I installed OSX on my machine... which is not an Apple branded Macintosh. It is a CoreComputing (no longer in business, not even a website anymore) machine with a GigaDesigns G4 Processor and after-market ATI RADEON 9500.
I think the only pieces of Apple hardware in the standard ATX case are the PSU and the logic board. Oh well.
When I get the $ together to get a G5, I'll turn this machine into a server, I guess. mmmm gentoo.
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you know, cx is a real tld. There's no reason to avoid a link only because it's a.cx...
you say you want Illustrator and Photoshop to be the same... well, how do you want that? Do you want Illustrator to have photoediting capabilities or do you want Photoshop to have better Vector stuff?
The latter is going to become true, I'm sure, but the former... I dunno. Illustrator is good at what it does, and there really isn't room to turn it into Photoshop.
Overall, convergence kinda sucks with adobe products. Everything is behaving like every other Adobe product. Adobe is turning the Creative Suite into something like M$ Office. Next thing you know, Adobe will come out with an OS and integrate the apps into it.
Actually, that wouldn't be such a bad idea. and Adobe OS... especially since some jobs don't require anything but adobe products. Just update ATM on the mac and yer set. InDesign even replaced quark... the only non-adobe powerhouse graphics software.
Well, my point was that the default installation procedure involves building your kernel from scratch.
Another thing I missed in my OP is Gentoo's USE flags. Where you can have your programs built with or without specific components (yeah, I want ldap support, no, I'd rather not use gif, but yeah, use png and jpg and don't build anything for X).
I hadn't heard about that, but that's a feature I've been waiting for for a while. Like placing images in illustrator...
I believe that's how LivePicture worked, too.
My beef with photoshop since version 5 came out was that it was acting more and more like illustrator and illustrator was acting more and more like photoshop, but I guess the convergence is necessary. There's a certain featureset you need to do certain work and it's really pointless not to include some of that across programs.
Yeah, illustrator 10 is very crashy in OSX and XP. I haven't used CS enough (I only use it at home for freelance and that's been kinda slow lately) to be able to tell if it's more stable than 10 or not...
I went to a Pro Photoshop conference a couple months back where Burt Monroy had a talk. He's an alpha tester for Adobe and people were asking about whether adobe was working on certain features.
One feature he mentioned that was a big one for the next version of photoshop, and something they were having a lot of trouble with, was Layer Filters. Much like the Adjustment Layer, you can apply a filter on a layer and turn the effects of the filter on and off. It's more than the LayerEffects because those are limited to drop shadows and glows and the like, where LayerFilters let you apply a blur or noise or even KPT and third-party filters.
I'm psyched about that. although, I feel that Photoshop is getting quite bloated. My favourite version of photoshop is still 5.5. Too bad it doesn't work in OSX. CS does have some nice features, though...
IllustratorCS is getting a bit bloated lately, too. Runs like crap on lower-end machines. Illustrator used to be the one adobe product that ran well even on older hardware (until version 9 with those Raster Effects).
Sure, everything's handled by automated scripts, but there's still a lot of learning that's going on. You manually set a lot of information that's not there by default (hostname, dnsdomainname, etc) and manually set your internet settings in config files. I know in some X-based distros, there's GUI wizards for all that stuff.
Also, installing gentoo gives you a feel for all the things in the kernel. You can see "holy crap, I can compile in support for this Wacom tablet?!" where as if you install RedHat or whatever, you may not be able to even get the thing working....not that I've ever even tried to get my wacom tablet working in linux... just that I noticed there's support for it in the kernel...
also, the thing I like most about Gentoo isn't that everything's compiled for my machine specifically, even though that is nice, but rather the fact that a base Gentoo install is barebones. There's nothing. No ftp command, no hostx. Just the essentials. If I'm putting together a machine that's just going to be an FTP/rsync server, why do I need all that other crap that comes in a standard install?
