Re:Not such a good app
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Eh, I think you just have bad luck.
Granted, no, this is 'not your dad's desktop manager' in the sense that you're used to in X, but it's still a far cry improvement from not having it at all, and if you look at the sources, his readme's, and heck, just this interview, he has some interesting improvements coming down the pipe.
But if you want to cry instability, let's hear it:
What's your hardware specs? What OS? What version of Desktop Manager?
I've noted, most everyone either likes liquor, liqueur, or beer.
Why is there such a lack of interest in cider? I have my own batch finishing up it's first rack right now, and I'll be moving it to second racking adding honey tomorrow.:P
The more I've read the history of this country, it seems like the germans moved in and totally obliterated the cider makers and moved in with the beer.:( I love my cider dangit.:P
It's just not neccessarily "free as in beer". It may cost you some money, but you're free to do with it (to a degree) what you wish, so long as you contribute any changes back.
Over-simplified, sure. But go download the windows source code, add a few features to explorer (heck, squash some bugs and security flaws while you're in there), and re-release the source back out there with a Makefile.
Let's see how long until your pants are sued right off of your legs.
I could even trade in my iMac and Studio Display at PowerMax, but I'd probably only get $300-400 for it. Being optimistic, $400 + $600 = $1000.
Dual G5 2.5Ghz with all the bells and whistles = 2999 23" HD Cinema Display = 1999 Discounts = 1000 Tax = ~.05
If I'm lucky, I'd walk away paying $4500. I'm also an Apple Developer, so I'd get another discount there, or buy through work for being an Apple parnter for science and research facilities, so let's say $4000. I paid $1600 TOTAL last time around. Yikes.
Yeah, okay I could finance the monster out for as long as 5 years, which is just totally insane. I've had my iMac for 2 years and I'm already looking at getting rid of it, so financing at the best possible interest rate Apple offers would for 24 months comes out to $192/mo. For a computer. People pay that much for a CAR or even other people to put a roof over their heads. My wife would kill me if I didn't have the cash saved up ahead of time, and if I did, she'd say there are far better things for me to spend my money on.
I promised my wife I wouldn't upgrade from my 800mHz 17" iMac overclocked to 900 with dual display to a G5 until they came out with a Dual 3Ghz, and I would get the 23" HD Studio display with it.
There's a poster below here that makes the comment that "if it ain't on the net, I ain't interested".
Voluntary compliance is the key. Make it so that we want to comply, and stop fighting the consumer drive.
It's been a while since I took Econ, but I will always remember the invisible hand theory. The market will ALWAYS force itself toward equilibrium.
Laws, unions, anything that unnaturally hinders the market breaks equilibrium. Forcing high prices on cds. Suing your customers into submission.
Why not let the market do what it does best, and go to that point of equilibrium where profit is maximized naturally? They're holding onto a cartel-type model and it's just not going to work.
So if he's only going that far per week, it's not a waste. In my case, if I'm just going to and from work, I easily burn 300 miles a week. So I'd have to make double size batches at least.
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Eh, I think you just have bad luck.
Granted, no, this is 'not your dad's desktop manager' in the sense that you're used to in X, but it's still a far cry improvement from not having it at all, and if you look at the sources, his readme's, and heck, just this interview, he has some interesting improvements coming down the pipe.
But if you want to cry instability, let's hear it:
What's your hardware specs?
What OS?
What version of Desktop Manager?
Note: THIS IS ON TOPIC. RTFA. KTHX. :)
:P
:( I love my cider dangit. :P
;)
The man doesn't like spirits, but he likes beer.
I've noted, most everyone either likes liquor, liqueur, or beer.
Why is there such a lack of interest in cider? I have my own batch finishing up it's first rack right now, and I'll be moving it to second racking adding honey tomorrow.
The more I've read the history of this country, it seems like the germans moved in and totally obliterated the cider makers and moved in with the beer.
Oh, and love the app, use it all the time.
I have my G4 powerbook, 866 and my 800mHz iMac on my LAN at home.
If I use XGrid on the two, what kind of performace could I use it for day to day?
Faster compiles of applications would be the first thought. Any usefulness, say running photoshop? How about Quake? MAME?
Let's pretend Linux DOES have that kind of userbase. You play the clueless user, I'll play the malicious h4xx0r.
/
:P
I'm going to write up a painfullly malicious script that executes when you view an e-mail.
What, that's not possible? Okay...uh...
You're a pretty dumb user, and I'll name the file Brittney\ Spears\ Nekkid.jpg.sh.
So you double click the file, and it launches. You're a plain old user.
rm -rf
Oops. Didn't work. Why not? No permissions.
rm -rf ~
Now that might, but I want to think that launching a shell script from an e-mail attachment has some sort of protections on linux. Right?
right?
Okay, so my argument is full of holes. Sue me.
"Free as in speech."
Linux IS free.
