The paint I've been using for my Blackintosh is the Pacta Racing Finish by Testors. It's got an incredibly professional looking finish to it and it's rock solid once it dries. I painted my G3 from the inside of the translucent panels so that the outside would'nt have that icky painted feel, but I found that the paint was good enough to paint the apple logos on the outside. Their website seems to be having problems with ordering though. My last order hasn't come through, and it's been a couple weeks...
Talk about using your friends as stepping stools... development on this must've began while they were working on Dreamcast with Sega!
Your USB 2.0 bandwidth is gonna die real fast...
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...if you're trying to copy from one USB storage device to another. You see, USB 2.0 doesn't support peer-to-peer networking. It's on a star topology, so if you wanna copy from one volume to another, the info has to go from the first device to the computer, and then goes through the USB chain a second time to the destination storage volume. That eats up double the bandwith it normally should and results in horrible latency problems. Firewire, on the other hand, doesn't require a CPU to babysit the information from one point to its destination. If data needs to get from one point to another, it goes straight there without needing to go through the computer and hence travels through the pipeline once. Intel designated USB to be the cheap, low-cost connection standard, saving chipset cost by forcing the processor to handle a lot of the traffic overhead and it's beginning to show.
Now that we have that taken care of, Firewire is here. Now. My company has a Sony DV cam that I record stuff with. I dump it to my computer using Firewire and Final Cut Pro (which remotely controls the camera through the Firewire, let's see USB do that) and edit it on my G3. I dump it out to the camera through Firewire and the camera dumps it to a video tape through an S-Video cable. I am doing this now. Can USB do this at 720x486 @ 60 fields per second? No. Will USB 2.0 be able to do this, whenever it comes out? Maybe, but I'm not risking any of my video editing projects on it, considering what I've read about its latency problems.
This article talks in-depth about how badly USB 2.0 will handle heavy traffic.
Here is a particularly interesting note: There is another issue there as well. If you are going to keep backwards compatibility, then all your older or slow speed devices (like Printers and Keyboards) will slow down the bus. If you have a on slow device (say a printer) that is talking at 12Mbps and taking 50% of the total bandwidth and another device (say a Disk Drive) trying to talk at 240Mbps and they split the bus (each gets 50% of the time) -- then the fast device can really only get about 120Mbps (or less). The slow device is actually stealing 120Mb of potential bandwidth (50% of the time) even if it is only sending 6Mb of data in that time. Now imagine that you have 15 slow devices and one fast one (a not so uncommon scenario)
Re:FireWire dying because it's covered by a patent
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Nope. Almost a year ago, Apple settled with everyone by lowering the licensing drastically.
Just out of curiosity, is that what they call the difference between 35mm and 72mm?
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I bought my computer with DVD, and after the first 2 months of playing scifi movies in the corner of my monitor nonstop, I hardly ever use it for movies now. However, one really nice thing about DVD drives is that because of its improved ability to read, it can read off of CDRW's and cheap, low-quality CDR's (the almost transparent kind) that regular CD-ROM drives may have trouble with.
My advice is to get DVD. It's not much more expensive than a CD-ROM, and although you're probably not going to use the extra functionality all the time, it's nice to have it there when you want/need it.
The graphical clients are WAAAY slower. My friend runs the client on his Gateway with a 400mhz Celeron and it takes him about 40 hours. His G3 was taking about 15 hours on the graphical client (don't know if there's a non-graphical client for Mac).
A sniveling groveler says: I have a black G3 for anyone who wants to buy one... please buy it... I wanna buy one of these new things...
*sigh* Expect to see mine on eBay or uBid sometime in the next couple of weeks... considering how badass these new machines are gonna be, I'm not sure how much demand there'll be for used G3's...
I hope nobody else thought I was accusing FreeBSD of being insecure! It just sounded like Bendawg thought Hotmail was running on top of Windows. Er, maybe not. Whatever. Bottom line is, MS can make anything insecure.
For a while, Mac users have been able to use PC Voodoo2 cards with their Macs thanks to Mesa (except for Diamond's MonsterII cards AFAIK). Being a Mac owner and wishing for better 3D than my Rage128, I can certainly appreciate the work these guys did.
