man, is this old news (look at the dates on the site). but, if you're still interested in 68k, apple hardware, or if you're looking for cool cases and some other really interesting hardware hacks - including links to the power colo(u)r classic among others - take a gander at AppleFritter.com - a site dedicated to apple hacks, prototypes and rarities.
and as for all the rest of you, why do so many of you spell "Mac" "MAC"? what do you think it stands for? Mac is short for Macintosh. not McIntosh or even MacIntosh, and certainly isn't an acronym. those of you in the northern US, where an A.T.M. is sometimes called a M.A.C. i can understand, but these are not cash machines!
the one thing i learned in freshman psychology that stuck with me (aside from all the weird freud stories) is the difference between a CORRELLATION and CAUSE/EFFECT
a correllation means that two things happen to appear together. for example, the first study (the interview) showed a correllation between aggressive tendencies, video game play, and lower grades. what this tells us is ONLY that the three seem to appear in the same people, not that playing video games causes violent behavior and lower grades. it is just as likely that aggression causes an increase in game play and lowered grades. the first study only shows that the three items most likely share a common cause, not that any one of them is the cause of the other.
the second study, on the other hand, does show a cause/effect relationship between playing a game in which the goal is to kill everything that isn't you, and one where the goal is to solve puzzles. the effect is that those playing the point-and-shoot game, immediately afterward, punished an 'opponent' more vigorously than did the puzzle-players. this, to me, says one thing: playing first-person-shooters engages a part of the brain typically reserved for responding to physical threats, increases levels of adrenaline and other chemicals, and temporarily increases one's aggression - similar to an avid fan watching a game of football. puzzle games do not have the same effect, most likely because they engage a different part of the brain - one better suited to solving puzzles, and less apt at finding the 'aggressor' and fighting or fleeing. in any event, the effects are only studied for short amount of time afterward. it shows nothing of the length of the effect or, indeed, the long-term effects of extended exposure.
so, to cite these studies as proof that violent video games cause violent behavior is farfetched. the first only cites a correllation, and the second shows only the immediate effect, and notes only a slight increase in aggression, and nothing even approaching 'violent' reactions.
or, you're like me and have a nifty idea, but know you can't get it done (or done well) by yourself.
say you are working on a project whose scope is beyond your capacities, but you know that other people on the internet would be interested in its completion, and maybe even contribute some code. eventually, you could charge for the product, but for the moment (as it's not done yet, and still buggy as hell) you feel better about making it free (beer) so you decide that, while you're at it to make it Free (open).
it's not just a matter of prestige. hell, i don't know if the names attached to a GPLd widget are professors, professionals, or teenage hackers. they all have the same position in my mind - that of Somebody Who Codes Better Than Me.
well, when traditional commercials are unfeasible, or just unprofitable, then the advertisers will resort to things like product placement. see the recent review of 'mission to mars' for very telling examples.
love the idea of no more 404s, but, seeing as the server is appropriately and thoroughly slashdotted (or was when i looked), what about a url that's robust enough to survive the 'effect'?
at least real and redhat have worked out a way to get the server on linux as well as the player, as that's the more likely, useful application of the agreement.
anyhoo, i would really like to see quicktime work on linux as well (hell, for a while, quicktime was even using a penguin mascot).
the argument has been in the past that 'it's the codecs, stupid' and those will never be open sourced or distributed without licences. oh well. give me the darwin streaming server running on *BSD or linux and i'll be happy.
i thought i might sign up for their affiliate program, just to get the occasional $.03 check from altavista, but when i saw the application form, i was appalled.
not only does it ask for all your contact information (several times) but it asks for your social security number. all on an insecure form!
everybody's saying intel and amd should be quaking in their boots right now, but i doubt even the greatest of expectations coming true could make intel sweat
i'll tell you who should be concerned - motorola. ibm's been slacking on the ppc front as of late, concentrating on their own ppc variants, and not the altivec/g4 roadmap moto laid out.
