First Cryptonomicon hits the best-seller lists, now a paper does a favorable review of a novel about a geek.
Either us geeks are buying more books, or the mainstream population is getting brighter. Somehow, I think it's the former. American Idol is still on television.
The version of IE that they had for OS X was buggy, held over from OS 9, and crashed pretty often, necessitating a visit to the Force Quit option. Despite the fact that it worked as an effective demo of how and why to Force Quit (and how rock-solid the OS was after), it's nice to have an OS that doesn't crash with one less app that does crash.
Now, if they'd just harden up or cancel Excel X.. that thing breaks like.. well, something that breaks a lot.
If they keep going at this rate, someone will buy them just to make them shut up, fire all the employees and burn the offices and documentation to the ground. So you'll get your wish.
Apple does this; read any of their ads where they mention UNIX... it says in the bottom, in legal boilerplate (UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Group..*some other garbage*)
More power to Apple. UNIX's a generic term now. Maybe SCO can die along the way if we get lucky.
Kids today can't build anything either. Pretty much all most of the population can do right now on a computer is instant-message and mutilate the English language beyond recognition. Best thing to do for a kid who wants to program is give him a C compiler, a lot of good links, and a lot of good books.
Also, Apple used to have a kid-friendly programming language, "Cocoa" (No relation to Objective C). There are still a few people using it. Too bad they discontinued HyperCard, most of its little scripting behind-the-scenes was pretty involved if you wanted to get into it.
I don't see why it's not worth the trouble; I'd love to figure out how to build my own CPU and actually know something useful instead of how to seat all the magic bits on a board and then smack the power button to see if it comes up, like most "hardware hackers" these days. Oh, I forgot, you cut a window and put a blinky light inside your case.
I don't want to look over on the train and see someone else enjoying his favorite pr0n. Praise $DEITY the screen is small enough that my chances of doing so are minimal.
Don't forget that Nintendo went after one of the video rental places (Blockbuster?) for renting out games; their argument was that the rental of video games would eat into the market. Nintendo was smacked down by the law, and thus we can rent video games. In those days, Nintendo was pretty vicious legally.
I think Terraserver has some Canadian images if you pay for it. Speaking as a penny-pinching Canadian (I want to hang onto the five cents that our government taxes leave me per year), it'd be nice to see some free resource for this. I'm not sure I want to buy my own satellite to do it, though.
And here I was thinking that somebody had written a BASIC interpreter/writer for the TiVo. That would have been really cool. Oh well... I'll be happy when Canadian service starts with tivo.
And even if you don't, you can pick up a USB to Serial widget from a Mac dealer, hook it up to a USB Mac and do that. I dunno about how it would work with other machines or operating systems.
is suing Microsoft
for putting the SQL Slammer vulnerability into Windows
Conspiracy theories inside, who actually intends to put a vulnerability into a product? Perhaps this should be "not fixing the vulnerability" or potentially even "ignoring the problem". I don't think any of Microsoft's programmers intentionally insert bugs into their shipping products... although... nah, it couldn't be.
IANAHT (I am not a hamster trainer), but: The uptime on hamsters and similar rodents is actually disturbingly low. The little buggers abruptly stop for some reason. Someone really should try breeding a hamster that has nothing to think about than running on that little wheel. Then we'll have a great energy source*!
I think for those of us who want OGG players, we'll be waiting quite awhile for any portable mainstream OGG support, and even longer for it to appear in a non-luxury (i.e. sub-$HorrendouslyExpensive) unit.
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First Cryptonomicon hits the best-seller lists, now a paper does a favorable review of a novel about a geek.
Either us geeks are buying more books, or the mainstream population is getting brighter. Somehow, I think it's the former. American Idol is still on television.
The version of IE that they had for OS X was buggy, held over from OS 9, and crashed pretty often, necessitating a visit to the Force Quit option. Despite the fact that it worked as an effective demo of how and why to Force Quit (and how rock-solid the OS was after), it's nice to have an OS that doesn't crash with one less app that does crash.
