> Or is it just me who haven't been following anything in the Mac hardware world for years.
Yes. All macs since the late 1980s have supported multiple button mice. All macs shipping now come with a 4 button mouse with horizontal and vertical scroller.
Choice I suppose. If you ever needed a few KDE apps, then here's a solution. If you ever spent your time 50/50 in OS X and KDE, this is the best way to go - if only fink were a little more up to date with KDE packages in a consistent sense.
One of the parts omitted from the article was a demonstration by Si, the guy who wrote the article, of a KDE desktop running on one monitor and OS X running on the other - both controlled by the same G4. For him, it works well and documenting how it was done just makes sense. Not everyone has the complete knowledge needed to get this up and running if they DO need it.
It's certainly not going to suit everyone - nor even the majority of people using OSX/KDE, but it's going to make life just a little more comfortable for the few who need to use both regularly.
I guess I should write up my tutorial on how to run fluxbox on OS X, and my follow up, setting environment variables to allow Terminal.app to interact with the X server.
Do it. Don't put down documentation on any process that others might not have done - there are many MANY people who might not have the experience to come up with the solution on their own, but who may benefit from it.
The attitude that writing documentation on the simple stuff is pointless is the reason so many man pages, web pages, FAQs and howtos on open source software sucks dog nuts.
Not everyone is geek enough to know how to do some of the cool things - that knowledge comes about for those of us who are geeky enough to enjoy learning the ins and outs of everything for its own sake. Other people, the majority, need to see how something can work when set up well before they'll accept it.
Granted I don't use Airport Express (which as far as I know still doesn't work)
If anyone is desperate for Airport Express to work, you can run a Mac-On-Linux session, and tunnel the linux networking via MOL, which uses the broadcom chipsetted Airport Express natively. It's a big ugly cumbersome workaround... but it works until those in the know can get a Linux native driver together.
Always worth mentioning is the Software used to interact with the device itself. Shuffle gets iTunes, DJ Ditty gets Music Match Jukebox or WMP10 as supported controller software.
Anyone familiar with both of these that can give an honest appraisal of how one compares to the other? For the smaller players the software used to sync/manage mp3s is more important than for the larger ones, as presumably people will be using those to re-fill the small players more often.
If you have a library of a few GB of songs, how effortless is it to fill the player with music of a certain kind, from certain playlists, smart playlists of say tracks you haven't listened to in more than six months... or ones you've never listened to much, or your most popular tracks, and so on.
(personally I regard a music player with only 512MB to be more an extension of the jukebox software on the PC than the other way around - hence the importance I'd put on that software being Awesome(tm))
Given the fairly different ecologies of Mars and Earth, I'd say it would have to just be a co-incidence (unless it's external pressures such as the sun causing it, although I doubt the sun has THAT much influence).
I wouldn't doubt that the sun has that much influence. Perhaps a stable sun SHOULDN'T have that much influence - but then there's a great deal we don't know.
There are some theories that part of global warming is due to differences in the sun's output. Many who subscribe to that theory are the deniers of man's contribution to atmospheric changes, but others find it a plausible contributor to SOME of the warming that's going on.
Gathering data from Mars gives a possible 'control' in the experiment we're all running with earth's atmosphere. If we find earth's temperature rise slows (or goes backwards) at the same time Mars does the apparent same, then there's more study to be done on what's affecting earth.
It's all information, it'll all be useful to us in some way. Drawing conclusions from 3 years worth of data may be premature, but the mars surveyor isn't going away any time soon. More info will come in
Sounds very familiar not just in corporations. My mother used to cook in a hospital kitchen, and bit by bit the resources given to the cooks were reduced. fewer hours were made available to work, less time to prepare food properly, a kitchen remodelling that reduced space available in order to boost the look of a cafeteria that only staff used. Two kitchen staff were laid off, and working to any kind of sane deadlines (read: just being able to feed patients) was impossible.
So when the crunch point came and the whole hospital was complaining about the delays in feeding patients, the hospital appointed THREE new managers and one consultant to figure out what was going wrong.
Could have just listened to the people who were trying to do the job.
Saw a great comparison on firefox and mozilla a few months ago. Looking at the age of critical vulnerabilities and the time it took to patch them, IE was safe to use for a total of seven days in 2004. All other days had an unpatched known critical vulnerability. Firefox fared better by far, being only vulnerable for small patches at a time.
If I weren't so lazy I'd find the comparison. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader and google.
The broadcom chipset is now usable with a workaround. Admittedly a large ugly one, but depending how desperate you are for internal wireless support (iBook owners especially) or just something to mess around with, it may be worth it. Essentially the iBook runs a MOL session with a minimal OS X inside, and tunnels networking over Apple's OS. Uses more resources than it should, but it works.
