as smoothly as all the others: System 6->System 7+,68K->PPC,G3->G4, OS9->OS x
*gack* I think the Mac zealots (of which I am one!) have seriously glossed over the issues we faced during these transitions. I missed System 6 -> System 7, but 68K -> PPC happened simultaneously with Nubus -> PCI and 7.1.x to 7.5.x. I don't know about all of you, but my 6100/7.5.0 _seriously_ sucked for a long time, at least until we got to 7.6.1.
G3->G4 was pretty seamless, except that it gave Apple the excuse/opportunity to write a GUI that is verrry sluggish on a G3.
And speaking of OS9 -> OSX, that wasn't/isn't all that rosy, either. There are far too many legacy periphs/apps/drivers that don't exist or don't work properly, and there are plenty of instances where Classic is confusing as hell for a new user.
Note that I'm NOT underestimating the massive technical challenges that all of these transitions involved; I just cringe when I read articles that say the 68K -> PPC transition was seamless. How many of you remember the "FPU not installed" crashes?
I want to use my one FireWire HD to back up my XP laptop and my two Jaguar Macs. I don't want to use a network connection because I want to take a snapshot of the Macs' hard drives by "booting" them into Target Disk mode.
I have resigned myself to partitioning the drive, with one formatted NTFS for the XP box and one formatted as FAT32 for the Macs. I tried HFS+, but for some reason my Mac can't successfully format a partition created from the PC, and the PC can't even see partitions created on my Mac. The only thing that seems to work is to partition it on the PC and format as FAT32.
Then I run into the 4GB filesize limitation. I might try to create a large virtual drive by creating a segmented disk image file. Wow, that would be ugly. But if it works . . .
If you A/C'd only the racks, you'd have one hell of an uncomfortable room. A/C doesn't remove heat; it just moves it somewhere else. So if you have a big room full of heat-generating boxes, and you A/C each box (but not the room), all that heat is going to stay in the room, but concentrate in the areas/volumes that aren't being cooled.
Sorta like ice cubes in an oven.
The only way to cool the whole room is to cool the whole room.
Generally untrue. Almost all property that has utility lines/pipes/wires/tunnels running on/over/through it has "easements" in the title for exactly that purpose.
These easements were put in either when the property was annexed by whatever local authority conquered the indigenous populations, or else seized by eminent domain later on.
"Ownership" of land in the conventional sense means "residual ownership," i.e. what's left after lenders, government entities, etc. have had their (legally entitled) cut at it.
Check your title report. Unless you live in a very rural area, I'll bet you a dozen Krispy Kremes that you've got utility easements in there.
One of the nifty features being pushed by Apple right now is real-time fades, wipes, and transitions, all done _in software_. $2-3K gets you this capability, without requiring an additional hardware support. So you may pay more for the box, but you don't have to add an expensive RT card.
Can this be done with an x86 box of comparable price? (This is not a troll; it's a legitimate question).
Is the display extension strong? Will it ever break or need adjustment?
The iMac extension connects the base to the display. It is crafted from stainless steel and is extraordinarily strong. In fact, it's so strong that if you need to move your computer, Apple recommends that you pick it up by holding the extension. The extension is also designed with extremely high precision, so that while the display can be moved easily with just a light touch, it never needs tightening or mechanical adjustment.
I bought a used Asante Mini EN/SC (SCSI-Ethernet adapter) just for the heck of it, and now I can put my PB100 on my cable modem.
It'll run AOL 2.7 and an old version of Eudora (with the chicken icons) for email, and it'll run MacWeb 1.0x for extremely limited websurfing (no inline JPGs, b/w inline GIFs and no tables!).
But it runs!
It also runs Word 5 and Excel 4, including the Solver add-in.
Great little machine! Except for the impossible-to-find Pb-Acid batteries.
I'm doing the math, and 1600 x 1024 x 24 bpp x 60 Hz is a helluva digital data rate, especially with a USB and several power supplies all in one cable.
