Well, it's not the best solution, but if you want to move your keychain from one computer to another, just open the Keychains folder in your User library (~/Library)
Don't know about live CDs, maybe the folks at yellow dog have cooked one up, or LinuxPPC, but I can help you with making OS X look and feel a bit more like your linux stuff.
I can't find anything on getting auto raise windows. However, there are plenty of virtual desktop items, there are a couple here
You should also be able to install and run KDE and verious other window environments, here's some some information You can google for more. The downside to this is that while under KDE or other environments, you won't be able to run Aqua applications.
OpenOffice is availible for OS X in Fink (which I highly recomend you consider installing and using) and as NeoOfficeJ.
I'm curious if you've toyed with the touchpads on mac laptops. I know it sounds horribly biased, but I swear there is a difference between them, and I can't stand PC touchpads but love the touchpad on my powerbook.
Then again, I can't stand the trackpoints in general either.
1) Apple does release patches for the most recent previous version. So 10.2 is still being patched.
2) 10.0 - 10.1 was free
3) Apple has issued statements to the fact that the upgrade cycle will be slowing down. Indeed evidence of this can be seen in the fact that 10.4 isn't due out for another 6 months at minimum.
Snap judgements on my character do not suit you. It's not OK for the president to freeze. It is ok for the president to take a few moments before he leaps into action. He can't act anyway until he has more information, he might as well take the time to prepare himself. If it had been any other man, Gore, Clinton, Reagan, Bush Sr. or The Devil himself, my response would be the same. Taking 5 minutes to compose yourself while you await information is not the same as freezing and is not indicative of a lack of leadership
It's not a recall so much as a free extended waranty. There are plenty of people who have books that fall in this model range and don't have the problems. What this is, is a statement that there is a design flaw in these models and if your computer is afflicted with the problems that can be caused by this flaw, you get a repair even if you're long out of waranty.
Generaly speaking Apple accumulates and collects data on which machines are being reported to have problems and then has to narrow down what the problem is. Once they have the problem narrowed down to sofware vs hardware, then they need to determine which models or batches of computers are affected.
Once that is complete, Apple usualy issues a repair program for any of the computers in the range of systems with a problem, and offers reimbursements to anyone who has previously paid for a repair of the problem from Apple or an AARC.
And then what? What would he have done next except wait 5 minutes anyways while the secret service figured out where they were moving him to and established communications?
And do you think he was processing information? What was there to process?
Absolutely nothing. There was no information at that time. And the 5 minutes he took to finish what he came to do provided no new information.
He needed to get out of there and in communication to get some information to process.
And he wasn't going anywhere until the Secret Service OK'd a movement plan. So why not finish what you're doing istead of waiting around outside in the hall.
Face it - he was lost. He froze. He was the antithesis of leadership. He was irresolute, unless he was so determined to finish "My Pet Goat" that an act of war couldn't pull him away. As I understand the man, he's not a big reader.
Face it, he had no information, no way of getting new information and no where to go until the Secret Service was ready to move. So he did what he should have done and finsihed what he came to do.
The larger problem is that people don't realize just how impotent the president is. The presidents powers are as follows:
Commander in Chief of the military.
Granting of pardons.
Appoint all governmental offices not provided for in the constitution including judges, ambassadors etc.
Fill vacancies in congress.
Commission officers.
Provide for the execution of the law.
Veto power
Nothing in there would change what happened. We seem to expect our presidents to be all powerful, but they aren't. The real power in the government is at the lower levels. It is that way by design. I will say it again, the president has no real power in 90% of the governmental activities.
Nowhere, I was just making the point that you were wrong when you said that he couldn't go anywhere
The game of semantics is fun to play, but you know damn well what I meant.
What's the point of having a president, with presidential powers, a figure head and symbolic leader for a country, if all he gives all his responsibilities to others?
