You can't say that Ubuntu is 'brittle', nor GoboLinux, nor MEPIS. If you want to add something to any of these distributions of a Linux-based operating system, you can, with ease.
Microsoft, however, in their positioning, are exploiting the human incapacity for understanding a generality when confronted with logo/brand positions. "Linux" is a huge field. You can't just say "Linux" and mean "All services that depend on a Linux-based solution". Its pathetic.
Microsoft know this; they frame the fight so that when they say "Linux" they mean all Linux-based distributions. But to a user of Linux who actually wants to use Linux, and knows how to use Linux, "there ain't no such thing as a Single Linux target".. you either roll your own, pitch a tent in a distro field, or take a pre-packaged solution from a vendor who has done the hard work for you...
I say this having used Linux now for 10 years, quite productively. I haven't used Microsoft-based products in that time. I hardly consider that a "GM for Platform Strategy" at Microsoft will have had that experience...
What i hate about the Finder is when you open a view of a Folder using "View As List", and then have to manually tweak the window size in order to fit the list details in that view.
With Windows Explorer, you can hit Control-Numpad+ and it will automatically do a little jig for you to get all the content revealed in your window.. and it will resize the list view columns as well, so that the data just fits nicely.
I desperately need this feature in Finder.. why isn't Finder smart enough to adjust the Detail columns according to the metrics of the data being displayed? Seems to me I could fix it with Applescript, but damn.. I wish Finder just moved itself around to conform to your window setting..
Okay, so this crowd control of the lower classes is one thing.
But where are the tech research projects to defeat the techno-millitant industrial corporate police? Do you really think the world is safe breeding such corporations, capable of producing devices like this for the purpose of MASS CONTROL?
Weapons-manufacturers are the ones who create wars to sell their products. The U.S. Gov't has proven time and again that it cannot be trusted to keep its despotic fingers out of the mass-control pie. Why should we be 'grateful' that 'non-lethal weapons' are now being created out of electronics, when electronics have been governing the masses for decades now?
Show me a hand-held device that defeats television. Show me a device which will de-fuse a rabid neo-con. Show me a tool that can be used to bring religions together in peace.
Too many times I've seen Defense-industry nazi's get their rocks off on their latest weapons designs. I think its about time the people of the world revolted against the weapon makers..
When you play games, are they just more fun on a PowerPC?
I don't play games, I write code for the PowerPC architecture.
PPC is used in plenty of places other than the Mac, you know.. and it so happens that the Mac is a good Unix-based platform for developing those apps..
And I'm glad that you sir, and the rest of the idiots who have done nothing but bich about this, are in a small, sad, lonely minority.
I'm glad you know everything there is to know about computers. Calling me an idiot, however, proves you have utterly dire social skills.
I switched to Apple for one reason, and one reason only: running Unix on a PowerPC-based Powerbook. OSX is already a 'foot in two boats' bridge between 'old-school' Unix and 'new-school' Unix.
I don't care one iota, much, for the 'proprietary API hacks' of Apple, and don't care a bit that they've all been ported to Intel.
Its the "Cross-platform Unix'ness" of OSX I care about, and more specifically, Unix on non-Intel processors.
If I want Unix'ish-ism on Intel, I run Linux or *bsd on Intel. Darwin is a dirty hack by comparison, and really in the end: whats the point? Just as good software can be written on a well-maintained Linux box, as a Darwintel machine.
Stupid move on Steve's part. He shoulda ported OSX to ARM.. then it would be interesting. The answer is not always the biggest and fastest, alas.. especially when cute software is involved.
(Disclaimer: I work for an exotic-hardware company, I'm almost religiously biased against the Borg that now has Apple in its grips..)
Okay, I may admittedly be biased in the debate about custom keyboard hardware but I feel that Optimus is suffering from immediate "don't announce it until you're shipping it"-itis.
As in, they shouldn't have jinxed the hardware by announcing something before they actually were able to sell to customers.
