eMachines gives you a Symantec Ghost image of the hard drive in it's shipped configuration, in the case of my PC, split across three CDs. That means if I ever need to reinstall XP, I have to reimage the drive, losing any of my personal files, as well as the entire Linux partition.
I still have to use IE whenever I want to print something (odd that an MS product on the Mac would print better?), but that's about all.
I have found Mac IE has done a really nice job of printing. Firefox usually does a decent job, but every now and then I'm not happy with the way something comes out from Firefox, so I use IE. Windows IE and Netscape 4 weren't nearly as good.
Mac IE is actually a pretty decent browser. It is one of the best I can find for OS 9, as newer versions of Mozilla and Opera work only on OS X. It's reasonably standards compliant. But it doesn't do popup blocking or tabbed browsing.
Actually, there is a right way for that. IIRC, the people who first created the distribution named it after Deborah and Ian -- thus Deb-Ian or Debian. Ian is pronounced "ee-an", so it's "deb-ee-an". This is (was?) buried on the Debian website.
Whilest it's possible that they may eventually ditch BSD in favor of Linux if it looks like Linux will be beneficial for them, I doubt they will ever start shipping it as a stand-alone piece of software rather than a soft/hardware combo.
I can't see Apple switching from BSD to Linux. The problem is the license, conforming to the GPL would likely present more difficulties for Apple in building the closed-source components on top of than the BSD license does.
And technically, Mac OS X is sold as stand-alone software, but it won't run on anything but Apple hardware. If you're running Jaguar and want to upgrade to Panther, you go out to the store (or web site) and buy it.
That being said I rarely call tech support for anything other then my ISP is broken. Even then I've just about given up, when I telnet to the smtp port on my mailserver and it replies with an error message, they want me to reboot my computer.
I think I've figured it out. The tech support person doesn't have the slightest idea what is going on with their servers/routers, and isn't in a position of authority to do anything about it. Telling you to reboot, check all your settings, etc. is a stalling tactic, hoping that by the time you're done with all that nonsense, the people resopnsible will have actually fixed the problem. As a bonus, if it actually has been fixed, they get to make it look like the problem was on your end, not theirs.
AOL has owned ICQ for a few years now, and has made it so that they are essentially the same. Current versions of AIM and ICQ can talk to each other, they both use the OSCAR protocol and connect to the server on port 5190.
ICQ used to be a lot different. No groups for contacts. Messages can be sent while a user is offline (AIM doesn't have this -- it started out as a service within AOL, so if the user wasn't online, just send them email). Single message per window rather than a single window per contact.
It still offers many of these features as options, but more and more AIM and ICQ are looking a like. A lot like the difference between AOL and CompuServe.
Actually, it sounds like you were about normal. From what I remember from SFO (Terminal 1, Concourse C, used by Delta, Northwest, Hawaiian, and Sun Country) they check ID at security checkpoint three times. The first as you reach the checkpoint, then as you go through the metal detector, then again as you leave the checkpoint. If you were targeted you would have known it... they would have done a secondary search of you and/or your carry ons.
Luggage is the same. There has to be some sort of screening of checked luggage, and sometimes they do a simple manual search -- that's why they ask everyone to make sure their suitcase is unlocked before checking bags. Some airports have this process in-lined, so that everything looks normal and they check the suitcase after you check in. Others have small tables set up before the check in counter where a TSA agent will go through your suitcase. At others, you bring your suitcase to a TSA agent for a manual or CTX machine search after you check in.
You can usually tell if you're going to be targeted when you see markings like SSSS or similar on your boarding pass.
Meanwhile, I recommend a dinner of bean & cheese burritos and beer shortly before going thru a security point. "I fart in your general direction," is my motto.
For the sake of the pilots, flight attendants, and other passengers, I hope that you get to the airport early enough for your dinner's side effects to wear off before spending several hours in a pressuized metal tube with recycled air.
