Man Happier About Switch To Mac Than Switch To Christianity

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Switch to Mac OS X

Switch to Mac OS X 09/10/2002 03:41 AM

that's a big switch

that's a big switch 07/02/2004 09:13 PM
Wow, that's a big switch.

I can switch my KVM

I can switch my KVM 04/02/2005 12:57 PM
I got the Tactile Pro, so now I can switch my KVM. OS X is fine, but Windows is totally unusable; the mouse skips and keypresses are either lost or repeated.

For those about to switch…

For those about to switch… 12/02/2003 03:04 AM
Did you know? The current incarnation of OS X took more than 10 years and several failed attempts to hit the prime time?

Switch

Switch 03/13/2003 09:57 PM
Since I switched to Raging Platypus, I've acquired new vim and vigor. (14 words)

IC-Switch 1.4

IC-Switch 1.4 01/07/2004 05:38 PM
The new version of Philippe Martin’s IC-Switch adds a new feature: you can set your default RSS newsreader.

The default newsreader is the application that responds to feed: URLs. Not all newsreaders respond to these special URLs yet. The newest release of NetNewsWire does. M ore info...

Switch 0.14

Switch 0.14 03/06/2004 01:54 AM
A bug in the Switch Plugin discovered by D. Keith Robinson that caused 500 Internal Server errors in some enviroments...

Switch-2.10

Switch-2.10 01/29/2004 01:47 AM

The Manglefreuzer Switch

The Manglefreuzer Switch 08/11/2004 11:40 AM

For everyone who has ever struggled with interm ittent problems, the truth has finally l eaked out.

...there's always the chance the mangelfreuzer switch will trip - which would be a problem."

"What's a manglef.. r."

"Manglefreuzer - as in Mangle-Froy-TSir. It's a switch or other device that hardware manufacturers put into their equipment to detect unuathorised access to a box - and makes the system act strangely."

"Strangely?"

"Yes, you know, the odd memory error, harddisk write error, machine crashes, etc. To encourage you not to tamper with the box. And generate revenue for the maintenance provider of course."

"Are you serious?!"

"Of course. Some of our major outages have been those exact same problems."

"You mean they're all caused by a manglefreuzer?"

"Some of them, yes. Obviously no sane vendor would build in something which could be conclusively linked as the source of a problem, so they make the outages sporadic and hard to track down..."

"And people know about this?"

"Technical people, yes."

"And you're ok with that?"

"We don't really have that much choice in the matter, do we? Anyway all the vendors do it - and not just in computers."

And all this time I've been blaming the problems on interference from low-flying cloaked alien spacecraft. Those PC-building dirtballs!

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Yahoo's VS Switch

Yahoo's VS Switch 08/20/2004 06:57 AM
Thanks to JonnyGoodboy for Looking into the VS switch at Yahoo's search....

Making the Switch to Mac OS

Making the Switch to Mac OS 06/22/2005 01:48 AM
Despite a few bumps, it's a smooth ride.

New Switch for DCPromo

New Switch for DCPromo 04/13/2005 11:04 PM

Flip-switch day

Flip-switch day 11/16/2003 08:29 PM

Lots of changes today, but ones with (Murphy-willing) very small impact on the user interface. In fact, unless they don't work, you shouldn't see any difference at all. Since this is Scripting News, and not Knitting News, we'll go ahead and say which switches got flipped.

First, www.scripting.com now resides on the east coast instead of the west. The new Monster servers, the 3GHz meat-eaters that climb skyscrapers, are now both managing the content and doing the serving for everything on scripting.com.

The picture of King Kong to the right will appear when the new server is visible through DNS to your browser. If you see a broken image and want to see what the picture looks like just click on it.

Second, a big change in the way the outliner works. We used to have to tell it how to format a day of weblog posts using Rules, a great feature if you want a lot of control over how things look, but a pain in the butt if every day looks exactly like every other day, as is always true in my weblog.

Third, this is going to be a product, not one that I plan to sell (although I may give it to UserLand and they might sell it). It's a new kind of outliner-based Web CMS, that does weblogs and all the other stuff you see popping up here on Scripting. I spent much of the day exploring ideas for how to package, test and then ship this. Should it be a Manila plug-in? Or something that's linked to Manila on a sort of peer basis? Or should it be completely independent of Manila? I want to deliberate on this decision, because I expect to live with it for a long time.

