For those who posted above "you're totally wrong" or talked about battery cycles or whatever, this is an actual issue.
I have three PowerBooks (TiBook, Pismo, Wallstreet). The batteries of the three vary and at least one is, in fact, very new. After upgrading each to 10.2.4, I saw the exact same behavior, which was previously present in none of them.
- The reported battery life is about half what it was before the update was installed.
- If you work through the low power warnings, you'll be rewarded with a fair amount of life in them as the power meter reads 0%.
- At some point, the book will just sleep with no warning. No, this point isn't quite where you would have expected timewise -- it's not just the reporting of the available power that's at fault.
I've had a stack of powerbooks going back to the Powerbook 100. I still have a 520c -- if you want to talk about battery cell lifetime issues, that's the one to start with.
This is totally new behavior for each of the affected systems. The recent system update makes it a culprit, although it's very possibly something else.
There's nothing to this. You probably don't need additional hardware. Maybe a sound card. I have a 500 Mhz P3 box simultaneously encoding two video+audio streams full time. One is Windows Media and one is Real. The box is more than enough. You're talking about encoding just audio. One computer should do fine.
Get & install two soundcards. Connect the outputs of each source into the line in of each.
OK, Kevin, so what's the real story? I know what I read in Wired, in exceprts from Takedown, and in endless 2600 articles. But give me the straight scoop: what's your side of the story, why you ended up in jail?
You've practically been granted sainthood by 2600. They started a movement that culminated in every geek in America pulling for you. But your fifteen minutes are up. Only us geeks are listening. Give us the straight scoop.
I was in Raleigh the day you got busted, and I vaguely remember the litany of offenses they named on WRAL when they showed your perp walk. You broke the law, right? You stole credit card numbers? You stole files from Shimomura's computer? (Which, yes, seems a bit less serious when I get fucking SPAM with files from random clueless people's computers, but that's a finer point and the law is notoriously bad about fine points.)
Clearly you've got skills, and I'm really looking forward to reading your book. But a movement based on your going to jail? Were you really, honestly, truly unjustly persecuted? Or, on reflection, did you crimes against society genuinely require some time in the pokey?
The problem isn't the APSL, it's the iTunes SDK license that developers have to agree to. That license keeps developers from making software plug-ins (except for visualizers).
In cases like this, just don't agree to the API license. There are tools for digging into Cocoa apps and figuring out the class interfaces. I've already dug into iCal and iChat -- they don't have APIs, but there is some interesting stuff in there. (If I'd been looking, I might have seen some of the unnanouced iLife hooks talked about at Macworld!)
That said, I don't think iTunes is Cocoa. It used to be Soundjam, right? So it's probably Carbon and the obj-c digging tools won't help much. Not sure the best way to figure out Carbon APIs. In the old days, we'd use MacNosy to "decompile" the code. Not sure what the Carbon equivalent would be.
If you don't absolutely need open source, you could look into PowerSchool (http://www.apple.com/education/powerschool/). It's got scheduling, reports, transcripts, report cards, etc. Runs on Unix or Windows servers. I remember reading that the guy who used to head up Apple's OS 9.1 development moved over to the PowerSchool team.
Wrong. Lingo is the programmming langage for Macromedia Director/Shockwave, not Flash. JavaScript (ECMAScript)is the programming language in Flash. Besides, Lingo's been substantially cleaned up since "dot syntax" was implemented and overall it isn't all that bad.
If a developer does a full port, then the game can also be ported to other *NIX OSes with a decent installed base (i.e. Mac OS X) and even other CPU architectures that don't support x86 instructions. That's why you can play MAME on anything, including that wacky digital camera. I say port 'em, folks.
The software in question is just some source code and the USB drivers. It's sample code for writing your own app to talk to the device. No linux distribution. No kernel or kernel mods. There's no GPL violation here at all. In fact, the source code is GPL'd itself.
The point is, they're not supporting linux with jukebox software or an encoder, but they're letting everyone roll their own.
Also, the PJB-100 itself doesn't run linux internally...that would be overkill. But still it's really nice. I got mine last month and listen to it every day. I've got about 50 CDs in it right now.
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For those who posted above "you're totally wrong" or talked about battery cycles or whatever, this is an actual issue.
