There are two ways to download music legally, but you're always locked-in:
FairPlay (Apple): Use a Mac or a PC but 'forced' to buy an iPod
PlayForSure (Microsoft): Use more players but 'forced' to buy Windows
Of the two methods, Apple, gives you slightly more freedom because you can buy music, burn a CD, and re-import as MP3 then use any player... no Mac, no iPod.
Here is my take on it: I have been looking for a LAMP server at home and a large monitor (to plug into my powerbook), and this new iMac gives me a nice alternative.
I need a dedicated server because I don't all want the services running on my laptop and eating CPU and battery while I am traveling.
I need a large monitor when I do web design.
I need the laptop because I'd never sit at a workstation for casual computing like reading the news.
I have been looking at getting a large LCD and a couple ITX boxes, but with the iMac, I get the workstation/server into one, and I can serve my home directory from my laptop if I need my emails while I work.
And because I have airport & bluetooth already, all I will add is one cable.
Here is another take on it. Who's next?
MS product names are often a mouthful... so they don't quite fit here and it's quite funny to stumble on them...
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
New Microsoft API
A long, long time ago,
I can still remember
How a release wouldn't take a while
And I knew that if I had my chance
That I could make the upgrade dance
And maybe they'd be happy for a while
But Windows XP made me shiver
With every email it'd deliver
Bad worms for my inbox
I couldn't take one more Win32.CTX
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about Longhorn's slide
But something touched me deep inside
The day the upgrade cycle died
*Chorus*
So bye, bye new Microsoft API
Pointed IE to WindowsUpdate daily but it was dry
The developer boys were thinking 'This will never fly',
Crying this will be the day Windows dies
This will be the day Windows dies
They will rewrite with boxing gloves,
Will you have faith in Gates above,
With a couple new themes or so?
Did you believe in Licensing 6.0,
Can vaporware worth your sacred dough,
And will it teach you to never sign but real slow?
Well, I know that you'll love to upgrade,
`cause I saw your Dell won't pass the grade.
They've ditch both WinFS/Avalon.
Man, I wonder what's still on!
I was a happy teenage making bucks,
With a CD burner and SerialBox.
But I knew I was out of luck,
The day the upgrade cycle died.
I started singin',
*Chorus*
So bye, bye new Microsoft API
Pointed IE to WindowsUpdate daily but it was dry
The developer boys were thinking 'This will never fly'
And cryin', this will be the day Windows dies
This will be the day Windows dies
Now for 20 years we've been based on DOS
While moss grows fat on the lazy butts,
But that's not how it used to be.
When the Monkey Boy sang 'de-ve-lo-pers'
In a shirt he soaked, it looked like pee
And a voice that didn't came for you and me
And while Bill Gates was ready to sell
The USB driver crashed his crown jewel
The courtroom was adjourned;
No Seattle-ment was returned.
And while Linus wrote the kernel of GNU
The SCO team tried to sue
And we slash-doted out of the blue
The day the upgrade cycle died
We were singing,
*Chorus*
So bye, bye new Microsoft API
Pointed IE to WindowsUpdate daily but it was dry
The developer boys were thinking 'This will never fly'
And cryin', this will be the day Windows dies
This will be the day Windows dies
MS product names are often a mouthful... so they don't quite fit here and it's quite funny to stumble on them...
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
New Microsoft API
A long, long time ago, I can still remember How a release wouldn't take a while And I knew that if I had my chance That I could make the upgrade dance And maybe they'd be happy for a while
But Windows XP made me shiver With every email it'd deliver Bad worms for my inbox I couldn't take one more Win32.CTX
I can't remember if I cried When I read about Longhorn's slide But something touched me deep inside The day the upgrade cycle died
*Chorus* So bye, bye new Microsoft API Pointed IE to WindowsUpdate daily but it was dry The developer boys were thinking 'This will never fly', Singing this will be the day Windows dies This will be the day Windows dies
They will rewrite with boxing gloves, And will you have faith in Gates above, With a couple new themes or so? Did you believe in Licensing 6.0, Can vaporware worth your dough, And will it teach you to never sign but real slow?
Well, I know that you'll love to upgrade, `cause I saw your Dell won't pass the grade. They've ditch both WinFS/Avalon. Man, I wonder what's still on!
I was a happy teenage making bucks With a CD burner and SerialBox, But I knew I was out of luck The day the upgrade cycle died.
*Chorus* I started singin', So bye, bye new Microsoft API Pointed IE to WindowsUpdate daily but it was dry The developer boys were thinking 'This will never fly' And singin', this will be the day Windows dies This will be the day Windows dies
Well, you can not even log on locally. The corruption of netinfo did remove all possible access to the four computers. Don't you think that this is a flaw? I have never seen this on Linux and BSD. If root is enabled, it always works.
