OS X Date/Time has an option to use ntp and you can set which server. ntp.apple.com is the default but I prefer to use a server where time is very important for everything they do. NASA seems to fit the bill.
Other ntp servers like any military server are probably similarly effective. I wouldn't necessarily trust a commercially owned and run ntp server though.
You're correct about the 86/68 thing... dislexic I suppose. Anyways.. this is the part I was flaming about:
"My success rate was a stunning zero percent with a couple of different machines, both 6100 compatibles. By failure I mean the machines never made it past the bootloader. Admittedly, these models did not use the 601 processor,"
If the models he/she tested did not use the 601 processor then they weren't PPC nor were they '6100 compatible' whatever that means. Point is that the info provided wasn't a relevant case study and I felt the need to point that out.
NuBus wasn't 'wierd', it was current for the time. Nubus had a very healthy following for many years.
Before PCI came along it was THE architecture for audio/video and nobody had any better.
Now we have AGP... in a few years people will be saying how 'wierd' the PCI architecture was and that's why it's no longer supported by the new OSs. Same with SCSI for data transfer vs. ATA.
Excuse me, but I believe that PPCLinux and other PPC Linux distributions will ONLY RUN ON A PPC!!!!
Is that clear? Trying to get an OS designed for the PPC architecture to run on an 860xx CPU is just ingnorance on your part. That's like trying to get OS 9 to run on x86 architecture!
The only reason nubus is still relevant for the 601 PPC is because it was supported by the first year's production units. All the later CPU's supported PCI. It was a pretty big deal at the time cause there were lots of video and audio cards that only came as nubus.
So to summarize. To my knowledge there is no Linux for 860xx motorola CPU's and only a certain selection of PPC 601s, the first generation, required nubus support.
"The 7200 was the entry level second-generation Power Mac, the first group of Apple computers to use the PCI bus." -- courtesy of www.lowendmac.com
It's not only about major manufacturers, it's about a fully supported, by top of the line customer service, with the best administration tools available on any machine.
How ong does it take to configure one of those AMD monsters? Do YOU know if you got all your security and log watching/monitoring software set up right?
Some very astute IT people know how to maintain a production level server with extremely high loads... it is very rare for those people to be working in anything other than a tech company or fortune 500 corporation.
XServe handles all that stuff for you. It's administration utilties are the best I've seen you are soon going to see many experts agree that for 95% of the companies out there these tools alone will justify any added expense.
XServe isn't just hardware. It's a solution, hardware/software best of breed integration.
Has anyone who's posted played a password protected version of Never Winter Nights?...as in, you provide the server for your friends and only your friends, then proceed to play a mutually respectful game with honest rewards and accountability.
Online Magic should provide the same capability. If it doesn't i suggest that you adamantly request such before paying money... online != anonymous.
That's it. The perfect solution for clubs, groups, and privateers.
Nope that's more like getting herpes... 9 out of ten get it and there's not much to do about it but treat the symptoms. To stay herpes/windows worm free you have to stay away from potentiall infected entities. That means no unprotected sex, no hookers and no Windows.
They all three can be fast and exhillarating but the quality of the experience/or lack thereof is in no way a good exchange for the risks involved.
A very close approximation don't you think? The RIAA gets to presume guilt and act towards anyone who they think may be violating copyright... even if they only find files with 'names' including their copyrighted material's reference. 'I hate tha Back Stret Boys.txt' is now a punishable offense and subject to DOS, Denial of Sovereignty.
In The Minority Report (I might get DOS'ed by Hollywood just for writing this), 'potential' murderers are hunted down and imprisoned because they 'will' commit murder. In the present day our government is considering a law which will allow a non-government body to hunt down and 'imprison' a person's right to fair use because they presume that it will lead to piracy.
In other news: guns, pencils, nunchakus, and gasoline are all deemed illegal because a person might in the future use them to commit crimes. Castration and hysterectomies are now required of all people because sexual organs and sex could lead to rape and/or abortion/murder. Literacy has been outlawed because it may lead someone to learn how to build bombs or start a revolution.
