Just nit-picking here, the Mac II line was identified by "II" (two upper-case i's), not by "//". For reference: Macintosh IIci Macintosh II Macintosh IIvx (same case as Perfoma 600)
OS X won't install on any machine that did not ship with USB. There are ways around this, but the only machines that it would help have a way to get USB. (Powerbook G3 has PCMCIA, Powermac G3 DT/MT (233/266 MHz) have PCI)
I counted eleven mice on the apple store that have at least two buttons and a wheel (including the MS "S+arck" mouse). They also list a handful of tablets and trackballs, etc. The cheapest mouse listed is $15. Thank you come again!
yes, yes, and no many older motherboards and laptops do not support booting from usb, and of those that do some only support booting from usb floppies. most new motherboards support booting from usb drives (usb hd as well as most flash drives) and floppies.
Really? I assume you are referring to this: http://slashdot.org/palm/ I see where it says "AD:" but I have never seen anything after it, not on my phone browser, not on Mozilla.
Supposedly you can install NT4 on certain Apple powermacs, and conversely supposedly you can install a certain version (8.1?) on certain RS6K machines. This was on MOSR a while back I believe.
On a lot of stock systems the offending line in mime.types is: audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin rpm and should be: application/x-rpm rpm I have not come across any realmedia files with the.rpm extension in the wild.
I'm actually researching replacing a 7disk*9gig scsi RAID5 (LVM) with a 4*160gig SATA RAID5, which would be about $500 (approx $1/gig total) so on the level with the big disk but this would be in a rackmount case hooked up to a server with PCI instead of FW800. It's about 1/5th the cost of the xserve raid but not nearly as flexible:
No expandability beyond the 4 ports on the card
Not abstracted from the host machine
No redundant PSU (you could get redundant ATX PSUs for $200+)
No redundant controllers
No support for the package as a whole from any one source
Etc...
It's a different solution for different people. If you need reliability and performance and uptime, you get an xserve raid. If you need "good enough", you build one yourself. Same thing as getting a cheap dsl/cable router for $20 that "does the job", rather than getting a $$$ name brand router like a cisco or something, and a support contract, etc. One will do the job most of the time, but when you absolutely gotta have the performance and reliability, if your job depends on it like the video editors you mentioned in your original post, the extra $4k for the xserve raid starts looking pretty good.
I don't think the fibre channel controller is that much of the cost. Pricewatch lists FC PCI cards for ~$105. Probably the same cost as FW800,ethernet, and the related embedded controller those would require. The entry level xserve raid is $5k for 1TB (4*250G), I don't think that price would be cut too much by merely taking out half the drive bays. Possibly some would be cut by taking out the redundant PSU and raid controller, but probably not more than a couple hundred. PSUs are cheap, and full raid5 SATA 4-channel PCI controllers retail for a couple hundred, certainly less in OEM quantities for just the chipset. If all you really want cheap bulk storage, what you probably want is the Lacie Bigger Disk, 1.6T for $2.2k, FW800. Add on a cheap linux box with gigE and FW800 for $300 or so, and you have your NAS with more storage than the xserve raid, more connectivity for half the price. But I wouldn't put it against the xserve raid for reliability or performance any day.
what I'd love to see is an Xraid mini as it were. something with much of the managability of the full size xraid, but not as much redundancy. so perhaps a nice desktop case (to match the g5 *of course*:) that could take 4 or 5 sata disks in hot swap caddies (maybe the same caddies as in the xraid) with a hardware raid controller on board for striping, mirroring and raid 5. a single gig ethernet on the back and then fw400 and 800 ports.
Basically you want an xserve raid with ethernet then in a stylin case.. Something like this? Doesn't have ethernet but you can do whatever raid level you want on it.
Windows is a little weird (a network printer that's not attached to a computer is considered "local" when adding a printer. Huh?).
This is actually pretty easy to understand. When you setup a LPD or CUPS printer, it makes a virtual port (like TCP0:) or something. Same as a local usb (USB0:) or parport (PAR0: or somesuch). A "network" printer means SMB printer sharing, so no virtual port, but you can make it emulate a local parport for compatibility.
It's almost the same for me except backwards, I have gotten about 2-4MB/sec with PSCP, and around 200kB/sec with PSFTP WinSCP2 is somewhere in the middle with 1-2MB/sec This is with all the default settings on a athlonxp 1700 talking to a p4 1.8G linux box. I have not tried the SCP under cygwin enough to really compare it.
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Just nit-picking here, the Mac II line was identified by "II" (two upper-case i's), not by "//".
For reference: Macintosh IIci
Macintosh II
Macintosh IIvx (same case as Perfoma 600)
OS X won't install on any machine that did not ship with USB.
