Ok, on one hand I desperatly want to tell you that there is a world outside. But, this is super cool. If you work at a place that has this kind of stuff just sitting around you should be creative.
Look for the file "SecUpd2004-06-07Pan.pkg" in/Library/Receipts. If it is there then you're probably safe as this file is added after it is installed to indicate a complete install. In the future, instead of clicking on the button, use the menu "Update > Download Only" for your updates. It will download the update and keep it so that if the machine locks up or the powergoes out you can re-install from the saved.pkg which can be found in/Library/Packages. Another benefit is that you can collect all the updates on a CD just incase you have to do a full install again but don't want to download all the patches. (That is mostly for those of us who have 56k connections)
I can confirm that. Coming from a GNU/Linux background:
1. First thing I noticed that, contrary to what it says on several website, the system ships without a C compiler. To get one, I had to download > 600 MB (big big gasp! that's more than my entire Debian installation was) from Apple.
WHAT?!? I have my Panther disks right here and one of them is called "Mac OS X Xcode Tools." On that disk is GCC 3.3. And the disk sticks out like a sore thumb because unlike the other black Panther disks, it is white! They all came out of the same box. Not only that but the Jaguar disks came with developer tools also! So either you didn't look, or you got a friend to burn some copies for you.
2. Many applications written for the GNU system won't compile on it. This is because glibc is bloated with all kinds of functions that do get used by developers who target GNU/Linux.
Again, WHAT?!? I've had almost no problems compiling GNU coded software. Granted, I've only done it a few times but come on! The problems were quickly remedied when I thoroughly read the read me file for each application.
3. Some software just doesn't run correctly. I wrote a webserver that I started developing on OS X, then further developed on Linux. It compiles without warnings, but goes completely insane when run on OS X. Several Java applications fail when trying to use Swing.
Ok, I don't use Java nor Swing. You fail to indicate the version of both the C compiler that you are using and the version of OSX. Are you using Xcode or ProjectBuilder? Those are two different beasties, Xcode uses GCC 3.3 but ProjectBuilder uses GCC 2.9. If you are using and targeting Panther, use Xcode. If you are using and targeting Jaguar, use ProjectBuilder. If you want to target all cats under OSX, use Panther and Xcode. There have been several major and minor changes that probably explain your webserver going nuts.
4. The OS (including the GUI) eats a *lot* of memory. The iLife apps are also huge.
Many of the apps are huge because they contain language translations so that people who don't read english can use them. As for the huge memory footprint, this is what swap is used for. As the system needs more memory, inactive memory gets paged to disk and the freed memory is turned over to the process that needs it. (A little free with the details but this is the basic idea.) Just because the process in question has an ungodly amount of memory assigned to it doesn't mean that it is *using* it, most of it is probably paged out to disk and is being used by another process.
5. Safari does too many things in one thread; when it's rendering a page in one tab, I can't switch to another tab: the Spinning Beachball of Death appears and the switch happens only *after* the page has rendered. I use Camino now; it has bugs (especially rendering/.), but works a lot better for me.
Ok, time to put away the crack pipe. I often open more than 15 tabs. (Porn, yea!) I have no issues switching from tab to tab. In fact many times I will have multiple windows open each with their own set of loading tabs. My only limit is the size of my pipe. (But I responded to an email that promised to make it at least two inches longer.) So I say again, crack kills.
6. iChat A/V doesn't work behind my NAT box - after a request for audio chat (no connection can be established), messages I send do not get delivered, and eventually iChat loses its connection altogether.
Um, I don't use iChat. But this sounds more like a NAT configuration problem than a iChat issue.
7. The Terminal is sloooow to start, and annoyingly eats the PgUp and PgDn keypresses, sending them to the scroll bar instead of the program that's running. I know, I can use Shif
The default settings for the DiskImages.framework is located here:/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DiskImages.frame work/Versions/A/Resources/defaults.plist
One can change an interesting setting called "force-idme" from the standard "no" to "yes" and the DiskImages.framework will treat the diskimage as if it was an "internet-enabled disk image." What this means is that it will mount the diskimage, copy it to the current directory as a folder then un-mount and then moves the disk image to the trash. There, the exploit no longer has a known location to work with. Another setting just happens to be "mount-point" which can also be changed from the default/Volumes/ to whatever one likes, say/Users/MyAccount/
He said Mac afficionado not command line afficionado, there is a clear difference. If it doesn't have a candy colored lickable button then it's no Mac.
