The collected works of guardian452 - Page 12

There was a comparison to sgi in the redshark article. I like the design but don't have a problem hiding a big ugly box under the desk. Most sentiments here I agree with http://www.redsharknews.com/technology/ ... es-in-os-x

indeed, that's what drew me to the old mac pro. I can throw everything in one box and hide it under the desk.

it's speculation about an unreleased product, isn't that what everybody wants to hear nowadays???

I would recommend a used macbook such as 2008-2010 era that can run snow leopard.

I have a 2010 macbook air (1.4g c2d, 2gb ram)

*standard pci-e ssd that is easily upgraded
*N-spec wifi that is really fast for most needs
*one of the best AR coatings I've ever seen on a laptop, even if the screen itself isn't all that good WRT contrast and gamut
*the battery can be replaced but a new battery is close to $90 mine is almost at full capacity after over 2 years of daily use but I also plug in and have only ~300 cycles. It appears to be easy to change.
*have not had to repair anything even after many dings and dents, never even bothered to take the lid off and see what's inside. YMMV.
*only 2gb of ram but what I do it is fine and it seems the swap is better than most other systems, probably something to do with the fast SSD. If you get a regular white MB or a MBP you can upgrade the ram but they are big and heavy.
*who uses those things anymore?

Seems like you used one where somebody had peeled off the AR coating if the gloss is such a problem to you.

10.7 is where apple ingrained icloud deep into the roots of the system, so if you don't want everything all cloudy I would stick with older stuff.

Displayport to HDMI is a cheap and cheesy gender-bender that should just work. Like going from dvia to hd15, or 13w3 to hd15.

in much the same way that windows 8 does not "force" MS live upon you, or android does not "force" a google account upon you.
Nobody says you have to use it!

Maybe I'm biased but it seems the 2009-early 2011 era of apples are new enough to run everything for the foreseeable future without being foisted into a brave new world of computing.

I have a USB cd-drive too, I just don't know where it is It's trivial to put it in a desktop and mount it on the laptop; my wife could do it


Special case, then. The MBA is out.

a little something I've been working on... partly because the j1772 spec says you can't pull more than 70A from an EVSE and partly because fleet operators don't want extra cables running all over their depot. With a coil this size we can charge at over 50kW, larger coils can do much more. Far more than can be squeezed through a j1772 plug.

All four lights are on on each of the memory boards, even for the slots that are not populated. Also, the over temp CPUA and CPUB light is on on the logic board. I used temperature monitor and the readings seem normal. Is there any way to see what is going on, or is it just an ECC error and the machine needs to be reset? (It has been up since I moved in early May...). I don't want to lose any clues about impending doom with an unnecessary reboot.


I have been playing UT3 in vmware fusion (runs great!) for a few hours, which maybe overcooked something. It (UT3) is running now but still the temps seem normal. All the fans are working.

All IP44 means is how waterproof it is. Now how a certain manufacturer can call a certain widget IP67 when it fills up with condensation on merely a humid day is beyond me...

http://www.protectingpeople.co.uk/fire_ ... lained.htm

but do you dress up for armageddon ?

shut it down and hit the SMC reset button, it's been running for an hour or so without the lights coming back on. Must be gremlins... if it comes back I'll post an update. It was still running fine but I could see the lights through the grille in the dark room, no idea how long they have been on.

Article about 10.6 and 10.4 sticking around for a Long Time... http://lowendmac.com/roundtable/12rt/03 ... opard.html

Don't forget that you can run newer OSX virtualized even if your hardware isn't supported directly; it may not be a viable option for daily operations on a portable but it lessens the pain when your machine drops off the compatibility list.

It works properly in OSX 10.8 as a virtual machine with a varied quantity of processors.

Hi wifey, I see you've found where I've been hanging out the past few years... Yes, I KNOW it's you.

Now that I actually had some time to check this stuff out, it looks like OSX mavericks will be worth upgrading if for no other reason than improved multi-monitor support (and using the appleTV as a monitor as well).

But do I want to run chameleon on my mac pro just to get it to work?

Oh and the new machine is pretty nice but I don't have a problem with the old one (other than the infamous 32bit efi problem...which isn't much of a problem at all) so I'll pass at first

THIRTY-TOO-MILLIONS!! ???? FOR A FUCKING CELL PHONE?!

I mean, it's nice and all, but that's well over double the budget for designing one of our vehicles.

Didn't motorola do the phone-that-turns-into-a-PC thing a few years ago already?

Maybe try the SCSI-IDE adapter and going the compactflash route...

In a quiet room you can still hear an MBA and even in a noisy room you can hear the MBA when it is encoding media or playing a game. There is no such thing as a 'silent' computer fan unless it is in a different room

For plastic:
mr. clean magic eraser
tire polish (the stuff they sell for black plastic on auto exteriors)
xylene (be careful!)
for metal:
mother's powermetal ( viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16722778&p=7317177#p7317177 )
chrome polish
other mild polishing compound...

Bumping up an old thread...

After going on quite a few night road trips in the US (including to and through philadelphia) with european-spec cars recently (Merc ML450, S55, BMW x5, etc), there is a very good reason why they US spec is different than euro-spec. US roads have reflective signs, euro roads most of the signs are backlit and there are also much more areas with streetlights. Also, Euro spec headlights allow more light on the road because they are less concerned about dazzling oncoming motorists when the car crests a hill. Also, on most euro cars headlight washers are required for high-output lights (metal halide, xenon, led, etc).

