"The thing I'm faintly surprised / disappointed at is that no one has mad a combination carrying case and battery pack for a Mac Mini _and_ Wacom Cintiq..."
Maybe because Cintiq's are, like, almost two grand? I know a few companies that have them but not many people. Even the guy who draws Penny Arcade uses a 12x18" screenless Wacom tablet.
I tried Darwin on Intel earlier this year on a 1 GHz Athlon and was amazed at how slow it was. Like, typing 'ls/' gave output at a rate of a couple lines per second. I'm not exaggerating, it was like what you get when you run 'ls' against a floppy. What kind of experience have others had? Has anyone installed Darwin on Intel and wound up with a usable box? It's entirely possible something went wrong for me, or I did something wrong myself, but I want to see what it's been like for others before I go around saying 'Darwin on Intel is slow.'
After playing whack-a-mole with processes that would respawn themselves after being killed via task manager and would re-write themselves into the registry if you deleted the reg key, I finally remembered to start up in Safe Mode (press F8 repeatedly as soon as your computer finishes POST) and then remove the keys. My kid borked up a machine pretty bad and after running SB:S&D and AA that was what it took to kill the last little bugger.
Not much of a problem... If you do not tick the "open safe files" check box in the prefs.
My copy of Tiger just showed up this weekend and I haven't had a chance to install it yet. Anyone know if the "Open safe files" box is checked by default, as it has been in every previous release of Safari?
If so then yes, it very much is a problem. Remember, we're talking about the unknowing masses here, who start every browser session with a look at http://www.apple.com/startpage because they don't know they can change it.
And the 6502 is so great, it'll still be in use in the year 3000.
All kidding aside, great post. I was only in 4th grade when the Apple ][ came out (but my elementary school had 3, w00t!) and missed a lot of this stuff.
"The satellite imagery for this is being recorded at a resolution of 300 m. For comparison, the most zoomed in you can get on GoogleMaps is 2 m per a pixel."
If that's the case, why does the article say it has "a resolution three times sharper than any previous satellite map"? Were the images that Google uses from aerial photography--that is, pics taken from airplanes, not satellites? I'm confused here.
I wasn't making a distinction between mirroring and extended desktop, I was talking about analog vs. digital out. iBooks and iMacs have, and will continue to have, VGA (analog) out. They will not have DVI for quite a while. The parent was asking when DVI out would be available. My guess is, not any time soon.
RTFpage. (or, technically, the page that the linked page links to.) Among other things, "The Bonjour Printer Wizard is also included and allows Windows computers to print to Bonjour networked printers, including USB shared printers connected to the AirPort Extreme and AirPort Express Base Stations. Since Apple first launched Bonjour in 2002, every major maker of network printers has adopted Bonjour."
Note that Bonjour is just Apple's name for ZeroConf, an open IETF standard. http://www.zeroconf.org/ Basically, it's an automagically-configuring network language, like AppleTalk, IPX, and NETBIOS, but it runs over IP, with or without fixed addresses, with or without a DHCP server.
"Don't let its elegant and easy-to-use interface fool you. Beneath the surface of Mac OS X lies an industrial-strength UNIX foundation..."
And a big giant "UNIX based" graphic right at the smacking top of the page.
(Which, I would say, is a bit more than "a Unix-compatitbility layer bolted on.")
In any case, if I make an earring out of gold, it might be called an earring, but it's also still gold. It's not like it's a non-UNIX-based OS with a POSIX shell, like BeOS. It's not like Apple built OS X on top of UNIX and did everything they could to hide its roots. Terminal (bash) is right there in/Applications/Utilities and a custom version of X11 that Apple went out of their way to create comes on the CD.
Asking "What is UNIX?" is almost like asking how many angels can fit on the head of a pin, and while everything you said may be true (about not going after the unix trademark, or calling themselves a unix vendor), for me and 99% of the rest of the world, it comes down to this: if it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it's a duck. And furthermore, if the vendor says it's *based* on a duck, so much the better.:-)
"My problem with iMacs is the following: there is no separation between the monitor and the computer."
Then don't buy one.
"...I highly doubt that an iMac will be useful after 4 years."
Depends on who you are and what you do. I did a website for a guy when the 266 MHz iMacs were brand new. (1999, 2000?) He bought one at the time and still uses it to this day. As long as his email works and he can visit his site and a few others, he's happy.
Besides, it'll *always* work as a kick-ass DVD player. Add an eyeTV and it's a PVR. I mean, it's not like you have to throw it away once you get a new machine.
"Ultimately, I do not care about the speed of my CPU, because sitting in front of a computer is the last fucking thing I want to do after working 60 hour weeks."
Then why are you buying computers at all?
"With iMacs, you seem to pay for both: a computer and a screen."
Well duh. But compare the price to a base PowerMac and it's suddenly pretty impressive. Other than expandability and small differences in bus speed, max RAM, etc., the iMac has it all over the base PowerMac.
