No , DoubleCommand is loaded before your machine reaches the loginwindow. So you can never login. Because I booted into Jaguar and removed the folder that way, I can't say this works. But if DoubleCommand doesn't get loaded when booting in single usermode this will certainly work:
The only way to fix it is to boot in single user mode using holding cmd-s while booting. And then remove the folder in/Library/StartupItems/DoubleCommand.
I really don't care about iTunes launching in fewer bounces. They really should decrease the amount of CPU playing an mp3 file requires with iTunes.
I'm reading 27% cpu as I'm typing this. While it rarely skips on my powerbook G3/400 firewire, I really could use the CPU cycles when I'm compiling stuff with ant...
Please do not exagerate load times when other performance issues are a lot more important.
I've run a copy of the Jaguar prerelease and it's much better performance wise in a lot of area's.
Terminal is just one bounce in 10.2 , which is crucial for us *nix lovers ! Quicktime 6 is a huge improvement over 4 and the finder is much quicker and even more productive with the excellent integrated find !
Can't wait untill it ships;-)
All powerbook users that use DoubleCommand to turn the useless second enter key into another beware !
10.1.5 crashes at boot time due to DoubleCommand.
Delete the folder in your Library/Startup Items folder !!
Well , I bought the soundtrack from Episode 2 only to come home and notice the big label "Will not play on PC/MAC". And yes sir, it doesn't play/rip on my x86 or my powerbook g3.
I looked at this page to get some more information on the felt-pen method, but discoverd my SW cd didn't had the big seperated outside track. So I guessed I'd be searching the Limewire for the mp3 files...
I gave the disc to my friend who has a Powerbook G4 (the previous model - 2 months old) and the disc played and ripped without a problem, probably because it has a very recent dvd/cdrw combo drive.
Well, I'm glad I can listen to the soundtrack anywhere I want too, and I hope Sony comes to their senses about these silly schemes.
If they'd really look at the p2p networks they'd see that their effort to keep the music of those networks is already in vain...
Exactly, you are absolutely right.
And because we almost know all the important stuff we are always gonna get less value for our money.
I'm guessing we'll get some revelation or two that George adds in Ep2 and Ep3 about some relationships between original trilogy characters and new trilogy characters (is Chewbacca a hairy cousin of the ewoks ? Is Darth Maul the father of tk-421 ?;-).
But in order to get a climax as good as "I am your father" he needs to pull some big fat rabbit out of his hat, preferably one with 8 lightsabers and operated by Frank Oz...
Well, just my 2 cents, I'm off to see Episode2 here in Belgium. Let's hope I don't need breathmints to get the foul taste out of my mouth afterwards
I really would like to beg to differ.
I really think that comparing the prequels to themselves is a bad idea.
I didn't like Episode 1 as much as the original trilogy either, but I really think that if you consider the whole double trilogy (once completed) you'll like the Phantom Menace a whole lot more (and any other prequel that may or may not suck)
George Lucas has said often enough that "the big picture" will be the important one, and that eventually fans will understand the prequels a lot more.
And you could argue that the movies of the original trilogy are great if singled out, but back then we didn't know anything of the story. We didn't know about Vader, let alone the "balance of the force" thing. Another thing you could question is why almost everybody likes Empire the best. But still they don't complain about Hope and Jedi...
With the prequels , we almost know all the import things up front : "Anakin falls in love, gets seduiced to the DarkSide, kills all Jedi, and gets "damaged" in a fight with Obi-Wan"
The prequels will deal with all these issues and a lot more stuff that George (unfortunately) added to the Starwars universe ( can you say "Midichlorians" and "celebasy") AND at the same time (hopefully) connect al the loose ends the original trilogy created.
I'm sceptical about the prequels too , because I didn't feel for Phantom what I feel for the original trilogy, but let's hope "the big picture" will indeed be the one we Starwars freaks have been waiting for all these years, and not just Multi Mega Lightsaber Fights were JarJar dies 20 times by the hand of a DarthMaul clone while Amidala is naked all the time;-)
Why do you dream about such silly things ? If you were to pay for all that stuff you would be gratefull that Oracle is making Linux their main platform. You still can't beat the price of that OS!
