Re: running ydl 5.0.1 on a powerbook lombard

Hi,

Thankyou for your email. I appreciate your advice. I was
just wondering if
there is anything that I can do to improve performance of
OSX?

Thanks,
Al



On Sat, 26 May 2007 jmzorkomac.com wrote:

> Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 07:51:37 -0700
> From: jmzorkomac.com
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> Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] running ydl 5.0.1 on a powerbook
lombard
>
>
> Al,
>
> Have you considered just running OSX 10.4.x (Tiger) on
it?  It
> includes Java 1.5:
>
> pugsleybutt:~/work/trunk/gne_ps_dna/client/util/macosx
jmzorko$ java -
> version
> java version "1.5.0_07"
> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build
1.5.0_07-164)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_07-87, mixed
mode)
> pugsleybutt:~/work/trunk/gne_ps_dna/client/util/macosx
jmzorko$
>
> ... and Flash will work, and you can view .wmv files
with Flip4Mac
> WMV (which is free).
>
> I'm not bashing Linux at all -- I have 2 mini-ITX
low-power servers
> running it (1 running Debian, the other Gentoo), and I
have YDL 5 on
> my PS3 -- but if Flash / QuickTime / WMV is important
to you, OSX
> 10.4.x might be the best choice, and it's as real a
*nix as any other.
>
> Regards,
>
> John, cross-platform C++ developer (so hey, I like
PPCs, and x86s,
> and Sparcs, and whatever else I can get my code to run
on <smile> )
>
> Falling You - exploring the beauty of voice and sound
> http://www.fallingyou.com
>
>
> > One of the things that I liked about OSX is that
all those ecards
> > people
> > like to send me, and quicktime moves worked. Also,
I am having a cross
> > promotion system for my website built that uses
flash/shockwave to
> > be used
> > on eBay, and it would be nice to be able to see it
working. There just
> > doesn't seem to be the support for them in Linux
that there should be,
> > just wondering if things are any better now?
> >
> > Still right now with OSX there are some files that
I am not able to
> > view.
> > Like .wmf files. I also can't seem to run some
Java appls that
> > require a
> > newer version of Java. It would really be nice to
having things
> > like this
> > working too.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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On Monday 28 May 2007, DataZap wrote:
> Thankyou for your email. I appreciate your advice. I
was just wondering if
> there is anything that I can do to improve performance
of OSX?

 Yeah, format the drive and install YDL on top of it.  

 Seriously though, this is really a discussion for another
forum. You might 
have better luck with that on an Apple forum.

Cheers,

Chris
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On Mon, 28 May 2007 12:11:45 -0700 (PDT)
DataZap <azdatazap.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thankyou for your email. I appreciate your advice. I
was just
> wondering if there is anything that I can do to improve
performance
> of OSX?
> 
> Thanks,
> Al

Hi Al,

Considering that you are running OS X on a Lombard you may
be able to
improve performance by shutting down non-essential
processes.  However,
as you start to do that you may have to sacrifice those very
things
which you expressed as being important to you.

It is unfortunate but the attractive Flash movies and other
like
technologies are under the licensed control of Adobe and
other companies
who have not - yet - seen fit to make their products
available to
PowerPC based Linux.  It is possible to add your name to a
list of
others requesting such technology be released -- Adobe does
have a
place for people to make such comments/recommendations. 
However I
believe that same suggestions/recommendations page has been
around for
years.

Frankly the users of PowerPC computers is a very small
market.
Those who use PowerPC based Linux comprise an even smaller
market,
still.  Unless there is an explosion of PowerPC based Linux
users with
the PS3, Wii and Xbox, the current lack of available
components such as
Flash and other interesting programs -- to run within a
PowerPC Linux
environment -- will continue.

You may be able to best maximize what your Lombard can do by
using
either an earlier version of YDL -- which would mean you
don't have to
wait for YDL 5 to be tested.  You may be surprised at how
useful an
earlier version of YDL could be given the hardware you are
using.
That's if you come to accept however what can be done within
YDL; you
will have:

* a complete server and client system
* a nice array of computing languages

and more, but you will still not have the facilities you
which
you earlier stated as appreciating in OS X or even Windows.

If you are set on YDL 5, then take a careful look at the
Supported
Devices for the card you stated you have. However, the
situation with
your Lombard makes things complex:

* it's been upgraded 
* you have a PC card 

The card or other devices listed on the hardware pages may
be
functional for standard or original PowerPC hardware running
YDL 5.
You'll therefore have to read the fine print regarding how
the devices
and upgrade you made works with YDL 5 rather carefully.

Best of luck...
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reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, in
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