Take a look on the gentoo forums where this has been tried by several people over the last month.
I think the most important part of the ROKR being so underwhelming is that it looks like steve didn't even try. It was introduced, it left the stage, and was promptly forgotten.
Steve is a master marketer if nothing else, and there's no way he wouldn't have known the iPod nano presentation would utterly eclipse it. The question I ask is why so much in the way of underwhelming promotion from Apple themselves? So many people online (and I realise this isn't an ultimate metric of possible popularity) have clamoured for an iTunes phone, hoping for a brilliant interface, ipod-style design, a phone they could really enjoy using as something different.
For steve to accept something like the ROKR makes me suspect he has a point to make, but I'm not sure just what it is yet.
Apache came from and was written for *ix systems, so no I don't think they're serious about supporting Windows as anything more than a token effort, one that came in place due to the possibile support from the vast community of windows developers.
Unfortunately Windows Developers doesn't have as much overlap with Open Source Supporters as do the *ix devs. It's just one of those things, and in the end Apache depends on open source contributions for development.
It's similar with GIMP on Windows. It works, but there are so many little quirks that make using it a unique experience compared to the Linux version, the benefits of one platform don't translate directly to the other.
The existence of life isn't the only interesting thing on Titan. On earth we have so many processes underway because the temperature allows water to exist in three forms where it can mould and shape the planet physically, without even considering chemical effects.
A lake of methane with floating methanebergs, in an atmosphere of methane rain, waves and floods still makes an interesting environment to study, compared to the uncountable numbers of objects out there that are just iron covered in million year old dust.
The idea here is detection before anything else. There may be other methods of repair, power or communication, but the first part of the process is knowing just where the damage is caused.
Imagine a car that can sense it has a broken taillight. That might seem like some minor technology, but alerting a driver that the left rear taillight is out may be all that's needed, and repair or awareness that the break exists is already making a drive safer.
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So the two morons I am forced to sit next to at work who never get off the phone can broadcast MORE OF THEIR VOICE TO ME.
I'd break down crying if I weren't already burnt out inside.
pfft. 30 gigs ought to be enough for anybody.
But it works anyway
Which is why people use it, because it continues to work.
People will understand that it isn't a file transport medium when it stops BEING a file transport medium.
It's many other things, but it's also a file transport medium. Been that way for decades now.
> Or is it just me who haven't been following anything in the Mac hardware world for years.
Yes. All macs since the late 1980s have supported multiple button mice. All macs shipping now come with a 4 button mouse with horizontal and vertical scroller.
Choice I suppose. If you ever needed a few KDE apps, then here's a solution. If you ever spent your time 50/50 in OS X and KDE, this is the best way to go - if only fink were a little more up to date with KDE packages in a consistent sense.
One of the parts omitted from the article was a demonstration by Si, the guy who wrote the article, of a KDE desktop running on one monitor and OS X running on the other - both controlled by the same G4. For him, it works well and documenting how it was done just makes sense. Not everyone has the complete knowledge needed to get this up and running if they DO need it.
It's certainly not going to suit everyone - nor even the majority of people using OSX/KDE, but it's going to make life just a little more comfortable for the few who need to use both regularly.
I guess I should write up my tutorial on how to run fluxbox on OS X, and my follow up, setting environment variables to allow Terminal.app to interact with the X server.
Do it. Don't put down documentation on any process that others might not have done - there are many MANY people who might not have the experience to come up with the solution on their own, but who may benefit from it.
The attitude that writing documentation on the simple stuff is pointless is the reason so many man pages, web pages, FAQs and howtos on open source software sucks dog nuts.
Not everyone is geek enough to know how to do some of the cool things - that knowledge comes about for those of us who are geeky enough to enjoy learning the ins and outs of everything for its own sake. Other people, the majority, need to see how something can work when set up well before they'll accept it.
Its not like they've replaced the nice, flashy GUI with KDE.
Yes. actually. Yes it is.
login to OSX as >console - then enter your normal login details at the text only screen that follows
type startx
enjoy KDE running on X running without Aqua/Quartz/Other OS X gui crap.
Granted I don't use Airport Express (which as far as I know still doesn't work)
If anyone is desperate for Airport Express to work, you can run a Mac-On-Linux session, and tunnel the linux networking via MOL, which uses the broadcom chipsetted Airport Express natively. It's a big ugly cumbersome workaround... but it works until those in the know can get a Linux native driver together.
See the gentoo forums for more into.
Always worth mentioning is the Software used to interact with the device itself. Shuffle gets iTunes, DJ Ditty gets Music Match Jukebox or WMP10 as supported controller software.
