Actually I'm running that wwdc panther preview on my powerbook, and well I haven't noticed the lack of transparency : for that, everything looks like in Jaguar, but it is indeed MUCH faster.
Take the confirmation boxes that slip down from the menu bar : they appear so fast, that actually you can't even 'admire' the pretty effects anymore !
anyways, this IS indeed a beta version : cds are 60% not recognized, you have to eject them and slip them in a few times before their content show up properly; the battery status shows an insanely high percentage (4568979123 % remaining, anyone ?) ; it is nearly impossible to burn a cd; etc, etc.
but it feels a hell lot faster than Jaguar, and the new flatter style for some of the widgets is actually welcome and easier on the eyes (at least for me)
Too bad we have to wait until the end of the year to install the retail version, coz this Panther sure does make my PB 1Ghz FEEL like it's really 1Ghz ! (i.e. read : "fast !")
Yes it's true, the tone of the developpers on the gentoo forums is really superior, feels like "hey, we let you use what we code, so shut it" kinda attitude.
The users themselves, and some of the moderators, are quite friendly and helpful, even with the newbies that ask questions that could be answered with the "search" function of the forums.
Quite frankly, I use Gentoo because I liked the idea behind portage and the USE flags, and also because of the installation documents, which are -still- one of the best and clear step-by-step piece of information.
This fork, and all this bitterness that suddenly emerges (pun intended) like that just proves that something was wrong right from the start with the way they managed themselves (the developpers)
I'll stick with the original flavor atm, see what kind of community the fork (zynot ???) will be supported by.
Granted, Gentoo has this "13yo script kido" eliteness to it, but part of the community is really helpful, the install process makes you learn a lot about Linux itself, and well, it's a very clean distro, configuration wise. No doubt about it.
seeing how heavy those babies look, that shouldn't be too hard to reach a ton;)
Sorry, I just had to make the bad joke...
Seriously, those cases look so nice, I sometimes wish Apple provided the slick looking furniture to go along with their computers:D
I tend to disagree. OSX server has its place on the market. Some people simply don't want to hire a whole IT dept. just to get a mail server or filesharing. In this case, since the server will be operated by non-unix-gurus, it has too look friendly to administer too. there you have it, OSX server.
Plus, those blinking lights are simply coooooooool.
at last ! I will be able to run endless compiles on my PowerBook 1Ghz AS WELL as my little x86 gentoo-mythtv box !!! top notch !!! I can now safely say that instead of just using/working my Tibook, I'll be just watching the never-ending output of the XFree86 compilation =)
seriously... gentoo's great. I learned tons of stuff while installing it a few times... but OSX works so great already ! I'm not quite sure if it's really a plus...
I mean, Apple bashers can say all they want, but the Xserves are great machines, and the architecture proves to be scalable and reliable. Sure, they are not running at 20THz, but hell they will cope with the load of such heavy duty app like the music store. This shows Apple dedication towards *reliability*.
I dunno if I'd like to have OS X Server running on such nice boxes, but it's Apple, it works together nicely.
P.S. : I'm a switcher, that doesn't mean I only swear by Apple products. I just try to give credits to a company that clearly tried its best to come up with comprehensive solutions.
...Apple supports the NTT 3G FOMA docomo thing, and yet no japanese cell phone can be sync'ed with iSync. Not even the address book, although nearly all japanese cellphones (wether Docomo or J-Phone or Au) support the vcal and vcard format...
I mean, in countries like Japan (where I am atm) or China, that don't have street names or coherent organization of the codes, this could make life easier. At least maybe then the post guys will finally deliver my mail in my mail box, and not in some random foreigner resident's box that lives 3 blocks away...
now, on the matter of having miscrosoft managing all this... HELLLLOOOO ?! what about a postal code that can help tracing what software I bought and what computer I am using and other Big Brother kinda things while they are at it ?
I am all for a more standard way of labelling addresses, but it has to be done by an independant organization, not an omni-present company that would bombard me with spam about their new Windows XTreme.
it is unavoidable ....
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PeltierBeer
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Step 1: The most useless gadget, the PeltierBeer, is invented.
