1) ATI is a legend in 2D acceleration and correct colour (heard something like that? I do care, I am an AVID editor,both missed thing by end users), just near Matrox which is alive thanks to the features in this FPS hell. The GPU acceleration and even H264/mpeg2/4 acceleration is a MUST on any home electronic device. If you had a clue about the underlyings of OS X and how Apple DARES to make the fancy screen shows, you would know the OS X screen is in fact possible thanks to OpenGL features it uses.
Machine Name: Power Mac G5
Machine Model: PowerMac7,2
CPU Type: PowerPC 970 (2.2)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.6 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1.5 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Runs fine, for 3 years. Will be running a lot more, outdating any INTEL BASED PC I owned. From "white box" dealers or the ones I built myself, even with caring for the case (elan vital based).
My next box will be a Sun SPARC running Solaris next to Sony PS3 for games/entertaintment. Nobody sells me CISC crap in 2006. Even if Steve Jobs gives me a free Mactel, I won't touch it.
I am a customer for Apple and no, I am not feeling like some weird cult member following a commercial brand which trades on markets. They can't sell me anything running Intel and I say "so long" to the game companies who will ignore my next entertaintment platform, Sony PS3 running Cell processor.
Nobody can sell me a product rooting 1980s and very evil business practices not just monopoly but effectively SLOWED DOWN the progress on entire computer World. I was an Amiga user in 80s, we know what was offered with 68k and we really know the first incarnations of x86.
Mactel word is kind of "joke", the "Wintel" word is the reality. You will see what means being in same bed with Microsoft's best friend. We are already seeing. They removed FireWire 800 from a thing they call "Macbook Pro". Why? Since there is USB2. The Intel's NEVER TAKEN SERIOUS BY PROS, Firewire competitor wannabe.
In fact, I still run, like the G5 and OS X. I just need to ignore this weird cult named "mac zealots".
As you see, I am not successful on that sometimes.
I just hope AMD takes Apple to court too. Intel has gone TOO FAR this time. If AMD wins, the amazing stuff which was wasted by Wintel duopoly can finally rest in peace. Amiga, Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes.
Oh BTW, I just want to add the "Skype" name to this post. Sharing from my Versiontracker.com comment:
"Skype and Intel made a major deal which certainly breaks the purpose of TCP/IP communications and the Internet itself.
Because of that deal, Skype Video will work "better" on Intel Windows machines having some features "cut" from AMD based machines.
If they have manners to break compatability with entire AMD userbase using Windows, think about future PowerPC releases."
The claim, "it can't handle 10 way conversation" is amazing.
I think they should even sue them for that.
BTW, the amazing needs of sound studios in Holywood are generally handled with G4 or G5 Macs until "Protools" Universal binary is shipped and tested for at least a year.
Guess how many sounds they mix and guess the audio specs of a DTS NEO/ Dolby Digital EX movie master soundtrack;) Add the needs of THX certification.
They only buy a sound card of course, a professional one like M-Audio (now part of SGI)
I remember a "Protracker" like application on my Amiga 1200 playing 8 channel mods without loss of quality. Yes, Amiga had hardware limit of 4 channels, program was mixing the waves REALTIME on 12Mhz 68020.
Why NOT? I see you are a Mac user or fan from your nick, please stop defending the stupid decisions by Apple to lock them into INTEL platform.
OK, IBM didn't give them some CPUs, bla bla but there is NOBODY can claim they couldn't make both AMD and Intel machines.
In fact, the "PowerMac G5" Professional line should be moved to AMD 64bit huge CPUs having NO CONCERN about heat or power usage. Whole servers, blades, HPC giant clusters run AMD. Not Intel.
Of course, with customer base like that, they don't really care.
They gave up the very good ATI Chip on G4 Mac Mini and moved to Intel "integrated graphics", it is ONLY the beginning if nobody asks Apple "Hey? Why are you downgrading your products?" They just line at Apple store for buying.
I don't see a bright future for Apple platform unless people remember they are BUYING a COMPUTER from a Vendor.
They could use a serious, multiplatform media solution like Real (Helix) Server and broadcast happily with DRM. At least it has clients for all platforms.
