at first I thought the headline meant Michael Savage (right-wingnut talk show host) was going to support Linux. Wow, that would be something...
Caller: Hi, um, I'm trying to install XFree86 on my MacTell box with a PowerPC G3 upgrade, running LinuxPPC 1999 Q3. Why is it segfaulting when X starts up?
Savage: Only gay homosexual communists (liberals) use PowerPC, much less a clone made by a company that couldn't figure out how to ride Apple for all they were worth. What the hell are you doing with LinuxPPC? Didn't you hear everything that Smith guy said about the president of the company barfing on Steve Jobs? Watch out, or he'll invite Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein over for lunch with you and your mother -- and they'll eat your mother!
I always have to cheer when my home team does something good. Despite what my buddies from UW-Milwaukee and MSOE (er, Mosey) say, UW-Madison's engineering crew kicks much ass. keep it up!
I believe they previously "hybridized" a Ford Escape, giving it ~40 mpg. That's pretty good, especially in light of the Excursion's 8-10 mpg and the original Model T's 25 mpg. That a car built almost a century ago gets better mileage than either of Ford's flagship behemoths is saying something rather sad.
In 1998, our esteemed kernel hacker jcarr (;-> ) created a version of LinuxPPC Release 4 that would boot live from the CD. We gave away a few thousand at Macworld Expo, possibly a few at the first or second ALS. I don't remember if it made Slashdot, but we had enough stuff that did. Like the security contest Microsoft was putting on. At which we beat them.
(Our old Pmac 9500 stayed up despite intensive attacks, and finally fell to one clever person who exploited a vulnerability in the version of proftpd running on the box. Which became his.)
Bravo to Gentoo, but let us not forget, someone's done it before.
IMNSHO, this will be the great privatizing of the profits and socialization of cost, and the nationalization of outfits like Clear Channel. I'm glad I'm starting a new newspaper right now, and I wonder if we'll ever get megaconglomerates trying to take us over. (I doubt it.)
What this will likely mean in the short-term is that medium-sized media companies such as Lee Enterprises will get bought up, essentially meaning that newspapers will generally recite only one line, which (through an amazing coincidence) will be the same line you hear on TV and/or the radio. That's just my opinion as a slightly informed media activist; I could be wrong.
It will be interesting to see if there's an upsurge in interest in Indymedia outlets if the FCC votes to allow this. And my feeling is that they will, by a party line, with son-of-Sec. of State General Powell, Michael Powell, giving the key vote allowing it to happen.
That democracy you thought we had actually has been comatose for some time now. This will shoot it in its paralyzed leg.
------
That said, here's a group that's making a difference in fighting the conglomeration: mediareform.net, a group concerned that is concerned how journalism has become dumbed-down entertainment and how shrinking the diversity of media ownership has muted much of the debate and placed an extraordinary degree of economic and social power in a very few hands. (Witness the recent rush to war.)
As always, start looking at your local Indymedia chapter. There's two new ones in Kansas City and Cincinnati that I don't think are on the main site yet.
IMNSHO, this will be the great privatizing of the profits and socialization of cost, and the nationalization of outfits like Clear Channel. I'm glad I'm starting a new newspaper right now, and I wonder if we'll ever get megaconglomerates trying to take us over. (I doubt it.)
What this will likely mean in the short-term is that medium-sized media companies such as Lee Enterprises will get bought up, essentially meaning that newspapers will generally recite only one line, which (through an amazing coincidence) will be the same line you hear on TV and/or the radio. That's just my opinion as a slightly informed media activist; I could be wrong.
It will be interesting to see if there's an upsurge in interest in Indymedia outlets if the FCC votes to allow this. And my feeling is that they will, by a party line, with son-of-Sec. of State General Powell (Michael) giving the key vote allowing it to happen.
