personally, I'd rather not use any 'security measures' that encourage the bad guys to cut off my body parts. retina scans? they pluck out your eyeball. finger print? they cut off your finger. at least with a passphrase, all they have to 'encourage' you to do is write down the passphrase for them.
actually, dvorak is quite convenient for most shortcuts, because it promotes using BOTH hands. I learned to use dvorak on a standard qwerty keyboard, so I had to become a touch typist. are you trying to type one-handed or something?:)
ctl-c? hold down control with left pinky, hit c with right middle finger. ctl-v? left pinky, right ring finger.
granted, using jklh in vim for cursor movement takes a little getting used to with dvorak, since l and h are no longer near each other, but that was the only stumbling block I ever ran into for keyboard shortcuts.
ctl-q: the q is right next to the control key ctl-w: 2 handed again
i'm pretty sure suspend works on all macs with ati video chips now. search on the gentoo linux ppc forum for the specific hardware you're interested in. (you don't have to install gentoo linux, but there you should be able to determine the current state of the pmu drivers)
airport works great, airport extreme doesn't work. (no specs released, so no driver)
battery life is the same in either OS.
i have an ibook g3 700MHz, it will sleep as fast in Linux as in os x, and will wake up faster in Linux than in OS X.
if you buy an apple portable, months later you will think back to your old non-apple portables, and think "boy those things sucked"
you sound like me a couple years ago. I'm a hardcore gentoo linux user. I bought an ibook to use as a gentoo machine. I kept it dual booting with os x. at first I never used os x. now I find that my ibook spends about 80% of its time booted in OS X!
OS X takes a bit of getting used to. linux on the same hardware is faster, but OS X is so convenient to use that it's worth the slight performance drop compared to gentoo linux on the same hardware.
one nice thing about os x, you can turn on 'all keyboard access' then every widget is accessible from the keyboard.
I put up a page about setting up my ibook for dual boot. the page is getting a bit old now, but it's still interesting. I post on the gentoo ppc forum a lot too, same handle as on here.
in linux and os x both, when you close the lid, the thing goes to sleep in 1 sec or less. when opening the lid, it's awake and the network is working within 2 sec. in both linux and OS X!
linux also has great support for the hfs+ (native OS X) filesystem, so when booted in linux, you can mount your os x partition and get at all your files. there is also a project called 'mac on linux' which is like vmware for ppc. it allows you to boot your os x partition on a virtual terminal inside linux. they are working on getting 'mac on linux' to run under os x, so then you would also be able to boot your linux partition when running os x.
the only bummer for you is that all the new apples come with airport extreme, which has no linux device driver. (the company that make the chip refuses to release any information). as long as you stick to an ATI video chip everything else should work fine though in linux. and of course it all works flawlessly in OS X.
oh ya, portage is being ported to os x right now! currently, it's pretty rough, but they are making steady progress. the day will soon be here when portage can be used in OS X to install anything that can be installed in ppc gentoo linux. right now I'm stuck using fink, which is similar to debian's apt-get, but not nearly as nice. I have a few packages installed via portage though.
also, several of the 'big time' Free software packages have been ported to native OS X widget sets: abiword, mplayer, gvim, emacs. And kde is on its way using the native QT port. some others are available in a nice integrated package for OS X (still on top of X11 though), like gimp and openoffice.
things to watch for: get hfstar and rsyncX. they add support for the resource forks in the hfs+ filesystem.
my main apps in os x are mail.app (a great imap client; I have my own imap server, so I can get my mail in mail.app, mutt, and kmail), terminal, zsh, screen, and the native port of gvim (carbon gui).
I've been thrilled with my ibook. if I were to buy one today, I'd get a powerbook though. It would be nice to have the higher resolution display of the powerbooks.
I run my own mailserver which my wife and I use for our primary email addresses. I get about 120 spams/day, she gets 250 or so.
we left for a one week family visit trip. the day after we left, my server crashed (turned out to be a bad ram chip). our email server was down for a whole week!
while we were there on the trip, we kept laughing about how it would drive down our spam for a while.
Eventually, I got home, got the server running again. and you know what? the spam started coming IMMEDIATELY, traffic was right back at the exact same pre-crash levels, the very instant the server was back up.
I routinely use about 5 machines, on different networks.
first off, I made a top-level directory to put all my 'data' type files in. that directory has lots of subdirectories, and when I create a new file I always create it in the right place, so it starts out organized.
under that top level directory, I have a directory called 'config'. under config is a subdirectory for each machine I use. then all my ~/.* files are symbolic links into the appropriate top/config/machine/ directory. that way, on any machine I have immediate access to the setup on any other machine, but yet they are all separate.
then I use rsync to maintain this data directory on all the machines. with my rsnapshot backup scheme running on 2 of the machines, plus the fact that this directory lives on 5 different machines, at any one time I have my important data on 7 or 8 different hard drives.
get a real Operating System that simply doesn't have these types of vulnerabilities. there must be some tipping point where the costs incurred from handling spyware/viruses/vulnerabilities over the course of YEARS will outweigh the cost of switching to something else. Linux, OS X, *bsd, Hell, even Solaris will eventually cost less than handling spyware. At least with Linux or *bsd (and possibly with Solaris) you can re-use your existing hardware. Seriously, I get so tired of the poor bastards stuck using Windows whining about all the crap they 'have' to put up with. It's just ridiculous.
an apple laptop is going to last a lot longer on battery, with its tendency to run fanless (as long as you're not doing an 'emerge -uD world'). ppc cpus in general have a lot less transistors than x86 cpus and consume less power. my 14" ibook can go 4.5 hours, during 'normal' use (text editing, web surfing, some compiling). and I have watched a full dvd and had battery left over many times.
