Please take the sentence above and insert "the web" where "podcasting" is currently placed. You could say much the same thing about the web lacking a financial strategy for content-oriented sites, especially back in 1999.
Except back in 1999 (actually 1996) we had Shoutcast and Icecast.
I'll tell you what is going to happen with "podcasting". People are going to run into its limitations. They're going to realize that downloading hours of audio, transfering it to your ipod, and *then* listening to it is a lot of work.
Someone is going to come up with the bright idea of *streaming* podcasts.. and they're going to reinvent shoutcast, and proclaim that it's the future.
A real radio station that is broadcasting people's podcasts *over the airwaves*.
Goddammit. It's not a podcast if it's not wrapped in RSS. It's just an mp3. This is a *shoutcast* server that lets people submit mp3s to be broadcasted.
It has *nothing* to do with podcasting. The word "podcast" shouldn't even be used here.
It's also nothing new. Many shoutcast servers allow people to submit mp3s, many even allow you to "guest DJ" with winamp.
Safari is a pretty good user-side browser. It's quick, and it's got fairly good standards support. It does, however, suck for web developing.. since you have to literally *fight* with the cache and there's no way to debug javascript (i.e. I've got javascript that works great in firefox and ie, and fails to run in safari and I have no way of finding out why)
But I will agree with you on mail.app. Mail.app is a steaming pile of shit. When some random dude's php web mail program supports more things (like Return Receipts!) you know it's half-assed.
But the nicest thing about OS X updates is that they continue to improve performance on hardware across the board, including older supported hardware. My G4 1.33GHz is noticeably snappier than it was on Panther.
You're on crack then. Tiger is the first version of OSX to actually seem slower than previous versions. It's most obvious in Expose. Expose is choppy as all hell in Tiger.
The difference between Tiger and Panther is night and day on my 600mhz G3 ibook.
and then there will lots of little details that bug you because little things aren't the same.
Oh man.. is that the truth. The thing that drives me nuts is OSX's bizarre keyboard shortcuts. In every other OS, I can click on a file, and hit Delete.. and it'll move it to the trash. Under OSX I have to hit Apple-Delete. Why? It's not like the Delete key does anything.. why add the extra modifier there?
Home and End keys in OSX always do the *last* thing you'd want to ever do... they're so useless that noone uses them.
The other thing that bugs me is how many F-keys Apple steals on its powerbooks. There's an F-key (F7) to switch between "clone video" and "multimonitor"! Why?! Are there people out there that toggle between these modes so often they need to reserve a key for it?
In fact, on the newest powerbooks F1 through F10 are stolen. So even Expose isn't a single keypress (except for ShowDesktop) anymore.
Gone are the days when MacOS was actually well thought-out. Now it's just pretty (even that isn't completely true anymore.. Aqua looks so dated and ugly to me now.. as passe as the first iMacs) usability and consistency has really gone right out the window.
5) Galaga and Moon Cresta. Colorful and varied was the key here, I think.
my wife is really good at galaga. She also loves Centipede and Warlords. I don't get all the centipede bashing on here.. it's the best shooter ever made.
But I'd have to say that Animal Crossing is the one game she'll play for hours on end. She even breaks out the gameboy and makes clothing for the animals.
My memory cards are filled with her animal crossing towns.
But since all 64 bit programs must be reengineered anyway (ranging from a simple recompile to a partial rewrite depending on the code), is NX on by default for 64 bit programs (an off for Windows On Windows 32
I had the XP64 beta, and NX bit was *on* by default for everything.
In fact, I had to add Firefox to the excluded apps in order for it to run.
Some apps need coddling, others won't run no matter what you do. Doom3 for instance won't work on XP64 (unless id has released a patch for it in the last 3 months). The other apps I tried (Combustion, Premiere, Reason) worked fine.
After all, people will think "Intel has that guy who predicts fast chips."
I think Intel probably doesn't want to be thought of "that 60's company".
Electronics is one business where "In business since 1950" isn't something that is widely respected.
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I get 40 pages of "condition will always be false due to limited range of data type". Bleh! If it will always be false, throw it away! I need the check in there for when the type will be a signed int.
Maybe I'm missing something, but this warning is GCC telling you that it's not going to compile that code.. so you can't possibly "need" it because GCC doesn't even compile it.
uint8_t i=0; if (i>300) {
printf("hello"); }
Compile that, and then see for yourself.. strings a.out | grep hello will return nothing. gcc optimizes your useless check right out.
