The development version of Mac OS X for Intel has been designed to run on a specific Intel motherboard, which co-incidentally is the same model as support by the PC port of Darwin. It's purely designed for proving that PPC code will run on an Intel chip when the source has been successfully tweaked - nothing more. It's just a quick and dirty hack.
YOU CAN'T READ ANYTHING INTO THIS PRE-PRODUCTION SYSTEM - JUST GET IT INTO YOUR THICK GEEKY SKULLS NOW!
When Apple finally release Intel machines the hardware will be significantly different to a run of the mill PC - some hardware devices appearing in a different place, others being present at all, and so on. The OS will need very specific drivers. Also it's more than likely that there will be some other forms of protection to further limit the hardware it will run on.
Don't bother replying to me as I can't be bothered to read the crap posted to this site any more.
I've a battered Siemens phone that occasionally has problems talking with its SIM card, giving a SIM card error message. There is still the option to dial 999, though, as one of the buttons is now labelled SOS.
However if I power up the phone with the SIM removed, no such option is given.
Channel 5 also isn't carried by every transmitter, due to co-channel interference issues. Even some of the major transmitters only propogate it in certain directions.
The limit for VHS when first released was only three hours, not six - the six hour limit came when half-speed recorders appeared some time later.
VHS technology was easier to license, and that, combined with the porn industry, is why it won. Anyway, Philips V2000 was the best system of the three.
A few years ago I worked on a roll-out of their management software, and it was the biggest pile of crap I've ever had the misfortune to use. Very little documentation, and the docs that existed didn't explain what things did. Things didn't work, support was awful, and so on. They always had at least one person on site, if not three, and yet things never got sorted.
I even attended a course on some of this, and over half of the course was on a little used scheduling utility that no-one in their right mind would use. The bits of the software that I needed to learn simply wasn't taught, as it would cost them too much in comsultancy fees if the plebs actually got to understand how to do things.
If CA haven't changed I can see right through them.
The video RAM was actually part of the main memory, and was 6912 bytes in total, with 6144 bytes for the pixels, and 768 bytes for the color attributes. Once the stack, user defined graphics and the system variables were taken into consideration, there was less than 9K free for your program.
The 1K ZX81 and ZX80 models used that 1K for everything, including display RAM.
I acquired three such flexi-disks on the front cover of UK computer magazines around 1982 to 1984. Only got a moderate success rate with them. One was an adventure game, with a prize awarded amongst those who could solve it. I had reverse engineered the workings of the game compiler used to create the game, so solving it should have been easy, but I couldn't get it to load at all.
I'll think that you'll find that although the code appears to come from a genuine company, and is autheticated by Verisign, the name of the actual plug-in has a name such as 'Please Say Yes'.
A friend of mine forwarded me a link to a site last year containing one such dodgy plug-in (a dialer app) which did this. The site has since been taken down, though.
That's what I did, but I still ended up with some corruption in the database for a couple of channels, as the audio PID values were still zero.
Worse was scanning for The Community Channel, which at the time only broadcast between 2:45am and 5:45am. As the tool to generate channels.conf wasn't that reliable, setting a cron job to scan didn't work, and I had to get up in the middle of the night just to get the channel settings.
I set up a box to run MythTV with a cheap DVB card late last year, but the configuration of the DVB channels left a lot to be desired.
Particularly troublesome were time shared channels that only broadcast during part of the day, as the mechanism to insert channels would feed incorrect values into the various fields. Even when I correct this when the channels were on air didn't help with a coupld of channels. I hope this mechanism is better.
I'll have to spend the next week or three re-loading this box, as I've had to recycle it as a temporary Windows machine.
There's a particular model of Digital Terresital TV set-top box, sold only in the UK, that suffered from this fault. One of the capacitors on the main board has a habit of exploding after a year or so of use. Most have either died or had the component replaced now, as the model hasn't been made for at least 2 year. However, it's possible that there's still the odd one or two still in use, or even sat on the shelf of a supplier somewhere.
I worked for a company distributing and supporting a certain OS in the UK. Many of our clients had policies that stated that all software had to be year 2000 compliant by either the beginning of 1999 or by the middle of the year. However our supplier was very slow at getting the compliant software out.
The base OS only used 2 digit years in the user account expiry code, and a neat fix was designed to work around this and added to their latest version of the OS. However this version had a number of other serious flaws that made it totally unsuitable for production use, including a obscure data-loss related one that only affected files written with European codepages.
However the biggest issue was this vendors hardware support. One product used by the majority of our customers was a specialised serial card sold by the OS vendor and supported just by their OS. During late 1998 they determined that these cards were not compliant, despite the fact that they consisted of little more than some UARTS, RAM chips and a low-end Intel processor. It was probably something to do with the card's own firmware, which was probably not written in house. This caused many customers to abandon the platform and jump to something else.
However there was a good side to this too. We had one large customer who ran many third-party products (message boards, menuing systems and so on) that integrated with this OS. Some of these products were many years old, with at least one dating back to 1988, and none had been updated for at least 5 years. We'd been wanting them to dump these products for a long time as they produced many support issues; finally year 2000 compliance got them to do so.
