Klient also requires a registration fee, but its pretty nice.
Bersirc is a free client. It was licensed under the QPL, but I think that may change, it looks like they're dumping QT in favour of their own custom GUI toolkit.
Honestly, I don't understand why anyone would use X-Chat on Windows. The other clients look and feel much nicer.
What I'd really like is a viable alternative to X-Chat Aqua on OS X. Snac seemed OK, but, it's not free. So, my search continues...
I find it highly ironic that someone would call us loving linux people 'fags,' considering that quite a bit of the Window's OS has some form of unix/linux code in it.
Ftp.exe, anyone?
The code in the FTP client is from BSD, which is free for the taking. Nice try though.
Who knows what kind of code they have in their kernel that was ripped out of linux as well. Hell, they don't even have to take the code, they can take the innovations it's self from linux. Linux makes a new memory 'sandbox' that is byfar the best? Microsoft will take it, change it and make a billion dollars. (Modified and taken from anti-trust, the movie. But I ain't getting no billion dollars. Damn it)
I doubt there's any Linux code in the windows kernel, anything would require a serious rewrite to even work - the two kernels are quite different. As for taking "innovations", the Linux community would surely never take any ideas from Windows or other operating systems, right?
The RIAA has a Canadian branch, they just do their barratry and harassment through that division.
The CRIA is NOT a division of the RIAA, it's merely the Canadian equivalent.
So far they've managed to steal about $30-50 from my pocket for CDRs through their levies on blanks. The fact that I use them primarily for data backup is irrelevant -- they forced the Canadian government to dip into all our pockets for the "piracy losses" of their failing business model.
Perhaps.. but, that tax on blank media, mp3 players, etc. also allows us to download songs off the internet without fear of the ridiculous lawsuits the RIAA brings about on American consumers.
This "protocol" basically combines several different pre-existing protocols. It seems most like a combination of Auto-IP addressing and SLP. The thing is that OS X and several other OSes including Netware and Linux already use SLP. Now Apple wants everyone to change again?
This isn't new, nor is Apple changing anything. Several Mac OS X apps already utilize Rendezvous, and have since OS X 10.2 Jaguar.
Even later than that, early versions of Rhapsody (which became OS X) also ran on both PPC and x86. And of course, OpenStep ran on PPC, x86, AXP, PA-RISC, and who knows what else.
In retrospect, the introduction of the 80386 was the time to bite the bullet and start over with a real OS. Windows users are still paying the price for that mistake.
Uhm, Microsoft DID do that. Windows NT was a fully 32-bit operating system designed for 80386 and above processors (technically, it's designed to be processor-independant, for portability - the HAL provides all the processor-specific stuff). As I'm sure you're well aware, Windows 2000 and XP are based on the Windows NT architecture.
AirPort Express gives you the freedom to place or use your AirPort-equipped Mac or Wi-Fi-compliant Windows PC wherever in your home it's most convenient for you, not where it's most convenient for your house.
Sounds to me like it can use any 802.11b or 802.11g equipment. That's one of the benefits of using standards.
Yeah, and pop is 110. My point is still valid, I just have an IMAP server in my situation.
Uhh, no you don't. POP/IMAP only transfer email between your client and your email provider's mail server. SMTP is used to transfer email between hosts on the internet.
Parent was talking about configuring his/her own SMTP server on their cable connection, and having issues sending mail to specific domains. In this case it was probably because his cable IP was part of some blacklist which says any dynamic IP must belong to a spammer, as there's obviously no use for someone to be running his/her own SMTP server on a lowly dialup or cable connection.
Have you been living under a rock? Longhorn betas come out all the time. The WinHEC build is used by major development companies like Adobe and Macromedia to test-run the new technologies with their apps.
Actually, Longhorn is still in the Alpha stage - betas probably won't start til next year. And if I understand it correctly, Avalon hasn't even been implemented yet. I seriously doubt Macromedia and Adobe are using Longhorn builds to start testing anything yet.
I'll first mention that while Acrobat is simply a reader
Acrobat most certainly is NOT "simply a reader" - Acrobat Reader is only one piece of the entire Adobe Acrobat family. Acrobat is used to create PDFs, and convert other document formats to PDF. It is most likely the industry standard for PDF creation.
