Article has some strange ideas about what constitutes a High-end server. I'd imagine a IBM P595 which supports up to 64 Processors would be high end... IBM seems to think so too. But then again what do they know about high end. I mean, they are only #2 in the High end server market (over $1,000,000 per server), and #1 in the mid-range server market (between $100,00 and $,1,00,000 per server).
The way to fix this is to let this guy know that this will lead to a magnitude of legal troubles that he cannot imagine. Either he withdraws the bogus application or face lawsuit from pro bono lawyers (who being fans of MAME) may happen to find a million and one reasons to drag him into civil court. He can do the right thing, or be one of many companies/individuals who have been bankrupted due to legal costs.
The great thing about this is that in the United States, you can file a civil suit for almost anything. And it would be simple to file hundreds of them given a team of very determined lawyers.
You mean like Baldur's Gate, Vampire:Bloodlines, Myst, or Max Payne? I can name more. Not that the above plots were all that strong. However I have found FF's storyline nothing of interest. Baldur's Gate was kinda engrossing...
My annoyance with most games these days is that as the graphics have gotten better, few games have a a storyline that can even match Zork's plot.
Actually that's not what I stated. What I stated was that the type of game exists. That being a 3rd person shooter type of game. I'm really not into the whole third person thing, as a matter of fact the new Vampire:Bloodlines annoys the shit out of me in that the game keeps shifting me out of first person during play. Thief: The Dark Project is also in the same grouping as Metal Gear Solid, as in it is 3rd person shooter game. Thief is probably a better comparison to Metal Gear. However when I wrote the original reply, Oni was the only third person game that came to mind.
However the stand that you have taken also can have severe risks. Example, I have recently been playing an old game, Heroes of Might and Magic. It's a pretty cool game. The publisher is no longer in business. When/If Steam ever goes down, noone will ever be able to play CS2 ever again without doing something that put you in jeopardy of being the subject of a DMCA case. This is especially the case if Valve is bought by another company that want to use Game Spy or something else.
Actually that's not entirely true. Where those specific games may not be available on Windows. There are games that are similar to them that are available. Of the above games, Metal Gear Solid is a 3rd person game like Oni. The Dead or Alive games are basically soft porn, and I'm not a teenager anymore. R-Type is kinda cool, and I have a few pretty cool side and top scrollers on Windows and MacOS. I also have a copy of MAME.
I do wish the publishers would release more of the games you find in an arcade to Windows/MacOS.
You are completely correct about one thing: I have no concept of why people might prefer a console.
This is one of the reasons I will never buy a console. Console games are geared to be throw-away games. i.e. You spend $50 on a FPS, and you are stuck with whatever maps the publisher sees fit to let you have. Even those games on the Xbox that have downloadable mods. Mods on Xbox live see: here are limited to publisher produced material. This means that you will never see a candyland map for Uneal Championship, or the gigantic burger joint map for that matter.
I have a few hundred megs of Maps for games like Unreal Tournament, Doom 3, Red Faction, Starcraft, etc, etc, etc. that were created by fans. I have a friend who is really into Morrowind, which is over 3 years old, and mods that offer nudity, god mode, extra locations, extra equipment, skins, and anything else some fan has the imagination and inclination to produce. He has been playing this game off and on for 3 years... I'm still playing Neverwinter Nights.
And for the game companies: attack your customers at your peril... We don't care about IP, we don't care whether you are too puritanical for nude skins, or whatever. A new game is a toy to us that will be used as we see fit. If you want to clamp down, many people simply won't buy from you. I sure as hell won't. And furthermore this makes me feel like I have made the right decision in avoiding the console market altogether.
When I heard about the whole Steam Activation crap, I decided that I would not be buying Half Life 2. I only register items that have a useful warranty that actually does _ME_ good. My APC UPS for example... Any software I buy must work out of the box, no logging into remote servers accepted.
My current take on the situation is:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....
Letting a company hold you by the testicles is simply an exercise in stupidity. Apparently Quicken users have also recently learned this.
Note: Even though I have a legal copy of Norton, there are ways around the registration.
My wife and I also have Sony T610s. Man are they sweet... Have you by chance grabbed a copy of Romeo? It's an application that allows you to control the machine from your phone via bluetooth. This is great for Powerpoint/Keynote if you have to use them, as well as iTunes and mouse control.
Actually no, the Mac Mini does not have a slightly faster CPU. The G4 stomps all over the Via. The G4 is somewhat faster than a similarly clocked P3 in my experience.
