I suppose when you put it like that then the $29 charge to Tiger users is just a sop to Panther users ('look you get a "free" version of bootcamp). Although I understand that Apple wants to keep everyone up to date, an easier solution would be a yearly $50 service charge to keep with the updates and then we can forget the version numbers.
But as I said I do not care too much as the main use of OS X is firmware updates, I boot straight into Linux normally.
Ok I just read the article,
"there is strong possibility that Apple's boot manager software, allowing to use Windows and Mac OS X in dual boot mode will be sold for $29 to Tiger users."
How will they do this when we *already* have bootcamp?
>Seriously though, how absurd is it that anyone thinks this is going to make any difference
In Roman Britain Rabbits were an important food supplement. A large number could be easily be fed and cared for by the Children while the parents did more arduous agricultural tasks such as attempting to grow crops or maintain larger animals.
Pretty bad that in 2006 we have come to this though, especially when the US and EU ploughing food back into the soil and African countries would dearly love to be able to have foreign food markets.
>Filterset.G is now old and busted. Yes, it was a great starting point and Adblock (and adblock plus) owes a lot of it's success to it. But now it's very old, very outdated.
Very is a big word for something that has only been around a few years at most. So what is wrong with Filterset.G? What are these modern alternatives?
>If you're still using it, you're still in the dark ages.
Note that technologies on the whole do not become obsolete, just complemented. I have a computer but that does not mean that I will not own a pen too.
I used to use Yahoo mail, I'm sure they do something similar. I set up a Yahoo account in England with an English Address and everything. I did not tell Yahoo about any other languages. However, I do use (attempt) to use another language that I am learning, and I got ads in that language for no reason that I could see except for that they parsing the mail.
Google read my email too, but at least they are not fowarding my inbox to the Chinese government ala Yahoo!
>One serious problem is that there are no working Theora VFW plugins (some exist, but they are unusable). You *have* to install VLC or mplayer.
I am an mplayer man, but Realplayer supports ogg, what is wrong with that? In the UK at least most people will have it as it is required for BBC and so on.
Another case of the EU being irresponsible with our money.
I am a taxpaying citizen of the European Union who uses a European compiled distribution of Linux.
I should be able to access its services free from discrimination and without requiring the products of foreign monopolies.
If the EU cannot be bothered to provide services in this way then they should not provide these services at all and stop wasting out money on crap software.
I think we should abolish the unelected European Commission and give its powers to the elected European Parliament. Then at least we can attempt to control the runaway budget through our votes.
I worked at a Helpdesk for what seemed an eternity (although I always enjoyed it).
Get the customers to log the calls. Save your staff's time for solving the problems and all the other fun things that you mentioned. A decent system, even the free open source ones, can guide the customer to give decent information (contact info, category of problem). You will find that these calls yield far better information than comes through email, so turn the email off. If a customer is not willing to write the call then it is obviously not a real problem.
If they ring then get the adviser to write the call while the customer is still on the phone, if the adviser explains what he is doing (explicitly, or implicitly - murmuring the field names), then the customers will learn.
I am a Gentoo user too, but this is a major achievement. Going through all the code base and sorting out the longs and crap is amazing. Have Microsoft achieved this? Have they F
I made a complaint, if some other British people could then it might help them notice, you can complain online. The article was Thursday, 7th December. Here is the online complaint form:
Cliff Richard is the face of the multi-national companies who want to destroy fair use, remixing, amateur music and anything they cannot control. Therefore lets boycott Cliff this Christmas, refuse to listen to his crappy contrived whining. The last thing we want to do is to "incentivise" Cliff Richard to produce new songs.
Bring back Amstrad Action......Downhill from there.
Computer Magazines are not dead, they still have a viable business, but they are just crap.
The problem with most computer magazines:
1. CD of crap Windows shareware. Even Linux magazines have CDs that I could just download. 2. Old News, they should not bother with news as by the time it gets to the stand, I have read it all on Slashdot two weeks before. 3. Not enough in-depth features. Most mags seem to be written for the causal buyer. There are only so many "Introductions to Photoshop" or "how to clean up your spyware" that I can take. 4. Under qualified writers, often the 'staff writers' do not have anything really to say. I would prefer real experts, even if every magazine was written by different people. 5. Gushing reviews - everything is the best thing since sliced bread. I am English, I want you to rip the product to sheds. (Think English newspaper or 'the Register'). 6. They have given up on jokes as the casual user will not get them(see 3).
I buy magazines on planes, or if my work buys them. I do however read Micro Mart. It is less than £2, has a Linux, Mac and Amiga columns, has nice pictures of hardware and no crappy CD.
If anyone can suggest a computing equivalent to 'the economist' then let me know.
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I assume it will try to stop you setting up a new partition, because presumably the boot loader has no idea what the date is.
I suppose when you put it like that then the $29 charge to Tiger users is just a sop to Panther users ('look you get a "free" version of bootcamp). Although I understand that Apple wants to keep everyone up to date, an easier solution would be a yearly $50 service charge to keep with the updates and then we can forget the version numbers.
But as I said I do not care too much as the main use of OS X is firmware updates, I boot straight into Linux normally.
Ok I just read the article, "there is strong possibility that Apple's boot manager software, allowing to use Windows and Mac OS X in dual boot mode will be sold for $29 to Tiger users." How will they do this when we *already* have bootcamp?
I recently bought a Macbook to use mainly with Linux, if they charge for bootcamp then I will not upgrade.
