What's interesting/annoying is that the latest variants of the Bagle/Beagle virus use password protected encrtypted zip attachments which has caught quite a few mail gateways and virus companies off guard. Our mail gateway (mailscanner/f-prot/spamassassin) was unable to deal with the encrypted zip attachments and passed them on through.
The virus companies better hurry the heck up and come up with a solution. (Looks like ClamAV and Sophos have already done so.)
It pretty much sucks, but until there's a better option, it's usually better than dial-up.
You'll probably find a more informed discussion at broadbandreports.com forums. Also check out their Satellite FAQ
SSH sessions are pretty bad. However, in pinches they are possible by "typing blind". ie. typing your slew of commands and waiting for them to appear/happen. Can be a bit dangerous.:)
Reliability is pretty bad. We have regular snow and rain storms which usually knocks it out of service.
Speeds, http download is alright, although there is always a slight delay before things happen due to latency. Other download speeds suck, especially anything is encrypted. Upload speed is as slow as if not slower than modem.
But, we don't have any other options at the moment (come on airships!)
BTW our setup two way direcway using a dedicated w2k box with crappy internet connection sharing.
I haven't found the answer to these questions regarding panther:
I've seen no mention of specifics related to VPN support in Panther. Apple claims IPSec support. However, 10.2 has IPSec support, just no front-end. Is there a front-end for establishing an IPSec tunnel in Panther? It sounds like maybe this is integrated into the Internet Connect app?
Jobs touted updates to Mail.app but didn't mention whether you can actually do a more advanced search. The current search functionality stinks in comparison to other email clients which allow you to give any number of criteria. Has the search in Mail been improved?
Is X11 still a stand alone application in Panther or is more integrated with the OS?
The Apple Panther page says "support for popular Linux APIs". Any indication of what this means?
Is NetInfo still used as the centralized database for all OS resources or have they finally replaced it with LDAP?
I've been looking for something similiar for quite some time. The closest thing I've found so far is UW Calendar
"The UW Calendar project is building an open-source calendaring system for higher education. UW Calendar will support personal, public and group events, use existing open standards, and support web-based and other forms of access, including uPortal integration."
Hans Reiser: I'd like to thank the XFS developers for taking the time to personally explain to me why delayed allocation is the way to go.
Now that's cool. Projects that appear to be in direct competition, but they all have great respect for each other and actually communicate with each other. And in the end, each product ends up being better.
This is indeed cool. But "1st world countries" that think cell phones and solar power are useful for "third world countries" should be careful.
One great story is where the "advanced" white man brought a bunch of solar panels to a third world country. The locals found that they worked great as tables but not much else.
Other considerations need to be thought about as well. In some countries, children play a role of water carriers. Go in and start pumping water with solar panels, and you've changed the social aspects of the community. The children must be given some other role to play.
It all sort of reminds me of time travel in the movies, where the person goes back, changes one small thing, and suddenly a chain reaction of events occurs, forever changing history, often for the worse.
Have you ever thought it'd be cool if you could have an environmentally-friendly computer ? I've always wanted one, I even powered my old ZX81 with a bicycle, a dynamo and a bridge rectifier circuitry once. Trouble is, even the poor little ZX81 needs a lot of pedaling to simply boot up.
Then, on Friday, I came across this hand-powered lantern while browsing the net, and the idea clicked in my head : the manufacturer of this little gem ships it with a 3V 650mA light bulb (1.95 W), and the uCdimm from Lineo needs 3.3V 350mA (1.155 W) at most, so the lantern should be able to power a uCdimm confortably.
So I called up a bunch of places here in Toronto and found one of these lanterns. When I came back to the office, our local electronics guru Sergey, our local geekhead Evan and myself took the thing apart, cranked up the spring and measured the voltage : without the lanterns' battery and light bulb, the internal DC generator spews out a heroic 5 V. Cool, that's perfect for a 3.3 V regulator and a uCdimm !
So I spent the week-end cleanly ripping the guts of the lantern out (it's surprising the amount of electronics this thing has inside), installing a 3.3 V regulator inside, a serial port and an ethernet port at the back, rewiring the power plug that used to serve as battery charging port to power the uCdimm while working on it, rewiring the button (that is also a clever brake to stop the spring from unwinding when the lantern is not in use).
The hardest was soldering a bunch of wires on the uCdimm's bus (man! those pads are tiny) and installing it nicely in lieu of the original light bulb and reflector.
One nice thing about the uCdimm (apart its low power consumption of course) is that it boots into Linux quickly, which is crucial because the dynamo only provide a little over 2 minutes of power with 60 cranks, so every second spent booting up the board is a second lost that can't be used to browse.
