No virtualization? "Home" users don't virtualize, with one exception - To save having to multiboot into Linux (and those fall into the extreme minority). Thus, this limitation amounts to "no painlessly trying out Linux allowed".
People getting Intel-based Macs might want to virtualize, especially if they're switching from Windows and want the safety net. This will force them to buy the more expensive version to install in Parallels Desktop.
Of course, a lightweight guest OS is better to virtualize anyway, and XP is bad enough. 2000 would probably be my first choice for a Windows guest OS, given the option.
I paid an early disconnect fee to Slashdot's favorite DSL provider, Speakeasy.
I was 8 months into a 1 year contract when I moved 4 miles within a major California city. I setup a move order with Speakeasy to move my DSL, but Covad bailed on it. I tried to see if there was any way to get out of the fee (arguing that at least I tried) but wasn't successful. So I disconnected, paid the fee (it is in the contract, you pay if you cancel within the first year of signing up), chalked it up as a moving expense (not for tax purposes mind you, just in my own head), and got cable Internet instead. Funny thing, when I later called AT&T to see if they thought DSL was possible, they thought it wouldn't be a problem.
Re:There'll be a market for converter boxes.
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Converter boxes work for television because its a one way data stream, and typically you only care about one at a time. They take the signal from the digital channel you select, covert it to analog NTSC, and squirt it out to your TV on Channel 3 or whatever. It's also one-way, any sort of data that needs to go back to the cable company is probably out-of-band, probably over IP (IPv6 in the case of Comcast, 10.0.0.0/8 was just too small an address space for them).
IPv4 NAT works because the address size and packet format is the same. All the router has to do is convert between private LAN and a public WAN address, and change port numbers around. NAT would work with IPv6 too. What will be troublesome is going from IPv4 on the LAN to IPv6 on the WAN, since the address field just isn't big enough to hold your destination IP address. The source host needs to fill in the final destination's public WAN address, and if its an IPv6 address, it's just not going to fit. You could but in your router's LAN IPv4 address, but now you've just switched your NAT around: From the perspective of your LAN hosts, the entire Internet is behind a NAT router, and you can only reach hosts that you've provided a static mapping in the router for.
IPv6 on the LAN and IPv4 on the WAN actually would work, since IPv6 provides a format for expressing IPv4 host addresses, the router when making the translation would be able to convert the addresses, as long as the IPv6 hosts use a destination host's IPv4 address, not IPv6 (unless the WAN supported IPv6 as well).
The better migration solution is dual-stack, where hosts have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. The major operating systems seem to have support for it (Linux, Mac OS X, Vista, and I think XP). When a host does a DNS query, it can get back both A (IPv4) and AAAA (IPv6) addresses. If an AAAA address is available, then it can use IPv6, otherwise it will use IPv4.
There's no reason you can't use IPv6 NAT, but there's no real reason to. Address space isn't an issue, and you can obtain the same security benefits with a firewall.
Does anyone remember how a couple months ago it would take 30 mins to emerge --sync, with the disk crunching the whole time (at least on my machine)?
I do. Only on my machine, a 160MHz PowerPC 603ev, it took hours. As I recall, it had something to do with the KDE ebuilds, and it took a while to get released to stable, but a Portage update ultimately fixed it.
The review is of the X60s, not the X60 as the article summary implies. Subtle difference in name but as the article notes they are different models. X60 replaces the X31 and X60s replaces the X41.
Of course, nobody around here expects the summary to be correct.;)
From today's perspective it's clear that you can't fit a trackball into a decently thin laptop.
I'm not sure how to define "decently thin", but Apple had a trackball in the 1.4" thick PowerBook Duos in 1992. To compare, the ThinkPad X60 (not the X60s this article reviewed) stands nearly an inch and a half off the table at the rear. My 2001-era 500MHz white iBook is also just about 1.375", so I'd say even by todays standards 1.4" is still decently thin. It's not exactly ultraslim, but it's still competitive with current products. To be fair, the Duo's trackball was pretty small, I recall hearing it described as a "trackmarble" when it was new.
FWIW, I don't care much for the trackpoint and typically prefer trackpads. However, the only trackpad I really like is Apple's, the times I have had to use Dell's I haven't been impressed, so I can see why people would get a negative impression of trackpads. I usually wind up using an external mouse if I'm going to be using a PC laptop for an extended period of time.
I'm not saying that's what happened, after all it's up to the writers to try and explain this one. I'm just responding to the "it doesn't make sense" comment of the post I replied to. And at least one of them (Kang) could afford it on a captain's salary, as he appeared as a "normal" Klingon in Voyager (though that was only in Tuvok's memory, so in theory he could have appeared as a human-Klingon but Tuvok eventually remembers it as a normal Klingon.
And of course they know about plastic surgery. Worf described Arne Darvin as a "Klingon altered to look human" and of course, who can forget Kirk's Romulan ears in "The Enterprise Incident"?
Of course, it's all just fandom speculation. There is no correct answer until Paramount puts light to celluloid.
