The Mac Pro has been using Xeon 5500s since last year. In fact, the Xeon 5500s were Apple exclusive for about a month before the general PC population could start buying them.
The 5500s are the workstation/server version of the i7.
Have you heard of MacPorts and Fink? They're both good for repositories of open source programs. Depending on what you want the software you're looking for might be in one of those two repositories.
I'm liking the secondary click, which I've been using since I got my last PowerBook years ago. My one minor complaint with the keyboard on my new MacBook Pro is that they got rid of the enter key, and replaced it with a second option key.
I doubt it. Even in Canada there were mass protests against universal healthcare. It was very, very unpopular when it was introduced in Saskatchewan in 1961.
I have an HP LaserJet 4050tn that I bought used from a former employer with a duplex unit that I bought on eBay for not very much money. The only connection it has that I can use to hook it up is the ethernet jack. I am a fan, and would buy a newer HP LaserJet if this one ever croaks or I decided I need a colour laser. This one has 465,000 pages on its print engine; if the new ones last this long they're worth the money.
The Express Editions are nice for.Net development, but Visual C++ Express does not include MFC. They also don't have integrated source control. Both of those are handy and good reasons to want at least VS Standard.
I find it interesting that you chose Finland as your example. I'm Canadian, and I will compare Finland to my province, which is served by two companies, one national and one that only operates in this province.
Saskatchewan is twice the size of Finland in total area, and has 1/5 the population. Saskatchewan has the same land area covered by mobile service as Finland, which is pretty much the whole of the populated region of the province. The company that can serve everyone has 440K subscribers, and servers 300000km^2 of land area. Compare to Finland, which has (assuming the same proportions) just under 2.5 million people covering a land area of 300000km^2. That means that carriers in Finland have just over 1/4 the cost. So it makes sense that Saskatchewan's phone service is more expensive than Finland's. And that's without the "whose weather is worse" pissing contest.
I worked for a phone company for 3 years, and just started to go back to university. Anyway, of the 12 cell sites in this city, 6 are attached to landline COs that have backup power, and all the rest have decent batteries. There are also several small landline COs that only have about 8 hours worth of battery.
Anyway, I guess different places have different policies. Where I live we've never had a power failure last more than about 3 hours, so even the small COs didn't need a backup generator pulled to them.
The cell network won't go down, it's all on the same DC power source as the land line equipment. These days DSLAMs don't even go down when there's a power failure.
Move it to the side, and it takes up half the screen? Easy side-by-side comparison!
I discovered that one when playing with "Windows" keys (I'm using a MacBook Pro). Windows-Left moves it to the left side of the screen, Windows-Right moves it to the right side of the screen, Windows-Down minimizes, and Windows-Up maximizes.
Acutally, so far Canada has resisted adopting American IP laws. This is just the American lobby groups trying harder than ever to get Canada to adopt them.
UNIX is a specification. It's defined by services the system offers and how user space programs access them. So, there's no guarantee that OpenBSD and Linux implement system calls the same way. There is just a chance that the same system calls exist on both systems.
Interesting.. I have a cron script to update/usr/src to the latest on the RELENG_7 branch, and it's still sitting there as "7.2-PRERELEASE". But looking at the CVS log, RELENG_7_2 is newer than RELENG_7. Weird that 7-STABLE is behind 7.2 Updating to the 7.2 point now:)
XP 64 bit has terrible driver support. I can use every piece of hardware I own with Vista x64, but XP x64 still has trouble with my network adapter and printer. It's a capable OS, but it has even more issues than Vista did at launch.
Vista would crash for me pretty reliably for the first while after I got it. Then I installed a 64 bit version of Linux, and it crashed. So did FreeBSD/amd64 and NetBSD/amd64. Then I figured it was a bad stick of ram. It was, and now it hasn't crashed on my desktop since.
My MBP, on the other had..... I haven't seen a BSOD, but it has locked up on me.
Funny you should mention that. I have Vista Ultimate (OEM), and several copies of Business and Enterprise from MSDNAA. None of them allow an upgrade. You have to install fresh.
Yeah, my personal opinion is that we (Canada) should rewrite the rules of succession so that the Privy Council elects the next monarch. Monarch rules for life, dies, then Privy Council is called to elect the next one. In theory that's not much different than what happens now, where the Council is called to approve the new monarch.
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The Canadian carriers rolled out a coast to coast HSPA+ (UMTS 3G+) network in a little over a year.
No they didn't. They skipped two whole provinces and most of Northern Ontario -- 3000km on Highway 1 with no HSPA+ coverage from anyone but Rogers.
The Mac Pro has been using Xeon 5500s since last year. In fact, the Xeon 5500s were Apple exclusive for about a month before the general PC population could start buying them.
The 5500s are the workstation/server version of the i7.
