You can activate a menuling called the 'Character Palette' that allows you to see all kinds of characters for all different kinds of fonts. Its very similar to the old PopChar control panel in MacOS 9.
Go to the 'International' preference pane. Choose the Input Menu Tab. At the top of the list choose the check box for the Character Palette.
10.2.5 really fixed my v.92 powerbook modem 'modem on hold' feature.
In 10.2.3, when someone would call while Im online, I would get a message saying "an unknown caller is calling, answer, ignore". I would click answer, and I couldnt hear anyone half the time.
In 10.2.4, if someone called while I was online, I would get a kernel panic and lose all of my work... ouch.
In 10.2.5, when someone calls, I can actually click the answer button and talk to them every single time. Im really happy someone is working on this over at Apple.
Im downloading 10.2.6 right now. We'll see what changes that brings. I hope it allows you to resume your connection from the modem menuling. Im tired of digging around for the resume dialog behind all of my windows. I also would love if it put downloads on hold... when Im downloading something, it usually just kicks me offline when someone calls.
And no resumable downloads in Camino... whats up with that?
So you do have to drag and drop the directories. Make sure under preferences you've not selected to copy the files to your iTunes directory automatically.
If you hold down the option key while dragging the music to iTunes, it will do the opposite of what this preference is set to do. In other words, if by default, dragged music is copied to the iTunes folder, it will not get copied if the option key is held during the drag.
In spite of what people say, every year, we discover more and more oil. We used to think we only had 100 years worth at current consumption in the 70s. Now we know there are many times that amount. I grew up in an oil family. Its amazing how little the average person actually knows about energy. Whats more amazing is the FUD that tree huggers put out, even knowing better. The truth doesn't matter to these people: Only their agenda does.
Who are people? Who is we? Who are the tree huggers and what do they put out? The truth doesn't matter to what people?
I grew up in a oil and gas family. I built a solar powered car. I love forrests. I love hardwood floors. I got an education from the gas my family exploited. It matters very little what you know, or what your agenda is... its the tangible contribution you make to improve the world that matters. Your self proclaimed knowledge of how much oil is left sounds ludicrous. Oil consuption is bad. The discovery and extraction of more oil is bad. In your own words, you sound like an average person that knows little about energy.
There is a program called Page Sucker which is a Java front end to the wget CLI command. I've tried many wget front ends for OS X and Page Sucker is the only one that works perfectly. For example, you point it to a webpage full of thumbnails and it will intelligently download the high res images and leave the thumbnails and html files behind. It will also ignore links to other sites. All of that is configurable. It comes in handy for all kinds of things.
As Texas governor, Mr Bush quietly set up a committee led by Exxon, with other big oil and chemical companies, to advise him what to do about the state's deadly air pollution.
Regulators wanted compulsory cuts in emissions of up to 50% - this "secret" committee instead proposed making the cuts voluntary.
Mr Bush duly steered the polluters plan through the state legislature.
Huge donations
Texas anti-corruption law made it illegal to donate money to Mr Bush as governor whilst such legislation was under consideration.
But that month, Mr Bush declared for his candidacy for president - making the $150,000 donated by committee members and their representatives completely legal.
When you get into a purchase this big, nobody buys based on name-brand alone. When you're looking at spending a minimum of about $10,000, you darn well do the math to figure cost per terabyte and you compare features and serviceability and whatnot.
Thats a very logical statement but in practice its not what happens a lot of the time.
$10k is not much money to a company. When you are a manager spending other peoples money (OPM) you just want to solve a problem not spend your time researching all the options. (Ironically, that same manager might spend 6 months trying to decide what home computer to buy:-) )
Ive seen CEOs that know zero about computers buy $20k Dell servers just because of the name brand. That company is now out of business BTW.
It makes no sense to build larger and larger aircraft to carry more passengers. The USA (and the world) need to switch to a regional/small plane model where more small airports are utilized...
1) Small jets flying more frequently with less turnaround time would get travelers closer to their destinations with minimal transit time/distance to and from airports.
2) Direct flights between small airports would mean no layovers and no need for giant "airport shopping malls and food courts".
3) Airports could be built closer to towns and cities solving major traffic snarls in population centers. Jumbo jets have noise restrictions and huge land requirements.
