Why don't you push that for the mozilla suite. Go bloated if you like it. Let everyone else have a small, fast, standards compliant browser. Hell why don't they work on the memory usage everyone bitches about. I remember first reading about gecko and how it was tiny and efficient. What happened to that?
You can compare Mac Pros to dell precision workstations without a problem. High end PC != gamer rig in some circles. Its possible to use a workstation as a gamer rig with a few modifications but its the best gamer rig.
I wouldn't mind seeing more comparisons to Macs though. I want to replace my pcs with Macs provided I can dual boot them. (and no i don't mean windows)
You're information is not quite accurate. Apple bought NeXT. While a few NeXT employees got a run of the place including Steve Jobs, it was still an Apple shop. Also, steve jobs made people come into his office and explain how their products would help the company. Some people did get fired.
I'm not convinced Microsoft will get a virtualization release ready anytime soon either. Remember how vista was supposed to have an all new kernel, file system, and various other features? Microsoft can't deliver on promises. Many people criticized Apple for not telling us about 10.5's new features. I think the reason is that they didn't want to promise anything that wasn't a sure thing. They want to ship on time and without a letdown.
I want Microsoft to ship vista very soon. It starts a new hardware purchase cycle which eventually lowers prices. It also will allow people to re-evaluate Windows again. People may buy Macs or try alternative operating systems like linux or BSD. I just wish my project were ready. Get aggressive linux users. We know what Microsoft will push with Windows. If you have those features, tell everyone you know. "You can have vista today!" If you don't, well you know what to work on.
What's worse is that if you manage to get it it will tell you the battery is NOT on the list right now. I verified it was covered with someone i know but he had to get me to do the website form. I've got 2 g4 ibooks sitting here in the range and the site claims they are not covered under the program.
I have concerns now about the batteries and I can't even get ahold of anyone. This sucks. I needed a new battery anyway but my wife's iBook is less than a year old. It might not be wise to run it on a battery at work, etc.
Worst of all, I have to take back some of the dell jokes I made.:)
Don't bother calling apple. They just redirect you to the dead server. Any in case anyone asks, apple seems to run OSX server, solaris and Windows/IIS on their servers according to netcraft. It could be any of the three.
His parent would have to think he did something wrong. Most parents don't give a shit anymore. Besides, it could be a situation like i was in at 16. I got my first pc and my parents didn't help me get it. They couldn't take it away. Hell my dad tried once. Lets just say it didn't go well for him...
Not only that but people are paying higher gas prices and have less money to spend on crap on ebay. Sure everyone is selling as they need money for gas!
Not if you live in an apartment. I've got neighbors who attempt to gain access to wireless networks all the time. I really don't want my neighbor on my broadband account. I certainly don't want the RIAA at my door. What am I supposed to do, use a VPN in my home network? I don't think so.
That is your experience. Many people have good experience with SCSI drives. I'm using one right now in my desktop. Its fast and reliable. You either had a bad drive which can happen on any interface or the driver for your controller was not very good. I've seen disk corruption in FreeBSD using an nforce2 nvraid sata controller in 5.3 as well. As soon as I submitted the pci id, it was fixed. My guess is that linux didn't support the controller at the time or as I said before bad disk.
Sadly I have to agree. I still use firefox because I like it. There have been several security updates to firefox lately. One could argue its popularity, but remember IE is deployed in more places. I no longer recommend Firefox as a security solution, but simply as a "better" browser. IE7 is new and not out of beta. Its security track record hasn't been determined yet.
Open source software has a lot of value, but I don't personally believe its more secure. It may get patched quicker since Microsoft sits on patches for weeks. I like QA but on a non critical system its better to test the patch right away yourself and make sure it won't break your apps.
Its only $129 retail for OSX releases unless they decide to raise the price. Compare that to the $199 Microsoft charges for Windows XP Pro upgrade.
You don't need to buy it. I'd just like to point out its an odd release and thus stable. Even releases tend to have more new features but are often less stable. Odd releases tend to be more reliable. If you decided to buy every other release, I'd recommend you get on odd releases. I'm saying this as a Mac user and former OSX sys admin. You will still get major security patches for up to a year after 10.5 ships.
