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Would this be like the on board "ethernet" port on the Tanzania based Macs and Mac clones? i.e. the Power Macs 4400, Motorola StarMaxes, and the sublicensees. It looks like Apple integrated ethernet into the O'Hare ASIC, but I have I have never tried to solder an Ethernet port and related hardware on and figured out which shunts would have to be moved for Ethernet support. Personally I'm kind of leery of trying to use the Ethernet on the 4400 and its siblings. First off the 4400s that did come with Ethernet had the controller on a Comm Slot II card, which is basically a PCI slot on LSD. Second off the Powerbook 3400 which has Ethernet too uses the O'Hare ASIC and you'd think that to save money and space Apple would use the Ethernet on the O'Hare IC, instead they use a Modem/Ethernet card whose slot is more like a PCI card on crack. Now I know Apple is not known for its sound engineering decisions, but it is safe to say Apple would have used the Ethernet on the O'Hare ASIC if possible. Thirdly Apple never mentions the existance and denys the presence of Ethernet hardware with respect to the O'Hare ASIC in all of the developer notes I've seen referring to it. Apple mentions that the Heathrow ASIC has an MFM floppy controller that no Mac has/will ever use. Of course this is all out the window if Apple is lying and the 4400 has a Heathrow controller(maybe) or something else entirely(doubtful). Hmm, now that I think about it maybe Apple is lying and the 4400 does have a Heathrow ASIC as opposed to an O'Hare ASIC.
IIRC, Open Firmware, the BIOS that is on PCI based Macs and other PPC based computers is based off of an IEEE standard that was derived from OpenPROM. The earlier Pre-G3 PCI Macs have some semifunctional to broken implementations of Open Firmware(OF). Many of those Macs have issues with OF like not having video drivers or having buggy video drivers for the built-in video hardware. The worst OF implementation is on the 6400 and 6500 models though. Those models refuse to deal with PCI bridge chips and won't boot off of the internal SCSI bus. This is probably a good reason for Apple not supporting them in Mac OS X.
That aside though, the ROMs in PCI cards for Macs are in Forth for Open Firmware. What I would like to know as a weird thing is, would a PCI card for a Mac would work in a SPARC or vice versa? Granted, drivers for the card would be another problem.
>>Victims of bacterial meningitis sometimes go to sleep with what they think is just a headache and wake up dead.
While I'm not speaking from experience waking up dead isn't that bad. I mean granted you might feel hungry for brains and there is that whole moaning thing, but you can still do pretty much everything. Granted people will keep trying to bury you, but let them have their fun. You can always dig your way out later.
Hey now, have you ever used CC while the channel you were watching had moderate to poor reception? I.E. no serious sound or picture quality issues but still watchable? It can look a geat deal like what you describe. Of course my standards for TV viewing are low after living 22 years in a dead zone for TV reception in an inner ring suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Heck, you know what also would be as neat as hell? Only having to put the various home theather/stereo components like the DVD player, speakers, TV, TiVo, game system, cable/satellite reciever and whatever else you want in vague proximity to each other. The only thing that would have to come out of them would be the power wires. The wireless IEEE 1394 network would figure every thing out on its own. It is a true shame though that something like this is years away even though it is technically possible.
That is why one needed two floppy drives on the first Macs. One thing I absolutely hate about the current iterations of the MacOS is that it incessantly needs to know that the disk is still there somewhere.
I always thought that MacWrite was the model for all modern, graphical word processors. With the exception of emacs every word processor that I know of that has been made in the last ten years has more or less been like MacWrite. For that matter MacPaint and MacDraw are also models of just about every Painting and Drawing program. Also, while I don't remember the exact number of channels the 512K Mac had the 512 could output 8 bit mono 22kHz sound. Not that very many people used it with a system that at best had two 400K floppy drives or even more rarely a full height 5.25" 20MB external hard drive hooked up through the floppy port.
Re:Obvious Question: Who read the EULA?
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Here is something I found at the the beginning of the second section of the EULA for Mac IE 5.0. This is right after the section about how by copying the software you agree to the terms of the EULA.