Step 2: One geek says, "Imaging a Beowulf cluster of these...."
Step 3: BOOM!
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit!
what about some good "space opera" type ??
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I HIGLY recommend the three tomes of the great "space opera" from Alastair Reynolds:
- Revelation Space - Chasm City - Redemption Ark
Revelation Space was his first book, and damn a good one. It's one of the few books that managed to keep me awake until my eyes hurt, and when I realised it was time to get up, take a shower and head to the office.
I'm reading Redemption Ark at the moment, and it's really great how some of the questions asked in the first tome are finally being answered.
If you're up for some dark future fantasy novel with a bit of "believable" technology, this is it.
mldonkey supports edonkey, bittorent, kazaa, overnet, napster, and probably other protocols that I forget, in one single program, that runs from the command line, on many platforms (linux x86, osx, bsd, even win32 !) as for GUI, you have a pletora of frontends. While this might not be a new p2p system, it's by far the most convenient way to download stuff from many different sources...
mldonkeyworld
ehhh, that's a tough one...
but *maybe* because it's WAY cheaper and simpler for the guy that wants to do a transfer on another machine only occasionally ?
Unless the software solution offers significant improvements/advantages (like super fine tuning, rms, ta, like the stuff on the car audio tuners) and catching international radio stations, I just don't really see the point of having linux in something that works great as it is already (i.e., the old fashioned way)...
safari already was blocking quite efficiently those nasty popups, but with this I don't even need to edit my host file to avoid having the ad banners ! cool
HAHAHA Thank God all the ships are not like the Erika.
FYPG, modern supertankers have double hulls, and in any case, using this passage would definitely increase A LOT the premium that the charterers have to pay for a tanker vessel to go into that kind of waters, i.e. breaking the "IWL" (insurance warranty limits).
So, don't worry, the penguins there won't have any bad "fuelly" surprise anytime soon.
Most of the ships that would eventually use this route are grain loaders from US Gulf to Asia, because the cost of Panama Canal tax has a great influence over the price of the freight... and anyways, it's only for 2 months, roughly the time for a long round voyage... very negligeable.
I do ! and I'm pretty happy with it, though it only sounds REALLY good at 132kbps (the highest setting) But then again it depends on what music you're listening to. I listen to mostly Rock and Instrumental Rock, so I don't want the cymbals, hi-hat or even high guitar notes to sound munchy, so the only really satisfactory setting is 132. I tried to compress some Electro (Crystal Method) at 105 kbps and the result was almost as good as at 132.
I doubt anybody uses the 66kbps, although sony boasts that it sounds just as "good" as mp3 128kbps...
ATRAC3 is the second generation of codec from sony, used in their Network Walkman and new MD players. the network walkmans are pretty cool. Very light (my ms11 -japan model- is 66 grams, and battery lasts for more than 10hours)
Once upon a time, I was a creative fan (way back with my shiny SBpro 2, the SB AWE32 and then the sbLive!). But I always been disappointed with the drivers (geez, these bloated liveware things for the sblive! killed me).
But Now, I'm a frequent traveller, and my main PC is a laptop (compaq evo n600c) and I gotta say that audio solutions on laptops are either lame (those damn ESS chipset !) or pricey (the Motu or RME stuff for laptops are just too much for me).
I mean, I want to record my guitar from time to time and I need a midi controller to tweak my POD thingy... But I do not need the 1000 bucks 8 inputs cards !!!
Then Creative comes with this thing, 134 bucks, with stereo input, midi controller, toslink in/out. As much as I try to avoid Creative, this comes quite handy, and I think I'll buy it. Not that it's the best piece of gear for me, but at least it offers the best bang for the buck, imo.
I just came to tokyo 3 days ago.... we had a terrible typhoon yesterday. and Because of this NYC attack, Japan authorities decided to shutdown Narita Airport, and secure all tall buildings in Tokyo and Yokohama, I'm watching TV right now, and the anchorman is just reading a LOOOOONG list of japanese banks and services present in the US that are being shutdown.
This is bad....
