I wish Apple would be more specific about what systems this is actually for.
The firmware update is for newer Powerbooks and Xserves that use the Matshita CW-8122 combo drive. It updates the firmware to version BA21. Previously used combo drives are not affected by the update.
Check out xlr8yourmac for further info and reports about the firmware update.
Yeah, of all the books I've read recently, Dune definitely seems the most dense. Despite that, I still sit down and read through the entire original series once a year or so. The new books are alright, but I don't think they compare to the originals in detail or originality. Still good reads, but for an engrossing book, or series of books, I would recommend the Dune universe.
Good thing for commercialization of space, or bad thing for world peace?
Well, why can't it be both?
An expansion of Europe's independence from American technology could lead to a more stable and powerful EU. For better or worse, this could give the US the rival superpower it's been looking for the last 10 or more years.
Then again, it might just bolster technological advancement and general global interdependence. In that case, more power to them. I believe we'll just have to see how the project progresses and how the powers that are react to it.
The graphics card, hard drive, and cache have been updated a few times since you bought yours. The Radeon 7500 with 32 MB video ram they put in it last fall has worked great for me, especially in speeding up OS X.
Also, there have been rumors of a massive remake of the iBook line later in the year, so a huge upgrade to the line now would only slow the coming of that.
To my knowledge, the PPC distros of Linux cannot boot off of a firewire or usb drive. I know this was the case for a while, but Yellow Dog Linux 3 or Mandrake 9.1 may have fixed this.
Anyway, I use YDL on most of my boxes, its easily configured and has support for my hardware. It's basically RedHat 8 or 9 for the PPC architecture, so if you like RH, there you go. And there's always plenty of people willing to help in their IRC channel, which can be a big help.
I suggest checking out PenguinPPC.org for more info on the distributions.
Couldn't someone use a router to simply represent another MAC address. I know my DLink has the option to clone the MAC of a computer administering it, and that way I can use more than one computer on a single account. It's not the most elegant or clever way to do it, but it works.
What's to stop someone from web administering their router from some random person's computer while that person isn't looking and cloning the unsuspecting student's MAC address onto the router? And from another standpoint, that would allow easy movement from account to account to use up the extra bandwidth allowed each month.
A lot of students already do that if they know of a source on campus. P2P speeds are good, but on campus servers are almost guaranteed to transfer files at over 400kByte/sec. It really doesn't make sense to look outside for files with those kinds of speeds here.
I agree with you completely, but as a small correction, ResNet internet access costs a little over $400 per academic year, as shown here. More general information about computing services here at Cornell can be found here.
Hehe. Well I probably should have picked up on it, but my brain doesn't function this soon after waking up.
On a more serious note though, I've seen people try to use their own stupidity for gain, over and over again. I guess the most cliché example I can think of is the woman who sued Starbucks because they made her coffee too hot, and I'm sure people try to cheat Apple all the time.
As I remember, the APP does NOT cover cases of "abuse". I remember a discussion on dealmac about someone stepping on her powerbook (and cracking the screen) and not being reimbursed by Apple. I would guess the same would happen here.
Yeah, so iMovie doesn't recognize my analog-digital firewire bridge with any kind of reliability. It didn't before, and it might not for some time.
In the mean time, Final Cut Express does as much for me as Final Cut Pro, is within my price range, and supports my hardware. iMovie is nice, but it's still a free (as in beer) product coming from a commercial company.
Those buying from Apple because of the good things they've heard about the video editing should really consider shelling out some money for a better video editor. I've been a mac user for 15 or so years, and I know they're often pricey. Paying a little more to get more functionality than iMovie provides should make sense to those who want a decent looking video.
And to those who want a more refined iMovie, go ask for a refund. Really.
The new Powerbooks that have the new Firewire (Firewire800, if you will) also have a standard Firewire port. Both original and Firewire800 devices can be plugged in at once, but as you posted, there is also an adapter to convert the newer port to original Firewire.
Surprisingly, I haven't seen much said about the possibility of much faster Firewire RAIDs. Using the adapter to have the Firewire800 port act as a second Firewire bus would get some great speeds.