You may not like DRM but compatibility is not the issue here. Mplayer etc. are third party hacks. Windows Media for Mac never worked right (in full function, plugin etc), so the format "hates" anyone not using windows.
If they used Real format, they could even stream/make money from Cell Phones and PDAs, their loss... I hope the sponsor money from Intel and Microsoft will cover the costs.
(btw you gotta have Intel processor for Full Screen, others can't do it!)
"Video Support NBCOlympics.com video can be viewed in Windows Media Player 6 or higher on a PC.
Playlist Support The playlist auto advance functionality is supported in Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher for Windows. It is not supported on a Mac."
Good news is, I suspect even if Akamai network can handle that crap named "windows media server", also as windows media backwards format does not have "fallback support" like Real or Quicktime does, a nightmare for clients is on the way.
Funny is, I suspect Akamai will be using Helix Server on their huge network, aka real server to stream windows media.:) Yes it can stream windows media.
There are still people who are casual internet users. Check mail, check couple of favourite websites, turn the connection and the computer off. I added the "turn off the computer" part to give a clue how much they care about technology or computers.
Why is it that hard to believe? Although I am paying amazing prices for my broadband overseas, I can easily understand them. If I was a PC user like that, first I'd buy a Mac Mini or iMac (cheap models), find a dial up ISP that cares about their users (not AOL!) and use that instead. It is not the deal of course.
It is same discussion over and over at Mac OS Usenet groups.Of course, trolls made a great discussion impossible to take part. Oh, not AOL, it is the new "Macbook Pro" not having a built in modem.
Oh, I mean like "click here to watch" links, not "embedded". E.g. especially "live radios" use it. They don't use RTSP:// , they use HTTP:// sometimes.
I am kind of amazed the utility author (freeware,opensource) still at bottom of page while providing a total protection to this vulnerability and even the future vulnerabilities of this kind. FOR FREE that is:)
I installed the APE module and I noticed very very interesting thing which makes this vulnerability look more "evil" than it is already.
Your great module works perfect and even shows another "evil" thing. It says (when I right click to the extracted file via finder)
"The application "Finder" is attempting to open the file:/Users/ilgaz/Desktop/Secunia.mov using an application other than the default. The file will be opened using the application:/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app"
It is ONLY right click. I don't left click or double click.
Very interesting though my comment is trivial, hope you contacted Secunia about this and updated your version at versiontracker and macupdate, apple downloads.
From what I understand, the "ZIP File auto extract (even via stuffit expander) and launch if data" exists because "Dashboard" widgets use this functionality to get easily installed.
From Konfubulator (now Yahoo widgets), it is like Karma is doing its job:) First publically available security flaw was directly widgets, now the functionality to easily decompress,install them is used in vulnerability.
I am really happy that an Antivirus company didn't discover this flaw too. Or we would see "conspiracy" "snake oil" comments instead of the "real thing".
I am not getting into the very wrong decision by Apple to use ZIP instead of bzip2 if they _had to_ give end user "one click archive" option which apperantly taken because windows users treat sitx, bz2 as sort of viruses. Yes, OS X uses ZIP because of Windows users. Another example of how windows choices effects other OSes and platforms.
It is not "politically correct" to have Allah in name just like its not politically correct to have "death_to_jews" too. One can create havoc by burning embassies, other can just rape your market value and company by a simple "sell" button.
A corparation that global and size of Yahoo will try to keep everyone happy.
It is not "threat" or something nor Yahoo can be threatened since it is an online entity.
Your comment exactly shows some among us loves to use these events for pushing their views against muslims.
As a Yahoo user, I have been to their chaotic boards/chatrooms and let me tell you something. If there is a little chance to get banned from Yahoo because of a comment/nickname , you can try attacking an organized religion. Nothing else will make sure you get banned. Before or after Sep. 11. It is an important time frame, we see what it "made" to slashdot site users too.
Look the guy having a different point of view replied you and got +5 insightful. Why he didn't use his own nick/account? Think about it. There is always public pressure. As a protest, knowing my nick (realname) will show very "Muslim" to you, I post with my nick and "karma bonus".
