Recent content by drewangst

>1) X11 is not just a graphics library Needless nitpicking, a useless statement. I know it's not just a library. I'm just trying to simplify the description. >2) If I were porting an X11 app, the first thing I would do is throw away all the X11 code even if I could retain it. 90% of X11 code...

I've seen a lot of posts the touch on the subject but I haven't seen any major discussion on it. Is anyone working on or considering working on creating X11 wrappers for Cocoa? Basically you just compile your X windows app with these libraries. It seems like it would be a great way to get more...

<sarcasm>What is wrong with the PC architecture that needs redesigning? Hmm.. Could it be the PCI bus or the AGP bus? Well both were developed by Intel so they must suck and Macs would never use anything that's crap. I know, it could be PC133 SDRAM. Yeah that's something that needs to be better...

What do the options for dynamic_pager mean? The default command has -H 40000000 -L 160000000 -S 80000000. I thin -S is the start swap file size. So would -h and -L be the limits? If they are couldn't you just put all three options to the same value and the virtual memory file would never grow...

I was talking with another guy over lunch and we came to the conclusion that since finder is, from what I hear, a carbon app that it only supports approx 32 character filenames, like older versions of mac os. (os X is my first experience with macs so I can't verify this) The reason the terminal...

Actually 64 bit WEP encryption is the same thing as 40bit WEP. WEP encryption uses a 24bit header, so 128 bit is really 102 bit encryption. But you are right they should be using 128bit encryption. I think most other 802.11b cards support 128bit encryption. Do airport cards not support it...

I know a guy who is in the process of writing a driver for his cisco aironet card, so he can get it working under X. Other than that, I have not seen anything about it. Andrew

I ran in to an interesting problem last night when I tried to copy a bunch of files from cd to my hard drive. The cd was burned under windows, basically I backup up all my mp3s to cd so I could copy them to my new mac. I got errors when I tried to drag files with very long file names to the hard...

Couldn't you just assign a static amount of swap space? (that's really what it is) I come from a windows background and did this all the time and got noticable performance gains when swapping. So instead of dynamically assigning space, which is a performance hit, you just say you want a gig or...

Apple has no reason to realease OS X for x86 anytime soon, unless it wants to put itself out of buisness. I can see it doing so in 2 to 4 years after OS X has become a serious competitor, which I see happening. As far as apple hardware not being more expensive than pc hardware, that's...