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Apple Quickies Comin' At Ya
There are a few new product announcements recently: MATLAB for Mac OS X is available; fink for 10.2 is available for testing; Intuit has announced QuickBooks for Mac OS X; and PowerLogix has announced even more upgrades, including dual processor upgrades. And one user notes, "I wonder if the /. effect could drain the batteries of this Newton quickly?"
"I wonder if the /. effect could drain the batteries of this Newton quickly?"
Seeing as I don't get a response, I'd say *yes*
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Blocklevel: Practical Information Architecture
I remember purchasing a G4 about 2 years ago with the intent to run quickbooks on it, as iniuit advertised the mac version on their website.
The mac version had last been updated in 1996 (this was the year 2000), and wasn't compatible with the windows version. Let's hope the new one's better.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
Apple is running a promotion that if someone buys a PowerMac G4, the person can get a free copy of Adobe InDesign 2.0 for free via mail. News.com has a blurb on this and that a Mac OS X-native version of Quark is still in the works.
Fish.
Barrel.
Howitzer.
(Yes, it's gone already. Poor little thing...)
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Absolutely. And since I seem to have caught this seconds after is was posted, I'll just share what the server says ...
And this is the "more details" ...
What was the point of that last bit about the newton? We all know what the results will be, the first 3 people get in and then nada. Why bother wasting our time and the poor server's bandwidth?
THIS SPACE FOR RENT
Maybe this is obvious, but I've looked for a bit and not been able to figure it out. I have a current fink install on 10.1. I want to switch to 10.2, and I'm going to do a clean install to do that... so all my fink software will be wiped. I don't mind redownloading everything at all... but is there any way to grab my current fink list of installed programs, and have fink reinstall those automatically? I managed to get the installed list through `fink list` and a bit of grepping... but that includes all the dependencies, and dependencies might have changed, so some of those installed items may not be needed any more. Also, if I pass that list to `fink install`, the first item that's unreachable will cause fink to terminate after a few retries (with the --yes) option, meaning I'll have to rerun the whole script, no? Any workarounds/ideas/people calling me dumb?
I've had this sig for three days.
Our connection from there to the backbone is what makes this puppy sing - any speed problems are at your end, bub. /.'d. Funny, I don't think the speed (or lack thereof) problems I'm getting right now are on my end...
I got this from the guy who copied what the site served by the Newton before it got
The Newton webserver- nHTTPd- part of the Newton Personal Data Sharing (NPDS) system has been mentioned on here a few times over the last 3 or 4 years I've been reading Slashdot.
:P) or a similar RAD language for the PocketPC can access the internal WinCE dbs?
Most of the time, I imagine that people see NPDS as a novelty, like running Apache on WinCE. And to some who run it, it is just a novelty. However, unlike some Htttpd for CE, NPDS actually manages to be useful. It serves your Dates, Names, Todo and Notes data, accessing the object-oriented database that makes up the Newton system for data storage. Of course, it can also serve regular HTML pages. I've actually seen a couple organizations that were using a Newton as a drop-in solution to managing contacts and meeting schedules. Incredible!
I suppose someone could write a C++ CGI that access the WinCE DBs for the analogous data on a WinCE/PocketPC device, but then you're stuck doing it in C++, which if a major pain in the ass compared to NewtonScript. Does anyone know of NSBasic (started on the Newton, of course
In other news, someone is getting me a 2100 in exchange for attempting to develop a Squeak VM for the Newton! I recently had to sell my super-nice Newton 2100u setup, and I've missed my Newt a great deal. I guess it's one of those things where you don't understand it unless you've had a Newt yourself... but in my switch attempt to an iPAQ and more recently a Jornada 720, I've been left wanting in a lot of respects, and really can't wait to get my Newton back!
Working toward a usable PDA environment in the spirit of Newton OS: Dynapad
Since there are no binaries for unstable packages, prepare to spend several days building all the prereqs for any major app.
:-(
Why post binaries on SourceForge when you could force 1,000 people to compile them instead?
The PowerForce Dual G4 Series 100 at 800MHz will cost US$799; the 1GHz model runs $1,119. The PowerForce Dual G4 Series 133 at 867MHz and 1GHZ cost the same, respectively. PowerLogix anticipates their availability within 2 to 3 weeks.
When you consider you can get a brand-new 867 MHz Dual G4 with all the other good things that come a long, like DDR RAM, bigger faster hard drive, etc, and then sell your olrder G4 for probably more than the difference (depending on how it is equipped), you'd be better off buying a new one and selling your old one. (Just MHO)
matlab actually will run under 10.2. What won't run is the graphical desktop interface, but the old-style terminal window interface will run just fine (just do "matlab -nojvm"). Take a look at my posting on macmerc.com for more info.
All is Number -Pythagoras.