Now if Apple would just release the Aqua GUI source along with Darwin, we'd really be cooking
Aqua is just a theme that goes on top of the Apearance Manager: the proof is in the fact that you can take it out of the system, and Mac OS X looks just like Mac OS X Server (somewhat like a mixed breed between OpenStep & Mac OS 9). The Apearance Manager is based on the graphic engine "Quartz" that's part of Mac OS X. If they were to open source that, where wouldn't be much left.
Oh, and I'll just assume you meant the FCC, not the Federal Trade ionCommision.
Uh.. yes; my mistake. Though, the lines sometime get blurry in what FCC and CRTC do, as they regulate who gets the rights to certain commercial activities using the waves. Maybe they should merge the FTC and FCC into the FTCS: the Federaly Traded Communications Shylucks.
Also Canada doesn't censor their television. Maybe they don't suck so much after all.:)
Actually, Canada does censor it's television. The CRTC (Canada's equiqalent of the FTC) has a long list of DOs and DONTs. The only difference is the tolerance factor. One example is nudity. We have more nudity than US television, but not to the point of showing genitals, unless in a non-sexual context like a murder scene.
Oh, man. I know that means potentially crossed signals from earth based transmitters, but wouldn't it be great to accidentally stumble across signals from non-human intelligence while we were listening closely for our lost spacecraft? Is it just me, or does that strike anyone else as being a GREAT way for us to make first contact? Kinda poetic.
Luck would have it, the signal is from mars inhabitants that repared the fragile earth craft and are sending the electronic paiement information, with a 30-day due time.
Weither or not man "created" life is not definitive.
If we're able to assemble genes to create a new speecies, it doesn't necessarely mean we've created life. Theologists would argue that "God" created live, and that Man has onlly assembled life-baring genes that God created.
Qualcomm has announced a few months ago that they had struck a deal with the evil empire to create a WinCE-based cell phone, just shortly after they announced the Palm-based phone.
is the proper translation. Mind you, in Quebec, being surrounded be english folks, we tend to use "slash" when speaking (or perhaps it's a cross-over from programming terms we use--all in english of course).
There's no direct translation for "slash" and so is refered to "barre oblique" ("italic line"). It gets worst when, on TV or on radio, they spell out an address:
H-T-T-P deux points barre oblique barre oblique S-L-A-S-H-D-O-T point C-O-M barre oblique
Where as "deux points" is "column"; a literal translation is "two dots"!
This is really nice, and will help developers alot.
I work for Corporate Software & Technologies where we do software for these two platforms (as well as WinCE) to complement our corporate scheduling software. (In fact, I just finished work on the Mac conduits for Palm.) We work in collaboration with Lexacom to share the pain that it is to support all 3 platforms.
This new collaboration between Psion and 3Com will certainly help in delivering new products to these platforms dur to the projected interoperability, and certainly give one more incentive for shareware and freeware developers to widen the selection of available add-ons to these platforms.
I should probably add that the only iBook manufacturing facilities are in Taiwan.
So, the shortage of iBooks is hardly an Apple failure, but a circomstance issue.
Though, I do admitt that a lot of peoples in Cork, Ireland, must be laughing their head off. (For the ignorants, Apple closed a manufacturing plant there recently, in order to sub-contract manufacturing to a company in Taiwan)
I have first hand experience with iMacs as NCs. Our iMacs at the office boot faster off the net than they boot off their hard disks.
I classify that as efficient.
I haven't used my floppy drive in ages. In fact, it's so much encrusted in dust that it's probably not usable by now, unless I were to give it a really good clean up.
Be flabbergasted if you will. But more than 2 million people out there seem to think as I do that floppies are out. Just as 5inch floppies were when Apple "forcefully" ditched them for the 3inch floppies.
Her series of Avalong finally gave the Arthurian Legend room for wemen, and is for the most part, the inspiration (in style) of the filmed-for-television movie "Merlin" (which I recently bought a copy of).
In my shelf, she sits right next to Tolkien. And she deserves as much attention as he does.
Old or not, it does not matter for her now. She will remain remembered through the ages by people who want to read more than the male-only model of the legend painted by Chretien De Troy back in 1180 (with the first installment entitled "Perceval, ou le Compte Du Graal" --the Holy Grail).
It turns out that as shipped, Mac OS X can't even do filesharing with non-Macintosh machines.