With the help of a bit of software called XPostFacto, I have Panther running on my PowerMac 9500. Rock solid and pretty fast. Just goes to show that a good OS doesn't need top of the line hardware.
At this point making consoles backwards compatible is a smart move for makers. Not only do you get to leverage your new exclusive games, but you also get to leverage your installed customer base.
When making any kind of puchase I look at everything from the cost of the new console to the cost of getting enough games for it that I do not get bored after a month. If the console choices do not support my old games I will look at other systems and compare them, if it does support my old games then the choice becomes more of an "upgrade" with minimal cost rather than a replacement with maximum cost.
In my personal opinion if the PS2 did not support the PS1 games then the XBox would have gained a greater share of the console market.
I agree with most of what you said, but if the broadcast bare breast that you are referring to is the Janet Jackson breast, the nipple was NOT covered. Her nipple(s?) is/are pierced and what you saw was a stylized "sun" that was held in place by the bar through the nipple. And the nipple is clearly seen sticking out in the center of the "sun." So for all tends and purposes, the breast was fully exposed. I personally wish that more breasts were broadcast, but the US is too much of a prudish nation to allow that to happen.
Another one is the name of the folder that is found in the trash after a crash, "Items rescued from [drive name]" I would name my drive "Chapaquitic." For those who don't know, google for "Chapaquitic"
LOL, That bit about no edit in/. was supposed to be a joke. if one could edit posts at/. it would be a nightmare. And I don't mind being wrong if it's true.
DOH! My physics professor would have me up front trying to defend that until I realized that the reaction doesn't balance out. Thanks. Oh, why does/. have no edit?
You raise some good points. The lack of a magnetic field is a strong sign of a major impact at some point in the past. This could have been one of two types of events. The first one is that the impact so dissrupted Mars that the full surface became fluid or semi-fluid (molten or highly techtonicly active) thereby erasing the most visible evidence of the large impact. The second one is that the impact created a crator that was deep enough that magma from the core flowed in and filled it, eventually creating a volcano on the spot. Olimpus Mons? One way to detect evidence of this impact is to look for non-techtonic mountain ranges on the side of the planet oposite the impact site; course this only works if the impact had a 80 to 100 degree angle of entry to the surface.
I personally believe that it was an impact that stripped the atmosphere of Mars.
A major difference between the sun and a large jar is mass and pressure. Stars must be larger than a certain mass threshold to be capable of a supernova event. At this time I forget what that threshold is but I do know that if Jupiter (sometimes considered a brown dwarf star) collapsed to become a true star it could not end its life in a supernova but it could produce nova events during its life span. The reason for this is that it does not have the mass to generate the inward pressure needed to suppress the outward pressure of the reaction. As the outward pressure builds up it will eventually become greater than the inward pressure, once it does it will become a nova. If the inward pressure is sufficiently powerful the star will begin to fuse higher elements (e.g. H+H=He, He+He=Li, etc.) and the outward pressure will exceed the inward pressure and in this case will result in a supernova destroying the star. A jar (or even an eventual facility based on this technology) simply is not massive enough to produce a supernova; this is what makes fusion as a power source so attractive. Without monitoring and adjustments the reaction simply ends. Our current fission systems do not require an artificial environment to make them function. I.E. the fission reactions have occurred naturally here on Earth and can have uncontrollable catastrophic results if not carefully monitored and adjusted.
Yeah, kids these days. When Lt, Columbo did the o'l "one more thing" the bad guy knew he (or she sometimes) was going to jail. When Steve Jobs does it everyone knows that Apple is going to avoid bankruptcy for one more year.
