I don't hate Microsoft as a company. They are no more evil, arrogant or faulty than any other big software/hardware vendor. However what I do hate is the reliability/usability of their consumer software (excluding the XBox). Bugs and bad/overly complex UIs in appliances/devices such as phones are also huge reason that many people I know steer clear of Microsoft's offerings. I'm sure there is a middle-ground between Apple's sometimes naive lock-down of simplicity and Microsoft's penchant for inappropriately consistent UI's and their over complication.
They all look a tad wierd if you ask me. The images on the screens are badly composited and the lighting is all wrong. Am awaiting the day they actually show a real one.
Thats not true at all. Mambo still has heaps of developers (given the activity I have seen on the forge). The Joomla crew did not write the original code. In fact, until they forked off, none of them really contributed that much to the overall development.
Don't flame me. Go look at what changed in the source over time.
Simply the best thing to do would be to build the subscription cost of.Mac into ilife. So that when a new version comes out the user can either pay for another year.Mac on their current versions of the software or get the latest version which comes with a.Mac subscription.
It's not good to see people pondering whether they should use Mambo or not. Its a pretty neat CMS, and works quite well. As for forking, there are already things like "Limbo" and others that have already forked off. People are always fearful of change and I think there are some quite common misconceptions about the current dev team's involvement in Mambo's development.
What really amazes me is that there seems to be this fear of brain drain from the main dev team. Why they've only made bug fixes and little patches, nothing big has truly been done for more than a year now and all the significant changes to 4.5.1 were made by one person.
So all you mad keen PHP developers out there should join in on the development of this app and really get it moving forward.
I run a media production studio in Melbourne and we have a healthy mix of hardware. We Have a couple of generic Windows Boxes for day-to-day work, a debian based server, two G5 workstations and a powerbook.
The reason I have always used Apple is the Hardware/Software integration and the (albeit recent: 4-years or so) quality software. Most of our visualization for film and TV work is done on the G5's without a hitch, but thats down to tight SW/HW integration and nothing more.
Apple don't tend to give a toss what their customers want or like most of the time, but if you've used most big name hardware this is nothing new. Sony is a wonderful example of this too.
We have far less day to day hassles with the G5's than we do with the WinXP boxes, but maybe thats just us, or that we chose bad with the hardware in the Win boxes. Either way, the intel switch will likely make little difference to us.
Bram Cohen writes a beautiful piece of social bandwidth-balancing software and of course the music and film industry tears him down like any other thing that could vaguely perceivably harm their bottom line.
His software is a significant step forward in helping to balance information load-sharing. Distribution of information will never move forward if big business is allowed to clamp down on clever individuals.
On Mac OS X its a bit trickier (classic and a serial adaptor) but on Windows XP and a PC with a serial port you can still use a number of different free utils as well as the original apple ones.
Stick a new set of AA batteries and a CF card in an eMate and you've got a quite nice machine for wordprocessing and email that will not run out of battery for a week.
It's a truly strange break. It had me thinking just like the bowl of petunias, "Oh no not again." But unlike the SMB breaks I have seen in various 10.3 updates this one is far stranger.
In our office we have four machines: A Debian Sarge Box, two Win XP boxes and a current Al Powerbook (running tiger). The tiger running machine can connect to both the WinXP boxes fine, but the Debian box, which under 10.3 was used every day, no longer talks to the Powerbook.
Yey, wait for a month and I'm sure that we'll see an update that fixes half the problem and screws up something else.
Apart from my SMB woes, Tiger is the most finished.0 release of Mac OS X to date. Reasonably impressed. (Mutters "Bloody Samba")
It's not surprising really. Both Adobe and Macromedia have very different segments of the design pie. Both have suites of software that would compliment each other very well. There is a lot of room for cross-over and integration. Yey finally Illustrator and Flash might be a bit more friendly to each other. The only segment in which they compete REALLY is WYSIWYG html editors.
Over the years there have been exchanges of brainstrusts between the two companies at different times. One example is Apple's Final Cut Pro. The core of that team originally worked on Adobe Premier 4 and then defected to Macromedia to work on a new video app (the embrio of FCP). Macromedia then decided that video wasn't a core part of their business and it all shifted to being Apples baby (or there abouts).
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I don't hate Microsoft as a company. They are no more evil, arrogant or faulty than any other big software/hardware vendor. However what I do hate is the reliability/usability of their consumer software (excluding the XBox). Bugs and bad/overly complex UIs in appliances/devices such as phones are also huge reason that many people I know steer clear of Microsoft's offerings. I'm sure there is a middle-ground between Apple's sometimes naive lock-down of simplicity and Microsoft's penchant for inappropriately consistent UI's and their over complication.
