I agree with you on the comparison to emu or other flightless bird... and to further that I would say that the small to overly large teeth arrangement really looks to me like a first step to the formation of a beak.... just think what would happen if the teeth stayed the way they are and began to fuse together and were slowly overlaid with keratin/cilia... then lose the last vestigial teeth... and you have a beak.
They even mention that others in the family do have a beak and that this is the oldest family member they've found to date... looks like an obvious evolution to me.
It is a wonderful thing to do j2ee dev at the local Starbucks on your localhost Apache/Tomcat/whatever... then finally to upload it all to your dedicated server through your tMobile account... I mean can you get any better? Not to mention how jealous all your friends are that not only can you afford the Powerbook but that it actually makes more money for you while you appear to be taking it easy (well, you really are at least half of the time...).
The coolest part about a Mac these days is having a $200 dollar linux box in the closet and a Powerbook on the coffetable.... playing music wirelessly through the stereo system served from the mp3 streamer in the closet through the PBook with iTunes while reading/. and checking out how many other people are also listening to your stream via the webpage you designed in PHP and MySQL on the PBook localhost and then moved to your linux box w/o any hassle or reconfig... just a straight tarball copy and an apachectl graceful...
So why would anyone pay $3000 for a home server? It's not about the server, it's about having a perfect machine that you can do it all with... the ultimate pro-sumer device for the home. Develop, play, remore-admin, play, manage the household, play, play games, play, stock market, play, develop some more, play....
funny, cause I just watched Apollo 13 again and they repeated repeatedly the fact that the reentry vehicle had to approach the earth on a very specific vector or else they would burn up or bounce off the atmosphere... most likely meteors have the same approach and entry window as man-made detritus.
In the end of course it only takes one large asteroid to do it right and kill us all...
More work does not get done in more hours... it is always quality vs. quantity and quality always wins. Take more days off... call in sick or take your vacation days as needed.
In the end it is the one day that you solve the problem that really counts, right? Not the umpteen days you put in to write up the reports on what you plan to solve in that one day?
Man that is a hilarious statement.... very 'keen'. Though I wonder what that implies about the size of his unit... and it kind of makes me cringe to think about all that sticky 'fluid' he sprays everywhere.
Do you realize what you're describing... a very impotent and flacid network.... hmmm could be appropriate.... so would a bunch of laptops sitting around a circle sharing files be considered a circle jerk? probably just sharing porn anyways.
Go to Versiontracker and get the preference pane for setting the screensaver to either background or foreground and at login, etc... it's called FackBore Effects... I guess thats like BackFore effects or something.
i like running AbstractMotion as my desktop... so clean yet interesting but subtle and non-distracting.
Personally I don't remember 'paying' for 10.1 though I paid for 10.0 because it was the start of a completely new era in Operating Systems.
I did also pay for 10.2 though I acquired a copy of the GM a month before I received the actual box, primarily to show my support for Apple's incredible dev team and all of their hard work in creating the best ever OS for pros and consumers.
As an aside I will mention that there are hundreds of thousands of dollars that really do go in to Linux development via corporate subsidy every year, and also many companies which pay for specific improvement to the Linux kernel and libraries. you may get the updates for free but someone luckily does end up paying the developers.
Knowing only how to get mysql and apache to start up on boot I'd say to follow this gent's recommendations, using/etc/rc.d or/etc/init.d daemon initializations seems like the easiest and least obscure method though there may be better routines for dealing with the file system.
I work on OS X so... it's all BSD to me and the file system does things like auto reboot on power failure with a simple checkbox.
With a little massaging you can have a nice web based file browser and html editor in no time using many off the shelf open source application suites... look on scripts.com or similar sites for those two topics and check the reviews.
Without more info concerning your specific needs (do you need user authentication, page validation, templating, etc.) I couldn't recommend a specific set of scripts to you.
I use geeklog for maintaining a corporate intranet that provides user auth, static page, dynamic page, image uploads, file attachments(with a little hacking) and a nice editor. It is primarily a news portal suite so it also has events management and a site/per user calendar as well as a comments system similar to/. minus all the moderation goodies (don't need them anyways).
It works well for me but you may have different needs.
Trust me you want to get a copy even if you don't pay for it... find a "friend" to let you do 'testing' with his/her copy , you will be very pleased with the improved performance. i'm using it now and Id never ever go back to pre 10.2 (yeah yeah that's what i always say about mac updates).