That democracy you thought we had actually has been comatose for some time now. This will shoot it in its paralyzed leg.
when you say neo-liberal, are you indicating that you like stuff like NAFTA and corporatization? (now THERE's loaded question!...) but I'm with you about no love for the neocons. They're dragging us all to hell -- unless we stand up in mass and tell them THE FUCK NO!
Totally U4 for me. It seriously, profoundly changed me for the better. All those virtues ('cept maybe humility;->) sank in deep. I still sometimes have daydreams about toasting a bunch of orcs with a tremor spell, and lately have had fond memories of the dungeon Covetous. (mmmm, liches...) The combat was a lot better in Ultima V, and there was really nothing like casting that one spell in Ultima III that weakened the horde of guards you were facing so that one tap on the shoulder would kill them... but that's not very virtuous, is it?;-)
...it won't happen. They're very tight about what information they release. And even then, it's often done under NDAs. Ferinstance, I recall from my LinuxPPC days the great lengths an honest developer would have to go to get documentation on a chip used in Mac hardware. And just because OS X has BSD at its core doesn't mean Apple's any more open with anything else. Proprietary thinking is still very much in the house, despite their partial embrace of open source software and open standards.
That said, there's no reason the iPod couldn't be hacked, as seems to be happening. (It's not encrypted in any way (that I know of), and therefore not under the guard of the DMCA.) But it would be quite good for Apple to open up just a little bit more.
I think it is actually possible to use a gizmo such as an iPod for tax write-off purposes. I think if you review it for an Established Publication(tm), you can then write it off. But don't take my word for it; I've only heard of it being done. (A tax accountant would be much better to ask about how to make it a valid write-off.) I'm really not sure how it could become an education write-off.
- To test out the service I wanted to download some White Stripes. (I've listenend to them before but seeing them on Conan all last week has got me more interested) To my dismay, however, The White Stripes aren't on the service at all. - Lots of artists are on the service, but not necessarily with all of their albums. Some of the Michael Jackson albums are listed as "partial," meaning that there is about half of the actual tracks avaliable for download. (No word on if the rest will come down the pipe at a later date)
Poor Endy Chávez, outfielder for the Navegantes del Magallanes, one of Venezuela's big baseball teams. Every time he comes up to bat, the local TV sportscasters start in with the jokes. "Here comes Chávez. No, not the pro-Cuban dictator Chávez, the other Chávez." Or "This Chávez hits baseballs, not the Venezuelan people."
In Venezuela, even color commentators are enlisted in the commercial media's open bid to oust the democratically elected government of Hugo Chávez. Andrés Izarra, a Venezuelan television journalist, says that the campaign has done so much violence to truthful information on the national airwaves that the four private TV stations have effectively forfeited their right to broadcast. "I think their licenses should be revoked," he says.
It's the sort of extreme pronouncement one has come to expect from Chávez, known for nicknaming the stations "the four horsemen of the apocalypse." Izarra, however, is harder to dismiss. A squeaky clean made-for-TV type, he worked as assignment editor in charge of Latin America at CNN en Español until he was hired as news production manager for Venezuela's highest-rated newscast, El Observador on RCTV.
On April 13, 2002, the day after business leader Pedro Carmona briefly seized power, Izarra quit that job under what he describes as "extreme emotional stress." Ever since, he has been sounding the alarm about the threat posed to democracy when the media decide to abandon journalism and pour all their persuasive powers into winning a war being waged over oil.
...assuming he doesn't die by the end of the series....
Spike is seriously my favorite character from Buffy, even though I resemble Xander in ways often too close for my comfort. Makes a Spikey series. Or just have The James Marsters Show, in which he'd pose while decked out in leather. my wife would dig that, too.
Apple Computer Goes Out of Business For the 478th Time Stable OS, user satisfaction sited in computer giant's demise
CUPERTINO, CA. -- Apple Computer, Inc., the company often credited with launching the personal computer revolution in 1979 with the Apple II, has gone out of business for the 478th time, according to a recent report from acclaimed jornalist Robert Thomson.
