I like to disable root login on my boxes. Sometimes you need to do a lot as root and sudo gets in the way. The only thing you should be using su for is to run as non-root user and you probably shouldn't be doing that unless you own the account.
I think you have an incomplete picture of what HIV is. I'm hold no degree in virology or microbiology but I believe that HIV is actually a family of similiar viruses. This is what makes HIV so difficult to 'cure'.
Also, people don't normally die of pneumonia unless they are afflicted with another illness. Forms of pneumonia are all around us, one of my co-workers had a case of it a few weeks ago when we were working killer hours, but most people don't succumb to it because a healthy immune system is capable of keeping it in check.
That being said I think the better question would be, What is AIDS? Is it a virus or a stage of the HIV virus? Or is it simply an oversimplification for the tv news crowd? Given what we know about HIV now how should we define AIDS?
I have had a second generation POD (Apple iPod mp3/aac/wav/ALLAC player) for a while. I swear that if I listen to a song for 20 seconds and push the next arrow, a song by the same artist will come up. That is the only consistent pattern I have found in the shuffle but I have had some great luck after loading up the pod with Smart Playlists of my favorite songs.
I think that if you pay three times the cost (If you take my numbers seriously you need to take a paxil right about now) of a comparably equiped peecee you should get the OS for free. Or even better if you pay $129 for a new version of the OS you should phone support without having to pay more for it. Keep in mind, this is the company that charged $30 for a public beta of it's O/S and then charged another $130 for the REAL Public Beta
of the O/S. Apple has no problem taking advantage of their customers loyalty. Thankfully there appears to be very little copy protection on the OS discs.
Yes, I know I'm being idealistic and naive...Apple is a company...yadda...yadda...
WARNING ZEALOTS READ HERE: I am a Mac user who has used windows in the past and I support it at work. I run FreeBSD on my x86 hardware.
Well, I for one was a wee baby at the time. I can't say I've never been accused of being a film snob. But I rented the original theatrical cut of Blade Runner from the Blockbuster and it was almost unwatchable. The director's cut is a far superior piece of cinema. Ridley Scott did an excellent job removing just enough of the scenes that make the film look dated and the voice over is no loss.
Both the iBook and 12 inch PB are a total pain in the ass the disassemble. Well, from my personal experience, not so much disassemble as re-assemble. A lot of shops charge a premium for replacing parts on these models because of the ammount of labor involved. I repair macs on a daily basis. There is really only one type of repair for a powerbook if you get it done at an Apple authorized shop: Replace the logic board. With logic boards running around $600, Applecare is well worth it for any Powerbook even if you are a techie. You should get your computer back in less than 48 hours.
I work for a school district that has about 200 Mac clients and 100 windows. We install a minimum of three browsers on all machines. Usually we include: Mozilla, IE, Netscape 4.8, and Safari on OSX. I personally recommend Mozilla to all the teachers. Unfortunately, it is impossible to rely on one browser for today's web. However, I prefer Apple's Safari on OSX and usually recommend that to the teachers. Safari does provide better integration with disk images and installers. It makes the transition to OSX a little less confusing. Allthough I personally use Mozilla on my powerbook, there are some interface quirks that can prove confusing for the near techno-illiterate teachers.
I work for a school district and can understand the trade-offs that are made by network administrators. I have to weigh decisions every day to choose security or ease of use. Most of the teachers are technologically illiterate and cannot perform even basic functions on their computer without assistance from the IT staff. The problem of inadequate computer skills is compounded by the fact that many districts refuse to pay teachers to attend computer training more then a couple hours a year. There is also opposition from the teachers union to mandated computer use in the classroom. While I personally believe that computers have limited use in the classroom, more training is neccesary as teachers are now forced to make use of file servers as well student information systems on a daily basis.
While concepts of permissions and network based storage may be simple to those of us who are experienced computer users they are not easy to explain to a room of teachers. One on one training is the most effective way of helping teachers grasp the concepts neccesary to make them self-suficient computer users. I have taught several classes only to have the teachers who are already comfortable with these concepts pay attention. Those who need the most help usually sit there and chat or knit. They have the same defeatist attitude about computers that they try to discourage in their students. Many teachers, have an irrational fear that they will somehow break their computer by doing anything they are uncomfortable with. When teachers ask "How did you learn all this stuff?" I encourage them to 'break' their computer (softwarewise that is:) and then try to fix it.
