That's great. Now if you can tell me where to download the source code for that, I'll be quite grateful, as I'm pretty sure the supplied binaries won't run on all the x86 machines in my house.
Unfortunately, I don't have the source handy as I tend to use their pre-compiled binaries. I really don't have time to compile their source everytime they update their code so I elect to use the binaries. If I were you, I would contact the author and see if you can get the source for usage on your x86-based UNIX system. It runs like a dream on my old PPC-based UNIX system. Much better than XFree86 and its various Window Managers.
I can't believe I forgot. You can get a copy of Microsoft Office that runs on it if you need that kind of application for your business environment. Which I hear a lot of people do!
Personally, I am tired of X-Windows and all the Window Managers associated with it. They are clunky hacks based on ancient tech. Fortunately for me, I found a modern, composited windowing system using the Portable Document Format (PDF) for my UNIX system. It sports crisp graphics, anti-aliased fonts, and blends 2D, 3D and multimedia content together with transparency and drop shadows. It even integrates OpenGL converting every window into a texture. As a bonus it supports all those non-Roman languages. Multiple monitor support is seemless -- no more hacking XFree86 files and searching for drivers and solving conflicts. Thank God!
Netcraft has now confirmed: Minix is dead
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Minix community when recently IDC confirmed that Minix accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraftsurvey which plainly states that Minix has mo market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Minix is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin operating system awareness test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Minix's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Minix faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Minix because Minix is dead. Things are looking very bad for Minix. As many of us are already aware, Minix has no market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Minix is the most endangered of all operating systems, having lost 99.99999% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Juliusz Chroboczek noted it was removed from XFree86 server; there have been no users since 1996. This is consistent with the number of Minix related XFree86 Usenet posts.
All major surveys show that Minix has steadily declined in market share. Minix is very sick and its long term survival prospects are nil. If Minix is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Minix continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Minix is dead.
I know of one AOL Grandma who has only one troubleshooting strategy: she power cycles her iMac whenever she has a computer problem.
Unless she is yanking the cord out of the wall, that will not happen. The power switch on the front of the iMac will prompt her on the screen if she wants to shutdown, restart or cancel. That's the nice part of owning a machine where the OS and the hardware come from the same company. Little things like that are thought of and integrated. If you are really worried about Grandma's iMac, just put a note on the bottom of the 15" LCD screen that says, "Grandma, don't yank out the power plug or I won't come over to Thanksgiving!!!" and she'll be set.
I don't believe that you've been a Macintosh user for very long. Expert Macintosh users reformat their hard drives every year or so to be on the safe side.
Expert Macintosh user? That's like saying, "Expert Training Wheel Cyclist"! Though I don't mourn the loss of the 'Happy Mac' and 'Clarus', I have been using a Mac as long as they were around. Some things deserve to die. Hopefully HFS+ will meet their fate. As I said before, user mileage may very. In dealing with large numbers of Macs, HFS+ was the least of my problems.
I think this will also benefit the AOL Grandma crowd. Can you imagine their reaction upon booting up with a dirty partition and having to go into single-user mode and repair a filesystem?
True, true. Safety is always key with these folks. I hate the calls I get from mine.
I understand that OS X is great for us geeks, but pulease stop bringing up the commercial that HAS to be targeted at AOL users and other internet bottom feeders.
And Slashdotters are top of the food chain?:) Actually there are several sysadmins that are apart of the Switch campaign. Not all of them are teenaged girls with their brains nuked out on Nyquil.
Disclaimer: i DO like macs.
Sure you do. Sure you do. If you really liked Macs, you would never, ever diss the marketing department built by Steve Jobs. Admit it! You are just a paid consultant from the Microsoft Marketing department astroturfing Slashdot. So which stock photo do you use?:P
Are they going to put Elvis on the iPod? Would that make it even easier to use my iPod under Linux? (And wouldn't it be cool to have Elvis on Elivs?)
