Please stop with the Star Wars references and climb out of your web designer's nest long enough for someone to scrub out the urine stains. I'll even get you a date if that will help.
But the point is that I shopped long and hard for alternatives. I almost opted for another hard-drive based unit because it had FM radio and was a little cheaper, but I couldn't find reviews for it.
The iPod wasn't the automatic choice. And to a marketer, that's just as bad.
There are a number of pdf to postscript converters, and from there the number of converters to more friendly console formats are pretty much unlimited.
I've got a chain set up to go pdf->postscript->html->w3m browser. Try that route.:-)
Mac OS X is only a UNIX in the same sense that FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux and Cygwin are. They're all UNIX work-alikes, but some expensive compliance testing to be done and some unfriendly licensing terms stand in the way of it actually being UNIX. If you say it's close enough, then so is RedHat, which does more volume than Mac OS X.
And last I checked, porkrind.org/emacs wasn't in the default install -- correct me if I'm wrong. That's a basic and common enough tool that it should already be present on any workstation where you're asked to sit down and work or help somebody else out.
I give them more than an ounce of credit, but it'd still be among my last choices for a UNIX workstation without precustomizing every last seat I'm going to touch.
Now if they'd only put a real fucking terminal emulator in there -- I never thought something (other than the Windows console) would actually make me long for basic xterm. For a lot of *nix users, the web browser is about the only thing you don't use the shell for, and the default Mac terminal environment is pretty painful.
Clean up the shell, tell me I've got the option to do all the Apple updates from the command line, and get emacs in the default install. Then Mac OS will finally feel like a real UNIX.
The Sun also revealed that SCO does indeed own Linux, Darl is the father of Torvald's baby girl, Natalie Portman is a transvestite, and RMS and Taco are in litigation over renaming the site GNU/Slashdot...
On a related note, regarding IBM, I'm wondering why they don't take the position of offering legal counsel to (at least some of) the users currently being threatened by SCO.
Probably because it would be good insurance for IBM if SCO did go after any of the end users. If SCO successfully starts collecting from end users, then SCO's case against IBM can't include an attempt at collecting damages. SCO can't collect damages twice, once from IBM and again from the users.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Duplicate stories are dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot community when IDC confirmed that duplicate story count has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all stories. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that duplicate stories have lost more Slashdot share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Duplicate stories are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Slashdot poll.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict duplicate stories' future. The hand writing is on the wall: Duplicate stories face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for duplicate stories because duplicate stories are dying. Things are looking very bad for duplicate stories. As many of us are already aware, duplicate stories continue to lose article share. Red ink and cancellations flow like a river of blood.
Slashdot duplicate stories are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its editor acceptances. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time topics BSD Packet Filters and Ear on the Back of a Mouse only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Duplicate stories are dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Slashdot Admin leader Hemos states that there are 7000 users of Slashdot. How many users of K5 are there? Let's see. The number of Slashdot versus K5 posts is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 K5 users. Duplicate story posts on Slashdot are about half of the volume of K5 posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of K5 submitting dupes. A recent article put Slashdot duplicate stories at about 80 percent of the Slashdot story pool. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Slashdot users. This is consistent with the number of Slashdot posts.
Due to the troubles of Ear on a Mouse stories' abysmal duplicate posting rate, duplicate stories are going out of style and will probably be taken over by Natalie Portman trolls who post another type of story. Now duplicate stories are also dead, their corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that duplicate stories have steadily declined in market share. Duplicate stories are very sick and their long term survival prospects are very dim. If duplicate stories are to survive at all it will be among trolling dilettante dabblers. Duplicate stories continue to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save them at this point in time. For all practical purposes, duplicate stories are dead.
Debian has been installing exim by default forever now. It's also remarkably easy to use and configure, and it's just as versatile as sendmail.
There's been discussion about switching to postfix as the default for new installs however, and it may even be a done deal. A lot of arguments have been tossed about for this, however the biggie seems to be its simplicity: with something as complex as exim or sendmail, there are just more opportunities for something to go wrong. Postfix is quite enough for most users.
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Dude, I've listened to Jewel, and she is not worth it.
Supporting WMA doesn't require a license fee from MS at present. If I buy the thing for mp3 use, I'm not putting a penny in Microsoft's pocket.
