"Now I have no preference in the whole AMD vs Intel debate..."
Me too. Except Intel's love for DRM has me worried. And all this processor X is 1% faster than processor Y reminds me of a classical joke. It goes something like this: A science teacher introduces a guest speaker to the class to talk about the Sun. In his talk he says, "The core temperature of the Sun is 15,000,000 degrees". The teacher interrupts and says, "Is that Celsius or Fahrenheit?". The guest speaker looks at him dauntingly and says, "Does it matter!?".
"Or the fact that now that it's been implemented, there are still quirks. In IE6 on Windows XP"
It is a challenge to write CSS+XHTML for IE6. Your CSS has to contain "hacks" because IE does not implement the box model correctly in addition to other things. So when you use a doc type of !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd "
for example, it kicks IE into a mode that will have you spending hours (if at all) trying to make look like all the other browers.
It would be nice if I could assign, say, a color to a variable in CSS so to change the color I would only need to do it one place and have it propogate through out the style sheet, for example. Same goes for other attributes like width, spacing, etc. Is there any plan for that in the future?
"All theoretical arguments aside, I've never had film come close to matching the sharpness of images I get from my 6MP DSLR... "
Interesting. I have just the opposite experience. But I'm old fashion, I guess. I still use this this old technology camera featured on the page with Pyrogallol developer for BW film, a one-degree Pentax spot meter and often custom develop each sheet for the scene it exposed for (the "zone system"). The results are stunning.
I imagine he did to get nearly equal feaures on the OS. Read MS EULA for the home and OEM edition. It is limited on the number of connected computers. XP Pro bumps this artifical limitation up a little to an amazing 10. A quick glance at Apple's EULA, I didn't see this imposed restriction.
" I tried Ubuntu - it's not great, it's downright crippled"
Yes, the default installation is. Add the Universe and Restricted repositories in/etc/apt/sources.list and then apt-get the distro whipped into shape. I was shocked too that the default didn't bring in compling tools. Or even sshd when you select install as a sever... sigh. But, hey, you get alsa when you select install as a server. Just what you need for that config, right?
"Why a Unix user would buy a Mac desktop machine is beyond me though."
On the contrary, I think it makes good sense. OSX is POSIX. Dig out the termial from under the pretty GUI, install fink, bring some GNU apps and a Unix person will be right at home. More so than on a non POSIX, that's for sure. And when that person wants to get into multimedia type work or do their taxes, they have a platform for that too. Plus your OSX box will interoperate nicely with other Unix like systems.
"ASCII boobs date back at least to the teletype era... I'm sure some enterprising young engineer found ways to make punchcard boobs before that."
It would be interesting to find the earliest use of ASCII images. The first general purpose teletype goes back to around 1922. And the punch card as early as 1725. And if someone was transmitting ASCII boobs via punch cards or teletype, wouldn't that be considered ASCII art? These early sex-starved geeks would indeed predate the common practice of ASCII art on typewrites as early as 1948.
"Yes, you can do that, yes, it is legal, and no, MS is not stopping people from doing so."
Maybe now you can after this poor dude, David Zamos, tried to sell his copy, and faced the wrath of Microsoft's lawyers. But David fought back. An amazing and sad story, IMHO, how big corps expect us pee-on consumers' to just roll over.
I wanted to print some labels in iWorks but couldn't. What gives with that. They expect you to shove the whole envelope in the printer in lieu of labels. Pages needs more work.
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" It's not likely that open office will be a success until they have a native os x port."
They pretty much do, NeoOffice: http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/ It is not 100% OS X native yet but it does interface with OS X pretty good and has the OS X look and feel, mostly. It's not built off of OO.o v2.0 level yet but give it time.
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"For a single-user system, sudo is pointless."
You have that backwards. On a single user box, it makes the most sense to use sudo. On the other hand, having multiple user accounts on a box and administrated by another person then a root account makes sense.
As others have said. You can type
$ sudo -i
which is really no more a effort than typing
$ su
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"And it's far more likely that someone gets my user password that the actual root password."
That is the big question. However, in a remote attack, a user account name may not be known. The root user account name is (part of the barrier is solved). Cracking a user account password is just as hard as the root unless, of course, you assume a person creating a root account would use a stronger password than a user account.
"First with a juvenile design that won't appeal to adult purchasers of consumer electronics. Second, XBox is a stupid name for a sophisticated consumer electronics device."
You've got that right, big-time. And if you tell the decorative-conscience wife you're going to put an XBox in the living room as part of the entertainment center, you'll most likely get an answer, "not in my house you're NOT!".
"For me, the most annoying thing about GNOME/X/KDE/Linux desktops at the moment is the quality of fonts."
Hum, could it be a function of the monitor? I have a Linux box connected to an Apple 23" HD Cinema monitor and a Linux box connected to a 19" View Sonic. The fonts on the HD Cinema/Linux are better than the fonts at work on my Dell/WinXP box (all digital monitors). But the fonts on the ViewSonic/Linux are worse than the others. And I, too, have tried to improve it but with no luck.