I wouldn't call you an idiot, just uninformed. All of those ideas that you just listed probably did and do happen because they occur here on Earth. Vapor in the air brings us rain, plants break down some H2O to obtain Hydrogen, chemical reactions with water happen all the time, and some does float off into space (thats why Helium is such a rare element in our atmosphere; but Earth still has quite a volume of water and Mars does not. Why? There are several theories as to where the volume of water went. One of the ones that holds the most promise as being correct is that something in the past (meteor, bottled water companies, etc) caused it to disappear. Mars is massive enough to hold a larger atmosphere than it currently has. This little factoid indicates that something must have either struck Mars or came so close that it stripped the atmosphere off into space. In low pressure liquids boil at a lower temperature so much of the water would have replenished the atmosphere with much of it also escaping into space. But what did remain would have followed the normal water cycle here on Earth, ie cooling and falling on the polar regions or raining down as either rain or snow in other areas. Since we know about the massive dust storms that seasonally cover Mars it stands to reason that many areas could be covered in tons of dust that would soak up the water like a sponge. Now if the object struck a large, deep lake or ocean, water would have formed a great deal of the ejecta from the impact. What didn't escape with the impact would have increased the volume of the atmosphere beyond what the mass of Mars could hold and any extra would have also escaped. I personally think that this would have happened about the time life was forming here on Earth as this would give the planet enough time to erase the evidence of the impact. And the fact that there is almost no Oxygen on Mars probably indicates that the event occurred before life (if it tried) formed
The first time I did this trick my friend's HD had stopped working, it never spun up and the heads never moved not even a *click-click*. After checking the drive with an o-scope it was determined to be a hardware issue rather than a PCB issue. So we tried dropping it on it's side to dislodge the heads but it didn't work. So as a last ditch effort I suggested that we open it up and manually free the heads or spin the platters. Since I had disassembled many dead HDs for the nice magnets on the head arms it was decided that I would be the one to do it. Once I got it open we discovered the heads were tightly wedged up onto the platter spindle! The head arm had somehow passed the stop and gotten stuck. Gently twisting the platters (put a screw into axis of the spindle and twisting it with a screwdriver) while pushing the arm back away from the spindle dislodged it. After checking to make sure that all parts were moving freely and that everything was secure we powered it up and bingo! Kinda neat watching a HD operate. Put the lid back on and he backed up all his data and eventually used that drive for another two years problem free! Pretty amazing since the whole operation took place on his bedroom floor not a clean room in sight.
Yes, the lack of a QE (Quartz Extreme) graphics card will degrade the performance of OSX. Being unable to offload all the QE effects forces OSX to do it.
That being said; I have OSX Panther on two machines that are both "Unsupported" An older PowerMac 9500 and a more recent G3 (beige desktop.) I have the same graphics card in both (ATI Radeon 7000) but QE is only enabled on the PM 9500 and in graphics tests it scores much higher than the G3 which for some reason will not enable QE.
However, you are better off buying a Mac from Apple or one of their distributers. The reason: Applecare. It is a three year warranty that covers almost everything (put down that soldering iron) and Apple will pay the shipping on many items.
But if what you want is to get your hands on some PPC hardware then Pegasas PC is the route for you. http://www.pegasosppc.com/
While that is true, the updates for OS 10.2 only total 4 + one combo update. The other updates are for applications such as iTunes, iPod, iMovie, etc. And the updates don't break anything.
I've also voted in every election since I turned 18. I was barely eleven in 1984, so it's not as many votes as you have made. However, the simple fact is less that 40% of Americans vote. What does that say about American democracy? Answer: Most Americans don't care enough to vote. There are too many reasons for me to count.
Mr. (Miss||Mrs.) AC, my hat is off to you, and here is a toast, "may this election signal the turning point in American political apathy."
Most Americans don't vote, so I think it's only fitting that the people who are most effected by American policy now have a chance to have their votes counted!
Since I switched to OSX and started to use Mail.app I've found the adaptive junk mail filters to be quite good. Plus the ability to bounce spam makes those spamers who actually maintain their lists remove my name automatically. I've left Mail in the learn mode so that I can declare a spam to be junk if it gets past the filter. I have also made a separate filter for mail marked as junk, so after glancing to make sure that it is indeed junk I bounce it. I get fewer and fewer junk mail each passing day. I've even received some "you have been removed" messages. Whether it is a scam or not I don't know. But, I am very happy with Mail.
