So the question is, why is an entry level 600MHz iMac *so* expensive if the screen, hard drive, memory, video, etc, are all commodity parts?
If the CPU is cheaper than AMD's, why is an entry level Mac 50% more expensive than an entry AMD or Intel?
Margains. Apple make larger margains that other PC companies. And as someone else said the very non standard case design (and thermal reqs for companants) would have to add to the cost of the chassis. The iMac is something that I reccomend to people who have no clue, and especially those who THINK they have a clue and need to ring me all the time with their Win32 hassles.
It also depends on your definition of entry level PC. Dont forget with a Mac they support them for one year over the phone, as well as all the hardware. I am yet to see an iMac whose monitor has degraded to the point of being virtually black, as compared to the ViewSonic 15"'s that my uni bought 2 years ago.
Does that mean this chip is a great candidate for Unix (eunuchs) servers?
No no no, linux (a eunuchs clone from birth) would spend all its time emulating the "balls" instruction that has been removed from the celeron. You would be far better off to give eunuchs a processor with balls and a rod to play with.
So, sending a few troops would be more... cost effective? How much does a human life cost?
No, seriously, what would be the difference in cost between sending a squad of trained troopers and bombing from afar? I know you can't put a price on human life, but surely someone must have made the calculation before...
Yes, but how much does bad press cost? If people die then you get bad press, and the voters want you to pull out, if you pull out you look like a pussy and if you look like a pussy (once you have started an attack) you loose. And also how else do weapons get tested? Why not test a few weapons (that hopefully weaken the opponants) before sending in the troops.
Dont forget also that the Missile has not brothers and sisters, no father no mother and no friends. If a missile gets destroyed it does not weigh heavy on the President or the General or that troops squad leader. And blowing shit up from afar boosts morale of those at home and serving there.
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Is the 16 way version actually only 2 chips?
[Is not a package 4 x 2 Proc?].
Is is it 16 packages? I am confused, what exactly counts as a chip in one of these beasts?
In all fairness to Microsoft, if they were to include CD burning capabilites and DVD playback (although that may not be as hot of an issue as CD burning), the DoJ would be on them quicker than Jon Katz on a box of Krispy Kremes.
I would also like to point out that Apple are a H/W company not just a S/W company. They should and need to bundle the software with their products just as Dell/Gateway/IBM et al bundle software with their products along with the OS. In the case with apple they provide these things in the OS seeing as they will be used on apple hardware.
Unless starcat does something really different, a CPU failure will cause that single image to fail (which is of course why you'd split the box into two and use an HA cluster of some sort:-)
Unless I am very miskaten most Sun boxen if a CPU fails, stops using that CPU and moves (or does it have to be told??) all processing away from that CPU. That way the system can stay live, albeit slower.
Mostly because the KT266A will be cheaper for the same performance and advantages. The major advantage of the dual DDR-SDRAM channels is to make the onboard video bite slightly less. If you are going to stuff it with an AGP video card, etc. you might as well just get the KT266A.
What i think will be most interesting is the quality of drivers released for this motherboard. Will they be (and i hope so) than the VIA drivers, will this chipset have "issues" with certain types of hardware? Will performance of nVidia video cards be better than the compeditors on this chipset. If the performance is comparable will it always be this way, and most importantly will there be any drivers at all available for linux in the source form? Or will we be in the current situation where to get decent performance, we need to add this, fiddle with that and install the NV drivers?
The article goes out of it's way to be seen to be 'fair' to NT, and then ends with a comparison that shows the support cost for adding a 5000 mailbox solution to an existing mainframe is exactly $0. Presumably this is because it is assumed the site allready has mainframe support resources?
But by the same token a site that uses NT for file & print servers (and therefore has an existing NT support team) should be able to use the same support resources for looking after their Exchange servers.
You seem to be forgetting that support on hardware is worked out per machine. Ie: Adding another 11 boxes to add the mailboxes means another 11 boxes to be places on support contract. Whereas the mainframe is already under contract.
Whoa! This guy has guts. Not only is he trying to battle William Gates III he's also named Bill's OS after himself! Even Bill Gates himself wasn't arrogant enough to instill a "BillOS" upon us! Sheesh.
Actually Petros is Greek for rock. So perhaps he is making a comment about the theoretical stability of the OS.
