My steel bike (Pegoretti GGM) comes in at under 20 lbs as well. A relatively inexpensive Lemond BA could say the same. Despite advances in Al and carbon fiber technology, high quality steel is still one of the best materials for a bike. I have no doubt that there are old steel Huffy's out there that approach 50 lbs, but you cant compare a 22 lb MTB which almost assuredly cost $4000 or more (Gunn-Rita Dahle's team issue Magnesium Merida weighs 22 lbs) to a garage sale huffy..... ca ya?
Crayon is french for "pencil" and has been used in connection with art and even wax/oil pastels for much longer than the crayola company has been around. I highly doubt Crayola ever had a trademark on the word crayon as it would be tantamount to a boat company trying to trademark the word "Yacht".
What you dont understand is that those bicycles are vehicles, just like your gas guzzler, with all the rights and resposibilities of vehicles. The reason you dont see many road cyclists on "bike trails" is that those trails seldom go anywhere and quite often are only a mile or two long. I ride 50+ miles at a time, and I'm certainly not going to ride a bike trail 25 times over and over again.
The reason bike trails are so non-functional is that they are put there to fill quotas, and the quotas dont say anything about the trails being useful, just that you need so many miles of trail/lane for so many miles of road. FWIW, most experienced road cyclists despise riding on busy streets and prefer nearly deserted country roads. Personally, I only ride on busy streets when I absolutely must, but I am sure to assert my rights as a vehicle when doing so, otherwise people like you wouldnt even notice I was there (the most dangerous situation for a cyclist).
You could also use GnuStep and write your app in objective C. I'm not sure about the current state of GnuStep, But I've seen apps written using it compile on OSX.
You'd probably need to borrow a mac for making sure everything compiles and works ok in OSX but you could get surprisingly far (and have a working linux app) without it.
I'm typing this from my iBook dual USB (2001 500 MHz) on the original battery. I was about to buy a new battery until I saw this article because of recent rediculously short battery life I've been getting (30 mins or less) Well, I tried something after I saw this article and, lo and behold, I've been running on 0% battery life (incl the green LED's) for the past 30 minutes. I'd be curious to know how many of those who report very short battery life have tried going beyond the system warning... cause mine is still running.
Indeed.... You can still download the source and compile it yourself. VIS isnt doing anything other than repackaging it and selling it on CD-ROM with a nice easy binary installer. Not unlike many other companies that sell open source software on CD-ROM.
gtk Vi mproved. gtk "gimp style" look and feel. I'm like you, I use vi in terminals. But I use PB for cocoa coding, vim mostly for posix and occasional general text editing. I dont mind having X11 installed.
Apple has been doing alot of listening lately. The Apple menu was replaced in 10.0 (it was an ornament in the Public Beta), spring loaded folders reappeared in Jaguar to much fanfare. They even listened on the unix side... bash replaced zsh as the default "bourne" shell around the jaguar release (possibly a bit sooner I use ksh and didnt pay that close attention). Now if they would only listen release the "G5"... In whatever form it takes.
I've heard the offending noise, and boy have we come a long way. As computer noises go, it really is a testament to how quiet Macs are, that people bitch about the G4 noise.
I have a SGI indigo^2 that literally sounds like a jet engine winding up and a Sun Sparcstation 5 that is nearly as bad (the SGI is the worst "desktop" I've heard).
No there arent. Obscure is relative...zeniths were sold in the many thousands. The IBM N40 was a $10k+ RS/6000 laptop made by Tadpole Technologies and it was never suppported very well by IBM or Tadpole. Were not talking about a common 286, were talking OBSCURE.
I get about 20 minutes out of the battery on my IBM N40 (tadpole box similar to sparcbook but with a PPC instead). The bad part is the batteries are no longer available. Even when new they only got 45 mins at best to a full charge.
I have heard rumors to the effect that Bash will soon replace zsh as the default bourne style shell on OSX....Personally, I use ksh because I work with alot of SysVr4 variants where ksh is ubiquitous.
