Since leaving the case open normally makes correct ventilation more difficult, you may just have been lucky on that one. Else, there is a *huge* engineering mistake in the ventilation system of that model so keeping the case open is indeed a fix. I'd keep it open:)
Nobody said you gotta take it off. Multibooting macs is rarely a problem (remember old hfs users had to partition the hd to benefit from a smaller sector size) and you can boot OSX on a linux session with the amazing Mac on Linux.
A very interesting idea, I was thinking something similar that doesn't involve mining users' history but let them give a feedback rating on search results. Statistical analysis could isolate users who try to cheat marking crap sites as useful.
That would give a lesson to those sites trying to exploit pagerank to serve useless content.
However, Ballmer conceded it isn't going to be an easy battle to win. "Most people still steal music," he said. "We can build the technology but there are still ways for people to steal music."
He can bet his 12 year old on that: an unencumbered player will ALWAYS be more successful than one with DRM. So i think he means Microsoft will:
1- push for legislation for a mandatory drm system on all media players
2- integrate own DRM system in PCs at the lowest possible levels
3- end of competition for music players, that is, Profit!!!
Maybe we don't have the right to blame Google for not giving up a potentially huge market as China, ok, but think about the consequences if the Google team decided to stay unfiltered and the China government had to censor them: chinese users would become third class internet citizens and have one more reason to demand a more democratic government.
Maybe some decades ago a man like Gates would have made a difference, but now the peculiar abilities of Bill Gates would be wasted. Haven't you already got a bloated and inefficient government?
when we let big pharmaceutical companies take control of R&D.
The thing that concerns me most: ethics in big pharmaceutical corporations. Some googling around, taken with a grain of salt, can nonetheless
scare you off. The problem isn't that some treatments or drugs reveal themselves to be ultimately dangerous for our body, I can consider it part of the process of finding new cures (if there was no negligence during the research, of course).
The scary stuff is that they behave like any other corporation, protecting their own interests above those of the consumers. Their resistance to low priced drugs in Africa is well known, but i've seen worse things. (IANADoctor so I cannot judge this link's claims).
Now, in case of the emergence of a global infection which can spread easily, like SARS or the new tubercolosis, the cure CANNOT be considered as a normal consumer good. The cure must be made and sold with no profit margins by whoever has the means to. This is the only way I can imagine that makes the spread of such diseases a bad deal for everybody, pharmaceutical corporation included. It is way better if no one has economic interest to have some things happening. Corporations can still make a living out of less menacing diseases.
Shouldn't IBM have the ability to sue SCO for damages or at least to force them to stop all lawsuits?
It would be ideal to have a karma system for companies who want to sue. You get some accusation points, but if the outcome of the trials determines accusations to be false, the company wouldn't get more points for a long time.
So the damage a "bad" company can do is limited.
I've seen a similar system used in a web site, wish I recalled the url...
I agree, yours is the most likely explanation for such a statement from Microsoft. Anyway Microsoft is too well known for spreading FUD and that doesn't help them now. Also, competition in a market dominated by OSS (and an user base who believes in it and require standards) is less likely to create problems for costumers than a competition on commercial software with proprietary protocols.
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds.
Similarly, it is known that there are an infinite number of integers which are even, simply because there is an infinite amount of integers for them to be in. However, not every one of them contains the digit "2". Therefore, there must be a finite number of integers that contain the digit "2".
There must be something wrong with your logic, pal. Maybe subtracting a finite quantity from infinity does end up being infinity?
IIRC, Active Directory has some advantages over the array Linux tools performing equivalent functions (it's easier to integrate various services, has multimaster directory replication capabilities as opposed to slapd master/slave ones), and a big disadvantage: a single vendor as reputable as Microsoft gets to manage your authentication and update infrastructure with proprietary protocols.
As far as I'm aware, no major Linux distribution currently supports anything close to the same level of centralised configuration, so you'd need users to apt-get (or whatever) updates themselves on each machine rather than deploying a patch everywhere automatically via the IT guys.
I think there are many alternative solutions (systemimager, systeminstaller, possibly parallel ssh or netboot), included the debian-specific method I suggested in this very same
discussion, and if the sysadmins know a little about packaging they can issue their own configuration packages for special situations, too. Also, upgrades under debian try hard not to disrupt any services/uptime.
