I've been thinking about trying FreeBSD (currently run Mint 18.2) How well does it perform on semi-modern hardware? Say, like a notebook with Intel graphics, backlit keyboard, Intel Wifi, Synaptics i2c touchpad, etc? How's battery life? I appreciate that there's more than one non-MS choice, but I'm under the impression that Linux is still the best choice for a notebook. Am I mistaken?
I had a smoother experience with OpenBSD on my (old-ish) ThinkPad. FreeBSD tends to have newer drivers than OpenBSD. I've seen similar anecdotes that one or the other was much better out of the box on various laptop models.
Intel graphics was smooth sailing on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I had to change one setting to get the Intel wireless working in FreeBSD (fine out of box in OpenBSD), and the Synaptics touchpad works under both, but FreeBSD took a kernel extension and playing around with config files to make the touchpad less finicky.
If you're curious, I suggest a test install of one and then the other on an external hard drive or USB stick to see which best detects your hardware.
A hybrid Mac/Windows CD of AppleWorks 6 is available from the Apple Store for Education. Store for Education to K-12 and higher education faculty and students.
If you exchange your Visa for a MasterCard, you won't really be boycotting Visa:
Visa and Mastercard are really two names for the same economic enterprise, i.e. a group of 6000 banks. Of these, the same 50 or so big banks own, govern and make all of the competitive decisions for the brands called Visa and Mastercard. From PBS
Visa and MasterCard are being sued by American Express and the DOJ for antitrust and by a a group of retailers for antitrust related to debit cards.
Claris was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Apple spun off in 1987. In 1998 Apple restructed Claris as FileMaker, Inc. to focus on its most profitable product, FileMaker. Apple killed the other Claris-branded software (Emailer and Home Page being the most notable) and returned the office suite known as ClarisWorks to its pre-1987 name: AppleWorks.
Finding a decent job with an English major depends on what area your concentration is in. I know recent graduates whose concentrations were in technical writing that have good jobs writing documentation. I'm averse to math and incensed by the myopia of business, but computers and I get along rather well. The solution, for me, is to major in English with an eye on law school or technical documentation.
I used OS/2 every day of my life from 1993-1999.
That reads like an epitaph but that's what I get for leading my post with melodrama:)
I switched to Linux and Mac OS after OS/2 (read my profile), but last week I bought a new Athlon box to play with. Feeling nostalogic and curious to see OS/2 on modern hardware, I fought a losing battle with the Server for e-business installer for a few hours on Saturday. (Yes, I downloaded the new IDEDASD.)
I'll try again this weekend. OS/2 can still be a great niche OS. I'd love to have it on one of my desktops again, but I don't think Serenity Systems will be around for long. The price is exorbitant, drivers are still sparce, and the name/marketing is awful.
Side-note: Server for e-business was the second-to-last official IBM release of OS/2 prior to licensing to SS. It had most of the major features of eCS: HPFS386, new TCP/IP stack, JFS, and the new kernel (4.5 is the rev, I believe). OS/2 Warp Convenience Pack was the last IBM consumer-oriented release. Good to know if anyone's interested in picking up a usable copy on eBay.
It's hard to preach a monotheistic view of the world if all sorts of ideas are available to your kids online and via TV, music and film.
The problem with globalization is that a few multinational corporations exercise de facto control the aforementioned media except for the Internet. I don't think that Disney, Fox, and Viacom necessarily present "all sorts of ideas."
My understanding is many non-Westerners fear globalization because it means American popular culture becomes the world standard and erodes indigenous values. A valid concern.
And the new global electronic economy -- involving fund managers, banks, corporations and millions of individual investors -- can transfer vast sums of capital from one part of the world to another in seconds, quickly stabilizing or de-stabilizing economies[...]
...which is a frightening, powerful mechanism for political coercion.
Globalization isn't inherently evil nor good, but it does require new paradigms in government and economics.
The $299 is more than likely the price AFTER a few hundred dollar rebate that requires a long term contract with an ISP (CompuServe, MSN, or AOL most likey)...now what would this company that obviously has serious work to do on a Beowulf cluster want with 30 four-year subscriptions to MSN?:)
Sonnet (www.sonnettech.com) is preparing to release a motherboard replacement for the first few generations of iMacs, they add a faster CPU and FireWire. Nifty.
Since Apple boxen are tightly controlled CPU upgrades are easy. Take a look at www.sonnettech.com
The PowerMac towers stick the CPU on a daughtercard, and most PowerBooks (and even the iMac) have had some kind of CPU upgrade developed for them -- it's easy when there's only a few logic board designs and a larger number of users per logic board than in the x86 world.
I know that my new browser of choice (OmniWeb) by default identifies itself as IE as well...I use Opera quite a bit too.
