Photoshop used to be available on IRIX, if you can find a copy it will run on the latest version of IRIX. Adobe stopped developing for IRIX some time ago.
There are some SGI libraries/plug-ins for Photoshop on IRIX that take advantage of the graphics hardware on Octanes and the like. Seeing Photoshop on these really shows off the graphics power of the SGI kit. The sales on IRIX didn't seem to justify the continued development though, especially as PCs/Macs got faster and reduced the need for the SGI speed for most work, and Adobe stopped development.
I have a TiBook. Around 18 months after I bought it the DVD drive became faulty. The replacement part cost more than AppleCare. I'm glad I took out the AppleCare.
Given the amount of electronics involved used in the automotive industry these days wouldn't the impact of cellphones have shown up here earlier? (Of course I'm excluding people who attempt to drive with one hand holding the handset, the other leafing through a document and steering with their knees).
Will Apple ever be able to produce its own software which will read MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint files properly (And I mean properly, with no errors - you would be surprised how pissed off people get when there is a slight inconsistency between the platforms)
This depends on whether the infinite number of monkeys MS employs as programmers can keep making enough changes to the file format between versions.
The current climate and the latest license proposals from MS have focused the minds of business people on alternatives to just buying the latest from MS. There is an opportunity here for an alternative to Office, it would have to be cross-platform though and marketed a damn sight better than WordPerfect.
Keynote is already more compatible cross platform than Powerpoint. A colleague created a Powerpoint document on Windows for his boss to present on his G4 laptop. Powerpoint from Office v.X wouldn't play the presentation correctly. Keynote read the presentation in and worked. Interestingly the when the presentation was exported from Keynote as a Powerpoint document the Office v.X would play it without problems.
Maybe quality isn't a big deal to a lot of people, but the price of CF cards is, so I'm sure they are big on that size thing. Also, they can spend less time and bandwidth downloading their Oggs, and, unlike MP3s, there is very little chance they will pop, click, go silent, etc.
Storage always gets cheaper. By the time devices containing this chip design get onto the market, if they ever do, the price of CF cards etc will have halved at least and will continue to fall. The same goes for bandwidth. People won't care that they can get a smaller file, only whether they can use their music in many devices.
Cisco Cable Modems run a version of IOS. However they have private IP addresses on the cable side and pass thru the DHCP requests that your device(s) make to the providers DHCP server. Unless your cable provider's network has been compromised I doubt that this is related to your problem.
Your typical first time buyer went down to the local computer chainstore and was sold a desktop PC, monitor, scanner, camera, printer, desk etc. This takes up space so is permanently sited somewhere out of the way, it's a chore to go and use the computer.
With a new cheap(ish) laptop and a wireless access point you do your computing where you want to. You can also put the computer away when you've finished with it. Why spend money on a quieter desktop when for a little more cash you can have a laptop that will still do what you want?
The version of OSX that will ship with the G5's is 10.2.7, which has backwards hacks of 10.3 stuff like expose... which is an incredible trick btw.
This gets my vote for funny. Apple won't ship any new features with 10.2.7, least of all Expose, but will save them for Panther when they can charge for it.
Exactly my point. Why lay lots of different types of cable when just laying one type will cover multiple uses? I found that buying the roll(s) of cable I needed to run the networking cabling I wanted I had enough cable to use for phone in the rooms that needed it.
I have both wired and wireless networks in my house. They serve different purposes.
The wired network connects all of my servers together and allows me fast networking when I need it.
The wireless network allows me to check my email from the sofa or the garden or anywhere else I'm comfortable. Yes there is a chance that someone may see the packets on my network but I'm a) not that parnoid and b) aren't prepared to give up the convience of wireless.
In short: wireless for ease of use, wired for speed.
I wired my home with Cat5 cabling over 4 years ago and thought about putting in phone as well. The cabling in Cat5 is good enough for phone though so I've just used convertors on the RJ-45 sockets where I need phone. By putting more Cat5 than I thought I needed I can put phone in and I'm safe for when I go to VoIP later on.
How long before someone writes a virus does the following:
Examine sent items folder looking for items with attachments.
Send another message to the same person as a follow up with an infected version of the attachement.
This would get through most of the operator suspicion filters. If the payload mutates enough to make it difficult to fingerprint it would miss virus checkers as well.
Taking this into account the problem isn't the operator but an MUA/OS that allows code to be executed in such a manner. Signed documents, trusted sources, etc may help here.
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I too went through a lot of pain with SCO, from Xenix up to SCO Unix (with the optional IP layer). It was awful.
SCO was less poised to make money with SCO Unix than Sun were with Solaris for Intel. In the areas I worked in 2000 SCO was just not an option. Too many people had had bad experiences with it over the previous decade and it wasn't really considered.
