Do you feel that you have the resources you need to keep up with all the work that must be done in maintaining the distribution (keeping up with new versions while ensuring the stability and security that Slackware is known for, etc.), or must sacrifices be made because of limited time, manpower, money, etc.? Will the spin-off of Slackware change that? How so?
I've been very pleased with the service I've received from joker.com. I have two domains, one registered through Network Solutions and one through joker.com. With the first one, any changes take about a week to take effect. I made a change on the second domain and it too effect in 15 minutes (not counting the time it takes for the DNS information to actually propagate to other DNS server on the 'Net, of course).
Yeah, they could, if they're allowed to control it. I'm sure something can be done, though. Remember that DVDs are primarily specifically designed for videos, then additionally made to work for data storage. FMD-ROM is a data storage medium; there's no standard for putting video on it yet.
Umm, the UNIX pasting thing needs to be a configurable option - personally I'm a Mac user, and I hate the "select equals copy" thing. If you want it, that's OK for you, but too often I want to select something without copying it - such as, to select a block of text and replace it with the text that I previously copied. With standard UNIX pasting, I have to delete it first, then re-copy the text I want - or copy first, then click and hold down the delete key for awhile.
UNIX-style pasting works fine for gpm. That's about it.
Ooh.... Are they going to incorporate Mozilla into AOL 6.0, in favor of MSIE?
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IBM is producing G4s, but yields are too low. They're working on a revised G4 that should give higher yields. For more info on this, see MOSR and AppleInsider.
For anyone who thinks Apple is dead, this is a good thing to point out: Apple is selling so many computers that IBM and Motorola combined can't make enough processors to meet Apple's demands.;-)
Don't forget, Apple also does things to make their retailers happy, like limiting features to allow retailers to make money on add-ons. For example, most new Macs still ship with only 32MB RAM, yet the current Mac OS is barely usable with that much RAM unless virtual memory is turned on, which slows everything down. The current iBook has a single mono speaker, and no microphone or even a microphone jack. Why is this? So Apple can keep their advertised prices lower, but mostly so retailers can bundle RAM upgrades, headphones or speakers, and USB microphones. Yeah, I want to carry my iBook by the convenient carrying handle in one hand and a USB microphone in the other hand, just so I can use the voice password authentication thingie in Mac OS 9 that they make such a big deal about. Brilliant.
I seem to remember hearing that John Carmack had expressed an interest in writing WinModem drivers for Linux, but I'm not sure if I remember correctly.....
Umm, a corporate customer buying from CompUSA doesn't normally redistribute to their employees. They buy a bunch of computers and assign them to their employees, and the employees may be able to use them as they see fit (and in the case of laptops in particular, take them wherever they want), but they're still the property of the company, not the employee.
Of course, there are exceptions to this, but that's how it usually works.
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SCSI has not been standard on new Macs for the past few years, except for high-end configurations. You can add a SCSI card as an option at the Apple Store, but they come with on-board IDE. Kind of a shame, really; SCSI is so much neater. You're correct, though, about not allowing slave IDE drives - really stupid, if you ask me. How hard could it be to support?
There's a Mac SE with 4MB RAM sitting next to me on the floor, although it's running a slightly older version of System 6 I think. Just for fun one time I plugged in a v.90 modem and got it to connect to the Internet and run an FTP client. Amazing what you can do with a couputer built fifteen years ago, isn't it?
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In MOSR's defense, I've been reading the site pretty much daily for a very long time (let's just say I remember when the URL ended in/~rumors/), and I've been quite impressed with it. They've never claimed to be more than a rumor site; in fact on numerous occasions they've reminded their readers that that's all it is.
Sure, they get misinformation sometimes, but they don't misrepresent it as fact, and the correct information far outweighs the errors.
It's conceivable that Apple could work with Transmeta to make a PowerPC clone. But that's what it would have to be - same architecture, same instruction set, different chip.
I remember thinking awhile back that AMD would make an interesting addition to the Apple-IBM-Motorola partnership - after all, AMD already licences technology from Motorola, and vice-versa I think.
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MOSR is a great site; I've been reading it pretty much daily for about four years now, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone who's interested in what's going on with Apple and the Mac world.:-)
I'm really glad CSC is done, because the Mac OS CSC client sucks. Doing CSC, my P/233 running Linux 2.2.14 was outperforming a G3/300 running Mac OS 9. That was just scary. Plus, on slower Macs, the CSC client lagged the whole system really badly.
But that's all done now. The rc5 client is fine. It even supports AltiVec - makes me wish I had a G4!
Hmm, I guess this is kind of off-topic rambling. Oops. I'll stop now.
If anyone uses an Aqua theme in an advertisement for a computer or software package that isn't actually running on Mac OS X, I think Apple should sue them for everything they've got. They're trying to make money off their products and freely using Apple's GUI to help them do it.
