They used some sort of 5V DIMM memory. Ultra 5 memory is plug-compatible with the RAM used by old PowerMacs, but simply doesn't work in a PowerMac. I know because I bought some once, and ended up selling it for the same price to a hardcore Sun fan I knew.
Really, any 5V DIMM can be considered "proprietary memory", since the PC market didn't start using it until 3.3V RAM became the standard.
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You can buy a replacement chip (it's CMOS RAM, not a PROM, by the way) and use Open Firmware commands to reload the replacement. Or you can just live with reloading it every time you cycle power and leave it on a UPS to minimize power cycling.
Whatever happened to those two magic words, "sponsored by". What's so wrong with just getting your company's name up there, saying you paid to make this program possible, without blasting cheezy animations and audio at the viewer? It works pretty well for PBS. Why do the advertising flacks think that annoyance is required for advertising to work?
And why do we need "YOUR COMPUTER IS BROADCASTING ITS IP ADDRESS" or "YOU HAVE ALREADY WON" or other similar forms of deceptive advertisers to pay for internet content anyhow?
No. First of all, why do you think we went to the moon? Just because we could? Wrong. We went because space was the next frontier of the Cold War.
We went into orbit because we didn't want the Russians to be the only ones up there, free to put up orbiting nuclear launch platforms. We went to the moon because we didn't want to lose prestige if the Russians got there first. (And possibly there was some worry about the Russians setting up a base with nuclear missiles up there too. Except they never got a man on the moon anyhow.)
Once we had gotten there, nobody cared. Apollo 13 would have been the third landing, and the media had already lost interest in space launches by then.
Oh yeah, I'd just love to have my applications moved to the desktop when I drag them out of the dock.
My own personal gripe about the dock is when you drag something to the trash. The "add a document to the dock" behavior has priority over the "throw a document in the trash" behavior. What that means is when you try to drag a document to the trash, the trash icon moves away from your cursor! I would be surprised if Tog hasn't griped about this particular bit of stupidity, but I can't check right now because the site is slashdotted.
My second biggest gripe is when you're trying to drag a dozen documents to an application's icon in the dock, and you miss it by hitting the area between the icon and the edge of the screen. (see Fitts' Law) Suddenly you've got a dozen documents in the dock, and you have to remove them one by one. Now try it with 50 documents.
That didn't work for me. I recall that it used to work back in 10.0, but they disabled that option, probably because Steve threw a hissy fit that someone didn't like his idea of perfection.:-)
At least we can officially put it on the sides of the screen now.
Anyone with 50 gallons of Legos should apply anyhow. Especially if you have any talent in 3D scuplting (since the big stuff esentially uses regular bricks as voxels).
The stuff these people do is mind-boggling.
The stuff these people do is possible because they get paid to do this for a living. Full-time.
At work, there was a bit of a problem with wardailing junk faxers about a year or two ago. What happened was the company upgraded its phone system to one which could automatically detect an incoming fax on your desk phone number, stick it in your voice mailbox, and let you redirect it to a fax machine or e-mail from voicemail. Oh, and the phone system was set up so that each desk got a real phone number, not an extension.
Kinda nice for sales types who are always on the road. Which would be great, except we were developers, who hardly ever even used fax at all. If we were lucky, the phone would ring, we would pick it up and, like, "beep beep beep" (thank you Ellen Feiss). The unlucky wouldn't be at their desk, it would get stored in voicemail, and their number would get registered as a "live fish", to be dialed again.
2 hours figuring out the reason the left speaker didn't work was because she'd slammed "balance" over to the right.
More than once, I've had this happen on my previous Powerbook. I think there's a bug somewhere that can goof up the balance setting every now and than.
And cats will LOVE nesting in them while you're at work because they're always warm.
I have an Apple LW 630. There's a mouse loose in the area (thanks to the cat for bringing it in live to play with) and more than once it has nested in the (powered off) paper tray. Seems there's a hole in the back of the paper tray where the mouse could get in when the paper tray was nearly empty. Apparently when I turned on the printer, I scared the mouse, so I got a nice yellow stain on the top three or four sheets. That happened two or three times before I figured it out and stuck something in the hole.
My first video game system was an RCA Studio II, which was esentially the COSMAC ELF chipset turned into a cartridge-based video game unit. I still have yet to hack one of those things. (The Colecovision is too much fun with a deluxe Z-80 in-circuit emulator handy.)
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It is truly sad that modern PCs don't ship with a compiler.
There was a place I helped keep their computer running back in the '80s that used a TRS-80 Model II running CP/M 2.3 on a 5 megabyte hard drive. It had four partitions!