Also another thing. You people are technical enough to use slashdot. Just check "before Islam cartoon era" of the Danish newspaper. Your media is totally raped by political correctness so can't spell the word.
THE DANISH NEWSPAPER PRINTED THE CARTOONS BECAUSE THEY HATE MUSLIMS AS THEY ARE NEO NAZI.
Here.
That is why the jewish community does not show a single sign of "support" to the cartoons. They know who they deal with and who is "next" in being hatred after all muslims leave Denmark.
If there is a single Danish reading this, before hitting reply button, prepare to explain what means "I have a dog with me" when calling taxi/cab in Denmark. It means "don't send me a non danish taxi driver".
I don't defend a single religion in 2000s, they are all used for political agenda and public brainwashing, "clash of civilizations" and some neo nazis. I should say it? Yes I should. My name can look like "islamic" to paranoids.
BillG was in Istanbul just weeks ago and he spoke about the "starter edition". It is not just "piracy combat" (funny price for windows, $25?) , it will be "very light" for "starter" people.
How come it is leaked? I mean, as OS X user, I heard about that weeks ago. Even some old guys joked about it saying "BillG finally lost hope selling computer to them" (yes, they think he sells them).
As a side note, Steve Jobs gave up the entire PPC stuff because the newer ones (G5) can't fit into portables. Rest of his speech is just too dramatic:)
Just think about it and you will see where industry is going to.
About Nintendo? We were fighting eachother in 80s for *Game and Clock" games. There is an interesting thing that, either people know them (or Sega) or they are completely clueless about them.
E.g. when first "N Gage" shipped by Nokia, a friend was impressed that it has "colour screen". I told him I played a game years ago on a Sega Game Gear with similar features and it had "TV" option, he simply didn't believe.:)
You know the Mac fashion, we run massive amounts of memory as Mac OS excellently uses it for "other stuff" like Cache. Of course it has old roots of "no swap file" days too.
I have 1.5 gb RAM on my machine and I still check the memory usage of applications. If they hit an amazing amount (beside memory cache), they are either very badly coded and or leaking.
I still care about memory. An application leaking, using unneeded amounts of RAM is showing (the lack) of program quality. Even if I hit 8 gb in future, I will still check "what that application using".
I had a Nokia 7650 for a while, even in 2004. With the excellent Symbian 60, there were no reason to replace it with newer things. I didn't need anything more. It has 3 MB or 2 MB of RAM and when I saw how amazingly, excellently Opera performed, my respect to them doubled/tripled.
Same goes for desktop. They have memory cache (sizable,non blocking) and use the "memory" saved for a good thing.
You get acceptable performance on 133Mhz machine. You automatically get "amazing" performance on an up to date machine with lots of RAM. So, a program requiring low memory and CPU is still a good thing.
This post is for "RAM is cheap, go buy" saying (spoiled) people. RAM could be cheap but it doesn't give you "right" to leak. Of course there are also people who can't afford that massive memory.
I don't mean anything by that but remember, when we all heard Intel story from CNET, some of us said "OMG bullshit" and (I will look stupid) said "It has something to do with ARM CPUs".
Very weird things happen in 2 years... Very "impossible"
You could imagine Apple comparing PowerPC to Intel , showing PowerPC as crap just 1 year ago? Gee, if Steve Jobs had an account and posted his WWDC comments on Slashdot by +2 score, it would get -1 Troll in 10 minutes.
I don't agree or disagree with Dvorak, just remember Mactel decision... Also as a very disgruntled Apple customer as an owner of "G5 1600" desktop, it will sadly be time if they do anything like that. I mean to switch "back" to my home made PC.
If you manage to code a input manager that automatically, without your intervention sends it to your iChat buddies (entire.mac base), it is a virus/trojan whatever. It propangates.
You really think windows viruses are geniusly hand coded, hiding in video card memory ASM miracles?
Think again, you should consider yourself "lucky" if you find a "C" virus anymore.
I think Apple fanboys are the excellent allies of future OS X viruses. Trojans.. Whatever you call it.
