Mac OS X is Unix. It's essentially FreeBSD with a Mach microkernel.
I'm not trolling or anything, I just want to know because it's always confused me. I know FreeBSD is based on UNIX but I thought the purpose of it was to make a version of UNIX(or UNIX-like OS) that was free of any proprietary original AT&T UNIX code. And that they even had to remove a couple of files because of the suit brought against them by AT&T. Therefore wouldn't that just make *BSD a UNIX-clone or UNIX-like OS just like Linux or am I missing something. Everyone calls *BSD, UNIX, but it seems like it is just a UNIX clone to me.
you'll know who the artist is and can go out and buy the album that may have been unknown to you before.
Most lyric sites also list other albums by the same artist. I have often looked through the track listings of these albums, tried out a couple of songs on it and then bought the album as a result. I don't think lyric sites are causing any damages to the MPA, RIAA whatever. If anything the sites are increasing sales. I wish I had some money to give to the EFF or whoever can oppose these people.
Of course moving large files around will be much tolerable when using scsi disk rather than ide but when using ide I have found that Windows beomes completely unusuable when moving large files or burning a cd while Linux is able to handle such tasks much better while keeping the system still usable or at least more so than Windows(esp. if you use the cl to cp the file rather than a graphical file manager such as nautilus or konqueror).
I have used both Windows XP(at school and my girlfriends) and Linux(at my own home) and I find Linux to be *way* more responsive than Windows. While Linux could use some help, which like you said are being fixed in 2.5, I found my old system (P3 667Mhz with 256MB of ram) able to handle burning a cd and doing other task while remaining usuable all the while. However, using a much faster Windows XP machine(P4 1.5Ghz) I have to often stop what I am doing while buring a cd because switching between programs takes up to a minute at times, also moving large files makes the system completely unuseable. I've often found that I tend to make more coasters with Windows when running other apps while burning a cd, something I have never had a problem with when using Linux. To be fair the cd burner on the Windows computer is much faster than the one if my home Linux box which may attribute to the higher failure rate but I have even managed to make a couple of coasters when using it at a lower speed. The problem with the Windows' scheduler seems to be that it devotes 99% of the CPU to the task in the foreground while leaving other tasks struggling for CPU time. This makes the active task seem more responsive but makes it impossible to do any other CPU intensive task in the background such as burning a cd, moving a large file, or video processing, etc... So I would have to say that my XPerience has been completely different from yours and completely unacceptable in my eyes.
So despite all of those different little interpretations, most of which will be wrong by mathematical necessity, there is still only one Christianity.
I grew up in a Christian home and my dad has even preached in a couple of different churches. Every church I have been to have encouraged interpreting what the Bible says for yourself and determining what it means to be a Christian. The only requirement to being called a Christian that I have seen is accepting Jesus Christ as your savior.
In the same respect in order to be Unix compliant all you have to do is to follow the POSIX standards, so why not call Linux/BSD/etc. Unix as long as they follow those standards. Just as following the standards of Christianity(accepting Jesus) makes you a Christian.
Having said that, I use the specific name Linux, BSD, etc. when refering to a specific system but I tend to call it Unix when refering to the toolset and general philosophy of these systems.
While I agree with you and not with what the parent said about stupid people shouldn't be able to use computers, I think that people should know more about driving(not the cars themselves but how to use them) before they are allowed to get a driver's license. There are too many idiots on the road that drive slower than the speed limit in the fast lane, make illegal lane changes, don't use their blinkers, and make other *stupid* driving mistakes and shouldn't be able to have a driver's license. I personally think that getting a license should involve a more comprehensive test that involves a road test on actual roads instead of a closed track, even spreading the test out so that you are tested at different times of day with varying amounts of traffics. Also, everyone should be required to be retested every 20 years or so or at least at 65(when you are generally considered a senior citizen). However, such a test would cost way too much money and manpower to actually pull off which is a shame. </rant> Carry about your normal Slashdotting
At my middle school (not a "special" school but still full of idiots) kids stole the balls from the mice all the time. To get around this, they super glued the compartment shut which prevents theft of the balls but also makes it impossible to clean them if they start acting up.
The game seems ripe for a port to the new world of accelerated 3D hardware but surprisingly, no-one has done it.. until now.
Actually there is already a game that is a 3D version of marble madness called Trackballs. Very fun and challenging on some of the advance levels. They are looking for looking for additional levels if anybody wants to whip one up with the included level editor and contribute it.
