i think he was referring to osX, which is, at its roots "Unix too" (BSD on Mach) and "open too" (the BSD/mach layer is open source for obvious reasons, called Darwin)
when osX hits the street (it has already, in preview form, and soon in beta form) i expect apple stock will take a little jump, but i'm not buying any (more) shares myself.
.. and spend all the R&D money they wasted on their outer space ventures on more important things, like faster powerPC chips that actually work at 800-1000 MHz
or maybe the PR battery will make them rethink their arrogance at not cooperating with IBM on the project they are supposed to be partners on.
i love this show, and i really dig that it's getting it's own slot instead of the usual two minutes each year on the local news that the past robot battle tournaments have gotten
but shouldn't this be on scifi channel or something other than comedy central? i laugh at it, but i wouldn't consider it comedy..
well, until the CC folks realize this, i'm going to laugh my ass off at some robots getting mauled
the rumormill on lowend mac is not even a real rumor page, but is intended as humor - a jab at all the 'real' rumor pages (macosrumors, appleinsider, etc)
have a look at http://lowendmac.com/rumormill/about.shtml:
Okay, for those of you unsure about this site, here's the lowdown: it's a farce. There are no contacts at Apple Computer. There are no leaks from anyone reaching us. There is no Anne Onymus.
It's all made up. The Rumor Mill is intended to parody Mac rumor sites, although at times it may be hard to tell. (That's why I posted this page.)
I really hoped I wouldn't have to say that. I really hoped the broad-faced lies would be pretty obvious. I really wanted it to stand as thought-provoking parody.
But then it struck me, what if I guessed something right. Apple Legal would be on me like hunny on Pooh! So, here's the page that says it's just for fun.
As for the other rumor sites, they seem to take themselves a bit more seriously.
As for who Anne Onymus really is -- that would be telling.
- Dan Knight, publisher, Low End Mac
i hate it when i see something like this, but there's already a hundred posts going on about where are the numbers? and who is the source?
IE5 and the other MS applications that are running on OSX are built in Carbon, not BSD. it would take a lot of effort to port something based on the Mac-specific Carbon APIs to BSD. Sorry.
well, it's not like the surface of the mouse is touch sensitive or something. it's just a big hinged button. you tilt the top of the mouse, and it presses the switch down. one switch==one button. the rumors of the mouse registering various tilts as different clicks didn't pan out - and i'm not sure how it would be done, unless the hinge were a ball joint or something...
this little 'rumor' has been floating around for a long, long time - well, since 1997 or so. the speculation was there from the moment jobs stepped back into cupertino. that the G3/apple logo on the side of the blue G3s sported a distinctly mickey mouse-shaped hole didn't help things a bit.
this is - for those of you that are not familiar with, or do not read on a fairly regular basis, or are not (as i am) addicted to, the mac rumor web scene - pre-macworld-news-vacuum-speculation
disney doesn't want apple - apple is a hardware company with all kinds of actual inventory and an actual market to deal with, and not an entertainment company. if apple made action figures, maybe. also, apple doesn't want to be disney-fied. hell, they just got NeXT-ified, and things are still settling down from that. and besides, jobs would never stand for it.
that doesn't preclude disney from throwing a lot of money at apple to produce special disney editions of the imac and ibook - which is more likely - featuring various characters from disney films, or at the very least a nice kid-oriented game/software bundle.
'disney,' remember, owns a lot of other companies that make films that are not strictly 'disney' films.
i think that, if anyone were to try and dismember the hitchhiker plotline so thoroughly as that of "hunchback," mr. adams would very quickly extricate himself and his franchise from the process.
hrm.. maybe that was newer that was doing that...
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my mistake. that was newer tech that was doing that daughterboard swap. nevermind.
ah, but the interesting thing is how they do it
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so, you take out the old, 200 or 233 daughterboard from your imac, and what do you do with it? throw it out? no!
you send it back to powerlogix (and get a refund off your purchase), so they can pop the processor loose and make another 500 mhz daughterboard out of it. i read about this a while ago in the mac media, and the thing that took so long to get started was that powerlogix needed to get a critical density of the older imac boards.
that's the only way they can upgrade the imac's daughterboard without some serious reverse engineering of the apple proprietary boards. pretty smart, if you ask me.