Yeah, it's called MotionJPEG, and it renders out every single frame which is why it's popular among film editing systems and high-end video boards. MPEG and Sorensen (Quicktime3) use difference frames, which is why you get weird hiccups when you cut a stream and paste it somewhere else.
Good question. Microsoft's stance is that Win98 Second Edition will support firewire, but I'm not sure if that means just cameras, or if that includes hard drives. Firewire is supposed to be very fault-tolerant. I remember a demo where Steve Jobs was playing a music video off an external firewire drive, and when he unplugged it, it paused at the last frame it got. He plugged it back in and it picked up where it left off. The only thing wrong with firewire... is the damn price.
For those who don't know, LinuxPPC and BeOS won't run natively on Macs or Mac clones. I installed LinuxPPC on my Blue G3 and had to make it a dual-boot between MacOS and Linux. Why? Because the damn machine won't boot into anything except MacOS! LinuxPPC waits until the MacOS starts to boot the computer up, then hijacks the system. The sameannoying setup applied when I installed BeOS on my PowerComputing clone.
Now I love my MacOS and all, but I'd like to be able to run BeOS and Linux without having MacOS hiding underneath somewhere. If these PowerPC boards actually make it to the shelves, I'll be first in line.
I've been drooling over getting an Athlon system for months, and now I'm reading all sorts of articles mentioning that AMD might not be able to manufacture enough of these nuggets, or maybe there won't be enough motherboard support, etc.
I wonder about how hard Carnegie-Mellon is encouraging females into their CS depts. I'm all for encouraging young women into CS/IT, but I hope it's not with artificially positive reinforcement and promises that CS would be a wonderful major for many girls who might not be prepared for it. My biggest mistake was going into a Writing major when I should have gone into Art or CS, simply because I got a lot of positive reinforcement towards writing. (I hate it now)
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The paint I've been using for my Blackintosh is the Pacta Racing Finish by Testors. It's got an incredibly professional looking finish to it and it's rock solid once it dries. I painted my G3 from the inside of the translucent panels so that the outside would'nt have that icky painted feel, but I found that the paint was good enough to paint the apple logos on the outside. Their website seems to be having problems with ordering though. My last order hasn't come through, and it's been a couple weeks...
If you read the article, you'd know that this console _will_ be running a Microsoft OS. A modified version of Windows CE.
Talk about using your friends as stepping stools... development on this must've began while they were working on Dreamcast with Sega!
...if you're trying to copy from one USB storage device to another. You see, USB 2.0 doesn't support peer-to-peer networking. It's on a star topology, so if you wanna copy from one volume to another, the info has to go from the first device to the computer, and then goes through the USB chain a second time to the destination storage volume. That eats up double the bandwith it normally should and results in horrible latency problems. Firewire, on the other hand, doesn't require a CPU to babysit the information from one point to its destination. If data needs to get from one point to another, it goes straight there without needing to go through the computer and hence travels through the pipeline once. Intel designated USB to be the cheap, low-cost connection standard, saving chipset cost by forcing the processor to handle a lot of the traffic overhead and it's beginning to show.
Now that we have that taken care of, Firewire is here. Now. My company has a Sony DV cam that I record stuff with. I dump it to my computer using Firewire and Final Cut Pro (which remotely controls the camera through the Firewire, let's see USB do that) and edit it on my G3. I dump it out to the camera through Firewire and the camera dumps it to a video tape through an S-Video cable. I am doing this now. Can USB do this at 720x486 @ 60 fields per second? No. Will USB 2.0 be able to do this, whenever it comes out? Maybe, but I'm not risking any of my video editing projects on it, considering what I've read about its latency problems.
This article talks in-depth about how badly USB 2.0 will handle heavy traffic.
Here is a particularly interesting note:
There is another issue there as well. If you are going to keep backwards compatibility, then all your older or slow speed devices (like Printers and Keyboards) will slow down the bus. If you have a on slow device (say a printer) that is talking at 12Mbps and taking 50% of the total bandwidth and another device (say a Disk Drive) trying to talk at 240Mbps and they split the bus (each gets 50% of the time) -- then the fast device can really only get about 120Mbps (or less). The slow device is actually stealing 120Mb of potential bandwidth (50% of the time) even if it is only sending 6Mb of data in that time. Now imagine that you have 15 slow devices and one fast one (a not so uncommon scenario)
Nope. Almost a year ago, Apple settled with everyone by lowering the licensing drastically.
