I think windows developers need to do a better job of knowing when to use static libraries. Common OS stuff should be just fine to link dynamically against, but common, frequently updated third party DLL's should maybe be static.
However I have to agree with you, to hell with the harddrive, just bundle it all up in one package, like the way Mac OS does it (and others).
If there was money in it they would have upgraded you a long time ago. Their not _that_ stuppid. I understand your pain though, as I grew up in subdivisions. However, I now live in the city and I now see subdivisions as a horible mistake causing unneeded trafic and distribution problems. People should live near the services where its cheeper to deliver them, not speed out over as far as possible range. You implicitly made the choice to live with less by living inside the city.
No food does not magically appear in the grocery store and yes farmers do play a very important role in society. However, there are costs for living in the middle of no where, once I might point out should be expected. Most people choice to "get away from it all" by living out there, why then do these same people need all the comforts of a city? How can you have access to everything a city has to offer and not be in the country. Farmers and small towns need to understand that if they start demanding that they have everything the "big city" has then they are the big city and they will loose what they once loved, their small town/vilage.
You want cable, live in the city. Besides, there's nothing good on anyways.
I would have to aggree with part of your statment, end users (people) are really stupid, even the ones who know that they are doing.
I would also say that while I use a two button mouse about 75% of the time, I hate how most companies do mice on laptops. Apple's implimintation on the powerbook works very well for me (huge one button mouse). When I need/want a second mouse button, I plug a mouse in. No one can seem to get a two botton mouse that I have liked, one that does not seem to get in the way or work with with left and right handed use.
"Jane, you ignorant slut", how dare you for making such a nasty and discusting statment. You have no right to spreed such plasphamy. I don't care what you say, Star Trek is to real. To belive other wise will mean that millions of us fans will have to move out of our parent's basements. That other stuff is kind of bad too I guess.:)
If I remember correctly, you can get MacMinux to run on that computer. Now how the networking layer works, I don't remember but I suppose you can figure that part out for your self. Here is a link that should help you get started. http://www.pliner.com/macminix/
I also had my first VD (virtual desktop) experience with Sun's CDE. I use to think that the invented the concept. So can we now expect a new round of law suits against MS?
It does if it is going in the/System folder and thus be able to spy on all users. Granted, a program could install in ~/Library and spy on that user with no password, but the system has stoped the problem at one user and not all users.
You know I once found a user on my WI-FI hub. I was all exited untill I found out he was so rude as to not leave any shares open with mp3s in them. I disconected him after running a dict. atack. No share, good password, your off my net buddy.
Right. If office did not come with VBA, then the number of viruses would be knocked down to those that are writen in c. Who would have guessed that a word processer would be converted into a virus platform (I bet someone at Microsoft did but was told to shut up).
Really, that's funny becouse last time I checked, they had the majority of the programable calculator market (at least they did when I was in school). Are you sure your using it correctly?
Thanks to pipe, many smaller programs can be chained together to build one supper program.
O but wait there's more. What the other poster was trying to say was you have a ton of OS programs that run under X11 (like pfaedit), not just commands like ls or vi.
I do not aggree. A correctly configured UNIX like computer (BSD (and thus Mac), Linux, SUN) is perfectly secure. If you choose to run a badly writen app, that's your problem. Out of the box, your statment is correct, but who does not have time to take basic steps to protect your hardware like at the very least making sure your users's don't have more rights then they should or stopping services you haven't heard of.
I also seem to remember having to turn on all the network services like ssh, ftp, http, samba,.... Nothing was on by default on my Mac. My user account can't trash/sbin or/usr/sbin. It can trash/Applications, but who cares. That's user level. On Windows, my default account has access to/WinNT/System32, very bad. It also has access to/Program Files/ but again, who cares. User level. You trash Mozilla, I reinstall, you trash the os, now I have a real problem (site goes down, bla bla bla).
As a mac fan, I don't think you are a mac-hater. In fact I think you are right. This "bug" has almost no affect on the average mac user and the ones that it would affect can solve the problem by themself. I would also say that any mac user on/. should by definition be nerds and thus could deal with this problem with out much trouble.
Well Fallout: Tactics does seem to be PC only, but 2 out of 3 is not bad and I beat the new one is in the works.
The other apps may not owned by Microsoft, but the list keeps getting larger everyday and every time they buy up a mult-platform game, it stopes being ported (exept Age of Empires which they probably do so they can tell people they support games on the mac).
Apples store (web) has very little. Many times you find games listed at www.apple.com/games and not on the store. It's just the way things are. I can tell you that all the really popular games get ported if you can wait. But the number of games a platform has as a reason to recomend that platform is very week. Most adults don't have time for games so the number of apps that actualy do things are more important and I still stand by my statment that the number of apps (not games so much) sufficient.
You know, I could start listing Mac games that you don't get on the PC and say that you don't have enough games but it really does not matter. I guess people will always say the mac has no games therefor it's a useless platform, so I will just same my self the trouble and retract all my statments and consede that you are absolutely right on ever and all points.
