Woeful package maintenance? Given that the installation/uninstallation of most programs is as easy as dragging it to the folder you want or dragging it to the trash, I don't see how that could be "woeful." I admit though, that it does get a bit nastier when you've got applications that put things into/Library or ~/Library (or netbeans, which is a bitch and puts it in ~/.netbeans.
But it can't be any worse than my school's management of it's windows machines. It keeps track of installed software using (which is largely variant for no reason) using Access.
It depends what you're installing. Any Cocoa/Carbon application that uses libraries from there are already installed on the system. If you are going to use any other libraries, then BYO. I think. (I haven't done the greatest deal of mac programming).
Obviously, you aren't very mac-savvy are you? Select your entire applications folder and hit enter and watch as.... nothing happens. Remember than open is Cmd-O in Finder.
(Of course, if you are using a replacement to finder, excuse me)
That's far too humane for co-workers. Put Windows 2 on it and even if they get what's happening, watch the confusion as it crashes at the sign of executing code.
If you happen to be running macs, the cruelest, most evil thing you can do to a mac user is find a folder with about a billion itmes in it, select all of them and drag 'em into the dock. They'll be there for hours removing each, one-by-one.
Things have changed, but not really for a desktop OS.
I wouldn't hesitate to put Solaris on a server for the lab(s) or something like that, but even though I'm an avid supporter of Solaris, putting it on a desktop for a lab might not be that friendly to your students.
And then played the game at twice the speed, making it altogether unplayable...
I can remember loading up an old Atari 2600 game on a really bad emulator. The whole game flashed past me at lightning speed. Needless to say, I did not make the high-score list.
Although that is a growing problem, I still don't think that it will fix it.
I think that thr problem is that he should delete some stuff. I too am in the habit of saving masses of 'crap' and no deleting it, even when I never watch it again. It takes and hard drive to fail before I ever erase somthing (and that happens surprisingly often for some reason). I have mountains of saved video, but I hardly ever watch it again, I just accumulate it (that's why I just bought an array of hard-drives - to store this stuff)
Another alternative would be to re-encode this stuff. Chances are that all of this video is in very-large, loss-less files. It wouldn't hurt much to trim it down with XviD or something similar.
The only good thing (well, it's a bad thing really, but good for corporations that make monopolising operating systems (oops, was that too much of a finger-pointer?)), would be that they would be able to make billions more licensing their OS as a gaming platform for Live CDs to gaming companies and reducing support for developing games onto their other OSs (introduces the Gaming OS concept to squeeze more money outta you).
Why stop at games? Why not do this with every application out there. Need to run OpenOffice? reboot the machine, wait 10 minutes for an OS to load as well as detect and configure the hardware. Now I need to email the document to someone, save it to floppy, pop in my Thunderbird CD and repeat the process.
A platform is designed to get things working together and games need this too. Not to mention the massive needs for updates (while we're storing the whole game in RAM, let's try updating it while it's in there too!).
It defeats the purpose to run everything from CD. A platform provides the interaction and the compatability that developers need. A huge layer of abstractiion is needed.
It might be a good idea to use an alternate OS (I use a Mac for email), but when nobody else does and I wind up getting about 400 of these little buggers a day, it's not really much use is it.
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Woeful package maintenance? Given that the installation/uninstallation of most programs is as easy as dragging it to the folder you want or dragging it to the trash, I don't see how that could be "woeful." I admit though, that it does get a bit nastier when you've got applications that put things into /Library or ~/Library (or netbeans, which is a bitch and puts it in ~/.netbeans.
But it can't be any worse than my school's management of it's windows machines. It keeps track of installed software using (which is largely variant for no reason) using Access.
It depends what you're installing. Any Cocoa/Carbon application that uses libraries from there are already installed on the system. If you are going to use any other libraries, then BYO.
I think. (I haven't done the greatest deal of mac programming).
PS: Love Hina sucks. But hey, what can I do. it's doomed to be sucky since it's anime. :(
Oooo, if I had any moderator points left...
