You should try a better browser like Mozilla or Chimera or even Opera.... man they fly on OS X. Big Slashdot story takes about 2 secs on my G4 500 laptop in Moz. In IE it's more like 10 secs.
Suggestion if you haven't heard it before, get more RAM. OS X just loves memory. Get as much as you can cause RAM is cheap these days and you'll love the improvement. I suggest you pick up 2 512 MB chips and fill 'er up to the max. Next in line would be a faster GPU, get the best graphics card you can... hopefully an AGP so you can really take advantage of Quartz Extreme. RADEOn 7000 or 8500 will do just fine. Then get a nice fast hard drive. Find a good 7200 rpm drive IDE is fine.
Total cost for this stuff will be around $400 and worth every penny.
I've been thinking that it is about time for RAID with faster I/O to make it into laptops... seems like you could get really nice performance from two IDEs (and two controllers) with moderate rpms.
I have a Toshiba 40GB GX in my TiPB that runs at 5400 rpm and it is the quietest thing you've never heard... seriously the only noise it makes is a little bleepity that seems to only be there to let you know it is working. Ahhhhh fluid-dynamic bearings, beautiful. The latest IBM 2.5 drives also have the same specs, 5400 plu f-d bearings. But mine also has 16 MB of disk cache...;-p only cost $200 w/ shipping.
The hard drive was the biggest bottleneck on my machine, now I'll have to get a faster laptop to get any more performance... already have a gig of RAM and the GPU is, well it's a laptop.
Will XDocs support 'ALL' the features in PDF?
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For instance:
-Transparency -Full compression via JPEG, ZIP, LZW, GIF, PNG, etc -Font sampling, ie: reduced character sets -Full interactivity, media support (audio, video, forms) -Seamless support by industry standard vector editors... think Illustrator, Freehand
Look at OS X... the whole damn GUI is rendered via PDF then spit out as an OpenGL texture... will XDocs compete with that level of sophistication?
Interesting but I doubt it will be a "PDF Killer".
Maybe it will be an alternate digital media format (most likely with some insane DRM/Palladium tie in).
There's a lot of money in designing the insides of closets... if you've never had a really well designed closet then you really don't know what you're missing out on.
That's still an address. It's just an address with a locked door and a guy behind it asking if you are a club member and know the password... otherwise known as a PRIVATE club.
Having experienced Virtual Desktops (no don't use the initials.. looks really bad)... on llnux first I was very excited to see VirtualDesktop developed for OS X. It allows a 10 high by 10 wide configuration of pagers/desktops which you can customize beyond your wildest dreams... and it will remember them between reboots.
So typically I have 3 desktops set up in a 1 x 3 config horizontally. One has my browser one has my mail client and the other is a multi purpose desktop with development tools. I can also add an extra desktop on the fly which I do if I have an active shell session going that I don't want to lose track of.
It's great because with a simple mouse movement I can switch between totally different environments without all of the clutter. This is very similar to a multi-monitor setup and for some purposes better. Not to mention the TCO benefits.
you can also use this to only have X-Windows run... just start it up the way you would from a terminal and since it doesn't rely on Aqua it will work just fine. Now why you'd want to do this is a mystery but... who knows could turn that ultra slow iMac from 1998 into a speed demon... course at that point you should just install YellowDog Linux.
Most third party mouse products have control panels as well... Kensington has the best IMHO though MacAlly and Microsoft IntelliStuff do as well. These will let you customize your mouse as much as you want with programmable buttons/scroller, speed curve manipulation/vector control, and chording speeds...etc. You can even use 3 button mice....
If the infrastructure is present there is no reason you couldn't right it yourself... I mean how hard could it be to capture a shutdown event and then delay it until a set of scripts have been run. Sounds more like a lack of initiative to me.
BTW what is so different about an application with a GUI asking you if you want to quit before the shutdown and a daemon doing the same? Currently when I shutdown my OS X box while running an app it will do this (ask if I want to quit). If I say no/cancel the shutdown is aborted.
All the pieces are there they just aren't being implemented in these daemons.
The latest VLC 0.4.4 works just fine with QT 6 in millions of colors... I suggets you upgrade to that version as it also has better overall performance and is available as a binary installation.
All of those apps were probably built in Visual Studio by a Windows dev team and then forced down the throats of all of you as a Windows only app because they didn't feel like supporting more than one version. Since Windows has been the most prevalent OS on cheap hardware clients for many years now they were correct to do this.
