Sure you can use macosx as a server but it's shall we say quixotic. Try getting a decent build of LAMP with an array of PHP modules and you'll see what I mean. Most linux distributions have some sort of a packaging system that makes that process relatively smooth. Mac has no such thing. There is darwinports but it does not resolve dependencies (really!). Fink is incomplete, pkgsource is iffy and out dated and neither one fits into the macosx file hierarchy. COmbine that with quirky installs of perl and python and you have a recipe for disaster.
If you want a g5 as a server you'll probably be happier with netbsd or linux (too bad freebsd does not support it).
BTW anybody use debian ppc on a g5? I'd like to know what your opinion is.
Too bad Xcode is only good for objective C. When using java it's a total piece of crap.
If apple was serious about developers they would write a first class eclipse plug in instead of sitting idly by while the wolips project limps along.
While I am at it how about a decent package system? Darwinports does not even resolve dependencies. Fink and pkgsrc both live in their own hierarchies and don't hold a candle in terms of number of packages to their counterparts in debian and freebsd.
Apple is doing some things great but they are missing the boat on others. Unfortunately they have a culture of not really listening to their developers or customers.
Apple does things their way, they'll get along with you just fine as soon as you realize they are god.
" Not at all like Slashdot or Linux in general then?"
Actually it's not. The crucial difference is that MS is a corporation whereas OSS is a movement. Most movements are cult like in the sense that they are based on shared ideals and values.
I find it odd that a corporation has cult like following while I don't find anything odd about the open source movement having cult like qualities.
Bill Gates is apparently a very prophetic figure to inspire such a cult of personality.
Of course not. You are not risking your own job just asking other people to risk their jobs to give you some information you want.
"f the former employee can't convince some of his former colleagues or some of his former managers to ignore the red tape of their HR department, then the employee in quesion is not worth hiring. "
That's a unique approach. Punish the employee that left for the policies of the company he worked for.
"I've worked for large government agencies and I've worked for large Fortune 500 companies. This lame excuse is simply not going to cut it for me."
I am sure the fortune 500 is shuddering in fear after hearing that their policies don't cut the mustard with stephanruby.
" I think Michael is making a mistake trying to fight this battle. Whilst the Windows trademark needs fighting, he should really be concentrating on battling Windows as a product."
Who do you think should fight MS on the bogus windows trademark. These people now claim ownership of a common english word and will sue people who use it. Maybe lindows was too small and poor to win in court but who has enough money to fight MS and wants to take this on?
Most workplaces have a policy of not giving references. You may luck out if your guy worked at a small shop and get a reference but how a person performs in small IT shops is not indicitive of how they will function in a large beuracracy. In fact people who thrive in small IT shops tend to make horrible corporate programmers where there is increased emphasis on documentation and process.
Your post reinforces what I was saying. Notice you said nothing about your bikes performance, reliability, cornering ability, anti-lock brakes, comfort, carrying capacity, protection from the elements, or any other thing that has to do with riding.
you like the bike because it's loud and makes you feel like you got a big dick. Makes you feel like you can shake the earth and makes motorists "respect" you.
Like I said, harleys are fashion accesories not bikes. I bet you have a closet full of harley shirts and leathers too am I right?
BTW in no way, shape, or form are harleys cool. They are technologically obsolete, bad handling, heavy as all hell, slow and overpriced. Any BMW will run rings around it, any japanese bike will be more comfortable, perform better, get better milage and cost less and be more fun to ride.
Harleys are for aging hipster wannabe professionals going through a mid life crisis or divorce.
I am a biker. I just don't ride a harley. Mainly because I don't ever want to be associated with harley riders. Also because I don't have any tatoos, have a wardrobe that is not dominated by some corporation's logo, and don't have any racist attitudes about the japanese.
If they were really nice people they would not get the loudest bike on the market and ride it when people are settled in for the night.
There is a reason why harleys are loud. People who buy harleys want the loudest most obnoxious bike on the market because they believe it makes them macho and impresses the girls (as the parent poster stated). For some reason the obnoxiously loud sound a harley makes is comforting to them and they don't give a fuck about anybody else who might be near.
Compare your typical BMW rider to your typical harley rider and see which one is polite and nice. Both bikes cost about the same and yet a completely different class of people ride them.
If you get a bad reference you can sue. many people do. That's why these days nobody gives any references good or bad. All then can do is confirm your employment and the dates of start and end.
Now all those MS fanboys here have a place to go to worship their favorite corporation and to talk shit about slashdot. Not that there is any shortage of web sites for MS fanboys congratate but this was has the patina of official corporate backing.
If this web site reduces the "why is slashdot always bashing poor old MS" posts by 10% I'd say it's a good thing.
I forgot to mention the sound. It's the old "I am rebellius because I am rude" attitude.
I figure these guys have to be all polite and ass kissing at work. On the weekends they get to shit on all the people in their neighborhood and that makes them feel better.
