This is mildly offtopic, but has SCO made any noises or rumblings about going after the wider opensource unix community? any of the BSDs, Apple, gnu/darwin etc?
I think the most common comment I've seen on slashdot apart from anti SCO sentiments is "I'd switch to a mac tomorrow if I could afford it..."
Combine the two!
Switch to a mac tomorrow, and use SCO to subsidise the switch. Hell, switch ALL your linux boxes to macs and get a really big subsidy. Put SCO's money where your mouth is:)
Some of the lower ones have everything too
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Digital 35mm SLRs?
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Many of the consumer cameras are coming along with manual everything now. I've just bought a Canon A70 (an A80 is out now too) which, while just a consumer cam, has manual exposure, ISO emulation, Aperture, 3x optical zoom, 2048x1536 pix (3.2mp), and a bunch of other manual settings. Slowly, as with everything, the pro type features are coming down into the consumer lines. an SLR still has its advantages, but it's certainly worth looking at some of the cameras that are out today at 1/3rd their price.
The area of the contiguous 48 states (which is what's relevant here) is almost identical to the area of Australia. perhaps 3-5% bigger.
If you include Alaska (which is about 1/5th the size of the 48) in the total that's quite a bit bigger again, but still doesn't bring the US near 3 times the size.
They certainly have. a BBC documentary called "The day the oceans boiled" (may not be the exact title) has video footage of methane rising from the sea. Not only is it rising and bubbling away for quite some time, but it's burning. The scene is shown several dozen times throughout the show, but it looks to be at least a few minutes long.
For a ship to sink, all you need is to drop it low enough for ocean to flow in on top. 20-30 seconds would be more than enough.
I seem to have the most extraordinary luck (or I only come across tough hardware). I've hotplugged just about everything except a CPU, and the worst I've had is an OS crash. That includes all connectors, ram, graphics cards, vram, drives, psus fans and speakers.
I tried the RAM and VRAM after realising I'd done some stupid things in the last 20 years and not killed any hardware, so pressed my luck and did those too.
I think if I do a CPU next I'll be just about complete
I have some quite big problems with phobias. Supposedly. It's more generalised anxiety/panic disorder. Not so bad if I'm working away doing some of the few things I'm able to without anxiety, but watching fiction and playing almost all computer games brings on anxiety as much as anything else that'll pull me undone - that includes just going outside.
Oddly enough, The Sims is quite a fun little distraction. Perhaps because I lock my sims in their houses and don't let them out, make them live with fifteen cats and get them to run to the opposite side of the house when people call around.
Apple have appeared, without payment or request, in thousands of productions. From 24 to Seinfeld, to just about any stock photography that has a laptop in it, it's Apple Apple Apple all the way. I think it's curious Microsoft need to -pay- to get their products in this same position.
And as much as I'm a mac lover, it's amazing how LITTLE benefit it's done Apple. What's our market share now?:P
Perhaps the most annoying was using an Apple Keyboard II (with the large reset button on the top left) with a Quadra 630. The keyboard JUST fit underneath the front of the computer, but the reset button didn't. Pushing the keyboard towards the computer out of the way would bring up the requester to shut the thing down.
I can't remember losing any work from it, but it shit me enough to sit the machine up on small blocks enough for it not to happen
I long suspected most slashdot posts were computer generated combinations of a base one hundred original posts from way back in 1997, just constantly remixed and moderated up into survival or nonsurvival. Witness the header of the slashdot page if you're logged in for a hint; A Squadron of uber mummies? It's a hint!
Only problem is someone seems to have slipped the BSD Troll, the Freelance Gig troll and the TiBook Tinsnips troll into the mix.
It wasn't long ago I found one that was on a small set of islands, and any incorrect URL to one of their TLDs would go to a page specifying that it was an incorrect URL belonging to the islands.
Can't for the life of me remember which one it was though.
Television has the disadvantage of number of sources of information. Really, how many stations are there devoted to news of a particular kind. political news, tech news, geek news, sports news... a few hundred at the most. Pare that down to a few dozen (if that) once you see where the news itself comes from.
So not only are people sitting taking stuff in, they're taking a very VERY narrow polished view of the world in, one that simply DOESN'T have alternatives.
The net has tens of thousands of news sites. You can pick your own. You can follow up the history of what's reported on instantly. You can find out the reality all as part of the one medium.
I had to help a friend of mine who had DSL installed, and constantly had problems with it working. Several calls to his ISP later he phoned me. I presumed he was entering his username and password in the right place and DSL wouldn't connect.
I got to his place and DSl was working fine - the install disk had set his homepage to hotmail.com. That's where he was entering his username and password. Over and over again...
