There's this guy, John something, (I knew him by his screen name "Insider" in a Mac forum) that tried to do this. He found a vendor who was willing to sell him G4 motherboards from the repair channel. He designed a small form factor case and was going to call it the Core Crib.
Unfortunately, Apple got wind of this and shut the whole thing down. They threatened the motherboard vendor, who contractually really wasn't supposed to be selling the mobos for this purpose. Last I remember, John was in a bit of a lurch, having already accepted customer money and having placed orders for misc. parts.
Anyway, IIRC, he received a pretty good response from people interested in just such a box. Seems like there's a lot of pent up demand.
And if we do that, netTunes would be the logical way to control iTunes on the headless server. That'd be an ideal setup.
If you've got a blue tooth phone, you can control iTunes on a blue tooth enabled mac with Salling Clicker. It's pretty damn cool, and you can use it to do a lot more than just iTunes.
When O'Really Jr. went off to college, we sent him off with one of the household thin clients. Boy, was he mad!
Your idea of thin clients in the home running on some home server is still some time off in the future, if ever (More likely, the server will be at your local cable company). We're talking about the present/very near future, i.e., what Jobs might announce next week at MWSF.
AFAIK, Apple has never embraced the thin client model. Perhaps it is SUN that should be making thin clients and home media servers.
Noooooo! don't do it! By this time next year, you'll be addicted to the Steve Jobs Kool Aid and planning to take the family to MWSF! This is how conversion starts. ..
Tell the brats they can have a Mac when they turn 18 and move out.
If you're going to buy a used Mac, why pay full retail for the software? (Also, the company at that link has great deals on cpu and other mac upgrades. I can't afford a new G5 just now, nor do I really need one. But I could afford a 1 Ghz upgrade. It's like I've got a new machine.)
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Java fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a SDK for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to port a helloworld program from J2EE to J2ME. 20 minutes. At home, using Visual Basic, which by all standards should be a lot slower than Java, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Firefox will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even emacs is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on Java, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Java compiler that has run faster than its.NET counterpart, despite Java's faster OO development model. My ancient Hello World Hypercard stack runs faster at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Java is a superior language.
Java addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Java over other faster, cheaper, more stable languages.
Any moment now, Michael will be receiving a request/subpoena from Apple legal, asking him to divulge the identities of the "numerous readers" that leaked this highly confidential information about "Asteroid".
Would you mind repeating that a little louder? Someone a block over is using a G4 "mirrored door", and their fan kicked in just as you were speaking. =)
The first amendment is often overlooked in our hurry to get to the second amendment. I do it all the time.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
This should effectively prevent congress from enacting a law that would make it illegal to refuse to name a source. You'll note that when a reporter is punished by a court for such a refusal, he is done so based on contempt of court, not for breaking any law.
Admittedly, it's a complicated issue. We want the courts to have the power to compel testimony but we also want the press to be able to do it's job.
An interesting link on the matter, especially in regards to Branzburg v. Hayes, where the Supreme Court ruled that a Grand Jury investigation could compel such testimony. Also note footnote 187, which says that over half of the states have enacted reporter shield laws.
How do you stop a leak after it has occurred? You can't. The information is out there. All you can do is prevent leaks. How does one prevent leaks? By nailing the current leaker's nutsack to wall, where employees, contractors, and vendors will take note that confidentiality is taken seriously.
A few years back, the president of ATI let slip some confidential info a week before MWSF, thus depriving Steve Jobs of some tidbit that would make us all Oooooh and Ahhhhh at the keynote. As a result, Apple stopped using ATI video cards for a while, and switched to NVidia.
Before Jobs' second coming, Apple had been as leaky as a sieve. One of the first things he did was to put a stop to all the leaks. He's done pretty well, notwithstanding a few notable lapses (remember the flat panel G4 iMac on the cover of time?).
Well, it sucks in terms of the Freedom of the Press issue. A reporter has a right to protect his or her confidential sources, but increasingly of late, the courts have jailed reporters for contempt for refusing to reveal their sources.
