Not to be negative, but I'm going to be negative anyway. Wtf is with these coral cache links? has ANYONE managed to get them working quicker than the original site? I'm getting 2.5kb/sec from the original article poster's server while this cache crap is lucky to spike to 500bytes/second.
Is it meant to be a serious caching service? Or are we just slashdotting some poor moron's dsl line here?
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Those sounds are also felt by other parts of our bodies than ears. I once rescued a small bat, and while it was recuperating, from time to time it would open its mouth and squeal its echolocating squeal. While I couldn't hear it, my partner and I could feel the noise in our chest & neck. I also spent some time videotaping the bat as it flew around the room ready to be released. Whenever it did its noise thing, the levels on the VCR shot way up high and all the other audio dropped out. Powerful stuff, and while it's still sound it was perceived in far different ways than just ears.
I'm impressed at the workmanship that's gone into it. It doesn't LOOK like it's a 50s TV with a computer hacked into it.
That being said, you could get a beer barrel to also not look like it's a beer barrel with a computer hacked into it, and I'd be as unimpressed with the case mod. This one's just a bit boring all up.
MSNBC notes the FCC is also exploring its Internet regulatory options, including placing tariffs on online newspapers and requiring e-tailers to process 911 calls."
This will move online newspapers & the like away from FCC regulatory effect.
In other words, more offshoring forced by regulation. Wonderful.
They have fans that run all the time. they can range from bearable to painful on the original models, to almost unnoticeable on the newer ones. It's been a gradual quietening over the life of the machines.
Who needs photos bigger then 3-5 mega-pixles? Any bigger and they cant be displayed on a monitor at full res. no printer can match the resolution and the files are bloody HUGE
A printer such as a Durst Lambda can print a 50" wide roll of continuous photographic paper more than 100ft long in a continuous sheet at 300DPI with RGB lasers. The continuous tone images come out almost indistinguishable from photographs - the print shops with these machines can have them running jobs almost 24/7. The demand is there, they make a mint for their operators, and they need high quality imagery to produce high quality prints.
Some jobs printed on machines like those make mincemeat of 10 or 14 megapixel images.
I'm fascinated with these different packaging types. One single "distro" of OSX, and each package seems to have multiple packages... where the opposite seems to happen with Linux. Just one package type for each of many distros.
We can't make it easy on ourselves, can we:D
Still, it's a concern. along with fink packages, independent packages installed in/opt, OSX style packages like gimp2 being put in/Applications (where the OS is built to handle them)... any others coming to light, to make things more complex?
I've done the same with powerbooks since my 540c. Sleep it, everything goes off, leave it sitting for a few days - then wake. Works about 95% perfect on the old powerbooks (there's the odd time sleeping won't complete), and 100% on anything I've used with OSX. Going from working to folded up & sleeping under 10 seconds has been VERY useful over the years. I know a few mac people with TiBooks and AlBooks with natural uptimes in the 10-15 days. They just don't need to be turned off, so they don't go off.
I don't know if the early powerbooks support exactly what's described in the Ask, but I'm guessing it's close. Staying unplugged and working for a few days with very little battery drain but everything still loaded & working sounds effectively the same.
Someone is using Steve Jobs RDF and he is going to be pissed!
He probably would be, if mossberg wasn't on the pro apple side from time to time. I haven't read enough of his stuff to know if he's really solidly apple, but there are often links from Apple's hot news site to articles about how walt has enjoyed iPods and iMacs.
Two RDFs... it could split the planet in two... wahey hey.
The whole thrust of the article seems to be "There might be dozens of holes in OSX, how do we know?".
I don't think there's anything truer than "There are dozens of holes in OSX". Also "There are dozens of holes in Windows" and "There are dozens of holes in Linux - pick a distro any distro". You only have to look at the number of patches released for ALL operating systems to see the truth in that. Some OSs will be worse than others and have more exploited holes, that's an argument for another time.
Those holes aren't a dramatic problem, until they're found and IGNORED by a vendor. That's all there is to it, not whether a company is uncommunicative. I'd be willing to bet that as soon as Apple became aware of its AFP problems, work began on fixing the problem. I'd rather see a best effort is made towards fixing the problem rather than release press release after press release, SCO style.
Of course, openness is always admired and it would be a nice thing to know just what's happening with a fix for an exploitable hole, but that's a little less important than getting a well written patch out for the hole.
And now, it IS patched. fixed. Any default OSX install is going to have already alerted its owner to the existence of the fix.
