It's not just email and a website. They also give you virex, backup software to backup to an iDisk, DVD-R, what have you. Now you also get a subscription to VT+, which is really useful, and iBlog, so for $100 a year you also get a blog with a good server.
I don't know how many times people have seen this, but if it's ANYTHING like other PC companies that have tried to copy apple, they're usually quite terrible (such as www.buymusic.com).
I highly doubt that this will have any effect, if any, on the iPod.
This is because both Motorola and IBM codeveloped the PowerPC architecture. For example, did you know that the G3 chips used in the iBooks are actually manufactured by IBM? The 970 (aka G5) has native 32-bit PPC instructions. Basically, to make software for the G5, it requires taking your code, putting it on a G5, and recompiling. Done. No code changes necessary.
If you're going to rebut about VPC not working, that's because it made some specific little-endian calls that the G4 has but the G5 is big-endian only. This was done for speed, but oh well. It'll have to be updated.
The Menuet OS sounds interesting. I'm wondering however if it will ever grow into a fully fledged OS written entirely in assembly. If it does, well, zoom. That'll be one of the fastest OS's on the market easily.
Install windows 95? That's like installing herpes. Never said the no OS 9 was a good thing, I was using it as an example of how apple could easily kill of YDL or anything like it. People like Apple because they encourage you to do things they hadn't though of yet with their hardware. Microsoft, on the other hand, tries to prevent you from doing things. It's a different standpoint.
That's because apple makes the HARDWARE you silly little man. Microsoft doesn't make the hardware, they make an OS that I don't like. Apple could quite easily make it so you can't install anything but OS X on the machine, just like they killed OS 9 on the newer machines. But they don't. They know that a lot of people just like their hardware, which is of high quality. If you're going to buy a laptop, you don't want to buy a 8 lb. Dell, you want a sexy PowerBook G4.
This is really satisfying to hear about 20 minutes after watching one of their commercials. It was pretty shameless, almost up there with that Gateway one trashing the iMac. It's basically like Honda making a commercial where some guy comes in on a white background and takes a baseball bat to a Toyota. Except in the BM commercial, it's a guy trashing the iTMS ad's electric guitar.
Good to know their services sucks as much as their ads do.
Sounds interesting, thinking about it. The thing is that I already have the OS X on the laptop with airport and an airport network set up at my house, and I was planning to get a palm.
Just wondering if there was any way to control my mac through the palm over the 802.11b connection. If I can, I'll get the Tungsten W because 802.11b is built into it, negating the need for 3rd party connectors that often have weird requirements or restrictions.
Here's a thought. I could get an old iBook hooked up to a really nice stereo system through a USB converter, and set up this terminal thing, but is there a way to control it through a PDA that supports Wi-Fi, like the Tungsten W? Any terminal emulation software on those?
Because it would be nifty as hell to be able to control all 10GB's of my music through a nice little portable PDA acting as a sort of "remote". Anyone know of terminal emulation software for a Palm?
Actually, it will run on almost anything, just it doesn't want to. What many people are doing nowadays is buying old clones and using XPostFacto (try versiontracker.com) to install OS X where it wouldn't normally go. Like on a UMAX clone with a G4 800Mhz upgrade card in it.
Please, all you people just starting up sendmail on your mac, please, OH PLEASE set it to only allow incoming connections from localhost or set it to have authorization required?
This article is total BS. I was in Australia for a whole month and nothing happened to the albums that I'd purchased, some of them quite recent.
This guy brought this upon himself by reinstalling his system and making it look canadian. This is almost as bad as that guy who continually does reports on macs that are complete FUD (like that recent G5 one with the single 2Ghz G5? Where'd he get that?).
This is exactly true. If it weren't eBay and such would have a whole lot of hell to catch from apple for reselling old macs with upgrade cards installed.
For all you people who complain that macs cost too much, it's because they use quality parts, not the cheapest thing from malaysia they could find. My friend recently bought a Dell Inspirion 4100, and the screen on it, while having a large resolution, is terrible. If you go even slightly out of center with it, the colors go all wacky. But my iBook's screen is much better, even though it's 4 years older.
Quality parts people, quality parts.
Yes, I know how frustrating this can be, it happens to me sometimes when I forget to unmount drives properly and I go to a different network.
It does eventually time out though. I've tried it before. I did it once, went to dinner and didn't touch it, and when I came back it was sitting there perfectly normal with no NFS drive mounted. w00t. Just takes a while (I was gone ~1h)
It's funny because this is a really, really old troll. Who types responses to slashdot in BBEdit? Are you stupid?
Just stop. seriously. If you had an actual complaint you wouldn't post as an anonomous coward.
You obviously just started using computers. Worms can be used for everything, in fact, this one doesn't DDos, it sets up a keylogger to get your passwords and opens back doors, which while possibly for DDos attacks, might not be.
Worms are very good at sneaking around unnoticed until a certain time is hit, then they all do something at the same moment. Very bad for a company if it's infected most of the computers. It can also do more subtle things, such as get your online banking passwords, send them to the creator, and then delete itself, without you ever knowing.
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It's not just email and a website. They also give you virex, backup software to backup to an iDisk, DVD-R, what have you. Now you also get a subscription to VT+, which is really useful, and iBlog, so for $100 a year you also get a blog with a good server.
I think it's worth it.
He must have obviously wanted to stress test it. Hit it a _little_ too hard.
The GUI is liked by many people, but you can change it with a themeing application. Not hard to do at all.
