Just like last year, and the year before, and ....
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Shorthorns can come talk to me after they win a National Championship with someone that didn't coach, play or come from Oklahoma.
Note: Daryl Royal played for Bud W. Note: Mac Brown was a Switzer assistant. Note: "Texas, it's like a whole 'nother country" is the most fitting slogan I've ever heard. (I lived in Dallas and have never seen so much fake hair, fake tits, fake millionaires, and fake people. Funny thing is after living there the A&M fans are worse than the UT fans, who would have thought that?)
When you run Remote Desktop Connection the user is locked out of their screen, you can only export to one computer, and it's security is not what I would call "trustworthy".
VNC kicks the hell out of RDC in WinXP (and I use both at work).
VNC is how I got linux in to my MS based company.
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We were looking to do demos for our software (web based) and wanted to be able to do something like webex (I'd link but their website is down! guess I'm glad I didn't pick them!).
For 1 demo using their system to 15 clients it was going to run between $800-$1200 for 1 to 1.5 hours. I told my boss we could test a solution for free on my box (dual boot Linux/win2000) and if it worked it would be $1200 one time. I demoed to our higher ups and we have a salesman that is using it 2-3 times a day and since our corporate office has conference phone systems already they are free (already a paid service, so why pay twice?).
In the end we spend $800 on the hardware $320 on VMWare $0 on VNC/xfrbserver (spelling?) to export to multiple hosts, and we have an MSDN subscription so I run Win98 in VMWare so the person demoing feels at home (even though it would have worked in Linux w/Netscape the sales people and clients are more comfortable in Windows).
At first they found it a little confusing. But now it's all the rave and I just bring it up remotely (or from the office) and keep an eye on it to make sure they dont accidentally close the exporting server (xf0bserver?), you'd be surprised how many times they kill their own demo!!!! lol...
Anyway since it was so successful I'm implementing a solution to automate offsite backups using sftp/ssh and encrypting our backups daily.
I hope for their sake they never make the mistake of firing me b/c noone else could even tell you what ls does!!! lol.... ensuring job security by doing a good job, saving money, and implementing solutions they dont understand.
Lol, you called your shot Babe! (as in Ruth)
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I'm impressed with the called shot of Flamebait. However it might not have been flamebait had you backed up your post. Realistically I don't see anything wrong with the description of Darwin. #1 it is aqualicious (I'm assuming this as a good adjective) and it damn sure is expensive (I have 3 mac's and they are worth every penny). So if you had commented as to why that was an incorrect description maybe you wouldn't have had to call your own shot.
lags months behind (although they appear to be getting a little better). So far I've only seen people that have problems with their hinges (which is pathetic). But for a compareable Thinkpad to my Inspiron at the time it would have cost $2300 to the $1600 I spent at Dell, and they didn't offer any graphics cards over 8mb (I have an 8100) and the only option for the 15" was 1600x1200 which is too small for me (my dell is at 1400x1050). In the end I've got exactly what I want, for the price I want and a 3 year warranty as well (instead of 1 year from IBM).
Now I do agree IBM's are top notch. In fact that is why I got a Dell. I wanted a point stick/eraser head since that was my favorite laptop (ahhh the good old days of Arthur Andersen, pre-meltdown). I just couldn't pay more for less hardware/software simply over a hinge that may or maynot cause me a problem. Plus I'm very careful with all my things (being poor as a child makes you respect what you own).
I'd get chills when a guard walked behind my hiding spot. One of my favorite games ever.
Thief (1 & 2), Ultima III & IV (Apple//e classic), CounterStrike (I have 3 copys of HL and have never played it!), TennisAddict (PocketPC) best handheld game, Spider Solitare (MS I know bad sooner), Neverwinter (if this were out when I was in college I would have never graduated).
She almost kicked my moms ass (they live together, it's like watching a free sitcom every visit) when she switched her from AOL to a LAN connection on her Cox Cable.
I never heard the end of it. AOL was so much easier. I had her show me how it worked and for the life of me it was the most confusing/busy interface I've ever seen. If Grandma can master AOL she could probably use Putty.