I just found the 'freeze panes' menu item, but that's not quite what I want. I want independent panes with their own scrollbars, but in the same x client (not just a different view)
I've used and loved gnumeric for a long time now. thank you so much!
the only feature I miss from excel is split views onto the spreadsheet. I have a spreadsheet with a huge column of numbers which are summed at the bottom. I would like to always see the sums, while I move around in the column of numbers.
just re-encode them as 128k aac files, put them on your ipod, then delete them off your computer. much smaller file size, and I can't tell the difference in quality (aac is much higher quality with small file sizes). my ipod spends most of its time plugged into my big home stereo or my car, I hate headphones.
there is a firmware hack available which allows an ibook to use an external display at higher resolution than its lcd, as a second screen, not mirrored. check it out it worked great on my 700MHz ibook. I've run an external monitor at 1280x1024, 85 Hz.
let's see, I need to wear this jacket while standing in the nice, bright, hot sun, sounds kind of dumb to me. course I live in Arizona where standing in the sun is a good way to die.:)
I was under the impression that a bayesian filter will easily handle spam messages with deliberate misspellings and extraneous junk implanted. unless you can guarantee that your misspellings are unique.
personal anecdote: I've never seen a spam with lots of misspellings and garbage in it get past bogofilter.
apparently you've never actually used OS X. it ships with the terminal version of emacs, in/usr/bin. if you want a carbon gui port of it, you can get it from here.
You can run software updates from the command line, using/usr/sbin/softwareupdate which even has a man page!
I agree there are some issues with terminal.app, but it's nearly trivial to put on apple's X11 and get a real xterm for when you need it. most of the time, terminal.app is good enough.
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is that it's still Free no matter how many cpus/cores/computers you run it on!
personally, I'd rather not use any 'security measures' that encourage the bad guys to cut off my body parts. retina scans? they pluck out your eyeball. finger print? they cut off your finger. at least with a passphrase, all they have to 'encourage' you to do is write down the passphrase for them.
I'm a huge star trek fan, but come on! if you're going to give away money, why not give to cancer research or something else productive?
actually, dvorak is quite convenient for most shortcuts, because it promotes using BOTH hands. I learned to use dvorak on a standard qwerty keyboard, so I had to become a touch typist. are you trying to type one-handed or something? :)
ctl-c? hold down control with left pinky, hit c with right middle finger. ctl-v? left pinky, right ring finger.
granted, using jklh in vim for cursor movement takes a little getting used to with dvorak, since l and h are no longer near each other, but that was the only stumbling block I ever ran into for keyboard shortcuts.
ctl-q: the q is right next to the control key
ctl-w: 2 handed again
yep. I started running 'screen' inside one terminal window. :)
i'm pretty sure suspend works on all macs with ati video chips now. search on the gentoo linux ppc forum for the specific hardware you're interested in. (you don't have to install gentoo linux, but there you should be able to determine the current state of the pmu drivers)
airport works great, airport extreme doesn't work. (no specs released, so no driver)
battery life is the same in either OS.
i have an ibook g3 700MHz, it will sleep as fast in Linux as in os x, and will wake up faster in Linux than in OS X.
if you buy an apple portable, months later you will think back to your old non-apple portables, and think "boy those things sucked"
you sound like me a couple years ago. I'm a hardcore gentoo linux user. I bought an ibook to use as a gentoo machine. I kept it dual booting with os x. at first I never used os x. now I find that my ibook spends about 80% of its time booted in OS X!
OS X takes a bit of getting used to. linux on the same hardware is faster, but OS X is so convenient to use that it's worth the slight performance drop compared to gentoo linux on the same hardware.
one nice thing about os x, you can turn on 'all keyboard access' then every widget is accessible from the keyboard.
