I'm pretty new and clueless when it comes to webserving and networking. It's become a hobby for me. So I appreciate the info you supplied, and hope you could supply more.
I know this is not the place for an extended treatise on the differences between IIS and Apache, but could you hit me with a few bullet points covering the functionality that IIS has that Apache lacks? If you don't have time, I understand. If I really want to know badly I can google. Anyway, thanks for raising my understanding, even if it's only a little.
Fact #3: Since Apache/linux run 66% of the webservers, you'd think that there would be many more exploits for Apache than for MS's competing product, based on your reasoning.
We also have the desirable brand name built in, not slapped onto a POS ACER with a coat of paint.
If it didn't have the Race Car brand name, would anyone pay $1800?
If my TiBook hadn't had the Apple name, would I have paid $1800? Damn straight I would have, because even without the name, the engineering is still superb.
I got my dad an eMac for Christmas, and all he does is use Safari to check his stocks and read the NYTimes. He doesn't even trade online, he phones his broker. He says e-mail is too complicated for him, god bless him.
So, he's really not taking full advantage of everything there, but he seems to be enjoying the hell out of it a few hours every day. Hopefully, one of the sibs will get him a digital camera for his birthday.
You make some good points, but you seem to have missed the fact that the overwhelming majority of SCO's stock is held by a few hands, most notably Canopy. The market works more efficiently and more accurately values a stock when ownership of that stock is more widely dispersed. A few big owners can artificially inflate the value of the stick by trading it back and forth.
I've already written to the SEC a few times, asking them to look into this re: SCOG. I'm sure it will do a lot of good.
The worst that can happen to SCO for violating a court order is pretty damaging. Their case against IBM can be "dismissed with prejudice". The counter-suit IBM has against SCO will continue, and SCO will be severely hampered in litigating against anyone else based on the same grounds as the IBM case.
This really isn't suprising news, as it has become pretty clear that Novell was getting it's ducks in a row, prior to suing SCO. This is merely SCO striking first, though I don't know what, if any, long term good this will do them. (I haven't checked to see if this boosted their stock, but it could just as easily backfire).
Anyway, Novell is sure to file a counterclaim. No doubt about it, SCO is in trouble, and the financial world is slowly catching on to the fact.
I'm not sure. Is the iLink the little 4 pin connector or the larger 6 pin? The two extra pins carry power, and are used to charge up the iPod, either when plugged into my Powerbook, or when plugged into the AC adapter.
SCO gave "over 60 pages" of answers in this discovery. I don't think it's possible to even list millions of lines of code in 60 pages, let alone give any of the other information IBM asked for in its interrogatories.
In addition, SCO has claimed that they could not supply some documents because of the xmas holidays! I guess they thought the January 12th deadline was a soft deadline.
I understand that SCO is not using claims of infringing code in this case. But there must be code that somehow was infringed for their to be a breach of contract, whether it was directly infringed or indirectly infringed via "derivative works". Without this specificity, SCO has no case.
I'd even pay $150 if it gave me blowjobs while I was jogging.
What is it with the $100 price point? You want a "USB drive sized player" (should I assume you mean a flash based player, or is there a difference between firewire drive sizes and USB drive sizes that no one told me about?) with ethernet(?!!) for a hundred smackerooos? Fine. You'll just have to wait. In fact, if you wait long enough, they might put them inside boxes of cereal. 16 Mb should be OK, right? As long as it has ethernet? You should be able to get a lot of FLACs onto it.
This should not be marked as a troll. Jeeze, get a life, my fellow kool aid drinkers! Hopefully, a metamod will catch this.
cbreaker makes a great point. OS X would fail in the pure OS marketplace. One one hand, you have the entrenched proprietary beast, on the other you have the open source challenger. I'd say the writing is already on the wall for the proprietary beast.
Thankfully, Apple makes most of its money on hardware. OS X's purpose is to get you to buy that hardware. Apple's other great applications are there to get you to buy the hardware. iTunes Music Store. . . buy the hardware*.
This year, watch for a lot of effort in linux desktop development. I think that the spearheads will be companies, the obvious ones being Sun, IBM, and Novell. Apple has set the bar with its Aqua gui, but a linux desktop only needs to be as good as XP or 2000 to be able to wrest a lot of marketshare from Redmond**. Perhaps one or more of these companies will throw their weight behind Gnome or KDE, perhaps not. Bottom line, the linux world has a 2 to 4 year window before Longhorn arrives.
*I wonder if some day, a trivia question will be: What product did Apple sell before the iPod?
