Re:What apple dosent what you to know...
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Broken .Mac?
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· Score: 2
Yeah, we are well aware that apple's corporate website is Solaris. Apple has never hidden that. In fact, Apple has always had a fairly good relationship with Sun!
You will note that.mac runs Apache/Darwin.
I have found that, other than occasional slowness on weekday evenings, I have no complaints whatsoever about this service.
The original posted clearly did not *telephone* Apple about his problems, which I suspect are caused by a misconfiguration of his machine, or his LAN.
"YOU HAVE COMMITTED AN INEXPLICABLE ERROR"
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Gnarly Error Messages
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· Score: 3, Funny
I got the title as an error message from RSX-11M Fortran-IV Plus in about 1982. Turns out, after bothering the folks at DEC for days, that the problem was a mis-aligned named COMMON section. Why didn't they just SAY so???
Seriously, what a dumb idea. There are laws against having live video in the view of the driver in all states. I expect that this will be extended to live web browsers just as soon as there are a few messy fatal accidents caused by this "feature". In fact, I intend to write my state legislators and suggest such a law just as soon as I know who wins on Nov. 5th.
Now hold it just a minute.
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The End Of Minix?
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· Score: 3, Insightful
The fact that they are no longer supporting Minix has no consequences whatsoever!
Minix is frozen in time, and any of the old XFree86 sources that have ever worked with it will work with it forever. After a certain amount of debugging has taken place, one no longer needs to support software for an unchanging OS.
"...and we're here to help you." Is a phrase that ought to strike fear into anybody's heart! Dollars to doughnuts this is not the "helpful" measure it is being made out to be.
I look at emissions. CO, NO, NO2, Hydrocarbons, and CO2. Only the CO2 is directly related to the amount of gasoline consumed in a manner that cannot be reduced by good design. The Prius is a SULEV, or Super-Ultra-Low Emissions Vehicle as defined by law. It actually has a lower emssions rating than the automatic transmission Insite, even though that vehicle gets better mileage. You have to go to the manual transmission Insite before it qualifies as a SULEV. So, yes, impact DOES have an efficiency component, but that is only one part of the equation, and not necessarily the most important one.
I have a Prius, and IMNSHO it is a more sophisticated system than that in the Honda models. I recommend it.
However, the real goal of all of these vehicles is not fuel-efficiency! It is having a low impact upon the atmosphere. It is far more important to be able to continue to breathe clean air than to be able to continue to afford petrol!
With either of these systems, the key to good mileage is to learn to drive the car, and to find the right balance of acceleration, following distance, and braking that keeps you from operating in high fuel consumption modes.
Today I drove from Elgin, IL to New Salem Village (near Springfield) and back in it. 220 miles down and 220 miles back. Comfortable. Smooth. CD player making tunes. It was wonderful. And we did this 440 mile trip on less than one tank of gas, with an indicated MPG of 48.2 for the whole trip.
Nothing bare-bones about this car. It works like a dream. Mind you, it isn't designed for drag-racing, but it can accelerate well enough to merge without stress, can zoom along at 70 with traffic, and stops really, really well.
For those who might care; I got mine with cruise control, side airbags, and the single disc CD changer. I passed on the electronic map system. The color is Aqua Ice, and it is a pretty car!
Dude, I'm getting out the "crazy"-colored crayons now.
I am running Mac OSX 10.1 on a refurbished 600 MHz G3 iMac, which cost me $895, and it is wonderfully fast. Prior to this I ran OSX 10.0->10.1 on an original bondi blue iMac (233 MHz G3) and it performed acceptably. If 10.2 is the sort of improvement I expect, then there should be no cause for anybody to complain!
Mind you, it is possible that my expectations of GUI speed are a bit low; I used a SPARCStation 5 for many years!:-)
I agree with that. My Epson refilled without problems. Then I got seduced by the LexMark X-83 multifunction device. At the price, it was worth the small inconvenience of having to replace the cartridge every 4-5 refills. (I'm only on my second set of cartridges.)
I thought about this, but decided that it wasn't likely to work well as fountain pen ink has a different viscosity than inkjet ink. Does it in fact work well?
I hardly ever buy inkjet cartridges. I use a refill kit with a syringe and it works just fine for me. After a while, the cartridges do wear out, and I have to get a new one, but I save a LOT of money this way. There are a number of places online that sell complete kits with all the materials you need, and even a CDROM with an instructional video. Check it out!
One FreeBSD Kernel Hacker I know (and I don't have permission to use his name, so he will for now be anonymous) said to me "Cocoa is what X-windows should have been." I think that it is fair to say that he is a convert...
