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Alternative OSes To Run Your Mac
Linux on PowerPC Macs: Debian Runs Nicely on a G3 iBook
Canadian Government To Table New Copyright Legislation Thursday
Apple Confirms Steve Jobs Illness, Now Recovering
High Pitched Noise Coming From Some MacBook Pro Computers
Dim the (early 2008) MacBook Pro's sleep light
Market Watcher Warns Intel 'Nehalem' Behind Schedule
My Compact Macs: Macintosh SE/30 and Classic II
Late Night PowerBook 5300ce
Mac Bug Forces Mozilla To Firefox 3.0 RC3
Power Tweak Your Mac's Stacks
Move over .Mac., here comes MobileMe
Back Into The Fold With MobileMe
Apple's Jobs: P.A. Semi to design iPhone chips
Going Back To Windows Is Really Tough
Grayson Steinberg returns as Gene Steinberg meets commentator Daniel Eran Dilger, security expert Rich Mogull, and developer John Lowry on the Tech Night Owl LIVE
Alternative OSes To Run Your Mac
Pure-Mac.com has posted a handy guide to installing alternate operating systems and virtualization on Macs - old and new.
Information for each category includes a concise profile plus system requirements, license requirements, download file size, and so forth.
The inclusions are amazinlg comprehensive, including such oldies as AUX, the BeOS, plus a diverse range of Linix distros.
You can check it out at:
http://www.pure-mac.com/unix.html
Linux on PowerPC Macs: Debian Runs Nicely on a G3 iBook
Low End Mac's Jason Packer says:
The recent discussion here at Low End Mac about Linux being a viable alternative for otherwise left-behind Mac hardware got me to thinking.
First, everyone has a different definition of "left behind". If your primary or even sole purpose is writing, you can be quite happy with an SE/30 running Microsoft Word 5.1a, as long as you have a way to get your files from that system wherever you need them to be, be that by ethernet, LocalTalk Bridge, a local printer, or even floppy disk.
Most, however, accept that a system has been left behind when it won't run the most recent two versions of the Mac OS. That's when the software writers stop making their programs backward compatible, in many cases, and when you begin to hear that the latest browser or plugin is not compatible with your system.
That places a whole passel of G3 Macs on the soon-to-pass list with the forthcoming release of Mac OS X 10.6. I'm not as pessimistic as Dan Knight: I think there are plenty of G5 Power Macs and iMacs out there that will still be supported - and maybe even some of the higher-end G4 PowerBooks - but then I may be naive, too......
In any case, while that may or may not happen, with Leopard being unavailable to them every G3 is already one foot in the grave. As such, planning ahead by looking at other opportunities can only be a good thing.
In the Windows world, even the most graphically intense flavors of Linux can add years of pep to the life of older hardware, and mini-distributions can revive relative octogenarians for a few more trips around the park. Maybe Linux can do something similar for our aging Macs.....
For the full commentary visit here:
http://lowendmac.com/ed/packer/08jp/debian-linux-ppc-mac.html
Canadian Government To Table New Copyright Legislation Thursday
CTV.ca News reports:
Legislation that will make it easier to prosecute individuals who download copyrighted material off the Internet is expected to be introduced by the federal government today.
In a press release, Industry Minister Jim Prentice confirmed that he will table a bill Thursday to amend the Copyright Act.
There is speculation, according to The Canadian Press, that Prentice will try to find a middle ground to please both business interests who want strict protection of intellectual property and Internet users who download.
"Striking an appropriate balance in respect to copyright as between consumers and industry is an important part of the equation,'' the industry minister said recently.
As a result, Prentice may seek to impose a $500 fine on individuals caught downloading copyrighted files, CP reports.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/485lnn
Apple Confirms Steve Jobs Illness, Now Recovering
9To5MAc's Andy Space says:
Apple has responded to widely-reported concerns at the health of CEO Steve Jobs....
Concerns as to the health of Jobs, who suffered a rare form of pancreatic cancer four years ago, were raised following his appearance at WWDC this week, when the Mac web noted that he seemed to have suffered some weight loss.
