Really, I much prefered the yoyo model, or the older models with the molded plug, as I don't find the current white brick models that stable. I've had my mother's ibook's AC adapter replaced twice and mine once as the end of the plug kept loosening and eventually fraying and dying, as the ends of the current white brick adapters are not fully molded but can be disassembled quite easily.
Is the root account mandatory on OS X server? I believe that if you disable the root account, you are not vulnerable to the exploit. It's a hack but it may work.
So get an external D/A convertor that takes an optical input if you really want it, then send the line level analog signal to your amplifiers for your speakers. I do this, of course my sound system costs a lot more than $350.
Really, there is no reason for non-4.1/5.1 computer speakers (considering their quality) to need D/A convertors so you can plug it into the optical jack, the quality of the speaker is too much of a bottleneck. Just stick with the line level ports.
It's the stair case in Wean Hall, which is the huge concrete fortress on campus (largest concrete structure in the world iirc), home of the CS, physics, and math department
Trinitron monitors are pretty impressive, for I have two Sony 200GS 17" ones that still are working after 5 years of use... One has gotten noticably less bright and blurrier than the other (since this one has been used far more than the other), so trinitrons are susceptible to degradation (no surprise). Both do work fine at 1280x1024, which I've been running them on forever.
However, my understanding is that trinitron tubes are inherently not flat and outer/inner colors and pixel spacing differ slightly (of course I may be completely wrong now). I mean, my trinitrons are really old and I know the technology is even older. As for the black lines, I only noticed them after 2 years of having them, didn't know that they existed!
Anyawys I now use a Samsung 170T and woha, I'm never going back to CRTs.
Why would they become a software company if they switch to x86? Surely you're not going to expect OS X to run on just any x86 box, but only the ones with the apple logo on (limit this via hardware).
In my experience, VPC has some interesting speed issues. I'm on a G4 Dual 1250, with VPC 6 with Win2000. In my experience, VPC can emualte x86 basic instructions very fast, for example running an RC5 test will give me ~3MKeys/s in VPC, which is very comparable to current low end PCs (in OS X I get 25+MKeys/s;) ).
The problem, however, is in the graphics. Graphics are simply too slow, and it doesn't have good DirectX support either. It emulates an S3 graphics card... I hope Microsoft fixes this issue in the next verion of VPC, because processor emulation is fast, UI and graphics are slow.
Indeed, in fact my [very well respected CS ] school uses Macs a lot for many of the programming classes. In fact Apple has a QTVR of one of our clusters (we have another one of these clusters elsewhere). Windows isn't really used much in programming here, linux/mac mainly (I believe).
If you've taken a look inside Apple's cases, you would notice how much better ribbon cables can be than rounded. With the ribbon cables routed on the side of the case, under the motherboard, completely out of your way due to the flat nature, it's much more cleaner than what you get with rounded cables (and esp ribbon cables just dangling in mid air). However I do not think this is easy to do in an ATX format.
I suppose the main issue is that no one makes true firewire hard drives (afaik), so a firewire bridge would reduce performance. Though adding more firewire channels does seem a lot cheaper than fewer scsi channels.
Have you tried to watch movies at 30+fps (or in your case, 90+ fps)? They are, in fact, too fast. Real life is too fast, you do not get the dramatic effects without the slower fps. And try watching movies in a digital theater, big difference.
It should be noted that the Japanese MLX01 Maglev has reached speeds of 550km/h, faster than the TGV in ideal mode and the maglev of this article. Sure it is an experimental train, but still.
And for us with many many buttons on our mice (5 button trackball on my part), just bind a button to cmd+h and you have it made!
Or if you want gestures, you can get Cocoa Gestures input manager which give you fully configurable gestures in all Cocoa apps, so you can have a gesture to hide in Chimera or OmniWeb or something...
Well, there are currently zero documented viruses for Mac OS X... so you must consider that... (and classic need not be installed for all the classic viruses that may affect the system)
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What's up with the Bally's casino machine, it claims to have a Pentium IV 4 GHz... typo probably (2.4 GHz?)
Really, I much prefered the yoyo model, or the older models with the molded plug, as I don't find the current white brick models that stable. I've had my mother's ibook's AC adapter replaced twice and mine once as the end of the plug kept loosening and eventually fraying and dying, as the ends of the current white brick adapters are not fully molded but can be disassembled quite easily.
IE for mac even handles it correctly. Stupid Microsoft.
Is the root account mandatory on OS X server? I believe that if you disable the root account, you are not vulnerable to the exploit. It's a hack but it may work.
