There's slight catch: Tar doesn't honor resource forks, so you wouldn't want to put anything in a tar ball with a resource fork (i.e, a Carbon app). But for regular files, yes, it's fine.
you're wrong, but it's minor: The Classic II and LC II can boot System 6, but the Quadras, Centrises, and Blackbird Powerbooks can't. It's been a long time, but iirc, the only 030 machines which can't boot System 6 are the '030 Duos, the Color Classic, the LC520s, and the PowerBook 190 (late, late model low-end '030 laptop. It could run damned near forever on battery tho)
Errr... Apple is shipping with Jaguar installed. They've been doing so for nearly a month now. I just checked the store and the copy is wrong --- they are shipping with Jag.
I can't speak for Classic-only games, but have you updated to Jaguar? Apple did some serious OpenGL optimizations with Jag, making a lot of early Mac OS X ports of games actually playable. I loaded-up Tropico a few days after I got Jag, expecting it to be the slow, bloated pig it was under 10.1.x. Nuh-uh --- easily faster than the OS 9 version now.
Bah. Quark fearmongering --- Quark5 runs just fine in Classic which is good for Quark, not exactly having a history of being non-tempermental (seriously, that program is responsible for more clinical neuroses than any other.) If anything, the lack of a Mac OS X native Quark will do one thing: Push Quark shops over to Adobe InDesign which, compared to Quark, I find a joy to use.
Your Classic problem sounds familiar, something similar happened to me when I upgraded to Jag. What worked for me was to login as root and start classic from there. After that, it worked fine for normal and admin users. Weirdness, weirdness.
Also, little tip: You can keep your Classic system on a writable disk image and it'll auto-mount when you need to use Classic. It's not much, but it helps keep things a bit more organized.
FWIW, Apple shipped around 808,000 Macs last quarter. If you look at their recent quarterly numbers, they're shipping about the same number per quarter so that's 3.2 million units per year, give or take a few 10k.
And that's on top of an installed base of at least 25 million.
Anyone have similar, hard numbers on Linux installations? I realize it's substantially harder to extrapolate (multiple vendors, free to download, etc.) but physical media sales might be a decent indicator.
Don't blame all the memory gobbling on Mac OS X itself. There are still a lot of leakey programs for OS X, even by developers who usually are better at catching major bugs. e.g., the current version of BareBone's Super Get Info has a command line tool which leaks like a seive; I've seen its private memory allocation push 80MB.
Apple bought the rights to the XEROX GUI, not stole it. I can't find the link at the moment, but after the TNT Apple/Microsoft made-for-tv movie, Woz posted a FAQ on his site. In it, he commented that the GUI was bought/licensed from XEROX in exchange for a hefty amount of stock.
And since did English become a dead, static language? Oh that's right: It hasn't. Language is mutable, constantly adding words and outright changing form every few generations.
To be fair, I'm guessing they designed their site to be viewed on Apple systems and there is a difference in screen metrics because Macs are basedon a 72dpi resolution while PCS use 96dpi
No, they aren't. Mozilla (and derivates), Explorer, OmniWeb, and iCab all ship with defaults set to 96 ppi.
Or what i don't understand: Why not InfoMac? Unless things have gone terribly downhill in the past few years, it's free and fast and mirrored like mad.
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There's slight catch: Tar doesn't honor resource forks, so you wouldn't want to put anything in a tar ball with a resource fork (i.e, a Carbon app). But for regular files, yes, it's fine.
wouldn't a longer drill bit in a stabilizing sheath suffice?
And Apple is even giving Quark a huge signal that their sloth is not welcome: Design freely. Adobe InDesign for free with any PowerMac G4.
you're wrong, but it's minor: The Classic II and LC II can boot System 6, but the Quadras, Centrises, and Blackbird Powerbooks can't. It's been a long time, but iirc, the only 030 machines which can't boot System 6 are the '030 Duos, the Color Classic, the LC520s, and the PowerBook 190 (late, late model low-end '030 laptop. It could run damned near forever on battery tho)
Errr... Apple is shipping with Jaguar installed. They've been doing so for nearly a month now. I just checked the store and the copy is wrong --- they are shipping with Jag.
And plus I just saw this:
http://www.apple.com/promo/designfreely/
InDesign --- for free.
I can't speak for Classic-only games, but have you updated to Jaguar? Apple did some serious OpenGL optimizations with Jag, making a lot of early Mac OS X ports of games actually playable. I loaded-up Tropico a few days after I got Jag, expecting it to be the slow, bloated pig it was under 10.1.x. Nuh-uh --- easily faster than the OS 9 version now.
Bah. Quark fearmongering --- Quark5 runs just fine in Classic which is good for Quark, not exactly having a history of being non-tempermental (seriously, that program is responsible for more clinical neuroses than any other.) If anything, the lack of a Mac OS X native Quark will do one thing: Push Quark shops over to Adobe InDesign which, compared to Quark, I find a joy to use.
Your Classic problem sounds familiar, something similar happened to me when I upgraded to Jag. What worked for me was to login as root and start classic from there. After that, it worked fine for normal and admin users. Weirdness, weirdness. Also, little tip: You can keep your Classic system on a writable disk image and it'll auto-mount when you need to use Classic. It's not much, but it helps keep things a bit more organized.
FWIW, Apple shipped around 808,000 Macs last quarter. If you look at their recent quarterly numbers, they're shipping about the same number per quarter so that's 3.2 million units per year, give or take a few 10k.
And that's on top of an installed base of at least 25 million.
Anyone have similar, hard numbers on Linux installations? I realize it's substantially harder to extrapolate (multiple vendors, free to download, etc.) but physical media sales might be a decent indicator.
Duos didn't have ADB ports --- they did when in a dock, but not by themselves.
Don't blame all the memory gobbling on Mac OS X itself. There are still a lot of leakey programs for OS X, even by developers who usually are better at catching major bugs. e.g., the current version of BareBone's Super Get Info has a command line tool which leaks like a seive; I've seen its private memory allocation push 80MB.
The Dock isn't larger than the task bar --- by default it is, but I can squish my dock down to a height of 32px.
Apple bought the rights to the XEROX GUI, not stole it. I can't find the link at the moment, but after the TNT Apple/Microsoft made-for-tv movie, Woz posted a FAQ on his site. In it, he commented that the GUI was bought/licensed from XEROX in exchange for a hefty amount of stock.
The most counter-intuitive, stupid UI decision: Click the maximize button. Bleh --- There's a standard widget to toggle window mode. Use it Apple
They did --- install the dev tools. SetFile and GetFileInfo do exactly that.
And since did English become a dead, static language? Oh that's right: It hasn't. Language is mutable, constantly adding words and outright changing form every few generations.
To be fair, I'm guessing they designed their site to be viewed on Apple systems and there is a difference in screen metrics because Macs are basedon a 72dpi resolution while PCS use 96dpi No, they aren't. Mozilla (and derivates), Explorer, OmniWeb, and iCab all ship with defaults set to 96 ppi.
Can the Delorean generate the required 1.21 gigawatts?
Heh. One little hole in the scripting engine.... *shudder*
Are you really that comfortable with having your web browser able to do an rm -rf as root?
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Well, do you?
Or what i don't understand: Why not InfoMac? Unless things have gone terribly downhill in the past few years, it's free and fast and mirrored like mad.
But reflection doesn't matter --- the energy is imparted on impact of the photon, not reflection.
How would uneven heating affect an asteroid's trajectory? I could see for a comet, but an asteroid?