i don't know where you're seeing this $98 battery, but http://www.ipodbattery.com definitely says $29. that's quite a far stretch from paying dell $100 for a new, rather crappy, dell jukebox
if you want to fix that pesky "let me type" situation, try subethaedit for mac os x. it's real time editing with multiple users capable of moving the cursor/inserting/etc. the recently updated version can also set read/write permissions on a per user basis.
yeah.. because i just LOVE how the default bitchx settings auto-kick/ban users who auto-rejoin 4 times in a row! what a great feature to annoy the living CRAP out of me. it's also great how bitchx often says fairly offensive stuff whenever i quit. it's just going out of it's way to try and get me banned from some channels.
the writers of that app are tard monkeys. use irssi. at least it wasn't written by ScRiPt kiddies.
i'd prefer that they get tough on people who use keygens that manage to generate LEGAL keys, thus making my legal copy useless since STEAM refuses to let me sign up with a key already used! thanks!
and it's only $10 to ship me a new cd! how thoughtful of you valuve. and FYI, this CD is 2 years old. i can't get the "90 day free cd".
Google's done so much for the quality of web searching that I think they've already given us far more back than I could ever ask for. The only thing I could ask of them is to keep up the good work, and try and keep pagerank useful by stopping exploiters who falsely boost ranks. Other than that, some good old free thinking and continual innovation for the web, which is what they do all the time, is little to ask for. I just hope the momentum doesn't die.
actually no. the reason that a virus like blaster spread so fast is NO human interaction was required. it was done through an open port exploit in every windows machine (even desktops!). macs come with every service turned off except DHCP and netinfo i believe. i may even be wrong about net info. thus a virus that spreads quickly on the mac platform is going to be a lot more difficult when there aren't really open services running to generate such a propogation.
trust me, as a mac user (and i am too) you've got nothing to worry about virus-wise for pretty much as long as os x is freebsd based, and sub 10% market share. (not that market share matters THAT much about security, but lets face it does help when you can't get saturation due to lack of exploitable machines).
bandwidth isn't the issue. heck even COST is the issue. a lot of us are tired of legacy ports that are literally 10 years old littering the back of our computer when they could be put towards much more useful and modern ports like usb2, firewire 400, and firewire 800. apple dropped ps2 back in 1998, along with the floppy drive, back in 1998. think about that for a moment.
if a virus can spread that requires users to unzip a password protected zip attachment, then run the executable do you have any hope whatsoever for operating system or anti-virus companies to solve the social engineering problem of email viruses?
nothing short of education can fix these problems. until the day where johnny and sue come home from school and tell me about their virus/malware avoidance class today at public school the problem is going to be simply too wide spread to combat. it's not that far fetched. i imagine in 10-15 years computers will be so important to everyday life that it will be an utter necessity that kids know these sorts of things or else the web/computing environment will become unusable.
heh that reminds me of a skit from upright citizens brigade.
Baseball park owner: "Last night's marshmallows and lighters night didn't go so well. we didn't see that coming, really. That's why tonight is socks and oranges night! There's nothing harmful people can do with socks and oranges."
bluetooth is bluetooth. it will work just fine with the built in bluetooth adapter. you won't however be able to charge the mouse without the dock plugged in i imagine.
A wireless mouse is definitely your best bet. I'd check some of the various bluetooth mice. My favorite for features right now is the mx900 by logitech, at around $99. It's bluetooth, double precision, egronomic, 5+ buttons, and it has a recharge station. the recharge station also doubles as a bluetooth station if you hook it up to a computer without internal bluetooth.
I personally bought an apple wireless mouse for $65 at my local store and have been quite happy with it in presentations.
For those who don't know, SubEthaEdit is a fantastic text editor for the mac. It's main benefit is the ability to do live text edit collaboration with many other users, and the ability to find these users with rendezvous (zero-setup networking). The program has a great niche in things like notetaking. I and my group members for a particular human interface class studied it in greater detail.
if that were true, all us linux and mac users should just go ahead and switch to windows. i mean after all it has the largest user based, the greatest number of software titles, the most support, and the most development libraries.
sometimes we prefer to use languages because they are actually easy to code in and read. neither of which perl is good at. and for that reason, it will forever be off my list of languages to consider.
i feel ya. they treat os x like a 3rd rate platform. it wasn't until pinstripe was made that i actually thought they even noticed the mac platform.
anyways, as i've tested every major version of firefox for the mac for the past year or so, this one miserably failed in a few short seconds:
middle click with a three button mouse doesn't open a tab
form widgets are still not native
and with that, it was closed and deleted immediately. maybe they'll fix those two things that are absolustely essential to me one day. oh well, in the mean time i'll just stick with camino (which is buggy as shit right now).
x.org's x11 server was simply one of the xfree 4.4 release candidates before the license change, with some patches to bring back up to the 4.4 release. it should be almost absolutely identical to installing xfree86. i'm not sure why this even needed to be posted. there is pretty much no difference to install/configure than xfree 4.4
i don't deny that C has it's fair share if issues. the problem is this project is a development library with the end goal of being integrated into text widgets. The only language that allows them to do this everywhere (GNUStep, gtk2, Qt) is C. C links with obj-c, obviously with other C libraries, and c++ libraries. The simple truth is by doing this project in c++ you make a port to other libraries extremely difficult and doesn't that defeat the purpose of why they are writing this in the first place as a portable, interchangable backend?
ugh. of course the authors just HAD to do this in C++, making it a bitch to integrate into objective-c based programs. At the very least objective-c++ with os x will work, but the gnustep people are completely shut in the dark. why do people code in that unportable language? c LINKS WITH EVERYTHING. sigh.
