I'm just glad that with more people using Firefox it means more websites can't ignore gecko browsers, especially since I use the Mozilla Suite. It has has the effect of discontinuing the suite, but at least I can use Seamonkey and get an updated suite, and maybe i'll switch over when they finish the whole XUL Runner, so running multiple applications (Mail, Browser, Chat, etc), wont each create their own XUL baggage.
Tezkah reports: Chef Tezkah holds the record this week for most meals sold! He captured 52% of the meal market for the first six months of 2005. Congratulations Chef Tezkah! Its important to note that this doesn't include any meals sold in restaurants, but good showing for Tezkah just the same.
MS Messenger: Ships standard on all Windows PC's. Pops up every five minutes asking you if you would like to sign up for service. Causes your computer to explode if you try to uninstall it, or indeed just try to get it to shut up. The fact that this still isn't the #1 instant messaging client should tell you something. I have the most luck with voice chat through firewalls on Messenger.
Wrong. Windows Messenger comes standard on Windows XP computers. It is the Corporate edition of the Messenger protocol. Very lean, nice on the eyes, but rarely updated. MSN Messenger is another program, currently at version 7.5 with many more bloated features.
Aim: Comes automatically with AOL, or you can download it free from aol.com. Also comes free with LOTS and LOTS of ads. Ads pop up on your screen. Ads are built into your client. Smart a$$ movie executives send you ads directly. Sex chatbots try to lure you into filthyness before posting the transcript on Fark. Everyone's personal icon is loud, animated, and obnoxious. In short, AIM is a lot like the internet. And like the internet, nearly everyone uses AIM.
Doesn't pop up ads on your screen, only shows ads on the buddy list. These ads used to include movie trailers to those with broadband, but there are hacks to remove it and you can always use a third party product like GAIM. Comparitively, the client for AIM is less capable than the others, but the protocol is very nice, allowing things like underline in the middle of a message unlike MSN Messenger. You can use animated buddy icons, but you are not forced to use an "obnoxious" one, and you can obviously hide them. Only 56% of IM users use AIM. RTFA.
ICQ: Still the greatest communications medium of all time. Really. Greatest ever. (There, I said what you wanted Mr. 3098014563. Now give me my family back, like in the deal.)
ICQ is an abandoned program that used numbers instead of usernames. Bought out by AOL you can now send messages to ICQ users from AIM. I don't know of anyone who uses ICQ, so I don't know how popular this pioneering IM service is.
Yahoo: No really, Yahoo has a chat medium. I was shocked too. Isn't Yahoo just adorable sometimes? On a side note, I've had better luck getting webcams through firewalls over Yahoo. This leads to great situations where I'm videoconferencing with someone over Yahoo, but the audio stream is in MSN and the chat is happening in Jabber.
Is this really worth responding to? Yahoo! uses some strange webcam sharing thing so you can share your webcam with more than one person. Other than that the client is pretty standard, much like AIM as it uses yahoo! email addresses.
Google Chat: Google chat is based on Jabber, the open source next-generation world dominating chat protocol of the fut-- [...]What was that about Google Chat again?
Google Talk is like a stripped down MSN Messenger with voice and very uncustomizable text. It obstensibly uses jabber, but Google hasn't set it up for others to connect server to server, so you need a gmail account.
I wont bother responding to the last two paragraphs where you start going on a tangent about jabber's sex life. +5 Insightful? Hah.
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I like Windows. I like the fact it is able to do suspend/hibernate/resume on my laptop without crashing, and it is able to use my graphics card drivers to make the smooth scrolling in Opera extremely smooth, and I didn't have to compile/reinstall the kernel in order to GET these graphics drivers.
I like the third party software, last time I was on a Mac there was absolutely no way to use videoconferencing with the three major IM platforms (Thats changed since iChat A/V came out, but is there anything available for Linux?).
I like that I can run Photoshop, and use a familiar interface that I can theme to my hearts content. I'm also able to run Free Software like Firefox (meshes best with Windows, IMO), GAIM, and others from even this article, but still have a healthy set of closed source apps when FOSS apps aren't able to match them (still haven't found a replacement for Office Outlook 2003).
