since abi is open source, it will stay around indefinitely. in fact, abi was once a commercial project, but has done better as OSS. most people need nothing more than a good WP. how many people need a spreadsheet or presentation program? but how many people need to write grandma a thankyou letter for christmas? abi's size is a plus. there is not one tool that works for everything. okay, emacs!!
speaking of dumbshot admins, in my school district, i brought in my laptop running linux. admin comes into my room one day to do a tech inventory (since it was MY computer, i could do whatever the hell i wanted with it), and he can't understand how i can access the interent as "novell doesn't support linux". (this was 5 years ago.) he didn't understand tcp/ip. then, he couldn't see how i could access my novell shares (he didn't understand ipx). then, for my web design class, i had an old P200 i scrounged up from sitting in a closet collecting dust, threw debian on it, and ran httpd, ftpd, usual stuff ( so kids could view their work from anywhere on campus, etc.) and he goes apeshit that we'll be hacked and have security issues. i explained to him it was inside the firewall and had a private (172.27.X.X) ip address and was inaccessible from the outside. he didn't even grasp that. the list goes on.
for an ISP related story: a few years back, i get cable modem. so the install techs are in my house, and they needed the mac address of my NIC. so i know i'm gonna share the connection, and i got my router linux firewall/router/lan all set up, run ipconfig eth0 and he says, what is that? i say it's linux, and he says i can't run that as they only support windows clients. he won't even register the number. fianlly, i get him to register the mac address and viola, 10 minutes later, i got two computers sharing a connection. dude looks surprised. now of course they authenticate my cable modem number not mac address on nic, but hey, this was four years ago. anywyas, long story later, after spending 20 minutes talking to him, i burn him a cd with RH7.2 or.3 (can't remember). and these guys actaully get paid. damn!!
In fact, OSX follows this concept. They've taken already written software (kernel, X windows etc), improved it and grafted a slick interface on the front.
although X windows will run under OS X, and quite nicely, aqua is not even related to it. it isn't an improved version of X. it is derived from openstep.
excellent point. i love gimp on linux, but can't get gimp-perl to compile right on os x, using darwin or fink. damn shame too. i do a lot of css design, but sometimes people want a freakin fancy image graphics layout. css is great for alot of things, but it can't totally replace a graphics heavy layout. but gimp was always about photos, not drawing. i actually use fireworks for most of my web graphics becasue the drawing tools are great. if gimp could get it's drawing tools up to speed, like editable paths for instance, then it would be a great tool for the web. fortunately, php and databases have renewed the editor as the tool of choice for web development. i've actually done work for clients with fireworks and vim. sure, i fire up dreamweaver, but do most coding in vim.
but the cd's got passed around like a drunken sorority girl to everyone. and the home copy doesn't apply to students. i don't know how many times i heard of teachers giving assignments using powerpoint (a whole 'nother pet peeve of mine!!!) then giving them the cd to install at home.
what made office the de facto program wasn't anything done by microsoft, but rather what they didn't do. they didn't really pursue pirating of office. they were strict with business workstations, but everyone i know got their copy of office from work. why you think they made officeXP need activation, for the home user, but not the coprorate version. as homer would say, DOH!! at my school disrtrict, there are damn near as many copies of office97 and office2000 burnt cd's as teachers. and it's not even that everyone "knew word", it's the damn file format. and all that crap about business training/retraining is simple. "here's a cd", the rest is history. yeah, there are lots of other reasons, but you can't compete with free, especially when people think they're getting a "steal".
i didn't mean to imply every czech was germanic. and yes, central europe is quite a mix, dating back to the hunnic and gothic invasions of the roman empire. but please accept my admiration for the czech peoples, their independence and resistance to the nazis and the soviets.
most people don't know their history. czechs are a germanic people, especially the sudetenland, part of the reason why hitler wanted bohemia and moravia. the other being the BRNO arms factories!! sadly, the czechs have a very tragic history in the 20th century. the west turned its back on the czechs, in direct violation of article 16 and 50 of League of Nations charter. especially when the czzechs had 30+ divisions ready to confront the germans if the french had their backs. (fat chance there, ya know) then we left "uncle joe" have czechoslovakia after pottsdam. and people wonder why the czechs are supporting us in the war on terror. God bless them. they know dictators. they know evil must be confronted now, before it grows. anyways, sadly most of us in the US are ignorant of history.
