Not worth much in the general outrage, but I would just like to say to any BMI employess reading these forums, I have not bought a CD for a year now, and I will never buy one again from BMI or any other record company that sells or tries to sell me broken CD's in this form.
For those of you here who own a Mac and want to experiment with a little bit of Forth, there's a built in Forth interpreter in the Mac Chipset (also on some SUN machines). OpenFirmware, the Mac Firmware engine, uses forth and you can do some command line dicking with the stacks etc by pressing Command-Option-O-F at boot, which will take you into the Forth commandline environment.
Have fun and be careful because you can seriously damage your Mac with some careless forth scripts.
The company I work for is implementing a Managment system with a CMS (web based). My predecessor(sic) went the familair windows route and contacted a comercial company for their Windows hosted, with a very poor windows visual basic data entry tool,system. we paid around $6000 in all for this. The problem was that their system was almost totally inflexible and being based on a C++ CGI, had to be recompiled and debugged with attendant devlopment costs for every tiny change (There was no CSS support etc). On top of this they left their ftp server completely open so that strangers could basically just walk in and view sensitive company data. requests for support went unanswered for weeks at a time.
In the end we decided to cut our losses and we went for the OSS CMS at www.muze.nl. The developers were incredibly friendly, gave enormous amounts of support along with page long email tutorials and and ended up doing custom development work for whole new modules for a total price of less than half of what we paid the commercial company.
I don't think that one can just say across the board that OSS or CS is better or cheaper. It depends on the company.
Dell 1.8GHz laptop XP vs. 800MHz TIPB OSX 01.2
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I use a Dell Inspiron laptop (1.8GHz, 512MB RAM) with XP the whole day at work and I use a friends TiPB 800MHz with OSX 10.2 on occaision (I have an old 333MHz G3 PB at home with OSX 10.1.5).
XP is very stable compared to previous MS OS's. I haven't had the OS crash on me once yet. But the UI is also considerably slower than Win2000 and more confusing. Much more confusing. And that, for me, is the major point about OSX. The UI is extremely pleasing to work with over long periods of time. It's smooth and very good looking. The large buttons and type don't hurt my eyes after sitting in front of the machine for 8 hours at a time. The simplicity and clean design of OSX make it easy to hit those buttons without having to pause and concentrate on hitting the correct link unlike in XP where i suffer a considerable amount of arm, neck and hand strain after long hours in front of it. The plain, simple idea of having *all* control panels in one place *without* the Windows mess of myriad unrelated dialog boxes makes it easier to change settings, without first having to find the settings. All programmes have the preferences option in the same place, which is another plus compared to windows. And if I need the detail, power and complexity of Unix the Terminal is a click on the dock away. The Console in WinXP has improved in usability and power (Tab completion, file dragging for paths, output redirection etc) but is still not close to a Unix shell.
As for Applications, Photoshop and illustrator are more sluggish than in XP, except for redraw operations on large bitmaps where Altivec really shines, and I for one tend to work methodically in those programmes and appreciate a programme that doesn't run away from me.
If I had the money right now, I would go and buy a TiPB with OSX immediately and only use the Dell for Windows tasks.
My name is Theo Stauffer. I'm a Sys Admin for a small company and I would switch back to the Mac immediately if I had the cash:)
The Amiga had it's biggest userbase in Germany of all places (perhaps the German tradition of tinkering has something to do with it), and after Commodore was announced DOA , one of the later owners was a German company who failed miserably to market it well.
I am amazed that a hardware/OS name has managed to persist as long as this has and this is right up the street for exactly those people who want a hardware software combo that is more flexible than Linux (although x86 tinkering is a huge industry and this is the major roadblock to the PPC mobo being accepted).
If I had the money right now I would buy one to tinker with: a lot of people who learnt assembler in the eighties learned it on the Amiga. The Amiga was *the* platform to make super efficient fast code on, because the hardware was accessible and the OS didn't stand in your way. I really hope this gives the PPC platform a boost.
