"If I have a iMac connected to the internet full time, and I also have a iBook, could I use bluetooth to access the internet wirelessly from my iBook?"
No.
As mentioned on their Bluetooth page, Apple have said that Bluetooth is for wireless peripheral connection, and list it next to USB/FireWire. For wireless networking applications, such as what you're asking, Apple is AirPort/802.11b all the way.
So, basically, go buy two AirPort cards and wait for software Base Station support in OS X, or buy an AirPort Base Station. Once you've had a wireless notebook you'll never go back.
"Hopefully Microsoft and Sony dont push Nintendo out off the market, if Nintendo keeps with their routine, they have nothing to worry about even if their system were to come in 3rd they would still make a fortune."
Exactly.
Nintendo have shown with the N64 that they are quite happy to be number two while raking in the money.
And quite honestly, I'm quite happy with that. I keep buying their consoles, they keep putting out great first party games, I keep buying their great first party games. I'm happy. Nintendo's happy.
You don't need a stranglehold to profit. Just ask Apple.
Err, your "PS2" game list is full of third party software, including software from Sega.
Now, the magical thing about third party games is that they don't 'belong' to one console, but may be ported to the competiton as well (besides software that is signed as exclusive).
Many of the games you've listed as "PS2 games" will appear on the GameCube, the Xbox, and the PC.
Yes, Sony have a lot of nice second parties, as you've shown rather well. But Nintendo and Microsoft have the same third parties as well. The special thing about Nintendo is that they make their own high-quality software too.
That is one of the things that the GameCube has going for it; a company that is all about making games supporting it, not a company that makes consumer electronics or operating systems.
Reminds me of a report about KaZaA around the middle of last year. The TopText 'spyware'added yellow links to some words in Internet Explorer. I never dealt with it first-hand, but it sounded very annoying.
Is Morpheus' latest effort at all related? It seems to be based around thr same idea, however the idea of being redirected sounds worse. For exanple, does it work that if you type say, http://www.google.com, you arrive at AltaVista?
What is it with crappy (ex)FastTrack networks and I-can-believe-it's-not-trojan software?
From their forum: "Having had a response from Dan Johnston at Be Inc (or what remains of Be Inc), I hold out *no* hope that the Be community can afford to buy the be.com domain. I was a great supporter of the idea until I found out that the asking price is a few orders of magnitude greater than I had hoped"
I completed high school just over a year ago in Victoria, the other major Australian state.
This is nothing new in Victoria. New South Wales is just catching up.
The IT teacher used to gloat about being "god" and how she could (and did) read any e-mail, and about the filters setup so anything with swearing would be blocked and redirected to her. High school age kids throw words like "shit" and "fuck" around like nothing, so this was a little unfair, especially considering it wasn't documented until a year later.
The web access was worse. They had this state-wide thing called EduCache. It was just a great big filter, allowing only officially checked websites in. It was at the school's discression to activate it; you can guess our school had it on. (I also won't mention how this made the web virtually useless for most students, and I spent half a year teaching people how to change their proxy settings to bypass it. But I digress.)
Students could submit sites to this cache. I requested many tech sites, from here at Slashdot, to Be Inc, to Enlightenment, just to name the ones I remember. I also tried to add The Sync, just for Geeks in Space. It was rejected. Probably something to do with JenniCam...
Look, these schools don't care about privacy. Eventually, they made students sign sheets saying they wouldn't do bad things. Bad things like look up porn or submit anything anonymously to the net. By this stage, I had 12 months left at the school, and refused to sign. Didn't use a school computer for a year (well, not with my own account at least...)
Oh, and before you think I was some rebel kid hacking the school network; I wasn't. I was one of 3 students that sat in on the IT committee meetings. They were all just too busy bickering about their different areas of education to do anything constructive.
Sorry, ranting. Probably bad grammar from the rush. I just don't seen this as a surprise.
(I'll leave the 'My IT teacher called a mouse a GUI' and the I got in trouble for opening a command prompt in NT, because I was "accessing DOS"' rants for another day.)
"Dude, that is a shame. Maybe you should try to get away from the monitor a little more and experience the great outdoors and all the Austrialia has to offer."
I was expecting something like that. I was almost going to write something addressing that in my first post...
But basically, I'm saying that these animals aren't exactly commonplace.
