Thing is, you don't need complex computers to tell you about problems. I was test-driving my new car the other day and an orange warning light came on, with a picture similar to the handbrake light. I couldn't for the life of me work out what it was. When I got home the manual said it was that the front brakes were worn. And this is in a 1993 K-reg Renault 5.
63mph is perfectly legal in a 60mph zone, at least in England. There is a 10% leeway to allow for reading the speedo or something, so the true limits are eg. 33mph, 55mph, 66mph, etc.
Of course, as soon as they released "Bash for Windows" half the Slashdot community would throw up their arms in disgust, accuse MS of stealing software without giving anything back and declare they open up the source code to the entire Windows codebase under the GPL. Then when they realise no-one's listening they'll get back to playing Half Life on their mum's Windows machine.
I don't know if it's any different in America, but in England you are allowed a 10% lee-way over the speed limit. E.g. in a 30MPH zone you may do up to 33MPH without being prosecuted. This is to account for different speedos and interpretations of the speed, etc.
As OS X is largely based on FreeBSD they do not really have to give a lot back. And the stuff they did alter they have returned to the cimmunity through Darwin and their developer pages. The GUI is proprietary and they have every right to keep it that way, as (I assume) no GPL code was used to make it. Oh, and OS X on x86 will never happen. Get over it.
There is a reason that none of the terminal programs in UNIX accept key shortcuts such as Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V; the WM has no idea what keyboard shortcuts the program running in the window uses. The middle-click-paste method was developed for this very reason. Because nothing had used a mouse before X was implemented it was easy to map paste to the middle button, rather than use a keyboard shortcut that may be taken by the running app. I believe all terminal applications in UNIX ignore Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V for copy/paste, and will use select and middle-click instead.
Safari is based on KDE's KHTML rendering engine used in Konqueror, not Mozilla's Gecko engine. While I've seen a few pages go funny in Konqueror I can recall only one that doesn't work with Safari. But then maybe I don't look at enough websites.
As opposed to what, Microsoft Emacs? Apple Emacs? (eMacs?)
As 'noble' (interpret as you wish) as the GNU Organisation is, I don't like the way they insist that their name appears before everything. When people say Linux they normally mean the system as a whole. If they just want the kernel then they'll say 'Linux Kernel'. When "GNU/Hurd" becomes more common then it will probably be called simply "Hurd". I mean, it's not like anyone else makes Emacs...
muzz:~ $ logout -bash: logout: command not found muzz:~ $ GNU/logout Login: _
As much as I like the smoothness of the X copy/paste and hover-focus system it does annoy me sometimes. For instance, I copy a URL from, say, xterm (something that won't start a flame war!) and go to paste into Mozilla. To change the current URL in Moz's address bar I have to either select the text and hit delete (thus losing my 'clipboard'), use backspace a lot or remember to clear the address bar before I copy the new URL. With the focus-follows-mouse-pointer, the number of times I have ended up typing in the wrong window because I've knocked the mouse or forgot to give the window focus is amazing. Despite a GUI I do not like being too reliant on a mouse when working with text. Saying that however I do appreciate X, and sure as hell wish it was the default display server on all platforms. I love the way I can pull a single window from any of the UNIX machines onto my Mac (or another machine, though I have trouble getting windows from my Mac to the other UNIX machines) and work with it as if it was (almost) local.
Now, only if we can get Apple to relize that making OS X for x86 machines would be profitable...
When will people realise this is never going to happen? Apple is a hardware manufacturer akin to Dell. Mac OS is the main reason people buy that hardware. Put OS X on the i386 and you lose the biggest incentive for using Apple hardware.
One wonders why these literal rocket scientists didn't just get asoftware programmable Linux or PalmOS basedwrist-computer
Why must everything on Slashdot be Linux-based?! If they were going to make a watch on a different time system to normal then wouldnt it make more sense to just build a slightly different watch? Analogue you just add a few more teeth to the gears and digital shouldn't be too hard to alter. Putting Linux on a watch is just silly.
The art and marketing folks couldn't possibly switch to Linux without support from major software applications like Photoshop, etc...
I would suspect that the art and marketing folks would move to Mac if they were going to drop Windows completely (OS X is built on open source...), otherwise they would be a little island of Windows in a sea of black-and-white penguins.
(Talking of Penguins, am I the only person who noticed the little image of Tux in the bottom corner of a MacDonalds poster?)
Most people seem to prefer the raised workbench, but that requires a raised chair
I find when building computers that sitting at a chair limits me too much, as I must keep standing up to reach parts of the chassis or other tools/parts. I find that the easiest setup is a desk with anti-static matting, roughly 3' from the ground. A deep desk is good for fitting all the parts and the chassis on, and if you can get to all four sides of the desk then testing becomes a little easier. Power sockets all over the place and at least 3 screwdrivers (the number of times I've put a screwdriver down then forgotten where I left it...) are very helpful.
