Re: [Eug-lug] New Macs with "Intel Inside"?

2005-06-06 Thread perdurabo
It still runs like crap and it seems most/all of the (non-Apple)(Open)Darwin developers were caught somewhat off-guard by it. Jordan K.H. and others in Apple have apparently been using Intel boxes for a while now. On 6/6/05, Jacob Meuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apple is still distributing D

Re: [linux] Re: [Eug-lug] New Macs with "Intel Inside"?

2005-06-06 Thread perdurabo
Except Aqua and all the PDF functionality, nearly all the UNIX-underpinnings, Core Audio, Core Data, Cocoa Bindings, the Mach kernel (3.0). The current Mail.app hardly resembles the old NeXT/OPENSTEP Mail.app. The framework has been rewritten and updated so much, I really wouldn't say it all comes

Re: [Eug-lug] New Macs with "Intel Inside"?

2005-06-06 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 12:56:32AM -0700, T. Joseph CARTER wrote: > On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:39:33PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > > >Rumors of Apple switching to an Intel based processor pre-date the > > >existence of this site. The earliest reference in our archives comes > > >from [10

Re: [Eug-lug] New Macs with "Intel Inside"?

2005-06-06 Thread perdurabo
Next year? They're already out. On 6/6/05, T. Joseph CARTER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we're going to see Intel x86-64 chips in the next year. I can't > swear to it, but we'll see. ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.o

Re: [Eug-lug] help with install - Sunbird Calendar

2005-06-06 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 04:54:52PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > GTK is the GNU Toolkit. it's the _GIMP_ Toolkit. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [linux] Re: [Eug-lug] New Macs with "Intel Inside"?

2005-06-06 Thread R. Stasel
Actually he is somewhat correct in regards to the X standing for 10. Apple tried, and failed to make it clear that the X stood for 10. They have since broken their own policy on this and now it goes by Mac OS X v10.4. I would imagine it was a large argument between the engineers and Mark

Re: [Eug-lug] help with install - Sunbird Calendar

2005-06-06 Thread Mr O
Upgrade to a 1.7.? version of Mozilla, then click the link pointing to the XPI for Moz 1.7. That's the easiest way. --- Jeff Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, that's MAKING SOME SENSE here for sure! - I do intend to > still use Mozilla > as my brower and switch between that and Konquorer

Re: [Eug-lug] New Macs with "Intel Inside"?

2005-06-06 Thread T. Joseph CARTER
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 08:46:12AM -0700, Mike Cherba wrote: > Ughh, Great, Now all the Mass Market Computers will be based on > outdated 1970s technology. There go my hopes of someday being able to > get a PC with a sane (RISC) architecture. Why couldn't Intel and AMD > make this kind of break

Re: [Eug-lug] Debian Sarge escapes, # Snark, # Snark

2005-06-06 Thread fleming . j
. John Fleming > http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20050606 > > cue snarky comments... > > > > -- > http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained > Do you know what

[Eug-lug] Debian Sarge escapes

2005-06-06 Thread larry price
http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20050606 cue snarky comments... -- http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained Do you know what your IT infrastructure does? ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug

Re: [Eug-lug] gentoo and blockers when upgrading

2005-06-06 Thread Bob Miller
Rob Hudson wrote: > What's the best way to handle blockers? I got this today when I > attempted an upgrade... I'd like to know that too. -- Bob Miller K kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Eug-lug] gentoo and blockers when upgrading

2005-06-06 Thread Rob Hudson
What's the best way to handle blockers? I got this today when I attempted an upgrade... [blocks B ] <=x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.8.2 (is blocking x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.6.3) [blocks B ] app-admin/system-tools-backends-1.2.0) Thanks, Rob __

Re: [Eug-lug] Editing insanity

2005-06-06 Thread Allen C Brown
Was there a question to that, or was it a simple complaint? The explicit question was how this could have happened. We want to avoid it from happening in the future. We now have a clue about this. Here is a more detailed description of the action sequence. 1. Edit a DOS file in vim. 2. Wit

Re: [Eug-lug] help with install - Sunbird Calendar

2005-06-06 Thread Jeff Newton
Now, that's MAKING SOME SENSE here for sure! - I do intend to still use Mozilla as my brower and switch between that and Konquorer as well, but Mozilla will be the MAIN SHOW to deal with. So, what is the step by step to down load this? Jeff Mr O wrote: If you still intend to use Mozilla for

Re: [Eug-lug] true: Intel will be inside (the Mac) Rosetta

2005-06-06 Thread Jeff Newton
well, maybe it will help blow the mind powers of the 68K PPC's...!?!? or may make people like me, with a live mac able to upgrade from 68K to a big mac and cheeseburger to run on those oldies?? Rodney Mishima wrote: Maybe fat binaries won't be as fat as the 68k/ppc ones were. ___

[Eug-lug] Editing insanity

2005-06-06 Thread Allen C Brown
A guy here at work created a file in vim on an NFS mounted filesystem. The first line was #!/bin/bash As long as that line was there the script failed with : bad interpreter: No such file or directory I pulled it up in emacs, figuring that any control chars would be visible. Nothing. After

Re: [Eug-lug] true: Intel will be inside (the Mac) Rosetta

2005-06-06 Thread Rodney Mishima
Title: Re: [Eug-lug] true: Intel will be inside (the Mac) Rosetta My god. They are going to be shipping fat binaries AGAIN (according to the link below). Let me scrape my jaw off the ground, one sec. -Max Maybe fat binaries won't be as fat as the 68k/ppc ones were. Another update: Rosetta ke

Re: [Eug-lug] The rumors are true: Intel will be inside (the Mac)

2005-06-06 Thread Max Lemieux
My god. They are going to be shipping fat binaries AGAIN (according to the link below). Let me scrape my jaw off the ground, one sec. -Max Rodney Mishima wrote: http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/06/06/liveupdate/index.php The rumors are true: Intel will be inside (the Mac) according to the

Re: [linux] Re: [Eug-lug] New Macs with "Intel Inside"?