When someone else has sworn to kill you, sitting around and trying to be nice is stupid. Kill them first. Or are you not paying attention to what those vermin are preaching in their newspapers, television programs, and mosques?
Careful there. The Muslim religion and MOST of the people who practice it do not condone the shedding of blood, even "infidels". It is the extremists, like most such things who promote those ideas. That comment would be like associating the KKK or worse with all christian beliefs and practices. Please do not view the minority, the vocal minority as the whole.
Disclaimer: I am not involved either as a Muslim or an American, but am an Australian. Whilst many Americans much be hurting now, (and i do hope that their hurt is healed), I believe that it is necessary to keep some form of rationalism still. I wish for retribution to be carried out, I even say i burn for it, so if i feel this, many americans must be feeling it much more heavily than I. I do not wish for peaceful people to be targeted. There is the case during the Gulf war where some yobbo firebombed a Mosque, hurting a community that supported the actions of AU, UK and US in that conflict. I would hate to see innocent people hurt, just because of a vocal yobbo who desecrates their religion in this fasion.
I wish to pass along my condolences to all who lost family and friends in this horrendous attack. I am shaking as I write this; the office seems to be filled with an eerie silence. As an Australian, I have never really been touched, by such things, but it seems that those of the free world have been shocked by what has happened.
Unlike Pearl Harbour which was horrific this attack is much much worse, for it was not a military target that was attacked, but a civilian target, it was not weapons that were used but people. This is a despicable attack, and I hope for swift retribution to be carried out on the perpetrators of this evil act. I pray that this retribution does not carry the risk of world war with it too.
Most importantly I pray for the families of victims, mothers and fathers who have lost children. Children who have lost mothers and fathers. Brothers and sisters who have lost siblings. Friends who have lost their friends. I pray that you are all able to find comfort and solace, and are able to continue your lives in peace.
If I buy a ford truck, and jack it up, put a light bar on it, custom paint it, tweek the motor and do all sorts of wacky stuff Ford doesn't sue me for violating their "IP". They don't ask me to take the name off of it. In fact, if I make kits to modify the vehicles they are happy as a clam, as it sells more cars.
If you buy a car from GM (Holden in AU) and make a body kit for it and sell it as a Forde, i am sure that you would get into trouble.
Now divide that by 1 billion (that's trillion for you in Britain if I am not mistaken).
British I am not (Australian decended from the celtic peoples.), mistaken you are. 1 Billion from the non-US view of the world (although i believe AU now uses the US figure) is actually 1 x 10^6 x 1 x 10^6 = 1x10^12. Where as the US Billion is 1x10^6 * 1000 or 1x10^9.
Personally if i were to be a billionaire i would prefer the British Billion (and pound for that matter). That would make me very rich indeed.:) [especially as putting my 2c worth on an american forum is worth $1 AU:)
Apple just built a CD burner into their OS. Steve Jobs even took some shots at Roxio when they announced it at Mac World.
Of course, Apple doesn't hold a monopoly, so they can live by different rules than MS.
The funny thing is that some Mac users have told me the reason that it's okay for Apple to do this (when it's not for MS) is that the CD burner is an integrated part of the OS.
I dont know about other users, but this is why I think it is OK for apple to do this (for the moment).
Apple are a hardware company. They are not an OS company, therefore people expect that their products, that they purchase will work. Also very few companies give a Rats Backside about supporting alternative platforms (Mac, Solaris,Linux,BSD). I mean try finding a flash memory USB device that will work on the SunRay platform. Mac has USB support because they were really the first to support USB in the hardware and the OS.
How would you as a consumer feel if with your brand new QuickSilver Dual 800 G4 with DVD SuperDrive and 22" ACD, sorry you cant actually burn any software under MacOS9 because no company has written one, Dodgy Bros S/W house have been in development and there should be a beta relase in 2003.?
This is why apple need to bundle S/W for burning DVDs with their OS. I know personally that i would not pay money for software just to make my burner burn only the most basic of CDs. I would pay extra for something like clone-cd though.
Please note: I use a PC/Win2K&Linux at home. An iBook OSX/OS9. I love iTunes because it is the best MP3 player to use. It is based on some s/w that apple licensed of the creators. S/W that i would never have purchased, this is why i use winamp on my PC, price.
BTW, did you know that XP Pro has native.zip file support... Dunno where it came from although it looks a lot like zip folders. There goes Winzip's business model.
