Apple's UI scales DOWN very badly. It's highly optimized for high-resolution screens. Just use OS X at 1024x768 and then try it at 1600x1200. Screen Real Estate is problematic at the lower resolutions. The main reason that Apple doesn't ship 1920x1200 15.2" Laptops is pixel density is higher than necessary for the real estate. The iBook already has problems with cramming too many pixels into a fixed amount of screen.
As proved by Baen as well. Get 4-6 new books, in open formats (RTF, HTML and some Palm format), no DRM, $15. New releases every month, and they're released before the Dead Tree. Check out the Free Library for some freebies to get you hooked.
Baen made a go of eBooks, by selling them cheap, in open formats.
Nice to see that NFS has addressed the Infamous 'Sun Network Lockup' issue, where networks with a lot of cross-mounted filesystems would die in a cascade of lockups if a fileserver died.
Don't sweat it. They think they own XFS too (It's their bitch about SGI and Linux). And since they think they own Linux, they're effectively claiming EXT2/3 too.
Haven't heard anything form them about owning ReiserFS, but that's just a matter of time.
Oh, yeah. NFS doesn't suck, it's just got some issues that Samba doesn't have (And vice-versa). Exporting filesystems to unix clients is one of the advantages of NFS.
Exporting private shares, and common work directories is handled better by Samba though.
It may have it's issues, but it's far more robust than NFS, which has major issues with access control, locking and machine availability (Although I understand NFSv4 addresses the file locking issues). SMB/CIFS which was intended for an unreliable of DOS machines, handles machine availability much better, and also handles user-level authentication and ACL's. NFS uses machine-level authentication and lacks robust ACL support.
NFS does have it's uses for providing filesystems to Diskless workstations, but that's it.
Now I understand there are some very nice Network File Systems with support in Linux, that far exceed SMB in features and performance, but I haven't played with them.
And the solution to poor network performance with SMB enabled is to set up one of the Samba boxes as a WINS server, and use WINS instead of broadcast name resolution.
A dissident is somebody with a differing, unpopular political belief.
Vaclav Havel was a dissident. Karl Marx was a dissident.
A terrorist is a person who commits acts intending to terrorise a population into submitting to said terrorists agenda (Note that this is distinctly seperate from war, which is a violent dispute between governments). Osama bin Laden is a Terrorist. Yasser Arafat is a Terrorist, Che Guevara was a Terrorist.
Actually it will boot on the current G4's and all the iMac/iBooks. Just not on the latest Powerbooks, the G5's or the G4's sold this spring as non-OS 9.
Apple rolled back the motherboard revision when the G5's were announced, to keep a current OS 9 system available.
First off, they're up in Alaska, where the laws are kinda lax aout that sort of thing.
Second off, Doc specializes in wierd and wonderful stuff like this. I'm sure he gave it a once over before being anywhere near it when it went off. Doc Nickel is a pretty bright guy, and works around high-pressure devices all the time (He's one of the top airsmiths in Paintball, and somewhat legendary for his hacks).
Scroll Wheel. Current gen optical mice (Not invented by them, but they were the first major manufacturer) 4-axis joysticks. Console with a usable controller for non-tiny people (Xbox + Controller S).
Actually the OS9 restriction is at the OS Level. Apple simply didn't write a new System Enabler for the latest revision of their core chipsets. without that, OS 9 can't boot on the new Hardware.
Hmm, wasn't aware Tablet could join domains. That sucks less then.
And how much more is the Centrino Tablet than a stock Centrino box? Last I checker, you were payeing a 100% cost penalty for performance, minimum, with tablets. Not counting the lack of Cardbus and optical drives common to most tablets.
1. I stand corrected. I kew they were close, but didn't recall the ownership. 2. So what? Blender doesn't come close. And Maya's the same price on Linux and Irix. Not like the pricing for Shake. 3. How much can you build a 32-way Itanium 2 for? Or can you? SGI doesn't build boxes of specs close to x86 clones.
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Closer to 25.
That shit started with the Apple III.
Apple's UI scales DOWN very badly. It's highly optimized for high-resolution screens. Just use OS X at 1024x768 and then try it at 1600x1200. Screen Real Estate is problematic at the lower resolutions. The main reason that Apple doesn't ship 1920x1200 15.2" Laptops is pixel density is higher than necessary for the real estate. The iBook already has problems with cramming too many pixels into a fixed amount of screen.
Reference to the Urban Legend popularized in 'Bowling for Columbine' that the Columbine Killers went bowling with their class prior to their crime.
In actual fact they skipped the class.
As proved by Baen as well. Get 4-6 new books, in open formats (RTF, HTML and some Palm format), no DRM, $15. New releases every month, and they're released before the Dead Tree. Check out the Free Library for some freebies to get you hooked. Baen made a go of eBooks, by selling them cheap, in open formats.
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I can call you a damnyankie all I want. Since damnyankee is the insult.
Did you look at the system they tested on?
It's a low-end P-II running a 6.4GB UDMA33 Drive. Those are damned good numbers for it.
Interesting.
