Jesus, am I the only person here who's seen (and used) an Apple ][? Now I feel really old 'cause you young whippersnappers don't even remember when Apples ran off of 6502s.
Remember the shift key mod for the ][+, where you ran a jumper from the keyboard backplane to the game port?
As a side note, one thing I specifically dislike about Apple's laptops is the lower resolution LCD's they use. 1024x768 is still the norm in the 14-15" Powerbook line, while many PC laptops now offer 1400x1050.
The iBook 12" and 14" models and the AlBook 12", yes; the 15" TiBooks have a very nice 1280x854 display, though, great for watching widescreen DVDs on.
Sure, you can run a lot of your favorite Open Source software in MacOSX, but it's more hastle to get it working than using Linux distros' package managers or BSD ports.
Fink is the answer; it's a package manager/port system for Mac OS X.
It must be pointed out that nowadays IRA terrorists have a habit of telling the police the general vicinity of said bombs so that civilians can be evacuated. Traffic gets snarled and countless commuters are late, but when was the last time lots of people were killed or maimed by an IRA bomb?
Police were clearing an area near the local courthouse, 40 minutes after receiving a telephone warning, when the bomb detonated.
But the warning was unclear and the wrong area was evacuated.
Instead, people were being directed towards the device when it went off shortly after 1500 (BST).
Women and children - one just 18 months old - are among the dead, many of whom, only moments before the blast, had been standing behind white tape which police had erected when clearing the streets.
29 dead. (In other words, about 1% of the September 11th attacks.)
wsj typically runs a quirky little story on their front page, in a center position called the "a-hed" after the shape of the border around the headline. they recently published a collection of a-hed stories. bonus points for the/.er who posts the title of the collection.
I like the Sopranos, so I record all the episodes of Season (x). My TiVO 'realizes' I like gangster things, so (unrequested) it tapes The Godfather from TNT (despite my owning the DVD set). In the process, it nukes 2-3 of my Sopranos episodes. Do I understand this correectly? Is there no way to turn this 'feature' off?
That's not quite how it works, and you can turn it off anyway.
Suggestions are only recorded if there is space not currently used by things you asked for. They will never overwrite something you explicitly recorded; only free space or other suggestions.
There is also a switch to turn suggestion recording off.
(Leaving it on is actually useful, because there's no other way to tell how much space you have available; that way, when your suggestion list starts to shrink, you know you're running out of space and it soon will be deleting stuff you asked for.
All of mine were going to Elwood Blues, 1060 W. Addison, Chicago, IL 60610.
Well, actually, they weren't; I just kept saying "No, thanks" when they asked for my address. So this change will save me 5 seconds per visit, and since I usually only go to Radio Shack once every few months, I get back a whopping 15 seconds per year! Wow, that's almost one more Slashdot page reload!
I've had a Palm V, then replaced it with a Vx when those arrived, and now I'm seriously considering moving to a Palm m515 for the extra storage space (8MB is no longer enough; 16MB plus a 128MB MultiMediaCard should do for a little while...).
Scheduling. My office uses one of those shared calendar systems (not Outlook), and it includes a Palm conduit. (Hey guys, ship the Palm Desktop 4.0 Mac version already!) I'm at the point in my career where meetings happen to me more often than they used to, so this matters a lot.
E-books. Between Peanut Press (now Palm Digital Media) and Baen Books (Webscriptions, the Baen Free Library, and the War of Honor CD-ROM), I've got plenty of books to cycle through.
Password vault. Strip is a great tool for sysadmins.
Other reference info. Lists of IPs, machine serial numbers (handy for making service calls without having to look behind machines), etc.
I might be an ignoramus, but I haven't heard of plane safety equipment (life jackets, oxygen masks) being successfully used in an emergency situation on a large commerical aircraft.
A DC-9, operating as ALM 980 , ran out of fuel and mostly-successfully [there were issues with the preparation that probably cost lives] ditched in the Caribbean 30 miles off St. Croix on May 2, 1970. Of the 63 on board, 40 survived.
The Ethiopian Airlines 767 that was hijacked and crashed off the Comoros Islands also had a chance to ditch, if the flight crew hadn't been busy fighting the hijackers while trying to fly the plane.
