back lid of a porcelin office-type chair known to contain liquids on a frequent or constant basis. Call it insurance. Here's my math:
Loss of the dead-tree version should it fall in: US$50
Loss of the laptop should it fall in: US$1400 plus hundreds of hours of lost productivity that went in as well.
Kind of made the choice an easy one.
Heh. I use that codec pretty much daily on my linux box to do VOIP. My client of choice (which may tell something about my predelictions) is TeamSpeak - a smallish app that will teach you how to configure alsa, but once it works, it works well - decent sound quality right there with POTS, doesn't use much bandwidth at all - if it did, my ping would be high... not something a gamer will tolerate... and light footprint. But damn! You've gotta tweak with your mixer to get it working =]. And forget about using artsd. Forget artsd anyhow. But I digress.
It's a neat little client/server app. I recommend checking it out if you're curious.
I always get turned around when viewing screenshots which use the same theme as I do - I always end up trying to click on the widgets on the screenshot instead of my own =]
Pretty neat stuff, nonetheless.
Here's how I'm seeing it: SCO considers it's code to be trade-secret, proprietary information, etc etc. The fact that SCO code is already on thousands of hard disks is irrelevant, particularly if that code is there illegally. Publishing the code, however, would instantly and forever make that code part of the public domain - the very thing SCO claims to be hoping to avoid.
My guess is that the code, IF it exists at all, will be brought forward in a closed courtroom - trade secrets etc etc just like Microsoft did in the antitrust suit.
Note that all this is totally seperate from their FUD campaign, which regardless of any merit in their claims against IBM/SGI, is totally reprehensible, and will do them no good in the courtroom either.
Actually, I'm sure that any lawyer would probably tell you that, assuming what McBride says about his licenses is true, then showing ANY of the SysV sourcecode would put him in violation of his own licenses, which could land SCO in hot water with it's licensees.
As an analogy, I had a neighbor who got a big dog. Our lease agreement (contract) at this apartment place states that you can have only 20 pounds of live animal living at your place, and this guy's German Shepherd pretty much tripled that figure. Even though the guy was only violating part of the lease agreement (the part related to pets), and was in compliance with regard to the rest of the lease, the management still successfully evicted him.
As much as I'd like to find a way to settle this once and for all, and as sick as I am of the BS that SCO is inflicting on anyone willing to listen, I have to agree that they probably can't release any of their code. IANAL, so I'm also probably wrong =]
Hmm... where's my LART? Oh, well, nevermind. Look, grumble all you want, but remember that the actions of one school district or other educational institution in no way represents the behavior of all educational institutions. You big dope - you should know better.
As far as we're concerned, computers which are too old to work anymore are pieced together and made into thin clients - go LTSP =] so don't go pointing a wasted tax dollar finger at me bub... I won't do it.
Oh, puh-lease. I probably shouldn't feed the trolls here, but you've laid down a rather nasty insult.
FYI, I'm a sysadmin for a small K-12 school district. We have about 800 computers, and an AD with about 2400 users. I get paid about $20k per year for my efforts, but the beneifts are nice.
I have some ideas about where you should stick your astroturf, but they don't bear mentioning here.
First of all, you've got the people who do media editing... sound/video/still... They are going to continue to shell out the big bucks for the best Apple hardware because it will continue to put them in a competitive advantage over their collegues who need to spend more time every day waiting for numbers to crunch. In the case of this market, the dual G5 will pay for itself quickly, on speed alone.
Then there's the sciences, which if you'd read the article is one of the very things being tested on this monster. I've got a friend who works in bioinformatics, and I can't wait to tell him that BLAST is being compiled for the dual G5. He will curse me as he picks up the phone to call Apple =]
Finally, there's this myth of incompatibility... for your average desktop luser, what applications are important to run? Well, hello, we have the Suite of the Beast, which runs natively, and rather well, on OS X... Exchange connectivity included, thank you very much. What else? Oh, you mean something that doesn't already exist on the unix side and has been ported by the Fink project? Hello? Are you still there?
