the comment about the ESA was, i thought pretty obviously, a joke. at least i found it funny. but then again, i'm an engineer, and we have a lab full of ultra 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's, each of which cost us about as much as a low end camry.
you can burn cds with itunes under os x. that's what release 10.0.2 was for. 10.0.4 is out now. you should upgrade maybe?
you can't burn data cds yet, and you can't watch dvds, but that will be in the next release (as an employee of apple told me), which will be the last release before macworld new york. keep your software up to date and you'll be alright.
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adjust that to "I spend $100 and earn $250" OR "but only $850" to make it correct. I originally meant to have it say "I spend $100 and earn $250" but I made a typo.
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Example:
Last year, I had $1,000. I spent $500 of it and made returns of $300, meaning that at the beginning of this year, I have $800, and that last year, I had negative cash flow. With my $800, I spend $100 and earn $150, meaning I have positive cash flow, but only $950, or less than what I had last year.
It's been said that "people who hate Windows use Linux - People that love UNIX use FreeBSD." Well, I use Linux because I love Linux. It was the first real operating system I was able to really get in to. Yes, I use Windows at work, and I'm extremely familiar with it. But I use Linux on all my home machines (except the iBook I bought yesterday, which will eventually have Linux loaded on it). I love Linux. Period.
"and so is not really a business/server or desktop OS due to lack of software" - You're contradicting yourself here. You can find many more apps to run on Linux than you can *BSD. Yes, FreeBSD can run a lot of Linux binaries, but the fact of the matter is that Linux is the most coded-for UNIX out there (although MacOS X will be soon, I'm sure). If you look in the right places, you *can* find a program to do *anything* on Linux.
The real battle is between UNIX and Microsoft. Once you side with UNIX for whatever reason, you tend to pick what you're most comfortable with, and what will allow you to be most productive. For me, that's Debian GNU/Linux - apt-get install package offers the easiest installation of programs I've ever encountered. I am able to do nearly everything I want to on Debian - but am not able to do so on MacOS 9.1 or my Windows machines here at work. Example - shell scripting. All these things that make my life easier at home? I can't do them on Windows or Mac. UNIX I can. Windows doesn't really have the "ease of use" advantage after you climb the learning curve. Once you have Linux set up, it's set up. Windows has all sorts of awful things to deal with (DLL Hell, missing vxd's, etc).
What it all boils down to is that people will use whatever is best for them. For me and home use, Linux is superior to FreeBSD. For a high-traffic server, FreeBSD is (in my opinion) superior to Linux. For playing Quake3, Linux is (to me) superior to Windows. It's all in the eye of the beholder.
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maybe a live model of Natalie Portman advertising Quaker Grits?:)
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I had java problems under mozilla for the longest time, but I finally got it working under.8 (disclaimer - I use Linux *only*, so I don't know anything about getting it to work under Windows). I'm at work right now, but if you want me to email you when I get home with instructions on how I got it done and where all the files go, I will - reply to this and post your email address in some convoluted form so the spambots can't get it, and let me know how to figure it out. As far as with.9.1, when I installed it, here's how I got java working:
install it into your home directory (i installed mine in/dave/mozilla9)
go to some page that requires java (games.yahoo.com is a good one, once you sign in and go to play a game - this is my test page for java plugins)
click "ok" when it says that it needs to download the plugin. click "java for linux" when it pops up, and let it download.
restart the browser
getting it to work in linux with.9.1 was much easier than it was with.8, but i'm still sure you can do it manually if you can't get the automatic install to work. just make sure it's in your home directory - this will solve a lot of problems for you.
let me know if you need any help.
by the way, ssl connections work fine for me - i use mozilla to check my work email through our web-based email system, and i can only connect through ssl - and it works great.
i meant speed all-around - i click a button, ie is there instantaneously. opera takes a bit to load. i know why this is - ie is kept in memory. but it still fires up damn fast. and it renders fast too. opera is good. i haven't used it since the 3.x days, but i liked it. just right now i'm trying to show my support to mozilla by using it, and it really is one of the finer browsers i've ever used (and definitely the nicest looking - check out this image for a screenshot i took last night of mozilla.9.1 - very nice.
