Not to worry. The original Diaries still exist in Pepys's own library, and the definitive Latham/Matthews transcription, taken straight from the shorthand, was updated just a couple of years ago -- an eleven volume set, including a volume of notes and an index volume.
Pepys is probably the single greatest resource we have concerning daily life in 17th century London; history may also have played out quite differently if he hadn't rebuilt the Royal Navy into the force that frustrated Napoleon for so many years. It's terrific that the Diary is going online.
I don't think we've seen enough of it to be sure yet. Up 'til this "caught on the iceberg" episode a couple weeks ago, I think they've been in a sort of regrouping mode, getting their ducks in a row for more of a continuous plot. If the rest of the season continues in the same vein, I'll be sorely disappointed, but I'm not ready to give up on it yet.
I had trouble with Jaguar on one machine -- it turned out that it needed a firmware update. Latest firmware is included on Jaguar Disk 1; check and make sure your machine doesn't need one.
I just checked, and BIND appears to be included, but I haven't tried using it. Apache is, as already mentioned, included. I compiled qpopper on it a few months ago without any problems, and it worked nicely. Sendmail works fine, too.
Basically, you can do just about anything on OS X that you can do on FreeBSD...plus the Mac-specific stuff as well.
The original Newton OS handwriting recognition was pretty sucky. NOS 2.0's handwriting recognition was pretty damn stellar; I used it a lot for about a year before I decided the Newton 130 was just too darn big to carry everywhere.
I'm skeptical about an Apple PDA, though. The market for PDA's is in pretty sad shape right now; there's not much there for Apple to capture right now, even if they did make a good product at a good price.
The on-board ethernet in some Centris models might be a little funky, but unless it's a Centris 610, you should be able to find a cheap NuBus ethernet card.
As for NuBus powermacs, as far as I know, your only option is MkLinux.
Perhaps if you tried the right unix:). NetBSD works like a charm on both of those models. The Centris 650 in particular has worked like a dream for me.
There are lots of old Macs in closets that can find a new life as a unix box. I've run my server over the past few years with NetBSD on a Mac IIx, Mac IIci, Centris 650 (still in use as a router), StarMax 5000 (Mac clone), and currently a PowerMac 6500. My desktop machine runs Mac OS, but it's nice to be able to recycle the hardware as a server.
The judge also seems to have some web tunnel-vision going on. Perhaps the guy never intended to use it as a web site -- perhaps he wanted his email address to be whatsisname@corinthians.com.
I've never heard of anyone actually experiencing a heat failure in an Apple II. I had four cards in my II+, and it still worked fifteen years later (mind you, I rarely used it at that time). And of course, there were the Kensington add-on fans if you really needed one.
I've also never heard of the LC-crushing problem. I suppose it could happen, but I used to stand on one (I weighed about 160 at the time) to demonstrate how strong it was, and it functioned fine until I gave it to a thrift store last month.
The CD drive in the original iMacs was a bit flimsy. I don't know of any breaking, but then, I don't really know anyone with children, either. I'll give you that one, but then, it was corrected pretty quickly with the slot-loaders.
The handle on the iMac was never really intended to make it portable. It just makes it easier to move when you have to. Would you rather pick up a 45 lb. machine with round, smooth sides without a handle?
As for the single-button mouse, I fail to see the problem. A few million of us have used them for the past fifteen years without apparent handicap. If you prefer a multi-button mouse, feel free to use one, but that doesn't mean a single-button mouse is a design flaw, any more than the fact that you prefer orange juice makes grapefruit juice a design flaw.
Now then -- does that make the Cube's design sound? Nope. It might be -- I'd be willing to bet a few dollars on it being sound. But it might not be. Only time will tell.
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>And it's apparently *stackable* -- is this for the purposes >of running them in beowolf clusters when MacOS X come out?
I don't think you'd want to stack them; the ventilation is top-to-bottom. However, I just measured our rack shelves, and you could easily put four of them on a shelf (and probably reduce the shelf height enough to add an extra shelf to the rack).
With proper lighting, a wall of those would look pretty darn cool, eh?
>Can it really be true that if you are someone as rich and >powerful as Microsoft, that you can buy favorable Op-Ed pieces
Why buy what you can get for free? Major media is constantly giving corporations a pass. If you follow the ownership high enough, they're all one big, happy family anyway (or at least, a few big happy families who happen to be particularly neighborly with each other).
>own linux machines and being a unix admin, does not prove >you to be someone of great intellectual prowess. these are >things which 13 and 14 year olds do regularly:)
Presumably, this statement applies to you, as well?
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Not to worry. The original Diaries still exist in Pepys's own library, and the definitive Latham/Matthews transcription, taken straight from the shorthand, was updated just a couple of years ago -- an eleven volume set, including a volume of notes and an index volume.