What is Winzip? Is that like PKUNZIP.EXE or/usr/bin/unzip? Or is that the program that some of my friends use that they keep on hitting instead of at this prompt telling them that they are on day 678 of 30. And that they have opened 56345 zip files?
Yes, the above was slightly sarcastic and satirical. I was pointing out that there were free (beer) alternatives to WinZip, and that most people dont atcually pay for winzip, and ergo they dont have a decent business model. Add to the fact that there are a cartload + 2 of programs that support uniziping.ZIP files.
Look what happened when they did something like bundle a browser (a VERY good one at that) with the OS! I'm actually on Microsoft's side on this one... most people today are buying computers to browse the web. If they didn't include IE how would people browse the web? Would they get instructions on how to open a DOS window and use ftp to download Netscape? That's just ridiculous.
That would be the reason why as soon as I install windows 2000, I have to download:
SP2: 11-30MB
IE5.5SP2: 11MB
HOTFIXES: 15MB
A goodly proportion of the above fixes to IE. (I do agree with you that it is good, but i digress).
I would much rather have a clean OS. And then add my browser &tc after the fact. That way i could have 100% avoided IE4. People would pick one or the other browser. (If you include the common controls for VB 6 &tc, NS 6.1 and IE 5.5.x/6 weigh in at about the same). Then web sites would support both browsers (apologies to those who use lynx etal.)
Not in OmniWeb in OS X it doesn't; everything is beautifully anti-aliased. Which brings up an interesting point: not all anti-aliasing is created equal. This is very noticeable in OS X, which (for legacy reasons) actually has two different algorithms for it. Loading up the same page in IE (which uses QuickDraw) and OmniWeb (which uses CoreGraphics) makes the differences obvious. So, how good is the GTK anti-aliasing? Anyone got a screenshot?
I dont notice any more. I used tinkertool to disable antialiasing on my OS X box. Why i hear you all cry in disbelief. Well on the LCD of my iBook (0rigSE) at 800x600 it is absolutly horrible to look at, it just looks wrong. Has anyone else noticed that antialiasing on an LCD (with larger pixels) looks awful?.
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Dude, StarOffice sucks. There is no other way to say it. Why does my Office Suite need it's own start button and desktop? WTF were they thinking?
If i am not mistaken this is one of the problems / issues that SO 6 will solve. If i remember correctly SO 6 will have seperated the applications so that if you want to use StarWriter you can without loading all that memory hogging ugliness. I can not actually confirm this as i am not going to d/l SO 6 over a 33.6 modem, if it is not the full release.
I'd almost give people from AU a nickel so they could go move to a real country.
Spare 's ah neeekal suh? Pleeese suh! Meeesa poor Oooostrahliahn. My maaaah 'n paaaar uh ded, an' meesa one o dem orphans. Dat neekel cood hep me get tooo uh bettah puhlace.
If Ma Bell was listening to my phone calls to see if I was committing a crime, I would simply get 2 cans and an extremely long string. There is no way this can be defended ethically: Because they provide you with a service, as a corporation, they can legally observe and log every detail of enery task you use the service to complete? While a nation's highways may belong to the federal government, they still need probable cause to stop you and "observe" what you have under the seat of your car, or in the trunk. This complete circumvention of probably cause is ludicrous. As stated above: Imagine if the phone company did this!
Ahhh but what you don't see my lucky American friend, unlike you in the US of A who have rights defined in your constitution. Australians have very little in the way of rights. The right to remain silent, whist taking it up the ****. Or something like that i think.
Airport is nothing more than slightly-repackaged normal 802.11b, which was around (and also as 802.11) a long time before Apple thought of including it in their products.
Are we talking about the same airport that apple introduced approx 2 years ago. The airport that had (and probably still has, ugh!) an $700 AUD asking price when everything else on the market was at $1500+AUD for the same sort of thing. Whose cards are only $199 AUD, when someone like NetGear has an asking price of $340+AUD? I admit that it is not revolutionary NOW, but 2 years ago the price was great, and it was revolutionary. Perhaps it should have dropped by now, yes, but this is the way apple always do it. You just have to expect it. Now if someone would introduce a USB 802.11 adapter, that would be sweet.