Virginia Tech built the X cluster for around $5 million whereas the computers next to it on the top 500 list cost $20+ million.
Mellanox donated 1100 Infiniband adapters to Virginia Tech. At $3000 a piece, that's $3.3 million of interconnect hardware that Virginia Tech got for free.
Virginia tech can never be used as a cost comparison because they got so much stuff for free or discounted.
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When you delete the dir, you KNOW all the files of that program are gone. No "uninstalling" procedure that can go wrong.
/Library and your home directories.
Except for.. you know.. all the files that are created outside of that directory. Usually scattered in your
Plus there's no uninstaller for the stuff that uses installers in OSX (like xcode)
Safari does have a JavaScript console in its debug menu. % defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu
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Thanks! I didn't know about that (gee, wonder why?
Please take the sentence above and insert "the web" where "podcasting" is currently placed. You could say much the same thing about the web lacking a financial strategy for content-oriented sites, especially back in 1999.
Except back in 1999 (actually 1996) we had Shoutcast and Icecast.
I'll tell you what is going to happen with "podcasting". People are going to run into its limitations. They're going to realize that downloading hours of audio, transfering it to your ipod, and *then* listening to it is a lot of work.
Someone is going to come up with the bright idea of *streaming* podcasts.. and they're going to reinvent shoutcast, and proclaim that it's the future.
A real radio station that is broadcasting people's podcasts *over the airwaves*.
Goddammit. It's not a podcast if it's not wrapped in RSS. It's just an mp3. This is a *shoutcast* server that lets people submit mp3s to be broadcasted.
It has *nothing* to do with podcasting. The word "podcast" shouldn't even be used here.
It's also nothing new. Many shoutcast servers allow people to submit mp3s, many even allow you to "guest DJ" with winamp.
Why dose Safari and Mail SUCK so much?
Safari is a pretty good user-side browser. It's quick, and it's got fairly good standards support. It does, however, suck for web developing.. since you have to literally *fight* with the cache and there's no way to debug javascript (i.e. I've got javascript that works great in firefox and ie, and fails to run in safari and I have no way of finding out why)
But I will agree with you on mail.app. Mail.app is a steaming pile of shit. When some random dude's php web mail program supports more things (like Return Receipts!) you know it's half-assed.
If the stack grew upwards, this would not be possible.
Riiight..
char a[5];
int b=-5;
printf("%x %x\n",&a,&a[b]);
It doesn't matter what direction a stack grows, you can access the entire stack.
But the nicest thing about OS X updates is that they continue to improve performance on hardware across the board, including older supported hardware. My G4 1.33GHz is noticeably snappier than it was on Panther.
You're on crack then. Tiger is the first version of OSX to actually seem slower than previous versions. It's most obvious in Expose. Expose is choppy as all hell in Tiger.
The difference between Tiger and Panther is night and day on my 600mhz G3 ibook.
Windows Media Player broke
OMG! Conspiracy!
OSX isn't Done until WMP won't Run!
and then there will lots of little details that bug you because little things aren't the same.
Oh man.. is that the truth. The thing that drives me nuts is OSX's bizarre keyboard shortcuts. In every other OS, I can click on a file, and hit Delete.. and it'll move it to the trash. Under OSX I have to hit Apple-Delete. Why? It's not like the Delete key does anything.. why add the extra modifier there?
Home and End keys in OSX always do the *last* thing you'd want to ever do... they're so useless that noone uses them.
The other thing that bugs me is how many F-keys Apple steals on its powerbooks. There's an F-key (F7) to switch between "clone video" and "multimonitor"! Why?! Are there people out there that toggle between these modes so often they need to reserve a key for it?
In fact, on the newest powerbooks F1 through F10 are stolen. So even Expose isn't a single keypress (except for ShowDesktop) anymore.
Gone are the days when MacOS was actually well thought-out. Now it's just pretty (even that isn't completely true anymore.. Aqua looks so dated and ugly to me now.. as passe as the first iMacs) usability and consistency has really gone right out the window.
Most the Linux desktops I've seen are covered with - (1) a web browser, (2) xmms, (3) a huge console.
And most OSX desktops I've seen are Full Screen Photoshop. That doesn't mean a thing.
So then go play Dragon Warrior 7 or Morrowind or a game that let's you mess around for 100 hours.
