Though I don't think that Linux in general as a reference to all the distributions of Linux should be called GNU/Linux (because some Linux distributions do not use GNU software), I do think that any distribution which uses primarily GNU software along with the Linux kernel should call itself "Distribution GNU/Linux".
Which distribution? kernel-2-4-xx.tar.gz?
Re:Why is it that everyone seems to lose. . .
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I *applaud* your *use* of the evermost *heterosexual* "*" emphasizing *of* *key* phrases *and* words.
Because you spend enough time away from real life on a computer to develop these "close" relationships and become a "Level 42 Armsman".
You can say these are "close" relationships, but in fact they are just typical schizoid-type interactions.
These people can be whoever they want online, and you have no REAL idea of who they are, how often they neglect their spouses and/or children due to some silly game.
The mere fact that people attempt to intimate that it's more than a game suggests a problem. When you neglect your responsibilities (kids, wife, job, personal hygiene, personal fitness), there's a problem.
I spent years on the early Internet, wasting time on MUDs and other such crap. Sure they were fun for a while, but it became apparent that I was accomplishing nothing useful.
Note that these comments may or may not be directed at you, specifically. I'm using educated generalizations based on personal experience, acquaintances, and observations.
You have to ask yourself: - Will I look back years from now, and be happy with all this time spent on online games? - Am I neglecting my wife and kids?... Are you sure? - Do I smell bad? Is my place in shambles? - Do I ever plan my real life events AROUND the game? - Am I proud of how much time and energy I spend playing these games?
If the honest answer to any of these is "no" or "maybe", it's time to quit.
There are probably enough "realms" to waste 30 human lives exploring, but why?
Enjoy reality, instead. It's so much more fascinating, I assure you...
iDVD does not "come with the SuperDrive". A legally licensed copy of iDVD comes with ALL Power Macintosh G4's regardless if they have the CD-ROM, CD-RW, or SuperDrives.
These are the kinds of legendary Apple practices that make us "switchers" cringe at the thought of investing our hard-earned cash into Apple hardware. Surprisingly, customers like choice...and freedom...and not paying $999999999 dollars for the SuperDrive itself, because they didn't buy it with their Mac originally.
If you don't want non-SuperDrive users using iDVD, don't fuckin' ship it with non-Superdrive equipped Macs.
You won't look like you're screwing us customers as much, Apple.
I think a really important key, is that Apple needs to be more proactive with training material and documentation.
I realize that Apple is moving along at the pace of a speeding bullet right now with OS X, and especially OS X Server, but the OS X Server 10.2 manual was only made available this past couple of weeks, and the 10.2 Server courses just went up this week.
So until the week before last when I printed out the 10.2 Server manual, I had no real technical idea of what stuff like Open Directory in real technical terms. Sure, there was marketing info, but that didn't tell me much about implementation.
Additionally, there's a real lack of technical info that system administrators need. It would've been helpful for Apple to say something like "Open Directory is based on OpenLDAP vx.x" and other such details. We need to PLAN ahead, and with the overabundance of marketing info at the expense of good technical info, that's pretty hard.
That said, I just got the 10.2 Server upgrade CDs in the mail yesterday, and installed it on one of our Xserves this morning and so far it looks great. The LDAP stuff might actually be the first solid implementation of OpenLDAP I've seen.
PLEASE! More technical information & training materials for sysadmins. PLEASE! Public betas or evaluations of server OS software, or at least good in-depth technical info ahead of time.
Everyone cries about Apple's death if they move to x86, but they could move to x86 chips on a completely proprietary architecture (ala SGI Visual Workstations).
This wouldn't change much for Apple, except them having faster processors.
If Apple goes to Intel chips, it doesn't necessarily mean they become PC compatible. There are many other things to an architecture...
I imagine if they did go to Intel chips they would do something similar to what SGI did with their x86-based machines, and use a custom architecture with a Pentium chip.
I'm all for Apple going to Intel chips and a custom architecture. I firmly hope that Apple doesn't EVER start making PC compatible machines, and I would wager that if they did, it would lead to their eventual death. I absolutely despise the PC architecture, and aside from OS X, was a major reason for my jump. It's just so... clunky.