Sure, these things ramp up. Sure, there's a risk of not knowing if you've got customers. Sure, you don't yet have the volume numbers you need to negotiate bulk-LCD purchases in quantities larger than a few hundred, or thousand, or tens-of-thousand, or million..
But heck. Its a great idea we've all had: LCD's in the keycaps. If only it weren't so darned cost-prohibitive to actually deliver the promise.
Turfing for pre-customers == Computer Hardware Business No No, 101. you don't have to have been a 70's child to have noticed it in the 80's, either, I think..
.. or at least, Joe DiMaggio, the Voice of Bender, in a loft-party in downtown Los Angeles..
It was a great party. First of all, the cookies were.. delicious.. i helped myself to a whole stack of them. then, i turn around and hear Bender going 'bite my shiny metal ass', and i think "damn, cookies!?", when.. lo and behold.. there was Joe, doing his Bender for the chicks.
In the absence of any real evidence, I choose to believe my president over a former ambassador.
what an utterly ignorant point of view.
a) your president is the one witholding the evidence. b) your president is the one with the most at risk if evidence is found to prove his claims false. c) your president has a vast track record of lies and dirty tricks.
your patriotic 'standing-behind-of-your-president' instead of 'trusting ambassadors who you think are only thorns in peoples side' is why America is in such a godawful mess it is in.
Are you really saying that the Buh Administration saying something is true is good enough for you? I mean, you're saying you don't need to see the evidence, and anyone who calls for evidence is a liar?
the point is: we want to be the source of our free material, not someone else. it is free, but we want it to be free from us.. not an archive or website we have no control over.
its a collective with the purpose of providing ourselves with the means to deliver free content easily.. and manage it.
We have our own server, and we have an excellent hosting provider.
We want to use Torrent because it 'spreads the load' easily, without needing a big management back-end to watch our bandwidth usage...
We've used HTTP distribution for 10 years now.. what we want is to make it even easier for members to contribute to the bandwidth bills by simply hosting their own torrent client peers themselves.. either you can make a donation to ampfea, or leave a torrent server running for all to access, on your own local end of things: this turns into a good solution.
If only there were really easy ways to manage the.torrent feed side of things...
Physically, we have our own server. Totally Managed, 100%. No license agreements, no business relationship: the machine itself belongs to the community.
Thats the point. We don't want unknown-entity/3rd-party Jones to have anything to do with it: we're fully DIY...
We want to host ourselves, 100%. The whole point of doing the free art thing is so that we can get involved in the delivery of it as well.. if we put our stuff on someone else's server, we have zero control over it.
But if we start the distribution from a system we own and control and monitor ourselves, it puts us in the position we want to be in, as artists, to keep track of things. Putting it on some other host just gives that host the right to manage our free art accordingly.. thats not the point of our project.
He coded the first Graphical Browser, not 'the' first browser. Also, he didn't invent HTML.. it is a subset of the SGML work others were doing at the time, but he did prove it with his implementations under NextStep.
I just can't understand why Andreesen is more popular than Berners-Lee.
Andreesen was a narcissistic sports jock working in Sillicon Valley, Berners-Lee a humble physics geek living in Switzerland.
Which realm do you think provides for the overt promotion required to get the attention of your average non-computer-savvy person and media pimps?
.. I'd just helped start up a (what is now very large) ISP in Los Angeles, and we were having a blast (i kid) helping people get the Trumpet Winsock Dialler and some 3rd-party TCP/IP stack installed on their Windows 3.0 and 3.1/WFW machines.. 'real TCP/IP access' was one of the major draws to us as an ISP, and for the first few weeks we had about 15 new signups a day.
