So you went to these Apple Store sessions and the Mac geniuses weren't able to point you to Stuffit (which comes pre-installed on Macs) as a Winzip replacement (get Stuffit Deluxe for the context menus) and BBEdit (Lite) as a (free) Textpad replacement? Dear lord... please, please - do yourself a favor and look harder next time!!
For those not aware of this, it is possible to use this CSS method of blocking ads to block Flash advertisements.. arguably, the most annoying. Try something like so:
As you find Flash ads that aren't blocked, just add another entry for the size of ad you're seeing... in my CSS, I have at least 8-10 such entries. Common sizes are:
No, but at 12 years of age, I wouldn't likely set out on my own, ya know!:) I, too, will soon be moving out of the midwest, in all liklihood... I got close a year or so ago - almost got to Seattle, but things didn't quite work out. Soon, though... soon.
Brice, work hard to convince mom & dad to move out of the Midwest... at least to the southwest, northwest, or abroad. That way, you'll have a chance of making GOOD money AND working on interesting projects for a long amount of time.
Your problems with Wells Fargo (as I'm sure you've realized) aren't isolated. I have a student loan through Wells Fargo (out of school now, so I'm just paying it off) and I had electronic funds transfer enabled to my checking account. I checked my Chicago Bank One account online one day to notice a debit of almost $500 to my account - from a check. I called asking about it, got a copy of the check in the mail - lo and behold, it was an EFS check from Wells Fargo with some lady's address from California, posted to my account. The mistake was clearly on Wells Fargo's part, since the routing & acct. number on the check were mine, but the name was someone else... Bank One accepted the check on those grounds. It took over 2.5 months working with Bank One and filing fraud charges, signing papers, going to notaries and various other things, to finally get that money back... Bank One wasn't all that great about it, either, so now I'm with a different bank entirely.
Software doesn't absolutely have to come with source. Most people don't think it *has* to, they simply prefer the software that *does*. Just as joe consumer might prefer purchasing the vehicle that comes *with* the service manual over the one that comes without.
I realize you're trying to troll the typical Slashdot crowd, but even so, your argument holds no water.
Cocoa apps have quite a few 'hooks' enabled by virtue of being Cocoa apps, don't they? Thought I'd read in Apple docs that this was a feature of developing your app in Cocoa v. Carbon...
I'm not sure about that. One cannot use Elcomsoft's software to crack an illegally obtained eBook or to facilitate the illegal distribution of a cracked eBook, but - if one were to legally purchase an eBook and use Elcomsoft's software to convert the eBook into a PDF to view in otherwise incompatible viewers, for personal use only (not to be shared), then I believe that would be legit, since it is not legal for content copyright holders to prevent the user from personal use of the copyrighted materials.
IANAL, but I would define commercial use as the opposite of "public use" - as a gov't. entity, everything you do is in serving the public good, which would be the antithesis of commercial use. I've seen commercial use defined as "if your entity's domain name ends in.com" - which is reasonable in most cases. This is how ncftpd licenses their FTP server, for instance (last I checked) - it'll work without a license if your domain is.edu or.org - basically anything other than.com (I believe that includes.gov).
Don't worry, this happens with SCSI RAID as well. My brother is a sysadmin for a few large servers and has mostly Dell PowerEdge system with their various PERC controllers - he recently had each of six drives in an array fail in sequence with no indication of any failure to the drive (s.m.a.r.t. or otherwise). Dell came out and replaced backplanes, cables, drives - all sorts of things, and nothing appeared to help... sometimes when a drive failed, the controller would lose its configuration along with it... sometimes that configuration wasn't able to be restored from the first sectors of the drives in the array, as it should be - and EVERY time a drive failed, the OS (SCO Open Server, I believe) would freeze and cause a lengthy fsck on reboot, and usually a fair amount of data corruption. Restores from tape were frequent and lengthy. I finally suggested he enable journaling on the SCO box, which is an option with its FS, and that helped with the fsck - but the fact remained that just having SCSI RAID doesn't shield you from some pretty serious failures.
