Apple Quickies Comin' At Ya 38
There are a few new product announcements recently: MATLAB for Mac OS X is available; fink for 10.2 is available for testing; Intuit has announced QuickBooks for Mac OS X; and PowerLogix has announced even more upgrades, including dual processor upgrades. And one user notes, "I wonder if the /. effect could drain the batteries of this Newton quickly?"
MATLAB (Score:5, Informative)
Re:MATLAB (Score:1)
Jaguar has been out in the public now for how many weeks, and they are just now telling people that it does not work with 10.2!
Re:MATLAB (Score:3, Informative)
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?gr
OCTAVE broken too (Score:1, Informative)
bummer, I wonder if its for the same reason. I note that XFREE86 seems to work fine for me in 10.2 (fink version).
Re:OCTAVE broken too (Score:1)
My Octave install (form Fink) broke when I upgraded from 10.2. I downloaded the source files and recomplied, and now everything works fine.
MATLAB 6.5 does in fact work (partially) on 10.2 (Score:2, Informative)
Re:MATLAB 6.5 does in fact work (partially) on 10. (Score:1)
Thanks!
Onnimikki
Newton Webserver (Score:3, Funny)
Seeing as I don't get a response, I'd say *yes*
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But will QuickBooks work? (Score:2)
The mac version had last been updated in 1996 (this was the year 2000), and wasn't compatible with the windows version. Let's hope the new one's better.
Fail to fail sig (Score:1, Funny)
Here's [prohosting.com] the script of the movie.
Re:But will QuickBooks work? (Score:3, Interesting)
As the article notes, that's what "FUD" really means, as opposed to the way it's used here to mean "said something vaguely critical about Lunix".
Another piece of news (semi-related to Mac OS X) (Score:3, Informative)
But... whats up with the quoted price of InDesign (Score:1)
Re:But... whats up with the quoted price of InDesi (Score:1)
Of course, you can probably find the software a bit cheaper through places like macmall.com [macmall.com], CDW [cdw.com] or Insight [insight.com]. But if you are already in a market for a new Mac, free is still much better than $699 :)
Slashdotting a Newton.... (Score:3, Funny)
Barrel.
Howitzer.
(Yes, it's gone already. Poor little thing...)
Re:Slashdotting a Newton.... (Score:1)
Newton (Score:5, Informative)
Absolutely. And since I seem to have caught this seconds after is was posted, I'll just share what the server says ...
And this is the "more details" ...
Re:Newton (Score:1)
/.ing == DOSing? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:/.ing == DOSing? (Score:2)
Re:/.ing == DOSing? (Score:2)
Quickies! (Score:1)
Fink Question (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Fink Question (Score:1)
Re:Fink Question (Score:1)
Re:Fink Question (Score:5, Informative)
You are right, though - some of the dependencies may have changed or been removed. I would suggest that you look through the list and pick some of the bigger packages and start by installing those. You'll fill a lot of the dependencies by installing something like KDE, for example.
You may want to check out the mailing lists [sourceforge.net] for more information. A lot of the regulars know way more Fink than I do; they may have some better ideas.
Famous last words (Score:3, Funny)
I got this from the guy who copied what the site served by the Newton before it got
Re:Famous last words (Score:1)
Technically, you can't have speed problems without a connection...
Poor little Newt.
Yes, nHTTPd is actually useful (Score:4, Interesting)
Most of the time, I imagine that people see NPDS as a novelty, like running Apache on WinCE. And to some who run it, it is just a novelty. However, unlike some Htttpd for CE, NPDS actually manages to be useful. It serves your Dates, Names, Todo and Notes data, accessing the object-oriented database that makes up the Newton system for data storage. Of course, it can also serve regular HTML pages. I've actually seen a couple organizations that were using a Newton as a drop-in solution to managing contacts and meeting schedules. Incredible!
I suppose someone could write a C++ CGI that access the WinCE DBs for the analogous data on a WinCE/PocketPC device, but then you're stuck doing it in C++, which if a major pain in the ass compared to NewtonScript. Does anyone know of NSBasic [nsbasic.com] (started on the Newton, of course
In other news, someone is getting me a 2100 in exchange for attempting to develop a Squeak VM for the Newton! I recently had to sell my super-nice Newton 2100u setup, and I've missed my Newt a great deal. I guess it's one of those things where you don't understand it unless you've had a Newt yourself... but in my switch attempt to an iPAQ and more recently a Jornada 720, I've been left wanting in a lot of respects, and really can't wait to get my Newton back!
I hope the Fink users are patient (Score:3, Informative)
Why post binaries on SourceForge when you could force 1,000 people to compile them instead?
mmm..the Newton (Score:1, Funny)
New Powerlogix Dual G4 CPU -- not a great deal (Score:2, Interesting)
When you consider you can get a brand-new 867 MHz Dual G4 with all the other good things that come a long, like DDR RAM, bigger faster hard drive, etc, and then sell your olrder G4 for probably more than the difference (depending on how it is equipped), you'd be better off buying a new one and selling your old one. (Just MHO)