Go to Harvard, spread FUD, gain support from future investors/business people and hope they support SCO in the future, if SCO is still around.
I never bought any SCO products and after the childish behavior they've displayed in handling this situation, I never will. If by some miracle they're given the power to decide on the fate of Linux I will wipe every system I have and put FreeBSD on it. SCO will never receive one nickel from me or any company I support.
Rumor has it Virtual PC 7 might have Direct 3D capabilities with Quake3 being playable on the 2Ghz G5 via the emulator.
Wow, a 5 year old game finally playable on a dual 2GHz G5 system? That's not really saying much is it? For the price of Virtual PC 7 and Windows XP I could've just bought a low end x86 box to play my games (which I did).
and yet we still do not have an official language!
Huh? English is the language of the United States. We've danced around the issue by pandering to hispanics, but for all intents and purposes all official business is conducted in English. For god's sake, the Constitution is written in English!
BTW, to people standing in line to shout "Don't be cheapo, buy Panther", yes I bought, the upgrade. It works on my G5... I still get mad/confused about this kind of policy.
I don't get it, why Apple does such thing hurts its image? Really curious as end user only, no kidding...
Because they want to make more money I suppose. I've only had Jaguar since October 2002 and now I won't be able to get updates anymore? Microsoft is still putting out updates all the time for Windows 2000 and that came out in 1999. People can gripe all they want about how evil Microsoft is, but they definitely support their products much better and longer than the other desktop competition.
What you say? Microsoft would get huge bills because of the abusers of it's Hotmail service? That would be a pity, wouldn't it?
I've never seen a spammer using a Hotmail account to relay spam. It's be pretty impractical since it's web based. They may or may not forge the from address to appear to be coming from Hotmail, but that doesn't make Microsoft guilty of anything.
Plus, if you get an integrated DirecTV/TiVo receiver, you get to time-shift your shows with zero quality loss. With a standalone TiVo there's an extra D/A conversion between the satellite receiver and the video cable, then an A/D conversion and a lossy compression step to get from the cable onto the TiVo's hard disk. I quite enjoy being able to make pristine archive DVDs of my favorite shows without any re-encoding at all.
Just out of curiosity, how do you do that? They certainly don't advertise that as a feature and the DirecTivos I've seen only have a modem port so archiving over ethernet is out. Do you rip the hard drive out to archive stuff?
Firebird is available for MacOS X and has an extension that does just that.
Yea, I saw that's available now. I may have to switch on my Mac. Mozilla itself is a little too bloated for my little 800MHz G3, but Camino gave me tabbed browsing and popup blocking with the gecko engine and Aqua interface so I like it. I'd use Safari, but I don't think it has tabbed browsing which I've gotten addicted to. I hope I'm wrong, I'll have to check it again tonight.
Microsoft, according to one report, is working on a "Google killer" and analysing the Web with its own internet spider, a piece of software critical to building search engines.
Anyone remember the days when Microsoft just wrote software? Why do they have to get their hands into everything? Can't they be satisfied just making umpteen billion dollars in profit a year on their operating system and office product line and leave the rest of the industry to try to eek out a profit on the crumbs leftover?
For the tin foil hat crowd, here is a register free link: The Story
It's not just tinfoil hat people. I tried to register (albeit from Bangledesh as a 95 year old woman working in the military as a business development person), but they say my browser (Camino 0.7) doesn't support cookies so I can't register. Oh well. NYTimes.com registration is the biggest crock of shit.
Not only is it a great MP3 player (I've owned three as well as MiniDisc players, it's hands down the best I've used), it's an amazingly fast firewire drive
Thanks, but I'll stick to my 250GB Maxtor firewire/USB disk if I wan to transfer data. Seems like it'd be incredibly silly to use a small iPod to transfer video. They could've just burned DVD-RW copies of the video.
If you query their DNS servers, you'll see that they have removed the A records to their site.
Does anyone have the IP address for www.sco.com? I want to create a temporary local zone so my customers will still be able to resolve www.sco.com in case they need to purchase Linux licenses or receive online tech support.
