smit is definitely a kick ass config tool. I wish more OSes had a similar config tool. The text mode of smit is very good. I especially love that it (optionally) shows you the command line versions of what it's doing behind the scenes.
Personally, I have remedied the situation.. I bought a very nice mouse for my G4 tower, so I can now right click. Too bad this doesn't let me do a nice cut and paste this way as well, but maybe someday I can do that as simply on the Mac as I do in most X window managers. I agree on you with reducing use on the mouse, but for cut and paste you need a mouse... so you might as well use all mouse commands when you are doing that.
This solution, however, only works for a desktop machine, _not_ a laptop. The article was mentioning a Tibook, not a tower or cube or anything that is a desktop. Why do people have so much trouble getting this through their heads?
Trackpads suck for many people, but I'm glad it works well for you. As to the 'plug a mouse in', that doesn't work. A laptop should be a self contained unit, so you can hold it in your lap you know? Unless you use a laptop as a desktop, the extra mouse answer doesn't work.
I recently bought a shiny new G4 with OS X. For many things it is very good, and I love the menu bar at top of the screen thing. But there are many ways in which the UI of my Linux and Solaris boxen with Window Maker is massively better for me.
The corners of the Mac are ignored, save for some lame option about screen savers. The buttons of the tile bar on the Mac OS X are close togother, rather that on opposite sides, making that part difficult. The cut and paste on the Mac is rather difficult, being a combination of mouse and keyboard, rather than pure mouse use.
The few times so far I booted into OS 9, it's been pretty bad (for reasons other than the UI), so I haven't learned much about that.:P
Compared to the Windows box that I use for games, though, the UI on the Mac is wonderfully advanced.
No, when I take my laptop out, I only carry the laptop with me, and the bag to carry it in. I use it for portable computing, not a somewhat moble networked desktop that only goes from desk to desk. A laptop is nice because you can get on a bus or train and actually put it in your lap. What an interesting concept... a laptop in a lap. Who would have thought of that?
Not really ot... Good ol' Abe was one of guys who set forth the historical precident for setting aside the contstitution (freedoms) when it became inconvientient (safety). Look up how he set aside the rule of habeus corpus sometime. Thanks to him we have a lot of problems with presidents who think the law is something to be switched on and off at will, if there is a 'time of conflict'. Personally, I think we need such restrictions on the government _more_ in times of conflict.
Such precidents have allowed our current leaders to destroy all sorts of additional freedoms, in the name of security.
What was that they said the road to hell was paved with?
Right at the point when we can get kick ass high end hardware such as Sun's E15k for free... that's when Sun will die. Remember, Sun is still primarily a hardware company.
This artificial notion of 'fair' is stupid. If you have the benefit of additional info that others do not, you should be able to take advantage of that info, no matter the source. This notion of trying to make everyone equal is lame, and ignores the reality that things are NOT fair... trying to make them fair by fixing the game isn't going to make it fair... it just discriminates against those that should be doing the best at the gambling game that is stocks.
Just like in schools you should give better education to those who show themselves to be smarter... why waste time/materials/etc on people who aren't starting off at the same level as others? You just fill the world with morons who think they deserve equal benefits as others. Protections, yes. Everyone deserves equal protection under the law.. but not benefits.
It's a broken viewpoint, and it causes problems... the result of the stock gamble being 'equal access' is only one symptom of this viewpoint.
We must invest based upon equal amount of ignorance. Should you actually know something good about the company, you are not allowed to invest or tell others to invest. Insider trading is bad, m'kay. You are allowed to use only ignorance and luck; intelligence and knowledge in gambling (stocks) is considered rude and illegal.;)
Yeah, I know it's not exactly accurate, but it always struck me as a funny/messed up rule anyway.
1. Learn to code.
2. Learn to code in C.
3. Figure out what YOU want to add to the source.
4. Read the kernel source.
5. Understand what you read.
6. Make changes/additions to the source, per step #3.
7. Test out the changes/additions on your own system.
8. Make it work for you.
9. Send in your contribution.
10. Have it accepted/rejected.
Here's my go at explaining this. Property is an abstract concept. To say 'I own such and such' or that 'you own such and such' is meaningless, except in the abstract... this includes things that you make. Such things gain meaning because of the social group we are in having a generally agreed upon view of who owns what. Part of the social group of a large number of us is the USA, which originally defined some level of ownership of this kind of stuff in the following terms:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Please note the purpose of allowing these limited term exclusive rights.
Not to agree or disagree with what it is now, but this is the original, intended purpose in the laws of the USA.