So here it is : the "uCdynamo", the first webserver you can bring with you and use in a desert:-)
The uCdimm embedded in the front bezel, with a background image to make the whole assembly look a little better. The spring ran out of breath before I could finish taking the photo:)
The side of the lantern, showing the business end of the muscle power supply. The button controls the brake applied on the generator's large pulley, and the reset line on the uCdimm at the highest setting. The power led next to the button now serves as "health" monitor, just like on the uCevolution board.
The serial port, ethernet port and additional power plug sticking out at the back of the lantern.
The guts of the beast. You can see the gears demultiplicating the huge torque and low speed of the unwinding spring into a low torque high speed rotation to operate the generator.
Jeff reckons the generator has enough oomph to power an LCD display as well, and there's plenty of space left on the side of the lantern to bolt one on, so maybe we'll turn it into a hand-powered "handheld" some day:-)
This is a myth perpetuated by George W. Bush and his oil lovin' friends.:)
I'm too lazy to find the book that talks about this. It does take quite a bit of energy to manufacturor a solar panel, but that energy is regained in under one year. Solar panels are known to have 20+ year life spans.
In addition, I'd rather use "dirty" energy to produce something that creates green energy than anything else.
Well, whatever you are going to grow to produce the energy, plants, algae, etc requires the sun. So your suggestion is good, except we've already cut out the middleman (algae, etc) and by just using solar panels.
No moving parts, quiet, and you don't have to water them.:)
I've tried LinuxPPC several times over the years and have actually been disappointed. It just hasn't seemed polished and LinuxPPC, the company, has had some serious customer service problems.
Have you ever thought about or actually talked to RedHat as making LinuxPPC the RedHat Distro for PPC?
This would provide you with extra resources to keep LinuxPPC up to date and cleaner.
For those of you interested in more info about dial-a-song, there was a story about it on
This American Life back in 1998. Here is the direct Real Audio link.
Talks about how TMBG had to change the songs around in order to prevent the answering machine from stop recording. (The answering machine stopped after it dedected a certain tone.)
They could also tell what songs are good and not so good by seeing how long people would listen before hanging up.
The other problem is if you have separate partitions but use HFS+ for OSX, once you boot OS9 it mounts your OSX partition and sees its not really MacOS and deblesses it! making OSX unbootable. <P>
This isn't true for me. My Mac OS partition is HFS+ and I've booted into OS 9 several times. The Mac OS X partition is mounted. I can go in, look around, then boot back into OS X with no problems.
I use a mac. I use *nix. Being able to use both seamlessly on the same desktop is pretty freakin' cool. I can finally stop switching over to my linux box to run remote *nix apps or local *nix apps.
A bunch of people are already doing this in Australia. They're using wavelan (now Orinico) cards and linux boxes to make a network in remote locations.
Links here:
Although there isn't anything extremely new in this current story, it's important that the internet is becoming more and more available to EVERYONE. That's what makes the internet so exciting. A hick in the sticks can have just as much power as a corporation by learning a little html. Well that may be pushing it. But the divide is theortectically shrinking, and that is a good thing (TM).
The reason the chip would be Altivec-less is because it's from IBM. Motorolla makes the G4's with Altivec and I believe owns the rights to the technology. According to rumor however, IBM has had much better luck getting higher clock rates than Motorolla.
Apple's in a sticky situation... they want Altivec because it speeds things up, but they need higher clock rates to compete with AMD and Intel. Motorolla hasn't been able to get high clock rates and the G4 has been stuck at 500 MHz for a year.
It's too bad because the G4 looked so promising, but Moto has been able to deliver to all the hype.
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Now Jobs is talking about iTools and how easy it is to make a homepage. The new iTools has more templates and features. He whipped out a website in iTools real quick to show how easy it is. He's demoing the photo album in iTools. It now allows drag and drop reordering of pictures. Now he is making a page to show an iMovie. He's talking about being able to build a very extensive website after dinner in just a few minutes.
He's gone back to the product matrix and is reviewing what they've gone over. "But there's even one more thing..." He's talking about their product strategy and how successul they've been for the past 2.5 years, but now they are expanding their product strategy with a new desktop. The new desktop will be a G4, up to 1.5 gigs of RAM, up to 40 gigs of storage inside the machine, ethernet, USB, firewire, Airport. This machine is much smaller than a G4, being an 8" cube, 1/4 the size of a G4. It doesn't have a fan. It looks totally chic and would look most excellent to an Apple LCD. It has slot-loading DVD on top, toaster style, apparently they've gotten around the 8x barrier that vertical CD players used to have. It is very easy to access the insides for upgrades, so those who worried about that, don't. It has ball speakers, which are very hip. It costs a cool $1800, so not really very cheap. The models are available in early August.