This guy just used a PowerBook G4 for the look and because he's a Mac user. It's not that the PowerBook wasn't rugged to begin with. Of course, now it looks like it's indestructable.
Actually he used an iBook. This can be seen when you mouse over one of the images and the CD-R pops out containing an iBook software CD that only comes with a new iBook. And also on the specs page iBook is clearly readable.
This kind of thing is used in a lot more than just matchbox-sized servers. I've seen folks putting Linux-based systems inside vending machines (probably with the intention of having them notify the supplier when low), and that certainly doesn't require the kind of power and cost associated with more "modern" processors.
Indeed you make an excellent point. When i wrote my comment I was purely thinking of self. I hate noise at night, this means that a box with a power supply fan, cpu fan and normal HDD make too much noise for my comfort. The DSL service that i am going to get will allow me to run services (web/ssh/ftp/&tc) with no risk to my account. (I live in AU, and the prices Telstra Charge for the equivalent are enough to make grown companies weep collectively). A small embedded processor + microdrive + ram would allow me to have an almost silent server, which could be used for NAT, Squid Proxy (data costs a fortune here), firewall and web servies. Now I think that that is a lot of things that could be done.
Now as far as the aspect of remote monitoring &tc that is a great idea. Hrmm i wonder how hard it would be to set up a thing for the Graziers in our "outback". Brb insane man inventing now...
I know that there are those tiny little matchbox sized servers, but it just didn't sink in untill this post. It looks like I will have to do some scrounging and make up that matchbox sized linux gateway for DSL that i have wanted to do for soo long.
It is also good to see AMD having the decentcy to notify their customers early, and that they will continue to develop chips for the embedded market./me would love to see some kind of MP application of the K6-IIIE (if only) to be used in something like the Sun PCi cards.
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Ummm, I think we'd all have to be smoking crack to believe Linux has 60 million users. I'd estimate it more at like 650,000 maybe. The only people I know who even know what Linux is are other technical people... and half of them don't use it in lieu of Windows.
What about the people who are using linux boxes but dont realise it? When they visit a web page? When they collect their mail? Think of where linux COULD be used in a multi user environmenmt, and think of the people who dont know what it is that they are using other that "that unixy stuff thing".
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So the question is, why is an entry level 600MHz iMac *so* expensive if the screen, hard drive, memory, video, etc, are all commodity parts?
If the CPU is cheaper than AMD's, why is an entry level Mac 50% more expensive than an entry AMD or Intel?
Margains. Apple make larger margains that other PC companies. And as someone else said the very non standard case design (and thermal reqs for companants) would have to add to the cost of the chassis. The iMac is something that I reccomend to people who have no clue, and especially those who THINK they have a clue and need to ring me all the time with their Win32 hassles.
It also depends on your definition of entry level PC. Dont forget with a Mac they support them for one year over the phone, as well as all the hardware. I am yet to see an iMac whose monitor has degraded to the point of being virtually black, as compared to the ViewSonic 15"'s that my uni bought 2 years ago.
Does that mean this chip is a great candidate for Unix (eunuchs) servers?
No no no, linux (a eunuchs clone from birth) would spend all its time emulating the "balls" instruction that has been removed from the celeron. You would be far better off to give eunuchs a processor with balls and a rod to play with.
So, sending a few troops would be more... cost effective? How much does a human life cost?
No, seriously, what would be the difference in cost between sending a squad of trained troopers and bombing from afar? I know you can't put a price on human life, but surely someone must have made the calculation before...
Yes, but how much does bad press cost? If people die then you get bad press, and the voters want you to pull out, if you pull out you look like a pussy and if you look like a pussy (once you have started an attack) you loose. And also how else do weapons get tested? Why not test a few weapons (that hopefully weaken the opponants) before sending in the troops.
Dont forget also that the Missile has not brothers and sisters, no father no mother and no friends. If a missile gets destroyed it does not weigh heavy on the President or the General or that troops squad leader. And blowing shit up from afar boosts morale of those at home and serving there.
Is the 16 way version actually only 2 chips?
[Is not a package 4 x 2 Proc?].
Is is it 16 packages? I am confused, what exactly counts as a chip in one of these beasts?
In all fairness to Microsoft, if they were to include CD burning capabilites and DVD playback (although that may not be as hot of an issue as CD burning), the DoJ would be on them quicker than Jon Katz on a box of Krispy Kremes.