4) Tickets could be booked on shorter notice (at reasonable prices) because traffic would be spread between many small airports. (instead of constrained between relatively few "hub" airports)
5) Small airplanes could be shuttled to meet demand spikes more easily than rigidly scheduled jumbo planes.
6) Overall travel time would be decreased dramatically as you would no longer have to: a) drive/taxi/train to and from a suburban airport b) fly to - and change planes in - a city that isn't on the way to your destination c) arrive hours before your flight and wait for 500 other people to check their luggage and pass through security all at once. (which causes log jams and lulls in major airports everywhere)
7) Environmental impact of building huge airports would be lessened by utilizing small airports.
8) Small planes could be built entirely from light/strong composites unlike jumbo jets which are mostly aluminum and less than %25 composite. (no jumbo has a composite fuselage yet...and wont for the next decade)
9) Reduce suburban sprall development caused by major airports. (small airports can be located in city limits)
10) Allow developing nations to have tourism without having to build a major airport (and, for example, cut down rain-forest to do it).
11) Smooth out the cyclical nature of the airplane manufacturing industry... creating steady jobs and increasing the pace of innovation.
Feel free to list more great reasons to switch to a regional/small plane model...
The only really long flight out of the US is LA to Hawaii
The latest boeing 747 extended range models have been designed to fly from Dallas to Sydney non-stop. They feature fuel tanks in the horizontal stabilizers (as well as the wings and center fuel tank).
Im not sure if there is a Dallas to Sydney non-stop ticket yet but its available to the carriers as a possible route.
I know a few former and current MS execs in Seattle. They have told me that MS realizes that OS X has leapfrogged windows and that OS X is now officially seen as a major threat. Still, Office X and other MS apps rake in revenue for MS and help enforce their monopoly. Bill Gates has said in the past that MS continues to make software for the Mac because it is a very profitable business. So the acquisition of Virtual PC could go either way... but now that its in the wrong hands, we should be thinking about creating an open source alternative.
1) Regardless of the OPENSTEP discussion, Apple is on the list of vendors that support the single Unix specification. OS X is a UNIX variant just like Linux or BSD... I dont see any harm in being a variant.
2) I would argue that Apple has taken over some SGI market share. Personally, I use Maya 4.5 on OS X. I used to use Softimage on an SGI. (The Irix user experience is a lot more buggy than OS X BTW).
3) Quicktime is server software, therefore I would say that it has something to do with servers.
The wild guesses about distributed computing are still a pipe dream, Rendez-vous or not.
LOL! Distributed computing with Rendezvous is already here! You should check out the Pooch Application (Parallel OperatiOn and Control Heuristic Application). It discovers clients using Rendezvous...
When you say the Xserve doesnt have redundant cooling...Im not sure what you mean. I see two fans in this picture...And according to what I've read, if one fails, the other is capable of cooling the whole machine (I guess its RPM is increased). It doesnt appear to be hot swapppable cooling... but It looks like a user could replace a fan themselves if one failed. Apple sells a parts kit which may contain a fan...I dont know.
If you want more redundancy than is offered, cant you just buy a second Xserve?
goombah, you should read this paper by Wilfredo ('fred') Sanchez about the history of Darwin and the "The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments"
"HFS+ is a case preserving, but case insensitive, file system. That is, the case of file names is remembered, but access to file names with varying case will yield the same file, and file names which vary only in case are not allowed in any given directory. Typical Unix file systems are, in contrast, case sensitive. At the start of the Rhapsody project, which preceded the current Mac OS X work, we had anticipated that this would be a big problem. Later, when we started using HFS+ as the primary file system in Darwin, we found surprisingly few problems resulting from this behavior, and those which we do find tend to be trivial to fix. We have yet to encounter a problem in this area which requires a complex solution."
One of my favorite quotes was spoken by JFK in 1962 when he said,
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
(Correct me if this is misquoted, I found this version of the quote on the internet.)
Maybe we should have taken Kennedy's words to heart. Maybe we should not have given up so easily on the now canceled and extremely difficult Venture Star project.
From all the bits of news I've read, it sounds like the heat shielding tiles of the space shuttle may have catostrophically failed today. It may have been due to the impact of a piece of foam from the main fuel tank shortly after launch. Apparently the final voice communication from the astronauts was something regarding tire pressure. I speculate that if the heat shield were compromised on reentry, that tire pressure could have gone up due to heat exposure. This would have triggered sensors and informed the crew of a problem seconds before something exploded. The explosion could have been tires or could have been fuel or anything else under pressure or flammable. The shuttle is made of lightweight materials, so any explosion would be disastorous. (Im not saying that lightweight materials aren't strong, but the engineering thresholds probably dont permit NASA from making an explosion proof shuttle; especially considering it was designed in the 1970's.
