"With both companies held by Apple, who will fill the void in the Windows and Linux?"
I know i didn't just read that.
The idea that Apple would work to assume control of a imperceptably tiny market like this is hardly something to warrant such a whiny question as the poster made.
With the power of 5 black holes crunched together, MS wields the controls of every computer market from the desktop OS, to fscking two button mice. And with a large number of/.'ers ready to follow them into the Abyss with C# - stop yer whining, already.
Apple creeping into a market even farther that they pretty much already 0wwn j00 (and no one cares), this is not the end of the world..
this is the beginning for a major shift of a microsocopic percentage of people who claim already less than 5% of the market.
the experiments where they have a big-ass super conductor donut - then put the frog and feather and other things in the center of the "field" (please, i don't know anything about any of this, which is why i'm asking) just float, as if gravity was cancelled out...
is this at all related to this article?
And if not - what the hell does a superconductor have to do with levitating a frog? Does the frog have metal in him? Or is what i'm refering to the Dr. Podkletnov effect?
1. Set you 17" - 19" monitor to 1600x1200. 2. Install Silk. 3. Make all your fonts bigger in every one of your apps.
You'll understand why AA fonts is great all the time.
X was supposed to - finally - get us out of the bitmap doldrums.. when if you had the res, you'd use it.. but it doesn't.
The menu bar is the same size for all resolutions.. the icons in the windows and in the Dock don't ootomatically (thanks Steve, between Jagwire and ootomatically, i can't even be understood any more) resize when you change resolutions - which should be low-hanging fruit.
Damnit - i have at least 1600x1200 dots on my screen, and i plan on using every damn one of them.. there's no reason not to. Not with display PDF.
Apple needs to get on the ball and make it so that you'll WANT to go to 1600x1200... because then everything should look really really nice..
making everything unreadable at higher resolutions is the wrong answer - not when i'm supposedly looking at a PDF.
One app that really shines with Silk - i hate to admit - is Word.
resize your paper on the Industrial Revolution to full screen, and then select the zoom level to "page width". It is a whole new and bizzare experience..
it looks like you're typing in a magazine. The words looks so good...
and since i use Apple Garamond a lot, everything i do looks like a Apple ad now when i type.
AA is a great idea.. Apple just needs to break the bitmap paradigm and get us out of it once and for all.. they have the tools with Aqua, they just need to execute.
look at the homepage. There are positive comments from practically every MS competitor/group that has a legitimate gripe with MS.
They all appear to see this as "The Way" to finally 1) shirk off the *need* for MS with their business customers because, hey, we have a "Standardized" Linux here... (insert finger tapping PHB's looking impressed) 2) do this Linux thing easier!.. multitudes of distros, RPMs, GUIs, yada, yada, yada.... smeg that. 1 standard distro with infinite possiblities! (if you don't LIKE KDE, you can ditch it... try "ditching" major portions of Windows)
this is a positive move for everyone.
Simplicity that costs a ton of money and gives you no options and sends back your information to MS without your knowledge is a bad thing.. its Windows.
Simplicity is a good thing, not a bad thing.. its Mac OS.
Simplicity with modifyability is not a good thing, its a kick-ass thing... its a standardized Linux that can be changed to suit your needs OR can be left alone to be simple.
and you'll probably not believe this, but even though I guarantee you that never shall a Microsoft person ever make it into my office.. our security team is not only interested with computer security, but also with software licensing. its almost on the same plane.
So, while we may be exempt from many things.. believe it or not, we're really under the gun not to fsck this up.. they watch every keystroke and every mouse movement... "illegal" software ("by opening this" license agreements aren't legally binding, i don't think, but IANAL) is not toleratred...
it would almost be easier to pirate MS software in the unclass world of the DoD.
the NSA has come out with a no kidding, no XP rule.
They will not allow anyone, classified or unclassified in the DOD to run XP.
They do not plan to either.
Believe me, its already making it "fun" to try to buy new PCs... i can't wait until 2004, when MS drops 2000 as a client OS, and then the bind we'll be in then, huh?
A weapon system that locks up because it doesn't have the right authentication key. How cool would that be!
fsck Microsoft. and Fsck the Air Force (where i work) - they are the stupid PHBs that didn't even concider anything else, didn 't look to anything else, and were too sheepish to try to find another solution that woudn't get us stuck in this way.
what boneheads. I'm working on a project that is in jeopardy because the system will only run on Windows NT 4.0, and we're having a hell of a time finding sources for NT 4.0 that are legal.
Pretty soon, we're going to just go illegal because we'll have no recourse.
the long lines, the sound systems cranked up, the beach balls...
I had almost forgotten what Star Wars could be like.
But the first flight of fancy in the buildings of Courissant (sp?) - i was hooked!
I'm sorry - but this was almost the best of the movies to date - just below Empire, of course..
It FELT like a Star Wars movie again.. when you were first taken to strange new worlds (sorry) and got to see aliens and battles.. villians who's asses you want to see kicked...
this movies has it all back.
I think one of the best things that Lucas has done with this one is the fact that there are actual twists and turns!