Back to the topic, anyway, I agree with you that at present Mozilla would greatly benefit from an easy and manageable update under windows, but I see it as a windows shortcoming:)
Thanks, but don't be. Windows and its apps are demonstrably capable of supporting large organisations' networks and remote administration in a way that Linux fans only have wet dreams about right now.
I believe you, but can you please point to pages with more details about that? I know a couple of windows users who need the equivalent of ssh with X forwarding and reverse port forwarding to pierce through firewalls, and I have dual-booted their boxes into Debian to achieve that;)
IM personal and HO if a single win-box is the less stable and easy to use system I ever came across, I don't think a cluster of them can magically become a better working infrastructure than a linux/mac based one, no matter the quality of the administration/collaboration tools involved.
Do you really think all the smart, well-trained and well-funded senior sysadmins at large organisations are sticking with Windows because they've never heard of or evaluated the alternatives?
I think those that evaluate the alternatives, and go for the best one, choose Apple;) Some others maximize their own value by sticking with the system they have more experience with. I'd do that myself, until the alternative has a dramatic advantage over the one in place... and the PHB gets to know that;) Probably business apps under Linux still don't offer that advantage. Finally, some others may love windows just like a car mechanic loves Fiat;)
The Moz team should be looking with urgency at how corporate customers can keep it up to date - I'm sure that would also make it a much easier sell to business.
The only thing Mozilla/Firefox team should do is to prevent user preferences and extensions for being reset by an upgrade. They are working on it, as I read in other threads. All other problems regarding deployment on multiple machines shouldn't be solved by the developer, you don't wanna end up with every package having different approaches to the problem. It must be a matter for sysadmins or the linux distro developers.
Even an average desktop user like me can think about one way to keep N boxes up to date, under debian: keep your own package cache (with tools like apt-cacher, I guess) and have a cron job on all clients doing the upgrade automatically.
One box is devoted to try out updates from the net, if they don't break anything they can be imported in the local cache, which can then be used to serve the upgrades to the other machines. The cron jobs can be offset not to overwhelm the local cache file server.
Moderators who gave parent a +5 insightful: are you nuts?;)
ttf-arabeyes - Arabeyes GPL TrueType Arabic fonts ttf-arhangai - A TrueType font with Mongolian Cyrillic letters ttf-arphic-bkai00mp - "AR PL KaitiM Big5" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic Technology ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp - "AR PL Mingti2L Big5" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic Technology ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp - "AR PL SungtiL GB" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic Technology ttf-arphic-gkai00mp - "AR PL KaitiM GB" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic Technology ttf-baekmuk - Baekmuk series TrueType fonts *ttf-bitstream-vera - The Bitstream Vera family of free TrueType fonts *ttf-dustin - Various TrueType fonts from dustismo.com *ttf-freefont - Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype fonts *ttf-isabella - The Isabella free TrueType font ttf-kacst - KACST free TrueType Arabic fonts ttf-kochi-gothic - Kochi Subst Gothic Japanese TrueType font without naga10 ttf-kochi-mincho - Kochi Subst Mincho Japanese TrueType font without naga10 ttf-malayalam-fonts - Free TrueType fonts for the Malayalam language *ttf-opensymbol - The OpenSymbol TrueType font ttf-sazanami-gothic - Sazanami Gothic Japanese TrueType font ttf-sazanami-mincho - Sazanami Mincho Japanese TrueType font *ttf-staypuft - The Stay-Puft free TrueType font ttf-tamil-fonts - Free TrueType fonts for the Tamil language *ttf-thryomanes - A Unicode font covering Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and IPA ttf-unfonts - Un series Korean TrueType fonts gs-cjk-resource - Resource files for gs-cjk, ghostscript CJK-TrueType extension t1-xfree86-nonfree - non-free Postscript Type 1 fonts from XFree86 ttf-kochi-gothic-naga10 - Kochi Subst Gothic Japanese TrueType font with naga10 (non-free) ttf-kochi-mincho-naga10 - Kochi Subst Mincho Japanese TrueType font with naga10 (non-free) *ttf-larabie-deco - Decorative fonts from www.larabiefonts.com *ttf-larabie-straight - Straight fonts from www.larabiefonts.com *ttf-larabie-uncommon - Special decorative fonts from www.larabiefonts.com ttf-mikachan - handwritten Japanese Truetype font ttf-xfree86-nonfree - non-free TrueType fonts from XFree86 ttf-xfree86-nonfree-syriac - non-free syriac OpenType fonts from XFree86 ttf-alee - A Lee's GPL'd Hangul truetype fonts ttf-bangla-fonts - Free TrueType fonts for the Bengali language ttf-indic-fonts - A collection of OpenType Unicode Indic fonts ttf-uralic - Truetype fonts for Cyrillic-based Uralic languages
I assume all ttf fonts can be antialiased (that's the case for those i tried out). I prefixed with an asterisk the fonts who might be interesting. Some others I might have overlooked. Some of these packages contains lots of font families, BTW. Finally, my installation of GIMP treats bitstream fonts quite well.
