I dunno, Windows XP is pretty damn lame when it comes to bundled software. Wordpad, notepad, RDP. I'm sure there's a few more things, but it doesn't really compete with iLife. Plus Xcode kicks butt, it really does.
Plus viruses really can hurt on XP. I managed to catch SpyBot, I think through Firefox, just by hitting a link on Digg. I managed to clean it manually, but MacAffee didn't peep, and an average user probably wouldn't be able to work out how to fix it.
I really am kinda looking forward to Vista being cooler to look at, and having some Java-style sandbox security, since I'll probably end up using it at work, but the XP install under Parallels on my Mac isn't getting any use, simply because all the software I need is now available on a Mac.
I think it's nice to see Apple advertising Mac though, and with fairly smart ads, not the Volkswagen Bug / iMac CRT stuff they were doing a few years ago.
Heh heh. Annoyingly, Dapper still does this, and is steadily walking the number of my wireless card upwards. The bug is identified and is related to some kind of ifrename / udev / scripting gubbins. Popping the card in and out also fixes it when it gets into one of its timeout and reboot card cycles.
Aside from this and the somewhat cruddy auto-hinting (fixable with a tweak and recompile of libfreetype6) Dapper is running really nice. On my newly mem-expanded (from 192 to 483 Megs) thinkpad it's getting on for matching my PBook 12" in performance and 'feel'.
Yeah, I like to come in for 7am. Unbelievable how much better it is to have a quiet work environment for a couple of hours before everyone else appears around 9am.
Apart from the networking bug with the overenthusiastic islsm and islsm_pci drivers (put them in/etc/modules/blacklist and reboot) the Dapper beta is ready for prime-time.
Graphics (neomagic), suspend and restart, sound, networking and a good set of applications including open office and firefox are all present and correct.
Providing they fix the few remaining issues, this is ready for prime-time, even the Gnome icons are starting to be improved. It's not OS X, but it works!!!!!
Yeah, I just priced a Dell laptop, and I was desperate just to get away from all those questions. So desperate I almost just typed in my credit card # to get away. It priced out at $830 or so for 1 Gig and a Core Duo, but I suspect the screen was crappy, but I could never pin it down on the exact resolution.
Whereas Apple are now like the old Dell. Decent hardware, and good sense of value in that $1000 gets you this (MacMini, Basic Laptop), $2000 and up gets you this (Desktop, Higher end laptop). Simple, and pretty easy for most people to understand.
Yeah, provided you don't go too fast, my SWB Landrover was a total laugh in the snow. Man, not much could stop that thing, except carb icing in certain weather conditions.:-(
Wow, it did for me and I'm using Safari on a Mac !! It waited a few seconds then I got the familiar this file contains an application message. That is scary.
A few people have looked at my Mac Mini and the 250 Gig firewire drive underneath it, and despite seeing the network cable, VGA, 4 USB cables, 2 firewire cables, have *still* asked "But which computer is running that 19 inch display...?" When they finally realise that the 'cute little silver box' is doing all the work, they ask if it will run Windows... "Yes, Apple let you install Windows on it and it's a damn fast Windows XP PC."
Then they ask if they can buy it from Dell.
*Sigh* Apple won't release OS X on beige box, because there would be no mass market. There *is* a mass market for cuteness though, when the box just works. And part of 'just works' will be Apple updating the OS X 'first run' to allow Windows to be licensed and installed in addition, or in place of OS X. This will be a smooth process using a custom install partition that will perhaps need the user to call MS for a license or call at time of purchase, and to all intents and purposes, Apple will be selling Windows boxes.
Steve Jobs will justify this by saying that Apple is only 'enabling' people to do this, *much as BootCamp does this today*, but in fact it will in the medium run kill off OS X for all except the die-hards.
Jobs will get something though. Microsoft will allow, and maybe help, the Cocoa compatibility layer to run on Windows XP/Vista, maybe through the existing download layer with iTunes, but extended so that pretty much any Apple software will run with a Mac flavor on Windows XP.
So what do we have, maybe 3 years down the road? The NT kernel still dominant as it is today. Windows runs both a Win32 and Aqua front-end. Macs run Intel chips and ship with Windows, but support both Win32 and Aqua apps. I think we'll see some pretty interesting announcements over the next year.
Personally, if I could develop software on the Aqua gui, and have it run on Windows, I would be well pleased. The Mac api's deserve a wider audience, and having them run on the (slightly more stable*) NT kernel would be fine with me.
* Win NT (1 crash in last year when I pulled out the harddrive accidentally) OS X (Various crashes, seem to be resolved by disabling bluetooth, still a PITA)
Among early stock movers, Apple Computer (up $3.86 to $65.02, Research) shot 5 percent higher after unveiling its Boot Camp software, which allows Intel-fueled Macintosh computers to run the Windows operating system.
He's not ranting. His expectation was that many of the peripheral services in Vista would be built in.NET, as was the case with the PDC 2003 release of Longhorn. However, if you track through the links to various articles about Microsoft and the Longhorn 'reboot', you find that.NET was pulled from this OS role due to the lateness of.NET 2.0 and the fact that machines that would run.NET services at a reasonable speed are 6 years (now 3 years) down the road.
