As Microsoft revealed at the PDC 2003 conference, Longhorn is far more impressive technically than Panther.
Is? IS? Longhorn isn't even out yet, so there's no comparing them. So what if Microsoft says Longhorn will have features X, Y and Z? I don't see Longhorn on millions of computer systems today. By the time Longhorn comes out (late 2004 at best), there will in all probability already be another MacOS X revision.
It's just stupid to claim the superiority of software that doesn't exist in terms of users. I might as well go on a Mac-advocacy rant and say something like "Yeah, well, Longhorn sucks because Apple are developing MacOS XI, due 2006, which has features X, Y and Z, which Longhorn doesn't have. Therefore, MacOS X is just way better than Longhorn." This is childish and stupid, and worst of all, flamebait. Damn me for just responding to this rubbish!
They happen to have a huge drive compatibility database which lists tons of drives people have managed to get to work with Finder disk burning and iTunes by modifying configuration files. I have an *officially unsupported* Samsung 32x CD-R/DVD which now works fine with both, thanks to some minor tweaking.
I prefer Toast for these functions, but I didn't like the *Unsupported* label I saw by my drive in the System Profiler.
Iceland has stated that it's going to go to all hydrogen, and sell polution credits under the Kyoto treaty.
Hmm...as an Icelander, I'm rather puzzled by these ideas you have of my country. There's been talk for ages about making Iceland hydrogen-only but it's not going to happen for a long, long time. Icelanders love their big, over-powered jeeps for cruising the highlands. We have more automobiles per capita than any other nation in the world.
Between that and their incredibly profitable gene pool, they'll be per-capita, the wealthiest nation in the world soon enough.
Our "profitable" gene pool.....I suppose you're referring to DeCODE Genetics , the guys that are building the database of medical records. Well, they'll be bankrupt in a few years if they're lucky, otherwise much, much sooner.
As for "wealthiest nation in the world...", with our wonderfully Americanized economy, the majority of wealth in Iceland has a tendency to go into the pockets of a select elite. In any case, my experience indicates that the more money people have here, the higher the taxes and higher pricing.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court is handled by Socialists and Fascists, not Constitutionalists, so we would be at great risk of losing the country to both the Socialist left and the Fascist right, both of which feed each other's desires by giving in to bad schemes
Throwing out terms like "Socialist" and "Fascist" as an assault on run-of-the-mill politicians because they don't happen to act in accordance with your ultra-libertarian views is childish.
The advantage of democracy over oligarchy is not that it neccesarily places power in the hands of more competent men. Rather, it is a preventive measure, i.e. giving the voters the ability to get rid of bad rulers. The eternal problem with politics is that those who actively seek political power are generally those least suited to having it. Hence, it is more important to prevent bad rulers from ruling than getting good rulers to rule.
None of this makes any difference, however, when every single politician is owned by powerful international mega-corporations and the power circle has no chance of being penetrated by those without their backing. Democracy in the US died at some point, when the mega-corporations you libertarians created became powerful enough to seize the reins.
I am waiting for Apple to natively support x86, which shouldn't be too complicated considering that the software they used to build the operating system is relatively portable.
Sure, OS X is portable. But the heritage programming APIs from Classic MacOS aren't. Carbon is heavily PPC reliant and it would be a near-impossible operation to port it over to x86. And with Carbon gone, so is a large chunk of Mac software, including killer apps such as Adobe Photoshop and M$ Office.
Even if you want to run X apps on MacOSX, you're stuck with an apple-only window manager layer. The mailing lists are full of complaints about quartzwm which only Apple can now fix.
It's perfectly possible to run some other X11 WM than Apple's. The quartz-wm is only one of many possible window managers you could be running in OS X. In fact, people were running X-Windows on OS X long before Apple got involved.
"On other platforms, each Java application consumes some system memory. So you might end up using more memory than you need to when running multiple Java applications. Other languages, such as C or C++, solve this problem using what?s called shared libraries. Apple developed an innovative new technology that allows Java code to be shared across multiple applications. This reduces the amount of memory that Java applications normally use. And it fits right into Sun?s Hot Spot VM, allowing Mac OS X to remain compatible with standard Java. In addition, Apple has given this implementation to Sun so the company can deploy it on other platforms. Just one example of how Apple supports standards and shares ideas to benefit all"
That's very nice of them.
