You're right - Bochs stinks, and VPC will continue to work fine. For now. The thing to remember is the little war that's erupted between Apple and Redmond on the software development front. Apple is doing its best to get rid of dependence on Microsoft software by developing a lot of stuff in-house - Safari replaces IE, or Keynote replaces PowerPoint, for example. Now there are rumors that Apple is working on an entire Office replacement. This could very well be Microsoft firing back - a lot of people depend on VPC for stuff that hasn't been ported to MacOS, and the prospect of a few reverse switchers could be an excellent bargaining chip for MS in the future. Apple spending a few bucks making Bochs run decently could help them hedge their bets against this kind of thing.
On top of that, bear in mind that right now VPC will run *any* PC operating system, not just Windows. While it's unlikely MS would discontinue VPC, I don't think anyone here would have a hard time imagining them dropping support for any non-Windows OS. Or even "legacy" OSs like Win95 or 3.1.
So if I were a VPC user, I wouldn't personally be concerned about this. But politically, Apple may have an interest.
But the researchers say the loophole does not apply to credit card transactions, as banks and e-commerce sites use a different type of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) technology.
Then after imploring those present to "kiss the rings", they emphasized that using your credit card was still entirely safe, and sped off in their newly purchased Mercedes-Benz M-Class SUVs.
I don't know why everyone is dumping on this idea so much. I have been using these cigarettes in conjunction with The Patch, and I haven't wanted a real cigarette in weeks.
All that said, if you dont like it the way it is, break out your EMacs, and Write something better, otherwise, quit bitching! Enough of these stupid reviews, you have all the code of these shitty projects. Rewrite the GUI for one. What? You dont feel like it? Then stop bitching.
Word for word, this is exactly what I tell my grandma when she tells me Linux is too hard to use! Have you considered a career in quality control?
I just don't get you mandrake naysayers. Have you tried Mandrake 9.0? You don't have to use KDE or Gnome, it's right there in the install. The following tips will surely change a few of your minds:
1. During installation, select "advanced" installation, rather than the default.
2. Be sure to add "Other Window Managers" in addition to KDE & Gnome
3. Make the selection during install that DOESN'T start X on bootup.
4. After installation, put a.xinitrc file in your home directory. Put "exec icewm", "exec fluxbox" or whatever you like for your window manager in it.
5. use urpmi.remove to get rid of the CD sources for package installation:
urpmi.removemedia "Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1)" urpmi.removemedia "Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2)" urpmi.removemedia "International CD (x86) (cdrom3)"
and replace them with an FTP source: urpmi.addmedia base-ftp ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with../base/hdlist.cz
and add the contrib source: urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/9.0/contrib/RPMS with synthesis.hdlist2.cz
so it never ever prompts you for CDs (assuming you've got broadband)
Add the plf software source: urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://plf.chem.yorku.ca/pub/plf/9.0 with hdlist.cz
Now, you can install just about anything you like with a simple "urpmi {package name}". For instance, if you want mutt, and you're also missing a lot of its dependencies, "urpmi mutt" will not only get mutt, but it will first get whatever is needed for mutt to run. FreeBSD addicts can surely appreciate that (ala the freebsd ports system).
I've been running MDK9.0 since the day it was out of beta and have never had these buggy problems that some of you complain about. No window manager problems (I use fluxbox), no nvidia problems (I've played many a LAN party with my box, never had a crash during crunch time yet), no problems of any kind.
You boneheads should give it a chance before blasting it. Don't try to use it as if it were some kind of RedHat clone, it's moved way beyond that in the last couple of years.
I consider this a pretty Good Thing overall though, especially if AOL adopts Gecko. With decently large groups of people using a range of different rendering engines, designers will have no choice but to stick to open standards instead of writing to one specific browser.
...you can also witness the carnage of the first ever Wil Wheaton versus Barney Celebrity Boxing Match! Can Wil, with his backing from the EFF, protect free speech and parody on the Internet and defeat Barney and his team of corporate lawyers?
Obviously I haven't really woken up this morning and this is some kind of weird Slashdot dream.
It turns out they just fell for some Finnish guy's scam (never send $1.5B of stock to a P.O. box!). He claimed he was selling PayPal "for a friend", but oddly became angry upon suggestion of sending it C.O.D. Unfortunately, due to their toothless fraud protection policies, it looks like they're just gonna have to suck it up and take the loss.
Better luck next time, eBay! They probably should have bought PayPal through an escrow service...
I wouldn't do this, my friend's sister's cousin tried getting a surgeon on eBay. He seemed nice and said he had great deals on triple bypass surgery because a "friend's" practice was going under and he wanted to use up the remaining surgical supplies as soon as possible. But the next thing she knew, she woke up in a bathtub of ice with two scars on her back and a note that said "Dial 911 Immediately"!!!!
At last, an empirical method to prove what the best books are! After all, everyone knows that Titanic is, scientifically, the best movie ever made. Finally, my Danielle Steele novels and R.L. Stine paperbacks will get the in-depth, intellectual criticism they've been *begging* for!