In his latest article for the National Post, Thomson states "Stick a fork in 'em -- this Apple is cooked." Upon reading this, long time Mac users across the world knew it was time to give up.
"I've been an Apple user since 1983," said Jason Haas. "Ever since our Apple II Plus with two Disk ][ drives, the green screen, and 48 kilobytes of RAM came into the house, I've been in love."
Haas, who once assisted in the development of the Linux operating system for the Mac before returning to the Mac OS, went on to say "They really took a chance going from ProDOS to the graphical system in 1984, and I guess that never caught on. That's a shame, as I guess I'll just have to go back to ProDOS. Fortunately I can emulate that on my Mac's dates PowerPC G3 processor. VisiCALC, here I come!"
Thomson agreed. "That makes it official. This user was so unsupported by Steve Jobs that he had to go back to an operating system made in the 1980s -- and made by Microsoft. Apple really is toast."
Apple CEO Steve Jobs could not be reached for comment at press to,e. ø
and I know Mike at ResExcellence, so that might work. funny, he's still running the ResExcellence web site on LinuxPPC!:> (yeah, that lame old distro.;-)
somehow I made the dumbass mistake of getting a Yamaha CD-RW that *wasn't* compatible with Mac OS X. Now my dear Blue G3 seems unable to boot from the latest OSX CDs. crud.
fortunately, it wasn't *that* big a waste of cash, and I can probably swap it with a buddy for a good drive. [grumbling none the less]
all right, didn't the Pentium, the first one, come out in the mid-1990s? and I know that they're up to the Pentium 4 now. Is the P5 next? Or will they actually stop to think of a new name? at least Motorola and IBM give each new generation of the PowerPC a new and distinct number (601, 750, 840, 950, etc.) but I suppose there's no marketing glitz associated with those names... not like the almighty, all-loved Pentium... (grumble, grumble, grouse);-)
My dad (who, as you may have guessed, lives in Texas) was home when the shuttle was destroyed. He said that the whole house shook for twenty to thirty seconds. The pictures on the walls were rattling. When he first heard the boom, he thought it could be a sonic boom, as he's heard those before. But then it kept going...
My thoughts and heart are with the astronauts families. Brave men and women, all of them. I give a special nod to the folks from Racine... I hate to lose someone from Wisconsin.
We sponsor more terrorists by paying our taxes than buying drugs. The Fed not necessarily among them....
B'sides, it's not just welfare recipients who buy drugs. Rich kids need their fair share of drugs, too. And I seriously doubt Dubya's coke came from Canada, as much marijuana is today. But it really is those Canadian drug lords we need to watch out for. They might be polite to us if we're not careful!
I had no clue pot could make you pregnant!
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...but that does explain my nausea and water retention since I smoked up with some friends a few weeks ago!
I wonder what my wife will say when I tell her...
HAAZ: Honey... [snif, snif] that joint... I'm... [snif!] PREGNANT!
(WIFE gives HAAZ a very baffled look as she holds their 4-month-old daughter.)
WIFE: My gosh, if only we'd seen that really stupid ad during the Super Bowl! Jason, my Jason, what will we do?
I am seriously looking for information on the health effects of 802.11 as used in a large public area. Specifically I want to know if it makes people sick. Does the radiation from the 802.11 cause health problems? And what sort of radiation is it? Microwave? Radio?
I know this may sound crazy to some, but let's look at it carefully. I do need to know this for future projects I'm thinking of starting, such as true public WLANs. thanks!
I'm one of those nutty Indymedia activists. I have serious problems with the conservative domination of our so called "liberal" media, and am doing proactive, constructive things to work to change that. Among them is writing for my local IMC, another is working for media reform, as much of this has been made possible by federal legislation and other actions by the Fed.
anyway, serious bravo to folks at San Fran IMC for doing this. Technology is not necessarily paradoxical to environmental activism -- and if anything, the high tech world needs a serious dose of environmental awareness, power consumption and chip production being the two main things that I'm sure we could come up with very creative solutions to.
