I heartily recommend GLTerm, or using OSX's X display to run a local xterm. Terminal.app is a pain in the ass. For some god-unknown reason, it takes about 2 or 3 minutes to start up. Longer than photoshop!
You had a bit of bad luck there. Apple has not produced anything before or since which has sucked as much as the Powerbook 5300 series. They got severly burned over it from all quarters. Heh! An occasionally, so did customers.
Look at the bogomips here. A massive 797 of them from their speedy 800mhz iMac.
model name Pentium II (Deschutes)
cpu MHz 451.032
cache size 512 KB
bogomips 897.84
model name Pentium III (Coppermine)
cpu MHz 601.371
cache size 256 KB
bogomips 1199.31
model name AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
cpu MHz 1202.748
cache size 256 KB
bogomips 2398.61
I think you get my point.
I love my macs. In fact, I have three (G4/400, iBook 500, PB1400/G3-333), and plan on getting one of those LCD iMacs one day, but that's some pretty low bogomips there from that G4.
And slightly off topic, I'd like the ability to paste in three or four lines of output from a standard linux command thanks and not get messages telling me to remove junk characters.
My guess is that if Ambrosia had not had the Net to act as a marketing medium that guy'd be in the cube next to me, talking about starting a game company some day.
Not to criticise you, but Ambrosia has been around a lot longer than people have been using the web/net like they do today. I remember playing their games back in 1993.
Indeed. Take for example Google's Zeitgeist. The two most popular searches in September 2001 were "Nostradamus" and "CNN". For september 11th here, the most puplar search was for cnn.
I'm sorry, but the internet is full of morons now. How much of an idiot do you have to be to need to search for "cnn"? Gah.
Aside from his good works in the terms of Usenet, David is the reason I am where I am today. 4 years ago, I was stuck in Perth, Australia and very bored. I was reading the student newspaper one day and saw an article about student exchanges. To cut a long story short, 6 months later I was at The University of Western Ontario.
I had looked over the courses they ran in Computer Science there, and saw one called "Unix and C". Being a bit of a geek and having used unix a *tiny* bit in my high school days, I thought it was be a cool one to take. David was the lecturer for this course. He had a lot of knowledge and passion for the subject, which is unsurprising considering his experiance with all manners of unicies. His classes for CS175a taught me a lot about Unix (and a little about C). I got 92% overall for the unit, an A+ and the highest mark I've ever got for any unit. The next semester I was at Western, I taught myself Perl, using an account on the CS Department servers and on the Reznet linux box a friend had:)
It was a unit for non comp-sci majors. CS Majors were expected to learn this stuff in a bunch of different classes.
Sadly, Western no longer offers CS175a - Unix and C. I feel it is a loss to the community as a whole, but at the same time, I understand that a one semester course in Unix and C probably isn't seen as too acedemic by many. Which I think is a shame. Too many universities turn out gimps fluent in one langauge, and one language only - Windows *shudder*. I think it sad that units to teach people how to click mice and use Word can get you acedemic credit, but Unix and C courses don't seem worthy enough to run.
When my time was up in Canada, I came back to Australia and while I finished my degree, I made money on the side doing CGI scripts in Perl. Then, when my degree was finished, I applied for a job as a System Admin at a department at The University of Western.. Australia. It was the first job I applied for and I got a callback the morning after I had a 70 minute panel interview. Due, in large part, to the stuff I had learnt in David's class, I passed the interview quite well.
Today, I am 22, earn over AU$40k, I get to play with lots of cool computing and network hardware, and I think it would be safe to say that if I hadn't taken that course with David, I wouldn't be where I am today. I suspect I would have been working as a security guard, making minimum wage, since my degree wasn't actually in Computer Science, but Security Studies. Thinking back, I'm pretty damn glad I did take it;)
Australia specialises in making laws, then not enforcing them. We have a bunch of similar ones on our books. Our current internet "censorship" regulations have only resulted in about 10 complaints which led to take-down orders, and in all those cases, the material was material which would be refused classification were it to appear in a print magazine.
The point is, very few Australians actually bother hosting their sites here, so connecting the site to Australia would be difficult.
We never had firearms in the first place.. really you gun loving americans, the only people who lost guns here due to the federal government were people who the majority of Australians would rather didn't have guns.
Some types of weapons also had to be handed it but those people would have kept different types of weapons. There's surprisingly few situations where people need semi automatic machine guns.
I'm one of the co-ordinators of Undernet's channel service. I would like to add my three cents in saying that we do not support warez channels. We have also moved to server based information hiding in a move to try to keep our network topology hidden. It was not something many of us wanted to do, but it was for the "greater good". I don't think Efnet can't survive with it's current model.
