no, it doesn't. It qualifies it as OS X, based on Darwin. Freebsd is indepedent of linux, and freebsd, netbsd, openbsd, and darwin(which borrows much from freebsd) are in no way a 'linux distro'.
To be a linux distro, the OS has to actually USE linux. *bsd and darwin don't use linux, they use their own open(and similar to eachother, in some parts) kernel.
yes, there is potential for abuse. by why should corporation X own corpx.com corpx.org corpx.net corpx.us etc? They are a company, they should own a.COMpany TLD. The EFF is an organization, they should own a.ORGanization TLD.
No system is perfect, by why have.com,.org,.net, if they aren't even attempted to be regulated? why not just.a.b.c?
there was mention of creating a.alt TLD... Now i am of the personal belief that an owner of a.com should prove they are a for-profit company, a.org a nonprofit organization, etc. could we create a.alt where things are independent of verisign? By not giving them ownership over the TLD, we don't give them power.... Maybe an open source-run TLD?
Or better yet, a decetralized, p2p like DNS. one where there aren't A-M servers, but just peers with their DNS caches. It would become what the internet was meant for: a network of computer systems that can communicate with one another even after a significant portion of them are taken offline(due to attack or otherwise).
any yet Nintendo has done JUST THAT with every console they have produced... Enjoyable by all ages and both sexes... Xbox and PS2 are geared toward teenage/mid-20 males with cash... Nintendo has always been age nuetral and they are GREAT at it.
Yes, but who wouldn't want to buy golden rakes to rake in the gobs of money owning disney(land, world, trademarks, content, etc) would no doubt bring in.... Barrels my friends, barrels of money. Pixar+Pure Disney would be AWESOME. unite the disney animators with the Pixar lab and let the produce THE greatest animated movies of all time, and blam! Stock goes directly skyward.
yes, but a good core OS will limit the damage any 1 program can do... A common argument about windows is that it itself is secure, however the programs that run it(drivers/applications/etc) are insecure. In actuallity, even with a buggy/trojan program being run, a good OS would not allow it to reak havic on much of the system, let alone crash the entire computer.
ipv6 is a must-upgrade solution... it IS newer code, it does get rid of NAT(which is partially used for security) and ipv4 DOES have some hacks to make it scale higher... however, once all of china connects to the net, all of india, all of everyone, there just physically isn't enough. And NAT just ins't a clean solution when used with private addressing, it works, but it is a hack to an unavoidable fix.
ipv6 has security built into it, more addresses then particles in the universe, and eliminates the need for private addressing and nat... we should move to ipv6 if for no other reason than it is a cleaner, better solution to internet addressing.
Palm has become a indy developers dream, and I am surprised you didn't start there. It has a huge collection of software already, along with free dev tools, and the apps are small enough that a 1 man show can still write a best-in-class app or program. PalmOS is your friend.
agreed the price is well worth.. but more to the point, apple doesn't FORCE you to do anything. Like Jaguar, great, want the newest of updates, you'll need to get the newer Panther, but Jaguar keeps on working just fine regardless
actually, i believe the division that makes MS Office, has a swimming pool of $20 bills, just for kicks.. maybe not, but whoever write's Office is making oodles of money.
Second, even with Apple's 6(or something) billion in cash(MS has like 10x that, but who cares?), MS sold ALL that stock not all that long after they bought it, and made a profit off it. The investment was part of the lawsuit filed by apple when MS stole the GUI design and made windows 1.0.... in exchange MS developed software, IE and office, among others, for a duration of time that expired a year or something ago.
ipv4, sure. but ipv6, not any time soon. all joking aside, which i am sure you are, ipv6 gives more addresses than there are particles in the universe, if i remember my geek trivia correctly... no one we run out of those anytime soon.
