I figured that was the case.:) I just have the HFS+ restrictions stuck in my head and the explanations for it, and a quick google return 2gb limitations with LFS, but I didn't check the timestamp.
Well they have 500 terabytes of files spread across 220million files. This gives an average file size of 2.2gb's. I know this rules out a lot of filesystems out there these days.
My assumption is that their figures are wrong and they have 250million odd 2gb files or they don't have 500 terabytes used right now, as I doubt they are running a 64bit implementation. On the other hand, there might be some hack that someone can inform me of that allows file sizes greater than 2gb on 32bit file systems.
Kinda reminds me of Microsoft's history really, especially when they try and fix 14 exploits in one super patch.
On the other hand, I know people in Apple, and I know the security updates are given a firm shaking down before they are released into the wild, even the Jaguar updates.
Whatever happened to Darwin's theory of Evolution? Have we reversed nature and decided that having the broadest genetic base is the best? Billions of years of life have proven that is not the case, so I hate to think what will happen for generations to come.
Personally I am a rather good example of a human being, although I doubt if it was 10,000 years ago I would have survived in the 'wild'. My reflexes matured too late and my speed was too low to start with. Both of those are fatal flaws in nature.
On the flip side, are we going to see instead of survival of the fittest, survival of the brainest, where the body becomes useless and is simply a throwaway device. I would hate to think of a reality like that, but with our course right now its probably going to be the case.
I simply bought my parents an iBook and visit it every 6 months to make sure their software is up to date (aka Mac OS X 10.3, updates to Safari, etc.)
They have yet to have any major problems with it and my mom is astounded that she is achieving things with her computer that she never thought she could, like organizing her photos and e-mailing them off to friends.
You could do something simple to avoid this life offset the laser that is providing the propolusion to the car climbing the elevator. That would take literally no extra expense and only a little bit of mathematics to achieve.
I think in this instance we are dealing with stolen goods. In Australia at least, if you are in possession of stolen goods you can be arrested, because there is no proof at that time that you did not steal them.
I think its pretty obvious that this "code" has been stolen from Microsoft either by someone breaking in or someone releasing it illegally against their NDA or against the working contract with Microsoft. In this instance, I would be highly wary even downloading the code.
As for all your other points, you are correct, as long as no illegal method was used to get the code, aka reverse engineering or stealing it.
Not many more posts and this story is in the hall of fame. It's funny the ability of/.'ers to whip any Microsoft story into a tempest that dwarves anything else important that day.
The battery is getting 4-6hrs of life, which is reasonable I suspect for that age period, although the heat could easily be attributed to it I am sure. Also, my 5gb is not used as my daily music machine so charge up/down cycles are irregular or do not happen at all.
The video being distorted is something I have witnessed but quickly disappears after temperature returns to normal with no ill effects from my observations.
There is also another issue of the ambient air temperature. I guess people's mileage will definitely vary in that regard.
As someone who writes software for the iPod all day, I can say without reservation that iPod's can stand up to this usage pattern. My iPod 5gb has been running basically non stop for 16 months in this mode with no adverse affects.
My tips for cooling:
- Keep the metal side up (the dock is fine)
- Never cover your iPod while connected to your computer
- Never place it metal side down while connected to your computer on a blanket/pillow or something similar
- Place a small fan on it if you are very concerned
I have not had my iPod go above touchable temperature (any of my iPod's, 5gb, 15gb, 40gb). Touchable from memory is around ~55C and hard drives can usually handle 60C quite fine.
1. Oh I totally agree, its going to be a pain in the rear end to write for, but technology keeps doing that for us. I think that a Linux Kernel for utilizing all the threads that are needed to utilize its full potential will be needed, or at least something light and powerful along those lines. To say its going to be a dream like the XBox or to some extent GameCube hardware is most definitely a misnomer.
4. Sure Apple's marketing guys have internal numbers, but no announcement means that Apple cannot be wrong, and therefore his prediction is incorrect. I actually think its going to be incorrect anyway, Apple will sell more than they think they will.
7. True.
9. A, thats news to me. The last I knew they were not going after Apple, but I am sure that if they win against Microsoft they will happily sue Real and Apple.
