I agree that there is a lack of GUI config options, however the other problems you mentioned are not really problems:
The image resizing can be fixed by going to about:config (that is, type that in the address line), and look for the setting called 'browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing'. It is a boolean option that you can set to false.
You can add a new tab button by right-clicking one of the toolbars, choosing customize, and adding the button to your toolbar.
I don't have the problem with 'About:' showing up each time I open a new window.
Didn't people use these types of varification systems before 1998 (the date of the patent's filing )? I imagine that the pr0n sites would be the most likely candidates....Not that I go to those, or anything.....
A few points here:
- The big bang is a theory, NOT fact.
- Even if we assumed that the Big Bang theory is true, we don't know how big the universe is, so there would be no way to calculate a point of 'bang.'
I'm not here to bash the big bang (although I am proud of that work of alliteration), only to point out that it is unsound to accept a theory blindly and to throw out numbers like '80%' that cannout be proven.;)
Apple's Mac Mini is something which a lot of Linux users have been
waiting for: An inexpensive, readily available PowerPC system in a small, quiet
and attractive chassis.
Debian is very popular on Intel i386 compatible systems. Due to the
open source nature of the Linux kernel and the Debian operating
system, it is possible to build the same software to run on the
PowerPC processor found inside the Mac Mini. It's simple to swap your
big, noisy old PC for the slim, svelte Mac Mini, and this page aims to
show you how to do just this.
Personally, I bought the Mac Mini as a replacement for my
girlfriend's aging 1GHz Pentium-III system. Thanks to the portability
of Debian and its advanced package management tools, making her new
Mac look like her old PC took only an hour or so.
Hardware
The hardware specification is somewhat less than stellar by 2005
standards, but still perfectly adequate. One can choose between a
1.25GHz or 1.42GHz PowerPC G4, both running with 512K on-chip L2 cache
and a 166MHz "MaxBus" front side bus. This is markedly less powerful
than contemporary Intel or AMD x86 systems, but for the overwhelming
majority of tasks this is more than enough processing ability. If you
need more power, you can always stack a few more Minis on top;-)
The advantage of the G4 used in the Mac Mini is that it produces
very little heat relative to an x86 processor with comparable
computational power, making it ideal for the small space inside the
Mac Mini. The G4 used dissipates around 21W at 1.42GHz, and 18.3W at
1.25GHz.
The other hardware in the box is also mature and reliable (or, if
you're a glass-half-empty person, cheap and slow). The Mac Mini has an
RV280 GPU ("Radeon 9200") with 32MB of dedicated DDR SDRAM. The RV280
doesn't have fancy features such as hardware geometry or lighting
transformation, but it's more than adequate for people who aren't
interested in playing the latest 3D games. The 3D hardware it does
possess is supported by XFree86, which is excellent news.
The system has a single DIMM socket which takes standard PC2700
modules, although it is slightly tricky to gain access to it. The
largest available upgrade at present is a 1GB module, but I believe
that the Mac Mini will also be certified for use with 2GB modules when
they enter production. For the average Linux user, 1GB will be more
than adequate. The 256MB Apple supply is far too little for
MacOSX.
For heat and noise reasons, Apple have chosen to use a 2.5" (laptop-size)
hard drive in the Mac Mini, making end-user upgrades fiddly and expensive. The
40GB or 80GB hard drive supplied is unlikely to be large enough for
everyone. Apple appears to be shipping a mix of 4200rpm and 5400rpm units in the
40GB size, but currently all 80GB units are 4200rpm. The 5400rpm drives are
apparently faster, presumably due to their shorter head seek times. My
unit has an 80GB Toshiba MK8025GAS.
The Mac Mini uses Apple's "Intrepid" north bridge. It appears to be
a very compact derivative of the eMac's motherboard design. This
diagram illustrates the hardware in the Mac Mini as exactly as I
can. Note that the MaxBus and SDRAM are clocked at 166MHz, and the
internal optical drive is configured as a slave device on the same
ATA-100 bus used by the hard drive. This is a cost-saving measure on
Apple's part, as the Intrepid chipset has a second ATA channel that
could be used for the optical drive.
The Airport card and Bluetooth modules are mounted on an optional
mezzanine card. If your system did not come with either of these
options, the mezzanine card will not be present. I am told that the
modem is not present on models sold into the educational market.
Noise
It's quiet -- very quiet. But not silent. The only noise is the
barely audible hum from the hard disk. Thanks to the fluid dynamic
bearings, this isn't the annoying high-pitched whine that older 2.5"
disks produced. I'm very pernickety about noise, and I find it quite
acceptable.
With more and more people looking to alternatives like FreeBSD 5.x, OS X...
Did he just refer to those as separate OSes? Apple didn't design an OS they took an OS already developed and gave it a pretty GUI and cool apps. Now, that's not to say that it's not a nice end product..... I've even gotten an old G3 with 10.2 to play with at work.
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- The image resizing can be fixed by going to about:config (that is, type that in the address line), and look for the setting called 'browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing'. It is a boolean option that you can set to false.
- You can add a new tab button by right-clicking one of the toolbars, choosing customize, and adding the button to your toolbar.
- I don't have the problem with 'About:' showing up each time I open a new window.
Hope that helps clear things up a bit.Didn't people use these types of varification systems before 1998 (the date of the patent's filing )? I imagine that the pr0n sites would be the most likely candidates....Not that I go to those, or anything.....
