Ireland's been working on alternative energy sources for quite some time - over 80 years for hydro. There are now six hydro-electric stations - not bad for a country of 4 million.
Lately, the ESB has been focussing their attention on wind power. Here's a link to the carnsore windfarm near my partner's parents home. Ironically, this was originally the site for Ireland first nuclear power station (it never happened, BTW!).
Someone who appreciates the pizza-box design!:-) The LCIII and LC470 were the same - pop two tabs on the back & the whole top and front of the system is removed. Three more seconds & the HD, CD-ROM and DRAM are out. Seriously cool.... when the Performa series came out, they lost the plot a bit but even then, you could pull a logic board without opening the case. Two screws & the thing slides out of the back of the computer.
Like I just pointed out on another thread, the source has been posted here.
The guy goes on to say;
Woke up, fell out of bed... rampaged by a slashdot horde.
Some clarifications to the slashdot crowd:
I am sorry so many of you thought this page was a hoax only because no source code was supplied (I'm sure you'll all agree, now that you can see the code, that it is both straightforward and crappy).
I agree with your fink comment. Fink is great but it's not for the average Mac user. However, on setting up X on Jaguar, I disagree. Download two pkgs and double-click 'em - how easy can it get? The pkg even puts an alias with a big 'X' in the dock. You click on it and X starts up rootless. It's a dream...
You don't *need* fink to install X! Want me to say it again?
X just works on Jaguar. More and more X11 apps are being packaged for that 1-click(tm) response that Mac users are so accustomed to.
Sure, you and I use fink - but then again I suspect you and I don't run the average X11 apps, either. The GIMP is now available as a.pkg download for the Mac. Download & click, buy the CD and click, whichever. It JUST WORKS.....
I don't know where you're getting your "fiddling around dozens of megabytes of stuff and going into the command line", 'coz it doesn't apply in this case.
[Full disclosure: I work for Apple as a developer but right now, I'm speaking for myself. Just before someone else brings this up]
g4dget wasn't really listening to you. They saw your mention of fink and ran with it.
You also said that you dl'd the xterm sources and re-built it. Well and good, but there's been a package for this since round about the time Jag was released. I pointed out that there's no need for a build - just grab the xterm updater and go.
I'd say your comments were largely right-on & g4dget needs to wake up & read the responses...
Requiring people to download X11 source code, fink, and the entire development environment in order to be able to pop up an xterm is absolutely ridiculous.
You don't have to. You simply download the XFree86 package for MacOS X and click on it to install. If you like your X to have all that Aqua gooeyness, download the excellent OrborOSX package & perform a single-click install.
To upgrade to Jaguar, download the new XTerm package update (1MB - whoopee). One click and you're done again!
No rpm -u, no make install, no gcc, no fink, no X11 source, no dev env. Now, how difficult is this??
Ok, so the foundation and other frameworks are missing, but it's not fair to completely write off Cocoa as Mac-only as it's not entirely correct.
IMHO, Cocoa is streets ahead of PowerPlant, and I've used both.
And he tried to buy a bonus rating on Tucows. *ack!* I didn't know you could do that. Why not let the software stand on its own merit, instead of artificially pumping it up??
It [redirection of pipes to a window] works in Mac OS X now (well, 10.1.x) but works much better and nicer on a real Unix using SVR3 style RPC calls.
A real UNIX?? Them's fightin' words. Just 'coz he prefers SysV syscalls over BSD! Geez
I had hoped to find new sources of income [porting to Windows].
Congratulations. Welcome to the world of yet-another-text-editor-for-Windows....
Bad - very bad. Cubase SX for MacOS X (when it's *finally* released) will probably be VST only, for a few good reasons;
There's bo-zillions of VST plug-ins out there already
Cubase is cross-platform & the VST format also works on PCs with a re-compile. So why should companies like Steinberg fork their existing plug-ins; VST for x86 and 'audio units' for MacOS X?
