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Well apparently you can use a DexDrive on your Mac. I don't think that Sony executives thought that using a relatively unknown peripheral would be a suitable substitute. I do think some Slashdot reader's may find the original link I supplied to be of use.

The apps install in a minute, they're rock solid, and they're fast. If you need an excuse to move up to Mac OS X, Microsoft Office v. X might just be it.

...the Mac version of Office makes the Windows version look like something designed in the last century.

Wiebetech had a Firewire Keychain flash firewire drive back in 2002.

Check it out:

• Firewire Keychain Review
• Firewire Keychain
• Wiebetech Announced Firewire Keychain
• WiebeTECH 1GB FireWire KeyChain review

the following magazines, time permitting:

Print Magazine
Communication Arts
Dwell
Step Inside Design
MacWorld
MacAddict
Writer's Digest
Maxim

Of course, it's rare that I actually get to READ them all, but I like to at least have the material available to me.

a-fukin-man, I'll believe "Illustrator-killer" when I see 3D objects, texturing, lighting, SWF animations, etc.

The latest version of Illustrator CS will kick Inkscape's dick in the dirt.

Look... I'm sure Inkscape is great n'all, but "Illustrator-killer"???

> And which were they? I've taken apart both flavours of iMac and they both have a fan in.

There were a lot more than two flavours of the iMac, the CRT iMacs alone had a dozen of revisions. The earlier versions had a fan, but I believe all versions between 350mhz and the LCD iMacs didn't. In any case, the 350mhz and the 500mhz were fanless.

I will note that there are several errors in this article. Moshe writes" Under the hood, Panther introduced other important features like an update to FreeBSD 4.8 (OS X is based on FreeBSD, but the previous release used FreeBSD 3.2) ". Which is wrong on both counts. Panther (10.3) is synced with FreeBSD 5.0 and Jaguar (10.2) is synced with FreeBSD 4.4 (PDF). Aside from minor typos "Upon reboot, staring MS Word for the first time takes 6 seconds" (BYTE editors please make note).

The one problem I had with this article was the description of the noise generated by the dual-CPU G5. Moshe wrote "The noise the dual G5 makes is comparable to a hair dryer, and it can be heard from any room of my house". I had a 1.8 GHz G5 delivered to my office by our university's Apple representative for a few days to evaluate the machine. One of the features I was amazed by was how quiet the G5 was. In order to hear the G5 operate in my office, I had to turn off the following: SGI O2, the dual-CPU PIII 1GHz SGI 320, the G4 PowerMac + all the monitors including the 21" Intergraph behemoth monitor. The central air-conditioning into my office was still louder than my G5! Then I had to move my ear closer to the G5 casing to hear the fans operate with all other equipment turned off (only one of our professor's G4 Cube is quieter than the G5 loaner I got from Apple). Later that week I wrote to my Apple rep. "Those multiple fans are deathly quiet".

Here are some other dual-CPU G5 reviews on the G5:

Mac Addict review "GOOD NEWS: Fastest Mac ever. Exceptionally quiet. Easy, no-tools-required maintenance"

Twincities.com review "Indeed, removing one of G5's slab-like anodized-aluminum sides revealed nine fans that pump air along a network of inner wind tunnels. Switching on the Power Mac, I expected it to make a terrible racket despite Apple's assurances to the contrary. But, sure enough, the machine proved amazingly quiet for "the world's fastest, most powerful personal computer.""

So, when Moshe describes his dual-CPU G5 to be loud as a hairdryer I'm a little skeptical. Giving Moshe the benefit of the doubt of having a faster ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card, he might have received a G5 with defective thermal sensors or something. Has anyone out there experienced their dual-CPU G5 with a ATI 9800 sound like a hairdryer???

I distinctly recall the Autostart9805 worm that plagued Macs in May of '98 (9805, duh). It even made it onto the pack-in disc from MacAddict one month.

Of course, that worm didn't do any damage, IIRC. And it took advantage of one of the things Apple copied from Microsoft, which may explain why they're now hesitant to add things to OSX that "have been in Windows for ages."

But worms are certainly NOT a Windows-only problem.

Heh, you should check out the geniuses we get over at the MacAddict Forums. Every day there's people who ask some question that could have been found if, heaven forbid, they used the Search feature or they just scrolled down a bit.

Does said mouse have more than one button?

