There's no ROM on those motherboards, i'm guessing. That would be like running a computer without a BIOS, for those stuck in the Wintel world. It's impossible to tell the computer to boot from drive X when there's nothing to listen. The maximum a computer can do without a ROM is spin up some drives. That's it.
Too bad Sierra ported Half-Life to every platmorm known to man (probably to VMS, OS/2, DOS 1.0, and Amiga) and not to the Macintosh, even when the code was nearly done. The last thing they should have done was piss off one of the most vocal computer user groups. I mean, if you wanted to piss a group off, why don't you try the Linux users? They take it all the time from the people who provide their OS, so they wouldn't make a big noise at all;D
Too bad OS X was designed to be Mac OS X and not UNIX with a GUI. They took a mac-styled approach to building it, and it works fine from a mac-centric point of view. It's like criticizing the porsche owner because their vehicle doesn't have enough cargo space; It's the maker's point of view that really matters, and if they succeed from that point of view, then they succeed. Period.
Heh, can you say FLAMEBAIT?
Just because someone decides not to install your preferred operating system on their hardware doesn't mean they want to fuck you up the ass.
Um, even if it was bundled, the Average windows User(tm) would have a hell of a time reading the HFS+ disk format without XPlay's functionality.
Or do you mean bundled on a CD?
Heh, I replace my mac about every 6 years.
IIci->iMac(rev. b)->PB G4
They have great resale value. My iMac could even double as a medium-end server, what with SCSI-3, a 533 mHz processor, and 512 MB of ram. It even has 10/100 ethernet!
And the best part is it all cost me about $1800(including the cost of the iMac) to make an old iMac a server!
Heh, it wouldn't be stupid if you had one of these.
They wouldn't work if it was bus-unpowered.
Oh, and it wouldn't be stupid if you could charge, say, your iPod on a plane in a sacrificial manner so you could listen to some tunes and hit the sack instead of just letting the battery go.
Heh, were you looking at the beta? I still have my beta CD, manual, and package. (Any buyers? Should I frame it and put it on my wall?) Anyway, the beta sucked ass, but hey, you get what you pay for.
Aside from the fact that it had about 3 third-party apps, and the fact that it was so unusable that I had to install it on my throwaway mac (my now-yummy overclocked-to-533 mHz bondi Blue iMac with an iProRaidTV...more details in a subsequent post) just to test it so I didn't lost anything important on my now-obsolete PowerBook G3 (original, the one that's ugly as sin) for school. Well, at least it was a beta, and not a final version, though OS 10.0GM certainly felt like an alpha. =\
Heh. Obviously, the GeForce4 was out four or five years ago. Of course, I wouldn't want to intrude on your way of thinking, so i'll just close Mozilla on my four-year-old dual gigahertz PC.
Apple's hardware is not outdated to the extremes you'd think, although the 133 mHz bus is somewhat of a bottleneck. We need a DDR motherboard!
You see, that depends on your definition of "comparable". Do you mean clock speed, which is really in limbo as a performance indicator, or ram and hard drive size? Do you mean the Dell that comes with an 8x CD burner? The iMac comes with a 24x burner, a non-CRT screen (Thank god!) and a very small footprint. If you took a comparable PC and then crammed it into a small space, then we'd be talking.
Unfortunately, the only linux experience I've ever had was with mandrake, running some GUI (I don't remember the exact name, but it sure sounded like KDE.) It was a buggy, crappy experience for me. The word processor wouldn't accept a "paste" command from any other app besides itself, the windows and menus left pieces of themselves everyware, and it was just buggy in general.(Linux users, feel free to correct/help/redirect/flame/bash me at will.)