if crusoe can do the heretofore impossible - emulating ppc and running ppc native instructions as fast as a real ppc core, and it seems to take even less power than ppc, it would give the limited risc os market a new place to turn when motorola screws up production again, as it did on g4
that means next gen amigas, ibm power iron, even macs (!) might take advantage of crusoe to run cooler, faster (?) and cheaper - not to mention have more compatibility to run non-ppc binaries or OSs.
speaking of mac, why would apple bother to do an x86 port of osX, which has been rumored for quite a while, though never seen in the wild, when they can just optimize for ppc, and tell everyone who wants to run it on non-ppc to get a crusoe?
considering the rumours of an apple-branded palm device have been stirring now for.. almost two years (since the cancellation of the Newton and intensified by Steve Jobs buyout bid on Palm not long after), i'll believe it when i see it.
the Register tends to have reliable sources, and doesn't usually dip into the rumour pool lightly, but all the vague references and unsubstantiated sightings make me just a bit skeptical.
that and i just bought a used Newton MessagePad 2000 on ebay for a song:)
if i recall correctly, it is because the robot-turned-human was celebrating his 200th birthday as the narration begins. this is based on the short story that was the basis for the book that was the basis for the movie, which i read many moons ago, and so, probably not reliable.
anyhoo, if this movie does well, i for one would like to see more asimov books/stories translated to the big screen - if only to bring his woirks to larger audiences and mass appeal.
with all the activity and mirrors of the windows version, i wonder if anyone has been so kind as to mirror the mac version? i can't seem to get to any of the sites i've tried so far to see, least of all quake3arena.com.
hmm.. what about linux on a newton mp2100?
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hmm.. what about linux on a newton mp2100?
maybe not the speediest processor (strongARM vs dragonball? anyone have benchmarks?) or the most RAM, hell i don't even think it's got flashable rom, but it's got a bigger screen, if nothing else...
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can someone mirror the rom?
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can somebody mirror the rom file as well as the screenshots? the oski site is slashed all to hell, and all the 'mirrors' have is the screenshots, which doesn't show much other than copilot and an xterm. i want to fiddle, and i need the rom to do it!
while i doubt i'd be a buyer of a glowing christmas tree (i _am_ american, but i don't spend $350 on something i'll only use for about a month, besides, i'm an atheist) i like to think this sort of thing would catch on in other areas as well.
think of it. tree-lined walkways that are perpetually lit without need for electric lights. glowing grass-bordered landing strips that are visible in power outages. whole glowing forests and jungles filled with insomniac monkeys!
now, if they could only figure out how to have plants glow without need for luciferase (which sounds like nothing more to me than satan's protein) in the soil...
when i read the article, all the time subscription ads on the right hand side, abnout halfway down the page, featured a time cover with bill gates' mug on the front...
This makes me worry. The new iMac is a pretty cool design from a pure hardware standpoint. But leaving out the fan might be a bad idea. Half the home-market PCs these days have heat problems with at least one, often two, fans in them. Leaving it out entirely may lead to heat-related failures down the road.
take a breath.
the powerpc in the imac is one of the coolest processors you can get in a desktop - so cool, in fact, it needs little or no modification to go into a powerbook or an ibook (which i've also read doesn't have a fan, tho i'm not so sure about that one)
the most heat is going to come from the base of the monitor, which is right at the top of the case, and surrounded by vent holes, so i doubt there will be any real heat related issues with the processor.
besides, it opens up a whole new niche for aftermarket fans.. i can see it now, 'the only processor fan/heatsink that comes in 6 translucent plastic flavors'...
and one with a little experience in this area, unlike the typical/.er, i feel i must comment on the army's move
the article says:
However, he said the Army has moved its web sites to a more secure platform. The Army had been using Windows NT and is currently using Mac OS servers running WebSTAR web server software for its home page web site.