Ah, to play old games in a new OS!
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I'm a conservatice devil and quite frankly the games I like best are the ones I played prodigously from around 13-17 before learned to program. New games don't seem all that great to me. In fact, nostalgia plays a major part in my enjoyment of games.
I therefore think it's terrific that all these old games are being brought to MacOS X, f.e. Quake I and Quake 2 and Starcraft/Brood Wars.
You're getting it wrong. The Blue and White G3s and Yikes machines didn't have an internal firewire port: The Sawtooth did. This port was removed on the dual-processor Gigabit ethernet machines that followed. For confirmation of this, check out http://www.apple-history.com.
The responses to this topic have been a lifesaver for me...ah, to be free from the wiles of Gnutella and the oh-so-slow-I-want-to-die LimeWire!
There really should be more topics of this kind for other spheres of Mac tools. Finding good software isn't always easy, even with Versiontracker, especially since a lot of OS X software is open-source and isn't particularly well promoted.
This update fixes something I've been wanting since 10.0. Finally I can connect to my Linux box with AppleTalk over TCP/IP via the "Connect to server...". Before it was only possible via the Classic Chooser, which required the Classic Environment to be launched.
By far, the fastest web browser for MacOS X is the quick'n dirty port of Phoenix.
Quite frankly, it is amazingly speedy, although it lacks quite a lot of features. But if you are willing to sacrifice compatibility for speed, it's the way to go. Launch speed is pretty lousy, but once it's launched, boy is it fast!
What is it with people and writing MAC instead of Mac?
Mac is short for Macintosh, it's not a bleeding acronym! I can put up with it when it comes to ignorant posters, but seriously, shouldn't the Slashdot editors know better?
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...can anyone explain to me why the zombies can not feed on each other but must consume creatures that are alive?
Good point, now, can anyone explain why we must feed on innocent livestock when there are plenty of criminals on death row that would make fine morsels?
I can never resist laughing when I read ominous predictions about humanity being replaced by robots.
A machine cannot posess a will of its own. And if it has no will, it has no ambition or wants or desires. Without any of these things, robots will have no reason to wipe us out or replace us or whatever. It's just plain ridiculous.
However, there is one thing that COULD endanger us all: genetic engineering and/or biological computers. While digital machines cannot be given a will of their own, biological creations will have no such limitations. If we manage to engineer flesh-and-blood creatures superior to ourselves, humanity could be in deep shit.
You can actually overclock quite a lot of Mac systems, way back to the 68k's.
F.e. you can OC the original iMacs (don't know about the new ones, but I had one running on 300Mhz, up from 233), the G4 Sawtooths and quite a bit of the older machines and clones.
However, this often requires soldering on or removing transistors on the motherboard, as is the case with todays G4s.
One notable exception to this are the PowerMacs based on the Yosemite motherboard (Blue & White G3 and the Yikes! PowerMac G4, which had a modified Yosemite). They have transistors on the motherboard and its remarkably easy to change the bus speed and clock speed.
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Actually Marathon Computing made a rackmount case which you could stuff with the innards of an iMac and called it iRack.
We've got one at work, running 10.2 Server and it does fine as an accounting and file server.
The kernel is BSD
Uhm....nope. MacOS X uses an implementation of the Mach microkernel from Carnegie-Mellon.
As Microsoft revealed at the PDC 2003 conference, Longhorn is far more impressive technically than Panther.
Is? IS? Longhorn isn't even out yet, so there's no comparing them. So what if Microsoft says Longhorn will have features X, Y and Z? I don't see Longhorn on millions of computer systems today. By the time Longhorn comes out (late 2004 at best), there will in all probability already be another MacOS X revision.
It's just stupid to claim the superiority of software that doesn't exist in terms of users. I might as well go on a Mac-advocacy rant and say something like "Yeah, well, Longhorn sucks because Apple are developing MacOS XI, due 2006, which has features X, Y and Z, which Longhorn doesn't have. Therefore, MacOS X is just way better than Longhorn." This is childish and stupid, and worst of all, flamebait. Damn me for just responding to this rubbish!
