I've enjoyed what bits I have saw so far of Omega man but Omega man wasn't truly original either. It's based loosely of the book from 1954 titled I am Legend. From seeing the opening scenes of The Omega Man it appears as the creators of the I am Legend movie was giving a nod at The Omega man IIRC Heston is tearing around in a blue Mustang in the opening scene after crashing some other car. Smith was doing the same in a Red Mustang. Neither would be a reference to the book though since Neville swore by driving only Willys.
A co-worker had offered to help out someone get rid of vista by installing Windows XP on a Sony Vaio laptop. Sony didn't have any drivers available for that model via the support page for WinXP. So my co-worker just grabbed drivers for the hardware straight from the vendors. When he got to the video card is where the show stopper problem came in. It was an ATI card IIRC but the generic ATI driver wouldn't work. Sony has deviated enough in the implementation to make the the ATI driver not work. It was missing features that the graphics chip supports and the resolution wasn't right so the machine got restore back to factory default Vista. I don't quite think it's a Vista lockin attempt since, especially with laptops, the safer bet is only use the manufacturer approved drivers and not the OEM versions. The manufacturers will usually tell you that any how. I will lie more with the manufacturers to continue to test and support it unless MS is "convincing" the computer makers to not support or provide XP drivers for their hardware. Or as a cost savings measure since you don't need to regression test two sets of drivers.
kinda sounds like rainman. VMs...definately faster than 10%. definitely.
I don't know man, I've been playing with VMware server running on a really modest 2.4Ghz P4 with 2GB of ram and I've been pretty impressed with it's speed. I'm sure there are some tasks will make the machine take a real beating making the lag more pronounced but I typically have 3-4(lately CentOS, WinXP and a pair of Win2003) guests with the XP host subtituting as my Windows desktop using a really basic Ubuntu install as the host. It actually reboots VMs faster than physical hardware(Win2003 comes up in about 10 seconds after clicking the start vm button) and a start to finish Windows install took about 10-15 minutes from initial boot to a functioning login prompt. Maybe it might be noticable but I'm at least open to many scenarios where it could be pretty convincingly hidden from the layman. I can't imagine how it would run if it had something more recent like a AMD X2 or Core 2 based machine at it's disposal. My hardware is 3+ years old.
Now I feel better since it doesn't appear that I'm alone on not knowing the phone number but I could dial it if needed. I only know a few phone numbers that I can straight out repeat the sequence but there are quite a few other ones that I have to look at a keypad to tell you what it is since I remember the relation of the keys on the keypad not the numbers themselves. They could be colors and it wouldn't make much of a difference.
The thing about pixar is the push the boundaries hard but they have good stories to go with those amazing visuals the produce. I'm sure the Pixar films would be as enjoyable as they are without the writing which would make them the same as a lot of crap that's cranked out of the movie industry.
Apple made a conscious choice to not use Gecko as the basis of Safari. IIRC they based the decision on size and code simplicity. They felt KHTML was a cleaner core to use than gecko.
I agree. I like the increase of daylight hours after work.
I've heard that same line before as well. I say what about the after school activities type kid though. The way it was everyone gets out of school and it's fully light out. I used to play basketball in grade school. By the time practice was out it was really dark. So you have a lone young kid walking home alone in the dark instead the masses that would get let out when it's starting to get dark. I would think there would be better safety in numbers rather than the single kid that would in theory be easier prey. I say what about the lone kids doesn't anyone care about them and their safety.
The other reason I don't think anyone mentioned is commercial apps. Oracle Application on Linux is used at work. It's only certified to work on a few distros which all are on the subscription tip. After the cost of Oracle, the RedHat/SUSE cost is not much. Netbackup is another one. You can usually work around things to get them to work on other distros but you can't be self supporting things like that for a mission critical application like a commerce site or ERP system. If there something that is not as critical but we want to run on Linux we'll usually turn to CentOS since it is pretty much identical and nobody needs to know their way around the different distro nuances. Knowing one will translate easily over to another but if you are part of a understaffed team any efficiency edge gained without sacrificing something like security or stability is always a plus.
