That's the whole point -- it is NOT extremely simple to someone like me who is missing some basic point. I just don't get it for some reason. Something is not making sense, and I don't know what it is!
Installing Fink was the easy bit - I even re-downloaded the Fink 0.6.2 installer and was greeted with:
Fink 0.6.2 Installer cannot be installed on this computer.
A root directory/sw exists. Please see the Read Me file for update instructions, or for information on installing Fink on a separate volume.
So I guess I did something right the last time I tried to install Gnome.
Then I head over to Gnome and make my way through pages of about builds and revisions, tarballs, dselects and FINK Commander, finally ending up at an ftp site that promises the actual "gnome" and I see this:
After a few lackluster attempts at installing Gnome on my OSX box I have to say that a nice easy step by step instruction would be most helpful.
For many users, all the untarring, compiling and whatnot is a major headache -- akin to grasping the concept of depth of field in photography for me. Once I finally got it, it was super easy, but getting it in the first place was a big struggle.
I guess there's something about the whole process that I either just don't get, or maybe I think it's a lot harder than it really is.
So anyone know an easy way to get Gnome on an OSX box?
"How long do you think it would take Disney to setup a Pixar knock-off?"
That's the real reason Disney is getting into bed with Microsoft, to get some help ripping off Apple, erm sorry, Pixar.
With thousands of MCRE's (Microsoft Certified Ripoff Engineer) sat around with nothing to do now that the Longhorn look and feel is almost done, why not ship them off to Never Never Land and rip off the Pixar look and feel too.
Kids who pull people from cars at intersections and go on joy rides do not do it because they just finished a GTA marathon, they do it because their value judgements are all messed up, for any number of reasons.
Sure, some people might get the urge to drop kick a cop once in while as a direct result of playing a game where that happens a lot, but anyone who actually goes and does it in REAl LIFE would, in all likelyhood, be out there doing that kind of thing anyway, regardless of whether they did it in a gaming environment or not.
I finished reading Neal Stephenson's epic Quicksilver a few weeks ago (only took me about three months) and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (which took about three days), both of which reminded me of a Moorcock book I once read.
It was part of the Hawkmoon series I think, maybe one of the Count Brass books.
It included vivid descriptions of an alternate London packed to the brim with total insanity, rampant debauchery and flagrant misuse of the sexual organs.
Amazing stuff.
And then, just this morning while sat on the toilet reading Rolling Stone, I saw a picture of Lemmy (who used to be in Hawkwind with Michael Moorcock) with Dave Grohl.
I'm sure it all means something, but for the life of me I don't quite know what.
Better ask for overnight delivery on that winning bid - all coupons have to be redeemed by April 30 2004 (and don't bother bidding on more than 200, that's the maximum number of downloads per email address).
Hopefully people who use Linux won't be denegrated as mere Fans, Fanatics or Enthusiasts for too much longer, as Macintosh users have been for years, now that the big boys are putting out ads backing the "OS that could".
This morning I saw my first Linux ad on TV, sponsored by IBM. The theme, a young child showing up all over the World and a voiceover saying something to the effect of "the child is growing up".
The combination of ads promoting Linux, and the $250,00 bounties offered by those who would prefer it dead and buried, just might finally be opening the public's eyes to what's going on in Lindon and Redmond these days!
Will the day come when I can cease to be amazed at the dumbass decisions that get made by dumbass executives!
C'mon, did one single person in the final decision making process outline the no-nonsense, and more importantly totally no-brainer (no disrespect) points made by the parent of this post as to why this idea was destined to die!
Please, in future run your ideas past some slashdot types before putting out your next totally and utterly dumbass idea.
The date of the actual ceremony, when the Queen or some other royal gets the chance to do the folks in Cupertino a really big favor involving a sword, takes place at a date and time TBD.
And Bill will never be able to call himself Sir William Gates III even if he survives being decapitated if Prince Charles, a known Mac user, is chosen to do the honors.
Instead he just gets to stick KBE (Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) after his MCSE.
So Bill Gates MCSE KBE is as good as it gets I'm afraid.
Such an illustrative read reminds me of the way in which NASA has been adding the real-life commentary to the CG trailers of the Mars Rover takeoff and landing sequences.
It would be very informative if they could add all the existing amateur and telemetric film footage to what was being said in Mission Control during Columbias re-entry. Maybe even show the wreckage that had already reached the ground while flight engineers in Florida are still discussing what may be going on.