I mean, is the good-guy a bad-guy? Are the good guys fighting against the wrong person? The Good Guys fighting along side StormTroopers!?!
I won't give spoilers - but I will say that this movie does bring back everything I loved about seeing the first movie when i was 5 with my dad at Big Newport (70mm of holy-crap-its-so-freaking-big screen)... and maybe part of why I loved it so much WAS getting to see this one - opening night - in the same theatre...
i could be misguided.. but i'll be seeing this movie time and time again... just like the original 3.
and what led me to the question was the nth time i was unable, as the admin (the name put in at install time), i am often stopped at the gates when trying to read/write something to/from my wife's subdirectory/users/hotchick.
One fateful night, i was, yet again, doing some printing for her (the printer's upstairs where my machine and the printer is) from her TiBook, and so i logged in as me on her TiBook to print her stuff...
well, i couldn't get into her subdir... so i tried batchmod - and that doesn't (apparently) have a -R on it, so then i went to the CLI to
sudo chmod -R 777/users
fine.
the GUI STILL wouldn't let me into her subdir until i rebooted the Finder... damnit.
then, later on that night, when she went to work on one of the files later, it turned out that when i had opened one up and made some changes for her, is changed the owner to adminboy - and hotchick couldn't open the files any more...
arrrrgggh!!!! Its my fscking computer, and i want me or my wife to be able to read/write either/or's files to our heart's content. This includes ~/pictures (where things _have_ to be for iPhoto) and other "predetermined" subdirectories.
i even went so far as to repartition the machine with a 18 gig primary drive, and a 2 gig hotchick_HD so that i could turn off file permissions..
of course.. that check box doesn't ACTUALLY work - because not a day later - after the fresh install and all - all her stuff is on the 2 gig part - and when i maked some changes, she wasn't able to open those files later.
so - if i have 2, and only 2, users on a machine that want to have separate logins (login-time differences, like desktops, Dock position, etc) but we want complete control of each other's files on the machine..
i don't want it when i edit a Word file for her that it makes it "read only" when she logs in later to work on the file.
so - that was, in a rage after the 100th time she came to me complaining that the computer wouldn't do what WE wanted it to do... in Pudge's conference..
:FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, I"M JUST GOING TO LOGIN AS ROOT FOR NOW ON, DAMNIT!
i didn't mean it.. but my quandry - non-system files being universally unprotected for all users to see and use - and how to get there in a very Mac OS 9-like way.... is still unresolved.
OMG. sorry.. but Pudge calling himself "jovial" would be up there with hearing Tom Daschle calling himself "professional bullshit artist" - accurate, but hearing it from him, you'd swear you'd entered the Twilight Zone.
You all should see how "jovial" pudge is when he's beating the stuffing out of some poor college freshman's poor argument. Its like watching a 800 pound gorilla tackle a miniature poodle and stuff it into a thimble. Its so awful, you can't help but watch in glee (i mean, doesn't everyone find glee in the idea of one of those horrible little poodles being stuffed into a thimble?)
Until i purchase XP - and the government can go to a centralized source to determine what is on my hard drive and what i've watched - thanks to Microsoft - there is piss-little the government can or will do to the millions of individuals who simply practice their intperpretation of Fair Use.
So - as long as the majority of people use DRM-free software and hardware (read: not Microsoft) (read: such as Apple's and other's software) the vast majority of people will figure out that - for now - there is no possiblity to prevent people from shifting audio and video and text - because at some point, in every case, its free. With audio - its free when it vibrates a speaker coil.. with video, its photons going from a screen to my eyes.
And as long as that is the case - then there is no hope that every single person who is doing something "illegal" is going to be prosecuted.
There were "no ass-ramming" laws on the books for years in just about every state in the union - and eventually, it was figured out that its simply impossible to prevent people from engaging in anal sex - no matter your or the government's feelings on the subject.
So too, the government will be logically forced to reckon with the fact that with the coming age of $.05 DVD's, 100Mb to the home, and 2 terebyte hard drives for $50, its got a long row to hoe in order to prevent me from having a friend come over with his Rush Hour 6 DVD and me snarf a copy in 5 minutes onto my hard drive.
i know this because when it was tried with DiVX, it failed so badly that the attempt was hardly a blip on the radar screen.
When they try it with HDTV, people will simply put up with the plain old NTSC quality that they've had for years - after all, they own hundreds of NTCS DVDs and $50 DVD players are here today and now.
People are already starting to flock away from Windows XP because of its stupidity - many people are settling for 2000 or 98 - and being content with it. Until they make it impossible to run 98 on new Pentium 5's (isn't that a redundant name?) then people will take their old 98 CD's and install it on those new machines when they can't stomach the problems they are having with XP 2.
They - the government and Microsoft, which are becoming practially the same thing (read last month's Wired article on how the govt. and MS are coming together to make "better and more secure" versions of XP in the future" - can only push us so far before we revolt. It happened with VHS, with DiVX, and with shitty cable - and it will happen in the future.
They can try to lock up the world - but it can't be done.