I'm in a similar situation. I use Macs because the windows version of the apps I run crash incessantly and I can't get any work done. Could be windows or could be the app, I don't care... my Macs run the apps perfectly and never crash which means that I get lots of work done. Then again I don't have any license probs with my OS so I'm fine.
So what YOU have to do is to have that software's client ported by the makers to Linux or at least have them make it compliant with the Wine distribution for Linux... voila, you still run the servers with Windows SQL but now you have lots of ultra cheap clients with no license hassles.
I was thinking that maybe this guy/girl is only 16 or 17 with good job skills but little life experience or a lack of parental advice. Some people get started early and don't get all the info they need before they are on their own.
I don't think that asking a community of supposed peers an honest question is prerequisite to needing psychiatric services.
Re:Spatially is the fasest way to get it in AND ou
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Oh yeah... now that you have all the boxes at your new place put them in the right room according to the labels you wrote on them (living room, kitchen, etc.) Unpack in the same order you packed... big bulky stuff first and smaller fragile things last.
Make sure your furniture is in place before you open any boxes though... boxes are so much easier to move around than a stack of CDs/DVDs and all those cables are individually.
Once your couch is in place get that PS2 out and play for a while before you get around to the boxes but don't put them in storage or you'll never find that CD you want to play when the hot girl next door stops by to say hello.
Spatially is the fasest way to get it in AND out
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Spatially is the fasest way to get it in AND out of the boxes....
First, Get some paper plates and plastic cups the day before packing... you'll want something to eat on and drink out of while your plates and glasses are packed. Set aside your Playstation for break time...
Start with a few medium sized boxes in each room and label them (living room, kitchen, bedroom, etc.) Grab all of the ordinary stuff that is not fragile and get it in the boxes putting a few heavy things in the bottom and lighter things on top... distribute the heavy stuff so you'll be able to carry an individual box without getting a hernia.
Once you have the bulky items and non-fragile stuff boxed up in medium sized boxes start putting the fragile stuff in the smallest boxes you have and use packing material to fill in the holes. Be sure to label these according to the rooms as well.
If you have the original boxes for your electronics use them. Save that PS2 TV for next to last.
Each room should have 5 to 10 boxes now with 95% of your stuff packed away. If you have several small boxes with fragile stuff and packing material (styrofoam peanuts, newspaper, etc.) you might be able to consolidate them into medium sized boxes for quicker transport.
Pack the clothes and personal hygiene stuff, as well as the few cooking items you've been using while packing last. Use your suitcases or barring this the last few medium sized boxes you'll need.
Now call up the moving company with the cheapest rate and have them move all the big and or expensive items... make sure they have insurance or else they are useless to you. Don't have them bother with the smaller and more fragile items... do those yourself and save a wad of cash... just have them move the TV, hardware, furniture and boxes of programming manuals you've collected over the years, expecially if you live above ground floor.
Take several trips to move what ever is left and eat a relaxed lunch in between.
If you're moving more than a 4 hour drive away pay somebody whatever it costs to do all the moving at once in a nice big rig. Taking 4 days to move and getting no sleep is not cool.
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I'm thinking maglev vehicles myself. The infrastructure costs would be immense but after a heavy investment in e-magnet embedded roadways, etc. cars/vehicles using precisely tuned magnetic propulsion systems would really be cool and economical and pejorative, pejorative... plenty of technical issues to deal with but with current tech it would be possible barring the massive expense forementioned.
That's exactly what the guy is looking for but open source or *nix based... anything that can do vectors would be a start and hpgl is definitely the output you want. The only other thing I can think it needs to do is control the feed of the vinyl.
I don't know of any software on Linux for this but it doesn't seem like a very difficult problem to solve.
Well all the birds and insects will be glad to hear that we superior humans have finally decided to get with the program and utilize controllable surfaces to improve our aerodynamics(think feathers and flexible wings)... now if we could only talk to the hummingbird and bumblebee specialists out there to begin using micro-turbulence effects to our advantage as well... hmmmm, interesting.
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What ever you do, go get a nice graphics card first... an AGP RADEON 7000 or 8500 at least. Quartz Extreme really does make all the difference.
You should try a better browser like Mozilla or Chimera or even Opera.... man they fly on OS X. Big Slashdot story takes about 2 secs on my G4 500 laptop in Moz. In IE it's more like 10 secs.
