Sorry, but since we do not use Windows here we don't have much chance of getting out, because our machines don't have to go to tech support every other day!
Wow, that makes you sound SO intellergent and interlectuall!!!! [...] I live about half an hour away from there in a suburb of Akron. [...] It makes you sound sooooo smart and cosmopolitan to insult semi-rural places!!!!!!!
Well, living there does definitely not seem to help your spelling.
It's a fucking shame what's going on on Slashdot when it comes to critics of either the story submitter, the editors, or Slashdot itself. There's systematic downmodding of criticism, apparently executed by the editors (which have unlimited mod points).
So much for freedom of speach and anti-censorship, for which Slashdot tries to stand.
Sorry, but you are wrong. Look at this and previous stories submitted by him: they all end in the sentence "... article is pretty entertaining, but this overview contains more details, pictures and references.", which links to his blog on zdnet.
The links in his article are to real sites. The only link to his blog is in his name - and all submitters do that.
Sorry, but you are wrong. Look at this and previous stories submitted by him: they all end in the sentence "... article is pretty entertaining, but this overview contains more details, pictures and references.", which is a link to his blog on zdnet.
Looks like RP and * *Beatles-Beatles are alternating. I guess after ShuffleMoney received some goodies from * *B-B, now Zonk wanted to start cashing in as well, giving RP some ad time for his blog once a day.
Complete bullshit you are writing here. Either you're a troll, or your mind got severely damaged during birth or something (most probably though through the extended use of Windows). I should have known right away, since you are marked as a foe of one of my friends. Darn.
Oh, and BTW, PowerPC cpus can do multitasking just fine, which only proves that you have no clue about what you are talking.
Nice try, except with a logitech "mac comptaible" USB keyboard ***NONE*** of the keyboard shortcuts work with the mac-mini. Not "hold C" or "alt-option-o-f" or the many others. Not a single one. You probably need a blessed official Apple keyboard or something.
I'v investigated this issue a bit, and as it looks, there are indeed some problems with non-Apple keyboards at the low level, i.e. when you want to interact with OF at boot. Some Logitech keyboards seem to work though (besides the Apple ones of course).
OTOH I may have found a solution to your problem: before you reboot to boot from the non-MacOS X install medium (i.e. Debian, *BSD, whatever), open a shell in OS X and type:
% nvram auto-boot?="false"
This will automatically drop you into the OF console after power-up or reboot. (See excerpt of dW article below.)
Frankly I'm not impressed by a computer lacking a BIOS [or monitor of some sort]. Even my 8051 board has startup software to help use it...
BS, OpenFirmware IS a BIOS, it just has another name! And you can use OF just fine! In fact, it's quite advanced when comaper to a PC-style BIOS.
Many people assume that, since the Mac doesn't display a prompt to enter a PC-style BIOS, it's not configurable. In fact, it's quite the opposite: the Mac's boot firmware is years more advanced than PC boot firmware. It has a command prompt which is a full-featured Forth interpreter. Open Firmware needs some kind of console. On older Macs, you could use a serial port, but the Mini doesn't have serial ports, so Open Firmware connects to the keyboard and display by default. The display has to be some kind of VGA display. The video output won't work properly until the system's fully booted, because the boot firmware doesn't know about video refresh rates. If you went ahead and got into Open Firmware without knowing this, just type mac-boot to cause it to boot up. Open Firmware is also useful for ejecting stuck CDs; the Mini has no eject button. The trick is to get into Open Firmware and type eject cd.
In the long run, you might want a way not to use a display. Displays chew up power, and if you're using the machine in an embedded project, you may not have any actual use for one. You're in luck: Open Firmware can be configured to run over the network! All recent Macs, including the Mini, support this. Apple's Tech Note 2004 (see Resources) discusses the procedure for setting this up. This does require an ethernet connection: you can't use the wireless network to do it.
A few other likely things to do at the Open Firmware console are disabling auto-booting (setenv auto-boot? false), or setting the machine to verbose boot mode (setenv boot-args -v). Verbose boot mode will be familiar to experienced UNIX users, who have probably been wondering where the familiar and comforting string of console messages have been going all this time.
Verbose booting is most useful if you're trying to debug driver problems that occur early in the boot. You can also tell the machine to go into verbose boot mode by holding down command-V.
So, I recently looked at the Mac Mini and it got me thinking, why couldn't PCs have an external power supply, like the Mac Mini or notebooks.
Then why not buy the Mac Mini? You can do all you want to do with it, and if you have absolutely the need for it, you can always install GNU/Linux on it.
Well, in this case I'm happy you'll be able to continue to read my annoying comments.
Neither history nor you have proven me wrong.:)
So you are postulating that the tons of writers and philosophers who held up the mirror to society in the past were unsuccessful? C'mon, you are making yourself ridiculous here.
Hmm, I checked some more/. pages, and it turns out that only sometimes the rel="nofollow" is added (being it in on links in the comment header or in the comment body itself). I couldn't find a pattern though.
Take a look at e.g. http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=172568 &cid=14368210. User "FooAtWFU (699187)"'s link in the comment header does not have the attribute, whereas the link in the comment heads of user "Kelz (611260)" has it. Looks like just another slashcode bug.
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So much for freedom of speach and anti-censorship, for which Slashdot tries to stand.
Oh, and yeah, http://slashdot.org/~Roland%20Piquepaille is a troll (though he seems to be inactive since August).
Sorry, but you are wrong. Look at this and previous stories submitted by him: they all end in the sentence "... article is pretty entertaining, but this overview contains more details, pictures and references.", which is a link to his blog on zdnet.
Oh, and about the humor, I guess it's just whoever has mod points ATM is still ways too drunk to hit the correct buttons.
Oh, and BTW, PowerPC cpus can do multitasking just fine, which only proves that you have no clue about what you are talking.
% nvram auto-boot?="false"
This disables auto-booting and will drop you into the OF console after power-up or reboot.
HTH
OTOH I may have found a solution to your problem: before you reboot to boot from the non-MacOS X install medium (i.e. Debian, *BSD, whatever), open a shell in OS X and type:
% nvram auto-boot?="false"
This will automatically drop you into the OF console after power-up or reboot. (See excerpt of dW article below.)
BS, OpenFirmware IS a BIOS, it just has another name! And you can use OF just fine! In fact, it's quite advanced when comaper to a PC-style BIOS.From An embedded view of the Mac Mini, Part 1:
But simply google for 'linux mac mini'. First hit is Installing Debian GNU/Linux on the Mac Mini, an easy to follow guide on how to set up Debian.
Oh, and BTW, a driver for the Broadcom chipset used by Airport Extreme is indeed available now!
Well, in this case I'm happy you'll be able to continue to read my annoying comments.
So you are postulating that the tons of writers and philosophers who held up the mirror to society in the past were unsuccessful? C'mon, you are making yourself ridiculous here.
Take a look at e.g. http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=172568 &cid=14368210. User "FooAtWFU (699187)"'s link in the comment header does not have the attribute, whereas the link in the comment heads of user "Kelz (611260)" has it. Looks like just another slashcode bug.