Most of the comments here are about how this guy ripped off PearPC. While that may be true ( and I personally believe it), can anyone provide some hard numbers on how it WORKS? Does Panther run smoothly? Is it easy to use? Can I actualy see how OS X is on my PC?
Any reviews out there? ( Yes I googled it, and found old references..)
Any answers?
For many of us, Winamp has always been THE music player. I remember using winamp years ago and being impressed with it. I have gone from a 486 DX at 90 Mhz to an Athlon at 2 Ghz, and Winamp is one of the very few programs that have stayed with me. And I don't mean the monstrosity that was ver 3 or the new bells and whistles ver 5. I still use 2.9 and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Winamp/Nullsoft has always been a product/company that has been different. Concentrating more on ease of use and quality, rather than marketing, the original winamp grew to such a size that Justin's dad left his job as a lawyer just to keep up with the success his son's program.
Like many of you guys, I was saddened the day AOL bought Nullsoft/Winamp. Just like the purchase of Hotmail by Microsoft, it somehow semmed to become less acessible. Like the next door garage band becoming big stars, both winamp and hotmail started to lose their identity and be subsumed into the corporate identities of their respective parents.
Winamp did manage to keep a separate identity to some extent ( unlike Hotmail..) but it was the beginning of the end. A few hiccups along the road, like Gnutella and WASTE, but it was clearly doomed.
However, the flip side is that a lot of smart coders are free to code again, the way THEY want... Unfortunately, they aren't 16 anymore, and the world no longer seems like a place that can be conquered... I hope that some of them retain the enthusiasm and freshness of the early years of winamp..
so to end..
Alas, poor Winamp, I knew him well..
(Unlike Shakespear, whom I obvously don't know well!!)
While Anand has done an excellant job of descrbing the Mac platform to people like me who have never used a Mac but always wanted to, he does not tell us how a cheaper Mac, say a $1500 Powerbook would compare to a $1500 Windows machine. I am considering buying a Powerbook, but am hesitant because I don't want a $1500 system that feels slower than a $1200 system. So all you Mac users, please help. Is there a significant/noticible difference between a Powerbook which costs $1599 or $1799 and a similarily priced Windows laptop?
you can only write to existing files and you can't change the size of the file.
If that is indeed the case, then how can it be called "full NTFS read/write support"? Isn't that a blatant bit of marketing? I would define full as being able to create new files, delete existing ones and make modifications to existing ones. If you can even create then how can you say that there is write support?
Am I missing something or is Mandrake being marketing-minded???
From: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/10.0/100PR.php3
Server deployments also benefit from interoperability with MS-Windows(R) systems thanks to enhanced support of Windows' Logical Disk Manager and new read/write NTFS support.
Last time i checked, the NTFS write support was not mature enough to be used fulltime. Has anyone used this? Is the write support completely reliable? This is an imporatant issue, because it had the unfortunate tendancy of causing the windows install to get screwed. (sometimes, not all times)
Thugh of you who have used write support successfully, please comment.
Doesn't anyone else want to know how they did the 13 monitor trick!!
http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040216/dual_ displya-04.html
How the HELL is that done??
I want a review/ HOWTO of that. Don't you???
Whew...
The difference between hardware and software being that once the local assembler gives you your yum-cha beige box with a p4, 128mb ram and 490 gig hdd ( or whatever) you can r3easonably assume that the hardware at least will 'just work' and if there is a problem, your friendly neghbourhood assembler is a phone call away. Linux does not have this advantage. You have to download/buy it yourself, and when something does not work, you have to hang around the net looking for stuff on forums, help sites etc. Most people would love to just call some techincal support. I ahve used linux since 1995, and i love it, but sometimes it's a pain, when at 3AM your net connection ain't working cause it's loaded the tulip driver when it shoud load some other driver and you can't get on the net to check out what's going on..
But still, it's definetely getting much better.
Yup, Mac's were great, but beacuse they were in locked down proprietary mode, while IBM PC's were being assmbled by eveyone and his dog, they got left wayy behind...
If people could put up with the crappiness of DOS and Win 3.x (the infancy of MS operating systems), why is Linux being bashed constantly during its infancy for stuff MS got away with?
Because Liux is being continuosly compared to Windows.. When DOS and 3.1 were around, there was nothing to compare them to. People did not have any expectations, so whatever Microsoft did was sen as a giant leap forward
Linux has to catch up to Microsoft becuase that is what people expect from their computers. Once that is done, it can go past. But you have to have the little stuff working first....
A little premature for such a title maybe. F/OSS needs to concentrate on the details.. God is in the details, and this is where MIcrosoft excels. Sure, they have their shortcoming, but they Human Interface designs are uniform at least..
Well, i read on El Reg.. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/35547.html
and Betanews...
http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=107663251 5
That it is only s30% of the source...
But hey,
that's one hell of a lot..
I Wonder.
true true. But the question is, do sysadmins suvccumb to the tempatation of leaving these backdoors? Hell, i know that if someone else stumbles upon the backdoor, i'm screwed, so i change the backdoors every two weeks. but i still leave them. They've saved the systems ass a few times too, when the other sysadmin, whos more of a NT/2k guy, screwed around. So does anyone else do this, then?
Always wanted to know this. I am a sysadmin for a College (i'm a student there), and I always leave a backdoor or two in case of emergencies. like someome else chaniging the root passwords etc. Does anyone else do this, or is it just me?
