The problem is the school, much more than the computers. With any computer on most any OS, if you don't maintain them and have enough kids dicking around, trying to screw it up, find backdoors, etc; the computers will deteriorate until they are much slower than they should be.
At my school we have a few hundred p166s and they are so damn slow it is incredible. It takes 30seconds to launch NS, compared to 5seconds on my p100 at home. That is if NS even loads and doesn't crash upon startup. Just one example of the million things wrong with these computers. This only has to do with maintainance, and the kids screwing around.
Also, I can't imagine the narrow-minded school-board/administration present in my school and most schools, even considering Linux as an option; so please don't reply saying Linux would fix it.
Someone on the website this article is from mentioned Edward Norton. I totally agree. He would be perfect for it, just dye his hair blond. Norton is an incredible actor (see: American History X) and can play both good and evil, and is not as scrawny or girly as Leo. I'm not sure how old he is, but do we really know how old anakin is supposed to be in the next one? Anyways, I cast my vote for Norton.
what the hell are you talking about? I saw trailers and commercials for The Matrix many *months* before it came out. At least 4 months for the first one. But I liked how you had no idea what it was about, whereas with star wars, I think they have given away too much.
How can it be vaporware if it hasn't been announced? I am sure those rumor sites blatantly make up the rumors just to have some content for the day. Apple doesn't give specific timelines for their products, so one enever really knows when a product was really meant to come out. I think pretty much every technology company delays major product releases...I can't think of one that has been consistently on time.
Also, don't even try to compares apple to Microsoft as far as OS releases go. Apple comes out with an update to the Mac OS twice a year, compared to Microsoft's once every 3 years.
That's funny, but I think the name comes from the curviest street in the world (which is located in San Francisco) Lombard Street. Looking at apple's other latest designs, curvy seems to be their theme.
Oh yeah, June is winter down there. When I saw x-files school had just let out for summer so it was no problem. Hopefully Phantom will be much better than that one, though it had its moments.
I think there will be a lot of kids skipping school along with their parents skipping work.
Me and about all my friends are skipping school that day to buy tickets. already talked it over with my parents and they're letting me, even writing an excuse.
Yeah I saw the repeat of that, either 48 hours, 20/20, or Dateline, but I'm pretty sure it was 48 hours. They chronicled 3 different groups making movies for the festival and which one actually one the award. The guy was writing letter to everyone he knew and asked for $100 from each of them. He was in major debt, but I think most of the Avid stuff he was using was because he had a friend in the biz doing the graphics stuff on his own hours. The music was done also at home by another friend in his apartment I think.
That bit about running around for hardware was for some of the scenes they shot with lots of old computer hardware all piled up.
Anyways, the movie either won sundance or won a major award there and they got a $1 million contract pretty much on the spot.
Well I don't know much about Fibre Channel so, correct me if I'm wrong, it is much more expensive than FW, SCSI, and Ethernet. Maybe this will be a viable alternative in the future when it is cheaper, but right now it isn't.
As for ethernet, I'm not aware of any scanners, hard drives, digital cameras, or any common peripherals beside printers that have ethernet ports built into them.
You all are missing a large part of the reason firewire is so great. If you would have watched the demo at macworld on ZDTV (someone posted the link on here somewhere) you would see that you can chain computers together with devices.
For instance, lets say I have a scanner, I can hook that scanner to computer1, then hook computer1 to computer2, computer2 to computer3, and on down the line, and ALL the computers can share that scanner as if it was locally attached to each one.
The same can be done with a hard drive, the computers will think it is local.
I can have an external hard drive at the office, bring it home and hotplug it into my home computer and it will spin up WITHOUT a power adapter and show up on my screen in a few seconds.
I think that firewire can give up to 60watts of power, so you don't have to worry about plugging most of your devices in.
This isn't the debut for Linux exhibitors at Macworld, LinuxPPC has been exhibited there for at least the last 2 expos.
At the SF one last year, the last one I was at, LinuxPPC has a really small showing, but one of the developers was onhand and we talked about Linux for awhile; me being a Linux newbie at the time.
The point is, the important part of this news story is not that Linux is running in the backroom, it is that Linux PPC is actually convincing 'GUI-loving' Macheads to try linux.
