Having bought a 900 Mhz G3 iBook just after they came out, I am moved to tears to see the G4 iBooks now.
Yeah, Apple pulled another fast one, making even more enemies and possibly breaking the law in more than a few places.
You may have a legal case here, though I don't think you would get much more than a new iBook out of the deal. (And depending on the cost of a lawyer, it may not even be worth going after).
We don't need robots... when there are 6+ billion people on the planet. You humans are a commodity! Robots cost too much! Why spend all that money on a robot when you can get a Chinese or Indian for a quarter of the price!
Good point, but it's pretty hard to get total control over a human, let alone run Linux on them. It's probably possible, but would require drugs and brainwashing and would negate any cost savings over robots
Ugh, why does everyone assume installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL is so hard on Solaris (or IRIX or AIX for that matter)?
Once you have your GNU environment configured, it's a simple matter of compiling. I haven't run into a snag doing this in over 3 years on three different commerical unices.
I suppose you could also go to sunfreeware.com (or for IRIX, freeware.sgi.com), but learn to build the stuff yourself and you'll know what's going on, have the latest versions, and have way more flexibility. Isn't this why you're using u*nix anyway? For the flexibility? Don't let the lack of a precompiled ready-to-install package get in your way, you're not stuck in the Windows world anymore. (end rant)
The way iTunes and the iTMS locks you in to Apple software and Apple hardware (I know, big shock there).
Nice sentence. Anyway... iTunes will let you burn your music to CD-ROM. You can then re-rip this (with iTunes no less) to unprotected AAC or MP3.
Besides, iTunes is a free application intended for iPod users. You don't see me bitching that Kodak's digital camera software won't work on my Canon Elph.
I really doubt Microsoft will offer any more choices (probably less, especially when it comes to DRM issues) or flexibility when they open up their MSN music store in a few months.
I haven't had a single skip with iTunes since I started using it two days ago on my 1.4 GHz P4 (which in theory is a bit slower than your 1.1 GHz P3).
I have heard skipping complaints, though, mostly from friends with older hardware, but there was one dude with a shiny new Athlon XP 2800+ that was getting some skips.
My guess is there's some driver conflict somewhere, because the skips don't seem to occur with all hardware or with just "slow" hardware. (And it runs fine on a 266 MHz G3 in Mac OS X).
If you want/use an iPod and/or have no need for a pocket MP3 player, when iTunes is probably a perfect choice. Otherwise, you can use MusicMatch or some other player/store/upload combo.
When Microsoft opens their music store in a few months be prepared to lock-in to The MS Way. Don't expect any form of standards or even support for all devices. Don't believe me? Look at the past for some insight to the future.
Again, iTunes is great if you have or want an iPod... or if you don't want any sort of music player at all. Now if you're using some other mp3 player, then you pretty much have no business even looking at iTunes.
4 of SGI's most funky buildings are now being used by Google. Pretty fitting color- and design-wise.
These days SGI lives in its newest buildings (better design overall, but not as "cool looking") as well as some of its older but specialized buildings (RF testing chambers, etc).
Are you absolutely positively sure you want to use Windows XP Home instead of the much better XP Professional or even better 2000 Professional? I've had nothing but heartache with the PCs that my family members have bought that have XP Home on them...
I'm not too current with Windows (I use NT4 and 2K)... but aren't XP Home and XP Pro essentially the same thing with a few networking differences, the max of one CPU for home, and a few other changes in the default settings?
The PC that I'm using now is the evolution of the Pentium 100 that I built 7 years ago. When I was ready for a new CPU/MB, they fit into the sustem that I had.
Fair enough.
When I was ready for more, I added more. Over time that P100 became a P200MMX then a P2 300, then a K62450 and now an Athlon XP 1800+.
When you went from a P200MMX to P2/300 you needed a new mobo. So why did you then go to a K6-2, which required yet another new mobo? Why not replace that P2/300 with a P3/500 and keep the same board? Also, are you seriously running your Athlon XP 1800+ with the same powersupply and case airflow as the Pentium 100? How many times have you upgraded your hard disk? Your optical drives? Don't get me wrong, I like futzing around with my PCs too... but I also love my G4. You're comparing apples to drywall.