"I've watched 2001: A Space Odyssey about a month ago and I must say that I enjoyed it much more than most movies I've seen in the past 8 years (including Episodes 1-3 of Star Wars)."
An interesting aspect of Space Odyssey was its attention to actual issues in space like gravity and sound, for instance. In today's movies, gravity is never a problem, sound travels through the vacuum of space and a ship can partially be destroyed and the oxygen is mysteriously still there for the survivors. I realize the move maker has a poetic license but sometimes I feel they take it too far.
"Eh ? Windows has an _excellent_ record of being usable on older hardware. "
On x86 hardware only, I'd like to add. Yes, that might not mean much to people and I'm sure you are referring to home desktops. But there is a older equipment that can be utilized that's not x86. And *BSD/Linux has that flexibility that is lacking in Windows without added expense when it comes to going beyond x86.
I'm glad to hear you made it out alive. But CNN report was missing a lot of detail. Did the ship's Kernel get GNUend down in the Raid 5 attack? Did the pirates steal anything else like a Perl, Ruby, token or Cache from the passengers?
And did anybody get the name of the pirate ship that must have just zipped out of iSight without a traceroute. The whole incident seems awful suspicious to me. These guys must have had a man-in-the-middle to hijack that ship so easily.
22-Dec-05 - Final Deadline for Parties to Identify with Specificity All Allegedly Misused Material
27-Jan-06 - Close of All Fact Discovery Except As to Defenses to Claims Relating to Allegedly Misused Material
17-Mar-06 - Close of All Remaining Discovery (i.e., Fact Discovery As to Defenses to Any Claim Relating to Allegedly Misused Material)
As you can see, we're in the part that I've highlighted in red [bold], which is over on March 17. It's all about defenses now. In other words, SCO filed it's list of ha ha allegedly misused material, and now IBM gets to do discovery to establish its defenses. Don't forget the expert witnesses also:
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"Now I have no preference in the whole AMD vs Intel debate..."
Me too. Except Intel's love for DRM has me worried. And all this processor X is 1% faster than processor Y reminds me of a classical joke. It goes something like this:
A science teacher introduces a guest speaker to the class to talk about the Sun. In his talk he says, "The core temperature of the Sun is 15,000,000 degrees". The teacher interrupts and says, "Is that Celsius or Fahrenheit?". The guest speaker looks at him dauntingly and says, "Does it matter!?".
"Like /.ers ever care to RTFA ..."
Except in this case it is LTFA (listen).
"Or the fact that now that it's been implemented, there are still quirks. In IE6 on Windows XP"
d "
It is a challenge to write CSS+XHTML for IE6. Your CSS has to contain "hacks" because IE does not implement the box model correctly in addition to other things. So when you use a doc type of
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dt
for example, it kicks IE into a mode that will have you spending hours (if at all) trying to make look like all the other browers.
It would be nice if I could assign, say, a color to a variable in CSS so to change the color I would only need to do it one place and have it propogate through out the style sheet, for example. Same goes for other attributes like width, spacing, etc. Is there any plan for that in the future?
"All theoretical arguments aside, I've never had film come close to matching the sharpness of images I get from my 6MP DSLR... "
Interesting. I have just the opposite experience. But I'm old fashion, I guess. I still use this this old technology camera featured on the page with Pyrogallol developer for BW film, a one-degree Pentax spot meter and often custom develop each sheet for the scene it exposed for (the "zone system"). The results are stunning.
And when you read inbetween the lines, Microsoft's idea of a truce is that Open Source surrenders.
"But out of curiosity why did you add XP Pro? "
I imagine he did to get nearly equal feaures on the OS. Read MS EULA for the home and OEM edition. It is limited on the number of connected computers. XP Pro bumps this artifical limitation up a little to an amazing 10. A quick glance at Apple's EULA, I didn't see this imposed restriction.
" Then I guess you've never been to college, not even attended a single quarter or semester there."
Another possiblility is the GP went through college with a silver spoon in his mouth and didn't have to suffer financial burdens.
Good point.
" I tried Ubuntu - it's not great, it's downright crippled"
/etc/apt/sources.list and then apt-get the distro whipped into shape. I was shocked too that the default didn't bring in compling tools. Or even sshd when you select install as a sever... sigh. But, hey, you get alsa when you select install as a server. Just what you need for that config, right?
Yes, the default installation is. Add the Universe and Restricted repositories in
"Why a Unix user would buy a Mac desktop machine is beyond me though."
On the contrary, I think it makes good sense. OSX is POSIX. Dig out the termial from under the pretty GUI, install fink, bring some GNU apps and a Unix person will be right at home. More so than on a non POSIX, that's for sure. And when that person wants to get into multimedia type work or do their taxes, they have a platform for that too. Plus your OSX box will interoperate nicely with other Unix like systems.