You cannot register your own 'second-level' domain for.uk because Nominet (owners of.uk) like to keep it organised. Normal people aren't even supposed to use.co.uk, as there is a.me.uk for people, but when I purchased my domain only.org.uk and.co.uk were offered to me. Whilst being able to create your own SLD would be nice I think Nominet are taking the right approach, because it is very destinct whether the address holder is a company (.co.uk), an organisation (.org.uk), a school/college (.ac.uk) or a governmental agency (.gov.uk).
My experiences of using Eudora to connect to the corporate Exchange server were limited to using email, and I was unable to get the Calendar, Address Book or Task Manager to sync with the server, but this was with the stock Eudora that came with RedHat 9. Email worked brilliantly though, but I had to give up my lone RedHat box in the end for the standard XP configuration due to my lack of access to the printer and shared calendar / address book. You may have more luck with Evolution Connector though (I'm working on the assumption here that Evolution and Evolution Connector are different products).
I'm not a sysadmin so I couldn't answer from personal experience, but I would have thought that the best tool would be a *NIX or a Mac OS X laptop. Then you have a keyboard to type on rather than faffing about with styli and handwriting recognition, and they are able to connect easily to all three major OSes. A Windows laptop would hinder rather than help you, because most of the tools you would need would be absent. I have a Palm m500 and the handwriting input is a pain sometimes, and I find it much easier and faster to use a keyboard. A bluetooth phone and PCMCIA card might be helpful though for when there's no phone socket nearby.
I agree -- recently a local McDonalds store started putting adverts all over an outside shopping parade (just outside the Arndale centre in Luton, England) where there was no corporate adverts before (occasionally there'd be a banner for a local event but these are acceptable). I don't with to be bombarded with pictures of Big Macs any time of the day, let alone at 8:30am when the thought of any fatty food turns my stomach. And now other companies are starting to follow suit. It's visual pollution, yet is allowed to pass because it makes money for the governments and the councils.
Cost is as much an issue for companies needing servers as it is for end users. I work for a company building servers and render machines, and a large portion of our clients ask for SCSI drives not because they can afford to spend a bit more, but because they need the extra performance. Normally they are set up in RAID so this will affect the speed, but we do sometimes supply IDE RAID configurations. They are not as in demand however because they are not as fast.
I don't think Bluetooth will die any time soon. I think it will become simply a wireless version of USB, whilst WLAN becomes a networking protocol only. The situation will probably end up similar to the current Firewire/USB situation. One was supposed to kill off the other, yet they currently both exist and operate side-by-side (Firewire for digital media and USB for everything else).
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Thing is, you don't need complex computers to tell you about problems. I was test-driving my new car the other day and an orange warning light came on, with a picture similar to the handbrake light. I couldn't for the life of me work out what it was. When I got home the manual said it was that the front brakes were worn. And this is in a 1993 K-reg Renault 5.
Maybe not FreeBSD, but I'm sure NetBSD must have a "NetBSD/deadbadger" port in the works somewhere.
63mph is perfectly legal in a 60mph zone, at least in England. There is a 10% leeway to allow for reading the speedo or something, so the true limits are eg. 33mph, 55mph, 66mph, etc.
Of course, as soon as they released "Bash for Windows" half the Slashdot community would throw up their arms in disgust, accuse MS of stealing software without giving anything back and declare they open up the source code to the entire Windows codebase under the GPL. Then when they realise no-one's listening they'll get back to playing Half Life on their mum's Windows machine.
I don't know if it's any different in America, but in England you are allowed a 10% lee-way over the speed limit. E.g. in a 30MPH zone you may do up to 33MPH without being prosecuted. This is to account for different speedos and interpretations of the speed, etc.
As OS X is largely based on FreeBSD they do not really have to give a lot back. And the stuff they did alter they have returned to the cimmunity through Darwin and their developer pages. The GUI is proprietary and they have every right to keep it that way, as (I assume) no GPL code was used to make it. Oh, and OS X on x86 will never happen. Get over it.
Alternatively, why not publish a book called penguinputnam.com and force them to hand over the domain? Or how about calling it
:oP
"Penguin Group (USA)
375 Hudson Street
New York
NY 10014"
and forcing them to hand over their building
There is a reason that none of the terminal programs in UNIX accept key shortcuts such as Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V; the WM has no idea what keyboard shortcuts the program running in the window uses. The middle-click-paste method was developed for this very reason. Because nothing had used a mouse before X was implemented it was easy to map paste to the middle button, rather than use a keyboard shortcut that may be taken by the running app. I believe all terminal applications in UNIX ignore Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V for copy/paste, and will use select and middle-click instead.
