Assuming by "serving" you mean "applying kernel patches,"
If ain't broke, I don't touch it. I have Linux boxes with over 365 days of uptime. I consider those to have a "stable" kernel without need of patching.
and by "getting things done" you mean "waiting for windows to render."
That was Mac OS X 10.0 (Public Beta II). The current version (10.1.5) is very fast on my Dual G4. With Jaguar coming out next month, Quartz Extreme is going to make my fast system, super-duper fast when it comes to window rendering.
The overwhelming numbers of BSD users do. As I always say, Linux for serving, OpenBSD for firewalling and Mac OS X for when you got to get things done.
Has he figured out how to monetize it yet? Thousands of former, failed Geek Business execs would like to know! Their attempts at "Free Web Publishing" led them to financial failure.
If you believe what Steve Jobs said during the MWNYC keynote, 'Dot Mac' is the same thing as 'Dot Net'. Of course, we are smarter than that but Jobs was taking advantage of the problem Bill Gates has. Nobody that owns the corporate checkbook knows what the heck 'Dot Net' means. The only thing the 'General Public' knows about.Net is that they will have to pay more for wine instantly when some idiot at the winery destroys the best vintage. And to be completely honest, as much as I know about.Net, I am still not sure what the heck I would do with the technology.
I think in hindsight,.Net will be taught not in Computer Science courses but in Business Marketing courses as a failure of Public Relations.
The solution to this problem is to call your local telephone company once an hour and tie up their employees by asking why they are violating your privacy. When you don't get a satisfactory answer (because there isn't one), ask to speak to someone higher in the corporate food chain. Climb as high as you can go before you are thrown into voice mail hell.
Write down the names of people you speak with (first and last names) and share them with your friends or post them in your "Blog" with the encouragement to do as you have. Since they are working for a public company and answering the phones as a representative of a public company, they should have no expectation of privacy (snicker, snicker). Check your state laws on one party telephone recording laws and if legal, start recording your calls and post them on the web. And always remember, nothing pisses someone off more than someone else calming asking a question, over and over and over. You will get a few zingers from the "Bell" employee after a while. Great stuff for the web!
This method would be effective because, 1) you will cause the "Bell" to waste "human resources" with people calling about the same problem that cannot be satisfied by any answer besides "We are ending this practise", 2) publicly announcing the names of people that are a part of practise will bring about public scorn and 3) if you start bothering the higher level supervisors with your complaints, it will begin to interrupt their time at work doing "important work" such as surfing pr0n, playing solitaire, etc. In my experience with corporations, once you start disrupting the ability of high level management to waste time, things change.
USB is not going to cut it for quality video and audio. Really isn't a PVR as much as it is a toy. I was excited, at first, when I heard rumors of the device but I was hoping for a Firewire device. I expect "ElGato" will have a bunch of these puppies sitting in pallets in their warehouse for a long time.
My major beef with Mac OS X right now is no TV-in card. I like to have CNN/CNBC/Fox News in a little window running while I type away at my work. With a three monitor Mac system, I have plenty of places to put that window. I have an ATI All-In-Wonder card that works beautifully in Mac OS 9 but has no drivers for Mac OS X and ATI doesn't give a damn if it ever does. It just runs one of the monitor like a plain RagePro 128. Which is fine, because I will never buy another card from ATI nor will my business until ATI provides TV-in/out drivers for the All-In-Wonder for Mac OS X. Unfair? Maybe so, but I am the customer, so I am always right. Nvidia is now my sole Mac Video Card supplier.
I just hate having to trust someone I don't see on a day to day basis -- not that you can always trust those you do but at least you can "reach out an touch them". Like they say, "Out of sight, out of mind". I want some sort of local control over my online actions away from a centralized database prone to Government intrusion. Its a lot harder for the Government to go after an individual than an organization it can specifically target through legislation. It takes a lot less testicular/ovarian fortitude to legislate against a faceless organization than someone that you want to vote for you next election and his/her friends. If the US Government would only strengthen my rights to personal privacy in my transactions of my choices and prosecute strongly those that violate my privacy, I don't think we would be talking about these Big Brotheresque solutions.
Open Source or Closed Source. I don't need either of you to cure a symptom of my ailment. It does not cure the disease. We need strong enforcement of existing laws (never happen) and an educated consumer (never happen).
Now will someone point me to a decent howto on how to get.mov,.qt or.mpeg/.avi/MPEG4/Divix:-) to play on my kde desktop? I've tried this in the past and all I ever get are tons of headaches and eventually I just give up.
Simple. Once you do this, you will never have to worry about Quicktime ever when using a KDE desktop on your UNIX system.
Uh huh. Then why doesn't my USB scanner work with MacOSX?
When I worked for a software company in the early 90s, we had a name for users like you that couldn't read a manual much less a web page. Stupid idiot.
