Hell, I've got an old Power Tower Pro 225 which I recently got OS X working on. They stopped making these in what, 1997 or so? Last year I got memory (two 128M sticks) and a G3 (Sonnet 400) for it, then more recently a Radeon PCI and an ATA/133 card.
Sure, it has a couple of problems. The internal SCSI-fast bus is locked up after boot (a connector for the external bus was only an inch away on the montherboard, though), and the 13GB ATA drive I pulled out of an old PC gets random "General error" errors when writing to it. And with that blazing fast 50mhz FSB, it doesn't play DIVX worth a damn. But it did provide enough log messages that I was able to tell that my old 10/100 Ethernet card was failing negotiation and going to 10mbit half duplex mode. So that's why it was always so slow on network speed!
Mod me down as a troll if you must, and it's sort of off-topic because the article here is talking about Linux on x86, but I've thought of "Linux on the Desktop" as total ass myself for a couple of years now. Now we get two articles in two weeks saying as much. Which is exactly why I've been working hard (and finally succeeded) to get OS X running on my old Power Mac instead of putting Yellow Dog or Debian on it.
First, XFree was a pain in the ass to get set up. I haven't tried it since 4.x, but 3.x sucked because all the setup programs wanted to compute "optimum" modelines for your monitor and display card, which inevitably never worked for me. This instead of what I wanted: resolution and refresh, from the list of VESA standard modes. Oh, but I can just edit this annoying config file, commenting out a bunch of lines for modes I don't want. If it's a pain in the ass for me, it's impossible for mom 'n' pop. Before I gave up two years ago, I think only TurboLinux 4.x had a config program with resolution/refresh selection.
Then there's getting the desktop environments running themselves. I didn't get very far on them, but in my experience, if you didn't pick the window manager favored by the distro, the others simply weren't configured to do anything useful. The only way to get menus to contain anything useful seemed to be by editing config files, and by this time I wasn't in any mood to search for more damn config files to edit.
So I decided to stay with Slackware as a lean server-only OS on my cheap x86 boxen, and wait for OS X, which at the time was just around the corner. I've had it running on a laptop since pre-release, and this week it's put new life into a creaky old Power Computing clone box. And I've got it running on the iMac my mom got a few months back. It just works, without a bunch of tweaking, partly because Macs have nowhere near the hardware nightmare that exists in the x86 world. And it's full of that unix-y goodness which let me kill a frozen AOL client on her machine remotely.
It's not his ISP. Until a recent upgrade to faster DSL (I haven't had it long enough to get a feel for it yet), I had 1.5M/128K DSL, and full-speed uploads using Hotline would completely hose other connections. Before that I lived where I could only get 384K/128K, and full speed downloads could completely choke the connection too.
One of my objectives now is to look for servers (ftp, http, etc.) which can inherently limit stream speed, but the "prioritize ACKs" suggestion by the submitter sounds like something I can do with ipchains/ipfilter on my router server after some quality time with TFM.
Instead of this "medireview" stupidity, and the even worse monstrosity "reviewuate", why couldn't they have simply changed a letter to a digit? Then they'd get medieva1.
DSL is priced higher, has terrible performance in the area.
It all depends on what part of Austin you live in. When I lived down at the north end of Manchaca, I was capped at 384K because I was so far from the CO. Yes, that sucked mightily. Then I moved intentionally near a CO and found out I was on a remote terminal anyhow. My line tests for the max 8 megabits down. DSL kicks ass again. And it's rock solid. But you're still limited to 1.5M downloads/128K uploads unless you pay some big bucks.
FWIW, when I first saw the CNN article, that was the first thing that popped into my head. I guess that's the best way to smuggle it onto the space station.
Anyway here's a pic [tripod.co.jp] if you like to drool over pics of keyboards
The picture of the Apple Adjustable Keyboard is interesting because it puts the 6 key on the correct side! Microsoft's crappy ergonomic keyboard puts the 6 key on the left side, while touch-typists (me at least) use their right hand for the 6 key.
