Could this just be a replacement for the internal web browser that Apple uses for displaying help, results in Sherlock etc.
It seems like a silly ploy to create another browser when MacOSX seems to have more than enough (IE, OmniWeb, Chimera, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, iCab). Which is not surprising seeming the original browser was developed on NeXT.
However the internal HTML renderer (I wouldn't call it a browser) is pretty basic. I would not see it being to hard for them to replace there internal rendering system with Mozilla code. That way you get a top class compliant browser and if you put appriorate wrappers around it you should be able to upgrade it in future along with the main Mozilla releases.
I would say that on the Macintosh at least this was not the case.
At the time Netscape was slow/buggy. Microsoft came out with IE4.5 and then IE5.0.
It didn't take long for people to choose (Macs ship with both Netscape and IE) IE5.0, it was faster, more stable and looked like a Macintosh product.
Although I would have to say that IE5.0 for the Mac is better than nearly any other browser (as of a couple of months ago, Mozilla is better now).
Notable features:
Fast Stable Button that would get completely of the screen. Printing that works (I worked in a company where I had the only Mac and people use to give me list of URLs to print).
Eg On the PC in IE6.0 printing is still broken (pages don't scale to get all the information on the page), but the Mac it was a sweet product and within months everyone was using it.
I found out about the "Dell Rack" when I got a bunch of there 1ru and 2ru machines. The rack rails have to be a "specified distance appart (like a tolerance of 5mm).
When the rack rails that they give you for non dell racks could easily be created to support any size rack. At that point I had to re-arrange my rack rails which of course meant removing *everything* from the rack before I did it.
I would suggest everyone reads the Dell support forums about there racks before purchasing a rack mounted server!
I/O connectivity Two full-length 64-bit, 66MHz PCI slots (lower slot filled with PCI graphics card in standard configurations); supports 3.3V 32-bit or 64-bit PCI cards running at 33MHz or 66MHz One half-length 32-bit PCI/AGP combo slot with one of the following: -- Secondary Gigabit Ethernet card in standard configurations -- AGP 4X graphics card (build-to-order option)
Obviously one of the smart bunnies at worked out how to do it.
I don't know who wouldn't be happy with these remote management/monitoring options:
Server Monitor for remote monitoring of key hardware subsystems: enclosure temperature, processor temperature, blower speed, hard drives (SMART data), Ethernet links, power supply and UPS systems, enclosure security Server Admin (TCP/IP) Remote Setup Assistant Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Intermapper from Dartware Secure Shell (SSH2) for secure remote login Command-line tools for remote configuration and management, including installing software, running Software Update, and setting system and network preferences
Server Monitor for remote monitoring of key hardware subsystems: enclosure temperature, processor temperature, blower speed, hard drives (SMART data), Ethernet links, power supply and UPS systems, enclosure security Server Admin (TCP/IP) Remote Setup Assistant Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Intermapper from Dartware Secure Shell (SSH2) for secure remote login Command-line tools for remote configuration and management, including installing software, running Software Update, and setting system and network preferences
Having processors speed over 1ghz doesn't mean anything.
A dual 400mhz Sun Server comes in at $18,000 and I am sure it can blow away your PC with 2.4ghz chips.
What I want to know is how long it takes me to:
Start up from sleep Read my email, Surf some web pages, Open Dreamweaver Make edits to web sites Open Fireworks Edit some web images Open QuickTime VB Authoring App Stitch some QTVRs Open Movie Editing Software Download and edit some movie files Render out movie for TV, CD and web Upload web sites Surf the web (web site testing) Read some more emails Put the machine back to sleep.
In 90% of this work (apart from Stitching the QTVR's and outputting Movies) I am not going to be waiting for the machine but waiting for me.
That is why the user experience on the Mac is so important. If you can get around quickly, moving data easily then the Mac will out perform the PC any day. For me this is what makes the Mac head and shoulders above any PC.
The simple fact that my Mac has stayed up for a couple of weeks now without rebooting (since the last update) is invaluable. It cuts many minutes out of my day.
editing the.conf file is an advantage as far as I can tell!!!