Safari is based on KDE's KHTML rendering engine used in Konqueror, not Mozilla's Gecko engine. While I've seen a few pages go funny in Konqueror I can recall only one that doesn't work with Safari. But then maybe I don't look at enough websites.
Anyone ever uses -that- [scroll-lock] button anymore nowadays ?
Actually, you can use it for paging up the screen in a FreeBSD terminal (Shift-PgUp doesn't work).
Well their webservers at least are running Lotus-Domino/5.0.8 on NT4/Windows 98.
As opposed to what, Microsoft Emacs? Apple Emacs? (eMacs?)
As 'noble' (interpret as you wish) as the GNU Organisation is, I don't like the way they insist that their name appears before everything. When people say Linux they normally mean the system as a whole. If they just want the kernel then they'll say 'Linux Kernel'. When "GNU/Hurd" becomes more common then it will probably be called simply "Hurd". I mean, it's not like anyone else makes Emacs...
muzz:~ $ logout
-bash: logout: command not found
muzz:~ $ GNU/logout
Login: _
As much as I like the smoothness of the X copy/paste and hover-focus system it does annoy me sometimes. For instance, I copy a URL from, say, xterm (something that won't start a flame war!) and go to paste into Mozilla. To change the current URL in Moz's address bar I have to either select the text and hit delete (thus losing my 'clipboard'), use backspace a lot or remember to clear the address bar before I copy the new URL. With the focus-follows-mouse-pointer, the number of times I have ended up typing in the wrong window because I've knocked the mouse or forgot to give the window focus is amazing. Despite a GUI I do not like being too reliant on a mouse when working with text. Saying that however I do appreciate X, and sure as hell wish it was the default display server on all platforms. I love the way I can pull a single window from any of the UNIX machines onto my Mac (or another machine, though I have trouble getting windows from my Mac to the other UNIX machines) and work with it as if it was (almost) local.
This is the bit that Microsoft dont understand...
Why must everything on Slashdot be Linux-based?! If they were going to make a watch on a different time system to normal then wouldnt it make more sense to just build a slightly different watch? Analogue you just add a few more teeth to the gears and digital shouldn't be too hard to alter. Putting Linux on a watch is just silly.
(Talking of Penguins, am I the only person who noticed the little image of Tux in the bottom corner of a MacDonalds poster?)
You cannot register your own 'second-level' domain for .uk because Nominet (owners of .uk) like to keep it organised. Normal people aren't even supposed to use .co.uk, as there is a .me.uk for people, but when I purchased my domain only .org.uk and .co.uk were offered to me. Whilst being able to create your own SLD would be nice I think Nominet are taking the right approach, because it is very destinct whether the address holder is a company (.co.uk), an organisation (.org.uk), a school/college (.ac.uk) or a governmental agency (.gov.uk).
My experiences of using Eudora to connect to the corporate Exchange server were limited to using email, and I was unable to get the Calendar, Address Book or Task Manager to sync with the server, but this was with the stock Eudora that came with RedHat 9. Email worked brilliantly though, but I had to give up my lone RedHat box in the end for the standard XP configuration due to my lack of access to the printer and shared calendar / address book. You may have more luck with Evolution Connector though (I'm working on the assumption here that Evolution and Evolution Connector are different products).
I'm not a sysadmin so I couldn't answer from personal experience, but I would have thought that the best tool would be a *NIX or a Mac OS X laptop. Then you have a keyboard to type on rather than faffing about with styli and handwriting recognition, and they are able to connect easily to all three major OSes. A Windows laptop would hinder rather than help you, because most of the tools you would need would be absent. I have a Palm m500 and the handwriting input is a pain sometimes, and I find it much easier and faster to use a keyboard. A bluetooth phone and PCMCIA card might be helpful though for when there's no phone socket nearby.
I agree -- recently a local McDonalds store started putting adverts all over an outside shopping parade (just outside the Arndale centre in Luton, England) where there was no corporate adverts before (occasionally there'd be a banner for a local event but these are acceptable). I don't with to be bombarded with pictures of Big Macs any time of the day, let alone at 8:30am when the thought of any fatty food turns my stomach. And now other companies are starting to follow suit. It's visual pollution, yet is allowed to pass because it makes money for the governments and the councils.
Cost is as much an issue for companies needing servers as it is for end users. I work for a company building servers and render machines, and a large portion of our clients ask for SCSI drives not because they can afford to spend a bit more, but because they need the extra performance. Normally they are set up in RAID so this will affect the speed, but we do sometimes supply IDE RAID configurations. They are not as in demand however because they are not as fast.
Nonsense, 64KB of memory should be enough for anyone!
I don't think Bluetooth will die any time soon. I think it will become simply a wireless version of USB, whilst WLAN becomes a networking protocol only. The situation will probably end up similar to the current Firewire/USB situation. One was supposed to kill off the other, yet they currently both exist and operate side-by-side (Firewire for digital media and USB for everything else).