I used to like and use debian and slackware a lot but a lot of things(but not all) I'll experiment will kind of have the thought in the back of my mind of whether will be useful at work or not. I feel in a way, learning my way around Debian or Ubuntu or Gentoo or whatever is the flavor of the month doesn't help me as much career wise. My Macbook usually is my window into the boxes so it's either an ssh session or a single GUI app running via X11. I'll spend time poking around something in SPARC Solaris or HP-UX before venturing out to try the latest linux with GUI wizzbang whatever.
So that's my draw to using RHEL or clone over some other more free distro.
yeah and before you jump on my shit, I'm sure the OLPC project won't be changing their stance at this time but I just found it interesting in hindsight.
I remember a few years ago when what OS to be supplied with the OLPC was being hotly debated, Jobs very publicly offered OS X to the project free of charge but it got brushed off immediately since one, OS X was a bit of a laggard in the early days in the performance arena and nobody though such a heavy OS would be able to run on such minimal requirements and two, it didn't fit the projects idea of "free software". Which is kind of ironic since they have settled for using non-free(if you stick their original definition) binary blobs to run their mesh wifi chip. I think most people chalked it up the Jobs stunt as simple attention whoring by way of bluffing(yeah right OS X on this little minimal computer) or maybe grandstanding since it might help give Apple an positive image by doing something altruistic. Ultimately he was probably refering to this version of OS X running on these phones.
After about a month of being MIA my nano recently surfaced.......IN THE WASH. I've read the other article about someone accidently washing theirs. I did it now to and it actually seems to have survived unscathed for now. I let it dry for a couple days then finally plugged in. All my music and everything was still there and plays just fine. Gotta love flash memory, I'm sure a hard drive based player wouldn't have survived as well.
Mac OS X and FreeBSD use different kernels and thus different drivers. Mac OS X uses a framework called IOKit for drivers. I'm not sure how hard it is to port them from one to the other, but I would guess it's not exactly a straight path. Whether it comes from Apple I doubt it. I think their goal is to not support every pc hardware device. They tend to keep it simple and focused to the hardware that they produce like the SATA on their own boxes. I would also thing if Apple pushed something downstream from their XNU kernel they would have to BSD license it. Most of their stuff is APSL.
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Well I don't have a cloak(or cape), didn't you see what happened to those poor chaps with their capes in the incredibles. It's just asking for trouble. It is flame and heat resistant, though.
Get it straight next time fucko, it's Mr. Unbelievable not Mr Fuckin-Amazing. That's my cousin's name.
Cheers
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Kids are no excuse. If you are driven to want to learn new things you will find ways to make the time. I have two kids and the ol' lady works swing shift so I am on my own taking care of them for the evening after work. After they are sleeping it's possible to find time to do lots of thing and depending on what it is you want to do you can do it with them. In spite of not being childless, I manaage to find time to read books(mostly technical but sometimes more recreational), go for walks with the kids, take the kids for a bike ride in the bike trailer, I recently took up the guitar(I've never played an instrument before), mess around with new things in my home lab, play with the kids, clean up around the house and throw a fuckin' on the wife at every opportunity(or maybe two on a good day) and sometimes we'l even get a chance to go and hang out with some of our friends or see their band play or whatever. You won't get much done sitting in front of the boob tube(or constantly reading Slashdot) but there shouldn't be any reason you can't learn new things unless you aren't motivated. Oh yeah and sleep is overrated. You might not be able to all of those things everyday but if you spread it out, finding a little time few days a week isn't unrealistic. The key is to not sit still, keep moving.
I'm glad to see other people agonize over the cert crap too. I'm in the same boat. I skipped the whole college ordeal and got my foot in the door by literally working in the basement of the company(non-IT related work). After a while they offered me a position "upstairs" and I took it. Whenever I've started to think that maybe it's time to find a new job, that's unfortunately always one of my first thoughts, "maybe a cert would make things easier" instead of sticking to my ideals and getting the job on my own merits.
