Actually, those marks you're starting to see are the result of the grease on your fingers, transferring to the keys, which - on occasion - touch the screen when its closed.
Learn to keep your tiBook keyboard clean. I mean *really* clean... or try out one of the various 3rd party 'protective sleeves' that are popping up now.
My tiBook is a few months old. Just remember this: when the hinges start flecking paint, those flecks will get on the keys.
And don't worry - the aluminum under the paint actually looks *really* good once the paint is all gone. Buff it!! It's a personal point of pride!
"Well, if you drop TV dinners over New Guinea, you'll kill people because the food will go bad because they will eat the melted, rotting food long before they getthe microwaves to cook it."
That's a *lot* of users, and a *lot* of money, even if they only get a tiny, tiny, tiny portion of the corporate user marketshare.
If they, for example, get a name for themselves that prompts *small businesses* to try them out, that's good.
Small businesses hire cheap people (the good ones do) and the cheapest types usually, at the very least, know MS Outlook...
So: imitating an existing interface that people may know how to use, and *doing it far cheaper* than can be done by buying properly licensed copies of the similarly featured Microsoft apps.
Seems sound to me. I hope Ximian have a really strong, confident marketing team...
One thing that's always interested me is the technology behind filesystem designs - are these guys operating on any references, that might be worth studying? "Filesystem design 101" sort of books?
True, DOS is an OS. I'm not saying it's not an OS - but that it served as a bootloader for Win3.1, another 'operating system'.
You're missing my point, which is:
What is an operating system, what is a bootloader, technically? At which point does a bootloader, legally, become an 'operating system'...
This distinction may not be so clear to you right now, but there was a time when there was little distinction - and fighting on this front may not prove to be worth it, against Microsoft.
The point is, with competition made possible in the marketplace by this bootloader issue, those *costs of maintenance and support* would be reduced. People *will go* with the easiest to use and nicest looking operating systems around - given a *choice*.
We'll never know. Microsoft is standing in the way.
DOS used to be a bootloader, for an operating system called Windows 3.1 (and, less obviously, some later versions too).
If we're going to call for restrictions on operating system bundling practices, we must be prepared to draw a line in the sand and define at what point a bootloader itself is *not* an operating system, and at what point it is...
Think about it. Is an OS something that allows a user to select from a number of different programs, each with their own storage/comm mechanisms, and have those programs run, successfully, managing resources as needed, to completion?
On the one hand - sure, lets melt down our bootloaders to make weapons, but then again: what're we really doing?
I'm curious, however, as to why you love my post so much. As user #458, you're a respectable/. veteran. Tell me what you find so worthy of honoring with karma burn...(although you're still at 2 as of this post's timestamp...)
It was just fucking funny. I mean, really fucking funny.
Not only that, but your post was *neat*. You used everything properly, where you needed to, and brought in the superscript right where you needed it...
I'm pretty happy with my tiBook, though I'm curious about the T22...
iBooks have better firewire than tiBooks, though.
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That's one thing that they screwed up with on the PBG4 - firewire. Apparently the iBook is much better for firewire i/o than the tiBook, which used an early rev FW chipset or something...
Hands down : Powerbook G4 (Titanium)
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Simply the best you can get, right now.
I know, it's not Intel architecture - that's just fine. Cram it full of RAM (1Gig) and fire up a few Virtual PC windows.
It's extremely well made - except for the hinges, which flake paint after a while, but you can just brush that off and it looks fine.
Definitely a well-made piece of gear. Mac OS X runs great on it, too!
Slashdot Mirror
Their operations were simply interrupted while the Fed's conducted their search. The sites came back online, fair and square.
...
The search was perfectly legal, and executed per the law.
For crying out loud, glib sensationalism is the last thing slashdot needs more of
Shame!
"CompSci"?
"EE"
Heh heh.
Actually, those marks you're starting to see are the result of the grease on your fingers, transferring to the keys, which - on occasion - touch the screen when its closed.
Learn to keep your tiBook keyboard clean. I mean *really* clean... or try out one of the various 3rd party 'protective sleeves' that are popping up now.
My tiBook is a few months old. Just remember this: when the hinges start flecking paint, those flecks will get on the keys.
And don't worry - the aluminum under the paint actually looks *really* good once the paint is all gone. Buff it!! It's a personal point of pride!
:)
No, read it again. It says "the food will go bad because" ...
Look, never mind.
... a server being slashdotted?
The bubble looks cool. Is it hi-res?
"Well, if you drop TV dinners over New Guinea, you'll kill people because the food will go bad because they will eat the melted, rotting food long before they getthe microwaves to cook it."
I didn't get it.
If they're eating the food, how is it rotting?
Everything else was pretty smooth, though.
