Back in the early days of CD-Rs, people always said "Get the gold-bottom discs! Those are the best!" (It never helps that they're called Gold Masters... yes, we all know the difference but some do not). It also used to be true that TDK produced some of the "best" CD-Rs, which were that blue-green color.
However, for the past 7-8 years, afaik, there is little to no difference in CD-Rs... they're all made as cheaply as possible. In some cases you may find that the thickness of the disc is causing problems -- original CDs and CD-Rs were a bit thicker than they are now. Again, this is a cost-cutting measure.
Personally, I don't trust modern CD-Rs for longer than 6 months.
Parent to you is correct -- backspaces goes BACK ONE IN HISTORY. It just so happens that, when digging through levels, the previous spot in history is also the 'up one level' directory.
I don't know specifically about this case, but part of the Made for iPod program is to guarantee that the product will, in fact, function for the iPod.
Back before this program, a friend of mine bought one of those speaker-dock combo units. Plugged in his 4G iPod, and the speaker-dock thing cooked the battery.
In theory, being Made for iPod should certify compatibility in future Apple devices using this; you don't really think they're just going to keep this on the shuffle, do you?
With MacPorts you can provide a keyword before installing to see what options an install might have.
So for instance, for apache2 you might type: port install apache2
to install. Before doing this, try: port variants apache2
This should produce a list. Hopefully X11 is in there (I can't verify right now). Anyway, find any options you want to enable or disable, and reform your install to look like this: port install apache2 +enable_option -disable_option
This will usually let you strip away a goofy dep like X11 from programs that don't really need it.
Here's the secret: UAC has nothing to do with protecting users. Instead, it exists (at least in Vista) to reveal old programming problems lazy developers often made (such as writing within Program Files).
Of course the argument can be made that MS should've locked down Program Files from the beginning, but that's another discussion.
Thank you for one thing in particular -- pointing out the truth about old Mr. Bird and his KKK time. It seems people have short memories, and many have forgotten, or chosen to forget, this detail.
(on the other hand, now that the OMAP/x86 hybrid have appear on PC, you can bet that Apple will be quick to improve their ARM verions of OSX for similar and much better integrated hybrids)
Perhaps this will occur due to Apple's purchase of PA Semi a few months back... Next MacBook with 'Instant-On' powered by an Apple ARM11 core?
Apparently you missed the part where I said I understand their differentiation goals. Yes, I am well aware that I can drop $3,000 on a laptop and get (1) a still-shitty TN screen and (2) one of those lovely GeForce 8600 chips that fail in batches. Whoopee.
The fun thing is Apple fanboys, when challenge, ignore/contest the quality reduction of using a 6-bit panel.
While I don't consider myself a fanboy, I do love my MacBook. That said, I agree with you completely, and absolutely hate the cool-temp TN in this thing. It really takes away from what is otherwise a great machine. I understand Apple's obsession with product differentiation, but come on -- is there really such a need for them to use such cheap-ass parts? Is it all their name that sells the computers still?
As I said, I love this MacBook but I would be over-the-top about it if it had a quality screen and even a mediocre graphics chipset.
The obvious answer is he knows something you do not. I mean, the guy's been intimately involved with OpenGL since the beginning; he can probably evaluate the hardware better than most.
Seconded on the size issue. I was very curious about this, what with everyone claiming 7z blows rar away, but I'm finding that 7z files end up roughly 0.5% larger. Is this a HUGE difference? Certainly not. But it also is not 7z being better than rar.
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Back in the early days of CD-Rs, people always said "Get the gold-bottom discs! Those are the best!" (It never helps that they're called Gold Masters... yes, we all know the difference but some do not). It also used to be true that TDK produced some of the "best" CD-Rs, which were that blue-green color.
However, for the past 7-8 years, afaik, there is little to no difference in CD-Rs... they're all made as cheaply as possible. In some cases you may find that the thickness of the disc is causing problems -- original CDs and CD-Rs were a bit thicker than they are now. Again, this is a cost-cutting measure.
Personally, I don't trust modern CD-Rs for longer than 6 months.
Parent to you is correct -- backspaces goes BACK ONE IN HISTORY. It just so happens that, when digging through levels, the previous spot in history is also the 'up one level' directory.
