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We thought virtual reality was a long way off but it's been around for years and years - it is called, "America". Of course everybody outside the US knew that already, those of us inside were sheltered from the news by the "Wall of America". Better get patching!
Why don't they just make an app similar to SETI@home that will help to crack bin Laden's encrypted messages and get the word out about it? I'm sure that the number of volunteers willing to run it would result in cracking the encryption rather quickly.
They will be too busy trying to figure out the self-checkout line at the local Microsoft grocery store. Not to mention what that strange new itch is.
Re:Perhaps REAL Damage will Fix the Problem
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I looked into one case and they did not know that IIS was running, and yes, they upgraded from NT 4.0 to Windows 2000. I don't know them personally nor have I talked with the owner directly, so I have no idea if they're an idiot, but I'd the idiots are at Microsoft, not this particular user. Microsoft is the master of bad/confusing design. If Windows 2000 doesn't enable IIS by default (which is what I was told) then either there is a but that sometimes enables it, or there is a UI desing that results in people sometimes accidentally enabling it.
Missile strikes are in order
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Taking a clue from Mr. Sharon, I suggest that missile strikes be made against any building that is suspected to contain or potentially contain a computer running IIS. This will obliterate not only the potentially suspect computer, but also the potentially pathetic owner who would likely buy again.
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Wonderful idea - now IIS will do all the virus inflicting work itself!
Re:My G4 / How many FPS do you want?
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I'll admit that your cluelessness is quite astounding. We are not comparing the price of a low-end Mac to the price of a cheap-ass PC. "Cheap" is relative.
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Noticing code red scanning my OS X Mac, I contacted the owner of the offending machine (actually the net admin on which the machine resided) and found out that the user of the computer (a portable) did not even know that he was running IIs.
Re:How can Code Red Be Stopped?
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Simple: do like Israel and fire a barrage of missiles at buildings/homes that may contain computers running Windows, obliterating both the potentially offending computer and pathetic owner who would likely buy again.
Yes, that is spelled as desired you fools. Apple has struggled with this issue - what chance is there that Intel/PC manufacturers will do any better?
Of course Intel has the big advantage that if person X doesn't go for 733 Mhz Itanium or even y * 733 Mhz Itaniums, they'll still go for 1.8 GHz Intel P4. I.e. they don't have to sell the Itanium to consumers yet, whereas Apple has to sell the PowerPC. I.e. Intel, like Microsoft, can win by stagnation.
Windows PCs are better because they suck
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Advantage one: We Windows users have an OS that will help to preserve the floppy drive for generations to come.
Advantage two: We Windows users have an OS that will run cool games for much, much more than the cost of a PS2, xBox or GameCube. It's fun to spend!
Advantage three: Mac users are forced to have sex with their mates while we get the opportunity to fight trojans and viri for fame and glory!
Advantage four: Windows allows us to have more "quality time" with our computers.
Re:My G4 / How many FPS do you want?
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So get yourself an xBox and a cheap iBook and stop whining.
Whatever happened to calling Macs "toys"? Now Macs aren't the best game machines and so you don't like them either. It's a new generation of insecurity. It's not surprising either - if I had paid $1000+ primarily in order to play Quake I'd be pretty insecure too.
While you may be able to argue that the pulsing itself is "cutesy", there is good reason to have some sort of indication that the computer is sleeping as opposed to being on or off. It's trivial to make it pulse and it looks cool, so why not?
"commonly used" (Re:Floppies)
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If it is of value than, as you say, you can just get one. There are a variety of USB floppy drives out there including combo drives that also read CF, Smart Media, etc, great for digital photography and such, that are trivially easy to hook up to your Mac and use.
Myself? I have a floppy drive on my older Mac at home, but I have not used a floppy drive in many years. I think somewhere I still have some floppy disks but I'm not sure.
Keep in mind that Macs have always been able to boot from CD (well, once CD drives came into existence, of course.) Maybe Windows PCs require such ancient technology as a floppy, but Macs do not.
Compiling for Mac OS X/Darwin?
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Ok, I'm not that savvy on compiling Unix stuff. I downloaded it and ran./configure but it says it can't determine the type of host. What do I need to enter as the host type to get it to compile in OS X?
Since I use both left and right hands for "mousing", having two buttons would be confusing to say the least. Depending on which hand I used to mouse, I would either get a click or a right-click when I clicked normally. I.e. for me it would hurt my productivity to have two buttons that do different things.