Zsh is probably undeserving of its current bad rep. But bash is king on free unix these days and aside from a bad case of the emacs syndrome (bloat) its a pretty good interactive shell.
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The TiBook has AGP video so yeah it ought to be supported assuming it isnt one of the first generation TiBook's with the ATI 128 (also AGP but the chipset dosent appear to be supported).
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Apple charged $20 for the 10.1 update *if* you ordered it from them. The update was technically free, and you could get update CD's from any Apple retailer (CompUSA, Apple Stores, Independant Apple dealers) for free. If none of those were nearby, the Mac mail order houses were selling it for shipping charges only (about $5) and would include it in orders for no extra charge.
I think youre out of luck now, the "free" update period ended a few months ago. You can probably still order it from Apple (for $20) or get it cheaper off eBay. If you have an Apple Store around you might check to see if they still have any CD's laying around.
Apple might charge for 10.2. 10.1 basically had to be free due to 10.0's problems. BTW, contrary to what others have said in reply to your post, Apple charged for point updates well before OS8. System 7.5 was not free, nor was its predecessor System 7 Pro.
Apple didnt invent or popularize EVERYTHING. But they've done their fair share.
-Popularized USB (an intel invention that wasnt taking off) - First (and really the only) desktop "PC" to have standard SCSI acoss product lines. - Quicktime - Firewire - Dylan (a great language that never took off) - Put a GUI in the hands of home users (Just to get this straight, Xerox sold the idea to Apple for stock, which Xerox made a hefty profit off of. Xerox actually made a GUI based computer for "business" that sold at the excellent price point of $19,000 USD....and you thought macs were expensive. Xerox had no interest in putting a GUI on consumer desktops). - ColorSync , a technology probably never heard of by PC users, but essential for print work. - When macs first came out they were expensive, but they had the same CPU's as many workstations and servers of the time. - Digital hub, I know its a marketing term. But its real. Its nice for a geek with no artistic experience to be able to produce his own movies of the kids n send it to relatives. There are much better digital video editing programs, but anyone can use iMovie....and its free.
I'm sure there are many more I cant remember. If Apple was just pretty case design they wouldnt have the following they do.
If its all their code, they can do anything they want including switching to a different license. (Though GPL is non-revokable on any code already distributed under GPL if I'm not mistaken), they can still release future versions under a different license.
If someone elses GPL'd code is involved they are required to follow the GPL, and I dont think restrictive EULA's are kosher in this case.
The GPL states that they should release the code....they should release the code. They could have chosen to do BSDdows. However, this is indicative of a larger problem. Linux companies KNOW that as soon as their source is released their product becomes Free-as-in-beer. And as other linux companies found in much better economic times, selling something that consumers can get for free (from you or elsewhere) isnt going to fill your coffers with millions of techie dollars.
If you are selling software, GPL is no good. IBM might make good with their linux business but lets face it, they are selling HARDWARE. The only viable business model that includes GPL is one where the principal product being sold is "immune" to GPL (hardware in IBM's case). Other companies who have tried this (VA, Cobalt etc) have made the mistake of trying to use linux to sell commodity PC hardware in a nice package.
GPL has a future whereever it can be used as a tool to sell a proprietary product. Companies have tried with embedded devices but have largely failed due to slow time to market or coming out with incomplete barely usable products.
Selling support as a GPL assisted product didnt really work, and if you think about it its easy to see why. Linux is unix, companies pay sys admins to run their unix boxes, why would they pay a support company for a big support contract (basically a helpdesk) when they are already paying a unix expert or two who usually know how to (or can quickly find out via free sources) fix virtually any problem that crops up?
Non-GPL'd software is a possible "product" for GPL assistance. This could be as simple as selling a closed source product for linux, or by creating a whole non-GPL aspect to the OS (the MacOSX model, though I'm well aware that APSL !=GPL). The one problem with this is that the community tends to cry foul to the "spirit" of GPL in these instances. They want the whole ball of wax for free...even if no GPL code is used.
