have I missed something? can he not just replace the motherboard and vga card for something better? they are hidden behind gauze anyway so wouldn't spoil the look at all
"I took one look at the time table and just checked out, man. I mean, it was ridiculous. They had, they had lectures at, like, first thing, in the afternoon. We're talking half-past twelve everyday. Who's together by then? You can still taste the toothpaste.":)
sounds like an SRX. you're both right and wrong about the sony tech support. on the surface they're awful. I have a sony sr11k lappie that I got without a harddisk, but when the HD was taken ot of it, they also took the custom ide cable too.
I figured that getting just the custom ide cable from sony would be impossible but after some searching I actually found an irc like helpline on one of sony's support pages and after I convinced the guy what it was I actually wanted, thyey sold me just the cable. mind you, it cost me 50 for a cable 1 cm long... but hey, it got the lappie working and that's what was important at the time:)
Why would you *ever* need to run Quicktime client on a server?
*sigh* because he may be running the server version of the OS as a desktop. why is there a difference between "server" and "desktop"? it's purely artificial by OS vendors. if there is a featre he needs on his desktop that only the server version allows then why should he not run the server version as a desktop OS?
when there is a "server" version of an OS, it's usually the desktop one with some restrictions removed and the price multiplied. that's all
perhaps he's doing server development on his desktop? just cos he's running a server version of the OS doesn't mean his machine is actually the PDC and should be locked away in a room. maybe there is some feature in the server version he needs on his desktop. it's not like it doesn't make an acceptable desktop (assuming you're a windows fan)
fyi: it also only firewalls TCP. UDP is left completely unfirewalled, presumeably to make ichatav easier to deal with.
for the most part, there is little listening on a mac to be exploited even if you run with no wall so usually it's not the biggest of issues.
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um. Why should an HDTV-comcorder need 7K$ lenses?
he said camera, not camcorder (which is what I assume you meant). so it's likely it was something meant for the tv studio side of things, not for home use as such.
MSN messenger does use SIP. I've used to to connect to a private sip server and talk to a cisco IP phone, and even, via a cisco router with dsp card, to a PSTN phone.
I don't know a massive amount about sip, does it take care of the text messaging as well as audio/video? if so, can one not get aim and msn to intercommunicate somehow? at the end of the day, most people want a big single unified IM network where they can use the account and client they prefer, and speak to all of their friends.
I hope I see in my lifetime a "mouse-less" revolution take place, where (perhaps) the cursor on screen is controled not by one of our hands, but by our eyes. Ya, that's the ticket!
wouldn't that suck badly for quake3? there's a few applications for which you don't follow the mouse pointer with your eyes.
when I was at university (UND in south africa) one of the lab tech's used a net send (or novell's equiv, it was a while ago) to send a message to everyone in the lan about a broken printer I think. As I vaguely knew the lan admin I replied and we spent the next hour chatting via net sends.
at that point I was using 3 computers at once. one with windows 3.11 loaded and netscape 2 running from disk, one in dos running several ncsa telnet sessions to the CS student unix box (beastie for anyone who remembers) and a third machine just running net sends.
actually, that lan admin was incredibly cute.. *sigh* happy days...
You don't need to worry about "how does my page look on a PDA screen?", because a theoretical Gopher client on a PDA would already know how to format the output to be readable there.
I thought that was the original point of HTML? the webserver provides data and it's up to the client to present that data as it wishes, ie in any size window, ignoring some tags perhaps because it doesn't understand them, throwing all the presentation out of the window to read it to the blind websurfer etc.
of course that mostly seems out of the window now although I suppose there is still a bit of it left with client side css pages modding the webpages you're viewing (I have one that strips out lots of ads)
I'd be interested to know how many MacOS users actually DON'T also use Windows as a second OS.
well, I use windows at work due to lack of choice, but at home, I don't even have a windows computer. I used to use freebsd on the desktop (not even dual boot, it was the sole OS on the machine) and now I have a mac, I use that at home instead.
the last time I used windows at home for any real purpose was several years ago.
will that do?
