Apparently you don't use OS X--it's actually really quite easy compared to Windows. It could be easier, with a program that automates the copying, but it's pretty cake now.
True, I do not use OS X. It is still a fair question. I am not sure that I understand what you mean:
Easier to use OS X than Windows?
Easier to migrate files from Windows 98 to OS X?
Easier to migrate files from OS 9 to OS X?
Easier to migrate files from OS X to OS X?
and also:
Easier than migrating files between Windows 95/98/ME and Windows 2000/XP?
Easier than migrating files between Windows to Linux/BSD Desktop (Gnome/KDE)?
Easier than migrating files between XP and XP?
And when I say migrating files, I mean that one computer will replace another for the same user, so they will want all their same work files, mailboxes, local databases etc.
Transferring your files from an old computer to a new computer on any sort of migration is a pain. I do not see how Mr. Reifman found that task any easier going from Windows [98?] to Mac OS X. And he sure does not say in the article how it was accomplished. When he says "one step migration" does he mean that simply the Windows "Documents and Settings" folders get copied? Or does "one step migration" mean that Windows finds my copy of Eudora and moves the mailboxes and address books?
Mr Reifman's curriculum vitae and cover letter were much too long-winded. Next candidate...
In fact, the awards screener DVDs are only one source. (A "screener" is a promotional preview videocassette/DVD of a film provided by a film company, or its distributor, to video store owners or movie award voters prior to its general release date. Selling, trading or distributing these "screeners" is frowned upon by the MPAA)
Every point in the production cycle where the movie transitions from print to electronic version is a possible leak.
I would love to have learned more about history and civilizations through playing Civilization than just listening to Social Studies teachers drone on and on about City/States between the Tigris and Euphrates. I cared so little, I can not even remember it now, even though U.S. troops are fighting over that same ground.
The pclinuxonline folks have, IMHO, a really good Mandrake live CD put together. You can find it here. They are currently working on the next release which is due...anytime... (They had put an ISO out on the mirrors, but then yanked it right away.)
"IBM's Linux pitch is either stupid or insincere. I think it's a little bit of both. It's not a sensible strategy for IBM in the long run," Zachmann says."
Always put the trademark SPAM in all capital letters.
Follow SPAM with "Luncheon Meat" or other descriptor. Remember, a trademark is a formal adjective and as such, should always be followed by a noun.
Spam, the food, is made right in our very own third world city of Austin, Minnesota at the Hormel plant. (also Nebraska, Denmark, Korea and The Phillipines.) See the Spam museum.
(Funny on slashdot how I have to qualify Spam as a food product...)
Which is exactly why Wal-mart crushes the town general store every time. It is the same attitude as that of the town council who puts up the sign on the road out of town: "Did you try to buy it in Smallville?"
Freenet is going to get their $550 and can no longer use Paypal.
Anything beyond that is "Paypal said/Freenet said"
We may not understand exactly what happened. The nature of the closing leads me to speculate that someone was trying to access the freenet Paypal account repeatedly by browsing through an anonymizing proxy server.
See Anonymity and Paypal (and other online businesses) from the Anonymity 4 Proxy Support Pages to get an idea what might happen when you try to access paypal from an anonymous proxy. I'll quote: "So if paypal finds out that you are using a proxy to fool their logon system into allowing you in, you are quite likely to find your paypal account closed. If I'm not mistaken, they clearly state in the user agreement that you can't connect from an anonymous proxy."
The Anonymity 4 support tech is correct. On paypal.com in the User agreement, Under "Closing Accounts and Limiting Account Access" paragraph 2 - "Any of the following events may lead to your account being limited: "
"item xvii (Use of an anonymizing proxy;)"
This is not censorship news, it appears more like carelessness on the part of someone at Freenet.
latif wrote: As expected, pretty quickly the registry started accumulating all sorts of rubbish, and the system started exhibiting strange bugs. First Mozilla stopped working; reinstallations, uninstallations, upgrades did not resolve the problem, so I switched to Opera.
He is not terribly descriptive of the registry rubbish or strange bugs. I can certainly empathize with his trials and tribulations, but I suspect the VMWare trial was only one of many applications installed.
The only useful information is the anecdote about being hit with the worm as soon as the internet connection is made. And the good advice would be that you need Service packs and patches installed before you connect ANY machine directly to the internet.
