Sorry for the OT, but I just can't get past the term "Cyber-Attack". Are the Chinese using concentrated electronic sex talk to assault the US Dept of Commerce?
KDE, Gnome etc.. are available on other OSes like Solaris and the BSDs.
Not to mention Mac OS X. KDE and Gnome have been around for Mac OS X for quite a while, and now it's even easier to run them as Apple's XFree86-based X implementation (which uses native OpenGL for display) is bundled with the OS (previously you had to separately download and install XFree86's Darwin/OS X port).
There are also projects on-going to bring apps like the KOffice package to Mac OS X in native Mac OS X binary form (since Qt exists for Mac OS X, too) without having to run KDE on top of OS X.
So yes, if you need to compare, stick to kernel level comparisons. Even those can easily be inherently flawed, but at least it's an improvement over babbling about multiplatform software like KDE or Gnome and their associated additional software.
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"The Finder likes to sit for a moment and think about how it's going to perform the operation you told it to do. Copy the file, already. You've done it a million times, and you're wondering how this one is different?"
You're forgetting that it can very well be different from those million other copy operations. The Mac OS does (and always has done) so-called preflighting before initiating a copy. It checks to see if the item you are copying can fit onto the disk you're copying it to. This means that it will not try to write a file onto a disk that's full and then throw an error at you if it fails like most flavors of Windows do. It'll check to see if it can do the copy, and tell you to free up space or use another disk if it can't fit the item on the destination disk.
Additionally, imagine running five copy operations at once. Imagine that four copies run, but the fifth can't fit onto the disk now that you just filled up the disk with the four other copies. If the system didn't do preflighting, you would have no clue as to which operation failed. If things went badly, the system might have tried to write parts of each of the five files onto disk, failing to complete even one of them. Preflighting makes sure you know which copy operations were succesful and which weren't. It will also make sure that an ongoing copy doesn't fill up the disk while other copies are being written onto the same disk.
Essentially, you're screaming at the OS for being slow, while it's actually being smart for you. I imagine you'd scream at least twice as hard if the OS was faster but much more stupid -- like most other OSes.
There is no iTunes update that adds OGG support. This is why the original reporter things there is:
1. He installed an open source OGG component for QuickTime. iTunes uses QuickTime for playback.
2. He installed the iTunes 3.0.1 update, which keeps reappearing in the Software Update panel on non-U.S. localizations.
3. He thought the new (=old) iTunes update added OGG support when it was actually the QT component that did it; and the iTunes update didn't actually do anything, since it is an old update that the update server is pushing as a new one.
(Apple) is heavily using open source in their latest software offering, even though their behaviour clearly indicates they are not interested in the philosophy of open source.
Ah, but there is no specific philosophy associated with the term "open source software". All that is implied by the term is that you can get at the source code. "Open source" does not refer to a specific license, or the ideals presented by entities like the FSF.
Yeah, I recall there being a 64-bit part in the PPC600 series, like, years ago. 620, I think. However, it was slow, so slow. Even the 603's were quicker, and the 64-bit memory spaces didn't provide much joy back then.
"If you aren't running Windows"...equals generally... "You are running some form of UNIX"...including Mac OS X, a FreeBSD derivative. Even the sad cases still running an older Mac OS are pretty safe.
1. There are no virii for Mac OS X.
2. There is less than a handful for Mac OS 9.
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Sorry for the OT, but I just can't get past the term "Cyber-Attack". Are the Chinese using concentrated electronic sex talk to assault the US Dept of Commerce?
OS X on commodity hardware has already been done.
But trust me, this is something a lot of people have been looking forward to, as well.
Not to mention Mac OS X. KDE and Gnome have been around for Mac OS X for quite a while, and now it's even easier to run them as Apple's XFree86-based X implementation (which uses native OpenGL for display) is bundled with the OS (previously you had to separately download and install XFree86's Darwin/OS X port).
There are also projects on-going to bring apps like the KOffice package to Mac OS X in native Mac OS X binary form (since Qt exists for Mac OS X, too) without having to run KDE on top of OS X.
So yes, if you need to compare, stick to kernel level comparisons. Even those can easily be inherently flawed, but at least it's an improvement over babbling about multiplatform software like KDE or Gnome and their associated additional software.
"The Finder likes to sit for a moment and think about how it's going to perform the operation you told it to do. Copy the file, already. You've done it a million times, and you're wondering how this one is different?"
You're forgetting that it can very well be different from those million other copy operations. The Mac OS does (and always has done) so-called preflighting before initiating a copy. It checks to see if the item you are copying can fit onto the disk you're copying it to. This means that it will not try to write a file onto a disk that's full and then throw an error at you if it fails like most flavors of Windows do. It'll check to see if it can do the copy, and tell you to free up space or use another disk if it can't fit the item on the destination disk.
Additionally, imagine running five copy operations at once. Imagine that four copies run, but the fifth can't fit onto the disk now that you just filled up the disk with the four other copies. If the system didn't do preflighting, you would have no clue as to which operation failed. If things went badly, the system might have tried to write parts of each of the five files onto disk, failing to complete even one of them. Preflighting makes sure you know which copy operations were succesful and which weren't. It will also make sure that an ongoing copy doesn't fill up the disk while other copies are being written onto the same disk.
Essentially, you're screaming at the OS for being slow, while it's actually being smart for you. I imagine you'd scream at least twice as hard if the OS was faster but much more stupid -- like most other OSes.
There is no iTunes update that adds OGG support. This is why the original reporter things there is: 1. He installed an open source OGG component for QuickTime. iTunes uses QuickTime for playback. 2. He installed the iTunes 3.0.1 update, which keeps reappearing in the Software Update panel on non-U.S. localizations. 3. He thought the new (=old) iTunes update added OGG support when it was actually the QT component that did it; and the iTunes update didn't actually do anything, since it is an old update that the update server is pushing as a new one.
(Apple) is heavily using open source in their latest software offering, even though their behaviour clearly indicates they are not interested in the philosophy of open source.
Ah, but there is no specific philosophy associated with the term "open source software". All that is implied by the term is that you can get at the source code. "Open source" does not refer to a specific license, or the ideals presented by entities like the FSF.
Yeah, I recall there being a 64-bit part in the PPC600 series, like, years ago. 620, I think. However, it was slow, so slow. Even the 603's were quicker, and the 64-bit memory spaces didn't provide much joy back then.
This particular IBM processor is said to be based on and scaled down from the Power4 architecture. And that's why it's relevant.
It's not a PPC. But reportedly it has PPC compatibility extensions.
"If you aren't running Windows" ...equals generally... "You are running some form of UNIX" ...including Mac OS X, a FreeBSD derivative. Even the sad cases still running an older Mac OS are pretty safe.
1. There are no virii for Mac OS X.
2. There is less than a handful for Mac OS 9.