That's not quite true, as MOSXS can export and import to/from NFS.
Linux, out of the box, can't share file system to Mac OS machines, making it an incomplete server platform. Sheesh, as you say. But that doesn't keep you from downloading to apropriate tools to do it and install them in a snap.
Ditto for MOSXS. It may not have all the tools that you need, but they are mostly available.
Your argument in that respect is therefore weak. Besides, MOSXS is at version 1.0. Give it a second major release before complaining about missing features.
Re:The IgNobel people don't think so
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He doesn't [mock] around with testing equipment; rather, he measures the real-world implications of the armor.
..Uh...yeah... bikers, tree trunks and 18 wheelers... real world grizzlys.
This guy is an idiot, and he's been recognised for
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Project Grizzly
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I saw that documentary a few years ago. You wouldn't beleive how much this guy is due for a long stay in a mental institute.
His so-called "research" has been "recognised" by the IgNobel institute as "research that should not have been undertaken and should never be conducted again". See
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/ig_nobel/
for info on IgNobel, and
http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html
for a link directly to the winning entries of last year, including "Project Grizzly".
Dont take his "research" too seriously: his last suit (Ursus Mark VI) was so immobile that he couldn't even climb a small hill, as the hip joints would not allow his legs enough vertical movements. This forced him to abandon his research for that year (that's actually how the National Film Board's documentary ends...).
The *current* 400Mghz G4 machine has a Yosemite motherboard. That it, the same as the Blue and White G3. The processor is that of a G4, however. The 450 and 500 machines uses the Sawtooth motherboard. This is partly the same motherboard as the iBook (both motherboards derives from Apple's new Unified Motherboard architechture--a cost-cutting measure).
At some point, when Apple ships the last of the Yosemite motherboard, it will release a new 400Mghz G4, which will probably be refered to as "revision B", as they do for most machines (current iMac is rev D). Either that or, most likelly, they will speed bump the 3 offerings by 50Mghz. The line of G4s would then all be based on Sawthoot, and will range from 450 to 550Mghz. This is a common upgrade path at Apple (withness the iMac).
At that point, the low-end machine (either a 400 or 450) will have the AGP2x port and thus will be able to use the Apple Cinema Display.
Weither or not a controler for other machines will ever be made remains unclear. But I think I can answer this for myself: if your machine doesn't have AGP2X (or better), then you're out of luck
Mac OS X Server, as it currently stand, compiles 90% into both Intel and Mac hardware. Fact is, the Developer Release 2 (Rhapsody DR2) did ship for Intel hardware.
OpenStep shipped for Intel.
So, why didn't MOSXS ship for Intel? Support issues. There are so many issues in supporting the wide range of hardware combinasion on Intel hardware that Apple didn't wnat to get into it. So, the last couple of peices of Rhapsody were not completed for Intel, but the bulk of the OS is ready for that.
This is where Darwin gets in. So many people were upset in MOSXS not shipping for Intel that it's enough to start a movement to make Darwin compile on Intel. Most of it does. Some doesn't (current numbers are that 80% of Darwin can be compiled for Intel). The Open Source movement has the opportunity to complete and add drivers required for a complete version of the core OS to run on a wider array of intel hardware. That's what's in it for Apple.
For the users, it's a solid BSD/Mach, SMP-ready OS that wont require too much tweak before other thinks like X, Gnome, KDE etc would require to make it complete.
I think the Linus T. inclusion in this poll is utter BS.
Mention anything about Linux anywhere and you'll see a flock of dedicated Linux users/developers just voting to make their cause more visible. I can relate to this because I used to flock around to "help Apple" in those polls.
This reminds me of all the other open polls. It doesn't serve a value. Object World recently had a poll to determine the best web application server. There were Apple folks on the Mac OS X-Talk mailing list asking people to go vote for WebObject (still a damn good product, but the award it won makes it artificial).
Torvald didn't do squat to "influence the course of history over the past 100 years". Nor has Gates. Nor has Jobs.
People who shook the world for good were those who caused major shifts in society. John Lenon didn't do that either. He merely represented a free-form movement that started out of the will of the mass to change things. I guess HE can relate to Torvald. But neither really MADE the movements (BSD started out years before Linux, and is still used in more places than Linux).
