Yes, this type of technology has already been implemented, if not in flash form. Take any Mac laptop from the last, oh five or six years. Close the screen, and within a second it goes to sleep. You'll see the the front LED pulse which tells you it's in deep hibernate mode and everything's suspended.
Now, open the screen. Within a second, the screen is back on and you're back to whatever you were doing, your network is reconnected, and you're ready to work.
It doesn't require any fancy hardware. Apple has this working in Mac OS X on both PowerPC and Intel systems. Funny thing, this instant sleep/wake feature is available on Apple's laptop AND desktop systems.
The problem is that free trade leads to boom and bust cyles in the third world as corporations jump from country to country chasing the lowest wage. This leads to a boom cycle where the wages go up from 10 cents per day to 25 cents per day and then a bust as the factory moves to an even poorer country.
Case in point: Mexico. We moved a lot of American production factories to Mexico. Looked like it would work out for a while then Mexico figured they could follow the same philosophy and outsource THAT to Asian countries for even less money. Now the Mexican people are as poor as they've always been (this time without jobs) and we've created yet another slave labor industry in the far east. On top of that, we haven't solved how to get all these goods made in the USA in the first place.
While I think that the need to produce ethanol is here and the efforts are altruistic, you don't understand why we have import tariffs. We have those things in place to encourage American companies to buy goods that are made HERE IN THE USA rather than importing them from abroad (which would be more expensive because of the tariff). I completely agree that we should produce ethanol by any means necessary but please keep the import tariffs in place. This would encourage growers in the USA to start their own corn and sugarcane crops, with ethanol processing plants as a bonus. You have to remember that we have a record breaking trade deficit that is completely screwing up the economy and it's doing nothing more than drive production and cheap labor overseas while we lose jobs in our country. Tariffs are often labelled "protectionism" but at this point in time, we NEED it.
Does it bother anyone that this coalition decided to publish their opinions under a dotcom (.com) TLD? So they're a for-profit company? Shouldn't they use a.net or.org ? It's okay to register a domain under multiple TLDs but they should point to the main one and in this case I disagree with.com being the catchall TLD.
That being said, I see a lot of missing children websites being registered under.com TLDs... hmmmm are they actually selling kidnapped kids to slavery as a for-profit business model?
There's still just as much reason to develop those programs for OS X, and now, with marketshare bound to increase, some number of people will be switchers who try out OS X and don't want to go back to Windows, or don't want to even have Windows installed.
I hope you're right. The age-old argument used to be that if you allowed dual-boot or native-speed virtualization, then game companies would just forget about making Mac ports since the user would just easily boot into Windows. Same goes for other software. I know that Adobe is already committed resources toward an Intel-Mac Creative Suite but with Boot Camp, Adobe might one day say "why should we spend all this money on conversion when Mac users could just boot into Windows to use Photoshop?"
I guess the saving rebuttle is that although Boot Camp exists, the user has to consciously purchase another OS license (Windows) just to take advantage of it and maybe the average Joe will be impressed enough with Mac OS X that he won't want Windows at all.
A 10.2.8 solution (provided because the OP stated that he was using 10.2.8, and the solutions for 10.3/10.4 were different, AND did not indicate any solution which did or did not work):
Today I was reading the wonderful tip on Automounting AFP and NFS Sharepoints at Startup, which is found on Mike Bombich's great Mac OS X site, and it occured to me that this might work for SAMBA (Windows) shares as well. I tried it, and sure enough, it does! SAMBA sharepoints and standard Windows "shared directories" work in almost exactly the same way as AFP shares. The only difference is the URL that you use. If you want to dynamically mount a Windows (or SAMBA) sharepoint, follow the directions at Mike's site for a regular AFP Dynamic mount and replace the URL value with:
url==smb://username:password@servername/sharepoint Where servername is either the IP address, hostname, or fully-qualified hostname (foo.example.com) of the machine that you would like to connect to, and where sharepoint is the shared directory that you would like to connect to. In some cases, depending on the configuration of your network, this may not work. If that happens to you, try:
url==smb://Username:Password@Workgroup/servername/ sharepoint Note: I tested this on MacOS 10.2.8 and can make no promises or guarantees that it will work on any other version of OS X, but it worked for me. Because I have no reason to do so, I have not actually tested this with a static mount, only dynamic. The first URL I listed worked perfectly for me. However, in researching printing to SAMBA-shared printers, I saw many reports of a whole variety of different URLs working for some setups, and not working for others. I suggest that if the two URLs I provided don't seem to work for you, try variations on the theme, or search here for the tips related to printing to samba shared printers and SMB shares for ideas.