I'm not blaming Apple for this; they're only doing as they see fit to protect their interests. But this has been the judicial trend for quite some time now, and it is aiding the government and big business in intimidating whistleblowers. (Please note, I'm not equating the Apple leaker with a whistleblower.)
Then there were a series of mergers and renamings that I didn't really follow. And there they are now.
They sold their Unix licensing business (which they had bought from Novell) and their name to Caldera. Caldera changed it's name to SCO, and (old) SCO changed their name to Tarentella.
That's not as bad as the guy a short time back that wanted to compare charts of IBM and Sun. He linked to Sunoco, which is an oil company instead of SUNW. Hilarity ensued.
Just to clarify a point: You cannot own any of these items, i.e., games or movies. You are purchasing a license to view, play, or use the materials. "Own it today on DVD," is a highly misleading marketing slogan.
At the same time, the sellers want it both ways. The physical delivery mechanism of a DVD is a product, so if it is damaged, destroyed, lost, or stolen, good luck having it replaced without paying full price for a new copy.
personally i would like to see their player and their entire business go bankrupt and never have to hear about them again, except in maybe stories told around a campfire
Best told with a flashlight held just under your chin beaming up into your face:
And when they got home and found out that the hitchhiker was Rob Glasser, they looked at their iPods and found hook marks gouged into the white plastic! Oooooooh! Scary!
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There's this guy, John something, (I knew him by his screen name "Insider" in a Mac forum) that tried to do this. He found a vendor who was willing to sell him G4 motherboards from the repair channel. He designed a small form factor case and was going to call it the Core Crib.
Unfortunately, Apple got wind of this and shut the whole thing down. They threatened the motherboard vendor, who contractually really wasn't supposed to be selling the mobos for this purpose. Last I remember, John was in a bit of a lurch, having already accepted customer money and having placed orders for misc. parts.
Anyway, IIRC, he received a pretty good response from people interested in just such a box. Seems like there's a lot of pent up demand.
And if we do that, netTunes would be the logical way to control iTunes on the headless server. That'd be an ideal setup.
If you've got a blue tooth phone, you can control iTunes on a blue tooth enabled mac with Salling Clicker. It's pretty damn cool, and you can use it to do a lot more than just iTunes.
The only thing I'd really like to see in this headless iMac is a higher-end model with a G5 processor, better graphics card and superdrive
Oh, those were announced quite some time ago. =)
When O'Really Jr. went off to college, we sent him off with one of the household thin clients. Boy, was he mad!
Your idea of thin clients in the home running on some home server is still some time off in the future, if ever (More likely, the server will be at your local cable company). We're talking about the present/very near future, i.e., what Jobs might announce next week at MWSF.
AFAIK, Apple has never embraced the thin client model. Perhaps it is SUN that should be making thin clients and home media servers.
I'm not disagreeing with your points. I just wanted to point out that 1 Ghz CPU upgrades can be had for $229. Try OWC.
I wouldn't want to share a meal with him.
Are you thinking of his vegetarianism or his notoriously sloppy table manners?
Noooooo! don't do it! By this time next year, you'll be addicted to the Steve Jobs Kool Aid and planning to take the family to MWSF! This is how conversion starts. . .
Tell the brats they can have a Mac when they turn 18 and move out.
=) j/k I'm sure you have fine kids, not brats.
Try $85.
If you're going to buy a used Mac, why pay full retail for the software? (Also, the company at that link has great deals on cpu and other mac upgrades. I can't afford a new G5 just now, nor do I really need one. But I could afford a 1 Ghz upgrade. It's like I've got a new machine.)
Are you really that ignorant, or was this a slip? I have an iPod and it plays mp3s just fine.