**If it's better than Aqua, I'll gladly run it on my expensive overpriced Apple hardware.
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That's the weakest thing I've seen posted by a non-AC.
Over 10 years ago, there was a Mac virus called the autostart worm. This was before the internet was part of most users everyday experience, so there was much less of a vector for virii. Macs are much more connected today, so there is a greater chance than ever for infection.
Mac OS X is BSD based. I haven't heard of any Unix viruses out in the wild, let alone one specific to OS X. If it's so easy, why don't we hear about Unix viruses?
It is for precisely this reason that I bought my dad an eMac for christmas. My sister, who lives 200 miles away, thought I should buy him a Windows machine (for all the usual reasons), and my response was to ask her if she wanted to be his tech support. That quieted her down.
Anyway, my computer isn't trouble free, but it might as well be. What few problems do crop up are trivial and easily fixed.
Re: your dad's problem. Check the RAM. Might be a loose stick or even out of spec. The OS and firmware have gotten a lot more finnicky about 3rd party RAM spec.
I don't know what damaged your credibility more, saying you could write an OS X virus in a few hours or that you have sex. Oh, you didn't mean with anyone other than yourself! OK, just one thing damaged your credibility, then. =) Seriously, you don't think it would be a real coup to write and release an OS X virus? You don't think others have tried and failed? What makes you think you could succeed? Unless you can substantiate your assertion, I'll consider it a hollow boast.
Anyway, the obscurity argument has been discredited. Apache is by far the most common webserver, yet the MS product is 3 times more prone to problems.
Less hardware choice is a trade off, but one I accept. It's not all roses on the mac side, but on the whole, I happily trade some choice for fewer hardware headaches.
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How many frames of HD resolution can you carry around on a 256 MB flash based MP3 player?
Maybe you should stick to low resolution porn.
I'm pretty new and clueless when it comes to webserving and networking. It's become a hobby for me. So I appreciate the info you supplied, and hope you could supply more.
I know this is not the place for an extended treatise on the differences between IIS and Apache, but could you hit me with a few bullet points covering the functionality that IIS has that Apache lacks? If you don't have time, I understand. If I really want to know badly I can google. Anyway, thanks for raising my understanding, even if it's only a little.
Thanks for correcting me. You're right. In fact, I've run Apache on OS X. I just figured if I mentioned linux, I'd get modded up.
Fact #3: Since Apache/linux run 66% of the webservers, you'd think that there would be many more exploits for Apache than for MS's competing product, based on your reasoning.
We also have the desirable brand name built in, not slapped onto a POS ACER with a coat of paint.
If it didn't have the Race Car brand name, would anyone pay $1800?
If my TiBook hadn't had the Apple name, would I have paid $1800? Damn straight I would have, because even without the name, the engineering is still superb.
I got my dad an eMac for Christmas, and all he does is use Safari to check his stocks and read the NYTimes. He doesn't even trade online, he phones his broker. He says e-mail is too complicated for him, god bless him.
So, he's really not taking full advantage of everything there, but he seems to be enjoying the hell out of it a few hours every day. Hopefully, one of the sibs will get him a digital camera for his birthday.
I was under the impression that one couldn't mod if one had RTFA.
You make some good points, but you seem to have missed the fact that the overwhelming majority of SCO's stock is held by a few hands, most notably Canopy. The market works more efficiently and more accurately values a stock when ownership of that stock is more widely dispersed. A few big owners can artificially inflate the value of the stick by trading it back and forth.
I've already written to the SEC a few times, asking them to look into this re: SCOG. I'm sure it will do a lot of good.
you insensitive clod!
Heheheheh.
This info would have saved me weeks of effort, and my karma would now be excellent. You should write the Slashdot for Dummies book.
The worst that can happen to SCO for violating a court order is pretty damaging. Their case against IBM can be "dismissed with prejudice". The counter-suit IBM has against SCO will continue, and SCO will be severely hampered in litigating against anyone else based on the same grounds as the IBM case.
Watch IBM put forth a motion to dismiss.
This really isn't suprising news, as it has become pretty clear that Novell was getting it's ducks in a row, prior to suing SCO. This is merely SCO striking first, though I don't know what, if any, long term good this will do them. (I haven't checked to see if this boosted their stock, but it could just as easily backfire).
Anyway, Novell is sure to file a counterclaim. No doubt about it, SCO is in trouble, and the financial world is slowly catching on to the fact.
