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Ben Stanfield
Executive Editor
http://www.macslash.com/

As I said on Macslash,

From TFA: Apple Computer is preparing a major announcement next week, dropping hints of something as critical to the company's future as the release of the original iPod in 2001.

Which is hysterical. Apple hyped the hell out of that announcement, and afterwards, everyone was just saying "An MP3 player? That's it? There's tons already" at best and "No wireless, smaller than a Nomad. Lame" [slashdot.org] at worst. No one realized that one key feature--a great UI--would set it apart and allow Apple to dominate the industry. Who would have thought at the time that it would re-define Apple as much as the iMac did 3 years earlier?

So, this new announcement is only half of the story. The other half is the effect it will have on (((whatever))) over the next few years.

I sent this to their webmaster:

I find it somewhat humorous that on this page:
http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/security.m spx

the photo you use is that of a Macintosh PowerBook G4 15" (with the Apple logo on the back of the screen Photoshop-ed out), on a page about security summits and programs. While I don't want to get into a pissing contest about which OS is more secure, it's mildly humorous to find a Mac being used to advertise Microsoft's security, even if it is subtle.

Respectfully,
Andy Ringsmuth



I'll try and keep an eye on it and see if they decide to change the photo..... http://www.macslash.com/

Yes macslash has some coverage of this. My own experiments indicate that the problem is localized to Safari; the mozilla suite (Camino, Mozilla, Firefox) seem all to work fine.

--MW

• Mac Rumors - Good rumors website
• Mac Slash - Slashdot like mac news site
• Mac News Bytes - Good quick links to mac related articles
• Version Tracker - Software update website. Kind of like download.com for mac.
• Mac Update - Similar to versiontracker.com
• Mac OS X Hints - Good tips site for beginners and experienced people alike.
• Think Secret - Another good rumors site. Very accurate, most of the time.
• Emulation.net - Links to game emulation for mac

• Adium - Multi-protocol IM client
• Byte Controller - Good itunes hotkey/menu pager applet
• Camino - Nice mac based gecko browser.
• Colloquy - Webkit based IRC client. not too newbish.
• Cyberduck - SFTP/FTP client for os x
• Desktop Manager - Multi desktop app for os x
• Apple X11 Server - Apple's integrated X11 server. you'd want this for the next two items
• Fink - UNIX software for your mac
• Gimp.app - decent free photo editor
• Handbrake - DVD to mpeg4 ripper
• iTerm - Multi tabbed terminal
• Logorrhea - iChat log viewer/searcher/indexer
• Meteorologist - Weather applet for the menu bar
• Menu Meters - Menu applet for cpu usage, net usage, and more.
• Mplayer OS X - This app will play just about any media format in existance
• Poisoned - GiFT (Kazaa) and mldonkey based P2P mac client.
• Quicksilver - Very cool file/application/url/itunes/etc/etc/etc indexing program. It's like spotlight, only here TODAY and free!
• VLC - Another good video playing app. Nice to have a backup sometimes if mplayer doesn't play a file (which is very very rare).

MacSlash had this item on March 01st. See it: here.

Ahahahaa!

Okay, I really like Mac OS X and own a couple macs.

But I nearly can't believe the flaming pro-Mac fanatics I've seen on Mac sites in particular. I mean, if you dare to even point out how Apple could've done something better you'll get scorched. For examples, see comments at MacSlash or the comments in stories at MacNN. Okay, I haven't linked to any specific examples, but look someday when someone says something negative about a Mac, take a look!

See early user feedback. Also, anyone tried this FREE powerful FORTRAN for Panther tuned to exploit AltiVec G5 power (also works on G4s)?

Head over to MacSlash for an article on how to patch OpenSSH without updating to 10.2.8 ...