Where the hell is R. Buckminster Fuller on that list!? One of the most prolific and imaginary inventors
i assume you meant imaginitive, not imaginary. i'm sure the fuller estate would be glad to prove his existence to you, should you ask to have him exhumed.
can you imagine trying the following on a cel phone (teensy screen, awkward at best text input):
The Thing Your Aunt Gave You Which You Don't Know What It Is contains: Satchel Fluff Pocket Fluff Cushion Fluff Jacket Fluff An Atomic Vector Plotter A Hyperwave Pincer
>get fluff from thing Which fluff do you mean? Satchel Fluff, Pocket Fluff, Cushion Fluff, or Jacket Fluff?
>get satchel fluff from thing Satchel Fluff: taken.
as if it's not hard enough to do in YAZI on my Newton MessagePad and that has a tappable keyboard and automatic word expansion.
Extra points to those that can identify the game:)
seriously, every time i submit something, it's number 350+ in a growing pile of submissions, and lately, more and more stories are appearing here in a less than timely manner (time was when i would hear about something on/. _before_ i saw it on the national news or in a newspaper)
with the now complete support of the VA/Andover behemoth, will there be more trained monkeys to prod and poke at the submissions and get them up more quickly?
LCIIs can be had at the local surplus auction for $5 apiece. Most of these are formerly lab machines, and have ethernet already.
i think a cluster of 25 of these low profile 16mhz monsters could fit on a desk, _maybe_ put out the MIPS of a PII (and only about twice the heat:) and all for about the price (including cabling & hubs) of a cheap celeron machine.
hmm.. for $10 i can get powermac 6100s by the truckload, and freebsd/ppc...
well, when this article, and a dozen or so like it, likely based on the same sources, came out a couple weeks ago, i submitted the same story.
but alas, timeliness seems not to matter in the realm of/.
and besides, this is just romor, not even very well documented or corroborated. i think the story lead should say that - though the source (appleinsider) kinda gives that away.
it's refreshing, though, to see more and more apple articles here, seeing as this is supposed to be a news site for all nerds, not just linux geeks.
there are other X servers for mac, but none are free, that i know if, except MI/X - which exists in both PPC and 68K flavors, and there's a windows version as well. it can be had at: http://www.microimages.com/www/html/freestuf/mix/
i've used it on my 8100 and G3 to run linux versions of X software from the 486 in my cupboard. if i were comfortable with java apps (the JVM is still really slow on even my G3/400. yuck) i'd try this guy out, as well. it sounds like fun.
the anti aliased fonts seem only to appear in the version that is running on the Mac, and seems to me to be a result of the system-level font smoothing in the MacOS, not the implementation of X.
correct me if i'm mistaken, but, if i'm right, the lead on this story is a little misleading.
i wonder how this will effect domain squatters who ut up chunks of names with the sole purpose of auctioning them off on ebay, holding them for "ransom", etc.
having had most of these questions already answered either in the alt.fan.douglas-adams faq, h2g2.com, or in personal correspondence (many moons and many campfires ago, DNA was kind enough to actually correspond with the, then few people that were both fans and Internet-connected. these days, it's nigh impossible for him to reply to _all_ of his fans' emails...) i was wondering..
what is the current status of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy motion picture? is the screenplay still being written/rewritten? is hollywood pictures/disney still involved? is there any chance i could see a hhgg movie in my lifetime?
you can do the same thing in north carolina, as well as, i'm sure, other US states, where criminal records and offenses are public record. sites like 123NC.com market themselves as the way to pre-screen your potential employees, coworkers, babysitters, or boyfriends.
it only costs about $6 to run a single search. $12 will give you results state- or county-wide.
i find it a little ironic that a big part of the site is dedicated to privacy concerns - on the part of users, that is.
are there any other states this has been rolled out in, or is it just my bass-ackward corner of the world?