But you can bet that Hitler did change the course of hystory. He changed how societies collided each other. More so than Napoleon did. He defined what war is today. He defined how a society can be manipulated into beleiving a cause, either good or bad. None can really like what he did. But nobody can ignore what he did, and still reflects today, 50+ years later, when we are still going against war criminals, picking up debries and rebuilding nations from that war.
However, Hitler couldn't have gone this far without the simplicity and genius of another man. And that's Henry Ford. Ford redefined (and basically invented) mass manufacturing, without which no U-Boats or Sherman thanks or rifles, bombs, amunitions, boots, hats, medals and tombs could have been produced in great-enough numbers to have ever made a difference. Ford didn't only shift society--he moved it, literally, by making possible (and afordable) the trade routes that constitutes today's world economies. His mass-produced cars, and the manufacturing lines that made them possible,is at the core of current human activities. Throughout this planet, right up to the moon. Apollo 11 wouldn't have made it in time for the Kenedy deadline ("before this decade is over") if it wouldn't have been for countless mass-produced parts like metal plates, wires, electronic components, bolts and paint buckets.
Ford made it possible for the Jobs, Gates, Torvalds, Lenons to have their medium to publicise their cause. Imagine Lennon without mass-produced records or radios. Jobs without mass-produced Apple I parts. Gates without mass-produced Macs to copy from. Torvalds without mass-produced internet connection apartus: modems, phone lines, hubs. Imagine a great movie without Soilent Green.
I turned 29 in june. One of my present was a Super Soaker 400 (the beige+brown+orange model).
This thing has a garden hose attachment with valve. When you need to fill up the fun, you just press the gun's nozzle down the garden hose attachment, and it fills up in about 4 seconds. Holding the "shooting button" (whatever that's called in english) actually helps filling faster (about 3 seconds).
A small pressure valve ensures you dont blow the thing apart.
This thing was the most fun since a friend of mine bought the first Larami soakers back a few years, to his son.
That original soaker (still available--I've seen it in store) has it's tank on top, bottom facing forward. The nice thing about it is that the tank's fillets match those used on garden hoses. So, 1+1=me acutally using the gun without the tank, directly attached to the garden hose. That could reach 150 feet. Well, until the gun started tearing apart.
For this reason, I've been waiting the the ultimate water gun. Entirely aluminum-based.
May I remind you this is a CONSUMER machine. Besides, when we got our iMac at the office, none could resist comming over and have a try at it. This _could_ be an seet, if you're trying to impress custommers. But htat's not the point of this machine.
Concerning the heavy weigth of the machine (3kg), this is probably due to the 6 hour battery in there. Still, it's pretty reasonable for the price.
Shell out some more and get a Lombard G3 powerbook if you want a pro laptop.
This is wayyy cool! I'm missing part of my right thumb. Now *I* too will hit the space bar with my right hand! Now, *I* too will be able to use the crappy round iMac mouse!!!
There has been reports, on the macosx-talk mailing list, about apache dieing unexplicably once in a while. Apple has aknowleged the problem and is working, with the Apache group, on a fix.
There seems to be something fichy about process handling in the 2.4 Mach kernel, that Apache ends up triggering due to some internal questionable logics in Apache.
This may be related to the complete system crash as described by ct (the multiple 'ab' command causing the system to crash).
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Now if Apple would just release the Aqua GUI source along with Darwin, we'd really be cooking
Aqua is just a theme that goes on top of the Apearance Manager: the proof is in the fact that you can take it out of the system, and Mac OS X looks just like Mac OS X Server (somewhat like a mixed breed between OpenStep & Mac OS 9). The Apearance Manager is based on the graphic engine "Quartz" that's part of Mac OS X. If they were to open source that, where wouldn't be much left.
Oh, and I'll just assume you meant the FCC, not the Federal Trade ionCommision.
Uh.. yes; my mistake. Though, the lines sometime get blurry in what FCC and CRTC do, as they regulate who gets the rights to certain commercial activities using the waves. Maybe they should merge the FTC and FCC into the FTCS: the Federaly Traded Communications Shylucks.
Also Canada doesn't censor their television. Maybe they don't suck so much after all. :)
Actually, Canada does censor it's television. The CRTC (Canada's equiqalent of the FTC) has a long list of DOs and DONTs. The only difference is the tolerance factor.