Solutions. I think many of these issues will fade as younger teachers who are more comfortable with technology replace the older teachers who are less willing to change. New teachers are now required to take quite a few educational technology units in order to get a teaching credential. User interface standards must improve throughout the software industry. Most of these programs make sense to the nerds who designed them but more testing and better design is needed to make them usable for your average teacher.
This particular instance in Palo Alto appears to be an issue of user ignorance as opposed to the incompetence in the IT department. Quite simply, someone placed private documents on a public server.
Obviously I'm making broad generalizations for the sake of discussion but they are based on first-hand experience. Just relax and take 'em with a grain of salt.
While they're at it, why doesn't apple just remove file sharing and iChat from OSX. OS X has a one click ftp and web server for sharing all the mp3s you want to share. This was just a convenient way for people to stream their music over the internet without having to download it to another machine. Who cares if a few friends take advantage of it. Who wants to spend time using AudioHijack or other software to record an mp3/mp4 stream in real time? I can just open up Kazaa on a pc or Direct Connect on the mac and find the mp3. I send more mp3s over AIM (using Apple's iChat) to other people. Never used iTunes music sharing but this is just sheer stupidity on Apple's part.
I am subsriber to the Vivendi/Universal eMusic service and I am quite happy with it. The ability to download albums at once is worth the $14.95 a month. The selection is limited to mostly 'indy' labels and the bitrate only 128kbps. 15 bucks is the cost of one CD (maybe) and allows me unlimited downloads from their catalog. Works on mac and linux and I get mp3s not WMAs. Being a mac user my options were quite limited when selecting a music service but it's actually a nice service and is getting better. Hopefully all these predictions of 99 cents a song from the Apple music service were jumping the gun a bit.
This is a product designed to make school administrators job's easier. It makes teachers do twice as much work. The Powergrade program, which is the program for actually inputing grades (only runs on mac and windows) is buggier then 99% of shareware programs. This is product that costs $25K not to mention 5k a year for support. Most teachers are keeping paper backups and end up doing twice as much work.
The BBCs main newspage is actually one of the few pages that Mozilla (at least on OSX) doesn't render properly. Something with their little flashy top headline thingamawatchamabob.
I like the attitude that since everyone else uses it I have to use it too. Keep that up and you'll be able to change a lot in this world. Excuse the sarcasm, I know it doesn't always show up when written. I will admit MS does give great sales presentations to the companies who are willing to spend the money. I work in education and we can't afford to pay microsoft 8 times over for each user we have on a server.
That kinda of makes sense I think even though there is cohesive point. Nah, I'm just a ranting fool.
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After dealing with all the dependencies and all that other crap. If you call that speed, then I think you are a little crazy. Mac OS 10.2 is the fastest operating system I've ever used. Not in terms of raw speed but when I consider the ammount of time it takes me to get things done, Mac OS X beats Windows, Mac OS 9, FreeBSD, and Linux hands down. Mac os X is relatively speedy for everything but web browsing and being able to use major commercial Applications is great. I own a Powerbook 667 and take it with me everywhere. My computer has crashed three or four times in the year I've had it and I only restart it after updating the system software.
I wonder why the record companies know how many CD-Rs were sold in the US? Could it be because they make royalties off of every CD-R sold? No, of course not.
I used to work at a Tower Records. I was told, and I told the customers, that Record Companies would no longer take back opened CDs. The policy was that unless a CD was broken you could not take back an open CD. For a while after the record companies changed their policy, Tower continued to take back opened CDs but they stopped because it was costing them to much money. Apparently, the record companies who are selling these copy protected CDs are going to allow people who buy them to return them.
I found it quite amusing that the people who were most affected by this most were not napster people but people who would buy a lot of CDs and listen to them to see if they liked them and would return them if they didn't.
As a Mac user who buys a lot of music and transfers it to his iPod, I hope that these so-called copy protected CDs are collosal failure.
