I'm a soon-to-be Mac owner, and as much as I'm looking forward to giving the development tools (and, soon, Xcode) a try, what I would die to have is KDevelop for OS X.
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Jesus Christ. If you even refer to first post in the title, you get modded "Troll".
How am I trolling in saying I'm getting an iBook and Safari soon?
This is not my beautiful (first?) post!
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This was talked about in comments many hours ago in other Apple-related stories.
Oh well. Anyway, I'm getting an iBook soon and look forward to playing around with Safari.
This was the rage in the 80s. Basically you had a target. You went around with a rubber sticky dart gun hunting your mark. If you "killed" him, you then went after his target. And so on, until one was left.
Then one day the inevitable happened. A guy was pinting his very real dart gun at someone at night, and a security officer blew him away.
What's the general theme of misfortune in the Gentoo PPC forum threads you've read? It may be just a Linux PPC thing, not a Gentoo thing.
First off, thanks for the detailed reply. That's the kind of first-hand accounts I'm interested in hearing.
As for the Gentoo PPC threads, some of it has been related to driver support, while some of it has been related to problems with things like the LiveCD.
On my x86 machines, I like Gentoo, but there are some things I definitely don't like. Most of us on the Gentoo forums that use Thinkpad 600E's have never been able to get sound working with ALSA, but Red Hat 8.0 was able to get ALSA and the Thinkpad to cooperate. I haven't had any problem with broken builds on my AMD, but I do think some tasks are needlessly complex. I also don't really need bleeding edge packages - recent minor updates to KDE and Xfree has given me some less than desirable behavior.:)
Heh. I have an Apple laptop and it's a Linux laptop, both at the same time!
OS X is pretty good. PPC Linux runs just fine (aside from a few "all the world's an Intel" complexes some developers have). Dual booting is nice and stylish for the developer on the go.
That's exactly what I'm wanting.
I'm a CS student that's getting some money from the folks for a new laptop, and I'm awfully inclined to go with the Apple. Way I figure it, my laptop will run Linux no matter what I get (I'm primarily a Linux user (Gentoo usually, gonna play with Debian a bit), and a Windows user secondary). I figure an Apple laptop would provide some new interesting toys with OS X, while I can still use dual-boot into a Linux distrib.
Might I ask, what PPC Linux are you running? I know Gentoo runs on PPC, but some of the forum posts seem to indicate that it might not be the best PPC option.
Royalty payements on albums for artists range from 5% to 15%. But the real bitch is how much of that 5-15% doesn't even get to the artist's pocket.
You see, after the recoupable costs (which are mighty, and include a "packaging deduction" which is around 15 to 20% of the royalties), then a good portion (half, according to some sources) of what's left is held as "reserve" to account for returned merchendise, etc! The "reserve" is (allegedly) paid back over 2 to 4 years, minus the expenses of returned CDs and stuff (and it's probably not a stretch of imagination to think of labels adding a "0" here or there to the actual figure of returns).
When you take away things like packaging deductions and reserves, the 12% from iTunes is a lot nicer than 12% from albums.
If Bush restricts foreign trade, he's not abiding by "free trade", and is therefore a fuck-up.
If Bush does not restrict foreign trade, the domestic economy suffers by not being able to compete with foreign government-subsidized industry, and is therefore a fuck-up.
I love how Slashdot posters make Bush being a fuck-up into a tautology.
Seriously, as with any medication, things are going to react to your body chemistry differently than other people's. Ignore people saying "don't use this, it didn't work for me!", because what fails for them may succeed beautifully for you.
Just make sure you're not a jackass first. Probably around 25% of "diagnosed" ADHD cases are actually just jackasses. Not to downplay the real problem of the other 75%, but just poking fun of the heavy tendency of over-diagnosis of this.
As a Gentoo user (not zealot), let me counter some of these.
"Although I can't use the box at the moment because it's compiling something, as it will be for the next five days, it gives me more time to check out the latest USE flags and potentially unstable optimisation settings."
Once my system is set up, all compiling is done in a little terminal window. It does not stop me from using the box normally during that time.
"Apart from Hello World in Pascal at school, I've never written a single program in my life"
Some of us ARE programmers.