You're obviously not clued in on how the logging industry works. These advancements will in NO WAY WHATSOEVER reduce logging. It will, however, increase profit, but don't think for a second that logging companies are going to log any less of their "purchased" parcels of land.
Instead of whining about Apple's lack of OS X push, i'd like to hear what that rep thinks Apple could do better, because, how I see it, apple is betting everything on OS X, advertising like mad, and converting hordes to it's platform... How much could it improve?
This story shouldn't have been put under the Apple category. Perhaps the Slashdot staff should include a new "Short Bus" icon and category for this kind of stuff (and Jon Katz).
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Probably not as pissed as the FreeBSD folks would be because you're wasting their precious bandwidth by downloading successive ISO images, instead of learning how to use CVSUP, or buying CD's.
I'm going to try and not sound like a troll here. But this Ask Slashdot question seems complete rubbish.
Coukd the Slashdot folks be a little more discriminating in their choice of questions, please? The most entertaining/thought-provoking parts of this story, seem to be the idiot troll posts. This is hardly a thought-provoking or difficult question to answer/figure out with the most miniscule of job skill.
To answer this silly question:
The difference is: a lot, due to training/familiarization, support contracts, possible hardware differences, etc. DUH.
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If you had done the least bit of research before asking this question, you'd already know to pick Cocoa.
Carbon is old, and fastly deprecating.
Cocoa is "the" API to use, and you can intermix C and C++ code to your heart's content with it (eg. BSD code)
Cocoa/Java is considered crap, even by Apple (see Apple dev docs), and is not ready for prime-time.
Pure Java is alright, but doesn't give you access to BSD stuff.
In short: duh.
Hallelujah!
And "environmentally-friendly" coal.
And George *. Bush, for that matter.
An 800 dusts a 500mhz TiBook badly, including MP3 encoding. Don't believe everything you read on the Internet that's in an ugly little table...
Though I don't think that Linux in general as a reference to all the distributions of Linux should be called GNU/Linux (because some Linux distributions do not use GNU software), I do think that any distribution which uses primarily GNU software along with the Linux kernel should call itself "Distribution GNU/Linux".
Which distribution? kernel-2-4-xx.tar.gz?
I *applaud* your *use* of the evermost *heterosexual* "*" emphasizing *of* *key* phrases *and* words.
why is this pathetic?
... Are you sure?
Because you spend enough time away from real life on a computer to develop these "close" relationships and become a "Level 42 Armsman".
You can say these are "close" relationships, but in fact they are just typical schizoid-type interactions.
These people can be whoever they want online, and you have no REAL idea of who they are, how often they neglect their spouses and/or children due to some silly game.
The mere fact that people attempt to intimate that it's more than a game suggests a problem. When you neglect your responsibilities (kids, wife, job, personal hygiene, personal fitness), there's a problem.
I spent years on the early Internet, wasting time on MUDs and other such crap. Sure they were fun for a while, but it became apparent that I was accomplishing nothing useful.
Note that these comments may or may not be directed at you, specifically. I'm using educated generalizations based on personal experience, acquaintances, and observations.
You have to ask yourself:
- Will I look back years from now, and be happy with all this time spent on online games?
- Am I neglecting my wife and kids?
- Do I smell bad? Is my place in shambles?
- Do I ever plan my real life events AROUND the game?
- Am I proud of how much time and energy I spend playing these games?
If the honest answer to any of these is "no" or "maybe", it's time to quit.
There are probably enough "realms" to waste 30 human lives exploring, but why?
Enjoy reality, instead. It's so much more fascinating, I assure you...
Pretty much everyone is missing the point here.
iDVD does not "come with the SuperDrive". A legally licensed copy of iDVD comes with ALL Power Macintosh G4's regardless if they have the CD-ROM, CD-RW, or SuperDrives.
These are the kinds of legendary Apple practices that make us "switchers" cringe at the thought of investing our hard-earned cash into Apple hardware. Surprisingly, customers like choice...and freedom...and not paying $999999999 dollars for the SuperDrive itself, because they didn't buy it with their Mac originally.
If you don't want non-SuperDrive users using iDVD, don't fuckin' ship it with non-Superdrive equipped Macs.
