Then, as root, open/etc/ttys in a text editor. Comment out the line similar to console "/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Cont ents/MacOS/loginwindow ", and uncomment the line similar to console "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure
That said, AT&T fucked up the billing on my phone and my cable service about 4 times in a row and led to a several month series of events that made me decided to never use them again.
The first cell phone I purchased for my wife was from a company later bought by AT&T. She had the phone, and their cheapest ($19.99/month) plan, for flat-tire-on-the-turnpike-at-night type emergencies. Of course, those sorts of things don't happen with great frequency, so the phone saw maybe two minutes of use every six months or so. Tops.
Regardless, once AT&T took over the plan, they'd bump her up to a higher-minute, $29.99/month plan every month to "better suit her calling patters". So, each month I'd call, demand her plan be dropped back down to $19.99, and be told:
the $29.99/month plan was a better deal for her
they didn't have a $19.99/month plan anymore
It generally took some time before they'd concede my counter-arguments (
she hadn't used any minutes for months
long ago, when she had used minutes, it had been less than a quarter of the $19.99/month plan's monthly limit
I had, in my hand, a current advertisement for AT&T plans "starting at $19.99"
) might have some merit.
And that was the routine every month. Meanwhile, they somehow kept slamming our long distance service, even though our local phone company insisted our account was locked so that couldn't possibly happen.
The box was plain, deep Black with the gametitle in dark blue.
It was so radiant Black and opposing the screaming color schemes of other games in that time, it really stuck out.
From a meeting between representatives of Origin and Electronic Arts:
IAN:
That's "Ultima VII" that's, that's the jacket
cover, it's going out across the country in every store.
DAVID:
This is the compromise we made...this is the compromise you
made?
IAN:
Yes.
DEREK:
Is it going to say anything here, or here along the spine?
DAVID:
It's not going to say anything?
IAN:
No, it's not going to say anything.
NIGEL:
It's going to be like this, all black...
IAN:
No, it's going to be that simple, beautiful, classic! ?: Does
look a little bit like, you know, black leather...
DEREK:
You can see yourself in... both sides.
DAVID:
I feel so bad, I feel so bad about this...
NIGEL:
It's like a black mirror.
DAVID:
Well, I think it looks like death...it looks like mourning.
I mean it looks...
IAN:
DAVID, DAVID, every, every movie, in every cinema is about
death; death sells!
NIGEL:
I think he's right, there is something about this, that's
that's so black, it's like; "How much more black could
this be?" and the answer is: "None, none... more
black."
All we could get from Verizon was the SDSL service at an ungodly amount and a crappy speed.
Last fall we moved about five miles. I called Verizon before the move to check if we could still have DSL.
"Sure, no problem. It will be active 24 to 48 hours after your phone line."
After the move & installation of the filters, I powered up the DSL modem each day to see if the LEDs indicated service. After a week, we were still dead, so I called in.
"Sorry, it will be active in 48 hours."
After going through the procedure of waiting 48 hours, still finding no service, and calling back to get the same answer three times, I finally got transferred to an install tech.
It took the tech less than a minute to pull our address up on his computer and notice there's a fiber segment between our neighborhood and the CO that kills any chance of DSL for us. According to him, they have no plans to change that situation either. His suggested alternative to $39.99/month DSL: a T1.
Shortyly after iMac came out Intel showed off at some show some cases that were different. One was a red/brick colored pyramid shaped one. It actually was not a full pyramid as the tip was cut off and a platform to put the monitor was used instead.
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...but nobody wants to re-encode all their CDs and stuff.
Exactly!
Some time ago I ripped my CDs to Ogg on an external, 40GB USB drive that I've been using at home and at work. Now I'd like to replace that USB drive with a portable player so I can also listen to my files in my car and when I'm mowing the lawn.
I'm not interested in re-ripping my 650+ CDs into a format I don't like as much, so I'm waiting for a decent, Ogg-supporting device.