Yes, I'm sure I could "go bush" all over the country to see all the wildlife, but to be blunt, it doesn't interest me all that much. And what difference does that make? I get outside, I go for walks all the time. That doesn't mean I should start driving over the countryside looking for native animals.
We've been using Windows 2000 since late 2000. And it is a step beyond NT 4.0, and well worth the update. We wouldn't rollout an NT4 setup anymore.
Windows XP Pro, however, has no benifits over Windows 2000 Pro in a corporate situation, requires a more powerful system, and offers virtually nothing of practial use that Win2000 Pro doesn't. There is no real benifit in 'rushing' the use of XP over 2000.
The general rule of thumb with Microsoft stuff (which you'd probably have heard) is to at least wait for the first service pack. Perhaps we'll look at XP a bit more then...
Oh, and for the record, I do NT/2000 stuff because it's my job. I'm still at uni, and this is a good job to get industry experence with. I don't think it's the greatest operating system for every situation however...;)
"We should all (I mean, the Western World) boycott Australia for all the censorship and banning."
Now, should I make a comment about how the (stereo)typical American that knows nothing about the rest of the world, or point out that Australia is generally considered as part of the west, at least in a political sense?
"I mean, how many millions of dollars do we leave there through tourism? If we stopped going, then they would feel a drop in their income."
Do you really think that international tourism hasn't dropped already? This little thing happened, something to do with planes. About 3 months ago. You may have heard about it on the TV.
Besides, tourism may be a large industry, but it's hardly the be all and end all. And since September 11, domestic tourism has grown quite a bit...
"And of course, we should also stop going to the theatres or renting movies like Cocodrile Dundee."
We? The USA collective again?
Believe me, as an Australia, I would love nothing more then for people like you to stop watching bullshit like Crocodile Dundee. That movie shows less about the 'average' Australian as a old west movie does about the 'average' American.
While i'm at it: I have never seen a koala. I have never seen a crocodile. I have could probably count the amount of times I've seen a kangaroo with one hand.
Yes, videogame censorship sucks. But this won't stick anyway. It hasn't before, and it won't now. The censoring of TV, movies, and games is getting overhauled now. GTA will probably get a harsh rating under the new system. Whatever. I'd prefer to have to download a copy of some game off the internet to having a government body like the FBI installing spyware and destroying my privacy.
All well, you've read all this now. Go back to thinking that everyone in Australia is like that pathetic Crocodile Hunter show. I guess your fantasies are more fun then the real world.
I work for a company involved with the deployment and support of Windows 2000 (and to a lesser extent now, NT 4.0) systems.
We've sworn off Windows XP for at least 12 months.
No matter what the Microsoft marketing says about XP Professional being the client of choice for Windows 2000 Server, there is no reason to move away from the (relatively) proven Windows 2000 Professional. The supposed 'benefits' (updated GUI that the majority turn off, a few apps, and a whole bunch of Passport crap) are not justified by the issues introduced with the 'upgrade'.
The little we have actually dealt with it in a work environment (smaller clients that have set up their own computers) have been nothing but trouble. Callouts because they can't activate it themselves. Yes, it's a three-click operation, but some of these people are scared of the computers enough, let alone when the operating system they have paid for decides not to work anymore. Software (both obscure and not) that has decided not to work, even between 2000 and XP. It's hard to explain "Well, your new computer that you've bought can't do that. At all."
So, supporting small clients is harder, and no-one in their right mind rolls out a two month old unproven OS for large clients. We are using Windows 2000 now, and will be for the next 12 months.
Perhaps we'll look at XP Professional again in 2003...
I can't see the logic in a move from Windows to Linux here. The application you require only runs on a win32 platform.
Insted of moving from Windows 98 to Linux, why don't you look into moving to Windows 2000. The issues you list (IO, memory mangement, filesystem) are all far better in Windows 2000 compared to Win9x.
Linux is great, and the freedom attached to it is also great. But if what you need to do needs Windows, then perhaps the best solution is to move to a better version of Windows...
The GameCube has been out in Japan for the best part of 3 months. In that time I have not read one complaint about the console crashing anywhere online.
Now that the GCN has been out in the States for a week, and there is now people (well, one person on Slashdot actully) talking of it crashing?
