The english system is not perfect, but it's not without its merits, either. Try this test:
Draw a straight line of a certain length. Now, draw a perpendicular line at the halfway point. Then draw another to cut one of those pieces in half. And another. And another. And another.
Now, draw another line and try to cut it into ten equal pieces. See?
I forgot to mention, $399 = $499 with a $100 mail-in rebate. Still, a pretty good deal. When that $399 system came out, it had 256 MB RAM and a freakin' DVD+RW. (I shoulda bought one just for the parts.)
They also have a system for $499 ($599-$100) that's a P4 with the similar special do-dads each week. A couple times they've had a free upgrade to a 15" LCD. Upgrading to a digital 18" LCD was only $260 more. OTOH, I'd rather have a good Athlon/Duron system from compaq.com/tv. They currently have a Presario + 15" analog LCD for $447. Descisions, descisions.:-)
$399 at dell.com/tv gets you a similar box PLUS a 17" CRT PLUS speakers PLUS whatever else they have that day on special--the system always comes with a upgrade or two, like more RAM, a bigger HDD, better optical drives, etc. This week you get an upgrade to a CD-RW. Even if you don't need all those things (esp. the CRT & speakers) you could always sell them, easily getting your $80 back.
Unless you a) live in the boonies, can't sell the extras, and need every penny or b) hate MS so much you're willing to screw yourself not to be contaminated by them, you're better off getting a system from the/tv site.
Glad you brought that up. I noticed that the other day and meant to look into it more. We have a lot of OS X boxes around here and I connected to mine with one username and another password and got right through. (I have multiple accounts, all admins, for testing.) So, this problem affects the non-server version of OS X as well.
PS: anyone thinking of forking over $999 for OS X server unlimited should hit smalldog.com: you can get a refurbished xserve (dual-1 GHz G4, 512 MB, 60 GB) for $1899 with a copy of unlimited/server. That's cheaper than a comparable G4 tower and a new copy of Server. Last july, powermax.com had a single-G4/256 MB unit for $1749. Apple doesn't currently have any rfb's for less than $2499.
Note that the DP cluster G5s cost the same as the single regular G5s but a) have a 10-user copy of Server and b) only have one drive bay w/ an 80 GB drive. It'd make a smokin' web/database server, though.
If you are asking "If I set up a computer with non-server Mac OS X and use it as a server, how many other clients can connect to it at a time?" then the answer is "Ten."
Paying for Server gets you the fancy tools, which you may or may not need depending on what you're going to do with the box. Also, Server comes with all of those things installed and ready to go. Putting things like a mail server onto OS X non-server requires work and manual admin, whereas turning on the mail server in Server is a few clicks.
There are also a lot of advanced settings that aren't available (or close enough for mere mortals) in non-server, such as the ability to make and manage multiple AFP and SMB mount points. For example, if you connect to a non-server server via AFP, you can mount your own home directory, anyone else's public directory, or a volume. That's it. No more "make a folder and share it out as..." like Windows and OS 9 have. (Although snb.conf will do whatever you tell it.)
Oh, and some things, like using it for a NetBoot server, are close to, if not totally, impossible. So things like sendmail and samba can work as well as any other UNIX, but Apple tools, like AFP and NetBoot, can't.
We use plain-vanilla OS X for a file server (light use, just a repository for application installers mostly) and a web server without a hitch. File serving is 4x faster than Personal File Sharing was in OS 9.
Oh, and Apple doesn't support the use of non-Server as a server. So, if we were to call up one day and say "Our OS X box keeps dropping connections in the middle of large file transfers" they wouldn't help.
PS--I suppose there is the same 10-user limit in Samba that there is in AFP, but I haven't seen it first-hand and nothing is jumping out at me from smb.conf, though of course that limit could exist elsewhere. But, I did indeed try to connect 11 boxes to an OS X non-server and got a warning on client #11.
>>you can't photocopy currency on photocopiers. They just come out black.
>That is an urban legend.
Not entirely. At the publishing company where I have worked for 8 years, we have had many Canon color laser copiers. (CLC 700, 800, 1000, 3100, and others.) A rep told me (and I tested it) that if you photocopy a bill it will pour a bunch of cyan and yellow and some black over the whole page, making the whole thing a deep green. You could still make out the bill but it was the wrong color. And once, while photocopying some art of a forest with similar colors, I had the same result. Not all copiers do this, but some definitely do.