Cheers.
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In response to everyone saying that the 'new' diesel engines are no longer noisy - bull. My father recently purchased a 2002 Jetta TDI and I've had the opportunity to drive it on occasion, when he's come to visit. I have a '99 Honda Prelude and when its at idle, you don't hear it - well, maybe in a closed garage, but not outside just standing next to it. I'd say that the diesel is easily 5-10 dB louder as it is certainly noticeable when it is idling.
Cheers.
How about complaining to the developers of the existing Windows/Mac software and requesting that they support other, less expensive, operating systems? Asking the OSS community to do something in particular goes against the way the community works, which is a volunteer effort. If you know of some folks that have the necessary skills to put together this type of software - by all means, ask them to volunteer some time and develop Open Source software to this end.
In the meantime, it is NOT the OSS community's responsibility to supply every sort of software for free - there's absolutely nothing stopping a software development company from developing this type of software, given demand for it. It is up to YOU and others like YOU to create this demand, of course.
... unfortunately, I might add. Roaming profiles is an underappreciated feature, it appears. Its incredibly simple to setup w/ NS 4.7+Apache+mod_roaming and works like a charm. Even for my small company (2-7 employees at any given time), roaming profiles provides a lot of flexibility, especially when moving around between machines, which I, personally, often do. Its also great for recovering settings after configurations get corrupted - that's come in handy quite a few times.
Just an FYI - the CNet article (linked above) talks about its possible use on oil rigs - that type of mapping usually takes some horsepower and as usual, anything that is sea-based will be somewhat cramped for space!
The charge a bit less, too - or a bit more. It all depends on how many movies you want to have out at a time. We used to have the 'six-out-at-a-time' plan, for $29.99, I believe (the $20/mo. is for 4 out at a time). Now we have 2 out at a time (watching fewer movies) and are paying ~$14/mo. No late fees, no due dates, for that matter. Not a bad service. Decent selection of DVDs, too - especially if you're the mainstream type. Even if not, they have a decent selection of indie/foreign films.
It all depends on what you're doing and how much you're doing of it. At work, I have a Dell Optiplex GX150 with a 1GHz PIII processor, if I'm not mistaken. This system has 256MB of RAM and runs Win2K SP3.
Typically, if I have 4 apps open (Outlook, SciTE*, Phoenix or Moz, PuTTY*) - when I launch IE, its unbearably slow - the screen redraws visibly and the system is generally unresponsive for the ~5 seconds it takes IE to launch. Not sure what causes this - 256MB of RAM is obviously part of the problem, but the swap file shouldn't be that slow, either.
Recently (this past Tues.) I was at home working on a few different things - ripping CDs to AIFF w/ Audion 3.0.2 (in batch mode), backing up 10GB of data from a ~19GB partition on a FW drive to a 8x4x32 CD-RW in an external FW enclosure (Dantz Retrospect Express), editing PHP files in BBEdit (6.5.2), updating site files in Dreamweaver MX whenever my partner needed something updated, checking mail via Chimera/Mozilla using Horde/IMP (web mail access), maintaining a connection to an FTP site (authenticated) and SSH site (publickey) for files I was editing in BBEdit and for Apache log files I was copying down to run through the Summary.net analyzer which was also running and serving out log stats to two clients who wanted temporary stats on certain logs (not available on our main server). Summary was also doing DNS lookups and crunching log file entries in the background while everything else was going on.
Now - was my computer slow? Well, Chimera/Moz seems to have a bug in entering data into text areas when the system is under high-load - that was unbearable. Otherwise, besides having to wait a couple seconds to switch desktops (using Space.app), other apps responded just fine. The multi-tasking on OS X is first rate, it really is. I managed to rip through ~15 CDs that day, in about an 8 hr time frame, while I had an amazingly productive day otherwise.