I've never used Debian. Just Mandrake, Gentoo, Yellowdog, LinuxPPC, and RedHat, and yeah, I know you can tell it to do a minimal install, but Gentoo's installation handbook is taylored to people installing a minimal base system and just gets them started.
Gentoo's learning experience is 'learning by immersion.' Much like moving to Japan to learn japanese, you learn simply by being up to yer neck in the whole thing.
Me and 3 of my friends bought PSPs in January from various websites (wanpaku and liksang) imported from Japan and none of them had dead pixels. Also, I know 5 people who've picked them up since they came out in the US and only 2 of them have dead pixels. One guy's PSP has one dead pixel, but it's near the border of the LCD (he just called me this morning to tell me he got one). The other guy is the one that I spoke about in the earlier post.
I just found my gamegear a couple weeks ago. Amazingly it still worked, but what surprised me more was that there was a fan inside it that I heard spin up.
In this day and age, handheld devices are always silently cooled (no fans).
My friend got his PSP the day it came out (reserved one at GameStop). When he turned it on, he noticed he has 2 dead pixels, but since he bought the insurance on it, he's gonna return it for another as soon as they restock them.
In this area (Northern NJ), all the stores pretty much are sold out. They're quite the hot item. In NY, they've been nearly impossible to find, but everyone seems to have plenty of games in stock.
The thing that surprises me is that, even though Sony says the PSP is region-free, the games have a region code on them. I got my PSP in january (ordered from japan) and I'm able to play US games without any issues, but I can't play that SpiderMan2 movie that came with my friend's PSP. It's quite depressing.
I don't think the ipod actually completely fills the RAM cache. I believe it only caches the current song.
I say this because I get hella less battery life when I'm skipping through songs than when I just let it play. Also, I noticed that I get a lot less battery life when I listen to shorter songs as opposed to longer songs.
I listen to a couple bands (Pig Destroyer, Agorophobic Nosebleed, etc) that release CDs with 30 or so tracks that are all 15-45 seconds long. When I put their albums on shuffle, I can feel the harddive activity through the casing at each song switch, and sometimes there's a pause between the tracks; I guess when it's seeking to the next track.
With that said, I'm surprised that the ipod doesn't cache the entire song database into RAM. When you just browse around the song, artist, or album lists, you can feel the harddrive spinning up and reading and such.
yeah, I was surprised to see no TRS-80s. That was the machine I learned BASIC on, and, when I booted up my model100 a couple years ago, I was surprised to see that it was using Microsoft's BASIC. I didn't realize they were around that long.
A couple years back, I remember reading, here on/., about a group who ported Apache to the TRS-80 and were actually hosting their website off of it. The main advantage of running a site off a TRS-80 is that it is almost instant-on, and, since it runs off AA batteries, if there's a power-failure, you've got many hours of battery backup that kicks right in.
When I was a wee lad, my first computer was that Luggable Compaq. We had two of them in the house; mine was the slower one and I remember playing Prince of Persia, Police Quest and Space Quest in slow-mo due to the slowness of the machine.
It was great having that machine, though, because after getting a real desktop machine (a 486), I missed being able to take the machine off my desk and stowing it away in the closet when I needed room to do non-computer work.
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"...like on a commuter train in Japan."
um... what's wrong with commuter trains in the US? I, like thousands of americans, take the train to work daily, and ride subways quite often. When I'm by myself, I enjoy my PSP or my DS.
let's not forget the countless people who take busses, too. Metropolitan areas are where iPods have extreme market saturation. Walking around NYC, you see more people with white earbuds than you see talking on cell phones. These are the areas where portable video will take off.
Right when I got my PSP, I chucked a couple videos on it (namely 2 episodes of Naruto and a couple episodes of bangbros pr0n) and I take a gander at the videos when I'm bored.
It's also cool to show off that you can have pr0n in such a small device.
