The collected works of melchez

I wonder could be a ICE and MPEG4 compatibility thing? If ICE can run MPEG4 then it should play smoother (That's if your mplayer is running through ICE).

I feel yah, There was a certain "Magic"
I just finish giving an Intro to UNIX and Linux course to one of our evening shift workers. Each time I give it I'm reminded of the "interesting times." I was a Sun FE and it was fun times ripping apart a sparcstation 20, Ultra2 or a 6800, along with hanging out with other FE's. Running Pov-ray on fully loaded 6500's.
Pre-Oracle Sun was nice, since Oracle took over getting stuff / cases worked from them is like playing the staring game and seeing who will blink first.

I miss the super hot air my Indigo 2 would blow over my keyboard.
400lb Sony Trinitron monitors. Loud clicking keyboards.
Linux was fun for me when I had to recompile the Kernel (6 hour process), to get all my hardware to work. It was the thrill of the hunt not so much as the actual use of it that made it fun.
I don't like Linux now, I hate working with it in large production environment, but that is just my opinion.


I'm a Mac OS X user, been one since end of 2001. There is Magic there but we need to work on the community of Mac "UNIX" users. Apple do supplies us with the right tools, hardware, OS, and developing platform even X11 to help get some of the magic back, but we need to do it as a Mac UNIX group of users. Nekochan is a good example, here were have software ports along with a tight community. As IRIX become less usable us Mac users can start shifting towards OS X more, porting some of those IRIX apps over. The historic core of UNIX was the community and what they created as a group, this seems missing the Mac OS X world right now.

I so wish that MaXXDesktop was on OS X x11 instead on linux.

Something that helping me feel the magic again is graphical stuff (same reason why I dig IRIX), stuff like Processing.org, R, and even the built-in stuff that Xcode has, all the Core frameworks. But there don't seem to be a solid community out there that actually help to keep me motivated.

Also UNIX won the tablet.
The Portable OS owns the Portable market.

We lost a Giant.

Fonts on the new iPad is nice.
I have iPad2 and compared to my co-workers new iPad. We played Infinity Blade 2, overall performance was the same which was expected but the text is way better. The icons on the backdrop are way smoother. I never figure I would be so impressed by smooth text, but the thing is easy on the eyes for sure.

I bought my iPad2 a few weeks before the release of the new iPad but due certain situation I won't be able to trade it in for new the iPad. Wish I could. Still the iPad2 is nice

josehill wrote:

Martin Steen wrote: I wonder what Operating System Tim Berners-Lee would use today.

He is often seen using a Mac laptop.

Still using a NeXT then.

Xcode = Interface Builder + Project Builder

Prior to Xcode it was called Interface Builder and Project Builder, then Apple merge the two together shortly after the release of Xcode.

Mac OS X comes with a long line of developing tools for a wide range of skill set, on surface look at Quart Composer, node base graphical developing. We just don't see it now, the developing tools was the selling point of NeXT. OS X has a broader audience but it comes with way more tool to develop now compare to it's early NeXT days.

Cash filled pockets? What Xcode cost you now??

Mac OS X developing toolset is over looked. Outside of iOS app developing you don't hear much about folks digging into what OS X has to offer and pretty much for free (once you own a mac).

alexott wrote: I suggest to sign petition on freeing IRIX Interactive Desktop: http://www.change.org/petitions/silicon ... ve-desktop .

Need one to get the OS itself released.

guardian452 wrote:
Also notice a full row of buttons at the top of the finder... is that really necessary? (I know I can hide it) they replaced the button to show/hide the toolbar with... a button that makes it full screen?

You can customize the toolbar. Right click on it and choose customize. Then grab the icons you don't want and drag them away and puff it's gone. You can also choose to have only text or icon or both text/icons showing

You can use mdfind via command line to find file with tags you use: