It's been a few years since the last time I posted here. Anyways, this just goes to show how wrong was the, by now classic, quote on the original iPod launch by CmdrTaco almost 10 years ago:
Must have passed like 2 years since my last post...
Anyway, I have a WRT54GL and it's the router I recommend to all of my customers to get. First thing to do on it is install OpenWRT, never had a problem on it. I have one on my parents home and it works steady ever since I installed it.
Blame it on the crappy software built into these machines, I've never had a problem on them. If you're not too tech savvy then you can try some of the other alternatives (I've heard - or read - some good comments about both Tomato and HyperWRT).
I'm a bit drunk right now as to make a full in-depth tech analysis to the root of the issue but we both God and I knows that all of my OpenWRT-powered devices work as intended.
As a last recomm#@#@#1!!ONE1!!one!!+++ATH NO CARRIER
It had its propietary graphics system, not based on X11. It used Display Postscript as its backend rendering system, somewhat similar as how MacOS X uses the PDF engine and is OpenGL based.
I have an old BYTE magazine dating back from 1988, in which they reviewed the NeXT as the 'Computer for the Nineties'. It has a very thoroughful technical review and on it you can surely appreciate how ahead of its time was the NeXT, when comparing it with other reviews and ads on the same magazine. I have scanned the article and uploaded it here (using Coral Cache to avoid getting my server hammered too hard) and you can check out the page detailing the use of the Display PostScript system right here.
I used to run Linux on my old 486 box. I ran X on top of it. With Netscape 4, bloated as hell. And various other CPU and memory intensive applications (no GNOME nor KDE by then tho). All that with a whopping 8 Mb of RAM. And it was good!
Thanks for the info, would you share the URL for the Safari extension that you mention?
I do use Safari for my everyday browsing, but when I do web development I honestly prefer Firefox. Besides there are some sites which don't work well with Safari yet but FF does supports just fine.
Joking aside, the tab reordering via drag and drop is a feature I have long wished. Obviously, all of my extensions stopped working (give me my WebDeveloper back!!), but other than that this version indeed seems to be faster. Great work by the FF team!
You know, all those lawsuits coming and going between the (then) 3D graphics giant and pioneer 3Dfx and the newcomer nVidia.
Then, to the surprise of all of us, nVidia bought 3Dfx, dismissing all the mutual lawsuits and absorbing (or ditching, if you want) all of its technology.
I do a lot of webdevelopment myself, and the Gecko engine is indeed a pretty good thing to justify its existence on its own.
I agree with you on the existence of all the developer tools for Firefox, I use them myself. However I like my CSS and DOM stuff to work as intended, just as their specs told them to do. When using Firefox (or even Safari) I don't have to try out things a lot, as they just work as they should right after writing them. But with Internet Explorer is another thing altogether, I've found a bunch of bugs on the DOM parser that had made me use some ugly, non-standard stuff (like innerHTML) and hacking the CSS to make it work over Internet Explorer, and I'm not even using the selectors that IE ignores.
And don't get me started on the different versions of Internet Explorer out there, those guys aren't even compatible with themselves, they can't agree on anything: IE6sp1 isn't the same on different Windows versions, so standards-driven web development is a nightmare.
The rendering engine remains unchanged. Gecko, the rendering engine behind Firefox and all other Mozilla products/projects is what would make the real difference between them and any IE based piece of software.
When someone creates a plugin which would let replace the broken rendering engine of IE (I don't remember how it's called) with Gecko then that would be newsworthy.
DISCLAIMER: I'm both a Mac and Linux/OSS user, a big proponent of OpenSource and Free Software, sometimes developer, own purely Apple machines, use an iPod, etc.
This is pure pirating. For a lot of reasons. First of all, almost every single site I've seen is either promoting or even directly linking to torrents and other P2P references of the Developer's version of Mac OS X Intel. Second, this is indeed a Developer's version of the software. I'm pretty confident that all developers that have been able to get a hold (legally) of the OS had to do so signing a strict NDA, which (again, with no certainty proof but pretty confident of) would probably prohibites them of using it for any purposes other than the porting and testing of their applications, which of course doesn't include trying to run it on non-Apple hardware (which I guess is explicitly forbidden), or discusing and sharing these methods with other fellow developers.
Apple trying to pull the plug on these sites comes as no surprise, even if thousands of hundreds of users would love to run OS X on their PCs, as it finally is _their_ (Apple's) product, they hold all the intelectual property to it and anyone wanting to use it will have to agree to their conditions to do so.
I would expect a similar reaction if there appears some highly publisized websites teaching and offering videos on tax evading practices, of course the IRS (or the equivalent organization on whatever country that happens) would eventually chase them.