Eg. If you want to turn caching of pages on the server off they can be in each web sites configuration as well as the configuration for the entire web server. I have to click about 10 different buttons etc to actually get to the page. Finally they cache the output from.ASP pages. I talked to a couple of admins (I much prefer my OSX box) and none of them new about this page hidden away!
Configuration files rule. Easy to work through, all the options are there and there is usually a description of what all the options *actually* do. Rather than the usual trick of, "lets try this and see what works/doesn't work".
From what I have heard that most people who get employed as game testers have a solid understanding and experience in the testing world. You need the same sort of discipline and processes for testing games as you accounting software. Eg, test every possibility, check things over and over again.
I imagine it would be hard work and very tiring.
What you actually want to be is the person who is control of things like game-play. That way you play the game and only have to come back with things like, the green monsters are two easy. You run out of Ammo all the time.
Game testers on the other hand come back with, if you shoot the green monster with a rocket against the red wall it causes the blood to be splattered on the door behind that wall, blood should not appear there. Here is the following way to reproduce... step 1, step 2, step n, step 100
Not my idea of fun.
Give me a bucket load of money and let me play computer games.
I know of a couple of people who mentioned that one of the features of the G4 was that the SMP was handled in such a way that it was possible to put 2 G4's on the same CPU die. As there are no Mac's with this nor any 3rd party vendors that have this available as an upgrade I assumed it hadn't gone ahead.
Looks like IBM have used it in there high end servers. Now if only I could get OSX running on them...
StarTrek has done it, Stargate should give it a go as well.
I am sure that people will find there is a lot of money in this sort of thing. I am sure you could have Stargate-AOL or something else. The possibilities are endless - Stargate Credit Card, Bank. You could even have a special log on for your favourite online services eg amazon, ebay, google?
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Just because you have media from Microsoft does not make it a legitimate copy. I think you will also find that the student edition is not for the production of commericial code.
Buying the media cheaper is exactly the same as downloading it from a warez site, you just spent more money that someone who downloaded.
I thought the reason telephone tapping was illegal is that telephones used to be owned by the postal service, and a telephone call is treated in a way similar to a letter that was mailed.
I didn't know that we had an explicit right and expectation of privacy. Wouldn't that cameras in shopping malls and streets illegal as well??
Just as we don't expect our letters to be opened we don't expect our telephone calls to be tapped, and our laws reflect that.
First off, there is a big disclaimer in the "Apparently" at the start of the scentance.
Before this statement they are speculating what it is being used for. My guess is that they don't have much clue as to what is going on, and are just guessing.
I would like to know how they know it is not configured for caching. I would also hazard a guess that if it is not configured for caching that they may be just testing the boxes before turning on the caching.
Both Cable Internet Providers and I am sure many other ISP's in Australia use Transparent Proxies.
Much easier to setup on the client side and you catch people who leave out the proxy information.
The fact that the server has other capabilities doesn't mean that they are actually using this stuff. If someone can show me a link to the page where I can buy the marketing data, *then* i will believe you.
Slashdot Mirror
Samsung Contact:
http://www.samsungcontact.com
Which is based on HP OpenMail. About 1/6 the cost.
I could see that some commercial people would want some of those features to make help more interactive. For things like tutorials etc.
It would also be cool if they provided a mozilla component in Interface Builder. You could build your own browser in AppleScript.
Could this just be a replacement for the internal web browser that Apple uses for displaying help, results in Sherlock etc.
It seems like a silly ploy to create another browser when MacOSX seems to have more than enough (IE, OmniWeb, Chimera, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, iCab). Which is not surprising seeming the original browser was developed on NeXT.
However the internal HTML renderer (I wouldn't call it a browser) is pretty basic. I would not see it being to hard for them to replace there internal rendering system with Mozilla code. That way you get a top class compliant browser and if you put appriorate wrappers around it you should be able to upgrade it in future along with the main Mozilla releases.
