I'm not sure if they've made them for the non-15" PB's yet, but I _HIGHLY_ recommend grabbing yourself one of those aftermarket Ti Handles (as seen here).
My whole development team has 15" PB's and they "suffer" from heat issues (no wobbly stuff reported) but that has all but disappeared since using the handles. (It gets the laptop up off table allowing for a bit more cooling).
Now the fan only kicks in when doing a monster Fink compile for an hour or three.
Going in the country with a computer is theoretically not permitted. Using a fax machine or the internet to connect abroad is considered a crime. Nationals face jail for this (and strangers too, in theory, but that never happened I think) and, trust me, you positively DON'T WANT TO GO TO JAIL in Myanmar. (death is not the maximal sentence over there: it is only second to death... by torture)
Hmmm... this just went from being useless, boring, WTF, non-news to being somewhat interesting.:)
And that was only one run of spam. If I run, say, 10 or 12 campaigns from different services, with similar rates of return, my narfing-iron business will net me in the vicinity of $80K-$100K in profit from Internet-based sales alone. And I didn't lift a finger, other than to ship the product. NOW do you see where they get people who will pay for this service?
Hmmm... that's pretty compelling... I think I'll try it out!
And not once on that list you posted to does it show an "SSD" larger than 512MB, which is what the guy was really looking into... finding a replacement for a hard drive on his sytem.
Am I the only one who isn't getting the "Sections" bar along the left side of the page to show the proper data?
It seems that (for instance) the "Apple" section is stuck at the 11th of April... it's still showing the same number of recent articles, and 11-Apr as being the last post date.
We have a corporate DSL account, with 10 static IP's, located in Vancouver, BC. We tried to email some companies in New York in order to give them some buisness, and they were hosted on Earthlink. All of our emails bounced.
The only way we could deal with them was by using Hotmail.
Joy.
Mind you, 1 day after sending a "blistering" email to Earthlink tech support, they unblocked our IP addresses.
As another work-around, we've ended up forwarding/relaying all of our outbound email from our servers to our ISP's (Shaw Cable and Telus) outgoing email servers, which appear to go to a non-blocked IP range. This has stopped this issue not only at the office, but on my residential cable connection at home that I run various SMTP servers on.
The funny part was when I told those businesses that we couldn't send them email... they weren't even aware that Earthlink was doing that.
They ended up getting about $50k worth of work out of us, but imagine if someone WITHOUT a hotmail account had the same experience!;)
When I'm in a situation where a key decision has to be made that can have severe potential repercussions (as in "Oh My God We're Fucked"), and my opinion is being ignored or my recommendations are not being utilized, I write up a quick memo and take it to my immediate superior and get him to sign it as having been received.
In the memo, I explain the situation, my recommendations, and my rationalle, my fears, and get it on the record what my thoughts are.
This is a blatently obvious Cover Your Ass and "Don't Make Me The ScapeGoat" move, and people don't take it lightly. You can almost hear them think "what does he know that I don't?" It generally causes them to review the situation, and in probably 80% of the times I've done it (20 or so times so far), they have modified their original decisions.
Once that Memo's been signed and my position is on the record, and if they still want it done their way, I will gladly do it, as that is my job... to do what they want (illegalities aside, of course).
I'm a contractor/man-whore, whatever you want to call it, and it is not my place to enforce my opinions on the customer. My job is to supply them with the benefits of my experience and expertise, and to help them make informed decisions.
At the end of the day, it is THEIR decision to make.
Farscape is a little like babylon 5 was, you need to watch a few shows in the correct order - preferably from the begining to get a handle on what's going on.
I agree...
I was never a fan of FS, until a buddy of mine flipped me the first season (24 or so episodes) on DVD.
I watched the first couple, and admit that I've become a big fan, and am slowly working my way through the rest of the season.
All I really needed was to see the first couple of episodes to put everything into context. Hell, even my girlfriend (as anti SCI-FI as they come) is interested.
I used to use Word on Windows, and the Acrobat install came with the PDFMaker macro that installed into Word. When you ran it, all of the headings, etc., would be incorporated into the document as PDF bookmarks. (for example, take a look at this documentation).
That functionality is not available with the OSX version.