You can find plenty of them if you visit thrift stores regularly. One of the best things about them is they can interchangeably take AT and PS/2 cords.
And then there's the Model M Spacesaver, which has the numeric keypad removed. Not quite as deadly as a weapon, and most don't have removable keycaps, but great when you don't have a lot of room left on your desk.
Those of us with Macs needn't worry about such trivial things.
You're shittin' me! PC users actually have to know the SSID to hook up to a WLAN? No way! Not that I've ever used WiFi on anything but a Mac, but if Apple can make a pop-up menu to select from non-hidden SSIDs, why can't Microsoft?
In short, put yourself in their place and try to figure out why they may not do something before you critisize them.
Please tell me where I was critisizing anything? I was merely stating things as I knew them, without any commentary on what I thought of it.
I personally don't care how Apple handles.AVI files. AVI files aren't a very good design to begin with. I would rather have proper MPEG 4 take over this mess that is DivX, considering all the people coming up with different fourcc codes for the same encodings, and incompatible encodings with poor performance such as DivX 5.
What's wrong with it is when you're sending UDP packets over a TCP connection, or multiple TCP connections over a single TCP connection. A proper VPN connection won't slow you down with retransmits when UDP packets would have simply been dropped, or slow you down with two layers of TCP stream ACKs.
I can understand the 1GB/month newsgroup cap. It requires an enormous amount of resources to run a news server.
However, it can save an enormous amount of bandwidth resources if an ISP has a good news server on their network, or has a direct connection to a newsgroup provider like Giganews. A well run binaries newsgroup server can cut down on the number of people getting their anime in IRC chat rooms, or from a newsgroup provider.
1 gigabyte is five or six episodes of DivX anime. I download 2 gigs a week, and I'm not downloading nearly as heavily as I used to, mostly because of current lack of time to burn it all and lack of money to buy more big hard drives.
For you stats junkies, I just checked mine. Over a period of 21 months (the first 10 having a cap of 384K due to CO distance), I downloaded 175.65GB and uploaded 12.26GB (mostly ACKs). I've got over 250 burned CD-Rs and another 60GB or so on my hard drives to prove it. (some of that came from F2F sharing) I sometimes carry a third of a terabyte with one arm.:-)
And a CD can hold over 10 hours of MP3s, depending on bit rate. I've gotten into the habit of burning a new CD-R every couple of weeks with a newly tweaked assortment of tunes to listen to on the MP3 CD player that I keep on the car seat.
Except recently I got a PDA capable of playing MP3, and now I'm trying to cram my J-pop onto a 256MB flash card, at least until I can afford something bigger. The PDA even uses the same power plug as the MP3 CD player. I didn't think much of bringing the MP3 CD in when I got to work, but the PDA is a different matter.
It won't play most DivX AVI files without conversion, because VBR MP3 audio is not in the AVI spec, and apparently Apple refuses to break the spec to play them.
I think one problem people are having with the HFS+ vs UFS issue is they think "Well, I haven't seen this UFS thing before, and HFS+ has been around for a long time, so UFS must be newer, and therefore it must be better!" All this without understanding one thing about how either file system works.
UFS was included for those few people who needed a real, genuine, Unix file system. It has the "real inodes" and the case sensitivity that Unix apps expect. But (as far as I know), directories are stored as files with a special attribute, all over the disk, just like the MS-DOS FAT file system does. It does things this way after all this time because that's the way Unix has always done things.
HFS+, however, is an extension to HFS to give it a few extra things that it needed to become a serious file system. Stuff like support for volumes larger than 2G, really long file names, Unix file attributes, etc. HFS stores directories in a B-tree file. In other words, it uses a database. This is much more efficient than a bunch of scattered files and inodes holding directory information.
Basically, if you don't know a specific reason why you need UFS, don't use it.