Surely a sun workstation would be a very useful machine? I don't know much about their specs or how they compare, but aren't they pretty much equivalent to Apple in their workstation reputation?
The keyboards for 15" TiBooks are replaceable. There was a rather odd shaped one out only a few months ago - in a shalsdot story even. I don't know of any others, but they're there.
The nonremovable keyboard in the new 15" is only nonremovable from the outside. Once you're in it's screwed down into the chassis and can be removed as easily as a screwdriver can be wielded. It's this screwing down that gives it its intense stiffness, which makes it a DREAM to type on compared to any other laptop I've used.
Not quite a nonremovable keyboard - just a harder-to-remove keyboards, and probably not a consumer-swappable part like it used to be.
I've not come across a better keyboard to type on than the current white "Apple Keyboard". While that's a completely subjective judgment that won't apply to everyone, it's a good simple and pretty minimalist keyboard. A better action than the pro keyboards, with a good feel, and just seems to have the right balance between extreme click and soft mush.
"P4 Acute" - sounds like a Honda "P4 Consummate" - sounds like something you'd cook "P4 Great" - sounds retarded "P4 High" - sounds like a urinal competition "P4 Intense" - sounds like a pun "P4 Maximal" - sounds like a condom "P4 Sovereign" - sounds like an archaeological discovery "P4 Severe" - sounds like a poisons classification "P4 Supreme" - sounds like a pizza "P4 top" - sounds like a urinal competition to avoid "P4 ultimate" - sounds like more condoms "P4 utmost" - sounds dumb
I'll settle for P4 Extreme
So who's buying the SCO stock the execs are sellin
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SCO Volleys to Red Hat
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OK just had this thought.
SCO pump their stock, and their execs are selling it off like crazy.
How cool would it be if it's IBM buying most of it
IBM gets a 51% share... and completely & utterly fucks SCO over backwards, Darl included?
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This is mildly offtopic, but has SCO made any noises or rumblings about going after the wider opensource unix community? any of the BSDs, Apple, gnu/darwin etc?
I think the most common comment I've seen on slashdot apart from anti SCO sentiments is "I'd switch to a mac tomorrow if I could afford it..."
:)
Combine the two!
Switch to a mac tomorrow, and use SCO to subsidise the switch. Hell, switch ALL your linux boxes to macs and get a really big subsidy. Put SCO's money where your mouth is
Many of the consumer cameras are coming along with manual everything now. I've just bought a Canon A70 (an A80 is out now too) which, while just a consumer cam, has manual exposure, ISO emulation, Aperture, 3x optical zoom, 2048x1536 pix (3.2mp), and a bunch of other manual settings. Slowly, as with everything, the pro type features are coming down into the consumer lines. an SLR still has its advantages, but it's certainly worth looking at some of the cameras that are out today at 1/3rd their price.
The area of the contiguous 48 states (which is what's relevant here) is almost identical to the area of Australia. perhaps 3-5% bigger.
If you include Alaska (which is about 1/5th the size of the 48) in the total that's quite a bit bigger again, but still doesn't bring the US near 3 times the size.
why has nobody every seen one?
They certainly have. a BBC documentary called "The day the oceans boiled" (may not be the exact title) has video footage of methane rising from the sea. Not only is it rising and bubbling away for quite some time, but it's burning. The scene is shown several dozen times throughout the show, but it looks to be at least a few minutes long.
For a ship to sink, all you need is to drop it low enough for ocean to flow in on top. 20-30 seconds would be more than enough.
I seem to have the most extraordinary luck (or I only come across tough hardware). I've hotplugged just about everything except a CPU, and the worst I've had is an OS crash. That includes all connectors, ram, graphics cards, vram, drives, psus fans and speakers.
I tried the RAM and VRAM after realising I'd done some stupid things in the last 20 years and not killed any hardware, so pressed my luck and did those too.
I think if I do a CPU next I'll be just about complete
I have some quite big problems with phobias. Supposedly. It's more generalised anxiety/panic disorder. Not so bad if I'm working away doing some of the few things I'm able to without anxiety, but watching fiction and playing almost all computer games brings on anxiety as much as anything else that'll pull me undone - that includes just going outside.
Oddly enough, The Sims is quite a fun little distraction. Perhaps because I lock my sims in their houses and don't let them out, make them live with fifteen cats and get them to run to the opposite side of the house when people call around.
Apple have appeared, without payment or request, in thousands of productions. From 24 to Seinfeld, to just about any stock photography that has a laptop in it, it's Apple Apple Apple all the way. I think it's curious Microsoft need to -pay- to get their products in this same position.
