Yes, but in-kernel drivers get the updates before the release, making them "Just Work" with kernel upgrades, whereas I have to mess about with every n'th kernel upgrade because it's broken my NVidia install. (At the very least, I have to recompile the damn thing:)
Hear, hear. My fourth Logic Board in my G3 800MHz just died (a few months out of warranty). I rang Apple and they've agreed to repair it, but won't make any promises about how long it'll last. (#1 lasted ~20 months, #2-4 lasted ~6mo apiece).
Guy I spoke to on the phone denied it was a widespread problem, and claimed it was a problem with a single batch of laptops.
'cos that would explain the two years plus the faulty run went from, and the continued failing of new boards...
Anyway, I just wished I'd pushed the point more before. I'd only complained to NextByte (the reseller) after board #3, not Apple, so Apple have no record of any complaint (and thus I'm bringing it up too late, since I'm out of warranty).
Grr.
(If I haven't offended you with my rant, I'm currently writing a letter to Apple HQ; if you have any hints or useful info I can point to, I'd much appreciate it. Mail it to slashdot at mibus dot org - thanks!).
If you're not playing games the open source nv drivers will work fine for you [hint: I use it on my workstation].
I don't get the option - I have two monitors, and (unless it's changed since I installed) you can't do the TwinView stuff with the free driver. (QuadroFX 500).
I also run Blender from time-to-time, so 3d accel is quite useful...
You generate a public/private key pair on your computer. You send the public key to the admin of the server, who installs it for your account on that server. When you try to connect, instead of passing along a password, you pass along a "login" message digitally signed/encrypted using your private key. The server can use your public key to verify that it's really you.
It's like PGP/GnuPG, but for user accounts instead of people.
I have a Win98 install that is working pretty fine. It's been through some tough times (motherboard upgrade, for one - CPU went 700MHz up to 1.4GHz along with it).
Oh, and it's an original install, late '98 / early '99. Not even SE...
There are a whole bunch of antiquated apps I really wouldn't want to have to reinstall and configure (most of them are for my father, not me).
It currently tri-boots Linux/98/XP, 98 as the default; theoretically you can go through 98's boot loader back to DOS 6.2/Win3.11, but it hasn't been tested in many years.
Only thing not working IIRC is that you can't install the ACPI drivers; old mobo was APM and would power-off on shutdown, new mobo is ACPI and won't without the drivers. Driver install causes a spontaneous reboot before it's finished.
Over the past 12 months, the box has been used increasingly for Linux, with XP moving into second place over 98. I guess it's time to consider changing boot defaults...
> Since when was C considered a low-level language?
I wondered about that myself. I think it must have been about the same time people started calling VAX/VMS and UNIX machines "mainframes".
I tend to assume the person talking is very young or extremely ignorant when I hear that kind of stuff...
I'm fairly young (23), but I've got to agree. I usually consider anything that needs manual memory handling is at least moderately low-level. So few people use assembly these days, and there's not many languages that fit between asm and C... C is much closer to the metal than Java or Python (malloc? What's that?;), which is what he was comparing it to.
Just because you disagree doesn't make anyone ignorant - the definition's just shifting with the technology. I'm sure at some point any language where you can explicitly buffer for I/O will be considered "low-level":)
I have a '98 install from not long after it was released. Still used moderately regularly, though there are a few things broken. eg, installing ACPI drivers just resets the machine (during the install!), but the motherboard was upgraded and doesn't seem to support APM, just ACPI. So, no suspend or auto-shutdown or anything.
The URL is not unusual, BTW, digg auto-replaces many characters with underscores.
I think the point was that digg wouldn'tve known to put a "?" in the page name if not for the fact that there *had* been an article there once. Otherwise the _ could have been any other special character.
Then how do you explain all the people like Linus who run Linux on Apple hardware?
I bought an iBook to run Linux; I hadn't considered it until I saw someone else doing it. Turned out to be a brilliant choice - smaller and cheaper than all the PC laptops I looked at at the time.
It's getting a bit long in the tooth though (3 years). One day I'll be able to fork out for a replacement:)
However when you get dynamic, XUL really shines. People go on about AJAX, but XUL offers a huge amount of potential.
The MAB is the only non-Mozilla.org XUL-based tool anyone seems to mention. Are there many others? I also think it has great potential from what I've seen, but the lack of applications after all of this time seems odd...
A related issue is the monthly limit on total bytes transferred with my cable company TOS. I wouldn't mind it, if only they provided a meter on their website somewhere where I could see how much I had left for the month. Without that, I am just guessing and hoping they don't get strict on me all of a sudden. I know I could build a system to track it myself using iptables - but haven't got around to it yet.
My (DSL) ISP not only provides a web page to get at that information, plus historical data, broken down day-by-day if you want it, they also provide a means for mini-apps (systray apps, panel apps, etc.) to access it if you ask them nicely enough. (There are a number of GPL'd apps, I'd say it's worked well for them).