So, what am I supposed to believe? That the console has been flawless for the past 3 months in Japan, yet now crashes on US soil? This Ask Slashdot story is the first I've heard of the GCN crashing, but I guess the repuation around here will be that the GameCube is buggy now.
Personally, someone out there is just making themselves some news. Why don't you just go back to bitching that Nintendo didn't include DVD playback. At least that is based on fact. I mean, DVD playback is essencial in a machine made for playing games...
It's just as legal to port an arcade or console game to Linux as it is to port a Windows game. As long as you go to the company and pay them for the rights, which is the suggestion of the post you replied to.
Believe it or not, but a law is not being broken every time someone mentions playing console games on a PC.
Slashdot Mirror
"If I have a iMac connected to the internet full time, and I also have a iBook, could I use bluetooth to access the internet wirelessly from my iBook?"
No.
As mentioned on their Bluetooth page, Apple have said that Bluetooth is for wireless peripheral connection, and list it next to USB/FireWire. For wireless networking applications, such as what you're asking, Apple is AirPort/802.11b all the way.
So, basically, go buy two AirPort cards and wait for software Base Station support in OS X, or buy an AirPort Base Station. Once you've had a wireless notebook you'll never go back.
"Hopefully Microsoft and Sony dont push Nintendo out off the market, if Nintendo keeps with their routine, they have nothing to worry about even if their system were to come in 3rd they would still make a fortune."
Exactly.
Nintendo have shown with the N64 that they are quite happy to be number two while raking in the money.
And quite honestly, I'm quite happy with that. I keep buying their consoles, they keep putting out great first party games, I keep buying their great first party games. I'm happy. Nintendo's happy.
You don't need a stranglehold to profit. Just ask Apple.
Err, your "PS2" game list is full of third party software, including software from Sega.
Now, the magical thing about third party games is that they don't 'belong' to one console, but may be ported to the competiton as well (besides software that is signed as exclusive).
Many of the games you've listed as "PS2 games" will appear on the GameCube, the Xbox, and the PC.
Yes, Sony have a lot of nice second parties, as you've shown rather well. But Nintendo and Microsoft have the same third parties as well. The special thing about Nintendo is that they make their own high-quality software too.
That is one of the things that the GameCube has going for it; a company that is all about making games supporting it, not a company that makes consumer electronics or operating systems.
Take a look at the Fink project.
They're going a great job of porting a whole bunch of apps across to OS X, and they use apt too!
"The ability to browse windows shares"
It's not quite as elegant as a Finder-based solution, but you might find SMB Browse useful while waiting for 10.2. It's currently at version 0.8.
I haven't had any major issues with it so far. Hope you find it useful.
(And yes, I did post this in another thread; just trying to be helpful.)
Left click for launch.
Right click for context menu.
Right click-hold-drag to move.
This whole "kill the double click" idea is the best fundamental GUI interaction idea I've heard in a long time.
sudo apt-get install gnome-core
It's not quite as elegant as a Finder-based solution, but you might find SMB Browse useful while waiting for 10.2. It's currently at version 0.8.
I haven't had any major issues with it so far. Hope you find it useful.
Proof that clock speed == power
And I bet you think that the Pentium 4 is faster then the Athlon XP as well?
Reminds me of a report about KaZaA around the middle of last year. The TopText 'spyware'added yellow links to some words in Internet Explorer. I never dealt with it first-hand, but it sounded very annoying.
Is Morpheus' latest effort at all related? It seems to be based around thr same idea, however the idea of being redirected sounds worse. For exanple, does it work that if you type say, http://www.google.com, you arrive at AltaVista?
What is it with crappy (ex)FastTrack networks and I-can-believe-it's-not-trojan software?
This would be a great time for someone to sweep it(Be.com) up. ;) *cough*OpenBeOS*cough*"
Are you offering to use your OSDN connections to pay for it?
BeGroovy looked into buying the domain.
From their forum:
"Having had a response from Dan Johnston at Be Inc (or what remains of Be Inc), I hold out *no* hope that the Be community can afford to buy the be.com domain. I was a great supporter of the idea until I found out that the asking price is a few orders of magnitude greater than I had hoped"
So yes Tim, your OSDN friends will be handy.
I completed high school just over a year ago in Victoria, the other major Australian state.
This is nothing new in Victoria. New South Wales is just catching up.
