That means no feedback about mounted shares, and no eject button, and even worse behaviour like Finder locking up when you unplug.
If there's any behaviour of OS X's that I hate, it's that. Finder attempts to reconnect WAY too long IMO. Now that I make myself disconnect all shares before I shut my iBook's lid I get along with it but I tend to think that on a laptop the OS ought to be able to handle losing a connection to a server a lot more gracefully.
I"ve found one way to take care of it, at least with a Linux-running Samba server on the other end -- kill the server's smbd process corresponding to that connection. I tried that and then clicked on an item in my SMB-mounted shared folder and the mac was suddenly like "hey there's nothing here anymore." Of course you pretty much have to be root on the other box, so this is only useful for sysadmins and those of us who have personal LANs. I'd have never noticed this flaw if it weren't for these posts here -- I use AFP and NFS pretty much exclusively, only keeping Samba around on the fileserver for when I have a windows machine going (not often.)
I'm not sure whether to laugh or what on that "usability enhancements" part. I used Windows for many years, switched to Linux for a while, then picked up an OS X machine to use along side my Linux box. While I was away from the Windows world XP came out. I find XP nearly unusable in the default state -- no I DON'T want the little dog from MS Bob helping me, thankyouverymuch. I'm not interested in the "do you want to..." sidebar. The new start menu drives me nuts. I end up switching XP boxes to the "Windows Classic" interface -- it's better for my blood pressure. So from my point of view, Windows needs all the usability enhancements it can get -- not necessarily the way MS defines them though:)
Are you running Jaguar, or Panther? I upgraded my G3/700 iBook to Panther yesterday and I'm very impressed with the improvements they made to the Finder. My first impression is that the new Finder is easier to use and seems more willing to stay in one view mode. The laptop feels much more responsive overall too.
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I thought Hell already froze over when Apple released iTunes for Windows?:)
A Mac with the PC Exchange extension* can read FAT disks too. Last summer I was dinking around with my old Power Mac 8100/80 and thought I'd try to read some of my old DOS format floppies on it. It worked just fine. IIRC the extension's even installed with the OS by default.
*I think that's the one, anyway... been a while since I played with the classic Mac OS...
Umm. Apparently you aren't terribly familiar with American cars. The last carbureted mass-produced American vehicle was, I believe, the Jeep Wagoneer, which went out of production in the late 80's. And a lot of cars these days have aluminum heads, many with aluminum blocks too.
The oldest computer I frequently use is a Mac Performa 6115 (same thing as a Power Mac 6100/60). It has the AV video card, 72 MB of RAM, and a 1.2GB SCSI drive (the drive was pulled from my Power Mac 8500) but alas it is still sluggish. It runs System 7.5.5 and Debian, mainly Debian. It gave me some nasty I/O errors the other day that I'll have to look into -- all of a sudden it forgot how to use the hard drive. The 8500 runs Debian and sits in my closet as a SMB, NFS, and AFP fileserver, with 96 MB of RAM and two Seagate SCSI drives (9GB ST19171N and 36GB ST336918N). The 8500's proven itself to me -- it sat neglected in my closet (running Debian then, too) for 50 days last spring because I needed an always-on box in my LAN for me to SSH to from outside.
I've been meaning to reassemble my Compaq Deskpro 386/25. My high school was given a few of the things in 1997 or so and handed me and the other 3 geeks the boxes and told us to bring back whatever parts might be useful. I kept the whole box since I figured there wasn't anything terrifically useful in it. The memory module is a full-length card which goes along one end of the case and has 1MB of RAM on it, with attachment points for 3 1 or 4 MB modules which are square in shape and about 4" in size. Apparently there was a 4MB main memory board available, so the thing could have held up to 16MB. I had all 3 1MB add-on modules for a whopping 4MB of RAM. My sister used its 40MB ATA hard drive (produced by a company I can't recall, but it was a subsidiary of Control Data) to debug her then-new K6-2 based computer when it turned out every other sector was bad on her brand new Western Digital hard drive. She also used its Diamond video card, an ISA based piece that cost $599 when it was new(!), till she could pull the Matrox Millenium and Canopus 3dfx video cards from the P133 that was our home's main computer at the time (1999 or thereabouts). When I first opened it up I was amazed at the 8 expansion slots (3 8-bit ISA, 5 16-bit IIRC), but then I realized that virtually every port other than the keyboard port (big 5-pin, naturally) is on an expansion card.
