No, it should be 60 Hz, if it has the "American power settings" referred to in the boot messages, at least if "American" refers to the US or to most of the Americas (Chile and Argentina use 220V/50 Hz, according to the Electricity Around The World page and this Frequency and Voltage Guide by Country).
the implementation of file metadata (think: Copland's any number of forks in a file concept is now working)
Depends on what that Copland concept meant by "fork". Extended attributes are small named chunks of data; they're not arbitrary-size named data streams.
Don't know if this is true with OS X, but other Un*xes I've used have file system performance go to hell when individual folders have lots of files in them.
That's probably more of an issue of the particular on-disk file system type containing the folders. Linear directory searches are probably not going to be very good (although a scheme such as ext2's hash trees might help). Some UN*X file systems use, for example, B-trees for directories, and might work better.
I assume Apple has thought of this already and hacked the hell out of the file system for scalable performance on large directories... right?
Apple thought of that before Mac OS was UN*X; HFS uses a B-tree for directory information. ("B-tree", singular; the key is the parent directory "catalog ID" - think i-number - and the file name, so there's one big catalog for the entire file system; folders aren't files, they're just the collection of all nodes with the same parent directory catalog ID. See the HFS Plus Volume Format document.)
It's more confusing than that. Solaris 10 would've been Solaris 2.10 if they hadn't decided to give up the "2." prefix in Solaris 7...
...and, in either case, unless they've changed the versioning scheme, the OS component of Solaris 10 is SunOS 5.10 (the major version number of SunOS changed when they went to SVR4).
Sun (C) Java (TM) Desktop System, which incidentally, has nothing to do with Java 5
Just out of curiosity, what does the Java Desktop System have to do with Java, other than being offered by the same company that created Java?
Recompiling OSX for AMD64 might not be too bad. Recompiling the libraries on top of it
By "OSX" do you mean "the OS X kernel"? "The libraries", if by that you mean libc^H^H^H^HlibSystem, libthis, libthat, libtheotherthing, and all the frameworks, are part of OS X, just as much as the kernel (xnu + loadable modules) is.
those aren't even optimized for 64-bit processors yet for compatibility reasons
What do you mean by "optimized for 64-bit processors"? The Tiger kernel is 32-bit code (although it supports 64-bit userland code); libSystem, however, comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions (see Apple's page on developing 64-bit applications).
The interesting part of such a rumor could be AMD who yes make "Intel-Compatiable" chips,don't they use a POWER core with hardware translation layer to support x86 instructions?
No, they don't, unless RISC86 is POWER, which I have no reason to believe it is (AMD says the RISC86 instructions were "specifically designed with direct support for the x86 architecture while obeying RISC performance principles"), and they still use that scheme in their current processors. Seee the Nx568 product brief.
And the OS/2 HPFS file system, if that's what you're referring to, was, as far as I know, developed (either wholly or primarily) by Gordon Letwin of, err, umm, Microsoft.
This is payback for
Christian Coalition "navigating" Microsoft through anti-trust waters.
The Christian Coalition consists solely of Ralph Reed? Gee, I guess they're not as scary as I thought....
The fact that a former executive director of the CC also happened to be the founder of a political consulting firm hired by Microsoft does not, in and of itself, say that the CC had anything to do with this. As the Salon article in question notes, "Reed was always more of a pol than a preacher, even in his heyday at the Christian Coalition." Ralphie seems to have no problem serving both his God and Mammon at the same time.
Does next generation mean it'll support copy and paste?
To what does "it" refer? Copy and paste is largely a matter of toolkits supporting the ICCCM conventions for the PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection and the X clipboard conventions, and, for non-plain-text selections, supporting appropriate conventions for non-plain-text items (or creating them if they don't exist).
I think the point of the secure erasing feature is overwriting the (presumably sensitive) data with useless gibberish which looks like malformed/broken data and/or can't even be construed as a file.
Yes - see the man page for the srm command (that's the Darwin 7.0.1 man page, which is the 10.3.1 man page, but other UN*Xes include it as well).
