Thursday, September 02, 2004

SONY 802.11 card in iBook - how to

Use Sony Vaio WIFI card in iBook !

How to revert from OS X 10.3.5 to 10.3.4

Archive and Install Mac OS X 10.3, then update to Mac OS X 10.3.4
One needs room to do the archive and install of course.

Apple KB: Matching Mac OS ROM File To Mac OS Version

Mac OS: Matching Mac OS ROM File To Mac OS Version: "Matching Mac OS ROM File To Mac OS Version"

Will this 803.11g card work in an iBook?

SonyStyle.com | Wireless Card PCWA-C300S
Apparently some older SONY 802.11b cards may work in Macs. I'm sure we'll find out if this 802.11g card works in iBooks.

iMac G5 may not be a good video editing option

MacInTouch Home Page
The new iMac's 7200-RPM serial ATA drive should provide very good disk performance, but demanding audio and video tasks normally need multiple drives, and the iMac G5 offers only FireWire 400 for that application... and it's problematic to use FireWire drives simultaneously with audio/video transfers.

This will be something to watch.

Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Apple - iMac G5 - expensive!

Apple - iMac G5

I'm not thrilled. Too expensive when one adds adequate memory, bluetooth, wireless, etc. The standard package should have included 512MB memory, wireless and bluetooth.

How well is that panel going to pivot when half a dozen cables hang off the left of the display back?

Arghh. I have a bad feeling on this one. (Of course I liked the cube which flopped. On the other hand I've liked all of Apple's recent devices until this one.)

Monday, August 30, 2004

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Abridged Table of Contents

I came across this via a link to Bayes Theorem (see prior post). The index lists all the topics that are to be covered, it looks like about 80% or so are covered (based on two samples).

Not all the entries are readable by a non-specialist. The Bell's Theorem entry was, to me, incomprehensible.

It reminds me of a massive hypertext encyclopedia of philosophy I came across about 7 years ago. It was a european project. I wonder where it is now (I couldn't find it via Google).

I look forward to reading a history of these projects in about 20-30 years.