How do you "sync iCal and the Address Book between multiple computers" by installing Linux?
Probably by means of typing some cryptic commands. This seems to be an universal answer for all questions beginning with "how to" and ending with "Linux".
As Plato said in Phaedrus, "the writer cannot determine his audience". and I have a feeling that most people who enjoyed The Matrix won't be able to handle lofty philosophical concepts, much less a fiercely logical structured argument for the existence of God and reality, without constant diversions in the form of gun battles, sex scenes, and other forms of violent eye candy.
As Rousseau said in "Confessions", "I like being spanked on bare buttocks by mature women" [no, I am NOT making this up, visit the nearest library to check me].
C'mon, people. When I go to cinema, I pay at the ticket booth exactly for gun battles, sex scenes, and other forms of violent eye candy. When I want to read some Baudrillard, I know where to find the right book. If "Matrix" offers "violent eye candy" and some quasi-philosophical popcorn as a freebie - it's cool, I don't mind that, but I don't put much value into that, and that's fine by me.
Are you saying that it's not possible to innovate AND make money? It seems to me that in the first Matrix movie they were both innovative and money-making!
I think you're wrong. Name just ONE innovative factor in "Matrix" - one that was not borrowed from John Woo, "Ghost In The Shell", "Neuromancer", "Superman", Baudrillard, Dick, Stanislaw Lem (cough) etc. I am a big fan of "Matrix", but let us juse our words wisely. Cool? Yes. Entertaining? Yes. Breathtaking? Yes. Worth seeing again and again and again? Oh yessir, just look at my DVD copy of "Matrix". Innovative? Definitely not.
Nonsense. All US G4 machines (servers, Xserve, etc) are built in Sacramento [apple.com] by Apple. I used to work there. All Euro/African/Middle Eastern G4 desktop/servers are built in Ireland by Apple. Don't believe me - check the serial tag.
I even lifted up the iBook I type this on to read this once again - the serial tag says "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in Taiwan". The same is on my older iBook (a 466 MHz model). Maybe with the desktops the situation is different (but then again, Apple for me is mostly the premium laptop manufacturer;-)).
Apple has found something to make it profitable. Quick sell the hardware side of the business
There's not much to sell, actually. Most of their hardware business is done by outsourcing - they just pay Taiwanese companies to build "their" iBooks for them. Not that I consider it a bad thing, of course - but what is there left to sell? Jonathan Ive's cubicle?
For those of you replying to this message.
This is a troll, the same comment pops up on all the Mac stories.
It's actually amazing the "Dear Father O'Day" letter did not appear yet. Hey dude - did you miss this story just because it did not have the APPLE logo?
Call me naive, but how am I to believe they not only have alpha releases of panther (very possible, since they are probably developer seeds), but they also somehow obtained unreleased hardware as well? "...were done on the same computers that will be sold." I can't imagine Apple is so loose to let out alpha/beta harware.
In fact, this happened many times in the history of Apple - some key developers receive unreleased hardware way before it reaches retail stores. If I remember correctly, Bill Gates got his first Mac in 1982, because Apple wanted him to start working on Word and Excel - and the machine premiered in 1984. It was a similiar situation with the first PowerPC (MPC 601) prototypes. Some key developers probably have their first 970's right now.
You're right Mac OS X's "officially" supported (I knew that, sorry for having generalized).
However, the idea I tried to outline is still valid. On older macs , installing Linux may be a better investment than Mac OSX:
To clarify: I didn't question the general idea, I was just in mood for some anal nitpicking;-). Indeed, Linux seems to be the best way to run anything unixish on Macs from last century. What REALLY makes no point to me is running YDL on a brand-new Mac. If you are really zealous on open systems, don't launch them on proprietary hardware; if you aren't, there's nothing wrong with MacOS X.
Mac OSX only runs on modern mac with lot of RAM (read 256+) and good video card.
I have older PM 6500 and Imac Rev B that can't run Mac OS X (not supported, not enough RAM, not enough CPU power).