What power did he give to others that he could have used? Again WHAT COULD HE HAVE DONE. You treat it as if he was dumbstruck, I say he realized there was nothing he could do for the time being so he should finish what he came to do. You are implying that he could have done something that he let someone else do, so what could he have done?
You've never served in the army have you... it's an infantry expression.
Air Force actualy.
Leaders, at the very least, are meant to be seen to be doing something.
He was doing someting. He was waiting for information to be compiled and he was finishing what he had come to the school for, and I'll bet you a metric shit ton of money he was thinking about responses and considering what could be going on.
The WTC being hit by a plane is very serious, terrorism or no.
Yes, but the president can not do anything about that. That's what we pay law enforcement and the military response teams (which operate independantly of the president) to do.
You say the delegation of all of this authority is a bad thing, I say it's a very good thing. What happens if the plane didn't hit the WTC instead it hit the school, and killed the president and everyone inside. But the president is the only one who can authoize the actions. Concentrated power is a bad thing to be used only in limited circumstances. At the begining of a crisis, the president has very little to do for the exact reason that if the president is killed, the government can still function. The more critical and imediate a response should be, the closer to ground zero the command should be. In this case, having to wait for all of your response decisions in NY to come from the Whitehouse causes more people to die. As it is, if you read the timelines you can see why it is that we don't want to wait for things to go all the way to the top before we move. The concept is the same as reflexs. Your reflex actions don't come from your brain, they come from your spine to speed the process. Same thing here.
Either Bush was unable to grasp the importance of that particular building, or he is so dependent on his staff that he had no friggin' clue that it would be an appropriate time to stop pretending to love children in front of the cameras
Or he realized that with no current information and the Secret Service working on making sure he had a way out, that there was nothing he could do right now except stay calm and keep doing what he was doing.
He sat there with a bored/uncertain expression... and did nothing until someone told him to. That what is means to wait for instructions.
You're damn right he sat there with an uncertain expression. No one had any information, no one knew for sure what was going on, and he was going to have to piece it all together and lead the country through it all. He did a damn go
Bad analogy. As the IT boss, you're still an underling, much like one of the 4 stars. They're head honchos to be sure, but they aren't the top of the food chain. A more apt anology would be a major systems failure, and the Secretary of the CEO telling the CEO about it, while the CEO is talking to a client about his latest investment in the company. Were I the CEO, I would finish as much of the conversation as I could, trusting that all the money I pay to these people to run things smoothly is not being wasted. If the situation changes such that I am truely urgently needed myself, I expect to be told that.
The fact of the matter is, like in the situation of the CEO there was nothing the president or the CEO could do themselves at that imediate moment. If he was needed imediately, that would have been conveyed, but since there was no information, he was not needed yet. As for the pilots, yes some of them did wait for orders, but those orders do not come from the president. Again, all of this stuff is designed to be automated and run independantly of the president.
But where will he go? The threat is from the skies, so AF1 is out untill they can get some clear airspace. But the threats are targeting buildings, so moving him to some official building might not be the best idea either.
The aid whispered a few words
"Sir, another plane has hit the World Trade Centers, please stay here while we clear a route"
Okay, but I would expect a leader to excuse themselves, and get on a cell-phone... at the very least.
And do what? There's a saying called "hurry up and wait" it especialy big in the government, where it seems you're always hurrying to get somewhere or do something only to have to wait for someone else. In this case, the president would have gotten on the phone and known what? That another plane had hit the WTC. That we still didn't know who, what, where or why. Information takes time to converge to a single location, which is one of the reasons responses to this situation are largely automated.
And the president pretended to read a kids story while he awaited instructions
And you know he was waiting for instructions because? How do you know he wasn't waiting for information? How do you know he wasn't told to stay put. Remember that when there is concern for the president's life, the Secret Service overrides his decisions of movement.
Well, why don't you think about what it means that Bush did nothing for 9min, even though , apart from having defined and limited power, as written in the constitution, he is the figure-head and leader of the country.
And I'm still waiting for you to tell me what he should or could have done that would have had any impact on anything that day.