This has all the hallmarks of the ass-kickings that Bill Gates handed out during NT development. The ass-kickings that pushed the graphics code into the kernel spring to mind here.
All this is kinda interesting, since my job has kept me in VC6, and I've mostly missed out on using.NET. This is probably good, since I've sinced switched to objective-C and Cocoa for my personal development needs. This is great since Apple doesn't pull the same crap as MS does about supplying a crappy UI library, then using a much better one in it's own products. e.g. any Office 2003 app etc etc.
Target here in Spring, Texas, off the busy I-45 freeway into Houston, had a few XBox 360's, two core systems, and one with the HD.
But I've given enough money to Microsoft, I'll keep my PS/2 and buy a Revolution when it comes out. I already have a DS which is great fun, and the Revolution looks like it's going to be the system with the most "fun and cool" games, instead of just more eye candy. I'm hoping that the new controller will allow some cool motion games. Who knows, maybe there will be exercise games that help old people stay mobile. Lots of cool ideas spring to mind when you have a controller that knows where it is in space.
Also, the fact that the Revolution is going to likely be cheaper is going to swing the purchase decision for a lot of people.
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Yeah, it took 30 hours to install XP on my powerbook, but Q / QEMU on the mini runs it ok. Slow as hell though, and Ubuntu is even slower.
I'll be sticking with OS X until VMWare does the decent thing.
This is very small compensation for machines that may have been damaged by this rootkit. Sony should allow people to claim actual damages if people can show that damage has been done.
The best thing that may come out of this is that the rules on what companies can and can't do have been clarified.
If I install software on my machine, I expect it to behave itself, providing I believe that the company itself is reputable. Sony have damaged themselves through this.
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I dunno, Windows XP is pretty damn lame when it comes to bundled software. Wordpad, notepad, RDP. I'm sure there's a few more things, but it doesn't really compete with iLife. Plus Xcode kicks butt, it really does.
Plus viruses really can hurt on XP. I managed to catch SpyBot, I think through Firefox, just by hitting a link on Digg. I managed to clean it manually, but MacAffee didn't peep, and an average user probably wouldn't be able to work out how to fix it.
I really am kinda looking forward to Vista being cooler to look at, and having some Java-style sandbox security, since I'll probably end up using it at work, but the XP install under Parallels on my Mac isn't getting any use, simply because all the software I need is now available on a Mac.
I think it's nice to see Apple advertising Mac though, and with fairly smart ads, not the Volkswagen Bug / iMac CRT stuff they were doing a few years ago.
New Google Motto: "Do no Evli !!"
You do not have privileges for that operation.
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Heh heh. Annoyingly, Dapper still does this, and is steadily walking the number of my wireless card upwards. The bug is identified and is related to some kind of ifrename / udev / scripting gubbins. Popping the card in and out also fixes it when it gets into one of its timeout and reboot card cycles.
Aside from this and the somewhat cruddy auto-hinting (fixable with a tweak and recompile of libfreetype6) Dapper is running really nice. On my newly mem-expanded (from 192 to 483 Megs) thinkpad it's getting on for matching my PBook 12" in performance and 'feel'.
As far as old data falling off the system goes...
The MP3s of the many, outweigh the MP3s of the few.
That is pure fantasy. Everyone knows that the true *academic* way to grade papers is to toss them down a nearby stairwell...
Hence my *lead-weighted* document folders. Bwahahahah.
Oh shit they deleted all my email *again*.
At least with Google, you can back everything up to a regular client with POP.
Yeah, I like to come in for 7am. Unbelievable how much better it is to have a quiet work environment for a couple of hours before everyone else appears around 9am.
I hate cubes.
Apart from the networking bug with the overenthusiastic islsm and islsm_pci drivers (put them in /etc/modules/blacklist and reboot) the Dapper beta is ready for prime-time.
Graphics (neomagic), suspend and restart, sound, networking and a good set of applications including open office and firefox are all present and correct.
Providing they fix the few remaining issues, this is ready for prime-time, even the Gnome icons are starting to be improved. It's not OS X, but it works!!!!!
Posted from IBM ThinkPad 600X in Dapper Beta.
Yeah, I just priced a Dell laptop, and I was desperate just to get away from all those questions. So desperate I almost just typed in my credit card # to get away. It priced out at $830 or so for 1 Gig and a Core Duo, but I suspect the screen was crappy, but I could never pin it down on the exact resolution.
Whereas Apple are now like the old Dell. Decent hardware, and good sense of value in that $1000 gets you this (MacMini, Basic Laptop), $2000 and up gets you this (Desktop, Higher end laptop). Simple, and pretty easy for most people to understand.
Excellent, can hardly wait for "Itchy Iguana" and "Jovial Jellyfish". If I can run XP on VMWare, then I may switch to using Ubuntu.
I've definitely got a taste for this after running Parallels on OS X, but I'd rather do it for free...
