Reconsider your decision not to install Tiger on your aging iMac. I've got Panther running on my 400MHz Blue & White G3 (only 320MB of RAM) and it's running great. Perfect for surfing, e-mail, and iTunes jukebox. My expectation (largely confirmed by Siracusa's article) is that Tiger will run even better.
OK. More information. If you login to a shell, the login banner is/etc/motd. If you want to add some text to the GUI in Mac OS X created by Loginwindow.app, then you need to add a couple of keys to/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist. Add, for example:
LoginwindowText Official Use Only...and you'll have a little login banner right in the GUI.
Still, even those optimistic about the market don't see Apple getting a major boost to the bottom line.
"At a profit of less than 10 cents per song, the music store does not represent a major income opportunity for Apple," [analyst Charles] Wolf wrote in the July report. Still, the company could benefit from increased iPod sales, he said.
Because Apple's attitude regarding open vs. proprietary has changed dramatically since the advent of Mac OS X? Admittedly, their attitude in the music arena leaves much to be desired, but as far as acceptance of open source and open file formats is concerned, Apple excels:
There is far more freedom to copy songs to and from the Zen, to multiple machines, something that is difficult if not impossible to do on the iPod.
No, it's not impossible to copy music from your iPod to other machines. In fact, it's quite easy. Use the CLI, and use cp or ditto, and you can copy your music anywhere you want. Now explain to me how the Zen offers more "freedom" than that?
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When is the last time they produced something truly innovative?
Exposé comes to mind. It's incredibly useful, and I've never seen anything quite like it anywhere else.
Also, Quartz Extreme is pretty innovative, and Core Image/Video is too.
If you don't buy those, though, then I suppose we'll have to go back to the Newton (1993), which, despite the bad press, WAS way ahead of its time. And if you don't buy that, how about the Apple II (1977). I don't think anybody would dispute that...
If you want to build a supercomputer for floating-point-heavy scientific computations, and cost is not a factor, you really have two options: the Itanium, or a NEC vector processor.
I suppose all of those Power-based (Power4, G5, etc) machines in the top 10 of the http://www.top500.org/ are just makin' those numbers up, then eh? And at such dramatically low cost, too!
I visited the System X installation about a month after it was first installed (when it was still G5 towers). They run Mac OS X on those machines. At the time, it was Jaguar. Tiger will make a big difference in the usability of these clusters, with better support for the 64-bitness of the PPC 970.
Actually, it's Quartz Extreme that renders the GUI via the GPU. Core Image is more of an add-on to that, applying filters and transformations using the GPU as well. Quartz Extreme has been around since Jaguar, and Core Image will appear in Tiger.
Isn't it the point of supercomputing to get work done more quickly? Big deal if the gear that does it is big. Isn't it a loftier goal to get the most work done in the least amount of space? Or, in the case of this article, with the fewest number of processors?
Mac OS X Server / Client actually includes quite sophisticated remote management tools, both CLI and GUI based, for both Server and Client.
I'm in the process of setting up a large Mac lab for my employer, and working with Workgroup Admin and Open Directory in MOSXS is proving efficient and extremely functional.
Of course you could. Any New World architecture Mac has a built in boot manager accessible by holding down the Option key at power up. The boot manager will scan all bootable buses (including FireWire) and present a list of available bootable volumes. Just plug in your YDL drive, reboot, hold down Option, select the YDL volume and hit Enter.
Many of your assumptions concerning Mac OS X Server are mistaken. Apple includes CLI tools that perform the same functions as the Server Admin GUI tools.
Also, MOSXS can be installed without a GUI. It can even be installed remotely.
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Reconsider your decision not to install Tiger on your aging iMac. I've got Panther running on my 400MHz Blue & White G3 (only 320MB of RAM) and it's running great. Perfect for surfing, e-mail, and iTunes jukebox. My expectation (largely confirmed by Siracusa's article) is that Tiger will run even better.
DAMN I wish I had mod points. Funniest thing I've read in ages. DJ Clipmaster. I love it!
Just try doing routine system maintenance on a box thousands of miles away when it's turned off.
Is there something wrong with the Open Directory solution already on all of those Mac OS X boxes you're supposed to be administering?
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http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/opendi
Works great, open source, what more do you want?
Shoot. Those XML tags got stripped by /.
