Depends on what you need it for... If you want a personal file server for a predominantly Mac household, you might appreciate the NetInfo abstraction Darwin offers.
Other than that, you might get better performance out of one of the tried-n-true BSD's due to the lack of overhead taken up by the message-passing microkernel.
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my CRT iMac still works fine, and I'm not going to buy a new machine until it absolutely dies (knock on wood).
Poor criteria to base your Mac upgrade cycle on... I booted my G/F's father's 1987 Mac SE last month - a little effort could have gotten me on the internet...
I never entertained the idea that Sun intentioned Solaris-x86 for enterprise-level applications.
Why would 'IT-Manager-X' lean towards Solaris for the back-room Xeon cluster, when there are already thousands of near-identical configurations leveraging Linux beautifully around the globe? Is the scalability A) that much more extensible under Solaris? B) all that common a need? C) Worth the relatively miniscule newsgroup/bbs/irc channels for support?
I have always figured Solaris-x86 for a 'mindshare' stunt, nothing more... Perhaps/.ers with experiences in back-end Solaris-x86 would care to clarify?
How much better could it possibly be? I'm no 'closed OS' hater, by any means, but a choice between the volume of development that has gone in to Linux compared to the volume in Solaris9-x86 just cannot equate to superiority IMB.
Great of rinterfacing to the back-end, I suppose - beyond that?
Having spent an hour or so with that VPR Matrix down at the local BestBuy, I can assure you that it has far more weak points than wattage dissipation.
For starters, every time I visit it, it's lacking more keys from the keyboard. The same can be said for the Sony's and Hpaq's to a lesser degree - the VPR seems to have inferior mounting clips.
The speakers are absolutely useless.
The display hinge makes the PowerBook's hinge feel like US Military equipment. I think the top-panel is quite a bit heavier than the PB's.
It's also sluggish running XP compared to a 1Ghz 15" PowerBook running OS X - and it's packing Pentium 4-M plugged in to the wall which should theoretically mean that it's running at full tilt! I have no doubts that the new Centrino package will alleviate this problem.
In my eyes, it's not even a contest. The VPR Matrix would be $1500 down the tubes after 8 months, the PowerBook a sound 3 year $2300 investment... I'm more apt to drop $12 in 'protein investment' at the Mexican restaurant around the corner than $8 at McDonald's for lunch today... To each his own I s'pose.
Where did you get the notion that 'prayer' == an association with a deity?
Bhuddists pray... Shintoists pray... I even know agnostics that pray. It's just as useful in centering the individual as any perceived intervention through a 'higher being' - lighten up a little.
I was visiting at the G/F's parents' 2 weekends ago, and finally decided to boot up the SE sitting in her dad's office...
I got the "insert floppy" blinken-icon, so I went downstairs, fished through his electrical-engineer cabinet and produced a star-head driver which wasn't quite long enough for the handle-screws. A longer square-head did the trick on those.
Fond thoughts of the G3/G4 tower design quelled my frustration as I fumbled with the motherboard for a half hour, only to discover that you need to fish your hand inside the tight spaghetti of SCSI ribbons and power cables to unplug the power lead to the MoBo before you can slide the entire panel off the bottom.
A "quick" re-assembly later, having checked the internal hard drive for integrity issues, I connected the little old doggy to 'the grid' only to be slapped in the face with the memory of a system that boots from dead in under 10 seconds... And the bootdrive was loaded with MacOS 7.3!
Next project for Mac SE: Linux 68k and find a CAT-5 adaptor for the Serial Port.
Moral: sentimentality can bring interesting perspectives, and original-all-in-one's don't take up much room;)
You would get similar results on most any machine using SSE2/MMX and hyper threading (perhaps...)
What baffles me is that the distributed.net clients have never apparently taken advantage of x86 SIMD cores. You'd think that they would take advantage of whatever they could code for within these clients, as they far outnumber the MacOS clients, and the goal is to unlock an encrytion algorithm, not benchmark CPU's.
Rather than indicating that the distributed.net team would rather see PowerPC 74xx systems triumph in the key-crunching race, it would indicate that MMX/SSE2 are a royal pain in the ass to leverage unless you're coding/decoding pretty specifically what they were designed to code/decode - though IANAC++P...
The reason I found it worthy of submitting to/. was due to Apple's shifted tack in her product announcement strategy. They seem to be announcing more consumer hardware and software at high-visibility events such as the 4 points of the MacWorld compass, whereas Pro-sumer announcements have been offset to strange laggard periods. (the Aluminum-skinned PowerBooks were the first MW Pro HW announcment since MWNYC 2001)
Unless you also plan to bitch about/. eds posting the "Hammer is SHIPPING" story coming soon to a browser near you or the "H-paq announces Banias-based TabletPC" then you should re-think the nature of such criticisms.
