You'd think Microsoft with its planned obsolescence ideals would be comfortable bringing out a one-time-dealio new-machines-only-forward sort of product.

Their corporate customers wouldn't buy it, if legacy software wouldn't work. It's hard to make a case to a CEO that the reason you have to upgrade every single piece of software you use is because it would make life easier for Microsoft.

This is funny.

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A city in Oklahoma was threatening the CentOS Linux distribution because the default Apache test page was showing up on their website.

Their corporate customers wouldn't buy it, if legacy software wouldn't work.

Whlie I think Windows has plenty of flaws, I am impressed by the sheer variety of hardware it works on and the backward compatibility. Apple has the luxary of only having to run on a handful of different computer models. Linux and FreeBSD can run on a lot of hardware, but you have to get hardware that works with 'em rather than expecting anything you put together to work.

Myth update.

The full myth-box in the living room hooked up to the TV is working great but the power supply is too loud for my taste.

The computer it replaced (that was running GeeXBox) is in the process of being converted into a Myth frontend computer. (A tip, if installing from binary packages, use the same distribution for the frontend and backend. My backend/frontend box is on Fedora Core 4 and I first used Ubuntu for the Frontend, but the MythTV versions didn't match and the frontend couldn't talk to the backend.) The frontend is working fine, but needs some tweaking to get the remote control working. But still I can watch recorded video and live TV on the frontend.

"That's why a company like Apple has such an easier time of innovation."

But OS X Tiger can run pretty much all OS X software ever created, and most pre-OS X software in Classic. That's a lot of legacy support. Yes, the new Intel macs have dropped Classic support, but they could get away with that because almost nobody is really running Classic software anymore. I guess my point is - Apple provides legacy software support too, at least to a very large extent (and I know for a fact that not all Windows 95 software will actually run on XP)

Couldn't Windows do the same thing? Provide an emulation layer, separate from the new stuff, for legacy software, and thus start from scratch for the new OS? It seems like a smart move, overall.

Anyone here know xsl?

no, but I know xxx.

(sorry)

Anyone here know xsl?

A little.

I've used and written a little simple xsl, but it's not something I work with very often at all. I might be able to help if it's a pretty simple question.

I don't know if I can even explain this correcly....

OK, say we have the xsl:

<xsl:template match="/">
	<xsl:for-each select="employees/employee[@g=0]">
		<option>
			<xsl:attribute name="value"><xsl:value-of select="@i"/></xsl:attribute>
			<xsl:value-of select="@n"/> - <xsl:value-of select="status/@s" />
		</option>
	</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

I want the stuff in the for-each loop to only happen if the

xsl:value-of select="status/@s"

actually matches something.

There's more stuff going on, but hopefully this is enough info....

eta: the <option> stuff is only there because this is returning html that's used in a drop-down box.