Unger said the reason for choosing this particular server and software is that according to the World Wide Web Consortium, it is more secure than its counterparts. According to the Consortium's published reports on its findings, Macintosh does not have a command shell, and because it does not allow remote logins, it is more secure than other platforms. The report also said the Consortium has found no specific security problems in either the software or the server.
yes, the macOS has no 'root' or shell-type access, and, by itself, is arguably one of the most secure platforms available, if only for the same reason that is is one of the most virus-immune - very few hackers, crackers, or virus writers use macs (despite all the movies like 'hackers' and 'the net')
and, by that same token, any web server just serving up http and ftp is fairly secure. adding on all the other services, and opening up ports to who-knows-what is asking for trouble. simpler is better. and a mac as a webserver is a very simple solution.
since when has the w3c been in the business of security surveys? oh well.. they're right on a few accounts, but may not be totally up to speed on the software they're talking about. the mailing lists are/have been alive with reports and fixes for security holes in open transport, os8, webstar, and all the various plugins that come along with it.
if i were choosing the most secure server for the mac, however, would have gone with webten, an apache-based port by tenon, over webstar (if one were to go with a commercial package). it's fast, reliable, and simple - no fluff. the latest issue of webstar folds in all kinds of services that are unnecessary, and have proven to be security risks in the past. my sites are running on webstar 3, but that's because of how easy it is to add new domains and administer/monitor.
the press-release tells us the mac 'does not allow remote logins'. well, if you open it up via appleshare or install timbuktu it does. even if you don't, and you stick entirely to the webstar package, you get lasso (database), a pop/smtp mail server, proxy server, ftp server, and remote admin tools by default.
i expect the army has disabled lasso - as it has been shown to be a gaping hole in previous, standalone releases - and probably use a dedicated mail server, proxy, etc., but the main webstar server cannot be administered without either a separate admin tool (which can be run locally or remotely via tcp/ip) or web-based admin, whose security is, in my experience, pretty easy to get around.
all that aside, the mac makes an excellent web server. pare down the software to the essentials, give it plenty of RAM and a steady power supply, and it should be happy and stay that way for a good while.
as for apple's PR picking this up, i think they would prefer it if the army had chosen osX server with apache, since os8.x is not really a server product.
remember the little floating guys in 'black hole'? the movie sparked my personal science fiction obsession at a very young and impressionable age.. sigh.
i'm also reminded of the little floating robot in one of the later installments of the hitchhikers' guide to the galaxy. ford ripped out his logic and just connected a piece of wire to his 'happy' circuit, so he was robo-orgasmic all the time. i think his name was colin.
it seems the debate about being able to upgrade or not is a tricky one. of course, if apple has gone out of its way to disable upgraes, the third parties will have to go to all new heights to work around apple. they've figured out how to put a g3 in a 6100 (pizzabox with a soldered 601) and the terminally non-upgradeable performas, so i think a little hardware trickery isn't going to deter them.
odd, that i still do, since just about everything else has fallen through the cracks from my schooldays..
projectX was a good way to waste an afternoon trying to navigate a normally navigable tangle of sites and links.. i wonder what it would make/. look like?
anyhoo, now we have these things called 'hyperbolic trees' that seem to do the same thing, conceptually, is that what this thing is? just a big, flattened hyperbolic tree of the internet?
again, business schmisness.. there's a reason they announced this at a publishing convention. these are for the apple-niche: publishing/creative/graphics professionals.
i agree, the os leaves something to be desired, but what can you do?
"realistically, i can build a machine cheaper and more efficiently for 1/3 the cost"
i assume you meant one that's faster, rather than being redundant. i'll challenge you to do that. maybe with a nice fat cluster of cheapo celerons.. unless you get the new ones that won't let you SMP.. or a beowulf cluster..
but are those really the solutions that the "business market is looking for" either?
