I wonder if that certification could have been for A/UX, a Unix-style OS with System 7-like GUI that could run on some 68030 and 68040 Macs? It was SysV based and could run both Unix apps and Mac apps.
Seen thinksecret.com lately? They just had an article about AutoDesk considering porting AutoCAD to OS X. As an engineering student I just might e-mail them to encourage it, I'd love to be able to do CAD work on my Mac as opposed to on a Windows machine.
Late last summer I bought an iBook and an Epson printer from their online store at a time when they had a $100 rebate for a printer purchased with a computer. (Naturally I went with the Stylus 820, a $100 printer -- practically free with this deal!) I sent the stuff in about 2 months after I got the computer and got the check in 2 weeks or so.
The 8600 is actually one of the faster pre-G3 machines; see this link. They go up to 300 MHz and take the same RAM DIMMs that your 8500 takes. The 8600's the next generation after the 8500 (they went from 8100 to 8500 to 8600 with the pre-G3 PPC midtowers, you see.) I have an 8100 and an 8500, nice little machines. The 8500's been a great Linux box with the RAM upgraded to 96 MB and a 9 GB Seagate SCSI-2 drive in it, running Debian of course:) And I've got it down to the point where I can pull the motherboard out in 4 minutes.
It's looking like that's what I'm gonna have to do, 10.2.5 seems to be making it WORSE. And I'm stopping typing this message now because at 93% I think my machine's gonna turn off any moment now -- that's what it did the first time I tested it with 10.2.5. Argh. A 8 month old battery, lightly used, shouldn't DO this.
Some (Dual USB) iBook users are having battery problems with 10.2.4 -- seems 10.2.4 messes up something in the power management so that when running unplugged the machine'll run till some arbitrary level of charge remaining (from 50%-90% of capacity left) and then suddenly go into sleep. Plugging the machine in starts the battery charging from 0%. Here's hoping 10.2.5 addresses that.
Pretty much all I'm seeing in this thread so far is a bunch of insults of the intelligence of NASCAR fans. (Of course, this is slashdot, and this is the first few posts...)
However, I think one thing that people overlook is the level of creativity the teams have to have to make their car superior to the next team's. This year, all the makes have to fit the same set of templates -- that is, the cars have to be practically the same shape, whether a Chevy, Ford, Pontiac, or Dodge. Meaning no make has a particular aerodynamic advantage over another, and teams can't tweak the shape of their car for more speed. NASCAR has strict rules on engine specifications and suspension setup. There's a lot of engineering work in these cars that, while not necessarily directly applicable to street cars the way, say, World Rally Championship technology is, still helps the automakers develop more efficient, better performing, safer cars. Teamwork matters in NASCAR -- many a race has been won or lost just because of how well the pit crew did their job.
Yeah that can be kind of irritating. You wouldn't think my name, "Patrick Tschetter", would be very common, but there's at least one other person with my same name in my hometown. One time a few years ago the other Patrick Tschetter (who must be 10 or 12 years younger than me) was in the hospital listing in the local paper, and a friend of my family called my mom to ask her what was going on. Of course my mom got all worried about me, since I'd been perfectly healthy when I'd left home to drive to high school that morning.
Anyone else associate "WC3" with Wing Commander?
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When I was skimming the front page a few minutes ago I saw the "WC3" there and thought "Wing Commander III? What's that doing getting mentioned on Slashdot, it's 9 years old!.... well, I guess it could be a re-post!":)
Seriously though... am I crazy, or are there other people who still associate "WC3" with that space-combat sim that, at its release, needed just about all the computing power a then-new 486 could muster?
That's not necessarily outdated. There are people out there selling old Macs for insane prices. For example today I saw a site advertising a refurbished 500 MHz new-style iBook for $1,130. That's $130 more than Apple charges for a brand-new 700 MHz machine now.
Out of curiosity, I intentionally clicked through a Windows XP-ish ad I saw on ArsTechnica, for one of those supposed optimizer things. The site it went to checked for OS and browser user agent. But their OS detect only had 7 possibilities: Win XP, Win 2k, Win 98, Win ME, Win 95, Win NT, and if none of those, then it was "Windows." Of course I was using Chimera on my iBook, so it looked really weird to see "OS: Windows / Browser: Netscape version 0.6" at the top of that page.
Like fean, I'm from South Dakota. There are many parts of this state where grain production is simply not feasible, due to inadequate precipitation, soils being incompatible with irrigation, and terrain forms being unsuited for farm equipment to operate on them. Cattle can be used to 'harvest' the resources that wouldn't be usable otherwise. Also, cattle are rather like the bison that used to roam this state, so in a way, they help preserve the environment. Now, raising cattle in space wouldn't be very efficient, I'll grant that. But in many places on Earth, especially places like western South Dakota, they're one of the more efficient 'crops'.
I'm not sure how I got it to do it, but one time when I plugged my PC's 17" monitor into my 700 MHz iBook w/ the Radeon, I got dual-head mode instead of mirroring mode, without a hack. It was really strange. I'd move an app's window off to the side to test it and sure enough it'd appear on the CRT. Must have been some sort of bug.
