I'll tell you - the IS staff at my work has (to my knowledge) done only one thing to keep the spam from flooding my inbox: denied open relays from sending email to me and the rest of our staff. Apart from that, they're doing nothing.
I have an Outlook rule that catches about 90% of my spam, but I can't save anymore server-side rules because my rule exceeds the 32K maximum Exchange Server packet size.
I read this article and seriously wondered what these people were smoking. I've had my work e-mail address for almost six years. I get over 100 spam emails a day now. Tomorrow morning when I get into work, I should have somewhere around 300 emails sitting in my spam folder. Then, I should have about 30-40 that haven't been caught by my filters.
Windows Media is just about the only thing I'd like to see working in Chimera. Apart from that, Chimera's a wonderful browser. I like seeing the speed difference between a PowerBook G4/500, iMac G4/800, and Dual G4/867. Chimera's wickedly fast on that PowerMac, and still quite quick on the other computers.
Two people I used to do Windows support for don't call me anymore, especially since the last time I visited they had hardware problems that were out of my realm of expertise. I told them to go take their computers to someone else with more/better equipment.
Now I just deal with my own problems which, luckily, are few.
... and the only reason I do, is because I provided her a PowerMac two years ago as a X-mas present, complete with Internet access. I pre-configured it before I gave it to her, and I know exactly how everything is set up and what software needs to be updated and when.
This computer's 7 years old now (it's a PowerMac 7600), and runs OS9, but it works, and it works damn well. She hasn't complained to me about speed (it's only a 255MHz G3), and recently commented on how much she'd like a laptop and printer for work (she's an RN). My girlfriend mentioned that she has an available iBook and my mom seemed quite interested.
Yes, I'm unabashed Mac supporter, but for a reason. It worked great, for my mom, and it works great for me. I knew she was really using it when she started meeting guys online. Hoo boy.
While it's nice to be able to enable QE on these older Macs, you're probably saturating the PCI bus when you do. Sure, you've got a 66MHz PCI slot for video, but it still doesn't really compare to an AGP 2x slot and equivalent video card.
Some people who have gone the route of turning on QE on the Blue & White G3s have really screwed themselves on bandwidth for other cards, like audio I/O cards.
Here's a test for you - Get IE on the PC and Chimera (one of the nightly builds) and do side by side tests. Start loading a page at exactly the same time. My 500MHz G4 PowerBook beats my 400MHz Celeron at work. The PowerBook always loses, however, when I run Internet Explorer on OS X. IE for OS X is a dog.
CPU + lots of L2/L3 cache = quicker OS X
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It's been my experience that the more cache the system has, the better overall performance you'll get, including UI elements and I/O.
I have a year 2000 PowerBook G3, which has been upgraded to a G4. It has 1MB of backside L2 cache, running at 220MHz. The CPU runs at 500MHz.
I also have an iMac G4/800. It has 256KB of on-chip cache running at 800MHz.
My girlfriend has a Dual G4/867 "Windtunnel" PowerMac. It has 256KB of L2 cache on each CPU running at 867MHz and 1MB of DDR L3 cache (not sure at what speed the cache runs).
Side by side tests, using Chimera, show that the PowerBook is nearly as fast as the iMac, even though the iMac has a 300MHz speed advantage. The dual 867 stomps both easily, and is MUCH faster than the iMac, and way more responsive. Both the iMac and PowerMac have 512MB of RAM. The PowerBook has 384MB. My conclusion so far has been that the iMac's CPU is just starved for data. If it had a 512KB L3 or 1MB L3 cache, it'd probably be significantly faster. I can only hope Apple will do something about it in the future.
Yes, you can turn off dock animation and magnification. Right click on the little gap in the dock and choose Dock Preferences... Or just choose Dock from System Preferences.
Also, if you don't want the window drop shadows, use Window Shade X from Unsanity (www.unsanity.com) to disable them. I saw a 15% performance increase with Let1kWindowsBloom when I turned the shadows to "Subtle."
I still want, no NEED, something to disable the menu fades. I don't need it. It's as bad as menu animation in Windows. It just is there to slow me down, Quartz Extreme or not.
Use total cost of ownership as a reason for your school, or district, to keep purchasing Macs. Print this page out, research it, and hand it to them, if you feel the need.