Re:"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along
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Think of the processing power needed to make sense out of it all.
nothing a beowulf cluster of linux xboxes couldn't handle!!
one of the problems we face is not nuclear safety, as nukes are tremendously safe, and it's not transportation, as that is safe too. forgetting for the moment the radical enviro-wackos, the real problem is federalism. in other words, the federal gov't is prevented from ordering states to store the waste, or from ordering states to accept transfer through their state. yucca mountain in nevada is a great site, however, if nuke waste is coming from say, california, not a problem, but if it coming from tennessee, then it has to pass through several states. each state has the right to say no. and if the feds want to build a storage facility somewhere else, states have the right to say no as well. it's that pesky constitution that y'all're so fond of.
yeah, we all want to think of apple as this benign crusdaer for free software and all that, but they are a business. i bought two ibooks and an ipod because they are the best hardware/software combo. they have a very narrow gap to walk. i give them credit for being as open as they are. do they make it more challenging? yes. impossible? no. they have a much greater influence than their size would dictate. they could easily get squeezed in a moment. so, they have to appear to be industry friendly, while knowing us geeks will figure it out.
rocket scientist. damn. when i was getting my teaching credential, we had a retired NASA engineer, worked with Von Braun, et al. very interesting stories. and check this out. california made him take a test to prove he knew enough math. and you wonder why our schools are so screwed up!! and yes, i'm still teaching. euro history and AP comp sci.
i don't make a habit of responding to AC's, but since everything on os x runs outside of kernel space, it's just a recompile with different flags. if darwin runs on x86y, then everything else will. the architecture is just lilke linux. linux runs great on ppc. my g3/700mhz ibook runs twice as fast with ydl versus panther.
download drm'd aac songs, export them to cd audio, then rip the new cd. no drm. lossless. sounds great to me. downloaded digital music is not going to be the absolutely highest quality. it takes $1000 stereo system to hear a tiny difference in quality of a $0.99 song. holy crap. apple's drm is the least invasive and lest restrictive. would you rather microsoft's drm?
we had no fucking way of knowing what he did and didn't have. the intel all said he had WMD's. the french, the germans, the russians, the UN, even blix said he acted alot like a guy with something to hide. and it turns out his top scientist had all kinds of shit buried in his back yard, and saddam was waiting for the sanctions and inspections to end. then he'd restart it.
what is it with you people? we're not dealing with bill gates and some operating system thing. this shit is for real. saddam had a decade of al qaeda connections, at least back to the '93 WTC bombing. he had wmd programs, had aQ training in salman pak, funded ansar al islam, and sent his chem scientists to train aQ in the sudan in the 90's. (which is why clinton bombed sudan by the way) live in your fantasy worlds. when some fucking nuke blows up in manhattan and we all go "golly fucking gee", peresident kerry said we were safer. wake the fuck up. you think in five years saddam wouldn't have been cranking out wmd's like candy? grow up, welcome to the real world. they want to kill you. even though y'all hate bush. they still hate you and want to kill you.
that maybe there was a little more behind the switch. i think down south i think they call it the mordido. in the middle east, it's called bakshish. here, we just call it kickbacks.
look, i see all kinds of shit in my school district. our technidiots go to seminars and get all kinds of crap thrown their way. one example: i'm surfing the web in my classroom from my linux laptop, and finishing up my grades running sasiXP under wine. tech guy drops by and asks how as "novell doesn't support linux" (this was a few years ago.) it's called IP protocol for the internet. and this guy was the tech admin for our entire school, some 300-400 clients. how much do you think microsoft is willing to give away to get some switchers? i bet alot. do i have proof? no. i just see all kinds of crap in my district. the guys there are walking FUD machines. i even got a nasty email saying how i needed to be careful because i might spread viruses or open up holes for hackers. that's what you're dealing with.