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i think he was referring to osX, which is, at its roots "Unix too" (BSD on Mach) and "open too" (the BSD/mach layer is open source for obvious reasons, called Darwin)
when osX hits the street (it has already, in preview form, and soon in beta form) i expect apple stock will take a little jump, but i'm not buying any (more) shares myself.
.. and spend all the R&D money they wasted on their outer space ventures on more important things, like faster powerPC chips that actually work at 800-1000 MHz
or maybe the PR battery will make them rethink their arrogance at not cooperating with IBM on the project they are supposed to be partners on.
offtopic? maybe.. so mod me.
as if the NSA doesn't already have their own sattellites...
i love this show, and i really dig that it's getting it's own slot instead of the usual two minutes each year on the local news that the past robot battle tournaments have gotten
but shouldn't this be on scifi channel or something other than comedy central? i laugh at it, but i wouldn't consider it comedy..
well, until the CC folks realize this, i'm going to laugh my ass off at some robots getting mauled
well, duh. no networking, no services of any kind, and, well, that's it.
:)
if you don't have console access, you can't get into even the least secure minix box
have a look at http://lowendmac.com/rumormill/about.shtml:
i hate it when i see something like this, but there's already a hundred posts going on about where are the numbers? and who is the source?
IE5 and the other MS applications that are running on OSX are built in Carbon, not BSD. it would take a lot of effort to port something based on the Mac-specific Carbon APIs to BSD. Sorry.
xdaliclock -cycle.
now that would be a fun wristwatch
well, it's not like the surface of the mouse is touch sensitive or something. it's just a big hinged button. you tilt the top of the mouse, and it presses the switch down. one switch==one button. the rumors of the mouse registering various tilts as different clicks didn't pan out - and i'm not sure how it would be done, unless the hinge were a ball joint or something...
or should i say slashdot, slashdot, slashdot...
this little 'rumor' has been floating around for a long, long time - well, since 1997 or so. the speculation was there from the moment jobs stepped back into cupertino. that the G3/apple logo on the side of the blue G3s sported a distinctly mickey mouse-shaped hole didn't help things a bit.
this is - for those of you that are not familiar with, or do not read on a fairly regular basis, or are not (as i am) addicted to, the mac rumor web scene - pre-macworld-news-vacuum-speculation
disney doesn't want apple - apple is a hardware company with all kinds of actual inventory and an actual market to deal with, and not an entertainment company. if apple made action figures, maybe. also, apple doesn't want to be disney-fied. hell, they just got NeXT-ified, and things are still settling down from that. and besides, jobs would never stand for it.
that doesn't preclude disney from throwing a lot of money at apple to produce special disney editions of the imac and ibook - which is more likely - featuring various characters from disney films, or at the very least a nice kid-oriented game/software bundle.
disney, as in hollywood pictures.
'disney,' remember, owns a lot of other companies that make films that are not strictly 'disney' films.
i think that, if anyone were to try and dismember the hitchhiker plotline so thoroughly as that of "hunchback," mr. adams would very quickly extricate himself and his franchise from the process.
my mistake. that was newer tech that was doing that daughterboard swap. nevermind.
so, you take out the old, 200 or 233 daughterboard from your imac, and what do you do with it? throw it out? no!
you send it back to powerlogix (and get a refund off your purchase), so they can pop the processor loose and make another 500 mhz daughterboard out of it. i read about this a while ago in the mac media, and the thing that took so long to get started was that powerlogix needed to get a critical density of the older imac boards.
that's the only way they can upgrade the imac's daughterboard without some serious reverse engineering of the apple proprietary boards. pretty smart, if you ask me.