That's not the case here! Nobody's selling anything, and just because I can make my Linux or Windows box look sorta like Mac OS X, that's not going to make me any less interested in buying a G4 running Mac OS X later this year. No way in hell a mere theme is going to have the fluid animation, awesome-looking drop shadows, and other GUI elements that Mac OS X uses (it sounds like DisplayPDF rocks).
Also, we mustn't forget the "feel" half of "look and feel". I tried a Mac OS Platinum theme on KDE for awhile, then took it off. It looked like the Mac OS, but the feel was closer to Win95 than it was to a Mac. The inconsistency bugged the hell out of me so I got rid of it. The appearance of Aqua without the feel isn't anything special.
It should be a fairly trivial matter to add theme support, although I don't expect Apple to be working on it any time soon.
From what I've heard, Aqua is customizable enough that you should be able to make it suit you. I like Platinum too, and those mice (and keyboards) do suck, but until you've tried using Aqua for at least a few weeks (I mean the real version of Aqua under Mac OS X, not an incomplete rip-off theme on another OS), don't complain prematurely.
Need I remind you that cookies are not inherently evil, like many people seem to think? I set Netscape to accept all cookies that can only be sent back to the originating server, and leave it alone. Cookies don't allow anyone to get any personal information from me that I don't want to give them, and if somebody wants to track which ad banners I've seen and which ones I've clicked on, why should that bother me? It's their banner, nobody else can get the information about me, and as long as I don't give them personal information, they don't even really know who I am - I'm just a visitor number. If they want to track the activities of a nameless visitor, let them!
I do agree, though, that making a site require cookies in order to view it is unforgivably stupid and annoying.
That may be; I'm not a programmer. But the text-based protocol can obviously be made to work, if not very efficiently. You could certainly write something better than TiK that used TOC; I'm sure Gaim is better than TiK but still not as good as it could be (I don't know; I haven't bothered installing Gaim yet).
What are the limitations of the TOC protocol? What doesn't it allow you to do, or is it just annoying to work with? I'm curious.
Mr. Harris is correct. No, PowerPC binaries won't run on x86 systems and vice-versa, but FreeBSD has a Linux emulation layer that allows it to run Linux/x86 binaries. What I'm talking about is, hardware developers can make minimal modifications and additions to Darwin to make it work on their specific PowerPC-based hardware, and install the rest of Mac OS X on top of that. You probably couldn't, for example, run those Mac OS X binaries on top of LinuxPPC because of architectural differences, but you could certainly run them on a slightly-modified version Darwin hardware that was very similar (but possibly not quite identical) to Appple's.
Not clever marketing, just bad reporting. They're not opening the whole thing, just Darwin and some components - and it's already been done, and yes, you can download it. http://publicsource.apple.com/
Very definitely possible. The underlying OS is indeed a *NIX system. I'd say the biggest problem would be user interface, since Mac OS X doesn't use X Windows (thank God) but Linux and most other UNIXes do. I'm not a programmer, so I don't know how hard it will be to port Mac OS X apps to X Windows. Probably not terribly difficult, though, I'd imagine.
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Do you feel that you have the resources you need to keep up with all the work that must be done in maintaining the distribution (keeping up with new versions while ensuring the stability and security that Slackware is known for, etc.), or must sacrifices be made because of limited time, manpower, money, etc.? Will the spin-off of Slackware change that? How so?
Will it run Fusion (a Mac emulator for DOS that can emulate a 68040-based Mac Quadra and run Mac OS 8)?
I've been very pleased with the service I've received from joker.com. I have two domains, one registered through Network Solutions and one through joker.com. With the first one, any changes take about a week to take effect. I made a change on the second domain and it too effect in 15 minutes (not counting the time it takes for the DNS information to actually propagate to other DNS server on the 'Net, of course).
Hmm, maybe the problem is that I'm running KDE?
This doesn't just affect KDE apps, though.
Yeah, they could, if they're allowed to control it. I'm sure something can be done, though. Remember that DVDs are primarily specifically designed for videos, then additionally made to work for data storage. FMD-ROM is a data storage medium; there's no standard for putting video on it yet.
I dunno, maybe I'm just rambling.....
Umm, the UNIX pasting thing needs to be a configurable option - personally I'm a Mac user, and I hate the "select equals copy" thing. If you want it, that's OK for you, but too often I want to select something without copying it - such as, to select a block of text and replace it with the text that I previously copied. With standard UNIX pasting, I have to delete it first, then re-copy the text I want - or copy first, then click and hold down the delete key for awhile.
UNIX-style pasting works fine for gpm. That's about it.
Ooh.... Are they going to incorporate Mozilla into AOL 6.0, in favor of MSIE?
For anyone who thinks Apple is dead, this is a good thing to point out: Apple is selling so many computers that IBM and Motorola combined can't make enough processors to meet Apple's demands.