I put up a page about setting up my ibook for dual boot. the page is getting a bit old now, but it's still interesting. I post on the gentoo ppc forum a lot too, same handle as on here.
in linux and os x both, when you close the lid, the thing goes to sleep in 1 sec or less. when opening the lid, it's awake and the network is working within 2 sec. in both linux and OS X!
linux also has great support for the hfs+ (native OS X) filesystem, so when booted in linux, you can mount your os x partition and get at all your files. there is also a project called 'mac on linux' which is like vmware for ppc. it allows you to boot your os x partition on a virtual terminal inside linux. they are working on getting 'mac on linux' to run under os x, so then you would also be able to boot your linux partition when running os x.
the only bummer for you is that all the new apples come with airport extreme, which has no linux device driver. (the company that make the chip refuses to release any information). as long as you stick to an ATI video chip everything else should work fine though in linux. and of course it all works flawlessly in OS X.
oh ya, portage is being ported to os x right now! currently, it's pretty rough, but they are making steady progress. the day will soon be here when portage can be used in OS X to install anything that can be installed in ppc gentoo linux. right now I'm stuck using fink, which is similar to debian's apt-get, but not nearly as nice. I have a few packages installed via portage though.
also, several of the 'big time' Free software packages have been ported to native OS X widget sets: abiword, mplayer, gvim, emacs. And kde is on its way using the native QT port. some others are available in a nice integrated package for OS X (still on top of X11 though), like gimp and openoffice.
things to watch for: get hfstar and rsyncX. they add support for the resource forks in the hfs+ filesystem.
my main apps in os x are mail.app (a great imap client; I have my own imap server, so I can get my mail in mail.app, mutt, and kmail), terminal, zsh, screen, and the native port of gvim (carbon gui).
I've been thrilled with my ibook. if I were to buy one today, I'd get a powerbook though. It would be nice to have the higher resolution display of the powerbooks.
we left for a one week family visit trip. the day after we left, my server crashed (turned out to be a bad ram chip). our email server was down for a whole week!
while we were there on the trip, we kept laughing about how it would drive down our spam for a while.
Eventually, I got home, got the server running again. and you know what? the spam started coming IMMEDIATELY, traffic was right back at the exact same pre-crash levels, the very instant the server was back up.
first off, I made a top-level directory to put all my 'data' type files in. that directory has lots of subdirectories, and when I create a new file I always create it in the right place, so it starts out organized.
under that top level directory, I have a directory called 'config'. under config is a subdirectory for each machine I use. then all my ~/.* files are symbolic links into the appropriate top/config/machine/ directory. that way, on any machine I have immediate access to the setup on any other machine, but yet they are all separate.
then I use rsync to maintain this data directory on all the machines. with my rsnapshot backup scheme running on 2 of the machines, plus the fact that this directory lives on 5 different machines, at any one time I have my important data on 7 or 8 different hard drives.
get a real Operating System that simply doesn't have these types of vulnerabilities. there must be some tipping point where the costs incurred from handling spyware/viruses/vulnerabilities over the course of YEARS will outweigh the cost of switching to something else. Linux, OS X, *bsd, Hell, even Solaris will eventually cost less than handling spyware. At least with Linux or *bsd (and possibly with Solaris) you can re-use your existing hardware. Seriously, I get so tired of the poor bastards stuck using Windows whining about all the crap they 'have' to put up with. It's just ridiculous.
just use a regular computer. your Air conditioner, heater, clothes dryer, refrigerator will all use more power. if you want quiet, just get an apple.
google.com/mac will do a mac specific search.
an apple laptop is going to last a lot longer on battery, with its tendency to run fanless (as long as you're not doing an 'emerge -uD world'). ppc cpus in general have a lot less transistors than x86 cpus and consume less power. my 14" ibook can go 4.5 hours, during 'normal' use (text editing, web surfing, some compiling). and I have watched a full dvd and had battery left over many times.
I put up a page with all the hard parts of the install
1 inch == 2.54 cm, by definition. end of story. according to 'bc -l', 1 meter is 39.37007874015748031496 inches, rounded at the 20th decimal place.
I just found the 'freeze panes' menu item, but that's not quite what I want. I want independent panes with their own scrollbars, but in the same x client (not just a different view)
I've used and loved gnumeric for a long time now. thank you so much!
the only feature I miss from excel is split views onto the spreadsheet. I have a spreadsheet with a huge column of numbers which are summed at the bottom. I would like to always see the sums, while I move around in the column of numbers.
just re-encode them as 128k aac files, put them on your ipod, then delete them off your computer. much smaller file size, and I can't tell the difference in quality (aac is much higher quality with small file sizes). my ipod spends most of its time plugged into my big home stereo or my car, I hate headphones.
They'll get the G5 nearly as cool as a G4 before it goes in the powerbook. between die shrink and the liquid-cooled rumors it should be fine.
there is a firmware hack available which allows an ibook to use an external display at higher resolution than its lcd, as a second screen, not mirrored. check it out it worked great on my 700MHz ibook. I've run an external monitor at 1280x1024, 85 Hz.
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let's see, I need to wear this jacket while standing in the nice, bright, hot sun, sounds kind of dumb to me. course I live in Arizona where standing in the sun is a good way to die. :)
personal anecdote: I've never seen a spam with lots of misspellings and garbage in it get past bogofilter.
You can run software updates from the command line, using /usr/sbin/softwareupdate which even has a man page!
I agree there are some issues with terminal.app, but it's nearly trivial to put on apple's X11 and get a real xterm for when you need it. most of the time, terminal.app is good enough.
you can buy refurbished ones from 3rd parties for less than that.