While I appreciate the fact that someone cares, why isn't Amnesty making a big deal about how many of these companies (Cisco, Websense, Microsoft, etc) are providing products to various levels of domestic (USA) government to "censor and control the use of the Internet" in the land of the "free"?
Because if they came plain out and made such a completely bullshit statement people would just start ignoring them.
That's one of the reasons for the symbolic deal a few years back where MS bought $150M in Apple stock(by the way, that's not even a fraction of Apple's CASH reserves, so sit down all you "MS bailed out Apple" morons)
Do Mac ethusiasts have selective memory? Apple was hurting badly when Microsoft made the investment. For example this article is from April of 1996 detailing Apple's cash reserves had plummeted to $592 million and had huge quarterly losses. The iMac (undoubtably the machine that saved Apple from bankruptcy) wasn't released until August 1998. Microsoft's $150 million investment was in August 1997 according to this articles.
As a Mac user myself, I'm more than willing to thank Microsoft for giving Apple a much needed shot in the arm cash-wise. That money most likely meant the difference between Apple folding and Apple shipping it's most successful computer line in the last 10 years. Don't take my word for it either, go read the articles for yourself. They were written before we even knew the iMac or iBook or iAnything was coming down the pike and they forecast a dire end to Apple. Amelio was running the company into the ground and thankfully Jobs, whether you love him or hate him, came along just in time to save the day (with a little help from Microsoft cash-wise).
I easily spend 1000+ hours a year in Office v.X, and I'm really looking forward to the new version. It's darn complete - there really weren't that many holes, and it looks like they're filling most of them.
Are they going to fix Powerpoint on Office v.X? It's probably the only app I need to use to review notes for a math class and all the equations (which seem to be written in a combination of graphics and some sort of metafile) get screwed up on my Mac. They look perfect in Powerpoint for Windows though. I do have trouble copying and pasting them though as some are graphic images and some are text. Perhaps the authors of the powerpoint slideshow are just clueless... it IS from a textbook company.
It's a nice looking device, of that there's no doubt, but it's just a piece of electronics that allows me to listen to music - nothing more nothing less. That fact seems to have been lost recently.
The point of buying an iPod isn't that it is necessarily a good mp3 player (it sort of is), but the fact that you will look incredibly hip using one. A iPod is just the thing a modern metrosexual man would use while walking his poodle or checking his.Mac mail on his 17" iMac.
so to keep my entire library of flac's (well over 7000+) compatible with an ipod, I have to convert them to mp3s or aacs? And take up more space? And waste time compressing?
Convert them all to mp3 and then delete the flac files to save space. Your entire collection would sounds just as good and take up much less space.
I have everything I wanted for Halo on my PC and I don't have to pay for Xbox Live.
I wonder why they don't just release Halo 2 directly to the PC at the same time as they release it on the Xbox. Oh right, nobody would buy it for the Xbox.
any of those models, are insured for 3 years from their purchase date..
I bought mine in November 2002 and the logic board failed in October 2003. Hopefully they fixed the logic board issue in the replacement I got so I won't need to send it in again in another 11 months. It's sad really, if it wasn't for this nagging issue I'd have to say my iBook has been a fantastic little machine. I would've highly recommended them to friends and family... but now I'm not so sure. I was going to pickup a 12" Powerbook but if it will have similar problems? Obviously it's not the same motherboard or design, but does Apple have a Q&A problem lately? I'd say yes.
Maybe there should be an open patent review system. The patent office can post patent applications for the public to review for 30days, and allow inputs on prior art.
You know, if someone hasn't already done it, you should patent that process.
And people should avoid those cleverly disguised closed-source programs that could have viruses hidden in them. Only use and write open source software that you can compile yourself after hand-inspecting the source code for trojans.
Weird, I write something pro-Open-Source and get moderated as a troll? Is the group of moderators from Microsoft just waking up or something? I'm completely serious. If Microsoft says we should type in URLs by hand because we can't trust their buggy software to send us to the proper places when we click on a hyperlink, why should we run their buggy binaries without being able to inspect the code first?
i always knew that those hyperlinks were a bad security problem. Web designer should really avoid those propietary 'href'-tags for security reasons.
