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Firefox works out well for me on Mac OS X, once I got a good theme ("GrApple Classic") and replacement widgets (can't remember where I got mine, but here's a different good set).

(Yes, this is my real set-up: 3 Mac Minis (2 running Linux), MGE UPS, and a bunch or other small stuff.)

This means transparent RPC is possible in Python and not in Scheme.

Oh. Maybe you should tell this guy to give it up.

Please name a big city with fiber to the premises -- outside of Korea, that is.

Suburb to Stockholm, Sweden, has it. The whole council has been wired and all apartment blocks have a switch in the basement. House owners have to help a bit to put the stuff into the house.

On the fibre you can have: commercial broadband at 10 mbps full duplex, cable TV, VoIP, on demand films. I can choose from 6 ISPs, several VoIP providers, one cable company and one on demand film company (so far).

You can see some of my installation here.

Firefox is simply fastest on Windows, period.

HOWEVER... the latest nightly builds (from the development branch that will eventually become Firefox 1.1) are much faster than the official 1.0.4 you are probably currently using. Also, if you have a newer G4 (PowerPC 744x/745x series... 1GHz or better "G4+") or a G5 you can grab an optimized build for even more performance.

Grab the G4 version here:
http://homepage.mac.com/krmathis/

Grab the G5 version here:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=2565 17

As of this posting, the newest version for each is the 20050704 (July 4, 2005) build. I am posting this from the July 3 G4 version, it zooms compared to Safari here on OS X 10.4.1.

Stoller came after me back in March 2004 because I was using 'stealth' in my domain name - and still am! I documented it all here:

My Stoller Story. He was going after a hell of a lot of personal websites at the time, trying to scare money out of people. He deserves a good kicking. If it wasn't for the fact he was on the other side of the Atlantic I'd personally have torn him limb from limb.

Actually I happen to like Conversation more than Colloquy.

But you're right about the other points.

http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/PhotoAlbum2.html

...here. But at least this one makes a prediction that's about to be tested, so I should give it some credit. But crackpots have a tendency of adapting ingeniously to data that doesn't fit the theory. We'll see...

http://homepage.mac.com/pudge/geeksunite.net/

It won't last long ...

And just to continue our time travel excursion, check out the Apple II joysticks, very different from the Atari ones. These were great for games like Castle Wolfenstein as compared to the stiff joysticks.

You do not need the so-called traditional channels of distribution to get your work to an audience, and you'll probably be happier and more successful by not going through those channels.

Amen.

my own movies are often for a very very very small audience, but i can't imagine the pain of working with a bunch of suits and wankers trying to get my stuff published.

So i don't. Do i make a ton of money? Absolutely not. but i have a day job to pay bills - I make movies and create because i NEED to do these things. My longest movie so far, a spoof on "24" done for my jr high group at church was some of the most fun, and hardest work i've ever done.. and i can't imagine having any more fun doing anything else "work"-wise.

Did i make any money on that? No... i won't sell enough DVD's to the kids to make back the costs of the tape i used... but i couldn't care less. I'm already planning next years, spending time working on an idea, a script, production, etc.. and i'm doing it for the fun of it. so long as i have money coming in from a day job that also allows me to create and funds my hardware and software needs, I can't imagine ever wanting to go mainstream.

Sell DVDs online from my home or from a duplication house? Yeah... hell yeah.. Deal with movie companies? No... never.

If you want to get a feeling of what its like to be in the position of loving the creation, rather than the accolades, go buy THX1138 on DVD. Watch the American Zoetrope video that comes on the 2nd DVD. It explains a lot... now, you can take-or-leve Lucas' work - and he'd welcome you to that.

but i am saddend that Lucas gave up 20 years of creativity to make the starwars movies instead of making movies that he really liked. THX was his best movie he's ever made... at least to me.. because you can see the creativity put into making it.

do what i did - just make a movie, put it on the net, let people enjoy it. If someone wants to hire you for your talent and abilities, they will. That's what basically has happened to me.