I don't own a Mac. I've never liked the Mac UI, and OSX kept all the parts I don't like, and added a few more.
I don't care what the problem is, I just take issue with people who don't bother to understand the question before piping in with useless "solutions".
Geez, well sorry I decided to reply to a post which basically asked a practical question to a practical problem. Don't bite my head off for trying to help. Someone asked how to auto mount a share in Mac OS X. Then I gave a solution. So you gonna sue me now for telling you? Or are you mad because it wasn't any more difficult than in, say Linux?
Well, the answers for Mac OS 10.3|4 is different than Mac OS 10.2.8, which I'm currently running.
Did you try my solution (with some minor modifications to the actual procedure)? It may be the same except the Login Items in 10.2.8 may be named something else.
Just the other day, I wanted a Mac to connect to a windows share on the network, at login (without prompting for a name/password). How do I do this?
I did this the first day at work on my 10.4.x Mac Mini. Just connect to the Windows share and click that checkbox that says "Remember this password in my keychain"
When the Windows share appears on your desktop as a server icon, open your System Preferences panel, go to Accounts, click Login Items, then drag the server icon from your Desktop to the Login Items list. Done.
The next time you login the server will automatically appear on your desktop.
Totally breaks the mood when a comedian has to explain his punchline. Anyways...
For those who need to be informed and don't understand the humor, please see widely circulated story "Forgive me, Father, for I have blogged": http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-5918217.html
Excerpt from article: "Several Catholic high schools have banned their students from posting personal information about themselves or their schools, according to a report by the Associated Press. The ban, which one school's principal says has been in effect for five years but is only now being strictly enforced, requires students to cease participating in social networking sites like MySpace.com, where many young people post personal information, photos and blog entries--and it even applies to information students post from their home computers. School officials say the policy was instituted to protect students from online predators."
Mac OS X allows you to not only share the contents of a digital camera over ZeroConf (Bonjour), it allows a remote Macintosh to preview the camera viewscreen image and even snap the picture, wired or wirelessly.
You too can own a mac, and play games like 'Breakout', 'Super Breakout' and 'Photoshop'.
You forgot World of Warcraft, Close Combat: First to Fight, X-Plane 8, Doom 3, Sims 2, Command & Conquer: Generals, and a few thousand other quality titles.
Don't forget Maya while you're mentioning stuff like Photoshop.
...I wish that people would just stop offering Sci-Fi to Fox. Fox has no interest in Sci-Fi. They don't understand what makes good Sci-Fi. They don't understand why the Sci-Fi that they make is often bad. Nor do they push it to be better (if anything, they push it to be worse).
Actually they are the #1 purveyors of sci-fi. They call it Fox News
Still no user-replaceable battery, which is quite lame, my iPod now has about 90 mins battery life these days:( Come on apple, is it really too hard to let people replace batteries on their own?
In fact, my Windows 98 machine did not crash either, and I had a Cyrix CPU in it. I've used Cyrix, Intel, and AMD CPU's without problems. Set a machine up right and it will work fine.
I think the stability of the system has a lot to do with the user. If I build a computer and it crashes when I test it, I know something isn't set up right. So I find the cause of the crash and make sure it doesn't happen again. I'm not satisfied until it's rock solid.
Well apparently then Bill Gates is a dumbass cause he was the primary user at two keynotes and his Win98 AND WinXP box crashed.
...is a revived, modern version of the ancient Adventure Construction Set. Now THAT was an easy-to-use game making system which allowed you to create/edit sprites, NPC scripting, sound effects, maps, triggers, etc without writing any code at all.
