Apparently they do, I was unaware of that (and it was semi-difficult to track down on google, at that). That does present an obstacle.
As far as I know, there's no such thing as a "do it yourself" Apple kit. Such a thing would be fairly silly. The customer base would be restricted to those that could buy and assemble components separately anyway.
In any case, the memory controller is an inconvenience, not a complete barrier. One important question is whether the differences are visible to applications. If you can change the controller while maintaning binary compatability (I'd be surprised if you couldn't), only Darwin would need to be modified (and I'd expect it already HAS been).
Also, if there were actual demand, the controller could be reverse-engineered and a compatible one developed (and this is assuming that the reverse engineering is necissary; has Apple documented the thing anywhere?).
In short: Yeah, oops, didn't know that. Not a 100% barrier, though, just makes it more difficult than I thought it was.;)
Their hardware is an open standard *NOW*. You can buy off-the-shelf parts from multiple vendors and assemble a system capable of running MacOS unmodified. The only catch is that the MacOS license explicitly forbids running of MacOS on non-Apple-supplied hardware. That's not a closed standard, it's saying "If you want this OS, you have to buy our hardware". As Apple is not a monopoly, I really couldn't care less. If Apple were to do something I *really* didn't like, I'd have somewhere else to go with a minimum of hassle.
Furthermore (IANAL), that license claus isn't really enforcable on an individual, provided you weren't using the same license on multiple systems. Basically the only thing it does is prevent manufacturers from selling hardware with MacOS installed; an individual could move an existing license off their iMac and on to some high-end PowerPC system.
In that case, I have to ask what on earth are you doing using the tools already present on a potentially compromised system to determine if the system was compromised?! You may as well hang up your sysadmin gloves now if you do that.
If you'd read the first two lines of text on that page, you'd know exactly what it does.
"Type Ahead Find is a new feature introduced in Mozilla 1.2. It allows the user, by merely typing in the open window, to automatically search for links (or, even non-linked text) containing the typed text. This Emacs-style search allows the user to search without use of the mouse or difficult-to-remember key combinations."
16 year old serious fan of Bon Jovi here. Flipped past VH-1 right before Crush was released in 2000 and landed on the It's My Life video. I about had a heart attack, somebody was playing actual rock. And it had made it onto the current music video stations.
I fall into the slightly unusual catagory, though. I'm a 16 year old male from the U.S.. There's a larger selection of younger fans outside the U.S..
THEM. Never heard of THEM... Jon has been trying to gently drill this into the heads of the media for 20 years. Jon Bon Jovi is distinct from Bon Jovi.
The band was called Bon Jovi to capitalize on the publicity John Bongiovi got when Runaway hit the airwaves in 83. The spelling was modified at the record company's "suggestion" to reduce its ethnicity.
Bon Jovi is a band. By 'coincidence', as it were, their frontman's stage name is Jon Bon Jovi.
NT isn't a Unix because it lacks a variety of very unix-y things. Stuff like BSD sockets, 'sh', an X implimentation, unix-like filesystem, unix-like permissions, and the visible filesystem layout is a nightmare (not that I'm a huge fan of unix-y layouts, but they're a darn sight better than Microsoft's layouts). It lacks a lot of unix-y libc stuff in a familier format (fork() comes immiediatly to mind, as I recently used it in some code I sent somebody running Win2k and had them come back to me saying "wtf do I do now?" and I wound up sending them cygwin to install rather than learning any of the win32 api; luckily this wasn't performance critical and I wasn't being paid for it).
The fact that the kernel seems to be a bizzaire mess is not, in my mind, what prevents NT from being a "Unix". Sit me down infront of a system where everything is in the kernel and runs as one big 'file' and I'll call it a Unix if it does what a Unix is supposed to do and does it well. I'll say the programmers need to have their heads extracted by a qualified proctologist and subsequently beat with a sendmail manual, but I'll call it a Unix.
I've been using it on XP for a while, no complaints really.
It's a little on the slow side, but just about everything using cygwin is, it's hard to avoid.