My boss saw my editing abilities when it got around that I do video junk for the kids at church, and now, instead of doing requirements validation and system engineering paper studies, i now sit behind a G5 with Final Cut Studio and Motion...and i even get paid to do it!

Hey - it beats working.

btw: have fun watching my video.
http://homepage.mac.com/gsf/thrive2005.mp4
its H.264, just so you know.

its a spoof of "24", made for Jr High kids at my church. Beware - as with all no-budget videos like this, there are a ton of inside jokes you probably won't get, and remind yourself of the target audience... jr high kids.

There are a few:
Font Agent Pro
Font Finagler (a cache manager)
And others

I hit just shy of 6,000 fonts, and my system was heading for the wall before I started with Font Agent. It takes all fonts, gives you a preview of your typefaces, then you can opt to turn them off, so that Font Book isn't working with so much baggage for general tasks. It isn't quite like uninstalling fonts, they auto-activate as required. But it's a makeshift solution to getting a slightly improved functionality on a Mac with a lot of fonts.

I have got rid of all except the basic fonts I need after filenames and other things left my browser looking like something in Klingon, so I don't screw with them anymore.

However, I shouldn't offer false hope. Microsoft Word has it's own software to scan your font library, so even if the fonts are deactivated, Word will still throw a tantrum for whatever reason, and take hours to load on first instance with huge numbers of fonts. Sorry.

Dean then started to talk about the power of the enclosure element in RSS 2.0. What is great about it is that it enables one to syndicate all sorts of digital content. One can syndicate video, music, calendar events, contacts, photos and so on using RSS due to the flexibility of enclosures.

Amar then showed a demo using Outlook 2003 and an RSS feed of the Gnomedex schedule he had created. The RSS feed had an item for each event on the schedule and each item had an iCalendar file as an enclosure. Amar had written a 200 line C# program that subscribed to this feed then inserted the events into his Outlook calendar so he could overlay his personal schedule with the Gnomedex schedule. The point of this demo was to show that RSS isn't just for aggregators subscribing to blogs and news sites.

We know, we know. We like to suffer, it's fun.

That should keep the Mac flyboys at bay for awhile. :)

http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/PhotoAlbum2.html

The first absurdist conclusion I saw, which was impeccably backed up, I found in high school. I no longer remember the source, unfortunately. In the aftermath of a strategic nuclear exchange between the US and the Soviet Union, the per-capita cancer rates would actually go down because the same nukes which would take out the CIA headquarters in Virginia would also take out essential infrastructure for the tobacco industry. Whatever upswing in cancer rates due to fallout would quickly be overtaken by the downswing of the entire nation quitting smoking.

Stuart Slade, a veteran of The Business who's now a defense industry analyst, wrote a good (unclassified) view from The Business of nuclear warfare. It's written up in three parts: here, here and here.

Slade mentions wealth creation by nuclear annihilation, but it's also covered other places. That and the cancer rate downturn are the two most widely-known absurdisms from The Business.

The first absurdist conclusion I saw, which was impeccably backed up, I found in high school. I no longer remember the source, unfortunately. In the aftermath of a strategic nuclear exchange between the US and the Soviet Union, the per-capita cancer rates would actually go down because the same nukes which would take out the CIA headquarters in Virginia would also take out essential infrastructure for the tobacco industry. Whatever upswing in cancer rates due to fallout would quickly be overtaken by the downswing of the entire nation quitting smoking.

Stuart Slade, a veteran of The Business who's now a defense industry analyst, wrote a good (unclassified) view from The Business of nuclear warfare. It's written up in three parts: here, here and here.

Slade mentions wealth creation by nuclear annihilation, but it's also covered other places. That and the cancer rate downturn are the two most widely-known absurdisms from The Business.

The first absurdist conclusion I saw, which was impeccably backed up, I found in high school. I no longer remember the source, unfortunately. In the aftermath of a strategic nuclear exchange between the US and the Soviet Union, the per-capita cancer rates would actually go down because the same nukes which would take out the CIA headquarters in Virginia would also take out essential infrastructure for the tobacco industry. Whatever upswing in cancer rates due to fallout would quickly be overtaken by the downswing of the entire nation quitting smoking.

