You're leaving. Anything you do doesn't have repurcussions, like, oh, firing you. Any responsible admin would have disabled your accounts.
At most companies I have worked at, policy is to immediately disable accounts, and then give you contractor accounts, which have very limited rights and don't allow you to do much to mess anything up.
The alternative is purchasing the dvds. At 50 bucks usd for a season, it's getting too expensive. I'm going to build a myth box just to reduce my costs, and in the end if tivo had this now I would just buy that.
bt takes searching for a bit for a tracker with a quality rip, and means you have to deal with resource hogging apps.
Mythtv means I have to build my own, which is fine, but also has a bit of a complicated setup, along with maintenance.
Tivo on the other hand looks low maintenance. Being able to add drives and transfer to my linux/mac/windows boxes and burn to dvd is my biggest concern with Tivo currently. If they give me shows before they air, then I'd be thrilled and more than willing to purchase a boxtop from the company. Being able to watch stargate before the air date (friday is night out night) and house on some other night would be great.
Is that a lot of places aren't going to want to contact/depend on a set of developers when they would rather do it themselves. Are there any docs for doing this somewhere?
FreeBSD is the clear technological leader in the BSD family, and it's little wonder Apple built upon it.
Good sir, you are in fact.. mistaken. OS X is based upon NeXTStep. Now, NeXTStep was based on a flavor of bsd, but that was way before, and that wasn't a reason to choose it.
The reason NeXT was chosen was that it was a proven seller, and had some really cool things. Plus good ole Steve was the one selling it. Don't kid yourself though, it's not freebsd.
Re:Sweet First Post!
by _Sprocket_ (42527) on Saturday January 10, @02:31PM (#7938902)
There's a reason we've been hearing since 1998 that Linux will "overtake Windows on the desktop," but it's never happened and never will with its current mindset.
I'm sure the number of compatible software titles has nothing to do with it. Its all because the average user doesn't know what to do when they find "GNOME, KDE, WindowMaker, FluxBox" in a pulldown menu.
Damn straight, the first poster was correct. Let me tell you my tale:
So there I was, I was a windows user, and I was hearing all these great things about this thing called "leenux". And I was like, woah, I must have it, so I went to the local walmart, and there it was, a nice shiny mandrake box. And oh look, it says it is compatible with sooooo many things on the side of the box, this is going to be so easy!.
So I took the box home, I put the shiny new mandrake linux cds into my shiny computer, and then I started installing. And then I did really, really well until I got to this one point. Now I am not quite sure wtf mandrake was smoking, but whatever this thing called kde is, I sure did not want to check that. It sounded like windows xp, but without the windows. And gnome, I'm going to have a lawn gnome? WTF is a window manager anyhow? How the hell am I to know this. OMG GIVE ME WINDOWS!!!
I work help desk. The users know how to do their job, and occasionally browse the web on downtime.
I log at least five calls a week about that damnable blue screen popup ad, 2 calls about the web cleaner one, and any number of the other ones.
If you can tell me in all honesty why there is a need for these popup ads, without going into some kind of bullshit "the internet is free, I have bills to pay" spill, then maybe I would understand.
I don't know where you get off saying that this is a choice by symantec for the consumers. For christs sake, I know of at least 4 browsers that have popup blocking built into it. The browsers do! Not some third party software. Symantec is seeing a trend is all. I've been recieving calls from people since about 1998/1999 regarding popup ads, and every time I have to first calm the user down, and then explain it is just an ad. One user thought I was trying to personally make her install gator.
Try explaining to me why this feature isn't something that all consumers would want..
Umm.. you could just configure the kernel to include it, or not. If you require specific drivers, use the os that has those. OS X is not linux, and is not bsd, and it gets tiring telling people this, but it is only what you put into it.
or maybe ical sucks? There are any number of complaints against the application, maybe they wanted someone else working on the project. eh. Still doesn't mean he should just give up on the entire platform, unless he is just really bitter.
If the password dialog caused the shift key to be disabled, how the heck am I able to log in with my mixed-case password, huh? I use my Mac OS X constantly and I've never run into any problem that looks remotely like this. They're on crack.
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If the software is making firms more productive, then they should pay for it instead of stealing it.
big balls?
I'd still want the wives to lose their pants.
You're leaving. Anything you do doesn't have repurcussions, like, oh, firing you. Any responsible admin would have disabled your accounts.
At most companies I have worked at, policy is to immediately disable accounts, and then give you contractor accounts, which have very limited rights and don't allow you to do much to mess anything up.
So go to http://adiumxtras.com/ and change it. We on the adium team don't expect you to all love the duck, but it's a theme to go with.
The alternative is purchasing the dvds. At 50 bucks usd for a season, it's getting too expensive. I'm going to build a myth box just to reduce my costs, and in the end if tivo had this now I would just buy that.
bt takes searching for a bit for a tracker with a quality rip, and means you have to deal with resource hogging apps.
Mythtv means I have to build my own, which is fine, but also has a bit of a complicated setup, along with maintenance.