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I took a nice one. You can see it here - preferences, composer and the main browser window. it's now the nicest *looking* browser i've ever seen, and it works damn well too. no troubles yet, and a lot of problems i'd had before have been taken care of. much much better than.8 (the last one i had used)...
The talks between AOL and Microsoft broke down a few days ago. AOL is no longer getting prominent placement on the desktop, and my guess is that they'll continue to support Mozilla in the hopes of getting something good enough to break IE. Not that it will probably ever happen. I use Mozilla 100% of the time for browsing in Linux, but at work I have to use Windows2000, and nothing comes close to IE as far as speed is concerned. We'll see what happens...
As an employee of Science Applications International Corporation, I can tell you that it's *very* hard to squeak in Open Source. It's not that the direct managers don't want to go for it - it's cool, it works, they like it - it's that, for most Fortune 500 companies, there's an entire process to get anything done.
For example, I recently proposed that, instead of sending me to a class to become intimately familiar with Solaris and Sun's hardware (my work involves Solaris on a daily basis), the company buy me a SunBlade 100 and a few hundred dollars worth of books. This would, of course, save considerable money for the company. My manager liked the idea, but that's pretty unimportant, because most Fortune 500 companies have a strict set of rules when it comes to computer usage/acquisition. I couldn't get a home-built computer for my desktop here if I wanted to, because corporate policy, for uniformity, dictates that we buy the Dell OptiPlex.
Unfortunately, it's much the same way with software. I do happen to run Linux here as much as possible, but I'm forced to dual-boot it with Windows 2000, because it's the company standard. Not because we were forced into it by Microsoft, but because we need to have that assurance that it's going to work and not need to worry about permissions.
I'm as big a fan of Linux as anyone, and I've been using it since 1996 now (good ol' Slackware 2.x days)... but the Fortune 500 just isn't ready for it.
their input devices are good. although i currently use a boomslang 2k for quake3. but i've been using ms natural keyboards for a long time now, and i'm not going to quit any time soon...
i hear what you're saying, but compared to intel, amd was *nothing*. yes, they had money. they were a big company the way that apple is a big company. yes, they have lots of employees and big budgets, but they weren't considered to be a major player. just like apple isn't a major player. i like apple and i love amd (i've been using amd processors for as long as i can remember), but amd was never percieved to be the corporate threat that they are now.
the trouble is, to the big advertising companies and whatnot, you don't matter. neither do i. us technical types are, generally speaking, not part of the flock. the other sheep can be herded quite easily. they're also the majority. and so the attention of the big companies is directed toward them.
why?
revenues. they make more money. if microsoft can say "we're the most visited destination on the web" then everyone wants to advertise at hotmail, and they'll pay a ton of cash to do so.
they don't care about you, because you'll see past it. like most of the non-flock.
if you read the article, it states that microsoft has stated publically that the code was not there as "an implementation of corporate policy", but rather, produced by some engineers on their own during the netscape vs. microsoft times. i don't like microsoft either, but it's not as if this was some massive conspiracy by microsoft to h4x0r some web sites or steal credit card numbers. they already control enough of the web server market and have $27 billion in the bank. this was something a coder did, not the company.
i use linux and mozilla, and i don't suffer a bit. they've come quite a far way, even in the time i've been using them (linux since '96, mozilla for a little over a year really). i have java support, flash, etc. the java runs better here than it did under netscape on windows. mozilla renders pages *really* fast. it starts up quick now, which is definitely a plus. i think you need to take a better look before you say that we "suffer" - i don't.
mozilla used to be really slow for me, but not any more. i rm -rf'd the old install and went with ximian's red carpet version. loads much faster now. very nice.
