But wait! you cant format the whole thing UFS becausesome of the mac apps break unless they are on HFS+. So this means you need to format atleast one of the disks HFS for the OS and apps. that leaves three disks. But in RAID 1, you cant use an odd number of disks. So that leaves two disks for raid 1 UFS.
What kinds of apps are you planning on running on an Xserve, dare I ask? None of the apps that ship with OS X have this problem--in fact, those that do are pretty much only a handful of Classic apps. Further, if your complaint is that you would run the Classic apps over a network from being hosted on the Xserve: that would be done via AFS, which, like HFS+, preserves case, but is not case-sensitive. So I assume that this problem would be masked. (That said, I don't get, honestly, why it matters.)
The Slackware ISO is bootable. I literally just installed Slackware on Friday that way. I don't know why they list a floppy drive as a requirement, but if you have a CD, you can do it.
Until Slackware 9 comes out, why you'd want to is another issue, but . . .:)
Guys, when you get extreme, there really is no difference. What is the difference between Fascism and Communism, as they have been implemented implemented? I would argue squat. In both cases, you have a lot of privileges located in the hands of the few. In both cases, the government runs industry. In both cases, you have massive militaries. In both cases, you have totalitarian regimes that control every aspect of life. In both you ultimately have dictators or very minute oligarchies, and in both you have an object for the mass populace to hate (Jews for fascists, bourgeoisie and aristocrats for communists). You want the best example of how close these two ideologies are, study China. They very clearly made the transition from Communism to Fascism awhile ago (if you really want to try to distinguish between the two) when they started trading freely with the rest of the world and devloping an actual economy, but that shouldn't be possible if the two ideologies are diametrically opposed.
It's easiest if you view politics as a circle: at the top, you have Communism and Fascism and other totalitarian regimes. As you move clockwise from that point, you move gradually to Feudalism, eventually to pure Capitalism. If you move counterclockwise, you go through pure Socialism to the Welfare State. In other words, going downwards in either direction increases the number of choices allotted to the individual as opposed to the state. As you progress further down from Welfare and from Capitalism, you eventually come down to the bottom and hit anarchy. I'm not saying that you need to ride the circle around to switch sides; I'd argue that, despite all of the flaws of the USA, we generally speaking alternate between the two sides of the middle, obviously without passing through either the top or the bottom as a result of each election. But I think this shows the positions of the parties much better.
So don't tell me that extreme right always yields to a military totalitarian state and going far left yields bliss. It doesn't. The two in their extreme forms are effectively the same. Our different perceptions of the two is merely proof that a rose, sadly, would not smell as sweet by any other name.
I do believe you have linked to a copyright circumvention device (the.au domain) in violation of the DMCA. Please standby while you and your belongings are liquidated.
Risc OS did it correctly, drag an icon from the app to the browser, or even other application!
Mac OS has had proxies since I believe OS 8.5. If it really matters that much to you, drag the icon next to the title in the menu bar to whatever fold you want to save the document in. Poof. Personally, I find this to be a pain in the ass and prefer OS X's "browser" save dialogues, but if you prefer RISC OS, you can get it.
Finding files is still a chore, I do miss BFS instant and always up to date live queries. Can we please have that, Apple/Microsoft/Others?
Live queries certainly aren't in any OS except BeOS, but because HFS+ stores its information in slow-write, fast-read B-trees, searches in Mac OS (old or new) take just a second or two (for both content searches and file name searches).
Installation of applicatons, what is up with that? Why can't I just copy a file from the CD/Net and be done with it?
On OS X, unless an application needs to install additional frameworks, you can.
File ID's are good idea, I could move apps/files around on BeOS and my shortcuts still worked!
Having more than one pathway to a file as mentioned in d) in windows is most definitely a feature. For engineering reasons a manufacturer may want to keep a set of files from related applications together, however to the user they may be presented somewhat differently. If anything this is an improvement of interface because of the separation between external and internal representations
No it isn't; it's a kluge to hide the fact that applications have gotten more complex and Microsoft wasn't prepared to deal with it. On the Macintosh, until about 1995, applications, generally speaking, did not need support files. You had the application, you had a preference file, and possibly you had an extension or two, but the application usually sat by itself. However, at about that time, both in response to Windows and in response to the fact that applications simply were getting far more complex, most applications began having massive numbers of support folders. Macs just ignored the implications and kept on treckin'; Windows adopted the solution you mention.
