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How quickly you calculate that to 4TB? 15TB? 492TB?

When I buy, er bought, a 1.5TB drive I wanted it to be 1.5TB not 1.36TB. I lost 10% of my storage capacity. I buy big drives because capacity is important to me, if it didn't I'd buy smaller ones.

I was thinking of upgrading to Snow Leopard, paying $30 to upgrade sounded good to gain disk space and speed. Snow Leopard doesn't need as much disk space and is faster, but now I'm not sure. Especially as I'm planning to dualboot OS X with Ubuntu Studio.

Falcon

many people would consider sp2 just as big a change as a "New OS version". Not new to computers, just never bought into apple's marketing.

Do service packs add features or functionality? Or are they bug fixes? OS X 10.5 added features and functionality to what was available with 10.4. On the other hand every Windows service pack I installed only fixed bugs, they did not add features or functions. Even upgrading Windows 98 to Windows 98 SE was mostly fixing bugs. And I had to pay for the disk I ordered, I couldn't download it.

P.S. From etch to lenny? 100% free and no heart-ache either.

Can I install and run Photoshop CS4 on Jaunty Jackalope? And don't say GIMP is a replacement for PS because it's not. GIMP 2.6 doesn't even edit in 16 bits per colour channel, never mind PS's 24 and 32 bit colour depths. GIMP doesn't separate colours into CYMK either, a plug-in is needed for that. While GIMP is terrific for web work, it does not cut it for professional print photographers. Now CinePaint, formerly known as Film Gimp, has some of these capabilities however it was dropped from the Ubuntu repositories. Now CinePaint is only included in Ubuntu Studio, on which I'll try CinePaint before I fork over money for Photoshop.

Falcon

As someone who has been testing Snow Leopard in many different scenarios for the past four months, I can say this is one update that will likely give you no problems if you install over the top of your existing 10.5.x installation.

Though I like that Snow Leopard is leaner and faster I'm not planning to upgrade my Mac to it. It took me more than a year to upgrade from Tiger to Leopard even though I had the Leopard disk. Ended up the only reason I did upgrade was because I found out upgrading to Java 6 required Leopard, Apple would not release Java 6 for Tiger. Some hackers or programmers got it working on Tiger but it required workarounds.

But, for maximum speed and efficiency, I would back up your user data and apps, and do a clean install.

I know people don't but you should always keep backups. For mine I use external HDDs and I'm pretty much in the habit of copying files from my user files to a user folder on the external drives when I save them. To do a clean install, which I prefer anyway, I don't have to be concerned about the install nuking my data. Even if I reformat the OS X drive when I install it, my data won't be nuked. That's because the physical hard disk drive in my Mac is partitioned into 3 partitions. The first partition has Mac OSX installed on it. The third one is reserved for Ubuntu Studio. And the second partition is the user home, which Leopard is set to use now and Ubuntu will also be set to use as the home partition. That way I'll have access to all of my documents in both OSes.

To do a clean install all I need to do is backup my preferences if I want to keep the preferences for my software. However I have, though didn't install yet, Carbon Copy Cloner which clones disks. After I do install it I'll set it up to automatically sync backups with the home folders,. That way I won't need to manually copy, and test, files onto my backups disks.

Falcon

On second thought, if I can save 9 GBs of disk space by upgrading to Snow Leopard I very well may upgrade. I upgraded the original 160 GB HDD that came with my Mac to a "320 GB" drive, that was the biggest one I could find locally that would work with my Mac, and it's more than half full. I don't even have my photos on it yet, and I have 1,000s of 35mm exposures on film.

Falcon

If the car was ever made by Apple the battery would be integrated and after a year or two you'd have to send the car in to have the battery replaced and you'd have to rent a car from them (mandatory by contract) for 2 weeks while you wait for your car to get back with the new battery. The car would also only run on proprietary roads with proprietary electricity :-p

FUD, FUD, and more FUD. I am typing this on a MacBook Pro I've owned for 2 years. About every other week I swap the battery in it with another battery I got at the same tyme. In those 2 years I've only had to take it in for repair once, after I had it 16 months. A genus ran some tests then said the graphics had to be replaced. He checked then said he'd have to order the part but said I could take it home and he'd call me when it came in, so I did.

While in Apple stores I've seen others bring in iPods, iPhones, and other stuff and watched as a genus replaced the battery after testing. I even saw a genus setup an HP monitor, when Apple sells their own, for use with a Mac for someone.

I am also getting ready to install Ubuntu Studio on my Mac. Right now I've typing this in a Firefox tab and the only Apple software on it came installed on it. Most of the rest of my software is FOSS.

Falcon

i wonder how long until this is embedded in to firefox itself and not removable

Firefox is open source and it will never have something in it that is not removable that is not needed.

abandon Linux completely and switch to one of the [Free/net/open]BSDs

I'm using OS X Leopard now, but I'm planning to install Ubuntu Studio as well. While I don't plan to use one of the BSDs, other than OS X, I want to start programming some and use a BSD license for my programs.