As somebody else mentioned, there's some quirks with KDE, but I've been exporting my KDE sessions on my laptop out to it on my desktop occasionaly with no major problems*.
*Until last night that is. Seems KDE 3.0.2 threw a major quirk in. None of the icons are showing up. Ah well, I'll work it out later.
I know a few people that use Dvorak layouts. They now type slower on qwerty keyboards, but not painfully slow. One word: Bicycle.
Most gamers remap their keys anyway. And if the game doesn't support remapping, it should be shoved down the developers throat, preferably coated in cyanide.
And, lastly, you probably don't type as much or as long as some of us, nor do you likely do much coding. Spend a day coding in C or a similar language with plenty of braces, parenthesis, and other punctuation that on a QWERTY keyboard requires heavy usage of the shift keys*. I should start measuring my keystrokes. I output a huge amount on a daily basis. I'm rapidly developing carpal tunnel, and I NEED to switch to a new keyboard layout soon. My hands will get numb after sufficient time (two or three hours of high-output typing will usualy do it) and I will sometimes need to take ibuprofen for pain the day after an esspecialy heavy day of typing.
*I also have an additional problem. Contrary to the "proper" way, I *always* use my right-shift key. Needless to say, this adds strain to my right hand, esspecialy my pinky. I also do not neccisarily type a key with the "recommended" finger on the "recommended" hand, I type in a way that is fastest for me individualy, but on QWERTY it is, unfortunitely, rather straining.
I was on AT@Home for a year and a half before moving (which happened to be right before @Home died). At one time I could grab 5mbit/sec and sometimes a little more... those were the days...
By the time I moved, I was still getting up to 3mbit/sec. Now I'm on 512kbit fixed wireless at twice the cost, ouch.
I find myself trying to look over hills, around corners, etc. in Everquest and FPS's all the time.
The only time I've ever had a motion sickness problem was in Quake2 after a round of heavy tweaking of settings. I'd left my framerate unlimited, and started getting sick. Set it back to 43fps and all was good.
'scuse me? I'm using, as I type this, JVC 900Mhz Wireless Headphones. Right this moment, Bon Jovi's "Wild In The Streets" is blasting over them.
I get mild interferance (that I can fine-tune out usualy) from our 900Mhz cordless phone when it's in use, that's about it. There's a couple spots in the house that I get some odd interferance that will clear up just by moving my head, I've been unable to pinpoint what it is, but it doesn't really affect me.
These things are not IR, they go through walls, I can walk clear out to our mailbox and still have a signal. Mind you, this is going through a combination of several wooden and concrete walls.
I see no reason that this "won't work".
Certainly the sound quality isn't exactly recording-studio-standards, but it's more than enough for any consumer application. And it's far better than what you're going to pull out of an FM *radio*.
I'm male, but it's pretty much exactly this view that I've been trying to fight since I was 12. And it's getting very irritating.
I'm now 16. I was first exposed to Linux in late 1996, and I've since used a number of *nix-ish systems (*BSD, a little SunOS and Solaris, I've touched HP-UX but never had much chance to play with it.)
I've been of the skill level since I was 12-13 that I could sit down infront of just about any system and figure out how to accomplish SOMETHING, esspecialy if it were UNIX.
I'm quite certain I could have, at 12, sat down infront of a multi-billion dollar dinosaur complex (if such a thing existed) and, barring active password protection etc. on the system, figure out how to lock the damned door.
I'm really getting tired of fighting the impression everyone seems to have that "kids" don't know this stuff.
I think this is a good sign. It shows that Red Hat thinks there's enough of an installed base of Linux servers and desktops that there's room for some direct competition between major distributions.
Though I do think a rebate for previous users of Windows might have been a good idea.
(Personaly, I'm not fond of Red Hat, but I'm not fond of Mandrake or SuSE either.)
Looks like the runaway moderators have struck again, this time on two posts, interesting.
The fact that these groups gained power under Clinton isn't really relevant. They didn't REALLY start trying to flex their muscles until Bush was in office. They didn't really *do* anything that might get some sort of prosecutorial action brought against them under Clinton's administration. My argument is that now, with the DOJ etc. under conservative control, they're feeling quite free to pull this crap, whereas before, it might have gotten them a nice little federal inquiry.
