Do not, I repeat, do NOT help your friends and family to maintain Windows PCs for free. Tell them to either pay for your support, or switch to a better OS.
My dad replaced his old iMac G3 with a Dell at Xmas (sigh, he would have gotten the Mini if it had been available a few weeks earlier). If I ever detect it as being trojaned, I will report him to Comcast abuse department and try to get his connection shut off.
The 12" PB comes with 256 on-board + 256 SO-DIMM, upgradeable to 256 + 512 for $75 (or 256 + 1024 for absurd $$$).
The 15" & 17" come with 1x 512 SO-DIMM, upgradeable at outrageous prices. Buy the extra RAM 3rd party; the point is that you don't have to waste the original 512 (unless you really need 2GB).
I'm more glad they finally installed the right amount of RAM: 512MB on a single stick. First off, no Mac should ship with 256MB, especially not a "pro" machine. Second, last year's high-end models came with 2x256MB sticks, which means you lose half of it when you upgrade. Adding a 512MB stick (for 768 total) was severely value-deficient, and unfortunately 1GB SO-DIMMs are still at a nasty price premium.
Um... the keyboard is NOT tiny. Hold a standard keyboard up against an AlBook, you'll see that the main keys are exactly the same width.
Yes, I suppose on the 17" they could have gone wild and put in full-height arrow keys, maybe even a number pad. But the keyboard is already normal size.
Right. Last year's AlBooks, even though they are great and I do not regret buying mine, did suffer from random quality problems (bad PMUs, the screen blobs, etc) because they were a significant redesign. This new model is clearly AlBook 1.5
Every time I sit down at my Mac to work with Maya, the first thing I do is plug in a three-button mouse with scroll wheel -- and so does everybody else
Wow, you must have a really enourmous USB hub at your desk to accomodate all those mice!
Ba dum bump. I'll be here all week. Why don't you just plug a scroll mouse in permanently and be done with it?
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Define "differently". There's a very large difference between "shifted a few pixels but functionally equivalent" and "completely unusable in browser X". Where in the spectrum does your site fall?
If the layout is basically the same and the menus work, you shouldn't have a problem. However, if your code is so fragile that a single word flowing to the next line causes things to break, you would need a better design.
No matter whose name you see on the box, Alpha Centauri is actually a Brian Reynolds game, not Sid Meier. Brian left to form BHG, so Firaxis making AC2 would either not happen or not meet your expectations.
I could buy a really solid Athlon 64 system w/ more memory, disk, and a better video card.
...which will weigh 30 pounds, sound like a vacuum cleaner, and have a lesser warranty. But if those are not factors for you, then yes, you can get a more price-efficient x86 box.
Except that the Mini uses normal DDR SDRAM. Even if you ignore generics, you can get 1GB of Kingston or Crucial for about $200.
Apple's upgrade is a 62% markup, and that doesn't even count the loss of the original 256MB chip (which you could sell for a few bucks or use in another system). Still not worth the price.
No, you're badly misreading that sentence. DSLExtreme's FAQ states exactly what Drakkon and Xtifr said:
Does DSLExtreme filter any ports?
A port 25 (outgoing mail) filter is applied to all customers to prevent against spam generated from our network. Customers who wish to have the filter removed in order to run a mail server may do so by registering at: https://secure.dslextreme.com/reg_server
By registering your mail server with DSL Extreme, you are agreeing to the terms and conditions listed at http://www.dslextreme.com/aup.htm . In addition, we will periodically scan port 25 over your DSL line to make sure your mail server is not an open relay. If we find an open relay on your mail server, the port 25 filter will be reinstated and you will be notified by the contact email address entered above.
DSLExtreme reserves the right to block any port without prior notice to protect the network and the end users from potential virus attacks spreading over a certain port.
One of the most enlightened commercial AUPs I've seen in a while.
Imagine the movie Adaptation set in a San Francisco bath house instead of a New York apartment. That's collaborative metafiction. Then imagine the same thing happening on the internet. That's collaborative metafiction on SubEthaEdit.
will web designers really consider making their sites compatible with 92% of IE and 5% of FireFox?
What we really SHOULD do (but most don't) is very simple:
do your best to follow HTML/CSS/ECMA/DOM standards,
then
make it work in IE without destroying step 1
If your site is validator-compliant (or at least reasonably close), you should EXPECT Gecko & KHTML to render it properly. If they fail, it's on them to fix it.
Bullcrap. When we hire contract programmers, we set the damn terms. Term 1 is "we get full source code". Term 2 is "you get the last payment when we're sure it works". If the outsource won't agree, don't hire them. Doing otherwise is a big fat casino gamble.
