As a side, what are my video editing and DVD creation options on Linux that don't require 10 hours of fussing and has a clean usable interface?
I'll give you your options. I haven't tried most of this software myself, but all these fall under the "video editing" category, some can do DVD specific things too like you requested:
Recently my bad registar forgot to tell the TLD registry to renew my domain (even though I paid them months in advanced).
I knew immediately when the domain had been dropped because things weren't resolving on it.
So, I contacted my registar (that decided to spend two days todo nothing on it), only to see that within the first few hours, the domain had been grabbed and it was some weird scamming thing that wanted me to offer a amount of money to buy it.
I call BS. I've installed 10.4 on a Powerbook Ti (600 Mhz, 256 MB RAM), and it was definitely usable. As fast as 10.2, which is what I was upgrading from, and certainly was more usable than Windows XP on a 600 Mhz machine with such a small amount of RAM.
I find that hard to believe with my experiences with the Minis.
have you ran.4 on a Mini with 256MB RAM, then later on switched that RAM card for 512MB and tried it?
I'm not denying that/perhaps/ it runs fine on PowerBook Ti (although I strongly doubt it after my experiences on the Mini). I know for certain it isn't performing for me on a Mini.
Although, a interesting thing to note. I don't particularly see anything wrong with the hardware either as it runs other OSes like Linux very well.
Give back to the world for stealing their music, unlike the BBC which taxes indiscriminately, creates content and only shares it with U.K. citizens.
That's not exactly true -- Plenty of times I have just randomly decided to start listening to various BBC radio streams and watching various BBC video streams online. I wasn't in the UK, there was nothing to verify my British citizenship either.
One of the (many) nice things about openvpn is how it seems to work very well without requiring monkeying around needed on your hardware
I've used OpenVPN and Microsoft's PPTP solutions. I have been irritated by OpenVPN mainly due to the fact that I suffer latency issue that spoil my gaming in Unreal Tournament and Continuum.
I was leaning more towards a new internal TV tuner though. Nice to see theres a solution though.
Additional USB ports for Mac mini? Yes: Any one of a thousand USB hubs on the market.
USB hubs don't provide additional USB bandwith -- Important to someone who uses USB for more than just printers, keyboard and mouse (ie: webcams, bluetooth, flash drives, external drives).
Okay, the graphics are not upgradeable, but please show me the PC video card that will fit in your "equivalent" PC with the MIni's form factor.
Here are a bunch of PC video cards that can fit the Mini's form factor.
I find 512MB is enough for most things (especially we it comes to other OSes like XP, Linux + KDE 3.5.6) -- If the OS can't multitask nicely with just 512MB of RAM, there is something seriously wrong.
If, what you say is true, it's kind of ridicules for a company that is supposed to be so grand and mighty for providing a unique hardware-software experience to not set the proper minimum specs (currently 512MB minimum) for their OS to work decently.
If your Mac mini is truly 2 years old, you must have bought it the 2nd week it was made available (dubious).
It is about two years old, I don't remember exactly the company I worked for got it.
Your problem is you are running 256mb of ram (dubious).
I had upgraded it to 512MB RAM and it still performed poorly. Then later I got a Intel Mac Mini (single core) for myself -- Performed horribly after updating it.
Especially when it came to multi-threaded applications like Apache2 (no, I wasn't using it as a production server, but just simple development work -- I compiled Apache myself because I didn't want that non-sense I've experienced of Apple's bugs in the past, where for example the bundled Apache installation could only send the first 13k of a file) were making the stupid desktop begin to freeze up when I had just a few simultaneous connections downloading things.
These issues changed when I got to use a Mac that had more than a single core. But still, I'm still not impressed with the response times of the OS when running my few processes (compared to running Linux and KDE 3.5.6 for example).
And sorry, I've never ran the.4 version on older G4 Macs, so I can't compare.
I don't see that you have one. You can upgrade Macs in pieces too.
New soundcard in Mac mini? No. New graphic card in Mac mini? No. TV tuner in Mac mini? No. PCI card to provide additional USB ports in Mac mini? No.
I can do all that with the equivalent PC hardware to the Mac mini.
PC's don't have out of the box such as Firewire 400 and 800.
I've had firewire on many laptops, but never used it.
Oh, and re: Parallels: Windows users can run virtualization software just like Parallels too. From Microsoft. It's called Virtual PC. Virtual PC was initially created for the Mac, by the way. Microsoft bought the company that made it (and Virtual PC for Windows) so they could try to compete with VMWare.
Great, so how do I run unmodified OS X in virtualization software running under say.. Linux or Windows?
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I can assure you when Linux is sold exclusively sold in stores like Windows is currently, you will see Linux taking over.
You'll probably find more if you Google.
Anonymous Coward is mumbling non-sense, accept or deny?
Recently my bad registar forgot to tell the TLD registry to renew my domain (even though I paid them months in advanced).
I knew immediately when the domain had been dropped because things weren't resolving on it.
So, I contacted my registar (that decided to spend two days todo nothing on it), only to see that within the first few hours, the domain had been grabbed and it was some weird scamming thing that wanted me to offer a amount of money to buy it.
(Response I got from my registar since then)
I'm certainly not going to pay anything to shady registars or whatever they are.
have you ran
I'm not denying that
Although, a interesting thing to note. I don't particularly see anything wrong with the hardware either as it runs other OSes like Linux very well.
And you're still taxed for it. Brilliant.
# I wear my sun glasses at night, so I can, so I can, read my story lines~ Waittin' for downloads to finish.
The patch is called Windows XP.
Wait? Vista is backwards compatible? I can't even get my games working on it!
If, what you say is true, it's kind of ridicules for a company that is supposed to be so grand and mighty for providing a unique hardware-software experience to not set the proper minimum specs (currently 512MB minimum) for their OS to work decently.
Correction:
I don't remember exactly when the company I worked for got it.
Especially when it came to multi-threaded applications like Apache2 (no, I wasn't using it as a production server, but just simple development work -- I compiled Apache myself because I didn't want that non-sense I've experienced of Apple's bugs in the past, where for example the bundled Apache installation could only send the first 13k of a file) were making the stupid desktop begin to freeze up when I had just a few simultaneous connections downloading things.
These issues changed when I got to use a Mac that had more than a single core. But still, I'm still not impressed with the response times of the OS when running my few processes (compared to running Linux and KDE 3.5.6 for example).
And sorry, I've never ran the
New graphic card in Mac mini? No.
TV tuner in Mac mini? No.
PCI card to provide additional USB ports in Mac mini? No.
I can do all that with the equivalent PC hardware to the Mac mini.I've had firewire on many laptops, but never used it.Great, so how do I run unmodified OS X in virtualization software running under say.. Linux or Windows?