Yep. Personally I agree with Apple's decision to cut loose older hardware with snow leopard. Leopard is a decent OS, and SL really doesn't do much that's different from Leopard, but the performance increase from 10.5 to 10.6 is noticeable and welcome. It's not like G4/G5 machines running Leopard or Tiger suddenly stopped working when SL shipped, and last I checked Leopard is still a supported OS.
did not connect to my freebsd and linux samba servers
Then you're missing something. My win 7 (32 and 64 bit, various flavors, pro, ultimate, etc.) machines and the one remaining Vista machine have no problems connecting to my Samba server running on Ubuntu server (inside of VMWare running on my Mac) or the CentOS box sitting in my rack, nor do they have issues talking to the printer on my Airport express. I can print to my 7 year old printer from Mac, Linux, Win7 (32 and 64 bit versions) and Vista and all the machines can see the samba shares.
I did nothing special to get this to work and I am most definitely not a Samba/NTFS expert.
10 of these in a RAID 6+0 would yield 12 TB of fairly fault tolerant storage and would be enough to store about 500 BluRay movies, or about half my porn collection...
Safari 3.0.4 runs on 10.4.x
Safari 4 runs on 10.5+
What G4 do you have that you can't install leopard on? I shoehorned Tiger onto an ancient G3 iMac from 2000, surely you can install leopard on a fairly recent G4, and if you can't you could have tried this http://lowendmac.com/osx/leopard/openfirmware.html
I used to have a Cox DVR (using it was like shitting a watermelon) and I would set it to record movies of the Encore channels. The DVR was $16 a month. So we gave the DVR back to Cox and got a netflix account. We order movies, I rip them and send them back.
According to the law/MPAA the former is OK (well, the MPAA doesn't like it very much), but the latter is stealing, but in reality the only difference is one came down the wire digitally, and one came off a piece of plastic digitally. In all other ways it is identical. As long as I don't upload the file to Bit Torrent I figure the MPAA can kiss my pucker.
This is crap. A lot of options from experts, but no controlled studies, no proven causation, no scientifically obtained correlation; just a bunch of anecdotal stories and opinion. Typical CNN soft reporting of meaningless drivel. The word "may" exists 9 times in the article and sidebar. Sime examples:
Some researchers say the iPad and laptops may alter sleep cycles
Light from the devices' screens may affect internal clocks when used at night
glowing gadgets may actually fool our brains
But if bright lights are shining in our eyes, that may not happen as planned
Electronics with glowing screens may create problems for people who are susceptible to insomnia
It's possible iPads and laptops, when used late at night, may delay sleep
etc...
That there is some very lame-ass reporting. I want my 5 minutes back...
Yep. I have the original anarchist's cookbook that I bought in the 80's just to have it. The Improvised Munitions Handbook is far more accurate and informative than the AC.
Agreed on Synology. A little more expensive than build it yourself, but they have solutions that scale easily to 20TB. Synology + 1TB or 2TB WD Green drives + GB Ethernet and you can have 20+ TB of media on line very quickly.
How dare you. The wrath of./ shall descend upon your blasphemous head. Unless you were talking about the original. That WAS funny except for the OK Corral episode - that one was epic.
Even General Motors got some $18 billion in relief, talking about an organization that deserves to fail. Without GM, we'll still have a domestic car industry--Ford, Nissan, Toyota, and Honda are all operating in the U.S. and doing just fine--
Minor nitpick, GM repaid the money already. I agree fully with the rest of your comment though, we should be pouring funding into NASA after all the things they have brought us in so many fields.
"...But the loan money is only a fraction of the cash that the federal government gave to GM over the past 12 months to stop it from going out of business. Overall, GM received $50 billion in federal help, with the government receiving $2 billion in preferred stock and 61% of the company's privately held common shares in return for the rest of the money..."
...supports the estimates closer to 1 million barrels per day erupting from this hole BP popped in the ocean floor that contains trillions of barrels of oil and natural gas.
1,000,000 barrels of oil a day is 42,000,000 gallons a day. It's quite a big jump from 5,000 to 1,000,000 and one has to wonder if they have their facts straight...
I hate this argument. Firstly, while it sounds logical, it really isn't. There are always other things to spend money on. 59% of the US budget goes to social programs, 21.5% goes to defense, 8.5% goes to pay interest on the debt. NASA gets.58%, and of that manned space is a fraction. Do you really think that taking a fraction of.58% and putting it somewhere else, line the Doe wil materially help? Keep in mind that the DoE gets.82% of the budget.
it's not a dick measuring contest. It's about exploring our boundaries and pushing our limits to make life better for everyone. I don't think NASA is the panacea of discovery that a lot of hard core supporter think it is, but I'm pretty sure that tiny fraction of the US budget that NASA gets every year has produced a lot more innovations that improve everyone's daily life, per dollar spent, than the 59% that goes to social programs.
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Yep. Personally I agree with Apple's decision to cut loose older hardware with snow leopard. Leopard is a decent OS, and SL really doesn't do much that's different from Leopard, but the performance increase from 10.5 to 10.6 is noticeable and welcome. It's not like G4/G5 machines running Leopard or Tiger suddenly stopped working when SL shipped, and last I checked Leopard is still a supported OS.