Have you heard of MacPorts and Fink? They're both good for repositories of open source programs. Depending on what you want the software you're looking for might be in one of those two repositories.
I'm liking the secondary click, which I've been using since I got my last PowerBook years ago. My one minor complaint with the keyboard on my new MacBook Pro is that they got rid of the enter key, and replaced it with a second option key.
I doubt it. Even in Canada there were mass protests against universal healthcare. It was very, very unpopular when it was introduced in Saskatchewan in 1961.
If you're really curious, it's on line 328 of FreeBSD's sbin/init/shutdown.c file. Here's a link.
I have an HP LaserJet 4050tn that I bought used from a former employer with a duplex unit that I bought on eBay for not very much money. The only connection it has that I can use to hook it up is the ethernet jack. I am a fan, and would buy a newer HP LaserJet if this one ever croaks or I decided I need a colour laser. This one has 465,000 pages on its print engine; if the new ones last this long they're worth the money.
Don't worry too much about it. I was raised speaking French and English, and I don't spot sarcasm all that well in either language online.
There's too much crazy on the internet to really be sure if somebody is being sarcastic or not.
My pocket watch doubles as a cell phone.
The Express Editions are nice for .Net development, but Visual C++ Express does not include MFC. They also don't have integrated source control. Both of those are handy and good reasons to want at least VS Standard.
I find it interesting that you chose Finland as your example. I'm Canadian, and I will compare Finland to my province, which is served by two companies, one national and one that only operates in this province.
Saskatchewan is twice the size of Finland in total area, and has 1/5 the population. Saskatchewan has the same land area covered by mobile service as Finland, which is pretty much the whole of the populated region of the province. The company that can serve everyone has 440K subscribers, and servers 300000km^2 of land area. Compare to Finland, which has (assuming the same proportions) just under 2.5 million people covering a land area of 300000km^2. That means that carriers in Finland have just over 1/4 the cost. So it makes sense that Saskatchewan's phone service is more expensive than Finland's. And that's without the "whose weather is worse" pissing contest.
I worked for a phone company for 3 years, and just started to go back to university. Anyway, of the 12 cell sites in this city, 6 are attached to landline COs that have backup power, and all the rest have decent batteries. There are also several small landline COs that only have about 8 hours worth of battery.
Anyway, I guess different places have different policies. Where I live we've never had a power failure last more than about 3 hours, so even the small COs didn't need a backup generator pulled to them.
The cell network won't go down, it's all on the same DC power source as the land line equipment. These days DSLAMs don't even go down when there's a power failure.
Move it to the side, and it takes up half the screen? Easy side-by-side comparison!
I discovered that one when playing with "Windows" keys (I'm using a MacBook Pro). Windows-Left moves it to the left side of the screen, Windows-Right moves it to the right side of the screen, Windows-Down minimizes, and Windows-Up maximizes.
Acutally, so far Canada has resisted adopting American IP laws. This is just the American lobby groups trying harder than ever to get Canada to adopt them.
Yep. All my data storage is done on DVDs now. I only buy blank CDs if I want to make an audio disc.
UNIX is a specification. It's defined by services the system offers and how user space programs access them. So, there's no guarantee that OpenBSD and Linux implement system calls the same way. There is just a chance that the same system calls exist on both systems.
Interesting.. I have a cron script to update /usr/src to the latest on the RELENG_7 branch, and it's still sitting there as "7.2-PRERELEASE". But looking at the CVS log, RELENG_7_2 is newer than RELENG_7. Weird that 7-STABLE is behind 7.2 Updating to the 7.2 point now :)
Yeah, the OEM versions not being able to upgrade makes sense. I just thought the MSDN issues was odd.
XP 64 bit has terrible driver support. I can use every piece of hardware I own with Vista x64, but XP x64 still has trouble with my network adapter and printer. It's a capable OS, but it has even more issues than Vista did at launch.
Well, that's what happens when you patch the system call table at runtime....
Vista would crash for me pretty reliably for the first while after I got it. Then I installed a 64 bit version of Linux, and it crashed. So did FreeBSD/amd64 and NetBSD/amd64. Then I figured it was a bad stick of ram. It was, and now it hasn't crashed on my desktop since.
My MBP, on the other had..... I haven't seen a BSOD, but it has locked up on me.
Funny you should mention that. I have Vista Ultimate (OEM), and several copies of Business and Enterprise from MSDNAA. None of them allow an upgrade. You have to install fresh.
Or if you want to use more than 3 GB of RAM.
Yeah, my personal opinion is that we (Canada) should rewrite the rules of succession so that the Privy Council elects the next monarch. Monarch rules for life, dies, then Privy Council is called to elect the next one. In theory that's not much different than what happens now, where the Council is called to approve the new monarch.