What happens if all the root DNS servers went off? Would the 2nd-tier boxed be able to take over the role, would they eventually clear their tables, or do they only edit what they have, never perge?
macos class(1-9 had a nice directory system, and i think it could be carried over in its simplicity to unix boxen)
//app/PROGRAM NAME/user/USERNAME/sys/
99% of programs would install to/app/ with their own sub directory like/app/apache/.. a user would have a/user/ subfolder, which would contain a user root directory(like the partitions root directory, but limited to the user.../user/NAME/ sys, doc, app, pub, etc.../sys/ would have standard libraries and other kernel and core system stuff.
programs, system, documents. 3 basic categories... with a multi user system, you make documents become the user listing, and you have programs, system, userfiles
It is media player or IE bundling that is the problem. it is the bootloader.... Make it illegal for MS to threaten price bumps to any OEM that allows a dual-boot option, make it illegal for MS to require OEMs to sell only windows, and make the OEM contracts that are now trade secrets(to hide from the public the stranglehold MS has on Dell, et al) to be publicly open... THEN require billions IN CASH along with restrictions on thier actions in the coming years....
also, a clause that says if you are caught rebraking something you are getting in trouble for, your fine will double immediately, and will continue doubling for every incident you are found guilty of.
But I would point you at Mac OS 11... or a coming iteration of the macos only because it has led the way in GUI design(at the beginning, and again with the resurgance of quarttz rendering and expose`) and voice interaction... You never know where it will come from, but my money is on apple with the next big innovation on a desktop machine.
ofcourse i enjoy that he was kind enough to give away billions of dollars. but in my mind, that doesn't erase the marks he has done in the past, just adds to his marks of 'good acts'... Besides, his dirty money, though going to a great and worthy cause, is still dirty money in my eyes.
no, i don't hate rich people, but i also don't believe that doing good doesn't compensate for doing bad. And yes, ofcourse i have done my share of both.
Many thousands of employees have been hired and helped by MS, ofcourse. But there is also the argument that the companies they put out of business(Be, for example) were all very much hurt due to ILLEGAL practices. I also believe in the theory of competition brings about the best product, coincidentaly, so did the constructors of the constitution, when they helped shape america, and so does our national economic system, but what do i know? I know that linux isn't ready for the primetime, but i also know that actions taken by MS to hurt BeOS getting installed(dell would have been railed in the *ss if they did it, through increased cost of licenses and having to charge for a windows license just for selling a PC) also hurt linuxs adoption.
I also believe the Apple's evolution as a company, along with the many dos clones, some of which were superior to MS-dos, and even to a lesser extent OS/2(though it was also a very big blunder by IBM, they had to worry about reprocutions if they did a full adoption of OS/2, and had to stay reserved in how anti-windows they went) were staggered, if not destroyed(dos clones) due to illegal practices... now back to your point, how many thousands of engineers would be working at those companies, if apple had flurished, dos clones stayed in business, os/2 gotten adopted, and more openly considered to be bundled on desktops?
Thousands. maybe more than what microsoft currently employs, maybe not. Either way, i believe a competitive market, dos clones, apple vs. mac, linux distros, whatever, would bring about a greater product that we have now in windows.
I will forgive bill of those CRIMES, when he takes direct action to undo that mess he did, which is a bit beyond possible, so i will just rant on these forums.
Yes, great that he donated the money, i applaud him for it, but a good action by the left hand does not negate the bad actions made by the right hand.
why does writing a check make up for all your bad deeds? He did some very dirty and(some illegal) things to get billions, and when he gives half of it back to charity, that makes him a good guy?!
If i rob a bank for a million dollars, get sued but win... then later give 1/2 million to random charities, does that makeup for my theft of the bank? NO, it doesn't, though it was nice that i donated money i had stole in the first place.
no, the anti-christ is suppose to be an eastern european who moves to be the head of a new global government, of which there are 10 groups.... and he is the ANTI-CHRIST!
Bill Gates is a business man who used strongarming, monopolist power and wholly unethical practices to defeat and steal from his competition.
I am glad that the money he got from those(many illegal, the rest just plain immoral) practices is leaving his oversized bank account and being donated, it only makes sense. Plus, he won't ever have to pay taxes with all those contributions....
any particular apps you used to clean the system out? I am never sure which to use, or where to start sometimes... I have heard adaware adds it's own spyware, and other such rumors... So i am a little sceptical of all the clean-your-system programs i see on the net.
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no, it doesn't. It qualifies it as OS X, based on Darwin. Freebsd is indepedent of linux, and freebsd, netbsd, openbsd, and darwin(which borrows much from freebsd) are in no way a 'linux distro'.
