Some would argue that NeXT took over Apple Computer a few years back and that if you buy a dual G5 processor system branded 'Apple' that you're running a NeXT box, with the latest-generation NeXT OS.
Well, we will see as the election unfolds what differences there are between Bush and Kerry. Bush has been a letdown to some of us, in that he's rushed to the middle in a lot of respects since taking office. Kerry has a lot of weasel behavior in his past that he's going to have to explain. A lot of the same things thrown at Bush last time around can be slightly reworked and thrown at Kerry. Call it 'dirty politics' to question his character if you wish. Character matters.
We don't need more politicians in Washington, and we don't need more-of-the-same politics. Bush was perceived as someone who would end a lot of the bullshit. He hasn't done that good a job. Both Bush and Kerry are in many respects your typical shyster politician.
Posting a bunch of hysterial bullet-points from a DNC propaganda fax doesn't cut it. Justify WHY government should have the power over the citizens to do many of the things they do. Both the D and R parties have a lot to answer to in that regard.
Yes, but said source files are not released under the GPL, nor (apparently) are they Open Source.
If the Mozilla people had grabbed said source files from someone else who had released them as Open Souce, and were now distributing only the 'binaries' in the form of bitmaps and products and licenses-for-products that incorporate said bitmaps, it would be a different thing.
OSX wouldn't be as stable on the x86 platform as it is on PPC. Apple controls and tightly limits the variations of PPC hardware platforms that OSX runs on. So they have a much, much more limited base of hardware to write their code to. Microsoft, on the other hand is a software-only company, and takes an 'open' approach and has little control at all what hardware their customers run their OS on. A lot of the stability issues in Windows have to do with non-Microsoft code, i.e. drivers, that third party vendors produce.
If Apple were to suddenly decide to support and sell OSX on Intel-based systems, they'd have to either regression test it on the literally millions of permutations of hardware customers could be expected to try to run it on, or they'd have to put out Apple x86 hardware, or at the very least issue a list with the subset of x86 clone hardware out there that was known-tested to work with OSX.
Apple isn't up to that task, nor do they make their money selling their OS, so it's an academic issue and really not worth discussing. If something really 'big' were to happen and Apple decided to abandon the 'Power' processor family and embrace x86 chips, they'd likely produce Apple-base x86 hardware designs that they solely controlled, and that solely could run their software. They're a bigtime proprietary-hardware/software combo company, not just a software house like Microsoft and not just a commodity-hardware house like Dell.
OSX could never be as stable on clone hardware. It just isn't in the Apple 'culture' to do such a thing. Jobs excised anything close to that when NeXT took over Apple and they doublecrossed the clone vendors.
Apparently, it's about giving away the product for free, then insisting desperately on the 'branded merchandise' franchise as a sole source of revenue.
The X Consortium used to stress calling it 'The X Window System.' And it used to be that you could tell if somebody was clueless, because they'd use Windows plural in referring to X.
Things have gotten a lot more lax, what with everyone having Linux/X on their pee cee these days.
Correct. 'Curses' is pretty lightweight, documented in one of the thinner O'Reilly manuals. Tcl/Tk is a considerably bigger package. Thanks for the correction.
The 'troll' is the act of placing a comment or article in an online form to incite rage in a responder. The person who places said comment is a 'troller.' He is 'trolling' for comments from the kind who will 'strike on the bait.'
I guess the person who responds is a big stupid fish flipping around in the bottom of the boat (or hanging alongside the boat on a stringer).
All that GNOME has proven is that if you bog down the hardware enough with hidden machinations, you can mimic a 'clean, simple' interface for people who want something complex enough 'under the hood' that they're never going to be able to maintain it with, say the vi editor and some wetware.
Give me my nice tuned and well-known.fvwm2rc file anyday.
I've been using a 'graphical installer' since my first Slackware installation back in 1994.
Of course, I'm talking about Tk graphics. X11 is something you install after you've got the installer OS (which fits on several floppy diskettes) up and running.
A lot of things that Goodwill refuses (they refuse most computer and electronic stuff that isn't obvuous dumbed-down consumer junk your Grandma could own) will sell for a good price on eBay, if you know how to identify, describe, and test it.
Value-add is a good way to make money on eBay. People like me scour certain categories for new listings of cheap 'buy it now' items in the wrong category and/or being sold by someone who doesn't know shit about what s/he is selling.
You're describing a problem with email as it is presently standardized. Not Spam.
Spam is the symptom of a problem: a broken, obsolete, 'consensus' based Internet. I mean, the 'standards' are still called 'Request For Comment's, for goodness sake.