One example is nudity. We have more nudity than US television, but not to the point of showing genitals, unless in a non-sexual context like a murder scene.
You can find the info here here
[...] how about doing what no reporter seems to dare and asking him a hard question?
Given
Personally, I'd like to see more porn on the Internet, Wolf; how about you?
I beleive the spoofer was pretty hard enough...
Oh, man. I know that means potentially crossed signals from earth based transmitters, but wouldn't it be great to accidentally stumble across signals from non-human intelligence while we were listening closely for our lost spacecraft? Is it just me, or does that strike anyone else as being a GREAT way for us to make first contact? Kinda poetic.
Luck would have it, the signal is from mars inhabitants that repared the fragile earth craft and are sending the electronic paiement information, with a 30-day due time.
Weither or not man "created" life is not definitive.
If we're able to assemble genes to create a new speecies, it doesn't necessarely mean we've created life. Theologists would argue that "God" created live, and that Man has onlly assembled life-baring genes that God created.
The religion debate is far from over.
Time to visit your System Folder again:
DrawSprocketLib
InputSprocket Extension
NetSprocketLib
SoundSprocketLib
SoundSprocket Filter
OpenGLEngine
OpenGLLibrary
OpenGLMemory
OpenGLRenderer
OpenGLRendererATI
OpenGLUtility
Those aren't only for filling up your hard disk. They account for over 6 Megs of runtime libraries developers can (and do) use for game development.
In fact, they are also used by other kind of programs most expecially NetSprocketLib and OpenGL stuff.
Time to visit your System Folder again:
DrawSprocketLib
InputSprocket Extension
NetSprocketLib
SoundSprocketLib
SoundSprocket Filter
OpenGLEngine
OpenGLLibrary
OpenGLMemory
OpenGLRenderer
OpenGLRendererATI
OpenGLUtility
Those aren't only for filling up your hard disk. They account for over 6 Megs of runtime libraries developers can (and do) use for game development.
In fact, they are also used by other kind of programs most expecially NetSprocketLib and OpenGL stuff.
Qualcomm has announced a few months ago that they had struck a deal with the evil empire to create a WinCE-based cell phone, just shortly after they announced the Palm-based phone.
See the press release for details.
Barre oblique point
is the proper translation. Mind you, in Quebec, being surrounded be english folks, we tend to use "slash" when speaking (or perhaps it's a cross-over from programming terms we use--all in english of course).
There's no direct translation for "slash" and so is refered to "barre oblique" ("italic line"). It gets worst when, on TV or on radio, they spell out an address:
H-T-T-P deux points barre oblique barre oblique S-L-A-S-H-D-O-T point C-O-M barre oblique
Where as "deux points" is "column"; a literal translation is "two dots"!
This is really nice, and will help developers alot.
I work for Corporate Software & Technologies where we do software for these two platforms (as well as WinCE) to complement our corporate scheduling software. (In fact, I just finished work on the Mac conduits for Palm.) We work in collaboration with Lexacom to share the pain that it is to support all 3 platforms.
This new collaboration between Psion and 3Com will certainly help in delivering new products to these platforms dur to the projected interoperability, and certainly give one more incentive for shareware and freeware developers to widen the selection of available add-ons to these platforms.
I should probably add that the only iBook manufacturing facilities are in Taiwan.
So, the shortage of iBooks is hardly an Apple failure, but a circomstance issue.
Though, I do admitt that a lot of peoples in Cork, Ireland, must be laughing their head off. (For the ignorants, Apple closed a manufacturing plant there recently, in order to sub-contract manufacturing to a company in Taiwan)
I have first hand experience with iMacs as NCs. Our iMacs at the office boot faster off the net than they boot off their hard disks.
I classify that as efficient.
I haven't used my floppy drive in ages. In fact, it's so much encrusted in dust that it's probably not usable by now, unless I were to give it a really good clean up.
Be flabbergasted if you will. But more than 2 million people out there seem to think as I do that floppies are out. Just as 5inch floppies were when Apple "forcefully" ditched them for the 3inch floppies.
We'll have to update the old saying dating back to Apollo 13:
Square metric pegs in a round imperial hole.
I would have thought that NASA would have learned from the Apollo 13 and Hubbles glasses fiascos.
How old was she?
She was young in most respects.
