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Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.
on Saturday November 12, 2011 @03:52PM (#3228873)
There has already been a vastly simpler system that predates OS X: Linux or BSD combined with X11 and an arbitrary window manager. Just stay away from anything that calls itself a "desktop environment" and you should be fine.
Personal recommendation: http://www.archlinux.org & http://awesome.naquadah.org/ -- a nice compromise between easy configurability and the "suckless" simplicity mentality.
Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.
on Saturday November 12, 2011 @03:48PM (#3228864)
Anyone buying that would be a complete idiot.
So yes, it might work.
Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.
on Saturday November 12, 2011 @11:51AM (#3228155)
But... nobody can guarantee that. Have you never used paid software?
I mean sure, I can take your money. I can promise you things. So what?
And why the hell was I downmodded for asking a legit question? Is this place falling into reddit land?
Re:Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.
on Saturday November 12, 2011 @11:10AM (#3228055)
Why do you insist on paying for a free thing?
Re:Daylight Saving Time is a huge mess
on Sunday November 06, 2011 @05:03PM (#3204009)
Some light at the end of the tunnel: Russia decided to scrap the whole system this year! I hope they will stick with that absolutely brilliant decision.
Re:Failing with MongoDB
on Sunday November 06, 2011 @12:51PM (#3203288)
No, all of them had, and most still do. People don't seem to realize how freaking old and complicated those things are.
Re:How Can Anyone Still Hate Bill Gates?
on Sunday November 06, 2011 @04:29AM (#3202251)
Macs have the same problem. You can't get a mac without OS X.
Re:Failing with MongoDB
on Saturday November 05, 2011 @07:18PM (#3201217)
All the commercial DBs have similar issues. Just deal with them and go on.
Re:How Can Anyone Still Hate Bill Gates?
on Saturday November 05, 2011 @05:54AM (#3199404)
He capitalized on the idea that the consumer is not allowed to choose the operating system of the computer they buy. That idea hasn't yet faded.
That's why I hate Microsoft.
Re:OpenBSD 5.0 Released
on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @10:14AM (#3186736)
Linux (the kernel) actually has manpages? Are you sure? I've never seen any.
Case in point: check the output of lsmod. How many of those modules have a corresponding manpage? My guess: zero.
Same question for a BSD system (with lsmod changed to kldstat or whatever): all of them.
Re:OpenBSD 5.0 Released
on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @03:43AM (#3185786)
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=wireless&se...
I like Linux in practice, but one must admit that BSDs' manuals are way better.
Re:Khan Academy: Computer Science
on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @02:28AM (#3185656)
Come on, it's the Basic of this decade.
Re:Racism in Tech
on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @09:09AM (#3181791)
Cheap more probably equals unskilled. That's all it boils down to.
Re:Nokia surprises with white N9 and software update
on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @09:28AM (#3158431)
Whoa.
Might there be an inkling of a hope that they'll go in with this one?
Re:Nokia announces the Lumia 800, the 'first real Windows Phone'
on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @08:10AM (#3158211)
Oh right. Good point.
Let me rephrase what I really feel: After my three previous Nokia phones, I don't feel Nokia is a viable producer of high quality phones. In fact, part of me wants to punish them for selling me such junk and enveloping me in some sort of cognitive dissonance field that made me think they were doing good work.
Then again, Elop got there to change exactly that, so perhaps I should give them a benefit of doubt now.
Re:Nokia announces the Lumia 800, the 'first real Windows Phone'
on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @06:14AM (#3157871)
Yeah, I guess... I really don't regard Symbian as a viable platform, though
Re:Nokia announces the Lumia 800, the 'first real Windows Phone'
on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @06:05AM (#3157843)
Is anyone doing high quality non-smart phones anymore? I'm looking for something that's small, sturdy with long battery life. Preferably with good music playing.
I suppose Sony Ericssons's non-android phones are pretty good in that space, are there any others?
Re:Visa, MasterCard Looking Into Online Targeted Advertising Using Cre...
on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @01:38AM (#3152977)
Hmm, time to move to cash or bitcoin?
Re:Jaguar recalls 18,000 cars over major software fault
on Monday October 24, 2011 @06:29AM (#3148972)
It's frightening how cars' software is bloating up. I would've thought that a product that very easily kills people if things go wrong would have been under more scrutiny.
Re:Gnome 3 - This is the end, it seems
on Monday October 24, 2011 @02:02AM (#3148458)
For people who want a classical and snappy desktop that's still rather pretty, there's always http://xfce.org/ and http://xubuntu.com
Re:It's Never Really About Dropping Out
on Monday October 24, 2011 @01:47AM (#3148437)
Smart people go to college but they don't know what they want yet. If they find out and make it before they graduate, they drop out, because it would be an incredible waste of time to do otherwise.
Re:IdeaPad U300s matches MacBook Air -- for $100 less
on Friday October 21, 2011 @04:30AM (#3138961)
And then I would be paying extra for the OS X that I never use. Same problem, really.
Re:IdeaPad U300s matches MacBook Air -- for $100 less
on Thursday October 20, 2011 @05:05PM (#3136990)
You can install Linux on it, though, which can be superiour to OS X. On the other hand, it's a very irritating that one is forced to buying an OS that one is never going to use on the machine.
Re:Is Nokia's CEO a Microsoft mole?
on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @05:37PM (#3132230)
They're just fricking phones, why do we care so much about this?
Re:Cancer Researcher: Steve Jobs Death Unnecessary
on Thursday October 13, 2011 @02:25AM (#3106360)
Rockstar.
Re:First ASUS ultrabook to market: meet the Zenbook
on Thursday October 13, 2011 @01:05AM (#3106173)
Well, some people simply don't prefer OS X and are a bit reluctant to pay for it.
Re:First ASUS ultrabook to market: meet the Zenbook
on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @02:45PM (#3103951)
Looks great! Is it still a hostage to Microsoft?
Re:Google Wave and the mythical man month
on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @05:20AM (#3102108)
>Billions of successful projects run on Java.
I will give you billion dollars if you can prove that.
My personal guess (using my personal metrics) is that there are 10^3 to 10^4 successful Java projects and 10^9 failed ones.
Re:Google Wave and the mythical man month
on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @01:06AM (#3101581)
One of the lessons: Do not use Java for production applications.