"Man, this 486/66 runs Doom so smoothly compared to my 33..."
Yeah, I feel old too.
I don't know specifically about this case, but part of the Made for iPod program is to guarantee that the product will, in fact, function for the iPod.
Back before this program, a friend of mine bought one of those speaker-dock combo units. Plugged in his 4G iPod, and the speaker-dock thing cooked the battery.
In theory, being Made for iPod should certify compatibility in future Apple devices using this; you don't really think they're just going to keep this on the shuffle, do you?
Perhaps most important...
*EVERY* time after the release, it's a simple 'strings' search on the itunes binary to find the URL used to snag all touch firmware.
I tried a slightly different tack... with each screw I removed, I taped it back in.
So with the bottom case, just tape each screw into its respective spot. Same with top shield, bottom shield, etc. I never lost a screw this way.
However, I did not figure out that trick right away, and had already lost 3 screws when switching out the crappy 30G drive. (G3-700 iBook).
With MacPorts you can provide a keyword before installing to see what options an install might have.
So for instance, for apache2 you might type:
port install apache2
to install. Before doing this, try:
port variants apache2
This should produce a list. Hopefully X11 is in there (I can't verify right now). Anyway, find any options you want to enable or disable, and reform your install to look like this:
port install apache2 +enable_option -disable_option
This will usually let you strip away a goofy dep like X11 from programs that don't really need it.
Here's the secret: UAC has nothing to do with protecting users. Instead, it exists (at least in Vista) to reveal old programming problems lazy developers often made (such as writing within Program Files).
Of course the argument can be made that MS should've locked down Program Files from the beginning, but that's another discussion.
Thank you for one thing in particular -- pointing out the truth about old Mr. Bird and his KKK time. It seems people have short memories, and many have forgotten, or chosen to forget, this detail.
And I bet that guy never tried to cut in line again... problem solved!
Rick Astley?
I was thinking "whore" with a thick, New Jersey accent. See also The Sopranos.
Honestly I had not, until today. For some reason they seem to have held off on airing ads until the device is shipped; no early promo stuff.
Not dull to me-- they're apparently killing off FireWire in the MacBook!
(on the other hand, now that the OMAP/x86 hybrid have appear on PC, you can bet that Apple will be quick to improve their ARM verions of OSX for similar and much better integrated hybrids)
Perhaps this will occur due to Apple's purchase of PA Semi a few months back...
Next MacBook with 'Instant-On' powered by an Apple ARM11 core?
Perhaps d3ac0n meant an iBook for dear old Grandma?
Apparently you missed the part where I said I understand their differentiation goals. Yes, I am well aware that I can drop $3,000 on a laptop and get (1) a still-shitty TN screen and (2) one of those lovely GeForce 8600 chips that fail in batches. Whoopee.
right up until your skype or vonage sessions are interperted as too much bandwidth.
Jesus, that's a hell of a Vonage line!
Seriously though, as someone further down mentioned about Skype, Vonage isn't more than 30Kbps.
However, I can see the tinfoil hat argument you are potentially making too.
The fun thing is Apple fanboys, when challenge, ignore/contest the quality reduction of using a 6-bit panel.
While I don't consider myself a fanboy, I do love my MacBook. That said, I agree with you completely, and absolutely hate the cool-temp TN in this thing. It really takes away from what is otherwise a great machine. I understand Apple's obsession with product differentiation, but come on -- is there really such a need for them to use such cheap-ass parts? Is it all their name that sells the computers still?
As I said, I love this MacBook but I would be over-the-top about it if it had a quality screen and even a mediocre graphics chipset.
The first rule of USENET is you do not speak of USENET. :-)
Wrong -- For many, WinRAR gets better compression than 7zip, and 7zip cannot create RARs.
+5 Snatch quote. Beautiful!
The obvious answer is he knows something you do not. I mean, the guy's been intimately involved with OpenGL since the beginning; he can probably evaluate the hardware better than most.
Seconded on the size issue. I was very curious about this, what with everyone claiming 7z blows rar away, but I'm finding that 7z files end up roughly 0.5% larger. Is this a HUGE difference? Certainly not. But it also is not 7z being better than rar.
Maybe it's just me, but the latest release is damned fast too.