I work for a company that has a lot of customers in the education space, and sells a product that works on Windows and Linux. Both products offer almost the same functionality, but the Windows version has a much smaller learning curve than the Linux version. School districts will go with the Linux version because they find out they can get Linux for next to nothing. Sure, the initial investment might be smaller, but in the long run, you're going to spend more to either a) get someone on staff who knows Linux well, or b) learn how to use Linux yourself. I'm not bashing Linux, but if you've never used it before, it might not be the best choice of platform. I hope you can see how this relates to the Mac vs. PC debate in schools.
This thing only has a 90-day limited warranty, which is exactly what the iPod had. Now the iPod's up to a 1-yr warranty, retroactive for all original iPods (who expire in coming weeks).
Microsoft bought $150 million in none-voting stock in 1997, around the same time that Apple was on the brink of collapse (that's arguable, of course). Also, Apple agreed to make IE the default browser in the system (for five years), and Microsoft agreed to continue development of Office for the Mac for five years. That five year deal ended this year, but it looks like Microsoft will continue to develop for the Mac. Meanwhile, Apple's starting to wean itself off the IV drip that is Microsoft, self-assured it has what it takes to survive.
I watched two seasons of BattleBots, and then gave up. The show just started getting too boring to hold my interest. There were some really great bots, but some battles were just lame and went nowhere. Also, I felt that they should have shown more about the building of the robots, similar to Junkyard Wars (we miss you, Cathy Rogers!)
At least it wasn't as bad as Robotica.
Oh wait, the show wasn't bad, it was the Zappa that was bad.
So, I just turned 24 last month, and I must say that the distance between 9/11/01 and 9/11/02 has been, without a doubt, the longest year in my life.
The morning of 9/11, I got out of bed and stood next to the bed (I go to work at 5am) just thinking to myself how much I didn't want to go to work that day, and how tired I was. I must have stood there for at least 5 minutes, while my girlfriend slept. I eventually caved in to my own internal arguments and went to work.
I was at work in Seattle, on the 36th floor of an office building downtown when the attacks occurred. I remember being the only person who could get a decent video stream of what was going on, and from the BBC no less. I remember laughing and joking about the attacks at first, but then things became very solemn when my boss came over and said he had friends at WTC.
I then remember leaving at about 9am PDT and then walking in the shadow of the Bank of America Tower (73-stories, which is big for this side of the country). It was an eery feeling going home so early in the day. I watched CNN the rest of the day, and then took the day off the next day to watch more.
I didn't cry about the attacks until I watched a PBS special last night called America Heroes, about two FDNY fire companies who lost a bunch of their brothers in the attacks. I lost it a couple times watching those guys talking about what happened.
I remember going to an AMD Athlon XP event at Westlake center, weeks after the attacks. It was really early in the morning, and there were about 2500 people packed into Westlake Center/Park, all there to win a motherboard/Athlon combo. We weren't there for the marketing spiel. But anyway, as we're standing there, a lone 747 flies overhead. This is a normal thing, but every head in the place was watching it. It was just strange.
I'm so glad it's a year later. It's time to move on. It's time to rebuild our lives and our way of life. It's time to change government so that things like this don't happen in the future.
I can't find a better ending, but I'm just glad that we've survived in the past year. I hope we continue to.
Actually, optical soundtracks are still used. Dolby Stereo ain't just 2-channel matrix surround sound, as it's also a modified version of Dolby A-type noise reduction, for those old optical sound tracks. Then of course, there's Dolby Digital, which puts the soundtracks at the outer edge of the film, in between the sprocket holes. So, you have these little blocks of data being read by the optical reader.
And even more to the point is that I've benchmarked my PowerBook G3/500 and after 9 hours of being asleep, it still had 97% battery charge left. Sleep is a much better solution than shutting down and rebooting.
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If they're using Outlook, they should turn off the preview pane for the inbox. That should help good deal.
I'll tell you - the IS staff at my work has (to my knowledge) done only one thing to keep the spam from flooding my inbox: denied open relays from sending email to me and the rest of our staff. Apart from that, they're doing nothing.
I have an Outlook rule that catches about 90% of my spam, but I can't save anymore server-side rules because my rule exceeds the 32K maximum Exchange Server packet size.
I read this article and seriously wondered what these people were smoking. I've had my work e-mail address for almost six years. I get over 100 spam emails a day now. Tomorrow morning when I get into work, I should have somewhere around 300 emails sitting in my spam folder. Then, I should have about 30-40 that haven't been caught by my filters.
