Great you're doing this. I would create a restricted 'visitor' account (see Accounts pane in the preferences), and back up the account's home folder on each machine (or simply once, centrally). Then run a nightly script to revert the home folder to it's original state. That's better than disallowing write access completely -- it is very useful if a user wants to download some file (which always goes to the desktop by default) - and maybe print / burn / e-mail it!
The user configuration (i.e. the fact that the user actually exists and what is home dir is etc.) is stored in a NetInfo database -- the NetInfo manager is your friend. But you shouldn't need it if you create the account manually on the machine.
Also, remove stuff like Apple Mail, which is of no use on a shared account.
I agree with an earlier suggestion here to call your restricted account "sheep".:-)
Sure, I'd love that too if I were a sys admin, but the M$ way would probably be to VPN there, then for example do what you need to do with the registry editor. Or use PC Anywhere. I'm sure there are other ways (but I'm a Mac geek, so don't ask me).
the fact that apple delivers a better costumer experience has much more to do with vertical integration (hardware + OS + drivers + application) rather than the fact that they embrace open source.
what open source did for apple was that they could provide a whole bunch of services in a compatible, attractive fashion that would have been very costly to develop. M$ doesn't really need that, they have their own services (web server, file server, databases etc) already.
1. the word for 'sweet' is 'süß', female form 'süße', which is probably the form you're talking about. You pronounce it z-ü-s-e, and the umlaut ü is somewhere in between u and e. In SuSE, however, you have an 'u', so this pronounced like ooh. Very different indeed.
2. The letter ß translates to an unvoiced S, which is different from the two voiced S in the pronounciation of SuSE.
I would pronounce SuSE like this:
z-ooh-z-a
(with stress on first syllable and the a at the end being a very short "schwa".)
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You might want to join the Anticapslock community:-)
i send them via Apple Address Book -- the cellphone is connected via Bluetooth. Much more covenient, and those 80.000 messages seem perfectly possible:-)
i bet my friends sometime wonder how i can reply with texts with elaborate grammar seconds after they text me...
I have solved the problem in Emacs with a customization package: it defines Apple-C and Apple-V, because I found it too annoying on my Mac. It also doesn't put marked text automatically into the clipboard (or whatever the emacs folks call it: kill-ring). you can get a package here.
well, that may well be true, but I wouldn't say you're getting screwed. Your insurance rate is down, the environment less heavily polluted. So, in fact, the insurance companies are getting screwed in the U.S.!
Uuh. We need this here. To fill up my small European car is about 35-40 Euros. That's around USD 45-50. Diesel is marginally cheaper. Oh and that's Ireland. The other European countries have even higher taxes on gas.
(But the thing is: it gets you do drive less or to use fuels that don't hurt the environment. What about this bio-diesel? Same pollution?)
Canon is known for this mark-up, and you're right: it's annoying too.
The difference between a camera and a song is, though, that the transaction called "buying a camera" involves the transfer of a physical object (the packaged camera), while buying a song means to transfer information and a issuing a license to use it. No shipping -> location doesn't matter as much -> price difference much harder to explain to customer.
both prices seem inacceptable - given the current exchange rate, a song should not be more than about 0.85 euros, or 1 euro max (to round it up).
The price difference is very evident in times when the American prices at iTMS are just one click away. Ripping off customers is the wrong signal for both stores, and for the music industry. Will they ever learn?
While most programming languages are turing-equivalent, they do shape the way we THINK about a problem.
What strikes me in this contest is that it's not problem solving that is asked for, but "thinking in a procedural or object-oriented way".
Contrary to the original post, I CANNOT use my "favorite" development environment. My favorite environment is the one that suits the task, and for many tasks, I prefer to use Prolog. The fact that they exclude logic formlisms and also the Internet as today's vital research medium means that this is not about solving novel (and hard) problems, but more about the old compare high school student's skills when given a well-known problem in a very restricted environment.
Gates is talking the same kind of BS that we've been hearing from 'visionary' "scientists" for around three decades now, and exactly what makes life hard for me and colleagues that try to get computers to do something useful (or fun) with natural language.
Gates and other marketing experts are managing expectations in the wrong direction. They promise something that they cannot realize. What common people understand when Gates talks about "real speech recognition" is a computer that will analyze your input in a noisy environment (where it matters most: out on the street!), contextualize it with what you've said before and with what's on the screen and with all the things that we call 'common sense', and then react accordingly.