As well, it was my impression that the Distiller only runs under Classic, not OSX. (Everything I've read says so, but I'm more than happy to be proven wrong! PLEASE tell me I'm wrong!)
True, you can save as PDF, but it also doesn't provide the Bookmarks.
All in all, I find that the Acrobat experience on OS X is not the same as it was on Win32 or OS 9, and is full of "not there yet's" and "doesn't support that yet".
Now, I could be wrong, but I like to think I'm a pretty smart guy, and have invested a fair bit of time trying to get this to work the way I need it to, and I haven't found a solution. TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC, if someone has any pointers/advice, I'd love to hear it!
I actually went out and bought version 5. While it WORKED, I was somewhat disappointed in it's performace (specifically, the lack thereof). The mouse was SLOW, disk access was REALLY slow (a samba share to the OS X box was the best way to achieve reasonable disk access), etc. It was PAINFULL.
Enter the VPC 6 upgrade.
WOW.
Let me say that again...
WOW!
Now, to put it into perspective, I have a TiBook 800 with a Gig of RAM. I'm CTO of a software development company (Intellinger), and we develop performance monitoring software. Our entire shop uses OSX for our development (Java). We need to test and demo our product on/with Win32 OS's.
We use VPC for demos as well as testing on different platforms.
VPC6 boots faster on my TiBook than it does on my 2 year old Toshiba Satelite Pro. The mouse is THERE, if you know what I mean... no more "VNC" like responses, and the local folder sharing RULES.
I personally use it for a number of things...
Demos: We pull into a (potential) client site with our OSX laptops, launch our app on OSX, and then fire up VPC with the appropriate Win32 or Linux OS, and proceed to run our app against it. VPC allows the Win32/Linux session to look (over the network) like a totally separate machine. (VPC allows NAT-like network access or a totally independent IP address/access). The clients are totally amazed, and for the most part we have to keep them focused on our app and "stop asking questions about VPC!". The resounding feedback from the techies we present to is "wow... that's COOL! What are you selling again?".
Testing: We have a dual processor OSX box, running VPC, with 23 separate installations of different Win32 and Linux installs in various stages of configurations. We've found that this works amazingly well in testing installation, configuration, and operation issues. We can duplicate an entire configuration, do what we want with it, and then blow it away when we're done. Disposable installs. Way cool.
Visio: Omnigraffle is a great program for OSX, but it still is lacking the serious "stencil" support that Visio has when it comes to designing co-lo racks, etc. As well, most of the network techs I know still use Visio for the most part, so I need to be able to exchange Visio docs with them. I run Visio in VPC when I have to, and it feels "natural", native, whatever you want to call it. Awesome response.
Adobe Acrobat: Acrobat support SUCKS for OSX. (Adobe, you listening? Get your shit together!). I do a lot of reports in Word, and the PDFMaker macro in the Win32 version of Acrobat is amazing... it creates a really nicely formatted PDF document with the nice bookmarks, etc. That just doesn't exist in the OSX world. (If someone knows how to do this, PLEASE let me know!). So, to get around this, I have acrobat/Word installed on VPC, so when I have to generate the final docs, I use it to generate the output.
TOAD: I do a lot of Oracle development, and have yet to find a replacement for TOAD. It doesn't run in OSX. But it runs VERY well in VPC. The only issue is trying to find a minimal sql*net client install without installing / unzipping a DB install. Joy. That being said, I can launch VPC with Win98, create a port-forwarded SSH session to a remote Oracle box, and do anything I have to with TOAD. For that matter, I can also use TOAD in VPC to develop against the Oracle 9i DB running in OSX on the same box.
Those are just some of my experiences, and that's not to say that everything is golden...
There are the occasional freezes, usually the result of me using LiteSwitch X to switch between apps too quickly while it's working away on something, and there are some "weird" errors that pop up (every time I close TOAD, for instance, I always get a "illegal operation" error pop up). But you know, that's the minority of the time... the exception rather than the rule.
I highly recommend VPC6 for that "last mile" when moving from Win32 to OSX.
Firstly, I've got over 7 years graphic design experience using Photoshop on a Mac.
I've done Oracle Spatial based GIS implementations for the Canadian and US governments.
I'm writing this on a PowerBook as we speak.