For up to date info: They will now ask whether user needs to report the applications crash to developer or not. How evil the developers are asking anonymous, already sent to Apple by default crash data!:) (This is my take, I am not affiliated with Unsanity except buying/using their products)
If Apple shared crash reports of Applications with developers, there wouldn't be need for such software. It is in fact a great favor to community and developers asking NOTHING at return. They give a very expensive functionality for free. Ask Netscape Inc how much they paid for talkback agent or similar companies.
I was naively sending crash reports to Apple which they don't really care if it is not their software or OS crashes with full descriptions for 2 years. When I figured even Adobe sized companies doesn't get them... Well you know...
That blog guy (grandparent mentions) did not mention any of these facts I bet. That is what I hate. I even shared some "interesting technology news" with Unsanity and they responded, they are a responsive team which does/did great favors to community asking nothing in return. To hell with his "famous" blogs Google whatever ads really.
People using new Symantec stuff on Mac OS X live very "weird things" lately and they won't be able to figure if a virus infected their systems or they need a "live update" to fix some weird bug.:)
There were days when Peter Norton coded them himself...
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1) ATI is a legend in 2D acceleration and correct colour (heard something like that? I do care, I am an AVID editor,both missed thing by end users), just near Matrox which is alive thanks to the features in this FPS hell. The GPU acceleration and even H264/mpeg2/4 acceleration is a MUST on any home electronic device. If you had a clue about the underlyings of OS X and how Apple DARES to make the fancy screen shows, you would know the OS X screen is in fact possible thanks to OpenGL features it uses.
e /
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/quartzextrem
2)
Hardware Overview:
Machine Name: Power Mac G5
Machine Model: PowerMac7,2
CPU Type: PowerPC 970 (2.2)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.6 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1.5 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Runs fine, for 3 years. Will be running a lot more, outdating any INTEL BASED PC I owned. From "white box" dealers or the ones I built myself, even with caring for the case (elan vital based).
My next box will be a Sun SPARC running Solaris next to Sony PS3 for games/entertaintment. Nobody sells me CISC crap in 2006. Even if Steve Jobs gives me a free Mactel, I won't touch it.
I am a customer for Apple and no, I am not feeling like some weird cult member following a commercial brand which trades on markets. They can't sell me anything running Intel and I say "so long" to the game companies who will ignore my next entertaintment platform, Sony PS3 running Cell processor.
Nobody can sell me a product rooting 1980s and very evil business practices not just monopoly but effectively SLOWED DOWN the progress on entire computer World. I was an Amiga user in 80s, we know what was offered with 68k and we really know the first incarnations of x86.
Mactel word is kind of "joke", the "Wintel" word is the reality. You will see what means being in same bed with Microsoft's best friend. We are already seeing. They removed FireWire 800 from a thing they call "Macbook Pro". Why? Since there is USB2. The Intel's NEVER TAKEN SERIOUS BY PROS, Firewire competitor wannabe.
In fact, I still run, like the G5 and OS X. I just need to ignore this weird cult named "mac zealots".
As you see, I am not successful on that sometimes.
I just hope AMD takes Apple to court too. Intel has gone TOO FAR this time. If AMD wins, the amazing stuff which was wasted by Wintel duopoly can finally rest in peace. Amiga, Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes.
Oh BTW, I just want to add the "Skype" name to this post. Sharing from my Versiontracker.com comment:
"Skype and Intel made a major deal which certainly breaks the purpose of TCP/IP communications and the Internet itself.
Because of that deal, Skype Video will work "better" on Intel Windows machines having some features "cut" from AMD based machines.
If they have manners to break compatability with entire AMD userbase using Windows, think about future PowerPC releases."
The claim, "it can't handle 10 way conversation" is amazing.
;) Add the needs of THX certification.
I think they should even sue them for that.
BTW, the amazing needs of sound studios in Holywood are generally handled with G4 or G5 Macs until "Protools" Universal binary is shipped and tested for at least a year.