Basically, Windows works for me right now. I enjoy using my computer with Windows on it. I'm sure I'd enjoy having a Mac (waiting for the x86 Powerbooks), and I have run Linux, but right now Windows is the best fit.
MSN Messenger is quite seriously a joke. Here is a service that few people really use. AOL IM stills has the majority share here as well since they were one of the original IM services. They also bought up another "original", ICQ. Yahoo, I believe is probably 2nd in the IM race and has a strong support base from its e-mail service and people who use Yahoo as a primary search tool.
Nobody uses it? MSNger doesnt have an email service to back it up? Have you not heard of hotmail?
AIM is #1, MSN is #2, and Yahoo is #3, but they are pretty much evenly distributed:
According to online audience measurement firm comScore, in July 2005, AOL's AIM had 30 million unique visitors, slightly down from usage one year ago; MSN Messenger grew 11 percent to 25.9 million unique users; and Yahoo Messenger grew 16 percent to 25.6 million.
MSN Messenger is by far the most used IM system in Europe. It may be behind in the US, but it is making serious inroads in other parts of the world.
Here in Canada as well, MSN Messenger is the King of IM. Other people I know (mostly USians) use AOL IM, and very very few use Yahoo! IM. Making AIM and MSNger compatible would completely decimate the amount of users for things like GoogleTalk and Yahoo! IM. Why bother with Jabber servers and getting everyone to switch to GoogleTalk when *everyone you know* uses an MSNAIM compatible client already? Brilliant strategy for winning on the IM front, really.
Sony will have to sue their own employees, since when I voiced my frustrations after buying a CD with copy protection (The Coral - Invisible Invasion), I couldn't put it on my iPod. After giving them my email they sent me this:
[Windows]
If you have a PC place the CD into your computer and allow the Sony BMG audio player on the CD to automatically start. If the player software does not automatically start, open your Windows Explorer. Locate and select the drive letter for your CD drive. On the disc you will find either a file named LaunchCD.exe or Autorun.exe. Double-click this file to manually start the player.
TIP: If your CD does not contain either the LaunchCD.exe or
Autorun.exe files, it may not be compatible with this iPod
solution. Please reply to this letter for more information.
Once the Sony BMG player application has been launched and the End User License Agreement has been accepted, you can click the Copy Songs button on the top menu.
Follow the instructions to copy the secure Windows Media Files (WMA) to your PC. Make a note of where you are copying the songs to, you will need to get to these secure Windows Media Files in the next steps.
Once the WMA files are on your PC you can open and listen to the songs with Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher (or another fully compatible player that can playback secure WMA files, such as MusicMatch, RealPlayer, and Winamp). You can then burn the songs to a standard Audio CD. Please note that in order to burn the files, you will need to upgrade to, or already have, Windows Media Player 9 or 10.
Once the standard Audio CD has been created, place this copied CD back into your computer and open iTunes. iTunes can now rip the songs as you would any normal audio CD.
Please note an easier and more acceptable solution requires cooperation from Apple, who we have already reached out to in hopes of addressing this issue. To help speed this effort, we ask that you use the following link to contact Apple and ask them to provide a solution that would easily allow you to move content from protected CDs into iTunes or onto your iPod rather than having to go through the additional steps above:
Thank you for the opportunity to be of assistance.
The Sony BMG Online Support Team CCKM
Notice how they try to blame Apple because they only allow customers to rip to crippled (and crappy, IMO) WMA. I eventually just downloaded Exact Audio Copy and it ripped it just fine. Still frustrating.
BeOS already runs on Intel hardware. It has been running on x86 for over 7 years now...
Due to Apple's aggressive moves and the mounting debt of Be Inc,
BeOS was soon ported to the X86 platform with its R3 release. Through the late 90s, BeOS managed to create a niche of hardcore followers, but the company failed to become solvent. As a last-ditch effort to increase interest in the failing operating system, Be Inc. released a stripped-down, but free, copy of BeOS R5 known as BeOS Personal Edition (BeOS PE). BeOS PE could be started from within Microsoft Windows or Linux, and was intended to nurture consumer interest in its product and give developers something they could tinker in.
