If you use windows, you sure know the chkdsk/f command which normally defaults to C: and if your system definately has a disk problem, it will act really bad. Solution? chkdsk/F with Windows key+R
When you chkdsk/f in certain situations like after installing software, it does act very interestingly at boot time and claims there is a problem caused by a recent installation so AUTOCHK won't be able to continue.
BTW MS, you still keep AUTOCHK registry entry up and running? For what? Easier rootkit installation? Is there any kind of abuse left which has not been applied on the AUTOCHK including defragmenters?
As I flame them, I would of course report the issue if someone gives me a URL for easy bug reporting. like bugreporter.apple.com . I can`t stand to their bangalore template monkeys powered forum.
For some weird reason, I was reading SGML documentation and as you probably know, it is a ISO standard. Of course, it roots back to IBM as GML which was designed in 1960s (and actually used).
Well there are no worms yet but there are trojans, a full feature ssh server to be abused, some unix keyloggers or basically a user sharing the entire / with the World even while Apple does their best to prevent it.
Compared to current Windows scene, it is heaven of course but if one manages to r/w share the root drive, it will be shared. Or if one installs "codec" to view some porn video, he will have a trojan running.
Timothy, as a person in a slashdot sized and popular site, can you tell if it is really "ad impressions" they are looking for or is it "omg too long, can't read" to be prevented?
I think what will make everyone happy is, "Print" function of site but on that particular site, it doesn't exist. As it is "proudly powered by Wordpress", someone should fix or enhance the "kernel" of these technology blogs.
The functionality you talk about has been implemented on Opera for a long time. It is at View/Toolbars/Navigation (toolbar). Wonder if it is covered by some standard (w3c) or their extra? It doesn't really work on that 20 page thing for sure.
The real mystery is how Logitech iFeel didn't make it. I got that thing right here but it has no support to OS X.
It is immersion powered which can do little vibrates which everyone goes crazy about these days. "Haptic feedback" is the term I guess.
While I was on Windows, it was a real intutive thing which caused no kind of system instability. I would say "because of software", no it is not the case. Unreal (2?) made use of it and it was the only game I could experience real feedback.
If they are releasing a test dvd paying millions of dollars to Akamai and taking the risk of millions of "non upgrading" beta testers, they should have put that prompt as first thing after the install, right in "check for updates automatically". Defaulting to off of course.
Also communication doesn't need to be re-invented, Apple's method of "use documented compression format(bz2), use http put under https protocol" is more than enough. It will satisfy the paranoid. Apple does it in "System Profiler" application, a complete opt-in which has no inviting prompts. I use it every time when I buy some weird USB thing. Let them know how their OS is used.
Do you think Nokia or even laptop manufacturers didn't have this genius idea? Ever asked why they didn't implement it?
A personal communication device which can watch the surrounding gives bad sense of privacy. It is done for what? 1% of abusers?
I wish I was a Nokia selling guy. When guy asks about iPhone, I would simply state "app store banned dictionary" and "they will also watch your usage patterns". There, just sold a Nokia 5800.
There is a huge technical community who both likes iPhone but hates the control of device by Apple and they really know what they talk about.
For some people, that Dictionary app rejection served as the last drop.
Right after the "control like it is 1984" stories, some idiot at Apple files this patent. I am sure there are like 100 media professionals who checks Apple patents daily.
I know SJobs is back, he is good enough to attend concerts even, who is responsible for this? It is not Steve Jobs. SJobs is both a control freak but a genius in PR.
For example, OS X piracy costs Apple too but just by not having "activation", they save millions of dollars from support calls and gain amazing PR value which MS still couldn't understand. They send out "We trust you, unlike the other guy". I know people (switchers) pirated OS X upgrade and felt guilty about it ending up buying the original DVD when they figured there is no "serial number" involved.
