"With the recent raft of underwhelming presentations on Windows Vista and the gradual loss of originally planned features in it, and Apple Macintosh moving to Intel processors, it wouldn't be unreasonable to see Macintosh gain ground this year, here's how I think it will happen.
Microsoft will release Vista with their usual marketing hype, claiming that it is fantastic and probably bring back the "10 reasons to upgrade". Apple will release their next version of Macintosh with a lot of marketing along the lines of "most of the stuff in Vista we had five years ago, and look what we've got now...even better, it runs on YOUR PC", effectively canning their "Mac Box Only" pseudo-restrictions. Apple, with their increased presence, thanks to the iPod, will gain customers with the more secure, and more impressive OS.
I am really gaining the impression that Apple have lost their "also-ran" status from public perception with the iPod and iTunes and their general "nice guy" appearance, this will help them win customers from Microsoft. Also I think the general public are starting to wake up to the fact that, despite Microsoft claims, new versions of Windows are rarely more stable than the last, and the "new features" aren't all that exciting after all. Whilst the general public will see this as a way to escape the MS security problems, IT people will see it as a way to make vulnerabilities less attractive to "malicious users" as they won't have the same large scale effect.
I forsee Open Office using this to their advantage, perhaps making a deal with Apple to include Open Office in Mac OS."
Usually setting a dial prefix to the first couple digits of the local phone number worked for me...it was funny when a dialer tried to get to 1900... and ended up dialing some poor sod who just happened to have 621900...
SmoothWall (Excellent firewall) and the Guardian Active Response Mod (detects and blocks just about all attacks). Best part is the price or lack thereof.
SmoothWall (Excellent firewall) and the Guardian Active Response Mod (Picks up and blocks just about every attack). Best part is the price, or lack thereof.
Both from www.smoothwall.org
Samuel
Here in Canberra (that nice little capital city of Australia) we had electronic voting for our election, and it is now probably going to be the focus of a court challenge by a losing party.
Personally, I agree with the time honoured tradition of paper voting...at least there is some physical record of votes.
Seriously, what does it matter, unless you can speak chinese, most chinese news will be impossible to read anyway. If you can speak chinese, visit a chinese news site, how hard can it be???
Seriously. why bother with political blogs, In Canberra, Australia we have a federal election on october 9 and a state election on october 16, if you aren't politicsed out after watching the news and about 50 polictical ads each night, there is something very wrong with you. lol
***The Samuel Dictionary*** politicsed (pol-E-ticks-d): 1. having a heap of people talk to you about an upcoming election, including policticians "I will fix..." "My opponent is bad because..." and journalists "Mr/Mrs xyz said visited... and said they will..." "The... Opinion poll places..." ***The Samuel Dictionary***
Personally i would love a Gchat or Gmessage or GoogleTalk or TalkingGoogle or whatever. I would like it even more if it were just like trillian http://www.trillian.cc/ (supports most/all major chat services)
hey, that gives me an idea, an online radio station "you're listening to radio google, talking google 24/7" lol
GBrowser, nah not really, I'm happy with firefox
Although, how about GPhone as a VOIP carrier?:)
incidently, i have a few gmail invites to give away, simply email me at at gmail_dot_com
Easy, you could install windows, that should take about that long...or you could do something interesting and look at smoothwall http://www.smoothwall.org
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Hmmm, I predicted this in January. To quote from my article:
"With the recent raft of underwhelming presentations on Windows Vista and the gradual loss of originally planned features in it, and Apple Macintosh moving to Intel processors, it wouldn't be unreasonable to see Macintosh gain ground this year, here's how I think it will happen.
Microsoft will release Vista with their usual marketing hype, claiming that it is fantastic and probably bring back the "10 reasons to upgrade". Apple will release their next version of Macintosh with a lot of marketing along the lines of "most of the stuff in Vista we had five years ago, and look what we've got now...even better, it runs on YOUR PC", effectively canning their "Mac Box Only" pseudo-restrictions. Apple, with their increased presence, thanks to the iPod, will gain customers with the more secure, and more impressive OS.
I am really gaining the impression that Apple have lost their "also-ran" status from public perception with the iPod and iTunes and their general "nice guy" appearance, this will help them win customers from Microsoft. Also I think the general public are starting to wake up to the fact that, despite Microsoft claims, new versions of Windows are rarely more stable than the last, and the "new features" aren't all that exciting after all. Whilst the general public will see this as a way to escape the MS security problems, IT people will see it as a way to make vulnerabilities less attractive to "malicious users" as they won't have the same large scale effect.
I forsee Open Office using this to their advantage, perhaps making a deal with Apple to include Open Office in Mac OS."
Samuel Gordon-Stewart
Canberra
Usually setting a dial prefix to the first couple digits of the local phone number worked for me...it was funny when a dialer tried to get to 1900... and ended up dialing some poor sod who just happened to have 621900...
Will Windows XP tell me to send an error report to Microsoft because the clock died?
Best preparation for me is running and screaming.
SmoothWall (Excellent firewall) and the Guardian Active Response Mod (detects and blocks just about all attacks). Best part is the price or lack thereof.
www.smoothwall.org
Samuel
SmoothWall (Excellent firewall) and the Guardian Active Response Mod (Picks up and blocks just about every attack). Best part is the price, or lack thereof. Both from www.smoothwall.org Samuel
I see you...the fluro yellow t-shirt gives you away...see, you're that dot riiiiiiight there.....just under the blob and the speckle ;-)
Samuel
They only just made it, it's 23:43 here :D
Just means that april 2 has most of the april fools jokes for me
Samuel
Game maker, the older versions are completely free, newer ones have some features hidden until registration.
http://www.gamemaker.nl/
hehe, the power of slashdot and a few gazillion referrals lol
I'm happy that I downloaded it just a few minutes after it was up...pity I was beaten to the post when it came to slashdotting it lol
samuel
Here in Canberra (that nice little capital city of Australia) we had electronic voting for our election, and it is now probably going to be the focus of a court challenge by a losing party.
Personally, I agree with the time honoured tradition of paper voting...at least there is some physical record of votes.
samuel
nope, but i think that the "Free during test" finally proves that gmail will go public eventually.
In the mean time, I have 5 gmail accounts to give away, send me a request at (my slashdot username) (at) (gmail) (dot) (com)
samuel
Seriously, what does it matter, unless you can speak chinese, most chinese news will be impossible to read anyway.
If you can speak chinese, visit a chinese news site, how hard can it be???
samuel
Seriously. why bother with political blogs, In Canberra, Australia we have a federal election on october 9 and a state election on october 16, if you aren't politicsed out after watching the news and about 50 polictical ads each night, there is something very wrong with you. lol
..." "My opponent is bad because..." and journalists "Mr/Mrs xyz said visited... and said they will..." "The ... Opinion poll places..."
***The Samuel Dictionary***
politicsed (pol-E-ticks-d):
1. having a heap of people talk to you about an upcoming election, including policticians "I will fix
***The Samuel Dictionary***
see, you're tired of it already.
samuel
Personally i would love a Gchat or Gmessage or GoogleTalk or TalkingGoogle or whatever. I would like it even more if it were just like trillian http://www.trillian.cc/ (supports most/all major chat services)
:)
hey, that gives me an idea, an online radio station "you're listening to radio google, talking google 24/7" lol
GBrowser, nah not really, I'm happy with firefox
Although, how about GPhone as a VOIP carrier?
incidently, i have a few gmail invites to give away, simply email me at at gmail_dot_com
samuel
Easy, you could install windows, that should take about that long...or you could do something interesting and look at smoothwall http://www.smoothwall.org
samuel