I have a P3 700, a C3 700, and a G4 733. The G4 is the fastest of the three, the P3 is generally somewhat close (though slightly faster faster as a gaming platform). The Via really is not in the same league. For desktop use it might be ok (noticeably slower), but once you fire up anything requiring CPU power, it goes all to hell. Try doing anything intensive like viewing a very high quality Divx movie on the C3 and you'll see what I mean. Viewing PDFs is much, much faster on the G4 than anything. Seti is significantly faster on the P3. However large speed differences between the G4 and P3 seem to be due to CPU optimizations more than anything else. The C3 on the other hand is just slow.
BTW I should mention that the C3 is a socket 370, which I bought as a replacement for the P3. The machine now sits in a closet as a server (no CPU fan and low wattage were the deciding factors, not speed). So when I tried the C3 out it was on the same board, same video (radeon 7000), same RAM, etc. The G3 has a faster FSB but also has a radeon 7000.
To have an equivalent Via as compared to a P3 or G4 you'd have to have one clocked at least 25 - 50% higher than what you are comparing it to. This applies especially for those things that the Mac Mini's core audience uses their machines for. iPhoto, iMovie, Quicktime movies (tho I use VLC or MPlayer), and other creative kinds of stuff. I am fairly sure that a Mini or a P3 would be much faster at web browsing as well.
I am not in this crowd tho my mom, and mother in law are. They like making cheesy greeting cards and invitations and taking photos of the grandkids, and I'm certain if my mother in law had a mini, instead of a Windows box, I'd be forced to watch waayyyy too many home made movies of my neices.
Personally I don't particularly care for Open Office much. It's a poor rip off of M$ Office that does nothing to improve on the original. If anything the interface is even more cluttered. I'd imagine that Pages will be easy enough to use that your grandmother won't have to invest in "for Dummies" books to be able to use it. I am glad that it is an option, but I prefer Abiword to Open Office any day.
Mozilla uses a far more bloated engine than Konquerer which is why the Apple browser is based off of the KHTML engine instead of Gecko (the engine Mozilla uses). KHTML is faster than Gecko on every machine I have used it on, yes even after the broadband tweaks to Firefox. I really like Firefox and will continue to use it on Windows, however on Linux, OS X, and the BSDs that I run I will continue to use either Safari or Konquerer. I would also imagine that if you were hell bent on using Firefox you could download it... unless you are completely stupid.
Well personally I just grabbed a copy of NCFTP, which is a command line FTP client that I reallly love. However if you are a simpering moron and need to use the mouse then you probably aren't uploading much anyway. So in that case using FTP:// in Safari, or the Finder's connect dialog, will connect you to a FTP site with unicode support. NCFTP also supports unicode, not that I have ever needed or wanted unicode in an FTP session....
You know, I have no problems with Safari on any web site at all that is WC3 compliant anyways. If Safari doesn't work I generally have to slide to my right and hit the button on my KVM so that I can use M$IE on Windows. This is generally due to some moron web developer who has never heard of WC3 and puts all kinds of obnoxious ActiveX crap in their site. Sometimes simply by telling the stupid website that I am using MSIE/Windows it works fine due to arbitrary get_env calls that deny access to non-windows users. (Cox's web site was that way for a while, spoof your environment and it worked perfectly, send correct info and it would lock you out with "you must be a drone and use the most attacked platform and browser on earth.") BTW Happy Tree Friends works very nice on Safari.
BTW I prefer Flash using Quicktime to anything because you can download Flash movies and play them full screen using Quicktime Pro. I don't recall ever having any Flash movie play less than perfectly on a machine, given that it's a fast enough box. The early rev iMacs being among those that are too slow. You could download the Macromedia Flash Player from versiontracker.com which is written by MACROMEDIA, who just happen to be the guys behind FLASH. Strange how that works, huh? If it doesn't work on the animation, then probably the creator of the animation doesn't know what he is doing.
I hope that english is not your first language.....
If you were a hardcore *nix user then you would not have written that post. What you should be doing is to quit messing with the GUI crap and explore the command line environment some. Grab an old machine, drop Slackware or OpenBSD on there (without X11) and teach yourself some stuff..... It will give you a better idea of what "architectural problems" actually are.
It's just that the wrong analogy is used. Clock speed is analogous to engine RPM. Further extending the analogy is IPC is equivalent to gear ratios. So my car at 3000 RPM may do 70 MPH in 5th gear, while a porche at 3000 RPM may do 125 MPH in the same gear due to the higher gear ratio.