Responding to these concerns, an Apple spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal Jobs was hit with a "common bug" in recent weeks but that he still felt it was important to participate in the Apple conference. Jobs is now recovering with help from a course of antibiotics.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.9to5mac.com/jobs_getting_better
High Pitched Noise Coming From Some MacBook Pro Computers
MacFixIt reports:
Some MacBook Pro users are noticing a high pitched ring-like noise coming from their computers, and has been described as sounding like a constant tone or like someone has turned on a TV.....
For some users the computer locks up and hangs for a while when the noise occurs, and for others it will come and go in a random manner....
Unfortunately for now there are no known fixes, and while it's uncertain whether or not this occurrence is hardware or software based....
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080611111651418
Dim the (early 2008) MacBook Pro's sleep light
Mac OS X Hints contributor macfan001says:
I'm not sure on how many laptops this works on, but on my early 2008 MacBook Pro, when the computer is asleep with the screen down, the pulsating sleep light is quite bright....
You can check it out at:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080610184610810
Market Watcher Warns Intel 'Nehalem' Behind Schedule
The Register's Tony Smith reports:
Intel's next-gen processor architecture, 'Nehalem', is running behind schedule - or will be seen as such when the first of the chips ship - a US market analyst has claimed.
According to American Technology Research's Doug Freedman, "Intel's Nehalem server parts will initially launch in single-socket only". That, he told investors, "will be viewed by customers... as a delayed ramp of the company's second-generation 45nm server architecture"....
The chip giant has so far only said that Nehalem chips will ship in Q4, and has specified which particular implementations of the Nehalem architecture will debut first.
For the full report visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/11/nehalem_delay_claimed/
My Compact Macs: Macintosh SE/30 and Classic II
Low End Mac's Carl Nygren says:
First off, the Compact Macs are great machines because 1) they are small (that's why they are called Compact Macs), 2) they are relatively powerful, 3) most of them handle systems up to Mac OS 7.6.
Before I talk about my Compacts, I'd just like to mention a cool feature of a certain family member, the Classic. Not to be confused with the newer Classic II, the Classic was slower and had less possibilities for expansion than its successor, but it did have one cool feature: It had the ability to boot System 6.03 from a built in ROM disk when you hold down Cmd-Opt-X-O during startup....
Anyway, let's talk about two of my Compacts.....
You can check it out at:
http://lowendmac.com/ed/nygren/08ny/nygren-compact-macs.html
Late Night PowerBook 5300ce
An Introduction to my PowerBook 5300ce
thisoldmac.ca's Holden Scott says:
These columns are written on a PowerBook 5300ce with a high capacity battery and a 4 GB SanDisk Ultra II internal Hard Drive. The articles will cover many different aspects of computing relating to the past, present and future. The PowerBook 5300ce will be used as a point of reference in each article, comparing it to the topic at hand.
The PowerBook 5300ce, the top-of-the-line interation of the PowerBook 5300 lineage, was released in 1995 at a whopping $6000+ USD. It came with an internal floppy drive, two PC Card Slots, a trackpad, a 10.4? active matrix screen, a 117 Mhz 603e PPC processor, and 32 MB RAM. Legacy ports abound, the PowerBook 5300 was both praised and castigated. Flaming batteries, failing logic boards… but once put through Apple's recondition program, they are as solid as the PowerBook 1400....
I love working on this little machine. No distractions. No Skype or Mail tattering away in the dock… no YouTube… and there is a refreshing absence of the million windows and icons that normally populate the screen. Just Simple Text and Netscape. And totally silent! The installed CF card hard drive upgrade was totally worth it. I wish it were this fun to work on the new Macs… No, I don't miss my MacBook Pro's blazing hot underbelly and loud as a Boeing 747's fan.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/43rvkv
Mac Bug Forces Mozilla To Firefox 3.0 RC3
Computerworld's Gregg Keizer reports:
A change that Apple made in its latest update to Mac OS X forced Mozilla to issue a third release candidate for Firefox 3.0, according to notes from a status meeting the company held Tuesday.
As of 3 p.m. ET Wednesday, Mozilla had seeded its download site with Release Candidate 3 (RC3).