Tivo on the other hand looks low maintenance. Being able to add drives and transfer to my linux/mac/windows boxes and burn to dvd is my biggest concern with Tivo currently. If they give me shows before they air, then I'd be thrilled and more than willing to purchase a boxtop from the company. Being able to watch stargate before the air date (friday is night out night) and house on some other night would be great.
What's the big deal here? Right tool for the job. The other laptop wasn't working during crunch time, so why not?
The problem with what you said
"you just have to ask"
Is that a lot of places aren't going to want to contact/depend on a set of developers when they would rather do it themselves. Are there any docs for doing this somewhere?
FreeBSD is the clear technological leader in the BSD family, and it's little wonder Apple built upon it.
Good sir, you are in fact.. mistaken. OS X is based upon NeXTStep. Now, NeXTStep was based on a flavor of bsd, but that was way before, and that wasn't a reason to choose it.
The reason NeXT was chosen was that it was a proven seller, and had some really cool things. Plus good ole Steve was the one selling it. Don't kid yourself though, it's not freebsd.
Re:Sweet First Post!
by _Sprocket_ (42527) on Saturday January 10, @02:31PM (#7938902)
There's a reason we've been hearing since 1998 that Linux
will "overtake Windows on the desktop," but it's never
happened and never will with its current mindset.
I'm sure the number of compatible software titles has
nothing to do with it. Its all because the average user
doesn't know what to do when they find "GNOME, KDE,
WindowMaker, FluxBox" in a pulldown menu.
Damn straight, the first poster was correct. Let me tell you my tale:
So there I was, I was a windows user, and I was hearing all these great things about this thing called "leenux". And I was like, woah, I must have it, so I went to the local walmart, and there it was, a nice shiny mandrake box. And oh look, it says it is compatible with sooooo many things on the side of the box, this is going to be so easy!.
So I took the box home, I put the shiny new mandrake linux cds into my shiny computer, and then I started installing. And then I did really, really well until I got to this one point. Now I am not quite sure wtf mandrake was smoking, but whatever this thing called kde is, I sure did not want to check that. It sounded like windows xp, but without the windows. And gnome, I'm going to have a lawn gnome? WTF is a window manager anyhow? How the hell am I to know this. OMG GIVE ME WINDOWS!!!
This is why I use a mac.
A little background:
I work help desk. The users know how to do their job, and occasionally browse the web on downtime.
I log at least five calls a week about that damnable blue screen popup ad, 2 calls about the web cleaner one, and any number of the other ones.
If you can tell me in all honesty why there is a need for these popup ads, without going into some kind of bullshit "the internet is free, I have bills to pay" spill, then maybe I would understand.
I don't know where you get off saying that this is a choice by symantec for the consumers. For christs sake, I know of at least 4 browsers that have popup blocking built into it. The browsers do! Not some third party software. Symantec is seeing a trend is all. I've been recieving calls from people since about 1998/1999 regarding popup ads, and every time I have to first calm the user down, and then explain it is just an ad. One user thought I was trying to personally make her install gator.
Try explaining to me why this feature isn't something that all consumers would want..
Posting your host file for all to see would be pretty keen. That way I don't have to spend 2 weeks figuring out what to block
Honestly, to me the St. Anger cd sounded like it was put together by a 2 year old, and was played by a garage band, but eh!
Besides being completely off-topic, the latest Iron Maiden release can't even wash Metallica's St Anger socks ...
St Anger rocks, it's pure Metallica, and is not made for IM sissies.
I suspect you also liked everything after the black album. This is the point in time that most true metallica fans feel that metallica sold out.
Where the fuck are the guitar solos, etc, in St. Anger.. etc.
emacs IS in the default install
you CAN update via command line.
you DON'T have a mac
It wasn't bait, didn't know the answer myself. thanks.
Anyone know a way to add a internal dvd burner to a ibook?
So what is stopping you from adding these features?
Oh wait, you have your quality time of posting on slashdot, I forgot
Umm.. you could just configure the kernel to include it, or not. If you require specific drivers, use the os that has those. OS X is not linux, and is not bsd, and it gets tiring telling people this, but it is only what you put into it.
Well, if your a unix head, using a mac, and have been under a rock for a long time, here ya go
r macosx.html An x11 server that uses quartz extreme (or whatever you want to call it)
http://www.osxgnu.org/ Go here for packages to install.
http://fink.sf.net Wow, apt-get for os x
http://finkcommander.sf.net Wow, a gui for fink
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/x11fo
There are many other things to use, too
or maybe ical sucks? There are any number of complaints against the application, maybe they wanted someone else working on the project. eh. Still doesn't mean he should just give up on the entire platform, unless he is just really bitter.
and my favorite, Arachnophilia, finally works on my mac! I am now happy again..
:)
Well, that and my dos xx is right here as well
If the password dialog caused the shift key to be disabled, how the heck am I able to log in with my mixed-case password, huh? I use my Mac OS X constantly and I've never run into any problem that looks remotely like this. They're on crack.
I use capslock personally...