It must be very very difficult to be
an online journalist, be human, and be
berated for not being perfect.
Its called "fact checking". If you are publishing for a magazine, its a requirement. Moshe could of typed this in Google and figured it out quickly. You would expect a person that is doing benchmarking of a product for publication to actually understand how to set it up for the test. Not doing this has made this article a waste of time.
I thought the point of the XServe was that you didn't need the command line?
Did you read the article? Moshe said he wanted to but couldn't figure out how to do it. And if its not obvious, how was I able to use Google and in a fraction of a second figure it out? He is supposed to 1000x the hacker I am according to another poster. Therefore if a dumba$$ like me can figure it out, an uberhacker like Moshe should not have a problem.
1) Moshe is using an old version of Mac OS X. The current version is 10.2.
2) Moshe is not smart enough to boot Mac OS X into command line, "Since for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to shut down the GUI environment of OS X" -- Moshe "I can't use Google" Bar. Here's a tip Moshi, when the log on screen pops up, type ">console" in the user line.
I never said a word about tap water. I was making a point because water is the most abundant resource on Earth (other than gases in the Atmosphere, of course).
And how much of it is potable? Most of the water on Planet Earth is salt water not fresh water. I think you are way off on your comparison.
Gross! You might as well drink out of your swimming pool. I don't feel stupid when I buy bottled water. Hell when I was in Las Vegas, I went to an oxygen bar! I bought freakin' air, and it was good compared to NYC! Gives you a nice little head buzz without the stuporifying effects.
Don't be too surprised if the bottled water in your region actually is New York tap water. Where do you think the water in the bottles comes from? A natural spring somewhere? Haha!
I drink the stuff which if spelled backwards is Naive. I am snotty kind of bottled water drinker.
For those out there (RIAA, MPAA, congress) that believe people refuse to pay for something they could otherwise get for free, I have but two words:BOTTLED WATER
LEAD PIPES!
Come to NYC and drink the tap water that has been sitting in 100 year old lead pipes before it comes out of your faucet. You will LOVE bottled water. Plus, you actually don't get free water unless you are sucking up the scummy lake or river water filled with parasites. Tap water is paid for by taxes. No matter what, "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
I bought an Ericsson T68i phone because of iSync and its connection to the phone via Bluetooth -- lets you also send SMS from the computer. Nothing sucks more about a cell phone than trying to use the keypad to enter phone book items. Plus the Ericsson T68 is pretty much a Palm killer with its Calendar and voice recorder.
cough...cough...Astroturf...cough...cough...Astrot urf...cough...cough. So what Getty stock photo does WallsRSolid use for his college yearbook?
I remember these things when Windows 3.11 was around. Dumb idea then, dumb idea now. I can type faster than I write, plus how you are going to do "Control-Alt-Delete" with a pen?
I have a couple of sales guys that use Blackberries with the standard Blackberry Internet account. What I do is run an iMac with Mac OS X and Outlook Express (Mac OS 9) which POPs their e-mail account, runs the e-mail through a couple of rules/applescripts and redirects their legit e-mail to their Blackberry e-mail account. Works very well.
The iMac is a Rev. C with 96mb Ram (less than recommended). With Outlook Express Mac OS 9's redirect, it looks like it was sent directly to the Blackberry device. Not only do they get the e-mail on their Blackberry, it is also in their notebook. Very slick, cheap and hasn't failed yet.
...given that most Slashdot readers seem to be advocates of Open Source operating systems on commodity hardware, why the enthusiasm for encouraging people to switch to OSX - a closed source operating system made by the poster-child for locking people into overpriced hardware?
I bet if you looked at the access_logs for Slashdot, you would find more Windows systems accessing the site than Linux/BSD systems. I have never seen a real advocation of Open Source operating systems on commodity hardware on Slashdot outside of the 'RMS Appreciation Society' crowd. Plus you can run Open Source OSes on many "non-commodity" hardware systems from DEC, Sun and Apple.
Byte for Byte, Mac OS X kicks the rear end of the Open Source desktops. Why? Because not only can it run great closed source apps like M$ Office and Adobe Photoshop, it can also run Open Office and the GIMP. Best of both worlds. I wouldn't run it on a server (yet - XServe is sweet) because Linux and BSD are cheaper solutions and wouldn't want to waste the great Apple hardware which looks better on my desk than a closet.
Don't get dis Mac OS X because you can't afford Apple hardware. I can't afford a top of the line Ferrari, but that doesn't make it a crappy car.
People might like to think that Apple is somehow better than Microsoft, but trust me - if they had Microsoft's monopoly, their behavior would be no better, in fact, given that they would have a monopoly on hardware too - things would be much worse.
Trust you? Why? Because you are parnoid? Sheesh! You still have a choice. Microsoft got their "monopoly" because people liked their products and bought them not because they were the only game in town. Apple has done very well at 5% -- they are not going broke any time soon.
That might be little strong. They didn't do any damage. Get over it.