It's like a thinkpad, only cheaper, custom configured, and a hell of a lot easier to install linux on.
That being said I have to agree with the thread stating they need more than one mouse button. If they had a point-stick I would have purchased an Apple instead of a Dell. And it is that simple as to why I chose one over the other.
My company runs Linux & Solaris on the server side and Windows/OS 9/OS X/Linux/whatever works/... on the desktop. As long as you can sftp/ssh to a server then you can choose whatever tool you want. I love OS X I just want more buttons without having to go out and buy a new mouse for my laptop/desktop.
Note to Apple: G5 + 2 Button Mouse with Scroll Wheel acting as 3rd button (see Microsoft IntelliMouse, it's the only thing they've done worth a damn in my opinion, oh yeah natural keyboard too, i freaking hate standard keyboards).
Steve and Bill's egos cannot fit in the same state at the same time. That's why when Bill was at the Expo announcing the MS stock purchase it was via satellite.
Notice you never see Steve and Bill in the same room, Hmmmm kind of like Clarke Kent and Superman!!! Only in this case it's super ego and super dork (both can be used for either person).
Me: Okay Grandma here's Putty, it's for connecting to my servers via ssh/sftp/ftp or telnet.
Grandma: [confusion on face] what was that honey?
Me: Oh come on now Grandma don't be coy. You know you've been secretly sshing into my servers to check your AOL mail via Pine.
Grandma: [with a look on her face like she just smoked a QP of weed] huh?
Me: Grandma? You still in there?
I can see it now Putty for the family, everyone huddled around the PC roasting chestnuts, securing their linux boxes, checking top to see current system utilization, running ps to see if there are any runaway processes...
lol, great post, PuTTY. I've got tears man, tears!
If you think open sourcing OS X is a good idea maybe you should try running a business that way. Call me when you succeed (or leave a note on my grave stone when we reach eternity and you succeed).
I run os 9 on a PowerPC 8500 180 w/100MB Ram and a 2GB SCSI disk and it's lighting fast. On my PowerPC G3-333MHz 10.2 is slower than crap. Hell OS X 10.1.5 isn't fast on my G4 733, I've yet to upgrade to 10.2 even though the disks are setting there! It works and that is all I really need.
To answer his question all you need is all the lab macs facing the same direction and have some huge woman wrestler stand at the back of the room with her arms crossed and an angry look on her face. Women don't screw around generally in computer labs, and the boys that do don't want their ass kicked by a big burly woman.
That is exactly what I was trying to say. And if it doesn't scare you it should.
MS can easily do this with about 1-2 years of effort (well actually 3-4 because they are a tad slow).
The only reason I believe this will never happen (or at least not until everyone stops using Windows) is it would be like apologizing to your wife after a fight. It's right, it's what you should do (when you're wrong), and it hurts your pride (MS has a lot of pride).
MS makes 2 to 3 times what they do on Windows by selling Office. Why do you think office.x is available for OS X? Hell if you've ever used it you'd be shocked at how much nicer it is than Office XP (although most of that can be contributed to the Apple Aqua interface).
Apple could give OS X away for free but why? And the dumbest move they could ever make would be to open source (GPL) OS X (GUI). It would be on x86 so fast your head would spin. Then their hardware sales go from 3~5% of the market to 0%.
With out breaking the DMCA you couldn't reverse engineer MS Linux and therfore prove they were violating the GPL. With 40 Billion in the bank they can afford better/more lawyers (hell they can buy laws) than the Open Source community.
That is what scares me. Personally I like OS X over windows and linux.
They would give the core OS code back to the community as GPL states. However, like Apple whatever they decide to run on top of it can still be proprietary. There is not 1 thing in the GPL that says I cannot produce a GUI that runs on top of Linux (I think you're confusing Linux and XWindows as the same thing).
Again how does anything your saying differ from what I said in the earlier post? As soon as you can post the source code to OS X (which is not Darwin or it would be running on x86 right now) then I'll believe MS couldn't kill Linux, etc. Until then actually try to read my post before commenting (I realize this is slashdot and there is a 1 line minimum of reading before commenting).
