unlike PCs, you can keep an old Mac running reasonably well for five or six years, if you choose the right model
The dual-1Gig Wind Tunnel I just bought replaced my five-year-old beige G3, which then retired the ten-year-old (!) Quadra 700 my long-suffering wife was using. She got a much greater performance improvement than I did;)
Neither of the old machines were stock, of course. Macs are quite upgradeable, despite know-nothing FUD to the contrary.
The beige G3 had been transformed into a reasonable OS X platform by the addition of 768MB of RAM, a G4/500 processor upgrade, and an ATA/66 disk controller. It's actually pretty snappy running Jaguar.
The Quadra was just barely hanging in there, with Apple's first-generation fifty-MHz PPC601 upgrade card inside, and could only run OS 8.1, but for my wife's needs--email, web browsing, light database work--it was fine.
Sigh. I think the forum software is hiccuping, because I only posted that once. I noticed that someone else's signed message was duplicated by a fictional AC.
I kept getting XML errors when restarting httpd after enabling WebDAV. Turns out it's a conflict between Marc Liyanage's otherwise excellent PHP4 module for OS X.
If you need to run both WebDAV and php, use Apple's php module.
Surely there can't be more than one or two "optimal" toilet-paper-dispensing solutions
Along those lines, I've wondered why urinal design hasn't converged on an optimal solution. It seems there's a new configuration every couple of years, yet the problems of back- and sidesplash have never been satisfactorily addressed.
When a doctor messes up, it is often a matter of life and death.
All the more reason they should be using a freekin database instead of relying on memory. Doctors don't rail against the Physician's Desk Reference, do they?
The article's key phrase is "The idea is to make accuracy reliable, not heroic." Most doctors have an absurdly elevated view of their profession, and of their own abilities. A friend of mine once said that doctors are just technicians who don't have a good understanding of the equipment they're supposed to maintain (the human body).
The most reasonable approach to spam that I've heard to date is for ISPs to charge, say, a penny apiece for emails above a (reasonably large) monthly allotment. Normal users who send fifty or a hundred emails a month won't suffer, but the cost will quickly become prohibitive for spammers.
There is no other keyboard out there with the sweet tactile response of a Model M.
You are so right. Back in the 80s our company president left a note on my desk that he was giving my XT to a new field salesman. I left a reply that said he was welcome to the box, but if he took my keyboard I would burn the building to the ground in retaliation. I think he knew I was kidding, but the keyboard stayed.
Whether someone is a terrorist or a freedom fighter is often a question of who you ask, not what they do, sadly.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. A terrorist, by definition, kills civilians in an attempt to destabilize the target society. A freedom fighter/soldier attacks military targets.
Slashdot Mirror
The site is thoroughly slashdotted, but the forums are hosted elsewhere:
1 160954&f=241603701
http://petswarehouse.infopop.cc/6/ubb.x?a=frm&s=2
Somebody add something intelligent, eh?
If you prefer, you could consider it 'unnecessary' surgery. There's probably a fancy word for that in the medical world.
"elective" surgery
Are there any good, technical websites for helping people switch Windows to Mac - and use both at the same time?
Dunno about helping switchers, but MacWindows has lots of stuff about interoperating.
unlike PCs, you can keep an old Mac running reasonably well for five or six years, if you choose the right model
The dual-1Gig Wind Tunnel I just bought replaced my five-year-old beige G3, which then retired the ten-year-old (!) Quadra 700 my long-suffering wife was using. She got a much greater performance improvement than I did ;)
Neither of the old machines were stock, of course. Macs are quite upgradeable, despite know-nothing FUD to the contrary.
The beige G3 had been transformed into a reasonable OS X platform by the addition of 768MB of RAM, a G4/500 processor upgrade, and an ATA/66 disk controller. It's actually pretty snappy running Jaguar.
The Quadra was just barely hanging in there, with Apple's first-generation fifty-MHz PPC601 upgrade card inside, and could only run OS 8.1, but for my wife's needs--email, web browsing, light database work--it was fine.
It's just copied from here!
Sigh. I think the forum software is hiccuping, because I only posted that once. I noticed that someone else's signed message was duplicated by a fictional AC.
I kept getting XML errors when restarting httpd after enabling WebDAV. Turns out it's a conflict between Marc Liyanage's otherwise excellent PHP4 module for OS X.
If you need to run both WebDAV and php, use Apple's php module.
That would be the double-secretparamagnetic technique.
Yes citizen, The Computer is your friend.
Trust The Computer.
Funniest game I ever played.
http://www.crd-sector.com/
All the machines announced today come with an ADC-VGA adapter at no charge.
No, they come with a DVI-to-VGA adapter.
Surely there can't be more than one or two "optimal" toilet-paper-dispensing solutions
Along those lines, I've wondered why urinal design hasn't converged on an optimal solution. It seems there's a new configuration every couple of years, yet the problems of back- and sidesplash have never been satisfactorily addressed.
Oh well, I guess that's what shoe polish is for.
it does heat up under the hard drive
I just bought a Traveler CoolPad and I'm really happy. The left side of the iBook stays much cooler, and the slight tilt is nice.
Thank you for this thought-provoking link. I'd love to see the slashdot hive mind discuss this.
Somebody mod this guy up.
When a doctor messes up, it is often a matter of life and death.
All the more reason they should be using a freekin database instead of relying on memory. Doctors don't rail against the Physician's Desk Reference, do they?
The article's key phrase is "The idea is to make accuracy reliable, not heroic." Most doctors have an absurdly elevated view of their profession, and of their own abilities. A friend of mine once said that doctors are just technicians who don't have a good understanding of the equipment they're supposed to maintain (the human body).
Who set these mythical "standards"?
Volunteers from academia and industry, just like the people who set up the "mythical standards" for the Internet.
The W3C has been irrelevant for several years now.
Then why are the browser manufacturers working so hard to make their products standards-compliant?
Make him pay...
The most reasonable approach to spam that I've heard to date is for ISPs to charge, say, a penny apiece for emails above a (reasonably large) monthly allotment. Normal users who send fifty or a hundred emails a month won't suffer, but the cost will quickly become prohibitive for spammers.
How do we lobby ISPs to implement this?
And here's the link: How to disappear
There is no other keyboard out there with the sweet tactile response of a Model M.
You are so right. Back in the 80s our company president left a note on my desk that he was giving my XT to a new field salesman. I left a reply that said he was welcome to the box, but if he took my keyboard I would burn the building to the ground in retaliation. I think he knew I was kidding, but the keyboard stayed.
I wish I could get one for a new model Mac.
Wired mag ran a story last year about a guy with a similar scam. P.T. Barnum rules!
Black Hawk Down is a political movie
Not according to Stephen Hunter at the Washington Post. It's a battle movie, not a war ("political") movie.
Does anybody remember the title/author of this story?
Bob Shaw, in the story "The Light of Other Days".
Wrong, wrong, wrong. A terrorist, by definition, kills civilians in an attempt to destabilize the target society. A freedom fighter/soldier attacks military targets.