Most people can understand that some chips can do more per cycle than others (IPC vs. gear ratio), and that a certain number of cycles (Mhz vs. RPM) is not an indicator of how fast you may be going/how much you get done.
You are correct in that Moore's Law has nothing to do with clock speed.
I am rather annoyed at the term "Moore's Law" in the first place however. It's not a law, theory, or hypothosis, it's an observation.
The laws of physics are not like traffic laws, they cannot be disobeyed. If it can be, then it is disqualified as a physical law, and it doesn't matter anyway.
When it creeps upwards towards 80 degrees Fahrenheit I go to sleep. I work best at around 68 degrees or so when typing. So like everything this is simply a "most people" study following the standard deviation with regard to performance. The problem is that most people read this as an "in every case" sort of scenario.
At whatever cost it may take, I'll simply have to quit buying new cars if it comes down to it. And unlike most of the plastic populance, the ignorant masses, I actually refuse to give in to stupid crap like this.
I'd imagine if someone went to the trouble to port Darwin, not all that likely, then OSX would run on this... It would require some stacking of OSX stuff onto Darwin, and I am not sure exactly how much is different between Darwin, and OSX's core, but not that much... it would take some effort...
The only thing that this application will achieve is to convince the record companies that trusting Apple's watered down DRM scheme was a mistake. They will all happily move to WMA instead. Which is so DRM shackled as to be useless, based on no standard whatsoever (AAC is an open standard), and will probably get more onerous as time passes.
Note: After installing a service pack on a win2k box, an office drone where I used to work freaked cause none of his music would play anymore. He was convinced we had purposely tampered with his files.
Anyone have a copy of the movies in an open format???
Both Video Lan Client, and Mplayer refuse to play this thing.
FFMPEG doesn't support it yet, I don't think.
I'm becoming convinced that the only reason "WMV3" encoding exists is to lock out non-M$ users. There are a million different formats that work well enough and are open.
Apple did not *create* OS X, they bought it. In actuality it is NeXTStep 6.4 or so (depending on how you like to version things.)
And a little known thing happened at Apple that apparently most of those not familiar with NeXT/Apple are not aware of: The purchase of next was in fact a sort of reverse takeover... That is, most of the people in charge of the low level stuff in OSX are old NeXT engineers.
So while most people consider OSX a new OSX, only a few years old. The core of the system is in fact more than a decade old.
Note: Cocoa is in fact made up of the original programming calls for NeXTStep while 90% of the old stuff was rolled into Carbon.
If the machine you are talking about is a webserver, there sure as hell better not be anyone checking their personal or webmaster email on the machine. Or browsing the web for that matter...
With OS 9 servers, you remove EVERYTHING not neccesary to the task at hand.
No web browsers, no paint apps, no quicktime apps, no email clients, no video conferencing apps, no chat clients, nothing...
The only thing that should be on the machine is the server software, a few utilities, and AppleTalk on a separate card on an internal network for uploading things.
note: If the machine in question is not running email services, there is no "local user" as far as email is concerned. Unix rules, but the paradym is not even remotely like that of MacOS 9. Most OS 9 servers are single use machines.
Actually the lack of OS 9 booting has to do with the lack of OS9 support for new hardware. You can (using certain utilities) attempt to boot a new machine into OS9, it will fail, however requiring a reset of the boot partition in the Firmware.
Open Firmware is open, is written in forth, and can be programmed in if you know what you are doing. A previous mac hack conference had an entry for pong that ran in the firmware.
I'd say that the ability to make a BIOS play pong makes it less proprietary than say any phoenix BIOS ever made. Since I have never heard of an x86 bios that can be programmed in.
The lack of what you may want in the BIOS is not a failing of the BIOS since it is programmable. It is a failing in you, since you lack the knowledge to make it do what you like.
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Article has some strange ideas about what constitutes a High-end server. I'd imagine a IBM P595 which supports up to 64 Processors would be high end... IBM seems to think so too. But then again what do they know about high end. I mean, they are only #2 in the High end server market (over $1,000,000 per server), and #1 in the mid-range server market (between $100,00 and $,1,00,000 per server).
The way to fix this is to let this guy know that this will lead to a magnitude of legal troubles that he cannot imagine. Either he withdraws the bogus application or face lawsuit from pro bono lawyers (who being fans of MAME) may happen to find a million and one reasons to drag him into civil court. He can do the right thing, or be one of many companies/individuals who have been bankrupted due to legal costs.
