I had to clean this crap of all the computers at work all the time. Now I ahve told everyone not to install *anything* without consulting with me, even the CEO & Chairman.
However, the CEO & Chairman keep bringing their laptops and home computers in because they, or their kids keep putting crap on them. It's pretty impossible for me to refuse to clean them. No other employees seem to have this problem at work any more.
I use OS X at home and keep telling them that I don't worry about viruses and have never had any spyware. Funny thing is, they're willing to switch, but are worried about the cost! I keep telling them how much they're paying me to sort out the stuff constantly, but the message isn't getting through... Oh well.
20 mins for a 14 meg file... probably because your system sounds like it's royally buggered. have you looked into it at all? or, are you just grandstanding? I can copy gigabytes of information in that amount of time. hell, i could burn 4 dvd's in that amount of time on my iMac!
It's not all that expensive any more. Check out the new eMac. It's got everything you'd need to get started on the Mac platform.
Don't worry about the 'lack of expansion' because you can plug in more hard drives via fire wire and the memory can be expanded easily as well.
as for the 17" crt monitor it's fine.
there's no need to drop thousands on a Mac, especially if it's your first one.
over on wired.com there was an article the other day about people making windows xp look like os x. one of the reasons used to justify there actions was 'i have $3000 pc, i can't afford a mac'. for less than $1000 you can get a mac with a dvd writer (superdrive) and a ton of great software including development tools.
p.s. don't forget to drop in some more ram, you're going to need at least 512mb (but don't buy the ram from apple - they are definately too expensive on that!)
Actaully, that site isn't written or maintained by Steve Jobs. It's a spoof, as it says at the bottom of the page. The fact that it's copyrighted to someone else should be an obvious sign.
I can see where he's coming from to be honest. I hadn't considered some of the high end video cards. I think Apple do need to encourage some real support from the high end card makers. it would be great to see a really powerful card as an option on the G5 - with native 64bit drivers as well.
I had almost expected Apple to buy the rights to Alias. The Mac OS X version rocks, and they've got billions in the bank, $50m would have been pocket change. It could have complemented Shake and Logic, bring 3D into their professional tools. And then we could have looked forward to iModel, or whatever, as the low end consumer version.
You can't do this. The licence is for non-commercial use only. If you want the ultimate in retrogaming in the arcade get yourself a cabinet from these guys UltraCade who have games licenced for commercial use.
It was the nearest series to ourselves in terms of time, culture and technology.
The think the way they designed the ship with all those flat screens and the jumpsuit uniforms gave it a more contemporary look. I don't want to get started about how it doesn't fit in with the 1960's show, but it definately seemed to gel with TNG, DS9 and Voyager I thought personally.
I do hope they give it more of a chance, Hopefully this will happen sa they have more invested in this franchise than other series that are being cancelled, along with a much larger fan base that has acculated over the years. If they are thinking of cancelling it they'll also give them another series to wrap things up properly. I don't see Paramount doing a 'Crusade' to Enterpise and just stopping it in the middle of nowhere.
As for plans for any future Star Trek I think we're going to have to push future into the future rather than coming back in time, otherwise we do end up with all sorts of continuity problems.
Probably a bit late in the day to join the discussion, already well over 500 posts! But, I just can't picture a 'HP blue' version of the white iPod. However, I can easily picture a 'HP Blue' version of the new iPod mini. It wouldn't stand out as being a less cool product seeing as there are other colour available for the model. I mean can you imagine kids getting flack from their mates for having a iHop (?? just made that name up on the spot) thing instead of a iPod if it really stands out as being so very different than the original white model? I can, so kids will either pressure their parents into getting the original iPod if the HP model is a blue version of the original iPod.
Lastly, I see the iPod being sold as a point of sale configuration add-on when people buy a HP PC, or sold bundled with the PC to make it more attractive to buyers, instead of throwing in cheaper printers and scanners like they do all the time.
interesting. now just try plugging any digital camera into a machine running os x, or a firewire video camera, or a usb printer, or a firewire hard drive, or a scanner, mouse, monitor, memory stick, etc.
although apple control the hardware that they support - they also support a vast array of peripherals as well.
as a recent switcher to the mac i'm not looking back.