i agree that cheap hosting isn't going to do that, but he is replacing busniess class dsl with regular cable. download speed will be the same( maybe better), but his uploads will be for shit. you can't do any serious hosting with 128k up. his cable company i'm sure would love to sell him a static ip, and sell him more upload speed. but tht gets expensive.
at the risk of getting flamed, there are alot of hosting solutions that are like a few dollars a month, and will give you php/mysql/cgi, etc. i have cable, comcast to be exact, and the download speeds are feakin unvbelievable. i get 350-400K. but, uploads are for shit. which kinda renders serious hosting useless. and if you're just usign it for yourself for remote X, vpn shit, and ftp'ing, etc., just ipconfig the ip address, and if you don't reboot, it ain't gonna change, so use the ip address rather than domain name. also, some cable isp's limit your uploads, and even if they don't, you'll get 128k at best unless you pay for better upload speed, which kinda defeats the purpose anyways. if you really need a good web server, just get a hosting service. it is cheap enough now anyways.
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don't confuse people with the facts. we have myopia when it comes to economic trends. the economy, global at that, is in a long term restructuring, not unlike it did during the industrial revolution. then, people had time to adjust. new industries and new sectors didn't rise and supplant the old in a decade. people's skills and trades still had value. pure labor was still necessary, although exploited, and agriculture still dominant. blaming bush for a global transformation changing markets is a straw man argument. whether more can or should be done to ameliorate the hardships is a different debate, but at least he's not trying to stop the change and stifle economic growth. think if we tried to somehow insulate ourselves from this? what would we have. we'd have france and germany with 10% unemployment, a large and growing imported labor force, burgeoning welfare rolls, aging populations and declining productivity. better to deal with temporary pain and be prepraed to compete this century instead of trying to resurrect the last. i'm not a bush defender, just a realist.
or has the level of intelligence slipped a few notches aorund here. somehow anecdotal evidence for a few people suddenly means gospel truth. didn't you guys ever take a statistics class? holy crap. look, you could use the payroll survey or the household survey, and see huge differences. one of the unheralded changes of the tax cuts was to Chapter S corps. Small firms can claim personal taxes rather than corporate taxes, which has saved them lots of money, and spurred a huge growth of small businesses. they aren't figured in the payroll survey. the economy has been seeing good growth, and it can't be growing without new jobs.
people are complaining about bush, but he inherited a recession and we've been at war. plus, what the hell would yo have him do. okay, not cut taxes. but then what. we have a 8 trillion dollar economy. what exactly can the federal government do? it can change the rules and regulations that make it a bitch to start a business, etc. but that goes beyond simple fiscal policy, and everyone has irons in the fire there. both parties are basically identical economically. Bush wants all his tax cuts, kerry wants 99% of the tax cuts, with more for middle class. and the difference is...
one other thing people forget, is that europe is in a long term slump. they have been at 9-10% unemploymenty for years. they have aging populations and increasing welfare rolls. we've been the only economy in the west that has had real growth. china is experiencing very good growth as is india. but they have living standards well below ours. give that a few years. rememebr japan? you want to hate bush because he's religious, pro-life, pro-war, pro-patriot act, pro-whatever, fine. claiming that he has some magical power to outsource jobs or create rapid growth is asinine. clinton governed as a moderate republican. balanced budgets, eventual tax cuts, welfare reform, spending cuts, etc. if he wasn't a democrat, y'all'd be calling him a fascist. the business cycle is going to happen. what needs to be done is to look at long term economic conditions. we need a better business climate, tort reform, a flat tax, monetary discipline, fiscal restraint, among others. but w live in a overly political, sound bite driven society. we can't have an honest debate. it's our own fault. but don't put the finger on any one person, bush, clinton, etc.
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since abi is open source, it will stay around indefinitely. in fact, abi was once a commercial project, but has done better as OSS. most people need nothing more than a good WP. how many people need a spreadsheet or presentation program? but how many people need to write grandma a thankyou letter for christmas? abi's size is a plus. there is not one tool that works for everything. okay, emacs!!
if you smoked the occasional j-stick before work.
