Sorry, but OS X IS NOT 64bit. By the time rumoured 64bit Photoshop comes out (sometimes in November or December?) Microsoft may very well release final version of 64bit XP, and OS X (Tiger) will still be 32 bit. Yes, it might have some 64bit "extensions" enabling it to use more than 4GB RAM, but so does present XP/Win Server on 32-bit Xeons.
4 MEGS?!?!? Aaah, I'd kill for 4 megs. I used to surf with only 2 MB (Chip) RAM on my Amiga 1200. If only I had memory card and some (Fast) RAM... Let me see, first it was Aweb, then IBrowse, mirracle of technology, so advanced that it ate all the memory I had so I could'n really surf much:)
One of this days I may finally buy myself an MC68040 or '060 turbo card:)
I'm not too sure what a google search would add, lest it involves myself adding descriptions of files.
Speed? Search by phrases? I mean, I use TC and I love it, but when you first search for a term inside the files, it takes time. Yes, it is faster than many other tools, but it still takes much more time than it would be if all content was pre-indexed.
just made the experiment of following those links to msn.com, and although I agree that different code is sent from msn.com according to the browser user-agent flag, I see no actual difference in the content (leaving out the banner ads, which are blocked in my hosts file).
If you actually opened the link, you would clearly see that it was posted in 2003, and from the screenshots you can see they were taken on February 5th and 6th. So it is entirely possible that they (MS) fixed it in this 15 months. It's not like that they'd settle this things in few days.
But if you are really paranoid... Download it, unpack it (it's not ISO image but self-extracting 7zip archive), then download all critical + recommended patches from MS Update, and do binary comparision. I just installed it and ran Kaspersky AV, if it didn't find any trojan or exploit, then they must be some ueber-hackers:)
BTW, if you want just latest updates, download Ultra Lite (Critical + Recommended) or Lite version (Critical + Recommended + Optional components, eg. Java, WMP 9, DX9.0...) Full version includes lot of non-MS things, like bonus wallpapers, screensavers, Flash, Shockwave, registry tweaks, Google toolbar...
That's what I was thinking, that jamming cell phones in theatres and restaurants would be a good idea. But, remember what happened recently in Russia, when Chechen terrorists took hostages in Moscow theatre.
In that situation, you might call (or SMS) for help, tell how many of them are, where they are, what weapons do they have... Unless your mobile was jammed.
It already has. As I remember, Americans chose Dolby for HDTV, but Europeans went with MPEG. Same with DVDs, although most DVDs I've seen are Dolby or DTS.
And here I was thinking that almost all of the current distributions (meaning not ones announced/released yesterday), like Red Hat 9/ RHEL , Fedora, Suse 9, Gentoo 2004.1, Debian... -- were shipping with default 2.4 kernel?
If, for the end user, the difference is marginal, why bother to make things more difficult than necessary for yourself?
Because in some cases difference is NOT marginal.
A couple of days ago I decided to try installing Gentoo on an old Compaq P2/350MHz with 60GB 5400rpm Maxtor drive. I selected ext3 for / parition.
Unpacking portage-20040504.tar.bz2 file -- 14MB packed / 62 MB unpacked, with 68.326 (small) files in 14.181 directories -- took me about 45 minutes! First I tought that CPU is too slow, as it takes only 3 minutes to unpack on my Athlon XP 2500+ / XP / NTFS.
But later I decided to scrap everything and start from scratch, this time using ReiserFS. To my surprise, unpacking was done in less than 15 minutes.
Now I'm worried and confused. I wanted to use the machine as file and web development server (meaning lot of small files plus some big ones -- like TIFF and PSD pictures), but ext3 is too slow, and I'm no longer so shure about reiser after reading all this horror stories. If the speed difference was 10 or even 50%, I wouldn't even think about it, but 3 to 10 TIMES is not something easy to dismiss...
(I was even thinking of leaving the data on FAT32 so it could be easily rescued from Win/DOS if necessary)
Yeah, but this is IBM (incl. Lotus) we are talking about. If they can't, I don't know who can.
I's funny, though, as Microsoft worked really hard to replace once ubiquous Lotus 1-2-3 with Excel, copying not only file format but providing 1-2-3 keyboard shortcuts as well.
Actually, it's "$2 per user per month for access to the software, plus $1 per user, per month for each IBM application, such as messaging and document management.", PLUS server software. Compared to 190$ per year for MS Office Pro under OSL, or 350$ for Office SBE OEM (should be good for at least 3-5 years).
I don't see why it wouldn't be MS Office compatibile, after all they own Lotus and all their technologies (remember Amipro, Wordpro, 1-2-3?)
On (un)relatedf note, I'd love to see "revamped" Wordpro, it was quite advanced for it's time (and bloated, too:( ), and I'm shure I'm not the only one to be sorry when it was killed.
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So now they are selling millions of $1-2 chips, vs. millions of $50+ NIC a while ago. No wonder they are in trouble.
And don't forget Broadcom on newer gigabit motherboards.
Check phpBB (open source, free, very popular) or vBulletin (also excellent, but commercial).
Sorry, but OS X IS NOT 64bit. By the time rumoured 64bit Photoshop comes out (sometimes in November or December?) Microsoft may very well release final version of 64bit XP, and OS X (Tiger) will still be 32 bit. Yes, it might have some 64bit "extensions" enabling it to use more than 4GB RAM, but so does present XP/Win Server on 32-bit Xeons.
No, you can't buy it, but you can download it for free.
