I know rob, hemos et al. are tiBook droolers, constantly humping S.J's leg in order to get one for free, but I can hardly see chances increasing by posting utter boringness like this
If you're such an i-entologist, I suggest you post every change in apple hotnews and apple PR
I agree that gcc has different goals, but comeon, the speed difference is really flabbergasting ! codewarrior is twice as fast ! I can understand a speed loss due to portability, but that much ??
Anyways, it doesn't all matter that much if there were to be a speed gain from dual procs or distributed compiling. So to restate the Q : do you have any idea if PB is faster on a dual1GHz than on a signle 1GHz ?
I sincerely hope Apple makes this feature into projectbuilder, which compiles insanely slow when compared to codewarrior. If it wasn't for the superior interface and integration with interface builder, I'd swap back to codewarrior right away.
Does anyone here know how good the speed increase is when compiling on dual G4s versus a single proc ?
me neither, although i still find mozilla a bit bloated, especially on older iron like iMacs. Even on my powerbook G4, I prefer using Chimera (which is essentially mozilla without the GUI overhead).
Chimera IMHO proves that mozilla shot past it's goal : it could have been so much better (and out sooner!) if they had not chosen to included everything and my mother in the interface. After all : how many people use mozilla for something else but surfing ? They should have stuck to just that. Like chimera. The chimera/mail combo is unbeatable in OSX.
BTW : did I mention that chim loads and renders 25-50% faster than IE ?
in belgium, we've been using electronic voting for quite a while now. Results are a lot faster, but queues at the booths are longer too because older people are a bit frightened and take their time to figure out what to do (even though it's as straigthforward as pussy : find the hole of a person that you like and fill it:-)
the system itself is not without failure though : one one district, the right-wing, fascists-in-disguise-party was not on the screen of the voting computers (I can't imagine that this could possibly be a programming mistake, since all other districts worked without flaw and used the exact same software)
last note : even here, only something like 30% or so of the votes are electronic. Next federal election, due in 1 year, is supposed to lift this percentage
OSX Sendmail form PHP seems to be a major pain in the behind : I've read at least 5 articles via google on the subject, and each one solves a different type of problem. My prob seems to be yet another one.
on jagwyre, setting apache and PHP and sendmail all on their own is doable for the not so experienced (like me)
However, the shit hits the fan when you're trying to make php pages send mail. SO far, I've tried every walkthrough I could find, but still get errors like this (sorry for long lines):
Group Ownership is a wonderful thing. Have a drop directory set to Mom and Dad's group and any file they create will have/can have group rwx if you want. It's easy to set the mask for all created files...or are you not familiar with this?
partially. The issue is that I don't want to run over to my parents' house every time a settings adjustment needs to be done (I have my own family to educate). My oldies need a computer that doesn't need a tech coming along with it in the box !
but even if they share the dsektop directory, files created by dad will not have mums ownership, making it unable for her to delete/modify those files unless you start schwabbling with chmod, which you'll agree is NOT a userfriendly way of doing things. As unsecure and theoretically confusing/inappropriate the windows way of doing the dektop is, it seems to be the way most users understand it.
When users have to find their own files, Linux is a great thing for system administrators. The concept of home directory actually works on Linux, and with symbolic links, their home directory is all they have to care about.
Ah, the ambiguity of a home directory... my parents can't grasp it, even on MacOSX. They both have a login, so when they click mail.app in their dock, they have their own settings. However, often my dad gets a mail with a photo of a grandchild, he can't transfer it to mum. I tried to explain the concept of drop boxes, but they just get utterly frustrated after 10secs. They don't WANT to understand it. They just want it to work the way they have it inside their heads :
'why can't I just put it on the desktop for her to see ? ? ?'...
'because your desktop is not her desktop dad'....
'whaddayamean ? there's only one desktop isn't there ?'
'sigh'
trust me, the average user is far dumbder than you can possibly imagine, and (which is worse!) far more reluctant to change and learning.
I fear that for linux to enter a business market on the desktop, there's still quite a long way to go in terms of user friendlyness. On all other fronts, linux equals or wins against MS, but on the desktop, GUI is the only thing that really matters :
- stability ? XP is stable enough for the desktop
- security ? XP with no services is secure enough behind a corporate firewall
- CPU efficiency ? When running Office and Outlook as sole applications on a 2GHz PC, you've got to go pretty ballistic to get inefifcient.
- open source ? You really thing any desktop user gives a flying donkey ?
