Month: June 2001

A great article on why MacOSX seems slow. I gotta tell you, not just as a Mac Bigot (which I am) but also a Linux bigot (which I also am), I love MacOSX. It is WAY too cool for words. However, some operations do seem slow… I tend to avoid moving windows as much as possible.

The solution given in the article? two things: 1) Get Apple to optimize OSX (which Apple is doing and will just take time). 2) get more memory! MacOSX is very memory intensive, but is speedy when it has memory to gobble.

Which leads me to my point. Why the HELL doesn’t Apple just sell 256 megs of RAM with every single machine they sell now. The system requirements for OSX is AT LEAST 128 Megs of RAM, and yet that is the base for most computers (and some actually sell with 64 megs of RAM). It is like the original iMac that required at least 40 megs of RAM to have OS8.x up *and* Netscape…. immediatelys sending anyone with only 32 megs of RAM into virual memory and feeling slow. Given opening Netscape was the primaty purpose of the machine to 99% of the people who bought it, this was unacceptable.

RAM is cheap. RAM is super cheap, and it is the most cost-effective way to make a machine feel zippy even when its processor is a little old *cough g3 cough*. Apple should base everything on having 256 megs of RAM and be done with it.

A great article on why MacOSX seems slow. I gotta tell you, not just as a Mac Bigot (which I am) but also a Linux bigot (which I also am), I love MacOSX. It is WAY too cool for words. However, some operations do seem slow… I tend to avoid moving windows as much as possible.

The solution given in the article? two things: 1) Get Apple to optimize OSX (which Apple is doing and will just take time). 2) get more memory! MacOSX is very memory intensive, but is speedy when it has memory to gobble.

Which leads me to my point. Why the HELL doesn’t Apple just sell 256 megs of RAM with every single machine they sell now. The system requirements for OSX is AT LEAST 128 Megs of RAM, and yet that is the base for most computers (and some actually sell with 64 megs of RAM). It is like the original iMac that required at least 40 megs of RAM to have OS8.x up *and* Netscape…. immediatelys sending anyone with only 32 megs of RAM into virual memory and feeling slow. Given opening Netscape was the primaty purpose of the machine to 99% of the people who bought it, this was unacceptable.

RAM is cheap. RAM is super cheap, and it is the most cost-effective way to make a machine feel zippy even when its processor is a little old *cough g3 cough*. Apple should base everything on having 256 megs of RAM and be done with it.

Nice little procmail tutorial.

Nice little procmail tutorial.

slashdot has story that fuckedcompany is saying that VALinux, the owners of slashdot, is going to be laying people off. A comment has a link to mcdonald’s career page. Oh the irony.

slashdot has story that fuckedcompany is saying that VALinux, the owners of slashdot, is going to be laying people off. A comment has a link to mcdonald’s career page. Oh the irony.

Diskless Nodes HOW-TO document for Linux, because it is cool and then engel doesn’t have to dig up the mail from tiggersol.

Diskless Nodes HOW-TO document for Linux, because it is cool and then engel doesn’t have to dig up the mail from tiggersol.

GPS = Gotta Pay for Speeding

When Turner signed Acme’s rental agreement last October, he didn’t notice the warning at the top of the contract that read: “Vehicles in excess of posted speed limit will be charged $150 fee per occurrence. All our vehicles are GPS equipped.”

So now we live in a world where a Corporation can impose fines (as defined in the fine print of their User Agreement) if a user breaks the law using their product. The bitch is that the “law” is arbitrarily defined by the Corporation (i.e. they can set their threshold to consider 35MPH speeding). Bend over folks. How long before M$ teams up with the RIAA to issue end users fines if they have “illegal” media files on their PC? And don’t even get me started on the ethics of tracking and recording my physical movements while in my car.

GPS = Gotta Pay for Speeding

When Turner signed Acme’s rental agreement last October, he didn’t notice the warning at the top of the contract that read: “Vehicles in excess of posted speed limit will be charged $150 fee per occurrence. All our vehicles are GPS equipped.”

So now we live in a world where a Corporation can impose fines (as defined in the fine print of their User Agreement) if a user breaks the law using their product. The bitch is that the “law” is arbitrarily defined by the Corporation (i.e. they can set their threshold to consider 35MPH speeding). Bend over folks. How long before M$ teams up with the RIAA to issue end users fines if they have “illegal” media files on their PC? And don’t even get me started on the ethics of tracking and recording my physical movements while in my car.