Then Mosaic went "Netscape", and suddenly, literally in a matter of one week, it was like 100 signups a day... just so people could get into this new-fangled "GUI"-style info resource they'd heard about in WIRED and Mondo2000 and BoingBoing magazines... phew. We nearly melted down, but I'm glad to say I really had a unique opportunity to see this turning point from the perspective of a major ISP.. which is still around, and has grown a lot since those humble days with 20 14.4k modems and 10 28.8k modems, sitting on a Livingston rack, hanging off a single 56k line..
Ah, the web. What would the Internets be without you now, eh? A massive landscape of gopher piles and archie bookmarks, no doubt.. no doubt../pours one on the ground for the poor suckers still in the ISP business...
i think cory saw Pynchon doing a lot of things he thought were cool, and is pretty much clone-clone-clone'ing his way to the bank. cory is to punk like neo-cons are to conservatism.
i find his (cory) writing style dry and un-fun. something about it just oozes post-bubble ego in ways which remind me of the kinds of person the 90's techno-revolution produced, and which most sensible technology people tried to avoid in avid conversation. they always gotta have the latest toys, always gotta be on top of the science-de-jour, utterly boring and spiritless narcissists who do really little more than annoy.. just not legitimately punkrock enough. i feel like i'd enjoy cory a lot more if he'd been a smack addict for 10 years of his life, and i can't stand smack addicts either.
still, xeni is pretty hot, in that 'washed up pseudo-intellect trash at the back of the blade runner lot' kind of a way. can't fault the boingboing'ers for letting her have her turn on the soapbox.
I'm wiping my Powerbook disk, getting rid of OSX, and going all-Linux, whether its Intel or PowerPC.
I'm sick of chasing so-called 'computer vendors' around and around and around. I like the hardware design of the powerbook, but the brain-dead'edness of OSX' designers, paired with the clear manipulation, has just pushed me further, back into the F/OSS operating system camp.
I switched to Apple because I had lust for their hardware. No More! I'll find a vendor who makes nice-looking hardware, and port the linux kernel to it..
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You can't say that Ubuntu is 'brittle', nor GoboLinux, nor MEPIS. If you want to add something to any of these distributions of a Linux-based operating system, you can, with ease.
.. you either roll your own, pitch a tent in a distro field, or take a pre-packaged solution from a vendor who has done the hard work for you...
...
Microsoft, however, in their positioning, are exploiting the human incapacity for understanding a generality when confronted with logo/brand positions. "Linux" is a huge field. You can't just say "Linux" and mean "All services that depend on a Linux-based solution". Its pathetic.
Microsoft know this; they frame the fight so that when they say "Linux" they mean all Linux-based distributions. But to a user of Linux who actually wants to use Linux, and knows how to use Linux, "there ain't no such thing as a Single Linux target"
I say this having used Linux now for 10 years, quite productively. I haven't used Microsoft-based products in that time. I hardly consider that a "GM for Platform Strategy" at Microsoft will have had that experience
What i hate about the Finder is when you open a view of a Folder using "View As List", and then have to manually tweak the window size in order to fit the list details in that view.
.. and it will resize the list view columns as well, so that the data just fits nicely.
.. why isn't Finder smart enough to adjust the Detail columns according to the metrics of the data being displayed? Seems to me I could fix it with Applescript, but damn .. I wish Finder just moved itself around to conform to your window setting..
With Windows Explorer, you can hit Control-Numpad+ and it will automatically do a little jig for you to get all the content revealed in your window
I desperately need this feature in Finder
.. don't you understand?
/. crowd there are people who can defeat this horrid technology?
This does matter. Perhaps out there in the
I would hope so.
Okay, so this crowd control of the lower classes is one thing.
But where are the tech research projects to defeat the techno-millitant industrial corporate police? Do you really think the world is safe breeding such corporations, capable of producing devices like this for the purpose of MASS CONTROL?
Weapons-manufacturers are the ones who create wars to sell their products. The U.S. Gov't has proven time and again that it cannot be trusted to keep its despotic fingers out of the mass-control pie. Why should we be 'grateful' that 'non-lethal weapons' are now being created out of electronics, when electronics have been governing the masses for decades now?
