If you are recording in the field, you really don't have the luxury of putting your laptop to sleep (OS 9) or turning it off (OS X) to swap your batteries.
In these situation, it would be perfectly reasonable to use an external battery like this one.
Yes, I know this is English-specific, but perhaps other languages have similar distinctions:
what's the difference between:
"I went to school."
and "I went to School." ?
In the first sentence, school is being used as a regular noun: which school? Who cares? On the other hand, in the second sentence, School is being used as proper name - there can be only one School.
In other words, if English speakers can understand the nuance between school and School, then said English speaker (please avoid dissing the US publik skool edukashion sistem) can reasonably be expected to distinguish between letter.txt and Letter.txt (ie. "letter? Which one?" vs. "Letter? ahh yes, THE Letter").
Anyhoo, an example of a totally confused implementation: Mac OS X: some things understand the difference, some don't:
ie:/home/Dock and/home/dock go to the same place. Yet do a pwd or try tab completion and it's all confused. (the location in finder is/home/Dock, for clarity). My take on the issue is "I will remember how you named it; just kindly tell me the file you want, exactly how I told you it's called".
Nwanua.
ps. if the above is true ONLY for English, all you have to do is politely state that fact, and we'll all be better informed...
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Wait a sec... isn't this _designed_ for kids? I bet the KB is the perfect size for a nine year old's paws. It seems miniaturization works best for children after all:-) so from that point of view, the KB is just the right size.
Oh you wanted to use it too? Heh, I guess you'll just have to use your pinkies to hunt around.
BTW, WTF is mo-bai-ru-cu-ri-ku-su-tai-ru? (mobile click style)??? What does that mean? Any ideas?
This might be asking for too much, but every now and then, I hear a nice song I'd like to keep (iTunes Radio Tuner), but for the life of me, I've not found anything that would record "outbound" sound. At best, I can play it to speakers, then run a mic from speaker back to Mac, but this sux.
Is what I'm asking even possible? (Is it legal?) It sure would rock... ah well, just more bits in the bucket.
Where is "Lip Service" for Mail? That was a nifty piece of work. Small, and it worked. I've been waiting for a year now, but no "Lip Service". I know there are other apps to record with, and I've tried rolling my own (getting frustrated in the process, since I can't just do a `cat/dev/mic >> foo.aiff` ). If anyone feels the way I do, maybe we can roll out something like it together.
Welp, here's to hoping PPP won't hang my TiBook for a minute then say "The other side is not responding"... uh...
you know the file(1) command (and the and its magic(5) file) that any decent UNIX comes with? OS X also comes with it BTW. What gets me is why if there is such a powerful program/database, why they didn't just use it.
If you dl a file-type that it doesn't know about, you tell it ONCE. I've not had a need to yet though, it knows a lot more than I:-) No need for extensions, and no need to embed this information with the file itself.
BTW the licence sez: Copyrighted but distributable; and it may not know about things like Disk-Images (it claims OmniGraffle-2.0-beta-v9.dmg: is a VAX COFF executable - version 3081, for instance).
If Apple had a problem with using it as a basis in the core Finder, they could create something very similar... it's not THAT hard, geez.
Nothing too important here, just putting my thoughts into bytes:
Last April, I was absolutely thrilled that I could finally use a mac which didn't crash when I moved the mouse too fast.
Initially I was upset that the look of OSX departed from NEXTSTEP, but as the year wore on, I've grown to really love it. There are three things I most like about OSX (apart from the BSD thingie:->
1. no need to have icons on the desktop (ick!) 2. Mail.app 3. and the browser-finder (cruising around my HDD in OS9 is *such* a regression that for that reason alone I avoid going into it). Heck when an app sez it needs classic, I decide I don't need that app.
People always knock OSX for its lack of drivers and applications... as if it's Apple's responsibility to write drivers for HPs printers. Granted, the lack of drivers hampers adoption and user happiness, but it's a sort of chicken-and-egg question. From the looks of things new drivers are coming on board... YMMV.
Here's to many more years of OSX... it brought me back from my 8-year hiatus from Apple, and equipped with a TiBook, I don't want to ever leave again:-)
Let me guess: the state is going to employ a bunch of coders to analyze millions of lines of (possibly) spaghetti code to understand what it does?
And this would take... 3 years? Heh, what futility: by the time they are done, MS would have them hooked on the 2nd generation of Windows+XP.
That's a bit like: "Sony, show us how you put your clies together so we see if it really needs a jog-dial... oh we need your PDA to keep notes.. hang on."
I just put my PB to sleep, plugged in a monitor into the VGA port, woke it up and boom: I was typing this message in a window displayed on that monitor.
Hear Hear. I thoroughly agree with the three bullet points in the previous post; may I add my 2 cents?
Even after 10 months of OS X, you might be less than dissapointed if you're indeed looking for an operating environment that behaves like what you're used to (say, on BSD or Linux).
My main gripe with OS X was when I upgraded from 10 to 10.1, all my build tools were broken, and I had to bite my lip and wait for Apple's Developer's Kit fix. That sort of thing doesn't happen while using Linux (not yet, to me anyway).