I like OS X alot as my primary Desktop platform, but give me my Linux on the server side for maximum performance,cheap intell hardware and thus the lowest Cost of Owndership for all my server needs. Apple shouldn't take on Linux for the UNIX server market, Linux already won that in my opinion. Just you watch and see !
And for rack mounted Apple hardware (if you still insist ) look here : Dual 1Ghz Rackmounted, running YellowDog Linux offcourse;-)
I recently bought a second hand G3/400 Powerbook ( Firewire ) with 384Mb Ram and it runs OSX perfectly. You can feel that OSX demands alot more of your machine than for instance GNOME, but because you become much more productive on the platform that really isn't a problem.
If you compare Nautilus under YellowDogLinux on the same box to the finder ( and all that other aqua eyecandy ), OSX wins by a long shot.
I was a Linux86 user before , never even owned a mac before , but if you're talking pure User Experience and productivity,MacOSX really does a great job. File Management is a lot easier, and all that Multimedia stuff we need works right out of the box. I can watch DVD's, use Dual Head out of the box, plug any usb/firewire peripheral into the thing and continue working. And you can run XFree,bash and GNU stuff with Fink ( I still user abiword for my small wordprocessing needs for instance.)
So just buy yourself a Logitech USB mouse and you're al set to enjoy MacosX.
And if you don't like it , you still can run Linux. YellowDog does a great job of supporting almost any feature of my powerbook ( sleep! ) so try that one out.
Chimera should try to become the Galeon of Macosx ! It also is a browser that uses Gecko, but with native widgets (GTK+) for Linux
It pioneered ( i think ) tabbed browsing for Linux, and has lots of nice features not found in any other browser. Nice search toolbars, autobookmark folders, nice fullscreen mode and lots more...
I really miss it on my Powerbook when I run OSX ( I also run YellowDog Linux ), and I consider it to be the best browser on earth. It has Gecko's rendering speed with speedy native widgets and alot of features !
If chimera could follow that design it's bound to be a success ( no mean feat though )
I really love Mozilla because of the speedy rendering and whatever platform I use, I always know there's at least one browser that fits all !!
But on MacosX it hogs alot of memory and isn't up to speed with the Windows/Linux versions.
Ask RMS ? You must be kidding ?
I lisened to a talk of RMS at FOSDEM, and a question from an audience member was this one:
"How can I make money if I want to be an Independant Developer , making a product that is easy-to-use, stable and most of all FREE. Because of this the users wouldn't need much support at all ! How can I do this and still make money ?"
RMS answered that in terms to make money of that piece of software , the developer should take in mind that he would not be able to meet ALL his requirements for that piece of software. And while he didn't say it as such, it either meant "Go do that thing in one HUGE corporation that spends alotta money on R&D" or the other option would be : "Make sure your clients NEED support"
And that last option should NEVER be a valid option for a software developer ( maybe an option for marketing ? )
I recently bought myself a Pismo G3/400, and coming from serveral years running Linux, I want to install at least one distro and dual boot.
I really do not know if I'm ever gonna use it enough to justify the disk space (wastage) on my 18Gb HD, but I just want to check it out.( I'm really impressed with MacosX , but that's another topic altogether;-)
I've thought of running the Mandrake Beta (I've been using Mandrake on every x86 I installed ) but when I bought the Powerbook, I bought it with the purpose of wanting to use every feature a laptop has to offer ( DVD - Sleep - Airport - Dualhead... ) out of the box, and I have decided I'm going for YellowDog because the support for the features I mentioned above seems there. I have no need to play beta tester on my powerbook;-)
Also a big issue is the fact that Ximian supports YDL 2.1 through their RedCarpet, and because I'm not going to waste diskspace on installing every Desktop Option , and I love Gnome over KDE.
To conclude I would like to see if someone has installed Linux and made his/home a HFS partition to enable Data Sharing with MacosX ? And did you notice performance issues , or is it ( or not ) wise to to this ?
