Apple isn't known for being innovative in bringing NEW technologies - they're inovative in refigning existing technologies. Kind of like BASF "we don't make the products, we make them better"
Yes because ADB, META Files, HPFS, IWM, just to name a few. were all ripped off from someone else.
I should mention that enabling ELF format is still highly recommended (after the patch for this is released of course) and unless you do special programming work in linux then enabling a.out format is not recommended.
it's unnecessary but to attempt to make it sound like some physical damage could have been done by the laser is just sensationalism.
I believe they were trying to convey that law enforcement personel didn't know that it was just a moron with a laser pointer. There was the possiblity of some El-Al-nutjob with an RPG/SFM/SAM painting his target.
I've ACCIDENTALLY had the same thing happen to me at work. I tripped over an ethernet cable in the lab and Bang, SuSE got installed. Lost two W2000 servers this way:)
I heared in the news that in the US, people living near the coast are informed/learn at school that when the sea retreats suddenly, it's time to find out how fast you can run.. Not a bad idea, imho.
True. I lived in California for three years. When I got there the first thing I was told was watch the ocean after a quake. If the water starts to recede, run for the hills.
Banks have been doing this for over twenty years. Remote machines scan documents (checks/statements etc), store them in a local central database. Then nightly these transactions are electronically moved by the FED.
I hope IBM/NCR sue the crap out of this company. Merry Chistmas and enjoy.
The personal computer (Apple/Commadore/Tandy/IBM/Atari/Amiga) was supposed to release the creative gene in all of us. At first it did (1978 - 1995), Viri at most were limited boot sector infestations and nothing more.
Leave it to Microsoft to add BSOD and AdWare, and Windows Virus to the english language (Whats it called in other languages)? Instead of removing IE from the core of the O/S they chose to patch the system by purchasing a supposed solution. Now they are going to charge money for a problem that they induced. I also see that Win98/ME is excluded from the list. If I sold buggy software and didn't update 40 percent of my clients, I would be sacked as a vendor.
I'm sorry. Maybe I'm becoming too old, but Virus/Adware are/should not be the norm. When did it become mainstream to run all these utilities just to use your computer?
When I was working in Germany last year, it didn't matter that I was eight generations removed from Germany. To them, I was still a German and would always be a German.
This issue has given me food for thought most of the day. Here is my black/white/logical opinion. Flame if you must.
A) You can't take something that doesn't belong to you, period. Not life, liberty, songs, software or Videos. You can't logically debate for taking something that doesn't belong to you.
B) Kazaa is more like the pawn shop who knowingly sells stolen goods. The store owner will get arrested, not the buyer.
C) The Beta-Max decision does not apply to this case. Why? Because in 1984 you couldn't distribute your copy to everyone on the face of the planet. The decision granted you the recorder, permission to time shift. Not the justification to share your recordings with your neighbor. Just because you missed the broadcast, does not give you the right to download and view it for free. You didn't take the extra effort to set your VCR/PVR/Whatever so obviously you don't care.
D) We wouldn't be having this discussion if humans were honest by nature. Were not.
E) Nothing in life is free. Especially at the expense of others. Learn it, Live it, Love it.
F) Western Governments will soon pass more stringent internet usage laws unless we police ourselfs. Say goodbye to anonymous cowards.
G) If even one pedifile picture is passed on a p2p service, 90 percent of the US population will vote to ban p2p.
Food for thought, I may add others to my post later. Enjoy,
And Microsoft has been 100% x86 architecure (with few exceptions) for their entire history.
A simple grep in the Include tree of Visual Studio proves your slightly misinformed. Win9X is X86 only. NT is relatively easy to port until you get to the internal kernel Api's were some relocation magic occurs.:/windows/D/vc98/Include> grep -i powerpc * activex.mak:# declarations for use on self hosted PowerPC systems setjmp.h: * Define jump buffer layout for PowerPC setjmp/longjmp. varargs.h:/* this is for LITTLE-ENDIAN PowerPC */ winioctl.h:#define PARTITION_PREP 0x41// PowerPC Reference Platform (PReP) Boot Partition winnt.h:// The Macintosh 68K and PowerPC compilers do not currently support int64. winnt.h:#define IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_POWERPC 0x01F0// IBM PowerPC Little-Endian winnt.h:// IBM PowerPC relocation types.
