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Old 02-19-2002, 11:26 AM
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Greetings again all,

I'm now on my brand-spankin' new Apple iBook and it's really gorgeous, I never thought I'd buy a Mac a few years ago, but with a laptop like this, how can I refuse.

I'm wondering. Is there any chance for MacOS X and Linux versions of Graal in the near future? I e-mailed Stefan about this over a year ago and he responded to me that one was in testing and that it would be released soon. It's been a year, I'm still here, we're still waiting. So what are the chances of a MacOS X client being released for people like moi? I'll beta test, and de-bug if help is needed. Let me know Stefan!

I'm assuming that with 2002 it's not gona happen, but I can always dream can't I?
Would it be possible to run Graal through the Virtual PC program? If not, then that stinks for the Mac users... I heard Stefan say a while ago that they would try it eventually, it would take a lot of work though.
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Old 02-19-2002, 11:31 AM
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Re: Re: Graal for other Operating Systems.

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Would it be possible to run Graal through the Virtual PC program? If not, then that stinks for the Mac users... I heard Stefan say a while ago that they would try it eventually, it would take a lot of work though.
He could try that, although I don't know how fast it'd be.
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I'd advise trying to find and run a windows emulator, though I'm not sure if there is one out there which is compatible with Graal.
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You should keep in mind that you cant really judge a computer form your experience with it from a school, most schools have older, out of date computers, and these computers also have alot of kids abuseing them every day; moreover, they are usaly setup by a complete ***** who has no idea what she/he is doing, and in general, most people will have a bad experience with ANY school computer, I've done work for 3 schools that have PC's and 4 that have Mac's, the Mac's can take the beating of student use ALOT beter then the PC's can, and the PC's are a nightmare in a school environment, especialy when students know how to do amature stuff like editing batch files, or editing registry entries. or even get administrator and teacher passwords from stupid people who let windows create a local .pwl file.
In our school, we have a Tech Department that handles the setup of all of our computers, wich most teachers cannot do. We are connected to a LAN that connects all our our schools together and that is firewalled and has the most up to date Norton Antivirus scan. I was once told by them that they would never buy a Mac unless Hell froze over. From my own experience, i personally think they are pieces of crap and hard to use. I would much rather buy an ibm compatable pc because, honestly, can u walk into a local walmart and look at the shelf and instantly find software for a Macintosh? Prolly not, not unless u look.
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In our school, we have a Tech Department that handles the setup of all of our computers, wich most teachers cannot do. We are connected to a LAN that connects all our our schools together and that is firewalled and has the most up to date Norton Antivirus scan. I was once told by them that they would never buy a Mac unless Hell froze over. From my own experience, i personally think they are pieces of crap and hard to use. I would much rather buy an ibm compatable pc because, honestly, can u walk into a local walmart and look at the shelf and instantly find software for a Macintosh? Prolly not, not unless u look.
Fun facts:
1. only COMPUSA and the Apple Store are the retail chains that still carry any mac products.
2. they aren't crap, you just haven't toyed around with a decent one for a few hours.
3. they wouldn't buy a Mac because they obviously dislike them. enough said.
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I'd advise trying to find and run a windows emulator, though I'm not sure if there is one out there which is compatible with Graal.
VirtualPC with Windows 98SE or 2000 should work. It'll be slow, but it will work.
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Apple Bliss.

Sorry, I've been consumed at the latest production I'm puting togeather...

Fact #1: Apple uses alot of the best hardware out there, alot of IBM. They use PowerPC for their processors, again by IBM, the G3 and G4 are dirivitives of the PowerPC 7xx series (i belive)... the G3 is in fact a 64bit chip, and the G4 is infact a 128bit chip.

Anyone who says WindowsXP doesn't have security problems and doesnt eat close to 512mb of ram is a *****.

First off, on my first examination of XP it only took me a week to figure out how to fully comprimise any XP system remotely. (I do security consulting)

You don't THINK XP consumes close to 512mb of ram because XP does a nifty trick with Virtuial Memory, meaning it can run on as little as 128MB RAM, but it's very, very, slow compared to and XP system with 512MB ram. Don't belive Microsoft, run a memory benchmarking program and see for yourself. Windows 2000 ate over 200MB RAM without running applications.

Apple's are beautiful machines. Try one before you diss it.

As for the school that has a (wow) "network" and a (doubble wow) firewall, almost every school does. Because of the saleries that the Education field offers, anyone who knows what they are really doing isn't waisting their time at a school. Firewalls are easy to setup nowadays, ytou can buy appliances that have easy instructions. Unfortinately, these are usualy peices of crap, and are, in most cases, useless after an idoit gets their hands on them. A firewall is only one component of many for network security. I can eaisly penitrate their internet router, spoof my IP, and get inside the network with little trouble if this school is like most BAD network setups I've seen.

Argueing with people who don't know what they are talking about is fun, but a waste of time. So I'll move on to another topic.