Yes, But When Can I Switch Off From
Work?

Yes, But When Can I Switch Off From
Work? 04/14/2004 10:37 PM
Welcome to the modern "always on, always connected" work world. It's gotten to the point where Microsoft discovered, after handing out smart phones, tablet PCs and broadband connections to employees that they needed to give their employees special instructions on how to turn off work. This isn't a new problem, and it's certainly been discussed before. While some people can handle the work/life balance without a problem - it's not so easy for everyone else. Even for those who can switch off, it's made more difficult by their colleagues who can't - and who contact them at odd hours with work requests. This is going to become a bigger issue for modern companies to deal with. There are, obviously, some advantages, but people need to learn their limits.

Why Switch to XHTML?

Why Switch to XHTML? 06/10/2004 06:11 AM
For Web developers, the learning process never seems to end, especially with coding. As the web evolves, so do the standards, which are moving from HTML to XHTML. Learn why you should consider migrating to this new standard sooner than later. By Lee Underwood. 0610

New: MoniSwitch Pro ADC KVM switch

New: MoniSwitch Pro ADC KVM switch 06/02/2004 10:32 AM
Dr. Bott LLC announced the availability of the MoniSwitch Pro ADC, a KVM switch that allows up to four computers to share an Apple Flat Panel Display with ADC connections.

One Less Reason Not To Switch

One Less Reason Not To Switch 05/11/2004 01:45 PM

Novell has announced in a p ress release that they will release the Exchange Connector for Ximian Evolution, previously a $75/seat plugin, as open source.

Novell today announced its Connector for Microsoft* Exchange Server will be integrated into EvolutionTM 2.0 and made available as open source, beginning today with the current Connector 1.4. Evolution is Novell's award-winning e-mail and workgroup client for Linux* systems and is the most widely used collaboration suite on Linux. Evolution Connector allows Microsoft Exchange Server 2000/2003 users to easily manage their e-mail, calendars, group schedules, address books, public folders and tasks from Linux desktops.

I was thrilled to hear this. Evolution (particularly the current betas) is the equal of MS Outlook in features, but without many of the problems. The only downside was that you had to pony up the cash to natively connect with an Exchange server. My guess is that Novell feels that having this out there will speed the adoption of Linux, and that will provide them more revenue than they had been making by selling the plugin. A positive side effect of Ximian being purchased by Novell.

It appears that Novell has recognized their increasing irrelevance in their old niche, LAN products, and is jumping in to open source with both feet. Could this approach put them back into dominant position?

Via SlashDot.

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Alive at the Switch

Alive at the Switch 12/29/2003 11:43 PM
This post will be supplemented by diverse contributors forthwith, but it should be known that Glynn Cady has died. Meeting him so late, after he knew himself as broken, didn't dull the startled awareness you'd shared the room with a colossal Celtic intellect, enslaved by angles and engineering, stretching an old-man's stretch for art.

Masturbate and Switch

Masturbate and Switch 05/03/2004 09:32 AM
Tom's hobby -- sharing music video files mislabeled with increasingly perverse titles such as Grandma Bingo Sex: "122 people would like to see grandma getting bent over the bingo table ... my penis had shriveled to the size of a 2-day-old Wendy's chicken nugget." (05-03)

A PC User's Switch To The Mac

A PC User's Switch To The Mac 09/01/2004 04:13 AM
My PC to Mac switch was flawless and very enjoyable. By Daniel Topler, SLCentral (via MyAppleMenu)

Bait and switch

Bait and switch 09/15/2004 12:25 AM
Computer Times Sep 15 2004 5:04AM GMT

office/switch

office/switch 12/02/2002 01:17 PM
Russell, over at Infoworld reports: According to published reports, Office 11 (due next year) won't support Windows 95, 98, or ME. The earliest supported version, per the reports, will be Windows 2000. This means that a substantial number of organizations...

Gigabit switch

Gigabit switch 03/14/2005 06:18 PM
Since we got new servers we actually ran out of switch ports. We have an 8-port gigabit Dell switch BizRate gave us last year that we use for our internal network. We have another ancient 22 port old Cisco 29xx 100Mbit switch we use for our external network and (with a VLAN) for some of the internal network). They are both so full we had to unplug things we weren't using enough to get the new servers in yesterday. I'd...

