> Personally, I have been forced into using Leopard (Mac OSX) at work for the past two months > and I have been very pleased. UNIX is just great.
I switched to using a mac as my main box a few years ago, back in the days of Panther (10.3) Was using it until a couple of weeks ago when the hardware on the ibook started failing badly. Now I'm on Leopard, and a shiny new Leopard-based macbook, and apart from some OpenGL glitches that prevents Unity3d using shaders I'm more than happy with it.
> The only problem with Mac OSX is the GUI but I can run X and do most of what I want. > I mean, I like the Mac GUI, but some of the stuff is frustrating to a power user.
What's wrong with the UI exactly? You have to spend at least 3 months to unlearn all your windowisms (yes that includes many linux window managers)
I'm a serious poweruser, and there's nothing that I can't do on OSX I can't do on linux/windows (other than visual studio, which is the only reason I have a windows VM) I suppose I could make do with monodevelop, but I'd rather not.
What can't you do?
I've bought a couple of tools... transmit being the most significant (still I could get around that by using fuse...) Apple apps tend to be more polished than their windows counterparts, and I don't feel any resentment from paying for the apps either.
Green-on-black is perhaps the nicest thing to my eyes ever, though I am partial to Amber-on-black.
White on black hurts after a while... Black on White hurts more - I have a *MUCH* lower tolerance working with an IDE with a white paper colour than a black one. Of course, being a proper programmer, I use vi from a shell:)
Yes I actually used serial terminals for years, usually in the higher column mode - just because I could read more:)
I kinda miss hacking on the old CP/M boxes from HP, and 68K unix boxes, not to mention AS/400s with their page-mode displays - boy that came in use when "the web" came out. Heh.
Yes, I agree totally here! Furthermore, there's a worrying increase (on UK roads at least) headlamps with a *nasty* blue tint to them. I've no idea what they're called but they *really* screw with my eyes, mostly on BMWs and boy racers. Night vision gets all messed up and there's noticeable scarring (after image) - anyone know what the bulbs are?
I've recently noticed a second set of headlight bulbs, loved by boy racers also - they're also really screwy with your eyes. They're yellow-ish, and if you've got one of these guys tailgating you, it almost looks like they're on fire - whats worse is they look as if they're flickering between high and low beam too.
Both are annoying really annoying, but as someone who has corrected vision, I'd like to know what type of bulbs these are so I can have a chat to my optometrist....
All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers becoming fully un-manned. Afterwards they fly with a perfect operational record. The SkyNet Funding Bill is passed.
If I understand Voda(.de) are suing to rule on the legality of locked phones?
As a matter of course Voda (uk) and Tmob (uk) (3, orange and O2) all lock their phones here in the uk. Voda however unlock them for free after the contract you bought them under expires.
I find the manner that voda (and the rest) completely screw up their phones with "branding", and give away 300GBP+ phones to NEW customers, rather than look after their current user base.
Let's face it, when it costs more to call another mobile than it is to call the other side of the world - somethings badly wrong.
Text messages 10p ? again very lol it's cheaper to have msn running on your phone with a decent dataplan!
There's lots that is so wrong with telecoms at the moment, what can a lone geek do apart vote with their wallet?
In terms of carbon footprint, it's miniscule in comparison.
Sure there's toxic side by-products, but who's not to say that plutonium can't be used in something else?
Oh wait it can,
radioisotope thermoelectric generators (think long lived spaceprobes)
annnndd.....
fast breader reactors, which produce more Plutonium than they consume, which can then be used as fissile material for OTHER nuclear reactors...
Processing it is admittedly difficult, but a well known problem and established procedures.
So storing it is only one option. Take your scaremongering about nuclear energy back to the 80s where it belongs. It's by far the greenest option IMHO.
In the UK Vodafone is a little better than T-Mobile (not tried O2 or Orange for data) with respect to data coverage/access/speed.
In fact after being with Voda since 1998 I'm seriously considering defecting to T-Mobile. Voda data plans are just stupid, same price as T-mob but T-mob offers 1Gb before they bump you off onto a slow rate as opposed to Voda who after 150M start charging you. Tho my current usage hasn't got to 150M yet, so we shall see;-)
Oh voda also put 'content filters' on to block certain websites (and a couple of community ones - tho I forget what) and they appear to block msn too. T-mob doesnt.
Yes, occasionally I have spikes of being well away from broadband and use the GPRS/3G network as a replacement, and I've had the odd 70 quid data bill to contend with.
My old HP LJ II Died about 3 years ago, according to the guys who had it before me it was previously used in an office before it came to them as it was on an oil rig for a number of years - and they rarely look after computer equipment. So this thing had been abused a lot and had been thrown about between moves.