I'd be happier if my computer had USB2, though. it takes FOREVER to transfer the data to the memorystick. especially when transfering a 300mb vid. (I've got a 512mb card)
regarding your steve jobs statement: I think it would be a good idea for apple to get into the portable video market, but it would have to be done right. Do we have the technology to make this device at a resonable cost today? I don't think so. But an ipod-sized device with a high-def, touch screen LCD that takes up the entire front panel to display the GUI that could play widescreen video as well as emulate the ipod's interface... that'd be the greatest thing in history. especially with something like an 80gb drive. I'd pay 600$ for one of them.
yeah, that's exactly what i was thinking, too. I mean, I've got 3 computers at home that are always on/always online.
My desktop machine checks for email once a minute and is constantly on AIM. If I'm not home, I get a lot of IMs that I autorespond to, and if I'm home, I may be actively engaged in a conversation and/or surfing the web, sending email, etc.
Frequently, when I pull my powerbook out and open it up, it auto-joins the first available, unsecured network. When I'm in the city, it almost always finds one, but when I'm at a friend's house it'll sometimes jump onto their neighbor's or theirs.
I'd wager to say that a pretty significant portion of internet traffic is actually just pings and brief connections (the AIM UDP "hey, you still connected?" packet, POP3/IMAP email checks, idle torrent seeding "yeah, I'm here and ready to seed" packets, and other general "check up" stuffs).
I guess we really are getting to the point where every toaster, every piece of chalk, and even yer damned carkeys will be internet enabled for easy stats and locating of said items.
I wonder when we'll have IPv8. Although a professor I once had said that with ipv6, there'd be enough IPs for everything that everybody in the world owned and still have plenty left over for the future.
My only question is from reading another article on Slash is if the internet protocol tcp/ip is right for high speed video since the internet architecture was never intended for it.
Typically, streaming audio/video is done with UDP rather than TCP.
Also, Internet2 was specifically designed for large transfers like that.
I'd say that the japanese, and even hongkong (and that entire region) are experiencing such growth due to their proliferation of internet-enabled devices. When I was in japan, our tourguide was showing off on her phone how she can check CNN news and the weather and all sorts of cool things. Of course, I've seen all that stuff before, as current phones have that ability, but the previous year, she said that all the Americans were surprised to see that in a cell phone. Walking around NYC in recent weeks, I've noticed more and more and more people using their SideKicks, so that's more usage right there; that's a full-blown web browser.
I'd also say that most growth nowadays, in any market, is due to more widely available internet access. It seems that today, most businesses have broadband and have all of their computers online, which allows for employee surfing during slow time/breaks. Open, unsecured, and fee-based wireless access is available almost everywhere you go, and with more people having handheld and laptop devices, and all these portable gaming platforms with access, the numbers are only going to increase.
Even though usage seems to be leveling off in the US, I say in the next year, it's gonna spike again. Especially since there's so many regions where broadband isn't available and with cable modem/DSL trying to hit those markets.
I bought a domain name and set it up in ZoneEdit with mail forwarding (*@somedomain.com forwards to you). Then, for instance, you want to sign up for free ipods, you sign up with the email freeipod@somedomain.com.
When you get your free ipod, you just set up an email alias for freeipod@somedomain.com to point to webmaster@freeipods.com, or something similar, and yer done.
I could never afford enough harddrive space for all my music if it was encoded lossless.
I have it all mp3-encoded at 192 (or 256kbps for a few select artists) and it takes up just a hair over 100gb. I'd hate to see how much space it would take up if it was in FLAC or some other lossless format, of even AIFF for that matter.
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either that or Mommy's gone lesbian.
Going from the Baby Bootstrap to the Boot-Strapon.
"Why was he learning C? Because BeOS was coming back..."
;)
BeOS's API is actually C++.
Darwin must be rolling in his grave.
I installed OSX on my machine... which is not an Apple branded Macintosh. It is a CoreComputing (no longer in business, not even a website anymore) machine with a GigaDesigns G4 Processor and after-market ATI RADEON 9500.
