These are such a pain. They look really pretty alright until something goes wrong. Taking apart a CRT iMac is like brain surgery, I can't imagine that any of the other models are any better. Not to mention you can't upgrade the monitor, or take it with you to your next computer.
This is a sweet site. I actually found it before on my own. Almost submitted a/. article about tham but I decided that it would be too creul to unleash the/. effect on them.
I use Earthlink cable internet and don't have to pay the cable tv tax. It is only availible in certain places though (areas serviced by TimeWarner, plus some test markets)
If you go to the OpenBSD website and look at the pics from their 'hackathon' they are all using Apple PowerBooks. If the commiters are on PowerBooks it seems like asure bet that they support them.
If you know the right people at your university you can do even better and get the educational institution price. I paid only $25 (+ tax) for iLife this way. Not a huge difference, but on hardware and pricier software the difference can be substantial. (eg $250 v. $500 for FCP)
There actually is a 'Compters' merit badge, for which you must execute some basic programming task. As far as open source, no. The BSA is far too right wing for that. Bastards.
(BTW, I'm an Eagle scout, I've earned my right to bad mouth the Boy Scouts)
While it is true that typing "linux windows" on Google produces substantialy more results than it does on MSN, so does anything else. Try "peaches," this comes up with 1 million + for Google, vs. 164 for MSN. While I don't doubt that MSN gives biased results, this is simply not relavant proof.
That's got to be the best knock off of the TiBook yet. The only difference is that it's more expensive, and slower! Really, if you want an Apple, buy an Apple; if you want a PC, buy a PC. Posers.
If Sun dosen't want to die as a hardware company, but also want to aviod the cost of developing Sparc, perhaps they could move to the PPC 970 (aka G5). It, like the Sparc is a 64-bit RISC chip, and has the added advantage of being backed by IBM and Apple reasearch dollars. This would be advatagous for all three parties, lowering prices, and increacing the power of the architechture. And, as a bounus, it would make it a far more significant competitor to intel's legacy platform.
The DMCA applies to (as the name suggests) copyrights, Microsoft does not own any copyrights to your files (although this could change with future EULA's). They may prevent you from using their software in a way it is designed not to function (ale Apple v. OWC) but they cannot prevent you from using your documents (your IP) as you see fit, at least not armed only with the DMCA.
For that matter they could do it themselves, and release it as an MS Office killer. Internut Exploder is already history, this could rid the mac of that heathen company once and for all.
If you are familliar with the way university labs are run, you would know there is no such thing as a decent mac admin. The jerks running the show are all windows biggots and hire mindless flunkies to admin the macs.
I work at a unversity computer lab help desk you insensitive clod! Honestly, I wouldn't care if you booted the computers with your own boot disk, and I doubt any of my fellow lab attendants would either. My view on such issues is that it's not my problem if you screw somthing up, it's the admin's problem, and since I spend most of my time warring with those morons for making lousy images and other atrocities, good ridance.
The ill will against the evil/buggy/inferior/(Insert negative adj. relating to any consumer product here) does not change any thing. People will buy it because of brand recognition/vendor lock-in/flashy adds/(Insert bad reason to buy a consumer product here). This extends well beyond MS or even software.
The whole idea is that if you don't buy into palladium then things (media, web services, etc.) that use palladium will not work with you system, AT ALL. It will not just magicaly kill all encrryption and run off on its merry way.
The obvious flaw here is that the RIAA can take legal action against certification athorities for facililitating the sharing of copyrighted materials. If networks respond by allowing anyone to become a certification athority, then this opens the loop hole of trust all over again. Furthermore, the whole idea of trusted computing (as outlined in this paper) is fundamentally flawed, because you could still have a virtual machine from the BIOS on up, and who's the wiser?
I thought computers generally functioned better in the cold. I think the importatn thing to protect your hardware from is moisture, which is more likely to condense on things in a MN winter than other environments. I would suggest using some type of air-tight enclosure that can stand up to the stress of extreme temperatures, and pressure changes, caused by having a fixed mass of air inside, at greatly fluctuating temperatures. (silliconed rubbermaid tub??) Most importatntly, I would ensure that the air inside the enclosure was as free of moisture as possible, or perhaps fill it with an inert gas such as nitrogen. I have no idea as to the economics or viability of this however...
IDE is a travesty, but static ram? Sure, it would be a godsend, but at current prices it's hardly practical. I'd like to see monolithic systems' 1T-SRAM more widely used though. (eg, outside of the gamecube and embedded systems)
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These are such a pain. They look really pretty alright until something goes wrong. Taking apart a CRT iMac is like brain surgery, I can't imagine that any of the other models are any better. Not to mention you can't upgrade the monitor, or take it with you to your next computer.
This is a sweet site. I actually found it before on my own. Almost submitted a /. article about tham but I decided that it would be too creul to unleash the /. effect on them.