GET more RAM!!!!! 256 is just not enough for OS X... minimum of 512 MB. 'nuff said.
Suggestion if you haven't heard it before, get more RAM. OS X just loves memory. Get as much as you can cause RAM is cheap these days and you'll love the improvement. I suggest you pick up 2 512 MB chips and fill 'er up to the max. Next in line would be a faster GPU, get the best graphics card you can... hopefully an AGP so you can really take advantage of Quartz Extreme. RADEOn 7000 or 8500 will do just fine. Then get a nice fast hard drive. Find a good 7200 rpm drive IDE is fine.
Total cost for this stuff will be around $400 and worth every penny.
I've been thinking that it is about time for RAID with faster I/O to make it into laptops... seems like you could get really nice performance from two IDEs (and two controllers) with moderate rpms.
I have a Toshiba 40GB GX in my TiPB that runs at 5400 rpm and it is the quietest thing you've never heard... seriously the only noise it makes is a little bleepity that seems to only be there to let you know it is working. Ahhhhh fluid-dynamic bearings, beautiful. The latest IBM 2.5 drives also have the same specs, 5400 plu f-d bearings. But mine also has 16 MB of disk cache... ;-p only cost $200 w/ shipping.
The hard drive was the biggest bottleneck on my machine, now I'll have to get a faster laptop to get any more performance... already have a gig of RAM and the GPU is, well it's a laptop.
For instance:
-Transparency
-Full compression via JPEG, ZIP, LZW, GIF, PNG, etc
-Font sampling, ie: reduced character sets
-Full interactivity, media support (audio, video, forms)
-Seamless support by industry standard vector editors... think Illustrator, Freehand
Look at OS X... the whole damn GUI is rendered via PDF then spit out as an OpenGL texture... will XDocs compete with that level of sophistication?
Interesting but I doubt it will be a "PDF Killer".
Maybe it will be an alternate digital media format (most likely with some insane DRM/Palladium tie in).
It was still funny.... ;-p BTW even Their laptops are pretty damn easy to work with... man it's almost like someone designed them that way.
There's a lot of money in designing the insides of closets... if you've never had a really well designed closet then you really don't know what you're missing out on.
That's still an address. It's just an address with a locked door and a guy behind it asking if you are a club member and know the password... otherwise known as a PRIVATE club.
Having experienced Virtual Desktops (no don't use the initials.. looks really bad)... on llnux first I was very excited to see VirtualDesktop developed for OS X. It allows a 10 high by 10 wide configuration of pagers/desktops which you can customize beyond your wildest dreams... and it will remember them between reboots.
So typically I have 3 desktops set up in a 1 x 3 config horizontally. One has my browser one has my mail client and the other is a multi purpose desktop with development tools. I can also add an extra desktop on the fly which I do if I have an active shell session going that I don't want to lose track of.
It's great because with a simple mouse movement I can switch between totally different environments without all of the clutter. This is very similar to a multi-monitor setup and for some purposes better. Not to mention the TCO benefits.
you can also use this to only have X-Windows run... just start it up the way you would from a terminal and since it doesn't rely on Aqua it will work just fine. Now why you'd want to do this is a mystery but... who knows could turn that ultra slow iMac from 1998 into a speed demon... course at that point you should just install YellowDog Linux.
Most third party mouse products have control panels as well... Kensington has the best IMHO though MacAlly and Microsoft IntelliStuff do as well. These will let you customize your mouse as much as you want with programmable buttons/scroller, speed curve manipulation/vector control, and chording speeds...etc. You can even use 3 button mice....
If the infrastructure is present there is no reason you couldn't right it yourself... I mean how hard could it be to capture a shutdown event and then delay it until a set of scripts have been run. Sounds more like a lack of initiative to me.
BTW what is so different about an application with a GUI asking you if you want to quit before the shutdown and a daemon doing the same? Currently when I shutdown my OS X box while running an app it will do this (ask if I want to quit). If I say no/cancel the shutdown is aborted.
All the pieces are there they just aren't being implemented in these daemons.
Mod this up. Pretty insightful look at MS approach. The kernel level SQL part especially... look out for the dangerous bits of Long Horns, eh?
Good stuff.
The latest VLC 0.4.4 works just fine with QT 6 in millions of colors... I suggets you upgrade to that version as it also has better overall performance and is available as a binary installation.
Sounds like a supply and demand issue to me.