Well... to be fair, I've heard many a gay or lesbian person use the term "breeder" disparagingly...
And... well... I can't argue with that usage. There are too many hairless apes on this planet as it is.
Especially too many that waste evenings fabricating flame circuses like this one echoing a communist party line calling the 'filthy capitalist supporters' "mindless sheep" etc...
Apples long term goals are to lock the industry in to their proprietary hardware and software,
which are in conflict with what I think is best for the industry.
Forgive me for not trudging through the aforementioned slashboard to read your opinions in full (must get busy soon), but I would find any argument other than:
What is best for the industry as a whole is a diversity in choices - including choices between 'closed-loop' platforms that offer more ubiquitous integration and more strict human interface guidelines against fully open platforms.
...to be entirely hard to swallow regardless of the qualifying arguments. My personal problem when overlaying a biodiversity analogy against the platforms is thus: GNU represents the Paleozoic era (chaotic period in which it seems every possible body type was tried and discarded - very slow evolutionary period in context to the later eras)... Whereas Closed-loop platforms such as Sun, Apple and IBM (and yes even M$) are more akin to the Cenozoic era (Mammals, Mollusks and Birds have attained cerebral niches, dominate their environments, diversification of species is carried out at a much faster pace).
That isn't to say that OPENopen platforms are less relevant in today's general computing arena, just that the philosophy can never fulfill the needs of *all* users. In my opinion, Paleozoic-era biodiversity is neccessary for a healthy computing humanity - but no moreso than the strict, regimented 'dominance' paradigm.
Anyways, I should probably digest Raymond's "tCatB" before I ramble off in this direction again...
Dude, you need to step offf the island more often. Here in Sunnyside there are something like 3 straight-up Baangs within 2 blocks of my apartement alone filled with Korean teenagers donning Eminem parephanalia any time I walk by them...
Intorduce Matrix 'Agents' in to a server that sense a hacker and ghost through walls at 400% speed to knife/chainsaw/razoredge their ass in the heart every time they respawn.
So much more frustrating to the hacker than being kickbanned.
2- Apple is the major (only) consumer of the PowerPC chip.
So very untrue. Motorola makes more accumulatively from biotech and military PowerPC orders than from iMac, PowerMac and eMac-bound orders to Apple. If Apple was the majority consumer of the 74xx series CPU's, we'd have seen at least a 1.8 Ghz G4 by now.
Motorola builds them cool, light on the wattage and notches speed according to those first two criteria.
What do you think runs the pattern recognition software in modern drone aircraft and cruise missiles? Pentium 4's? Sparcs?
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*flashes school sweatshirt logo* "TUFTS RULES!"
Yah.. xicons.com, the set's called "Internet X-plorer" by Carlos Reyes
xicons.com I believe...
Depends on what you need it for... If you want a personal file server for a predominantly Mac household, you might appreciate the NetInfo abstraction Darwin offers.
Other than that, you might get better performance out of one of the tried-n-true BSD's due to the lack of overhead taken up by the message-passing microkernel.
Hell, in this age of Unicode, why not change it to a kanji symbol? My personal IE.app was renamed this long ago...
Well... I'm guessing that this project might be claiming prior art on the usage...
;D
Frankly, I'll be happy to be rid of the: "No, the word is actually pronounced 'kai-MEH-ra', not 'SHIM-er-a' " annoyances
Hokusai's - "Pearl Diver and Two Octopuses"
The things just.... don't... DIE...
I never entertained the idea that Sun intentioned Solaris-x86 for enterprise-level applications.
/.ers with experiences in back-end Solaris-x86 would care to clarify?
Why would 'IT-Manager-X' lean towards Solaris for the back-room Xeon cluster, when there are already thousands of near-identical configurations leveraging Linux beautifully around the globe? Is the scalability A) that much more extensible under Solaris? B) all that common a need? C) Worth the relatively miniscule newsgroup/bbs/irc channels for support?
I have always figured Solaris-x86 for a 'mindshare' stunt, nothing more... Perhaps
How much better could it possibly be? I'm no 'closed OS' hater, by any means, but a choice between the volume of development that has gone in to Linux compared to the volume in Solaris9-x86 just cannot equate to superiority IMB.
Great of rinterfacing to the back-end, I suppose - beyond that?
Having spent an hour or so with that VPR Matrix down at the local BestBuy, I can assure you that it has far more weak points than wattage dissipation.
For starters, every time I visit it, it's lacking more keys from the keyboard. The same can be said for the Sony's and Hpaq's to a lesser degree - the VPR seems to have inferior mounting clips.
The speakers are absolutely useless.