The Mac that I bought 6 months after I built this PC is still at 200Mhz, I could have added a G3 to the L2 cache slot, but why cobble together something that just barely works?
FWIW, I know two people that have used the cache slot CPU upgrades... they worked well in their day with the versions of MacOS at that time.
I put a new/rebuilt engine in my 1977 Ford F150 a couple years ago, it only took two afternoons with the help of a mechanic friend. But my BMW 528i still has its original six cylinder engine after several years dispite my desire for a V8. I guess I should blame BMW for not using more standard parts, I could have slowly upgraded it like some of my buddies do with their japanese imports.
This is why my 6400/200 was the last new Apple machine I bought. I'm sorry to hear that... the PPC 603 in the 6400 **sucked** compared to the 604 in most of their other desktops.
The Beige G3s were the last Apple machines that I would have considered buying. Since they are no longer supported I guess I won't be buying Apple Huh?? Were you fond of the 66 MHz bus and onboard 10 MB/sec SCSI? Or was it the EIDE that you liked? The Blue&White G3 had just as much expansion as the Beige G3 (3 PCI & 1 66 MHz PCI for gfx versus 3 PCI & 1 "personality slot" in the beige). One less drive bay, though, but the machine came with onboard USB and Firewire. Even had a legacy ADB port to help you transition over and keep your favorite keys/mouse. The stock Rage128 blew the beige's graphics out of the water with about 8x the fillrate. The G4s were even better. And... there are gobs of aftermarket CPU upgrades for the B&W G3, just as there are for the beige.
I would agree that Apple is lacking a good entry-level desktop machine right now ($3K for a monster dual that can support 8-16 GB RAM is a good price, as are most of the PowerBooks... but there is no ideal $1K single processor desktop [the single proc G5s are really expensive in terms of bang for the buck]).
groups.google.com was partially broken for most of last week... searches worked, but the links on the results page didn't. Browsing wasn't much better, many groups didn't even load.
It would be cool if the OS saw it as 1 huge 1.2GB drive, but that would be a hell of a hack to make it display as unified piece of media.
I would imagine he has the drives striped in software to appear as one large drive. This is pretty easy to do with Windows, OS X, and pretty much any semi-modern un*x.
Ah, thanks for the link. I know this isn't the one I was trying to recall, but I guess there's a lot of them... I wonder why the Wrights got all of the credit when there seems to be well documented evidence that they weren't the first.
The Wrights were the first to see heavier-than-air aviation as both the future and as a way to make money. They drummed up interest and started building planes for folks other than themselves. The earlier avation pioneers made their own flying machines for fun and then moved on. They saw no future in their expensive and risky hobby.
Apple used to label their monitors that way too. At one point Apple sold 12", 16" and 19" monitors (the same monitors their competitors called 14", 17", and 20"). AFAIK, Apple only ever labeled one of their monitors a 15", they generally referred to that size as 13" or 14".
Then there's the goofy... there was a time when Apple's imaging software used a fixed partition size. So if they ran out of hard drives from vendor X, they would just use the same exact partition on a larger drive from vendor Y...... so rather than getting a 4.0 GB Seagate, you may actually have gotten a 4.5 GB Quantum with a single 4.0 GB partition.
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counter showed 87811, reloaded it after I did some channel surfing and it now shows 04811
Having bought a 900 Mhz G3 iBook just after they came out, I am moved to tears to see the G4 iBooks now.
Yeah, Apple pulled another fast one, making even more enemies and possibly breaking the law in more than a few places.
You may have a legal case here, though I don't think you would get much more than a new iBook out of the deal. (And depending on the cost of a lawyer, it may not even be worth going after).
The same folks that told me Blender is everything Maya is and more are now complaining that SciFi has been bluring the line between truth and fiction!
We don't need robots... when there are 6+ billion people on the planet. You humans are a commodity! Robots cost too much! Why spend all that money on a robot when you can get a Chinese or Indian for a quarter of the price!
Good point, but it's pretty hard to get total control over a human, let alone run Linux on them. It's probably possible, but would require drugs and brainwashing and would negate any cost savings over robots
Ugh, why does everyone assume installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL is so hard on Solaris (or IRIX or AIX for that matter)?