Welcome to hell, ergo98. It's time for a reality check.
1) The U.S. government is currently controlled by decidedly conservative people with big-business connections. These people are not inclined to prosecute the BSA.
2) It costs lots of money and lots of time to sue an organization composed of some of the largest software companies in the world. You will run out of money and die long before you become even a tiny irritation to them.
Northgate Omnikey keyboards are still avalible. Last time I looked they're going for $289ish.
I've got an Omnikey/101 from the 80's. I love this thing. Perfect tactile response, I actually type noticebly faster on this thing than on a keyboard that has the EXACT same layout, key height, etc. but not the same tactile response.
I even tried an old IBM keyboard recently. The tactile response was just slightly different, threw me off completely.
(God I hate those softkey rubber things. You have any idea how hard it is to CLEAN those things without tearing off the rubber "springs" ?)
Stack reliability, as someone else mentioned, on top of power and speed savings.
Personaly I seriously doubt that all or even close to all of the stuff google stores is stored in DRAM, it's more likely they'd keep newer data and high-access data in DRAM, and older stuff gets archived to disk, avalible for recall later, but slower.
Win2k and XP both have no problem with letting you create additional primaries, or for that matter any configuration of partitions that the OS can understand. NT4 may or may not, I don't know.
Is 15W standard? The power supply for my laptop is 60W, is most of that just so it can recharge the battery faster? Seems like a 60W power supply is a waste for a 15W unit.
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It doesn't work with Firebird on my systems. I wouldn't expect it to, either -- gecko is gecko.
Apparently they do, I was unaware of that (and it was semi-difficult to track down on google, at that). That does present an obstacle.
;)
As far as I know, there's no such thing as a "do it yourself" Apple kit. Such a thing would be fairly silly. The customer base would be restricted to those that could buy and assemble components separately anyway.
In any case, the memory controller is an inconvenience, not a complete barrier. One important question is whether the differences are visible to applications. If you can change the controller while maintaning binary compatability (I'd be surprised if you couldn't), only Darwin would need to be modified (and I'd expect it already HAS been).
Also, if there were actual demand, the controller could be reverse-engineered and a compatible one developed (and this is assuming that the reverse engineering is necissary; has Apple documented the thing anywhere?).
In short: Yeah, oops, didn't know that. Not a 100% barrier, though, just makes it more difficult than I thought it was.
Their hardware is an open standard *NOW*. You can buy off-the-shelf parts from multiple vendors and assemble a system capable of running MacOS unmodified. The only catch is that the MacOS license explicitly forbids running of MacOS on non-Apple-supplied hardware. That's not a closed standard, it's saying "If you want this OS, you have to buy our hardware". As Apple is not a monopoly, I really couldn't care less. If Apple were to do something I *really* didn't like, I'd have somewhere else to go with a minimum of hassle.
Furthermore (IANAL), that license claus isn't really enforcable on an individual, provided you weren't using the same license on multiple systems. Basically the only thing it does is prevent manufacturers from selling hardware with MacOS installed; an individual could move an existing license off their iMac and on to some high-end PowerPC system.
In that case, I have to ask what on earth are you doing using the tools already present on a potentially compromised system to determine if the system was compromised?! You may as well hang up your sysadmin gloves now if you do that.
If you'd read the first two lines of text on that page, you'd know exactly what it does.
"Type Ahead Find is a new feature introduced in Mozilla 1.2. It allows the user, by merely typing in the open window, to automatically search for links (or, even non-linked text) containing the typed text. This Emacs-style search allows the user to search without use of the mouse or difficult-to-remember key combinations."
16 year old serious fan of Bon Jovi here. Flipped past VH-1 right before Crush was released in 2000 and landed on the It's My Life video. I about had a heart attack, somebody was playing actual rock. And it had made it onto the current music video stations.
I fall into the slightly unusual catagory, though. I'm a 16 year old male from the U.S.. There's a larger selection of younger fans outside the U.S..