Stuart Slade, a veteran of The Business who's now a defense industry analyst, wrote a good (unclassified) view from The Business of nuclear warfare. It's written up in three parts: here, here and here.

Slade mentions wealth creation by nuclear annihilation, but it's also covered other places. That and the cancer rate downturn are the two most widely-known absurdisms from The Business.

blakespot

They showed it to the local Arts Council, but they weren't really interested. I thought that was a shame since they spent a long time on it and to be fair, I think it's pretty good. So I'm posting it here on /. to see what ppl's reactions are. Don't be shy to use the"Send Message" button and give them some feedback. Cheers guys!

I am Legend

http://homepage.mac.com/svc/ADayAtTheBeach/

And yet Seaside surfs under most people's radar.

---
"Slow Down Cowboy!

Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment.

It's been 9 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment

Chances are, you wouldn't see the above if Taco had used Ruby on Rails instead of Perl."

...Steve Jobs most likely wouldn't have hired John Scully (who kicked SJ out of Apple) and the computing world would have been a whole another story.

Then again if those same hits of acid was found in Bill Gates car when he was arrested, it's quite possible there wouldn't have been a Windows after all.

Such is fate.

http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/PhotoAlbum2.html

Check out our favourite Sex Offender!!!

http://homepage.mac.com/aleksivic/brian.html

Just to give you guys an update, the GNAA have recruited Brian Peppers! http://homepage.mac.com/aleksivic/brian.html

I tried adding notes to my pics in iphoto but after a while it gets tiresome.

Notes aren't meant for organization. Get Keyword Assistant and use it to make adding as many keywords as you like to each and every one of your photos.

I don't know why Apple doesn't make keywords this easy itself, but I'm glad this plugin is freeware. (I loved it so much, in fact, I sent the developer $10 just for being cool about it.)

Remember Steve Jobs already made hell freeze over by making iTunes for Windows, Quicktime 7 for Windows.

He's taking over the x86 world and Bill Gates is in on it, he really loves the Mac.

See here and of course here

Remember Steve Jobs already made hell freeze over by making iTunes for Windows, Quicktime 7 for Windows.

He's taking over the x86 world and Bill Gates is in on it, he really loves the Mac.

See here and of course here

Thanks. I misunderstood what Smart Folders were. This just further underscores that Apple is the only company willing to take risks to offer useful features to their customers. I'm not quite sure what makes Wired think that Finder and Smart Folders are somehow diametric. The two are actually perfectly matched. Finder allows you to browser all the folders on your system. It's good at that. If the folders just happen to be saved queries, who really cares? The interface still works. It's just boggles my mind that no other OS has latched onto this concept before now, despite the overwhelming evidence that it's A Good Idea(TM).

Now that Apple's shown everyone the way with database filesystems, I wonder if we could get them to replace the "Recent" menu with "Piles" of recent folders. Wait, they're already looking at that. God, I love this new Apple. (i.e. NeXT renamed.) And that's coming from a guy who's hated Apple his entire life!

I agree absolutely. I know I wanted to use a calculator 10 odd years ago when I was learning math, but I'm glad now that we were't allowed to.

Ditto for log tables vs scientific calculators in junior college later on.

We finally did get to use Scientific Calculators for everything in Engineering; and I believe *that* is the right time.

Reminds me of "A Feeling of Power" by Asimov
http://homepage.mac.com/jhjenkins/Asimov/Stories/S tory076.html

With the way things are going, a future like that is not hard to percieve anymore.

I have a Sony Ericsson T637 and it works like a charm over Bluetooth.

Plus, with Sailing Clicker, I can actually control iTunes from my bed with the Mac on the other side of the room. It also allows me to use the phone as a wireless presentation controller - that always starts conversations at conferences.

Overall, I am happy with the phone.

I'd start with the supported feature list of Salling Clicker: http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/Cli cker/

You don't have to use Salling Clicker, there are alternatives, but I'm not familiar with their web sites.