It sounds like its bolted on top of HFS+ so it should work on the iPod which is HFS+ for the Mac version. I think the Windows iPod runs FAT32 which should be easier to use on Linux. I have never had great luck with the HFS drivers in Linux having full compatibility with my Mac drives.
Scares the doo-doo out of me! Check out the guy on far right side, sitting down and eating a donut. At least now, no one will razz me for using Mac OS X.:)
Ok, so being I'm not the highest on there terminology totem pole, can somebody expain to me why journaling matters to me, and why its worth 10-15% of my system resources?
So you can have fun yanking out the power plug of your computer while its doing a write operation without the unpleasant experience on reboot. Most people (as in AOL Grandmas) don't need it but for servers, its a must. This will help beef up Mac OS X Server against Linux.
...to Switch! This was about the last major gripe I had with Mac OS X. We already have an encrypted file system. However, no matter how I have abused my Macs in the past, I have never had filesystem corruption with HFS+. I constantly forget to unmount my iPod and yank it off the firewire cable. Mac OS X grips about the possibility of filesystem corruption but so far, so good. Others mileage may vary and I wouldn't do it during a write.
Did I just read a Slashdot comment lamenting the possibility of a media giant crumbling into its components?
Hello?
Perhaps you'd be happier if Time Warner, Viacom and Disney all merged under the RIAA.
They have some good publications that benefit from being a part of the same family. Not all Slashdotters are communists twits bent on ruining the global economy. A lot of us are educated capitalists that are not afraid of the RIAA boogeyman. Some of us even buy our music and movies. Imagine that!
I hope that AOL's woes don't tear down Time/Warner which has many great media properties that will be scattered to the winds if AOL needs to gin up some cash. Over the weekend, I heard analyst say that if AOL had not purchased Time/Warner, the Time/Warner stock would be around $40 and AOL would be around $4. Right now, AOL is at $11.89. I wonder if former Time/Warner stock holders feel like idiots for approving the merger.
No, you're a dumbass. That is not my website. I like playing my Seagull guitar so I list them as my home page on Slashdot. To quote Gov. Jimmie Davis, "It makes me happy when skies are grey". Unfortunately, my playing is not as good as the make of these pretty instruments.
If you know how to design HTML pages*, you can save yourself a lot of time and effort by visiting W3C. They have a great HTML validator which will help you in your goal of accessable web pages. The NYC Public Library has a great page on making your web pages accessable.
* That doesn't mean using Dreamweaver or any other GUI HTML design software. Real HTML-ers write it by hand. Real Men use vi from what I hear but I like BBEdit for UNIX.
ually read Beowulf? If you have, could you please write a 5,000 word book report for the that the children that have difficulty finding information on the book because of the saturation of Beowulf trolls, jokes and legitimate information online.
Slashdot Mirror
Unfortunately, I don't have the source handy as I tend to use their pre-compiled binaries. I really don't have time to compile their source everytime they update their code so I elect to use the binaries. If I were you, I would contact the author and see if you can get the source for usage on your x86-based UNIX system. It runs like a dream on my old PPC-based UNIX system. Much better than XFree86 and its various Window Managers.
I can't believe I forgot. You can get a copy of Microsoft Office that runs on it if you need that kind of application for your business environment. Which I hear a lot of people do!
Check out its home page here.
Look for her here.
Here.
Netcraft has now confirmed: Minix is dead Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Minix community when recently IDC confirmed that Minix accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraftsurvey which plainly states that Minix has mo market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Minix is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin operating system awareness test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Minix's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Minix faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Minix because Minix is dead. Things are looking very bad for Minix. As many of us are already aware, Minix has no market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Minix is the most endangered of all operating systems, having lost 99.99999% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Juliusz Chroboczek noted it was removed from XFree86 server; there have been no users since 1996. This is consistent with the number of Minix related XFree86 Usenet posts.
All major surveys show that Minix has steadily declined in market share. Minix is very sick and its long term survival prospects are nil. If Minix is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Minix continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Minix is dead.
