If Ubuntu is looking to unseat Windows, why do they need a SQL server and a directory service? Granted I use Apache and MySQL on my Mac so I can develop on the road, but not everyone does.
I use Black Viper's Windows services tutorial to decide what I can do without on XP. It makes a pretty decent difference in both RAM and CPU usage.
Don't forget Capsela (Japan), my parents got me a set when I was 3. They claim it's the reason I became an engineer. I still remember taking mechanical tests "if input shaft spins this way which way does the output shaft spin" and thinking back to playing with my Capsela.
You can turn it off with Lingon which is a launchd editor. I would suggest taking this route over trying to just delete all the files. You can probable even change the schedule to only trip every night at 3 am or so. The program may see the config files are gone and just re-install them.
Second, does this 'run constantly in the background' or is it launched like a cron event? For those that don't know, launchd is Apple's replacement for "init, rc, the init.d and rc.d scripts, SystemStarter (Mac OS X), inetd and xinetd, atd, crond and watchdogd". You can set up launchd events for about anything. Launch on startup, launch every X seconds, launch when a folder is changed, etc, etc. I can't imagine that this is actually a daemon but instead just a scheduled event.
I did like the suggestion I saw last time this came up about making it go B&W for 90 days prior to the switch. Although I personally thought it would be more motivating if you cut off the last 10 minutes of an hour long show with a spoof of Peanut Butter Jelly Time.
It's Digital TV time, Digital TV time, Digital TV time
(Chorus:) Where the show at 4x There it go 4x Digital TV 4x Do the Digital TV, Digital TV, Digital TV with a digital converter 2x
While the.app structure is one way of making a fat binary, it's actually not that common.. All of the *NIX applications and Apple are fat binary in a single file (See Below). I've only ever seen 1 or 2 programs which had separate PPC binary files. I imagine that it is only quite different when there is quite a bit of assembly code or AltiVec accelerated code. There's no reason that Microsoft couldn't do a fat binary of iexplore.exe that had 64 and 32 bit code. Apple made it ungodly easy on developers that used XCode to develop for 4 platforms instantly. How hard could it be for Microsoft to do the same?
lipo -info/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder Architectures in the fat file:/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder are: i386 ppc7400
lipo -info iMovie Architectures in the fat file: iMovie are: ppc i386
lipo -info/bin/* Architectures in the fat file:/bin/[ are: i386 ppc7400 Architectures in the fat file:/bin/bash are: i386 ppc7400 Architectures in the fat file:/bin/cat are: i386 ppc7400 Architectures in the fat file:/bin/chmod are: i386 ppc7400 Architectures in the fat file:/bin/cp are: i386 ppc7400 etc...
Why are there going to be different 32/64 bit disks? How is it that Apple can make a installer DVD with 4 different platforms (Intel/PPC, 32-bit/64-bit) but the 800 lb gorilla still has a different "64-Bit Edition"? Are fat binaries that hard to work with?
Debian / Ubuntu could easily be this 'one size fits all' distro with apt-get. I use the 50MB bare bones install of Debian for all my servers and build from there.
You want a desktop? apt-get install gnome*
You want a desktop on a 500 mHz computer? apt-get install xfce
You want a webserver? apt-get install apache php5 perl
You want a media encoding server? apt-get install ffmpeg mencoder
The USA does that too, sort of. I think it's around half time they let the 'locals' air what ever ads they want. Which is a good thing, because it lead to the best superbowl ad I've ever seen.
That tops anything the big companies put on, if not just for the "WTF did I just see" factor.
I'm a Mechanical Engineer. I take lots of data from test cells and process it. Gigs of data sometimes, so you can't just install it where ever. Matlab, Vector CANape and the other programs I use aren't cheap and network licenses are even more expensive.
I may have 1 meeting a day, all I said is that the laptop has to last until I make it there, I didn't say that all I did all day was run around to meetings.
It may have to last long enough for me to get to the DC/AC inverter in the test rig or until I walk down to the test cell. Or be light enough that I can take my work home.
Weight might be an issue to you, it is to me.
No one is forcing you to buy this.
If you need the computational horsepower and portability, why not have a desktop and VNC into it through your laptop?
VNC sucks, it's good for maybe setting up something on a computer or two, but you can't work through it 8 hours a day. Plus, then my company would have 2x the computers.
Why is it that I can run as an 'admin' account on both Linux and OS X with out this happening? If I need the power I have sudo from the command line or OS X gives me a prompt.