The great thing about this is that in the United States, you can file a civil suit for almost anything. And it would be simple to file hundreds of them given a team of very determined lawyers.
You mean like Baldur's Gate, Vampire:Bloodlines, Myst, or Max Payne? I can name more. Not that the above plots were all that strong. However I have found FF's storyline nothing of interest. Baldur's Gate was kinda engrossing...
My annoyance with most games these days is that as the graphics have gotten better, few games have a a storyline that can even match Zork's plot.
Actually that's not what I stated. What I stated was that the type of game exists. That being a 3rd person shooter type of game. I'm really not into the whole third person thing, as a matter of fact the new Vampire:Bloodlines annoys the shit out of me in that the game keeps shifting me out of first person during play. Thief: The Dark Project is also in the same grouping as Metal Gear Solid, as in it is 3rd person shooter game. Thief is probably a better comparison to Metal Gear. However when I wrote the original reply, Oni was the only third person game that came to mind.
However the stand that you have taken also can have severe risks. Example, I have recently been playing an old game, Heroes of Might and Magic. It's a pretty cool game. The publisher is no longer in business. When/If Steam ever goes down, noone will ever be able to play CS2 ever again without doing something that put you in jeopardy of being the subject of a DMCA case. This is especially the case if Valve is bought by another company that want to use Game Spy or something else.
Actually that's not entirely true. Where those specific games may not be available on Windows. There are games that are similar to them that are available. Of the above games, Metal Gear Solid is a 3rd person game like Oni. The Dead or Alive games are basically soft porn, and I'm not a teenager anymore. R-Type is kinda cool, and I have a few pretty cool side and top scrollers on Windows and MacOS. I also have a copy of MAME.
I do wish the publishers would release more of the games you find in an arcade to Windows/MacOS.
You are completely correct about one thing: I have no concept of why people might prefer a console.
This is one of the reasons I will never buy a console. Console games are geared to be throw-away games. i.e. You spend $50 on a FPS, and you are stuck with whatever maps the publisher sees fit to let you have. Even those games on the Xbox that have downloadable mods. Mods on Xbox live see: here are limited to publisher produced material. This means that you will never see a candyland map for Uneal Championship, or the gigantic burger joint map for that matter.
I have a few hundred megs of Maps for games like Unreal Tournament, Doom 3, Red Faction, Starcraft, etc, etc, etc. that were created by fans. I have a friend who is really into Morrowind, which is over 3 years old, and mods that offer nudity, god mode, extra locations, extra equipment, skins, and anything else some fan has the imagination and inclination to produce. He has been playing this game off and on for 3 years... I'm still playing Neverwinter Nights.
And for the game companies: attack your customers at your peril... We don't care about IP, we don't care whether you are too puritanical for nude skins, or whatever. A new game is a toy to us that will be used as we see fit. If you want to clamp down, many people simply won't buy from you. I sure as hell won't. And furthermore this makes me feel like I have made the right decision in avoiding the console market altogether.
Romeo is Free, Sailing Clicker is not.
Romeo works very well, hence no need for spending hard earned money...
When I heard about the whole Steam Activation crap, I decided that I would not be buying Half Life 2. I only register items that have a useful warranty that actually does _ME_ good. My APC UPS for example... Any software I buy must work out of the box, no logging into remote servers accepted.
My current take on the situation is:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....
Letting a company hold you by the testicles is simply an exercise in stupidity. Apparently Quicken users have also recently learned this.
Note: Even though I have a legal copy of Norton, there are ways around the registration.
My wife and I also have Sony T610s. Man are they sweet... Have you by chance grabbed a copy of Romeo? It's an application that allows you to control the machine from your phone via bluetooth. This is great for Powerpoint/Keynote if you have to use them, as well as iTunes and mouse control.
Actually no, the Mac Mini does not have a slightly faster CPU. The G4 stomps all over the Via. The G4 is somewhat faster than a similarly clocked P3 in my experience.
I have a P3 700, a C3 700, and a G4 733. The G4 is the fastest of the three, the P3 is generally somewhat close (though slightly faster faster as a gaming platform). The Via really is not in the same league. For desktop use it might be ok (noticeably slower), but once you fire up anything requiring CPU power, it goes all to hell. Try doing anything intensive like viewing a very high quality Divx movie on the C3 and you'll see what I mean. Viewing PDFs is much, much faster on the G4 than anything. Seti is significantly faster on the P3. However large speed differences between the G4 and P3 seem to be due to CPU optimizations more than anything else. The C3 on the other hand is just slow.
