first of all the core of OSX is a BSD, last I checked *BSD has been running well on x86 systems for a long time now, second do you realy think a 800mhz G4 is faster then a 2ghz p4, the last benchmarks I've seen show it takes a duel 1ghz G4 to surpass it, show me some benchmarks that dont involve photoshop, win32 photoshop is un unoptimized POS but I could realy care less about it, Im not stupid enofe to think that ppc apps can be run on a x86 box, hell I cant think of even one mac application that I would want to run, like I said the things based on BSD so porting many linux and BSD apps isnt that hard, sure it would be a little slower, but not that slow
OSX for x86 I know its a pipe dream, I wonder if enofe people petition apple to release it for a rather high price, say 400$ so there not loosing money on hardware sales, I know I would pay 400$ for OSX if it ran on any (or just about any) x86 box
10$ each for a ogg player a battleship clone and reversi, if the things based on linux wouldnt it be rather easy to port many freeware games to it? I would think at least ogg123 and some simple frontend for it
its more like articles on how comunism doesnt work or, how great democracy is, also ways to leave china, anything that doesnt agree with the relegion of the goverment, anything bad about china, ect. the great wall was ment to not only keep out the mongules(?spelling) but to keep in the chinese and keep out any outside influance that may couse cival uprest, china has become a little more open over the years, such as allowing people from the outside to enter china (as long as you dont do anything that makes china look bad) and setting up an internet to the outside world (as long as they do not look at anything that makes china look bad)
that was kinda true back in the 486 days, but most modern pcs you dont have to touch the bios if you dont want to,hell the only configuration I do to a bios is setting up the HD info so the system doesnt take 30 seconds to auto-detect, could I tweek my bios to get a little more speed, sure, but I like how stable my system is and dont want to mess with it, as for macintosh just couse it auto-configures for you does it meen its set for the fastest speed, it could be but I dought it, of course its faster to auto-config on a mac when you have full controll of the hardware and know what the hardware is its easy, but in the x86 world of open hardware and bios's being genaric they have to acount for all your hardware that the bios wasnt written for
I dint say I agreed with it I said that's why they do it, and despite what you make think RTFM wont turn someone into a master on what they RTFM about, not to mention many docs esp. ones for Linux are not written for newbies and can be a hard read, I don't know how many times when I was new to Linux have a question on how something works, and not find what I was looking for, maybe my eyes over looked it, maybe it wasn't there, or more often then not worded in such a way that I dint understand what the hell it was talking about. If you really want people to be more computer literate when a newbie asks a simple question give him a simple reply, tell them how to do it then tell them to look up the docs for more info, telling someone to RTFM not only makes you a stuck-up jerk,but makes the community look bad
I dont know, maybe couse we want to run an operating system on it, and the OS needs a Basic way to access the input and output on the System most modern OSs use it for start-up and for fall-back mode if a device doesnt have a driver, as far as im aware EVERY system has a bios including macintosh(you just cant boot into it to change the settings), once the OS has loaded and started its own method of accessing the hardware the bios isnt needed anymore(unless the device doesnt have a driver and can beaccess thrue the bios)
there is a simple reason for this and you may not like, system manufactures don't want people messing with the bios unless they know what they are doing and the easy way to do this is to make it as cryptic as possible, why? well many bios settings on some MB can easily burn out devices esp. ones about clock speed , they don't want some guy going "hey lets just crank up pci buss speed to 133mhz, shood make things faster!" and end up burning up a few pci devices. Its the same logic that MS has for the registry make it cryptic as possible so people don't mess with it
damn 120$ for an ethernet adaptor, for a dreamcast I know thers a coolness factor of setting up linux with an ethernet connection on a dated video game system, but come on, you can setup a cheap x86 box for that, and it will be far faster and more functional
IT was the scorpian king, I was kinda expecting them to at least blow the image up so that it reached from the left side of the screen to the righ, insted was typical 35mm image on a 70mm screen was presented with the ultimate letter box with 20 or so feet top and bottom and 10 feet left and right so you hade this huge screen with an image smaller then most larger movie theaters, wasnt a total loss the seating lay out was nice in that your view is much higher then the person in front of you and the sound was good, I realy dont expect AOTC to be much better unless they plan on converting it to 3:4 format and blowing it up full screen
well yes and no, currently it doesn't but its not something that would be hard to add for example the media player 9 codac or SP2 could easily lock software without using DRM hardware by simply tracking CPU ID, RAM ID, HD serial number, windows activation number, of course DRM hardware would make it even easier to lock your mp3 player, pda, cd-rw. and you can forget about upgrading your computer, by MS EULA , upgrading your computer=new computer, forcing you to buy windows again and none of the drm media and software will run on the "new computer" if your lucky some software will let you go online to "reactivate" your drm software to work on your "new computer"
that would be nice but I have a strange fealing that the new windows will refuse to run on non drm hardware, so if hardware developers want to use there product in windows the'll put in drm, our only real hope is that hardware will still work with linux(out of the box) without the hardware drm bitching
