Out of the box Apache doesn't do too well. But take some time tuning it, and your OS's TCP/IP stack, and you can easily outperform even Zeus. Read some of the tuning guides.
The really nice thing about Software Update is that once you enter your username and password, it does everything else automatically, including restarting your system if necessary. Not entirely true. Software Update prompts the user before restarting.... THANKFULLY!
>>Much nicer [and easier!] than being tied to using IE to update >> my 2K/XP boxes. > > Can you explain how being "tied to using IE" is any different to >being "tied to using Software Update" ?
Not much difference really. Software Update is control panel that's installed with the rest of Mac OS X by default. On a Windows system, IE is a web browser installed with the rest of Windows by default.
If you don't want to use Software Update, you can download the Mac OS X patches and updates from www.apple.com/support using any browser.
If you don't want to use IE, you can download the Windows patches and updates from www.microsoft.com using any browser.
About the only difference is the Windows Updater runs inside of IE.
Forget slashdotting Airliners.net, how long before the TSA shuts down that website? The trainspotting hobby has already died off following terrorism fears, I can't help but think that other enthusiast sites like Airliners.net will be next.
Because you didn't include any sort of solution to what you see as an overabundance of stories about Google, I'm curious: What specific types of stories would you like to see? Linux. GNOME. Overclocking. Water-cooling.
I do regret not getting what I was looking for a 12in Transmeta laptop. but I do think the iBook has some redeaming fetures, "it is stable" the i-software meens nothing to me and I can manage my photos quite easly and more universaly with gphoto (That is what I like). the two apps I look for are mail clients and browsers (that was pitched to me in the Apple store) and I don't know anyone who would lone me there Mac to beet to death. as for more unix like WTF are you talking about?
I guess I did miss the point. Remind me, what is it exactly? I sure can't tell from you post above.
*MY* point is that you should have known what you were getting into. If you were at an Apple Store (or CompUSA, or Frys, or a local Apple dealer...) you had the opportunity to try before you buy.
As for email, I can't comment much there, I use gmail.com for that. I personally like Safari, but I use Firefox more often. I suppose you could try Thunderbird. I use the latest G4 optimized nightly builds from here: http://homepage.mac.com/krmathis/ http://homepage.mac.com/ozjason/moz/
If Firefox isn't what you need, then I guess that pretty much leaves MSIE. Maybe you should have bought a Dell and used MSIE + Outlook 2003.
What do you mean by gphoto? gphoto, libgphoto, and gtkam are only for transfering photos. Did you mean the GNOME Photo Collector?
Detail 1a Give up on weird and delayed Copland OS. 1b Spend $400M to buy NeXT for their NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP OS, engineers, and Steve Jobs. 1c Make a cheap Mac and keep updating classic Mac OS to keep users and developers happy. 1d Slowly phase out traditional Apple style and software in favor of the NeXT way.
You've probably seen the box art for Tiger. It's only a matter of time before they zoom out the view to show you the rest of the logo.
Then WHY did you buy a Mac?? One of Apple's strongest selling points is the iLife suite. If you just wanted a Unix-like OS with X11, why didn't you just buy a cheap Dell laptop and install FreeBSD or a Linux distro? You can't tell me that Apple bamboozled you in that regard. Apple might bash Wintel, but they've never claimed to be better / "more-unixy" than BSD or Linux.
I personally use a PowerBook with 10.3.9 and I love it. I use the bundled iLife apps all the time, they let me quickly and easily handle my digital music, photos, and videos. Sure beats having to wrangle with the free alternatives or buying extra software for a Windows system.
I also use X11 and CLI applications, but I could have done that on Windows with Services For Unix and Exceed.
Maybe you should have posted some questions before you bought your computer. Or at least worked with it first. I spent several hours over several months playing with the PowerBooks in the store before I bought mine. I bought it because it exactly met my many needs.
And as a side note, of the 10 or so computer recommendations I've made to friends and family over the past few years, only three have been for Macintosh systems. Use the right tool for the job.
Am I the only one who isn't impressed with the state of streaming media these days? I think the current RealOne player is garbage. At least the original RealAudio wasn't nearly as bad, but it still consumed a lot of RAM and CPU cycles on my 68040.
At least VoIP and video conferencing have taken off and work quite well.
What are some of the better one-way, RealOne-like streaming formats these days?