THEM. Never heard of THEM... Jon has been trying to gently drill this into the heads of the media for 20 years. Jon Bon Jovi is distinct from Bon Jovi.
The band was called Bon Jovi to capitalize on the publicity John Bongiovi got when Runaway hit the airwaves in 83. The spelling was modified at the record company's "suggestion" to reduce its ethnicity.
Bon Jovi is a band. By 'coincidence', as it were, their frontman's stage name is Jon Bon Jovi.
Apparently a number of people do. Including me.
And since we're going with the song quotes today...
Blame it on the love of Rock & Roll!
NT isn't a Unix because it lacks a variety of very unix-y things. Stuff like BSD sockets, 'sh', an X implimentation, unix-like filesystem, unix-like permissions, and the visible filesystem layout is a nightmare (not that I'm a huge fan of unix-y layouts, but they're a darn sight better than Microsoft's layouts). It lacks a lot of unix-y libc stuff in a familier format (fork() comes immiediatly to mind, as I recently used it in some code I sent somebody running Win2k and had them come back to me saying "wtf do I do now?" and I wound up sending them cygwin to install rather than learning any of the win32 api; luckily this wasn't performance critical and I wasn't being paid for it).
The fact that the kernel seems to be a bizzaire mess is not, in my mind, what prevents NT from being a "Unix". Sit me down infront of a system where everything is in the kernel and runs as one big 'file' and I'll call it a Unix if it does what a Unix is supposed to do and does it well. I'll say the programmers need to have their heads extracted by a qualified proctologist and subsequently beat with a sendmail manual, but I'll call it a Unix.
I've been using it on XP for a while, no complaints really.
It's a little on the slow side, but just about everything using cygwin is, it's hard to avoid.
As somebody else mentioned, there's some quirks with KDE, but I've been exporting my KDE sessions on my laptop out to it on my desktop occasionaly with no major problems*.
*Until last night that is. Seems KDE 3.0.2 threw a major quirk in. None of the icons are showing up. Ah well, I'll work it out later.
I know a few people that use Dvorak layouts. They now type slower on qwerty keyboards, but not painfully slow. One word: Bicycle.
Most gamers remap their keys anyway. And if the game doesn't support remapping, it should be shoved down the developers throat, preferably coated in cyanide.
And, lastly, you probably don't type as much or as long as some of us, nor do you likely do much coding. Spend a day coding in C or a similar language with plenty of braces, parenthesis, and other punctuation that on a QWERTY keyboard requires heavy usage of the shift keys*.
I should start measuring my keystrokes. I output a huge amount on a daily basis. I'm rapidly developing carpal tunnel, and I NEED to switch to a new keyboard layout soon. My hands will get numb after sufficient time (two or three hours of high-output typing will usualy do it) and I will sometimes need to take ibuprofen for pain the day after an esspecialy heavy day of typing.
*I also have an additional problem. Contrary to the "proper" way, I *always* use my right-shift key. Needless to say, this adds strain to my right hand, esspecialy my pinky. I also do not neccisarily type a key with the "recommended" finger on the "recommended" hand, I type in a way that is fastest for me individualy, but on QWERTY it is, unfortunitely, rather straining.
Ooof course... Typos and forgotten information.
Should have been "AT@Home".
And I was in southwest Washington.
I was on AT@Home for a year and a half before moving (which happened to be right before @Home died). At one time I could grab 5mbit/sec and sometimes a little more... those were the days...
By the time I moved, I was still getting up to 3mbit/sec. Now I'm on 512kbit fixed wireless at twice the cost, ouch.
I do the same thing, but I don't get sick.
I find myself trying to look over hills, around corners, etc. in Everquest and FPS's all the time.
The only time I've ever had a motion sickness problem was in Quake2 after a round of heavy tweaking of settings. I'd left my framerate unlimited, and started getting sick. Set it back to 43fps and all was good.
'scuse me?
I'm using, as I type this, JVC 900Mhz Wireless Headphones. Right this moment, Bon Jovi's "Wild In The Streets" is blasting over them.
I get mild interferance (that I can fine-tune out usualy) from our 900Mhz cordless phone when it's in use, that's about it.