BTW I should mention that the C3 is a socket 370, which I bought as a replacement for the P3. The machine now sits in a closet as a server (no CPU fan and low wattage were the deciding factors, not speed). So when I tried the C3 out it was on the same board, same video (radeon 7000), same RAM, etc. The G3 has a faster FSB but also has a radeon 7000.
To have an equivalent Via as compared to a P3 or G4 you'd have to have one clocked at least 25 - 50% higher than what you are comparing it to. This applies especially for those things that the Mac Mini's core audience uses their machines for. iPhoto, iMovie, Quicktime movies (tho I use VLC or MPlayer), and other creative kinds of stuff. I am fairly sure that a Mini or a P3 would be much faster at web browsing as well.
I am not in this crowd tho my mom, and mother in law are. They like making cheesy greeting cards and invitations and taking photos of the grandkids, and I'm certain if my mother in law had a mini, instead of a Windows box, I'd be forced to watch waayyyy too many home made movies of my neices.
Streaming Real Media is not free. The streaming server is actually rather costly.
QTSS, Quicktime Streaming Server on the other hand is Open Source. It will build on Linux. I have not attempted to build it on FreeBSD yet tho....
Personally I don't particularly care for Open Office much. It's a poor rip off of M$ Office that does nothing to improve on the original. If anything the interface is even more cluttered. I'd imagine that Pages will be easy enough to use that your grandmother won't have to invest in "for Dummies" books to be able to use it. I am glad that it is an option, but I prefer Abiword to Open Office any day.
Mozilla uses a far more bloated engine than Konquerer which is why the Apple browser is based off of the KHTML engine instead of Gecko (the engine Mozilla uses). KHTML is faster than Gecko on every machine I have used it on, yes even after the broadband tweaks to Firefox. I really like Firefox and will continue to use it on Windows, however on Linux, OS X, and the BSDs that I run I will continue to use either Safari or Konquerer. I would also imagine that if you were hell bent on using Firefox you could download it... unless you are completely stupid.
Well personally I just grabbed a copy of NCFTP, which is a command line FTP client that I reallly love. However if you are a simpering moron and need to use the mouse then you probably aren't uploading much anyway. So in that case using FTP:// in Safari, or the Finder's connect dialog, will connect you to a FTP site with unicode support. NCFTP also supports unicode, not that I have ever needed or wanted unicode in an FTP session....
You know, I have no problems with Safari on any web site at all that is WC3 compliant anyways. If Safari doesn't work I generally have to slide to my right and hit the button on my KVM so that I can use M$IE on Windows. This is generally due to some moron web developer who has never heard of WC3 and puts all kinds of obnoxious ActiveX crap in their site. Sometimes simply by telling the stupid website that I am using MSIE/Windows it works fine due to arbitrary get_env calls that deny access to non-windows users. (Cox's web site was that way for a while, spoof your environment and it worked perfectly, send correct info and it would lock you out with "you must be a drone and use the most attacked platform and browser on earth.") BTW Happy Tree Friends works very nice on Safari.
BTW I prefer Flash using Quicktime to anything because you can download Flash movies and play them full screen using Quicktime Pro. I don't recall ever having any Flash movie play less than perfectly on a machine, given that it's a fast enough box. The early rev iMacs being among those that are too slow. You could download the Macromedia Flash Player from versiontracker.com which is written by MACROMEDIA, who just happen to be the guys behind FLASH. Strange how that works, huh? If it doesn't work on the animation, then probably the creator of the animation doesn't know what he is doing.
I hope that english is not your first language.....
If you were a hardcore *nix user then you would not have written that post. What you should be doing is to quit messing with the GUI crap and explore the command line environment some. Grab an old machine, drop Slackware or OpenBSD on there (without X11) and teach yourself some stuff..... It will give you a better idea of what "architectural problems" actually are.
Actually Hitrachi just announced a 500GB Unit to be on sale before too long....
Replying to your sig:
Actually car analogies can work.
It's just that the wrong analogy is used. Clock speed is analogous to engine RPM. Further extending the analogy is IPC is equivalent to gear ratios. So my car at 3000 RPM may do 70 MPH in 5th gear, while a porche at 3000 RPM may do 125 MPH in the same gear due to the higher gear ratio.