The interesting thing is that eventually everyone at home will be looking at my photos online with LCDs anyway, so it can't be ignored.
That is an interesting thought, and it leads me to wonder if folks may begin making the same mistake with visuals as many people do now with audio.
With the best of intentions, people may begin buying LCD displays for testing their photos, videos, animations, or what-have-you, forgetting that tuning a project to compensate for the deficiencies of one inadequate device will only bite them in the end. The deficiencies of the content creator's LCD won't match those of the consumers' LCDs, and adjusted images that look good in testing will look worse in the wild than if they had been left alone.
Oh well. On the plus side, fewer Sony CRTs means fewer shadow lines in aperture grill CRTs to drive me batty!
Seperate accounts for each user? Didn't Unix had that since the late '60s?
Yes, but marketing/sales people don't know this, and it's fun to watch.
The university for which I work has a support contract with a big Apple-approved sales & support company. I'm not part of desktop support, so I don't know the details on the company or the contract, but in the Summer of 1999 two of their reps came in to update IT folks on the latest Mac offerings.
The first rep had a sales title and was upfront about not having any technical skills. She was fine, but we were all eager to talk with the second rep, who the sales lady played up all morning. He bore the title of "Systems Engineer" and, according to the sales lady, formerly worked for Apple on core portions of the Mac operating system. Even better, he'd just been visiting at Apple, and he'd learned inside information on Mac OS X.
I'm sure you can see where I'm headed with this. After all the buildup, the guy wound up looking like an idiot. He might have been a good sales person, but he should never have been paraded out as a brilliant systems engineer.
Some of his more interesting contentions:
His shiny, new G3 was faster than any PC. Not equivalently clocked, uni-processor desktop or something along those lines, but any.
Apple was revolutionizing the computer industry and university computer science programs by being the first to release the source code to a Unix operating system for free.
Apple was the only company to provide Apache for free with their operating system. For any other OS you have to purchase Apache separately for $10,000 or more.
Apple was blazing new ground with technologies that allow a lab of computers to boot from a central server. Never before have computers been able to pull their very operating system across the network. Also, for the first time, client machines in computer labs could function without local hard drives.
Steven Spielberg cast his vote in favor of QuickTime as the best streaming format with his QuickTime-exclusive release of the trailer for his new Star Wars film, "The Menace."
Please note that I'm not bashing Apple here. Apple does a lot of neat things, and Mac OS X is quite nifty. This was just another case of a glorified sales guy who took bad notes at a (semi-)technical sales briefing. Now, Microsoft paid this same sort of person to write an "I switched!" web page. As another Slashdot topic says, "It's funny. Laugh."
If you ever have a garage sale, try having a 'free stuff' bin where people don't even have to pay. Some people will walk right by it because they think that if it doesn't cost anything, it's not worth anything.
You can see this effect very clearly by placing some nice, but unwanted item--a bicycle or piece of furniture, for example--on your front lawn with "Free!" sign. It'll sit there for a week or more. Change the sign to "$10", and the item will be stolen that night.
Free marketing tip (the first one is always free): if you want to sell an operating system (or make it really wanted), please don't name it 'Inferno'. It doesn't bring really good mental images, now does it. Also, 'Plan9' sounds like a warm hatful of geek humor that's guaranteed to provoke negative reactions in more rigid corporate minds.
The first question usually asked about Plan 9 is the origin of its name. Some people probably know the cult classic 'Plan 9 From Outer Space', and the name of Plan 9 is indeed a salutation to that film. In addition, Plan 9 continues the Bell Labs tradition of selecting names that make marketing droids cry.
Wasn't Ellison the one who put the big push into 'thin clients' as well? I dunno about you guys, but I've got *tons* of those hanging around.
Thin clients. Network computers. Yeah, what a laugh!
The press, the public, the software industry will never back any initiative that moves all of a user's applications and data off his or her desktop and onto centralized servers.