You won't look like you're screwing us customers as much, Apple.
I think a really important key, is that Apple needs to be more proactive with training material and documentation.
I realize that Apple is moving along at the pace of a speeding bullet right now with OS X, and especially OS X Server, but the OS X Server 10.2 manual was only made available this past couple of weeks, and the 10.2 Server courses just went up this week.
So until the week before last when I printed out the 10.2 Server manual, I had no real technical idea of what stuff like Open Directory in real technical terms. Sure, there was marketing info, but that didn't tell me much about implementation.
Additionally, there's a real lack of technical info that system administrators need. It would've been helpful for Apple to say something like "Open Directory is based on OpenLDAP vx.x" and other such details. We need to PLAN ahead, and with the overabundance of marketing info at the expense of good technical info, that's pretty hard.
That said, I just got the 10.2 Server upgrade CDs in the mail yesterday, and installed it on one of our Xserves this morning and so far it looks great. The LDAP stuff might actually be the first solid implementation of OpenLDAP I've seen.
PLEASE! More technical information & training materials for sysadmins. PLEASE! Public betas or evaluations of server OS software, or at least good in-depth technical info ahead of time.
I like DAT best. It's pure digital, and doesn't do any compression, unlike Minidisc which is digital, but uses a lossy compression algorithm.
Unfortunately DAT recorders are still too spendy, so I'll probably continue to do my audio work with AIFF files and Minidisc.
Everyone cries about Apple's death if they move to x86, but they could move to x86 chips on a completely proprietary architecture (ala SGI Visual Workstations).
This wouldn't change much for Apple, except them having faster processors.
This poster finds it narcissistic and silly that the author wrote about herself in the 3rd person.
If Apple goes to Intel chips, it doesn't necessarily mean they become PC compatible. There are many other things to an architecture...
I imagine if they did go to Intel chips they would do something similar to what SGI did with their x86-based machines, and use a custom architecture with a Pentium chip.
I'm all for Apple going to Intel chips and a custom architecture. I firmly hope that Apple doesn't EVER start making PC compatible machines, and I would wager that if they did, it would lead to their eventual death. I absolutely despise the PC architecture, and aside from OS X, was a major reason for my jump. It's just so... clunky.
You're obviously not clued in on how the logging industry works. These advancements will in NO WAY WHATSOEVER reduce logging. It will, however, increase profit, but don't think for a second that logging companies are going to log any less of their "purchased" parcels of land.
Great... yet another mechanism to destroy the Pacific Northwest's (formerly) vast forests, after "buying" them from the corrupt US Forest Service.
I didn't like my principals in school, they always gave me detention.
Sometimes, I make a stand for my principles, though.
Quicktime Broadcaster has also been released:
s te r/
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/broadca
Instead of whining about Apple's lack of OS X push, i'd like to hear what that rep thinks Apple could do better, because, how I see it, apple is betting everything on OS X, advertising like mad, and converting hordes to it's platform... How much could it improve?
Sales of Office X != OS X popularity
It's farkin' hideous... the design, the color, the functionality, etc.
The only thing it has in common with a Mac case is the shiny plastic.
you might as well post a fix that is actually LESS of a kludge than who you're insulting.
And I don't believe they ever had a version of it for Windows.
This story shouldn't have been put under the Apple category. Perhaps the Slashdot staff should include a new "Short Bus" icon and category for this kind of stuff (and Jon Katz).
Probably not as pissed as the FreeBSD folks would be because you're wasting their precious bandwidth by downloading successive ISO images, instead of learning how to use CVSUP, or buying CD's.
Be sure to upgrade to 10.1.5 ASAP as it yields big speed increases, at least in my testings (PBG4, PMG4, G3 iMac, and a shop G3 iBook)
I'm going to try and not sound like a troll here. But this Ask Slashdot question seems complete rubbish.
Coukd the Slashdot folks be a little more discriminating in their choice of questions, please? The most entertaining/thought-provoking parts of this story, seem to be the idiot troll posts. This is hardly a thought-provoking or difficult question to answer/figure out with the most miniscule of job skill.
To answer this silly question:
The difference is: a lot, due to training/familiarization, support contracts, possible hardware differences, etc. DUH.