Nah, didn't buy a Mac to have a Linux bog. I got a Macook Pro because it's a very decent system. As a bonus you can run Mac Os, Linux and even Windows. As Mac Os is seen as a serious *nix derivate I thought to give it a shot.
point 3: echo "set completion-ignore-case On" >> ~/.inputrc i use this on every *nix machine, makes typing file names on case sensitive file systems less of a pita
You are talking about command line completion. I was talking about point to focus. I.e. I point to a window, it gets input focus and I can write in it without it (and all its brothers) being raised to front. This has been on all X Windows window managers I have ever used. If you want this simple feature on a Mac you have to buy something like VisualDesktop Pro. Why do I have license a US$ 40 utility for something trivial? Is this leaving out of simple stuff there to enable a 3rd party utility suppliers market?
I'd rather use good old X on the Mac. Xterm (and derivate terminals) is still the application with a GUI I use most;)
wtf mate? mac os has configurable settings for running off power adaptor and battery that are invoked by plugging and and unplugging the cord. if yours doesn't work I'd be taking it back to have it replaced rather than whining one/. about it
Buddy you should get up-to-date before using such language. Do you even own a Macbook Pro?
On Mac OS, try to have windows getting focus when pointed to but without it being raised. Trivial and dead easy on Ubuntu or any other Linux distro. But on Mac Os you have to buy a 3rd party window manager for this (which will also provide desktops which almost all Linux distros have too.)
Ever tried developing Perl on a Mac? Ever noticed that the provided version is horribly old and that upgrading is unendlessly times more tedious than on Ubuntu?
Why oh why does Mac Os have capitalized system directories which are a bitch to type? Just not to break the "System Folder" tradition? And to annoy developers?
And that's just me fidling about the Mac for one morning.
The bright side? The Macbook Pro looks sweet and girls like me for that. (Not so much my personality but the perception of it changed.)
I remove the power cable, Ubuntu will switch to power saving mode just like Vista would
And very unlike Mac OS. Just bought a Macbook Pro (which is sweet hw-wise) and power management just sucks out of the box. And there's a load of other stuff I'm not happy about. Ubuntu on a Dell suddenly seem to make so much sense:(
I saw he drove well over 74 Mph and most would condamn his actions saying slly things like I.
Bollocks!
This guy was driving carefully. Even takeing into account the rain he was in. Aso most half decent hghways can comfortably accomodate speeds up to 140 - 160 Mph for well serviced cars.
If you care to know, I sometimes drive 150 Mph with my family in my family car. That's because I have a very decent (German) car that allows this and because when I do these speeds I drive in Germany on roads where this is egal. I take there is little difference between German and US highways in order to make 150 Mph not save in US.
IMHO speed limits on highways are in most cases little more than taxes.
In order not to be modded troll:
When it comes to driving in urban areas the question changes and speed limits tend to make sense.
Then again, speeding at night or on Sunday mornings in urban ares should be rated an anti social and not a criminal ofence.
Apple has great products. Which I want to pay for to own and to do with then whatever I am pleased to.
I say Apple should go down this time because they behave like bastards.
Having said that, I question the sanity of people rushing in to buy a USD500+ iPhone knowing it's blocked, relying on 3rd party software for unblocking and expect Apple to own up. It's not that you are deprived of essential things in life by NOT owning an iPhone.
the customers are far from normal too... dedicated cable from the main copper in the road... listening room built as an annex to his house
There was me being annoyed thinking I was the only one dealing with cretins.
Buddy today you have made my day worth living that bit more. Thanks! Let's be blood brothers. (Btw, when everyone joins in, that'd be a huge brotherhood.)
Venture capitalists know this... most of which will never make a product.
I grant you the fact that many startups fail horribly within a short time. However, established businesses usually seem to know what can be sold.
The example of us slashdotters knew Nintendo would succeed with the Wii can be countered with many more examples that prove the contrary (Though I can't think of something right now.) >For instance, back when MS was insignificant, anyone that would have been exposed to UNIX would have never have expected the success MS has had with such a crappy technology. Apart from possible devious tactics/strategy, MS had a way to get to the end customer (OK, they also had some luck) and persuaded him to part with amounts of cash.
There's also a component of not letting the other one have a go at it. Skype's business model has been quite clear from the beginning on and a estimate of what the company would do could be done on the back of a used envelope. Also, it's quite clear that the more Skype grows, the less money it will make. I don't expect this was unknown to EBay.
I take it most business make more money out of technology than you and I combined. On business level, businesses understand technology quite well.