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1. GRANT OF LICENSE. The SOFTWARE PRODUCT is licensed as follows:
Installation and Use. Microsoft grants you the right to install and use copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on your computers running validly licensed copies of the operating system for which the SOFTWARE PRODUCT was designed (e.g., Windows(r) 95; Windows NT(r), Windows 3.x, Macintosh, etc.).
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Does anyone else know if this clause is present in any other Microsoft products? If it is it makes running apps like this on top of emulation layers like Wine illegal. It also makes people with illegal copies of their OS unable to use IE 5.0. So what do you do if you are running the MacOS on a machine you are not supposed to like an old IBM PreP Box?
> 4. My Toyota runs Linux because I heard that you don't crash as much with Linux. Sounds good to me!
Seriously how many cars built after 1985 actually have anything more than an embedded Z80 in it? Or worse 7400 series TTL logic. I'm curious what car models have which types of processors. Specifically a 1991 LE Camry or any others for that matter. I bet the factory radios in most cars have more processing power than what ever computer is in the rest of the car.
On a similar note I remember reading about a reviewer taking a magneto-optical(sp?) disk, strapping it to the front fender of his car in winter and then driving at least twenty miles with it on. The disk still worked afterwords.
I remember the time in 1997 when a misconfigured loopback device on a computer I owned, but did not setup caused internet access to Duluth to be interrupted for three to four hours. In fact one of the people who runs the nerp.net domain was responsible for it. He might even remember it. His preferred nickname ends with a "Q".
When they sudden they mean over the course of 10,000 to 5,000 years. We would see it happen, but at the rate our civilization moves it really wouldn't matter.
You know if you want avoid earthquakes move to Minnesota. The last one we had rated a 1, occured 20 years ago and was the reactivation of a 1.5 billion year old fault. Granted Minnesota has evidence of a fault system that would dwarf the stuff on the West Coast, but the last time it was doing anything was 1.5 billion years ago.
Internet Explorer 5.0 for the MacOS has the same feature. IE also allows you to browse your cookies, view them and selectively delete them. My only complaint is that if you accidentally deny a site, go into the preferences and allow cookies from that site. IE removes the settings for all denied sites and you have to deny these sites again when these sites send you cookies again. It really isn't that bad of a problem, but it is annoying.
Heck I'd like to complain about the first Motorola MC68LC040s. Pretty much like the SX chips, i.e. no FPU. Except for one big thing. On some of the first LC ANY attempt to do anything with an FPU intruction, like running one or trying to emulate one will lock the processor up. For many users this was probably not that big of a problem unless you try to run Linux on it. However the worst thing about is was that Motorola would not recall it and Apple would only replace it if the processor if the computer was under warranty.
7.5.x went all goofy before apple released 7.6
There was:
7.5
7.5.1
These were only for Nubus PPC and 68K Macs.
7.5.2 was only for early PCI Macs, upgrade from this version now if you have it.
7.5.3 once again all Macs could use this version
7.5.3 Rev 2 Only some Macs needed this long winded version and it was superceeded by 7.5.5
7.5.4 was only available for about 12 hours before a serious bug was found and removed and rereleased as 7.5.5
7.5.5
This is probably the "best" version of System 7.5.x to be using. And when I say best I mean if you have a computer that can run 7.6, 8.1, 8.6, or 9 use the newest version you can. Personally I use 8.6 and I think it is the best version for any PPC Mac, but YMMV.
Well with that sort of l/w ratio I would be worried about inhaling these fibers now in an occupational setting. An example of a occupational setting would be a very poorly designed manufacturing plant. The danger would be sort of like inhaling asbestos fibers. It really depends though if the fibers are flexible and not very sharp like serpentine asbestos. The fibers would be caught in the throat and either swallowed or coughed out (either way you win).
Otherwise if these fibers are small enough and inflexible enough they can get into your lungs and tear up lung tissue making scar tissue and eventually causing lung cancer. Even if this was a concern don't smoke and you would still probably be in fine shape. In any case even if these tubes were carcinogenic you would only really would have to be working in a poorly ventilated manufacturing plant.