Apart from the somewhat Apple like logo (all white) and a rearranged start menu taking up even more screen real estate than the start menu in XP I don't see that many changes. The rendering engine is basically the same (If you look at the aliased -jaggy- rounded corners of the windows you'll see that there is still no built in alpha compositing). The tasks are nice for newbies and irritating for practiced users. When MS makes some real changes in the interface, such as cleaning up the current mess of no less than four seperate windows in order to set up the network, then I'll agree that real change has happened in the UI.
They would consider building one of these across a fault line like the San Andreas fault? I somehow doubt that a vacum tube would remain one in the event of a shift along the fault line or that the track would remain intact.
I don't see this as really feasible excep in countries with almost no major geological activity, and there you have the problems of funding, plausibility and public fear of an obviously risky concept.
Your question says a lot more about your knowledge of the world and current news than it does about either Namibia, the Taliban, North Korea or anywhere else for that matter.
This is what life used to be like in large company networks in the 70's and 80's. Mainframe accounts had timeslice limits. This seems like a very nice opportunity for IBM to haul out some of their dusty timesharing packages, dust them off, repackage them and make millions reselling them to customers.
Namibia, being a much smaller country and more homgenous than South Africa, enable a single person to get his voice heard. His seems like a voice of reason. South Africa, whose politicians are known to not be above taking the occaisional "motivational sum of money" gladly accepted MS's similar offer ($150 Million for a country of 45 million people with about 5 million kids in school does not work out to all that much, given that Office or windows costs a bit more than $3 per copy).
Good on Namibia. Fuck the corrupt bastards in the ANC.
I am busy implementing an OSS based CMS (PHP/MySQL) for our company and because we had very tight deadlines. I ordered and installed SuSE 8.0 because I was in a hurry and didnt want to have to customise Debian or play to much with config files. MySQL refused to work for some strange reason. I did the whole damn MySQL installation by hand and still it wouldnt work. Called and mailed SuSE support (free installation support is supposedly offered). They mailed back to tell me that MySQL, which is installed by default is not supported and that I should get a service contract. I had by then downloaded and installed Debian and MySQL was of course working. I mailed SuSE back and told them we would now use Debian instead of their useless support contract.
Perhaps I expected too much from them but, really, MySQL is not rocket science and one PAYS for SuSE, damn it.
I have a personal theory on the major origions of autism. It is often reported that autistic children often have mothers who are in intellectually demanding careers and are of above average intelligence. My theory goes that such mothers tend to have less emotional bonding to their children, perhaps in pregnancy as well, thereby giving their unborn children a profound sense of rejection. The children then retreat into their own inner world.
The extremely high intellectual demands of modern working environments doesn't leave much place for emotions or attention or warmth for that matter. This is what I attribute the raise in autism to.
To underscore my theory, go and visit online places like the Fray where lots of lonely rejected people recount their inner feelings and lives in our digital age.
I work in a completely backward mixed Novell, Linux and NT4 server, NT4, Win2k and XP clients. We run a Microsoft Navision financial package. I really wanted to get a TiPowerbook to do my admin stuff (as my old G3 Powerbook was getting really long in the tooth for day to day stuff)but it just didn't integrate well enough with the environment and, here in Switzerland in any case, cost almost $1000 more than a Dell Inspiron 8200.
I got the Dell with XPpro and Debian. It is a good machine and really fast. Even XP isn't as bad as I thought it would be. However WinNT is a desaster and I spend most of my day running around fixing NT problems. We don't want to upgrade to XP all around because our hardware is generally old and some of our stuff doesn't run on XP.
If I had my way we'ld all use Macs. MacOSX isn't perfect and has a lot of quirks (ObjC,C compatibility, Old Java version, lack of a fast browser, lack of application alternatives) but next year I'm getting an iBook.
No, the systems are still different internally. The kernels differ as do other things. BSD has a Linux compatibility layer which can cope with this but Darwin does not.
Apple's core is a mix of BSD and Mach. Mostly compatible with Linux but not entirely. The Aqua GUI is completely proprietry and not compatible with X11. While X11 does run next to Quartz, most Apple users would prefer an Aqua version which would require porting. Understand it now?
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Not worth much in the general outrage, but I would just like to say to any BMI employess reading these forums, I have not bought a CD for a year now, and I will never buy one again from BMI or any other record company that sells or tries to sell me broken CD's in this form.
