The thing is there has been so much hype recently about 64bit that people will assume that they need 64bit (of course it will twice as good as 32bit;-)
Apple used to do this on one of their early machines , I can't remember which (possibly the first Classic). Basically Apple had a swag of extra Rom space and they put in a cut down version of the system and finder. Great if you had problems with your machine.
The thing is that open source products aren't necessarily made by a company whose primary purpose is selling software. Alot of open source is worked on by people who make companies work.
Eg, Company X makes widgets, they need a widget inventory control. Company Y makes car parts, and have written an inventory control program. They release this as open source, Company X uses it, and there internal guys find & fix a bunch of bugs. Because it is open source both companies are gaining the added benefit.
I think you will find that for most open source projects (especially those that are not high profile) this is how they are being financed. Remember 95% of code written these days is for internal systems that are not released onto the market.
The problem with worms, and I have seen this with Code Red and slammer, is that while the servers might be protected from the outside nasties, all it takes is one default installed IIS or MSDE on a notebook that someone connects up to the net at home and they literally walk the worm into your network.
The hardest part is that to solve these sort of security problems involves educating the users. This takes a lot of time, and most people outside IT just don't care.
Well the first version of NT was 3.0, then NT4 was the first main stream. 2000 was version 5, and XP is version 5.1.
While MacOSX is the first release, it is based on FreeBSD, Mach, and the new display infrastructure is a reworked version of NextStep. None of the these technologies are really 'new'. Putting them all together is quite new however.
The easy way is to make and mount a UFS disk image. Extract and use the files from there. If needed get rid of the redunant files (usually used for building etc), then transfer to HFS+.
If you deal with this a lot, just make yourself a UFS partition.
I always loved the look of the NS 500 & 700. The airscoop look at the bottom of the server looks ultra funky, although I would worry about paper, pens, cats etc getting sucked into the thing.
http://homepage.mac.com/gsanford/applehistory/imag es/models/ns500.gif
But the effect of the iMac on USB devices still can be seen. How many USB hubs, floppy drives ect come in translucent colors?
I am sure a lot of PC users wondered why there USB devices came with 5 oddly colored face plates that happened to match the 5 colors of second batch of iMacs. I wonder how big the christmas present is that S. Jobs gets from the Translucent Plastics Association?
This is done the same way as your phone lines. There aren't enough phone lines to service everyone in your neighbourhood if you all try to call at once. My guess is that there aren't enough lines when 20% of your neighbourhood calls at once. When you see a disaster zone and an unusually high number of calls are made it often wipes out the telephone system.
This is how an ISP can offer you a residential broadband at that price. These people they are pissing off are using 90% of the service. Basically if they get rid of 1~2% of the subsribers they will not need to upgrade there service for another couple of years.
From the article it said the fans were dependent of parts of the 3D system being used. Whether what NVidia is doing is 3D or just part of their 2D infrastructure I am not sure
I think with Ad campaigns like Rip Mix Burn Apple doesn't give a hoot about what the RIAA thinks.
I though Apple's anti piracy and DRM measures on the iPod cover whatever hacks get installed (if you don't know the anti piracy measures are a sticker on the box the iPod comes in saying "Don't steal music".
IIRC the cards that Apple sold actually had clipboard hooks as well across the cards. Some of the cards you could hook a second monitor on so you could see the apps running side by side. A neat solution but not that usefull especially today where the web is where more and more applications exist.
While these packages are open source and only of use to those of us using Cocoa, Apples team who are currently working on Safari (which is beta) are feeding there changes back to the KHTML team. They sent an open letter to the KHTML team the day the browser was released.
This means that when you run Konqueuer on KDE you will be enjoying the beta testing that thousands of MacOSX users have performed on Safari. This is what open source is about and this is what makes it powerful.
You make it sound as though open source is a single entity. It is not, it is a concept. You can write a letter to the open source team and tell them that they shouldn't work for Apple.
The simple fact that a number of open source developers now have a home at Apple working on the code that they have developed can only be a good thing.
What I think you will see more and more is people taking things from the open source code base (like KHTML) and integrating them into extremely well polished apps. If this polish is fed back into the linux all the better!
This would become a real issue if Microsoft/Linux Desktop took a cue from Apple with Quartz Extreme and actually put UI rendering features such as transparencies and shadows onto the video card rather than the CPU. Your card wouldn't be working hard but it would noisy all the time.
Hopefully the 3rd Party OEM of the FX will create more sensible cooling mechanisms.
It is commonly known as the MVC model. MVC is Model, Veiw Controller. Basically you have code that handles the data (model) and code that handles the View (GUI) then the controller sits in between as a basic sort of glue to combine them.
On smaller projects the controller and the view often get integrated into the same place, but once you start talking multiple windows etc then you need to split the Controller out.
I beleive that Java's gui stuff is done like this and Cocoa on MacOSX definitely uses this (the framework is built on this foundation).
I don't do any.Net development at home, although if I need to I can use Citrix and hook into a development server in our Citrix farm. Also I have a v. crusty IBM thunkpad which I can use to do.net on the move (although I consider it for emergencies only!).