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Ever hear of the Ohio Scientific Challenger C3D? Z-80, 6809, and 6502, all in one big box (maybe 8U rack space in a five-foot high case). Except I'm pretty sure you couldn't use more than one at a time, so it wasn't really all that good of an idea. It was sort of like dual-booting is today. Okay for a desktop, but not a server.
And the reason NUL-less shellcode is even possible under OS X is that it ignores the middle two bytes of system call instructions. (The high byte is the system call instruction, and the low byte is used for the system call number.)
Way to go, Apple. (Actually, this probably dates back to NeXT.)
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Really, any 5V DIMM can be considered "proprietary memory", since the PC market didn't start using it until 3.3V RAM became the standard.
You can buy a replacement chip (it's CMOS RAM, not a PROM, by the way) and use Open Firmware commands to reload the replacement. Or you can just live with reloading it every time you cycle power and leave it on a UPS to minimize power cycling.
And why do we need "YOUR COMPUTER IS BROADCASTING ITS IP ADDRESS" or "YOU HAVE ALREADY WON" or other similar forms of deceptive advertisers to pay for internet content anyhow?
No. First of all, why do you think we went to the moon? Just because we could? Wrong. We went because space was the next frontier of the Cold War.
We went into orbit because we didn't want the Russians to be the only ones up there, free to put up orbiting nuclear launch platforms. We went to the moon because we didn't want to lose prestige if the Russians got there first. (And possibly there was some worry about the Russians setting up a base with nuclear missiles up there too. Except they never got a man on the moon anyhow.)
Once we had gotten there, nobody cared. Apollo 13 would have been the third landing, and the media had already lost interest in space launches by then.
Finally, a trash can that won't wriggle out of the way every time I try to throw something away!
My own personal gripe about the dock is when you drag something to the trash. The "add a document to the dock" behavior has priority over the "throw a document in the trash" behavior. What that means is when you try to drag a document to the trash, the trash icon moves away from your cursor! I would be surprised if Tog hasn't griped about this particular bit of stupidity, but I can't check right now because the site is slashdotted.
My second biggest gripe is when you're trying to drag a dozen documents to an application's icon in the dock, and you miss it by hitting the area between the icon and the edge of the screen. (see Fitts' Law) Suddenly you've got a dozen documents in the dock, and you have to remove them one by one. Now try it with 50 documents.
That didn't work for me. I recall that it used to work back in 10.0, but they disabled that option, probably because Steve threw a hissy fit that someone didn't like his idea of perfection. :-)
At least we can officially put it on the sides of the screen now.
Not entirely true. They came out with the Etch-a-Sketch 2000, which had an LCD screen with like 30x40 2mm pixels and a cartridge slot.
The stuff these people do is mind-boggling.
The stuff these people do is possible because they get paid to do this for a living. Full-time.
Kinda nice for sales types who are always on the road. Which would be great, except we were developers, who hardly ever even used fax at all. If we were lucky, the phone would ring, we would pick it up and, like, "beep beep beep" (thank you Ellen Feiss). The unlucky wouldn't be at their desk, it would get stored in voicemail, and their number would get registered as a "live fish", to be dialed again.
More than once, I've had this happen on my previous Powerbook. I think there's a bug somewhere that can goof up the balance setting every now and than.
I'm waiting for the sport edition with chrome wheels, tail wing, and Type-R stickers.
They're certainly getting a load test on their Real Media server now.
"Keyboard missing: press any key to continue"
I hope I have soiled many keyboards with that one.
I have an Apple LW 630. There's a mouse loose in the area (thanks to the cat for bringing it in live to play with) and more than once it has nested in the (powered off) paper tray. Seems there's a hole in the back of the paper tray where the mouse could get in when the paper tray was nearly empty. Apparently when I turned on the printer, I scared the mouse, so I got a nice yellow stain on the top three or four sheets. That happened two or three times before I figured it out and stuck something in the hole.
My first video game system was an RCA Studio II, which was esentially the COSMAC ELF chipset turned into a cartridge-based video game unit. I still have yet to hack one of those things. (The Colecovision is too much fun with a deluxe Z-80 in-circuit emulator handy.)
Some do.
There was a place I helped keep their computer running back in the '80s that used a TRS-80 Model II running CP/M 2.3 on a 5 megabyte hard drive. It had four partitions!
Ever hear of the Ohio Scientific Challenger C3D? Z-80, 6809, and 6502, all in one big box (maybe 8U rack space in a five-foot high case). Except I'm pretty sure you couldn't use more than one at a time, so it wasn't really all that good of an idea. It was sort of like dual-booting is today. Okay for a desktop, but not a server.
But OS/2 was made for PPC, right? So where's that one? And what about AIX? That even booted on some versions of PowerMac hardware.
No. Unless your definition of "remotely exploitable" includes the words "already has a shell account on the system". My definition doesn't.
Way to go, Apple. (Actually, this probably dates back to NeXT.)
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