If I had that kind of suspicion and if it was router itself I was suspicious about, I would simply get the latest stable firmware for that particular model (be careful) and simply reinstall it over the router itself. It would be something like "format and install windows" I wouldn't really backup any settings on that case. Just make sure you know ISP login and pwd. Make sure they work, they haven't been changed at any point or you will end up speaking with Bangalore at 4 AM:)
A simple,fast port scanner exists at http://www.grc.com/ (shields up!) which really works, ignore Mr. Gibson's weird named inventions like "nano scan" etc. What I know is, it works. Oh also ignore its port 139 or "you aren't stealth" paranoia. 139 is client port and stealth would be good but you won't really die if you have nothing served.
For clients, don't re invent the wheel. NMAP is there, free and can run under win32 if you need. http://nmap.org/download.html , some instructions exist for detecting current security threats but I didn't really check since it is all OS X here, we have different issues than win32.
I wonder how come no company sponsors Twitter which will just appear as banner in "About" page.
For example, Turkish fast food ordering site yemeksepeti.com has "Powered by Sun" banner, a tiny banner who doesn't disturb anyone (most have no clue anyway) and when someone in IT business spot it, they say "hmm, it is ASP powered and runs on Sun blades. Perhaps Sun should be considered for our next IT expense."
For something sized like Twitter, unless there is a huge flaw in how it is designed, IBM who struggles to explain why mainframe needed could step up, say "Twitter was having serious issues and thanks to our mainframe solution which is spread to 5 continents, the issues are over"
If I ever needed some kind of massive bandwidth and uptime, "Rack Space" would come to my mind. Why? Slashdot. Basic as that. I am sure there are other hosting providers which can handle that load but I use Slashdot daily and never seen it down, even on 9/11. Most people who are interested in how things work knows slashdot is hosted on rack space, uses perl etc. Just like when someone talks about "FreeBSD is dead, netcraft confirms it", you just reply "yahoo.com".
Leopard is less conservative on RAM matter, if it finds good RAM , it will absolutely use it.
This Mac Mini G4 (which I mention) has 1GB RAM max so the previous owner who seems to know Apple has upgraded it to 1Gig. Of course, G4 has a serious issue with FSB speed.
They could be using Altivec etc. more agressively too. Also, Leopard threads everything possible. Even mds (metadata housekeeping) is multiple CPU/threading, way more than Tiger.
Apple or even 90% of Developers won't tell it but the best way to have performance boost is having the max memory supported. It is same deal from start, Apple 1 had amazing memory upgrade specs compared to others.
Of course, I am not saying Mac Pro or quad g5 owners to go up to 16GB or more, it would be insane for the moment:) I mean, for 99% of users.
It is being x86 only means that it will never ship for ARM, Symbian. It is a show stopper for me since I heavily use smart phones, powerpc machines etc. for browsing.
I know the OS X developer and he is a nice person who doesn't drop PPC support for nothing. If it is not supported, it must have a reason. i386 ASM? Whatever. I don't want to rant too much about a browser which I can't use 3 of my 6 machines anyway.
Dear iPhone users and Developers: You have been ignored. Don't blog about it, don't whine. If you are an iPhone only developer and your app was rejected without any meaningful reason, bad for you...
Next time, have decency to ship same application for Symbian userbase, Windows Mobile and even J2ME. Yes, the "cool platform" choice of you have tendency to reject applications and even have capability to kill them remotely. Now, it is not that cool or trendy, head to http://www.forum.nokia.com/ . There you have access to 100M potential users. Or head to http://www.getjar.com/ and see what are you missing.
Right now, writing this message, I see this Google Ad at top
"Unlock i`Phone - Millions of Satisfied Customers Unlock Your i`Phone Now! www.Unlock-the-iPhone.com"
Expect something good from that platform especially for development?
You would be absolutely correct if Windows 7 was SUPPORTED with Boot Camp. Damn thing can't even get rid of "boot menu" as MS is fixated to partition 1 for booting.
What suggests you that Apple is a generic PC anyway?
Even funnier, did the author install Vista/7 to a 1.42 Ghz machine with 133Mhz system bus and 32MB ATI card and gained massive performance compared to XP?
That is what Mac Mini G4 users experienced when they upgraded to Leopard...
CBS should arrange a meeting with all the editors, authors of CNET and simply remind them they aren't the failed TV channel who is alive with MS money anymore, they don't have to be MS fans in absurd degree. If they don't fix this attitude soon, very soon, their cool domains will be sold to some porn site and they will be laid off. This is really getting beyond funny.
