At the moment when I press and hold my mouse button, nothing happens. Sure, stuff happens when I release it, but I don't get anything pop up just by holding. That stands true for both left and right buttons.
I'm not sure which operating system you use, but all current ones that I'm familiar with pop up a contextual menu with a right mouse button click, without having to release the button before the menu appears.
in Jaguar I think it just moved along the dock (a better use in my mind - you can then open non-running apps, or know automatically where an app is in the list).
Actually, in Jaguar (OS X 10.2), it did indeed proceed through the dock. However, only currently running applications were selectable, so it could not be used for launching a non-running app, only for cycling through already running apps.
Think of how the stock market will see this: your company just lost 85% of its assets, but has also cut spending on IT infrastructure. Considering that the maintenance of proprietary software is probably much less than 85% of the total value of all assets, the result is still a very large drop in company value. And you know that means that this company's stock will crash, and it will crash hard.
First of all, if 85% of your company's assets are represented by your purchased software, a stock price adjustment is probably in order.
Second, this argument assumes that the money not spent on proprietary software evaporates. Don't you think that if this 85% of assets were now held in cash, or is invested in real assets that actually have a chance of appreciating in value, it will look better on the books than the 85% of assets in highly depreciating intangible assets?
And a quick search on Google for Colin Mayhew reveals that's an alias for prison escapee Allan Johnson. Looks like he's continuing his string of frauds.
Apple has been refreshingly decent about giving back to the open source projects that they draw from, like Konqueror for instance. On the other hand, their config utility is really a seperate application from CUPS, and I think it's fair for them leverage that. But I'm sure such a contribution from them would be welcome.
I believe that all six tasks listed can be accomplished using SuSE's GUI configuration utility, YaST. And if an administrator cannot effectively administer their chosen platform, they fall outside the competent category.
One distinction that people seem to overlook when talking about 'linux on the desktop' is the difference between corporate desktops and home user desktops.
The above tasks are all easily accomplished with a decent distribution, like SuSE, by an even moderately competent systems administrator. I've done all six points with a network of about two dozen workstations. They also enjoy centralized account management and automounted home directories, so they can login on any machine and have their desktop environment and personal files follow them. Some machines that weren't suitable as workstations were setup as print servers, using cups + samba, so the remaining windows users can print to the same queues as the linux users. I was even a nice guy and copied their personal files over to their new home directories before rotating their workstations into the linux deployment. A couple machines were setup dual boot, with their existing windows installations intact, but most are linux only.
This network is administered by me alone, and despite the users being non-technical people, it's been mostly trouble free. For myself, I am declaring linux ready for the corporate desktop as of KDE 3.2. (Which I haven't deployed yet.)
However, I don't think linux is quite there yet for non-technical home users or others who need to administer their own machine, and aren't sysadmins by primary function. But the progress I've seen with KDE over the last couple years makes me optimistic that it will get there. And the GUI configuration under SuSE is remarkable and deserves mention as well.
I think even slightly technically inclined home users would be able to accomplish the subset of those tasks necessary for their environment.
I've tried to configure CUPS. I don't feel so bad about the lack of particular success now that I've heard of Eric Raymond's troubles. This is one project that might benefit from someone forking it and developing interface tools that allow it to work without being such a bane.
I too have struggled through a configuration of CUPS, coupled with samba printer sharing for windows users no less. A couple weeks later, when OS X 10.3 came out, I was amazed at what Apple had done for a front end to CUPS. It's extremely intuitive, and a vast improvement to previous OS X printer configuration schemes.
It would be really nice if Apple's config utilities were released back to the open source community.
Hell, when i wore hearing aids 10 years ago(I don't any more), they had telecoil support.. and had had support for it back in 1981 when I started wearing them, both Unitron and Starkey BTE models.
Yep, all the hearing aids my mom has had in the last 10 years also had telecoil support. That's why I was surprised that the Clarion implant doesn't, at least not in the info I've seen.
I'm also wondering if the telecoil support is built into the external components, or the implant itself? Obviously, the former would be easily upgraded, while the latter would require at least minor surgery. It would also require a behind-the-ear external unit, and not the belt-worn type. Correct?
Thank you for your excellent reply. I'm the original poster, and this is the type of discussion I was hoping to generate.
