It wasn't supposed to, I was being extremely sarcastic. (it's monday for christ sake).
> I don't like keramik either, but I support giving the user the right to chose whatever they want. Besides, keramik reminds me more of Mozilla's old modern theme than Aqua, anyways.
I like choice, as much as anyone. But, I must admit.. I do believe that there is a point where less is more.
This isn't meant to spawn a flame thread, but your response was interesting and I would be interested to know what you think about the moving philosophy of simplifying gnome , in a less-is-more fashion. Redhat has definately done that with redhat 8.0, and I must say (after using it for 3-4 days) I -REALLY- like it.
I wish KDE would take that initive as well, though again I like what Redhat has done to 'cripple' KDE as well. (though, I find myself using gnome now exclusively).
hehe, for fun sometimes I head over dot.kde.org and read the flame fest over the new theme that will be defacto in KDE.
I used to use KDE for the exact reason I am now using gnome. It's more boring, tends to be more stable and doesn't change looks completely every 4-12 months.
I have to agree with bubbles, looks good on OS X , but leave it there.
This is the first time in months I have read an post on slashdot that mentions that (they/ someone/ their friend/whoever) works at a Fortune 500 company and I felt they are not a troll or blatenly full o chit.
The only ones that comes to mind is Dialpad and I-Link, both of which are alive and doing well. i-link has been re-bought by another company but is still doing the same thing, and have distribution with a few other companies I believe, Big Planet comes to mind. It's not an AT&T, but hardly gone with the wind.
You could argue the same thing about the DVD players with region encoding. Funny that my Aiwa (Sony) player can be de-region coded with a single code (first four digits of PI). Why do they do that? The bottom line. The know that there is enough people that will be buying those in europe, and won't buy them if they are not un-decodable.
Your not telling me that a little shit company in tiawan won't allow you to bios-disable the damn thing just to get a leg-up over the next guy.. (think MSI/Asus/etc.) There will ALWAYS be a way around it...
The day that it becomes so draconian as you have to go to the extremes of replacing bits inside the computer (think mod chips) is the day that a new platform comes out to fulfil a) consumer and b) hobbiests needs.
I personally could give a rats ass about paladium , I use Apple quipment. I know that Apple will always be against DRM as it gives them a competitive edge against MS. Think Rip Mix Burn.
The only thing that is really going to stop the show will be government legistlation, which will be an interesting show. I doubt that the EU, China, Japan, etc.(s) consumers are going to sit around and take it in the ass. I am -VERY- sure that american consumers are not going to sit around and take it in the ass while the rest of the world enjoys freedom of Non-DRM computing platforms.
I would still venture to say that 'security' is a bigger problem than with MS products than stability. It seems that the less exposure you have to the internet, the better off those machines are. Some people are merely browsing, though some prety nasty holes in IE exist in various versions that could render the computer useless.
Anyway, point taken.. thanks for the thoughtful reply.
As for productivity, there will be significantly less time spent on Blue Screens of death, software updates that break most of the functioning, software virii commandeering programs and wiping your hard drive clean and the like.
I must disagree. I have been running XP since it was released on my home workstation. I don't have Blue Screens or System crashes. I basically use it for playing games, and occasional net-meeting video conferencing with my friends. My wife prints her recepies and I use it to play games (did I mention that?:) I just don't have all these instability problems.
I think that we are at a point where the MS instability is fud for the most part. I am not reckless, and I don't open email attachments.. Period. I don't even use Outlook* , I use Moz Mail. I do use Office for occasional documents I need to whip up for work, but nothing special and Excel for tracking my consulting hours (though, both of which I now do on my tiBook w/OfficeX).
Where is the virus and instability? It's because I don't run reckless software on my machine. I consider downloaded software like getting a whore in the bad part of town.. sooner or later your going to get a bug. I just don't touch it, hense since windows2k I haven't really had any more problems to complain about than I have had with my redhat box sitting in the corner (virtually nill).