This reminds me of Machiavelli:
And I hope it may not be accounted presumption if a man of lowly and humble station ventures to discuss and direct the conduct of princes; for as those who wish to delineate countries place themselves low in the plain to observe the form and character of mountains and high places, and for the purpose of studying the nature of the low country place themselves high upon an eminence, so one must be a prince to know well the character of the people, and to understand well the nature of a prince one must be of the people.
News Flash
Last week all members of New Zealand Police force "on the beat" exclusively consisted of women, wearing erotic bras and thongs. It is believed this is related with the extreme democracy and an Internet phenomenon called the "Slashdot effect".
There's a button on the SFLC Web site where you -- yes YOU -- could make a donation to promote the defense of Free and Open-Source Software.
You make it sound like I'm a leach and that I don't donate. Now that's pretty silly as you cannot know I'm a paying member of both FSF and EFF. While these are US based organizations, I donate as a European. Mostly in order to straighten out US law. And no, I don't get any TAX cuts based on my donations. So back off buddy.
Now, if you carefully observe the world around you, you might notice that in disputes money can change hands. Usually to compensate for damages. What makes this case so special that it would not be necessary? Why should the donation money go down the drain and why should the accused NOT pay up? Regardless of the side you're on, litigation in court costs.
In a democracy, shouldn't we, the people, be deciding if we are allowed to copy anything we want?
No. In a democracy you elect representatives and those decide for you. If all representatives are against your opinions that's it. If you still want your opinions in decision making you'll have to start your own party. Then, when you gain ground, the parties in power will change policy whilst still have all other things in place you haven't thought of yet. So your little effort will vanish in a New York second. Unless you are very, very tallented.
There are idiots around claiming to own parts of the moon and those ones will be seeking landing fees. It's not likely they will get them but I guess a law suit or two will be held.
Let's invent a new operating system where processes in regular user space cannot alter resources belonging to other users (unless access is specifically granted.)
Let's make this operating system so that the need for super-user access is limited.
Let's have a generic toolset with this operating system by which the need to download trivial programs is minimized. (We must think of editors, file manipulation and systems management tools.)
Let's invent a runtime environment so that foreign applications can run locally with very restricted access to local resources.
Let's promote the notion that you should know what you do before doing it. And let's do this in clear and understandable language.
As MS clearly never thought of this, I should patent this idea and make huge loads of money.
On the other hand, I have to do my hair and hence I have to set priorities and patent applications come after the hair.
And maybe, just maybe, someone genius thought of these things long before I did.
I'm Italian and not surprised by this proposition. Italy has a long record of censorship. Mainly on grounds of morals and good taste, Italians tend to give up freedom instantly.
For instance, in Italy anonymous internet access is not allowed. When you want access internet in a public place you will be asked for ab ID which will be written manually into a huge big register. The forms in these registers were designed around the time Mussolini was around. In Mussolini's time traveling and communicating wer suspicious activities which would be monitored.
Add a pinch of terror and the Italian in the street will waive his freedom completely.
Sharp deducion tells me that at the highest debut of Neil [Diamond]'s career, people were converting from 78 to 33.3 RPM. And they aparently had rootkits then. Indeed, Sony has always been evil.
That last point alone is a reason to "illegally" fill my own "Alco2Jet® Carbonator" with cheap and illegal CO2. And when the secret police shows up at my door step I will tell them to piss off, fry on the chair for that and thus die a martyr for the right to own.
I really hope you're joking, as a wish to martyr yourself for the right to fill a soda maker might be considered a trifle, um, excessive by most people.
My friend, a job well done is a job well done the first time. Idle hands are the devil's tools. I take it you use emacs.
Slashdot Mirror
As you clearly cannot be arsed I'll provide a reference.
Want more?
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On Mac OS, try to have windows getting focus when pointed to but without it being raised. Trivial and dead easy on Ubuntu or any other Linux distro. But on Mac Os you have to buy a 3rd party window manager for this (which will also provide desktops which almost all Linux distros have too.)
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Ever tried developing Perl on a Mac? Ever noticed that the provided version is horribly old and that upgrading is unendlessly times more tedious than on Ubuntu?
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Why oh why does Mac Os have capitalized system directories which are a bitch to type? Just not to break the "System Folder" tradition? And to annoy developers?
And that's just me fidling about the Mac for one morning.The bright side? The Macbook Pro looks sweet and girls like me for that. (Not so much my personality but the perception of it changed.)
Bollocks!
This guy was driving carefully. Even takeing into account the rain he was in. Aso most half decent hghways can comfortably accomodate speeds up to 140 - 160 Mph for well serviced cars.