Seven years later and I"m still cert and degree free and doing just fine. Now it's kind of becoming a game to see how far I can get without either one of them(those damn ideals again).
I worked on Airport while at Apple and I can confirm that we did indeed work with Lucent but we did not simply rebrand their tech.
I don't know how much it varied in the beginning but over time the Airport cards definitely deviated more and more from the original cards they were based on via Apple's firmware upgrades. The straight WaveLAN/Orincco cards only had support for WEP. Depending on which one you bought it supported 64bit(silver) or 128bit(gold) WEP. The silver and gold cards were techincally the same hardware-wise just different firmware(there are some articles around detailing upgrading a silver card to gold). When I got a company supplied PowerBook G4 four years ago I shelled out the 100 bucks for an Airport card to play around with wireless at home. Over time Apple improved the firmware to eventually support WPA. The WaveLAN firmware doesn't support it's still WEP only. I'm not sure if they are doing something in software or what but an Airport card works at 11mbits with WPA personal or enterprise auth. We happened to have an old AP collecting dust that had a silver WaveLAN card in it. I took that card and put it into my PowerBook and it's detected as a Airport card. I updated the firmware with Apples firmware and it supports WPA as well. I've recently sold my original Airport card on eBay and have been using the reflashed WaveLAN card without incident. I actually got 100 bucks for the Airport card when it did sell, talk something holding its resale value.
I call bullshite. Napster relies heavily on DRM'ed WMA files. Their website doesn't have much on it regarding the real restrictions. Maybe some small indie labels allow them to sell un-DRM'ed MP3's but all the big pop songs like gwen stefani or coldplay are DRM'ed WMA files and NOT unencumbered MP3's which explains why iPod isn't on the list of supported players Apple didn't license WMA support for the iPod in spite of it being capable to support the DRM'ed WMAs. you might workaround the WMA DRM by burning them to a CD and then re-ripping the CD to standard MP3's but they are not selling or renting you unprotected files. Re-encoding/ripping is possibly against the EULA.
It would fully be possible. SPARC was an architecture supported by OpenSTEP and for that matter PA-RISC i believe. I think the odds are pretty low that they would have continued development. They would be in the same boat with the lack of laptop processor which is why I think they did the parallel x86 development. Jobs had been quoted in some articles a few years ago in regards being at some Intel conventions or expos, he stated "I'm looking at options" "it's good to have options"
I'm sure there are a lot of others that didn't make the jump to Win2000 from NT.
In my employers case they rely on Exchange(unfortunately) so I couldn't see going from NT/Exch5.5 to 2000/Exch2000 this late in the game. Win2000 is EOL March 31, 2007. Win2003 is EOL Jun 30, 2013. That allows much more time to plan the next move whether it's to another Windows version or to a UNIX/SAMBA combo
I was hoping to be able to do a Windows/Samba hybrid this round but Exchange kind of negates one of the big benefits of using SAMBA cost. you still have to have CAL's for the Windows servers so you don't save much by using SAMBA you still pay the piper. Some aspects of SAMBA can be a bit frustrating as well, driver download for example. It could be admin ignorace since I didn't spend much time on it. If you double click a shared printer on a Windows box it will allow a regular user to set it up but SAMBA won't let a regular user do it. If you do it off a SAMBA box you have to setup it up via an admin account first and then it behaves more like a "local device" and others can see it. I haven't had time I look forward to SAMBA 4 and it's AD DC emulation. maybe then we can ditch one PITA Groupware for another one(Domino) that runs native in Linux. Or even better someone will have a good true OpenSource groupware solution. If I had programming skills I'd gladly contribute but I don't.
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I've enjoyed what bits I have saw so far of Omega man but Omega man wasn't truly original either. It's based loosely of the book from 1954 titled I am Legend. From seeing the opening scenes of The Omega Man it appears as the creators of the I am Legend movie was giving a nod at The Omega man IIRC Heston is tearing around in a blue Mustang in the opening scene after crashing some other car. Smith was doing the same in a Red Mustang. Neither would be a reference to the book though since Neville swore by driving only Willys.
sounds like a viable solution in this case. You can never go wrong with shark security.
