This is interesting, because a while ago, I went to Insignia's site, and they said that Connectix was providing support for SoftWindows. It appears that FWB acquired SoftWindows from Insignia in 1999, and then discontinued it in April 2001.
SoftWindows is a dead product. It hasn't been available for a good 3 years now. Connectix bought out the product, so now the only Windows-on-Mac solution that I know of is Connectix VirtualPC 5.0, which does run natively in Mac OS X. But this wouldn't be the best solution in my opinion, since this user wanted their contacts in Mac OS X. This would just be windows on another computer. Perhaps waiting for iSync to come out will allow the phone to sync with the Mac.
hmm...my PowerBook G4 did about 10 MB/sec. I know it has some file system errors, but it shouldn't slow down the disk that much. Perhaps it's just because it's a low-RPM laptop hard drive.
Well that depends. If you bought 10.1 (either by itself or on a new computer) within the past month or two, you can get an upgrade either for free or for $20 - I'm not quite sure - either way, they mail you a CD, you can't download it.
If you bought 10.1 more than a couple of months ago (or didn't actually buy it), you have to buy the full package. I've seen it various prices, but if you qualify for an educational discount, that's the best way to go, as the full package only costs $69.
Me, too, as well as Mushrooms. There is a restaurant here in St. Louis that serves a Barbecued Chicken pizza, which is basically barbecued chicken, barbecue sauce, and cheddar cheese on french bread. It's quite tasty, although not necessarily what I'd recommend to someone craving pizza. It's also ridiculously filling. I'm usually full after eating half, and eating the other half is just punishment:)
Oh how I wish I could be at a Jaguar release party tonight. Unfortunately, the nearest Apple Store is about 400 miles away, and I have to be at training here tomorrow morning to work at the Apple Store they're opening here. So no Jaguar party for me. By the way, that's a gross pizza. You couldn't pay me to eat it:)
Okay...but - Pixar is owned by Steve Jobs, also the CEO of Apple Computers, Inc. Apple makes Mac OS X which (in it's current version) is based on FreeBSD 4.4
The pref to enable this feature is stored in the following file: ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.windowserve r.[random hex value].plist
On my system, the file is com.apple.windowserver.003065f5a262.plist
If you have the Developer Tools installed, you can use the Property List Editor, which is in/Developer/Applications to edit this file. Unfortunately, instead of just having something that tells it to mirror or span, there is a ton of really complicated information about each monitor connected to the system in there. If you want a copy of mine, send me an email, but let me know the resolutions you're running first, because if you don't, you'll have stuff going off the edge of your iBook's screen, and your external will be set to 1280x1024.
I think it would be inconsistent of them to use Myriad, since they use Lucida Grande for the display font in Mac OS X. Although I did notice that the font that they're using for the tabs on the web site looks a bit more angular than Lucida, much more like Futura to me, although I'm not familiar with Myriad, so that my be it.
Well, this really shows the difference in basic design principle between any UNIX/Linux distrobution and Microsoft - modularity vs. integration. Now of course it's very nice to offer lots of services built into the operating system, because it means that your developers have to do less work, their apps are smaller, and their time-to-market is significantly shorter, if they can merely use one of your API calls. However, by making your developers do more work, you end up with a leaner operating system, and you offload the responsibility to patch security holes to third parties. This usually makes patches easier, because it doesn't involve replacing part of the operating system, just part of an individual application. This may be why linux/UNIX -based OS'es are usually faster than Windows on the same hardware, and why patches (provided that the developers are concerned, and have an interest in maintaining their code) are issued quicker.
I've been having some rather interesting experiences with AIM and iChat. I've been using iChat for a couple of months now, and when I do a direct-IM connection with people using certain versions of AIM for Windows, I can send them images just fine, but if they try to send me anything, I just get a pink box. The box is the size of the image they're trying to send, but it never displays the image. Oddly, older versions of AIM don't do this, only the current one. Then I'm forced to use AIM, but the problem is that even if I quit iChat, and they try to direct connect while I'm on AIM, an iChat window opens up, since AIM apparently uses the iChat Agent. The only workaround for this is for me to direct connect to them in AIM. Sometimes when they try to direct connect to me in AIM, the dialogue asking me if I want to connect comes up but goes away immediately. Also, if someone sends me a message while I have AIM's preferences open, the preferences window goes away, and the application behaves really strangely.
I know this is mostly unrelated, but it is still weird iChat/AIM interaction.
This sounds like a beautiful processor, and I'm guessing it's why they contracted a plant in upstate New York to manufacture the.1-micron chips. I'm thinking that this is the mutant brain-child of the Power4 and the G4. Kind of like a miniaturized Power4 with a vector-processing unit, running at 64-bits and possibly with 32-bit PPC binary compatibility built-in. It would be nice if they could apply double the SMP capability to 32-bit code.