I read a while back that one of the primary objectives of the Venture Star project was to eliminate the need for heat shielding tiles (which may have catostrophically failed on the Columbia today). Inspecting these space shuttle tiles, if I recall, costs NASA $70,000,000 and a huge number of man years per shuttle mission! Another aim of the Venture Star project was to eliminate external fuel tanks and rocket boosters. The rocket boosters were responsible for the Challenger disaster and now the main fuel tank may have been the cause of the heat shield failure.
Let us not forget one of the main discoveris of this Columbia mission... the burning of Brazillian rainforest is contributing to global climate change.
Dont be fooled by those who say this event will stop manned missions to space. I think this will someday drive us to create much more advanced vehicles. Manned missions are not a practical way to explore space or do science, but heck, I wouldn't mind checking out another planet...or looking back at my planet from far away even if I die doing it. Maybe we need a space tourism agency, with goals separate and apart from NASA.
Slashdot Mirror
You can activate a menuling called the 'Character Palette' that allows you to see all kinds of characters for all different kinds of fonts. Its very similar to the old PopChar control panel in MacOS 9.
Go to the 'International' preference pane.
Choose the Input Menu Tab.
At the top of the list choose the check box for the Character Palette.
10.2.5 really fixed my v.92 powerbook modem 'modem on hold' feature.
In 10.2.3, when someone would call while Im online, I would get a message saying "an unknown caller is calling, answer, ignore". I would click answer, and I couldnt hear anyone half the time.
In 10.2.4, if someone called while I was online, I would get a kernel panic and lose all of my work... ouch.
In 10.2.5, when someone calls, I can actually click the answer button and talk to them every single time. Im really happy someone is working on this over at Apple.
Im downloading 10.2.6 right now. We'll see what changes that brings. I hope it allows you to resume your connection from the modem menuling. Im tired of digging around for the resume dialog behind all of my windows. I also would love if it put downloads on hold... when Im downloading something, it usually just kicks me offline when someone calls.
And no resumable downloads in Camino... whats up with that?
> You are potentially the stupidest person on Slashdot.
Tard, Proper grammar would be, "You are potentially the most stupid person on Slashdot.".
If the most of the world is going to agree on using an audio compression technology, we may as well make sure its the best one...
>If you have to do all that to tell the difference, doesn't that kinda tell you something?
So you do have to drag and drop the directories. Make sure under preferences you've not selected to copy the files to your iTunes directory automatically.
If you hold down the option key while dragging the music to iTunes, it will do the opposite of what this preference is set to do. In other words, if by default, dragged music is copied to the iTunes folder, it will not get copied if the option key is held during the drag.
In spite of what people say, every year, we discover more and more oil. We used to think we only had 100 years worth at current consumption in the 70s. Now we know there are many times that amount. I grew up in an oil family. Its amazing how little the average person actually knows about energy. Whats more amazing is the FUD that tree huggers put out, even knowing better. The truth doesn't matter to these people: Only their agenda does.
Who are people? Who is we? Who are the tree huggers and what do they put out? The truth doesn't matter to what people?
I grew up in a oil and gas family. I built a solar powered car. I love forrests. I love hardwood floors. I got an education from the gas my family exploited. It matters very little what you know, or what your agenda is... its the tangible contribution you make to improve the world that matters. Your self proclaimed knowledge of how much oil is left sounds ludicrous. Oil consuption is bad. The discovery and extraction of more oil is bad. In your own words, you sound like an average person that knows little about energy.
There is a program called Page Sucker which is a Java front end to the wget CLI command. I've tried many wget front ends for OS X and Page Sucker is the only one that works perfectly. For example, you point it to a webpage full of thumbnails and it will intelligently download the high res images and leave the thumbnails and html files behind. It will also ignore links to other sites. All of that is configurable. It comes in handy for all kinds of things.
You don't get to be the biggest companies in the world by writing a bunch of checks.
BBC News:
As Texas governor, Mr Bush quietly set up a committee led by Exxon, with other big oil and chemical companies, to advise him what to do about the state's deadly air pollution.