Guess how many sounds they mix and guess the audio specs of a DTS NEO/ Dolby Digital EX movie master soundtrack
They only buy a sound card of course, a professional one like M-Audio (now part of SGI)
I remember a "Protracker" like application on my Amiga 1200 playing 8 channel mods without loss of quality. Yes, Amiga had hardware limit of 4 channels, program was mixing the waves REALTIME on 12Mhz 68020.
Why NOT? I see you are a Mac user or fan from your nick, please stop defending the stupid decisions by Apple to lock them into INTEL platform.
OK, IBM didn't give them some CPUs, bla bla but there is NOBODY can claim they couldn't make both AMD and Intel machines.
In fact, the "PowerMac G5" Professional line should be moved to AMD 64bit huge CPUs having NO CONCERN about heat or power usage. Whole servers, blades, HPC giant clusters run AMD. Not Intel.
Of course, with customer base like that, they don't really care.
They gave up the very good ATI Chip on G4 Mac Mini and moved to Intel "integrated graphics", it is ONLY the beginning if nobody asks Apple "Hey? Why are you downgrading your products?" They just line at Apple store for buying.
I don't see a bright future for Apple platform unless people remember they are BUYING a COMPUTER from a Vendor.
Oh, I am a G5 Desktop user myself.
You know the format Napster uses is WMA, windows media audio yes?
Ever heard that stinking format? Wonder why not even PIRATES not using it? Why they use 2x bigger mp3 or "iTunes" AAC?
I hope nobody on this earth gives up a non compressed audio for WMA. Or, he/she should see a doctor about ears.
I know you are joking but in fact BeOS has Realplayer G2, I am not sure they coded the newer codecs for "auto update" though...
They could use a serious, multiplatform media solution like Real (Helix) Server and broadcast happily with DRM. At least it has clients for all platforms.
You may not like DRM but compatibility is not the issue here. Mplayer etc. are third party hacks. Windows Media for Mac never worked right (in full function, plugin etc), so the format "hates" anyone not using windows.
If they used Real format, they could even stream/make money from Cell Phones and PDAs, their loss... I hope the sponsor money from Intel and Microsoft will cover the costs.
(btw you gotta have Intel processor for Full Screen, others can't do it!)
Ahem, bad news...
:) Yes it can stream windows media.
r y.html
"Video Support
NBCOlympics.com video can be viewed in Windows Media Player 6 or higher on a PC.
Playlist Support
The playlist auto advance functionality is supported in Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher for Windows. It is not supported on a Mac."
Good news is, I suspect even if Akamai network can handle that crap named "windows media server", also as windows media backwards format does not have "fallback support" like Real or Quicktime does, a nightmare for clients is on the way.
Funny is, I suspect Akamai will be using Helix Server on their huge network, aka real server to stream windows media.
Here is the thing they will probably use:
http://www.realnetworks.com/products/media_delive
If Sep. 11 did that much to a community like Slashdot, I will start to take "ww 3 soon" predictions serious.
There are still people who are casual internet users. Check mail, check couple of favourite websites, turn the connection and the computer off. I added the "turn off the computer" part to give a clue how much they care about technology or computers.
Why is it that hard to believe? Although I am paying amazing prices for my broadband overseas, I can easily understand them. If I was a PC user like that, first I'd buy a Mac Mini or iMac (cheap models), find a dial up ISP that cares about their users (not AOL!) and use that instead. It is not the deal of course.
It is same discussion over and over at Mac OS Usenet groups.Of course, trolls made a great discussion impossible to take part. Oh, not AOL, it is the new "Macbook Pro" not having a built in modem.
Oh, I mean like "click here to watch" links, not "embedded". E.g. especially "live radios" use it. They don't use RTSP:// , they use HTTP:// sometimes.
Oh, thanks for the info, yes I keep column view as default.
I am kind of amazed the utility author (freeware,opensource) still at bottom of page while providing a total protection to this vulnerability and even the future vulnerabilities of this kind. FOR FREE that is :)
/Users/ilgaz/Desktop/Secunia.mov /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app"
I installed the APE module and I noticed very very interesting thing which makes this vulnerability look more "evil" than it is already.
Your great module works perfect and even shows another "evil" thing. It says (when I right click to the extracted file via finder)
"The application "Finder" is attempting to open the file:
using an application other than the default. The file will be opened using the application:
It is ONLY right click. I don't left click or double click.