The only thing missing from the article was the part where the author says "I switched to ReactOS and lived happily ever after."
We also go to all kinds of interesting lengths to avoid problems with viruses and worms. For example, we have a hack in our flavor of Wine*, in the CreateProcess call (the code to start an executable) that basically checks to see if the parent process is outlook.exe, and if it is, we crash and burn, preventing many of the worms and such from running.
OK, how about Outlook express, Netscape Mail, Lotus notes or any other e-mail client where the user can recieve files such as self-extracting ZIP files?
when was the last time you heard anyone say, "Let's get those damn Canadians"?
When someone jammed the vending machine in our office with a Canadian quarter...You have to be really sneaky to get those coins past cashiers since many in the Northern U.S. know that Canadian coins are only worth 70% of the equivalent U.S. coin.
It means that all those hard working folks who just prepared May 1 release distros now have to go back to the labs and retest all their packages again for compatability if they want to keep up with the Joneses. And it can be a HUGE Pain! (LiveCDs especially with all those pre-installed packages...)
Maybe the poster might be to young to remember the Citizen's Band phenomenon in the 1970's. And while the underlying thought might be that the FCC is powerless or understaffed, try broadcasting in Clear Channel's AM/FM bandwidth and see how fast you get slapped with a cease-and-desist order.
Here is what a typical public university in the U.S. might require for a B.S. in Comp Sci for math courses:
Calculus and Analytic Geometry
Calculus of Several Variables
Linear Algebra and Applications
Infinite Series and Differential Equations
Introduction to discrete structures
Most high schools in the U.S. have honors/AP/GATE tracks for match in which you are taking Algebra, Geometry, Advanced Algebra, and Calculus. You will want this to be able to compete for grades at University level.
Most colleges will list their requirements on the web. Or you can certainly get them through the mail like in the old days...
In the end, it is up to you to work on your analytical skills, which is really what it comes down to. In the business world you are designing, architecting and thinking. If you are not, your job is outsourced or automated already. If you can go to college and major in basket weaving, but you have strong analytical skills, you will get work. The Comp Sci degree is just 1 line on your resume.
I am not trolling, I am genuinely confused about the offering. The Red Hat desktop appears to be a distribution of Linux with all the PC-type goodies, much like Fedora core or previous Red Hat versions. The Java desktop, with which I am not familiar, only appears to be the desktop PC-type goodies. Java Desktop needs a Linux OS, specifically Red Hat, and an older version at that, to run.
I have totally failed to understand Sun's marketing strategy here. It seems to me that Java Desktop is the same concept as Windows 3.0: A GUI program manager on top of an operating system. And it lists for $100! The interoperability with the servers must be the key.
From the eWeek article on January 13th, 2003:"The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is already creating supercomputer clusters using HP rx2600 servers powered by Itanium 2 and running Linux. Scott Studham, technical lead for the lab's Molecular Science Computing Facility, said they chose Linux over HP-UX in part because they had used it in other projects. "It is very stable, very robust, and [it is] very easy to get support," Studham said."
The rising tide of Linux at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory came at the expense of the HP-UX. And why not? The PNNL (and NASA) employ a significant number of engineers and computer scientists at high expense. They can justify having them work on computer projects such as customizing or modifying the operating system. I would expect them to "roll their own". Using open source probably has saved taxpayers a significant amount of time and money, and may benefit us all.
Most fortune 500 companies do not have the FTE allocations to bring in computer scientists, and instead look for packaged products and solutions.
Bottom line: Yay for Linux!, but this is not business news.
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Nice planning: an end-of-month upgrade at a financial institution when, by their own admission, transactions are at their peak.
Maybe they thought they would broaden their QA testing base to, say 20,000,000.
True, I do not use OS X. It is still a fair question. I am not sure that I understand what you mean:
- Easier to use OS X than Windows?
- Easier to migrate files from Windows 98 to OS X?
- Easier to migrate files from OS 9 to OS X?
- Easier to migrate files from OS X to OS X?
and also:- Easier than migrating files between Windows 95/98/ME and Windows 2000/XP?
- Easier than migrating files between Windows to Linux/BSD Desktop (Gnome/KDE)?
- Easier than migrating files between XP and XP?