To be a linux distro, the OS has to actually USE linux. *bsd and darwin don't use linux, they use their own open(and similar to eachother, in some parts) kernel.
yes, there is potential for abuse. by why should corporation X own corpx.com corpx.org corpx.net corpx.us etc? They are a company, they should own a .COMpany TLD. The EFF is an organization, they should own a .ORGanization TLD.
.com, .org, .net, if they aren't even attempted to be regulated? why not just .a .b .c?
No system is perfect, by why have
there was mention of creating a .alt TLD... Now i am of the personal belief that an owner of a .com should prove they are a for-profit company, a .org a nonprofit organization, etc. could we create a .alt where things are independent of verisign? By not giving them ownership over the TLD, we don't give them power.... Maybe an open source-run TLD?
Or better yet, a decetralized, p2p like DNS. one where there aren't A-M servers, but just peers with their DNS caches. It would become what the internet was meant for: a network of computer systems that can communicate with one another even after a significant portion of them are taken offline(due to attack or otherwise).
any yet Nintendo has done JUST THAT with every console they have produced... Enjoyable by all ages and both sexes... Xbox and PS2 are geared toward teenage/mid-20 males with cash... Nintendo has always been age nuetral and they are GREAT at it.
Yes, but who wouldn't want to buy golden rakes to rake in the gobs of money owning disney(land, world, trademarks, content, etc) would no doubt bring in.... Barrels my friends, barrels of money. Pixar+Pure Disney would be AWESOME. unite the disney animators with the Pixar lab and let the produce THE greatest animated movies of all time, and blam! Stock goes directly skyward.
Oil sounds like a viable business, to me.
How about writing the valentines card in binary? Could be easy to find a webpage online to translate it for you.
yes, but a good core OS will limit the damage any 1 program can do... A common argument about windows is that it itself is secure, however the programs that run it(drivers/applications/etc) are insecure. In actuallity, even with a buggy/trojan program being run, a good OS would not allow it to reak havic on much of the system, let alone crash the entire computer.
ipv6 is a must-upgrade solution... it IS newer code, it does get rid of NAT(which is partially used for security) and ipv4 DOES have some hacks to make it scale higher... however, once all of china connects to the net, all of india, all of everyone, there just physically isn't enough. And NAT just ins't a clean solution when used with private addressing, it works, but it is a hack to an unavoidable fix.
ipv6 has security built into it, more addresses then particles in the universe, and eliminates the need for private addressing and nat... we should move to ipv6 if for no other reason than it is a cleaner, better solution to internet addressing.
Palm has become a indy developers dream, and I am surprised you didn't start there. It has a huge collection of software already, along with free dev tools, and the apps are small enough that a 1 man show can still write a best-in-class app or program. PalmOS is your friend.
agreed the price is well worth.. but more to the point, apple doesn't FORCE you to do anything. Like Jaguar, great, want the newest of updates, you'll need to get the newer Panther, but Jaguar keeps on working just fine regardless
actually, i believe the division that makes MS Office, has a swimming pool of $20 bills, just for kicks.. maybe not, but whoever write's Office is making oodles of money.
Second, even with Apple's 6(or something) billion in cash(MS has like 10x that, but who cares?), MS sold ALL that stock not all that long after they bought it, and made a profit off it. The investment was part of the lawsuit filed by apple when MS stole the GUI design and made windows 1.0.... in exchange MS developed software, IE and office, among others, for a duration of time that expired a year or something ago.
yes.
Enemy of the State.
ipv4, sure. but ipv6, not any time soon. all joking aside, which i am sure you are, ipv6 gives more addresses than there are particles in the universe, if i remember my geek trivia correctly... no one we run out of those anytime soon.
could you keep your own local 'phone book' like a DNS table cache on your own box? how large are the tables that the root DNS servers store?
What happens if all the root DNS servers went off? Would the 2nd-tier boxed be able to take over the role, would they eventually clear their tables, or do they only edit what they have, never perge?
KISS: keep it simple stupid...