Very interesting though my comment is trivial, hope you contacted Secunia about this and updated your version at versiontracker and macupdate, apple downloads.
If you use multimedia (broadband) sites a lot, you don't want a "warning" when you click a realmedia,windowsmedia,quicktime link.
That is the thing what people hate.
From what I understand, the "ZIP File auto extract (even via stuffit expander) and launch if data" exists because "Dashboard" widgets use this functionality to get easily installed.
:) First publically available security flaw was directly widgets, now the functionality to easily decompress,install them is used in vulnerability.
From Konfubulator (now Yahoo widgets), it is like Karma is doing its job
I am really happy that an Antivirus company didn't discover this flaw too. Or we would see "conspiracy" "snake oil" comments instead of the "real thing".
I am not getting into the very wrong decision by Apple to use ZIP instead of bzip2 if they _had to_ give end user "one click archive" option which apperantly taken because windows users treat sitx, bz2 as sort of viruses. Yes, OS X uses ZIP because of Windows users. Another example of how windows choices effects other OSes and platforms.
It is not "politically correct" to have Allah in name just like its not politically correct to have "death_to_jews" too. One can create havoc by burning embassies, other can just rape your market value and company by a simple "sell" button.
A corparation that global and size of Yahoo will try to keep everyone happy.
It is not "threat" or something nor Yahoo can be threatened since it is an online entity.
Your comment exactly shows some among us loves to use these events for pushing their views against muslims.
As a Yahoo user, I have been to their chaotic boards/chatrooms and let me tell you something. If there is a little chance to get banned from Yahoo because of a comment/nickname , you can try attacking an organized religion. Nothing else will make sure you get banned. Before or after Sep. 11. It is an important time frame, we see what it "made" to slashdot site users too.
Look the guy having a different point of view replied you and got +5 insightful. Why he didn't use his own nick/account? Think about it. There is always public pressure. As a protest, knowing my nick (realname) will show very "Muslim" to you, I post with my nick and "karma bonus".
Also another thing. You people are technical enough to use slashdot. Just check "before Islam cartoon era" of the Danish newspaper. Your media is totally raped by political correctness so can't spell the word.
THE DANISH NEWSPAPER PRINTED THE CARTOONS BECAUSE THEY HATE MUSLIMS AS THEY ARE NEO NAZI.
Here.
That is why the jewish community does not show a single sign of "support" to the cartoons. They know who they deal with and who is "next" in being hatred after all muslims leave Denmark.
If there is a single Danish reading this, before hitting reply button, prepare to explain what means "I have a dog with me" when calling taxi/cab in Denmark. It means "don't send me a non danish taxi driver".
I don't defend a single religion in 2000s, they are all used for political agenda and public brainwashing, "clash of civilizations" and some neo nazis. I should say it? Yes I should. My name can look like "islamic" to paranoids.
BillG was in Istanbul just weeks ago and he spoke about the "starter edition". It is not just "piracy combat" (funny price for windows, $25?) , it will be "very light" for "starter" people.
How come it is leaked? I mean, as OS X user, I heard about that weeks ago. Even some old guys joked about it saying "BillG finally lost hope selling computer to them" (yes, they think he sells them).
As a side note, Steve Jobs gave up the entire PPC stuff because the newer ones (G5) can't fit into portables. Rest of his speech is just too dramatic :)
:)
Just think about it and you will see where industry is going to.
About Nintendo? We were fighting eachother in 80s for *Game and Clock" games. There is an interesting thing that, either people know them (or Sega) or they are completely clueless about them.
E.g. when first "N Gage" shipped by Nokia, a friend was impressed that it has "colour screen". I told him I played a game years ago on a Sega Game Gear with similar features and it had "TV" option, he simply didn't believe.
Japan... My brother was there a month ago and he is no where near *geek". He said a simple thing when he returned, "I time travelled 10 years ahead".
;)
Of course, he was a bit impressed by the houses grandmom printing something via WiFi built into home.