If some big name person (read: talentless but popular contemporary act) were to start making some of these same points, perhaps someone other than the faithful would start listening.
First off, talentless but popular acts are the ones that depend on RIAA member companies to supply marketing and promotional power (read $$$), because word of mouth will just get them laughed at. They won't go against their gravy train.
Second, the point of this story is that it was in USA Today. That means that it actually has a chance of being read by people who only buy their music and movies at Target or Wal-mart, and assume that what they see there is all there is.
I used to visit New York, but then I found Boston! Did you know that Boston has a subway system so you can get around town? There's also an airport, so you can fly in for a conference like MacWorld(R) Expo(R) in your Boeing(R) jetliner!
It's so easy to get around, too! Just pay your cab driver whatever he wants.
Free Mickey Mouse is the Economist's story on Lessig, subtitled "Lawrence Lessig wants less copyright protection, including for Disney's famous rodent". Good article.
It begins as follows:
LAW professors rarely boast an army of "fans", but Lawrence Lessig is no run-of-the-mill academic. Now at Stanford University, formerly at Harvard, Mr Lessig has become a rock star of the information age, mixing scholarly inquiry with barnstorming activism on many issues.
I was listening to the Monsters, Inc. commentary track recently, and there's a mention of a yodel that's heard in the background through one of the doors. They actually wanted to use a different (and supposedly funnier) one, but they couldn't find the rights holder to clear it.
So Disney's copyright extension lobbying effectively damaged one of the movies they distributed.
The.us domain, then, is a lot more organised and distributed than most other countries, which is probably a good thing given its size.
Well, it used to be. Now Neustar (the bozos of.BIZ) are running it, and selling off every name they can. For example, random.us is already registered.
The.us domain used to be one of the last sections of the DNS that used an actual hierarchical scheme, instead of the usual "let's reinvent the flat namespace" of so many other TLDs. Now, it's just another land rush. Sigh.
It would be fairly easy for Apple to start a database much like freshmeat which would serve as an easy starting point for OSX users to find the software they want.
Buy her an iPod. Have her keep a copy of the files on that. That's how several folks I know do things like SneakerNet files to work, or carry that extra copy of presentation if their laptop dies, or whatever. Bonus: it's also an MP3 player.
Many newspapers have these sort of "Doctor PC" columns, and they give Microsoft a free ride in terms of customer support and advertising. But how is it these columns don't ever advise: "Internet Explorer really sucks, you should download Mozilla" or whatever superior Open Source alternative there is.
Perhaps because if people didn't keep having computer problems, the columnists would be replaced by something else (advice column, Hints from Heloise, bridge hands) instead? These people are not going to put themselves out of a cushy job giving simple answers on how to make Windows slightly less unusable....
In the end, this means there's little point to buying an Apple machine online anymore. Might as well be pampered at an Apple Retail Store for the same prices to the penny (including sales tax).
because Drudge made a big deal out of a (well-written and well-reasoned) letter she wrote to the Crimson, and the Crimson is online, I know her real name too.
The Crimson's changed their online copy of the letter. Of course, that doesn't exactly mean it's not easily findable.
With the ports system, they would have to change the checksum on FreeBSD's systems as well as the source on OpenBSD's site. Keeping them separate helps a lot.
So there are positive features to the *BSD splits after all!:-)
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Remember the shift key mod for the ][+, where you ran a jumper from the keyboard backplane to the game port?
The iBook 12" and 14" models and the AlBook 12", yes; the 15" TiBooks have a very nice 1280x854 display, though, great for watching widescreen DVDs on.
Fink is the answer; it's a package manager/port system for Mac OS X.
Gus, Roger, Ed...
Dick, Mike, El, Judy, Ron, Greg, Christa...
Vladimir, Georgi, Viktor, Vladislav...
Take care of your new brothers and sisters for us, willya?
How about the Omagh bombing in 1998?
29 dead. (In other words, about 1% of the September 11th attacks.)
Floating Off the Page: The Best Stories from the Wall Street Journal's Middle Column. A wonderful way to dispel the idea that the WSJ doesn't have a sense of humor.
That's not quite how it works, and you can turn it off anyway.