There's a couple spots in the house that I get some odd interferance that will clear up just by moving my head, I've been unable to pinpoint what it is, but it doesn't really affect me.
These things are not IR, they go through walls, I can walk clear out to our mailbox and still have a signal. Mind you, this is going through a combination of several wooden and concrete walls.
I see no reason that this "won't work".
Certainly the sound quality isn't exactly recording-studio-standards, but it's more than enough for any consumer application. And it's far better than what you're going to pull out of an FM *radio*.
Why is this so implausible?
I'm male, but it's pretty much exactly this view that I've been trying to fight since I was 12. And it's getting very irritating.
I'm now 16. I was first exposed to Linux in late 1996, and I've since used a number of *nix-ish systems (*BSD, a little SunOS and Solaris, I've touched HP-UX but never had much chance to play with it.)
I've been of the skill level since I was 12-13 that I could sit down infront of just about any system and figure out how to accomplish SOMETHING, esspecialy if it were UNIX.
I'm quite certain I could have, at 12, sat down infront of a multi-billion dollar dinosaur complex (if such a thing existed) and, barring active password protection etc. on the system, figure out how to lock the damned door.
I'm really getting tired of fighting the impression everyone seems to have that "kids" don't know this stuff.
I think this is a good sign. It shows that Red Hat thinks there's enough of an installed base of Linux servers and desktops that there's room for some direct competition between major distributions.
Though I do think a rebate for previous users of Windows might have been a good idea.
(Personaly, I'm not fond of Red Hat, but I'm not fond of Mandrake or SuSE either.)
Looks like the runaway moderators have struck again, this time on two posts, interesting.
The fact that these groups gained power under Clinton isn't really relevant. They didn't REALLY start trying to flex their muscles until Bush was in office. They didn't really *do* anything that might get some sort of prosecutorial action brought against them under Clinton's administration. My argument is that now, with the DOJ etc. under conservative control, they're feeling quite free to pull this crap, whereas before, it might have gotten them a nice little federal inquiry.
Welcome to hell, ergo98. It's time for a reality check.
1) The U.S. government is currently controlled by decidedly conservative people with big-business connections. These people are not inclined to prosecute the BSA.
2) It costs lots of money and lots of time to sue an organization composed of some of the largest software companies in the world. You will run out of money and die long before you become even a tiny irritation to them.
It's called the pursuit of knowledge.
Admittedly, it may be hard for some people to understand, but knowledge is, by many people, including myself, valued over practical application.
I'd rather know that the neutrinos are changing type en route to earth and have no practical application for it, than not know at all.
Why? Who knows. Maybe it's the engineer in me... "Because I can."
http://www.northgate.com/products/keyboards_mouse/ keyboards_mouse.htm
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Looks like the price actually came down from when I first heard they were avalible.
Unfortunitely, they've added the extra damn keys between ctrl and alt, I hate those. Oh well.
On the up side, they have interchangable keycaps, which my old OmniKey/101 doesn't
Northgate Omnikey keyboards are still avalible. Last time I looked they're going for $289ish.
I've got an Omnikey/101 from the 80's. I love this thing. Perfect tactile response, I actually type noticebly faster on this thing than on a keyboard that has the EXACT same layout, key height, etc. but not the same tactile response.
I even tried an old IBM keyboard recently. The tactile response was just slightly different, threw me off completely.
(God I hate those softkey rubber things. You have any idea how hard it is to CLEAN those things without tearing off the rubber "springs" ?)
Stack reliability, as someone else mentioned, on top of power and speed savings.
Personaly I seriously doubt that all or even close to all of the stuff google stores is stored in DRAM, it's more likely they'd keep newer data and high-access data in DRAM, and older stuff gets archived to disk, avalible for recall later, but slower.
Win2k and XP both have no problem with letting you create additional primaries, or for that matter any configuration of partitions that the OS can understand. NT4 may or may not, I don't know.
Is 15W standard? The power supply for my laptop is 60W, is most of that just so it can recharge the battery faster? Seems like a 60W power supply is a waste for a 15W unit.