And people should avoid those cleverly disguised closed-source programs that could have viruses hidden in them. Only use and write open source software that you can compile yourself after hand-inspecting the source code for trojans.
The soothing hum is actually kind of nice to my ears, and if I try and sleep in my room with none of my machines powered on, it becomes almost too quite. Guess I'm just used to it by now.
A soothing hum is fine. The problem comes in when you have odd noises. One of my hard drives made this awful whining noise and I just go so sick of it I had to throw it out. An old Sparcstation had that problem with the 2GB Seagate drive in it a few years back as well. Sounded like I was running a table saw chopping wood.
Selling a product as a loss-leader assumes that the people who buy that product will buy additional services at a higher markup later.
They really need to do a better job at stopping mod chip makers from hacking their systems. I thought they already used signed binaries, but I guess that didn't stop anyone from hacking the boxes and putting Linux on them. I think it's a fun little idea, but buying an XBox and putting Linux on it seems kind of unfair to Microsoft since it's unlikely you'll be making up their loss by buying the overpriced games. Perhaps they should do a rebate type system where you buy the XBox for $399 and if you mail in the front page out of the manual for 4 XBox games you'll get a rebate for $200. That'd put an end to the Linux leeches buying them to use as cheap hardware.
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I never bought any SCO products and after the childish behavior they've displayed in handling this situation, I never will. If by some miracle they're given the power to decide on the fate of Linux I will wipe every system I have and put FreeBSD on it. SCO will never receive one nickel from me or any company I support.
Wow, a 5 year old game finally playable on a dual 2GHz G5 system? That's not really saying much is it? For the price of Virtual PC 7 and Windows XP I could've just bought a low end x86 box to play my games (which I did).
Huh? English is the language of the United States. We've danced around the issue by pandering to hispanics, but for all intents and purposes all official business is conducted in English. For god's sake, the Constitution is written in English!
Well, don't forget the G3s were 2-3 times more than the equivalent PC at the time. It stands to reason they'd still cost 2-3 times as much.
I don't get it, why Apple does such thing hurts its image? Really curious as end user only, no kidding...
Because they want to make more money I suppose. I've only had Jaguar since October 2002 and now I won't be able to get updates anymore? Microsoft is still putting out updates all the time for Windows 2000 and that came out in 1999. People can gripe all they want about how evil Microsoft is, but they definitely support their products much better and longer than the other desktop competition.
I've never seen a spammer using a Hotmail account to relay spam. It's be pretty impractical since it's web based. They may or may not forge the from address to appear to be coming from Hotmail, but that doesn't make Microsoft guilty of anything.
Just out of curiosity, how do you do that? They certainly don't advertise that as a feature and the DirecTivos I've seen only have a modem port so archiving over ethernet is out. Do you rip the hard drive out to archive stuff?
Yea, I saw that's available now. I may have to switch on my Mac. Mozilla itself is a little too bloated for my little 800MHz G3, but Camino gave me tabbed browsing and popup blocking with the gecko engine and Aqua interface so I like it. I'd use Safari, but I don't think it has tabbed browsing which I've gotten addicted to. I hope I'm wrong, I'll have to check it again tonight.
Anyone remember the days when Microsoft just wrote software? Why do they have to get their hands into everything? Can't they be satisfied just making umpteen billion dollars in profit a year on their operating system and office product line and leave the rest of the industry to try to eek out a profit on the crumbs leftover?
It's not just tinfoil hat people. I tried to register (albeit from Bangledesh as a 95 year old woman working in the military as a business development person), but they say my browser (Camino 0.7) doesn't support cookies so I can't register. Oh well. NYTimes.com registration is the biggest crock of shit.
Thanks, but I'll stick to my 250GB Maxtor firewire/USB disk if I wan to transfer data. Seems like it'd be incredibly silly to use a small iPod to transfer video. They could've just burned DVD-RW copies of the video.
