The Geeky Junkyard of kingler

Apple made a HUGE decision on using Intel CPUs for the next generation Macs.

According to the earlier development system test, the Mac OS X on Intel dev system boots up in 10 seconds, compared to more than 1 minute on my Power Mac G5 dual 2.5GHz.
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Since the release of MATLAB 7, I have had problems with it running on Mac OS X.
The java interface in the original release crashes every 5 minutes or so, which makes it almost impossible to work. The 7.0.1 update fixed most of the problems, but still vulnerable in some occasions (mainly graphics related). Even the latest 7.0.4 update offers little improvement in that aspect.
The crashing problem I assume is mainly due to the vulnerability of the java engine on Mac OS X. I’d highly recommend users to run MATLAB without the java virtual machine.

Just found out the Apache 2 I installed didn’t enable mod_rewrite by default. This caused a Permalink Structure failure, namely
http://kingler.is-a-geek.net/2005/07/12/cool-softwares-on-mac-os-x/ simply wouldn’t work.
Anyway, by adding in the mod and restarting Apache, the problem is fixed.

• Quicksilver is an Application Launcher with lots of features: Quicksilver
• If you like multi-desktop on Linux box, you will find this one much more fun to play with (really cool graphics):
  Desktop Manager
• MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, AOL, … You name it, Adium X has it all! Based on the powerful gaim, Adium X has super cool interface, which make it so attractive to everyone.
  Adium X
  
• In order to run a Windows-based software on Mac, you’ll need an emulator. You can take a look at a brief comparison of all the emulators
  Virtual PC turned out to be the fastest. Here is a screen shot installing Redhat in Virtual PC 7