A co-worker had offered to help out someone get rid of vista by installing Windows XP on a Sony Vaio laptop. Sony didn't have any drivers available for that model via the support page for WinXP. So my co-worker just grabbed drivers for the hardware straight from the vendors. When he got to the video card is where the show stopper problem came in. It was an ATI card IIRC but the generic ATI driver wouldn't work. Sony has deviated enough in the implementation to make the the ATI driver not work. It was missing features that the graphics chip supports and the resolution wasn't right so the machine got restore back to factory default Vista. I don't quite think it's a Vista lockin attempt since, especially with laptops, the safer bet is only use the manufacturer approved drivers and not the OEM versions. The manufacturers will usually tell you that any how. I will lie more with the manufacturers to continue to test and support it unless MS is "convincing" the computer makers to not support or provide XP drivers for their hardware. Or as a cost savings measure since you don't need to regression test two sets of drivers.
The installer will warn you on a machine not up to the requirements and refuse to install. I'm sure the XPostFacto team will conjure something up.
kinda sounds like rainman. VMs...definately faster than 10%. definitely.
I don't know man, I've been playing with VMware server running on a really modest 2.4Ghz P4 with 2GB of ram and I've been pretty impressed with it's speed. I'm sure there are some tasks will make the machine take a real beating making the lag more pronounced but I typically have 3-4(lately CentOS, WinXP and a pair of Win2003) guests with the XP host subtituting as my Windows desktop using a really basic Ubuntu install as the host. It actually reboots VMs faster than physical hardware(Win2003 comes up in about 10 seconds after clicking the start vm button) and a start to finish Windows install took about 10-15 minutes from initial boot to a functioning login prompt. Maybe it might be noticable but I'm at least open to many scenarios where it could be pretty convincingly hidden from the layman. I can't imagine how it would run if it had something more recent like a AMD X2 or Core 2 based machine at it's disposal. My hardware is 3+ years old.
jerky
Now I feel better since it doesn't appear that I'm alone on not knowing the phone number but I could dial it if needed. I only know a few phone numbers that I can straight out repeat the sequence but there are quite a few other ones that I have to look at a keypad to tell you what it is since I remember the relation of the keys on the keypad not the numbers themselves. They could be colors and it wouldn't make much of a difference.
The thing about pixar is the push the boundaries hard but they have good stories to go with those amazing visuals the produce. I'm sure the Pixar films would be as enjoyable as they are without the writing which would make them the same as a lot of crap that's cranked out of the movie industry.
Apple made a conscious choice to not use Gecko as the basis of Safari. IIRC they based the decision on size and code simplicity. They felt KHTML was a cleaner core to use than gecko.
Well it's not a whole FOSS stack per se but I used Open Directory(which does use OpenLDAP albeit with a simple gui around it) from Mac OS X Server to acheive this. You might be able find something helpful infomation to "clear the haze" around that topic even if you aren't using Mac OS X Server http://www.jerkys.org/wiki/x/YgAf http://www.jerkys.org/wiki/x/CQAQ http://www.jerkys.org/wiki/x/OwAf
Windows 2000 was made unavailable after 4 years (March 31, 2004) While XP will have been riding for more than 6 years. See the link for more info. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/lifecycle/default .mspx
I've heard that same line before as well. I say what about the after school activities type kid though. The way it was everyone gets out of school and it's fully light out. I used to play basketball in grade school. By the time practice was out it was really dark. So you have a lone young kid walking home alone in the dark instead the masses that would get let out when it's starting to get dark. I would think there would be better safety in numbers rather than the single kid that would in theory be easier prey. I say what about the lone kids doesn't anyone care about them and their safety.