Allow me to quote http://www.employees.org/admin/overview.html :
The system is connected via Ethernet to a "dirty" network in Cisco's data center, and shares the data center's DS3 link to the Internet
From their page, it looks as though it is not an authorised connection. I'm happy to see it is however, it's good to see companies that actually care about their employees:)
They sure have an interesting corporate culture. Check out Employees.org, a sort of "freenet" for Cisco employees, consisting of an old sun with a probably unauthorised connection in the DMZ of Cisco's data center.
And lets not forget Cisco employees on IRC with hostnames like "ph33r.cisco.com"
The best way to ship computers if you're moving is in parts. I have a friend who moved from Buttass Alabama, to Queensland Australia. Before he left he asked me for my advice on moving his computer from there to here. My advice was as follows:
Remove any PCI cards that cost more than about US$50 and place in anti-static bags. Do same with hard drive. Do same to any PC100+ RAM. Also remove any DVD drive and any CD burner faster than 8x. If processor is currentish model and you have the packaging, remove that too. Wrap parts up in your clothes and place in suitcase.
Place remaining parts of computer in nearest dumpster and/or give to anyone who you think may want it.
When you arrive at your final location, take the parts to a computer dealer and ask them to make a working machine out of them. You should only need to purchase a case, power supply, motherboard and keyboard/mouse. This will probably set you back about $300. Good luck
I'm thinking of moving to Canada in a few years time. By that time, my current G4 tower will be 3 years old and not worth taking, so I'll sell it here and buy a new one when I get settled there. I also have a P200 which I might take with me, but like this guy, it's just a routerbox, so I'll probably part it out and package it that way. Like, after I take out all the PCI cards and put them inside antistatic bags, maybe get a plastic bag and fill it with clothes, put that inside the computer case and screw it closed again. Should make some decent padding:-) I also have an iBook, which will be coming in the cabin of any aircraft I fly on. So of my three computers, I'll only be taking one with me.
Or maybe just ditch it here. But then again, I do like it.. I have nice rounded cables and stuff inside it.
Sun used to have this thing about making equipment cases out of 4mm steel with reenforcing bars inside the cases. We have a few SparcStation2's lying around at work, and I have jumped up and down on them trying to break them (don't ask:) Nothing at all happens, and I weigh about 200lbs. I would imaging that you can drop them a fair bit without case damage too:)
VME Bus and the Sun386's are also models which I suspect would go thru even UPS quite well.
Some however may say that saying an indy got there is similar to say a sparcstation2 got there in one piece. You can stand and bounce on SparcStation2's without much of a problem;)
I'm getting an Indy next year. I work at a University department that has 25 of the suckers that we're getting rid of. Thankfully for me I won't have to deal with shipping.
I used to write code for Undernet. We deployed a new services bot earlier this year. The initial trials of it were none too sucessful. We had a database server, and a physically separtate web front end running PHP.
Because the people who wrote the initial code did not make it scale very well.. when it went live with 80,000 people trying to use it, the poor boxes croaked.
The webserver hit a LA of 117 and the DB server got to 145. There are no decimal places in those numbers people;)
Christoph Pfisterer seems like quite the weenie from his email exchange. OpenOSX is just trying to make things easier for people. It's not like they've gone out of their way to anonomize Fink and change its name.
Are the creators of RPMs forced to give credit to the writers of bash or csh because their programs use these languages to run post/preinstall scripts? Of course not. If you're just using a program to install another program, and the installer program is based on the GPL, don't be expecting to get damn credits all over the packaging.
In the email exchange posted by Christoph Pfisterer (no less), Josha looks like he's being quite reasonable and that it's actually Christoph Pfisterer being a pillock.
Interesting you should mention this, but I've found just the oppose.. I bouhgt a second hand CD which literally looked like it had come in contact with an orbital sander.. with Audio CD players, it wouldn't play some tracks at all, but I was able to rip it almost perfectly.. on my Mac:D
DHCP is your friend in situations like this. Depending on how smart your OS is, it can be totally automatic. IE with MacOS v8.1 -> 9.1, you can plug a shut down laptop into an ethernet network, turn it on, and it will automatically configure and activate TCP/IP, this is even if your default communications method is set to dialup:)
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I heartily recommend GLTerm, or using OSX's X display to run a local xterm. Terminal.app is a pain in the ass. For some god-unknown reason, it takes about 2 or 3 minutes to start up. Longer than photoshop!
Ouch. You have my sympathy. Obviously wear and tear will knock paint off, but not blister it and cause it to fall away like yours seems to be..
You had a bit of bad luck there. Apple has not produced anything before or since which has sucked as much as the Powerbook 5300 series. They got severly burned over it from all quarters. Heh! An occasionally, so did customers.
I have one of these iBooks.. I wanna see one in black or gray.
