Apple has ported TCL/TK to Aqua natively (ie: no X11 needed), it's somewhere on their Apple Developer site. Sorry, I can't dig for a link right now, I'm about to head out.
Does every single Slashdot reader love and run Linux?
Should Slashdot abolish any noteworthy topics, and just post about Linux?
I know, it's moronic of me, this being posted on APPLE.slashdot.org and all!
Grow up, and go outside, it's almost summer time for fuck's sake. Time to tear down that RMS poster, and toss the Tux penguin you sleep with every night...
While this is great news, also note that a Public Preview of Quicktime Broadcaster is out. This allows you to encode video (for free) for delivery to a streaming server.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/preview/broadcast er
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No, 10-15 years ago, we sat in our bedrooms with large numbers of cassette recorders with variable speed knobs, and cheap casio synths creating & looping stuff and getting yelled at by our parents for wasting our time with such drivel.
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This has been around for decades. At various points its been labeled in the realms of ambient, glitch, discrete and others.
I've done tons of experimenting in this area for probably 15 years, so have a lot of other people.
If you want to join in this "new" fad, buy one of those nice PZM ambient sound microphones from Radio Shack. They're the small mics on the square metal plates, and they work well for picking up discrete sounds ("discrete" was always the term I used for this type of work).
Gold mines of sounds I've found: - Water running in my metal sink - Hum of refrigerators and other appliances - Chopping up a fresh potato (especially the audio whilst knife is still slicing through potato) - Sound in underground tunnels under busy city streets - The sound in my front bathroom at work (great creepy ambient stuff there) - The sound of the air flow in the attic of a building near here - Socked feet walking on carpet - Sound inside a Pepsi can while blasting "Master of Puppets". (Resulting recordings don't sound even a hint like Metallica. Serious resonating going on here, the whole album is great for resonating soda cans, and other pieces of thin metal.)
I think you completely missed my point on this. I was saying that I was one of the people who wondered why the GNUstep folks were even bothering, when I was proven foolish by the Apple/NeXT merger. Suddenly, a whale's assful of old school OPENSTEP programmers, have bright new jobs.
For those sorry lot amongst you who don't use OS X, perhaps you should look into the GNUstep project and help them out.
The more done this project is, the more likely you'll see Mac OS X Cocoa developers compiling GNUstep stuff for the Linux folks. If the GNUstep folks so far, Apple might be willing to start open sourcing bits and components of their GUI.
I was one of the ones that wondered why the GNUstep folks even bothered, but who's piping down now?
The great thing about this is that we can utilize the same techniques for the full spectrum of "lower lifeforms" for our own purposes!
Finally, we can put all those retards, non-whites (deprecated, level of meaning upgraded in 1890), homosexuals (deprecated, level of meaning upgraded in 1995) and blind people to actual use!
Sure, they have their own petty ideas of what "useful" means. But only the (majority) human race matters here, anything else is just a resource for our pillaging.
Yet another ghastly use for living beings which cannot "appreciate" the level of evolution most of us "are" at.
You'd have to be a serious tool to think this site is real. The more intuitive among us will notice that they got far too many facts straight to be real...
Sysctl variables are basically variables from or for the kernel. Many are user-modifiable, many are not.
OS X seems to ship with some of these variables optimized for dialup users, oddly enough. The series of variables I list basically increase the buffer space for TCP and UDP traffic. In addition, one of the variables adjusts an ACK delay to 0.
man sysctl for more information. to get a list of sysctl variables, open Terminal and type "sysctl -a". It's usually not a very good idea to modify anything unless you're sure of what you are doing. It's easy to kill your machine.
Which kernel list was this? I am browsing through the (relatively low traffic) darwin kernel list on apple.com and don't see anything.
I was actually beginning to examine the darwin source code last night to try and write a fix, but the code isn't really commented much, and Apple insists on using obscure codenames for everything (Heathrow, Idjit, etc).
If you could narrow my search down for me, this would help me greatly. I suspect the change needs to take place in a KEXT, actually, instead of the kernel itself.
It literally doubles my web browsing and file transfer speeds. This will probably be of value only to folks with broadband or ethernet connections. It wouldn't do much for obsolete modem users.