Too right. Fuckin' JInitiator. Thorn in my side that is. jerky
The other reason I don't think anyone mentioned is commercial apps. Oracle Application on Linux is used at work. It's only certified to work on a few distros which all are on the subscription tip. After the cost of Oracle, the RedHat/SUSE cost is not much. Netbackup is another one. You can usually work around things to get them to work on other distros but you can't be self supporting things like that for a mission critical application like a commerce site or ERP system. If there something that is not as critical but we want to run on Linux we'll usually turn to CentOS since it is pretty much identical and nobody needs to know their way around the different distro nuances. Knowing one will translate easily over to another but if you are part of a understaffed team any efficiency edge gained without sacrificing something like security or stability is always a plus.
I used to like and use debian and slackware a lot but a lot of things(but not all) I'll experiment will kind of have the thought in the back of my mind of whether will be useful at work or not. I feel in a way, learning my way around Debian or Ubuntu or Gentoo or whatever is the flavor of the month doesn't help me as much career wise. My Macbook usually is my window into the boxes so it's either an ssh session or a single GUI app running via X11. I'll spend time poking around something in SPARC Solaris or HP-UX before venturing out to try the latest linux with GUI wizzbang whatever. So that's my draw to using RHEL or clone over some other more free distro.
yeah and before you jump on my shit, I'm sure the OLPC project won't be changing their stance at this time but I just found it interesting in hindsight.
I remember a few years ago when what OS to be supplied with the OLPC was being hotly debated, Jobs very publicly offered OS X to the project free of charge but it got brushed off immediately since one, OS X was a bit of a laggard in the early days in the performance arena and nobody though such a heavy OS would be able to run on such minimal requirements and two, it didn't fit the projects idea of "free software". Which is kind of ironic since they have settled for using non-free(if you stick their original definition) binary blobs to run their mesh wifi chip. I think most people chalked it up the Jobs stunt as simple attention whoring by way of bluffing(yeah right OS X on this little minimal computer) or maybe grandstanding since it might help give Apple an positive image by doing something altruistic. Ultimately he was probably refering to this version of OS X running on these phones.
If you were refering to the older keyboards and mice, they used ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) not ADC (Apple Developer Connection)
jerky
After about a month of being MIA my nano recently surfaced.......IN THE WASH. I've read the other article about someone accidently washing theirs. I did it now to and it actually seems to have survived unscathed for now. I let it dry for a couple days then finally plugged in. All my music and everything was still there and plays just fine. Gotta love flash memory, I'm sure a hard drive based player wouldn't have survived as well.
Mac OS X and FreeBSD use different kernels and thus different drivers. Mac OS X uses a framework called IOKit for drivers. I'm not sure how hard it is to port them from one to the other, but I would guess it's not exactly a straight path. Whether it comes from Apple I doubt it. I think their goal is to not support every pc hardware device. They tend to keep it simple and focused to the hardware that they produce like the SATA on their own boxes. I would also thing if Apple pushed something downstream from their XNU kernel they would have to BSD license it. Most of their stuff is APSL.
Well I don't have a cloak(or cape), didn't you see what happened to those poor chaps with their capes in the incredibles. It's just asking for trouble. It is flame and heat resistant, though.
Get it straight next time fucko, it's Mr. Unbelievable not Mr Fuckin-Amazing. That's my cousin's name.
Cheers
Kids are no excuse. If you are driven to want to learn new things you will find ways to make the time. I have two kids and the ol' lady works swing shift so I am on my own taking care of them for the evening after work. After they are sleeping it's possible to find time to do lots of thing and depending on what it is you want to do you can do it with them. In spite of not being childless, I manaage to find time to read books(mostly technical but sometimes more recreational), go for walks with the kids, take the kids for a bike ride in the bike trailer, I recently took up the guitar(I've never played an instrument before), mess around with new things in my home lab, play with the kids, clean up around the house and throw a fuckin' on the wife at every opportunity(or maybe two on a good day) and sometimes we'l even get a chance to go and hang out with some of our friends or see their band play or whatever. You won't get much done sitting in front of the boob tube(or constantly reading Slashdot) but there shouldn't be any reason you can't learn new things unless you aren't motivated. Oh yeah and sleep is overrated. You might not be able to all of those things everyday but if you spread it out, finding a little time few days a week isn't unrealistic. The key is to not sit still, keep moving.
