The experience comes from the fact that your machine comes with specific hardware. It will *always* be supported. Driver issues are completely gone, unless you buy some 3rd party hardware, and then you're somewhat on your own, but even that is supported fairly well.
Think about it -- How many bazillions of different PC components are out there that Windows is supposed to support?
Apple's control of the hardware ensures that when users set up their systems, they know what's under the hood.
You don't have to compile the kernel, at most you run an NVIDIA executable that compiles and installs its own kernel module, then installs it for you../NVIDIA-yatta-yatta.run ----that's a far cry from having to recompile your kernel.
Man, what an incredible application from the open source community. Plus it turns an evil little box in the living room into the home media center that every electronics company has been chasing for what, 10 years now?
Check it out. I'm not on the team, I've got no vested interest in promoting it, I just think it's one of the coolest OSS things I've seen in ages.
Rodi can also be used from behind corporate firewalls and LANs using Network Address Translation (NATs), something most home gateways have
"Hello, Security? Hi, I need to have NATting set up for my workstation. What? Oh, just a P2P filesharing app. Yeah, it's pretty cool, it's fairly anonymous, and it can spoof its IP, and it.... Hello?"
I can't even pay $10 just to get it on my TV. Why can't we get a la carte service like this over the internet, or the TV, but it's available for phones?
Well, it was WAY out in the sticks, and beides the ISPs, there really wasn't much call for IT.
I had no money to hire a lawyer, and am never really eager to pursue that course of action, although maybe I should have.
I had just moved to the area from 3000 miles away, and after a while of dealing with this, I ended up in graphic design, which was more rewarding anyway.
I had a boss go psychopath on me one time, when I was the only employee of a startup ISP.
He decided that I was running Quake Servers, hosting Stomped and Bluesnews as well as dozens of other web sites, and using up all of their bandwidth in doing so.
Mind you, the whole ISP was based on 2 56k frame relays.
Then later on I apparently mailbombed him without my knowledge, and at one point I managed to somehow hack the autoexec.bat file on his Windows 95 machine while it was not only unplugged from the phone line, but unplugged from the wall and in a closet.
This guy fired me, then called every single ISP in the area (my potential employers, of which there were very few, this being rural OR) and put out a line about being a responsible businessman who had been screwed by me, and blacklisted me from finding any sort of gainful employment for quite a while.
The thing was, I'd busted my ass for this guy, and built him a great reputation, built him a classroom from individual hardware components and taught classes to the locals on how to use the internet, build websites, etc.
People get weird about things they don't understand, which is pretty much everything we do.
Someone definitely has a chip on their shoulder, if you'll pardon the pun. If it is a pun. Anyway...
You can tell from the first sentence of the article that the "journalist" doesn't like Intel, and wants AMD to be the winner. Fortunately that appears to be the case, so why bother with all the Intel bashing? You can write about the performance of a chipset without constantly dogging a company that you don't like.
I'm no Intel fan, hell, I even used a Cyrix (once), but a little less bias never hurt a journalist.
as a complete treatise on Absurdism, which I've not seen mentioned very often. Most people consider it to be a pleasant book, a light read, something funny to have to pass the time, but to me it's more like a book of lessons on reality. I personally think it affected me as much as the Tao Te Ching.
It's got a lot of philosophy woven in, no doubt, but has anyone ever seen/read about some more serious interpretations of the text?
Right. Tell that to the plumbers, electricians, tapers, etc.
Maybe you could build a bunker. Or a house in a country where simple, cement-block houses are acceptable, but in those instances it isn't the labor that's in short supply, it's the materials.
Browsing the CVS repository, it looks like nothing has been checked in for the last 5 months, and many things haven't been updated for upwards of 10 months.
I was very excited about this project, but there's been no visible progress with it, and it's becoming a Michael Jackson/Terry Schiavo-like thing to talk about. A GPL football, if you will.
Sure, it's a good test of the GPL, which needs court cases, but this thing will never reach the courts anyway, the CherryOS people would fold up and run for the border as soon as things got real.
Maybe they should save these kinds of announcements for times when they post new versions:]
was the day Enemy Territory appeared. It's the only PC game I play anymore (I tried AA, but didn't really like it, got through sniper training and everything), and I play it every chance I get, sometimes for upwards of 8-10 hours. It rocks. New maps come out constantly.
So I guess it's true -- if I hadn't found the one game that grabbed me by the balls, and then dixocvered the Linux version, I'd still be dual-booting.
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Sure, you can see who the actors are, but can you see what else they've been in?
"That guy looks familiar, what have I seen him in?"
It seems like a no-brainer to me -- every time we watch a movie, DVD, TiVo, whatever, we run to IMDB to look up all kinds of info on all the actors, the writers, etc.
It would also be a good way for them to pick up some ad revenue as well, I think....
Outlook does work on Linux. If you don't feel like compiling Wine on your own, pick up CrossoverOffice.
Also, check out Evolution. I replaced Outlook with it with full Exchange integration for meetings, contacts, etc.
It has its idiosyncracies, but they're no worse than Outlook's. Version 2.0 is out now too, which I hear great things about, but I haven't had the need to upgrade yet.
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...until we see the price for Apple Intel systems.
The experience comes from the fact that your machine comes with specific hardware. It will *always* be supported. Driver issues are completely gone, unless you buy some 3rd party hardware, and then you're somewhat on your own, but even that is supported fairly well.
Think about it -- How many bazillions of different PC components are out there that Windows is supposed to support?
Apple's control of the hardware ensures that when users set up their systems, they know what's under the hood.