I think the only pieces of Apple hardware in the standard ATX case are the PSU and the logic board. Oh well.
When I get the $ together to get a G5, I'll turn this machine into a server, I guess. mmmm gentoo.
you know, cx is a real tld. There's no reason to avoid a link only because it's a .cx...
hell, I own spike.cx. sheesh.
you say you want Illustrator and Photoshop to be the same... well, how do you want that? Do you want Illustrator to have photoediting capabilities or do you want Photoshop to have better Vector stuff?
The latter is going to become true, I'm sure, but the former... I dunno. Illustrator is good at what it does, and there really isn't room to turn it into Photoshop.
Overall, convergence kinda sucks with adobe products. Everything is behaving like every other Adobe product. Adobe is turning the Creative Suite into something like M$ Office. Next thing you know, Adobe will come out with an OS and integrate the apps into it.
Actually, that wouldn't be such a bad idea. and Adobe OS... especially since some jobs don't require anything but adobe products. Just update ATM on the mac and yer set. InDesign even replaced quark... the only non-adobe powerhouse graphics software.
Well, my point was that the default installation procedure involves building your kernel from scratch.
Another thing I missed in my OP is Gentoo's USE flags. Where you can have your programs built with or without specific components (yeah, I want ldap support, no, I'd rather not use gif, but yeah, use png and jpg and don't build anything for X).
I hadn't heard about that, but that's a feature I've been waiting for for a while. Like placing images in illustrator...
I believe that's how LivePicture worked, too.
My beef with photoshop since version 5 came out was that it was acting more and more like illustrator and illustrator was acting more and more like photoshop, but I guess the convergence is necessary. There's a certain featureset you need to do certain work and it's really pointless not to include some of that across programs.
Yeah, illustrator 10 is very crashy in OSX and XP. I haven't used CS enough (I only use it at home for freelance and that's been kinda slow lately) to be able to tell if it's more stable than 10 or not...
but god damn. Adobe is fucking up.
I went to a Pro Photoshop conference a couple months back where Burt Monroy had a talk. He's an alpha tester for Adobe and people were asking about whether adobe was working on certain features.
One feature he mentioned that was a big one for the next version of photoshop, and something they were having a lot of trouble with, was Layer Filters. Much like the Adjustment Layer, you can apply a filter on a layer and turn the effects of the filter on and off. It's more than the LayerEffects because those are limited to drop shadows and glows and the like, where LayerFilters let you apply a blur or noise or even KPT and third-party filters.
I'm psyched about that. although, I feel that Photoshop is getting quite bloated. My favourite version of photoshop is still 5.5. Too bad it doesn't work in OSX. CS does have some nice features, though...
IllustratorCS is getting a bit bloated lately, too. Runs like crap on lower-end machines. Illustrator used to be the one adobe product that ran well even on older hardware (until version 9 with those Raster Effects).
it's kinda closer to learning at your own pace.
...not that I've ever even tried to get my wacom tablet working in linux... just that I noticed there's support for it in the kernel...
Sure, everything's handled by automated scripts, but there's still a lot of learning that's going on. You manually set a lot of information that's not there by default (hostname, dnsdomainname, etc) and manually set your internet settings in config files. I know in some X-based distros, there's GUI wizards for all that stuff.
Also, installing gentoo gives you a feel for all the things in the kernel. You can see "holy crap, I can compile in support for this Wacom tablet?!" where as if you install RedHat or whatever, you may not be able to even get the thing working.
also, the thing I like most about Gentoo isn't that everything's compiled for my machine specifically, even though that is nice, but rather the fact that a base Gentoo install is barebones. There's nothing. No ftp command, no hostx. Just the essentials. If I'm putting together a machine that's just going to be an FTP/rsync server, why do I need all that other crap that comes in a standard install?
