Did you tell Apple? nVidia? I think they should be made acutely aware of this. When I asked at an Applestore the other day, explaining that I had some work I *need* to do in Linux, they had absolutely no clue that there might be a problem.
Right there in the store I popped a few benh messages from debian-powerpc (just search the list at gmane for nVidia, you get a lot of cursing). Seeing those well-reasoned complaints shook them a bit, it flies in the face of their line that "powerbooks are all you see at open source conventions now".
This is hardware we are buying, not just cool iApps. So sell supported hardware like the competition, dammit!
Seriously, I think you're way off. On ATI-equipped Macs, Mac-on-Linux is a great way to have both OS X and Linux available, so you can run those not so few applications that haven't yet been compiled natively -- without rebooting, and not so incidentally, get good access to HFS+ from ext2 and vice versa. But no dice on the 12" Powerbook, thanks to nVidia not compiling their drivers for the PowerPC.
Why?
Until they do, or until the tables are turned with Linux-on-Mac, we can't do this because essential laptop functions like sleep, video acceleration and dual display are poorly supported... I encourage people to bring up the issue at every opportunity with Apple, with nVidia, and maybe here.
Red Hat added more than twice (almost thrice) the users as debian did in this time period.
Just because debian had a smaller user base to begin with (and so its percentage growth happens to be more) does not mean that debian is growing faster than Red Hat.
What a spin. RTFA! "RedHat actually fell this month."
To many people, the toolbar has become the menubar.. originally the toolbar was a place to put the most common things from the menubar, but now it has become a place to jam everything. The menubar has become almost completely redundant.
On the Mac, orgiastic toolbars were introduced by MSWord 6, which replaced the original (native) MSWord by a bastardized Windows port which was universally hated. All right, to each his own;-)
Fitt's law be damned, in a windowing GUI, a window defines the territory of a program, and that's where everything should fit.
That's exactly what the Mac does, once you understand that part of that window (viz. the menu bar) is conveniently placed at the top of the screen. What they did, you see, is go past your preconception that a "window" has to be connected.
Serendipity... Just yesterday I came across folklore.org via John Gruber by way of Rainer Brockerhoff who added this observation of Chris Hanson: in 20 years, from the Macintosh 128 to the dual G5, the specs increased thus:
As it happens, while advising a friend on how much memory to buy in 2004, I had just looked at how Apple's nominal RAM stacks up against Moore's Law. Pretty much confirmed, if you ask me:
Right... and this would be the relevant section (emphasis mine):
"Regarding the complaints concerning the difficulty of end users to purchase desktop
computers without Microsoft Windows pre-installed, this complaint appears related to Marketing
Development Program funds that Microsoft provides to OEMs. Under the MDP Microsoft
provides financial incentives per units distributed to OEMs that meet specific milestone criteria
established by Microsoft (
e.g., logo design, advertising copy). However, these MDP funds are
reduced by $1 per unit if any desktop computer is sold by the OEM without a license to an
operating system (Windows or otherwise). According to Microsoft, this provision is directed
towards software piracy concerns. As structured, the MDP does not appear on its face to violate
the explicit terms of the Final Judgment with respect to the pre-installation of operating systems."
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Indeed, in Safari. (Won't launch Quicktime, for some reason.)
But it works in Mozilla :-P
...corrupting our bodily fluids. I first realized that, Mandrake, during the act of love. Small and flabby. It has to be micro soft!
"Protect yourself from email worms by walking to the post office!"
"Protect yourself from p2p worms by buying your music on 8-track tape!"
"Protect yourself from joe-jobs by not using your hotmail address!"
"Protect yourself from internet credit card theft by using dollar bills exclusively!"
"Protect yourself from e-banking snoopers by keeping your savings under the mattress!"
"Protect yourself from spam by disconnecting the internet!"
"For Christ's sake, protect yourself from illegal operations by turning off your computer NOW!
(Oops, this one's not new.)
Heh. I suppose you should know all about that!
Just copy etc ?!? Good luck ;)
Right there in the store I popped a few benh messages from debian-powerpc (just search the list at gmane for nVidia, you get a lot of cursing). Seeing those well-reasoned complaints shook them a bit, it flies in the face of their line that "powerbooks are all you see at open source conventions now".
This is hardware we are buying, not just cool iApps. So sell supported hardware like the competition, dammit!
Well maybe, if you consider Mac OS X a game ;-)
Seriously, I think you're way off. On ATI-equipped Macs, Mac-on-Linux is a great way to have both OS X and Linux available, so you can run those not so few applications that haven't yet been compiled natively -- without rebooting, and not so incidentally, get good access to HFS+ from ext2 and vice versa. But no dice on the 12" Powerbook, thanks to nVidia not compiling their drivers for the PowerPC.
Why?
Until they do, or until the tables are turned with Linux-on-Mac, we can't do this because essential laptop functions like sleep, video acceleration and dual display are poorly supported... I encourage people to bring up the issue at every opportunity with Apple, with nVidia, and maybe here.
On the Mac, orgiastic toolbars were introduced by MSWord 6, which replaced the original (native) MSWord by a bastardized Windows port which was universally hated. All right, to each his own ;-)
That's exactly what the Mac does, once you understand that part of that window (viz. the menu bar) is conveniently placed at the top of the screen. What they did, you see, is go past your preconception that a "window" has to be connected.
As it happens, while advising a friend on how much memory to buy in 2004, I had just looked at how Apple's nominal RAM stacks up against Moore's Law. Pretty much confirmed, if you ask me: