Funny thing about the Macintosh version of IE. Sure, it supports all the HTML standards, etc. but its back end support for things like dynamic HTML that directs browser uploads (useful for things like sites developed using Allaire's Cold Fusion) is almost non-existent. Microsoft has deliberately not included some simple things in the Mac version of IE like the ability to add new certificate servers for SSL encrypted websites. After all, why would they want to allow any other platform to fully play in their world?
Not much of a story, but I liked it since I got away with it...
I did cheat on a demo when I used some Java applets running on our server to "generate" transactions that were supposed to be from client workstations (which we did not have fully working at the time). I set up the client stations with quick/dirty front end forms with no functionality and jury rigged it to simply generate a connection when you pushed the appropriate buttons. My boss knew that we were still on track and we used the demo to please some visiting dignitaries.
Not quite the cardboard box with duct tape and a picture inside, but close enough...
There is also a version of this same device that can be installed internally. The company also sells various replacement keyboards with the device already implanted.
It really depends on what you are doing. Normally, posting on Usenet is not part of someone's official duties. However,.mil and.gov users do get on spam mailing lists occasionally. Most of the time, the offending ISP is sent a cease-and-desist letter/email (just like any company would). Every so often, other things may happen (depending on who does it).:-)
Well, it isn't for Heinz-Harald Frentzen...
I think that Williams will have a really good run and Mr. Schumacher the younger (Ralf) will pull another win out of the hat.
Oh yes, I had one of the very early ones off the assembly line (serial number 0000239), which cost me around $400. It was desitined to be an in-store demo machine. However, a friend of mine happened to be the RS district manager and convinced the one RS Computer Center (remember those?) in towh to give up the machine so I could buy it. Whereas the later ones had regular plastic chips, my CoCo had a whole slew of ceramic chips with gold plated contacts (which was something back then)...and a whopping 4K of memory!
I took it home and called my brother, who had some 16K memory chips that would work with it, so it got the instant memory upgrade. I had several of the cartridge games, and subscriptions to Rainbow and Color Computer News (both came with a cassette of programs each month).
Later, I got the rather expensive upgrade of the 5 1/4" floppy drive and a copy of OS9.
Cut my teeth in assembly language on it, as well as writing most of my research papers on it with VIP Writer.
Those were the days! Great little machine and pretty much bullet-proof.
Oh, to get back on topic, my autocross club used a Model 100 for running our timing equipment until two years ago when it finally gave up the ghost. Great little laptop!
Well, the download of the 10.1 update is/will be free, except for the fact that you guys across the pond have to pay by the minute for connectivity... I think that US$20 is a bit much to charge for handling a CD, but damn near everybody does it (and not just M$ and Apple).
Most Macintosh users were pretty damn pissed off with Microsoft when Word 6 came out. They were so pissed off that Microsoft issued a formal public apology for the product.
However, they didn't bother to do anything else about it until Apple killed the look/feel lawsuit, accepted IE as the default browser, and agreed to share a bunch of other technologies.
Perhaps I am thinking too broadly about the product line...I know that a good number of PowerPC processors end up in some of the newer routers and switches on the market (Cisco uses various Motorola processors in their boxes, for example).
Not really, the real death knell will be when you can get through all of the undocumented MAPI interfaces in the various flavors of M$ Windows. Once you have that, you have control over interprocess communications as well as the data storage formats.
The real monopoly with Microsoft is not Windows, it's Office.
As someone else has surely mentioned, the G4 is used in a lot more places than Apple's various computers. While this particular version of the chip may not be, you will find a lot of the G3/G4 series processors inside automobile computers, routers, the Tivo boxes, etc.
Motorola makes most of these processors for embedded applications. Intel makes processors for the embedded market, but they don't get the same publicity.
I hadn't seen the Alice's NNTP Server piece before, thanks for passing that on...Made my day (and weekend!)
I used to be a regular poster in some of the alt. and rec. groups. I even got to meet a group of the regular posters from ARC (alt.romance.chat, when I was young and foolish) ARC, along with most of Usenet, is now just a ton of Pr0n spam, and flamefests...
Jim, say hello to Douglas Adams when you get there!
That is absolutely true (the first part, anyway:-)), but in the corporate mind of M$, including even one line of GPL code in any software package will cause an epidemic that makes AIDS, Ebola, and the Black Death look like a case of the sniffles. At least Apple recognizes the value of OpenSource software and isn't afraid to use it and contribute back to the community.
I think that was the TRS-80 Model 100... used one of those for several years as the controller for an autocross timer.
There were a few others that looked like glorified calculators/organizers, which may be the one you're talking about....Those were kind of cool (when the first came out).