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and your work. I'd already visited your site some (not so long) time ago. Very good, nice and useful stuff in there.
A car of such kind running Linux isn't news anymore, in the sense that it's expected to do so, we've already seen Linux running on all kind of cars and many devices before that its use is seen as normal and almost isn't worth noting anymore, ie. it's what we are all used to see.
A car running Windows wouldn't be news but a joke, be it Windows ME/CE/.not/mobile/xp/vista/whatever.
I don't know the real technology behind the 'Powered by OS X' of the car, if it's using some OS X-only tools or anything like that.
I've become a very loyal customer in the last 2 years. From being a lifetime PC (Linux) user I've completly made the switch, by getting an iBook G4 first and a Powerbook later. I've since then migrated all of the PCs of my small company to Mac computers, and I constantly predicate about the digital lifestyle that you promote.
However, I'd like to request you that please, please, PLEASE add gapless playing to the iPod. How good can it be to listen to the Dark Side Of The Moon (or any other Pink Floyd album for that matter) if there is a frickin' gap between every track, cutting out all the inspiration of such masterpieces. I don't mind if it's added as a global option or as some sort of metadata hack for each track, I want gapless playing on my iPod (and iTunes too).
I can't stress enough how important this feature is for me as for many other users, I think it's by far the most requested one (even than OGG playback!)
I've kept away of the hardware trend since processors hit the 1 Ghz (back in 2000 I guess?), and turned from the hardware junkie to the casual hard drive and memory shopper.
That said, is there any similar RAID controller to that of the article (one of which I have lying somewhere) but for IDE PATA/SATA drives? You know, in order to set up a similar project but with 160-200 Gb SATA drives instead?
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Of course!
It's been a few years since the last time I posted here. Anyways, this just goes to show how wrong was the, by now classic, quote on the original iPod launch by CmdrTaco almost 10 years ago:
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257
Best,
Must have passed like 2 years since my last post...
Anyway, I have a WRT54GL and it's the router I recommend to all of my customers to get. First thing to do on it is install OpenWRT, never had a problem on it. I have one on my parents home and it works steady ever since I installed it.
Blame it on the crappy software built into these machines, I've never had a problem on them. If you're not too tech savvy then you can try some of the other alternatives (I've heard - or read - some good comments about both Tomato and HyperWRT).
I'm a bit drunk right now as to make a full in-depth tech analysis to the root of the issue but we both God and I knows that all of my OpenWRT-powered devices work as intended.
As a last recomm#@#@#1!!ONE1!!one!!+++ATH NO CARRIER
Something like that already exists since at least 3 years ago. It's called 'Expose' and came first with MacOS X 10.3 'Panther'.
Regards,
And they still work like a charm.
Most of them are Verbatim and TDK branded, and have blue surface. Green surface ones doesn't lasts as much, forget about golden ones.
It had its propietary graphics system, not based on X11. It used Display Postscript as its backend rendering system, somewhat similar as how MacOS X uses the PDF engine and is OpenGL based.
I have an old BYTE magazine dating back from 1988, in which they reviewed the NeXT as the 'Computer for the Nineties'. It has a very thoroughful technical review and on it you can surely appreciate how ahead of its time was the NeXT, when comparing it with other reviews and ads on the same magazine. I have scanned the article and uploaded it here (using Coral Cache to avoid getting my server hammered too hard) and you can check out the page detailing the use of the Display PostScript system right here.
Best regards,
For 2.0 it's gonna be The Next Big Thing. And for 3.0 The Next Next Big Thing.
What a promise!
I used to run Linux on my old 486 box. I ran X on top of it. With Netscape 4, bloated as hell. And various other CPU and memory intensive applications (no GNOME nor KDE by then tho). All that with a whopping 8 Mb of RAM. And it was good!
No wireless? Less space than an iPod? Lame.
Thanks for the info, would you share the URL for the Safari extension that you mention?
I do use Safari for my everyday browsing, but when I do web development I honestly prefer Firefox. Besides there are some sites which don't work well with Safari yet but FF does supports just fine.
Regards,
It feels snappier.
Joking aside, the tab reordering via drag and drop is a feature I have long wished. Obviously, all of my extensions stopped working (give me my WebDeveloper back!!), but other than that this version indeed seems to be faster. Great work by the FF team!
Dump it to a sequence of PNG files using mplayer and then reassemble it into a video using mencoder.
Or you could just use quicktime to play it forwards/backwards at will.
You know, all those lawsuits coming and going between the (then) 3D graphics giant and pioneer 3Dfx and the newcomer nVidia.
Then, to the surprise of all of us, nVidia bought 3Dfx, dismissing all the mutual lawsuits and absorbing (or ditching, if you want) all of its technology.