Hopefully they'll write a really efficient compiler for it. This could be the chip to launch Mac OS X into the enterprise market.
Well, I thought that they just used it to process two 32-bit calculations in the same cycle. Actually running it as 64-bit is different - more addressable memory, etc. Besides that, are there actually any 64-bit PPC operating systems or compilers?
Interestingly, their roadmap for the G4 and G5 don't include AltiVec, but rather smaller transistors and and multiple cores on a single chip. It's kind of a shame, because AltiVec optimizations are really worthwhile, but I think it would be very cool to have a.1 G5 with dual/quad cores. Very space-efficient, and very fast, not to mention the parallel multi-processing.
Flywheels have been used in prototype electric cars, as a way of supercharging the engine. Unfortunately, this hasn't been mass-produced, but it was very cool, and definitely increased the car's "mileage" - of course, they did have to run the engine for a bit before they could take off.
Flywheels have also been used in high-end turntables, specifically by VPI, as a means of speed regulation. They basically think of it as a kinetic capacitor, which is pretty cool.
Also, gyros have been used in tank turret rotation - in the acceleration and breaking, with really good results, although they were hydraulically actuated. Also, not a mass-produced item, but they do exist...mostly for military training as far as I know.
I'm in Apple's target audience - I bought a PowerMac G4 two years ago so that I would have a decent computer to use in college. Education is one of Apple's biggest markets. Less than 6 months after I bought it, I re-partitioned my HD and installed Darwin. Then one of my friends bought the Mac OS X Public Beta. He absolutely hated it, took it off of his computer and gave it to me. I installed it, but at least half of the time, I booted into the console and played around with XFree86, just because I thought it was cool, and I wanted to learn about the system. Getting Darwin going at first was a real trip because after completing each step, I would have to reboot into Mac OS 9 just to get more instructions off the web - things like how to configure my.xinitrc for different window managers and stuff...there was no really usable web browser for Darwin at the time.
I care about politics when buying machines - enough to pay $2000 for a pretty bare-bones computer at the time, but it was a very worthwhile investment - it has been the most stable system I've ever used, and the expandability is simply incredible.
Apple's main target audiences remain education and creative pros. They're starting to pick up more of the home market, but I'm willing to bet that they're still the minority of Apple's installed base. The creative pros are going to care less about OSS, because they've been using Photoshop for too long to switch over to Gimp and remain productive, and I don't know of any OSS equivelants to Illustrator, Freehand, Flash, Maya, Lightwave, InDesign, Quark XPress, PageMaker, AfterEffects, Premeire, Avid XPress, or ProTools - most of which are in use on Macs at my workplace, and properly licensed (We don't have Maya...yet). If there were open/free solutions that were as good as or better than the commercial products, then you would see Mac users switching over in droves, mostly for financial/licensing reasons.
I don't use Microsoft Office, even though my work bought me a copy. I use Apple's TextEdit, since it has some really great features and makes RTF's and PDF's. I *never* use Excel unless someone else sends me an Excel file. I don't have a reason to use PowerPoint, and I don't like Entourage. I use Mozilla for my email, and I'm starting to use Chimera more and more for web browsing. I have to use Adobe apps, and despite some issues (especially with previous versions of Photoshop) I do find Photoshop 7 to be relatively user-friendly and stable.
So, I'm a fairly average Mac user, and I use a mix of OSS/closed software, depending on what I'm doing. If there is an OSS solution that fulfills my needs, I'll gladly use it over a closed version. Even if there's a free & closed solution that fulfills my needs, I'll use it over a commercial & closed version. I absolutely hate MSIE...I think it's the worst browser for Mac OS X, and a lot of my fellow users out there feel the same way. I'm not a developer, and I'm not a Linux geek, but I do care...productivity does come first, but if I have a good option, OSS does matter to me, and I suspect that a lot of the Mac community feels the same way.
Three DIMM slots support up to 1.5GB of PC133 SDRAM using the following: 128MB or 256MB DIMMs (64-bit-wide, 128-Mbit technology) 512MB DIMMs (64-bit-wide, 256-Mbit technology)
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This is interesting, because a while ago, I went to Insignia's site, and they said that Connectix was providing support for SoftWindows. It appears that FWB acquired SoftWindows from Insignia in 1999, and then discontinued it in April 2001.