I also agree with the person who posted about exercise.
isn't that kinda contradictory?
speaking of dumbshot admins, in my school district, i brought in my laptop running linux. admin comes into my room one day to do a tech inventory (since it was MY computer, i could do whatever the hell i wanted with it), and he can't understand how i can access the interent as "novell doesn't support linux". (this was 5 years ago.) he didn't understand tcp/ip. then, he couldn't see how i could access my novell shares (he didn't understand ipx). then, for my web design class, i had an old P200 i scrounged up from sitting in a closet collecting dust, threw debian on it, and ran httpd, ftpd, usual stuff ( so kids could view their work from anywhere on campus, etc.) and he goes apeshit that we'll be hacked and have security issues. i explained to him it was inside the firewall and had a private (172.27.X.X) ip address and was inaccessible from the outside. he didn't even grasp that. the list goes on.
.3 (can't remember). and these guys actaully get paid. damn!!
for an ISP related story: a few years back, i get cable modem. so the install techs are in my house, and they needed the mac address of my NIC. so i know i'm gonna share the connection, and i got my router linux firewall/router/lan all set up, run ipconfig eth0 and he says, what is that? i say it's linux, and he says i can't run that as they only support windows clients. he won't even register the number. fianlly, i get him to register the mac address and viola, 10 minutes later, i got two computers sharing a connection. dude looks surprised. now of course they authenticate my cable modem number not mac address on nic, but hey, this was four years ago. anywyas, long story later, after spending 20 minutes talking to him, i burn him a cd with RH7.2 or
In fact, OSX follows this concept. They've taken already written software (kernel, X windows etc), improved it and grafted a slick interface on the front.
although X windows will run under OS X, and quite nicely, aqua is not even related to it. it isn't an improved version of X. it is derived from openstep.
i think he means so pussy. of course this being /., such knowledge would be lacking.
excellent point. i love gimp on linux, but can't get gimp-perl to compile right on os x, using darwin or fink. damn shame too. i do a lot of css design, but sometimes people want a freakin fancy image graphics layout. css is great for alot of things, but it can't totally replace a graphics heavy layout. but gimp was always about photos, not drawing. i actually use fireworks for most of my web graphics becasue the drawing tools are great. if gimp could get it's drawing tools up to speed, like editable paths for instance, then it would be a great tool for the web. fortunately, php and databases have renewed the editor as the tool of choice for web development. i've actually done work for clients with fireworks and vim. sure, i fire up dreamweaver, but do most coding in vim.
but the cd's got passed around like a drunken sorority girl to everyone. and the home copy doesn't apply to students. i don't know how many times i heard of teachers giving assignments using powerpoint (a whole 'nother pet peeve of mine!!!) then giving them the cd to install at home.
what made office the de facto program wasn't anything done by microsoft, but rather what they didn't do. they didn't really pursue pirating of office. they were strict with business workstations, but everyone i know got their copy of office from work. why you think they made officeXP need activation, for the home user, but not the coprorate version. as homer would say, DOH!! at my school disrtrict, there are damn near as many copies of office97 and office2000 burnt cd's as teachers. and it's not even that everyone "knew word", it's the damn file format. and all that crap about business training/retraining is simple. "here's a cd", the rest is history. yeah, there are lots of other reasons, but you can't compete with free, especially when people think they're getting a "steal".
i didn't mean to imply every czech was germanic. and yes, central europe is quite a mix, dating back to the hunnic and gothic invasions of the roman empire. but please accept my admiration for the czech peoples, their independence and resistance to the nazis and the soviets.
(disclaimer:i'm a history teacher)
most people don't know their history. czechs are a germanic people, especially the sudetenland, part of the reason why hitler wanted bohemia and moravia. the other being the BRNO arms factories!! sadly, the czechs have a very tragic history in the 20th century. the west turned its back on the czechs, in direct violation of article 16 and 50 of League of Nations charter. especially when the czzechs had 30+ divisions ready to confront the germans if the french had their backs. (fat chance there, ya know) then we left "uncle joe" have czechoslovakia after pottsdam. and people wonder why the czechs are supporting us in the war on terror. God bless them. they know dictators. they know evil must be confronted now, before it grows. anyways, sadly most of us in the US are ignorant of history.
