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anyone have java working yet, ANY hack out to get it working in OS_X ?

Feel free to email me at acaben@mac.com.

. . .but what about that disco-maniac Steve Ballmer. MS software isn't inherently evil, but all indications are that Operations and Marketing at MS are pretty damned evil. Halloween Documents, anyone ???

iPod LC. For about the amount of money you have buried in your couch (if your like me) it's all yours!

This is not a troll, off topic, or flamebait.

If anyone is looking for a cheaper portable music player, check out the iPod LC.

This is not a troll, off topic, or flamebait.

If anyone is looking for a cheaper portable music player, check out the iPod LC.

If Slashdot users are looking for a substitute of expensive portable music players, perhaps they should look into the iPod LC. It is really a bargin compared to the $250 Treo and the $400 iPod.

What is a floppy? Is it anything like an iDisk?

On the same topic of hacked drivers, this guy is making MacOS X drivers for the voodoo 3 and maybe the voodoo 4 and 5. Although it's not as fast as those Nvidia cards they put into Powermac G4s these days, it would make for an excellent video card to drive a 2nd display.

Actually, why would a hardcore gamer be using a Powermac G4? They have one hell of a system bus bottleneck, and probably a CPU bottleneck also. The G5 should eliminate both of those bottlenecks. Rumors are saying that January is the release date for it.

Be sure to check out the low cost alternative to the recently announced iPod, known as the "iPod LC." :-D

Agreed.

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Yes, it is even written up on Slashdot, and there are a lot of pictures here

Why can't I find anything else on this guy simonster's homepage anyway. If you go to this page you are automatically redirected to this page.. and oddly enough PhotoAlbum2.html and PhotoAlbum1.html do not exist. index.html takes you directly to album3...

Why can't I find anything else on this guy simonster's homepage anyway. If you go to this page you are automatically redirected to this page.. and oddly enough PhotoAlbum2.html and PhotoAlbum1.html do not exist. index.html takes you directly to album3...

Tom's Hardware is also using the wrong tools for the job. Even other overclockers know better. There are pens for writing PC board traces with conductive ink. Using conductive paint and tape is doing it the hard way.

http://homepage.mac.com/steve/Resume.html

Discovered a little animation company that needed a vision. Liked the product so much I bought the company. Pixar is now "the" digital animation studio.

And yes, it was named Pixar before he bought it from Lucas. Check the Lucasfilm site:

http://www.lucasfilm.com/history_top.html

1983

Return of the Jedi is released May 25. It breaks the industry record for a single day with the largest opening day gross in history, $6.2 million. The film grosses $45 million by the end of the first week.

Jedi receives a Special Achievement Academy Award for visual effects along with five Academy Award nominations.

Computer Division reorganizes to form Pixar and Games.

1986 Howard the Duck opens August 1.

Captain EO is created for Disneyland and Walt Disney World and is released September 13.

Pixar is sold to Steven Jobs.

Lucasfilm coproduces Labyrinth with Henson Associates.

I know all of this because I lived through it. Please don't simply quote the first source you find on google.

Peace ;)

For those of you who didn't know what he was talking about:
Ballmer Screaming
and
Developers, developers, developers, developers: the Ultimate Remix
Kinda funny that I found both of these browsing http://homepages.mac.com

For those of you who didn't know what he was talking about:
Ballmer Screaming
and
Developers, developers, developers, developers: the Ultimate Remix
Kinda funny that I found both of these browsing http://homepages.mac.com

I'm sure you're curious as to why Slashdot, OSDN, and the rest of VA Linux's network wasn't available the weekend of Friday, June 22, 2001. I was. Then I found out.

In this expose, I will inform the reader on the why and the how of Slashdot's worst outage yet, its narrow escape from death, its darkest day in history...Slashdot's

Innocent Beginnings

Picture this: you're young, you're gay, and you own a successful web log. But you want more. Enter buyouts by a company called VA Linux, headed by the ruddy fag ESR and his band of Open Source homosexuals, hand picked by Larry Augustin himself and charged with taking over the Linux world. Got it so far? Good.

Short of having kidnapped Linux Torvalds, VA Linux virtually was Linux. You had hit the big time. You were the loud mouth of the biggest, baddest mother of a Faggot Linux Empire ever assembled.

(Important note: VA Linux had, indeed, tried to hire Linux Torvalds away, but Linus had refused, so as not to favor any single company or distribution. VA Linux, in turn, had kidnapped Torvalds and had Rob Malda and ESR rape his mouth unil he couldn't feel his jaw. Linus also needed his stomach pumped. However, good ol' Linus, the stout Finn that he is, never gave in and so was returned to Helsinki soon thereafter.)