The Unix on Intel market has been pretty much made by Linux because it was free (or relatively low cost). Without Linux this market wouldn't exists Unix would still primarily be on custom hardware.
So, I ordered myself a Dell and it will be in my hands this evening...
I'm typing this on a Dell laptop provided by my current employer as they won't let me plug in the Apple G4 laptop I've been using for the last 18 months in case of viruses.
It's lucky that I wasn't trying to type this yesterday as the message wouldn't make a lot of sense. You see I've just had the keyboard replaced for the third time in four months. Prior to the replacement a whole chunk of the keyboard wouldn't work. Within my office we are running at 8 replacement keyboards in this time between 5 of us.
I wish you luck with your Dell, I really do, but I'll stick with a laptop that works;)
My Rio 500 MP3 player had a jog dial on the side that would allow you to go up and down the menus and select, it may also have managed volume control whilst playing back. Not a scroll wheel but it did the same job. IIRC this is patented by Sony so maybe that's an issue.
Why is it that on a technology site that you get flamed for being precise?
Linus was talking about DRM provisions in the kernel. The post that I replied to referred to Linux as an OS, not the kernel. In doing so it extended the comments made by Linus beyond what appeared to be his intent.
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Linus is discussing the kernel not the OS. Linux is the kernel not the OS.
It's big news when a law is enforced in a new way, because law enforcement is effectively changing the law.
This is a 1968 copyright law. The law hasn't changed the environment has. In 1968 computers were strange things that large companies had. Hell it's 2 years before the dawn of time for the Unix world and 12 years before the dawn of time for DOS.
People find new ways to break the law all the time, that the Australians have found a way to apply an old law to current technology is probably about the most interesting thing here.
People break laws all the time without going to jail or even getting in trouble in the case of speeding.
If you were caught and charged for speeding would it be news? Probably not. You would face whatever the penalty was. The same applies here. Unless they've been living on Mars for the last 5 years they will know that sharing MP3s of commercial music is illegal and that the authorities are cracking down on it. They have no defence other than to come clean and take it on the chin.
I pre-ordered the Fellowship of the Ring DVD release (standard edition).
I was then working away in Switzerland for a few weeks and couldn't resist 'Der Herren Der Ringe' (when I found out it had the English soundtrack). This meant I could watch it a whole 2 weeks earlier than if I waited until I got home.
I then pre-ordered and bought the special Edition.
I wonder if this will bring Silicon Graphics back into the favor of Intel boxes
The SGI x86 boxen were strange beasts with freaky graphics cards designed to be used as graphics workstations. They were very good but very expensive, for x86 hardware. Why would anyone buy an expensive SGI branded PC when they can buy a cheaper one, slap a good graphics card in, and get good enough performance?
There's no money for SGI in PC hardware, they've tried it and it flopped. SGI's market is making kit that can do things that PCs cannot do.
Linux will be used on commodity x86 hardware for render farms by all effects studios, if not now in the near future. The reason for this. Bang for buck density. In order to render complex scenes you need a large render farm, the more faster units you have in the farm the better. It's cheaper to do this with x86 kit that anything else and the render software has Linux render engines written for it.
More and more manufacturers are coming out with blade servers using x86 processors which will increase this density and likely increase the use.
This is not saying that the studios are not running SGI kit for animation, modelling etc. Linux/x86 kit has a way to go to catch up there.
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There are some SGI libraries/plug-ins for Photoshop on IRIX that take advantage of the graphics hardware on Octanes and the like. Seeing Photoshop on these really shows off the graphics power of the SGI kit. The sales on IRIX didn't seem to justify the continued development though, especially as PCs/Macs got faster and reduced the need for the SGI speed for most work, and Adobe stopped development.
I have a TiBook. Around 18 months after I bought it the DVD drive became faulty. The replacement part cost more than AppleCare. I'm glad I took out the AppleCare.
Given the amount of electronics involved used in the automotive industry these days wouldn't the impact of cellphones have shown up here earlier? (Of course I'm excluding people who attempt to drive with one hand holding the handset, the other leafing through a document and steering with their knees).
The current climate and the latest license proposals from MS have focused the minds of business people on alternatives to just buying the latest from MS. There is an opportunity here for an alternative to Office, it would have to be cross-platform though and marketed a damn sight better than WordPerfect.
Keynote is already more compatible cross platform than Powerpoint. A colleague created a Powerpoint document on Windows for his boss to present on his G4 laptop. Powerpoint from Office v.X wouldn't play the presentation correctly. Keynote read the presentation in and worked. Interestingly the when the presentation was exported from Keynote as a Powerpoint document the Office v.X would play it without problems.
Cisco Cable Modems run a version of IOS. However they have private IP addresses on the cable side and pass thru the DHCP requests that your device(s) make to the providers DHCP server. Unless your cable provider's network has been compromised I doubt that this is related to your problem.
