While that might seem an attractive option to some, helpdesk employees worldwide are screaming at the thought of the association for.doc and.rtf files suddenly switching to Wordpad.
"Why won't my Office work, and what is this silly 'wordpad' that started up?"
Yep. I, like a lot of people here, hate Apple Computer. They fucked up the industry for about a half decade trying to 'own' the graphical user interface, and as a result we ended up with Windows. They sued many 'GUI producing' competitors out of the PC market, and as a result they gave us Microsoft.
Now they come along, and pump out a 'Open Source' operating system based on a locked-down proprietary GUI layer, and refuse to sell it on anything but their own hardware.
Yep. I thought I'd make it completely clear 'what sort of person I am.'
The sad thing is, this whole project should be running on a 68HC11 processor.
This big monster, with full PC, Multimeters with GPIB interface, etc. strikes me as a 'first concept' mockup. The whole thing should be doable in an 'HC11 or one of the PIC controllers that has onboard A/D hardware.
I'm surprised that something this 'thrown together' made it to the Slashdot front page.
That might be true for some evaluations of the term 'rest of the world.'
However, 'the whole world' is not defined as several socialistic european states. Hell, there are even parts of the EU that aren't infested with that bug.
A Mac with plain-vanilla OSX is about as useful as a box with plain Windows on it. There's another thousand dollars worth of crap I'd have to buy for it to justify desktop-decoration status in my office.
Who's paying you to run unqualified 'tip' code raw from Apache.org on a big bandwidth cannon? A trojan on that connection could blast Slashdot.org offline.
You omitted the step where you run md5. I hope it was an oversight on your part.
(and if I run 'sh./configre' on my equipment, I get back: 'sh: Can't open./configre')
$500 buys the little box that nominally runs OSX. The keyboard and mouse are extra. There's no CRT for that price. (not a problem for me, but it renders the whole '$500 for an entry level Mac' thing as BULLSHIT- entry-level folks don't already own a monitor) I suppose I could use the SGI USB keyboard/mouse that I have, but it seems obscene for me to connect said to a crummy desk ornament Mac.
There's a hell of a lot I'd rather spend the $650 on anyway. There's a cross-assembler package I was looking at recently that I could get more use out of.
Why does that matter if web links don't lead to it, and clicking on HTLM files on the desktop (or in a file manager) brings up Mozilla? My point was- literally nothing I did revealed a 'favorites' list, nothing I did could cause IE to pop up. It was actually WORK to reverse this behavior of the system (not that I wanted it, except to see if it could change back)
We could stop AlQaeda in ONE DAY if we stopped giving Israel (a leading EXPORTER of arms) aid and a blind eye, and brought our 'stabilization troops' that prop-up the House of Saud back home. Instead we march right into the foray at great human, moral, and financial cost.
No, I think that would kickstart them into a bloodbath machine. Maybe not here, but the streets in the Middle East would flow with blood to an unprecedented degree.
Use unregulated wireless and create a mesh network that covers the U.S., and links to the rest of the Internet through Canada and Mexico, or maybe shortwave. Would it be possible to create a alternate network for everyone that opts out of trusted computing and corporate and government control of their computers and the network.
If people really really worked at it, and it was extremely successful, you might arrive at, say, the equivalent of Usenet in 1987, or possibly something as widespread as Fidonet was in that era.
It would be a text channel, with some files transfer capabilities, etc.
It definitely would NOT be an equivalent 'darkside' version of the Internet as we know it.
Don't like Firefox? Replace it with Opera. Don't like IE? Tough luck.
Actually, I have installed and used several instances of Windows 2000 where I immediately installed Mozilla and never, ever, used Internet Explorer (except through the Windows Update icon). I even used the 'TweakUI' provisions to remove IE from the desktop and remove 'favorites' from start menu, etc.
At one point on one of said computers, I decided to try Internet Explorer.
There was no Internet Explorer icon in the start menu or toolbar, etc. It proved to be quite difficult to get one back.
It is quite possible to use a Windows desktop, with Mozilla, and completely lose track of the Internet Explorer application.
Or, he had quit or been drummed out of the executive branch, and chose to 'apologize' as a move of political grandstanding. Clearly after he left the administration, he felt/feels he has a right to criticize from the outside.
My Windows and NetBSD machines all cost me in the range of 50 cents to 15 dollars each (Pentium III machines you can get for pennies at school auctions. The SMP Sparc boxes are still a little pricey). I would have to work overtime for months to earn the spare cash to get a machine capable of running OSX competently.
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While that might seem an attractive option to some, helpdesk employees worldwide are screaming at the thought of the association for .doc and .rtf files suddenly switching to Wordpad.
"Why won't my Office work, and what is this silly 'wordpad' that started up?"
IIRC though, Apple bought PowerComputing which was one of the largest clone companies.
When you have run a company out of business, you can buy the assets and trademarks pretty cheap.
Typical Microsoft tactics. No surprise coming from Apple.
Yes, you weren't invoking it, and I was just engaging in a non-directed rant about it. I didn't mean to berate you.
No. It's like 2^32 32 bit processors, so you'll have to buy 4,294,987,000 licenses.
Yep. I, like a lot of people here, hate Apple Computer. They fucked up the industry for about a half decade trying to 'own' the graphical user interface, and as a result we ended up with Windows. They sued many 'GUI producing' competitors out of the PC market, and as a result they gave us Microsoft.
Now they come along, and pump out a 'Open Source' operating system based on a locked-down proprietary GUI layer, and refuse to sell it on anything but their own hardware.