In a pure form yes. Most people use "ajax" to do dhtml like things. They make dippy drop down boxes and so forth. You could seperate the content of that box with an external javascript document that's dynamically generated too.
In my opinion, when someone uses "ajax" but with html and javascript only its really dhtml. Now if someone is really using xml documents and doing something original i'll give them credit for the latest fad.
I used to work for an isp. We did disable accounts when they were caught transmitting malicious code. 9 out of 10 times it was a 40+ year old woman who would call. They never knew about windows update and some didn't have antivirus software. We'd agree to turn them back on if they bought antivirus and patched their os. A few times it lost us customers, but most people were quite happy if they took our advice. Occasionally we'd get some pissed off customer who'd cancel and want a refund.
I believe they stopped that policy after I left.
My solution is to inform people. If they insist on windows, tell them about windows update, antivirus, and anti-spyware tools. I went back to college a few years ago and have done several presentations on the topic. I used public speaking and classes with non technical students to convince them to patch. It worked in a few cases. Several people told me next class that their network connection was much faster. I also mentioned linux, and Mac OSX in my talks. At least one person tried linux.
No, apple didn't do much with PowerMac G5 systems either. Users got 64 bit memory addressing. That's about it. Unless adobe requires it for some reason when they finally release photoshop and their other products native, I wouldn't worry too much. It willl be a few years before its an issue.
That's why I decided to fork FreeBSD for MidnightBSD. I could build a distro like PC-BSD or DesktopBSD, but I found the idea linuxish. FreeBSD is after all the "Power to server". The desktop isn't a target for optimization or improvement. If a major change would help desktop users at the cost of minor server performance degredation, FreeBSD would not do it. Increasingly, the mailing lists are focusing on micro benchmarks.
Linus wrote the linux kernel for desktop use. Instead its used on servers and slowly creeping into the mainstream. There are countless distros and no clear solution. PC-BSD and DesktopBSD are both great ideas and they have a big head start on me. Unfortunetely they would be best served by merging. Both use KDE. Someone will eventually throw up a gnome distro as well. Hell I thought about it.
In the end, the open source community needs a unqiue desktop environment that runs on one kernel with a userland designed around the user. This could be a future linux project, a BSD based OS or something completely different. In my opinion, the BSD community benefits from having a unique kernel. We can all try new things and build unique operating environments that fit our users habits. DragonFlyBSD is a great example. They forked off of FreeBSD and now have a message passing based approach that looks quite interesting. OpenBSD forked off of NetBSD and now they have one of the most secure systems with software we all use everyday like openssh coming out of the project.
On a certain level, open source encourages forking. We're always told to change something if we don't like it. Patch, patch, patch. What do you do if FreeBSD won't take your patches?
The real problem is that everyone is copying Windows to compete. Apple at least has iApps to draw in users. They offer something original to consumers and its attractive. The linux and BSD communities need to do the same.
What? That's your solution? Flood the internet traffic even more! Besides a worm is spread by people who can't or don't know how to patch. You're not helping anything by doing that.
If you sell any items you have to check unless you like jailtime.
From their website:
Under the law, "a person shall not send, cause to be sent, or conspire with a third party to send a message to a contact point that has been registered for more than 30 calendar days with the department if the primary purpose of the message is to, directly or indirectly, advertise or otherwise link to a message that advertises a product or service that a minor is prohibited by law from purchasing, viewing, possessing, participating in, or otherwise receiving."
The covered categories of messages include, but are not necessarily limited to:
Marketers who fail to comply with the law face criminal penalties of up to three years in jail, and criminal fines of up to $30,000. In addition, marketers may face civil penalties of up to $5,000 per message sent in violation of the law, to a maximum of $250,000 per day. Civil suits may be filed by the Michigan attorney general, Internet service providers, and parents on behalf of their children.
ATI cards do not work right in AMD systems. (at least not well with nforce) I've seen this since the k6-2 300mhz with ATI. That's why I was shocked who was buying ATI. Its not that your hardware is shitty exactly, its just not compatible. ATIs video cards are solid on intel chipsets with recent drivers. If i put my card in my AMD 2300+ sempron with an nforce2 chipset it runs like shit. I had a firegl card in it at first and switched over to a geforce fx 5200 and its much more stable. Both worked in my intel box.