Cheers! Here's to the future of living in a prison state....
What ever happened to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
or even Life, Liberty and Property
...for those cynical historians out there.
Remember that fair use is part of Property, as in I can own a car AND I get to drive it, just not recklessly while in town.
As far as I can tell it is all the non-tech savvy college students and high school kids who are using teh p2p services these days. Every college kid I've met in the last year has a collection of at least 1000 mp3s and the PC their parents bought while using the net connection their school provides.
High-bandwidth + no accountability + no money = no cd sales to the biggest music collectors around.
These are the same people swapping viruses like you wouldn't believe... both digital and meaty varieties.
It's not techies or geeks, it is the unwashed masses of the almost educated that are responsible. Tech-savvy enough to understand the internet but inexperienced enough to completely ignore how their actions impact the rest of the world.
As far as I can tell it is all the non-tech savvy college students and high school kids who are using teh p2p services these days. Every college kid I've met in the last year has a collection of at least 1000 mp3s and the PC their parents bought while using the net connection their school provides.
High-bandwidth + no accountability + no money = no cd sales to the biggest music collectors around.
These are the same people swapping viruses like you wouldn't believe... both digital and meaty varieties.
It's not techies or geeks, it is the unwashed masses of the almost educated that are responsible. Tech-savvy enough to understand the internet but inexperienced enough to completely ignore how their actions impact the rest of the world.
Nope for me it's the people with ideology who are evil... manipulating bastards, they claim 'trying to make the world better by doing stuff' but really they're just fscking with us and keeping anyone from doing good stuff by taxing our time and resources.
Destroying for the fun of it is a minor hobby that is easily countered by societal pressure or just plain ol' time... ideology seems to survive much longer than it is valid.
6 megs of memory, storage, cache or all of the above?
What is the complete list of resources available and can you use them all?
Can you generate some dynamic tables at startup while keeping the most used ones in cache, loaded from storage? I don't mean cache as in a web browser cache, I mean processor cache as in fastest access.
Keeping the most used, hopefully static lookup tables in cpu cache is wonderful. Then generate the infrequently changed tables and store in RAM first then generate the dynamic user data tables from storage and swap in and out of RAM as needed or as memory use dictates, load balance by percentage with the application tables most used.
If you're working strictly with something like flash memory this will be much harder to do. No 'storage' just RAM and cache, or maybe just RAM/ROM... ugh... hardware.
That whole nipple thing only refers to it's most basic and rudimentary function... obtaining sustenance as an infant.
I question all/.ers out there whether they know how to use a nipple effectively as an adult? It can be a much more intricate exercise with a multitude of variations of interactions. Personally it is very intuitive but I've heard from many female friends that not all guys have this 'intuition' as adults.
Remember that the nipple is a sensitive interface and that it is definitely subject to 'gestures' and 'clicks' not to mention 'click and drag' elements as well as plenty of 'multitasking'. Also there are several types of 'input devices' which will open up your options and provide more precise manipulation. I suggest avoiding the 'command line' as it is a 'blunt' interface in this context and your partner will appreciate a little more subtlety.
I believe the person was referring to using 'regular expression' to copy or move a selection of files using a recursive search through a heterogenous directory... ie: copy all.jpg files in/pub to/usr/jpg/
# cp -R/pub/*.jpg/usr/jpg/
# the * means match all files that end in.jpg
that's the simplest way to grab all.jpg files in the/pub directory and copy them to/usr/jpg if you happen to be looking for all.jpgs in/pub.
moving them all isn't much more difficult though it requires more effort because it is more dangerous in that it can seriously break your system if applied incorrectly.
Of course regular expression is much more powerful than that and can do things like matching all.jpgs except the ones with a._ in them and/or those with a number in the name, etc. and then rename them all by looking at their creation date and numbering them sequentially, for example. It won't help you pick out the best images for an ad campaign but it will help you make a well organized thumbnail collection.