Obviously, you aren't very mac-savvy are you? Select your entire applications folder and hit enter and watch as.... nothing happens.
Remember than open is Cmd-O in Finder.
(Of course, if you are using a replacement to finder, excuse me)
colour schemes of X/CDE/Winders to all white.
Don't you think they're already going through enough suffering?
That's far too humane for co-workers. Put Windows 2 on it and even if they get what's happening, watch the confusion as it crashes at the sign of executing code.
I'll bet that someone won't.
If you happen to be running macs, the cruelest, most evil thing you can do to a mac user is find a folder with about a billion itmes in it, select all of them and drag 'em into the dock.
They'll be there for hours removing each, one-by-one.
I think that's because people don't usually think too hard about how to incriminate themselves.
Well I can't really argue with you much there, maybe the first assignment could be -
100% of grade
Write a replacement
Due: Before you shoot yourself
Perhaps things have changed since Solaris 8
Things have changed, but not really for a desktop OS.
I wouldn't hesitate to put Solaris on a server for the lab(s) or something like that, but even though I'm an avid supporter of Solaris, putting it on a desktop for a lab might not be that friendly to your students.
Yet if you run it without Aqua, you've got a very solid and working BSD backdrop to play with.
I don't think there's anything else you mentioned for which there isn't a Linux equivalent.
Maybe the BSD-based OS, eh?
Just think though, you could start a new course - CDE101
I don't think students want to spend the precious last 5 minutes to an assignment's deadline waiting as KDE is configuring your devices from a CD.
And then played the game at twice the speed, making it altogether unplayable...
I can remember loading up an old Atari 2600 game on a really bad emulator.
The whole game flashed past me at lightning speed. Needless to say, I did not make the high-score list.
Since when does Amazon or CompUSA count as official?
On this one -
Computer manufacturers will save millions by purchasing Seagate[...]
But Mike seems to think it will be a bit more -
Computer manufacturers will save billions by purchasing Seagate[...]
Well, sept. 30 was never an official release date was it? I didn't see any huge posters with that on it (actually, I haven't seen any HL2 posters).
Isn't this old news? Valve has made the announcement that they are going for a holiday release ages ago.
Besides, we all knew they wouldn't meet their release date, no game does. What are you all so disappointed about?
Although that is a growing problem, I still don't think that it will fix it.
I think that thr problem is that he should delete some stuff. I too am in the habit of saving masses of 'crap' and no deleting it, even when I never watch it again. It takes and hard drive to fail before I ever erase somthing (and that happens surprisingly often for some reason).
I have mountains of saved video, but I hardly ever watch it again, I just accumulate it (that's why I just bought an array of hard-drives - to store this stuff)
Another alternative would be to re-encode this stuff. Chances are that all of this video is in very-large, loss-less files. It wouldn't hurt much to trim it down with XviD or something similar.
I don't mean to be a troll, but c'mon -
"From my preliminary research, there is very little savings when moving to a thin client environment that isn't based on Linux."
At least that was preliminary research.
The only good thing (well, it's a bad thing really, but good for corporations that make monopolising operating systems (oops, was that too much of a finger-pointer?)), would be that they would be able to make billions more licensing their OS as a gaming platform for Live CDs to gaming companies and reducing support for developing games onto their other OSs (introduces the Gaming OS concept to squeeze more money outta you).
So, is this proof that programmers ARE engineers?
Why stop at games? Why not do this with every application out there.
Need to run OpenOffice? reboot the machine, wait 10 minutes for an OS to load as well as detect and configure the hardware.
Now I need to email the document to someone, save it to floppy, pop in my Thunderbird CD and repeat the process.
A platform is designed to get things working together and games need this too. Not to mention the massive needs for updates (while we're storing the whole game in RAM, let's try updating it while it's in there too!).
It defeats the purpose to run everything from CD. A platform provides the interaction and the compatability that developers need. A huge layer of abstractiion is needed.
It might be a good idea to use an alternate OS (I use a Mac for email), but when nobody else does and I wind up getting about 400 of these little buggers a day, it's not really much use is it.