Worth noting that the G5 doubles its Photoshop performance when you give it 2GB of RAM instead of 1. I wonder how much RAM graphics professionals will be putting in their G5s?

see MacAddict's Review of the G5 for details.

Hum no, actually it should read as:
dutifully, the (dual) G5 beats every single CPU PC in this test, coming one second close to the dual Opteron system (which had twice the amount of RAM).

Tests of a G5 with more Ram in Photoshop. Enjoy.

2GB dual G5 benchmarks

Better you should actually make some 3d objects with your digital pictures. I've used this and while I'm sure that it's more of a pain in the ass than the EZ-3D gadget advertised here, it's pretty cool.

And in the interest of full disclosure, that's my review there...

MacAddict and others are reporting that the press release has been removed from IBM's site; clicking the link to it in this story now takes one to a listing of IBM's German press releases. The pr on the 2.5 GHz 970 seems to have been completely removed. Might the announcement have been premature?

Actually, she's not going to fix it since it would cost too much.

http://www.macaddict.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=67 98

• She found her husband surfing the net for porn, and he's still in the oven...
  
• She spilled water on the machine and was attempting to dry it off.
  
• She was keeping it safe while she was on vacation and forgot about it when she returned home.
  
• Her son was playing, "Find the $2500 computer" with her daughter.
  
• She wanted to see what would happen.
  
• She mistook it for a cookie sheet.
  

They liked EyeTV as well.

Finally, there were some capabilities that just don't exist on the Mac right now. I like using GAIM [sourceforge.net] for instant messaging because I can create aliases for my friends and don't have to remember screen names. I couldn't find a program for Mac that let me alias screennames. You may think it's silly, but because I use IM for work it's important for me to have a person's name handy.

The magazine MacAddict did this a year ago with an iBook... it was built from scratch (except for the quickcam for visuals and the iBook itself) and was controlled by AppleScript over an airport network. It was called the iBorg. There is probably still plenty of information at MacAddict

I'm a long-time Mac user and it gets on my nerves when I see other Mac users dismiss these kinds of critiques against Apple by pointing out how it may be Microsoft's fault because of their browser. I'm no defender of MS, but gimme a break!

MSIE is one of the few examples of software done right on the Mac... or anywhere for that matter. The Microsoft Macintosh unit doesn't port Windows code to the Mac--they maintain their own code and overall, they do great work. Read one of the interviews with Kevin Browne that have been featured in Macworld or Macaddict. This excuse that I'm seeing posted here (and hinted at) that it's "not made for the Mac" is pure apologist horse-shit and an embarrassing example of the kind of zealotry we Mac users are routinely (and not always fairly) accused of.

There's no excuse for Apple not to have OS X optimized at this point. Steve Jobs himself even used the clock analogy to show OS X's progress over the last year, and this March was 12:00. OS X should have been optimized for speed then... not in the possibly "18 months" that the article specifies. What possible excuse could there be for that? Apple is one of the few companies actually turning a profit right now. It can't be budgetary reasons.

I don't understand the delay on this issue, but no Mac users should be rushing to Apple's defense over this.

--Rick

Recently, I'd been having some performance issues with Mac OS X on my titanium Powerbook 500. (256 meg of ram on 10.1.4)

The problem was that EVERYTHING gave me spinning beach ball. File operations, minimizing Finder windows, you name it...Even scrolling in MOzilla and IE were affected. Then I read on MacAddict that OS X needs to be left running all night so that various "cleanup" tasks can run.

Anybody who has OS X should consider leaving there machine up all night so these run... It will resolve a great many problems that you're having, and allow us to go back to bashing MS and Oracle instead of Apple...

Unix people familiar with cron should have no problem with editing the cleanups to run at a more reasonable hour than 3am, 4am, and 5am (like one when your machine will be running)... (I think the file to edit is /var/run/cron.pid, but don't quote me...)

Alternately, if you're a regular mac user and don't feel like mucking about with the terminal, hit Version Tracker and pick up MacJanitor. It's a friendly GUI that lets to schedule your daily, weekly, and monthly jobs, or trip them manually on demand.

Since I'd used the machine, it had never been awake all night (I close the lid when I go to bed, usually before 3am...) so cron had never done anything to optimize my machine.

Now? All better. Faster than I remember 10.1.1 being...

