The classic emulation environment doesn't work for
everything. My daughter has a ton of games that
she loves that don't work properly in the Classic sandbox.
I understand why Apple wants to do this, but it doesn't encourage me to buy a new box. I'll start moving the games over to the PC where they'll work for the forseeable future.
The only OSX switchers I know are the ones who
have abandoned the Apple platform for Windows. My
mom, a retired EE from Motorola, got tired of
hassles with TurboTax on the Mac and was worried about using a 1.0 port for OSX. She figured she may as well learn Win2k if she's going to have to grapple with a new UI. She was a Mac user since the SE days.
My wife, a graphic designer and longtime Mac user, also hates the UI. The finder doesn't feel right to her, and she forgets about the doc at the bottom. iMovie even hides the doc from you. She started using my Vaio laptop, and she's ready to dump her iMac.
Everyone says the Mac "just works", but the iMac DV she has is cursed with the "sleep
of death". It hangs at boot about one in every ten
times, and it never comes back from sleep states.I just found the fix for it (after assuming it was the hardware controller going out over the last two years), and it's going to involve digging in the extensions and clearing the PRAM. This is no fun, and there's no diagnostic output. I'm just going to have to try a bunch of different combinations that Apple recommends and hope that something works.
My four-year-old daughter cried the first time she saw the new OS and wanted to know what happened to her computer. She still doesn't entirely understand why her games don't work well in OSX, and why she has to reboot into System 9.
I've been a longtime Mac user, and I did a lot of ThinkC and 68000 assembler programming in college. I stopped using Apple machines as my primary desktop when they killed the clones, but I kept maintaining my wife's system. I went out and bought OSX for her when they ported iMovie, mainly for iMovie2. I can't say I'm happy with the interface. I'm a WindowMaker user, so I know where it's coming from, but I constantly forget about the doc and lose my way in the administration app. Aqua looks pretty, but that doesn't make up for the quirky UI. A lot of my Linux-using friends show interest in it, but I can't recommend it to them, especially when Apple charges twice the price of a decent PC for half the computing power.
My guess is that the guys O'Reilly dug up have more money than they know what to do with and really only use their machines to browse the web and fill their iPods. Most were late adopters (though he touts them as "alpha geeks"), which makes me suspicious of their commitment to the platform. My guess is that, a year or so from now the next bit Microsoft marketing campaign will
convince them to switch back to the PC.
Has anyone ever tried getting one of the PCI G3/G4 upgrade cards to work on an x86 motherboard? I'm talking about the Sonnet Crescendo cards, which are reasonably priced, and it seems like you could bypass the need for PPC hardware emulation if you could get an x86 bus to talk to it.
And returned it. I have RSI, and I was hoping to give my hands a rest. I ended up with a neck ache and frustrated by the mouse's quirky behavior.
It bugged me that the mouse was constantly moving around the screen unless I used the mode that hides the cursor. To activate that mode, I had to press a key, so I ended up using the keyboard all the time. It was also hard to control the pointer with any accuracy.
The Track IR is well packaged and the software works, but I wouldn't recommend using one unless you have to.
I *have* to run windows. I'm working on a Swing app that was developed for deployment on Windows and Solaris. In both cases, it works fine, but it has serious UI bugs on Linux with jdk 1.3. The bugs are fixed in 1.4, but until 1.4 is released, I'm trapped on Windows. Cygwin makes the development process bearable, and I'm glad it's there.
Some of the Cygwin people weren't exactly welcoming of the port, either. Check out this post from the Cygwin mailing list when one of the Debian folk approached them with the project. The team that did the port deserves a lot of credit.
Also, if you're looking for more information on Cygwin, don't bother asking the mailing list until you've read the FAQ, manual, and heavily searched the archives for answers to your questions. The lead developers (RedHat employees) are really touchy, and they're more likely to flame you than answer your questions. It's an extremely negative list, IMHO.
Did anyone get Nautilus to work, or does everyone just like the idea? I waited half a day for the thing to download, fired it up, and it was unusably bloody. It didn't seem to offer any improvement over gmc + mozilla. The installer looked nice, but that was about it for me.
From day one it was given that Eazel would die as a business. It's a worse revenue model than Netscape. At most, they could hope that RedHat would buy them up, but RH already has its own gnome team.
If the gnome people could convince the graphic designer from PocketLinux to make a massive set of free icons for gmc, we'd be better of than with Nautilus. PocketLinux is by far the best Linux UI. They should make a desktop version.