There have only ever been a handful of Macintosh viruses, excluding Word Macro Viruses. (Which are entirely due to M$'s incompentance.) Yes, I have a virus scanner, but I've only EVER found one infected file in the 17 years I've used Macs.
Don't spin the disk at all! Move the laser beam around, and sense pits and lands by reflectivity. You could have a spinning mirror or porro-prism, or you could have a holographic optical element, or a combination of the two to move the beam around. Since the laser beam is massless, this is a much easier solution.
If Apple runs true-to-form, they will simply buy Xplay. Just like they bought iTunes from a third party and re-branded it. I predict that the product will be renamed "iTunes Lite for Windows", and will incorporate its own MP3 player component.
I really doubt that they have the basis for a suit here, and they know that. The interoperability layer here is not much more than a firewire disk driver.
There was a similar agent called "Instant Banana Peel" developed for riot control in the early '70s. Perhaps this stuff is more slippery, I don't know, but it is hardly news.
Friends, I think we need to ressurect the store-and-forward modem-based network. Otherwise, nothing that we say will ever escape government notice again. Remember that governments change, and sometimes not for the better. Even if you trust our government today, how do you know you will trust it in the future?
Don't worry, many people have made this same mistake. No need to be ashamed!
Your PC should be kept in the closet and loaded with Linux for your in-home firewall/router/mail server. Then you can use your new Macintosh for the important things, like video.
As television is s technical medium, advances in video arts and sciences have always been the subject of Emmy awards! When I was at Zenith, while it was a real corporation and not just a brand name, we had two Emmy's that were proudly displayed in our lobby. One was for the invention of TV Stereo, and I believe the other was something to do with digital TV.
I don't know what technology these folks plan to use for this system, but I do know what the right choice for a large media streaming deployment is; Ikadega's DirectPath(tm) technology. Check out http://www.ikadega.com for more information.
The powers that be really do not want the average person having large upstream capacity. It gets in the way of their "franchise" to provide broadband media.
Yes, and at a fire sale price, well below the value of the installed base of equipment. I think this is a good thing, as AT&T certainly has the resources to stay in the game for the long haul.
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Yeah, we are well aware that apple's corporate website is Solaris. Apple has never hidden that. In fact, Apple has always had a fairly good relationship with Sun! You will note that .mac runs Apache/Darwin.
I have found that, other than occasional slowness on weekday evenings, I have no complaints whatsoever about this service.
The original posted clearly did not *telephone* Apple about his problems, which I suspect are caused by a misconfiguration of his machine, or his LAN.
I got the title as an error message from RSX-11M Fortran-IV Plus in about 1982. Turns out, after bothering the folks at DEC for days, that the problem was a mis-aligned named COMMON section. Why didn't they just SAY so???
...a Beowulf Cluster of these?
Sorry, I had to.
Seriously, what a dumb idea. There are laws against having live video in the view of the driver in all states. I expect that this will be extended to live web browsers just as soon as there are a few messy fatal accidents caused by this "feature". In fact, I intend to write my state legislators and suggest such a law just as soon as I know who wins on Nov. 5th.
The fact that they are no longer supporting Minix has no consequences whatsoever!
Minix is frozen in time, and any of the old XFree86 sources that have ever worked with it will work with it forever. After a certain amount of debugging has taken place, one no longer needs to support software for an unchanging OS.
"...and we're here to help you." Is a phrase that ought to strike fear into anybody's heart! Dollars to doughnuts this is not the "helpful" measure it is being made out to be.
Be careful out there!
I look at emissions. CO, NO, NO2, Hydrocarbons, and CO2. Only the CO2 is directly related to the amount of gasoline consumed in a manner that cannot be reduced by good design. The Prius is a SULEV, or Super-Ultra-Low Emissions Vehicle as defined by law. It actually has a lower emssions rating than the automatic transmission Insite, even though that vehicle gets better mileage. You have to go to the manual transmission Insite before it qualifies as a SULEV. So, yes, impact DOES have an efficiency component, but that is only one part of the equation, and not necessarily the most important one.
I have a Prius, and IMNSHO it is a more sophisticated system than that in the Honda models. I recommend it.
However, the real goal of all of these vehicles is not fuel-efficiency! It is having a low impact upon the atmosphere. It is far more important to be able to continue to breathe clean air than to be able to continue to afford petrol!
With either of these systems, the key to good mileage is to learn to drive the car, and to find the right balance of acceleration, following distance, and braking that keeps you from operating in high fuel consumption modes.
