yeah, the pics are a little too close-up, but what you're doing is cutting the brick off and just splicing the cable end onto the CNX-P1900.
Here's a pic that (almost) shows what you're doing.
Here's another pic where where a pluggable connector has been added to the input cable that is compatible with the DC power supply, and a female plug has been added to the Apple power brick. With this setup you you can switch between the two.
Well, there is a fan here. And it runs very quiet. So, almost fanless.
I don't see the grammar foul here. If I had ten cents in my pocket, could I be "almost penniless"? If I spent too much time on slashdot analyzing grammar and my wife started packing her bags, could I be "almost spouseless"?
The mini has a single fan and it is very quiet. Happy now?:)
Yes, the mini uses a 2.5" notebook drive. It's also almost fanless, so it should be good for applications like this. I have seen warning about blocking the bottom of the mini though, because that is where the vents are, so I'm not sure how well it would hold up in a glove compartment like in the article.
I can only comment on what's on the public website, so unless you have access to the Tiger builds, you'll just have to wait and see!:)
FYI, anyone with $500 can get access to the Tiger builds with a Apple Developer Connection membership that you can get here. This gets you a one year ADC membership, which includes discounts on Apple hardware for your own use, free developer copies of Tiger when it releases, developer support, etc.
Hmm, I'm not sure that an inconsistent UI is a market advantage. While some of the new stuff like the Dashboards in iPhoto are a bit wonky, I think the inconsistency is more likely that Apple is getting larger and it is harder to keep the different app teams in sync.
Who knows if the look and feel in the screenshots is the final look? The buttons actually look like the navigation tabs in OS X Server Admin, and yeah, I don't care for that look very much either.
In my opinion, most of the new features in Tiger are more developer-friendly than end-user-friendly, but that's OK, because I think you're going to see some incredible apps come out that use Core Image, Core Video, and Spotlight. Those apps should be what make you want Tiger, not Tiger itself. Out of all the new stuff in Tiger I think the new Mail.app is the best. People spend their work day in e-mail, and the new mail.app looks incredible.
Don't forget Tiger Server. It's a really nice update. New ACL system, 64-bit native, iChat Server (using Jabber), weblog server, and a new software update server. The most interesting feature to me is the new Portable Home Directories. Mac OS X clients will be able to have a home directory on their laptop, and it will trickle sync the home directory with the network when you are connected to your office server.
Personally, I don't believe the ThinkSecret rumor for a second. Apple is *way* too marketing savvy to release a product on April Fool's Day. Also, April 1 is a Friday. Apple almost always announces products on Tuesday.:)
I recently sent a Snap Circuits set to a friend's child for his 11th birthday. He's been having great fun with it. I liked it so much i got the Pro set for myself for Xmas. My 3.5 year old daughter has been surprisingly interested in how it works. She loves to make the lights flash and the fan spin, and she's very curious about how it all works.
Snap Circuits are the equivalent of those old 100-in-1 electronics sets with the springs and wire, but with a much nicer design.
Not exactly software, but still a great way to introduce kids to computing concepts. Projects include basic gates, LED's, timer circuits, and other fun stuff.
What people really want is a Small consumer gadget that can check e-mail and browse the web, not a PC. Perhaps it would even work for corporate networks in the place of PCs.
I bet even Sun Microsystems might have some plans to dominate this market.
I have (ok, had, it went back to the demo pool) a dual 2.5GHz PowerMac G5 on my desk for the past week. It was lightning fast on any task I threw at it. I was doing some benchmarks for a customer, and our numbers were much, much better than any of the competition running their benchmark code, including the latest Itanium and Opterons.
You can argue price, but to argue that a Dual 2.5GHz PowerMac G5 is sluggish is insane. Care to provide some data to back that up?
I think the interesting part of this story is whether Apple tracked down the offenders by IP address or if the downloads of Tiger were individually watermarked in some way.
It would be interesting for someone to diff two copies of the Tiger seed from two different developer accounts. Since you have to log in to download the file, it's entirely possible for Apple to watermark the download in some way.
another result mentioned in this article is that 199 out of the 200 people surveyed were happy with their iPod.