BTW I've been using OS X for two years now... since public beta/(alpha) and I'd like to thank the 20 years of Unix developers for their contributions to CS and the awesome power those contributions have given the world over the mysterious byte.
Before OS X I was a point and click addict and thought that it was just amazing to be able to change the colors of my illustration by using a color picker instead of having to redo the design with markers.
Intuitive depends on what you are doing at the time. For working with plain text a command line is obviously the best. If you want to do formatted text it gets to be much more complicated and unwieldly.
Most programmers can get more done with command line because they work with plain text only for 80% of their work. Object Oriented programmers probably get less use out of CLI and anyone working with a full project with lots of dependencies will achieve dramatic improvements with an IDE just for organizational reasons.
Likewise any job that requires high levels of multitasking will also see a marked improvement via the use of a visual navigation environment... it's the 'overview' effect of using a map/flowchart or similar for strategizing instead of trying to hold all the details in your head or as a list of information.
These seem to be the two most common perspectives at work in an environment, the detailed single perspective and the general overview many perspective. Each has a range of intuitive methodologies, some are similar and some are radically different. All jobs utilize these in differing proportions.
Each tool should recognize this as well as support integration with the other tools available, such as the capability to script via the command line a particular visual interface or the ability to import or pipe the output of a command line into a visual interface for further manipulation.
We do understand these things as evidenced by the plethora of tools available which support this working model of detailed/overview integration. In fact it seems that this has been improving substantially ove the last couple of years as fields like graphic design and programming become entwined via web design, etc.
Ah but what if you could do all those things while sitting at the stip club or the ball game in between 'plays'... how about ordering up the bio on that girl or the stats on the player who just scored... then filing away the best parts for your scrapbook/journal plus the video footage your eyes just recorded?
That's what I'm talking about. Enjoy real life to the fullest and bring your office with you.... currently we only have the option of sitting in the office and living real life vicariously through cheap versions on the internet.
This of course only applies to the ones of us unlucky enough to have to work for a living but lucky enough to have a job.
Seems to me that mice are the best choice given a 'limited' resolution device. If you were working with something that could scale to the full human interaction space, ie: your 'personal sphere' of influence and scale in resolution then the finger or whatever pointer you used physically wouldn't be so 'blunt'.
Think about using a virtual pane of glass about a meter square for your 'screen' instead of a little laptop or monitor screen. Also being able to 'zoom' in for precision would add a lot, expecially if it were a localized zoom more like a magnifying lens just for grabbing vector nodes or small sections of text, etc..
I do agree that current versions of gloves-and-goggles aren't the answer though.
It won't really work until it's more like a holographic display, something very resolution independent, or with an extremely high maximum resolution that can start out in the middle somewhere.
As for pointing devices other than mice... using anything that requires full motion of the arm and elbow won't go far for most people.. too much work. You need a ppointer with some buttons that are ergonomic but can translate small ranges of motion into large selections, etc... like those old copying devices artists used to enlarge drawings... like the mice does with it's 'travel/speed' attribute turned up high.
I'm thinking a gyroscopic device that measures distance traveled and can reset it's relative position to the display as needed (the way you do it manually with a mouse when you pick it up and set it back down at the beginning of your pad).
Actually with 'Saverlab' you can already have a video desktop... well kind of. It presents full screen at the z-level 0 and stays there while you work in any other window. It's not hardware accellerated and you can't drop docs on top of it but still pretty sweet to play with.
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That's called military time. 0 - 24 no am or pm.. just hours in the day.
Or just open up the old Date Time control panel and click on the "Network Time" tab and turn it on. Fill in ntp.nasa.gov and you're ready to go.
I use NASA's ntp server. ntp.nasa.gov
OS X Date/Time has an option to use ntp and you can set which server. ntp.apple.com is the default but I prefer to use a server where time is very important for everything they do. NASA seems to fit the bill.
Other ntp servers like any military server are probably similarly effective. I wouldn't necessarily trust a commercially owned and run ntp server though.