I just found out my employer has the book in it's bookshelf;-)
It looks very interesting. I concur that a great interface from the start might flush the need for a power-user interface, but what if you really *need* one little tweak for some kind of application. I'm not saying that movie stuff was a life or death situation, but I can imagine someone has a special need and really wants that to be productive. At least Apple should enable developers to make tools that do the trick. And I believe the WindowManager stuff is pretty of limits to developers ?
Any ways, now I know what to read when I'm finished with LOTR;-)
Yeah , I know what you mean. I was a Gnome user a while ago and I too miss things like focus-follows-mouse and always-on-top windows. I really cannot understand why always-on-top isn't possible !
Consider all those video editors that need to see their movies while surfing the web ? ( or consider us geeks that want to see our PearlHarbor divx over and over again while coding )
I hope Apple sees that there are many Linux desktop users that switched to have MacosX that really want/need those things. I hope they just add some options for the WindowManager for us power-users. Hide it from the casual users, but let power-users do what they want;-)
But After a month OSX still surprises me here and there and I've grown accustom to the OSX Desktop.
I'm very pleased to say it also works great on the Powerbook G3 (Pismo/Firewire)
Just tested it on my TV and on an external monitor, all I can say is SWEEEEEET Together with an Cordless Optical Mouse from Logitech it's the ideal makedue DVD platform;-)
Now al we need is support for VCD and SVCD under OSX. And maybe mp3 audio support in quicktime so we can play Divx without all that conversion stuff.
Apple really dropped the proverbial ball on that one if you ask me. I thought it was THE multimedia OS ?
Oh, well I'm already happy I can play my copy "Hackers" when I'm in need of my regular fix of pure Bullshit.
My cable provider Telenet displays the same kind of behaviour when it comes to their inabillity to calculate bandwith for their networks.
We get 10Gig a month, and the speed was always very good. There's a usenetserver infrastructure with a local posting policy, so we can trade stuff at reasonable speeds without imposing too much on the network.
But recently the troubles started : They implemented a global cost increase of 13% for the home accounts. The business accounts, which are more expensive and just offer 5 or 10gigs more, did not change. It's very clear that they just expected to sell much more business accounts to the heavy downloaders.
Not only did they increase the cost, they also installed a new traffic accounting system, which doesn't reset the counters every first day of the month, but just calculates 30 days of traffic. This means that every day one days worth of traffic gets dumped from your limit. But offcourse that system wasn't really tested, and now most of the users are on smallband, and do not get automaticaly back onto broadband.
I for one, am on smallband for almost 2 weeks now, and I was supposed to be put on broadband yesterday. But no go.
And the best part of all this bullshit, is the lack of support. No free helpdesk, that one just play little games like testing you cablemodem remotely and telling you all is fine. The paying helpdesk answers vaguely and always will tell you that the problem will be fixed tomorrow. And today , their helpdesk network is down because of the flood of complaints.
How do these companies expect to force users into paying more, if they're just a bunch of amateurs that can't implement their changes efficiently, or can't even offer support for al that money they receive.
Telenet was even on a Consumer Watchdog programme because all those complaints.
I think it's time we laid a T3 in our neighbourhood and took things in our own hand;-)
what more do I need to say ?
Probably 5th best spent film ticket ever !! (starwars trilogy comes first in their 1997 re-release, and then 2001 in its 2001 re-release)
Yes your performance in 16bit color will be very good. But all the newer games, including the forementioned Medal of Honour are optimized for 32bit color AND 32bit textures (putting even more strain on your setup).
That is another thing altogether. You cannot expect to run Medal Of Honour / Return To Caste Wolfenstein /... in full 32bit color AND 32bit textures with some medium detail setting on your ATIrage128 or for example a TNT2.