incidentally, I noticed your nick is amiga_lover. as an ex amiga user (I still have a 1200 knocking about somewhere). I find OSX very reminiscent of amiga OS in several ways, what do you think?
do we know if ichatav now supports audio only chat with aim 5.5 yet? I had the beta and with a friend on aim5.5 there was no option for audio conferencing on his icon and his client claimed mine didn't support it. we never got video conf working either but I've heard of other ppl who have (and I don't have a cam, only he did, but when he tried to initiate a one way video conf, I got the message I couldn't connect. I'm sure there are nat and port forward issues on his side that need resolving there but if ichatav2.1 doesn't support audio only tom aim5.5 then it's hardly worth the effort trying to fix them)
when I seem my friend on aim again I'll try, but I'm wondering if anyone else has had any success here?
if thats the only reason you two are refusing to consider a mac then I think you're both doing yourself a disservice.
maybe you don't like osx, thats okay. you might not want to use a ppc architecture, fine. you think osx's packaging system sucks, can't argue. you might want to keep compatibility with windows software. all good reasons not to buy a mac. but just cos it's got a one button mouse (only as standard) seems a bit of a crap reason.
every platform has some hoop to jump through, they all have some annoyance. apple have a good reason for shipping a one button mouse as standard, we may not agree with it, but they've made their decision and they don't seem in any mood to change. however, they've given you the capability to avoid the problem. modifier keys for the mouse button does the common "other" button tasks, and the OS supports multi button mouses out of the box.
you're seriously considering spending a decent amount of money on a new desktop/laptop and you're not prepared to go and buy a mouse you like? seems a little odd. I can semi understand it with laptops, but even then. it's not like the OS revolves around the other buttons, you can do pretty much everything with that one button, and most laptop users I know have an external mouse anyway.
guys, please. don't use a single mouse button as a reason not to try a new platform. you're utting off your nose to spite your face.
oh yes, indeed. that 96 bits for the customer breaks down to 16 bits for subnet address (so thats 65536 networks) each with as many machines on the lan as you can stuff.
the sparcity of the networks gives the great autoconfig stuff, and as many ip aliases as you like.
what I wonder is what happpens when you've got mulitple sites with multiple connections. your single/48 might well be enough but can you split your network over multiple sites like that? or will you merely order a/48 per site?
340282366920938463463374607431768211456 is an awfully big number. Its over a quadrillion times the number of square millimeters on the surface of this planet!
it is a big number, but remember that ipv6 address space is very sparse in the 128bit address sense. as each customer is likely to receive a/48 network that makes the first 48 bits very dense in usage, but after that, it'll be almost empty.
in reality the address space that can be assigned is a/48. the 96 bits after that are for the customer to use themselevs./16 for their own subnets and 64 bits for host portion of the ip address. so thats 281474976710656 assignments. still alot mind you but ipv6 isn't effectively as big as most people claim.
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assuming you don't know. mac's only come with a one button mouse doesn't stop you using a multi-button mouse with it. I use a 5 button m$ intellimouse explorer with wheel and you know what, I'm actively using all the buttons.
without any extra software install, left, right and wheel do exactly what you think they would. wheel click is paste in some apps (like terminal and prolly X11) and buttons 4 and 5 can be used for expose.
with something like usb overdrive instyalled then you can map any button to a variety of functions so I have middle click as paste in all apps, button 4 as copy and button 5 as expose - all windows.
I've only once seen a dvd with mpeg audio on it, and you know, my surround sound pre-amp doesn't support it. perhaps it does and it was just a badly authored dvd (it was a silver).
my preamp ID'd it as an mp3 stream rather than an mpeg audio stream but the dvd player doesn't understand mp3's.. maybe thats it?
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have I missed something? can he not just replace the motherboard and vga card for something better? they are hidden behind gauze anyway so wouldn't spoil the look at all
dave
You mean... people actually wake up before noon??
"I took one look at the time table and just checked out, man. I mean, it was ridiculous. They had, they had lectures at, like, first thing, in the afternoon. We're talking half-past twelve everyday. Who's together by then? You can still taste the toothpaste."
dave
sounds like an SRX. you're both right and wrong about the sony tech support. on the surface they're awful. I have a sony sr11k lappie that I got without a harddisk, but when the HD was taken ot of it, they also took the custom ide cable too.