I wonder if getting a nicotine patch or something might help... get the nicotine fix without having to actually smoke, and thus leave the airport. There has got to be something designed for travellers... what do smokers do on all those non-smoking Trans-Pacific flights?
A security screener in San Francisco once was honest, told me that it was not required to take shoes off, but if I didn't it guarantees I'd be selected for a secondary screening. So now even though I know they won't set the metal detector off, I nearly always take my shoes off.
US Olympic TV coverage of the opening ceremonies for 2000 began with a video montage of a Qantas 747 flying over San Francisco. Not only was Ansett the official sponsor, but San Francisco did not (and still does not) fly to San Francisco!
Since that link will eventually change, I'll also post this:
Rank Program Name Network Day Time Rating Share Households 1 SUM OLYM SUN PRIME 1(S) NBC 7:00PM Sun 15.4 26.0 16,693,000 2 SUM OLYM OPEN CEREM(S) NBC 8:00PM Fri 14.6 27.0 15,784,000 3 SUM OLYM SAT PRIME 1(S) NBC 8:30PM Sat 11.8 23.0 12,760,000
I tend to agree. Most of my recent rebates have gone ok, but I can think of three that screwed me.
1. T-Mobile Sidekick. They don't clearly state that the monthly charge you have to sign up for to qualify is for the voice portion only, and does not include the $20 additional for data. I fought with them for a while, and gave up, promising to cancel as soon as my contract was up. Which is right about now, but I don't really feel like buying a new phone at the moment.
2. ATi Radeon Mac Edition. Sent it in, never heard from them again.
3. Norton AntiVirus. They ran a promotion where you'd get a rebate if it was purchased along with TurboTax or TaxCut. Got a letter back claiming that one of the proofs of purchase was missing. It was never asked for on the original submission request. Sent in requested proof of purchase, never heard from them.
Costco rebates are the best. Don't have to mail anything in, just copy some info off the receipt onto a web form. Circuit City/SanDisk, Circuit City/eMachines, and MacMall/US Modular have all worked out ok recently though.
I really wish these companies would just give you the discount up front, but I know they're counting on people forgetting or screwing it up so they don't have to send the money. It's also a pain when you have two different rebate forms to send in for the same product, one from the store and one from the manufacturer.
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Gentoo Portage lists both Blackdown (1.3.1-r9) and IBM (1.4.1-r1 and 1.4.2) Java Runtime Environments as being available for PowerPC.
http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=jre
Except that Portage doesn't have an ebuild for Netatalk 2.0 yet. Probably won't be long though, and I'll be waiting for it. :)
eMachines gives you a Symantec Ghost image of the hard drive in it's shipped configuration, in the case of my PC, split across three CDs. That means if I ever need to reinstall XP, I have to reimage the drive, losing any of my personal files, as well as the entire Linux partition.
One net to free them all. One net behind them. One net secures them all. And on the server, finds them.
I see somebody learned something from Real's FreedomOfMusicChoice debacle.
I have found Mac IE has done a really nice job of printing. Firefox usually does a decent job, but every now and then I'm not happy with the way something comes out from Firefox, so I use IE. Windows IE and Netscape 4 weren't nearly as good.
Mac IE is actually a pretty decent browser. It is one of the best I can find for OS 9, as newer versions of Mozilla and Opera work only on OS X. It's reasonably standards compliant. But it doesn't do popup blocking or tabbed browsing.
http://www.debian.org/intro/about#history
Ian Murdock created Debian, and named it after himself and his wife, Debra. Thus, Debian.
I can't see Apple switching from BSD to Linux. The problem is the license, conforming to the GPL would likely present more difficulties for Apple in building the closed-source components on top of than the BSD license does.
And technically, Mac OS X is sold as stand-alone software, but it won't run on anything but Apple hardware. If you're running Jaguar and want to upgrade to Panther, you go out to the store (or web site) and buy it.