12" Powerbooks 12.1-inch TFT Display
1024x768 resolution
1GHz PowerPC G4
512K L2 cache
256MB DDR266 SDRAM
40GB Ultra ATA/100
NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5200 (32MB DDR)
Full size keyboard
10/100BASE-T Ethernet
FireWire 400
AirPort Extreme Ready
*Mini-DVI out
$1599 with Combo Drive, $1799 with SuperDrive

15" PowerBooks
15.2-inch TFT Display
1280x854 resolution
1GHz PowerPC G4
512K L2 cache
256MB DDR333 SDRAM
60GB Ultra ATA/100
ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 (64MB DDR)
Full size keyboard
Gigabit Ethernet
FireWire 400 & 800
AirPort Extreme Ready
DVI & S-Video out
$1999 with Combo Drive, 60GB drive, $2599 with backlit keyboard, SuperDrive, 80GB drive, AirPort Extreme, 512MB RAM

PowerBook 17" 17-inch TFT Display
1440x900 resolution
1.33GHz PowerPC G4
512K L2 cache
512MB DDR333 SDRAM
80GB Ultra ATA/100
ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 (64MB DDR)
Backlit Keyboard
Gigabit Ethernet
FireWire 400 & 800
AirPort Extreme built-in
DVI & S-Video out
$2999

*The miniDVI out is a smaller connector that reuires a dongle to connect to DVI cable or vga adapter.

...which is why I posted this late at night. But this guy submitted the story to MacSlash himself, and it provides a few more details, including a link to his blog, with updates and much more info than you'll find in the squabbling going on in these comments...

This was over at MacSlash:

"The new RealPC was fake and the VirtualPC was real, but now the new VirtualPC is owned by the folks responsible for the real PCs, and the RealPC is virtually toast."

And people say poetry is dead.

those rumors have been floating around for a few weeks, if not months on other sites. For the wannabe-mac fanatics among yuo : here are other rumor adresses :

macrumors (reliable, good forums)
macosrumors (unreliable, bloated, no forums)
looprumors(reliable, low traffic forums)
thinksecret(reliable, low traffic content, low traffic forums)
macwhispers (reliable, mostly hardware info, no forums)
macslash(slashdot for mac, mostly blahblah)
macbidouille(french, rather new, so reliability unconfirmed)
appleturns(100% reliable news by Steve Jobs's alter ego)

Pudge, do you just wait a day or so and post links from MacSlash or is apple.slashdot.org just using the MacSlash XML feed? I mean, why even bother?

Copying articles from other sites is questionable to begin with, but at least you could do a better job disguising the title title.

www.macslash.com had an article on it... search the old articles for it an the story will point you to the website with details on film gimp on os x

The port still requires an X-Server, it is not a GTK OSX app but there seems to be work in progress to make a GTK OSX version of Film Gimp.
Hopefully the high standards of Mac users and developers will help force FilmGimp (and hopefully GIMP) to become more flexible and user friendly.

MacScan Spyware Detection
posted by AcaBen on Friday December 13, @07:40AM
from the undboubtetdly-more-coming-for-x dept.

On MacSlash

MacSlash has a brief note how NASA's JPL has put together a cluster of 33 XServes that was able to achieve 1/5 teraflop

I think you meant:

MacSlash has a brief note how NASA's JPL has put together a cluster of 33 XServes that was able to achieve 1/5 teraflop. Apple.

MOSR has been irrelevant in the rumors "industry" (in my opinion) since they completely missed the boat on the iMac all those years ago. Their "rumors" tend to come from pie-eyed "what-if" scenarios snarfed form IRC these days.

There's much better Mac rumor sites out there - MacRumors and Macslash being two of them.

You'll need to revisit your prefs page. Recently, /. added a collection of categories with titles of the pattern "Category (Apple)". There about a half-dozen; you'll need to check them all off. Even though I'm a Mac fan, this recent "explosion" of OS X banter on /. strikes me as out of character for the site.

I wonder if OSDN is trying to kill off MacSlash?

It was just yesterday macSlash posted an 'article' titled 'Will Apple Support It's Modern OS with Modern Security?' mostly slated to apple waits to long to release security patches and they will not acknowledge security problems until they provide a patch. an 'article' titled 'Will Apple Support It's Modern OS with Modern Security?' mostly slated to apple waits to long to release security patches and they will not acknowledge security problems until they provide a patch.

Good morning, sir! Leaving for work today at 7:25 AM, it was raining like the dickens in Worcester county. As of 11:15 AM, the rain seems to of stopped. I took this break in the weather to shuffle down the street to the bakery where I purchased a blueberry muffin and 16 oz of orange juice. I am now reading homosexual erotic fiction under the guise of "Broadening my horizions". In another terminal window, I have vi open with /proc/kcore in it's buffer, so when a boss or nosy fuck walks by it appears I am busy! Ha ha ha, how clever!

http://macslash.com/
why would somebody swipe the domain only to put up just a link to the real one? there's no ad or anything on that page. The page forwards to http://www.merc-net.com/md/macslash.htm, which seems to be some kind of communications web portal. There is a meta tag that I don't understand:
<meta name="forwarder" content="abc.dnsix.att">

perhaps somebody noticed and snatched it before a squatter could get it, but then they should be offering it back to the macslash people...