Anyone familiar with both of these that can give an honest appraisal of how one compares to the other? For the smaller players the software used to sync/manage mp3s is more important than for the larger ones, as presumably people will be using those to re-fill the small players more often.
If you have a library of a few GB of songs, how effortless is it to fill the player with music of a certain kind, from certain playlists, smart playlists of say tracks you haven't listened to in more than six months... or ones you've never listened to much, or your most popular tracks, and so on.
(personally I regard a music player with only 512MB to be more an extension of the jukebox software on the PC than the other way around - hence the importance I'd put on that software being Awesome(tm))
Given the fairly different ecologies of Mars and Earth, I'd say it would have to just be a co-incidence (unless it's external pressures such as the sun causing it, although I doubt the sun has THAT much influence).
I wouldn't doubt that the sun has that much influence. Perhaps a stable sun SHOULDN'T have that much influence - but then there's a great deal we don't know.
There are some theories that part of global warming is due to differences in the sun's output. Many who subscribe to that theory are the deniers of man's contribution to atmospheric changes, but others find it a plausible contributor to SOME of the warming that's going on.
Gathering data from Mars gives a possible 'control' in the experiment we're all running with earth's atmosphere. If we find earth's temperature rise slows (or goes backwards) at the same time Mars does the apparent same, then there's more study to be done on what's affecting earth.
It's all information, it'll all be useful to us in some way. Drawing conclusions from 3 years worth of data may be premature, but the mars surveyor isn't going away any time soon. More info will come in
Sounds very familiar not just in corporations. My mother used to cook in a hospital kitchen, and bit by bit the resources given to the cooks were reduced. fewer hours were made available to work, less time to prepare food properly, a kitchen remodelling that reduced space available in order to boost the look of a cafeteria that only staff used. Two kitchen staff were laid off, and working to any kind of sane deadlines (read: just being able to feed patients) was impossible.
So when the crunch point came and the whole hospital was complaining about the delays in feeding patients, the hospital appointed THREE new managers and one consultant to figure out what was going wrong.
Could have just listened to the people who were trying to do the job.
Saw a great comparison on firefox and mozilla a few months ago. Looking at the age of critical vulnerabilities and the time it took to patch them, IE was safe to use for a total of seven days in 2004. All other days had an unpatched known critical vulnerability. Firefox fared better by far, being only vulnerable for small patches at a time.
If I weren't so lazy I'd find the comparison. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader and google.
The broadcom chipset is now usable with a workaround. Admittedly a large ugly one, but depending how desperate you are for internal wireless support (iBook owners especially) or just something to mess around with, it may be worth it. Essentially the iBook runs a MOL session with a minimal OS X inside, and tunnels networking over Apple's OS. Uses more resources than it should, but it works.
Take a look on the gentoo forums where this has been tried by several people over the last month.
Depends where in the world you are. In parts of britain Grog is Port. In much of Australia, Grog is anything you can get drunk on cheaply.
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I think the most important part of the ROKR being so underwhelming is that it looks like steve didn't even try. It was introduced, it left the stage, and was promptly forgotten.
Steve is a master marketer if nothing else, and there's no way he wouldn't have known the iPod nano presentation would utterly eclipse it. The question I ask is why so much in the way of underwhelming promotion from Apple themselves? So many people online (and I realise this isn't an ultimate metric of possible popularity) have clamoured for an iTunes phone, hoping for a brilliant interface, ipod-style design, a phone they could really enjoy using as something different.
For steve to accept something like the ROKR makes me suspect he has a point to make, but I'm not sure just what it is yet.
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Apache came from and was written for *ix systems, so no I don't think they're serious about supporting Windows as anything more than a token effort, one that came in place due to the possibile support from the vast community of windows developers.
Unfortunately Windows Developers doesn't have as much overlap with Open Source Supporters as do the *ix devs. It's just one of those things, and in the end Apache depends on open source contributions for development.
It's similar with GIMP on Windows. It works, but there are so many little quirks that make using it a unique experience compared to the Linux version, the benefits of one platform don't translate directly to the other.
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The existence of life isn't the only interesting thing on Titan. On earth we have so many processes underway because the temperature allows water to exist in three forms where it can mould and shape the planet physically, without even considering chemical effects.
A lake of methane with floating methanebergs, in an atmosphere of methane rain, waves and floods still makes an interesting environment to study, compared to the uncountable numbers of objects out there that are just iron covered in million year old dust.
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The idea here is detection before anything else. There may be other methods of repair, power or communication, but the first part of the process is knowing just where the damage is caused.
Imagine a car that can sense it has a broken taillight. That might seem like some minor technology, but alerting a driver that the left rear taillight is out may be all that's needed, and repair or awareness that the break exists is already making a drive safer.
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