Not the greatest choice of wording (and spelling), in any case. Maybe "meaningless" would have been clearer?
That, or "scrambled" (which I suggested via the Website Feedback page on the Apple Website), although perhaps "scrambled" is a bit too techy.
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Panther has it too. Just select the "jail bars" column view in a finder window and click on a file. A preview will, for most types, show up in the right-most column.
...although, for RTF (and probably other) documents, it's not a preview, just an icon (my document doesn't begin with "A boy once lived in..."), so it's not quite what Allchin mentioned (not that I care - I can't even read the text in the icon for RTF documents, and can just barely read some of the text in the bigger preview icon for them).
Remappable Modifier Keys
Remap modifiers such as control and caps lock for compatibility with Windows and UNIX keyboard conventions.
Dunno if it works on ADB keyboards, though.
But the posting to which you're responding is flamebait (I don't know whether it's posted enough to count as a crapflood), so it's probably best ignored.
Complete with/.'s helpful extra blanks to avoid page widening.
Here's the link to the picture of the French Carte National d'Identite, with helpful added escaping of the apostrophe for added freshness (and with the helpful Preview button used so I have at least some confidence that it'll work...).
"Experts may choose to replace the native Aqua window manager with their own familiar, standard X Window Manager."
Note that this does not mean "you can use an arbitrary X11 window manager to manage all windows", it means "you don't have to use quartz-wm as your window manager for X11 windows". (See "man quartz-wm" for more information on quartz-wm.)
The problem is that even the loopback interface can be sniffed on (usually only by root, admittedly, but still) so any authentication happening with sockets is going to be a bit on the dangerous side.
Socket traffic between processes on the same machine doesn't have to go over the loopback interface.
Have you installed gentoo? The "installer" is a command prompt and that 12 page installation document you mention.
It might not have an installer, but it has an installation procedure, and it has the notion of an installation, so it has the notion of "as installed".
but you run into problems with for instance ATI's and Nvidia's X windows drivers not wanting to both be installed at the same time, so by default you get neither
That's a botch - the system should be able to figure out (by looking at the PCI bus) what card you have, and load only the appropriate driver, even if both are installed. That's either a Gentoo bug or, more likely, an X11 server bug (or perhaps a video driver bug).
And what are the chances of convincing the gnome team to drop metacity and gnome-terminal in favor of xfwm and xfterm?
I presume the issue with gnome-terminal vs. xfterm is that the former doesn't support real transparency but the latter does; if so, the question might be better posed as "what are the chances that a future release of gnome-terminal will support real transparency?"
At this point you'd pretty much have to come up with your own distro and with some decent hardware detection that would autmatically install hardware accellerated video drivers,
Hopefully all desktop distributions will do that in the future - perhaps that'll fall under the rubric of HAL.
turn on compositing and change the default theme if your hardware happened to support it.
"Change the default theme" in what fashion? Just "use advanced compositing features" (along the lines of the difference in Aqua's behavior with, and without, Quartz Extreme), or make more significant appearance changes (so that even a static screen would look different)? I'm not sure the latter would be the right idea - the appearance should probably be purely under the user's control.
In the case of the former, some of that might be done with theme engines and applications inquring whether accelerated composition is available, along the lines of the CoreGraphics API to inquire about Quartz Extreme (but does Terminal in OS X require an accelerated card to support transparency?).
...and it appears that one person runs Windows on one of those horrible out-of-date < 1GHz machines, so you don't even necessarily have to abandon Windows. (Heck, the aforementioned 450 MHz PII quad-boots NT 4.0, Solaris 7, and Debian 2.x for some value of x that I forget, in addition to FreeBSD 3.4 - and, at my previous job, my desktop was a 400 MHz PII running W2K, and it ran just fine.)
Perhaps in the modern world of predators waiting to turn Windows boxes into spam zombies, you really need > 1GHz for a Windows box to run software to protect you, but I suspect even that's not necessary.
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Don't know how anyone survives with anything less than 1 ghz these days.