I think the survey takers got some bad data.
Windows Media is just about the only thing I'd like to see working in Chimera. Apart from that, Chimera's a wonderful browser. I like seeing the speed difference between a PowerBook G4/500, iMac G4/800, and Dual G4/867. Chimera's wickedly fast on that PowerMac, and still quite quick on the other computers.
Thank you for linking to my page. Maybe someday I'll get /.'d, but for now I can just watch the access_log scrollin' on by. :-)
Amen.
Two people I used to do Windows support for don't call me anymore, especially since the last time I visited they had hardware problems that were out of my realm of expertise. I told them to go take their computers to someone else with more/better equipment.
Now I just deal with my own problems which, luckily, are few.
... and the only reason I do, is because I provided her a PowerMac two years ago as a X-mas present, complete with Internet access. I pre-configured it before I gave it to her, and I know exactly how everything is set up and what software needs to be updated and when.
This computer's 7 years old now (it's a PowerMac 7600), and runs OS9, but it works, and it works damn well. She hasn't complained to me about speed (it's only a 255MHz G3), and recently commented on how much she'd like a laptop and printer for work (she's an RN). My girlfriend mentioned that she has an available iBook and my mom seemed quite interested.
Yes, I'm unabashed Mac supporter, but for a reason. It worked great, for my mom, and it works great for me. I knew she was really using it when she started meeting guys online. Hoo boy.
While it's nice to be able to enable QE on these older Macs, you're probably saturating the PCI bus when you do. Sure, you've got a 66MHz PCI slot for video, but it still doesn't really compare to an AGP 2x slot and equivalent video card.
Some people who have gone the route of turning on QE on the Blue & White G3s have really screwed themselves on bandwidth for other cards, like audio I/O cards.
Here's a test for you - Get IE on the PC and Chimera (one of the nightly builds) and do side by side tests. Start loading a page at exactly the same time. My 500MHz G4 PowerBook beats my 400MHz Celeron at work. The PowerBook always loses, however, when I run Internet Explorer on OS X. IE for OS X is a dog.
It's been my experience that the more cache the system has, the better overall performance you'll get, including UI elements and I/O.
I have a year 2000 PowerBook G3, which has been upgraded to a G4. It has 1MB of backside L2 cache, running at 220MHz. The CPU runs at 500MHz.
I also have an iMac G4/800. It has 256KB of on-chip cache running at 800MHz.
My girlfriend has a Dual G4/867 "Windtunnel" PowerMac. It has 256KB of L2 cache on each CPU running at 867MHz and 1MB of DDR L3 cache (not sure at what speed the cache runs).
Side by side tests, using Chimera, show that the PowerBook is nearly as fast as the iMac, even though the iMac has a 300MHz speed advantage. The dual 867 stomps both easily, and is MUCH faster than the iMac, and way more responsive. Both the iMac and PowerMac have 512MB of RAM. The PowerBook has 384MB. My conclusion so far has been that the iMac's CPU is just starved for data. If it had a 512KB L3 or 1MB L3 cache, it'd probably be significantly faster. I can only hope Apple will do something about it in the future.
Yes, you can turn off dock animation and magnification. Right click on the little gap in the dock and choose Dock Preferences... Or just choose Dock from System Preferences.
Also, if you don't want the window drop shadows, use Window Shade X from Unsanity (www.unsanity.com) to disable them. I saw a 15% performance increase with Let1kWindowsBloom when I turned the shadows to "Subtle."
I still want, no NEED, something to disable the menu fades. I don't need it. It's as bad as menu animation in Windows. It just is there to slow me down, Quartz Extreme or not.
Yeah, I'm sure the second the shuttle leaves the top of the launchpad tower, whatever's in the cargo bay loses 20% of its value, too.
Ya know, they could've just used MPEG-4 on the Quicktime file and saved themselves a lot of bandwidth and time.
Go to VersionTracker and do a search for MouseZoom. It'll speed up both mice and trackpads far beyond the Apple defaults.
Use total cost of ownership as a reason for your school, or district, to keep purchasing Macs. Print this page out, research it, and hand it to them, if you feel the need.