They are NOT the same hardware, they require Apple drivers and they are also EFI based. Other than that, you must be really optimistic about Windows developers if you compare Windows CPU/resource usage to a system built on 40 year old principles which were designed on a PDP-10 machine.
If I compare a BSD 4.4 Lite/Mach/NeXT/FreeBSD mix to Windows 7 which defaults to Ultimate version as of today, I will see bloat. I can barely stand to Spotlight on OS X and I decided to like it when I saw Windows Search which is on by default.
Other than that, check my message about the missing drivers on Windows 7. It is not MS, Apple or even NVidia or Intel's fault. What is supported under boot camp method? Vista? They should have installed Vista. As of 2009, it is not bad anyway.
On latest gen (nv9300 based) Mac Mini, I have installed Win7 64bit. It installed all the drivers and even clever to figure mainboard driver giving direct link to nvidia driver exe which is absolutely a very serious risk but anyway...
The ATA chipset driver is missing from Win7 since Apple didn't really put nv9300 chipset in exact way. So, it falls down to non DMA generic MS driver. Every single byte transferred to/from disk is guaranteed to use massive CPU along with horrible (down to 15MB/sec from 70MB/sec under OS X) slowness.
So, if Macbooks have similar issue with Windows 7, it could be same issue. As they are battery powered, it would be visible in battery life too.
BTW, there is no point testing Windows 7 until Apple releases boot camp for Windows 7. Apple computers aren't really PCs. If MS was really clever and wanted Windows 7 to be _really_ tested, they should have printed a very clear privacy policy on screen and actually make machine report all kinds of anonymous stats. That way, they could really figure what is going on. For example, a core duo powered 2009 machine shouldn't really max to 15mb/sec with a SATA 2 drive.
I couldn't even find something similar to bugreporter.apple.com when I wanted to report issues. All I saw is a stupid forum which beginner level MS engineers are monkeying with templates. They even made their own wrong answer as 'answer to the issue' while it would create massive compatibility problems in one occasion.
10 lumen can't do anything on a movie theater screen. It is absolutely nothing.
If you go up there, front of screen, it can change but of course, hospital expenses resulting from that action would easily compare to a pro Barco projector which can actually feed it;)
I was just saying it is early to adopt, Intel is NOT a experienced storage manufacturer, the constant speed and reliability needs of current professional video and movie editing projects are near bank mainframe levels.
That 15K Seagate SCSI will continue to spin until Seagate starts shipping their pro level solutions in solid state form.
BTW, guess what those motherboard chipsets are used for? Intel CPUs.
I speak about 2K raw video editing along with sound. We are waiting for the technology really becoming mature enough to replace our 300mb/sec magnetic sas-scsi setup. Yes, it will be still (i) SCSI, likely powered by ATTO.
The medium is not trustable for professional usage, under very high speeds. We wait for the medium to become "ordinary", it is likely the pro setups will be first offered by AVID partners first, in 2K and 4K level. Apple FCP partners can give the signal on OS X land too, when the first Xserve/XSan solutions powered by solid state ships.
I speak about million dollar productions here, Intel's "we were here first" devices doesn't impress me a bit.
Your KDE 4 suggestion has been implemented by MS
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Comparison to Windows or even OS X is funny. You know why? KDE is also a gigantic suite of Windows applications which uses native Windows frameworks, controls. Same for OS X version. For example, a lot of open source developers expect ogg native playback on the host OS. What do I do? I simply install quicktime componenents from Xiph.
Best way is watching it compile on OS X, you will figure the magic.
That is a single proof you need when you talk about people -not- understanding what KDE 4 revolution is for open source. It is not "bigger, more stylish" KDE 3. As I said on my previous post, one should find a real or virtual windows and install kde 4 to it before talking about it.
For example, if Windows 7 sends a "right mouse button pressed" signal when one does that gesture, KDE 4 under Windows 7 will have it. You understand what I mean? Think beyond Linux&BSD.