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man, is this old news (look at the dates on the site). but, if you're still interested in 68k, apple hardware, or if you're looking for cool cases and some other really interesting hardware hacks - including links to the power colo(u)r classic among others - take a gander at AppleFritter.com - a site dedicated to apple hacks, prototypes and rarities.
and as for all the rest of you, why do so many of you spell "Mac" "MAC"? what do you think it stands for? Mac is short for Macintosh. not McIntosh or even MacIntosh, and certainly isn't an acronym. those of you in the northern US, where an A.T.M. is sometimes called a M.A.C. i can understand, but these are not cash machines!
the one thing i learned in freshman psychology that stuck with me (aside from all the weird freud stories) is the difference between a CORRELLATION and CAUSE/EFFECT
a correllation means that two things happen to appear together. for example, the first study (the interview) showed a correllation between aggressive tendencies, video game play, and lower grades. what this tells us is ONLY that the three seem to appear in the same people, not that playing video games causes violent behavior and lower grades. it is just as likely that aggression causes an increase in game play and lowered grades. the first study only shows that the three items most likely share a common cause, not that any one of them is the cause of the other.
the second study, on the other hand, does show a cause/effect relationship between playing a game in which the goal is to kill everything that isn't you, and one where the goal is to solve puzzles. the effect is that those playing the point-and-shoot game, immediately afterward, punished an 'opponent' more vigorously than did the puzzle-players. this, to me, says one thing: playing first-person-shooters engages a part of the brain typically reserved for responding to physical threats, increases levels of adrenaline and other chemicals, and temporarily increases one's aggression - similar to an avid fan watching a game of football. puzzle games do not have the same effect, most likely because they engage a different part of the brain - one better suited to solving puzzles, and less apt at finding the 'aggressor' and fighting or fleeing. in any event, the effects are only studied for short amount of time afterward. it shows nothing of the length of the effect or, indeed, the long-term effects of extended exposure.
so, to cite these studies as proof that violent video games cause violent behavior is farfetched. the first only cites a correllation, and the second shows only the immediate effect, and notes only a slight increase in aggression, and nothing even approaching 'violent' reactions.
or, you're like me and have a nifty idea, but know you can't get it done (or done well) by yourself.
say you are working on a project whose scope is beyond your capacities, but you know that other people on the internet would be interested in its completion, and maybe even contribute some code. eventually, you could charge for the product, but for the moment (as it's not done yet, and still buggy as hell) you feel better about making it free (beer) so you decide that, while you're at it to make it Free (open).
it's not just a matter of prestige. hell, i don't know if the names attached to a GPLd widget are professors, professionals, or teenage hackers. they all have the same position in my mind - that of Somebody Who Codes Better Than Me.
well, when traditional commercials are unfeasible, or just unprofitable, then the advertisers will resort to things like product placement. see the recent review of 'mission to mars' for very telling examples.
love the idea of no more 404s, but, seeing as the server is appropriately and thoroughly slashdotted (or was when i looked), what about a url that's robust enough to survive the 'effect'?
at least real and redhat have worked out a way to get the server on linux as well as the player, as that's the more likely, useful application of the agreement.
anyhoo, i would really like to see quicktime work on linux as well (hell, for a while, quicktime was even using a penguin mascot).
the argument has been in the past that 'it's the codecs, stupid' and those will never be open sourced or distributed without licences. oh well. give me the darwin streaming server running on *BSD or linux and i'll be happy.
the server's the thing..
i thought i might sign up for their affiliate program, just to get the occasional $.03 check from altavista, but when i saw the application form, i was appalled.
not only does it ask for all your contact information (several times) but it asks for your social security number. all on an insecure form!
everybody's saying intel and amd should be quaking in their boots right now, but i doubt even the greatest of expectations coming true could make intel sweat
i'll tell you who should be concerned - motorola. ibm's been slacking on the ppc front as of late, concentrating on their own ppc variants, and not the altivec/g4 roadmap moto laid out.
if crusoe can do the heretofore impossible - emulating ppc and running ppc native instructions as fast as a real ppc core, and it seems to take even less power than ppc, it would give the limited risc os market a new place to turn when motorola screws up production again, as it did on g4
that means next gen amigas, ibm power iron, even macs (!) might take advantage of crusoe to run cooler, faster (?) and cheaper - not to mention have more compatibility to run non-ppc binaries or OSs.
speaking of mac, why would apple bother to do an x86 port of osX, which has been rumored for quite a while, though never seen in the wild, when they can just optimize for ppc, and tell everyone who wants to run it on non-ppc to get a crusoe?