Does anyone have the IP address for www.sco.com? I want to create a temporary local zone so my customers will still be able to resolve www.sco.com in case they need to purchase Linux licenses or receive online tech support.
Because if they came plain out and made such a completely bullshit statement people would just start ignoring them.
Do Mac ethusiasts have selective memory? Apple was hurting badly when Microsoft made the investment. For example this article is from April of 1996 detailing Apple's cash reserves had plummeted to $592 million and had huge quarterly losses. The iMac (undoubtably the machine that saved Apple from bankruptcy) wasn't released until August 1998. Microsoft's $150 million investment was in August 1997 according to this articles.
As a Mac user myself, I'm more than willing to thank Microsoft for giving Apple a much needed shot in the arm cash-wise. That money most likely meant the difference between Apple folding and Apple shipping it's most successful computer line in the last 10 years. Don't take my word for it either, go read the articles for yourself. They were written before we even knew the iMac or iBook or iAnything was coming down the pike and they forecast a dire end to Apple. Amelio was running the company into the ground and thankfully Jobs, whether you love him or hate him, came along just in time to save the day (with a little help from Microsoft cash-wise).
Are they going to fix Powerpoint on Office v.X? It's probably the only app I need to use to review notes for a math class and all the equations (which seem to be written in a combination of graphics and some sort of metafile) get screwed up on my Mac. They look perfect in Powerpoint for Windows though. I do have trouble copying and pasting them though as some are graphic images and some are text. Perhaps the authors of the powerpoint slideshow are just clueless... it IS from a textbook company.
The point of buying an iPod isn't that it is necessarily a good mp3 player (it sort of is), but the fact that you will look incredibly hip using one. A iPod is just the thing a modern metrosexual man would use while walking his poodle or checking his .Mac mail on his 17" iMac.
Convert them all to mp3 and then delete the flac files to save space. Your entire collection would sounds just as good and take up much less space.
I wonder why they don't just release Halo 2 directly to the PC at the same time as they release it on the Xbox. Oh right, nobody would buy it for the Xbox.
I bought mine in November 2002 and the logic board failed in October 2003. Hopefully they fixed the logic board issue in the replacement I got so I won't need to send it in again in another 11 months. It's sad really, if it wasn't for this nagging issue I'd have to say my iBook has been a fantastic little machine. I would've highly recommended them to friends and family... but now I'm not so sure. I was going to pickup a 12" Powerbook but if it will have similar problems? Obviously it's not the same motherboard or design, but does Apple have a Q&A problem lately? I'd say yes.
You know, if someone hasn't already done it, you should patent that process.
Weird, I write something pro-Open-Source and get moderated as a troll? Is the group of moderators from Microsoft just waking up or something? I'm completely serious. If Microsoft says we should type in URLs by hand because we can't trust their buggy software to send us to the proper places when we click on a hyperlink, why should we run their buggy binaries without being able to inspect the code first?
And people should avoid those cleverly disguised closed-source programs that could have viruses hidden in them. Only use and write open source software that you can compile yourself after hand-inspecting the source code for trojans.
A soothing hum is fine. The problem comes in when you have odd noises. One of my hard drives made this awful whining noise and I just go so sick of it I had to throw it out. An old Sparcstation had that problem with the 2GB Seagate drive in it a few years back as well. Sounded like I was running a table saw chopping wood.
They really need to do a better job at stopping mod chip makers from hacking their systems. I thought they already used signed binaries, but I guess that didn't stop anyone from hacking the boxes and putting Linux on them. I think it's a fun little idea, but buying an XBox and putting Linux on it seems kind of unfair to Microsoft since it's unlikely you'll be making up their loss by buying the overpriced games. Perhaps they should do a rebate type system where you buy the XBox for $399 and if you mail in the front page out of the manual for 4 XBox games you'll get a rebate for $200. That'd put an end to the Linux leeches buying them to use as cheap hardware.
Is this a big issue? I've never encountered this problem with any of my machines so far. I can exit X and go back in, etc. No problem.