I'd mod the parent up if I had any points.. He's right about applications having to be built to be multithreaded. Dual CPU does help a lot though when you have many processes doing things at the same time. I own a dual 1ghz powermac and will agree that a p4 3.06ghz would be faster. Do I care necessarily? No. But it's true none the less. Things like Quartz Extreme definitely help make things snappier though. If I could run OS X using a p4, I would. But I can't, so it doesn't matter. There are other reasons that people choose platforms besides just speed. I personally have many platforms at home (2 x86, 1 alpha, 2 G4s) and they each serve their own purposes. The G4s serve their role as desktops/laptops very well. It's all just a matter of choice. The OS was the major determining factor for me and the processors were 'fast enough'. I'm rambling. EOP
exactly.. I can't dismiss the evidence that points to humans not making it, and I can't prove it either. What I can say, is that the people completely dismissing it on here as all pranks, never have an explanation for the ones that are considered by many to be the truly amazing ones. Namely elliptical crop circles with no broken stalks and the odd radioactivity surrounding the area. I also can't prove that the people who claim to have either seen or know that their crop circles were formed in time periods under 2 hours in length aren't crazy. I also can't prove that they are. My point in all of this is. . . Some of these circles have pretty amazing characteristics that separate them out from the others that are considered hoaxes. I haven't seen any posts yet that can explain the ones that are generally considered to be phenomena. Does all of this mean that creatures from another planet created them? No, but if they didn't, I'd love to see a good explanation for a lot of the more renowned occurances.
I personally run a dynamic dns service (ods.org). We have many users who run their own mail servers. The vast majority of them don't spam:)..I personally agree that it's not going to go away without a change of protocols. Something like im2000 seems like it would be a good idea (http://cr.yp.to/im2000.html). But is this likely to be adopted? No, not at all. I guess that's where we're stuck at right now.
I usually go with at least the amount of ram.. The reason? savecore -- I want to be able to have a crashdump be successfully written out:).. To do that (on most OS revisions) you need at least as much swap as you do memory along with space available wherever you dump it from swap (typically/var/crash)
... Safari is basically the KDE browser with an Apple made skin. Apple sure is taking this whole take open source projects and use them for their own benefit idea to the max.
First of all, there were many improvements made to the rendering engine, it's not just a KHTML skin. Secondly, you really seem like a hypocrite on your last sentence. The source is licensed the way it is for a reason. To allow the reuse of their code in other projects is one of them. Why should they write another rendering engine from scratch when there are other perfectly good ones available for them to use? Hell, they are contributing their imrpovements back to the community. So, what's the problem here?
This could be informative, if it were correct. I don't know why it was slashdotted, but there has been a plugin available for a while to play OGG files in Quicktime and anything that uses the quicktime frameworks (e.g. iTunes). It's not a plugin made by apple nor is it supported by apple. It's just a 3rd party plugin and therefore doesn't really affect Apple's support of it.
Actually, no, you don't.. It comes on new machines in a.mpkg under/Applications somewhere, and it comes on the developer tools CD if you buy the OS itself.
I believe that having as much control as MS has over its market would turn any company into one like MS. I don't see it in apple now, but I'm sure it would happen. The good thing though is that they will never be in the position that MS is in now.
Hypterthreading would shine whether or not the box physically had 2 processors in it. Your argument that all gui apps are multithreaded is mostly true, however what is important is what the threads are doing. It may be multithreaded, but what he is saying is that all of the hard work is only being done in 1 thread. Who cares if the GUI controller lies in another thread? That's not the bottleneck. And as for controlling which processor a thread is bound to.. There are ways to do that in other OS' but that's probably irrelevant. You can generally trust the kernel to schedule threads on separate processors if they're both racking up a lot of CPU time.
I personally love sysinstall, as well as the open/netbsd installers. Simply just because you can get a full, secure system up in a matter of minutes without resorting to things such as jumpstart (solaris) or kickstart (redhat). This is more of a philosophy though, rather than a feature of the installer itself. But anyway, the current work going on for FreeBSD's new installer is at:
http://rtp1.slowblink.com/~libh/sysinstall2/ or http://www.freebsd.org/projects/libh.html
I don't know how much progress has been made on it. I definitely don't think it'll be in 5.0 and I think progress has slowed on it. However, if it's that important to you, and it interests you. I'm sure they wouldn't mind some donations of time and effort;).. There's a mailing list as well, freebsd-libh@freebsd.org. You can probably find the archives at docs.freebsd.org.