Frankly, I don't even bother with desktop on Linux anymore as I am just tired of it. Did it for 3 so years, and just got sick of using an inferior desktop. (Which is why my Mac is now my primary desktop).
Spam filters don't filter by recieving host, but by source host. I have the same configuration, I don't think anyone in the world would have any problems sending me an email as long as my isp doesn't change the IP address of my cable modem before I can change it on my DNS servers.
but, sending them is another story. Basically I send through my isp mail and I recieve on my local solaris box running sendmail & imap.
Even if the ISP blocks at port 25, thats usually outgoing and not incomming , and so recieving mail assuming your using dyn-dns or something of the sort, or have a static ip... shouldn't be a problem.
Yup, cause of mario I went and picked up a GC for my wife.:) She loves that game. I think that and Animal Crossing are two of the best games on the market right now, and not just for kids.
Honestly, when you look at most of the titles out... the majority of them are supported across all 3 platforms. Not that I am XBox biaas, but I do own a PS2, GameCube and a XBox. When it comes down to choosing which platform I am going to buy a game for, first xbox, second ps2. The only Gamecube games I pickup are either for my wife or kid.
when you add the the cost of 2 or 3 games on a platform, the relative 180 you can pickup a xbox at wallmart is not that much of a difference in the long run.
I use Veegeez (http://www.veegeez.com) anyway and just rent all my games. I have 6 games out at a time for 39 dollars a month. Owning all 3 platforms, I can choose best of breed on the games I want to have in my library. I have found myself spending less money doing that over the last 6 months without having to invest in a game that I usually get bored of after 3-4 weeks of casual play.
Having purchased all the platforms and considering the cost of a years subscription to Veegeez, it's still cheeper than what i was spending a year on PC Upgrades and software + PS2 + games and with this method of having all three platforms, and subscription only games I find myself enjoying most of the new big hits as they come out for all 3 platforms.
Maybe this is a bit of a rant, but I am anxious to see microsoft and sony succeed in the field, as there has been more evolutionary movements in terms of improving the gaming experience, hopefully moving to a more interactive and online experience.
Sony has not done much but just improve graphics quality on the game console. Other than that, there isn't much difference between PS1 + PS2. Dreamcast failed hopefully where microsoft will succeed in online gaming. I personally enjoy online experiences a lot more than off-line.
finally can sync my Handspring on OSX
on
iSync Beta Released
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
Without any kludgy work-arounds and anoyances. There hasn't been a non-classic solution to that in a while.
Hmm... i own both a playstation 2 and a xbox, and I find that most of the titles I am interested are out on both units. Most of the games, when compared against the Ps2 equiv, the xbox really shines. I do like the ps2 controllers better tho, thats one advantage. Stuntman is the only title i can think of that I really would like to find on the xbox, and can't.
.MAC is an accessorization to their hardware sales.
If your dumping $2.5k into a machine, whats another hundred bucks that make better use of your iApps.
I personally won't be splurdging on it as I have already got a dedicated unix server I use for email, webhosting, developoment, etc. I suppose if I didn't have that, maybe I would consider it.
I keep the lid closed at home just because of the lack of space. I have a 21" Sony monitor that basically consumes most of my desk. After putting down my coffee, I have barely enough space for my keyboard mouse:)...
but yeah, the dual config works GREAT for development. I was using it at the office for a while before my office came home. Now I find it more productive to just work on my regular monitor.
Also, have you noticed that when you have a java app in both windows... (ie. Jedit and IDEA) it slows down significantly in a dual head setup?
1. Unix unix unix. I am a programmer/admin for a bunch of unix boxes and 99% of my web applications etc. I am able to develop w/out any problems right on my laptop.
2. Good Java support. Finally.
3. Fast. I have heard complaints from other people, but my tiBook seems to run fine. It feels like it runs 2x faster than my G4 tower (466) and doesn't feel like a workstation when it's doc'd to my monitor and usb keyboard/mouse.
