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It will show up in retail stores, atleast Apple stores on Friday. My copy shipped today via 2 day shipping, so in theory it should arrive Friday :) Oh, just as a hint for ordering pre-release software from Apple, always pick the cheap ground shipping. Every piece of pre-release software I've...

Take a look at this thread: http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40200 Brian

Turning off shadows and borders more the doubled the usable speed for me :) Brian

You don't need a new videocard, yours already supports dual monitors. You can buy an ADC to VGA adaptor, and a DVI to VGA adaptor, total cost for both, around $50-70 depending on where you buy them. Brian

A few questions: Has it always been this slow in iPhoto or has it gotten slower? How many images do you have in iPhoto? Have you used any of the tricks to speed up iPhoto such as turning off shadows and borders and closing film roles? What application in XP was so fast for what you were...

.bash_profile is for bash what .profile is to sh/ksh. They use .bash_profile so sh/ksh doesn't get pissed if you run them and have bash commands that aren't compatible with sh/ksh in .profile. Brian

See this thread on if it's worth it to you or not... http://www.macosx.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40014&highlight=.Mac Brian

XGrid makes making small clusters simple. XGrid is not usable for a cluster that has 100 different nodes, let alone 1,000 nodes. Clustering technology doesn't scale very well, what works for 5 hosts won't work for 500, different technologies are used. This is not even to mention the...

1) keep one big partition. The only benefit you'll really get from having multiple, it's easier to have multiple copies of OS X installed, say you can do a CarbonCopyClone from one partition to another, and upgrade that copy, if the upgrade fails, you just boot to the original. 2) Copy them :)...

There was a long thread on this on macslash not long ago (http://www.macslash.org/AskMacSlash/02/12/20/2341217.shtml) many many different options are talked about, which ones works for you, depends on what your needs are. Brian

You can buy an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro Mac Edition for around $170 which supports dual heads. It has an ADC and a DVI port (with an DVI to VGA adaptor). Brian

The linksys WUSB54G is a USB 802.11G adaptor. It is powered off of the USB bus, just velcro it to the lid of the laptop. It works with both USB 1.1 and USB 2.0. Now, if it works with OS X is unknown, you can give it a try tho. Brian

Just noticed on the main .Mac page that iPhoto 4 has a feature I've been dieing for. It now has the ability to edit previously published albums on your .Mac account. No having to use the crappy web based editing tool! I hope iLife arrives at my house on Friday.... Brian

PCI-X is backwards compatible with PCI. PCI-X is just an extension to PCI, think of it like USB 1.1 and USB 2.0, ones faster then the other, but they use the same connectors, and are backwards compatible. Brian

Well, if you want to drop around $200 or so, you can get a plextor 40x12x40x scsi cdrw drive. Or, you can spend around $40 and get an HP 32x4x8x scsi cdrw drive. Depends on what you want to spend :) Brian

There are alot of clusters on the list, but there are alot of non-clustered boxes, for instance the SGI Origin 3000 can have up to 1,000 processors in a shared emory environment. 30 of the top 500 are Origin 3000's. Of the top 500, 165 are MPP servers (distributed memory multiprocessors). 127...

Other World Computer (http://www.macsales.com) is a very reputable place, probably the most reputable when it comes to purchasing performance upgrades for Macs. I have purchased both my GigaDesign G4/800 CPU upgrade as well as an ATI Rage 128 Pro PCI card from them and they've been great to deal...

There are other options, but the Airport is probably the cheapest that does both wifi and dialup. There isn't a very large market for dialup router type devices, so their cost is higher. Brian

The C function is mkdir. :) Half the time if you can't figure out the name of a C call, but know the unix command to do it, it's probably the same name as the unix command :) Brian

Not for corporations. You can buy a 100 processor Sun box, that is one single server, running one single OS image, with one single shared memory segment. You can take any multithreaded application and it will run using as many processors as threads that the application will run, using as much...