Last month I tried to install FreeBSD on a well-supported machine, but the text-based installer scared me off.
This is just dumb. FreeBSD's installer is a hell of a lot more straightforward than installing Gentoo. I haven't bothered with the other BSDs, so no comment there.
I've spent hours recompiling Fetchmail, X-Chat, gEdit and thousands of other programs which spend 99% of their time waiting for user input
The speed benefits are from compiling X11, KDE, etc. They're not HUGE, but a subtle speed increase is not a BAD thing!
"I'm too stupid to understand that circular dependencies can be resolved by specifying BOTH.rpms together on the command line, and that problems hardly ever occur if one uses proper Red Hat packages instead of mixing SuSE, Mandrake and Joe's Linux packages together (which the system wasn't designed for)."
Orrrr.... I can just type "emerge kde" and not worry about it. Hunh, how about that.
On one hand, you criticize Gentoo for the less than friendly nature of recompiling, and now you criticize Gentoo for having the MORE friendly nature of dependency handling. Is easy a good thing or a bad thing to you?
Constantly upgrading to the latest bleeding-edge untested software makes me more productive.
It's nice to have the option. It's not required. I guess choice is a bad thing?
OK, so no serious business is going to even consider Gentoo in the near future,
Probably not. More likely, the features of Gentoo will appear elsewhere (as we're seeing in this here article, even). Portage is quite simply the nicest method of software install in any OS I've used. If compiled binaries were an option in it, that'd be great too. But the ability to download and install something like an IM client with a simple "emerge gaim" cannot be overstated.
Hopefully, this becomes standard fare for OSs, instead of something special to Gentoo.
As a Republican, this sort of thing from someone in "my" party is disgraceful. The party needs to distance itself from crap like this. Government intervention in industry should be limited to safety and creating an environment conductive to competitive business. It does NOT have to achieve the latter by fscking the consumer.
How low can prices go before a new generation of console hardware kicks in?
How about $150, which is what the last cuts SHOULD have been? It's good to hear that the modest price cut has bolstered sales, but it was a letdown to consumers and retailers that were expecting something bigger.
... is that the game is being developed by Irrational.
It makes me cry to see all these unused copies of Freedom Force in bargain bins. Don't make the same mistake! And of course, System Shock 2 is a Top 10 PC game of the last few years.
Looking Glass may be gone, but thank (insert deity here) that a lot of LG talent went to Irrational (even before LG's demise).
(Also, how many other ways can game companies squeeze every last cent out of gamers? It's pretty amazing what they've come up with so far.)
How so?
Animal Crossing players have explored every facet of the game and beg for more. The following is very similar to that of The Sims (not surprising, given the similar nature of the 2 games).
I don't think having swipe cards or anything like that is "squeezing every last cent out of gamers". They're nice little low-production-cost extras for the fanatics.
God created imperfection. The existence of Satan is pretty much in keeping with the fact that God created imperfect beings and then gave them "free will".
Consider it akin to a video game. When I "create" a video game, bad stuff gets introduced to the good guys in the game. To do any less would make the system pretty pointless.
The point of life on Earth is that it falls well short of Heaven.
You didn't read the article at all... The very point is that a degree is no longer helping people keep their jobs.
One does not contradict the other. That's like saying "the ability to read is no longer helping people keep their jobs - therefore, the ability to read is not important in a job applicee".
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SCO is suing IBM over the Linux kernel.
Qt != kernel. They are in no way related.
Now, what was your address again?
How am I trolling in saying I'm getting an iBook and Safari soon?
Oh well. Anyway, I'm getting an iBook soon and look forward to playing around with Safari.
So did the security guard go on to win?
First off, thanks for the detailed reply. That's the kind of first-hand accounts I'm interested in hearing.
As for the Gentoo PPC threads, some of it has been related to driver support, while some of it has been related to problems with things like the LiveCD.
On my x86 machines, I like Gentoo, but there are some things I definitely don't like. Most of us on the Gentoo forums that use Thinkpad 600E's have never been able to get sound working with ALSA, but Red Hat 8.0 was able to get ALSA and the Thinkpad to cooperate. I haven't had any problem with broken builds on my AMD, but I do think some tasks are needlessly complex. I also don't really need bleeding edge packages - recent minor updates to KDE and Xfree has given me some less than desirable behavior. :)
That's exactly what I'm wanting.