as for email, you may want to look into fetchmail and mutt. i used to think they were pretty old and archaic, until i really gave them a chance and began using them. mutt is the best email client i've ever used, because i can use any editor i want to compose the email, move around it with the keyboard, etc. fetchmail works exceptionally well to grab the email, which is good. you can also set up mutt to work with imap. more information on that is on mutt's website.
yah. i just find it humorous that a movie that is black and white *and* isn't available on dvd is their example of a movie that someone could rip from dvd and change the blue to green in... way to research, guys...
i have a palm vx and the foldable keyboard that goes with it. for $400, i can take notes whereever i'm at. if it's inconvenient to put the keyboard down, i can simply write into the palm. my accuracy at this is nearly 100%, and i get, i'd say, about 25-30 words/minute. i type 100 wpm, but all things considered, 30 on the subway making a note of something to do later in the evening is pretty good.
my dad recently got an hp jornada 720 (link) and it has a "3/4" size keyboard. that's in quotes 'cause i haven't measured it or anything. but i can type pretty quickly on this - about 70 words per minute - without much trouble. it takes a little bit of getting used to, but it's definitely possible.
my point is, i'm sure we'll keep coming up with some way to do it. whether it's a foldable keyboard for the palm, handwriting recognition, voice recognition, etc, we'll always be able to input into the tiny devices that organize our lives.
i may have mispoken. the protocol itself, i cannot vouch for - however, its feature set is pretty complete, and it *does not* require a server, once connecting, to talk - all communication is peer to peer, which avoids server lag, etc. of course, this can be a problem too, and that's why icq includes the option to send through the server. they've been doing this for years, but i hear aol is implementing this feature now too...
wow. they're up to 100 million now. my number is under 1,200,000... grown fast. anyway, aim has 29 million actually aol users, something like 39 million standalone aim users, 2.8 million compuserve users and 34 million netscape.com users (thereby tying them into aim)... and of course, they own icq too. aol owns instant messaging.
actually, msn im has the biggest number of users. second is aol im.
i'll agree with you about icq being superior though, but the fact of the matter is this - it's too complicated for the average person. they have no interest in seeing a person's ip address - they just wanna talk with their friends that use aol.
it's a shame, too. because icq *is* superior, and licq is an excellent client, but i find myself using gaim most frequently (although i have both of them running at all times) because all of my friends use it. and not because they use aol - but because *their* friends do, or their friend's friends do, etc. that's why i tend to cheer on the development of gaim more than licq, and that's why gaim is developing faster than licq - the userbase is bigger.
icq is a superior protocol/setup. but it's just not as widespread. and it never will be. that's why aol bought it - so they didn't lose revenue to it.
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the comment about the ESA was, i thought pretty obviously, a joke. at least i found it funny. but then again, i'm an engineer, and we have a lab full of ultra 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's, each of which cost us about as much as a low end camry.
you can't burn data cds yet, and you can't watch dvds, but that will be in the next release (as an employee of apple told me), which will be the last release before macworld new york. keep your software up to date and you'll be alright.
adjust that to "I spend $100 and earn $250" OR "but only $850" to make it correct. I originally meant to have it say "I spend $100 and earn $250" but I made a typo.
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Last year, I had $1,000. I spent $500 of it and made returns of $300, meaning that at the beginning of this year, I have $800, and that last year, I had negative cash flow. With my $800, I spend $100 and earn $150, meaning I have positive cash flow, but only $950, or less than what I had last year.
I'm guessing this is what happened to Red Hat.
It's been said that "people who hate Windows use Linux - People that love UNIX use FreeBSD." Well, I use Linux because I love Linux. It was the first real operating system I was able to really get in to. Yes, I use Windows at work, and I'm extremely familiar with it. But I use Linux on all my home machines (except the iBook I bought yesterday, which will eventually have Linux loaded on it). I love Linux. Period.
"and so is not really a business/server or desktop OS due to lack of software" - You're contradicting yourself here. You can find many more apps to run on Linux than you can *BSD. Yes, FreeBSD can run a lot of Linux binaries, but the fact of the matter is that Linux is the most coded-for UNIX out there (although MacOS X will be soon, I'm sure). If you look in the right places, you *can* find a program to do *anything* on Linux.