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Actually I'm running that wwdc panther preview on my powerbook, and well I haven't noticed the lack of transparency : for that, everything looks like in Jaguar, but it is indeed MUCH faster.
Take the confirmation boxes that slip down from the menu bar : they appear so fast, that actually you can't even 'admire' the pretty effects anymore !
anyways, this IS indeed a beta version : cds are 60% not recognized, you have to eject them and slip them in a few times before their content show up properly; the battery status shows an insanely high percentage (4568979123 % remaining, anyone ?) ; it is nearly impossible to burn a cd; etc, etc.
but it feels a hell lot faster than Jaguar, and the new flatter style for some of the widgets is actually welcome and easier on the eyes (at least for me)
Too bad we have to wait until the end of the year to install the retail version, coz this Panther sure does make my PB 1Ghz FEEL like it's really 1Ghz ! (i.e. read : "fast !")
Yes it's true, the tone of the developpers on the gentoo forums is really superior, feels like "hey, we let you use what we code, so shut it" kinda attitude.
The users themselves, and some of the moderators, are quite friendly and helpful, even with the newbies that ask questions that could be answered with the "search" function of the forums.
Quite frankly, I use Gentoo because I liked the idea behind portage and the USE flags, and also because of the installation documents, which are -still- one of the best and clear step-by-step piece of information.
This fork, and all this bitterness that suddenly emerges (pun intended) like that just proves that something was wrong right from the start with the way they managed themselves (the developpers)
I'll stick with the original flavor atm, see what kind of community the fork (zynot ???) will be supported by.
Granted, Gentoo has this "13yo script kido" eliteness to it, but part of the community is really helpful, the install process makes you learn a lot about Linux itself, and well, it's a very clean distro, configuration wise. No doubt about it.
????
what ???
IKEA? in Japan ? uhmm ok, tell me where
and sorry, I don't get your jokes... I must have been hit by your apple... or maybe you're simply not funny.
I hope Apple sells a TON of these machines
;) ... :D
seeing how heavy those babies look, that shouldn't be too hard to reach a ton
Sorry, I just had to make the bad joke
Seriously, those cases look so nice, I sometimes wish Apple provided the slick looking furniture to go along with their computers
I tend to disagree.
OSX server has its place on the market. Some people simply don't want to hire a whole IT dept. just to get a mail server or filesharing. In this case, since the server will be operated by non-unix-gurus, it has too look friendly to administer too. there you have it, OSX server.
Plus, those blinking lights are simply coooooooool.
"quality of the broadcasts are close to that of FM radio"
what's the point ? maybe I missed something ?
See ? smoking IS dangerous for your health !
at last ! I will be able to run endless compiles on my PowerBook 1Ghz AS WELL as my little x86 gentoo-mythtv box !!! top notch !!! I can now safely say that instead of just using/working my Tibook, I'll be just watching the never-ending output of the XFree86 compilation =)
seriously... gentoo's great. I learned tons of stuff while installing it a few times... but OSX works so great already ! I'm not quite sure if it's really a plus...
...and not simply a technical prowess.
I mean, Apple bashers can say all they want, but the Xserves are great machines, and the architecture proves to be scalable and reliable. Sure, they are not running at 20THz, but hell they will cope with the load of such heavy duty app like the music store.
This shows Apple dedication towards *reliability*.
I dunno if I'd like to have OS X Server running on such nice boxes, but it's Apple, it works together nicely.
P.S. : I'm a switcher, that doesn't mean I only swear by Apple products. I just try to give credits to a company that clearly tried its best to come up with comprehensive solutions.
...Apple supports the NTT 3G FOMA docomo thing, and yet no japanese cell phone can be sync'ed with iSync. Not even the address book, although nearly all japanese cellphones (wether Docomo or J-Phone or Au) support the vcal and vcard format...
Then WHO wrote the ebuild for that ? it's always crashing at the same damn line :
/usr/src/linux/drivers/slashdot.o
include
any quick fix ?