I'm a CS student that's getting some money from the folks for a new laptop, and I'm awfully inclined to go with the Apple. Way I figure it, my laptop will run Linux no matter what I get (I'm primarily a Linux user (Gentoo usually, gonna play with Debian a bit), and a Windows user secondary). I figure an Apple laptop would provide some new interesting toys with OS X, while I can still use dual-boot into a Linux distrib.
Might I ask, what PPC Linux are you running? I know Gentoo runs on PPC, but some of the forum posts seem to indicate that it might not be the best PPC option.
You see, after the recoupable costs (which are mighty, and include a "packaging deduction" which is around 15 to 20% of the royalties), then a good portion (half, according to some sources) of what's left is held as "reserve" to account for returned merchendise, etc! The "reserve" is (allegedly) paid back over 2 to 4 years, minus the expenses of returned CDs and stuff (and it's probably not a stretch of imagination to think of labels adding a "0" here or there to the actual figure of returns).
When you take away things like packaging deductions and reserves, the 12% from iTunes is a lot nicer than 12% from albums.
The CRTs can stay, but everyone else gotta go!
If Bush does not restrict foreign trade, the domestic economy suffers by not being able to compete with foreign government-subsidized industry, and is therefore a fuck-up.
I love how Slashdot posters make Bush being a fuck-up into a tautology.
Did the last one even crack the sales charts?
Seriously, as with any medication, things are going to react to your body chemistry differently than other people's. Ignore people saying "don't use this, it didn't work for me!", because what fails for them may succeed beautifully for you.
Just make sure you're not a jackass first. Probably around 25% of "diagnosed" ADHD cases are actually just jackasses. Not to downplay the real problem of the other 75%, but just poking fun of the heavy tendency of over-diagnosis of this.
Once my system is set up, all compiling is done in a little terminal window. It does not stop me from using the box normally during that time.
Some of us ARE programmers.
This is just dumb. FreeBSD's installer is a hell of a lot more straightforward than installing Gentoo. I haven't bothered with the other BSDs, so no comment there.
The speed benefits are from compiling X11, KDE, etc. They're not HUGE, but a subtle speed increase is not a BAD thing!
Orrrr.... I can just type "emerge kde" and not worry about it. Hunh, how about that.
On one hand, you criticize Gentoo for the less than friendly nature of recompiling, and now you criticize Gentoo for having the MORE friendly nature of dependency handling. Is easy a good thing or a bad thing to you?
It's nice to have the option. It's not required. I guess choice is a bad thing?
Probably not. More likely, the features of Gentoo will appear elsewhere (as we're seeing in this here article, even). Portage is quite simply the nicest method of software install in any OS I've used. If compiled binaries were an option in it, that'd be great too. But the ability to download and install something like an IM client with a simple "emerge gaim" cannot be overstated.
Hopefully, this becomes standard fare for OSs, instead of something special to Gentoo.
How about $150, which is what the last cuts SHOULD have been? It's good to hear that the modest price cut has bolstered sales, but it was a letdown to consumers and retailers that were expecting something bigger.
Allow me to explain.
"Battlefield 1942".
That is all.
It makes me cry to see all these unused copies of Freedom Force in bargain bins. Don't make the same mistake! And of course, System Shock 2 is a Top 10 PC game of the last few years.
Looking Glass may be gone, but thank (insert deity here) that a lot of LG talent went to Irrational (even before LG's demise).
How so?
Animal Crossing players have explored every facet of the game and beg for more. The following is very similar to that of The Sims (not surprising, given the similar nature of the 2 games).
I don't think having swipe cards or anything like that is "squeezing every last cent out of gamers". They're nice little low-production-cost extras for the fanatics.
God created imperfection. The existence of Satan is pretty much in keeping with the fact that God created imperfect beings and then gave them "free will".
Consider it akin to a video game. When I "create" a video game, bad stuff gets introduced to the good guys in the game. To do any less would make the system pretty pointless.
The point of life on Earth is that it falls well short of Heaven.
One does not contradict the other. That's like saying "the ability to read is no longer helping people keep their jobs - therefore, the ability to read is not important in a job applicee".