But Mac OS X, and OPENSTEP/NEXTSTEP before it, manage to keep the Mac metaphor while still hiding the implementation details, and it does it much better. Each application is actually a fairly complex directory structure, and all support files can be hidden within the application itself. This can include movies, help files, whatever--you name it, it's there. Now, to the user, you still have just the application, but the application can suddenly be dragged around at will without disturbing anything. For the application, you now can also guarantee a very rigid directory structure that the user can't even mess with. Next time you're on an OS X system, control-click a program and choose "Show Package Contents," or, if you prefer, cd right into the app. You'll see what I mean.
That's the right way to solve the problem, and that's why he's slamming Windows' metaphor and lauding ROX/OS X app wrappers/packages/bundles.
menus in MacOS X now work like the ones in Windows.
No; Mac OS X absolutely uses the Classic behavior, and has since 10.0 Beta. I just checked. Mac OS X Server 1.2 (the one with the Platinum UI) used a hybrid of NeXT and Windows (click for submenu and it would stay open until you left that entire menu or chose a different one), if I recall correctly, but all consumer versions of Mac OS X since beta have supported V-shaped cursor tracking for submenus.
and both GNU/Hurd and GNU/Linux will each have their respective pros and cons
For example, Linux supports more bleeding-edge hardware designs, such as serial ports, VESA, IDE, and may even fully support PCI in the near future.
Re:Isn't everything in OS X late-binding?
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Two things:
Mac OS X prebinds applications to avoid the late-binding issue. This process occurs nightly via cron if you leave your machine on, and every time you install an application otherwise.
While an ObjC method call is of course slightly slower than a C function call, generally speaking, you can make fewer of them, and the difference is imperceptable unless you are making extremely large numbers of them.
As for any poor performance in OS X, I put most of the blame on Quartz, still. Go compare Mac OS X to OPENSTEP 4.2. The latter is about as responsive as Be. Except on a G4 tower, while I think that Mac OS X is very responsive compared to other operating systems these days, somehow, through methods I do not understand, though the hardware today is about six to ten times more powerful than NeXT hardware, the overall OS experience slowed down. Clearly then, blaming it on ObjC doesn't make sense, but I'm not entirely clear where the true blame does lie. GNUstep is also, therefore, not a bad idea, and while I honestly have not used it, my understanding from those who have is that it is performing about on-par with OPENSTEP 4.2 on similar hardware. In other words, sounds good.
Re:Slow? Not compared to OS9
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For the record: a clean install of OS 9 has the illusion (note my word choice) of being about twice to three times the speed of Mac OS X if you have been in OS X for a length of time. This is true pretty much regardless of what machine you are installing on. On the other hand, it also has about the architectural maturity of Windows 3.1, and if you start installing a ton of extensions, its speed starts going down the tube. This is why you see OS 9 as slow and others see it as fast.
As of Jaguar, the UI is extremely responsive if you have Quartz Extreme. Dragging translucent windows over playing movies and seeing absolutely no performance penalty is just weird. Similarly, clicking something usually results in an immediate response.
Applications take a bit longer to launch than OS 9, but the exchange is that response never decreases during the load, and, once loaded, applications always are quite responsive. The load time has to do with processing the XML files, loading NIBs, and locking the app into the ObjC runtime. I doubt Apple is going to improve things much more than their current state here, but, as I said, this problem is only during launch.
Classic slows everything down. Avoid it.
As of Jaguar, navigating print dialogues got sucky. I am not clear why, beyond the fact that Apple moved to CUPS. This is the only thing in the entire UI that bugs me due to being unresponsive.
Searches are extremely fast. HFS+ was optimized for read and search operations, and it shows. Until you search an 80 GB hard disk for six files and get the result in under a second, you will not appreciate why Apple chose a file system that has admittedly sucky write speed (compared to other systems; HFS+ is about 5-10% slower than ext2 in my experience on write ops, but half the time the bottleneck is the hardware, not the drivers).
For development, the system is very responsive. Compile time on my 667 MHz PowerPC G4 is about right on par with my 800 GHz MHz ThinkPad for most ops.
Network throughput is top-notch. You will be able to saturate a 100BaseT easily if you wish.
Is it a little bit slower than a 4 GHz Pentium IV running Linux with no window manager? For most things, of course. But that's not what I'm assuming you're comparing against. Its speed is very nice on my PowerBook, and it certainly never slows me down. In all seriousness, go to a CompUSA or AppleStore if there's one near you. If at CompUSA, try to talk to one of the guys wearing a shirt with a silver Apple logo on his back; he works for Apple rather than CompUSA. Tell him you are curious about the responsiveness of OS X, and ask to play with it. Then do. I don't think you'll be disappointed,
Apple has said several times at shareholder meeting that they will not adopt USB 2.0. Generally speaking, Apple feels that it alone is responsible for the success of USB 1.0 in the first place, and therefore is pissed that Intel would target their FireWire technology with USB 2.0. Essentially, Apple feels as if Intel is backstabbing them.
