I had no idea that being an "exceptional person" was directly correlated to how many promotions one gets or does not get at their day job -- I naively believed it might have something to do with the human soul. Thanks for the correction, I'm going to get back to work now!
Out of the box, this thing does a ton of services, will restart the services if something happens, and will even reboot the whole darn machine if something goes horribly, horribly wrong. Sweet.
The OS X dock, as previously mentioned, does this. It's rendered resolution-independent, so no matter what resolution you run at, it takes up exactly the same amount of space that you have specified for it. It just looks better at higher resolutions, and chunkier at lower resolutions.
I was kind of disappointed, however, that the whole OS doesn't work this way. Windows and widgets and text still scale to various sizes depending on the screen resolution. Ideally, I think you'd want this to be a user preference -- some people like lots of tiny windows, and some people would like all the UI elements to stay the same size and simply gain/lose resolution. Since OS X uses a vector based graphics layer for it's UI, it seems like this could be done.
I'd bet money his interest stems from a desire to shoot all remaining copies of "Daikatana" out into space, so future generations will have no record of the game's existence.
However, I don't think that's really the kind of impression we want to give aliens of Earth.
Apple also invented Firewire. That term is (tm)Apple. Sony calls it iLink(tm). The official standard is IEEE-1394.
As a side note: Sony's implementation, "iLink", is the smaller 4-pin connector that isn't a powered connection. The larger 6-pin connection is powered. It's too bad Sony decided to do this, as it would be neat to charge your camcorder while transfering data.
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I had no idea that being an "exceptional person" was directly correlated to how many promotions one gets or does not get at their day job -- I naively believed it might have something to do with the human soul. Thanks for the correction, I'm going to get back to work now!
~jeff
- Rented the VHS copy
- Downloaded a VCD of it
- Watched the VCD in my DVD player
- Returned the VHS copy and deleted the VCD
I think I speak for us all when I say: what a waste of time.
~jeff
oh my god! you had to *walk* somewhere?
are you ok?
if you want to talk about it, I'm here.
slow news day? this is one of those "transparently designed to incite page/banner ad views" stories. don't fall for it.
~jeff
the 10-client restriction is only on the AFS service (apple file sharing). The rest of the services, ftp etc., are non restricted.
~jeff
Seems to me like the Real News here that most /. readers would be interested in is today's release of OS X Server 10.0.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/specs.html
Out of the box, this thing does a ton of services, will restart the services if something happens, and will even reboot the whole darn machine if something goes horribly, horribly wrong. Sweet.
~Jeff
Sega, which has given up selling game machines to focus on titles.
That's funny, I've given up buying game machines to focus on titties.
In the context of Windows, I've never wondered what "POS" stands for.
~Jeff
I'm not a Trek fan, but I do know this: Scott Bakula is a horrible, horrible actor. He'll be perfect.
~Jeff
The OS X dock, as previously mentioned, does this. It's rendered resolution-independent, so no matter what resolution you run at, it takes up exactly the same amount of space that you have specified for it. It just looks better at higher resolutions, and chunkier at lower resolutions.
I was kind of disappointed, however, that the whole OS doesn't work this way. Windows and widgets and text still scale to various sizes depending on the screen resolution. Ideally, I think you'd want this to be a user preference -- some people like lots of tiny windows, and some people would like all the UI elements to stay the same size and simply gain/lose resolution. Since OS X uses a vector based graphics layer for it's UI, it seems like this could be done.
~Jeff
Far more interesting and amusing are the "Spam Letters":
http://www.thespamletters.com/
Jon Land has been responding to spam for years now, and the site keeps getting funnier. Check 'em out.
~Jeff
I'd bet money his interest stems from a desire to shoot all remaining copies of "Daikatana" out into space, so future generations will have no record of the game's existence.
However, I don't think that's really the kind of impression we want to give aliens of Earth.
"Neo"-Conservative?
<keanu> Whoa. </keanu>
Give me a break.
~Jeff
Apple also invented Firewire. That term is (tm)Apple. Sony calls it iLink(tm). The official standard is IEEE-1394.
As a side note: Sony's implementation, "iLink", is the smaller 4-pin connector that isn't a powered connection. The larger 6-pin connection is powered. It's too bad Sony decided to do this, as it would be neat to charge your camcorder while transfering data.