At my company *everyone* has a laptop. The battery just needs to last long enough that I can make it to the meeting rooms and back. 'Mobile' computers have more use than just using them away from power for long periods of time. You can sit at another desk, on a whim go out on location with all your files, etc.
I'd love something like this for Matlab processing.
And weight isn't an issue because we all have laptop bags or backpacks. A 20 lb laptop would still be lighter than the books I carried in college.
All our local channels say they aren't delaying, no matter what the congress decides. There are reports last time this came up that some stations have already switched.
Imagine you're running IT/electrical for one of these channels. You've been planning for months to shut everything off on a certain date. You're planning on rolling out digital channels in early Feb and cutting the analog mid Feb, it'll cost a ton to just switch that plan up.
If at any point in this process (say you stop it at 50%) the 'waste' is now weapons grade this will never be allowed in the US.
If it's still 'radioactive' you can still get energy from it. You can refine it, clean it up and shove it back through again.
Generations ago we were masters of waste not want not. If you burned candles for light, you collected your drippings, remelted them into new candles. Imagine if the 13 Colonies outlawed this because you could also remelt them into canon wicks... absolute stupidity.
Why not just use 2 webcams a red/blue filters and a camera on the other end?
It'll be slightly annoying wearing the glasses, but it'll be much more 'real' than what this appears to be. Set the cameras eye width apart for realism or farther to make the effect more predominant.
You constantly use it. I have about 3-4 pseudonyms that I use everywhere. First one I flipped through the phone book and pointed to a name. That was my first name. Repeat for last. I use it everywhere.
Now I have a mysql database full of 2000 census data. I found a website that had it all in CSV, I imported it along with a variable for frequency. So I can decide if I want an obscure name and by gender. It also scrapes Yahoo for an address with someone matching my last name, twice. It then merges the address line and city. I originally used it for FreePay's "Free iPod" scam thing where I would just make someone up and create it. At the peak of the 'free*' boom I had a grease monkey script to register.
Clicking heels give a good audible warning on when I need to be stalking. Usually it's only the thin ones that can handle the heels and the young ones that have the ankles for it.
Thank goodness for tiled hall ways (and marketing).
8th Circle: Bolgia 8: Fraudulent advisors are encased in individual flames.
9th Circle: Round 2:Antenora is named for Antenor of Troy, who according to medieval tradition betrayed his city to the Greeks. Traitors to political entities, such as party, city, or country, are located here.
I'm pseduo-ambidextrous. Anything with the wrist is left handed (Writing, tennis, track pad, wii) and for anything arm is right (throwing, batting, carrying things, etc).
When I typically use my mouse I move my forearm more than my wrist (and use a big desk to do it on). When I'm doing FPS I typically use the arrow keys to strafe/move and just use my wrist to aim/turn.
The Microsoft 5 button mouse is hands down the best mouse I've ever used. I'm left handed and use the mouse right handed normally and left handed for gaming. It's perfectly symmetrical (I hate the 'contoured' mice).
It works perfectly with OS X and I can assign the buttons to Expose, etc with out any extra software.
If they ever came out with a wireless version I'd be the first one in line.
Better yet, make N photo copies. When she goes into your bag hand her all your notes. Then pull out another one and say "Or would you rather have this copy".
Repeat until you reach N-1. (With N back at your apartment).
So start your own or host your own movies. Flash has finally made it so that I can distribute stuff to people without too much hassle. Quicktime never seemed to work perfect, especially for the computer illiterate. Now I can just say "If you can use youtube, you can use my site". I use JW FLV Media Player to serve Rugby Songs and Game Films*. I use some ffmpeg compressors to do it and in no time I have media that almost anyone can view and use.
* Yes. I am masochistic, never had my websites bench marked before...
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If Ubuntu is looking to unseat Windows, why do they need a SQL server and a directory service? Granted I use Apache and MySQL on my Mac so I can develop on the road, but not everyone does.
I use Black Viper's Windows services tutorial to decide what I can do without on XP. It makes a pretty decent difference in both RAM and CPU usage.
Don't forget Capsela (Japan), my parents got me a set when I was 3. They claim it's the reason I became an engineer. I still remember taking mechanical tests "if input shaft spins this way which way does the output shaft spin" and thinking back to playing with my Capsela.
But what kid wouldn't love playing with a whistle all day long?