The reason I like OS X is because you can muck around with the Darwin core and still get unified updates (instead of having to install updates for your GUI, then your kernal, and then your cappuchino[sp?] maker SEPARATELY). I guess the all-in-oneness of OS X has me hooked. I've always wanted to use a command line, I guess for the sake of going "Look at me! I'm using the command line!", and it's been a neat experience. I really like being able to compile Perl scripts in their native setting, and having a bunch of other compilers around for my use. It's the best of both worlds. And for those who hate the dock, you can always change the position and size of it on your screen. You can even hide it! Or, if you want to get rid of the dock, then you can always use dragthing, shich, IMHO, isn't worth the time you spend downloading it.
Try using wincompressX. It compresses the window memory buffers, so, the thinking goes, you'll have better performance, because a) there's more availabe RAM and b)the buffer's compressed, so the processor doesn't have to read as much memory.
At least, that's how the thinking goes. I dunno if it affects the dock, but I've freed up some of my memory in my paltry(?) 384 MB of RAM.
My Gig RAM pack's in the mail =)
Hey, I got it Sunday and you didn't! =P! PPPPPPPPPPPPBBBBBBBBBBBBBTTTPPTTTT!!!! Sorry , just had to laugh at everyone;D Anyways, I got a buddy who mirrored the file off of a 100-mbit pipe, so it was clear sailing for myself on cable! Shoulda checked irc.ambrosiasw.com #nova for the link on saturday....
As explained before, Apple's form factor is a major differentiator between their product and a beige box. Beige (or black!) boxes don't get nearly as much attention as, say, the new iMac or even the old iMac. I've never seen a Newsweek with, say, a Dell insert in it explaining the features of the new Dell or Dell-branded MP3 player. Apple's marketing department's really on the ball selling the computer's form, and selling a boring old rackmount server isn't in Apple's little four-square Plan For The Future. The rackmount server goes against everything Jobsian in design, such as: the original iMac, the cube, the next cube, the iPod, the new iMac, and the G3 case design family (B&W G3, graphite G4, Quicksilver G4).
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There's no ROM on those motherboards, i'm guessing. That would be like running a computer without a BIOS, for those stuck in the Wintel world. It's impossible to tell the computer to boot from drive X when there's nothing to listen. The maximum a computer can do without a ROM is spin up some drives. That's it.
Too bad Sierra ported Half-Life to every platmorm known to man (probably to VMS, OS/2, DOS 1.0, and Amiga) and not to the Macintosh, even when the code was nearly done. The last thing they should have done was piss off one of the most vocal computer user groups. I mean, if you wanted to piss a group off, why don't you try the Linux users? They take it all the time from the people who provide their OS, so they wouldn't make a big noise at all ;D
Now I can make a GUI for Infobot! Yay!!!
Too bad OS X was designed to be Mac OS X and not UNIX with a GUI. They took a mac-styled approach to building it, and it works fine from a mac-centric point of view. It's like criticizing the porsche owner because their vehicle doesn't have enough cargo space; It's the maker's point of view that really matters, and if they succeed from that point of view, then they succeed. Period.
Heh, can you say FLAMEBAIT? Just because someone decides not to install your preferred operating system on their hardware doesn't mean they want to fuck you up the ass.
and EVERYBODY knows how DREARY it is to carry around one of those HUGE, THICK and HEAVY palm V's.
That'd be fun. How would you get your RJ-45 port to convert itself to a mass storage function from a networking function?
Um, even if it was bundled, the Average windows User(tm) would have a hell of a time reading the HFS+ disk format without XPlay's functionality. Or do you mean bundled on a CD?
Heh, I replace my mac about every 6 years. IIci->iMac(rev. b)->PB G4 They have great resale value. My iMac could even double as a medium-end server, what with SCSI-3, a 533 mHz processor, and 512 MB of ram. It even has 10/100 ethernet! And the best part is it all cost me about $1800(including the cost of the iMac) to make an old iMac a server!
Why?
Heh, it wouldn't be stupid if you had one of these. They wouldn't work if it was bus-unpowered. Oh, and it wouldn't be stupid if you could charge, say, your iPod on a plane in a sacrificial manner so you could listen to some tunes and hit the sack instead of just letting the battery go.