Now he is showing the new displays. The new 17" CRT display with Diamondtron and is totally flat. It has a brilliant clear enclosure. It has 2 USB ports built into it. The display is powered by the computer, just one cable carries video, USB, and power. One cable replaces 3. It costs $499. The next display is the 15" LCD. 2 USB ports again, and powered from the computer just like the CRT, and only costs $999. The last is the new Cinema Display, which uses the video/USB/power over one cable. Now they are talking to Apple employees about how great the new stuff is.
Ok, Steve is now on stage and introing the keynote. He's thanking the audience and saying that they have a ton of stuff to show. He's speaking that over 4 gigabits a second are going through akamai to quicktime viewers.
Ok, now Steve is talking about the mouse. Making a joke that "some people don't like it." So they are introducing a new mouse that looks shaped like a gel cap,"Making the worst mouse in the industry into the best." It is the highest precision optical mouse available. There is no obvious button on it. The whole continuous surface of the mouse is the button. It is designed to fit left or right hands of any size. Steve is saying they've been developing this for awhile. The new optical mouse will be standard across the whole desktop line. Steve is now showing the new keyboard to go to the new mouse. It has the same layout as the Apple Extended keyboard. It has volume keys and an eject disc button. This will also be standard across the whole desktop line. These upgrades will cost $50 each exclusively at the Apple Store and will ship in September. They are now going to show the TV commercials for the new mouse. The new mouse has Black Dog, the Zepplen song, in the background and shows the mouse zooming around on the typical Apple white set.
Jobs is now showing the product matrix and is starting with the PowerMac G4. He's spouting the usual spiel about the G4 and Velocity Engine and 3.5 gigaflops. In the amount of time it takes for the G4 to execute one instruction light has only moved 4 inches. "How does a 500 Mhz G4 stack up against a 1000 Mhz PIII?" Steve is inviting Phil Schiller on stage to find out. Phil is using a movie poster in photoshop to compare a Win2000 Ghz machine and 500 Mhz G4. Phil is saying how PS is optimized for the PIII and G4 so it makes for a good match up. The artist gave Apple the actions they used to make the poster and is running the list of actions on both machines. The G4 spanked the PIII severely. This set of actions is quite comprehensive and uses gradients, transforms, and several other different things. So the Mac finished ahead of the PIII by a considerable amount. "Ghz Pentium, ladies and gentlemen!" The PIII took 120 seconds, the G4 took 100 seconds. If you do the math, a 500 MHz G4 is as fast as a 1.2 Ghz Pentium. Steve is giving the usual "Mhz isn't the most important thing." Now Steve is talking about using 2 G4s at the same time. He's now showing a dual processor G4 compared to a 1 Ghz PIII running the previous movie poster test. The dual machine is running 2 500 Mhz G4s. The G4 is yet again soundly destroying the PIII. "Now we could wait for the Ghz Pentium or not, how about we move on." The dual processor machine took 61 seconds in this case. Doing the math, that is the equivalent of a 2 Ghz PIII. The dual processor machines will be available starting today, running at over 7 gigaflops. The 400 Mhz model will stay the same, the 450 model will now come with 2 450 Mhz G4s, and the high end model will come standard with dual 500 Mhz G4s. Every PowerMac model will now have gigabit ethernet on the motherboard. This is quite expensive and will save a lot of people a PCI slot. Phil is now going to demo this ethernet. This will save a lot of people a $1000 add-on. They're going to use video to demonstrate the speed, by showing the video over the network. Now Phil is editing video using FCP from one machine while the actual video is actually on the server. So Phil is playing this very large movie that takes 16MB/sec. The first model comes with 20 GB, the second 30, the third 40GB, and has space for more drives, this is quite a bit larger. The new models will fall into the same price as their predecessors. All of these models are available today. "We think this is going to be the best PowerMac ever."