I've never used Debian. Just Mandrake, Gentoo, Yellowdog, LinuxPPC, and RedHat, and yeah, I know you can tell it to do a minimal install, but Gentoo's installation handbook is taylored to people installing a minimal base system and just gets them started.
Gentoo's learning experience is 'learning by immersion.' Much like moving to Japan to learn japanese, you learn simply by being up to yer neck in the whole thing.
I did. didn't fix it.
Anyway, there were like 4 different programs in the end that were crashing out.
Wow, that's a serious problem with dead pixels.
Me and 3 of my friends bought PSPs in January from various websites (wanpaku and liksang) imported from Japan and none of them had dead pixels. Also, I know 5 people who've picked them up since they came out in the US and only 2 of them have dead pixels. One guy's PSP has one dead pixel, but it's near the border of the LCD (he just called me this morning to tell me he got one). The other guy is the one that I spoke about in the earlier post.
I just found my gamegear a couple weeks ago. Amazingly it still worked, but what surprised me more was that there was a fan inside it that I heard spin up.
In this day and age, handheld devices are always silently cooled (no fans).
My friend got his PSP the day it came out (reserved one at GameStop). When he turned it on, he noticed he has 2 dead pixels, but since he bought the insurance on it, he's gonna return it for another as soon as they restock them.
In this area (Northern NJ), all the stores pretty much are sold out. They're quite the hot item. In NY, they've been nearly impossible to find, but everyone seems to have plenty of games in stock.
The thing that surprises me is that, even though Sony says the PSP is region-free, the games have a region code on them. I got my PSP in january (ordered from japan) and I'm able to play US games without any issues, but I can't play that SpiderMan2 movie that came with my friend's PSP. It's quite depressing.
I don't think the ipod actually completely fills the RAM cache. I believe it only caches the current song.
I say this because I get hella less battery life when I'm skipping through songs than when I just let it play. Also, I noticed that I get a lot less battery life when I listen to shorter songs as opposed to longer songs.
I listen to a couple bands (Pig Destroyer, Agorophobic Nosebleed, etc) that release CDs with 30 or so tracks that are all 15-45 seconds long. When I put their albums on shuffle, I can feel the harddive activity through the casing at each song switch, and sometimes there's a pause between the tracks; I guess when it's seeking to the next track.
With that said, I'm surprised that the ipod doesn't cache the entire song database into RAM. When you just browse around the song, artist, or album lists, you can feel the harddrive spinning up and reading and such.
yeah, I was surprised to see no TRS-80s. That was the machine I learned BASIC on, and, when I booted up my model100 a couple years ago, I was surprised to see that it was using Microsoft's BASIC. I didn't realize they were around that long.
/., about a group who ported Apache to the TRS-80 and were actually hosting their website off of it. The main advantage of running a site off a TRS-80 is that it is almost instant-on, and, since it runs off AA batteries, if there's a power-failure, you've got many hours of battery backup that kicks right in.
A couple years back, I remember reading, here on
When I was a wee lad, my first computer was that Luggable Compaq. We had two of them in the house; mine was the slower one and I remember playing Prince of Persia, Police Quest and Space Quest in slow-mo due to the slowness of the machine.
It was great having that machine, though, because after getting a real desktop machine (a 486), I missed being able to take the machine off my desk and stowing it away in the closet when I needed room to do non-computer work.
"...like on a commuter train in Japan."
um... what's wrong with commuter trains in the US? I, like thousands of americans, take the train to work daily, and ride subways quite often. When I'm by myself, I enjoy my PSP or my DS.
let's not forget the countless people who take busses, too. Metropolitan areas are where iPods have extreme market saturation. Walking around NYC, you see more people with white earbuds than you see talking on cell phones. These are the areas where portable video will take off.
Right when I got my PSP, I chucked a couple videos on it (namely 2 episodes of Naruto and a couple episodes of bangbros pr0n) and I take a gander at the videos when I'm bored.