I'm sure you're normally not this stupid, but you're obviously repeating something you've heard or read without checking the facts.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Java fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a SDK for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to port a helloworld program from J2EE to J2ME. 20 minutes. At home, using Visual Basic, which by all standards should be a lot slower than Java, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
.NET counterpart, despite Java's faster OO development model. My ancient Hello World Hypercard stack runs faster at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Java is a superior language.
In addition, during this file transfer, Firefox will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even emacs is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on Java, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Java compiler that has run faster than its
Java addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Java over other faster, cheaper, more stable languages.
Any moment now, Michael will be receiving a request/subpoena from Apple legal, asking him to divulge the identities of the "numerous readers" that leaked this highly confidential information about "Asteroid".
Would you mind repeating that a little louder? Someone a block over is using a G4 "mirrored door", and their fan kicked in just as you were speaking. =)
This should effectively prevent congress from enacting a law that would make it illegal to refuse to name a source. You'll note that when a reporter is punished by a court for such a refusal, he is done so based on contempt of court, not for breaking any law.
Admittedly, it's a complicated issue. We want the courts to have the power to compel testimony but we also want the press to be able to do it's job.
An interesting link on the matter, especially in regards to Branzburg v. Hayes, where the Supreme Court ruled that a Grand Jury investigation could compel such testimony. Also note footnote 187, which says that over half of the states have enacted reporter shield laws.
Dead horse beats old people!
In Korea, only old people kill iPods.
By any chance are you a Boston Red Sox fan?
How do you stop a leak after it has occurred? You can't. The information is out there. All you can do is prevent leaks. How does one prevent leaks? By nailing the current leaker's nutsack to wall, where employees, contractors, and vendors will take note that confidentiality is taken seriously.
A few years back, the president of ATI let slip some confidential info a week before MWSF, thus depriving Steve Jobs of some tidbit that would make us all Oooooh and Ahhhhh at the keynote. As a result, Apple stopped using ATI video cards for a while, and switched to NVidia.
Before Jobs' second coming, Apple had been as leaky as a sieve. One of the first things he did was to put a stop to all the leaks. He's done pretty well, notwithstanding a few notable lapses (remember the flat panel G4 iMac on the cover of time?).
At least he's not suing the guy pointing the gun at his head. =)
Well, it sucks in terms of the Freedom of the Press issue. A reporter has a right to protect his or her confidential sources, but increasingly of late, the courts have jailed reporters for contempt for refusing to reveal their sources.
I'm not blaming Apple for this; they're only doing as they see fit to protect their interests. But this has been the judicial trend for quite some time now, and it is aiding the government and big business in intimidating whistleblowers. (Please note, I'm not equating the Apple leaker with a whistleblower.)
Then there were a series of mergers and renamings that I didn't really follow. And there they are now.
They sold their Unix licensing business (which they had bought from Novell) and their name to Caldera. Caldera changed it's name to SCO, and (old) SCO changed their name to Tarentella.
So, that's not them that are there now.
That's not as bad as the guy a short time back that wanted to compare charts of IBM and Sun. He linked to Sunoco, which is an oil company instead of SUNW. Hilarity ensued.
I'm moderately frightened by the number of replies thinking that looks like an ASCII vagina...
You think that's frightening? I thought it was a portrait of a Goatse as a young man.
Hey, I'd love to follow Jesus, but I'm sort of allergic to holes in my hands and feet.
Just to clarify a point: You cannot own any of these items, i.e., games or movies. You are purchasing a license to view, play, or use the materials. "Own it today on DVD," is a highly misleading marketing slogan.
At the same time, the sellers want it both ways. The physical delivery mechanism of a DVD is a product, so if it is damaged, destroyed, lost, or stolen, good luck having it replaced without paying full price for a new copy.
personally i would like to see their player and their entire business go bankrupt and never have to hear about them again, except in maybe stories told around a campfire
Best told with a flashlight held just under your chin beaming up into your face:
And when they got home and found out that the hitchhiker was Rob Glasser, they looked at their iPods and found hook marks gouged into the white plastic! Oooooooh! Scary!