4. Da chit just works. I honestly don't have to monkey around with anything. I don't install hacks and wacks to make my windows different shapped or themed. I install the updates, trival as windows update really. I have IDEA and JEdit installed and they work great. The new iChat is pretty cool, different than GAIM which I have been pretty used to until now. But, I don't feel like I have to really monkey with anything to get things working.
5. Feeling of integration. I find myself using a lot of the same things, so not a huge deal. Mozilla & my two java apps (IDEA and JEdit) seem to sorta throw me once in a while, but for the most part.. most of the applications stick to the guidelines.
Dislikes.
1. Expensive. If I wasn't a moderatly well paid professional , it would of been impossible to afford it. ($3200 is a lot of money to me at least).
2. My model gets pretty hot. Almost freaks me out to where I am going to go buy a little caddy for the laptop and a small fan to keep it cool. I worry about it ruining the screen with the lid closed while using it as a desk-side workstation. My java apps tend to run a bit hot.
3. No Infrared.
4. Sometimes mediocre 802.11b reception, probably due to the titanium case.
5. Slows noticably if disk-io is sky-high. Though, my brother who has an iBook said that putting disk-intensive apps on a fire-wire drive run fantastic. Probably the small form-factor of a laptop hard disk. I remember having the same issue with my Sony Viao.
Overall I would say that is the best laptop I have ever purchased and I don't regret buying it. I figure even if Apple tanks 4 years from now, I will get my 2 year life cycle out of the unit with another 2 years on top of that for my wife or kids to use.
It's the first laptop I have ever owned that I find myself using as my primary workstation for development.
I feel like I am doing the same thing. I have my handspring visor, cell phone, tiBook, linux box and a few workstations (not including my workstation at the office..)
I have found my handspring gather dust lately. I am just tired of carying around all the crap.
One thing I have taken a look at is the http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/5a98.shtm l Cappuccino TX-3 Mini PC. It seems to have a VERY small form factor and a lot of power. It's still nothing close to the size of a OQO or a PocketPC, also not having a screen makes it useless as a portable unless it is docked.
Funny thing is.. I really don't need all the functionality of Windows XP. PocketPC would be fine, too bad no real docking though. Unless that machine is 1ghz plus (OQO), I cringe at thinking what it will perform like.
I don't know if I am waiting for a tablet, or what you have described.
I would love to be able to hook up a keyboard, mouse and VGA monitor to one of those little units. Something I can work on a word document, or even use as my 'email everywhere' workstation for office and home, currently am using my tiBook for that. w/WiFi I can surf slashdot at home on sofa (already have the hub). The only thing that is holding me back, I feel like I won't really get the full functionality of it unless I can dock it with a VGA / mouse / keyboard. I guess I am waiting until I can do that before doing much more. A 400 mhz processor running embedded CE is fast enough to do the office docs / email.. but geezus the interface with a pen sucks.
I run XP on one of my workstations at home, and have been since it's been released. (Use for games, and quicken) . anyway the past 5-10 years that I have been using windows I have never had one of these crazy security issues. I wonder how many people on slashdot have. Using any operating system is like living in a huge city. Sure, it's dangerous.. but keep your nose out of trouble and you shouldn't have any problems. I don't open email attachments from people.. that probably the biggest thing. Unix can be just as dangerous, the irony is it's the users themselves that are their worst enemies. I don't know how many times I Have helped my friend rebuild his redhat box because he did something silly. Ironically he has been using the same windows 98 machine for almost 3 years without a re-install (until a few weeks ago, he finally threw win2k on it)..
Slashdot Mirror
> Your math isn't exactly adding up.
It wasn't supposed to, I was being extremely sarcastic. (it's monday for christ sake).
> I don't like keramik either, but I support giving the user the right to chose whatever they want. Besides, keramik reminds me more of Mozilla's old modern theme than Aqua, anyways.
I like choice, as much as anyone. But, I must admit.. I do believe that there is a point where less is more.
