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  1. Re:Confirm? on Mac OS X 10.3.4 Released · · Score: 1

    nope, sorry but at least the first one still works!

  2. Re:So many oss/fsf RDBMS... on CA Advantage Ingres To Be Released As Open Source · · Score: 1

    How about just using in-database functions? With this there will be no 'incompatible' code inside your python/php/perl/java/... application - just use the right database driver and off you go.
    Of course you still have to code the in-database functions for each supported database.

  3. Re:HFS+ defrag source on Measuring Fragmentation in HFS+ · · Score: 2, Informative

    hmmm... the advantage would be that your system wouldn't need to get defragmented every night you're asleep.

    The real advantage is that it will speed up things immediately for the 2nd time the file is read. Though you can still defrag your disk overnight if you like that.

  4. Re:PPC? on Successful PearPC/Mac OS X Install Documented · · Score: 1

    seems like this AMD processur isn't running OS-X, but rather crawling it...

    But I'm sure you know that with Bochs the G5 was the first 64bit machine to run Windows & OS-X.

  5. Re:PPC? on Successful PearPC/Mac OS X Install Documented · · Score: 1

    hell, and I always thought that M$ keeps telling that Linux is a thread to them to avoid that...

  6. Re:Come together, right now.... on The Success of Open Source · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are you working for Apple or what? =)

    But serious: They (Apple) are playing this game very well - they released Darwin, support OpenDarwin, Konqueror, Fink, etc. while keeping their crown jewels (Quicktime, Quartz, Cocoa, ...) locked away.

    And what do we get out of this hybrid approach? The best Desktop Unix ever. Lets hope more companies choose this approach!

  7. seems superfluous... on Mono Adds Mac OS X Package · · Score: 2, Insightful

    superb. Mono is available via DarwinPorts for a rather long time already.
    Why should we need this so urgently? There is no package for Debian or FreeBSD either... no one with a brain would think about making packages for those!

  8. Re:Why not use it natively? on PowerPC Architecture Emulator Unleashed · · Score: 1

    ...how fast does Mac OS X run on it. I would download it and test it out myself...

    Good thing you dony have time for piracy!

  9. Re:Yeah! on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" Preview at WWDC · · Score: 1

    Windows Server 2003 is the server version of Windows XP.
    Apple always has a client AND a server edition of each OS-X version. So calculating your way this would be 10 releases in five years...
    Or just 2 for Microsoft - WIndows 2000 (+Server), WindowsXP (+2003 Server)

    and OS-X has minor releases also... current is 10.3.3;

  10. Re:screw that... on JOE Hits 3.0 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, got for it! Vigor is your friend;

  11. Hungarian Phrasebook on Hungarian Mac OS X Released · · Score: 1

    Lets hope they didn't use the Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook!

  12. Re:A few thoughts on Apple Hunts Playfair in India · · Score: 1

    yeah, but sharereactor.com was hosted in Swiss and owned by a Swiss.

    I have absolutely no idea what the DMCA equivalent in Swiss is, but Germany has one since about a year now... *sigh*

  13. Re:Mac OSX based *nix on Apple Releases New Security Update · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It is marked as redundant.

    Come on, everyone knows it is the best Unix available on this planet, of course this gets moded down...

  14. Re:This is quick! on Apple Releases New Security Update · · Score: 1

    Forget about it!
    If this would be the case, iTunes would have at least been named in the list of apps/libs getting fixes.

    Nevertheless the update installed flawless w/o problems.

  15. Re:Dell?? on Better Business Bureau Targets Apple's G5 Ads · · Score: 1

    official SPEC results for P4 PCs are made with Intel compiler. Everyone uses gcc, so why not compare with a compiler available on both platforms???
    What is your Linux system compiled with? Intel compiler? Propably not...

  16. Re:Dell?? on Better Business Bureau Targets Apple's G5 Ads · · Score: 1

    You propably haven't seen the SPEC values of the PPC970 published by IBM (before the release of the G5).
    They were about 20%-30% faster cause they used the IBM Compiler.
    Intel's SPEC values are also made with the Intel compilers. When you make a fair comparison with both machines using gcc - well then you propably get the same results as Apple.

  17. Re:Happy OS X user on Happy Birthday Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Officially the pronunciation of MacOS-X ist 'MacOS 10', so it propably will be MacOS-XI or whatever.

  18. Re: Problems on Intel Plans CPU Naming Change · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, I could do it at least 10 times per night, but thank god I've got spermal throtteling to protect me from exhaustion after doing it once!

  19. Re:Problem.. on Intel Plans CPU Naming Change · · Score: 1

    seems like you just can't afford to buy one...

    or perhaps your mom won't let you:
    "My son, as long as you live in my house, you must not buy a Mac - even though you're already 42 years old!"

  20. Re:Around here.. on Apple Tests Well in Education · · Score: 1
    Windows has Spyware"

    because on Windows - in contrast to Linux, BSD and MacOS - you have to install lots of applications to make the system useful.
    Windows just has no good software included: You need
    • Firewall
    • Browser
    • Movie-Player (divx..) or at least codec pac
    • Music Player (everyone I know uses winamp, not Windows Media Player)
    • PDF Viewer
    • ...
    Heck, you even need an Editor because Notepad is really crap.
    Thats why there is succesful spyware on Windows, and because you have to install all this crap with your Administrator rights!
    Linux Distributions do have their rpm/dpkg vaults and BSD/MacOS do have ports collections that solve this problem of small (or larger) helper apps.
  21. Re:Darwin isn't only for OSX. on DarwinPorts Project Crosses 1000 Ports Mark · · Score: 1

    NetBSDs way of making ports is e. g. making a py21, py22-, py23- version of every python module, making a -ssl, -nox, -x11 variant of everything; this bloats up the package count a little bit. DarwinPorts doesn't do that - they have a system that lets you specifiy variants on the port. (the *BSD Makefiles have something like this _sometimes_ too) If counting the number of packages that you could make from Darwinports stuff would clearly be larger by factor 4.

  22. Re:How about OpenDarwin? on DarwinPorts Project Crosses 1000 Ports Mark · · Score: 1

    have a look at the url of the homepage: "darwinports.opendarwin.org" - DarwinPorts is part of OpenDarwin, the pure open source version of Darwin, w/o any whistles from MacOS-X.

  23. Re:Darwin isn't only for OSX. on DarwinPorts Project Crosses 1000 Ports Mark · · Score: 1

    probably for the number of operating systems, but not on the number of ports available for Darwin/MacOS-X...

  24. Re:About time. on DarwinPorts Project Crosses 1000 Ports Mark · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia Darwin ports YOU!

  25. Re:don't forget the unofficial mirror on DarwinPorts Project Crosses 1000 Ports Mark · · Score: 4, Informative

    All sources are mirrored on the opendarwin servers which should have plenty of bandwidth - sponsored by Apple and ISC.