6+0. 2 raid 6 arrays mirrored which cuts the capacity in half.
Yes it does, according to Apple: http://support.apple.com/downloads/Safari_3_2_3_for_Tiger, and you could still install Leopard on your machine...
did not connect to my freebsd and linux samba servers
Then you're missing something. My win 7 (32 and 64 bit, various flavors, pro, ultimate, etc.) machines and the one remaining Vista machine have no problems connecting to my Samba server running on Ubuntu server (inside of VMWare running on my Mac) or the CentOS box sitting in my rack, nor do they have issues talking to the printer on my Airport express. I can print to my 7 year old printer from Mac, Linux, Win7 (32 and 64 bit versions) and Vista and all the machines can see the samba shares.
I did nothing special to get this to work and I am most definitely not a Samba/NTFS expert.
Or would that be 9TB?
10 of these in a RAID 6+0 would yield 12 TB of fairly fault tolerant storage and would be enough to store about 500 BluRay movies, or about half my porn collection...
Safari 3.0.4 runs on 10.4.x
Safari 4 runs on 10.5+
What G4 do you have that you can't install leopard on? I shoehorned Tiger onto an ancient G3 iMac from 2000, surely you can install leopard on a fairly recent G4, and if you can't you could have tried this http://lowendmac.com/osx/leopard/openfirmware.html
Perhaps you simply wanted a new Mac?
I get that, but from my internal moral perspective they are the same regardless of the legal technicality.
My abacus is made of stainless steal...
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0784818/
I used to have a Cox DVR (using it was like shitting a watermelon) and I would set it to record movies of the Encore channels. The DVR was $16 a month. So we gave the DVR back to Cox and got a netflix account. We order movies, I rip them and send them back.
According to the law/MPAA the former is OK (well, the MPAA doesn't like it very much), but the latter is stealing, but in reality the only difference is one came down the wire digitally, and one came off a piece of plastic digitally. In all other ways it is identical. As long as I don't upload the file to Bit Torrent I figure the MPAA can kiss my pucker.
Some researchers say the iPad and laptops may alter sleep cycles
Light from the devices' screens may affect internal clocks when used at night
glowing gadgets may actually fool our brains
But if bright lights are shining in our eyes, that may not happen as planned
Electronics with glowing screens may create problems for people who are susceptible to insomnia
It's possible iPads and laptops, when used late at night, may delay sleep
etc...
That there is some very lame-ass reporting. I want my 5 minutes back...
basically you do this: http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1999-07/932591567.Ag.r.html with castor beans instead of soy beans...
Yep. I have the original anarchist's cookbook that I bought in the 80's just to have it. The Improvised Munitions Handbook is far more accurate and informative than the AC.
I'm not sure about that. The company I used to work for spent about as much money on customer research and contextual design as it did on development.
I think there's little doubt that the article is a bunch of bullshit. It's not even internally consistent.
Agreed on Synology. A little more expensive than build it yourself, but they have solutions that scale easily to 20TB. Synology + 1TB or 2TB WD Green drives + GB Ethernet and you can have 20+ TB of media on line very quickly.
How dare you. The wrath of ./ shall descend upon your blasphemous head. Unless you were talking about the original. That WAS funny except for the OK Corral episode - that one was epic.
Even General Motors got some $18 billion in relief, talking about an organization that deserves to fail. Without GM, we'll still have a domestic car industry--Ford, Nissan, Toyota, and Honda are all operating in the U.S. and doing just fine--
Minor nitpick, GM repaid the money already. I agree fully with the rest of your comment though, we should be pouring funding into NASA after all the things they have brought us in so many fields.
"...But the loan money is only a fraction of the cash that the federal government gave to GM over the past 12 months to stop it from going out of business. Overall, GM received $50 billion in federal help, with the government receiving $2 billion in preferred stock and 61% of the company's privately held common shares in return for the rest of the money..."
http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/15/news/companies/gm_repayment/index.htm
Did you check the actual figures?
I did. did you?
From the TFA:
...supports the estimates closer to 1 million barrels per day erupting from this hole BP popped in the ocean floor that contains trillions of barrels of oil and natural gas.
1,000,000 barrels of oil a day is 42,000,000 gallons a day. It's quite a big jump from 5,000 to 1,000,000 and one has to wonder if they have their facts straight...
a crap load less than the 21.5% of the budget that is social scurity...
+1 Motie reference
Buzz Aldrin was on Dancing with the Stars... Neil wins by default.
I hate this argument. Firstly, while it sounds logical, it really isn't. There are always other things to spend money on. 59% of the US budget goes to social programs, 21.5% goes to defense, 8.5% goes to pay interest on the debt. NASA gets .58%, and of that manned space is a fraction. Do you really think that taking a fraction of .58% and putting it somewhere else, line the Doe wil materially help? Keep in mind that the DoE gets .82% of the budget.
it's not a dick measuring contest. It's about exploring our boundaries and pushing our limits to make life better for everyone. I don't think NASA is the panacea of discovery that a lot of hard core supporter think it is, but I'm pretty sure that tiny fraction of the US budget that NASA gets every year has produced a lot more innovations that improve everyone's daily life, per dollar spent, than the 59% that goes to social programs.
Not a Lagrange point: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1646254&cid=32150404