I work for a company that has a lot of customers in the education space, and sells a product that works on Windows and Linux. Both products offer almost the same functionality, but the Windows version has a much smaller learning curve than the Linux version. School districts will go with the Linux version because they find out they can get Linux for next to nothing. Sure, the initial investment might be smaller, but in the long run, you're going to spend more to either a) get someone on staff who knows Linux well, or b) learn how to use Linux yourself. I'm not bashing Linux, but if you've never used it before, it might not be the best choice of platform. I hope you can see how this relates to the Mac vs. PC debate in schools.
While you're at it, go get SpamCop for Mail.app so you can report your spam, too.
NT4's max boot partition size is 2GB. This is one reason why I really dislike having to keep an NT4 server at work for testing.
He already did. Looks like he likes it, for the most part.
Interesting that Macrovision didn't screw up your VHS recording of the DVD. Or, did you happen to have a VHS deck that doesn't have Macrovision?
This thing only has a 90-day limited warranty, which is exactly what the iPod had. Now the iPod's up to a 1-yr warranty, retroactive for all original iPods (who expire in coming weeks).
The fabled G5 is the next generation chip from Motorola, Apple's current supplier of G3 and G4 chips.
Motorola only supplies G4 (PPC 74xx) chips. IBM supplies G3 (PPC 75x) chips.
Microsoft bought $150 million in none-voting stock in 1997, around the same time that Apple was on the brink of collapse (that's arguable, of course). Also, Apple agreed to make IE the default browser in the system (for five years), and Microsoft agreed to continue development of Office for the Mac for five years. That five year deal ended this year, but it looks like Microsoft will continue to develop for the Mac. Meanwhile, Apple's starting to wean itself off the IV drip that is Microsoft, self-assured it has what it takes to survive.
Just remember, if you answer a telemarketer, the terrorists win!
I watched two seasons of BattleBots, and then gave up. The show just started getting too boring to hold my interest. There were some really great bots, but some battles were just lame and went nowhere. Also, I felt that they should have shown more about the building of the robots, similar to Junkyard Wars (we miss you, Cathy Rogers!)
At least it wasn't as bad as Robotica.
Oh wait, the show wasn't bad, it was the Zappa that was bad.
So, I just turned 24 last month, and I must say that the distance between 9/11/01 and 9/11/02 has been, without a doubt, the longest year in my life.
The morning of 9/11, I got out of bed and stood next to the bed (I go to work at 5am) just thinking to myself how much I didn't want to go to work that day, and how tired I was. I must have stood there for at least 5 minutes, while my girlfriend slept. I eventually caved in to my own internal arguments and went to work.
I was at work in Seattle, on the 36th floor of an office building downtown when the attacks occurred. I remember being the only person who could get a decent video stream of what was going on, and from the BBC no less. I remember laughing and joking about the attacks at first, but then things became very solemn when my boss came over and said he had friends at WTC.
I then remember leaving at about 9am PDT and then walking in the shadow of the Bank of America Tower (73-stories, which is big for this side of the country). It was an eery feeling going home so early in the day. I watched CNN the rest of the day, and then took the day off the next day to watch more.
I didn't cry about the attacks until I watched a PBS special last night called America Heroes, about two FDNY fire companies who lost a bunch of their brothers in the attacks. I lost it a couple times watching those guys talking about what happened.
I remember going to an AMD Athlon XP event at Westlake center, weeks after the attacks. It was really early in the morning, and there were about 2500 people packed into Westlake Center/Park, all there to win a motherboard/Athlon combo. We weren't there for the marketing spiel. But anyway, as we're standing there, a lone 747 flies overhead. This is a normal thing, but every head in the place was watching it. It was just strange.
I'm so glad it's a year later. It's time to move on. It's time to rebuild our lives and our way of life. It's time to change government so that things like this don't happen in the future.
I can't find a better ending, but I'm just glad that we've survived in the past year. I hope we continue to.
Actually, optical soundtracks are still used. Dolby Stereo ain't just 2-channel matrix surround sound, as it's also a modified version of Dolby A-type noise reduction, for those old optical sound tracks. Then of course, there's Dolby Digital, which puts the soundtracks at the outer edge of the film, in between the sprocket holes. So, you have these little blocks of data being read by the optical reader.
And even more to the point is that I've benchmarked my PowerBook G3/500 and after 9 hours of being asleep, it still had 97% battery charge left. Sleep is a much better solution than shutting down and rebooting.