Her series of Avalong finally gave the Arthurian Legend room for wemen, and is for the most part, the inspiration (in style) of the filmed-for-television movie "Merlin" (which I recently bought a copy of).
In my shelf, she sits right next to Tolkien. And she deserves as much attention as he does.
Old or not, it does not matter for her now. She will remain remembered through the ages by people who want to read more than the male-only model of the legend painted by Chretien De Troy back in 1180 (with the first installment entitled "Perceval, ou le Compte Du Graal" --the Holy Grail).
It turns out that as shipped, Mac OS X can't even do filesharing with non-Macintosh machines.
That's not quite true, as MOSXS can export and import to/from NFS.
Linux, out of the box, can't share file system to Mac OS machines, making it an incomplete server platform. Sheesh, as you say. But that doesn't keep you from downloading to apropriate tools to do it and install them in a snap.
Ditto for MOSXS. It may not have all the tools that you need, but they are mostly available.
Your argument in that respect is therefore weak. Besides, MOSXS is at version 1.0. Give it a second major release before complaining about missing features.
He doesn't [mock] around with testing equipment; rather, he measures the real-world implications of the armor.
..Uh ...yeah ... bikers, tree trunks and 18 wheelers... real world grizzlys.
I saw that documentary a few years ago. You wouldn't beleive how much this guy is due for a long stay in a mental institute.
His so-called "research" has been "recognised" by the IgNobel institute as "research that should not have been undertaken and should never be conducted again". See
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/ig_nobel/
for info on IgNobel, and
http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html
for a link directly to the winning entries of last year, including "Project Grizzly".
Dont take his "research" too seriously: his last suit (Ursus Mark VI) was so immobile that he couldn't even climb a small hill, as the hip joints would not allow his legs enough vertical movements. This forced him to abandon his research for that year (that's actually how the National Film Board's documentary ends...).
The Apple Cinema display is not available seperatelly for 3 reasons:
p lay_DS-a.pdf
1) It will only run from a 450Mghz and 500Mghz PowerMac G4 machines, for reasons listed bellow.
2) It's in *very* short supply for now, and since the 450 and 500 G4s dont ship right now, it gives Apple a chance to build-up supply.
3) It requires the AGP2X graphics connector only available on the 450 and 500 machines. See the data sheet (PDF) at
http://www.apple.com/displays/pdfs/AppleCinemaDis
Now, onto the Not-Supported-On-400 issue.
The *current* 400Mghz G4 machine has a Yosemite motherboard. That it, the same as the Blue and White G3. The processor is that of a G4, however. The 450 and 500 machines uses the Sawtooth motherboard. This is partly the same motherboard as the iBook (both motherboards derives from Apple's new Unified Motherboard architechture--a cost-cutting measure).
At some point, when Apple ships the last of the Yosemite motherboard, it will release a new 400Mghz G4, which will probably be refered to as "revision B", as they do for most machines (current iMac is rev D). Either that or, most likelly, they will speed bump the 3 offerings by 50Mghz. The line of G4s would then all be based on Sawthoot, and will range from 450 to 550Mghz. This is a common upgrade path at Apple (withness the iMac).
At that point, the low-end machine (either a 400 or 450) will have the AGP2x port and thus will be able to use the Apple Cinema Display.
Weither or not a controler for other machines will ever be made remains unclear. But I think I can answer this for myself: if your machine doesn't have AGP2X (or better), then you're out of luck
Mac OS X Server, as it currently stand, compiles 90% into both Intel and Mac hardware. Fact is, the Developer Release 2 (Rhapsody DR2) did ship for Intel hardware.
OpenStep shipped for Intel.
So, why didn't MOSXS ship for Intel? Support issues. There are so many issues in supporting the wide range of hardware combinasion on Intel hardware that Apple didn't wnat to get into it. So, the last couple of peices of Rhapsody were not completed for Intel, but the bulk of the OS is ready for that.
This is where Darwin gets in. So many people were upset in MOSXS not shipping for Intel that it's enough to start a movement to make Darwin compile on Intel. Most of it does. Some doesn't (current numbers are that 80% of Darwin can be compiled for Intel). The Open Source movement has the opportunity to complete and add drivers required for a complete version of the core OS to run on a wider array of intel hardware. That's what's in it for Apple.
For the users, it's a solid BSD/Mach, SMP-ready OS that wont require too much tweak before other thinks like X, Gnome, KDE etc would require to make it complete.