I use Earthlink cable internet and don't have to pay the cable tv tax. It is only availible in certain places though (areas serviced by TimeWarner, plus some test markets)
If you go to the OpenBSD website and look at the pics from their 'hackathon' they are all using Apple PowerBooks. If the commiters are on PowerBooks it seems like asure bet that they support them.
If you know the right people at your university you can do even better and get the educational institution price. I paid only $25 (+ tax) for iLife this way. Not a huge difference, but on hardware and pricier software the difference can be substantial. (eg $250 v. $500 for FCP)
There actually is a 'Compters' merit badge, for which you must execute some basic programming task. As far as open source, no. The BSA is far too right wing for that. Bastards.
(BTW, I'm an Eagle scout, I've earned my right to bad mouth the Boy Scouts)
Actually I rather like Netscape. Probably because the most recent version I use is 4.x. Oh well.
A hacked XBox can do that at ~$250 for the box and mod chip.
This is such bassackwards logic! By their reasoning car makers should pay royalties to banks, since cars are used to rob banks.
While it is true that typing "linux windows" on Google produces substantialy more results than it does on MSN, so does anything else. Try "peaches," this comes up with 1 million + for Google, vs. 164 for MSN. While I don't doubt that MSN gives biased results, this is simply not relavant proof.
That's got to be the best knock off of the TiBook yet. The only difference is that it's more expensive, and slower! Really, if you want an Apple, buy an Apple; if you want a PC, buy a PC. Posers.
If Sun dosen't want to die as a hardware company, but also want to aviod the cost of developing Sparc, perhaps they could move to the PPC 970 (aka G5). It, like the Sparc is a 64-bit RISC chip, and has the added advantage of being backed by IBM and Apple reasearch dollars. This would be advatagous for all three parties, lowering prices, and increacing the power of the architechture. And, as a bounus, it would make it a far more significant competitor to intel's legacy platform.
Googled this up in 5 minutes.
7 .2 0030922.PkN45/2Z/MacOSXUpdateCombo10.2.8.dmg
http://download.info.apple.com/Mac_OS_X/061-067
The DMCA applies to (as the name suggests) copyrights, Microsoft does not own any copyrights to your files (although this could change with future EULA's). They may prevent you from using their software in a way it is designed not to function (ale Apple v. OWC) but they cannot prevent you from using your documents (your IP) as you see fit, at least not armed only with the DMCA.
Are you trying to kill -9 yourself?
For that matter they could do it themselves, and release it as an MS Office killer. Internut Exploder is already history, this could rid the mac of that heathen company once and for all.
If you are familliar with the way university labs are run, you would know there is no such thing as a decent mac admin. The jerks running the show are all windows biggots and hire mindless flunkies to admin the macs.
I work at a unversity computer lab help desk you insensitive clod! Honestly, I wouldn't care if you booted the computers with your own boot disk, and I doubt any of my fellow lab attendants would either. My view on such issues is that it's not my problem if you screw somthing up, it's the admin's problem, and since I spend most of my time warring with those morons for making lousy images and other atrocities, good ridance.
The ill will against the evil/buggy/inferior/(Insert negative adj. relating to any consumer product here) does not change any thing. People will buy it because of brand recognition/vendor lock-in/flashy adds/(Insert bad reason to buy a consumer product here). This extends well beyond MS or even software.
The whole idea is that if you don't buy into palladium then things (media, web services, etc.) that use palladium will not work with you system, AT ALL. It will not just magicaly kill all encrryption and run off on its merry way.
The obvious flaw here is that the RIAA can take legal action against certification athorities for facililitating the sharing of copyrighted materials. If networks respond by allowing anyone to become a certification athority, then this opens the loop hole of trust all over again. Furthermore, the whole idea of trusted computing (as outlined in this paper) is fundamentally flawed, because you could still have a virtual machine from the BIOS on up, and who's the wiser?
Install X11 and fink, and you can compile many of them to run on OSX.
If you didn't require linux support, an Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 would do this, for much less money.
I thought computers generally functioned better in the cold. I think the importatn thing to protect your hardware from is moisture, which is more likely to condense on things in a MN winter than other environments. I would suggest using some type of air-tight enclosure that can stand up to the stress of extreme temperatures, and pressure changes, caused by having a fixed mass of air inside, at greatly fluctuating temperatures. (silliconed rubbermaid tub??) Most importatntly, I would ensure that the air inside the enclosure was as free of moisture as possible, or perhaps fill it with an inert gas such as nitrogen. I have no idea as to the economics or viability of this however...
IDE is a travesty, but static ram? Sure, it would be a godsend, but at current prices it's hardly practical. I'd like to see monolithic systems' 1T-SRAM more widely used though. (eg, outside of the gamecube and embedded systems)