:P
And as much as I'm a mac lover, it's amazing how LITTLE benefit it's done Apple. What's our market share now?
Perhaps the most annoying was using an Apple Keyboard II (with the large reset button on the top left) with a Quadra 630. The keyboard JUST fit underneath the front of the computer, but the reset button didn't. Pushing the keyboard towards the computer out of the way would bring up the requester to shut the thing down.
I can't remember losing any work from it, but it shit me enough to sit the machine up on small blocks enough for it not to happen
Skynet has become self aware
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what's with you solar powered ionic expulsion fanat...
ahhh. you get the idea.
You get my vote to be modded up. thank you. I laughed a lot =).
I vote for xfce as having the dang cutest logo yet.
*squeeee* lil rodent
Gah trollmemes are breeding!
:)
I long suspected most slashdot posts were computer generated combinations of a base one hundred original posts from way back in 1997, just constantly remixed and moderated up into survival or nonsurvival. Witness the header of the slashdot page if you're logged in for a hint; A Squadron of uber mummies? It's a hint!
Only problem is someone seems to have slipped the BSD Troll, the Freelance Gig troll and the TiBook Tinsnips troll into the mix.
Fact: We're doomed!
.cc is one .cx another
It wasn't long ago I found one that was on a small set of islands, and any incorrect URL to one of their TLDs would go to a page specifying that it was an incorrect URL belonging to the islands.
Can't for the life of me remember which one it was though.
Television has the disadvantage of number of sources of information. Really, how many stations are there devoted to news of a particular kind. political news, tech news, geek news, sports news... a few hundred at the most. Pare that down to a few dozen (if that) once you see where the news itself comes from.
So not only are people sitting taking stuff in, they're taking a very VERY narrow polished view of the world in, one that simply DOESN'T have alternatives.
The net has tens of thousands of news sites. You can pick your own. You can follow up the history of what's reported on instantly. You can find out the reality all as part of the one medium.
I had to help a friend of mine who had DSL installed, and constantly had problems with it working. Several calls to his ISP later he phoned me. I presumed he was entering his username and password in the right place and DSL wouldn't connect.
I got to his place and DSl was working fine - the install disk had set his homepage to hotmail.com. That's where he was entering his username and password. Over and over again...
gah
Surely a sun workstation would be a very useful machine? I don't know much about their specs or how they compare, but aren't they pretty much equivalent to Apple in their workstation reputation?
The keyboards for 15" TiBooks are replaceable. There was a rather odd shaped one out only a few months ago - in a shalsdot story even. I don't know of any others, but they're there.
The nonremovable keyboard in the new 15" is only nonremovable from the outside. Once you're in it's screwed down into the chassis and can be removed as easily as a screwdriver can be wielded. It's this screwing down that gives it its intense stiffness, which makes it a DREAM to type on compared to any other laptop I've used.
Not quite a nonremovable keyboard - just a harder-to-remove keyboards, and probably not a consumer-swappable part like it used to be.
But what about a beowulf cluster of monit....
ahh forget it
Kind of redefines the term "lifetime" too
I mean hey, a complete starvation diet is one to last a lifetime!
(a very short lifetime)
I've not come across a better keyboard to type on than the current white "Apple Keyboard". While that's a completely subjective judgment that won't apply to everyone, it's a good simple and pretty minimalist keyboard. A better action than the pro keyboards, with a good feel, and just seems to have the right balance between extreme click and soft mush.
pictures of the thing are here
from thesaurus.com:
Entry:
extreme
Synonyms:
acute, consummate, great, greatest, high, highest, intense, maximal, maximum, severe, sovereign, supreme, top, ultimate, utmost, uttermost
Antonyms:
limited, mild, moderate
"P4 Acute" - sounds like a Honda
"P4 Consummate" - sounds like something you'd cook
"P4 Great" - sounds retarded
"P4 High" - sounds like a urinal competition
"P4 Intense" - sounds like a pun
"P4 Maximal" - sounds like a condom
"P4 Sovereign" - sounds like an archaeological discovery
"P4 Severe" - sounds like a poisons classification
"P4 Supreme" - sounds like a pizza
"P4 top" - sounds like a urinal competition to avoid
"P4 ultimate" - sounds like more condoms
"P4 utmost" - sounds dumb
I'll settle for P4 Extreme
OK just had this thought.
SCO pump their stock, and their execs are selling it off like crazy.
How cool would it be if it's IBM buying most of it
IBM gets a 51% share... and completely & utterly fucks SCO over backwards, Darl included?
sounds cool!