This is the first time I can remember seeing a I.E. icon (Mac-style) on a slashdot story. How appropriate that the story is about the most annoying feature of Microsoft's browsing apps: javascript pop-up hell. But seriously, times have never been better for non Internet Explorer browsers: Opera, Konquerer, iCab, Chimera, and Mozilla are all extremely usable at this point.
Why not some support for the XDarwin project? This would give an easy way to bring Linux GUI developers on board, without making them unlearn open source gtk to learn the very much closed source Cocoa. The world of X11 apps is very much larger than Cocoa apps at this point (compare versiontracker's cocoa app list to FreshMeat's X11 section), and will be for the forseeable future. Why? Non-North-American countries which have a lot of developers (Poland, Germany, India) find it a lot easier to buy into hardware that runs X11.
The lucent/orinoco pigtails that are sold on eBay and other places will work with the TiBook. Just run the wire out through the PCMCIA slot. The internal wireless card is on the same side as the PCMCIA slot, parallel to it actually, with the antenna connector at the edge of the external titanium shell so it all works suprisingly well. If you're willing to have a wire hanging out of your TiBook, just leaky coax will improve signal, but a nice passive high-gain antenna does wonders for increasing both signal to noise and range.
For Mac users, the Griffin Powerwave has the following features:
RCA input and outputs, 1/8" inputs and outputs, built in USB hub and DSP, digital audio amplifier.
How many of these have drivers for Linux is anybody's guess.
limitations for Mac OS X users... sigh
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PHP 4.2.0 Released
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PHP 4.2.0 still lacks certain features on Mac OS X and Darwin, and isn't officially supported by the PHP Group on these platforms. Building PHP as a dynamically loaded Apache module isn't supported in this release. Well, at least full support is going to happen down the road... it is nice to develop on OSX for deployment on PHP*nix servers.
GCC3.1 still doesn't have altivech optimization, which is what is really needed at this point for a speed boost for OSX apps. Good to see the update coming, though.
The next generation GIMP is being built on the GEGL library which will handle multiple color spaces (think CMYK needed for pre-press output.) What we need is a serious line art/page layout app that does CMYK.
the MacGIMP project has been supportive of Fink since the very beginning, giving full acknowledgement and posting source. It was the guy at OpenOSX who was the asshole, not giving credit, or sharing source.
X server is reasonable fast
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iBooks love Linux
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The video chip in iBooks is the ATIRage128, and the appropriate XFree86 port for that chipset compiles with little effort. I think smooth DVD playback takes more than just a fast-ass X server, though.
On a 400mghz TiBook with 192MB RAM, mozilla 0.9.9 running on Yellow Dog Linux is very snappy, feeling the equivalent of a gigahertz Athlon. Rebooting into OSX is like pouring molasses in it, and not just for web browsing either. Hey, is there a benchmark for browser performance? Scrolling speeds would need to be a major component of it....
The gtk-sharp project only runs on Win32: To hack on Gtk#, you still need a Win32 machine with the.Net Framework installed, as the binding cannot be compiled on linux yet.
Personally, I'd rather see Ximian assist and support Tor Lillquist's efforts to port GTK to Win32. The port of GIMP to Windows took painfully long, in part because the team working on it is so small.
which are... Alexandria the documentation project, Ant compiler, Avalon framework, BCEL binary library manipulator, Cactus test framework, Commons , to facilitate reusable java code, ECS for XML interfacing, James the mail server (think IMAP, POP, SMTP etc), Jetspeed the portal component, JMeter, for performance testing, Log4J debugging methods, Lucene text search engine, ORO for perl style regular expressions and awk/sed shit (see regexp below for regexp style), POI which talks to M$ OLE, Regexp for java style regular expressions (see oro above for perl style), Slide WebDAV connectivity component, Struts to integrate with existing Java codebases, Taglibs for JSP custom code, Tomcat the all-important serving container, Turbine security layer, Velocity object oriented(?) theme engine, Watchdog validation tests. Please don't mod me down for all the links.
Each one is to a important Jakarta project and I sincerely wish that someone had explained to me what each one did instead of me having to plow through twenty web pages to get this information. As a side note, do these people know how to name projects or what?!?!!? For example, Turbine has subcomponents "Fulcrum" and "Torque".
MacSFTP is nice for Mac OS X (but $25 shareware)
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Good SFTP Clients?
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MacFSTP works with classic (MacOS9) and carbon (OSX). I really like it, but it is $25 shareware from some developer in France.
How many window managers have I tried? Way too many.;) Here are a few interesting/unusual keyboard config options.
A while ago I ran into Oroborus - it has an optional component called 'Key Launch' that basically sits there and runs commands based on key presses. This is completely separated from window manager and desktop environment, and highly customizable.
The default GNOME window manager as you probably already know is sawfish, and there's a hack that lets you do smooth workspace scrolling with key commands, which is, um, smooth.
When all is said and done, though, I still usually wind up gravitating back to WindowMaker.