I know they're using TMDS to keep things robust, but does anyone know what the maximum data rate is on that cable?
I believe there are 6 data channels in the cable, according to Apple:
Don't let the shiny box fool you. This is the real beta test of the OS X. The previous test was more like an alpha.
Since it's a beta, I want bugfixes fast and furious. As others have identified, the updates are totally under the users' control. Personally, I run home everyday and fire up the Update control panel to see if anything's new:)
My only gripe is that I wish Apple would document the updates better. The list of changes/fixes/known issues is too sparse to be useful. The more we know, the more we can help the developers!
No, you are not screwed, HFS+ has full support for UNIX style permissions. Mac OS Classic just ignores any set permissions. ..There is no real benifit to using UFS over HFS+ unless you absolutly need case sensitive file names (eg. to build Perl)
I suppose another advantage is that you can prevent someone from rebooting in Classic and reading all your files.
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Yeah, there was a reasonably loud rumor back in mid-97 about the Philip's TriMedia chip being the DSP du jour for Apple:
Is this true? I don't know any differently, but it seems odd to make everything bitmapped if the system rendering engine is supposed to be really cool for rendering vectors.
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Mb == marketing bits
MB == marketing bytes
Neither has any relation to real-world quantities. Same holds true for HDD capacities.
*gack* I think the Mac zealots (of which I am one!) have seriously glossed over the issues we faced during these transitions. I missed System 6 -> System 7, but 68K -> PPC happened simultaneously with Nubus -> PCI and 7.1.x to 7.5.x. I don't know about all of you, but my 6100/7.5.0 _seriously_ sucked for a long time, at least until we got to 7.6.1.
G3->G4 was pretty seamless, except that it gave Apple the excuse/opportunity to write a GUI that is verrry sluggish on a G3.
And speaking of OS9 -> OSX, that wasn't/isn't all that rosy, either. There are far too many legacy periphs/apps/drivers that don't exist or don't work properly, and there are plenty of instances where Classic is confusing as hell for a new user.
Note that I'm NOT underestimating the massive technical challenges that all of these transitions involved; I just cringe when I read articles that say the 68K -> PPC transition was seamless. How many of you remember the "FPU not installed" crashes?
That's the ugliest abbrev. I've ever seen.
I prefer GbE.
as in,
PnP's Not PCI!
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=felony
or, from a more legal-sounding website:
http://www.lectlaw.com/def/f021.htm
It is a common fallacy that felony==federal crime.
I have one of these:
http://www.nectech.com/petiscan/
NEC only ever released drivers for OS 9, but it worked, and it was bus-powered (cool).
I suppose if enough people asked him, Hamrick might support it in VueScan (and, if someone gave him a unit to play with, which I would).
I want to use my one FireWire HD to back up my XP laptop and my two Jaguar Macs. I don't want to use a network connection because I want to take a snapshot of the Macs' hard drives by "booting" them into Target Disk mode.
I have resigned myself to partitioning the drive, with one formatted NTFS for the XP box and one formatted as FAT32 for the Macs. I tried HFS+, but for some reason my Mac can't successfully format a partition created from the PC, and the PC can't even see partitions created on my Mac. The only thing that seems to work is to partition it on the PC and format as FAT32.
Then I run into the 4GB filesize limitation. I might try to create a large virtual drive by creating a segmented disk image file. Wow, that would be ugly. But if it works . . .
If my math is correct, that just about enough to contain the string: "Microsoft Windows XP (tm)"
If you A/C'd only the racks, you'd have one hell of an uncomfortable room. A/C doesn't remove heat; it just moves it somewhere else. So if you have a big room full of heat-generating boxes, and you A/C each box (but not the room), all that heat is going to stay in the room, but concentrate in the areas/volumes that aren't being cooled.
Sorta like ice cubes in an oven.
The only way to cool the whole room is to cool the whole room.
