All the applications felt oddly 'light', I think from the quick responsiveness of it all.
Using the word "light" is the perfect way to describe the BeOS. As a Mac user from way back in '85, as developer who was looking for a more powerful OS back in System 7 days and as beta tester of the BeOS I was really bummed when Apple went with NeXT instead of Be. I thought Be was a no brainer particuarily due to the fact that there already existed a program, similar to VMWare (called Sheep Saver???) for the BeOS that allowed it to run System 7 and the apps of the day within the BeOS. I remember how light and responsive the BeOS felt on my single processor Mac clone and how it absolutely screamed on a dual-processor BeBox.
(sigh)
Now I'm all bummed about what could have been. Don't get me wrong MacOS X is nice and I use it for a lot of different things but...
The reasons why the "real" Mac OS X took longer were that Apple had to implement Carbon for developers unwilling to convert to Cocoa, and write a brand new display system (Quartz) after Adobe dropped Display PostScript.
Almost true. Adobe didn't drop support for Display PostScript, Apple decided they didn't want to pay a royalty to Adobe for every copy of the MacOS that would ship that used Display PostScript.
According to the Knowledge Base, it is for Mac OS X 10.1.5; are these components already in Mac OS X 10.2, or is another update forthcoming?
There have been reports that Apple will post an update for 10.2 a couple of weeks after it is released to address some security concerns, like the most recent one for 10.1.x and to fix some minor bugs that have shown up since 10.2 went GM.
But just last week at our local Java users group James Duncan Davidson, the original developer of Tomcat (and Ant), and he really didn't recommend using Tomcat by itself in a large enterprise type setting where speed is an issue. He said using Apache to help serve up static pages/images will certainly help but it is important to keep in mind that Tomcat wasn't built for speed, it was built to be a reference platform.
On a side note Davidson is a good speaker and worth seeing if you get a chance to.
However, if your like myself and have no creative skills whatsoever, then you may be interested in this new water cooling kit that is available on the
Internet.
In the case of an open-source project like this, good naming has nothing to do with marketing. I'm tired JThis and JThat too, but would JApacheConfig not describe exactly what the project is hoping to accomplish? Yes, it would. It's no different than using good variable names (i.e. the name describes what the variable represents) when programming.
I'll give you two bucks for it now and if you invest the money wisely you could probably turn it into $10 in a decade or so. =)
Why don't you like your Cube? I would love to get one but I haven't seen one in my price range. I think they're great little boxes. Apple's mistake with them was that they charged too much of premium for them, even by Apple's standards. People have long been clamoring for G4 based Mac's that they can use with their own monitors (like the G4 desktop) but who don't need a lot (any) internal expansion capabilities (like the iMac).
While it's true that these not very old machines will not be able to take advantage of Quartz Extreme they will however greatly benefit from the overall speed improvements of 10.2 (.5?), even in every day Finder operations.
And I just gave my old laptop to a teacher, what was I thinking?! Instead of using technology to help someone help kids I could have been using it as a roving email station or another piece of hardware to yell at when it breaks or doesn't work properly.
I agree that giving color depth and framerate on servers is a bit silly but as Steve Jobs said at the Xserve's introduction, this is Apple's first concerted foray into the enterprise, so the fact that maybe their advertising isn't quite up to snuff isn't surprising. I'm not making excuses for Apple just pointing out where they're coming from. Although given that Apple has said they envision the Xserve being installed in rendering farms maybe catering to graphics people that speak "graphic design" will be wooed by the a 1U rack that advertises color depth and framerate benchmarks.
I saw this review a couple of days ago but didn't look to carefully at it since there weren't any benchmarks (from either Apple or reviewers). During the Xserve introduction Steve Jobs said benchmarks would be available in a couple weeks, so now that has been a couple of weeks maybe we'll see something soon.
Mario Cart? Which IMHO is the best racing game ever! I don't know how many times I've piloted Yoshi around all those tracks but I still find it fun every time I do.
Both the iMac and the new eMac have G4 processors. You're absolutely right about the G3 price point, of course, but I'm afraid you're wrong about the iMac.
Actually, Apple still makes/sells the original CRT iMac which still uses the G3 processor. Go to the Apple store and look for yourself.
Was Jamey a traitor? Did she use a Dell PC? Was she exposed before Nina? Yes, yes and yes. To be clear the May 16th article was not published until May 16th, duh, but the point of the Stigmata669's post (I think), was that the observation of 24's bad guys using PC's and the good guys used Mac's, had been made and written about in Wired.
