1) What's your source for this information? It's not because Apple decided to charge just $29 for SL, that it's different from other point releases. Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard were all upgrades in license, but installed just fine on a clean system.
2) Support for non-intel is dropped, but most of the hardware from the previous age of Mac is already 4+ years old. Furthermore, there's nothing wrong with running Leopard on this hardware for another year, before finally considering a hardware update.
3) Of course they will stop selling 10.5. But that's really not a problem for intel-machines (starting beginning 2006). Merely PPC users who haven't upgraded to 10.5 yet, might want to do that now.
If you like the OSX experience enough to stick with it. Why not give Safari 4 beta a try? It comes with better integration into OSX and has most of Chrome's features, with biggest miss being the sandboxing. It also uses the Webkit engine for rendering webpages, which is somewhat faster than Firefox's Gecko.
I've popped in a ubuntu live cd in my 1.5 year old Macbook to verify this number, since I couldn't find any (free) tools out there to do this in Mac Os. The harddisk is a SAMSUNG HM120JI, and is exactly 2 months old (Aug 31). Smartmontools reported the load cycle count to be just over 16000. However, running the tool several times on ubuntu revealed that the number incremented at least once every minute. The harddisk was unused, as no filesystems were mounted at the time and there are no swap partitions.
16k in 2 months is about 11 per hour. Or a lot more if I can assume that a head retract only happens when on battery time, and every time the MB is put to sleep or shutdown.
Having a tool on Mac Os would really help in determining the gravity of the situation in this OS. Anyone that knows of such a tool?
Also the link to the paper reprint is incorrect. The paper has not been published yet. The post is actually referring other people's work. Go slashdot!
What do you mean, impatent? Are you saying the impOtent should use the backdoor instead of going through te front like the rest? And what does that mean anyway..
True, it has a few new annoyances, like opening different documents as child windows within the same application window. But the GTK2 interface is so much better than the previous one. Working with acroread in the past was just hellish: searching was bad, redraw bugs, open & save boxes from the darkages. Still, I used it a lot because of it's superior rendering and speed compared to other 'free' tools like xpdf, kpdf, etc.
Since Acrobat Reader 7 my life has gotten a little easier.
In the matrix they are only a few months or a year after the first movie, which took place in the year 1999. The date in the 'real' world is unknown, but believed to be 2199, which is totally irrelevant to this matter. So if the exploit had already been possible in 1999/2000 it would have been correct. On the other hand, the matrix is fake, there is no reason to believe the machines based it on real facts from so many years back, from their perspectieve.
The first time they try to keep it correct and still people are complaining.
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What a load of bull.
1) What's your source for this information? It's not because Apple decided to charge just $29 for SL, that it's different from other point releases. Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard were all upgrades in license, but installed just fine on a clean system.
2) Support for non-intel is dropped, but most of the hardware from the previous age of Mac is already 4+ years old. Furthermore, there's nothing wrong with running Leopard on this hardware for another year, before finally considering a hardware update.
3) Of course they will stop selling 10.5. But that's really not a problem for intel-machines (starting beginning 2006). Merely PPC users who haven't upgraded to 10.5 yet, might want to do that now.
If you like the OSX experience enough to stick with it. Why not give Safari 4 beta a try? It comes with better integration into OSX and has most of Chrome's features, with biggest miss being the sandboxing. It also uses the Webkit engine for rendering webpages, which is somewhat faster than Firefox's Gecko.
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I've popped in a ubuntu live cd in my 1.5 year old Macbook to verify this number, since I couldn't find any (free) tools out there to do this in Mac Os. The harddisk is a SAMSUNG HM120JI, and is exactly 2 months old (Aug 31). Smartmontools reported the load cycle count to be just over 16000. However, running the tool several times on ubuntu revealed that the number incremented at least once every minute. The harddisk was unused, as no filesystems were mounted at the time and there are no swap partitions.
16k in 2 months is about 11 per hour. Or a lot more if I can assume that a head retract only happens when on battery time, and every time the MB is put to sleep or shutdown.
Having a tool on Mac Os would really help in determining the gravity of the situation in this OS. Anyone that knows of such a tool?
Also the link to the paper reprint is incorrect. The paper has not been published yet. The post is actually referring other people's work. Go slashdot!
> For the impatent:
What do you mean, impatent? Are you saying the impOtent should use the backdoor instead of going through te front like the rest? And what does that mean anyway..
True, it has a few new annoyances, like opening different documents as child windows within the same application window. But the GTK2 interface is so much better than the previous one. Working with acroread in the past was just hellish: searching was bad, redraw bugs, open & save boxes from the darkages. Still, I used it a lot because of it's superior rendering and speed compared to other 'free' tools like xpdf, kpdf, etc.
Since Acrobat Reader 7 my life has gotten a little easier.
Windows 95 was born dead, or at least braindead. A lot of air surrounding it, but just not enough oxygen was put into it.
Hip hip huraaay :)
Taking it seriously isn't a requisite for replying, or so I extrapolate from the replies itself.
Though extrapolation is very dangerous, if I'm to believe my college professor. Then again, so is posting on slashdot. With the trolls and all.
If that isn't a strange location, I don't know which one is, considering: http://zapatopi.net/belgium.html
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I have to agree on this one. Duke Nukem's voice and the words and sentences he forms with it totally make the game.
err, Try that again :)
In the matrix they are only a few months or a year after the first movie, which took place in the year 1999. The date in the 'real' world is unknown, but believed to be 2199, which is totally irrelevant to this matter.
So if the exploit had already been possible in 1999/2000 it would have been correct. On the other hand, the matrix is fake, there is no reason to believe the machines based it on real facts from so many years back, from their perspectieve.
The first time they try to keep it correct and still people are complaining.