Radio stations are upset because Microsoft is cloning their playlists. That has nothing to do with using internet radio. This means LESS internet radio. Microsoft has the means to pay thousands of DJs to prepare playlists, mixtapes, whatever. That would be MORE internet radio.
Instead, using somebody elses playlist and advertising the service as a substitute for the original radio means that the original radio loses the option to broadcast over the internet as its difficult to compete with somebody who can put a direct link from the player to its channel.
Its like somebody delivered pirate copies of MS Office to your door putting MS out of business. Would that mean more office suites?
I switched to debian because potato was the only distro not to hang while installing on a mac 7300 with a Fujitsu scsi hd that gave me problems even on macOS. Also, the new debian installer is quite straightforward, if you choose the default answer for the things you dunno about;)
Well i guess the music performing right organizations have similar rights, and that doesnt stop them to try making all p2p software illegal. It is not right of course, but they still try.
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Since leaving the case open normally makes correct ventilation more difficult, you may just have been lucky on that one. Else, there is a *huge* engineering mistake in the ventilation system of that model so keeping the case open is indeed a fix. I'd keep it open :)
Nobody said you gotta take it off. Multibooting macs is rarely a problem (remember old hfs users had to partition the hd to benefit from a smaller sector size) and you can boot OSX on a linux session with the amazing Mac on Linux.
A very interesting idea, I was thinking something similar that doesn't involve mining users' history but let them give a feedback rating on search results. Statistical analysis could isolate users who try to cheat marking crap sites as useful.
That would give a lesson to those sites trying to exploit pagerank to serve useless content.
What's the point for this kind of speech?
However, Ballmer conceded it isn't going to be an easy battle to win. "Most people still steal music," he said. "We can build the technology but there are still ways for people to steal music."
He can bet his 12 year old on that: an unencumbered player will ALWAYS be more successful than one with DRM. So i think he means Microsoft will:
1- push for legislation for a mandatory drm system on all media players
2- integrate own DRM system in PCs at the lowest possible levels
3- end of competition for music players, that is, Profit!!!
Well i had two reasons and a half to switch.
1) after less than six month of my purchase of a top of the line titanium II OSX 10.2 came out and there was no discount for me.
2) I have an older mac and a pc. I installed debian and i have a unified enviroment to work with.
2.5) more packages in Debian than in Fink.
A slightly new EULA for windows.
Maybe we don't have the right to blame Google for not giving up a potentially huge market as China, ok, but think about the consequences if the Google team decided to stay unfiltered and the China government had to censor them: chinese users would become third class internet citizens and have one more reason to demand a more democratic government.
Maybe some decades ago a man like Gates would have made a difference, but now the peculiar abilities of Bill Gates would be wasted. Haven't you already got a bloated and inefficient government?
when we let big pharmaceutical companies take control of R&D.
The thing that concerns me most: ethics in big pharmaceutical corporations. Some googling around, taken with a grain of salt, can nonetheless scare you off. The problem isn't that some treatments or drugs reveal themselves to be ultimately dangerous for our body, I can consider it part of the process of finding new cures (if there was no negligence during the research, of course).
The scary stuff is that they behave like any other corporation, protecting their own interests above those of the consumers. Their resistance to low priced drugs in Africa is well known, but i've seen worse things. (IANADoctor so I cannot judge this link's claims).
Now, in case of the emergence of a global infection which can spread easily, like SARS or the new tubercolosis, the cure CANNOT be considered as a normal consumer good.