Now Jobs is going to talk about Mac OS X (!!!!!!!!!). "It has great new plumbing." Mac OS X supports SMP (symmetric multi-processing. Jobs said that they are on track to release the public beta of OS X in early September and the final in early 2001. He says they don't have time for a full blown demo so he is just going to show Aqua for a bit. This is pretty standard stuff, saving windows and stuff. He's demonstarting the save dialog. He's talking about exposing the power of the interface when you want it, but keeping a simple. He is saying there have been some misconception of the finder and that it is still very Mac-like. He's demonstrating navigating the hard drive and viewing files. He's showing the browser mode of finding files and how you can preview mp3s, video, and just about anything else in the finder. Now he's showing the dock, talking about using it to hold miniaturized windows, applications, and documents. He's demonstrating his love for the dock by showing the slow motion movement of the window to the dock. He's just going to show one last thing, showing the MI:2 trailer in QT on Mac OS X. Actually, now he's going to show the bomb.app, an application that works its hardest to crash Mac OS X, he's also showing it while playing the movie trailer. The bomb applications just simply was quitted when it crashed, but the trailer kept going. Now he's talking about his great relationship with Adobe and invited the president up. "We have hundreds of engineers working on getting our applications over to Mac OS X." He is talking about making sure that the key apps are on Mac OS X. "Now we have the ultimate system," the president is saying, in reference to the MP G4 machines,"I can't wait to get my hands on one." Jobs said mock seriously,"Get him one." Now Jobs is talking about their improving relationship with Microsoft and working with them on the new version of Office. He invited the Mac business unit manager up. "It is the most Mac-like product we've released in a long time." It is supposed to increase compatibility with Windows and other Apple applications. The new application in the suite, Entourage (?) seems to be a calendar, adress book, etc. It seems a lot of these features are only available on the Mac, but the audience doesn't seem very pleased and didn't say "Only on the Mac", along with the MS rep even though he asked them too. Now they're looking at Excel. My stream briefly died, but all I seemed to miss were more Office demos, I'm sure every site will cover the new features a ton. You can now save PowerPoint as QuickTimes. Now they're showing an ad for Office 2001. Jobs said,"Best version of Office: on the Mac." Now Jobs is talking about Bungie and invited the VP of games for MS to come out and speak. Apple, Bungie, and Microsoft are getting together to form a games company, it sounds like every game made by Bungie and MS will also come out for Mac OS, but I'm not totally sure of that. So it seems Halo will still come out for Windows and Mac OS, which pleases me greatly.
Now he's talking about the iMacs, and their second birthday. In 2 years 7 million iMacs have been sold. Over 200 an hour are sold. Now he's giving the usual stats about new buyers, converts from Wintel, and how many use the internet, and how many edit movies. 89% are online. There are now 4 models, with the same award winning design. He's talking about all the current features, Harmon Kardon sound, fan-less. The first model is the entry level one, 350 Mhz G3, 7.5 gigabytes, comes in Indigo, and with 64MB of RAM. It of course comes with the new keyboard and mouse, and only costs $799(!!!!!). Model number 2 is the iMac DV. He's talking about FireWire and iMovie allowing people to make movies. 30% of iMac DV makers have made an iMovie. The second model comes in the colro Ruby, which is a deep red, as expected. The iMac DV is $999. The iMac DVSE is 500 Mhz G3, 128MB of RAM, 30GB HD, and DVD. You can also now get the DVSE in Snow, a white color, it appears, and costs $1499. So the new colors are Graphite, Snow, Indigo, Ruby, and Sage, no yellow or tangerine, it appears. The $799 model is the only one not available immediately, it will show up in September. I missed some of the iMac specs/prices, so check out the details later. Jobs is also talking about having Circuit City sell iMacs. Jobs is showing the new iMac ads, one has Elvis music, I don't know the second song, but it has Ruby in the lyrics. The third ad is for the green Sage iMacs, which is a very hip color. "It is not easy being green."
Now Jobs is talking about iMovie and how close it is to Apple. He's talking about how amazingly easy it is and how great the technology is. Now they're announcing iMovie 2. He said iMovie is the most popular video editing tool in the world. It has a new interface and a host of other new features and improvements. It has an Aqua instead of brushed steel interface. It has enhanced audio editing and new effects. The video is rather funny and is a video letter from Mr.Jobs to his parents apologizing for his absence. So, he's just demoing more features of iMovie, such as audio mixing.
To prevent the further decline of slashdot in to it's official stage of "sold out", I've decided to put a stop to people other than CmdrTaco adding quickies to the front page. In the words of my mother, "It's just not right". The patches are available for download at slashcode.
What's the speed of running an app in the Classic environment? Does the environment work roughly the same way that the Blue Box did in Rhapsody?
In os x client, it's transparent. Classic windows co-exist with carbon or cocoa windows. Classic apps currently have the platnium appearance (not aqua) but I'm betting this is just done to encourage developers to carbonize their apps, and when it's show time, they slap the aqua appearance on classic apps.
It's interesting that Apple chose to keep the historical UFS instead of basing it on a newer FS or advancing their HFS. While HFS+ was designed to bridge between HFS and UFS, it still doesn't make sense to use a pure-unix filesystem when you don't have a pure-unix OS. Instead, IMHO, they should have used something like the BeOS filesystem, so they could keep resource forks, etc.
OS x client does support hfs+. It's actually the default format for installing the os. If they hadn't done this, everyone would have to reformat their whold drive while upgrading from os 9 -> 10. If the average mac user had to do that, there would be a lot of unhappy campers.
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What's interesting/annoying is that the latest variants of the Bagle/Beagle virus use password protected encrtypted zip attachments which has caught quite a few mail gateways and virus companies off guard. Our mail gateway (mailscanner/f-prot/spamassassin) was unable to deal with the encrypted zip attachments and passed them on through.