Slashdot Mirror
See # 28 .. Virginia Tech .. uses Apple Xserves http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/vatech/
Yes, this type of technology has already been implemented, if not in flash form. Take any Mac laptop from the last, oh five or six years. Close the screen, and within a second it goes to sleep. You'll see the the front LED pulse which tells you it's in deep hibernate mode and everything's suspended.
Now, open the screen. Within a second, the screen is back on and you're back to whatever you were doing, your network is reconnected, and you're ready to work.
It doesn't require any fancy hardware. Apple has this working in Mac OS X on both PowerPC and Intel systems. Funny thing, this instant sleep/wake feature is available on Apple's laptop AND desktop systems.
Yeah, the first design is broken on Safari 2.x ...the other two are nice and work fine on Safari.
The problem is that free trade leads to boom and bust cyles in the third world as corporations jump from country to country chasing the lowest wage. This leads to a boom cycle where the wages go up from 10 cents per day to 25 cents per day and then a bust as the factory moves to an even poorer country.
Case in point: Mexico. We moved a lot of American production factories to Mexico. Looked like it would work out for a while then Mexico figured they could follow the same philosophy and outsource THAT to Asian countries for even less money. Now the Mexican people are as poor as they've always been (this time without jobs) and we've created yet another slave labor industry in the far east. On top of that, we haven't solved how to get all these goods made in the USA in the first place.
While I think that the need to produce ethanol is here and the efforts are altruistic, you don't understand why we have import tariffs. We have those things in place to encourage American companies to buy goods that are made HERE IN THE USA rather than importing them from abroad (which would be more expensive because of the tariff). I completely agree that we should produce ethanol by any means necessary but please keep the import tariffs in place. This would encourage growers in the USA to start their own corn and sugarcane crops, with ethanol processing plants as a bonus. You have to remember that we have a record breaking trade deficit that is completely screwing up the economy and it's doing nothing more than drive production and cheap labor overseas while we lose jobs in our country. Tariffs are often labelled "protectionism" but at this point in time, we NEED it.
Haven't you all watched the Matrix? This is raw data!
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If I want to stare at a blond lady in a red dress I would rather use Aperature or Adobe Bridge!
Does it bother anyone that this coalition decided to publish their opinions under a dotcom (.com) TLD? So they're a for-profit company? Shouldn't they use a .net or .org ? It's okay to register a domain under multiple TLDs but they should point to the main one and in this case I disagree with .com being the catchall TLD.
.com TLDs... hmmmm are they actually selling kidnapped kids to slavery as a for-profit business model?
That being said, I see a lot of missing children websites being registered under
We have two Apple stores here in San Diego, CA and the one at the UTC mall is set up EXACTLY as you say. Right next to Sephora.
There's still just as much reason to develop those programs for OS X, and now, with marketshare bound to increase, some number of people will be switchers who try out OS X and don't want to go back to Windows, or don't want to even have Windows installed.
I hope you're right. The age-old argument used to be that if you allowed dual-boot or native-speed virtualization, then game companies would just forget about making Mac ports since the user would just easily boot into Windows. Same goes for other software. I know that Adobe is already committed resources toward an Intel-Mac Creative Suite but with Boot Camp, Adobe might one day say "why should we spend all this money on conversion when Mac users could just boot into Windows to use Photoshop?"
I guess the saving rebuttle is that although Boot Camp exists, the user has to consciously purchase another OS license (Windows) just to take advantage of it and maybe the average Joe will be impressed enough with Mac OS X that he won't want Windows at all.
Obvious question:
How does this convince developers to keep porting Windows-only apps to the Mac, when now there would be no reason?
I'm sure Apple must have thought this through, unless they're attempting to affect some other market issue...
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2003
I don't own a Mac. I've never liked the Mac UI, and OSX kept all the parts I don't like, and added a few more. I don't care what the problem is, I just take issue with people who don't bother to understand the question before piping in with useless "solutions".