Tell it to Opera guys ;)
4 MEGS?!?!? Aaah, I'd kill for 4 megs. I used to surf with only 2 MB (Chip) RAM on my Amiga 1200. If only I had memory card and some (Fast) RAM... Let me see, first it was Aweb, then IBrowse, mirracle of technology, so advanced that it ate all the memory I had so I could'n really surf much :)
:)
One of this days I may finally buy myself an MC68040 or '060 turbo card
Speed? Search by phrases? I mean, I use TC and I love it, but when you first search for a term inside the files, it takes time. Yes, it is faster than many other tools, but it still takes much more time than it would be if all content was pre-indexed.
Just go to your Opera directory and delete or rename m2.dlz file, that's all. But it is only 230 KB large! (ok, probably twice that when unpacked).
If you actually opened the link, you would clearly see that it was posted in 2003, and from the screenshots you can see they were taken on February 5th and 6th. So it is entirely possible that they (MS) fixed it in this 15 months. It's not like that they'd settle this things in few days.
Yes, there are MD5 checksums:
:)
http://www.autopatcher.com/DownloadXP.htm
http://www.autopatcher.com/faqxp.htm (FAQ)
http://www.autopatcher.com/LiteXP.htm (Lite/UltraLite version)
But if you are really paranoid... Download it, unpack it (it's not ISO image but self-extracting 7zip archive), then download all critical + recommended patches from MS Update, and do binary comparision. I just installed it and ran Kaspersky AV, if it didn't find any trojan or exploit, then they must be some ueber-hackers
BTW, if you want just latest updates, download Ultra Lite (Critical + Recommended) or Lite version (Critical + Recommended + Optional components, eg. Java, WMP 9, DX9.0...) Full version includes lot of non-MS things, like bonus wallpapers, screensavers, Flash, Shockwave, registry tweaks, Google toolbar...
Yeah, it would really work in the real world.
"Hey, Suzy, when is the project deadline?"
"I don't know yet, but feel free to finger me any time"
Someone already did that: http://www.autopatcher.com/. Highly recommended.
So does Gentoo.
An artist can take ten dollars worth of canvas, smear five dollars of oilpaint on it, and sell it in a gallery for tens of thousands of dollars
Yes, but if you try to sell it as genuine Van Gogh, you can get in trouble.
Um, yeah, but who knows how many more would survive if they had a mobile ;) Don't get me wrong, I HATE ringing and talking during movies.
That's what I was thinking, that jamming cell phones in theatres and restaurants would be a good idea. But, remember what happened recently in Russia, when Chechen terrorists took hostages in Moscow theatre.
In that situation, you might call (or SMS) for help, tell how many of them are, where they are, what weapons do they have... Unless your mobile was jammed.
It already has. As I remember, Americans chose Dolby for HDTV, but Europeans went with MPEG. Same with DVDs, although most DVDs I've seen are Dolby or DTS.
Lacking the proper equipment do measure 1/299,792,458th of a second, I'd say it is close enough.
No. We have 10x15 (in cm of course), 20x30, 30x45, etc...
:) And what about 6x6 (Hasselblad)?
There is also 9x13, 13x18, 18x26... (cm)
By the way, how did you call a 24x36 camera ?
Leica?
Apparently they are using VIA chipsets and CPUs and ReiserFS. Hope they have good backup ;)
And here I was thinking that almost all of the current distributions (meaning not ones announced/released yesterday), like Red Hat 9/ RHEL , Fedora, Suse 9, Gentoo 2004.1, Debian... -- were shipping with default 2.4 kernel?
Because in some cases difference is NOT marginal.
A couple of days ago I decided to try installing Gentoo on an old Compaq P2/350MHz with 60GB 5400rpm Maxtor drive. I selected ext3 for / parition.
Unpacking portage-20040504.tar.bz2 file -- 14MB packed / 62 MB unpacked, with 68.326 (small) files in 14.181 directories -- took me about 45 minutes! First I tought that CPU is too slow, as it takes only 3 minutes to unpack on my Athlon XP 2500+ / XP / NTFS.
But later I decided to scrap everything and start from scratch, this time using ReiserFS. To my surprise, unpacking was done in less than 15 minutes.
Now I'm worried and confused. I wanted to use the machine as file and web development server (meaning lot of small files plus some big ones -- like TIFF and PSD pictures), but ext3 is too slow, and I'm no longer so shure about reiser after reading all this horror stories. If the speed difference was 10 or even 50%, I wouldn't even think about it, but 3 to 10 TIMES is not something easy to dismiss...
(I was even thinking of leaving the data on FAT32 so it could be easily rescued from Win/DOS if necessary)
Yeah, but this is IBM (incl. Lotus) we are talking about. If they can't, I don't know who can.
I's funny, though, as Microsoft worked really hard to replace once ubiquous Lotus 1-2-3 with Excel, copying not only file format but providing 1-2-3 keyboard shortcuts as well.
Actually, it's "$2 per user per month for access to the software, plus $1 per user, per month for each IBM application, such as messaging and document management.", PLUS server software. Compared to 190$ per year for MS Office Pro under OSL, or 350$ for Office SBE OEM (should be good for at least 3-5 years).
:( ), and I'm shure I'm not the only one to be sorry when it was killed.
I don't see why it wouldn't be MS Office compatibile, after all they own Lotus and all their technologies (remember Amipro, Wordpro, 1-2-3?)
On (un)relatedf note, I'd love to see "revamped" Wordpro, it was quite advanced for it's time (and bloated, too
No, 1 physical CPU is 1 CPU, HT or not. I installed Windows 2003 Server OEM 1-2CPU on Dual Xeon HT system with no problem.