I would also like to point out that Apple are a H/W company not just a S/W company. They should and need to bundle the software with their products just as Dell/Gateway/IBM et al bundle software with their products along with the OS. In the case with apple they provide these things in the OS seeing as they will be used on apple hardware.
Unless starcat does something really different, a CPU failure will cause that single image to fail (which is of course why you'd split the box into two and use an HA cluster of some sort :-)
Unless I am very miskaten most Sun boxen if a CPU fails, stops using that CPU and moves (or does it have to be told??) all processing away from that CPU. That way the system can stay live, albeit slower.
Mostly because the KT266A will be cheaper for the same performance and advantages. The major advantage of the dual DDR-SDRAM channels is to make the onboard video bite slightly less. If you are going to stuff it with an AGP video card, etc. you might as well just get the KT266A.
What i think will be most interesting is the quality of drivers released for this motherboard. Will they be (and i hope so) than the VIA drivers, will this chipset have "issues" with certain types of hardware? Will performance of nVidia video cards be better than the compeditors on this chipset. If the performance is comparable will it always be this way, and most importantly will there be any drivers at all available for linux in the source form? Or will we be in the current situation where to get decent performance, we need to add this, fiddle with that and install the NV drivers?
The article goes out of it's way to be seen to be 'fair' to NT, and then ends with a comparison that shows the support cost for adding a 5000 mailbox solution to an existing mainframe is exactly $0. Presumably this is because it is assumed the site allready has mainframe support resources?
But by the same token a site that uses NT for file & print servers (and therefore has an existing NT support team) should be able to use the same support resources for looking after their Exchange servers.
You seem to be forgetting that support on hardware is worked out per machine. Ie: Adding another 11 boxes to add the mailboxes means another 11 boxes to be places on support contract. Whereas the mainframe is already under contract.
Whoa! This guy has guts. Not only is he trying to battle William Gates III he's also named Bill's OS after himself! Even Bill Gates himself wasn't arrogant enough to instill a "BillOS" upon us! Sheesh.
Actually Petros is Greek for rock. So perhaps he is making a comment about the theoretical stability of the OS.
When someone else has sworn to kill you, sitting around and trying to be nice is stupid. Kill them first. Or are you not paying attention to what those vermin are preaching in their newspapers, television programs, and mosques?
Careful there. The Muslim religion and MOST of the people who practice it do not condone the shedding of blood, even "infidels". It is the extremists, like most such things who promote those ideas. That comment would be like associating the KKK or worse with all christian beliefs and practices. Please do not view the minority, the vocal minority as the whole.
Disclaimer: I am not involved either as a Muslim or an American, but am an Australian. Whilst many Americans much be hurting now, (and i do hope that their hurt is healed), I believe that it is necessary to keep some form of rationalism still. I wish for retribution to be carried out, I even say i burn for it, so if i feel this, many americans must be feeling it much more heavily than I. I do not wish for peaceful people to be targeted. There is the case during the Gulf war where some yobbo firebombed a Mosque, hurting a community that supported the actions of AU, UK and US in that conflict. I would hate to see innocent people hurt, just because of a vocal yobbo who desecrates their religion in this fasion.
I wish to pass along my condolences to all who lost family and friends in this horrendous attack. I am shaking as I write this; the office seems to be filled with an eerie silence. As an Australian, I have never really been touched, by such things, but it seems that those of the free world have been shocked by what has happened.
Unlike Pearl Harbour which was horrific this attack is much much worse, for it was not a military target that was attacked, but a civilian target, it was not weapons that were used but people. This is a despicable attack, and I hope for swift retribution to be carried out on the perpetrators of this evil act. I pray that this retribution does not carry the risk of world war with it too.
Most importantly I pray for the families of victims, mothers and fathers who have lost children. Children who have lost mothers and fathers. Brothers and sisters who have lost siblings. Friends who have lost their friends. I pray that you are all able to find comfort and solace, and are able to continue your lives in peace.
If I buy a ford truck, and jack it up, put a light bar on it, custom paint it, tweek the motor and do all sorts of wacky stuff Ford doesn't sue me for violating their "IP". They don't ask me to take the name off of it. In fact, if I make kits to modify the vehicles they are happy as a clam, as it sells more cars.