Well, the Mail.app client which most MacOS X users use doesn't automatically run executable files like Outlook runs those .pif, .exe and .scr files.
Hence, while it is possible (and easy) to write a virus for the Mac, it's more difficult to spread it -- that's my impression, anyhow.
I've never, ever, ever got MacOS X virus...there has to be a reason, and I think this one is it.
Well, have you taken a look at xlr8yourmac.com?
They happen to have a huge drive compatibility database which lists tons of drives people have managed to get to work with Finder disk burning and iTunes by modifying configuration files. I have an *officially unsupported* Samsung 32x CD-R/DVD which now works fine with both, thanks to some minor tweaking.
I prefer Toast for these functions, but I didn't like the *Unsupported* label I saw by my drive in the System Profiler.
Iceland has stated that it's going to go to all hydrogen, and sell polution credits under the Kyoto treaty.
Hmm...as an Icelander, I'm rather puzzled by these ideas you have of my country. There's been talk for ages about making Iceland hydrogen-only but it's not going to happen for a long, long time. Icelanders love their big, over-powered jeeps for cruising the highlands. We have more automobiles per capita than any other nation in the world.
Between that and their incredibly profitable gene pool, they'll be per-capita, the wealthiest nation in the world soon enough.
Our "profitable" gene pool.....I suppose you're referring to DeCODE Genetics , the guys that are building the database of medical records. Well, they'll be bankrupt in a few years if they're lucky, otherwise much, much sooner.
As for "wealthiest nation in the world...", with our wonderfully Americanized economy, the majority of wealth in Iceland has a tendency to go into the pockets of a select elite. In any case, my experience indicates that the more money people have here, the higher the taxes and higher pricing.
I wish I could be an optimist....:(
At this point I am so disillusioned with the new Star Wars films that I couldn't care less who'll feature in Episode III.
The last two films have been unspeakably bad and I'm extremely skeptical that the next will be any better.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court is handled by Socialists and Fascists, not Constitutionalists, so we would be at great risk of losing the country to both the Socialist left and the Fascist right, both of which feed each other's desires by giving in to bad schemes
Throwing out terms like "Socialist" and "Fascist" as an assault on run-of-the-mill politicians because they don't happen to act in accordance with your ultra-libertarian views is childish.
The advantage of democracy over oligarchy is not that it neccesarily places power in the hands of more competent men. Rather, it is a preventive measure, i.e. giving the voters the ability to get rid of bad rulers. The eternal problem with politics is that those who actively seek political power are generally those least suited to having it. Hence, it is more important to prevent bad rulers from ruling than getting good rulers to rule.
None of this makes any difference, however, when every single politician is owned by powerful international mega-corporations and the power circle has no chance of being penetrated by those without their backing. Democracy in the US died at some point, when the mega-corporations you libertarians created became powerful enough to seize the reins.
I am waiting for Apple to natively support x86, which shouldn't be too complicated considering that the software they used to build the operating system is relatively portable.
Sure, OS X is portable. But the heritage programming APIs from Classic MacOS aren't. Carbon is heavily PPC reliant and it would be a near-impossible operation to port it over to x86. And with Carbon gone, so is a large chunk of Mac software, including killer apps such as Adobe Photoshop and M$ Office.
Hmm...in the About Safari window it's listed as 1.0 beta (v.73).
:).
Doesn't seem to be that much different from the previously leaked v67
Even if you want to run X apps on MacOSX, you're stuck with an apple-only window manager layer. The mailing lists are full of complaints about quartzwm which only Apple can now fix.
It's perfectly possible to run some other X11 WM than Apple's. The quartz-wm is only one of many possible window managers you could be running in OS X. In fact, people were running X-Windows on OS X long before Apple got involved.