2005-06-06 Thread Max Lemieux
And while we're on the topic of Jobs' ego, OS X is largely descended from his old NeXT system, along with the other bits pointed out below. The OS X non-spatial Finder, Mail.app, the whole .app framework, all of it comes from NeXT. -Max Rodney Mishima wrote: I don't know much about MacOS. But

[Eug-lug] The rumors are true: Intel will be inside (the Mac)

2005-06-06 Thread Rodney Mishima
Title: The rumors are true: Intel will be inside (the Mac) http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/06/06/liveupdate/index.php The rumors are true: Intel will be inside (the Mac) according to the MacWorld WWDC coverage: As the Intel logo lowered on the stage screen, Jobs said, "We are going to make th

RE: [linux] Re: [Eug-lug] New Macs with "Intel Inside"?

2005-06-06 Thread Rodney Mishima
I don't know much about MacOS. But I thought that MacOS X was someting like MacOS 10 I think there was MacOS 7, 8, 9, and the X stands for 10... I am right? No. You are wrong. For the sake of a timeline, OS X uses version numbers 10.x.x which indicate that it is a SUCCESOR to Mac OS 9 and ea

Re: [Eug-lug] New Macs with "Intel Inside"?

2005-06-06 Thread Bob Miller
T. Joseph CARTER wrote: > There were exactly two times in the past Apple has considered MacOS X on > Intel-architecture chips. You've cited one of them. The other was back > when MacOS X was called Rhapsody. Star Trek was derived from MacOS System 7, which was Classic, not OS X. At that time,

Re: [Eug-lug] New Macs with "Intel Inside"? Hopefully NOT x86 !!

2005-06-06 Thread Rodney Mishima
On 6/6/05, Rodney Mishima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe, Apple is utilizing Intel for their manufacturing capabilities and hopefully NOT for the X86 specific chips. Supposedly, Apple has the rights to the G5 and can get someone else; eg. Intel instead of IBM, to manufacture them in the qua

Re: [Eug-lug] New Macs with "Intel Inside"? Hopefully NOT x86 !!

2005-06-06 Thread Mike Cherba
I think the guys at Apple got exactly what they wanted. I don't remember ever being this interested in Jobs' annual ego boosting speech. -Mike On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 09:45, larry price wrote: > On 6/6/05, Rodney Mishima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe, Apple i

Re: [Eug-lug] New Macs with "Intel Inside"? Hopefully NOT x86 !!

2005-06-06 Thread Max Lemieux
I find it hard to believe that Apple would break binary compatibility with existing PowerPC-targeted OS X software. So, to roll out x86 or other non-Power CPUs, I would expect Apple to plan full binary compatibility with PowerPC binaries. And once that step is taken, they might as well throw in

Re: [Eug-lug] New Macs with "Intel Inside"? Hopefully NOT x86 !!

2005-06-06 Thread larry price
On 6/6/05, Rodney Mishima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe, Apple is utilizing Intel for their manufacturing capabilities > and hopefully NOT for the X86 specific chips. Supposedly, Apple has > the rights to the G5 and can get someone else; eg. Intel instead of > IBM, to manufacture them in the q

Re: [Eug-lug] New Macs with "Intel Inside"? Hopefully NOT x86 !!

2005-06-06 Thread Rodney Mishima
Ughh, Great, Now all the Mass Market Computers will be based on outdated 1970s technology. There go my hopes of someday being able to get a PC with a sane (RISC) architecture. Why couldn't Intel and AMD make this kind of break in backwards compatability and shift the world off of the horror tha

Re: [Eug-lug] New Macs with "Intel Inside"?

2005-06-06 Thread Mike Cherba
Ughh, Great, Now all the Mass Market Computers will be based on outdated 1970s technology. There go my hopes of someday being able to get a PC with a sane (RISC) architecture. Why couldn't Intel and AMD make this kind of break in backwards compatability and shift the world off of the horror that

Re: [Eug-lug] New Macs with "Intel Inside"?

2005-06-06 Thread T. Joseph CARTER
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:39:33PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > >Rumors of Apple switching to an Intel based processor pre-date the > >existence of this site. The earliest reference in our archives comes > >from [10]March 15, 2000 (this site was founded in Feb 2000). For some > >persp

Re: [Eug-lug] help with install - Sunbird Calendar

2005-06-06 Thread larry price
I just installed it for firefox, took about three minutes, palyed with it a bit, looks cool, but still ripening. Looks more featureful than iCal. On 6/5/05, Mr O <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you still intend to use Mozilla for your browser then you'll > want the one for Moz App Suite if you