Exactly what I did.. I used to use linux on my desktop, debian, used it for quite some time, but after a while I got a little annoyed that every time I wanted to do something more "Exotic" like using bluetooth, it was a lot of struggle. With os X it just works (which is not always the case with windows either). For me OS X is the ideal desktop OS, it has the unix side, so I can use the unix tools, it runs the cool audio applications like logic audio, dtp apps and videoediting apps, it;s stable, it has a great gui and it's not windows, but the virtual pc emulation is good enough if I need to run some windows app. Which never happens. I still use linux on my servers, although I am migrating some of my servers to freebsd. I mean, OS X on the desktop, freebsd/linux on the servers: life is good.
I am very curious about the outcome here. On one hand, De Beers and the diamond industry in general is a very powerfull player. I have no doubt that, considering the money involved, they would go to extremes to stop the synthetic diamond manufacturers, even using violence if nessecary. On the other hand: the procedure is now known, it is known to be possible, so the information is out, although only few know the exact parameters. And besides, the US military and industry, and many other players see the possibilities of synthetic diamonds for industrial use. May become an interesting struggle.
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I agree.. switching to postfix was for me a very good decision. Guess sendmail is a nice MTA, just like russian is a nice language.. if you know it. And oh, I have a spare O' Reilly sendmail book lying around..
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So I used a cheap edirol on my windows 2000 machine, and it sucked. I could not get it to work reliably. Also tried special usb asio drivers, which I use to make music, but that one too gave too much latency, plus it was very unreliable. When I use it on my ibook, the interface works without problems. But I use it for musicsoftware, so I need low latency. For your home theater setup I would either buy a reasonable cheap soundcard, like an audigy 2, use the digital out on a dolby digital amp if you have one. Ii'd say, if you buy the cheapest one, you might just try it out and see if the noise isthat bad when using analogue outputs. The usb solutions are a bit more expensive, and it you do the digital out, the noise thing is not really an issue. Furthermore, M-audio has much better products than creative, and mich better support. My M-audio audiophile 2496 is not noisy, even using analogue outs in my powermac g4.
I am afraid they did. Apparantly, this seems like a scam by the sco management to drive up their own shares in sco, sell it, and then leave sco to die. They are willing to sacrifice the entire company for it. I think they already sold 10% of their privately owned shares.
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Agreed.. but what would you guys recommend as an outlook replacement for windows? Preferably one that is opensource.. or free... and compatible with opengroupware.
IT's no big surprise, this Bevelander was a well known young internet interpreneur, who became famous in the Netherlands because he represented the internet boom. But he didn't do anything special, and he is the kind of guy who would do anything for money.
I agree.. a unix with a good gui, and more important: that runs logic audio 6 (nog available for windows or linux), final cut pro (same thing) etc etc.
Telstra suffers from a disease that is quite common ammong companies who have a monopoly: imcompetence. For instance, we tried to solve why our australian branch could not make an isdn connection to Amsterdam. Turned out that telstra simply forgot to route to Holland..
Or you could use Zina, which is like Andromeda, but free, where andromeda costs money... (although andromeda may be more mature). Isn't open source great?
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I have tried al tree branches of Debian. I love Debian on my servers, and stable and testing work great on them. But for the workstation, I found Debian unacceptable. Testing was simply not actual enough, and unstable too often broke. So for my workstations I have switched to OS X wheneever possible, and on x86 I am experimenting with gentoo and even considering *gasp*.. redhat.. Libranet sounds great, but for 40 $ I think I'd rather look somewhere else.
Good for you, but does your phone has 5-60 gigabyte of storage for mp3's? That is the gripe I have with the intergrated devices. They are nice, but the mp3 player has max 128 MB, the camera is only vga resolution, the pda is limited compared to a real pda etc. The all in one solutions are for me solutions where the components just aren't good enough.
