You know of at least 200 reports? Where? Did you see 200 posts in Apple's tech forum and assume that there are 200 different problems with G5s? Are you claiming that of the 500,000 machines shipped, you have personal knowledge of 200 defective units? What is it? I ordered a dual G5 2GHz for the office and I've only noticed 2 issues...
1) It used to hang when the plastic cover was removed and replaced while the machine was running (Apple specifically says I shouldn't do this so it's my own fault). I think this was fixed with the recent firmware patch. 2) There is a very subtle high frequency noise when the machine becomes active from rest. It isn't noticable in a normal office, but in a very quiet room I imagine it could be annoying. You can, however, stop this with a command line argument (can be run from startup script if I prefer)
For a machine based on a completely new architecture, the G5 has been the model of great design. It's stable, it's blazingly fast, and I really have zero real problems to report as I consider the above to be incredibly minor issues. I have had Zero issues with fan noise, termerature sensors, sleep mode, or fan failure. I've not had any service calls to repair any issues with G5s in my division either and I've seen new G5s poping up.
So, I know it's easy to come on here as an anonymous coward and claim there are hundereds of problems with "beta" G5s, but where's the pudding? Put up or shut up.
Um.. Apple publicly states that one prefered way to image xServes is to boot from your iPod and then copy an image from it. Apple had the Genetech guys up on stage at WWDC hawking iPods because they use them to configure their clusters. so.. Apple says it's OK to boot from it and iPodHacks says Apple says you can't boot from it.
You can only use your old memory, your old upgrades IF YOU ARE USING THEM IN AN OLD COMPUTER! WTF good are your ISA cards or EDO memory today? for that matter, PCI video and SDRAM are outdated by todays standards. This has nothing to do with Apple computers you goob.
"Welcome to the world of TCP/IP Apple".. Argh.. you are really a moron. Apple was shipping an IP stack in OS 7 (and earlier) back when Windows 3.1 users were BUYING TCP/IP software for their machines. Apple had OpenTransport as of OS 7.5.3 which allowed you to change your IP configurations on the fly, at least a year (maybe two) ahead of Windows NT 4 (which only sometimes required a reboot).
"..people still don't flock to you" Um, Apple's market share is up. In fact, their laptop sales went from 5% of the market to around 7% last quarter.
"A $200 Wal-Mart PC (running Linux) covers that just fine (for 99%) of home PC users)." Talk about not knowing what people want. I guess you don't help out anyone in your family with computer issues. There isn't a chance in hell than anyone outside my Brother would be able to deal with any issue on their $200 Linux box.. and my brother would call me for help with any thing relatively major (he's what you'd consider someone fairly technical, but not in the industry, much more 'with it' than the average home user)
- Classic is not bloat. It's a feature to allow compatability. Classic doesn't introduce overhead to a system unless you NEED to run an old app. I didn't have Classic installed for over a year and never missed it. It's only on my machine now because I did a clean install of panther. - Carbon API is an equal partner with Cocoa on OS X. It is based (heavily) off of the Classic Mac APIs but it isn't bloat. It's another enviornment that has benefits and disadvantages compared to Cocoa (or standard BSD libraries). The is a reason why the Finder isn't Cocoa.. it works better as a Carbon app. - "Vintage BSD" is often a lot faster than your vaunted Linux. I know 2.4 and the upcomming 2.6 have made big strides, but the Linux compat in FreeBSD was faster than Linux for a long time, and as far as I know, still occasionally is faster than real linux. - Linux files systems are anything but clean. Different distros put stuff in different areas, Major apps switch install and config locations between versions. For the most part, you rarely ever need to dig into the filesystem on OS X. Apps go in/Applications, home spaces in/Users, OS X specific System files in/Library and/System. I find the layout quit logical and quit consistent. As for the unix stuff in OS X, it's where you'd guess most of the time. BTW, why should/bin be shown in the GUI when you can't run command line apps from the GUI? - Netinfo was depreciated in 10.2 and it's pretty much not used in 10.3. Apples moved everything into the BSD files and/or LDAP. Anyway, There really wasn't much in Netinfo. Comparing Netinfo to The Registry is total flamebait and it shows your lack of knowledge. - consistent package management on Linux??? HAHAHA If I could count all the problems I've had with RPMs.. Fink automatically handles dependencies. The system software updater tracks packages. In general, the software install tools for OS X work fantastic. Package Manager is way better than anything on linux. And don't forget the use of Bundles. It makes a lot of software installs as easy as copying over an icon [which is a directory with all the goodies inside, but looks to the user like an app] - haha, you consider the Mac OS unusable out of the box, yet you love linux. With so many distributions of Linux, do you really believe you wouldn't have to apply as much configuration to a distro you weren't intimately familiar with?
