Haven't we heard this before?
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T-Rex A Slow Mover
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Years and years ago (like 18th-19th century), many believed that dinosaurs were too large to stand up and must have dwelt in ponds. Does anybody else think this sounds like similar thinking? There is only so much that one can learn by looking at bones.
OmniWeb. It isn't open source like Mozilla (or presumably Chimera), but it runs quickly, is relatively small and EXTREMELY fast, and (even better) fully uses the Aqua interface rather than its own, like Mozilla (?).
My two personal favorite features, though, are image filtering and JavaScript checking. Blocks ads and popups almost perfectly, in my experience.
SlashDot is all about Micro$oft bashing. Get used to it, already. Anyway, who would want to use Windows for a major serving job like this? If it became at all popular, uptime for each machine would probably drop to about 2 minutes...
Or just cache all the TLD lookups, and farm out lower-level domains to other users. While we're at it, use a UseNet-like system and make enough different TLDs that load balancing is relatively good. Like.com?.net?.org? Think slashdot.nerdfood, apple.computer, microsoft.monopoly, etc, etc.
...we must create our own DNS. True: this may be rather difficult to implement (especially on closed-source architectures, like Windoze), but it is our [sarcasm=to_taste] only hope [/sarcasm] of finally escaping the capitalist clutches of ICANN "UCANT".
The first step will be selecting our own root server. This must obviously be a fixed IP, which would ideally be some hapless DSL user wishing to donate some bandwidth to the cause.
(To improve performance, clients could cache IP addresses they had already looked up. This would actually improve on the current system.)
In brief, we would create an alternate DNS, with more open rules on the creation of new domains. Think of it: Free domain names! Less government interference in the Internet? Who could refuse such a thing? Let us start today!!
Most of the tracks on (the new) Napster are in a proprietary format, which means that (if you copied them somewhere else) they wouldn't work. At all. In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it set off some sort of alarm. Or made your computer explode.
If this so-called "settlement" for Micro$oft had (somehow) gotten through the courts, then we would have a new generation of M$-worshipping little kids on our hands. Just what we all needed.
So, I'm glad that this all came out (somethat( OK.
No, you don't get multiple pointers. That would be cool, though. (If confusing.)
All of the mouse movements are summed together. So you can use the mice interchangably. Nothing too interesting, though.
Re:Seems likely to be a fake
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Apple PDA?
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In fact, I believe I know why that wheel is there, and why there's an Apple logo on it...
It's covering up the standard cursor keys!
This supposed "iWalk" is really just a modified WinCE device, with a changed case and logos added. Since the cursor pad would look suspicious to most, SpyMac added a logo to cover it.
In short, this is a hoax. A joke, even. But funny.
Perhaps Apple is going to release the G5 Dodecahedron, instead?
No.
All that giving kids Micro$oft programs will accomplish will be to tie them to this corporate giant, making them more slaves of this opressive orginization./rant on
Is this what schools really want? And will this really do anything to correct Micro$oft's antitrust tendencies? NO! If anything, it will make things worse./rant off
I don't know what's up with your processor, but that seems really slow. Using my PowerBook G3 (233 MHZ, without any overclocking:-), I can encode CDs to MP3 at 2-2.5x, using iTunes 2.
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Years and years ago (like 18th-19th century), many believed that dinosaurs were too large to stand up and must have dwelt in ponds. Does anybody else think this sounds like similar thinking? There is only so much that one can learn by looking at bones.
OmniWeb. It isn't open source like Mozilla (or presumably Chimera), but it runs quickly, is relatively small and EXTREMELY fast, and (even better) fully uses the Aqua interface rather than its own, like Mozilla (?).
My two personal favorite features, though, are image filtering and JavaScript checking. Blocks ads and popups almost perfectly, in my experience.
SlashDot is all about Micro$oft bashing. Get used to it, already. Anyway, who would want to use Windows for a major serving job like this? If it became at all popular, uptime for each machine would probably drop to about 2 minutes...
Or just cache all the TLD lookups, and farm out lower-level domains to other users. While we're at it, use a UseNet-like system and make enough different TLDs that load balancing is relatively good. Like .com? .net? .org? Think slashdot.nerdfood, apple.computer, microsoft.monopoly, etc, etc.
...we must create our own DNS. True: this may be rather difficult to implement (especially on closed-source architectures, like Windoze), but it is our [sarcasm=to_taste] only hope [/sarcasm] of finally escaping the capitalist clutches of ICANN "UCANT".
The first step will be selecting our own root server. This must obviously be a fixed IP, which would ideally be some hapless DSL user wishing to donate some bandwidth to the cause.
(To improve performance, clients could cache IP addresses they had already looked up. This would actually improve on the current system.)
In brief, we would create an alternate DNS, with more open rules on the creation of new domains. Think of it: Free domain names! Less government interference in the Internet? Who could refuse such a thing? Let us start today!!
(But don't ask *me* to help...)
Not that this is exactly OT, but just compile a new version of vim. I admit that the vi shipped with OS X is rather nasty.
Easy download, from www.vim.org. Easy compile, too -- I didn't even have to edit the source to get it to work. YMMV.
I wouldn't be surprised if somebody's already tried. I mean, it can't be THAT hard... grind beans, put beans in coffee maker, add water, press button?
Even if there is going to be a *cough* G5 in the next few months, this is still a nice, FAST machine.
Most of the tracks on (the new) Napster are in a proprietary format, which means that (if you copied them somewhere else) they wouldn't work. At all. In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it set off some sort of alarm. Or made your computer explode.
AARghhh...
So, I'm glad that this all came out (somethat( OK.
All of the mouse movements are summed together. So you can use the mice interchangably. Nothing too interesting, though.
It's covering up the standard cursor keys!
This supposed "iWalk" is really just a modified WinCE device, with a changed case and logos added. Since the cursor pad would look suspicious to most, SpyMac added a logo to cover it.
In short, this is a hoax. A joke, even. But funny.
Perhaps Apple is going to release the G5 Dodecahedron, instead?
No. All that giving kids Micro$oft programs will accomplish will be to tie them to this corporate giant, making them more slaves of this opressive orginization. /rant on
Is this what schools really want? And will this really do anything to correct Micro$oft's antitrust tendencies? NO! If anything, it will make things worse. /rant off
I don't know what's up with your processor, but that seems really slow. Using my PowerBook G3 (233 MHZ, without any overclocking :-), I can encode CDs to MP3 at 2-2.5x, using iTunes 2.
... lame.
Lame, by comparison, seems rather