Mt. Saint Hellens put out more greenhouse gasses than all of them that have been created by man in all of time.
Mt. Pennatubo (sp?) put out more than that.
if these natural events do more damage than anything we could try to do - what the hell is the problem? While "greenhouse gasses" are increasing - why is it assumed that its the fault of the humans when the volcanos do a lot more damage?
We are whole heartedly all out sold out to Microsoft.
We (actually, the US military) have recently implimented a MS only messaging solution using Exchange and Outlook called DMS. The solution took well over 6 years to develop secure email (snicker), and still doesn't work right. Even though there is freeware that could have been implimented that we would be able to see the source code for - the PHB lemmings of the AF chose, instead, to go with a MS solution.
We also recently moved to a multi-thousand GAL (global Address list) - the microsoft proprietary solution which has opened us up for years to things like Mellissa and I LOVE YOU and all of that other crap that used MS features to spread itself like wildfire.
Every base has MS license agreemets for support - and by those agreements - like the rest of the world - are either going to continue paying $.50 a hit for our fix each year, or pay $100 each time we buy another computer.
As a young Lt., I spent 6 months replaceing perfectly functional Solaris boxes that performed our web, smtp, DNS, SQL, and other basic network services with NT 4.0 boxes. A week after we recovered from Service Pack 2 - i strongly recommended that we slow our migration - and that it was costing us more time and money supporting Windows machines than the UNIX boxes which never needed any work or upkeep. Some had uptimes of 4 years until I pulled the plugs on them. (don't beat me - i was the lowest ranking puke in the house - and i did what i was told)
After the first virus attack - I stood up in a meeting and demanded to know why the room wanted to spend all its time figureing out how to rip out the functionalities of the Windows boxes that made us vulnerable and didn't look at solutions which were inherently not vulnerable - and was flabbergasted. It was like I was in a room full of guys from Boston and had said that the Bruins sucked. They all became instant apologists for MS and their shit software... how it wasn't that hard to fix the problem and that we had virus software, yada yada yada..
Meanwhile - my home Mac OS 8 server was chugging along just fine, even though I had gotten the viruses from lots of people at work. But it easily could have been a FreeBSD or Linux box too.
This is a lot of huffing a puffing. Its a farce. It is because there is no one with the nads to make a descision against what everyone knows - that MS 0wn2 J00, stupid Air Force.
Being a member of the Freelancers Drum and Bugle Corps in 88 and 89, I was almost tearing up in both eyes at the sounds of "Forest Battle" from Return of the Jedi in that trailer.
That was the song that we used to kick ass and take names with in 88 for our drum solo. The song was really fun, lots of for the altos, esp.. all those WHOOP WHOOOP WHOOOOOOPS! that John Williams is famous for making french horns want to kill themselves rather than put up with all that work.
I love John Williams. He makes great music. You all can bite me.
Hating John William is nearly the same thing as being a Patriots Fan in Feb 2002....
because they are the ONLY company (read: unlike Microsoft) who is putting out creative software without a single shred of DRM in a whole hardware/software platform.
Oh the other hand, MS tracks what its users watch, listen to, and possibly download.. sotheir court cases are being squashed left and right and will continue on being the sole source of software from the US govt...
(then again, it took over 9 months to figure out that they were tracking wath you watched, so tell me that they AREN'T tracking your downloads)
Apple is in the sights of the RIAA and MPAA. This is because they have not capitualted with the notion that if you can hear it, they can charge you for it. The battle has just begun.
Maybe i should take back some of those granola chewing long haired hippie comments i made about Apple before.. well, i do own 7 Macs.... so maybe i voted with my dollars a long time ago.
I was just about to say that Apple is in serious trouble.. but then, i've been hearing THAT for 20 years so.....
that everyone was losing money because of piracy? How the hell can they be making money when everyone is copying the software?
Seriously. This is as lame as bitching about Napster, while CD sales exploded.
Natural value rules work, even in the midst of artificial IP rules. ha!
Yet another nail in the IP coffin. if you give people something that they WANT to pay for.. they will.
Until fantasy StarTrek transporters/replicators are developed, then the rules will not change.
People will pay for tangible things and supportive service and that which provides them convenience or entertainment. Period. They will not pay for anything else and to force people to do so is artificial.
You guys are missing an ever cooler part of their service agreement..
from their AUP...
http://www.comcast.net/TermsofService/aup.asp
>Internet Relay Chat
>
>The Services may be used to participate
> in "chat" discussions. These discussions may be
> hosted by Comcast High-Speed Internet Service
> network servers, by third party servers, or may
> not involve any servers at all. In all
> cases, the Comcast High-Speed Internet Service
> network does not normally monitor the contents
> of the discussion and is not liable for
> the contents of any communications made via
> Internet chat.
and if you wanted to actually USE Irc for something other than pr0n or warez... like discussion groups for Perl or something..
> Any computer or other device connected through
> the Services may not maintain more than 2
> simultaneous chat connections. This includes
> the use of automated programs, such as "bots"
> or "clones". Automated programs may not be used
> when the account holder is not physically
> present at the device.
so you can't be on more than two irc channels at the same time... if you do, you go straight to hell and off your cable modem..
wtf is a cable modem for if not the ability to get a lot of data at one time?