Sir - please don't spread misinformation, especially in a post marked 'informative" (and being informative indeed in other aspects). So far all iMacs are "supported" for the latest version of MacOS X - please check the official Jaguar requirements. It's only a a matter of adding RAM, but that's not really that expensive. You are right, of course, that the GUI would crawl on this graphics card, but
(a) I don't think it's a big problem on a machine running, as you described it, a "headless server"; Darwin can be boot up this way as good as Linux
(b) I honestly doubt whether KDE or GNOME would fare any better on this machine.
This is something I could never figure out in London. When I asked the concierge at the hotel to call me a cab, he/she either called a so-called minicab (usually something looking sleazy and semi-legal; never having any real meter) or informed me, that the black cabs are "just around the corner" and calling them by phone is "not possible". Tried it in many hotels, going to many destinations. I wonder what they will say now: "do you have your GPS with you, sir?"
This section will make M$-bashing extremely difficult! At long last, slashdot will cover an aspect of computer use where M$-solutions are so obviously better than the competition...
First heard of this book back in the MacOS 8.1 days. Boy, how I wanted to have it back then! Unfortunately - out of print. But now, with MacOS 10.2.5 running on my iBook, it's like kind of... bummer.
A 50% increase in clock frequency... and a 100% increase in L2 cache. A 900Mhz PowerPC 750fx will blow past a 1Ghz 7455 with its limp 256k L2 in a lot of instances.
The change from 8-megabytes ATI RAGE 128 to 32-megabytes ATI RADEON will have itself a tremendous effect on MacOS X 10.2, not to mention games - many of them will simply refuse to install on 600 MHz iBook, but will run pretty well on the 800 and 900 models, just because of Radeon. So in overall experience you would notice way more than 50% of speed bump. And if you really need G4 for heavy graphics tasks, you should not buy an iBook in the first place.
Although many of these books do not go back to pre-50's, so stuff like Engelbert, very early computers (Such as the ABC, Manchester Mk. I and evern the ENIAC) and even earlier pioneers (Such as Konrad Zuse) get left out. I havn't found a book yet that covers the very early pre-history of electronic computers.
There is one that covers this topic in a brilliant way, but I don't know is it available in English. The original title is: "Préhistoire et histoire des ordinateurs" and the author is Robert LIGONNIERE.
...I almost can't believe this. Read the mother of all demos link - demo'd mouse, word processing, hyperlinks, and a host of other stuff back in 1968! Is this for real? How come I've never heard of anything like this before?
Probably it's because you've never read a decent book on history of computers. Suggested reading: "Fire In The Valley", Freiberger & Swaine. Or if you wan't to know the maccentric point of view, "Insanely Great" by Stephen Levy.
I like the way it's solved in MacOS X - by default, the person who installed the OS (or the person who bought the computer and turned it on for the first time) becomes an admin user. Admin is not root, but he is privileged to do pretty much anything Average Joe wants to do: install apps, change some basic OS settings, even create other users. He just cannot seriously shoot himself in the foot - system files are off-limits to him (e.g. he can't trash/bin directory just because he doesn't know what is it for). Root user is by default disabled in OS X and you have to enable it in an easy, but deliberately cryptic way (in the classic Apple manner: if you don't know how to do that, you probably shouldn't).
Linux starts to become accepted at home by people who have learned to use it at work (and know what permissions are, stuff like that).
Do you really think this is going to happen? Apart from being free (both as "beer" and as "speech"), Linux is attractive for company/office use because it is much easier to LOCK user only to perform certain tasks. One of the side-effects will be this association imprinted in the Average Joe's mind: "Linux is the system where I cannot play mp3's, download pr0n or play games. It is only good for some dumb office terminal. I will not install it on my home computer in a million years".
Seriously, I don't think all those non-voluntary Linux users in offices will ever become Linux-fans. I expect something quite contrary. Linux is a dream for sysadmins with fascist tendencies (to almost all of them, that is). This means it is also a nightmare for office workers, students etc.
But prove me wrong: show me a message board, where office workers (etc.) write something like "I am very happy that my company switched to Linux, now I am locked more securely than before". From what I hear, the reactions are rather "Damn recession! First they cancelled free coffee and now they forced us to use this crappy OS from hell just because it's free".