This isn't meant to spawn a flame thread, but your response was interesting and I would be interested to know what you think about the moving philosophy of simplifying gnome , in a less-is-more fashion. Redhat has definately done that with redhat 8.0, and I must say (after using it for 3-4 days) I -REALLY- like it.
I wish KDE would take that initive as well, though again I like what Redhat has done to 'cripple' KDE as well. (though, I find myself using gnome now exclusively).
Cheers
hehe, for fun sometimes I head over dot.kde.org and read the flame fest over the new theme that will be defacto in KDE.
I used to use KDE for the exact reason I am now using gnome. It's more boring, tends to be more stable and doesn't change looks completely every 4-12 months.
I have to agree with bubbles, looks good on OS X , but leave it there.
This is the first time in months I have read an post on slashdot that mentions that (they/ someone/ their friend/whoever) works at a Fortune 500 company and I felt they are not a troll or blatenly full o chit.
congradulations
Another example of what happens when 12 month old puppies are dealt moderation points.
Keep the animals in their respective cages por favor.
geezus.. the powerbook is one of the sexiest laptops on the market. Doesnt't look like a lamp or an egg.
The only ones that comes to mind is Dialpad and I-Link, both of which are alive and doing well. i-link has been re-bought by another company but is still doing the same thing, and have distribution with a few other companies I believe, Big Planet comes to mind. It's not an AT&T, but hardly gone with the wind.
You could argue the same thing about the DVD players with region encoding. Funny that my Aiwa (Sony) player can be de-region coded with a single code (first four digits of PI). Why do they do that? The bottom line. The know that there is enough people that will be buying those in europe, and won't buy them if they are not un-decodable.
Your not telling me that a little shit company in tiawan won't allow you to bios-disable the damn thing just to get a leg-up over the next guy.. (think MSI/Asus/etc.) There will ALWAYS be a way around it...
The day that it becomes so draconian as you have to go to the extremes of replacing bits inside the computer (think mod chips) is the day that a new platform comes out to fulfil a) consumer and b) hobbiests needs.
I personally could give a rats ass about paladium , I use Apple quipment. I know that Apple will always be against DRM as it gives them a competitive edge against MS. Think Rip Mix Burn.
The only thing that is really going to stop the show will be government legistlation, which will be an interesting show. I doubt that the EU, China, Japan, etc.(s) consumers are going to sit around and take it in the ass. I am -VERY- sure that american consumers are not going to sit around and take it in the ass while the rest of the world enjoys freedom of Non-DRM computing platforms.
Good points though.
and this got modded +1 funny?!
lmfao!!!!!
Good points.
I would still venture to say that 'security' is a bigger problem than with MS products than stability. It seems that the less exposure you have to the internet, the better off those machines are. Some people are merely browsing, though some prety nasty holes in IE exist in various versions that could render the computer useless.
Anyway, point taken.. thanks for the thoughtful reply.
As for productivity, there will be significantly less time spent on Blue Screens of death, software updates that break most of the functioning, software virii commandeering programs and wiping your hard drive clean and the like.
:) I just don't have all these instability problems.
I must disagree. I have been running XP since it was released on my home workstation. I don't have Blue Screens or System crashes. I basically use it for playing games, and occasional net-meeting video conferencing with my friends. My wife prints her recepies and I use it to play games (did I mention that?
I think that we are at a point where the MS instability is fud for the most part. I am not reckless, and I don't open email attachments.. Period. I don't even use Outlook* , I use Moz Mail. I do use Office for occasional documents I need to whip up for work, but nothing special and Excel for tracking my consulting hours (though, both of which I now do on my tiBook w/OfficeX).
Where is the virus and instability? It's because I don't run reckless software on my machine. I consider downloaded software like getting a whore in the bad part of town.. sooner or later your going to get a bug. I just don't touch it, hense since windows2k I haven't really had any more problems to complain about than I have had with my redhat box sitting in the corner (virtually nill).
