What a bunch of garbage. Open source and proprietary are not mutually exclusive. The best example of this is Mac OS X. In OS X open source apps (apache, openSSH, Gimp) and commercial apps (iTunes, Final Cut Pro, MS Office) live in harmony.
Maybe if Microsoft wasn't so interested in FUDing anything not Redmond out of existence, they wouldn't be so reviled by so many. Of course, they'd have to get over wanting to rule the world first.
It sounds like all of the Windows folks have Office (they're using Outlook). If you have Office for the Mac then Entourage will do ALL of the neat Exchange tricks. E-mail, addresses (contacts), and calendars (including scheduling, seeing busy time, etc.).
According to this article from The Register, hardware manufacturer Belkin has added a nagware "feature" to one of their wireless router products.
The feature redirects browser requests to a Belkin add touting a parental control service. This apparently is done once per eight hours unless the user explicitly clicks on "No Thanks". Just closing the window doesn't make the ad go away.
Eric Deming of Belkin responds to Uh Clem's post saying this "feature" was added to meet an internal "ease-of-use goal" and that the page users are redirected to, "looks like an ad" because "it is intended to be informative and easy enough to
understand" for users.
Apparently there is no "ease-of-use goal" for shutting the annoying feature off if you don't want to click "No Thanks" button in the ad. According to Mr. Deming, to turn off the feature without clicking "No Thanks" users must "Navigate to the Router's internal web interface (default IP =
192.168.2.1), click on the Parental Control menu. In the Menu, select
"Don't Remind every 8 hours" (This phrase actually varies a bit, but
you get the idea) then click "Apply Changes". DONE. Nothing to it."
You've got to especially like the "This phrase actually varies a bit" and "nothing to it" parts from the above instructions on shutting off this annoying nagware. This in the same post that says "Traditional
methods of registration, such as asking the user to go to a website or
navigate to the Router's internal Web page to enter information didn't
meet the ease-of-use goal."
One can only guess that you would probably have to shut this feature off again if you reset the router.
Sure, Access 2003 opens the file, it just doesn't work right anymore.;)
Access XP broke many an Access 2000 files that had extensive VBA (especially calls to com components written in C/C++). I know, I had to fix some of them.
This also happened with the transition from Access 97 to 2000. So even if the file format is exactly the same, it's easy to break older files. Do you think Access 2003 might do this again? The track record is looking bad so far.
FileMaker Pro. Actually there's four versions of FileMaker Pro (all or which run on Windows).
FileMaker Pro is arguably the most substantial application Apple puts out for the PC. It has a high level of integration with the Windows filesystem, exposes a good deal of its functionality through active x/com. And the "Unlimited" version integrates with IIS through an ISAPI plugin.
FileMaker, Inc. is a subsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc.
Well, the Panasonic site is more informative if you use IE on Windows. Mozilla, Safari, Camino, etc. are not supported by this page. (Though you can work around this by using the site map).
I think the biggest challenge of having a "real" science network would be the programming.
Science isn't something that explodes with sensational discoveries each week, at least not the kind that are easily translatable into hours of television programming.
Seriously, if there was a science network, what would be on it?
Well overall I agree that MDI was mischaracterized by the original post. I'd suggest you might get more people to consider that fact more seriously by omitting the word "Asshat" from the end of your reply.
I couldn't agree more. It's not just about the simplicity either. It's about the audit trail.
I'm not saying I know what the perfect auditing system is, but if it can't be clearly understood by 99% of the voting population, than it is no freaking good!
I can understand that a box with mark in it means good, a empty box means bad. I can't understand crap-ass Diebold voting systems with crap-ass windows CE on them with no audit trail whatsoever?!? WTF???
Unless someone comes up with an electronic voting system that has an auditing methodology understandable by your average american citizen (read impossible), then there shouldn't be an electronic voting system. Period.