SoftWindows is a dead product. It hasn't been available for a good 3 years now. Connectix bought out the product, so now the only Windows-on-Mac solution that I know of is Connectix VirtualPC 5.0, which does run natively in Mac OS X. But this wouldn't be the best solution in my opinion, since this user wanted their contacts in Mac OS X. This would just be windows on another computer. Perhaps waiting for iSync to come out will allow the phone to sync with the Mac.
hmm...my PowerBook G4 did about 10 MB/sec. I know it has some file system errors, but it shouldn't slow down the disk that much. Perhaps it's just because it's a low-RPM laptop hard drive.
I believe that would fall under the "News for Nerds" category. :)
Obviously you haven't had enough alcohol, otherwise you wouldn't be refusing head from someone :P
Well that depends. If you bought 10.1 (either by itself or on a new computer) within the past month or two, you can get an upgrade either for free or for $20 - I'm not quite sure - either way, they mail you a CD, you can't download it.
If you bought 10.1 more than a couple of months ago (or didn't actually buy it), you have to buy the full package. I've seen it various prices, but if you qualify for an educational discount, that's the best way to go, as the full package only costs $69.
Me, too, as well as Mushrooms. There is a restaurant here in St. Louis that serves a Barbecued Chicken pizza, which is basically barbecued chicken, barbecue sauce, and cheddar cheese on french bread. It's quite tasty, although not necessarily what I'd recommend to someone craving pizza. It's also ridiculously filling. I'm usually full after eating half, and eating the other half is just punishment :)
Oh how I wish I could be at a Jaguar release party tonight. Unfortunately, the nearest Apple Store is about 400 miles away, and I have to be at training here tomorrow morning to work at the Apple Store they're opening here. So no Jaguar party for me. By the way, that's a gross pizza. You couldn't pay me to eat it :)
Okay...but - Pixar is owned by Steve Jobs, also the CEO of Apple Computers, Inc. Apple makes Mac OS X which (in it's current version) is based on FreeBSD 4.4
RenderNeanderthal would be bad marketing. I'm personally hoping for RenderErectus :)
The pref to enable this feature is stored in the following file: ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.windowserve r.[random hex value].plist
/Developer/Applications to edit this file. Unfortunately, instead of just having something that tells it to mirror or span, there is a ton of really complicated information about each monitor connected to the system in there. If you want a copy of mine, send me an email, but let me know the resolutions you're running first, because if you don't, you'll have stuff going off the edge of your iBook's screen, and your external will be set to 1280x1024.
On my system, the file is com.apple.windowserver.003065f5a262.plist
If you have the Developer Tools installed, you can use the Property List Editor, which is in
Perhaps some of these?
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dual-core Power4 processor aimed at the desktop (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/26594.htm
It wouldn't fit in my apartment, and it would still require me to load the dishes and soap :)
Now if only I could get an internet operated kitchen sink so that it could wash my dishes while I was away :)
:D
Or perhaps internet-operated borg assassins with built-in wi-fi
I think it would be inconsistent of them to use Myriad, since they use Lucida Grande for the display font in Mac OS X. Although I did notice that the font that they're using for the tabs on the web site looks a bit more angular than Lucida, much more like Futura to me, although I'm not familiar with Myriad, so that my be it.
Well, this really shows the difference in basic design principle between any UNIX/Linux distrobution and Microsoft - modularity vs. integration. Now of course it's very nice to offer lots of services built into the operating system, because it means that your developers have to do less work, their apps are smaller, and their time-to-market is significantly shorter, if they can merely use one of your API calls. However, by making your developers do more work, you end up with a leaner operating system, and you offload the responsibility to patch security holes to third parties. This usually makes patches easier, because it doesn't involve replacing part of the operating system, just part of an individual application. This may be why linux/UNIX -based OS'es are usually faster than Windows on the same hardware, and why patches (provided that the developers are concerned, and have an interest in maintaining their code) are issued quicker.
I've been having some rather interesting experiences with AIM and iChat. I've been using iChat for a couple of months now, and when I do a direct-IM connection with people using certain versions of AIM for Windows, I can send them images just fine, but if they try to send me anything, I just get a pink box. The box is the size of the image they're trying to send, but it never displays the image. Oddly, older versions of AIM don't do this, only the current one. Then I'm forced to use AIM, but the problem is that even if I quit iChat, and they try to direct connect while I'm on AIM, an iChat window opens up, since AIM apparently uses the iChat Agent. The only workaround for this is for me to direct connect to them in AIM. Sometimes when they try to direct connect to me in AIM, the dialogue asking me if I want to connect comes up but goes away immediately. Also, if someone sends me a message while I have AIM's preferences open, the preferences window goes away, and the application behaves really strangely.