- from Wikipedia
That being said, it will have to have changed a great deal between when I saw it last, and it's next incarnation, otherwise - the current crop of Mac OS X and Windows XP / Vista already does what BeOS did.
The only way that Mac and Windows and Linux are now able to do what BeOS was doing is that we now have 3GHZ processors in our computers, while BeOS was providing the same speed and responsiveness on much slower machines. The threading of BeOS is one of it major strengths, and windows is JUST NOW (with vista) starting to implement the idea in full.
That said, the story doesn't give us any new information... oh... Zeta!? I had never heard of this product before on slashdot...
Re:even worse are misleading options
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Just like on Windows XP, Documents is listed on your desktop (try clicking the up arrow on a save dialog enough, you'll get to the dekstop).
On XP, Desktop -> My Documents takes you to C:\Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents\, the user probably doesn't see their username on the desktop, but clicking on Desktop -> Documents probably takes them to "Pat's Documents".
I do agree, \Users\ is a better name for the directory than "Documents and Settings".
Yes you can remove it from the desktop, either by deleting or simply unchecking it from "Show These Icons on the Desktop" when you Right Click your Desktop -> Properties -> Desktop.
It still shows up in my Taskbar Toolbar for "Desktop". I haven't been able to find a way to remove it, but since I need IE sometimes (hell, sometimes I even LIKE the damn thing amazingly, IE7 gets on my nerves after a few hours though), its nice to have a hidden shortcut two clicks away.
You can remove all access to IE using Program Access and Defaults, and unchecking the box next to IE. You can still open it, obviously, by going into My Computer or another Explorer window and typing in a URL. On my system though, it opens up Opera since its the default browser and IE6 is not installed (only IE7).
Trillian supports MSN Messenger as well as AIM/ICQ/Yahoo!/IRC/Jabber etc. It's basically the same as GAIM, and supports most protocols (also supports plugins).
What I don't understand is what the grandparent is talking about, why would he have to change to MSNger to stop having to fight the firewall? Trillian mimics MSN Messenger in order to connect to MSN servers. The only problems with Trillian for me are high memory usage (although not so bad when compared to MSNger 7.0), slow interface, and Audio/Visual capabilities that only work half the time.
I've switched to MSNger exclusively because I don't have anyone I chat with regularly on AIM or Yahoo, so the benefits of Trillian/Gaim are much less than the frustrations of incompatibility with MSNger buddies. Besides, you can always break the EULA and remove the ads and such from the MSN client, I recommend SpeedyMSN. Really cleans up the interface, if you can find the download for 2.0 (both speedymsn.tk and speedymessenger.net are down at the time of this writing.) You can bet Microsoft doesn't want people knowing that they can get rid of that pesky ad....:)
Actually, you might be able to, most people don't know of the Greasemonkey-ish add-on to IE called "Trixie", with many of the same scripts running unmodified between the two plugins.
A better argument is that "In firefox, the bugs are trivial enough to be fixed with a script until it gets fixed in the main program, a matter of weeks, instead of fixing it in a script in IE, and waiting years for it do get fixed."
Wouldn't it benefit Apple in the long run to get more of its software into the public's hands?
Apple is clearly a hardware company, and so they make most of their money from selling hardware. Thus it's very unlikely that Apple would want to support generic x86 boxes.
But Apple has an interesting opportunity here. If they simply ignored people running unlicensed x86 copies, but prevented else anyone selling pre-installed Macs, then they probably wouldn't lose much business. The people who are willing to install MacOS themselves are unlikely to be the people who'd buy Mac hardware in the first place.
However, Apple would gain a lot of mindshare with the kids and with the technically savvy who are happy installing their own OS. In the long run, this will bring many more people to Apple hardware, and to influence their parents/family/employers to buy the supported Apple products.
Seems like Apple can't lose here. They didn't even do anything and they got this posted twice! Just like Google.
Ok I'm naïve on the politics of this, so my post is more of a question than a answer. I know this is an argument that has gone back and forth, but here goes again...