All that said, I don't see FireWire going anywhere. I do see it redefining its niche to be purely high-bandwidth applications such as video cameras and very fast external drives. Do remember, however, that FireWire 2 is due very soon and will literally double the bandwidth. Could change things considerably.
I'm not quite sure what you're driving at, but both versions of Office interpolate very well. I have never, ever sent a Word document to a colleague that he could not open, even when I use extremely advanced features, and similarly have never had any problem opening any Word document (except that an embedded WMA file would not play for obvious reasons). Ditto for Excel and PowerPoint, and again, even for very complex documents.
I want a Mac about the size of a SPARCclassic, with a fast 3D card, a dvd+burner and all the rest of the Apple goodness, but with no monitor. I've got my own perfectly good 17" sony. Why can't I get one of those!
You do know that any monitor can be used with a Mac, right? Even my PowerBook has VGA via an adaptor provided with the machine. Beyond that, if you cannot afford the current model you want, just buy a used one a generation back. You should be able to get a SuperDrive model for about $1300-$1400, which you're not going to convince me is that much more than a well-built equivalently priced PC.
A better move would be for Apple to sell cheaper Mac's - I can't afford an iBook and I don't want an iMac or an eMac:
iBooks start at $1199 and will be lowered to $999 tomorrow if the rumors are true. How much cheaper do you want, exactly?
Saari has calculated that in three-candidate elections, depending on the voting system, more than two-thirds of all possible configurations of voters' preferences will yield different outcomes.
Now, think about this for a second. There are three candidates, and therefore three possible outcomes, and Saari has calculated (are you braced properly for this?) that not only are all three wins possible, but no matter who you pick, there is a better chance that either of the other two will win. Damn is that a lose-lose situation.
Is it just me, or do other people get a bit jittery when they read quotes like this in an article in mathematics? That quote is in the first half painfully obvious and in the second half just wrong, and it's the simplest math in the article, so how should I know that the more advanced math isn't equally as screwy?
Help me out, cause I can't keep track - don't they still sell Solaris for X86? And wouldn't that be a much less expensive proposition?
They do, but Solaris SPARC software does not run on Solaris x86 without a recompile, and if the point is to run as close to the network as possible, you may not want to run the x86 version anyway. (The x86 version also had severe laptop the issues last I heard. Sun may have rectified them.)
but with the TiBooks and Linux working on laptops, how much do people need Solaris laptops?
I don't even need one and I can answer that question.
An administrator of a fully SPARC-based network
Someone in scientific or industrial applications who need more than the 1 GB RAM that the TiBook supplies; with these specs (4 GB RAM, 160 GB max harddisk) it could even work quite well as a demonstration or temporary replacement server
Someone with legacy Solaris programs that they need to make transportable
A person who develops for Solaris
Someone who just plain prefers Solaris to Linux (believe it or not, they exist)
Just because you personally do not have a use for this device does not mean that no one has a use for it.
If a child (or anyone for that matter) plays a video game, then goes on a murderous rampage, there has to be something wrong with him other than the fact that he plays games, ie he already has some serious issues.
I buy that argument for adults, but not for kids. Studies on the effects of television have shown that (1) kids will pick up social and cultural norms from practically whatever they see, and (2) up until at least six and seven and sometimes as late as nine or ten, they really do not distinguish properly between fantasy and reality. In other words, a young kid watching a violent show who then engages in violent behavior may have nothing wrong with him except that he is learning, Pavlovian-dog style, that violence is good. Is such his natural tendancy? I absolutely believe that it isn't. But certainly we have adequate historical precedents (Sparta being a biggie) to show that kids absolutely pick up violence if it's part of their environment, even if nothing else is particularly wrong. Young kids honestly don't even really understand that death is permanent. Show him in his learning stages that people engage in wonton violence and that if they die they come back, and I don't care who the kid is, you really will get a violent kid who doesn't fear death.
I'm not arguing that videogames should be censored; all I'm saying is that a child (and I do mean child here, not a 16-year-old; someone that old who plays a violent game and then mimics it really does have a serious problem) really shouldn't play this kind of game. Nor am I arguing we should blame the video game per se; rather, we should blame the parents. I think that's something a lot of people miss and yet that is very important to discussing violent games such as GTA. So while you can enjoy videogames, know that it can affect those little kids, but be a good parent and ensure they don't play them until they're old enough. Do that, convey that message, and maybe we'll be able to keep the state from acting like our parents since our parents for us.