From the Apple website:
"On other platforms, each Java application consumes some system memory. So you might end up using more memory than you need to when running multiple Java applications. Other languages, such as C or C++, solve this problem using what?s called shared libraries. Apple developed an innovative new technology that allows Java code to be shared across multiple applications. This reduces the amount of memory that Java applications normally use. And it fits right into Sun?s Hot Spot VM, allowing Mac OS X to remain compatible with standard Java. In addition, Apple has given this implementation to Sun so the company can deploy it on other platforms. Just one example of how Apple supports standards and shares ideas to benefit all"
That's very nice of them.
I'm a conservatice devil and quite frankly the games I like best are the ones I played prodigously from around 13-17 before learned to program. New games don't seem all that great to me. In fact, nostalgia plays a major part in my enjoyment of games.
I therefore think it's terrific that all these old games are being brought to MacOS X, f.e. Quake I and Quake 2 and Starcraft/Brood Wars.
You're getting it wrong. The Blue and White G3s and Yikes machines didn't have an internal firewire port: The Sawtooth did. This port was removed on the dual-processor Gigabit ethernet machines that followed. For confirmation of this, check out http://www.apple-history.com.
The responses to this topic have been a lifesaver for me...ah, to be free from the wiles of Gnutella and the oh-so-slow-I-want-to-die LimeWire!
There really should be more topics of this kind for other spheres of Mac tools. Finding good software isn't always easy, even with Versiontracker, especially since a lot of OS X software is open-source and isn't particularly well promoted.
Great!
This update fixes something I've been wanting since 10.0. Finally I can connect to my Linux box with AppleTalk over TCP/IP via the "Connect to server...". Before it was only possible via the Classic Chooser, which required the Classic Environment to be launched.
By far, the fastest web browser for MacOS X is the quick'n dirty port of Phoenix.
Quite frankly, it is amazingly speedy, although it lacks quite a lot of features. But if you are willing to sacrifice compatibility for speed, it's the way to go. Launch speed is pretty lousy, but once it's launched, boy is it fast!
This update replaces the entire Terminal.app.
It is now 528kb in size, as opposed to the previous 439kb.
I've also noticed that it launches noticably faster after the update. Perhaps Apple added some tweaks in addition to the security changes.
(no, it isn't the updated prebindings. I just did that myself this morning).
I'm running build 6C115 and theres no Software Base Station included.
AFAIK, build 6C115 is the Golden Master. So what's going on?
Artists create because they enjoy doing so. It's one of the profession, IMHO that have a lot of job satisfaction.
Yeah, and they get laid a lot too...
What is it with people and writing MAC instead of Mac?
Mac is short for Macintosh, it's not a bleeding acronym! I can put up with it when it comes to ignorant posters, but seriously, shouldn't the Slashdot editors know better?
...can anyone explain to me why the zombies can not feed on each other but must consume creatures that are alive?
Good point, now, can anyone explain why we must feed on innocent livestock when there are plenty of criminals on death row that would make fine morsels?
Hehe...
I can never resist laughing when I read ominous predictions about humanity being replaced by robots.
A machine cannot posess a will of its own. And if it has no will, it has no ambition or wants or desires. Without any of these things, robots will have no reason to wipe us out or replace us or whatever. It's just plain ridiculous.
However, there is one thing that COULD endanger us all: genetic engineering and/or biological computers. While digital machines cannot be given a will of their own, biological creations will have no such limitations. If we manage to engineer flesh-and-blood creatures superior to ourselves, humanity could be in deep shit.
Will we see the improvements in FreeBSD 4.5 reflected in Darwin, the core of MacOS X?
Is Apple syncing Darwin releases with FreeBSD releases?
You can actually overclock quite a lot of Mac systems, way back to the 68k's.
F.e. you can OC the original iMacs (don't know about the new ones, but I had one running on 300Mhz, up from 233), the G4 Sawtooths and quite a bit of the older machines and clones.
However, this often requires soldering on or removing transistors on the motherboard, as is the case with todays G4s.
One notable exception to this are the PowerMacs based on the Yosemite motherboard (Blue & White G3 and the Yikes! PowerMac G4, which had a modified Yosemite). They have transistors on the motherboard and its remarkably easy to change the bus speed and clock speed.
For a good source on Mac overclocking, check out www.xlr8yourmac.com.