I'm not sure. Is the iLink the little 4 pin connector or the larger 6 pin? The two extra pins carry power, and are used to charge up the iPod, either when plugged into my Powerbook, or when plugged into the AC adapter.
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Robert McMillan = Clueless
SCO gave "over 60 pages" of answers in this discovery. I don't think it's possible to even list millions of lines of code in 60 pages, let alone give any of the other information IBM asked for in its interrogatories.
In addition, SCO has claimed that they could not supply some documents because of the xmas holidays! I guess they thought the January 12th deadline was a soft deadline.
I understand that SCO is not using claims of infringing code in this case. But there must be code that somehow was infringed for their to be a breach of contract, whether it was directly infringed or indirectly infringed via "derivative works". Without this specificity, SCO has no case.
I'd even pay $150 if it gave me blowjobs while I was jogging.
What is it with the $100 price point? You want a "USB drive sized player" (should I assume you mean a flash based player, or is there a difference between firewire drive sizes and USB drive sizes that no one told me about?) with ethernet(?!!) for a hundred smackerooos? Fine. You'll just have to wait. In fact, if you wait long enough, they might put them inside boxes of cereal. 16 Mb should be OK, right? As long as it has ethernet? You should be able to get a lot of FLACs onto it.
Still, I'm guessing the word SCO is getting from Google would be more along the lines of corporate, "Go ahead, make my day."
I was thinking more along the lines of, "I'm sorry, he's unavailable, would you like to leave a voicemail message?"
Everyone knows Darl owns a white persian with a diamond collar. You're not fooling anyone.
This should not be marked as a troll. Jeeze, get a life, my fellow kool aid drinkers! Hopefully, a metamod will catch this.
cbreaker makes a great point. OS X would fail in the pure OS marketplace. One one hand, you have the entrenched proprietary beast, on the other you have the open source challenger. I'd say the writing is already on the wall for the proprietary beast.
Thankfully, Apple makes most of its money on hardware. OS X's purpose is to get you to buy that hardware. Apple's other great applications are there to get you to buy the hardware. iTunes Music Store. . . buy the hardware*.
This year, watch for a lot of effort in linux desktop development. I think that the spearheads will be companies, the obvious ones being Sun, IBM, and Novell. Apple has set the bar with its Aqua gui, but a linux desktop only needs to be as good as XP or 2000 to be able to wrest a lot of marketshare from Redmond**. Perhaps one or more of these companies will throw their weight behind Gnome or KDE, perhaps not. Bottom line, the linux world has a 2 to 4 year window before Longhorn arrives.
*I wonder if some day, a trivia question will be: What product did Apple sell before the iPod?
**If it's better than Aqua, I'll gladly run it on my expensive overpriced Apple hardware.
That's the weakest thing I've seen posted by a non-AC.
Jebus Crisp, not this again. Democratic republic is a subset of democracy. How hard is that to understand?
For the children's sake, tear out your retinas NOW, before the image has a chance to imprint elsewhere.
Over 10 years ago, there was a Mac virus called the autostart worm. This was before the internet was part of most users everyday experience, so there was much less of a vector for virii. Macs are much more connected today, so there is a greater chance than ever for infection.
Mac OS X is BSD based. I haven't heard of any Unix viruses out in the wild, let alone one specific to OS X. If it's so easy, why don't we hear about Unix viruses?
It is for precisely this reason that I bought my dad an eMac for christmas. My sister, who lives 200 miles away, thought I should buy him a Windows machine (for all the usual reasons), and my response was to ask her if she wanted to be his tech support. That quieted her down.
Anyway, my computer isn't trouble free, but it might as well be. What few problems do crop up are trivial and easily fixed.
Re: your dad's problem. Check the RAM. Might be a loose stick or even out of spec. The OS and firmware have gotten a lot more finnicky about 3rd party RAM spec.
I don't know what damaged your credibility more, saying you could write an OS X virus in a few hours or that you have sex. Oh, you didn't mean with anyone other than yourself! OK, just one thing damaged your credibility, then. =) Seriously, you don't think it would be a real coup to write and release an OS X virus? You don't think others have tried and failed? What makes you think you could succeed? Unless you can substantiate your assertion, I'll consider it a hollow boast.
Anyway, the obscurity argument has been discredited. Apache is by far the most common webserver, yet the MS product is 3 times more prone to problems.
Less hardware choice is a trade off, but one I accept. It's not all roses on the mac side, but on the whole, I happily trade some choice for fewer hardware headaches.
I'd say that's more a problem with the librairies.