I am not a luddite, but getting my order f*cked up by some crappy ordering kiosk at McDonalds is one thing. Getting some greedy-ass, power-grabbing ass elected because he's buddy buddy with the voting machine manufacturer is an entirely different order of bullshit.
Actually, my understanding is that iTunes for Windows and iTunes for Mac use the same store, the same servers (tcpdump seems to verify this), and download the same files. I'm sure all of the servers are running OS X Server of course.
I think that they are handling (what has to be) a massive load today is a real testament to the strength of OS X as a totally scalable, ready for prime time server OS.
Yes according to this macrumors article , "The additional option is available under the Panther Disk Utility and is called "Mac OS Extended (case sensitive/journaled)"".
User of recent Panther builds verified this option was present. See the related forum .
A maximized Safari window will stubbornly refuse to go under a non-hidden dock. However, this is a feature (and I think a good one) of Safari and not a failing of OS X.
I just experienced a problem with iCal (1.5.1) where all the menu items worked as well as some push button controls, but the calendar itself, all appointments, and the mini-calendar on the left part of the screen would not respond.
This problems persisted through quitting and re-starting iCal, but was solved by logging out and logging back in. Has anyone else experienced this?
Also, you can add an attendee with no e-mail address as the first attendee, but any subsequent attendees (2..N) must have e-mail addresses, or they can't be added. This seems like a bug.
On the plus side, iCal events can span multiple days (i.e. go past midnight) which never worked for me in any previous versions. Useful for those of us who schedule things in the wee hours. This is a nice plus.
I'm neutral on the drawer. It's too big, but tolerable if you leave it open. It's the constant opening and closing that drives me bonkers.
Reading everyone's suggestions on software it makes me wonder...
WHY IN THE HELL WOULD ANYONE BUY WINDOWS??? Except for games, where Windows is king (of course you could by a $99 Game Cube), what is the appeal of Windows? No seriously, especially for the home user, what benefit does Windows (any version) offer? It seems like everybody's favorite choices either are open source, or have as good or better OSS equivalents.
Even for business use, the only two things that seem to force people towards Windows are lame platform issues (like vpn clients, corporate anti-virus, active-x heavy websites, etc.) and even lamer vertical market custom software BS. Am I wrong? Am I missing something?
How many Slashdotters had a computer by the time they were in sixth grade? I know I did (a Vic 20).
I happen to think my high level of comfort and adaptability with computers greatly benefitted from my early exposure to the computer.
I also know that I WORSHIPPED that piece of crap with its cassette drive (30 minutes to load Pac Man???) like it was the most prized object in the universe.
Now the Michigan Laptop program may be a flaming-pile-of-shit, but before everyone starts talking about idiot sixth graders, maybe they should think back to when they had their first computer, what it meant to them, and whether or not they were and idiot 6th (or 7th, or 8th) graders at the time.
"Virtual PC for Mac Version 6.1 will not run on the new G5 machines," MacBU Product Manager, Jessica Sommer, told MacCentral. "G5 users will get an error dialog letting them know that Virtual PC does not support the CPU in their Macintosh. The dialog allows the user to click directly to the Mactopia Web site to access support information."
Virtual PC relies on a feature in the G3 and G4 processors that is no longer present in the G5 chip. Sommer said that Microsoft is rewriting large portions of the Virtual PC code to make it compatible with the new processor.
So version 6.1 (recently released by MS) will NOT run on any Mac with a G5 processor.
Of course it won't get too much better until it can run on Macs with the G5 processor, which the current version doesn't per Microsoft as mentioned in this article on MacCentral.
I find it interesting that they only mention VPC 6.1 as not running, though I assume this applies to 6.0.1 as well.
Couldn't open source initiatives like say, open office, have a tangentially related "for profit" corporation(s) that acted as a vendor to provide service, installation options, integration solutions, and other corporate BS. They could then give said corporation(s) the Open Office Seal Of Approval, making them a "preferred vendor" so that corporate types would say "oh, they're a preferred vendor in Open Office, let's hire them."