This is what those of us who use 10.1.2 or below have to do. This doesn't work on any version higher than 10.1.2.
Clamshell/Lid Closed mode is listed in the PBG4 manual in multiple places as a feature. There may be heat issues, but this is contrary to what the manual says.
In addition, the manual states in at least two places that the PBG4 can be used in "Display Closed" (Clam Shell) mode:
Pg. 53 Using your PowerBook With the Display Closed You can use your PowerBook with the display closed if the computer is connected to an external monitor, keyboard, mouse, and the power adapter.
To operate your computer with an external monitor attached and the display closed, do the following:
Pg. 97: External Monitor in Display Closed Mode
When the PowerBook display is closed, an external VGA monitor supports the following resolutions
There is a PDF of the PowerBook G4 manual online, and I have verified that the above excerpts have not been changed at all. Nor is there any mention of excessive heat in the manual. This would then be a product defect, and some sort of recall would probably need to take place.
PDF of PowerBook G4 Manual: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?a rtnum=501 20
Are you a mechanical or thermal or for that matter any kind of engineer? Probably not.
No, but I am a TiBook owner, and it works fine (for days, even) in clamshell mode in OS9 on the same laptop.
You dont want your computer to crash nor your the plastic keys to warp when the heat is trapped, do you?
They could easily just code in a piece that lets you keep the clamshell open, but the LCD disabled.
Also, how in the world do you think that 'clamshell' mode speeds up your computer?
Because I am a clued computer user. A clued user who has obviously (except to you) tried the TiBook in both ways.
You see, in clamshell mode, you don't have to extend your desktop across two monitors. Thus, your computer doesn't have to work to process bits for both a 1154x768 display AND a 1600x1200 display.
In layman's terms, the more resolution a computer has to deal with, the slower it gets. Especially with the current slowness of Aqua.
Using them in mirror mode does not cause a noticeable slowdown, but it was obvious that's not what I'm talking about.
I, too , was perturbed at the seeming slowness of the OS X Terminal. I found that if you bump up the Keyboard repeat settings under the System Preferences, that this takes away all of the slowness UNIX lovers hate.
Apple realizes that it is converting UNIX engineers (like me) to the Mac platform with OS X. They're simply trying to get more UNIX folks to convert by placing ads in key technical publications
It is odd that IE isn't in the Dock, but the Microsoft Office X suite is well-represented in the Dock.
Apple has a valuable partnership with Microsoft. Sure, there's some rough edges, but for the most part it's a good team. Microsoft even formally announced that it will continue supporting the Mac, even after it's settlement contract expires.
Microsoft apps for the Mac aren't much like their Windows counterparts. They're generally more sensibly written, and the MacBU team seems to pay closer attention to what the user actually wants, instead of what Microsoft thinks they want.
A bigger question may be why they don't have any of the Omni Group's [goatse.cx] software in the Dock. In my humble opinion, Apple is paying too little attention to these people who've been around for years and years (think NeXT) developing great, solid applications.
I'd try Yellow Dog on my TiBook, but they appear to be one of those companies who don't release ISO's to their distribution until they're virtually obsolete.
It's their right, but not a very good practice to try and win over new customers who don't want to spend $$$ to test out a new distribution.
Thankfully, I was able to get Debian installed. Now only if I could figure out how to boot it properly from OpenFirmware. The steps in the recent O'reilly article didn't work for me.
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Apple has ported TCL/TK to Aqua natively (ie: no X11 needed), it's somewhere on their Apple Developer site. Sorry, I can't dig for a link right now, I'm about to head out.
Are you supposed to care?
Do you have to care?
Are we supposed to care?
Does every single Slashdot reader love and run Linux?
Should Slashdot abolish any noteworthy topics, and just post about Linux?
I know, it's moronic of me, this being posted on APPLE.slashdot.org and all!
Grow up, and go outside, it's almost summer time for fuck's sake. Time to tear down that RMS poster, and toss the Tux penguin you sleep with every night...
While this is great news, also note that a Public Preview of Quicktime Broadcaster is out.
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This allows you to encode video (for free) for delivery to a streaming server.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/preview/broadcas
No, 10-15 years ago, we sat in our bedrooms with large numbers of cassette recorders with variable speed knobs, and cheap casio synths creating & looping stuff and getting yelled at by our parents for wasting our time with such drivel.
