With Apple's recent knack for removing "legacy" ports on their machines, it's really, really nice to see that they thoughfully added a serial port on the Xserve for console access. My server farm is all Unix, and as such, I don't use a KVM, rather, I use a serial terminal server.The Xserve, with both serial and VGA would work great in any server farm environment. Kudos to Apple!
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Works fine in Mac OS X under Classic, but a native port in much needed. Pretty popular game in some circles, at least a few dozen in my (rather small) city.
much prefer to stay at home rather than go to the theater. Why? For the price of a good HDTV, I put in a 1366x768 HiDef Projector
You do realize that DVD resolution is quite a bit less than that, don't you? DVDs are not considered high definition (that is reserved for 720p and 1080i/1028p24) Granted, DVDs don't look like ass after 25 showings and having been handled by 18 year old "projectionists" at the local cineplex.
Up until recently, I had been using ancient versions of MATLAB on some forgotten undergrad machines in my department. Looked and worked decent on the Apple Power Macintosh and Sun SPARCstation machines I was using. A few months ago, I began using MATLAB for real projects (read: I finally learned to how actually use the thing). =)
But... let me tell you, the non-Windows versions of MATLAB 6.1 (aka MATLAB Release 12) stink. They must have used some wonky Windows-to-UNIX porting kit for the more recent versions, as the interface is totally Windows looking on the Solaris and Linux versions I've used. Sure, the whole package works great and Simulink has saved my skin more than once -- but the interface is terrible.
Another app I've been using heavily is Maple. I started with one of the earlier revisions of Maple V and have since worked my way up thru Maple 6 to Maple 7. It's "only" a simbolic mathematics program, but it's a **VERY** well done cross-platform port. The Windows version looks like a Windows app. The "classic" Mac OS 8 / Mac OS 9 version looks like a Mac app. And the UNIX versions (commercial unices and Linux) look like nice, proper X11 apps (though perhaps a bit more Motif based than most GTK or Qt folks would like). Kudos to Maplesoft/Waterloo for supporting so many platforms in such a pleasent way.
Now if only Matlab (which, BTW, uses part of the Maple engine for its symbolic math module) would only take a cue from Maple...
(In a related note, I have no idea how well Mathematica works these days, but the screenshots look decent. The last time I used that app was on a NeXTstation -- it was a great NeXT port. Their Mac OS X version screenshots look pretty nice, too.)
"So, will using these computers help people when they get out in the real world?"
"No, they're not even available in the real world."
The real world is a scary place!
Do you really want your children using the same sorta computer that your dentist's scretary uses? You know, over on the corner of her desk... that Compaq running a DOS app from within Windows 98. Don't forget that flithy keyboard with the broken spacebar and the dandy 15" monitor running at 60 Hz.
Or how about that Dell on the factory floor, the one that doesn't even resemble a personal computer anymore? Yikes!
Let the schools buy Macs... do it for the children!
then you *need* to visit their freeware site... http://freeware.sgi.com. Gobs of freeware (including GNOME and gcc) compiled for IRIX. Site is updated quarterly (as is IRIX 6.5.X at http://support.sgi.com/irix).
Check www.reputable.com for some pretty good prices on a used Silicon Graphics Octane workstation (also links for more information). EBay is also an option, but beware of scratch and dent "deals". Octane runs IRIX 6.4 and 6.5. Latest version of 6.5.X can be downloaded from support.sgi.com. Great machine, more than fast enough for me.
...in the Dakotas. Farming doesn't make money anymore, blizzards aren't too fun, and Hostfest & ND State Fair are the same thing year after year. Even Microsoft is slowly closing down their Fargo business unit (which used to be Great Plains Software before the MSFT extend/embrace/extinguish phases).
Fifty years from now the Dakotas will be known as "that Canadian grain distribution point". "Lots of wind generators there, too".
64 bit is very handy when more than one PCI slot is sharing a PCI bus... most PC and Mac mobos only have one PCI bus, shared by 3-5 slots. GigE NICs, SCSI cards, lab/data acquisition boards, uncompressed HD video interface cards, etc... most high end, high-thruput PCI cards have 64-bit and/or 66 MHz options to take advantage of wider (64-bit) or faster (66 MHz) busses. Heard the buzz about PCI-X? Just a fancy name for 64-bit, 133 MHz PCI that's starting to become popular on server boards.
Does anyone have a mirror of the article or even some photos of this board, the review seems to be slashdotted already. I can't wait to see how they managed to cram *12* ide connectors on the mobo! But very cool all the same. Funny thing about IDE, does anyone even use the lame-o "slave" drive on each chain? With all of the controllers/connectors on modern boards, I don't know anyone that doesn't just have a single "master" drive on each channel.