When it comes to graphics formats, some GIS based images are NOT your run-of-the-mill Photoshop-ready images. It wouldn't be THAT far of a stretch to think that satelite images might be similarly encoded.
Try using _some_ marine electronic charts, for instance... I've got 4 formats off hand that I can't open in Photoshop, and wouldn't expect to be able to because it has specialty information embedded in it. Fugawi, on the other hand, deals with them with no problem.
Also, Fugawi is used by the military. Check out this link for information on their second generation targeting-navigational system.
My point was it would be interesting to see what apps and file formats they WERE using.
It'd be interesting to see what software he's using since he can do the same job on both the Winows 2000 and the OS X platform... I wonder if it IS photoshop that they're using, of if it's some internal military app?
If it was some internal, special app, maybe it's been ported to both Unix and Windows, meaning the OSX box just had to recompile it.
Maybe all he did was install Fink and then recompile the thing, and now it works. Wouldn't THAT be a story!
In a way it'd be kind of boring to think that all he did was use Photoshop. *sigh*
There's no reason he couldn't be doing imagine manipulation, enhancement, and analysis using Photoshop; so long as the image is in a standard image format (and why not?), it's just pixels and filters.
True... I'm just wondering if they ARE in standard image formats.
I know that some of the GPS work/fun (fishing and hunting trips) that I do involves non-standard (as in non-photoshop-compatable) formats, and requires the use of some software like Fugawi, so I can only imagine what format some military satelite images might be in.
It would be interesting to see what kind of formats the images really are in...
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it would really suck to be one of those ants.
;)
yeah, cuz being any OTHER ant would be cool!
Off-topic? Who modded the parent post offtopic? It's FUNNY God-dammit! Maybe even Ironic.
Now, as to offtopic, THIS post is most definitely offtopic!
Unfortunately, they have more "cents" than "sense", so I doubt things will change any time soon.
I'm not sure if they've made them for the non-15" PB's yet, but I _HIGHLY_ recommend grabbing yourself one of those aftermarket Ti Handles (as seen here).
My whole development team has 15" PB's and they "suffer" from heat issues (no wobbly stuff reported) but that has all but disappeared since using the handles. (It gets the laptop up off table allowing for a bit more cooling).
Now the fan only kicks in when doing a monster Fink compile for an hour or three.
Going in the country with a computer is theoretically not permitted. Using a fax machine or the internet to connect abroad is considered a crime. Nationals face jail for this (and strangers too, in theory, but that never happened I think) and, trust me, you positively DON'T WANT TO GO TO JAIL in Myanmar. (death is not the maximal sentence over there: it is only second to death... by torture)
:)
Hmmm... this just went from being useless, boring, WTF, non-news to being somewhat interesting.
And that was only one run of spam. If I run, say, 10 or 12 campaigns from different services, with similar rates of return, my narfing-iron business will net me in the vicinity of $80K-$100K in profit from Internet-based sales alone. And I didn't lift a finger, other than to ship the product. NOW do you see where they get people who will pay for this service?
Hmmm... that's pretty compelling... I think I'll try it out!
yeah... and we could call it...
HOTMAIL!
Really, though, this isn't really an option. To think that email is or can be strictly a web-browser-interface thing is a little unrealistic.
Cool... I stand corrected. Any idea how much they cost?
And not once on that list you posted to does it show an "SSD" larger than 512MB, which is what the guy was really looking into... finding a replacement for a hard drive on his sytem.
What a stunningly useless RFC.
Maybe Cisco is being the good guy in this, in that they are giving the Government EXACTLY what they are asking for.
It won't be until later that the Gov says, "ahhh, wait a minute... this isn't working out the way we THOUGHT it would..."
Am I the only one who isn't getting the "Sections" bar along the left side of the page to show the proper data?
It seems that (for instance) the "Apple" section is stuck at the 11th of April... it's still showing the same number of recent articles, and 11-Apr as being the last post date.
Anyone else having this issue?
Anyone have any info on what's up?
Same thing happened to me.
;)
We have a corporate DSL account, with 10 static IP's, located in Vancouver, BC. We tried to email some companies in New York in order to give them some buisness, and they were hosted on Earthlink. All of our emails bounced.
The only way we could deal with them was by using Hotmail.
Joy.
Mind you, 1 day after sending a "blistering" email to Earthlink tech support, they unblocked our IP addresses.