Wrong! I work near Madison Ave. Yesterday morning and this morning I watched building supers scraping off the stupid butterflies off their buildings. The stickers are on the sidewalks as well and they have that slick coating. I am just waiting for an old lady to face plant right into traffic. You are not going to get a city employee to scrape them up -- they have better unions than the building supers.
This is just as annoying as IBM's stupid "Peace, Love and Linux" campaign of last year where the stickered everything and spray painted their logo at every street corner.
If Cell Phones are so dangerous to use on airplanes, why didn't the planes used on September 11, 2001 crash before hitting the World Trade Center and Pentagon when the passengers frantically called their loved ones?
I'm not interested in interfacing with a fabled race of dwarflike creatures, I'm interested in interfacing through a GUI to a UNIX or UNIX-like system.
Don't worry about that. If Debian dares to mimic Aqua as a theme for their Deskstop, Apple will sue them over look and feel. Jobs is good at that. However, the HIG provided free of charge online will be a good guide for Debian to enhance the usability of their KDE and GNOME desktops for the novice users.
I can buy a more expensive x86 based system than Apple makes -- SONY and IBM are too good examples. If you want to be a cheap, go ahead. But its probably the reason you are not hittin' it often...if at all. Chicks dig a phat wallet not a fat ass.
(2) Less fun hardware to play with.
How would you know? If you never played with it because you are too cheap to own one. I play around with Mac hardware all the time. Overclocking, case mods, etc.
(3) Only Aqua on your desktop.
I also have Graphite, KDE and Gnome as choices on my desktop in Mac OS X. Do you even know what you are talking about?
(4) A single button mouse. Like you really used those other two.
My Kensington Turbo Mouse has 5 buttons along with a scroll wheel on it. Where do you get this one-button mouse only idea? Guess you never used Mac OS X before.
(5) To pay for the next bug fix. Just like Windows
I get free updates when they are available. Where do you get this idea? Have you ever used Mac OS X?
Not tell me again why I would want a Mac?
You can actually get something done and run UNIX at the same time?
Get a Mac. You can still run Linux and Windows and neither can cause catastrophic damage to your system. As a bonus, you get a pure UNIX system as opposed to a UNIX-like system.
Ars Technica disagrees with you. Even in Jaguar, they still have problems with the OS X finder. but judging by Ars Technica's many reviews (and their statements that much of the Mac community agrees with them about the Finder issues), I have to assume that you're in a very small minority.
Damn! I am formatting my hard drive right now! I have seen the light! One web site has set me straight. Linux on the Desktop married with Nautilus is such a better choice than Mac OS X with Finder. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. And here I thought the ease of use and execution was real.
Ars Technica is so stuck in the past when it comes to Finder. They still praise "Labels" and "Pop-Up Folders" for God's sake. If you don't provide these useless features, there will be a permenant bug up their ass about Finder. Even admit to this with their "re-grind too many old axes". Any change from Mac OS 8 is a blasphemy.
Maybe your grandma doesn't grep... Some of them grok shell, and some 20 year old jocks can't find the power switch. Let's not degrade our grandparents.
What??? How is saying my grandma doesn't grep degrade her? The only way you could think that is that you judge people solely by their computer skills. SCARY!!!
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Its called "fact checking". If you are publishing for a magazine, its a requirement. Moshe could of typed this in Google and figured it out quickly. You would expect a person that is doing benchmarking of a product for publication to actually understand how to set it up for the test. Not doing this has made this article a waste of time.
Did you read the article? Moshe said he wanted to but couldn't figure out how to do it. And if its not obvious, how was I able to use Google and in a fraction of a second figure it out? He is supposed to 1000x the hacker I am according to another poster. Therefore if a dumba$$ like me can figure it out, an uberhacker like Moshe should not have a problem.
2) Moshe is not smart enough to boot Mac OS X into command line, "Since for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to shut down the GUI environment of OS X" -- Moshe "I can't use Google" Bar. Here's a tip Moshi, when the log on screen pops up, type ">console" in the user line.
3) MacSlash has already dealt with this.
And how much of it is potable? Most of the water on Planet Earth is salt water not fresh water. I think you are way off on your comparison.
Gross! You might as well drink out of your swimming pool. I don't feel stupid when I buy bottled water. Hell when I was in Las Vegas, I went to an oxygen bar! I bought freakin' air, and it was good compared to NYC! Gives you a nice little head buzz without the stuporifying effects.
I drink the stuff which if spelled backwards is Naive. I am snotty kind of bottled water drinker.
LEAD PIPES!
Come to NYC and drink the tap water that has been sitting in 100 year old lead pipes before it comes out of your faucet. You will LOVE bottled water. Plus, you actually don't get free water unless you are sucking up the scummy lake or river water filled with parasites. Tap water is paid for by taxes. No matter what, "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
I bought an Ericsson T68i phone because of iSync and its connection to the phone via Bluetooth -- lets you also send SMS from the computer. Nothing sucks more about a cell phone than trying to use the keypad to enter phone book items. Plus the Ericsson T68 is pretty much a Palm killer with its Calendar and voice recorder.
I remember these things when Windows 3.11 was around. Dumb idea then, dumb idea now. I can type faster than I write, plus how you are going to do "Control-Alt-Delete" with a pen?