My brother had an archos, (I think it was one of the older ones) with a 20 G harddisk, but compared to a ipod it was ugly, big, heavy, slow in transver (usb 1.1) an bad in soundquality. Especially the lack in sound quality was unacceptable so he got rid of it. My ipod on the other hand looks great, sounds great, is fast in transfer, is elegant, but it is a lot more expensive for it's storage. And of course, I'm sure the archos has improved.
I don't know, my t68i feels slow.. when I push the buttons (tap tap tap.. wait.. ah!) it reacts too slow, especially compared with a nokia 8310. The user interface is also a bit of a dissapointment compared with nokia's. But the feature's are cool.. to be able to use your t68i as a bluetooth remotecontrol for your computer for example.. and it syncs well via bluetooth with my mac. I wonder: does the p-800 sync with OS X or linux?
I can understand them having gripes with Apple, I can understand them moving away from proprietary libraries, although in both cases, I do not agree (me being an OS X user myself). But moving away from the PPC platform for these reasons is rather childish.
I agree, the Frank Herbert saga is great. his son's work may not be in the same league (especially his first one), but very entertaining nevertheless. I also enjoyed the movie by David Lynch very much.
I have to agree. I run Linux on all my servers, and love it, but OS X on the desktop really rocks.. I haven't had so much fun with my machine (A dual G4 powermac) since my Amiga 1000. It's also quite depressing when I have to work on a windows machine again, but I am very enthousiastic about OS X, it's easy, but if you want to do more complex stuff, that is also very well possible.
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Would be nice if it would work on grown mosquitos too... (I really really hate mosquitos.)
What if you just sell the cards and usb sticks unformatted and have it formatted under windows? That way you could evade this kind extortion?
Exactly what I did.. I used to use linux on my desktop, debian, used it for quite some time, but after a while I got a little annoyed that every time I wanted to do something more "Exotic" like using bluetooth, it was a lot of struggle. With os X it just works (which is not always the case with windows either). For me OS X is the ideal desktop OS, it has the unix side, so I can use the unix tools, it runs the cool audio applications like logic audio, dtp apps and videoediting apps, it;s stable, it has a great gui and it's not windows, but the virtual pc emulation is good enough if I need to run some windows app. Which never happens. I still use linux on my servers, although I am migrating some of my servers to freebsd. I mean, OS X on the desktop, freebsd/linux on the servers: life is good.
I am very curious about the outcome here. On one hand, De Beers and the diamond industry in general is a very powerfull player. I have no doubt that, considering the money involved, they would go to extremes to stop the synthetic diamond manufacturers, even using violence if nessecary. On the other hand: the procedure is now known, it is known to be possible, so the information is out, although only few know the exact parameters. And besides, the US military and industry, and many other players see the possibilities of synthetic diamonds for industrial use. May become an interesting struggle.
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Order your own anti-SCO shirt now, proceedings go to the EFF. http://www.cafeshops.com/geekkitchen
I agree.. switching to postfix was for me a very good decision. Guess sendmail is a nice MTA, just like russian is a nice language.. if you know it. And oh, I have a spare O' Reilly sendmail book lying around..
--
Order your own anti-sco shirt now, proceedings go to the EFF. http://www.cafeshops.com/geekkitchen
So I used a cheap edirol on my windows 2000 machine, and it sucked. I could not get it to work reliably. Also tried special usb asio drivers, which I use to make music, but that one too gave too much latency, plus it was very unreliable. When I use it on my ibook, the interface works without problems. But I use it for musicsoftware, so I need low latency. For your home theater setup I would either buy a reasonable cheap soundcard, like an audigy 2, use the digital out on a dolby digital amp if you have one. Ii'd say, if you buy the cheapest one, you might just try it out and see if the noise isthat bad when using analogue outputs. The usb solutions are a bit more expensive, and it you do the digital out, the noise thing is not really an issue. Furthermore, M-audio has much better products than creative, and mich better support. My M-audio audiophile 2496 is not noisy, even using analogue outs in my powermac g4.
