Thanks for the info. Some tasks hang so thoroughly that I can't use the Dock and can't start terminal/console, so it is power-cycle at that stage.
When that happens, try this:
Click on the desktop (to give focus to the Finder)
Under the Apple Menu, select Force Quit and select the non-responsive app to terminate it.
Or think of (real) Macintoshes (not those Intel thingies). Their whole firmware is written in Forth. In fact all firmware device drivers of Macs and IBM P-Series as well as Sun computers are written in Forth, it's the "Open Firmware" standard.
The Open Firmware on PPC Macs is only used while booting. When Mac OS X loads, it loads its own drivers (written in C most likely).
So Apple is using the color scheme that is exactly the ideal, as recommended by numerous independent studies and researchers and as recommended by every design and usability manual I have ever read.
Can you cite a reference? I find that for me a light background with dark text is easier for me to read.
This seems to to agree with my observations (so I stopped looking:-)
Probably, the optimal background would be a very light, desaturated blue. The light background produces high brightness contrast against dark letters. By toning down the white, the screen is less likely to act as a glare source. Finally, the use of some blue will produce aerial perspective and provide a bit of foreground-background separation.
If _every_ home had a decently set up south facing solar collector setup
(thermal wall/hot water/photovoltaics pick one or several) it would put at least SOME measurable dent in your energy bills.
That's a very northern-hemisphere-centric statement!:-)
Perhaps this was put in long ago by a forgotten programmer as a way to add or fix functionality. Never documented as such and the reason for it has been obscured by time.
Perhaps your iBook just needs a PMU reset to allow the battery charge properly. Google for "ibook battery pmu reset" or check out some of the iBook battery topics in the Apple iBook discussion forums
The guys at Intel in the late 1970s didn't consider things like that - if they ever knew about them - as they were mostly IC designers, not proper computer architects.
You are mistaken. If you look at the 8086 (and 8088) design you'll see the segment registers which could be used to separate data from code memory. I believe the current x86 processors still retain these registers. Of course, using memory segments was a pain and the OS designers (probably pressured by application developers) stopped using them in preference to the flat memory model.
To say the Intel designers didn't know about HW protection is incorrect.
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Or maybe 'Planet emeritus'
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Is GMP similar to that? I used it to approximate the Poisson function for BER calculations. Pretty easy to use.
What we need to find are the comments!
// FIXME: should check for overflow here!
if (replication_count < MAX_REP_COUNT){
childcell = new Cell;
replication_count++;
}
When that happens, try this:
Click on the desktop (to give focus to the Finder)
Under the Apple Menu, select Force Quit and select the non-responsive app to terminate it.
Maybe they should rename it Damn Fine Linux.
The Open Firmware on PPC Macs is only used while booting. When Mac OS X loads, it loads its own drivers (written in C most likely).
Can a company get by with less compliance to SOX when they offshore? How much of a savings would that provide?
Similar meaning to "Clean their clock".
I can't visit those links with FireFox on XP. How does that matter to Mac users?
It's not a OS issue, it's a browser/website issue.
I have Vonage, and have 'hacked' it to use my home's existing wiring.
The 'hack' consisted of disconnected the incoming phone line at the demarc and plugging the Vonage box into a phone jack in my house.
You might look into Cygwin and rxvt.
Can you cite a reference? I find that for me a light background with dark text is easier for me to read.
This seems to to agree with my observations (so I stopped looking :-)
From Visual Expert:
Probably, the optimal background would be a very light, desaturated blue. The light background produces high brightness contrast against dark letters. By toning down the white, the screen is less likely to act as a glare source. Finally, the use of some blue will produce aerial perspective and provide a bit of foreground-background separation.
The rule is that your work start time and end time should add up to 13.
83 megabytes. You're off by 2^10.
He didn't have any legacy code to contend with! (only half kidding).
He who has the gold makes the rules!
That's a very northern-hemisphere-centric statement! :-)
Mmmm. Phillips Screwdriver!
September is about to end?
Perhaps this was put in long ago by a forgotten programmer as a way to add or fix functionality. Never documented as such and the reason for it has been obscured by time.
Perhaps your iBook just needs a PMU reset to allow the battery charge properly. Google for "ibook battery pmu reset" or check out some of the iBook battery topics in the Apple iBook discussion forums
You are mistaken. If you look at the 8086 (and 8088) design you'll see the segment registers which could be used to separate data from code memory. I believe the current x86 processors still retain these registers. Of course, using memory segments was a pain and the OS designers (probably pressured by application developers) stopped using them in preference to the flat memory model.
To say the Intel designers didn't know about HW protection is incorrect.
The GOES satellites are in an equatorial orbit. they have a view of the US from there, but are not directly over the US.
I'm 1.