For those of you here who own a Mac and want to experiment with a little bit of Forth, there's a built in Forth interpreter in the Mac Chipset (also on some SUN machines). OpenFirmware, the Mac Firmware engine, uses forth and you can do some command line dicking with the stacks etc by pressing Command-Option-O-F at boot, which will take you into the Forth commandline environment.
Have fun and be careful because you can seriously damage your Mac with some careless forth scripts.
The company I work for is implementing a Managment system with a CMS (web based). My predecessor(sic) went the familair windows route and contacted a comercial company for their Windows hosted, with a very poor windows visual basic data entry tool,system. we paid around $6000 in all for this. The problem was that their system was almost totally inflexible and being based on a C++ CGI, had to be recompiled and debugged with attendant devlopment costs for every tiny change (There was no CSS support etc). On top of this they left their ftp server completely open so that strangers could basically just walk in and view sensitive company data. requests for support went unanswered for weeks at a time.
In the end we decided to cut our losses and we went for the OSS CMS at www.muze.nl. The developers were incredibly friendly, gave enormous amounts of support along with page long email tutorials and and ended up doing custom development work for whole new modules for a total price of less than half of what we paid the commercial company.
I don't think that one can just say across the board that OSS or CS is better or cheaper. It depends on the company.
In your case I would have used google.
I use a Dell Inspiron laptop (1.8GHz, 512MB RAM) with XP the whole day at work and I use a friends TiPB 800MHz with OSX 10.2 on occaision (I have an old 333MHz G3 PB at home with OSX 10.1.5).
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XP is very stable compared to previous MS OS's. I haven't had the OS crash on me once yet. But the UI is also considerably slower than Win2000 and more confusing. Much more confusing. And that, for me, is the major point about OSX. The UI is extremely pleasing to work with over long periods of time. It's smooth and very good looking. The large buttons and type don't hurt my eyes after sitting in front of the machine for 8 hours at a time. The simplicity and clean design of OSX make it easy to hit those buttons without having to pause and concentrate on hitting the correct link unlike in XP where i suffer a considerable amount of arm, neck and hand strain after long hours in front of it. The plain, simple idea of having *all* control panels in one place *without* the Windows mess of myriad unrelated dialog boxes makes it easier to change settings, without first having to find the settings. All programmes have the preferences option in the same place, which is another plus compared to windows. And if I need the detail, power and complexity of Unix the Terminal is a click on the dock away. The Console in WinXP has improved in usability and power (Tab completion, file dragging for paths, output redirection etc) but is still not close to a Unix shell.
As for Applications, Photoshop and illustrator are more sluggish than in XP, except for redraw operations on large bitmaps where Altivec really shines, and I for one tend to work methodically in those programmes and appreciate a programme that doesn't run away from me.
If I had the money right now, I would go and buy a TiPB with OSX immediately and only use the Dell for Windows tasks.
My name is Theo Stauffer. I'm a Sys Admin for a small company and I would switch back to the Mac immediately if I had the cash
The Amiga had it's biggest userbase in Germany of all places (perhaps the German tradition of tinkering has something to do with it), and after Commodore was announced DOA , one of the later owners was a German company who failed miserably to market it well.
I am amazed that a hardware/OS name has managed to persist as long as this has and this is right up the street for exactly those people who want a hardware software combo that is more flexible than Linux (although x86 tinkering is a huge industry and this is the major roadblock to the PPC mobo being accepted).
If I had the money right now I would buy one to tinker with: a lot of people who learnt assembler in the eighties learned it on the Amiga. The Amiga was *the* platform to make super efficient fast code on, because the hardware was accessible and the OS didn't stand in your way. I really hope this gives the PPC platform a boost.
Apart from the somewhat Apple like logo (all white) and a rearranged start menu taking up even more screen real estate than the start menu in XP I don't see that many changes. The rendering engine is basically the same (If you look at the aliased -jaggy- rounded corners of the windows you'll see that there is still no built in alpha compositing). The tasks are nice for newbies and irritating for practiced users. When MS makes some real changes in the interface, such as cleaning up the current mess of no less than four seperate windows in order to set up the network, then I'll agree that real change has happened in the UI.
