OTOH, the reduction of ICANN and other DNS 'gods'is one of the nice benefits of P2P technology like ZeroConf.
Woah, this has nothing to do with ICANN. ZeroConf isn't routable. It is part of the spec, if TTL is set to anything other than -1, it's an invalid packet.
Apple's solution is a lot more elegant, and one I'd actually use.
Only if the widgets you use require interaction.. like a calculator. None of the konfab widgets I use do. We've written a lot of our own. They're mostly status widgets. One widget shows status from Big Brother (server monitoring) for example.
I guess I'll have to see Apple's to see if it can do what we need it to do. Konfab can pop up a non-focus-stealing window to alert that a server has gone down (or that a meeting is about to start, or whatever). Can Apple's? Or do I have to hit F8 every 30 minutes?
Seems to me that Apple is pulling a lot of MS style tactics in Tiger. Taking 3rd party apps, and making crappy versions of them... but since they're integrated into the OS, they'll become more popular than the better, competing product.
Like when iTunes was released, I doubt anyone will be complaining except the developers being bullied out.
That's pretty dismissive. Apple isn't large enough to be the only company supporting the Mac. Alienating third party developers isn't a good business strategy.
Eventually the only software you'll be using on the mac is software made by Apple.. and if you look at how Apple has been ignoring a lot of their own products (Quicktime Broadcaster is a good example of software that started out great and then failed to get any bug fixes or updates for 2 years), it will only get worse as Apple falls more and more behind.
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When someone cleans "wash me" into a dirty car, is the car any cleaner? Not really.
If someone writes "wash me" on your car, you just wipe it off and say "damn kids"
Now if someone wrote "wash me" on your car with a sharpie.. you'd call your insurance agent (and maybe the cops).
They're not even on the same level... saying someone defaced your car by writing "wash me" is retarded.
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They're charging $20 a pop for the "classic NES" series (Zelda, SMB, Excitebike, Donkey Kong)
All 4 of those games are in Animal Crossing.
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/rant/ Why don't those guys start trying out NEW ideas instead of endless XYZ pacman/tetris/whatnot variations and tons of chrome.
Actually, I think this is a new idea. This version of pacman is for the DS. You draw your pacman, and then he starts moving, and you draw walls to "deflect" the pacman and make him eat the ghosts... without running out of "ink".
I added DSpam to my mail server and my spam catching rate is now better than 99%.
I haven't seen any false positive stats on dspam. It's easy to say a spam filter has a high spam catching rate, but it means nothing without a very low false positive rate.
Redirecting my mail to/dev/null gives me a 100% spam catching rate.
They're all holes in the wall, at least thirty minutes away and you can walk around for half an hour before they'll even acknowledge your presence. Then they charge 10% more than Apple does on their web site.
Not all of them. Fry's Electronics is an Apple reseller. It's far from a hole in the wall, and my brother got a brand new powerbook there for $400 less than Apple was charging.
What do you get upgrading from 98 to ME (I think you lost stuff here)
While ME was a piece of crap, it did add some things that didn't get added to 2000 like Zip folders.
At least MS doesn't sell software that requires XP (anything that requires XP comes with XP). Apple routinely abandons old OSes and sells software that only works with the very latest OS.
The coin-op Terminator 2 game ruled (the light gun game). I hadn't spent that much cash on a game since Gauntlet.
And Ghostbusters on the Apple//e was the game to play. I never did get past the stay puft marshmallow man though.
Tron: Deadly Discs (an incredibly rare game) was also a lot of fun, and the best tron-based game I've played.
I think the key is that the games need to provide actual gameplay, and not much story. We know the story, we've seen the movie.. don't waste our time with FMV.
Well, it's easy to talk about costs when they aren't YOUR costs to be paying, isn't it.
The company I work for used to be an ISP (as well as many other things). We decided the ISP (dialup and DSL) wasn't making money so we sold it.
But we had the common courtesy to set up forwards for all 30k of our subscriber's email, and keep their personal websites up and home directories for over a year.
Even to this day, we still host local non profits' websites for free (we don't accept new ones, but we'll continue to host the ones we did accept back in our ISP days)
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That means you end up receiving mail on the ISP's mail server, and that completely obliterates the point of running your own mail server.
That's what the REPLY-TO header was created for. Like I said, no idea how mail is supposed to work.
and since it's on a residential cable line (dynamic address), aol, rr.com, and email.com all reject my e-mails. and no, i never send spam.
Don't talk directly to their mail servers.. talk to the outgoing mailserver provided to you by your ISP. Sheesh.
I'm always amazed at how many people "run my own mailserver" yet have no idea how mail is supposed to work.
OTOH, the reduction of ICANN and other DNS 'gods'is one of the nice benefits of P2P technology like ZeroConf.
Woah, this has nothing to do with ICANN. ZeroConf isn't routable. It is part of the spec, if TTL is set to anything other than -1, it's an invalid packet.
great idea that *nix has this now but these sorts of things have been standard in MSWord for a long time
Not really. You need Avery to do anything more than wipe your ass with a sheet of labels under Word.
OOo has label support, it even has more templates than Word... but neither are as complete as Avery.
This is supposed to compete with Avery.
Apple's solution is a lot more elegant, and one I'd actually use.
Only if the widgets you use require interaction.. like a calculator. None of the konfab widgets I use do. We've written a lot of our own. They're mostly status widgets. One widget shows status from Big Brother (server monitoring) for example.
