Ganymede has been a long time in the making, but well worth the wait and (somewhat) rocky ride. If you haven't checked it yet, head right over to their website, neat stuff if you have Java VMs installed on your machines. The TODO lists some cool new features for some upcoming versions and it appears 1.1 will bring it up to full enterprise-scalability.
Netscape has fallen way behind other browser makers, even the Mozilla project which came from Netscape itself. It doesn't surpise me that Netscape is going to quit making browsers.
Re:SGI-Photoshop is no longer available
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I have the original CD and manual for SGI Photoshop 3.01. That was the last version, not 2.5. Either way, it's not that big of a deal... the Unix version was a clunky port of the Mac version via the Latitude toolkit.
Re:Hate GIMP on Linux, why would I like it on MacO
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I haven't used GIMP much, but I noticed something quite similar as well. GIMP seems to be "tuned" for smaller images (2 MB and under). Perfect for 99.999% of its users, but the pros may not be too happy.
One reason we use MacOS for our Photoshop + Scanning/Printing machines is the excellent ColorSync feature and API integrated into MacOS. Using ColorSync-savvy devices, calibrators, and scanner test sheets ensures a very smooth calibration process. It can be done on MS Windows and SGI IRIX as well, but not as easily and there tend to be more apps, more standards, and more variables involved... plus the end result was never as good for us, regardless of how many different ways we configured the whole works.
ColorSync, another thing that OS X needs work on...
It's better than that, but being under the GPL it's free as in speech. You don't just get the beer but you can drink it too... and get the recipe, in the public domain, and free from monopolistic tactics.
the video side of things is similar
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Off and on (every other semester) over the past two years I have been heading a video group at my university. We mostly enhance, edit, and add minor graphics and effects to university-realated video for promotional and training uses. About a year ago we went through a major upgrade bringing 5 out of our 9 desktop machines to new G4 systems running MacOS 9.1, QT 5.01, and FinalCutPro 2.0. MacOS X was a complete non-event for us as our current setup has been working beautifully. When asked by our regional Apple rep what we wanted (he offered suggestions, like an OS X version of FCP soon, etc) our only major requests were "better gigabit ethernet performance in 9.1/9.2" and "DTS audio support in DVDStudioPro 2.0".
We are not scared of OS X either (especially with our SGI MIPS/IRIX background), it's just not something that we need right now when our current setup has been working nearly perfectly. We'll probably start working with OS X this fall with Maya on a G4 along side our two PCs that currently run Maya 3.01 to compare performance and stability.
TIFFany3 needs a GUI overhaul
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TIFFany is from the NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP days. There was even a release in the very first Rhapsody DR1 release in 1998 and even it showed its age. It's understandable, though, TIFFany was written for 68030 and 68040 machines in the late 1980s for NeXT machines for handling huge images and gobs of scripted filters, thus it focuses more on batch jobs rather than interactive work. Things have changed, the avearage new desktop can churn out 3000 MIPS and 2500 MFLOPS. TIFFany is still a nifty and powerful app, but its interface needs an overhaul moreso than even GIMP.
I would rather have...
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...a cocoa version of Photoshop. Not because Cocoa is "better", but because it would give Adobe a good chance to clean out the kruft. The individual filters in Photoshop are highly tuned with parts even written in assembly. But the actual Photoshop framework is a crusty bugger, sucks ram, isn't totally stable (when you use Photoshop 8 hours a day on both Win32 and MacOS) and has been building up ever since 3.0. It's time to scrub it down and start a new Photoshop release stream.
Gimp is growing quite well
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I really like 1.2 and am looking forward to 1.4. GIMP has come a long way and is nearly enterprise-scalable. By far one of the best pieces of freeware in existance.
When I watch the little figures flash around on the LCD or the disk rotate (in the case of older meters) I can't help but wonder just how accurate the gizmo is. It would be very interesting to put an extremely sensitive meter on the house side of the power company meter meter to see how accurate it is. I hope the margin of error is on the customers side.
Ever thought about this: do you as the customer pay for the power that runs the meter?:)
That's my only complaint about the GameBoy Color... the screen requires a lot of ambient light (moreso than the grayscale GameBoy) and the protective covering over the screen tends to be very reflective. Depending on the conditions, the screen can be dim and all I can see in the thing is my own face.
Contact your local power company and ask to speak to someone in their 'consumer energy conservation' department, chances are they'd be more than happy to lend you such a high-quality meter for free. In fact, some will even offer to help you conduct the tests and offer further advice. While power companies are in the business of selling you electricity, it's good PR (and in some places -- especially California -- necessary) to help the average consumer conserve energy.
drive bezels look out of place
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That fellow case looks really sharp, something that would belong nicely in a den or even a corner of a living room. But like most designer cases (and even some mainstream cases) the drive bezels just don't match. Some may disagree, its just one of those 'taste' things. Some custom wood bezels would be kinda neat (I'm not a fan of doors on a personal computer) or maybe paint all of the bezels a shade of brown. In its current state it sorta strikes me as a beautiful new Jaguar with some performance/stereo/clothing stickers slapped all over the rear.