Still, I can see your point. However, with a one trackpad (or mouse or whatever) in Mac OS you can do anything a two button device can do - you hold control down to do a "right click" (in the Mac sense, bring up the contextual menu), so it's not much of an issue regardless. Moreover, I find it awkward to use a second button on a trackpad - indeed I have a two-button trackpad that I sometimes use with my G4 tower but eventually I just set its software so that both buttons did a normal click.
If you don't shut up I'll tell your mommy!
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News Flash: Apple's policy of shipping one-button mice with their computers sends company into tailspin.
Apple Computer today announced they would be shutting down effective immediately. The choice to ship Macs with one-button mice by default was sighted as the primary cause of the blighted company's failings as many potential buyers had not yet saved up enough allowance to afford the $20 2-button mouse they had been dreaming of.
One-time customer Bobby said, "My iMac looked great and did everything I wanted, but I just couldn't believe it shipped with a one button mouse." Bobby returned the iMac and bought a computer that came with a 2-button mouse in the box. 5th grader Sally remarked, "I was going to get a G4, but my friend Joey said that one button mice where for wussies." Her friend Timmy added, "Yeah, they're gay!"
Nearby the local CompUSA was having no luck selling their backlog of iMacs and G4s for wholesale prices. Owner "Tom Dashel" said, "We just can't sell these one-button-mouse-in-the-box machines at any price. What was Apple thinking? Two is more than one isn't it?"
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, said in an interview, "It's so depressing."
To the other extreme, as they say.
What precisely is the issue here? Is it bad that the Mac supports one-button mice too, unlike Windows? If you want more buttons than buy one that has them. Can't we all just get along?
Warranty? (Was:Apple Warranty [WAS:Go Dell])
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I have never had a Mac do anything but work great. My low-end 6100/60 first generation PowerPC Mac, purchased when they first became available and later upgraded with a 3rd party G3 processor, is still plugging along happily, albeit slowly in this day and age. Well, actually it stopped working once - wouldn't boot - but I found out on the web that this was due to a dead PRAM battery which I replaced myself easily enough.
I have a 2000 model iBook purchased earlier this year. I will see how long it lasts, but it is built like a tank and plugs along happily with OS X (and lots of RAM, of course.) I just wish I had one of those new fangled ones....
Steve
I use to get swamped with spam. When I got a new email address, I then went to mail.yahoo.com and made an account there as well. I use the yahoo account for anything that results in strangers getting my address. That includes posting to usenet, online purchases, product registrations, mailing lists from untrusted sources, etc. That address gets swamped with spam, varying from, oh, lets say 10 to 40 messages per DAY (a significant portion of which gets filtered into yahoo's bulk mail folder.) I get virtually no spam at my main address. I think the little I do get there is due to a few slipups here and there, but we are talking one to two every several months or less. I would take this article's list of things that aren't high-risk with a grain of salt - when you give you email address to someone or some company you don't know/trust, that is high-risk for spam no matter what the situation, especially in this day and age of hacking.
Bill says, "If we can't make an incompatible version that ensures Java won't compete with Windows, then we won't provide Java at all, and avoid competition that way. So there - Pphpffftttt!"
Steve
However, after you get over all that disappointment, you have to admit that 10.1 looks fabulous - I can't wait for September - the new G4 enclosure does look much better than the G4 sitting on my desk now, 766 Mhz G4 on the low-end is a good thing, as will be faster than real-time DVD-Video authoring with the dual 800. Sweet. Still, there's no getting around that Apple bombed out their, most significantly by not having a new iMac. The iMac was already looking long in the tooth, now it looks almost ludicrously long in the tooth, and it costs more to boot! Oh well, new iMacs and the REAL new G4 are still coming, just not on time.
A question - do you (or anyone) know what the difference is between rtf and rtfd? I can't find any documentation or information on what rtfd is, just know that TextEdit uses it. What are the differences? I was curious if either was a viable option for an open standard.
Trying to transparently support all Microsoft Office features and file formats is doomed to failure. It's not that Microsoft Office is better or not, it's that they are the standard and when Microsoft adds a new feature (and they always do, whether or not it is actually a good thing) all the software trying to be 100% compatible is instantly behind the curve. You can never do better than remain behind. I.e suck even more. Sucking even more is not the path to success last I checked.