Wouldn't it benefit Apple in the long run to get more of its software into the public's hands? Sure, it might detract from them selling hardware (short term), but I can honestly say for me (average Joe) I've never purchased a Mac because they simply don't have the software titles I'm interested in and Windows does. I mean sure, they've got great stuff, but they lack in GAMES, yes games... I've said it, gotten it out. I'm a gamer and so are all of my friends. I'd venture to say a good chunk of those purchasing PC's are in the same group as me (surf the web and play games). So if the Apple OS became more popular, wouldn't more developers consider making a version of their game in the Apple OS flavor? Would it lead to an increase in dupe stories/comments?
Article: bottom of page 4: Note the hardware information shown in the About screen. This shot was taking running within VMWare. Also note the date on the kernel revision. There was some dispute early on about whether or not yellowTAB actually had full access to the source code for BeOS, or whether or not they were just reselling the old kernel and adding on third-party additions. The newer kernel revision appears to lay that question to rest, although yellowTAB has not been very open about discussing this question, possibly for licensing reasons.
If they're updating the kernel and selling it... i'd say they have access to all the source.
Exactly what the Chinese textbooks will say about this. "IN the year 2005 China invented a brand new COMPUTER CHIP technology. American spies stole the designs for this chip and also the TOP SECRET designs for a time machine device, and went back to 1995 to create a company called MIPS."
Before you start complaining here about anything, maybe you should have asked yourself, what do I want to be doing with my computer? I only boot Windows to play a few games I like. Everything else I do under Linux - with absolutely no problems. I can log into my router - with konqueror or firefox - play video and music files without skipping, and use all of my nVidia graphics card's available resolution (well, not quite all, but monitor won't support the max the card will).
If your DSL connection is running into your router, there's no reason for your provider to have stated that 'linux is not supported'.
And I hate to break this to you also, but I've owned a couple machines (with nothing wierd in them) that only Linux would install and boot up. My parents' last computer wouldn't run Win95, 98, or NT. But Mandrake 6.1 installed onto it fine, found all the hardware (including the unusual printer they have), and ran fine. (It was a 400Mhz K6-II with 256M RAM.)
I've set up Linux for a bunch of 'real average Jane' students, and they don't even notice a difference. After getting one set up with Mandrake, Firefox, and GAIM, her roommate came in and asked "oh, is that a new version of AIM?" not "what happened to windows?".
My roommate MS work centered around using Linux machines with video capture cards, so I don't know what you were trying to do that you couldn't. the All In Wonder cards from ATI are pretty popular, and have extensive driver support.
So, I'm calling complete bull on you. I'm not an ultra fanatical linux geek, either. I just use it, and it works. It takes no longer to boot than XP, and has far more useful application to me (lack of viruses, ease of ssh access to other machines, higher granular control over individual resources) than Windows ever has.
Slashdot Mirror
Holy shit, have we just slashdotted the NSA? I can't reach the article.
Coral Cache works beautifully, although directly from site wouldn't for me, neither would google's cache.
I'm just glad that with more people using Firefox it means more websites can't ignore gecko browsers, especially since I use the Mozilla Suite. It has has the effect of discontinuing the suite, but at least I can use Seamonkey and get an updated suite, and maybe i'll switch over when they finish the whole XUL Runner, so running multiple applications (Mail, Browser, Chat, etc), wont each create their own XUL baggage.
Tezkah reports: Chef Tezkah holds the record this week for most meals sold! He captured 52% of the meal market for the first six months of 2005. Congratulations Chef Tezkah! Its important to note that this doesn't include any meals sold in restaurants, but good showing for Tezkah just the same.
MS Messenger: Ships standard on all Windows PC's. Pops up every five minutes asking you if you would like to sign up for service. Causes your computer to explode if you try to uninstall it, or indeed just try to get it to shut up. The fact that this still isn't the #1 instant messaging client should tell you something. I have the most luck with voice chat through firewalls on Messenger.
