Is there any way to make the mouse go faster in OS X? I've got the slider all the way up and I still find myself having to pick up the mouse way too much. That would make a good tip, IMO.
The FSF should release their own distribution -- then they can name the thing whatever they want. I think the cat is out of the bag already on this one though. No matter how hard RMS tries, most people will still always refer to the thing as Linux.
Absolutely. I am not a gamer. I've never bought a game in my entire life. This will be my first. Who knows, maybe I'll give it a shot, but probably not. I don't typically register products. I will register this.
YES. Keaton was definitely the best batman. I heard that the reason he stopped after the second one is because he's extremely claustrophobic and being in the rubber suit was like torture for him. What a shame.
Well, you already run freebsd, so you know what that's like. OpenBSD focuses on being secure. ("One remote hole in the default install, in nearly 6 years!") NetBSD is famous for being so portable ("Of course it runs NetBSD.") FreeBSD's tagline is "The power to serve," so I guess it makes a good server OS. Personally I tend to think of FreeBSD as focusing on x86, and having an outstanding ports collection.
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Here are the original articles which have some more information about the new show.
Yeah, after reading the article, he definitely comes off as one who is prone to stream of consciousness. I couldn't help but laugh periodically while I was reading the article because he'll start on a topic, but never finish because it made him think of something else, so the entire thing is mostly transitional. =)
"Good grief!" said I. "What happens in January of 1980?" She turned pale and admitted she had considered that before but managed to put it out of her mind. "So why not go ahead and fix it now?" I asked.
She pointed out that fixing it would require expanding the demand deposit master record format, a mammoth undertaking. About a billion COBOL programs would have to be recompiled. At this shop we were still on cards and a rush compile took about a week. "You want to do that?" she inquired. This time I turned pale. We considered our options, knowing that one or the other of us would be called upon to fix the problem. And you know what we did?
First, I modified the daily demand deposit program with code that checked for the date and about mid-1979 started printed warnings on the console of what would happen come new year. Then the systems analyst and I got new jobs. This is known as stepwise interactive development.
I'm kind of surprised that most new keyboards and mice are USB instead of PS/2. USB is a more versatile standard, sure. But it's not like mice and keyboards actually take advantage of it. I've never had any problems getting a PS/2 peripheral to work on any computer under any operating system. This is the way it should be. USB just unnecessarily complicates things in my opinion.
I've got a PS/2 KVM and trying to figure out how to get the thing to work with a mac is quite an exercise. I would love for this machine to have PS/2 ports. I guess apple just wanted us to be able to plug our mice into our keyboards. Ok, rant mode off.
Oh yeah, to get your dream mac machine, you are always going to pay ~$3000 (Depending on what your dream is). It has been this way forever, so don't spend too much time looking for a bargain.
Hahaha, yeah, tell me about it. When it comes to dreams and apple you have to be prepared to pay a lot. I could spend more than $3000 on the monitor ALONE.
Finally an open source analogy your grandmother can understand
Actually, I prefer to think of this as an analogy my redneck friends can understand. When talking to my grandmother I relate to cooking: secret recipes vs. sharing and modifying recipes with others. Giving people something to relate to is half the battle!
Your GPA alone is meaningless unless the class average of each course is known. So you got a A in cs4xxx hey, well look at this the average grade was a B+. Kind of takes the luster off the A doesn't it?
Not necessarily. Knowing each class average doesn't help unless you are willing to assume that there is a varied distribution of students in each class. I'd say that's not a very good assumption to make all the time. Grading as a technology (yes, believe it or not grading is a technology) actually does a better job of highlighting those students who are conscientious, organized, diligent, hardworking, etc. That being said, it is still very difficult to earn high grades without being somewhat bright. If more students valued learning as much as they value their grades, the need for a grade would likely vanish.
-Greg
Does IBM have any plans to create its own Linux distribution? Doing so would certainly generate a great deal of publicity for IBM's Linux strategy, as well as serve to make Linux a household name. What are your thoughts on this?
Just in case you haven't heard Spam Gourmet offers a nice service for exactly this kind of situation. You'll get a temporary address that will work for a few times and then expire.
This makes me so MAD! I mean, why can't people take their security seriously? It's not that hard to sit down one day and make up a few difficult passwords and memorize them. For example, I use one of
ekk4H$2drPr3Q,
Ltc4buX126w, and
7ydEX92aSz3UIo
for 90% of my passwords. Then all you have to do is not tell anyone about them. They're not hard to remember anymore, and it really wasn't that difficult to begin with. Sheesh, morons.
Sing it brother! In all seriousness though, you're absolutely right. ESR goes much more in depth in The Magic Cauldron, so if that whet your appetite, then be sure to check it out.
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Is there any way to make the mouse go faster in OS X? I've got the slider all the way up and I still find myself having to pick up the mouse way too much. That would make a good tip, IMO.
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The FSF should release their own distribution -- then they can name the thing whatever they want. I think the cat is out of the bag already on this one though. No matter how hard RMS tries, most people will still always refer to the thing as Linux.
Absolutely. I am not a gamer. I've never bought a game in my entire life. This will be my first. Who knows, maybe I'll give it a shot, but probably not. I don't typically register products. I will register this.