I know this is mostly unrelated, but it is still weird iChat/AIM interaction.
no no no...Doom III is code-named "Longhorn" :)
Unfortunately not. My DNS at work doesn't work so well, and at the moment, it's giving me the following message:
No such host www-1.ibm.com
This sounds like a beautiful processor, and I'm guessing it's why they contracted a plant in upstate New York to manufacture the .1-micron chips. I'm thinking that this is the mutant brain-child of the Power4 and the G4. Kind of like a miniaturized Power4 with a vector-processing unit, running at 64-bits and possibly with 32-bit PPC binary compatibility built-in. It would be nice if they could apply double the SMP capability to 32-bit code.
Hopefully they'll write a really efficient compiler for it. This could be the chip to launch Mac OS X into the enterprise market.
Well, I thought that they just used it to process two 32-bit calculations in the same cycle. Actually running it as 64-bit is different - more addressable memory, etc. Besides that, are there actually any 64-bit PPC operating systems or compilers?
Interestingly, their roadmap for the G4 and G5 don't include AltiVec, but rather smaller transistors and and multiple cores on a single chip. It's kind of a shame, because AltiVec optimizations are really worthwhile, but I think it would be very cool to have a .1 G5 with dual/quad cores. Very space-efficient, and very fast, not to mention the parallel multi-processing.
Flywheels have been used in prototype electric cars, as a way of supercharging the engine. Unfortunately, this hasn't been mass-produced, but it was very cool, and definitely increased the car's "mileage" - of course, they did have to run the engine for a bit before they could take off.
Flywheels have also been used in high-end turntables, specifically by VPI, as a means of speed regulation. They basically think of it as a kinetic capacitor, which is pretty cool.
Also, gyros have been used in tank turret rotation - in the acceleration and breaking, with really good results, although they were hydraulically actuated. Also, not a mass-produced item, but they do exist...mostly for military training as far as I know.
I'm in Apple's target audience - I bought a PowerMac G4 two years ago so that I would have a decent computer to use in college. Education is one of Apple's biggest markets. Less than 6 months after I bought it, I re-partitioned my HD and installed Darwin. Then one of my friends bought the Mac OS X Public Beta. He absolutely hated it, took it off of his computer and gave it to me. I installed it, but at least half of the time, I booted into the console and played around with XFree86, just because I thought it was cool, and I wanted to learn about the system. Getting Darwin going at first was a real trip because after completing each step, I would have to reboot into Mac OS 9 just to get more instructions off the web - things like how to configure my .xinitrc for different window managers and stuff...there was no really usable web browser for Darwin at the time.
I care about politics when buying machines - enough to pay $2000 for a pretty bare-bones computer at the time, but it was a very worthwhile investment - it has been the most stable system I've ever used, and the expandability is simply incredible.
Apple's main target audiences remain education and creative pros. They're starting to pick up more of the home market, but I'm willing to bet that they're still the minority of Apple's installed base. The creative pros are going to care less about OSS, because they've been using Photoshop for too long to switch over to Gimp and remain productive, and I don't know of any OSS equivelants to Illustrator, Freehand, Flash, Maya, Lightwave, InDesign, Quark XPress, PageMaker, AfterEffects, Premeire, Avid XPress, or ProTools - most of which are in use on Macs at my workplace, and properly licensed (We don't have Maya...yet). If there were open/free solutions that were as good as or better than the commercial products, then you would see Mac users switching over in droves, mostly for financial/licensing reasons.
I don't use Microsoft Office, even though my work bought me a copy. I use Apple's TextEdit, since it has some really great features and makes RTF's and PDF's. I *never* use Excel unless someone else sends me an Excel file. I don't have a reason to use PowerPoint, and I don't like Entourage. I use Mozilla for my email, and I'm starting to use Chimera more and more for web browsing. I have to use Adobe apps, and despite some issues (especially with previous versions of Photoshop) I do find Photoshop 7 to be relatively user-friendly and stable.
So, I'm a fairly average Mac user, and I use a mix of OSS/closed software, depending on what I'm doing. If there is an OSS solution that fulfills my needs, I'll gladly use it over a closed version. Even if there's a free & closed solution that fulfills my needs, I'll use it over a commercial & closed version. I absolutely hate MSIE...I think it's the worst browser for Mac OS X, and a lot of my fellow users out there feel the same way. I'm not a developer, and I'm not a Linux geek, but I do care...productivity does come first, but if I have a good option, OSS does matter to me, and I suspect that a lot of the Mac community feels the same way.
And I quote:
Expansion
Memory
128MB or 256MB DIMMs (64-bit-wide, 128-Mbit technology)
512MB DIMMs (64-bit-wide, 256-Mbit technology)