Think of the processing power needed to make sense out of it all.
nothing a beowulf cluster of linux xboxes couldn't handle!!
one of the problems we face is not nuclear safety, as nukes are tremendously safe, and it's not transportation, as that is safe too. forgetting for the moment the radical enviro-wackos, the real problem is federalism. in other words, the federal gov't is prevented from ordering states to store the waste, or from ordering states to accept transfer through their state. yucca mountain in nevada is a great site, however, if nuke waste is coming from say, california, not a problem, but if it coming from tennessee, then it has to pass through several states. each state has the right to say no. and if the feds want to build a storage facility somewhere else, states have the right to say no as well. it's that pesky constitution that y'all're so fond of.
(yes, i'm a history teacher)
yeah, we all want to think of apple as this benign crusdaer for free software and all that, but they are a business. i bought two ibooks and an ipod because they are the best hardware/software combo. they have a very narrow gap to walk. i give them credit for being as open as they are. do they make it more challenging? yes. impossible? no. they have a much greater influence than their size would dictate. they could easily get squeezed in a moment. so, they have to appear to be industry friendly, while knowing us geeks will figure it out.
rocket scientist. damn. when i was getting my teaching credential, we had a retired NASA engineer, worked with Von Braun, et al. very interesting stories. and check this out. california made him take a test to prove he knew enough math. and you wonder why our schools are so screwed up!! and yes, i'm still teaching. euro history and AP comp sci.
if you have OS X, set the ipod as a mountable drive. apple blocked the folder, but, goto
/Volumes/(Your Ipod mount point)/iPod_Control/Music
There'll be a bunch of folders F00, F01, etc. your mp3's are in there. bada bing. bada bang. then cp * ~/my_fucking_mp3s
cheers.
but if its a team project you will probably wake up to an angry mob of people because you submitted a bunch of BS code that doesn't work.
No, they'll just call it WindowsXP Serice Pack 2
i don't make a habit of responding to AC's, but since everything on os x runs outside of kernel space, it's just a recompile with different flags. if darwin runs on x86y, then everything else will. the architecture is just lilke linux. linux runs great on ppc. my g3/700mhz ibook runs twice as fast with ydl versus panther.
download drm'd aac songs, export them to cd audio, then rip the new cd. no drm. lossless. sounds great to me. downloaded digital music is not going to be the absolutely highest quality. it takes $1000 stereo system to hear a tiny difference in quality of a $0.99 song. holy crap. apple's drm is the least invasive and lest restrictive. would you rather microsoft's drm?
we had no fucking way of knowing what he did and didn't have. the intel all said he had WMD's. the french, the germans, the russians, the UN, even blix said he acted alot like a guy with something to hide. and it turns out his top scientist had all kinds of shit buried in his back yard, and saddam was waiting for the sanctions and inspections to end. then he'd restart it.
what is it with you people? we're not dealing with bill gates and some operating system thing. this shit is for real. saddam had a decade of al qaeda connections, at least back to the '93 WTC bombing. he had wmd programs, had aQ training in salman pak, funded ansar al islam, and sent his chem scientists to train aQ in the sudan in the 90's. (which is why clinton bombed sudan by the way) live in your fantasy worlds. when some fucking nuke blows up in manhattan and we all go "golly fucking gee", peresident kerry said we were safer. wake the fuck up. you think in five years saddam wouldn't have been cranking out wmd's like candy? grow up, welcome to the real world. they want to kill you. even though y'all hate bush. they still hate you and want to kill you.
that maybe there was a little more behind the switch. i think down south i think they call it the mordido. in the middle east, it's called bakshish. here, we just call it kickbacks.
look, i see all kinds of shit in my school district. our technidiots go to seminars and get all kinds of crap thrown their way. one example: i'm surfing the web in my classroom from my linux laptop, and finishing up my grades running sasiXP under wine. tech guy drops by and asks how as "novell doesn't support linux" (this was a few years ago.) it's called IP protocol for the internet. and this guy was the tech admin for our entire school, some 300-400 clients. how much do you think microsoft is willing to give away to get some switchers? i bet alot. do i have proof? no. i just see all kinds of crap in my district. the guys there are walking FUD machines. i even got a nasty email saying how i needed to be careful because i might spread viruses or open up holes for hackers. that's what you're dealing with.