The biggest difference I've seen between my 8 MB VRAM on my rev A TiPB and the 64 MB Radeon 8500 in my 350 mhz G4 sawtooth is that the desktop background image doesn't do alpha fades when switching on the Powerbook.
Wish i had a faster desktop to compare with but in any case i've seen dramatic performance boosts on both systems. Everyday use and in games.
Look for articles on how to flash the ROM on Nvidia PC cards... i hear it works but have yet to try it out... maybe look on XLR8YOURMAC or similar sites.
Then you can buy a nice GForce 3 for cheap and be happy.
You might as well sue GM, Toyta, and all the other car manufacturers and all their vendors for supplying transportation for pirates who transport copied CDs in cars.
Why not sue China instead? Lobby your government to stop favored trade status with the countries that are stealing your property. This is starting to look like the 'war on drugs'.
They have opened pandora's box and who knows what th end result will be.
WHY are you using a one-button mouse? All Macs support as many buttons as you want.
One button mice are free simple point and click devices for old grannies and 6 year olds to use until they realized how much more you can do with several buttons and a scroll wheel.
Nope, A PowerPC is what every Mac has currently. G3 / G4 are PowerPC CPUs.
PowerPC and x86 are completely different CPU architectures.
Apple going 64 bit will have almost no impact on developers or the OS other than to improve upon it. The only thing that will have to happen is that Apple, et al will have to recompile all of their binaries using a 64 bit compiler. That's it. If Apple or IBM already has the compiler for 64 bit PPC or at least a working version then it (64-bit Mac) is practically here already.
I thought the point of this was so that the NetBSD portion of OS X's Darwin would finally be capable of utilizing dual CPUs. Am I missing something?
If previously NetBSD in OS X, et al was only cinlge CPU aware then OS X Server has been sub-optimal from it's inception as a server and now should see very nice performance improvements to such things as the TCP/IP stack and many other networking technologies.
I'm definitely curious to see what impact this will have for OS X Server. I assume that it was Apple's engineers that privided the 'last mile' details to get this working... nicde work people.
Maybe we'll be seeing TiVos with Dual G4 PPCs running NetBSD in the future or something too..
BTW, does anyone know if PPC Linux distros are MP aware?
I recently recieved an e-mail from a company telling me they were interested in BUYING one of the domain names i own... er owned... yeah you read right, they wanted to 'buy' a domain from me that I had let the lease run out on. Interesting.
They included a link to an 'offer' form where I could give them my offer to sell. It also had a link to a site where i could check the availability of the domain... and re-register it.
So either this company was just being incredibly daft or they were fronting for a domain registry and trying to get me to re-register the name in the hopes that i would be getting a pay out in the near future.
Has anyone else had this experience?
Looked pretty sleazy to me considering as how my claim to the domain had died out several months before... not several days.
Luckily most schools have technology called 'printing' wherein you can create a paper copy of this weeks lesson from your digital copy, as many times as is needed. That is unless they screw you with DMCA crap and don't allow printing of the text...
Otherwise i'd say that just printing out what you plan to read for that hour in the park is much nicer than lugging around a big text book.
CUPS is implemented by the driver not by PrintCenter. Jaguar provides APIs for 3rd parties to configure CUPS. From what i can tell by reading the docs CUPS won't 'just work' it has to be supported by the printer, again, via the drivers. Once the printer is supported then PrintCenter takes over for management of individual prints and the queue.
CUPS support is meant to enable a faster driver development cycle for printer manufacturers so they don't have to write specifically for the Mac... which gives Mac users a much larger selection of printers w/o added cost.
Quick blurb of revelance:
"The CUPS Imaging library provides functions for managing large images, doing colorspace conversion and color management, scaling images for printing, and managing raster page streams. It is used by the CUPS image file filters, the PostScript RIP, and all raster printers drivers. "
I still don't understand why people assume that Macs only support a one button mouse... drivers people, drivers. There are many 3 button mice available for Macs.
Go buy one and install the driver, they are even programmable... and application/context programmable to boot.
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I agree with you on the comparison to emu or other flightless bird... and to further that I would say that the small to overly large teeth arrangement really looks to me like a first step to the formation of a beak. ... just think what would happen if the teeth stayed the way they are and began to fuse together and were slowly overlaid with keratin/cilia... then lose the last vestigial teeth... and you have a beak.
They even mention that others in the family do have a beak and that this is the oldest family member they've found to date... looks like an obvious evolution to me.