"Why bother? You can pick up a nice 20" LCD from Apple for $800 ($700 if you can get educational discount) and that is all I want."
Then buy it. Sorry, but your 'rant' is really lame--"Mack trucks are stupid. I'll never need to haul that much. I'm buying a Prius instead."
And, based on history, I can't imagine the "consumer" (key word thre) Macs ever supporting multiple digital displays. In other words, it'll never happen. (Or at least, not until far enough into the future that it won't matter.) So if you're waiting for it, give up, and if you can live without it, jump in any time, 'cause it'll never change.
Not sure if Tiger is like this, but in Panther you could hit command-Q to quit once the questions start getting intrusive. That skips you over the "getting to know you" questions and brings you to the account setup page.
To get into Sea World in Orlando with my annual pass I (usually) have to put my hand into some gizmo that measures my it--how far apart my fingertips are, etc. My last pass had my picture on it but my current one doesn't.
Maybe his point was that the California Gold Rush happened over 100 years before Ken wrote The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and that that's where Ken got the name from, and that that's what the term originally meant? Iunno, just a guess...
I've done a fair number of tests comparing speeds from moving files via 10/100, gigE, firewire, and IP over FireWire. Long story short: 100bT and anything over firewire are neck-and-neck. Gigabit Ethernet blows them away. So set up the box as a server, using gig-E if possible. Not sure about the PC, but you can connect two gig-E Macs with a straight (*not* crossover) cable and they'll automagically connect properly and you get gig-E speeds--like moving a 650 MB disk image in 30 seconds instead of 90 seconds over 10/100, IP-over-FW, or to a firewire disk.
Yeah, it'd be nice if you could just put the PC into target disk mode like a Mac, but you can't. There are some advantages and disadvantages, but I think the advantages of a server--even ignoring the whole "server setup is easy, target disk mode with Intel hardware is just about impossible" thing--would win over using it as an attached disk.
Among other things, you can tuck it anywhere--it doesn't have to be a firewire cable's length away. And since it's networked based, it's easier to share, and can even be accessed (thought more slowly) via wireless.
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"The thing I'm faintly surprised / disappointed at is that no one has mad a combination carrying case and battery pack for a Mac Mini _and_ Wacom Cintiq..."
Maybe because Cintiq's are, like, almost two grand? I know a few companies that have them but not many people. Even the guy who draws Penny Arcade uses a 12x18" screenless Wacom tablet.
I tried Darwin on Intel earlier this year on a 1 GHz Athlon and was amazed at how slow it was. Like, typing 'ls /' gave output at a rate of a couple lines per second. I'm not exaggerating, it was like what you get when you run 'ls' against a floppy. What kind of experience have others had? Has anyone installed Darwin on Intel and wound up with a usable box? It's entirely possible something went wrong for me, or I did something wrong myself, but I want to see what it's been like for others before I go around saying 'Darwin on Intel is slow.'
After playing whack-a-mole with processes that would respawn themselves after being killed via task manager and would re-write themselves into the registry if you deleted the reg key, I finally remembered to start up in Safe Mode (press F8 repeatedly as soon as your computer finishes POST) and then remove the keys. My kid borked up a machine pretty bad and after running SB:S&D and AA that was what it took to kill the last little bugger.
"Article on one page, with screenshots, no ads."
:-)
Wow. Geek nirvana.
Not much of a problem... If you do not tick the "open safe files" check box in the prefs.
My copy of Tiger just showed up this weekend and I haven't had a chance to install it yet. Anyone know if the "Open safe files" box is checked by default, as it has been in every previous release of Safari?
If so then yes, it very much is a problem. Remember, we're talking about the unknowing masses here, who start every browser session with a look at http://www.apple.com/startpage because they don't know they can change it.
And the 6502 is so great, it'll still be in use in the year 3000.
All kidding aside, great post. I was only in 4th grade when the Apple ][ came out (but my elementary school had 3, w00t!) and missed a lot of this stuff.
A bit rant-y, but good info regardless. Thanks!
"The satellite imagery for this is being recorded at a resolution of 300 m. For comparison, the most zoomed in you can get on GoogleMaps is 2 m per a pixel."
If that's the case, why does the article say it has "a resolution three times sharper than any previous satellite map"? Were the images that Google uses from aerial photography--that is, pics taken from airplanes, not satellites? I'm confused here.
I'm gonna put a giant mirror on my roof so I can see what this satellite looks like.
I wasn't making a distinction between mirroring and extended desktop, I was talking about analog vs. digital out. iBooks and iMacs have, and will continue to have, VGA (analog) out. They will not have DVI for quite a while. The parent was asking when DVI out would be available. My guess is, not any time soon.
RTFpage. (or, technically, the page that the linked page links to.) Among other things, "The Bonjour Printer Wizard is also included and allows Windows computers to print to Bonjour networked printers, including USB shared printers connected to the AirPort Extreme and AirPort Express Base Stations. Since Apple first launched Bonjour in 2002, every major maker of network printers has adopted Bonjour."