VST is popular and seen as 'open'. Audio Units are unknown and are MacOS only and the API is owned by Apple, which will be seen by others as a Bad Thing!
Companies like Bias, Inc. that specialise in VST plug-ins now have to do double(ish) the work to support two platforms & standards. Why?
Oh yeah, and I'm tired of waiting on these guys to release Cubase SX for MacOS X. I love Cubase - been using it since the Atari ST days & I'm sure that Jaguar rollout has been holding them up but now Emagic have pipped them to it.
So, c'mon Charlie - let's have a copy of Cubase SX soon. Please??
I went out and bought an Edirol UM-2 a few weeks ago(at the Apple Store in Cupertino!). Works just great on 9 but when I switched over to Jaguar I was curious as to how Apple got around the lack of OMS in MacOS X.
So I went to the Edirol site, downloaded the experimental X.2 driver, popped it into the
right place (/Library/Audio/MIDI Drivers) - and, hey, it works! The app went on to discover most of my MIDI setup including an antiquated Oberheim OB-8. Apple's new 'Audio Midi Setup' app works almost exactly like OMS, except with a much nicer UI & audio config thrown in.
The downside - absolutely no documentation from Apple, either from built-in help or on-line. There is their audio page but there's precious little about MIDI.
Apple, BTW, already have Logic Platinum 5.3.0 update on their site. You can check it out here (anyone dare./ Apple???:-) ) It's very slick running in Aqua...
Why is the APSL 'restrictive'? It's been given the blessing of esr and the OSI team. I'm sure rms has issues with it, but hey...
Apple have adopted open standards in just about everything they've done without trying to damage them a la M$ & Kerberos. I've seen plenty of Embrace but absolutely no Extend nor Extinguish. Please point some out...
They've based their entire OS core on BSD/Mach and then went on to release the sources, including those of the usual services. I just downloaded bootpd a minute ago, BTW.
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'slashdoting' - is this when a group of people like a site so much, they smother it with love??
Actually, the official English-language name of the country is Ireland.
Except that this leads to political issues. Are you referring to the island of Ireland or the political entity which excludes six of the nine counties of Ulster?
This may sound ultra-pedantic but, as I suspect you know, lotsa people would get really hot under the collar if you suggest that the Republic of Ireland is anything greater than 26 counties (yes, I do live there!)
They're in Doolin, as someone has already pointed out. The exact opposite side of the country.
And, BTW, Southern Ireland refers to Cork, Kerry, etc. I suspect you mean the Republic of Ireland, which is the official name of this country. You only use Éire if you're speaking in Irish, or if you're an American waxing lyrical about the 'Old Country'. Article 4 of The Constitution clearly shows this.
and whether there is any way back to ISO9660 without resorting to Toast.
Well there's always Discribe - I registered my copy last week. And, yeah, it works just fine on Jag. Now you can burn ISO images, as well as DVD. Kewl....:-)
I don't know about you, but I can read numbers about what a display can do all day or I can pick up the two and put them side by side and decide for myself which looks better to me.
Sure, only I bought mine on-line & had only got the published spec to go on, as well as what I'd seen of the M5xx colour series which are actually true 64k machines. I didn't have any Handspring machines to compare to - they don't appear to sell here in Ireland (indeed, some of the Palm models are manufactured here).
Except that people *know* it. Oh look, the crappy Compaq only has a 12-bit screen depth. I think I'll buy the cool Palm M130, 'coz it's got 65,000 colours....
Palm published incorrect information which probably led many away from competitors' products. This is serious stuff. Now those people (including me) feel a bit deceived.
Here are the original pics that broke the story on the Palm message boards..
And, yeah, I do have a Palm M130. My partner recently bought a re-con Handspring at Fry's and I was amazed at the qualitative difference of the tro screens.... *grr*
You don't *have* to update. Just choose the 'make inactive' option from the menu in Software Update & the nasty security update will go away.