Should have bought a Mac. I got my iMac (17" flat screen) last summer and I haven't had any problems at all. No freezes, unexpected reboots, automatic spam handling in mail.app, loads of software available, no driver 'issues', nothing. Plus, it's all BSD underneath, neat.
I have to use PC's everyday at work and I'm less and less inclined to do so. I'm looking for a job with a publishing company or something so I can administrate Mac's instead at the same time as studing for the ACTC/ACSA exams.
I have emailled the Evening Standard and The Telegraph about their articles. It appears that they were based upon a rumour that has been reported by Reuters. Seeing as The Telegraph carried this story on the front page of their print newspaper I expect to see many red faces over this. The Evening Standard went further in their article which said that Apple had made an announcement, which they clearly haven't. I hope as well as getting my letters printed in the newspapers (which I'm hopeful of) that Apples' legal team will be in touch with the papers and we'll see a apology in print within days. It is really bad for a paper of record such as The Telegraph to print unsubstainiated drivel like this. Where were the fact checkers during this?
Actually TrueType is an Apple invention and the trademark is properly credited. The Tahoma font is the property of Microsoft, as is Arial and many other fonts.
O.O.o is available as source, so it should be able to be ported to virtually any modern system.
the only think stopping this is lack of money. if companies invested back into the open source community they could get all of this software working on 100% of their systems.
this is all just windows dressing to cover up the fact that most journeys are either delayed or cancelled.
on a standard rate ticket the train cars are massively over packed during commuter periods. thankfully the gner routes are not as popular as the ones in the south and south-east.
that this has happened at all is a nice and due to competition from virgin trains who operate on the western main line up and down the country, who offer laptop and mobile charging, etc. on your journey for a business class ticket. they operate their trains more like they operate their airlines than the other rail operators. it is true that i'd like to see this service offered across the board for the entire train network eventually by the majority of operators.
since privatisation (the railways used to be pubically owned) the responsibility for the track network and the train operators has been split leading to more massive accidents than ever before. imagine if the internet was run by idiot companies with no idea about how to run a network with all the isp's just putting more traffic over a poor backbone infrastructure that was already in place, with little or no investment in that infrastructure, with all the maintainence work contracted out to the cheapest sub-contractor.
Slashdot Mirror
Now I've actually managed to watch the movie from a mirror it makes sense.
:-)
Very funny.
'say you can walk somewhere in 20 mins, well with the megway you'll get there in 18 and a half, 19 mins tops'.
However, the CEO & Chairman keep bringing their laptops and home computers in because they, or their kids keep putting crap on them. It's pretty impossible for me to refuse to clean them. No other employees seem to have this problem at work any more.
I use OS X at home and keep telling them that I don't worry about viruses and have never had any spyware. Funny thing is, they're willing to switch, but are worried about the cost! I keep telling them how much they're paying me to sort out the stuff constantly, but the message isn't getting through... Oh well.
Me! It was the first thing that I looked for. I'd love the chance to try it out. Can someone please sort this out ASAP please.
Why it's here... ROTOR
What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?
20 mins for a 14 meg file... probably because your system sounds like it's royally buggered. have you looked into it at all? or, are you just grandstanding? I can copy gigabytes of information in that amount of time. hell, i could burn 4 dvd's in that amount of time on my iMac!
It's not all that expensive any more. Check out the new eMac. It's got everything you'd need to get started on the Mac platform.
Don't worry about the 'lack of expansion' because you can plug in more hard drives via fire wire and the memory can be expanded easily as well.
as for the 17" crt monitor it's fine.
there's no need to drop thousands on a Mac, especially if it's your first one.
over on wired.com there was an article the other day about people making windows xp look like os x. one of the reasons used to justify there actions was 'i have $3000 pc, i can't afford a mac'. for less than $1000 you can get a mac with a dvd writer (superdrive) and a ton of great software including development tools.
p.s. don't forget to drop in some more ram, you're going to need at least 512mb (but don't buy the ram from apple - they are definately too expensive on that!)
Or Finland perhaps? Or Europe, or Africa, or Asia, or South America? Do you think everyone involved with Linux is from the USA?
sigh.
I can see where he's coming from to be honest. I hadn't considered some of the high end video cards. I think Apple do need to encourage some real support from the high end card makers. it would be great to see a really powerful card as an option on the G5 - with native 64bit drivers as well.