However by mid 1999 it was clear that the company wouldn't last, so I went to move elsewhere.
For his birthday last week I bought my nephew the same 1/24th scale model aircraft kit that I had bought for me 25 or more years ago. The decals may have changed, and some of the parts re-cast to make other variants, but it's 80% essentially the same kit.
I owned that toy called Flight Deck. It was produced by Airfix, more well known for making plastic model kits, but around this time they branched out into other things.
Flight Deck comprised of a 1/72 scale F4 Phantom in Royal Navy colours attached to a loop of nylon fishing line. At each end was a pulley, the far end clamped to a chair or other furniture, and the near end attached to the top of a control column. The object of the game was to guide the F4 down onto a landing deck, which comprised of two 8-inch squares of carbord in a plastic frame, with a nylon arrester line tied to some flags, and cause the F4 to stop on the deck.
The problem with the game is that it took up too much space, and therefore could only really be played outdoors. The fun also wore off after about 4 or 5 attempts, so it went back into the box very soon afterwards.
There was a later version called Super Flight Deck; this had a catapult for take off added.
Some of the high capacity tape backup devices are packaged in full height enclosures. I've not seen any such disk drives for many years. In fact it's a long time since I've seen any half-height hard disk drives in 5 1/4 inch enclosures.
... or should that be deja-news? Remember when that site changed for the worse?
The new system sucks. No fixed-width fonts by default, that horrible floating group name at the right of the screen when scrolling, a far slower user interface (it was slow when I first noticed the change about 7 hours ago). I can go on.
Third-party update tool fails by ignoring the safeguards the OS manufacturer has put in place. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen that happen over the years.
I've vowed never to touch them, even since seeing the mess such a tool made back in 1992. That one was designed to speed up an OS upgrade by replacing a stack of floppies with just two floppies and a tape. A disaster, but luckily spotted prior to an upgrade of 20 fileservers. It was thankfully withdrawn from sale not long after.
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I have never read so much utter crap in my life.
The development version of Mac OS X for Intel has been designed to run on a specific Intel motherboard, which co-incidentally is the same model as support by the PC port of Darwin. It's purely designed for proving that PPC code will run on an Intel chip when the source has been successfully tweaked - nothing more. It's just a quick and dirty hack.
YOU CAN'T READ ANYTHING INTO THIS PRE-PRODUCTION SYSTEM - JUST GET IT INTO YOUR THICK GEEKY SKULLS NOW!
When Apple finally release Intel machines the hardware will be significantly different to a run of the mill PC - some hardware devices appearing in a different place, others being present at all, and so on. The OS will need very specific drivers. Also it's more than likely that there will be some other forms of protection to further limit the hardware it will run on.
Don't bother replying to me as I can't be bothered to read the crap posted to this site any more.
At work at the time we ran a Xenix system with an Excellan 205T NIC. This was 82586 based, and ran it's own network stack.
It probably cost the equivalent of $500 back then.
I've been reading (and occasionally posting) to Slashdot for years.
.MSI file has convinced me that you are now just a bunch of clueless morons.
However this farcical link to a
Goodbye.
But does it run OS/2?
I've a battered Siemens phone that occasionally has problems talking with its SIM card, giving a SIM card error message. There is still the option to dial 999, though, as one of the buttons is now labelled SOS.
However if I power up the phone with the SIM removed, no such option is given.
If you find a route between two locations that includes motorway travel, there's no indication of the junction number when leaving a motorway.
Channel 5 also isn't carried by every transmitter, due to co-channel interference issues. Even some of the major transmitters only propogate it in certain directions.
The limit for VHS when first released was only three hours, not six - the six hour limit came when half-speed recorders appeared some time later.
VHS technology was easier to license, and that, combined with the porn industry, is why it won. Anyway, Philips V2000 was the best system of the three.
As using this software causes a violation of Apple's software license, I can see a lawsuit from Apple on the horizon.
If the web server is behind a firewall with some form of spoofing protection enabled, it shouldn't be a problem.
CA are scum - even more vile than Microsoft.
A few years ago I worked on a roll-out of their management software, and it was the biggest pile of crap I've ever had the misfortune to use. Very little documentation, and the docs that existed didn't explain what things did. Things didn't work, support was awful, and so on. They always had at least one person on site, if not three, and yet things never got sorted.
I even attended a course on some of this, and over half of the course was on a little used scheduling utility that no-one in their right mind would use. The bits of the software that I needed to learn simply wasn't taught, as it would cost them too much in comsultancy fees if the plebs actually got to understand how to do things.
If CA haven't changed I can see right through them.
The video RAM was actually part of the main memory, and was 6912 bytes in total, with 6144 bytes for the pixels, and 768 bytes for the color attributes. Once the stack, user defined graphics and the system variables were taken into consideration, there was less than 9K free for your program.
The 1K ZX81 and ZX80 models used that 1K for everything, including display RAM.