The cure must be made and sold with no profit margins by whoever has the means to. This is the only way I can imagine that makes the spread of such diseases a bad deal for everybody, pharmaceutical corporation included. It is way better if no one has economic interest to have some things happening. Corporations can still make a living out of less menacing diseases.
Shouldn't IBM have the ability to sue SCO for damages or at least to force them to stop all lawsuits?
It would be ideal to have a karma system for companies who want to sue. You get some accusation points, but if the outcome of the trials determines accusations to be false, the company wouldn't get more points for a long time.
So the damage a "bad" company can do is limited.
I've seen a similar system used in a web site, wish I recalled the url...
I agree, yours is the most likely explanation for such a statement from Microsoft. Anyway Microsoft is too well known for spreading FUD and that doesn't help them now. Also, competition in a market dominated by OSS (and an user base who believes in it and require standards) is less likely to create problems for costumers than a competition on commercial software with proprietary protocols.
See, never trust hitchhikers.
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds.
Similarly, it is known that there are an infinite number of integers which are even, simply because there is an infinite amount of integers for them to be in. However, not every one of them contains the digit "2". Therefore, there must be a finite number of integers that contain the digit "2".
There must be something wrong with your logic, pal. Maybe subtracting a finite quantity from infinity does end up being infinity?
You have a point, but i guess people prefer performance over security or elegance, else we'd all be coding with smalltalk since the early nineties.
IIRC, Active Directory has some advantages over the array Linux tools performing equivalent functions (it's easier to integrate various services, has multimaster directory replication capabilities as opposed to slapd master/slave ones), and a big disadvantage: a single vendor as reputable as Microsoft gets to manage your authentication and update infrastructure with proprietary protocols.
:)
As far as I'm aware, no major Linux distribution currently supports anything close to the same level of centralised configuration, so you'd need users to apt-get (or whatever) updates themselves on each machine rather than deploying a patch everywhere automatically via the IT guys.
I think there are many alternative solutions (systemimager, systeminstaller, possibly parallel ssh or netboot), included the debian-specific method I suggested in this very same discussion, and if the sysadmins know a little about packaging they can issue their own configuration packages for special situations, too. Also, upgrades under debian try hard not to disrupt any services/uptime.
Back to the topic, anyway, I agree with you that at present Mozilla would greatly benefit from an easy and manageable update under windows, but I see it as a windows shortcoming
You are right. So, it's a Windows fault after all...
Thanks, but don't be. Windows and its apps are demonstrably capable of supporting large organisations' networks and remote administration in a way that Linux fans only have wet dreams about right now.
;)
;) Some others maximize their own value by sticking with the system they have more experience with. I'd do that myself, until the alternative has a dramatic advantage over the one in place... and the PHB gets to know that ;) Probably business apps under Linux still don't offer that advantage. Finally, some others may love windows just like a car mechanic loves Fiat ;)
I believe you, but can you please point to pages with more details about that? I know a couple of windows users who need the equivalent of ssh with X forwarding and reverse port forwarding to pierce through firewalls, and I have dual-booted their boxes into Debian to achieve that
IM personal and HO if a single win-box is the less stable and easy to use system I ever came across, I don't think a cluster of them can magically become a better working infrastructure than a linux/mac based one, no matter the quality of the administration/collaboration tools involved.
Do you really think all the smart, well-trained and well-funded senior sysadmins at large organisations are sticking with Windows because they've never heard of or evaluated the alternatives?
I think those that evaluate the alternatives, and go for the best one, choose Apple
... oh yes:
Cool!
So they will google for apt-get and discover http://apt-get.org/ and maybe http://debian.org/. Good thing.
It must be a matter for sysadmins or the linux distro developers.
Or microsoft, I forgot... well, probably my brain can't cope with the idea of a bunch of win boxes to administer/upgrade, can I blame it?
The Moz team should be looking with urgency at how corporate customers can keep it up to date - I'm sure that would also make it a much easier sell to business.
;)
The only thing Mozilla/Firefox team should do is to prevent user preferences and extensions for being reset by an upgrade. They are working on it, as I read in other threads. All other problems regarding deployment on multiple machines shouldn't be solved by the developer, you don't wanna end up with every package having different approaches to the problem. It must be a matter for sysadmins or the linux distro developers.
Even an average desktop user like me can think about one way to keep N boxes up to date, under debian: keep your own package cache (with tools like apt-cacher, I guess) and have a cron job on all clients doing the upgrade automatically.
