The old Mac LC cases (early to mid 90's) had practically no screws.
From memory the motherboard, powersupply, floppy drive and hard drive had no screws. Everything was plastic clips, that grabbed around the hard drive and floppy drive, and for the motherboard instead of screw holes there was rectangular holes through which a clip would poke through (much like the front of many tower cases).
I can't remember how the powersupply was secured but I remember it wasn't to difficult to remove.
Since that case many mac cases have needed a few screws, but you can get a lot of things quite easily, things like drive sleds make it quite easy to get hard drives and cd rom drives in and out. Happily many PC now use drive sleds or rails to secure these devices.
Grab Mozilla/Opera/Whatever and use Tabs for a little while. I cannot use any browser now without tabs. Having 10 pages open is no problem, and it is great when you come to a site and need to look at 10 different articles that might interest you (eg Slashdot front page).
Also Mozilla has a pretty extensive scripting language behind it. I beleive that the Calendar module is written purely in that scripting language.
Thanks
Luke
The easiest way to import songs is simply drag and drop them from wherever you stored them on your HD and drop them into your library. iTunes will suck them into the UI but will not reorganise them or anything like that.
Quick and simple.
The only thing is that office is a huge code base, my guess is that it will never be converted. I remember reading somewhere (possible Joel on Software, not sure) that the Excel team still maintains their own C compiler to compile Excel. It would therefore make it an even bigger task than a simple port.
Also as far as I am aware Microsoft has so far released no products that require.net installed to use them. Maybe I wrong on that but I don't see.net being a prereq on any of their products.
The first thing apple did to break the standard was create purdy see through power cables. Was there any way that you could use any other cable on your mac equipment?
I found that XP has a higher priority to frontmost app. I found that if your frontmost app is a CPU hog then other apps in the background would quite unresponsive, even taking some time to switch the frontmost app. This is using an app that pegs the CPU at 100% for many minutes.
There was a program that use to do this on the mac. From memory I think it was an older version of Interarchy (ftp client).
Basically when you started using the program you were at 'novice' level and only simple things were exposed to you. Then depending on the number of downloads and the amount of data etc more and more options would become available to you. The big advantage of this was that for new users the more powerful features would become available. A dialog would popup on startup and explain what the feature was, and how it could be used. Therefore power user features were introduced one at a time, quite easy for a user to grasp them.
Thankfully there was also an override so that pro users on a new/different machine could use there features that they wanted.
You forgot USB1.1 becomes USB 2.0,
On the whole this is a very nice upgrade to the notebook and keeps it at the head of the line. One thing I wasn't sure of is that it seems a little thicker than it was before?
That is why in Australia stations such as TripleJ (http://www.abc.net.au/triplej National Youth Network), and locally 3RRR and 3PBS (both independent, rely on subscribers) have a fairly strong following.
TripleJ in particular has a national competition called unearthed where they go around the country discovering new bands (see here for info: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/unearthed/about/defa ult.htm_ . They also support quite a few young/unknown bands with a non standard airplay list, meaning that undiscovered talent gets air time.
You can als listen to it online if you want a taste of good, non commercial radio (plus they leave the swear word in!)
Actually for reliability stakes Raid 5 and Raid 1 both completely fail if 2 drives fail. However Raid 5 has a greater number of drives to fail.
I am not 100% sure about my probablility but if you had a raid 5 with 4 drives you have twice the chance that 2 drives will fail than if you only had 2 drives.
My guess is that the copy of Office XP you have is one of the corporate versions. All of our Office XP have required activation (small company) and my MSDN version requires activation on each computer I use it on. We just moved a hard drive from a dead notebook to a desktop and had to reactivate office XP.
I agree it is none of their business and I think you will find as this sort of thing increases people will look more and more to products like openoffice etc which aren't as restrictive and do everything that the user wants (eg write a letter simple spreadsheet)
The media isn't licensed, it is the key on the outside of the box.
You would have a similar problem if you put consumer version of Office XP on your machine. Each one would phone home to MS and if the key had already been used then it would be invalid and you would have to call MS to get it activated.
What about something like these:
http://www.me.washington.edu/~malte/engr342/homewo rk/wq2001_homework/342.01.HW7s_tower.pdf
Basic principal is you heat molten salt and then derive power by using the heated molten salt to generate steam (for a turbine). You therefore get cheap easy storage of the power and you can generate different levels of power from the system as is needed.
And I would therefore assume that it would be shown to the RIAA accountant who would work out it has cost the economy 27 billion trillion dollars in lost revenue?
It was for those very problems that I suggested it was held in trust because people willing to pledge but don't pay up.
However what about if you moved the idea from the personal user space to the enterprise space. I think companies would be much more willing to be involved in this, especially if they are saving a lot of $$$ because of this feature.
What about if you had a bounty clearing house for monies?
A user of the product would like feature X, and they are willing to pay $5 for it. He can put the details and pay the money, which is held in trust. Whoever is responsible for the feature being added then would be paid a bounty for the feature, in this case $5. If you had many people asking for a particular feature then you could end up with quite a few $$$ allocated to a feature. It would also make it easier to priotise the features to be added to the product.
Of course as soon as money becomes involved you need all sorts of rules about splitting the money, and who says a feature is done etc, etc.
The case against UI skins maker was the use of the Apple Logo and calling it Aqua. Most of the people removed the apple logo and changed the name and everything was ok.
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The old Mac LC cases (early to mid 90's) had practically no screws.
From memory the motherboard, powersupply, floppy drive and hard drive had no screws. Everything was plastic clips, that grabbed around the hard drive and floppy drive, and for the motherboard instead of screw holes there was rectangular holes through which a clip would poke through (much like the front of many tower cases).