Your OS contains the openssl/modssl/apache packages. Software Update knows this. Just 'coz you're not using web sharing today doesn't mean you won't click that button tomorrow & I'm guessing you'd be one of the first people to complain that, when you did, Apple was running a version of openssl on your box that was three revs behind. Right???
If you're not running them, then how's some 'loser script kiddie' gonna break into your system? When's the last time you heard of someone breaking into Apache (1.3.26 on my version of MacOS X)?
Personal web sharing is disabled by default, BTW. This was not the case with IIS...
Furthermore, you don't have to keep getting patches for them. Just stop clicking on that 'software update' button. I'm sure everything will be just fiiiine.
In short - quit bellyaching about patches. They're for your benefit. If you were running Linux, every time openssl rolls you'd have a whole lot of fun DLing the source/RPMs, building/updating a myriad of programs & crossing your fingers in the hope that everything still works. Apple does exactly this for you, packages it up all nice and all you can do is complain? WTF?
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Lately, the ESB has been focussing their attention on wind power. Here's a link to the carnsore windfarm near my partner's parents home. Ironically, this was originally the site for Ireland first nuclear power station (it never happened, BTW!).
Someone who appreciates the pizza-box design! :-) The LCIII and LC470 were the same - pop two tabs on the back & the whole top and front of the system is removed. Three more seconds & the HD, CD-ROM and DRAM are out. Seriously cool .... when the Performa series came out, they lost the plot a bit but even then, you could pull a logic board without opening the case. Two screws & the thing slides out of the back of the computer.
Looks more like DreamWeaver stuff to me.... Site works fine here & I'm using OmniWeb & Mozilla.
The guy goes on to say;
Here it is. The guy has also posted an update here with a little more detail ....
Here it is. I'm a Palm m130 owner & I'm seriously considering taking them up on the offer.....
You don't *need* fink to install X! Want me to say it again?
X just works on Jaguar. More and more X11 apps are being packaged for that 1-click(tm) response that Mac users are so accustomed to.
Sure, you and I use fink - but then again I suspect you and I don't run the average X11 apps, either. The GIMP is now available as a .pkg download for the Mac. Download & click, buy the CD and click, whichever. It JUST WORKS .....
I don't know where you're getting your "fiddling around dozens of megabytes of stuff and going into the command line", 'coz it doesn't apply in this case.
[Full disclosure: I work for Apple as a developer but right now, I'm speaking for myself. Just before someone else brings this up]
You also said that you dl'd the xterm sources and re-built it. Well and good, but there's been a package for this since round about the time Jag was released. I pointed out that there's no need for a build - just grab the xterm updater and go.
I'd say your comments were largely right-on & g4dget needs to wake up & read the responses ...
Slashdot is just a boys club isn't it?
There Is No Cabal. (They made me say that! ;-) )
Wha'?? No mention of Wendy Carlos and the wonderful Tron soundtrack??
You don't have to. You simply download the XFree86 package for MacOS X and click on it to install. If you like your X to have all that Aqua gooeyness, download the excellent OrborOSX package & perform a single-click install.
To upgrade to Jaguar, download the new XTerm package update (1MB - whoopee). One click and you're done again!
No rpm -u, no make install, no gcc, no fink, no X11 source, no dev env. Now, how difficult is this??
Cocoa = ObjectiveC + frameworks.
- ObjectiveC = Apple's own (free beer) DevTools
- ObjectiveC = NeXTStep dev kit.
- ObjectiveC = GNUStep
Ok, so the foundation and other frameworks are missing, but it's not fair to completely write off Cocoa as Mac-only as it's not entirely correct.IMHO, Cocoa is streets ahead of PowerPlant, and I've used both.
And he tried to buy a bonus rating on Tucows. *ack!* I didn't know you could do that. Why not let the software stand on its own merit, instead of artificially pumping it up??
It [redirection of pipes to a window] works in Mac OS X now (well, 10.1.x) but works much better and nicer on a real Unix using SVR3 style RPC calls.
A real UNIX?? Them's fightin' words. Just 'coz he prefers SysV syscalls over BSD! Geez
I had hoped to find new sources of income [porting to Windows].