I would say that on the Macintosh at least this was not the case.
At the time Netscape was slow/buggy. Microsoft came out with IE4.5 and then IE5.0.
It didn't take long for people to choose (Macs ship with both Netscape and IE) IE5.0, it was faster, more stable and looked like a Macintosh product.
Although I would have to say that IE5.0 for the Mac is better than nearly any other browser (as of a couple of months ago, Mozilla is better now).
Notable features:
Fast
Stable
Button that would get completely of the screen.
Printing that works (I worked in a company where I had the only Mac and people use to give me list of URLs to print).
Eg On the PC in IE6.0 printing is still broken (pages don't scale to get all the information on the page), but the Mac it was a sweet product and within months everyone was using it.
I found out about the "Dell Rack" when I got a bunch of there 1ru and 2ru machines. The rack rails have to be a "specified distance appart (like a tolerance of 5mm).
When the rack rails that they give you for non dell racks could easily be created to support any size rack. At that point I had to re-arrange my rack rails which of course meant removing *everything* from the rack before I did it.
I would suggest everyone reads the Dell support forums about there racks before purchasing a rack mounted server!
Read an weep:
I/O connectivity
Two full-length 64-bit, 66MHz PCI slots (lower slot filled with PCI graphics card in standard configurations); supports 3.3V 32-bit or 64-bit PCI cards running at 33MHz or 66MHz
One half-length 32-bit PCI/AGP combo slot with one of the following:
-- Secondary Gigabit Ethernet card in standard configurations
-- AGP 4X graphics card (build-to-order option)
Obviously one of the smart bunnies at worked out how to do it.
Didn't I read that there is support being added to Linux for Hot Swapping IDE Devices?
I remember that there was a specific order needed for adding & removing the drives (eg power, data cable and the opposite for removing the drives).
I don't know who wouldn't be happy with these remote management/monitoring options:
Server Monitor for remote monitoring of key hardware subsystems: enclosure temperature, processor temperature, blower speed, hard drives (SMART data), Ethernet links, power supply and UPS systems, enclosure security
Server Admin (TCP/IP)
Remote Setup Assistant
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Intermapper from Dartware
Secure Shell (SSH2) for secure remote login
Command-line tools for remote configuration and management, including installing software, running Software Update, and setting system and network preferences
Well from the specs page for remote management:
Server Monitor for remote monitoring of key hardware subsystems: enclosure temperature, processor temperature, blower speed, hard drives (SMART data), Ethernet links, power supply and UPS systems, enclosure security
Server Admin (TCP/IP)
Remote Setup Assistant
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Intermapper from Dartware
Secure Shell (SSH2) for secure remote login
Command-line tools for remote configuration and management, including installing software, running Software Update, and setting system and network preferences
Which part of the mail app doesn't use threads?
I know I can read my mail while it is checking/indexing my mail.
It seems to read mail accounts a little slower than Eudora though.
Having processors speed over 1ghz doesn't mean anything.
A dual 400mhz Sun Server comes in at $18,000 and I am sure it can blow away your PC with 2.4ghz chips.
What I want to know is how long it takes me to:
Start up from sleep
Read my email,
Surf some web pages,
Open Dreamweaver
Make edits to web sites
Open Fireworks
Edit some web images
Open QuickTime VB Authoring App
Stitch some QTVRs
Open Movie Editing Software
Download and edit some movie files
Render out movie for TV, CD and web
Upload web sites
Surf the web (web site testing)
Read some more emails
Put the machine back to sleep.
In 90% of this work (apart from Stitching the QTVR's and outputting Movies) I am not going to be waiting for the machine but waiting for me.
That is why the user experience on the Mac is so important. If you can get around quickly, moving data easily then the Mac will out perform the PC any day. For me this is what makes the Mac head and shoulders above any PC.
The simple fact that my Mac has stayed up for a couple of weeks now without rebooting (since the last update) is invaluable. It cuts many minutes out of my day.
Just find some Apple Advertising speil. I am sure there is lots of stuff saying the iMac is better!
