Yes, electricity supply to Auckland central was restored - if you haven't noticed it since, I'd suggest checking what you're drinking (does XXXX always stand for Beer?).
"...Xinet's Benchmarked Configurations measure network throughput by Macintosh clients opening and saving Photoshop files stored on the server..."
Given who they are (a company who makes software for an Industry Apple has a significant presence in) and how they test (using Macintosh clients) how they obtained their benchmark results (and why photoshop gets in to them) is a little easier to understand.
(I have to wonder if this is why Apple Keynotes have photoshop demos to show off their hardware - they're focusing on/selling to one of their key markets...)
o Hackers by Steven Levy.
o Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen.
o Designing Web Graphics.3 by Lynda Weinman
Hackers I managed to buy as a student by arguing it was for research (egads, is that social engineering?). Levy's other books (one on Apple, another on Artificial Life) aren't too bad either. The other two I'd readily recommend both to people getting into or already engaged in web design.
the publications link has a list of Master Theses which seem to be part of the project - e.g.
"Laser Range Finding for an Autonomouss Mobile Security Device"
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Yes, electricity supply to Auckland central was restored - if you haven't noticed it since, I'd suggest checking what you're drinking (does XXXX always stand for Beer?).
o 4/davis.pdf
For lots of details on the outage (and it could happen to any city... let's face that ok?):
http://www.ema.gov.au/5virtuallibrary/pdfs/vol13n
I hate reading that such-and-such has released statistics showing that xyz is faster than abc, when I know next to nothing about such-and-such.
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/selling to one of their key markets...)
So wondering what I could find out quickly:
According to their homepage:
"...Xinet is the leading developer of prepress networking software.
(http://www.xinet.com/)
and if you go looking for it - '2002 testing details' (deeplink: http://www.xinet.com/benchmarks/benchmarks.2002/b
"...Xinet's Benchmarked Configurations measure network throughput by Macintosh clients opening and saving Photoshop files stored on the server..."
Given who they are (a company who makes software for an Industry Apple has a significant presence in) and how they test (using Macintosh clients) how they obtained their benchmark results (and why photoshop gets in to them) is a little easier to understand.
(I have to wonder if this is why Apple Keynotes have photoshop demos to show off their hardware - they're focusing on
There are two *newer* stories on cnet than the one referenced:
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-938423.html
and
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-938827.html.
The result? Apple is closer to it's competitors, but Real still leads, and is losing it's lead to MSFT.
A better link for Nielsen/Net Ratings (or whatever they're called - at least it's not "monday"):
http://www.nielsen-netratings.com/
That's not entirely correct...
...I've fitted a PRAM battery to a G3 imac (a grape 450 IIRC) through the RAM access panel at the back.
It may not be the recommended method, but with nimble fingers and a bit of know how it can be done.
o Hackers by Steven Levy.
o Designing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen.
o Designing Web Graphics.3 by Lynda Weinman
Hackers I managed to buy as a student by arguing it was for research (egads, is that social engineering?). Levy's other books (one on Apple, another on Artificial Life) aren't too bad either. The other two I'd readily recommend both to people getting into or already engaged in web design.
the publications link has a list of Master Theses which seem to be part of the project - e.g. "Laser Range Finding for an Autonomouss Mobile Security Device"