It's also cool to show off that you can have pr0n in such a small device.
I'd be happier if my computer had USB2, though. it takes FOREVER to transfer the data to the memorystick. especially when transfering a 300mb vid. (I've got a 512mb card)
regarding your steve jobs statement: I think it would be a good idea for apple to get into the portable video market, but it would have to be done right. Do we have the technology to make this device at a resonable cost today? I don't think so. But an ipod-sized device with a high-def, touch screen LCD that takes up the entire front panel to display the GUI that could play widescreen video as well as emulate the ipod's interface... that'd be the greatest thing in history. especially with something like an 80gb drive. I'd pay 600$ for one of them.
but I forgot where the damned competition was.
drats!
yeah, that's exactly what i was thinking, too. I mean, I've got 3 computers at home that are always on/always online.
My desktop machine checks for email once a minute and is constantly on AIM. If I'm not home, I get a lot of IMs that I autorespond to, and if I'm home, I may be actively engaged in a conversation and/or surfing the web, sending email, etc.
Frequently, when I pull my powerbook out and open it up, it auto-joins the first available, unsecured network. When I'm in the city, it almost always finds one, but when I'm at a friend's house it'll sometimes jump onto their neighbor's or theirs.
I'd wager to say that a pretty significant portion of internet traffic is actually just pings and brief connections (the AIM UDP "hey, you still connected?" packet, POP3/IMAP email checks, idle torrent seeding "yeah, I'm here and ready to seed" packets, and other general "check up" stuffs).
I guess we really are getting to the point where every toaster, every piece of chalk, and even yer damned carkeys will be internet enabled for easy stats and locating of said items.
I wonder when we'll have IPv8. Although a professor I once had said that with ipv6, there'd be enough IPs for everything that everybody in the world owned and still have plenty left over for the future.
My only question is from reading another article on Slash is if the internet protocol tcp/ip is right for high speed video since the internet architecture was never intended for it.
Typically, streaming audio/video is done with UDP rather than TCP.
Also, Internet2 was specifically designed for large transfers like that.
"mature markets?"
"next big thing?"
hmmmm... yeah, pr0n does spur growth in whatever it gets into.
wait, that sounded dirty.
I'd say that the japanese, and even hongkong (and that entire region) are experiencing such growth due to their proliferation of internet-enabled devices. When I was in japan, our tourguide was showing off on her phone how she can check CNN news and the weather and all sorts of cool things. Of course, I've seen all that stuff before, as current phones have that ability, but the previous year, she said that all the Americans were surprised to see that in a cell phone. Walking around NYC in recent weeks, I've noticed more and more and more people using their SideKicks, so that's more usage right there; that's a full-blown web browser.
I'd also say that most growth nowadays, in any market, is due to more widely available internet access. It seems that today, most businesses have broadband and have all of their computers online, which allows for employee surfing during slow time/breaks. Open, unsecured, and fee-based wireless access is available almost everywhere you go, and with more people having handheld and laptop devices, and all these portable gaming platforms with access, the numbers are only going to increase.
Even though usage seems to be leveling off in the US, I say in the next year, it's gonna spike again. Especially since there's so many regions where broadband isn't available and with cable modem/DSL trying to hit those markets.
Extra spam account? pshhhh. who needs them?
I bought a domain name and set it up in ZoneEdit with mail forwarding (*@somedomain.com forwards to you). Then, for instance, you want to sign up for free ipods, you sign up with the email freeipod@somedomain.com.
When you get your free ipod, you just set up an email alias for freeipod@somedomain.com to point to webmaster@freeipods.com, or something similar, and yer done.
best trick ever.
And hard drives are cheap.
I could never afford enough harddrive space for all my music if it was encoded lossless.
I have it all mp3-encoded at 192 (or 256kbps for a few select artists) and it takes up just a hair over 100gb. I'd hate to see how much space it would take up if it was in FLAC or some other lossless format, of even AIFF for that matter.