Said corporation would then make large charitable contributions to the open source group working on Open Office. No money would ever change hands for the software, but instead a company whose livelihood depended on it's expertise in the product would contribute cash to help sustain and improve the product.
Would this violate any OSS rules? Doesn't seem like it me.
On the other hand, making flashy new GUI stuff maybe be easier than making the OS secure (I think they've been doing OK on stability since 2000).
Microsoft did lots of bad sloppy things in their attempt to win the browser war. This included a lot of core functionality in the OS being written as fast as possible to integrate the core OS with IE and Outlook.
This tight integration won them the browser war. It won corporate clients because of all the "amazing productivity" features that integrated Outlook, IE, Office, etc. into a cohesive business computing platform.
Unfortunately, these rushed pieces of the OS are now grandfathered in to the OS, if you got rid of them you'd blow up thousands of corporate environments. I'm sure MS is doing their best (whatever that is) to get bugs out of their code. Problem is, when you have tens of millions of lines of way-too-rushed code, it is really impossible to debug. You basically have to find problems as they spring up, and they will just keep springing up.
Compared to cleaning up the mess that is Windows. Writing some pretty new GUI code is probably a piece of cake.
It might take a week before a new garbage collector stops gagging from the smell of the trash he/she picks up. How long does it take before one can stomach the reek of a State Legislature or a Governorship?
Maybe this is why we don't see many twenty-year-old candidates.
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What a bunch of garbage. Open source and proprietary are not mutually exclusive. The best example of this is Mac OS X. In OS X open source apps (apache, openSSH, Gimp) and commercial apps (iTunes, Final Cut Pro, MS Office) live in harmony.
Maybe if Microsoft wasn't so interested in FUDing anything not Redmond out of existence, they wouldn't be so reviled by so many. Of course, they'd have to get over wanting to rule the world first.
It sounds like all of the Windows folks have Office (they're using Outlook). If you have Office for the Mac then Entourage will do ALL of the neat Exchange tricks. E-mail, addresses (contacts), and calendars (including scheduling, seeing busy time, etc.).
But don't take my word for it. Here it is right from the horse's mouth.
Maybe a better use of internet and telephony services would be an easy and secure way to:
1. Get a lift from a volunteer
2. Arrange a postal vote in advance
3. Arrange a proxy vote in advance
Just my two cents
According to this article from The Register, hardware manufacturer Belkin has added a nagware "feature" to one of their wireless router products.
The feature redirects browser requests to a Belkin add touting a parental control service. This apparently is done once per eight hours unless the user explicitly clicks on "No Thanks". Just closing the window doesn't make the ad go away.
The issue was brought to light by a former Belkin customer. Mr. Uh Clem has posted a description of the problem on Google Groups.
Eric Deming of Belkin responds to Uh Clem's post saying this "feature" was added to meet an internal "ease-of-use goal" and that the page users are redirected to, "looks like an ad" because "it is intended to be informative and easy enough to understand" for users.
Apparently there is no "ease-of-use goal" for shutting the annoying feature off if you don't want to click "No Thanks" button in the ad. According to Mr. Deming, to turn off the feature without clicking "No Thanks" users must "Navigate to the Router's internal web interface (default IP = 192.168.2.1), click on the Parental Control menu. In the Menu, select "Don't Remind every 8 hours" (This phrase actually varies a bit, but you get the idea) then click "Apply Changes". DONE. Nothing to it."
You've got to especially like the "This phrase actually varies a bit" and "nothing to it" parts from the above instructions on shutting off this annoying nagware. This in the same post that says "Traditional methods of registration, such as asking the user to go to a website or navigate to the Router's internal Web page to enter information didn't meet the ease-of-use goal."
One can only guess that you would probably have to shut this feature off again if you reset the router.
Sure, Access 2003 opens the file, it just doesn't work right anymore. ;)
Access XP broke many an Access 2000 files that had extensive VBA (especially calls to com components written in C/C++). I know, I had to fix some of them.