I remembered an article on setting up a server to replace exchange in a Linux Journal a couple months back, and sure enough it used Insight Server which like the parent mentioned is expensive. But if you are interested here is the link http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6734
Sorry you have had such a bad experience with the GNOME team. I think that both your argument and theirs for simplicity both make good points. I'd hate to see it but if enough people feel the way you do(and it seems as though they do from the reaction i've being hearing about GNOME 2) I wouldn't be surprised to see a fork of GNOME 2 to add back in some the functionality from 1.4. But then again there is always 1.4 to use. I'll take your word on Gedit as I don't use it except for the occasionally viewing of readmes and whatnow(I use a combination of Vim and Emacs for everything else). It seems as though the GNOME team has been open to certain features as long as they don't "clutter" the ui(i.e. if you configure it using gconf-editor).
BTW E17 is looking very promising. Can't wait to give it a try when it is released.
I consider myself somewhat of a power user and while I too miss some of the functionality that is missing from GNOME 1.4 I find GNOME 2 vastly superior to 1.4 not just in eyecandy but b/c it just works and I'm not as tempted to tweak every little setting and instead I tend to get more actual work done as a result. Prior to GNOME 2 I only used 1.4 on brief occasions, I mostly used just a window manager like fluxbox and pekwm(http://pekwm.org - great lesser known wm btw), but I find myself using GNOME 2 all the time now or a combination of pekwm and a GNOME panel or two. Kudos to the GNOME guys for making a great DE that is both visually pleasing and just works!!
wtf? Does anybody else see this as uncommonly stupid?
What's stupid? That I bought it at about the same time it got cut off? or that it was three months behind? I didn't know it was three months behind, I offered to pay the bill several times but my mom refused and I had already bought the archos jukebox before it got cut off. If I would have known I would have put the money for the jukebox towards paying the internet bill but again I didn't know. Hope that clears things up. Anyways the archos jukebox rocks!
I have an Archos Jukebox Studio 10 (that's 10GB) and I just so happened to purchase it at about the exact time my internet access was cut off b/c we were about three months behind on the bill(i live at home with my mother and can't afford to move out). Anyways I have found my archos jukebox indespensible as I download files from the internet at my girlfriend's house and transfer them to my home computer. I still miss having an internet connection but being able to easily download files on another computer and transfer them to mine without having to deal with cd-rw's has made it much more bearable. This reminds me, I need to save up to catch up on the internet bill so that I can have it back for the summer.
I know this is completely offtopic but it deals with music at least. has anybody seen the xmms website? it says the site is offline while it is moving to a new location but the blinking and funky colors are hillarious. This page has detected stolen music on your harddrive - xmms.org conform to the standard RIAA-punishment of blinking webpages LOL;)
I would like to take this time to announce my newest patent on any software program that outputs the words "Hello World" or any variation including but now limited to the words "hello" and "world". If you see a violation of this patent, please contact me at patent_nazi@amaz0n.com
Has anyone with one of these homegrown TiVo type boxes tried to forward the video playback over X to view on your PC while browsing or other tasks? and if so what kind of performance have you experienced with playback? just curious sounds like a neat idea.
Some thing interesting from the transcript was when someone named Mays commented on a Mac ad: Here you have a world famous cellist who has spent 30 years of his life learning how to play a complex instrument saying he wants his computer to be "easy to use."
I think that this makes a good point that computers are complex "instruments" as well and should require time and practice to use effectively just as it takes time to play a cello well.
I just watched one of the samples as well on a 1.6 P4 and I got a whapping 3.6fbs. Also the 3 min clip is 99.3MB which makes it nowwhere near a competitor for divx compression. For example a typical 90 min movie would come in at about 3GB. Never has the Wintel coalition been more clear to me.
1. Microsoft comes out with a new video format requiring 2.4 GHz plus 2. ??? 3. Everyone sticks to their non HD but good enough DVDs
Although other system configurations may be able to playback this content, for an optimal experience we recommend at least a 2.4 GHz Intel or AMD Athlon XP 2100+ or higher processor and an AGP4x based NVIDIA or ATI video adapter card with at least 32 MB of RAM and the most recent OEM driver updates. The higher the data rate (in Mbps), the higher the resource requirement.
I don't see this catching on any time soon if it requires a 2.4GHz processor in order to experience the increase in quality. I'm frightened to see the system requirements for the upcoming windows 2003.
I read the book for school and it was absolutely hilarious with a lot of depth too. I would love the see the movie but I can't find it at any video store in my home town. I may have to order it online because the book was awesome. For some reason though others in my class didn't like it very much, it must of been over their head or something.
A great movie but didn't seem to catch on very much probably because it was in French and the voice over pretty much sucked. The French version with subtitles is much easier to watch because the your not constantly distracted by the strange sounding voices that don't match the actors.
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Mac OS X is Unix. It's essentially FreeBSD with a Mach microkernel.