Aldus, Ami, didn't show up to the Microsoft party until after/during Windows 3.11.
Related question is why Lotus & WordPerfect were also unable to produce a decent Macintosh or OS/2 PM apps. Good question. I don't know the answer though. The Mac interface to Word Perfect was always OK. But the PM/OS2 interface stunk.
Its a question for those of us who were around at the time.
The much anticipated Word Perfect for Windows (6.0) was crap when released. The mass migration to Word was immediate afterwards (especially when Word would import your Word Perfect documents for you).
Word Perfect Corporation (not Novell) at the time claimed it was due to Microsoft's Win32 SDK. They also claimed that the Beta version of the SDK they developed for was different than the production release.
According to Joel Spolsky in this story: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1726059,00.as p It was due to WordPerfect being written in assembler vs 'C' and the office team could write code faster. I disagree as the owner of DOS, MacIntosh and AppleGS versions of WordPerfect. Two of which are GUI/Event driven prior to the release of the Windows 3.x version. All three versions didn't suck. I don't think they used 100% assembler and I have no proof to back up this comment.
Enter into the true slashdot conversation on this article.
1) Did Microsoft withhold SDK information from competitors in the first release of Windows 3.0?
2) Why did Ashton Tate (dBase), Lotus (1-2-3), and others also have problems with their first Windows 3.0 versions? (Keep in mind, all had GUI/Event driven products for MacIntosh/Amiga etc. at the time).
3) Was Word Perfect and others written in Assembler?
BTW, Novell should let this thing go. Proof will be hard to find. Evidence will be circumstantial at best. Spend the lawyer fees on improving SuSE. The hell with Microsoft. It's a new era and a new playing field.
I've got three boys and three Nintendo systems here at the compound. Between the pulling on the controllers, stepping on the controllers and the three foot drop all the units have taken, I can honestly say Nintendo makes a quality product.
Hell, even all the game boys have survied the outside/stepping on/dropping/dog biting tests:)
It's funny about the three foot drop test though, when I went to purchase our game cube, the best buy shrill was really pestering me to look at the x-box. I told him fine, I'll buy it if you can drop it three feet and it still works. Needless to say, he would not/didn't do it:)
Enjoy,
C# vs Java vs Python vs whatever
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Java vs C# wars is like watching two fleas fight over who owns the dogs back. Or for the immature/. readers, Its watching two script kiddies fighting ownership over the same honeypot
I forget which movie thats from, but props to the person who wrote it.
Neither language is right or wrong. Both are subject to the whims of MS and Sun. Neither is ANSI so you will never see different vendors (Borland, Watcom, Lattice etc) compete. Neither language grows outside of the CPU scope of the chosen VM platform.
Answer one question to yourself. Will the language grow with me as the hardware changes? Will I have a job twenty years from now?
No, not backups (I do those once a month), different areas of my hard drive(s). I store code in one place, music in another, pictures in another etc. These are all spread out to different partitions/drives. I use $HOME only to store transient data. This doesn't protect me from Trojans or hardware failures, but it does prevent the browser/email/bad programs from destroying all my data.
If I lose $HOME or 'My Directory' its no big loss, program preferences at the most. If I lose the system, I have lost a day re-installing everything.
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Firewire, man, sheesh, how can you forget that one? At least name one that actually gets used on non-Apple machines!
I didn't. Firewire should be considered a descendant of ADB.
Enjoy,
Apple isn't known for being innovative in bringing NEW technologies - they're inovative in refigning existing technologies. Kind of like BASF "we don't make the products, we make them better"
Yes because ADB, META Files, HPFS, IWM, just to name a few. were all ripped off from someone else.
Enjoy,
Have you considered running your server services in UML? Compromise the virtual environment all you want, but leave the host system pristeen.
Just a suggestion.
Enjoy.
I should mention that enabling ELF format is still highly recommended (after the patch for this is released of course) and unless you do special programming work in linux then enabling a.out format is not recommended.
1996 Called, Tux want's his a.out back.
it's unnecessary but to attempt to make it sound like some physical damage could have been done by the laser is just sensationalism.