The virus companies better hurry the heck up and come up with a solution. (Looks like ClamAV and Sophos have already done so.)
I've been using it for about 4 months now.
:)
It pretty much sucks, but until there's a better option, it's usually better than dial-up.
You'll probably find a more informed discussion at broadbandreports.com forums. Also check out their Satellite FAQ
SSH sessions are pretty bad. However, in pinches they are possible by "typing blind". ie. typing your slew of commands and waiting for them to appear/happen. Can be a bit dangerous.
Reliability is pretty bad. We have regular snow and rain storms which usually knocks it out of service.
Speeds, http download is alright, although there is always a slight delay before things happen due to latency. Other download speeds suck, especially anything is encrypted. Upload speed is as slow as if not slower than modem.
But, we don't have any other options at the moment (come on airships!)
BTW our setup two way direcway using a dedicated w2k box with crappy internet connection sharing.
I haven't found the answer to these questions regarding panther:
I've seen no mention of specifics related to VPN support in Panther. Apple claims IPSec support. However, 10.2 has IPSec support, just no front-end. Is there a front-end for establishing an IPSec tunnel in Panther? It sounds like maybe this is integrated into the Internet Connect app?
Jobs touted updates to Mail.app but didn't mention whether you can actually do a more advanced search. The current search functionality stinks in comparison to other email clients which allow you to give any number of criteria. Has the search in Mail been improved?
Is X11 still a stand alone application in Panther or is more integrated with the OS?
The Apple Panther page says "support for popular Linux APIs". Any indication of what this means?
Is NetInfo still used as the centralized database for all OS resources or have they finally replaced it with LDAP?
"The UW Calendar project is building an open-source calendaring system for higher education. UW Calendar will support personal, public and group events, use existing open standards, and support web-based and other forms of access, including uPortal integration."
Now that's cool. Projects that appear to be in direct competition, but they all have great respect for each other and actually communicate with each other. And in the end, each product ends up being better.
Corporations take note.
This is indeed cool. But "1st world countries" that think cell phones and solar power are useful for "third world countries" should be careful.
One great story is where the "advanced" white man brought a bunch of solar panels to a third world country. The locals found that they worked great as tables but not much else.
Other considerations need to be thought about as well. In some countries, children play a role of water carriers. Go in and start pumping water with solar panels, and you've changed the social aspects of the community. The children must be given some other role to play.
It all sort of reminds me of time travel in the movies, where the person goes back, changes one small thing, and suddenly a chain reaction of events occurs, forever changing history, often for the worse.
from: http://www.uclinux.com/hand-powered_web_server/ind ex.html
:-)
:)
:-)
A hand-powered webserver
Have you ever thought it'd be cool if you could have an environmentally-friendly computer ? I've always wanted one, I even powered my old ZX81 with a bicycle, a dynamo and a bridge rectifier circuitry once. Trouble is, even the poor little ZX81 needs a lot of pedaling to simply boot up.
Then, on Friday, I came across this hand-powered lantern while browsing the net, and the idea clicked in my head : the manufacturer of this little gem ships it with a 3V 650mA light bulb (1.95 W), and the uCdimm from Lineo needs 3.3V 350mA (1.155 W) at most, so the lantern should be able to power a uCdimm confortably.
So I called up a bunch of places here in Toronto and found one of these lanterns. When I came back to the office, our local electronics guru Sergey, our local geekhead Evan and myself took the thing apart, cranked up the spring and measured the voltage : without the lanterns' battery and light bulb, the internal DC generator spews out a heroic 5 V. Cool, that's perfect for a 3.3 V regulator and a uCdimm !
So I spent the week-end cleanly ripping the guts of the lantern out (it's surprising the amount of electronics this thing has inside), installing a 3.3 V regulator inside, a serial port and an ethernet port at the back, rewiring the power plug that used to serve as battery charging port to power the uCdimm while working on it, rewiring the button (that is also a clever brake to stop the spring from unwinding when the lantern is not in use).
The hardest was soldering a bunch of wires on the uCdimm's bus (man! those pads are tiny) and installing it nicely in lieu of the original light bulb and reflector.
One nice thing about the uCdimm (apart its low power consumption of course) is that it boots into Linux quickly, which is crucial because the dynamo only provide a little over 2 minutes of power with 60 cranks, so every second spent booting up the board is a second lost that can't be used to browse.
So here it is : the "uCdynamo", the first webserver you can bring with you and use in a desert
The uCdimm embedded in the front bezel, with a background image to make the whole assembly look a little better. The spring ran out of breath before I could finish taking the photo
The side of the lantern, showing the business end of the muscle power supply. The button controls the brake applied on the generator's large pulley, and the reset line on the uCdimm at the highest setting. The power led next to the button now serves as "health" monitor, just like on the uCevolution board.