well thats what I use them for and it works rather well, I know a few other who do the same, and from what I read online many many people also use it this way
browser IDs not only help developers set up web pages to look properly , such as sending them to a lynx friendly page if there useing a text based browser, or to a frames or tables free page to webtv/odd ball browsers. but they also alow you to track how people view your site its pritty easy to tell people apart from there browser ID, makes it easy to make pages that intrest them based on how they view your site and thus makeing a better web site
hate to burst your bouble but far more windows users know about it as well,assuming that 1% represents 80% (realy far off more like 95%)of linux users who dont turn off the ID will only give you 1.2% or so, Ive run a few web sites and I've had far more webtv users then linux, and besides wich you shouldnt turn off the ID info unless you want more pages made IE only, what I want to see is slashdots weblogs to see how a heavy lunix site holds up
theres a few 486 toshiba laptops out there with 9" screens the drawback being there not compatable with linux and the color depth is only 8 bit but do to the small size you cant tell less your up close
Laptop screens cant be on all the time esp old ones I've sceen many a laptops screens getting totaly hosed after being on all night, I left a p200 12tft screen with a friend 2 months after I bought it (2700$)(he dint have a computer and I dint need it at the time) and he turned off power management and fell asleap with it on when he wone up the right side of the screen had melted, I was pissed to say the least
I was thinking the same thing, the easyest solution would have the adb(? thats what a macs keyboard and mouse port is called isnt it?) ports connected to the outside so you could just plug them in and fix it, of course I have no clue if the duo even has thoes ports for external keyboard or not
Ive been looking for a lowend notebook at my local swap meets, never been able to find one. The swap meets here are populated with hundreds of 486dx33 maybe a pent90 or 2 every once and a while I'll see a mac but they always want too much money for them, never seen a laptop thoe, hmm
depending on ware you live local phone calls cost as much as 30$ a month , ya local calling doesnt per min but you still pay for it, so basicly if you dont use the phone more then internet your paying 50$ a month, ehh cheaper then egypt by far but still
as I said in another post it costs 25c an hour to use the phone, it doesn't matter if you online or talking to a friend across town. free internet saves them the 20$ or whatever it costs there
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not much different then that huge add for nvidia that pops up at the start of UT2003 (or does it not pop up if you dont have a nvidia card??)
first of all the core of OSX is a BSD, last I checked *BSD has been running well on x86 systems for a long time now, second do you realy think a 800mhz G4 is faster then a 2ghz p4, the last benchmarks I've seen show it takes a duel 1ghz G4 to surpass it, show me some benchmarks that dont involve photoshop, win32 photoshop is un unoptimized POS but I could realy care less about it, Im not stupid enofe to think that ppc apps can be run on a x86 box, hell I cant think of even one mac application that I would want to run, like I said the things based on BSD so porting many linux and BSD apps isnt that hard, sure it would be a little slower, but not that slow
OSX for x86 I know its a pipe dream, I wonder if enofe people petition apple to release it for a rather high price, say 400$ so there not loosing money on hardware sales, I know I would pay 400$ for OSX if it ran on any (or just about any) x86 box
10$ each for a ogg player a battleship clone and reversi, if the things based on linux wouldnt it be rather easy to port many freeware games to it? I would think at least ogg123 and some simple frontend for it
its more like articles on how comunism doesnt work or, how great democracy is, also ways to leave china, anything that doesnt agree with the relegion of the goverment, anything bad about china, ect. the great wall was ment to not only keep out the mongules(?spelling) but to keep in the chinese and keep out any outside influance that may couse cival uprest, china has become a little more open over the years, such as allowing people from the outside to enter china (as long as you dont do anything that makes china look bad) and setting up an internet to the outside world (as long as they do not look at anything that makes china look bad)
that was kinda true back in the 486 days, but most modern pcs you dont have to touch the bios if you dont want to ,hell the only configuration I do to a bios is setting up the HD info so the system doesnt take 30 seconds to auto-detect, could I tweek my bios to get a little more speed, sure, but I like how stable my system is and dont want to mess with it, as for macintosh just couse it auto-configures for you does it meen its set for the fastest speed, it could be but I dought it, of course its faster to auto-config on a mac when you have full controll of the hardware and know what the hardware is its easy, but in the x86 world of open hardware and bios's being genaric they have to acount for all your hardware that the bios wasnt written for
I dint say I agreed with it I said that's why they do it, and despite what you make think RTFM wont turn someone into a master on what they RTFM about, not to mention many docs esp. ones for Linux are not written for newbies and can be a hard read, I don't know how many times when I was new to Linux have a question on how something works, and not find what I was looking for, maybe my eyes over looked it, maybe it wasn't there, or more often then not worded in such a way that I dint understand what the hell it was talking about. If you really want people to be more computer literate when a newbie asks a simple question give him a simple reply, tell them how to do it then tell them to look up the docs for more info, telling someone to RTFM not only makes you a stuck-up jerk ,but makes the community look bad