Do what Apple did with OS X but use Linux instead. Ignore X-Windows and any kernel development that is made you release under GPL. Now Windows will still be a proprietary system (like OS X) but they will have a system that scales, is secure, cost them next to nothing to develop (the base OS like darwin) and will be very competitive with any Unix variant free or not that is thrown at MS/Linux (no GNU necessary as there is no GNU/Darwin/OS X) or better yet just call it MS Windows/NX.
If MS did this it would kill, Linux, OS X, Solaris (and all the Unix variants). Granted this is just my opinion but realistically there is nothing to stop them from doing this. Hell even better yet just take the Linux code out there, freeze it and make your own MS Linux Kernel fork and that will REALLY piss some people off, but there isn't a damn thing they could do.
Being an OS X fan I hope to hell this never happens but beware of your fears (as this is one of mine!).
If apple goes the drm route all my posts lauding the PPC/OS X platform will die a quick death.
This could be the application that gives apple the needed boost from 5% to 10~15%.
Personally I'm betting on Apple. I know it's a risky venture but I believe they can grow beyond a niche market. My companies software is being developed concurrently for Apple/Linux/Windows and will be offered at the same time on all systems. It is specialized s/w that would never appear in BestBuy or Fry's but if Apple proves to be worthy (which I believe it will), my company will continue to develop products for it and support our clients using Apple. All that being said I'm still hedging my bet by developing for Windows and Linux (fyi the apple development is done in Cocoa/Java/Interface Builder, the linux development is all Java/JFC (cannot wait for 1.5 and cleaned up Swing, they really need to trash it and just start from scratch), and windows is.Net/CLR/VB/C# this is because the classes converting to C# from Java are almost identical! Lol, MS thieves).
Personally if I had to dictate to the world what to use I would say go with Mac & OS X, but choice is also a good thing (keeping the megacorps on their toes).
faster!!!! That is my only complaint so far with my new mac (G4 Tower). OS X is great! They should put me in one of those damn switch commercials, I mean hell I meet the requirements: I'm ugly, I am a nerd, I'm weird (come on I live in Oklahoma BY CHOICE!!!), I regularly visit the local apple store (Willow Bend Mall in Frisco aka Dallas), I have 3 Macs now 4 months after buying my first one, and I've bought every OS since 7.6 off eBay in the last 3 months!! (My wife is pissed off, hope our trip to New Orleans cheers her up or I'm (not) screwed!)
Apple OS X == Unix + Great UI (this is the unique part)
BTW dont buy a fucking Belkin KVM, mine is a piece of shit. If I type too much it shits out (which comes in really handy when playing online games). And I only have 2 computers hooked up to it (2 are monitor only b/c the Apple converter for ps/2 is a waste + I like the apple keyboards and mice).
That being said I will probably switch to 802.11a when Apple supports it. I have a DLink 802.11b and DLink NIC for my (PC) Laptop and it's really fast. The Apple AirPort is slower than grandma driving to the "beauty shop". Kind of sad really, I get this sweet computer with wireless networking and still have it plugged in!
Oh well, I really shouldn't complain. OS X is unbelieveable. It's like running linux but having real commercial apps available (Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Acrobat(full),...) and a standard UI to boot!
Just because someone chooses to ignore the law (or claim ignorance) does not make what they are doing legal. However, there is a large divide between what is "legal" what is "moral" and what constraints should really exist.
For example, doing drugs is illegal but in reality is it immoral? or wrong? What if that drug were aspirin? caffienne? alcohol (remember we tried that once)? The laws should exist there to protect us from each other not to protect us from ourselves, in my opinion of course.
Personally I hate hackers because my f'ing Windows Box would get hacked regularly since I didn't have 2 hours a day to check on patches. I switched to Linux on the server side and haven't looked back. So my result was beneficial as a result of being hacked. However, if I could get my hands around the throat of the mofo's (1 in taiwan and one in italy) after working all weekend to repair the damage, believe me you couldn't get a drop of water down their throats because I'd be squeezing so hard.
