Posts by Samsara

What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

Linux needs the paid apps that regular people use. If Adobe bought its creative suite to Linux, that would be a game changer. Yes there are many weird & wonderful open source alternatives, but they are rarely as good, & don't fit into a workflow with others.

Run DeepSeek R1 on an Apple M3 Ultra Mac Studio? Sure, it'll just cost you $9,499-plus

Re: Can it run Windows?

Yes, as it turns out! I've just completed 'Crysis 3 Remastered' on my M1 Max machine, running under 'Crossover' (basically Proton for Mac) & it runs great.

CERN seeks €20B to build a bigger, faster, particle accelerator

Funding Particle

Searching for that ultra-rare 'E.U funding Boson' again no doubt...

Dropbox drops 16% of staff, points finger at hard-up customers and AI

Maybe if Dropbox stopped doing idiotic things like removing external drive support for Mac users, they would retain more of their customers!

Braking news: Cops slammed for spamming Waze to slow drivers down

Re: feels valid to me

..& put down their doughnuts

114 billion transistors, one big meh. Apple's M1 Ultra wake-up call

Q: "Where is the Fisher-Price digital audio workstation? Where, in short, is the Toys-R-Us of the digital world?

A: Roblox

Europe completes first phase of silicon independence project

Will Esperanto be its favoured programming language?

Windows Subsystem for Android: What's the point?

I use an android emulator on one of my Macs called 'Bluestack'.

I was a bit dubious about installing it, but it basically runs Android as a virtual machine, & lets me use my security camera software which was only made for iOS/Android & never ported to the Mac proper.

Windows 11 in detail: Incremental upgrade spoilt by onerous system requirements and usability mis-steps

By any miracle, does the file explorer now show how big a folder is in list view, without having 'get info' (or whatever the windows command is) on it?

In Windows 10, files display their size, but folders are don't.

It sound like a very minor gripe, but coming from a Mac where you can see at a glance where a folder is 500gb or 50k in size, it gets pretty annoying when you are dealing with lists of folders all day containing audio/video.

Dowden out, Dorries in: Is UK data protection in safe hands?

In defence of Nadine Dorries from a tech-competence level, she was the only person that could bully Openreach into providing broadband to my recording studio in rural Bedfordshire.

I'd exhausted all other routes (& alternatives...satellite broadband etc), so in desperation 'wrote to my M.P'.

To my astonishment (after years of trying myself with no success), Openreach duly dug-up the road & seemed genuinely in fear of Ms Dorries.

Nice work.

It's that time of the year when Apple convinces you last year's iPhones weren't quite magical enough, so buy this new 5G iPhone 12 instead

Re: Yawn, same as the all the others but faster

Yeah, I'm very excited about the possibilities of LIDAR too, as a full time video/audio/3d guy

Core-blimey! Intel's Core i9 18-core monster – the numbers

I use Macs & Final Cut Pro X for a living, & the loads appear to be distributed between GPU & CPU (couldn't tell you *exactly* what is doing what) from seeing the performance of a variety of machines that I use...so yes, a big fast new chip (I assume this is whats going in the forthcoming iMac 'Pro') would be very much welcome...also in the audio processing side of things its 100% CPU load

Review: Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock

Re: Thunderbolt be a solution...

If you do Audio & Video for a living, I can tell you that thunderbolt is great ! No big shakes for joe average user though..

OpenOffice 3 goes native on the Mac

F**K you at last Microsoft

>It's bloody slow on my PowerBook G4. I'm waiting for the updated NeoOffice

I'm surprised it works at all. It's supposed to be for Intel-Only Macs.

Works great here on my Macbook.

Up yours, Gates & Ballmer !

Apple takes wraps off rumour-matching MacBook Pros

No Firewire at all on the Macbook

..and just FW800 on the MacBook Pro.

They're going to lose a *huge* number of sales in Music. A very stupid move.

uTorrent for Mac leaks into Pirate Bay

Transmission

Been using this on a Mac for ages. Works great

http://www.transmissionbt.com/

Apple bans App Store heartbreak chatter

Turn 'autosync' off

>The need to sync with iTunes is a pain, plug it into more than 1 PC and it insists on erasing and >resyncing to the different set of tunes each time

Dude, just turn 'Autosync' off in iTunes, then you can drag songs onto your iPod from any PC you plug it into..

Malaysian blogger 'detained' for two years

Confused?

But we're always being told that Islam is such a peaceful loving religion by the Guardian.

I'm confused ?

Apple unsheathes Jesus Phone 2.1

Seems a good update..

Can't believe i'm the saddo that's first to comment.

Anyway...Yes, the 2.1 update does to seem to make the battery last longer, the gprs available where it wasn't before, & the interface (contact browsing & typing) more responsive.

Good stuff.

Now just give me cut & paste, & i'll be happy with it until next July's Mark III Model.

YouTube divorce rant vid wows the crowd

"So, i did my cards this morning..."

ahahahahaaa

AI egghead: Human-robot humping, marriage by 2050

Thank you

..for introducing the world to the expression 'networked wankbot'

x