Our product uses both Xerces and Xalan.. Xalan-J just jumped to 2.2, and now Xerces has made a very important leap ahead. There's been a lot of issues with both and the latest versions fix a lot of them. This is very cool indeed.
Finally Apple has hardware (powerful G4s and gigabit networking) and software (Mac OS X with preemtpion, protection, and a mature TCP/IP stack) that can really handle this sort of this.
I mean, this shit flew under Mac OS 9 and 400MHz G3s. Now we have Mac OS 10.1 and *dual* GHz machines with Gigabit ethernet. I can't imagine the power.
Use iPhoto. It was made for just this purpose and does it very well. Works on any images in general, but can take you from downloading from the camera to sending a layout doc to Apple for printing...
Having run QNX RtP 6.0 and 6.1, I have to say I'm waiting with baited breath.
6.0 was excellent, but patch B killed TCP/IP networking. Either that or the driver for my NIC was bad. Performance was good on even 32 MB RAM.
6.1 was an improvement mostly in the details: small little useful features were added, driver support was added, performance tweaks were added (try playing 32 MP3s simultanesouly on a Windows 2000 box with just 32 mgs of RAM!), and overall it was what one would expect from a secondary release.
If 6.2 is anything to 6.1 like 6.1 was to 6.0, I'd say the QNX guys had found the right pace, although it'd be nicer to have these updates every 6-9 months instead of every 9-12 months.
I'm running QNX RtP 6.1 on a dual Pentium Pro system, each proc has the 1-meg L2 cache and is overclocked to 233MHz, and 32 megs of RAM (going to a gig soon).
Who falls for such ludicris, ridiculous claims? I can't imagine an IT guy taking any of Ellison's claims seriously. Maybe someone that went to DeVry...
We're waiting on moving to 9i. No, wait, we're not even waiting. We just moved to 8i last year and there's no reason to move to 9i for us now, no matter how "unbreakable" or not 9i is.
Happily, though, these holes will get plugged and when we *do* move to 9i, it might be closer to being *giggle* unbreakable.
XFS, formerly of SGI's IRIX OS, is a journaling file system for use with Linux (and soon *BSD).
Another option is to run BeOS, with its BFS file system, though as we all know, Be was bought our by Palm and the BeOS is in limbo, future development a dream of only the most rabid Beophile.
Don't get any where near "Linux," just keep it to "advanced technology solutions."
Yes, it sounds cheasy, but the people aren't going to want to hear about Linux ("What's that?"), they'll want to know you're looking out for their interests in the most efficient manner possible.
I think this is the whole reason that we've not seen Apple contribute back much code: Darwin hasn't really been keeping up.
In all honesty, "keeping up" us a trick question: Apple will want to stay with an older, more refined version of the OS. When 5.0 comes out, we'll see Apple start syncing with the most robust of the 4.x releases.
I agree with you on their priorities now; it lies in small feature additions and enhancements and heavy optimization.
I think we can agree it'll be Mac OS 10.2 / Darwin 1.5 before they begin any signifigant FreeBSD machinations-- and any such changes will lead to Darwin 2.0, aka Mac OS 11.0.
I can't give you the whole picture or the one right answer (if such things exist) but I can share our policy.
The contracts are written and we have to reach a goal that resembles what was promised. Development occurs in the UK, and quite frankly up until now it was a messy project-driven group of products.
Imagine you have 3 customers, each with a heavily customised copy of Widget. Well, it's long i nthe tooth, and since you're a project-based shop, you only release a version 4.0 spec-- then code each different customer's Widget version to meet the new spec.
UGH.
Now imagine being in flux from this mess on your way to a product-driven development model.
Double-UGH.
So we want a customer-base and we promise them something we think we can deliver without losing too much on our contract penalties with. [Here's the meat of the post:] If not, we give them what we've got and release the patches afterward! Patches are also for bugs that crop up, but mostly, around here, they're tools to extend the life of our contract in the face of a development wild-space.
This may change in a few years, as this policy stinks, but by that time this will be, sadly, normal, and it'll stay that way.
Apple uses quite a bit of FreeBSD code-- it is the reference platform that many libraries and userland utilities come from.
Darwin 1's "BSD layer" was based on FreeBSD 3.2 (and to be fair, signifigant chunks of NetBSD and OpenBSD).
Since then Apple engineers have kept sync with individual packages with a goal to be able to keep in step with more and more of the OS until they are A) using the latest stable branc and B) able to incorporate entire new releases with about 3-months of lag time.
ANYWAY, I am surprised that Apple hasn't stepped in to assist the FBSD group... It's where they get a lot of their OS bits & pieces from, and they have hired / are currently employing several FreeBSD coders.
My Experience with FreeBSD, WR, and WC
on
FreeBSD Goes Home
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
They were a very thoughtful company when it regards to providing information on their regular commercial OSes (they've also bought pSOS along the way) but I never saw this attention paid to FreeBSD.