Briefly more on IMC: I can only speak for my local Indymedia, but we've been doing a lot of reporting on things that the Big Media(tm) have ignored. There've been a number of controversial things happening in Madison over the past few years. While we are fortunate to have more than one daily newspaper, we're as affected by radio, TV, and cable conglomeration as the rest of the United States. That means that in the major press outlets, many of these controversial issues have gone on without more than the Official Word(tm) being spoken about it. While we're still small, we're growing, and with it a sense that fair and accurate reporting needs to happen by everyone -- corporate media and volunteer/activist media alike. I'm proud to be working with what must now be the thousands of other media activists in the 100+ IMCs that exist around the world. let's keep it up!
Format HD + clean install = major boost
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My machine, a trusty Blue G3, 350 MHz PowerPC G3, 512 MB of RAM, Rage128 video card (the original one that it shipped with), original HD, etc., sped WAY up when upgraded from !0.1.5 to 10.2. And if you think that's something, I had 10.1.x on my 266 MHz PowerBook G3, which bloody DRAGGED. I later did a clean install of OS X 10.2. The difference was amazing. That PBG3 can't use Quartz Extreme, but just the more efficient code in 10.2 transformed the machine from a Model T with a broken crankshaft into a little Miata!
On the Blue G3, QE makes a huge difference. A slower machine that can't devote so much time to drawing widgets, but with Quartz Extreme, the CPU can worry less about drawing widgets and more about figuring out where to put the window, and lets the video hardware do the rest.
I still want a 800 MHz G3 or G4 machine, which to me is about perfect for OS X. ('specially a G4.;-) But my good ol' 266 MHz PBG3 is running better than ever before.
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at first I thought the headline meant Michael Savage (right-wingnut talk show host) was going to support Linux. Wow, that would be something...
Caller: Hi, um, I'm trying to install XFree86 on my MacTell box with a PowerPC G3 upgrade, running LinuxPPC 1999 Q3. Why is it segfaulting when X starts up?
Savage: Only gay homosexual communists (liberals) use PowerPC, much less a clone made by a company that couldn't figure out how to ride Apple for all they were worth. What the hell are you doing with LinuxPPC? Didn't you hear everything that Smith guy said about the president of the company barfing on Steve Jobs? Watch out, or he'll invite Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein over for lunch with you and your mother -- and they'll eat your mother!
I always have to cheer when my home team does something good. Despite what my buddies from UW-Milwaukee and MSOE (er, Mosey) say, UW-Madison's engineering crew kicks much ass. keep it up!
I believe they previously "hybridized" a Ford Escape, giving it ~40 mpg. That's pretty good, especially in light of the Excursion's 8-10 mpg and the original Model T's 25 mpg. That a car built almost a century ago gets better mileage than either of Ford's flagship behemoths is saying something rather sad.
-- haaz.
Anyone remember LinuxPPC Live?
;-> ) created a version of LinuxPPC Release 4 that would boot live from the CD. We gave away a few thousand at Macworld Expo, possibly a few at the first or second ALS. I don't remember if it made Slashdot, but we had enough stuff that did. Like the security contest Microsoft was putting on. At which we beat them.
In 1998, our esteemed kernel hacker jcarr (
(Our old Pmac 9500 stayed up despite intensive attacks, and finally fell to one clever person who exploited a vulnerability in the version of proftpd running on the box. Which became his.)
Bravo to Gentoo, but let us not forget, someone's done it before.
IMNSHO, this will be the great privatizing of the profits and socialization of cost, and the nationalization of outfits like Clear Channel. I'm glad I'm starting a new newspaper right now, and I wonder if we'll ever get megaconglomerates trying to take us over. (I doubt it.)
What this will likely mean in the short-term is that medium-sized media companies such as Lee Enterprises will get bought up, essentially meaning that newspapers will generally recite only one line, which (through an amazing coincidence) will be the same line you hear on TV and/or the radio. That's just my opinion as a slightly informed media activist; I could be wrong.