There is nothing wrong with playing around with stuff. That's where most of the big ideas come from.
Quantum pysics started when Paxwell Planck was playing around with fire and asked himself "why does a black piece of metal turn red then white if you heat it enough?".
The CEO of harley davidson once said "we are not a motorcycle company, we are a fashion company". People don't buy harleys because they want a good bike they get one because they think it makes them cool and rebellious. This despite the fact 99% of harley owners are doctors, lawyers, assorted actors and politicians. What the heck put on a harley shirt, harley leathers, harley helmet, get on your harley and go to sturgis and hang out with all the other people wearing the exact same clothing and riding the same bikes to prove you are different and cool.
Gates started the foundation once the trial got started and it became obvious to everbody what kind of a person he was and what kind of a company he ran.
His main motivation was to blunt the evil image. It was and remains primarily a PR tool to try and clean up his image.
Judging by your reaction it's working very well. By giving up an extrememly small percentage of his stock (not actual cash) to his foundation he makes himself into a saint in the eyes of the public at large.
A brilliant ploy. He gets so much for almost nothing ventured.
Windows users are like so much cooler then linux users y'know. They are dreamy!. I wish one of them would ask me to the prom, I'd hate to go to the prom with with one of those ugly linux users.
" Lets get rid of unions and their ties to organized crime."
Nice straw man there. Congrats.
"You perhaps mean receiving $0.2 when previously receiving $1 -- an 80% pay cut) then the old pay was FAR above Free maket rates."
I did mean that thanks for catching my error. So I guess we kind of agree there. The US workers are getting paid FAR above free market rates. We should all be paid like the chinese and the vietnamese do.
"Unions exist to distort the market, enrich the union bosses, violate property rights, and extort by means of threats of violence and murder."
You know the exact same thing can be said for corporations. Weird huh?
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One word. Server.
Sure you can use macosx as a server but it's shall we say quixotic. Try getting a decent build of LAMP with an array of PHP modules and you'll see what I mean. Most linux distributions have some sort of a packaging system that makes that process relatively smooth. Mac has no such thing. There is darwinports but it does not resolve dependencies (really!). Fink is incomplete, pkgsource is iffy and out dated and neither one fits into the macosx file hierarchy. COmbine that with quirky installs of perl and python and you have a recipe for disaster.
If you want a g5 as a server you'll probably be happier with netbsd or linux (too bad freebsd does not support it).
BTW anybody use debian ppc on a g5? I'd like to know what your opinion is.
All fine and dandy but where do I get php with freetds? Certainly not from apple. Apparently not from darwinports, fink, or pkgsrc either.
Apple is ignoring packages and decent development IDEs hoping that other people do the work for them. So far it's not working all that great.
I just don't think they care all that much. Not about the developers and not about their customers.
That does not answer my question. Who should challenge this very stupid trademark and who can.
Python? Really? That's cool. Do you have a link?
I wonder whatever happened to apple's love affair with dylan.
Too bad Xcode is only good for objective C. When using java it's a total piece of crap.
If apple was serious about developers they would write a first class eclipse plug in instead of sitting idly by while the wolips project limps along.
While I am at it how about a decent package system? Darwinports does not even resolve dependencies. Fink and pkgsrc both live in their own hierarchies and don't hold a candle in terms of number of packages to their counterparts in debian and freebsd.
Apple is doing some things great but they are missing the boat on others. Unfortunately they have a culture of not really listening to their developers or customers.
Apple does things their way, they'll get along with you just fine as soon as you realize they are god.
" Not at all like Slashdot or Linux in general then?"
Actually it's not. The crucial difference is that MS is a corporation whereas OSS is a movement. Most movements are cult like in the sense that they are based on shared ideals and values.
I find it odd that a corporation has cult like following while I don't find anything odd about the open source movement having cult like qualities.
Bill Gates is apparently a very prophetic figure to inspire such a cult of personality.
" I don't care what the rules are"
Of course not. You are not risking your own job just asking other people to risk their jobs to give you some information you want.
"f the former employee can't convince some of his former colleagues or some of his former managers to ignore the red tape of their HR department, then the employee in quesion is not worth hiring. "
That's a unique approach. Punish the employee that left for the policies of the company he worked for.
"I've worked for large government agencies and I've worked for large Fortune 500 companies. This lame excuse is simply not going to cut it for me."
I am sure the fortune 500 is shuddering in fear after hearing that their policies don't cut the mustard with stephanruby.
" I think Michael is making a mistake trying to fight this battle. Whilst the Windows trademark needs fighting, he should really be concentrating on battling Windows as a product."
Who do you think should fight MS on the bogus windows trademark. These people now claim ownership of a common english word and will sue people who use it. Maybe lindows was too small and poor to win in court but who has enough money to fight MS and wants to take this on?
So what you are saying is that there is not much difference between Clinton and Bush.
Geez I don't know who would be more insulted by that.
" I think the solution should be a stab at microsoft. Maybe, "Bill Gates has no penis"
Well he named his company micro-soft, how can you do worse then that?