Think PHP: The Switch from Java to PHP

Think PHP: The Switch from Java to PHP 12/19/2004 03:19 PM
To throw their hat into the ring, the folks over at Think PHP have their own take on the whole Java versus PHP with their new post - The Switch from Java to PHP.

Apple Switch

Apple Switch 03/19/2003 10:23 PM
Prediction: Apple Computer Corp. will switch to Intel processors within the next 12 to 18 months. (PC Magazine via MyAppleMenu)

Windley.com/switch

Windley.com/switch 12/21/2002 12:13 PM
Phil announces his new computer: This week, my new 1GHz, 1Gb RAM, Gbe, Powerbook arrived. I've spent a few days moving all my data and work from the XP machine I used. I'm now pretty much completely switched over and...

Why you should switch to Firefox now

Why you should switch to Firefox now 09/26/2004 08:35 PM
ZDNet Sep 27 2004 0:31AM GMT

Is It Time To Switch to MySQL?

Is It Time To Switch to MySQL? 04/27/2004 06:56 PM
The MySQL Cluster database is being touted as an enterprise infrastructure product capable of powering the most mission-critical applications. But is it robust enough to replace a DB2, Oracle or SQL server?

Switch off your PC to save yourself some
money!:-

Switch off your PC to save yourself some
money!:- 04/02/2005 07:23 AM
Webindia123 Apr 2 2005 11:29AM GMT

Vivato Announces 802.11g Switch

Vivato Announces 802.11g Switch 05/06/2004 01:15 PM
Vivato formally announced its next-generation 802.11g switch today: The 802.11g device that the FCC approved just three weeks ago will ship this summer. Pricing isn't indicated. [link via Daily Wireless]...

Students Switch To Macs

Students Switch To Macs 03/19/2005 02:29 AM

In increasing numbers, undergraduates turn to Macintosh computers. By Matthew S. Lebowitz, Harvard Crimson

Switch statements in Python

Switch statements in Python 05/06/2004 09:52 PM

Python doesn't support a native switch statement. I've found myself using the following coding idiom instead recently which seems to work pretty well:

{'option1': function1,
 'option2': function2,
 'option3': function3,
 'option4': function4}[value]()

This works with lambdas as well, for inline calculations. Here's a switch statement that assigns to a variable in PHP:

switch ($value) {
    case 'a':
        $result = $x * 5;
        break;
    case 'b':
        $result = $x + 7;
        break;
    case 'c':
        $result = $x - 2;
        break;
}

And here's the equivalent code in Python:

result = {
  'a': lambda x: x * 5,
  'b': lambda x: x + 7,
  'c': lambda x: x - 2
}[value](x)

iMac G5: “Worth Switch from
PCs”

iMac G5: “Worth Switch from
PCs” 12/22/2004 01:52 AM
“If a new desktop computer is the object of your holiday hopes this season, look no further than the new G5 iMac from Apple,” writes Mike Wendland for Billings Gazette. “I said it when I first tested it and I’ll say it again after two months of use: This is the finest personal computer I’ve ever used, hands down. Nothing comes close. If you have ever thought of switching from a Windows-based PC to a Mac, this is the deal-clincher. It is a stunning machine to look at and to use.” [Dec 21]

Digital switch on target says BBC

Digital switch on target says BBC 04/26/2004 08:46 AM
The BBC says it has made "astonishing progress" in its plans to switch from analogue to digital TV.

US surfers switch to broadband

US surfers switch to broadband 04/19/2004 04:20 AM
ZDNet UK Apr 19 2004 8:44AM GMT

Mobile Net Switch Version 2.25

Mobile Net Switch Version 2.25 01/23/2004 12:12 AM
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Switch AirPort Connection 1.0

Switch AirPort Connection 1.0 01/26/2004 09:54 PM
Switch AirPort Connection is an AppleScript that switches your AirPort network connection. It takes the last name of its own filename and uses that as the name of the wireless network to join. Next it tries to look up the password for this network name in the Keychain, and finally it switches the connection.

'Is Firefox Really Better Than Microsoft
IE? Should I Switch?'

'Is Firefox Really Better Than Microsoft
IE? Should I Switch?' 03/26/2005 05:40 AM
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"Howard Dean Switch Ads"

"Howard Dean Switch Ads" 02/10/2004 02:52 AM

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