The only way to go is to create an open file format for documents and then get enough companies/groups on as many OSs as possible to create much better applications than what Microsoft so pathetically offers. This does not mean, as Microsoft believes, piling on the features whether or not they are actually a good thing nor whether or not they are implemented well. It means doing the basics the best and innovating intelligently. We need to put them behind the curve, and in an open source, widely available, very easy to use way. That and perform a whole heck of a lot of human sacrifices.
Microsoft dominates without justification, as always, but I believe it is possible to topple them. Everyone gave up on being better a long time ago and instead tried to emulate. Now it's time to bring back real advances.
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We thought virtual reality was a long way off but it's been around for years and years - it is called, "America". Of course everybody outside the US knew that already, those of us inside were sheltered from the news by the "Wall of America". Better get patching!
Why don't they just make an app similar to SETI@home that will help to crack bin Laden's encrypted messages and get the word out about it? I'm sure that the number of volunteers willing to run it would result in cracking the encryption rather quickly.
Steve
They will be too busy trying to figure out the self-checkout line at the local Microsoft grocery store. Not to mention what that strange new itch is.
I looked into one case and they did not know that IIS was running, and yes, they upgraded from NT 4.0 to Windows 2000. I don't know them personally nor have I talked with the owner directly, so I have no idea if they're an idiot, but I'd the idiots are at Microsoft, not this particular user. Microsoft is the master of bad/confusing design. If Windows 2000 doesn't enable IIS by default (which is what I was told) then either there is a but that sometimes enables it, or there is a UI desing that results in people sometimes accidentally enabling it.
Taking a clue from Mr. Sharon, I suggest that missile strikes be made against any building that is suspected to contain or potentially contain a computer running IIS. This will obliterate not only the potentially suspect computer, but also the potentially pathetic owner who would likely buy again.
Wonderful idea - now IIS will do all the virus inflicting work itself!
I'll admit that your cluelessness is quite astounding. We are not comparing the price of a low-end Mac to the price of a cheap-ass PC. "Cheap" is relative.
Noticing code red scanning my OS X Mac, I contacted the owner of the offending machine (actually the net admin on which the machine resided) and found out that the user of the computer (a portable) did not even know that he was running IIs.
Simple: do like Israel and fire a barrage of missiles at buildings/homes that may contain computers running Windows, obliterating both the potentially offending computer and pathetic owner who would likely buy again.
Which is good reason to not make a sequel.
Of course Intel has the big advantage that if person X doesn't go for 733 Mhz Itanium or even y * 733 Mhz Itaniums, they'll still go for 1.8 GHz Intel P4. I.e. they don't have to sell the Itanium to consumers yet, whereas Apple has to sell the PowerPC. I.e. Intel, like Microsoft, can win by stagnation.
Advantage two: We Windows users have an OS that will run cool games for much, much more than the cost of a PS2, xBox or GameCube. It's fun to spend!
Advantage three: Mac users are forced to have sex with their mates while we get the opportunity to fight trojans and viri for fame and glory!
Advantage four: Windows allows us to have more "quality time" with our computers.
Whatever happened to calling Macs "toys"? Now Macs aren't the best game machines and so you don't like them either. It's a new generation of insecurity. It's not surprising either - if I had paid $1000+ primarily in order to play Quake I'd be pretty insecure too.
While you may be able to argue that the pulsing itself is "cutesy", there is good reason to have some sort of indication that the computer is sleeping as opposed to being on or off. It's trivial to make it pulse and it looks cool, so why not?
If it is of value than, as you say, you can just get one. There are a variety of USB floppy drives out there including combo drives that also read CF, Smart Media, etc, great for digital photography and such, that are trivially easy to hook up to your Mac and use. Myself? I have a floppy drive on my older Mac at home, but I have not used a floppy drive in many years. I think somewhere I still have some floppy disks but I'm not sure. Keep in mind that Macs have always been able to boot from CD (well, once CD drives came into existence, of course.) Maybe Windows PCs require such ancient technology as a floppy, but Macs do not.
Ok, I'm not that savvy on compiling Unix stuff. I downloaded it and ran ./configure but it says it can't determine the type of host. What do I need to enter as the host type to get it to compile in OS X?