Suggestions are only recorded if there is space not currently used by things you asked for. They will never overwrite something you explicitly recorded; only free space or other suggestions.
There is also a switch to turn suggestion recording off.
(Leaving it on is actually useful, because there's no other way to tell how much space you have available; that way, when your suggestion list starts to shrink, you know you're running out of space and it soon will be deleting stuff you asked for.
All of mine were going to Elwood Blues, 1060 W. Addison, Chicago, IL 60610.
Well, actually, they weren't; I just kept saying "No, thanks" when they asked for my address. So this change will save me 5 seconds per visit, and since I usually only go to Radio Shack once every few months, I get back a whopping 15 seconds per year! Wow, that's almost one more Slashdot page reload!
I've had a Palm V, then replaced it with a Vx when those arrived, and now I'm seriously considering moving to a Palm m515 for the extra storage space (8MB is no longer enough; 16MB plus a 128MB MultiMediaCard should do for a little while...).
The Palm V folding keyboard is actually very good, IMO. You might see if you can try one out in the store sometime.
A DC-9, operating as ALM 980 , ran out of fuel and mostly-successfully [there were issues with the preparation that probably cost lives] ditched in the Caribbean 30 miles off St. Croix on May 2, 1970. Of the 63 on board, 40 survived.
The Ethiopian Airlines 767 that was hijacked and crashed off the Comoros Islands also had a chance to ditch, if the flight crew hadn't been busy fighting the hijackers while trying to fly the plane.
Welcome Aboard the Badtz Maru! has more photos and details of her history.
First off, talentless but popular acts are the ones that depend on RIAA member companies to supply marketing and promotional power (read $$$), because word of mouth will just get them laughed at. They won't go against their gravy train.
Second, the point of this story is that it was in USA Today. That means that it actually has a chance of being read by people who only buy their music and movies at Target or Wal-mart, and assume that what they see there is all there is.
I used to visit New York, but then I found Boston! Did you know that Boston has a subway system so you can get around town? There's also an airport, so you can fly in for a conference like MacWorld(R) Expo(R) in your Boeing(R) jetliner!
It's so easy to get around, too! Just pay your cab driver whatever he wants.
Free Mickey Mouse is the Economist's story on Lessig, subtitled "Lawrence Lessig wants less copyright protection, including for Disney's famous rodent". Good article.
It begins as follows:
There's a good article on Lessig and Disney in this week's Economist.
I was listening to the Monsters, Inc. commentary track recently, and there's a mention of a yodel that's heard in the background through one of the doors. They actually wanted to use a different (and supposedly funnier) one, but they couldn't find the rights holder to clear it.
So Disney's copyright extension lobbying effectively damaged one of the movies they distributed.
Well, it used to be. Now Neustar (the bozos of .BIZ) are running it, and selling off every name they can. For example, random.us is already registered.
The .us domain used to be one of the last sections of the DNS that used an actual hierarchical scheme, instead of the usual "let's reinvent the flat namespace" of so many other TLDs. Now, it's just another land rush. Sigh.
And since it's illegal to manufacture a circumvention device, anyone concerned about the DMCA should definitely use birth control.
You mean like the second item in the Apple menu, called "Get Mac OS X Software..." that sends your browser to http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/?
Buy her an iPod. Have her keep a copy of the files on that. That's how several folks I know do things like SneakerNet files to work, or carry that extra copy of presentation if their laptop dies, or whatever. Bonus: it's also an MP3 player.
Perhaps because if people didn't keep having computer problems, the columnists would be replaced by something else (advice column, Hints from Heloise, bridge hands) instead? These people are not going to put themselves out of a cushy job giving simple answers on how to make Windows slightly less unusable....
The good folks at Cheapass Games have the answer.
The game's pretty fun, and doesn't require an ATIForce Titaneon 980235700000 to play, either.
I just wonder what he was doing in Terminal C if he was flying on America West! They use Terminal B.
It might be cheaper--no shipping charges. Also, there's an Apple store in tax-free New Hampshire, if you can get there.
The Crimson's changed their online copy of the letter. Of course, that doesn't exactly mean it's not easily findable.
So there are positive features to the *BSD splits after all! :-)