The IPO

December, 1999:
Stock: $253 Volume: 8,000,000

IPO time, and you were riding high. You had become a millionaire and didn't know it. ESR had been surpised by wealth. And scores of other investors and Linux nuts found themselves with swollen bank accounts. Even though the stock fell sharply soon after, you figure it was just a burp in the market, and you headed out to celebrate by sucking some cock and buying your sports cars, boy-servants, horses, bathhouses and mansions. Still with me? OK. Now fast forward a few months.

The Ugly Truth

June, 2001:
Stock: $2.53 Volume: 1,000

You have Linux companies that have lost large parts of their market valuations, Linux distros merging, IPO's cancelled...

In short, Linux was dying. If you wished to portray the worst of the present state of the Linux market, you could not do so without factoring in how the GPL works to un-employ programmers. You didn't have to be a Kreskin to see what was happening; the handwriting was on the wall: Linux faced a bleak future. Even RMS commented on the current position of his Free Software Foundation due to Linux's misfortunes, which, indeed, represented the boat everyone was in with Linux:

Who Are You?

If you can sit there and read this expose and nod your head in affirmation of the events I have thus far documented, you can be only one person: Rob Malda, aka CmdrTaco, of Slashdot.

All of the events here led up to Slashdot's Black Friday, where Rob Malda almost lost everything he had left (after the VA Linux stock plummet, that is). The only thing left really was Slashdot itself, and the homosexual orgies the Slashdot staff held every Friday night. Alan Cox had since abandoned sucking the Slashdot staffs' cocks, and had returned to civillian life, disillusioned with Linux. Banner ad hits came only by means of the Slashdot staff themselves, and ESR, drunker and drunker with every stock plummet, would call and ream out Rob Malda over the phone every day, holed up in his cabin of 386s running Linux.

written: 2001/06/25
updated: n/a

Disclaimer: all content provided on this site is fiction (so far as the author knows). No claims made by the author are to be taken as fact.

Gotta use my iDisk for something! Should be nice and zippy.

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Gotta use my iDisk for something! Should be nice and zippy.

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Gotta use my iDisk for something! Should be nice and zippy.

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Gotta use my iDisk for something! Should be nice and zippy.

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Gotta use my iDisk for something! Should be nice and zippy.

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http://homepage.mac.com/jcarusone/iMovieTheater2.h tml

Well, MS sure cares about developers....

No supported interface for anything except a Mac! How hard could it be to write a Windows driver? Surely not hard enough neglect 90% of the market! But perhaps the geniuses at Infinite Loop felt that mucking with Win32 code was beneath their dignity. Hey, who cares about making money? As long as we're cool!

Tuesday, October 30, will be the date of an unprecedented Troll Tuesday!

On October 30th, beginning at 0800 EST and lasting until 2359, I ask that you write an original story, essay, joke, ASCII image, etc. regarding Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and post, post, post it all over Slashdot!

So far 30 trolls of varying degrees of infamy have signed abord this ground-breaking project-- will you?

Email me at trollaxor@mac.com with questions or suggestions!

October 30th, 2001: the Troll Tuesday of the Millenium

Tuesday, October 30, will be the date of an unprecedented Troll Tuesday!

On October 30th, I ask that you write an original story, essay, joke, ASCII image, etc. regarding Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and post, post, post it all over Slashdot!

So far 20 trolls of varying degrees of infamy have signed abord this ground-breaking project-- will you?

Email me at trollaxor@mac.com with questions or suggestions!

October 30th, 2001: the Troll Tuesday of the Millenium

Tuesday, October 30, will be the date of an unprecedented Troll Tuesday!

On October 30th, I ask that you write an original story, essay, joke, ASCII image, etc. regarding Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and post, post, post it all over Slashdot!

So far 20 trolls of varying degrees of infamy have signed abord this ground-breaking project-- will you?

Email me at trollaxor@mac.com with questions or suggestions!

October 30th, 2001: the Troll Tuesday of the Millenium

Tuesday, October 30, will be the date of an unprecedented Troll Tuesday!

On October 30th, beginning at 0800 EST and lasting until 2359, I ask that you write an original story, essay, joke, ASCII image, etc. regarding Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and post, post, post it all over Slashdot!

So far 20 trolls of varying degrees of infamy have signed abord this ground-breaking project-- will you?

Email me at trollaxor@mac.com with questions or suggestions!

October 30th, 2001: the Troll Tuesday of the Millenium

Tuesday, October 30, will be the date of an unprecedented Troll Tuesday!

On October 30th, beginning at 0800 EST and lasting until 2359, I ask that you write an original story, essay, joke, ASCII image, etc. regarding Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and post, post, post it all over Slashdot!

So far 20 trolls of varying degrees of infamy have signed abord this ground-breaking project-- will you?

Email me at trollaxor@mac.com with questions or suggestions!