I think it's very important for "alternative" browsers to identify themselves correctly -- it's important to keep webmasters from coding specifically for IE or NS. (I masquerade my OmniWeb as Mozilla)
The only reason that I ever order from Amazon is because they stock those "slow-selling" books that I would have to special order from my local store.
I don't want to pay extra for shipping (then wait for the book to arrive) when I can go to a local retail bookstore and buy the same "fast-selling" book and browse other new books.
--Sean
NeXSTEP/OpenStep and now Mac OS X both do a better job of united a unix (FreeBSD) backend with an object oriented user interface and provide a more rapid development enviroment.
It is a shame about Be, though...
The first carder spends just a little over two hours with his girlfriend. For a "movie and back to her place" -- he's embellishing at best. Neither of them seem to have a live. They just sit in the bedrooms with laptops and buy more computers and games with their scammed money.
So- they don't mind living a paranoid life because they haven't much of one to begin with!
StarDivision has a long history with OS/2. I think their first development efforts were on StarWriter for OS/2. There is an older Mac OS version of StarOffice. I know that StarDivision intended to port the latest version to the Mac OS. I thought that Sun was going to continue to develop it. It's logical, since they want to compete with MS Office and since Office 98 for Mac OS is almost tolerable now. --Sean R.
They do continue to "improve [their] product" -- FixPaks are still released regularly, and OS/2 Warp Server for e-business (4.5) was released this year. IBM has ceded the mid-range workstation to NT (i.e., not mission critical enough to require a unix, but critical enough to need more than a consumer OS)...it's sad. I agree with an earlier poster -- if OS/2 must die it's a "good" time. Linux is mature enough to make me comfortable switching my systems to it some time in the future. --Sean R. (Writing from a workstation running OS/2 Warp Server for e-business, because he loves OS/2 enough to pay way too much to run the latest [server] version:P)
I agree with your comment. Just wanted to point out: OS/2 4.0 with the latest FixPak is rather stable. I'm running OS/2 Warp Server for e-business (OS/2 4.5 - with the new enhancements such as JFS, more efficient TCP/IP stack) and it is *extremely stable*. More stable running its GUI than is Linux + XF86 (in my experience). Comparing GUI vs. GUI - PM/WPS is more stable.
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I've been thinking about trying FreeBSD (currently run Mint 18.2) How well does it perform on semi-modern hardware? Say, like a notebook with Intel graphics, backlit keyboard, Intel Wifi, Synaptics i2c touchpad, etc? How's battery life? I appreciate that there's more than one non-MS choice, but I'm under the impression that Linux is still the best choice for a notebook. Am I mistaken?
I had a smoother experience with OpenBSD on my (old-ish) ThinkPad. FreeBSD tends to have newer drivers than OpenBSD. I've seen similar anecdotes that one or the other was much better out of the box on various laptop models.
Intel graphics was smooth sailing on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I had to change one setting to get the Intel wireless working in FreeBSD (fine out of box in OpenBSD), and the Synaptics touchpad works under both, but FreeBSD took a kernel extension and playing around with config files to make the touchpad less finicky.
If you're curious, I suggest a test install of one and then the other on an external hard drive or USB stick to see which best detects your hardware.
A hybrid Mac/Windows CD of AppleWorks 6 is available from the Apple Store for Education.
Store for Education to K-12 and higher education faculty and students.
If you exchange your Visa for a MasterCard, you won't really be boycotting Visa:
Visa and Mastercard are really two names for the same economic enterprise, i.e. a group of 6000 banks. Of these, the same 50 or so big banks own, govern and make all of the competitive decisions for the brands called Visa and Mastercard.
From PBS
Visa and MasterCard are being sued by American Express and the DOJ for antitrust and by a a group of retailers for antitrust related to debit cards.
Claris was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Apple spun off in 1987.
In 1998 Apple restructed Claris as FileMaker, Inc. to focus on its most profitable product, FileMaker. Apple killed the other Claris-branded software (Emailer and Home Page being the most notable) and returned the office suite known as ClarisWorks to its pre-1987 name: AppleWorks.
Finding a decent job with an English major depends on what area your concentration is in. I know recent graduates whose concentrations were in technical writing that have good jobs writing documentation.
I'm averse to math and incensed by the myopia of business, but computers and I get along rather well. The solution, for me, is to major in English with an eye on law school or technical documentation.
A rather verbose way of stating a favorite maxim of my history professor:
"We are a country of men and laws. A law is a bunch of words. If no man enforces it, it doesn't matter."
I used OS/2 every day of my life from 1993-1999. :)
That reads like an epitaph but that's what I get for leading my post with melodrama
I switched to Linux and Mac OS after OS/2 (read my profile), but last week I bought a new Athlon box to play with. Feeling nostalogic and curious to see OS/2 on modern hardware, I fought a losing battle with the Server for e-business installer for a few hours on Saturday. (Yes, I downloaded the new IDEDASD.)