What seems to have happened is the owners of macslash.com let their registration expire (the Dotster e-mail warning them of this was filtered out as spam on their mac.com e-mail account apparently), and Vicente Peiro Crespo of Valencia, Spain registered and paid for it legally at expiry. According to what he's said on the macslash.org thread about this, he does this with expired domains and redirects them through Commission Junction for a little extra money from ad revenue. Not exactly the most honorable thing for a moonlighting hobby, but perfectly legal.

However, he has said that when owners ask for their domains back (eg. when the domain is still in use) he gives it to them sans profit; and further he has stopped advertising on macslash.com as soon as he found out the domain was still near & dear to people's hearts and he's stopped advertising. He's also put up a link from macslash.com to macslash.org as of this posting, as you can see. This dosen't sound like the work of a beligerent opportunist nor is this a "hijacking" as the title of this thread implies. His first post on Macslash about it mentioned that he was willing to return the domain if the former owner contacted him. But now Vincente says that he, Dotster, and Commission Junction have recieved so many flames about this that they've cut off his account and he's no longer making any money off of anything.

Somehow this seems like a simple mistake (on both the part of Vincenete and Macslash's owners for letting it expire) that could have been easily corrected but now exacerbated by a lot of flamers. So stop sending nasty e-mails to everyone on the planet about this and maybe Vincente will give the domain back if he's still inclined. Otherwise MacSlash will have to get used to permanently being at MacSlash.org

this situation is getting stranger and stranger. and ain't i the lucky one to have acaben's cell phone number ;)

grace

Try this instead.

Cause Rob Malda is planning to destroy the other tech news sites. That's why he made a Mac section. He is using his monopolistic powers to destroy little old MacSlash, while at the same time posting stories about Microsoft's monopoly in order to divert people's attention away.

Your job is to save MacSlash by visiting it instead of Slashdot. Thank you, and God Speed.

Cause Rob Malda is planning to destroy the other tech news sites. That's why he made a Mac section. He is using his monopolistic powers to destroy little old MacSlash, while at the same time posting stories about Microsoft's monopoly in order to divert people's attention away.

Your job is to save MacSlash by visiting it instead of Slashdot. Thank you, and God Speed.

Cause Rob Malda is planning to destroy the other tech news sites. That's why he made a Mac section. He is using his monopolistic powers to destroy little old MacSlash, while at the same time posting stories about Microsoft's monopoly in order to divert people's attention away.

Your job is to save MacSlash by visiting it instead of Slashdot. Thank you, and God Speed.

Cause Rob Malda is planning to destroy the other tech news sites. That's why he made a Mac section. He is using his monopolistic powers to destroy little old MacSlash, while at the same time posting stories about Microsoft's monopoly in order to divert people's attention away.

Your job is to save MacSlash by visiting it instead of Slashdot. Thank you, and God Speed.

Cause Rob Malda is planning to destroy the other tech news sites. That's why he made a Mac section. He is using his monopolistic powers to destroy little old MacSlash, while at the same time posting stories about Microsoft's monopoly in order to divert people's attention away.

Your job is to save MacSlash by visiting it instead of Slashdot. Thank you, and God Speed.

Cause Rob Malda is planning to destroy the other tech news sites. That's why he made a Mac section. He is using his monopolistic powers to destroy little old MacSlash, while at the same time posting stories about Microsoft's monopoly in order to divert people's attention away.

Your job is to save MacSlash by visiting it instead of Slashdot. Thank you, and God Speed.

Anyway, on my late 2001 iBook 600 (with 640MB RAM), the WWDC Jaguar Dev Seed is a little quicker, but it's not by leaps and bounds. This is no 10.0 to 10.1 style boost, at least not at the moment.

It's better, but it don't expect too much. The new Finder is much faster though...

QE cannot physically run on systems with less than 16mb of ram and less than Radeon quality performance. It's not Apple's fault

It is certainly Apple's fault, because they aren't trying hard enough. Apple's own Java group demonstrated one year ago that it's totally feasible to have hardware acceleration on Rage 128. (BTW, read the MacSlash article and you'll see very familiar discussion).