I would conjecture that OS X is the main reason why FreeBSD is getting a port out of nowhere, seeing as how the two are cousins.
It is a wonderful thing to do j2ee dev at the local Starbucks on your localhost Apache /Tomcat/whatever... then finally to upload it all to your dedicated server through your tMobile account... I mean can you get any better? Not to mention how jealous all your friends are that not only can you afford the Powerbook but that it actually makes more money for you while you appear to be taking it easy (well, you really are at least half of the time...).
The coolest part about a Mac these days is having a $200 dollar linux box in the closet and a Powerbook on the coffetable.... playing music wirelessly through the stereo system served from the mp3 streamer in the closet through the PBook with iTunes while reading /. and checking out how many other people are also listening to your stream via the webpage you designed in PHP and MySQL on the PBook localhost and then moved to your linux box w/o any hassle or reconfig... just a straight tarball copy and an apachectl graceful...
So why would anyone pay $3000 for a home server? It's not about the server, it's about having a perfect machine that you can do it all with... the ultimate pro-sumer device for the home. Develop, play, remore-admin, play, manage the household, play, play games, play, stock market, play, develop some more, play....
any questions?
funny, cause I just watched Apollo 13 again and they repeated repeatedly the fact that the reentry vehicle had to approach the earth on a very specific vector or else they would burn up or bounce off the atmosphere... most likely meteors have the same approach and entry window as man-made detritus.
In the end of course it only takes one large asteroid to do it right and kill us all...
carpe diem I guess...
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More work does not get done in more hours... it is always quality vs. quantity and quality always wins. Take more days off... call in sick or take your vacation days as needed.
In the end it is the one day that you solve the problem that really counts, right? Not the umpteen days you put in to write up the reports on what you plan to solve in that one day?
that's it... add more details if you like.
Man that is a hilarious statement.... very 'keen'. Though I wonder what that implies about the size of his unit... and it kind of makes me cringe to think about all that sticky 'fluid' he sprays everywhere.
Do you realize what you're describing... a very impotent and flacid network.... hmmm could be appropriate.... so would a bunch of laptops sitting around a circle sharing files be considered a circle jerk? probably just sharing porn anyways.
hehehehe
Go to Versiontracker and get the preference pane for setting the screensaver to either background or foreground and at login, etc... it's called FackBore Effects... I guess thats like BackFore effects or something.
i like running AbstractMotion as my desktop... so clean yet interesting but subtle and non-distracting.
Personally I don't remember 'paying' for 10.1 though I paid for 10.0 because it was the start of a completely new era in Operating Systems.
I did also pay for 10.2 though I acquired a copy of the GM a month before I received the actual box, primarily to show my support for Apple's incredible dev team and all of their hard work in creating the best ever OS for pros and consumers.
As an aside I will mention that there are hundreds of thousands of dollars that really do go in to Linux development via corporate subsidy every year, and also many companies which pay for specific improvement to the Linux kernel and libraries. you may get the updates for free but someone luckily does end up paying the developers.
Knowing only how to get mysql and apache to start up on boot I'd say to follow this gent's recommendations, using /etc/rc.d or /etc/init.d daemon initializations seems like the easiest and least obscure method though there may be better routines for dealing with the file system.
I work on OS X so... it's all BSD to me and the file system does things like auto reboot on power failure with a simple checkbox.
Good luck.
With a little massaging you can have a nice web based file browser and html editor in no time using many off the shelf open source application suites... look on scripts.com or similar sites for those two topics and check the reviews.
/. minus all the moderation goodies (don't need them anyways).
Without more info concerning your specific needs (do you need user authentication, page validation, templating, etc.) I couldn't recommend a specific set of scripts to you.
I use geeklog for maintaining a corporate intranet that provides user auth, static page, dynamic page, image uploads, file attachments(with a little hacking) and a nice editor. It is primarily a news portal suite so it also has events management and a site/per user calendar as well as a comments system similar to
It works well for me but you may have different needs.
Trust me you want to get a copy even if you don't pay for it... find a "friend" to let you do 'testing' with his/her copy , you will be very pleased with the improved performance. i'm using it now and Id never ever go back to pre 10.2 (yeah yeah that's what i always say about mac updates).
The biggest difference I've seen between my 8 MB VRAM on my rev A TiPB and the 64 MB Radeon 8500 in my 350 mhz G4 sawtooth is that the desktop background image doesn't do alpha fades when switching on the Powerbook.