By not running an OS that requires Norton and Zonealarm? These days, I mainly use my 1.5 GHz PowerBook (obviously not running any flavor of Windows, except in Virtual PC), but, before that, for development and Web browsing I mainly used either a 450 MHz Pentium II desktop or a Dell Inspiron 8000, both running FreeBSD. Heck, our other laptop is a 700 MHz G3 iBook (again, obviously not running any flavor of Windows), which works fine for Web surfing.
If i run iphoto and itunes can i have the actual songs/pictures on server running windows or linux?
iTunes stores the music in your home directory; my home directory at work is NFS-mounted, and that seems to work, so that might work with a Linux server if that's what your home directory is mounted from. I don't know whether it'd work over SMB to a Windows server.
I haven't tried iPhoto over NFS (or SMB), so I don't know whether that'd work.
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No, it should be 60 Hz, if it has the "American power settings" referred to in the boot messages, at least if "American" refers to the US or to most of the Americas (Chile and Argentina use 220V/50 Hz, according to the Electricity Around The World page and this Frequency and Voltage Guide by Country).
Depends on what that Copland concept meant by "fork". Extended attributes are small named chunks of data; they're not arbitrary-size named data streams.
That's probably more of an issue of the particular on-disk file system type containing the folders. Linear directory searches are probably not going to be very good (although a scheme such as ext2's hash trees might help). Some UN*X file systems use, for example, B-trees for directories, and might work better.
Apple thought of that before Mac OS was UN*X; HFS uses a B-tree for directory information. ("B-tree", singular; the key is the parent directory "catalog ID" - think i-number - and the file name, so there's one big catalog for the entire file system; folders aren't files, they're just the collection of all nodes with the same parent directory catalog ID. See the HFS Plus Volume Format document.)
+5, Informative. For those curious about Multics, see multicians.org.
It's more confusing than that. Solaris 10 would've been Solaris 2.10 if they hadn't decided to give up the "2." prefix in Solaris 7...
...and, in either case, unless they've changed the versioning scheme, the OS component of Solaris 10 is SunOS 5.10 (the major version number of SunOS changed when they went to SVR4).
Just out of curiosity, what does the Java Desktop System have to do with Java, other than being offered by the same company that created Java?
By "OSX" do you mean "the OS X kernel"? "The libraries", if by that you mean libc^H^H^H^HlibSystem, libthis, libthat, libtheotherthing, and all the frameworks, are part of OS X, just as much as the kernel (xnu + loadable modules) is.
What do you mean by "optimized for 64-bit processors"? The Tiger kernel is 32-bit code (although it supports 64-bit userland code); libSystem, however, comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions (see Apple's page on developing 64-bit applications).
No, they don't, unless RISC86 is POWER, which I have no reason to believe it is (AMD says the RISC86 instructions were "specifically designed with direct support for the x86 architecture while obeying RISC performance principles"), and they still use that scheme in their current processors. Seee the Nx568 product brief.
...which was 32-bit (it was ILP32, not LP64).
And the OS/2 HPFS file system, if that's what you're referring to, was, as far as I know, developed (either wholly or primarily) by Gordon Letwin of, err, umm, Microsoft.
The Christian Coalition consists solely of Ralph Reed? Gee, I guess they're not as scary as I thought....
The fact that a former executive director of the CC also happened to be the founder of a political consulting firm hired by Microsoft does not, in and of itself, say that the CC had anything to do with this. As the Salon article in question notes, "Reed was always more of a pol than a preacher, even in his heyday at the Christian Coalition." Ralphie seems to have no problem serving both his God and Mammon at the same time.
To what does "it" refer? Copy and paste is largely a matter of toolkits supporting the ICCCM conventions for the PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection and the X clipboard conventions, and, for non-plain-text selections, supporting appropriate conventions for non-plain-text items (or creating them if they don't exist).
Yes - see the man page for the srm command (that's the Darwin 7.0.1 man page, which is the 10.3.1 man page, but other UN*Xes include it as well).
The "Gutmann algorithm" mentioned therein is presumably the one devised by Peter Gutmann, as described in his paper Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory.
That, or "scrambled" (which I suggested via the Website Feedback page on the Apple Website), although perhaps "scrambled" is a bit too techy.