Not really, I'd say the guy who gets picked on the most is the guy who is easiest to pick on (10 jocks, 1 geek, do the math).
It has been continuously shown that !Windows is inherently more secure, you can read all about this.
And take IIS for example, hacked into way more than Apache, which is the number one webserver.
I think the real reason why people depend on insecure systems so much is because they suck.
So get an external D/A convertor that takes an optical input if you really want it, then send the line level analog signal to your amplifiers for your speakers. I do this, of course my sound system costs a lot more than $350.
Really, there is no reason for non-4.1/5.1 computer speakers (considering their quality) to need D/A convertors so you can plug it into the optical jack, the quality of the speaker is too much of a bottleneck. Just stick with the line level ports.
It's the stair case in Wean Hall, which is the huge concrete fortress on campus (largest concrete structure in the world iirc), home of the CS, physics, and math department
...My Rev A Beige has 640MB RAM in it, using PC100 too.
So use something like MP3 Sushi Server, works quite well and easy to set up in OS X. Of course it isn't as integrated as iTunes.
I thought Formac also used ADC... But yeah, analog lcds I find unacceptable in quality, it must be DVI (ADC is just a variation of DVI I thought)...
Trinitron monitors are pretty impressive, for I have two Sony 200GS 17" ones that still are working after 5 years of use... One has gotten noticably less bright and blurrier than the other (since this one has been used far more than the other), so trinitrons are susceptible to degradation (no surprise). Both do work fine at 1280x1024, which I've been running them on forever.
However, my understanding is that trinitron tubes are inherently not flat and outer/inner colors and pixel spacing differ slightly (of course I may be completely wrong now). I mean, my trinitrons are really old and I know the technology is even older. As for the black lines, I only noticed them after 2 years of having them, didn't know that they existed!
Anyawys I now use a Samsung 170T and woha, I'm never going back to CRTs.
Why would they become a software company if they switch to x86? Surely you're not going to expect OS X to run on just any x86 box, but only the ones with the apple logo on (limit this via hardware).
The problem, however, is in the graphics. Graphics are simply too slow, and it doesn't have good DirectX support either. It emulates an S3 graphics card... I hope Microsoft fixes this issue in the next verion of VPC, because processor emulation is fast, UI and graphics are slow.
Indeed, in fact my [very well respected CS ] school uses Macs a lot for many of the programming classes. In fact Apple has a QTVR of one of our clusters (we have another one of these clusters elsewhere). Windows isn't really used much in programming here, linux/mac mainly (I believe).
1394b, or the current shipping firewire, is just 800Mbps (Which was just recently released too).
If you've taken a look inside Apple's cases, you would notice how much better ribbon cables can be than rounded. With the ribbon cables routed on the side of the case, under the motherboard, completely out of your way due to the flat nature, it's much more cleaner than what you get with rounded cables (and esp ribbon cables just dangling in mid air). However I do not think this is easy to do in an ATX format.
I suppose the main issue is that no one makes true firewire hard drives (afaik), so a firewire bridge would reduce performance. Though adding more firewire channels does seem a lot cheaper than fewer scsi channels.
Are there really, for USB? From what I understood, USB is encrypted, though not that much.. but I doubt such a device could decrypt it fast enough.
Have you tried to watch movies at 30+fps (or in your case, 90+ fps)? They are, in fact, too fast. Real life is too fast, you do not get the dramatic effects without the slower fps. And try watching movies in a digital theater, big difference.
Even check Klipsch high end products? 1 watt will make them piercingly loud, the horn drivers.
Even on something like these $250,000 beasts.
Actually the joke follows with Mechanical Engineers, not Aerospace... then again Mechanical Engineering contains Aerospace Engineering.
It should be noted that the Japanese MLX01 Maglev has reached speeds of 550km/h, faster than the TGV in ideal mode and the maglev of this article. Sure it is an experimental train, but still.
Big Deal?
And for us with many many buttons on our mice (5 button trackball on my part), just bind a button to cmd+h and you have it made!
Or if you want gestures, you can get Cocoa Gestures input manager which give you fully configurable gestures in all Cocoa apps, so you can have a gesture to hide in Chimera or OmniWeb or something...
Well, there are currently zero documented viruses for Mac OS X... so you must consider that... (and classic need not be installed for all the classic viruses that may affect the system)
Just looking around on my OS X machine, I see a few extensions of type ".kext", ".component", ".dfont", ".plugin"... So, we're doing fine I suppose...