Try writing a device driver? (can't do PCMCIA or IR yet, thanks Apple). On a _unixy_ system,
write a file or two, include library headers and functions, toss a compiler in, you're all set. Under OS X, it's such a curcuituous wild goose chase.
My conclusion: OS X has pretty graphics, apps, and a generally useful programming environment (I mean editor, command line, cc, ld; not that ProjectBuilder); but if you really want to do something other than puttering around in the command line, you will be less than impressed. (I don't know much about Solaris, so I can't say anything about being able to fiddle with it the way you can Linux, ?BSD?, Minix, et al.
I was glad to see Alan Cox say so, and here's a little personal experience:
For the past two and a half years, I've been putting some logging code into various parts of the filesystem (ext2, vfs and block device driver.
This has involved creating new syscalls and user level code to transmit logged data to a remote machine via UDP so we won't adversly affect the FS by logging _and_ writing log data to the same FS. Really trivial stuff in retrospect: the hard part was figuring out where to put what and how to do it without crashing (I worked via ssh and if I hosed something, I was out of luck until I could physically return to campus - which could be as long as a week).
My favourite book for this has got to be "Linux Kernel Internals": consice, precise with decent examples (IMHO).
Funny, I worked on module device drivers for a VHDL class _after_ I worked with the kernel directly, so I won't say to you: play with device drivers first to get your feet wet (although, load/unload kernel sure beats the hell out of rebooting). Try doing something simple like changing the messages (printk) within the kernel as a way to gain a small understandinig of what's happening under the hood. And another thing... the source tree I played with was owned by me (so I could cvs, nfs, coda it to my laptop without fear while playing with code (on an OSX PB) on the road:-) You need only drop into root to lilo/reboot
But if you are the type who get's asked "bar program keeps core dumping on me, could you fix it please" then it most probably is.
Strictly speaking, I don't think that's system _administration_. I do agree that understanding on fundamentals is important, but just try learning about the Linux VFS just from looking at assembler
pages and pages of code. Just as the average car mechanic need not be concerned with the smelting methods of various grades of steel to be effective, I'd think the average sysadmin can do without mucking around with ASM. But if we are to insist on fundamentals, we'd all benefit from a few years of understanding electron spin and so on while we're at it.
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> And with TiBook's (& iBook's) feature that you can change the
> battery while the laptop is sleeping,
Do you know if this works in OSX? My PB (April 01) dies each and every time
I try this while running OSX (even jaguar) but works perfectly in OS9.
Do you know if this has been fixed in the later revisions?
An example:
If you are recording in the field, you really don't have the luxury
of putting your laptop to sleep (OS 9) or turning it off (OS X)
to swap your batteries.
In these situation, it would be perfectly reasonable to use an
external battery like this one.
Yes, I know this is English-specific, but perhaps other languages have similar distinctions:
/home/Dock and /home/dock go to the same place. Yet do a pwd or try tab completion and it's all confused. (the location in finder is /home/Dock, for clarity). My take on the issue is "I will remember how you named it; just kindly tell me the file you want, exactly how I told you it's called".
what's the difference between:
"I went to school."
and
"I went to School." ?
In the first sentence, school is being used as a regular noun: which school? Who cares? On the other hand, in the second sentence, School is being used as proper name - there can be only one School.
In other words, if English speakers can understand the nuance between school and School, then said English speaker (please avoid dissing the US publik skool edukashion sistem) can reasonably be expected to distinguish between letter.txt and Letter.txt (ie. "letter? Which one?" vs. "Letter? ahh yes, THE Letter").
Anyhoo, an example of a totally confused implementation: Mac OS X: some things understand the difference, some don't:
ie:
Nwanua.
ps. if the above is true ONLY for English, all you have to do is politely state that fact, and we'll all be better informed...
Wait a sec... isn't this _designed_ for kids? I bet the KB is the perfect size for a nine year old's paws. It seems miniaturization works best for children after all :-) so from that point of view, the KB is just the right size.
Oh you wanted to use it too? Heh, I guess you'll just have to use your pinkies to hunt around.
BTW, WTF is mo-bai-ru-cu-ri-ku-su-tai-ru? (mobile click style)??? What does that mean? Any ideas?
cool... thanks for the links
This might be asking for too much, but every now and then, I hear a nice song I'd like to keep (iTunes Radio Tuner), but for the life of me, I've not found anything that would record "outbound" sound. At best, I can play it to speakers, then run a mic from speaker back to Mac, but this sux.
Is what I'm asking even possible? (Is it legal?)
It sure would rock... ah well, just more bits in the bucket.
Where is "Lip Service" for Mail? That was a nifty piece of work. Small, and it worked. I've been waiting for a year now, but no "Lip Service". I know there are other apps to record with, and I've tried rolling my own (getting frustrated /dev/mic >> foo.aiff` ). If anyone feels the way I do, maybe we can roll out something like it together.
in the process, since I can't just do a `cat
Welp, here's to hoping PPP won't hang my TiBook for a minute then say "The other side is not responding"... uh...
you know the file(1) command (and the and its magic(5) file) that any decent UNIX comes with? OS X also comes with it BTW. What gets me is why if there is such a powerful program/database, why they didn't just use it.