All I can say is that Theodore Gray is a genius. A career in chemistry, inventing Mathematica, and now building this Periodic Table...all while still a toddler! I predict big things for this little guy once he hits puberty.
Someone recently just made an all-Lego roller coaster, using monorail(or is it train?) parts and it does everything. Loop de loops, the works. Often passengers fall out, but it works.
Call me old-fashioned, but I've always considered perhaps the most important aspect of a roller coaster "working" is in its ability to not fling passengers to their doom.
I just imagine some engineer unveiling a new coaster where people are constantly shrieking and falling at the top of the loop-de-loop, and his boss pats him on the back and says, "Good job, Jenkins. It got all the way around the track this time!"
I think this outlines a fundamental problem in switching between OSen, though. When I first installed X, I installed ASM Menu, FruitMenu, everything I could find to make it as much as possible like MacOS 9. Over time, though, I've started trimming these bits back out because they really aren't neccesary. I was just trying to force my old UI preconceptions onto what was an entirely new OS, instead of adapting to fit what the UI was designed for.
In general, though, this article was really on point with a lot of the interface crap Apple has piled on in recent years (I hate Sherlock!!!). Although his hatred of animations might have shown a need to move on from OS9 - does he realize OSX is preemptively multitasked, thus allowing you to do other things while the app icon slides out of the dock?:)
All in all, even with the occasional human interface snafu, I love MacOS X. It's still a mite bit slower than OS 9, but the overall experience and quality makes booting into 9 seem like travelling back in time 20 years. The development environment is unmatched, and it's like running 3 OS's worth of software (OS9, OSX, and GNU/Linux/BSD/OSS/Gnome/what-have-you).
Also, they found the most networked of all Marvel heroes was Steve Rogers, Captain America himself. Unfortunately, this research was responsible for the incredibly boring "Apocalypse Protection" series, when Captain America just tried to sell insurance to other superheroes for like 10 straight issues.
I almost wonder if this is supposed to be some kind of satire, given that you can't spell "remeber" but claim to be able to "remember" the finer points of municipal sewage treatment at the drop of a hat. But there's an old saying - "No Slashdot post two or more levels deep is funny". Thus, I'm just going to assume you're an idiot and hoped nobody else would know how to search for things on Google.
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You're right - Bochs stinks, and VPC will continue to work fine. For now. The thing to remember is the little war that's erupted between Apple and Redmond on the software development front. Apple is doing its best to get rid of dependence on Microsoft software by developing a lot of stuff in-house - Safari replaces IE, or Keynote replaces PowerPoint, for example. Now there are rumors that Apple is working on an entire Office replacement. This could very well be Microsoft firing back - a lot of people depend on VPC for stuff that hasn't been ported to MacOS, and the prospect of a few reverse switchers could be an excellent bargaining chip for MS in the future. Apple spending a few bucks making Bochs run decently could help them hedge their bets against this kind of thing.
On top of that, bear in mind that right now VPC will run *any* PC operating system, not just Windows. While it's unlikely MS would discontinue VPC, I don't think anyone here would have a hard time imagining them dropping support for any non-Windows OS. Or even "legacy" OSs like Win95 or 3.1.
So if I were a VPC user, I wouldn't personally be concerned about this. But politically, Apple may have an interest.
But the researchers say the loophole does not apply to credit card transactions, as banks and e-commerce sites use a different type of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) technology.
Then after imploring those present to "kiss the rings", they emphasized that using your credit card was still entirely safe, and sped off in their newly purchased Mercedes-Benz M-Class SUVs.
We didn't pay him $127,000 to do this, no matter what anyone says.
Thank God! I was close to doubting Slashdot's journalistic integrity.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to read all 127 writeups on the CPU review at Tom's Hardware.
I don't know why everyone is dumping on this idea so much. I have been using these cigarettes in conjunction with The Patch, and I haven't wanted a real cigarette in weeks.
Word for word, this is exactly what I tell my grandma when she tells me Linux is too hard to use! Have you considered a career in quality control?
If all goes as planned all the great OSS software will be written to output this format in no time.
Actually, if all goes as planned in six and a half years there will be great OSS software at Milestone 15 able to render a sphere in only ten hours.
I just don't get you mandrake naysayers. Have you tried Mandrake 9.0? You don't have to use KDE or Gnome, it's right there in the install. The following tips will surely change a few of your minds:
.xinitrc file in your home directory. Put "exec icewm", "exec fluxbox" or whatever you like for your window manager in it.
a ke/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz
a ke/9.0/contrib/RPMS with synthesis.hdlist2.cz
1. During installation, select "advanced" installation, rather than the default.
2. Be sure to add "Other Window Managers" in addition to KDE & Gnome
3. Make the selection during install that DOESN'T start X on bootup.
4. After installation, put a
5. use urpmi.remove to get rid of the CD sources for package installation:
urpmi.removemedia "Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1)"
urpmi.removemedia "Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2)"
urpmi.removemedia "International CD (x86) (cdrom3)"
and replace them with an FTP source:
urpmi.addmedia base-ftp ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandr
and add the contrib source:
urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandr
so it never ever prompts you for CDs (assuming you've got broadband)
Add the plf software source:
urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://plf.chem.yorku.ca/pub/plf/9.0 with hdlist.cz
Now, you can install just about anything you like with a simple "urpmi {package name}". For instance, if you want mutt, and you're also missing a lot of its dependencies, "urpmi mutt" will not only get mutt, but it will first get whatever is needed for mutt to run. FreeBSD addicts can surely appreciate that (ala the freebsd ports system).