Here are some other ways one could potentially defeat the porn scanner. Compress the file in some bizzare or closed source format like cpio, bz2, or Stufit 5.5. Filter the image and separate it into CMYK, RGB, HSV or something else. You could convolve the colors a certain amount so that flesh tones would no longer be flesh tones.
Yeah well be thankful that you don't have a card from ixMicro. They dropped off the map about a year ago and I'm never going to get an update for the drivers for my video card.
Yes Carl Sagan and BHA were the code names for the 7100. Of course the other code names for the first Power Macs were Piltdown Man (6100) and Cold Fusion(8100), two famous hoaxes. I can't really blame Sagan for objecting. What I think was excessive was sueing Apple and forcing Apple to change the name. Then again BHA supposedly meant Butt Head Astronomer. Sagan sued again, but the judge ruled against him. It was probably a good thing that the next PowerMacs were code named Catalyst, TNT, Nitro and Tsunami.
> As far as I can tell, Red Planet is a badly directed pseudo-science movie with no plot to hold it together.
Which some might argue is what the all of the Star Wars movies are. Of course I am asking to be flamed. Well, I am not really asking to be flamed. Star Wars is not fantasy. It is Sci-Fi with a good deal of Fantasy thrown in for good measure. Seriously the next time you watch one of the Star Wars movies look at it like you would if you had first seen it. It really doesn't make a great deal of sense.
For instance why does the Empire keep trying to build a Death Star? Building one is probably a huge resource drain and costs the Empire a significant portion of their industrial output. It probably takes lots of energy to make and to power. Where does the materials that makes up the Death Star come from? The solar systems where it was built don't look ravaged and don't look like they have been scored for materials. Then the Empire does this all when a similar effect could be generated by 100 high yield nuclear bombs. The Empire could nuke every inhabitable and semi-inhabitable planet in their galaxy twice and still have spent less time and energy than even one Death Star.
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Would this be like the on board "ethernet" port on the Tanzania based Macs and Mac clones? i.e. the Power Macs 4400, Motorola StarMaxes, and the sublicensees. It looks like Apple integrated ethernet into the O'Hare ASIC, but I have I have never tried to solder an Ethernet port and related hardware on and figured out which shunts would have to be moved for Ethernet support. Personally I'm kind of leery of trying to use the Ethernet on the 4400 and its siblings. First off the 4400s that did come with Ethernet had the controller on a Comm Slot II card, which is basically a PCI slot on LSD. Second off the Powerbook 3400 which has Ethernet too uses the O'Hare ASIC and you'd think that to save money and space Apple would use the Ethernet on the O'Hare IC, instead they use a Modem/Ethernet card whose slot is more like a PCI card on crack. Now I know Apple is not known for its sound engineering decisions, but it is safe to say Apple would have used the Ethernet on the O'Hare ASIC if possible. Thirdly Apple never mentions the existance and denys the presence of Ethernet hardware with respect to the O'Hare ASIC in all of the developer notes I've seen referring to it. Apple mentions that the Heathrow ASIC has an MFM floppy controller that no Mac has/will ever use. Of course this is all out the window if Apple is lying and the 4400 has a Heathrow controller(maybe) or something else entirely(doubtful). Hmm, now that I think about it maybe Apple is lying and the 4400 does have a Heathrow ASIC as opposed to an O'Hare ASIC.
IIRC, Open Firmware, the BIOS that is on PCI based Macs and other PPC based computers is based off of an IEEE standard that was derived from OpenPROM. The earlier Pre-G3 PCI Macs have some semifunctional to broken implementations of Open Firmware(OF). Many of those Macs have issues with OF like not having video drivers or having buggy video drivers for the built-in video hardware. The worst OF implementation is on the 6400 and 6500 models though. Those models refuse to deal with PCI bridge chips and won't boot off of the internal SCSI bus. This is probably a good reason for Apple not supporting them in Mac OS X.
That aside though, the ROMs in PCI cards for Macs are in Forth for Open Firmware. What I would like to know as a weird thing is, would a PCI card for a Mac would work in a SPARC or vice versa? Granted, drivers for the card would be another problem.