Did you introduce him to fink? By default, the Mac comes with the entire GNU toolchain, plus perl, python, and a ton of other utilities. If he needed newer versions of perl or python, or if he something else (Ruby, MySQL, PostreSQL, X window, Ant, OCaml, LaTeX, even KDevelop and KDE for Pete's sake!) he just types in
fink install python
for example, and, after five to twenty minutes (depending on the package), he's got whatever he needed. It's as easy as apt-get and it's fully OS X native. Check out the link; there are 1600 packages so far and going up literally daily. So my question is, how experienced was your developer?
I guess the $100 dollars more for TiBook nets you firewire and gigE
And iMovie, and iPhoto, and OmniOutliner, and OmniGaffle, and iSync, and iCal, and Sherlock 3, and iTunes, and half a dozen artistic utilities and programs that ship with the thing, and . ..
Really, there is more to a computer than just the hardware and the OS. It's all the other programs (in this case, bundled) that make the thing worthwhile. I'd say that suite of programs alone is worth the extra $100 from me.
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Apple preserves case insensitivity in Russian. That's about all I know enough to test in.
Combine this idea with Google News and we'll really have it made:
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The Slackware ISO is bootable. I literally just installed Slackware on Friday that way. I don't know why they list a floppy drive as a requirement, but if you have a CD, you can do it.
:)
Until Slackware 9 comes out, why you'd want to is another issue, but . . .
Guys, when you get extreme, there really is no difference. What is the difference between Fascism and Communism, as they have been implemented implemented? I would argue squat. In both cases, you have a lot of privileges located in the hands of the few. In both cases, the government runs industry. In both cases, you have massive militaries. In both cases, you have totalitarian regimes that control every aspect of life. In both you ultimately have dictators or very minute oligarchies, and in both you have an object for the mass populace to hate (Jews for fascists, bourgeoisie and aristocrats for communists). You want the best example of how close these two ideologies are, study China. They very clearly made the transition from Communism to Fascism awhile ago (if you really want to try to distinguish between the two) when they started trading freely with the rest of the world and devloping an actual economy, but that shouldn't be possible if the two ideologies are diametrically opposed.
It's easiest if you view politics as a circle: at the top, you have Communism and Fascism and other totalitarian regimes. As you move clockwise from that point, you move gradually to Feudalism, eventually to pure Capitalism. If you move counterclockwise, you go through pure Socialism to the Welfare State. In other words, going downwards in either direction increases the number of choices allotted to the individual as opposed to the state. As you progress further down from Welfare and from Capitalism, you eventually come down to the bottom and hit anarchy. I'm not saying that you need to ride the circle around to switch sides; I'd argue that, despite all of the flaws of the USA, we generally speaking alternate between the two sides of the middle, obviously without passing through either the top or the bottom as a result of each election. But I think this shows the positions of the parties much better.
So don't tell me that extreme right always yields to a military totalitarian state and going far left yields bliss. It doesn't. The two in their extreme forms are effectively the same. Our different perceptions of the two is merely proof that a rose, sadly, would not smell as sweet by any other name.
I do believe you have linked to a copyright circumvention device (the .au domain) in violation of the DMCA. Please standby while you and your belongings are liquidated.
Just FYI.
But Mac OS X, and OPENSTEP/NEXTSTEP before it, manage to keep the Mac metaphor while still hiding the implementation details, and it does it much better. Each application is actually a fairly complex directory structure, and all support files can be hidden within the application itself. This can include movies, help files, whatever--you name it, it's there. Now, to the user, you still have just the application, but the application can suddenly be dragged around at will without disturbing anything. For the application, you now can also guarantee a very rigid directory structure that the user can't even mess with. Next time you're on an OS X system, control-click a program and choose "Show Package Contents," or, if you prefer, cd right into the app. You'll see what I mean.
That's the right way to solve the problem, and that's why he's slamming Windows' metaphor and lauding ROX/OS X app wrappers/packages/bundles.
- Mac OS X prebinds applications to avoid the late-binding issue. This process occurs nightly via cron if you leave your machine on, and every time you install an application otherwise.
- While an ObjC method call is of course slightly slower than a C function call, generally speaking, you can make fewer of them, and the difference is imperceptable unless you are making extremely large numbers of them.