And when I say migrating files, I mean that one computer will replace another for the same user, so they will want all their same work files, mailboxes, local databases etc.Transferring your files from an old computer to a new computer on any sort of migration is a pain. I do not see how Mr. Reifman found that task any easier going from Windows [98?] to Mac OS X. And he sure does not say in the article how it was accomplished. When he says "one step migration" does he mean that simply the Windows "Documents and Settings" folders get copied? Or does "one step migration" mean that Windows finds my copy of Eudora and moves the mailboxes and address books?
Mr Reifman's curriculum vitae and cover letter were much too long-winded. Next candidate...
I have a cheap set of speakers on my desktop ... it's annoying to my coworkers
Maybe you should draw those Les Nessman (WKRP in Cincinnati) lines around your cube and tell your coworkers not to hear anything outside the lines.
In fact, the awards screener DVDs are only one source. (A "screener" is a promotional preview videocassette/DVD of a film provided by a film company, or its distributor, to video store owners or movie award voters prior to its general release date. Selling, trading or distributing these "screeners" is frowned upon by the MPAA)
Every point in the production cycle where the movie transitions from print to electronic version is a possible leak.
Screener traces are already in place. And there was a notable incident this year where an Acadamy of Motion Pictures member was caught bootlegging his screeners by the trace technology.
Theater pirates may get lots of press, but most of the stolen copies freely available are taken right from the studios themselves.
I would love to have learned more about history and civilizations through playing Civilization than just listening to Social Studies teachers drone on and on about City/States between the Tigris and Euphrates. I cared so little, I can not even remember it now, even though U.S. troops are fighting over that same ground.
The pclinuxonline folks have, IMHO, a really good Mandrake live CD put together. You can find it here. They are currently working on the next release which is due...anytime... (They had put an ISO out on the mirrors, but then yanked it right away.)
"IBM's Linux pitch is either stupid or insincere. I think it's a little bit of both. It's not a sensible strategy for IBM in the long run," Zachmann says."
I am not so sure about that. In 2001 Thomas Schenk's article compared Linux with AIX and found it wanting in terms of enterprise support. Clearly Linux has come a long way since then.
In 2003, Steve Mills, senior vice president of IBM's Software Group said Linux is the logical successor to AIX
For the customers, it sure would be nice not to have to pay AIX licensing fees.
That $3.95 a month for 1GB of capped data transfer seemed like such a bargain at the time....
You are referring of course to "SPAM®" the registered trademark. Although, instructions for use of the mark are not on the site as you suggest.
They are found here:
Proper Trademark Use Guidelines.
Please Do:
Always put the trademark SPAM in all capital letters. Follow SPAM with "Luncheon Meat" or other descriptor. Remember, a trademark is a formal adjective and as such, should always be followed by a noun.
Spam, the food, is made right in our very own third world city of Austin, Minnesota at the Hormel plant. (also Nebraska, Denmark, Korea and The Phillipines.) See the Spam museum.
(Funny on slashdot how I have to qualify Spam as a food product...)
Heck, all of the Fedora download sites have been slashdotted since the "Fedora Core 2 Officially Available" story from May 18th!
This "Star Wars is Doomed" article is more of the same trolling dreck that Christopher Bahn has been serving up since he was writing for the Minnesota Daily and Citypages.
/. posting.....
He writes the same crap in a previous article about the "Friends" last episode. Hmmm, Funny that has not gotten a
Which is exactly why Wal-mart crushes the town general store every time. It is the same attitude as that of the town council who puts up the sign on the road out of town: "Did you try to buy it in Smallville?"
Freenet is going to get their $550 and can no longer use Paypal.
Anything beyond that is "Paypal said/Freenet said"
We may not understand exactly what happened. The nature of the closing leads me to speculate that someone was trying to access the freenet Paypal account repeatedly by browsing through an anonymizing proxy server. See Anonymity and Paypal (and other online businesses) from the Anonymity 4 Proxy Support Pages to get an idea what might happen when you try to access paypal from an anonymous proxy. I'll quote: "So if paypal finds out that you are using a proxy to fool their logon system into allowing you in, you are quite likely to find your paypal account closed. If I'm not mistaken, they clearly state in the user agreement that you can't connect from an anonymous proxy."