Like how you can jump on missiles in the air, and then they keep going in the same direction without deflection. All attacks must be called out by name, even if they're as simple as pushing a button on a control panel. The best pilots have hair that completely covers one eye. And of course, all the usual Hollywood ones like the guns that never run out of ammo (unless it's a plot point to run out of ammo), and the Stormtrooper Effect (best parodied by the Rambo scene in UHF.)
Don't even get me started on the Laws of Anime Cooking.
All right, hands up all of you who read this as "USCF Acknowledges Tests on Human Cloning", and then wondered WTF the United States Chess Federation was doing messing around with cloning? Trying to clone a grandmaster?
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To be completely correct, they're both Smalltalk-like.
Sure, it has a couple of problems. The internal SCSI-fast bus is locked up after boot (a connector for the external bus was only an inch away on the montherboard, though), and the 13GB ATA drive I pulled out of an old PC gets random "General error" errors when writing to it. And with that blazing fast 50mhz FSB, it doesn't play DIVX worth a damn. But it did provide enough log messages that I was able to tell that my old 10/100 Ethernet card was failing negotiation and going to 10mbit half duplex mode. So that's why it was always so slow on network speed!
Maybe we need an "alt.binaries.slashdot" newsgroup to put up graphics from slashdotted sites?
What I want to see is for the black boxes to tell whether the driver was on the cell phone when the "incident" occurred.
Are you sure it wasn't the fault of an idiot pimp^H^H^H^Hrecruiter? Maybe even a recruiter who used a spelling checker in idiot ("yes to all") mode?
First, XFree was a pain in the ass to get set up. I haven't tried it since 4.x, but 3.x sucked because all the setup programs wanted to compute "optimum" modelines for your monitor and display card, which inevitably never worked for me. This instead of what I wanted: resolution and refresh, from the list of VESA standard modes. Oh, but I can just edit this annoying config file, commenting out a bunch of lines for modes I don't want. If it's a pain in the ass for me, it's impossible for mom 'n' pop. Before I gave up two years ago, I think only TurboLinux 4.x had a config program with resolution/refresh selection.
Then there's getting the desktop environments running themselves. I didn't get very far on them, but in my experience, if you didn't pick the window manager favored by the distro, the others simply weren't configured to do anything useful. The only way to get menus to contain anything useful seemed to be by editing config files, and by this time I wasn't in any mood to search for more damn config files to edit.
So I decided to stay with Slackware as a lean server-only OS on my cheap x86 boxen, and wait for OS X, which at the time was just around the corner. I've had it running on a laptop since pre-release, and this week it's put new life into a creaky old Power Computing clone box. And I've got it running on the iMac my mom got a few months back. It just works, without a bunch of tweaking, partly because Macs have nowhere near the hardware nightmare that exists in the x86 world. And it's full of that unix-y goodness which let me kill a frozen AOL client on her machine remotely.
One of my objectives now is to look for servers (ftp, http, etc.) which can inherently limit stream speed, but the "prioritize ACKs" suggestion by the submitter sounds like something I can do with ipchains/ipfilter on my router server after some quality time with TFM.
Instead of this "medireview" stupidity, and the even worse monstrosity "reviewuate", why couldn't they have simply changed a letter to a digit? Then they'd get medieva1.
It all depends on what part of Austin you live in. When I lived down at the north end of Manchaca, I was capped at 384K because I was so far from the CO. Yes, that sucked mightily. Then I moved intentionally near a CO and found out I was on a remote terminal anyhow. My line tests for the max 8 megabits down. DSL kicks ass again. And it's rock solid. But you're still limited to 1.5M downloads/128K uploads unless you pay some big bucks.
FWIW, when I first saw the CNN article, that was the first thing that popped into my head. I guess that's the best way to smuggle it onto the space station.
Don't forget the usefulness of the <pork> tag.
Have you counsidered a USB to PS/2 keyboard adapter?