Im pritty sure that was a joke
it's funny laugh
I dont know, maybe couse we want to run an operating system on it, and the OS needs a Basic way to access the input and output on the System most modern OSs use it for start-up and for fall-back mode if a device doesnt have a driver, as far as im aware EVERY system has a bios including macintosh(you just cant boot into it to change the settings), once the OS has loaded and started its own method of accessing the hardware the bios isnt needed anymore(unless the device doesnt have a driver and can beaccess thrue the bios)
there is a simple reason for this and you may not like, system manufactures don't want people messing with the bios unless they know what they are doing and the easy way to do this is to make it as cryptic as possible, why? well many bios settings on some MB can easily burn out devices esp. ones about clock speed , they don't want some guy going "hey lets just crank up pci buss speed to 133mhz, shood make things faster!" and end up burning up a few pci devices. Its the same logic that MS has for the registry make it cryptic as possible so people don't mess with it
damn 120$ for an ethernet adaptor, for a dreamcast I know thers a coolness factor of setting up linux with an ethernet connection on a dated video game system, but come on, you can setup a cheap x86 box for that, and it will be far faster and more functional
Has anyone actuly written an app useing mozilla? Seems like a rather silly idea considering has slow the mozilla gui is. not as slow as java but still
IT was the scorpian king, I was kinda expecting them to at least blow the image up so that it reached from the left side of the screen to the righ, insted was typical 35mm image on a 70mm screen was presented with the ultimate letter box with 20 or so feet top and bottom and 10 feet left and right so you hade this huge screen with an image smaller then most larger movie theaters, wasnt a total loss the seating lay out was nice in that your view is much higher then the person in front of you and the sound was good, I realy dont expect AOTC to be much better unless they plan on converting it to 3:4 format and blowing it up full screen
well yes and no, currently it doesn't but its not something that would be hard to add for example the media player 9 codac or SP2 could easily lock software without using DRM hardware by simply tracking CPU ID, RAM ID, HD serial number, windows activation number, of course DRM hardware would make it even easier to lock your mp3 player, pda, cd-rw. and you can forget about upgrading your computer, by MS EULA , upgrading your computer=new computer, forcing you to buy windows again and none of the drm media and software will run on the "new computer" if your lucky some software will let you go online to "reactivate" your drm software to work on your "new computer"
that would be nice but I have a strange fealing that the new windows will refuse to run on non drm hardware, so if hardware developers want to use there product in windows the'll put in drm, our only real hope is that hardware will still work with linux(out of the box) without the hardware drm bitching
well thats what I use them for and it works rather well, I know a few other who do the same, and from what I read online many many people also use it this way
browser IDs not only help developers set up web pages to look properly , such as sending them to a lynx friendly page if there useing a text based browser, or to a frames or tables free page to webtv/odd ball browsers. but they also alow you to track how people view your site its pritty easy to tell people apart from there browser ID, makes it easy to make pages that intrest them based on how they view your site and thus makeing a better web site
hate to burst your bouble but far more windows users know about it as well,assuming that 1% represents 80% (realy far off more like 95%)of linux users who dont turn off the ID will only give you 1.2% or so, Ive run a few web sites and I've had far more webtv users then linux, and besides wich you shouldnt turn off the ID info unless you want more pages made IE only, what I want to see is slashdots weblogs to see how a heavy lunix site holds up
theres a few 486 toshiba laptops out there with 9" screens the drawback being there not compatable with linux and the color depth is only 8 bit but do to the small size you cant tell less your up close
Laptop screens cant be on all the time esp old ones I've sceen many a laptops screens getting totaly hosed after being on all night, I left a p200 12tft screen with a friend 2 months after I bought it (2700$)(he dint have a computer and I dint need it at the time) and he turned off power management and fell asleap with it on when he wone up the right side of the screen had melted, I was pissed to say the least
I was thinking the same thing, the easyest solution would have the adb(? thats what a macs keyboard and mouse port is called isnt it?) ports connected to the outside so you could just plug them in and fix it, of course I have no clue if the duo even has thoes ports for external keyboard or not
I would assume that its set to rotate the pic every so many seconds
Ive been looking for a lowend notebook at my local swap meets, never been able to find one. The swap meets here are populated with hundreds of 486dx33 maybe a pent90 or 2 every once and a while I'll see a mac but they always want too much money for them, never seen a laptop thoe, hmm
depending on ware you live local phone calls cost as much as 30$ a month , ya local calling doesnt per min but you still pay for it, so basicly if you dont use the phone more then internet your paying 50$ a month, ehh cheaper then egypt by far but still
as I said in another post
it costs 25c an hour to use the phone, it doesn't matter if you online or talking to a friend across town. free internet saves them the 20$ or whatever it costs there