For the full report visit here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/133901/2008/06/firefox3.html
Power Tweak Your Mac's Stacks
LifeHacker's Gina Trapani says:
Before Mac OS X Leopard got released, if you'd told me Stacks - a convenient way to access Finder locations on the Dock - would be one of my favorite, most-used features, I would've said you were trapped in the reality distortion field. Turns out Stacks is super-useful, and highly configurable to boot. Let's take a look at some power tweaks and uses for Stacks.
You can check it out at:
http://lifehacker.com/395741/power-tweak-your-macs-stacks
Move over .Mac., here comes MobileMe
Computerworld's Michael DeAgonia reports:
.....one of the most important announcements concerned Apple's new suite of online services, called MobileMe. Think of it as a revamped .Mac with an eye on tying the iPhone to what has until now been largely a syncing/storage/Web-based tool. Oh, and say goodbye to .Mac, which will disappear next month, replaced basically by ".me." Old .Mac e-mail accounts and Web pages will still work fine. But the emphasis will be on "Me." In fact. .Mac e-mail addresses can be converted to .me addresses once .Mac users are upgraded to MobileMe.
MobileMe, which will offer twice the storage space now allocated for .Mac members -- 20GB instead of 10GB - will continue to cost $99 a year.
For the full report visit here:
http://tinyurl.com/6dah6w
Back Into The Fold With MobileMe
MacUser's Derik DeLong says:
Some time ago, I broke down and migrated my email from .Mac to Gmail. .Mac was prone to service issues, had less storage (because I like a healthy amount for my iDisk and sync data), and still didn't support push email (aka the IDLE command). Once Gmail had IMAP, I simply forwarded all my email to that account....
With Apple's Mobile Me announcement, I've made the decision to go back, for better or worse. There's a couple reasons.....
To read more, click here.
http://www.macuser.com/internet/back_into_the_fold.php?lsrc=murss
Apple's Jobs: P.A. Semi to design iPhone chips
CNet's Tom Krazit reports:
Apple may have taken a look at the future of mobile chip development and decided to forge its own path.
Future successors to the iPhone 3G might use a chip completely designed by Apple.
The New York Times scored an interview with Apple CEO Steve Jobs following Monday's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, and buried inside a rambling exchange about parallel processing and Mac OS X Snow Leopard was this little nugget about P.A. Semi, the chip company Apple acquired in April. "PA Semi is going to do system-on-chips for iPhones and iPods," Jobs told the Times.
For the full report visit here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-9965854-37.html
Going Back To Windows Is Really Tough
David Alison says:
In the brief time that's passed since I completely switched to Mac from Windows I have barely powered up my primary Windows machine....
Rather than have an extremely expensive piece of hardware sitting around and depreciating every day I decided to sell it while it still has some value. A buddy of mine on one of the gaming networks I belong to offered to buy it and yesterday I went about the process of cleaning out the machine.....
I spent 17 years on Windows so I know my way around, especially when dealing with arcane driver and registry issues and the inevitable errors. Why was it then that I felt like a stranger in a strange land on the machine? I was only a month and a half removed from daily Windows use. My precious Mac keyboard shortcuts didn't work and the navigation controls I struggled with initially on Mac were now ingrained into my muscle memory.
For the full commentary visit here:
http://www.davidalison.com/2008/06/going-back-to-windows-is-really-tough.html
Grayson Steinberg returns as Gene Steinberg meets commentator Daniel Eran Dilger, security expert Rich Mogull, and developer John Lowry on the Tech Night Owl LIVE
On this week's all-star episode, cutting-edge commentator Daniel Eran Dilger, of Roughly Drafted Magazine, will talk about the WWDC, the iPhone and other hot topics.
Security guru Rich Mogull will address Apple's enhanced support for the enterprise, beginning with the iPhone 3G. You'll also learn about a popular Mac OS X maintenance utility, Leopard Cache Cleaner, from John Lowry of Northern Softworks.
In a special segment, co-host emeritus Grayson Steinberg returns to talk about a terrific new Mac accessory and his recent European adventure.
You can tune into the broadcast Thursday night from 6:00 to 8:00 PM Pacific, 9:00 to 11:00 PM Eastern, at:
http://www.techbroadcasting.com
An archive of the show will be available for downloading and listening at your convenience within four hours after the original broadcast.
You can also access our show's Podcast feed, now available at:
http://www.techbroadcasting.com/nightowl.xml
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