The serial port, ethernet port and additional power plug sticking out at the back of the lantern.
The guts of the beast. You can see the gears demultiplicating the huge torque and low speed of the unwinding spring into a low torque high speed rotation to operate the generator.
Jeff reckons the generator has enough oomph to power an LCD display as well, and there's plenty of space left on the side of the lantern to bolt one on, so maybe we'll turn it into a hand-powered "handheld" some day
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If that happens, which it probably will, I think it will be a good reflection of american culture in 2001.
Just think, in 2100 kids can look at pictures of it in history books and see how _good_ things used to be.
Here's a bunch of screen shots from M$: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/guide/newlook.a sp
And here are some Mac OS X screens: http://www.apple.com/macosx/usingosx/desktop.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1 189000/1189148.stm
This is a myth perpetuated by George W. Bush and his oil lovin' friends. :)
I'm too lazy to find the book that talks about this. It does take quite a bit of energy to manufacturor a solar panel, but that energy is regained in under one year. Solar panels are known to have 20+ year life spans.
In addition, I'd rather use "dirty" energy to produce something that creates green energy than anything else.
Well, whatever you are going to grow to produce the energy, plants, algae, etc requires the sun. So your suggestion is good, except we've already cut out the middleman (algae, etc) and by just using solar panels.
:)
No moving parts, quiet, and you don't have to water them.
I've tried LinuxPPC several times over the years and have actually been disappointed. It just hasn't seemed polished and LinuxPPC, the company, has had some serious customer service problems.
Have you ever thought about or actually talked to RedHat as making LinuxPPC the RedHat Distro for PPC?
This would provide you with extra resources to keep LinuxPPC up to date and cleaner.
Talks about how TMBG had to change the songs around in order to prevent the answering machine from stop recording. (The answering machine stopped after it dedected a certain tone.)
They could also tell what songs are good and not so good by seeing how long people would listen before hanging up.
It's in the "second act". A good listen.
The other problem is if you have separate partitions but use HFS+ for OSX, once you boot OS9 it mounts your OSX partition and sees its not really MacOS and deblesses it! making OSX unbootable.
<P>
This isn't true for me. My Mac OS partition is HFS+ and I've booted into OS 9 several times. The Mac OS X partition is mounted. I can go in, look around, then boot back into OS X with no problems.
You have your facts backwards La-Z-Bastard.
Tenon actually had their iTools product BEFORE Apple introduced their iTools shwack.
It's just you and a bunch of other /.'s.
I use a mac. I use *nix. Being able to use both seamlessly on the same desktop is pretty freakin' cool. I can finally stop switching over to my linux box to run remote *nix apps or local *nix apps.
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Although there isn't anything extremely new in this current story, it's important that the internet is becoming more and more available to EVERYONE. That's what makes the internet so exciting. A hick in the sticks can have just as much power as a corporation by learning a little html. Well that may be pushing it. But the divide is theortectically shrinking, and that is a good thing (TM).
mySQL comes with a default password of nothing for its root user. No one seems to be concerned about it. I'm not.
The reason high-profile companies have gotten hacked is not because of a default password, it's because stupid admins don't change it.
The reason the chip would be Altivec-less is because it's from IBM. Motorolla makes the G4's with Altivec and I believe owns the rights to the technology. According to rumor however, IBM has had much better luck getting higher clock rates than Motorolla.
Apple's in a sticky situation... they want Altivec because it speeds things up, but they need higher clock rates to compete with AMD and Intel. Motorolla hasn't been able to get high clock rates and the G4 has been stuck at 500 MHz for a year.
It's too bad because the G4 looked so promising, but Moto has been able to deliver to all the hype.
Well it looks like I win your left nut. Because, the cube's video card IS removeable.
I just got an email from a friend who studied the cube closely yesterday at the expo. And he noticed that the card was NOT hard wired to the mobo.
However, I don't know and doubt that it is a stadard AGP card.
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Now Jobs is talking about iTools and how easy it is to make a homepage. The new iTools has more templates and features. He whipped out a website in iTools real quick to show how easy it is. He's demoing the photo album in iTools. It now allows drag and drop reordering of pictures. Now he is making a page to show an iMovie. He's talking about being able to build a very extensive website after dinner in just a few minutes.
He's gone back to the product matrix and is reviewing what they've gone over. "But there's even one more thing..." He's talking about their product strategy and how successul they've been for the past 2.5 years, but now they are expanding their product strategy with a new desktop. The new desktop will be a G4, up to 1.5 gigs of RAM, up to 40 gigs of storage inside the machine, ethernet, USB, firewire, Airport. This machine is much smaller than a G4, being an 8" cube, 1/4 the size of a G4. It doesn't have a fan. It looks totally chic and would look most excellent to an Apple LCD. It has slot-loading DVD on top, toaster style, apparently they've gotten around the 8x barrier that vertical CD players used to have. It is very easy to access the insides for upgrades, so those who worried about that, don't. It has ball speakers, which are very hip. It costs a cool $1800, so not really very cheap. The models are available in early August.