Hum... but can you schedule Ghost to happen once nightly via a batch script, getting the system to reboot first? I'd like regular ghosting of my main partition onto a backup partition, in case the main drive fails. Getting all the registry settings back to how they are now would be a nightmare!
In this case, you'd probably be better off using RAID and mirroring it. Many motherboards are now shipping with RAID controllers standard, even. If you don't have the requisite hardware it may require a small monetary investment, but probably not much more than that copy of Norton Ghost. This way, however, you would have instant backups available all the time, AND you wouldn't have to reboot every day.
The rest (like a sidebar or applets - or graphics effects like transparency through "Avalon") seems more like catching up to the various Linux DEs and MacOSX. The only other thing is DRM, which might be a major modification, but which I don't really want anyway.
I dunno about catching up with Linux DEs - I mean, the last time I tried any Linux DEs, they didn't even have true transparency (IMHO, KDE, Gnome, etc are too busy playing catch-up with Windows, rather than implementing new ideas. Enlightenment seems to be the only really interesting thing happening with the Linux desktop). I definitely think they're trying to catch up with OS X, however.
The sidebar is kind of interesting, though its still pretty early to see what they do with it - and what Apple will do wish OS X between now and '06.
OS X is basically the latest version of NextStep/OpenStep. NextStep always had a BSD core (I believe it started with 4.4 BSD). This article provides a history of Apple's operating systems, including the transition from NextStep to Rhapsody to Mac OS X.
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Of course, now's a good time to buy a G4 iMac : )
You mean the one's that've been out of stock for months because they delayed the iMac G5 launch due to problems getting enough processors from IBM?
Have you tried using OS X Server and Net Install?
This document provides an overview of it, but doesn't really detail the procedure. Might at least point you in the right direction, however.
There's a few good IRC clients for windows.
Klient also requires a registration fee, but its pretty nice.
Bersirc is a free client. It was licensed under the QPL, but I think that may change, it looks like they're dumping QT in favour of their own custom GUI toolkit.
Honestly, I don't understand why anyone would use X-Chat on Windows. The other clients look and feel much nicer.
What I'd really like is a viable alternative to X-Chat Aqua on OS X. Snac seemed OK, but, it's not free. So, my search continues...
I find it highly ironic that someone would call us loving linux people 'fags,' considering that quite a bit of the Window's OS has some form of unix/linux code in it.
Ftp.exe, anyone?
The code in the FTP client is from BSD, which is free for the taking. Nice try though.
Who knows what kind of code they have in their kernel that was ripped out of linux as well. Hell, they don't even have to take the code, they can take the innovations it's self from linux. Linux makes a new memory 'sandbox' that is byfar the best? Microsoft will take it, change it and make a billion dollars. (Modified and taken from anti-trust, the movie. But I ain't getting no billion dollars. Damn it)
I doubt there's any Linux code in the windows kernel, anything would require a serious rewrite to even work - the two kernels are quite different. As for taking "innovations", the Linux community would surely never take any ideas from Windows or other operating systems, right?
The RIAA has a Canadian branch, they just do their barratry and harassment through that division.
The CRIA is NOT a division of the RIAA, it's merely the Canadian equivalent.
So far they've managed to steal about $30-50 from my pocket for CDRs through their levies on blanks. The fact that I use them primarily for data backup is irrelevant -- they forced the Canadian government to dip into all our pockets for the "piracy losses" of their failing business model.
Perhaps.. but, that tax on blank media, mp3 players, etc. also allows us to download songs off the internet without fear of the ridiculous lawsuits the RIAA brings about on American consumers.
Because HP is soon to be selling iPods, you really need to let them know how much you love the 140, so they won't stop making them.
Uhm, HP doesn't make the iHP 140, iRiver does.
Macs are very expensive.
.Mac Online Service?
If you're going to bitch about the high cost of Macs, why would you link to a petition about the high cost of the
It's pretty easy to remove applications you don't want. Don't like iPhoto? Drag is from the Applications folder to the Trash.
Also, it's not like we don't have oodles of disk space now. Just don't open the apps you don't intend to use.
This "protocol" basically combines several different pre-existing protocols. It seems most like a combination of Auto-IP addressing and SLP. The thing is that OS X and several other OSes including Netware and Linux already use SLP. Now Apple wants everyone to change again?
This isn't new, nor is Apple changing anything. Several Mac OS X apps already utilize Rendezvous, and have since OS X 10.2 Jaguar.