Nothing better than driving through PA,WV,and OH at 3 in the morning and not being able to see any signs on the PA turnpike except for some shadows of blue on the signposts.

This is why on most US-spec car, even with a sharp cutoff there is more light cast upward. Some projectors are simply more diffuse, some have a "squirrel finder" or similar in front of the lens that reflects some of the light upward, some are just purposely unfocused.

That being said, some enthusiasts like a super-sharp cutoff with color bleeding upward.

As if millions of voices cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced...

Maybe the newer models...

jwp's method sounds much more... UNIX-y to me

Any good .dwg editors available for irix? (either free or pirated is acceptable ) That and the ubiquitous MS office...

I mean like an autocad-ish program that can make basic drawings... Draftsite (Dassault) seems to work best for me (way better than autocad for basic use and it's free) But it's for mac and not irix...

Not to mention, an email client that works with both mobileme and the company-provided gmail account, dealing with various random types of files (ms office etc) without half an hour of bitch work, USB support for the various network interfaces I need (CAN, RS485, various proprietary serial protocols) as well as the software for that.

Half a day for every two months is enough to "blow out the cobwebs".



IMO

Also keeps the pram batteries topped up, etc...

8-way opteron system... not an octane 3.

Also, it was when SGI was only in bankruptcy for the seventeenth time as it still has the nice-font logo, so it is not a rackable system.

Indeed, in the listing for the motherboard it says "It was pulled from a Tyan Transport VX50 Server with SGI branding."

The other quad daughterboard fits on top of the mainboard with a riser.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/amp-holdi ... 20789.html

I've been living in the US since 2011 and he has it pretty-much spot on... Tho there is a nice flea market about 20 miles north of here where you can buy/sell/trade pretty much whatever you want. But you still need to register to open a booth and pay a fee. At least there is no tax, no questions asked, cash only. Good selections of vinyl records, weapons, erotic novelties, soaps, fresh produce, etc. As a buyer you pay $2 to get in and can wander about all day.

They turned amsterdam into miami?

McDonalds coffee is not so good but at least better than that crap

Hamei isn't talking about the family farm with the stand of produce parked alongside the road or the small, well-established co-ops.. Those are well and good

He's talking about the latter, and in many municipalities the rules have become quite draconian...

Not in the US, only Ottawa (CA).. the experience to the consuming public is similar but basically if you don't get a permit early in the season, all the money in the world will not allow you to get a stand. *goes back to control algorithms for automatic transmissions*

So the company gifted me with an old laptop to use and unfortunately it came equipped with a pirated (unregistered) and useless (especially w/ 1gb ram) installation of Windows 7. After trying to find something suitable to run on it I have to ask the question: Why does OSX run so much better and faster on a 7-year-old dell d820 than ubuntu and just as zipp-ily as the ancient windows XP? The only caveat is the docking station is not supported

Me too, I run 10.6.8 on all of my apple machines but this one is still 10.6.3 because that's what my OSX CD is, and I don't want to break anything with the hackintosh setup since it is running well and does everything I need, anyways.

I am considering mavericks but you loose so much (I like a lot of older games and utilities that need rosetta still) and gain so little (multi-monitor support, and... maps? facebook integration? (I don't do facebook). I could say the same about iOS 7 but all the touted new features (except for the "look" I have already with a jailbroken 6.1.2) For one thing I wanted (mountain) lion so I installed 10.8 in VMware and it runs great. I'm sure I can do the same with 10.9 if necessary.

The minor headache you have with installing the fake-efi chameleon bootloader is nothing compared to the hours or even days that come with trying to get everything up and running with Ubuntu or even windows XP which takes all night to update itself and by the time all the necessary things are in place (SP3, .NET, etc) the thing is just as slow as it was with windows 7, except less secure and more incompatible.

Don'tcha know about the new fashion honey, all you need is looks and a whole lotta money...

Found an AIW X800, quick googling says this thing (at least the video-in that makes it worthwhile) won't work without a windows PC. Is that true? I don't have a windows machine with PCIe slots, unless I could have it recognized directly in a windows VM, which seems kind of hokey.

I might have some luck with the FM tuner, at least. I will hopefully have some time to play with it this weekend

My my, aren't we an exceptional bunch of curmudgeons this morning. Go to radio shack and buy a soldering iron already. It's not that hard.

If there isn't a yogi berra quote about not worrying about where something came from and instead about where it's going, there should be.

A basic weller wes51 from radioshack isn't counterfeit or shoddy, regardless of where it came from. I would not say mine is from china or the us or mexico, it doesn't say anywhere on the unit where it was made.

Said baby formula is not counterfeit, it is manufactured by who the package says. Nobody really makes anything anymore, it's all contracted and sub-contacted and bought and sold and traded.

I've had a couple interesting summer jobs while studying in the USA including working at an electronics *manufacturer* (where I learned that there is no great premium in quality for something made locally, it is rather easy to make crap products in the US) and a sporting goods distribution/customization facility for a small (7 stores in 3 states) retail chain (where you learn that the logo on the product is different from the distributor on the box who probably has no idea who actually manufactures said product).

heats up? check. no electrocution or melting or fire or other shenanigans? check. fine by me.