As another work-around, we've ended up forwarding/relaying all of our outbound email from our servers to our ISP's (Shaw Cable and Telus) outgoing email servers, which appear to go to a non-blocked IP range. This has stopped this issue not only at the office, but on my residential cable connection at home that I run various SMTP servers on.
The funny part was when I told those businesses that we couldn't send them email... they weren't even aware that Earthlink was doing that.
They ended up getting about $50k worth of work out of us, but imagine if someone WITHOUT a hotmail account had the same experience!
When I'm in a situation where a key decision has to be made that can have severe potential repercussions (as in "Oh My God We're Fucked"), and my opinion is being ignored or my recommendations are not being utilized, I write up a quick memo and take it to my immediate superior and get him to sign it as having been received.
In the memo, I explain the situation, my recommendations, and my rationalle, my fears, and get it on the record what my thoughts are.
This is a blatently obvious Cover Your Ass and "Don't Make Me The ScapeGoat" move, and people don't take it lightly. You can almost hear them think "what does he know that I don't?" It generally causes them to review the situation, and in probably 80% of the times I've done it (20 or so times so far), they have modified their original decisions.
Once that Memo's been signed and my position is on the record, and if they still want it done their way, I will gladly do it, as that is my job... to do what they want (illegalities aside, of course).
I'm a contractor/man-whore, whatever you want to call it, and it is not my place to enforce my opinions on the customer. My job is to supply them with the benefits of my experience and expertise, and to help them make informed decisions.
At the end of the day, it is THEIR decision to make.
In a word... root
MCSE's need not apply.
Coolest... picture.... ever....
Since when do notices of security holes that have been fixed for months rate /. articles?
;)
Dude... are you new here?
Thanks... I'd love to, but no Classic.
Farscape is a little like babylon 5 was, you need to watch a few shows in the correct order - preferably from the begining to get a handle on what's going on.
I agree...
I was never a fan of FS, until a buddy of mine flipped me the first season (24 or so episodes) on DVD.
I watched the first couple, and admit that I've become a big fan, and am slowly working my way through the rest of the season.
All I really needed was to see the first couple of episodes to put everything into context. Hell, even my girlfriend (as anti SCI-FI as they come) is interested.
I used to use Word on Windows, and the Acrobat install came with the PDFMaker macro that installed into Word. When you ran it, all of the headings, etc., would be incorporated into the document as PDF bookmarks. (for example, take a look at this documentation).
That functionality is not available with the OSX version.
As well, it was my impression that the Distiller only runs under Classic, not OSX. (Everything I've read says so, but I'm more than happy to be proven wrong! PLEASE tell me I'm wrong!)
True, you can save as PDF, but it also doesn't provide the Bookmarks.
All in all, I find that the Acrobat experience on OS X is not the same as it was on Win32 or OS 9, and is full of "not there yet's" and "doesn't support that yet".
Now, I could be wrong, but I like to think I'm a pretty smart guy, and have invested a fair bit of time trying to get this to work the way I need it to, and I haven't found a solution. TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC, if someone has any pointers/advice, I'd love to hear it!
I actually went out and bought version 5. While it WORKED, I was somewhat disappointed in it's performace (specifically, the lack thereof). The mouse was SLOW, disk access was REALLY slow (a samba share to the OS X box was the best way to achieve reasonable disk access), etc. It was PAINFULL.
Enter the VPC 6 upgrade.
WOW.
Let me say that again...
WOW!
Now, to put it into perspective, I have a TiBook 800 with a Gig of RAM. I'm CTO of a software development company (Intellinger), and we develop performance monitoring software. Our entire shop uses OSX for our development (Java). We need to test and demo our product on/with Win32 OS's.
We use VPC for demos as well as testing on different platforms.
VPC6 boots faster on my TiBook than it does on my 2 year old Toshiba Satelite Pro. The mouse is THERE, if you know what I mean... no more "VNC" like responses, and the local folder sharing RULES.
I personally use it for a number of things...
