BuzzzOff! Mac OS
abpp wrote:
> I know 10.3 is better than 10.2, and 10.4 better than 10.3, but this
> is an old (2001)
> iBook G3/500mhz with DVD and only 384 MB of RAM that will not be
> upgraded for
> some time. So, which one would give me the less sluggishness for this
> configuration:
> 10.2, 10.3, or 10.4???
I can guarantee you that you can very well run 10.4.x even with 384mb of
RAM. As already written I did it with a 500mhz Pismo PowerBook - also on
the net, - also using both net-radio and net-TV.
One thing you can do during the install process is to choose 'Custom'
and skip anything other than English language (presuming English is the
native spoken language), also skip _everything_ printer software. And
then afterwards just install printer software for that exact needed
printer and else nothing of all the apprx. 1 gig of useless printersoftware.
- Some progress, there is now stream output, but when played through play it sounds like only a regularly repeating buzz, off and on. The demodulator output is irregular, as if it is being starved. Emits at about every 61-63 readStream calls. When piped through to sox to convert to wav.
- And every time I turn around, someone new is replacing a PC with a Mac. But some nasty invective about Java on OS X posed the question: is the honeymoon over for Apple? At Javalobby, Michael Urban put the kindling in the fireplace with a post telling Apple to buzz off. The absence of version 6 of Java on Leopard is a mortal wound, Urban says.
Windows tech & can honestly say that OS-X is a much better OS than either XP, Vista or Windows 7(really just Vista SP3). OS-X really is much easier to learn if you keep an open mind. What is play in spanish.
Regarding the languages, if you are speaking English natively, just
install English, but if you for example are speaking German as your
native language, I'll recommend to install both German and English. -
I.e. the native language + the English.
And surely do indeed not install the Asian languages unless one of these
is the native spoken language. - Alone the Chinese fonts are taking up
more than 2gb of space.
When/if you 'strip' the installation this way, I guarantee that you will
get one of the fastest 500mhz 10.4.x G3 machines at all - even with only
384mb of RAM!
When it comes to the internet.. I will not recommend Safari nor
Firefox. Both are simply too heavy to work with on many sites. Get the
latest possible version of Opera instead - first of all because it's
screamingly fast and next you can fake MSIE-only sites to believe that
you are using MSIE with Opera.
Cheers, Erik Richard
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Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <mac-manNOSP@Mstofanet.dk>
I'm one of Loopt's co-founders. Loopt uses Microsoft's stack (the reasons why are off topic here), and was licensing Windows Server, SQL Server, and Visual Studio through the SPLA program before BizSpark was available. We joined BizSpark right when it launched.
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BizSpark consists primarily of two things: (1) a one-on-one contact to provide advice, to arrange partnership opportunities (marketing, etc), and to provide introductions to the Microsoft product teams as needed; and (2) free software licenses (which you get to keep at the end of the program). Loopt has also received other benefits, like access to their compatibility labs, conference passes, etc.
With BizSpark, Microsoft is confident enough in the quality of their offering that there's no commitment. You chose to use as much or as little of what is offered as you want, and there is zero pressure. We make use of various open source technologies[1]. It's not a problem. Also, at the end of the program they offer an extremely generous graduation offer[2] with no financial obligation.
After that, Microsoft's volume licensing is reasonable[3], the tools are well documented, and everything works as expected. Their stack is predictable, consistent, and dependable. If you want to be able to focus on your product instead of the tools you're using[4], then the Microsoft stack is great. Note: It's cheaper to have your tools work than to hire someone on salary to maintain and debug them.
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[1] Ubuntu, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Ruby, Rails, etc. Keytty 1 2 6 x 4.
[2] http://www.bizspark.com/Programs/Pages/GraduationOffer.aspx I can't discuss the details of Loopt's custom offer (we exceed the standard usage by a fair amount), but we'll be much better off after BizSpark than we were before. Microsoft has been very generous.
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[3] See the SPLA program: http://www.microsoft.com/hosting/en/us/licensing/splabenefit..
[4] Not that they aren't extensible if needed. Back before ASP.Net MVC and WCF (and before Thrift, Protocol Buffers, and Rails) we wrote a ton of our own custom web and RPC tooling. ASP.Net is actually really nice but gets a bad rap because of web forms (which you don't have to use, and have improved substantially in the latest release). IIS 7 rocks as a transport agnostic application server, and can do MSMQ, TCP, UDP and more (it's extensible) in addition to HTTP.