Why bother with Windows when there is OS X? The Mac is not a "niche" platform for "graphic arts/multimedia". Get your heads out of the 1980s/1990s, people.
It's the most productive platform for anything, including your grandmother.
Windows is over. Its brief and lucrative (for some) flare of popularity was a result of other people's crimes, other people's choices, it's time to freakin' move on.
Just maybe MS is a criminal monopoly that uses, hmm, bundling, lock-in, FUD, lobbying (bribes), kickbacks and so on? As a result, the great unwashed has not even heard of OS X, let alone considers it as an alternative.
An Insightful Guardian columnist has finally come out and said what literate people have known all along. J.K. Rowling's writing is RUBBISH.
... I don't think I'm going out on a limb here. Of course, if she has turned into a first-class writer with her forthcoming Potter book, I will happily, no, joyously, eat my words.
But until then, we have to swallow hers....
... Do I need to explain why that is such second-rate writing?
If I do, then that means you're one of the many adults who don't have a problem with the retreat into infantilism that your willing immersion in the Potter books represents. It doesn't make you a bad or silly person. But if you have the patience to read it without noticing how plodding it is, then you are self-evidently someone on whom the possibilities of the English language are largely lost.
This is the kind of prose that reasonably intelligent nine-year-olds consider pretty hot stuff, if they're producing it themselves; for a highly-educated woman like Rowling to knock out the same kind of material is, shall we say, somewhat disappointing.
(If you find that revelation shocking, just don't ask about Dan Brown, ok?)
Predictably, a chorus of twit commenters felt driven to argue that the Potter Phenomenon's sheer Scale and Success makes it self-evidently Valuable to Society (much like B. Gates must be an Important and Clever Person because he's Really Rich.) Uh-uh. Crappy writing is not good for anyone, just like crappy food (this may also come as a surprise to some), and on this point I agree wholeheartedly with Mr Lezard:
Children exposed to this kind of writing aren't learning anything new about words, or being stretched in any way; as Harold Bloom said, they're not going to be inspired to go off and read the Alice books, or any other enduring classic.
All the Potter franchise does, like 99% of TV and Hollywood output, is entrench the hold of pointless and mediocre culture. The only thing unusual this time, is it's Made in Britain.
it is not a very large code base with lots of developers
That may have something to do with it.:)
But seriously. I saw a Google Talk by lead developer Dr Richard Hipp, who struck me as an organised, methodical clear thinker who takes pride in shipping a product of high quality.
As the inventor of "literate programming"[1], early practitioner of open source, and author not just of The Art of Computer Programming and its included programs, but some extraordinarily elegant and widely used software systems himself (including TeX and METAFONT). How many people's programs are worth printing as hardcover books?
[1] mention also to Kernighan & Plauger's Software Tools.
Could we make that a priority after we work out how to protect the planet we've got? It's fucked, thanks to us, and it looks like we don't know how to reduce our destructive impact - or don't have the will to.
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Well, at least you can count on those dividends of the criminally insane US foreign policy of the last century, and this one, being paid for at least the next few centuries. Your children and grandchildren will really appreciate it.
users turn like rabid wolves on any company that makes even the smallest error,
"Microsoft doesn't listen to us, so we'll attack anything else that moves"?
Bad intentions (MS greed, thuggery, and disdain for users) are rewarded, and good intentions (it's hard to argue Apple's intention isn't to supply more and better browser options) are punished?
It makes one wonder where the Windows user base gets its education on standards of software quality, since Windows leaves the bar so incredibly low.
And here's some notes on it, courtesy of zfs-discuss list:
I know it's a pain, but you have to spend money to download Apple's betas, that is, pay their developer fee. If, however, this might inspire you to do this, you should know that zfs will run (read and write) on the latest build of Leopard, as Apple has (somewhat cryptically) said. Apple also has a "non-disclosure" clause on their developer memberships, but they appear to have already made a number of public statements about zfs in Leopard. So, here's a generic (and clumsy) way to enable kernel extensions on a BSD system, of which Leopard is a variant (actually, it runs over a version of Darwin). And zfs is a kernel extension, and can be loaded like any other. The zpool and zfs commands below you already know if you follow this thread.
Try this in terminal:
% cd/System/Library/Extensions % ls -alF | less # This will show you all the kernel extensions, *.kext, in a pager [hit the space bar to page forward; on the last page you should see: ... drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102... ntfs.kext/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102... smbfs.kext/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102... udf.kext/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102... webdav_fs.kext/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102... zfs.kext/ (END) # hit "q"; this gets you back to the terminal ...
If you see zfs.kext, then the installer did indeed put it on your system. Then:
% sudo kextload zfs.kext password: # enter your admin password; if that doesn't work, become root with su
You will get some error messages about the cache, probably from the files Extensions.kextcache and Extensions.mkext. But, zfs will load (at least it will on a G5 dual 2.7).
zfs, zpool, now work, and man zfs, man zpool will give you a man page.
As far as I can tell, this is the process to load a kernel extension on any BSD system, of which Mac OS X/Darwin is one (the others are FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD).
HOWEVER, be aware that finder in almost any version of OSX tries to automount every possible file system. Leopard does this as well; unlike zfs and zpool under Solaris, Leopard automounts any pool created or imported with zpool, and sets the mountpoint under/Volumes, WITHOUT running zfs create, or set mountpoint:
% zpool create zpool01 disk1
Automatically mounts in the finder and has the directory:
/Volumes/zpool01
Again, this happens WITHOUT RUNNING zfs, which is quite different from Solaris.