Anyone know how to remove scratches from the cases of these things?
It actually has "Buy now!" links on http://www.apple.com/macosx/ now :)
:D
So no G4 amiga for you!
You mean apples and IBMs? :)
Yes, I am aware of the bogosity of them. My issue is that it's like the megahertz myth.. people compare them by their numbers, not performance.
Look at the bogomips here. A massive 797 of them from their speedy 800mhz iMac.
model name Pentium II (Deschutes)
cpu MHz 451.032
cache size 512 KB
bogomips 897.84
model name Pentium III (Coppermine)
cpu MHz 601.371
cache size 256 KB
bogomips 1199.31
model name AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
cpu MHz 1202.748
cache size 256 KB
bogomips 2398.61
I think you get my point.
I love my macs. In fact, I have three (G4/400, iBook 500, PB1400/G3-333), and plan on getting one of those LCD iMacs one day, but that's some pretty low bogomips there from that G4.
And slightly off topic, I'd like the ability to paste in three or four lines of output from a standard linux command thanks and not get messages telling me to remove junk characters.
My guess is that if Ambrosia had not had the Net to act as a marketing medium that guy'd be in the cube next to me, talking about starting a game company some day.
Not to criticise you, but Ambrosia has been around a lot longer than people have been using the web/net like they do today. I remember playing their games back in 1993.
Indeed. Take for example Google's Zeitgeist. The two most popular searches in September 2001 were "Nostradamus" and "CNN". For september 11th here, the most puplar search was for cnn. I'm sorry, but the internet is full of morons now. How much of an idiot do you have to be to need to search for "cnn"? Gah.
I did a unit with him.. our final exam was great. He said to study previous exams for help. You got to take in 2 pieces of paper with notes on them.
;)
The previous exams contained 50% of the same material, common to about 5 years of exams
Aside from his good works in the terms of Usenet, David is the reason I am where I am today. 4 years ago, I was stuck in Perth, Australia and very bored. I was reading the student newspaper one day and saw an article about student exchanges. To cut a long story short, 6 months later I was at The University of Western Ontario.
:)
;)
I had looked over the courses they ran in Computer Science there, and saw one called "Unix and C". Being a bit of a geek and having used unix a *tiny* bit in my high school days, I thought it was be a cool one to take. David was the lecturer for this course. He had a lot of knowledge and passion for the subject, which is unsurprising considering his experiance with all manners of unicies. His classes for CS175a taught me a lot about Unix (and a little about C). I got 92% overall for the unit, an A+ and the highest mark I've ever got for any unit. The next semester I was at Western, I taught myself Perl, using an account on the CS Department servers and on the Reznet linux box a friend had
It was a unit for non comp-sci majors. CS Majors were expected to learn this stuff in a bunch of different classes.
Sadly, Western no longer offers CS175a - Unix and C. I feel it is a loss to the community as a whole, but at the same time, I understand that a one semester course in Unix and C probably isn't seen as too acedemic by many. Which I think is a shame. Too many universities turn out gimps fluent in one langauge, and one language only - Windows *shudder*. I think it sad that units to teach people how to click mice and use Word can get you acedemic credit, but Unix and C courses don't seem worthy enough to run.
When my time was up in Canada, I came back to Australia and while I finished my degree, I made money on the side doing CGI scripts in Perl. Then, when my degree was finished, I applied for a job as a System Admin at a department at The University of Western.. Australia. It was the first job I applied for and I got a callback the morning after I had a 70 minute panel interview. Due, in large part, to the stuff I had learnt in David's class, I passed the interview quite well.
Today, I am 22, earn over AU$40k, I get to play with lots of cool computing and network hardware, and I think it would be safe to say that if I hadn't taken that course with David, I wouldn't be where I am today. I suspect I would have been working as a security guard, making minimum wage, since my degree wasn't actually in Computer Science, but Security Studies. Thinking back, I'm pretty damn glad I did take it
David's homepage is here
Australia specialises in making laws, then not enforcing them. We have a bunch of similar ones on our books. Our current internet "censorship" regulations have only resulted in about 10 complaints which led to take-down orders, and in all those cases, the material was material which would be refused classification were it to appear in a print magazine.
The point is, very few Australians actually bother hosting their sites here, so connecting the site to Australia would be difficult.
We never had firearms in the first place.. really you gun loving americans, the only people who lost guns here due to the federal government were people who the majority of Australians would rather didn't have guns.
Some types of weapons also had to be handed it but those people would have kept different types of weapons. There's surprisingly few situations where people need semi automatic machine guns.
I'm one of the co-ordinators of Undernet's channel service. I would like to add my three cents in saying that we do not support warez channels. We have also moved to server based information hiding in a move to try to keep our network topology hidden. It was not something many of us wanted to do, but it was for the "greater good". I don't think Efnet can't survive with it's current model.
