Epimetheus

Jargon.

My other half hates computer Jargon. Her, “What is firmware? What is a preference file? What is a driver?” For the average user, firmware probably makes little or no sense. The same goes for preferences and drivers. Drivers:

Small programs that tell your computer exactly what the hardware or peripheral is and how it is to work properly with your computer and it’s OS. There can be thousands of each type of hardware component made for computers and each one will have different drivers for every OS made - if you do not use the correct driver for the hardware or peripheral and your OS, chances are it will not work properly, if at all! Most OS’s have generic drivers, just enough to get the computer running and allow the user to install the proper driver.

Makes sense to me. I am sure this is confusing for some. Clause complex:

A sentence can be interpreted as a clause complex: a Head clause together with other clauses that modify it. A combination of clauses related paratactically or hypotactically but not through embedding; the mode of combination is the mode of organization of the logical subtype of the ideational metafunction. For example, clauses combined through coordination form a clause complex. The notion of ‘clause complex’ thus enables us to account in full for the functional organization of sentences.

Huh?

Apple Hardware and Linux Drivers. The Story of a Question and an Answer.

Guy A stumbled into our little IRC channel requesting assistance/information. Little did he know, his poorly constructed question would end up being criticized before being answered.

• Guy A: does mac supply drivers for linux?
• Guy B: First things first, Mac is PRODUCT, not a company. Secondly why would Apple, who makes the Mac and it’s associated operating system provide drivers for a free open source operating system?
• Guy B: So the answer is, “No”. However; there are NUMEROUS linux distros that work just fine on the Mac platform. 30 seconds on google would have shown you that.
• Guy A: [Silence]

Honestly, guy A should have phrased his question something like this, “Will Linux run on Apple hardware?” Unfortunately, he did not.