I *shock horror* read the article and low and behold he has some pretty strange predictions:
1. The PS2's VU was pretty hard to write software for, but who is winning the market right now?
2. Nintendo have not announced what proecssor they are using, so how can it be the Cell processor? Who said that Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft were releasing now consoles this year? At this time, they are all gunning for 2005.
3. Apple are not going to release flash iPod's, instead they are going to release HD based iPod's with 2 or 4gb capacity. This is a solid rumor.
4. Apple have made no announcement of how many G5's they want to sell, so anything is not what they are hoping.
5. Chances are the G6 will be released next year as the Power5 is being released next year.
6. Linux die? How? It's not a company, its a conglomerate of programmers. It's marketshare is rising, not falling. Case in point, OSS such as Apache is only growing in popularity.
7. How is Microsoft continuing on their normal ways a prediction? It's a fact.
8. Walmart are going to have some serious issues with their online music store simply because its not easy to use. I agree that Apple at this rate will not be in the lead though.
9. The Burst case is interesting, but I can't see Apple and Real being punished if Microsoft loses/or buys Burst.
All up a rather silly set of predictions that is all too vague or missing facts. I can see why he gets 70-80% success.
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Try Panther. The performance optimizations on my iBook 500 have been nothing short of phenomenal.
Personally I could never bring myself to using Macs before OS X simply because they were so different to everything else on the market at that time. OS X bridges the divide and still lets me get my work done with the ease of use of Mac OS X and the fantastic development environment brought about by Unix and Cocoa.
This I am sure is highly unrelated. He did install Quicktime at the same time, which if corrupted could have caused kernel panics. There is no reason for any XCode software to be loaded at launch with the affect of causing a kernel panic.
Saying this, I will restart my machine now and see if it panics on launch as I have quicktime and xcode installed.
I wouldn't say that. I have seen some issues with this build already, and its less than 3 hrs old on my machine. Quick observations:
- Under some circumstances builds will fail (unsure of the circumstances) and you cannot shutdown the build in anyway or restart it. The only way to fix the issue is to force quite Xcode.
- Some of my projects had weird linking errors and complained about: "Dependency Analysis". Rebuilding the project fixed this annoyance.
After those events though (the former was repeatable), I would have to say its a nice update. Code Sense is much much much faster than before. The interface has been tweaked in my deparments, for the better IMHO and build times has stayed the same which is always welcome (although I would love it to be faster).
As Apple said, there is no reason to worry about your Xcode installations, we are just going to have Xcode 1.1.1 as soon as Apple get back on the 5th of Jan.
Didn't really need a reply like that as I wasn't really attacking anyone, I was giving my experience.
Yes, I write ANSI C and C++ and of course I am careful of the APIs. I might add that I have enjoyed dabbling in Obj-C/Cocoa. Its quite fun. I could write in Basic and port that, but then I don't really want to make Microsoft Office.
I don't use Photoshop. I use, just scanning my dock right now, XCode for development, Mail, Safari, Address Book, iSync, iTunes, iChat, Proteus (for MSN and ICQ), iPhoto, iMovie, iPodRip, Sherlock, OmniOutliner and a beta build of Adium.
I'm content for now. Life is much easier than Debian, and yes I know there are other better distro's, but I just don't have the urge to run out and get a PC to run Linux again. Still too much fiddling to get my work done.
Yup, I meant Fahrenheit, although I work in Celsius.:) Just spent way too long in the US and know that most of the slashdot community comes from those shores.
Have not tested it with my 12" PBook yet (first gen). Hopefully its not as loud as yours.
I would argue against this actually, especially with these new switchers appearing on the platform. Take for instance, myself.
I used to struggle to achieve anything on Windows simply due to the fact that it was so unbelievably unstable. Sure, I could get my work done (coding) but I always had issues.
Step forward to Linux. I could do my coding more effectively, but couldn't do the simple things that I took for granted on Windows as well, so I moved back (I don't want to fuss around with my computer, I want to use my computer and yes, Linux has improved massively since then).
Fast forward to today. I use my PowerBook for more than just coding now. I have all the coding wonders at my fingertips and use them heavily, but on top of that I have broadend my horizons. I now do some digital photography, some illustration work, and most importantly I make home movies. These type of things I just couldn't achive on the Windows and Linux boxen. Now, thanks to Mac OS X I am doing more with my computer (which is in the long run a bad thing).