You can turn it off with Lingon which is a launchd editor. I would suggest taking this route over trying to just delete all the files. You can probable even change the schedule to only trip every night at 3 am or so. The program may see the config files are gone and just re-install them.
Second, does this 'run constantly in the background' or is it launched like a cron event? For those that don't know, launchd is Apple's replacement for "init, rc, the init.d and rc.d scripts, SystemStarter (Mac OS X), inetd and xinetd, atd, crond and watchdogd". You can set up launchd events for about anything. Launch on startup, launch every X seconds, launch when a folder is changed, etc, etc. I can't imagine that this is actually a daemon but instead just a scheduled event.
All the stations in my area have already announced they're going Digital Feb 17th no matter what. Electricity for those analog towers isn't cheap. I've heard of some markets that have already turned off their analog. Instead of one huge cut off, it'll more than likely be a trickle of stations until June.
I did like the suggestion I saw last time this came up about making it go B&W for 90 days prior to the switch. Although I personally thought it would be more motivating if you cut off the last 10 minutes of an hour long show with a spoof of Peanut Butter Jelly Time.
It's Digital TV time, Digital TV time, Digital TV time
(Chorus:)
Where the show at 4x
There it go 4x
Digital TV 4x
Do the Digital TV, Digital TV,
Digital TV with a digital converter 2x
While the .app structure is one way of making a fat binary, it's actually not that common.. All of the *NIX applications and Apple are fat binary in a single file (See Below). I've only ever seen 1 or 2 programs which had separate PPC binary files. I imagine that it is only quite different when there is quite a bit of assembly code or AltiVec accelerated code. There's no reason that Microsoft couldn't do a fat binary of iexplore.exe that had 64 and 32 bit code. Apple made it ungodly easy on developers that used XCode to develop for 4 platforms instantly. How hard could it be for Microsoft to do the same?
lipo -info /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder are: i386 ppc7400
Architectures in the fat file:
lipo -info iMovie
Architectures in the fat file: iMovie are: ppc i386
lipo -info /bin/* /bin/[ are: i386 ppc7400 /bin/bash are: i386 ppc7400 /bin/cat are: i386 ppc7400 /bin/chmod are: i386 ppc7400 /bin/cp are: i386 ppc7400
Architectures in the fat file:
Architectures in the fat file:
Architectures in the fat file:
Architectures in the fat file:
Architectures in the fat file:
etc...
lipo -detailed_info /bin/bash /bin/bash
Fat header in:
fat_magic 0xcafebabe
nfat_arch 2
architecture i386
cputype CPU_TYPE_I386
cpusubtype CPU_SUBTYPE_I386_ALL
offset 4096
size 576016
align 2^12 (4096)
architecture ppc7400
cputype CPU_TYPE_POWERPC
cpusubtype CPU_SUBTYPE_POWERPC_7400
offset 581632
size 663296
align 2^12 (4096)
Why are there going to be different 32/64 bit disks? How is it that Apple can make a installer DVD with 4 different platforms (Intel/PPC, 32-bit/64-bit) but the 800 lb gorilla still has a different "64-Bit Edition"? Are fat binaries that hard to work with?
And yet, many People use Windows. And Vista. Someone seems to like it for some reason. Vista Home is pretty popular. So is XP Professional.
Debian / Ubuntu could easily be this 'one size fits all' distro with apt-get. I use the 50MB bare bones install of Debian for all my servers and build from there.
You want a desktop?
apt-get install gnome*
You want a desktop on a 500 mHz computer?
apt-get install xfce
You want a webserver?
apt-get install apache php5 perl
You want a media encoding server?
apt-get install ffmpeg mencoder
You want it cutting edge?
apt-get -t unstable
You want it rock solid?
apt-get -t stable
The USA does that too, sort of. I think it's around half time they let the 'locals' air what ever ads they want. Which is a good thing, because it lead to the best superbowl ad I've ever seen.
That tops anything the big companies put on, if not just for the "WTF did I just see" factor.
I'm a Mechanical Engineer. I take lots of data from test cells and process it. Gigs of data sometimes, so you can't just install it where ever. Matlab, Vector CANape and the other programs I use aren't cheap and network licenses are even more expensive.
I may have 1 meeting a day, all I said is that the laptop has to last until I make it there, I didn't say that all I did all day was run around to meetings.
It may have to last long enough for me to get to the DC/AC inverter in the test rig or until I walk down to the test cell. Or be light enough that I can take my work home.
Weight might be an issue to you, it is to me.
