When I went to put my serial numbers in (which are within the qualifying range), it initially came back and told me that I do not qualify. On a second reload of the page (which took forever) it finally admitted that I did qualify, but when I went to register the page never finished loading. A final third attempt and again it claimed that I was out of luck.
Had to end up calling Apple support directly (800-275-2273) who admitted that they are being slammed and all the techs are taking serial numbers to enter at a later time when the servers get quiet again...
Just to save everyone the hassle of trying to get registered on the web site...
My first exposure to *NIX was via OpenBSD, which uses the same yes/no concept that FreeBSD does, but in my opinion does it even better. Anyways, since then I have tried to use more Linux oriented distros, but each time I had to deal with the entire rc.d mess, I simply ended up going back to FreeBSD and OpenBSD for both my desktop and server needs...
Especially for anyone coming over from the Windows server world, where you have a relatively easy way to look at and start/stop your services, the *BSD rc.conf file system is easy to understand and to start using!
Its a Divide and Conquer strategy! They get just one or two people to buy into this whole thing, then send them back and wait until the OSS movement gets split. Once it is a nice manageable size you can just smash it or simply ignore it.
Nice try, but hardly...
I used to be a fairly serious MS supporter and as a Networking consultant working in MS's backyard (aka Seattle/Redmond area), still have to play nice with their stuff. But even with all that I have switched to Firefox a long time ago and have switched nearly all of my clients as well, and nobody I know has ever regretted the change.
As much as I used to like IE (yeah, so sue me) and even hoped for a new "better" version when Firefox first started to become really visible, all I can now say is "too little, way too late".
Reminds me of a story an ex-colleague of mine told me once. Her brother was an XO on a nuclear missle sub and at one point gave her a limited tour of the boat. During the tour they ducked through a small room in which all of the consoles were covered. When she asked what was in that room her brother told her it was the computer used to calculate the trajectories for the missles. Apparently this design went back to the late 70s, but nobody was willing to replace it since this was more than enough computing horsepower to do the job and has been extensively tested to guarantee that all the bugs have been worked out.
With today's hardware you could probably replace that entire room with a handheld computer, but what would it require to fully test all possible permutations and guarantee it as acurate as the original?
Actually not too suprising in light of the earlier study that shows a majority of High School students do not consider the First Amendment a big deal and support censorship of newspapers by the goverment.
I did a contract at a local hospital a while back, during the upgrade of most of their desktops. Since the old systems were PII/350's, they were just disposed of, but because of HIPAA we had to pull the drives out. In order to safely destroy them, we would take the drives apart and pull all the magnets out, bend the platters and then dispose of them. Got a great collection of some really strong magnets out of it!
I just did that a few weekends ago. I have one of the original Microsoft Natural keyboards (the ones with the proper arrangement of the Insert/Home/Page up block and the inverse T arrows). It has been by far the tougest and most pleasant keyboards I have ever owned, so I had no desire to toss it just because its was getting filthy.
So I took it all apart, down to popping each individual keycap off, wiped everything down with anti-bacterial wet wipes and put it all back together again. Looks brand new, the keys are snappier than ever before! Considering that you can no longer buy this particular model it was time well spent.
BTW, for anyone that has never taken one of these keyboards apart, the plastic overlays with the circuits on it are a very impressive design that makes it nearly impossible to mess up on re-assembly!
a patent on a PB&J with the crust? Has the Patent Office ruled on that, or is this my one chance to sue every person that eats a sandwitch with a crust?
I don't think that is even a valid question, certianly not for 2215. While we can safely assume that technology as we know it will progress by expansion of current systems and methods for another 10-15 years, so 2015 is ok, the odds are that within the next 100 or 200 years the metaphor is likely to change. The concept of a browser is likely to be as outdate a concept is as the idea of a wax based audio recording tools is today.
With all due apologies to anyone from Kansas...
Does anyone besides me think that having any kind of a SF (or even science for that matter) in Kansas a bit pointless? After all this is the state where they put stickers on the biology book in HS! Or try to "teach" Intelligent Design and call it true science?