Wish i had a faster desktop to compare with but in any case i've seen dramatic performance boosts on both systems. Everyday use and in games.
Look for articles on how to flash the ROM on Nvidia PC cards... i hear it works but have yet to try it out... maybe look on XLR8YOURMAC or similar sites.
Then you can buy a nice GForce 3 for cheap and be happy.
i agree...
You might as well sue GM, Toyta, and all the other car manufacturers and all their vendors for supplying transportation for pirates who transport copied CDs in cars.
Why not sue China instead? Lobby your government to stop favored trade status with the countries that are stealing your property. This is starting to look like the 'war on drugs'.
They have opened pandora's box and who knows what th end result will be.
I'm thinking that's it is very possible that www.shavlik.com used to be owned by a spears fan who pronounced his/her site www. Shave Lick .com
anyone else agree/
WHY are you using a one-button mouse? All Macs support as many buttons as you want.
One button mice are free simple point and click devices for old grannies and 6 year olds to use until they realized how much more you can do with several buttons and a scroll wheel.
hmmm did YOU read the article?
" IBM's presentation, for example, says the company's 64-bit PowerPC processor will be designed for desktops and entery level servers. "
Does that NOT say PowerPC? Does it NOT say Desktop?
The chip is based on Power4 manufacturing and tech that's all.. it is a PowerPC.
Nope, A PowerPC is what every Mac has currently. G3 / G4 are PowerPC CPUs.
PowerPC and x86 are completely different CPU architectures.
Apple going 64 bit will have almost no impact on developers or the OS other than to improve upon it. The only thing that will have to happen is that Apple, et al will have to recompile all of their binaries using a 64 bit compiler. That's it. If Apple or IBM already has the compiler for 64 bit PPC or at least a working version then it (64-bit Mac) is practically here already.
I thought the point of this was so that the NetBSD portion of OS X's Darwin would finally be capable of utilizing dual CPUs. Am I missing something?
If previously NetBSD in OS X, et al was only cinlge CPU aware then OS X Server has been sub-optimal from it's inception as a server and now should see very nice performance improvements to such things as the TCP/IP stack and many other networking technologies.
I'm definitely curious to see what impact this will have for OS X Server. I assume that it was Apple's engineers that privided the 'last mile' details to get this working... nicde work people.
Maybe we'll be seeing TiVos with Dual G4 PPCs running NetBSD in the future or something too..
BTW, does anyone know if PPC Linux distros are MP aware?
I recently recieved an e-mail from a company telling me they were interested in BUYING one of the domain names i own... er owned... yeah you read right, they wanted to 'buy' a domain from me that I had let the lease run out on. Interesting.
They included a link to an 'offer' form where I could give them my offer to sell. It also had a link to a site where i could check the availability of the domain... and re-register it.
So either this company was just being incredibly daft or they were fronting for a domain registry and trying to get me to re-register the name in the hopes that i would be getting a pay out in the near future.
Has anyone else had this experience?
Looked pretty sleazy to me considering as how my claim to the domain had died out several months before... not several days.
Interesting. Be wary of such tactics.
Luckily most schools have technology called 'printing' wherein you can create a paper copy of this weeks lesson from your digital copy, as many times as is needed. That is unless they screw you with DMCA crap and don't allow printing of the text...
Otherwise i'd say that just printing out what you plan to read for that hour in the park is much nicer than lugging around a big text book.
CUPS is in Jaguar.
CUPS is implemented by the driver not by PrintCenter. Jaguar provides APIs for 3rd parties to configure CUPS. From what i can tell by reading the docs CUPS won't 'just work' it has to be supported by the printer, again, via the drivers. Once the printer is supported then PrintCenter takes over for management of individual prints and the queue.
CUPS support is meant to enable a faster driver development cycle for printer manufacturers so they don't have to write specifically for the Mac... which gives Mac users a much larger selection of printers w/o added cost.
Quick blurb of revelance:
"The CUPS Imaging library provides functions for managing large images, doing colorspace conversion and color management, scaling images for printing, and managing raster page streams. It is used by the CUPS image file filters, the PostScript RIP, and all raster printers drivers. "
I still don't understand why people assume that Macs only support a one button mouse... drivers people, drivers. There are many 3 button mice available for Macs.
Go buy one and install the driver, they are even programmable... and application/context programmable to boot.
How else would I be able to use Maya?