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Ok, on one hand I desperatly want to tell you that there is a world outside.
But, this is super cool. If you work at a place that has this kind of stuff just sitting around you should be creative.
Look for the file "SecUpd2004-06-07Pan.pkg" in /Library/Receipts. If it is there then you're probably safe as this file is added after it is installed to indicate a complete install. .pkg which can be found in /Library/Packages. Another benefit is that you can collect all the updates on a CD just incase you have to do a full install again but don't want to download all the patches. (That is mostly for those of us who have 56k connections)
In the future, instead of clicking on the button, use the menu "Update > Download Only" for your updates. It will download the update and keep it so that if the machine locks up or the powergoes out you can re-install from the saved
NarratorDan
WHAT?!? I have my Panther disks right here and one of them is called "Mac OS X Xcode Tools." On that disk is GCC 3.3. And the disk sticks out like a sore thumb because unlike the other black Panther disks, it is white! They all came out of the same box. Not only that but the Jaguar disks came with developer tools also! So either you didn't look, or you got a friend to burn some copies for you.
Again, WHAT?!? I've had almost no problems compiling GNU coded software. Granted, I've only done it a few times but come on! The problems were quickly remedied when I thoroughly read the read me file for each application.
Ok, I don't use Java nor Swing. You fail to indicate the version of both the C compiler that you are using and the version of OSX. Are you using Xcode or ProjectBuilder? Those are two different beasties, Xcode uses GCC 3.3 but ProjectBuilder uses GCC 2.9. If you are using and targeting Panther, use Xcode. If you are using and targeting Jaguar, use ProjectBuilder. If you want to target all cats under OSX, use Panther and Xcode. There have been several major and minor changes that probably explain your webserver going nuts.
Many of the apps are huge because they contain language translations so that people who don't read english can use them. As for the huge memory footprint, this is what swap is used for. As the system needs more memory, inactive memory gets paged to disk and the freed memory is turned over to the process that needs it. (A little free with the details but this is the basic idea.) Just because the process in question has an ungodly amount of memory assigned to it doesn't mean that it is *using* it, most of it is probably paged out to disk and is being used by another process.
Ok, time to put away the crack pipe. I often open more than 15 tabs. (Porn, yea!) I have no issues switching from tab to tab. In fact many times I will have multiple windows open each with their own set of loading tabs. My only limit is the size of my pipe. (But I responded to an email that promised to make it at least two inches longer.) So I say again, crack kills.
Um, I don't use iChat. But this sounds more like a NAT configuration problem than a iChat issue.
The default settings for the DiskImages.framework is located here: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DiskImages.frame work/Versions/A/Resources/defaults.plist
/Volumes/ to whatever one likes, say /Users/MyAccount/
One can change an interesting setting called "force-idme" from the standard "no" to "yes" and the DiskImages.framework will treat the diskimage as if it was an "internet-enabled disk image." What this means is that it will mount the diskimage, copy it to the current directory as a folder then un-mount and then moves the disk image to the trash. There, the exploit no longer has a known location to work with. Another setting just happens to be "mount-point" which can also be changed from the default
Like the subject line says, simple fix.
NarratorDan
He said Mac afficionado not command line afficionado, there is a clear difference. If it doesn't have a candy colored lickable button then it's no Mac.
lol
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With the help of a bit of software called XPostFacto, I have Panther running on my PowerMac 9500. Rock solid and pretty fast. Just goes to show that a good OS doesn't need top of the line hardware.
NarratorDan
News flash - The question was how would the US react if Australia tried to extradite a US citizen for an Australian crime committed on US soil.
Geeze, not reading the article is bad enough, but not reading the post you're commenting on?!?
NarratorDan
At this point making consoles backwards compatible is a smart move for makers. Not only do you get to leverage your new exclusive games, but you also get to leverage your installed customer base.