Sorry, i don't have this pdf in web form at the moment (so it's horribly large -- 3.4mb) but i wrote this on the current and future display system technologies: http://www.otierney.net/files/displaysystems.pdf
I'm quite certain PCI-X and PCI-Express are two totally different things. PCI-X is a 64bit PCI port, that is backwards compatible with PCI. PCI-Express is a whole new device connection port with the goal of replacing PCI, PCI-X, and AGP. Thus, you don't call PCI-Express PCI-X.
If it runs in a browser, why can't you use firefox, galeon, konqueror, etc inside linux? the only thing that would make it heavily windows dependent is if it required activex. if it does, then i have to say you're shit out of luck. if however all they need is web to access peoplesoft, most distros are more than adequate and can fix the patching issue by automation through the network and in general better security, less viruses, adware, worms, etc.
it's sad to hear that:(. I had just finished reading a book on abnormal psychology so the subject has a new perspective to me. as one other poster said, schizophrenia can have some genetic causations. i've read of cases where 4 identical twins all came down with the disorder after a certain amount of time. you yourself may be highly susceptible if he is infact your twin brother.
First I started with mandrake, since everyone told me it was really simple to install. And it was, i'll definitely say that. After a few weeks i got SICK of rpms. they really are the devil. My friends raved about gentoo but said the install was hard. Well, for a newbie linux user with only 2 weeks experience i still managed to install gentoo just fine. If you can follow directions it's really not that hard.
However, i recommend Fedore Core 2 now. Redhat's installer, bootloader, and everything is absolustely gorgeous. It's without a doubt the best looking distro. With yum and apt-rpm now i here most of my complaints about the lack of good rpm support is gone.
Once you feel you're a bit more experienced though, you should try making the switch to gentoo or debian because they cater far more to the power user than a distro like fedora, mandrake, or suse ever can. It's harder to setup, but once you do you know everything about your system down to the config files which makes your life *much* easier when you need to debug random-problem-x with hardware-component-y. The do-it-all for you distros are harder for power users to use simply because we don't know how our system is setup!.
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i don't know where you're seeing this $98 battery, but http://www.ipodbattery.com definitely says $29. that's quite a far stretch from paying dell $100 for a new, rather crappy, dell jukebox
if you want to fix that pesky "let me type" situation, try subethaedit for mac os x. it's real time editing with multiple users capable of moving the cursor/inserting/etc. the recently updated version can also set read/write permissions on a per user basis.
yeah.. because i just LOVE how the default bitchx settings auto-kick/ban users who auto-rejoin 4 times in a row! what a great feature to annoy the living CRAP out of me. it's also great how bitchx often says fairly offensive stuff whenever i quit. it's just going out of it's way to try and get me banned from some channels.
the writers of that app are tard monkeys. use irssi. at least it wasn't written by ScRiPt kiddies.
i'd prefer that they get tough on people who use keygens that manage to generate LEGAL keys, thus making my legal copy useless since STEAM refuses to let me sign up with a key already used! thanks!
and it's only $10 to ship me a new cd! how thoughtful of you valuve. and FYI, this CD is 2 years old. i can't get the "90 day free cd".
Google's done so much for the quality of web searching that I think they've already given us far more back than I could ever ask for. The only thing I could ask of them is to keep up the good work, and try and keep pagerank useful by stopping exploiters who falsely boost ranks. Other than that, some good old free thinking and continual innovation for the web, which is what they do all the time, is little to ask for. I just hope the momentum doesn't die.
It only takes one mouse button to open the terminal
actually no. the reason that a virus like blaster spread so fast is NO human interaction was required. it was done through an open port exploit in every windows machine (even desktops!). macs come with every service turned off except DHCP and netinfo i believe. i may even be wrong about net info. thus a virus that spreads quickly on the mac platform is going to be a lot more difficult when there aren't really open services running to generate such a propogation.
trust me, as a mac user (and i am too) you've got nothing to worry about virus-wise for pretty much as long as os x is freebsd based, and sub 10% market share. (not that market share matters THAT much about security, but lets face it does help when you can't get saturation due to lack of exploitable machines).
bandwidth isn't the issue. heck even COST is the issue. a lot of us are tired of legacy ports that are literally 10 years old littering the back of our computer when they could be put towards much more useful and modern ports like usb2, firewire 400, and firewire 800. apple dropped ps2 back in 1998, along with the floppy drive, back in 1998. think about that for a moment.
if a virus can spread that requires users to unzip a password protected zip attachment, then run the executable do you have any hope whatsoever for operating system or anti-virus companies to solve the social engineering problem of email viruses?
nothing short of education can fix these problems. until the day where johnny and sue come home from school and tell me about their virus/malware avoidance class today at public school the problem is going to be simply too wide spread to combat. it's not that far fetched. i imagine in 10-15 years computers will be so important to everyday life that it will be an utter necessity that kids know these sorts of things or else the web/computing environment will become unusable.
heh that reminds me of a skit from upright citizens brigade.