Where are the success stories. I like the idea of open source. I like being able to reuse successful code, and change things to suit my needs.
I prefer to run Gimp on OSX, mainly because I can use it alongside my OSX apps. My Linux box is a 604e 200MHz so Gimp is understandably slower for me under Linux.
You might be able to run Linux on VirtualPC but you cant run PPC Linux that way. Remember VirtualPC emulates a PC so its gonna be slow no matter what OS youre running on it.
Running Native linux alongside OSX would be alot of trouble, and it hardly seems worth the effort. Would be much more useful to simply port the programs you wanted from linux to OSX.
The readme file mentions this. The solution is to use software rendering. On my 500 MHz iBook using software rendering it plays fine...not quite as fast as the same machine under OS 9/RAVE but its fast enough to play the game.
Capt Hector is Ambrosia's pet parrot. As noted above, he had a role in Escape Velocity: Override. He would steal your cash occasionally if you failed to register after the 30 day period. Basically take you from rich space merchant to the po house.
iGawyn is partially correct (both in the previous post and in his followup to you). The Rev A B/W G3 has a flaky ATA controller chip. It is HIGHLY reccomended that you get a PCI ATA controller before adding a second drive, however, many drives will work just fine as slave drives. I have personally tested a maxtor 7200 rpm 40 gig drive in that configuration and it works fine. I have also run hard drives (temporarily) off of the second ATA bus in the zip drive slot, on the same machine....slaved to the CD-ROM.
This problem applies ONLY to the Rev. A B/W (Yosemite) G3. Rev B and later (g4's etc) dont have this problem. A PCI ATA controller isnt that expensive but it can make that new $100 drive look much more expensive. On the plus side, you get better speed.
There was a patch for OSX floating around (produced by an apple kernel hacker) that skirted around the problem. I'm not sure if its been rolled into the darwin/OSX kernel or not.
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A few less PSI in the tires does much more than any difference in frame material.
My steel bike (Pegoretti GGM) comes in at under 20 lbs as well. A relatively inexpensive Lemond BA could say the same. Despite advances in Al and carbon fiber technology, high quality steel is still one of the best materials for a bike. I have no doubt that there are old steel Huffy's out there that approach 50 lbs, but you cant compare a 22 lb MTB which almost assuredly cost $4000 or more (Gunn-Rita Dahle's team issue Magnesium Merida weighs 22 lbs) to a garage sale huffy..... ca ya?
Crayon is french for "pencil" and has been used in connection with art and even wax/oil pastels for much longer than the crayola company has been around. I highly doubt Crayola ever had a trademark on the word crayon as it would be tantamount to a boat company trying to trademark the word "Yacht".
What you dont understand is that those bicycles are vehicles, just like your gas guzzler, with all the rights and resposibilities of vehicles. The reason you dont see many road cyclists on "bike trails" is that those trails seldom go anywhere and quite often are only a mile or two long. I ride 50+ miles at a time, and I'm certainly not going to ride a bike trail 25 times over and over again.
The reason bike trails are so non-functional is that they are put there to fill quotas, and the quotas dont say anything about the trails being useful, just that you need so many miles of trail/lane for so many miles of road. FWIW, most experienced road cyclists despise riding on busy streets and prefer nearly deserted country roads. Personally, I only ride on busy streets when I absolutely must, but I am sure to assert my rights as a vehicle when doing so, otherwise people like you wouldnt even notice I was there (the most dangerous situation for a cyclist).
You'd probably need to borrow a mac for making sure everything compiles and works ok in OSX but you could get surprisingly far (and have a working linux app) without it.
I'm typing this from my iBook dual USB (2001 500 MHz) on the original battery. I was about to buy a new battery until I saw this article because of recent rediculously short battery life I've been getting (30 mins or less) Well, I tried something after I saw this article and, lo and behold, I've been running on 0% battery life (incl the green LED's) for the past 30 minutes. I'd be curious to know how many of those who report very short battery life have tried going beyond the system warning... cause mine is still running.