Give OS X 10.3 a real try and come back with a comparison to Linux. You'll find a quick, responsive machine. A great bundled development environment, best of class bundled apps, and a hardware accellerated X11 right out of the box.
No it doesn't. The upgrade to Dual 1.8s does NOT automatically lead to the conclusion that there is a shortage of 2GHz parts. The indicator of a shortage of 2GHz parts would be constraint of supply. I ordered a Build To Order dual G5 2GHz and it shipped in 2 days. This is not what you see in a shortage.
The move to dual in the mid-range probably has more to do with: -balancing out the line in terms of price/performance -better supplies of processors -potentially lower costs of processors -trying to give the appearance of advancement in the product line even though speed bumps are not ready.
it shouldn't shut down. Apple initially was going to put the machine to sleep when it was opened, but as of release, the expected behavior is to simply spin the fans up.
I doubt it was caused by static. It happened twice to me and the desk in on an anti-static mat. It'd have to be pretty darn sensitive to react to the amount of static I could have delivered.
The fans spin up if the machine totally locks up. It's a fail safe to ensure the machine hardware is totally safe. It's actually the best solution for having software monitor the cooling.
As I mentioned in another post, the control of the fan is smarter than just reacting to temperature probes. The software that controls the system will actually predictively cool when CPU load goes up, before the thermometers on the board actually register the increase.
I'd be REALLY surprised if you didn't missunderstand them. Yellow Dog is a licensed Apple VAR. Apple has OK'ed their resale of Macs with YDL. They were pre-selling G5s with YDL, waiting for support for the fans.
I'm not sure if they are selling yet or not. I'm pretty sure they don't have support in YDL for the fan control yet though.
The fans are under the control of the OS because they do more than just react to increases in temperature. The software that controls the fans will actually slightly rev up the fans when the CPU load goes up, it does this BEFORE the cpus actually get hotter.. predictive cooling.
I've got a dual 2GHz (in my office), and I found that removing the clear plastic shroud caused the expected increase in fan speed to compensate. Unfortunately, putting the shroud back causes the machine to crash. It looks like a bug in the firmware. You don't notice it immediately, unless you try and use the hung machine of course. Slowly, the fans speed up because the hardware isn't hearing from the monitoring daemon. It does, in fact, sound like a jet reving up and it gets pretty damn loud.
So far, this is the only bug I've found with it. It's a gorgeous machine, like an industrial work of art and it's scarry fast.
Um No YOU look at the scores again. The ONLY system that beat the dual 2GHz G5 in photoshop was a dual Opteron workstation with 246 processors. That machine isn't even available with 246s from the manufacturer yet! They had to pull a pre-release machine out to beat the G5 in Photoshop. Not to mention that the dual Optie was more even without the hugely expensive 246 processors.
The other apps are a joke. Word? Come on. Premier hasn't been optimized for the Mac in years, FinalCut has seen to that. Even quake has been more optimised for the PC. The Mac patchs are afterthoughts to bring the Mac version up to the same feature set.
1. Most allergies are triggered by airborne allergins 2. Polution is rampant in most urban areas, why risk ingesting toxins 3. constant expansion of chest causes wrinkling of shirts 4. may accidently breathe with mouth open when engrossed in something... risk looking like Dork 5. Considering the low concentrations of Oxygen in atmospheric air, normal breathing is just too inefficient
That said, I'm very fond of breathing myself. I just wanted to point out 5 reasons why you might want to consider alternatives.