:)
I figured that getting just the custom ide cable from sony would be impossible but after some searching I actually found an irc like helpline on one of sony's support pages and after I convinced the guy what it was I actually wanted, thyey sold me just the cable. mind you, it cost me 50 for a cable 1 cm long... but hey, it got the lappie working and that's what was important at the time
dave
Why would you *ever* need to run Quicktime client on a server?
*sigh* because he may be running the server version of the OS as a desktop. why is there a difference between "server" and "desktop"? it's purely artificial by OS vendors. if there is a featre he needs on his desktop that only the server version allows then why should he not run the server version as a desktop OS?
when there is a "server" version of an OS, it's usually the desktop one with some restrictions removed and the price multiplied. that's all
dave
perhaps he's doing server development on his desktop? just cos he's running a server version of the OS doesn't mean his machine is actually the PDC and should be locked away in a room. maybe there is some feature in the server version he needs on his desktop. it's not like it doesn't make an acceptable desktop (assuming you're a windows fan)
dave
fyi: it also only firewalls TCP. UDP is left completely unfirewalled, presumeably to make ichatav easier to deal with.
for the most part, there is little listening on a mac to be exploited even if you run with no wall so usually it's not the biggest of issues.
dave
um. Why should an HDTV-comcorder need 7K$ lenses?
he said camera, not camcorder (which is what I assume you meant). so it's likely it was something meant for the tv studio side of things, not for home use as such.
dave
MSN messenger does use SIP. I've used to to connect to a private sip server and talk to a cisco IP phone, and even, via a cisco router with dsp card, to a PSTN phone.
I don't know a massive amount about sip, does it take care of the text messaging as well as audio/video? if so, can one not get aim and msn to intercommunicate somehow? at the end of the day, most people want a big single unified IM network where they can use the account and client they prefer, and speak to all of their friends.
dave
Premiere is like the pico of video editing compared to Avid being the emacs of video editing
so.. err.. are you saying that premiere is better or worse than avid then?
cos by that description, I'd rather use premiere...
dave
excuse me! I think you'll find it's daffodil! :)
dave
I hope I see in my lifetime a "mouse-less" revolution take place, where (perhaps) the cursor on screen is controled not by one of our hands, but by our eyes. Ya, that's the ticket!
wouldn't that suck badly for quake3? there's a few applications for which you don't follow the mouse pointer with your eyes.
dave
until viewable screen realestate increases, to me, it is just useless!
23" Apple Cinema Display
dave
when I was at university (UND in south africa) one of the lab tech's used a net send (or novell's equiv, it was a while ago) to send a message to everyone in the lan about a broken printer I think. As I vaguely knew the lan admin I replied and we spent the next hour chatting via net sends.
at that point I was using 3 computers at once. one with windows 3.11 loaded and netscape 2 running from disk, one in dos running several ncsa telnet sessions to the CS student unix box (beastie for anyone who remembers) and a third machine just running net sends.
actually, that lan admin was incredibly cute.. *sigh* happy days...
dave
You don't need to worry about "how does my page look on a PDA screen?", because a theoretical Gopher client on a PDA would already know how to format the output to be readable there.
I thought that was the original point of HTML? the webserver provides data and it's up to the client to present that data as it wishes, ie in any size window, ignoring some tags perhaps because it doesn't understand them, throwing all the presentation out of the window to read it to the blind websurfer etc.
of course that mostly seems out of the window now although I suppose there is still a bit of it left with client side css pages modding the webpages you're viewing (I have one that strips out lots of ads)
dave
mahjong (i know i spelled that horribly heh)
:)
actually, I afaik, you spelled Mahjong correctly
dave
is like comparing brussel sprouts to masala dosa
err... so which are you saying is better then?
dave
I'd be interested to know how many MacOS users actually DON'T also use Windows as a second OS.
well, I use windows at work due to lack of choice, but at home, I don't even have a windows computer. I used to use freebsd on the desktop (not even dual boot, it was the sole OS on the machine) and now I have a mac, I use that at home instead.