This also happened with the transition from Access 97 to 2000. So even if the file format is exactly the same, it's easy to break older files. Do you think Access 2003 might do this again? The track record is looking bad so far.
FileMaker Pro. Actually there's four versions of FileMaker Pro (all or which run on Windows).
FileMaker Pro is arguably the most substantial application Apple puts out for the PC. It has a high level of integration with the Windows filesystem, exposes a good deal of its functionality through active x/com. And the "Unlimited" version integrates with IIS through an ISAPI plugin. FileMaker, Inc. is a subsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc.
Well, the Panasonic site is more informative if you use IE on Windows. Mozilla, Safari, Camino, etc. are not supported by this page. (Though you can work around this by using the site map).
I think the biggest challenge of having a "real" science network would be the programming.
Science isn't something that explodes with sensational discoveries each week, at least not the kind that are easily translatable into hours of television programming.
Seriously, if there was a science network, what would be on it?
Well overall I agree that MDI was mischaracterized by the original post. I'd suggest you might get more people to consider that fact more seriously by omitting the word "Asshat" from the end of your reply.
Now if it was a tinfoil Asshat....
I couldn't agree more. It's not just about the simplicity either. It's about the audit trail.
I'm not saying I know what the perfect auditing system is, but if it can't be clearly understood by 99% of the voting population, than it is no freaking good!
I can understand that a box with mark in it means good, a empty box means bad. I can't understand crap-ass Diebold voting systems with crap-ass windows CE on them with no audit trail whatsoever?!? WTF???
Unless someone comes up with an electronic voting system that has an auditing methodology understandable by your average american citizen (read impossible), then there shouldn't be an electronic voting system. Period.
I am not a luddite, but getting my order f*cked up by some crappy ordering kiosk at McDonalds is one thing. Getting some greedy-ass, power-grabbing ass elected because he's buddy buddy with the voting machine manufacturer is an entirely different order of bullshit.
Actually, my understanding is that iTunes for Windows and iTunes for Mac use the same store, the same servers (tcpdump seems to verify this), and download the same files. I'm sure all of the servers are running OS X Server of course.
I think that they are handling (what has to be) a massive load today is a real testament to the strength of OS X as a totally scalable, ready for prime time server OS.
Yes according to this macrumors article , "The additional option is available under the Panther Disk Utility and is called "Mac OS Extended (case sensitive/journaled)"".
User of recent Panther builds verified this option was present. See the related forum .
She may be referring to Safari.
A maximized Safari window will stubbornly refuse to go under a non-hidden dock. However, this is a feature (and I think a good one) of Safari and not a failing of OS X.
It doesn't crash Mozilla 1.4 on Mac OS X (or Camino or Firebird for that matter).
I just experienced a problem with iCal (1.5.1) where all the menu items worked as well as some push button controls, but the calendar itself, all appointments, and the mini-calendar on the left part of the screen would not respond.
This problems persisted through quitting and re-starting iCal, but was solved by logging out and logging back in. Has anyone else experienced this?
Also, you can add an attendee with no e-mail address as the first attendee, but any subsequent attendees (2..N) must have e-mail addresses, or they can't be added. This seems like a bug.
On the plus side, iCal events can span multiple days (i.e. go past midnight) which never worked for me in any previous versions. Useful for those of us who schedule things in the wee hours. This is a nice plus.
I'm neutral on the drawer. It's too big, but tolerable if you leave it open. It's the constant opening and closing that drives me bonkers.
Inside Mac Games has a small write up on Savage coming to Mac OS X.
According to S2 Games' member Sam McGrath "Companies that say porting to Mac is hard don't know how to write good code."
Pretty cool.
Reading everyone's suggestions on software it makes me wonder...