The picture of the Apple Adjustable Keyboard is interesting because it puts the 6 key on the correct side! Microsoft's crappy ergonomic keyboard puts the 6 key on the left side, while touch-typists (me at least) use their right hand for the 6 key.
And then there's the Model M Spacesaver, which has the numeric keypad removed. Not quite as deadly as a weapon, and most don't have removable keycaps, but great when you don't have a lot of room left on your desk.
You're shittin' me! PC users actually have to know the SSID to hook up to a WLAN? No way! Not that I've ever used WiFi on anything but a Mac, but if Apple can make a pop-up menu to select from non-hidden SSIDs, why can't Microsoft?
Please tell me where I was critisizing anything? I was merely stating things as I knew them, without any commentary on what I thought of it.
I personally don't care how Apple handles .AVI files. AVI files aren't a very good design to begin with. I would rather have proper MPEG 4 take over this mess that is DivX, considering all the people coming up with different fourcc codes for the same encodings, and incompatible encodings with poor performance such as DivX 5.
What's wrong with it is when you're sending UDP packets over a TCP connection, or multiple TCP connections over a single TCP connection. A proper VPN connection won't slow you down with retransmits when UDP packets would have simply been dropped, or slow you down with two layers of TCP stream ACKs.
However, it can save an enormous amount of bandwidth resources if an ISP has a good news server on their network, or has a direct connection to a newsgroup provider like Giganews. A well run binaries newsgroup server can cut down on the number of people getting their anime in IRC chat rooms, or from a newsgroup provider.
1 gigabyte is five or six episodes of DivX anime. I download 2 gigs a week, and I'm not downloading nearly as heavily as I used to, mostly because of current lack of time to burn it all and lack of money to buy more big hard drives.
For you stats junkies, I just checked mine. Over a period of 21 months (the first 10 having a cap of 384K due to CO distance), I downloaded 175.65GB and uploaded 12.26GB (mostly ACKs). I've got over 250 burned CD-Rs and another 60GB or so on my hard drives to prove it. (some of that came from F2F sharing) I sometimes carry a third of a terabyte with one arm. :-)
Except recently I got a PDA capable of playing MP3, and now I'm trying to cram my J-pop onto a 256MB flash card, at least until I can afford something bigger. The PDA even uses the same power plug as the MP3 CD player. I didn't think much of bringing the MP3 CD in when I got to work, but the PDA is a different matter.
It won't play most DivX AVI files without conversion, because VBR MP3 audio is not in the AVI spec, and apparently Apple refuses to break the spec to play them.
UFS was included for those few people who needed a real, genuine, Unix file system. It has the "real inodes" and the case sensitivity that Unix apps expect. But (as far as I know), directories are stored as files with a special attribute, all over the disk, just like the MS-DOS FAT file system does. It does things this way after all this time because that's the way Unix has always done things.
HFS+, however, is an extension to HFS to give it a few extra things that it needed to become a serious file system. Stuff like support for volumes larger than 2G, really long file names, Unix file attributes, etc. HFS stores directories in a B-tree file. In other words, it uses a database. This is much more efficient than a bunch of scattered files and inodes holding directory information.
Basically, if you don't know a specific reason why you need UFS, don't use it.
Like how you can jump on missiles in the air, and then they keep going in the same direction without deflection. All attacks must be called out by name, even if they're as simple as pushing a button on a control panel. The best pilots have hair that completely covers one eye. And of course, all the usual Hollywood ones like the guns that never run out of ammo (unless it's a plot point to run out of ammo), and the Stormtrooper Effect (best parodied by the Rambo scene in UHF.)
Don't even get me started on the Laws of Anime Cooking.
Your psot makes no cents. Pleze go back two rec.games.video.nintendo. Tahnk yew.
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Sorry, but http://63.238.196.105/ won't work because it's vhosted and needs a request for macslash.com.
All right, hands up all of you who read this as "USCF Acknowledges Tests on Human Cloning", and then wondered WTF the United States Chess Federation was doing messing around with cloning? Trying to clone a grandmaster?