I thought the talk was pretty impressive myself! I imagine it flew over a few people's heads (mine included) because he talked a lot about the Mac OS X APIs. I was able to grasp most of it though.
I'm pretty lucky because I've got an iMac at work running OS X 10.1 so I've been able to play around with it a bit. I really like it, but man is it a resource hog! The iMac is no tour de force, it's a G3/500 with 256 megs of RAM. Still, with that configuration, the thing really slows down when there are a lot of apps running, especially classic apps. Running "top" in a terminal window tells me it's using over 2 gigs of swap with almost all 256 megs of ram gobbled up. Ouch. One thing that's great is that it comes with apache, php, perl, and mod_dav! PHP and mod_dav need to be turned on in the config file, but still, that was a nice touch! Sendmail's installed too, though it doesn't have the m4 macros on it (Yikes! No thanks, I don't do sendmail.cf). Apparently Mac OS X server comes with samba and mysql as well. I'm downloading the Dev-tools now, I'll have to see how well linux console apps compile on Darwin. I like it, but it seems to me they need to focus on tuning its performance. That's an awful lot of resources its gobbling up. At 01:04 PM 10/3/2001 -0700, you wrote: >On Wed, 03 October 2001, Christine Scobee wrote: > > > then, after the meeting, I overheard Jeff Newmiller and my six-year-old > > having an intense conversation about the logistical hurdles of building a > > time machine. Now *that's* what I call integrated learning: watches a > > Nova rerun on time travel, listens to a previous LUGOD talk on embedded > > systems, puts it all together, and waits patiently for the after-meeting > > social time to start discussion with the potential engineering team ;) > > > > Linux... helps dreamers dream big! > > -- Christine > >So, will the time machine be Open Source and does it have a Sourceforge >page yet? :) > >In any case, how was the talk from Apple. I really wanted to go last >night, but had other commitments pop up at the last minute. Grrr.... > >-sp Sam Peterson Hart Interdisciplinary Programs 2201 Hart Hall University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue Davis, California 95616 (530) 752-9332