The display hinge makes the PowerBook's hinge feel like US Military equipment. I think the top-panel is quite a bit heavier than the PB's.
It's also sluggish running XP compared to a 1Ghz 15" PowerBook running OS X - and it's packing Pentium 4-M plugged in to the wall which should theoretically mean that it's running at full tilt! I have no doubts that the new Centrino package will alleviate this problem.
In my eyes, it's not even a contest. The VPR Matrix would be $1500 down the tubes after 8 months, the PowerBook a sound 3 year $2300 investment... I'm more apt to drop $12 in 'protein investment' at the Mexican restaurant around the corner than $8 at McDonald's for lunch today... To each his own I s'pose.
Where did you get the notion that 'prayer' == an association with a deity?
Bhuddists pray... Shintoists pray... I even know agnostics that pray. It's just as useful in centering the individual as any perceived intervention through a 'higher being' - lighten up a little.
You're right... I think it was 7.0.1 on further recollection.
I was visiting at the G/F's parents' 2 weekends ago, and finally decided to boot up the SE sitting in her dad's office...
;)
I got the "insert floppy" blinken-icon, so I went downstairs, fished through his electrical-engineer cabinet and produced a star-head driver which wasn't quite long enough for the handle-screws. A longer square-head did the trick on those.
Fond thoughts of the G3/G4 tower design quelled my frustration as I fumbled with the motherboard for a half hour, only to discover that you need to fish your hand inside the tight spaghetti of SCSI ribbons and power cables to unplug the power lead to the MoBo before you can slide the entire panel off the bottom.
A "quick" re-assembly later, having checked the internal hard drive for integrity issues, I connected the little old doggy to 'the grid' only to be slapped in the face with the memory of a system that boots from dead in under 10 seconds... And the bootdrive was loaded with MacOS 7.3!
Next project for Mac SE: Linux 68k and find a CAT-5 adaptor for the Serial Port.
Moral: sentimentality can bring interesting perspectives, and original-all-in-one's don't take up much room
Rather than indicating that the distributed.net team would rather see PowerPC 74xx systems triumph in the key-crunching race, it would indicate that MMX/SSE2 are a royal pain in the ass to leverage unless you're coding/decoding pretty specifically what they were designed to code/decode - though IANAC++P...
The reason I found it worthy of submitting to /. was due to Apple's shifted tack in her product announcement strategy. They seem to be announcing more consumer hardware and software at high-visibility events such as the 4 points of the MacWorld compass, whereas Pro-sumer announcements have been offset to strange laggard periods. (the Aluminum-skinned PowerBooks were the first MW Pro HW announcment since MWNYC 2001)
/. eds posting the "Hammer is SHIPPING" story coming soon to a browser near you or the "H-paq announces Banias-based TabletPC" then you should re-think the nature of such criticisms.
Unless you also plan to bitch about
Well... to be fair, I've heard many a gay or lesbian person use the term "breeder" disparagingly...
And... well... I can't argue with that usage. There are too many hairless apes on this planet as it is.
Especially too many that waste evenings fabricating flame circuses like this one echoing a communist party line calling the 'filthy capitalist supporters' "mindless sheep" etc...
Good gawly...
That isn't to say that OPENopen platforms are less relevant in today's general computing arena, just that the philosophy can never fulfill the needs of *all* users. In my opinion, Paleozoic-era biodiversity is neccessary for a healthy computing humanity - but no moreso than the strict, regimented 'dominance' paradigm.
Anyways, I should probably digest Raymond's "tCatB" before I ramble off in this direction again...
All the more reason to use Server-to-Client networks instead.
Dude, you need to step offf the island more often. Here in Sunnyside there are something like 3 straight-up Baangs within 2 blocks of my apartement alone filled with Korean teenagers donning Eminem parephanalia any time I walk by them...
Now THERE is a F$ck!ng thought!
Intorduce Matrix 'Agents' in to a server that sense a hacker and ghost through walls at 400% speed to knife/chainsaw/razoredge their ass in the heart every time they respawn.
So much more frustrating to the hacker than being kickbanned.
The IBM PCjr shipped with a mouse a few months before the Macintosh was even announced.
It was optical too. I loved my PCjr. I loved the later family Mac SE even more, 1-Bit color be damned!
Motorola builds them cool, light on the wattage and notches speed according to those first two criteria.
What do you think runs the pattern recognition software in modern drone aircraft and cruise missiles? Pentium 4's? Sparcs?
Yet if you were a 14 year old British girl, you might appreciate Habbo Hotel (Shock Req.)
Were you a Finnish (Suomi) teen, you might appreciate Hotelli Kultakala (Shock Req.)
Doesn't run on what? A cloud of vapor?
Imagine a beowulf*BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*BLAM*