"Beyond 2000" had a story about different car noises being generated by an onboard audio device which fed into a stereo. from memory, they demonstrated on a tiny 3 cylinder car, and switched through the various car presets. Small buzzing racer, large rumbling V8, or screaming ferrari F1.
It sounded awfully realistic, although that was meant mainly as a bit of a fun thing for the driver, with a loud enough stereo I'm sure it'd be 'fun' for those close by
I'd rather hear that than the incessant neighbourhood hoons and their "thump thump" crap
According to this review the usability of this product is only 2 stars out of 5. Seems like poor usability and linux-based products will go hand in hand for a long time.
Oh it sounds like it's a perfect drop-in replacement for QuarkXPress:)
For all its excellence with output (and when I used it, it worked well) Quark is certainly not an example of brilliant, or even good UI design. Takes a lot of time and a lot of knowledge of the little hidden and non-obvious keycommands to use well.
I love the things too, myself. They're plain now compared to a couple of years ago, but that's ok. in time things will even out and return to a good mix
My only problem with them is my eyesight doesn't allow me to focus on the things. I see a nice pinprick of green or red or orange LED... but a big fuzzy blob of blue for the blue ones!
As a mac user I'm just glad that our beleaguered platform that's now full of trojans has a competitor and hopefully this upstart Windows will take some of the attention away. phew!
Curiously, Jonathan Ive (who has designed many of Apple's new machines, and had a hand in most of their other hardware) started with Apple after working in the UK designing bathroom fittings.
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Not to be negative, but I'm going to be negative anyway. Wtf is with these coral cache links? has ANYONE managed to get them working quicker than the original site? I'm getting 2.5kb/sec from the original article poster's server while this cache crap is lucky to spike to 500bytes/second.
Is it meant to be a serious caching service? Or are we just slashdotting some poor moron's dsl line here?
wrong danamania. The mac-head one is at danamania.com. Photo there too if you're desperate.
a powerbook running linux will not have a working 3d thanks to nvidia.
Yeah, damn straight, I'm so sick of the lack of nvidia support for my powerbook's radeon
That looks to show the air moving up through the case to me.
> I love baked Apples.
They're not as nice looking when they're burnt to a crisp.
Those sounds are also felt by other parts of our bodies than ears. I once rescued a small bat, and while it was recuperating, from time to time it would open its mouth and squeal its echolocating squeal. While I couldn't hear it, my partner and I could feel the noise in our chest & neck. I also spent some time videotaping the bat as it flew around the room ready to be released. Whenever it did its noise thing, the levels on the VCR shot way up high and all the other audio dropped out. Powerful stuff, and while it's still sound it was perceived in far different ways than just ears.
I'm impressed at the workmanship that's gone into it. It doesn't LOOK like it's a 50s TV with a computer hacked into it.
That being said, you could get a beer barrel to also not look like it's a beer barrel with a computer hacked into it, and I'd be as unimpressed with the case mod. This one's just a bit boring all up.
MSNBC notes the FCC is also exploring its Internet regulatory options, including placing tariffs on online newspapers and requiring e-tailers to process 911 calls."
This will move online newspapers & the like away from FCC regulatory effect.
In other words, more offshoring forced by regulation. Wonderful.
They have fans that run all the time. they can range from bearable to painful on the original models, to almost unnoticeable on the newer ones. It's been a gradual quietening over the life of the machines.
What do people want powering their laptops and mp3 players - a well proven electronic device with safe failure modes...
Try telling that to the user of this laptop. No it's not common, but laptop batteries DO sometimes fail spectacularly & dangerously.
Is that better or worse than a Quadra Pounder with Cheese
I don't know about anyone else, but that video damned near frightened the life out of me.
For those who haven't seen, it's a camcorder recorded screen of an Apple II booting. Looking at it, I could see a guy's head moving in the background.
Now, since I live alone and there's not meant to be anyone behind me, first thing I did was look behind me to my left and raise my arms in defense.
Thank you slashdot, for the 160bpm heartrate. I'm nearly normal now.
Who needs photos bigger then 3-5 mega-pixles? Any bigger and they cant be displayed on a monitor at full res. no printer can match the resolution and the files are bloody HUGE
A printer such as a Durst Lambda can print a 50" wide roll of continuous photographic paper more than 100ft long in a continuous sheet at 300DPI with RGB lasers. The continuous tone images come out almost indistinguishable from photographs - the print shops with these machines can have them running jobs almost 24/7. The demand is there, they make a mint for their operators, and they need high quality imagery to produce high quality prints.
Some jobs printed on machines like those make mincemeat of 10 or 14 megapixel images.