I am afraid they did. Apparantly, this seems like a scam by the sco management to drive up their own shares in sco, sell it, and then leave sco to die. They are willing to sacrifice the entire company for it. I think they already sold 10% of their privately owned shares.
Agreed.. but what would you guys recommend as an outlook replacement for windows? Preferably one that is opensource.. or free... and compatible with opengroupware.
IT's no big surprise, this Bevelander was a well known young internet interpreneur, who became famous in the Netherlands because he represented the internet boom. But he didn't do anything special, and he is the kind of guy who would do anything for money.
Hey, not only has gentoo the ports collection like freebsd, it has also the sometimes less than friendly developers like openbsd... cool!
(Disclaimer: this is a joke. I like openbsd)
I agree.. a unix with a good gui, and more important: that runs logic audio 6 (nog available for windows or linux), final cut pro (same thing) etc etc.
Well.. you can have my 8-bit commodore 64 for free.. so the bang for the buck is infinite..
Telstra suffers from a disease that is quite common ammong companies who have a monopoly: imcompetence. For instance, we tried to solve why our australian branch could not make an isdn connection to Amsterdam. Turned out that telstra simply forgot to route to Holland..
Plus that the deal was with suse and ibm. Last time I looked, IBM was a US company.
Or you could use Zina, which is like Andromeda, but free, where andromeda costs money... (although andromeda may be more mature). Isn't open source great?
I have tried al tree branches of Debian. I love Debian on my servers, and stable and testing work great on them. But for the workstation, I found Debian unacceptable. Testing was simply not actual enough, and unstable too often broke. So for my workstations I have switched to OS X wheneever possible, and on x86 I am experimenting with gentoo and even considering *gasp*.. redhat.. Libranet sounds great, but for 40 $ I think I'd rather look somewhere else.
Good for you, but does your phone has 5-60 gigabyte of storage for mp3's? That is the gripe I have with the intergrated devices. They are nice, but the mp3 player has max 128 MB, the camera is only vga resolution, the pda is limited compared to a real pda etc. The all in one solutions are for me solutions where the components just aren't good enough.
My brother had an archos, (I think it was one of the older ones) with a 20 G harddisk, but compared to a ipod it was ugly, big, heavy, slow in transver (usb 1.1) an bad in soundquality. Especially the lack in sound quality was unacceptable so he got rid of it. My ipod on the other hand looks great, sounds great, is fast in transfer, is elegant, but it is a lot more expensive for it's storage. And of course, I'm sure the archos has improved.
I agree, I 'd love to buy my CD's for $ 15. But 22 euro here in holland for a normal CD is ridiculous.
I don't know, my t68i feels slow.. when I push the buttons (tap tap tap.. wait.. ah!) it reacts too slow, especially compared with a nokia 8310. The user interface is also a bit of a dissapointment compared with nokia's. But the feature's are cool.. to be able to use your t68i as a bluetooth remotecontrol for your computer for example.. and it syncs well via bluetooth with my mac. I wonder: does the p-800 sync with OS X or linux?
I can understand them having gripes with Apple, I can understand them moving away from proprietary libraries, although in both cases, I do not agree (me being an OS X user myself). But moving away from the PPC platform for these reasons is rather childish.
I agree, the Frank Herbert saga is great. his son's work may not be in the same league (especially his first one), but very entertaining nevertheless. I also enjoyed the movie by David Lynch very much.
And I thought I was old fashioned, owning a PDP-11..
I always say "Well.. I dunno.. I don't use windows myself.." which is true, I use OS X and linux, and I know windows, but at such moments I don't
I have to agree. I run Linux on all my servers, and love it, but OS X on the desktop really rocks.. I haven't had so much fun with my machine (A dual G4 powermac) since my Amiga 1000. It's also quite depressing when I have to work on a windows machine again, but I am very enthousiastic about OS X, it's easy, but if you want to do more complex stuff, that is also very well possible.