Indeed.... You can still download the source and compile it yourself. VIS isnt doing anything other than repackaging it and selling it on CD-ROM with a nice easy binary installer. Not unlike many other companies that sell open source software on CD-ROM.
gtk Vi mproved. gtk "gimp style" look and feel. I'm like you, I use vi in terminals. But I use PB for cocoa coding, vim mostly for posix and occasional general text editing. I dont mind having X11 installed.
I didnt say it was the default shell I said it was the default "bourne" shell.
Apple has been doing alot of listening lately. The Apple menu was replaced in 10.0 (it was an ornament in the Public Beta), spring loaded folders reappeared in Jaguar to much fanfare. They even listened on the unix side... bash replaced zsh as the default "bourne" shell around the jaguar release (possibly a bit sooner I use ksh and didnt pay that close attention). Now if they would only listen release the "G5"... In whatever form it takes.
I've heard the offending noise, and boy have we come a long way. As computer noises go, it really is a testament to how quiet Macs are, that people bitch about the G4 noise.
I have a SGI indigo^2 that literally sounds like a jet engine winding up and a Sun Sparcstation 5 that is nearly as bad (the SGI is the worst "desktop" I've heard).
No there arent. Obscure is relative...zeniths were sold in the many thousands. The IBM N40 was a $10k+ RS/6000 laptop made by Tadpole Technologies and it was never suppported very well by IBM or Tadpole. Were not talking about a common 286, were talking OBSCURE.
I get about 20 minutes out of the battery on my IBM N40 (tadpole box similar to sparcbook but with a PPC instead). The bad part is the batteries are no longer available. Even when new they only got 45 mins at best to a full charge.
MacFixIt started charging for "premium" (read old) content a few months ago. Anything older than a day gets shifted to the premium area.
I'd like to read a transcript or at least the good bits if someone has a free link.
I have heard rumors to the effect that Bash will soon replace zsh as the default bourne style shell on OSX....Personally, I use ksh because I work with alot of SysVr4 variants where ksh is ubiquitous.
Zsh is probably undeserving of its current bad rep. But bash is king on free unix these days and aside from a bad case of the emacs syndrome (bloat) its a pretty good interactive shell.
The TiBook has AGP video so yeah it ought to be supported assuming it isnt one of the first generation TiBook's with the ATI 128 (also AGP but the chipset dosent appear to be supported).
Apple charged $20 for the 10.1 update *if* you ordered it from them. The update was technically free, and you could get update CD's from any Apple retailer (CompUSA, Apple Stores, Independant Apple dealers) for free. If none of those were nearby, the Mac mail order houses were selling it for shipping charges only (about $5) and would include it in orders for no extra charge.
I think youre out of luck now, the "free" update period ended a few months ago. You can probably still order it from Apple (for $20) or get it cheaper off eBay. If you have an Apple Store around you might check to see if they still have any CD's laying around.
Apple might charge for 10.2. 10.1 basically had to be free due to 10.0's problems. BTW, contrary to what others have said in reply to your post, Apple charged for point updates well before OS8. System 7.5 was not free, nor was its predecessor System 7 Pro.
Apple didnt invent or popularize EVERYTHING. But they've done their fair share.
-Popularized USB (an intel invention that wasnt taking off)
- First (and really the only) desktop "PC" to have standard SCSI acoss product lines.
- Quicktime
- Firewire
- Dylan (a great language that never took off)
- Put a GUI in the hands of home users (Just to get this straight, Xerox sold the idea to Apple for stock, which Xerox made a hefty profit off of. Xerox actually made a GUI based computer for "business" that sold at the excellent price point of $19,000 USD....and you thought macs were expensive. Xerox had no interest in putting a GUI on consumer desktops).
- ColorSync , a technology probably never heard of by PC users, but essential for print work.
- When macs first came out they were expensive, but they had the same CPU's as many workstations and servers of the time.
- Digital hub, I know its a marketing term. But its real. Its nice for a geek with no artistic experience to be able to produce his own movies of the kids n send it to relatives. There are much better digital video editing programs, but anyone can use iMovie....and its free.