The IT teacher used to gloat about being "god" and how she could (and did) read any e-mail, and about the filters setup so anything with swearing would be blocked and redirected to her. High school age kids throw words like "shit" and "fuck" around like nothing, so this was a little unfair, especially considering it wasn't documented until a year later.
The web access was worse. They had this state-wide thing called EduCache. It was just a great big filter, allowing only officially checked websites in. It was at the school's discression to activate it; you can guess our school had it on. (I also won't mention how this made the web virtually useless for most students, and I spent half a year teaching people how to change their proxy settings to bypass it. But I digress.)
Students could submit sites to this cache. I requested many tech sites, from here at Slashdot, to Be Inc, to Enlightenment, just to name the ones I remember. I also tried to add The Sync, just for Geeks in Space. It was rejected. Probably something to do with JenniCam...
Look, these schools don't care about privacy. Eventually, they made students sign sheets saying they wouldn't do bad things. Bad things like look up porn or submit anything anonymously to the net. By this stage, I had 12 months left at the school, and refused to sign. Didn't use a school computer for a year (well, not with my own account at least...)
Oh, and before you think I was some rebel kid hacking the school network; I wasn't. I was one of 3 students that sat in on the IT committee meetings. They were all just too busy bickering about their different areas of education to do anything constructive.
Sorry, ranting. Probably bad grammar from the rush. I just don't seen this as a surprise.
(I'll leave the 'My IT teacher called a mouse a GUI' and the I got in trouble for opening a command prompt in NT, because I was "accessing DOS"' rants for another day.)
"you can read BSI's press release..."
Perhaps I've wasted too much time here and at E2, but am I the only person that saw 'BSI', and though:
"What does Block Stackers Intergalactic have to do with this?
Followed by: "Hell, since when have they released press releases?!"
I guess I'm odd...
Fink lives at http://fink.sourceforge.net for the record.
Mmm, apt. Mmm, dselect.
Steve Jobs declares war on Canada.
Bondi blue missiles were seen shooting from a gulfstream jet located somewhere in the Cupertino area...
"Dude, that is a shame. Maybe you should try to get away from the monitor a little more and experience the great outdoors and all the Austrialia has to offer."
I was expecting something like that. I was almost going to write something addressing that in my first post...
But basically, I'm saying that these animals aren't exactly commonplace.
Yes, I'm sure I could "go bush" all over the country to see all the wildlife, but to be blunt, it doesn't interest me all that much. And what difference does that make? I get outside, I go for walks all the time. That doesn't mean I should start driving over the countryside looking for native animals.
Not at all.
;)
We've been using Windows 2000 since late 2000. And it is a step beyond NT 4.0, and well worth the update. We wouldn't rollout an NT4 setup anymore.
Windows XP Pro, however, has no benifits over Windows 2000 Pro in a corporate situation, requires a more powerful system, and offers virtually nothing of practial use that Win2000 Pro doesn't. There is no real benifit in 'rushing' the use of XP over 2000.
The general rule of thumb with Microsoft stuff (which you'd probably have heard) is to at least wait for the first service pack. Perhaps we'll look at XP a bit more then...
Oh, and for the record, I do NT/2000 stuff because it's my job. I'm still at uni, and this is a good job to get industry experence with. I don't think it's the greatest operating system for every situation however...
"We should all (I mean, the Western World) boycott Australia for all the censorship and banning."
Now, should I make a comment about how the (stereo)typical American that knows nothing about the rest of the world, or point out that Australia is generally considered as part of the west, at least in a political sense?
"I mean, how many millions of dollars do we leave there through tourism? If we stopped going, then they would feel a drop in their income."
Do you really think that international tourism hasn't dropped already? This little thing happened, something to do with planes. About 3 months ago. You may have heard about it on the TV.
Besides, tourism may be a large industry, but it's hardly the be all and end all. And since September 11, domestic tourism has grown quite a bit...
"And of course, we should also stop going to the theatres or renting movies like Cocodrile Dundee."
We? The USA collective again?
Believe me, as an Australia, I would love nothing more then for people like you to stop watching bullshit like Crocodile Dundee. That movie shows less about the 'average' Australian as a old west movie does about the 'average' American.
