In the past year or so I think Scientology has been putting the screws on its celebrity members to speak out publicly in its favor. Up until then they avoided any mention of it, but I've noticed lately they're all yapping about how wonderful scientology is and how much it has helped them. What a bunch of fucktards.
If you have any doubts, check out http://www.clambake.org/ for the truth about scientology. Their "teachings" are so moronic it's scary. Poor Tommy paid something like half a million smackeroos (probably a lot more) to progressively learn the story of Xenu, the evil alien overlord, and its sticky engram traps. How can anybody have any respect for this spectacularly idiotic man?
That's because file and web sharing in MacOS were meant to be lightweight and user-manageable. IIRC performance was lackluster and the number of simultaneous connections was limited to 10.
If you wanted industrial-strength file, web and printer serving you bought AppleShareIP, which came with tons of documentation and was an excellent performer.
BFD, it's just a very ordinary, overpriced PC.
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Sure, it sounds like a wonderful idea until you realize that it's a very ordinary celeron box with fairly ordinary software you can replicate with readily available open source software.
This box is going to be expensive to keep running 24/7, too. As already mentioned a microITX box would be cheaper, at the cost of reduced performance. I'd go for a Mac mini myself. It's $100 more than Robertson's solution, but it's tiny and quiet, and you'll probably make up the price difference in a year with your utility bill.
I went a much cheaper route: I bought a Linksys NSLU2 ($80), attached a 250GB USB drive ($130), hacked it using the instructions at http://www.nslu2-linux.org/, installed Samba 3 (for Unicode support) and NFS to share music files with my computers (mounting this network volume on a Mac or PC you can easily maintain the collection with iTunes), mt-daapd to serve the music to iTunes and the Roku SoundBridge, and recently jamvm to run the GlooLabs java server so the HomePod can see it too.
Not bad for half the price Robertson wants for his lame device.
FWIW, the SoundBridge is absolutely wonderful. Don't buy a competing device until you've had a chance to play with one.
CodeWarrior was released in the early '90s by a small Canadian startup named Metrowerks. When Apple transitioned to the PowerPC and was only able to come up with an abominably slow, clunky and cumbersome development system for it (a set of multipass C++ compilers bundled with their ancient MPW evironment), Metrowerks saved the day by shipping CodeWarrior which had a kick-ass IDE (inspired by Think C, formerly Lightspeed) and a fast, efficient one pass compiler and linker.
A few years later Motorola released a compiler plug-in for Codewarrior; then Metrowerks started trying to branch out into other areas such as embedded systems and cross-development systems. Eventually they were bought by Motorola by the end of the '90s.
You would imagine that for $349 they would at least put an FM radio in there, for the not-so-uncommon cases where you're too far away from a repeater and you don't have unobstructed line-of-sight to the satellite -- or for when you want content that is just not available on XM, such as Howard Stern or NPR.
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In the past year or so I think Scientology has been putting the screws on its celebrity members to speak out publicly in its favor. Up until then they avoided any mention of it, but I've noticed lately they're all yapping about how wonderful scientology is and how much it has helped them. What a bunch of fucktards. If you have any doubts, check out http://www.clambake.org/ for the truth about scientology. Their "teachings" are so moronic it's scary. Poor Tommy paid something like half a million smackeroos (probably a lot more) to progressively learn the story of Xenu, the evil alien overlord, and its sticky engram traps. How can anybody have any respect for this spectacularly idiotic man?
That's because file and web sharing in MacOS were meant to be lightweight and user-manageable. IIRC performance was lackluster and the number of simultaneous connections was limited to 10. If you wanted industrial-strength file, web and printer serving you bought AppleShareIP, which came with tons of documentation and was an excellent performer.
Step 1: sum up publically available research results from a university lab Step 2: advertise on /.
Step 3: profit!
Get it?
Step 1: collect underpants. Step 2: ? Step 3: profit. Get it?
Sure, it sounds like a wonderful idea until you realize that it's a very ordinary celeron box with fairly ordinary software you can replicate with readily available open source software. This box is going to be expensive to keep running 24/7, too. As already mentioned a microITX box would be cheaper, at the cost of reduced performance. I'd go for a Mac mini myself. It's $100 more than Robertson's solution, but it's tiny and quiet, and you'll probably make up the price difference in a year with your utility bill. I went a much cheaper route: I bought a Linksys NSLU2 ($80), attached a 250GB USB drive ($130), hacked it using the instructions at http://www.nslu2-linux.org/, installed Samba 3 (for Unicode support) and NFS to share music files with my computers (mounting this network volume on a Mac or PC you can easily maintain the collection with iTunes), mt-daapd to serve the music to iTunes and the Roku SoundBridge, and recently jamvm to run the GlooLabs java server so the HomePod can see it too. Not bad for half the price Robertson wants for his lame device. FWIW, the SoundBridge is absolutely wonderful. Don't buy a competing device until you've had a chance to play with one.
CodeWarrior was released in the early '90s by a small Canadian startup named Metrowerks. When Apple transitioned to the PowerPC and was only able to come up with an abominably slow, clunky and cumbersome development system for it (a set of multipass C++ compilers bundled with their ancient MPW evironment), Metrowerks saved the day by shipping CodeWarrior which had a kick-ass IDE (inspired by Think C, formerly Lightspeed) and a fast, efficient one pass compiler and linker. A few years later Motorola released a compiler plug-in for Codewarrior; then Metrowerks started trying to branch out into other areas such as embedded systems and cross-development systems. Eventually they were bought by Motorola by the end of the '90s.
You would imagine that for $349 they would at least put an FM radio in there, for the not-so-uncommon cases where you're too far away from a repeater and you don't have unobstructed line-of-sight to the satellite -- or for when you want content that is just not available on XM, such as Howard Stern or NPR.