PPC 970 system specs leaked at Apple Store

[DrV]

Isn't there some kind of daughterboard that you can get for Macs with an x86 processor, RAM, etc. onboard which then runs Windows as a sort of slave process thingy within the Mac OS? I think my friend was using this once... he was trying to figure out what "millions of colors" translated into in Windows terms...

[Hexadecimal Disaster]

apples are for food

Hmm, thinking of Microsoft makes the bite in the apple logo make so much more sense now....

Thinking about it, the glasses of the window are fragile, and really easy to crash. And that makes sense too. Quite odd, huh?

[Ninkazu]

Ya, but glass made out of sugar instead of sand breaks much easier and I know for sure Windows is not sweet.

[oracle]

Ya, but glass made out of sugar instead of sand breaks much easier and I know for sure Windows is not sweet.

You suggest an interesting parody, Windows does crash, which makes it not sweet (so perhaps it can reboot?) and then you like it for a little while so it becomes sweet then...

Oh wait what am I saying. Windows is crap, and everyone knows you can't make windows out of crap

[pr0gger]

Forget Windows. Forget OS X. Install Linux. 8)

[LooseCaboose]

This is another thing that has irked me for quite some time (Besides which I like ranting). What is the big deal with Linux over other operating systems? MacOS X in particular combines a stable Unix core (based on BSD) with an excellent multilayer GUI on top of it. Windows XP is a very competent OS and still provides many interesting features that Linux doesn't (at least not directly) such as a unified graphics toolkit, multi-streamed files, excellent file-system sharing (NFS is a pain to setup and administer), rollback configurations and Active directory, not to mention its absolute plethora of available software. Then of course there is VMS, QNX and VXWorks which are the coolest operating systems you've never heard of.

Linux isn't the only Unix variant worth glancing at either, MacOS X as I mentioned has some interesting qualties, FreeBSD has superior security (I seen a challenge to hack a FreeBSD box where they opened a telnet session and gave away the root password, it never got cracked), Solaris has some very cool features available to low-level programmers and the Hurd use a new micro-kernel design that allows user to use different kernel modules while simulatenously logged in.

Linux is an excellent operating system (I use it myself in conjunction with Solaris, MINIX and Windows), but it doesnt make you l33t just because you use it, and certainly isnt the be all and end all of operating systems. By the way to anyone who has claimed that "I use Linux 'cause its so much more stable than Winblows and never crashes" try this single line of C code, call it fork.c:

Code:

int main() { while(1) fork(); }

To run it:

Code:

$ make fork
$ ./fork

[oracle]

I think you showed us that before... I'm not stupid enough to run it, but I get the point...

Do you use CDE, KDE, Gnome, etc? Which one do you like/reccomend?

[LooseCaboose]

Im currently using Gnome and enlightenment, but most of the time I just have several console and editor(xemacs) windows open. Im doing an upgrade soon and will probably change Linux distro's (cause I dislike RedHat's current direction) to Debian or Gentoo and will probably switch my window manager to one of the more lightweight ones such as fluxbox.

CDE is pretty horrible, looks awful and is clunky to use. KDE looks very nice but is an absolute resource hog, almost as bad as recent version of Windows. I find Gnome quite nice to use, not overly fancy but gets the job done. The alternative is to do away with a desktop environment and just use a window manager such as twm or fluxbox, some of these have quite a different feel than the more Windows-like Gnome and KDE but do provide a bit more flexibility and power.
For the keen, if you want to try the fork bomb from my last post, make sure you are either using a journaling filesystem (such as ext3) or just do a couple of filesystem sync's, type 'sync' at the console a couple of times and then wait half a minute and then run it. For the even more keen, see if you can fix your Linux box so that it isn't susceptible to run-away fork processes.

[oracle]

I'm using KDE. It's a resource hog?

I'm also sick of Konqueror. It's quite possibly the most buggy browser in the history of browsing, but at least it displays stuff reasonably well unlike Netscape 4.

I have Debian Linux. I reccomend it.

I might send your fork prog to my cousin, he's a linux whiz. Maybe he can come up with a better one/how to fix it for good.

[LooseCaboose]

Of course the other easy target for security on a Linux box is the good ole' login spoof. Simply write a program (or not, seeing as its all open-source) that looks like the login screen. Have it grab the password, save it somewhere, complain that the password was incorrect and then run the real login program.

Windows provides a good solution to this problem by having the ctrl+alt+del keypress at the login screen, user-mode programs cannot bind the above combination so login spoofs are easily detected by the missing keystroke. But then you can argue, how many people who actually notice that the above keystroke wasn't requested and enter their name and password anyway?