Yeah, provided you don't go too fast, my SWB Landrover was a total laugh in the snow. Man, not much could stop that thing, except carb icing in certain weather conditions. :-(
My boss used to stare at a 19 inch monitor running 1024 x 768 @ 60HZ under fluorescent lights and claim it was perfect...
Just being near that POS made my eyes want to shrivel up and fall on the floor.
Wow, it did for me and I'm using Safari on a Mac !! It waited a few seconds then I got the familiar this file contains an application message. That is scary.
A few people have looked at my Mac Mini and the 250 Gig firewire drive underneath it, and despite seeing the network cable, VGA, 4 USB cables, 2 firewire cables, have *still* asked "But which computer is running that 19 inch display...?" When they finally realise that the 'cute little silver box' is doing all the work, they ask if it will run Windows ... "Yes, Apple let you install Windows on it and it's a damn fast Windows XP PC."
Then they ask if they can buy it from Dell.
*Sigh* Apple won't release OS X on beige box, because there would be no mass market. There *is* a mass market for cuteness though, when the box just works. And part of 'just works' will be Apple updating the OS X 'first run' to allow Windows to be licensed and installed in addition, or in place of OS X. This will be a smooth process using a custom install partition that will perhaps need the user to call MS for a license or call at time of purchase, and to all intents and purposes, Apple will be selling Windows boxes.
Steve Jobs will justify this by saying that Apple is only 'enabling' people to do this, *much as BootCamp does this today*, but in fact it will in the medium run kill off OS X for all except the die-hards.
Jobs will get something though. Microsoft will allow, and maybe help, the Cocoa compatibility layer to run on Windows XP/Vista, maybe through the existing download layer with iTunes, but extended so that pretty much any Apple software will run with a Mac flavor on Windows XP.
So what do we have, maybe 3 years down the road? The NT kernel still dominant as it is today. Windows runs both a Win32 and Aqua front-end. Macs run Intel chips and ship with Windows, but support both Win32 and Aqua apps. I think we'll see some pretty interesting announcements over the next year.
Personally, if I could develop software on the Aqua gui, and have it run on Windows, I would be well pleased. The Mac api's deserve a wider audience, and having them run on the (slightly more stable*) NT kernel would be fine with me.
* Win NT (1 crash in last year when I pulled out the harddrive accidentally)
OS X (Various crashes, seem to be resolved by disabling bluetooth, still a PITA)
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Welcome to Darwin!
Silver:~ jonathan$ sudo su
Password:
Silver:/Users/jonathan root# whoami
root
Silver:/Users/jonathan root# weeeeeeeee!
Bwahhahahahah. Put that in your pipe and smoke it Apple users! Oh wait
How's that for some great numbers ???
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It's not very fast, but XP works in Q / QUEMU.
Here's a pic of it running:
XP running in QEMU.
He's not ranting. His expectation was that many of the peripheral services in Vista would be built in .NET, as was the case with the PDC 2003 release of Longhorn. However, if you track through the links to various articles about Microsoft and the Longhorn 'reboot', you find that .NET was pulled from this OS role due to the lateness of .NET 2.0 and the fact that machines that would run .NET services at a reasonable speed are 6 years (now 3 years) down the road.
.NET. This is probably good, since I've sinced switched to objective-C and Cocoa for my personal development needs. This is great since Apple doesn't pull the same crap as MS does about supplying a crappy UI library, then using a much better one in it's own products. e.g. any Office 2003 app etc etc.
This has all the hallmarks of the ass-kickings that Bill Gates handed out during NT development. The ass-kickings that pushed the graphics code into the kernel spring to mind here.
All this is kinda interesting, since my job has kept me in VC6, and I've mostly missed out on using
1. Create enormous hype over Windows Longhorn having a .NET UI .NET .NET sucks for UI
2. Wait for Gnome to start using
3.
4. ???
5. Profit!
Target here in Spring, Texas, off the busy I-45 freeway into Houston, had a few XBox 360's, two core systems, and one with the HD.
But I've given enough money to Microsoft, I'll keep my PS/2 and buy a Revolution when it comes out. I already have a DS which is great fun, and the Revolution looks like it's going to be the system with the most "fun and cool" games, instead of just more eye candy. I'm hoping that the new controller will allow some cool motion games. Who knows, maybe there will be exercise games that help old people stay mobile. Lots of cool ideas spring to mind when you have a controller that knows where it is in space.
Also, the fact that the Revolution is going to likely be cheaper is going to swing the purchase decision for a lot of people.
Yeah, it took 30 hours to install XP on my powerbook, but Q / QEMU on the mini runs it ok. Slow as hell though, and Ubuntu is even slower.
I'll be sticking with OS X until VMWare does the decent thing.
It's a new Sony protection mechanism. ASCII rootkit!
This is very small compensation for machines that may have been damaged by this rootkit. Sony should allow people to claim actual damages if people can show that damage has been done.
The best thing that may come out of this is that the rules on what companies can and can't do have been clarified.
If I install software on my machine, I expect it to behave itself, providing I believe that the company itself is reputable. Sony have damaged themselves through this.