Perhaps organize a press conference
Ah yes, instead of reading to kids from a book, he can read to the press from a script. Ignoring for the moment that those preparations are done automaticaly, and he is not the one that organizes them, what would he have told the press that they didnt' already know?
Find out who's investigating the problem, and make sure that it's appropriate
The system is automated, he knows who's investigating and what they're doing.
Find out if he's required in a legal role (do I need to press a red button?), and prepare for it
In order to do that, you first need information. Was this a foreign attack, are these our planes, who did it, how, are there more? He had and would not have had before those 5 minutes any of that information. The very question "Do I need to press the red button" requires knowing who you're pressing it in response to.
See if there's anything that _he_ can do, both as a president and as a person
Like what? The Secret Service won't let him anywhere near where he could get hurt, he's hundreds of miles away from any of the casualty sites. What can he do as a person other than complete his obligation to the children he came to see? As much as it was a staged photo-op, those children were told they were going to see the president. There was nothing he personaly could have done as a person or president at that time except ensure those children got the most out of the visit they could. After all, it was likely the last good time they would have for the day.
Give us the illusion that he's doing some work
Even better. Rather than continue with his schedule until there's more information, you would rather him stop what he's doing and tread water pretending to do that which he isn't. Brilliant.
The very fact that so many people are arguing over it is evidence that pretending to read a kids story is considered too lame for a leader of a country.
The very fact that so many people are arguing over it is evidence that the american public on the whole is a bunch of picky, petty schizophrenic shit heads who wouldn't know leadership from a pile of dog shit if their lives depended on it. If the worst travesty that Bush comitted was sitting still for 5 minutes, then you people really are reaching.
I did watch the video. And bush did exactly what I would have done. Surely you don't think the president had the ability to imediately get up and leave. Routes had to be cleared information had to be processed and things set in motion before he could leave. Furthermore, you don't know what the aide said to him. For all you know, the aide spoke of actions that were already underway. Without any imediate action to be taken, I too would have continued for a while until there was more information availible. Remember, at the time, two planes had hit, and that was all we knew.
You are perfectly correct on one thing. The president does not run the whole show. It's designed that way on purpose (read the constitution) and there is NOTHING the president himself could have done in those 5 minutes that would have changed history at all.
A great leader would have been... "great"; Bush was completely lame.
I would rather the CIC freeze for a couple minutes and process information rather than blindly jump scream "HOLY SHIT KIDS WE"RE GOING TO FUCKING DIE!" and run out of the room screaming "LAUNCH THE NUKES. FLATTEN THOSE BASTARDS"
So what you're saying is freemarket is working the way it's supposed to, and since they aren't getting the same thing, they're losing money on it. Which means that when the stock holders come demanding their profits, someone will realize they need a better work force.
Guess that means one should find a different job than a comodity position huh? Let's face it the brave new world of computer programing is not a specialty field any more when highschoolers can do it in their free time.
Obviously corporate america is suffering from it, else Dell would not have brought checks of their support centers back. Nothing pisses me off more than a person who complains about outsourcing and then continues to buy from a company that does so.
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Well, it's not the best solution, but if you want to move your keychain from one computer to another, just open the Keychains folder in your User library (~/Library)
Define recent, because last I checked, a bunch of kings through history weren't exactly concerned with "enriching" society.
Hmm, I wonder. Have they made linux for Visor Handsprings yet? I have one and way too much time on my hands, this might be fun.
How would having the control in hardware solve the problem of the controls being corrupt? Hardware can fail just as easily as software can.
~15-20% depending on the system. When I bought my powerbook, it retailed for $3,000 and I picked it up for $2,300
That $500 gets you the following:
OS X current version full install
OS X Sever current version full install
Beta access
Free copies of OS X for every new release, on disc sent in the mail for a year. This includes a disc copy for the free point releases (i.e. 10.3.X)
Discounts for exhibit hardware
Discounts for hardware in general (roughly 15-20%)
Access to the compatability labs (go to apple to test your software on all their machines)
Developer tech support
and various other minor discounts and benefits.