You will have to fiddle with permissions, and you might have to do something like:
sudo chmod -R/Volumes/zpool01 a+rwx
to make the entire pool writable (or some variant, g+rwx, etc.). But it will work.
I haven't tried using zfs quota, set mountpoint=, set share=, but set compression=on seems to work, but I don't see much compression going on.
On reboot (or after a crash, which is frequent on beta builds) the finder will, initially, not have the zfs kernel extension enabled, and will ask if you want to format the disk (or slice, or however you set it up). Click "ignore"; DO NOT FORMAT THE DISK. zfs already has, but the finder doesn't know it yet.
Repeat the kernel extension commands above. Then run:
zpool import -f poolname
You can also try zpool scrub, but I'm not sure if that helps.
You should have all the files you copied on the zfs system before the crash (but no promises; mine were, but maybe yours will not).
You can try "safe boot" with Leopard (hold down the shift key on boot), and that might disable some problematic kernel extensions.
If someone knows how to modify Extensions.kextcache and Extensions.mkext, please let me know. After t
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Get over it.
...whose servers are among the most power-efficient available, and even more so with Niagara 2.
Disclaimer: I own a tiny bit of Sun stock. (But I bought it because I believe in them, not vice versa!)
I'm looking forward to any comments you might have
Streak of natural leadership, much? Sure beats ducking flying chairs.
Thankyou Linus!
There's nothing new under the Sun: And Sun's offerings in hardware and software are also very much aimed at consolidation. Bring it on.
People don't trust the beast, and with good reason.
;-) And I'm throwing away my mod points replying here... X-)
Well said. Now if I'd said that, it would be Flamebait city.
Why bother with Windows when there is OS X? The Mac is not a "niche" platform for "graphic arts/multimedia". Get your heads out of the 1980s/1990s, people.
It's the most productive platform for anything, including your grandmother.
Windows is over. Its brief and lucrative (for some) flare of popularity was a result of other people's crimes, other people's choices, it's time to freakin' move on.
You can buy a certificate, but you can't buy trust. ..... Assholes.
As usual, there's no sensible reason in the world why Microsoft could not have used the open, existing, tested, commodity protocol.
Everyone uses Wikipedia for their own purposes, whether reading or writing. It's the whole point...
n/t
Just maybe MS is a criminal monopoly that uses, hmm, bundling, lock-in, FUD, lobbying (bribes), kickbacks and so on? As a result, the great unwashed has not even heard of OS X, let alone considers it as an alternative.
Where's EGCS today, then...
build a new OS from scratch
That would be a disaster which would finally bury them, so I hope they do it.
IMHO they should do what Apple did: Start with the best around (UNIX), and get on with adding value.
Not exactly the Enigma, but beautiful nonetheless.
An Insightful Guardian columnist has finally come out and said what literate people have known all along. J.K. Rowling's writing is RUBBISH.
(If you find that revelation shocking, just don't ask about Dan Brown, ok?)
Predictably, a chorus of twit commenters felt driven to argue that the Potter Phenomenon's sheer Scale and Success makes it self-evidently Valuable to Society (much like B. Gates must be an Important and Clever Person because he's Really Rich.) Uh-uh. Crappy writing is not good for anyone, just like crappy food (this may also come as a surprise to some), and on this point I agree wholeheartedly with Mr Lezard:
All the Potter franchise does, like 99% of TV and Hollywood output, is entrench the hold of pointless and mediocre culture. The only thing unusual this time, is it's Made in Britain.
it is not a very large code base with lots of developers
That may have something to do with it. :)
But seriously. I saw a Google Talk by lead developer Dr Richard Hipp, who struck me as an organised, methodical clear thinker who takes pride in shipping a product of high quality.
If I grow up, I want to be a developer like him.
As the inventor of "literate programming"[1], early practitioner of open source, and author not just of The Art of Computer Programming and its included programs, but some extraordinarily elegant and widely used software systems himself (including TeX and METAFONT). How many people's programs are worth printing as hardcover books?
[1] mention also to Kernighan & Plauger's Software Tools.
Could we make that a priority after we work out how to protect the planet we've got? It's fucked, thanks to us, and it looks like we don't know how to reduce our destructive impact - or don't have the will to.
...do yourself a favour and buy a Mac.
Hello? The message really isn't getting through to you morons, is it?
Flamebait me, it's gonna help ya feel better.
At what point does McShit Winfuck get classified as a WMD?
On the other hand, what do I care. Go ahead, keep using it.
Is this a pun I don't get, or is /.'s readership just freaking illiterate?
the only return on investment has been negative.
And how.
Well, at least you can count on those dividends of the criminally insane US foreign policy of the last century, and this one, being paid for at least the next few centuries. Your children and grandchildren will really appreciate it.
users turn like rabid wolves on any company that makes even the smallest error,
"Microsoft doesn't listen to us, so we'll attack anything else that moves"?
Bad intentions (MS greed, thuggery, and disdain for users) are rewarded, and good intentions (it's hard to argue Apple's intention isn't to supply more and better browser options) are punished?
It makes one wonder where the Windows user base gets its education on standards of software quality, since Windows leaves the bar so incredibly low.