I have a number of older Tektronix NC2XX (NC200/217/219) and Tektronix XP358 terminals I'd like to get going once again. From what I understand, they're by nature licensed for at least some version of their boot software (tekxp) which I haven't been able to round up as of yet.
One nice thing about XTerms is after you configure them, it's very hard to mess them up.
In our math department we have three labs of terminals (two are Tektronix NC4XX terminals, and the other has much newer SunRay1 terminals) as well as various NCD, Tek, and Sun terms all throughtout the building. The various terminals are on a switched 10/100BT network with 1000BT running to the servers. No hard drives on the terminals, just power them up, they grab their (tiny) bits of boot code off a tftp server, and bring up an extensive menu of options (WinDD to Windows/Citrix servers, XDMCP to the Sun and Linux servers, Telnet/SSH to various machines, etc). The best part is, it doesn't matter which terminal you're on or where you are. And when a terminal breaks (rare), just swap it for a different one. The whole setup works beautifully.
How is this any different than hordes of Slashdot readers writing to various software vendors requesting a certain piece of software to be ported to Linux?
Nice... the typical slashdot kiddie repsonse. Guess what, kid, you're not going to be able to moderate down the real world after mommy and daddy kick you out of the house when ya hit 18. Grow up and act like you have some cojones.
Hold on there fella... Apple had a huge Y2K upgrade program for NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. Users of NEXTSTEP 0.9 - 3.2 got a free upgrade to 3.3 as well as free patch CDs to bring 3.3 fully Y2K compliant. Users of OPENSTEP 4.0 & 4.1 got a free upgrade to 4.2 as well as patches. Developer tools were thrown an and upgrade as well. When I called to request the updates for my machines, I politely asked if I could get OPENSTEP even though I was using NEXTSTEP, they said sure and mailed me both. Within 3 days I had a huge package from Apple full of CDs, (boot) floppies, and manuals. Where did you get the $400 quote?? Are you talking about the OS itself or the software running on it? Any app that correctly used the NeXT date routines should be Y2K complaint.
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Raidweb, another IDE->SCSI RAID:
www.raidweb.com
[insert standard IDE disclamer]
Ganymede has been a long time in the making, but well worth the wait and (somewhat) rocky ride. If you haven't checked it yet, head right over to their website, neat stuff if you have Java VMs installed on your machines. The TODO lists some cool new features for some upcoming versions and it appears 1.1 will bring it up to full enterprise-scalability.
Very cool.
but then again it's a Motorola StarMax clone and my keyboard and mouse are plugged into its PS/2 ports too...
:(
Too bad most mac printer drivers aren't parallel port savvy
Netscape came from Mosaic. Netscape's codename in the early days was Mozilla.
Netscape has fallen way behind other browser makers, even the Mozilla project which came from Netscape itself. It doesn't surpise me that Netscape is going to quit making browsers.
I have the original CD and manual for SGI Photoshop 3.01. That was the last version, not 2.5. Either way, it's not that big of a deal... the Unix version was a clunky port of the Mac version via the Latitude toolkit.
I haven't used GIMP much, but I noticed something quite similar as well. GIMP seems to be "tuned" for smaller images (2 MB and under). Perfect for 99.999% of its users, but the pros may not be too happy.
And not just gamma.
One reason we use MacOS for our Photoshop + Scanning/Printing machines is the excellent ColorSync feature and API integrated into MacOS. Using ColorSync-savvy devices, calibrators, and scanner test sheets ensures a very smooth calibration process. It can be done on MS Windows and SGI IRIX as well, but not as easily and there tend to be more apps, more standards, and more variables involved... plus the end result was never as good for us, regardless of how many different ways we configured the whole works.
ColorSync, another thing that OS X needs work on...
It's free, as in beer.
It's better than that, but being under the GPL it's free as in speech. You don't just get the beer but you can drink it too... and get the recipe, in the public domain, and free from monopolistic tactics.
Off and on (every other semester) over the past two years I have been heading a video group at my university. We mostly enhance, edit, and add minor graphics and effects to university-realated video for promotional and training uses. About a year ago we went through a major upgrade bringing 5 out of our 9 desktop machines to new G4 systems running MacOS 9.1, QT 5.01, and FinalCutPro 2.0. MacOS X was a complete non-event for us as our current setup has been working beautifully. When asked by our regional Apple rep what we wanted (he offered suggestions, like an OS X version of FCP soon, etc) our only major requests were "better gigabit ethernet performance in 9.1/9.2" and "DTS audio support in DVDStudioPro 2.0".