/app/PROGRAM NAME /user/USERNAME /sys/
/app/ with their own sub directory like /app/apache/ .. /user/ subfolder, which would contain a user root directory(like the partitions root directory, but limited to the user... /user/NAME/ sys, doc, app, pub, etc... /sys/ would have standard libraries and other kernel and core system stuff.
macos class(1-9 had a nice directory system, and i think it could be carried over in its simplicity to unix boxen)
/
99% of programs would install to
a user would have a
programs, system, documents. 3 basic categories... with a multi user system, you make documents become the user listing, and you have programs, system, userfiles
3 directories, thats it.
It is media player or IE bundling that is the problem. it is the bootloader.... Make it illegal for MS to threaten price bumps to any OEM that allows a dual-boot option, make it illegal for MS to require OEMs to sell only windows, and make the OEM contracts that are now trade secrets(to hide from the public the stranglehold MS has on Dell, et al) to be publicly open... THEN require billions IN CASH along with restrictions on thier actions in the coming years....
also, a clause that says if you are caught rebraking something you are getting in trouble for, your fine will double immediately, and will continue doubling for every incident you are found guilty of.
But I would point you at Mac OS 11... or a coming iteration of the macos only because it has led the way in GUI design(at the beginning, and again with the resurgance of quarttz rendering and expose`) and voice interaction... You never know where it will come from, but my money is on apple with the next big innovation on a desktop machine.
if not, can i open up a terminal and ssh into my home box and run apt-get there?
ofcourse i enjoy that he was kind enough to give away billions of dollars. but in my mind, that doesn't erase the marks he has done in the past, just adds to his marks of 'good acts'... Besides, his dirty money, though going to a great and worthy cause, is still dirty money in my eyes.
no, i don't hate rich people, but i also don't believe that doing good doesn't compensate for doing bad. And yes, ofcourse i have done my share of both.
Many thousands of employees have been hired and helped by MS, ofcourse. But there is also the argument that the companies they put out of business(Be, for example) were all very much hurt due to ILLEGAL practices. I also believe in the theory of competition brings about the best product, coincidentaly, so did the constructors of the constitution, when they helped shape america, and so does our national economic system, but what do i know? I know that linux isn't ready for the primetime, but i also know that actions taken by MS to hurt BeOS getting installed(dell would have been railed in the *ss if they did it, through increased cost of licenses and having to charge for a windows license just for selling a PC) also hurt linuxs adoption.
I also believe the Apple's evolution as a company, along with the many dos clones, some of which were superior to MS-dos, and even to a lesser extent OS/2(though it was also a very big blunder by IBM, they had to worry about reprocutions if they did a full adoption of OS/2, and had to stay reserved in how anti-windows they went) were staggered, if not destroyed(dos clones) due to illegal practices... now back to your point, how many thousands of engineers would be working at those companies, if apple had flurished, dos clones stayed in business, os/2 gotten adopted, and more openly considered to be bundled on desktops?
Thousands. maybe more than what microsoft currently employs, maybe not. Either way, i believe a competitive market, dos clones, apple vs. mac, linux distros, whatever, would bring about a greater product that we have now in windows.
I will forgive bill of those CRIMES, when he takes direct action to undo that mess he did, which is a bit beyond possible, so i will just rant on these forums.
Yes, great that he donated the money, i applaud him for it, but a good action by the left hand does not negate the bad actions made by the right hand.
why does writing a check make up for all your bad deeds? He did some very dirty and(some illegal) things to get billions, and when he gives half of it back to charity, that makes him a good guy?!
If i rob a bank for a million dollars, get sued but win... then later give 1/2 million to random charities, does that makeup for my theft of the bank? NO, it doesn't, though it was nice that i donated money i had stole in the first place.
no, the anti-christ is suppose to be an eastern european who moves to be the head of a new global government, of which there are 10 groups.... and he is the ANTI-CHRIST!
Bill Gates is a business man who used strongarming, monopolist power and wholly unethical practices to defeat and steal from his competition.
I am glad that the money he got from those(many illegal, the rest just plain immoral) practices is leaving his oversized bank account and being donated, it only makes sense. Plus, he won't ever have to pay taxes with all those contributions....
He is still a bad guy for whom i have no respect.
any particular apps you used to clean the system out? I am never sure which to use, or where to start sometimes... I have heard adaware adds it's own spyware, and other such rumors... So i am a little sceptical of all the clean-your-system programs i see on the net.