Think twice, because this is MS do it is the same. That is just smoking mirrors again.
Proof? They have just hired a PR firm to do the dirty work while they polish their image. Before: "they are the cancer of IP" Now: "they stole our IP"
Same message, just better wording.
By the way, every time the OSS community reads and discuss the MS FUD of the week, that is time wasted not focusing on its own strategy. Just as the Linux desktop needs to break away from the MS path and be innovative, the community needs to stop acting as complements and substitutions of MS products but as an autonomous end-to-end solution provider.
Fight Microsoft where it hurts: ignore them.
I know it is fun to ridicule them, but they provide a cheap entertainment that is working for them the long run: we get accustomed to their style, they shape the "industry standards" at that level, and we don't get our work done. And we learn about all of their products.
Do yourself a favour, stop reading about the MS crap, there is never anything really new, and take it to the next level.
The interest in the Zen comes from its higher capacity/price ratio. This is acheived by using a 2.5" drive instead of a 1.8" drive like in the iPod. This is why the Zen is larger and heavier.
I have used both units and the first thing that I've noticed is that the Zen is much noisier and vibrates a lot. You can feel the drive inertia when you move the unit around.
...the auto-patching that Windows XP does is great.
On the surface maybe, but consider this:
1. Software Update on 2000/XP is strictly based on registry entries: it will not detect cases where old software or old OS components have been reinstalled (like after you got the "please insert your Windows XP CD").
2. Software Update will not patch security fixes that have to be applied manually or with an.exe "patcher". And there are lots of them (try to run hfnetchk on your "patched" XP to get a list). See Q143474 for an example.
3. Most patches on 2000/XP cannot be applied concurrently: you have to reboot after each patch. Meanwhile, the only time you have to reboot on RedHat is for a kernel upgrade.
We need it for Linux
It is already available. And you can chron it. But you can't easily schedule Software Update on 2000/XP because of the multiple reboot issue.
Finally, as you visit the Software Update site, MS shows you all that great middleware you can download for free...
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PowerBook is now MacBook...
Hum..
It makes PowerMac as MacMac!
Confusing if you have 4 processors....
You're using a $500 software product with a $300 camera? There's something wrong here.
OMG, I have used more than 500$ of film in my 300$ analog camera! Is that wrong too?
There are two ways to download music legally, but you're always locked-in:
Of the two methods, Apple, gives you slightly more freedom because you can buy music, burn a CD, and re-import as MP3 then use any player... no Mac, no iPod.
- I need a dedicated server because I don't all want the services running on my laptop and eating CPU and battery while I am traveling.
- I need a large monitor when I do web design.
- I need the laptop because I'd never sit at a workstation for casual computing like reading the news.
I have been looking at getting a large LCD and a couple ITX boxes, but with the iMac, I get the workstation/server into one, and I can serve my home directory from my laptop if I need my emails while I work.And because I have airport & bluetooth already, all I will add is one cable.
Here is another take on it. Who's next? MS product names are often a mouthful... so they don't quite fit here and it's quite funny to stumble on them... XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX New Microsoft API A long, long time ago, I can still remember How a release wouldn't take a while And I knew that if I had my chance That I could make the upgrade dance And maybe they'd be happy for a while But Windows XP made me shiver With every email it'd deliver Bad worms for my inbox I couldn't take one more Win32.CTX I can't remember if I cried When I read about Longhorn's slide But something touched me deep inside The day the upgrade cycle died *Chorus* So bye, bye new Microsoft API Pointed IE to WindowsUpdate daily but it was dry The developer boys were thinking 'This will never fly', Crying this will be the day Windows dies This will be the day Windows dies They will rewrite with boxing gloves, Will you have faith in Gates above, With a couple new themes or so? Did you believe in Licensing 6.0, Can vaporware worth your sacred dough, And will it teach you to never sign but real slow? Well, I know that you'll love to upgrade, `cause I saw your Dell won't pass the grade. They've ditch both WinFS/Avalon. Man, I wonder what's still on! I was a happy teenage making bucks, With a CD burner and SerialBox. But I knew I was out of luck, The day the upgrade cycle died. I started singin', *Chorus* So bye, bye new Microsoft API Pointed IE to WindowsUpdate daily but it was dry The developer boys were thinking 'This will never fly' And cryin', this will be the day Windows dies This will be the day Windows dies Now for 20 years we've been based on DOS While moss grows fat on the lazy butts, But that's not how it used to be. When the Monkey Boy sang 'de-ve-lo-pers' In a shirt he soaked, it looked like pee And a voice that didn't came for you and me And while Bill Gates was ready to sell The USB driver crashed his crown jewel The courtroom was adjourned; No Seattle-ment was returned. And while Linus wrote the kernel of GNU The SCO team tried to sue And we slash-doted out of the blue The day the upgrade cycle died We were singing, *Chorus* So bye, bye new Microsoft API Pointed IE to WindowsUpdate daily but it was dry The developer boys were thinking 'This will never fly' And cryin', this will be the day Windows dies This will be the day Windows dies
Here is another take on it. Who's next?