We are not scared of OS X either (especially with our SGI MIPS/IRIX background), it's just not something that we need right now when our current setup has been working nearly perfectly. We'll probably start working with OS X this fall with Maya on a G4 along side our two PCs that currently run Maya 3.01 to compare performance and stability.
TIFFany is from the NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP days. There was even a release in the very first Rhapsody DR1 release in 1998 and even it showed its age. It's understandable, though, TIFFany was written for 68030 and 68040 machines in the late 1980s for NeXT machines for handling huge images and gobs of scripted filters, thus it focuses more on batch jobs rather than interactive work. Things have changed, the avearage new desktop can churn out 3000 MIPS and 2500 MFLOPS. TIFFany is still a nifty and powerful app, but its interface needs an overhaul moreso than even GIMP.
...a cocoa version of Photoshop. Not because Cocoa is "better", but because it would give Adobe a good chance to clean out the kruft. The individual filters in Photoshop are highly tuned with parts even written in assembly. But the actual Photoshop framework is a crusty bugger, sucks ram, isn't totally stable (when you use Photoshop 8 hours a day on both Win32 and MacOS) and has been building up ever since 3.0. It's time to scrub it down and start a new Photoshop release stream.
I really like 1.2 and am looking forward to 1.4. GIMP has come a long way and is nearly enterprise-scalable. By far one of the best pieces of freeware in existance.
When I watch the little figures flash around on the LCD or the disk rotate (in the case of older meters) I can't help but wonder just how accurate the gizmo is. It would be very interesting to put an extremely sensitive meter on the house side of the power company meter meter to see how accurate it is. I hope the margin of error is on the customers side.
:)
Ever thought about this: do you as the customer pay for the power that runs the meter?
That's my only complaint about the GameBoy Color... the screen requires a lot of ambient light (moreso than the grayscale GameBoy) and the protective covering over the screen tends to be very reflective. Depending on the conditions, the screen can be dim and all I can see in the thing is my own face.
Contact your local power company and ask to speak to someone in their 'consumer energy conservation' department, chances are they'd be more than happy to lend you such a high-quality meter for free. In fact, some will even offer to help you conduct the tests and offer further advice. While power companies are in the business of selling you electricity, it's good PR (and in some places -- especially California -- necessary) to help the average consumer conserve energy.
That fellow case looks really sharp, something that would belong nicely in a den or even a corner of a living room. But like most designer cases (and even some mainstream cases) the drive bezels just don't match. Some may disagree, its just one of those 'taste' things. Some custom wood bezels would be kinda neat (I'm not a fan of doors on a personal computer) or maybe paint all of the bezels a shade of brown. In its current state it sorta strikes me as a beautiful new Jaguar with some performance/stereo/clothing stickers slapped all over the rear.
I have a number of older Tektronix NC2XX (NC200/217/219) and Tektronix XP358 terminals I'd like to get going once again. From what I understand, they're by nature licensed for at least some version of their boot software (tekxp) which I haven't been able to round up as of yet.
One nice thing about XTerms is after you configure them, it's very hard to mess them up.
In our math department we have three labs of terminals (two are Tektronix NC4XX terminals, and the other has much newer SunRay1 terminals) as well as various NCD, Tek, and Sun terms all throughtout the building. The various terminals are on a switched 10/100BT network with 1000BT running to the servers. No hard drives on the terminals, just power them up, they grab their (tiny) bits of boot code off a tftp server, and bring up an extensive menu of options (WinDD to Windows/Citrix servers, XDMCP to the Sun and Linux servers, Telnet/SSH to various machines, etc). The best part is, it doesn't matter which terminal you're on or where you are. And when a terminal breaks (rare), just swap it for a different one. The whole setup works beautifully.
How is this any different than hordes of Slashdot readers writing to various software vendors requesting a certain piece of software to be ported to Linux?
Linux isn't cancer. Linux is hemroids.
Nice... the typical slashdot kiddie repsonse. Guess what, kid, you're not going to be able to moderate down the real world after mommy and daddy kick you out of the house when ya hit 18. Grow up and act like you have some cojones.
In fact, I had it do my taxes for me in April. I hear memachine is going to be merged with emacs soon.
Hold on there fella... Apple had a huge Y2K upgrade program for NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. Users of NEXTSTEP 0.9 - 3.2 got a free upgrade to 3.3 as well as free patch CDs to bring 3.3 fully Y2K compliant. Users of OPENSTEP 4.0 & 4.1 got a free upgrade to 4.2 as well as patches. Developer tools were thrown an and upgrade as well. When I called to request the updates for my machines, I politely asked if I could get OPENSTEP even though I was using NEXTSTEP, they said sure and mailed me both. Within 3 days I had a huge package from Apple full of CDs, (boot) floppies, and manuals. Where did you get the $400 quote?? Are you talking about the OS itself or the software running on it? Any app that correctly used the NeXT date routines should be Y2K complaint.