WHY IN THE HELL WOULD ANYONE BUY WINDOWS??? Except for games, where Windows is king (of course you could by a $99 Game Cube), what is the appeal of Windows? No seriously, especially for the home user, what benefit does Windows (any version) offer? It seems like everybody's favorite choices either are open source, or have as good or better OSS equivalents.
Even for business use, the only two things that seem to force people towards Windows are lame platform issues (like vpn clients, corporate anti-virus, active-x heavy websites, etc.) and even lamer vertical market custom software BS. Am I wrong? Am I missing something?
How many Slashdotters had a computer by the time they were in sixth grade? I know I did (a Vic 20).
I happen to think my high level of comfort and adaptability with computers greatly benefitted from my early exposure to the computer.
I also know that I WORSHIPPED that piece of crap with its cassette drive (30 minutes to load Pac Man???) like it was the most prized object in the universe.
Now the Michigan Laptop program may be a flaming-pile-of-shit, but before everyone starts talking about idiot sixth graders, maybe they should think back to when they had their first computer, what it meant to them, and whether or not they were and idiot 6th (or 7th, or 8th) graders at the time.
From this article at MacCentral.
"Virtual PC for Mac Version 6.1 will not run on the new G5 machines," MacBU Product Manager, Jessica Sommer, told MacCentral. "G5 users will get an error dialog letting them know that Virtual PC does not support the CPU in their Macintosh. The dialog allows the user to click directly to the Mactopia Web site to access support information."
Virtual PC relies on a feature in the G3 and G4 processors that is no longer present in the G5 chip. Sommer said that Microsoft is rewriting large portions of the Virtual PC code to make it compatible with the new processor.
So version 6.1 (recently released by MS) will NOT run on any Mac with a G5 processor.
Of course it won't get too much better until it can run on Macs with the G5 processor, which the current version doesn't per Microsoft as mentioned in this article on MacCentral.
I find it interesting that they only mention VPC 6.1 as not running, though I assume this applies to 6.0.1 as well.
Couldn't open source initiatives like say, open office, have a tangentially related "for profit" corporation(s) that acted as a vendor to provide service, installation options, integration solutions, and other corporate BS. They could then give said corporation(s) the Open Office Seal Of Approval, making them a "preferred vendor" so that corporate types would say "oh, they're a preferred vendor in Open Office, let's hire them."
Said corporation would then make large charitable contributions to the open source group working on Open Office. No money would ever change hands for the software, but instead a company whose livelihood depended on it's expertise in the product would contribute cash to help sustain and improve the product.
Would this violate any OSS rules? Doesn't seem like it me.
On the other hand, making flashy new GUI stuff maybe be easier than making the OS secure (I think they've been doing OK on stability since 2000).
Microsoft did lots of bad sloppy things in their attempt to win the browser war. This included a lot of core functionality in the OS being written as fast as possible to integrate the core OS with IE and Outlook.
This tight integration won them the browser war. It won corporate clients because of all the "amazing productivity" features that integrated Outlook, IE, Office, etc. into a cohesive business computing platform.
Unfortunately, these rushed pieces of the OS are now grandfathered in to the OS, if you got rid of them you'd blow up thousands of corporate environments. I'm sure MS is doing their best (whatever that is) to get bugs out of their code. Problem is, when you have tens of millions of lines of way-too-rushed code, it is really impossible to debug. You basically have to find problems as they spring up, and they will just keep springing up.
Compared to cleaning up the mess that is Windows. Writing some pretty new GUI code is probably a piece of cake.
Do you think they got the inspiration from this name from one of the alt.binaries groups?
It might take a week before a new garbage collector stops gagging from the smell of the trash he/she picks up. How long does it take before one can stomach the reek of a State Legislature or a Governorship?
Maybe this is why we don't see many twenty-year-old candidates.
I remember seeing Doom on my buddy's crappy Packard Bell PC and being really jealous that there was nothing like that for the Mac. Fortunately the good folks at Bungie came out with Marathon and I could take out all my frustrations by killing nasty Pfhor and saving witless BOBs.