Now I am not saying I am normal, but I have certainly seen this among switchers. They can achieve more with less so they do more. And no, I am not defending OS X, I am simply giving my point of view, and yes, I have used Windows XP in the last year and found it was really good for one thing, games.
Sadly that tells us next to nothing about graphics card driver updates and the nitty gritty details that we all need. For instance, is my GeForce 4MX performance back up to Jaguar levels on my PowerMac? I can't check.
Having friends at Apple also allows me to know changes they are making. I know there was more than 1 issue fixed with Mail, yet they only display one issue.
The knowledgebase article should contain all information that could affect any user, so that sys admins and the like can know what is being changed without resorting to taking the installer apart. We already have the small blurb in the Software Update window, so give us the complete change list please Apple.
Same here. The fan is kicking in at around 20 degress lower on my 15" PowerBook but it seems to have a new speed setting. Usually when the fan came on before it was at full speed, this new setting is rather lower and IMHO the machine is feeling cooler to the touch in normal use.
Hope this is actually Apple doing some adjustments to the hardware because they are always welcome.
On a side note, my PowerBook's battery now properly reports the Ah as being 4200 rather than previously 2900. This is a welcome change.
I was actually hoping they would have done a little better with the Windows crowd on board but it seems not. The real question is though, have sales platued or are they increasing/decreasing?
Time is what is going to make this bigger and better.
Lets take a new slant on it shall we? 25 million songs at approx 4mb each is around 100 million mb's of downloads. Is that worthy of a slashdot front page article (hell, its one hellova slashdotting!).
How about all artists that are not under the RIAA's umbrella getting sales they wouldn't have got already, or the assistance to the non-RIAA record labels? If one of them manages to pull in another US$50,000 simply through iTunes, it could be a really big deal to them. That's enough to sign on a few more artists and give them a shot.
We could even say that we are seeing the signs of Microsoft's stranglehold failing. This is Apple invading forbidden ground and winning. 25 million songs sold is a lot in comparison to the non-existant Microsoft variant or all the WMA DRM enabled songs being pawned by buymusic, napster, etc. What would you have rather had, 25 million AAC or 25 million WMA?
Don't forget of course the giant marketing campaign Apple and Pepsi are about to push, but of course, thats ONLY 100 million songs.
NeXT had a proprietary media format similar to the CD-ROM but it was actually a Magneto-Optical drive with a capacity of 256mb.
AFAIK, Apple did ship commerically the first CD-ROM with a computer. I would have to check that though.
More information on the NeXT Cube where the internet we know today was actually created:
NeXT Cube
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I figured that was the case. :) I just have the HFS+ restrictions stuck in my head and the explanations for it, and a quick google return 2gb limitations with LFS, but I didn't check the timestamp.
Well they have 500 terabytes of files spread across 220million files. This gives an average file size of 2.2gb's. I know this rules out a lot of filesystems out there these days.
My assumption is that their figures are wrong and they have 250million odd 2gb files or they don't have 500 terabytes used right now, as I doubt they are running a 64bit implementation. On the other hand, there might be some hack that someone can inform me of that allows file sizes greater than 2gb on 32bit file systems.
On the other hand, I know people in Apple, and I know the security updates are given a firm shaking down before they are released into the wild, even the Jaguar updates.
I hear you there.
Whatever happened to Darwin's theory of Evolution? Have we reversed nature and decided that having the broadest genetic base is the best? Billions of years of life have proven that is not the case, so I hate to think what will happen for generations to come.
Personally I am a rather good example of a human being, although I doubt if it was 10,000 years ago I would have survived in the 'wild'. My reflexes matured too late and my speed was too low to start with. Both of those are fatal flaws in nature.
On the flip side, are we going to see instead of survival of the fittest, survival of the brainest, where the body becomes useless and is simply a throwaway device. I would hate to think of a reality like that, but with our course right now its probably going to be the case.
I simply bought my parents an iBook and visit it every 6 months to make sure their software is up to date (aka Mac OS X 10.3, updates to Safari, etc.)