My point was, when you start an investigation like this, you have to start with Globaldex. Hey, Globaldex is spamming people from a trojan on their machines. Computer laws can be tough... DOJ says we're hauling you into court unless you have someone you'd like to tell us about. Gloabldex knows who they hired to spam. It doesn't matter if Glabaldex get's slammed, as long as the real criminals get identified.
As for competitors doing this in the name of Globaldex, well that'd be like framing someone for murder wouldn't it? It sucks, but the cops go after the person who looks guilty. If everything works right, the facts lead to the real source.
I've got a series 2 iPod. I get 12 hours (yes the newer ones don't do as well) and I can jog with it and it NEVER skips. I walk and run very heavy footed (just my way.. thump thump thump) and I never had problems with the iPod skipping. I hold it in my hand and let it swing around.
If I'm the president of Globaldex Inc.* and a Trojan is spamming products for my company, why doesn't someone of authority (aka. Law Enforcement) come to me and ask a few questions. You know, crazy stuff like, who did I contract to send out email advertisements and such. I'd imagine that if 1000 computers got broken into by a Trojan, and they are spamming for Globaldex, it would be reasonable to consider Glabaldex an accomplice until they were able to clear themselves.
I think the idea of individual developers taking SCO to small claims court is actually a really good idea. Small claims verdicts are usually not all that tough to win. You go in, show you own the code, show the judge the GPL that was attached to the code. Of course SCO won't/can't send out a lawer for every regional small claims court session so they pretty much default. You get a 1000 developers winning $1,500 a pop against SCO and it starts to hurt the bottom line. Not to mention an ever growing list of losses against the corporation.
The biggest problem with using UFS is poor compatibility with Classic and multi-forked classic files. Specifically, there is NO UFS support in Classic. You can use UFS, but you better not run anything but pure OS X.
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I'm sure VT would have gone rack if possible, and I've hear a side benefit of the current setup is that, as new nodes become available they will be able to 'retire' the nodes to desktop duty for the staff around campus. A dual G5 should be able to run office pretty well, even in a few years.;-)
Also, I've heard that the system controller supports 16GB of ram but that Apple has only certified 1GB DIMMs so far. This would seem likely as a lot of Macs can accept more memory than initially advertised... only because larger memory modules became common (I put 1GB of ram in an old wallstreet G3 powerbook for someone and got it running even though it's officially rated at 512MB,.. I've got a sony from the same period here that absolutely won't take more than 256MB in to slots)
it's hard to tell sometimes. I never underestimate the stupidity of others (though this doesn't preclude the fact that so many are much smarter than me)
so, let me get this straight. You replace Apple's fans with models that were much quieter. Of course you checked to see that the replacement fans moved as much air as Apple's fans right? Then you took off Apple's heat sink, the one designed to fit their CPU card, and you..... wait, let me finish giggling... you attached a PC CPU fan with insulated wire. I bet it was nearly as stable as the average Junk Collector's pickup truck.
Then, after you ripped out the fans that the machine was designed to use, and after you wired a fan that wasn't designed for your machine, you get all ticked that Apple won't fix your machine.
I'm laughing so hard I'm gonna piss myself.
You do know that Apple offered a free upgrade kit for your machine right? You could have simply paid the shipping and they would have sent you a new Powersupply and new fans. You even got to keep the old stuff as spares.
The OS X text service is based off emacs. You can use any program based off Apple's text APIs and you are essentially using emacs. You can use textedit and your emacs key-shortcuts will work as expected. I'm pretty sure this is true of Word X too (I'm a vi guy so I haven't tried in Word).
It always shocks me when I accidentally ctrl-key something and it does unexpected things while entering text.:-)
Actually, license plate covers are Illegal in Illinois. That goes for tinted ones (I've seen some that were nearly black) and it extends to perfectly clear covers.