:)
This has been around for decades. At various points its been labeled in the realms of ambient, glitch, discrete and others.
I've done tons of experimenting in this area for probably 15 years, so have a lot of other people.
If you want to join in this "new" fad, buy one of those nice PZM ambient sound microphones from Radio Shack. They're the small mics on the square metal plates, and they work well for picking up discrete sounds ("discrete" was always the term I used for this type of work).
Gold mines of sounds I've found:
- Water running in my metal sink
- Hum of refrigerators and other appliances
- Chopping up a fresh potato (especially the audio whilst knife is still slicing through potato)
- Sound in underground tunnels under busy city streets
- The sound in my front bathroom at work (great creepy ambient stuff there)
- The sound of the air flow in the attic of a building near here
- Socked feet walking on carpet
- Sound inside a Pepsi can while blasting "Master of Puppets". (Resulting recordings don't sound even a hint like Metallica. Serious resonating going on here, the whole album is great for resonating soda cans, and other pieces of thin metal.)
Nothing new, move along. Eno is god.
"Mr Senator...boxer or briefs? Choice of cigar?"
Really, can these recently-submitted "Ask Slashdot" questions get any sillier and unimportant? Probably.
The unmentioned 4th degree was a degree in Windows 98 Workgroup Administration from DeVry Technical Institute.
This item has been known for a couple years now. And contrary to the article, you don't have to have the CD.
I rip all my CD's to MP3 and it works fine. In fact, I've never actually played the CD.
Also, Chaos Machine didn't discover it, but hey, gotta try and get fame somehow!
I think you completely missed my point on this. I was saying that I was one of the people who wondered why the GNUstep folks were even bothering, when I was proven foolish by the Apple/NeXT merger. Suddenly, a whale's assful of old school OPENSTEP programmers, have bright new jobs.
For those sorry lot amongst you who don't use OS X, perhaps you should look into the GNUstep project and help them out.
The more done this project is, the more likely you'll see Mac OS X Cocoa developers compiling GNUstep stuff for the Linux folks. If the GNUstep folks so far, Apple might be willing to start open sourcing bits and components of their GUI.
I was one of the ones that wondered why the GNUstep folks even bothered, but who's piping down now?
In any case, I don't bother, I use OS X already.
The great thing about this is that we can utilize the same techniques for the full spectrum of "lower lifeforms" for our own purposes!
Finally, we can put all those retards, non-whites (deprecated, level of meaning upgraded in 1890), homosexuals (deprecated, level of meaning upgraded in 1995) and blind people to actual use!
Sure, they have their own petty ideas of what "useful" means. But only the (majority) human race matters here, anything else is just a resource for our pillaging.
Yet another ghastly use for living beings which cannot "appreciate" the level of evolution most of us "are" at.
You'd have to be a serious tool to think this site is real. The more intuitive among us will notice that they got far too many facts straight to be real...
Sysctl variables are basically variables from or for the kernel. Many are user-modifiable, many are not.
OS X seems to ship with some of these variables optimized for dialup users, oddly enough. The series of variables I list basically increase the buffer space for TCP and UDP traffic. In addition, one of the variables adjusts an ACK delay to 0.
man sysctl for more information. to get a list of sysctl variables, open Terminal and type "sysctl -a". It's usually not a very good idea to modify anything unless you're sure of what you are doing. It's easy to kill your machine.
HTH,
gg
Which kernel list was this? I am browsing through the (relatively low traffic) darwin kernel list on apple.com and don't see anything.
:) Any info appreciated.
I was actually beginning to examine the darwin source code last night to try and write a fix, but the code isn't really commented much, and Apple insists on using obscure codenames for everything (Heathrow, Idjit, etc).
If you could narrow my search down for me, this would help me greatly. I suspect the change needs to take place in a KEXT, actually, instead of the kernel itself.
In short, please help
You can drastically speed up your OS X machine's network speed by modifying some sysctl variables. Toss the following lines into a script somewhere:
/usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536
/usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65536
/usr/sbin/sysctl -w kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=524288
/usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0
/usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.udp.recvspace=73728
It literally doubles my web browsing and file transfer speeds. This will probably be of value only to folks with broadband or ethernet connections. It wouldn't do much for obsolete modem users.