Most people can understand that some chips can do more per cycle than others (IPC vs. gear ratio), and that a certain number of cycles (Mhz vs. RPM) is not an indicator of how fast you may be going/how much you get done.
You are correct in that Moore's Law has nothing to do with clock speed.
I am rather annoyed at the term "Moore's Law" in the first place however. It's not a law, theory, or hypothosis, it's an observation.
The laws of physics are not like traffic laws, they cannot be disobeyed. If it can be, then it is disqualified as a physical law, and it doesn't matter anyway.
Why not give them a copy of Chip's Challenge II...
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information here:
http://www3.telus.net/~nfield/ChipChalleng
I know nothing at all about this game, just a quick googling.
When it creeps upwards towards 80 degrees Fahrenheit I go to sleep. I work best at around 68 degrees or so when typing. So like everything this is simply a "most people" study following the standard deviation with regard to performance. The problem is that most people read this as an "in every case" sort of scenario.
No. It will not.
At whatever cost it may take, I'll simply have to quit buying new cars if it comes down to it. And unlike most of the plastic populance, the ignorant masses, I actually refuse to give in to stupid crap like this.
No it does not.....
I'd imagine if someone went to the trouble to port Darwin, not all that likely, then OSX would run on this... It would require some stacking of OSX stuff onto Darwin, and I am not sure exactly how much is different between Darwin, and OSX's core, but not that much... it would take some effort...
The only thing that this application will achieve is to convince the record companies that trusting Apple's watered down DRM scheme was a mistake. They will all happily move to WMA instead. Which is so DRM shackled as to be useless, based on no standard whatsoever (AAC is an open standard), and will probably get more onerous as time passes.
Note: After installing a service pack on a win2k box, an office drone where I used to work freaked cause none of his music would play anymore. He was convinced we had purposely tampered with his files.
Anyone have a copy of the movies in an open format???
_ web_MS RC/MarsVirtualView.wmv. com/~antcrim/mars_web_MS RC/MSRC_mars2.wmv~ antcrim/mars_web_MS RC/MSRC_mars3.wmv
Both Video Lan Client, and Mplayer refuse to play this thing.
FFMPEG doesn't support it yet, I don't think.
I'm becoming convinced that the only reason "WMV3" encoding exists is to lock out non-M$ users. There are a million different formats that work well enough and are open.
What else should one expect from M$?
Links are:
http://research.microsoft.com/~antcrim/mars
http://research.microsoft
http://research.microsoft.com/
Apple did not *create* OS X, they bought it. In actuality it is NeXTStep 6.4 or so (depending on how you like to version things.)
And a little known thing happened at Apple that apparently most of those not familiar with NeXT/Apple are not aware of: The purchase of next was in fact a sort of reverse takeover... That is, most of the people in charge of the low level stuff in OSX are old NeXT engineers.
So while most people consider OSX a new OSX, only a few years old. The core of the system is in fact more than a decade old.
Note: Cocoa is in fact made up of the original programming calls for NeXTStep while 90% of the old stuff was rolled into Carbon.
If the machine you are talking about is a webserver, there sure as hell better not be anyone checking their personal or webmaster email on the machine. Or browsing the web for that matter...
With OS 9 servers, you remove EVERYTHING not neccesary to the task at hand.
No web browsers, no paint apps, no quicktime apps, no email clients, no video conferencing apps, no chat clients, nothing...
The only thing that should be on the machine is the server software, a few utilities, and AppleTalk on a separate card on an internal network for uploading things.
note: If the machine in question is not running email services, there is no "local user" as far as email is concerned. Unix rules, but the paradym is not even remotely like that of MacOS 9. Most OS 9 servers are single use machines.
There is an unspoken deep-rooted fear that a test of the GPL will fail when presented in court.
Actually the lack of OS 9 booting has to do with the lack of OS9 support for new hardware. You can (using certain utilities) attempt to boot a new machine into OS9, it will fail, however requiring a reset of the boot partition in the Firmware.
Open Firmware is open, is written in forth, and can be programmed in if you know what you are doing. A previous mac hack conference had an entry for pong that ran in the firmware.
I'd say that the ability to make a BIOS play pong makes it less proprietary than say any phoenix BIOS ever made. Since I have never heard of an x86 bios that can be programmed in.
The lack of what you may want in the BIOS is not a failing of the BIOS since it is programmable. It is a failing in you, since you lack the knowledge to make it do what you like.