Geez, well sorry I decided to reply to a post which basically asked a practical question to a practical problem. Don't bite my head off for trying to help. Someone asked how to auto mount a share in Mac OS X. Then I gave a solution. So you gonna sue me now for telling you? Or are you mad because it wasn't any more difficult than in, say Linux?
Well, the answers for Mac OS 10.3|4 is different than Mac OS 10.2.8, which I'm currently running.
Did you try my solution (with some minor modifications to the actual procedure)? It may be the same except the Login Items in 10.2.8 may be named something else.
Just the other day, I wanted a Mac to connect to a windows share on the network, at login (without prompting for a name/password). How do I do this?
I did this the first day at work on my 10.4.x Mac Mini. Just connect to the Windows share and click that checkbox that says "Remember this password in my keychain"
When the Windows share appears on your desktop as a server icon, open your System Preferences panel, go to Accounts, click Login Items, then drag the server icon from your Desktop to the Login Items list. Done.
The next time you login the server will automatically appear on your desktop.
Totally breaks the mood when a comedian has to explain his punchline. Anyways...
For those who need to be informed and don't understand the humor, please see widely circulated story "Forgive me, Father, for I have blogged":
http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-5918217.html
Excerpt from article: "Several Catholic high schools have banned their students from posting personal information about themselves or their schools, according to a report by the Associated Press. The ban, which one school's principal says has been in effect for five years but is only now being strictly enforced, requires students to cease participating in social networking sites like MySpace.com, where many young people post personal information, photos and blog entries--and it even applies to information students post from their home computers. School officials say the policy was instituted to protect students from online predators."
Better hope he's not Catholic cause his Sunday school teacher might object to him blogging!
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/imagecapture/
Mac OS X allows you to not only share the contents of a digital camera over ZeroConf (Bonjour), it allows a remote Macintosh to preview the camera viewscreen image and even snap the picture, wired or wirelessly.
You too can own a mac, and play games like 'Breakout', 'Super Breakout' and 'Photoshop'.
You forgot World of Warcraft, Close Combat: First to Fight, X-Plane 8, Doom 3, Sims 2, Command & Conquer: Generals, and a few thousand other quality titles.
Don't forget Maya while you're mentioning stuff like Photoshop.
...I wish that people would just stop offering Sci-Fi to Fox. Fox has no interest in Sci-Fi. They don't understand what makes good Sci-Fi. They don't understand why the Sci-Fi that they make is often bad. Nor do they push it to be better (if anything, they push it to be worse).
Actually they are the #1 purveyors of sci-fi. They call it Fox News
Xserves? :)
Still no user-replaceable battery, which is quite lame, my iPod now has about 90 mins battery life these days :( Come on apple, is it really too hard to let people replace batteries on their own?
Are you new to the Internet? Go buy a new battery you fool!
I'm rather pissed they didnt release the ATI 800 gfx cards for the g4s, its twice as fast as a 9800.
ATI's RADEON® X800 XT Single Slot Graphics Solution for the Mac Powers Apple 30-inch Display
In fact, my Windows 98 machine did not crash either, and I had a Cyrix CPU in it. I've used Cyrix, Intel, and AMD CPU's without problems. Set a machine up right and it will work fine.
I think the stability of the system has a lot to do with the user. If I build a computer and it crashes when I test it, I know something isn't set up right. So I find the cause of the crash and make sure it doesn't happen again. I'm not satisfied until it's rock solid.
Well apparently then Bill Gates is a dumbass cause he was the primary user at two keynotes and his Win98 AND WinXP box crashed.
...is a revived, modern version of the ancient Adventure Construction Set. Now THAT was an easy-to-use game making system which allowed you to create/edit sprites, NPC scripting, sound effects, maps, triggers, etc without writing any code at all.
IT is FREE is why
.......etc etc...
So? 10.3.1, 10.3.2, 10.3.3, 10.3.4, 10.3.5, and 10.3.6 were free also. Even all the security patches and iApp updates were free.
Same goes for 10.2.1, 10.2.2, 10.2.3, 10.2.4, 10.2.5, 10.2.6,