I think they were being a bit overenthusiastic and optimistic in buying the FreeBSD business when all they knew they wanted was BSD/OS.
Glad to see at least the FreeBSD foundation is back in familiar, caring hands.
Gladly this doesn't affect the release of 4.5-- I've been using it since 4.1 and it keeps getting better and better. The fact that 5.0 was delayed, forcing more work on 4.x branches, means that FreeBSD 4.x could be the most refined Free *nix ever.
Yeah but I have all that stuff out here-- I prefer the Hurricane Soup follwoed by the Gang Talay. But the ROasted Duck Darling is a good meat-veggie combo.
Out here the place is "Bangkok Pavillion."
BTW, I had a dish I loved, it was very very very tinily diced chicken, with bell peppers, jalepenos, onions, and garlic-- it looked like it was stuffing for a pepper dish, but it was to be eaten like that. Is that Pad Gai? I know I've eaten Pad Gai but can't place what it is...
the issue I have with my current iBook is speed-- it seems adequate to run OS X, and that's it. I can't imagine using an original iMac, thought I bet it's tolerable too.
now I only have 384MB RAM in it, and I know more would help, but come on-- the diff in speed between a 500/66 system vs. a 600/100 system has to be signifigant enough. Combine this with a 14" scree
Why don't you and the_Messenger and TBJ get together some day? If I am ever in VA I'll let you guys know and we can grab some Virginian cuisine (hot dogs and tater tots).
I can't speak for Warren at the moment, but I have a huge announcement I am making on the 21st that will rock Slashdot to its foundations and take care of my non-existant homepage and brokens links, etc.
Computer Scientist, now retarded
on
True Names
·
· Score: 0, Funny
gah, books like this dserve to be stolen from airport bookstores.
Slashdot Mirror
Trollaxor.com is up and open for new accounts. Content posting begins tomorrow.
Have a nice day.
we're here. jsut getting ready to jumo ship.
wh00t i am drunk
bouevard irish ale baby
fuck slashdot
fuck the world
new shit's bout to take over this scene
fuck all ya'll
Please mod this post up.
Our product uses both Xerces and Xalan.. Xalan-J just jumped to 2.2, and now Xerces has made a very important leap ahead. There's been a lot of issues with both and the latest versions fix a lot of them. This is very cool indeed.
For some people that's a fucking daily reality, Michael. We have it good in the US but for some, it's a fact of life they have to deal with.
For that comment alone I think you should be the first to go when VA cuts more jobs.
Finally Apple has hardware (powerful G4s and gigabit networking) and software (Mac OS X with preemtpion, protection, and a mature TCP/IP stack) that can really handle this sort of this.
I mean, this shit flew under Mac OS 9 and 400MHz G3s. Now we have Mac OS 10.1 and *dual* GHz machines with Gigabit ethernet. I can't imagine the power.
Use iPhoto. It was made for just this purpose and does it very well. Works on any images in general, but can take you from downloading from the camera to sending a layout doc to Apple for printing...
Having run QNX RtP 6.0 and 6.1, I have to say I'm waiting with baited breath.
6.0 was excellent, but patch B killed TCP/IP networking. Either that or the driver for my NIC was bad. Performance was good on even 32 MB RAM.
6.1 was an improvement mostly in the details: small little useful features were added, driver support was added, performance tweaks were added (try playing 32 MP3s simultanesouly on a Windows 2000 box with just 32 mgs of RAM!), and overall it was what one would expect from a secondary release.
If 6.2 is anything to 6.1 like 6.1 was to 6.0, I'd say the QNX guys had found the right pace, although it'd be nicer to have these updates every 6-9 months instead of every 9-12 months.
I'm running QNX RtP 6.1 on a dual Pentium Pro system, each proc has the 1-meg L2 cache and is overclocked to 233MHz, and 32 megs of RAM (going to a gig soon).
Who falls for such ludicris, ridiculous claims? I can't imagine an IT guy taking any of Ellison's claims seriously. Maybe someone that went to DeVry...
We're waiting on moving to 9i. No, wait, we're not even waiting. We just moved to 8i last year and there's no reason to move to 9i for us now, no matter how "unbreakable" or not 9i is.
Happily, though, these holes will get plugged and when we *do* move to 9i, it might be closer to being *giggle* unbreakable.
Ignoring how feasible either options are...
XFS, formerly of SGI's IRIX OS, is a journaling file system for use with Linux (and soon *BSD).
Another option is to run BeOS, with its BFS file system, though as we all know, Be was bought our by Palm and the BeOS is in limbo, future development a dream of only the most rabid Beophile.
Don't get any where near "Linux," just keep it to "advanced technology solutions."