How many games are bought up by Microsoft and not developed on the Mac, PlayStation and Game Cube? I will aggree that games like Mech Warrior are great and I hate that I have to play it on Virtul PC but this is not becouse my platform sucks, it's becouse Microsoft does not like compitition. As for the other points, before I waste any more time, have you acualy used a Mac? If not, you really can't make the judgment call that there are two few programs. I use many platforms, and I would have to say that the Mac has just as many apps as linux does (if not more). Tons of software exists, if you know where to look (the apple store is not the end all be all site for mac stuff).
By the way, Fallout and Vampire, the Masquerade: Redemption are avalible for the Mac. You can even find them at CompUSA. Others may be as well, but I don't recognise the names and did not feel like googling all of them to confirm. The MacStore you went to must have been out or it was a small one like the one in Baltimore (nothing like the one in DC for example).
No offence, Im sure your a smart guy (just carried away), but with shaky facks like what you stated, I have to put your entire comment in question. Besides, we are already getting off topic.
And this is why we have a monopoly. If we don't recomend something like Apple, then we will never be able to dump Microsoft (by the way, you could also recomend Sun or SGI (or cheap), but that would not be as easy to use for the newbies would it). Saying that people should not use Apple becouse there is no software is uninformed and troll like. Everone knows that if more people used an os "x", more software would be writen. However, I have all the software I could ever need and I find more every day for the mac. Sure we don't have 30 accounting software packages to choose from, but we have more then a couple. I mean, how many bad copies of Tetrus do you need? Do they all really need to count as seperate programs and thus inflate the total number of avalible packages on the pc side? Apple is also easier to support when your "friend" calls you up at 2AM to fix. I get a lot fewer calls from my mac friends than I do my pc friends.
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I think windows developers need to do a better job of knowing when to use static libraries. Common OS stuff should be just fine to link dynamically against, but common, frequently updated third party DLL's should maybe be static. However I have to agree with you, to hell with the harddrive, just bundle it all up in one package, like the way Mac OS does it (and others).
Didn't the EU take them to court for that?
If there was money in it they would have upgraded you a long time ago. Their not _that_ stuppid. I understand your pain though, as I grew up in subdivisions. However, I now live in the city and I now see subdivisions as a horible mistake causing unneeded trafic and distribution problems. People should live near the services where its cheeper to deliver them, not speed out over as far as possible range. You implicitly made the choice to live with less by living inside the city.
No food does not magically appear in the grocery store and yes farmers do play a very important role in society. However, there are costs for living in the middle of no where, once I might point out should be expected. Most people choice to "get away from it all" by living out there, why then do these same people need all the comforts of a city? How can you have access to everything a city has to offer and not be in the country. Farmers and small towns need to understand that if they start demanding that they have everything the "big city" has then they are the big city and they will loose what they once loved, their small town/vilage.
You want cable, live in the city. Besides, there's nothing good on anyways.
I would have to aggree with part of your statment, end users (people) are really stupid, even the ones who know that they are doing. I would also say that while I use a two button mouse about 75% of the time, I hate how most companies do mice on laptops. Apple's implimintation on the powerbook works very well for me (huge one button mouse). When I need/want a second mouse button, I plug a mouse in. No one can seem to get a two botton mouse that I have liked, one that does not seem to get in the way or work with with left and right handed use.
"Jane, you ignorant slut", how dare you for making such a nasty and discusting statment. You have no right to spreed such plasphamy. I don't care what you say, Star Trek is to real. To belive other wise will mean that millions of us fans will have to move out of our parent's basements. That other stuff is kind of bad too I guess. :)
Man, you solved it publicly, now how am I going to make money selling my applescript converter I wrote while I should have been working? :)
Maybe he failed the admission exam.
That would be 10 terahertz, just to let you know. It's kind of like saying CD is 650,000 Kilobyte.
If I remember correctly, you can get MacMinux to run on that computer. Now how the networking layer works, I don't remember but I suppose you can figure that part out for your self. Here is a link that should help you get started. http://www.pliner.com/macminix/
I also had my first VD (virtual desktop) experience with Sun's CDE. I use to think that the invented the concept. So can we now expect a new round of law suits against MS?
Well, we all had jobs with Clinton. No blame from me.
It does if it is going in the /System folder and thus be able to spy on all users. Granted, a program could install in ~/Library and spy on that user with no password, but the system has stoped the problem at one user and not all users.
So what if root is readable by admins. The /System folder is much more secure as is /private which is much more important.
/System /System
/private/ /private
/private, as you know, is where apple keeps etc, tmp, and var.
/System or /Library which seams very reasonable to me.