When the iPod first came out, it was decried as yet another soon-to-be-discontinued Apple experiment. It was called over-priced and under-valued. Many were the posts that blasted it as too niche for even Apples niche market. Now, suddenly, we hear people asking for a Windows version of iTunes, and can it run Linux (or BSD). We hear that the drive it uses retails for the same as the iPod itself. The iPod may in fact be the breakthrough that Jobs claims it is (ok, maybe not, but closer than people thought it was a week ago). Here's why -

Anyone who may have been considering purchasing a Toshiba MK5002MAL will now give MUCH greater consideration to buying an iPod instead. I know it's not as easy to switch out as a 'true' PCMCIA device, but even if you don't have a Mac, you can still use it as a FW drive. This will drive sales up considerably - there is a market for it outside the Mac world even without iTunes and its MP3 capabilities. And how long before someone hacks it, makes it work with other OSes.

Know what I think? I think Apple SHOULD release a Windows version of iTunes, and CHARGE FOR IT! How long have Mac users had to pay extra to play with Windows? VPC, SoftWindows, Orange Micro PCI adapter cards, MacLink, the list goes on. Well, you know what, Windows users? If you want the ease, the function, and yes, the glitz and shiny baubles, then BUY APPLE! Or else commence hacking...

In addition, one easter egg has already been discovered - the game Breakout! is hidden within. MacAddict reports on it, as does MacityNet. Who knows what other goodies lurk within, or that Apple will release for it. I, for one, do not believe that an MP3 player is all that Apple has planned for it. We've had a few pleasant surprises since it's previewing, who knows what will happen once it's released to the general public. I, for one, want one VERY much.

Santa? I've been a REAL good boy this year, I swear...

(tig)

First hand account of the iPod:

http://www.macaddict.com/cgi-bin/storypage.cgi?sto ryid=1004046897,20517,

From the article:

" Breakout!: I'm pretty sure I'm the first one who found this, even though I found it by accident. If you select "About" from the main menu, then hold the center button for a couple seconds, a mini breakout game appears on the screen. That's what I call an easter egg!"

This probably means you could do a lot more with this than first appears.

Er... given the slogan of Slashdot to present "News for Nerds", I'd think they would at least provide *some* sort of basis for differentiating their "news" stories from their "opinion" stories. This wasn't an "article", it was an editorial opinion, with no factual statements per se, and frankly no new information either. Why is this story on the front page? From the fact that the word "opinion" is in the URL itself, you'd think somebody would recognize and acknowledge this...

Wait, this just in: Powersauce is full of apple-y goodness! Nobody else concentrates the power of apples in bar form! Back to you Dave...

The way I see it is this: using a Mac is a lot like using a jetski. If you're slightly serious about either, you're going to know that a little effort is necessary to make them run to their full potential. MacAddict magazine knows this, and just like any decent Mac user, they were able to do the five minutes of software tweaking necessary to make a 500 mhz G4 match a 1 Ghz Athalon.

Sure, the benchmarks that they ran were done in Photoshop, but what about the benchmarks done by others? Can we really trust them? "This Pentium III running M$ windows was considerably faster (1.2 seconds) at running MS applications than the G4 was."

Please...

Instead of using MS applications, you refer to Quake 3. Is it anything like Unreal Tournament, which is a friggen Macplay PORT??

I am not blind to the fact that some PC applications work better than their Mac counter-parts, but I tend to believe that the root of the problem lies in company's Mac development teams.. is Microsoft REALLY going to make its office software work better on a Mac than a PC running their OS?

I suppose when OS X final is released, with its BSD core, that it won't be the "turgid, inefficient piece of crap" that you see in the current OS now. I think that Macs might perform better in other "credible" benchmarks in the future because the new OS may eliminate the need for some of the software tweaking that was needed to be done before to achieve maximum efficiency.

Step 1: Get the development tools. This will let you compile programs for the BSD layer. The basic idea here is to download the Darwin disk image and copy the development tools from Darwin to Mac OS X Beta. MacAddict has the details including a shell script that will move all the right stuff for you.

Step 2: Download the latest bash source code (bash/bash-2.04.tar.gz) from a GNU mirror site.

Step 3: Untar and compile it. The only real trick is the command line options for the configure script. I got it to work with the slightly incorrect:

./configure --without-bash-malloc --host=bsd

Step 4: Install it. Mac OS X Beta doesn't have a /usr/local directory when you install it. I created one by hand but I'm pretty sure that the make install would create the directory structure fine.

