Multiple monitor display: Users can configure one virtual machine to span multiple monitors or multiple virtual machines to each display on separate monitors with this industry-first capability, enhancing desktop productivity.
Having guests that can use all your monitors is a huge improvement for VMware. This is something that has been missing for years.
Can you quote dialog/cite scenes from episodes? I think you may be right but my memory is a little hazy. I also thought the word 'fuck' didn't exist in the BSG universe.
I agree with you completely. GP's argument is that because Mac can run everything else inside it, it therefore is the ultimate OS. Get VMware and Linux is the ultimate OS using the same argument.
OSX & Parallels is much better than VMware & Linux for desktop usage. Either way, just because both can virtualize Windows doesn't make either host superior...and it's not even a core feature of the OS but a 3rd party application. So I agree that this is an irrelevant argument.
The ultimate OS should be determined based on merits of the operating system itsself, not what other operating systems you can run to get required features.
Personally as a guy who has on average 6 - 10 consoles open at any one time, Mac OS X isnt flexible enough to be the ultimate OS. You just cant get the necessary power from it when you need it.
As someone who's just switched to OSx86 from Debian, I think I'm semi-qualified to offer opinions on *nix v. OSX desktops. If anything, my understanding of OSX is rather limited.
So what features does OSX lack? I'm trying to think of anything I miss. One problem I will admit to is OSX's rather braindead disk utility which would not allow me to create new partitions without reformating my boot partition. I used parted from a live-cd in the end.
10 terminals? I use screen & zsh (both of which come with OSX, BTW). Terminal.app is okay. Not brilliant but sufficient and there are alternatives.
Linux can on the other hand adapt to be n00b friendly or power user friendly. The fact that you have distros like Ubuntu and Gentoo as two extremes is proof of that.
It's flexible. You (or the developers) adapt it to your needs. That level of flexibility is just not necessary on the desktop. Not that it's a inherently a bad thing, it's just irrelevant.
I've had about 100 hours of entertainment from Zelda and Wii Sports since December.
But...well, for now there's nothing left to do. Most of the current UK titles have little appeal. The next games big are SMG and Metroid but they aren't out for months. So the system is currently collecting dust.
I wish there were more retro Zelda titles available (OOT, MM, WW).
Yeah, second vote for Zelda here. It is the best game I have played on any platform in a long time, no question. Unfortunately for me, I officially beat it today on my second completion (all Pieces of Heart, all bugs, all Poes, & the Cave of Ordeals).
Now I'll have to wait a spell before going through it again...
That's my experience as well. It does *help* but if you think for one minute that your ping will be 'playable' during heavy use then you're sadly mistaken. I've found SSH sessions benefit greatly, though.
I guess the best way would be to buy a second dedicated gaming connection, say 512Kbps DSL.
There are only 3 or 4 real BSD girls in that collection. One's the famous BSD chick that the other guy linked to (but you've been over that...), two are booth babes (although maybe they actually use BSD too, who knows...), and the one at the bottom kind of looks to have had her horns and tail photoshopped on:/
Of course, the only real Linux chick that comes to mind is Brandy.
Keyra is rumoured to be a *NIX sysadmin but I imagine that's more wishful thinking than anything.
(Disclaimer: I have FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and GNU/Linux boxes at home so [threw out Plan9 though]...I'm just a freak.)
Don't get me wrong, I want the movie to do well with mainstream audiences. What I don't want is some bastardized version that shares nothing with Firefly other than the cast (see: Hollywood).
But everything points to this being a good movie for fans and non-fans alike.
Are you fraking kidding me? The story is awful, the acting from some of the supporting cast is laughable, Rose herself is annoying as hell. The only thing that works is Ecclestone as the Doctor, but that alone can't carry the show.
Under tens might enjoy it but personally I think it's dreck.
That's very similar to what I hope to set up with my OpenBSD bridge. Now to profess my ignorance: You're queueing everything on the external interface (flowing to the Internet) but nothing on the internal*? Is that the recommened practice for a small home/office?
* I can see the mistake I made here. With a bridge I should only try and filter on one (the external) interface.
Yeah, it's a piece of piss to setup a local repository on a server and then point all the other machines to update from that, and you'll find the tools (e.g. apt-move) to do this in your favourite distro:)
This could be a win for everybody. The best part of tvtorrents isn't so much that they're free but they're amazingly convienient. No adverts, watch them when you want, hdtv quality -- they're just fantastic value, even at $1.
And if a portion of the money goes directly back to the show's production instead of subsidizing some reality tv crap, then all the better.
Although, I'll hold judgement until we actually see an iShows.com that offers all that they promise.
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Can you quote dialog/cite scenes from episodes? I think you may be right but my memory is a little hazy. I also thought the word 'fuck' didn't exist in the BSG universe.
OSX & Parallels is much better than VMware & Linux for desktop usage. Either way, just because both can virtualize Windows doesn't make either host superior...and it's not even a core feature of the OS but a 3rd party application. So I agree that this is an irrelevant argument.
As someone who's just switched to OSx86 from Debian, I think I'm semi-qualified to offer opinions on *nix v. OSX desktops. If anything, my understanding of OSX is rather limited.
