Recent content by mpconnick

I offically received it last Saturday (8/17). That's when I purchased my brand new G4 with it pre-loaded.

Here are the results for my brand new, dual processor 1 GHz machine: 1.8 BIPS Typical 4.8 BIPS Fast Integer 6991.8 Megaflops (or 6.991 Gigaflops) Drove 500 miles round-trip to purchase it last week from the nearest Apple Store. I actually ordered one directly from Apple the day after...

Does anyone know if you can get an ADC extension cable to use with an Apple LDC with ADC connector? My desk configuration makes doesn't allow me to have my computer where I want it and still have my LCD located in the optimal viewing location. I have looked for such an extension cable, but...

I've got 1.5 GB in my G4 733 (non-Quicksilver) at home. I filled it up before RAM prices started going back up. It performs better than my Quicksilver 733 G4 with 768 MB that I have at work when using pure Java development environments (JBuilder, IDEA). Not sure if it's because of the...

You're right, OS X 10.1 needs to mature and has a bunch of quirks, but I'd never go back to Mac OS 9. I can live with the quirks. It never crashes on me! Server side, I think it depends on th usage. Additionally, if you've got a servlet or JSP that remains resident, it will be compiled...

Serious code can be written on any platform. It's not about the platform at all. At one time, some very serious and tight code was written on Apple II computers. Apple II programmers, and I used to be one when young, knew how to push the limits of the hardware like most new programmers cannot...

Well, a lot of the arguments you bring up are valid, but are related to a generally uncohesive team, lack of design ahead of time (I'm not design crazy, but defining public APIs upfront helps OOP work a lot better), or not using the tools available. That is, many of those things you mention go...

Not a dumb question at all. As Java has evolved so quickly over the past 6 or so years (since the cat got out of the bag, not counting when Gosling was pontificating), it can be hard to keep up. Java 2 means JDK versions 1.2 and above, including the current 1.3 JDK and the beta 1.4 JDK...

After everyone gets done counting the most widely used UNIX apps and what they're are written in, why don't we count market share of the top 10 UNIX apps in comparison to the top 10 Windows apps? Then, just for fun, let's start counting the number of paying jobs open for UNIX programmers as...

You're suggesting object oriented programming is bad in an environment with many programmers on large projects? That's absolutely crazy. What could possibly lead you to believe that? Object oriented programming, Java or otherwise, is perfect for that environment when used properly used...

In response to MrJohns, using the same/similar outline points he did: - Multi-platform Are you honestly trying to say that C has equivalent capabilities to Java in terms of multi-platform development? Are you nuts? It is fairly easy to create a C program that will run on multiple...

I've got a 733 G4 (January version) at home and a 733 G4 Quicksilver at work. Does anyone have a suggestion for a reasonably priced video card that is compatible with OS X and will allow me to have a second monitor on each machine? I would like the card to support 1600x1200 in thousands of...

Installed 10.1 (5G64) tonight and my iSub works. :cool: Now, if I could only control the volume of the iSub separately from my Apple Pro speakers. Oh well, maybe 10.1.x or 10.2. - Mike

Rather than name a project to develop, I'd suggest some goals you should achieve by doing your project. These will help you in a number of ways in other projects. - develop a program that utilitizes many of the main Swing (JFC) components, such as windows, dialogs, menubars, text components...

My day job is for an educational software company. We were purchased by another company during May of this year. I manage the operations of our small satellite office (our main office is out of state) and continue to develop in Java on a daily basis. Our office is a nice situation, because...