I like to use OS X for my workstation because I like OmniWeb, there's good multimedia support (Flash, QT, etc.), and it runs the openssh client.
Also... it's fun to try out different ways of administering a system, but when one gets bored of that or simply isn't in the mood for it, there isn't a hell of a lot of difference between using a workstation based on FreeBSD or Slackware or Debian or even Solaris. Mac OS X is a little different from all the other desktop unixes, and I find its interface a little more friendly and interesting.
My intention here isn't to put anything else down, but rather just to answer your question as informatively as I can.
Hmm. I run 10.0.4 and IE 5.1 and I was unable to freeze my desktop using that page.
Note that command-option-esc will bring up a "Force Quit" window that lets you kill any Aqua program, including Finder (it restarts itself afterwards). I don't know if this would work in your situation, but it might.
Panix in NYC has a "catchall clause" like that, but it only says, "we reserve the right to terminate your account without refund for other kinds of nontrivial misbehavior, although in our
entire history we have never terminated an account for reasons other than those listed here."
There's nothing to keep a government from funding malaria research, and freely licensing the result.
I'm surprised that someone in the UK would have the peculiarly American delusion that corporations are the only entities capable of getting things done.
Don't forget that in the U.S., drug research is tax-subsidized -- that's right, people, we pay coming *and* going for this stuff -- after we partially pay for the research, Lilly or Pfizer or whoever gets the patent and gets to charge us $100/bottle for 17 years.
Someone didn't read the article. Apple stored the file type and creator data in a dedicated metadata storage area (analogous to an inode), *not* in the resource fork. Siracusa stressed this point *several* times.
I turned off Score +1 and turned on anonymity, and the settings seem to have gotten stuck! This post is to test the phenomenon. My apologies for the OT-ness to all concerned.
The bogosity meter pegs every time I hear this kind of verbiage. "Freedom", "innovation", endless faith in markets to fix everything. Here's some countering verbiage: "Democracy likes markets but markets don't like democracy." This kind of American-flag-wrapped faux-populist deregulationism is nothing but an expression of the will to power of dominant corporations.
Who was whining? I mentioned that I wanted a certian feature in a closed-source program, and someone gave me a pointer to a plugin that implements that feature -- a good result.
The parent to this post contains a raft of unfounded assumptions.
One is that I am a programmer. Well, I am trying to port some software in another window, but I'm not really much of a programmer.
Another is that a single person could create what I'm looking for in a desktop operating system. I think that's dubious, but I wouldn't rule it out entirely. But I'm certainly not that person.
Anyway... where do you get off? If I have your viewpoint right, it's that I should only use free software, and if it doesn't do what I want, I should modify it until it does. Well... what if I don't feel like it? Are you going to come over and sit on my doorstep and hold a placard until I quit spending money on proprietary software? If so, let me know and I'll email you my address; I think that would be quite amusing. I'll even give you a beer if you show up with the placard.
If free software did what I wanted, I'd use free software.
I don't have a problem with companies keeping their source closed. I don't see how anyone could afford to do what Apple's doing while giving their source away, and I like what Apple's doing. My problems with Microsoft go far beyond closed vs. open source.
I have found that RSS + RBL + DUL block between 1.5 and 2 messages per user per day.
It's a small sample, though; ~300 users, and all of them explicitly chose to enable MAPS filtering, so the sample was probably somewhat self-selecting.
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Yeah, sales people are always trying to get people to spend less money ... on some planet that I've never visited.
I believe the NSA has provided some funding for TrustedBSD.
On FreeBSD, the process-hiding feature is available by default, all you have to do is:
# sysctl kern.ps_showallprocs=0
I like to use OS X for my workstation because I like OmniWeb, there's good multimedia support (Flash, QT, etc.), and it runs the openssh client.
... it's fun to try out different ways of administering a system, but when one gets bored of that or simply isn't in the mood for it, there isn't a hell of a lot of difference between using a workstation based on FreeBSD or Slackware or Debian or even Solaris. Mac OS X is a little different from all the other desktop unixes, and I find its interface a little more friendly and interesting.