Running a PC emulator is not an acceptable alternitive, I might as well just install windows a one of my PC's again. MacOS X is rapidly gaining popularity. Allthough I disagree with a few parts of the APSL (Apple Public Source Licence) I still think Apple is making a good effort at a decent, user-friendly, unix based OS. Darwin is coming along nicely for it's age.

Nothing out there, is more sleek and stylish then a Mac, they are gorgeous, and the most powerful, home user, computers avible today. The price is very competive as well.

Anyone who says they hate Mac is just saying that because they dont understand how to use it properly, and are intimidated by them. So they make up excuesses to dislike them without ever having really used one... You usualy see this in pompus 'administrators' who like to talk over everyones head to make it SEEM like they know what they're talking about, when in reality, most of them can't even do simple IP classless subnetting...

I think it would be nice if Graal was released under the GPL *wishful thinking* heh.

It would most likely actualy make Graal extreamly popular, and make it progress faster. Giving more attention to cyberjoures linux, and bringing in more money.

It would also allow people to creat their own graal powered servers, even with this, money wouldn;'t be lost because the Graal team can create much beter levels then someone just trying to setup a server (programers advantage) Just my thought ;-)

Send me the linux source (if it's c) and I'll port it to OS X
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I like Mac OSX, and the new generation of processors. I really do.

However, your statistics on windows 2000 and XP are off. I run Windows 2000 Professional on my 1.33ghz Athlon w/512MB of DDR RAM, and the OS is never using 200 while idle. In the Classic interface, my PII-300 with 128MB of SDRAM runs faster than it did with 2000 in XP.

Also, player-run servers with Cyberjoueuer support won't happen. Ever.

On another note, I highly doubt you can get Graal ported to OSX easily, because of one magic super happy word: DIRECTX.
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Re: Apple Bliss.

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Sorry, I've been consumed at the latest production I'm puting togeather...

Fact #1: Apple uses alot of the best hardware out there, alot of IBM. They use PowerPC for their processors, again by IBM, the G3 and G4 are dirivitives of the PowerPC 7xx series (i belive)... the G3 is in fact a 64bit chip, and the G4 is infact a 128bit chip.


The G3 is in fact NOT a 64bit processor, and the G4 is certainly not 128, nor is it 64. 64bit processors do not exist for the home computing market. You've already proved your excessive idiocy in that one statement, since 64bit processors are developed, as of right now, exclusively for the server market.

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Anyone who says WindowsXP doesn't have security problems and doesnt eat close to 512mb of ram is a *****.
Sorry, you're the ***** in this case. Up until about a month ago, I had 128MB of RAM. Guess what? XP performed at excellent speeds and had no security problems. With the built-in firewall equipped, I was EXTREMELY secure.

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First off, on my first examination of XP it only took me a week to figure out how to fully comprimise any XP system remotely. (I do security consulting)

You don't THINK XP consumes close to 512mb of ram because XP does a nifty trick with Virtuial Memory, meaning it can run on as little as 128MB RAM, but it's very, very, slow compared to and XP system with 512MB ram. Don't belive Microsoft, run a memory benchmarking program and see for yourself. Windows 2000 ate over 200MB RAM without running applications.
My GOD. You ARE stupid. You're apparently the best hacker in the world, since DOZENS of security sites have made testaments to XP's security, and I've tested it myself.

I know XP doesn't consume anything NEAR 512MB of RAM. Windows 2000 eats far under 200 megabytes of RAM without running applications. It runs, at the most, maybe 40.

Get a brain, you're not the only intelligent person, and you're not even that smart.

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Apple's are beautiful machines. Try one before you diss it.

As for the school that has a (wow) "network" and a (doubble wow) firewall, almost every school does. Because of the saleries that the Education field offers, anyone who knows what they are really doing isn't waisting their time at a school. Firewalls are easy to setup nowadays, ytou can buy appliances that have easy instructions. Unfortinately, these are usualy peices of crap, and are, in most cases, useless after an idoit gets their hands on them. A firewall is only one component of many for network security. I can eaisly penitrate their internet router, spoof my IP, and get inside the network with little trouble if this school is like most BAD network setups I've seen.

Argueing with people who don't know what they are talking about is fun, but a waste of time. So I'll move on to another topic.
Not every school. Come to my school, a TECHNOLOGY school, and you'll see what I mean.

Apples, or if you'd prefer, Macintoshes, are beautiful systems. I use them quite frequently, and whenever I have a chance to snag some time on one that uses OS X, I do.

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Nothing out there, is more sleek and stylish then a Mac, they are gorgeous, and the most powerful, home user, computers avible today. The price is very competive as well.

Anyone who says they hate Mac is just saying that because they dont understand how to use it properly, and are intimidated by them. So they make up excuesses to dislike them without ever having really used one... You usualy see this in pompus 'administrators' who like to talk over everyones head to make it SEEM like they know what they're talking about, when in reality, most of them can't even do simple IP classless subnetting...
I bow in front of your idiocy.