Even later than that, early versions of Rhapsody (which became OS X) also ran on both PPC and x86. And of course, OpenStep ran on PPC, x86, AXP, PA-RISC, and who knows what else.
In retrospect, the introduction of the 80386 was the time to bite the bullet and start over with a real OS. Windows users are still paying the price for that mistake.
Uhm, Microsoft DID do that. Windows NT was a fully 32-bit operating system designed for 80386 and above processors (technically, it's designed to be processor-independant, for portability - the HAL provides all the processor-specific stuff). As I'm sure you're well aware, Windows 2000 and XP are based on the Windows NT architecture.
No, MacOS (possibly even the Lisa) was first with this.
Hell, you might even be able to say Xerox was first with it.
From the web page
AirPort Express gives you the freedom to place or use your AirPort-equipped Mac or Wi-Fi-compliant Windows PC wherever in your home it's most convenient for you, not where it's most convenient for your house.
Sounds to me like it can use any 802.11b or 802.11g equipment. That's one of the benefits of using standards.
SCM has a variety of readers that work under OS X.
Yeah, and pop is 110. My point is still valid, I just have an IMAP server in my situation.
Uhh, no you don't. POP/IMAP only transfer email between your client and your email provider's mail server. SMTP is used to transfer email between hosts on the internet.
Parent was talking about configuring his/her own SMTP server on their cable connection, and having issues sending mail to specific domains. In this case it was probably because his cable IP was part of some blacklist which says any dynamic IP must belong to a spammer, as there's obviously no use for someone to be running his/her own SMTP server on a lowly dialup or cable connection.
I read recently that a $10k car today was actually less expensive than a $2k car in the '50s
$10k certainly doesn't get you much of a car today, but in the '50s, $2k got you a whole lot of car..
Have you been living under a rock? Longhorn betas come out all the time. The WinHEC build is used by major development companies like Adobe and Macromedia to test-run the new technologies with their apps.
Actually, Longhorn is still in the Alpha stage - betas probably won't start til next year. And if I understand it correctly, Avalon hasn't even been implemented yet. I seriously doubt Macromedia and Adobe are using Longhorn builds to start testing anything yet.
Unless those Voodoo 2s have magically grown T&L units, they're not going to do you much good.
Maybe they have. They've been trapped in that box together in the basement for a long time.
http://www.freebsd.org
http://www.netbsd.org
http://www.openbsd.org
http://www.apple.com/macosx
You're late :)
I'll first mention that while Acrobat is simply a reader
Acrobat most certainly is NOT "simply a reader" - Acrobat Reader is only one piece of the entire Adobe Acrobat family. Acrobat is used to create PDFs, and convert other document formats to PDF. It is most likely the industry standard for PDF creation.
P.S. I own a small company and guess what Enterprise OS flavor is at the bottom of my list for evaluation.
Windows?
Hopefully Windows isn't even on his list. He did say "enterprise" after all.
Hum... but can you schedule Ghost to happen once nightly via a batch script, getting the system to reboot first? I'd like regular ghosting of my main partition onto a backup partition, in case the main drive fails. Getting all the registry settings back to how they are now would be a nightmare!
In this case, you'd probably be better off using RAID and mirroring it. Many motherboards are now shipping with RAID controllers standard, even. If you don't have the requisite hardware it may require a small monetary investment, but probably not much more than that copy of Norton Ghost. This way, however, you would have instant backups available all the time, AND you wouldn't have to reboot every day.
The rest (like a sidebar or applets - or graphics effects like transparency through "Avalon") seems more like catching up to the various Linux DEs and MacOSX. The only other thing is DRM, which might be a major modification, but which I don't really want anyway.
I dunno about catching up with Linux DEs - I mean, the last time I tried any Linux DEs, they didn't even have true transparency (IMHO, KDE, Gnome, etc are too busy playing catch-up with Windows, rather than implementing new ideas. Enlightenment seems to be the only really interesting thing happening with the Linux desktop). I definitely think they're trying to catch up with OS X, however.
The sidebar is kind of interesting, though its still pretty early to see what they do with it - and what Apple will do wish OS X between now and '06.
OS X is basically the latest version of NextStep/OpenStep. NextStep always had a BSD core (I believe it started with 4.4 BSD). This article provides a history of Apple's operating systems, including the transition from NextStep to Rhapsody to Mac OS X.