I had almost expected Apple to buy the rights to Alias. The Mac OS X version rocks, and they've got billions in the bank, $50m would have been pocket change. It could have complemented Shake and Logic, bring 3D into their professional tools. And then we could have looked forward to iModel, or whatever, as the low end consumer version.
Ah well, wasn't to be.
You can't do this. The licence is for non-commercial use only. If you want the ultimate in retrogaming in the arcade get yourself a cabinet from these guys UltraCade who have games licenced for commercial use.
I agree it's a shame.
It was the nearest series to ourselves in terms of time, culture and technology.
The think the way they designed the ship with all those flat screens and the jumpsuit uniforms gave it a more contemporary look. I don't want to get started about how it doesn't fit in with the 1960's show, but it definately seemed to gel with TNG, DS9 and Voyager I thought personally.
I do hope they give it more of a chance, Hopefully this will happen sa they have more invested in this franchise than other series that are being cancelled, along with a much larger fan base that has acculated over the years. If they are thinking of cancelling it they'll also give them another series to wrap things up properly. I don't see Paramount doing a 'Crusade' to Enterpise and just stopping it in the middle of nowhere.
As for plans for any future Star Trek I think we're going to have to push future into the future rather than coming back in time, otherwise we do end up with all sorts of continuity problems.
oh, how very mature. bet this doesn't go to court in either country, so who's going to do anything about it? certainly not the FSF.
typo alert - silly mac keyboard has quotes in a different place, use this link PICS OF HP BLUE iPod HERE
I've just seen a picture of the Blue iPod here: Blue HP iPod Pics
I still think that the iPod mini was the model that they should have opted for, nevermind. Maybe they will later on.
Lastly, I see the iPod being sold as a point of sale configuration add-on when people buy a HP PC, or sold bundled with the PC to make it more attractive to buyers, instead of throwing in cheaper printers and scanners like they do all the time.
although apple control the hardware that they support - they also support a vast array of peripherals as well.
as a recent switcher to the mac i'm not looking back.
I have to use PC's everyday at work and I'm less and less inclined to do so. I'm looking for a job with a publishing company or something so I can administrate Mac's instead at the same time as studing for the ACTC/ACSA exams.
I have emailled the Evening Standard and The Telegraph about their articles. It appears that they were based upon a rumour that has been reported by Reuters. Seeing as The Telegraph carried this story on the front page of their print newspaper I expect to see many red faces over this. The Evening Standard went further in their article which said that Apple had made an announcement, which they clearly haven't. I hope as well as getting my letters printed in the newspapers (which I'm hopeful of) that Apples' legal team will be in touch with the papers and we'll see a apology in print within days. It is really bad for a paper of record such as The Telegraph to print unsubstainiated drivel like this. Where were the fact checkers during this?
Actually TrueType is an Apple invention and the trademark is properly credited. The Tahoma font is the property of Microsoft, as is Arial and many other fonts.
the only think stopping this is lack of money. if companies invested back into the open source community they could get all of this software working on 100% of their systems.
I absolutely loved the GAP series. Stephen Donaldson's writing is fanastic. Anyone reading this review should check out his books.
To read files from an existing NTFS partition, and be able to write files, I'd imagine.
Seems obvious to me. I don't think this is anything to do with one format being better than another, it's about inter-operability.
on a standard rate ticket the train cars are massively over packed during commuter periods. thankfully the gner routes are not as popular as the ones in the south and south-east.
that this has happened at all is a nice and due to competition from virgin trains who operate on the western main line up and down the country, who offer laptop and mobile charging, etc. on your journey for a business class ticket. they operate their trains more like they operate their airlines than the other rail operators. it is true that i'd like to see this service offered across the board for the entire train network eventually by the majority of operators.
since privatisation (the railways used to be pubically owned) the responsibility for the track network and the train operators has been split leading to more massive accidents than ever before. imagine if the internet was run by idiot companies with no idea about how to run a network with all the isp's just putting more traffic over a poor backbone infrastructure that was already in place, with little or no investment in that infrastructure, with all the maintainence work contracted out to the cheapest sub-contractor.
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/st/data_storage/nrt/hol ography/
It seems that they moved it from my old bookmark position. It's also come on quite a way since 1990.