We have chosen the name "Gems" as an acronym for Multi-Dimenstional Mathematical Reduction (MDMR) does not clearly define the condensation process, as successfully as does the mental image of the crystallization of nature that transforms rough materials into precious stones.
MDMR, eh? I suspect MDMA might have more to do with this press release.
that's like watching a...fishtank on TV, who would ever do such a thing?
Well, my cat, actually. I bought one of those tapes on a whim, and she loves it. And now that I think about it, her other favorite TV-related activity is attacking console game characters as they move about the screen. Therefore, this video game channel might be popular with a percentage of the feline population.
Unfortunately, most cats don't seem to have much in the way of disposable income, so as you said, getting advertising dollars might be tough.
Does anyone know if wooden crates would work better?
They do not.
Last year I ordered an art desk as a gift for my wife. The art company shipped the desk parts in a heavy wooden crate via UPS Ground; however, it arrived at our door in two large cardboard boxes crudely taped together to make one larger box.
Inside we found almost all of the desk parts, though a number of them were substantially damaged. UPS was unconcerned, but the art company was properly horrified and immediately sent replacement parts at no cost to us. Via FedEx, if I recall correctly.
Oh, the only sign of the original crate were the splintered bits of wood still clinging to a shred of the shipping label UPS had taped to the cardboard boxes.
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sudo /usr/sbin/nvram boot-args="-v"
Then, as root, open /etc/ttys in a text editor. Comment out the line similar to console "/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Cont ents/MacOS/loginwindow ", and uncomment the line similar to console "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure
As those decidedly non-American folks from NTK put it:
The first cell phone I purchased for my wife was from a company later bought by AT&T. She had the phone, and their cheapest ($19.99/month) plan, for flat-tire-on-the-turnpike-at-night type emergencies. Of course, those sorts of things don't happen with great frequency, so the phone saw maybe two minutes of use every six months or so. Tops.
Regardless, once AT&T took over the plan, they'd bump her up to a higher-minute, $29.99/month plan every month to "better suit her calling patters". So, each month I'd call, demand her plan be dropped back down to $19.99, and be told:
It generally took some time before they'd concede my counter-arguments (
- she hadn't used any minutes for months
- long ago, when she had used minutes, it had been less than a quarter of the $19.99/month plan's monthly limit
- I had, in my hand, a current advertisement for AT&T plans "starting at $19.99"
) might have some merit.And that was the routine every month. Meanwhile, they somehow kept slamming our long distance service, even though our local phone company insisted our account was locked so that couldn't possibly happen.
I am not fond of AT&T.
From a meeting between representatives of Origin and Electronic Arts:
Last fall we moved about five miles. I called Verizon before the move to check if we could still have DSL.
"Sure, no problem. It will be active 24 to 48 hours after your phone line."
After the move & installation of the filters, I powered up the DSL modem each day to see if the LEDs indicated service. After a week, we were still dead, so I called in.
"Sorry, it will be active in 48 hours."
After going through the procedure of waiting 48 hours, still finding no service, and calling back to get the same answer three times, I finally got transferred to an install tech.
It took the tech less than a minute to pull our address up on his computer and notice there's a fiber segment between our neighborhood and the CO that kills any chance of DSL for us. According to him, they have no plans to change that situation either. His suggested alternative to $39.99/month DSL: a T1.
I hung up and called Comcast.
Photo and article available from CNET.
Exactly!
Some time ago I ripped my CDs to Ogg on an external, 40GB USB drive that I've been using at home and at work. Now I'd like to replace that USB drive with a portable player so I can also listen to my files in my car and when I'm mowing the lawn.
I'm not interested in re-ripping my 650+ CDs into a format I don't like as much, so I'm waiting for a decent, Ogg-supporting device.
I thought the first videogame was "Tennis for Two".
heFontMapper is said to correct the problems with using PALMPIX cameras with the 330. I've not tested it yet myself.