Yes, this is a possible. Just because you can doesn't mean you will. Anyone that attempts this "hack" will be busted ASAFP. This would require prior control over either the target computer (internal DNS cache or DNS setting) or the control over its DNS server. Either attack would be extremely difficult.
The first would require a previous hack into the Mac OS X machine. If you can do that, why go to the trouble of altering the DNS cache or DNS setting? With Mac OS X's BSD roots, its not too tuff to modify the system with root access. Pointless.
The second attack option would require you to break into a public DNS server, modify the tables, slip out and hope that your non-targets (huge numbers of Windows users) don't start complaining to the DNS admin about problems. This attack is a possibility but most likely will be noticed quickly.
This is not to excuse Apple but I think its nice that I can read in clear text with ettercap what is going on with my Mac OS X system when it contacts the "Reality Distortion Field" of the Internet. If I want to wear a tinfoil hat and put Tapioca pudding in a locked jar, I can always turn automatic Software Updates off and download the updates straight from the Apple web site.
However, it would be nice if Apple used some sort of the handshake to ensure the safety of the update. There is a myriad of options to choose from...all with benefits and deficits.
11 Then I saw another beast which rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. 12 It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed. 13 It works great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of men; 14 and by the signs which it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast, it deceives those who dwell on earth, bidding them make an image for the beast which was wounded by the sword and yet lived; 15 and it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast so that the image of the beast should even speak, and to cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. 16 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, 17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. 18 This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six.
Sounds like a marriage between Microsoft and Visa to me. In order to order, you have to bear the mark of the beast.
I shudder what the state of the industry would be if Apple had taken over the desktop: They are even more tightfisted with patents, copyrights, look and feel, etc than even Microsoft.
Being tightfisted with patents, copyrights and look-n-feel seems like a good thing to do if you are responsible to shareholders for performance. Something the Linux community appears to have completely forgotten -- as evidenced by the complete lack of financial successful Linux has had. Like they say, "There is no such thing as free lunch" and Apple can't run its business that way.
Once linux reached critical mass, Its become way more programmer friendly than the alternatives, to the point were I myself have ditched other platforms completely.
There isn't a more friendly programming environment than Mac OS X. They give you all the tools needed to create applications. Professional tools and more programming tools available than Linux. Can you write Windows, Mac OS X, Mac Classic and Linux apps on Linux? You can on Mac OS X.
Admittedly, with a BSDish foundation, thing are supposedly better for the latest Apple operating system, but with most of the code that makes osX what it is being closed, I dont see them as any better than Microsoft.
So Apple uses the "freest OS" as its base and releases its source code (even though it doesn't have too with BSD) and you think they are no better than Microsoft? Are you joking?
Seems like a successful author like you would be able to afford one of Apple's high end systems like the TiBook or the PowerMac G4. Mac's are always touted as the "Creative Artist" machine. So why would you, as a creative person, pick to run Linux, XFree86 and Star Office over Mac OS X, Quartz and AppleWorks/M$ Office? You appear to be bucking a long standing trend.
Also, do you feel you are more productive using Linux and StarOffice?
but in a working environment where time versus productivity is essential, how can you justify using a text editor when your productivity would be a fraction of whats possible with a wysiwyg
Wysiwyg is the slowest way to develop a web site. Hitting the raw HTML code (meaing you know HTML well) is a much faster way of development. If you use macros, you can insert commonly used code pieces over and over again. Also WYSIWYG isn't. You end up having to test out your web pages on a few different browsers.
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If ain't broke, I don't touch it. I have Linux boxes with over 365 days of uptime. I consider those to have a "stable" kernel without need of patching.
and by "getting things done" you mean "waiting for windows to render."
That was Mac OS X 10.0 (Public Beta II). The current version (10.1.5) is very fast on my Dual G4. With Jaguar coming out next month, Quartz Extreme is going to make my fast system, super-duper fast when it comes to window rendering.
And people that want a desktop for UNIX that doesn't suck @$$ like XFree86 with any Window Manager.
The overwhelming numbers of BSD users do. As I always say, Linux for serving, OpenBSD for firewalling and Mac OS X for when you got to get things done.
Has he figured out how to monetize it yet? Thousands of former, failed Geek Business execs would like to know! Their attempts at "Free Web Publishing" led them to financial failure.
Isn't there a risk that your head might explode if someone play's Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin?
I think in hindsight, .Net will be taught not in Computer Science courses but in Business Marketing courses as a failure of Public Relations.
You think working with AOL's IM is a good thing? Check out this abomination!
Write down the names of people you speak with (first and last names) and share them with your friends or post them in your "Blog" with the encouragement to do as you have. Since they are working for a public company and answering the phones as a representative of a public company, they should have no expectation of privacy (snicker, snicker). Check your state laws on one party telephone recording laws and if legal, start recording your calls and post them on the web. And always remember, nothing pisses someone off more than someone else calming asking a question, over and over and over. You will get a few zingers from the "Bell" employee after a while. Great stuff for the web!
