It's as good as FreeBSD under the nice interface, and even better - Darwin runs on X86 hardware (or it used to, I seem to remember a story about the X86 Darwin team getting pissed off about something and pulling the project). It's not all that different from the BSD that birthed it though.
The first I heard of this was reading this story. I'm sitting here behind two firewalls on an OS X machine having converted to Mac a year ago. It's so refreshing not to have to worry about viruses.
I know OS X isn't bullet proof (no OS is), and I keep on top of any security updates that come out, but it's so rare that it doesn't bother me,
My w2k gaming box wasn't affected, but I suppose my firewalls kept it out. My FreeBSD box has been chugging along happily without incident as well.
The buttons and the knob are touch sensitive like a laptop trackpad as the other reply states.
The only moving part on the outside of the iPod case is the hold switch, which needs to be mechanical by its design. A touch sensitive hold switch wouldn't be very effective would it?
The only mechanical part inside is the hard drive, which is cradled in a big shock-damping assembly.
I've had the same problem. when my cable service went down (it turned out to be a broken modem) I called tech support.
Me: Hi, I think my cable modem is broken, it won't assign my machine an IP address when I connect to it.
Tech: Have you set up your network settings correctly? (begins spiel on how to configure windows networking and using their custom software to do it)
Me: I'm not running Windows.
Tech: Why not?
Me: Because I'm using Mac OS X. I think the modem is broken. It should assign my iBook an IP address but it won't do so. I haven't changed any settings and it's set to act as a DHCP client.
Tech: Our service doesn't work with Macs.
Me: Yes it does, I was using it yesterday.
Tech: No, it doesn't work. The modem will only give IP addresses to Windows computers.
Me: errr, I've been using this service for six months now with no problems, and I'm fairly certain that a DHCP server will lease an IP address to any OS that supports DHCP.
Tech: Can you install Windows on your laptop.
Me: I'm a Mac user not a masochist.
Ok, so I didn't say that last line, and I called back later and got a tech who used Macs himself. He sent an engineer round with a new modem and all was well after that.
Anything with a voltage across it is going to generate heat. SODIMMs can get warm, yes. In the iBook they have a heat sink/protective metal shield that helps to dissipate it, but it still gets hot under there.
The major heat sources in any computer are the hard drive, memory, CPU, graphics CPU and north/south bridges.
The altitude limit is almost certainly because of the hard drive.
The heads on the hard drive "fly" just above the surface of the platters due to a combination of aerodynamics and air cushioning. If the air density drops too low though (for example, higher than 10,000 feet) it's insufficient for the heads to get propely "airbourne" over the platters to work properly, in which case a special sealed hard drive is required.
And not just any supplier - a supplier that can afford to purchase legislation to get its way in the United Corporations of America(tm)(c)(patent pending).
I see that you corrrected your troll template after posting "Even SimpleText is straining to keep up as I type this." in your post in the previous Mac thread yesterday and people pointed out that you obviously didn't know what you were talking about or that you'd ever used a Mac since SimpleText is an OS 9 app, not an OS X one.
Well corrected; you even capitalised it correctly, although I suspect you just cut and pasted from one of the replies to your troll.
You really are a bizarre person, I imagine that you ride a bus that's far shorter than it is wide.
SimpleText eh? So you fired up Classic to run an OS 9 program in X just to type/. posts.
I see you've upgraded the specs of the computer that is taking 20 minutes to copy a 20 meg file. Didn't it use to be an 8600 machine running system 7? Did you realise you were trolling specs that you knew nothing about when people pointed out to you that the 8600 is donkeys years old?
Seriously, can I have your address, phone number and other personal info so that I'll know to throw away your CV if you ever apply for a job. Just how do you fund your trolling obsession - you post the same thing in every Mac thread so you must spend a lot of time on the internet (I guess while you're waiting for that file to copy).
You obviously have some intelligence since you seem to be able to type and spell, although I suppose you could have had your minder type that out for you and teach you how to use cut and paste.
Oh, and the solution to your problem is simple - don't use a Mac. Losing you from the Mac user base would be like cutting loose a dead horse that's dragging behind a car.
The Open Group listed OS X on their own pages stating that it was in fact UNIX, then there was the whole "pay up or we sue" thing that seems to be the de facto way to make money in America today.
Maybe the listing on their pages referred to earlier incarnations of OSes from Apple, but it's been widely accepted that, given the way the term "unix" is used, that OS X is as such.