"The Web pad will have been designed with an unspecified partner, those sources speculated"
aren't the over-the-top specs people have been whispering about the new apple handheld just begging to be running on top of a transmeta chip?
hell, darwin's based on BSD, why not a new Apple PDA based on linux?
bill has finally seen the light: having a Steve - even a Ballmer will do - as CEO is the best thing for a company.
a Steve, as in a Woz or a Jobs, is just a more portentous name in computing than a Bill.
considering a handspring module that connects to airport (uses the same wireless protocol anyhow) was just announced.. you're not too far off..
:)
wireless hotsync between a pda and a new imac would be just the spiffiest thing ever. sync from anywhere in the house
considering the rumours of an apple-branded palm device have been stirring now for.. almost two years (since the cancellation of the Newton and intensified by Steve Jobs buyout bid on Palm not long after), i'll believe it when i see it.
:)
the Register tends to have reliable sources, and doesn't usually dip into the rumour pool lightly, but all the vague references and unsubstantiated sightings make me just a bit skeptical.
that and i just bought a used Newton MessagePad 2000 on ebay for a song
if i recall correctly, it is because the robot-turned-human was celebrating his 200th birthday as the narration begins. this is based on the short story that was the basis for the book that was the basis for the movie, which i read many moons ago, and so, probably not reliable.
anyhoo, if this movie does well, i for one would like to see more asimov books/stories translated to the big screen - if only to bring his woirks to larger audiences and mass appeal.
with all the activity and mirrors of the windows version, i wonder if anyone has been so kind as to mirror the mac version? i can't seem to get to any of the sites i've tried so far to see, least of all quake3arena.com.
hmm.. what about linux on a newton mp2100?
maybe not the speediest processor (strongARM vs dragonball? anyone have benchmarks?) or the most RAM, hell i don't even think it's got flashable rom, but it's got a bigger screen, if nothing else...
:)
can somebody mirror the rom file as well as the screenshots? the oski site is slashed all to hell, and all the 'mirrors' have is the screenshots, which doesn't show much other than copilot and an xterm. i want to fiddle, and i need the rom to do it!
while i doubt i'd be a buyer of a glowing christmas tree (i _am_ american, but i don't spend $350 on something i'll only use for about a month, besides, i'm an atheist) i like to think this sort of thing would catch on in other areas as well.
think of it. tree-lined walkways that are perpetually lit without need for electric lights. glowing grass-bordered landing strips that are visible in power outages. whole glowing forests and jungles filled with insomniac monkeys!
now, if they could only figure out how to have plants glow without need for luciferase (which sounds like nothing more to me than satan's protein) in the soil...
maybe i'm confusing dreamcast with playstation2, but i seem to remember one or the other having firewire (aka iLink) on board.
while it isn't exactly 10/100bT for the dorm room LAN, it should be easy enough to connect two machines via firewire to make a spanking fast lan.
the trouble, of course, is having the two machines in physical proximity, as well as the two TVs...
and i don't mean jobs.
when i read the article, all the time subscription ads on the right hand side, abnout halfway down the page, featured a time cover with bill gates' mug on the front...
did somebody plan that?
