I am sure that others have expressed this view before, but is this necessarily going to be A Good Thing? Isn't this going to lead to developers less likely to have special OS X ports that take advantage of specific OS X features?
Have a look at the following quote from the April 1980 article linked to by the parent comment
Some suspect the tile mounting is the least of Columbia's difficulties. "I don't think anybody appreciates the depths of the problems," Kapryan says. The tiles are the most important system NASA has ever designed as "safe life." That means there is no back-up for them. If they fail, the shuttle burns on reentry. If enough fall off, the shuttle may become unstable during landing, and thus un-pilotable. The worry runs deep enough that NASA investigated installing a crane assembly in Columbia so the crew could inspect and repair damaged tiles in space. (Verdict: Can't be done. You can hardly do it on the ground.)
The Register spoke with Dan Williams (one of developers) whose said that they "may be able to wrangle a 1.5 release with our required changes or something. Others, like Ximian, want to add stuff to. So the long and short of it may be that there isn't an "official" Aquafied OpenOffice.org release until 2005 and OOo 2.0, but there could be an interim release". There is heaps more info in the article, so have a peek.
Maybe you could have an organisation whose sole purpose is to run elections. Kind of like the Australian Electoral Commission. I remember that even for University guild elections, these guys were brought to to ensure things were legit.
oh, you guys in the US already have your own way...better stick with that:)
Mod up the parent
For those that don't use "OS X", Quit is no longer under the File menu, it has been moved to the left most menu that is named after the application.
I also run OSX.2 on a beige G3, although I just use "office apps" and not Photoshop or Quark. Works happy enough, although you will lose the use of your internal floppy drive and local printers on the printer port.
Have a look at the info at LowEndMac. The most important thing to remember is that if you put in a bigger drive, the boot partition must be 8Gb or smaller.
The only other gotchas I remember were:
you can't use your internal floppy disk (unless you want to download drivers from mkLinux?)
for some reason I had to set to it to never go to sleep
sometimes had problems booting after it had been disconnected from power (to fix it I had to use the reset button on the motherboard, jiggle the personality card, and recite a chant)
The real point is that as the reviewer states OS X has already implemented a working solution to this problem using Samba. Based on this it seems that OS X is using Samba 2.2.3a from Feb 2002. This would imply that SuSE just have to update to this version or improve their default configuration.
Linux targetted at the desktop has to be "pre-polished" - the average user isn't up to it. Of course this is why I like OS X:)
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I am sure that others have expressed this view before, but is this necessarily going to be A Good Thing? Isn't this going to lead to developers less likely to have special OS X ports that take advantage of specific OS X features?
Don't mean to be a whiner of course :)
Read the following article: Tech Job p1 and Tech Job p2. It is definately a good read.
Have a look at the following quote from the April 1980 article linked to by the parent comment
Some suspect the tile mounting is the least of Columbia's difficulties. "I don't think anybody appreciates the depths of the problems," Kapryan says. The tiles are the most important system NASA has ever designed as "safe life." That means there is no back-up for them. If they fail, the shuttle burns on reentry. If enough fall off, the shuttle may become unstable during landing, and thus un-pilotable. The worry runs deep enough that NASA investigated installing a crane assembly in Columbia so the crew could inspect and repair damaged tiles in space. (Verdict: Can't be done. You can hardly do it on the ground.)
Scary!
The Register spoke with Dan Williams (one of developers) whose said that they "may be able to wrangle a 1.5 release with our required changes or something. Others, like Ximian, want to add stuff to. So the long and short of it may be that there isn't an "official" Aquafied OpenOffice.org release until 2005 and OOo 2.0, but there could be an interim release". There is heaps more info in the article, so have a peek.
Not really sure what you accomplished with the smart cards, but if you are after open source software then no need to write it, just get it from here.
Maybe you could have an organisation whose sole purpose is to run elections. Kind of like the Australian Electoral Commission. I remember that even for University guild elections, these guys were brought to to ensure things were legit.
oh, you guys in the US already have your own way...better stick with that :)
Mod up the parent For those that don't use "OS X", Quit is no longer under the File menu, it has been moved to the left most menu that is named after the application.
I also run OSX.2 on a beige G3, although I just use "office apps" and not Photoshop or Quark. Works happy enough, although you will lose the use of your internal floppy drive and local printers on the printer port.
Have a look at the info at LowEndMac. The most important thing to remember is that if you put in a bigger drive, the boot partition must be 8Gb or smaller.
The only other gotchas I remember were:
Please mod up the parent post as it contains the link stating that OS X 10.3 will have Samba 3
The real point is that as the reviewer states OS X has already implemented a working solution to this problem using Samba. Based on this it seems that OS X is using Samba 2.2.3a from Feb 2002. This would imply that SuSE just have to update to this version or improve their default configuration.
Linux targetted at the desktop has to be "pre-polished" - the average user isn't up to it. Of course this is why I like OS X :)