In short, if you don't like the rules of your society either work to change the laws, ignore the laws (at your own risk), or move. Either way no matter where you go, stupid laws will follow (except Sealand, but they won't let you immigrate).
I have yet to see anything from Linux that touches OS X. I started with Slackware (as you could have read in my previous post) and have used RedHat, Gentoo, FreeBSD, Caldera (which was surprisingly good with the exception of updates), and Suse.
There is no desktop in linux that comes close to Aqua and here is the reason why. There is no standard development API between window managers and there isn't 1 direction but 1000. Try to make anything worth a shit for that. Why do you think all the "Real" applications that need a good UI are missing on Linux? Because it's a piece of shit. The killer app for Linux is a whole new implementation of XWindows. If a company can do that and have backing from the biggies (Adobe, Macromedia, Sun,...) That would give Linux a fighting chance on the desktop. Until that day, OS X kicks the shit out of XWindows. And I'll take Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat (full), and Illustrator over the junk that people try to get working with Linux any day. $1000 for Design Studio and greater productivity is worth a lot. So while you're tweaking KDE3 to work the way you want I've got real work to do.
Oh and by the way dipshit my applications are server side apps running on Apache/Tomcat on top of RedHat Linux. My arguement isnt that Mac is great and Linux sucks, it's Linux on the Desktop sucks. However, there is no better OS for servers in my opinion than Linux, although OS X Server is gaining ground quickly and has a great UI (again).
One more thing AC, I've got 3 Macs (180/333/733) 8 PCs (P4-2.4GHz, AlthlonXP 1700, Dual P3-933, Celeron 1.2GHz, P3-450, P3-1.13GHz,...) and an Ultra SPARC 440MHz IIi. So you keep on developing your "real software" and when you get out of high school give me a yell.
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Shorthorns can come talk to me after they win a National Championship with someone that didn't coach, play or come from Oklahoma.
Note: Daryl Royal played for Bud W.
Note: Mac Brown was a Switzer assistant.
Note: "Texas, it's like a whole 'nother country" is the most fitting slogan I've ever heard. (I lived in Dallas and have never seen so much fake hair, fake tits, fake millionaires, and fake people. Funny thing is after living there the A&M fans are worse than the UT fans, who would have thought that?)
When you run Remote Desktop Connection the user is locked out of their screen, you can only export to one computer, and it's security is not what I would call "trustworthy".
VNC kicks the hell out of RDC in WinXP (and I use both at work).
We were looking to do demos for our software (web based) and wanted to be able to do something like webex (I'd link but their website is down! guess I'm glad I didn't pick them!).
For 1 demo using their system to 15 clients it was going to run between $800-$1200 for 1 to 1.5 hours. I told my boss we could test a solution for free on my box (dual boot Linux/win2000) and if it worked it would be $1200 one time. I demoed to our higher ups and we have a salesman that is using it 2-3 times a day and since our corporate office has conference phone systems already they are free (already a paid service, so why pay twice?).
In the end we spend $800 on the hardware $320 on VMWare $0 on VNC/xfrbserver (spelling?) to export to multiple hosts, and we have an MSDN subscription so I run Win98 in VMWare so the person demoing feels at home (even though it would have worked in Linux w/Netscape the sales people and clients are more comfortable in Windows).
At first they found it a little confusing. But now it's all the rave and I just bring it up remotely (or from the office) and keep an eye on it to make sure they dont accidentally close the exporting server (xf0bserver?), you'd be surprised how many times they kill their own demo!!!! lol...
Anyway since it was so successful I'm implementing a solution to automate offsite backups using sftp/ssh and encrypting our backups daily.
I hope for their sake they never make the mistake of firing me b/c noone else could even tell you what ls does!!! lol.... ensuring job security by doing a good job, saving money, and implementing solutions they dont understand.
I'm impressed with the called shot of Flamebait. However it might not have been flamebait had you backed up your post. Realistically I don't see anything wrong with the description of Darwin. #1 it is aqualicious (I'm assuming this as a good adjective) and it damn sure is expensive (I have 3 mac's and they are worth every penny). So if you had commented as to why that was an incorrect description maybe you wouldn't have had to call your own shot.
