You can write an upgrade notifier like what Carbonite uses - include the version with quest sharing data, then old versions can notice they're out of date and let the user know they need to upgrade.
Commits are definitely a bad metric - for one of the projects I'm involved with it shows I have 24 out of something like 800 commits, which doesn't factor in the commits I made while it was still a private project in a repo with other things, and it doesn't count research and political work required to make the project happen. Also, lots of my contributions to things have been submitting a patch, which got me a mention in the commit log, but Ohloh doesn't pick up on that.
From someone that did a large amount of Palm programming a few years ago, right as the OS 4->5 transition occurred, most apps that broke were ones that subtly broke existing guidelines. Kind of like when Apple moved from Mac OS 6 to 7, there were things that could be done, but would probably break in the future, which is why so many System 6 apps just die under System 7. It's not really Palm's fault, it's the developers.
Another reason is I left the platform when a lot of other hobbyist devs did. When OS 5 came out, the emulator was end-of-lifed, and the only way to test programs for OS 5 other than assuming they'd be fine in emulation was to A) have a Windows box and use the Intel-native "simulator" or B) actually buy an OS 5 PDA. Palm sent a pretty strong message to the non-Windows people that we weren't welcome developing for their new OS. The irony here is that the original development tools were actually Macintosh 68k compilers tweaked to work with the slightly different storage format. I had hacked up some old Mac compilers (the one with MPW) to generate.prc apps and it worked almost all the time after under a day's effort. The Palm was very nearly a handheld Mac Plus, yet they threw away all those developers.
If it only happens when Rosetta comes up, then maybe this wasn't Apple's call. PERHAPS the people at Transitive decided that this was the way to do it, and since they have the best PPC emulator for x86 Apple felt compelled to jump? Just a theory.
Actually, insofar as I can tell, shiny originiated in the Chicago area BEFORE Serenity ever broadcast. I've used the word on and off since the mid-90s, although I will admit it's become more prevalent since the show aired. Prior to the airing of the show, very few people used it, and all the people I knew that used it had connections to the particular region of Chicagoland where I grew up.
The problem is, insofar as I can tell, that there is no non-quicktime way to playback ALAC format. As soon as I get ahold of such a library, I'll be racing to finish such a daemon for my FreeBSD server.
For those that didn't RTFA, it's any machine with one of the new 'W Enhanced' touchpads. As far as I can tell from personal experience, all iBook G4s have it, and a variety of AlBooks as well. My friend's AlBook that is a bit over 18 months old doesn't have it, but I suspect his younger sister's does, as her PB is younger than my iBook, which does.
It works like a champ. It replaced SideTrack for me. I'd recommend the one that is XY only, as the rotational thing doesn't seem all that useful and just made the XY scrolling jumpy.
My school blocks torrent. One day, doing laundry, my iBook offers to connect to 'linksys' for me. I agree. It's an unprotected WRT54G. Default passwords. I torrented an ISO that I'd been needing badly. Oh, I later located the house with the AP. It was 1500 feet away, and had just a taste under 2 bars of signal. Not bad for unmodified consumer hardware....
Cosmoe is a new user interface that runs on top of the Linux operating system (and soon others). Cosmoe implements a powerful but easy-to-use high-level C++ API that is quite similar to BeOS. In fact, many BeOS programs can be recompiled to run on Cosmoe with little or no changes!
That leads me to believe it isn't related to AtheOS at all. What gives you this idea?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems to be an entirely new project, not an AtheOS fork.
You mention 13th floor, which leads to an interesting bit of trivia.
On older Macs(not sure how old it has to be, I know System 7.5.5 through 8.1 work, 9 may also), typing 13thfloor into the address bar of a browser(tested to work in MSIE 4.5 and Netscape Communicator 4.7) would redirect to www.apple.com
Yes, because try as we might, many of us can't not have a Windows machine around. If this works out, we could have a Windows machine without needing to pay the MS tax. Hopefully, we could have a machine fully capable of running XP apps with a *NIX compatible system underneath.
In theory, ReactOS can be ported to other platforms, so the Win32 API could become a sort of write-once run-anywhere system. ReactOS also can be extended quite easily, so I could have an ObjC layer if I wanted to write it.