I'll try again this weekend. OS/2 can still be a great niche OS. I'd love to have it on one of my desktops again, but I don't think Serenity Systems will be around for long. The price is exorbitant, drivers are still sparce, and the name/marketing is awful.
Side-note: Server for e-business was the second-to-last official IBM release of OS/2 prior to licensing to SS. It had most of the major features of eCS: HPFS386, new TCP/IP stack, JFS, and the new kernel (4.5 is the rev, I believe). OS/2 Warp Convenience Pack was the last IBM consumer-oriented release. Good to know if anyone's interested in picking up a usable copy on eBay.
It's hard to preach a monotheistic view of the world if all sorts of ideas are available to your kids online and via TV, music and film.
The problem with globalization is that a few multinational corporations exercise de facto control the aforementioned media except for the Internet. I don't think that Disney, Fox, and Viacom necessarily present "all sorts of ideas."
My understanding is many non-Westerners fear globalization because it means American popular culture becomes the world standard and erodes indigenous values. A valid concern.
And the new global electronic economy -- involving fund managers, banks, corporations and millions of individual investors -- can transfer vast sums of capital from one part of the world to another in seconds, quickly stabilizing or de-stabilizing economies[...]
...which is a frightening, powerful mechanism for political coercion.
Globalization isn't inherently evil nor good, but it does require new paradigms in government and economics.
I'm impressed, and I stand corrected.
The $299 is more than likely the price AFTER a few hundred dollar rebate that requires a long term contract with an ISP (CompuServe, MSN, or AOL most likey) ...now what would this company that obviously has serious work to do on a Beowulf cluster want with 30 four-year subscriptions to MSN? :)
Sonnet (www.sonnettech.com) is preparing to release a motherboard replacement for the first few generations of iMacs, they add a faster CPU and FireWire. Nifty.
Since Apple boxen are tightly controlled CPU upgrades are easy. Take a look at www.sonnettech.com
The PowerMac towers stick the CPU on a daughtercard, and most PowerBooks (and even the iMac) have had some kind of CPU upgrade developed for them -- it's easy when there's only a few logic board designs and a larger number of users per logic board than in the x86 world.
If that's a low ID number now, I feel extra-special..
I know that my new browser of choice (OmniWeb) by default identifies itself as IE as well...I use Opera quite a bit too.
I think it's very important for "alternative" browsers to identify themselves correctly -- it's important to keep webmasters from coding specifically for IE or NS. (I masquerade my OmniWeb as Mozilla)
Compaq has killed the Alpha. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/19951.html --Sean
The only reason that I ever order from Amazon is because they stock those "slow-selling" books that I would have to special order from my local store. I don't want to pay extra for shipping (then wait for the book to arrive) when I can go to a local retail bookstore and buy the same "fast-selling" book and browse other new books. --Sean
NeXSTEP/OpenStep and now Mac OS X both do a better job of united a unix (FreeBSD) backend with an object oriented user interface and provide a more rapid development enviroment. It is a shame about Be, though...
The first carder spends just a little over two hours with his girlfriend. For a "movie and back to her place" -- he's embellishing at best. Neither of them seem to have a live. They just sit in the bedrooms with laptops and buy more computers and games with their scammed money. So- they don't mind living a paranoid life because they haven't much of one to begin with!
They managed to keep the interface clean while making it better looking and there's still no banner ads. --Sean
StarDivision has a long history with OS/2. I think their first development efforts were on StarWriter for OS/2. There is an older Mac OS version of StarOffice. I know that StarDivision intended to port the latest version to the Mac OS. I thought that Sun was going to continue to develop it. It's logical, since they want to compete with MS Office and since Office 98 for Mac OS is almost tolerable now. --Sean R.
They do continue to "improve [their] product" -- FixPaks are still released regularly, and OS/2 Warp Server for e-business (4.5) was released this year. IBM has ceded the mid-range workstation to NT (i.e., not mission critical enough to require a unix, but critical enough to need more than a consumer OS)...it's sad. I agree with an earlier poster -- if OS/2 must die it's a "good" time. Linux is mature enough to make me comfortable switching my systems to it some time in the future. --Sean R. (Writing from a workstation running OS/2 Warp Server for e-business, because he loves OS/2 enough to pay way too much to run the latest [server] version :P)
I agree with your comment. Just wanted to point out: OS/2 4.0 with the latest FixPak is rather stable. I'm running OS/2 Warp Server for e-business (OS/2 4.5 - with the new enhancements such as JFS, more efficient TCP/IP stack) and it is *extremely stable*. More stable running its GUI than is Linux + XF86 (in my experience). Comparing GUI vs. GUI - PM/WPS is more stable.