They would consider building one of these across a fault line like the San Andreas fault? I somehow doubt that a vacum tube would remain one in the event of a shift along the fault line or that the track would remain intact.
I don't see this as really feasible excep in countries with almost no major geological activity, and there you have the problems of funding, plausibility and public fear of an obviously risky concept.
Your question says a lot more about your knowledge of the world and current news than it does about either Namibia, the Taliban, North Korea or anywhere else for that matter.
Is this a type of namibian wildlife? :)
did anyone take MS paid studies seriously?
T'as raison, chuis contre les cowards anonymous :)
This is what life used to be like in large company networks in the 70's and 80's. Mainframe accounts had timeslice limits. This seems like a very nice opportunity for IBM to haul out some of their dusty timesharing packages, dust them off, repackage them and make millions reselling them to customers.
Namibia, being a much smaller country and more homgenous than South Africa, enable a single person to get his voice heard. His seems like a voice of reason. South Africa, whose politicians are known to not be above taking the occaisional "motivational sum of money" gladly accepted MS's similar offer ($150 Million for a country of 45 million people with about 5 million kids in school does not work out to all that much, given that Office or windows costs a bit more than $3 per copy).
Good on Namibia. Fuck the corrupt bastards in the ANC.
I am busy implementing an OSS based CMS (PHP/MySQL) for our company and because we had very tight deadlines. I ordered and installed SuSE 8.0 because I was in a hurry and didnt want to have to customise Debian or play to much with config files. MySQL refused to work for some strange reason. I did the whole damn MySQL installation by hand and still it wouldnt work. Called and mailed SuSE support (free installation support is supposedly offered). They mailed back to tell me that MySQL, which is installed by default is not supported and that I should get a service contract. I had by then downloaded and installed Debian and MySQL was of course working. I mailed SuSE back and told them we would now use Debian instead of their useless support contract.
Perhaps I expected too much from them but, really, MySQL is not rocket science and one PAYS for SuSE, damn it.
I have a personal theory on the major origions of autism. It is often reported that autistic children often have mothers who are in intellectually demanding careers and are of above average intelligence. My theory goes that such mothers tend to have less emotional bonding to their children, perhaps in pregnancy as well, thereby giving their unborn children a profound sense of rejection. The children then retreat into their own inner world.
The extremely high intellectual demands of modern working environments doesn't leave much place for emotions or attention or warmth for that matter. This is what I attribute the raise in autism to.
To underscore my theory, go and visit online places like the Fray where lots of lonely rejected people recount their inner feelings and lives in our digital age.
Looking at the screenshots I can suddenly see the wisdom of investing in a Cinema Display
Right on! And you can advertise on my site as well for a small trade...
I work in a completely backward mixed Novell, Linux and NT4 server, NT4, Win2k and XP clients. We run a Microsoft Navision financial package. I really wanted to get a TiPowerbook to do my admin stuff (as my old G3 Powerbook was getting really long in the tooth for day to day stuff)but it just didn't integrate well enough with the environment and, here in Switzerland in any case, cost almost $1000 more than a Dell Inspiron 8200.
I got the Dell with XPpro and Debian. It is a good machine and really fast. Even XP isn't as bad as I thought it would be. However WinNT is a desaster and I spend most of my day running around fixing NT problems. We don't want to upgrade to XP all around because our hardware is generally old and some of our stuff doesn't run on XP.
If I had my way we'ld all use Macs. MacOSX isn't perfect and has a lot of quirks (ObjC,C compatibility, Old Java version, lack of a fast browser, lack of application alternatives) but next year I'm getting an iBook.
I agree with you 100%. Makes me wanna open up a bar somewhere.
If you were a reseller why didn't you speak to someone from SUN? That would be interesting to know as well.
USM: The United States of Microsoft.
WTF they gonna do when Billy says the licence has expired. They'll be fucked.
Jawohl-Fucking Nazi git
No, the systems are still different internally. The kernels differ as do other things. BSD has a Linux compatibility layer which can cope with this but Darwin does not.
Apple's core is a mix of BSD and Mach. Mostly compatible with Linux but not entirely. The Aqua GUI is completely proprietry and not compatible with X11. While X11 does run next to Quartz, most Apple users would prefer an Aqua version which would require porting. Understand it now?