I only mod down stuff that bashes Linux if it's not true (and having six years of experience of Linux, I know when something is blatantly not true), otherwise I leave it alone and let the microsofties mod it up...
I also note that the parent post is being modded down for not preaching the joys of Linux...I would gladly have spent a mod point on "underrated" it if I hadn't spent all mine in the "Google + iTunes" story.
The parent post is modded down because it's a pack of lies... that's all...
I've been using Linux now, with both KDE and Gnome, since 1999 and I can count my X crashes on the fingers of one hand... 3 in 6 years... I've long since given up counting BSODs
the final two paragraphs you quoted are not from the email, but are PJ's comments on the matter... please give proper attribution NEXT TIME... for our regular readers, here's the link to the proper article he quoted from...
ha ha... Linux was used to achieve the feat... basically as the midwife OS used in the copying act before kickstarting the new OSX image...
1. Download "VMWare files for patched Mac OS X Tiger Intel" from your favorite torrent site. (Hint: Use the search function).
2. Copy tiger-x86-flat.img from the archive to an external USB drive (it's 6gb)
3. Download Ubuntu Live CD (link)... be sure you get the "Live CD"!!
4. Burn the ubuntu iso, stick it in your pc, and boot it! (make sure you have your bios set to boot to CD)
5. Once ubuntu boots and the gui finally comes up, hook up the USB drive you copied the 6gb image to. A window should pop up showing the contents of the drive. Take note of where its mounted. It should be/Devices/Yourdrivesvolumename
6. Open a terminal window and cd to that directory (/Devices/Yourdrivesvolumename). Do an "ls" to make sure you are in the right place (you should see the 6gb img file.
7. In the terminal window type:
dd bs=1048576 if=./tiger-x86-flat.img of=/dev/hda
Replace hda with the correct drive! If you only have one drive, its probably hda. Thats what mine was. You are about to erase this entire drive so make sure youve got it right and make sure you want to do this! Hit enter. It takes a while... took my vaio about 9 minutes.
8. When it's done, remove the ubuntu disc and shut down the pc. Disconnect your usb drive. Thats it! When you power it back on, OS X should boot!
Must start using the one true F/OSS operating system... Oh wait, screw that. I like my BSDs here. Reason #1 why I use FreeBSD over Linux, I just want a Unix-like OS without a revolution packaged with it. Talk about bloat.:)
So why are you using those items of GPL'd code then??? I'd have far more respect for the BSD trolls in here if they were purist enough to be exclusively using BSD licensed stuff... but from where I'm standing, this desktop BSD looks exactly like my desktop Linux but with a different wallpaper
because Microsoft put that "Oh, so convenient", send as email entry in the File menu of ms-word.... that's why... then the top of the totem pole dunderheads don't have to go to the trouble of firing up their email client and creating a message and then finding the file to attach it...
and as another poster has suggested, perhaps it's the quality department to blame as a memo or whatever, isn't a real memo or whatever unless it has been created with the official approved template...
I took out the extended, no-quibbles, Dixons warranty for my Tungsten E... have you seen just how fragile those screens are and just how much it costs to get it fixed at Palm??? and that's not including the cost of proper postage and insurance for the package...
I had the screen crack on my Zire 71 some ten months into my ownership of it and discovered the standard 12 month warranty with Palm did NOT include damage to the screen...
too late... I turned it into a distro test box... 128MB is a good amount of RAM for stressing Linux distros with... especially KDE or Gnome based ones these days.
just gone through this scenario myself... wanted to up the ram on my old P4 and found that it was cheaper to get a new mobo, cpu and other ram type than it was to get an extra 128MB of the crappy rambus ram on the existing board... Now does anyone need another 128MB of rambus ram??? comes with free mobo and 1.4GHz P4???
This is NOT an RC vehicle. Nobody is controlling it.
then perhaps you can explain just why it has a little whip arial then??? I'd be far happier believing it was a true autonomous robot if there was no whip arial...
what is this obsession with writing to NTFS partitions??? if you're doing Linux right, then you've wiped all windows partitions completely off the disk... duel booting linux/windows is merely a crutch for those too weak to dump microsoft completely...
if he's complaining about the lack of CS students, then perhaps he should pay graduates more, stop outsourcing to India and relying on H1b visas... then people might just believe there's a future in CS... he and several others like him are the root cause of the problem...