Yep. I thought I'd make it completely clear 'what sort of person I am.'
Who the fuck are you?
The sad thing is, this whole project should be running on a 68HC11 processor.
This big monster, with full PC, Multimeters with GPIB interface, etc. strikes me as a 'first concept' mockup. The whole thing should be doable in an 'HC11 or one of the PIC controllers that has onboard A/D hardware.
I'm surprised that something this 'thrown together' made it to the Slashdot front page.
Gore got along very well with Letterman,
I hope Letterman had the decency to wipe off his chin afterwards.
Godwin never applies off Usenet.
Usenet threads can and have run for months, even years. Slashdot threads by definition can only last about a week, and usually die within 24 hours.
Somebody needs to form a squad that goes around whapping people who 'invoke Godwin' out of context with a clue by four.
Yeah. It was 'real news' that he, unfortunately, had zero, zippo, absolutely no solid evidence of, except for forged evidence.
Whiff away at those fumes, dude. But there's nothing there.
Michael with a spell-checker??
Spare us!!
That might be true for some evaluations of the term 'rest of the world.'
However, 'the whole world' is not defined as several socialistic european states. Hell, there are even parts of the EU that aren't infested with that bug.
Daily Show Production Team Nets Creative Freedom
Now that they have it caught in a net, will they kill it, or are they planning on sticking in a cage somewhere?
Needless to say, they're slaves to their ideology, and won't just set it loose again.
You can turn off 'Use Microsoft HTML viewer' in Eudora, and in fact I have.
Helpfiles are a tertiary path to trojans. It's pretty unlikely a cracker is going to slip a helpfile in somewhere.
It's about as dangerous a 'vector' as having a sendmail binary sitting around, not running, on a Unix system.
Fuck off, zealot.
A Mac with plain-vanilla OSX is about as useful as a box with plain Windows on it. There's another thousand dollars worth of crap I'd have to buy for it to justify desktop-decoration status in my office.
Who's paying you to run unqualified 'tip' code raw from Apache.org on a big bandwidth cannon? A trojan on that connection could blast Slashdot.org offline.
./configre' on my equipment, I get back: 'sh: Can't open ./configre')
You omitted the step where you run md5. I hope it was an oversight on your part.
(and if I run 'sh
$500 buys the little box that nominally runs OSX. The keyboard and mouse are extra. There's no CRT for that price. (not a problem for me, but it renders the whole '$500 for an entry level Mac' thing as BULLSHIT- entry-level folks don't already own a monitor) I suppose I could use the SGI USB keyboard/mouse that I have, but it seems obscene for me to connect said to a crummy desk ornament Mac.
There's a hell of a lot I'd rather spend the $650 on anyway. There's a cross-assembler package I was looking at recently that I could get more use out of.
As for him grandstanding, that's ludicrous. There's not a shred of evidence in his career of that kind of move.
Umm, he 'apologized' for 9/11.
Explorer == IE
Why does that matter if web links don't lead to it, and clicking on HTLM files on the desktop (or in a file manager) brings up Mozilla? My point was- literally nothing I did revealed a 'favorites' list, nothing I did could cause IE to pop up. It was actually WORK to reverse this behavior of the system (not that I wanted it, except to see if it could change back)
We could stop AlQaeda in ONE DAY if we stopped giving Israel (a leading EXPORTER of arms) aid and a blind eye, and brought our 'stabilization troops' that prop-up the House of Saud back home. Instead we march right into the foray at great human, moral, and financial cost.
No, I think that would kickstart them into a bloodbath machine. Maybe not here, but the streets in the Middle East would flow with blood to an unprecedented degree.
Use unregulated wireless and create a mesh network that covers the U.S., and links to the rest of the Internet through Canada and Mexico, or maybe shortwave. Would it be possible to create a alternate network for everyone that opts out of trusted computing and corporate and government control of their computers and the network.
If people really really worked at it, and it was extremely successful, you might arrive at, say, the equivalent of Usenet in 1987, or possibly something as widespread as Fidonet was in that era.
It would be a text channel, with some files transfer capabilities, etc.
It definitely would NOT be an equivalent 'darkside' version of the Internet as we know it.
Don't like Firefox? Replace it with Opera. Don't like IE? Tough luck.
Actually, I have installed and used several instances of Windows 2000 where I immediately installed Mozilla and never, ever, used Internet Explorer (except through the Windows Update icon). I even used the 'TweakUI' provisions to remove IE from the desktop and remove 'favorites' from start menu, etc.
At one point on one of said computers, I decided to try Internet Explorer.
There was no Internet Explorer icon in the start menu or toolbar, etc. It proved to be quite difficult to get one back.
It is quite possible to use a Windows desktop, with Mozilla, and completely lose track of the Internet Explorer application.
MS says it has the right to keep throwing everything into their OS (I'm just waiting for the kitchen sink app)
Please note: It is certain versions of GNU Emacs that have a little kitchen sink as the icon.
But at least I offer my services for free to early Linux adopters.
Why would people who started using Linux in the 1991-93 era seek service/advice from you?
Or, he had quit or been drummed out of the executive branch, and chose to 'apologize' as a move of political grandstanding. Clearly after he left the administration, he felt/feels he has a right to criticize from the outside.
My Windows and NetBSD machines all cost me in the range of 50 cents to 15 dollars each (Pentium III machines you can get for pennies at school auctions. The SMP Sparc boxes are still a little pricey). I would have to work overtime for months to earn the spare cash to get a machine capable of running OSX competently.