IIRC, the *original* release of IE was based heavily on Mosaic. This always struck me as kind of funny, since even Netscape 0.9 was faster and had more features than any version of Mosaic 2.x.
At any rate, Microsoft should put their resources into making one killer browser. Make it as lightweight as Netscape 2.0 was, yet support the latest CSS kung-fu. Implement all of the latest widgets and hoohaws as plugins so I can remove ActiveX support if I want. And above all, make it cross platform. Use a library like FLTK so it can be used just about anywhere.
Doesn't Microsoft realize they could easily make the end-all browser that'll end up running on almost every palmtop, cell phone, set-top-box, automobile, and personal computer?
All of my mozilla plugins required some fiddling to get them working. But you know what? I did the tweaking once, about 10 months ago, and it's still working fine.
Wasn't CNet (the TV show) on around this time? I think I was watching it on USA. It had Solidad O'Brien and some other guy. That was Gina Smith. She later joined up with Larry Ellison to market the N|C (New Internet Computer).
Dogfight! Lots of fun. BZFLAG was also another good SGI staple.
We had a cluster 15 of those expensive beast O2 was the cheapest SGI workstation ever sold! The prices only went up from there! Octane, Onyx, Origin $$$
As others pointed out, your plan won't work because PCI-X != PCIe.
However, Matrox has made 4 and 8 port PCI video cards for many years. Here's is one such card based on the G200 chipset (on par with the NVidia TNT2 performance).G200 MMS on eBay
Matrox has a quad monitor PCI card based on the G200 chip. They even had an 8 monitor card based on the G100 at one point. Not sure of Windows or Linux would support six such cards though!:)
I've always wondered why the classified and confidential stuff is always in black and white - never in any other color.
The department that declassifies material is probably still using their first gerataion PaperPort and Mac Plus.
Latin Jibberish Generator... probably from iWork..
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Several desktop pubishing applications can generate "latin jibberish" to fill in text areas. It looks silly at first, but it helpful for layout. "Pages", part of Apple's iWork package, is one app that I know does this.
Design or not, it should have been read... and probably was.
What should have the government done? Put the whole country under martial law? Shut down all commerical businesses and transportation and unroll millions of miles of razor wire?
It was a lose-lose situation. Too bad they didn't replace the 85 year old baggage scanners earler.:(
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Mmmm...Soledad. She was even better on "The Next Step" in the Discovery Channel's pre-suck days.
Several of the reporters/hosts on TheSite came from The Next Step / The Know Zone and Beyond 2000.:)
Next Step, Know Zone, and later, The Answer Guys, were produced by KRON TV in San Francisco. Beyond 2000 was also shown on Discovery channel via KRON, but it was mostly produced in Australia. Next Step actually lived on for a few years after it was taken off Discovery, but you had to live in the SF Bay / Silicon Valley area to watch it. I think all of those shows are gone now. KRON isn't what it used to be. Last I saw, Henry Tannenbaum was hosting some gardening show...
Laporte and Ziff Davis started their TV venture in 1995 with "TheSite" on MSNBC. Awesome hour long daily show hosted by Soledad O'Brian and a bunch of over very talented folks. MSNBC canceled the show during a big programming change in 1997. I really miss that show.
In 1998 ZD started their own TV channel. The Screen Savers started out as a very crappy replacement for TheSite. I still enjoyed it, but you could tell that the company was now using the same resources to make about 5 hours of TV a day rather than 1 hour.
The Screen Savers was really starting to suck by the time ZDTV became TechTV.
Soon G4 got involved and totally ruined what little was left of the original ZD venture. Thankfully they finally changed the name of the show.
Back in his days before TSS and Call for Help, Laporte did a lot of behind the scenes work for TheSite on MSNBC. Soledad O'Brian did a great job of hosting that show.
Laporte has a long background with the tech industry and computers, he had a computer tech support call in radio show back before most people had computers in their home. He's not so much "smart" as he is a quick learner and good speaker. In this respect, Soledad O'Brian was just as good.
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Seems more like a thinly-disguised press release...
s/press release/troll
Out of the box Apache doesn't do too well. But take some time tuning it, and your OS's TCP/IP stack, and you can easily outperform even Zeus. Read some of the tuning guides.
And what about Area 51, the Green Zone in Baghdad, and all of the nifty places on the earth that we don't typically get to see via satellite photos?