Congratulations. Welcome to the world of yet-another-text-editor-for-Windows ....
- There's bo-zillions of VST plug-ins out there already
- Cubase is cross-platform & the VST format also works on PCs with a re-compile. So why should companies like Steinberg fork their existing plug-ins; VST for x86 and 'audio units' for MacOS X?
- VST is popular and seen as 'open'. Audio Units are unknown and are MacOS only and the API is owned by Apple, which will be seen by others as a Bad Thing!
- Companies like Bias, Inc. that specialise in VST plug-ins now have to do double(ish) the work to support two platforms & standards. Why?
Just MHOSo, c'mon Charlie - let's have a copy of Cubase SX soon. Please??
So I went to the Edirol site, downloaded the experimental X.2 driver, popped it into the right place (/Library/Audio/MIDI Drivers) - and, hey, it works! The app went on to discover most of my MIDI setup including an antiquated Oberheim OB-8. Apple's new 'Audio Midi Setup' app works almost exactly like OMS, except with a much nicer UI & audio config thrown in.
The downside - absolutely no documentation from Apple, either from built-in help or on-line. There is their audio page but there's precious little about MIDI.
Apple, BTW, already have Logic Platinum 5.3.0 update on their site. You can check it out here (anyone dare ./ Apple??? :-) ) It's very slick running in Aqua ...
Apple have adopted open standards in just about everything they've done without trying to damage them a la M$ & Kerberos. I've seen plenty of Embrace but absolutely no Extend nor Extinguish. Please point some out ...
They've based their entire OS core on BSD/Mach and then went on to release the sources, including those of the usual services. I just downloaded bootpd a minute ago, BTW.
(Sorry, sorry. Spelling humour .. :-/ )
Except that this leads to political issues. Are you referring to the island of Ireland or the political entity which excludes six of the nine counties of Ulster?
This may sound ultra-pedantic but, as I suspect you know, lotsa people would get really hot under the collar if you suggest that the Republic of Ireland is anything greater than 26 counties (yes, I do live there!)
They're in Doolin, as someone has already pointed out. The exact opposite side of the country.
And, BTW, Southern Ireland refers to Cork, Kerry, etc. I suspect you mean the Republic of Ireland, which is the official name of this country. You only use Éire if you're speaking in Irish, or if you're an American waxing lyrical about the 'Old Country'. Article 4 of The Constitution clearly shows this.
Mod accordingly ... :-/
Well there's always Discribe - I registered my copy last week. And, yeah, it works just fine on Jag. Now you can burn ISO images, as well as DVD. Kewl .... :-)
Sure, only I bought mine on-line & had only got the published spec to go on, as well as what I'd seen of the M5xx colour series which are actually true 64k machines. I didn't have any Handspring machines to compare to - they don't appear to sell here in Ireland (indeed, some of the Palm models are manufactured here).
Palm published incorrect information which probably led many away from competitors' products. This is serious stuff. Now those people (including me) feel a bit deceived.
And, yeah, I do have a Palm M130. My partner recently bought a re-con Handspring at Fry's and I was amazed at the qualitative difference of the tro screens .... *grr*
Your OS contains the openssl/modssl/apache packages. Software Update knows this. Just 'coz you're not using web sharing today doesn't mean you won't click that button tomorrow & I'm guessing you'd be one of the first people to complain that, when you did, Apple was running a version of openssl on your box that was three revs behind. Right???
Personal web sharing is disabled by default, BTW. This was not the case with IIS ...
Furthermore, you don't have to keep getting patches for them. Just stop clicking on that 'software update' button. I'm sure everything will be just fiiiine.
In short - quit bellyaching about patches. They're for your benefit. If you were running Linux, every time openssl rolls you'd have a whole lot of fun DLing the source/RPMs, building/updating a myriad of programs & crossing your fingers in the hope that everything still works. Apple does exactly this for you, packages it up all nice and all you can do is complain? WTF?