Speaking of which, we publish school textbooks. No word from Adobe yet how we're supposed to produce our next math books. As other threads have pointed out, we are 100% allowed to use images of real money, as long as it is smaller (75%) or larger (150%) than real, and used for informative (as opposed to decorative) purposes.
No restrictions on printing coins, AFAIK.
And another way to pass bad bills: take four $20s and cut one corner off each. Tape the corners to a $1. The $20s are still usable and the $1 will probably fly, since it feels real, since you used real paper. Note: I have never done this, just saw someone accept one at an old workplace once.
I loved the season 1 episodes but the sound was horrible--sounded like they were yelling into a Radio Shack mic and it was often too quiet or too loud. Is the sound on the DVD any better?
"A "floppy" MD would have destroyed that barrier, both then and now."
Not neccessarily. Look how long audio CDs were out before people were able to rip them. They could've done the exact same thing with minidiscs--just show little.mda files like how CDs show those little.cda files.
I totally agree. Not sure when SyQuests (and before them, Bernoullis) started picking up but I remember that MDs were out when I was in college (1993? 94? Definitely well before I graduated in May '95) but Zips didn't exist until my first year at my present company, 1995. Sony could've had the jump, and since they saw CDs go from music to data over the last 10 years I always wondered how they could have missed seeing the potential behind MD for data.
Interesting. I went and scanned a used bill at 300 dpi on another machine with a $3,000 Epson scanner and it opened right up in CS on this machine. But, your linked image did not open, not even as a screenshot. I work for a textbook company and we have photo CDs of bills that we use in our Math books. Those images also opened up fine.
I've decided this is a middle ground and all about style. One thing this still doesn't have over the flash players is that it still has moving parts. Yes, iPods will eventually get under $200 (remember, they were introduced at 5GB/$500, all praise St. Moore) and if they drop a $149 or $99 bomb they will 0wn(z0r) the mp3 market, but for now, they're going halfway (as they always do) and going for style. I expect to see at least one of the sluts on Sex & the City with one of these any day now.
Working for one of the largest publishing companies in the world, I *know* why newspapers use columns. I also know, as another poster pointed out, that newspapers have control over the type size and final output size. I might be one foot away from my (mostly immobile) screen, I might be two. I might be at 1024x768 on a 10" laptop screen or a 15" LCD iMac. And everyone is different, so everyone has different widths that they are comfortable with. I'm not saying I want the text to go the whole width of the 20" Cinema Display I'm sitting behind, but I'd like it to go a bit wider than Paul seems to like. Besides, this is the Web--*I* decide how I want content to be presented. It's Hypertext Markup Language, not Page Layout Description Language.
Yup, I did the same thing. I got my first ATI all-in-wonder in '97 and my first server in '99, I think. Started capturing a show, then copied the partial file to my server and watched it on another machine so as not to disrupt the capturing.
... is to make this available to *any* program that does intensive rendering. Using Toast's iMovie extension to export a 44 minute movie as an MPG for VCD took 2 hours 12 minutes at the best quality on a dual-G4/1250. A few other Macs laying around (like the other 22 in my department) could have cut that down quite a bit. Sure, it'd take time to send out 9 GB of DV, but less time than it took to encode it.
"Humans recognize speech without even thinking about it, while computers still are in the dark ages when it comes to speech recognition."
Not quite right. Understanding speech is one thing, following a conversation is another. Try drawing a map from your house to someone else's while carrying on an unrelated conversation. You'll either take frequent lengthy pauses while drawing or you'll have a good map but miss the conversation. A bit of chit-chat is O.K. but no one can safely follow a conversation closely while driving.
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True, but it's close enough for me. The only difference is $6.50 tax, a $0.37-cent stamp, and a little time.
The english system is not perfect, but it's not without its merits, either. Try this test:
Draw a straight line of a certain length. Now, draw a perpendicular line at the halfway point. Then draw another to cut one of those pieces in half. And another. And another. And another.
Now, draw another line and try to cut it into ten equal pieces. See?
I forgot to mention, $399 = $499 with a $100 mail-in rebate. Still, a pretty good deal. When that $399 system came out, it had 256 MB RAM and a freakin' DVD+RW. (I shoulda bought one just for the parts.)
