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...and it was made on a mac.

I do not know of any "expert systems" which would qualify, but I think it might be fairly effective to go with mailing lists, archived with, for example, hypermail, and searchable with, say SWISH++, and to have FAQs which can be updated by the users using, for example, Faq-O-Matic

> MS was originally going to upgrade DOS to be Unix like

No I have a write-up about how the original plan was to migrate users to Xenix, a version of AT&T”s SysV Unix. To migrate to Unix was the plan, not to upgrade DOS.

http://homepage.mac.com/jcarusone/iMovieTheater2.h tml
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Oh yes, one more thing. It's interesting to hear that many of the people promoting PCs say something like "The computer is just a tool." Well, there certainly is some truth to that. But let's say that I'm constructing a backyard deck and need to put in several hundred screws -- so I buy a battery operated screwdriver.

Am I better off with: a) a tool that requires me to read twenty pages of assembly and operating directions and periodically stops working if I don't follow every instruction just right, or b) a tool that I snap together and start working with immediately (no classes required!), and which performs flawlessly throughout the job?

So for people who are insightful enough to make the "tool" observation, it would seem like they would then also grasp the idea that if there are TWO possible tools for a job, then USE THE BEST ONE. A Mac is very powerful, yet MUCH easier to use -- which makes users more productive. The Mac is simply the superior tool: the Swiss Army Knife of computers.

My bad.

Here is the correct link.

Yep, Morrell is definitely someone to watch out for. He threatens, harasses, and insults practically anyone that doesn't tell him Smoothwall's the greatest thing since using the GPL as a way to fork off to a commercial product after getting overenthusiastic community ego boosting.

He's gone so far as to make legal quasi-threats against me and other critics of his treatment of Smoothwall users. He's driven away enough developers that the IPCop project was formed and seems to have done quite a good job at proving themselves to have intentions of being more than just another forked project. IPCop has performed just wonderfully for me since my abandonment of Smoothwall.

For the morbidly curious, I have an archive of my emailing back and forth with Richard on this webpage.

One suppressed deposition consists of four words, "Developers, developers, developers, developers!"

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It may be a glitch on my end, but I have to right click to get an "about" box, and have it overlap the image in order to display video. Wierd.

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• Go to your software update panel and get current -- 9.2.2 and 10.1.3 for os 9/X, respectively

• Get Stuffit Expander/Deluxe 6.5 from Aladdin [aladdinsys.com]

• Under your Quicktime control panel (OS 9) or prefpane (OS X), turn Autostart off
• Get yourself a copy of Norton Antivirus for Classic or X. It's wonderful about letting you know if something is virused or if a disk image has a payload when it's being expanded.

• "QuickTime setting" control panel >>> "Autostart CD-ROMs" >>> turn off. (you mentioned too. :-) )
• Stuffit Expander >>> preferences >>> Disk images >>> "Mount Disk Images" >>> turn off.
• Change the initial volume name (ex. Macintosh HD) to other. (for Macinosh IE file execuion vulerability)
• Change the initial "Download Folder" (ex. Desktop Folder) of browsers to other. (for Macinosh IE file execuion vulerability)

the above post shows exactly why everyone should be buying apple stuff. i've used x86 machines running windows 95 thru XP, redhat linux, apple machines from the old 'mac classic' with 40MB HD and 4MB RAM to early PCI macs (7500) to today's titanium powerbook, on system 6 (with multifinder) thru system 7, 7.6 (very stable), OS 9, linuxPPC Q4 2000 and now ...

OS X on a titanium powerbook.

apple hardware and software has NEVER let me down thru various upgrades off either.

don't get me started on x86/windoz platforms.

i've had my gripes about apple OS 9 bloatware and lack of stability. 'tis why i was on windows 2000 for a while. boy was that painful. right when windows corrupted my hard drive with bad sectors and turned my dell laptop into a door-stop, apple's OS 10.1 was out.

So i switched.

boy. lemme tell you.

computing has never, EVER, been this fun, reliable, painless, stable, solid ... sweet. And every single upgrade to OS 10, to today's 10.1.3 has been painless and brought a whole world of enhancements.

do you have any idea of the uptimes i get on my titanium powerbook? i've gone thru a whole MONTH without rebooting it. And that was to install the next upgrade.

Again, this is a LAPTOP, not a desktop server or workstation.

I take it home, i take it to work, i take it to my gilrfriend's place, i play DVDs, i import photos from my sony digital camera into iPhoto without installing any sony software, i rip CD's in iTunes and stick the songs on my iPod, i connect to the internet thru corporate LAN/static-ip, wireless LAN at my home, modem at my girl's place.

