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While perusing my site usage today, I found something interesting in my Mac OS usages. Check this out. 
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Look at the very bottom of that chart. PPC 10.6. My first thought was "What is that? Snow leopard is intel only!" Then I remembered something. For the brief moments that we had our PowerPC XServe set up as a leopard server, it reported itself over FTP to be a 10.6 machine, long before 10.6 came out. Even now, with Tiger server, some components report to be 10.5 components. So, whatever google analytics is looking at on these PowerPC XServes, that component is a small part of Snow Leopard. If you see this, it is possible, so don't think someone has made a PPC port of Snow Leopard. It hasn't happened.
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So, despite the Flash debate over the iPad, there's been other questions floating around. One of these is "Is the iPad worth what I will be paying for it?" Well, according to this little chart, if you need to do anything other than eBook reading, the iPad has the most "bang for your buck".
I just saw this on TechCrunch, and thought it would do my readers justice to see it, if they haven't already.
I'm going to start this one off by saying this about the iPad.
"Big Ass iPhone"
There is no doubt though that this is the coolest thing that Apple has released in a long time. However, there are a few things that I would have liked to see in it that would make me go out and buy one now.
1. Front Facing Camera
2. Flash Player (Really needs to be there)
3. Mac OS (I'd really like to be able to run Mac native apps on there, rather than iPhone apps. Like Photoshop. That would be good to see on it)
4. A camera at all, really
5. An SD slot without an adaptor
Aside from those things not being there, this is still a really cool device. I don't know how it is performance wise, but I'll talk more about it once I actually get my hands on one. Who knows when that will be, but when it is, I'll go try it out. All I can say about this is that when it was released, I was a little underwhelmed over the features it had. Some things were there, but a few things (FLASH PLAYER!!!) were not there. Oh well, there's always next release.
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Today, we say Happy 26th birthday to the Apple Macintosh! Count 'em! That's 26 Years!
On January 24th, 1984, Steve Jobs pulled a 128K Mac out of its case in front of a crowd of reporters, turned it on, and let the computer introduce itself to the world. The rest, as they say, is history.
Over its 26 year history, we've seen our favorite computer go from an awkward infancy, to almost dying in its teens, and now being a profitable prodigy in adulthood. It has spawned the iPod, iPhone, and a whole host of other machines to go along with its streamlined coolness.
But just look how far we've come! From this...
To (with the help of BumpTop) this!
So everyone wish a happy 26th birthday to everyone's favorite computer, and here's to another 26 more!
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As you all know, I was one of the many who went out on Snow Leopard day and installed the system upgrade. So far, there have been two updates, and I am relatively pleased. However, more recently, I discovered a problem that really puts a damper on my Snow Leopard enthusiasm.
After installing Snow Leopard, I installed Adobe Master Collection CS4. Up until now, I haven't really had a reason to use Media Encoder at all. However, when I needed it, it failed on me. On my laptop, Media encoder refuses to boot. I don't know why, but it works fine in Leopard. I've heard about similar problems, but never not starting. I have reported this bug to Adobe, however I am not expecting any updated before the release of the next Creative Suite. Oh well. I guess I'll just have to use Final Cut Express instead of Premiere for a while.
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This week in 2001, apple rolled out the first of the iPods. These powerful machines held a massive 5 Gigabytes, Count 'em! 5 Whopping Gigabytes! they ran on a massive hard drive, and had a short battery life. But hey! they played over 1000 songs! And, best of all, it kept them all organized with this nifty little application called iTunes!
Okay, I'll admit it, the first generation iPods were pretty lame. However, they did have several things that most other music players had. They had a hard drive, for one. This was huge, considering that it was probably the highest capacity hard drive of it's size at the time. It also did have a media managing app that did all of the managing for you. No other player had the sync capabilities that the iPod did (correct me if I'm wrong). it also had a spinning wheel for selections through menus, which I know that no-one else had. However, it did have one minor glitch. The hard drive seemed to give out on mine right after the warranty expired. Apple would be happy to fix it for a fine $200. I did not fix it, and so as forever doomed to experience the famous iPod "Hard drive click of Death!".
As far as technology goes, this platform is still supported. Apple is still selling refurbished ones on the Apple store, and it will still sync with the current version of iTunes. However, I would much rather have a new nano with a cideo camera or iPod touch with speakers and a tilt sensor. Wouldn't you?
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From www.macrumors.com:
CNET reports that Apple, Google, and twenty other companies have been sued by Eolas Technologies for patent infringement related to the use of browser plug-ins and Ajax to offer interactive content in Web browsers. The move comes several years after the conclusion of a similar lawsuit brought against Microsoft that resulted in an initial $521 million judgment in favor of Eolas, although the suit was eventually settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.
Eolas' suit is not to be taken lightly. Although the earlier Microsoft case took many years to resolve, and Eolas by no means won a complete victory, the patent involved did overall withstand heavy legal challenges despite many on the Web rallying to Microsoft's aid. Microsoft and Eolas won't describe terms of their 2007 settlement of the patent case, but Eolas did say it expected to pay its shareholders a 2007 dividend afterward.
The Microsoft suit, as well as the new one targeting Apple and others, focused on a patent held by Eolas stemming from work performed by Eolas founder Michael Doyle while at the University of California, San Francisco. The patent, which covers the use of such technologies as Flash and Java plug-ins, was the subject of intense scrutiny during the trial and was initially overturned by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office before being reinstated and serving as the basis of the judgment against Microsoft.
The new suit also includes the use of Ajax Web development techniques for which Eolas has recently received a second patent as an extension of the original. Defendants in the new suit include Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Blockbuster, Citigroup, eBay, Frito-Lay, Go Daddy, Google, J.C. Penney, JPMorgan Chase, Office Depot, Perot Systems, Playboy Enterprises, Staples, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Yahoo, and YouTube.
From my mind:
As far as I can tell, Adobe and Apple probably won't pay them for this, and the suit will just die out over the course of years. As far as Google goes, they might pay up, because they have enough money in the bank.
I heard about this patent a few months ago and quickly dismissed it as uninforcable. However, it is clearly attempting to be enforced, and we'll just have to see what happens later on.
Seriously, how do they expect to shut down all of Flash and all RIAs?
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Well, over the past few weeks, we have been having some interesting adventures with our XServe. First, the upgrade to leopard, the downgrade to tiger, the fix for Perl. Then the hack, and fix. However, in the middle of all this, our server (Mac OSX Server, Ver. 10.4.11) started to freeze.
What is happening is that when you open an application, then it takes forever for the application to open. There is no CPU activity, and it seems like the server is just waiting for something. I can't tell what it's doing, but it seems like it's just waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting...
As far as background processes go, everything works fine. The web works, FTP and all other services work, just the UI freezes. Apparent Fix: Restart Finder. It has been running fine all day since we restarted Finder.
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