I acquired three such flexi-disks on the front cover of UK computer magazines around 1982 to 1984. Only got a moderate success rate with them. One was an adventure game, with a prize awarded amongst those who could solve it. I had reverse engineered the workings of the game compiler used to create the game, so solving it should have been easy, but I couldn't get it to load at all.
I'll think that you'll find that although the code appears to come from a genuine company, and is autheticated by Verisign, the name of the actual plug-in has a name such as 'Please Say Yes'.
A friend of mine forwarded me a link to a site last year containing one such dodgy plug-in (a dialer app) which did this. The site has since been taken down, though.
That's what I did, but I still ended up with some corruption in the database for a couple of channels, as the audio PID values were still zero.
Worse was scanning for The Community Channel, which at the time only broadcast between 2:45am and 5:45am. As the tool to generate channels.conf wasn't that reliable, setting a cron job to scan didn't work, and I had to get up in the middle of the night just to get the channel settings.
I set up a box to run MythTV with a cheap DVB card late last year, but the configuration of the DVB channels left a lot to be desired.
Particularly troublesome were time shared channels that only broadcast during part of the day, as the mechanism to insert channels would feed incorrect values into the various fields. Even when I correct this when the channels were on air didn't help with a coupld of channels. I hope this mechanism is better.
I'll have to spend the next week or three re-loading this box, as I've had to recycle it as a temporary Windows machine.
...that the same sort of legislation had it's third reading in the UK parliament yesterday, too. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4252919.stm .
I wonder if the two are linked in any way?
There's a particular model of Digital Terresital TV set-top box, sold only in the UK, that suffered from this fault. One of the capacitors on the main board has a habit of exploding after a year or so of use. Most have either died or had the component replaced now, as the model hasn't been made for at least 2 year. However, it's possible that there's still the odd one or two still in use, or even sat on the shelf of a supplier somewhere.
No. The PodXT only uses MIDI for programming Amp modelling and effects settings, and for updating the firmware.
You can use the USB port on the POD XT for Digital recording off the XT, though.
I worked for a company distributing and supporting a certain OS in the UK. Many of our clients had policies that stated that all software had to be year 2000 compliant by either the beginning of 1999 or by the middle of the year. However our supplier was very slow at getting the compliant software out.
The base OS only used 2 digit years in the user account expiry code, and a neat fix was designed to work around this and added to their latest version of the OS. However this version had a number of other serious flaws that made it totally unsuitable for production use, including a obscure data-loss related one that only affected files written with European codepages.
However the biggest issue was this vendors hardware support. One product used by the majority of our customers was a specialised serial card sold by the OS vendor and supported just by their OS. During late 1998 they determined that these cards were not compliant, despite the fact that they consisted of little more than some UARTS, RAM chips and a low-end Intel processor. It was probably something to do with the card's own firmware, which was probably not written in house. This caused many customers to abandon the platform and jump to something else.
However there was a good side to this too. We had one large customer who ran many third-party products (message boards, menuing systems and so on) that integrated with this OS. Some of these products were many years old, with at least one dating back to 1988, and none had been updated for at least 5 years. We'd been wanting them to dump these products for a long time as they produced many support issues; finally year 2000 compliance got them to do so.
However by mid 1999 it was clear that the company wouldn't last, so I went to move elsewhere.
For his birthday last week I bought my nephew the same 1/24th scale model aircraft kit that I had bought for me 25 or more years ago. The decals may have changed, and some of the parts re-cast to make other variants, but it's 80% essentially the same kit.
I came across this last week.
I owned that toy called Flight Deck. It was produced by Airfix, more well known for making plastic model kits, but around this time they branched out into other things.
Flight Deck comprised of a 1/72 scale F4 Phantom in Royal Navy colours attached to a loop of nylon fishing line. At each end was a pulley, the far end clamped to a chair or other furniture, and the near end attached to the top of a control column. The object of the game was to guide the F4 down onto a landing deck, which comprised of two 8-inch squares of carbord in a plastic frame, with a nylon arrester line tied to some flags, and cause the F4 to stop on the deck.
The problem with the game is that it took up too much space, and therefore could only really be played outdoors. The fun also wore off after about 4 or 5 attempts, so it went back into the box very soon afterwards.
There was a later version called Super Flight Deck; this had a catapult for take off added.
Some of the high capacity tape backup devices are packaged in full height enclosures. I've not seen any such disk drives for many years. In fact it's a long time since I've seen any half-height hard disk drives in 5 1/4 inch enclosures.
... or should that be deja-news? Remember when that site changed for the worse?
The new system sucks. No fixed-width fonts by default, that horrible floating group name at the right of the screen when scrolling, a far slower user interface (it was slow when I first noticed the change about 7 hours ago). I can go on.
They'll be underlining words with links next.
Third-party update tool fails by ignoring the safeguards the OS manufacturer has put in place. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen that happen over the years.
I've vowed never to touch them, even since seeing the mess such a tool made back in 1992. That one was designed to speed up an OS upgrade by replacing a stack of floppies with just two floppies and a tape. A disaster, but luckily spotted prior to an upgrade of 20 fileservers. It was thankfully withdrawn from sale not long after.