Frankly, I don't even bother with desktop on Linux anymore as I am just tired of it. Did it for 3 so years, and just got sick of using an inferior desktop. (Which is why my Mac is now my primary desktop).
Hmm.. for me it's http://www.spamassassin.org
The # 1 reason to run your own mail server.
I was getting 40+ spams per day, and now I don't get any.. period. end of story.
It took me a full day to get it all setup (email, spam assassin, etc), but once I got through it all.. configured imap, etc. It was pretty sweet.
I have it running on my solaris box under my desk, but it would easily be installable onto any unix/linux/osx/whatever box you have kicking around.
Cheers
Spam filters don't filter by recieving host, but by source host. I have the same configuration, I don't think anyone in the world would have any problems sending me an email as long as my isp doesn't change the IP address of my cable modem before I can change it on my DNS servers.
but, sending them is another story. Basically I send through my isp mail and I recieve on my local solaris box running sendmail & imap.
Even if the ISP blocks at port 25, thats usually outgoing and not incomming , and so recieving mail assuming your using dyn-dns or something of the sort, or have a static ip... shouldn't be a problem.
cheers
Yup, cause of mario I went and picked up a GC for my wife. :) She loves that game. I think that and Animal Crossing are two of the best games on the market right now, and not just for kids.
Honestly, when you look at most of the titles out
when you add the the cost of 2 or 3 games on a platform, the relative 180 you can pickup a xbox at wallmart is not that much of a difference in the long run.
I use Veegeez (http://www.veegeez.com) anyway and just rent all my games. I have 6 games out at a time for 39 dollars a month. Owning all 3 platforms, I can choose best of breed on the games I want to have in my library. I have found myself spending less money doing that over the last 6 months without having to invest in a game that I usually get bored of after 3-4 weeks of casual play.
Having purchased all the platforms and considering the cost of a years subscription to Veegeez, it's still cheeper than what i was spending a year on PC Upgrades and software + PS2 + games and with this method of having all three platforms, and subscription only games I find myself enjoying most of the new big hits as they come out for all 3 platforms.
Maybe this is a bit of a rant, but I am anxious to see microsoft and sony succeed in the field, as there has been more evolutionary movements in terms of improving the gaming experience, hopefully moving to a more interactive and online experience.
Sony has not done much but just improve graphics quality on the game console. Other than that, there isn't much difference between PS1 + PS2. Dreamcast failed hopefully where microsoft will succeed in online gaming. I personally enjoy online experiences a lot more than off-line.
Without any kludgy work-arounds and anoyances. There hasn't been a non-classic solution to that in a while.
because they don't exist, not as you expect it.
You can get ant to compile easily by writing a simple make file that executes the ANT build file though.
Hmm... i own both a playstation 2 and a xbox, and I find that most of the titles I am interested are out on both units. Most of the games, when compared against the Ps2 equiv, the xbox really shines. I do like the ps2 controllers better tho, thats one advantage. Stuntman is the only title i can think of that I really would like to find on the xbox, and can't.
oh.. and vice city when that comes out.
.MAC is an accessorization to their hardware sales.
If your dumping $2.5k into a machine, whats another hundred bucks that make better use of your iApps.
I personally won't be splurdging on it as I have already got a dedicated unix server I use for email, webhosting, developoment, etc. I suppose if I didn't have that, maybe I would consider it.
Amen brotha,
I went out and spent 100 bucks on an audigy just for that stupid game.
This month I purchased an XBox and vow never to do that again.
I keep the lid closed at home just because of the lack of space. I have a 21" Sony monitor that basically consumes most of my desk. After putting down my coffee, I have barely enough space for my keyboard mouse
but yeah, the dual config works GREAT for development. I was using it at the office for a while before my office came home. Now I find it more productive to just work on my regular monitor.
Also, have you noticed that when you have a java app in both windows... (ie. Jedit and IDEA) it slows down significantly in a dual head setup?
Cheers
I am on a tiBook (800)...