Save it as a PDF. Easier if you're in OS X but MS Word can probably do it as well. Then print landscape on a large format poster/banner printer.
Some Epsons and HP's can print unlimited length or very long 'banner' sized images on rolls of paper.
Take your PDF to Kinkos and have them do it for you.
Also supports Pig-Latin
When are we going to get 'bio-ports' anyways? and where are all the oragnic grown from mutated amphibians components these days?
He must be playing that game from eXistenZ... Thou Art God.
You're correct about the 86/68 thing... dislexic I suppose. Anyways.. this is the part I was flaming about:
"My success rate was a stunning zero percent with a couple of different machines, both 6100 compatibles. By failure I mean the machines never made it past the bootloader. Admittedly, these models did not use the 601 processor,"
If the models he/she tested did not use the 601 processor then they weren't PPC nor were they '6100 compatible' whatever that means. Point is that the info provided wasn't a relevant case study and I felt the need to point that out.
NuBus wasn't 'wierd', it was current for the time. Nubus had a very healthy following for many years.
Before PCI came along it was THE architecture for audio/video and nobody had any better.
Now we have AGP... in a few years people will be saying how 'wierd' the PCI architecture was and that's why it's no longer supported by the new OSs. Same with SCSI for data transfer vs. ATA.
Excuse me, but I believe that PPCLinux and other PPC Linux distributions will ONLY RUN ON A PPC!!!!
Is that clear? Trying to get an OS designed for the PPC architecture to run on an 860xx CPU is just ingnorance on your part. That's like trying to get OS 9 to run on x86 architecture!
The only reason nubus is still relevant for the 601 PPC is because it was supported by the first year's production units. All the later CPU's supported PCI. It was a pretty big deal at the time cause there were lots of video and audio cards that only came as nubus.
So to summarize. To my knowledge there is no Linux for 860xx motorola CPU's and only a certain selection of PPC 601s, the first generation, required nubus support.
"The 7200 was the entry level second-generation Power Mac, the first group of Apple computers to use the PCI bus." -- courtesy of www.lowendmac.com
http://nubus.tuxppc.org/index.php
It's not only about major manufacturers, it's about a fully supported, by top of the line customer service, with the best administration tools available on any machine.
How ong does it take to configure one of those AMD monsters? Do YOU know if you got all your security and log watching/monitoring software set up right?
Some very astute IT people know how to maintain a production level server with extremely high loads... it is very rare for those people to be working in anything other than a tech company or fortune 500 corporation.
XServe handles all that stuff for you. It's administration utilties are the best I've seen you are soon going to see many experts agree that for 95% of the companies out there these tools alone will justify any added expense.
XServe isn't just hardware. It's a solution, hardware/software best of breed integration.
Has anyone who's posted played a password protected version of Never Winter Nights? ...as in, you provide the server for your friends and only your friends, then proceed to play a mutually respectful game with honest rewards and accountability.
Online Magic should provide the same capability. If it doesn't i suggest that you adamantly request such before paying money... online != anonymous.
That's it. The perfect solution for clubs, groups, and privateers.
'nuff said.
Nope that's more like getting herpes... 9 out of ten get it and there's not much to do about it but treat the symptoms. To stay herpes/windows worm free you have to stay away from potentiall infected entities. That means no unprotected sex, no hookers and no Windows.
They all three can be fast and exhillarating but the quality of the experience/or lack thereof is in no way a good exchange for the risks involved.
"instant access to your backups as they are on your drive!"
So what happens when the drive dies on you? It has been known to happen... so all your 'backups' just died too, huh?
A very close approximation don't you think? The RIAA gets to presume guilt and act towards anyone who they think may be violating copyright... even if they only find files with 'names' including their copyrighted material's reference. 'I hate tha Back Stret Boys.txt' is now a punishable offense and subject to DOS, Denial of Sovereignty.