Most of you are writing about very old ATI cards. The newer drivers are much more stable. Its a recent thing though. As for the control center, in the newer drivers its written in.NET. Its stable but it has to load the.NET framework on boot to use any of their configuration stuff. I have an ATI 9600xt AIW and its fine. It works ok in windows, linux and more recently with FreeBSD/xorg. Anyone with a 7000 series radeon can't even run the newer drivers. You do need a decent amount of ram for the.NET shit. I have 1GB of ram on XP SP2 with latest patches. I'm also running a dual xeon 2.0GHz dell. If it works in a dell...
The link is farther down on the left but they still sell ppc xserves
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I'd rather see SVG and other technologies replace flash. By making it an open standard, it can be implemented on more platform including cell phones, 64bit linux, *BSD, and various other platforms.
Also, there have been some security issues with flash 8 lately. Many sites are forcing users to upgrade to flash 9. The net result is supported platforms can no longer play content. There are a few out there who avoid it intentionally. I understand why you like flash, but I'm just pointing out that its not good for the web. If you must use flash, please provide a downlevel version of any website in html so I can see it in my bsd installs. (not all of which are on x86 where i could use the linux version)
Also, consider any application development won't run on those other platforms either. It doesn't matter to many when they like a mainstream platform. I've seen a bad trend where sites don't work correctly for ignorant reasons. Take for instance msnbc.com which i can't watch video in anything but windows ie/mp. I thought we moved beyond all this crap with HTML + CSS standards adoption? (ok ms is behind but there's some of it there)
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Why don't you push that for the mozilla suite. Go bloated if you like it. Let everyone else have a small, fast, standards compliant browser. Hell why don't they work on the memory usage everyone bitches about. I remember first reading about gecko and how it was tiny and efficient. What happened to that?
You can compare Mac Pros to dell precision workstations without a problem. High end PC != gamer rig in some circles. Its possible to use a workstation as a gamer rig with a few modifications but its the best gamer rig.
I wouldn't mind seeing more comparisons to Macs though. I want to replace my pcs with Macs provided I can dual boot them. (and no i don't mean windows)
You're information is not quite accurate. Apple bought NeXT. While a few NeXT employees got a run of the place including Steve Jobs, it was still an Apple shop. Also, steve jobs made people come into his office and explain how their products would help the company. Some people did get fired.
I'm not convinced Microsoft will get a virtualization release ready anytime soon either. Remember how vista was supposed to have an all new kernel, file system, and various other features? Microsoft can't deliver on promises. Many people criticized Apple for not telling us about 10.5's new features. I think the reason is that they didn't want to promise anything that wasn't a sure thing. They want to ship on time and without a letdown.
I want Microsoft to ship vista very soon. It starts a new hardware purchase cycle which eventually lowers prices. It also will allow people to re-evaluate Windows again. People may buy Macs or try alternative operating systems like linux or BSD. I just wish my project were ready. Get aggressive linux users. We know what Microsoft will push with Windows. If you have those features, tell everyone you know. "You can have vista today!" If you don't, well you know what to work on.
True if my dad was paying for it. By that point my parents were divorced and he wasn't even paying child support. You have a point though.
What's worse is that if you manage to get it it will tell you the battery is NOT on the list right now. I verified it was covered with someone i know but he had to get me to do the website form. I've got 2 g4 ibooks sitting here in the range and the site claims they are not covered under the program.
:)
I have concerns now about the batteries and I can't even get ahold of anyone. This sucks. I needed a new battery anyway but my wife's iBook is less than a year old. It might not be wise to run it on a battery at work, etc.
Worst of all, I have to take back some of the dell jokes I made.
Don't bother calling apple. They just redirect you to the dead server. Any in case anyone asks, apple seems to run OSX server, solaris and Windows/IIS on their servers according to netcraft. It could be any of the three.
His parent would have to think he did something wrong. Most parents don't give a shit anymore. Besides, it could be a situation like i was in at 16. I got my first pc and my parents didn't help me get it. They couldn't take it away. Hell my dad tried once. Lets just say it didn't go well for him...
Not only that but people are paying higher gas prices and have less money to spend on crap on ebay. Sure everyone is selling as they need money for gas!