Of course, my OPINION is that it's better to repair than replace. I'm sure someone more clever can offer valid contrary arguments. I think replacement-as-policy (and I also put "rebuilds" under this category) is ultimately a longer road.
hmmm... fat chance... I upgraded my computer mobo and processor and discovered my OEM restore disk wouldn't work with the new hardware... I had to dig around in my spares box for one of my 98SE OEM disks... to get it up... and even that was a tale of woe itself as it point blankedly refused to install as there was already an OS on the disk... I had to use Knoppix to wipe the original windows files before that 98se would install... all this hassle just for a games machine... my other boxes all run Linux...
who got that law passed then??? absolutely stupid... refusing to let people resell their unused tickets is madness... cos those people who got in cheap now won't bother and Disney have lost out on the merchandising that they could have sold to that person...
Or an author claiming grounds to sue you for playing his song, on your piano, alone, again in the privacy of your home..... Unless you've paid for the license to do so
If you've bought the sheet music then, yes, you have paid for a license to play it... if you've just photocopied it, then no...
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I only mod down stuff that bashes Linux if it's not true (and having six years of experience of Linux, I know when something is blatantly not true), otherwise I leave it alone and let the microsofties mod it up...
The parent post is modded down because it's a pack of lies... that's all...
I've been using Linux now, with both KDE and Gnome, since 1999 and I can count my X crashes on the fingers of one hand... 3 in 6 years... I've long since given up counting BSODs
the final two paragraphs you quoted are not from the email, but are PJ's comments on the matter... please give proper attribution NEXT TIME... for our regular readers, here's the link to the proper article he quoted from...
people looking for a G5'ish case to run their OSX on x86???
if you followed some of the fscking links, there's screenshots galore... not captures, but camera shots of the display on non-Apple laptops etc...
Didn't Jeff Merkey offer $50,000 for a snapshot of the kernel???
So why are you using those items of GPL'd code then??? I'd have far more respect for the BSD trolls in here if they were purist enough to be exclusively using BSD licensed stuff... but from where I'm standing, this desktop BSD looks exactly like my desktop Linux but with a different wallpaper
and as another poster has suggested, perhaps it's the quality department to blame as a memo or whatever, isn't a real memo or whatever unless it has been created with the official approved template...
I had the screen crack on my Zire 71 some ten months into my ownership of it and discovered the standard 12 month warranty with Palm did NOT include damage to the screen...
too late... I turned it into a distro test box... 128MB is a good amount of RAM for stressing Linux distros with... especially KDE or Gnome based ones these days.
just gone through this scenario myself... wanted to up the ram on my old P4 and found that it was cheaper to get a new mobo, cpu and other ram type than it was to get an extra 128MB of the crappy rambus ram on the existing board... Now does anyone need another 128MB of rambus ram??? comes with free mobo and 1.4GHz P4???
Smoking in a space suit... nice trick if you can manage it...
weird isn't it... it's as if they're seriously cutting back on the mod points...
ha ha... I just knew I should have put that coffee down before checking my replies... very funny... :)
not to mention the almost obligatory webserver...
Ahhh... that marks you out as an English annonymous coward...
then perhaps you can explain just why it has a little whip arial then??? I'd be far happier believing it was a true autonomous robot if there was no whip arial...
what is this obsession with writing to NTFS partitions??? if you're doing Linux right, then you've wiped all windows partitions completely off the disk... duel booting linux/windows is merely a crutch for those too weak to dump microsoft completely...
if he's complaining about the lack of CS students, then perhaps he should pay graduates more, stop outsourcing to India and relying on H1b visas... then people might just believe there's a future in CS... he and several others like him are the root cause of the problem...
hmmm... fat chance... I upgraded my computer mobo and processor and discovered my OEM restore disk wouldn't work with the new hardware... I had to dig around in my spares box for one of my 98SE OEM disks... to get it up... and even that was a tale of woe itself as it point blankedly refused to install as there was already an OS on the disk... I had to use Knoppix to wipe the original windows files before that 98se would install... all this hassle just for a games machine... my other boxes all run Linux...
who got that law passed then??? absolutely stupid... refusing to let people resell their unused tickets is madness... cos those people who got in cheap now won't bother and Disney have lost out on the merchandising that they could have sold to that person...
If you've bought the sheet music then, yes, you have paid for a license to play it... if you've just photocopied it, then no...