Step 5: Configure it. Go into Terminal's prefs and change the default shell from tcsh to bash. Set up bash config files cribbing the settings from tcsh's config files. Move things around. Have fun.

Compiling UNIX-type stuff for Mac OS X isn't that bad. I have done it with ncftp 3, readline, tintin++, and bash so far. Usually it's just a tweak here and there and it works fine. Have fun playing with it.

Step 1: Get the development tools. This will let you compile programs for the BSD layer. The basic idea here is to download the Darwin disk image and copy the development tools from Darwin to Mac OS X Beta. MacAddict has the details including a shell script that will move all the right stuff for you.

Step 2: Download the latest bash source code (bash/bash-2.04.tar.gz) from a GNU mirror site.

Step 3: Untar and compile it. The only real trick is the command line options for the configure script. I got it to work with the slightly incorrect:

./configure --without-bash-malloc --host=bsd

Step 4: Install it. Mac OS X Beta doesn't have a /usr/local directory when you install it. I created one by hand but I'm pretty sure that the make install would create the directory structure fine.

Step 5: Configure it. Go into Terminal's prefs and change the default shell from tcsh to bash. Set up bash config files cribbing the settings from tcsh's config files. Move things around. Have fun.

Compiling UNIX-type stuff for Mac OS X isn't that bad. I have done it with ncftp 3, readline, tintin++, and bash so far. Usually it's just a tweak here and there and it works fine. Have fun playing with it.

There's been plenty of press on the subject. Most of it pointed toward an article at MacAddict which explained how to strip the dev tools out of Darwin.

I believe less drastic measures are being shipped to developers as we speak, or at least will be in the near future.

Just in case there are a few of you out there who are not officially registered apple developers, or who are just to impatient to wait until you can download the developer tools (I, oddly enough, fall into both catagories)Here is a good, albeit roundabout, way to get the developers tools back, from macaddict's website: 1) Sign up for apples darwin project, and download the binary for 1.0 THis can be done from the darwin website. Off hand, I don't remeber the URL 2)Don't click on the disk image. DO NOT. Thatw ould be bad. 3)launch the Carbonized Disk Copy from the Utilities folder in the Applications folder, then drag Darwin.smi onto its window. This should mount a volume named Darwin. 4)Inside Darwin, look in the Darwin 1.0 Installer folder. You should find a folder named Configurations. Inside that folder you should find a disk image named Darwin 1.0.img. Drag that image to the System Disk application to mount a volume named Darwin 1.0. 5)Grab this script 6) Get teh terminal, su to root, and run the script. Ignore the ranlib errors. 7) Et voila. You now have the developer tools, and a slighty more unstable system. ^_^ All this is available from the macaddict site mentioned above.

Just in case there are a few of you out there who are not officially registered apple developers, or who are just to impatient to wait until you can download the developer tools (I, oddly enough, fall into both catagories)Here is a good, albeit roundabout, way to get the developers tools back, from macaddict's website: 1) Sign up for apples darwin project, and download the binary for 1.0 THis can be done from the darwin website. Off hand, I don't remeber the URL 2)Don't click on the disk image. DO NOT. Thatw ould be bad. 3)launch the Carbonized Disk Copy from the Utilities folder in the Applications folder, then drag Darwin.smi onto its window. This should mount a volume named Darwin. 4)Inside Darwin, look in the Darwin 1.0 Installer folder. You should find a folder named Configurations. Inside that folder you should find a disk image named Darwin 1.0.img. Drag that image to the System Disk application to mount a volume named Darwin 1.0. 5)Grab this script 6) Get teh terminal, su to root, and run the script. Ignore the ranlib errors. 7) Et voila. You now have the developer tools, and a slighty more unstable system. ^_^ All this is available from the macaddict site mentioned above.

So.. what's the easiest way to get bash installed and running? Since there aren't any dev tools available, does someone already have a compiled bash for MacOS X?

You can get dev tools by following the instructions here.

You can grab bash here .

If anyone has a MacOS (7-X) system up and running already and wants some tools right now, they can follow the instructions from MacAddict on how to copy the Darwin versions of g++ and company over to MacOS. For those interested in other BSD apps on OS X, keep an eye on MacAddict's Ports page.

If anyone has a MacOS (7-X) system up and running already and wants some tools right now, they can follow the instructions from MacAddict on how to copy the Darwin versions of g++ and company over to MacOS. For those interested in other BSD apps on OS X, keep an eye on MacAddict's Ports page.