As the volume goes up, the price goes down. If retail stores take their typical 30+% markup on a $120 Palm device, then the Palm device makers are already in the range. I'm sure any one of the major handheld players would love to get that contract $50 million for 500,000 handhelds leaves LOTS of margin when those 500,000 handhelds are being churned out of fabs in Korea and Hong Kong.
...always keep a collection of different sized paperclips handy. When cut to the right length, they've replaced more than one broken pin (disclaimer: my brother once fried a motherboard that way) but on the upside, I've used paperclip "pin-shims" for broken SCSI and PS/2 male connectors.
Ever try to get a Canon, UMAX, Astra, or other scanner working on a Mac? It sucks. They make you load several very buggy inits in OS9 and don't even have OSX support. Epson has the best (TWAIN) scanner drivers for MacOS. Period. Maybe their rebate policy isn't the greatest (I wouldn't know.) but until the other companies would get off their axes to actually write workable drivers, I continue to recommend Epson scanners for MacOS and OSX.
Well, you can' sleep it from the command line (at least not that I know of) but if you close the lid, it sleeps just fine. Also, the battery monitor GNOME control panel widget works great. Another link to check out is tibook*nix at www.dachb0den.net
Wow is this bitch fast, I was totally blown away. Before installing YDL (LinuxPPC unfortunately hasn't been updated as recently or often as Yellow Dog) I was used to the double-buffer-double-slowness of OSX. With default, non-tweaked XFree86 config files, this thing absolutely flies, feels faster than the 1.2ghz Athlon workstation running linux I use at work.
Neat hardware stuff? USBview works as advertised, wireless networking took 30 minutes to setup, and firewire is the only main peripheral without robust support, something you're not going to find on any platform.
Price? TiBook is 400 mghz budget special (you can find them for $1600 these days)overclocked to 500mghz.
The main downside is that all of the RPMs out there are x86. Upside is that rpmfind.net has plenty of YellowDog rpms and Ximian's Red Carpet works great with it. If you want details on my setup, email editor@macgimp.org
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This is the first time I can remember seeing a I.E. icon (Mac-style) on a slashdot story. How appropriate that the story is about the most annoying feature of Microsoft's browsing apps: javascript pop-up hell. But seriously, times have never been better for non Internet Explorer browsers: Opera, Konquerer, iCab, Chimera, and Mozilla are all extremely usable at this point.
Why not some support for the XDarwin project? This would give an easy way to bring Linux GUI developers on board, without making them unlearn open source gtk to learn the very much closed source Cocoa. The world of X11 apps is very much larger than Cocoa apps at this point (compare versiontracker's cocoa app list to FreshMeat's X11 section), and will be for the forseeable future. Why? Non-North-American countries which have a lot of developers (Poland, Germany, India) find it a lot easier to buy into hardware that runs X11.
The lucent/orinoco pigtails that are sold on eBay and other places will work with the TiBook. Just run the wire out through the PCMCIA slot. The internal wireless card is on the same side as the PCMCIA slot, parallel to it actually, with the antenna connector at the edge of the external titanium shell so it all works suprisingly well. If you're willing to have a wire hanging out of your TiBook, just leaky coax will improve signal, but a nice passive high-gain antenna does wonders for increasing both signal to noise and range.
...but no more... the alpha workstation seems to have gone the way of the dinosaur.
For Mac users, the Griffin Powerwave has the following features:
RCA input and outputs, 1/8" inputs and outputs, built in USB hub and DSP, digital audio amplifier.
Wintel folks will want to check out the Telex device. Edirol UA-1A (44.1 kHz only), Edirol UA-3, GriffiniMic, Opcode DAT-/SonicPort (optical), Onkyo MSE-U33(HB), Onkyo SE-U55 and Roland-ED UA-30.
How many of these have drivers for Linux is anybody's guess.
PHP 4.2.0 still lacks certain features on Mac OS X and Darwin, and isn't officially supported by the PHP Group on these platforms. Building PHP as a dynamically loaded Apache module isn't supported in this release. Well, at least full support is going to happen down the road... it is nice to develop on OSX for deployment on PHP*nix servers.
GCC3.1 still doesn't have altivech optimization, which is what is really needed at this point for a speed boost for OSX apps. Good to see the update coming, though.
The next generation GIMP is being built on the GEGL library which will handle multiple color spaces (think CMYK needed for pre-press output.) What we need is a serious line art/page layout app that does CMYK.
the MacGIMP project has been supportive of Fink since the very beginning, giving full acknowledgement and posting source. It was the guy at OpenOSX who was the asshole, not giving credit, or sharing source.
The video chip in iBooks is the ATIRage128, and the appropriate XFree86 port for that chipset compiles with little effort. I think smooth DVD playback takes more than just a fast-ass X server, though.
On a 400mghz TiBook with 192MB RAM, mozilla 0.9.9 running on Yellow Dog Linux is very snappy, feeling the equivalent of a gigahertz Athlon. Rebooting into OSX is like pouring molasses in it, and not just for web browsing either. Hey, is there a benchmark for browser performance? Scrolling speeds would need to be a major component of it....
The gtk-sharp project only runs on Win32: .Net Framework installed, as the binding cannot be compiled on linux yet.