MS product names are often a mouthful... so they don't quite fit here and it's quite funny to stumble on them...
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
New Microsoft API
A long, long time ago,
I can still remember
How a release wouldn't take a while
And I knew that if I had my chance
That I could make the upgrade dance
And maybe they'd be happy for a while
But Windows XP made me shiver
With every email it'd deliver
Bad worms for my inbox
I couldn't take one more Win32.CTX
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about Longhorn's slide
But something touched me deep inside
The day the upgrade cycle died
*Chorus*
So bye, bye new Microsoft API
Pointed IE to WindowsUpdate daily but it was dry
The developer boys were thinking 'This will never fly',
Singing this will be the day Windows dies
This will be the day Windows dies
They will rewrite with boxing gloves,
And will you have faith in Gates above,
With a couple new themes or so?
Did you believe in Licensing 6.0,
Can vaporware worth your dough,
And will it teach you to never sign but real slow?
Well, I know that you'll love to upgrade,
`cause I saw your Dell won't pass the grade.
They've ditch both WinFS/Avalon.
Man, I wonder what's still on!
I was a happy teenage making bucks
With a CD burner and SerialBox,
But I knew I was out of luck
The day the upgrade cycle died.
*Chorus*
I started singin',
So bye, bye new Microsoft API
Pointed IE to WindowsUpdate daily but it was dry
The developer boys were thinking 'This will never fly'
And singin', this will be the day Windows dies
This will be the day Windows dies
This was not about tips on Apple. This was about Unix stability: what is your experience with the stability of authentication systems on BSD or Linux?
Well, you can not even log on locally. The corruption of netinfo did remove all possible access to the four computers. Don't you think that this is a flaw? I have never seen this on Linux and BSD. If root is enabled, it always works.
"Apple Bites Apple"
Should Apple redesign their logo with two bites off?
an x86 emulator like Boch
and a Win32 API like Wine
or Codeweavers?
It could beat VirtualPC:
faster (no Windows code to emulate)
and cheaper (no Windows license required)
Proof? They have just hired a PR firm to do the dirty work while they polish their image.
Before: "they are the cancer of IP"
Now: "they stole our IP"
Same message, just better wording.
By the way, every time the OSS community reads and discuss the MS FUD of the week, that is time wasted not focusing on its own strategy. Just as the Linux desktop needs to break away from the MS path and be innovative, the community needs to stop acting as complements and substitutions of MS products but as an autonomous end-to-end solution provider.
Fight Microsoft where it hurts: ignore them.
I know it is fun to ridicule them, but they provide a cheap entertainment that is working for them the long run: we get accustomed to their style, they shape the "industry standards" at that level, and we don't get our work done. And we learn about all of their products.
Do yourself a favour, stop reading about the MS crap, there is never anything really new, and take it to the next level.
Have you tried putting a pillow on your chair? It works for me!
Microsoft provides patches for everything it distributes.
I fail to see the problem.
I fail to see the consistency.
In fact it was the Seattle Times of August 24, 1995 (the same day as Win95 launch):
C:\ONGRTLNS.W95
There was a small Apple logo at the bottom-center of the ad, as if to say "do you get it?" What the ad meant was:
Congradulations Windows 95
You have to remember that Windows 95 brought support for long file names... except on floppies, which were still very common at the time.
Have a look here.
I have used both units and the first thing that I've noticed is that the Zen is much noisier and vibrates a lot. You can feel the drive inertia when you move the unit around.
Next time CmdrTaco posts a dupe, we will all think "thanks god, he could be worse" and just move on.
No problem, paladium computers will refuse to boot both windows and linux.
...the auto-patching that Windows XP does is great.
.exe "patcher". And there are lots of them (try to run hfnetchk on your "patched" XP to get a list). See Q143474 for an example.
On the surface maybe, but consider this:
1. Software Update on 2000/XP is strictly based on registry entries: it will not detect cases where old software or old OS components have been reinstalled (like after you got the "please insert your Windows XP CD").
2. Software Update will not patch security fixes that have to be applied manually or with an
3. Most patches on 2000/XP cannot be applied concurrently: you have to reboot after each patch. Meanwhile, the only time you have to reboot on RedHat is for a kernel upgrade.
We need it for Linux
It is already available. And you can chron it. But you can't easily schedule Software Update on 2000/XP because of the multiple reboot issue.
Finally, as you visit the Software Update site, MS shows you all that great middleware you can download for free...