- commandline unix underpinnings ? see 2 remarks above
all that matters is how well users can become at easy with their machine (in their own adorable shitty, messy and totally disorganized way. Remember that a desktop user does NOT WANT to understand his computer. He just wants the computer to adapt to his personal shitty messy and totally disorganized way of organizing things)
I did the test many times and put a linux box in front of a reasonably willing (although reasonably dumb) subject and frankly, they didn't even figure out how to reset their desktop. Linux just doesn't get it when it comes to dumb-ass desktop users.
All major applications (or quality alternatives) now run native
Well, I am tired of hearing *that*. Quite a few bigshot applications do not run native at all. Quark is one example, but even if quark gets its act together, the printing office I regularly do freelance stuff for is not going to switch its 70 macs to OSX because a lot of stuff has not been ported properly yet. (their 4D application for instance refuses to work properly under OSX)
Right now, OSX is becoming a stable, usable consumer OS. But for serious work, it still lacks a lot of features.
wow ! I didn't know that stuart works at Apple now !
He's the famous author of the ancient bolo game and corresponding cult. Probably died out by now, but I wasted a good part of my eyes and brain on bolo many years ago
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I know rob, hemos et al. are tiBook droolers, constantly humping S.J's leg in order to get one for free, but I can hardly see chances increasing by posting utter boringness like this
If you're such an i-entologist, I suggest you post every change in apple hotnews and apple PR
Come to think of it... they almost do so...
nonono ! It's *four* dimensional d00d !
That's way cooler : you wrap a rubberband around an apple faster than a jury can see it. The fastest math geek gets the $1M and the chicks.
For the tech-savvy : they're using tiBooks to wrap the band around. Imacs turned out to be a pain when the band reaches the power chord.
yeah, jogging while watching a DVD...
I'd pay an entrance fee just to see you do that.
then mozilla shits itself
What would be the univarsal gesture for that ?
Fist in the air and pulling down 3 times while making protty sounds ?
this same URL is posted 5 comments above. Moderators : please do your job and nuke this karma whore
that's the webserver you're smelling :-)
I agree that gcc has different goals, but comeon, the speed difference is really flabbergasting ! codewarrior is twice as fast ! I can understand a speed loss due to portability, but that much ??
Anyways, it doesn't all matter that much if there were to be a speed gain from dual procs or distributed compiling. So to restate the Q : do you have any idea if PB is faster on a dual1GHz than on a signle 1GHz ?
I sincerely hope Apple makes this feature into projectbuilder, which compiles insanely slow when compared to codewarrior. If it wasn't for the superior interface and integration with interface builder, I'd swap back to codewarrior right away.
Does anyone here know how good the speed increase is when compiling on dual G4s versus a single proc ?
3 I had another point, but I've got to go to work, and I forgot it. Sorry.
Okay, in that case, I patent your third point. Now cough it up butthead, or smell my DRM homing missile !
uhm ... headphones ????
me neither, although i still find mozilla a bit bloated, especially on older iron like iMacs. Even on my powerbook G4, I prefer using Chimera (which is essentially mozilla without the GUI overhead).
Chimera IMHO proves that mozilla shot past it's goal : it could have been so much better (and out sooner!) if they had not chosen to included everything and my mother in the interface. After all : how many people use mozilla for something else but surfing ? They should have stuck to just that. Like chimera. The chimera/mail combo is unbeatable in OSX.
BTW : did I mention that chim loads and renders 25-50% faster than IE ?
in belgium, we've been using electronic voting for quite a while now. Results are a lot faster, but queues at the booths are longer too because older people are a bit frightened and take their time to figure out what to do (even though it's as straigthforward as pussy : find the hole of a person that you like and fill it :-)
the system itself is not without failure though : one one district, the right-wing, fascists-in-disguise-party was not on the screen of the voting computers (I can't imagine that this could possibly be a programming mistake, since all other districts worked without flaw and used the exact same software)
last note : even here, only something like 30% or so of the votes are electronic. Next federal election, due in 1 year, is supposed to lift this percentage
available in ps, pdf, text, or source (latex).
Now who says Fortran is not a sexy language ?? hum ?
REAL (mac) nerds will remember little green man or LGM as the abbreviation for the BOLO dude that you could send out of your tank.
