You took the job after the choice was made, why were you wasting the client's time criticizing the vendor's way of doing things?
The vendor is always wrong. Never fight with the vendor, plan around instead. That's true of Solaris, RedHat, Apple, IBM, any vendor. (Microsoft, you can't work around, so you just plan on not building anything you haven't confirmed already works on their software. But they aren't a real vendor, they don't sell, they only lease.)
First check out whether it can be done with the stock install. If it can't, absolutely do not upgrade the stock software, because you want the vendor to take the heat on system-wide upgrades. Let Apple's updater do its job.
If you use perl in some custom application, install perl for your application separately. Do not use the system install of perl for your application. (This is good advice on many systems that include perl because they have system tools that rely on it.)
By using a separate install of perl for your application, you allow yourself to control the update schedule independently of the vendor. You also control the modules installed this way.
You probably think that's a waste of space, and it is, but it's least wasteful than trying to balance all the versioning issues. If you look at the way Java apps get installed, with xalan in this jar and that jar and the other war, and your ide can see four or eight different installs of xalan, and you wonder what's going on. But right now, it's cheaper to not bother trying to figure out whether already installed version X will work when you developed with version W.9.
This little boy's "hat" was too small to wash under, from what I was told. The boy would not allow the parents to clean it, and would not do it himself until the infection made it clear why. Apparently, after a couple of years of washing appropriately, it's still painful.
I'd be a little less cynical of the "do away with circumcision" concept if that site were raising the same fuss about getting pediatricians to educate parents.
As it is, it just looks like they are complaining because it takes away the excitement of sex, and I don't think that can be argued in the same breath as arguing that it doesn't reduce masturbation.
I am aware of a young boy who developed a what could have been a life threatening infection due to the parents' failure to have circumcision performed. First doctor to examine him thought he had a hernia. By the time the parents got him to a urologist, he had suffered two bouts with high fevers and was close to losing more than the foreskin. Cleaning things up was very painful for the poor kid, but at least he wasn't disfigured permanently.
I'll grant that female circumcision is not generally advisable. But there are a lot of things that aren't just black and white in this world.
I hate the imprecision of MSWindows. Linux is improving and Mac OS X almost has the precision of the old Classic, but they've had to de-tune it for the switchers who get upset when the mouse follows their hand motions too well.
There are limits, though. That's why some drafting-type software let's shift modes and nudge.
And they don't use a lot of hotkeys and find-as-you-type junk. Most of the keyboarding is typing in the equations in their heads, but the occasional use of the mouse sure saves a lot of typing in search phrases trying to get at stuff that is already on screen.
The main PowerPC processor has been, as I understand it, stripped down a bit (wonder why Steve's mad?) to allow the clock rate to be kicked up over 3GHz.
Come to think of it, maybe the whole reason G5s haven't done 3GHz is the complexities Steve insisted on.
(Stumbling in the dark, here.)
You wouldn't trust them beyond $5 to do the right thing?
I don't gamble, but I'd give close to half odds that the first thing they did was use symantec. I'd even give better than one in ten that they might not even yet have wiped the system. And I'd even give close to 1 in 2 that they have not yet pulled the raid, restored from last week's backup, and started scrubbing executables from the the off-line db raid so they can extract and update.
My 10.2 iBook sometimes gets slowed down by something screwing with permissions in the input method or auto-spell-checking stuff. One thing that may help is using the disk utility on the CD to repair permissions.
If you don't know where that is, Boot the install CD, look immediately in the install menu before you click any other buttons. The disk repair menu has two options, you should recognize which repairs permissions if you know that it's there.
Caveat -- the database has been known to get screwed up, leaving you having to go get on the apple support boards and hunt for the name of a file that you have to change by hand.
So the best thing is to get on the apple support boards and look for clues on slow spotlight first.
I tried using Norton, and it just sucked way too much power out of the box. So I shut off active protection, just used it to scan files from suspicious sources. Then I uninstalled it.
There was that AV done by the college professor, but he gave that up around system 8.1 or so. Disinfectant, it was called. Didn't expect to have time for it any more. But the flood never came.
During most the '90s, the most effective anti-virus for the Mac was a part-time project from a college professor and a few of his students.
One mostly unproductive government in place is worth several hundred do-gooders trying to break the door down.
If that doesn't parse, the product of a too-productive government is digit rights management legislation, mandatory wireless ID cards and passports, laws against encryption the government can't break, anti-monopoly trials that let the monopoly move ahead,...
The product of a government that knows when not to produce is to get in the way of the people that want productive government and to stand out of the way of people who want to work in the open.
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You took the job after the choice was made, why were you wasting the client's time criticizing the vendor's way of doing things?
The vendor is always wrong. Never fight with the vendor, plan around instead. That's true of Solaris, RedHat, Apple, IBM, any vendor. (Microsoft, you can't work around, so you just plan on not building anything you haven't confirmed already works on their software. But they aren't a real vendor, they don't sell, they only lease.)
First check out whether it can be done with the stock install. If it can't, absolutely do not upgrade the stock software, because you want the vendor to take the heat on system-wide upgrades. Let Apple's updater do its job.
If you use perl in some custom application, install perl for your application separately. Do not use the system install of perl for your application. (This is good advice on many systems that include perl because they have system tools that rely on it.)