When making any kind of puchase I look at everything from the cost of the new console to the cost of getting enough games for it that I do not get bored after a month. If the console choices do not support my old games I will look at other systems and compare them, if it does support my old games then the choice becomes more of an "upgrade" with minimal cost rather than a replacement with maximum cost.
In my personal opinion if the PS2 did not support the PS1 games then the XBox would have gained a greater share of the console market.
NarratorDan
I agree with most of what you said, but if the broadcast bare breast that you are referring to is the Janet Jackson breast, the nipple was NOT covered. Her nipple(s?) is/are pierced and what you saw was a stylized "sun" that was held in place by the bar through the nipple. And the nipple is clearly seen sticking out in the center of the "sun." So for all tends and purposes, the breast was fully exposed. I personally wish that more breasts were broadcast, but the US is too much of a prudish nation to allow that to happen.
NarratorDan
Another one is the name of the folder that is found in the trash after a crash, "Items rescued from [drive name]" I would name my drive "Chapaquitic."
For those who don't know, google for "Chapaquitic"
NarratorDan
LOL, That bit about no edit in /. was supposed to be a joke. if one could edit posts at /. it would be a nightmare.
And I don't mind being wrong if it's true.
NarratorDan
DOH! My physics professor would have me up front trying to defend that until I realized that the reaction doesn't balance out. Thanks. Oh, why does /. have no edit?
NarratorDan
You raise some good points. The lack of a magnetic field is a strong sign of a major impact at some point in the past. This could have been one of two types of events. The first one is that the impact so dissrupted Mars that the full surface became fluid or semi-fluid (molten or highly techtonicly active) thereby erasing the most visible evidence of the large impact. The second one is that the impact created a crator that was deep enough that magma from the core flowed in and filled it, eventually creating a volcano on the spot. Olimpus Mons? One way to detect evidence of this impact is to look for non-techtonic mountain ranges on the side of the planet oposite the impact site; course this only works if the impact had a 80 to 100 degree angle of entry to the surface.
I personally believe that it was an impact that stripped the atmosphere of Mars.
NarratorDan
ARG!! Must. Not. Answer...
A major difference between the sun and a large jar is mass and pressure. Stars must be larger than a certain mass threshold to be capable of a supernova event. At this time I forget what that threshold is but I do know that if Jupiter (sometimes considered a brown dwarf star) collapsed to become a true star it could not end its life in a supernova but it could produce nova events during its life span. The reason for this is that it does not have the mass to generate the inward pressure needed to suppress the outward pressure of the reaction. As the outward pressure builds up it will eventually become greater than the inward pressure, once it does it will become a nova. If the inward pressure is sufficiently powerful the star will begin to fuse higher elements (e.g. H+H=He, He+He=Li, etc.) and the outward pressure will exceed the inward pressure and in this case will result in a supernova destroying the star. A jar (or even an eventual facility based on this technology) simply is not massive enough to produce a supernova; this is what makes fusion as a power source so attractive. Without monitoring and adjustments the reaction simply ends. Our current fission systems do not require an artificial environment to make them function. I.E. the fission reactions have occurred naturally here on Earth and can have uncontrollable catastrophic results if not carefully monitored and adjusted.
NarratorDan
Yeah, kids these days. When Lt, Columbo did the o'l "one more thing" the bad guy knew he (or she sometimes) was going to jail. When Steve Jobs does it everyone knows that Apple is going to avoid bankruptcy for one more year.
NarratorDan
I wouldn't call you an idiot, just uninformed. All of those ideas that you just listed probably did and do happen because they occur here on Earth. Vapor in the air brings us rain, plants break down some H2O to obtain Hydrogen, chemical reactions with water happen all the time, and some does float off into space (thats why Helium is such a rare element in our atmosphere; but Earth still has quite a volume of water and Mars does not. Why? There are several theories as to where the volume of water went. One of the ones that holds the most promise as being correct is that something in the past (meteor, bottled water companies, etc) caused it to disappear. Mars is massive enough to hold a larger atmosphere than it currently has. This little factoid indicates that something must have either struck Mars or came so close that it stripped the atmosphere off into space. In low pressure liquids boil at a lower temperature so much of the water would have replenished the atmosphere with much of it also escaping into space. But what did remain would have followed the normal water cycle here on Earth, ie cooling and falling on the polar regions or raining down as either rain or snow in other areas. Since we know about the massive dust storms that seasonally cover Mars it stands to reason that many areas could be covered in tons of dust that would soak up the water like a sponge. Now if the object struck a large, deep lake or ocean, water would have formed a great deal of the ejecta from the impact. What didn't escape with the impact would have increased the volume of the atmosphere beyond what the mass of Mars could hold and any extra would have also escaped.