However, any similarities are just that.
Regards,
I do a lot of webdevelopment myself, and the Gecko engine is indeed a pretty good thing to justify its existence on its own.
I agree with you on the existence of all the developer tools for Firefox, I use them myself. However I like my CSS and DOM stuff to work as intended, just as their specs told them to do. When using Firefox (or even Safari) I don't have to try out things a lot, as they just work as they should right after writing them. But with Internet Explorer is another thing altogether, I've found a bunch of bugs on the DOM parser that had made me use some ugly, non-standard stuff (like innerHTML) and hacking the CSS to make it work over Internet Explorer, and I'm not even using the selectors that IE ignores.
And don't get me started on the different versions of Internet Explorer out there, those guys aren't even compatible with themselves, they can't agree on anything: IE6sp1 isn't the same on different Windows versions, so standards-driven web development is a nightmare.
Regards.
The rendering engine remains unchanged. Gecko, the rendering engine behind Firefox and all other Mozilla products/projects is what would make the real difference between them and any IE based piece of software.
When someone creates a plugin which would let replace the broken rendering engine of IE (I don't remember how it's called) with Gecko then that would be newsworthy.
DISCLAIMER: I'm both a Mac and Linux/OSS user, a big proponent of OpenSource and Free Software, sometimes developer, own purely Apple machines, use an iPod, etc.
This is pure pirating. For a lot of reasons. First of all, almost every single site I've seen is either promoting or even directly linking to torrents and other P2P references of the Developer's version of Mac OS X Intel. Second, this is indeed a Developer's version of the software. I'm pretty confident that all developers that have been able to get a hold (legally) of the OS had to do so signing a strict NDA, which (again, with no certainty proof but pretty confident of) would probably prohibites them of using it for any purposes other than the porting and testing of their applications, which of course doesn't include trying to run it on non-Apple hardware (which I guess is explicitly forbidden), or discusing and sharing these methods with other fellow developers.
Apple trying to pull the plug on these sites comes as no surprise, even if thousands of hundreds of users would love to run OS X on their PCs, as it finally is _their_ (Apple's) product, they hold all the intelectual property to it and anyone wanting to use it will have to agree to their conditions to do so.
I would expect a similar reaction if there appears some highly publisized websites teaching and offering videos on tax evading practices, of course the IRS (or the equivalent organization on whatever country that happens) would eventually chase them.
and your work. I'd already visited your site some (not so long) time ago. Very good, nice and useful stuff in there.
Keep up the good work.
Regards,
A car of such kind running Linux isn't news anymore, in the sense that it's expected to do so, we've already seen Linux running on all kind of cars and many devices before that its use is seen as normal and almost isn't worth noting anymore, ie. it's what we are all used to see.
A car running Windows wouldn't be news but a joke, be it Windows ME/CE/.not/mobile/xp/vista/whatever.
I don't know the real technology behind the 'Powered by OS X' of the car, if it's using some OS X-only tools or anything like that.
Already did. Long time ago.
Thanks for your response.
Regards,
I've become a very loyal customer in the last 2 years. From being a lifetime PC (Linux) user I've completly made the switch, by getting an iBook G4 first and a Powerbook later. I've since then migrated all of the PCs of my small company to Mac computers, and I constantly predicate about the digital lifestyle that you promote.
However, I'd like to request you that please, please, PLEASE add gapless playing to the iPod. How good can it be to listen to the Dark Side Of The Moon (or any other Pink Floyd album for that matter) if there is a frickin' gap between every track, cutting out all the inspiration of such masterpieces. I don't mind if it's added as a global option or as some sort of metadata hack for each track, I want gapless playing on my iPod (and iTunes too).
I can't stress enough how important this feature is for me as for many other users, I think it's by far the most requested one (even than OGG playback!)
Truly yours, a happy but desperate customer.
Date for the news was April 1st. And I've learned to not to believe anything posted on that day, even less on slashdot!
Employed by Apple? Since when? Did I miss something? His blog doesn't seems to make mention of it anywhere...
Whoa, thanks for that, exactly what I was looking for. Can't mod you up since I've already posted, but props to you for the link.
I've got one indeed, an Epox 8hda5+ which has 6 SATA ports (very nice motherboard it is). What I was referring to was to a separate, PCI controller.
I've kept away of the hardware trend since processors hit the 1 Ghz (back in 2000 I guess?), and turned from the hardware junkie to the casual hard drive and memory shopper.
That said, is there any similar RAID controller to that of the article (one of which I have lying somewhere) but for IDE PATA/SATA drives? You know, in order to set up a similar project but with 160-200 Gb SATA drives instead?
Regards,