World: r3wp

what about running a web server ?

and G++ , any cons vs Linux ?

it runs server things nicely. apache is built in and can be started 
with a click of a button

the harddrive is slow, because it's only a 5400 RPM 2.5" laptop drives

I don't know anything about G++...

OSX is not good for high performance serving, such as running MySQL. 
It's notoriously slow at creating threads. This doesn't affect desktop 
performance however.

GCC suite is include and you can get free access to the Xcode developet 
tools very easy to develop in C, C++, Objective-C and Java

There are other languages bundle with the OS, from the top of my 
head Perl, Phyton and Ruby

and apple script :-)

BSD API is not the problem, this API only covers interaction at the 
low level with the OS. For graphics you need to use either Carbon 
API or Cocoa API.

Each API is has its difficulties to takle.

But these Carbon/Cocoa APIs shouldn't be needed by Rebol Core 2.62, 
right ?

Rebol Core 2.62 is out.

So it is pro/cmd etc.

Check the build pages.

http://www.rebol.com/platforms.htmlso this page is not updated then

Current core is beta. But I think an announcement will come soon.

You should check www.rebol.net/builds to see what is new and happening.

thanks. last question: any overheating problems with Mac Mini ?

I haven heart of any, but I don't own one.

is "Creative Labs Inc" the same as Creative that makes soublaster?

yes

joe, it only gets hand warm

Since I bought mine in april 2005, it's only been off for a total 
of about 4-5 hours

funny, how they have such products but is not spending efforts to 
make it known.


one of the things I noted about Creative is they have spend too much 
efforts (and money) fighting Apple and trying to be like Steve Jobs 
(SimWongHoo acting like Steve Jobs giving conference).

pick the wrong fight and tout the wrong 'innovations'

what I think Creative is good at, is creating abnormally huge drivers. 
They are almost as good as Logitech at that.

A hack to get skype working with any wireless phone http://www.stretta.com/~matthew/resources/skype/

Joe, Mac mini does have a CPU fan, but it's pretty quiet (less than 
22db from memory). Unit does get pretty hot if you start doing a 
number of CPU intensive tasks at the same time, at which point you 
can actually hear the CPU fan. I've not noticed any performance issues 
with the 5400rpm drive, but I don't run any DB intensive stuff on 
it. The units originally shipped with 256MB RAM, which was just not 
enough for serious use, but I've found the 512MB they now ship with 
to be more than adequate. Most apps run well, except OpenOffice which 
runs like an absolute dog (both the X11 version and NeoOffice).

what os are you running ?

thanks for the info. The alternative I was considering was a shuttle 
barebone http://eu.shuttle.com/en/Desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-72/170_read-11083/
 which comes at about $300 more but it's at least 3 times the size 
of the Mac mini and probably noiser . The barebones do have a normal 
fan in addition to the CPU fan and that makes them noiser

As hotspots become more prevalent, a timely reminder of the threat 
of Arp Cache Poisoning http://grc.com/nat/arp.htm

A recent CDC study shows that less than a third of U.S. hospitals 
use electronic medical records, a situation that had dangerous repercussions 
in the chaos following Hurricane Katrina. It won't be easy--or cheap--to 
establish a secure, nationwide network that puts test results and 
prescriptions online, and allows national disease trends to be tracked. 
President Bush has proposed a $125 million budget for 2006 to develop 
EMR programs.

Yahoo Widgets  http://widgets.yahoo.com/win/

(some nice looking widgets there.. nicely done)

Hmm, 201 time widgets alone.

Actually, 1851 widgets all up.

Ahh, ok.. Yahoo bought Konfabulator :)

Three problems with them:


1) The widget engine is a hefty 12MB or so download (for widgets 
that are nothing other than HTML+CSS+Javascript+Images bundled in 
a zip file with a magic extension)

2) The download/installation process tries repeatedly to high-jack 
your browser preferences

3) The widgets look pretty ordinary compared to the OS X dashboard 
equivalents (go here, http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/and 
compare the respective dictionary/thesaurus offerings)

What's 12mb these days?

With modem upper limit. with broadband 3 songs :)

My watch uploads faster than that.

Now this is cool  http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/11/tired_of_living.php

and this.. http://www.hiptechblog.com/2006/01/15/worlds-smallest-gps-receiver/

Quick review of the Dell 2405fpw 24" 1920x1200 LCD.  Worth every 
penny. About $1K US.


Although, there is not system to show 4:3 ratio information form 
older video cards, so either buy a new video card that supports wide 
view, or deal with stretched video.

It is BRIGHT, and swivels portrait or landscape.

Does it come with a magnifying glasss to see Altme at that resolution?

:)

Henrik: and don't forget HP on huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge drivers 
size (near 400MB for a printer driver! Go crazy)

[so either buy a new video card that supports wide view]

I have not-so-big LCD - but also wide - 19" 1440x900 - and my old 
Riva TNT2 works fine - just added custom setting.

gpl ver 3 beta    http://gplv3.fsf.org/draft

I have a Samsung 213T (1600x1200), and like it very much. I do use 
the larger font size in AltME though. Not as big as the Dell, but 
there are good deals to be had on it.