I do feel a little bad about supporting Apple owing to their having licensed single click shopping from Amazon, however.
It also has mp3 support. Read the article. You're going to freak because in addition to the standard format, it offers another?
Not until they clean up some of those section icons!
I don't care about ieee1394 -- usb 2.0 is fine. It's smaller, and will likely be cheaper.
Whoah! Don't you go waving your "angry wookie" at me!
When are you going to get in touch with the rest of us?
Actually, this was just announced. I might have held out for that, and others certainly will if it's here by Christmas.
And please stop with the Star Wars references and gay bear innuendo -- we get the point, okay?
Please stop with the Star Wars references and climb out of your web designer's nest long enough for someone to scrub out the urine stains. I'll even get you a date if that will help.
Do not click link! -- Parent is a goatse.cx link. :-(
It's the same mentality that's behind different Islamic sects hating each other even more than they hate Christians.
The iPod wasn't the automatic choice. And to a marketer, that's just as bad.
I've got a chain set up to go pdf->postscript->html->w3m browser. Try that route. :-)
And last I checked, porkrind.org/emacs wasn't in the default install -- correct me if I'm wrong. That's a basic and common enough tool that it should already be present on any workstation where you're asked to sit down and work or help somebody else out.
I give them more than an ounce of credit, but it'd still be among my last choices for a UNIX workstation without precustomizing every last seat I'm going to touch.
I just ordered a 30g iPod, but I looked long and hard for a similar alternative because of that single feature lacking.
Now if they'd only put a real fucking terminal emulator in there -- I never thought something (other than the Windows console) would actually make me long for basic xterm. For a lot of *nix users, the web browser is about the only thing you don't use the shell for, and the default Mac terminal environment is pretty painful.
Clean up the shell, tell me I've got the option to do all the Apple updates from the command line, and get emacs in the default install. Then Mac OS will finally feel like a real UNIX.
Fact: *csh is dying
I can see why the article appealed to the Slash "editors." :-)
It's a dark day for all of us. :-(
Why the hell is this a troll? (b) is pretty damned funny. :-)
Probably because it would be good insurance for IBM if SCO did go after any of the end users. If SCO successfully starts collecting from end users, then SCO's case against IBM can't include an attempt at collecting damages. SCO can't collect damages twice, once from IBM and again from the users.
Please read the thread you point to.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Slashdot community when IDC confirmed that duplicate story count has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all stories. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that duplicate stories have lost more Slashdot share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Duplicate stories are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Slashdot poll.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict duplicate stories' future. The hand writing is on the wall: Duplicate stories face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for duplicate stories because duplicate stories are dying. Things are looking very bad for duplicate stories. As many of us are already aware, duplicate stories continue to lose article share. Red ink and cancellations flow like a river of blood.
Slashdot duplicate stories are the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its editor acceptances. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time topics BSD Packet Filters and Ear on the Back of a Mouse only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Duplicate stories are dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Slashdot Admin leader Hemos states that there are 7000 users of Slashdot. How many users of K5 are there? Let's see. The number of Slashdot versus K5 posts is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 K5 users. Duplicate story posts on Slashdot are about half of the volume of K5 posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of K5 submitting dupes. A recent article put Slashdot duplicate stories at about 80 percent of the Slashdot story pool. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Slashdot users. This is consistent with the number of Slashdot posts.
Due to the troubles of Ear on a Mouse stories' abysmal duplicate posting rate, duplicate stories are going out of style and will probably be taken over by Natalie Portman trolls who post another type of story. Now duplicate stories are also dead, their corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that duplicate stories have steadily declined in market share. Duplicate stories are very sick and their long term survival prospects are very dim. If duplicate stories are to survive at all it will be among trolling dilettante dabblers. Duplicate stories continue to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save them at this point in time. For all practical purposes, duplicate stories are dead.
Fact: Duplicate stories are dying
There's been discussion about switching to postfix as the default for new installs however, and it may even be a done deal. A lot of arguments have been tossed about for this, however the biggie seems to be its simplicity: with something as complex as exim or sendmail, there are just more opportunities for something to go wrong. Postfix is quite enough for most users.
YHBT. Hot grits down your pants, Natalie.