/usr/bin /usr/bin
/sbin /sbin
/usr/sbin /usr/sbin
ls -ld
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 12 Sep 16:41
ls -ld
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 14 Dec 13:31
Also, the standard gui installer forces a su password from the user before writing to
O, and if you were woried that someone could swap your commands with another:
ls -ld
drwxr-xr-x 652 root wheel 22168 14 Dec 13:24
ls -ld
drwxr-xr-x 61 root wheel 2074 14 Dec 13:12
ls -ld
drwxr-xr-x 201 root wheel 6834 14 Dec 13:20
Only root belongs to wheel.
So as I hope you can see, it really does not matter what root is, so long as the important directories have the correct settings.
You know I once found a user on my WI-FI hub. I was all exited untill I found out he was so rude as to not leave any shares open with mp3s in them. I disconected him after running a dict. atack. No share, good password, your off my net buddy.
What's "re-install"? Why would you install Mac OS twice?
Right. If office did not come with VBA, then the number of viruses would be knocked down to those that are writen in c. Who would have guessed that a word processer would be converted into a virus platform (I bet someone at Microsoft did but was told to shut up).
Really, that's funny becouse last time I checked, they had the majority of the programable calculator market (at least they did when I was in school). Are you sure your using it correctly?
:)
Yes.
Thanks to pipe, many smaller programs can be chained together to build one supper program.
O but wait there's more. What the other poster was trying to say was you have a ton of OS programs that run under X11 (like pfaedit), not just commands like ls or vi.
No OS is perfectly secure.
.... Nothing was on by default on my Mac. My user account can't trash /sbin or /usr/sbin. It can trash /Applications, but who cares. That's user level. On Windows, my default account has access to /WinNT/System32, very bad. It also has access to /Program Files/ but again, who cares. User level. You trash Mozilla, I reinstall, you trash the os, now I have a real problem (site goes down, bla bla bla).
I do not aggree. A correctly configured UNIX like computer (BSD (and thus Mac), Linux, SUN) is perfectly secure. If you choose to run a badly writen app, that's your problem. Out of the box, your statment is correct, but who does not have time to take basic steps to protect your hardware like at the very least making sure your users's don't have more rights then they should or stopping services you haven't heard of.
I also seem to remember having to turn on all the network services like ssh, ftp, http, samba,
As a mac fan, I don't think you are a mac-hater. In fact I think you are right. This "bug" has almost no affect on the average mac user and the ones that it would affect can solve the problem by themself. I would also say that any mac user on /. should by definition be nerds and thus could deal with this problem with out much trouble.
Well Fallout: Tactics does seem to be PC only, but 2 out of 3 is not bad and I beat the new one is in the works.
The other apps may not owned by Microsoft, but the list keeps getting larger everyday and every time they buy up a mult-platform game, it stopes being ported (exept Age of Empires which they probably do so they can tell people they support games on the mac).
Apples store (web) has very little. Many times you find games listed at www.apple.com/games and not on the store. It's just the way things are. I can tell you that all the really popular games get ported if you can wait. But the number of games a platform has as a reason to recomend that platform is very week. Most adults don't have time for games so the number of apps that actualy do things are more important and I still stand by my statment that the number of apps (not games so much) sufficient.
You know, I could start listing Mac games that you don't get on the PC and say that you don't have enough games but it really does not matter. I guess people will always say the mac has no games therefor it's a useless platform, so I will just same my self the trouble and retract all my statments and consede that you are absolutely right on ever and all points.
How many games are bought up by Microsoft and not developed on the Mac, PlayStation and Game Cube? I will aggree that games like Mech Warrior are great and I hate that I have to play it on Virtul PC but this is not becouse my platform sucks, it's becouse Microsoft does not like compitition. As for the other points, before I waste any more time, have you acualy used a Mac? If not, you really can't make the judgment call that there are two few programs. I use many platforms, and I would have to say that the Mac has just as many apps as linux does (if not more). Tons of software exists, if you know where to look (the apple store is not the end all be all site for mac stuff).
By the way, Fallout and Vampire, the Masquerade: Redemption are avalible for the Mac. You can even find them at CompUSA. Others may be as well, but I don't recognise the names and did not feel like googling all of them to confirm. The MacStore you went to must have been out or it was a small one like the one in Baltimore (nothing like the one in DC for example).
No offence, Im sure your a smart guy (just carried away), but with shaky facks like what you stated, I have to put your entire comment in question. Besides, we are already getting off topic.
I aggree on all points (even OT).
And this is why we have a monopoly. If we don't recomend something like Apple, then we will never be able to dump Microsoft (by the way, you could also recomend Sun or SGI (or cheap), but that would not be as easy to use for the newbies would it). Saying that people should not use Apple becouse there is no software is uninformed and troll like. Everone knows that if more people used an os "x", more software would be writen. However, I have all the software I could ever need and I find more every day for the mac. Sure we don't have 30 accounting software packages to choose from, but we have more then a couple. I mean, how many bad copies of Tetrus do you need? Do they all really need to count as seperate programs and thus inflate the total number of avalible packages on the pc side? Apple is also easier to support when your "friend" calls you up at 2AM to fix. I get a lot fewer calls from my mac friends than I do my pc friends.