Just my thoughts.....
lags months behind (although they appear to be getting a little better). So far I've only seen people that have problems with their hinges (which is pathetic). But for a compareable Thinkpad to my Inspiron at the time it would have cost $2300 to the $1600 I spent at Dell, and they didn't offer any graphics cards over 8mb (I have an 8100) and the only option for the 15" was 1600x1200 which is too small for me (my dell is at 1400x1050). In the end I've got exactly what I want, for the price I want and a 3 year warranty as well (instead of 1 year from IBM).
Now I do agree IBM's are top notch. In fact that is why I got a Dell. I wanted a point stick/eraser head since that was my favorite laptop (ahhh the good old days of Arthur Andersen, pre-meltdown). I just couldn't pay more for less hardware/software simply over a hinge that may or maynot cause me a problem. Plus I'm very careful with all my things (being poor as a child makes you respect what you own).
I'd get chills when a guard walked behind my hiding spot. One of my favorite games ever.
//e classic), CounterStrike (I have 3 copys of HL and have never played it!), TennisAddict (PocketPC) best handheld game, Spider Solitare (MS I know bad sooner), Neverwinter (if this were out when I was in college I would have never graduated).
Thief (1 & 2), Ultima III & IV (Apple
She almost kicked my moms ass (they live together, it's like watching a free sitcom every visit) when she switched her from AOL to a LAN connection on her Cox Cable.
I never heard the end of it. AOL was so much easier. I had her show me how it worked and for the life of me it was the most confusing/busy interface I've ever seen. If Grandma can master AOL she could probably use Putty.
It's like a thinkpad, only cheaper, custom configured, and a hell of a lot easier to install linux on.
That being said I have to agree with the thread stating they need more than one mouse button. If they had a point-stick I would have purchased an Apple instead of a Dell. And it is that simple as to why I chose one over the other.
My company runs Linux & Solaris on the server side and Windows/OS 9/OS X/Linux/whatever works/... on the desktop. As long as you can sftp/ssh to a server then you can choose whatever tool you want. I love OS X I just want more buttons without having to go out and buy a new mouse for my laptop/desktop.
Note to Apple: G5 + 2 Button Mouse with Scroll Wheel acting as 3rd button (see Microsoft IntelliMouse, it's the only thing they've done worth a damn in my opinion, oh yeah natural keyboard too, i freaking hate standard keyboards).
Steve and Bill's egos cannot fit in the same state at the same time. That's why when Bill was at the Expo announcing the MS stock purchase it was via satellite.
Notice you never see Steve and Bill in the same room, Hmmmm kind of like Clarke Kent and Superman!!! Only in this case it's super ego and super dork (both can be used for either person).
I can see it now...
Me: Okay Grandma here's Putty, it's for connecting to my servers via ssh/sftp/ftp or telnet.
Grandma: [confusion on face] what was that honey?
Me: Oh come on now Grandma don't be coy. You know you've been secretly sshing into my servers to check your AOL mail via Pine.
Grandma: [with a look on her face like she just smoked a QP of weed] huh?
Me: Grandma? You still in there?
I can see it now Putty for the family, everyone huddled around the PC roasting chestnuts, securing their linux boxes, checking top to see current system utilization, running ps to see if there are any runaway processes...
lol, great post, PuTTY. I've got tears man, tears!
Flash, Dreamweaver, Freehand, Filemaker, Oracle, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Quark, Premiere, After Effects, Maya, Office .X, ...
Now which OS needs Apps?
If you think open sourcing OS X is a good idea maybe you should try running a business that way. Call me when you succeed (or leave a note on my grave stone when we reach eternity and you succeed).
Not going to happen.
I run os 9 on a PowerPC 8500 180 w/100MB Ram and a 2GB SCSI disk and it's lighting fast. On my PowerPC G3-333MHz 10.2 is slower than crap. Hell OS X 10.1.5 isn't fast on my G4 733, I've yet to upgrade to 10.2 even though the disks are setting there! It works and that is all I really need.