October 30th, 2001: the Troll Tuesday of the Millenium

Tuesday, October 30, will be the date of an unprecedented Troll Tuesday!

On October 30th, beginning at 0800 EST and lasting until 2359, I ask that you write an original story, essay, joke, ASCII image, etc. regarding Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and post, post, post it all over Slashdot!

So far 20 trolls of varying degrees of infamy have signed abord this ground-breaking project-- will you?

Email me at trollaxor@mac.com with questions or suggestions!

October 30th, 2001: the Troll Tuesday of the Millenium

Tuesday, October 30, will be the date of an unprecedented Troll Tuesday!

On October 30th, beginning at 0800 EST and lasting until 2359, I ask that you write an original story, essay, joke, ASCII image, etc. regarding Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and post, post, post it all over Slashdot!

So far 20 trolls of varying degrees of infamy have signed abord this ground-breaking project-- will you?

Email me at trollaxor@mac.com with questions or suggestions!

October 30th, 2001: the Troll Tuesday of the Millenium

Tuesday, October 30, will be the date of an unprecedented Troll Tuesday!

On October 30th, beginning at 0800 EST and lasting until 2359, I ask that you write an original story, essay, joke, ASCII image, etc. regarding Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and post, post, post it all over Slashdot!

So far 20 trolls of varying degrees of infamy have signed abord this ground-breaking project-- will you?

Email me at trollaxor@mac.com with questions or suggestions!

October 30th, 2001: the Troll Tuesday of the Millenium

Tuesday, October 30, will be the date of an unprecedented Troll Tuesday!

On October 30th, beginning at 0800 EST and lasting until 2359, I ask that you write an original story, essay, joke, ASCII image, etc. regarding Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and post, post, post it all over Slashdot!

So far 20 trolls of varying degrees of infamy have signed abord this ground-breaking project-- will you?

Email me at trollaxor@mac.com with questions or suggestions!

October 30th, 2001: the Troll Tuesday of the Millenium

There has been a long discussion on Macintouch about Macintosh "vintage" apps, often now released as freeware, that are still running on recent systems (even too fast, sometimes). Sw includes word processors, slide presenters, etc.
A couple of old mac emulators running on new macs are also suggested for running outdated apps.
At the end of the discussion there is a list of links; furthermore, there is at least one games site (http://homepage.mac.com/giantmike/old.html) (tenths-hundreds of kylobites per game...).

Attention Slashdot trolls & crapflooders:

Tuesday, October 30, will be the date of an unprecedented Troll Tuesday!

On October 30th, beginning at 0800 EST and lasting until 2359, I ask that you write an original story, essay, joke, ASCII image, etc. regarding Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and post, post, post it all over Slashdot!

So far 20 trolls of varying degrees of infamy have signed abord this ground-breaking project-- will you?

Email me at trollaxor@mac.com with questions or suggestions!

October 30th, 2001: the Troll Tuesday of the Millenium

On the hardware front, they were the first to use an easy to open case with easily accessible parts and pieces. I could be wrong on this one, but they were the first company to say that it was ok to open the case while the computer was still on. And yeah, it looks good. They were also the first to use trackpads, titanium, an extremely small form factor while keeping weight extremely low on their laptops. The ibook is very small but fully-featured. The imac itself was pure innovation, the proof is in the people who tried to copy it and failed. There was some imac look-alike on the Home Shopping Network, but it was $2000 and it looked worse. Apple includes a DVD-R with its midrange and highend towers. Apple was the first to embrace wireless. Apple's flatpanels are innovation with only one cable, and the best looking picture.

On the software front, MacOS X. The power of unix with the simplicity of the MacOS. That's major innovation right there. It's not perfect yet, but it should be sometime around March 24th, 2002. iTunes is great stuff, and so is iMovie supposedly. iDVD looks so simple that your average blowjoe computer user can use it without a problem. A couple independant studies showed that imovie and iDVD were easier than faster than the competiton. Another innovation that comes from not being a monopoly is burning CDs within the Finder.

As for iTools, I've never had it crash on me. My only complaints are that it's slow and that it's a bit hard to use if you're custom making your own webpage. All in all, I was fairly impressed with it.

"Apple doesn't innovate" doesn't hold water. Apple's always been on the bleeding edge of hardware and software innovation. If you want to see the newest and coolest things to hit the market, go with Apple.

I always have to go off on a tangent and be a conspiracy theorist. Have you guys noticed how Apple hasn't said anything negative toward Microsoft and Intel? Now back in the day of 1997, you might remember those commercials of a slug carrying a Pentium chip on its back, and the fireman cooling off one of those sleek guys in a cool costumes that were in Intel's commercials before the Blue Man Group. Those commercials kicked ass, I tell you! There's plenty of things Apple could have done since then, like this.