I have three PowerBooks (TiBook, Pismo, Wallstreet). The batteries of the three vary and at least one is, in fact, very new. After upgrading each to 10.2.4, I saw the exact same behavior, which was previously present in none of them.
- The reported battery life is about half what it was before the update was installed.
- If you work through the low power warnings, you'll be rewarded with a fair amount of life in them as the power meter reads 0%.
- At some point, the book will just sleep with no warning. No, this point isn't quite where you would have expected timewise -- it's not just the reporting of the available power that's at fault.
I've had a stack of powerbooks going back to the Powerbook 100. I still have a 520c -- if you want to talk about battery cell lifetime issues, that's the one to start with.
This is totally new behavior for each of the affected systems. The recent system update makes it a culprit, although it's very possibly something else.
There's nothing to this. You probably don't need additional hardware. Maybe a sound card. I have a 500 Mhz P3 box simultaneously encoding two video+audio streams full time. One is Windows Media and one is Real. The box is more than enough. You're talking about encoding just audio. One computer should do fine.
Get & install two soundcards. Connect the outputs of each source into the line in of each.
Get a copy of Darwin Streaming Server or Helix Server or any of the shoutcast MP3 streaming things.
The benefit to using Darwin or Helix is that they're made to record from live input rather than just streaming files on the drive.
OK, Kevin, so what's the real story? I know what I read in Wired, in exceprts from Takedown, and in endless 2600 articles. But give me the straight scoop: what's your side of the story, why you ended up in jail?
You've practically been granted sainthood by 2600. They started a movement that culminated in every geek in America pulling for you. But your fifteen minutes are up. Only us geeks are listening. Give us the straight scoop.
I was in Raleigh the day you got busted, and I vaguely remember the litany of offenses they named on WRAL when they showed your perp walk. You broke the law, right? You stole credit card numbers? You stole files from Shimomura's computer? (Which, yes, seems a bit less serious when I get fucking SPAM with files from random clueless people's computers, but that's a finer point and the law is notoriously bad about fine points.)
Clearly you've got skills, and I'm really looking forward to reading your book. But a movement based on your going to jail? Were you really, honestly, truly unjustly persecuted? Or, on reflection, did you crimes against society genuinely require some time in the pokey?
The problem isn't the APSL, it's the iTunes SDK license that developers have to agree to. That license keeps developers from making software plug-ins (except for visualizers).
In cases like this, just don't agree to the API license. There are tools for digging into Cocoa apps and figuring out the class interfaces. I've already dug into iCal and iChat -- they don't have APIs, but there is some interesting stuff in there. (If I'd been looking, I might have seen some of the unnanouced iLife hooks talked about at Macworld!)
That said, I don't think iTunes is Cocoa. It used to be Soundjam, right? So it's probably Carbon and the obj-c digging tools won't help much. Not sure the best way to figure out Carbon APIs. In the old days, we'd use MacNosy to "decompile" the code. Not sure what the Carbon equivalent would be.
If you don't absolutely need open source, you could look into PowerSchool (http://www.apple.com/education/powerschool/). It's got scheduling, reports, transcripts, report cards, etc. Runs on Unix or Windows servers. I remember reading that the guy who used to head up Apple's OS 9.1 development moved over to the PowerSchool team.
Wrong. Lingo is the programmming langage for Macromedia Director/Shockwave, not Flash. JavaScript (ECMAScript)is the programming language in Flash. Besides, Lingo's been substantially cleaned up since "dot syntax" was implemented and overall it isn't all that bad.
If a developer does a full port, then the game can also be ported to other *NIX OSes with a decent installed base (i.e. Mac OS X) and even other CPU architectures that don't support x86 instructions. That's why you can play MAME on anything, including that wacky digital camera. I say port 'em, folks.
Wow, such uninformed panic.
The software in question is just some source code and the USB drivers. It's sample code for writing your own app to talk to the device. No linux distribution. No kernel or kernel mods. There's no GPL violation here at all. In fact, the source code is GPL'd itself.
The point is, they're not supporting linux with jukebox software or an encoder, but they're letting everyone roll their own.
Also, the PJB-100 itself doesn't run linux internally...that would be overkill. But still it's really nice. I got mine last month and listen to it every day. I've got about 50 CDs in it right now.