Wrong. Windows Messenger comes standard on Windows XP computers. It is the Corporate edition of the Messenger protocol. Very lean, nice on the eyes, but rarely updated. MSN Messenger is another program, currently at version 7.5 with many more bloated features.
Aim: Comes automatically with AOL, or you can download it free from aol.com. Also comes free with LOTS and LOTS of ads. Ads pop up on your screen. Ads are built into your client. Smart a$$ movie executives send you ads directly. Sex chatbots try to lure you into filthyness before posting the transcript on Fark. Everyone's personal icon is loud, animated, and obnoxious. In short, AIM is a lot like the internet. And like the internet, nearly everyone uses AIM.
Doesn't pop up ads on your screen, only shows ads on the buddy list. These ads used to include movie trailers to those with broadband, but there are hacks to remove it and you can always use a third party product like GAIM. Comparitively, the client for AIM is less capable than the others, but the protocol is very nice, allowing things like underline in the middle of a message unlike MSN Messenger. You can use animated buddy icons, but you are not forced to use an "obnoxious" one, and you can obviously hide them. Only 56% of IM users use AIM. RTFA.
ICQ: Still the greatest communications medium of all time. Really. Greatest ever. (There, I said what you wanted Mr. 3098014563. Now give me my family back, like in the deal.)
ICQ is an abandoned program that used numbers instead of usernames. Bought out by AOL you can now send messages to ICQ users from AIM. I don't know of anyone who uses ICQ, so I don't know how popular this pioneering IM service is.
Yahoo: No really, Yahoo has a chat medium. I was shocked too. Isn't Yahoo just adorable sometimes? On a side note, I've had better luck getting webcams through firewalls over Yahoo. This leads to great situations where I'm videoconferencing with someone over Yahoo, but the audio stream is in MSN and the chat is happening in Jabber.
Is this really worth responding to? Yahoo! uses some strange webcam sharing thing so you can share your webcam with more than one person. Other than that the client is pretty standard, much like AIM as it uses yahoo! email addresses.
Google Chat: Google chat is based on Jabber, the open source next-generation world dominating chat protocol of the fut-- [...]What was that about Google Chat again?
Google Talk is like a stripped down MSN Messenger with voice and very uncustomizable text. It obstensibly uses jabber, but Google hasn't set it up for others to connect server to server, so you need a gmail account.
I wont bother responding to the last two paragraphs where you start going on a tangent about jabber's sex life. +5 Insightful? Hah.
Price supports for memory chips in Korea?
In Korea, only old people understand your comment!
When phishing is outlawed, only outlaws will have phish!
I like Windows. I like the fact it is able to do suspend/hibernate/resume on my laptop without crashing, and it is able to use my graphics card drivers to make the smooth scrolling in Opera extremely smooth, and I didn't have to compile/reinstall the kernel in order to GET these graphics drivers.
I like the third party software, last time I was on a Mac there was absolutely no way to use videoconferencing with the three major IM platforms (Thats changed since iChat A/V came out, but is there anything available for Linux?).
I like that I can run Photoshop, and use a familiar interface that I can theme to my hearts content. I'm also able to run Free Software like Firefox (meshes best with Windows, IMO), GAIM, and others from even this article, but still have a healthy set of closed source apps when FOSS apps aren't able to match them (still haven't found a replacement for Office Outlook 2003).
Basically, Windows works for me right now. I enjoy using my computer with Windows on it. I'm sure I'd enjoy having a Mac (waiting for the x86 Powerbooks), and I have run Linux, but right now Windows is the best fit.
MSN Messenger is quite seriously a joke. Here is a service that few people really use. AOL IM stills has the majority share here as well since they were one of the original IM services. They also bought up another "original", ICQ. Yahoo, I believe is probably 2nd in the IM race and has a strong support base from its e-mail service and people who use Yahoo as a primary search tool.
Nobody uses it? MSNger doesnt have an email service to back it up? Have you not heard of hotmail?
AIM is #1, MSN is #2, and Yahoo is #3, but they are pretty much evenly distributed:
According to online audience measurement firm comScore, in July 2005, AOL's AIM had 30 million unique visitors, slightly down from usage one year ago; MSN Messenger grew 11 percent to 25.9 million unique users; and Yahoo Messenger grew 16 percent to 25.6 million.