What people need for geek self treatment is, find a Windows machine or OS X when binaries released, install entire KDE 4 binary and use it for couple of hours trying to understand what kind of a revolution it is.
It is a bit hard to understand, I build from source via Fink project on OS X and I had hard time explaining the OS X nerds what kind of change this means, for OS X. Of course, OS X having a auto triggered, aqua powered X11 which integrates with desktop kills half of the magic&impression.
Or... they could be a bit patient and buy first Symbian Foundation powered convergence device likely from Nokia and use it. It would be real stupid if Nokia didn't use KDE (in modified form) on their devices. I think S60 like ordinary phones will run it too while they look exactly like S60 on user level.
I agree to you, nobody has seen the full potential of KDE yet. It seems to deliver what NeXT promised before getting acquired by Apple and had to prison itself to OS X for financial reasons.
Well, as a video guy, I can easily say we will keep on using our SCSI magnetic "thingies" until something that fast and that reliable, which won't "wear out" comes up from a trustable vendor.
Do you know the technology and expertise required to make a consumer price 1 TB drive? We don't speak about RAMAC here.
Intel better stay in their core business, a CISC CPU monopoly and leave the storage to people who actually knows it. BIOS password change results in data loss? come on really.
Normally, a good, supported modern device will eventually have bugs fixed with a firmware update. Companies can't really test millions of different configurations, usage patterns or a "one in the million" issue. Some companies like Apple have went beyond it and they would even ship "double click in gui" firmware updates. Of course, it is all fail safe.
I always pick hardware which *does have* firmware updates on site, with good documentation and release notes. For example, Lacie keeps updating their firewire and more advanced drives. Not because they can't be used without updating, it is because some engineers find some little issues which could be problem in rare cases or operating system issues, performance enhancements etc.
One thing of course, always read documentation and apply firmware update if it will benefit to you especially regarding BIOS updates.
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If you use windows, you sure know the chkdsk /f command which normally defaults to C: and if your system definately has a disk problem, it will act really bad. Solution? chkdsk /F with Windows key+R
When you chkdsk /f in certain situations like after installing software, it does act very interestingly at boot time and claims there is a problem caused by a recent installation so AUTOCHK won't be able to continue.
BTW MS, you still keep AUTOCHK registry entry up and running? For what? Easier rootkit installation? Is there any kind of abuse left which has not been applied on the AUTOCHK including defragmenters?
As I flame them, I would of course report the issue if someone gives me a URL for easy bug reporting. like bugreporter.apple.com . I can`t stand to their bangalore template monkeys powered forum.
Big Blue has that money for sure.
For some weird reason, I was reading SGML documentation and as you probably know, it is a ISO standard. Of course, it roots back to IBM as GML which was designed in 1960s (and actually used).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Generalized_Markup_Language
Does MS really know who they declare war to by applying for such patent or they have really disconnected from real World?
Well there are no worms yet but there are trojans, a full feature ssh server to be abused, some unix keyloggers or basically a user sharing the entire / with the World even while Apple does their best to prevent it.
Compared to current Windows scene, it is heaven of course but if one manages to r/w share the root drive, it will be shared. Or if one installs "codec" to view some porn video, he will have a trojan running.
Timothy, as a person in a slashdot sized and popular site, can you tell if it is really "ad impressions" they are looking for or is it "omg too long, can't read" to be prevented?
I think what will make everyone happy is, "Print" function of site but on that particular site, it doesn't exist. As it is "proudly powered by Wordpress", someone should fix or enhance the "kernel" of these technology blogs.
The functionality you talk about has been implemented on Opera for a long time. It is at View/Toolbars/Navigation (toolbar). Wonder if it is covered by some standard (w3c) or their extra? It doesn't really work on that 20 page thing for sure.
The real mystery is how Logitech iFeel didn't make it. I got that thing right here but it has no support to OS X.
It is immersion powered which can do little vibrates which everyone goes crazy about these days. "Haptic feedback" is the term I guess.
While I was on Windows, it was a real intutive thing which caused no kind of system instability. I would say "because of software", no it is not the case. Unreal (2?) made use of it and it was the only game I could experience real feedback.