When I was a university student working in IT, I got paid. I don't have anything against volunteerism, but universities, at least in the US, are exploitative and don't deserve volunteer help.
I'd attribute it to decompression problems, except that Phil G. has been spouting this nonsense for years. I had been mildly interested in ArsDigita for a while, but his anti-family stance turned me away. I'm surprised nobody has slapped an EOE lawsuit on the man. He's doing his company a serious disservice by promoting it this way.
I'm working at home part time as a consultant, and
my wife is staying home as well. It's ideal, but we're making some sacrifices to offer almost all of our time to our kid. I just had lunch with my
family and played chess with my daughter (she's
almost 3) afterward. We don't have a car, we've
cut back on how much we eat out, and I'm using
Celeron 500s, but it's worth it.
We just recently looked at what has to be one of
the best daycare centers in America, the feeder
preschool to St. Anne's prep in Brooklyn. The kids
were learning about Monet and had iMacs to play
with. But, they all looked tired, dazed, and
generally bored. Though the place was well
staffed, there's still only so many hugs to go
around, and there was only one male instructor.
The instructors there were highly qualified, but
in general, how much return do you really expect
to get for $7/hour?
Some kids like the interaction, and by three or
so many are ready for it. The four-year-olds were
doing much better. Nonetheless, nobody can provide
more love, attention, and affection for your child
than you can. I particularly liked that post
that said the first six years are the most
important, so choose your daycare wisely. The
first three are critical, and you have to be
there most of the time. A few hours a day of
daycare may be necessary to save your sanity,
but your kid will suffer it you let someone
else raise them.
If an employer provides daycare, it would be a
step in the right direction, especially for
older kids that need attention after school.
But, that sort of deal really needs to be
coupled with full employer respect for our
outside lives. This benefits
both the childfree and parents. We need to
return to the 40-hour work week. Greenspun
should go back to the decompression chamber
for a little longer.
One of the best ways to spend more time with
your young child is to go back to school for
a cushy degree. I'm planning to get my MBA when
I have my next kid.
The family farm argument is real. My parents own a farm in Iowa that's been in the family for a couple generations. We no longer work it, and it's tended entirely by the neighbors. We split the profit. Anyway, my mom is getting older, and she does the numbers on it regularly. It's not a big farm by any measure, but it will require some selling off to be passed along to me and my brother.
With that said, I still support the inheritance tax. I'm doing well enough that the farm money is moot. Bill G's kid will have so many advantages, the billions will be moot as well. Look at George Jr. He's going to inherit the White House. For that matter, look at Al Gore. He inherited the Senate.
The dis on Nader is totally unfair. If Nader was elected, he'd put a lot more left leaning justices in the Supreme Court than Clinton's right-of-center, weak on personal privacy and search and seizure puppets. Bush may be an idiot, but Gore is an evil genius who will have us all wearing "national health" barcodes before he's done.
Besides, the biggest threat to our "diamond" "democracy" isn't the inheritance tax. It's the complete collapse of our public schools. The poor and middle class are being shafted, and the last chance for meritocracy is being stripped away.
Don't even get me started on H1Bs. Both parties hate labor in this country.
I just set up port forwarding on my boss' Linux box while he was at lunch. Now I can dl using his IP, while he's sitting at his desk. Once his name is on the Wall of Shame, he can kiss his career goodbye, not to mention his wife and kids.
Someone should set up a communist Wall of Shame with Mao jpgs so I can make sure he never gets a security clearance again.
Oracle 8.1.5 isn't impossible to install at all. I've been using it for three months on a daily basis for PL/SQL development.
The installer is badly broken, but if you're a little creative, it's easy to get it going.
BTW, I was ready to start ArsDigita's psets and set up an interview, but your "ArsDigita is just not a very fun place to work for people who want to have an easy life, weekends with the kids" comment in the original/. thread turned me away.
I'm not so concerned with an easy life, but time with my daughter is a necessity, not a luxury. I found it strange that someone who values time with his dogs so highly can be disparaging of those who value time with their children.
I submitted this to ArsTechnica instead of /. ...
on
Super Tiny Espresso PC
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· Score: 4
because/. has been so lame lately. That AskJeeves thing has been around for days.
You know where I found the Espresso? I found it in an ad in this month's Computer Shopper.
ArsTechnica has posted three out of the last four things I've sent them./. hasn't posted any of my story suggestions, and given their preference for reruns, I didn't even bother.
