I have an 12" iBook G4 purchased about two months ago. Even though the serial number is in the range covered by the replacement program, I haven't had any video problems. Go ahead and get an iBook, you won't be disappointed.
mmmmm.... F-Prot... Run it on a 200MHz Pentium with 64MB of RAM and you wouldn't know it was there. Small program, small memory usage, and updated almost twice a day.
but also make any TCP/IP connection drop after a certain time?
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they'll have to do it in the time frame before Windows needs to reboot or wait a certain time before connecting again
The only problem with your idea is that this is behavior that is really not unusul and can easily be mistaken for "normal" behavior. I mean after all, we've all had windows crash and force a reboot. One last thought, this really sounds similiar to recent worm behavior as well.
Rosebud is a sled, and Verbal is a huge liar. Darth Vader is Luke's father, and the Sixth Sense guy is actually dead. The planet of the apes is Earth, and Rocky loses.
The OP stated he had to edit the XF86Config file everytime he upgrades the kernel. This is incorrect. You only have to edit it once.
Also, I don't find it difficult at all to install the nvidia drivers, certainly not much more difficult than installing them on Windows, you only have one or two additional steps. And the additional steps required aren't that hard.
Well for one, you don't have to edit the config file if you are only rebuilding the nvidia kernel modules.
Second, there are scripts floating around that will automatically rebuild the nvidia kernel module for your current kernel if it fails to load. I have been using such a script in Gentoo for a few months now. Works fine and I never have to do anything after installing a new kernel.
When KDE released version 3.2, there was a noticable speed improvment for most users. Will we get to see another good speed boost when/if KDE moves to QT4? Here's hoping.
1) I haven't had to compile anything by hand yet, though I'm not saying it won't happen.
2) Considering how much software is available out-of-the-box, and via Fink and/or darwinports, I can't really see myself needing much else at this point.
You know, I have to agree with you. I finally broke down and bought a notebook, and what did I buy? An iBook. You really can't beat the combination of:
BSD backend with full hardware/software support
Incredible battery life. (I get 4+ hours with normal use)
Weight
Internal wireless with antenna integrated into the display
What development tools? What language? What IDE? There are so many to choose from. If the CD doesn't have the right one, then it doesn't do any good anyway.
Just wanted to note. If you install the dev tools on MacOS X, you get perl, python, ruby, c, c++, objective-c, java, php, bash, and probably more right from the start. You even get emacs and vim!
You also get a nice IDE called Xcode. I don't do much programming so I can't say how nice it really is, but it does the usual project management, debugging, etc that you would expect.
Considering that reading this comment almost caused a forcefull expulsion of coffee and cream onto my brand new iBook G4, I would have moderated the parent as +1 Funny. But that's just me.
Good idea but you forgot one thing... Radio station's (for the most part) don't really care about the music, they're only interested in gaining advertisers. Now, if they could use this to increase the number of listeners in their target demographic, I'm sure it would be useful.
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I have an 12" iBook G4 purchased about two months ago. Even though the serial number is in the range covered by the replacement program, I haven't had any video problems. Go ahead and get an iBook, you won't be disappointed.
I have faith in Apple when I click on blind links. (If you don't know what I mean, by default Safari doesn't show the status bar.)
You want uControl.
mmmmm.... F-Prot... Run it on a 200MHz Pentium with 64MB of RAM and you wouldn't know it was there. Small program, small memory usage, and updated almost twice a day.
Just send it to the BestBuy.
Please have been delivered by 12PM tomorrow. Thanks!
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HTH
An upgrade for my iBook!
Is this your A.D.D. showing?
The OP stated he had to edit the XF86Config file everytime he upgrades the kernel. This is incorrect. You only have to edit it once.
Also, I don't find it difficult at all to install the nvidia drivers, certainly not much more difficult than installing them on Windows, you only have one or two additional steps. And the additional steps required aren't that hard.
Tell me about it, I bought my 12" 800MHz ten days ago!!!
Well for one, you don't have to edit the config file if you are only rebuilding the nvidia kernel modules.
Second, there are scripts floating around that will automatically rebuild the nvidia kernel module for your current kernel if it fails to load. I have been using such a script in Gentoo for a few months now. Works fine and I never have to do anything after installing a new kernel.
When KDE released version 3.2, there was a noticable speed improvment for most users. Will we get to see another good speed boost when/if KDE moves to QT4? Here's hoping.
1) I haven't had to compile anything by hand yet, though I'm not saying it won't happen.
2) Considering how much software is available out-of-the-box, and via Fink and/or darwinports, I can't really see myself needing much else at this point.
3) No comment.
Not an ad, just a happy customer.
- BSD backend with full hardware/software support
- Incredible battery life. (I get 4+ hours with normal use)
- Weight
- Internal wireless with antenna integrated into the display
- Plenty of OSS software available
- Apple software bundle is impressive
- And lastly, all this for only $1099
Needless to say. I'm loving' it.Just wanted to note. If you install the dev tools on MacOS X, you get perl, python, ruby, c, c++, objective-c, java, php, bash, and probably more right from the start. You even get emacs and vim!
You also get a nice IDE called Xcode. I don't do much programming so I can't say how nice it really is, but it does the usual project management, debugging, etc that you would expect.
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Considering that reading this comment almost caused a forcefull expulsion of coffee and cream onto my brand new iBook G4, I would have moderated the parent as +1 Funny. But that's just me.
Good idea but you forgot one thing... Radio station's (for the most part) don't really care about the music, they're only interested in gaining advertisers. Now, if they could use this to increase the number of listeners in their target demographic, I'm sure it would be useful.
My bad... Thanks for the correction. I usually listen to both shows and tend to get them confused since I get the MP3s from the same website.
on Off The Hook a while back. They were concerned because the name and address of the radio's website is WUSB.