Posted on 05/09/2006 11:02:14 AM PDT by ShadowAce
LOL! What exactly is OsX? At least with Linux you have a choice of hardware.
NeXT was looking that good over 10 years ago.
You can get Apple on PPC or x86. Solaris runs on SPARC or x86 too.
What good? I have all the eye candy turned off. LoL. no need for it.
Athlon64 3500+
Epox Ep-9NDA3+ mobo
ATI Radeon X800XT All-in-Wonder video card...
More and more audio streams are beoming inaccessible to my Mac.Must be those sites have switched to proprietary "standards".
Apple will never switch to Solaris, which while a good server OS in some respects (e.g. stability) is also a pig in others. ZFS is a pretty spiffy filesystem, but it performs poorly out of the box. Solaris on the desktop is pretty sucky even with all the extra bells and whistles thrown in. Linux+XFS on Opteron makes a pretty fine server platform, being both fast and relatively stable, without the crappy bedside manner that Solaris can have.
If they dumped Mach (which honestly is a turd), they most likely would use one of the monolithic *BSD kernels. The FreeBSD kernel is wicked fast and pretty clean, but does not scale to really large servers the way Linux can. But then, Apple has never been interested in anything but the low-end server market, perhaps a recognition of the limitations of their OS.
It's a problem with the KRLA web page, but here is a workaround - Open Windows Media Player
Select the "Open URL..." command under the file menu
Paste this URL into the box -
http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia-live/kkla/7723/16_kkla-16_krla_0105_050106.asx
then click the OK button. You should receive KRLA live. You can add it to Favorites for a future shortcut.
I am much obliged to you, your work-around worked like a charm.
Out of curiosity, how did you dig out the boss.streamos URL?
I searched for it in the source code but couldn't locate it.
I viewed the HTML source for the stream player window, found the URL for the stream, then removed an unnecessary parameter at the end of the URL. After that, the URL worked in Media Player, and I'm glad it's working for you too.
Case $65
Power Supply $90
Motherboard $123
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ 2.4ghz Dual Core 2x1MB retail box $632
2 x 300GB Seagate Hard drives raid 0 $200
Video card $400
Memory 2GB $190
2 x 16x dual layer dvd burners $70
1 x floppy $12
Total: 1,782
2 x 300GB Seagate Hard drives raid 0
No thanks, I occasionally like to read my data after writing it :)
No thanks, I occasionally like to read my data after writing it :)
huh? you have a problem with RAID? ok then just 2 x 300GB hard drives without raid... your choice. Hell get 4 of them for $400 still be cheaper than than mac and Put it in RAID 0+1 Stripping+Mirroring(for security)
For my purposes, I buy the smallest practical drives I find and mirror them. The high water mark for my various systems is currently something like 40GB, with music being the biggest consumer of that space. Big disks are dreadfully slow for anything I'd use big volumes for anyway (like reconstructing a database snapshot). It is good to know someone is buying all these big hard drives. Me, I am whore for RAM, the more the better. I do not think I've had a system with less than a gigabyte in 6-7 years.
Maybe you should read some hardware reviews, actually the larger drives are faster than the smaller ones... Do some video editing and you will see the need for space.
Yep, that Mac only comes with 512mb ram... sheesh... the system I just slapped togeather has 2GB(2048mb)
Oh, also you do know that their is a thing called disk partitions right? :)
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