I can't remember how the powersupply was secured but I remember it wasn't to difficult to remove.
Since that case many mac cases have needed a few screws, but you can get a lot of things quite easily, things like drive sleds make it quite easy to get hard drives and cd rom drives in and out. Happily many PC now use drive sleds or rails to secure these devices.
Thanks
Luke
Grab Mozilla/Opera/Whatever and use Tabs for a little while. I cannot use any browser now without tabs. Having 10 pages open is no problem, and it is great when you come to a site and need to look at 10 different articles that might interest you (eg Slashdot front page). Also Mozilla has a pretty extensive scripting language behind it. I beleive that the Calendar module is written purely in that scripting language. Thanks Luke
It is always visible in your menu bar, 1 click away at all times.
This sounds like the kind of thing you are after:
s x/ 19135
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/maco
I saw it on version tracker the other day but I use the iCal and sync with my phone and/or palm and check todos off of them.
Just get a USB Floppy drive, some/most? PC Notebooks now use third party usb floppy drives.
It is not aliens, but gnomes and they are going to steal your underpants!
The easiest way to import songs is simply drag and drop them from wherever you stored them on your HD and drop them into your library. iTunes will suck them into the UI but will not reorganise them or anything like that. Quick and simple.
The only thing is that office is a huge code base, my guess is that it will never be converted. I remember reading somewhere (possible Joel on Software, not sure) that the Excel team still maintains their own C compiler to compile Excel. It would therefore make it an even bigger task than a simple port.
.net installed to use them. Maybe I wrong on that but I don't see .net being a prereq on any of their products.
Also as far as I am aware Microsoft has so far released no products that require
The first thing apple did to break the standard was create purdy see through power cables. Was there any way that you could use any other cable on your mac equipment?
I found that XP has a higher priority to frontmost app. I found that if your frontmost app is a CPU hog then other apps in the background would quite unresponsive, even taking some time to switch the frontmost app. This is using an app that pegs the CPU at 100% for many minutes.
There was a program that use to do this on the mac. From memory I think it was an older version of Interarchy (ftp client).
Basically when you started using the program you were at 'novice' level and only simple things were exposed to you. Then depending on the number of downloads and the amount of data etc more and more options would become available to you. The big advantage of this was that for new users the more powerful features would become available. A dialog would popup on startup and explain what the feature was, and how it could be used. Therefore power user features were introduced one at a time, quite easy for a user to grasp them.
Thankfully there was also an override so that pro users on a new/different machine could use there features that they wanted.
You forgot USB1.1 becomes USB 2.0, On the whole this is a very nice upgrade to the notebook and keeps it at the head of the line. One thing I wasn't sure of is that it seems a little thicker than it was before?
That is why in Australia stations such as TripleJ (http://www.abc.net.au/triplej National Youth Network), and locally 3RRR and 3PBS (both independent, rely on subscribers) have a fairly strong following.
a ult.htm_ . They also support quite a few young/unknown bands with a non standard airplay list, meaning that undiscovered talent gets air time.
TripleJ in particular has a national competition called unearthed where they go around the country discovering new bands (see here for info: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/unearthed/about/def
You can als listen to it online if you want a taste of good, non commercial radio (plus they leave the swear word in!)
Actually for reliability stakes Raid 5 and Raid 1 both completely fail if 2 drives fail. However Raid 5 has a greater number of drives to fail.
I am not 100% sure about my probablility but if you had a raid 5 with 4 drives you have twice the chance that 2 drives will fail than if you only had 2 drives.
My guess is that the copy of Office XP you have is one of the corporate versions. All of our Office XP have required activation (small company) and my MSDN version requires activation on each computer I use it on. We just moved a hard drive from a dead notebook to a desktop and had to reactivate office XP. I agree it is none of their business and I think you will find as this sort of thing increases people will look more and more to products like openoffice etc which aren't as restrictive and do everything that the user wants (eg write a letter simple spreadsheet)
The media isn't licensed, it is the key on the outside of the box. You would have a similar problem if you put consumer version of Office XP on your machine. Each one would phone home to MS and if the key had already been used then it would be invalid and you would have to call MS to get it activated.
This is actually part of the Appletalk protocols. I believe there is a licensesing protocol. Photoshop 3 & 4 used to do the same thing.
What about something like these: http://www.me.washington.edu/~malte/engr342/homewo rk/wq2001_homework/342.01.HW7s_tower.pdf
Basic principal is you heat molten salt and then derive power by using the heated molten salt to generate steam (for a turbine). You therefore get cheap easy storage of the power and you can generate different levels of power from the system as is needed.
Well Steve Jobs already claims that Mac's are the BMW of the computing world. he is probably refering to the price ;-)
And I would therefore assume that it would be shown to the RIAA accountant who would work out it has cost the economy 27 billion trillion dollars in lost revenue?
It was for those very problems that I suggested it was held in trust because people willing to pledge but don't pay up. However what about if you moved the idea from the personal user space to the enterprise space. I think companies would be much more willing to be involved in this, especially if they are saving a lot of $$$ because of this feature.
What about if you had a bounty clearing house for monies?
A user of the product would like feature X, and they are willing to pay $5 for it. He can put the details and pay the money, which is held in trust. Whoever is responsible for the feature being added then would be paid a bounty for the feature, in this case $5. If you had many people asking for a particular feature then you could end up with quite a few $$$ allocated to a feature. It would also make it easier to priotise the features to be added to the product.
Of course as soon as money becomes involved you need all sorts of rules about splitting the money, and who says a feature is done etc, etc.
The case against UI skins maker was the use of the Apple Logo and calling it Aqua. Most of the people removed the apple logo and changed the name and everything was ok.
We don't call people from NZ sheep shaggers for nothing.
I thought you just needed to know about sheep.