>>Victims of bacterial meningitis sometimes go to sleep with what they think is just a headache and wake up dead.
While I'm not speaking from experience waking up dead isn't that bad. I mean granted you might feel hungry for brains and there is that whole moaning thing, but you can still do pretty much everything. Granted people will keep trying to bury you, but let them have their fun. You can always dig your way out later.
Hey now, have you ever used CC while the channel you were watching had moderate to poor reception? I.E. no serious sound or picture quality issues but still watchable? It can look a geat deal like what you describe. Of course my standards for TV viewing are low after living 22 years in a dead zone for TV reception in an inner ring suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Heck, you know what also would be as neat as hell? Only having to put the various home theather/stereo components like the DVD player, speakers, TV, TiVo, game system, cable/satellite reciever and whatever else you want in vague proximity to each other. The only thing that would have to come out of them would be the power wires. The wireless IEEE 1394 network would figure every thing out on its own. It is a true shame though that something like this is years away even though it is technically possible.
Heck, both Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's Gamecube are going to use SDRAM over RDRAM. If that isn't bad news for Rambus I don't know what is.
That is why one needed two floppy drives on the first Macs. One thing I absolutely hate about the current iterations of the MacOS is that it incessantly needs to know that the disk is still there somewhere.
I always thought that MacWrite was the model for all modern, graphical word processors. With the exception of emacs every word processor that I know of that has been made in the last ten years has more or less been like MacWrite. For that matter MacPaint and MacDraw are also models of just about every Painting and Drawing program. Also, while I don't remember the exact number of channels the 512K Mac had the 512 could output 8 bit mono 22kHz sound. Not that very many people used it with a system that at best had two 400K floppy drives or even more rarely a full height 5.25" 20MB external hard drive hooked up through the floppy port.
Here is something I found at the the beginning of the second section of the EULA for Mac IE 5.0. This is right after the section about how by copying the software you agree to the terms of the EULA.
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1. GRANT OF LICENSE. The SOFTWARE PRODUCT is licensed as follows:
Installation and Use. Microsoft grants you the right to install and use copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT on your computers running validly licensed copies of the operating system for which the SOFTWARE PRODUCT was designed (e.g., Windows(r) 95; Windows NT(r), Windows 3.x, Macintosh, etc.).
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Does anyone else know if this clause is present in any other Microsoft products? If it is it makes running apps like this on top of emulation layers like Wine illegal. It also makes people with illegal copies of their OS unable to use IE 5.0. So what do you do if you are running the MacOS on a machine you are not supposed to like an old IBM PreP Box?
> 4. My Toyota runs Linux because I heard that you don't crash as much with Linux. Sounds good to me!
Seriously how many cars built after 1985 actually have anything more than an embedded Z80 in it? Or worse 7400 series TTL logic. I'm curious what car models have which types of processors. Specifically a 1991 LE Camry or any others for that matter. I bet the factory radios in most cars have more processing power than what ever computer is in the rest of the car.
On a similar note I remember reading about a reviewer taking a magneto-optical(sp?) disk, strapping it to the front fender of his car in winter and then driving at least twenty miles with it on. The disk still worked afterwords.
I remember the time in 1997 when a misconfigured loopback device on a computer I owned, but did not setup caused internet access to Duluth to be interrupted for three to four hours. In fact one of the people who runs the nerp.net domain was responsible for it. He might even remember it. His preferred nickname ends with a "Q".
When they sudden they mean over the course of 10,000 to 5,000 years. We would see it happen, but at the rate our civilization moves it really wouldn't matter.
You know if you want avoid earthquakes move to Minnesota. The last one we had rated a 1, occured 20 years ago and was the reactivation of a 1.5 billion year old fault. Granted Minnesota has evidence of a fault system that would dwarf the stuff on the West Coast, but the last time it was doing anything was 1.5 billion years ago.
On a similar topic this is what it would look like if you had various types of Colorblindness.
http://www.colorfield.com/FilterGallery1a.html
Internet Explorer 5.0 for the MacOS has the same feature. IE also allows you to browse your cookies, view them and selectively delete them. My only complaint is that if you accidentally deny a site, go into the preferences and allow cookies from that site. IE removes the settings for all denied sites and you have to deny these sites again when these sites send you cookies again. It really isn't that bad of a problem, but it is annoying.