Perhaps RMS should add another clause to the GPL 3 to "prevent" that. :)
Not if you live in an apartment. I've got neighbors who attempt to gain access to wireless networks all the time. I really don't want my neighbor on my broadband account. I certainly don't want the RIAA at my door. What am I supposed to do, use a VPN in my home network? I don't think so.
That is your experience. Many people have good experience with SCSI drives. I'm using one right now in my desktop. Its fast and reliable. You either had a bad drive which can happen on any interface or the driver for your controller was not very good. I've seen disk corruption in FreeBSD using an nforce2 nvraid sata controller in 5.3 as well. As soon as I submitted the pci id, it was fixed. My guess is that linux didn't support the controller at the time or as I said before bad disk.
Sadly I have to agree. I still use firefox because I like it. There have been several security updates to firefox lately. One could argue its popularity, but remember IE is deployed in more places. I no longer recommend Firefox as a security solution, but simply as a "better" browser. IE7 is new and not out of beta. Its security track record hasn't been determined yet.
Open source software has a lot of value, but I don't personally believe its more secure. It may get patched quicker since Microsoft sits on patches for weeks. I like QA but on a non critical system its better to test the patch right away yourself and make sure it won't break your apps.
Its only $129 retail for OSX releases unless they decide to raise the price. Compare that to the $199 Microsoft charges for Windows XP Pro upgrade.
You don't need to buy it. I'd just like to point out its an odd release and thus stable. Even releases tend to have more new features but are often less stable. Odd releases tend to be more reliable. If you decided to buy every other release, I'd recommend you get on odd releases. I'm saying this as a Mac user and former OSX sys admin. You will still get major security patches for up to a year after 10.5 ships.
In a pure form yes. Most people use "ajax" to do dhtml like things. They make dippy drop down boxes and so forth. You could seperate the content of that box with an external javascript document that's dynamically generated too.
In my opinion, when someone uses "ajax" but with html and javascript only its really dhtml. Now if someone is really using xml documents and doing something original i'll give them credit for the latest fad.
I used to work for an isp. We did disable accounts when they were caught transmitting malicious code. 9 out of 10 times it was a 40+ year old woman who would call. They never knew about windows update and some didn't have antivirus software. We'd agree to turn them back on if they bought antivirus and patched their os. A few times it lost us customers, but most people were quite happy if they took our advice. Occasionally we'd get some pissed off customer who'd cancel and want a refund.
I believe they stopped that policy after I left.
My solution is to inform people. If they insist on windows, tell them about windows update, antivirus, and anti-spyware tools. I went back to college a few years ago and have done several presentations on the topic. I used public speaking and classes with non technical students to convince them to patch. It worked in a few cases. Several people told me next class that their network connection was much faster. I also mentioned linux, and Mac OSX in my talks. At least one person tried linux.
I think I've done my part.
No, apple didn't do much with PowerMac G5 systems either. Users got 64 bit memory addressing. That's about it. Unless adobe requires it for some reason when they finally release photoshop and their other products native, I wouldn't worry too much. It willl be a few years before its an issue.
Season 1 is on iTunes. Its on DVD.
That's why I decided to fork FreeBSD for MidnightBSD. I could build a distro like PC-BSD or DesktopBSD, but I found the idea linuxish. FreeBSD is after all the "Power to server". The desktop isn't a target for optimization or improvement. If a major change would help desktop users at the cost of minor server performance degredation, FreeBSD would not do it. Increasingly, the mailing lists are focusing on micro benchmarks.
Linus wrote the linux kernel for desktop use. Instead its used on servers and slowly creeping into the mainstream. There are countless distros and no clear solution. PC-BSD and DesktopBSD are both great ideas and they have a big head start on me. Unfortunetely they would be best served by merging. Both use KDE. Someone will eventually throw up a gnome distro as well. Hell I thought about it.
In the end, the open source community needs a unqiue desktop environment that runs on one kernel with a userland designed around the user. This could be a future linux project, a BSD based OS or something completely different. In my opinion, the BSD community benefits from having a unique kernel. We can all try new things and build unique operating environments that fit our users habits. DragonFlyBSD is a great example. They forked off of FreeBSD and now have a message passing based approach that looks quite interesting. OpenBSD forked off of NetBSD and now they have one of the most secure systems with software we all use everyday like openssh coming out of the project.