Since I use both left and right hands for "mousing", having two buttons would be confusing to say the least. Depending on which hand I used to mouse, I would either get a click or a right-click when I clicked normally. I.e. for me it would hurt my productivity to have two buttons that do different things. Still, I can see your point. However, with a one trackpad (or mouse or whatever) in Mac OS you can do anything a two button device can do - you hold control down to do a "right click" (in the Mac sense, bring up the contextual menu), so it's not much of an issue regardless. Moreover, I find it awkward to use a second button on a trackpad - indeed I have a two-button trackpad that I sometimes use with my G4 tower but eventually I just set its software so that both buttons did a normal click.
Apple Computer today announced they would be shutting down effective immediately. The choice to ship Macs with one-button mice by default was sighted as the primary cause of the blighted company's failings as many potential buyers had not yet saved up enough allowance to afford the $20 2-button mouse they had been dreaming of.
One-time customer Bobby said, "My iMac looked great and did everything I wanted, but I just couldn't believe it shipped with a one button mouse." Bobby returned the iMac and bought a computer that came with a 2-button mouse in the box. 5th grader Sally remarked, "I was going to get a G4, but my friend Joey said that one button mice where for wussies." Her friend Timmy added, "Yeah, they're gay!"
Nearby the local CompUSA was having no luck selling their backlog of iMacs and G4s for wholesale prices. Owner "Tom Dashel" said, "We just can't sell these one-button-mouse-in-the-box machines at any price. What was Apple thinking? Two is more than one isn't it?"
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, said in an interview, "It's so depressing."
To the other extreme, as they say. What precisely is the issue here? Is it bad that the Mac supports one-button mice too, unlike Windows? If you want more buttons than buy one that has them. Can't we all just get along?
I have never had a Mac do anything but work great. My low-end 6100/60 first generation PowerPC Mac, purchased when they first became available and later upgraded with a 3rd party G3 processor, is still plugging along happily, albeit slowly in this day and age. Well, actually it stopped working once - wouldn't boot - but I found out on the web that this was due to a dead PRAM battery which I replaced myself easily enough. I have a 2000 model iBook purchased earlier this year. I will see how long it lasts, but it is built like a tank and plugs along happily with OS X (and lots of RAM, of course.) I just wish I had one of those new fangled ones.... Steve
I use to get swamped with spam. When I got a new email address, I then went to mail.yahoo.com and made an account there as well. I use the yahoo account for anything that results in strangers getting my address. That includes posting to usenet, online purchases, product registrations, mailing lists from untrusted sources, etc. That address gets swamped with spam, varying from, oh, lets say 10 to 40 messages per DAY (a significant portion of which gets filtered into yahoo's bulk mail folder.) I get virtually no spam at my main address. I think the little I do get there is due to a few slipups here and there, but we are talking one to two every several months or less. I would take this article's list of things that aren't high-risk with a grain of salt - when you give you email address to someone or some company you don't know/trust, that is high-risk for spam no matter what the situation, especially in this day and age of hacking.
Bill says, "If we can't make an incompatible version that ensures Java won't compete with Windows, then we won't provide Java at all, and avoid competition that way. So there - Pphpffftttt!" Steve
However, after you get over all that disappointment, you have to admit that 10.1 looks fabulous - I can't wait for September - the new G4 enclosure does look much better than the G4 sitting on my desk now, 766 Mhz G4 on the low-end is a good thing, as will be faster than real-time DVD-Video authoring with the dual 800. Sweet. Still, there's no getting around that Apple bombed out their, most significantly by not having a new iMac. The iMac was already looking long in the tooth, now it looks almost ludicrously long in the tooth, and it costs more to boot! Oh well, new iMacs and the REAL new G4 are still coming, just not on time.
A question - do you (or anyone) know what the difference is between rtf and rtfd? I can't find any documentation or information on what rtfd is, just know that TextEdit uses it. What are the differences? I was curious if either was a viable option for an open standard.
The only way to go is to create an open file format for documents and then get enough companies/groups on as many OSs as possible to create much better applications than what Microsoft so pathetically offers. This does not mean, as Microsoft believes, piling on the features whether or not they are actually a good thing nor whether or not they are implemented well. It means doing the basics the best and innovating intelligently. We need to put them behind the curve, and in an open source, widely available, very easy to use way. That and perform a whole heck of a lot of human sacrifices.
Microsoft dominates without justification, as always, but I believe it is possible to topple them. Everyone gave up on being better a long time ago and instead tried to emulate. Now it's time to bring back real advances.