As for any poor performance in OS X, I put most of the blame on Quartz, still. Go compare Mac OS X to OPENSTEP 4.2. The latter is about as responsive as Be. Except on a G4 tower, while I think that Mac OS X is very responsive compared to other operating systems these days, somehow, through methods I do not understand, though the hardware today is about six to ten times more powerful than NeXT hardware, the overall OS experience slowed down. Clearly then, blaming it on ObjC doesn't make sense, but I'm not entirely clear where the true blame does lie. GNUstep is also, therefore, not a bad idea, and while I honestly have not used it, my understanding from those who have is that it is performing about on-par with OPENSTEP 4.2 on similar hardware. In other words, sounds good.For the record: a clean install of OS 9 has the illusion (note my word choice) of being about twice to three times the speed of Mac OS X if you have been in OS X for a length of time. This is true pretty much regardless of what machine you are installing on. On the other hand, it also has about the architectural maturity of Windows 3.1, and if you start installing a ton of extensions, its speed starts going down the tube. This is why you see OS 9 as slow and others see it as fast.
Is it a little bit slower than a 4 GHz Pentium IV running Linux with no window manager? For most things, of course. But that's not what I'm assuming you're comparing against. Its speed is very nice on my PowerBook, and it certainly never slows me down. In all seriousness, go to a CompUSA or AppleStore if there's one near you. If at CompUSA, try to talk to one of the guys wearing a shirt with a silver Apple logo on his back; he works for Apple rather than CompUSA. Tell him you are curious about the responsiveness of OS X, and ask to play with it. Then do. I don't think you'll be disappointed,
Apple has said several times at shareholder meeting that they will not adopt USB 2.0. Generally speaking, Apple feels that it alone is responsible for the success of USB 1.0 in the first place, and therefore is pissed that Intel would target their FireWire technology with USB 2.0. Essentially, Apple feels as if Intel is backstabbing them.
All that said, I don't see FireWire going anywhere. I do see it redefining its niche to be purely high-bandwidth applications such as video cameras and very fast external drives. Do remember, however, that FireWire 2 is due very soon and will literally double the bandwidth. Could change things considerably.
I'm not quite sure what you're driving at, but both versions of Office interpolate very well. I have never, ever sent a Word document to a colleague that he could not open, even when I use extremely advanced features, and similarly have never had any problem opening any Word document (except that an embedded WMA file would not play for obvious reasons). Ditto for Excel and PowerPoint, and again, even for very complex documents.
Is it just me, or do other people get a bit jittery when they read quotes like this in an article in mathematics? That quote is in the first half painfully obvious and in the second half just wrong, and it's the simplest math in the article, so how should I know that the more advanced math isn't equally as screwy?
- An administrator of a fully SPARC-based network
- Someone in scientific or industrial applications who need more than the 1 GB RAM that the TiBook supplies; with these specs (4 GB RAM, 160 GB max harddisk) it could even work quite well as a demonstration or temporary replacement server
- Someone with legacy Solaris programs that they need to make transportable
- A person who develops for Solaris
- Someone who just plain prefers Solaris to Linux (believe it or not, they exist)
Just because you personally do not have a use for this device does not mean that no one has a use for it.I'm not arguing that videogames should be censored; all I'm saying is that a child (and I do mean child here, not a 16-year-old; someone that old who plays a violent game and then mimics it really does have a serious problem) really shouldn't play this kind of game. Nor am I arguing we should blame the video game per se; rather, we should blame the parents . I think that's something a lot of people miss and yet that is very important to discussing violent games such as GTA. So while you can enjoy videogames, know that it can affect those little kids, but be a good parent and ensure they don't play them until they're old enough. Do that, convey that message, and maybe we'll be able to keep the state from acting like our parents since our parents for us.
Did you introduce him to fink? By default, the Mac comes with the entire GNU toolchain, plus perl, python, and a ton of other utilities. If he needed newer versions of perl or python, or if he something else (Ruby, MySQL, PostreSQL, X window, Ant, OCaml, LaTeX, even KDevelop and KDE for Pete's sake!) he just types in
fink install python
for example, and, after five to twenty minutes (depending on the package), he's got whatever he needed. It's as easy as apt-get and it's fully OS X native. Check out the link; there are 1600 packages so far and going up literally daily. So my question is, how experienced was your developer?
And iMovie, and iPhoto, and OmniOutliner, and OmniGaffle, and iSync, and iCal, and Sherlock 3, and iTunes, and half a dozen artistic utilities and programs that ship with the thing, and . .
Really, there is more to a computer than just the hardware and the OS. It's all the other programs (in this case, bundled) that make the thing worthwhile. I'd say that suite of programs alone is worth the extra $100 from me.