I'm running a classic iMac DV at 400MHz with a G3 system, unaccelerated by Quartz Extreme, as my AGP card only has 8MB of video RAM. If I can be productive on a system like this (and I have a pretty low ctrl-alt-del threshold, as a former prof used to call it) - then you ought to be just fine with one of the 15" iMacs running at ~700MHz with a G4 processor (which has Altivec - amazing, don't ignore that) and a few other enhancements over my machine.
Slow is all in the eye of the beholder. I know people that always use the fastest of the fastest machines from Intel when they come out. People like that will never be satisfied. I've had this iMac for almost 3 yrs now and every release of OS X has run faster (noticeably). Menus pop out faster, Finder responds faster, file searches execute faster, applications launch faster - the works. I look forward to my next hardware upgrade, just like the next guy, but for being productive - I can kick ass on my machine, and I give a lot of credit to OS X. My productivity is limited in various fashions on my Win2K machine at work - crashes cause some delays, but more minor annoyances cause far more delays.
Yeah, if this is the only reason they're creating STIX, they're sorely mistaken. While the 'auto' PDF generation tools out there may not all make it easy to get links into your PDFs (I'm thinking the "print as PDF" type tools) - Adobe Acrobat does just fine. Shell out some dough for Acrobat and you can pretty much make PDFs dance. Embed things like SVG and such, even, if I'm not mistaken.
In any case - hyperlinks would be a piece of cake.
I don't see anything that says that the Time Warners, Charter Communications, and Cox Cable networks out there have to charge any *less* for saying "I want HBO-East only!" v. what they charge for having 6 HBO channels (comedy, family, etc.) From what I can recall, adding a premium channel has always been $10-$15 extra a month - just now you get multiple premium channels for the price of one.
Am I missing something here? Seems to me that being able to select which regular channels you want (so you don't have to get QVC, for example) would be more useful.
I'm not sure that this is entirely correct. Its pretty difficult to get a consumer-level system these days w/o any digital output. My fiancee's 2-3yr old Aiwa shelf-top system that recently crapped out (standard 3-cd changer, two tape decks, AM/FM, maybe even Karaoke, not sure - dolby prologic, etc.) had an SPDIF output for the CD player. It couldn't have cost more than ~$200, with 5 speakers (left/right/center/rear surrounds).
My new Panasonic shelf-top system, which cost ~$250 at Circuit City, probably less elsewhere, supports dolby digital and has two digital inputs as well as a digital output, far as I know. Also came with 5 speakers, has a 5-cd changer, one tape deck, prologic, etc.
Both of these systems seem pretty "bare bones" - even "bottom of the barrel" - nothing hi-fi going on here. If these BMG CDs don't play in this type of equipment, then the only thing they'll play in is boom-boxes. Not a realistic business decision, I would think.
Forget getting a soundcard w/ digital in, if you don't have one already. Just pay ~$100 for a USB digital in/out connector that sports both coax AND fiber connectors (something I haven't seen on any soundcards). Complies with the USB audio spec, if I recall, so should even work in Linux.
Company is Edirol, they make a ton of other USB audio hardware - take a look around their site if you're interested. Here's the link to the UA-1D, the device I talked about above.
Creating user dirs is a tricky problem. Samba w/ winbind and the PAM auth module is pretty difficult to setup for that, as well.
And, while I understand that having Apple say "its easy" makes you want to blame them, you really ought to blame MS or yourselves for purchasing MS technology. Its really that simple. Folks need to stop complaining about MS and just either suck it up, or not use their tech. If its good, use it. If its not, don't - and don't complain.
OS X is more compatible with Windows than Windows is with OS X. Finito.
Just a note - I don't totally disagree with the issue you're splitting hairs over, BUT - most standards, open or otherwise, are controlled by vendors. Who do you think sits in on all the working groups for the IETF, W3C, and IEEE - not to mention ISO, et al.
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So you went to these Apple Store sessions and the Mac geniuses weren't able to point you to Stuffit (which comes pre-installed on Macs) as a Winzip replacement (get Stuffit Deluxe for the context menus) and BBEdit (Lite) as a (free) Textpad replacement? Dear lord ... please, please - do yourself a favor and look harder next time!!