Yes, every Canadian apartment is within 2 to 3 minutes of a Tim Hortons. After spending two weeks in Canada this summer I never want to see another Tim Hortons. Krispy Kreme kicks the krap out of Tim Hortons. Come on, what is with those tiny little pieces of bread and meat they call sandwhiches.
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I like to disable root login on my boxes. Sometimes you need to do a lot as root and sudo gets in the way. The only thing you should be using su for is to run as non-root user and you probably shouldn't be doing that unless you own the account.
Also, people don't normally die of pneumonia unless they are afflicted with another illness. Forms of pneumonia are all around us, one of my co-workers had a case of it a few weeks ago when we were working killer hours, but most people don't succumb to it because a healthy immune system is capable of keeping it in check.
That being said I think the better question would be, What is AIDS? Is it a virus or a stage of the HIV virus? Or is it simply an oversimplification for the tv news crowd? Given what we know about HIV now how should we define AIDS?
I have had a second generation POD (Apple iPod mp3/aac/wav/ALLAC player) for a while. I swear that if I listen to a song for 20 seconds and push the next arrow, a song by the same artist will come up. That is the only consistent pattern I have found in the shuffle but I have had some great luck after loading up the pod with Smart Playlists of my favorite songs.
I think that if you pay three times the cost (If you take my numbers seriously you need to take a paxil right about now) of a comparably equiped peecee you should get the OS for free. Or even better if you pay $129 for a new version of the OS you should phone support without having to pay more for it. Keep in mind, this is the company that charged $30 for a public beta of it's O/S and then charged another $130 for the REAL Public Beta of the O/S. Apple has no problem taking advantage of their customers loyalty. Thankfully there appears to be very little copy protection on the OS discs.
Yes, I know I'm being idealistic and naive...Apple is a company...yadda...yadda...
WARNING ZEALOTS READ HERE: I am a Mac user who has used windows in the past and I support it at work. I run FreeBSD on my x86 hardware.
Well, I for one was a wee baby at the time. I can't say I've never been accused of being a film snob. But I rented the original theatrical cut of Blade Runner from the Blockbuster and it was almost unwatchable. The director's cut is a far superior piece of cinema. Ridley Scott did an excellent job removing just enough of the scenes that make the film look dated and the voice over is no loss.
Caught this at a midnight movie one time, has to be the worst film I've ever seen. The highlight of the film is Frank Zappa with a talking cow.
Both the iBook and 12 inch PB are a total pain in the ass the disassemble. Well, from my personal experience, not so much disassemble as re-assemble. A lot of shops charge a premium for replacing parts on these models because of the ammount of labor involved. I repair macs on a daily basis. There is really only one type of repair for a powerbook if you get it done at an Apple authorized shop: Replace the logic board. With logic boards running around $600, Applecare is well worth it for any Powerbook even if you are a techie. You should get your computer back in less than 48 hours.
I work for a school district that has about 200 Mac clients and 100 windows. We install a minimum of three browsers on all machines. Usually we include: Mozilla, IE, Netscape 4.8, and Safari on OSX. I personally recommend Mozilla to all the teachers. Unfortunately, it is impossible to rely on one browser for today's web. However, I prefer Apple's Safari on OSX and usually recommend that to the teachers. Safari does provide better integration with disk images and installers. It makes the transition to OSX a little less confusing. Allthough I personally use Mozilla on my powerbook, there are some interface quirks that can prove confusing for the near techno-illiterate teachers.
While concepts of permissions and network based storage may be simple to those of us who are experienced computer users they are not easy to explain to a room of teachers. One on one training is the most effective way of helping teachers grasp the concepts neccesary to make them self-suficient computer users. I have taught several classes only to have the teachers who are already comfortable with these concepts pay attention. Those who need the most help usually sit there and chat or knit. They have the same defeatist attitude about computers that they try to discourage in their students. Many teachers, have an irrational fear that they will somehow break their computer by doing anything they are uncomfortable with. When teachers ask "How did you learn all this stuff?" I encourage them to 'break' their computer (softwarewise that is :) and then try to fix it.