Actually, there were three: Kor (Errand of Mercy), Kang (Day of the Dove), and Koloth (The Trouble With Tribbles). Do you really think they don't have plastic surgery in the 24th Century?
Also make sure that users store documents not in their roaming profile (C:\Documents and Settings\Somebody\My Documents or whatever) or on their desktop (which is also in the profile) but on a separate SMB share that gets automatically mounted at login.
Odd thing is, Tiger (if you buy it as an upgrade) claims PowerPC compatibility only, and yet it is being offered with the new Mac Pros.
The retail version is, AFAIK, PowerPC only. The only way to get the Intel version is to buy an Intel Mac. Not much reason to sell the Intel version of Tiger retail, since everyone who has an Intel Mac already has it. The only people I can think of that would benefit from a retail version of Intel Tiger would be those trying to install it on non-Apple PCs.
I agree that Vista does look better than XP's ugly Fisher-Price blue, puke green, and weird silver themes. That's with Vista installed on a box with a weak video card (64MB GeForce4 MX 440), so no Aero for me.
Tiger's still better.
Re:Internet Connection Losing CSS data??? WTF???
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No GUI-centric OS to me has ever substituted fully or completely for a command line, either in usefulness or effectiveness, even on basic things.
Mac OS through version 9 did quite well with no command line whatsoever. Only extreme cases that no normal person should need to encounter (MacsBug, Open Firmware) would you be faced with something that even remotely resembled a command line.
They nominated The Onion in the news site category? And it won the Humor category? Does their left mouse button not know what their right mouse button is doing?
How about making bug fixes easier to get while they're at it? Ever since OS X 10.4.4, the eUpdate client will claim that the update failed, even though it actually succeeded. They have an update for it, but you have to go through tech support to get it.
On Windows and Mac, most users are likely using the binaries provided by Mozilla, and so the binary diff should work fine. Linux I imagine less are, since many distributions might provide slightly different builds for their environment. In these cases, the distribution should provide an updated version through their normal update channels.
Sounds like the old My MP3.com service, where you could put your music CD in the computer, and a special program would contact MP3.com and add that CD to your account. Then you could stream the music to whatever Internet-connected computer you happened to be at, without having to bring your CD's with you. It cost nothing, the idea being that by inserting the CD into the computer, you proved that you owned a copy of the music.
The RIAA hated it, and sued MP3.com into oblivion.
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You mean like this ATM?
People getting Intel-based Macs might want to virtualize, especially if they're switching from Windows and want the safety net. This will force them to buy the more expensive version to install in Parallels Desktop.
Of course, a lightweight guest OS is better to virtualize anyway, and XP is bad enough. 2000 would probably be my first choice for a Windows guest OS, given the option.
I paid an early disconnect fee to Slashdot's favorite DSL provider, Speakeasy.
I was 8 months into a 1 year contract when I moved 4 miles within a major California city. I setup a move order with Speakeasy to move my DSL, but Covad bailed on it. I tried to see if there was any way to get out of the fee (arguing that at least I tried) but wasn't successful. So I disconnected, paid the fee (it is in the contract, you pay if you cancel within the first year of signing up), chalked it up as a moving expense (not for tax purposes mind you, just in my own head), and got cable Internet instead. Funny thing, when I later called AT&T to see if they thought DSL was possible, they thought it wouldn't be a problem.
Converter boxes work for television because its a one way data stream, and typically you only care about one at a time. They take the signal from the digital channel you select, covert it to analog NTSC, and squirt it out to your TV on Channel 3 or whatever. It's also one-way, any sort of data that needs to go back to the cable company is probably out-of-band, probably over IP (IPv6 in the case of Comcast, 10.0.0.0/8 was just too small an address space for them).
IPv4 NAT works because the address size and packet format is the same. All the router has to do is convert between private LAN and a public WAN address, and change port numbers around. NAT would work with IPv6 too. What will be troublesome is going from IPv4 on the LAN to IPv6 on the WAN, since the address field just isn't big enough to hold your destination IP address. The source host needs to fill in the final destination's public WAN address, and if its an IPv6 address, it's just not going to fit. You could but in your router's LAN IPv4 address, but now you've just switched your NAT around: From the perspective of your LAN hosts, the entire Internet is behind a NAT router, and you can only reach hosts that you've provided a static mapping in the router for.
IPv6 on the LAN and IPv4 on the WAN actually would work, since IPv6 provides a format for expressing IPv4 host addresses, the router when making the translation would be able to convert the addresses, as long as the IPv6 hosts use a destination host's IPv4 address, not IPv6 (unless the WAN supported IPv6 as well).
The better migration solution is dual-stack, where hosts have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. The major operating systems seem to have support for it (Linux, Mac OS X, Vista, and I think XP). When a host does a DNS query, it can get back both A (IPv4) and AAAA (IPv6) addresses. If an AAAA address is available, then it can use IPv6, otherwise it will use IPv4.
There's no reason you can't use IPv6 NAT, but there's no real reason to. Address space isn't an issue, and you can obtain the same security benefits with a firewall.