People with MBAs are happy to pay people highly with MBAs... if you can't beat them, then join them.
... Just Go to Iraq! Your country needs your corpse.
>Seriously though, how absurd is it that anyone thinks this is going to make any difference
In Roman Britain Rabbits were an important food supplement. A large number could be easily be fed and cared for by the Children while the parents did more arduous agricultural tasks such as attempting to grow crops or maintain larger animals.
Pretty bad that in 2006 we have come to this though, especially when the US and EU ploughing food back into the soil and African countries would dearly love to be able to have foreign food markets.
I set all my computers to only accept plain text. If I want dancing monkeys in the background then I'll go to Gibraltar.
I am English and was talk Metric at school and do not know how to use Imperial for anything but miles. Weights, temp etc I have to use Metric
>Filterset.G is now old and busted. Yes, it was a great starting point and Adblock (and adblock plus) owes a lot of it's success to it. But now it's very old, very outdated.
Very is a big word for something that has only been around a few years at most. So what is wrong with Filterset.G? What are these modern alternatives?
>If you're still using it, you're still in the dark ages.
Note that technologies on the whole do not become obsolete, just complemented. I have a computer but that does not mean that I will not own a pen too.
I used to use Yahoo mail, I'm sure they do something similar. I set up a Yahoo account in England with an English Address and everything. I did not tell Yahoo about any other languages. However, I do use (attempt) to use another language that I am learning, and I got ads in that language for no reason that I could see except for that they parsing the mail.
Google read my email too, but at least they are not fowarding my inbox to the Chinese government ala Yahoo!
>I have to schedule upgrades for 7000+ servers ... pile of spreadsheets ...
Somebody bought 7000 servers with no plan for upgrades?
(Patching for DST, get a new OS...)
The updates would have been added in a sandbox and then only moved to the main system if they passed all the tests.
ador wrote:
>One serious problem is that there are no working Theora VFW plugins (some exist, but they are unusable). You *have* to install VLC or mplayer.
I am an mplayer man, but Realplayer supports ogg, what is wrong with that? In the UK at least most people will have it as it is required for BBC and so on.
Another case of the EU being irresponsible with our money.
I am a taxpaying citizen of the European Union who uses a European compiled distribution of Linux.
I should be able to access its services free from discrimination and without requiring the products of foreign monopolies.
If the EU cannot be bothered to provide services in this way then they should not provide these services at all and stop wasting out money on crap software.
I think we should abolish the unelected European Commission and give its powers to the elected European Parliament. Then at least we can attempt to control the runaway budget through our votes.
I worked at a Helpdesk for what seemed an eternity (although I always enjoyed it).
Get the customers to log the calls. Save your staff's time for solving the problems and all the other fun things that you mentioned. A decent system, even the free open source ones, can guide the customer to give decent information (contact info, category of problem). You will find that these calls yield far better information than comes through email, so turn the email off. If a customer is not willing to write the call then it is obviously not a real problem.
If they ring then get the adviser to write the call while the customer is still on the phone, if the adviser explains what he is doing (explicitly, or implicitly - murmuring the field names), then the customers will learn.
As anyone who has had to maintain any amount of servers will know, you can never turn your back on them for a minute.
End of HTML email? That would be my Christmas present sorted!
P.S Merry Christmas to all you Slashdotters, Linux users, MS fan boys and Trolls.
Two words: parental supervision.
If you leave an under 3 to play alone then you are asking for trouble.
I am a Gentoo user too, but this is a major achievement. Going through all the code base and sorting out the longs and crap is amazing. Have Microsoft achieved this? Have they F
I made a complaint, if some other British people could then it might help them notice, you can complain online. The article was Thursday, 7th December. Here is the online complaint form:
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http://www.asa.org.uk/asa/how_to_complain/complai
If anyone knows the page number, or better, even has a copy of the ad then that would be really god.
>...there would be about 100 people who would own everything...
Welcome to Britain, please turn the lights out when you leave.
Cliff Richard is the face of the multi-national companies who want to destroy fair use, remixing, amateur music and anything they cannot control. Therefore lets boycott Cliff this Christmas, refuse to listen to his crappy contrived whining. The last thing we want to do is to "incentivise" Cliff Richard to produce new songs.
Bring back Amstrad Action... ...Downhill from there.
Computer Magazines are not dead, they still have a viable business, but they are just crap.
The problem with most computer magazines:
1. CD of crap Windows shareware. Even Linux magazines have CDs that I could just download.
2. Old News, they should not bother with news as by the time it gets to the stand, I have read it all on Slashdot two weeks before.
3. Not enough in-depth features. Most mags seem to be written for the causal buyer. There are only so many "Introductions to Photoshop" or "how to clean up your spyware" that I can take.
4. Under qualified writers, often the 'staff writers' do not have anything really to say. I would prefer real experts, even if every magazine was written by different people.
5. Gushing reviews - everything is the best thing since sliced bread. I am English, I want you to rip the product to sheds. (Think English newspaper or 'the Register').
6. They have given up on jokes as the casual user will not get them(see 3).
I buy magazines on planes, or if my work buys them. I do however read Micro Mart. It is less than £2, has a Linux, Mac and Amiga columns, has nice pictures of hardware and no crappy CD.
If anyone can suggest a computing equivalent to 'the economist' then let me know.
nVidia or ATI video codecs?
Using the free driver, but I do have win32codecs in mplayer....
A few K is a bit different than installing several GB of Vmware and Windows XP and so on.