My (as in I actually owned it) first machine was a TRS-80 Color Computer, one of the first 100 made. I had been using the various TRS-80 (Model I with the expansion box, II, and III) off and on at the stores where I hung out after school. I had also used various old PC compatibles (Kaypro, Leading Edge) as well as older Apple systems (II, II+, IIc), and later on, a Mac SE30 which I used to publish car club newsletters for a number of years. Today, I have 3 PowerMacs (8600 running LinuxPPC, RevA iMac with OS 9.1, and a Slot-load CDRW iMac running OSX), a Sun Ultra 60 running Solaris 8, and an Athlon 1Ghz box running SuSE Linux.
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Hey, it's twice as many pluses as C++, so it has to be good! :-)
Yeah, but Microsoft would just accuse us of creating viral software to attack their site. :-)
I did cheat on a demo when I used some Java applets running on our server to "generate" transactions that were supposed to be from client workstations (which we did not have fully working at the time). I set up the client stations with quick/dirty front end forms with no functionality and jury rigged it to simply generate a connection when you pushed the appropriate buttons. My boss knew that we were still on track and we used the demo to please some visiting dignitaries.
Not quite the cardboard box with duct tape and a picture inside, but close enough...
There is also a version of this same device that can be installed internally. The company also sells various replacement keyboards with the device already implanted.
http://sports.excite.com/form/news/f1-r-12
'nuff said!
Well, it isn't for Heinz-Harald Frentzen... I think that Williams will have a really good run and Mr. Schumacher the younger (Ralf) will pull another win out of the hat.
Oh yes, I had one of the very early ones off the assembly line (serial number 0000239), which cost me around $400. It was desitined to be an in-store demo machine. However, a friend of mine happened to be the RS district manager and convinced the one RS Computer Center (remember those?) in towh to give up the machine so I could buy it. Whereas the later ones had regular plastic chips, my CoCo had a whole slew of ceramic chips with gold plated contacts (which was something back then)...and a whopping 4K of memory!
I took it home and called my brother, who had some 16K memory chips that would work with it, so it got the instant memory upgrade. I had several of the cartridge games, and subscriptions to Rainbow and Color Computer News (both came with a cassette of programs each month).
Later, I got the rather expensive upgrade of the 5 1/4" floppy drive and a copy of OS9.
Cut my teeth in assembly language on it, as well as writing most of my research papers on it with VIP Writer.
Those were the days! Great little machine and pretty much bullet-proof.
Oh, to get back on topic, my autocross club used a Model 100 for running our timing equipment until two years ago when it finally gave up the ghost. Great little laptop!
So Intel having their profits down 90+% isn't the same thing???
However, they didn't bother to do anything else about it until Apple killed the look/feel lawsuit, accepted IE as the default browser, and agreed to share a bunch of other technologies.
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Or maybe System for the Prevention of Actual Mail?
Perhaps I am thinking too broadly about the product line...I know that a good number of PowerPC processors end up in some of the newer routers and switches on the market (Cisco uses various Motorola processors in their boxes, for example).
As far as the movie being cheezy, I agree! More cheese than in Wisconsin, more corn than in Nebraska!
The real monopoly with Microsoft is not Windows, it's Office.
Motorola makes most of these processors for embedded applications. Intel makes processors for the embedded market, but they don't get the same publicity.
I used to be a regular poster in some of the alt. and rec. groups. I even got to meet a group of the regular posters from ARC (alt.romance.chat, when I was young and foolish) ARC, along with most of Usenet, is now just a ton of Pr0n spam, and flamefests...
Jim, say hello to Douglas Adams when you get there!
Oh, just like Gilbert Godfreid (or however his name is spelled... I'm a network engineer, not a linguist)
That is absolutely true (the first part, anyway :-)), but in the corporate mind of M$, including even one line of GPL code in any software package will cause an epidemic that makes AIDS, Ebola, and the Black Death look like a case of the sniffles. At least Apple recognizes the value of OpenSource software and isn't afraid to use it and contribute back to the community.
There were a few others that looked like glorified calculators/organizers, which may be the one you're talking about....Those were kind of cool (when the first came out).
My (as in I actually owned it) first machine was a TRS-80 Color Computer, one of the first 100 made. I had been using the various TRS-80 (Model I with the expansion box, II, and III) off and on at the stores where I hung out after school. I had also used various old PC compatibles (Kaypro, Leading Edge) as well as older Apple systems (II, II+, IIc), and later on, a Mac SE30 which I used to publish car club newsletters for a number of years. Today, I have 3 PowerMacs (8600 running LinuxPPC, RevA iMac with OS 9.1, and a Slot-load CDRW iMac running OSX), a Sun Ultra 60 running Solaris 8, and an Athlon 1Ghz box running SuSE Linux.
Damn, that takes me back...