For those not aware of this, it is possible to use this CSS method of blocking ads to block Flash advertisements .. arguably, the most annoying. Try something like so:
As you find Flash ads that aren't blocked, just add another entry for the size of ad you're seeing ... in my CSS, I have at least 8-10 such entries. Common sizes are:
Amen.
No, but at 12 years of age, I wouldn't likely set out on my own, ya know! :) I, too, will soon be moving out of the midwest, in all liklihood ... I got close a year or so ago - almost got to Seattle, but things didn't quite work out. Soon, though ... soon.
Brice, work hard to convince mom & dad to move out of the Midwest ... at least to the southwest, northwest, or abroad. That way, you'll have a chance of making GOOD money AND working on interesting projects for a long amount of time.
Your problems with Wells Fargo (as I'm sure you've realized) aren't isolated. I have a student loan through Wells Fargo (out of school now, so I'm just paying it off) and I had electronic funds transfer enabled to my checking account. I checked my Chicago Bank One account online one day to notice a debit of almost $500 to my account - from a check. I called asking about it, got a copy of the check in the mail - lo and behold, it was an EFS check from Wells Fargo with some lady's address from California, posted to my account. The mistake was clearly on Wells Fargo's part, since the routing & acct. number on the check were mine, but the name was someone else ... Bank One accepted the check on those grounds. It took over 2.5 months working with Bank One and filing fraud charges, signing papers, going to notaries and various other things, to finally get that money back ... Bank One wasn't all that great about it, either, so now I'm with a different bank entirely.
Software doesn't absolutely have to come with source. Most people don't think it *has* to, they simply prefer the software that *does*. Just as joe consumer might prefer purchasing the vehicle that comes *with* the service manual over the one that comes without.
I realize you're trying to troll the typical Slashdot crowd, but even so, your argument holds no water.
Cheers.
or just buy out XM or Sirius ... doh!
Cocoa apps have quite a few 'hooks' enabled by virtue of being Cocoa apps, don't they? Thought I'd read in Apple docs that this was a feature of developing your app in Cocoa v. Carbon ...
Cheers.
p.s. Can Java apps receive Apple Events?
I'm not sure about that. One cannot use Elcomsoft's software to crack an illegally obtained eBook or to facilitate the illegal distribution of a cracked eBook, but - if one were to legally purchase an eBook and use Elcomsoft's software to convert the eBook into a PDF to view in otherwise incompatible viewers, for personal use only (not to be shared), then I believe that would be legit, since it is not legal for content copyright holders to prevent the user from personal use of the copyrighted materials.
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Of course, IANAL, so I could be off on this
Or - "Was snow white back then, too?" :)
Cheers.
IANAL, but I would define commercial use as the opposite of "public use" - as a gov't. entity, everything you do is in serving the public good, which would be the antithesis of commercial use. I've seen commercial use defined as "if your entity's domain name ends in .com" - which is reasonable in most cases. This is how ncftpd licenses their FTP server, for instance (last I checked) - it'll work without a license if your domain is .edu or .org - basically anything other than .com (I believe that includes .gov).
Hope this helps!
Cheers.
Don't worry, this happens with SCSI RAID as well. My brother is a sysadmin for a few large servers and has mostly Dell PowerEdge system with their various PERC controllers - he recently had each of six drives in an array fail in sequence with no indication of any failure to the drive (s.m.a.r.t. or otherwise). Dell came out and replaced backplanes, cables, drives - all sorts of things, and nothing appeared to help ... sometimes when a drive failed, the controller would lose its configuration along with it ... sometimes that configuration wasn't able to be restored from the first sectors of the drives in the array, as it should be - and EVERY time a drive failed, the OS (SCO Open Server, I believe) would freeze and cause a lengthy fsck on reboot, and usually a fair amount of data corruption. Restores from tape were frequent and lengthy. I finally suggested he enable journaling on the SCO box, which is an option with its FS, and that helped with the fsck - but the fact remained that just having SCSI RAID doesn't shield you from some pretty serious failures.