Now, I've seen license plate covers sold in nearly every auto section around here, but I've had at least one friend get pulled over (for clear covers) and the cop made her remove them on the side of the road. Too bad it isn't a widely enforced regulation. I hate jerk-weeds that drive around with smoked plastic over their license plates.
100 Mbit is only 12.5 MB/sec... pretty crappy for an IDE disk, but they did say per drive.
The xServe RAID has two banks of 7 drives. Each bank has a 2000 Mbit fibre channel connection. So, let's do the math.
2 Gbit / 7 drives is a max bandwidth of around 286 Mbit per drive. They quoted 100 Mbit sustained per drive.
100 MB/sec x 7 drives would be 700 MB/sec of sustained bandwidth (not to mention that IDE drives don't sustain 100MB/sec. 700 MB/sec is 5.6Gbit/sec, far in excess of even both the xServe RAID's fibre channels.
I'm guessing that they were saying that they were getting 12.5 MB/sec of sustained throughput per drive, or 87.5 MB/sec of sustained throughput to one side of the xServe RAID.
I think they might of actually meant Mbit... but I'm surprised the xServe didn't perform somewhat better.. and I'm really surprised the SCSI drives they were using were even worse. Perhaps they were doing tons of small reads or writes instead of streaming huge files over.
Apple went out of its way to describe how splendedly xServe RAID ran on Solaris, Linux, and even 2K/XP boxes at WWDC this year. This is the same story they've been telling since xServe RAID was shipping (and probably before that since it was pre-announced very early).
I'm pretty sure that any doubts were from the customers or the Lunuxworld writer and not Apple. They've been trying to sell this for linux boxes. If it was 'Apple' that had doubts, then those engineers need to return to the mothership for some more training.
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You know of at least 200 reports? Where? Did you see 200 posts in Apple's tech forum and assume that there are 200 different problems with G5s? Are you claiming that of the 500,000 machines shipped, you have personal knowledge of 200 defective units? What is it?
I ordered a dual G5 2GHz for the office and I've only noticed 2 issues...
1) It used to hang when the plastic cover was removed and replaced while the machine was running (Apple specifically says I shouldn't do this so it's my own fault). I think this was fixed with the recent firmware patch.
2) There is a very subtle high frequency noise when the machine becomes active from rest. It isn't noticable in a normal office, but in a very quiet room I imagine it could be annoying. You can, however, stop this with a command line argument (can be run from startup script if I prefer)
For a machine based on a completely new architecture, the G5 has been the model of great design. It's stable, it's blazingly fast, and I really have zero real problems to report as I consider the above to be incredibly minor issues.
I have had Zero issues with fan noise, termerature sensors, sleep mode, or fan failure. I've not had any service calls to repair any issues with G5s in my division either and I've seen new G5s poping up.
So, I know it's easy to come on here as an anonymous coward and claim there are hundereds of problems with "beta" G5s, but where's the pudding?
Put up or shut up.
Um.. Apple publicly states that one prefered way to image xServes is to boot from your iPod and then copy an image from it. Apple had the Genetech guys up on stage at WWDC hawking iPods because they use them to configure their clusters.
so.. Apple says it's OK to boot from it and iPodHacks says Apple says you can't boot from it.
Hmn.. who to believe, who to believe?
dumb ass.
You can only use your old memory, your old upgrades IF YOU ARE USING THEM IN AN OLD COMPUTER!
WTF good are your ISA cards or EDO memory today? for that matter, PCI video and SDRAM are outdated by todays standards. This has nothing to do with Apple computers you goob.
"Welcome to the world of TCP/IP Apple"..
Argh.. you are really a moron. Apple was shipping an IP stack in OS 7 (and earlier) back when Windows 3.1 users were BUYING TCP/IP software for their machines. Apple had OpenTransport as of OS 7.5.3 which allowed you to change your IP configurations on the fly, at least a year (maybe two) ahead of Windows NT 4 (which only sometimes required a reboot).