I have a 2002 Prius that I simply love!
Today I drove from Elgin, IL to New Salem Village (near Springfield) and back in it. 220 miles down and 220 miles back. Comfortable. Smooth. CD player making tunes. It was wonderful. And we did this 440 mile trip on less than one tank of gas, with an indicated MPG of 48.2 for the whole trip.
Nothing bare-bones about this car. It works like a dream. Mind you, it isn't designed for drag-racing, but it can accelerate well enough to merge without stress, can zoom along at 70 with traffic, and stops really, really well.
For those who might care; I got mine with cruise control, side airbags, and the single disc CD changer. I passed on the electronic map system. The color is Aqua Ice, and it is a pretty car!
Go test drive one.
Dude, I'm getting out the "crazy"-colored crayons now.
:-)
I am running Mac OSX 10.1 on a refurbished 600 MHz G3 iMac, which cost me $895, and it is wonderfully fast. Prior to this I ran OSX 10.0->10.1 on an original bondi blue iMac (233 MHz G3) and it performed acceptably. If 10.2 is the sort of improvement I expect, then there should be no cause for anybody to complain!
Mind you, it is possible that my expectations of GUI speed are a bit low; I used a SPARCStation 5 for many years!
You Rock!
I agree with that. My Epson refilled without problems. Then I got seduced by the LexMark X-83 multifunction device. At the price, it was worth the small inconvenience of having to replace the cartridge every 4-5 refills. (I'm only on my second set of cartridges.)
I thought about this, but decided that it wasn't likely to work well as fountain pen ink has a different viscosity than inkjet ink. Does it in fact work well?
I hardly ever buy inkjet cartridges. I use a refill kit with a syringe and it works just fine for me. After a while, the cartridges do wear out, and I have to get a new one, but I save a LOT of money this way. There are a number of places online that sell complete kits with all the materials you need, and even a CDROM with an instructional video. Check it out!
One FreeBSD Kernel Hacker I know (and I don't have permission to use his name, so he will for now be anonymous) said to me "Cocoa is what X-windows should have been." I think that it is fair to say that he is a convert...
There have only ever been a handful of Macintosh viruses, excluding Word Macro Viruses. (Which are entirely due to M$'s incompentance.) Yes, I have a virus scanner, but I've only EVER found one infected file in the 17 years I've used Macs.
Don't spin the disk at all! Move the laser beam around, and sense pits and lands by reflectivity. You could have a spinning mirror or porro-prism, or you could have a holographic optical element, or a combination of the two to move the beam around. Since the laser beam is massless, this is a much easier solution.
If Apple runs true-to-form, they will simply buy Xplay. Just like they bought iTunes from a third party and re-branded it. I predict that the product will be renamed "iTunes Lite for Windows", and will incorporate its own MP3 player component.
I really doubt that they have the basis for a suit here, and they know that. The interoperability layer here is not much more than a firewire disk driver.
There was a similar agent called "Instant Banana Peel" developed for riot control in the early '70s. Perhaps this stuff is more slippery, I don't know, but it is hardly news.
Friends, I think we need to ressurect the store-and-forward modem-based network. Otherwise, nothing that we say will ever escape government notice again. Remember that governments change, and sometimes not for the better. Even if you trust our government today, how do you know you will trust it in the future?
Don't worry, many people have made this same mistake. No need to be ashamed!
Your PC should be kept in the closet and loaded with Linux for your in-home firewall/router/mail server. Then you can use your new Macintosh for the important things, like video.
As television is s technical medium, advances in video arts and sciences have always been the subject of Emmy awards! When I was at Zenith, while it was a real corporation and not just a brand name, we had two Emmy's that were proudly displayed in our lobby. One was for the invention of TV Stereo, and I believe the other was something to do with digital TV.
I don't know what technology these folks plan to use for this system, but I do know what the right choice for a large media streaming deployment is; Ikadega's DirectPath(tm) technology. Check out http://www.ikadega.com for more information.
(BTW, Yes, I do work there.)
Wow! Thailand has a King who can actually think for himself! (Whereas, we have a "president" who is about as smart as a box of rocks.)
Seriously, a working Palm-oil fuel patent is exactly the sort of thing that *ought* to be granted. Not all patents are bad. Just *most* of them!
The powers that be really do not want the average person having large upstream capacity. It gets in the way of their "franchise" to provide broadband media.
Yes, and at a fire sale price, well below the value of the installed base of equipment. I think this is a good thing, as AT&T certainly has the resources to stay in the game for the long haul.