I guess I'll have to see Apple's to see if it can do what we need it to do. Konfab can pop up a non-focus-stealing window to alert that a server has gone down (or that a meeting is about to start, or whatever). Can Apple's? Or do I have to hit F8 every 30 minutes?
Seems to me that Apple is pulling a lot of MS style tactics in Tiger. Taking 3rd party apps, and making crappy versions of them... but since they're integrated into the OS, they'll become more popular than the better, competing product.
Like when iTunes was released, I doubt anyone will be complaining except the developers being bullied out.
That's pretty dismissive. Apple isn't large enough to be the only company supporting the Mac. Alienating third party developers isn't a good business strategy.
Eventually the only software you'll be using on the mac is software made by Apple.. and if you look at how Apple has been ignoring a lot of their own products (Quicktime Broadcaster is a good example of software that started out great and then failed to get any bug fixes or updates for 2 years), it will only get worse as Apple falls more and more behind.
When someone cleans "wash me" into a dirty car, is the car any cleaner? Not really.
If someone writes "wash me" on your car, you just wipe it off and say "damn kids"
Now if someone wrote "wash me" on your car with a sharpie.. you'd call your insurance agent (and maybe the cops).
They're not even on the same level... saying someone defaced your car by writing "wash me" is retarded.
and here is a picture of a chicken.
and here is a picture of a chicken-hawk.
They're charging $20 a pop for the "classic NES" series (Zelda, SMB, Excitebike, Donkey Kong)
All 4 of those games are in Animal Crossing.
Actually, I think this is a new idea. This version of pacman is for the DS. You draw your pacman, and then he starts moving, and you draw walls to "deflect" the pacman and make him eat the ghosts... without running out of "ink".
Part of what makes Fallout, Fallout, is its turn-based strategy. That goes away in a MMORPG.
It does? How so? Fallout was only turn based during combat. I don't see why it wouldn't work in a MMORPG environment.
Besides, what made Fallout was the environment and the no-rules feel of the game.
I enjoy receiving e-mail from people and companies I don't know.
I have a gmail account and I haven't gotten a single email in a week. Not one. Kind of makes me want to post my email address to a news group.
Kind of.
I added DSpam to my mail server and my spam catching rate is now better than 99%.
/dev/null gives me a 100% spam catching rate.
I haven't seen any false positive stats on dspam. It's easy to say a spam filter has a high spam catching rate, but it means nothing without a very low false positive rate.
Redirecting my mail to
I'm suprised no one has caught onto the big news:
the average employee was out sick seven days a year
Considering that we only get 5 days of sick time, this is a travesty.
They're all holes in the wall, at least thirty minutes away and you can walk around for half an hour before they'll even acknowledge your presence. Then they charge 10% more than Apple does on their web site.
Not all of them. Fry's Electronics is an Apple reseller. It's far from a hole in the wall, and my brother got a brand new powerbook there for $400 less than Apple was charging.
The latest version of Adobe Premiere, for example, requires Windows XP.
This is true, and actually it's even worse. The latest version of Adobe Premiere won't run on regular Athlon's.. it requires Athlon XP.
What do you get upgrading from 98 to ME (I think you lost stuff here)
While ME was a piece of crap, it did add some things that didn't get added to 2000 like Zip folders.
At least MS doesn't sell software that requires XP (anything that requires XP comes with XP). Apple routinely abandons old OSes and sells software that only works with the very latest OS.
in my case it's actually inspired me to get a BMW to go with my iPod.
That's as dumb as buying a car because it matches your shoes and nail polish.
why do they have the ipod flopping around in the glovebox?
Really, is it so hard to make an in-dash stereo have a slot-loading ipod?
Just slide your ipod into your stereo like an 8-track tape.
Plus, that way you don't need to buy a BMW to use it.
For a second I thought this about someone's IUD.
Close enough. No one should trust either one.
Getting into space isn't exactly reaching the stars, but it's the first step on the journey.
I'd rather not reach the stars.. I hear it's very warm there.
They will want to tell their children that they were there to see the event that triggered the industry of private space tourism.
More like see the explosion that triggered congressional restrictions on future attempts.
Even better than post it notes, get a CRT monitor and burn your to-do list on it
That's how we marked our TVs as belonging to our dept. We had them display our dept name and logo in the upper corner for a month.
Now it's permamently burned into our TVs, and no one can steal them.
The coin-op Terminator 2 game ruled (the light gun game). I hadn't spent that much cash on a game since Gauntlet.
//e was the game to play. I never did get past the stay puft marshmallow man though.
And Ghostbusters on the Apple
Tron: Deadly Discs (an incredibly rare game) was also a lot of fun, and the best tron-based game I've played.
I think the key is that the games need to provide actual gameplay, and not much story. We know the story, we've seen the movie.. don't waste our time with FMV.
Well, it's easy to talk about costs when they aren't YOUR costs to be paying, isn't it.
The company I work for used to be an ISP (as well as many other things). We decided the ISP (dialup and DSL) wasn't making money so we sold it.
But we had the common courtesy to set up forwards for all 30k of our subscriber's email, and keep their personal websites up and home directories for over a year.
Even to this day, we still host local non profits' websites for free (we don't accept new ones, but we'll continue to host the ones we did accept back in our ISP days)