oh.
i agree that cheap hosting isn't going to do that, but he is replacing busniess class dsl with regular cable. download speed will be the same( maybe better), but his uploads will be for shit. you can't do any serious hosting with 128k up. his cable company i'm sure would love to sell him a static ip, and sell him more upload speed. but tht gets expensive.
at the risk of getting flamed, there are alot of hosting solutions that are like a few dollars a month, and will give you php/mysql/cgi, etc. i have cable, comcast to be exact, and the download speeds are feakin unvbelievable. i get 350-400K. but, uploads are for shit. which kinda renders serious hosting useless. and if you're just usign it for yourself for remote X, vpn shit, and ftp'ing, etc., just ipconfig the ip address, and if you don't reboot, it ain't gonna change, so use the ip address rather than domain name. also, some cable isp's limit your uploads, and even if they don't, you'll get 128k at best unless you pay for better upload speed, which kinda defeats the purpose anyways. if you really need a good web server, just get a hosting service. it is cheap enough now anyways.
don't confuse people with the facts. we have myopia when it comes to economic trends. the economy, global at that, is in a long term restructuring, not unlike it did during the industrial revolution. then, people had time to adjust. new industries and new sectors didn't rise and supplant the old in a decade. people's skills and trades still had value. pure labor was still necessary, although exploited, and agriculture still dominant. blaming bush for a global transformation changing markets is a straw man argument. whether more can or should be done to ameliorate the hardships is a different debate, but at least he's not trying to stop the change and stifle economic growth. think if we tried to somehow insulate ourselves from this? what would we have. we'd have france and germany with 10% unemployment, a large and growing imported labor force, burgeoning welfare rolls, aging populations and declining productivity. better to deal with temporary pain and be prepraed to compete this century instead of trying to resurrect the last. i'm not a bush defender, just a realist.
or has the level of intelligence slipped a few notches aorund here. somehow anecdotal evidence for a few people suddenly means gospel truth. didn't you guys ever take a statistics class? holy crap. look, you could use the payroll survey or the household survey, and see huge differences. one of the unheralded changes of the tax cuts was to Chapter S corps. Small firms can claim personal taxes rather than corporate taxes, which has saved them lots of money, and spurred a huge growth of small businesses. they aren't figured in the payroll survey. the economy has been seeing good growth, and it can't be growing without new jobs.
people are complaining about bush, but he inherited a recession and we've been at war. plus, what the hell would yo have him do. okay, not cut taxes. but then what. we have a 8 trillion dollar economy. what exactly can the federal government do? it can change the rules and regulations that make it a bitch to start a business, etc. but that goes beyond simple fiscal policy, and everyone has irons in the fire there. both parties are basically identical economically. Bush wants all his tax cuts, kerry wants 99% of the tax cuts, with more for middle class. and the difference is...
one other thing people forget, is that europe is in a long term slump. they have been at 9-10% unemploymenty for years. they have aging populations and increasing welfare rolls. we've been the only economy in the west that has had real growth. china is experiencing very good growth as is india. but they have living standards well below ours. give that a few years. rememebr japan? you want to hate bush because he's religious, pro-life, pro-war, pro-patriot act, pro-whatever, fine. claiming that he has some magical power to outsource jobs or create rapid growth is asinine. clinton governed as a moderate republican. balanced budgets, eventual tax cuts, welfare reform, spending cuts, etc. if he wasn't a democrat, y'all'd be calling him a fascist. the business cycle is going to happen. what needs to be done is to look at long term economic conditions. we need a better business climate, tort reform, a flat tax, monetary discipline, fiscal restraint, among others. but w live in a overly political, sound bite driven society. we can't have an honest debate. it's our own fault. but don't put the finger on any one person, bush, clinton, etc.
www.instapundit.com. glenn reynolds' site.
justoneminute.typepad.com
www.mandelinople.com/blog (mine. sorry. cheap sahmeless plug)