Digital Research, Novell, and others produced multiuser DOS products. Indeed, Concurrent Controls still sells Multiuser DOS.
And this reminds me of a job ad I spotted on a bulletin board when I was in college. In an otherwise reasonable list of job duties appeared:
The pay seemed a little low.
That is an interesting thought, and it leads me to wonder if folks may begin making the same mistake with visuals as many people do now with audio.
With the best of intentions, people may begin buying LCD displays for testing their photos, videos, animations, or what-have-you, forgetting that tuning a project to compensate for the deficiencies of one inadequate device will only bite them in the end. The deficiencies of the content creator's LCD won't match those of the consumers' LCDs, and adjusted images that look good in testing will look worse in the wild than if they had been left alone.
Oh well. On the plus side, fewer Sony CRTs means fewer shadow lines in aperture grill CRTs to drive me batty!
Actually, the pyramid is already past due: Intel touts pyramid PC
Not for a while. The web site has not been updated since 1998.
So, Lotus finally won't run, eh?
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
-Inigo
Wasn't that Netscape Constellation?
Yes, but marketing/sales people don't know this, and it's fun to watch.
The university for which I work has a support contract with a big Apple-approved sales & support company. I'm not part of desktop support, so I don't know the details on the company or the contract, but in the Summer of 1999 two of their reps came in to update IT folks on the latest Mac offerings.
The first rep had a sales title and was upfront about not having any technical skills. She was fine, but we were all eager to talk with the second rep, who the sales lady played up all morning. He bore the title of "Systems Engineer" and, according to the sales lady, formerly worked for Apple on core portions of the Mac operating system. Even better, he'd just been visiting at Apple, and he'd learned inside information on Mac OS X.
I'm sure you can see where I'm headed with this. After all the buildup, the guy wound up looking like an idiot. He might have been a good sales person, but he should never have been paraded out as a brilliant systems engineer.
Some of his more interesting contentions:
Please note that I'm not bashing Apple here. Apple does a lot of neat things, and Mac OS X is quite nifty. This was just another case of a glorified sales guy who took bad notes at a (semi-)technical sales briefing. Now, Microsoft paid this same sort of person to write an "I switched!" web page. As another Slashdot topic says, "It's funny. Laugh."
You can see this effect very clearly by placing some nice, but unwanted item--a bicycle or piece of furniture, for example--on your front lawn with "Free!" sign. It'll sit there for a week or more. Change the sign to "$10", and the item will be stolen that night.
Well, they had to do something with these.
The folks at Bell Labs pick names like "Plan 9" and "Inferno" for exactly the reasons you say they shouldn't. From http://www.cs.hut.fi/~kny/inferno/background.html:
Thin clients. Network computers. Yeah, what a laugh!
The press, the public, the software industry will never back any initiative that moves all of a user's applications and data off his or her desktop and onto centralized servers.
Oh, unless it's called .NET.
What's in a name?
MDMR, eh? I suspect MDMA might have more to do with this press release.
Well, my cat, actually. I bought one of those tapes on a whim, and she loves it. And now that I think about it, her other favorite TV-related activity is attacking console game characters as they move about the screen. Therefore, this video game channel might be popular with a percentage of the feline population.
Unfortunately, most cats don't seem to have much in the way of disposable income, so as you said, getting advertising dollars might be tough.
They do not.
Last year I ordered an art desk as a gift for my wife. The art company shipped the desk parts in a heavy wooden crate via UPS Ground; however, it arrived at our door in two large cardboard boxes crudely taped together to make one larger box.
Inside we found almost all of the desk parts, though a number of them were substantially damaged. UPS was unconcerned, but the art company was properly horrified and immediately sent replacement parts at no cost to us. Via FedEx, if I recall correctly.
Oh, the only sign of the original crate were the splintered bits of wood still clinging to a shred of the shipping label UPS had taped to the cardboard boxes.