And who the hell decides what data is okay and not okay to download?
My DSL may be slow as hell, but at least i don't have to put up with this shit.
I'm just bothered that "the Internet" to these people is "the Web" - and that they built their network around that concept, instead of building fat pipes and just dealing with it - and that anyone who does more than "casual" surf is a "commerical customer" and so you need to "pay up the kazoo" to get service.
Aunt Tilley bought her PC and it came with Windows XP preinstalled, has a web browser preassigned and an email program automatically assigned to her preassigned ISP built in already - so guess what..
she doesn't give a crap and wouldn't know what the hell all of you geeks in here are talking about.
A kernel to Aunt Tilley is a piece of corn... Jeez...
the point is that it gives people a chance to migrate.
This is not unlike Mac OS X and Mac OS 9(great, I said Mac, there's a mod down, huh?)
While i'm migrating from 9 to X -
I get to see and feel the power of a competently built OS
I get to see that my machine does not crash every few minutes
i get to see how great it is to run 20 apps all at the same time and not crash the thing
i still get to crutch back to my apps that i love and won't give up just yet.
This is the point of Lindows.
I've been able to be 100% Mac OS X since early January 2001 thanks to Classic. I am now only two apps away from being Classic-free on my machine (PhotoShop and First Class Client). And it only took a year.
I think Lindows is a great idea - I think that if they can make WINE function as well as Apple made the Classic environment (nearly-seamless cut/copy/paste, drag-n-drop, etc) The screenshots seem to indicate this as their goal.
They will succeed in their target area if they succeed in their goals - companies who want to save $200 + licensing fees + fee to connect to the server on thier $500 computers.
My God - its more expensive for the SOFTWARE to run an all Windows operation now than it is to buy the hardware!
But you have to give people some means of getting to a Linux solution.. you can't drop them into it head first.. then you can start doing the transition from MS-only to MS-free... you just need that intermediate step.
That's Lindows.
(BTFW: the screenshots *are* faked - they show the GOAL of Lindows.. not what they have today - how is that so hard to understand? Do i have to draw a picture for you? Oh.. i guess it needs subtitles too.)
This thing is going to be a great stepping stone to get people to migrate off windows, and will set up LOD when the required apps - SunOffice 6.0, OpenOffice, etc - get made.
You have to move people gradually - they don't take well to violent shocks - that's how people made it from Windows 3.1 to XP - even though the OSes are NOTHING alike - the gradual change, plus enough backward compatibity got Microsoft to where they are now.
MS did DOS -> Windows 3.1 -> Windows 95 -> Windows 98 -> XP
Apple did 680x0 -> PPC, and they did it again with Mac OS -> Mac OS X.
Lindows is going to try to do Windows -> Linux + WINE (done right) -> Linux.
if you've got Mac OS X - you should get fire
http://www.epicware.com/fire.html
works great, and handles AIM, ICQ, Jabber, irc, MSN, and Yahoo.
from the "About Fire" dialogue
Engineering
Eric Peyton
Interface Design
Borrowed from America Online with flourishes courtesy Eric Peyton. Some ICQ ideas taken from various ICQ clones...
Icons
Rick Roe, Blake Harris
Fire Enhancements
The following people have made enhancements to Fire
Jason Fosback (jfosback@ubermind.com)
Brian Fitzpatrick (fitz@red-bean.com)
(way too many to list:-( and I forget)
Underlying Engine (libfaim)
Copyright 1998-1999 Adam Fritzler (afritz@iname.com)
HTML (AIML) Rendering/Reading Engine
Copyright 1999 Stephen Peters (portnoy@portnoy.org)
Fire.app Written in Objective-C against the Cocoa API's using the underlying libfaim Unix/Linux library written in C, the icqlib source code written in C, and the gtkyahoo source code written in C and C++. I am using the firetalk library in C for irc communication and the msn library was borrowed from everybuddy.
Fire.app is released under the FSF GPL, as are libfaim, micq, and gtkyahoo. If you did not receive source with this version please contact Eric Peyton (epeyton@epicware.com) for the source, or visit http://www.epicware.com/fire.html.
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"With both companies held by Apple, who will fill the void in the Windows and Linux?"
/.'ers ready to follow them into the Abyss with C# - stop yer whining, already.
I know i didn't just read that.
The idea that Apple would work to assume control of a imperceptably tiny market like this is hardly something to warrant such a whiny question as the poster made.
With the power of 5 black holes crunched together, MS wields the controls of every computer market from the desktop OS, to fscking two button mice. And with a large number of
Apple creeping into a market even farther that they pretty much already 0wwn j00 (and no one cares), this is not the end of the world..
this is the beginning for a major shift of a microsocopic percentage of people who claim already less than 5% of the market.
And the funny part is that, it will end up saving those users money in the long run.
Waaah.
the experiments where they have a big-ass super conductor donut - then put the frog and feather and other things in the center of the "field" (please, i don't know anything about any of this, which is why i'm asking) just float, as if gravity was cancelled out...
is this at all related to this article?