Damnit, figure it out you dope:
...
That's a *lot* of users, and a *lot* of money, even if they only get a tiny, tiny, tiny portion of the corporate user marketshare.
If they, for example, get a name for themselves that prompts *small businesses* to try them out, that's good.
Small businesses hire cheap people (the good ones do) and the cheapest types usually, at the very least, know MS Outlook
So: imitating an existing interface that people may know how to use, and *doing it far cheaper* than can be done by buying properly licensed copies of the similarly featured Microsoft apps.
Seems sound to me. I hope Ximian have a really strong, confident marketing team...
One thing that's always interested me is the technology behind filesystem designs - are these guys operating on any references, that might be worth studying? "Filesystem design 101" sort of books?
Anyone know?
True, DOS is an OS. I'm not saying it's not an OS - but that it served as a bootloader for Win3.1, another 'operating system'.
You're missing my point, which is:
What is an operating system, what is a bootloader, technically? At which point does a bootloader, legally, become an 'operating system'...
This distinction may not be so clear to you right now, but there was a time when there was little distinction - and fighting on this front may not prove to be worth it, against Microsoft.
The point is, with competition made possible in the marketplace by this bootloader issue, those *costs of maintenance and support* would be reduced. People *will go* with the easiest to use and nicest looking operating systems around - given a *choice*.
We'll never know. Microsoft is standing in the way.
DOS used to be a bootloader, for an operating system called Windows 3.1 (and, less obviously, some later versions too).
If we're going to call for restrictions on operating system bundling practices, we must be prepared to draw a line in the sand and define at what point a bootloader itself is *not* an operating system, and at what point it is...
Think about it. Is an OS something that allows a user to select from a number of different programs, each with their own storage/comm mechanisms, and have those programs run, successfully, managing resources as needed, to completion?
On the one hand - sure, lets melt down our bootloaders to make weapons, but then again: what're we really doing?
:)
Great that it's on PPC.
The next question: how well does it support firewire?
I mean, *REALLY* support it? Can I take my PB G4, get an external firewire drive, and boot straight from it into the Mandrake Linux kernel?
Coz my internal hard drive on this PBG4 is getting mighty tight: it's already got MacOS 9.1, and a Mac OS X 10.1 partition on it...
Firewire...
For the sorts of battles that RedHat is off to fight, the Intel space is plenty big enough, and getting bigger by the day.
Regardless of whether or not RedHat is doing it, or YellowDog, or Mandrake, Linux itself is still being ported to yet another architecture.
That's good news, no matter how you look at it.
Sure you do, when the purpose of doing it in the first place is to learn how cooties work.
And anyway, $150 for a device that spreads cooties is *cheap*! Most Windows machines are at least 4 times that, cost-wise, if not more!
So, why don't you just complete the picture, and add some lightstrip for the *other* side?
That'd be really kinda funny, in a guerilla logo-steeling kind of way.
Sitting here streaming MP3's over to my PJB100 (www.pjbox.com), *WISHING* I could use .ogg files instead.
Come on COMPAQ, what's it going to take to get you to loosen things up a bit on the PJB100 specs so we can get Ogg ported to it?
Thought Compaq used to be cool with OSS-style development, but then I got a PJB100...
I'm curious, however, as to why you love my post so much. As user #458, you're a respectable /. veteran. Tell me what you find so worthy of honoring with karma burn...(although you're still at 2 as of this post's timestamp...)
It was just fucking funny. I mean, really fucking funny.
Not only that, but your post was *neat*. You used everything properly, where you needed to, and brought in the superscript right where you needed it...
hey fuck, i didn't know lawyers read slashdot!
maybe he didn't either?
sheesh. scarey!
Cool. You've got half an Apple Mac OS 9 logo, did you notice that?
sorta funny.
karma-burn, in honor.
{how'd you do that nifty '1' thing?}
Who makes the T22?
What sort of battery life do you get out of it?
I'm pretty happy with my tiBook, though I'm curious about the T22...
That's one thing that they screwed up with on the PBG4 - firewire. Apparently the iBook is much better for firewire i/o than the tiBook, which used an early rev FW chipset or something...
Simply the best you can get, right now.
I know, it's not Intel architecture - that's just fine. Cram it full of RAM (1Gig) and fire up a few Virtual PC windows.
It's extremely well made - except for the hinges, which flake paint after a while, but you can just brush that off and it looks fine.
Definitely a well-made piece of gear. Mac OS X runs great on it, too!
I thought the exact same thoughts.
I miss my old Grid. Man, that was a sexy machine. Red plasma screen, locked down tight. Nice, nice box.
I'd love to have one of those now. Wish I'd never junked my old Gridpad.
Seems like that link is bust ...