The real battle is between UNIX and Microsoft. Once you side with UNIX for whatever reason, you tend to pick what you're most comfortable with, and what will allow you to be most productive. For me, that's Debian GNU/Linux - apt-get install package offers the easiest installation of programs I've ever encountered. I am able to do nearly everything I want to on Debian - but am not able to do so on MacOS 9.1 or my Windows machines here at work. Example - shell scripting. All these things that make my life easier at home? I can't do them on Windows or Mac. UNIX I can. Windows doesn't really have the "ease of use" advantage after you climb the learning curve. Once you have Linux set up, it's set up. Windows has all sorts of awful things to deal with (DLL Hell, missing vxd's, etc).
What it all boils down to is that people will use whatever is best for them. For me and home use, Linux is superior to FreeBSD. For a high-traffic server, FreeBSD is (in my opinion) superior to Linux. For playing Quake3, Linux is (to me) superior to Windows. It's all in the eye of the beholder.
maybe a live model of Natalie Portman advertising Quaker Grits? :)
getting it to work in linux with .9.1 was much easier than it was with .8, but i'm still sure you can do it manually if you can't get the automatic install to work. just make sure it's in your home directory - this will solve a lot of problems for you.
let me know if you need any help.
by the way, ssl connections work fine for me - i use mozilla to check my work email through our web-based email system, and i can only connect through ssl - and it works great.
i meant speed all-around - i click a button, ie is there instantaneously. opera takes a bit to load. i know why this is - ie is kept in memory. but it still fires up damn fast. and it renders fast too. opera is good. i haven't used it since the 3.x days, but i liked it. just right now i'm trying to show my support to mozilla by using it, and it really is one of the finer browsers i've ever used (and definitely the nicest looking - check out this image for a screenshot i took last night of mozilla .9.1 - very nice.
I took a nice one. You can see it here - preferences, composer and the main browser window. it's now the nicest *looking* browser i've ever seen, and it works damn well too. no troubles yet, and a lot of problems i'd had before have been taken care of. much much better than .8 (the last one i had used)...
The talks between AOL and Microsoft broke down a few days ago. AOL is no longer getting prominent placement on the desktop, and my guess is that they'll continue to support Mozilla in the hopes of getting something good enough to break IE. Not that it will probably ever happen. I use Mozilla 100% of the time for browsing in Linux, but at work I have to use Windows2000, and nothing comes close to IE as far as speed is concerned. We'll see what happens...
For example, I recently proposed that, instead of sending me to a class to become intimately familiar with Solaris and Sun's hardware (my work involves Solaris on a daily basis), the company buy me a SunBlade 100 and a few hundred dollars worth of books. This would, of course, save considerable money for the company. My manager liked the idea, but that's pretty unimportant, because most Fortune 500 companies have a strict set of rules when it comes to computer usage/acquisition. I couldn't get a home-built computer for my desktop here if I wanted to, because corporate policy, for uniformity, dictates that we buy the Dell OptiPlex.
Unfortunately, it's much the same way with software. I do happen to run Linux here as much as possible, but I'm forced to dual-boot it with Windows 2000, because it's the company standard. Not because we were forced into it by Microsoft, but because we need to have that assurance that it's going to work and not need to worry about permissions.