The sharks may get horny, but will they want to buy iBooks?
Generally untrue. Almost all property that has utility lines/pipes/wires/tunnels running on/over/through it has "easements" in the title for exactly that purpose.
These easements were put in either when the property was annexed by whatever local authority conquered the indigenous populations, or else seized by eminent domain later on.
"Ownership" of land in the conventional sense means "residual ownership," i.e. what's left after lenders, government entities, etc. have had their (legally entitled) cut at it.
Check your title report. Unless you live in a very rural area, I'll bet you a dozen Krispy Kremes that you've got utility easements in there.
One of the nifty features being pushed by Apple right now is real-time fades, wipes, and transitions, all done _in software_. $2-3K gets you this capability, without requiring an additional hardware support. So you may pay more for the box, but you don't have to add an expensive RT card.
Can this be done with an x86 box of comparable price? (This is not a troll; it's a legitimate question).
Your complaint about ADC is perfectly valid to me. That said, there is another option for getting matched, dual displays.
Get a (relatively) inexpensive ADC-DVI convertor, and plug a Formac LCD into the AGP card. Then get a PCI/DVI card and plug another Formac into that.
The Formac isn't 100% as sweet as the Apple, but it looks quite nice, and not completely out of place.
I hate you. Will you adopt me?
http://www.apple.com/imac/faq.html
How 'bout backup? I can't use CDR for regular backup, because I have one 20 GB drive and one 30 GB drive. And those are puny by today's standards.
My last full system backup took _hours_ and something like 15 CDR's (at 4x. Bleah). I'd love to burn a few DVDs and be done with it.
I haven't done a full backup in months, primarily because I don't have a good solution.
http://kan.org/misc/iMacD2.html
Well my girlfriend's laptop has something _wayyy_ sweeter than that!
Oh. Are we still talking about computers?
Excuse, but they would be iDIOTS (tm)
I bought a used Asante Mini EN/SC (SCSI-Ethernet adapter) just for the heck of it, and now I can put my PB100 on my cable modem.
It'll run AOL 2.7 and an old version of Eudora (with the chicken icons) for email, and it'll run MacWeb 1.0x for extremely limited websurfing (no inline JPGs, b/w inline GIFs and no tables!).
But it runs!
It also runs Word 5 and Excel 4, including the Solver add-in.
Great little machine! Except for the impossible-to-find Pb-Acid batteries.
I know they're using TMDS to keep things robust, but does anyone know what the maximum data rate is on that cable?
I believe there are 6 data channels in the cable, according to Apple:
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/hardware/Devel oper_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-G4/PowerMacG4Cube/trin-5 7.html
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and then there's the DVI spec itself (of which ADC is a superset, I believe):
http://www.ddwg.org/register/download.html
but I can't decipher enough of the raw standard to figure out if/what the max. resolution is given current technology.
Don't let the shiny box fool you. This is the real beta test of the OS X. The previous test was more like an alpha.
:)
Since it's a beta, I want bugfixes fast and furious. As others have identified, the updates are totally under the users' control. Personally, I run home everyday and fire up the Update control panel to see if anything's new
My only gripe is that I wish Apple would document the updates better. The list of changes/fixes/known issues is too sparse to be useful. The more we know, the more we can help the developers!
I suppose another advantage is that you can prevent someone from rebooting in Classic and reading all your files.
http://www5.zdnet.com/zdnn /content/mcwo/0602/mcwo0006.html
According to Morgenstern, it was actually announced by Apple in some fashion (I tried searching:
http://www.apple.com
and
http://developer.apple.com
for "trimedia", but they're not working right now)
Then, of course, AltiVec (nee VMX) hit the scene and TriMedia phaded :) into the background.
bitmapped fricking graphics. Thats what Aqua is.
Is this true? I don't know any differently, but it seems odd to make everything bitmapped if the system rendering engine is supposed to be really cool for rendering vectors.