Can anyone provide me with any reasons to download and maybe use Omniweb?
Is there anything it does that Moz / MSIE / Safari doesn't do?
What are its advantages?
A minor advantage, but quite important for iBook/powerbook users: it's the only Mac browser REALLY designed with single-button mouse in mind. On Safari or Explorer, you have to press ctrl to get contextual menu. OmniWeb gets contextual after a "longer click", which is very easy to learn. Also, many things (manage bookmarks, download link, download image etc.) are readily available without the contextual menu, e.g. by drag'n'drop.
But personally, I use Safari and 3-button cordless mouse:-)
It's true that the clones nearly killed Apple. But this wasn't because of some problem inherent in cloning, it was because Apple refused to compete with the cloners.
Don't forget that the clones nearly killed IBM as well. Yes, there is some inherent problem in cloning - the inventor gets no reward for his invention. IBM had hoped to control the PC market by controlling BIOS. As we all know, they hopes were vain and as a result, IBM came to near-death situation in late 80's. Yes, PC-boxes are almost everywhere now, but each single one of them has still many remainders of the early 80's technology - the 1.44 floppy, the beeper, some even still have ISA slots. "Legacy-free PC" is still a goal, not something you can actually buy and use. As a Mac user, I don't want Apple to evolve this way. I'm glad the clone market was killed in 1997.
I would also like to point out that the United States is the oldest Constitutional Democracy bar none. I think that one of the major stabilizing factors of the US governement and our democracy is our pride in our constitution.
Seen "Gangs of New York"? Just watch how this "democracy" had worked in XIX century. Of course, this movie is a piece fiction, but the description of the Tammany Hall dictatorship in New York is historically accurate, and boss Tweed was a real person. America has become a modern democracy only after WWII. Maybe American Constitution does not change, but its interpretations made by the Supreme Court do change quite fundamentally. Just see how many intepretations the First Amendment has had - from oppresive censorship to flag burning.
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How do you "sync iCal and the Address Book between multiple computers" by installing Linux?
Probably by means of typing some cryptic commands. This seems to be an universal answer for all questions beginning with "how to" and ending with "Linux".
Was Matrix the first to use Bullet Time?
Two words: John Woo.
As Plato said in Phaedrus, "the writer cannot determine his audience". and I have a feeling that most people who enjoyed The Matrix won't be able to handle lofty philosophical concepts, much less a fiercely logical structured argument for the existence of God and reality, without constant diversions in the form of gun battles, sex scenes, and other forms of violent eye candy.
As Rousseau said in "Confessions", "I like being spanked on bare buttocks by mature women" [no, I am NOT making this up, visit the nearest library to check me].
C'mon, people. When I go to cinema, I pay at the ticket booth exactly for gun battles, sex scenes, and other forms of violent eye candy. When I want to read some Baudrillard, I know where to find the right book. If "Matrix" offers "violent eye candy" and some quasi-philosophical popcorn as a freebie - it's cool, I don't mind that, but I don't put much value into that, and that's fine by me.
Are you saying that it's not possible to innovate AND make money? It seems to me that in the first Matrix movie they were both innovative and money-making!
I think you're wrong. Name just ONE innovative factor in "Matrix" - one that was not borrowed from John Woo, "Ghost In The Shell", "Neuromancer", "Superman", Baudrillard, Dick, Stanislaw Lem (cough) etc. I am a big fan of "Matrix", but let us juse our words wisely. Cool? Yes. Entertaining? Yes. Breathtaking? Yes. Worth seeing again and again and again? Oh yessir, just look at my DVD copy of "Matrix". Innovative? Definitely not.
Nonsense. All US G4 machines (servers, Xserve, etc) are built in Sacramento [apple.com] by Apple. I used to work there. All Euro/African/Middle Eastern G4 desktop/servers are built in Ireland by Apple. Don't believe me - check the serial tag.
;-)).