If you care to know, I sometimes drive 150 Mph with my family in my family car. That's because I have a very decent (German) car that allows this and because when I do these speeds I drive in Germany on roads where this is egal. I take there is little difference between German and US highways in order to make 150 Mph not save in US.
IMHO speed limits on highways are in most cases little more than taxes.
In order not to be modded troll:
Apple has great products. Which I want to pay for to own and to do with then whatever I am pleased to.
I say Apple should go down this time because they behave like bastards.
Having said that, I question the sanity of people rushing in to buy a USD500+ iPhone knowing it's blocked, relying on 3rd party software for unblocking and expect Apple to own up. It's not that you are deprived of essential things in life by NOT owning an iPhone.
Buddy today you have made my day worth living that bit more. Thanks! Let's be blood brothers. (Btw, when everyone joins in, that'd be a huge brotherhood.)
The example of us slashdotters knew Nintendo would succeed with the Wii can be countered with many more examples that prove the contrary (Though I can't think of something right now.) >For instance, back when MS was insignificant, anyone that would have been exposed to UNIX would have never have expected the success MS has had with such a crappy technology. Apart from possible devious tactics/strategy, MS had a way to get to the end customer (OK, they also had some luck) and persuaded him to part with amounts of cash.
There's also a component of not letting the other one have a go at it. Skype's business model has been quite clear from the beginning on and a estimate of what the company would do could be done on the back of a used envelope. Also, it's quite clear that the more Skype grows, the less money it will make. I don't expect this was unknown to EBay.
This reminds me of Machiavelli: And I hope it may not be accounted presumption if a man of lowly and humble station ventures to discuss and direct the conduct of princes; for as those who wish to delineate countries place themselves low in the plain to observe the form and character of mountains and high places, and for the purpose of studying the nature of the low country place themselves high upon an eminence, so one must be a prince to know well the character of the people, and to understand well the nature of a prince one must be of the people.
News Flash
Last week all members of New Zealand Police force "on the beat" exclusively consisted of women, wearing erotic bras and thongs. It is believed this is related with the extreme democracy and an Internet phenomenon called the "Slashdot effect".
And now for the weather with Kiri...
Now, if you carefully observe the world around you, you might notice that in disputes money can change hands. Usually to compensate for damages. What makes this case so special that it would not be necessary? Why should the donation money go down the drain and why should the accused NOT pay up? Regardless of the side you're on, litigation in court costs.
I wonder how much money changed hands in this settlement? It's not that protecting free software is free as in beer.
Anyone knows when this will be in OpenOffice? (The manager would be so reassured.)
There are idiots around claiming to own parts of the moon and those ones will be seeking landing fees. It's not likely they will get them but I guess a law suit or two will be held.
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Let's invent a new operating system where processes in regular user space cannot alter resources belonging to other users (unless access is specifically granted.)
-
Let's make this operating system so that the need for super-user access is limited.
-
Let's have a generic toolset with this operating system by which the need to download trivial programs is minimized. (We must think of editors, file manipulation and systems management tools.)
-
Let's invent a runtime environment so that foreign applications can run locally with very restricted access to local resources.
-
Let's promote the notion that you should know what you do before doing it. And let's do this in clear and understandable language.
As MS clearly never thought of this, I should patent this idea and make huge loads of money.On the other hand, I have to do my hair and hence I have to set priorities and patent applications come after the hair.
And maybe, just maybe, someone genius thought of these things long before I did.
This very sharp deduction of mine (and which I own) is merely in Slashdot's spirit of scientific approach to matters and challenging theories by that.
I'm Italian and not surprised by this proposition. Italy has a long record of censorship. Mainly on grounds of morals and good taste, Italians tend to give up freedom instantly.
For instance, in Italy anonymous internet access is not allowed. When you want access internet in a public place you will be asked for ab ID which will be written manually into a huge big register. The forms in these registers were designed around the time Mussolini was around. In Mussolini's time traveling and communicating wer suspicious activities which would be monitored.
Add a pinch of terror and the Italian in the street will waive his freedom completely.
That would be some friendly fire.
Forget the terrorists. The US army itself is more dangerous than the enemy.
How do you explain such a swap? (Sorry sir, Sgt. Billy Bob took the middle-left crates instead of the ones left-middle.)
So, we pay taxes to kill people in places we actually can find on a map.
Besides, thanks to the new phenomenon called "Internet" we also have a tool called Google maps.
What happened to the times when such a dispute was settled with a good thrashing?