And if not - what the hell does a superconductor have to do with levitating a frog? Does the frog have metal in him? Or is what i'm refering to the Dr. Podkletnov effect?
thanks.
1. Set you 17" - 19" monitor to 1600x1200.
2. Install Silk.
3. Make all your fonts bigger in every one of your apps.
You'll understand why AA fonts is great all the time.
X was supposed to - finally - get us out of the bitmap doldrums.. when if you had the res, you'd use it.. but it doesn't.
The menu bar is the same size for all resolutions.. the icons in the windows and in the Dock don't ootomatically (thanks Steve, between Jagwire and ootomatically, i can't even be understood any more) resize when you change resolutions - which should be low-hanging fruit.
Damnit - i have at least 1600x1200 dots on my screen, and i plan on using every damn one of them.. there's no reason not to. Not with display PDF.
Apple needs to get on the ball and make it so that you'll WANT to go to 1600x1200... because then everything should look really really nice..
making everything unreadable at higher resolutions is the wrong answer - not when i'm supposedly looking at a PDF.
One app that really shines with Silk - i hate to admit - is Word.
resize your paper on the Industrial Revolution to full screen, and then select the zoom level to "page width". It is a whole new and bizzare experience..
it looks like you're typing in a magazine. The words looks so good...
and since i use Apple Garamond a lot, everything i do looks like a Apple ad now when i type.
AA is a great idea.. Apple just needs to break the bitmap paradigm and get us out of it once and for all.. they have the tools with Aqua, they just need to execute.
look at the homepage. There are positive comments from practically every MS competitor/group that has a legitimate gripe with MS.
They all appear to see this as "The Way" to finally 1) shirk off the *need* for MS with their business customers because, hey, we have a "Standardized" Linux here... (insert finger tapping PHB's looking impressed) 2) do this Linux thing easier!.. multitudes of distros, RPMs, GUIs, yada, yada, yada.... smeg that. 1 standard distro with infinite possiblities! (if you don't LIKE KDE, you can ditch it... try "ditching" major portions of Windows)
this is a positive move for everyone.
Simplicity that costs a ton of money and gives you no options and sends back your information to MS without your knowledge is a bad thing.. its Windows.
Simplicity is a good thing, not a bad thing.. its Mac OS.
Simplicity with modifyability is not a good thing, its a kick-ass thing... its a standardized Linux that can be changed to suit your needs OR can be left alone to be simple.
How is this not a good thing? I don't get it.
i work in "interesting" places in the government.
and you'll probably not believe this, but even though I guarantee you that never shall a Microsoft person ever make it into my office.. our security team is not only interested with computer security, but also with software licensing. its almost on the same plane.
So, while we may be exempt from many things.. believe it or not, we're really under the gun not to fsck this up.. they watch every keystroke and every mouse movement... "illegal" software ("by opening this" license agreements aren't legally binding, i don't think, but IANAL) is not toleratred...
it would almost be easier to pirate MS software in the unclass world of the DoD.
the NSA has come out with a no kidding, no XP rule.
They will not allow anyone, classified or unclassified in the DOD to run XP.
They do not plan to either.
Believe me, its already making it "fun" to try to buy new PCs... i can't wait until 2004, when MS drops 2000 as a client OS, and then the bind we'll be in then, huh?
A weapon system that locks up because it doesn't have the right authentication key. How cool would that be!
fsck Microsoft. and Fsck the Air Force (where i work) - they are the stupid PHBs that didn't even concider anything else, didn 't look to anything else, and were too sheepish to try to find another solution that woudn't get us stuck in this way.
what boneheads. I'm working on a project that is in jeopardy because the system will only run on Windows NT 4.0, and we're having a hell of a time finding sources for NT 4.0 that are legal.
Pretty soon, we're going to just go illegal because we'll have no recourse.
we're so stupid...
the long lines, the sound systems cranked up, the beach balls...
I had almost forgotten what Star Wars could be like.
But the first flight of fancy in the buildings of Courissant (sp?) - i was hooked!
I'm sorry - but this was almost the best of the movies to date - just below Empire, of course..
It FELT like a Star Wars movie again.. when you were first taken to strange new worlds (sorry) and got to see aliens and battles.. villians who's asses you want to see kicked...
this movies has it all back.
I think one of the best things that Lucas has done with this one is the fact that there are actual twists and turns!
I mean, is the good-guy a bad-guy? Are the good guys fighting against the wrong person? The Good Guys fighting along side StormTroopers!?!
I won't give spoilers - but I will say that this movie does bring back everything I loved about seeing the first movie when i was 5 with my dad at Big Newport (70mm of holy-crap-its-so-freaking-big screen)... and maybe part of why I loved it so much WAS getting to see this one - opening night - in the same theatre...
i could be misguided.. but i'll be seeing this movie time and time again... just like the original 3.
and what led me to the question was the nth time i was unable, as the admin (the name put in at install time), i am often stopped at the gates when trying to read/write something to/from my wife's subdirectory /users/hotchick.
