Sorry to break your argument, but The Pirate Bay hardly makes any money at all. The bandwith is generously sponsored, and all proceeds from the ads they run go to replacing crumbling hardware. Or at least, that's what they have stated in several interviews over the years.
The Pirate Bay belongs to Piratbyrån, which is a very ideologically driven organization. They simply don't do it for money; they do it for free speech and free culture - something that they are very vocal about.
But despite the specs, it reminds me of the original "Yikes!" G4 towers, which were just Yosemite towers tweaked for a G4 to hold the line while Apple got more of the high-speed chips that their real G4 was designed for. Yikes only lasted a few months before the Sawtooth version took over.
The Yikes! name comes from "Yikes! Sawtooth isn't going to be finished on time!" (or something like that, anyway...) So the Yikes! G4 was really only there until Sawtooth was ready to ship - then they silently updated the lower-end from Yikes! to Sawtooth.
How are they cooling this new one? It's got a G4, a SuperDrive, a GeForce2 MX, and the power supply, all inside that base, and there's no airflow from the bottom to the top? (There's a cover over the bottom, where the ram chips and Airport card go.) I can't believe this thing isn't going to get toasty-hot. The Cube didn't have a fan, but it had an external power supply, so they were kinda cheating.
I'll be watching the whole deal just to see how they pull that off. If they can cool that thing without a fan, I'll be impressed.
First of all, I see no mentions on the official site, so I'll have to assume that there might be one.
Second, look around the bottom. There are small holes at the bottom, all around the thing. There's your air intake! Nifty, huh?
NFS support is severely lacking. You can't even count on a command-line mount of an nfs volume. If I try to mount with "mount server:/local/mnt/local", the "/mnt/local" directory disappears. The mount doesn't and you can't unmount without rebooting. There is a shareware program that makes it possible to use NFS, but c'mon folks. This is a violation of some basic trust. NFS should just work.
The "preferred" way of mounting NFS in Mac OS X is through the Finder - connect to nfs://server/share and you're good to go.
Another way, which is the one I use, is to insert mounts in NetInfo - this makes them show up at boot, though, so this is only for permanent mounts.
Last time I tried, command-line mounting worked fine. That was in Mac OS X Public Beta, however, so things may have changed since then.
NIS? Good luck. Not supported. There is an FAQ for enabling it. But my success with this has been limited at best.
For a Mac-only environment, I'd recommend NetInfo. Not that I know too much about either NIS or NetInfo, though.
One of Mac OS X's greatest problems, as I see it, is that UNIX people measure it with UNIX standards, and Mac people measure it with Mac standards. It is both, and at the same time neither.
Mac OS X is more Mac OS than UNIX, but it is definitely also more UNIX than Mac OS. For some strange reason, certain users from both camps tend to be ticked off by this. Me, I like my Mac, and I like using Mac OS X. Of course I have my own gripes with it, but not nearly enough to stop me from loving it.
He does: "The Dig" (1995), made in collaboration between LucasArts and Steven Spielberg. There are even reviews still on the 'net:)
It's not the best game in history, but it's a very well made adventure nonetheless. I remember spending a good many days at my friend's PC, enjoying the good storyline... and the (many) FMV's. They went nuts with FMV's in that game, oh yes they did.:)
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They aren't alone on this - lookup any.nu domain and it will lead you to 212.181.91.6 / 64.55.105.9 and tell you that "The domain name,.nu, is for sale!".
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Sorry to break your argument, but The Pirate Bay hardly makes any money at all. The bandwith is generously sponsored, and all proceeds from the ads they run go to replacing crumbling hardware. Or at least, that's what they have stated in several interviews over the years.
The Pirate Bay belongs to Piratbyrån, which is a very ideologically driven organization. They simply don't do it for money; they do it for free speech and free culture - something that they are very vocal about.
1 MB? You know, that's interesting - the images from my digital camera (which are also 1600x1200) are 700 kB, and they claim to be JPEG. :)
But despite the specs, it reminds me of the original "Yikes!" G4 towers, which were just Yosemite towers tweaked for a G4 to hold the line while Apple got more of the high-speed chips that their real G4 was designed for. Yikes only lasted a few months before the Sawtooth version took over.
The Yikes! name comes from "Yikes! Sawtooth isn't going to be finished on time!" (or something like that, anyway...) So the Yikes! G4 was really only there until Sawtooth was ready to ship - then they silently updated the lower-end from Yikes! to Sawtooth.
How are they cooling this new one? It's got a G4, a SuperDrive, a GeForce2 MX, and the power supply, all inside that base, and there's no airflow from the bottom to the top? (There's a cover over the bottom, where the ram chips and Airport card go.) I can't believe this thing isn't going to get toasty-hot. The Cube didn't have a fan, but it had an external power supply, so they were kinda cheating.
I'll be watching the whole deal just to see how they pull that off. If they can cool that thing without a fan, I'll be impressed.
First of all, I see no mentions on the official site, so I'll have to assume that there might be one.
Second, look around the bottom. There are small holes at the bottom, all around the thing. There's your air intake! Nifty, huh?
NFS support is severely lacking. You can't even count on a command-line mount of an nfs volume. If I try to mount with "mount server:/local /mnt/local", the "/mnt/local" directory disappears. The mount doesn't and you can't unmount without rebooting. There is a shareware program that makes it possible to use NFS, but c'mon folks. This is a violation of some basic trust. NFS should just work.
The "preferred" way of mounting NFS in Mac OS X is through the Finder - connect to nfs://server/share and you're good to go.
Another way, which is the one I use, is to insert mounts in NetInfo - this makes them show up at boot, though, so this is only for permanent mounts.
Last time I tried, command-line mounting worked fine. That was in Mac OS X Public Beta, however, so things may have changed since then.
NIS? Good luck. Not supported. There is an FAQ for enabling it. But my success with this has been limited at best.
For a Mac-only environment, I'd recommend NetInfo. Not that I know too much about either NIS or NetInfo, though.
One of Mac OS X's greatest problems, as I see it, is that UNIX people measure it with UNIX standards, and Mac people measure it with Mac standards. It is both, and at the same time neither.
Mac OS X is more Mac OS than UNIX, but it is definitely also more UNIX than Mac OS. For some strange reason, certain users from both camps tend to be ticked off by this. Me, I like my Mac, and I like using Mac OS X. Of course I have my own gripes with it, but not nearly enough to stop me from loving it.
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He does: "The Dig" (1995), made in collaboration between LucasArts and Steven Spielberg. There are even reviews still on the 'net
It's not the best game in history, but it's a very well made adventure nonetheless. I remember spending a good many days at my friend's PC, enjoying the good storyline... and the (many) FMV's. They went nuts with FMV's in that game, oh yes they did.
They aren't alone on this - lookup any .nu domain and it will lead you to 212.181.91.6 / 64.55.105.9 and tell you that "The domain name, .nu, is for sale!".
That sort of thing is just plain annoying.
My co-worker had one for several months, he got it around a year ago. I'm not sure who made it, though.