Heh, were you looking at the beta? I still have my beta CD, manual, and package. (Any buyers? Should I frame it and put it on my wall?) Anyway, the beta sucked ass, but hey, you get what you pay for. Aside from the fact that it had about 3 third-party apps, and the fact that it was so unusable that I had to install it on my throwaway mac (my now-yummy overclocked-to-533 mHz bondi Blue iMac with an iProRaidTV...more details in a subsequent post) just to test it so I didn't lost anything important on my now-obsolete PowerBook G3 (original, the one that's ugly as sin) for school. Well, at least it was a beta, and not a final version, though OS 10.0GM certainly felt like an alpha. =\
I've never seen one. Is there a way I cause one?
Heh. Obviously, the GeForce4 was out four or five years ago. Of course, I wouldn't want to intrude on your way of thinking, so i'll just close Mozilla on my four-year-old dual gigahertz PC. Apple's hardware is not outdated to the extremes you'd think, although the 133 mHz bus is somewhat of a bottleneck. We need a DDR motherboard!
You see, that depends on your definition of "comparable". Do you mean clock speed, which is really in limbo as a performance indicator, or ram and hard drive size? Do you mean the Dell that comes with an 8x CD burner? The iMac comes with a 24x burner, a non-CRT screen (Thank god!) and a very small footprint. If you took a comparable PC and then crammed it into a small space, then we'd be talking.
Unfortunately, the only linux experience I've ever had was with mandrake, running some GUI (I don't remember the exact name, but it sure sounded like KDE.) It was a buggy, crappy experience for me. The word processor wouldn't accept a "paste" command from any other app besides itself, the windows and menus left pieces of themselves everyware, and it was just buggy in general.(Linux users, feel free to correct/help/redirect/flame/bash me at will.) The reason I like OS X is because you can muck around with the Darwin core and still get unified updates (instead of having to install updates for your GUI, then your kernal, and then your cappuchino[sp?] maker SEPARATELY). I guess the all-in-oneness of OS X has me hooked. I've always wanted to use a command line, I guess for the sake of going "Look at me! I'm using the command line!", and it's been a neat experience. I really like being able to compile Perl scripts in their native setting, and having a bunch of other compilers around for my use. It's the best of both worlds. And for those who hate the dock, you can always change the position and size of it on your screen. You can even hide it! Or, if you want to get rid of the dock, then you can always use dragthing, shich, IMHO, isn't worth the time you spend downloading it.
Sounds like latin or urdu or something. Tell us what language that is!
Try using wincompressX. It compresses the window memory buffers, so, the thinking goes, you'll have better performance, because a) there's more availabe RAM and b)the buffer's compressed, so the processor doesn't have to read as much memory. At least, that's how the thinking goes. I dunno if it affects the dock, but I've freed up some of my memory in my paltry(?) 384 MB of RAM. My Gig RAM pack's in the mail =)
Hey, I got it Sunday and you didn't! =P!y , just had to laugh at everyone ;D
PPPPPPPPPPPPBBBBBBBBBBBBBTTTPPTTTT!!!!
Sorr
Anyways, I got a buddy who mirrored the file off of a 100-mbit pipe, so it was clear sailing for myself on cable!
Shoulda checked irc.ambrosiasw.com #nova for the link on saturday....
As explained before, Apple's form factor is a major differentiator between their product and a beige box. Beige (or black!) boxes don't get nearly as much attention as, say, the new iMac or even the old iMac. I've never seen a Newsweek with, say, a Dell insert in it explaining the features of the new Dell or Dell-branded MP3 player. Apple's marketing department's really on the ball selling the computer's form, and selling a boring old rackmount server isn't in Apple's little four-square Plan For The Future. The rackmount server goes against everything Jobsian in design, such as: the original iMac, the cube, the next cube, the iPod, the new iMac, and the G3 case design family (B&W G3, graphite G4, Quicksilver G4).