You have a point there, and alas, it's the only drawback of having competition.
Mac laptops are already very good value for money, dropping the prices to compete with creaky brick laptops in the PC world would just cause a price war.
There are some nice PC laptops out there, but the majority are dull, poorly constructed and unimaginative.
I have yet to see a PC laptop that compares favourably with the current iBook in all areas.
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There are plenty of turboprops around that are small enough for use in light aircraft, but piston engines prevail.
A turbofan/turbojet on a light aircraft would be a waste at those low speeds.
Apple might have shot itself in the proverbial foot with the nomenclature they chose for OS X.
People equate the "point one", "point two" names as small increases (0.1 of an increase in fact), not the names of the operating system. The small increase comes with the second point - the point releases.
10.1 is to Windows 95 as 10.2 is to Windows 98 (well, if we're being fair, 10.2 = Windows 3257, but there we go, I'm biased).
There were probably as many changes between Windows 95 and 98 as there were between 10.1 and 10.2, and people weren't up in arms about having to pay for 98 were they?
The server edition (edition with an e - sever is not an "addition" to the standard version of OS X) is designed for just that - server work. It actually lacks some features of the standard OS X install that aren't really necessary for a server box, so in some ways it would be less useful to you as a home user, although it contains extra features that would make it very good in the server room.
Plus, it costs more.
I can only conclude that you engaged mouth before activating brain on this one and don't really understand that the standard and server editions of OS X are for two entirely different purposes - the standard version is not a crippled version of OS X Server in any way.
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It's as good as FreeBSD under the nice interface, and even better - Darwin runs on X86 hardware (or it used to, I seem to remember a story about the X86 Darwin team getting pissed off about something and pulling the project). It's not all that different from the BSD that birthed it though.
Buy a 9600/300 Powermac, I'm sure it can create random numbers more quickly!
Failing that, a Pentium Pro with 16Mb of RAM.
"Screamers" was very underrated for what it achieved, probably due to the lack of 'megastar' actors in it.
It was good sci-fi that was well executed.
You didn't laugh at anything rediculous, because there wasn't anything, you could believe in each part of the film.
Word.
The first I heard of this was reading this story. I'm sitting here behind two firewalls on an OS X machine having converted to Mac a year ago. It's so refreshing not to have to worry about viruses.
I know OS X isn't bullet proof (no OS is), and I keep on top of any security updates that come out, but it's so rare that it doesn't bother me,
My w2k gaming box wasn't affected, but I suppose my firewalls kept it out. My FreeBSD box has been chugging along happily without incident as well.
The buttons and the knob are touch sensitive like a laptop trackpad as the other reply states.
The only moving part on the outside of the iPod case is the hold switch, which needs to be mechanical by its design. A touch sensitive hold switch wouldn't be very effective would it?
The only mechanical part inside is the hard drive, which is cradled in a big shock-damping assembly.
The problem with that is many users do consider themselves to know more about computers than 95% of the population, so the tech would say
"Install the device drivers" and the guy would respond by feeding the CD into the printer.
I've had the same problem. when my cable service went down (it turned out to be a broken modem) I called tech support.
Me: Hi, I think my cable modem is broken, it won't assign my machine an IP address when I connect to it.
Tech: Have you set up your network settings correctly? (begins spiel on how to configure windows networking and using their custom software to do it)
Me: I'm not running Windows.
Tech: Why not?
Me: Because I'm using Mac OS X. I think the modem is broken. It should assign my iBook an IP address but it won't do so. I haven't changed any settings and it's set to act as a DHCP client.
Tech: Our service doesn't work with Macs.
Me: Yes it does, I was using it yesterday.
Tech: No, it doesn't work. The modem will only give IP addresses to Windows computers.
Me: errr, I've been using this service for six months now with no problems, and I'm fairly certain that a DHCP server will lease an IP address to any OS that supports DHCP.
Tech: Can you install Windows on your laptop.
Me: I'm a Mac user not a masochist.
Ok, so I didn't say that last line, and I called back later and got a tech who used Macs himself. He sent an engineer round with a new modem and all was well after that.
Yes, but they're very expensive and generally used in military applications.
At least use their proper name. It's obviously WorldCon.
1% of the electricty used in the whole of the UK is used in a single plant that extracts aluminium from its ore.
It's a very energy-demanding process to produce Al.