Rack up the hits, ArsTechnica. You've earned them!
This is not a troll, it's a genuine complaint./.'s overall quality has sucked hard lately.
> ArsDigita is just not a very fun place to work for people who want to have an easy life, weekends with the kids, etc. > A guy with an MD or a mother returning to the workforce after a bunch of years home with some kids might not want to subscribe to our brand of fanaticism.
The guy was pretty clear about what he wants, but/.ers never read the question. Sure, he said he wanted the best, but the reference to the TRV103 and eMachine says it all. He's obviously not high end. Odds are, he'll never use the thing once he buys it, since he didn't bother to do 10 minutes of research and answer all the questions he had. If he's not serious enough to do basic product research, he probably won't need anything more than iMovie.
I'd say he should get an iMac DV until he decides whether or not he's really going to use the thing. I know people who went out and spent $500 on the Raptor and never bothered to take it out of the box. It's overkill for the average non-video person.
I bought my wife an iMac and a TRV103, and she's already made movies suitable for sending to the grandparents. She was up and going instantly. She also noticed the limitations of iMovie pretty quickly. However, this guy won't notice. He probably wants to shoot the next Star Wars, but he'll end up just playing Bugdom and browsing.
I realized this potential last week, and set up an mp3/webstation of the gods. I have my laptop connected to my server via the Aviator cards, and my laptop is hooked up to my stereo in the living room. The drivers worked out of the box for both the ISA card and the PCMCIA cards.
I already had the laptop and server machine, so the total cost was under $150 -- less than a dedicated mp3/DVD player. I got the cards from buy.com, and I used a $10 new buyer discount.
The only problem I'm facing right now is slight mp3 skipping. I'm NFS mounting the mp3 directory, which isn't ideal, but I needed it for a party last weekend. It would work flawlessly if there was some modest buffering in xmms file playback. I'd use a streaming server, except it isn't particularly flexible, and the 2Mbyte connection can't handle NAS. Time for an input plugin to XMMS.
In the meantime, if anyone has some ideas for optimizing nfs for large file access on a relatively lossy network, please post them.
Carter was a tool of the Trilateral Commission. With Carter, the TriLats first tested the highly successful "Honest Bumpkin from the South" strategy that eventually brought Clinton to power.
I don't think anyone has mentioned this, but isn't it a bad sign that VA is investing in Andover anyway? VA should be using its $$$ to grow their linux solutions business, not get into content. Even if they don't touch Andover, it doesn't make sense. It's not like Andover has the potential to pull in a lot of cash, and there's 0 synergy between the two companies. That tells me that VA doesn't know what to do with its money, which in turn suggests that they won't grow or scale well. They should be looking for strategic investments, not places to tuck away the cash, especially in content. Salon, which has much better writers, was nearly laughed out of the market when it tried to IPO, and/. is really the same animal aside from Linux hype. Content may be highly visible, but it's not a money-maker.
As far as/. goes, this site is brain candy. They don't even bother with copy editors like a decent content house./. will be gone in a flash when someone figures out how to really write about open source software, not just link to other people's stories.
It's pretty weak of Slashdot to promote MPAA-member products while other sites are taking the legal heat for promoting open source code. Slashdot should keep its ads at the top of the page.
I love Tucson, and the university has a good reputation (much better than mine, AZ State), but their CS program is really new. I remember wanting to go there in the late 80s for my bachelor's, and they didn't have an undergrad CS program yet. You had to do EE. Then again, what do I know, I went to ASU. Don't even consider ASU.
For those who are unfamiliar with the Russian language and Soviet history, "Soviet" does not mean "teacher". Quoting straight from Lagenscheidt: COBET advice, counsel; council, board. A soviet was a governing council. It had nothing to do with teaching or the role of government before true Communism. Read some Pipes. Bozhe.
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I understand why Apple wants to do this, but it doesn't encourage me to buy a new box. I'll start moving the games over to the PC where they'll work for the forseeable future.
My wife, a graphic designer and longtime Mac user, also hates the UI. The finder doesn't feel right to her, and she forgets about the doc at the bottom. iMovie even hides the doc from you. She started using my Vaio laptop, and she's ready to dump her iMac.
Everyone says the Mac "just works", but the iMac DV she has is cursed with the "sleep of death". It hangs at boot about one in every ten times, and it never comes back from sleep states.I just found the fix for it (after assuming it was the hardware controller going out over the last two years), and it's going to involve digging in the extensions and clearing the PRAM. This is no fun, and there's no diagnostic output. I'm just going to have to try a bunch of different combinations that Apple recommends and hope that something works.