Where the hell is R. Buckminster Fuller on that list!? One of the most prolific
and imaginary inventors
i assume you meant imaginitive, not imaginary. i'm sure the fuller estate would be glad to prove his existence to you, should you ask to have him exhumed.
can you imagine trying the following on a cel phone (teensy screen, awkward at best text input):
:)
The Thing Your Aunt Gave You Which You Don't Know What It Is contains:
Satchel Fluff
Pocket Fluff
Cushion Fluff
Jacket Fluff
An Atomic Vector Plotter
A Hyperwave Pincer
>get fluff from thing
Which fluff do you mean? Satchel Fluff, Pocket Fluff, Cushion Fluff, or Jacket Fluff?
>get satchel fluff from thing
Satchel Fluff: taken.
as if it's not hard enough to do in YAZI on my Newton MessagePad and that has a tappable keyboard and automatic word expansion.
Extra points to those that can identify the game
seriously, every time i submit something, it's number 350+ in a growing pile of submissions, and lately, more and more stories are appearing here in a less than timely manner (time was when i would hear about something on /. _before_ i saw it on the national news or in a newspaper)
with the now complete support of the VA/Andover behemoth, will there be more trained monkeys to prod and poke at the submissions and get them up more quickly?
let me see. free/netbsd runs on 68k machines.
:) and all for about the price (including cabling & hubs) of a cheap celeron machine.
macbsd (netbsd/mac68k) runs on my LCII.
LCIIs can be had at the local surplus auction for $5 apiece. Most of these are formerly lab machines, and have ethernet already.
i think a cluster of 25 of these low profile 16mhz monsters could fit on a desk, _maybe_ put out the MIPS of a PII (and only about twice the heat
hmm.. for $10 i can get powermac 6100s by the truckload, and freebsd/ppc...
well, when this article, and a dozen or so like it, likely based on the same sources, came out a couple weeks ago, i submitted the same story.
/.
but alas, timeliness seems not to matter in the realm of
and besides, this is just romor, not even very well documented or corroborated. i think the story lead should say that - though the source (appleinsider) kinda gives that away.
it's refreshing, though, to see more and more apple articles here, seeing as this is supposed to be a news site for all nerds, not just linux geeks.
there are other X servers for mac, but none are free, that i know if, except MI/X - which exists in both PPC and 68K flavors, and there's a windows version as well. it can be had at: http://www.microimages.com/www/html/freestuf/mix/
i've used it on my 8100 and G3 to run linux versions of X software from the 486 in my cupboard. if i were comfortable with java apps (the JVM is still really slow on even my G3/400. yuck) i'd try this guy out, as well. it sounds like fun.
the anti aliased fonts seem only to appear in the version that is running on the Mac, and seems to me to be a result of the system-level font smoothing in the MacOS, not the implementation of X.
correct me if i'm mistaken, but, if i'm right, the lead on this story is a little misleading.
i wonder how this will effect domain squatters who ut up chunks of names with the sole purpose of auctioning them off on ebay, holding them for "ransom", etc.
no no no..
change name to "OFFICIAL MICROSOFT ILOVEYOU FIX"
change all references to "www.skyinet.net" to "www.microsoft.com"
sit back and let microsoft eat its own dogfood.
in case nobody's posted this yet - i didn't see it anywhere - here's the source for all you VB hackers:
:P
http://option8.com/love.txt
i tried posting it directly, but got: Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted.
having had most of these questions already answered either in the alt.fan.douglas-adams faq, h2g2.com, or in personal correspondence (many moons and many campfires ago, DNA was kind enough to actually correspond with the, then few people that were both fans and Internet-connected. these days, it's nigh impossible for him to reply to _all_ of his fans' emails...) i was wondering..
what is the current status of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy motion picture? is the screenplay still being written/rewritten? is hollywood pictures/disney still involved? is there any chance i could see a hhgg movie in my lifetime?
you can do the same thing in north carolina, as well as, i'm sure, other US states, where criminal records and offenses are public record. sites like 123NC.com market themselves as the way to pre-screen your potential employees, coworkers, babysitters, or boyfriends.
it only costs about $6 to run a single search. $12 will give you results state- or county-wide.
i find it a little ironic that a big part of the site is dedicated to privacy concerns - on the part of users, that is.
are there any other states this has been rolled out in, or is it just my bass-ackward corner of the world?