Thankfully I work with FibreChannel and SCSI at work... but with 12 IDE channels on a single board, I think I could "suffer" with IDE!!!! Schweet!
Looking at: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/m ain/b inary-i386/Packages I see both gcc 2.95 and gcc 3.0 are included as part of the standard packages. But my question is this: which version of gcc will be used to compile the binary (precompiled) release of Debian 3.0?
I'm curious as to how Apache 2.0 stacks up against Apache 1.3, as well as recent versions of iPlanet and Zeus. A quick web and usenet search via google found gobs of benchmark results, none of which were newer than about 8 months. Anyone have some links to modern bechmark results... or a pointer to a "good" opensource httpd benchmark tool (or anything other than SPECweb99)?
There are much better CRTs that Apple would ever sell anyway... such as the LaCie Electron 22 Blue III... with glare hood, color calibrator, and nifty Mac/Win software.
Now this makes me wonder, I thought most graphic designers used Mac, but Apple only supplies these with LCD's these days..
Has anybody told Apple that this probably isn't a good idea?
True, though there is always the option of buying an G4 without an Apple-brand LCD and instead opting for a Real Monitor.
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With Apple's recent knack for removing "legacy" ports on their machines, it's really, really nice to see that they thoughfully added a serial port on the Xserve for console access. My server farm is all Unix, and as such, I don't use a KVM, rather, I use a serial terminal server.The Xserve, with both serial and VGA would work great in any server farm environment. Kudos to Apple!
Works fine in Mac OS X under Classic, but a native port in much needed. Pretty popular game in some circles, at least a few dozen in my (rather small) city.
much prefer to stay at home rather than go to the theater. Why? For the price of a good HDTV, I put in a 1366x768 HiDef Projector
You do realize that DVD resolution is quite a bit less than that, don't you? DVDs are not considered high definition (that is reserved for 720p and 1080i/1028p24) Granted, DVDs don't look like ass after 25 showings and having been handled by 18 year old "projectionists" at the local cineplex.
Up until recently, I had been using ancient versions of MATLAB on some forgotten undergrad machines in my department. Looked and worked decent on the Apple Power Macintosh and Sun SPARCstation machines I was using. A few months ago, I began using MATLAB for real projects (read: I finally learned to how actually use the thing). =)
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But... let me tell you, the non-Windows versions of MATLAB 6.1 (aka MATLAB Release 12) stink. They must have used some wonky Windows-to-UNIX porting kit for the more recent versions, as the interface is totally Windows looking on the Solaris and Linux versions I've used. Sure, the whole package works great and Simulink has saved my skin more than once -- but the interface is terrible.
Another app I've been using heavily is Maple. I started with one of the earlier revisions of Maple V and have since worked my way up thru Maple 6 to Maple 7. It's "only" a simbolic mathematics program, but it's a **VERY** well done cross-platform port. The Windows version looks like a Windows app. The "classic" Mac OS 8 / Mac OS 9 version looks like a Mac app. And the UNIX versions (commercial unices and Linux) look like nice, proper X11 apps (though perhaps a bit more Motif based than most GTK or Qt folks would like). Kudos to Maplesoft/Waterloo for supporting so many platforms in such a pleasent way.
Now if only Matlab (which, BTW, uses part of the Maple engine for its symbolic math module) would only take a cue from Maple...
(In a related note, I have no idea how well Mathematica works these days, but the screenshots look decent. The last time I used that app was on a NeXTstation -- it was a great NeXT port. Their Mac OS X version screenshots look pretty nice, too.)
http://www.maplesoft.com
http://www.mathematic
I can watch HDTV video on my athlon with that beast.
Interesting. 720p or 1080i? What sort of HD capture card do you use?
"So, will using these computers help people when they get out in the real world?"
"No, they're not even available in the real world."
The real world is a scary place!
Do you really want your children using the same sorta computer that your dentist's scretary uses? You know, over on the corner of her desk... that Compaq running a DOS app from within Windows 98. Don't forget that flithy keyboard with the broken spacebar and the dandy 15" monitor running at 60 Hz.
Or how about that Dell on the factory floor, the one that doesn't even resemble a personal computer anymore? Yikes!
Let the schools buy Macs... do it for the children!
I had to make sure it wasn't April 1...
Probably the coolest thing about the eMac is that it's one of the much-discussed "rumor" topics that I never expected to be productized.
Kudos, Apple... I think...