Heck I'd like to complain about the first Motorola MC68LC040s. Pretty much like the SX chips, i.e. no FPU. Except for one big thing. On some of the first LC ANY attempt to do anything with an FPU intruction, like running one or trying to emulate one will lock the processor up. For many users this was probably not that big of a problem unless you try to run Linux on it. However the worst thing about is was that Motorola would not recall it and Apple would only replace it if the processor if the computer was under warranty.
> --Want to know what a seagull tastes like? It is somewhere between Bald Eagle and White Rhinoceros.
So what does Pink Elephant taste like?
7.5.x went all goofy before apple released 7.6
There was:
7.5
7.5.1
These were only for Nubus PPC and 68K Macs.
7.5.2 was only for early PCI Macs, upgrade from this version now if you have it.
7.5.3 once again all Macs could use this version
7.5.3 Rev 2 Only some Macs needed this long winded version and it was superceeded by 7.5.5
7.5.4 was only available for about 12 hours before a serious bug was found and removed and rereleased as 7.5.5
7.5.5
This is probably the "best" version of System 7.5.x to be using. And when I say best I mean if you have a computer that can run 7.6, 8.1, 8.6, or 9 use the newest version you can. Personally I use 8.6 and I think it is the best version for any PPC Mac, but YMMV.
Well with that sort of l/w ratio I would be worried about inhaling these fibers now in an occupational setting. An example of a occupational setting would be a very poorly designed manufacturing plant. The danger would be sort of like inhaling asbestos fibers. It really depends though if the fibers are flexible and not very sharp like serpentine asbestos. The fibers would be caught in the throat and either swallowed or coughed out (either way you win).
Otherwise if these fibers are small enough and inflexible enough they can get into your lungs and tear up lung tissue making scar tissue and eventually causing lung cancer. Even if this was a concern don't smoke and you would still probably be in fine shape. In any case even if these tubes were carcinogenic you would only really would have to be working in a poorly ventilated manufacturing plant.
It's not about standardization. It is about security, jobs in particular, their jobs and not yours when things go wrong.
Here are some other ways one could potentially defeat the porn scanner. Compress the file in some bizzare or closed source format like cpio, bz2, or Stufit 5.5. Filter the image and separate it into CMYK, RGB, HSV or something else. You could convolve the colors a certain amount so that flesh tones would no longer be flesh tones.
Yeah well be thankful that you don't have a card from ixMicro. They dropped off the map about a year ago and I'm never going to get an update for the drivers for my video card.
Yes Carl Sagan and BHA were the code names for the 7100. Of course the other code names for the first Power Macs were Piltdown Man (6100) and Cold Fusion(8100), two famous hoaxes. I can't really blame Sagan for objecting. What I think was excessive was sueing Apple and forcing Apple to change the name. Then again BHA supposedly meant Butt Head Astronomer. Sagan sued again, but the judge ruled against him. It was probably a good thing that the next PowerMacs were code named Catalyst, TNT, Nitro and Tsunami.
> As far as I can tell, Red Planet is a badly directed pseudo-science movie with no plot to hold it together.
Which some might argue is what the all of the Star Wars movies are. Of course I am asking to be flamed. Well, I am not really asking to be flamed. Star Wars is not fantasy. It is Sci-Fi with a good deal of Fantasy thrown in for good measure. Seriously the next time you watch one of the Star Wars movies look at it like you would if you had first seen it. It really doesn't make a great deal of sense.
For instance why does the Empire keep trying to build a Death Star? Building one is probably a huge resource drain and costs the Empire a significant portion of their industrial output. It probably takes lots of energy to make and to power. Where does the materials that makes up the Death Star come from? The solar systems where it was built don't look ravaged and don't look like they have been scored for materials. Then the Empire does this all when a similar effect could be generated by 100 high yield nuclear bombs. The Empire could nuke every inhabitable and semi-inhabitable planet in their galaxy twice and still have spent less time and energy than even one Death Star.