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OpenBSD was never meant for desktops, it's meant for servers/routers/firewalls. In many respects FreeBSD is the same way. What was the tagline, FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. FreeBSD runs linux emulation providing support for a lot of applications which can make it an effective desktop workstation. I used it as such for about 6 months before buying my first iBook. Still all the BSD, maybe not Net...dunno havn't followed lately, suffers from the same problem of hardware support lagging behind the rest *iux land.

Considering that several of the enhancements are tuning for the Intel chips, yes, of course. If you mean to put on a beige box...not bloody likely.

I had a client that needed a small 5 page website on a budget and he wanted to easily be able to go in and change little things like the special of the month. Google has worked wonders for him. Is it the best webpage ever, no, but it does everything he needs and it was a great solution.

Yeah, I'm waiting for the actual spec to be finalized and put into wide spread use. Most of my computers are still B (Airport) devices with a few G (Airport extreme) cards on my G5's and Powerbook. Frankly I never notice that much difference in file speed and when I need to link the G5's together for massive video files I use Fiber Channel cards so...

OUr choices on Mac are somewhat less. I generally use Cyberduck which is FOSS, but I have a lot of problems with it dropping the connection mid stream if I'm uploading say a directory. So I went back and paid for the latest version of FETCH FTP. It's a great program for the Mac. Back in my PC days I used WS_FTP_LE/95 which was simple, clean, and effective. Still one of the better FTP clients on the market.

I'm setting up a cubecart site for someone, not here, and they have purchased and installed the SSL certificate. My question now is do I need to install all the scripts again to a secure.directory or how does that work with https?

It's also first generation Apple. Six months from now we'll know about all the bugs.

There is a raw power market there, but it's a small sub sector of the overall market. There maybe money to be made, but I've seen a dramatic shift in software development away from the PC to consoles as the platform of choice for games. For starters, it easier to develop for a fixed spec machine as one X-box 360 is basically the same as the next. So you don't have to have 50 test units to test 3 different operating systems with 2 different brands of CPU's and large varity of video cards etc.. Also it's generally harder to pirate those games as well compared to PC. For the consumer end, desktops are going by the wayside as most people start to replace them with laptops. That is where the growth area has been and I believe will continue. That's where the power per watt really comes to play. Even in business, there are a lot of people going mobile as their only computer. And AMD is going to have problems unless they pull back and create a next generation of laptop chip that can compete with Intel.

You may not, but then again you aren't developing embedded devices. Frankly I never really liked the GPL v2 to be all that honest. I've always fealt that if you wanted to release truely free code and don't care what others do with it, one would use a BSD-style license. Which the Linux crowd seems to forget how much code was taken from the BSD projects in the early days. To me the GPL 3 reaks of "We're going to stick it to the man, those evil companies that want to use our 'Free' products to make money." Although I applaud Linus and his stance against Stallman. Now typically I deploy on Linux based servers because that is what most website hosting companies deploy. And Linux is a good backend server replacement for older Unix distros. But I use OSX on my desktop because I get the unix based development enviroment and lots of easy to use software without hassles.

That's because most of the products people use have no need to be multi-threaded or take advantage of multi-core processors. I mean it doesn't take that much power to run Office...unless your on Vista. And the only people that do are in the video/animation arena like me or are avid gamers. Things have changed, but I remember 10 years ago with Solaris that most applications ran better on 32-bit Sparc systems and then you sent them off to the 64-bit UltraSparc's for number crunching. (engineering firm at the time that was doing airflow simulations.) If you tried to run the workstation end of the application on a 64-bit station, it ran like crap. I always thought that was crazy myself and learned then that more power != better performance.Still AMD has to do something because Intel somehow did to AMD what Boeing has done with Airbus. Instead of going for raw performance, suddenly Intel said "performance per watt". Which means a lot on laptops and even large datacenters. If you knew the electric bill for the last studio I worked for, with over 150 Xserves and another 120 Macs, you'd understand where the savings in energy and heat production could more than pay for any price differential upfront between AMD & Intel chips.

Yeah I went Linux->FreeBSD->MacOSX. Well on a personal level. I also used OpenBSD and Solaris in work enviroments before too. That's why this whole GPL3 thing I tend to ignore. Last group I worked as a programming consultant chose NetBSD as the platform for their device because there was no GPL issues on whether or not they had to release anycode they put in their embedded devices. Their idea was to develop a Tivo like box for DVR and knew these legal issues were going to become a problem in the future. Still I think there was some issues with GPL'd modules like samba etc. and they never got the funding to develop past the protype stage. The company created a number of devices like this when they saw potential problems in the future. Their plan was to have this stuff on the shelf and ready to go if XYZ faultered. Company still exists so I guess they sell or license enough products to stay in business.

My powerbooks have run hot enough to almost burn your legs if you have shorts on. This was the old Titanium series though. Never fried the processor or anything, but I bought a USB powered laptop cooler just in case and used it at home. I've gotten lots of old g3 and now g4's at good prices. I keep an old G3 iMac up and running just for email as I go through a lot of messages a day while my G5's and G4's are rendering Final Cut, Lightwave, or Shake projects. Also I do need to test websites with MSIE every once in a while. Even an out dated version...Then I have a couple of pieces of software that's still OS 9 only and never worked right in X especially since 10.3 on wards. What I do is bring them home, keep them in the spare room and then list on Ebay. Even if I only make $45 plus shipping on each machine, that's usually around $500 - $1000 on lots of 10 to 20 old macs. Usually, if I pay, it's no more than $20 per box and most places will just be glad not to have to pay others to take them away. I keep a look out on craigslist for old macs that are dirt cheap. How I got two iMacs (a 17" and 20" G5) for less than $800 total and I bought a lot of 10 dual 1 Ghz G4's with 1.5GB ram and 80GB HDD's last year for $1500 from a graphics studio. Sold 8 on Ebay for like ~$450 each and kept the two with superdrives.