It's a -SERVER- OS.
I think the Linus T. inclusion in this poll is utter BS.
Mention anything about Linux anywhere and you'll see a flock of dedicated Linux users/developers just voting to make their cause more visible. I can relate to this because I used to flock around to "help Apple" in those polls.
This reminds me of all the other open polls. It doesn't serve a value. Object World recently had a poll to determine the best web application server. There were Apple folks on the Mac OS X-Talk mailing list asking people to go vote for WebObject (still a damn good product, but the award it won makes it artificial).
Torvald didn't do squat to "influence the course of history over the past 100 years". Nor has Gates. Nor has Jobs.
People who shook the world for good were those who caused major shifts in society. John Lenon didn't do that either. He merely represented a free-form movement that started out of the will of the mass to change things. I guess HE can relate to Torvald. But neither really MADE the movements (BSD started out years before Linux, and is still used in more places than Linux).
But you can bet that Hitler did change the course of hystory. He changed how societies collided each other. More so than Napoleon did. He defined what war is today. He defined how a society can be manipulated into beleiving a cause, either good or bad. None can really like what he did. But nobody can ignore what he did, and still reflects today, 50+ years later, when we are still going against war criminals, picking up debries and rebuilding nations from that war.
However, Hitler couldn't have gone this far without the simplicity and genius of another man. And that's Henry Ford. Ford redefined (and basically invented) mass manufacturing, without which no U-Boats or Sherman thanks or rifles, bombs, amunitions, boots, hats, medals and tombs could have been produced in great-enough numbers to have ever made a difference. Ford didn't only shift society--he moved it, literally, by making possible (and afordable) the trade routes that constitutes today's world economies. His mass-produced cars, and the manufacturing lines that made them possible,is at the core of current human activities. Throughout this planet, right up to the moon. Apollo 11 wouldn't have made it in time for the Kenedy deadline ("before this decade is over") if it wouldn't have been for countless mass-produced parts like metal plates, wires, electronic components, bolts and paint buckets.
Ford made it possible for the Jobs, Gates, Torvalds, Lenons to have their medium to publicise their cause. Imagine Lennon without mass-produced records or radios. Jobs without mass-produced Apple I parts. Gates without mass-produced Macs to copy from. Torvalds without mass-produced internet connection apartus: modems, phone lines, hubs. Imagine a great movie without Soilent Green.
Henry got my vote.
I turned 29 in june. One of my present was a Super Soaker 400 (the beige+brown+orange model).
This thing has a garden hose attachment with valve. When you need to fill up the fun, you just press the gun's nozzle down the garden hose attachment, and it fills up in about 4 seconds. Holding the "shooting button" (whatever that's called in english) actually helps filling faster (about 3 seconds).
A small pressure valve ensures you dont blow the thing apart.
This thing was the most fun since a friend of mine bought the first Larami soakers back a few years, to his son.
That original soaker (still available--I've seen it in store) has it's tank on top, bottom facing forward. The nice thing about it is that the tank's fillets match those used on garden hoses. So, 1+1=me acutally using the gun without the tank, directly attached to the garden hose. That could reach 150 feet. Well, until the gun started tearing apart.
For this reason, I've been waiting the the ultimate water gun. Entirely aluminum-based.
>
May I remind you this is a CONSUMER machine. Besides, when we got our iMac at the office, none could resist comming over and have a try at it. This _could_ be an seet, if you're trying to impress custommers. But htat's not the point of this machine.
Concerning the heavy weigth of the machine (3kg), this is probably due to the 6 hour battery in there. Still, it's pretty reasonable for the price.
Shell out some more and get a Lombard G3 powerbook if you want a pro laptop.
This is wayyy cool! I'm missing part of my right thumb. Now *I* too will hit the space bar with my right hand! Now, *I* too will be able to use the crappy round iMac mouse!!!
Weeee!!!!!
There has been reports, on the macosx-talk mailing list, about apache dieing unexplicably once in a while. Apple has aknowleged the problem and is working, with the Apache group, on a fix.
There seems to be something fichy about process handling in the 2.4 Mach kernel, that Apache ends up triggering due to some internal questionable logics in Apache.
This may be related to the complete system crash as described by ct (the multiple 'ab' command causing the system to crash).