:-)
They also have a system for $499 ($599-$100) that's a P4 with the similar special do-dads each week. A couple times they've had a free upgrade to a 15" LCD. Upgrading to a digital 18" LCD was only $260 more. OTOH, I'd rather have a good Athlon/Duron system from compaq.com/tv. They currently have a Presario + 15" analog LCD for $447. Descisions, descisions.
$399 at dell.com/tv gets you a similar box PLUS a 17" CRT PLUS speakers PLUS whatever else they have that day on special--the system always comes with a upgrade or two, like more RAM, a bigger HDD, better optical drives, etc. This week you get an upgrade to a CD-RW. Even if you don't need all those things (esp. the CRT & speakers) you could always sell them, easily getting your $80 back.
/tv site.
Unless you a) live in the boonies, can't sell the extras, and need every penny or b) hate MS so much you're willing to screw yourself not to be contaminated by them, you're better off getting a system from the
Glad you brought that up. I noticed that the other day and meant to look into it more. We have a lot of OS X boxes around here and I connected to mine with one username and another password and got right through. (I have multiple accounts, all admins, for testing.) So, this problem affects the non-server version of OS X as well.
PS: anyone thinking of forking over $999 for OS X server unlimited should hit smalldog.com: you can get a refurbished xserve (dual-1 GHz G4, 512 MB, 60 GB) for $1899 with a copy of unlimited/server. That's cheaper than a comparable G4 tower and a new copy of Server. Last july, powermax.com had a single-G4/256 MB unit for $1749. Apple doesn't currently have any rfb's for less than $2499.
Note that the DP cluster G5s cost the same as the single regular G5s but a) have a 10-user copy of Server and b) only have one drive bay w/ an 80 GB drive. It'd make a smokin' web/database server, though.
If you are asking "If I set up a computer with non-server Mac OS X and use it as a server, how many other clients can connect to it at a time?" then the answer is "Ten."
Paying for Server gets you the fancy tools, which you may or may not need depending on what you're going to do with the box. Also, Server comes with all of those things installed and ready to go. Putting things like a mail server onto OS X non-server requires work and manual admin, whereas turning on the mail server in Server is a few clicks.
There are also a lot of advanced settings that aren't available (or close enough for mere mortals) in non-server, such as the ability to make and manage multiple AFP and SMB mount points. For example, if you connect to a non-server server via AFP, you can mount your own home directory, anyone else's public directory, or a volume. That's it. No more "make a folder and share it out as..." like Windows and OS 9 have. (Although snb.conf will do whatever you tell it.)
Oh, and some things, like using it for a NetBoot server, are close to, if not totally, impossible. So things like sendmail and samba can work as well as any other UNIX, but Apple tools, like AFP and NetBoot, can't.
We use plain-vanilla OS X for a file server (light use, just a repository for application installers mostly) and a web server without a hitch. File serving is 4x faster than Personal File Sharing was in OS 9.
Oh, and Apple doesn't support the use of non-Server as a server. So, if we were to call up one day and say "Our OS X box keeps dropping connections in the middle of large file transfers" they wouldn't help.
PS--I suppose there is the same 10-user limit in Samba that there is in AFP, but I haven't seen it first-hand and nothing is jumping out at me from smb.conf, though of course that limit could exist elsewhere. But, I did indeed try to connect 11 boxes to an OS X non-server and got a warning on client #11.
Your shirt isn't visible much in a license photo. OTOH, you could put it on your resume so companies can't scan & OCR it looking for "MCSE", etc. :-)
>>you can't photocopy currency on photocopiers. They just come out black.
>That is an urban legend.
Not entirely. At the publishing company where I have worked for 8 years, we have had many Canon color laser copiers. (CLC 700, 800, 1000, 3100, and others.) A rep told me (and I tested it) that if you photocopy a bill it will pour a bunch of cyan and yellow and some black over the whole page, making the whole thing a deep green. You could still make out the bill but it was the wrong color. And once, while photocopying some art of a forest with similar colors, I had the same result. Not all copiers do this, but some definitely do.
Speaking of which, we publish school textbooks. No word from Adobe yet how we're supposed to produce our next math books. As other threads have pointed out, we are 100% allowed to use images of real money, as long as it is smaller (75%) or larger (150%) than real, and used for informative (as opposed to decorative) purposes.