What happens when your kid instead gets squashed by a 60 pound monster of a machine?
From what I hear the neck on the iMac is pretty strong! Although fingers on the screen might be a bigger problem
editing the .conf file is an advantage as far as I can tell!!!
.ASP pages. I talked to a couple of admins (I much prefer my OSX box) and none of them new about this page hidden away!
Eg. If you want to turn caching of pages on the server off they can be in each web sites configuration as well as the configuration for the entire web server. I have to click about 10 different buttons etc to actually get to the page. Finally they cache the output from
Configuration files rule. Easy to work through, all the options are there and there is usually a description of what all the options *actually* do.
Rather than the usual trick of, "lets try this and see what works/doesn't work".
From what I have heard that most people who get employed as game testers have a solid understanding and experience in the testing world. You need the same sort of discipline and processes for testing games as you accounting software. Eg, test every possibility, check things over and over again.
I imagine it would be hard work and very tiring.
What you actually want to be is the person who is control of things like game-play. That way you play the game and only have to come back with things like, the green monsters are two easy. You run out of Ammo all the time.
Game testers on the other hand come back with, if you shoot the green monster with a rocket against the red wall it causes the blood to be splattered on the door behind that wall, blood should not appear there. Here is the following way to reproduce... step 1, step 2, step n, step 100
Not my idea of fun.
Give me a bucket load of money and let me play computer games.
Free IE Browser (IMHO the best version of IE out there, but not as good as the latest Mozilla) without paying MS for the Windows License!
I know of a couple of people who mentioned that one of the features of the G4 was that the SMP was handled in such a way that it was possible to put 2 G4's on the same CPU die. As there are no Mac's with this nor any 3rd party vendors that have this available as an upgrade I assumed it hadn't gone ahead.
Looks like IBM have used it in there high end servers. Now if only I could get OSX running on them...
whole bunch of them,
apache, apple, askslashdot, books, bsd, developers, features, interviews, radio, science, yro
It allows slashdot to post stories about those topics without having to put them on the front page.
Slashdot might figure there are already enough high quality Linux and Windows news sites.
This wasn't written by Excite. It has been pulled of the 'wire' from AP.
Nothing sinister from Excite. My guess you can find this news article on a bunch of sites, and will be in the computer section of tommorow's paper.
StarTrek has done it, Stargate should give it a go as well.
I am sure that people will find there is a lot of money in this sort of thing. I am sure you could have Stargate-AOL or something else. The possibilities are endless - Stargate Credit Card, Bank. You could even have a special log on for your favourite online services eg amazon, ebay, google?
Just because you have media from Microsoft does not make it a legitimate copy. I think you will also find that the student edition is not for the production of commericial code.
Buying the media cheaper is exactly the same as downloading it from a warez site, you just spent more money that someone who downloaded.
I thought the reason telephone tapping was illegal is that telephones used to be owned by the postal service, and a telephone call is treated in a way similar to a letter that was mailed.
I didn't know that we had an explicit right and expectation of privacy. Wouldn't that cameras in shopping malls and streets illegal as well??
Just as we don't expect our letters to be opened we don't expect our telephone calls to be tapped, and our laws reflect that.
First off, there is a big disclaimer in the "Apparently" at the start of the scentance.
Before this statement they are speculating what it is being used for. My guess is that they don't have much clue as to what is going on, and are just guessing.
I would like to know how they know it is not configured for caching. I would also hazard a guess that if it is not configured for caching that they may be just testing the boxes before turning on the caching.
Both Cable Internet Providers and I am sure many other ISP's in Australia use Transparent Proxies.
Much easier to setup on the client side and you catch people who leave out the proxy information.
The fact that the server has other capabilities doesn't mean that they are actually using this stuff. If someone can show me a link to the page where I can buy the marketing data, *then* i will believe you.
This is just speculation.
Well on Moz 0.9.8 on Windows running the Modern Theme I get a little box that encircles links etc that I tab around.
From memory the last couple of builds have had that feature.