Which I found with: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&c2 coff=1&client=firefox-a&q=news.resources+site%3Ane ws.google.com&btnG=Search
That's definately the way to go. Unlike, say, Microsoft, which has production software that's not even beta quality.
I think you're posting under the wrong topic. This is Security Update 2004-09-07 for Mac OS X, not Windows XP Service Pack 2.
I've used a clamshell iBook in coach on an American Airlines MD-80 with no problem.
I think I've figured it out. The tech support person doesn't have the slightest idea what is going on with their servers/routers, and isn't in a position of authority to do anything about it. Telling you to reboot, check all your settings, etc. is a stalling tactic, hoping that by the time you're done with all that nonsense, the people resopnsible will have actually fixed the problem. As a bonus, if it actually has been fixed, they get to make it look like the problem was on your end, not theirs.
AOL has owned ICQ for a few years now, and has made it so that they are essentially the same. Current versions of AIM and ICQ can talk to each other, they both use the OSCAR protocol and connect to the server on port 5190.
ICQ used to be a lot different. No groups for contacts. Messages can be sent while a user is offline (AIM doesn't have this -- it started out as a service within AOL, so if the user wasn't online, just send them email). Single message per window rather than a single window per contact.
It still offers many of these features as options, but more and more AIM and ICQ are looking a like. A lot like the difference between AOL and CompuServe.
So basically, you'd be living in one of Quark's Holosuites.
Oops... must reconnect fingers to brain... meant to say that Qantas doesn't fly to SFO...
Luggage is the same. There has to be some sort of screening of checked luggage, and sometimes they do a simple manual search -- that's why they ask everyone to make sure their suitcase is unlocked before checking bags. Some airports have this process in-lined, so that everything looks normal and they check the suitcase after you check in. Others have small tables set up before the check in counter where a TSA agent will go through your suitcase. At others, you bring your suitcase to a TSA agent for a manual or CTX machine search after you check in.
You can usually tell if you're going to be targeted when you see markings like SSSS or similar on your boarding pass.
For the sake of the pilots, flight attendants, and other passengers, I hope that you get to the airport early enough for your dinner's side effects to wear off before spending several hours in a pressuized metal tube with recycled air.
A security screener in San Francisco once was honest, told me that it was not required to take shoes off, but if I didn't it guarantees I'd be selected for a secondary screening. So now even though I know they won't set the metal detector off, I nearly always take my shoes off.
Ahhh... the fresh scent of hypocracy!
US Olympic TV coverage of the opening ceremonies for 2000 began with a video montage of a Qantas 747 flying over San Francisco. Not only was Ansett the official sponsor, but San Francisco did not (and still does not) fly to San Francisco!
Correction, that would be overpriced Dasani(TM)* water.
* Dasani is a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company.
It would probably read more like:
But specifically, they'd be patenting C:\> .
Since that link will eventually change, I'll also post this:
1. T-Mobile Sidekick. They don't clearly state that the monthly charge you have to sign up for to qualify is for the voice portion only, and does not include the $20 additional for data. I fought with them for a while, and gave up, promising to cancel as soon as my contract was up. Which is right about now, but I don't really feel like buying a new phone at the moment.
2. ATi Radeon Mac Edition. Sent it in, never heard from them again.
3. Norton AntiVirus. They ran a promotion where you'd get a rebate if it was purchased along with TurboTax or TaxCut. Got a letter back claiming that one of the proofs of purchase was missing. It was never asked for on the original submission request. Sent in requested proof of purchase, never heard from them.
Costco rebates are the best. Don't have to mail anything in, just copy some info off the receipt onto a web form. Circuit City/SanDisk, Circuit City/eMachines, and MacMall/US Modular have all worked out ok recently though.
I really wish these companies would just give you the discount up front, but I know they're counting on people forgetting or screwing it up so they don't have to send the money. It's also a pain when you have two different rebate forms to send in for the same product, one from the store and one from the manufacturer.