There are some people for whom public transit isn't an option. You ever think about taking an 80lb concert grand harp on a train or bus? No, I didn't think so. I know several professional harpists that would have that limitation. String bass would be tricky too. Oh, and what about chefs carrying their knives? What do they do when they can't carry their tools of the trade around because of antiterrorist paranoia? The Boy Scouts, heading on a camping trip, each needing around 60lb of gear? There are plenty of people for whom public transit will never be an option at all. Don't try and shove it down their throats.
I don't deny that for many people, public transit is a viable solution. For some, however, it is impractical or substantially more expensive than owning and using a car.
It is to a/. story, but not about MS security holes:
A Praise To Unix
Posted by Hemos on Sun Aug 13, '00 10:08 AM
from the bring-out-yer-dead-ding dept.
MotyaKatz writes: "ZDnet has an article from Evan Leibovitch which he calls The Unix Phoenix. As he states, 'I come not to bury Unix, but to praise it'. He mostly deals with the aspects of Unix surviving during Linux growth."
You mention migration from OS X to Linux. This is interesting, because I just put a bigger drive in my Mac after I started filling up what I had. I reserved space for a Debian/PPC install. The partition is still mounted on my OS X desktop, simply because I haven't bothered. I thought it would be handy to have, but I keep putting it off until I really need it. I haven't yet, and it has been months. I just can't tear myself away from OS X long enough to do the install, much less use it.
There strike me to be several problems with this:
1) Many linux users(myself included) download iso images, from which it is hard to get an idea of number of users
2) most linux installs are not traditional desktops, for Joe Schmo. Most are for more technical users.
3) When do they 'expire' a machine?
For nubmer 3, I mean this: when is a machine no longer held to be in use? I didn't get Panther(it won't run on my Beige G3), does that mean I don't count? What about the Macintosh SE in the basement, still getting daily use? The other beige G3 here, still on OS 9? 2 or 3 years is fair for Wintel boxen as an average IIRC, but a Mac tends to outlast that. I know of several people using first generation PPC machines, simply because they do everything needed. This isn't as simple as OS sales in a given year, I would say harder for Macs than for other machines because the life of a Mac is so much longer than many other platforms, especially without any trackable upgrades.
Without knowing from whence these numbers came, they are pretty meaningless.
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You can write an upgrade notifier like what Carbonite uses - include the version with quest sharing data, then old versions can notice they're out of date and let the user know they need to upgrade.
Commits are definitely a bad metric - for one of the projects I'm involved with it shows I have 24 out of something like 800 commits, which doesn't factor in the commits I made while it was still a private project in a repo with other things, and it doesn't count research and political work required to make the project happen. Also, lots of my contributions to things have been submitting a patch, which got me a mention in the commit log, but Ohloh doesn't pick up on that.
From someone that did a large amount of Palm programming a few years ago, right as the OS 4->5 transition occurred, most apps that broke were ones that subtly broke existing guidelines. Kind of like when Apple moved from Mac OS 6 to 7, there were things that could be done, but would probably break in the future, which is why so many System 6 apps just die under System 7. It's not really Palm's fault, it's the developers.
.prc apps and it worked almost all the time after under a day's effort. The Palm was very nearly a handheld Mac Plus, yet they threw away all those developers.
Another reason is I left the platform when a lot of other hobbyist devs did. When OS 5 came out, the emulator was end-of-lifed, and the only way to test programs for OS 5 other than assuming they'd be fine in emulation was to A) have a Windows box and use the Intel-native "simulator" or B) actually buy an OS 5 PDA. Palm sent a pretty strong message to the non-Windows people that we weren't welcome developing for their new OS. The irony here is that the original development tools were actually Macintosh 68k compilers tweaked to work with the slightly different storage format. I had hacked up some old Mac compilers (the one with MPW) to generate
If it only happens when Rosetta comes up, then maybe this wasn't Apple's call. PERHAPS the people at Transitive decided that this was the way to do it, and since they have the best PPC emulator for x86 Apple felt compelled to jump?
Just a theory.
Actually, insofar as I can tell, shiny originiated in the Chicago area BEFORE Serenity ever broadcast. I've used the word on and off since the mid-90s, although I will admit it's become more prevalent since the show aired. Prior to the airing of the show, very few people used it, and all the people I knew that used it had connections to the particular region of Chicagoland where I grew up.