I'd tend to think it means that it was coming from Sunward, on its way back out toward the aphelion of its orbit. Since the sunlit side would be away from us, it'd be hard to see.
Now that I think of it I remember seeing some fairly spectacular meteors last Saturday night, all in the same general part of the sky -- perhaps they were bits of this thing.
I have a 14-month-old 12" iBook and I too found my supposed remaining battery time down, at 2hrs 22 minutes upon unplugging on a battery that's done just over 5 hours unplugged. Time remaining climbed to almost 3 hours but now it's falling. In 10 minutes I've gone from 97% to 94% charge. At 3 minutes per percent the battery should have 300 minutes, or 5 hours, of capacity, so I'm not too worried (as long as this thing doesn't do like it did with 10.2.4 and suddenly fall asleep at 90% remaining, then charge from 0% to 10% then jump to 100%.)
I got one of those once. It was a wrong number. The woman on the other end started out, rather rudely, "What were you calling me for? I have your number in my Caller ID." I say "umm... I don't think anyone here tried to call you." She was quite adamant about us calling her, so I asked her what phone number she'd intended to dial. Turned out she misdialed!:)
Ummm... if you're wanting to be sure you're on SCO's good side, you'd run a 2.2.x kernel, because SCO only alleges tainting in the 2.4.x series and following:) So from that point of view MS running 2.2.x on Windows Update servers would actually make sense.
As a defendant you *MUST* pay the costs of a stenographer for any depositions
I've been reading slashdot too long, I read that as "...the costs of a steganographer..." and wondered what use encrypting something into an image file would have in a courtroom.:)
On my family's farm we use GPS for accuracy in chemical application. My father has a Case IH sprayer which he modified to be 105 feet wide. In the past, sprayers used foam dropped from the end of the boom to indicate where the end of the swath was, but on something this big moving about 15 MPH across a field it can be difficult to drive accurately using just a row of foam dots 52.5 feet away from yourself for guidance. The GPS system on the sprayer lets my dad just follow the lights on an indicator and know that he's not over or under applying pesticides. I've used a GPS system in a similar way while applying granular fertilizer -- without the GPS I had a terrible time keeping the tractor the correct distance from my previous track.
I like the late physicist Robert Forward's system for interstellar light sail flights. His system would have had solar powered lasers shining into a collector device that would focus the light onto the sail. The sail itself would have a large outer ring and a relatively small inner section with the payload. The sail would be sent as a unit to a destination, and then near the destination the outer ring would be separated and the payload section with its small sail would be turned around. The outer ring sail would be used to reflect the incoming light at the inner sail, decelerating the payload into a system while the outer ring sail zoomed off into space.
As I said in a previous post in this thread, Debian installs have gone far more smoothly for me than Mandrake installs on two PowerPC Macs I have. As much as I like Mandrake's installer, it's hard for me to consider it superior when I consider how much time I spent fighting with Mandrake's installer trying to get the machines to even boot, versus Debian's installer booting just fine the first try.
I've found Debian's installation procedure to be superior to Mandrake's, a supposedly easy installer, on PowerPC hardware. Debian booted on the first try on both of my linux-running macs, where by contrast Mandrake took a lot of fiddling with BootX before the boxes would boot without kernel panicking. And XF86 configuration was way easier with Debian, because it at least asked me questions about my system instead of making bad assumptions. Now, I love Mandrake's installer on x86 (it was my first experience with installing Linux, actually -- mandrake 8.0 on my x86 box 2 years ago), but on my Macs Debian's installer worked far better.
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Yup, the entire Mac System 7.5.3 is there. 19 approximately floppy-disk-sized files. I've made use of it myself, I put it on my Power Mac 6100 as an experiment to see if I could get by with just software downloaded from the internet on it (7.5.3 to boot it, Debian Linux for when i was actually using it.)