To hack on Gtk#, you still need a Win32 machine with the
Personally, I'd rather see Ximian assist and support Tor Lillquist's efforts to port GTK to Win32. The port of GIMP to Windows took painfully long, in part because the team working on it is so small.
now sports kernel 2.4.18
/boot
XFree86 4.2:
- nVidia:
* support now includes digital monitors via Apple Display Connector (ADC)
* GeForce2 TwinView, GeForce3, GeForce4 not yet supported
- ATI Radeon:
* support now includes digital flat panels
* Radeon Mobility now functional (for onyx tibooks)
* KDE 2.2.2
* GNOME 1.4 with Nautilus and Evolution
* yaboot 1.3.6 supports ext3
* Mozilla 0.9.6 is MUCH more stable
* Yellow Dog Installer (yi) 1.0.6 - added cd-rw ide-scsi support
* Red Hat 7.2 foundation
copy all the RPM's you want from the CD ISOs into a folder, and then use rpm -Uvh * Enjoy.
I program in PHP. I have four children. I've been more productive programming in PHP than any other language. Ask my wife... :)
"In one January report at ITworld.com, de Icaza said, "We're planning on supporting Mac OS X as soon as we're done with the Linux port."
which are...
Alexandria the documentation project, Ant compiler, Avalon framework, BCEL binary library manipulator, Cactus test framework, Commons , to facilitate reusable java code, ECS for XML interfacing, James the mail server (think IMAP, POP, SMTP etc), Jetspeed the portal component, JMeter, for performance testing, Log4J debugging methods, Lucene text search engine, ORO for perl style regular expressions and awk/sed shit (see regexp below for regexp style), POI which talks to M$ OLE, Regexp for java style regular expressions (see oro above for perl style), Slide WebDAV connectivity component, Struts to integrate with existing Java codebases, Taglibs for JSP custom code, Tomcat the all-important serving container, Turbine security layer, Velocity object oriented(?) theme engine, Watchdog validation tests. Please don't mod me down for all the links.
Each one is to a important Jakarta project and I sincerely wish that someone had explained to me what each one did instead of me having to plow through twenty web pages to get this information. As a side note, do these people know how to name projects or what?!?!!? For example, Turbine has subcomponents "Fulcrum" and "Torque".
MacFSTP works with classic (MacOS9) and carbon (OSX). I really like it, but it is $25 shareware from some developer in France.
How many window managers have I tried? Way too many. ;) Here are a few interesting/unusual keyboard config options.
A while ago I ran into Oroborus - it has an
optional component called 'Key Launch' that basically sits there and runs
commands based on key presses. This is completely separated from window
manager and desktop environment, and highly customizable.
The default GNOME window manager as you probably already know is sawfish, and there's a hack that lets you do smooth workspace scrolling with key commands, which is, um, smooth.
When all is said and done, though, I still usually wind up gravitating back to WindowMaker.
As the volume goes up, the price goes down. If retail stores take their typical 30+% markup on a $120 Palm device, then the Palm device makers are already in the range. I'm sure any one of the major handheld players would love to get that contract $50 million for 500,000 handhelds leaves LOTS of margin when those 500,000 handhelds are being churned out of fabs in Korea and Hong Kong.
...always keep a collection of different sized paperclips handy. When cut to the right length, they've replaced more than one broken pin (disclaimer: my brother once fried a motherboard that way) but on the upside, I've used paperclip "pin-shims" for broken SCSI and PS/2 male connectors.
Owen Taylor at RedHat found the bug. He works on GTK among other things, as you can see from the GTK+ release notes he posted earlier this month: mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2002-March/ msg00161.html
Ever try to get a Canon, UMAX, Astra, or other scanner working on a Mac? It sucks. They make you load several very buggy inits in OS9 and don't even have OSX support. Epson has the best (TWAIN) scanner drivers for MacOS. Period. Maybe their rebate policy isn't the greatest (I wouldn't know.) but until the other companies would get off their axes to actually write workable drivers, I continue to recommend Epson scanners for MacOS and OSX.
Well, you can' sleep it from the command line (at least not that I know of) but if you close the lid, it sleeps just fine. Also, the battery monitor GNOME control panel widget works great. Another link to check out is tibook*nix at www.dachb0den.net
Wow is this bitch fast, I was totally blown away. Before installing YDL (LinuxPPC unfortunately hasn't been updated as recently or often as Yellow Dog) I was used to the double-buffer-double-slowness of OSX. With default, non-tweaked XFree86 config files, this thing absolutely flies, feels faster than the 1.2ghz Athlon workstation running linux I use at work.
Neat hardware stuff? USBview works as advertised, wireless networking took 30 minutes to setup, and firewire is the only main peripheral without robust support, something you're not going to find on any platform.
Price? TiBook is 400 mghz budget special (you can find them for $1600 these days)overclocked to 500mghz.
The main downside is that all of the RPMs out there are x86. Upside is that rpmfind.net has plenty of YellowDog rpms and Ximian's Red Carpet works great with it. If you want details on my setup, email editor@macgimp.org