At 300 meter per pixel resolution, you're not going to see many details anyway.
The really nice thing about Software Update is that once you enter your username and password, it does everything else automatically, including restarting your system if necessary.
Not entirely true. Software Update prompts the user before restarting.... THANKFULLY!
>>Much nicer [and easier!] than being tied to using IE to update
>> my 2K/XP boxes.
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> Can you explain how being "tied to using IE" is any different to
>being "tied to using Software Update" ?
Not much difference really. Software Update is control panel that's installed with the rest of Mac OS X by default. On a Windows system, IE is a web browser installed with the rest of Windows by default.
If you don't want to use Software Update, you can download the Mac OS X patches and updates from www.apple.com/support using any browser.
If you don't want to use IE, you can download the Windows patches and updates from www.microsoft.com using any browser.
About the only difference is the Windows Updater runs inside of IE.
Those must be old photos. There is no way that beach would be open to the public in the post 9/11 world.
Forget slashdotting Airliners.net, how long before the TSA shuts down that website? The trainspotting hobby has already died off following terrorism fears, I can't help but think that other enthusiast sites like Airliners.net will be next.
Because you didn't include any sort of solution to what you see as an overabundance of stories about Google, I'm curious: What specific types of stories would you like to see?
Linux. GNOME. Overclocking. Water-cooling.
Having Google shoehorned into the end of that Silicon Valley Cafeteria post was bad enough.
We get it. Google is teh roxx0r. Move on. Please.
I think you missed the point here!
I do regret not getting what I was looking for a 12in Transmeta laptop. but I do think the iBook has some redeaming fetures, "it is stable" the i-software meens nothing to me and I can manage my photos quite easly and more universaly with gphoto (That is what I like). the two apps I look for are mail clients and browsers (that was pitched to me in the Apple store) and I don't know anyone who would lone me there Mac to beet to death. as for more unix like WTF are you talking about?
I guess I did miss the point. Remind me, what is it exactly? I sure can't tell from you post above.
*MY* point is that you should have known what you were getting into. If you were at an Apple Store (or CompUSA, or Frys, or a local Apple dealer...) you had the opportunity to try before you buy.
As for email, I can't comment much there, I use gmail.com for that. I personally like Safari, but I use Firefox more often. I suppose you could try Thunderbird. I use the latest G4 optimized nightly builds from here:
http://homepage.mac.com/krmathis/
http://homepage.mac.com/ozjason/moz/
If Firefox isn't what you need, then I guess that pretty much leaves MSIE. Maybe you should have bought a Dell and used MSIE + Outlook 2003.
What do you mean by gphoto? gphoto, libgphoto, and gtkam are only for transfering photos. Did you mean the GNOME Photo Collector?
Overview
1. Let NeXT take over Apple.
2. Profit!
Detail
1a Give up on weird and delayed Copland OS.
1b Spend $400M to buy NeXT for their NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP OS, engineers, and Steve Jobs.
1c Make a cheap Mac and keep updating classic Mac OS to keep users and developers happy.
1d Slowly phase out traditional Apple style and software in favor of the NeXT way.
You've probably seen the box art for Tiger. It's only a matter of time before they zoom out the view to show you the rest of the logo.
I have no use for iMovie, iPhoto, or iDVD sory.
Then WHY did you buy a Mac?? One of Apple's strongest selling points is the iLife suite. If you just wanted a Unix-like OS with X11, why didn't you just buy a cheap Dell laptop and install FreeBSD or a Linux distro? You can't tell me that Apple bamboozled you in that regard. Apple might bash Wintel, but they've never claimed to be better / "more-unixy" than BSD or Linux.
I personally use a PowerBook with 10.3.9 and I love it. I use the bundled iLife apps all the time, they let me quickly and easily handle my digital music, photos, and videos. Sure beats having to wrangle with the free alternatives or buying extra software for a Windows system.
I also use X11 and CLI applications, but I could have done that on Windows with Services For Unix and Exceed.
Maybe you should have posted some questions before you bought your computer. Or at least worked with it first. I spent several hours over several months playing with the PowerBooks in the store before I bought mine. I bought it because it exactly met my many needs.
And as a side note, of the 10 or so computer recommendations I've made to friends and family over the past few years, only three have been for Macintosh systems. Use the right tool for the job.