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If there's any behaviour of OS X's that I hate, it's that. Finder attempts to reconnect WAY too long IMO. Now that I make myself disconnect all shares before I shut my iBook's lid I get along with it but I tend to think that on a laptop the OS ought to be able to handle losing a connection to a server a lot more gracefully.
I"ve found one way to take care of it, at least with a Linux-running Samba server on the other end -- kill the server's smbd process corresponding to that connection. I tried that and then clicked on an item in my SMB-mounted shared folder and the mac was suddenly like "hey there's nothing here anymore." Of course you pretty much have to be root on the other box, so this is only useful for sysadmins and those of us who have personal LANs. I'd have never noticed this flaw if it weren't for these posts here -- I use AFP and NFS pretty much exclusively, only keeping Samba around on the fileserver for when I have a windows machine going (not often.)
The two have pretty close parity on "candle truck" -- 40 for MSN, 47 for Google. :)
I'm not sure whether to laugh or what on that "usability enhancements" part. I used Windows for many years, switched to Linux for a while, then picked up an OS X machine to use along side my Linux box. While I was away from the Windows world XP came out. I find XP nearly unusable in the default state -- no I DON'T want the little dog from MS Bob helping me, thankyouverymuch. I'm not interested in the "do you want to..." sidebar. The new start menu drives me nuts. I end up switching XP boxes to the "Windows Classic" interface -- it's better for my blood pressure. So from my point of view, Windows needs all the usability enhancements it can get -- not necessarily the way MS defines them though :)
Are you running Jaguar, or Panther? I upgraded my G3/700 iBook to Panther yesterday and I'm very impressed with the improvements they made to the Finder. My first impression is that the new Finder is easier to use and seems more willing to stay in one view mode. The laptop feels much more responsive overall too.
I thought Hell already froze over when Apple released iTunes for Windows? :)
*I think that's the one, anyway... been a while since I played with the classic Mac OS...
Umm. Apparently you aren't terribly familiar with American cars. The last carbureted mass-produced American vehicle was, I believe, the Jeep Wagoneer, which went out of production in the late 80's. And a lot of cars these days have aluminum heads, many with aluminum blocks too.
The oldest computer I frequently use is a Mac Performa 6115 (same thing as a Power Mac 6100/60). It has the AV video card, 72 MB of RAM, and a 1.2GB SCSI drive (the drive was pulled from my Power Mac 8500) but alas it is still sluggish. It runs System 7.5.5 and Debian, mainly Debian. It gave me some nasty I/O errors the other day that I'll have to look into -- all of a sudden it forgot how to use the hard drive. The 8500 runs Debian and sits in my closet as a SMB, NFS, and AFP fileserver, with 96 MB of RAM and two Seagate SCSI drives (9GB ST19171N and 36GB ST336918N). The 8500's proven itself to me -- it sat neglected in my closet (running Debian then, too) for 50 days last spring because I needed an always-on box in my LAN for me to SSH to from outside.
I've been meaning to reassemble my Compaq Deskpro 386/25. My high school was given a few of the things in 1997 or so and handed me and the other 3 geeks the boxes and told us to bring back whatever parts might be useful. I kept the whole box since I figured there wasn't anything terrifically useful in it. The memory module is a full-length card which goes along one end of the case and has 1MB of RAM on it, with attachment points for 3 1 or 4 MB modules which are square in shape and about 4" in size. Apparently there was a 4MB main memory board available, so the thing could have held up to 16MB. I had all 3 1MB add-on modules for a whopping 4MB of RAM. My sister used its 40MB ATA hard drive (produced by a company I can't recall, but it was a subsidiary of Control Data) to debug her then-new K6-2 based computer when it turned out every other sector was bad on her brand new Western Digital hard drive. She also used its Diamond video card, an ISA based piece that cost $599 when it was new(!), till she could pull the Matrox Millenium and Canopus 3dfx video cards from the P133 that was our home's main computer at the time (1999 or thereabouts). When I first opened it up I was amazed at the 8 expansion slots (3 8-bit ISA, 5 16-bit IIRC), but then I realized that virtually every port other than the keyboard port (big 5-pin, naturally) is on an expansion card.