The poster's project manager has failed at his job and deserves a kick in the nether regions.
Although I agree that the August briefing isn't as damning as some people like to claim, you're way off base. Bush withholds so very much MORE information than any other president in modern history.
Bush changed FOIA policy from Default Allow (unless dangerous) to Default Deny (unless safe and non-incriminating).
Bush retroactively vetoed the 1978 Presidential Records Act (enacted to prevent future Watergates) with Executive Order 13233.
Speaking of Watergate, Richard Nixon's former White House Counsel thinks the level of Bush secrecy is higher than he ever faced, and downright scary.
And so on, and so on, and so on. Saying "every President hides something" doesn't cut it.
my iBook G4 which I love dearly, but on which Warcraft 3 is slow, UT runs in Classic
Three points of dispute:
How much RAM in your iBook? Anything less than 512 isn't suitable for gaming.
Your lovable iBook only has a 32MB 9200 card. Try a 64+MB 9600 or GF5xxx and you'll see different.
And yes, this is the main thing that needs to be upgraded in MiniMac v2 (hopefully by August).
Damn straight. The day that I heard the concept for Enterprise, my immediate reaction was "this could be really cool, if and only if they NEVER say 'phase modulation'." Setting it in the lower-tech past should have been the perfect way to prevent particle-of-the-week syndrome. But they managed to screw it up anyways.
Network Executive: We at the network want a dog with attitude. He's edgy. You've heard the expression "Let's get busy"? Well, this is a dog who gets biz-ay; consistently and thoroughly. Krusty: So he's proactive? Executive: Oh, God yes! We're talking about a totally outrageous paradigm. Writer: Excuse me, but "proactive" and "paradigm"? Aren't those just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? Not that I'm accusing you of anything like that... I'm fired aren't I?
Badly-coded sites often work in IE because IE allows lots of special case exceptions to deal with sloppy HTML. Also, lots of sites use IE-specific proprietary code (document.all, ActiveX, etc) instead of using web standards.
Mozilla, for the most part, will read your DOCTYPE (et al) and render exactly what your page says, even if it isn't what you intended. If that's a problem, you should contact the offending sites.
The Apple web site, which runs on Mac OS X, experienced some slowdowns but was largely available. Apple's online store (also on Mac OS X) struggled, however, experiencing outages and lengthy response times. Faring even worse was the official site for MacWorld Expo, which runs on Windows Server 2003, and was offline for hours following the show's keynote address by Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
Timothy actually read the article before posting the story. You should be happy about that.
Plastic, steel, etc, are WAY more difficult to produce and/or manipulate than glass. They require a functioning mechanical culture already. Glass could be made by people barely out of the stone age.
BTW, are there any reasonable-cost plastics that can match the corrosion resistance of glass? Metals certainly can't.
Abundant, easy, malleable, nontoxic, and so damn useful it's still a standard today. (how much non-decorative bronze do you see around you?) Yeah, I'm willing to say it could well be an intentionally planted gift.
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Do not, I repeat, do NOT help your friends and family to maintain Windows PCs for free. Tell them to either pay for your support, or switch to a better OS.
My dad replaced his old iMac G3 with a Dell at Xmas (sigh, he would have gotten the Mini if it had been available a few weeks earlier). If I ever detect it as being trojaned, I will report him to Comcast abuse department and try to get his connection shut off.
The 12" PB comes with 256 on-board + 256 SO-DIMM, upgradeable to 256 + 512 for $75 (or 256 + 1024 for absurd $$$).
The 15" & 17" come with 1x 512 SO-DIMM, upgradeable at outrageous prices. Buy the extra RAM 3rd party; the point is that you don't have to waste the original 512 (unless you really need 2GB).
I'm more glad they finally installed the right amount of RAM: 512MB on a single stick. First off, no Mac should ship with 256MB, especially not a "pro" machine. Second, last year's high-end models came with 2x256MB sticks, which means you lose half of it when you upgrade. Adding a 512MB stick (for 768 total) was severely value-deficient, and unfortunately 1GB SO-DIMMs are still at a nasty price premium.
Um... the keyboard is NOT tiny. Hold a standard keyboard up against an AlBook, you'll see that the main keys are exactly the same width.
Yes, I suppose on the 17" they could have gone wild and put in full-height arrow keys, maybe even a number pad. But the keyboard is already normal size.
Right. Last year's AlBooks, even though they are great and I do not regret buying mine, did suffer from random quality problems (bad PMUs, the screen blobs, etc) because they were a significant redesign. This new model is clearly AlBook 1.5
Wow, you must have a really enourmous USB hub at your desk to accomodate all those mice!