It will be interesting to see if there's an upsurge in interest in Indymedia outlets if the FCC votes to allow this. And my feeling is that they will, by a party line, with son-of-Sec. of State General Powell, Michael Powell, giving the key vote allowing it to happen.
That democracy you thought we had actually has been comatose for some time now. This will shoot it in its paralyzed leg.
------
That said, here's a group that's making a difference in fighting the conglomeration: mediareform.net, a group concerned that is concerned how journalism has become dumbed-down entertainment and how shrinking the diversity of media ownership has muted much of the debate and placed an extraordinary degree of economic and social power in a very few hands. (Witness the recent rush to war.)
As always, start looking at your local Indymedia chapter. There's two new ones in Kansas City and Cincinnati that I don't think are on the main site yet.
And have fun.
IMNSHO, this will be the great privatizing of the profits and socialization of cost, and the nationalization of outfits like Clear Channel. I'm glad I'm starting a new newspaper right now, and I wonder if we'll ever get megaconglomerates trying to take us over. (I doubt it.)
What this will likely mean in the short-term is that medium-sized media companies such as Lee Enterprises will get bought up, essentially meaning that newspapers will generally recite only one line, which (through an amazing coincidence) will be the same line you hear on TV and/or the radio. That's just my opinion as a slightly informed media activist; I could be wrong.
It will be interesting to see if there's an upsurge in interest in Indymedia outlets if the FCC votes to allow this. And my feeling is that they will, by a party line, with son-of-Sec. of State General Powell (Michael) giving the key vote allowing it to happen.
That democracy you thought we had actually has been comatose for some time now. This will shoot it in its paralyzed leg.
when you say neo-liberal, are you indicating that you like stuff like NAFTA and corporatization? (now THERE's loaded question!...) but I'm with you about no love for the neocons. They're dragging us all to hell -- unless we stand up in mass and tell them THE FUCK NO!
What you said. [nodding vigorously]
Totally U4 for me. It seriously, profoundly changed me for the better. All those virtues ('cept maybe humility ;->) sank in deep. I still sometimes have daydreams about toasting a bunch of orcs with a tremor spell, and lately have had fond memories of the dungeon Covetous. (mmmm, liches...) The combat was a lot better in Ultima V, and there was really nothing like casting that one spell in Ultima III that weakened the horde of guards you were facing so that one tap on the shoulder would kill them... but that's not very virtuous, is it? ;-)
...it won't happen. They're very tight about what information they release. And even then, it's often done under NDAs. Ferinstance, I recall from my LinuxPPC days the great lengths an honest developer would have to go to get documentation on a chip used in Mac hardware. And just because OS X has BSD at its core doesn't mean Apple's any more open with anything else. Proprietary thinking is still very much in the house, despite their partial embrace of open source software and open standards.
That said, there's no reason the iPod couldn't be hacked, as seems to be happening. (It's not encrypted in any way (that I know of), and therefore not under the guard of the DMCA.) But it would be quite good for Apple to open up just a little bit more.
I think it is actually possible to use a gizmo such as an iPod for tax write-off purposes. I think if you review it for an Established Publication(tm), you can then write it off. But don't take my word for it; I've only heard of it being done. (A tax accountant would be much better to ask about how to make it a valid write-off.) I'm really not sure how it could become an education write-off.
mrpuffypants wrote:
...but what about Michael Bolton?
- To test out the service I wanted to download some White Stripes. (I've listenend to them before but seeing them on Conan all last week has got me more interested) To my dismay, however, The White Stripes aren't on the service at all.
- Lots of artists are on the service, but not necessarily with all of their albums. Some of the Michael Jackson albums are listed as "partial," meaning that there is about half of the actual tracks avaliable for download. (No word on if the rest will come down the pipe at a later date)
that should read "no-ass talentless clown." He's Canadian and all, ergo no ass.