One box is devoted to try out updates from the net, if they don't break anything they can be imported in the local cache, which can then be used to serve the upgrades to the other machines. The cron jobs can be offset not to overwhelm the local cache file server.
Moderators who gave parent a +5 insightful: are you nuts?
From a quick search in my debian unstable:
# apt-cache search ttf-
ttf-arabeyes - Arabeyes GPL TrueType Arabic fonts
ttf-arhangai - A TrueType font with Mongolian Cyrillic letters
ttf-arphic-bkai00mp - "AR PL KaitiM Big5" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic Technology
ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp - "AR PL Mingti2L Big5" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic Technology
ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp - "AR PL SungtiL GB" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic Technology
ttf-arphic-gkai00mp - "AR PL KaitiM GB" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic Technology
ttf-baekmuk - Baekmuk series TrueType fonts
*ttf-bitstream-vera - The Bitstream Vera family of free TrueType fonts
*ttf-dustin - Various TrueType fonts from dustismo.com
*ttf-freefont - Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype fonts
*ttf-isabella - The Isabella free TrueType font
ttf-kacst - KACST free TrueType Arabic fonts
ttf-kochi-gothic - Kochi Subst Gothic Japanese TrueType font without naga10
ttf-kochi-mincho - Kochi Subst Mincho Japanese TrueType font without naga10
ttf-malayalam-fonts - Free TrueType fonts for the Malayalam language
*ttf-opensymbol - The OpenSymbol TrueType font
ttf-sazanami-gothic - Sazanami Gothic Japanese TrueType font
ttf-sazanami-mincho - Sazanami Mincho Japanese TrueType font
*ttf-staypuft - The Stay-Puft free TrueType font
ttf-tamil-fonts - Free TrueType fonts for the Tamil language
*ttf-thryomanes - A Unicode font covering Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and IPA
ttf-unfonts - Un series Korean TrueType fonts
gs-cjk-resource - Resource files for gs-cjk, ghostscript CJK-TrueType extension
t1-xfree86-nonfree - non-free Postscript Type 1 fonts from XFree86
ttf-kochi-gothic-naga10 - Kochi Subst Gothic Japanese TrueType font with naga10 (non-free)
ttf-kochi-mincho-naga10 - Kochi Subst Mincho Japanese TrueType font with naga10 (non-free)
*ttf-larabie-deco - Decorative fonts from www.larabiefonts.com
*ttf-larabie-straight - Straight fonts from www.larabiefonts.com
*ttf-larabie-uncommon - Special decorative fonts from www.larabiefonts.com
ttf-mikachan - handwritten Japanese Truetype font
ttf-xfree86-nonfree - non-free TrueType fonts from XFree86
ttf-xfree86-nonfree-syriac - non-free syriac OpenType fonts from XFree86
ttf-alee - A Lee's GPL'd Hangul truetype fonts
ttf-bangla-fonts - Free TrueType fonts for the Bengali language
ttf-indic-fonts - A collection of OpenType Unicode Indic fonts
ttf-uralic - Truetype fonts for Cyrillic-based Uralic languages
I assume all ttf fonts can be antialiased (that's the case for those i tried out).
I prefixed with an asterisk the fonts who might be interesting. Some others I might have overlooked. Some of these packages contains lots of font families, BTW.
Finally, my installation of GIMP treats bitstream fonts quite well.
Radio stations are upset because Microsoft is cloning their playlists. That has nothing to do with using internet radio. This means LESS internet radio. Microsoft has the means to pay thousands of DJs to prepare playlists, mixtapes, whatever. That would be MORE internet radio.
Instead, using somebody elses playlist and advertising the service as a substitute for the original radio means that the original radio loses the option to broadcast over the internet as its difficult to compete with somebody who can put a direct link from the player to its channel.
Its like somebody delivered pirate copies of MS Office to your door putting MS out of business. Would that mean more office suites?
I switched to debian because potato was the only distro not to hang while installing on a mac 7300 with a Fujitsu scsi hd that gave me problems even on macOS. Also, the new debian installer is quite straightforward, if you choose the default answer for the things you dunno about ;)
Well i guess the music performing right organizations have similar rights, and that doesnt stop them to try making all p2p software illegal. It is not right of course, but they still try.