...although, for RTF (and probably other) documents, it's not a preview, just an icon (my document doesn't begin with "A boy once lived in..."), so it's not quite what Allchin mentioned (not that I care - I can't even read the text in the icon for RTF documents, and can just barely read some of the text in the bigger preview icon for them).
Not possible already on OS X unless you're reading this message on April 29, 2005, or later. Panther doesn't support pointers longer than 32 bits.
And, besides, the Tiger new features list includes
Dunno if it works on ADB keyboards, though.
But the posting to which you're responding is flamebait (I don't know whether it's posted enough to count as a crapflood), so it's probably best ignored.
Complete with /.'s helpful extra blanks to avoid page widening.
Here's the link to the picture of the French Carte National d'Identite, with helpful added escaping of the apostrophe for added freshness (and with the helpful Preview button used so I have at least some confidence that it'll work...).
Note that this does not mean "you can use an arbitrary X11 window manager to manage all windows", it means "you don't have to use quartz-wm as your window manager for X11 windows". (See "man quartz-wm" for more information on quartz-wm.)
Yes, it's now called Bonjour. Here's a video of the announcement.
Yes, but are rotating cubes everywhere?
Socket traffic between processes on the same machine doesn't have to go over the loopback interface.
(Hint: "UNIX-domain sockets".)
Feral Tabby.
It might not have an installer, but it has an installation procedure, and it has the notion of an installation, so it has the notion of "as installed".
That's a botch - the system should be able to figure out (by looking at the PCI bus) what card you have, and load only the appropriate driver, even if both are installed. That's either a Gentoo bug or, more likely, an X11 server bug (or perhaps a video driver bug).
I presume the issue with gnome-terminal vs. xfterm is that the former doesn't support real transparency but the latter does; if so, the question might be better posed as "what are the chances that a future release of gnome-terminal will support real transparency?"
Hopefully all desktop distributions will do that in the future - perhaps that'll fall under the rubric of HAL.
"Change the default theme" in what fashion? Just "use advanced compositing features" (along the lines of the difference in Aqua's behavior with, and without, Quartz Extreme), or make more significant appearance changes (so that even a static screen would look different)? I'm not sure the latter would be the right idea - the appearance should probably be purely under the user's control.
In the case of the former, some of that might be done with theme engines and applications inquring whether accelerated composition is available, along the lines of the CoreGraphics API to inquire about Quartz Extreme (but does Terminal in OS X require an accelerated card to support transparency?).
...and it appears that one person runs Windows on one of those horrible out-of-date < 1GHz machines, so you don't even necessarily have to abandon Windows. (Heck, the aforementioned 450 MHz PII quad-boots NT 4.0, Solaris 7, and Debian 2.x for some value of x that I forget, in addition to FreeBSD 3.4 - and, at my previous job, my desktop was a 400 MHz PII running W2K, and it ran just fine.)
Perhaps in the modern world of predators waiting to turn Windows boxes into spam zombies, you really need > 1GHz for a Windows box to run software to protect you, but I suspect even that's not necessary.
By not running an OS that requires Norton and Zonealarm? These days, I mainly use my 1.5 GHz PowerBook (obviously not running any flavor of Windows, except in Virtual PC), but, before that, for development and Web browsing I mainly used either a 450 MHz Pentium II desktop or a Dell Inspiron 8000, both running FreeBSD. Heck, our other laptop is a 700 MHz G3 iBook (again, obviously not running any flavor of Windows), which works fine for Web surfing.
smbfs (the SMB client file system that comes with OS X) and/or DAVE (third-party SMB client file system) are your friends here.
Microsoft has Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac, Citrix has an ICA client for OS X that might work, and rdesktop is an open source client for the Remote Desktop Protocol which is available in Fink but that might require X11.
iTunes stores the music in your home directory; my home directory at work is NFS-mounted, and that seems to work, so that might work with a Linux server if that's what your home directory is mounted from. I don't know whether it'd work over SMB to a Windows server.
I haven't tried iPhoto over NFS (or SMB), so I don't know whether that'd work.