"ASCII boobs date back at least to the teletype era... I'm sure some enterprising young engineer found ways to make punchcard boobs before that."
It would be interesting to find the earliest use of ASCII images. The first general purpose teletype goes back to around 1922. And the punch card as early as 1725. And if someone was transmitting ASCII boobs via punch cards or teletype, wouldn't that be considered ASCII art? These early sex-starved geeks would indeed predate the common practice of ASCII art on typewrites as early as 1948.
"Yes, you can do that, yes, it is legal, and no, MS is not stopping people from doing so."
Maybe now you can after this poor dude, David Zamos, tried to sell his copy, and faced the wrath of Microsoft's lawyers. But David fought back. An amazing and sad story, IMHO, how big corps expect us pee-on consumers' to just roll over.
Excellent, sir. I thank you for that.
I wanted to print some labels in iWorks but couldn't. What gives with that. They expect you to shove the whole envelope in the printer in lieu of labels. Pages needs more work.
" It's not likely that open office will be a success until they have a native os x port."
They pretty much do, NeoOffice: http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/ It is not 100% OS X native yet but it does interface with OS X pretty good and has the OS X look and feel, mostly. It's not built off of OO.o v2.0 level yet but give it time.
"For a single-user system, sudo is pointless."
You have that backwards. On a single user box, it makes the most sense to use sudo. On the other hand, having multiple user accounts on a box and administrated by another person then a root account makes sense.
As others have said. You can type
$ sudo -i
which is really no more a effort than typing
$ su
"And it's far more likely that someone gets my user password that the actual root password."
That is the big question. However, in a remote attack, a user account name may not be known. The root user account name is (part of the barrier is solved). Cracking a user account password is just as hard as the root unless, of course, you assume a person creating a root account would use a stronger password than a user account.
"First with a juvenile design that won't appeal to adult purchasers of consumer electronics. Second, XBox is a stupid name for a sophisticated consumer electronics device."
You've got that right, big-time. And if you tell the decorative-conscience wife you're going to put an XBox in the living room as part of the entertainment center, you'll most likely get an answer, "not in my house you're NOT!".
"For me, the most annoying thing about GNOME/X/KDE/Linux desktops at the moment is the quality of fonts."
Hum, could it be a function of the monitor? I have a Linux box connected to an Apple 23" HD Cinema monitor and a Linux box connected to a 19" View Sonic. The fonts on the HD Cinema/Linux are better than the fonts at work on my Dell/WinXP box (all digital monitors). But the fonts on the ViewSonic/Linux are worse than the others. And I, too, have tried to improve it but with no luck.
"I've watched 2001: A Space Odyssey about a month ago and I must say that I enjoyed it much more than most movies I've seen in the past 8 years (including Episodes 1-3 of Star Wars)."
An interesting aspect of Space Odyssey was its attention to actual issues in space like gravity and sound, for instance. In today's movies, gravity is never a problem, sound travels through the vacuum of space and a ship can partially be destroyed and the oxygen is mysteriously still there for the survivors. I realize the move maker has a poetic license but sometimes I feel they take it too far.
"Eh ? Windows has an _excellent_ record of being usable on older hardware. "
On x86 hardware only, I'd like to add. Yes, that might not mean much to people and I'm sure you are referring to home desktops. But there is a older equipment that can be utilized that's not x86. And *BSD/Linux has that flexibility that is lacking in Windows without added expense when it comes to going beyond x86.
" must be some alien SETI project"
I think it's little green men in a black war pushing the red button.
"I was there and it was awful."
I'm glad to hear you made it out alive. But CNN report was missing a lot of detail. Did the ship's Kernel get GNUend down in the Raid 5 attack? Did the pirates steal anything else like a Perl, Ruby, token or Cache from the passengers?
And did anybody get the name of the pirate ship that must have just zipped out of iSight without a traceroute. The whole incident seems awful suspicious to me. These guys must have had a man-in-the-middle to hijack that ship so easily.
Still, I have to wonder why IBM is willing to spend the money for the additional activity?
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Because the drama, oops I mean SCO vs IBM case, is not over. It is still in the descovery process.
From http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060221
22-Dec-05 - Final Deadline for Parties to Identify with Specificity All Allegedly Misused Material
27-Jan-06 - Close of All Fact Discovery Except As to Defenses to Claims Relating to Allegedly Misused Material
17-Mar-06 - Close of All Remaining Discovery (i.e., Fact Discovery As to Defenses to Any Claim Relating to Allegedly Misused Material)
As you can see, we're in the part that I've highlighted in red [bold], which is over on March 17. It's all about defenses now. In other words, SCO filed it's list of ha ha allegedly misused material, and now IBM gets to do discovery to establish its defenses. Don't forget the expert witnesses also:
14-Apr-06 - Initial Expert Reports
19-May-06 - Opposing Expert Reports
16-Jun-06 - Rebuttal Expert Reports
10-July-06 - Final Deadline for Expert Discovery