By using a separate install of perl for your application, you allow yourself to control the update schedule independently of the vendor. You also control the modules installed this way.
You probably think that's a waste of space, and it is, but it's least wasteful than trying to balance all the versioning issues. If you look at the way Java apps get installed, with xalan in this jar and that jar and the other war, and your ide can see four or eight different installs of xalan, and you wonder what's going on. But right now, it's cheaper to not bother trying to figure out whether already installed version X will work when you developed with version W.9.
This little boy's "hat" was too small to wash under, from what I was told. The boy would not allow the parents to clean it, and would not do it himself until the infection made it clear why. Apparently, after a couple of years of washing appropriately, it's still painful.
I'd be a little less cynical of the "do away with circumcision" concept if that site were raising the same fuss about getting pediatricians to educate parents.
As it is, it just looks like they are complaining because it takes away the excitement of sex, and I don't think that can be argued in the same breath as arguing that it doesn't reduce masturbation.
Computers, of course!!!!!!!
Hey, see, we can put the human genome in a database. Surely we can put all the things a human genome-derived human can invent in a database.
You think I'm kidding. Unfortunately, patent lawyers do not.
I am aware of a young boy who developed a what could have been a life threatening infection due to the parents' failure to have circumcision performed. First doctor to examine him thought he had a hernia. By the time the parents got him to a urologist, he had suffered two bouts with high fevers and was close to losing more than the foreskin. Cleaning things up was very painful for the poor kid, but at least he wasn't disfigured permanently.
I'll grant that female circumcision is not generally advisable. But there are a lot of things that aren't just black and white in this world.
Hmm.
Ehhhhhht-to ...
VisualStudio?
The quote currently at the bottom of this page says it all:
is that we don't know until we do the experiments, and the experiments can be dangerous.
Still, it's probably better to make the experiment cover a smaller population than all the people who buy a certain group of brands.
here it is again andagain and again.
you have to look down the page a bit, but here it is again.
I hate the imprecision of MSWindows. Linux is improving and Mac OS X almost has the precision of the old Classic, but they've had to de-tune it for the switchers who get upset when the mouse follows their hand motions too well.
There are limits, though. That's why some drafting-type software let's shift modes and nudge.
I think we need two mice, myself.
And they don't use a lot of hotkeys and find-as-you-type junk. Most of the keyboarding is typing in the equations in their heads, but the occasional use of the mouse sure saves a lot of typing in search phrases trying to get at stuff that is already on screen.
It's a very small gun.
The main PowerPC processor has been, as I understand it, stripped down a bit (wonder why Steve's mad?) to allow the clock rate to be kicked up over 3GHz. Come to think of it, maybe the whole reason G5s haven't done 3GHz is the complexities Steve insisted on. (Stumbling in the dark, here.)
You're high, or you haven't looked at cell.
Using the cross-platform nature of Web Objects as proof of the Cross-platform nature of Cocoa seemed a bit pointless. We already knew that.
And now it seems to have even less point.
But do I expect all the geeks who claimed they'd buy Macs on iNTEL to actually do so?
(webobjects == cocoa) ? 0 : 1
You wouldn't trust them beyond $5 to do the right thing?
I don't gamble, but I'd give close to half odds that the first thing they did was use symantec. I'd even give better than one in ten that they might not even yet have wiped the system. And I'd even give close to 1 in 2 that they have not yet pulled the raid, restored from last week's backup, and started scrubbing executables from the the off-line db raid so they can extract and update.
Man. panic time.
And why should I trust that list?
I do not misunderstand why people feel the need to defend Bill Gates and company, unfortunately.
My 10.2 iBook sometimes gets slowed down by something screwing with permissions in the input method or auto-spell-checking stuff. One thing that may help is using the disk utility on the CD to repair permissions.
If you don't know where that is, Boot the install CD, look immediately in the install menu before you click any other buttons. The disk repair menu has two options, you should recognize which repairs permissions if you know that it's there.
Caveat -- the database has been known to get screwed up, leaving you having to go get on the apple support boards and hunt for the name of a file that you have to change by hand.
So the best thing is to get on the apple support boards and look for clues on slow spotlight first.
is the question I need answered.
Mark parent up. I read the news here, too.
Hmm?
I tried using Norton, and it just sucked way too much power out of the box. So I shut off active protection, just used it to scan files from suspicious sources. Then I uninstalled it.
There was that AV done by the college professor, but he gave that up around system 8.1 or so. Disinfectant, it was called. Didn't expect to have time for it any more. But the flood never came.
During most the '90s, the most effective anti-virus for the Mac was a part-time project from a college professor and a few of his students.
And it was all that was necessary.
If you're productive enough in MSW2003, use it.
Just for a data point, though. My sister's iBook is hanging on a Comcast sharkfin, no firewall.
No problem.
One mostly unproductive government in place is worth several hundred do-gooders trying to break the door down.
...
If that doesn't parse, the product of a too-productive government is digit rights management legislation, mandatory wireless ID cards and passports, laws against encryption the government can't break, anti-monopoly trials that let the monopoly move ahead,
The product of a government that knows when not to produce is to get in the way of the people that want productive government and to stand out of the way of people who want to work in the open.
The less government tries to do for us, the more we do for ourselves, the more free (not as in beer) we are.