My four-year-old daughter cried the first time she saw the new OS and wanted to know what happened to her computer. She still doesn't entirely understand why her games don't work well in OSX, and why she has to reboot into System 9.
I've been a longtime Mac user, and I did a lot of ThinkC and 68000 assembler programming in college. I stopped using Apple machines as my primary desktop when they killed the clones, but I kept maintaining my wife's system. I went out and bought OSX for her when they ported iMovie, mainly for iMovie2. I can't say I'm happy with the interface. I'm a WindowMaker user, so I know where it's coming from, but I constantly forget about the doc and lose my way in the administration app. Aqua looks pretty, but that doesn't make up for the quirky UI. A lot of my Linux-using friends show interest in it, but I can't recommend it to them, especially when Apple charges twice the price of a decent PC for half the computing power.
My guess is that the guys O'Reilly dug up have more money than they know what to do with and really only use their machines to browse the web and fill their iPods. Most were late adopters (though he touts them as "alpha geeks"), which makes me suspicious of their commitment to the platform. My guess is that, a year or so from now the next bit Microsoft marketing campaign will convince them to switch back to the PC.
Has anyone ever tried getting one of the
PCI G3/G4 upgrade cards to work on an x86
motherboard? I'm talking about the Sonnet
Crescendo cards, which are reasonably priced,
and it seems like you could bypass the need for
PPC hardware emulation if you could get an
x86 bus to talk to it.
And returned it. I have RSI, and I was hoping to give my hands a rest. I ended up with a neck ache and frustrated by the mouse's quirky behavior.
It bugged me that the mouse was constantly moving around the screen unless I used the mode that hides the cursor. To activate that mode, I had to press a key, so I ended up using the keyboard all the time. It was also hard to control the pointer with any accuracy.
The Track IR is well packaged and the software works, but I wouldn't recommend using one unless you have to.
Some of the Cygwin people weren't exactly welcoming of the port, either. Check out this post from the Cygwin mailing list when one of the Debian folk approached them with the project. The team that did the port deserves a lot of credit.
Also, if you're looking for more information on Cygwin, don't bother asking the mailing list until you've read the FAQ, manual, and heavily searched the archives for answers to your questions. The lead developers (RedHat employees) are really touchy, and they're more likely to flame you than answer your questions. It's an extremely negative list, IMHO.
Did anyone get Nautilus to work, or does everyone just like the idea? I waited half a day for the thing to download, fired it up, and it was unusably bloody. It didn't seem to offer any improvement over gmc + mozilla. The installer looked nice, but that was about it for me. From day one it was given that Eazel would die as a business. It's a worse revenue model than Netscape. At most, they could hope that RedHat would buy them up, but RH already has its own gnome team. If the gnome people could convince the graphic designer from PocketLinux to make a massive set of free icons for gmc, we'd be better of than with Nautilus. PocketLinux is by far the best Linux UI. They should make a desktop version.
When I was a university student working in IT, I got paid. I don't have anything against volunteerism, but universities, at least in the US, are exploitative and don't deserve volunteer help.
We just recently looked at what has to be one of the best daycare centers in America, the feeder preschool to St. Anne's prep in Brooklyn. The kids were learning about Monet and had iMacs to play with. But, they all looked tired, dazed, and generally bored. Though the place was well staffed, there's still only so many hugs to go around, and there was only one male instructor. The instructors there were highly qualified, but in general, how much return do you really expect to get for $7/hour?
Some kids like the interaction, and by three or so many are ready for it. The four-year-olds were doing much better. Nonetheless, nobody can provide more love, attention, and affection for your child than you can. I particularly liked that post that said the first six years are the most important, so choose your daycare wisely. The first three are critical, and you have to be there most of the time. A few hours a day of daycare may be necessary to save your sanity, but your kid will suffer it you let someone else raise them.
If an employer provides daycare, it would be a step in the right direction, especially for older kids that need attention after school. But, that sort of deal really needs to be coupled with full employer respect for our outside lives. This benefits both the childfree and parents. We need to return to the 40-hour work week. Greenspun should go back to the decompression chamber for a little longer. One of the best ways to spend more time with your young child is to go back to school for a cushy degree. I'm planning to get my MBA when I have my next kid.
I'm voting for Ralph Nader, and the fundamental reason I'm voting for him is because I'm a Subgenius.