A lot of these things are possible in very limited, well-modelled domains. But not in applications for 'real users' that deal with a variety of information. And it won't be there in ten years. There are many hard problems to solve, both in defining what is actually linguistically the case or how to learn it from a corpus, and how to implement processes that happen in parallel in our brains on sequential machines.
It doesn't help if Gates and co promise the world and hope that their scientists will deliver.
Give Papyrus from ROM Logicware a try. They have a native OS X version out that looks really nice is is pretty fast. Word import is so-so, though... i don't know if they have an English demo as well, if not, try the German one.
I like role playing, too.
I'm German (and native German speaker), I've spent some time in the U.S. when I was around 16-17, now, at the age of 26, I've been living in Ireland. Most people will know that the Irish accents are pretty distinctive (non-linguistics might say that every sentence sounds a bit like a complaint).
I have found that most Americans that I talk to guess that I am Irish, or at least they say that I have an Irish accent. Most Irish people say that my accent is American. A couple of months ago all around the world in Oz, some cab driver guessed after five minutes: are you from Ireland?
In most cases, when people talk to me for more than a few minutes, they wonder where I'm from, as they can't tell.
It's strange, how adaptive we are. I assume that the fact that I'm not a native speaker helps me in adapting. For example, in my native German, I didn't assume a Berlin accent after four years there.
Sure - there is no 'high/pure language' outthere. Everything else is linugistics aristocracy.
The archive is an example of the great variety among L2 English speakers (those who didn't acquire the language 'naturally' before the age of about 13).
However, the meta-data about the speakers collected seems somewhat insufficient, and if you would actually want to use the corpus scientifically, you would want a greater consistency among the samples: only people that haven't lived outside of their original region and learned English 'academically', for example. The phonetic transcriptions, however, seem very useful!
hmm, haven't used it in a while, but doesn't Konquerer share its rendering code base with safari? and haven't the Apple developers done great work on safari / WebCore? i use Safari all the time, and pretty much all pages render fine, just like in Mozilla and IE 6.0/Win -- very unlike Konquerer in the old days (pre-WebCore), indeed!
I seriously doubt that a performance improvement 10% is even noticeable to the user. It's great that Mozilla is trying to catch up with fast browse-only alternatives like Safari, Konqueror and also the Gecko-based browsers, but you can't seriously speak of 'dramatic' improvements.
Well, since you're quoting IBM -- this company was at the brink of death in the early nineties. IBM was a giant but blown-up, strong but immobile elephant. Company procedures and employee attitudes where about to kill it. I can recommend Lou Gerstner's book Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?... Gerstner took over as CEO back then and is responsible for IBM's successful turnaround. But that doesn't mean its success will last forever...
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Mac OS X users could alternatively safe the money and read a description of how to enable postfix on OS X for free in ten minutes. In Panther, it's just one or two lines in configuration files, essentially. If you want SASL authentication and other things, the nicely-designed GUI of Postfix Enabler is probably worth a few bucks!
I use a locally running postfix SMTP server on my laptop to send pretty much all of my email. Microsoft's proposal doesn't address this: of course, my laptop gets various IPs. I cannot use the SMTP server provided by my organization, as they firewalled it... With the MS proposal, I will have to go for VPN or talk to my sysadmins about smtp-auth -- and lose my independence...
Don't know what your problem is. I never had problems installing an update, I never crashed my machine completely with an official Apple OS X system, or with third-party applications. I never had a virus, and no security breaches either. Now, from my (too) many years of Windows computing (95, NT, 2000), I do know what a crash, a virus or the common 'system slowdown'/DLL hell looks like.
Maybe your friend was messing around with system files, deleting things from/System or/Library??
Let's say, I haven't put up my real e-mail address at all. Instead, there is a form (and a well-filtered e-mail address in an image file). Also, I never enter my real e-mail address into any web forms or use it to post messages on usenet. For these occasions, I have a secondary address that gets changed every now and then.
This way, I have reduced my spam to an absolute minimum. The secondary address is automatically filed into the trash in my mail client, so I just have to check the trash once a day or so to see if there are any interesting e-mails, for example stuff on mailing lists. Just browing through these is no pain at all, and if I want, I can still have a lough with "Joseph Makle: Dept of Minerals and Engery, South Africa" offering me some $15M for a transaction...