This is what those of us who use 10.1.2 or below have to do. This doesn't work on any version higher than 10.1.2.
Clamshell/Lid Closed mode is listed in the PBG4 manual in multiple places as a feature. There may be heat issues, but this is contrary to what the manual says.
In addition, the manual states in at least two places that the PBG4 can be used in "Display Closed" (Clam Shell) mode:
a rtnum=501 20
Pg. 53
Using your PowerBook With the Display Closed
You can use your PowerBook with the display closed if the computer is connected to an external monitor, keyboard, mouse, and the power adapter.
To operate your computer with an external monitor attached and the display closed, do the following:
Pg. 97:
External Monitor in Display Closed Mode
When the PowerBook display is closed, an external VGA monitor supports the following resolutions
There is a PDF of the PowerBook G4 manual online, and I have verified that the above excerpts have not been changed at all. Nor is there any mention of excessive heat in the manual. This would then be a product defect, and some sort of recall would probably need to take place.
PDF of PowerBook G4 Manual:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?
Are you a mechanical or thermal or for that matter any kind of engineer? Probably not.
No, but I am a TiBook owner, and it works fine (for days, even) in clamshell mode in OS9 on the same laptop.
You dont want your computer to crash nor your the plastic keys to warp when the heat is trapped, do you?
They could easily just code in a piece that lets you keep the clamshell open, but the LCD disabled.
Also, how in the world do you think that 'clamshell' mode speeds up your computer?
Because I am a clued computer user. A clued user who has obviously (except to you) tried the TiBook in both ways.
You see, in clamshell mode, you don't have to extend your desktop across two monitors. Thus, your computer doesn't have to work to process bits for both a 1154x768 display AND a 1600x1200 display.
In layman's terms, the more resolution a computer has to deal with, the slower it gets. Especially with the current slowness of Aqua.
Using them in mirror mode does not cause a noticeable slowdown, but it was obvious that's not what I'm talking about.
Which is a load of dung explanation. When I call Apple about it, they run me through hoops, and act like it's a new issue.
They could just as easily make it so one could crack the lid open a bit, whilst keeping the display disabled.
Even better, they could fucking speed up Aqua a bit, so we wouldn't HAVE to use clamshell mode due to slowness issues.
Can anyone confirm or deny that the bug with the not being able to use a TiBook 667 with JUST an external monitor, and the lid closed has been fixed?
I, too , was perturbed at the seeming slowness of the OS X Terminal. I found that if you bump up the Keyboard repeat settings under the System Preferences, that this takes away all of the slowness UNIX lovers hate.
Apple realizes that it is converting UNIX engineers (like me) to the Mac platform with OS X. They're simply trying to get more UNIX folks to convert by placing ads in key technical publications
It is odd that IE isn't in the Dock, but the Microsoft Office X suite is well-represented in the Dock.
Apple has a valuable partnership with Microsoft. Sure, there's some rough edges, but for the most part it's a good team. Microsoft even formally announced that it will continue supporting the Mac, even after it's settlement contract expires.
Microsoft apps for the Mac aren't much like their Windows counterparts. They're generally more sensibly written, and the MacBU team seems to pay closer attention to what the user actually wants, instead of what Microsoft thinks they want.
A bigger question may be why they don't have any of the Omni Group's [goatse.cx] software in the Dock. In my humble opinion, Apple is paying too little attention to these people who've been around for years and years (think NeXT) developing great, solid applications.
Not everything is a conspiracy.
> I can't think of anything you can do in linux but can't do in OSX
1.) Linux-specific development research
2.) Wireless security & research software
Yes, I read, that statement wasn't there as of a couple days ago.
I'd try Yellow Dog on my TiBook, but they appear to be one of those companies who don't release ISO's to their distribution until they're virtually obsolete.
It's their right, but not a very good practice to try and win over new customers who don't want to spend $$$ to test out a new distribution.
Thankfully, I was able to get Debian installed. Now only if I could figure out how to boot it properly from OpenFirmware. The steps in the recent O'reilly article didn't work for me.