Sometime Apple is going to need to compete directly with Microsoft and Intel if they are to win more market share. Right now, they aren't ready. MacOS X 10.2 and the G5s need to come out, as well as some REALLY snazzy commercials. It's not too hard to see Microsoft pulling Office and Internet Explorer from the mac, so Apple would need alternatives for those. They need more retail stores also. As soon as all of the pieces are together, they should definately get the message out.

http://homepage.mac.com/crayz/magnets/magnets.htm

Thank Apple for the bandwidth

Sorry, poorly formatted HTML. Try this: Isaac Asimov wrote the story "Reason" back in 1941 which uses the technology. Here is an abstract. He talks about the problem of constantly focusing the beam through constantly changing atmospheric conditions among other things. I think the space worth keeping an eye on. As the article itself noted, the launch is prohibitively costly at this point. We've got a major chicken-egg problem with solar - it isn't cheap enough for consumers to turn a profit on without major changes in lifestyle, and solar energy won't get cheap enough for painless mass adoption until production quantities increase.

Isaac Asimov wrote the story "Reason" back in 1941 which uses the technology. an abstract. He talks about the problem of constantly focusing the beam through constantly changing atmospheric conditions among other things. I think the space worth keeping an eye on. As the article itself noted, the launch is prohibitively costly at this point. We've got a major chicken-egg problem with solar - it isn't cheap enough for consumers to turn a profit on without major changes in lifestyle, and solar energy won't get cheap enough for painless mass adoption until production quantities increase.

I looked into that software. It's really hard to find a stable version for my operating system [kernel.org]

Well that's a shame. Problem is, there appears to be no Ximian support for MY operating system. Too bad these Ximian folks are copying the idea AND making the same mistake of ignoring alternative operating systems!

I ran around running my Linux cross-compile benchmark on a bunch of Sparcs. The 1G RAM, 440MHz Ultra 10 checked in with performance that was strictly worse than the 320M 450MHz iMac DV+. The 500MHz Blade 100 was around 10% better. Now, these figures are probably a tad low; I realized after the fact I was using an SMP-enabled kernel, and that adds overhead even on a single-processor machine. So credit them with another 10% until I get publish-worthy numbers. The Sparcs are still crushed by the 733MHz P3 el-cheapo Dell Optiplex, and the (badly-configured) Athlon 1200 has nothing to fear.

The Blade 1000 is a different beast. It's a real workstation, with 8M caches---can't get that in the beige box x86 world, and there are a lot of workloads that are just screaming for it. I don't have numbers yet, but I expect they'll be much more competitive. Of course, for $15-20k for a dual processor box, they'd better be.

So why buy a Blade 100?

1. Binary compatibility with bigger machines. If you think your app is going to have to scale up to mainframe size, you won't have to recompile your system to take it there.
2. Commercial software compatibility. No Purify for Linux, for instance. Or maybe you already bought big-ticket software like RealServer, or a GIS.
3. Compatibility with collaborators. In some communities (especially research), Solaris on SPARC is a very common environment.
4. 64 bits. The Blade 100 is the cheapest 64-bit PC in the world. Some people need to develop for a 64-bit world. (It's not the cheapest 64-bit Linux hardware; although current kernels don't support it, the Agenda VR3 hardware is a full 64-bit MIPS implementation.)

By the way, newer kernels improved the Mac performance substantially, and SMP provided around a 60% speedup on the tests on the dual 533MHz PPC. I think I know where to borrow a dual 800MHz PowerMac, which should finally beat the crap out of the Athlon 1200. Of course, now I'm curious about dual Athlon performance, but I dunno if I really need a new machine just to run some benchmarks...

Ballmer Dance Click the ballmer link on top.

os x is "unix the musical". all singing, all dancing, all unix.

if you go to Versiontracker you can see many pieces of software that has been ported. XEmacs 19.14 has been ported and you can get it here.

http://homepage.mac.com/johnemdall/.Movies/lotr-tv 240.mov

I'm picturing something like David Starr (Space Ranger)'s CO2 space propellant guns, except with vomitus instead of carbon dioxide. Imagine the space duels!

Yes, Apple uses rebranded Lucent Wavelan cards (whcih then became Lucent Orinoco cards, which then became Agere Orinoco cards). Most Airport cards are of the 40-bit WEP variety, but Apple just started shipping a 128-bit model. An mac program for finding access point can be found at http://homepage.mac.com/typexi/Personal1.html.

adding a bigger Harddrive to your iBook (dual USB): heres the URL [mac.com]

adding a bigger HD to your TiBook: Here [xlr8yourmac.com]

overclocking the iBook (dual USB) to 600 MHz and 100 MHz system bus: Here [xlr8yourmac.com]

note that especially the iBook upgrades arent exactly easy to do. LOTS of parts and screws.