And just how big is it?
A few points here:
- The big bang is a theory, NOT fact.
- Even if we assumed that the Big Bang theory is true, we don't know how big the universe is, so there would be no way to calculate a point of 'bang.'
I'm not here to bash the big bang (although I am proud of that work of alliteration), only to point out that it is unsound to accept a theory blindly and to throw out numbers like '80%' that cannout be proven.
It is in grad school. ;)
Why you green blooded, in-human.....
Introduction
Apple's Mac Mini is something which a lot of Linux users have been waiting for: An inexpensive, readily available PowerPC system in a small, quiet and attractive chassis.
Debian is very popular on Intel i386 compatible systems. Due to the open source nature of the Linux kernel and the Debian operating system, it is possible to build the same software to run on the PowerPC processor found inside the Mac Mini. It's simple to swap your big, noisy old PC for the slim, svelte Mac Mini, and this page aims to show you how to do just this.
Personally, I bought the Mac Mini as a replacement for my girlfriend's aging 1GHz Pentium-III system. Thanks to the portability of Debian and its advanced package management tools, making her new Mac look like her old PC took only an hour or so.
Hardware
The hardware specification is somewhat less than stellar by 2005 standards, but still perfectly adequate. One can choose between a 1.25GHz or 1.42GHz PowerPC G4, both running with 512K on-chip L2 cache and a 166MHz "MaxBus" front side bus. This is markedly less powerful than contemporary Intel or AMD x86 systems, but for the overwhelming majority of tasks this is more than enough processing ability. If you need more power, you can always stack a few more Minis on top;-)
The advantage of the G4 used in the Mac Mini is that it produces very little heat relative to an x86 processor with comparable computational power, making it ideal for the small space inside the Mac Mini. The G4 used dissipates around 21W at 1.42GHz, and 18.3W at 1.25GHz.
The other hardware in the box is also mature and reliable (or, if you're a glass-half-empty person, cheap and slow). The Mac Mini has an RV280 GPU ("Radeon 9200") with 32MB of dedicated DDR SDRAM. The RV280 doesn't have fancy features such as hardware geometry or lighting transformation, but it's more than adequate for people who aren't interested in playing the latest 3D games. The 3D hardware it does possess is supported by XFree86, which is excellent news.
The system has a single DIMM socket which takes standard PC2700 modules, although it is slightly tricky to gain access to it. The largest available upgrade at present is a 1GB module, but I believe that the Mac Mini will also be certified for use with 2GB modules when they enter production. For the average Linux user, 1GB will be more than adequate. The 256MB Apple supply is far too little for MacOSX.
For heat and noise reasons, Apple have chosen to use a 2.5" (laptop-size) hard drive in the Mac Mini, making end-user upgrades fiddly and expensive. The 40GB or 80GB hard drive supplied is unlikely to be large enough for everyone. Apple appears to be shipping a mix of 4200rpm and 5400rpm units in the 40GB size, but currently all 80GB units are 4200rpm. The 5400rpm drives are apparently faster, presumably due to their shorter head seek times. My unit has an 80GB Toshiba MK8025GAS.
The Mac Mini uses Apple's "Intrepid" north bridge. It appears to be a very compact derivative of the eMac's motherboard design. This diagram illustrates the hardware in the Mac Mini as exactly as I can. Note that the MaxBus and SDRAM are clocked at 166MHz, and the internal optical drive is configured as a slave device on the same ATA-100 bus used by the hard drive. This is a cost-saving measure on Apple's part, as the Intrepid chipset has a second ATA channel that could be used for the optical drive.
The Airport card and Bluetooth modules are mounted on an optional mezzanine card. If your system did not come with either of these options, the mezzanine card will not be present. I am told that the modem is not present on models sold into the educational market.
Noise
It's quiet -- very quiet. But not silent. The only noise is the barely audible hum from the hard disk. Thanks to the fluid dynamic bearings, this isn't the annoying high-pitched whine that older 2.5" disks produced. I'm very pernickety about noise, and I find it quite acceptable.
Did he just refer to those as separate OSes? Apple didn't design an OS they took an OS already developed and gave it a pretty GUI and cool apps. Now, that's not to say that it's not a nice end product..... I've even gotten an old G3 with 10.2 to play with at work.
Same here....has Slashdot been Slashdot'ed?
So, what happens if WinNT gets a BSoD and reboots; does that reboot all the OSes running on the machine or just Window$?
...is weather libdvdcss (or a modified version) will work with HD-DVDs.
I've heard of something like this already, I think Al Gore created it...It's called the Internet.
pardon me....I mistyped....I meant to type: "Did that just say they switched TO Window$ because of stability issues?"
Did that just say they switched TO Window$ because of compatibility issues?
Who said anything about running Window$ on the server? Run your favorite flavor of Linux on the thing and then set up your thin clients.
No, apt probably wouldn't apply, but Synaptic, Gurpmi, and YaST probably would.
Well, seeing as I'm running Fedora Core 2, yes, it would be rather difficult to try to install sp2.
...wether popup ads from MSN will be blocked or not (not that I go there, or anything).
Of course, knowing M$, there would be a 'not for resale' claus in there somewhere.
...that makes someone glad he went to bed early, instead of staying up and watching Leno. ;)