Macs are sleek and stylish, yes, perhaps you might even use the term "gorgeous".

Unfortunately, they are not the most powerful home user computer, or if you'd like to be more modern, desktop computer available today. Prices are not competetive at all.

I never said I hated Mac. It's not really hard to use one, unless you're a ***** who grew up with Windows 98 or higher. I've simply been criticizing your immense lack of knowledge.
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AHHHHHH TOO MUCH INFORMATION WHY POST LONG LETTERS LIKE YOU WILL WRITE TO SOMEONE YOU REALLY WUV!!!

Also i dunno who said that apples are in school systems. Thats complete doggie doo doo because our school is a complete Windows PC place. Not a mac in sight. And our school server is running on Linux. Also i read some article, quick one about the new Mac and it talked about the ability to run PC games with some sort of program. Downside is i dont know the name. What i suggest is goto a website that works with Mac on D/Ling programs. Like Download.com but i think they only supply Window Programs, hold on..
After a quick check Download.com does have programs for Macs
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AHHHHHH TOO MUCH INFORMATION WHY POST LONG LETTERS LIKE YOU WILL WRITE TO SOMEONE YOU REALLY WUV!!!

Also i dunno who said that apples are in school systems. Thats complete doggie doo doo because our school is a complete Windows PC place. Not a mac in sight. And our school server is running on Linux. Also i read some article, quick one about the new Mac and it talked about the ability to run PC games with some sort of program. Downside is i dont know the name. What i suggest is goto a website that works with Mac on D/Ling programs. Like Download.com but i think they only supply Window Programs, hold on..
After a quick check Download.com does have programs for Macs
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http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10005.html?tag=dir
Lots of schools still use Macs.

The two other high schools in my district still have a high number of Macs, as do my college and two of the middle schools.

I know of a lot of other schools that use old Macs as well.
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Interesting worth-reading conversations on Graal?

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Wow. Guess I don't know anything.

Do your research, Apple licences the PowerPC arch. from IBM, the same arch. used in Enterprise Systems such as the S/390 or iSeries (Formaly AS/400's) and RS/6000's.

You sound like an idoit trying to act smart and say something dumb like "ONLY SERVERS HAVE 64BIT!!!" there's also the Sun Sparc workstations (64bit btw.) that just got lowered to the $1000 price range. (Too bad there's little apps avaible for Sun.)

Windows does, in fact consume much more Ram than it tells you when you open the "Task Manager", once again a beautiful Microsoft lie.

As for DirectX I am under the assumption that Graal was recently re-writen to do away with it. And since there is a Linux version avaible (or so I'm told) I'm sure THAT isn't using DirectX.

A Firewall is only as secure as the Trusted Interfaces connected to it. I hope the people at your so-called secure network use VPN clients with at LEAST 1024bit 3DES + L2TP + MD5 encryption. I alos hope that your Router is un-detectable as far as the make/modle, because there are exploites for just about every one out there. You school runs a Linux server? I'm impressed, I run Linux on an 2/390 for a mid-sized hospitial. It doesnt take a genious to call up RedHat and have them give you support and get Linux running to do one simple task. Linux has reached a point where it's easy for anyone to use it well. I'd almost go as far as to say it's eaiser then 2000 or NT server. And yes, Linux does out-preform them, lets not forget the *fake benchmarks that Microsoft paid a company to put out saying that NT was faster then Samba.

On XP security, I'll give you a hint. Socket Core Access.
Also see .NET
And lets not forget the thing that almost everyone was vulnerable to these last few weeks SNMP? (Hmm, Apple wasnt on the adviseory list.)
Stick with Microsoft, their Product Activation and Manditory Passport accounts are so convienent for you. I cant wait for Banks to start using Passport, then the REAL fun will begin.

XP seems to have re-writen the TCP/IP stack since 2000, too bad they overlooked some key issues that make us wonder if they even understand how TCP/IP works.

I never said I was a hacker.

I never have, or plan to hack anyone to cause damage, or gain unauthorised access to their systems, the only hacking I do is with writen permision by the owners in the name of security. The work I did on XP was an evaluation to see if we would be using XP at the hospitial, it failed, and we've placed a ban on XP for any node connecting to the network.

For your information when I started using computers Windows 3.1 or 3.11 didn't exsist yet, let alone Windows 95 or Windows 98, I grew up on IBM DOS, and basic. On Atari instead of Netendio. I was sending electronic mail on dial-up BBS's before most people knew what email was. Don't treat me like a child, I may enjoy Graal (hooked since 1.2x) , but I'm not classified in the 12-16 age group.

You want to talk about technology? lets see your certs? You work experience in the field? Your facts?

I spent 3 years building up close to 15 custom PC's a day. I tend to know a thing or two when it comes to hardware. Why don't you go do some reading up, and come see me in 1-2 years.
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