"..people still don't flock to you"
Um, Apple's market share is up. In fact, their laptop sales went from 5% of the market to around 7% last quarter.
"A $200 Wal-Mart PC (running Linux) covers that just fine (for 99%) of home PC users)."
Talk about not knowing what people want. I guess you don't help out anyone in your family with computer issues. There isn't a chance in hell than anyone outside my Brother would be able to deal with any issue on their $200 Linux box.. and my brother would call me for help with any thing relatively major (he's what you'd consider someone fairly technical, but not in the industry, much more 'with it' than the average home user)
I'm sorry, but you're kind of 'out of it'
/Applications, home spaces in /Users, OS X specific System files in /Library and /System. I find the layout quit logical and quit consistent. As for the unix stuff in OS X, it's where you'd guess most of the time. BTW, why should /bin be shown in the GUI when you can't run command line apps from the GUI?
- Classic is not bloat. It's a feature to allow compatability. Classic doesn't introduce overhead to a system unless you NEED to run an old app. I didn't have Classic installed for over a year and never missed it. It's only on my machine now because I did a clean install of panther.
- Carbon API is an equal partner with Cocoa on OS X. It is based (heavily) off of the Classic Mac APIs but it isn't bloat. It's another enviornment that has benefits and disadvantages compared to Cocoa (or standard BSD libraries). The is a reason why the Finder isn't Cocoa.. it works better as a Carbon app.
- "Vintage BSD" is often a lot faster than your vaunted Linux. I know 2.4 and the upcomming 2.6 have made big strides, but the Linux compat in FreeBSD was faster than Linux for a long time, and as far as I know, still occasionally is faster than real linux.
- Linux files systems are anything but clean. Different distros put stuff in different areas, Major apps switch install and config locations between versions. For the most part, you rarely ever need to dig into the filesystem on OS X. Apps go in
- Netinfo was depreciated in 10.2 and it's pretty much not used in 10.3. Apples moved everything into the BSD files and/or LDAP. Anyway, There really wasn't much in Netinfo. Comparing Netinfo to The Registry is total flamebait and it shows your lack of knowledge.
- consistent package management on Linux??? HAHAHA If I could count all the problems I've had with RPMs..
Fink automatically handles dependencies. The system software updater tracks packages. In general, the software install tools for OS X work fantastic. Package Manager is way better than anything on linux. And don't forget the use of Bundles. It makes a lot of software installs as easy as copying over an icon [which is a directory with all the goodies inside, but looks to the user like an app]
- haha, you consider the Mac OS unusable out of the box, yet you love linux. With so many distributions of Linux, do you really believe you wouldn't have to apply as much configuration to a distro you weren't intimately familiar with?
Give OS X 10.3 a real try and come back with a comparison to Linux. You'll find a quick, responsive machine. A great bundled development environment, best of class bundled apps, and a hardware accellerated X11 right out of the box.
ffakr.
No it doesn't. The upgrade to Dual 1.8s does NOT automatically lead to the conclusion that there is a shortage of 2GHz parts.
The indicator of a shortage of 2GHz parts would be constraint of supply. I ordered a Build To Order dual G5 2GHz and it shipped in 2 days. This is not what you see in a shortage.
The move to dual in the mid-range probably has more to do with:
-balancing out the line in terms of price/performance
-better supplies of processors
-potentially lower costs of processors
-trying to give the appearance of advancement in the product line even though speed bumps are not ready.
it shouldn't shut down. Apple initially was going to put the machine to sleep when it was opened, but as of release, the expected behavior is to simply spin the fans up.
I doubt it was caused by static. It happened twice to me and the desk in on an anti-static mat. It'd have to be pretty darn sensitive to react to the amount of static I could have delivered.
The fans spin up if the machine totally locks up. It's a fail safe to ensure the machine hardware is totally safe. It's actually the best solution for having software monitor the cooling.
As I mentioned in another post, the control of the fan is smarter than just reacting to temperature probes. The software that controls the system will actually predictively cool when CPU load goes up, before the thermometers on the board actually register the increase.