Cheers.
In response to everyone saying that the 'new' diesel engines are no longer noisy - bull. My father recently purchased a 2002 Jetta TDI and I've had the opportunity to drive it on occasion, when he's come to visit. I have a '99 Honda Prelude and when its at idle, you don't hear it - well, maybe in a closed garage, but not outside just standing next to it. I'd say that the diesel is easily 5-10 dB louder as it is certainly noticeable when it is idling. Cheers.
How about complaining to the developers of the existing Windows/Mac software and requesting that they support other, less expensive, operating systems? Asking the OSS community to do something in particular goes against the way the community works, which is a volunteer effort. If you know of some folks that have the necessary skills to put together this type of software - by all means, ask them to volunteer some time and develop Open Source software to this end.
In the meantime, it is NOT the OSS community's responsibility to supply every sort of software for free - there's absolutely nothing stopping a software development company from developing this type of software, given demand for it. It is up to YOU and others like YOU to create this demand, of course.
Cheers.
... unfortunately, I might add. Roaming profiles is an underappreciated feature, it appears. Its incredibly simple to setup w/ NS 4.7+Apache+mod_roaming and works like a charm. Even for my small company (2-7 employees at any given time), roaming profiles provides a lot of flexibility, especially when moving around between machines, which I, personally, often do. Its also great for recovering settings after configurations get corrupted - that's come in handy quite a few times.
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Some day, I guess
Just an FYI - the CNet article (linked above) talks about its possible use on oil rigs - that type of mapping usually takes some horsepower and as usual, anything that is sea-based will be somewhat cramped for space!
The charge a bit less, too - or a bit more. It all depends on how many movies you want to have out at a time. We used to have the 'six-out-at-a-time' plan, for $29.99, I believe (the $20/mo. is for 4 out at a time). Now we have 2 out at a time (watching fewer movies) and are paying ~$14/mo. No late fees, no due dates, for that matter. Not a bad service. Decent selection of DVDs, too - especially if you're the mainstream type. Even if not, they have a decent selection of indie/foreign films.
It all depends on what you're doing and how much you're doing of it. At work, I have a Dell Optiplex GX150 with a 1GHz PIII processor, if I'm not mistaken. This system has 256MB of RAM and runs Win2K SP3.
Typically, if I have 4 apps open (Outlook, SciTE*, Phoenix or Moz, PuTTY*) - when I launch IE, its unbearably slow - the screen redraws visibly and the system is generally unresponsive for the ~5 seconds it takes IE to launch. Not sure what causes this - 256MB of RAM is obviously part of the problem, but the swap file shouldn't be that slow, either.
Recently (this past Tues.) I was at home working on a few different things - ripping CDs to AIFF w/ Audion 3.0.2 (in batch mode), backing up 10GB of data from a ~19GB partition on a FW drive to a 8x4x32 CD-RW in an external FW enclosure (Dantz Retrospect Express), editing PHP files in BBEdit (6.5.2), updating site files in Dreamweaver MX whenever my partner needed something updated, checking mail via Chimera/Mozilla using Horde/IMP (web mail access), maintaining a connection to an FTP site (authenticated) and SSH site (publickey) for files I was editing in BBEdit and for Apache log files I was copying down to run through the Summary.net analyzer which was also running and serving out log stats to two clients who wanted temporary stats on certain logs (not available on our main server). Summary was also doing DNS lookups and crunching log file entries in the background while everything else was going on.
Now - was my computer slow? Well, Chimera/Moz seems to have a bug in entering data into text areas when the system is under high-load - that was unbearable. Otherwise, besides having to wait a couple seconds to switch desktops (using Space.app), other apps responded just fine. The multi-tasking on OS X is first rate, it really is. I managed to rip through ~15 CDs that day, in about an 8 hr time frame, while I had an amazingly productive day otherwise.