Now, if they'd just harden up or cancel Excel X.. that thing breaks like.. well, something that breaks a lot.
If they keep going at this rate, someone will buy them just to make them shut up, fire all the employees and burn the offices and documentation to the ground. So you'll get your wish.
Who wants to start up a donation site to Buy SCO?
Apple does this; read any of their ads where they mention UNIX... it says in the bottom, in legal boilerplate (UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Group..*some other garbage*)
More power to Apple. UNIX's a generic term now. Maybe SCO can die along the way if we get lucky.
"How do I throw a fireball again? Oh right." *tortured screaming*
You'd go around buying up domains, and then praying that a horde of Slashdotters doesn't come, overturn your furniture and burn your pets?
I'd play.
Kids today can't build anything either. Pretty much all most of the population can do right now on a computer is instant-message and mutilate the English language beyond recognition. Best thing to do for a kid who wants to program is give him a C compiler, a lot of good links, and a lot of good books.
Also, Apple used to have a kid-friendly programming language, "Cocoa" (No relation to Objective C). There are still a few people using it. Too bad they discontinued HyperCard, most of its little scripting behind-the-scenes was pretty involved if you wanted to get into it.
It can't stand for "Xnu's Not Unix"... Darwin is based off of a chunk of the BSD tree, right?
What, then, could it stand for?
Now there's a software name that will get the cops to pay attention.
"Hey Carl! Wanna FreeBase this weekend? Yeah, you bring the stuff."
Localtalk support is still in OSX, and you can get a USB adaptor for it (minidin8) if you really need it.
I don't see why it's not worth the trouble; I'd love to figure out how to build my own CPU and actually know something useful instead of how to seat all the magic bits on a board and then smack the power button to see if it comes up, like most "hardware hackers" these days. Oh, I forgot, you cut a window and put a blinky light inside your case.
I'm assuming I can boot this on my older PCI Mac (PowerWave 604/120, old mac clone). Does anyone know differently?
I don't want to look over on the train and see someone else enjoying his favorite pr0n. Praise $DEITY the screen is small enough that my chances of doing so are minimal.
ratpoison is tops, I use it a lot. Helps reduce the frequency of using that damned mouse.
It's also been published in the latest issue of 2600.
That line of advertising reminds me of hostage-taking.
Don't forget that Nintendo went after one of the video rental places (Blockbuster?) for renting out games; their argument was that the rental of video games would eat into the market. Nintendo was smacked down by the law, and thus we can rent video games. In those days, Nintendo was pretty vicious legally.
"I said turn that TV off!"
I think Terraserver has some Canadian images if you pay for it. Speaking as a penny-pinching Canadian (I want to hang onto the five cents that our government taxes leave me per year), it'd be nice to see some free resource for this. I'm not sure I want to buy my own satellite to do it, though.
Or deadly to your fingers, that disc must spin fast. Faster than your flesh can stop it, at least.
And here I was thinking that somebody had written a BASIC interpreter/writer for the TiVo. That would have been really cool. Oh well... I'll be happy when Canadian service starts with tivo.
And even if you don't, you can pick up a USB to Serial widget from a Mac dealer, hook it up to a USB Mac and do that. I dunno about how it would work with other machines or operating systems.
Conspiracy theories inside, who actually intends to put a vulnerability into a product? Perhaps this should be "not fixing the vulnerability" or potentially even "ignoring the problem". I don't think any of Microsoft's programmers intentionally insert bugs into their shipping products... although... nah, it couldn't be.
IANAHT (I am not a hamster trainer), but: The uptime on hamsters and similar rodents is actually disturbingly low. The little buggers abruptly stop for some reason. Someone really should try breeding a hamster that has nothing to think about than running on that little wheel. Then we'll have a great energy source*!
*As long as we can keep them fed
I think for those of us who want OGG players, we'll be waiting quite awhile for any portable mainstream OGG support, and even longer for it to appear in a non-luxury (i.e. sub-$HorrendouslyExpensive) unit.