While it may be true that the exact feature set of Quartz Extreme cannot be achieved on a Rage 128, it is clearly false that they couldn't provide some level of boost to older GPUs. Apple chooses not to bother, and that choice merits complaint.

This is old news. Sure it's finally been confirmed, but people were noticing this stuff as far back as February 8. Here is the mention from Feb 8 that started the articles that didn't show up until Feb 16 here and here's the old Wired article. So, if you missed it up until the final episode, it's because you weren't paying attention. In other words, yes, this is OLD NEWS.

Apple info page on the topic:
http://kbase.info.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/kba se.woa/wa/query?searchMode=Expert&type=id&val=KC.1 06882

MacSlash reported it here (users comments too):
http://www.macslash.com/articles/02/05/10/239216.s html


there are some of those nifty Mac tricks to make the CD Rom tray open on restart and whatnot, so not all hope is lost if there is no manual eject hole. It sucks these major label scumbags are selling these things that technically are not audio CDs.... they do not stick to the standards. JERKS!

What is your source for this information? Here's a few folks who disagree with you:

• one of Apple's Java developers:"...Quartz is not (yet) hardware accelerated
• another task that is not currently off-loaded to the video card's GPU
• Apple inexplicably still isn't doing any hardware acceleration of the "Quartz" graphics engine
• UI slowness comes from no Quartz acceleration on current video cards
• haven't enabled hardware acceleration for some of the 2D acceleration capabilities

Actually, Apple does want to port those X11 apps, and they're not really shouting their X11-ness, but look here and here for, more or less, an official stamp on X11 usage.

I think they are concerned with eliminating the competition.

no mention of any iPhoto updates

You have an impressively bad sense of timing, johnpg.

actually, i guess it is:
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac
os x makes a distinction between a shared library and a loadable module ( "plugin" ). It's quite a different platform to target. the open office team would love people familiar with it to help out.

read the macslash discussion on this topic here

MacSlash also ran it.

There are discussions about this site on MetaFilter, a MacSlash article, a very funny Fark thread, as well as mentions on Ars and Memepool.

Seems the tech subset of the Internet has been well and truly trolled, if indeed this is a hoax, which I am inclined to believe, given that all of the banner ads on the site seem to lead to the same domain.

This is the dirty little secret that no one wants to admit. There is a thread on MacSlash about how attractive the Mac is supposed to be for Java development. I tried some java programs like Jedit and NetBeans and they ran at about 1/2 to 1/3 of the speed of running them on Wintel.

Java slow on OS X? Read this!

How closely would either one of these resemble this?

Or is it more like BeFS?

Out of curiosity, which Linux distros did you prefer? What exactly "feels" wrong? Maybe setting your default shell to tcsh instead of bash would help? Does slack have a PPC port, or did you use it on ia-32? Perhaps Gentoo would be good for you, if you don't mind using python instead of make for your "ports".

Also, what exactly feels wrong about NetBSD? While an unrestricted BSD would be good to use, if I were in your place I wouldn't be so quick to give up Mac OS 10. If you don't mind Debian style administration you might try the Fink project which has mplayer capability.

Panasonic's HD cameras use their DVCPro tape which is based on the DV Tape standard which is what MiniDV is based on. Standard DVCPro/MiniDV is 25 Mb/s. (3.1 MB/s plus audio) DVCPro HD is 100 Mb/s. But really people using HD are buying hardware cards and specialized RAIDS.

If you're doing really high end stuff though, particularly compositing/color correction, you need uncompressed video, which is 24 MB/s for standard NTSC, so naturally uncompressed HD will even need more bandwidth. Basically for such high end solutions, firewire is not the answer.

Besides, if you're spending $60K and up on an HD camera, can't you afford an i/o card?

Don't get me wrong though, 1600 Mbps firewire would be able to handle DV Compressed HD video. And can you imagine the hard drive performance? Bring it on. Everyone thinks USB 2 will make firewire obsolete. Well, only if Apple flubs it up and doesn't deliver on 1600 Mbps firewire as they have planned.
Note: Apple purchased Firewire company Zayante. This brings back employees who worked on the orginial 1394 standards. Very interesting.

iTivo

If the camera had a firewire connector, then in theory it should be possible to offload any data to a Firewire storage device. Firewire was designed as the digital media connector. There is a story at MacSlash where this issue it being talked about.