Actually I'm part of a plane spotting group that spends a lot of time at Sydney Airport (YSSY/SYD) In Australia. We have an extremely good working relationship with the Australian Federal Police and Australian Protective Services as well as the local Airport authorities. We have been requested to keep our eyes open wherever possible and have a local police contact number in case we encounter anything unusual to report to them.
If structured groups approach authorities and discuss it with them, you would be amazed how much you can accomplish.
For instance, our Plane Spotting group has an annual weekend (friday/saturday/sunday) every Feburary (this weekend by coincidence) at Sydney airport. The authorities are just fine with it, and we obey any requests given to us (stand back 3m from the fence, no ladders on fences etc).
All in all, if you do it right, you can have your cake and eat part of it too.
As a Powerbook and NetMD Owner, I can say this doesnt work.
Virtual PC on a 12" PB is average to say the least. The supposed lack of L3 Cache on the CPU Is the 'quoted' reason as to why this is the case.
I installed Sony's SonicStage (Crappy on a normal pc, even worse and clunkier under VPC) and tried to 'encode' an MP3 to ATRAC. After 3 hours and my Powerbook being hot enough to fry an egg, It was around 8% done.
Short answer is, no. At least thats the case with a 12" PB. Can anyone confirm if its the same on a 15" or 17"?
I've resorted to digging out my old Celeron 400 to do my dirty work now. Not the fastest, but at least it works!
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Actually I'm part of a plane spotting group that spends a lot of time at Sydney Airport (YSSY/SYD) In Australia. We have an extremely good working relationship with the Australian Federal Police and Australian Protective Services as well as the local Airport authorities. We have been requested to keep our eyes open wherever possible and have a local police contact number in case we encounter anything unusual to report to them.
If structured groups approach authorities and discuss it with them, you would be amazed how much you can accomplish.
For instance, our Plane Spotting group has an annual weekend (friday/saturday/sunday) every Feburary (this weekend by coincidence) at Sydney airport. The authorities are just fine with it, and we obey any requests given to us (stand back 3m from the fence, no ladders on fences etc).
All in all, if you do it right, you can have your cake and eat part of it too.
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As a Powerbook and NetMD Owner, I can say this doesnt work.
Virtual PC on a 12" PB is average to say the least. The supposed lack of L3 Cache on the CPU Is the 'quoted' reason as to why this is the case.
I installed Sony's SonicStage (Crappy on a normal pc, even worse and clunkier under VPC) and tried to 'encode' an MP3 to ATRAC. After 3 hours and my Powerbook being hot enough to fry an egg, It was around 8% done.
Short answer is, no. At least thats the case with a 12" PB. Can anyone confirm if its the same on a 15" or 17"?
I've resorted to digging out my old Celeron 400 to do my dirty work now. Not the fastest, but at least it works!