The Anonymity 4 support tech is correct. On paypal.com in the User agreement, Under "Closing Accounts and Limiting Account Access" paragraph 2 - "Any of the following events may lead to your account being limited: " "item xvii (Use of an anonymizing proxy;)"
This is not censorship news, it appears more like carelessness on the part of someone at Freenet.
latif wrote: As expected, pretty quickly the registry started accumulating all sorts of rubbish, and the system started exhibiting strange bugs. First Mozilla stopped working; reinstallations, uninstallations, upgrades did not resolve the problem, so I switched to Opera.
He is not terribly descriptive of the registry rubbish or strange bugs. I can certainly empathize with his trials and tribulations, but I suspect the VMWare trial was only one of many applications installed.
The only useful information is the anecdote about being hit with the worm as soon as the internet connection is made. And the good advice would be that you need Service packs and patches installed before you connect ANY machine directly to the internet.
The only thing missing from the article was the part where the author says "I switched to ReactOS and lived happily ever after."
We also go to all kinds of interesting lengths to avoid problems with viruses and worms. For example, we have a hack in our flavor of Wine*, in the CreateProcess call (the code to start an executable) that basically checks to see if the parent process is outlook.exe, and if it is, we crash and burn, preventing many of the worms and such from running.
OK, how about Outlook express, Netscape Mail, Lotus notes or any other e-mail client where the user can recieve files such as self-extracting ZIP files?
Pulling the ripcord is not the solution.
when was the last time you heard anyone say, "Let's get those damn Canadians"?
When someone jammed the vending machine in our office with a Canadian quarter...You have to be really sneaky to get those coins past cashiers since many in the Northern U.S. know that Canadian coins are only worth 70% of the equivalent U.S. coin.
It means that all those hard working folks who just prepared May 1 release distros now have to go back to the labs and retest all their packages again for compatability if they want to keep up with the Joneses. And it can be a HUGE Pain! (LiveCDs especially with all those pre-installed packages...)
Maybe the poster might be to young to remember the Citizen's Band phenomenon in the 1970's. And while the underlying thought might be that the FCC is powerless or understaffed, try broadcasting in Clear Channel's AM/FM bandwidth and see how fast you get slapped with a cease-and-desist order.
Or more to the point, what is the first thing users want to do after the system is installed and running?
- Calculus and Analytic Geometry
- Calculus of Several Variables
- Linear Algebra and Applications
- Infinite Series and Differential Equations
- Introduction to discrete structures
Most high schools in the U.S. have honors/AP/GATE tracks for match in which you are taking Algebra, Geometry, Advanced Algebra, and Calculus. You will want this to be able to compete for grades at University level.Most colleges will list their requirements on the web. Or you can certainly get them through the mail like in the old days...
In the end, it is up to you to work on your analytical skills, which is really what it comes down to. In the business world you are designing, architecting and thinking. If you are not, your job is outsourced or automated already. If you can go to college and major in basket weaving, but you have strong analytical skills, you will get work. The Comp Sci degree is just 1 line on your resume.
And in this corner we have the Red Hat desktop release May 4th 2004
But the Java Desktop requires Redhat Linux 7.3?
I am not trolling, I am genuinely confused about the offering. The Red Hat desktop appears to be a distribution of Linux with all the PC-type goodies, much like Fedora core or previous Red Hat versions. The Java desktop, with which I am not familiar, only appears to be the desktop PC-type goodies. Java Desktop needs a Linux OS, specifically Red Hat, and an older version at that, to run.
I have totally failed to understand Sun's marketing strategy here. It seems to me that Java Desktop is the same concept as Windows 3.0: A GUI program manager on top of an operating system. And it lists for $100! The interoperability with the servers must be the key.
From the eWeek article on January 13th, 2003: "The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is already creating supercomputer clusters using HP rx2600 servers powered by Itanium 2 and running Linux. Scott Studham, technical lead for the lab's Molecular Science Computing Facility, said they chose Linux over HP-UX in part because they had used it in other projects. "It is very stable, very robust, and [it is] very easy to get support," Studham said."
The rising tide of Linux at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory came at the expense of the HP-UX. And why not? The PNNL (and NASA) employ a significant number of engineers and computer scientists at high expense. They can justify having them work on computer projects such as customizing or modifying the operating system. I would expect them to "roll their own". Using open source probably has saved taxpayers a significant amount of time and money, and may benefit us all.
Most fortune 500 companies do not have the FTE allocations to bring in computer scientists, and instead look for packaged products and solutions.
Bottom line: Yay for Linux!, but this is not business news.