I believe they were trying to convey that law enforcement personel didn't know that it was just a moron with a laser pointer. There was the possiblity of some El-Al-nutjob with an RPG/SFM/SAM painting his target.
Enjoy,
I've ACCIDENTALLY had the same thing happen to me at work. I tripped over an ethernet cable in the lab and Bang, SuSE got installed. Lost two W2000 servers this way :)
Enjoy,
My post was a joke. Get over it.
this erupts:
Yellowstone
The end of the US as we know it.
Enjoy,
I heared in the news that in the US, people living near the coast are informed/learn at school that when the sea retreats suddenly, it's time to find out how fast you can run.. Not a bad idea, imho.
True. I lived in California for three years. When I got there the first thing I was told was watch the ocean after a quake. If the water starts to recede, run for the hills.
Enjoy,
Banks have been doing this for over twenty years. Remote machines scan documents (checks/statements etc), store them in a local central database. Then nightly these transactions are electronically moved by the FED.
I hope IBM/NCR sue the crap out of this company.
Merry Chistmas and enjoy.
I always wished I could have had another woman to look up and admire for their technical achievements.
You mean to say you've never heard of Grace Hopper? Hell I'm male and she's one of my favorite inspirations:
Grace Hopper
Enjoy,
has come to this.
The personal computer (Apple/Commadore/Tandy/IBM/Atari/Amiga) was supposed to release the creative gene in all of us. At first it did (1978 - 1995), Viri at most were limited boot sector infestations and nothing more.
Leave it to Microsoft to add BSOD and AdWare, and Windows Virus to the english language (Whats it called in other languages)? Instead of removing IE from the core of the O/S they chose to patch the system by purchasing a supposed solution. Now they are going to charge money for a problem that they induced. I also see that Win98/ME is excluded from the list. If I sold buggy software and didn't update 40 percent of my clients, I would be sacked as a vendor.
I'm sorry. Maybe I'm becoming too old, but Virus/Adware are/should not be the norm. When did it become mainstream to run all these utilities just to use your computer?
Enjoy,
TINI
Its been around for a while.
Enjoy,
It's funny you mention that.
When I was working in Germany last year, it didn't matter that I was eight generations removed from Germany. To them, I was still a German and would always be a German.
Enjoy,
Look up Taligent and Pink, circa 1993. IBM/APPLE has been working together now for over a decade.
Enjoy,
I keep telling my wife I need experience at being a porn star. Nothing spells job security like adding porn star to your resume.
Enjoy,
This issue has given me food for thought most of the day. Here is my black/white/logical opinion. Flame if you must.
A) You can't take something that doesn't belong to you, period. Not life, liberty, songs, software or Videos. You can't logically debate for taking something that doesn't belong to you.
B) Kazaa is more like the pawn shop who knowingly sells stolen goods. The store owner will get arrested, not the buyer.
C) The Beta-Max decision does not apply to this case. Why? Because in 1984 you couldn't distribute your copy to everyone on the face of the planet. The decision granted you the recorder, permission to time shift. Not the justification to share your recordings with your neighbor. Just because you missed the broadcast, does not give you the right to download and view it for free. You didn't take the extra effort to set your VCR/PVR/Whatever so obviously you don't care.
D) We wouldn't be having this discussion if humans were honest by nature. Were not.
E) Nothing in life is free. Especially at the expense of others. Learn it, Live it, Love it.
F) Western Governments will soon pass more stringent internet usage laws unless we police ourselfs. Say goodbye to anonymous cowards.
G) If even one pedifile picture is passed on a p2p service, 90 percent of the US population will vote to ban p2p.
Food for thought, I may add others to my post later. Enjoy,
I've never seen Linspire on the shclf, usually SuSE, Mandrake or Redhat. How was Linspire chosen over the others?
Thanks, and Enjoy.
And Microsoft has been 100% x86 architecure (with few exceptions) for their entire history.