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Of course, there are exceptions to this, but that's how it usually works.
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There's a Mac SE with 4MB RAM sitting next to me on the floor, although it's running a slightly older version of System 6 I think. Just for fun one time I plugged in a v.90 modem and got it to connect to the Internet and run an FTP client. Amazing what you can do with a couputer built fifteen years ago, isn't it?
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Sure, they get misinformation sometimes, but they don't misrepresent it as fact, and the correct information far outweighs the errors.
It's conceivable that Apple could work with Transmeta to make a PowerPC clone. But that's what it would have to be - same architecture, same instruction set, different chip.
I remember thinking awhile back that AMD would make an interesting addition to the Apple-IBM-Motorola partnership - after all, AMD already licences technology from Motorola, and vice-versa I think.
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MOSR is a great site; I've been reading it pretty much daily for about four years now, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone who's interested in what's going on with Apple and the Mac world.
I'm really glad CSC is done, because the Mac OS CSC client sucks. Doing CSC, my P/233 running Linux 2.2.14 was outperforming a G3/300 running Mac OS 9. That was just scary. Plus, on slower Macs, the CSC client lagged the whole system really badly.
But that's all done now. The rc5 client is fine. It even supports AltiVec - makes me wish I had a G4!
Hmm, I guess this is kind of off-topic rambling. Oops. I'll stop now.
I'm waiting for an Aqua Kaleidoscope scheme for the Mac OS.
If anyone uses an Aqua theme in an advertisement for a computer or software package that isn't actually running on Mac OS X, I think Apple should sue them for everything they've got. They're trying to make money off their products and freely using Apple's GUI to help them do it.
That's not the case here! Nobody's selling anything, and just because I can make my Linux or Windows box look sorta like Mac OS X, that's not going to make me any less interested in buying a G4 running Mac OS X later this year. No way in hell a mere theme is going to have the fluid animation, awesome-looking drop shadows, and other GUI elements that Mac OS X uses (it sounds like DisplayPDF rocks).
Also, we mustn't forget the "feel" half of "look and feel". I tried a Mac OS Platinum theme on KDE for awhile, then took it off. It looked like the Mac OS, but the feel was closer to Win95 than it was to a Mac. The inconsistency bugged the hell out of me so I got rid of it. The appearance of Aqua without the feel isn't anything special.
It should be a fairly trivial matter to add theme support, although I don't expect Apple to be working on it any time soon.
From what I've heard, Aqua is customizable enough that you should be able to make it suit you. I like Platinum too, and those mice (and keyboards) do suck, but until you've tried using Aqua for at least a few weeks (I mean the real version of Aqua under Mac OS X, not an incomplete rip-off theme on another OS), don't complain prematurely.
...and I just saw three Aqua themes for Sawmill the other day.
They make such interesting sparks when you microwave them....
Need I remind you that cookies are not inherently evil, like many people seem to think? I set Netscape to accept all cookies that can only be sent back to the originating server, and leave it alone. Cookies don't allow anyone to get any personal information from me that I don't want to give them, and if somebody wants to track which ad banners I've seen and which ones I've clicked on, why should that bother me? It's their banner, nobody else can get the information about me, and as long as I don't give them personal information, they don't even really know who I am - I'm just a visitor number. If they want to track the activities of a nameless visitor, let them!
I do agree, though, that making a site require cookies in order to view it is unforgivably stupid and annoying.
That may be; I'm not a programmer. But the text-based protocol can obviously be made to work, if not very efficiently. You could certainly write something better than TiK that used TOC; I'm sure Gaim is better than TiK but still not as good as it could be (I don't know; I haven't bothered installing Gaim yet).
What are the limitations of the TOC protocol? What doesn't it allow you to do, or is it just annoying to work with? I'm curious.
Mr. Harris is correct. No, PowerPC binaries won't run on x86 systems and vice-versa, but FreeBSD has a Linux emulation layer that allows it to run Linux/x86 binaries. What I'm talking about is, hardware developers can make minimal modifications and additions to Darwin to make it work on their specific PowerPC-based hardware, and install the rest of Mac OS X on top of that. You probably couldn't, for example, run those Mac OS X binaries on top of LinuxPPC because of architectural differences, but you could certainly run them on a slightly-modified version Darwin hardware that was very similar (but possibly not quite identical) to Appple's.
Not clever marketing, just bad reporting. They're not opening the whole thing, just Darwin and some components - and it's already been done, and yes, you can download it. http://publicsource.apple.com/
Very definitely possible. The underlying OS is indeed a *NIX system. I'd say the biggest problem would be user interface, since Mac OS X doesn't use X Windows (thank God) but Linux and most other UNIXes do. I'm not a programmer, so I don't know how hard it will be to port Mac OS X apps to X Windows. Probably not terribly difficult, though, I'd imagine.