Show me a hand-held device that defeats television. Show me a device which will de-fuse a rabid neo-con. Show me a tool that can be used to bring religions together in peace.
Too many times I've seen Defense-industry nazi's get their rocks off on their latest weapons designs. I think its about time the people of the world revolted against the weapon makers
When you play games, are they just more fun on a PowerPC?
.. and it so happens that the Mac is a good Unix-based platform for developing those apps..
I don't play games, I write code for the PowerPC architecture.
PPC is used in plenty of places other than the Mac, you know
And I'm glad that you sir, and the rest of the idiots who have done nothing but bich about this, are in a small, sad, lonely minority.
I'm glad you know everything there is to know about computers. Calling me an idiot, however, proves you have utterly dire social skills.
yeah yeah, blah blah blah, you're an expert and i'm not.
what you're overlooking is that i want to use PPC and ARM as a hardware vendor. not a software one.
I switched to Apple for one reason, and one reason only: running Unix on a PowerPC-based Powerbook. OSX is already a 'foot in two boats' bridge between 'old-school' Unix and 'new-school' Unix.
.. then it would be interesting. The answer is not always the biggest and fastest, alas .. especially when cute software is involved.
..)
I don't care one iota, much, for the 'proprietary API hacks' of Apple, and don't care a bit that they've all been ported to Intel.
Its the "Cross-platform Unix'ness" of OSX I care about, and more specifically, Unix on non-Intel processors.
If I want Unix'ish-ism on Intel, I run Linux or *bsd on Intel. Darwin is a dirty hack by comparison, and really in the end: whats the point? Just as good software can be written on a well-maintained Linux box, as a Darwintel machine.
Stupid move on Steve's part. He shoulda ported OSX to ARM
(Disclaimer: I work for an exotic-hardware company, I'm almost religiously biased against the Borg that now has Apple in its grips
Okay, I may admittedly be biased in the debate about custom keyboard hardware but I feel that Optimus is suffering from immediate "don't announce it until you're shipping it"-itis.
..
As in, they shouldn't have jinxed the hardware by announcing something before they actually were able to sell to customers.
Sure, these things ramp up. Sure, there's a risk of not knowing if you've got customers. Sure, you don't yet have the volume numbers you need to negotiate bulk-LCD purchases in quantities larger than a few hundred, or thousand, or tens-of-thousand, or million..
But heck. Its a great idea we've all had: LCD's in the keycaps. If only it weren't so darned cost-prohibitive to actually deliver the promise.
Turfing for pre-customers == Computer Hardware Business No No, 101. you don't have to have been a 70's child to have noticed it in the 80's, either, I think
.. because Linux is being used to create content, anyway...
... than right here ...
..
Plenty of re-mix material, songs incomplete, and artists looking for other people to contribute to the mix
So you can run software like this without needing a peripheral.
..
I would kill for a Powerbook with knobs on it.
As it is I don't mind using a few of these, but you know, it seems logical to me that small well-engineered knobs are an obvious addition to the Powerbook cult
.. or at least, Joe DiMaggio, the Voice of Bender, in a loft-party in downtown Los Angeles ..
.. delicious .. i helped myself to a whole stack of them. then, i turn around and hear Bender going 'bite my shiny metal ass', and i think "damn, cookies!?", when .. lo and behold .. there was Joe, doing his Bender for the chicks.
It was a great party. First of all, the cookies were
damn that was a great party.
In the absence of any real evidence, I choose to believe my president over a former ambassador.
what an utterly ignorant point of view.
a) your president is the one witholding the evidence.
b) your president is the one with the most at risk if evidence is found to prove his claims false.
c) your president has a vast track record of lies and dirty tricks.
your patriotic 'standing-behind-of-your-president' instead of 'trusting ambassadors who you think are only thorns in peoples side' is why America is in such a godawful mess it is in.
two words for you: national debt.
two more words for you: defense spending.
you do the math.