:/windows/D/vc98/Include> grep -i powerpc *
// PowerPC Reference Platform (PReP) Boot Partition // IBM PowerPC Little-Endian
A simple grep in the Include tree of Visual Studio proves your slightly misinformed. Win9X is X86 only. NT is relatively easy to port until you get to the internal kernel Api's were some relocation magic occurs.
activex.mak:# declarations for use on self hosted PowerPC systems
setjmp.h: * Define jump buffer layout for PowerPC setjmp/longjmp.
varargs.h:/* this is for LITTLE-ENDIAN PowerPC */
winioctl.h:#define PARTITION_PREP 0x41
winnt.h:// The Macintosh 68K and PowerPC compilers do not currently support int64.
winnt.h:#define IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_POWERPC 0x01F0
winnt.h:// IBM PowerPC relocation types.
Enjoy,
On slashdot, it refreshing to hear from someone who knows who Phillipe Khan is.
I don't disagree with anything you wrote. The OS/2 angle is a prime subject for another thread.
I'll bet you $100 spacebucks that Microsoft misses the old days where they only had to fight OS2/Apple/DrDOS/etc.
This Linux movement has thrown them into a frenzy.
Enjoy,
Your cheating...
Aldus, Ami, didn't show up to the Microsoft party until after/during Windows 3.11.
Related question is why Lotus & WordPerfect were also unable to produce a decent Macintosh or OS/2 PM apps.
Good question. I don't know the answer though. The Mac interface to Word Perfect was always OK. But the PM/OS2 interface stunk.
Maybe they didn't buy the first SDK?
Its a question for those of us who were around at the time.
s p
The much anticipated Word Perfect for Windows (6.0) was crap when released. The mass migration to Word was immediate afterwards (especially when Word would import your Word Perfect documents for you).
Word Perfect Corporation (not Novell) at the time claimed it was due to Microsoft's Win32 SDK. They also claimed that the Beta version of the SDK they developed for was different than the production release.
According to Joel Spolsky in this story: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1726059,00.a
It was due to WordPerfect being written in assembler vs 'C' and the office team could write code faster. I disagree as the owner of DOS, MacIntosh and AppleGS versions of WordPerfect. Two of which are GUI/Event driven prior to the release of the Windows 3.x version. All three versions didn't suck. I don't think they used 100% assembler and I have no proof to back up this comment.
Enter into the true slashdot conversation on this article.
1) Did Microsoft withhold SDK information from competitors in the first release of Windows 3.0?
2) Why did Ashton Tate (dBase), Lotus (1-2-3), and others also have problems with their first Windows 3.0 versions? (Keep in mind, all had GUI/Event driven products for MacIntosh/Amiga etc. at the time).
3) Was Word Perfect and others written in Assembler?
BTW, Novell should let this thing go. Proof will be hard to find. Evidence will be circumstantial at best. Spend the lawyer fees on improving SuSE. The hell with Microsoft. It's a new era and a new playing field.
Lets discuss,
Enjoy.
I've got three boys and three Nintendo systems here at the compound. Between the pulling on the controllers, stepping on the controllers and the three foot drop all the units have taken, I can honestly say Nintendo makes a quality product.
:)
:)
Hell, even all the game boys have survied the outside/stepping on/dropping/dog biting tests
It's funny about the three foot drop test though, when I went to purchase our game cube, the best buy shrill was really pestering me to look at the x-box. I told him fine, I'll buy it if you can drop it three feet and it still works. Needless to say, he would not/didn't do it
Enjoy,
Java vs C# wars is like watching two fleas fight over who owns the dogs back. Or for the immature /. readers, Its watching two script kiddies fighting ownership over the same honeypot
I forget which movie thats from, but props to the person who wrote it.
Neither language is right or wrong. Both are subject to the whims of MS and Sun. Neither is ANSI so you will never see different vendors (Borland, Watcom, Lattice etc) compete. Neither language grows outside of the CPU scope of the chosen VM platform.
Answer one question to yourself. Will the language grow with me as the hardware changes? Will I have a job twenty years from now?
Enjoy
I know that you'll say "backups"
No, not backups (I do those once a month), different areas of my hard drive(s). I store code in one place, music in another, pictures in another etc. These are all spread out to different partitions/drives. I use $HOME only to store transient data. This doesn't protect me from Trojans or hardware failures, but it does prevent the browser/email/bad programs from destroying all my data.
If I lose $HOME or 'My Directory' its no big loss, program preferences at the most. If I lose the system, I have lost a day re-installing everything.
Enjoy,