Alas it was going to cost me 200 quid to repair (I forget what it was that had gone) and bought another LJ for not much more, which has postscript and hpgl5.
Laserjets (well canon laserprinter engines) just go on forever.
Despite this, that there is a simple bit flag on the mag stripe that determines "this card is chip and pin" which can be turned off with skimming
A friend of mine came over from the middle east without a chip and pin card, and all the restaurant did was swipe it, and ask for him to sign... and often I've been able to say "umm, I can't remember my pin, can I sign?" to cashiers in local supermarkets - to which they've been more than happy to do, not even asking for additional ID.
Fraud is as easy as ever, now as a consumer I really don't like having to punch my pin in equipment I don't trust, and isn't securely fastened and hardened against abuse. I'm very sure at some point someone will build a device that looks like a normal remote chip+pin terminal, and scam people.
Liability shifting is a bad thing, and chip and pin is no more secure than the old method of signing. It's all blatent smoke and mirrors.
How I hate how Americans seem to think their governments' taxation/justice department has jurisdiction anywhere other than their own country!
From the video of the "confession" he sounds british, the game is owned by a finnish company, and what's more - who cares? If he's not broken any game rules, then he shouldn't be punished.
Sure, I'm not condoning his actions - scamming people is evil(tm) but really folks, it's just a game.
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Actually the application is *vi*
vim is just *v*i *im*proved.
In other news ... vi *is* better than emacs.
I wash my hands of this weirdness!
> Personally, I have been forced into using Leopard (Mac OSX) at work for the past two months
> and I have been very pleased. UNIX is just great.
I switched to using a mac as my main box a few years ago, back in the days of Panther (10.3) Was using it until a couple of weeks ago when the hardware on the ibook started failing badly. Now I'm on Leopard, and a shiny new Leopard-based macbook, and apart from some OpenGL glitches that prevents Unity3d using shaders I'm more than happy with it.
> The only problem with Mac OSX is the GUI but I can run X and do most of what I want.
> I mean, I like the Mac GUI, but some of the stuff is frustrating to a power user.
What's wrong with the UI exactly? You have to spend at least 3 months to unlearn all your windowisms (yes that includes many linux window managers)
I'm a serious poweruser, and there's nothing that I can't do on OSX I can't do on linux/windows (other than visual studio, which is the only reason I have a windows VM) I suppose I could make do with monodevelop, but I'd rather not.
What can't you do?
I've bought a couple of tools ... transmit being the most significant (still I could get around that by using fuse...) Apple apps tend to be more polished than their windows counterparts, and I don't feel any resentment from paying for the apps either.
Because they removed the control key.
... though battery life is a wee bit limited with a BT headset and email polling and a blast of mp3 to/from work
Lack of a control and escape key makes this potentially useful device annoyingly limited (for me)
I have a T-Mobile Ameo, and I love it
Honestly, what a load of hogwash.
... Black on White hurts more - I have a *MUCH* lower tolerance working with an IDE with a white paper colour than a black one. Of course, being a proper programmer, I use vi from a shell :)
:)
Green-on-black is perhaps the nicest thing to my eyes ever, though I am partial to Amber-on-black.
White on black hurts after a while
Yes I actually used serial terminals for years, usually in the higher column mode - just because I could read more
I kinda miss hacking on the old CP/M boxes from HP, and 68K unix boxes, not to mention AS/400s with their page-mode displays - boy that came in use when "the web" came out. Heh.
Yes,
I agree totally here! Furthermore, there's a worrying increase (on UK roads at least) headlamps with a *nasty* blue tint to them. I've no idea what they're called but they *really* screw with my eyes, mostly on BMWs and boy racers. Night vision gets all messed up and there's noticeable scarring (after image) - anyone know what the bulbs are?
I've recently noticed a second set of headlight bulbs, loved by boy racers also - they're also really screwy with your eyes. They're yellow-ish, and if you've got one of these guys tailgating you, it almost looks like they're on fire - whats worse is they look as if they're flickering between high and low beam too.
Both are annoying really annoying, but as someone who has corrected vision, I'd like to know what type of bulbs these are so I can have a chat to my optometrist....
All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers becoming fully un-manned. Afterwards they fly with a perfect operational record. The SkyNet Funding Bill is passed.
This man is right.
I mean some people love their 8 bits so much they'll build ethernet interfaces for them!
Try Malaysia and Indonesia that's where I see a load of botnets coming from.
I find it quite ... disturbing
If I understand Voda(.de) are suing to rule on the legality of locked phones?
As a matter of course Voda (uk) and Tmob (uk) (3, orange and O2) all lock their phones here in the uk. Voda however unlock them for free after the contract you bought them under expires.