And since you'll be losing out on most of the graphic details in modern games in 16bit mode ( look at the skie and smoke in RTCW ) a Geforce-x upgrade seems imminent;-)
I know what I'm talking about cause my overclocked p3-450@558 and TNT2-125@155Mhz can't keep it up for much longer;(
Hehe , I have to admit I wouldn't know how to compare the 233/66mhz bus imac to any pentium class machine.I really meant "of the same age : 1998" (, which is pretty old in current standards). I'm only a recent convert , so I'll leave that kind of holy war to more experienced mac users/addicts;-)
Ask me again when my powerbook arrives LOL
I recently moved from the GNOME desktop to MacosX. I was used to having several terminal files open so I could edit in one term, and copy data of another one. Or comparing some data between terminals. Since MacosX has no always-on-top feature, and I had to run it at a lower (1024x768) resolution, I really had some problems getting used to switching between terminals.
Until I set some terminals transparant. Now I could read through the window ! Obviously this only works when the top terminal isn't cluttered with text itself, but it works great enough for me. And because the fonts in MacosX have really great AA the text always remains legible. And transparant windows only make sense to me if they're transparant to the layer beneath them , and not for instance the desktop background. That's why i never used them in linux
I guess it's a question of taste and the abillity to use your choice of desktop efficiently for YOUR needs.
By the way, I'm running MacosX on a iMac g3/233/128ram and it still feels snappier than windows on an comparable system, so choose your bloat statements carefully;-)
KDE3 can't beat a screenshot of any MacOsX desktop
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If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then the beholder is a MacOsX user ( or designer;-), and
not a KDE3 enthousiast.
The first screenshot looks like an old KDE1 screenshots. Colors, icons, window decorations... all ghastly ugly if you ask me.
If you're talking about current user experiences, I'm much more at ease with the MacOsX desktop than with the KDE2 one ( been using MacOsX for a couple of days ). I still prefer the GNOME user experience above any KDE
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No , DoubleCommand is loaded before your machine reaches the loginwindow. So you can never login.
/Library/StartupItems/DoubleCommand.
:
Because I booted into Jaguar and removed the folder that way, I can't say this works. But if DoubleCommand doesn't get loaded when booting in single usermode this will certainly work:
The only way to fix it is to boot in single user mode using holding cmd-s while booting. And then remove the folder in
See this page for more boot and startup commands
"Quicktime 6 is a huge improvement over 4"
:
To avoid countless posts about this fuckup
I MEANT "OVER QUICKTIME 5" - LOL
I really don't care about iTunes launching in fewer bounces. They really should decrease the amount of CPU playing an mp3 file requires with iTunes.
;-)
I'm reading 27% cpu as I'm typing this. While it rarely skips on my powerbook G3/400 firewire, I really could use the CPU cycles when I'm compiling stuff with ant...
Please do not exagerate load times when other performance issues are a lot more important.
I've run a copy of the Jaguar prerelease and it's much better performance wise in a lot of area's.
Terminal is just one bounce in 10.2 , which is crucial for us *nix lovers ! Quicktime 6 is a huge improvement over 4 and the finder is much quicker and even more productive with the excellent integrated find !
Can't wait untill it ships
All powerbook users that use DoubleCommand to turn the useless second enter key into another beware ! 10.1.5 crashes at boot time due to DoubleCommand.
Delete the folder in your Library/Startup Items folder !!
Well , I bought the soundtrack from Episode 2 only to come home and notice the big label "Will not play on PC/MAC". And yes sir, it doesn't play/rip on my x86 or my powerbook g3.
I looked at this page to get some more information on the felt-pen method, but discoverd my SW cd didn't had the big seperated outside track. So I guessed I'd be searching the Limewire for the mp3 files...
I gave the disc to my friend who has a Powerbook G4 (the previous model - 2 months old) and the disc played and ripped without a problem, probably because it has a very recent dvd/cdrw combo drive.
Well, I'm glad I can listen to the soundtrack anywhere I want too, and I hope Sony comes to their senses about these silly schemes.
If they'd really look at the p2p networks they'd see that their effort to keep the music of those networks is already in vain...
Exactly, you are absolutely right. And because we almost know all the important stuff we are always gonna get less value for our money. I'm guessing we'll get some revelation or two that George adds in Ep2 and Ep3 about some relationships between original trilogy characters and new trilogy characters (is Chewbacca a hairy cousin of the ewoks ? Is Darth Maul the father of tk-421 ? ;-).