Sun was never in the x86 market... it was just a sort of 'oh, it also runs on'. It was never big in Sun. The x86 hardware is enough of a hodge-podge mess, and ancient, unworkable crap that this is a natural market to work away from even without open source to put a Unix-alike on it. In all, it's a blessing to Sun to not be on x86 hardware. It allows focus to remain on properly built hardware.
The corporate culture depends on your location and position within the company. It can be anywhere from jeans and tshirt and nerf wars relaxed to suit and tie and board meetings uptight. Sun has moved from small and agile company to large company who still thinks/want to pretend they are still small and agile. The culture is changing, so expect more suit and tie types in the future.
No, as you can get ID cards which are functionally identical to a drivers licence, except you aren't allowed to drive. You go to the DMV for these ID cards, and they have the same ID # on them as you would if you had a driver's licence.
The people who are capable of coding the stuff that would make Linux be a desktop for the non-geek are the same people who have no interest in making such an enviornment, since it doesn't suit them personally. They have no motivation, such as a big corporation giving them tons of money to make something they consider useless or worse than what they have already.
Instead of research, let's do some _construction_. Let's spend _more_ money and time and get a _permanent_ station out there. Once we do that, we can spend all the time we like with experements. Our priorities need to be construction and colonization, however. The time to start is now. We've completed the most successful prospecting mission ever (1969), and what have we done since? Squat. Sure, it's been the most profitable endevour humans have yet accomplished (in terms of lives and money saved, technologies developed, etc), but compared to what it _could_ be, it's nothing. We need to invest in space. Space and biotech. Those are two of the paths we need to travel, to have a chance at a future.
Punish them by making them buy a bunch of systems for poor schools. Say about $5billion worth. Disallow _any_ MS system or software to be purchased in this deal. All Macs, Linux boxes, etc. would be their only options.
They were found guilty. They are in the wrong. The only matter left is punishment. Once this is handed down, if MS has a say or not in it, case settled. Done and over. Why let MS have a say in this when they already have proven to be in the wrong? Do you let a thief bargin for half time off if he shines your shoes for you every day? Convict the convicts and end it.
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smit is definitely a kick ass config tool. I wish more OSes had a similar config tool. The text mode of smit is very good. I especially love that it (optionally) shows you the command line versions of what it's doing behind the scenes.
Personally, I have remedied the situation.. I bought a very nice mouse for my G4 tower, so I can now right click. Too bad this doesn't let me do a nice cut and paste this way as well, but maybe someday I can do that as simply on the Mac as I do in most X window managers. I agree on you with reducing use on the mouse, but for cut and paste you need a mouse... so you might as well use all mouse commands when you are doing that.
This solution, however, only works for a desktop machine, _not_ a laptop. The article was mentioning a Tibook, not a tower or cube or anything that is a desktop. Why do people have so much trouble getting this through their heads?
Trackpads suck for many people, but I'm glad it works well for you. As to the 'plug a mouse in', that doesn't work. A laptop should be a self contained unit, so you can hold it in your lap you know? Unless you use a laptop as a desktop, the extra mouse answer doesn't work.
I recently bought a shiny new G4 with OS X. For many things it is very good, and I love the menu bar at top of the screen thing. But there are many ways in which the UI of my Linux and Solaris boxen with Window Maker is massively better for me.
:P
The corners of the Mac are ignored, save for some lame option about screen savers. The buttons of the tile bar on the Mac OS X are close togother, rather that on opposite sides, making that part difficult. The cut and paste on the Mac is rather difficult, being a combination of mouse and keyboard, rather than pure mouse use.
The few times so far I booted into OS 9, it's been pretty bad (for reasons other than the UI), so I haven't learned much about that.
Compared to the Windows box that I use for games, though, the UI on the Mac is wonderfully advanced.
No, when I take my laptop out, I only carry the laptop with me, and the bag to carry it in. I use it for portable computing, not a somewhat moble networked desktop that only goes from desk to desk. A laptop is nice because you can get on a bus or train and actually put it in your lap. What an interesting concept... a laptop in a lap. Who would have thought of that?
Not really ot... Good ol' Abe was one of guys who set forth the historical precident for setting aside the contstitution (freedoms) when it became inconvientient (safety). Look up how he set aside the rule of habeus corpus sometime. Thanks to him we have a lot of problems with presidents who think the law is something to be switched on and off at will, if there is a 'time of conflict'. Personally, I think we need such restrictions on the government _more_ in times of conflict.
Such precidents have allowed our current leaders to destroy all sorts of additional freedoms, in the name of security.
What was that they said the road to hell was paved with?
And we should be using pebble bed reactors too.