I'm running a classic iMac DV at 400MHz with a G3 system, unaccelerated by Quartz Extreme, as my AGP card only has 8MB of video RAM. If I can be productive on a system like this (and I have a pretty low ctrl-alt-del threshold, as a former prof used to call it) - then you ought to be just fine with one of the 15" iMacs running at ~700MHz with a G4 processor (which has Altivec - amazing, don't ignore that) and a few other enhancements over my machine.
Slow is all in the eye of the beholder. I know people that always use the fastest of the fastest machines from Intel when they come out. People like that will never be satisfied. I've had this iMac for almost 3 yrs now and every release of OS X has run faster (noticeably). Menus pop out faster, Finder responds faster, file searches execute faster, applications launch faster - the works. I look forward to my next hardware upgrade, just like the next guy, but for being productive - I can kick ass on my machine, and I give a lot of credit to OS X. My productivity is limited in various fashions on my Win2K machine at work - crashes cause some delays, but more minor annoyances cause far more delays.
Cheers.
Yeah, if this is the only reason they're creating STIX, they're sorely mistaken. While the 'auto' PDF generation tools out there may not all make it easy to get links into your PDFs (I'm thinking the "print as PDF" type tools) - Adobe Acrobat does just fine. Shell out some dough for Acrobat and you can pretty much make PDFs dance. Embed things like SVG and such, even, if I'm not mistaken.
In any case - hyperlinks would be a piece of cake.
I don't see anything that says that the Time Warners, Charter Communications, and Cox Cable networks out there have to charge any *less* for saying "I want HBO-East only!" v. what they charge for having 6 HBO channels (comedy, family, etc.) From what I can recall, adding a premium channel has always been $10-$15 extra a month - just now you get multiple premium channels for the price of one.
Am I missing something here? Seems to me that being able to select which regular channels you want (so you don't have to get QVC, for example) would be more useful.
I'm not sure that this is entirely correct. Its pretty difficult to get a consumer-level system these days w/o any digital output. My fiancee's 2-3yr old Aiwa shelf-top system that recently crapped out (standard 3-cd changer, two tape decks, AM/FM, maybe even Karaoke, not sure - dolby prologic, etc.) had an SPDIF output for the CD player. It couldn't have cost more than ~$200, with 5 speakers (left/right/center/rear surrounds).
My new Panasonic shelf-top system, which cost ~$250 at Circuit City, probably less elsewhere, supports dolby digital and has two digital inputs as well as a digital output, far as I know. Also came with 5 speakers, has a 5-cd changer, one tape deck, prologic, etc.
Both of these systems seem pretty "bare bones" - even "bottom of the barrel" - nothing hi-fi going on here. If these BMG CDs don't play in this type of equipment, then the only thing they'll play in is boom-boxes. Not a realistic business decision, I would think.
Cheers.
Forget getting a soundcard w/ digital in, if you don't have one already. Just pay ~$100 for a USB digital in/out connector that sports both coax AND fiber connectors (something I haven't seen on any soundcards). Complies with the USB audio spec, if I recall, so should even work in Linux.
Company is Edirol, they make a ton of other USB audio hardware - take a look around their site if you're interested. Here's the link to the UA-1D, the device I talked about above.
http://www.edirol.com/products/info/ua1d.html
Cheers.
Creating user dirs is a tricky problem. Samba w/ winbind and the PAM auth module is pretty difficult to setup for that, as well.
And, while I understand that having Apple say "its easy" makes you want to blame them, you really ought to blame MS or yourselves for purchasing MS technology. Its really that simple. Folks need to stop complaining about MS and just either suck it up, or not use their tech. If its good, use it. If its not, don't - and don't complain.
OS X is more compatible with Windows than Windows is with OS X. Finito.
Cheers.
Just a note - I don't totally disagree with the issue you're splitting hairs over, BUT - most standards, open or otherwise, are controlled by vendors. Who do you think sits in on all the working groups for the IETF, W3C, and IEEE - not to mention ISO, et al.
Just an FYI.