I'm sure there are many more I cant remember. If Apple was just pretty case design they wouldnt have the following they do.
Was that the part with the SGI laptop? Or am I thinking of congo. Whichever it was the laptop was a mockup...SGI never made a laptop.
If its all their code, they can do anything they want including switching to a different license.
(Though GPL is non-revokable on any code already distributed under GPL if I'm not mistaken), they can still release future versions under a different license.
If someone elses GPL'd code is involved they are required to follow the GPL, and I dont think restrictive EULA's are kosher in this case.
The GPL states that they should release the code....they should release the code. They could have chosen to do BSDdows. However, this is indicative of a larger problem. Linux companies KNOW that as soon as their source is released their product becomes Free-as-in-beer. And as other linux companies found in much better economic times, selling something that consumers can get for free (from you or elsewhere) isnt going to fill your coffers with millions of techie dollars.
If you are selling software, GPL is no good. IBM might make good with their linux business but lets face it, they are selling HARDWARE. The only viable business model that includes GPL is one where the principal product being sold is "immune" to GPL (hardware in IBM's case). Other companies who have tried this (VA, Cobalt etc) have made the mistake of trying to use linux to sell commodity PC hardware in a nice package.
GPL has a future whereever it can be used as a tool to sell a proprietary product. Companies have tried with embedded devices but have largely failed due to slow time to market or coming out with incomplete barely usable products.
Selling support as a GPL assisted product didnt really work, and if you think about it its easy to see why. Linux is unix, companies pay sys admins to run their unix boxes, why would they pay a support company for a big support contract (basically a helpdesk) when they are already paying a unix expert or two who usually know how to (or can quickly find out via free sources) fix virtually any problem that crops up?
Non-GPL'd software is a possible "product" for GPL assistance. This could be as simple as selling a closed source product for linux, or by creating a whole non-GPL aspect to the OS (the MacOSX model, though I'm well aware that APSL !=GPL). The one problem with this is that the community tends to cry foul to the "spirit" of GPL in these instances. They want the whole ball of wax for free...even if no GPL code is used.
Where are the success stories. I like the idea of open source. I like being able to reuse successful code, and change things to suit my needs.
I prefer to run Gimp on OSX, mainly because I can use it alongside my OSX apps. My Linux box is a 604e 200MHz so Gimp is understandably slower for me under Linux.
You might be able to run Linux on VirtualPC but you cant run PPC Linux that way. Remember VirtualPC emulates a PC so its gonna be slow no matter what OS youre running on it.
Running Native linux alongside OSX would be alot of trouble, and it hardly seems worth the effort. Would be much more useful to simply port the programs you wanted from linux to OSX.
The readme file mentions this. The solution is to use software rendering. On my 500 MHz iBook using software rendering it plays fine...not quite as fast as the same machine under OS 9/RAVE but its fast enough to play the game.
Capt Hector is Ambrosia's pet parrot. As noted above, he had a role in Escape Velocity: Override. He would steal your cash occasionally if you failed to register after the 30 day period. Basically take you from rich space merchant to the po house.
iGawyn is partially correct (both in the previous post and in his followup to you). The Rev A B/W G3 has a flaky ATA controller chip. It is HIGHLY reccomended that you get a PCI ATA controller before adding a second drive, however, many drives will work just fine as slave drives. I have personally tested a maxtor 7200 rpm 40 gig drive in that configuration and it works fine. I have also run hard drives (temporarily) off of the second ATA bus in the zip drive slot, on the same machine....slaved to the CD-ROM.
This problem applies ONLY to the Rev. A B/W (Yosemite) G3. Rev B and later (g4's etc) dont have this problem. A PCI ATA controller isnt that expensive but it can make that new $100 drive look much more expensive. On the plus side, you get better speed.
There was a patch for OSX floating around (produced by an apple kernel hacker) that skirted around the problem. I'm not sure if its been rolled into the darwin/OSX kernel or not.