Jerky
I'm glad to see other people agonize over the cert crap too. I'm in the same boat. I skipped the whole college ordeal and got my foot in the door by literally working in the basement of the company(non-IT related work). After a while they offered me a position "upstairs" and I took it. Whenever I've started to think that maybe it's time to find a new job, that's unfortunately always one of my first thoughts, "maybe a cert would make things easier" instead of sticking to my ideals and getting the job on my own merits.
Seven years later and I"m still cert and degree free and doing just fine. Now it's kind of becoming a game to see how far I can get without either one of them(those damn ideals again).
Jerky
I worked on Airport while at Apple and I can confirm that we did indeed work with Lucent but we did not simply rebrand their tech.
I don't know how much it varied in the beginning but over time the Airport cards definitely deviated more and more from the original cards they were based on via Apple's firmware upgrades. The straight WaveLAN/Orincco cards only had support for WEP. Depending on which one you bought it supported 64bit(silver) or 128bit(gold) WEP. The silver and gold cards were techincally the same hardware-wise just different firmware(there are some articles around detailing upgrading a silver card to gold). When I got a company supplied PowerBook G4 four years ago I shelled out the 100 bucks for an Airport card to play around with wireless at home. Over time Apple improved the firmware to eventually support WPA. The WaveLAN firmware doesn't support it's still WEP only. I'm not sure if they are doing something in software or what but an Airport card works at 11mbits with WPA personal or enterprise auth. We happened to have an old AP collecting dust that had a silver WaveLAN card in it. I took that card and put it into my PowerBook and it's detected as a Airport card. I updated the firmware with Apples firmware and it supports WPA as well. I've recently sold my original Airport card on eBay and have been using the reflashed WaveLAN card without incident. I actually got 100 bucks for the Airport card when it did sell, talk something holding its resale value.
I call bullshite. Napster relies heavily on DRM'ed WMA files. Their website doesn't have much on it regarding the real restrictions. Maybe some small indie labels allow them to sell un-DRM'ed MP3's but all the big pop songs like gwen stefani or coldplay are DRM'ed WMA files and NOT unencumbered MP3's which explains why iPod isn't on the list of supported players Apple didn't license WMA support for the iPod in spite of it being capable to support the DRM'ed WMAs. you might workaround the WMA DRM by burning them to a CD and then re-ripping the CD to standard MP3's but they are not selling or renting you unprotected files. Re-encoding/ripping is possibly against the EULA.
jerky
It would fully be possible. SPARC was an architecture supported by OpenSTEP and for that matter PA-RISC i believe. I think the odds are pretty low that they would have continued development. They would be in the same boat with the lack of laptop processor which is why I think they did the parallel x86 development. Jobs had been quoted in some articles a few years ago in regards being at some Intel conventions or expos, he stated "I'm looking at options" "it's good to have options"
I'm sure there are a lot of others that didn't make the jump to Win2000 from NT.
In my employers case they rely on Exchange(unfortunately) so I couldn't see going from NT/Exch5.5 to 2000/Exch2000 this late in the game. Win2000 is EOL March 31, 2007. Win2003 is EOL Jun 30, 2013. That allows much more time to plan the next move whether it's to another Windows version or to a UNIX/SAMBA combo
I was hoping to be able to do a Windows/Samba hybrid this round but Exchange kind of negates one of the big benefits of using SAMBA cost. you still have to have CAL's for the Windows servers so you don't save much by using SAMBA you still pay the piper. Some aspects of SAMBA can be a bit frustrating as well, driver download for example. It could be admin ignorace since I didn't spend much time on it. If you double click a shared printer on a Windows box it will allow a regular user to set it up but SAMBA won't let a regular user do it. If you do it off a SAMBA box you have to setup it up via an admin account first and then it behaves more like a "local device" and others can see it. I haven't had time I look forward to SAMBA 4 and it's AD DC emulation. maybe then we can ditch one PITA Groupware for another one(Domino) that runs native in Linux. Or even better someone will have a good true OpenSource groupware solution. If I had programming skills I'd gladly contribute but I don't.