Regulators wanted compulsory cuts in emissions of up to 50% - this "secret" committee instead proposed making the cuts voluntary.
Mr Bush duly steered the polluters plan through the state legislature.
Huge donations
Texas anti-corruption law made it illegal to donate money to Mr Bush as governor whilst such legislation was under consideration.
But that month, Mr Bush declared for his candidacy for president - making the $150,000 donated by committee members and their representatives completely legal.
Microsoft, Boeing, Berkshire Hathaway, Exxon. They'd probably give you a budget.
When you get into a purchase this big, nobody buys based on name-brand alone. When you're looking at spending a minimum of about $10,000, you darn well do the math to figure cost per terabyte and you compare features and serviceability and whatnot.
:-) )
Thats a very logical statement but in practice its not what happens a lot of the time.
$10k is not much money to a company. When you are a manager spending other peoples money (OPM) you just want to solve a problem not spend your time researching all the options. (Ironically, that same manager might spend 6 months trying to decide what home computer to buy
Ive seen CEOs that know zero about computers buy $20k Dell servers just because of the name brand. That company is now out of business BTW.
It makes no sense to build larger and larger aircraft to carry more passengers. The USA (and the world) need to switch to a regional/small plane model where more small airports are utilized...
1) Small jets flying more frequently with less turnaround time would get travelers closer to their destinations with minimal transit time/distance to and from airports.
2) Direct flights between small airports would mean no layovers and no need for giant "airport shopping malls and food courts".
3) Airports could be built closer to towns and cities solving major traffic snarls in population centers. Jumbo jets have noise restrictions and huge land requirements.
4) Tickets could be booked on shorter notice (at reasonable prices) because traffic would be spread between many small airports. (instead of constrained between relatively few "hub" airports)
5) Small airplanes could be shuttled to meet demand spikes more easily than rigidly scheduled jumbo planes.
6) Overall travel time would be decreased dramatically as you would no longer have to:
a) drive/taxi/train to and from a suburban airport
b) fly to - and change planes in - a city that isn't on the way to your destination
c) arrive hours before your flight and wait for 500 other people to check their luggage and pass through security all at once. (which causes log jams and lulls in major airports everywhere)
7) Environmental impact of building huge airports would be lessened by utilizing small airports.
8) Small planes could be built entirely from light/strong composites unlike jumbo jets which are mostly aluminum and less than %25 composite. (no jumbo has a composite fuselage yet...and wont for the next decade)
9) Reduce suburban sprall development caused by major airports. (small airports can be located in city limits)
10) Allow developing nations to have tourism without having to build a major airport (and, for example, cut down rain-forest to do it).
11) Smooth out the cyclical nature of the airplane manufacturing industry... creating steady jobs and increasing the pace of innovation.
Feel free to list more great reasons to switch to a regional/small plane model...
The only really long flight out of the US is LA to Hawaii
The latest boeing 747 extended range models have been designed to fly from Dallas to Sydney non-stop. They feature fuel tanks in the horizontal stabilizers (as well as the wings and center fuel tank).
Im not sure if there is a Dallas to Sydney non-stop ticket yet but its available to the carriers as a possible route.
I know a few former and current MS execs in Seattle. They have told me that MS realizes that OS X has leapfrogged windows and that OS X is now officially seen as a major threat. Still, Office X and other MS apps rake in revenue for MS and help enforce their monopoly. Bill Gates has said in the past that MS continues to make software for the Mac because it is a very profitable business. So the acquisition of Virtual PC could go either way... but now that its in the wrong hands, we should be thinking about creating an open source alternative.
Three cheers for ChiZilla!
1) Regardless of the OPENSTEP discussion, Apple is on the list of vendors that support the single Unix specification. OS X is a UNIX variant just like Linux or BSD... I dont see any harm in being a variant.
Platform Vendors Supporting the Single UNIX Specification
2) I would argue that Apple has taken over some SGI market share. Personally, I use Maya 4.5 on OS X. I used to use Softimage on an SGI. (The Irix user experience is a lot more buggy than OS X BTW).
3) Quicktime is server software, therefore I would say that it has something to do with servers.
Quicktime Streaming Server
4) Yes, Apple will always need higher-end hardware...There will never be a time when people say "Damn this hardware is just too fast for me".
The wild guesses about distributed computing are still a pipe dream, Rendez-vous or not.