I even lifted up the iBook I type this on to read this once again - the serial tag says "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in Taiwan". The same is on my older iBook (a 466 MHz model). Maybe with the desktops the situation is different (but then again, Apple for me is mostly the premium laptop manufacturer
Apple has found something to make it profitable. Quick sell the hardware side of the business
There's not much to sell, actually. Most of their hardware business is done by outsourcing - they just pay Taiwanese companies to build "their" iBooks for them. Not that I consider it a bad thing, of course - but what is there left to sell? Jonathan Ive's cubicle?
Oddly enough, it sounds very much like the Big Brother speech from the famous first Macintosh commercial.
For those of you replying to this message. This is a troll, the same comment pops up on all the Mac stories.
It's actually amazing the "Dear Father O'Day" letter did not appear yet. Hey dude - did you miss this story just because it did not have the APPLE logo?
Call me naive, but how am I to believe they not only have alpha releases of panther (very possible, since they are probably developer seeds), but they also somehow obtained unreleased hardware as well? "...were done on the same computers that will be sold." I can't imagine Apple is so loose to let out alpha/beta harware.
In fact, this happened many times in the history of Apple - some key developers receive unreleased hardware way before it reaches retail stores. If I remember correctly, Bill Gates got his first Mac in 1982, because Apple wanted him to start working on Word and Excel - and the machine premiered in 1984. It was a similiar situation with the first PowerPC (MPC 601) prototypes. Some key developers probably have their first 970's right now.
You're right Mac OS X's "officially" supported (I knew that, sorry for having generalized).
;-). Indeed, Linux seems to be the best way to run anything unixish on Macs from last century. What REALLY makes no point to me is running YDL on a brand-new Mac. If you are really zealous on open systems, don't launch them on proprietary hardware; if you aren't, there's nothing wrong with MacOS X.
However, the idea I tried to outline is still valid. On older macs , installing Linux may be a better investment than Mac OSX:
To clarify: I didn't question the general idea, I was just in mood for some anal nitpicking
I have older PM 6500 and Imac Rev B that can't run Mac OS X (not supported, not enough RAM, not enough CPU power).
Sir - please don't spread misinformation, especially in a post marked 'informative" (and being informative indeed in other aspects). So far all iMacs are "supported" for the latest version of MacOS X - please check the official Jaguar requirements. It's only a a matter of adding RAM, but that's not really that expensive. You are right, of course, that the GUI would crawl on this graphics card, but
(a) I don't think it's a big problem on a machine running, as you described it, a "headless server"; Darwin can be boot up this way as good as Linux
(b) I honestly doubt whether KDE or GNOME would fare any better on this machine.
In his classic and chilling short story, "There will come soft rains"
This is something I could never figure out in London. When I asked the concierge at the hotel to call me a cab, he/she either called a so-called minicab (usually something looking sleazy and semi-legal; never having any real meter) or informed me, that the black cabs are "just around the corner" and calling them by phone is "not possible". Tried it in many hotels, going to many destinations. I wonder what they will say now: "do you have your GPS with you, sir?"
This section will make M$-bashing extremely difficult! At long last, slashdot will cover an aspect of computer use where M$-solutions are so obviously better than the competition...
Downloaded, installed, clicked on "access music store" and...
We could not complete your Music Sore request (504).
There was an error in the Music Store. Please try again later.
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First heard of this book back in the MacOS 8.1 days. Boy, how I wanted to have it back then! Unfortunately - out of print. But now, with MacOS 10.2.5 running on my iBook, it's like kind of... bummer.
...would come from a Playstation 2 running Linux. Or am I wrong? At least that's what I suppose, personally I don't use neither.
A 50% increase in clock frequency... and a 100% increase in L2 cache. A 900Mhz PowerPC 750fx will blow past a 1Ghz 7455 with its limp 256k L2 in a lot of instances.
The change from 8-megabytes ATI RAGE 128 to 32-megabytes ATI RADEON will have itself a tremendous effect on MacOS X 10.2, not to mention games - many of them will simply refuse to install on 600 MHz iBook, but will run pretty well on the 800 and 900 models, just because of Radeon. So in overall experience you would notice way more than 50% of speed bump. And if you really need G4 for heavy graphics tasks, you should not buy an iBook in the first place.