There are ways around this, but the only machines that it would help have a way to get USB. (Powerbook G3 has PCMCIA, Powermac G3 DT/MT (233/266 MHz) have PCI)
I hear it's going to be bundled with iLife '06
I counted eleven mice on the apple store that have at least two buttons and a wheel (including the MS "S+arck" mouse). They also list a handful of tablets and trackballs, etc.
The cheapest mouse listed is $15.
Thank you come again!
yes, yes, and no
many older motherboards and laptops do not support booting from usb, and of those that do some only support booting from usb floppies.
most new motherboards support booting from usb drives (usb hd as well as most flash drives) and floppies.
Lets try that again.. php?t=1962
Supposedly there is in existance a quadraphonic mix of "Sgt Pepper"
http://www.quadraphonicquad.com/forums/showthread
Supposedly there is in existance a quadraphoic mix of "Sgt Pepper".
Really?
I assume you are referring to this: http://slashdot.org/palm/
I see where it says "AD:" but I have never seen anything after it, not on my phone browser, not on Mozilla.
Supposedly you can install NT4 on certain Apple powermacs, and conversely supposedly you can install a certain version (8.1?) on certain RS6K machines.
This was on MOSR a while back I believe.
It was a motorola dragonball processor, a derivative of the 68k
<other-larpers.mpeg>
LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT!
</other-larpers>
Care to back that up? Even on a system with IE 4.0 (win95 or nt4) IE6 (with SP1) was 25M
On a lot of stock systems the offending line in mime.types is: .rpm extension in the wild.
audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin rpm
and should be:
application/x-rpm rpm
I have not come across any realmedia files with the
It's about 1/5th the cost of the xserve raid but not nearly as flexible:
It's a different solution for different people. If you need reliability and performance and uptime, you get an xserve raid. If you need "good enough", you build one yourself. Same thing as getting a cheap dsl/cable router for $20 that "does the job", rather than getting a $$$ name brand router like a cisco or something, and a support contract, etc.
One will do the job most of the time, but when you absolutely gotta have the performance and reliability, if your job depends on it like the video editors you mentioned in your original post, the extra $4k for the xserve raid starts looking pretty good.
I don't think the fibre channel controller is that much of the cost. Pricewatch lists FC PCI cards for ~$105. Probably the same cost as FW800,ethernet, and the related embedded controller those would require. The entry level xserve raid is $5k for 1TB (4*250G), I don't think that price would be cut too much by merely taking out half the drive bays. Possibly some would be cut by taking out the redundant PSU and raid controller, but probably not more than a couple hundred. PSUs are cheap, and full raid5 SATA 4-channel PCI controllers retail for a couple hundred, certainly less in OEM quantities for just the chipset.
If all you really want cheap bulk storage, what you probably want is the Lacie Bigger Disk, 1.6T for $2.2k, FW800. Add on a cheap linux box with gigE and FW800 for $300 or so, and you have your NAS with more storage than the xserve raid, more connectivity for half the price. But I wouldn't put it against the xserve raid for reliability or performance any day.
Basically you want an xserve raid with ethernet then in a stylin case..
Something like this?
Doesn't have ethernet but you can do whatever raid level you want on it.
theres a better way. change the url from it.slashdot.org to just slashdot.org5 1213 turns into/ 1751213
or whatever.
example:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/29/17
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/29
Looks kinda like a reverse VLB. I bet it's fun to support these things.
This is actually pretty easy to understand. When you setup a LPD or CUPS printer, it makes a virtual port (like TCP0:) or something. Same as a local usb (USB0:) or parport (PAR0: or somesuch).
A "network" printer means SMB printer sharing, so no virtual port, but you can make it emulate a local parport for compatibility.
A quick calculation yields 25 MPH (138 miles using 5.5 gallons)
Not bad.
Yup.
It's not just the UART thats missing, its the DSP.
A winmodem is basically just a DAC and an ADC.
A real modem is the same, plus a DSP, plus a UART
It's almost the same for me except backwards, I have gotten about 2-4MB/sec with PSCP, and around 200kB/sec with PSFTP
WinSCP2 is somewhere in the middle with 1-2MB/sec
This is with all the default settings on a athlonxp 1700 talking to a p4 1.8G linux box.
I have not tried the SCP under cygwin enough to really compare it.
I believe worldwide in terms of total # of units shipped, the gamecube was ahead of both the ps2 and xbox.
~threephaseboy (too lazy to get links to back this up)
Probably 4200. Only the newer large cap (>60gig) drives are 5400.
Might be a better idea to stick with w2k or such.