So what features does OSX lack? I'm trying to think of anything I miss. One problem I will admit to is OSX's rather braindead disk utility which would not allow me to create new partitions without reformating my boot partition. I used parted from a live-cd in the end.
10 terminals? I use screen & zsh (both of which come with OSX, BTW). Terminal.app is okay. Not brilliant but sufficient and there are alternatives.
It's flexible. You (or the developers) adapt it to your needs. That level of flexibility is just not necessary on the desktop. Not that it's a inherently a bad thing, it's just irrelevant.
I've had about 100 hours of entertainment from Zelda and Wii Sports since December.
:)
But...well, for now there's nothing left to do. Most of the current UK titles have little appeal. The next games big are SMG and Metroid but they aren't out for months. So the system is currently collecting dust.
I wish there were more retro Zelda titles available (OOT, MM, WW).
Oh well, C&C3 is out next month
Yeah, second vote for Zelda here. It is the best game I have played on any platform in a long time, no question. Unfortunately for me, I officially beat it today on my second completion (all Pieces of Heart, all bugs, all Poes, & the Cave of Ordeals).
Now I'll have to wait a spell before going through it again...
I don't understand GP. The level of hype surrounding Serenity is no where near the level of...well, anything mainstream hollywood.
What sets it apart is that almost everything is generated from the bottom-up, from the fans and the geeks.
We love the it, the actors love it, and suitepotato hates it.
Pounds to pennies he's never seen an episode. Oy vey iz im.
Reiser4 should really be avoided on the desktop if possible since it sacrifices 'interactivity' for throughput.
/usr to ext3 + b-trees, JFS, or XFS. I've had some bad experiences with ReiserFS so I doubt I'll ever trust it again.
I'm thinking of moving / and
That's my experience as well. It does *help* but if you think for one minute that your ping will be 'playable' during heavy use then you're sadly mistaken. I've found SSH sessions benefit greatly, though.
I guess the best way would be to buy a second dedicated gaming connection, say 512Kbps DSL.
Give ZSH a try. It's got all kinds of neat-o features like advanced prompting and filename generation -- never use find again!
There are only 3 or 4 real BSD girls in that collection. One's the famous BSD chick that the other guy linked to (but you've been over that...), two are booth babes (although maybe they actually use BSD too, who knows...), and the one at the bottom kind of looks to have had her horns and tail photoshopped on :/
Of course, the only real Linux chick that comes to mind is Brandy.
Keyra is rumoured to be a *NIX sysadmin but I imagine that's more wishful thinking than anything.
(Disclaimer: I have FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and GNU/Linux boxes at home so [threw out Plan9 though]...I'm just a freak.)
Oh, and unfortunately I'm much more like Simon than Jayne.
Don't get me wrong, I want the movie to do well with mainstream audiences. What I don't want is some bastardized version that shares nothing with Firefly other than the cast (see: Hollywood).
But everything points to this being a good movie for fans and non-fans alike.
As a fan of Firefly, it had better not be much of a departure from the core elements of the series.
If you and the rest of the general public don't like it that much, tough shit.
An Apache mirror running Microsoft-IIS/6.0.
*boogle*
I am pseudo-British (spent >50% of my life living here but never nationalized) :)
Are you fraking kidding me? The story is awful, the acting from some of the supporting cast is laughable, Rose herself is annoying as hell. The only thing that works is Ecclestone as the Doctor, but that alone can't carry the show.
Under tens might enjoy it but personally I think it's dreck.
How about requiring editors to read the fucking site? I don't know why they expect others to read this crap when they can't even be bothered...
Oh, and actually editing poor submissions to make sense would be nice too.
http://www.newzbin.com/browse/post/1063941/
Wow, very cool :)
That's very similar to what I hope to set up with my OpenBSD bridge. Now to profess my ignorance: You're queueing everything on the external interface (flowing to the Internet) but nothing on the internal*? Is that the recommened practice for a small home/office?
* I can see the mistake I made here. With a bridge I should only try and filter on one (the external) interface.
Nothing using adblock and Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050221 Firefox/1.0+ (today's trunk build).
I did notice a popup the other day using adblock & 1.0+dfsg.1-2 (Debian package with Gecko/20050110).
Yeah, it's a piece of piss to setup a local repository on a server and then point all the other machines to update from that, and you'll find the tools (e.g. apt-move) to do this in your favourite distro :)
GP is Yet Another Silly Windows Cluebie (YASWC).
This could be a win for everybody. The best part of tvtorrents isn't so much that they're free but they're amazingly convienient. No adverts, watch them when you want, hdtv quality -- they're just fantastic value, even at $1.
And if a portion of the money goes directly back to the show's production instead of subsidizing some reality tv crap, then all the better.
Although, I'll hold judgement until we actually see an iShows.com that offers all that they promise.
Likewise, Siimo makes optimized athlon-xp binaries for Linux. Autofox is much geekier...but there are lots of other builds to choose from.
I thought so, however I don't know what's happening with IDN ...
Also 5 linux kernel advisories from the grsecurity team.