I export iPhoto albums to 'web site' directories in my home directory's linux-equivalent to public_html (~/Sites), i tar'em, i gzip'em, and upload them via ftp to a shell account of mine where i untar/gunzip'em for everyone to see (here). And that's because i was going a little crazy with iPhoto prior to this and filled-up my free 20MB account.

i run the NetBeans java IDE while coding web applications, i do heavy testing of those applications by running them off of a separate installation of tomcat, perform complex and very demanding 'ant' builds. i write shell scripts to perform common tasks. i grep/sed/awk/sort/uniq thru my filesystem.

I have a 435-lines /etc/hosts file filled with hosts pointing to 127.0.0.1 to filter ads.

I removed administrator privileges from my default/every-day user. So any application I run can only write stuff to my home directory. And this is how all OS X apps are designed anyway. Any aspect of an application's preferences are stored in a user's home directory. I can create a small roaming mirror of my home directory with all its libraries and apps preferences onto my iPod. I can go to a friend's house who's also running OS X. He can add me as a user on his box and point my home directory to the one located on my iPod.

and now ...

I can finally run Photoshop.

woohooo.

it just gets sweeter and sweeter :)

Steve has done it. totally. I believe I can say with ample confidence that I'm His Bitch. He has taken me to the Nirvana of Computing and boy, i'm hooked.

And i fucking swear to you, give me 30 minutes with ANY GEEK who has been in the trenches of trying to run a powerful, reliable, flexible operating system for any length of time, for productive and mission-critical use, working out hardware/software/drivers incompatibilities to get it to do what they wanted it to. I'll open a few terminal windows in OS X, point them to a few applications, let them play around. I'll show'em how to 'force quit' out of an application that doesn't respond anymore while not affecting any other resource on the OS. I'll start clicking thru all the application icons i have in my 'dock' and watch them all launch at the same time, independently, while being able to switch thru individual windows of those applications, while the operating system appears to just be sitting there waiting for you to ask more from it.

yes. it is THAT sweet. and more.

why am i rambling? heck i don't know. i don't even own apple stock. Apple has turned the "cool" on, in a big freakin' way, and i just wanna make sure everyone knows about it. bah. just ignore me. i'm owned. heh :)

Do you remember the series Damage Control about the people who cleaned up after superhero-related damage?

Here here, I'm still using the gshhs 80Mb (~100m) data to plot stuff from my GPS.
That gshhs dataset is pretty incredible, if you ever want to stress polygon clipping code, feel free to use it, europe, asia are ONE polygon, around 400.000 vertice :-)

Screenshot is here, but might have been misencoded by the apple thing, sorry:
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I am not Kiki. I am, however, a Mac OS X fan.

Here are some of the things I like about Mac OS X:

• I can run my Mac OS 9 applications (albeit a tad slower than native Mac OS 9)
• I can run GNU tools on the command line
• I can use SSH to remotely control my Macintosh
• I can run X Windows Applications locally or remotely
• I can do Java development using command line tools like "vim", "javac"

That's just the things that matter most to me right now, out of the box.

Oh... one final point I almost forgot - the Aqua interface looks pretty cool. For a while. Failing all else, you can pick up "themes" through MetamorphX from CharonSoft.

Mac OS X is very functional. It's as functional for my purposes than Linux on my PC running WindowMaker or Enlightenment.

As for your last statement - can you provide evidence to support this claim? I don't think Sony approaches the topic the same way you do. I don't think the Ubiquitous Computing folks approach this topic the same way you do either.

Nah, give em a chance. I'm wondering how long before they go bust because the price of these things is so damn high. I mean, what makes these things cost so much? I'd want to know I can park it somewhere without it being stolen because the parts are worth mucho. The battery? Special motor?

Copy OSX's theme. That is by far the nicest desktop I've ever seen. Of course, doing that isn't exactly putting a "Linux" stamp on a desktop. There are things that can be changed on the OSX desktop (the transparent dock, for example) and added (GKrellM).

I have no doubt the artists at themes.org could come up with a similarly elegant theme.

Here's an old article, where a fellow achieved 14km in testing (not just signal strength, but actual data flowing).

Also reports of 57km achieved by Lucent engineers, staying within FCC specs.

-me

For high-traffic sites, the search engine can be run as a multithreaded daemon process that listens on either a Unix or TCP socket.

You could write a filter or a native module to index the names of binary files.

For high-traffic sites, the search engine can be run as a multithreaded daemon process that listens on either a Unix or TCP socket.

You could write a filter or a native module to index the names of binary files.