To answer his question all you need is all the lab macs facing the same direction and have some huge woman wrestler stand at the back of the room with her arms crossed and an angry look on her face. Women don't screw around generally in computer labs, and the boys that do don't want their ass kicked by a big burly woman.
Problem solved, now where is that Patent form...
That is exactly what I was trying to say. And if it doesn't scare you it should.
MS can easily do this with about 1-2 years of effort (well actually 3-4 because they are a tad slow).
The only reason I believe this will never happen (or at least not until everyone stops using Windows) is it would be like apologizing to your wife after a fight. It's right, it's what you should do (when you're wrong), and it hurts your pride (MS has a lot of pride).
The king is dead, long live the king.
MS makes 2 to 3 times what they do on Windows by selling Office. Why do you think office .x is available for OS X? Hell if you've ever used it you'd be shocked at how much nicer it is than Office XP (although most of that can be contributed to the Apple Aqua interface).
Apple could give OS X away for free but why? And the dumbest move they could ever make would be to open source (GPL) OS X (GUI). It would be on x86 so fast your head would spin. Then their hardware sales go from 3~5% of the market to 0%.
With out breaking the DMCA you couldn't reverse engineer MS Linux and therfore prove they were violating the GPL. With 40 Billion in the bank they can afford better/more lawyers (hell they can buy laws) than the Open Source community.
That is what scares me. Personally I like OS X over windows and linux.
I'm trying to cpio my oracle download so what better do I have to do? I agree BSD would be a better choice for MS.
However, since BSD isn't the buzz and Linux is, that is my point. Who really cares what is underneath it.
I was saying the core OS could be in the GUI not the kernel. The kernel is only a small part of an OS.
They would give the core OS code back to the community as GPL states. However, like Apple whatever they decide to run on top of it can still be proprietary. There is not 1 thing in the GPL that says I cannot produce a GUI that runs on top of Linux (I think you're confusing Linux and XWindows as the same thing).
Again how does anything your saying differ from what I said in the earlier post? As soon as you can post the source code to OS X (which is not Darwin or it would be running on x86 right now) then I'll believe MS couldn't kill Linux, etc. Until then actually try to read my post before commenting (I realize this is slashdot and there is a 1 line minimum of reading before commenting).
Do what Apple did with OS X but use Linux instead. Ignore X-Windows and any kernel development that is made you release under GPL. Now Windows will still be a proprietary system (like OS X) but they will have a system that scales, is secure, cost them next to nothing to develop (the base OS like darwin) and will be very competitive with any Unix variant free or not that is thrown at MS/Linux (no GNU necessary as there is no GNU/Darwin/OS X) or better yet just call it MS Windows/NX.
If MS did this it would kill, Linux, OS X, Solaris (and all the Unix variants). Granted this is just my opinion but realistically there is nothing to stop them from doing this. Hell even better yet just take the Linux code out there, freeze it and make your own MS Linux Kernel fork and that will REALLY piss some people off, but there isn't a damn thing they could do.
Being an OS X fan I hope to hell this never happens but beware of your fears (as this is one of mine!).
If apple goes the drm route all my posts lauding the PPC/OS X platform will die a quick death.
.Net/CLR/VB/C# this is because the classes converting to C# from Java are almost identical! Lol, MS thieves).
This could be the application that gives apple the needed boost from 5% to 10~15%.
Personally I'm betting on Apple. I know it's a risky venture but I believe they can grow beyond a niche market. My companies software is being developed concurrently for Apple/Linux/Windows and will be offered at the same time on all systems. It is specialized s/w that would never appear in BestBuy or Fry's but if Apple proves to be worthy (which I believe it will), my company will continue to develop products for it and support our clients using Apple. All that being said I'm still hedging my bet by developing for Windows and Linux (fyi the apple development is done in Cocoa/Java/Interface Builder, the linux development is all Java/JFC (cannot wait for 1.5 and cleaned up Swing, they really need to trash it and just start from scratch), and windows is
Personally if I had to dictate to the world what to use I would say go with Mac & OS X, but choice is also a good thing (keeping the megacorps on their toes).
faster!!!! That is my only complaint so far with my new mac (G4 Tower). OS X is great! They should put me in one of those damn switch commercials, I mean hell I meet the requirements: I'm ugly, I am a nerd, I'm weird (come on I live in Oklahoma BY CHOICE!!!), I regularly visit the local apple store (Willow Bend Mall in Frisco aka Dallas), I have 3 Macs now 4 months after buying my first one, and I've bought every OS since 7.6 off eBay in the last 3 months!! (My wife is pissed off, hope our trip to New Orleans cheers her up or I'm (not) screwed!)