If anyone has a MacOS (7-X) system up and running already and wants some tools right now, they can follow the instructions from MacAddict on how to copy the Darwin versions of g++ and company over to MacOS. For those interested in other BSD apps on OS X, keep an eye on MacAddict's Ports page.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any free registration.

There are several levels of ADC member. "ADC Online" membership is free, and will get you access to the tools in question. Or, get the compilers from Darwin right now.

I'm considering developing on OSX, but not if it costs $400 for some GNU based tools. That's almost as expensive as Visual Studio...

Not only gcc, etc free, but it looks like Project Builder and company will be available for free as well.

- Scott

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Scott Stevenson

Apple will release all the GNU tools plus their own spiffy IDE (called Project Builder) in mid-October!

The following comes from MacAddict's Article about getting GNU tools:

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Apple has announced that development tools for the public beta will be made available to ADC Online members starting in mid-October. If you can bear to wait the month, it'll be worth it.
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It is free to become an ADC Online member. I should know, I've done it. I look forward to being able to use all the GNU tools with the MacOS X beta as well.

For those of you who can't wait till mid-October, sign up as a Darwin developer and you'll be able to get all the latest code from the CVS server and you can compile your own GNU tools and new kernels and all that great stuff!

-Tom Hackett
of www.Darwinfo.org

Also, Apple will release the developer tools to all online ADC members (free registration) in mid-October.

Also, Apple will release the developer tools to all online ADC members (free registration) in mid-October.

After all the effort put into the iBorg, I think they'd be afraid to enter it.

(link probably only works during west coast business hours; search www.macaddict.com for iBorg for details or try this link)

Try MacAddict and this News.com article.

It appears that Apple is only suing so it can force the various leaks to rat on their links. I guess they want to try to kill the entire food chain. Oh well.

I'm not a 3D developer, but I have looked at Pixels 3D (from Pixels.net), Vision 3D and Strata 3D (both from Strata3d.com). All of those full versions were sent out on various MacAddict CDs. I realize 3DMax is a pro-level tool, hence way beyond these apps. But how does the gMax feature set compare?

OT: I love MacAddict; it's the Car and Driver of the computer world (informative, intelligent, and irreverent), kind of how MacUser was when it first started.

OT: I love MacAddict; it's the Car and Driver of the computer world (informative, intelligent, and irreverent), kind of how MacUser was when it first started.

Of course, people actually downloading the whole human genome probable wouldn't worry about this, but couldn't they use a better compression format than .zip? I bet using bzip2 or rar would shave a couple of hundred MBs off of that 753MB file. Also, the differences in compression techniques would be interesting to see on a large group of files mainly consisting of G, A, C, and T. -- demiurge You find a file that appears important and obliterate it from memory!!! Score one for the downtrodden hacker!

• G -- 00
• A -- 01
• T -- 10
• C -- 11

This would only work for the .fa files, but .fa files can contain "N"s also. If you just want to browse the Genome, look through the pieces directory. .

I've got one of those Intellimouse Explorers (the huge silver ones with the superfluous tail light and like three extra buttons; well, what the hell, here's a http://www.microsoft.com/Mouse/explorer.htm link) and sites that won't let you back out are an incredible annoyance. See, two of the buttons on there serve as Forward/Back (respectively) while browsing the web, and after about 20 minutes of using them, I was hooked. You wouldn't believe how simple (and remarkably intuitive) to navigate with your thumb. Now if I could just find a good use for those buttons in Half-Life... I mean, sure, it's easy enough to hold down the back button and select the page before the offending site, but that would require moving my cursor over six or so linear inches of desktop space. Isn't that just a little bit unreasonable? No? Ah well.

The link in the old "21" Frankenstein iMac" story ain't working no more... Here's a link that works: http://www.macaddict.com /community/reallifemac/12_28.html

I've already bought thirty 200 ft spools. Duct tape is good for creating makeshift shelter, clothing, skiis, food, containers, computers, restraints, shovels, napkins, kleenex, fuel...

I'll be safe no matter what happens! ;)
PS-Duct tape has no date rollovers or timed demos. Major plus.

(Thanks, greg.)

Without the CGI: http://www.macaddict.com/exclusive/9911/imac21.htm l

P.U.R.G.E Save my live !