And about the Newton, I was referring to apple's good ideas. It's not hard to do better than the Newton.
I don't know how many times people have seen this, but if it's ANYTHING like other PC companies that have tried to copy apple, they're usually quite terrible (such as www.buymusic.com).
I highly doubt that this will have any effect, if any, on the iPod.
Alright, I need a dog, some matches, and a paper bag.
This is because both Motorola and IBM codeveloped the PowerPC architecture. For example, did you know that the G3 chips used in the iBooks are actually manufactured by IBM? The 970 (aka G5) has native 32-bit PPC instructions. Basically, to make software for the G5, it requires taking your code, putting it on a G5, and recompiling. Done. No code changes necessary.
If you're going to rebut about VPC not working, that's because it made some specific little-endian calls that the G4 has but the G5 is big-endian only. This was done for speed, but oh well. It'll have to be updated.
Because that would be considered RAPE. Have you seen the performance of the Itanium 2?
Also, they're not nearly as available for the consumer market or even in the same price range.
And I thought I was special because I got into a closed beta...
The Menuet OS sounds interesting. I'm wondering however if it will ever grow into a fully fledged OS written entirely in assembly. If it does, well, zoom. That'll be one of the fastest OS's on the market easily.
Install windows 95? That's like installing herpes. Never said the no OS 9 was a good thing, I was using it as an example of how apple could easily kill of YDL or anything like it. People like Apple because they encourage you to do things they hadn't though of yet with their hardware. Microsoft, on the other hand, tries to prevent you from doing things. It's a different standpoint.
That's because apple makes the HARDWARE you silly little man. Microsoft doesn't make the hardware, they make an OS that I don't like. Apple could quite easily make it so you can't install anything but OS X on the machine, just like they killed OS 9 on the newer machines. But they don't. They know that a lot of people just like their hardware, which is of high quality. If you're going to buy a laptop, you don't want to buy a 8 lb. Dell, you want a sexy PowerBook G4.
The problem is not with the mods, it's with YOU.
This is really satisfying to hear about 20 minutes after watching one of their commercials. It was pretty shameless, almost up there with that Gateway one trashing the iMac. It's basically like Honda making a commercial where some guy comes in on a white background and takes a baseball bat to a Toyota. Except in the BM commercial, it's a guy trashing the iTMS ad's electric guitar.
Good to know their services sucks as much as their ads do.
Sounds interesting, thinking about it. The thing is that I already have the OS X on the laptop with airport and an airport network set up at my house, and I was planning to get a palm.
Just wondering if there was any way to control my mac through the palm over the 802.11b connection. If I can, I'll get the Tungsten W because 802.11b is built into it, negating the need for 3rd party connectors that often have weird requirements or restrictions.
Here's a thought. I could get an old iBook hooked up to a really nice stereo system through a USB converter, and set up this terminal thing, but is there a way to control it through a PDA that supports Wi-Fi, like the Tungsten W? Any terminal emulation software on those?
Because it would be nifty as hell to be able to control all 10GB's of my music through a nice little portable PDA acting as a sort of "remote". Anyone know of terminal emulation software for a Palm?
Actually, it will run on almost anything, just it doesn't want to. What many people are doing nowadays is buying old clones and using XPostFacto (try versiontracker.com) to install OS X where it wouldn't normally go. Like on a UMAX clone with a G4 800Mhz upgrade card in it.
Please, all you people just starting up sendmail on your mac, please, OH PLEASE set it to only allow incoming connections from localhost or set it to have authorization required?
Don't turn your mac into a spam relay.
This article is total BS. I was in Australia for a whole month and nothing happened to the albums that I'd purchased, some of them quite recent.
This guy brought this upon himself by reinstalling his system and making it look canadian. This is almost as bad as that guy who continually does reports on macs that are complete FUD (like that recent G5 one with the single 2Ghz G5? Where'd he get that?).
I give it 20 minutes before it's parodied worse than Ellen Feiss.
This is exactly true. If it weren't eBay and such would have a whole lot of hell to catch from apple for reselling old macs with upgrade cards installed.
For all you people who complain that macs cost too much, it's because they use quality parts, not the cheapest thing from malaysia they could find. My friend recently bought a Dell Inspirion 4100, and the screen on it, while having a large resolution, is terrible. If you go even slightly out of center with it, the colors go all wacky. But my iBook's screen is much better, even though it's 4 years older. Quality parts people, quality parts.
Yes, I know how frustrating this can be, it happens to me sometimes when I forget to unmount drives properly and I go to a different network.
It does eventually time out though. I've tried it before. I did it once, went to dinner and didn't touch it, and when I came back it was sitting there perfectly normal with no NFS drive mounted. w00t. Just takes a while (I was gone ~1h)
It's funny because this is a really, really old troll. Who types responses to slashdot in BBEdit? Are you stupid? Just stop. seriously. If you had an actual complaint you wouldn't post as an anonomous coward.
I better go get a patch for my Unices system.
You obviously just started using computers. Worms can be used for everything, in fact, this one doesn't DDos, it sets up a keylogger to get your passwords and opens back doors, which while possibly for DDos attacks, might not be.
Worms are very good at sneaking around unnoticed until a certain time is hit, then they all do something at the same moment. Very bad for a company if it's infected most of the computers. It can also do more subtle things, such as get your online banking passwords, send them to the creator, and then delete itself, without you ever knowing.
Only the ignorant and stupid repeat the mistakes of others.