I mean, in countries like Japan (where I am atm) or China, that don't have street names or coherent organization of the codes, this could make life easier. At least maybe then the post guys will finally deliver my mail in my mail box, and not in some random foreigner resident's box that lives 3 blocks away...
now, on the matter of having miscrosoft managing all this... HELLLLOOOO ?! what about a postal code that can help tracing what software I bought and what computer I am using and other Big Brother kinda things while they are at it ?
I am all for a more standard way of labelling addresses, but it has to be done by an independant organization, not an omni-present company that would bombard me with spam about their new Windows XTreme.
Step 1: The most useless gadget, the PeltierBeer, is invented.
Step 2: One geek says, "Imaging a Beowulf cluster of these...."
Step 3: BOOM!
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit!
I HIGLY recommend the three tomes of the great "space opera" from Alastair Reynolds :
- Revelation Space
- Chasm City
- Redemption Ark
Revelation Space was his first book, and damn a good one. It's one of the few books that managed to keep me awake until my eyes hurt, and when I realised it was time to get up, take a shower and head to the office.
I'm reading Redemption Ark at the moment, and it's really great how some of the questions asked in the first tome are finally being answered.
If you're up for some dark future fantasy novel with a bit of "believable" technology, this is it.
mldonkey supports edonkey, bittorent, kazaa, overnet, napster, and probably other protocols that I forget, in one single program, that runs from the command line, on many platforms (linux x86, osx, bsd, even win32 !) as for GUI, you have a pletora of frontends. While this might not be a new p2p system, it's by far the most convenient way to download stuff from many different sources... mldonkeyworld
I still don't get the "lemon" part though... all they talk about is apple, nothing sour in that ;)
ehhh, that's a tough one ...
but *maybe* because it's WAY cheaper and simpler for the guy that wants to do a transfer on another machine only occasionally ?
Unless the software solution offers significant improvements/advantages (like super fine tuning, rms, ta, like the stuff on the car audio tuners) and catching international radio stations, I just don't really see the point of having linux in something that works great as it is already (i.e., the old fashioned way)...
safari already was blocking quite efficiently those nasty popups, but with this I don't even need to edit my host file to avoid having the ad banners ! cool
HAHAHA Thank God all the ships are not like the Erika.
...
FYPG, modern supertankers have double hulls, and in any case, using this passage would definitely increase A LOT the premium that the charterers have to pay for a tanker vessel to go into that kind of waters, i.e. breaking the "IWL" (insurance warranty limits).
So, don't worry, the penguins there won't have any bad "fuelly" surprise anytime soon.
Most of the ships that would eventually use this route are grain loaders from US Gulf to Asia, because the cost of Panama Canal tax has a great influence over the price of the freight... and anyways, it's only for 2 months, roughly the time for a long round voyage... very negligeable.
And yes, I work in shipping
French Chrispy
I doubt anybody uses the 66kbps, although sony boasts that it sounds just as "good" as mp3 128kbps ...
ATRAC3 is the second generation of codec from sony, used in their Network Walkman and new MD players. the network walkmans are pretty cool. Very light (my ms11 -japan model- is 66 grams, and battery lasts for more than 10hours)
But Now, I'm a frequent traveller, and my main PC is a laptop (compaq evo n600c) and I gotta say that audio solutions on laptops are either lame (those damn ESS chipset !) or pricey (the Motu or RME stuff for laptops are just too much for me). I mean, I want to record my guitar from time to time and I need a midi controller to tweak my POD thingy... But I do not need the 1000 bucks 8 inputs cards !!!
Then Creative comes with this thing, 134 bucks, with stereo input, midi controller, toslink in/out. As much as I try to avoid Creative, this comes quite handy, and I think I'll buy it. Not that it's the best piece of gear for me, but at least it offers the best bang for the buck, imo.
I just came to tokyo 3 days ago.... we had a terrible typhoon yesterday. and Because of this NYC attack, Japan authorities decided to shutdown Narita Airport, and secure all tall buildings in Tokyo and Yokohama, I'm watching TV right now, and the anchorman is just reading a LOOOOONG list of japanese banks and services present in the US that are being shutdown. This is bad ....