:-) No need for extensions, and no need to embed this information with the file itself.
If you dl a file-type that it doesn't know about, you tell it ONCE. I've not had a need to yet though, it knows a lot more than I
BTW the licence sez: Copyrighted but distributable; and it may not know about things like Disk-Images (it claims OmniGraffle-2.0-beta-v9.dmg: is a VAX COFF executable - version 3081, for instance).
If Apple had a problem with using it as a basis in the core Finder, they could create something very similar... it's not THAT hard, geez.
Nwanua
Nothing too important here, just putting my thoughts into bytes:
:->
:-)
Last April, I was absolutely thrilled that I could finally use a mac which didn't crash when I moved the mouse too fast.
Initially I was upset that the look of OSX departed from NEXTSTEP, but as the year wore on, I've grown to really love it. There are three things I most like about OSX (apart from the BSD thingie
1. no need to have icons on the desktop (ick!)
2. Mail.app
3. and the browser-finder (cruising around my HDD in OS9 is *such* a regression that for that reason alone I avoid going into it). Heck when an app sez it needs classic, I decide I don't need that app.
People always knock OSX for its lack of drivers and applications... as if it's Apple's responsibility to write drivers for HPs printers. Granted, the lack of drivers hampers adoption and user happiness, but it's a sort of chicken-and-egg question. From the looks of things new drivers are coming on board... YMMV.
Here's to many more years of OSX... it brought me back from my 8-year hiatus from Apple, and equipped with a TiBook, I don't want to ever leave again
Nwanua
Let me guess: the state is going to employ a bunch of coders to analyze millions of lines of (possibly) spaghetti code to understand what it does?
And this would take... 3 years? Heh, what futility: by the time they are done, MS would have them hooked on the 2nd generation of Windows+XP.
That's a bit like: "Sony, show us how you put your clies together so we see if it really needs a jog-dial... oh we need your PDA to keep notes.. hang on."
Silly court people.
I just put my PB to sleep, plugged in a monitor into the VGA port, woke it up and boom: I was typing this message in a window displayed on that monitor.
So... yes. Absolutely (at least on a PB Ti)
Hear Hear. I thoroughly agree with the three bullet points in the previous post; may I add my 2 cents?
Even after 10 months of OS X, you might be less than dissapointed if you're indeed looking for an operating environment that behaves like what you're used to (say, on BSD or Linux).
My main gripe with OS X was when I upgraded from 10 to 10.1, all my build tools were broken, and I had to bite my lip and wait for Apple's Developer's Kit fix. That sort of thing doesn't happen while using Linux (not yet, to me anyway).
Try writing a device driver? (can't do PCMCIA or IR yet, thanks Apple). On a _unixy_ system,
write a file or two, include library headers and functions, toss a compiler in, you're all set. Under OS X, it's such a curcuituous wild goose chase.
My conclusion: OS X has pretty graphics, apps, and a generally useful programming environment (I mean editor, command line, cc, ld; not that ProjectBuilder); but if you really want to do something other than puttering around in the command line, you will be less than impressed. (I don't know much about Solaris, so I can't say anything about being able to fiddle with it the way you can Linux, ?BSD?, Minix, et al.
I was glad to see Alan Cox say so, and here's a little personal experience:
:-) You need only drop into root to lilo/reboot
For the past two and a half years, I've been putting some logging code into various parts of the filesystem (ext2, vfs and block device driver.
This has involved creating new syscalls and user level code to transmit logged data to a remote machine via UDP so we won't adversly affect the FS by logging _and_ writing log data to the same FS. Really trivial stuff in retrospect: the hard part was figuring out where to put what and how to do it without crashing (I worked via ssh and if I hosed something, I was out of luck until I could physically return to campus - which could be as long as a week).
My favourite book for this has got to be "Linux Kernel Internals": consice, precise with decent examples (IMHO).
Funny, I worked on module device drivers for a VHDL class _after_ I worked with the kernel directly, so I won't say to you: play with device drivers first to get your feet wet (although, load/unload kernel sure beats the hell out of rebooting). Try doing something simple like changing the messages (printk) within the kernel as a way to gain a small understandinig of what's happening under the hood. And another thing... the source tree I played with was owned by me (so I could cvs, nfs, coda it to my laptop without fear while playing with code (on an OSX PB) on the road
Cheers.
But if you are the type who get's asked "bar program keeps core dumping on me, could you fix it please" then it most probably is.
Strictly speaking, I don't think that's system _administration_. I do agree that understanding on fundamentals is important, but just try learning about the Linux VFS just from looking at assembler
pages and pages of code. Just as the average car mechanic need not be concerned with the smelting methods of various grades of steel to be effective, I'd think the average sysadmin can do without mucking around with ASM. But if we are to insist on fundamentals, we'd all benefit from a few years of understanding electron spin and so on while we're at it.
Cheers,
Nwanua.
I hope no one's suggesting that:
several xterms
+ vi (or emacs, or any editor)
+ gdb
+ rcs (and/or cvs)
+ gcc
+ ls, +ld, etc.
is not an excellent IDE
that's how I plan to code till I tire of coding