Are you really saying that the Buh Administration saying something is true is good enough for you? I mean, you're saying you don't need to see the evidence, and anyone who calls for evidence is a liar?
Wow.
I guess the Linux code really is clean then, eh?
the point is: we want to be the source of our free material, not someone else. it is free, but we want it to be free from us
its a collective with the purpose of providing ourselves with the means to deliver free content easily
We have our own server, and we have an excellent hosting provider.
.. what we want is to make it even easier for members to contribute to the bandwidth bills by simply hosting their own torrent client peers themselves .. either you can make a donation to ampfea, or leave a torrent server running for all to access, on your own local end of things: this turns into a good solution.
.torrent feed side of things ...
We want to use Torrent because it 'spreads the load' easily, without needing a big management back-end to watch our bandwidth usage...
We've used HTTP distribution for 10 years now
If only there were really easy ways to manage the
Physically, we have our own server. Totally Managed, 100%. No license agreements, no business relationship: the machine itself belongs to the community.
Thats the point. We don't want unknown-entity/3rd-party Jones to have anything to do with it: we're fully DIY...
We want to host ourselves, 100%. The whole point of doing the free art thing is so that we can get involved in the delivery of it as well .. if we put our stuff on someone else's server, we have zero control over it.
.. thats not the point of our project.
But if we start the distribution from a system we own and control and monitor ourselves, it puts us in the position we want to be in, as artists, to keep track of things. Putting it on some other host just gives that host the right to manage our free art accordingly
He coded the first Graphical Browser, not 'the' first browser. Also, he didn't invent HTML
I just can't understand why Andreesen is more popular than Berners-Lee.
Andreesen was a narcissistic sports jock working in Sillicon Valley, Berners-Lee a humble physics geek living in Switzerland.
Which realm do you think provides for the overt promotion required to get the attention of your average non-computer-savvy person and media pimps?
Then Mosaic went "Netscape", and suddenly, literally in a matter of one week, it was like 100 signups a day... just so people could get into this new-fangled "GUI"-style info resource they'd heard about in WIRED and Mondo2000 and BoingBoing magazines
Ah, the web. What would the Internets be without you now, eh? A massive landscape of gopher piles and archie bookmarks, no doubt
Bad mix. Unless you're a politician, pornographer, mafia don, or teenager, that is.
i think cory saw Pynchon doing a lot of things he thought were cool, and is pretty much clone-clone-clone'ing his way to the bank. cory is to punk like neo-cons are to conservatism.
i find his (cory) writing style dry and un-fun. something about it just oozes post-bubble ego in ways which remind me of the kinds of person the 90's techno-revolution produced, and which most sensible technology people tried to avoid in avid conversation. they always gotta have the latest toys, always gotta be on top of the science-de-jour, utterly boring and spiritless narcissists who do really little more than annoy.. just not legitimately punkrock enough. i feel like i'd enjoy cory a lot more if he'd been a smack addict for 10 years of his life, and i can't stand smack addicts either.
still, xeni is pretty hot, in that 'washed up pseudo-intellect trash at the back of the blade runner lot' kind of a way. can't fault the boingboing'ers for letting her have her turn on the soapbox.
.. they want their "Ask Slashdot" back.
.. ew.
Sheesh. "Frontpage Extensions"
I'm wiping my Powerbook disk, getting rid of OSX, and going all-Linux, whether its Intel or PowerPC.
I'm sick of chasing so-called 'computer vendors' around and around and around. I like the hardware design of the powerbook, but the brain-dead'edness of OSX' designers, paired with the clear manipulation, has just pushed me further, back into the F/OSS operating system camp.
I switched to Apple because I had lust for their hardware. No More! I'll find a vendor who makes nice-looking hardware, and port the linux kernel to it
my portable linux machine has a 37-key keyboard ... but i don't use it much. easier to just ssh to it when i need to type something... ;)