When the revolution comes, poor spellers will be weeding rice paddies with their toes.
The family farm argument is real. My parents own a farm in Iowa that's been in the family for a couple generations. We no longer work it, and it's tended entirely by the neighbors. We split the profit. Anyway, my mom is getting older, and she does the numbers on it regularly. It's not a big farm by any measure, but it will require some selling off to be passed along to me and my brother. With that said, I still support the inheritance tax. I'm doing well enough that the farm money is moot. Bill G's kid will have so many advantages, the billions will be moot as well. Look at George Jr. He's going to inherit the White House. For that matter, look at Al Gore. He inherited the Senate. The dis on Nader is totally unfair. If Nader was elected, he'd put a lot more left leaning justices in the Supreme Court than Clinton's right-of-center, weak on personal privacy and search and seizure puppets. Bush may be an idiot, but Gore is an evil genius who will have us all wearing "national health" barcodes before he's done. Besides, the biggest threat to our "diamond" "democracy" isn't the inheritance tax. It's the complete collapse of our public schools. The poor and middle class are being shafted, and the last chance for meritocracy is being stripped away. Don't even get me started on H1Bs. Both parties hate labor in this country.
Someone should set up a communist Wall of Shame with Mao jpgs so I can make sure he never gets a security clearance again.
The installer is badly broken, but if you're a little creative, it's easy to get it going.
BTW, I was ready to start ArsDigita's psets and set up an interview, but your "ArsDigita is just not a very fun place to work for people who want to have an easy life, weekends with the kids" comment in the original /. thread turned me away.
I'm not so concerned with an easy life, but time with my daughter is a necessity, not a luxury. I found it strange that someone who values time with his dogs so highly can be disparaging of those who value time with their children.
story. News for nerds. Whatever.
You know where I found the Espresso? I found it in an ad in this month's Computer Shopper.
ArsTechnica has posted three out of the last four things I've sent them. /. hasn't posted any of my story suggestions, and given their preference for reruns, I didn't even bother.
Rack up the hits, ArsTechnica. You've earned them!
This is not a troll, it's a genuine complaint. /.'s overall quality has sucked hard lately.
You heard it second at /.!
> A guy with an MD or a mother returning to the workforce after a bunch of years home with some kids might not want to subscribe to our brand of fanaticism.
Does this mean ArsDigita is not an EOE?
I'd say he should get an iMac DV until he decides whether or not he's really going to use the thing. I know people who went out and spent $500 on the Raptor and never bothered to take it out of the box. It's overkill for the average non-video person.
I bought my wife an iMac and a TRV103, and she's already made movies suitable for sending to the grandparents. She was up and going instantly. She also noticed the limitations of iMovie pretty quickly. However, this guy won't notice. He probably wants to shoot the next Star Wars, but he'll end up just playing Bugdom and browsing.
Does VA Linux own a share in this company?
I already had the laptop and server machine, so the total cost was under $150 -- less than a dedicated mp3/DVD player. I got the cards from buy.com, and I used a $10 new buyer discount.
The only problem I'm facing right now is slight mp3 skipping. I'm NFS mounting the mp3 directory, which isn't ideal, but I needed it for a party last weekend. It would work flawlessly if there was some modest buffering in xmms file playback. I'd use a streaming server, except it isn't particularly flexible, and the 2Mbyte connection can't handle NAS. Time for an input plugin to XMMS.
In the meantime, if anyone has some ideas for optimizing nfs for large file access on a relatively lossy network, please post them.
Vote for McCain, the Manchurian Candidate.
Why are /. advertisers leaving cookies?
As far as /. goes, this site is brain candy. They don't even bother with copy editors like a decent content house. /. will be gone in a flash when someone figures out how to really write about open source software, not just link to other people's stories.
It's pretty weak of Slashdot to promote MPAA-member products while other sites are taking the legal heat for promoting open source code. Slashdot should keep its ads at the top of the page.
I love Tucson, and the university has a good reputation (much better than mine, AZ State), but their CS program is really new. I remember wanting to go there in the late 80s for my bachelor's, and they didn't have an undergrad CS program yet. You had to do EE. Then again, what do I know, I went to ASU. Don't even consider ASU.
For those who are unfamiliar with the Russian language and Soviet history, "Soviet" does not mean "teacher". Quoting straight from Lagenscheidt: COBET advice, counsel; council, board. A soviet was a governing council. It had nothing to do with teaching or the role of government before true Communism. Read some Pipes. Bozhe.