/users
One fateful night, i was, yet again, doing some printing for her (the printer's upstairs where my machine and the printer is) from her TiBook, and so i logged in as me on her TiBook to print her stuff...
well, i couldn't get into her subdir... so i tried batchmod - and that doesn't (apparently) have a -R on it, so then i went to the CLI to
sudo chmod -R 777
fine.
the GUI STILL wouldn't let me into her subdir until i rebooted the Finder... damnit.
then, later on that night, when she went to work on one of the files later, it turned out that when i had opened one up and made some changes for her, is changed the owner to adminboy - and hotchick couldn't open the files any more...
arrrrgggh!!!! Its my fscking computer, and i want me or my wife to be able to read/write either/or's files to our heart's content. This includes ~/pictures (where things _have_ to be for iPhoto) and other "predetermined" subdirectories.
i even went so far as to repartition the machine with a 18 gig primary drive, and a 2 gig hotchick_HD so that i could turn off file permissions..
of course.. that check box doesn't ACTUALLY work - because not a day later - after the fresh install and all - all her stuff is on the 2 gig part - and when i maked some changes, she wasn't able to open those files later.
so - if i have 2, and only 2, users on a machine that want to have separate logins (login-time differences, like desktops, Dock position, etc) but we want complete control of each other's files on the machine..
i don't want it when i edit a Word file for her that it makes it "read only" when she logs in later to work on the file.
so - that was, in a rage after the 100th time she came to me complaining that the computer wouldn't do what WE wanted it to do... in Pudge's conference..
:FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, I"M JUST GOING TO LOGIN AS ROOT FOR NOW ON, DAMNIT!
i didn't mean it.. but my quandry - non-system files being universally unprotected for all users to see and use - and how to get there in a very Mac OS 9-like way.... is still unresolved.
OMG. sorry.. but Pudge calling himself "jovial" would be up there with hearing Tom Daschle calling himself "professional bullshit artist" - accurate, but hearing it from him, you'd swear you'd entered the Twilight Zone.
You all should see how "jovial" pudge is when he's beating the stuffing out of some poor college freshman's poor argument. Its like watching a 800 pound gorilla tackle a miniature poodle and stuff it into a thimble. Its so awful, you can't help but watch in glee (i mean, doesn't everyone find glee in the idea of one of those horrible little poodles being stuffed into a thimble?)
nothing coming out of all this?
I think all the lawyers in their new Jags and Kompressor Benzs would disagree with the notion that all of this litigation is for nothing.
http://homepage.mac.com/gsf/celinesucks.jpg
oh wait... never mind.. i misread the article.. i thought it said that they WANTED to see it all over the internet freely available...
my bad.. sorry.
Until i purchase XP - and the government can go to a centralized source to determine what is on my hard drive and what i've watched - thanks to Microsoft - there is piss-little the government can or will do to the millions of individuals who simply practice their intperpretation of Fair Use.
So - as long as the majority of people use DRM-free software and hardware (read: not Microsoft) (read: such as Apple's and other's software) the vast majority of people will figure out that - for now - there is no possiblity to prevent people from shifting audio and video and text - because at some point, in every case, its free. With audio - its free when it vibrates a speaker coil.. with video, its photons going from a screen to my eyes.
And as long as that is the case - then there is no hope that every single person who is doing something "illegal" is going to be prosecuted.
There were "no ass-ramming" laws on the books for years in just about every state in the union - and eventually, it was figured out that its simply impossible to prevent people from engaging in anal sex - no matter your or the government's feelings on the subject.
So too, the government will be logically forced to reckon with the fact that with the coming age of $.05 DVD's, 100Mb to the home, and 2 terebyte hard drives for $50, its got a long row to hoe in order to prevent me from having a friend come over with his Rush Hour 6 DVD and me snarf a copy in 5 minutes onto my hard drive.
i know this because when it was tried with DiVX, it failed so badly that the attempt was hardly a blip on the radar screen.
When they try it with HDTV, people will simply put up with the plain old NTSC quality that they've had for years - after all, they own hundreds of NTCS DVDs and $50 DVD players are here today and now.
People are already starting to flock away from Windows XP because of its stupidity - many people are settling for 2000 or 98 - and being content with it. Until they make it impossible to run 98 on new Pentium 5's (isn't that a redundant name?) then people will take their old 98 CD's and install it on those new machines when they can't stomach the problems they are having with XP 2.
They - the government and Microsoft, which are becoming practially the same thing (read last month's Wired article on how the govt. and MS are coming together to make "better and more secure" versions of XP in the future" - can only push us so far before we revolt. It happened with VHS, with DiVX, and with shitty cable - and it will happen in the future.
They can try to lock up the world - but it can't be done.
Mt. Saint Hellens put out more greenhouse gasses than all of them that have been created by man in all of time.
Mt. Pennatubo (sp?) put out more than that.
if these natural events do more damage than anything we could try to do - what the hell is the problem? While "greenhouse gasses" are increasing - why is it assumed that its the fault of the humans when the volcanos do a lot more damage?
I totaly disbelieve this article.