The best database is the one that does the job. I've seen situations where Access was the best solution for a given customer. For most web applications it's MySQL since most commands are SELECT. And if you want a lot of features without a lot of costs, PostgreSQL works quite nicely. The only Database I've dealt with and hated was Oracle. Granted this was 8 years ago and we bought the Oracle 8i package for SuSE linux. It never did work.

I am waiting for iPhone 2.0. It's a first generation Apple product and therefore I don't buy. I purchased the last gen Quadcore PowerMac simply because I wanted no part of the first gen Intel machines. (plus none of the software I needed was going to universal for at least 6 months after the launch). Eventually I see the iPhone going to all the major phone networks. Cingular/ATT had a monopoly on the Razer at first and now everyone carries it. I don't even own an iPod yet, which has amazed people, but I've been waiting for the decent all in one package and for all the problems to come out.

ZFS is not being supported by 10.5. If they did, this would make sense on computers used in business making backups a little more redundant. (searching through old OS files versus old DVD/external HDD's.Now in the video business, this would be a wast because our project files are large enough as it is ranging from hundreds of gigabytes to terrabytes. Copying that kind of data over and over again is only going to make storage cost even more than it does now. Yes, you can get a 1TB external for $500 now, but that still adds up quicker than you'd think.

Yeah, the carbon version has issues. As in doesn't save, etc.. I know, still in Alpha stage, but still...Since the last post I upgraded to Office 2004 when I bought my MacBook Pro. (Which btw, MacMall has them on clearance for $1700 USD right now) I love office on Mac. It works, easy to use, and after two weeks of *****ing about the menu system when i initially switched over back in 2002, I've grown to love it. Everything is right there once you know where to look. Even works well for my Dad. And he was using OO on PC before I bought him an iMac for xmas.

In a local area the difference maybe more apparent, but as a global traveler I use GSM exculsively. With GSM I can go to most countries and get a signal. Currently I'm with AT&T through work. (Still keep the Go Phone for personal/back up use) and I can go to Europe with no problems and same with SE Asia. Granted, I don't think the company likes the international roaming costs (or maybe I have a global plan, hell i dunno, I just use the bloody crackberry). Although I remember when Erickson said CDMA would never work. They kinda got egg on their face over that one.

I would say faulty power supply as my first guess. Generally in the past when I had heat issues, the machine would freeze rather than shutdown. Granted this was back in the day with Windows 2k pro. Not sure how XP/Vista handles the problems. But I had this problem before with machines and it was the power supply that was to blame.

http://support.hp.com/us-en?openCLC=true I use the HP HD100.

While great for out of the box security, OpenBSD has had some major drawbacks in the past. One of the major ones is lack of hardware support. I stopped using OpenBSD around 3.x because it lacked support for SNP or multiple processors in a box. Which is kind of important for running a larger database or website. It seemed like it was a promised feature for years worth of realeased, but it too for ever to finally make it into the code. So I went back FreeBSD before switching to OSX and OSX-server.

Especially now with the Intel-based machines:Mac. Why?I used Linux for a couple years until Mac OS 10.1 came out (and OS 10.2 was nearly out). Although I have to admit, that I like Windows 2000 Pro as well. It was a good stable OS. But Apple had all the features of Linux, as in the ablity to run most FOSS apps and function as a Unix development enviroment AND had commercial software like Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and MS Office. It was like having cake and eating too!Now with the intel machines, one can dual boot so if you really need windows, you can do so.

Okay, let's see what I understand, although now it's been probably confirmed no ZFS on Lepord, at least yet, why ZFS makes sense for the Time Machine feature.ZFS, besides being a 128-bit file system, also allows copy-on-write. Which basically means that data is not really "over-written" as opposed to copied and any modifications added to seperate blocks on the hard drive. Since ZFS uses checksums to validate data, those checksums could be indexed and used to fetch the old data still archived on the other blocks. Therefore it would not take a logical leap to see where folks would think "Hmmm...ZFS copy-to-write and time machine: they just go together".And for the record, I've been using FreeBSD since version 2.7. And Mac IS NOT a true BSD. While it maintains the core file structures and features of FreeBSD, Mac OSX is a MACH based kernel, not a BSD Kernel. Therefore, technically, MacOSX != BSD. The XNU-Kernel (which runs at the heart of MacOSX and Darwin) is what powers OSX. So please don't confuse people by calling FreeBSD "Mac's Unix Core". The core is MACH, or moreover their implementation of MACH.

All they need now is an OSX port.

They don't have the product anymore. This was back in April, I think it was a close out deal on the last model 15" powerbooks. The current ones they have listed are all 2.2Ghz with 2GB of Ram standard. Mine only had 512MB and I put a 1GB stick for a total of 1.5GB.

4 - 10 minutes is enough to shut everything down and is very handy if you are on a desktop and in the middle of a project. You can at least save and exit before loosing total power. And it takes so long to charge up because it trickle charges while most of the power is used to run whatever is attached. I use a laptop anymore, so if the power goes out, I still got 3 hours of work time. Still, if your on a desktop, not a bad thing to have.