Right at the point when we can get kick ass high end hardware such as Sun's E15k for free... that's when Sun will die. Remember, Sun is still primarily a hardware company.
This artificial notion of 'fair' is stupid. If you have the benefit of additional info that others do not, you should be able to take advantage of that info, no matter the source. This notion of trying to make everyone equal is lame, and ignores the reality that things are NOT fair... trying to make them fair by fixing the game isn't going to make it fair... it just discriminates against those that should be doing the best at the gambling game that is stocks.
Just like in schools you should give better education to those who show themselves to be smarter... why waste time/materials/etc on people who aren't starting off at the same level as others? You just fill the world with morons who think they deserve equal benefits as others. Protections, yes. Everyone deserves equal protection under the law.. but not benefits.
It's a broken viewpoint, and it causes problems... the result of the stock gamble being 'equal access' is only one symptom of this viewpoint.
We must invest based upon equal amount of ignorance. Should you actually know something good about the company, you are not allowed to invest or tell others to invest. Insider trading is bad, m'kay. You are allowed to use only ignorance and luck; intelligence and knowledge in gambling (stocks) is considered rude and illegal. ;)
Yeah, I know it's not exactly accurate, but it always struck me as a funny/messed up rule anyway.
If you want to get yelled at because you suck, try OpenBSD? At least you won't be a communist, then. ;)
1. Learn to code.
2. Learn to code in C.
3. Figure out what YOU want to add to the source.
4. Read the kernel source.
5. Understand what you read.
6. Make changes/additions to the source, per step #3.
7. Test out the changes/additions on your own system.
8. Make it work for you.
9. Send in your contribution.
10. Have it accepted/rejected.
Here's my go at explaining this. Property is an abstract concept. To say 'I own such and such' or that 'you own such and such' is meaningless, except in the abstract... this includes things that you make. Such things gain meaning because of the social group we are in having a generally agreed upon view of who owns what. Part of the social group of a large number of us is the USA, which originally defined some level of ownership of this kind of stuff in the following terms:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Please note the purpose of allowing these limited term exclusive rights.
Not to agree or disagree with what it is now, but this is the original, intended purpose in the laws of the USA.
Um... you know that gelatin is meat, usually cow, right? Though often it's horse instead. :)
Sun was never in the x86 market... it was just a sort of 'oh, it also runs on'. It was never big in Sun. The x86 hardware is enough of a hodge-podge mess, and ancient, unworkable crap that this is a natural market to work away from even without open source to put a Unix-alike on it. In all, it's a blessing to Sun to not be on x86 hardware. It allows focus to remain on properly built hardware.
The corporate culture depends on your location and position within the company. It can be anywhere from jeans and tshirt and nerf wars relaxed to suit and tie and board meetings uptight. Sun has moved from small and agile company to large company who still thinks/want to pretend they are still small and agile. The culture is changing, so expect more suit and tie types in the future.
No, as you can get ID cards which are functionally identical to a drivers licence, except you aren't allowed to drive. You go to the DMV for these ID cards, and they have the same ID # on them as you would if you had a driver's licence.
They might not be cookie-cutter, but they all suck a**. MOOIII, now _there's_ a game to look forward to. :)
Hrm... tough call. LA or Paris, LA or Paris... LA would be best, I suppose. Paris has some nice stuff there, once you get rid of the people. :)
The people who are capable of coding the stuff that would make Linux be a desktop for the non-geek are the same people who have no interest in making such an enviornment, since it doesn't suit them personally. They have no motivation, such as a big corporation giving them tons of money to make something they consider useless or worse than what they have already.
No, english is enough of a gibberish tongue on it's own without terrorists. :)
Instead of research, let's do some _construction_. Let's spend _more_ money and time and get a _permanent_ station out there. Once we do that, we can spend all the time we like with experements. Our priorities need to be construction and colonization, however. The time to start is now. We've completed the most successful prospecting mission ever (1969), and what have we done since? Squat. Sure, it's been the most profitable endevour humans have yet accomplished (in terms of lives and money saved, technologies developed, etc), but compared to what it _could_ be, it's nothing. We need to invest in space. Space and biotech. Those are two of the paths we need to travel, to have a chance at a future.
Punish them by making them buy a bunch of systems for poor schools. Say about $5billion worth. Disallow _any_ MS system or software to be purchased in this deal. All Macs, Linux boxes, etc. would be their only options.
They were found guilty. They are in the wrong. The only matter left is punishment. Once this is handed down, if MS has a say or not in it, case settled. Done and over. Why let MS have a say in this when they already have proven to be in the wrong? Do you let a thief bargin for half time off if he shines your shoes for you every day? Convict the convicts and end it.