the last time I used windows at home for any real purpose was several years ago.
will that do?
incidentally, I noticed your nick is amiga_lover. as an ex amiga user (I still have a 1200 knocking about somewhere). I find OSX very reminiscent of amiga OS in several ways, what do you think?
dave
do we know if ichatav now supports audio only chat with aim 5.5 yet? I had the beta and with a friend on aim5.5 there was no option for audio conferencing on his icon and his client claimed mine didn't support it. we never got video conf working either but I've heard of other ppl who have (and I don't have a cam, only he did, but when he tried to initiate a one way video conf, I got the message I couldn't connect. I'm sure there are nat and port forward issues on his side that need resolving there but if ichatav2.1 doesn't support audio only tom aim5.5 then it's hardly worth the effort trying to fix them)
when I seem my friend on aim again I'll try, but I'm wondering if anyone else has had any success here?
dave
if thats the only reason you two are refusing to consider a mac then I think you're both doing yourself a disservice.
maybe you don't like osx, thats okay. you might not want to use a ppc architecture, fine. you think osx's packaging system sucks, can't argue. you might want to keep compatibility with windows software. all good reasons not to buy a mac. but just cos it's got a one button mouse (only as standard) seems a bit of a crap reason.
every platform has some hoop to jump through, they all have some annoyance. apple have a good reason for shipping a one button mouse as standard, we may not agree with it, but they've made their decision and they don't seem in any mood to change. however, they've given you the capability to avoid the problem. modifier keys for the mouse button does the common "other" button tasks, and the OS supports multi button mouses out of the box.
you're seriously considering spending a decent amount of money on a new desktop/laptop and you're not prepared to go and buy a mouse you like? seems a little odd. I can semi understand it with laptops, but even then. it's not like the OS revolves around the other buttons, you can do pretty much everything with that one button, and most laptop users I know have an external mouse anyway.
guys, please. don't use a single mouse button as a reason not to try a new platform. you're utting off your nose to spite your face.
dave
oh yes, indeed. that 96 bits for the customer breaks down to 16 bits for subnet address (so thats 65536 networks) each with as many machines on the lan as you can stuff.
/48 might well be enough but can you split your network over multiple sites like that? or will you merely order a /48 per site?
the sparcity of the networks gives the great autoconfig stuff, and as many ip aliases as you like.
what I wonder is what happpens when you've got mulitple sites with multiple connections. your single
dave
The answer, "Nobody is asking for it".
perhaps your could point out that they are very blatently lieing to you.
*you're* asking!
I've asked my two isp's for ipv6 too, not been overly successful yet either.
dave
never mind "just going to be" it is
dave
340282366920938463463374607431768211456 is an awfully big number. Its over a quadrillion times the number of square millimeters on the surface of this planet!
/48 network that makes the first 48 bits very dense in usage, but after that, it'll be almost empty.
/48. the 96 bits after that are for the customer to use themselevs. /16 for their own subnets and 64 bits for host portion of the ip address. so thats 281474976710656 assignments. still alot mind you but ipv6 isn't effectively as big as most people claim.
it is a big number, but remember that ipv6 address space is very sparse in the 128bit address sense. as each customer is likely to receive a
in reality the address space that can be assigned is a
dave
assuming you don't know. mac's only come with a one button mouse doesn't stop you using a multi-button mouse with it. I use a 5 button m$ intellimouse explorer with wheel and you know what, I'm actively using all the buttons.
without any extra software install, left, right and wheel do exactly what you think they would. wheel click is paste in some apps (like terminal and prolly X11) and buttons 4 and 5 can be used for expose.
with something like usb overdrive instyalled then you can map any button to a variety of functions so I have middle click as paste in all apps, button 4 as copy and button 5 as expose - all windows.
makes for a nice mousing environment
dave
I've only once seen a dvd with mpeg audio on it, and you know, my surround sound pre-amp doesn't support it. perhaps it does and it was just a badly authored dvd (it was a silver).
my preamp ID'd it as an mp3 stream rather than an mpeg audio stream but the dvd player doesn't understand mp3's.. maybe thats it?
dave
PS. preamp = rotel rsp1066