Why yes, yes they do
Don't know about live CDs, maybe the folks at yellow dog have cooked one up, or LinuxPPC, but I can help you with making OS X look and feel a bit more like your linux stuff.
I can't find anything on getting auto raise windows. However, there are plenty of virtual desktop items, there are a couple here
You should also be able to install and run KDE and verious other window environments, here's some some information You can google for more. The downside to this is that while under KDE or other environments, you won't be able to run Aqua applications.
OpenOffice is availible for OS X in Fink (which I highly recomend you consider installing and using) and as NeoOfficeJ.
AbiWord is availible as either an X11 app or as a beta native app
The GIMP is availible as an X11 app via fink, but if you don't do a lot of heavy work, can I suggest looking into an application called PhotoLine
XMMS, well there's iTunes and various other players, unless XMMS does something in particular you need.
mplayer and vlc are both availible for OS X as native apps as is firefox.
As for GAIM, I hear a lot of recomendations for Adium.
I'm curious if you've toyed with the touchpads on mac laptops. I know it sounds horribly biased, but I swear there is a difference between them, and I can't stand PC touchpads but love the touchpad on my powerbook.
Then again, I can't stand the trackpoints in general either.
He wasn't saying the remote is a bad thing, he was saying putting the ONLY display on the remote was a bad thing.
Couple points:
1) Apple does release patches for the most recent previous version. So 10.2 is still being patched.
2) 10.0 - 10.1 was free
3) Apple has issued statements to the fact that the upgrade cycle will be slowing down. Indeed evidence of this can be seen in the fact that 10.4 isn't due out for another 6 months at minimum.
Snap judgements on my character do not suit you. It's not OK for the president to freeze. It is ok for the president to take a few moments before he leaps into action. He can't act anyway until he has more information, he might as well take the time to prepare himself. If it had been any other man, Gore, Clinton, Reagan, Bush Sr. or The Devil himself, my response would be the same. Taking 5 minutes to compose yourself while you await information is not the same as freezing and is not indicative of a lack of leadership
It's not a recall so much as a free extended waranty. There are plenty of people who have books that fall in this model range and don't have the problems. What this is, is a statement that there is a design flaw in these models and if your computer is afflicted with the problems that can be caused by this flaw, you get a repair even if you're long out of waranty.
Generaly speaking Apple accumulates and collects data on which machines are being reported to have problems and then has to narrow down what the problem is. Once they have the problem narrowed down to sofware vs hardware, then they need to determine which models or batches of computers are affected.
Once that is complete, Apple usualy issues a repair program for any of the computers in the range of systems with a problem, and offers reimbursements to anyone who has previously paid for a repair of the problem from Apple or an AARC.
And then what? What would he have done next except wait 5 minutes anyways while the secret service figured out where they were moving him to and established communications?
And do you think he was processing information? What was there to process?
Absolutely nothing. There was no information at that time. And the 5 minutes he took to finish what he came to do provided no new information.
He needed to get out of there and in communication to get some information to process.
And he wasn't going anywhere until the Secret Service OK'd a movement plan. So why not finish what you're doing istead of waiting around outside in the hall.
Face it - he was lost. He froze. He was the antithesis of leadership. He was irresolute, unless he was so determined to finish "My Pet Goat" that an act of war couldn't pull him away. As I understand the man, he's not a big reader.
Face it, he had no information, no way of getting new information and no where to go until the Secret Service was ready to move. So he did what he should have done and finsihed what he came to do.
The larger problem is that people don't realize just how impotent the president is. The presidents powers are as follows:
Commander in Chief of the military.
Granting of pardons.
Appoint all governmental offices not provided for in the constitution including judges, ambassadors etc.
Fill vacancies in congress.
Commission officers.
Provide for the execution of the law.