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I'd mod the parent up if I had any points.. He's right about applications having to be built to be multithreaded. Dual CPU does help a lot though when you have many processes doing things at the same time. I own a dual 1ghz powermac and will agree that a p4 3.06ghz would be faster. Do I care necessarily? No. But it's true none the less. Things like Quartz Extreme definitely help make things snappier though. If I could run OS X using a p4, I would. But I can't, so it doesn't matter. There are other reasons that people choose platforms besides just speed. I personally have many platforms at home (2 x86, 1 alpha, 2 G4s) and they each serve their own purposes. The G4s serve their role as desktops/laptops very well. It's all just a matter of choice. The OS was the major determining factor for me and the processors were 'fast enough'. I'm rambling. EOP
Cheers,
-JD-
exactly.. I can't dismiss the evidence that points to humans not making it, and I can't prove it either. What I can say, is that the people completely dismissing it on here as all pranks, never have an explanation for the ones that are considered by many to be the truly amazing ones. Namely elliptical crop circles with no broken stalks and the odd radioactivity surrounding the area. I also can't prove that the people who claim to have either seen or know that their crop circles were formed in time periods under 2 hours in length aren't crazy. I also can't prove that they are. My point in all of this is. . . Some of these circles have pretty amazing characteristics that separate them out from the others that are considered hoaxes. I haven't seen any posts yet that can explain the ones that are generally considered to be phenomena. Does all of this mean that creatures from another planet created them? No, but if they didn't, I'd love to see a good explanation for a lot of the more renowned occurances.
Cheers,
-JD-
You can use UFS2 as a root filesystem on 32 bit platforms. This was fixed prior to 5.0-RELEASE. I'm doing it right now in fact with RC3
Cheers,
-JD-
Did you report it?
yup.. ftp-master.freebsd.org iirc :)
I personally run a dynamic dns service (ods.org). We have many users who run their own mail servers. The vast majority of them don't spam :)..I personally agree that it's not going to go away without a change of protocols. Something like im2000 seems like it would be a good idea (http://cr.yp.to/im2000.html). But is this likely to be adopted? No, not at all. I guess that's where we're stuck at right now.
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/todo.html
Cheers,
-JD-
Football is dead.. Slam ball is the future.
I usually go with at least the amount of ram .. The reason? savecore -- I want to be able to have a crashdump be successfully written out :).. To do that (on most OS revisions) you need at least as much swap as you do memory along with space available wherever you dump it from swap (typically /var/crash)
Cheers,
-JD-
Or perhaps look at his username or email :)
First of all, there were many improvements made to the rendering engine, it's not just a KHTML skin. Secondly, you really seem like a hypocrite on your last sentence. The source is licensed the way it is for a reason. To allow the reuse of their code in other projects is one of them. Why should they write another rendering engine from scratch when there are other perfectly good ones available for them to use? Hell, they are contributing their imrpovements back to the community. So, what's the problem here?
They've needed this -- a small G4 based notebook.. They couldn't do it with iBook because they want to keep the iBook at that price point.
-JD-
Keynote? It costs $99.. Are you sure? :)
Were you or your family terrorized by a vicious gang of sysadmins any time in your history? Just curious.
This could be informative, if it were correct. I don't know why it was slashdotted, but there has been a plugin available for a while to play OGG files in Quicktime and anything that uses the quicktime frameworks (e.g. iTunes). It's not a plugin made by apple nor is it supported by apple. It's just a 3rd party plugin and therefore doesn't really affect Apple's support of it.
Cheers,
-JD-
Actually, no, you don't.. It comes on new machines in a .mpkg under /Applications somewhere, and it comes on the developer tools CD if you buy the OS itself.
Either way, it's still put out by apple.
I believe that having as much control as MS has over its market would turn any company into one like MS. I don't see it in apple now, but I'm sure it would happen. The good thing though is that they will never be in the position that MS is in now.
Good plan, but it probably wouldn't work at apple :-).. Few companies are as protective of their trade secrets as them.
You forgot 'slashdot'
I don't think they use sorenson for MP4, only for MOV.
Hypterthreading would shine whether or not the box physically had 2 processors in it. Your argument that all gui apps are multithreaded is mostly true, however what is important is what the threads are doing. It may be multithreaded, but what he is saying is that all of the hard work is only being done in 1 thread. Who cares if the GUI controller lies in another thread? That's not the bottleneck. And as for controlling which processor a thread is bound to.. There are ways to do that in other OS' but that's probably irrelevant. You can generally trust the kernel to schedule threads on separate processors if they're both racking up a lot of CPU time.
Cheers,
-JD-
Runs fine on my tibook 400mhz, despite the lack of quartz extreme. I see a big difference between G3 and G4 systems though.
Last I checked, it just sees 2 processors for every HT processor in the box. So as long as you have SMP enabled, HT should work fine.
I personally love sysinstall, as well as the open/netbsd installers. Simply just because you can get a full, secure system up in a matter of minutes without resorting to things such as jumpstart (solaris) or kickstart (redhat). This is more of a philosophy though, rather than a feature of the installer itself. But anyway, the current work going on for FreeBSD's new installer is at:
r
;).. There's a mailing list as well, freebsd-libh@freebsd.org. You can probably find the archives at docs.freebsd.org.
http://rtp1.slowblink.com/~libh/sysinstall2/
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http://www.freebsd.org/projects/libh.html
I don't know how much progress has been made on it. I definitely don't think it'll be in 5.0 and I think progress has slowed on it. However, if it's that important to you, and it interests you. I'm sure they wouldn't mind some donations of time and effort
Cheers,
-JD-
The resulting installed ports.. such as mysql, or apache, that use /usr/local/etc/rc.d..