Welll, it's not just the flashy GUI - it's 1U high, has a few features that only more expensive servers have, can fit four drives inside (three in the new XServe G5 because of the extra cooling necessary). It slides out really easily from the rack if you want to work on it.
The beautiful design isn't all about the aesthetics, it' the function they managed to acheive along with it.
Sure, it's not going to suit everyone, but that's the beauty of choice.
Personally, I don't think my company can afford to buy one - or, to put it another way, we need a server, but we have a perfectly servicable DP G4 sitting in the corner that does the job just as well. Would I buy an XServe if we had the cash though? Probably, just so I could put rack mount it with the rest of our video kit to make one less box sitting out in the office.
It's not illegal, you are correct - Roxio specifically suggests in their website help section that you duplicate the app and run both at the same time to burn two disks at once.
We do it all the time when producing short runs of DVDs that would be uneconomical to press.
It's a small percentage of late 2002 Dual USB G3 iBooks (700 and 800Mhz G3) models I tink, although that could extend to the later ones.
I can't speak for all 600Mhz iBook owners, but my Dual USB 600Mhz iBook has been nothing but a tank. It's practically bombproof, and I work it hard at least 4 hours or more per day with a lot of travelling.
It's 18 months old and the battery still holds about 3 hours of charge and I've had no problems with the logic board, the screen or anything else on it.
You can shop anywhere for iBook HDs - they're just standard 2.5" IDE drives. Just be sure to get a 9.5mm high or less drive for an iBook. A PowerBook will take up to 12.5mm high drives.
Other than that (and possibly the CD drive) you'll need to hit the specialist suppliers for parts.
Rendezvous is very handy - I find it most useful for detection of network printers.
I can take my iBook anywhere and I've yet to find a printer on a subnet I've joined that has given me problems. I can select it from the print menu about 10 seconds after joining the network. No muss, no fuss.
It also means I don't pay for print credit at the university where I'm doing my postgrad - I just find a spare ethernet port and I'm away. The IT folks there don't seem to mind.
I'd never heard of the three webservers you linked to in your post.
Apache has done everything I've ever asked of it without being noticably slow or resouce hogging, even on my iBook when I put up sites in development on our LAN. I can keep working while it happily serves pages to people and I don't notice it's there.
Incidentally, that's a great feature of OS X - Apache out of the box. Sure you need to tweak it a little and enable php and stuff, but it's there ready to go. My previous work method was to upload in-development sites to an old FreeBSD box on the LAN for testing. Now I have my iBook I can work on the html right in place, and just get within AirPort range for everyone I'm working with to have instant access to the site without me having to do anything.
Ok, this wasn't supposed to be an ad for OS X, it was meant to show that Apache is fantastic for what I want to do.
If they were then either BT really overcharges its customers for the service, or Pipex was taking huge losses.
You did need a BT line to use the service, and BT owns all the exchanges and all the DSLAMs and so on. I think they're prohibited from keeping competition out of contention by leveraging their hardware monopoly though.
Ok, so it seems/. won't display the UK pound sign.
All the numbers in that post without a $ in front of them are in GBP.
Currently you can get about $1.60 per pound.
If Bush keeps fucking with the economy, we might get $2 to the pound, which will be good for me since it would make my Apple purchases even cheaper. Well, the ones I can bring back on the plane that is.
I'm using NTL's 600/128 cable package because it's the only option in my area and it's pretty good for 25 quid a month.
BT isn't the only DSL provider, although most require that you have a BT landline to use them.
Thus: cost of BT line 29 per quarter, plus cost of DSL provider. Note that BT's own costs don't include line rental - it's extra.
I paid 23 per month ($30) for 512/256 DSL in London from Pipex, who were extremely good to me. I'd have used them in a heartbeat if my new house was in a DSL-capable area. At the time, BT wanted a lot more than 23 a month for similar speeds (any by all accounts from friends who used them, really poor service).
A friend of mine who lives in the US gave me a $2 bill as a birthday present - it was one of the most thoughtful gifts I've ever received since she'd remembered we'd been talking about them a year or so earlier. I joked that I had some $2 bills that I'd use to come and visit her, trying to use a variation of the old "bent as a nine bob note", not realising that $2 bills were real US currency.