YES. Keaton was definitely the best batman. I heard that the reason he stopped after the second one is because he's extremely claustrophobic and being in the rubber suit was like torture for him. What a shame.
Well, you already run freebsd, so you know what that's like. OpenBSD focuses on being secure. ("One remote hole in the default install, in nearly 6 years!") NetBSD is famous for being so portable ("Of course it runs NetBSD.") FreeBSD's tagline is "The power to serve," so I guess it makes a good server OS. Personally I tend to think of FreeBSD as focusing on x86, and having an outstanding ports collection.
Here are the original articles which have some more information about the new show.
1. Is the World Ready for a Cringely Open Source TV Show?
2. Downloadable Video Cringely is on His Way
Go relax with some good ol' Adrian's Rojak Pot.
Yeah, after reading the article, he definitely comes off as one who is prone to stream of consciousness. I couldn't help but laugh periodically while I was reading the article because he'll start on a topic, but never finish because it made him think of something else, so the entire thing is mostly transitional. =)
For those who don't already know what a "pie menu" is, here is a nice animation that may be helpful.
The gory details of my thought processes:
Ooh, new article. Yay.
Reads title: Atari 2600 hacks
Damnit Taco, not another webserver running on strange hardware!
Oh wait, no, this may actually be cool.
Yeah, that was poorly worded, but I think he meant to say:
"This is the kind of book you don't want (...) to put down until the last page is read."
I thought this was great:
[snip]
"Good grief!" said I. "What happens in January of 1980?" She turned
pale and admitted she had considered that before but managed to put it
out of her mind. "So why not go ahead and fix it now?" I asked.
She pointed out that fixing it would require expanding the demand
deposit master record format, a mammoth undertaking. About a billion
COBOL programs would have to be recompiled. At this shop we were still
on cards and a rush compile took about a week. "You want to do that?"
she inquired. This time I turned pale. We considered our options,
knowing that one or the other of us would be called upon to fix the
problem. And you know what we did?
First, I modified the daily demand deposit program with code that
checked for the date and about mid-1979 started printed warnings on the
console of what would happen come new year. Then the systems analyst
and I got new jobs. This is known as stepwise interactive development.
[/snip]
I'm kind of surprised that most new keyboards and mice are USB instead of PS/2. USB is a more versatile standard, sure. But it's not like mice and keyboards actually take advantage of it. I've never had any problems getting a PS/2 peripheral to work on any computer under any operating system. This is the way it should be. USB just unnecessarily complicates things in my opinion.
I've got a PS/2 KVM and trying to figure out how to get the thing to work with a mac is quite an exercise. I would love for this machine to have PS/2 ports. I guess apple just wanted us to be able to plug our mice into our keyboards. Ok, rant mode off.
I can't explain most of them, but for OS X, one of the reasons for choosing X over 10 is best summed up by Linus (when talking about the name Linux):
"It's unix. The X has to be there. It's like a law."
No, no, no, you've got it all wrong. Say it like Tyson:
"Ludacrisp."
Oh yeah, to get your dream mac machine, you are always going to pay ~$3000 (Depending on what your dream is). It has been this way forever, so don't spend too much time looking for a bargain.
Hahaha, yeah, tell me about it. When it comes to dreams and apple you have to be prepared to pay a lot. I could spend more than $3000 on the monitor ALONE.
Finally an open source analogy your grandmother can understand
Actually, I prefer to think of this as an analogy my redneck friends can understand. When talking to my grandmother I relate to cooking: secret recipes vs. sharing and modifying recipes with others. Giving people something to relate to is half the battle!
Your GPA alone is meaningless unless the class average of each course is known. So you got a A in cs4xxx hey, well look at this the average grade was a B+. Kind of takes the luster off the A doesn't it?
Not necessarily. Knowing each class average doesn't help unless you are willing to assume that there is a varied distribution of students in each class. I'd say that's not a very good assumption to make all the time. Grading as a technology (yes, believe it or not grading is a technology) actually does a better job of highlighting those students who are conscientious, organized, diligent, hardworking, etc. That being said, it is still very difficult to earn high grades without being somewhat bright. If more students valued learning as much as they value their grades, the need for a grade would likely vanish. -Greg
Does IBM have any plans to create its own Linux distribution? Doing so would certainly generate a great deal of publicity for IBM's Linux strategy, as well as serve to make Linux a household name. What are your thoughts on this?
Just in case you haven't heard Spam Gourmet offers a nice service for exactly this kind of situation. You'll get a temporary address that will work for a few times and then expire.
...after all, if there's one organization that has a reputation for spedning lots of money when it doesn't need to, it's the US government. :)
This makes me so MAD! I mean, why can't people take their security seriously? It's not that hard to sit down one day and make up a few difficult passwords and memorize them. For example, I use one of
ekk4H$2drPr3Q,
Ltc4buX126w, and
7ydEX92aSz3UIo
for 90% of my passwords. Then all you have to do is not tell anyone about them. They're not hard to remember anymore, and it really wasn't that difficult to begin with. Sheesh, morons.
Sing it brother! In all seriousness though, you're absolutely right. ESR goes much more in depth in The Magic Cauldron, so if that whet your appetite, then be sure to check it out.