With everything they do, I consider them a good "geek's ISP" for my area.
The memory/CPU hog is the biggest and most blatent issue of FireFox, and nothing else should be done until the problem is at least identified.
I think that's a bit of an over-simplification. It's the biggest issue for you, and undoubtedly for a number of others - but to say that nothing else should be done until it's fixed is a stretch.
It should be given a fair priority, in the context of all of the bugs outstanding. (FWIW, I know a huge number of FF users, none have seen this problem AFAICT). There are currently 21 "blocker" bugs, a few of them are outright crashes - eg #296298, which is a crash-on-startup that's been around for six months, even with a pair of stack traces.
From a quick search in Bugzilla, it seems likely to me that there are several separate problems (many to do with Flash, Java, and suspending laptops) that are causing most of the CPU issues. (No wonder there's a hell of a time trying to narrow down problems...)
There are 38 open critical or blocker bugs assigned to FF1.5 (I haven't checked the trunk). Having all of the FF developers focus on one problem and do nothing else will not gain you anything, but will certainly lose out time to fix other problems.
I tried to take a photo inside the train station, a security guard came up and gave me a hard time...
Me: "I just want to take a photo" Him: "You can't" Me: "..." Him: "It's a public place, you can't take a photo" Me: "That's silly" Him: "No it isn't, I don't know who you are working for" Me: "I'm on my honeymoon..." Him: "If you try to take another photo without approval from [some bigwig] then I'm going to take your camera" Me: [Leaves and switches to using phone-camera]
I'd thought my story was unique and (kinda) amusing, looks like it's not...
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, but in-kernel drivers get the updates before the release, making them "Just Work" with kernel upgrades, whereas I have to mess about with every n'th kernel upgrade because it's broken my NVidia install. (At the very least, I have to recompile the damn thing :)
Flash support is readily available as a browser plugin
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Yeah, except Flash 7 is all you get until 2007:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/archives/2006/
I fairly frequently receive Flash 8 stuff that is unusuable in 7.
Apple's biggest problems are the iBooks.
Hear, hear. My fourth Logic Board in my G3 800MHz just died (a few months out of warranty). I rang Apple and they've agreed to repair it, but won't make any promises about how long it'll last. (#1 lasted ~20 months, #2-4 lasted ~6mo apiece).
Guy I spoke to on the phone denied it was a widespread problem, and claimed it was a problem with a single batch of laptops.
'cos that would explain the two years plus the faulty run went from, and the continued failing of new boards...
Anyway, I just wished I'd pushed the point more before. I'd only complained to NextByte (the reseller) after board #3, not Apple, so Apple have no record of any complaint (and thus I'm bringing it up too late, since I'm out of warranty).
Grr.
(If I haven't offended you with my rant, I'm currently writing a letter to Apple HQ; if you have any hints or useful info I can point to, I'd much appreciate it. Mail it to slashdot at mibus dot org - thanks!).
Open source drivers would be nice, but the fact is that NV's drivers Just Plain Work.
It's not that unfrequent IMHO that new kernel releases break NV's wrapper...
If you're not playing games the open source nv drivers will work fine for you [hint: I use it on my workstation].
I don't get the option - I have two monitors, and (unless it's changed since I installed) you can't do the TwinView stuff with the free driver. (QuadroFX 500).
I also run Blender from time-to-time, so 3d accel is quite useful...
It's a public-key encryption system.
You generate a public/private key pair on your computer. You send the public key to the admin of the server, who installs it for your account on that server. When you try to connect, instead of passing along a password, you pass along a "login" message digitally signed/encrypted using your private key. The server can use your public key to verify that it's really you.
It's like PGP/GnuPG, but for user accounts instead of people.
Schools have few more "rights" than babysitters.
Kinda makes sense given the way education is moving.
YouOS is just sounds like a rip off of eyeOS.
I still haven't seen AyOS, EYos, or OhOS...
I have a Win98 install that is working pretty fine. It's been through some tough times (motherboard upgrade, for one - CPU went 700MHz up to 1.4GHz along with it).
Oh, and it's an original install, late '98 / early '99. Not even SE...
There are a whole bunch of antiquated apps I really wouldn't want to have to reinstall and configure (most of them are for my father, not me).
It currently tri-boots Linux/98/XP, 98 as the default; theoretically you can go through 98's boot loader back to DOS 6.2/Win3.11, but it hasn't been tested in many years.
Only thing not working IIRC is that you can't install the ACPI drivers; old mobo was APM and would power-off on shutdown, new mobo is ACPI and won't without the drivers. Driver install causes a spontaneous reboot before it's finished.
Over the past 12 months, the box has been used increasingly for Linux, with XP moving into second place over 98. I guess it's time to consider changing boot defaults...
Turning in, only when asked by the authorities. (At least, so said Gandhi :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
> Since when was C considered a low-level language?