LOL! Distributed computing with Rendezvous is already here! You should check out the Pooch Application (Parallel OperatiOn and Control Heuristic Application). It discovers clients using Rendezvous...
http://daugerresearch.com/pooch/whatis.html
Feature list:
http://daugerresearch.com/pooch/features.html
Here is an interesting list of some mac clusters that use the Pooch application (Parallel OperatiOn and Control Heuristic Application)...
Could be of interest to some people here:
http://daugerresearch.com/pooch/users.html
Sorry, the URL I posted above seems to be broken... here is the correct URL:
r ves/JPLXServeClusterBenchmark.html
http://www.daugerresearch.com/fractaldemos/JPLXSe
Yes, you can cluster Xserves. NASA has done it and the results show that the Xserve scales very well. Here are the results of 33 Xserves clustered:
S er ves/JPLXServeClusterBenchmark.html
http://www.daugerresearch.com/fractaldemos/JPLX
When you say the Xserve doesnt have redundant cooling...Im not sure what you mean. I see two fans in this picture...And according to what I've read, if one fails, the other is capable of cooling the whole machine (I guess its RPM is increased). It doesnt appear to be hot swapppable cooling... but It looks like a user could replace a fan themselves if one failed. Apple sells a parts kit which may contain a fan...I dont know.
If you want more redundancy than is offered, cant you just buy a second Xserve?
You are right. And its a laptop slot loading drive too... you can see it in the bottom left of the image at the top of this page:
http://www.apple.com/xserve/specs.html
goombah, you should read this paper by Wilfredo ('fred') Sanchez about the history of Darwin and the "The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments"
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http://www.mit.edu/people/wsanchez/papers/USENI
"HFS+ is a case preserving, but case insensitive, file system. That is, the case of file names is remembered, but access to file names with varying case will yield the same file, and file names which vary only in case are not allowed in any given directory. Typical Unix file systems are, in contrast, case sensitive. At the start of the Rhapsody project, which preceded the current Mac OS X work, we had anticipated that this would be a big problem. Later, when we started using HFS+ as the primary file system in Darwin, we found surprisingly few problems resulting from this behavior, and those which we do find tend to be trivial to fix. We have yet to encounter a problem in this area which requires a complex solution."
FWIW the Apple firmware was actually crafted by Pixo
http://www.pixo.com
One of my favorite quotes was spoken by JFK in 1962 when he said,
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
(Correct me if this is misquoted, I found this version of the quote on the internet.)
Maybe we should have taken Kennedy's words to heart. Maybe we should not have given up so easily on the now canceled and extremely difficult Venture Star project.
From all the bits of news I've read, it sounds like the heat shielding tiles of the space shuttle may have catostrophically failed today. It may have been due to the impact of a piece of foam from the main fuel tank shortly after launch. Apparently the final voice communication from the astronauts was something regarding tire pressure. I speculate that if the heat shield were compromised on reentry, that tire pressure could have gone up due to heat exposure. This would have triggered sensors and informed the crew of a problem seconds before something exploded. The explosion could have been tires or could have been fuel or anything else under pressure or flammable. The shuttle is made of lightweight materials, so any explosion would be disastorous. (Im not saying that lightweight materials aren't strong, but the engineering thresholds probably dont permit NASA from making an explosion proof shuttle; especially considering it was designed in the 1970's.
I read a while back that one of the primary objectives of the Venture Star project was to eliminate the need for heat shielding tiles (which may have catostrophically failed on the Columbia today). Inspecting these space shuttle tiles, if I recall, costs NASA $70,000,000 and a huge number of man years per shuttle mission! Another aim of the Venture Star project was to eliminate external fuel tanks and rocket boosters. The rocket boosters were responsible for the Challenger disaster and now the main fuel tank may have been the cause of the heat shield failure.
Let us not forget one of the main discoveris of this Columbia mission... the burning of Brazillian rainforest is contributing to global climate change.
Dont be fooled by those who say this event will stop manned missions to space. I think this will someday drive us to create much more advanced vehicles. Manned missions are not a practical way to explore space or do science, but heck, I wouldn't mind checking out another planet...or looking back at my planet from far away even if I die doing it. Maybe we need a space tourism agency, with goals separate and apart from NASA.
PS. The quote is an excellent example of chiasmus
Interesting -- each incident happened at a 17 year interval.
You can count on your fingers that 1967 is not 17 years from 1986.