Ba dum bump. I'll be here all week. Why don't you just plug a scroll mouse in permanently and be done with it?Define "differently". There's a very large difference between "shifted a few pixels but functionally equivalent" and "completely unusable in browser X". Where in the spectrum does your site fall?
If the layout is basically the same and the menus work, you shouldn't have a problem. However, if your code is so fragile that a single word flowing to the next line causes things to break, you would need a better design.Two words: Tech Evangelism. Submit a bug report. Round up other affected users. Track down site contacts. Politely complain until they fix it.
Some sites will ignore you. Others won't. My bank's site works fine in Firefox and even Safari, because enough customers asked for it.No matter whose name you see on the box, Alpha Centauri is actually a Brian Reynolds game, not Sid Meier. Brian left to form BHG, so Firaxis making AC2 would either not happen or not meet your expectations.
...Except when the Nav computer gets infected and 0WNZ0Red.
...which will weigh 30 pounds, sound like a vacuum cleaner, and have a lesser warranty. But if those are not factors for you, then yes, you can get a more price-efficient x86 box.
Except that the Mini uses normal DDR SDRAM. Even if you ignore generics, you can get 1GB of Kingston or Crucial for about $200.
Apple's upgrade is a 62% markup, and that doesn't even count the loss of the original 256MB chip (which you could sell for a few bucks or use in another system). Still not worth the price.
Imagine the movie Adaptation set in a San Francisco bath house instead of a New York apartment. That's collaborative metafiction. Then imagine the same thing happening on the internet. That's collaborative metafiction on SubEthaEdit.
Any questions?
What we really SHOULD do (but most don't) is very simple:
- do your best to follow HTML/CSS/ECMA/DOM standards,
- make it work in IE without destroying step 1
If your site is validator-compliant (or at least reasonably close), you should EXPECT Gecko & KHTML to render it properly. If they fail, it's on them to fix it.then
Bullcrap. When we hire contract programmers, we set the damn terms. Term 1 is "we get full source code". Term 2 is "you get the last payment when we're sure it works". If the outsource won't agree, don't hire them. Doing otherwise is a big fat casino gamble.
The poster's project manager has failed at his job and deserves a kick in the nether regions.
Although I agree that the August briefing isn't as damning as some people like to claim, you're way off base. Bush withholds so very much MORE information than any other president in modern history.
Bush changed FOIA policy from Default Allow (unless dangerous) to Default Deny (unless safe and non-incriminating).
Bush retroactively vetoed the 1978 Presidential Records Act (enacted to prevent future Watergates) with Executive Order 13233.
Speaking of Watergate, Richard Nixon's former White House Counsel thinks the level of Bush secrecy is higher than he ever faced, and downright scary.
And so on, and so on, and so on. Saying "every President hides something" doesn't cut it.
Three points of dispute:
And yes, this is the main thing that needs to be upgraded in MiniMac v2 (hopefully by August).
Damn straight. The day that I heard the concept for Enterprise, my immediate reaction was "this could be really cool, if and only if they NEVER say 'phase modulation'." Setting it in the lower-tech past should have been the perfect way to prevent particle-of-the-week syndrome. But they managed to screw it up anyways.
Badly-coded sites often work in IE because IE allows lots of special case exceptions to deal with sloppy HTML. Also, lots of sites use IE-specific proprietary code (document.all, ActiveX, etc) instead of using web standards.
Mozilla, for the most part, will read your DOCTYPE (et al) and render exactly what your page says, even if it isn't what you intended. If that's a problem, you should contact the offending sites.
You don't have to take someone's word for it, you can see the packets for yourself.
/8), AS714.
www.apple.com maps (forwards and backwards) to 17.254.0.91, in Apple's good old class A netblock (aka
OTOH, images.apple.com points to Akamai's horde of Edge servers, which includes two addresses within my local network (YMMV).
Timothy actually read the article before posting the story. You should be happy about that.
However, the first two can be partially met by Firewire: VirtualDVHS and IP over Firewire. But I'm still waiting for my PowerMac LC.
Plastic, steel, etc, are WAY more difficult to produce and/or manipulate than glass. They require a functioning mechanical culture already. Glass could be made by people barely out of the stone age.
BTW, are there any reasonable-cost plastics that can match the corrosion resistance of glass? Metals certainly can't.
Abundant, easy, malleable, nontoxic, and so damn useful it's still a standard today. (how much non-decorative bronze do you see around you?) Yeah, I'm willing to say it could well be an intentionally planted gift.