I'm not trolling or anything, I just want to know because it's always confused me. I know FreeBSD is based on UNIX but I thought the purpose of it was to make a version of UNIX(or UNIX-like OS) that was free of any proprietary original AT&T UNIX code. And that they even had to remove a couple of files because of the suit brought against them by AT&T. Therefore wouldn't that just make *BSD a UNIX-clone or UNIX-like OS just like Linux or am I missing something. Everyone calls *BSD, UNIX, but it seems like it is just a UNIX clone to me.
I'm seriously not trolling, just want to know.
you'll know who the artist is and can go out and buy the album that may have been unknown to you before.
Most lyric sites also list other albums by the same artist. I have often looked through the track listings of these albums, tried out a couple of songs on it and then bought the album as a result. I don't think lyric sites are causing any damages to the MPA, RIAA whatever. If anything the sites are increasing sales. I wish I had some money to give to the EFF or whoever can oppose these people.
Of course moving large files around will be much tolerable when using scsi disk rather than ide but when using ide I have found that Windows beomes completely unusuable when moving large files or burning a cd while Linux is able to handle such tasks much better while keeping the system still usable or at least more so than Windows(esp. if you use the cl to cp the file rather than a graphical file manager such as nautilus or konqueror).
I have used both Windows XP(at school and my girlfriends) and Linux(at my own home) and I find Linux to be *way* more responsive than Windows. While Linux could use some help, which like you said are being fixed in 2.5, I found my old system (P3 667Mhz with 256MB of ram) able to handle burning a cd and doing other task while remaining usuable all the while. However, using a much faster Windows XP machine(P4 1.5Ghz) I have to often stop what I am doing while buring a cd because switching between programs takes up to a minute at times, also moving large files makes the system completely unuseable. I've often found that I tend to make more coasters with Windows when running other apps while burning a cd, something I have never had a problem with when using Linux. To be fair the cd burner on the Windows computer is much faster than the one if my home Linux box which may attribute to the higher failure rate but I have even managed to make a couple of coasters when using it at a lower speed. The problem with the Windows' scheduler seems to be that it devotes 99% of the CPU to the task in the foreground while leaving other tasks struggling for CPU time. This makes the active task seem more responsive but makes it impossible to do any other CPU intensive task in the background such as burning a cd, moving a large file, or video processing, etc... So I would have to say that my XPerience has been completely different from yours and completely unacceptable in my eyes.
So despite all of those different little interpretations, most of which will be wrong by mathematical necessity, there is still only one Christianity.
I grew up in a Christian home and my dad has even preached in a couple of different churches. Every church I have been to have encouraged interpreting what the Bible says for yourself and determining what it means to be a Christian. The only requirement to being called a Christian that I have seen is accepting Jesus Christ as your savior.
In the same respect in order to be Unix compliant all you have to do is to follow the POSIX standards, so why not call Linux/BSD/etc. Unix as long as they follow those standards. Just as following the standards of Christianity(accepting Jesus) makes you a Christian.
Having said that, I use the specific name Linux, BSD, etc. when refering to a specific system but I tend to call it Unix when refering to the toolset and general philosophy of these systems.
While I agree with you and not with what the parent said about stupid people shouldn't be able to use computers, I think that people should know more about driving(not the cars themselves but how to use them) before they are allowed to get a driver's license. There are too many idiots on the road that drive slower than the speed limit in the fast lane, make illegal lane changes, don't use their blinkers, and make other *stupid* driving mistakes and shouldn't be able to have a driver's license. I personally think that getting a license should involve a more comprehensive test that involves a road test on actual roads instead of a closed track, even spreading the test out so that you are tested at different times of day with varying amounts of traffics. Also, everyone should be required to be retested every 20 years or so or at least at 65(when you are generally considered a senior citizen). However, such a test would cost way too much money and manpower to actually pull off which is a shame.
</rant> Carry about your normal Slashdotting
Whoops, I didn't think about unscrewing the base so maybe glueing the ball compartment shut would be a good solution.
At my middle school (not a "special" school but still full of idiots) kids stole the balls from the mice all the time. To get around this, they super glued the compartment shut which prevents theft of the balls but also makes it impossible to clean them if they start acting up.
The game seems ripe for a port to the new world of accelerated 3D hardware but surprisingly, no-one has done it.. until now.
Actually there is already a game that is a 3D version of marble madness called Trackballs. Very fun and challenging on some of the advance levels. They are looking for looking for additional levels if anybody wants to whip one up with the included level editor and contribute it.
Does anybody know if this mod works with the ut2003_demo?