That's a pretty incredible result for any consumer electronics gadget.
Also, I believe no one surveyed was unhappy with the lack of Ogg Vorbis support. In fact, when asked about whether Ogg was important to them, the most common answer was "I only like Ogg at Christmas with a little nutmeg on top.":)
hahahah best idea ever. Make sure you underspec the bulbs though (put a 40W in the place of a 60W, etc.) - otherwise the brightness of the room is sure to tip them off.:)
Fluorescent bulbs are already annoying enough
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Is anyone else annoyed by the trend by hotels with replacing EVERY bulb in a room with compact fluorescents? One hotel I was at recently (the Boston Westin) did this, and I've seen a trend towards this more and more. With every light in the room on, it was still a bit dim and uncomfortable to read a book on the bed. Pretty annoying. It seems like much of the savings of fluorescent and other "cost saving" bulbs are from dimming the lumens of output.
Given that these LED bulbs are dimmer than a normal one too, the savings seem questionable. It's like saying that you can double your gas mileage in a new car assuming you drive it half as much.
Skyy advertises this
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Skyy Vodka advertises their filtration process:
"Vinquiry, an independent certified lab, concluded that SKYY has the fewest impurities among leading vodkas. Samples of SKYY, Absolut, Stolichnaya, Grey Goose, Smirnoff, Belvedere, and Ketel One were gathered in October 2002 from six major U.S. metropolitan areas. Using a precise Gas Chromatograph, the lab tested for the following impurities found in spirits: Methanol, Acetaldehyde, Ethyl Acetate and Fusel Oils."
Skyy is pretty tasteless, but very "clean". I don't like it straight, but it's great with a club soda mixer. It might be a psychosomatic effect, but I never feel hungover after drinking Skyy.
For the average consumer, I think the iTunes music store is more important than the iPod itself. I've tried most of the competition (Musicmatch, WMP10, etc.) and their technology is just awful, terrible, nasty. Have you looked at Microsoft Windows Media Player 10? I counted like 6 nested menu systems in it, all different kinds. Some look like browser menus, some look like windows menus, some weird tabs for the linked music stores. Grandma is supposed to use it as her jukebox software? HA!
iTunes is incredibly easy for the average consumer. Plug in your iPod, it copies the music to it. Put in an audio CD, the button on the top right says "import". Buy music off the iTunes music store, it downloads. All within the same app.
Is anyone else even close on the ease of use of iTunes? I haven't seen anything, and I think you need that kind of ease-of-use to be the consumer success that the iPod has been.
Small Tree also makes cool multiport gigabit ethernet cards that support 802.1ad bonding. Really, the gigE cards are the more interesting thing for most of us who don't have a supercomputing cluster to run. The two-port version is less than $300. They work on Linux as well.
http://small-tree.com/mp_cards.htm
Gigabit has a latency of about 100 microseconds and realistic throughput of about 50MB/s. Infiniband has a latency of about 15 microseconds and a throughput of about 500MB/s.
I mostly sell small Apple workgroup clusters of 16 nodes, and these are almost always just a gigE backbone. There are certain classes of problems that can benefit from Infiniband at low node counts, but for the most common apps, like gene searching using BLAST, gigE is just fine.
Personally, I'm just more comfortable with OpenOffice under X. AppleWorks just feels dated to me (for example, the lack of wheel mouse scroll is really annoying.)
Nothing wrong with AppleWorks in my opinion, it just needs a good refresh. I've got high hopes for NeoOffice, but it's a little too alpha to run for real work. I hope the OpenOffice guys deliver a native port to OSX in late 2005 as promised.
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yeah, the pics are a little too close-up, but what you're doing is cutting the brick off and just splicing the cable end onto the CNX-P1900.
Here's a pic that (almost) shows what you're doing.
Here's another pic where where a pluggable connector has been added to the input cable that is compatible with the DC power supply, and a female plug has been added to the Apple power brick. With this setup you you can switch between the two.
Fair enough. :)
Here you go. With photos even.
THE CNX-P1900 DUAL OUTPUT 140 WATT INTELLIGENT DC-DC POWER REGULATOR
Compatible with the Mac mini, as well as P4 system cases from Travla!