Minix is dead.Unless she is yanking the cord out of the wall, that will not happen. The power switch on the front of the iMac will prompt her on the screen if she wants to shutdown, restart or cancel. That's the nice part of owning a machine where the OS and the hardware come from the same company. Little things like that are thought of and integrated. If you are really worried about Grandma's iMac, just put a note on the bottom of the 15" LCD screen that says, "Grandma, don't yank out the power plug or I won't come over to Thanksgiving!!!" and she'll be set.
Expert Macintosh user? That's like saying, "Expert Training Wheel Cyclist"! Though I don't mourn the loss of the 'Happy Mac' and 'Clarus', I have been using a Mac as long as they were around. Some things deserve to die. Hopefully HFS+ will meet their fate. As I said before, user mileage may very. In dealing with large numbers of Macs, HFS+ was the least of my problems.
Now what do we do when we run Beta software? BACKUP! :)
I have had those problems on HFS not HFS+. Guess I have been blessed by the FS fairy in the last two years.
True, true. Safety is always key with these folks. I hate the calls I get from mine.
1. Start search for alien life with idle time on home computers.
2. ???
3. More funding!
And Slashdotters are top of the food chain? :) Actually there are several sysadmins that are apart of the Switch campaign. Not all of them are teenaged girls with their brains nuked out on Nyquil.
Disclaimer: i DO like macs.
Sure you do. Sure you do. If you really liked Macs, you would never, ever diss the marketing department built by Steve Jobs. Admit it! You are just a paid consultant from the Microsoft Marketing department astroturfing Slashdot. So which stock photo do you use? :P
It sounds like its bolted on top of HFS+ so it should work on the iPod which is HFS+ for the Mac version. I think the Windows iPod runs FAT32 which should be easier to use on Linux. I have never had great luck with the HFS drivers in Linux having full compatibility with my Mac drives.
Scares the doo-doo out of me! Check out the guy on far right side, sitting down and eating a donut. At least now, no one will razz me for using Mac OS X. :)
So you can have fun yanking out the power plug of your computer while its doing a write operation without the unpleasant experience on reboot. Most people (as in AOL Grandmas) don't need it but for servers, its a must. This will help beef up Mac OS X Server against Linux.
...to Switch! This was about the last major gripe I had with Mac OS X. We already have an encrypted file system. However, no matter how I have abused my Macs in the past, I have never had filesystem corruption with HFS+. I constantly forget to unmount my iPod and yank it off the firewire cable. Mac OS X grips about the possibility of filesystem corruption but so far, so good. Others mileage may vary and I wouldn't do it during a write.
What's the filename? cluebyf.our
They have some good publications that benefit from being a part of the same family. Not all Slashdotters are communists twits bent on ruining the global economy. A lot of us are educated capitalists that are not afraid of the RIAA boogeyman. Some of us even buy our music and movies. Imagine that!
Now go KaZaA yourself a clue...
I hope that AOL's woes don't tear down Time/Warner which has many great media properties that will be scattered to the winds if AOL needs to gin up some cash. Over the weekend, I heard analyst say that if AOL had not purchased Time/Warner, the Time/Warner stock would be around $40 and AOL would be around $4. Right now, AOL is at $11.89. I wonder if former Time/Warner stock holders feel like idiots for approving the merger.
No, you're a dumbass. That is not my website. I like playing my Seagull guitar so I list them as my home page on Slashdot. To quote Gov. Jimmie Davis, "It makes me happy when skies are grey". Unfortunately, my playing is not as good as the make of these pretty instruments.
* That doesn't mean using Dreamweaver or any other GUI HTML design software. Real HTML-ers write it by hand. Real Men use vi from what I hear but I like BBEdit for UNIX.
Have you actually read Beowulf?
Thanks for thinking of the children!
Well some people do want these calls! This guy seems to have the most fun with them. I get a chuckle everytime I hear the calls he gets.
Thanks for the input. I haven't touched Windows servers since 1998 and the tools were god awful back then.
Sniff, sniff, sniff! YIKES!!! Do you really administer the machines using a clear text protocol?