This method would be effective because, 1) you will cause the "Bell" to waste "human resources" with people calling about the same problem that cannot be satisfied by any answer besides "We are ending this practise", 2) publicly announcing the names of people that are a part of practise will bring about public scorn and 3) if you start bothering the higher level supervisors with your complaints, it will begin to interrupt their time at work doing "important work" such as surfing pr0n, playing solitaire, etc. In my experience with corporations, once you start disrupting the ability of high level management to waste time, things change.
What about Maoism?
When you outlaw encryption, only the outlaws will have encryption...
My major beef with Mac OS X right now is no TV-in card. I like to have CNN/CNBC/Fox News in a little window running while I type away at my work. With a three monitor Mac system, I have plenty of places to put that window. I have an ATI All-In-Wonder card that works beautifully in Mac OS 9 but has no drivers for Mac OS X and ATI doesn't give a damn if it ever does. It just runs one of the monitor like a plain RagePro 128. Which is fine, because I will never buy another card from ATI nor will my business until ATI provides TV-in/out drivers for the All-In-Wonder for Mac OS X. Unfair? Maybe so, but I am the customer, so I am always right. Nvidia is now my sole Mac Video Card supplier.
Open Source or Closed Source. I don't need either of you to cure a symptom of my ailment. It does not cure the disease. We need strong enforcement of existing laws (never happen) and an educated consumer (never happen).
Whatever Poor Boy...
Simple. Once you do this, you will never have to worry about Quicktime ever when using a KDE desktop on your UNIX system.
Gives my new .sig a whole new meaning...
The one, the only, Numba One.
When I worked for a software company in the early 90s, we had a name for users like you that couldn't read a manual much less a web page. Stupid idiot.
Yes, this is a possible. Just because you can doesn't mean you will. Anyone that attempts this "hack" will be busted ASAFP. This would require prior control over either the target computer (internal DNS cache or DNS setting) or the control over its DNS server. Either attack would be extremely difficult.
The first would require a previous hack into the Mac OS X machine. If you can do that, why go to the trouble of altering the DNS cache or DNS setting? With Mac OS X's BSD roots, its not too tuff to modify the system with root access. Pointless.
The second attack option would require you to break into a public DNS server, modify the tables, slip out and hope that your non-targets (huge numbers of Windows users) don't start complaining to the DNS admin about problems. This attack is a possibility but most likely will be noticed quickly.
This is not to excuse Apple but I think its nice that I can read in clear text with ettercap what is going on with my Mac OS X system when it contacts the "Reality Distortion Field" of the Internet. If I want to wear a tinfoil hat and put Tapioca pudding in a locked jar, I can always turn automatic Software Updates off and download the updates straight from the Apple web site.
However, it would be nice if Apple used some sort of the handshake to ensure the safety of the update. There is a myriad of options to choose from...all with benefits and deficits.
11 Then I saw another beast which rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.
12 It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.
13 It works great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of men;
14 and by the signs which it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast, it deceives those who dwell on earth, bidding them make an image for the beast which was wounded by the sword and yet lived;
15 and it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast so that the image of the beast should even speak, and to cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.
16 Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,
17 so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
18 This calls for wisdom: let him who has understanding reckon the number of the beast, for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty-six.
Sounds like a marriage between Microsoft and Visa to me. In order to order, you have to bear the mark of the beast.
Good call! I agree. #1 would be SCP then #2 would be CVS support. I am sure the guys at BareBones will add this soon.
Being tightfisted with patents, copyrights and look-n-feel seems like a good thing to do if you are responsible to shareholders for performance. Something the Linux community appears to have completely forgotten -- as evidenced by the complete lack of financial successful Linux has had. Like they say, "There is no such thing as free lunch" and Apple can't run its business that way.
Once linux reached critical mass, Its become way more programmer friendly than the alternatives, to the point were I myself have ditched other platforms completely.
There isn't a more friendly programming environment than Mac OS X. They give you all the tools needed to create applications. Professional tools and more programming tools available than Linux. Can you write Windows, Mac OS X, Mac Classic and Linux apps on Linux? You can on Mac OS X.
Admittedly, with a BSDish foundation, thing are supposedly better for the latest Apple operating system, but with most of the code that makes osX what it is being closed, I dont see them as any better than Microsoft.
So Apple uses the "freest OS" as its base and releases its source code (even though it doesn't have too with BSD) and you think they are no better than Microsoft? Are you joking?
Also, do you feel you are more productive using Linux and StarOffice?
Wysiwyg is the slowest way to develop a web site. Hitting the raw HTML code (meaing you know HTML well) is a much faster way of development. If you use macros, you can insert commonly used code pieces over and over again. Also WYSIWYG isn't. You end up having to test out your web pages on a few different browsers.
Then you need to get a copy of The Usenet Binary Harvester. Works perfectly on my Mac OS X system.