I'm as big a fan of Linux as anyone, and I've been using it since 1996 now (good ol' Slackware 2.x days)... but the Fortune 500 just isn't ready for it.
their input devices are good. although i currently use a boomslang 2k for quake3. but i've been using ms natural keyboards for a long time now, and i'm not going to quit any time soon...
i hear what you're saying, but compared to intel, amd was *nothing*. yes, they had money. they were a big company the way that apple is a big company. yes, they have lots of employees and big budgets, but they weren't considered to be a major player. just like apple isn't a major player. i like apple and i love amd (i've been using amd processors for as long as i can remember), but amd was never percieved to be the corporate threat that they are now.
why?
revenues. they make more money. if microsoft can say "we're the most visited destination on the web" then everyone wants to advertise at hotmail, and they'll pay a ton of cash to do so.
they don't care about you, because you'll see past it. like most of the non-flock.
roadrunner sucks hard. i'm stuck on that shit. you might wanna look into covad dsl - we can get them in our area. and hopefully it'll suck less.
if you read the article, it states that microsoft has stated publically that the code was not there as "an implementation of corporate policy", but rather, produced by some engineers on their own during the netscape vs. microsoft times. i don't like microsoft either, but it's not as if this was some massive conspiracy by microsoft to h4x0r some web sites or steal credit card numbers. they already control enough of the web server market and have $27 billion in the bank. this was something a coder did, not the company.
i use linux and mozilla, and i don't suffer a bit. they've come quite a far way, even in the time i've been using them (linux since '96, mozilla for a little over a year really). i have java support, flash, etc. the java runs better here than it did under netscape on windows. mozilla renders pages *really* fast. it starts up quick now, which is definitely a plus. i think you need to take a better look before you say that we "suffer" - i don't.
as for email, you may want to look into fetchmail and mutt. i used to think they were pretty old and archaic, until i really gave them a chance and began using them. mutt is the best email client i've ever used, because i can use any editor i want to compose the email, move around it with the keyboard, etc. fetchmail works exceptionally well to grab the email, which is good. you can also set up mutt to work with imap. more information on that is on mutt's website.
yah. i just find it humorous that a movie that is black and white *and* isn't available on dvd is their example of a movie that someone could rip from dvd and change the blue to green in... way to research, guys...
it is. it also isn't available on dvd. oh well...
i have a palm vx and the foldable keyboard that goes with it. for $400, i can take notes whereever i'm at. if it's inconvenient to put the keyboard down, i can simply write into the palm. my accuracy at this is nearly 100%, and i get, i'd say, about 25-30 words/minute. i type 100 wpm, but all things considered, 30 on the subway making a note of something to do later in the evening is pretty good.
my dad recently got an hp jornada 720 (link) and it has a "3/4" size keyboard. that's in quotes 'cause i haven't measured it or anything. but i can type pretty quickly on this - about 70 words per minute - without much trouble. it takes a little bit of getting used to, but it's definitely possible.
my point is, i'm sure we'll keep coming up with some way to do it. whether it's a foldable keyboard for the palm, handwriting recognition, voice recognition, etc, we'll always be able to input into the tiny devices that organize our lives.
i may have mispoken. the protocol itself, i cannot vouch for - however, its feature set is pretty complete, and it *does not* require a server, once connecting, to talk - all communication is peer to peer, which avoids server lag, etc. of course, this can be a problem too, and that's why icq includes the option to send through the server. they've been doing this for years, but i hear aol is implementing this feature now too...
yes, they did - Palo Alto Research Center. i thought about that when i was writing out the SPARC thing :)
wow. they're up to 100 million now. my number is under 1,200,000... grown fast. anyway, aim has 29 million actually aol users, something like 39 million standalone aim users, 2.8 million compuserve users and 34 million netscape.com users (thereby tying them into aim)... and of course, they own icq too. aol owns instant messaging.
i'll agree with you about icq being superior though, but the fact of the matter is this - it's too complicated for the average person. they have no interest in seeing a person's ip address - they just wanna talk with their friends that use aol.
it's a shame, too. because icq *is* superior, and licq is an excellent client, but i find myself using gaim most frequently (although i have both of them running at all times) because all of my friends use it. and not because they use aol - but because *their* friends do, or their friend's friends do, etc. that's why i tend to cheer on the development of gaim more than licq, and that's why gaim is developing faster than licq - the userbase is bigger.
icq is a superior protocol/setup. but it's just not as widespread. and it never will be. that's why aol bought it - so they didn't lose revenue to it.