I'd be REALLY surprised if you didn't missunderstand them. Yellow Dog is a licensed Apple VAR. Apple has OK'ed their resale of Macs with YDL. They were pre-selling G5s with YDL, waiting for support for the fans.
I'm not sure if they are selling yet or not. I'm pretty sure they don't have support in YDL for the fan control yet though.
The fans are under the control of the OS because they do more than just react to increases in temperature. The software that controls the fans will actually slightly rev up the fans when the CPU load goes up, it does this BEFORE the cpus actually get hotter.. predictive cooling.
:-)
Now THATs pretty cool.
I've got a dual 2GHz (in my office), and I found that removing the clear plastic shroud caused the expected increase in fan speed to compensate. Unfortunately, putting the shroud back causes the machine to crash. It looks like a bug in the firmware.
You don't notice it immediately, unless you try and use the hung machine of course. Slowly, the fans speed up because the hardware isn't hearing from the monitoring daemon. It does, in fact, sound like a jet reving up and it gets pretty damn loud.
So far, this is the only bug I've found with it. It's a gorgeous machine, like an industrial work of art and it's scarry fast.
Um No YOU look at the scores again. The ONLY system that beat the dual 2GHz G5 in photoshop was a dual Opteron workstation with 246 processors. That machine isn't even available with 246s from the manufacturer yet!
They had to pull a pre-release machine out to beat the G5 in Photoshop.
Not to mention that the dual Optie was more even without the hugely expensive 246 processors.
The other apps are a joke. Word? Come on. Premier hasn't been optimized for the Mac in years, FinalCut has seen to that. Even quake has been more optimised for the PC. The Mac patchs are afterthoughts to bring the Mac version up to the same feature set.
1. Most allergies are triggered by airborne allergins
2. Polution is rampant in most urban areas, why risk ingesting toxins
3. constant expansion of chest causes wrinkling of shirts
4. may accidently breathe with mouth open when engrossed in something... risk looking like Dork
5. Considering the low concentrations of Oxygen in atmospheric air, normal breathing is just too inefficient
That said, I'm very fond of breathing myself. I just wanted to point out 5 reasons why you might want to consider alternatives.
My point was, when you start an investigation like this, you have to start with Globaldex.
Hey, Globaldex is spamming people from a trojan on their machines. Computer laws can be tough... DOJ says we're hauling you into court unless you have someone you'd like to tell us about.
Gloabldex knows who they hired to spam.
It doesn't matter if Glabaldex get's slammed, as long as the real criminals get identified.
As for competitors doing this in the name of Globaldex, well that'd be like framing someone for murder wouldn't it? It sucks, but the cops go after the person who looks guilty. If everything works right, the facts lead to the real source.
I've got a series 2 iPod. I get 12 hours (yes the newer ones don't do as well) and I can jog with it and it NEVER skips. I walk and run very heavy footed (just my way.. thump thump thump) and I never had problems with the iPod skipping. I hold it in my hand and let it swing around.
fud
quick question..
If I'm the president of Globaldex Inc.* and a Trojan is spamming products for my company, why doesn't someone of authority (aka. Law Enforcement) come to me and ask a few questions. You know, crazy stuff like, who did I contract to send out email advertisements and such.
I'd imagine that if 1000 computers got broken into by a Trojan, and they are spamming for Globaldex, it would be reasonable to consider Glabaldex an accomplice until they were able to clear themselves.
Why exactly are prople getting away with this?
* Gloabaldex is not real BTW
I think the idea of individual developers taking SCO to small claims court is actually a really good idea.
Small claims verdicts are usually not all that tough to win. You go in, show you own the code, show the judge the GPL that was attached to the code. Of course SCO won't/can't send out a lawer for every regional small claims court session so they pretty much default.
You get a 1000 developers winning $1,500 a pop against SCO and it starts to hurt the bottom line.
Not to mention an ever growing list of losses against the corporation.
The biggest problem with using UFS is poor compatibility with Classic and multi-forked classic files. Specifically, there is NO UFS support in Classic.