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The problem is the school, much more than the computers. With any computer on most any OS, if you don't maintain them and have enough kids dicking around, trying to screw it up, find backdoors, etc; the computers will deteriorate until they are much slower than they should be.
At my school we have a few hundred p166s and they are so damn slow it is incredible. It takes 30seconds to launch NS, compared to 5seconds on my p100 at home. That is if NS even loads and doesn't crash upon startup. Just one example of the million things wrong with these computers. This only has to do with maintainance, and the kids screwing around.
Also, I can't imagine the narrow-minded school-board/administration present in my school and most schools, even considering Linux as an option; so please don't reply saying Linux would fix it.
Someone on the website this article is from mentioned Edward Norton. I totally agree. He would be perfect for it, just dye his hair blond. Norton is an incredible actor (see: American History X) and can play both good and evil, and is not as scrawny or girly as Leo. I'm not sure how old he is, but do we really know how old anakin is supposed to be in the next one? Anyways, I cast my vote for Norton.
what the hell are you talking about? I saw trailers and commercials for The Matrix many *months* before it came out. At least 4 months for the first one. But I liked how you had no idea what it was about, whereas with star wars, I think they have given away too much.
How can it be vaporware if it hasn't been announced? I am sure those rumor sites blatantly make up the rumors just to have some content for the day. Apple doesn't give specific timelines for their products, so one enever really knows when a product was really meant to come out. I think pretty much every technology company delays major product releases...I can't think of one that has been consistently on time.
Also, don't even try to compares apple to Microsoft as far as OS releases go. Apple comes out with an update to the Mac OS twice a year, compared to Microsoft's once every 3 years.
That's funny, but I think the name comes from the curviest street in the world (which is located in San Francisco) Lombard Street. Looking at apple's other latest designs, curvy seems to be their theme.
Oh yeah, June is winter down there. When I saw x-files school had just let out for summer so it was no problem. Hopefully Phantom will be much better than that one, though it had its moments.
I think there will be a lot of kids skipping school along with their parents skipping work.
Me and about all my friends are skipping school that day to buy tickets. already talked it over with my parents and they're letting me, even writing an excuse.
I'm not sure if any PC laptops support this or not, but on the latest Apple laptops you can put 2 batteries in it and run it for 7hours.
Yeah I saw the repeat of that, either 48 hours, 20/20, or Dateline, but I'm pretty sure it was 48 hours. They chronicled 3 different groups making movies for the festival and which one actually one the award. The guy was writing letter to everyone he knew and asked for $100 from each of them. He was in major debt, but I think most of the Avid stuff he was using was because he had a friend in the biz doing the graphics stuff on his own hours.
The music was done also at home by another friend in his apartment I think.
That bit about running around for hardware was for some of the scenes they shot with lots of old computer hardware all piled up.
Anyways, the movie either won sundance or won a major award there and they got a $1 million contract pretty much on the spot.
Well I don't know much about Fibre Channel so, correct me if I'm wrong, it is much more expensive than FW, SCSI, and Ethernet. Maybe this will be a viable alternative in the future when it is cheaper, but right now it isn't.
As for ethernet, I'm not aware of any scanners, hard drives, digital cameras, or any common peripherals beside printers that have ethernet ports built into them.
You all are missing a large part of the reason firewire is so great. If you would have watched the demo at macworld on ZDTV (someone posted the link on here somewhere) you would see that you can chain computers together with devices.
For instance, lets say I have a scanner, I can hook that scanner to computer1, then hook computer1 to computer2, computer2 to computer3, and on down the line, and ALL the computers can share that scanner as if it was locally attached to each one.
The same can be done with a hard drive, the computers will think it is local.
I can have an external hard drive at the office, bring it home and hotplug it into my home computer and it will spin up WITHOUT a power adapter and show up on my screen in a few seconds.
I think that firewire can give up to 60watts of power, so you don't have to worry about plugging most of your devices in.
This isn't the debut for Linux exhibitors at Macworld, LinuxPPC has been exhibited there for at least the last 2 expos.
At the SF one last year, the last one I was at, LinuxPPC has a really small showing, but one of the developers was onhand and we talked about Linux for awhile; me being a Linux newbie at the time.
The point is, the important part of this news story is not that Linux is running in the backroom, it is that Linux PPC is actually convincing 'GUI-loving' Macheads to try linux.