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Great you're doing this.
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I would create a restricted 'visitor' account (see Accounts pane in the preferences), and back up the account's home folder on each machine (or simply once, centrally). Then run a nightly script to revert the home folder to it's original state. That's better than disallowing write access completely -- it is very useful if a user wants to download some file (which always goes to the desktop by default) - and maybe print / burn / e-mail it!
The user configuration (i.e. the fact that the user actually exists and what is home dir is etc.) is stored in a NetInfo database -- the NetInfo manager is your friend. But you shouldn't need it if you create the account manually on the machine.
Also, remove stuff like Apple Mail, which is of no use on a shared account.
I agree with an earlier suggestion here to call your restricted account "sheep".
Sure, I'd love that too if I were a sys admin, but the M$ way would probably be to VPN there, then for example do what you need to do with the registry editor. Or use PC Anywhere. I'm sure there are other ways (but I'm a Mac geek, so don't ask me).
the fact that apple delivers a better costumer experience has much more to do with vertical integration (hardware + OS + drivers + application) rather than the fact that they embrace open source.
what open source did for apple was that they could provide a whole bunch of services in a compatible, attractive fashion that would have been very costly to develop. M$ doesn't really need that, they have their own services (web server, file server, databases etc) already.
sorry, but...
1. the word for 'sweet' is 'süß', female form 'süße', which is probably the form you're talking about. You pronounce it z-ü-s-e, and the umlaut ü is somewhere in between u and e. In SuSE, however, you have an 'u', so this pronounced like ooh. Very different indeed.
2. The letter ß translates to an unvoiced S, which is different from the two voiced S in the pronounciation of SuSE.
I would pronounce SuSE like this:
z-ooh-z-a
(with stress on first syllable and the a at the end being a very short "schwa".)
You might want to join the Anticapslock community :-)
i send them via Apple Address Book -- the cellphone is connected via Bluetooth. Much more covenient, and those 80.000 messages seem perfectly possible :-)
i bet my friends sometime wonder how i can reply with texts with elaborate grammar seconds after they text me...
I have solved the problem in Emacs with a customization package: it defines Apple-C and Apple-V, because I found it too annoying on my Mac. It also doesn't put marked text automatically into the clipboard (or whatever the emacs folks call it: kill-ring). you can get a package here.
well, that may well be true, but I wouldn't say you're getting screwed. Your insurance rate is down, the environment less heavily polluted. So, in fact, the insurance companies are getting screwed in the U.S.!
Uuh. We need this here. To fill up my small European car is about 35-40 Euros. That's around USD 45-50. Diesel is marginally cheaper. Oh and that's Ireland. The other European countries have even higher taxes on gas.
(But the thing is: it gets you do drive less or to use fuels that don't hurt the environment. What about this bio-diesel? Same pollution?)
Canon is known for this mark-up, and you're right: it's annoying too.
The difference between a camera and a song is, though, that the transaction called "buying a camera" involves the transfer of a physical object (the packaged camera), while buying a song means to transfer information and a issuing a license to use it. No shipping -> location doesn't matter as much -> price difference much harder to explain to customer.
both prices seem inacceptable - given the current exchange rate, a song should not be more than about 0.85 euros, or 1 euro max (to round it up).
The price difference is very evident in times when the American prices at iTMS are just one click away. Ripping off customers is the wrong signal for both stores, and for the music industry. Will they ever learn?
While most programming languages are turing-equivalent, they do shape the way we THINK about a problem.
What strikes me in this contest is that it's not problem solving that is asked for, but "thinking in a procedural or object-oriented way".
Contrary to the original post, I CANNOT use my "favorite" development environment. My favorite environment is the one that suits the task, and for many tasks, I prefer to use Prolog. The fact that they exclude logic formlisms and also the Internet as today's vital research medium means that this is not about solving novel (and hard) problems, but more about the old compare high school student's skills when given a well-known problem in a very restricted environment.
Gates is talking the same kind of BS that we've been hearing from 'visionary' "scientists" for around three decades now, and exactly what makes life hard for me and colleagues that try to get computers to do something useful (or fun) with natural language.
Gates and other marketing experts are managing expectations in the wrong direction. They promise something that they cannot realize. What common people understand when Gates talks about "real speech recognition" is a computer that will analyze your input in a noisy environment (where it matters most: out on the street!), contextualize it with what you've said before and with what's on the screen and with all the things that we call 'common sense', and then react accordingly.