Here is its review from 2001
http://www.dansdata.com/ifeel.htm
BTW, hope current Logitech owners don't go mad at me... I just plugged it to my Mac and it works. 8 years :)
If they are releasing a test dvd paying millions of dollars to Akamai and taking the risk of millions of "non upgrading" beta testers, they should have put that prompt as first thing after the install, right in "check for updates automatically". Defaulting to off of course.
Also communication doesn't need to be re-invented, Apple's method of "use documented compression format(bz2), use http put under https protocol" is more than enough. It will satisfy the paranoid. Apple does it in "System Profiler" application, a complete opt-in which has no inviting prompts. I use it every time when I buy some weird USB thing. Let them know how their OS is used.
Do you think Nokia or even laptop manufacturers didn't have this genius idea? Ever asked why they didn't implement it?
A personal communication device which can watch the surrounding gives bad sense of privacy. It is done for what? 1% of abusers?
I wish I was a Nokia selling guy. When guy asks about iPhone, I would simply state "app store banned dictionary" and "they will also watch your usage patterns". There, just sold a Nokia 5800.
There is a huge technical community who both likes iPhone but hates the control of device by Apple and they really know what they talk about.
For some people, that Dictionary app rejection served as the last drop.
Right after the "control like it is 1984" stories, some idiot at Apple files this patent. I am sure there are like 100 media professionals who checks Apple patents daily.
I know SJobs is back, he is good enough to attend concerts even, who is responsible for this? It is not Steve Jobs. SJobs is both a control freak but a genius in PR.
For example, OS X piracy costs Apple too but just by not having "activation", they save millions of dollars from support calls and gain amazing PR value which MS still couldn't understand. They send out "We trust you, unlike the other guy". I know people (switchers) pirated OS X upgrade and felt guilty about it ending up buying the original DVD when they figured there is no "serial number" involved.
There is a subculture "switchers" who are both Mac and Windows fanatic. I am not joking, have seen a lot of them.
If I had that kind of suspicion and if it was router itself I was suspicious about, I would simply get the latest stable firmware for that particular model (be careful) and simply reinstall it over the router itself. It would be something like "format and install windows" I wouldn't really backup any settings on that case. Just make sure you know ISP login and pwd. Make sure they work, they haven't been changed at any point or you will end up speaking with Bangalore at 4 AM :)
A simple,fast port scanner exists at http://www.grc.com/ (shields up!) which really works, ignore Mr. Gibson's weird named inventions like "nano scan" etc. What I know is, it works. Oh also ignore its port 139 or "you aren't stealth" paranoia. 139 is client port and stealth would be good but you won't really die if you have nothing served.
For clients, don't re invent the wheel. NMAP is there, free and can run under win32 if you need. http://nmap.org/download.html , some instructions exist for detecting current security threats but I didn't really check since it is all OS X here, we have different issues than win32.
I wonder how come no company sponsors Twitter which will just appear as banner in "About" page.
For example, Turkish fast food ordering site yemeksepeti.com has "Powered by Sun" banner, a tiny banner who doesn't disturb anyone (most have no clue anyway) and when someone in IT business spot it, they say "hmm, it is ASP powered and runs on Sun blades. Perhaps Sun should be considered for our next IT expense."
For something sized like Twitter, unless there is a huge flaw in how it is designed, IBM who struggles to explain why mainframe needed could step up, say "Twitter was having serious issues and thanks to our mainframe solution which is spread to 5 continents, the issues are over"
If I ever needed some kind of massive bandwidth and uptime, "Rack Space" would come to my mind. Why? Slashdot. Basic as that. I am sure there are other hosting providers which can handle that load but I use Slashdot daily and never seen it down, even on 9/11. Most people who are interested in how things work knows slashdot is hosted on rack space, uses perl etc. Just like when someone talks about "FreeBSD is dead, netcraft confirms it", you just reply "yahoo.com".
Leopard is less conservative on RAM matter, if it finds good RAM , it will absolutely use it.
This Mac Mini G4 (which I mention) has 1GB RAM max so the previous owner who seems to know Apple has upgraded it to 1Gig. Of course, G4 has a serious issue with FSB speed.
