I don't think Apple is really worried about that. Really, the only thing that they are pushing OS X Server for is the netboot capability. Since Yellow Dog Linux does not have the software for netbooting iMacs and G3s, I don't think they really care. Remember: Apple receives most of their profits from hardware sales. They may be using Linux as a stepping stone to help get people used to their upcoming BSD UNIX based OS.
-Sol
MediaOne not giving you basic cable?
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I have MediaOne here on the east side of Michigan and I get about 85 channels, including all of the ones that you mentioned. Your MediaOne branch must really be bad.
I live in Michigan and my machine room was cold as hell, too! My solution... get more hardware! A side effect is that it generates heat as well (especially anything by intel). So, back in this little space, I have 3 computers, a 17" monitor, a laser printer, a 15 port 10-baseT hub and an ADSL modem in a 10' x 10' study. Whenever I get cold, I fire up another machine!:-) For even more warmth, upgrade that monitor. The larger the monitor, the greater warming power it has!
-Sol
Not too far fetched: may APIs ported already
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This may not be as far fetched as some of you may think. Remember that Microsoft recently released a version of thier Internet Explorer web browser for Solaris and HP-UX. In doing so, they did have to port many of the Windows APIs over to these platforms. So, they alrady have code that they can probabily re-use and most of all, they have some experiance of porting thier stuff to UNIX. Personally, I don't think this is a bad thing- MS Office 98 on the Macintosh is an excellent software package.
Yes, that's fine if I wanted to know how a quicktime file is structured, but it has no technical details or algorithms to reproduce the codecs. With this information, I could build a mean-ass QT file parser, but I wouldn't know how to decode the infomation contained in it. Those codecs are closly guarded corporate secrets. I'm sure that Qualcomm, Apple, Sorenson and other will let you look at them, if you gave them a few million bucks..:-)
OS X Server does not support Sorenson, because it is not a desktop OS. It's only a server OS. In fact, Apple isn't even pushing it as a development platform. They would much rather have their developers be writing Carbon-compatible Apps at this point in time. Thus, complaining about having OS X Server not being able to run QT3 would be like complaining about Netware not being able to run QT3!
It's not that easy. Quicktime isn't just apple's doing. It's about a dozen companies working together to produce the many Codecs that QT supports. So, it may be possible to get Apple to post thier specs, but not QualComm or Sorenson (who have video codecs in QT3) to publish thiers. The upside of this is that Apple is solicting the best technology for thier product and not falling into the "Not Invented Here" syndrome.
When Apple ships it's NeXT/BSD-based OS X, I wonder how that would effect those numbers? They do ship ALOT of machines! I would consider them a "Workstation Vendor" then, since they will have a UNIX-based OS and seem to devote all of their energies on the high-end graphics market. Can you imagine an instant shot in the arm for the UNIX market when Apple announces shipping 800,000 iMacs with OS 10?
The Macintosh (or Windows for that matter) is not a POOR copy of the Xerox Star. Yes, they borrowed a few ideas from it (like the mouse, and the use of windows), but each OS has made significant advancements. Have you ever seen one of those things? The windowing system doesn't even allow multiple windows to overlap each other! Apple engineers took the very basic ideas that were invented at Xerox PARC and made them a lot more usable with the Lisa systems and later, the Macintosh. -Sol
Hmm... it seems that only about a year and a half ago, we were seeing Apple death stories. Now, it seems that the press is calling them one of the greatest comeback stories of the decade. Is Microsoft doomed? Probabily not (DAMN). I think that it is still way to early to be writing anyting like this. However, when the time comes, all I would have to say is: "Where's your Steve Jobs, Bill?"
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I don't think Apple is really worried about that. Really, the only thing that they are pushing OS X Server for is the netboot capability. Since Yellow Dog Linux does not have the software for netbooting iMacs and G3s, I don't think they really care. Remember: Apple receives most of their profits from hardware sales. They may be using Linux as a stepping stone to help get people used to their upcoming BSD UNIX based OS.
-Sol
I have MediaOne here on the east side of Michigan and I get about 85 channels, including all of the ones that you mentioned. Your MediaOne branch must really be bad.
-Sol
I live in Michigan and my machine room was cold as hell, too! My solution... get more hardware! A side effect is that it generates heat as well (especially anything by intel). So, back in this little space, I have 3 computers, a 17" monitor, a laser printer, a 15 port 10-baseT hub and an ADSL modem in a 10' x 10' study. Whenever I get cold, I fire up another machine! :-) For even more warmth, upgrade that monitor. The larger the monitor, the greater warming power it has!
-Sol
This may not be as far fetched as some of you may think. Remember that Microsoft recently released a version of thier Internet Explorer web browser for Solaris and HP-UX. In doing so, they did have to port many of the Windows APIs over to these platforms. So, they alrady have code that they can probabily re-use and most of all, they have some experiance of porting thier stuff to UNIX. Personally, I don't think this is a bad thing- MS Office 98 on the Macintosh is an excellent software package.
-Sol
Yes, that's fine if I wanted to know how a quicktime file is structured, but it has no technical details or algorithms to reproduce the codecs. With this information, I could build a mean-ass QT file parser, but I wouldn't know how to decode the infomation contained in it. Those codecs are closly guarded corporate secrets. I'm sure that Qualcomm, Apple, Sorenson and other will let you look at them, if you gave them a few million bucks.. :-)
-Sol
OS X Server does not support Sorenson, because it is not a desktop OS. It's only a server OS. In fact, Apple isn't even pushing it as a development platform. They would much rather have their developers be writing Carbon-compatible Apps at this point in time. Thus, complaining about having OS X Server not being able to run QT3 would be like complaining about Netware not being able to run QT3!
-Sol
It's not that easy. Quicktime isn't just apple's doing. It's about a dozen companies working together to produce the many Codecs that QT supports. So, it may be possible to get Apple to post thier specs, but not QualComm or Sorenson (who have video codecs in QT3) to publish thiers. The upside of this is that Apple is solicting the best technology for thier product and not falling into the "Not Invented Here" syndrome.
-Sol
When Apple ships it's NeXT/BSD-based OS X, I wonder how that would effect those numbers? They do ship ALOT of machines! I would consider them a "Workstation Vendor" then, since they will have a UNIX-based OS and seem to devote all of their energies on the high-end graphics market. Can you imagine an instant shot in the arm for the UNIX market when Apple announces shipping 800,000 iMacs with OS 10?
-Sol
The Macintosh (or Windows for that matter) is not a POOR copy of the Xerox Star. Yes, they borrowed a few ideas from it (like the mouse, and the use of windows), but each OS has made significant advancements. Have you ever seen one of those things? The windowing system doesn't even allow multiple windows to overlap each other! Apple engineers took the very basic ideas that were invented at Xerox PARC and made them a lot more usable with the Lisa systems and later, the Macintosh. -Sol
Hmm... it seems that only about a year and a half ago, we were seeing Apple death stories. Now, it seems that the press is calling them one of the greatest comeback stories of the decade. Is Microsoft doomed? Probabily not (DAMN). I think that it is still way to early to be writing anyting like this. However, when the time comes, all I would have to say is: "Where's your Steve Jobs, Bill?"
-Sol