The developer machine is x86. The Itanium is an entirely different architecture. Why brag about how OS X has been leading a double life on x86, and then use something totally different in the shipped product
why would you still be using your mac mini when after 10.6? You could buy a new mac mini that is 10 times faster for $400. Apple already said they are slowing the pace of major OS releases after Tiger
Drive in movies were novel in the 1950s!
In my State (Maine) there are perhaps 5 (at the most) drive in theaters still running. The oldest date back to the early 1950s. Before television was common many small towns had at least one cinema screen, and many towns/cities had large drive ins in addition to the cinemas.
not that it means much of anything (considering my sample size), but when I was a graduate student in CS, many of the students we had from India and the Middle East lacked a strong understanding of theoretical computer science and were less than stellar (to put it nicely) programmers. Some of our strongest students were from the U.S., so maybe there is still hope for CS in the states...
I know that. I was just saying the Mach code that they used in XNU was based on Mach 3.0, not 2.5.
I posted a rant about how Darwin/OS X use XNU for a kernel, not Mach (although XNU is based on Mach and FreeBSD), and they do not use a microkernel
Apple's kernel is called XNU (Xun's not Unix). It is based on Mach with a BSD compatibility layer included at the kernel level (as are various other subsytems usually implemented at a server level in true microkernels), not as a 'mach server'. It does not use Mach as a microkernel. Xnu is a essentially a monolithic kernel. The Mach code takes care of inter-process communication, virtual memory, preemptive multi-tasking, etc. The BSD codebase of XNU handles user ids, file permissions, TCP/IP stack, sockets, filesystems
OS X can also send a log to a 'panic server' during a kernel panic. You specify the remote machine (by IP address) in some open firmware settings. The remote machine must be on the same subnet.
I'd like to second that. I'm running OS X Server 10.4 on my desktop right now, and is essentially the same. There are some additionall server Apps, and a few things are configured slightly differently (and there are a few different default kernel parameters like the maximum number of open files) but it's about 99% the same
Ageing beef is basically letting some of its moisture dry out. Beef has a large amount of water in it, and by removing some of that you concentrate the flavor. You can safely age your own beef by placing it in a tupperware container with some holes poked in it - leave it in the fridge for a few days - if it smells just a little funky that is fine (just don't grind it and make a medium rare hamburger out of it...)
I had serious issues with a 256 compute-node XServe G5 cluster and a NFS server running OS X... we eventually had to go to linux on our NFS server as well...
Jaguar, Panther, and Tiger have had some influence by marketing once the big-cat theme was embraced by the public to distinguish the releases.
Actually Jaguar was intended to be internal, but Steve Jobs totally loved it when he heard the developers calling it Jaguar and he insisted that they market it as its internal code name...
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The developer machine is x86. The Itanium is an entirely different architecture. Why brag about how OS X has been leading a double life on x86, and then use something totally different in the shipped product
your code can do the dishes?
why would you still be using your mac mini when after 10.6? You could buy a new mac mini that is 10 times faster for $400. Apple already said they are slowing the pace of major OS releases after Tiger
the apple developers machine looks like a powermac - big and aluminum
That should be "Pentium 4 processor" (as in Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4) One processor, NOT four.
the kernel is open source, but what makes OS X OS X (Cocoa, Carbon, Aqua, Quartz, ... )is not.
I had a free pass, but my boss wouldn't send me this year (timing just didn't work out, and it's a long way from Maine).
Drive in movies were novel in the 1950s! In my State (Maine) there are perhaps 5 (at the most) drive in theaters still running. The oldest date back to the early 1950s. Before television was common many small towns had at least one cinema screen, and many towns/cities had large drive ins in addition to the cinemas.
Darwin compiles on x86, so it's a matter of porting Aqua, Cocoa, Carbon, Quartz...
not that it means much of anything (considering my sample size), but when I was a graduate student in CS, many of the students we had from India and the Middle East lacked a strong understanding of theoretical computer science and were less than stellar (to put it nicely) programmers. Some of our strongest students were from the U.S., so maybe there is still hope for CS in the states...
I know that. I was just saying the Mach code that they used in XNU was based on Mach 3.0, not 2.5. I posted a rant about how Darwin/OS X use XNU for a kernel, not Mach (although XNU is based on Mach and FreeBSD), and they do not use a microkernel
XNU is based on Mach 3.0, not Mach 2.5
stop spreading the myth that Xnu is a microkernel
OS X can also send a log to a 'panic server' during a kernel panic. You specify the remote machine (by IP address) in some open firmware settings. The remote machine must be on the same subnet.
that's not what a chef told me. It's not quite the same, but it has similar effects
it's the same codebase by the way
Ageing beef is basically letting some of its moisture dry out. Beef has a large amount of water in it, and by removing some of that you concentrate the flavor. You can safely age your own beef by placing it in a tupperware container with some holes poked in it - leave it in the fridge for a few days - if it smells just a little funky that is fine (just don't grind it and make a medium rare hamburger out of it...)
not having a hidden swap partition is different
I have 259 Xserves. Three run ulimited client versions of OS X, the rest run 10-client versions...
well today i got 3 copies of unilmited and about 512 copies of 10-client, each with a set of media and a manual.
WFT Apple. Talk about waste!
I had serious issues with a 256 compute-node XServe G5 cluster and a NFS server running OS X... we eventually had to go to linux on our NFS server as well...
I'll ask a friend at Apple - he told me the 'Pinot' story once, but I forgot all the details
#!/usr/bin/perl for(;;){ $a--; $b++; $c=($a*$b)/5; $b=$b+$c; $b=$b/13; } start up an instance for each CPU
Actually Jaguar was intended to be internal, but Steve Jobs totally loved it when he heard the developers calling it Jaguar and he insisted that they market it as its internal code name ...
I thought it said prophylactic
In case anyone doesn't know, XNU is the darwin/OS X kernel, and it stands for XNU is Not Unix