What you're saying is that I'm a moron beause I don't believe as you do? Because natural seletion has been observed to happen in populations of animals? Because species can change within a human lifetime? Well, have you ever SEEN natural selection taking place?
Have you ever SEEN an atom split? No, well then, it must bullshit right? In that case, you won't mind if I detonate a fission package near you. Just a small one.
No, we don't think you are a moron because you don't believe as we do, we think you are a moron because you seem unable or unwilling to process information. If you can look at the body of scientific work that evolution evolution is built on and come to the conclusion that some mystical transglorious overbeing created everything out of nothing, then don't be suprised if other people suggest that you might be missing something.
Also, I'm wondering if you could tell me 1) from where did this transglorious overbeing come from? and 2) how do you know there is only one transglorious overbeing?
I dislike NT but Mac OS sucks the big one. It is ok on the desktop where you know the quirks of your applications. But it is too prone to crash compared to NT. I wish my shop would dump all our NT machines for Unix. And I wouldn't mind having Mac OS on my desktop. But Mac OS does not work as a server. Been there. Done that.
It does work as a server, but you have to know the limitations and work within them. For example, we have a PowerMac G3 at work which runs 4D server (database), which stays up for months. We also have a PowerCenter Pro 210 that runs 4D server hosting our A4 accounting system, NetPresenz FTP server, WebStar 2.1, and MacOS file serving. This machine usually stays up for months, too. Would I want to run a high-volume web site with lots of cgi on a MacOS 8.x server? No way. However, to say that MacOS doesn't work as a server is somewhat disingenuous.
Despite the fact that they compete with the Wintel complex, Apple is guilty of this too. Their blatantly false adverts about how the original 233MHz iMac was "faster than Intel's fastest PII" (at the time, 400MHz), et cetera are just as bad as any of Intel's P2/3 commercials, which claim everything from "our CPUs let you do all these neat things that the other guy can't" to "the PIII makes the 'net go faster".
Every time I hear someone complaining about Apple's "blatant false advertising" in the iMac ad, I have to wonder about the reading comprehension of the person making the charge. They did not say the 233MHz iMac was "faster than Intel's fastest PII". If you listen closely, what they actually said was, the processor powering the iMac is up to twice as fast as the fastest Pentium II. Anyone with a brain also knows that the reverse is also true: the Pentium II is up to twice as fast as the PPC G3. That is, I'm sure you can find some benchmark where either of those statements is true. Believe me, if Apple had made a claim which was factually untrue in their advertising, they'd get nailed for it. Or maybe I'm being monumentally naive.
I had a nicely functioning RedHat 5.2 (updated to kernel 2.2.6) system until I did something stoopid and messed it up. Rather than try to figure out exactly what I'd done in the 40 days since I last rebooted, I figured I'd just save my home directory & install RH 6.0, reformating and starting from scratch. Install went well except for the one time it hung. I was doing an FTP install off of my BeOS machine, so I'm not sure exactly what happened there. I get it all installed and boot, thinking how cool the graphic login screen is (gdm?) I decide to try out Enlightenment (I've been using WindowMaker for about a year.) At first I'm thinking that this is great, but then strange things start to happen. The gtop program, which I love, suddenly stops working for my user account, but not for root. The tray thingy suddenly disappears for no reason. I can't get the Gnome configuration app to come up. Finally, I say to hell with it and switch back to WindowMaker. Now all I have to do is figure out how to set it up so non of the Gnome stuff starts up when I log in. Oh well, I guess that's why we have "kill".
I used to play the upgrade-with-every-kernel game, too. That got old, so now I just keep the latest release kernel compiled and lilo set to boot it in case my box crashes (hasn't happend since I got a clue and stopped messing about as root), the power goes out (doesn't happen too frequently), I add/upgrade hardware, or I need to install a kernel that fixes bugs/exploits. I've been running 2.2.5 for 38 days now. I'm going to install more RAM this weekend, so 2.2.8 will go up.
I keep my thirst for upgrades/beta code quenched by occasionally booting my Mac into the latest dev version.
Have you downloaded and installed the updates (Firmware update 1.0 and iMac Update 1.1)? There is also a modem firmware update if I recall correctly. The noisy CDROM may be do to unbalanced discs spinning at high speed (I've run across a couple of those.) There is also an update for that that basically slows the CDROM down, thus getting rid of the vibration. All of these should be on Apple's website.
The low end blue & white minitower G3 is about $1500, not $2000. Add $190 for an Initio Miles UW SCSI card and you're all set. At least that is what I did. Now I'm just waiting for LinuxPPC R5 and hoping they'll have accelerated X drivers for the RAGE 128 card. It should smoke my PII/233 Linux box.
My understanding of the matter is that it isn't the G3 chip that Be doesn't have the specs to, it is the motherboard specs/chipsets. But what do I know.
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What you're saying is that I'm a moron beause I don't believe as you do? Because natural seletion has been observed to happen in populations of animals? Because species can change within a human lifetime? Well, have you ever SEEN natural selection taking place?