Yes, it sounds cheasy, but the people aren't going to want to hear about Linux ("What's that?"), they'll want to know you're looking out for their interests in the most efficient manner possible.
I think this is the whole reason that we've not seen Apple contribute back much code: Darwin hasn't really been keeping up.
In all honesty, "keeping up" us a trick question: Apple will want to stay with an older, more refined version of the OS. When 5.0 comes out, we'll see Apple start syncing with the most robust of the 4.x releases.
I agree with you on their priorities now; it lies in small feature additions and enhancements and heavy optimization.
I think we can agree it'll be Mac OS 10.2 / Darwin 1.5 before they begin any signifigant FreeBSD machinations-- and any such changes will lead to Darwin 2.0, aka Mac OS 11.0.
I can't give you the whole picture or the one right answer (if such things exist) but I can share our policy.
The contracts are written and we have to reach a goal that resembles what was promised. Development occurs in the UK, and quite frankly up until now it was a messy project-driven group of products.
Imagine you have 3 customers, each with a heavily customised copy of Widget. Well, it's long i nthe tooth, and since you're a project-based shop, you only release a version 4.0 spec-- then code each different customer's Widget version to meet the new spec.
UGH.
Now imagine being in flux from this mess on your way to a product-driven development model.
Double-UGH.
So we want a customer-base and we promise them something we think we can deliver without losing too much on our contract penalties with. [Here's the meat of the post:] If not, we give them what we've got and release the patches afterward! Patches are also for bugs that crop up, but mostly, around here, they're tools to extend the life of our contract in the face of a development wild-space.
This may change in a few years, as this policy stinks, but by that time this will be, sadly, normal, and it'll stay that way.
This talk of "Alan's tree" and "Linus's tree" is kind of foreboding. A de facto fork has already taken place.
What would Alan call his version of kernel? His last name already ends with an "X" so... I dunno where that would leave us.
Yeah, better off to just keep referring to them as "Alan's tree" and "Linus's tree."
Apple uses quite a bit of FreeBSD code-- it is the reference platform that many libraries and userland utilities come from.
Darwin 1's "BSD layer" was based on FreeBSD 3.2 (and to be fair, signifigant chunks of NetBSD and OpenBSD).
Since then Apple engineers have kept sync with individual packages with a goal to be able to keep in step with more and more of the OS until they are A) using the latest stable branc and B) able to incorporate entire new releases with about 3-months of lag time.
ANYWAY, I am surprised that Apple hasn't stepped in to assist the FBSD group... It's where they get a lot of their OS bits & pieces from, and they have hired / are currently employing several FreeBSD coders.
They were a very thoughtful company when it regards to providing information on their regular commercial OSes (they've also bought pSOS along the way) but I never saw this attention paid to FreeBSD.
I think they were being a bit overenthusiastic and optimistic in buying the FreeBSD business when all they knew they wanted was BSD/OS.
Glad to see at least the FreeBSD foundation is back in familiar, caring hands.
Gladly this doesn't affect the release of 4.5-- I've been using it since 4.1 and it keeps getting better and better. The fact that 5.0 was delayed, forcing more work on 4.x branches, means that FreeBSD 4.x could be the most refined Free *nix ever.
the only /. ed worth anything.
Please keep up the good work, Krow, you are the last legitimate thing on Slashdot that's worth a wheeze.
http://www.apple.com
Of RMS, Alan Cox, ESR, Linuc Torvalds, et al has remained much the same, if not increased, over these three short years.
Way to go Linux developers!
Yeah but I have all that stuff out here-- I prefer the Hurricane Soup follwoed by the Gang Talay. But the ROasted Duck Darling is a good meat-veggie combo.
Out here the place is "Bangkok Pavillion."
BTW, I had a dish I loved, it was very very very tinily diced chicken, with bell peppers, jalepenos, onions, and garlic-- it looked like it was stuffing for a pepper dish, but it was to be eaten like that. Is that Pad Gai? I know I've eaten Pad Gai but can't place what it is...
hahaha. no.
but i did just drive past their headquarters sat. night, and i used to work in midtown, and was a few minutes' walk away from them then.
the issue I have with my current iBook is speed-- it seems adequate to run OS X, and that's it. I can't imagine using an original iMac, thought I bet it's tolerable too.
now I only have 384MB RAM in it, and I know more would help, but come on-- the diff in speed between a 500/66 system vs. a 600/100 system has to be signifigant enough. Combine this with a 14" scree
Why don't you and the_Messenger and TBJ get together some day? If I am ever in VA I'll let you guys know and we can grab some Virginian cuisine (hot dogs and tater tots).
I can't speak for Warren at the moment, but I have a huge announcement I am making on the 21st that will rock Slashdot to its foundations and take care of my non-existant homepage and brokens links, etc.
gah, books like this dserve to be stolen from airport bookstores.