She hunted around several banks in her area looking for a $2 bill for my birthday and eventually managed to find one. It sits on my shelf with other small gifts I've received like keyrings, paperweights etc.
Yes, I do expect a machine to last longer than the warranty, and I'll bet that most do.
However, if the machine breaks outside the warranty, it will cost you money to repair it.
The chances are that it won't break though.
Should the warranty be longer? Maybe, but you'll find most electronics manufacturers have warranties of one year or less.
If there's a specific problem then it will likely be addressed - like the MDD Windtunnel G4's noisy power supply, the iBook's 'saucer' power supply, the G4 Superdrive disintegrating disk problem etc.
I'll add my name to that list. I have had this Dual USB iBook for just under 2 years and it's been bullet proof. Crossed the Atlantic a few times, been back and forth to London on the train countless times, been used at least 4 hours a day, usually more, every day since I bought it.
The damn thing's bomb proof!
I love it, and can't bring myself to sell her to subsidise an upgrade, not that I really need it.
Safari on OS X (v 1.1) does pass those CSS tests in full though. I didn't see a ref image for that in your directory. I can send a screenshot if you like.
They killed off the clone vendors because they were killing Apple, much like the IBM clone makers killed IBM's desktop hardware business. The difference was that IBM had other things to fall back on - Apple did/does not. Apple is a hardware company.
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Welll, it's not just the flashy GUI - it's 1U high, has a few features that only more expensive servers have, can fit four drives inside (three in the new XServe G5 because of the extra cooling necessary). It slides out really easily from the rack if you want to work on it.
The beautiful design isn't all about the aesthetics, it' the function they managed to acheive along with it.
Sure, it's not going to suit everyone, but that's the beauty of choice.
Personally, I don't think my company can afford to buy one - or, to put it another way, we need a server, but we have a perfectly servicable DP G4 sitting in the corner that does the job just as well. Would I buy an XServe if we had the cash though? Probably, just so I could put rack mount it with the rest of our video kit to make one less box sitting out in the office.
Did it also chide them for not keeping a backup?
A GUI tool trashing hours of fine tuning on a config file isn't too bad when you can just swap it out with a backup and gracefully restart.
What liquor "ditributor" do you work for? So I know never to buy anything from them.
It's not illegal, you are correct - Roxio specifically suggests in their website help section that you duplicate the app and run both at the same time to burn two disks at once.
We do it all the time when producing short runs of DVDs that would be uneconomical to press.
I got Soundtrack and LiveType's install sizes mixed up - and notice I said total install 16GB, not just the linstall for LT.
FCP splits it all up anyway, so it's just a guess.
Probably. I'm a multi-Mac-platrom user.
It's a small percentage of late 2002 Dual USB G3 iBooks (700 and 800Mhz G3) models I tink, although that could extend to the later ones.
I can't speak for all 600Mhz iBook owners, but my Dual USB 600Mhz iBook has been nothing but a tank. It's practically bombproof, and I work it hard at least 4 hours or more per day with a lot of travelling.
It's 18 months old and the battery still holds about 3 hours of charge and I've had no problems with the logic board, the screen or anything else on it.
It is an accessory to Final Cut Pro, yes, but Apple now includes it for free with Final Cut Pro 4, along with 9 GB of loops.
FCP4 users don't need to buy the standalone app.
With the LiveType install as well, a full install of everything in the FCP4 box comes to about 16GB.
FCP4 itself, Soundtrack, Compressor, LiveType, Cinema Tools.
I haven't seen FCE2 yet, but since FCE1 was based on FCP3 and the new Express is based on the current FCP4, I imagine the upgrade will be significant.
FCP4 was an awesome upgrade (albeit with a couple of bugs here and there that have been mostly ironed out).
The inclusion of Compressor alone made it worth the upgrade for us - we don't need Cleaner anymore.
I don't think FCE2 comes with Compresssor though.
and a toasty warm genital region.
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You can shop anywhere for iBook HDs - they're just standard 2.5" IDE drives. Just be sure to get a 9.5mm high or less drive for an iBook. A PowerBook will take up to 12.5mm high drives.
Other than that (and possibly the CD drive) you'll need to hit the specialist suppliers for parts.
Rendezvous is very handy - I find it most useful for detection of network printers.