It's just not neccessarily "free as in beer". It may cost you some money, but you're free to do with it (to a degree) what you wish, so long as you contribute any changes back.
Over-simplified, sure. But go download the windows source code, add a few features to explorer (heck, squash some bugs and security flaws while you're in there), and re-release the source back out there with a Makefile.
Let's see how long until your pants are sued right off of your legs.
"I think we can handle one little jpg."
"No Lieutenant, your webserver is already dead."
You really should've torrented that .jpg.
;)
Just a thought.
Kthx.
*Looks at the K-Mart ad*
Hey look! Boys underwear, half off! w00t!
Mobile phones with PDA-like functions are whupping the PDA's out of the market.
;)
Bluetooth r0xx0r j00.
Heck, if the iPod could input calandar and contact info, I definitely wouldn't need a PDA.
feh, used to be $600. They're scaling back.
:P
I could even trade in my iMac and Studio Display at PowerMax, but I'd probably only get $300-400 for it. Being optimistic, $400 + $600 = $1000.
Dual G5 2.5Ghz with all the bells and whistles = 2999
23" HD Cinema Display = 1999
Discounts = 1000
Tax = ~.05
If I'm lucky, I'd walk away paying $4500. I'm also an Apple Developer, so I'd get another discount there, or buy through work for being an Apple parnter for science and research facilities, so let's say $4000. I paid $1600 TOTAL last time around. Yikes.
Yeah, okay I could finance the monster out for as long as 5 years, which is just totally insane. I've had my iMac for 2 years and I'm already looking at getting rid of it, so financing at the best possible interest rate Apple offers would for 24 months comes out to $192/mo. For a computer. People pay that much for a CAR or even other people to put a roof over their heads. My wife would kill me if I didn't have the cash saved up ahead of time, and if I did, she'd say there are far better things for me to spend my money on.
I'll never win.
http://www.numbski.net/archive/journal/imac_hack/
:(
There's the upgrade process I've been through, btw. Has a full gig of RAM. Waiting for some downtown to clock the FSB up to 133 to match the RAM.
Meh. I still want my G5!
I promised my wife I wouldn't upgrade from my 800mHz 17" iMac overclocked to 900 with dual display to a G5 until they came out with a Dual 3Ghz, and I would get the 23" HD Studio display with it.
:P
Now I have to wait another year.
Bastards.
I need miltering. Specifically spamass-milter. A few others, but primarily that.
I know what everyone's thinking right now.
;)
d00dz! Build it for [Linux|*BSD|OSX]!
Either lots of recoding needs to be done, or if you're REALLY lucky, it'll build using Winelib.
I'd be interested to know if the latter works.
I would imagine not....unless it builds nicely using winelib.
:P
I onlly have MacOS X in front of me, and I don't have winelib on here, so I can't try it on here. Anyone else?
http://www.economist.com/research/Economics/alphab etic.cfm?LETTER=I
:)
Adam Smith. I nearly forgot his ever-so-generic name.
Excellent scholar.
There's a poster below here that makes the comment that "if it ain't on the net, I ain't interested".
Voluntary compliance is the key. Make it so that we want to comply, and stop fighting the consumer drive.
It's been a while since I took Econ, but I will always remember the invisible hand theory. The market will ALWAYS force itself toward equilibrium.
Laws, unions, anything that unnaturally hinders the market breaks equilibrium. Forcing high prices on cds. Suing your customers into submission.
Why not let the market do what it does best, and go to that point of equilibrium where profit is maximized naturally? They're holding onto a cartel-type model and it's just not going to work.
He also claims approximately 45mpg.
45 x 3 = 135 miles
So if he's only going that far per week, it's not a waste. In my case, if I'm just going to and from work, I easily burn 300 miles a week. So I'd have to make double size batches at least.
I'm CCNA nearing CCNP test readiness, have MANY years of ISP running experience, and am a bit fed up with the unlicensed spectrum.
Licensed technology. Real throughput. Cheap bandwidth abound to link it to.....ah, a network engineer's dream. And nightmare.
I'm not kidding. 20 people or so who are willing to mortgage their lives away, license this technology and get it out the door.
;)
300Mbit per sec to anywhere near a tower we can get on????
I kid you not. We could rule the world...until we get bought out.
You DO know what *67 does to caller id, right? :)
[erwin: ~] root# *67 && mail -s "enlarge your elbows" mpost4@mikeoconnor.net << cat enlarge.txt
*67 && mail -s "enlarge your elbows" mpost4@mikeoconnor.net cat enlarge.txt ;)
tests on popular Linux filesystes
So did the tests come back positive or negative? Systes are nasty things, and early detection is important to increase chances of survivability.
Remember kids. Test early, and test often. You files will thank you.
Peanut butter and chocolate for example.
:P
Tv and remote.
Geek and computer.
Arsenic and old lace.