The Spam problem won't go away until the Internet is regulated. At which point most of the people who complain about Spam will switch to complaining about the regulations.
The whole design of restroom doors pisses me off in general.
Why do public restroom doors have a mechanism so that you have to actively reach out and twist to open it from the inside, on the way out?
Proper design, it seems, would dictate that the door should push outward from the inside, and that there shouldn't be a latching mechanism at all that needs to be handled.
Because those of us who wash our hands have moist 'receptive' hands on the way out of the restroom, while the dirtbags just leave their trace on the door handle.
If there needs to be a mechanism that you're required to handle to enter the rest room it should be on the outside, going in.
Is there some fool design spec for this? (Chapter 2 in the book where Chapter 3 details GUIs that use single button mice?)
It's not really 'distilled water' for very long after the computer is dipped into it, unless the computer has been super-cleaned somehow before you run the experiment.
I bought a Sinclair ZX81 just last week for old times sake. Now I'm trying to find the circuit and details on how to route around the RF modulator and get direct video out. Been years since I did that mod and I don't remember what it was and can't find it online anywhere.
They do in my collection of aging monster hardware.
You can't touch anything else with the reliability and stability of that system without spending four figures today.
And Pentium Pro systems are cool. A good PPro server is like a diesel truck. I can't afford to collect diesel trucks but I can afford to keep around some nice hardware, and even use it.
In my new PC Server 704 (quad Pentium Pro, redundant power, etc. etc.) the various system fans are so loud that you can barely hear the noisier-than-usual array of 6 Seagate hard drives spin up. I'm still figuring out where that box (size of a two drawer filing cabinet) is gonna fit into the noise equation here.
(It came from the auction (fifteen bucks) with a Red Hat sticker on the front, but I upgraded it to Slackware.)
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Some would argue that NeXT took over Apple Computer a few years back and that if you buy a dual G5 processor system branded 'Apple' that you're running a NeXT box, with the latest-generation NeXT OS.
Well, we will see as the election unfolds what differences there are between Bush and Kerry. Bush has been a letdown to some of us, in that he's rushed to the middle in a lot of respects since taking office. Kerry has a lot of weasel behavior in his past that he's going to have to explain. A lot of the same things thrown at Bush last time around can be slightly reworked and thrown at Kerry. Call it 'dirty politics' to question his character if you wish. Character matters.
We don't need more politicians in Washington, and we don't need more-of-the-same politics. Bush was perceived as someone who would end a lot of the bullshit. He hasn't done that good a job. Both Bush and Kerry are in many respects your typical shyster politician.
Posting a bunch of hysterial bullet-points from a DNC propaganda fax doesn't cut it. Justify WHY government should have the power over the citizens to do many of the things they do. Both the D and R parties have a lot to answer to in that regard.
Yes, but said source files are not released under the GPL, nor (apparently) are they Open Source.
If the Mozilla people had grabbed said source files from someone else who had released them as Open Souce, and were now distributing only the 'binaries' in the form of bitmaps and products and licenses-for-products that incorporate said bitmaps, it would be a different thing.
That's not really true at all.
OSX wouldn't be as stable on the x86 platform as it is on PPC. Apple controls and tightly limits the variations of PPC hardware platforms that OSX runs on. So they have a much, much more limited base of hardware to write their code to. Microsoft, on the other hand is a software-only company, and takes an 'open' approach and has little control at all what hardware their customers run their OS on. A lot of the stability issues in Windows have to do with non-Microsoft code, i.e. drivers, that third party vendors produce.
If Apple were to suddenly decide to support and sell OSX on Intel-based systems, they'd have to either regression test it on the literally millions of permutations of hardware customers could be expected to try to run it on, or they'd have to put out Apple x86 hardware, or at the very least issue a list with the subset of x86 clone hardware out there that was known-tested to work with OSX.
Apple isn't up to that task, nor do they make their money selling their OS, so it's an academic issue and really not worth discussing. If something really 'big' were to happen and Apple decided to abandon the 'Power' processor family and embrace x86 chips, they'd likely produce Apple-base x86 hardware designs that they solely controlled, and that solely could run their software. They're a bigtime proprietary-hardware/software combo company, not just a software house like Microsoft and not just a commodity-hardware house like Dell.
OSX could never be as stable on clone hardware. It just isn't in the Apple 'culture' to do such a thing. Jobs excised anything close to that when NeXT took over Apple and they doublecrossed the clone vendors.