Let me fill in some details. She has been suffering from noticeable hearing loss for about twenty years. It has progressed to a 'profound' deafness in the last five or so years. She's used all manner of hearing aids, but they have never worked as well as her own methods of coping, such as lip reading, and filling in the blanks by context. She's become quite adept at this. Her comprehension is so good, in fact, that she was passed over for the implant twice now. But her hearing loss is progressing faster now, and she just qualified for the implant in the last month.
She does not use sign language, nor is she a member of the deaf community.
The out of pocket cost will be the same to her no matter which implant she chooses.
She is aware of the fact that she will be training her brain to hear again, but with different hardware, and that it will take a long time. There was another excellent slashdot post about techniques for building comprehension post implant.
Thanks again for your informative and insightful post. I hope it generates a discussion on this line of thought.
Hi. I'm the original poster. I was hoping I wouldn't come accross as basing the decision solely on technical specs.
It's just that this part of the equation is pretty well beyond our comprehension, and I figured that someone on slashdot is likely to have a better understanding of the technical differences between the two technologies, and possibly translate this into non-geek. It sounds to me like both available technologies work amazingly well for the vast majority of their recipients. But being a layman in this field, I wanted to be sure we were made aware of any shortcomings or advantages one particular technology has over the other.
I believe that I heard right here on./ that Bill's idea of an open standard for file formats will be the same old MS-Word binary objects within an XML wrapper. Basically, a neat way to be able to say 'our new file format is 100% XML compatible', while remaining 100% proprietary. Not that this surprises me.
Personally, I think that this should have been the root of the anti-trust settlement. They should have been barred from using proprietary file formats ever again. Either completely open and publish their format, or implement an approved open file format, that is the default format saved to. And have an impartial third party monitor their compliance, barring them from release of the product until their format fully and completely complies with an open standard.
Bah. My father had what I believe to be the first digital watch, a Pulsar. While indeed, pushing a button would illuminate the digits, it also had a shock sensing mechanism, so you could just flick your wrist, and it would light up for five seconds or so. No need to use your other hand, unless you wanted to check the date, which was displayed by pushing a seperate button.
If you truly believe that Final Cut Pro and Photoshop are consumer-grade, then it is likely you who is misinformed. Here's a clue: FCP is a non-linear digital editing package. Photoshop is a image editing tool. Maya is a 3D animation and rendering tool. Any serious professional is likely using all three for their respective purposes in filmmaking. Perhaps you were thinking of the free iMovie application, not the $1k editing suite. Not sure what you were thinking saying Photoshop is consumer-grade, though.
And yes, it's likely setting up a huge cluster of Xserves is easier than with other OSes, considering Rendezvous, otherwise known as ZeroConfig. As in Zero Configuration.
Maybe you should just go back to swinging your mop handle around in the school A/V lab, Jedi Master.
If your travels take you to the Pacific Northwest, be sure to check out Powell's, the world's largest bookstore, in Portland Oregon. Then, after checking out the main store, head on over to Powell's Technical Books. This bookstore is a geek's wet dream. Floor to ceiling tech books on every thing you can possibly imagine, computers, mathmatics, etc. Just looking at the wall of O'Reilly books made me quiver.
For geographic marvels, I highly recommend Yosemite National Park, and of course, the Grand Canyon. If you do the canyon, try to hike below the rim, instead of just gazing down into it like 99.9% of visitors do. Just be prepared, the rangers have to rescue ill prepared tourists on a daily basis. One of the best hiking destinations in the Grand Canyon is Havasupai Falls, which is on the Havasupai Reservation.
Another geeky destination in Arizona near the Grand Canyon would be Lowell Observatory, where Percival Lowell discovered the planet Pluto.
Next, I would like to recommend the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, if you like to paddle and portage. This is located in northern Minnesota. And if you're in Minnesota, check out the city of Duluth. It's the world's most inland seaport, and a very cool place, literally. It's located at the very tip of Lake Superior, the world's largest freshwater lake. And if you really want a good Lake Superior experience, check out Isle Royale National Park or at least the Apostle Islands. Both offer great hiking and see kayaking.
Those are my recommendations. Hope you can make it to at least some of them!
Tim Savage
Phoenix, AZ
You should be able to get OpenBSD to run on the old Macs.
From the INSTALL.mac68k file:
OpenBSD/mac68k 3.3 is a port to the old Macintosh (680x0-based)
computers. As always, there is much to be done on this
architecture, and help is very much appreciated. However,
a wide variety of hardware and software is completely
functional making the system an excellent answer to the question
of a UN*X-like operating system for the Mac 680x0 line of
computers.