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Most of the comments here are about how this guy ripped off PearPC. While that may be true ( and I personally believe it), can anyone provide some hard numbers on how it WORKS? Does Panther run smoothly? Is it easy to use? Can I actualy see how OS X is on my PC? Any reviews out there? ( Yes I googled it, and found old references..) Any answers?
For many of us, Winamp has always been THE music player. I remember using winamp years ago and being impressed with it. I have gone from a 486 DX at 90 Mhz to an Athlon at 2 Ghz, and Winamp is one of the very few programs that have stayed with me. And I don't mean the monstrosity that was ver 3 or the new bells and whistles ver 5. I still use 2.9 and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Winamp/Nullsoft has always been a product/company that has been different. Concentrating more on ease of use and quality, rather than marketing, the original winamp grew to such a size that Justin's dad left his job as a lawyer just to keep up with the success his son's program. Like many of you guys, I was saddened the day AOL bought Nullsoft/Winamp. Just like the purchase of Hotmail by Microsoft, it somehow semmed to become less acessible. Like the next door garage band becoming big stars, both winamp and hotmail started to lose their identity and be subsumed into the corporate identities of their respective parents. Winamp did manage to keep a separate identity to some extent ( unlike Hotmail..) but it was the beginning of the end. A few hiccups along the road, like Gnutella and WASTE, but it was clearly doomed. However, the flip side is that a lot of smart coders are free to code again, the way THEY want... Unfortunately, they aren't 16 anymore, and the world no longer seems like a place that can be conquered... I hope that some of them retain the enthusiasm and freshness of the early years of winamp.. so to end.. Alas, poor Winamp, I knew him well.. (Unlike Shakespear, whom I obvously don't know well!!)
While Anand has done an excellant job of descrbing the Mac platform to people like me who have never used a Mac but always wanted to, he does not tell us how a cheaper Mac, say a $1500 Powerbook would compare to a $1500 Windows machine. I am considering buying a Powerbook, but am hesitant because I don't want a $1500 system that feels slower than a $1200 system. So all you Mac users, please help. Is there a significant/noticible difference between a Powerbook which costs $1599 or $1799 and a similarily priced Windows laptop?
http://www.xvid.org/ XviD owned ?? oohhhh yeahhh BloodBR ownz XviD - sorry admin leak@hackermail.com
you can only write to existing files and you can't change the size of the file. If that is indeed the case, then how can it be called "full NTFS read/write support"? Isn't that a blatant bit of marketing? I would define full as being able to create new files, delete existing ones and make modifications to existing ones. If you can even create then how can you say that there is write support? Am I missing something or is Mandrake being marketing-minded???
From: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/10.0/100PR.php3 Server deployments also benefit from interoperability with MS-Windows(R) systems thanks to enhanced support of Windows' Logical Disk Manager and new read/write NTFS support. Last time i checked, the NTFS write support was not mature enough to be used fulltime. Has anyone used this? Is the write support completely reliable? This is an imporatant issue, because it had the unfortunate tendancy of causing the windows install to get screwed. (sometimes, not all times) Thugh of you who have used write support successfully, please comment.
Doesn't anyone else want to know how they did the 13 monitor trick!! http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040216/dual_ displya-04.html
How the HELL is that done??
I want a review/ HOWTO of that. Don't you???
Whew...
The difference between hardware and software being that once the local assembler gives you your yum-cha beige box with a p4, 128mb ram and 490 gig hdd ( or whatever) you can r3easonably assume that the hardware at least will 'just work' and if there is a problem, your friendly neghbourhood assembler is a phone call away. Linux does not have this advantage. You have to download/buy it yourself, and when something does not work, you have to hang around the net looking for stuff on forums, help sites etc. Most people would love to just call some techincal support. I ahve used linux since 1995, and i love it, but sometimes it's a pain, when at 3AM your net connection ain't working cause it's loaded the tulip driver when it shoud load some other driver and you can't get on the net to check out what's going on.. But still, it's definetely getting much better.
Yup, Mac's were great, but beacuse they were in locked down proprietary mode, while IBM PC's were being assmbled by eveyone and his dog, they got left wayy behind...
If people could put up with the crappiness of DOS and Win 3.x (the infancy of MS operating systems), why is Linux being bashed constantly during its infancy for stuff MS got away with? Because Liux is being continuosly compared to Windows.. When DOS and 3.1 were around, there was nothing to compare them to. People did not have any expectations, so whatever Microsoft did was sen as a giant leap forward Linux has to catch up to Microsoft becuase that is what people expect from their computers. Once that is done, it can go past. But you have to have the little stuff working first....
A little premature for such a title maybe. F/OSS needs to concentrate on the details.. God is in the details, and this is where MIcrosoft excels. Sure, they have their shortcoming, but they Human Interface designs are uniform at least..
Well, i read on El Reg .. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/35547.html
and Betanews...
http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=107663251 5
That it is only s30% of the source...
But hey,
that's one hell of a lot..
I Wonder.
Yum.. Us Indians salivating at the thought of biting into juciy verisign. Thanks you very much...
The Site is down.. SHark Attacked i guess. anyone got mirrors?
true true. But the question is, do sysadmins suvccumb to the tempatation of leaving these backdoors? Hell, i know that if someone else stumbles upon the backdoor, i'm screwed, so i change the backdoors every two weeks. but i still leave them. They've saved the systems ass a few times too, when the other sysadmin, whos more of a NT/2k guy, screwed around. So does anyone else do this, then?
Always wanted to know this. I am a sysadmin for a College (i'm a student there), and I always leave a backdoor or two in case of emergencies. like someome else chaniging the root passwords etc. Does anyone else do this, or is it just me?