Now he is showing the new displays. The new 17" CRT display with Diamondtron and is totally flat. It has a brilliant clear enclosure. It has 2 USB ports built into it. The display is powered by the computer, just one cable carries video, USB, and power. One cable replaces 3. It costs $499. The next display is the 15" LCD. 2 USB ports again, and powered from the computer just like the CRT, and only costs $999. The last is the new Cinema Display, which uses the video/USB/power over one cable. Now they are talking to Apple employees about how great the new stuff is.
Live Keynote Coverage from MWNY 2000
Ok, Steve is now on stage and introing the keynote. He's thanking the audience and saying that they have a ton of stuff to show. He's speaking that over 4 gigabits a second are going through akamai to quicktime viewers.
Ok, now Steve is talking about the mouse. Making a joke that "some people don't like it." So they are introducing a new mouse that looks shaped like a gel cap,"Making the worst mouse in the industry into the best." It is the highest precision optical mouse available. There is no obvious button on it. The whole continuous surface of the mouse is the button. It is designed to fit left or right hands of any size. Steve is saying they've been developing this for awhile. The new optical mouse will be standard across the whole desktop line. Steve is now showing the new keyboard to go to the new mouse. It has the same layout as the Apple Extended keyboard. It has volume keys and an eject disc button. This will also be standard across the whole desktop line. These upgrades will cost $50 each exclusively at the Apple Store and will ship in September. They are now going to show the TV commercials for the new mouse. The new mouse has Black Dog, the Zepplen song, in the background and shows the mouse zooming around on the typical Apple white set.
Jobs is now showing the product matrix and is starting with the PowerMac G4. He's spouting the usual spiel about the G4 and Velocity Engine and 3.5 gigaflops. In the amount of time it takes for the G4 to execute one instruction light has only moved 4 inches. "How does a 500 Mhz G4 stack up against a 1000 Mhz PIII?" Steve is inviting Phil Schiller on stage to find out. Phil is using a movie poster in photoshop to compare a Win2000 Ghz machine and 500 Mhz G4. Phil is saying how PS is optimized for the PIII and G4 so it makes for a good match up. The artist gave Apple the actions they used to make the poster and is running the list of actions on both machines. The G4 spanked the PIII severely. This set of actions is quite comprehensive and uses gradients, transforms, and several other different things. So the Mac finished ahead of the PIII by a considerable amount. "Ghz Pentium, ladies and gentlemen!" The PIII took 120 seconds, the G4 took 100 seconds. If you do the math, a 500 MHz G4 is as fast as a 1.2 Ghz Pentium. Steve is giving the usual "Mhz isn't the most important thing." Now Steve is talking about using 2 G4s at the same time. He's now showing a dual processor G4 compared to a 1 Ghz PIII running the previous movie poster test. The dual machine is running 2 500 Mhz G4s. The G4 is yet again soundly destroying the PIII. "Now we could wait for the Ghz Pentium or not, how about we move on." The dual processor machine took 61 seconds in this case. Doing the math, that is the equivalent of a 2 Ghz PIII. The dual processor machines will be available starting today, running at over 7 gigaflops. The 400 Mhz model will stay the same, the 450 model will now come with 2 450 Mhz G4s, and the high end model will come standard with dual 500 Mhz G4s. Every PowerMac model will now have gigabit ethernet on the motherboard. This is quite expensive and will save a lot of people a PCI slot. Phil is now going to demo this ethernet. This will save a lot of people a $1000 add-on. They're going to use video to demonstrate the speed, by showing the video over the network. Now Phil is editing video using FCP from one machine while the actual video is actually on the server. So Phil is playing this very large movie that takes 16MB/sec. The first model comes with 20 GB, the second 30, the third 40GB, and has space for more drives, this is quite a bit larger. The new models will fall into the same price as their predecessors. All of these models are available today. "We think this is going to be the best PowerMac ever."
