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  • emacs, of course!! You can use project builder to edit your files, and then compile either with project builder or by using GCC/make from the command line.
    in C/C++ Programming on the Mac Comment by dfryer August 2003
  • Quote: mount_my_floppy: And no it really wont make your penis bigger. It WON'T? Dang. I have the first model of eMac, with a CD-RW and a 700Mhz G4. I've put some more RAM in it (another 512 MB) but the only time it ever slows me down is …
    in Do I really NEED a G5? Comment by dfryer August 2003
  • Quote: Ast3r3x: So C++ is still better/more-powerful then Obj-C? I know C++ (well command line stuff, nothing graphical) and I am starting to learn Cocoa. I never learned C because it seems like a dying language because it's not OO. C++ …
    in C++ / C / Objective-C Comment by dfryer August 2003
  • Technically both C++ and Obj-C completely or almost completely contain C - any valid C is valid C++. Things like 'virtual function calls' in C++ and 'messages' in Obj-C are slower than direct calling of a function because of the overhead involved i…
    in C++ / C / Objective-C Comment by dfryer August 2003
  • Bah, I used 7.x right up until I got me a real computer & Jaguar last August, and it read AppleInsider just fine (Mac Quadra 605 hooked up to DSL.. it would download faster than it would render...)
    in What're you on!? Comment by dfryer August 2003
  • This URL http://developer.apple.com/cocoa/ has a lot of good resources, including a link to the primer I mentioned, somethink like "Object-Oriented Programming and the Objective-C language" By the way, I'm also a CS student, at the University of …
    in C++ / C / Objective-C Comment by dfryer August 2003
  • The low-end G5, stripped down, is available for 2192 before tax. That's like a $170 price drop. Sweet. Now if only I had a few grand.
    in Canadian Education Pricing Drop Comment by dfryer August 2003
  • Apple's "Carbon" framework (most similar to classic MacOS) is fully accessible from C or C++ (or for that matter, Objective-C). If you want to use Cocoa, their object-oriented framework from NeXT, you'll need to know Java or Objective-C. Objecti…
    in C++ / C / Objective-C Comment by dfryer August 2003
  • If Apple is having trouble filling orders for 2.0 Ghz machines, the most "graceful" thing they could do would be to throw another processor into the 1.8 Ghz machine. (yeah, as if it were that easy... ) This would make a kinda unattractive machine i…
    in Rumor: 1.8GHz DP G5 for $2549 Comment by dfryer August 2003
  • I've heard that IBM's *specialty* (when it comes to IP lawsuits) is pulling out ye olde mile-high patent stack until their opponent says uncle. For all I know, they've patented the process of pushing "electrons" down a "wire" made of "copper" (all …
    in Is IBM (and PowerPC) in trouble? Comment by dfryer August 2003
  • Wow, SCO is offering 1-CPU licences for Linux at the low, low, introductory price of $699! Quick, buy now, because they're raising the price soon in an obvious, pathetic attempt to pressure people to buy into their criminally retarded program of sp…
    in Is IBM (and PowerPC) in trouble? Comment by dfryer August 2003
  • Funny story - the other day I recieved some e-mail from Apple which made no sense at all. It seemed to be a machine-generated confirmation that some request had been authorized, but what had been requested, or authorized, was totally unclear. I …
    in Mail's Junk Filter Comment by dfryer July 2003
  • In around 1990 or 1991 my Dad bought a Mac Classic. I was in grade 2 or so.. I primarily used MS Works and Superpaint, but I soon discovered Hypercard and that started my programming adventures. Mid-nineties we got a hand-me-down LCII, to which we…
    in You knew you had to have a Mac when... Comment by dfryer July 2003
  • I found that screwing up school computers was fairly entertaining up to a certain point- once I had caused a machine to lock everyone out (including the admins, mysteriously) causing them to reinstall everything, it became kind of pointless. In con…
    in School's Mac OS Comment by dfryer July 2003
  • mmm... it's not necessarily the *best* pizza in the world, but I live off BBQ chicken pizza with hot peppers. Served right up from the University's Engineering Lab Wing. I didn't realise Donairs were so popular in the Maritimes- the only place I h…
    in Best Pizza Toppings Comment by dfryer July 2003
  • In my freezer downstairs
    in Where do you meet others of the opposite sex? Comment by dfryer July 2003
  • I think that more than a spec bump, the iMac needs price cutting. Performance is adequate or more than adequate for home use; perhaps a nicer (or expandible!) graphics card is in order. However, to compete for the consumer machines, they need to h…
    in Is the iMac doomed? Comment by dfryer July 2003
  • nahhh, it's the machine.
    in PowerPC cladogram Comment by dfryer July 2003
  • OS X takes care of memory allocation, but if you run out of RAM it will start using virtual memory on the hard drive, which is slow. How much RAM do you have in your iBook?
    in Question about MEMORY in OSX Comment by dfryer July 2003
  • Well, it gives the G4 a sound spanking I would be very cautious about saying it "kicks ass" - better compilers will make it faster, but the same could be said of the P4. On the other hand, in order to go dual processor with Intel, you need Xeon…
    in NASA Tests The New PowerMac G5 Comment by dfryer July 2003