In The Minority Report (I might get DOS'ed by Hollywood just for writing this), 'potential' murderers are hunted down and imprisoned because they 'will' commit murder. In the present day our government is considering a law which will allow a non-government body to hunt down and 'imprison' a person's right to fair use because they presume that it will lead to piracy.
In other news: guns, pencils, nunchakus, and gasoline are all deemed illegal because a person might in the future use them to commit crimes. Castration and hysterectomies are now required of all people because sexual organs and sex could lead to rape and/or abortion/murder. Literacy has been outlawed because it may lead someone to learn how to build bombs or start a revolution.
Cheers! Here's to the future of living in a prison state....
What ever happened to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
or even Life, Liberty and Property
...for those cynical historians out there.
Remember that fair use is part of Property, as in I can own a car AND I get to drive it, just not recklessly while in town.
As far as I can tell it is all the non-tech savvy college students and high school kids who are using teh p2p services these days. Every college kid I've met in the last year has a collection of at least 1000 mp3s and the PC their parents bought while using the net connection their school provides.
High-bandwidth + no accountability + no money = no cd sales to the biggest music collectors around.
These are the same people swapping viruses like you wouldn't believe... both digital and meaty varieties.
It's not techies or geeks, it is the unwashed masses of the almost educated that are responsible. Tech-savvy enough to understand the internet but inexperienced enough to completely ignore how their actions impact the rest of the world.
As far as I can tell it is all the non-tech savvy college students and high school kids who are using teh p2p services these days. Every college kid I've met in the last year has a collection of at least 1000 mp3s and the PC their parents bought while using the net connection their school provides.
High-bandwidth + no accountability + no money = no cd sales to the biggest music collectors around.
These are the same people swapping viruses like you wouldn't believe... both digital and meaty varieties.
It's not techies or geeks, it is the unwashed masses of the almost educated that are responsible. Tech-savvy enough to understand the internet but inexperienced enough to completely ignore how their actions impact the rest of the world.
Nope for me it's the people with ideology who are evil... manipulating bastards, they claim 'trying to make the world better by doing stuff' but really they're just fscking with us and keeping anyone from doing good stuff by taxing our time and resources.
Destroying for the fun of it is a minor hobby that is easily countered by societal pressure or just plain ol' time... ideology seems to survive much longer than it is valid.
6 megs of memory, storage, cache or all of the above?
What is the complete list of resources available and can you use them all?
Can you generate some dynamic tables at startup while keeping the most used ones in cache, loaded from storage? I don't mean cache as in a web browser cache, I mean processor cache as in fastest access.
Keeping the most used, hopefully static lookup tables in cpu cache is wonderful. Then generate the infrequently changed tables and store in RAM first then generate the dynamic user data tables from storage and swap in and out of RAM as needed or as memory use dictates, load balance by percentage with the application tables most used.
If you're working strictly with something like flash memory this will be much harder to do. No 'storage' just RAM and cache, or maybe just RAM/ROM... ugh... hardware.
More info please.
That whole nipple thing only refers to it's most basic and rudimentary function... obtaining sustenance as an infant.
/.ers out there whether they know how to use a nipple effectively as an adult? It can be a much more intricate exercise with a multitude of variations of interactions. Personally it is very intuitive but I've heard from many female friends that not all guys have this 'intuition' as adults.
I question all
Remember that the nipple is a sensitive interface and that it is definitely subject to 'gestures' and 'clicks' not to mention 'click and drag' elements as well as plenty of 'multitasking'. Also there are several types of 'input devices' which will open up your options and provide more precise manipulation. I suggest avoiding the 'command line' as it is a 'blunt' interface in this context and your partner will appreciate a little more subtlety.
I believe the person was referring to using 'regular expression' to copy or move a selection of files using a recursive search through a heterogenous directory... ie: copy all .jpg files in /pub to /usr/jpg/
/pub/*.jpg /usr/jpg/
.jpg
.jpg files in the /pub directory and copy them to /usr/jpg if you happen to be looking for all .jpgs in /pub.