Also
My intention here isn't to put anything else down, but rather just to answer your question as informatively as I can.
Hmm. I run 10.0.4 and IE 5.1 and I was unable to freeze my desktop using that page.
Note that command-option-esc will bring up a "Force Quit" window that lets you kill any Aqua program, including Finder (it restarts itself afterwards). I don't know if this would work in your situation, but it might.
Finally, I urge you to submit a bug report.
Panix in NYC has a "catchall clause" like that, but it only says, "we reserve the right to terminate your account without refund for other kinds of nontrivial misbehavior, although in our
entire history we have never terminated an account for reasons other than those listed here."
http://www.panix.com/panix/rules.html
There's nothing to keep a government from funding malaria research, and freely licensing the result.
I'm surprised that someone in the UK would have the peculiarly American delusion that corporations are the only entities capable of getting things done.
Don't forget that in the U.S., drug research is tax-subsidized -- that's right, people, we pay coming *and* going for this stuff -- after we partially pay for the research, Lilly or Pfizer or whoever gets the patent and gets to charge us $100/bottle for 17 years.
I think Roche will survive, flourish even, despite being unable to suck the blood of Brazilians.
Mac OS X is based on Mach 3.0 and FreeBSD 3.2, mostly.
2 2F reeBSD+3.2%22
Rather than paste in all the links I've found which document this, I'll point you to the Google search I used to find them:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Mac+OS+X%22+%
Someone didn't read the article. Apple stored the file type and creator data in a dedicated metadata storage area (analogous to an inode), *not* in the resource fork. Siracusa stressed this point *several* times.
I turned off Score +1 and turned on anonymity, and the settings seem to have gotten stuck! This post is to test the phenomenon. My apologies for the OT-ness to all concerned.
How do we know you don't work for their competition? Or maybe you could be a pissed-off ex-employee.
The bogosity meter pegs every time I hear this kind of verbiage. "Freedom", "innovation", endless faith in markets to fix everything. Here's some countering verbiage: "Democracy likes markets but markets don't like democracy." This kind of American-flag-wrapped faux-populist deregulationism is nothing but an expression of the will to power of dominant corporations.
Who was whining? I mentioned that I wanted a certian feature in a closed-source program, and someone gave me a pointer to a plugin that implements that feature -- a good result.
Chill out.
The parent to this post contains a raft of unfounded assumptions.
... where do you get off? If I have your viewpoint right, it's that I should only use free software, and if it doesn't do what I want, I should modify it until it does. Well ... what if I don't feel like it? Are you going to come over and sit on my doorstep and hold a placard until I quit spending money on proprietary software? If so, let me know and I'll email you my address; I think that would be quite amusing. I'll even give you a beer if you show up with the placard.
One is that I am a programmer. Well, I am trying to port some software in another window, but I'm not really much of a programmer.
Another is that a single person could create what I'm looking for in a desktop operating system. I think that's dubious, but I wouldn't rule it out entirely. But I'm certainly not that person.
Anyway
Not really. Socialism is supposed to be about providing for people, not for corporations.
Is this a Carbon version or a Classic version?
BTW, thanks for the information, this is good to know.
If free software did what I wanted, I'd use free software.
I don't have a problem with companies keeping their source closed. I don't see how anyone could afford to do what Apple's doing while giving their source away, and I like what Apple's doing. My problems with Microsoft go far beyond closed vs. open source.
YMM, of course, V.
I wish Apple's iTunes supported Ogg Vorbis.
That's cool! When I get my NeXTStation back, I'll try to get it to talk NetInfo with my Mac OS X box.
Simson Garfinkel ain't no Beavis. He's a smart guy. And he only burned a case (well, two cases), not a machine.
Can you get the two OSs to speak NetInfo to each other?
MSNBC didn't write the article, they got it from syndication.
I have detected no editorial bias towards Microsoft at MSNBC, and I think I'd notice, since I'm quite biased *against* Microsoft.
I have found that RSS + RBL + DUL block between 1.5 and 2 messages per user per day.
It's a small sample, though; ~300 users, and all of them explicitly chose to enable MAPS filtering, so the sample was probably somewhat self-selecting.