;), which is what he was comparing it to.
:)
I wondered about that myself. I think it must have been about the same time people started calling VAX/VMS and UNIX machines "mainframes".
I tend to assume the person talking is very young or extremely ignorant when I hear that kind of stuff...
I'm fairly young (23), but I've got to agree. I usually consider anything that needs manual memory handling is at least moderately low-level. So few people use assembly these days, and there's not many languages that fit between asm and C... C is much closer to the metal than Java or Python (malloc? What's that?
Just because you disagree doesn't make anyone ignorant - the definition's just shifting with the technology. I'm sure at some point any language where you can explicitly buffer for I/O will be considered "low-level"
I have a '98 install from not long after it was released. Still used moderately regularly, though there are a few things broken. eg, installing ACPI drivers just resets the machine (during the install!), but the motherboard was upgraded and doesn't seem to support APM, just ACPI. So, no suspend or auto-shutdown or anything.
Still works, though.
The URL is not unusual, BTW, digg auto-replaces many characters with underscores.
I think the point was that digg wouldn'tve known to put a "?" in the page name if not for the fact that there *had* been an article there once. Otherwise the _ could have been any other special character.
Then how do you explain all the people like Linus who run Linux on Apple hardware?
:)
I bought an iBook to run Linux; I hadn't considered it until I saw someone else doing it. Turned out to be a brilliant choice - smaller and cheaper than all the PC laptops I looked at at the time.
It's getting a bit long in the tooth though (3 years). One day I'll be able to fork out for a replacement
Ask my boss.... He needs it in 5.
:)
If I'm asked to do something, I often ask when it's needed - "today" or "yesterday".
updatedb does the whole system. Beagle will only index your home dir.
Beagle is also run per-user, and requires per-user configuration (albeit minimal).
Harry Seldon would have predicted it. ...and Preem Palver would have made sure it happened :)
I had my second a couple of weeks ago... yeah, your sleep goes out of the window!
;)
My body - unlike my wife's - retaliates by having a deeper sleep; most of the time she can't even wake me to help during the night
However when you get dynamic, XUL really shines. People go on about AJAX, but XUL offers a huge amount of potential.
The MAB is the only non-Mozilla.org XUL-based tool anyone seems to mention. Are there many others? I also think it has great potential from what I've seen, but the lack of applications after all of this time seems odd...
A related issue is the monthly limit on total bytes transferred with my cable company TOS. I wouldn't mind it, if only they provided a meter on their website somewhere where I could see how much I had left for the month. Without that, I am just guessing and hoping they don't get strict on me all of a sudden. I know I could build a system to track it myself using iptables - but haven't got around to it yet.
My (DSL) ISP not only provides a web page to get at that information, plus historical data, broken down day-by-day if you want it, they also provide a means for mini-apps (systray apps, panel apps, etc.) to access it if you ask them nicely enough. (There are a number of GPL'd apps, I'd say it's worked well for them).
With everything they do, I consider them a good "geek's ISP" for my area.
The memory/CPU hog is the biggest and most blatent issue of FireFox, and nothing else should be done until the problem is at least identified.
I think that's a bit of an over-simplification. It's the biggest issue for you, and undoubtedly for a number of others - but to say that nothing else should be done until it's fixed is a stretch.
It should be given a fair priority, in the context of all of the bugs outstanding. (FWIW, I know a huge number of FF users, none have seen this problem AFAICT). There are currently 21 "blocker" bugs, a few of them are outright crashes - eg #296298, which is a crash-on-startup that's been around for six months, even with a pair of stack traces.
From a quick search in Bugzilla, it seems likely to me that there are several separate problems (many to do with Flash, Java, and suspending laptops) that are causing most of the CPU issues. (No wonder there's a hell of a time trying to narrow down problems...)
There are 38 open critical or blocker bugs assigned to FF1.5 (I haven't checked the trunk). Having all of the FF developers focus on one problem and do nothing else will not gain you anything, but will certainly lose out time to fix other problems.
I had a similar issue on my honeymoon in Sydney.
I tried to take a photo inside the train station, a security guard came up and gave me a hard time...
Me: "I just want to take a photo"
Him: "You can't"
Me: "..."
Him: "It's a public place, you can't take a photo"
Me: "That's silly"
Him: "No it isn't, I don't know who you are working for"
Me: "I'm on my honeymoon..."
Him: "If you try to take another photo without approval from [some bigwig] then I'm going to take your camera"
Me: [Leaves and switches to using phone-camera]
I'd thought my story was unique and (kinda) amusing, looks like it's not...
apparently there are no plans to make the James Webb Space Telescope serviceable from orbit.
:).
It would be rather hard, it's being put in the L2 Lagrangian point (1.5 million km's from Earth
You missed part of my quote - "(Or so he said ;)". :)
for the record, I like it. I think there should be more direct communicaiton to your readers like this.
:)
QFA!