Most workplaces have a policy of not giving references. You may luck out if your guy worked at a small shop and get a reference but how a person performs in small IT shops is not indicitive of how they will function in a large beuracracy. In fact people who thrive in small IT shops tend to make horrible corporate programmers where there is increased emphasis on documentation and process.
I think you have confused displacement with power. It's all a matter of power to weight ratios.
I bet any kawasaki 250 ninja could blow your harley away both in the quarter mile and on any track.
Your post reinforces what I was saying. Notice you said nothing about your bikes performance, reliability, cornering ability, anti-lock brakes, comfort, carrying capacity, protection from the elements, or any other thing that has to do with riding.
you like the bike because it's loud and makes you feel like you got a big dick. Makes you feel like you can shake the earth and makes motorists "respect" you.
Like I said, harleys are fashion accesories not bikes. I bet you have a closet full of harley shirts and leathers too am I right?
BTW in no way, shape, or form are harleys cool. They are technologically obsolete, bad handling, heavy as all hell, slow and overpriced. Any BMW will run rings around it, any japanese bike will be more comfortable, perform better, get better milage and cost less and be more fun to ride.
Harleys are for aging hipster wannabe professionals going through a mid life crisis or divorce.
I am a biker. I just don't ride a harley. Mainly because I don't ever want to be associated with harley riders. Also because I don't have any tatoos, have a wardrobe that is not dominated by some corporation's logo, and don't have any racist attitudes about the japanese.
If they were really nice people they would not get the loudest bike on the market and ride it when people are settled in for the night.
There is a reason why harleys are loud. People who buy harleys want the loudest most obnoxious bike on the market because they believe it makes them macho and impresses the girls (as the parent poster stated). For some reason the obnoxiously loud sound a harley makes is comforting to them and they don't give a fuck about anybody else who might be near.
Compare your typical BMW rider to your typical harley rider and see which one is polite and nice. Both bikes cost about the same and yet a completely different class of people ride them.
Why do you think that is?
If you get a bad reference you can sue. many people do. That's why these days nobody gives any references good or bad. All then can do is confirm your employment and the dates of start and end.
You don't need to worry about references.
Now all those MS fanboys here have a place to go to worship their favorite corporation and to talk shit about slashdot. Not that there is any shortage of web sites for MS fanboys congratate but this was has the patina of official corporate backing.
If this web site reduces the "why is slashdot always bashing poor old MS" posts by 10% I'd say it's a good thing.
Microsoft IS a religion. Talk to any MS employee and sooner or later you realize that. They all have that cult mentality.
I forgot to mention the sound. It's the old "I am rebellius because I am rude" attitude.
I figure these guys have to be all polite and ass kissing at work. On the weekends they get to shit on all the people in their neighborhood and that makes them feel better.
There is nothing wrong with playing around with stuff. That's where most of the big ideas come from.
Quantum pysics started when Paxwell Planck was playing around with fire and asked himself "why does a black piece of metal turn red then white if you heat it enough?".
You left out the biggest one of all.
Harley Davidson.
The CEO of harley davidson once said "we are not a motorcycle company, we are a fashion company". People don't buy harleys because they want a good bike they get one because they think it makes them cool and rebellious. This despite the fact 99% of harley owners are doctors, lawyers, assorted actors and politicians. What the heck put on a harley shirt, harley leathers, harley helmet, get on your harley and go to sturgis and hang out with all the other people wearing the exact same clothing and riding the same bikes to prove you are different and cool.
Gates started the foundation once the trial got started and it became obvious to everbody what kind of a person he was and what kind of a company he ran.
His main motivation was to blunt the evil image. It was and remains primarily a PR tool to try and clean up his image.
Judging by your reaction it's working very well. By giving up an extrememly small percentage of his stock (not actual cash) to his foundation he makes himself into a saint in the eyes of the public at large.
A brilliant ploy. He gets so much for almost nothing ventured.
Windows users are like so much cooler then linux users y'know. They are dreamy!. I wish one of them would ask me to the prom, I'd hate to go to the prom with with one of those ugly linux users.
I bet britney uses windows.
" Lets get rid of unions and their ties to organized crime."
Nice straw man there. Congrats.
"You perhaps mean receiving $0.2 when previously receiving $1 -- an 80% pay cut) then the old pay was FAR above Free maket rates."
I did mean that thanks for catching my error. So I guess we kind of agree there. The US workers are getting paid FAR above free market rates. We should all be paid like the chinese and the vietnamese do.
"Unions exist to distort the market, enrich the union bosses, violate property rights, and extort by means of threats of violence and murder."
You know the exact same thing can be said for corporations. Weird huh?
We should have command completion like most IDEs do. I know zshell attempts something like this but it needs to be taken much further.
Socialist? Where did that come from? So now people wanting to actually get paid for the hours they worked are socialists?
Sociallist as defined by a republican: "Anybody who disagrees with me"