All of those apps were probably built in Visual Studio by a Windows dev team and then forced down the throats of all of you as a Windows only app because they didn't feel like supporting more than one version. Since Windows has been the most prevalent OS on cheap hardware clients for many years now they were correct to do this.
I'm in a similar situation. I use Macs because the windows version of the apps I run crash incessantly and I can't get any work done. Could be windows or could be the app, I don't care... my Macs run the apps perfectly and never crash which means that I get lots of work done. Then again I don't have any license probs with my OS so I'm fine.
So what YOU have to do is to have that software's client ported by the makers to Linux or at least have them make it compliant with the Wine distribution for Linux... voila, you still run the servers with Windows SQL but now you have lots of ultra cheap clients with no license hassles.
I was thinking that maybe this guy/girl is only 16 or 17 with good job skills but little life experience or a lack of parental advice. Some people get started early and don't get all the info they need before they are on their own.
I don't think that asking a community of supposed peers an honest question is prerequisite to needing psychiatric services.
Oh yeah... now that you have all the boxes at your new place put them in the right room according to the labels you wrote on them (living room, kitchen, etc.) Unpack in the same order you packed... big bulky stuff first and smaller fragile things last.
Make sure your furniture is in place before you open any boxes though... boxes are so much easier to move around than a stack of CDs/DVDs and all those cables are individually.
Once your couch is in place get that PS2 out and play for a while before you get around to the boxes but don't put them in storage or you'll never find that CD you want to play when the hot girl next door stops by to say hello.
Spatially is the fasest way to get it in AND out of the boxes....
First, Get some paper plates and plastic cups the day before packing... you'll want something to eat on and drink out of while your plates and glasses are packed. Set aside your Playstation for break time...
Start with a few medium sized boxes in each room and label them (living room, kitchen, bedroom, etc.) Grab all of the ordinary stuff that is not fragile and get it in the boxes putting a few heavy things in the bottom and lighter things on top... distribute the heavy stuff so you'll be able to carry an individual box without getting a hernia.
Once you have the bulky items and non-fragile stuff boxed up in medium sized boxes start putting the fragile stuff in the smallest boxes you have and use packing material to fill in the holes. Be sure to label these according to the rooms as well.
If you have the original boxes for your electronics use them. Save that PS2 TV for next to last.
Each room should have 5 to 10 boxes now with 95% of your stuff packed away. If you have several small boxes with fragile stuff and packing material (styrofoam peanuts, newspaper, etc.) you might be able to consolidate them into medium sized boxes for quicker transport.
Pack the clothes and personal hygiene stuff, as well as the few cooking items you've been using while packing last. Use your suitcases or barring this the last few medium sized boxes you'll need.
Now call up the moving company with the cheapest rate and have them move all the big and or expensive items... make sure they have insurance or else they are useless to you. Don't have them bother with the smaller and more fragile items... do those yourself and save a wad of cash... just have them move the TV, hardware, furniture and boxes of programming manuals you've collected over the years, expecially if you live above ground floor.
Take several trips to move what ever is left and eat a relaxed lunch in between.
If you're moving more than a 4 hour drive away pay somebody whatever it costs to do all the moving at once in a nice big rig. Taking 4 days to move and getting no sleep is not cool.
That's okay I have it this way "Death Ray(TM)"
So you are out of luck on that one...
I'm thinking maglev vehicles myself. The infrastructure costs would be immense but after a heavy investment in e-magnet embedded roadways, etc. cars/vehicles using precisely tuned magnetic propulsion systems would really be cool and economical and pejorative, pejorative... plenty of technical issues to deal with but with current tech it would be possible barring the massive expense forementioned.
That's exactly what the guy is looking for but open source or *nix based... anything that can do vectors would be a start and hpgl is definitely the output you want. The only other thing I can think it needs to do is control the feed of the vinyl.
I don't know of any software on Linux for this but it doesn't seem like a very difficult problem to solve.
You only have to support the 'discovery' protocol... as iChat uses the same messaging protocol as AIM et al... to my knowledge.
I wouldn't be too surprised if what you describe happens pretty soon.
Well all the birds and insects will be glad to hear that we superior humans have finally decided to get with the program and utilize controllable surfaces to improve our aerodynamics(think feathers and flexible wings)... now if we could only talk to the hummingbird and bumblebee specialists out there to begin using micro-turbulence effects to our advantage as well... hmmmm, interesting.