I watched the movie of the critter crawling around on the woman's back.... rather creepy. obvious horror movie tie-ins, too. ;-o
by Naomi Klein,
The Nation
Poor Endy Chávez, outfielder for the Navegantes del Magallanes, one of Venezuela's big baseball teams. Every time he comes up to bat, the local TV sportscasters start in with the jokes. "Here comes Chávez. No, not the pro-Cuban dictator Chávez, the other Chávez." Or "This Chávez hits baseballs, not the Venezuelan people."
In Venezuela, even color commentators are enlisted in the commercial media's open bid to oust the democratically elected government of Hugo Chávez. Andrés Izarra, a Venezuelan television journalist, says that the campaign has done so much violence to truthful information on the national airwaves that the four private TV stations have effectively forfeited their right to broadcast. "I think their licenses should be revoked," he says.
It's the sort of extreme pronouncement one has come to expect from Chávez, known for nicknaming the stations "the four horsemen of the apocalypse." Izarra, however, is harder to dismiss. A squeaky clean made-for-TV type, he worked as assignment editor in charge of Latin America at CNN en Español until he was hired as news production manager for Venezuela's highest-rated newscast, El Observador on RCTV.
On April 13, 2002, the day after business leader Pedro Carmona briefly seized power, Izarra quit that job under what he describes as "extreme emotional stress." Ever since, he has been sounding the alarm about the threat posed to democracy when the media decide to abandon journalism and pour all their persuasive powers into winning a war being waged over oil.
[read the whole thing over here ]
...assuming he doesn't die by the end of the series....
Spike is seriously my favorite character from Buffy, even though I resemble Xander in ways often too close for my comfort. Makes a Spikey series. Or just have The James Marsters Show, in which he'd pose while decked out in leather. my wife would dig that, too.
mmmmm... Spikey goodness...
dooling slightly,
haaz.
Apple Computer Goes Out of Business For the 478th Time
Stable OS, user satisfaction sited in computer giant's demise
CUPERTINO, CA. -- Apple Computer, Inc., the company often credited with launching the personal computer revolution in 1979 with the Apple II, has gone out of business for the 478th time, according to a recent report from acclaimed jornalist Robert Thomson.
In his latest article for the National Post, Thomson states "Stick a fork in 'em -- this Apple is cooked." Upon reading this, long time Mac users across the world knew it was time to give up.
"I've been an Apple user since 1983," said Jason Haas. "Ever since our Apple II Plus with two Disk ][ drives, the green screen, and 48 kilobytes of RAM came into the house, I've been in love."
Haas, who once assisted in the development of the Linux operating system for the Mac before returning to the Mac OS, went on to say "They really took a chance going from ProDOS to the graphical system in 1984, and I guess that never caught on. That's a shame, as I guess I'll just have to go back to ProDOS. Fortunately I can emulate that on my Mac's dates PowerPC G3 processor. VisiCALC, here I come!"
Thomson agreed. "That makes it official. This user was so unsupported by Steve Jobs that he had to go back to an operating system made in the 1980s -- and made by Microsoft. Apple really is toast."
Apple CEO Steve Jobs could not be reached for comment at press to,e. ø
'nuff said. :)
:> (yeah, that lame old distro. ;-)
and I know Mike at ResExcellence, so that might work. funny, he's still running the ResExcellence web site on LinuxPPC!
#@$&^@#...
somehow I made the dumbass mistake of getting a Yamaha CD-RW that *wasn't* compatible with Mac OS X. Now my dear Blue G3 seems unable to boot from the latest OSX CDs. crud.
fortunately, it wasn't *that* big a waste of cash, and I can probably swap it with a buddy for a good drive. [grumbling none the less]
all right, didn't the Pentium, the first one, come out in the mid-1990s? and I know that they're up to the Pentium 4 now. Is the P5 next? Or will they actually stop to think of a new name? at least Motorola and IBM give each new generation of the PowerPC a new and distinct number (601, 750, 840, 950, etc.) but I suppose there's no marketing glitz associated with those names... not like the almighty, all-loved Pentium... (grumble, grumble, grouse) ;-)
My dad (who, as you may have guessed, lives in Texas) was home when the shuttle was destroyed. He said that the whole house shook for twenty to thirty seconds. The pictures on the walls were rattling. When he first heard the boom, he thought it could be a sonic boom, as he's heard those before. But then it kept going...
