Posted on 09/03/2005 6:31:17 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Signaling needs significantly more time in Mac OS X (Darwin) than on Linux. The processor plays a minor role: the Opteron at 2.4 GHz is a bit faster than the Xeon 3.6 GHz running exactly the same (x86) code. However, it is clear that the operating system plays a much bigger role: a 2.5 GHz G5 running Linux easily beats the identical system with a 2.7 GHz G5 running Mac OS X. Despite the FreeBSD heritage, the TCP signals are very slow (4 times slower!) on Mac OS X.
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Have you considered you're out of blue ink?
LOL!!!!! No, it's not the ink. Canon has see-through tanks and I have tons of ink on hand. I fill my own tanks. I wish you had been right, thought. I figured out ....finally. It's my printer heads. On both printers! What I did was borrow a print head from a friend's printer and put it on mine. It worked instantly. Now I have to figure out if I should buy two new printers or two new print heads. But first I'm going to try cleaning them out one more time. Thanks for chiming in, like I said, wish you had been right
rofl, so if you're going to make posts which nobody understands what's the point of posting in the first place?
So what? Contributors are still going to influence the outcome.
Whew. That was easy.
Mac lost me with this newest outrage of switching chips.
I will never buy a Mac again.
Assuming the author understood what they told him in first place. I seriously doubt any of those "contributors" wrote any of the article.
Linux vs. Unix vs. Linux
99% of users don't care.
Get it?
I'm running OSX, Fedora and XP. Two of the three don't get much use.
FC4 rocks... a few glitches installing it, but once its up
and running it is awesome!
I don't blame you.
But you can still have the best of both worlds.............
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