While i'm at it: I have never seen a koala. I have never seen a crocodile. I have could probably count the amount of times I've seen a kangaroo with one hand.
Yes, videogame censorship sucks. But this won't stick anyway. It hasn't before, and it won't now. The censoring of TV, movies, and games is getting overhauled now. GTA will probably get a harsh rating under the new system. Whatever. I'd prefer to have to download a copy of some game off the internet to having a government body like the FBI installing spyware and destroying my privacy.
All well, you've read all this now. Go back to thinking that everyone in Australia is like that pathetic Crocodile Hunter show. I guess your fantasies are more fun then the real world.
I work for a company involved with the deployment and support of Windows 2000 (and to a lesser extent now, NT 4.0) systems.
We've sworn off Windows XP for at least 12 months.
No matter what the Microsoft marketing says about XP Professional being the client of choice for Windows 2000 Server, there is no reason to move away from the (relatively) proven Windows 2000 Professional. The supposed 'benefits' (updated GUI that the majority turn off, a few apps, and a whole bunch of Passport crap) are not justified by the issues introduced with the 'upgrade'.
The little we have actually dealt with it in a work environment (smaller clients that have set up their own computers) have been nothing but trouble. Callouts because they can't activate it themselves. Yes, it's a three-click operation, but some of these people are scared of the computers enough, let alone when the operating system they have paid for decides not to work anymore. Software (both obscure and not) that has decided not to work, even between 2000 and XP. It's hard to explain "Well, your new computer that you've bought can't do that. At all."
So, supporting small clients is harder, and no-one in their right mind rolls out a two month old unproven OS for large clients. We are using Windows 2000 now, and will be for the next 12 months.
Perhaps we'll look at XP Professional again in 2003...
I can't see the logic in a move from Windows to Linux here. The application you require only runs on a win32 platform.
Insted of moving from Windows 98 to Linux, why don't you look into moving to Windows 2000. The issues you list (IO, memory mangement, filesystem) are all far better in Windows 2000 compared to Win9x.
Linux is great, and the freedom attached to it is also great. But if what you need to do needs Windows, then perhaps the best solution is to move to a better version of Windows...
The GameCube has been out in Japan for the best part of 3 months. In that time I have not read one complaint about the console crashing anywhere online.
Now that the GCN has been out in the States for a week, and there is now people (well, one person on Slashdot actully) talking of it crashing?
So, what am I supposed to believe? That the console has been flawless for the past 3 months in Japan, yet now crashes on US soil? This Ask Slashdot story is the first I've heard of the GCN crashing, but I guess the repuation around here will be that the GameCube is buggy now.
Personally, someone out there is just making themselves some news. Why don't you just go back to bitching that Nintendo didn't include DVD playback. At least that is based on fact. I mean, DVD playback is essencial in a machine made for playing games...
ROT13 of course!
I mean, Microsoft have used 'encryption' of that quality in the past, why improve now?
What do you mean "it's illegal"?
It's just as legal to port an arcade or console game to Linux as it is to port a Windows game. As long as you go to the company and pay them for the rights, which is the suggestion of the post you replied to.
Believe it or not, but a law is not being broken every time someone mentions playing console games on a PC.
Yes, like you've said elsewhere, anything with 'Opera' in the string gets blocked, and that means all of Opera's hardcoded strings...
Set as 'Opera':
Browser: Opera
Platform: Windows NT 5.1
Version: 5.12
User Agent: Opera/5.12 (Windows NT 5.1; U) [en]
Set as 'Mozilla 5.0':
Browser: Netscape
Platform: Windows NT 5.1
Version: 5.0
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U) Opera 5.12 [en]
Set as 'Mozilla 4.76':
Browser: Netscape
Platform: Windows NT 5.1
Version: 4.76
User Agent: Mozilla/4.76 (Windows NT 5.1; U) Opera 5.12 [en]
Set as 'Mozilla 3.0':
Browser: Netscape
Platform: Windows NT 5.1
Version: 3.0
User Agent: Mozilla/3.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U) Opera 5.12 [en]
Set as 'MS IE5.0':
Browser: Internet Explorer
Platform: Windows NT 5.1
Version: 5.0
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 5.12 [en]
(There are all on a Windows XP Professional system, thus NT 5.1)
There is no possible way to deny this- Microsoft have specifically blocked Opera from MSN.com.