No restrictions on printing coins, AFAIK.
And another way to pass bad bills: take four $20s and cut one corner off each. Tape the corners to a $1. The $20s are still usable and the $1 will probably fly, since it feels real, since you used real paper. Note: I have never done this, just saw someone accept one at an old workplace once.
Funny, your page didn't load at all for me, let alone any ads.
/etc/hosts | grep unicast
I wonder why?
$ cat
127.0.0.1 adcontroller.unicast.com
127.0.0.1 cache.unicast.com
127.0.0.1 cache.unicast.com.edgesuite.net
127.0.0.1 www.unicast.com
Thanks, http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm !
I loved the season 1 episodes but the sound was horrible--sounded like they were yelling into a Radio Shack mic and it was often too quiet or too loud. Is the sound on the DVD any better?
I'll need on of them TB drives to store that long-ass URL. :-)
"A "floppy" MD would have destroyed that barrier, both then and now."
.mda files like how CDs show those little .cda files.
Not neccessarily. Look how long audio CDs were out before people were able to rip them. They could've done the exact same thing with minidiscs--just show little
I totally agree. Not sure when SyQuests (and before them, Bernoullis) started picking up but I remember that MDs were out when I was in college (1993? 94? Definitely well before I graduated in May '95) but Zips didn't exist until my first year at my present company, 1995. Sony could've had the jump, and since they saw CDs go from music to data over the last 10 years I always wondered how they could have missed seeing the potential behind MD for data.
Working in the design department of a textbook company that produces math books wth pictures of money, I'd notice it right away.
Interesting. I went and scanned a used bill at 300 dpi on another machine with a $3,000 Epson scanner and it opened right up in CS on this machine. But, your linked image did not open, not even as a screenshot. I work for a textbook company and we have photo CDs of bills that we use in our Math books. Those images also opened up fine.
Book links:
Grokking The GIMP - 100% free online or you can buy a copy.
ORA GIMP Pocket Reference -- prettty handy. You might find that in your local B&N or Borders or whatever.
Of course, both of these are for The GIMP 1.2.
I've decided this is a middle ground and all about style. One thing this still doesn't have over the flash players is that it still has moving parts. Yes, iPods will eventually get under $200 (remember, they were introduced at 5GB/$500, all praise St. Moore) and if they drop a $149 or $99 bomb they will 0wn(z0r) the mp3 market, but for now, they're going halfway (as they always do) and going for style. I expect to see at least one of the sluts on Sex & the City with one of these any day now.
If my spam is any indicator, lots of consumers care about unit size.
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Thank you very much, I'll be here all week. Try the veal and don't forget to tip your waitresses.
Damn, I'd really like to get a look at that new site. Anyone have a link to the Google cache of Vivisimo? ;-)
Working for one of the largest publishing companies in the world, I *know* why newspapers use columns. I also know, as another poster pointed out, that newspapers have control over the type size and final output size. I might be one foot away from my (mostly immobile) screen, I might be two. I might be at 1024x768 on a 10" laptop screen or a 15" LCD iMac. And everyone is different, so everyone has different widths that they are comfortable with. I'm not saying I want the text to go the whole width of the 20" Cinema Display I'm sitting behind, but I'd like it to go a bit wider than Paul seems to like. Besides, this is the Web--*I* decide how I want content to be presented. It's Hypertext Markup Language, not Page Layout Description Language.
Yup, I did the same thing. I got my first ATI all-in-wonder in '97 and my first server in '99, I think. Started capturing a show, then copied the partial file to my server and watched it on another machine so as not to disrupt the capturing.
... is to make this available to *any* program that does intensive rendering. Using Toast's iMovie extension to export a 44 minute movie as an MPG for VCD took 2 hours 12 minutes at the best quality on a dual-G4/1250. A few other Macs laying around (like the other 22 in my department) could have cut that down quite a bit. Sure, it'd take time to send out 9 GB of DV, but less time than it took to encode it.
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"Humans recognize speech without even thinking about it, while computers still are in the dark ages when it comes to speech recognition."
Not quite right. Understanding speech is one thing, following a conversation is another. Try drawing a map from your house to someone else's while carrying on an unrelated conversation. You'll either take frequent lengthy pauses while drawing or you'll have a good map but miss the conversation. A bit of chit-chat is O.K. but no one can safely follow a conversation closely while driving.