Heck, I don't know what to think.... what's the mob party line on this? L33t or Lame?
then you *need* to visit their freeware site... http://freeware.sgi.com. Gobs of freeware (including GNOME and gcc) compiled for IRIX. Site is updated quarterly (as is IRIX 6.5.X at http://support.sgi.com/irix).
Check www.reputable.com for some pretty good prices on a used Silicon Graphics Octane workstation (also links for more information). EBay is also an option, but beware of scratch and dent "deals". Octane runs IRIX 6.4 and 6.5. Latest version of 6.5.X can be downloaded from support.sgi.com. Great machine, more than fast enough for me.
Couldn't be any happier with my PowerBook G4. Runs Mac OS X great and works well with Mandrake 8.2 PPC. Plus it's one cool looking notebook! 8-)
iBooks are nice, but they use G3 CPUs... Mac users are waaay better off with a G4.
http://www.acornworld.net/~jmayrand/B%26H.html
The Apple ][ was black. The Apple ][+ was beige and future models as well.
The only black Apple ][ models were those made for, and rebadged by, Bell+Howell. But yes, black Apple ]['s did exist.
...the original Apple II in 1977. Steve Jobs wanted a neutral color that would blend in to the average home.
Works great on my SGI... (250 MHz R10K Octane, 256 MB, Netscape 4.79, Java 1.3.1, IRIX64 6.5.15m).
Got the latest versions from here:
http://www.sgi.com/products/evaluation/
Zipping thru some CS Lewis right now. Very, very cool!
[snazzy sig here]
No bash on OS X, No Vim
Mac OS X ships with plain vi. Bash is not included, but zsh, csh, and tcsh are... also sh, the real sh (not a sym link to bash).
...in the Dakotas. Farming doesn't make money anymore, blizzards aren't too fun, and Hostfest & ND State Fair are the same thing year after year. Even Microsoft is slowly closing down their Fargo business unit (which used to be Great Plains Software before the MSFT extend/embrace/extinguish phases).
Fifty years from now the Dakotas will be known as "that Canadian grain distribution point". "Lots of wind generators there, too".
Sigh.
What kind of devices use the 64bit slots?
64 bit is very handy when more than one PCI slot is sharing a PCI bus... most PC and Mac mobos only have one PCI bus, shared by 3-5 slots. GigE NICs, SCSI cards, lab/data acquisition boards, uncompressed HD video interface cards, etc... most high end, high-thruput PCI cards have 64-bit and/or 66 MHz options to take advantage of wider (64-bit) or faster (66 MHz) busses. Heard the buzz about PCI-X? Just a fancy name for 64-bit, 133 MHz PCI that's starting to become popular on server boards.
Does anyone have a mirror of the article or even some photos of this board, the review seems to be slashdotted already. I can't wait to see how they managed to cram *12* ide connectors on the mobo! But very cool all the same. Funny thing about IDE, does anyone even use the lame-o "slave" drive on each chain? With all of the controllers/connectors on modern boards, I don't know anyone that doesn't just have a single "master" drive on each channel.
Thankfully I work with FibreChannel and SCSI at work... but with 12 IDE channels on a single board, I think I could "suffer" with IDE!!!! Schweet!
1) T1
2) Microwave relays
3) DSLAM
4) webserver running on a 386... site is already slashdotted
Looking at:m ain/b inary-i386/Packages
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/
I see both gcc 2.95 and gcc 3.0 are included as part of the standard packages. But my question is this:
which version of gcc will be used to compile the binary (precompiled) release of Debian 3.0?
http://people.debian.org/~joey/2.2r6/
Gobs of security fixes, few misc fixes, stability fixed. 2.2r6 is the second update of Potato in 2002. Not exactly cold.
Performance isn't an issue unless you're still running it on a 486. ;-)
:-D
Sun SPARCstation 20, more than enough power... but hey, I'll take any extra performance I can get!
I'm curious as to how Apache 2.0 stacks up against Apache 1.3, as well as recent versions of iPlanet and Zeus. A quick web and usenet search via google found gobs of benchmark results, none of which were newer than about 8 months. Anyone have some links to modern bechmark results... or a pointer to a "good" opensource httpd benchmark tool (or anything other than SPECweb99)?
There are much better CRTs that Apple would ever sell anyway... such as the LaCie Electron 22 Blue III... with glare hood, color calibrator, and nifty Mac/Win software.
Now this makes me wonder, I thought most graphic designers used Mac, but Apple only supplies these with LCD's these days..
Has anybody told Apple that this probably isn't a good idea?
True, though there is always the option of buying an G4 without an Apple-brand LCD and instead opting for a Real Monitor.