Just out of curiosity, is that what they call the difference between 35mm and 72mm?
I bought my computer with DVD, and after the first 2 months of playing scifi movies in the corner of my monitor nonstop, I hardly ever use it for movies now. However, one really nice thing about DVD drives is that because of its improved ability to read, it can read off of CDRW's and cheap, low-quality CDR's (the almost transparent kind) that regular CD-ROM drives may have trouble with.
My advice is to get DVD. It's not much more expensive than a CD-ROM, and although you're probably not going to use the extra functionality all the time, it's nice to have it there when you want/need it.
Actually, I think Compaq and Dell are in different markets. Right now Apple's drawing concentric red circles on SGI and Intergraph.
The graphical clients are WAAAY slower. My friend runs the client on his Gateway with a 400mhz Celeron and it takes him about 40 hours. His G3 was taking about 15 hours on the graphical client (don't know if there's a non-graphical client for Mac).
A sniveling groveler says: I have a black G3 for anyone who wants to buy one... please buy it... I wanna buy one of these new things...
*sigh* Expect to see mine on eBay or uBid sometime in the next couple of weeks... considering how badass these new machines are gonna be, I'm not sure how much demand there'll be for used G3's...
I hope nobody else thought I was accusing FreeBSD of being insecure! It just sounded like Bendawg thought Hotmail was running on top of Windows. Er, maybe not. Whatever. Bottom line is, MS can make anything insecure.
For a while, Mac users have been able to use PC Voodoo2 cards with their Macs thanks to Mesa (except for Diamond's MonsterII cards AFAIK). Being a Mac owner and wishing for better 3D than my Rage128, I can certainly appreciate the work these guys did.
See for yourself.
Yeah, it's called MotionJPEG, and it renders out every single frame which is why it's popular among film editing systems and high-end video boards. MPEG and Sorensen (Quicktime3) use difference frames, which is why you get weird hiccups when you cut a stream and paste it somewhere else.
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Good question. Microsoft's stance is that Win98 Second Edition will support firewire, but I'm not sure if that means just cameras, or if that includes hard drives. Firewire is supposed to be very fault-tolerant. I remember a demo where Steve Jobs was playing a music video off an external firewire drive, and when he unplugged it, it paused at the last frame it got. He plugged it back in and it picked up where it left off. The only thing wrong with firewire... is the damn price.
Hell, then Halflife musta been the most feature-rich game I've ever played!
Need to look more carefully. Thanks
Sounds good, but I can't find any appropriate flashers. If anyone out there knows how to flash OpenFirmware for Linux or Be, please email me!
For those who don't know, LinuxPPC and BeOS won't run natively on Macs or Mac clones. I installed LinuxPPC on my Blue G3 and had to make it a dual-boot between MacOS and Linux. Why? Because the damn machine won't boot into anything except MacOS! LinuxPPC waits until the MacOS starts to boot the computer up, then hijacks the system. The sameannoying setup applied when I installed BeOS on my PowerComputing clone.
Now I love my MacOS and all, but I'd like to be able to run BeOS and Linux without having MacOS hiding underneath somewhere. If these PowerPC boards actually make it to the shelves, I'll be first in line.
Be and Real just announced they're bringing RealPlayer to BeOS
I've been drooling over getting an Athlon system for months, and now I'm reading all sorts of articles mentioning that AMD might not be able to manufacture enough of these nuggets, or maybe there won't be enough motherboard support, etc.
*sigh*
I wonder about how hard Carnegie-Mellon is encouraging females into their CS depts. I'm all for encouraging young women into CS/IT, but I hope it's not with artificially positive reinforcement and promises that CS would be a wonderful major for many girls who might not be prepared for it. My biggest mistake was going into a Writing major when I should have gone into Art or CS, simply because I got a lot of positive reinforcement towards writing. (I hate it now)