I'm sorry but I have no tolerance for people who use the technology every day of their lives but then turn around and claim that anything not in the bible is immoral...
I have a friend/client whose cat got sick while sleeping next to her laptop.... Poor cat got up, turned directly over the open laptop's keyboard and threw up all over it... She immedately pulled the power and battery from the laptop, flipped it over to drain the goop and called me. By the time I was able to show up a few hours later, the puke was pretty much all gone, though a couple of the keys crunched nicely after that, but the laptop worked fine!
A bit of swabbing and compressed air finally cleaned it all up... Go Dell!
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It is truly a sad day when with a lawsuit we can stop people from using their brains, talents and natural curiosity. Next up the Thought Police!
Personally I'd rather wait until the color version is available... (maybe with a one-click auto-post of certain images might be nice)
I guess that just leaves carving a message into the face of the moon with a gigantic laser... :-)
Had to end up calling Apple support directly (800-275-2273) who admitted that they are being slammed and all the techs are taking serial numbers to enter at a later time when the servers get quiet again...
Just to save everyone the hassle of trying to get registered on the web site...
How about simply less copyright and more free access to data, especially stuff that is older that 50 years?
Especially for anyone coming over from the Windows server world, where you have a relatively easy way to look at and start/stop your services, the *BSD rc.conf file system is easy to understand and to start using!
Its a Divide and Conquer strategy! They get just one or two people to buy into this whole thing, then send them back and wait until the OSS movement gets split. Once it is a nice manageable size you can just smash it or simply ignore it.
* The penguin is the cutest mascot ever,
* and the Sky is still blue
Yep, MS is still a monopoly and acting as such! Never saw that one coming... :-)
As much as I used to like IE (yeah, so sue me) and even hoped for a new "better" version when Firefox first started to become really visible, all I can now say is "too little, way too late".
With today's hardware you could probably replace that entire room with a handheld computer, but what would it require to fully test all possible permutations and guarantee it as acurate as the original?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6888837/
I did a contract at a local hospital a while back, during the upgrade of most of their desktops. Since the old systems were PII/350's, they were just disposed of, but because of HIPAA we had to pull the drives out. In order to safely destroy them, we would take the drives apart and pull all the magnets out, bend the platters and then dispose of them. Got a great collection of some really strong magnets out of it!
So I took it all apart, down to popping each individual keycap off, wiped everything down with anti-bacterial wet wipes and put it all back together again. Looks brand new, the keys are snappier than ever before! Considering that you can no longer buy this particular model it was time well spent.
BTW, for anyone that has never taken one of these keyboards apart, the plastic overlays with the circuits on it are a very impressive design that makes it nearly impossible to mess up on re-assembly!
a patent on a PB&J with the crust? Has the Patent Office ruled on that, or is this my one chance to sue every person that eats a sandwitch with a crust?
Didn't we see this in a James Bond movie? (Never Say Never Again) As I recall that was quite the cheesy game...
Hobbes!!
What do you get when you cross Tiny Toons and Star Trek? Why Tiny Trek of course.... bad image, must - flush - brain (brain, brain - what is brain?)
I don't think that is even a valid question, certianly not for 2215. While we can safely assume that technology as we know it will progress by expansion of current systems and methods for another 10-15 years, so 2015 is ok, the odds are that within the next 100 or 200 years the metaphor is likely to change. The concept of a browser is likely to be as outdate a concept is as the idea of a wax based audio recording tools is today.
With all due apologies to anyone from Kansas... Does anyone besides me think that having any kind of a SF (or even science for that matter) in Kansas a bit pointless? After all this is the state where they put stickers on the biology book in HS! Or try to "teach" Intelligent Design and call it true science? I'm sorry but I have no tolerance for people who use the technology every day of their lives but then turn around and claim that anything not in the bible is immoral...
Hum - I guess next we are going to need a GPL type license for Open Source (or should that be Open Access) roads?
A bit of swabbing and compressed air finally cleaned it all up... Go Dell!