I was helping a frind of mine to try to save his win98 box from an inevitable wipe-and-reinstall, and I asked him how he liked OS X on his dual-G4. This guy used to flip front-panel switches on PDP-8s for a living (but only when the tape reader was shredding paper), and hasn't left the industry since... I regularly pick his brain on "bigger-picture" type issues, and his ignorance of how to keep his teenaged children from b0rking win98 configs notwithstanding, he really knows his s**t. His reply about OS X:So true. I use and enjoy Linux on my peecee, and have no intention of leaving it behind as an OS - it's still much too useful for me for lots of things - but I have to say, Apple has done a fantastic job with OS X. It is fantastically easy to teach n00bs on, and I have found it to be superb for administering a very heterogenous network consisting of various windoze clients and servers, Apple machines from ][e to current models, and various *nix servers and a few clients... best of all, I can do all this with tools native to OS X - I've got the windoze Remote Desktop Connection, Apple Remote Desktop, and X11 or even Terminal.app for the real work =]
I don't want to sound like a cheerleader, although I admit I've probably done just that. It's just that when you find a really useful tool to get your job done, it's hard not to wax enthusiastic.
I just wish they'd open the friggin' source, or somehow make the codec generically available. Thing is, Quicktime has always been my favorite video player in terms of overall quality. I guess they just like to sit real tight on that gem. Pity.
We're sorry, but you seem to suffer from terminal crabinitis. Please temporarily restrict yourself from posting until you've looked under the couch or wherever it is and found your currently-missing sense of humor.
Personally, when referring to the location of the server, I'd point straight to the floor, but then again that would involve actually thinking. Most people I know point at the roof.
LOL, you're so far from right in this case - I spend much of my work time piecing together old spare parts into useful computers and making them into thin client computers... it's not that I don't know how to do it, but jeez - my 12" powerbook is seriously the most amazing computer I've seen, and it's not an elite machine at $1300 US either. As far as your contention of class warfare is concerned, I need to remind you that you were the one who opened the door with your remark comparing Apples to Jaguars. And I wasn't joking when I said that Macs age more gracefully - I "maintain" a large number of 10-year-old Apple computers which can actually function as stand-alone machines, surf the internet, connect to our fileservers and shared printers, and keep the users happy. 10-year-old PCs are thin clients or landfill. Oh, and "management type" would be a pretty wide stretch for my job title to fill as well. I'm a trench man - Computer Support Specialist to be precise. If I say hardware is good, then that means I see it all the time and never have to hassle with it.
I tinker like mad with my own peecee at home, but that's mainly Quake-related =]
I work for a school district. The week before last, I got a voicemail from a kindergarten teacher complaining that I had brought here a PC, when the software she had was all written for the Mac. Her message was about three minutes long, but overall it went something like this (just repeated a couple of times):I had a talk with the principal at the elemtary school, and between tears we managed to figure out how to get the PCP out of that teacher's classroom and replace it with a much more useful (and safer!) Macintosh instead. I'm thinking of petitioning to have my job title changed - surely I'd qualify for hazard pay as a PCP Support Specialist!
Scroll-Lock, as far as I can see is most useful in activating the KVM switch menu so that I can switch it to another computer.
Oh, man, tell me, did the bad guy's computers have that special program installed that sounds the system bell with each and every keystroke? That'd fit right in there, too, don't you think?
And you didn't find that funny? It's funny - laugh! How the hell else are we supposed to deal with the constant stress of people disparaging our profession and tools because somebody wrote crappy software that our unlarted masses were then expected to operate?
And, for the counterpoint to these, don't miss the Chronicles of George - the real-life helpdesk tickets written by that idiotic tech you always seem to get after spending 45 minutes in the hold queue who is utterly helpless and ends up "escalating" your call back into the hold queue again - if he doesn't accidentally terminate the call instead!
Source of the word "havening" by the way.
Sure, the meta key is that round one on the tower part of the computer that looks like a circle with a line going partway into it. Push that down and then hit the any key and you'll be able to use your iMacs in your computer.
No, it's a sure sign that either someone spends too much time in AOL chat, or they have been using MS Nerd for too long to do text editing (automagically swaps teh/the without bugging you about it).
No doubt - I can't tell you how many times I've had to explain to users that they don't need to enter their username and password into our webmail form in order to "log onto the internet." Or had complaints of a computer "always making this error" but never writing it down - that error message is randomly generated and thus meaningless, after all. And so help me, the next time I have someone point to the monitor and call it the "Computer"...
Oh, wow, they're right... there isn't any "any" key anywhere on my keyboard. I never noticed that - whenever I saw that message on my screen before, I just called my housecat who knows everything about computers and she jumped up on the keyboard and fixed it for me.