I've been running MDK9.0 since the day it was out of beta and have never had these buggy problems that some of you complain about. No window manager problems (I use fluxbox), no nvidia problems (I've played many a LAN party with my box, never had a crash during crunch time yet), no problems of any kind.
You boneheads should give it a chance before blasting it. Don't try to use it as if it were some kind of RedHat clone, it's moved way beyond that in the last couple of years.
Wow, it practically installs itself!
Not to mention it has a keyboard shortcut to instantly erase the cache. WHERE was this feature when I lived at home?!?!?
I consider this a pretty Good Thing overall though, especially if AOL adopts Gecko. With decently large groups of people using a range of different rendering engines, designers will have no choice but to stick to open standards instead of writing to one specific browser.
"Look how well it renders the steam coming off of those grits!"
You might want to send the output to /dev/null
Or stevecase@aol.com
twice
Obviously I haven't really woken up this morning and this is some kind of weird Slashdot dream.
Too .Net like? There's a big difference - Apple has actually explained what the hell .Mac is. :)
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these!
It turns out they just fell for some Finnish guy's scam (never send $1.5B of stock to a P.O. box!). He claimed he was selling PayPal "for a friend", but oddly became angry upon suggestion of sending it C.O.D. Unfortunately, due to their toothless fraud protection policies, it looks like they're just gonna have to suck it up and take the loss.
Better luck next time, eBay! They probably should have bought PayPal through an escrow service...
I wouldn't do this, my friend's sister's cousin tried getting a surgeon on eBay. He seemed nice and said he had great deals on triple bypass surgery because a "friend's" practice was going under and he wanted to use up the remaining surgical supplies as soon as possible. But the next thing she knew, she woke up in a bathtub of ice with two scars on her back and a note that said "Dial 911 Immediately"!!!!
I'm not exactly sure how this can be useful since the "robot" has no arms.
It can still protect the bridge to your house!
"It's only a flesh wound!"
The production, by Joel Greengrass and Rick Mueller, will be available May 11 on VHS.
Did Rick's brother Stavros put up the money for this?
At last, an empirical method to prove what the best books are! After all, everyone knows that Titanic is, scientifically, the best movie ever made. Finally, my Danielle Steele novels and R.L. Stine paperbacks will get the in-depth, intellectual criticism they've been *begging* for!
All I can say is that Theodore Gray is a genius. A career in chemistry, inventing Mathematica, and now building this Periodic Table...all while still a toddler! I predict big things for this little guy once he hits puberty.
Someone recently just made an all-Lego roller coaster, using monorail(or is it train?) parts and it does everything. Loop de loops, the works. Often passengers fall out, but it works.
Call me old-fashioned, but I've always considered perhaps the most important aspect of a roller coaster "working" is in its ability to not fling passengers to their doom.
I just imagine some engineer unveiling a new coaster where people are constantly shrieking and falling at the top of the loop-de-loop, and his boss pats him on the back and says, "Good job, Jenkins. It got all the way around the track this time!"
I think this outlines a fundamental problem in switching between OSen, though. When I first installed X, I installed ASM Menu, FruitMenu, everything I could find to make it as much as possible like MacOS 9. Over time, though, I've started trimming these bits back out because they really aren't neccesary. I was just trying to force my old UI preconceptions onto what was an entirely new OS, instead of adapting to fit what the UI was designed for.
:)
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In general, though, this article was really on point with a lot of the interface crap Apple has piled on in recent years (I hate Sherlock!!!). Although his hatred of animations might have shown a need to move on from OS9 - does he realize OSX is preemptively multitasked, thus allowing you to do other things while the app icon slides out of the dock?
All in all, even with the occasional human interface snafu, I love MacOS X. It's still a mite bit slower than OS 9, but the overall experience and quality makes booting into 9 seem like travelling back in time 20 years. The development environment is unmatched, and it's like running 3 OS's worth of software (OS9, OSX, and GNU/Linux/BSD/OSS/Gnome/what-have-you).
Plus I like those little animations.
Also, they found the most networked of all Marvel heroes was Steve Rogers, Captain America himself.
Unfortunately, this research was responsible for the incredibly boring "Apocalypse Protection" series, when Captain America just tried to sell insurance to other superheroes for like 10 straight issues.
I thought this was about a sexual harassment suit at Disney!
Congratulations on copying and pasting.
I almost wonder if this is supposed to be some kind of satire, given that you can't spell "remeber" but claim to be able to "remember" the finer points of municipal sewage treatment at the drop of a hat. But there's an old saying - "No Slashdot post two or more levels deep is funny". Thus, I'm just going to assume you're an idiot and hoped nobody else would know how to search for things on Google.