If there was another agency out there putting machines on Mars, able to perform flawlessly for extended periods of time, and the NASA machines were the only ones crapping out, then I'd agree there needs to be some serious analysis of why NASA isn't getting it right.
But this just isn't the case.
From what I can tell NASA is doing as good a job as anyone on Earth with the technologies, manufacturing processes and testing programs available to them.
I would hope that NASA be the first ones to run a diagnostic on themselves when problems occur, but the first order of business is to figure out what went wrong with Rover on Wednesday and make sure it doesn't happen again, which is what they are doing right now.
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I could've sworn I saw a picture of his home office with an old mac on the table.
"should be extremely simple to install"
/sw exists. Please see the Read Me file for update instructions, or for information on installing Fink on a separate volume.
That's the whole point -- it is NOT extremely simple to someone like me who is missing some basic point. I just don't get it for some reason. Something is not making sense, and I don't know what it is!
Installing Fink was the easy bit - I even re-downloaded the Fink 0.6.2 installer and was greeted with:
Fink 0.6.2 Installer cannot be installed on this computer.
A root directory
So I guess I did something right the last time I tried to install Gnome.
Then I head over to Gnome and make my way through pages of about builds and revisions, tarballs, dselects and FINK Commander, finally ending up at an ftp site that promises the actual "gnome" and I see this:
bindings/ 05-Jan-2004 20:28 -
desktop/ 29-Nov-2003 07:55 -
fifth-toe/ 02-Oct-2003 06:41 -
hacker-tools/ 19-Sep-2002 18:17 -
office/ 19-Sep-2002 18:17 -
platform/ 19-Sep-2002 18:17 -
sources/ 12-Feb-2004 09:42 -
teams/ 11-Feb-2004 15:50 -
FGO-FOOTER.html 20-Sep-2003 20:17 1.0K
FGO-HEADER.html 22-Sep-2003 02:12 468
FULL 15-Feb-2004 09:18 1.0K
LATEST 15-Feb-2004 20:54 2.2K
LATEST.xml 15-Feb-2004 20:54 9.4K
MIRRORS 15-Feb-2004 09:18 963
MIRRORS.html 15-Feb-2004 09:18 2.2K
So where's Gnome? Did it come with fink back when I installed it in January? If so how do I turn it ON?
A poster earlier asked why I would even want to run Gnome anyway. Good question!
Hmm, maybe I never did figure out depth of field after all :-)
After a few lackluster attempts at installing Gnome on my OSX box I have to say that a nice easy step by step instruction would be most helpful.
For many users, all the untarring, compiling and whatnot is a major headache -- akin to grasping the concept of depth of field in photography for me. Once I finally got it, it was super easy, but getting it in the first place was a big struggle.
I guess there's something about the whole process that I either just don't get, or maybe I think it's a lot harder than it really is.
So anyone know an easy way to get Gnome on an OSX box?
"I want to raise a puppy and some kids and finish restoring my 1973 Super Beetle"
I hope that's not in order of priority!
They should start gibing viruses version numbers: MyDoom.C version 1.1
"exact same model slide rule the astronauts"
Pickett N600-ES
"How long do you think it would take Disney to setup a Pixar knock-off?"
That's the real reason Disney is getting into bed with Microsoft, to get some help ripping off Apple, erm sorry, Pixar.
With thousands of MCRE's (Microsoft Certified Ripoff Engineer) sat around with nothing to do now that the Longhorn look and feel is almost done, why not ship them off to Never Never Land and rip off the Pixar look and feel too.
Man, Tim Leatherman should be made King of the Nerds.
Kids who pull people from cars at intersections and go on joy rides do not do it because they just finished a GTA marathon, they do it because their value judgements are all messed up, for any number of reasons.
Sure, some people might get the urge to drop kick a cop once in while as a direct result of playing a game where that happens a lot, but anyone who actually goes and does it in REAl LIFE would, in all likelyhood, be out there doing that kind of thing anyway, regardless of whether they did it in a gaming environment or not.
Read the article through again OK.
I hear Penn State students are using iTunes predominantly, which makes sense seeing as it works with the iPod.
"The best traditions of Michael Moorcock..."
Strange you should mention him.
I finished reading Neal Stephenson's epic Quicksilver a few weeks ago (only took me about three months) and Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (which took about three days), both of which reminded me of a Moorcock book I once read.
It was part of the Hawkmoon series I think, maybe one of the Count Brass books.