The retail price of the P1900 is $99.95. Target availability is April 2005.
Well, there is a fan here. And it runs very quiet. So, almost fanless.
:)
I don't see the grammar foul here. If I had ten cents in my pocket, could I be "almost penniless"? If I spent too much time on slashdot analyzing grammar and my wife started packing her bags, could I be "almost spouseless"?
The mini has a single fan and it is very quiet. Happy now?
Yes, the mini uses a 2.5" notebook drive. It's also almost fanless, so it should be good for applications like this. I have seen warning about blocking the bottom of the mini though, because that is where the vents are, so I'm not sure how well it would hold up in a glove compartment like in the article.
I can only comment on what's on the public website, so unless you have access to the Tiger builds, you'll just have to wait and see! :)
FYI, anyone with $500 can get access to the Tiger builds with a Apple Developer Connection membership that you can get here. This gets you a one year ADC membership, which includes discounts on Apple hardware for your own use, free developer copies of Tiger when it releases, developer support, etc.
Hmm, I'm not sure that an inconsistent UI is a market advantage. While some of the new stuff like the Dashboards in iPhoto are a bit wonky, I think the inconsistency is more likely that Apple is getting larger and it is harder to keep the different app teams in sync.
Who knows if the look and feel in the screenshots is the final look? The buttons actually look like the navigation tabs in OS X Server Admin, and yeah, I don't care for that look very much either.
FYI, the Tiger pages at Apple have been updated recently.
:)
Here's a nice tour of the features.
In my opinion, most of the new features in Tiger are more developer-friendly than end-user-friendly, but that's OK, because I think you're going to see some incredible apps come out that use Core Image, Core Video, and Spotlight. Those apps should be what make you want Tiger, not Tiger itself. Out of all the new stuff in Tiger I think the new Mail.app is the best. People spend their work day in e-mail, and the new mail.app looks incredible.
Don't forget Tiger Server. It's a really nice update. New ACL system, 64-bit native, iChat Server (using Jabber), weblog server, and a new software update server. The most interesting feature to me is the new Portable Home Directories. Mac OS X clients will be able to have a home directory on their laptop, and it will trickle sync the home directory with the network when you are connected to your office server.
Personally, I don't believe the ThinkSecret rumor for a second. Apple is *way* too marketing savvy to release a product on April Fool's Day. Also, April 1 is a Friday. Apple almost always announces products on Tuesday.
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Aw come on Martin, use your name in your posts. You're the first hit for "evil zen scientist" in google, it's not like you're hiding anything.
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hugs chip. :)
I recently sent a Snap Circuits set to a friend's child for his 11th birthday. He's been having great fun with it. I liked it so much i got the Pro set for myself for Xmas. My 3.5 year old daughter has been surprisingly interested in how it works. She loves to make the lights flash and the fan spin, and she's very curious about how it all works.
Snap Circuits are the equivalent of those old 100-in-1 electronics sets with the springs and wire, but with a much nicer design.
Not exactly software, but still a great way to introduce kids to computing concepts. Projects include basic gates, LED's, timer circuits, and other fun stuff.
This article is right on target.
What people really want is a Small consumer gadget that can check e-mail and browse the web, not a PC. Perhaps it would even work for corporate networks in the place of PCs.
I bet even Sun Microsystems might have some plans to dominate this market.
Well, since neither link in the submission actually explains what it does, I think whatever-it-is is safe from being labeled a terrorist tool. :)
I know you're trolling, but I'll bite.
I have (ok, had, it went back to the demo pool) a dual 2.5GHz PowerMac G5 on my desk for the past week. It was lightning fast on any task I threw at it. I was doing some benchmarks for a customer, and our numbers were much, much better than any of the competition running their benchmark code, including the latest Itanium and Opterons.
You can argue price, but to argue that a Dual 2.5GHz PowerMac G5 is sluggish is insane. Care to provide some data to back that up?
I think the interesting part of this story is whether Apple tracked down the offenders by IP address or if the downloads of Tiger were individually watermarked in some way.