But in order to get a climax as good as "I am your father" he needs to pull some big fat rabbit out of his hat, preferably one with 8 lightsabers and operated by Frank Oz...
Well, just my 2 cents, I'm off to see Episode2 here in Belgium. Let's hope I don't need breathmints to get the foul taste out of my mouth afterwards
I really would like to beg to differ. I really think that comparing the prequels to themselves is a bad idea.
;-)
I didn't like Episode 1 as much as the original trilogy either, but I really think that if you consider the whole double trilogy (once completed) you'll like the Phantom Menace a whole lot more (and any other prequel that may or may not suck)
George Lucas has said often enough that "the big picture" will be the important one, and that eventually fans will understand the prequels a lot more.
And you could argue that the movies of the original trilogy are great if singled out, but back then we didn't know anything of the story. We didn't know about Vader, let alone the "balance of the force" thing. Another thing you could question is why almost everybody likes Empire the best. But still they don't complain about Hope and Jedi...
With the prequels , we almost know all the import things up front : "Anakin falls in love, gets seduiced to the DarkSide, kills all Jedi, and gets "damaged" in a fight with Obi-Wan"
The prequels will deal with all these issues and a lot more stuff that George (unfortunately) added to the Starwars universe ( can you say "Midichlorians" and "celebasy") AND at the same time (hopefully) connect al the loose ends the original trilogy created.
I'm sceptical about the prequels too , because I didn't feel for Phantom what I feel for the original trilogy, but let's hope "the big picture" will indeed be the one we Starwars freaks have been waiting for all these years, and not just Multi Mega Lightsaber Fights were JarJar dies 20 times by the hand of a DarthMaul clone while Amidala is naked all the time
Because the person is running Mac OS X on the laptop.
I was really surprised that this line wasn't in your post :
;-)
YES, it is possible to hate the messenger but enjoy the message
just like Microsoft and [decent MS products here]
I leave it up to Slashdot to determine what those products could be, if there is such a product
Why do you dream about such silly things ? If you were to pay for all that stuff you would be gratefull that Oracle is making Linux their main platform. You still can't beat the price of that OS!
;-)
I like OS X alot as my primary Desktop platform, but give me my Linux on the server side for maximum performance,cheap intell hardware and thus the lowest Cost of Owndership for all my server needs.
Apple shouldn't take on Linux for the UNIX server market, Linux already won that in my opinion. Just you watch and see !
And for rack mounted Apple hardware (if you still insist ) look here : Dual 1Ghz Rackmounted, running YellowDog Linux offcourse
I recently bought a second hand G3/400 Powerbook ( Firewire ) with 384Mb Ram and it runs OSX perfectly. You can feel that OSX demands alot more of your machine than for instance GNOME, but because you become much more productive on the platform that really isn't a problem.
,MacOSX really does a great job. File Management is a lot easier, and all that Multimedia stuff we need works right out of the box. I can watch DVD's, use Dual Head out of the box, plug any usb/firewire peripheral into the thing and continue working. And you can run XFree,bash and GNU stuff with Fink ( I still user abiword for my small wordprocessing needs for instance.)
If you compare Nautilus under YellowDogLinux on the same box to the finder ( and all that other aqua eyecandy ), OSX wins by a long shot.
I was a Linux86 user before , never even owned a mac before , but if you're talking pure User Experience and productivity
So just buy yourself a Logitech USB mouse and you're al set to enjoy MacosX.
And if you don't like it , you still can run Linux. YellowDog does a great job of supporting almost any feature of my powerbook ( sleep! ) so try that one out.
Chimera should try to become the Galeon of Macosx !
It also is a browser that uses Gecko, but with native widgets (GTK+) for Linux
It pioneered ( i think ) tabbed browsing for Linux, and has lots of nice features not found in any other browser. Nice search toolbars, autobookmark folders, nice fullscreen mode and lots more...
I really miss it on my Powerbook when I run OSX ( I also run YellowDog Linux ), and I consider it to be the best browser on earth. It has Gecko's rendering speed with speedy native widgets and alot of features !