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I couldn't make it to LWCE (still waiting for one in Seattle), but the rest of the Open Source Web Design crew is out there. I don't know what exactly we're showing off, except our really cool site. I hear we're across from an IBM booth and on a corner, somewhere in the .org pavillion. And the booth number is less than 10 ... like .. 4. We have some pictures of the setting up on Skatters homepage. Anyway, check it out!

For those who do not know, there is an alternative AIM client for MacOSX which has a nice standard set of features, some cool stuff all its own, friendly support, and so on. It's called "Adium" and it can be found at this address. One of the major upsides? AOL doesn't block it.

First of all, I think Trillian looks like crap. The app may be useful, but it is damned ugly. Anyway, back to the topic...

Ok, I think AOL is right in what they are doing. It is their network, their protocol, and they don't have to let anyone use it if they don't want to.

However, I think the reason all these apps are out is because AOL's program doesn't provide what people want. If AOL would listen to people and provide updates other than "send IM greetings" maybe people wouldn't be flocking over to other programs.

I think this is an even bigger issue on a Mac. In OS X, the AIM client sucks. It's bloated and slow. It just recently got features added such as file transfer and IM images, but they aren't always stable. Because of this, I use Adium, which is smaller and much faster. I'm also able to keep everything in a single window, which eliminates screen clutter from all the open IM windows (to see what I'm talking about, go here).

Also, Adium's service has never been cut off by AOL. I think this is because they use TOC. If AOL can't shut off clients using TOC, why not move Trillian over to that protocol. I know that a lot of the extra features will disappear, but at least you'll be able to talk to your AIM friends.

Maybe, but all the computers you saw in Jurassic Park were Macs. What was running on the monitors is another thing all together, and was probably done in Director, just like the monitors on Enterprise, which are run by 16 G4 Cubes... From MacNN.com

UPN's Enterprise television show uses G4 Cubes to power the "Bridge" of the ship: "I just read an article that idrivex (an Apple Developer) wrote after visiting the set of the UPN show Enterprise. In it, he reveals that all the displays on Enterprise are run by 16 G4 Cubes."

Shoot, while you're at it, maybe encourage an OS X version.

I doubt I'll be running it though...the moose grates on my nerves after a few minutes.

QDesign has an audio codec designed specifically for compressing sound from musical instruments (it isn't as optimal for voice or effects). If you have a lot of classical, techno, or plain instrumentals it should give you better quality/size ratios than MP3 or OOG. Check out this audio clip. The quality is pretty good for a 300k file that is almost 2 minutes long.

The downside is that the professional encoder isn't free, though the player is. In fact any audio player that supports QuickTime will work without downloading any other plugin.

It's amazing how prone to nay-saying so many technology reporters are. Hell, I would think that people involved in technology and computers would look forward to new things and ideas. When the original iMac came out, I put together a parody page and was shortly afterward contacted by an Associated Press technology writer who wanted to ask me a few questions about the iMac. She was interviewing Mac users on the 'net and was trying to get a sense of their feelings about Apple's new direction before the iMac hit the market. (BTW, if you look at the parody site, the links will be broken--its old site is no more and I just posted that quickly on the off-chance that anyone wants to see what I'm talking about.)

Anyway, I answered her questions via email, being mostly optimistic about the iMac, and when the article came out she quoted me briefly and managed to put a very negative spin on my quote with some very bad (or selective) editing. I was pretty ticked, but it's typical and it was just one more reminder why all the nay-sayers ought to be ignored.

Part of this stems from journalistic ego. A lot of tech writers and reporters, IMO, want to look like they were ahead of the curve, and want to be able to look back a year from now and say, "See, I told you so." Journalists who keep their ego and personal image in view while doing their work are the worst of that business. Apple's designs are easy pickings for these vultures.

--Rick

I can't remember the last time I used a 3.5" floppy disk. I have two Wintel computers at home with floppy drives and a computer at work with a floppy drive, yet I can't remember the last time I touched a floppy disk.

Who the hell uses them? I use iDisk.

Well, the problem isn't with me needing to grow some skin, it's with people needing to understand just what sort of person Richard Morrell is. If you're going to consider trusting your security to someone who uses tactics like these, both in a personal manner and in his use of Open Source as an excuse to try and make a fast buck, you should be aware of the situation. His blatant demand for donation before support is a really poor example for the Open Source community to be showing, a true poster child for unpleasantness.

It costs me just a little bit of time to whip up a page like mine, and even less time to respond to comments like this. Richard didn't threaten lawsuits so much as he threatened (and attempted) to have me falsely accused of hacking. He threatened, repeatedly to "make this personal". My only point in bringing up the specter of legal action was to simply get that on record, if nothing else, to show the scorn and rudeness so often displayed in Richard's correspondence. I have seen other erratic behavior from Richard and others at SmoothWall, such as posting to a mailing list by both Richard and one other, saying that the developers of SmoothWall don't read the list(!). Not only this, but Richard and said other team member were -regulars- on the list.