:-)
Those wree the days. Nothing more fun than locking the LGM between 4 blocks
well, I was using marc's package :-(
OSX Sendmail form PHP seems to be a major pain in the behind : I've read at least 5 articles via google on the subject, and each one solves a different type of problem. My prob seems to be yet another one.
on jagwyre, setting apache and PHP and sendmail all on their own is doable for the not so experienced (like me)
However, the shit hits the fan when you're trying to make php pages send mail. SO far, I've tried every walkthrough I could find, but still get errors like this (sorry for long lines):
Sep 7 12:51:19 visbak sendmail[448]: g87ApJxR000448: from=www, size=262, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=, relay=localhost
Sep 7 12:51:20 visbak sendmail[450]: g87ApJxR000448: to="jeroen clarysse" , ctladdr=www (70/70), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=30241, relay=in.mx.skynet.be. [195.238.3.129], dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error
Sep 7 12:51:20 visbak sendmail[450]: g87ApJxR000448: g87ApKxQ000450: DSN: Data format error
Sep 7 12:51:20 visbak sendmail[451]: g87ApKxQ000450: SYSERR(www): openmailer: insufficient privileges to change gid, RunAsUid=70, new_gid=0, gid=70, egid=25Sep 7 12:51:20 visbak sendmail[450]: g87ApKxQ000450: to=www, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=31286, dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: local mailer (/usr/bin/procmail) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL
Anyone an idea ?
Group Ownership is a wonderful thing. Have a drop directory set to Mom and Dad's group and any file they create will have/can have group rwx if you want. It's easy to set the mask for all created files...or are you not familiar with this?
partially. The issue is that I don't want to run over to my parents' house every time a settings adjustment needs to be done (I have my own family to educate). My oldies need a computer that doesn't need a tech coming along with it in the box !
but even if they share the dsektop directory, files created by dad will not have mums ownership, making it unable for her to delete/modify those files unless you start schwabbling with chmod, which you'll agree is NOT a userfriendly way of doing things. As unsecure and theoretically confusing/inappropriate the windows way of doing the dektop is, it seems to be the way most users understand it.
Must have something to do with users being dumb.
When users have to find their own files, Linux is a great thing for system administrators. The concept of home directory actually works on Linux, and with symbolic links, their home directory is all they have to care about.
Ah, the ambiguity of a home directory... my parents can't grasp it, even on MacOSX. They both have a login, so when they click mail.app in their dock, they have their own settings. However, often my dad gets a mail with a photo of a grandchild, he can't transfer it to mum. I tried to explain the concept of drop boxes, but they just get utterly frustrated after 10secs. They don't WANT to understand it. They just want it to work the way they have it inside their heads :
'why can't I just put it on the desktop for her to see ? ? ?'...
'because your desktop is not her desktop dad'....
'whaddayamean ? there's only one desktop isn't there ?'
'sigh'
trust me, the average user is far dumbder than you can possibly imagine, and (which is worse!) far more reluctant to change and learning.
I fear that for linux to enter a business market on the desktop, there's still quite a long way to go in terms of user friendlyness. On all other fronts, linux equals or wins against MS, but on the desktop, GUI is the only thing that really matters :
- stability ? XP is stable enough for the desktop
- security ? XP with no services is secure enough behind a corporate firewall
- CPU efficiency ? When running Office and Outlook as sole applications on a 2GHz PC, you've got to go pretty ballistic to get inefifcient.
- open source ? You really thing any desktop user gives a flying donkey ?
- commandline unix underpinnings ? see 2 remarks above
all that matters is how well users can become at easy with their machine (in their own adorable shitty, messy and totally disorganized way. Remember that a desktop user does NOT WANT to understand his computer. He just wants the computer to adapt to his personal shitty messy and totally disorganized way of organizing things)
I did the test many times and put a linux box in front of a reasonably willing (although reasonably dumb) subject and frankly, they didn't even figure out how to reset their desktop. Linux just doesn't get it when it comes to dumb-ass desktop users.
All major applications (or quality alternatives) now run native
Well, I am tired of hearing *that*. Quite a few bigshot applications do not run native at all. Quark is one example, but even if quark gets its act together, the printing office I regularly do freelance stuff for is not going to switch its 70 macs to OSX because a lot of stuff has not been ported properly yet. (their 4D application for instance refuses to work properly under OSX)
Right now, OSX is becoming a stable, usable consumer OS. But for serious work, it still lacks a lot of features.
Pfew, quite a relief : iat's quite a change from Carmack being quoted intensively.
my only guess : paranoia. The weird idea that rebooting flushes out the bad bits left of an eventual breakin...
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wow ! I didn't know that stuart works at Apple now !
He's the famous author of the ancient bolo game and corresponding cult. Probably died out by now, but I wasted a good part of my eyes and brain on bolo many years ago