They could be using Altivec etc. more agressively too. Also, Leopard threads everything possible. Even mds (metadata housekeeping) is multiple CPU/threading, way more than Tiger.
Apple or even 90% of Developers won't tell it but the best way to have performance boost is having the max memory supported. It is same deal from start, Apple 1 had amazing memory upgrade specs compared to others.
Of course, I am not saying Mac Pro or quad g5 owners to go up to 16GB or more, it would be insane for the moment :) I mean, for 99% of users.
It is being x86 only means that it will never ship for ARM, Symbian. It is a show stopper for me since I heavily use smart phones, powerpc machines etc. for browsing.
I know the OS X developer and he is a nice person who doesn't drop PPC support for nothing. If it is not supported, it must have a reason. i386 ASM? Whatever. I don't want to rant too much about a browser which I can't use 3 of my 6 machines anyway.
Dear iPhone users and Developers: You have been ignored. Don't blog about it, don't whine. If you are an iPhone only developer and your app was rejected without any meaningful reason, bad for you...
Next time, have decency to ship same application for Symbian userbase, Windows Mobile and even J2ME. Yes, the "cool platform" choice of you have tendency to reject applications and even have capability to kill them remotely. Now, it is not that cool or trendy, head to http://www.forum.nokia.com/ . There you have access to 100M potential users. Or head to http://www.getjar.com/ and see what are you missing.
Right now, writing this message, I see this Google Ad at top
"Unlock i`Phone -
Millions of Satisfied Customers Unlock Your i`Phone Now!
www.Unlock-the-iPhone.com"
Expect something good from that platform especially for development?
You would be absolutely correct if Windows 7 was SUPPORTED with Boot Camp. Damn thing can't even get rid of "boot menu" as MS is fixated to partition 1 for booting.
What suggests you that Apple is a generic PC anyway?
Even funnier, did the author install Vista/7 to a 1.42 Ghz machine with 133Mhz system bus and 32MB ATI card and gained massive performance compared to XP?
That is what Mac Mini G4 users experienced when they upgraded to Leopard...
CBS should arrange a meeting with all the editors, authors of CNET and simply remind them they aren't the failed TV channel who is alive with MS money anymore, they don't have to be MS fans in absurd degree. If they don't fix this attitude soon, very soon, their cool domains will be sold to some porn site and they will be laid off. This is really getting beyond funny.
They are NOT the same hardware, they require Apple drivers and they are also EFI based. Other than that, you must be really optimistic about Windows developers if you compare Windows CPU/resource usage to a system built on 40 year old principles which were designed on a PDP-10 machine.
If I compare a BSD 4.4 Lite/Mach/NeXT/FreeBSD mix to Windows 7 which defaults to Ultimate version as of today, I will see bloat. I can barely stand to Spotlight on OS X and I decided to like it when I saw Windows Search which is on by default.
Other than that, check my message about the missing drivers on Windows 7. It is not MS, Apple or even NVidia or Intel's fault. What is supported under boot camp method? Vista? They should have installed Vista. As of 2009, it is not bad anyway.
On latest gen (nv9300 based) Mac Mini, I have installed Win7 64bit. It installed all the drivers and even clever to figure mainboard driver giving direct link to nvidia driver exe which is absolutely a very serious risk but anyway...
The ATA chipset driver is missing from Win7 since Apple didn't really put nv9300 chipset in exact way. So, it falls down to non DMA generic MS driver. Every single byte transferred to/from disk is guaranteed to use massive CPU along with horrible (down to 15MB/sec from 70MB/sec under OS X) slowness.
So, if Macbooks have similar issue with Windows 7, it could be same issue. As they are battery powered, it would be visible in battery life too.
BTW, there is no point testing Windows 7 until Apple releases boot camp for Windows 7. Apple computers aren't really PCs. If MS was really clever and wanted Windows 7 to be _really_ tested, they should have printed a very clear privacy policy on screen and actually make machine report all kinds of anonymous stats. That way, they could really figure what is going on. For example, a core duo powered 2009 machine shouldn't really max to 15mb/sec with a SATA 2 drive.