Pepys is probably the single greatest resource we have concerning daily life in 17th century London; history may also have played out quite differently if he hadn't rebuilt the Royal Navy into the force that frustrated Napoleon for so many years. It's terrific that the Diary is going online.
Virtually all of Seattle's power is, in fact, hydroelectric.
I'd like to remind them that as a trusted web personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
Don't tell me Pellucidar isn't real!
Yeah, like, "How the hell am I supposed to lift this glass with a freakin' planetoid in it?"
I don't think we've seen enough of it to be sure yet. Up 'til this "caught on the iceberg" episode a couple weeks ago, I think they've been in a sort of regrouping mode, getting their ducks in a row for more of a continuous plot. If the rest of the season continues in the same vein, I'll be sorely disappointed, but I'm not ready to give up on it yet.
I had trouble with Jaguar on one machine -- it turned out that it needed a firmware update. Latest firmware is included on Jaguar Disk 1; check and make sure your machine doesn't need one.
Apart from that, 10.2 has been rock-solid for me.
Yeah, geez, $269 for an 802.11 module? I paid less for my MessagePad 2100 with a 32mb card and a Lucent WaveLAN Silver card.
And if so, perhaps it could be ported to OS X, thus allowing Mac users to run Access, which could be amusing.
If I could mount a railgun to a toaster, you can bet I would. You can't have too many railguns.
I just checked, and BIND appears to be included, but I haven't tried using it. Apache is, as already mentioned, included. I compiled qpopper on it a few months ago without any problems, and it worked nicely. Sendmail works fine, too.
Basically, you can do just about anything on OS X that you can do on FreeBSD...plus the Mac-specific stuff as well.
I'm skeptical about an Apple PDA, though. The market for PDA's is in pretty sad shape right now; there's not much there for Apple to capture right now, even if they did make a good product at a good price.
$50 Canadian is like, what, $1.98 in real money, right?
As for NuBus powermacs, as far as I know, your only option is MkLinux.
Perhaps if you tried the right unix :). NetBSD works like a charm on both of those models. The Centris 650 in particular has worked like a dream for me.
There are lots of old Macs in closets that can find a new life as a unix box. I've run my server over the past few years with NetBSD on a Mac IIx, Mac IIci, Centris 650 (still in use as a router), StarMax 5000 (Mac clone), and currently a PowerMac 6500. My desktop machine runs Mac OS, but it's nice to be able to recycle the hardware as a server.
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I've also never heard of the LC-crushing problem. I suppose it could happen, but I used to stand on one (I weighed about 160 at the time) to demonstrate how strong it was, and it functioned fine until I gave it to a thrift store last month.
The CD drive in the original iMacs was a bit flimsy. I don't know of any breaking, but then, I don't really know anyone with children, either. I'll give you that one, but then, it was corrected pretty quickly with the slot-loaders.
The handle on the iMac was never really intended to make it portable. It just makes it easier to move when you have to. Would you rather pick up a 45 lb. machine with round, smooth sides without a handle?
As for the single-button mouse, I fail to see the problem. A few million of us have used them for the past fifteen years without apparent handicap. If you prefer a multi-button mouse, feel free to use one, but that doesn't mean a single-button mouse is a design flaw, any more than the fact that you prefer orange juice makes grapefruit juice a design flaw.
Now then -- does that make the Cube's design sound? Nope. It might be -- I'd be willing to bet a few dollars on it being sound. But it might not be. Only time will tell.
>of running them in beowolf clusters when MacOS X come out?
I don't think you'd want to stack them; the ventilation is top-to-bottom. However, I just measured our rack shelves, and you could easily put four of them on a shelf (and probably reduce the shelf height enough to add an extra shelf to the rack).
With proper lighting, a wall of those would look pretty darn cool, eh?
>powerful as Microsoft, that you can buy favorable Op-Ed pieces
Why buy what you can get for free? Major media is constantly giving corporations a pass. If you follow the ownership high enough, they're all one big, happy family anyway (or at least, a few big happy families who happen to be particularly neighborly with each other).
You're not kidding. I don't know how many times I actually left blood from my hands inside my StarMax 5000. Ouch.
>you to be someone of great intellectual prowess. these are
>things which 13 and 14 year olds do regularly
Presumably, this statement applies to you, as well?
No. Why dual-boot if you don't have to? This is not an emulator, it's an X server integrated into the Aqua environment.
>Besides, OS X is meant for the server market, so what the >hell do you need a GUI for in the first place?
No. It is intended for the consumer market. Although certainly it will be used for servers as well.
Even if you make it yourself, you'd have trouble getting the ingredients for five gallons of beer for less than $20.