Once you have your GNU environment configured, it's a simple matter of compiling. I haven't run into a snag doing this in over 3 years on three different commerical unices.
Here's a good link for the total newbie:
http://ampubsvc.com/~meljr/AMPS.html
I suppose you could also go to sunfreeware.com (or for IRIX, freeware.sgi.com), but learn to build the stuff yourself and you'll know what's going on, have the latest versions, and have way more flexibility. Isn't this why you're using u*nix anyway? For the flexibility? Don't let the lack of a precompiled ready-to-install package get in your way, you're not stuck in the Windows world anymore.
(end rant)
The way iTunes and the iTMS locks you in to Apple software and Apple hardware (I know, big shock there).
Nice sentence. Anyway... iTunes will let you burn your music to CD-ROM. You can then re-rip this (with iTunes no less) to unprotected AAC or MP3.
Besides, iTunes is a free application intended for iPod users. You don't see me bitching that Kodak's digital camera software won't work on my Canon Elph.
I really doubt Microsoft will offer any more choices (probably less, especially when it comes to DRM issues) or flexibility when they open up their MSN music store in a few months.
I haven't had a single skip with iTunes since I started using it two days ago on my 1.4 GHz P4 (which in theory is a bit slower than your 1.1 GHz P3).
I have heard skipping complaints, though, mostly from friends with older hardware, but there was one dude with a shiny new Athlon XP 2800+ that was getting some skips.
My guess is there's some driver conflict somewhere, because the skips don't seem to occur with all hardware or with just "slow" hardware. (And it runs fine on a 266 MHz G3 in Mac OS X).
If you want/use an iPod and/or have no need for a pocket MP3 player, when iTunes is probably a perfect choice. Otherwise, you can use MusicMatch or some other player/store/upload combo.
When Microsoft opens their music store in a few months be prepared to lock-in to The MS Way. Don't expect any form of standards or even support for all devices. Don't believe me? Look at the past for some insight to the future.
Again, iTunes is great if you have or want an iPod... or if you don't want any sort of music player at all. Now if you're using some other mp3 player, then you pretty much have no business even looking at iTunes.
There's no scripting required for smart playlists, just pick what you want from a couple lists. It's all pointy clicky.
From the pics I've seen of Bill Gates he looks at least 6'2". I myself am 6'2". Your thoughts?
I think Bill Gates is 6'4".
As for you, figure out how you're going to spend your soon-to-arrive fortune!... or not.
Is it just me, or are most geeks pretty tall? Of the 5 people I work with, 4 are over 6'2" and one is about 6'1". I'm 6'4" myself.
4 of SGI's most funky buildings are now being used by Google. Pretty fitting color- and design-wise.
These days SGI lives in its newest buildings (better design overall, but not as "cool looking") as well as some of its older but specialized buildings (RF testing chambers, etc).
Are you absolutely positively sure you want to use Windows XP Home instead of the much better XP Professional or even better 2000 Professional? I've had nothing but heartache with the PCs that my family members have bought that have XP Home on them...
I'm not too current with Windows (I use NT4 and 2K)... but aren't XP Home and XP Pro essentially the same thing with a few networking differences, the max of one CPU for home, and a few other changes in the default settings?
Not to nitpick... er, yeah to nitpick:
The PC that I'm using now is the evolution of the Pentium 100 that I built 7 years ago. When I was ready for a new CPU/MB, they fit into the sustem that I had.
Fair enough.
When I was ready for more, I added more. Over time that P100 became a P200MMX then a P2 300, then a K62450 and now an Athlon XP 1800+.
When you went from a P200MMX to P2/300 you needed a new mobo. So why did you then go to a K6-2, which required yet another new mobo? Why not replace that P2/300 with a P3/500 and keep the same board? Also, are you seriously running your Athlon XP 1800+ with the same powersupply and case airflow as the Pentium 100? How many times have you upgraded your hard disk? Your optical drives? Don't get me wrong, I like futzing around with my PCs too... but I also love my G4. You're comparing apples to drywall.
The Mac that I bought 6 months after I built this PC is still at 200Mhz, I could have added a G3 to the L2 cache slot, but why cobble together something that just barely works?