I remembered an article on setting up a server to replace exchange in a Linux Journal a couple months back, and sure enough it used Insight Server which like the parent mentioned is expensive. But if you are interested here is the link http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6734
Sorry you have had such a bad experience with the GNOME team. I think that both your argument and theirs for simplicity both make good points. I'd hate to see it but if enough people feel the way you do(and it seems as though they do from the reaction i've being hearing about GNOME 2) I wouldn't be surprised to see a fork of GNOME 2 to add back in some the functionality from 1.4. But then again there is always 1.4 to use. I'll take your word on Gedit as I don't use it except for the occasionally viewing of readmes and whatnow(I use a combination of Vim and Emacs for everything else). It seems as though the GNOME team has been open to certain features as long as they don't "clutter" the ui(i.e. if you configure it using gconf-editor).
BTW E17 is looking very promising. Can't wait to give it a try when it is released.
18 actually, I'm a senior in high school. and no she is not ugly :)
I consider myself somewhat of a power user and while I too miss some of the functionality that is missing from GNOME 1.4 I find GNOME 2 vastly superior to 1.4 not just in eyecandy but b/c it just works and I'm not as tempted to tweak every little setting and instead I tend to get more actual work done as a result. Prior to GNOME 2 I only used 1.4 on brief occasions, I mostly used just a window manager like fluxbox and pekwm(http://pekwm.org - great lesser known wm btw), but I find myself using GNOME 2 all the time now or a combination of pekwm and a GNOME panel or two. Kudos to the GNOME guys for making a great DE that is both visually pleasing and just works!!
wtf? Does anybody else see this as uncommonly stupid?
What's stupid? That I bought it at about the same time it got cut off? or that it was three months behind? I didn't know it was three months behind, I offered to pay the bill several times but my mom refused and I had already bought the archos jukebox before it got cut off. If I would have known I would have put the money for the jukebox towards paying the internet bill but again I didn't know. Hope that clears things up. Anyways the archos jukebox rocks!
I have an Archos Jukebox Studio 10 (that's 10GB) and I just so happened to purchase it at about the exact time my internet access was cut off b/c we were about three months behind on the bill(i live at home with my mother and can't afford to move out). Anyways I have found my archos jukebox indespensible as I download files from the internet at my girlfriend's house and transfer them to my home computer. I still miss having an internet connection but being able to easily download files on another computer and transfer them to mine without having to deal with cd-rw's has made it much more bearable.
This reminds me, I need to save up to catch up on the internet bill so that I can have it back for the summer.
I know this is completely offtopic but it deals with music at least. has anybody seen the xmms website? it says the site is offline while it is moving to a new location but the blinking and funky colors are hillarious. ;)
This page has detected stolen music on your harddrive - xmms.org conform to the standard RIAA-punishment of blinking webpages
LOL
Thanks. I'm about to go to work so mine will be open for quite a few hours as well.
I would like to take this time to announce my newest patent on any software program that outputs the words "Hello World" or any variation including but now limited to the words "hello" and "world". If you see a violation of this patent, please contact me at patent_nazi@amaz0n.com
Has anyone with one of these homegrown TiVo type boxes tried to forward the video playback over X to view on your PC while browsing or other tasks? and if so what kind of performance have you experienced with playback? just curious sounds like a neat idea.
Some thing interesting from the transcript was when someone named Mays commented on a Mac ad:
Here you have a world famous cellist who has spent 30 years of his life learning how to play a complex instrument saying he wants his computer to be "easy to use."
I think that this makes a good point that computers are complex "instruments" as well and should require time and practice to use effectively just as it takes time to play a cello well.
I just watched one of the samples as well on a 1.6 P4 and I got a whapping 3.6fbs. Also the 3 min clip is 99.3MB which makes it nowwhere near a competitor for divx compression. For example a typical 90 min movie would come in at about 3GB. Never has the Wintel coalition been more clear to me.
1. Microsoft comes out with a new video format requiring 2.4 GHz plus
2. ???
3. Everyone sticks to their non HD but good enough DVDs
Although other system configurations may be able to playback this content, for an optimal experience we recommend at least a 2.4 GHz Intel or AMD Athlon XP 2100+ or higher processor and an AGP4x based NVIDIA or ATI video adapter card with at least 32 MB of RAM and the most recent OEM driver updates. The higher the data rate (in Mbps), the higher the resource requirement.
I don't see this catching on any time soon if it requires a 2.4GHz processor in order to experience the increase in quality. I'm frightened to see the system requirements for the upcoming windows 2003.
I read the book for school and it was absolutely hilarious with a lot of depth too. I would love the see the movie but I can't find it at any video store in my home town. I may have to order it online because the book was awesome. For some reason though others in my class didn't like it very much, it must of been over their head or something.
A great movie but didn't seem to catch on very much probably because it was in French and the voice over pretty much sucked. The French version with subtitles is much easier to watch because the your not constantly distracted by the strange sounding voices that don't match the actors.