Not much use for Home Digicam Users, but for people doing the high end stuff, the need is there. Digital backs like a Creo Leaf Valeo 22MP could fit 8 photos in a gig, perhaps 100 in 12GB on a good day. Don't be surprised to see near 30MP in 2005.
Other key features of the new MCF547x and MCF548x ColdFire processors include on-chip FPU and eMAC
Dammit apple, I just bought a brand new eMac only months ago, and now they're putting them on-chip for under $30!
I'm fascinated with these different packaging types. One single "distro" of OSX, and each package seems to have multiple packages... where the opposite seems to happen with Linux. Just one package type for each of many distros.
:D
/opt, OSX style packages like gimp2 being put in /Applications (where the OS is built to handle them)... any others coming to light, to make things more complex?
We can't make it easy on ourselves, can we
Still, it's a concern. along with fink packages, independent packages installed in
I've done the same with powerbooks since my 540c. Sleep it, everything goes off, leave it sitting for a few days - then wake. Works about 95% perfect on the old powerbooks (there's the odd time sleeping won't complete), and 100% on anything I've used with OSX. Going from working to folded up & sleeping under 10 seconds has been VERY useful over the years. I know a few mac people with TiBooks and AlBooks with natural uptimes in the 10-15 days. They just don't need to be turned off, so they don't go off.
I don't know if the early powerbooks support exactly what's described in the Ask, but I'm guessing it's close. Staying unplugged and working for a few days with very little battery drain but everything still loaded & working sounds effectively the same.
The macintosh also had versions 4 and 5 at least, perhaps earlier.
Someone is using Steve Jobs RDF and he is going to be pissed!
He probably would be, if mossberg wasn't on the pro apple side from time to time. I haven't read enough of his stuff to know if he's really solidly apple, but there are often links from Apple's hot news site to articles about how walt has enjoyed iPods and iMacs.
Two RDFs... it could split the planet in two... wahey hey.
Apache2 doesn't come with the consumer version of OSX, but OSX server does use it afaik.
I don't know if it's turned on by default there, either.
The whole thrust of the article seems to be "There might be dozens of holes in OSX, how do we know?".
I don't think there's anything truer than "There are dozens of holes in OSX". Also "There are dozens of holes in Windows" and "There are dozens of holes in Linux - pick a distro any distro". You only have to look at the number of patches released for ALL operating systems to see the truth in that. Some OSs will be worse than others and have more exploited holes, that's an argument for another time.
Those holes aren't a dramatic problem, until they're found and IGNORED by a vendor. That's all there is to it, not whether a company is uncommunicative. I'd be willing to bet that as soon as Apple became aware of its AFP problems, work began on fixing the problem. I'd rather see a best effort is made towards fixing the problem rather than release press release after press release, SCO style.
Of course, openness is always admired and it would be a nice thing to know just what's happening with a fix for an exploitable hole, but that's a little less important than getting a well written patch out for the hole.
And now, it IS patched. fixed. Any default OSX install is going to have already alerted its owner to the existence of the fix.
"Beyond 2000" had a story about different car noises being generated by an onboard audio device which fed into a stereo. from memory, they demonstrated on a tiny 3 cylinder car, and switched through the various car presets. Small buzzing racer, large rumbling V8, or screaming ferrari F1.
It sounded awfully realistic, although that was meant mainly as a bit of a fun thing for the driver, with a loud enough stereo I'm sure it'd be 'fun' for those close by
I'd rather hear that than the incessant neighbourhood hoons and their "thump thump" crap
According to this review the usability of this product is only 2 stars out of 5. Seems like poor usability and linux-based products will go hand in hand for a long time.
:)
Oh it sounds like it's a perfect drop-in replacement for QuarkXPress
For all its excellence with output (and when I used it, it worked well) Quark is certainly not an example of brilliant, or even good UI design. Takes a lot of time and a lot of knowledge of the little hidden and non-obvious keycommands to use well.
I love the things too, myself. They're plain now compared to a couple of years ago, but that's ok. in time things will even out and return to a good mix
My only problem with them is my eyesight doesn't allow me to focus on the things. I see a nice pinprick of green or red or orange LED... but a big fuzzy blob of blue for the blue ones!
As a mac user I'm just glad that our beleaguered platform that's now full of trojans has a competitor and hopefully this upstart Windows will take some of the attention away. phew!
Curiously, Jonathan Ive (who has designed many of Apple's new machines, and had a hand in most of their other hardware) started with Apple after working in the UK designing bathroom fittings.