FWIW, I know two people that have used the cache slot CPU upgrades... they worked well in their day with the versions of MacOS at that time.
I put a new/rebuilt engine in my 1977 Ford F150 a couple years ago, it only took two afternoons with the help of a mechanic friend. But my BMW 528i still has its original six cylinder engine after several years dispite my desire for a V8. I guess I should blame BMW for not using more standard parts, I could have slowly upgraded it like some of my buddies do with their japanese imports.
This is why my 6400/200 was the last new Apple machine I bought.
I'm sorry to hear that... the PPC 603 in the 6400 **sucked** compared to the 604 in most of their other desktops.
The Beige G3s were the last Apple machines that I would have considered buying. Since they are no longer supported I guess I won't be buying Apple
Huh?? Were you fond of the 66 MHz bus and onboard 10 MB/sec SCSI? Or was it the EIDE that you liked?
The Blue&White G3 had just as much expansion as the Beige G3 (3 PCI & 1 66 MHz PCI for gfx versus 3 PCI & 1 "personality slot" in the beige). One less drive bay, though, but the machine came with onboard USB and Firewire. Even had a legacy ADB port to help you transition over and keep your favorite keys/mouse. The stock Rage128 blew the beige's graphics out of the water with about 8x the fillrate.
The G4s were even better. And... there are gobs of aftermarket CPU upgrades for the B&W G3, just as there are for the beige.
I would agree that Apple is lacking a good entry-level desktop machine right now ($3K for a monster dual that can support 8-16 GB RAM is a good price, as are most of the PowerBooks... but there is no ideal $1K single processor desktop [the single proc G5s are really expensive in terms of bang for the buck]).
groups.google.com was partially broken for most of last week... searches worked, but the links on the results page didn't. Browsing wasn't much better, many groups didn't even load.
It would be cool if the OS saw it as 1 huge 1.2GB drive, but that would be a hell of a hack to make it display as unified piece of media.
I would imagine he has the drives striped in software to appear as one large drive. This is pretty easy to do with Windows, OS X, and pretty much any semi-modern un*x.
Here's a guy who striped 5 floppy drives to make a floppy RAID... he's my hero:
http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm
So you've got a terrabyte of data, but can it handle Slashdot?
1.2 TB RAID -- $900
386-based Web Server -- $0.25
The satisfaction of a slashdotting -- priceless
i just looked through the link about the reverend cannon. it doesn't seem his contraption ever even flew (at least no one is sure). wtf?
http://www.pittsburgtxmuseum.com/airship.html
Texas Monthly had a good long article about the flight as well. Even if it did fly, it only made it up and over a fence.
wright brothers still win hands down in my book.
No shit? They have won in everyone's book... including mine.
Ah, thanks for the link. I know this isn't the one I was trying to recall, but I guess there's a lot of them... I wonder why the Wrights got all of the credit when there seems to be well documented evidence that they weren't the first.
The Wrights were the first to see heavier-than-air aviation as both the future and as a way to make money. They drummed up interest and started building planes for folks other than themselves. The earlier avation pioneers made their own flying machines for fun and then moved on. They saw no future in their expensive and risky hobby.
plus, all of the "evidence" has only surfaced recently. what do you expect?
Ehhh, in the case of Burrell Cannon, there has been a memorial and a small museum in Texas for over 60 years.
Yep, this was on PBS a few weeks ago and also as the subject of a Paul Harvey "Rest of the story".
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http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/cannon_eze
Since the Apple Extended Keyboard is out of production...
I love that huge oldschool keyboard!... Apple didn't codename it "Nimitz" for nothing!
Apple used to label their monitors that way too. At one point Apple sold 12", 16" and 19" monitors (the same monitors their competitors called 14", 17", and 20"). AFAIK, Apple only ever labeled one of their monitors a 15", they generally referred to that size as 13" or 14".
Then there's the goofy... there was a time when Apple's imaging software used a fixed partition size. So if they ran out of hard drives from vendor X, they would just use the same exact partition on a larger drive from vendor Y...... so rather than getting a 4.0 GB Seagate, you may actually have gotten a 4.5 GB Quantum with a single 4.0 GB partition.