It would be interesting for someone to diff two copies of the Tiger seed from two different developer accounts. Since you have to log in to download the file, it's entirely possible for Apple to watermark the download in some way.
it was a joke.
But yes, of course you're right.
another result mentioned in this article is that 199 out of the 200 people surveyed were happy with their iPod.
:)
That's a pretty incredible result for any consumer electronics gadget.
Also, I believe no one surveyed was unhappy with the lack of Ogg Vorbis support. In fact, when asked about whether Ogg was important to them, the most common answer was "I only like Ogg at Christmas with a little nutmeg on top."
hahahah best idea ever. Make sure you underspec the bulbs though (put a 40W in the place of a 60W, etc.) - otherwise the brightness of the room is sure to tip them off. :)
Is anyone else annoyed by the trend by hotels with replacing EVERY bulb in a room with compact fluorescents? One hotel I was at recently (the Boston Westin) did this, and I've seen a trend towards this more and more. With every light in the room on, it was still a bit dim and uncomfortable to read a book on the bed. Pretty annoying. It seems like much of the savings of fluorescent and other "cost saving" bulbs are from dimming the lumens of output.
Given that these LED bulbs are dimmer than a normal one too, the savings seem questionable. It's like saying that you can double your gas mileage in a new car assuming you drive it half as much.
Skyy Vodka advertises their filtration process:
"Vinquiry, an independent certified lab, concluded that SKYY has the fewest impurities among leading vodkas. Samples of SKYY, Absolut, Stolichnaya, Grey Goose, Smirnoff, Belvedere, and Ketel One were gathered in October 2002 from six major U.S. metropolitan areas. Using a precise Gas Chromatograph, the lab tested for the following impurities found in spirits: Methanol, Acetaldehyde, Ethyl Acetate and Fusel Oils."
http://www.conraddrinks.com/html/skyy_vodka.html
Skyy is pretty tasteless, but very "clean". I don't like it straight, but it's great with a club soda mixer. It might be a psychosomatic effect, but I never feel hungover after drinking Skyy.
For the average consumer, I think the iTunes music store is more important than the iPod itself. I've tried most of the competition (Musicmatch, WMP10, etc.) and their technology is just awful, terrible, nasty. Have you looked at Microsoft Windows Media Player 10? I counted like 6 nested menu systems in it, all different kinds. Some look like browser menus, some look like windows menus, some weird tabs for the linked music stores. Grandma is supposed to use it as her jukebox software? HA!
iTunes is incredibly easy for the average consumer. Plug in your iPod, it copies the music to it. Put in an audio CD, the button on the top right says "import". Buy music off the iTunes music store, it downloads. All within the same app.
Is anyone else even close on the ease of use of iTunes? I haven't seen anything, and I think you need that kind of ease-of-use to be the consumer success that the iPod has been.
You could interconnect with optical fiber too, right? Although I don't really know if that'd be faster.
Do you mean Fibre Channel? That's not a supported network transport, just a storage transport.
that was "clusters of less than 16 nodes" -- slashdot ate my <
Oh, and regarding Voltaire in the original poster's message, Voltaire does make Infiniband hardware, and they do support Mac OS X.
Small Tree also makes cool multiport gigabit ethernet cards that support 802.1ad bonding. Really, the gigE cards are the more interesting thing for most of us who don't have a supercomputing cluster to run. The two-port version is less than $300. They work on Linux as well.
http://small-tree.com/mp_cards.htm
Gigabit has a latency of about 100 microseconds and realistic throughput of about 50MB/s. Infiniband has a latency of about 15 microseconds and a throughput of about 500MB/s.
I mostly sell small Apple workgroup clusters of 16 nodes, and these are almost always just a gigE backbone. There are certain classes of problems that can benefit from Infiniband at low node counts, but for the most common apps, like gene searching using BLAST, gigE is just fine.
Personally, I'm just more comfortable with OpenOffice under X. AppleWorks just feels dated to me (for example, the lack of wheel mouse scroll is really annoying.)
Nothing wrong with AppleWorks in my opinion, it just needs a good refresh. I've got high hopes for NeoOffice, but it's a little too alpha to run for real work. I hope the OpenOffice guys deliver a native port to OSX in late 2005 as promised.