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Using the word "light" is the perfect way to describe the BeOS. As a Mac user from way back in '85, as developer who was looking for a more powerful OS back in System 7 days and as beta tester of the BeOS I was really bummed when Apple went with NeXT instead of Be. I thought Be was a no brainer particuarily due to the fact that there already existed a program, similar to VMWare (called Sheep Saver???) for the BeOS that allowed it to run System 7 and the apps of the day within the BeOS. I remember how light and responsive the BeOS felt on my single processor Mac clone and how it absolutely screamed on a dual-processor BeBox.
(sigh)
Now I'm all bummed about what could have been. Don't get me wrong MacOS X is nice and I use it for a lot of different things but...
Almost true. Adobe didn't drop support for Display PostScript, Apple decided they didn't want to pay a royalty to Adobe for every copy of the MacOS that would ship that used Display PostScript.
There have been reports that Apple will post an update for 10.2 a couple of weeks after it is released to address some security concerns, like the most recent one for 10.1.x and to fix some minor bugs that have shown up since 10.2 went GM.
But just last week at our local Java users group James Duncan Davidson, the original developer of Tomcat (and Ant), and he really didn't recommend using Tomcat by itself in a large enterprise type setting where speed is an issue. He said using Apache to help serve up static pages/images will certainly help but it is important to keep in mind that Tomcat wasn't built for speed, it was built to be a reference platform.
On a side note Davidson is a good speaker and worth seeing if you get a chance to.
What is this "Internet" thing you speak of?
Complaining that you can't run System 6 on your new Dual GHz PowerMac G4?
In the case of an open-source project like this, good naming has nothing to do with marketing. I'm tired JThis and JThat too, but would JApacheConfig not describe exactly what the project is hoping to accomplish? Yes, it would. It's no different than using good variable names (i.e. the name describes what the variable represents) when programming.
It's through Amazom but hey, $50 is $50. Look here.
(no I'm not associated with them in anyway)
Care to share that serial with us, please?
Please explain the 3 weighing solution with 12 balls when it is not know if the odd ball is lighter or heavier than the rest.
a paint ball gun so you can be like Anthony Edwards in the movie Gotcha!
Course be sure to turn down the pressure on that thing else you might poke somebody's eye out!
I'll give you two bucks for it now and if you invest the money wisely you could probably turn it into $10 in a decade or so. =)
Why don't you like your Cube? I would love to get one but I haven't seen one in my price range. I think they're great little boxes. Apple's mistake with them was that they charged too much of premium for them, even by Apple's standards. People have long been clamoring for G4 based Mac's that they can use with their own monitors (like the G4 desktop) but who don't need a lot (any) internal expansion capabilities (like the iMac).
Oops, thanks.
Great, another game to get hung up on. Time has an article on the addiction angle of all these MMORPGs.
While it's true that these not very old machines will not be able to take advantage of Quartz Extreme they will however greatly benefit from the overall speed improvements of 10.2 (.5?), even in every day Finder operations.
http://members.cox.net/ronin4701/QuartzExtremeTest riktigfil.mov
t ri ktigfil.mov
http://clem.mscd.edu/~grahamry/QuartzExtremeTes
And I just gave my old laptop to a teacher, what was I thinking?! Instead of using technology to help someone help kids I could have been using it as a roving email station or another piece of hardware to yell at when it breaks or doesn't work properly.
Toad always pissed me off with his high pitched yelling and Koopa-Trooper, well... I got nothin.
I never learned too read or spell due to all my Nintendo playing. Let that be a lession to all you kiddies out there.
I agree that giving color depth and framerate on servers is a bit silly but as Steve Jobs said at the Xserve's introduction, this is Apple's first concerted foray into the enterprise, so the fact that maybe their advertising isn't quite up to snuff isn't surprising. I'm not making excuses for Apple just pointing out where they're coming from. Although given that Apple has said they envision the Xserve being installed in rendering farms maybe catering to graphics people that speak "graphic design" will be wooed by the a 1U rack that advertises color depth and framerate benchmarks.
I saw this review a couple of days ago but didn't look to carefully at it since there weren't any benchmarks (from either Apple or reviewers). During the Xserve introduction Steve Jobs said benchmarks would be available in a couple weeks, so now that has been a couple of weeks maybe we'll see something soon.
Mario Cart? Which IMHO is the best racing game ever! I don't know how many times I've piloted Yoshi around all those tracks but I still find it fun every time I do.
Actually, Apple still makes/sells the original CRT iMac which still uses the G3 processor. Go to the Apple store and look for yourself.
Was Jamey a traitor? Did she use a Dell PC? Was she exposed before Nina? Yes, yes and yes. To be clear the May 16th article was not published until May 16th, duh, but the point of the Stigmata669's post (I think), was that the observation of 24's bad guys using PC's and the good guys used Mac's, had been made and written about in Wired.
Something that should help the revised iBook's speed beyond the 100MHz speed boost is the doubling of it's L2 cache to 512K from it's previous 256K.