There also used to be a unix-like OS for the Apple IIgs, I believe it was called GNO/ME. I'm not sure about the IIe, though.
POKE 65495,0 If you know what this does, you are as old and pathetic as I am.
Sorry, I lost my Beagle Bros. Peeks and Pokes chart a couple decades ago.
Actually, that quote was from Iron Man Crash, by Mike Saenz, which is probably what you're thinking of, as it was marketed as "the first computerized graphic novel". And yes, it was done entirely with Macs.
Slashdot Mirror
If you think life is cheaper with a girlfriend, that might be why you don't have one.
At the moment when I press and hold my mouse button, nothing happens. Sure, stuff happens when I release it, but I don't get anything pop up just by holding. That stands true for both left and right buttons.
I'm not sure which operating system you use, but all current ones that I'm familiar with pop up a contextual menu with a right mouse button click, without having to release the button before the menu appears.
Actually, in Jaguar (OS X 10.2), it did indeed proceed through the dock. However, only currently running applications were selectable, so it could not be used for launching a non-running app, only for cycling through already running apps.
First of all, if 85% of your company's assets are represented by your purchased software, a stock price adjustment is probably in order.
Second, this argument assumes that the money not spent on proprietary software evaporates. Don't you think that if this 85% of assets were now held in cash, or is invested in real assets that actually have a chance of appreciating in value, it will look better on the books than the 85% of assets in highly depreciating intangible assets?
And a quick search on Google for Colin Mayhew reveals that's an alias for prison escapee Allan Johnson. Looks like he's continuing his string of frauds.
Apple has been refreshingly decent about giving back to the open source projects that they draw from, like Konqueror for instance. On the other hand, their config utility is really a seperate application from CUPS, and I think it's fair for them leverage that. But I'm sure such a contribution from them would be welcome.
I believe that all six tasks listed can be accomplished using SuSE's GUI configuration utility, YaST. And if an administrator cannot effectively administer their chosen platform, they fall outside the competent category.
The above tasks are all easily accomplished with a decent distribution, like SuSE, by an even moderately competent systems administrator. I've done all six points with a network of about two dozen workstations. They also enjoy centralized account management and automounted home directories, so they can login on any machine and have their desktop environment and personal files follow them. Some machines that weren't suitable as workstations were setup as print servers, using cups + samba, so the remaining windows users can print to the same queues as the linux users. I was even a nice guy and copied their personal files over to their new home directories before rotating their workstations into the linux deployment. A couple machines were setup dual boot, with their existing windows installations intact, but most are linux only.
This network is administered by me alone, and despite the users being non-technical people, it's been mostly trouble free. For myself, I am declaring linux ready for the corporate desktop as of KDE 3.2. (Which I haven't deployed yet.)
However, I don't think linux is quite there yet for non-technical home users or others who need to administer their own machine, and aren't sysadmins by primary function. But the progress I've seen with KDE over the last couple years makes me optimistic that it will get there. And the GUI configuration under SuSE is remarkable and deserves mention as well.
I think even slightly technically inclined home users would be able to accomplish the subset of those tasks necessary for their environment.
I too have struggled through a configuration of CUPS, coupled with samba printer sharing for windows users no less. A couple weeks later, when OS X 10.3 came out, I was amazed at what Apple had done for a front end to CUPS. It's extremely intuitive, and a vast improvement to previous OS X printer configuration schemes.
It would be really nice if Apple's config utilities were released back to the open source community.
You've obviously never heard of Pippin.
Yep, all the hearing aids my mom has had in the last 10 years also had telecoil support. That's why I was surprised that the Clarion implant doesn't, at least not in the info I've seen.
I'm also wondering if the telecoil support is built into the external components, or the implant itself? Obviously, the former would be easily upgraded, while the latter would require at least minor surgery. It would also require a behind-the-ear external unit, and not the belt-worn type. Correct?
Let me fill in some details. She has been suffering from noticeable hearing loss for about twenty years. It has progressed to a 'profound' deafness in the last five or so years. She's used all manner of hearing aids, but they have never worked as well as her own methods of coping, such as lip reading, and filling in the blanks by context. She's become quite adept at this. Her comprehension is so good, in fact, that she was passed over for the implant twice now. But her hearing loss is progressing faster now, and she just qualified for the implant in the last month.
She does not use sign language, nor is she a member of the deaf community.
The out of pocket cost will be the same to her no matter which implant she chooses.