That error message actually showed up in my system logs once. I was trying to get CUPS to work with my Epson Stylus II. I think it would have had more of an impact on me if I hadn't already read about that particular error message.:)
Bwahahaha! Well said! As an engineering student at South Dakota State I looked at the title of this article and asked myself, "Why the heck wasn't this thing at Engineering Expo?!?"
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Good luck striking those words from the Constitution. Bashing religion is about as effective for you as it is for Christianity when my Christian brothers bash atheism. Bashing doesn't have nearly the effect that showing love and compassion does. (Heh... and besides, Christianity's not about religion, it's about a relationship with Jesus Christ.)
I'm studying agricultural engineering, so I know some of the history of tractor hitches and power take-offs. The PTO shaft is to be of one of three standard sizes (one size for 540 RPM, two for 1000 RPM) per ASAE (American Society of Agricultural Engineers) standard S203.13. The standard was first developed in 1926 "by a conference of engineers representing tractor manufacturers". ASAE standard S217.11, first adopted in 1959, sets classifications and dimension ranges for four classes of three-point hitches, and ASAE standard S482 from 1994 sets out minimum dimensions and requirements for four classes of drawbar. Thanks to these standards we now can, as you say, put any brand of implement on any brand of tractor.:)
Trust me, GPS in agriculture is a *good* thing. It's hard to fertilize evenly if you don't know exactly where to drive the tractor relative to your previous path. On my family's farm I'm generally tasked with operating the fertilizer spreader. It's designed to be run in swaths that are 50 feet apart. Before we put a GPS guidance system in the tractor, I had to try to follow the tracks from a 100-foot-wide drag (a tillage tool that has spring-tooth harrows which scrape the ground. It had sprayer nozzles on it too, for pre-plant herbicide application.) I could follow the wheel tracks the first time then drive along where the end of the implement had passed. We replaced that machine with a 90 foot Case IH sprayer, however, and so I now had nothing to follow. With the GPS unit I know exactly where I need to be. This way less fertilizer is wasted by over- or under-applying. And now all I have to do is follow the blinking lights instead of worrying "am I 50 feet from my last track" all the time.
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I wonder if that certification could have been for A/UX, a Unix-style OS with System 7-like GUI that could run on some 68030 and 68040 Macs? It was SysV based and could run both Unix apps and Mac apps.
What about "Profit!!!" :)
And Debian! How could you forget Debian! It's like the NetBSD of the Linux world, it runs on most everything! :)
Seen thinksecret.com lately? They just had an article about AutoDesk considering porting AutoCAD to OS X. As an engineering student I just might e-mail them to encourage it, I'd love to be able to do CAD work on my Mac as opposed to on a Windows machine.
Late last summer I bought an iBook and an Epson printer from their online store at a time when they had a $100 rebate for a printer purchased with a computer. (Naturally I went with the Stylus 820, a $100 printer -- practically free with this deal!) I sent the stuff in about 2 months after I got the computer and got the check in 2 weeks or so.
The 8600 is actually one of the faster pre-G3 machines; see this link. They go up to 300 MHz and take the same RAM DIMMs that your 8500 takes. The 8600's the next generation after the 8500 (they went from 8100 to 8500 to 8600 with the pre-G3 PPC midtowers, you see.) I have an 8100 and an 8500, nice little machines. The 8500's been a great Linux box with the RAM upgraded to 96 MB and a 9 GB Seagate SCSI-2 drive in it, running Debian of course :) And I've got it down to the point where I can pull the motherboard out in 4 minutes.
I called them this morning, they're sending me a new battery. yay.
Yeah, it seems they did. I actually get a second or two of it showing 0% before the sudden drop in power and forced sleep now! Progress! :p
It's looking like that's what I'm gonna have to do, 10.2.5 seems to be making it WORSE. And I'm stopping typing this message now because at 93% I think my machine's gonna turn off any moment now -- that's what it did the first time I tested it with 10.2.5. Argh. A 8 month old battery, lightly used, shouldn't DO this.
Some (Dual USB) iBook users are having battery problems with 10.2.4 -- seems 10.2.4 messes up something in the power management so that when running unplugged the machine'll run till some arbitrary level of charge remaining (from 50%-90% of capacity left) and then suddenly go into sleep. Plugging the machine in starts the battery charging from 0%. Here's hoping 10.2.5 addresses that.
Pretty much all I'm seeing in this thread so far is a bunch of insults of the intelligence of NASCAR fans. (Of course, this is slashdot, and this is the first few posts...)