Anything with a voltage across it is going to generate heat. SODIMMs can get warm, yes. In the iBook they have a heat sink/protective metal shield that helps to dissipate it, but it still gets hot under there.
The major heat sources in any computer are the hard drive, memory, CPU, graphics CPU and north/south bridges.
The altitude limit is almost certainly because of the hard drive.
The heads on the hard drive "fly" just above the surface of the platters due to a combination of aerodynamics and air cushioning. If the air density drops too low though (for example, higher than 10,000 feet) it's insufficient for the heads to get propely "airbourne" over the platters to work properly, in which case a special sealed hard drive is required.
And not just any supplier - a supplier that can afford to purchase legislation to get its way in the United Corporations of America(tm)(c)(patent pending).
Apple's support rocks.
In the unlikely event that your Mac breaks, if you need a piss while you're waiting for them to repair it they'll have someone hold your dick for you.
Apple support is very good indeed, especially if you buy AppleCare with whatever machine you get.
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I see that you corrrected your troll template after posting "Even SimpleText is straining to keep up as I type this." in your post in the previous Mac thread yesterday and people pointed out that you obviously didn't know what you were talking about or that you'd ever used a Mac since SimpleText is an OS 9 app, not an OS X one.
Well corrected; you even capitalised it correctly, although I suspect you just cut and pasted from one of the replies to your troll.
You really are a bizarre person, I imagine that you ride a bus that's far shorter than it is wide.
He/she/it has been doing it for ages now.
I'm hoping that the warmer weather of late will entice him/her/it out of the basement for a little while.
SimpleText eh? So you fired up Classic to run an OS 9 program in X just to type /. posts.
I see you've upgraded the specs of the computer that is taking 20 minutes to copy a 20 meg file. Didn't it use to be an 8600 machine running system 7? Did you realise you were trolling specs that you knew nothing about when people pointed out to you that the 8600 is donkeys years old?
Seriously, can I have your address, phone number and other personal info so that I'll know to throw away your CV if you ever apply for a job. Just how do you fund your trolling obsession - you post the same thing in every Mac thread so you must spend a lot of time on the internet (I guess while you're waiting for that file to copy).
You obviously have some intelligence since you seem to be able to type and spell, although I suppose you could have had your minder type that out for you and teach you how to use cut and paste.
Oh, and the solution to your problem is simple - don't use a Mac. Losing you from the Mac user base would be like cutting loose a dead horse that's dragging behind a car.
The Open Group listed OS X on their own pages stating that it was in fact UNIX, then there was the whole "pay up or we sue" thing that seems to be the de facto way to make money in America today.
Maybe the listing on their pages referred to earlier incarnations of OSes from Apple, but it's been widely accepted that, given the way the term "unix" is used, that OS X is as such.
You have a point there, and alas, it's the only drawback of having competition.
Mac laptops are already very good value for money, dropping the prices to compete with creaky brick laptops in the PC world would just cause a price war.
There are some nice PC laptops out there, but the majority are dull, poorly constructed and unimaginative.
I have yet to see a PC laptop that compares favourably with the current iBook in all areas.
There are plenty of turboprops around that are small enough for use in light aircraft, but piston engines prevail.
A turbofan/turbojet on a light aircraft would be a waste at those low speeds.
Apple might have shot itself in the proverbial foot with the nomenclature they chose for OS X.
People equate the "point one", "point two" names as small increases (0.1 of an increase in fact), not the names of the operating system. The small increase comes with the second point - the point releases.
10.1 is to Windows 95 as 10.2 is to Windows 98 (well, if we're being fair, 10.2 = Windows 3257, but there we go, I'm biased).
There were probably as many changes between Windows 95 and 98 as there were between 10.1 and 10.2, and people weren't up in arms about having to pay for 98 were they?
The server edition (edition with an e - sever is not an "addition" to the standard version of OS X) is designed for just that - server work. It actually lacks some features of the standard OS X install that aren't really necessary for a server box, so in some ways it would be less useful to you as a home user, although it contains extra features that would make it very good in the server room.
Plus, it costs more.
I can only conclude that you engaged mouth before activating brain on this one and don't really understand that the standard and server editions of OS X are for two entirely different purposes - the standard version is not a crippled version of OS X Server in any way.
I hope 1000dBa is impossible. Isn't 160 or 170dBa sufficient to kill a person?
Yeah, well.... I have my email delivered on machine-readable punch cards!