Am I the only one who isn't impressed with the state of streaming media these days? I think the current RealOne player is garbage. At least the original RealAudio wasn't nearly as bad, but it still consumed a lot of RAM and CPU cycles on my 68040.
At least VoIP and video conferencing have taken off and work quite well.
What are some of the better one-way, RealOne-like streaming formats these days?
IIRC, the *original* release of IE was based heavily on Mosaic. This always struck me as kind of funny, since even Netscape 0.9 was faster and had more features than any version of Mosaic 2.x.
At any rate, Microsoft should put their resources into making one killer browser. Make it as lightweight as Netscape 2.0 was, yet support the latest CSS kung-fu. Implement all of the latest widgets and hoohaws as plugins so I can remove ActiveX support if I want. And above all, make it cross platform. Use a library like FLTK so it can be used just about anywhere.
Doesn't Microsoft realize they could easily make the end-all browser that'll end up running on almost every palmtop, cell phone, set-top-box, automobile, and personal computer?
All of my mozilla plugins required some fiddling to get them working. But you know what? I did the tweaking once, about 10 months ago, and it's still working fine.
Wasn't CNet (the TV show) on around this time? I think I was watching it on USA. It had Solidad O'Brien and some other guy.
That was Gina Smith. She later joined up with Larry Ellison to market the N|C (New Internet Computer).
Dogfight! Lots of fun. BZFLAG was also another good SGI staple.
We had a cluster 15 of those expensive beast
O2 was the cheapest SGI workstation ever sold! The prices only went up from there! Octane, Onyx, Origin $$$
As others pointed out, your plan won't work because PCI-X != PCIe.
However, Matrox has made 4 and 8 port PCI video cards for many years. Here's is one such card based on the G200 chipset (on par with the NVidia TNT2 performance).G200 MMS on eBay
Matrox has a quad monitor PCI card based on the G200 chip. They even had an 8 monitor card based on the G100 at one point. Not sure of Windows or Linux would support six such cards though! :)
Here's a 4 port version on eBay:
Matrox G200 MMS G2+ QUAD PCI Video card/cable
I've always wondered why the classified and confidential stuff is always in black and white - never in any other color.
The department that declassifies material is probably still using their first gerataion PaperPort and Mac Plus.
Several desktop pubishing applications can generate "latin jibberish" to fill in text areas. It looks silly at first, but it helpful for layout. "Pages", part of Apple's iWork package, is one app that I know does this.
Design or not, it should have been read... and probably was.
:(
What should have the government done? Put the whole country under martial law? Shut down all commerical businesses and transportation and unroll millions of miles of razor wire?
It was a lose-lose situation. Too bad they didn't replace the 85 year old baggage scanners earler.
Mmmm...Soledad. She was even better on "The Next Step" in the Discovery Channel's pre-suck days.
:)
Several of the reporters/hosts on TheSite came from The Next Step / The Know Zone and Beyond 2000.
Next Step, Know Zone, and later, The Answer Guys, were produced by KRON TV in San Francisco. Beyond 2000 was also shown on Discovery channel via KRON, but it was mostly produced in Australia. Next Step actually lived on for a few years after it was taken off Discovery, but you had to live in the SF Bay / Silicon Valley area to watch it. I think all of those shows are gone now. KRON isn't what it used to be. Last I saw, Henry Tannenbaum was hosting some gardening show...
Laporte and Ziff Davis started their TV venture in 1995 with "TheSite" on MSNBC. Awesome hour long daily show hosted by Soledad O'Brian and a bunch of over very talented folks. MSNBC canceled the show during a big programming change in 1997. I really miss that show.
In 1998 ZD started their own TV channel. The Screen Savers started out as a very crappy replacement for TheSite. I still enjoyed it, but you could tell that the company was now using the same resources to make about 5 hours of TV a day rather than 1 hour.
The Screen Savers was really starting to suck by the time ZDTV became TechTV.
Soon G4 got involved and totally ruined what little was left of the original ZD venture. Thankfully they finally changed the name of the show.
Back in his days before TSS and Call for Help, Laporte did a lot of behind the scenes work for TheSite on MSNBC. Soledad O'Brian did a great job of hosting that show.
Laporte has a long background with the tech industry and computers, he had a computer tech support call in radio show back before most people had computers in their home. He's not so much "smart" as he is a quick learner and good speaker. In this respect, Soledad O'Brian was just as good.