Veto power
Nothing in there would change what happened. We seem to expect our presidents to be all powerful, but they aren't. The real power in the government is at the lower levels. It is that way by design. I will say it again, the president has no real power in 90% of the governmental activities.
Nowhere, I was just making the point that you were wrong when you said that he couldn't go anywhere
The game of semantics is fun to play, but you know damn well what I meant.
What's the point of having a president, with presidential powers, a figure head and symbolic leader for a country, if all he gives all his responsibilities to others?
What power did he give to others that he could have used? Again WHAT COULD HE HAVE DONE. You treat it as if he was dumbstruck, I say he realized there was nothing he could do for the time being so he should finish what he came to do. You are implying that he could have done something that he let someone else do, so what could he have done?
You've never served in the army have you... it's an infantry expression.
Air Force actualy.
Leaders, at the very least, are meant to be seen to be doing something.
He was doing someting. He was waiting for information to be compiled and he was finishing what he had come to the school for, and I'll bet you a metric shit ton of money he was thinking about responses and considering what could be going on.
The WTC being hit by a plane is very serious, terrorism or no.
Yes, but the president can not do anything about that. That's what we pay law enforcement and the military response teams (which operate independantly of the president) to do.
You say the delegation of all of this authority is a bad thing, I say it's a very good thing. What happens if the plane didn't hit the WTC instead it hit the school, and killed the president and everyone inside. But the president is the only one who can authoize the actions. Concentrated power is a bad thing to be used only in limited circumstances. At the begining of a crisis, the president has very little to do for the exact reason that if the president is killed, the government can still function. The more critical and imediate a response should be, the closer to ground zero the command should be. In this case, having to wait for all of your response decisions in NY to come from the Whitehouse causes more people to die. As it is, if you read the timelines you can see why it is that we don't want to wait for things to go all the way to the top before we move. The concept is the same as reflexs. Your reflex actions don't come from your brain, they come from your spine to speed the process. Same thing here.
Either Bush was unable to grasp the importance of that particular building, or he is so dependent on his staff that he had no friggin' clue that it would be an appropriate time to stop pretending to love children in front of the cameras
Or he realized that with no current information and the Secret Service working on making sure he had a way out, that there was nothing he could do right now except stay calm and keep doing what he was doing.
He sat there with a bored/uncertain expression... and did nothing until someone told him to. That what is means to wait for instructions.
You're damn right he sat there with an uncertain expression. No one had any information, no one knew for sure what was going on, and he was going to have to piece it all together and lead the country through it all. He did a damn go
Bad analogy. As the IT boss, you're still an underling, much like one of the 4 stars. They're head honchos to be sure, but they aren't the top of the food chain. A more apt anology would be a major systems failure, and the Secretary of the CEO telling the CEO about it, while the CEO is talking to a client about his latest investment in the company. Were I the CEO, I would finish as much of the conversation as I could, trusting that all the money I pay to these people to run things smoothly is not being wasted. If the situation changes such that I am truely urgently needed myself, I expect to be told that.
The fact of the matter is, like in the situation of the CEO there was nothing the president or the CEO could do themselves at that imediate moment. If he was needed imediately, that would have been conveyed, but since there was no information, he was not needed yet. As for the pilots, yes some of them did wait for orders, but those orders do not come from the president. Again, all of this stuff is designed to be automated and run independantly of the president.
So pray tell then, what would you have done that would have made a difference?
Yeah... he's got a car.
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But where will he go? The threat is from the skies, so AF1 is out untill they can get some clear airspace. But the threats are targeting buildings, so moving him to some official building might not be the best idea either.
The aid whispered a few words
"Sir, another plane has hit the World Trade Centers, please stay here while we clear a route"
Okay, but I would expect a leader to excuse themselves, and get on a cell-phone... at the very least.