Nice to see that NFS has addressed the Infamous 'Sun Network Lockup' issue, where networks with a lot of cross-mounted filesystems would die in a cascade of lockups if a fileserver died.
SMB of course addresses that problem inherently.
Don't sweat it. They think they own XFS too (It's their bitch about SGI and Linux). And since they think they own Linux, they're effectively claiming EXT2/3 too.
Haven't heard anything form them about owning ReiserFS, but that's just a matter of time.
Never heard of Read-only filesystems?
Mount static filesystems read-only, and make them EXT2 for performance. Use a journalling FS for dynamic filesystems. Reap the benefits of both.
Oh, yeah. NFS doesn't suck, it's just got some issues that Samba doesn't have (And vice-versa). Exporting filesystems to unix clients is one of the advantages of NFS.
Exporting private shares, and common work directories is handled better by Samba though.
Which is why Samba rocks.
It may have it's issues, but it's far more robust than NFS, which has major issues with access control, locking and machine availability (Although I understand NFSv4 addresses the file locking issues). SMB/CIFS which was intended for an unreliable of DOS machines, handles machine availability much better, and also handles user-level authentication and ACL's. NFS uses machine-level authentication and lacks robust ACL support.
NFS does have it's uses for providing filesystems to Diskless workstations, but that's it.
Now I understand there are some very nice Network File Systems with support in Linux, that far exceed SMB in features and performance, but I haven't played with them.
And the solution to poor network performance with SMB enabled is to set up one of the Samba boxes as a WINS server, and use WINS instead of broadcast name resolution.
But my Beige G3 runs Jaguar just fine. There is most certainly OS X support for Beige G3's.
6 year old Macs are no longer supported under OS X. Big deal.
I was hoping to get one more release out of it though. Ah well, time to shop for a G4.
To quote Lenin:
Terrorists create terror.
A dissident is somebody with a differing, unpopular political belief.
Vaclav Havel was a dissident. Karl Marx was a dissident.
A terrorist is a person who commits acts intending to terrorise a population into submitting to said terrorists agenda (Note that this is distinctly seperate from war, which is a violent dispute between governments). Osama bin Laden is a Terrorist. Yasser Arafat is a Terrorist, Che Guevara was a Terrorist.
This wasn't one of Doc's toys. The guy who built it just goes to the same gun range as Doc.
Paint Mortars are old hat. Pretty much always done as a 'Chicken-Cannon' type job though
Actually it will boot on the current G4's and all the iMac/iBooks. Just not on the latest Powerbooks, the G5's or the G4's sold this spring as non-OS 9.
Apple rolled back the motherboard revision when the G5's were announced, to keep a current OS 9 system available.
First off, they're up in Alaska, where the laws are kinda lax aout that sort of thing.
Second off, Doc specializes in wierd and wonderful stuff like this. I'm sure he gave it a once over before being anywhere near it when it went off. Doc Nickel is a pretty bright guy, and works around high-pressure devices all the time (He's one of the top airsmiths in Paintball, and somewhat legendary for his hacks).
You want terror? Look at Doc Nickel's Car.
FYI: That's Doc's main website that the mortar is fixed on.
Scroll Wheel.
Current gen optical mice (Not invented by them, but they were the first major manufacturer)
4-axis joysticks.
Console with a usable controller for non-tiny people (Xbox + Controller S).
Actually the OS9 restriction is at the OS Level. Apple simply didn't write a new System Enabler for the latest revision of their core chipsets. without that, OS 9 can't boot on the new Hardware.
This was done to forcibly EOL OS 9.2.2
It's fine on Debian or Slack.
It's a frikkin mess of crap on RH or MDK. The scripts are not human readable.
He wants to replace that with something more powerful, and easier to maintain than the rats nest that is SysV init on RH & co.
Hmm, wasn't aware Tablet could join domains. That sucks less then.
And how much more is the Centrino Tablet than a stock Centrino box? Last I checker, you were payeing a 100% cost penalty for performance, minimum, with tablets. Not counting the lack of Cardbus and optical drives common to most tablets.
Considering the Zaurus is competition to these devices, and does offer these utilities, it's relevant.
Oh, and there are console and SSH apps for Palm OS. They're quite popular for Sysadmin types. Who are a huge target market for these babies.
And the 911 offers full-time AWD instead of on-the-fly 4WD.
2 problems with the Tablets.
1. They're shit slow. The top-end ones run P-III Mobile 1GHz CPU's. No CD-ROM, no expandability.
2. They run Windows XP Tablet Edition (Which is a variant of Home).
Get a thin laptop with a Centrino or P4-M CPU instead and see some real performance and portability. Oh, and they're way cheaper than the Tablets
Or get a cheap beast (Like my base-model Thinkpad G40) for the price of a high-end PDA.
1. I stand corrected. I kew they were close, but didn't recall the ownership.
2. So what? Blender doesn't come close. And Maya's the same price on Linux and Irix. Not like the pricing for Shake.
3. How much can you build a 32-way Itanium 2 for? Or can you? SGI doesn't build boxes of specs close to x86 clones.