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Here's a site that documents the addition of graphical logon banners to Mac OS X.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2002
OK. More information. If you login to a shell, the login banner is /etc/motd. If you want to add some text to the GUI in Mac OS X created by Loginwindow.app, then you need to add a couple of keys to /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist. Add, for example:
...and you'll have a little login banner right in the GUI.
LoginwindowText
Official Use Only
Isn't it
Apple makes less than $0.10 per song sold on the iTunes music store, quite a bit less than the $0.35 estimated by http://www.downhillbattle.org/itunes/. Check out this article instead: http://news.com.com/2100-1027-5088849.html. The key quote being:
Still, even those optimistic about the market don't see Apple getting a major boost to the bottom line.
"At a profit of less than 10 cents per song, the music store does not represent a major income opportunity for Apple," [analyst Charles] Wolf wrote in the July report. Still, the company could benefit from increased iPod sales, he said.
Optical audio I/O, and dual-link DVI on the 17" PowerBook to drive the 30" display, too.
This is more than just a speed bump. These new features are nice.
Because Apple's attitude regarding open vs. proprietary has changed dramatically since the advent of Mac OS X? Admittedly, their attitude in the music arena leaves much to be desired, but as far as acceptance of open source and open file formats is concerned, Apple excels:
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/
There is far more freedom to copy songs to and from the Zen, to multiple machines, something that is difficult if not impossible to do on the iPod.
No, it's not impossible to copy music from your iPod to other machines. In fact, it's quite easy. Use the CLI, and use cp or ditto, and you can copy your music anywhere you want. Now explain to me how the Zen offers more "freedom" than that?
Well, it took me about three clicks from Apple's home page to get to http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/compatibility.htm l.
7 .html.
Oh yeah, and Keynote's file format is XML, and it's very well documented here: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn206
Sheez people... There are plenty of USB/FireWire audio and video breakout boxes in the world. BUY ONE. That will get you decent quality av in/out.
When is the last time they produced something truly innovative?
Exposé comes to mind. It's incredibly useful, and I've never seen anything quite like it anywhere else.
Also, Quartz Extreme is pretty innovative, and Core Image/Video is too.
If you don't buy those, though, then I suppose we'll have to go back to the Newton (1993), which, despite the bad press, WAS way ahead of its time. And if you don't buy that, how about the Apple II (1977). I don't think anybody would dispute that...
If you want to build a supercomputer for floating-point-heavy scientific computations, and cost is not a factor, you really have two options: the Itanium, or a NEC vector processor.
I suppose all of those Power-based (Power4, G5, etc) machines in the top 10 of the http://www.top500.org/ are just makin' those numbers up, then eh? And at such dramatically low cost, too!
I visited the System X installation about a month after it was first installed (when it was still G5 towers). They run Mac OS X on those machines. At the time, it was Jaguar. Tiger will make a big difference in the usability of these clusters, with better support for the 64-bitness of the PPC 970.
Which option is that? The "off" option?
Actually, it's Quartz Extreme that renders the GUI via the GPU. Core Image is more of an add-on to that, applying filters and transformations using the GPU as well. Quartz Extreme has been around since Jaguar, and Core Image will appear in Tiger.
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http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/quartzextr
http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/core.html
Useless trivia? Last I heard, this guy had won over $800,000 because of all this useless trivia. Doesn't seem so useless now, does it?
HFS+ has no theoretical limit on file size. It is limited only by the size of the volume (Max 16TB in Panther).
See Apple Knowledgebase article 25557 for more.
Isn't it the point of supercomputing to get work done more quickly? Big deal if the gear that does it is big. Isn't it a loftier goal to get the most work done in the least amount of space? Or, in the case of this article, with the fewest number of processors?
Mac OS X Server / Client actually includes quite sophisticated remote management tools, both CLI and GUI based, for both Server and Client.
I'm in the process of setting up a large Mac lab for my employer, and working with Workgroup Admin and Open Directory in MOSXS is proving efficient and extremely functional.
Of course you could. Any New World architecture Mac has a built in boot manager accessible by holding down the Option key at power up. The boot manager will scan all bootable buses (including FireWire) and present a list of available bootable volumes. Just plug in your YDL drive, reboot, hold down Option, select the YDL volume and hit Enter.
Enjoy.
Many of your assumptions concerning Mac OS X Server are mistaken. Apple includes CLI tools that perform the same functions as the Server Admin GUI tools.
Also, MOSXS can be installed without a GUI. It can even be installed remotely.
Enjoy.
RE: Flight sims on the Mac. Have you tried X-Plane? http://www.x-plane.com/