I find the manner that voda (and the rest) completely screw up their phones with "branding", and give away 300GBP+ phones to NEW customers, rather than look after their current user base.
Let's face it, when it costs more to call another mobile than it is to call the other side of the world - somethings badly wrong.
Text messages 10p ? again very lol it's cheaper to have msn running on your phone with a decent dataplan!
There's lots that is so wrong with telecoms at the moment, what can a lone geek do apart vote with their wallet?
It's the truth. change IMEI => goto jail, do not pass go, do not collect £200
It's certainly better than burning oil/gas
In terms of carbon footprint, it's miniscule in comparison.
Sure there's toxic side by-products, but who's not to say that plutonium can't be used in something else?
Oh wait it can,
radioisotope thermoelectric generators (think long lived spaceprobes)
annnndd.....
fast breader reactors, which produce more Plutonium than they consume, which can then be used as fissile material for OTHER nuclear reactors...
Processing it is admittedly difficult, but a well known problem and established procedures.
So storing it is only one option. Take your scaremongering about nuclear energy back to the 80s where it belongs. It's by far the greenest option IMHO.
You need your glasses checked!
:-)
The post above yours has a hulk reference
In the UK Vodafone is a little better than T-Mobile (not tried O2 or Orange for data) with respect to data coverage/access/speed.
;-)
In fact after being with Voda since 1998 I'm seriously considering defecting to T-Mobile. Voda data plans are just stupid, same price as T-mob but T-mob offers 1Gb before they bump you off onto a slow rate as opposed to Voda who after 150M start charging you. Tho my current usage hasn't got to 150M yet, so we shall see
Oh voda also put 'content filters' on to block certain websites (and a couple of community ones - tho I forget what) and they appear to block msn too. T-mob doesnt.
Yes, occasionally I have spikes of being well away from broadband and use the GPRS/3G network as a replacement, and I've had the odd 70 quid data bill to contend with.
The Sun rose this morning.
Slow news day ?
Drop linux, use *BSD.
Why the heck are they using linux anyhow? They *know* they have to release any modifications etc etc etc. It's not as if it's a surprise or anything.
Is there a specific bit of functionality present in linux that *BSDs don't have? Frankly I doubt it.
My old HP LJ II Died about 3 years ago, according to the guys who had it before me it was previously used in an office before it came to them as it was on an oil rig for a number of years - and they rarely look after computer equipment. So this thing had been abused a lot and had been thrown about between moves.
Alas it was going to cost me 200 quid to repair (I forget what it was that had gone) and bought another LJ for not much more, which has postscript and hpgl5.
Laserjets (well canon laserprinter engines) just go on forever.
what'chu talkin' 'bout, Willis?
So who's going to fix the awful storyline?
> ... and definitely unheard of in USA, Franse, and Russia, Sweden has launched space rockets since 1966
:o)
It's spelled FRANCE by the way
This is really quite old ... what's new is probably the live.com url - I've seen this before.
old news!
> the chip & pin approach in the UK introduces a smartcard chip into the mix. the chip makes the card difficult to clone.
a sp?article_id=140973
... and often I've been able to say "umm, I can't remember my pin, can I sign?" to cashiers in local supermarkets - to which they've been more than happy to do, not even asking for additional ID.
Sorry, that's bollocks - there has already been a student that has been able to 'crack' the encryption (I can't cite any references, and it was a month or two ago) But I did find this http://www.hebdos.net/lsc/edition352006/articles.
Despite this, that there is a simple bit flag on the mag stripe that determines "this card is chip and pin" which can be turned off with skimming
A friend of mine came over from the middle east without a chip and pin card, and all the restaurant did was swipe it, and ask for him to sign
Fraud is as easy as ever, now as a consumer I really don't like having to punch my pin in equipment I don't trust, and isn't securely fastened and hardened against abuse. I'm very sure at some point someone will build a device that looks like a normal remote chip+pin terminal, and scam people.
Liability shifting is a bad thing, and chip and pin is no more secure than the old method of signing. It's all blatent smoke and mirrors.
How I hate how Americans seem to think their governments' taxation/justice department has jurisdiction anywhere other than their own country!
From the video of the "confession" he sounds british, the game is owned by a finnish company, and what's more - who cares? If he's not broken any game rules, then he shouldn't be punished.
Sure, I'm not condoning his actions - scamming people is evil(tm) but really folks, it's just a game.
Get over it
Maybe if you spelt shot as "shoot" you'd make your millions.
:-)
I'll take my 10% now thanks
Now that's balls for you - publishing your mobile# on the net.
:-)
Hope you don't get too many weirdoes calling you
(PS mod parent up)