It included vivid descriptions of an alternate London packed to the brim with total insanity, rampant debauchery and flagrant misuse of the sexual organs.
Amazing stuff.
And then, just this morning while sat on the toilet reading Rolling Stone, I saw a picture of Lemmy (who used to be in Hawkwind with Michael Moorcock) with Dave Grohl.
I'm sure it all means something, but for the life of me I don't quite know what.
"he can be nabbed under wire fraud laws and be open to all sorts of tasty civil action.
"In how many countries?"
Well, you can take Afghanistan and Iraq off the list of untouchables. Who's next? Is sending out Spam a good enough reason to go to war?
I recently started getting spam that has nothing but random words. The subject lines are stuff like "RE: Lawn Move Over Sense"
The body is stuff like "wall patience gratis sense over never everywhere nixon seaside wallflower table quicksand sky blue..."
As usual it's addressed to fakename@ my domain
What's the point of such mail, other than to clog the web with really useless crap.
Getting v.iagra spam kind of makes sense, in a spammy kind of way, but these new things don't make any kind of sense at all.
Better ask for overnight delivery on that winning bid - all coupons have to be redeemed by April 30 2004 (and don't bother bidding on more than 200, that's the maximum number of downloads per email address).
I bet McDonnell Douglas are on their shit list too!
There are really only two major players out there these days, Windows Media and Quicktime.
The main problem with Real is the server licenses. That and the really bad reputation their spyware gave the format.
Give people a choice of Windows Media and QuickTime, for video or audio, and you really can't go far wrong.
Flash video is looking really good these days too, although it's still early days for the Macromedia folks.
Hopefully people who use Linux won't be denegrated as mere Fans, Fanatics or Enthusiasts for too much longer, as Macintosh users have been for years, now that the big boys are putting out ads backing the "OS that could".
This morning I saw my first Linux ad on TV, sponsored by IBM. The theme, a young child showing up all over the World and a voiceover saying something to the effect of "the child is growing up".
The combination of ads promoting Linux, and the $250,00 bounties offered by those who would prefer it dead and buried, just might finally be opening the public's eyes to what's going on in Lindon and Redmond these days!
Will the day come when I can cease to be amazed at the dumbass decisions that get made by dumbass executives!
C'mon, did one single person in the final decision making process outline the no-nonsense, and more importantly totally no-brainer (no disrespect) points made by the parent of this post as to why this idea was destined to die!
Please, in future run your ideas past some slashdot types before putting out your next totally and utterly dumbass idea.
"My "#include " beer glasses from thinkgeek"
You, sir, are a true geek.
Your #include beer glass is almost as cool as my big chipped plastic mug with Apple printed on the side in the most horrible pink color ever seen.
The date of the actual ceremony, when the Queen or some other royal gets the chance to do the folks in Cupertino a really big favor involving a sword, takes place at a date and time TBD.
And Bill will never be able to call himself Sir William Gates III even if he survives being decapitated if Prince Charles, a known Mac user, is chosen to do the honors.
Instead he just gets to stick KBE (Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) after his MCSE.
So Bill Gates MCSE KBE is as good as it gets I'm afraid.
Such an illustrative read reminds me of the way in which NASA has been adding the real-life commentary to the CG trailers of the Mars Rover takeoff and landing sequences.
It would be very informative if they could add all the existing amateur and telemetric film footage to what was being said in Mission Control during Columbias re-entry. Maybe even show the wreckage that had already reached the ground while flight engineers in Florida are still discussing what may be going on.
A little too much grandstanding though.
I've noticed that a few people stand facing the cameras a lot, gesticulating wildly as if talking about something important.
I also saw one guy go from reading a magazine and sipping a martini to furiously typing away at a keyboard as the camera panned across the room!
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goodbuzzincooltalkinhighwalkinfastlivin
evergivincoolfizzin...itunes
If there was another agency out there putting machines on Mars, able to perform flawlessly for extended periods of time, and the NASA machines were the only ones crapping out, then I'd agree there needs to be some serious analysis of why NASA isn't getting it right.
But this just isn't the case.
From what I can tell NASA is doing as good a job as anyone on Earth with the technologies, manufacturing processes and testing programs available to them.
I would hope that NASA be the first ones to run a diagnostic on themselves when problems occur, but the first order of business is to figure out what went wrong with Rover on Wednesday and make sure it doesn't happen again, which is what they are doing right now.