She is aware of the fact that she will be training her brain to hear again, but with different hardware, and that it will take a long time. There was another excellent slashdot post about techniques for building comprehension post implant.
Thanks again for your informative and insightful post. I hope it generates a discussion on this line of thought.
Tim Savage
It's just that this part of the equation is pretty well beyond our comprehension, and I figured that someone on slashdot is likely to have a better understanding of the technical differences between the two technologies, and possibly translate this into non-geek. It sounds to me like both available technologies work amazingly well for the vast majority of their recipients. But being a layman in this field, I wanted to be sure we were made aware of any shortcomings or advantages one particular technology has over the other.
Tim Savage
That's a real world trolling. Not all trolls live under the slashdot bridge.
Personally, I think that this should have been the root of the anti-trust settlement. They should have been barred from using proprietary file formats ever again. Either completely open and publish their format, or implement an approved open file format, that is the default format saved to. And have an impartial third party monitor their compliance, barring them from release of the product until their format fully and completely complies with an open standard.
Bah. My father had what I believe to be the first digital watch, a Pulsar. While indeed, pushing a button would illuminate the digits, it also had a shock sensing mechanism, so you could just flick your wrist, and it would light up for five seconds or so. No need to use your other hand, unless you wanted to check the date, which was displayed by pushing a seperate button.
You might want to check out http://duluth.happypenguin.org/forums/
It's a forum for people that were in Duluth in the 80's & 90's. I did my time at UMD from 1990 to 1995.
And I agree, it's one of the most beautiful cities I know.
And yes, it's likely setting up a huge cluster of Xserves is easier than with other OSes, considering Rendezvous, otherwise known as ZeroConfig. As in Zero Configuration.
Maybe you should just go back to swinging your mop handle around in the school A/V lab, Jedi Master.
For geographic marvels, I highly recommend Yosemite National Park, and of course, the Grand Canyon. If you do the canyon, try to hike below the rim, instead of just gazing down into it like 99.9% of visitors do. Just be prepared, the rangers have to rescue ill prepared tourists on a daily basis. One of the best hiking destinations in the Grand Canyon is Havasupai Falls, which is on the Havasupai Reservation.
And if you're in the Southwest, you'd probably like to see some other Native American sites. One of the best cliff dwellings is Bandolier National Monument, in New Mexico. Or in Arizona, Montezuma Castle National Monument. Other Native American sites worth seeing in Arizona are Canyon De Chelly National Monument, Wupatki National Monument, Tuzigoot National Monument, and the Hopi Villages, the longest continuously inhabited village in North America. In New Mexico, there's Chaco Canyon, Aztec Ruins National Monument and Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument. While in New Mexico, it'd be a shame to miss Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
Another geeky destination in Arizona near the Grand Canyon would be Lowell Observatory, where Percival Lowell discovered the planet Pluto.
Next, I would like to recommend the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, if you like to paddle and portage. This is located in northern Minnesota. And if you're in Minnesota, check out the city of Duluth. It's the world's most inland seaport, and a very cool place, literally. It's located at the very tip of Lake Superior, the world's largest freshwater lake. And if you really want a good Lake Superior experience, check out Isle Royale National Park or at least the Apostle Islands. Both offer great hiking and see kayaking. Those are my recommendations. Hope you can make it to at least some of them! Tim Savage Phoenix, AZ
From the INSTALL.mac68k file:
- OpenBSD/mac68k 3.3 is a port to the old Macintosh (680x0-based)
computers. As always, there is much to be done on this
architecture, and help is very much appreciated. However,
a wide variety of hardware and software is completely
functional making the system an excellent answer to the question
of a UN*X-like operating system for the Mac 680x0 line of
computers.
There also used to be a unix-like OS for the Apple IIgs, I believe it was called GNO/ME. I'm not sure about the IIe, though.Didn't I just read the above passage on a bottle of Doc Bronner's Magic Soap?
You mean like the 'Continuous Scrolling' item under the View menu?
POKE 65495,0 If you know what this does, you are as old and pathetic as I am. Sorry, I lost my Beagle Bros. Peeks and Pokes chart a couple decades ago.
Actually, that quote was from Iron Man Crash, by Mike Saenz, which is probably what you're thinking of, as it was marketed as "the first computerized graphic novel". And yes, it was done entirely with Macs.
After re-reading this, I'm not sure if it describes slashgeeks, as I thought when posting it, or Microsoft.