I couldn't even find something similar to bugreporter.apple.com when I wanted to report issues. All I saw is a stupid forum which beginner level MS engineers are monkeying with templates. They even made their own wrong answer as 'answer to the issue' while it would create massive compatibility problems in one occasion.
10 lumen can't do anything on a movie theater screen. It is absolutely nothing.
If you go up there, front of screen, it can change but of course, hospital expenses resulting from that action would easily compare to a pro Barco projector which can actually feed it ;)
I was just saying it is early to adopt, Intel is NOT a experienced storage manufacturer, the constant speed and reliability needs of current professional video and movie editing projects are near bank mainframe levels.
That 15K Seagate SCSI will continue to spin until Seagate starts shipping their pro level solutions in solid state form.
BTW, guess what those motherboard chipsets are used for? Intel CPUs.
I speak about 2K raw video editing along with sound. We are waiting for the technology really becoming mature enough to replace our 300mb/sec magnetic sas-scsi setup. Yes, it will be still (i) SCSI, likely powered by ATTO.
The medium is not trustable for professional usage, under very high speeds. We wait for the medium to become "ordinary", it is likely the pro setups will be first offered by AVID partners first, in 2K and 4K level. Apple FCP partners can give the signal on OS X land too, when the first Xserve/XSan solutions powered by solid state ships.
I speak about million dollar productions here, Intel's "we were here first" devices doesn't impress me a bit.
Comparison to Windows or even OS X is funny. You know why? KDE is also a gigantic suite of Windows applications which uses native Windows frameworks, controls. Same for OS X version. For example, a lot of open source developers expect ogg native playback on the host OS. What do I do? I simply install quicktime componenents from Xiph.
Best way is watching it compile on OS X, you will figure the magic.
That is a single proof you need when you talk about people -not- understanding what KDE 4 revolution is for open source. It is not "bigger, more stylish" KDE 3. As I said on my previous post, one should find a real or virtual windows and install kde 4 to it before talking about it.
For example, if Windows 7 sends a "right mouse button pressed" signal when one does that gesture, KDE 4 under Windows 7 will have it. You understand what I mean? Think beyond Linux&BSD.
What people need for geek self treatment is, find a Windows machine or OS X when binaries released, install entire KDE 4 binary and use it for couple of hours trying to understand what kind of a revolution it is.
It is a bit hard to understand, I build from source via Fink project on OS X and I had hard time explaining the OS X nerds what kind of change this means, for OS X. Of course, OS X having a auto triggered, aqua powered X11 which integrates with desktop kills half of the magic&impression.
Or... they could be a bit patient and buy first Symbian Foundation powered convergence device likely from Nokia and use it. It would be real stupid if Nokia didn't use KDE (in modified form) on their devices. I think S60 like ordinary phones will run it too while they look exactly like S60 on user level.
I agree to you, nobody has seen the full potential of KDE yet. It seems to deliver what NeXT promised before getting acquired by Apple and had to prison itself to OS X for financial reasons.
Well, as a video guy, I can easily say we will keep on using our SCSI magnetic "thingies" until something that fast and that reliable, which won't "wear out" comes up from a trustable vendor.
Do you know the technology and expertise required to make a consumer price 1 TB drive? We don't speak about RAMAC here.
Intel better stay in their core business, a CISC CPU monopoly and leave the storage to people who actually knows it. BIOS password change results in data loss? come on really.
Normally, a good, supported modern device will eventually have bugs fixed with a firmware update. Companies can't really test millions of different configurations, usage patterns or a "one in the million" issue. Some companies like Apple have went beyond it and they would even ship "double click in gui" firmware updates. Of course, it is all fail safe.
I always pick hardware which *does have* firmware updates on site, with good documentation and release notes. For example, Lacie keeps updating their firewire and more advanced drives. Not because they can't be used without updating, it is because some engineers find some little issues which could be problem in rare cases or operating system issues, performance enhancements etc.
One thing of course, always read documentation and apply firmware update if it will benefit to you especially regarding BIOS updates.