My thoughts and heart are with the astronauts families. Brave men and women, all of them. I give a special nod to the folks from Racine... I hate to lose someone from Wisconsin.
Best wishes to you all.
We sponsor more terrorists by paying our taxes than buying drugs. The Fed not necessarily among them....
B'sides, it's not just welfare recipients who buy drugs. Rich kids need their fair share of drugs, too. And I seriously doubt Dubya's coke came from Canada, as much marijuana is today. But it really is those Canadian drug lords we need to watch out for. They might be polite to us if we're not careful!
...but that does explain my nausea and water retention since I smoked up with some friends a few weeks ago!
I wonder what my wife will say when I tell her...
HAAZ: Honey... [snif, snif] that joint... I'm... [snif!] PREGNANT!
(WIFE gives HAAZ a very baffled look as she holds their 4-month-old daughter.)
WIFE: My gosh, if only we'd seen that really stupid ad during the Super Bowl! Jason, my Jason, what will we do?
yeah...
I am seriously looking for information on the health effects of 802.11 as used in a large public area. Specifically I want to know if it makes people sick. Does the radiation from the 802.11 cause health problems? And what sort of radiation is it? Microwave? Radio?
I know this may sound crazy to some, but let's look at it carefully. I do need to know this for future projects I'm thinking of starting, such as true public WLANs. thanks!
ps - contact me if you have good information.
I'm one of those nutty Indymedia activists. I have serious problems with the conservative domination of our so called "liberal" media, and am doing proactive, constructive things to work to change that. Among them is writing for my local IMC, another is working for media reform, as much of this has been made possible by federal legislation and other actions by the Fed.
anyway, serious bravo to folks at San Fran IMC for doing this. Technology is not necessarily paradoxical to environmental activism -- and if anything, the high tech world needs a serious dose of environmental awareness, power consumption and chip production being the two main things that I'm sure we could come up with very creative solutions to.
Briefly more on IMC: I can only speak for my local Indymedia, but we've been doing a lot of reporting on things that the Big Media(tm) have ignored. There've been a number of controversial things happening in Madison over the past few years. While we are fortunate to have more than one daily newspaper, we're as affected by radio, TV, and cable conglomeration as the rest of the United States. That means that in the major press outlets, many of these controversial issues have gone on without more than the Official Word(tm) being spoken about it. While we're still small, we're growing, and with it a sense that fair and accurate reporting needs to happen by everyone -- corporate media and volunteer/activist media alike. I'm proud to be working with what must now be the thousands of other media activists in the 100+ IMCs that exist around the world. let's keep it up!
My machine, a trusty Blue G3, 350 MHz PowerPC G3, 512 MB of RAM, Rage128 video card (the original one that it shipped with), original HD, etc., sped WAY up when upgraded from !0.1.5 to 10.2. And if you think that's something, I had 10.1.x on my 266 MHz PowerBook G3, which bloody DRAGGED. I later did a clean install of OS X 10.2. The difference was amazing. That PBG3 can't use Quartz Extreme, but just the more efficient code in 10.2 transformed the machine from a Model T with a broken crankshaft into a little Miata!
;-) But my good ol' 266 MHz PBG3 is running better than ever before.
On the Blue G3, QE makes a huge difference. A slower machine that can't devote so much time to drawing widgets, but with Quartz Extreme, the CPU can worry less about drawing widgets and more about figuring out where to put the window, and lets the video hardware do the rest.
I still want a 800 MHz G3 or G4 machine, which to me is about perfect for OS X. ('specially a G4.