I can take my iBook anywhere and I've yet to find a printer on a subnet I've joined that has given me problems. I can select it from the print menu about 10 seconds after joining the network. No muss, no fuss.
It also means I don't pay for print credit at the university where I'm doing my postgrad - I just find a spare ethernet port and I'm away. The IT folks there don't seem to mind.
Name recognition, and because it works.
I'd never heard of the three webservers you linked to in your post.
Apache has done everything I've ever asked of it without being noticably slow or resouce hogging, even on my iBook when I put up sites in development on our LAN. I can keep working while it happily serves pages to people and I don't notice it's there.
Incidentally, that's a great feature of OS X - Apache out of the box. Sure you need to tweak it a little and enable php and stuff, but it's there ready to go. My previous work method was to upload in-development sites to an old FreeBSD box on the LAN for testing. Now I have my iBook I can work on the html right in place, and just get within AirPort range for everyone I'm working with to have instant access to the site without me having to do anything.
Ok, this wasn't supposed to be an ad for OS X, it was meant to show that Apache is fantastic for what I want to do.
Indeed, I need it for work purposes - I can't run Final Cut Pro 4 on my iBook.
heh, I guess it's time to buy that new 15" PowerBook I've been after!
If they were then either BT really overcharges its customers for the service, or Pipex was taking huge losses.
You did need a BT line to use the service, and BT owns all the exchanges and all the DSLAMs and so on. I think they're prohibited from keeping competition out of contention by leveraging their hardware monopoly though.
Ok, so it seems /. won't display the UK pound sign.
All the numbers in that post without a $ in front of them are in GBP.
Currently you can get about $1.60 per pound.
If Bush keeps fucking with the economy, we might get $2 to the pound, which will be good for me since it would make my Apple purchases even cheaper. Well, the ones I can bring back on the plane that is.
I'm using NTL's 600/128 cable package because it's the only option in my area and it's pretty good for 25 quid a month.
BT isn't the only DSL provider, although most require that you have a BT landline to use them.
Thus: cost of BT line 29 per quarter, plus cost of DSL provider. Note that BT's own costs don't include line rental - it's extra.
I paid 23 per month ($30) for 512/256 DSL in London from Pipex, who were extremely good to me. I'd have used them in a heartbeat if my new house was in a DSL-capable area. At the time, BT wanted a lot more than 23 a month for similar speeds (any by all accounts from friends who used them, really poor service).
A friend of mine who lives in the US gave me a $2 bill as a birthday present - it was one of the most thoughtful gifts I've ever received since she'd remembered we'd been talking about them a year or so earlier. I joked that I had some $2 bills that I'd use to come and visit her, trying to use a variation of the old "bent as a nine bob note", not realising that $2 bills were real US currency.
She hunted around several banks in her area looking for a $2 bill for my birthday and eventually managed to find one. It sits on my shelf with other small gifts I've received like keyrings, paperweights etc.
Yes, I do expect a machine to last longer than the warranty, and I'll bet that most do.
However, if the machine breaks outside the warranty, it will cost you money to repair it.
The chances are that it won't break though.
Should the warranty be longer? Maybe, but you'll find most electronics manufacturers have warranties of one year or less.
If there's a specific problem then it will likely be addressed - like the MDD Windtunnel G4's noisy power supply, the iBook's 'saucer' power supply, the G4 Superdrive disintegrating disk problem etc.
I'll add my name to that list. I have had this Dual USB iBook for just under 2 years and it's been bullet proof. Crossed the Atlantic a few times, been back and forth to London on the train countless times, been used at least 4 hours a day, usually more, every day since I bought it.
The damn thing's bomb proof!
I love it, and can't bring myself to sell her to subsidise an upgrade, not that I really need it.
Safari on OS X (v 1.1) does pass those CSS tests in full though. I didn't see a ref image for that in your directory. I can send a screenshot if you like.
In fact, screenshot here.
Cold feet?!
They killed off the clone vendors because they were killing Apple, much like the IBM clone makers killed IBM's desktop hardware business. The difference was that IBM had other things to fall back on - Apple did/does not. Apple is a hardware company.
I had the time to answer because I'm watching my editor friend make a documentary in Final Cut Pro that I finished shooting last week.
On a DP G5 no less.