From here
Please, stop making things up when trying to get modded as "insightful".
MSN Messenger is by far the most used IM system in Europe. It may be behind in the US, but it is making serious inroads in other parts of the world.
Here in Canada as well, MSN Messenger is the King of IM. Other people I know (mostly USians) use AOL IM, and very very few use Yahoo! IM. Making AIM and MSNger compatible would completely decimate the amount of users for things like GoogleTalk and Yahoo! IM. Why bother with Jabber servers and getting everyone to switch to GoogleTalk when *everyone you know* uses an MSNAIM compatible client already? Brilliant strategy for winning on the IM front, really.
Notice how they try to blame Apple because they only allow customers to rip to crippled (and crappy, IMO) WMA. I eventually just downloaded Exact Audio Copy and it ripped it just fine. Still frustrating.
- from Wikipedia
The only way that Mac and Windows and Linux are now able to do what BeOS was doing is that we now have 3GHZ processors in our computers, while BeOS was providing the same speed and responsiveness on much slower machines. The threading of BeOS is one of it major strengths, and windows is JUST NOW (with vista) starting to implement the idea in full.
That said, the story doesn't give us any new information... oh... Zeta!? I had never heard of this product before on slashdot...
Just like on Windows XP, Documents is listed on your desktop (try clicking the up arrow on a save dialog enough, you'll get to the dekstop).
On XP, Desktop -> My Documents takes you to C:\Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents\, the user probably doesn't see their username on the desktop, but clicking on Desktop -> Documents probably takes them to "Pat's Documents".
I do agree, \Users\ is a better name for the directory than "Documents and Settings".
Yes you can remove it from the desktop, either by deleting or simply unchecking it from "Show These Icons on the Desktop" when you Right Click your Desktop -> Properties -> Desktop.
It still shows up in my Taskbar Toolbar for "Desktop". I haven't been able to find a way to remove it, but since I need IE sometimes (hell, sometimes I even LIKE the damn thing amazingly, IE7 gets on my nerves after a few hours though), its nice to have a hidden shortcut two clicks away.
You can remove all access to IE using Program Access and Defaults, and unchecking the box next to IE. You can still open it, obviously, by going into My Computer or another Explorer window and typing in a URL. On my system though, it opens up Opera since its the default browser and IE6 is not installed (only IE7).
Trillian supports MSN Messenger as well as AIM/ICQ/Yahoo!/IRC/Jabber etc. It's basically the same as GAIM, and supports most protocols (also supports plugins).
:)
What I don't understand is what the grandparent is talking about, why would he have to change to MSNger to stop having to fight the firewall? Trillian mimics MSN Messenger in order to connect to MSN servers. The only problems with Trillian for me are high memory usage (although not so bad when compared to MSNger 7.0), slow interface, and Audio/Visual capabilities that only work half the time.
I've switched to MSNger exclusively because I don't have anyone I chat with regularly on AIM or Yahoo, so the benefits of Trillian/Gaim are much less than the frustrations of incompatibility with MSNger buddies. Besides, you can always break the EULA and remove the ads and such from the MSN client, I recommend SpeedyMSN. Really cleans up the interface, if you can find the download for 2.0 (both speedymsn.tk and speedymessenger.net are down at the time of this writing.) You can bet Microsoft doesn't want people knowing that they can get rid of that pesky ad....
Those links don't work no matter what I do.
Internet Explorer vulneravbility page
Firefox vulneravbility page
Opera vulneravbility page
I'll stick with Opera 8x for now.
Actually, you might be able to, most people don't know of the Greasemonkey-ish add-on to IE called "Trixie", with many of the same scripts running unmodified between the two plugins.
A better argument is that "In firefox, the bugs are trivial enough to be fixed with a script until it gets fixed in the main program, a matter of weeks, instead of fixing it in a script in IE, and waiting years for it do get fixed."
perhaps this "clever hand" could type fast enough to get first post on slashdot?