The iMac is a Rev. C with 96mb Ram (less than recommended). With Outlook Express Mac OS 9's redirect, it looks like it was sent directly to the Blackberry device. Not only do they get the e-mail on their Blackberry, it is also in their notebook. Very slick, cheap and hasn't failed yet.
I bet if you looked at the access_logs for Slashdot, you would find more Windows systems accessing the site than Linux/BSD systems. I have never seen a real advocation of Open Source operating systems on commodity hardware on Slashdot outside of the 'RMS Appreciation Society' crowd. Plus you can run Open Source OSes on many "non-commodity" hardware systems from DEC, Sun and Apple.
Byte for Byte, Mac OS X kicks the rear end of the Open Source desktops. Why? Because not only can it run great closed source apps like M$ Office and Adobe Photoshop, it can also run Open Office and the GIMP. Best of both worlds. I wouldn't run it on a server (yet - XServe is sweet) because Linux and BSD are cheaper solutions and wouldn't want to waste the great Apple hardware which looks better on my desk than a closet.
Don't get dis Mac OS X because you can't afford Apple hardware. I can't afford a top of the line Ferrari, but that doesn't make it a crappy car.
People might like to think that Apple is somehow better than Microsoft, but trust me - if they had Microsoft's monopoly, their behavior would be no better, in fact, given that they would have a monopoly on hardware too - things would be much worse.
Trust you? Why? Because you are parnoid? Sheesh! You still have a choice. Microsoft got their "monopoly" because people liked their products and bought them not because they were the only game in town. Apple has done very well at 5% -- they are not going broke any time soon.
Wrong! I work near Madison Ave. Yesterday morning and this morning I watched building supers scraping off the stupid butterflies off their buildings. The stickers are on the sidewalks as well and they have that slick coating. I am just waiting for an old lady to face plant right into traffic. You are not going to get a city employee to scrape them up -- they have better unions than the building supers.
This is just as annoying as IBM's stupid "Peace, Love and Linux" campaign of last year where the stickered everything and spray painted their logo at every street corner.
I just got a letter from Network Solutions saying that I need to re-up my domain because it will expire in 6 months! Hurry or I might miss out!
Both. Everyone should agree with Apple and all their ideas are good, not some.
You need to say at least 100 "Hail Steve Jobs" while lying prostrate before an Apple Store for not knowing.
If Cell Phones are so dangerous to use on airplanes, why didn't the planes used on September 11, 2001 crash before hitting the World Trade Center and Pentagon when the passengers frantically called their loved ones?
1. Create Debian desktop distribution
2. ???
3. Microsoft goes bankrupt!
Well, I do have some missing underpants.
I'm not interested in interfacing with a fabled race of dwarflike creatures, I'm interested in interfacing through a GUI to a UNIX or UNIX-like system.
Don't worry about that. If Debian dares to mimic Aqua as a theme for their Deskstop, Apple will sue them over look and feel. Jobs is good at that. However, the HIG provided free of charge online will be a good guide for Debian to enhance the usability of their KDE and GNOME desktops for the novice users.
Blasphemy!
Aqua Human Interface Guidelines and Mac OS 8 Human Interface Guidelines. Don't reinvent the wheel, perfect it.
I can buy a more expensive x86 based system than Apple makes -- SONY and IBM are too good examples. If you want to be a cheap, go ahead. But its probably the reason you are not hittin' it often...if at all. Chicks dig a phat wallet not a fat ass.
(2) Less fun hardware to play with.
How would you know? If you never played with it because you are too cheap to own one. I play around with Mac hardware all the time. Overclocking, case mods, etc.
(3) Only Aqua on your desktop.
I also have Graphite, KDE and Gnome as choices on my desktop in Mac OS X. Do you even know what you are talking about?
(4) A single button mouse. Like you really used those other two.
My Kensington Turbo Mouse has 5 buttons along with a scroll wheel on it. Where do you get this one-button mouse only idea? Guess you never used Mac OS X before.
(5) To pay for the next bug fix. Just like Windows
I get free updates when they are available. Where do you get this idea? Have you ever used Mac OS X?
Not tell me again why I would want a Mac?
You can actually get something done and run UNIX at the same time?
Get a Mac. You can still run Linux and Windows and neither can cause catastrophic damage to your system. As a bonus, you get a pure UNIX system as opposed to a UNIX-like system.
Damn! I am formatting my hard drive right now! I have seen the light! One web site has set me straight. Linux on the Desktop married with Nautilus is such a better choice than Mac OS X with Finder. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. And here I thought the ease of use and execution was real.
Ars Technica is so stuck in the past when it comes to Finder. They still praise "Labels" and "Pop-Up Folders" for God's sake. If you don't provide these useless features, there will be a permenant bug up their ass about Finder. Even admit to this with their "re-grind too many old axes". Any change from Mac OS 8 is a blasphemy.
Wake up and smell the Cocoa.
What??? How is saying my grandma doesn't grep degrade her? The only way you could think that is that you judge people solely by their computer skills. SCARY!!!