Note that Bonjour is just Apple's name for ZeroConf, an open IETF standard. http://www.zeroconf.org/ Basically, it's an automagically-configuring network language, like AppleTalk, IPX, and NETBIOS, but it runs over IP, with or without fixed addresses, with or without a DHCP server.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/
/Applications/Utilities and a custom version of X11 that Apple went out of their way to create comes on the CD.
:-)
Headline: "Based on UNIX"
"Don't let its elegant and easy-to-use interface fool you. Beneath the surface of Mac OS X lies an industrial-strength UNIX foundation..."
And a big giant "UNIX based" graphic right at the smacking top of the page.
(Which, I would say, is a bit more than "a Unix-compatitbility layer bolted on.")
In any case, if I make an earring out of gold, it might be called an earring, but it's also still gold. It's not like it's a non-UNIX-based OS with a POSIX shell, like BeOS. It's not like Apple built OS X on top of UNIX and did everything they could to hide its roots. Terminal (bash) is right there in
Asking "What is UNIX?" is almost like asking how many angels can fit on the head of a pin, and while everything you said may be true (about not going after the unix trademark, or calling themselves a unix vendor), for me and 99% of the rest of the world, it comes down to this: if it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it's a duck. And furthermore, if the vendor says it's *based* on a duck, so much the better.
"MacOSX is not unix.. it doesn't have a unix foundation."
You got modded 'Troll', but just in case you are merely misinformed:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/
Right at the top of the page: Based on UNIX. Straight from the horse's mouth.
Kaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnn!
Hey, I'm just happy the submission is free from spelling errors and not a dupe. :-)
Prisons, too.
"My problem with iMacs is the following: there is no separation between the monitor and the computer."
Then don't buy one.
"...I highly doubt that an iMac will be useful after 4 years."
Depends on who you are and what you do. I did a website for a guy when the 266 MHz iMacs were brand new. (1999, 2000?) He bought one at the time and still uses it to this day. As long as his email works and he can visit his site and a few others, he's happy.
Besides, it'll *always* work as a kick-ass DVD player. Add an eyeTV and it's a PVR. I mean, it's not like you have to throw it away once you get a new machine.
"Ultimately, I do not care about the speed of my CPU, because sitting in front of a computer is the last fucking thing I want to do after working 60 hour weeks."
Then why are you buying computers at all?
"With iMacs, you seem to pay for both: a computer and a screen."
Well duh. But compare the price to a base PowerMac and it's suddenly pretty impressive. Other than expandability and small differences in bus speed, max RAM, etc., the iMac has it all over the base PowerMac.
"Why bother? You can pick up a nice 20" LCD from Apple for $800 ($700 if you can get educational discount) and that is all I want."
Then buy it. Sorry, but your 'rant' is really lame--"Mack trucks are stupid. I'll never need to haul that much. I'm buying a Prius instead."
And, based on history, I can't imagine the "consumer" (key word thre) Macs ever supporting multiple digital displays. In other words, it'll never happen. (Or at least, not until far enough into the future that it won't matter.) So if you're waiting for it, give up, and if you can live without it, jump in any time, 'cause it'll never change.
I just made the last payment on my Ferrari laptop!
Not sure if Tiger is like this, but in Panther you could hit command-Q to quit once the questions start getting intrusive. That skips you over the "getting to know you" questions and brings you to the account setup page.
To get into Sea World in Orlando with my annual pass I (usually) have to put my hand into some gizmo that measures my it--how far apart my fingertips are, etc. My last pass had my picture on it but my current one doesn't.
The company uses the apt catchphrase: "It just works!"
... and will soon be sued by Apple... and maybe Microsoft, too.
"Whose trachea do you have to crush with your mind to get a little service around here?"
Maybe his point was that the California Gold Rush happened over 100 years before Ken wrote The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and that that's where Ken got the name from, and that that's what the term originally meant? Iunno, just a guess...
I've done a fair number of tests comparing speeds from moving files via 10/100, gigE, firewire, and IP over FireWire. Long story short: 100bT and anything over firewire are neck-and-neck. Gigabit Ethernet blows them away. So set up the box as a server, using gig-E if possible. Not sure about the PC, but you can connect two gig-E Macs with a straight (*not* crossover) cable and they'll automagically connect properly and you get gig-E speeds--like moving a 650 MB disk image in 30 seconds instead of 90 seconds over 10/100, IP-over-FW, or to a firewire disk.
Yeah, it'd be nice if you could just put the PC into target disk mode like a Mac, but you can't. There are some advantages and disadvantages, but I think the advantages of a server--even ignoring the whole "server setup is easy, target disk mode with Intel hardware is just about impossible" thing--would win over using it as an attached disk.
Among other things, you can tuck it anywhere--it doesn't have to be a firewire cable's length away. And since it's networked based, it's easier to share, and can even be accessed (thought more slowly) via wireless.