The problem is, insofar as I can tell, that there is no non-quicktime way to playback ALAC format. As soon as I get ahold of such a library, I'll be racing to finish such a daemon for my FreeBSD server.
For those that didn't RTFA, it's any machine with one of the new 'W Enhanced' touchpads. As far as I can tell from personal experience, all iBook G4s have it, and a variety of AlBooks as well. My friend's AlBook that is a bit over 18 months old doesn't have it, but I suspect his younger sister's does, as her PB is younger than my iBook, which does. It works like a champ. It replaced SideTrack for me. I'd recommend the one that is XY only, as the rotational thing doesn't seem all that useful and just made the XY scrolling jumpy.
My school blocks torrent. One day, doing laundry, my iBook offers to connect to 'linksys' for me. I agree. It's an unprotected WRT54G. Default passwords. I torrented an ISO that I'd been needing badly.
Oh, I later located the house with the AP. It was 1500 feet away, and had just a taste under 2 bars of signal. Not bad for unmodified consumer hardware....
That leads me to believe it isn't related to AtheOS at all. What gives you this idea?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems to be an entirely new project, not an AtheOS fork.
You mention 13th floor, which leads to an interesting bit of trivia.
On older Macs(not sure how old it has to be, I know System 7.5.5 through 8.1 work, 9 may also), typing 13thfloor into the address bar of a browser(tested to work in MSIE 4.5 and Netscape Communicator 4.7) would redirect to www.apple.com
How's that for useless information?
Yes, because try as we might, many of us can't not have a Windows machine around. If this works out, we could have a Windows machine without needing to pay the MS tax. Hopefully, we could have a machine fully capable of running XP apps with a *NIX compatible system underneath.
In theory, ReactOS can be ported to other platforms, so the Win32 API could become a sort of write-once run-anywhere system. ReactOS also can be extended quite easily, so I could have an ObjC layer if I wanted to write it.
That means everyone shares an insertion point, which isn't how SEE works. Everyone has a distinct insertion point.
See here:1 0/2039207&mode=thread&tid=134&tid=160
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/
You should see the face on the look of people at car dealerships when harpists go car shopping...
There are some people for whom public transit isn't an option. You ever think about taking an 80lb concert grand harp on a train or bus? No, I didn't think so. I know several professional harpists that would have that limitation. String bass would be tricky too. Oh, and what about chefs carrying their knives? What do they do when they can't carry their tools of the trade around because of antiterrorist paranoia? The Boy Scouts, heading on a camping trip, each needing around 60lb of gear? There are plenty of people for whom public transit will never be an option at all. Don't try and shove it down their throats. I don't deny that for many people, public transit is a viable solution. For some, however, it is impractical or substantially more expensive than owning and using a car.
Want to go start a country somewhere? I hear Mars already has spare parts....maybe we could have Antarctica if we ask real nice?
If I had mod points, I would have modded you funny. Too bad noone with mod points saw fit to do so.
With the exception of MS Word virii, what viruses are there for OS X? Not in the Classic Layer, native?
This is the same argument that can be made for Linux, BSD, etc.
Ada
Fair enough. In the future, how about a link to the comment like this?
It is to a
You mention migration from OS X to Linux. This is interesting, because I just put a bigger drive in my Mac after I started filling up what I had. I reserved space for a Debian/PPC install. The partition is still mounted on my OS X desktop, simply because I haven't bothered. I thought it would be handy to have, but I keep putting it off until I really need it. I haven't yet, and it has been months. I just can't tear myself away from OS X long enough to do the install, much less use it.
There strike me to be several problems with this: 1) Many linux users(myself included) download iso images, from which it is hard to get an idea of number of users 2) most linux installs are not traditional desktops, for Joe Schmo. Most are for more technical users. 3) When do they 'expire' a machine? For nubmer 3, I mean this: when is a machine no longer held to be in use? I didn't get Panther(it won't run on my Beige G3), does that mean I don't count? What about the Macintosh SE in the basement, still getting daily use? The other beige G3 here, still on OS 9? 2 or 3 years is fair for Wintel boxen as an average IIRC, but a Mac tends to outlast that. I know of several people using first generation PPC machines, simply because they do everything needed. This isn't as simple as OS sales in a given year, I would say harder for Macs than for other machines because the life of a Mac is so much longer than many other platforms, especially without any trackable upgrades. Without knowing from whence these numbers came, they are pretty meaningless.
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