You can use UFS, but you better not run anything but pure OS X.
I'm sure VT would have gone rack if possible, and I've hear a side benefit of the current setup is that, as new nodes become available they will be able to 'retire' the nodes to desktop duty for the staff around campus. A dual G5 should be able to run office pretty well, even in a few years. ;-)
Also, I've heard that the system controller supports 16GB of ram but that Apple has only certified 1GB DIMMs so far. This would seem likely as a lot of Macs can accept more memory than initially advertised... only because larger memory modules became common (I put 1GB of ram in an old wallstreet G3 powerbook for someone and got it running even though it's officially rated at 512MB,.. I've got a sony from the same period here that absolutely won't take more than 256MB in to slots)
it's hard to tell sometimes. I never underestimate the stupidity of others (though this doesn't preclude the fact that so many are much smarter than me)
You great big goob!
so, let me get this straight.
You replace Apple's fans with models that were much quieter. Of course you checked to see that the replacement fans moved as much air as Apple's fans right?
Then you took off Apple's heat sink, the one designed to fit their CPU card, and you..... wait, let me finish giggling...
you attached a PC CPU fan with insulated wire. I bet it was nearly as stable as the average Junk Collector's pickup truck.
Then, after you ripped out the fans that the machine was designed to use, and after you wired a fan that wasn't designed for your machine, you get all ticked that Apple won't fix your machine.
I'm laughing so hard I'm gonna piss myself.
You do know that Apple offered a free upgrade kit for your machine right? You could have simply paid the shipping and they would have sent you a new Powersupply and new fans. You even got to keep the old stuff as spares.
geez...
The OS X text service is based off emacs. You can use any program based off Apple's text APIs and you are essentially using emacs.
:-)
You can use textedit and your emacs key-shortcuts will work as expected. I'm pretty sure this is true of Word X too (I'm a vi guy so I haven't tried in Word).
It always shocks me when I accidentally ctrl-key something and it does unexpected things while entering text.
Actually, license plate covers are Illegal in Illinois. That goes for tinted ones (I've seen some that were nearly black) and it extends to perfectly clear covers.
Now, I've seen license plate covers sold in nearly every auto section around here, but I've had at least one friend get pulled over (for clear covers) and the cop made her remove them on the side of the road.
Too bad it isn't a widely enforced regulation. I hate jerk-weeds that drive around with smoked plastic over their license plates.
Come on, everyone on Slashdot change your sig for a few days....
Actually that's what I thought first also,...
100 Mbit is only 12.5 MB/sec... pretty crappy for an IDE disk, but they did say per drive.
The xServe RAID has two banks of 7 drives. Each bank has a 2000 Mbit fibre channel connection. So, let's do the math.
2 Gbit / 7 drives is a max bandwidth of around 286 Mbit per drive.
They quoted 100 Mbit sustained per drive.
100 MB/sec x 7 drives would be 700 MB/sec of sustained bandwidth (not to mention that IDE drives don't sustain 100MB/sec.
700 MB/sec is 5.6Gbit/sec, far in excess of even both the xServe RAID's fibre channels.
I'm guessing that they were saying that they were getting 12.5 MB/sec of sustained throughput per drive, or 87.5 MB/sec of sustained throughput to one side of the xServe RAID.
I think they might of actually meant Mbit...
but I'm surprised the xServe didn't perform somewhat better.. and I'm really surprised the SCSI drives they were using were even worse. Perhaps they were doing tons of small reads or writes instead of streaming huge files over.
ffakr
Apple went out of its way to describe how splendedly xServe RAID ran on Solaris, Linux, and even 2K/XP boxes at WWDC this year.
This is the same story they've been telling since xServe RAID was shipping (and probably before that since it was pre-announced very early).
I'm pretty sure that any doubts were from the customers or the Lunuxworld writer and not Apple. They've been trying to sell this for linux boxes. If it was 'Apple' that had doubts, then those engineers need to return to the mothership for some more training.