No one is forcing you to buy this.
If you need the computational horsepower and portability, why not have a desktop and VNC into it through your laptop?
VNC sucks, it's good for maybe setting up something on a computer or two, but you can't work through it 8 hours a day. Plus, then my company would have 2x the computers.
Why is it that I can run as an 'admin' account on both Linux and OS X with out this happening? If I need the power I have sudo from the command line or OS X gives me a prompt.
At my company *everyone* has a laptop. The battery just needs to last long enough that I can make it to the meeting rooms and back. 'Mobile' computers have more use than just using them away from power for long periods of time. You can sit at another desk, on a whim go out on location with all your files, etc.
I'd love something like this for Matlab processing.
And weight isn't an issue because we all have laptop bags or backpacks. A 20 lb laptop would still be lighter than the books I carried in college.
Not having my hand and ass go numb in my chair.
Not a fan of the stranger?
All our local channels say they aren't delaying, no matter what the congress decides. There are reports last time this came up that some stations have already switched.
Imagine you're running IT/electrical for one of these channels. You've been planning for months to shut everything off on a certain date. You're planning on rolling out digital channels in early Feb and cutting the analog mid Feb, it'll cost a ton to just switch that plan up.
If at any point in this process (say you stop it at 50%) the 'waste' is now weapons grade this will never be allowed in the US.
If it's still 'radioactive' you can still get energy from it. You can refine it, clean it up and shove it back through again.
Generations ago we were masters of waste not want not. If you burned candles for light, you collected your drippings, remelted them into new candles. Imagine if the 13 Colonies outlawed this because you could also remelt them into canon wicks... absolute stupidity.
glasses, glasses on the other end...
Why not just use 2 webcams a red/blue filters and a camera on the other end?
It'll be slightly annoying wearing the glasses, but it'll be much more 'real' than what this appears to be. Set the cameras eye width apart for realism or farther to make the effect more predominant.
You constantly use it. I have about 3-4 pseudonyms that I use everywhere. First one I flipped through the phone book and pointed to a name. That was my first name. Repeat for last. I use it everywhere.
Now I have a mysql database full of 2000 census data. I found a website that had it all in CSV, I imported it along with a variable for frequency. So I can decide if I want an obscure name and by gender. It also scrapes Yahoo for an address with someone matching my last name, twice. It then merges the address line and city. I originally used it for FreePay's "Free iPod" scam thing where I would just make someone up and create it. At the peak of the 'free*' boom I had a grease monkey script to register.
Oh those were the day....
Clicking heels give a good audible warning on when I need to be stalking. Usually it's only the thin ones that can handle the heels and the young ones that have the ankles for it.
Thank goodness for tiled hall ways (and marketing).
Well he's already on path for the 8th or 9th circle of hell.
8th Circle:
Bolgia 8: Fraudulent advisors are encased in individual flames.
9th Circle:
Round 2: Antenora is named for Antenor of Troy, who according to medieval tradition betrayed his city to the Greeks. Traitors to political entities, such as party, city, or country, are located here.
I'm pseduo-ambidextrous. Anything with the wrist is left handed (Writing, tennis, track pad, wii) and for anything arm is right (throwing, batting, carrying things, etc).
When I typically use my mouse I move my forearm more than my wrist (and use a big desk to do it on). When I'm doing FPS I typically use the arrow keys to strafe/move and just use my wrist to aim/turn.
It works.
The Microsoft 5 button mouse is hands down the best mouse I've ever used. I'm left handed and use the mouse right handed normally and left handed for gaming. It's perfectly symmetrical (I hate the 'contoured' mice).
It works perfectly with OS X and I can assign the buttons to Expose, etc with out any extra software.
If they ever came out with a wireless version I'd be the first one in line.
It's like they took the "Microsoft Designs the iPod Packaging" parody as an actual how to.
Better yet, make N photo copies. When she goes into your bag hand her all your notes. Then pull out another one and say "Or would you rather have this copy".
Repeat until you reach N-1. (With N back at your apartment).
So start your own or host your own movies. Flash has finally made it so that I can distribute stuff to people without too much hassle. Quicktime never seemed to work perfect, especially for the computer illiterate. Now I can just say "If you can use youtube, you can use my site". I use JW FLV Media Player to serve Rugby Songs and Game Films*. I use some ffmpeg compressors to do it and in no time I have media that almost anyone can view and use.
* Yes. I am masochistic, never had my websites bench marked before...