BareFeats does a lot of work testing Firewire RAID setups. There should be some tests there once the new Powerbooks are more readily available.
So will OmniWeb's developers begin working with Safari code now, or wait until Apple refines it? Safari is still very much a beta browser and its compatibility, one of the features Omni seems to value, needs a lot of work. As mentioned in the article, some sites crash it outright.
I would think Omni would wait until a more stable (non-beta) release is produced before changing its own browser's direction.
Also, what engine is OmniWeb based on now? I used to use it, and it kept up with Explorer moderately well. Safari and Chimera would blow it away, of course.
I've heard of people being able to set internal alarm clocks, in a manner of speaking. Could these internal timekeepers be manipulated so that we sense them? What I'm trying to get at is, could these internal clocks be more like internal wristwatches?
There's so many clocks in my room that it seems there should be some interest in being able to incorporate a timepiece into a human body. Maybe the "flipping over" of this protein can be sensed, and that sense adjusted to, with a little help from biotech.
Well, I can hope anyway. I'm sick of dishing out cash for watches.:)
I've used VNC server/client combinations to update and check on remote *nix systems for a little while now. Copies for many different operating systems, including Windows 98, can be checked here. It's simple, but it gets the job done. I like it because I can administer from wherever I need to.
Timbuktu has similar features, but its Windows compatibility is less extensive and its not free (in either way). It does have a more extensive feature set though, so I reccommend at least giving it a look if you look at VNC.
The main issue I've found with these is their use of bandwidth. Even then, quality can be reduced and compression can be increased for responsiveness.
Good luck.
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Wow, I never thought about what finger I use for spaces.
I had to open up terminal and type a sentence just to figure it out.
I wish Apple would be more specific about what systems this is actually for.
The firmware update is for newer Powerbooks and Xserves that use the Matshita CW-8122 combo drive. It updates the firmware to version BA21. Previously used combo drives are not affected by the update.
Check out xlr8yourmac for further info and reports about the firmware update.
Yeah, of all the books I've read recently, Dune definitely seems the most dense. Despite that, I still sit down and read through the entire original series once a year or so. The new books are alright, but I don't think they compare to the originals in detail or originality. Still good reads, but for an engrossing book, or series of books, I would recommend the Dune universe.
Good call on the quick Acme identification.
I seem to remember something about portable holes in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" too, but it's been so long since I last saw it.
Good thing for commercialization of space, or bad thing for world peace?
Well, why can't it be both?
An expansion of Europe's independence from American technology could lead to a more stable and powerful EU. For better or worse, this could give the US the rival superpower it's been looking for the last 10 or more years.
Then again, it might just bolster technological advancement and general global interdependence. In that case, more power to them. I believe we'll just have to see how the project progresses and how the powers that are react to it.
the disappearance of a large Internet site.
Yeah, I wonder what could ever bring down a large Internet site?
Ahem.
The graphics card, hard drive, and cache have been updated a few times since you bought yours. The Radeon 7500 with 32 MB video ram they put in it last fall has worked great for me, especially in speeding up OS X.
Also, there have been rumors of a massive remake of the iBook line later in the year, so a huge upgrade to the line now would only slow the coming of that.
To my knowledge, the PPC distros of Linux cannot boot off of a firewire or usb drive. I know this was the case for a while, but Yellow Dog Linux 3 or Mandrake 9.1 may have fixed this.
Anyway, I use YDL on most of my boxes, its easily configured and has support for my hardware. It's basically RedHat 8 or 9 for the PPC architecture, so if you like RH, there you go. And there's always plenty of people willing to help in their IRC channel, which can be a big help.
I suggest checking out PenguinPPC.org for more info on the distributions.
Sure, that would be great to have. Macromedia has been giving PPC Linux the cold shoulder lately, and I'm happy to be on the petition.
By the way, wouldn't this be better suited to a News section rather than Ask Slashdot?
Couldn't someone use a router to simply represent another MAC address. I know my DLink has the option to clone the MAC of a computer administering it, and that way I can use more than one computer on a single account. It's not the most elegant or clever way to do it, but it works.