If chimera could follow that design it's bound to be a success ( no mean feat though )
I really love Mozilla because of the speedy rendering and whatever platform I use, I always know there's at least one browser that fits all !! But on MacosX it hogs alot of memory and isn't up to speed with the Windows/Linux versions.
Ask RMS ? You must be kidding ? :
I lisened to a talk of RMS at FOSDEM, and a question from an audience member was this one
"How can I make money if I want to be an Independant Developer , making a product that is easy-to-use, stable and most of all FREE. Because of this the users wouldn't need much support at all ! How can I do this and still make money ?"
RMS answered that in terms to make money of that piece of software , the developer should take in mind that he would not be able to meet ALL his requirements for that piece of software. And while he didn't say it as such, it either meant "Go do that thing in one HUGE corporation that spends alotta money on R&D" or the other option would be : "Make sure your clients NEED support"
And that last option should NEVER be a valid option for a software developer
( maybe an option for marketing ? )
I recently bought myself a Pismo G3/400, and coming from serveral years running Linux, I want to install at least one distro and dual boot. ;-)
... ) out of the box, and I have decided I'm going for YellowDog because the support for the features I mentioned above seems there. I have no need to play beta tester on my powerbook ;-)
/home a HFS partition to enable Data Sharing with MacosX ?
I really do not know if I'm ever gonna use it enough to justify the disk space (wastage) on my 18Gb HD, but I just want to check it out.( I'm really impressed with MacosX , but that's another topic altogether
I've thought of running the Mandrake Beta (I've been using Mandrake on every x86 I installed ) but when I bought the Powerbook, I bought it with the purpose of wanting to use every feature a laptop has to offer ( DVD - Sleep - Airport - Dualhead
Also a big issue is the fact that Ximian supports YDL 2.1 through their RedCarpet, and because I'm not going to waste diskspace on installing every Desktop Option , and I love Gnome over KDE.
To conclude I would like to see if someone has installed Linux and made his
And did you notice performance issues , or is it ( or not ) wise to to this ?
I just found out my employer has the book in it's bookshelf ;-) ;-)
It looks very interesting. I concur that a great interface from the start might flush the need for a power-user interface, but what if you really *need* one little tweak for some kind of application. I'm not saying that movie stuff was a life or death situation, but I can imagine someone has a special need and really wants that to be productive. At least Apple should enable developers to make tools that do the trick. And I believe the WindowManager stuff is pretty of limits to developers ?
Any ways, now I know what to read when I'm finished with LOTR
We do not have to convert Divx to cinepak or something !
Just install the Divx quicktime component, and then we have 2 choices
use Avi2Mov that simply converts all the stuff for you and creates a working .mov
Extract the mp3 track from the avi , and merge it with Quicktime (Pro). It saves the same avi again but with playable audio.
;-)
Here's the link with all the info for those who need more info
I really don't see how a rant about proprietary software is in order, but hey - this is slashdot
Yeah , I know what you mean. I was a Gnome user a while ago and I too miss things like focus-follows-mouse and always-on-top windows. I really cannot understand why always-on-top isn't possible !
;-)
Consider all those video editors that need to see their movies while surfing the web ? ( or consider us geeks that want to see our PearlHarbor divx over and over again while coding )
I hope Apple sees that there are many Linux desktop users that switched to have MacosX that really want/need those things. I hope they just add some options for the WindowManager for us power-users. Hide it from the casual users, but let power-users do what they want
But After a month OSX still surprises me here and there and I've grown accustom to the OSX Desktop.
ps. Pearl Harbor SUCKS !!
I'm very pleased to say it also works great on the Powerbook G3 (Pismo/Firewire) ;-)
Just tested it on my TV and on an external monitor, all I can say is SWEEEEEET
Together with an Cordless Optical Mouse from Logitech it's the ideal makedue DVD platform
Now al we need is support for VCD and SVCD under OSX. And maybe mp3 audio support in quicktime so we can play Divx without all that conversion stuff.
Apple really dropped the proverbial ball on that one if you ask me. I thought it was THE multimedia OS ?
Oh, well I'm already happy I can play my copy "Hackers" when I'm in need of my regular fix of pure Bullshit.