Now Jobs is going to talk about Mac OS X (!!!!!!!!!). "It has great new plumbing." Mac OS X supports SMP (symmetric multi-processing. Jobs said that they are on track to release the public beta of OS X in early September and the final in early 2001. He says they don't have time for a full blown demo so he is just going to show Aqua for a bit. This is pretty standard stuff, saving windows and stuff. He's demonstarting the save dialog. He's talking about exposing the power of the interface when you want it, but keeping a simple. He is saying there have been some misconception of the finder and that it is still very Mac-like. He's demonstrating navigating the hard drive and viewing files. He's showing the browser mode of finding files and how you can preview mp3s, video, and just about anything else in the finder. Now he's showing the dock, talking about using it to hold miniaturized windows, applications, and documents. He's demonstrating his love for the dock by showing the slow motion movement of the window to the dock. He's just going to show one last thing, showing the MI:2 trailer in QT on Mac OS X. Actually, now he's going to show the bomb.app, an application that works its hardest to crash Mac OS X, he's also showing it while playing the movie trailer. The bomb applications just simply was quitted when it crashed, but the trailer kept going. Now he's talking about his great relationship with Adobe and invited the president up. "We have hundreds of engineers working on getting our applications over to Mac OS X." He is talking about making sure that the key apps are on Mac OS X. "Now we have the ultimate system," the president is saying, in reference to the MP G4 machines,"I can't wait to get my hands on one." Jobs said mock seriously,"Get him one." Now Jobs is talking about their improving relationship with Microsoft and working with them on the new version of Office. He invited the Mac business unit manager up. "It is the most Mac-like product we've released in a long time." It is supposed to increase compatibility with Windows and other Apple applications. The new application in the suite, Entourage (?) seems to be a calendar, adress book, etc. It seems a lot of these features are only available on the Mac, but the audience doesn't seem very pleased and didn't say "Only on the Mac", along with the MS rep even though he asked them too. Now they're looking at Excel. My stream briefly died, but all I seemed to miss were more Office demos, I'm sure every site will cover the new features a ton. You can now save PowerPoint as QuickTimes. Now they're showing an ad for Office 2001. Jobs said,"Best version of Office: on the Mac." Now Jobs is talking about Bungie and invited the VP of games for MS to come out and speak. Apple, Bungie, and Microsoft are getting together to form a games company, it sounds like every game made by Bungie and MS will also come out for Mac OS, but I'm not totally sure of that. So it seems Halo will still come out for Windows and Mac OS, which pleases me greatly.
Now he's talking about the iMacs, and their second birthday. In 2 years 7 million iMacs have been sold. Over 200 an hour are sold. Now he's giving the usual stats about new buyers, converts from Wintel, and how many use the internet, and how many edit movies. 89% are online. There are now 4 models, with the same award winning design. He's talking about all the current features, Harmon Kardon sound, fan-less. The first model is the entry level one, 350 Mhz G3, 7.5 gigabytes, comes in Indigo, and with 64MB of RAM. It of course comes with the new keyboard and mouse, and only costs $799(!!!!!). Model number 2 is the iMac DV. He's talking about FireWire and iMovie allowing people to make movies. 30% of iMac DV makers have made an iMovie. The second model comes in the colro Ruby, which is a deep red, as expected. The iMac DV is $999. The iMac DVSE is 500 Mhz G3, 128MB of RAM, 30GB HD, and DVD. You can also now get the DVSE in Snow, a white color, it appears, and costs $1499. So the new colors are Graphite, Snow, Indigo, Ruby, and Sage, no yellow or tangerine, it appears. The $799 model is the only one not available immediately, it will show up in September. I missed some of the iMac specs/prices, so check out the details later. Jobs is also talking about having Circuit City sell iMacs. Jobs is showing the new iMac ads, one has Elvis music, I don't know the second song, but it has Ruby in the lyrics. The third ad is for the green Sage iMacs, which is a very hip color. "It is not easy being green."
Now Jobs is talking about iMovie and how close it is to Apple. He's talking about how amazingly easy it is and how great the technology is. Now they're announcing iMovie 2. He said iMovie is the most popular video editing tool in the world. It has a new interface and a host of other new features and improvements. It has an Aqua instead of brushed steel interface. It has enhanced audio editing and new effects. The video is rather funny and is a video letter from Mr.Jobs to his parents apologizing for his absence. So, he's just demoing more features of iMovie, such as audio mixing.
To prevent the further decline of slashdot in to it's official stage of "sold out", I've decided to put a stop to people other than CmdrTaco adding quickies to the front page. In the words of my mother, "It's just not right". The patches are available for download at slashcode.
In os x client, it's transparent. Classic windows co-exist with carbon or cocoa windows. Classic apps currently have the platnium appearance (not aqua) but I'm betting this is just done to encourage developers to carbonize their apps, and when it's show time, they slap the aqua appearance on classic apps.
It's interesting that Apple chose to keep the historical UFS instead of basing it on a newer FS or advancing their HFS. While HFS+ was designed to bridge between HFS and UFS, it still doesn't make sense to use a pure-unix filesystem when you don't have a pure-unix OS. Instead, IMHO, they should have used something like the BeOS filesystem, so they could keep resource forks, etc.
OS x client does support hfs+. It's actually the default format for installing the os. If they hadn't done this, everyone would have to reformat their whold drive while upgrading from os 9 -> 10. If the average mac user had to do that, there would be a lot of unhappy campers.