You mean this person?

http://www.omjp.org/Feb1503GazaReuters.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/cfj/.Pictures/rachel-corri e-flag-02.jpg

Such a peaceful, loving, terrorist sympathizer. She was not a citizen of Israel and was impeding an Israeli military action. She willingly chose to put herself in front of one of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:D9-idf_pic214.j pg

I don't think anyone can reasonably claim that these things have perfect visibility of something as tiny as a human standing in front of them.

Whether the driver saw her and continued anyway is not something you or I can know, since we weren't there. Even if he did, I'd say he was justified since she was impeding a military action in a country she's not a citizen of.

A picture of the new brain computer can be seen at:
http://homepage.mac.com/m5comp/trekbits/trekpics/b rain/brain018.jpeg

Looks strangely familiar.

...a decent desktop and a 30" screen like this one.

http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/PhotoAlbum2.html

What the laptop issue is people are taking it with them, schools, work, airplanes etc. They are the lonely ones stuck off by a power supply in the airport, they are too poor to hide their dislike for human companionship and too cheap to have a beast of a computer at home.

Laptop owners in the "wild" look so horribly lonely it's pathetic. Ever since I got rid of mine I realized how really pathetic I looked in public with my laptop.

I didn't mean to sound like a troll, just a serious observation.

...acid drops YOU!

See my G5 baby pictures

...iPods recycle YOU!

See my G5 rig

Lookie at my G5 rig

...chips change YOU!

My supreme G5 rig

I am a MBNA LinuxFund Cardholder. In exchange for signing up for it during the Usenix Annual Technical conference in Boston in June of 2001, I received a plush Penguin. Ever since, I have made a point of using this MasterCard in place of my Discover Card to make large purchases from time to time so that I felt like I was doing my part to contribute to a cause I believe in. It's so enraging to learn that the opportunity has been so mismanaged. If I had used my Discover Card for those very same purchases, I would have cash in my hand now to show for it.

I can't really find the right words to express how mad I am that the philanthropy I thought I was helping to endow has been so poorly administered. While I believe that the EFF and the FSF have the means to manage this program as well as the intention to spend the money on projects that are of the right spirit, I feel these groups already have a marketing machine that generates appropriate levels of donation.

I'd really like to see this get back on it's feet, because I really liked the idea of there being an organization where one could apply to get a small grant to work on F/OSS. What chance that other likeminded cardholders are interested in getting their hands dirty and taking this over? Where can I find more information about applying for the job? I'm not a financial services guru by any means, but I lead a small non-profit group in college, I help run a small technology business in Baltimore that I co-found, and I'm excellent at logistics. $28K seems like a lot of lost opportunity given the state that this has reached; I think I could do better - where should I send my resume?

They look at PowerPC running Darwin 8.1 and two Xeons and an Opteron running Linux 2.4/2.6. Why not show the PowerPC running Linux?! I want to see how Linux on PPC compares to Linux on x386 these days!

I'd go rerun some benchmarks, but the fastest Mac I currently own is a mini, and I don't think anybody would pay attention to benchmarks against Apple's cheapest computer. Even if price/performance was a goal.

How can they have a Star Trek movie without McCoy? And frankly, after hearing that James Spader slept with William Shatner, I don't think I can look at Capt. Kirk in quite the same way again.

I do think that a link to Spock singing about Bilbo Baggins makes sense right here.

Back in Dec 2000 he declared his desire to be The Dictator

Fitting material, perhaps for "Pierre Bernard's Recliner of Rage"

I wasn't aware Strawberry Shortcake had anything to do with sex organs or computers.

This comes pretty close, I think...

Not in the vanilla Mac port, it doesn't. Fortunately, there's a PPC-optimized compile that does make middle-click work; it's available here.

Me? I use Safari.

Silly?
Strawberry Shortcake wins hands down.

I guess G.I. Joe is for girls then?

Here's your pre-modded PowerPC based set-top entertainment system for just 519 USD. It's even the right size such that a GameCube stacks on top of it.

Pure Audio

Don't know if it works because I have no FLACs.

Wish I could moderate myself offtopic to save time. :D

I actually have one - still works great but sadly, not much use for CD's anymore.