We are whole heartedly all out sold out to Microsoft.
We (actually, the US military) have recently implimented a MS only messaging solution using Exchange and Outlook called DMS. The solution took well over 6 years to develop secure email (snicker), and still doesn't work right. Even though there is freeware that could have been implimented that we would be able to see the source code for - the PHB lemmings of the AF chose, instead, to go with a MS solution.
We also recently moved to a multi-thousand GAL (global Address list) - the microsoft proprietary solution which has opened us up for years to things like Mellissa and I LOVE YOU and all of that other crap that used MS features to spread itself like wildfire.
Every base has MS license agreemets for support - and by those agreements - like the rest of the world - are either going to continue paying $.50 a hit for our fix each year, or pay $100 each time we buy another computer.
As a young Lt., I spent 6 months replaceing perfectly functional Solaris boxes that performed our web, smtp, DNS, SQL, and other basic network services with NT 4.0 boxes. A week after we recovered from Service Pack 2 - i strongly recommended that we slow our migration - and that it was costing us more time and money supporting Windows machines than the UNIX boxes which never needed any work or upkeep. Some had uptimes of 4 years until I pulled the plugs on them. (don't beat me - i was the lowest ranking puke in the house - and i did what i was told)
After the first virus attack - I stood up in a meeting and demanded to know why the room wanted to spend all its time figureing out how to rip out the functionalities of the Windows boxes that made us vulnerable and didn't look at solutions which were inherently not vulnerable - and was flabbergasted. It was like I was in a room full of guys from Boston and had said that the Bruins sucked. They all became instant apologists for MS and their shit software... how it wasn't that hard to fix the problem and that we had virus software, yada yada yada..
Meanwhile - my home Mac OS 8 server was chugging along just fine, even though I had gotten the viruses from lots of people at work. But it easily could have been a FreeBSD or Linux box too.
This is a lot of huffing a puffing. Its a farce. It is because there is no one with the nads to make a descision against what everyone knows - that MS 0wn2 J00, stupid Air Force.
Being a member of the Freelancers Drum and Bugle Corps in 88 and 89, I was almost tearing up in both eyes at the sounds of "Forest Battle" from Return of the Jedi in that trailer.
That was the song that we used to kick ass and take names with in 88 for our drum solo. The song was really fun, lots of for the altos, esp.. all those WHOOP WHOOOP WHOOOOOOPS! that John Williams is famous for making french horns want to kill themselves rather than put up with all that work.
I love John Williams. He makes great music. You all can bite me.
Hating John William is nearly the same thing as being a Patriots Fan in Feb 2002....
because they are the ONLY company (read: unlike Microsoft) who is putting out creative software without a single shred of DRM in a whole hardware/software platform.
Oh the other hand, MS tracks what its users watch, listen to, and possibly download.. sotheir court cases are being squashed left and right and will continue on being the sole source of software from the US govt...
(then again, it took over 9 months to figure out that they were tracking wath you watched, so tell me that they AREN'T tracking your downloads)
Apple is in the sights of the RIAA and MPAA. This is because they have not capitualted with the notion that if you can hear it, they can charge you for it. The battle has just begun.
Maybe i should take back some of those granola chewing long haired hippie comments i made about Apple before.. well, i do own 7 Macs.... so maybe i voted with my dollars a long time ago.
I was just about to say that Apple is in serious trouble.. but then, i've been hearing THAT for 20 years so.....
that everyone was losing money because of piracy? How the hell can they be making money when everyone is copying the software?
Seriously. This is as lame as bitching about Napster, while CD sales exploded.
Natural value rules work, even in the midst of artificial IP rules. ha!
Yet another nail in the IP coffin. if you give people something that they WANT to pay for.. they will.
Until fantasy StarTrek transporters/replicators are developed, then the rules will not change.
People will pay for tangible things and supportive service and that which provides them convenience or entertainment. Period. They will not pay for anything else and to force people to do so is artificial.
You guys are missing an ever cooler part of their service agreement..
from their AUP...
http://www.comcast.net/TermsofService/aup.asp
>Internet Relay Chat
>
>The Services may be used to participate
> in "chat" discussions. These discussions may be
> hosted by Comcast High-Speed Internet Service
> network servers, by third party servers, or may
> not involve any servers at all. In all
> cases, the Comcast High-Speed Internet Service
> network does not normally monitor the contents
> of the discussion and is not liable for
> the contents of any communications made via
> Internet chat.
and if you wanted to actually USE Irc for something other than pr0n or warez... like discussion groups for Perl or something..
> Any computer or other device connected through
> the Services may not maintain more than 2
> simultaneous chat connections. This includes
> the use of automated programs, such as "bots"
> or "clones". Automated programs may not be used
> when the account holder is not physically
> present at the device.
so you can't be on more than two irc channels at the same time... if you do, you go straight to hell and off your cable modem..
wtf is a cable modem for if not the ability to get a lot of data at one time?
And who the hell decides what data is okay and not okay to download?
My DSL may be slow as hell, but at least i don't have to put up with this shit.