What's to stop someone from web administering their router from some random person's computer while that person isn't looking and cloning the unsuspecting student's MAC address onto the router? And from another standpoint, that would allow easy movement from account to account to use up the extra bandwidth allowed each month.
A lot of students already do that if they know of a source on campus. P2P speeds are good, but on campus servers are almost guaranteed to transfer files at over 400kByte/sec. It really doesn't make sense to look outside for files with those kinds of speeds here.
I agree with you completely, but as a small correction, ResNet internet access costs a little over $400 per academic year, as shown here. More general information about computing services here at Cornell can be found here.
Well I'm too sleepy to think much beyond the fact that Phillips probably won't like this.
How long before version 2 units that prevent this, or some other propietary work that forces someone to do some more reverse engineering?
Hehe. Well I probably should have picked up on it, but my brain doesn't function this soon after waking up.
On a more serious note though, I've seen people try to use their own stupidity for gain, over and over again. I guess the most cliché example I can think of is the woman who sued Starbucks because they made her coffee too hot, and I'm sure people try to cheat Apple all the time.
As I remember, the APP does NOT cover cases of "abuse". I remember a discussion on dealmac about someone stepping on her powerbook (and cracking the screen) and not being reimbursed by Apple. I would guess the same would happen here.
OK, so let's halt technological development because we like what we're working with.
The difference between a mature technology and an obsolete technology is very fine.
Yeah, so iMovie doesn't recognize my analog-digital firewire bridge with any kind of reliability. It didn't before, and it might not for some time.
In the mean time, Final Cut Express does as much for me as Final Cut Pro, is within my price range, and supports my hardware. iMovie is nice, but it's still a free (as in beer) product coming from a commercial company.
Those buying from Apple because of the good things they've heard about the video editing should really consider shelling out some money for a better video editor. I've been a mac user for 15 or so years, and I know they're often pricey. Paying a little more to get more functionality than iMovie provides should make sense to those who want a decent looking video.
And to those who want a more refined iMovie, go ask for a refund. Really.
There's an updated version out that might fix some of the more "dangerous" bugs in Safari. Check VersionTracker or Apple to download.
The new Powerbooks that have the new Firewire (Firewire800, if you will) also have a standard Firewire port. Both original and Firewire800 devices can be plugged in at once, but as you posted, there is also an adapter to convert the newer port to original Firewire.
Surprisingly, I haven't seen much said about the possibility of much faster Firewire RAIDs. Using the adapter to have the Firewire800 port act as a second Firewire bus would get some great speeds.
BareFeats does a lot of work testing Firewire RAID setups. There should be some tests there once the new Powerbooks are more readily available.
So will OmniWeb's developers begin working with Safari code now, or wait until Apple refines it? Safari is still very much a beta browser and its compatibility, one of the features Omni seems to value, needs a lot of work. As mentioned in the article, some sites crash it outright.
I would think Omni would wait until a more stable (non-beta) release is produced before changing its own browser's direction.
Also, what engine is OmniWeb based on now? I used to use it, and it kept up with Explorer moderately well. Safari and Chimera would blow it away, of course.
I've heard of people being able to set internal alarm clocks, in a manner of speaking. Could these internal timekeepers be manipulated so that we sense them? What I'm trying to get at is, could these internal clocks be more like internal wristwatches?
:)
There's so many clocks in my room that it seems there should be some interest in being able to incorporate a timepiece into a human body. Maybe the "flipping over" of this protein can be sensed, and that sense adjusted to, with a little help from biotech.
Well, I can hope anyway. I'm sick of dishing out cash for watches.
I've used VNC server/client combinations to update and check on remote *nix systems for a little while now. Copies for many different operating systems, including Windows 98, can be checked here. It's simple, but it gets the job done. I like it because I can administer from wherever I need to.
Timbuktu has similar features, but its Windows compatibility is less extensive and its not free (in either way). It does have a more extensive feature set though, so I reccommend at least giving it a look if you look at VNC.
The main issue I've found with these is their use of bandwidth. Even then, quality can be reduced and compression can be increased for responsiveness. Good luck.