Things I like:
1. Unix unix unix. I am a programmer/admin for a bunch of unix boxes and 99% of my web applications etc. I am able to develop w/out any problems right on my laptop.
2. Good Java support. Finally.
3. Fast. I have heard complaints from other people, but my tiBook seems to run fine. It feels like it runs 2x faster than my G4 tower (466) and doesn't feel like a workstation when it's doc'd to my monitor and usb keyboard/mouse.
4. Da chit just works. I honestly don't have to monkey around with anything. I don't install hacks and wacks to make my windows different shapped or themed. I install the updates, trival as windows update really. I have IDEA and JEdit installed and they work great. The new iChat is pretty cool, different than GAIM which I have been pretty used to until now. But, I don't feel like I have to really monkey with anything to get things working.
5. Feeling of integration. I find myself using a lot of the same things, so not a huge deal. Mozilla & my two java apps (IDEA and JEdit) seem to sorta throw me once in a while, but for the most part
Dislikes.
1. Expensive. If I wasn't a moderatly well paid professional , it would of been impossible to afford it. ($3200 is a lot of money to me at least).
2. My model gets pretty hot. Almost freaks me out to where I am going to go buy a little caddy for the laptop and a small fan to keep it cool. I worry about it ruining the screen with the lid closed while using it as a desk-side workstation. My java apps tend to run a bit hot.
3. No Infrared.
4. Sometimes mediocre 802.11b reception, probably due to the titanium case.
5. Slows noticably if disk-io is sky-high. Though, my brother who has an iBook said that putting disk-intensive apps on a fire-wire drive run fantastic. Probably the small form-factor of a laptop hard disk. I remember having the same issue with my Sony Viao.
Overall I would say that is the best laptop I have ever purchased and I don't regret buying it. I figure even if Apple tanks 4 years from now, I will get my 2 year life cycle out of the unit with another 2 years on top of that for my wife or kids to use.
It's the first laptop I have ever owned that I find myself using as my primary workstation for development.
Cheers
Wow, thanks for the link.
m l Cappuccino TX-3 Mini PC. It seems to have a VERY small form factor and a lot of power. It's still nothing close to the size of a OQO or a PocketPC, also not having a screen makes it useless as a portable unless it is docked.
I feel like I am doing the same thing. I have my handspring visor, cell phone, tiBook, linux box and a few workstations (not including my workstation at the office..)
I have found my handspring gather dust lately. I am just tired of carying around all the crap.
One thing I have taken a look at is the http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/5a98.sht
Funny thing is.. I really don't need all the functionality of Windows XP. PocketPC would be fine, too bad no real docking though. Unless that machine is 1ghz plus (OQO), I cringe at thinking what it will perform like.
Cheers
I don't know if I am waiting for a tablet, or what you have described.
I would love to be able to hook up a keyboard, mouse and VGA monitor to one of those little units. Something I can work on a word document, or even use as my 'email everywhere' workstation for office and home, currently am using my tiBook for that. w/WiFi I can surf slashdot at home on sofa (already have the hub). The only thing that is holding me back, I feel like I won't really get the full functionality of it unless I can dock it with a VGA / mouse / keyboard. I guess I am waiting until I can do that before doing much more. A 400 mhz processor running embedded CE is fast enough to do the office docs / email.. but geezus the interface with a pen sucks.
Anyway, interested in your experience with that.
Cheers
I run XP on one of my workstations at home, and have been since it's been released. (Use for games, and quicken) . anyway the past 5-10 years that I have been using windows I have never had one of these crazy security issues. I wonder how many people on slashdot have. Using any operating system is like living in a huge city. Sure, it's dangerous.. but keep your nose out of trouble and you shouldn't have any problems. I don't open email attachments from people.. that probably the biggest thing. Unix can be just as dangerous, the irony is it's the users themselves that are their worst enemies. I don't know how many times I Have helped my friend rebuild his redhat box because he did something silly. Ironically he has been using the same windows 98 machine for almost 3 years without a re-install (until a few weeks ago, he finally threw win2k on it)..