Baseball park owner: "Last night's marshmallows and lighters night didn't go so well. we didn't see that coming, really. That's why tonight is socks and oranges night! There's nothing harmful people can do with socks and oranges."
bluetooth is bluetooth. it will work just fine with the built in bluetooth adapter. you won't however be able to charge the mouse without the dock plugged in i imagine.
powerbooks do not have IR ports.
A wireless mouse is definitely your best bet. I'd check some of the various bluetooth mice. My favorite for features right now is the mx900 by logitech, at around $99. It's bluetooth, double precision, egronomic, 5+ buttons, and it has a recharge station. the recharge station also doubles as a bluetooth station if you hook it up to a computer without internal bluetooth.
I personally bought an apple wireless mouse for $65 at my local store and have been quite happy with it in presentations.
For those who don't know, SubEthaEdit is a fantastic text editor for the mac. It's main benefit is the ability to do live text edit collaboration with many other users, and the ability to find these users with rendezvous (zero-setup networking). The program has a great niche in things like notetaking. I and my group members for a particular human interface class studied it in greater detail.
if that were true, all us linux and mac users should just go ahead and switch to windows. i mean after all it has the largest user based, the greatest number of software titles, the most support, and the most development libraries.
sometimes we prefer to use languages because they are actually easy to code in and read. neither of which perl is good at. and for that reason, it will forever be off my list of languages to consider.
anyways, as i've tested every major version of firefox for the mac for the past year or so, this one miserably failed in a few short seconds:
and with that, it was closed and deleted immediately. maybe they'll fix those two things that are absolustely essential to me one day. oh well, in the mean time i'll just stick with camino (which is buggy as shit right now).
x.org's x11 server was simply one of the xfree 4.4 release candidates before the license change, with some patches to bring back up to the 4.4 release. it should be almost absolutely identical to installing xfree86. i'm not sure why this even needed to be posted. there is pretty much no difference to install/configure than xfree 4.4
i don't deny that C has it's fair share if issues. the problem is this project is a development library with the end goal of being integrated into text widgets. The only language that allows them to do this everywhere (GNUStep, gtk2, Qt) is C. C links with obj-c, obviously with other C libraries, and c++ libraries. The simple truth is by doing this project in c++ you make a port to other libraries extremely difficult and doesn't that defeat the purpose of why they are writing this in the first place as a portable, interchangable backend?
ugh. of course the authors just HAD to do this in C++, making it a bitch to integrate into objective-c based programs. At the very least objective-c++ with os x will work, but the gnustep people are completely shut in the dark. why do people code in that unportable language? c LINKS WITH EVERYTHING. sigh.
recursion is fun because recursion is fun!
Sorry, i don't have this pdf in web form at the moment (so it's horribly large -- 3.4mb) but i wrote this on the current and future display system technologies: http://www.otierney.net/files/displaysystems.pdf
hope this answers your question
I'm quite certain PCI-X and PCI-Express are two totally different things. PCI-X is a 64bit PCI port, that is backwards compatible with PCI. PCI-Express is a whole new device connection port with the goal of replacing PCI, PCI-X, and AGP. Thus, you don't call PCI-Express PCI-X.
If it runs in a browser, why can't you use firefox, galeon, konqueror, etc inside linux? the only thing that would make it heavily windows dependent is if it required activex. if it does, then i have to say you're shit out of luck. if however all they need is web to access peoplesoft, most distros are more than adequate and can fix the patching issue by automation through the network and in general better security, less viruses, adware, worms, etc.
it's sad to hear that :(. I had just finished reading a book on abnormal psychology so the subject has a new perspective to me. as one other poster said, schizophrenia can have some genetic causations. i've read of cases where 4 identical twins all came down with the disorder after a certain amount of time. you yourself may be highly susceptible if he is infact your twin brother.
First I started with mandrake, since everyone told me it was really simple to install. And it was, i'll definitely say that. After a few weeks i got SICK of rpms. they really are the devil. My friends raved about gentoo but said the install was hard. Well, for a newbie linux user with only 2 weeks experience i still managed to install gentoo just fine. If you can follow directions it's really not that hard.
However, i recommend Fedore Core 2 now. Redhat's installer, bootloader, and everything is absolustely gorgeous. It's without a doubt the best looking distro. With yum and apt-rpm now i here most of my complaints about the lack of good rpm support is gone.
Once you feel you're a bit more experienced though, you should try making the switch to gentoo or debian because they cater far more to the power user than a distro like fedora, mandrake, or suse ever can. It's harder to setup, but once you do you know everything about your system down to the config files which makes your life *much* easier when you need to debug random-problem-x with hardware-component-y. The do-it-all for you distros are harder for power users to use simply because we don't know how our system is setup!.