I personally think that this would have happened about the time life was forming here on Earth as this would give the planet enough time to erase the evidence of the impact. And the fact that there is almost no Oxygen on Mars probably indicates that the event occurred before life (if it tried) formed
NarratorDan
The first time I did this trick my friend's HD had stopped working, it never spun up and the heads never moved not even a *click-click*. After checking the drive with an o-scope it was determined to be a hardware issue rather than a PCB issue. So we tried dropping it on it's side to dislodge the heads but it didn't work. So as a last ditch effort I suggested that we open it up and manually free the heads or spin the platters. Since I had disassembled many dead HDs for the nice magnets on the head arms it was decided that I would be the one to do it. Once I got it open we discovered the heads were tightly wedged up onto the platter spindle! The head arm had somehow passed the stop and gotten stuck. Gently twisting the platters (put a screw into axis of the spindle and twisting it with a screwdriver) while pushing the arm back away from the spindle dislodged it. After checking to make sure that all parts were moving freely and that everything was secure we powered it up and bingo! Kinda neat watching a HD operate. Put the lid back on and he backed up all his data and eventually used that drive for another two years problem free! Pretty amazing since the whole operation took place on his bedroom floor not a clean room in sight.
NarratorDan
Yes, the lack of a QE (Quartz Extreme) graphics card will degrade the performance of OSX. Being unable to offload all the QE effects forces OSX to do it.
That being said; I have OSX Panther on two machines that are both "Unsupported" An older PowerMac 9500 and a more recent G3 (beige desktop.) I have the same graphics card in both (ATI Radeon 7000) but QE is only enabled on the PM 9500 and in graphics tests it scores much higher than the G3 which for some reason will not enable QE.
NarratorDan
eBay, nuff said.
However, you are better off buying a Mac from Apple or one of their distributers. The reason: Applecare. It is a three year warranty that covers almost everything (put down that soldering iron) and Apple will pay the shipping on many items.
But if what you want is to get your hands on some PPC hardware then Pegasas PC is the route for you.
http://www.pegasosppc.com/
NarratorDan
...can't hurt you so relax Bob, and keep flying sou..[THUD!]
"Look mommy a dead parrot!"
NarratorDan
While that is true, the updates for OS 10.2 only total 4 + one combo update. The other updates are for applications such as iTunes, iPod, iMovie, etc. And the updates don't break anything.
NarratorDan
You go girl! Those mescaline viagra oppressors need to die!
NarratorDan
I've also voted in every election since I turned 18. I was barely eleven in 1984, so it's not as many votes as you have made. However, the simple fact is less that 40% of Americans vote. What does that say about American democracy? Answer: Most Americans don't care enough to vote. There are too many reasons for me to count.
Mr. (Miss||Mrs.) AC, my hat is off to you, and here is a toast, "may this election signal the turning point in American political apathy."
NarratorDan
Yea, I responded to an AC.
Most Americans don't vote, so I think it's only fitting that the people who are most effected by American policy now have a chance to have their votes counted!
NarratorDan
Since I switched to OSX and started to use Mail.app I've found the adaptive junk mail filters to be quite good. Plus the ability to bounce spam makes those spamers who actually maintain their lists remove my name automatically. I've left Mail in the learn mode so that I can declare a spam to be junk if it gets past the filter. I have also made a separate filter for mail marked as junk, so after glancing to make sure that it is indeed junk I bounce it. I get fewer and fewer junk mail each passing day. I've even received some "you have been removed" messages. Whether it is a scam or not I don't know. But, I am very happy with Mail.
NarratorDan