They have yet to have any major problems with it and my mom is astounded that she is achieving things with her computer that she never thought she could, like organizing her photos and e-mailing them off to friends.
You could do something simple to avoid this life offset the laser that is providing the propolusion to the car climbing the elevator. That would take literally no extra expense and only a little bit of mathematics to achieve.
I think in this instance we are dealing with stolen goods. In Australia at least, if you are in possession of stolen goods you can be arrested, because there is no proof at that time that you did not steal them.
I think its pretty obvious that this "code" has been stolen from Microsoft either by someone breaking in or someone releasing it illegally against their NDA or against the working contract with Microsoft. In this instance, I would be highly wary even downloading the code.
As for all your other points, you are correct, as long as no illegal method was used to get the code, aka reverse engineering or stealing it.
Not many more posts and this story is in the hall of fame. It's funny the ability of /.'ers to whip any Microsoft story into a tempest that dwarves anything else important that day.
The battery is getting 4-6hrs of life, which is reasonable I suspect for that age period, although the heat could easily be attributed to it I am sure. Also, my 5gb is not used as my daily music machine so charge up/down cycles are irregular or do not happen at all.
The video being distorted is something I have witnessed but quickly disappears after temperature returns to normal with no ill effects from my observations.
There is also another issue of the ambient air temperature. I guess people's mileage will definitely vary in that regard.
As someone who writes software for the iPod all day, I can say without reservation that iPod's can stand up to this usage pattern. My iPod 5gb has been running basically non stop for 16 months in this mode with no adverse affects.
My tips for cooling:
- Keep the metal side up (the dock is fine)
- Never cover your iPod while connected to your computer
- Never place it metal side down while connected to your computer on a blanket/pillow or something similar
- Place a small fan on it if you are very concerned
I have not had my iPod go above touchable temperature (any of my iPod's, 5gb, 15gb, 40gb). Touchable from memory is around ~55C and hard drives can usually handle 60C quite fine.
4. Sure Apple's marketing guys have internal numbers, but no announcement means that Apple cannot be wrong, and therefore his prediction is incorrect. I actually think its going to be incorrect anyway, Apple will sell more than they think they will.
7. True.
9. A, thats news to me. The last I knew they were not going after Apple, but I am sure that if they win against Microsoft they will happily sue Real and Apple.
1. The PS2's VU was pretty hard to write software for, but who is winning the market right now?
2. Nintendo have not announced what proecssor they are using, so how can it be the Cell processor? Who said that Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft were releasing now consoles this year? At this time, they are all gunning for 2005.
3. Apple are not going to release flash iPod's, instead they are going to release HD based iPod's with 2 or 4gb capacity. This is a solid rumor.
4. Apple have made no announcement of how many G5's they want to sell, so anything is not what they are hoping.
5. Chances are the G6 will be released next year as the Power5 is being released next year.
6. Linux die? How? It's not a company, its a conglomerate of programmers. It's marketshare is rising, not falling. Case in point, OSS such as Apache is only growing in popularity.
7. How is Microsoft continuing on their normal ways a prediction? It's a fact.
8. Walmart are going to have some serious issues with their online music store simply because its not easy to use. I agree that Apple at this rate will not be in the lead though.
9. The Burst case is interesting, but I can't see Apple and Real being punished if Microsoft loses/or buys Burst.
All up a rather silly set of predictions that is all too vague or missing facts. I can see why he gets 70-80% success.
Personally I could never bring myself to using Macs before OS X simply because they were so different to everything else on the market at that time. OS X bridges the divide and still lets me get my work done with the ease of use of Mac OS X and the fantastic development environment brought about by Unix and Cocoa.
I have distributed compiles enabled, but there is no reason that should cause a kernel panic.
Restarted with no issue. I doubt Apple would have pulled it for one person panic'ing. If everyone did, yes, they would have (aka 10.2.6).
Saying this, I will restart my machine now and see if it panics on launch as I have quicktime and xcode installed.
- Under some circumstances builds will fail (unsure of the circumstances) and you cannot shutdown the build in anyway or restart it. The only way to fix the issue is to force quite Xcode.