.jpgs except the ones with a ._ in them and/or those with a number in the name, etc. and then rename them all by looking at their creation date and numbering them sequentially, for example. It won't help you pick out the best images for an ad campaign but it will help you make a well organized thumbnail collection.
# cp -R
# the * means match all files that end in
that's the simplest way to grab all
moving them all isn't much more difficult though it requires more effort because it is more dangerous in that it can seriously break your system if applied incorrectly.
Of course regular expression is much more powerful than that and can do things like matching all
BTW I've been using OS X for two years now... since public beta/(alpha) and I'd like to thank the 20 years of Unix developers for their contributions to CS and the awesome power those contributions have given the world over the mysterious byte.
Before OS X I was a point and click addict and thought that it was just amazing to be able to change the colors of my illustration
by using a color picker instead of having to redo the design with markers.
Intuitive depends on what you are doing at the time. For working with plain text a command line is obviously the best. If you want to do formatted text it gets to be much more complicated and unwieldly.
Most programmers can get more done with command line because they work with plain text only for 80% of their work. Object Oriented programmers probably get less use out of CLI and anyone working with a full project with lots of dependencies will achieve dramatic improvements with an IDE just for organizational reasons.
Likewise any job that requires high levels of multitasking will also see a marked improvement via the use of a visual navigation environment... it's the 'overview' effect of using a map/flowchart or similar for strategizing instead of trying to hold all the details in your head or as a list of information.
These seem to be the two most common perspectives at work in an environment, the detailed single perspective and the general overview many perspective. Each has a range of intuitive methodologies, some are similar and some are radically different. All jobs utilize these in differing proportions.
Each tool should recognize this as well as support integration with the other tools available, such as the capability to script via the command line a particular visual interface or the ability to import or pipe the output of a command line into a visual interface for further manipulation.
We do understand these things as evidenced by the plethora of tools available which support this working model of detailed/overview integration. In fact it seems that this has been improving substantially ove the last couple of years as fields like graphic design and programming become entwined via web design, etc.
No conclusion until I actually read the article.
Ah but what if you could do all those things while sitting at the stip club or the ball game in between 'plays'... how about ordering up the bio on that girl or the stats on the player who just scored... then filing away the best parts for your scrapbook/journal plus the video footage your eyes just recorded?
That's what I'm talking about. Enjoy real life to the fullest and bring your office with you.... currently we only have the option of sitting in the office and living real life vicariously through cheap versions on the internet.
This of course only applies to the ones of us unlucky enough to have to work for a living but lucky enough to have a job.
Seems to me that mice are the best choice given a 'limited' resolution device. If you were working with something that could scale to the full human interaction space, ie: your 'personal sphere' of influence and scale in resolution then the finger or whatever pointer you used physically wouldn't be so 'blunt'.
Think about using a virtual pane of glass about a meter square for your 'screen' instead of a little laptop or monitor screen. Also being able to 'zoom' in for precision would add a lot, expecially if it were a localized zoom more like a magnifying lens just for grabbing vector nodes or small sections of text, etc..
I do agree that current versions of gloves-and-goggles aren't the answer though.
It won't really work until it's more like a holographic display, something very resolution independent, or with an extremely high maximum resolution that can start out in the middle somewhere.
As for pointing devices other than mice... using anything that requires full motion of the arm and elbow won't go far for most people.. too much work. You need a ppointer with some buttons that are ergonomic but can translate small ranges of motion into large selections, etc... like those old copying devices artists used to enlarge drawings... like the mice does with it's 'travel/speed' attribute turned up high.
I'm thinking a gyroscopic device that measures distance traveled and can reset it's relative position to the display as needed (the way you do it manually with a mouse when you pick it up and set it back down at the beginning of your pad).
my 2 units
Actually with 'Saverlab' you can already have a video desktop... well kind of. It presents full screen at the z-level 0 and stays there while you work in any other window. It's not hardware accellerated and you can't drop docs on top of it but still pretty sweet to play with.