As for MacOSX development, I dabble in the Cocoa framework which is a lot of fun to use. This is a direct decendent of Nextstep (most of the classes are still prefixed with NS), uses ObjectiveC which is some OO extensions added to C. I have been told it has a lot of features that smalltalk has, and is no where near as strict as Java or the.net languages.
As for web stuff most of it is done in PHP, mySQL, and a bit of Java. I also do a bit of work with Flash. Nearly all of the sites I deal with are FreeBSD or Linux based so any of those solutions can be emulated on the MacOSX.
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Not really, Apple creates a benchmark in Photoshop, which highlights Apple Hardware. Eg all of the tests are tests that fully utilise AltiVec.
Bright kid now wants to go to college, so he will do a bit of work for his grades.
Just curious, what about IBM? Although I am guessing that they will probably be more expensive than Redhat.
Good marketing beats good engineering!
Apple used to do this on one of their early machines , I can't remember which (possibly the first Classic). Basically Apple had a swag of extra Rom space and they put in a cut down version of the system and finder. Great if you had problems with your machine.
The thing is that open source products aren't necessarily made by a company whose primary purpose is selling software. Alot of open source is worked on by people who make companies work. Eg, Company X makes widgets, they need a widget inventory control. Company Y makes car parts, and have written an inventory control program. They release this as open source, Company X uses it, and there internal guys find & fix a bunch of bugs. Because it is open source both companies are gaining the added benefit. I think you will find that for most open source projects (especially those that are not high profile) this is how they are being financed. Remember 95% of code written these days is for internal systems that are not released onto the market.
Another sticker on the iPod box: "This box has a sticker on it warning you not to steal music"
The hardest part is that to solve these sort of security problems involves educating the users. This takes a lot of time, and most people outside IT just don't care.
Well the first version of NT was 3.0, then NT4 was the first main stream. 2000 was version 5, and XP is version 5.1. While MacOSX is the first release, it is based on FreeBSD, Mach, and the new display infrastructure is a reworked version of NextStep. None of the these technologies are really 'new'. Putting them all together is quite new however.
My guess is that Tabs on Safari will be released as a must have when it is release, thereby generating a bit of news and excitment in the community.
Best thing to do is check XLR8yourmac (www.xlr8yourmac.com) and check the drive databases before you buy a CDRW/DVD-RW drive.
If you deal with this a lot, just make yourself a UFS partition.
I always loved the look of the NS 500 & 700. The airscoop look at the bottom of the server looks ultra funky, although I would worry about paper, pens, cats etc getting sucked into the thing. http://homepage.mac.com/gsanford/applehistory/imag es/models/ns500.gif
While they didn't invent zero-conf I believe that the head of the steering committee is and has been a full time Apple employee.
I am sure a lot of PC users wondered why there USB devices came with 5 oddly colored face plates that happened to match the 5 colors of second batch of iMacs. I wonder how big the christmas present is that S. Jobs gets from the Translucent Plastics Association?
This is how an ISP can offer you a residential broadband at that price. These people they are pissing off are using 90% of the service. Basically if they get rid of 1~2% of the subsribers they will not need to upgrade there service for another couple of years.
Unfortunately we all can't get Quadro FX's :-)
I though Apple's anti piracy and DRM measures on the iPod cover whatever hacks get installed (if you don't know the anti piracy measures are a sticker on the box the iPod comes in saying "Don't steal music".
IIRC the cards that Apple sold actually had clipboard hooks as well across the cards. Some of the cards you could hook a second monitor on so you could see the apps running side by side. A neat solution but not that usefull especially today where the web is where more and more applications exist.
This means that when you run Konqueuer on KDE you will be enjoying the beta testing that thousands of MacOSX users have performed on Safari. This is what open source is about and this is what makes it powerful.
You make it sound as though open source is a single entity. It is not, it is a concept. You can write a letter to the open source team and tell them that they shouldn't work for Apple. The simple fact that a number of open source developers now have a home at Apple working on the code that they have developed can only be a good thing. What I think you will see more and more is people taking things from the open source code base (like KHTML) and integrating them into extremely well polished apps. If this polish is fed back into the linux all the better!
Hopefully the 3rd Party OEM of the FX will create more sensible cooling mechanisms.
On smaller projects the controller and the view often get integrated into the same place, but once you start talking multiple windows etc then you need to split the Controller out.
I beleive that Java's gui stuff is done like this and Cocoa on MacOSX definitely uses this (the framework is built on this foundation).
As for MacOSX development, I dabble in the Cocoa framework which is a lot of fun to use. This is a direct decendent of Nextstep (most of the classes are still prefixed with NS), uses ObjectiveC which is some OO extensions added to C. I have been told it has a lot of features that smalltalk has, and is no where near as strict as Java or the .net languages.
As for web stuff most of it is done in PHP, mySQL, and a bit of Java. I also do a bit of work with Flash. Nearly all of the sites I deal with are FreeBSD or Linux based so any of those solutions can be emulated on the MacOSX.
Here in Australia people use them to go fishing, they use the potato gun to 'cast' out past the surf and the sand bar.