- Some of my projects had weird linking errors and complained about: "Dependency Analysis". Rebuilding the project fixed this annoyance.
After those events though (the former was repeatable), I would have to say its a nice update. Code Sense is much much much faster than before. The interface has been tweaked in my deparments, for the better IMHO and build times has stayed the same which is always welcome (although I would love it to be faster).
As Apple said, there is no reason to worry about your Xcode installations, we are just going to have Xcode 1.1.1 as soon as Apple get back on the 5th of Jan.
Yes, I write ANSI C and C++ and of course I am careful of the APIs. I might add that I have enjoyed dabbling in Obj-C/Cocoa. Its quite fun. I could write in Basic and port that, but then I don't really want to make Microsoft Office.
I don't use Photoshop. I use, just scanning my dock right now, XCode for development, Mail, Safari, Address Book, iSync, iTunes, iChat, Proteus (for MSN and ICQ), iPhoto, iMovie, iPodRip, Sherlock, OmniOutliner and a beta build of Adium.
I'm content for now. Life is much easier than Debian, and yes I know there are other better distro's, but I just don't have the urge to run out and get a PC to run Linux again. Still too much fiddling to get my work done.
Yup, I meant Fahrenheit, although I work in Celsius. :) Just spent way too long in the US and know that most of the slashdot community comes from those shores.
Have not tested it with my 12" PBook yet (first gen). Hopefully its not as loud as yours.
I used to struggle to achieve anything on Windows simply due to the fact that it was so unbelievably unstable. Sure, I could get my work done (coding) but I always had issues.
Step forward to Linux. I could do my coding more effectively, but couldn't do the simple things that I took for granted on Windows as well, so I moved back (I don't want to fuss around with my computer, I want to use my computer and yes, Linux has improved massively since then).
Fast forward to today. I use my PowerBook for more than just coding now. I have all the coding wonders at my fingertips and use them heavily, but on top of that I have broadend my horizons. I now do some digital photography, some illustration work, and most importantly I make home movies. These type of things I just couldn't achive on the Windows and Linux boxen. Now, thanks to Mac OS X I am doing more with my computer (which is in the long run a bad thing).
Now I am not saying I am normal, but I have certainly seen this among switchers. They can achieve more with less so they do more. And no, I am not defending OS X, I am simply giving my point of view, and yes, I have used Windows XP in the last year and found it was really good for one thing, games.
Having friends at Apple also allows me to know changes they are making. I know there was more than 1 issue fixed with Mail, yet they only display one issue.
The knowledgebase article should contain all information that could affect any user, so that sys admins and the like can know what is being changed without resorting to taking the installer apart. We already have the small blurb in the Software Update window, so give us the complete change list please Apple.
Hope this is actually Apple doing some adjustments to the hardware because they are always welcome.
On a side note, my PowerBook's battery now properly reports the Ah as being 4200 rather than previously 2900. This is a welcome change.
I was actually hoping they would have done a little better with the Windows crowd on board but it seems not. The real question is though, have sales platued or are they increasing/decreasing?
Lets take a new slant on it shall we? 25 million songs at approx 4mb each is around 100 million mb's of downloads. Is that worthy of a slashdot front page article (hell, its one hellova slashdotting!).
How about all artists that are not under the RIAA's umbrella getting sales they wouldn't have got already, or the assistance to the non-RIAA record labels? If one of them manages to pull in another US$50,000 simply through iTunes, it could be a really big deal to them. That's enough to sign on a few more artists and give them a shot.
We could even say that we are seeing the signs of Microsoft's stranglehold failing. This is Apple invading forbidden ground and winning. 25 million songs sold is a lot in comparison to the non-existant Microsoft variant or all the WMA DRM enabled songs being pawned by buymusic, napster, etc. What would you have rather had, 25 million AAC or 25 million WMA?
Don't forget of course the giant marketing campaign Apple and Pepsi are about to push, but of course, thats ONLY 100 million songs.
NeXT had a proprietary media format similar to the CD-ROM but it was actually a Magneto-Optical drive with a capacity of 256mb. AFAIK, Apple did ship commerically the first CD-ROM with a computer. I would have to check that though. More information on the NeXT Cube where the internet we know today was actually created: NeXT Cube