However, I think one thing that people overlook is the level of creativity the teams have to have to make their car superior to the next team's. This year, all the makes have to fit the same set of templates -- that is, the cars have to be practically the same shape, whether a Chevy, Ford, Pontiac, or Dodge. Meaning no make has a particular aerodynamic advantage over another, and teams can't tweak the shape of their car for more speed. NASCAR has strict rules on engine specifications and suspension setup. There's a lot of engineering work in these cars that, while not necessarily directly applicable to street cars the way, say, World Rally Championship technology is, still helps the automakers develop more efficient, better performing, safer cars. Teamwork matters in NASCAR -- many a race has been won or lost just because of how well the pit crew did their job.
Yeah that can be kind of irritating. You wouldn't think my name, "Patrick Tschetter", would be very common, but there's at least one other person with my same name in my hometown. One time a few years ago the other Patrick Tschetter (who must be 10 or 12 years younger than me) was in the hospital listing in the local paper, and a friend of my family called my mom to ask her what was going on. Of course my mom got all worried about me, since I'd been perfectly healthy when I'd left home to drive to high school that morning.
When I was skimming the front page a few minutes ago I saw the "WC3" there and thought "Wing Commander III? What's that doing getting mentioned on Slashdot, it's 9 years old!.... well, I guess it could be a re-post!" :)
Seriously though... am I crazy, or are there other people who still associate "WC3" with that space-combat sim that, at its release, needed just about all the computing power a then-new 486 could muster?
That's not necessarily outdated. There are people out there selling old Macs for insane prices. For example today I saw a site advertising a refurbished 500 MHz new-style iBook for $1,130. That's $130 more than Apple charges for a brand-new 700 MHz machine now.
Out of curiosity, I intentionally clicked through a Windows XP-ish ad I saw on ArsTechnica, for one of those supposed optimizer things. The site it went to checked for OS and browser user agent. But their OS detect only had 7 possibilities: Win XP, Win 2k, Win 98, Win ME, Win 95, Win NT, and if none of those, then it was "Windows." Of course I was using Chimera on my iBook, so it looked really weird to see "OS: Windows / Browser: Netscape version 0.6" at the top of that page.
Like fean, I'm from South Dakota. There are many parts of this state where grain production is simply not feasible, due to inadequate precipitation, soils being incompatible with irrigation, and terrain forms being unsuited for farm equipment to operate on them. Cattle can be used to 'harvest' the resources that wouldn't be usable otherwise. Also, cattle are rather like the bison that used to roam this state, so in a way, they help preserve the environment. Now, raising cattle in space wouldn't be very efficient, I'll grant that. But in many places on Earth, especially places like western South Dakota, they're one of the more efficient 'crops'.
I'm not sure how I got it to do it, but one time when I plugged my PC's 17" monitor into my 700 MHz iBook w/ the Radeon, I got dual-head mode instead of mirroring mode, without a hack. It was really strange. I'd move an app's window off to the side to test it and sure enough it'd appear on the CRT. Must have been some sort of bug.
That error message actually showed up in my system logs once. I was trying to get CUPS to work with my Epson Stylus II. I think it would have had more of an impact on me if I hadn't already read about that particular error message. :)
Umm... how are you supposed to download anything when your LAN jack is disabled? :)
Bwahahaha! Well said! As an engineering student at South Dakota State I looked at the title of this article and asked myself, "Why the heck wasn't this thing at Engineering Expo?!?"
Lots of wheat, corn, soybeans, and beef. Some tech products, though, too -- Gateway started out here.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Good luck striking those words from the Constitution. Bashing religion is about as effective for you as it is for Christianity when my Christian brothers bash atheism. Bashing doesn't have nearly the effect that showing love and compassion does. (Heh... and besides, Christianity's not about religion, it's about a relationship with Jesus Christ.)
I'm studying agricultural engineering, so I know some of the history of tractor hitches and power take-offs. The PTO shaft is to be of one of three standard sizes (one size for 540 RPM, two for 1000 RPM) per ASAE (American Society of Agricultural Engineers) standard S203.13. The standard was first developed in 1926 "by a conference of engineers representing tractor manufacturers". ASAE standard S217.11, first adopted in 1959, sets classifications and dimension ranges for four classes of three-point hitches, and ASAE standard S482 from 1994 sets out minimum dimensions and requirements for four classes of drawbar. Thanks to these standards we now can, as you say, put any brand of implement on any brand of tractor. :)
Trust me, GPS in agriculture is a *good* thing. It's hard to fertilize evenly if you don't know exactly where to drive the tractor relative to your previous path. On my family's farm I'm generally tasked with operating the fertilizer spreader. It's designed to be run in swaths that are 50 feet apart. Before we put a GPS guidance system in the tractor, I had to try to follow the tracks from a 100-foot-wide drag (a tillage tool that has spring-tooth harrows which scrape the ground. It had sprayer nozzles on it too, for pre-plant herbicide application.) I could follow the wheel tracks the first time then drive along where the end of the implement had passed. We replaced that machine with a 90 foot Case IH sprayer, however, and so I now had nothing to follow. With the GPS unit I know exactly where I need to be. This way less fertilizer is wasted by over- or under-applying. And now all I have to do is follow the blinking lights instead of worrying "am I 50 feet from my last track" all the time.
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