They all look a tad wierd if you ask me. The images on the screens are badly composited and the lighting is all wrong. Am awaiting the day they actually show a real one.
Thats not true at all.
Mambo still has heaps of developers (given the activity I have seen on the forge).
The Joomla crew did not write the original code. In fact, until they forked off, none
of them really contributed that much to the overall development.
Don't flame me. Go look at what changed in the source over time.
Simply the best thing to do would be to build the subscription cost of .Mac into ilife. So that when a new version comes out the user can either pay for another year .Mac on their current versions of the software or get the latest version which comes with a .Mac subscription.
It's not good to see people pondering whether they should use Mambo or not. Its a pretty neat CMS, and works quite well. As for forking, there are already things like "Limbo" and others that have already forked off. People are always fearful of change and I think there are some quite common misconceptions about the current dev team's involvement in Mambo's development.
What really amazes me is that there seems to be this fear of brain drain from the main dev team. Why they've only made bug fixes and little patches, nothing big has truly been done for more than a year now and all the significant changes to 4.5.1 were made by one person.
So all you mad keen PHP developers out there should join in on the development of this app and really get it moving forward.
I run a media production studio in Melbourne and we have a healthy mix of hardware. We Have a couple of generic Windows Boxes for day-to-day work, a debian based server, two G5 workstations and a powerbook. The reason I have always used Apple is the Hardware/Software integration and the (albeit recent: 4-years or so) quality software. Most of our visualization for film and TV work is done on the G5's without a hitch, but thats down to tight SW/HW integration and nothing more. Apple don't tend to give a toss what their customers want or like most of the time, but if you've used most big name hardware this is nothing new. Sony is a wonderful example of this too. We have far less day to day hassles with the G5's than we do with the WinXP boxes, but maybe thats just us, or that we chose bad with the hardware in the Win boxes. Either way, the intel switch will likely make little difference to us.
Bram Cohen writes a beautiful piece of social bandwidth-balancing software and of course the music and film industry tears him down like any other thing that could vaguely perceivably harm their bottom line.
His software is a significant step forward in helping to balance information load-sharing. Distribution of information will never move forward if big business is allowed to clamp down on clever individuals.
There's my rant.
How to get a Newton connected to a Linux machine.x -mini-HOWTO.html
/ newton.html n ications+comm_software r al/newton/newtwindows_license.html
http://newtonlink.sourceforge.net/Newton_and_Linu
How to get a Newton connected to a Windows machine.
http://www.chuma.org/newton/ncage/
http://www.mug.jhmi.edu/mirrors/InfoAlley/0696/25
http://www.panix.com/~clay/newton/query.cgi?commu
http://mirrors.unna.org/ftp.bitcon.no/pub/pdacent
Hope some of this helps.
On Mac OS X its a bit trickier (classic and a serial adaptor) but on Windows XP and a PC with a serial port you can still use a number of different free utils as well as the original apple ones.
Stick a new set of AA batteries and a CF card in an eMate and you've got a quite nice machine for wordprocessing and email that will not run out of battery for a week.
The Debian box is the SMB server. Will try encryped passwords tomorrow. Thanks Guy.
It's a truly strange break. It had me thinking just like the bowl of petunias, "Oh no not again." But unlike the SMB breaks I have seen in various 10.3 updates this one is far stranger.
.0 release of Mac OS X to date. Reasonably impressed. (Mutters "Bloody Samba")
In our office we have four machines: A Debian Sarge Box, two Win XP boxes and a current Al Powerbook (running tiger). The tiger running machine can connect to both the WinXP boxes fine, but the Debian box, which under 10.3 was used every day, no longer talks to the Powerbook.
Yey, wait for a month and I'm sure that we'll see an update that fixes half the problem and screws up something else.
Apart from my SMB woes, Tiger is the most finished
It's not surprising really. Both Adobe and Macromedia have very different segments of the design pie. Both have suites of software that would compliment each other very well. There is a lot of room for cross-over and integration. Yey finally Illustrator and Flash might be a bit more friendly to each other. The only segment in which they compete REALLY is WYSIWYG html editors.
Over the years there have been exchanges of brainstrusts between the two companies at different times. One example is Apple's Final Cut Pro. The core of that team originally worked on Adobe Premier 4 and then defected to Macromedia to work on a new video app (the embrio of FCP). Macromedia then decided that video wasn't a core part of their business and it all shifted to being Apples baby (or there abouts).