I do. Only on my machine, a 160MHz PowerPC 603ev, it took hours. As I recall, it had something to do with the KDE ebuilds, and it took a while to get released to stable, but a Portage update ultimately fixed it.
He uses EarthLink. :P
The review is of the X60s, not the X60 as the article summary implies. Subtle difference in name but as the article notes they are different models. X60 replaces the X31 and X60s replaces the X41.
;)
Of course, nobody around here expects the summary to be correct.
I'm not sure how to define "decently thin", but Apple had a trackball in the 1.4" thick PowerBook Duos in 1992. To compare, the ThinkPad X60 (not the X60s this article reviewed) stands nearly an inch and a half off the table at the rear. My 2001-era 500MHz white iBook is also just about 1.375", so I'd say even by todays standards 1.4" is still decently thin. It's not exactly ultraslim, but it's still competitive with current products. To be fair, the Duo's trackball was pretty small, I recall hearing it described as a "trackmarble" when it was new.
FWIW, I don't care much for the trackpoint and typically prefer trackpads. However, the only trackpad I really like is Apple's, the times I have had to use Dell's I haven't been impressed, so I can see why people would get a negative impression of trackpads. I usually wind up using an external mouse if I'm going to be using a PC laptop for an extended period of time.
I'm not saying that's what happened, after all it's up to the writers to try and explain this one. I'm just responding to the "it doesn't make sense" comment of the post I replied to. And at least one of them (Kang) could afford it on a captain's salary, as he appeared as a "normal" Klingon in Voyager (though that was only in Tuvok's memory, so in theory he could have appeared as a human-Klingon but Tuvok eventually remembers it as a normal Klingon.
And of course they know about plastic surgery. Worf described Arne Darvin as a "Klingon altered to look human" and of course, who can forget Kirk's Romulan ears in "The Enterprise Incident"?
Of course, it's all just fandom speculation. There is no correct answer until Paramount puts light to celluloid.
Actually, there were three: Kor (Errand of Mercy), Kang (Day of the Dove), and Koloth (The Trouble With Tribbles). Do you really think they don't have plastic surgery in the 24th Century?
Also make sure that users store documents not in their roaming profile (C:\Documents and Settings\Somebody\My Documents or whatever) or on their desktop (which is also in the profile) but on a separate SMB share that gets automatically mounted at login.
Southwest was selling tickets online in 1996, beating easyJet by about a year.
http://www.southwest.com/about_swa/airborne.html
Odd thing is, Tiger (if you buy it as an upgrade) claims PowerPC compatibility only, and yet it is being offered with the new Mac Pros.
The retail version is, AFAIK, PowerPC only. The only way to get the Intel version is to buy an Intel Mac. Not much reason to sell the Intel version of Tiger retail, since everyone who has an Intel Mac already has it. The only people I can think of that would benefit from a retail version of Intel Tiger would be those trying to install it on non-Apple PCs.
I agree that Vista does look better than XP's ugly Fisher-Price blue, puke green, and weird silver themes. That's with Vista installed on a box with a weak video card (64MB GeForce4 MX 440), so no Aero for me.
Tiger's still better.
hmmm... HTTP over UDP. That might be fun.
They're usually called autorefractors.
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http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-an-autorefractor.
With Apple going to Intel I'm frankly waiting (with baited breath) for VMWare to come out with a version for OS X [Intel]
Have you looked at Parallels Desktop? It much like VMWare Workstation, but cheaper.
No GUI-centric OS to me has ever substituted fully or completely for a command line, either in usefulness or effectiveness, even on basic things.
Mac OS through version 9 did quite well with no command line whatsoever. Only extreme cases that no normal person should need to encounter (MacsBug, Open Firmware) would you be faced with something that even remotely resembled a command line.
Sadly, this is the most obvious missing feature I've found when trying to use VMWare Player. And I use it in Workstation quite often.
But OS X is. :)
But isn't he also responsible for Fox News, the network that presents two sides* to every story?
* the two sides being the President's side and the Vice President's side
They nominated The Onion in the news site category? And it won the Humor category? Does their left mouse button not know what their right mouse button is doing?
How about making bug fixes easier to get while they're at it? Ever since OS X 10.4.4, the eUpdate client will claim that the update failed, even though it actually succeeded. They have an update for it, but you have to go through tech support to get it.
S AL_Public.html
http://knowledge.mcafee.com/article/86/KB46270_f.
On Windows and Mac, most users are likely using the binaries provided by Mozilla, and so the binary diff should work fine. Linux I imagine less are, since many distributions might provide slightly different builds for their environment. In these cases, the distribution should provide an updated version through their normal update channels.
Sounds like the old My MP3.com service, where you could put your music CD in the computer, and a special program would contact MP3.com and add that CD to your account. Then you could stream the music to whatever Internet-connected computer you happened to be at, without having to bring your CD's with you. It cost nothing, the idea being that by inserting the CD into the computer, you proved that you owned a copy of the music.
The RIAA hated it, and sued MP3.com into oblivion.