Allow me to quote http://www.employees.org/admin/overview.html : The system is connected via Ethernet to a "dirty" network in Cisco's data center, and shares the data center's DS3 link to the Internet From their page, it looks as though it is not an authorised connection. I'm happy to see it is however, it's good to see companies that actually care about their employees :)
They sure have an interesting corporate culture. Check out Employees.org, a sort of "freenet" for Cisco employees, consisting of an old sun with a probably unauthorised connection in the DMZ of Cisco's data center.
:)
And lets not forget Cisco employees on IRC with hostnames like "ph33r.cisco.com"
Looks like a fairly interesting place to work
The best way to ship computers if you're moving is in parts. I have a friend who moved from Buttass Alabama, to Queensland Australia. Before he left he asked me for my advice on moving his computer from there to here. My advice was as follows:
:-) I also have an iBook, which will be coming in the cabin of any aircraft I fly on. So of my three computers, I'll only be taking one with me.
Remove any PCI cards that cost more than about US$50 and place in anti-static bags. Do same with hard drive. Do same to any PC100+ RAM. Also remove any DVD drive and any CD burner faster than 8x. If processor is currentish model and you have the packaging, remove that too. Wrap parts up in your clothes and place in suitcase.
Place remaining parts of computer in nearest dumpster and/or give to anyone who you think may want it.
When you arrive at your final location, take the parts to a computer dealer and ask them to make a working machine out of them. You should only need to purchase a case, power supply, motherboard and keyboard/mouse. This will probably set you back about $300. Good luck
I'm thinking of moving to Canada in a few years time. By that time, my current G4 tower will be 3 years old and not worth taking, so I'll sell it here and buy a new one when I get settled there. I also have a P200 which I might take with me, but like this guy, it's just a routerbox, so I'll probably part it out and package it that way. Like, after I take out all the PCI cards and put them inside antistatic bags, maybe get a plastic bag and fill it with clothes, put that inside the computer case and screw it closed again. Should make some decent padding
Or maybe just ditch it here. But then again, I do like it.. I have nice rounded cables and stuff inside it.
Sun used to have this thing about making equipment cases out of 4mm steel with reenforcing bars inside the cases. We have a few SparcStation2's lying around at work, and I have jumped up and down on them trying to break them (don't ask :) Nothing at all happens, and I weigh about 200lbs. I would imaging that you can drop them a fair bit without case damage too :)
VME Bus and the Sun386's are also models which I suspect would go thru even UPS quite well.
Some however may say that saying an indy got there is similar to say a sparcstation2 got there in one piece. You can stand and bounce on SparcStation2's without much of a problem ;)
I'm getting an Indy next year. I work at a University department that has 25 of the suckers that we're getting rid of. Thankfully for me I won't have to deal with shipping.
I have seen G4 case handles get cracked in transit from Apple, but yeah, generally you wouldn't have seen the major structural damage.
:)
For the record, I keep all my boxes' boxes
I used to write code for Undernet. We deployed a new services bot earlier this year. The initial trials of it were none too sucessful. We had a database server, and a physically separtate web front end running PHP.
;)
Because the people who wrote the initial code did not make it scale very well.. when it went live with 80,000 people trying to use it, the poor boxes croaked.
The webserver hit a LA of 117 and the DB server got to 145. There are no decimal places in those numbers people
Christoph Pfisterer seems like quite the weenie from his email exchange. OpenOSX is just trying to make things easier for people. It's not like they've gone out of their way to anonomize Fink and change its name.
Are the creators of RPMs forced to give credit to the writers of bash or csh because their programs use these languages to run post/preinstall scripts? Of course not. If you're just using a program to install another program, and the installer program is based on the GPL, don't be expecting to get damn credits all over the packaging.
In the email exchange posted by Christoph Pfisterer (no less), Josha looks like he's being quite reasonable and that it's actually Christoph Pfisterer being a pillock.
Interesting you should mention this, but I've found just the oppose.. I bouhgt a second hand CD which literally looked like it had come in contact with an orbital sander.. with Audio CD players, it wouldn't play some tracks at all, but I was able to rip it almost perfectly.. on my Mac :D
DHCP is your friend in situations like this. Depending on how smart your OS is, it can be totally automatic. IE with MacOS v8.1 -> 9.1, you can plug a shut down laptop into an ethernet network, turn it on, and it will automatically configure and activate TCP/IP, this is even if your default communications method is set to dialup :)
Curiously, Apple's latest release of their DVD region management system extension supports regions 7 and 8 .. hmm.
Where is 8? I know 7 is meant for "international venues", ie planes, cruise ships etc, but 8?