This makes me worry. The new iMac is a pretty cool design from a pure hardware standpoint. But leaving out the fan might be a bad idea. Half the home-market PCs these days have heat problems with at least one, often two, fans in them. Leaving it out entirely may lead to heat-related failures down the road.
take a breath.
the powerpc in the imac is one of the coolest processors you can get in a desktop - so cool, in fact, it needs little or no modification to go into a powerbook or an ibook (which i've also read doesn't have a fan, tho i'm not so sure about that one)
the most heat is going to come from the base of the monitor, which is right at the top of the case, and surrounded by vent holes, so i doubt there will be any real heat related issues with the processor.
besides, it opens up a whole new niche for aftermarket fans.. i can see it now, 'the only processor fan/heatsink that comes in 6 translucent plastic flavors'...
the article says:
yes, the macOS has no 'root' or shell-type access, and, by itself, is arguably one of the most secure platforms available, if only for the same reason that is is one of the most virus-immune - very few hackers, crackers, or virus writers use macs (despite all the movies like 'hackers' and 'the net')
and, by that same token, any web server just serving up http and ftp is fairly secure. adding on all the other services, and opening up ports to who-knows-what is asking for trouble. simpler is better. and a mac as a webserver is a very simple solution.
since when has the w3c been in the business of security surveys? oh well.. they're right on a few accounts, but may not be totally up to speed on the software they're talking about. the mailing lists are/have been alive with reports and fixes for security holes in open transport, os8, webstar, and all the various plugins that come along with it.
if i were choosing the most secure server for the mac, however, would have gone with webten, an apache-based port by tenon, over webstar (if one were to go with a commercial package). it's fast, reliable, and simple - no fluff. the latest issue of webstar folds in all kinds of services that are unnecessary, and have proven to be security risks in the past. my sites are running on webstar 3, but that's because of how easy it is to add new domains and administer/monitor.
the press-release tells us the mac 'does not allow remote logins'. well, if you open it up via appleshare or install timbuktu it does. even if you don't, and you stick entirely to the webstar package, you get lasso (database), a pop/smtp mail server, proxy server, ftp server, and remote admin tools by default.
i expect the army has disabled lasso - as it has been shown to be a gaping hole in previous, standalone releases - and probably use a dedicated mail server, proxy, etc., but the main webstar server cannot be administered without either a separate admin tool (which can be run locally or remotely via tcp/ip) or web-based admin, whose security is, in my experience, pretty easy to get around.
all that aside, the mac makes an excellent web server. pare down the software to the essentials, give it plenty of RAM and a steady power supply, and it should be happy and stay that way for a good while.
as for apple's PR picking this up, i think they would prefer it if the army had chosen osX server with apache, since os8.x is not really a server product.
remember the little floating guys in 'black hole'? the movie sparked my personal science fiction obsession at a very young and impressionable age.. sigh.
i'm also reminded of the little floating robot in one of the later installments of the hitchhikers' guide to the galaxy. ford ripped out his logic and just connected a piece of wire to his 'happy' circuit, so he was robo-orgasmic all the time. i think his name was colin.
nothing to contribute, just reminiscing
read today's MacOS Rumors.
it seems the debate about being able to upgrade or not is a tricky one. of course, if apple has gone out of its way to disable upgraes, the third parties will have to go to all new heights to work around apple. they've figured out how to put a g3 in a 6100 (pizzabox with a soldered 601) and the terminally non-upgradeable performas, so i think a little hardware trickery isn't going to deter them.
odd, that i still do, since just about everything else has fallen through the cracks from my schooldays..
/. look like?
projectX was a good way to waste an afternoon trying to navigate a normally navigable tangle of sites and links.. i wonder what it would make
anyhoo, now we have these things called 'hyperbolic trees' that seem to do the same thing, conceptually, is that what this thing is? just a big, flattened hyperbolic tree of the internet?
again, business schmisness.. there's a reason they announced this at a publishing convention. these are for the apple-niche: publishing/creative/graphics professionals.
i agree, the os leaves something to be desired, but what can you do?
"realistically, i can build a machine cheaper and more efficiently for 1/3 the cost"
i assume you meant one that's faster, rather than being redundant. i'll challenge you to do that. maybe with a nice fat cluster of cheapo celerons.. unless you get the new ones that won't let you SMP.. or a beowulf cluster..
but are those really the solutions that the "business market is looking for" either?