Your typical first time buyer went down to the local computer chainstore and was sold a desktop PC, monitor, scanner, camera, printer, desk etc. This takes up space so is permanently sited somewhere out of the way, it's a chore to go and use the computer.
With a new cheap(ish) laptop and a wireless access point you do your computing where you want to. You can also put the computer away when you've finished with it. Why spend money on a quieter desktop when for a little more cash you can have a laptop that will still do what you want?
This gets my vote for funny. Apple won't ship any new features with 10.2.7, least of all Expose, but will save them for Panther when they can charge for it.
Exactly my point. Why lay lots of different types of cable when just laying one type will cover multiple uses? I found that buying the roll(s) of cable I needed to run the networking cabling I wanted I had enough cable to use for phone in the rooms that needed it.
The wired network connects all of my servers together and allows me fast networking when I need it.
The wireless network allows me to check my email from the sofa or the garden or anywhere else I'm comfortable. Yes there is a chance that someone may see the packets on my network but I'm a) not that parnoid and b) aren't prepared to give up the convience of wireless.
In short: wireless for ease of use, wired for speed.
I wired my home with Cat5 cabling over 4 years ago and thought about putting in phone as well. The cabling in Cat5 is good enough for phone though so I've just used convertors on the RJ-45 sockets where I need phone. By putting more Cat5 than I thought I needed I can put phone in and I'm safe for when I go to VoIP later on.
- Examine sent items folder looking for items with attachments.
- Send another message to the same person as a follow up with an infected version of the attachement.
This would get through most of the operator suspicion filters. If the payload mutates enough to make it difficult to fingerprint it would miss virus checkers as well.Taking this into account the problem isn't the operator but an MUA/OS that allows code to be executed in such a manner. Signed documents, trusted sources, etc may help here.
SCO was less poised to make money with SCO Unix than Sun were with Solaris for Intel. In the areas I worked in 2000 SCO was just not an option. Too many people had had bad experiences with it over the previous decade and it wasn't really considered.
The Unix on Intel market has been pretty much made by Linux because it was free (or relatively low cost). Without Linux this market wouldn't exists Unix would still primarily be on custom hardware.
It's lucky that I wasn't trying to type this yesterday as the message wouldn't make a lot of sense. You see I've just had the keyboard replaced for the third time in four months. Prior to the replacement a whole chunk of the keyboard wouldn't work. Within my office we are running at 8 replacement keyboards in this time between 5 of us.
I wish you luck with your Dell, I really do, but I'll stick with a laptop that works ;)
The case against Microsoft was not won. MS settled out of court. This is what they are hoping will happen with the IBM suit.
My Rio 500 MP3 player had a jog dial on the side that would allow you to go up and down the menus and select, it may also have managed volume control whilst playing back. Not a scroll wheel but it did the same job. IIRC this is patented by Sony so maybe that's an issue.
No, you got the last bit of the sentence wrong. It should have read "at least Apple's dying..."
Linus was talking about DRM provisions in the kernel. The post that I replied to referred to Linux as an OS, not the kernel. In doing so it extended the comments made by Linus beyond what appeared to be his intent.
Linus is discussing the kernel not the OS. Linux is the kernel not the OS.
This is a 1968 copyright law. The law hasn't changed the environment has. In 1968 computers were strange things that large companies had. Hell it's 2 years before the dawn of time for the Unix world and 12 years before the dawn of time for DOS.
People find new ways to break the law all the time, that the Australians have found a way to apply an old law to current technology is probably about the most interesting thing here.
People break laws all the time without going to jail or even getting in trouble in the case of speeding.
If you were caught and charged for speeding would it be news? Probably not. You would face whatever the penalty was. The same applies here. Unless they've been living on Mars for the last 5 years they will know that sharing MP3s of commercial music is illegal and that the authorities are cracking down on it. They have no defence other than to come clean and take it on the chin.
I was then working away in Switzerland for a few weeks and couldn't resist 'Der Herren Der Ringe' (when I found out it had the English soundtrack). This meant I could watch it a whole 2 weeks earlier than if I waited until I got home.
I then pre-ordered and bought the special Edition.
Do I feel bitter? Nah.
There can be only one perhaps?
The SGI x86 boxen were strange beasts with freaky graphics cards designed to be used as graphics workstations. They were very good but very expensive, for x86 hardware. Why would anyone buy an expensive SGI branded PC when they can buy a cheaper one, slap a good graphics card in, and get good enough performance?
There's no money for SGI in PC hardware, they've tried it and it flopped. SGI's market is making kit that can do things that PCs cannot do.
More and more manufacturers are coming out with blade servers using x86 processors which will increase this density and likely increase the use.
This is not saying that the studios are not running SGI kit for animation, modelling etc. Linux/x86 kit has a way to go to catch up there.