Demos: We pull into a (potential) client site with our OSX laptops, launch our app on OSX, and then fire up VPC with the appropriate Win32 or Linux OS, and proceed to run our app against it. VPC allows the Win32/Linux session to look (over the network) like a totally separate machine. (VPC allows NAT-like network access or a totally independent IP address/access). The clients are totally amazed, and for the most part we have to keep them focused on our app and "stop asking questions about VPC!". The resounding feedback from the techies we present to is "wow... that's COOL! What are you selling again?".
Testing: We have a dual processor OSX box, running VPC, with 23 separate installations of different Win32 and Linux installs in various stages of configurations. We've found that this works amazingly well in testing installation, configuration, and operation issues. We can duplicate an entire configuration, do what we want with it, and then blow it away when we're done. Disposable installs. Way cool.
Visio: Omnigraffle is a great program for OSX, but it still is lacking the serious "stencil" support that Visio has when it comes to designing co-lo racks, etc. As well, most of the network techs I know still use Visio for the most part, so I need to be able to exchange Visio docs with them. I run Visio in VPC when I have to, and it feels "natural", native, whatever you want to call it. Awesome response.
Adobe Acrobat: Acrobat support SUCKS for OSX. (Adobe, you listening? Get your shit together!). I do a lot of reports in Word, and the PDFMaker macro in the Win32 version of Acrobat is amazing... it creates a really nicely formatted PDF document with the nice bookmarks, etc. That just doesn't exist in the OSX world. (If someone knows how to do this, PLEASE let me know!). So, to get around this, I have acrobat/Word installed on VPC, so when I have to generate the final docs, I use it to generate the output.
TOAD: I do a lot of Oracle development, and have yet to find a replacement for TOAD. It doesn't run in OSX. But it runs VERY well in VPC. The only issue is trying to find a minimal sql*net client install without installing / unzipping a DB install. Joy. That being said, I can launch VPC with Win98, create a port-forwarded SSH session to a remote Oracle box, and do anything I have to with TOAD. For that matter, I can also use TOAD in VPC to develop against the Oracle 9i DB running in OSX on the same box.
Those are just some of my experiences, and that's not to say that everything is golden...
There are the occasional freezes, usually the result of me using LiteSwitch X to switch between apps too quickly while it's working away on something, and there are some "weird" errors that pop up (every time I close TOAD, for instance, I always get a "illegal operation" error pop up). But you know, that's the minority of the time... the exception rather than the rule.
I highly recommend VPC6 for that "last mile" when moving from Win32 to OSX.
Thanks... that looks pretty cool...
A little off-topic, but I'm quite impressed with the HTTPD.CONF file.... I think is is VERY well documented.
Wow...
Where did that come from?
Firstly, I've got over 7 years graphic design experience using Photoshop on a Mac.
I've done Oracle Spatial based GIS implementations for the Canadian and US governments.
I'm writing this on a PowerBook as we speak.
When it comes to graphics formats, some GIS based images are NOT your run-of-the-mill Photoshop-ready images. It wouldn't be THAT far of a stretch to think that satelite images might be similarly encoded.
Try using _some_ marine electronic charts, for instance... I've got 4 formats off hand that I can't open in Photoshop, and wouldn't expect to be able to because it has specialty information embedded in it. Fugawi, on the other hand, deals with them with no problem.
Also, Fugawi is used by the military. Check out this link for information on their second generation targeting-navigational system.
My point was it would be interesting to see what apps and file formats they WERE using.
Man... take a pill and grab a clue.
And of course, I just thought of something...
It'd be interesting to see what software he's using since he can do the same job on both the Winows 2000 and the OS X platform... I wonder if it IS photoshop that they're using, of if it's some internal military app?
If it was some internal, special app, maybe it's been ported to both Unix and Windows, meaning the OSX box just had to recompile it.
Maybe all he did was install Fink and then recompile the thing, and now it works. Wouldn't THAT be a story!
In a way it'd be kind of boring to think that all he did was use Photoshop. *sigh*
There's no reason he couldn't be doing imagine manipulation, enhancement, and analysis using Photoshop; so long as the image is in a standard image format (and why not?), it's just pixels and filters.
True... I'm just wondering if they ARE in standard image formats.
I know that some of the GPS work/fun (fishing and hunting trips) that I do involves non-standard (as in non-photoshop-compatable) formats, and requires the use of some software like Fugawi, so I can only imagine what format some military satelite images might be in.
It would be interesting to see what kind of formats the images really are in...