Yeah, but with Morrowind, half of that is spent rebooting your machine.
Isn't pretty much everything posted to slashdot an advertisement?
The latest gadgets, software, etc.
The whole point of slashdot is to link to *other* people's sites. Does it matter if the owner of the site submitted it?
Whenever we run a story that might interest the slashdot audience, we submit it. Whenever we run a strange or bizarre story, we submit it to fark.
When linus posted his announcement on Linux 11 years ago, was he shamelessly exploiting newsgroups to advertise his project?
5) Galaga and Moon Cresta. Colorful and varied was the key here, I think.
my wife is really good at galaga. She also loves Centipede and Warlords. I don't get all the centipede bashing on here.. it's the best shooter ever made.
But I'd have to say that Animal Crossing is the one game she'll play for hours on end. She even breaks out the gameboy and makes clothing for the animals.
My memory cards are filled with her animal crossing towns.
and I'm sure it had nothing to do with clean drinking water becoming available at the same time.
People drank alcohol because it was one of the few potables that was fit to drink.
But since all 64 bit programs must be reengineered anyway (ranging from a simple recompile to a partial rewrite depending on the code), is NX on by default for 64 bit programs (an off for Windows On Windows 32
I had the XP64 beta, and NX bit was *on* by default for everything.
In fact, I had to add Firefox to the excluded apps in order for it to run.
Some apps need coddling, others won't run no matter what you do. Doom3 for instance won't work on XP64 (unless id has released a patch for it in the last 3 months). The other apps I tried (Combustion, Premiere, Reason) worked fine.
And I hear with Tiger, you'll be able to format a floppy disc, and browse the web, at the same time!
You laugh but I'm still waiting to be able to browse a network share and not have finder completely lock up as it waits for a response on the network.
I guess I shouldn't be suprised, Apple has very little experience with multithreaded applications.
Does Windows allow you to install multiple versions in the same partition, and select which to run on boot?
Yup.. and XP64 creates a Program Files (x86) and a WIN64 directory so it doesn't conflict with your regular XP32 install.
After all, people will think "Intel has that guy who predicts fast chips."
I think Intel probably doesn't want to be thought of "that 60's company".
Electronics is one business where "In business since 1950" isn't something that is widely respected.
I get 40 pages of "condition will always be false due to limited range of data type". Bleh! If it will always be false, throw it away! I need the check in there for when the type will be a signed int.
Maybe I'm missing something, but this warning is GCC telling you that it's not going to compile that code.. so you can't possibly "need" it because GCC doesn't even compile it.
uint8_t i=0;
if (i>300)
{
printf("hello");
}
Compile that, and then see for yourself.. strings a.out | grep hello will return nothing. gcc optimizes your useless check right out.
Things go swimingly until some really un-fun interface code needs to be written.
No, it highlights the problems that *every* OS faces.. revamping older libraries is difficult.
Look at how many OSX apps still use Carbon (including many Apple apps). Look at how much legacy crap is in Windows.
Updating framework libraries is difficult to do cleanly and unobtrusively. This isn't unique to opensource in the slightest.
You probably actually want 'sudo find / -perm +6000 -ls'.
Come on... just run "sudo sh".
Especially since you're going to want to do other root things after you get back your list of set[gu]id files.
This particular problem can be averted by removing . from $PATH of all users including root
/bin:/usr/bin:. would find ls in /bin and run it.. even if ls was also in /usr/bin or cwd
I've never seen a linux distro that even *had* CWD in $PATH.
But hey, maybe you like going around trying to run "./ls"
Finally, PATH is searched in order. So
They used to say the same thing about elevators. When's the last time you met an elevator operator?
I'm sure a certain delivery man would have appreciated an elevator operator a few weeks ago in new york.
Virginia Tech built the X cluster for around $5 million whereas the computers next to it on the top 500 list cost $20+ million.
Mellanox donated 1100 Infiniband adapters to Virginia Tech. At $3000 a piece, that's $3.3 million of interconnect hardware that Virginia Tech got for free.
Virginia tech can never be used as a cost comparison because they got so much stuff for free or discounted.
I mean, hey, you don't NEED a car that can go above 65MPH, but it's sure nice to have one huh?
Considering the speed limit on the freeway I take to work every day is 75mph... yes, I do need a car that can go above 65.
Also, running a car at its top speed isn't good for the engine. Running a processor at its top speed doesn't really affect it one way or another.