You know the Mac fashion, we run massive amounts of memory as Mac OS excellently uses it for "other stuff" like Cache. Of course it has old roots of "no swap file" days too.
I have 1.5 gb RAM on my machine and I still check the memory usage of applications. If they hit an amazing amount (beside memory cache), they are either very badly coded and or leaking.
I still care about memory. An application leaking, using unneeded amounts of RAM is showing (the lack) of program quality. Even if I hit 8 gb in future, I will still check "what that application using".
I had a Nokia 7650 for a while, even in 2004. With the excellent Symbian 60, there were no reason to replace it with newer things. I didn't need anything more. It has 3 MB or 2 MB of RAM and when I saw how amazingly, excellently Opera performed, my respect to them doubled/tripled.
Same goes for desktop. They have memory cache (sizable,non blocking) and use the "memory" saved for a good thing.
You get acceptable performance on 133Mhz machine. You automatically get "amazing" performance on an up to date machine with lots of RAM. So, a program requiring low memory and CPU is still a good thing.
This post is for "RAM is cheap, go buy" saying (spoiled) people. RAM could be cheap but it doesn't give you "right" to leak. Of course there are also people who can't afford that massive memory.
I know what you mean but as a side note, all Opera desktop browsers also have "WAP" (wml) functionality.
;)
You can use it to see if a www sites wap site offer is good enough to type on keypad on phone
I don't mean anything by that but remember, when we all heard Intel story from CNET, some of us said "OMG bullshit" and (I will look stupid) said "It has something to do with ARM CPUs".
Very weird things happen in 2 years... Very "impossible"
You could imagine Apple comparing PowerPC to Intel , showing PowerPC as crap just 1 year ago? Gee, if Steve Jobs had an account and posted his WWDC comments on Slashdot by +2 score, it would get -1 Troll in 10 minutes.
I don't agree or disagree with Dvorak, just remember Mactel decision... Also as a very disgruntled Apple customer as an owner of "G5 1600" desktop, it will sadly be time if they do anything like that. I mean to switch "back" to my home made PC.
If you manage to code a input manager that automatically, without your intervention sends it to your iChat buddies (entire .mac base), it is a virus/trojan whatever. It propangates.
You really think windows viruses are geniusly hand coded, hiding in video card memory ASM miracles?
Think again, you should consider yourself "lucky" if you find a "C" virus anymore.
I think Apple fanboys are the excellent allies of future OS X viruses. Trojans.. Whatever you call it.
Thanks to Mark Allan and various other people Clam database now has information about this "whatever you call it" crap.
ClamXAv , a Cocoa GUI for opensource Clam engine which makes it accessible to majority of OS X users can detect it:
http://www.clamxav.com/
It is free (donation) ware.
I think it also means that the users of ISPs/Corparate Networks using Clam engine to detect viruses won't get it via mail attachment too.
"For the record, Smart Crash Reports is not an Apple product. It is third-party software by Unsanity: http://www.unsanity.com/smartcrashreports [unsanity.com]"
:) (This is my take, I am not affiliated with Unsanity except buying/using their products)
For up to date info: They will now ask whether user needs to report the applications crash to developer or not. How evil the developers are asking anonymous, already sent to Apple by default crash data!
http://www.unsanity.org/archives/000447.php
If Apple shared crash reports of Applications with developers, there wouldn't be need for such software. It is in fact a great favor to community and developers asking NOTHING at return. They give a very expensive functionality for free. Ask Netscape Inc how much they paid for talkback agent or similar companies.
I was naively sending crash reports to Apple which they don't really care if it is not their software or OS crashes with full descriptions for 2 years. When I figured even Adobe sized companies doesn't get them... Well you know...
That blog guy (grandparent mentions) did not mention any of these facts I bet. That is what I hate. I even shared some "interesting technology news" with Unsanity and they responded, they are a responsive team which does/did great favors to community asking nothing in return. To hell with his "famous" blogs Google whatever ads really.
People using new Symantec stuff on Mac OS X live very "weird things" lately and they won't be able to figure if a virus infected their systems or they need a "live update" to fix some weird bug. :)
There were days when Peter Norton coded them himself...