Solutions. I think many of these issues will fade as younger teachers who are more comfortable with technology replace the older teachers who are less willing to change. New teachers are now required to take quite a few educational technology units in order to get a teaching credential. User interface standards must improve throughout the software industry. Most of these programs make sense to the nerds who designed them but more testing and better design is needed to make them usable for your average teacher.
This particular instance in Palo Alto appears to be an issue of user ignorance as opposed to the incompetence in the IT department. Quite simply, someone placed private documents on a public server.
Obviously I'm making broad generalizations for the sake of discussion but they are based on first-hand experience. Just relax and take 'em with a grain of salt.
While they're at it, why doesn't apple just remove file sharing and iChat from OSX. OS X has a one click ftp and web server for sharing all the mp3s you want to share. This was just a convenient way for people to stream their music over the internet without having to download it to another machine. Who cares if a few friends take advantage of it. Who wants to spend time using AudioHijack or other software to record an mp3/mp4 stream in real time? I can just open up Kazaa on a pc or Direct Connect on the mac and find the mp3. I send more mp3s over AIM (using Apple's iChat) to other people. Never used iTunes music sharing but this is just sheer stupidity on Apple's part.
I am subsriber to the Vivendi/Universal eMusic service and I am quite happy with it. The ability to download albums at once is worth the $14.95 a month. The selection is limited to mostly 'indy' labels and the bitrate only 128kbps. 15 bucks is the cost of one CD (maybe) and allows me unlimited downloads from their catalog. Works on mac and linux and I get mp3s not WMAs. Being a mac user my options were quite limited when selecting a music service but it's actually a nice service and is getting better. Hopefully all these predictions of 99 cents a song from the Apple music service were jumping the gun a bit.
I also have big hands. Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more say no more.
This is a product designed to make school administrators job's easier. It makes teachers do twice as much work. The Powergrade program, which is the program for actually inputing grades (only runs on mac and windows) is buggier then 99% of shareware programs. This is product that costs $25K not to mention 5k a year for support. Most teachers are keeping paper backups and end up doing twice as much work.
Yeah, I saw that episode too. Mmm Strudel...
You may not be able to get control software for other OSeseses but it has to be relatively easy to access the files from another OS.
I like the attitude that since everyone else uses it I have to use it too. Keep that up and you'll be able to change a lot in this world. Excuse the sarcasm, I know it doesn't always show up when written. I will admit MS does give great sales presentations to the companies who are willing to spend the money. I work in education and we can't afford to pay microsoft 8 times over for each user we have on a server.
That kinda of makes sense I think even though there is cohesive point. Nah, I'm just a ranting fool.
After dealing with all the dependencies and all that other crap. If you call that speed, then I think you are a little crazy. Mac OS 10.2 is the fastest operating system I've ever used. Not in terms of raw speed but when I consider the ammount of time it takes me to get things done, Mac OS X beats Windows, Mac OS 9, FreeBSD, and Linux hands down. Mac os X is relatively speedy for everything but web browsing and being able to use major commercial Applications is great. I own a Powerbook 667 and take it with me everywhere. My computer has crashed three or four times in the year I've had it and I only restart it after updating the system software.
I think I just had a sarcasm.
Actually Mac OS X has built in support for two button mice and scrollwheels.
I used to work at a Tower Records. I was told, and I told the customers, that Record Companies would no longer take back opened CDs. The policy was that unless a CD was broken you could not take back an open CD. For a while after the record companies changed their policy, Tower continued to take back opened CDs but they stopped because it was costing them to much money. Apparently, the record companies who are selling these copy protected CDs are going to allow people who buy them to return them. I found it quite amusing that the people who were most affected by this most were not napster people but people who would buy a lot of CDs and listen to them to see if they liked them and would return them if they didn't. As a Mac user who buys a lot of music and transfers it to his iPod, I hope that these so-called copy protected CDs are collosal failure.
Yes, every Canadian apartment is within 2 to 3 minutes of a Tim Hortons. After spending two weeks in Canada this summer I never want to see another Tim Hortons. Krispy Kreme kicks the krap out of Tim Hortons. Come on, what is with those tiny little pieces of bread and meat they call sandwhiches.