Wouldn't it benefit Apple in the long run to get more of its software into the public's hands?
Apple is clearly a hardware company, and so they make most of their money from selling hardware. Thus it's very unlikely that Apple would want to support generic x86 boxes.
But Apple has an interesting opportunity here. If they simply ignored people running unlicensed x86 copies, but prevented else anyone selling pre-installed Macs, then they probably wouldn't lose much business. The people who are willing to install MacOS themselves are unlikely to be the people who'd buy Mac hardware in the first place.
However, Apple would gain a lot of mindshare with the kids and with the technically savvy who are happy installing their own OS. In the long run, this will bring many more people to Apple hardware, and to influence their parents/family/employers to buy the supported Apple products.
Seems like Apple can't lose here. They didn't even do anything and they got this posted twice! Just like Google.
-Fzz
Ok I'm naïve on the politics of this, so my post is more of a question than a answer. I know this is an argument that has gone back and forth, but here goes again...
Wouldn't it benefit Apple in the long run to get more of its software into the public's hands? Sure, it might detract from them selling hardware (short term), but I can honestly say for me (average Joe) I've never purchased a Mac because they simply don't have the software titles I'm interested in and Windows does. I mean sure, they've got great stuff, but they lack in GAMES, yes games... I've said it, gotten it out. I'm a gamer and so are all of my friends. I'd venture to say a good chunk of those purchasing PC's are in the same group as me (surf the web and play games). So if the Apple OS became more popular, wouldn't more developers consider making a version of their game in the Apple OS flavor? Would it lead to an increase in dupe stories/comments?
yesterday...
Mac OS X Running on Non-Apple Hardware
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Thursday August 11, @10:20AM
When did Zonk gain access to CmdrTaco and "ScuttleMonkey"s logins?
Article: bottom of page 4: Note the hardware information shown in the About screen. This shot was taking running within VMWare. Also note the date on the kernel revision. There was some dispute early on about whether or not yellowTAB actually had full access to the source code for BeOS, or whether or not they were just reselling the old kernel and adding on third-party additions. The newer kernel revision appears to lay that question to rest, although yellowTAB has not been very open about discussing this question, possibly for licensing reasons.
If they're updating the kernel and selling it... i'd say they have access to all the source.
When I clicked on this story... it said:
"Nothing to see for you here. Move along."
Exactly what the Chinese textbooks will say about this. "IN the year 2005 China invented a brand new COMPUTER CHIP technology. American spies stole the designs for this chip and also the TOP SECRET designs for a time machine device, and went back to 1995 to create a company called MIPS."
Before you start complaining here about anything, maybe you should have asked yourself, what do I want to be doing with my computer? I only boot Windows to play a few games I like. Everything else I do under Linux - with absolutely no problems. I can log into my router - with konqueror or firefox - play video and music files without skipping, and use all of my nVidia graphics card's available resolution (well, not quite all, but monitor won't support the max the card will).
If your DSL connection is running into your router, there's no reason for your provider to have stated that 'linux is not supported'.
And I hate to break this to you also, but I've owned a couple machines (with nothing wierd in them) that only Linux would install and boot up. My parents' last computer wouldn't run Win95, 98, or NT. But Mandrake 6.1 installed onto it fine, found all the hardware (including the unusual printer they have), and ran fine. (It was a 400Mhz K6-II with 256M RAM.)
I've set up Linux for a bunch of 'real average Jane' students, and they don't even notice a difference. After getting one set up with Mandrake, Firefox, and GAIM, her roommate came in and asked "oh, is that a new version of AIM?" not "what happened to windows?".
My roommate MS work centered around using Linux machines with video capture cards, so I don't know what you were trying to do that you couldn't. the All In Wonder cards from ATI are pretty popular, and have extensive driver support.
So, I'm calling complete bull on you. I'm not an ultra fanatical linux geek, either. I just use it, and it works. It takes no longer to boot than XP, and has far more useful application to me (lack of viruses, ease of ssh access to other machines, higher granular control over individual resources) than Windows ever has.
Are they not also working on a "search engine"? Or is that just rumours at this point?