The Bank never "goes broke." If the Bank runs out of money, the Banker may issue as much more needed by writing on any ordinary paper.
Monopoly rules,
Transscribed word by word.
Anton: “Who is that?”
Me: “Philip Glass”
Anton: “He is invisible to my ears”
The Feds give JP Morgan 30 Billion US$ so that they can buy Bear Sterns for 240 Millon. A company that was supposed to be worth ten times more than that. I have no clue about econmics. Specially not on this scale. It seems that the people running things have no clue either. It looks like that might get worse – before it gets worse.
a story in pictures about some of the last Polaroid employees
I really liked my SX 70 and the Time Zero film.
Bush: We have a dollar that’s adjusting, and I am for a strong dollar. One reason I am for a strong dollar is because I want, you know, people to — I think it helps deal with inflation.
When this man came into office it took 90 american cents ot buy a Euro. Now it’s 155 of those.
“I am for a strong dollar”
Funny that the that seems not to be enough. It’s not God setting the dollar course. It’s how many of them you print. If you print to many then they are worth less. If you print less then the they are worth more. Simple.
Installed 10.5 today. Actually 10.5.2. Needed a couple of reboots and installs. But it all seems to work rather well now. My crontab did not make it. Strange, but not the end of the world. The WWAN icon dissapeared from the menu bar. It turns out that you can add things to the menu bar by running them. They are located in:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/WWAN.menu
Other than that it has been pretty flawless. 10.5.2 seems to use less memory than than 10.4.11
The memory leak in ATSServer server seems to be gone as well. Yeah!
Overall it seems to be a very nice iteration. Somebody should put OS X 10.0,1,2,3,4 and now 5 side by side. That would be a very interesting example of design evolution. Apple did well in their upgrade concept in between major and minor releases.
My pet theory about Apple is this: Nothing major gets decided without “Steve”. Most of the mid size decissions are made based on “what would Steve say to this”.
Things that his Steve-ness is likely to use are finetuned and well honed. He probably have never a folder in the dock for instance. That “Fan mode” is simply ridicolous. Good thing it can be replaced with the “List” option now in 10.5.2. So on the good side we find: OS X, iPhone, probably Keynote (I would not know),
Safari, Finder (scrolls like butter) (<= Finder is good and bad. What S. uses works, but it's still broken elsewhere)
Then there is the sad side of Apple: Unix in general (there are no tape devices. Yes, there are none. Go Figure!), OS X Server (joke, really, it is one) Pro Apps: Some are really nice,
but overall there has been very little innovation. Quicktime is bubbling features on the surface, Final Cut is not bad, Motion was neat, yet pointless, Color was thrown in for free, and Final Cut Server has not been released yet.
Apple should release the Pro Apps division out of their ridicolous communication strangulation and let it go on it's own rules. People need Beta versions. They want to shape the product. Millions of dollars of peoples testing and feedback get wasted right now because Apple is unable to apply different commuincation rules for consumer products like iPhones versus applications like Shake. Idiotic. Not like Apple? Well, much like Apple. There is the dark side of the Apple. That's the one that Steve's light does not shine on. He should realize that, and give those divisions the room they need to grow. Sure Apple, Inc can afford not to do that. Apple, Inc can afford many things. Some of them might be pretty stupid. Like the way the ProApps division is been treated.
Today Interdubs crossed the 60,000 file mark. 83 days ago there where 40,000 files. Before that it took 118 days to go from 20,000 to 40,000. Interdubs grew 42% faster than in the quarter before. There are 25 official clients now that choose to be mentioned on the website. Interestingly, the support amount has actually gone down. Fixing every bug right away makes seems to let the total number go down. Most emails and calls are about new features and concepts. Since I often don’t get things right the first time, people have to make awesome suggestions how new features and concepts could be implemented better. I think that there is huge value in this kind of feedback. Users are used to things working efficientlly in interdubs. When something does not then they point me to it.
Being able to change the code in minutes and doing so frequently is one of the priceless concepts that are hard to imagine. But now I would never attempt to write software in any different way.
So I thought I’d give OS X Server another try. With 10.2 it was dismals. But things might have changed. Years have gone by. Turns out some of the horror is gone. But overall it is still a waste of time. Total waste. Serving AFP volumes. Fair enough, that works. I got a used G5 and over gigE the performance is decent.
For everthing else: Just don’t touch it. Apple has made a nice and impressive bullet list of features. And every single one I have tried to use stinks. It is as bad as Microsoft software 5 years ago. Just get any linux server do these things. Trying to configure / tweak / guess the Apple server interface is (still) an utter waste of time. It might demo ok, but anything that you like to do in real life (anymous ftp with write permissions, having a second wiki that does NOT 404, etc etc) is simply impossible. Allot of clicking to just find the feature to be broken in the end. A waste of 500 Dollars. That’s what OS X server 10.5 still is. Stay away from it. You will be much happier.
Probably a coincidence. Freak accident. Kind of. Today was the first time that Google happened to return meaningless crap and MSN actually showed me the page that addressed my issue. I was looking to get rid of “PHP Notice: Undefined index: ” which -and I should have known that anyway- is a simple isset() call. But why remember things when the internet can, right? Well until the net turns to mudd.
I wonder if I just had bad luck or if the latest Google version I get to see is actually having ranking issues for relevance.
when compiling gives this error:
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
std::__default_alloc_template
std::__default_alloc_template
then use
gcc_select 3.3
to use the proper compiler.
(this is a blog entry that I will hopefully find when I google for this problem again in six months or so)