Although many of these books do not go back to pre-50's, so stuff like Engelbert, very early computers (Such as the ABC, Manchester Mk. I and evern the ENIAC) and even earlier pioneers (Such as Konrad Zuse) get left out. I havn't found a book yet that covers the very early pre-history of electronic computers.
There is one that covers this topic in a brilliant way, but I don't know is it available in English. The original title is: "Préhistoire et histoire des ordinateurs" and the author is Robert LIGONNIERE.
Probably it's because you've never read a decent book on history of computers. Suggested reading: "Fire In The Valley", Freiberger & Swaine. Or if you wan't to know the maccentric point of view, "Insanely Great" by Stephen Levy.
I like the way it's solved in MacOS X - by default, the person who installed the OS (or the person who bought the computer and turned it on for the first time) becomes an admin user. Admin is not root, but he is privileged to do pretty much anything Average Joe wants to do: install apps, change some basic OS settings, even create other users. He just cannot seriously shoot himself in the foot - system files are off-limits to him (e.g. he can't trash /bin directory just because he doesn't know what is it for). Root user is by default disabled in OS X and you have to enable it in an easy, but deliberately cryptic way (in the classic Apple manner: if you don't know how to do that, you probably shouldn't).
Linux starts to become accepted at home by people who have learned to use it at work (and know what permissions are, stuff like that).
Do you really think this is going to happen? Apart from being free (both as "beer" and as "speech"), Linux is attractive for company/office use because it is much easier to LOCK user only to perform certain tasks. One of the side-effects will be this association imprinted in the Average Joe's mind: "Linux is the system where I cannot play mp3's, download pr0n or play games. It is only good for some dumb office terminal. I will not install it on my home computer in a million years".
Seriously, I don't think all those non-voluntary Linux users in offices will ever become Linux-fans. I expect something quite contrary. Linux is a dream for sysadmins with fascist tendencies (to almost all of them, that is). This means it is also a nightmare for office workers, students etc.
But prove me wrong: show me a message board, where office workers (etc.) write something like "I am very happy that my company switched to Linux, now I am locked more securely than before". From what I hear, the reactions are rather "Damn recession! First they cancelled free coffee and now they forced us to use this crappy OS from hell just because it's free".
Can anyone provide me with any reasons to download and maybe use Omniweb? Is there anything it does that Moz / MSIE / Safari doesn't do? What are its advantages?
:-)
A minor advantage, but quite important for iBook/powerbook users: it's the only Mac browser REALLY designed with single-button mouse in mind. On Safari or Explorer, you have to press ctrl to get contextual menu. OmniWeb gets contextual after a "longer click", which is very easy to learn. Also, many things (manage bookmarks, download link, download image etc.) are readily available without the contextual menu, e.g. by drag'n'drop.
But personally, I use Safari and 3-button cordless mouse
It's true that the clones nearly killed Apple. But this wasn't because of some problem inherent in cloning, it was because Apple refused to compete with the cloners.
Don't forget that the clones nearly killed IBM as well. Yes, there is some inherent problem in cloning - the inventor gets no reward for his invention. IBM had hoped to control the PC market by controlling BIOS. As we all know, they hopes were vain and as a result, IBM came to near-death situation in late 80's. Yes, PC-boxes are almost everywhere now, but each single one of them has still many remainders of the early 80's technology - the 1.44 floppy, the beeper, some even still have ISA slots. "Legacy-free PC" is still a goal, not something you can actually buy and use. As a Mac user, I don't want Apple to evolve this way. I'm glad the clone market was killed in 1997.
I would also like to point out that the United States is the oldest Constitutional Democracy bar none. I think that one of the major stabilizing factors of the US governement and our democracy is our pride in our constitution.
Seen "Gangs of New York"? Just watch how this "democracy" had worked in XIX century. Of course, this movie is a piece fiction, but the description of the Tammany Hall dictatorship in New York is historically accurate, and boss Tweed was a real person. America has become a modern democracy only after WWII. Maybe American Constitution does not change, but its interpretations made by the Supreme Court do change quite fundamentally. Just see how many intepretations the First Amendment has had - from oppresive censorship to flag burning.