My cable provider Telenet displays the same kind of behaviour when it comes to their inabillity to calculate bandwith for their networks.
;-)
We get 10Gig a month, and the speed was always very good. There's a usenetserver infrastructure with a local posting policy, so we can trade stuff at reasonable speeds without imposing too much on the network.
But recently the troubles started : They implemented a global cost increase of 13% for the home accounts. The business accounts, which are more expensive and just offer 5 or 10gigs more, did not change. It's very clear that they just expected to sell much more business accounts to the heavy downloaders.
Not only did they increase the cost, they also installed a new traffic accounting system, which doesn't reset the counters every first day of the month, but just calculates 30 days of traffic. This means that every day one days worth of traffic gets dumped from your limit. But offcourse that system wasn't really tested, and now most of the users are on smallband, and do not get automaticaly back onto broadband.
I for one, am on smallband for almost 2 weeks now, and I was supposed to be put on broadband yesterday. But no go.
And the best part of all this bullshit, is the lack of support. No free helpdesk, that one just play little games like testing you cablemodem remotely and telling you all is fine. The paying helpdesk answers vaguely and always will tell you that the problem will be fixed tomorrow. And today , their helpdesk network is down because of the flood of complaints.
How do these companies expect to force users into paying more, if they're just a bunch of amateurs that can't implement their changes efficiently, or can't even offer support for al that money they receive.
Telenet was even on a Consumer Watchdog programme because all those complaints.
I think it's time we laid a T3 in our neighbourhood and took things in our own hand
Get yourself that TiBook and you can run MacOsX AND Linux as well... Tell me one x86 that can do that ;-)
what more do I need to say ?
Probably 5th best spent film ticket ever !! (starwars trilogy comes first in their 1997 re-release, and then 2001 in its 2001 re-release)
Yes your performance in 16bit color will be very good. But all the newer games, including the forementioned Medal of Honour are optimized for 32bit color AND 32bit textures (putting even more strain on your setup). ... in full 32bit color AND 32bit textures with some medium detail setting on your ATIrage128 or for example a TNT2. ;-) ;(
That is another thing altogether. You cannot expect to run Medal Of Honour / Return To Caste Wolfenstein /
And since you'll be losing out on most of the graphic details in modern games in 16bit mode ( look at the skie and smoke in RTCW ) a Geforce-x upgrade seems imminent
I know what I'm talking about cause my overclocked p3-450@558 and TNT2-125@155Mhz can't keep it up for much longer
Hehe , I have to admit I wouldn't know how to compare the 233/66mhz bus imac to any pentium class machine.I really meant "of the same age : 1998" (, which is pretty old in current standards). ;-)
Ask me again when my powerbook arrives LOL
I'm only a recent convert , so I'll leave that kind of holy war to more experienced mac users/addicts
I recently moved from the GNOME desktop to MacosX. I was used to having several terminal files open so I could edit in one term, and copy data of another one. Or comparing some data between terminals.
;-)
Since MacosX has no always-on-top feature, and I had to run it at a lower (1024x768) resolution, I really had some problems getting used to switching between terminals.
Until I set some terminals transparant. Now I could read through the window ! Obviously this only works when the top terminal isn't cluttered with text itself, but it works great enough for me. And because the fonts in MacosX have really great AA the text always remains legible. And transparant windows only make sense to me if they're transparant to the layer beneath them , and not for instance the desktop background. That's why i never used them in linux
I guess it's a question of taste and the abillity to use your choice of desktop efficiently for YOUR needs.
By the way, I'm running MacosX on a iMac g3/233/128ram and it still feels snappier than windows on an comparable system, so choose your bloat statements carefully
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then the beholder is a MacOsX user ( or designer ;-), and
not a KDE3 enthousiast.
;-)
The first screenshot looks like an old KDE1 screenshots. Colors, icons, window decorations... all ghastly ugly if you ask me.
If you're talking about current user experiences, I'm much more at ease with the MacOsX desktop than with the KDE2 one ( been using MacOsX for a couple of days ). I still prefer the GNOME user experience above any KDE
Just my two cents, feel free to ignore