If you buy a car from GM (Holden in AU) and make a body kit for it and sell it as a Forde, i am sure that you would get into trouble.
Now divide that by 1 billion (that's trillion for you in Britain if I am not mistaken).
:) [especially as putting my 2c worth on an american forum is worth $1 AU :)
British I am not (Australian decended from the celtic peoples.), mistaken you are. 1 Billion from the non-US view of the world (although i believe AU now uses the US figure) is actually 1 x 10^6 x 1 x 10^6 = 1x10^12. Where as the US Billion is 1x10^6 * 1000 or 1x10^9.
Personally if i were to be a billionaire i would prefer the British Billion (and pound for that matter). That would make me very rich indeed.
Apple just built a CD burner into their OS. Steve Jobs even took some shots at Roxio when they announced it at Mac World.
Of course, Apple doesn't hold a monopoly, so they can live by different rules than MS.
The funny thing is that some Mac users have told me the reason that it's okay for Apple to do this (when it's not for MS) is that the CD burner is an integrated part of the OS.
I dont know about other users, but this is why I think it is OK for apple to do this (for the moment).
Apple are a hardware company. They are not an OS company, therefore people expect that their products, that they purchase will work. Also very few companies give a Rats Backside about supporting alternative platforms (Mac, Solaris,Linux,BSD). I mean try finding a flash memory USB device that will work on the SunRay platform. Mac has USB support because they were really the first to support USB in the hardware and the OS.
How would you as a consumer feel if with your brand new QuickSilver Dual 800 G4 with DVD SuperDrive and 22" ACD, sorry you cant actually burn any software under MacOS9 because no company has written one, Dodgy Bros S/W house have been in development and there should be a beta relase in 2003.?
This is why apple need to bundle S/W for burning DVDs with their OS. I know personally that i would not pay money for software just to make my burner burn only the most basic of CDs. I would pay extra for something like clone-cd though.
Please note: I use a PC/Win2K&Linux at home. An iBook OSX/OS9. I love iTunes because it is the best MP3 player to use. It is based on some s/w that apple licensed of the creators. S/W that i would never have purchased, this is why i use winamp on my PC, price.
BTW, did you know that XP Pro has native .zip file support... Dunno where it came from although it looks a lot like zip folders. There goes Winzip's business model.
/usr/bin/unzip? Or is that the program that some of my friends use that they keep on hitting instead of at this prompt telling them that they are on day 678 of 30. And that they have opened 56345 zip files?
.ZIP files.
What is Winzip? Is that like PKUNZIP.EXE or
Yes, the above was slightly sarcastic and satirical. I was pointing out that there were free (beer) alternatives to WinZip, and that most people dont atcually pay for winzip, and ergo they dont have a decent business model. Add to the fact that there are a cartload + 2 of programs that support uniziping
Look what happened when they did something like bundle a browser (a VERY good one at that) with the OS! I'm actually on Microsoft's side on this one... most people today are buying computers to browse the web. If they didn't include IE how would people browse the web? Would they get instructions on how to open a DOS window and use ftp to download Netscape? That's just ridiculous.
That would be the reason why as soon as I install windows 2000, I have to download:
SP2: 11-30MB
IE5.5SP2: 11MB
HOTFIXES: 15MB
A goodly proportion of the above fixes to IE. (I do agree with you that it is good, but i digress).
I would much rather have a clean OS. And then add my browser &tc after the fact. That way i could have 100% avoided IE4. People would pick one or the other browser. (If you include the common controls for VB 6 &tc, NS 6.1 and IE 5.5.x/6 weigh in at about the same). Then web sites would support both browsers (apologies to those who use lynx etal.)
Not in OmniWeb in OS X it doesn't; everything is beautifully anti-aliased. Which brings up an interesting point: not all anti-aliasing is created equal. This is very noticeable in OS X, which (for legacy reasons) actually has two different algorithms for it. Loading up the same page in IE (which uses QuickDraw) and OmniWeb (which uses CoreGraphics) makes the differences obvious. So, how good is the GTK anti-aliasing? Anyone got a screenshot?
I dont notice any more. I used tinkertool to disable antialiasing on my OS X box. Why i hear you all cry in disbelief. Well on the LCD of my iBook (0rigSE) at 800x600 it is absolutly horrible to look at, it just looks wrong. Has anyone else noticed that antialiasing on an LCD (with larger pixels) looks awful?.