Have you ever SEEN an atom split? No, well then, it must bullshit right? In that case, you won't mind if I detonate a fission package near you. Just a small one.
No, we don't think you are a moron because you don't believe as we do, we think you are a moron because you seem unable or unwilling to process information. If you can look at the body of scientific work that evolution evolution is built on and come to the conclusion that some mystical transglorious overbeing created everything out of nothing, then don't be suprised if other people suggest that you might be missing something.
Also, I'm wondering if you could tell me 1) from where did this transglorious overbeing come from? and 2) how do you know there is only one transglorious overbeing?
I dislike NT but Mac OS sucks the big one. It is ok on the desktop where you know the quirks of your applications. But it is too prone to crash compared to NT. I wish my shop would dump all our NT machines for Unix. And I wouldn't mind having Mac OS on my desktop. But Mac OS does not work as a server. Been there. Done that.
It does work as a server, but you have to know the limitations and work within them. For example, we have a PowerMac G3 at work which runs 4D server (database), which stays up for months. We also have a PowerCenter Pro 210 that runs 4D server hosting our A4 accounting system, NetPresenz FTP server, WebStar 2.1, and MacOS file serving. This machine usually stays up for months, too. Would I want to run a high-volume web site with lots of cgi on a MacOS 8.x server? No way. However, to say that MacOS doesn't work as a server is somewhat disingenuous.
Despite the fact that they compete with the Wintel complex, Apple is guilty of this too. Their blatantly false adverts about how the original 233MHz iMac was "faster than Intel's fastest PII" (at the time, 400MHz), et cetera are just as bad as any of Intel's P2/3 commercials, which claim everything from "our CPUs let you do all these neat things that the other guy can't" to "the PIII makes the 'net go faster".
Every time I hear someone complaining about Apple's "blatant false advertising" in the iMac ad, I have to wonder about the reading comprehension of the person making the charge. They did not say the 233MHz iMac was "faster than Intel's fastest PII". If you listen closely, what they actually said was, the processor powering the iMac is up to twice as fast as the fastest Pentium II. Anyone with a brain also knows that the reverse is also true: the Pentium II is up to twice as fast as the PPC G3. That is, I'm sure you can find some benchmark where either of those statements is true. Believe me, if Apple had made a claim which was factually untrue in their advertising, they'd get nailed for it. Or maybe I'm being monumentally naive.It made me laugh when I read this part:
Mosthated's mother confirmed to MSNBC that her computer had been confiscated by the FBI, and said "And I'm really mad."
Big evil cracker-person...sent to his room by his mom.
I had a nicely functioning RedHat 5.2 (updated to kernel 2.2.6) system until I did something stoopid and messed it up. Rather than try to figure out exactly what I'd done in the 40 days since I last rebooted, I figured I'd just save my home directory & install RH 6.0, reformating and starting from scratch. Install went well except for the one time it hung. I was doing an FTP install off of my BeOS machine, so I'm not sure exactly what happened there. I get it all installed and boot, thinking how cool the graphic login screen is (gdm?) I decide to try out Enlightenment (I've been using WindowMaker for about a year.) At first I'm thinking that this is great, but then strange things start to happen. The gtop program, which I love, suddenly stops working for my user account, but not for root. The tray thingy suddenly disappears for no reason. I can't get the Gnome configuration app to come up. Finally, I say to hell with it and switch back to WindowMaker. Now all I have to do is figure out how to set it up so non of the Gnome stuff starts up when I log in. Oh well, I guess that's why we have "kill".
I used to play the upgrade-with-every-kernel game, too. That got old, so now I just keep the latest release kernel compiled and lilo set to boot it in case my box crashes (hasn't happend since I got a clue and stopped messing about as root), the power goes out (doesn't happen too frequently), I add/upgrade hardware, or I need to install a kernel that fixes bugs/exploits. I've been running 2.2.5 for 38 days now. I'm going to install more RAM this weekend, so 2.2.8 will go up.
I keep my thirst for upgrades/beta code quenched by occasionally booting my Mac into the latest dev version.
Any chance that some evil cracker might turn his/her abilities to the good and crack an armed military satellite and shoot the Swatch satellite down?
Have you downloaded and installed the updates (Firmware update 1.0 and iMac Update 1.1)? There is also a modem firmware update if I recall correctly. The noisy CDROM may be do to unbalanced discs spinning at high speed (I've run across a couple of those.) There is also an update for that that basically slows the CDROM down, thus getting rid of the vibration. All of these should be on Apple's website.
The low end blue & white minitower G3 is about $1500, not $2000. Add $190 for an Initio Miles UW SCSI card and you're all set. At least that is what I did. Now I'm just waiting for LinuxPPC R5 and hoping they'll have accelerated X drivers for the RAGE 128 card. It should smoke my PII/233 Linux box.
My understanding of the matter is that it isn't the G3 chip that Be doesn't have the specs to, it is the motherboard specs/chipsets. But what do I know.
AppleshareIP can do the Windows peer-to-peer filesharing, so you can support both Macs and Windows machines with it.