And do what? There's a saying called "hurry up and wait" it especialy big in the government, where it seems you're always hurrying to get somewhere or do something only to have to wait for someone else. In this case, the president would have gotten on the phone and known what? That another plane had hit the WTC. That we still didn't know who, what, where or why. Information takes time to converge to a single location, which is one of the reasons responses to this situation are largely automated.
And the president pretended to read a kids story while he awaited instructions
And you know he was waiting for instructions because? How do you know he wasn't waiting for information? How do you know he wasn't told to stay put. Remember that when there is concern for the president's life, the Secret Service overrides his decisions of movement.
Well, why don't you think about what it means that Bush did nothing for 9min, even though , apart from having defined and limited power, as written in the constitution, he is the figure-head and leader of the country
And I'm still waiting for you to tell me what he should or could have done that would have had any impact on anything that day.
Perhaps organize a press conference
Ah yes, instead of reading to kids from a book, he can read to the press from a script. Ignoring for the moment that those preparations are done automaticaly, and he is not the one that organizes them, what would he have told the press that they didnt' already know?
Find out who's investigating the problem, and make sure that it's appropriate
The system is automated, he knows who's investigating and what they're doing.
Find out if he's required in a legal role (do I need to press a red button?), and prepare for it
In order to do that, you first need information. Was this a foreign attack, are these our planes, who did it, how, are there more? He had and would not have had before those 5 minutes any of that information. The very question "Do I need to press the red button" requires knowing who you're pressing it in response to.
See if there's anything that _he_ can do, both as a president and as a person
Like what? The Secret Service won't let him anywhere near where he could get hurt, he's hundreds of miles away from any of the casualty sites. What can he do as a person other than complete his obligation to the children he came to see? As much as it was a staged photo-op, those children were told they were going to see the president. There was nothing he personaly could have done as a person or president at that time except ensure those children got the most out of the visit they could. After all, it was likely the last good time they would have for the day.
Give us the illusion that he's doing some work
Even better. Rather than continue with his schedule until there's more information, you would rather him stop what he's doing and tread water pretending to do that which he isn't. Brilliant.
The very fact that so many people are arguing over it is evidence that pretending to read a kids story is considered too lame for a leader of a country.
The very fact that so many people are arguing over it is evidence that the american public on the whole is a bunch of picky, petty schizophrenic shit heads who wouldn't know leadership from a pile of dog shit if their lives depended on it. If the worst travesty that Bush comitted was sitting still for 5 minutes, then you people really are reaching.
I did watch the video. And bush did exactly what I would have done. Surely you don't think the president had the ability to imediately get up and leave. Routes had to be cleared information had to be processed and things set in motion before he could leave. Furthermore, you don't know what the aide said to him. For all you know, the aide spoke of actions that were already underway. Without any imediate action to be taken, I too would have continued for a while until there was more information availible. Remember, at the time, two planes had hit, and that was all we knew.
You are perfectly correct on one thing. The president does not run the whole show. It's designed that way on purpose (read the constitution) and there is NOTHING the president himself could have done in those 5 minutes that would have changed history at all.
A great leader would have been... "great"; Bush was completely lame.
And what pray tell would this "great" leader do?
I would rather the CIC freeze for a couple minutes and process information rather than blindly jump scream "HOLY SHIT KIDS WE"RE GOING TO FUCKING DIE!" and run out of the room screaming "LAUNCH THE NUKES. FLATTEN THOSE BASTARDS"
No expense spared? No task to hard? You've obviously never been within 100 miles of a military unit.
And it's not the business' job to make sure you can eat.
So what you're saying is freemarket is working the way it's supposed to, and since they aren't getting the same thing, they're losing money on it. Which means that when the stock holders come demanding their profits, someone will realize they need a better work force.
Guess that means one should find a different job than a comodity position huh? Let's face it the brave new world of computer programing is not a specialty field any more when highschoolers can do it in their free time.
Obviously corporate america is suffering from it, else Dell would not have brought checks of their support centers back. Nothing pisses me off more than a person who complains about outsourcing and then continues to buy from a company that does so.