I’ve recently started knowing an increasingly disturbing like for Opera, the web browser. For rendering basic webpages that are HTML/CSS and not much else. It seems to be stupidly fast and very efficient. 

The place it lacks is Javascript. Pages like Facebook take a while to load and i even managed to “Beach Ball” the application while loading it.

I’m not sure why i like it, but it seem to work very well.

I’ve recently started using it a lot more on things like this ‘blog and other “basic” web pages. I haven’t met a problem yet.

Please WebKit developers, Please improve WebKit.

17″ Powerbook G4 1.67 Ghz, 1.5 GB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive. On the floor (1 TB + 320 GB + 160 GB Hard Drives) (running dual screen)
12″ Powerbook G4 867 Mhz, 1 GB RAM, 60 GB Hard Drive.
2002 PowerMac G4 (Quicksilver) 800 Mhz, 1.25 GB RAM, 80 + 60 GB Hard Drives.
Hackintosh (Medion): 2.66 GHz Celeron, 768 MB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive.
Powermac and Hackintosh share top left screen.
Now including Wii and Wii upscaler for LCD Screen.
Also including 8GB iPhone. 

Recently i tried it. It works great. I even created the new logo using GIMP over the University network. Now, many people might think “What’s the point? You can install GIMP on Mac anyway”.

Well my answer is that for the few of us that are still PPC, some x11 apps don’t work, also sometimes we just don’t have enough processing power to do the task as well as all our other activities.

The command in an SSH terminal to do X Forwarding is:

ssh -X <username>@<hostname>

Since everything is going over SSH, it’s all encrypted as well.

I have a list of motivational posters, created (mostly) by me, that are aimed at the more geeky among us.

I am saddened, not by Microsoft’s success — I have no problem with their success. They’ve earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.

- Steve Jobs 
- Seen in Triumph of the Nerds (1996) 

I’ll answer the latter part first. Because it sucks.

Right, now to the FireWire Networking.

FireWire can be used to network two computers together. But what many people don’t know is the advantages of ZeroConf. Basically, this gives a sort of local domain name. For example, x5315-laptop.local.

But it gets even better than that. You can daisy chain the FireWire nodes together. This is shown in my setup. 

My large PowerBook is the Root Node. From this i have a FireWire cable going to my PowerMac. Then one leaving the PowerMac to the Hackintosh. Then one leaving the Hackintosh to the little PowerBook. What’s even better, is that all of these are transitive. So my little PowerBook can access the services on my large PowerBook. In fact, all Nodes see all the other Nodes.

Transferring files from the little PowerBook to the big PowerBook and from the PowerMac to the big PowerBook get pretty much the same bandwidth.

Of course, all TCP/IP and UDP services work across the network. For example AFP, SSH and VNC. 

Although the bandwidth isn’t as fast as Gigabit ethernet. It’s still fast enough to play a DVD over the network or to move the iPhone SDK around.

Overall, everyone should know about FireWire networking. It’s cheaper than buying switches, and you can use any Mac, some Linux Machines and Windows XP machines.

One of my best finds in a long time.