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  • Well I too was underwhelmed at the speed bumped PM's. It seems more of the same 'ol i.e. the hardware is faster but only by a small amount and the price is still high but the improvements are just compelling enough to keep most of the faithful hap…
    in Why is it that...... Comment by linuxman January 2002
  • Well when I first read about the possibilty I was skeptical about AOL keeping their greedy corporate paws from violating the GPL and other Open Source licences. But after more reflection I suppose if RedHat recieved more funding and could develop ne…
    in AOLinux: What Do You Think? Comment by linuxman January 2002
  • Well you have a point Mac_oS_X_Addict. Having a Unix based operating system does seem to offer an opening into the server market. But I seriously doubt this will happen for a couple of reasons. 1) Price and performance - Apple hardware just does …
    in Is Apple Doomed To "niche-market irrelevance"? Comment by linuxman January 2002
  • If your niche market is profitable then who cares? Apple like every other corporation exists to make profit. Aside from Steve's RDF Apple does not exist to provide anyone computers because as Wilfred Brimley said "Its the right thing to do". Apple w…
    in Is Apple Doomed To "niche-market irrelevance"? Comment by linuxman January 2002
  • I agree Mac_OSX_Addict. AMD has had surprising success with their Performance rating system. In fact, its been a tremendous boost to their mindshare. No explaining is required to show why one cpu giving up 500MHZ of clock speed performs equivalent …
    in How Apple could grow mindshare EXPONENTIALLY Comment by linuxman January 2002
  • hmm.... The "MHZ Myth" is now the "MHZ Fact" and is a "GHZ Fact" compared to the P4 and soon with the AthlonXP as well. The fastest PM 867 is easily outpaced by fastest P4 or AthlonXP system. The x86 systems are less expensive too. And as for dual…
    in How Apple could grow mindshare EXPONENTIALLY Comment by linuxman January 2002
  • Ripping and Encoding are two different actions. Ripping is mainly a function of the CD drive's ability to extract digital audio (DAE speed). Encoding, on the otherhand, is mainly a function of CPU FPU power (plus enhancements like Altivec, SSE, 3DNO…
    in Post your iTunes convert to MP3 times Comment by linuxman January 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by BlueJekyll: Why is a journaling fs glaring? Linux is the only OS I know that is really using it, and even there it's optional. Do you really need to back out that many changes? Hell most Unix' are still using UFS,…
    in What OS X limitations still exist? Comment by linuxman June 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by rogue27: Well, that article you linked to is from 1999... Anyway, I know MySQL is performing queries more than 10 times faster on this 350Mhz G4 with Mac OS 10.1 than it was on a 233Mhz Pentium II with Linux. …
    in Linux Magazine- June 02 Comment by linuxman June 2002
  • Ok well let's not get too excited here about the "power" or "speed" of OSX. OSX is still quite slow and does not handle forking processes very well. It seems to cripple the 1GHz Dual G4 something awful for file serving. For example, A new Dual 1…
    in Linux Magazine- June 02 Comment by linuxman June 2002
  • [quote]Originally posted by swordfish: Anyone out there using the Lacie Firewire Pocket Drive? Any luck or problems with it? I'd appreciate any info you folks have. Thanks I have a 60Gb unit from Lacie. It works well on OSX without any major pro…
    in Lacie Firewire Pocket Drive Comment by linuxman June 2002
  • Perhaps one needs to consider WHY Quark Xpress has no OSX support yet? Before everyone starts knee jerking about InDesign blah blah try to remember who exactly are MAJOR users of Quark? And I mean not College kids, not the mom and pop design firms w…
    in The Quark site is down! Comment by linuxman February 2003
  • Apple's G5 may come from IBM but it may be totally irrelevant to IBM's plans. Given that IBM really does well in the server market and they are pressing ahead with Linux for everything they sell, it makes sense that they are targeting this chip fam…
    in Will Apple's G5 come from IBM? Comment by linuxman August 2002
  • According to AMD the K8 line of processors beginning with Clawhammer are already being sampled and they expect to ship actual processors beginning third quarter of 2002. [quote] In the second half of 2002, we plan to introduce processors utilizi…
    in The G5 vs the AMD Hammer Comment by linuxman February 2002
  • The biggest difference in drive performance has less to do with the bus but far more to do with rotation speed. Combine high rpm drives with a decent cache implementation and you have the foundations of a good fast drive setup. SCSI RAID setups ar…
    in When Aren't PowerMacs using ATA-133? Comment by linuxman February 2002
  • Easy (but limited) Clustering is nice but I would rather have powerful, flexible and robust clustering. No that anyone should like to go diffcult for the sake of going difficult but I strikes me that the inescapble law of degrees of freedom (not to …
    in clustering Comment by linuxman January 2002
  • Stock Pile for 6-9 months!!!!! Are you serious!?!?! 6-9 months is an eternity in the computer world. Thats a release in July-September. By that time the P4 will be at 3GHZ and the AMD Clawhammer (the first of the K8 line) will be shipping. A 1.6GH…
    in Confirmed: Apple delays Powermac G5 introduction Comment by linuxman January 2002