I'd tend to think it means that it was coming from Sunward, on its way back out toward the aphelion of its orbit. Since the sunlit side would be away from us, it'd be hard to see.
Now that I think of it I remember seeing some fairly spectacular meteors last Saturday night, all in the same general part of the sky -- perhaps they were bits of this thing.
How many VW Beetle size units does it take to get a small-house-size asteroid? :)
mod this guy up, my sides are splitting from laughing!
May I make the obligatory statement (even slightly on topic here!)
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1) Eat Batteries
2) ???
3) Profit!!!!
I have a 14-month-old 12" iBook and I too found my supposed remaining battery time down, at 2hrs 22 minutes upon unplugging on a battery that's done just over 5 hours unplugged. Time remaining climbed to almost 3 hours but now it's falling. In 10 minutes I've gone from 97% to 94% charge. At 3 minutes per percent the battery should have 300 minutes, or 5 hours, of capacity, so I'm not too worried (as long as this thing doesn't do like it did with 10.2.4 and suddenly fall asleep at 90% remaining, then charge from 0% to 10% then jump to 100%.)
Nice dangling participle there -- unless you really mean that the bad salmon had been tied up in a string? :) /grammar_nazi
I got one of those once. It was a wrong number. The woman on the other end started out, rather rudely, "What were you calling me for? I have your number in my Caller ID." I say "umm... I don't think anyone here tried to call you." She was quite adamant about us calling her, so I asked her what phone number she'd intended to dial. Turned out she misdialed! :)
Ummm... if you're wanting to be sure you're on SCO's good side, you'd run a 2.2.x kernel, because SCO only alleges tainting in the 2.4.x series and following :) So from that point of view MS running 2.2.x on Windows Update servers would actually make sense.
I wouldn't want to be standing in front of that server room! A person could get blasted into orbit! :)
They'll have to be, to afford it -- $9700 as I post this...
I've been reading slashdot too long, I read that as "...the costs of a steganographer..." and wondered what use encrypting something into an image file would have in a courtroom. :)
On my family's farm we use GPS for accuracy in chemical application. My father has a Case IH sprayer which he modified to be 105 feet wide. In the past, sprayers used foam dropped from the end of the boom to indicate where the end of the swath was, but on something this big moving about 15 MPH across a field it can be difficult to drive accurately using just a row of foam dots 52.5 feet away from yourself for guidance. The GPS system on the sprayer lets my dad just follow the lights on an indicator and know that he's not over or under applying pesticides. I've used a GPS system in a similar way while applying granular fertilizer -- without the GPS I had a terrible time keeping the tractor the correct distance from my previous track.
I like the late physicist Robert Forward's system for interstellar light sail flights. His system would have had solar powered lasers shining into a collector device that would focus the light onto the sail. The sail itself would have a large outer ring and a relatively small inner section with the payload. The sail would be sent as a unit to a destination, and then near the destination the outer ring would be separated and the payload section with its small sail would be turned around. The outer ring sail would be used to reflect the incoming light at the inner sail, decelerating the payload into a system while the outer ring sail zoomed off into space.
As I said in a previous post in this thread, Debian installs have gone far more smoothly for me than Mandrake installs on two PowerPC Macs I have. As much as I like Mandrake's installer, it's hard for me to consider it superior when I consider how much time I spent fighting with Mandrake's installer trying to get the machines to even boot, versus Debian's installer booting just fine the first try.
I've found Debian's installation procedure to be superior to Mandrake's, a supposedly easy installer, on PowerPC hardware. Debian booted on the first try on both of my linux-running macs, where by contrast Mandrake took a lot of fiddling with BootX before the boxes would boot without kernel panicking. And XF86 configuration was way easier with Debian, because it at least asked me questions about my system instead of making bad assumptions. Now, I love Mandrake's installer on x86 (it was my first experience with installing Linux, actually -- mandrake 8.0 on my x86 box 2 years ago), but on my Macs Debian's installer worked far better.
Yup, the entire Mac System 7.5.3 is there. 19 approximately floppy-disk-sized files. I've made use of it myself, I put it on my Power Mac 6100 as an experiment to see if I could get by with just software downloaded from the internet on it (7.5.3 to boot it, Debian Linux for when i was actually using it.)