On a certain level, open source encourages forking. We're always told to change something if we don't like it. Patch, patch, patch. What do you do if FreeBSD won't take your patches?
The real problem is that everyone is copying Windows to compete. Apple at least has iApps to draw in users. They offer something original to consumers and its attractive. The linux and BSD communities need to do the same.
What? That's your solution? Flood the internet traffic even more! Besides a worm is spread by people who can't or don't know how to patch. You're not helping anything by doing that.
If you sell any items you have to check unless you like jailtime.
From their website:
Under the law, "a person shall not send, cause to be sent, or conspire with a third party to send a message to a contact point that has been registered for more than 30 calendar days with the department if the primary purpose of the message is to, directly or indirectly, advertise or otherwise link to a message that advertises a product or service that a minor is prohibited by law from purchasing, viewing, possessing, participating in, or otherwise receiving."
The covered categories of messages include, but are not necessarily limited to:
* Alcohol (MCL 436.1701)
* Tobacco (MCL 722.641)
* Pornography or Obscene Material (MCL 722.673-722.677, MCL 750.142-750.143, 47 USC 231(e)(6))
* Gambling (MCL 432.218)
* Illegal Drugs (MCL 333.7401)
* Firearms (MCL 750.223,MCL 28.422)
Marketers who fail to comply with the law face criminal penalties of up to three years in jail, and criminal fines of up to $30,000. In addition, marketers may face civil penalties of up to $5,000 per message sent in violation of the law, to a maximum of $250,000 per day. Civil suits may be filed by the Michigan attorney general, Internet service providers, and parents on behalf of their children.
And that assumes its retail. I have bought academic versions of everything but 10.2 at $69 a piece.
ATI cards do not work right in AMD systems. (at least not well with nforce) I've seen this since the k6-2 300mhz with ATI. That's why I was shocked who was buying ATI. Its not that your hardware is shitty exactly, its just not compatible. ATIs video cards are solid on intel chipsets with recent drivers. If i put my card in my AMD 2300+ sempron with an nforce2 chipset it runs like shit. I had a firegl card in it at first and switched over to a geforce fx 5200 and its much more stable. Both worked in my intel box.
.NET. Its stable but it has to load the .NET framework on boot to use any of their configuration stuff. I have an ATI 9600xt AIW and its fine. It works ok in windows, linux and more recently with FreeBSD/xorg. Anyone with a 7000 series radeon can't even run the newer drivers. You do need a decent amount of ram for the .NET shit. I have 1GB of ram on XP SP2 with latest patches. I'm also running a dual xeon 2.0GHz dell. If it works in a dell...
Most of you are writing about very old ATI cards. The newer drivers are much more stable. Its a recent thing though. As for the control center, in the newer drivers its written in
This time just let them fix the optical drive. Since the rest of the unit works it makes more sense!
Should have married a CS chick. My wife let me buy 7 computers as long as she got her 3 :)
Two are servers which host her mail and website.
Ok i was wrong about the xserve raid but you should do it too!
A ppleStore.woa/wo/0.RSLID?mco=444E5971&nclm=Xserve
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/
The link is farther down on the left but they still sell ppc xserves
I'd rather see SVG and other technologies replace flash. By making it an open standard, it can be implemented on more platform including cell phones, 64bit linux, *BSD, and various other platforms.
Also, there have been some security issues with flash 8 lately. Many sites are forcing users to upgrade to flash 9. The net result is supported platforms can no longer play content. There are a few out there who avoid it intentionally. I understand why you like flash, but I'm just pointing out that its not good for the web. If you must use flash, please provide a downlevel version of any website in html so I can see it in my bsd installs. (not all of which are on x86 where i could use the linux version)
Also, consider any application development won't run on those other platforms either. It doesn't matter to many when they like a mainstream platform. I've seen a bad trend where sites don't work correctly for ignorant reasons. Take for instance msnbc.com which i can't watch video in anything but windows ie/mp. I thought we moved beyond all this crap with HTML + CSS standards adoption? (ok ms is behind but there's some of it there)