Falcon

It's a no-effort, free-as-in-beer way of supporting my favourite OS.

I plan on installing Ubuntu Studio on my Mac and if Firefox has this extension I will be looking on how I can get rid of or disable it. If I want to support Canonical and Ubuntu I'll help those I can and buy support from Canonical. I already have Firefox setup the way I want on my Mac and I want to use the same data stores in both OSes. That's what I do now, I have both Firefox 2 and 3 and they both use the same ones. I have FF 2 running now with a bunch of tabs open. If I start FF 3 it will open with the same tabs open. If I add a bookmark to one it will be there in the other too.

Falcon

First off, there is a point to that. Have you EVER bothered to attempt changing the default theme to XP without paying for another toolkit that slams the CPU (WindowsBlinds, I'm look at you) with so much slowdown that it's usable for most systems without a 3D acceleration card? It's not the most easy thing in the world, if last I remember it, hell if my memory serves... isn't is a hack?
Neither Gnome, KDE, nor Mac OS X has much difficulty to change the default theme if desired. And that I think, is the point to this... don't like the theme (Hell, I have been known to run to Luna since the XP theme was ugly and un-uniform in my opinion. Vista's theme doesn't change from that of XP by much, again IMO, through it is better), you might as well look for one you do like. Hell, Gnome and KDE make it rather easy for you... with the Gnome-look.org and KDE-look.org sites which have quite a few themes to pick from.

Second off. Ubuntu Studio doesn't have the same defaults as Ubuntu does.... http://ubuntustudio.com/ww2/themes/ubuntustudio/im ages/screenshots/screenshot-4.png
And to be quite honest, defaults themes change from distro to distro to distro... in a word, it really is quite superficial preference since Fedora/Fedora Core isn't RHEL (Well, not completely) which isn't Mandriva, which isn't SUSE/openSUSE, which isn't Debian, which isn't Ubuntu (Well, not completely), which isn't Gentoo, etc.

I experienced the exact opposite.

I installed Edgy on a Dell D800 laptop with okay results - networking was spotty and wireless didn't work at all (i tried every trick in the book). Feisty fixed all of my problems - every piece of hardware was identified correctly. Wireless and wired networking works perfectly. Feisty is weird.

I'll be installing the new Ubuntu Studio for my video/audio/image editing needs in lieu of a Mac.

I know I sound like a fanboy, but Ubuntu is the linux distro i've been waiting for. Not unlike Clueless Newbie, this is the one distro that has worked for me almost flawlessly.

If you have any computer skills and really enjoy composing music then linux is at least as good a choice as windows. For starters, you chould checkout Rosegarden ("the closest native equivalent to Cubase® for Linux" according to Sound on Sound). If you prefer a lower-level solution then give ChucK a try. Or maybe you want a compromise of the two, perhaps similar to Max/MSP with a block diagrams interface? Look at Pure Data or jMax

If those don't tickle your fancy then maybe you should take a look at the list of Software Sound Synthesis & Music Composition Packages available for linux! Oh, and if you're completely new to linux then Ubuntu Studio offers a baby spoon-fed approach to creating a linux digital audio workstation (the project is still in its infancy, but it looks promising).

For the basic recording that I like to do, all that extra preemption seems like overkill. I happen to be running 2.6.18 on dapper with 'desktop' grade preemption and a sluggish 250Hz timer frequency and it records fine, I didn't really need the new kernel though - and those kernel options have existed for a while. If it helps for bigger recording projects then surely there could be DVB applications that benefit, and stuff like that. The more the merrier.

There should still be a place for the projects like agnula and planetccrma distros, dedicated machines aren't going to need any cinelerra or mythtv, etc. Specialisation is sort of the point of preempting your kernel to death.

I think it helps if you play with sound/media-centric Linux distros:

http://www.studio-to-go.com/
http://demudi.agnula.org/
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/

One of us, is not a audio professional. So let me make this easier for - it is not me.

Avoid non-specialized Linux distros such as Ubuntu. The average person knows fuck-all about Linux/Unix stuff, the experience will be very bitter at best. I know of a musician that broke in tears, poor thing.

Having said that - I've heard there is a distro called:

http://www.ubuntustudio.com/

Good Luck

Ubuntu STUDIO project has been launched! This is a set of instructions to make your Ubuntu a fully professional audio studio. http://ubuntustudio.com/wiki/index.php

Ubuntu STUDIO project has been launched! This is a set of instructions to make your Ubuntu a fully professional audio studio. http://ubuntustudio.com/wiki/index.php

Ubuntu STUDIO project has been launched! This is a set of instructions to make your Ubuntu a fully professional audio studio. http://ubuntustudio.com/wiki/index.php/Welcome%2C_ Musicians!

Ubuntu STUDIO project has been launched! This is a set of instructions to make your Ubuntu a fully professional audio studio. http://ubuntustudio.com/wiki/index.php/Welcome%2C_ Musicians!