I'm just bothered that "the Internet" to these people is "the Web" - and that they built their network around that concept, instead of building fat pipes and just dealing with it - and that anyone who does more than "casual" surf is a "commerical customer" and so you need to "pay up the kazoo" to get service.
Aunt Tilley bought her PC and it came with Windows XP preinstalled, has a web browser preassigned and an email program automatically assigned to her preassigned ISP built in already - so guess what..
she doesn't give a crap and wouldn't know what the hell all of you geeks in here are talking about.
A kernel to Aunt Tilley is a piece of corn... Jeez...
Talk about being out of touch....
The time article has been backed up..
h ot o_140102.jpg still works.
http://www.forked.net/www.timecanada.com/
But for sake of proof -
http://www.timecanada.com/weekly/070102/gr/TopP
the point is that it gives people a chance to migrate.
This is not unlike Mac OS X and Mac OS 9(great, I said Mac, there's a mod down, huh?)
While i'm migrating from 9 to X -
I get to see and feel the power of a competently built OS
I get to see that my machine does not crash every few minutes
i get to see how great it is to run 20 apps all at the same time and not crash the thing
i still get to crutch back to my apps that i love and won't give up just yet.
This is the point of Lindows.
I've been able to be 100% Mac OS X since early January 2001 thanks to Classic. I am now only two apps away from being Classic-free on my machine (PhotoShop and First Class Client). And it only took a year.
I think Lindows is a great idea - I think that if they can make WINE function as well as Apple made the Classic environment (nearly-seamless cut/copy/paste, drag-n-drop, etc) The screenshots seem to indicate this as their goal.
They will succeed in their target area if they succeed in their goals - companies who want to save $200 + licensing fees + fee to connect to the server on thier $500 computers.
My God - its more expensive for the SOFTWARE to run an all Windows operation now than it is to buy the hardware!
But you have to give people some means of getting to a Linux solution.. you can't drop them into it head first.. then you can start doing the transition from MS-only to MS-free... you just need that intermediate step.
That's Lindows.
(BTFW: the screenshots *are* faked - they show the GOAL of Lindows.. not what they have today - how is that so hard to understand? Do i have to draw a picture for you? Oh.. i guess it needs subtitles too.)
This thing is going to be a great stepping stone to get people to migrate off windows, and will set up LOD when the required apps - SunOffice 6.0, OpenOffice, etc - get made.
You have to move people gradually - they don't take well to violent shocks - that's how people made it from Windows 3.1 to XP - even though the OSes are NOTHING alike - the gradual change, plus enough backward compatibity got Microsoft to where they are now.
MS did DOS -> Windows 3.1 -> Windows 95 -> Windows 98 -> XP
Apple did 680x0 -> PPC, and they did it again with Mac OS -> Mac OS X.
Lindows is going to try to do Windows -> Linux + WINE (done right) -> Linux.
Its an idea who's time is come.
if you've got Mac OS X - you should get fire
...
:-( and I forget)
http://www.epicware.com/fire.html
works great, and handles AIM, ICQ, Jabber, irc, MSN, and Yahoo.
from the "About Fire" dialogue
Engineering
Eric Peyton
Interface Design
Borrowed from America Online with flourishes courtesy Eric Peyton. Some ICQ ideas taken from various ICQ clones
Icons
Rick Roe, Blake Harris
Fire Enhancements
The following people have made enhancements to Fire
Jason Fosback (jfosback@ubermind.com)
Brian Fitzpatrick (fitz@red-bean.com)
(way too many to list
Underlying Engine (libfaim)
Copyright 1998-1999 Adam Fritzler (afritz@iname.com)
Underlying Engine (icqlib)
http://kicq.sourceforge.net/kicq.shtml
Underlying Engine (libyahoo)
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gtkyahoo
Underlying Engine (msn library)
http://www.everybuddy.com
Underlying Engine (firetalk/irc)
http://www.penguinhosting.net/~ian/firetalk/
HTML (AIML) Rendering/Reading Engine
Copyright 1999 Stephen Peters (portnoy@portnoy.org)
Fire.app Written in Objective-C against the Cocoa API's using the underlying libfaim Unix/Linux library written in C, the icqlib source code written in C, and the gtkyahoo source code written in C and C++. I am using the firetalk library in C for irc communication and the msn library was borrowed from everybuddy.
Fire.app is released under the FSF GPL, as are libfaim, micq, and gtkyahoo. If you did not receive source with this version please contact Eric Peyton (epeyton@epicware.com) for the source, or visit http://www.epicware.com/fire.html.
or was it so obvoius that he's asking this for those reasons?
/. as something USEFUL.
I'm not complaming - i'm just finally glad to see
fight on!
then, we'll call them and tell them that the MPAA is infringing on someone's copyright..
you can figure out the rest.
Banjo - i bet and have now confirmed...
comes from one of the main Slashgeeks - Pudge.
he is a Perlgod and he has a super-cool black lab dog named Banjo.
Banjo completely rules, and if you ever get the chance to meet him, (banjo, not pudge), you're a lucky person indeed.
oh, and Pudge - "READ A BOOK!"