Apparently, it's about giving away the product for free, then insisting desperately on the 'branded merchandise' franchise as a sole source of revenue.
The X Consortium used to stress calling it 'The X Window System.' And it used to be that you could tell if somebody was clueless, because they'd use Windows plural in referring to X.
Things have gotten a lot more lax, what with everyone having Linux/X on their pee cee these days.
And you're sitting there reading Slashdot.
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No more proof of anything is needed. .
Depends on your definition of 'fastest' I guess.
My server has four PPro 200s, and dual SCSI RAID arrays.
Bandwidth, mon, not how fast the processor can run little bitty programs in it's cache.
Yeah, but casual folk don't buy said substance in the kind of quantity we're talking about submerging a computer in here.
Hmm, I wonder if the seeds and stems would foul up the floppy drive.....
Correct. 'Curses' is pretty lightweight, documented in one of the thinner O'Reilly manuals. Tcl/Tk is a considerably bigger package. Thanks for the correction.
The 'troll' is the act of placing a comment or article in an online form to incite rage in a responder. The person who places said comment is a 'troller.' He is 'trolling' for comments from the kind who will 'strike on the bait.'
I guess the person who responds is a big stupid fish flipping around in the bottom of the boat (or hanging alongside the boat on a stringer).
Neither one is a 'troll.'
All that GNOME has proven is that if you bog down the hardware enough with hidden machinations, you can mimic a 'clean, simple' interface for people who want something complex enough 'under the hood' that they're never going to be able to maintain it with, say the vi editor and some wetware.
.fvwm2rc file anyday.
Give me my nice tuned and well-known
I've been using a 'graphical installer' since my first Slackware installation back in 1994.
Of course, I'm talking about Tk graphics. X11 is something you install after you've got the installer OS (which fits on several floppy diskettes) up and running.
A lot of things that Goodwill refuses (they refuse most computer and electronic stuff that isn't obvuous dumbed-down consumer junk your Grandma could own) will sell for a good price on eBay, if you know how to identify, describe, and test it.
Value-add is a good way to make money on eBay. People like me scour certain categories for new listings of cheap 'buy it now' items in the wrong category and/or being sold by someone who doesn't know shit about what s/he is selling.
You're describing a problem with email as it is presently standardized. Not Spam.
Spam is the symptom of a problem: a broken, obsolete, 'consensus' based Internet. I mean, the 'standards' are still called 'Request For Comment's, for goodness sake.
The Spam problem won't go away until the Internet is regulated. At which point most of the people who complain about Spam will switch to complaining about the regulations.
The whole design of restroom doors pisses me off in general.
Why do public restroom doors have a mechanism so that you have to actively reach out and twist to open it from the inside, on the way out?
Proper design, it seems, would dictate that the door should push outward from the inside, and that there shouldn't be a latching mechanism at all that needs to be handled.
Because those of us who wash our hands have moist 'receptive' hands on the way out of the restroom, while the dirtbags just leave their trace on the door handle.
If there needs to be a mechanism that you're required to handle to enter the rest room it should be on the outside, going in.
Is there some fool design spec for this? (Chapter 2 in the book where Chapter 3 details GUIs that use single button mice?)
It's not really 'distilled water' for very long after the computer is dipped into it, unless the computer has been super-cleaned somehow before you run the experiment.
I bought a Sinclair ZX81 just last week for old times sake. Now I'm trying to find the circuit and details on how to route around the RF modulator and get direct video out. Been years since I did that mod and I don't remember what it was and can't find it online anywhere.
Your whole school shares one IP over a NAT server?
And don't even get me started on the transmission of scabies in shared upholstered swiveling office chairs...
People sit around on the swivel chairs in the nude where you work?
They do in my collection of aging monster hardware.
You can't touch anything else with the reliability and stability of that system without spending four figures today.
And Pentium Pro systems are cool. A good PPro server is like a diesel truck. I can't afford to collect diesel trucks but I can afford to keep around some nice hardware, and even use it.
Put it in an ice chest and hire some lackey to bring in new ice and drain it every few hours.
In my new PC Server 704 (quad Pentium Pro, redundant power, etc. etc.) the various system fans are so loud that you can barely hear the noisier-than-usual array of 6 Seagate hard drives spin up. I'm still figuring out where that box (size of a two drawer filing cabinet) is gonna fit into the noise equation here.
(It came from the auction (fifteen bucks) with a Red Hat sticker on the front, but I upgraded it to Slackware.)
You said, and I quote: "Your reaction times are WAY too slow."
The curly braces key is broken on my keyboard.