Apple OS X == Unix + Great UI (this is the unique part)
BTW dont buy a fucking Belkin KVM, mine is a piece of shit. If I type too much it shits out (which comes in really handy when playing online games). And I only have 2 computers hooked up to it (2 are monitor only b/c the Apple converter for ps/2 is a waste + I like the apple keyboards and mice).
That being said I will probably switch to 802.11a when Apple supports it. I have a DLink 802.11b and DLink NIC for my (PC) Laptop and it's really fast. The Apple AirPort is slower than grandma driving to the "beauty shop". Kind of sad really, I get this sweet computer with wireless networking and still have it plugged in!
...) and a standard UI to boot!
Oh well, I really shouldn't complain. OS X is unbelieveable. It's like running linux but having real commercial apps available (Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Acrobat(full),
Just because someone chooses to ignore the law (or claim ignorance) does not make what they are doing legal. However, there is a large divide between what is "legal" what is "moral" and what constraints should really exist.
For example, doing drugs is illegal but in reality is it immoral? or wrong? What if that drug were aspirin? caffienne? alcohol (remember we tried that once)? The laws should exist there to protect us from each other not to protect us from ourselves, in my opinion of course.
Personally I hate hackers because my f'ing Windows Box would get hacked regularly since I didn't have 2 hours a day to check on patches. I switched to Linux on the server side and haven't looked back. So my result was beneficial as a result of being hacked. However, if I could get my hands around the throat of the mofo's (1 in taiwan and one in italy) after working all weekend to repair the damage, believe me you couldn't get a drop of water down their throats because I'd be squeezing so hard.
In short, if you don't like the rules of your society either work to change the laws, ignore the laws (at your own risk), or move. Either way no matter where you go, stupid laws will follow (except Sealand, but they won't let you immigrate).
The line is what? "Sign up for broadband and you can steal even more music online!"
Sounds legit to me. (end sarcasm)
I have yet to see anything from Linux that touches OS X. I started with Slackware (as you could have read in my previous post) and have used RedHat, Gentoo, FreeBSD, Caldera (which was surprisingly good with the exception of updates), and Suse.
...) That would give Linux a fighting chance on the desktop. Until that day, OS X kicks the shit out of XWindows. And I'll take Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat (full), and Illustrator over the junk that people try to get working with Linux any day. $1000 for Design Studio and greater productivity is worth a lot. So while you're tweaking KDE3 to work the way you want I've got real work to do.
...) and an Ultra SPARC 440MHz IIi. So you keep on developing your "real software" and when you get out of high school give me a yell.
There is no desktop in linux that comes close to Aqua and here is the reason why. There is no standard development API between window managers and there isn't 1 direction but 1000. Try to make anything worth a shit for that. Why do you think all the "Real" applications that need a good UI are missing on Linux? Because it's a piece of shit. The killer app for Linux is a whole new implementation of XWindows. If a company can do that and have backing from the biggies (Adobe, Macromedia, Sun,
Oh and by the way dipshit my applications are server side apps running on Apache/Tomcat on top of RedHat Linux. My arguement isnt that Mac is great and Linux sucks, it's Linux on the Desktop sucks. However, there is no better OS for servers in my opinion than Linux, although OS X Server is gaining ground quickly and has a great UI (again).
One more thing AC, I've got 3 Macs (180/333/733) 8 PCs (P4-2.4GHz, AlthlonXP 1700, Dual P3-933, Celeron 1.2GHz, P3-450, P3-1.13GHz,