As I've said a number of times, I may have made some mistakes. But nothing deserving of what occurred, and I'm quite pleased that the majority of responses from people who've read the site have been positive and in some cases informative.

Prior to the 14th, I had no knowledge of the SourceForge forked project "IPCop", and am pleased to say that I wish that team well, and hope that other members of the SmoothWall team with less of a temper issue find a more respectable leader.

Not trying to be a karma whore here (well, not REALLY trying), but this site really is worth a look if you're thinking about using Smoothwall. IMO, the REAL security concern with it is not the package itself, but the developers in charge of it. I, for one, refuse to support a product led by a group of developers with their heads that far up their ass when it comes to dealing with potential customers. Especially when they beg as loudly as they do for donations...

Ok; everyone thought I was crazy when I mentioned this after the keynote but I've finally managed to track down and scan an old copy of MacWorld Magazine from May 1995. The issue features a number of Apple prototypes, but the one on the cover is very much like the new iMac. I am convinced that Jonathan Ive was inspired by this design.

Granted, the new iMac is beautiful on the surface. But that great design is not limited to the outer shell. Check out what the iMac looks like on the inside. This Apple draft service manual has great pictures of the guts of the iMac.

I have been spending a small amount of time coding up a web page. It's not much so far, but it has the contact information and a bit of stuff about the clubs. As with most web pages it's not close to being finished but you can find it here

Hell, yeah. Screw the Segway, I want a goddamn Lightcycle! (200k)
You listening, Bezos?!

ppc is about 30% "better" at the same frequency than x86

I'm aware that different processor architectures perform differently at the same clock speed, but I'd like to see some hard numbers on this. People repeat the 30% and "one third" numbers a lot, and I'd like to know where they come from

Does this mean that popular benchmarks are 30% faster at the same clock, or does this mean that Photoshop and a select few other flashy products perform 30% better?

The most favorable interpretation is that, for the load in question, the G4/533 is roughly 21% faster than you might expect a P3/533 to be.

I've slowly been putting together another round of tests with more recent kernels; add another 10% or so for improvements there. So 30% is the rule of thumb I used to use. The OS X SPECint numbers I have imply a smaller clock-for-clock performance ratio, so I'm back to using 20% as my rule of thumb.

Keep in mind that I'm not that interested in floating point performance, and I have made no attempt to quantify it. As always, the best performance measurements are those made on the workloads you actually use.

(Snide remark: and if all you bought your computer for was to run SETI units, then that's a useful cross-platform comparison. :-)

Whatever. Apple own servers have a copy of the image: http://homepage.mac.com/gfoyle/newestiMac.jpg

Apple icards?

to the flat screen iMac pic there: fake! fake fake fake!

check out http://homepage.mac.com/flyermoney/ipad/

It's the iPad! You may have seen this baby before, but it is definately something I personally would love to see, except for the fact that it might just break easily, you can find pictures and specs here:

The iPad with specs.

True? Doubtfully, but it would definately be excellant.

1GHz, 133 MHz bus, 256 MB to 1 GB RAM
38 to 80 GB hard drive, DVD/CD-R combo drive
Touch-sensitive pen-driven 14" TFT
nVidia AGP 4X [not with ATI anymore?] with 32MB
2 FireWire, 4 USB, Gigabit Ethernet
[here's a hell of a kicker] Integrated Webcam and Microsoft
Airport and BlueTooth included.

As they say, Your home, wherever.

The flat screen iMac picture was one dreamt up by someone- the original picture (and claim as a self-designed conceptual piece by the author) is here: http://homepage.mac.com/flyermoney/ipad/

a Numberpad (yes! roguelike game players unite)

Real Nethackers use hjklyubn :)

And as far as I can tell, John Sculley seems to be credited with creating the term Personal Digital Assistant in reference to the Newton.

If I wasn't behind a firewall, I'd let y'all slashdot my Newton webserver (This obviously isn't mine).

This one is an admitted fake but looks more likely and exciting to me...

C'mon, a Lisa had the same hardware that people were running Unix variants (Xenix, SCO) on, I don't see that making it a web server in any big deal (except that the hardware is still running).

Now this software, which lets you serve pages on a Newton handheld, pushes the envelope a bit.

There's finally and Ogg component for OS X QuickTime that seems to work pretty well for a beta. Another fruit of the BSD underpinnings, I believe. OS 9 version on the way. A second version of the QuickTime component apparently also exists, although I could not get the page to load.