A lot of these things are possible in very limited, well-modelled domains. But not in applications for 'real users' that deal with a variety of information. And it won't be there in ten years. There are many hard problems to solve, both in defining what is actually linguistically the case or how to learn it from a corpus, and how to implement processes that happen in parallel in our brains on sequential machines.
It doesn't help if Gates and co promise the world and hope that their scientists will deliver.
Give Papyrus from ROM Logicware a try. They have a native OS X version out that looks really nice is is pretty fast. Word import is so-so, though... i don't know if they have an English demo as well, if not, try the German one.
I like role playing, too. I'm German (and native German speaker), I've spent some time in the U.S. when I was around 16-17, now, at the age of 26, I've been living in Ireland. Most people will know that the Irish accents are pretty distinctive (non-linguistics might say that every sentence sounds a bit like a complaint). I have found that most Americans that I talk to guess that I am Irish, or at least they say that I have an Irish accent. Most Irish people say that my accent is American. A couple of months ago all around the world in Oz, some cab driver guessed after five minutes: are you from Ireland? In most cases, when people talk to me for more than a few minutes, they wonder where I'm from, as they can't tell. It's strange, how adaptive we are. I assume that the fact that I'm not a native speaker helps me in adapting. For example, in my native German, I didn't assume a Berlin accent after four years there.
Sure - there is no 'high/pure language' outthere. Everything else is linugistics aristocracy. The archive is an example of the great variety among L2 English speakers (those who didn't acquire the language 'naturally' before the age of about 13). However, the meta-data about the speakers collected seems somewhat insufficient, and if you would actually want to use the corpus scientifically, you would want a greater consistency among the samples: only people that haven't lived outside of their original region and learned English 'academically', for example. The phonetic transcriptions, however, seem very useful!
hmm, haven't used it in a while, but doesn't Konquerer share its rendering code base with safari? and haven't the Apple developers done great work on safari / WebCore? i use Safari all the time, and pretty much all pages render fine, just like in Mozilla and IE 6.0/Win -- very unlike Konquerer in the old days (pre-WebCore), indeed!
I seriously doubt that a performance improvement 10% is even noticeable to the user. It's great that Mozilla is trying to catch up with fast browse-only alternatives like Safari, Konqueror and also the Gecko-based browsers, but you can't seriously speak of 'dramatic' improvements.
Well, since you're quoting IBM -- this company was at the brink of death in the early nineties. IBM was a giant but blown-up, strong but immobile elephant. Company procedures and employee attitudes where about to kill it. I can recommend Lou Gerstner's book Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?... Gerstner took over as CEO back then and is responsible for IBM's successful turnaround. But that doesn't mean its success will last forever...
Mac OS X users could alternatively safe the money and read a description of how to enable postfix on OS X for free in ten minutes. In Panther, it's just one or two lines in configuration files, essentially. If you want SASL authentication and other things, the nicely-designed GUI of Postfix Enabler is probably worth a few bucks!
I use a locally running postfix SMTP server on my laptop to send pretty much all of my email. Microsoft's proposal doesn't address this: of course, my laptop gets various IPs. I cannot use the SMTP server provided by my organization, as they firewalled it... With the MS proposal, I will have to go for VPN or talk to my sysadmins about smtp-auth -- and lose my independence...
My Word (Office X) crashes consistently when I try to view the document. Ridiculous. Can someone mirror the spec as PDF or HTML please?
Maybe your friend was messing around with system files, deleting things from /System or /Library??
Is that linux based system available for the WAP as well? (Dunno if it's got enough RAM & flash memory to run&store it...)
Let's say, I haven't put up my real e-mail address at all. Instead, there is a form (and a well-filtered e-mail address in an image file). Also, I never enter my real e-mail address into any web forms or use it to post messages on usenet. For these occasions, I have a secondary address that gets changed every now and then.
This way, I have reduced my spam to an absolute minimum. The secondary address is automatically filed into the trash in my mail client, so I just have to check the trash once a day or so to see if there are any interesting e-mails, for example stuff on mailing lists. Just browing through these is no pain at all, and if I want, I can still have a lough with "Joseph Makle: Dept of Minerals and Engery, South Africa" offering me some $15M for a transaction...