Dude, StarOffice sucks. There is no other way to say it. Why does my Office Suite need it's own start button and desktop? WTF were they thinking?
If i am not mistaken this is one of the problems / issues that SO 6 will solve. If i remember correctly SO 6 will have seperated the applications so that if you want to use StarWriter you can without loading all that memory hogging ugliness. I can not actually confirm this as i am not going to d/l SO 6 over a 33.6 modem, if it is not the full release.
I'd almost give people from AU a nickel so they could go move to a real country.
Spare 's ah neeekal suh? Pleeese suh! Meeesa poor Oooostrahliahn. My maaaah 'n paaaar uh ded, an' meesa one o dem orphans. Dat neekel cood hep me get tooo uh bettah puhlace.
If Ma Bell was listening to my phone calls to see if I was committing a crime, I would simply get 2 cans and an extremely long string. There is no way this can be defended ethically: Because they provide you with a service, as a corporation, they can legally observe and log every detail of enery task you use the service to complete? While a nation's highways may belong to the federal government, they still need probable cause to stop you and "observe" what you have under the seat of your car, or in the trunk. This complete circumvention of probably cause is ludicrous. As stated above: Imagine if the phone company did this!
Ahhh but what you don't see my lucky American friend, unlike you in the US of A who have rights defined in your constitution. Australians have very little in the way of rights. The right to remain silent, whist taking it up the ****. Or something like that i think.
Airport is nothing more than slightly-repackaged normal 802.11b, which was around (and also as 802.11) a long time before Apple thought of including it in their products.
Are we talking about the same airport that apple introduced approx 2 years ago. The airport that had (and probably still has, ugh!) an $700 AUD asking price when everything else on the market was at $1500+AUD for the same sort of thing. Whose cards are only $199 AUD, when someone like NetGear has an asking price of $340+AUD? I admit that it is not revolutionary NOW, but 2 years ago the price was great, and it was revolutionary. Perhaps it should have dropped by now, yes, but this is the way apple always do it. You just have to expect it. Now if someone would introduce a USB 802.11 adapter, that would be sweet.
This guy just used a PowerBook G4 for the look and because he's a Mac user. It's not that the PowerBook wasn't rugged to begin with. Of course, now it looks like it's indestructable.
Actually he used an iBook. This can be seen when you mouse over one of the images and the CD-R pops out containing an iBook software CD that only comes with a new iBook. And also on the specs page iBook is clearly readable.
This kind of thing is used in a lot more than just matchbox-sized servers. I've seen folks putting Linux-based systems inside vending machines (probably with the intention of having them notify the supplier when low), and that certainly doesn't require the kind of power and cost associated with more "modern" processors.
Indeed you make an excellent point. When i wrote my comment I was purely thinking of self. I hate noise at night, this means that a box with a power supply fan, cpu fan and normal HDD make too much noise for my comfort. The DSL service that i am going to get will allow me to run services (web/ssh/ftp/&tc) with no risk to my account. (I live in AU, and the prices Telstra Charge for the equivalent are enough to make grown companies weep collectively). A small embedded processor + microdrive + ram would allow me to have an almost silent server, which could be used for NAT, Squid Proxy (data costs a fortune here), firewall and web servies. Now I think that that is a lot of things that could be done.
Now as far as the aspect of remote monitoring &tc that is a great idea. Hrmm i wonder how hard it would be to set up a thing for the Graziers in our "outback". Brb insane man inventing now...
I know that there are those tiny little matchbox sized servers, but it just didn't sink in untill this post. It looks like I will have to do some scrounging and make up that matchbox sized linux gateway for DSL that i have wanted to do for soo long.
/me would love to see some kind of MP application of the K6-IIIE (if only) to be used in something like the Sun PCi cards.
It is also good to see AMD having the decentcy to notify their customers early, and that they will continue to develop chips for the embedded market.
Ummm, I think we'd all have to be smoking crack to believe Linux has 60 million users. I'd estimate it more at like 650,000 maybe. The only people I know who even know what Linux is are other technical people... and half of them don't use it in lieu of Windows.
What about the people who are using linux boxes but dont realise it? When they visit a web page? When they collect their mail? Think of where linux COULD be used in a multi user environmenmt, and think of the people who dont know what it is that they are using other that "that unixy stuff thing".