That takes out a *lot* of bullshit.
You don't have to compile the kernel, at most you run an NVIDIA executable that compiles and installs its own kernel module, then installs it for you. ./NVIDIA-yatta-yatta.run ----that's a far cry from having to recompile your kernel.
Man, what an incredible application from the open source community. Plus it turns an evil little box in the living room into the home media center that every electronics company has been chasing for what, 10 years now?
Check it out. I'm not on the team, I've got no vested interest in promoting it, I just think it's one of the coolest OSS things I've seen in ages.
Milkdrop has already been ported to XBMC.
Rodi can also be used from behind corporate firewalls and LANs using Network Address Translation (NATs), something most home gateways have
"Hello, Security? Hi, I need to have NATting set up for my workstation. What? Oh, just a P2P filesharing app. Yeah, it's pretty cool, it's fairly anonymous, and it can spoof its IP, and it.... Hello?"
Suddenly it's news. Huh. Too bad it wasn't accepted then.
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Slow news day?
...they forgot the -p flag when dumping it, and people will be restored with no moral codes.
I can't even pay $10 just to get it on my TV. Why can't we get a la carte service like this over the internet, or the TV, but it's available for phones?
Well, it was WAY out in the sticks, and beides the ISPs, there really wasn't much call for IT.
I had no money to hire a lawyer, and am never really eager to pursue that course of action, although maybe I should have.
I had just moved to the area from 3000 miles away, and after a while of dealing with this, I ended up in graphic design, which was more rewarding anyway.
I had a boss go psychopath on me one time, when I was the only employee of a startup ISP.
He decided that I was running Quake Servers, hosting Stomped and Bluesnews as well as dozens of other web sites, and using up all of their bandwidth in doing so.
Mind you, the whole ISP was based on 2 56k frame relays.
Then later on I apparently mailbombed him without my knowledge, and at one point I managed to somehow hack the autoexec.bat file on his Windows 95 machine while it was not only unplugged from the phone line, but unplugged from the wall and in a closet.
This guy fired me, then called every single ISP in the area (my potential employers, of which there were very few, this being rural OR) and put out a line about being a responsible businessman who had been screwed by me, and blacklisted me from finding any sort of gainful employment for quite a while.
The thing was, I'd busted my ass for this guy, and built him a great reputation, built him a classroom from individual hardware components and taught classes to the locals on how to use the internet, build websites, etc.
People get weird about things they don't understand, which is pretty much everything we do.
God is Love -> Love is Blind -> Ray Charles is God.
Someone definitely has a chip on their shoulder, if you'll pardon the pun. If it is a pun. Anyway...
You can tell from the first sentence of the article that the "journalist" doesn't like Intel, and wants AMD to be the winner. Fortunately that appears to be the case, so why bother with all the Intel bashing? You can write about the performance of a chipset without constantly dogging a company that you don't like.
I'm no Intel fan, hell, I even used a Cyrix (once), but a little less bias never hurt a journalist.
as a complete treatise on Absurdism, which I've not seen mentioned very often. Most people consider it to be a pleasant book, a light read, something funny to have to pass the time, but to me it's more like a book of lessons on reality. I personally think it affected me as much as the Tao Te Ching.
It's got a lot of philosophy woven in, no doubt, but has anyone ever seen/read about some more serious interpretations of the text?
He should serve a year in prison for each year he was governor.
And Tomasso should share a cell with him.
Right. Tell that to the plumbers, electricians, tapers, etc.
Maybe you could build a bunker. Or a house in a country where simple, cement-block houses are acceptable, but in those instances it isn't the labor that's in short supply, it's the materials.
Bunch of bloody commies
Seriously, when each packet is encrypted with a different key, it seems like this would become a lot more difficult.
A lot of APs and hubs are coming with it now.
Browsing the CVS repository, it looks like nothing has been checked in for the last 5 months, and many things haven't been updated for upwards of 10 months.
:]
I was very excited about this project, but there's been no visible progress with it, and it's becoming a Michael Jackson/Terry Schiavo-like thing to talk about. A GPL football, if you will.
Sure, it's a good test of the GPL, which needs court cases, but this thing will never reach the courts anyway, the CherryOS people would fold up and run for the border as soon as things got real.
Maybe they should save these kinds of announcements for times when they post new versions
was the day Enemy Territory appeared. It's the only PC game I play anymore (I tried AA, but didn't really like it, got through sniper training and everything), and I play it every chance I get, sometimes for upwards of 8-10 hours. It rocks. New maps come out constantly.
So I guess it's true -- if I hadn't found the one game that grabbed me by the balls, and then dixocvered the Linux version, I'd still be dual-booting.
Sure, you can see who the actors are, but can you see what else they've been in?
"That guy looks familiar, what have I seen him in?"
It seems like a no-brainer to me -- every time we watch a movie, DVD, TiVo, whatever, we run to IMDB to look up all kinds of info on all the actors, the writers, etc.
It would also be a good way for them to pick up some ad revenue as well, I think....
Outlook does work on Linux. If you don't feel like compiling Wine on your own, pick up CrossoverOffice.
Also, check out Evolution. I replaced Outlook with it with full Exchange integration for meetings, contacts, etc.
It has its idiosyncracies, but they're no worse than Outlook's. Version 2.0 is out now too, which I hear great things about, but I haven't had the need to upgrade yet.
explorer dies -> task manager -> kill explorer -> taks manager -> new taske -> explorer.exe
done and done.
Show me a business model that doesn't require revenue.